Fu Song

When the spring rain is continuous, it will always bring people some sad emotions, especially when two men walk side by side on the road with bare heads and hands behind their backs without an umbrella, leaving the people behind to walk side by side. When the back is seen, it makes people feel a little unspeakable.

"The last time we came here, we were both only 16 years old!" Luo Gang, who had a long beard, pulled his beard and sighed, "22 years seem to have passed in the blink of an eye. Now that I close my eyes, the past The scenes are still vivid in my mind, not only not blurred, but more and more clear. Chongwen, do you think we are getting old? It is said that the older we are, the more clearly we remember the things when we were young."

"Bullshit!" Xiao Cheng dismissively said, "When you are seventy or eighty years old, you won't even recognize your own son. Let's see if you can still remember the past!"

"Some things and some people will never be forgotten until death!" Luo Gang let out a long breath and said.

Xiao Cheng paused slightly, took a deep breath, and feigned anger, and said, "As the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, in this eventful autumn, not only did you not work hard in office and be loyal to the country, but you ran to Hebei Road to hurt the spring and the autumn , do you really think I can't deal with you?"

Luo Gang rolled his big eyes: "I asked for leave from the government. I stayed in the south for many years. I got old cold legs and couldn't walk. I had to come back and find a good doctor for treatment. Two months False, the official approved it."

"I do not know how?"

"I handed the booklet through Liu Fengkui!" Luo Gang laughed: "The booklet is going to be in your hands, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave!"

"Speaking like I'm a powerful official who deceives the superior and the inferior!" Xiao Cheng said angrily, "Why don't I allow you to fake it!"

"Because you know what I want to do!" Luo Gang said.

Xiao Cheng stood still, turned his head to look at this long-time friend and political buddy, and sighed: "Some things, some people, if you miss it, you miss it. What's the use of seeing each other again? It's better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes, and leave the best things for each other. Wouldn't that memory be better?"

"If you don't see it, how can you know that you will miss it?" Luo Gang said.

"You are no longer the young and frivolous you, and she is no longer the pure and beautiful her!" Xiao Cheng said, "I'm afraid you will be disappointed if you really see her."

"In my heart, she will always be the same as she was back then!" Luo Gang raised his head, letting the drizzle hit his face, gathering into water droplets, and then dripping slowly: "Chongwen, do you still remember the peach blossom embankment, we are here Helping the dandy and evil major to drive away all the guests in the tavern, just so that she can have a good meal of peach blossom wine. She was drunk that day, holding the jug in one hand, and writing in the other on the wooden door of the tavern. Have you read the sentence that peach blossoms still laugh at spring breeze?"

"Of course I remember!" Xiao Cheng said sullenly: "That tavern is still there, and it is still making peach blossom wine. Just drink it again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to drink the taste of the past."

Both of them saw bitterness in each other's eyes.

So, he stopped talking, but continued to move forward silently.

There used to be a road under their feet, but no one walked for a long time. When the spring breeze blew, the weeds stubbornly emerged from the ground and reoccupied the position that belonged to them.

It's just that even if the traces of the past are covered up by weeds, the two people in front of them can clearly distinguish the path.

Tianmen Village appeared in front of the two of them.

The former frontline of the anti-Liao Dynasty, the famous Tianmenzhai that made Liao people fearful, has long been turned into ruins. It was taken away by someone, and the rammed earth inside had become loose under the baptism of wind and rain. When everyone arrived, the vibration of the horseshoe made the parts that had not collapsed rustle to the ground, and then One of the sections turned into a puddle of mud under the eyes of everyone.

Han Kai ran over quickly, seeing Xiao Cheng's and Luo Gang's expressions were a little bit bad, he couldn't help but took a step back.

Xiao Cheng's temper has always been reserved, but Luo Gang is not like that.

Don't look at Han Kai who is now a great general, but sometimes when getting along in private, when Luo Gang gets angry, he still kicks with flying feet.

He was in this Tianmen village back then, but he often suffered from Luo Yuting's shadowless feet.

"The tents have already been set up." Glancing at Luo Gang, seeing that the other party's attention was on the dilapidated Tianmen Village, he said: "The security has also been done. The scouts released are also returning one after another. Fifty miles, everything is safe!"

Before Xiao Cheng could speak, Luo Gang flicked his sleeves and said, "I'm going to sleep, you get ready, when she comes, just wake me up!"

Xiao Cheng was furious: "Why did I prepare it, and you didn't even know how to help?"

"Back then I slept until I woke up naturally. If you didn't put the food under my nose, I wouldn't be too lazy to get up!" Leaving this sentence, Luo Gang walked away.

Looking at his back, Xiao Cheng had nothing to say.

The tent was very large, and it was filled with pots, pans, and various ingredients. Xiao Cheng stepped into the tent, rolled up his sleeves, and began to process various ingredients.

While clapping his hands, Han Kai lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Luo didn't fall asleep, he fell asleep and snored!"

"I admire him only when he is really asleep." Xiao Cheng said: "Don't look at him as a person of five or six, in fact, he has always been a child who hasn't grown up!"

"Fart!" Luo Gang cursed from the next door.

Han Kai laughed softly, "Luo Du is well-known in Yunnan and Guizhou, and everyone is afraid of him in the imperial court!"

"Well, that's true. When you meet someone like you, he is reasonable. When you meet someone like Cheng Shao, he rolls up his sleeves and clenches his fists. Naturally, everyone is afraid of him!" Xiao Cheng said.

"That is to say, in front of you, even if you squeeze your fist logically, you are no match." Han Kai grinned strangely.

"I have suffered from their Xiao family all my life, and I have been eaten to death by them!" Luo Gang's voice came from the next door.

"Sleep if you want to sleep, come and help me get ingredients if you can't sleep!" Xiao Cheng shouted decisively: "If you keep talking over there, I will let the hammer tie you up and send you back!"

Before the words finished, the side curtain was lifted, and Luo Gang had already walked in.

"If you want help, just say it. Why are you threatening? It's so boring! You're still a brother!"

Luo Gang knew very well that if Xiao Cheng really wanted to speak, Han Hammer would really tie him up and send him back.

The sound of horseshoes sounded outside from time to time, and a scout was returning from afar. Every return meant that the person who was coming here was getting closer.

Han Kai didn't help anymore and walked out.

For him, guarding is obviously a more important job.

The Liao people's outpost has already arrived, and the two sides obviously need to carry out some negotiation work.

However, with the previous communication between the school affairs office and Zhiqiuyuan, what Han Kai and the others are doing now is just the last verification.

And Luo Gang in the big tent also seemed to be more and more preoccupied, making mistakes again and again, and finally threw the ingredients in his hand aside, sat on the edge of the round table in the middle of the big tent, and unconsciously pulled out the ingredients with his hands. Hold the turntable in the middle and let it rotate slowly.

Xiao Cheng didn't bother to pay attention to him, he just concentrated on cooking one dish after another.

Braised pork with preserved vegetables, crystal elbow, and sweet and sour pork ribs are all the favorites of my little sister back then.

After 20 years, I don't know if the taste is still the same as before.

A carriage approached from a distance, slowly approaching, Luo Gang stared at the carriage through the open tent door, and his whole body froze.

Xiao Cheng stuffed a piece of dry firewood into the door of the stove, and put the lid on the pot again. Then he reached out and wiped a couple of handfuls on the apron around his waist, and then strode out, walked to the door of the tent, and turned his head. Glancing at Luo Gang who was still sitting at the table, he raised his chin: "Let's go, go and meet him!"

Luo Gang propped up the table with both hands as if he wanted to stand up, but the table tilted up and was almost pushed over by him.

Obviously, this guy's legs are a little weak.

Xiao Cheng chuckled, ignored him, and went straight out.

The groom who was driving the carriage jumped off his horse, took a bench from under the shaft of the carriage, and put it on the side of the carriage, then saluted Xiao Cheng, walked to the side silently, and stood together with Han Kai, and the two faced each other. With a glance, the groom did not lose the slightest bit.

Xiao Cheng knew this person.

His name is Sun Pu.

The leader of the little sister's guard.

From a fundamental point of view, Sun Pu's family can be regarded as his Xiao family's retainers.

The door of the carriage opened, and inside the carriage, a woman wearing a veil was wrapped in a cloak, sitting cross-legged on the floor, quietly watching Xiao Cheng who was approaching step by step.

"Third Sister!" Xiao Cheng walked up to him and stretched out his hand, just like when he brought his little sister from Tokyo to Tianmenzhai and helped her get off the car.

Reaching out to hold Xiao Cheng's hand, the woman jumped straight down instead of stepping on the bench that helped get off the car.

As if he had expected it long ago, Xiao Cheng stretched out his right hand at the right time, gently supported the other person's waist, and the woman stopped firmly.

"Second brother! You are still the same as before, and you can think of everything."

"You are not afraid that I will forget the past and make you fall a big somersault as soon as you get out of the car!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "They are all in their 30s, and they are all the empress dowagers of a country, and they still look like a little girl." Just as naughty!"

The woman smiled and took off the hat, and said with a light smile, "No matter who I am now, in front of my elder brother and my second brother, I will always be that little girl who will never grow up!"

The real face under the curtain appeared in front of Xiao Cheng. It was Xiao Cheng who was also stunned at this moment, and there was an exclamation from behind. It was Luo Gang who had just walked over and saw the woman's makeup. when different.

Still dressed as before.

Time has changed, Xiao Cheng is old, and his hair is gray, Luo Gang is old, and his face has shown vicissitudes, only the girl in front of him, the years seem to have stagnated on her body, and she is still the same as before.

"Third brother, long time no see!"

Xiao Qi looked at Luo Gang and said with a smile.

"Little sister, long time no see!" Luo Gang's voice was a little choked up, and after saying this, he turned his head and looked to the side.