Episs. 21: Zimo Hongchen comes and looks back at the rain 1

The first snow visited the capital in the quiet night.

When I got up in the morning, I pushed the window and saw the plain white in the yard. The dead trees piled up with snow on the branches looked more like a gray shadow falling in the courtyard.

It will be the Spring Festival in a few days. I don't know if I can go back to my hometown to visit my parents this year.

It has been so many years since I left Jiangling in a blink of an eye. Even my younger brother has got married, and I am still alone.

I'm not eager to start a family. I just go back to Jiangling alone. It's more or less ugly. Hanjia Village has never had any official. He has been promoted to a bodyguard beside the emperor. It can be said that he is Liyue Longmen. After many years, he has never been married. What will the villagers say?

I want to go home, but I'm afraid to go home.

The maid came in to change his clothes for him, and he temporarily withdrew his distant thoughts.

It never snows in Jiangling, but it snows in the capital every year. I have adapted to the cold in the north. I don't know how much I still remember the light rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

It's timid to be close to home, or it's better not to go back.

***

It snowed several times in a row, and the streets of the capital were wet and slippery. In addition to the carts that delivered smoky water, there were almost no vehicles. Occasionally, pedestrians who went out also walked cautiously, holding a bamboo hat in one hand and clenging clothes in the other.

Entering the deer river, there is a fiery red standing for a long time, an oil paper umbrella on my shoulder, looking at the frozen river.

Wei Tanyi has been waiting here for many days. Due to the continuous snow, he was worried that Shishen could not find the way back to Yuezhai, so he deliberately came to the river to wait for it. It's really not easy to find an unnoticed corner when you go out of the store. At the beginning, he released the Shikigami here. Not surprisingly, it will come back here first.

But this is the fifth day. Was it intercepted?

Just as he was worried and ready to return, a loud cry came from the sky, and the white bird god finally came back safely.

"Thank you for your hard work," Wei Tanyi raised an arm to stop him. "Master, I'm Tanyi."

The white bird shook his little head, and suddenly he didn't know where the human voice came from: "Tan Yi, you have heard the words of Shishen Chuan. As for what you want to know, it's not a secret, but after all, nearly 700 years have passed, and I don't remember it clearly, but Yuci is indeed a teacher. Brother, there is no doubt about this. For the rest, let's ask the girl to come directly to Yanzhu Mountain and explain it to her in person.

At the end of the words, Wei Tanyi frowned.

The only thing that can be sure is what I guessed early in the morning. The sick and weak young man who is thinking about it is Master Ji Yufu's own brother. But he doesn't seem to know where he has gone, whether his soul is still in the world, and where it is. The master doesn't seem to know, or feels that he is an outsider and it is not convenient to know. He intends to tell him himself. Think about it.

It is obviously impossible to let quenching Si go to Yanzhu Mountain alone. If she takes off her body made of white paper, she can only move near the shell. If she goes out in her current human form, it is hard to say that she will meet other wizards, which will be more dangerous at that time.

Wei Tanyi himself did not have time to accompany her back to the mountains. He had to do what he had to do, and there was also a reason not to go back.

It's best... Who can give her a ride? It doesn't need to be too far, even if it's ten miles and twenty miles away from Yanzhu Mountain. Si is not an ordinary ghost. In a short time, she can leave the shell she is attached to for more than 20 miles. At that time, as long as she meets the disciples in the palace, please take the shell, and the problem will not exist.

But the key is, who will send her?

***

"He is bold, isn't he afraid that I will kill him?"

After listening to his words, Si Si sneered. She was really moved to learn that the master was bravely cold to the riverside, but this did not mean that she would forgive the person named Ji Yufu for this.

In those years, Ji Yuci was sick in bed, and there was not even a sincere care for him, but he was a beautiful man and a young man, and now he is still living freely in the world. How can she take a breath?

"Master's cultivation is extremely high, how can you deal with it," Wei Tanyi was not worried at all and drank a sip of hot tea. "I can't say more about what happened back then, but in any case, the master will never deliberately ignore it. He is even willing to cultivate a well-behaved child who has no relationship with me and a deep hatred. How can he be ruthless to his own brother?

Si Si still sneered: "Maybe he wants to apologize to me? Everyone has an ignorant age. He was already an old monster when he took you and Miss Rong. If he is still ignorant, it will make people laugh.

"Since you said that people are ignorant, you believe what I said. You don't have a heart, do you?"

"Ignorant people are the most ruthless."

After talking for a long time, I still stubbornly thought that Ji Yufu deliberately excluded his own brother and enjoyed his wealth and glory. Wei Tanyi smiled helplessly: "Whatever you think, that old guy, even if he cares about his younger brother, is too shy to dare to see him, which is no different from intentional neglect."

Wait a minute, but there were guests in the store. Si Si immediately turned into a smiling face to greet her, so that people could not see that she had just argued with the shopkeeper.

It was the subordinate of the Prince's Mansion. He only looked at her and then went straight to Wei Tanyi and bowed slightly: "Mr. Wei, Your Highness, please enter the palace."

"Oh? Your Highness, why do you want to find me at this time?" Wei Tanyi said curiously, "But what do you want to say?"

The man hesitated: "It's hard to say more about this... small."

Hearing him hesitate so much, Wei Tanyi knew that something must be wrong, so he lured him and said, "Wei has been busy with inventory recently. I haven't heard from him for a long time. I don't know that Your Highness has encountered troubles recently. I hope this big brother can call me one or two." With that, he stuffed him a piece of silver quietly.

With a short hand, the man put away the silver and said bluntly, "It's nothing special. It's just that Your Highness has been depressed these days, and he can only sigh and frown. I don't know why."

That's to talk to him. Wei Tanyi was a little relieved. As long as he didn't talk about the country and the court, he was not unwilling to go.

"Then you have to show the way."

Liu Jingsi looked at the door of the store. Wei Tanyi held up his umbrella again and followed the bodyguard of the East Palace.

***

I met Prince Song Jing two years ago, on a painting boat in the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time, Wei Tanyi just had a big quarrel with Master Ji Yufu - although it was a quarrel, it was only that he lost his temper unilaterally. The master, who was like dead water, did not say a word from beginning to end. In anger, he went down the mountain overnight and took the boat along the river to Maofeng City.

It happened that Song Jing was also in Maofeng. Later, he heard that he was under the imperial order and went to reward Maofeng's weaving Qiu family as an imperial envoy. The two did not meet for many days on a boat trip to Maofeng Chuiying Lake, but one night they happened to play the piano and flute. They were deeply predestined, so they asked the boatman to approach the two ships and get to know each other.

Wei Tanyi still remembers his depressed mood at that time. Even when he was 20 years old, he still couldn't change his irritable temper. Once things didn't go well, he inevitably fell into self-loathing that I couldn't avenge. It was also because of this when he quarreled with his master. After the quarrel, he blamed the master a lot. Now that I think about it, I feel too much.

The family can't avenge, and his heart is depressed. The sister left angrily, but the master doesn't care, which also makes him feel cold. No matter how noisy he is, he is indifferent. He looks cowardly and cold. With just one thought, he ran out.

It was comfortable to swim in the mountains and rivers in the daytime. At night, he was sad and couldn't relieve his depression, so he blew the hole flute to miss the past. The sound of the flute was so sad. Even the old man on the boat stopped the boat and sat in the bow with a cigarette bag in his hand.

At first, I just faintly heard the sound of the piano, and then it became clearer and clearer. The person who played the piano was obviously playing with his tune. At the end of the song, Wei Tanyi became interested in the person who also used the same late-night boating.

In early spring, Maofeng, located in the south of the Yangtze River, often drizzles drizzle at night. Wei Tanyi arched his hand on this boat to make an invitation. Several bodyguards came out of the brightly lit boat opposite, followed by the young man with ochre hair and the servant behind him holding an umbrella.

Due to the dark clouds and the poor light, Wei Tanyi could not see the young man's appearance clearly, but he could clearly see the familiar fluorescence flashing on the oil-paper umbrella.

——

Original poem: "Xuandu Guan Taohua", Zimo Hongchen brushed his face, and no one looked back at the flowers