auspicious time has come

Chapter 166 What If It's Each Other

"You're talking about the scene where our deputy general hugged the dog and sent Mrs. Gu's carriage away?"

"That's right, does it look like a wife with a child sending her husband away from home?"

"It's a grotesque!"

"..."

Wang Jingyong entered the post house, then went to Xiao Mu's office.

Seeing that there was no one around, Deputy General Wang stopped suddenly, brought the dog in his arms to him and sniffed it.

He discovered a few days ago that the dog's smell was stinky and fragrant, and it also had a milky smell, even weird.

It's weird, but somehow, he always wants to smell something when he's fine.

Vice General Wang, who still doesn't know what dog smoking is but has been deeply involved in it, came to his general's study.

"General, Painter Ji and the others have already left, and the subordinates have made arrangements for everything along the way." Wang Jingyong wanted to bow his hands in salute, only to find that he was still holding the dog.

Xiao Mu looked at the little thing in his arms, and asked, "Is there such a hobby now?"

The brave and tall military general is hugging a little milk dog, this picture is somewhat inconsistent.

Wang Jingyong quickly put the dog down, and subconsciously argued: "Return to the general, this does not belong to the subordinate, it belongs to the shopkeeper Gu!"

Xiao Mu thought for a moment after hearing this, then nodded.

It seems that those rumors in the military are not groundless.

Feeling vaguely that his general had misunderstood something, Deputy General Wang looked a little uncomfortable for a moment, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only ask: "Does the general have any other orders?"

"Leave tomorrow morning and make arrangements."

"Yes." Wang Jingyong agreed, saluted and retreated.

Seeing that he was about to exit the threshold, Xiao Mu reminded: "Your dog has fallen."

Wang Jingyong looked embarrassed, and immediately stepped forward to pick up the dog with one hand, and put it under his arm: "This subordinate will leave."

Seeing people leaving in a hurry, Xiao Mu found it funny.

After a while, a close follower came in and preached: "General, the spring roll girl next to Madam came to ask to see you."

"Let people in."

Chunjuan came in and saluted with blessings, explaining the purpose of coming: "The madam asked the maid to pass a message to the gentleman. The madam has a headache, so I won't invite the gentleman to share dinner at night."

"Why do you have a sudden headache? Have you asked Doctor Yan to see it?"

"Never." Chun Juan tried his best to look normal enough: "Madam said that she has a heart disease, and only heart medicine can cure it."

"..."

Xiao Mu was silent for a moment, then silently looked at Qin on the desk, and said, "...Benhou knows."

Seeing that her husband had already understood the key point, Chunjuan retreated happily.

……

In late March, spring is dark and green, and everything is flourishing.

Stepping on the bright spring, the horseshoes slowly drove into the gate of the capital.

It was noon, and the spring sun was warm, Hengyu opened the curtain of the car to look at the bustling market that had not been seen for a long time, and sighed with a smile: "Go home."

Gu Tingnan also looked out, and saw that there were many street shops outside the car, wine flags were flying, and in a tall vermilion lacquer pavilion, there were men of letters reciting poems while facing the window, and there were also young women wearing spring shirts and skirts, high buns and hairpins, holding flowers in their hands. The round fan, talking and laughing by the window.

Gu Tingnan felt dazzled for a moment, and his eyes followed the carriage: "The capital is really bustling and lively, far from being comparable to other places. Xiao Yu'er, what is that? Look at unusual acrobatics."

"It's a warlock." Heng Yu smiled slightly.

On the way, she heard Shaoyan mention that the sage is seriously ill now, and besides the doctors, there are also a large number of warlocks who secretly heard the news and poured into the capital.

She has no prejudice against any way of making a living, but at such a juncture, if a saint trusts magicians and is used by people with ulterior motives, it may not be a good thing for the country or the people.

The wide-robed warlock who displayed his strange skills on the street pinched a ball of flames, which immediately attracted the applause and applause of the onlookers.

The carriage drove slowly along the street, and soon the bustle of the side diverted the attention of Heng Yu and the others.

The carriages and horses passed through Zhuquemen Street and headed west. Cuihuai kept looking out the window and silently counted how many squares they had passed. When they passed the sixth square, the little girl couldn't hide her joy and said: "Girl, let's go to Yankang Square." Already!"

The Ji family has lived in Yankang square for generations.

The carriage drove into the workshop and stopped slowly in front of the gate of Ji's house.

"Little Yu'er!"

"I'm coming!"

Before the carriage and horses came to a complete stop, Heng Yu heard the voices of his sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and was about to open the window to look, but retracted his hand, and simply opened the curtains of the car, lifted his skirt and got out of the car.

"Miss, be careful!" Cuihuai exclaimed, wanting to help the capital in time.

"You monkey!" Mrs. Meng, who was on crutches, let out an "oops" and said nervously, "You sprained your foot carefully! The carriage hasn't stopped yet! Let's look at her..."

"Grandmother!" The girl jumped at her with a smile, hugged her, and pressed her smiling cheek to her shoulder in satisfaction.

Mrs. Meng gently stroked the girl's head, and the wrinkles on her face stretched out with a smile: "It's good to be back..."

Heng Yu straightened up quickly: "Sister, sister-in-law!"

Yu Shi and Ning Yu held her hand each.

"Why do you look so thin?" Yu said with eyes full of pity.

Ning Yu also looked at her younger sister carefully: "Not only is she thinner, but I also look darker..."

"Where is it?" Heng Yu just pretended to be angry and wanted to refute, when he felt his dress being tugged by a small force, and a voice called out childishly: "Little aunt, little aunt!"

"Ashu!" Heng Yu immediately bent over and picked up the little girl who looked like a jade carving, "Baji" kissed the sweet and soft little face: "My little Ashu has grown taller and taller. You are so handsome, do you miss your little aunt these days?"

"Think about it, Ah Shu thinks about it in her dreams!"

Heng Yu smiled and touched her forehead with his forehead, which made Ah Shu giggle.

Shao Yan, who had just got off the carriage, walked towards here, seeing this scene with a smile in his eyes.

Mrs. Meng looked over with a smile: "It's been hard work this time, the family has already prepared meals, let's go in and talk."

Shao Yan saluted with a smile, and said in a respectful tone: "Thank you, old lady, it's just the first time I've been away from Beijing for seven or eight days, His Highness must be worried, so it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time today."

This is obviously just an excuse to decline. Faced with the boy's slightly abnormal rejection, Mrs. Meng's smile did not diminish, and she did not force her to stay: "Alright, your child has always been filial... then another day Come back when you have time."

Shaoyan responded.

"If you don't eat, why don't you go in and have a drink of tea?" Ning Yu said.

Shao Yan smiled and said: "Thank you, Sister Aning, I seldom go out, and now I am eager to go home, I will come to visit for tea sometime later."

"Since Shaoyan is in a hurry to go back, then we won't force him to stay." Yu said with a smile.

Shao Yan looked at Heng Yu: "A Heng, then I'll go back first."

When he picked himself up and sent him back, he should have invited people to the mansion for tea and dinner out of both emotion and reason, but Hengyu met those smiling eyes, and in the end just nodded: "Shaoyan, you have worked hard on this journey. I will trouble you today Report to His Highness that I am safe, and I will visit His Highness tomorrow morning."

Shaoyan smiled and nodded: "Okay."

Then he saluted Mrs. Meng, Mrs. Yu, and Ning Yu again, and Fucai took the servant back into the carriage again.

Watching the carriage drive away from the bluestone road in front of the house, Ning Yu took A Shu from her sister's arms, and said softly, "Xiao Yu'er must be tired, let's go in quickly."

"Cuihuai, what are you doing standing there!" Yu smiled and waved to Cuihuai who was still standing beside the carriage, jokingly said: "I went to the Northland, you girl looked so dumbfounded!"

Cuihuai blessed her body and smiled: "Go back to my lady, before the guests get off the car, how can the servant girl enter the mansion first?"

"Guests?" Yu Shi supported her protruding abdomen with one hand, while looking towards the direction of the carriage: "Xiao Yuer brought guests?"

"You girl, your car jumps so fast, how can you leave the guests alone in the car?" Mrs. Meng gave her granddaughter an annoyed look with a smile: "Why don't you invite people down soon?"

"Which guest is it?" Ning Yu lowered her voice and asked her younger sister, "Miss or gentleman?"

Hearing this sentence, Mrs. Yu's eyes immediately showed gossip - if a gentleman traveled thousands of miles with her family's Xiao Yu'er, it would be great!

She was so curious that she couldn't help but took a few steps closer to the carriage.

It was at this time that the curtain of the car was suddenly lifted from the inside by a hand, and the person inside leaned out with his upper body, showing a bright smile at her.

"Listen... Listen to Nan?!" Yu Shi exclaimed in surprise and joy, almost jumping up.

Seeing this, Gu Tingnan was startled, and quickly jumped out of the carriage and pressed his shoulder lightly: "You are pregnant, why are you still the same as before!"

"Listen to Nan!" Yu Shi was extremely surprised: "Why are you here?!"

"Why, you don't want to see me?"

"No way!" Yu Shi was about to hug him, "I just didn't expect you to come! Why didn't you send me a letter earlier!"

"Be careful..." Gu Tingnan gently pushed the person away, then took Yu Shi's hand, and said with a smile, "How can I surprise you if I told you earlier?"

"It's not a three-year-old child anymore. What kind of surprise do you want? You finally came here, but I haven't had time to prepare anything..." Mrs. Yu happily pulled Gu Tingnan towards Mrs. Meng and the others, and introduced : "Grandmother, Aning, this is Tingnan."

Gu Tingnan pulled his hand away from his friend, smiled and saluted: "Old lady, Mrs. Ning Yu."

"I finally saw Mrs. Gu." Mrs. Meng raised her hand to help her, smiling kindly: "We, Ah Heng, are going to Yingzhou, thanks to Mrs. Gu's help."

Ning Yu smiled and nodded: "Yes, I have finally met Mrs. Gu, a great benefactor."

The phrase "benefactor" naturally does not only refer to taking care of Hengyu.

Mrs. Gu helped to find out the clues of the tattoo pattern at the beginning. The Ji family knows this very well.

"A Yao and I have been playing together since we were young. We are like sisters. The old lady and Mrs. Ning Yu don't need to be so polite. Besides, I have never been of any help." Gu Tingnan was so humble, his face His smile is sincere.

People also pay attention to eye contact - and when she saw Ji's family, she felt that each one was more pleasing to the eye than the other.

"Let's go in and talk..." Mrs. Meng held Gu Tingnan's hand and said with a smile.

Everyone talked and laughed and entered the courtyard surrounded by servant girls.

"By the way, where's brother?" Heng Yu asked.

"He must be busy in the East Palace at such a time." Yu Shi said: "But he said before going out that he will find a way to take a half-day vacation with His Highness the Crown Prince in the afternoon, and try to come back as early as possible."

"It's not necessary, it's still business."

"We also told him that, he insisted on it." Yu sighed lightly: "I can't just tell him directly, 'Xiao Yu'er is not that anxious to see you', is it?"

"Xiao Yu'er is not so anxious to see him, but he is anxious to see Xiao Yu'er." Ning Yu held her sister's hand tightly and whispered: "If it wasn't for that letter... Brother would have to go to Yingzhou to arrest him personally." people."

The so-called "that letter" naturally refers to the letter that Xiao Mu used to guarantee Hengyu's safety.

When they received the letter at that time, everyone in the Ji family was shocked and dazed.

Of course, the confusion is still there now—how could Xiao Hou write a personal letter to ensure the safety of their little Yuer?

Now that the person is back, he must have a good question tonight.

……

"Lang Jun, just now Mrs. Meng asked you to stay for dinner, why did you refuse?"

When the carriage left Yankangfang, the servant in the carriage asked inexplicably.

"It's better for me to refuse than for Ah Heng to get bored with me one day." The boy said with half-cast eyes.

The little servant was startled when he heard this, and then he couldn't help but said: "Why would you think so, sir? You should be happy to bring Miss Heng back to Beijing this time, but the villain looks at you these days, it seems that there is something wrong with you. mind..."

As he said that, he became uneasy: "Mr. Lang, it could be Miss Heng...she has another sweetheart!"

Shaoyan didn't answer.

The boy thought he had guessed right, and immediately became anxious: "Then what should you do, sir! Otherwise... go and ask His Highness to make the decision for you?"

"How I am is my own business. Ah Heng doesn't owe me anything. On the contrary, she gave me a lot." The young man looked out of the car through the half-hollowed-out window, as if convincing himself: "She is free. , anytime."

……

Ji Nanxian obviously failed to get the leave, and when he returned home, it was already dark.

Hearing that his family members were waiting for him in the dining room, he couldn't help but quicken his pace, and hurried over without even caring about changing his official uniform.

"Where's Xiao Yuer?"

As soon as the front foot stepped into the dining room, Ji Nanxian raised his voice and shouted.

"Brother!" The girl's voice came, and Ji Nanxian walked into the hall with a smile.

"Brother, why did you come back? I've been waiting for you for half a day." Heng Yu got up from the chair.

Ji Nanxian looked at the person first: "That's right, at any rate, he came back with all his beard and tail."

"Of course." Heng Yu slightly raised his jaw, showing a complacent expression.

"Have you eaten yet?" Mrs. Meng asked her grandson.

"Yes." Ji Nanxian looked at the whole family, wife and daughter sitting there one by one, and said, "You don't have to wait for me, you can eat first."

Yu Shi gave him a strange look: "Have we already eaten?"

"?" Ji Nanxian looked at the empty dining table and couldn't help being silent.

"Go and ask the kitchen to serve Lang Jun a bowl of noodles. It's not easy to toss about other things late at night, and it won't be easy to digest if you eat too much." Mrs. Meng told the woman beside her.

Ji Nanxian: "...Thank you, grandma."

"Let's add a few pieces of stewed pork." Yu Shi added.

Ji Nanxian felt warm in his heart.

Very good, satisfied.

The noodles were quickly prepared and brought out. Accompanied by his family members, Ji Nanxian ate up a bowl of noodles.

Putting down the chopsticks, rinsing your mouth, took the wet cloth handed over by the servant and wiped your hands, then looked at Hengyu: "Let's talk now."

"What?" Heng Yu looked at her elder brother.

Isn't everything that should be said in the letter roughly finished?

Ji Nanxian waved his hand to screen off the servants around him.

Seeing this, Cui Huai took Ah Shu's hand and coaxed her to play outside.

"Tell me why Marquis Dingbei wrote a personal letter to guarantee your safety—" Ji Nanxuan said.

As soon as these words came out, Heng Yu noticed that her grandmother, elder sister, and sister-in-law's eyes all fell on her in unison.

This matter really deserves a good talk.

As for how to say it, it was already planned, and he said without hesitation at this time: "This matter is a long story, but it can be roughly boiled down to the fact that I hit it off with Xiaohou, and he helped me a lot when I was in Yingzhou. And After half a year of understanding, I can see that this person is benevolent and rigorous in dealing with things. He is not only a general who knows how to lead troops to fight, but also a rare person with both wisdom and courage—"

Hearing that she was so boastful when she came up, the atmosphere in the hall was slightly tense.

After exchanging glances with his wife, Ji Nanxian and his wife asked Hengyu warily, "...so?"

"So, I made an alliance with him in private..." Under the breath-holding of his family members, and under the eyes of his sister-in-law who suddenly widened inexplicably, Heng Yu cautiously lowered her voice, "I have formed an alliance with him."

"Alliance, alliance?" Ji Nanxuan didn't react for a while.

"Just an alliance?" Ning Yu asked hurriedly.

Heng Yu found this question strange: "Otherwise?"

"What kind of alliance did you make?" Yu asked as if unwilling to give up.

What if it's a pledge of eternal love!

Hengyu replied truthfully: "Naturally, it is an alliance against the enemy."

After getting the definite answer, Ji Nanxian breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense body relaxed: "I just said that Ayao was just thinking wildly, how could it be possible."

Heng Yu had vaguely sensed where everyone's thoughts were diverging, and couldn't help but ask tentatively, "What does sister-in-law think?"

The whole family always talked about something, Yu coughed lightly, and then said bluntly: "It's all my sister-in-law's imagination. When I first saw the letter written by Marquis Dingbei, I thought it was... I thought you were going to replace someone else." Talking about the matchmaker, he brought the red line to himself instead."

"It's fine if you don't." Ji Nanxian let out a long breath, as if he was finally relieved.

Heng Yu forced a smile.

That's also...

Brother's breath, perhaps a little earlier.

"What is the meaning of the alliance against the enemy?" Ji Nanxian was relieved, and quickly put his mind on the business, looking at his sister seriously: "Tell me carefully."

Mrs. Meng also calmly waited for her granddaughter to continue.

Dingbeihou has a special status and position, so it is said that he is definitely not a good partner for alliance.

But they can trust Ah Heng's vision and decision—since they have made this choice, there must be reasons enough to convince them.

"There are three reasons for this." Faced with the unconditional trust of his family, Heng Yu also took it seriously, and said carefully: "The first of which is that I just mentioned that Xiaohou's character is kind, calm and strategic. Not foolish, principled and flexible, with a solid army in his hands and a good understanding of the situation on all sides, he is an ally who can bring many benefits."

"Second, and the most important one, is the foundation of this alliance—"

　It’s a chapter of [-] words, so it’s worth adding more if you calculate it~
　　Goodnight everybody!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)