The spring is cold and cold, the night wind blows through the stars, like a veil wiping away the floating dust between the sky and the earth. The mist falls and walks in the dark red nine-turn corridor, and the bright moon illuminates the surroundings.
The rockery outside the corridor is draped with wisterias, the old trees are blooming with vines, the green leaves are quiet in the clean green steps, and the purple rhizome and rhizome are wrapped around the eaves of the pillars.
A clump of peonies didn't grab a spot in the greenhouse, but quietly sprouted branches and leaves on the muddy ground, curling up and shining with silver light.
Most people in Yu City have "Yu" as their surname. The Yu family in Caoshe Street, where ancestors once produced first-class officials, is the leader. The house with three entrances and four gardens is as deep as a deep palace, which has given scholars of all ages a peaceful environment and the female relatives are in boudoir and noble.
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Two mothers and four girls followed Yu Wuluo and sent her to the end of the road. In the courtyard gate behind two orange trees was the residence of the fifty-six-year-old Yu Cun, the head of the Yu family.
There is an Arhat couch in front of the window. After the grandfather and grandson sit opposite each other, the moon hangs on the window lattice, acting as a listening guest.
"Wu Luo, we have guests tonight."
"Grandpa, I have heard."
"It is true that the emperor passed away, but without a prince or an emperor's nephew, the capital directly recommended Lei Fengqi to the capital to ascend the throne. I am unwilling to accept it."
Yu Wuluo raised half of her dark brows at her temples, and her forehead was as smooth as petals. She was a beauty, with an oval face and exquisite facial features from her family, just like her grandfather Yu Cun, who was charming and graceful from childhood to middle age.
A good son is first-class, and his appearance is also rewarded by his ancestors.
"Who is Lei Fengqi?" Yu Wuluo was confused.
Yu Cun took out a volume from the pile of files on the Luohan couch, and Yu Wuluo opened it and read softly: "The famous general Guizi Guan is the 14th grandson of the ninth son of the founding emperor..."
She frowned handsomely: "Grandpa, this person is not good."
Yu Cun hehehe: "Why do you say this?"
"How can a famous person be famous for being suave?" Yu Wu pursed her lips in anger, this was in front of her grandfather.
"If you look at the place names, Guiziguan is easy to attack but difficult to defend. Lei Fengqi, a member of the royal bloodline, has been guarding the pass for five generations. Whether he is suave or alluding to romance, he will not be a weak soldier."
Yu Wuluo showed doubts again: "Grandpa, what do you mean?"
"The guard at the border in the Five Dynasties had troops and horses in his hands, and the person who recommended him was Zhang Lin, a great scholar. The death of the emperor was full of speculation for me, a thousand miles away, so Zhang Lin sent someone to see me again.
Lei Fengqi was very complimentary and asked me to write a congratulatory memorial for the visitor to take back to the capital and present it to me on the day Lei Fengqi ascends the throne to show my sincerity as a scholar-bureaucrat."
An angry look appeared in Yu Cun's eyes: "I have never had a betrayal in my Yu family. Although I did not agree with the late emperor's political views and resigned from office, your father and your uncle are still serving in other provinces. How can I flatter a villain?"
? Zhang Lin didn’t send anyone to see me. I also wanted to find out the truth about the death of the late emperor. Zhang Lin tried his best to invite me to Beijing. The letter was full of flattery, but he didn’t mention the whereabouts of the late emperor’s edict. There must be something sneaky in it.
When the fog fell, Zhang Lin was at home, and he had many followers staying in the city. By telling me about poems and books, he told me clearly how many scholars there were in the Yu family."
"Is this...grandfather being watched?" Yu Wuluo's anger reflected on her dazzling appearance was more like the budding spring in the courtyard, which could bloom in full bloom in the spring breeze.
"Haha," Yu Cun smiled awkwardly. Her granddaughter was her darling. She had raised her since she was a child and respected her grandfather. However, the elders were embarrassed in front of the younger generation, and the elders wished they could find a way out.
Yu Wuluo lowered his eyes silently and said respectfully: "Please tell me what I can do, grandfather."
Yu Cun sighed softly: "There is no one in my family to send, but my generation of scholar-bureaucrats has been favored by the country. If Lei Fengqi is wise and powerful, it will be a blessing for the country. If the two collude, I want to know the truth."
"Yes." Yu Wuluo was faintly excited, and she continued to lower her face, lest her grandfather see that she yearned to go out, and might change her assignment to someone else.
"You know kung fu and are quite mighty." Yu Cun said this with a helpless and troubled expression. It had been a long time since the incident, but the anger still lingered in his heart when he talked about it, forcing him to suppress his anger and find his elegant style again: "
My Yu family has three hundred years of poetry and writing, and all the disciples, regardless of gender, are scholars. Only you, Wu Luo, know kung fu."
Yu Cun couldn't bear the gloomy look on his face.
Yu Wuluo smiled and adjusted the atmosphere, her face swaying playfully: "When the nanny was driven away by you, she said that if my skills were among the best in the world, just leave it to me, grandpa, what you have to do, the nanny said to take it easy.
Three or five men are no match for me."
Yu Cun's black face burst into anger, and he said: "It makes no sense! I saw that she was in trouble and needed medical treatment. Who would have thought that someone from the Jianghu family was hiding in my house? Your father is in office, and your mother is in office with your father.
I only have you as my granddaughter in the family. The nine-curved corridor only leads to my grandfather’s courtyard. The courtyard is deeply locked up and coveted by outsiders. I can’t go out of my boudoir for leisure, and I rarely see my relatives and friends. Grandpa, I devote myself to studying books and teaching the children of the clan. I only have a little separation.
In my heart, I thought that your daughter would enjoy the garden with poems and books, but I didn’t expect that in the first month of that year there was a thief in the city, and several arrests failed to be taken down. He escaped to the back garden and was defeated in your hands.
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He clenched his fists and pounded the bed: "If I don't chase her away, why are you waiting for her!"
"Yes." Yu Wuluo whispered softly: "When the nanny left, she kowtowed to her grandfather across the courtyard. She said that she had been here for ten years and that her grandfather had been very kind to her."
"Humph!" Yu Cun looked angry.
"Grandpa, the wet nurse helped me bear the reputation of being a thief. She is gone too, so please don't be angry anymore." Yu Wuluo begged softly.
Yu Cun softened his posture and smiled bitterly: "Now, I have no choice but to send you away."
Yu Wuluo said happily: "Yes."
Yu Cun pretended not to notice and continued: "If the road is far away, my grandfather will not let you go out no matter what."
Yu Wuluo moved her lips and wanted to say that her grandfather always taught her that the country is more important than the people, and the people are more important than the country.
When the interests of the country are greater than the interests of the people, such as when the country is destroyed and mountains and rivers are not there, the strength of the chicken must be brave enough to take the lead. But when the interests of the people are greater than the interests of the country, such as the prosperity of the country and the fact that the people's livelihood is free from suffering, then the people are more important than the country.
Grandfather suspected that the late emperor died due to an unknown cause, and also suspected that the border generals were colluding with officials in the capital. If the country was not there, everything would have to be turned into powder. At this time, the country was more important than the people. How could she, Yu Wuluo, consider that the son of a rich man could not sit down in the hall and shrink in the palace?
How about being a pretty girl in the embroidery building?
Yu Cun's words came out first, blocking the grandson's daughter's impassioned speech.
"Go back to your room to pack your things, change your father's old youth clothes, and go out of the house early tomorrow morning among the family shopping for groceries, and out of the city gate among the crowds. Five miles away, on Xiaoxiang Mountain, I planted a camphor tree for you.
Outside the cave, wait for guard Miao Bao to arrive. He will escort you to Fan City, which is thirty miles away. Your second uncle-in-law, the Fan family, will send my letter there, and then ask Miao Bao to escort you to Fan City, which is a hundred miles away.
The Cui family, your mission will be over when you arrive at the Cui family, and you should come home quickly."
On the black lacquered Kang table with golden flowers and birds, next to the purple hair pen and green silk inkstone, there are two written letters. The spring breeze moves the window lattice, and a faint smell of paste can be smelled from the seal.
Yu Wuluo took the letter with both hands, bowed and said goodbye to her grandfather, walked out of the room to meet her mother, and walked towards her embroidery building with light steps.
This is the darling daughter of the Yu family. Her residence is a two-story embroidered building. At the end of the nine-curved corridor, one end is connected to her grandfather’s courtyard, and the other end goes through the garden and leads directly to the outside of the embroidered building. A path studded with jade-white stones divides the garden.
Mark out flower houses, clear water, dense forests and lawns.
He also separated his daughter's daily life from the outside world as if it were nine days away.
If Yu Wuluo needed to visit relatives during the New Year or festival, most of the female relatives would go to the embroidery building to accompany her. Only when offering sacrifices would they pass through the side-opened moon cave door in the grandfather's courtyard, which leads to the incense hall.