The Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness of Crossing

After tossing and tossing for half a night, Yuan Cuixiao felt very tired, leaned on the haystack, and stared at it.In the mist, the sky filled with fat beef and grilled chicken hovered above his head, blowing bursts of fragrant wind.The scent became stronger and stronger, she sniffed hard, then suddenly opened her eyes, turned over and looked outside the wooden fence, only to see the two guards, each with a chicken leg, eating and drinking with the wine, Excited.

Yuan Cuixiao licked her dry lips, envious in her heart, rolled her eyes twice, and got an idea.She pulled out a gold hairpin from her temples, held it in her hands, and said to the two of them, "You two elder brothers, let's discuss it. How about I exchange this golden vessel with you for some food?"

"No! No!" An older Zhuang Ding shook his head like a rattle, "Since the young lady has been imprisoned here, she must not be a good person. How can we brothers listen to your order?" He said, Shaking the chicken leg halfway, pointing to another companion, "Wang Er, do you think this is the reason?"

Wang Er glanced at the gold hairpin held by Yuan Cuixiao, then looked at her head full of jewels, took a sip of wine and responded: "Da Zhang, you are right! A small gold hairpin just wants to work for us to eat with her." Yes. There is no way!"

Damn... the lion opened his mouth... Yuan Cuixiao took another one from his sideburns, made a pair together, and said to them: "You two brothers have worked hard, good people and bad people have to eat! You say yes Isn't that the reason?"

Zhang Dazheng was about to refuse, Wang Er hurriedly stood up: "That's right. Only those sentenced to death, not starved to death." After speaking, he took a plate of food from the table, walked to the front, and passed it in through the wooden railing. "Little lady, we haven't touched the chopsticks on this plate of char siu, so let's eat it for you."

"Make it, make it." Yuan Cuixiao took the plate with his left hand, offered the golden hairpin with his right, and said in his heart: Damn it!The prison food here is more expensive than the Fan Tower in Bianjing...

The taste is really good... Yuan Cuixiao was chewing while thinking: don't rush to save us, let us cook meat for two days before we talk... Soon after finishing a plate, she suddenly felt a little choked , looking at Zhang Da and Wang Er, who were punching and ordering, the wine worm in their belly couldn't help but move, so they said again: "Both brothers, can you share two corners of wine for me to taste."

"That's weird!" Wang Er glared at her and said, "Little lady, if we are as big as your family, can't we eat delicious food and spicy food every day? If it weren't for the engagement banquet of the owner's daughter tonight, how could we eat so much? How wonderful? The mid-autumn festival is over, and the young lady doesn’t know what the new wine market is? We also got the triangle wine because we took care of you. It’s so precious that you can’t wait to drink it drop by drop. The two corners are evened out. Tch! How could such a good thing happen!"

Yuan Cuixiao got angry when she heard this, raised her hand and stroked a bead flower from her hair, threw it outside, and said angrily: "No matter how expensive it is, even grandma can afford it!"

Wang Er quickly caught them, and after a closer look, each bead on the ornament was about the size of a little finger, and the color was extremely glossy. He knew it was a good thing, so he quickly changed his face and said reluctantly: "So Come on, I will quietly go to the banquet to look for it again, and if I can find it, I will bring some to the little lady." Said, carefully put the pearl flower into the bosom, and went out.

Zhang Da saw that Wang Er didn't take much effort, and earned a pearl flower from Yuan Cuixiao, and only got a gold hairpin for himself, he couldn't help being very envious.So he turned his face and turned to Yuan Cuixiao, twisted and said: "Little lady, what else do you want to eat? I'm going to make a fuss too."

Alas... money can make ghosts grind... Yuan Cuixiao supported his stomach with his hands, thought for a while and said: "Beggar's chicken."

"Beggar chicken?" Zhang Da scratched his head, "Can you explain it more clearly, little lady?"

Recalling the delicacy of Zhiweiguan Beggar Chicken when he was studying in Hangzhou, Yuan Cuixiao's saliva almost flowed down.She even said and gestured: "Use the new tender hen of that year, which has not laid eggs, wrap it in yellow mud, roast it in the firewood, and remove the shell when it is cooked. This is called Huaji."

Zhang Dalian agreed: "This is not difficult. I will go to the chicken coop to catch one now, and do as the little lady said."

Yuan Cuixiao touched the messy hair bun, and besides a few tea plums, there was only a sandalwood hairpin left, but the head of the hairpin was carved from emerald jade, thought it could be worth some money, so she pulled it out and put it on the fence. Pass it to Zhang Da: "Go, go."

"Good! Good!" Zhang Da smiled and took it, and went out to catch chickens.

Yuan Cuixiao sat cross-legged in the cell, stretched her five fingers to comb, smoothed her hair strand by strand, brushed it to her ears, and suddenly found that it was short, and sighed in her heart: Does he remember... or not? ... After thinking about it obsessively for a while, Wang Er has already returned.

"Hey, little lady, where did Zhang Da go?" Wang Er came in with a jug of wine, looked around, and asked in surprise.

Yuan Cuixiao raised her head and replied, "I'll ask him to order some food and drinks again."

Wang Er looked at her with long hair hanging down her shoulders and no headgear, and secretly felt distressed: This big girl, who usually looks honest and wimpy, now looks like she has a long heart... It's a pity that the jade hairpin is gone, eh? , it should be old and valuable...

"Bring it here!" Yuan Cuixiao urged, patting the railing.

Wang Er came back to his senses, and while handing over the jug and cup, he peeked at the ornaments on her wrist: "This is the wedding wine for the engagement of our owner's daughter, the young lady drank it and felt happy."

Yuan Cuixiao sipped a cup, and thought: This wedding wine really should be drunk, Ai Hu is also his foster brother.I didn't expect to find a wife so soon, you let your uncles who are still bachelors, how embarrassing...

After another half hour, Zhang Dakong came in with his hands downcast.

Wang Er snickered: "Da Zhang, what appetizers did you make for the little lady?"

Zhang Dayan said: "Little lady, I caught the fattest and tenderest hen according to the method you said, dug a hole in the backyard, buried it in, set firewood on it, and burned half of it. It's time, I guess it should be cooked, but when I pulled it apart, the chicken ran away steaming!" After speaking, he reluctantly touched the hairpin from his bosom, handed it back to Yuan Cuixiao and said, " Here, this one, I'd better give it back to the little lady."

"Hahaha!" Yuan Cuixiao laughed so hard that he almost lost his breath, he managed to slow down, waved his hand at Zhang Da, and said, "Okay, just bring me a cooked one. become."

Zhang Da happily went there, and after a while, he brought back a delicious roast chicken.Yuan Cuixiao cheerfully took it, and gnawed it happily.Zhang Da and Wang Er each made a fortune, they were also very happy, they sat down again, and continued drinking and guessing.

"Tut Tuk, Tuk Tuk." There was a sudden knock on the door outside the house.

"Who is it?" Wang Er put down his wine glass and asked impatiently.

Someone outside the door replied: "Ding Zhaohui, a friend of Master Sha."

When Yuan Cuixiao heard the sound, she felt both excited and nervous at the same time: You...remember me...

When Zhang Da and Wang Eryi heard about "Ding Zhaohui", they knew that he was the big matchmaker at the banquet tonight, and their status was extraordinary, so they hurriedly got up and opened the door, one on the left clasped his fists and the other on the right made a bow and said, "Ding Er, official, neglect, neglect."

Ding Zhaohui said: "Master Sha and Master Zhi, let me take the little lady inside to the front hall to answer the question. Please make it easier for you two."

"it is good!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Da and Wang Er nodded repeatedly, scrambling to get the key on the table, wanting to serve Ding Zhaohui.Unexpectedly, just as they turned around, Ding Zhaohui swung two hand knives and slashed at the back of his neck. The two of them were dizzy for a while, then fell down by the table and passed out.

Ding Zhaohui grabbed the key and stepped forward quickly. When he saw Yuan Cuixiao sitting on a pile of hay with disheveled hair, he couldn't help being shocked, and failed to put the key into the lock cylinder several times in succession.

With a sound of "click", the brass lock finally bounced open. Ding Zhaohui pushed the door open and asked urgently, "Why did this happen? Did they bully you?"

Embarrassed, Yuan Cuixiao took out a half-gnawed chicken leg from her sleeve, and said falteringly: "I... think, feel a little hungry... so, I traded jewelry with... them for a little bit." food……"

Ding Zhaohui breathed a sigh of relief, and then became a little annoyed. He bent down and took her arm: "Follow me!"

Yuan Cuixiao shook the chicken leg in his hand, and said timidly: "Wait until I finish eating this, at least I'll replace it with a hairpin."

Ding Zhaohui raised his eyebrows: "Throw it away."

Yuan Cuixiao hurriedly took another big bite, threw away the rest, jumped up and said, "Okay, okay. Let's go now!"

Ding Zhaohui let out a "hum", and pulled her tightly to walk outside.

The last quarter moon has risen into the night sky, thinly curved like a crescent eyebrow.The two walked along a path, and the light moonlight shone on them, casting a long and narrow shadow.Yuan Cuixiao lowered her head and let him drag her around. Every time she took a step, she would step right into his shadow. As she walked, she couldn't help laughing out loud.

Ding Zhaohui turned around abruptly, Yuan Cuixiao couldn't dodge it, and bumped into her, her forehead barely brushed against Ding Zhaohui's lips.Both of them were embarrassed, let go of their hands, and each took a step back.

The night wind blew Yuan Cuixiao's long hair, and it also blew the heartstrings of the two of them.Silently staring at each other for a long time, Ding Zhaohui said, "Can you climb walls?"

Yuan Cuixiao was thinking about the plot of seeing each other, recognizing each other and embracing each other again, but the opposite male protagonist was obviously not enough to enter the drama, and her pink dream suddenly disappeared. She inserted her hands into her hair, tugged twice in disappointment, and replied: "Yes .”

Ding Zhaohui tossed her a wishful sash, pointed to the front courtyard wall: "Go over there."

Yuan Cuixiao was also unambiguous, threw out the fence, grabbed the wall, tied her skirt, smoothed her sleeves, tightly grasped the rope, and climbed over the wall neatly.Looking outside, there is a black steed tied to a maple and poplar tree by the wall. It is the one Ding Er usually rides. Because there is a gap in the horse's mouth, she can recognize it at a glance.Thinking back to the day when I first saw him in West Lake, that handsome and handsome man in fresh clothes and angry horse, I couldn't help but turn back and forth in my heart, with unspeakable sorrow and joy.

Ding Zhaohui had already climbed over the courtyard wall, seeing her still sitting on it in a daze, he approached and whispered: "Come down quickly."

Yuan Cuixiao said "Oh", and suddenly saw two Zhuang Ding in the courtyard, worried that they would find out, and hurriedly climbed down, one of them accidentally slipped, hanging in mid-air, unable to advance or retreat .He wanted Ding Zhaohui to pick her up, but felt embarrassed.She checked with her eyes, and it was about one person's height above the ground, and she was about to jump down with her eyes closed, when she caught a glimpse of Ding Zhaohui standing at the base of the wall with folded hands, as if looking at the head from the sidelines, and said rather annoyedly: "Hey, why don't you let me go?" let!"

Ding Zhaohui glanced at her, bowed his head and took two steps sideways.

I told you to let it go, you really let it go... Yuan Cuixiao wanted to cry but had no tears, her heart slumped, her hands let go, and she fell straight to the ground.

Almost at the same time, Ding Zhaohui stepped forward, stretched out his arms, and caught her firmly.

Yuan Cuixiao was surprised and delighted, and was about to thank her when Ding Zhaohui bent down and put her down, turned his arms around, frowned and said, "It's dead."