The Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness of Crossing

Beside the banquet is a small red clay stove with a small pot on it, and the steaming white gas is bubbling around.Shen Zhongyuan glanced at her, took out a jug of hot wine, poured a full glass, and pushed it in front of her: "Drink a glass first to warm your body."

Yuan Cuixiao rubbed her hair with both hands, before she could sit down, she leaned over, took a sip, and smacked: "Chrysanthemum wine?"

"Yes." Shen Zhongyuan nodded, and put a chopstick of goose breast into her bowl, "Eat vegetables."

Facing a table of delicious food, Yuan Cuixiao's eyes lit up, and his excitement was beyond words.Taking a sip of wine on the left, a sip of vegetables on the right, Hu Chihai took a breath, then tapped the empty plate in front of him with the tail of his chopsticks and said: "Master, you can eat too."

Only then did Shen Zhongyuan ask her: "You...what the hell is going on? Why did you end up like this?"

Yuan Cuixiao grabbed another prawn, peeled the shell clumsily and said, "Don't mention it. I'll go to Zhao Jue's place as soon as possible and return the copied gift list. Unexpectedly, he rambled about for a while, but let me go with him. Going to the prefect's yamen in Youtang Street, just as Shangjin Mudan was going to Lianhua Nunnery to offer incense to his deceased mother, he also wanted me to go with him to offer incense to the princess. I was like Dong Shi's imitation, and I couldn't push it away, so the boat sailed halfway , and I swam over."

Shen Zhongyuan had mixed feelings when he heard it, and sighed, "Why do you..."

Yuan Cuixiao only cared about eating, saw that there was a preserved egg on the table, so she poked one and bit it down, the taste buds on the tip of her tongue were about to bloom.It turns out that the egg white is not the egg yolk, but the delicious, smooth and tender minced meat.Can't help sighing repeatedly: "This egg is too delicious! How did you fill it with minced meat?"

Shen Zhongyuan was holding a silver pick and picking the tendons of the shrimp carefully. When he raised his eyes and saw her surprised expression, he couldn't help but burst out laughing: "First boil the eggs with the shell until they are half-cooked, suck out the egg yolk with a straw, and then put the prepared minced meat Pour it in, put it in the pot and boil it." As he said, he put the peeled shrimp on her plate.

Yuan Cuixiao was not too polite, she stuffed them all into her mouth, chewed and said vaguely: "Master's craftsmanship is really not built, why don't we open a restaurant."

Shen Zhongyuan's hand holding the chopsticks froze for a moment in mid-air, then put it away and said, "We... us?"

"Yes!" Yuan Cuixiao nodded vigorously, "We are a partnership, you will be the head of the stall, and I will try food full-time, and I will definitely make a fortune."

"It's really so delicious?" Shen Zhongyuan said with a smile, "In my opinion, you haven't eaten meat for a long time, so be greedy."

"Where is it?!" Yuan Cuixiao hurriedly argued, "I have seen many heroes, but there is only one who is as good at cooking as Master."

Shen Zhongyuan looked at her, and said softly: "I'm afraid not necessarily. Don't you know Ding Zhaohui and Ding Erxia from Mohua Village, and his cooking skills are far better than mine."

Yuan Cuixiao looked sad, took a big gulp of wine, and said in a worried voice: "But he doesn't recognize me anymore."

Shen Zhongyuan was silent for a long time, and asked, "Who are you...?"

"Me?" Yuan Cuixiao only felt bored in her heart, but she couldn't talk about it, she raised her neck and drank the remaining wine in the glass, picked up the jug on the table, and filled another glass.

Seeing her raising a glass to drink, Shen Zhongyuan got up and held her arm, took the cup from his hand, shook his head and said: "If you drink any more, you will be drunk."

Yuan Cuixiao slanted over, there were some shadows in front of her eyes, she shook her head vigorously, finally saw clearly, and said with a sigh: "It's not in the palace, you don't want to use your master's airs to restrain me."

Shen Zhongyuan earnestly said: "Take you as a friend, stop drinking."

She was moved and said frankly: "I was regarded as Pan Pan before, and now I am Yuan Cuixiao. I don't know when I will be able to be myself again."

"So you are Pan Pan." Shen Zhongyuan was deeply surprised, but after thinking about it together, many doubts were solved.

Yuan Cuixiao told him in detail: how he became a clerk in Zhongmou County and met Liu Qing; how he was tricked by Gongsun Ce into Kaifeng Mansion; In Songjiang, Jiang Si and the demon fox were followed by two big flickers one after another, and the two of them took off several layers of skin when they gave birth.It was so easy to befriend a righteous brother who loved and protected me, but was killed by that bastard Zhao Jue again.

Mentioning the cause of Yelu Ashin's death again, Yuan Cuixiao couldn't help bursting into tears: "Brother Yi was only in the Western Prison that night, and Kaifeng Mansion had already taken precautions. Although Brother Zhan wanted to be lenient, he didn't want the weapon to be secretly moved. Brother Yi was injured under the giant gate, and died of poison as soon as he left the city!"

Shen Zhongyuan lamented: "Zhao Jue has a confidant, code-named 'Wu Qu'. In the early years when his father, Qin Wang Zhao Guangmei, was the governor of Kaifeng, 'Wu Qu' was in charge of arresting the police. Later, he was seriously injured on the way to track down important criminals. After being disabled, the King of Qin gave him a shirt, and still kept him in the mansion as a handyman. This person has been hiding in the Kaifeng mansion for many years, and the poison on Nanxia's sword must have been managed by him."

The scene of that night flashed before her eyes like lightning, and a hunchback figure suddenly jumped out of her mind. "It's him! It's him!" Yuan Cuixiao exclaimed in surprise.

Shen Zhongyuan asked in shock: "Do you know who 'Wu Qu' is?!"

"I remembered!" Yuan Cuixiao thumped the table and said bitterly, "Everyone in the government office calls him 'Old Zhang Tou'. Before Zhan Zhao was imprisoned, he was the hay he laid in the cell! After the fierce battle, justice My brother and I fled to the vicinity of the prison room, and the people from Kuaiban have already searched and arrested him, and he deliberately pointed the wrong way and let us go out of the city!"

Shen Zhongyuan sighed and said: "Heroes are often compromised by villains' tricks. Your righteous brother is a good man... oh..." He sighed and said, "What happened to their children?"

Yuan Cuixiao went on to say: "Before Hua Chong died, he entrusted Lie'er to the 'Nine Fingers Doctor' Lu Cun to take care of him. On my way to visit Baigangchuan, I happened to meet the White Five Heroes. To avoid being hunted down, I secretly swallowed Bingchan. Blind by the poison of poison, we disguised ourselves together with him. Before we left the customs, we met Ding Erxia again. Thanks to the help of the two of them, we were able to fulfill the last wish of the brother-in-law and his wife and send the child to Muye Mountain."

Shen Zhongyuan pondered for a while, and said: "With the martial arts and intelligence of the two of them, ten Zhang Huas are no match. Why can't they protect you well, but were taken captive to Xiangyang instead?"

This question hit Yuan Cuixiao's sore spot. She snatched the wine glass from the table with her hands, drank it all, and said with a blushing face, "Zhao Jue invites you into the urn, but I am throwing myself into a trap with you two." Brother, it has nothing to do with it."

Seeing her frustrated face, Shen Zhongyuan couldn't bear to ask her further, and comforted her softly: "It seems that there are some things, if you look back and think about it, there is always a better solution. But at that time, it could only be three words ——It’s too late. You are like this, I’m like this, and all living beings are like this. The past is the past, so why bother to worry about it.”

Yuan Cuixiao heard the meaning of enlightenment, and smiled gratefully at him, thinking that he drank too much wine and his head was dizzy, so he lay down on the table and murmured: "But... Then master, I...he and I will never go back again...isn't it..."

"Don't think so!" Shen Zhongyuan blurted out, the voice was so loud that he was taken aback for a moment, and then looked at Yuan Cuixiao, with his head buried in his arms, without any reaction.

"Hey." Shen Zhongyuan moved closer, but heard a low snoring sound, he had no choice but to nudge her slightly and said, "Wake up, don't lie down and sleep here."

Yuan Cuixiao remained motionless.

This one went from drunk to sleep quite quickly... Shen Zhongyuan was quite at a loss. After thinking for a moment, he still picked up the drunk unconscious person, put him on the bed in the inner room, and stretched out his hand to grab him A quilt covers his body.Suddenly, Yuan Cuixiao turned over and threw a hand over, which was just on his arm.Shen Zhongyuan was embarrassed, and hurriedly pulled away, his arm was free, but the small half of his sleeve was firmly pressed under his body, but she heard her groan: "Master, don't leave me behind."

Shen Zhongyuan's heart was shaken, and he looked at her intently, his blue hair was like a waterfall, his face was like a glow, he didn't see any signs of waking up, he only heard her drunken words and said: "In the past... I was a follower behind a hero, that's a bad idea ...Uncomfortable...I and them...that is, the difference between coarse cloth and satin...we don't always match. Only...only when we are with the master, can we really feel free, we, we are probably the same piece Just cut the material..." As he said that, he rolled over again and turned his face inside.

Shen Zhongyuan finally didn't have to be dragged by her, he stretched his crumpled sleeves, feeling a sense of loss in his heart.Just as she was about to turn around and leave, Yuan Cuixiao said in a sleepy voice: "Master...you help me...let him remember me again, okay..."

Shen Zhongyuan's body froze, and he thought to himself: "Okay...

It was nearing dusk, Yuan Cuixiao woke up leisurely.She opened her eyes, raised half of her body, shook her head, and called out in a daze, "Master..."

There was silence in the house, listening carefully, you could faintly hear the sound of pines outside the window.She tossed off the quilt, jumped off the bed, went to the front yard of the hall, searched around, but found no sign of Shen Zhongyuan, pretended to be full of question marks, and turned back into the house, only to find that the clothes she had changed were no longer there. Baked to dry, neatly stacked at the end of the bed.A porcelain bowl was placed on the long table, covered with another smaller bowl facing down.She gently lifted the gaiwan, and a scent of hawthorn and plum came along with the heat.The outer fragrance enters the nose, and the inner fragrance enters the abdomen. In an instant, more than half of the bowl of hangover soup has been drunk by him.When her fingertips touched the bottom of the bowl, she suddenly felt that something was stuck, and when she took it into her hand, it was a roll of paper. When she opened it, she couldn't help but smile on her brows.

There are no words or phrases on this paper, but a small painting.With just a few strokes, a small courtyard in the mountains was outlined. A woman stood on the stone steps in front of the door, and an arrow was drawn on the side facing north, pointing to a carriage at the foot of the mountain.Presumably, Shen Zhongyuan went to the foot of the mountain to hire a car first, Xin hand-drawn a map and left it with her to guide the way.

Yuan Cuixiao looked up at the sky, and suddenly remembered that Xia Chan was still waiting for her in the prefect's mansion, so she hurriedly changed her dress and rushed down the mountain.