Ma'am help, the general is in trouble again

Chapter 86
During the journey from Hegou Village to the county, Zheng Quchi occasionally caught sight of Liu Fengmian's expression, and immediately looked away, speaking and acting cautiously.

Ever since he knew that apart from him, she had invited Master Li, his delicate face was covered with a lingering gloom of not being close to strangers.

Even the friendly and gentle smile that often hangs on the face has become shallow and depressed, with no warmth.

She also didn't want to take Master Li with her, but this was her brother's order, if they didn't take Master Li away, how could they make out of nothing and falsely claim that "Sang Xuanqing" had returned home to carry out the succession plan.

But she didn't expect that Li Shi seemed quite aloof and unsmiling, but he was so unassuming that he would come whenever invited, without exception.

She was walking between two tall people, and the pressure was really a bit high.

Especially the one who smiled more than the other who didn't, felt more resentful, and they all went around behind her to poke her spine.

When she arrived in the city, she found that there were more people coming and going on the streets than usual. There were stalls in the streets and alleys hawking and bargaining, children running and playing, husband and wife holding hands and strolling intimately, and the elderly joking and chatting under the trees.

She also heard the content of the chat, saying that there was a "exorcism" activity on New Year's Eve.

"What is exorcising Nuo?" Zheng Quchi asked the two people next to him for advice.

Yu Wencheng glanced sideways, seeing her with wide open eyes, pitifully waiting for him to explain her confusion, her heart softened immediately, but before he could open her mouth, Master Li interrupted without realizing it, and directly addressed Zheng Quchi. Explain in detail.

It turns out that this "expelling Nuo" activity has a long history, not only in Ye State, but also in several other countries.

The difference is that Ye Kingdom performed mysterious expulsion actions by wearing a mask painted with special paint and wearing eye-catching and bright attire. They would sing and compose poems to expel invisible plague ghosts, etc. Unlucky things to ensure the well-being of the new year.

In Beiyuan Country, his country, he plays the role of the twelve divine beasts, the stars return to the end of the year, Yin and Yang meet, meet the gods, and expel plague ghosts.

These gods, ghosts, aren't they just pure feudal superstition in modern times?
Hmm, superstition.

But she loves to watch it.

Zheng Quchi listened with great interest to Master Li's explanations, which were simple but full of exotic colors. In fact, apart from superstition, it also contained political, religious and folk customs, which were very rich in the characteristics of this era and various countries. , which she believes has high research value.

Want to see.

But... Hegou Village is not a short distance from the county seat. If you walk fast, you have to walk for an hour. If you finish the New Year's Eve dinner at home, you may not be able to catch up with the "Exorcism" program.

"Want to see it?" Yu Wensheng asked her.

Zheng Quchi turned his head abruptly, looked at him with wide shining eyes, and nodded repeatedly: "Yeah."

But he smiled purely and gently: "Then keep thinking about it."

Zheng Quchi: "..."

If you don't bring her here, don't ask such misleading words. Isn't there something wrong with whetting her appetite and not being satisfied?

After slandering a few words, Zheng Quchi also knew that he was expressing his dissatisfaction to her, so she was not angry, thinking that Liu Fengmian's eyesight was inconvenient, and the scenery along the way might just pass by his ears, just blowing past. Can't make any impression.

Therefore, Zheng Quchi no longer patronizes himself to watch the fun, but also pulls him in various ways, describing to him the various scenes and things he passes along the way.

"Do you smell it? This area is full of farmer's stalls selling vegetables. The man said that he sells Safo Flowers. The name is quite nice. There are also chives, lettuce, mint, and walnuts. By the way, there are Caramel, you wait, I'll go over and sell you some more."

She let go of Yu Wencheng, because she was in a hurry to queue up to buy caramel, and she didn't notice Yu Wensheng's subconscious action of holding her back to keep her away.

But Master Li saw it from the corner of his eye.

"I can't tell, Mr. Liu still likes caramel?"

Yu Wensheng showed a sweet smile: "I didn't like it before, but Qu Chi said that eating candy can make people feel happy. She hopes that I can be happy at any time. My wife has always cared about my affairs."

Master Li: "..." I suddenly felt a little full.

"Is Master Li married?"

"not yet."

"Seeing that you are not too young, it's time to get married. Otherwise, you will miss the marriageable age, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to find you in the future." Yu Wensheng "kindly" persuaded him, and sighed again with a smile.

"If you are alone, you naturally don't understand the benefits of two people being together. You see, Qu Chi thinks about me in everything, cares about me in everything, and when he sees something I like, he will desperately go to get it for me. These things are probably not done yet. You who are married can't understand."

Now Master Li is not only full, but also full.

He didn't want to talk to Liu Fengmian anymore, he said bluntly like a sharp blade: "Young Master Liu's eyes, are you sure you can't see them?"

Yu Wensheng's expression was the same, and he even asked with great interest: "Who told you, I can't see it?"

"So you... have been deceiving the people of the Sang family? Including the wife you just said wholeheartedly?" Master Li didn't lower his voice, it happened to be able to reach the ears of Zheng Quchi who had already returned.

"What are you talking about? What deception?" Zheng Quchi asked with his head tilted.

But Master Li looked at Yu Wensheng, like a fair judge, giving divine punishment to those who had a stoma.

"I have seen people who are blind from birth, and people who are blind from birth, but no matter what kind of people they are, they are not like Mr. Liu. They react so naturally to the outside world, just like normal people."

Although he speaks implicitly, the content is to boldly reveal his disguise. He has been observing the other party along the way. To be honest, since he injured the saw last night, he has deeply suspected that this person has no eye disease at all.

Hearing this, Yu Wensheng also felt Zheng Quchi's strong gaze, but he didn't know it at all, he only put on a skinny expression of indifference to the world, wondering: "But I don't belong to the two types you think , What do you want to say? Master Li, you seem to be hostile to me?"

this person...

Master Li finally understood how cunning the man in front of him was.

He seems to have answered his own question, but in fact every sentence is not the point, and even dug a lot of pitfalls for him.

"I have no hostility towards Mr. Liu, just curiosity, doubt and worry."

Zheng Quchi has been listening to the conversation between the two.

They may all think that she "knows nothing", but who knows that she has already held back some details about the two of them.

To pretend, good wow, let's come together.

She thought that these two people could reveal some secrets, but in the end they were all practicing Tai Chi, and she didn't dig out anything of value.

Holding the maltose he just bought in his hand, Zheng Quchi walked over.

Seeing that there was a stall selling "Peach Fu" (Spring Festival couplets) in front of her, Zheng Quchi remembered what Brother Sang had asked her to ask. She pretended not to hear the conversation between the two, and asked, "Feng Mian, can you write Tao Fu?" ah?"

Yu Wensheng paused.

Peach charm?

What to write?
Seeing this, Zheng Quchi quickly changed his rhetoric: "Then draw a statue of a god?"

Yu Wencheng's eyes flickered, and the smile on his lips was a little forced: "..."

What kind of idol to draw?Kind eyebrows and kind eyes don't understand, but if it is Tai Sui Demon God, he might still try.

As a general who led troops and fought abroad all the year round, he knew a lot of things, but he never thought that one day, his wife would beg her to put down the sword and write peach charms and draw god statues.

Zheng Quchi was also a little confused.

What about the counselors and scholars you said?
Seeing her surprised face, Yu Wencheng pursed his lips: "Isn't it good to buy ready-made ones?"

Zheng Quchi came back to his senses, but he was a little entangled: "Oh, but I have already bought peach wood boards and red paper at home, so I can't waste them. If you don't know how to..."

"Is it writing peach charms? Li will."

Master Li interjected at the right time, which immediately caught Zheng Quchi's attention.

"You will?" She turned her head.

Master Li nodded to her. He seemed to see the strange but slightly familiar outline of the face through the veil she had covered when she deliberately went out: "Yes, Third Sister still needs to draw New Year pictures. Zhong Kui, Suan Ni, Tiger Head, etc., I am also good at."

Zheng Quchi was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but treat Master Li differently.

Unexpectedly, a person from a craftsman background would be so good at the work of the old man, so versatile.

In order to complete the task entrusted by Brother Sang, and also to save a lot of expenses, Zheng Quchi praised him vigorously: "Brother Li, you are too good, so this year our family's peach charms and New Year pictures will bother you. "

Seeing Zheng Quchi smiling and praising Master Li at the side, Yu Wensheng immediately became unhappy.

He smiled and said clearly: "Don't bother the guests, I will."

However, Zheng Quchi was very skeptical, and she deliberately said: "Feng Mian, brother attaches great importance to the quality of peach charms and New Year pictures, if you ruin them, he will definitely be angry."

Compared to what she said to Master Li just now, Yu Wencheng fully trusted her, but now he questioned himself many times. He stretched out his hand and squeezed her soft and fleshy cheeks, and said with a smile: "You think I can't?"

It's over, it's an affair with her.

If he really knew it, he wouldn't have hesitated just now. Obviously, he himself was not sure. The time is tight and the task is heavy now, and she doesn't have extra peach boards and red paper for him to try and make mistakes.

She hurriedly fed him a candy from the bag into her mouth.

She pulled him over, winked at him, and said in a low voice: "Of course not, but I am reluctant to ask you to do such a tiring job. Since Master Li is good at it, let him do it."

Yu Wencheng's mouth was sweetened by her candy, he raised his eyebrows, her words sounded nice, but Yu Wencheng didn't know that she wasn't telling the truth at all, she just wanted to coax her with sweet words he?
"Really? Then you speak louder?" He joked.

Zheng Quchi smiled weakly: "...It's too much, if this is heard by others, what should they think of us as husband and wife?"

couple?

Yu Wencheng chewed and savored the word carefully, the sweetness overflowing in his mouth seemed to be getting stronger, with a fragrance of natural fruit.

He rolled his eyes with a smile because of these two words.

"This candy...is quite sweet."

"is it?"

Seeing that he was no longer reluctant, Zheng Quchi ate one out of curiosity, um... a bit greasy, much higher in sugar than the one he bought before, and it still sticks to his teeth after melting, a bit like maltose.

It turns out that he likes varieties with such a high sugar content, okay, she remembered, and will continue to buy this kind next time.

Li Shi stood aside, quietly watching the young couple as if they were about to tell some secret, leaned over to listen, covered their voices with a foot, and whispered.

His eyes darkened, he suddenly raised his hand, and waved towards the back.

This was a signal, and the scattered pedestrians, small vendors selling their own goods, merchants who concentrated on bargaining, and people of all kinds who were confused in the streets and alleys all focused on Master Li.

His gestures were concise, and with one movement, he set off a sudden change among the people in an instant.

The group of buskers in front was still performing their skills, and one of the horse dancers was holding a wine glass in the mouth of a trained horse and delivering it to the hands of the onlookers. .

Unexpectedly, the originally docile horse suddenly "neighed", raised its hooves to the ground, and frantically flicked its mane. The dark brown pupils of the horse were gradually stained with a tinge of red.

It turned around suddenly and ran towards one direction.

And this direction is exactly where Yu Wensheng and Zheng Quchi are standing.

da da da da da...

Like the rapid rain hitting the eaves tiles, the torrential rain fell suddenly, and the people around were startled and screamed.

"Why did the horse suddenly get out of control and start running around?!"

"Everyone, be careful, this horse must have eaten something wrong, spread out, spread out!"

Yu Wensheng heard the movement in front of him, he turned his head, just in time to see the scene of the galloping horse.

Zheng Quchi was also shocked, and was about to reach out to pull him to run together, but was knocked away by a force from behind, and fell to the side.

"God, girl, are you all right?"

An old lady anxiously helped her up, but Zheng Quchi said he was fine, but she dragged her to hide to the other side.

"Crazy Horse is coming, girl, let's run quickly."

This "kind-hearted" auntie had extraordinary strength, Zheng Quchi was caught off guard, and she forcibly took her away from Liu Fengmian's side.

"Wait a minute, my husband-in-law is still—"

"Don't worry about it so much, if the horse goes crazy and is kicked by it, it will kill you."

However, Zheng Quchi refused to listen to her, Liu Fengmian couldn't see, if she left him alone, wouldn't it be equivalent to watching him die?
Although this aunt is quite strong, Zheng Quchi is a girl who is proud of her strength. She twisted her grasped wrist backhand and broke away from the aunt.

She rushed towards Liu Fengmian, but was blocked by a group of frightened passers-by. She wanted to avoid them, but these people seemed to be deliberately blocking the way. Wherever she went, the other party ran.

"Fengmian, run—"

Seeing that she couldn't make it in time, she could only shout anxiously through the gap in the human wall.

But at this time, Yu Wensheng didn't feel flustered at all. He also had a panoramic view of all the changes around him, the strangeness, and the strange interception by Zheng Quchi.

Under the red spider's veil, he glanced at Master Li with a pair of dark moon pupils.

Want to expose me in front of Zheng Quchi?
Like Yu Wensheng, he is like a person who stays out of this busy area and such a panic scene.

Liu Fengmian, if you have the ability, just continue to pretend to be blind and pretend to be a harmless and weak scholar.

(End of this chapter)