Dongfang Hong put his arms around Li Huichun's shoulders excitedly: "Is she really still alive?"
Li Huichun pushed his hand away and remained silent.
"Mu You, tell me!" Dongfang Hong turned to look at Xiao Mu: "You should know everything best."
Xiao Mu ignored him, but slowly came to Li Huichun, took the golden flute in his hand, turned his wrist, and retracted the one-foot-long sword blade.
"Brother Mu..." Li Huichun stared into Xiao Mu's eyes and murmured: "What should I do?"
Xiao Mu inserted the golden flute into Li Huichun's belt, handed him the golden buns and the skewered branches, and smiled softly: "Didn't I tell you to go home and have a good sleep? Why do you want to?"
Come here? You only ate two bowls of millet porridge at my place in the morning. You must be cold and hungry now. I brought you a steamed bun specially, so you can eat some first."
The scene was completely silent, only the sound of burning wood could be heard. I looked at Xiao Mu in surprise, feeling embarrassed for him.
Listening to his words, Li Huichun must have just separated from him in the morning and rushed over to meet up. So were they together yesterday? Or did Li Huichun drink alone to relieve his worries all night, and then went to him to complain in the morning?
Li Huichun took the steamed buns and finally came to his senses. His red eyes stared at Dongfang Hong: "Is he also the spy you recruited?"
"yes."
"Why did you choose him? Don't you also like Xian'er? Xian'er almost died in his hands!"
Xiao Mu smiled slightly: "Isn't she still dead? Don't worry, no one in this world can kill her."
"She is really alive? Have you been taking care of her for three years?" Dongfang Hong was extremely excited: "Brother Mu, why didn't you tell me earlier? Do you know? I have been feeling guilty for this matter for three whole years.
Even my daughter’s name is ‘Yuhe’!”
Li Huichun looked at the steamed bun in his hand and took a bite: "Thank you for taking care of her over the past three years. Although I haven't thought of you yet, I am really happy to have you as my friend."
Xiao Mu's eyes were also red: "It's my duty to take care of her, I don't need you to thank me. But you should take good care of yourself from now on. Stop eating alone and drinking alone in the cold weather.
It's freezing outside.
I remember that we used to travel all over the country. Every time we went to the wilderness, you would always make a fire like this, and then grab some wild rabbits, pheasants, fish, etc. and grill them on the fire. Then sprinkle a little salt on them. The taste was amazing.
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Today I have the honor to bake you a steamed bun, which is a way of repaying your favor. There is still a long way to go. I am still your best friend, but I will no longer accompany you as before. You are more
Take care of yourself!"
"Hey, brother Jianghu, what are they doing with this? Why do they make it seem like they are about to die?" Su Xiaolu muttered in my ear.
I shook my head, my mind was in a mess, I could only vaguely remember what Old Man Fang said when he was telling stories. On the Ghost Festival three years ago, in order to compete with Tiansheng Palace for the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance, Dongfang Xiong did not hesitate to liaise with the traitors in the imperial court.
Massacred all the people in Tiansheng Palace. Could it be that Li Huichun and Madam Mu were the survivors of Tiansheng Palace, and they had been hiding their names for several years?
"I'm sorry about what happened back then..." Dongfang Hong said to Li Huichun, the solidified blood stains on his neck were particularly conspicuous.
"Okay, the battle at Jueqing Cliff is a thing of the past. Now you two are elite spies of my Sky Eye Team. I hope you can put aside your past feud for my sake and share the same hatred." Xiao Mu said to the two of them.
After a moment of silence, Li Huichun held the bun tightly in his chest, turned to Du Xiuzhen and said, "Xiuzhen, let's go. It's getting late, and the patients in the hospital may be in a hurry."
"Hey, okay. Then...Brother Mu, let's go first. Master Wulian will be waiting for you tomorrow." Du Xiuzhen felt relieved and pulled Li Huichun out of the house.
Xiao Mu looked at Dongfang Hong and his party coldly: "Master Wulian, if I remember correctly, tomorrow seems to be the 60th birthday of your friend Du Ruhai, Doctor Du. Are you going to bring your son and daughter-in-law to the city?
Find a place to settle down first, send gifts tomorrow, and then return to Yongqing County?"
"That's exactly what I mean. I'd like to thank you for your concern. Hong'er, Lanlan, let's go."
"I used to have Li Huichun help me when I was in Chang'an and Yiling, but now in Xiangzhou, I'm the only one who can't do anything at all!" Xiao Mu sighed, and let out a long sigh: "Li Jianghu, you and Wang Jiajia, Liu Jiabao
Let's go first, Su Xiaolu and I have something to talk about."
"yes."
"Brother Mu, how are you going to go back alone later?" Liu Jiabao asked worriedly.
Xiao Mu squinted his eyes: "I want you to worry blindly."
Liu Jiabao stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to ask any more questions. It was also inconvenient for me to ask more about dealing with the Ghost-Faced Man.
The three of us walked out of the ruined temple and saw that the snow had finally stopped, but a thick layer had fallen on the ground, like a soft quilt.
Dongfang Hong and the others had just brought the horses and said to us: "It's freezing cold, how are you going to go back? Do you want us to give you a ride?"
"Of course. I guess senior brother is going to stay at Jianghu Inn tonight, right? My restaurant is diagonally opposite, just on the way. Haha, master, how about I ride on your horse?" Liu Jiabao ran to the faceless master and said with a playful smile.
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"Come up." Master Wulian replied softly, raised his arms, picked up Liu Jiabao and flew onto the horse, then put his feet into the horse's belly and galloped away.
"Jiajia, are you seated?"
"Yeah. Slow down."
When I turned around, I saw Wang Jiajia also getting on the horse. She was hugging Wang Lanlan in front of her tightly, her face full of excitement and nervousness.
"Senior brother, let's go." Wang Lanlan raised his whip and stirred up the wind and snow.
"Ah! Brother Jianghu, I'm leaving first!" Wang Jiajia cheered.
Hey, woman, this was the first time they met, and they were riding the same horse so intimately, and she just left me and went with someone else.
"What about you?" Dongfang Hong looked at me and touched the horse's mane: "Do you mind riding on the same horse with me?"
"I..." I scratched my head awkwardly: "No, I'll just walk back."
"It's freezing and snowy, how long do you have to walk?"
"About half an hour."
Dongfang Hong smiled coldly: "Come up here. When you introduced yourself just now, you said that you sell tofu at Jianghu Inn. Just in time, I want to ask you something about her."
"This... I'm not very clear about it either. You should ask the imperial envoy, they are familiar with it," I declined.
"Imperial envoy? Haha, I would rather believe that there are ghosts in the world than Mu You's words." Dongfang Hong looked disgusted and helpless.
He actually called Xiao Mu by his first name. Although Xiao Mu has never been official, he is an imperial envoy after all. "Xiao Mu" is his code name in front of spies like us, but is it inappropriate to call him by his first name?
It's so unruly. You still don't believe him? If that's the case, why do you want to be a spy and listen to his orders?
Just as I was thinking about it, I felt a tightness around my waist, and my whole body was suspended in the air. When I was frightened, I was already sitting firmly on the saddle.
"I...I can't ride a horse." I blurted out.
"Sit down." Dongfang Hong's voice came close to my ears. I turned my head and saw that he was also on the horse. Both of his hands were holding the reins. In this way, I was as if he was holding me in his arms. Same. I could even feel his breathing, his heartbeat, and even the white mist from his mouth floating on my face when he spoke. I was so embarrassed that I couldn't live anymore!
"What do you want to ask? I only know that she came to Xiangzhou with her brother Mu Xianwei at the end of March. She is rarely at the inn, and Uncle Fu takes care of the affairs of the inn.
This marriage proposal was organized by his brother, and the imperial envoy also took the opportunity of her marriage proposal to choose many spies. The husband she chose was named Li Dongsheng, whose ancestral home was Chang'an, and it is said that he came here as a refugee."
In order to break the embarrassment, I told some things about Mrs. Mu that were not considered secrets.
"The Mu county captain you are talking about is Mu Junyi?" Dongfang Hong pulled the reins gently and let the horse walk slowly.
"This...I don't know. We ordinary people dare to ask about the official's name? I only know that everyone calls him Mu County Lieutenant. He is Yiling County Lieutenant. He came to Xiangzhou with the imperial envoy. On weekdays, he always He was dressed in black and holding a black sword. He looked cold and unapproachable." I said, leaning forward.
"Then he is right. Mu Junyi is my friend. I never thought he was her brother. No wonder he came to visit Shenlong Villa after the Battle of Jueqing Cliff three years ago. It turned out to be to inquire about the whereabouts of his sister. .
Haha, I really didn’t expect that she was still alive. She was hit by my sword in the chest, and then she fell off the cliff... I thought she was dead, so I set up a monument for her on the edge of the cliff."
"You mean Madam Mu? Who is she?" I asked. Madam Mu once said that she had many nicknames, one of which was called Fairy Baiyun. I didn't appreciate this sentence too much at first, but now Think about it, did she mean at that time that besides being an innkeeper and a heroine, she had other identities?
"She is from Tiansheng Palace. Leng Lanshan, the master of Tiansheng Palace, has always wanted to dominate the world. He sent her and Li Huichun into our Shenlong Villa four years ago. She used a trick to defraud our village's treasure " Shenlong Sword Manual".
On the Hungry Ghost Festival of the next year, our two factions formally fought for a decisive battle. It was originally said to be a fair decisive battle, but at that time, my uncle secretly contacted the traitor Yang Guozhong of the imperial court, secretly arranged for a hundred dead soldiers, and secretly attacked, and the result...
I thought everyone in Tiansheng Palace was dead, until a few months ago Mu You suddenly led Lu Xun and others to visit the villa and revealed my uncle's true identity. I escorted my uncle to Xiangzhou City for detention, and I met Li Huichun, and then I found out about him Still alive, but he lost his memory and became a doctor.
I told him at that time that if he remembered anything, he could seek revenge from me at any time. Unexpectedly, he finally recovered some memories now, and I never expected that the witch was not dead."
Witch? Is this a title for Mrs. Mu? This word is not a good word, but when it comes from Dongfang Hong's mouth, there is no insult at all.
Is there any unknown secret between Dongfang Hong and Mrs. Mu?
I longed for Dongfang Hong's story to continue, but he obviously didn't want to say any more. He pulled the reins hard, and the horse whined and chased after the person in front. I was too scared to move and hugged the front of the saddle tightly. , I just felt like my stomach was churning.