Qinghe

Since returning from hunting at the Shilipo Forest Farm last time, the two haven't seen each other for almost ten days. They know the general's intentions, but Ji Qinghe wants to avoid him. What, he never showed up, which made him calm down.

Tomorrow is the Lunar New Year, and the city of Pingguan is much more lively than before. The mother-in-law and guards who take care of him in the mansion, those who are close to their homes, have gone back to reunite with their families, and those who are far away, he also let them go for a day. Fake, the courtyard is still somewhat popular on weekdays, but today it is too deserted.

In the gazebo in the courtyard, Ji Qinghe sat at the table and poured himself a cup of hot tea. He couldn't help thinking that when he was in the mountains, he and his master spent every year together. Although it was a bit deserted, there were relatives by his side , I also feel a lot warmer, as if we are on each other's side today, think about it, they haven't seen each other for almost five or six years!

When Qi Yue stepped into the gate, he saw the man in the pavilion holding a cup of tea in a daze, his whole body covered with a faint sense of sadness.The thin back made people feel more and more distressed.

"General Qi!" Ji Qinghe quickly stood up and saluted when he found someone coming from the courtyard.

"There is no need to be so polite between you and me!" Qi Yue looked around, frowned, and asked, "Just you? Where are the others in the mansion?"

"Tomorrow is New Year's Day, and I gave them all a day off."

"Pingguan is no more stable than the capital city. It's better to take more personal safety with you when you travel on weekdays, sir."

"Thanks for the reminder, General."

"Let's go!"

After that, Qi Yue turned around and was about to go out, Ji Qinghe looked at his back, very dazed, "What is the general trying to do?"

Qi Yue turned around, looked at him and said, "Tomorrow is the New Year. I know that sir doesn't like to make noise, so I won't invite him to the banquet in the army tomorrow. It just so happens that today is free. I know that there is a restaurant in the city with good food. It's time to celebrate the New Year with Mr.

So that's the case, Ji Qinghe said with a smile: "The general has a heart."

In the end, the two of them left the mansion together and headed towards the Hongmanlou restaurant in the city.It just so happened that at noon, the business in that restaurant was very good, the guests were full, the waiter by the door kept greeting the passers-by, when he saw the two of them, he immediately greeted them, "General Qi, you are here. The private room upstairs is reserved for you!"

"Take this gentleman up first, I'll be here in a while." Qi Yue said to the waiter in the shop, then turned around and said to Ji Qinghe: "Please wait upstairs for a while, I'll leave, and I'll be there in a while." return."

"Okay!" Ji Qinghe replied, looking at the figure who disappeared in the crowd in a blink of an eye, wondering why General Qi was in such a hurry.Just as he was about to enter the store, a cry of a child came.

About ten feet away from him, a three or four-year-old girl was standing alone in the middle of the road crying, perhaps separated from her relatives.At this time, behind the little girl, a donkey cart full of goods was galloping towards this side.

"Give way, the people in front quickly make way."

"Be careful." Ji Qinghe hurriedly ran over when he saw this, picked up the little girl and avoided it. The donkey cart behind a cart of goods barely brushed past his nose, and a smell A strong aroma of wine wafted over, but there seemed to be other flavors in this aroma, which I couldn't tell at the moment.

The man driving the donkey cart was wearing a short jacket with a square scarf wrapped around his head. He had dark skin and was not tall, but looked very capable.The man hastily pulled the donkey back, and looked back nervously at the several large jars on the cart, perhaps because he was afraid that if it was broken, he would not be able to pay for it.

Seeing that everyone was fine, Ji Qinghe moved closer to the wine jars and smelled them, but the driver of the donkey cart shouted loudly, "What are you doing?"

"What kind of wine is this? The taste is a bit special."

"This is the best aged flower wine, what nonsense are you talking about?" The man glared at him, speaking in a somewhat aggressive tone.

"What's the matter?" Before Ji Qinghe could speak, another person came out from behind the crowd. He was about 40 or [-] years old, average in size, dressed in military uniform, and greeted everyone with a smile. That costume should be from the Qi family army.

"I'm sorry, everyone. This donkey is a bit stubborn. He doesn't take discipline very much. I'm really sorry for disturbing everyone." The military master apologized, and turned to look at Ji Qinghe again, "Is this gentleman okay? Where does it hurt?"

"No problem!" Ji Qinghe said, and then handed the little girl in his arms to the relatives he found nearby, and said: "Master Jun is pulling such a big cart of wine, is there something in the army?"

"Isn't tomorrow the New Year? Our military camp holds a banquet at the end of each year to reward us soldiers who can't go home. This year is the same."

"So that's how it is." Suddenly thinking that Qi Yue had told him before that there would be a banquet in the army tomorrow, he felt relieved and said nothing more.

"Not much to say, things are complicated, let's take a step first, and those behind, keep up." The military master greeted the carriages behind him and walked past him. One is not the wine that has been sealed in the big altar. Considering the large number of people in the army, it can also be explained by pulling so much wine.

When Ji Qinghe returned to the door of the restaurant, Qi Yue happened to come back with a basket in his hand, and when he took a closer look, it was smooth and tender glutinous rice balls. He left in such a hurry just to buy a bowl of glutinous rice balls?Ji Qinghe couldn't help but look at Qi Yue a few more times.

"It's a big custom that the whole family will eat glutinous rice balls when they reunite at the end of the year. There is a store in front of them that makes delicious glutinous rice balls. I bought them specially for you. Try them!" Qi Yue raised the basket in his hand a little closer, showing his goodwill in a serious manner. The appearance made Ji Qinghe stunned in embarrassment, neither answering nor not answering.

"What? Sir, do you want me to feed it myself? Huh?" Qi Yue didn't move his hand holding the basket, but the tone of the word "huh" was raised, with some teasing charm, which made Ji Qinghe stunned for a moment, and his cheeks slightly A little hot.

"If that's the case, then I will live up to the general's kindness." Ji Qinghe stretched out his hand to catch the basket, scooped one with the spoon in the bowl and put it into his mouth, but the taste...

"What's wrong? Isn't it delicious?" Qi Yue asked when he saw Ji Qinghe suddenly looked up and stared at him.

"How does the general know that I like glutinous rice balls filled with meat instead of sweet ones?"

Qi Yue originally looked at Ji Qinghe's gaze, which flickered, "Occasionally, I heard the old woman in the mansion say it, so I wrote it down."

"Oh!" Ji Qinghe smiled, just said "oh" and didn't say anything else, why didn't he remember that he told the woman in the mansion that he liked to eat glutinous rice balls stuffed with meat?It is said that General Qi is ruthless, but it seems that this person is a little different from the rumors.

After returning from the restaurant, it was Shen Shi, Qi Yue sent him outside the gate of the mansion, but did not enter.The military affairs in the army are complicated, so he has to rush back to the barracks early.

"Thank you General for your hospitality today, and Qinghe will definitely repay you if he has the opportunity in the future."

After Ji Qinghe finished speaking, he saw the general who was standing with his hands behind his back suddenly turned around and stared straight at him, causing his back to be covered in white hair.Just as he was about to say something, the man suddenly approached his ear and whispered, "I don't want any other rewards, just a promise with my body."

This... He just felt a rush of heat rushing directly into his brain, and he was a little dazed. Maybe it was the hot tone with the smell of wine, maybe it was something else, which made him feel so ashamed that he wanted to turn around and leave.Before he could say anything, Qi Yue smiled lowly, turned around, jumped on the horse, and walked away.

It seems that General Qi has become more and more out of control since he expressed his feelings to him during that hunt, and even blatantly teased him several times, and said serious things in a serious manner.Ji Qinghe raised his forehead, and shook his head helplessly, but he is in someone else's territory, and still owes him such a big favor. He is suffering and can't tell. It seems that he can avoid it in the future!

It gets dark earlier this winter, and the You hour has just arrived, and the sky is already gray.Ji Qinghe put down the scroll in his hand, remembering that Agui, who usually lights the street lamps in the mansion, had gone home for the New Year, so he had to do it himself.After taking down the big red lantern in front of the door and lighting the wick with a torch, a pungent smell came over my face.Fanning it with his sleeve, he was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something. This smell was very familiar, and he seemed to have smelled it somewhere during the day.

There was something wrong with that batch of wine!Ji Qinghe suddenly ran away, heading for the stable, he remembered the donkey cart that almost hit him during the day, and there was a special smell in the wine jar on that cart, which was exactly the same as the oil lamp.His sense of smell has always been sensitive, and he has repeatedly confirmed that he didn't pay attention to it at the time. Now that he thinks about it, someone must have put the jar of kerosene in the wine jar. The strong smell of the wine covered the smell of kerosene. If you don't pay attention, you won't find it.And the man driving the donkey cart, seeing him approaching the wine jar, looked nervous, now that there were too many strange things, so much kerosene was secretly sent to the barracks, he had a hunch that something was going to happen, and he had to notify Qi Yue immediately.

Ji Qinghe didn't dare to think too much, he took his horse and rode it all the way to the Qi Family Army barracks outside the city.However, what he didn't expect was that he was stopped halfway when he just left the city gate, and the horse under him was frightened and threw him off.

At this time, the night was getting darker. On the relatively remote road, five or six masked men with knives surrounded him.One of them suddenly said, "It's him who almost ruined our event, but fortunately he has more eyes."

Barbarian?Ji Qinghe was startled, and tried to keep calm on his face. Although he was a tall man, he could understand a few words he had learned before when nothing happened.Hearing what the barbarian said just now, he must have known him, and after a closer look, he saw that his figure and tone were the same as the donkey cart driver in the daytime, "What do you want to do?"

"Stop talking!" Seeing that he was seen through, the man scolded him impatiently, and said to the others behind him: "The letter said that he has a close relationship with Qi Yue, so it would be perfect to use him as bait, take him away. "

Saying that, in the next second, Ji Qinghe felt a pain in his neck, his eyes darkened, and he was knocked out.

Until the morning of the second day, a guard in the Qi family's barracks hurried to the general's tent, "General, it's not good, something happened to you, sir."

Qi Yue, who was discussing matters with several other lieutenants, saw that the person who came was the guard he sent to protect Ji Qinghe's safety, his expression changed immediately.After gesturing for the others to leave, he asked with a serious face, "What happened?"

"General, after my subordinates returned home last night, they found no one in the courtyard, but the lamp in Mr. Ji's room was on. They thought Mr. Ji was resting in the room and did not dare to disturb him. Until this morning, Mrs. Zhang, who was cooking, went to ask Mr. When I wanted to eat something, I realized that there was no one in the house.”

"Have you looked elsewhere? Could it be that you got up in the morning and went out for a walk?" Qi Feng said.

"Early this morning, the guard never saw Mr. go out. We searched everywhere, but he was not in the mansion. And there was a horse missing in the stable. When I came all the way to the barracks, I found it on the road leading to the barracks outside the city. The lost horse, but there is no sign of Mr. Ji nearby." The guards who spoke were kneeling on the ground, and seemed to lose confidence as they spoke, they were originally sent to protect Mr. Ji's safety, but now they are missing.

The face of the person in the main seat became more and more ugly, and his whole body exuded a dangerous aura. "After finding the person, each will receive fifty army sticks and be fined with half a year's salary."

"General, is the punishment..." Too severe?Before Qi Feng finished speaking, when he saw Qi Yue's expression, he wisely chose to shut up.

"Qi Feng, I'll take a small group of people to go first, just in case, you must prepare your people to respond." Qi Yue said, took the sharp sword in the tent, and glanced at the guard who was still kneeling on the ground , said coldly: "You, lead the way!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"