Rui Hegui

At the end of the year, Bandit Chu moved to Zhao Yuan with Jingmo and a carload of good wine without permission or prior notice, and asked Uncle Song to take care of the New Year's affairs.

Red lanterns and new peach charms are indispensable, and Jing Mo hung pomelo whites all over the yard, without any rules, but with a lot of joy.

Chu Biao insisted on pulling Zhao Liangyue to post the couplets. Chu Biao had written the couplets long ago, and Ju Jingmo revealed that Chu Shangshu was bored in the study for a whole day before he was satisfied with the writing.

Although it was said that they were pasting couplets together, Zhao Liangyue didn't want to do it himself, so he sat under the pavilion and watched the tall and slender Chu Bandit lean over to brush rice paste on the back of the couplets, then raised his hand and easily lifted them up to paste them.

After the couplets were posted on the left and right sides of the courtyard gate, Zhao Liangyue came over, looked up at the beautiful handwriting of Long Feifengwu, and read each word after a while: "The news of success follows the snowflying plum blossoms, and the flowers are fragrant until the beginning of spring."

Chu Biao looked at Zhao Liangyue with his arms around his chest, and quietly listened to him finish, as if these blessings and expectations passed through Zhao Liangyue's lips and teeth, and all wishes would be fulfilled, one by one.

On New Year's Eve, all the people in the courtyard got up very early and cleaned together inside and out. Zhao Liangyue didn't know what was wrong with him, but he still wanted to hide away, so he kept nestling in the brazier with the excuse of giving Abai his hair. Standing next to him, he watched Chu Bandit carefully rushing in and out.

After Chu Biao finished cleaning the room, he turned around and saw Zhao Liangyue teasing Ah Bai with a piece of dried fish. The warm orange fire light enveloped a person and a cat. Sitting by the brazier, sewing prayer purses for the teacher's children and himself - this is a long-lost feeling, and he has felt extravagant in his life.

At this time, Zhao Liangyue raised his head to look at Bandit Chu, and met his eyes, thinking that he was going to catch him for being lazy, so he picked up Ah Bai with a smile, waved at him with Ah Bai's furry paws, and made a cat sound He said, "I need someone to take care of me."

Bandit Chu chuckled, in a good mood, and said, "It's rare that Xilin is willing to take a rest, so let's rest. I'll clean the corridor outside, so I can enjoy the snow and drink there when I watch the New Year."

Zhao Liangyue felt a little guilty in his heart, and then pulled a soft pillow with peace of mind, and simply sat and took a nap, and Ah Bai rolled into a cat cake to warm his master's hands.

Zhao Liangyue hadn't relaxed like this for a long time. His bones had been soft for the past two days. He leaned on the soft pillow and closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep.

When Zhao Liangyue woke up, it was already afternoon, and the sound of festive New Year's gongs could be faintly heard from the main street in the south of the city. Sleeping soundly in my arms.

Zhao Liangyue stretched his waist comfortably, put A Bai in the nest beside him, got up and walked out wearing a big cloak, the laughter of Uncle Song and Jing Mo came from the kitchen, Chu Biao was sitting on the plum tree in the yard Squatting down, not knowing what to do.

Zhao Liangyue stepped on the snow and walked over, only to see Chu Bandit digging with a small shovel, and blocked it with his sleeve after hearing his own footsteps.

Zhao Liangyue looked at Chu Bandit suspiciously, and asked, "Senior brother, what are you digging for?"

Bandit Chu raised his head, rolled his peach eyes, and said with a smile: "It's a surprise, I can't say it now."

Zhao Liangyue didn't remember what good things were buried under the plum tree, so he became even more suspicious, so he stood still and kept looking at Bandit Chu.

Chu Bandit said softly: "Xi Lin, it's so cold outside, you go in quickly."

Zhao Liangyue was unmoved.

Chu Bandit sighed softly, and had to withdraw his sleeves, revealing the half-dug wine jar.

The red cloth on the edge of the wine jar has faded, but it has not rotted. It seems that it has been buried for a long time, but it will not be decades.

Zhao Liangyue was puzzled: "When was this buried?"

Bandit Chu glanced at Uncle Song who was out of the kitchen to carry cabbages.

"Buried by Uncle Song?" Zhao Liangyue thought about it for a while and asked, "When I first entered the capital, my brother sent Uncle Song to my side. When exactly did my brother start to doubt me? Is that the policy question?"

Bandit Chu nodded with a smile, and said, "Besides, Xuefangyuan has checked you, so I'm even more suspicious."

Very early on, before Zhao Liangyue came to Beijing, Chu Bandit had doubts about Zhao Liangyue's identity. Apart from the policy question that criticized the current situation, Wang Yu's wife was the daughter of the Zhao family in Xuanshan. Zhao Liangyue paid more attention, so he arranged Uncle Song to be beside Zhao Liangyue.

In the beginning, it was indeed probing and monitoring, but after a glimpse from the city gate, only those white pigeons in the dark brought him back to Zhao Liangyue's trivial daily life, such as what cakes he likes to eat, or a certain day when he has a headache, Or that day, burning the lamp all night to deal with official documents, has nothing to do with government affairs, only love and love.

Those shadows about him that existed on the paper became Chu Bandit's only companion under the light of Yidou's lamp in many midnights when he was awakened by old dreams.

"Of course, I had a hunch that I had a relationship with Xilin early on, so I asked Uncle Song to bury this jar of Tusu wine." Bandit Chu dug out the jar, wiped the dirt, got up and handed it to Zhao Liangyue, saying, "How about it? My intuition is not bad, not only fate, but brothers from the same sect, how nice it is to love each other."

Bandit Chu deliberately bit the last few words very hard, and Tao Hua's eyes were a little bit of a smile and a bit of coquettishness, and he had that unscrupulous look again.

Zhao Liangyue took over the wine jar, instead of arguing with him, he turned around and wanted to go back to the house.

At this time, Youbai came back from the outside, with several snow marks on his body, he patted and muttered: "Dongchan should call me Brother Sheng anyway, throw snowballs at me as soon as I enter the door, and run away before it's too late Fight back."

Zhao Liangyue asked: "How is it, Mr. Xiao and the others are coming?"

Youbai shook his head and said: "Mr. Xiao said that the old lady has trouble with her legs and feet, so she lived in her own house."

"Alright." Zhao Liangyue thought about it, and then said, "Then later, you can bring some pepper wine to New Year's greetings, and you can also ask the old lady for money."

Youbai cheered and said, "Good! Then I will have three copies of money for Chinese New Year this year!"

Zhao Liangyue asked: "Three copies?"

Youbai smiled: "Yeah, one piece for young master, one for Chu Shangshu, one for old lady, etc... If Mr. Beauty gives another one separately, it will be four! It's a pity that Mr. Xing will not come back in Ningzhou this year. If you come back, maybe you can have five copies."

"Why do you want so much? You will use it to buy food, and you can spend it in two days." Although Zhao Liangyue's tone was admonishing, there was a smile on his face, "Well, I won't share my share this year. Yes, the salary is only so much, and we have to make connections in the beginning of the new year."

Youbai pouted, Chu Bandit smiled at the side, and said: "Your son's share is mine, I'll leave."

"Thank you Chu Shangshu!" Youbai clasped his fists at Chu Bandit, then ran to help Uncle Song with a smile.

Zhao Liangyue sighed lightly, and said to Bandit Chu: "Just let him get used to it, it's already a great gift for him to forge an epee from the Armament Department."

Chu Bie smiled: "Youbai is a very important person around you, I should take care of it."

Zhao Liangyue raised his head and noticed Chu Bandit's expression, his heart was tense, and he asked tentatively: "Brother, do you want to know who Youbai's master is?"

"Xilin is finally willing to tell me? But, actually, I know it's Yun Hezi." Bandit Chu clicked his tongue, and said, "The old man told me in a letter before, saying that he would never accept children from aristocratic families as apprentices in his life. Passing by Maozhou, I saw Youbai was born in a humble family and his bones were strange, so I took him in as an apprentice and taught him a little bit, but what I didn't expect was that now he is even stronger than the closed disciples he taught so carefully, which is really a blessing."

Zhao Liangyue heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

After I adopted Youbai back then, within half a year, Senior Yunhezi came to Maozhou alone. He originally wanted to take Youbai away, but Youbai wanted to stay with Zhao Liangyue no matter what, Yunhezi only said that the chance was unpredictable , so he left a book of martial arts training essentials for Youbai, sent another letter to Ningzhou, and left quietly.After that, neither Zhao Liangyue nor Youbai had seen Yun Hezi.

In fact, now that I think about it, Yunhezi, the number one sword in the world, went to Maozhou to find Youbai and reveal his identity. How could Youbai be just a wild child he picked up outside the ruined temple?

"What is Xi Lin thinking about?" Bandit Chu raised his hand and waved in front of Zhao Liangyue's eyes, and said, "Thinking so fascinated, even a senior brother like me standing in front of the wind can turn a blind eye."

Zhao Liangyue glanced at Chu Bandit, turned around and walked into the house, Chu Bandit threw the shovel at Jing Mo, and followed into the house.

At the end of Shenshi, Uncle Song finished setting up the New Year's Eve dinner. The five people in the courtyard did not pay attention to dignity, and sat together in the main room. Zhao Liangyue poured Tusu wine into the bowl with pepper in front of each person. It was pepper wine. Everyone Toast and congratulate each other with this wine is to divide the year.

At the end, Zhao Liangyue asked Uncle Song to bring a small altar, filled it with peppercorns, filled it with Tusu wine, handed it to Youbai who was struggling with a chicken leg, and said, "Go and give it to Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao."

Youbai said, aggrieved, "I haven't eaten the New Year's Eve dinner yet."

Zhao Liangyue smiled and said: "You won't treat you badly if you go to the next door, go quickly."

Youbai thought for a while, and seeing that his young master was accompanied by Chu Shangshu for the New Year, he nodded in agreement.

"Wait a minute." Chu Bandit said, and gave six copies of the pressed money to Youbai, and said, "Your son and I gave you two, and the rest is for Dongchan and the child in the house."

"Okay! Thank you Chu Shangshu, thank you son!" Zhao Liangyue kowtowed to Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue according to the custom, then went out and jumped over the wall.

Looking at Youbai's figure, Zhao Liangyue frowned and said, "I forgot to remind him, how come he climbed over the wall when he is so old and Chinese New Year?"

Bandit Chu said: "It's okay, when you and I were so old, I didn't know where to hide."

Zhao Liangyue retorted: "I have been respectful and polite since I was a child."

"Okay, okay, my skin, my skin, your senior brother, I was skinnier than a monkey." Chu bandit said, picked a lot of vegetables for Zhao Liangyue, and asked with a smile, "Then Xilin, do you need me to give you money?"

Zhao Liangyue glanced at Bandit Chu, and was about to say something when a firecracker rang outside, and then thousands of firecrackers went off, and the bustling atmosphere of the New Year filled all the streets and alleys in an instant, and it was the time when thousands of families celebrated the Spring Festival together.

Uncle Song gave Jing Mo a wink, and then took Jing Mo to the door to set off firecrackers.

So only Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue were left in the main room, and there was a large table of dishes.

Zhao Liangyue couldn't help asking: "Senior brother sent them all away, do you think that the two of us can finish the table?"

"No." Chu bandit laughed, "Only Xilin will eat first."

Zhao Liang looked at Bandit Chu suspiciously, and saw Bandit Chu took the sword on the table beside him and stood up.

The sword was probably old, the scabbard had faded, and the silver ornaments on it were a little black, but when Bandit Chu pulled out the sword, the sword was as bright as water, and it was like white practice, making people unable to move their eyes away.

Chu bandit first held a sword flower, then walked with the sword on his back, turned around and pointed the sword.

Chu Bandit is dancing the sword, and it is a woman's sword dancing footwork, but there is still a difference between sword dancing and daily martial arts fighting. Chu Bandit's movements are actually a bit blunt, as if he is deliberately imitating someone.

Zhao Liangyue didn't eat the food first, but just watched Chu Bandit quietly, watching him in the snowy night in front of the porch, one person, one sword and one shadow, blending himself into the flying snow and past events.

Bandit Chu is different from Youbai Wujian.When youbai danced with the sword, his body was like a crane, and his moves were beautiful.But Chu Bandit is like the wind, a wind that no one can catch, a bloody wind, and a breeze that shines brightly in the old days of Kyoto.

When Bandit Chu stopped his momentum, Zhao Liangyue had already stood in the corridor at some point.

Bandit Chu put the sword back into its sheath, went back to the hall with Zhao Liangyue and sat down, put the stove into Zhao Liangyue's hand, and said, "Actually, I have never danced a sword before. When my mother was around, I used to dance swords as a sacrifice every New Year's Eve. Sue father." Bandit Chu paused, rubbed his fingers on the scabbard, and said, "This sword is the only thing my mother left me."

Zhao Liangyue said: "Lingtang must be a chic and cheerful woman."

"Yes." Chu Bandit said, "She was originally from the Jianghu, she was really unrestrained and happy, and she was very happy to fight righteously with my father, but my father passed away before I was born. Dear, I was betrayed unexpectedly, it was Senior Wang who rescued and took her in, and that's how I became later."

Zhao Liangyue looked at the calmness on Chu Bandit's face through the steaming white air, and asked, "How did senior brother spend his youth?"

Zhao Liangyue really wanted to know what kind of time Tang Kang talked about, the young man from the Imperial Academy who was famous in the capital, had such a time of wantonness and no worries.

"Actually, Senior Wang didn't accept me as a student at the beginning. At the beginning, he lived in Senior Chi's house and learned martial arts from him. Then one day suddenly, I became a student of the Emperor's teacher." Chu Bandit said Here, he laughed and said, "Being able to become a student of the emperor's teacher means that my youth will be smoother than anyone else in Beijing, and I will develop arrogance and aloofness in my childhood, which led to the old case before the incident. , I don't see any signs."

Zhao Liangyue's heart ached, and he said, "I remember that year, senior brother was only 17 years old."

"But Wang Han and Tu Yuan didn't see me when I was 17 years old. What they saw was the late emperor's suspicion of the emperor and Marquis Wu'an, so they could take advantage of it." Chu Bandit said, looking at the worried Zhao Liangyue raised his hand and patted Zhao Liangyue's shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, Xilin, these things were already digested when he was young, and now it's just a few sighs of emotion, but he didn't treat Xilin as an outsider."

Zhao Liangyue smiled slightly, nodded, and asked, "Then what interesting things happened during those years at the teacher's house?"

"Interesting thing?" Bandit Chu clicked his tongue and said, "In fact, everyone in the mansion, including my mother, is extremely strict with me, just like the requirements of the princes of the Wang family. They all grew up under the stick of the old man. The big one, the only gentle one is Mrs. Wang."

Zhao Liangyue said: "But a prostitute who went out from Master Xuanshan's family, and later became a famous female medical officer?"

"Exactly." Chu Bandit recalled, "I have never seen a person who is more gentle than Mrs. Wang, and at the same time smart and tough. , is a strange woman."

But even such an admirable and strange woman was also involved in the conspiracy back then, making Wang Taboo think hard for the rest of his life, and feel sad.

"Xi Lin, look ahead."

Bandit Chu seemed to have sensed something, pulled Zhao Liangyue back from his thoughts, poured wine for the two of them, and threw a blow at Zhao Liangyue.

"Da Xu is currently suffering from internal and external troubles. You and I must look forward, so that we can fulfill the old friend's long-cherished wish."

"Senior brother is right, Xi Lin has been taught, so he should live up to his mentor and Da Xu's people."

The two looked at each other and smiled, raised their heads and drank the pepper wine in the cup.

Outside the auspicious snow welcomes the new year, the fireworks are bright, and people celebrate the new year with the best wishes. The curfew is lifted for this night, and the lights are thousands of lights until dawn.

But there are thousands of lights, and I only want one.