Daqing Criminal Division

nineteenth.

Yanzhou

Different from the bustling, prosperous, and bustling Shuntian Mansion, Yanzhou City, which is thousands of miles away, also has a different kind of scenery.

This place was known as one of Kyushu in ancient times.

There is a moat around the outside, and eight low city gates and high platforms are built inside. Most of the houses in the city are large gates that open and close uniquely in Ludi.

Because it is adjacent to Ningyang in the north and Wenshang in the west.

The south and west are bordered by Zoucheng and Rencheng, and the east is adjacent to Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, across the Si River. Therefore, everyone in this prefecture can read and write.

Rows of buildings are quiet and unsophisticated, and on the well-proportioned streets, except for the most common lantern plaques at the door of the stores, most of the building signs are pairs and calligraphy made by local contestants in private competitions before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This play is called Aoyuhui.

It means the legend that the carp that leaped over the dragon gate swallowed the beads and became a squid, and it also means to be the champion. Anyone who has a student in Yanzhou family can hang his poems here, and compete openly with all the students. A good start for an autumn test.

But there are so many students competing for fighting skills in front of the bustling carp club all over the streets, but only a few of them can really break into the capital and shine in the end.

Because in this prosperous age that started from the holy ancestor, there was only one person in the huge Yanzhou city who finally succeeded in getting out.

That person was famous all over the world, and no one did not know him.

But now almost ten years have passed, but this person's name has disappeared from the court and the people for many years.

It’s just that the reputation he left is still being talked about by some Yanzhou people. Others fear him, respect him, and are even more curious about him, leaving all kinds of unreasonable judgments on this person’s name——

"My lords, the old man's surname is Chen, and today I will tell you a story about this dynasty. When talking about this talented person, I want to talk about Duan Yuheng, the last imperial scholar of Sejong's dynasty.

"He is the only son of Duan Qingshan, a famous scholar in Lu, and his ancestors once gave birth to great scholars in the previous dynasty." It's hard to get a high position in the officialdom, and it's also hard to climb to the top. This family is one of the declining literati of this family..."

These stories that have been circulated among storytellers in the market have been repeated over and over for the past ten years.

Just at this moment, accompanied by the sound of 'squeak', today's central city gate opened.

The people who came in along the front, a man wearing a bamboo hat on his head, carrying some long-distance luggage, and holding a horse as white as frost and snow, was walking through the Yanzhou mansion very inconspicuously.

"Tap-"

The sound of the horse's hooves was in contrast to the leisurely look of the man when he stepped into the city gate.

He just entered the city by himself just now, and a few decent luggage with him were thrown on the horse's back.

Ordinary long-distance travellers, most of them are dusty and dusty, but this person does not show the slightest fatigue, and has a feeling of being very tall and straight. Under the bamboo hat, people can't see his appearance clearly.

But most people in this world look at appearances.

Therefore, the beauty and ugliness of appearance always make people have a different impression of a person at first sight.

When entering the city gate just now, there was only a girl who was sitting in the front carriage and lifted one side of the curtain with her fingers, lying behind her own carriage, and took a look at this strangely dressed man.

At first glance, she felt that this person's face must be ugly, and there might be scars.

Otherwise, how could she not want others to see him? It just so happened that she was wearing a fresh camellia on her wrist. This camellia was given to her by her mother on the way.

When she was playing with it in her hand, the flower almost fell out of the window. Her mother scolded her for being naughty and refused to go down to pick it up for her.

But at this moment, the man she thought was very 'ugly' just passed by, and bent down to pick it up for her. This time, the profile of the man was accidentally exposed from the bamboo hat.

At that moment, the eyes under the bamboo hat met her eyes, vaguely showing a man's face that one can only feel at a glance for a lifetime.

The eyes are silent, and they seem to have a magnificent momentum like a river, and only half of the face can make people's heartbeat unable to stop.

There were no scars on his face, nor was he ugly.

On the contrary, he stared at her alive.

If there is any word to describe it, the girl can't think of it. She just thinks that this is probably the handsome man that others say, or the handsome man that even women love him so badly.

In this scene, the girl who was lying on the window with an aggrieved face was a little stunned, and even forgot to think about quietly picking flowers.

Just pretend to be dreaming.

But Yue saw such a girl staring at him blankly behind the window, and the other party was also shy, and did not approach, but made the extremely intelligent white horse beside him bend down, pick up the camellia, and sent it to the window. The side gave them back.

The white horse holds the flower.

Your husband is generous.

This scene is really more beautiful and moving than in the drama, and thinking so too, the girl was only looking forward to Ai Ai, her face turned red, she stopped the man, and she yelled and asked,

"Thank you, Lang, Mr. Lang, may I ask what your name is, are you from Yanzhou?"

This question seems to be the beginning of some drama.

It's a pity that before the girl who was moved by spring blushed and asked about the person's name, this handsome guy who looked like a "serious person" raised his head consciously, and answered like an "emotionless killer" road,

'Big Handsome Guy': "My surname is Duan, and my nickname Yanzhou Duan is very handsome. The meaning of handsome is literal. My family is very poor and I can't get rid of it, but I have already married a wife and paid homage once more. In addition, my family And a son."

La Traviata: "Huh?"

'Big Handsome Guy': "Also, I don't like to strike up a conversation with others casually on the road. It was just a matter of raising a finger. In order to avoid any misunderstanding, I think we should keep a distance. It is best not to leave any contact information."

Miss Camellia: "You, you... There is nothing wrong with this person! You think you are Duan Yuheng from Yanzhou, who wants to strike up a conversation with you!! What are you dreaming of in broad daylight!"

It was probably the first time in her life that the Camellia girl whose mouth was twitching crazily had seen this kind of man who seemed to have some problem with his mind.

At this moment, it is just as the mouth said.

Even if he was Duan Yuheng from Yanzhou, she probably wouldn't want to talk to such a smug person who married a wife and had a son.

And in an instant, his facial expression cracked, and he closed the curtain of the carriage with a 'snap' and hurried away. The 'Duan is very handsome' who stayed in the same place was once again freed from this journey, and every time he had to find a way to deal with it. Peach Blossom's troubles came to him.

Because he did it on purpose.

Moreover, he was very obvious on purpose.

But he stopped and stopped a lot along the way, and recalling that scene carefully, it is clear at a glance who the person who came home from thousands of miles is, because he left Hangzhou Mansion not long ago——

Duan Xiao himself.

Like the other Fucha who is still not sure if he has arrived home, he also started from the events before the end of the Hangzhou Mansion.

Although the puzzle on the five pigs and the spiders is still stuck in an extremely dangerous place.

Exactly where their next steps will lead is still unknown.

But Cui Dongting and Huagu Spider didn't reveal anything more valuable for the time being, so the clues of the group dormant in the dark can only wait for new investigations.

However, originally Duan Xiao didn't really want to come back.

Because he hasn't been home for ten years.

Home, the word, is extremely strange and distant to him.

Yanzhou doesn't have many relatives anymore, apart from the few distant relatives who have long since lost contact, there is only the empty old house and the old ancestral hall of the Duan family.

However, both Ming Boqian and Duan Yuanbao came back half a month earlier than him.

After thinking about it carefully, he decided to take a turn back. After all, Hangzhou Mansion and Na Haizhongzhou's party made him understand some things. There is no hurdle in the world that he cannot overcome.

He was finally able to look at the place called home in front of him normally.

"Are you going back to Yanzhou?"

I vaguely remember that before we parted, someone asked him this question.

"Yes, go back to Yanzhou."

Duan Xiao, who straightforwardly explained where he was going, answered him like that at the time, and after thinking about it, he explained another sentence.

"Wait until the clues of the third spider appear, and I'll find you again, let's go, see you later."

With such a sentence left behind, the two of them, who seemed to have always come and gone freely and had no worries, went back to their hometowns.

Along the way, he didn't walk fast, mainly because he had to deal with all kinds of 'trouble' along the way.

Along the way, Duan Xiao didn't contact the other party either.

Because neither of them thought about leaving an address in advance, these two guys who were so big-hearted and heartless to a certain extent also forgot about it.

【'Niuer Niuer is on the slope,'】

['The green leaves in the countryside are so beautiful. ']

['One side of the loess and one side of the field, the mountains are high and the water is long. ']

【'Who is Niuer Niuer busy for? After busying with spring plowing and autumn crops;'】

['It is not afraid of wind, frost, rain and snow, and walks around with the bell ringing. ']

Hearing such a singing sound from a tea house from a distance, it was uncomfortable to walk through Duan Xiao, who was drunk with plum blossoms, walking through it alone. wait.

But he saw a group of people looking at a notice from a distance, and when he passed by, he glanced at it. There were four words "Taiping Fuzhao" vaguely on the top, but the last four words were not clear.

Taiping Mansion?

Seeing this scene, because there were so many people on the other side, they couldn't see clearly even if they squeezed in, so Duan Xiao had to stop for a while, but he left without having time to look. The veterans of the past population had a conversation.

"Where did you come from before?"

Standing by the city gate for inspection, an old soldier with a strong Yanzhou accent asked this question.

"Hangzhou Mansion, I've been on the road for almost ten days."

Duan Xiao replied that he left his hometown when he was a teenager, and actually almost forgot how to speak Yanzhou dialect.

"Is it a Hangzhou native who happened to pass by?"

"No, I'm from Yanzhou."

Duan Xiao replied again.

"Hey, from your accent, it's not like our Yanzhou people, but the official dialect is very good."

The old soldier was also talkative, and while he was wondering, he chatted with him while stamping.

"I've been away from home for almost ten years, and this is the first time I've been back in so many years."

"Oh? Yuan, so that's the case. That's a good thing. You are welcome to come back to Yanzhou. Hurry up and go home to visit your parents, relatives and friends."

"..."

The old soldier in front of the city gate who had never met before said 'Welcome' with a smile from his heart, so that Duan Xiao under the bamboo hat twitched the corner of his mouth after a while.

"Well, thank you."

He did not pass the customs until he stretched out his hand and showed the veteran officers and soldiers in front of him the customs clearance ultimatum.

After this encounter, Duan Xiao is not in a bad mood this time alone in Yanzhou.

When he arrived at the door of his house, Uncle Ming, who had learned the news in advance, was already standing outside a street waiting for him. When Duan Xiao appeared, the old man also had a happy expression on his face, and hurried up to pick him up.

"What is Duan Yuanbao doing at home during this time?"

Didn't see Duan Yuanbao, Duan Xiao, the father, finally asked a question.

"Just like you used to, just read at home, practice calligraphy, and occasionally go for a walk in the back hills outside the city with me, just waiting for you to come back."

"Oh, yes, there are some relatives who grew up watching you grow up. This time I heard that you came home and want to see you. They are all very kind and kind old people of the Duan family."

Ming Bo also explained to him in this way with a smile.

Most of these old people of the Duan family survived the catastrophe, Duan Xiao thought, it would be no harm to meet them.

Because although he has never returned home properly these years, and only redeemed his former property intermittently, Ming Bo has been helping him take care of the old house and the ancestral hall.

To say that the Duan family was a scholarly family in the past, and after the seven-year accident of King Sejong many years ago, they didn't have much ancestral property.

But because of Duan Xiao's resignation in the past four or five years, he has not been idle.

He has always been a person who will think out all the way out for himself, but he takes every step safely, cautiously, and does not allow a person who makes a mistake.

The laws of this dynasty are clearly fixed, and officials are not allowed to engage in land sales in private, but he is still in the state of resignation in name, and in the past four years, he only spent some silver taels to buy two hills outside the city of Yanzhou.

Plant trees, repair nests.

This kind of thing that other people can't understand, but Duan Xiao has nothing to do, and has planned the livelihood of the Duan family for decades, because rice is planted at the foot of the mountain, there are fruit trees on the mountainside, and there are chickens and ducks in the fields .

Renters from ancestral houses in the city bought study rooms and shops, and built new courtyards to sell processed products made from agricultural products from the mountains.

Relying on the mountains and rivers, recycling, and making a living three seasons a year, Duan Yuheng himself, who never goes home, still maintains his usual poor image, although he does not show it on the surface. As the "six generations of officials", Yuanbao will inherit a very prominent family property in the future.

Because his father is only his son, so in principle, his father's family property can't be counted if he lies at home for four or five days, and it will all be his in the future.

Even so, it seems that he, a boy who hasn't grown all his hair yet, is suspected of thinking about his father's family property.

But regarding this point, Brother Bao, who was still a child this year, had no choice but to calmly say that I have known for a long time that my father is handsome and rich, and I am the only son, and I am not panicked at all.

And he walked home step by step with his luggage in this way. Seeing that the old yard of the Duan family has remained the same for so many years, the front of the hall is simple and elegant, and Duan Xiao, who has some memories in his heart, also stands silently at the door of the house and looks inward with an expressionless face. took a look.

"father."

There was a boy who was waiting at the door of the house, dressed in plain clothes like a boy, and when he saw him, he hurriedly opened the door and ran out.

【'——'】

At this moment, looking at Duan Yuanbao running towards him, Duan Xiao seemed to see himself as a child.

However, Duan Xiao didn't enjoy the scene that made him feel that it was not bad to go home, because soon, a scene that made him feel unbelievable appeared.

Because when he was about to enter the gate of his house, about three or five chubby middle-aged old women in red and green appeared in front of him, bluffing and waving handkerchiefs, and Ming Bo, who was smiling at the side, explained this But it is like this.

Duan Xiao: "How many are they?"

Uncle Ming: "Hey, this is your third aunt, this is your eldest aunt, and this is your sixth wife, didn't I tell you on the way just now, before you came back, these kindly The old man of the Duan family has been waiting for you at home for several days."

what happened.

What is this inexplicable intuition of falling into something more dangerous than a spider organization?

Why did he just want to leave when he came back.

Thinking of this in his heart, he narrowed his eyes, and Duan Xiao's back actually started to feel a little hairy.

He subconsciously took a step back.

I don't want to let go of my luggage.

However, the group of three aunts and six wives gathered in front of him are his out-and-out relatives, and he can't do anything, but what he said next, the words of these smiling, kind-hearted wives made the dignified Yanzhou Duan Yuheng confused. paused.

'Three aunts and six wives': "Oh! Yuheng! After so many years, you are willing to come back! We have been waiting for you at home for several days. In the past two days, we have put Yanzhou and your family at the same age. All the portraits of women have been brought to your house, you are still young, you look good, you have a good background, you must take a look at these portraits!"

Duan Xiao: "...why should I look at these portraits?"

'Three aunts and six wives': "Haha! Why else, of course it's for you—to introduce someone!"

Duan Xiao: "..."

The author has something to say: Duan Youshuai is actually a saucy person in private, everyone should not be fooled by his self-closing appearance before.

After all, how can he be a serious person if he can see someone like Fucha right?

However, the old part of this chapter is just like us who go home every year during the Spring Festival. Faced with the discussion of his emotional state by the seven aunts and eight aunts, he chose to go out to work.

At this moment, eagerly hoping that the next chapter will come soon, they can only squat in their own home and scratch their heads together as a self-closing duo.

Fucha: Old Duan—where are you——

Duan Xiao: Old Cha—where are you——

Hey, don't worry, don't worry, the criminals will rescue both of you soon!