In June, Youzhou Prefecture welcomes the annual local Cold Food Festival.
Youzhou is located in the north. Although the land near Youzhou Prefecture is fertile, the climate is dry and cold all year round.
In April and May every year, there are often freezing weather.
It won't be until June that the first wave of warm currents appears.
The day of the warm current is the "Cold Food Festival" in Youzhou Prefecture, which means "changing the fire". At the same time, a grand sacrificial event will be held in Youzhou Prefecture to pray that the harrowing will bring good weather this year.
The time of harrowing day is also several months later than that of Pingcheng.
On this day, according to custom, the people of Youzhou Prefecture went out of the city to worship and go out.
On this day, the city lord's palace also changed its door plaque.
"Hang it higher, hang it higher!"
"Ouch, what's going on? Can you hang up well!"
The steward outside the mansion angrily criticized the two young men who were hanging up the plaque. The young man was holding up the heavy "Pingbei General's Mansion" plaque with trembling arms.
Outside the mansion is a long street, which leads directly to the gate of Youzhou Fucheng.
A carriage drove slowly down the long street.
Wind chimes were tied to the carriage, and the wind chimes fluttered in the wind, making a tinkling sound.
The driver driving the carriage, swinging his whip and shouting, stopped the carriage outside General Pingbei's Mansion.
Horses are allowed to gallop on the main street of Youzhou City. Unlike the crowded Shendu City, the structure of the houses and cities here fully demonstrates the grandeur and spaciousness of the North.
The bearded groom smiled and said: "Officials, this is the palace of the Lord of Youzhou City, we are finally here!"
He looked up and saw that the plaque of Youzhou City Lord's Palace had fallen to the corner of the wall, and the plaque that was being hung up again was "Pingbei General's Palace".
This small gesture has a completely different meaning.
After the carriage stopped, the people in the carriage walked out of the carriage.
Two bright and pretty women and two gray-haired old men.
The two old men looked at the huge general's mansion in surprise. Just by looking at it from the outside, they could feel the grandeur of this home.
"this........"
Both of them showed a trace of hesitation and timidity.
Liu Luan and Liu Yiqi, who were standing next to them, were also surprised, but they were both ladies, so they were better able to hide the emotions in their hearts, and became calmer when they showed on their faces.
"Asu is now a senior official, and he doesn't even come to greet us..."
Mother Cao sighed. She had gone through thousands of mountains and rivers, but she couldn't see her son for the first time. She felt a little disappointed.
"General Pingbei is busy with affairs. Now all the affairs of Youzhou Mansion are in his hands. In addition, we have changed the route along the way and our whereabouts are secretive. It is normal for him not to know that we are here."
Liu Yiqi was so generous that she even opened her mouth to excuse Cao Su.
After hearing her words, Cao's mother suddenly became happy.
In fact, Cao's mother didn't really blame Cao Su. She knew that Cao Su was very busy every day. She just felt a kind of natural anxiety before entering the palace of the city lord, so she deliberately found a topic.
"Go in, he's probably been waiting for a long time."
Father Cao called a few people to go inside.
Before entering the door, Cao's father suddenly turned around and solemnly thanked Liu Yiqi: "Miss Liu, thank you for this journey..."
In today's world, war is in chaos. If it weren't for the cover of the Liu family's caravan and the three of them, I don't know how much longer it would have taken.
It took an unimaginable amount of effort to reach Youzhou safely.
When a few people were about to come in, the steward at the door suddenly frowned when he saw them: "Hey, who are you?"
This steward is only responsible for handling some daily housework, such as hanging the plaque at the door today.
When he saw a few people getting off the carriage, he just asked casually.
As the steward finished speaking, several guards walked out of the door of the mansion, each of them strong and mighty.
"Excuse me, please let me know. General Pingbei, an old friend from Shendu, is here to visit."
Father Cao had been a wealthy man for a few days, and his temperament had improved a lot. This invitation, which was neither humble nor overbearing, frightened the stewards and guards.
The housekeeper would not do anything to report. The two guards said calmly: "Okay, you guys wait here and don't wander around. We'll go in and report."
After saying that, he left a guard to guard everyone, and one of them turned around and walked towards the mansion.
Several people waited at the door of the house for a long time.
The housekeeper has been dealing with the matter of hanging the plaque. The two young men's arms are sore and weak, but today's plaque is extremely heavy and they have been unable to hang it.
"Kacha—"
Suddenly, there was a slight sound from the ladder.
"ah!
"
One of the young men lost his center of gravity and balance and fell off the ladder, bringing the young man on the other side with him. The plaque that the two of them had been unable to hang also fell due to this.
The steward turned pale with fright and screamed repeatedly.
Father Cao, Mother Cao and others, who had been watching several people hanging plaques, also changed their expressions.
"call--"
At this moment, a figure suddenly emerged from the house.
He caught the falling plaque with one hand.
He clapped his hands twice, and the two young workers who fell from the air suddenly felt like there was a cotton-like cushioning force underneath, and they rolled to the ground with them.
"Why are you so careless?"
The tall and strong Cao Su held the plaque with one hand and turned to look at the steward.
The steward was so frightened that he trembled and begged for mercy: "I didn't mean it. I hope you will forgive me."
Hanging the plaque is a big deal. When he left this matter to the steward, Cao Su was still a little worried. Thanks to the persuasion of Zhongjin and others, Cao Su decided to leave it to this person.
I didn't expect this person to be so helpless that he couldn't handle such a small thing.
When Cao Su got angry, his tiger eyes were full of anger, and his momentum surged over him like an overwhelming force.
The steward was so frightened that he didn't dare to move at all.
Cao Su is now the top man in Youzhou Prefecture and has the power of life and death. The difficulty of squeezing him to death is not much different from that of squeezing to death an ant.
Cao Su snorted coldly and suddenly jumped up.
He had already reached the high level of cultivation, easily floating in the air, and hung the plaque on the door with one hand.
Then Cao Su fell down and turned to look at Cao's father, Cao's mother and others.
Father Cao and Mother Cao, who had not seen each other for several months, came all the way, looking a little embarrassed, with their heads and faces gray and dusty.
On the contrary, Liu Luan and Liu Yiqi, who were also on their way, had very clean faces. Liu Yiqi even applied a little makeup, with red lips and white teeth, but a slight mess could be seen between the ends of the hair.
"I've met General Pingbei."
"Asu!"
"uncle........"
Several people called them differently, and Cao Su nodded slightly.
A trace of doubt flashed across his face: "Didn't I ask Zhao Xi to pick you up? Where are the others?"
Bring your family here. There are strong generals with names in the army, so naturally it is not easy to dispatch them at will.
Cao Su sent his most trusted former guard captain Zhao Xi. Unexpectedly, Zhao Xi didn't get any news back, so when his parents arrived, Cao Su was still in the dark.
"It's a long story. General Zhao has done his duty wholeheartedly. If it weren't for General Zhao and Miss Liu protecting each other, we wouldn't be here."
Cao's father said briefly, but Cao Su's expression changed when he heard it.
His eyes turned cold: "We'll talk about it later when we come in."
He was always blocking the door, attracting too much attention.
Cao Su led a few people inside.
At this moment, the steward who was still lying on the ground was even more frightened. These two were actually the parents of General Pingbei?
He could ignore the others, but General Pingbei's parents were real nobles, and he actually contradicted them?
He couldn't help but lament in his heart, everything was really unfavorable today. If he had known this, he would not have tried so hard to take this job. It would be better to go for an outing with his family outside the city.
The General's Mansion occupies a very large area and is located slightly south of the center of the entire Youzhou Mansion.
Throughout the General's Mansion, there are countless pavilions and pavilions, flowers, birds, mountains and rocks, and there is an atmosphere of wealth and elegance everywhere with carved beams and painted buildings.
Father Cao and Mother Cao had never been to such a big and luxurious place before, and they looked a little dull for a while.
Recalling that a few years ago, their family of four huddled together in a dilapidated low house, sleeping on the same bed with all their clothes on, I felt that everything had changed too quickly, and there was a sense of emptiness like a dream.