Rebirth of a Star General - Chapter 138

Chapter 138

The water god sacrificial ceremony, the end of the whole show, it will take more than half an hour.

When He Yan and Xiao Jue came down, it was already late. Ling Xiu and Yan Min’er had been missing for a long time, and Aunt Wei said, “I haven’t used food all day after strolling around. The son and Miss Yuyan must be hungry, right?”

He Yan touched his stomach, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”

“Then let’s go to eat first.” Cui Yuezhi said: “There are several good restaurants in Jiyang, which one does Yuyan want to go to?”

“I think…” He Yan pointed to the awning boat in the river, “Go there to eat.”

She had just seen it. There were many people riding in small boats with stoves in the bow. They didn’t know what was simmering in them, about soup or something. The rest of the wine and vegetables are boated to the shore or the hawker on the river and handed over the money to buy it. People can take a boat, eat, and watch the lively scenery on both sides of the bank and the customs along the river, which is very special.

She had never been to Jiyang in the past and found it new, so she wanted to try it.

“That’s the firefly boat.” Aunt Wei explained with a smile, “When the punting boatman arrives in the evening, he will roll the boat to Luoyingquan. The weather in Jiyang is warm and there is no need to have fireflies in summer. Luoyingquan In the woods by the side, when you sway the boat at night, you can see that the river bank in the dense forest is full of fireflies. It is very beautiful! The concubine has the honor to go to the master once a year, and now that I think about it, I feel that it is so beautiful.”

When He Yan heard that she wanted to go even more, she looked at Cui Yuezhi: “Uncle, should we go on this firefly boat?”

“Girls like this,” Cui Yuezhi smiled and waved, “I won’t go anymore. This firefly boat is only for couples or lovers. Two people in a boat, so many of us, we can’t take a ride. ferry.”

The words in He Yan’s mouth were stuck, and he thought that the Water God Festival in Jiyang was actually the Qixi Festival in the Central Plains, which would be too unfriendly to people without lovers. Without a lover, wouldn’t it be right to take a look at the legendary Luoyingquan? Outrageous!

“Since Miss Yuyan wants to go, let’s go with Master Huanqing.” Aunt Wei smiled and said, “There are many boats and boats around. There should be a water stage on the road tonight, which is very lively.”

He Yan was struggling, she really wanted to see it, but Xiao Jue…may not be willing.

She turned her head to look at Xiao Jue, and asked tentatively: “Young Master?”

“Don’t think about it.”

“Master, my wish to go is true.”

Xiao Jue twitched the corner of his mouth, “I think it’s true that you have an inch.”

“I haven’t seen what a large firefly looks like,” He Yan whispered: “It’s all here, don’t you want to see it? Don’t think of me as a woman, just as a subordinate. Let’s pass by here. , Appreciate the local customs.”

“Young master, husband?” He Yan appealed to him again.

The corner of Xiao Jue’s mouth twitched: “Speak well.”

“If you don’t promise me, the concubine just keeps talking like this.”

Aunt Wei covered her mouth and smiled, seemingly unable to keep the children fighting, she whispered a few words to Cui Yuezhi, Cui Yuezhi nodded, and Aunt Wei asked someone to go to the river to wave and find a boat. Zhou, said to He Yan and Xiao Jue: “The old man has already paid the money. The master on this boat will take you to the Jiyang River tonight. When you meet delicious and fun ones, just buy them. When the time comes, He will also send you to Luoyingquan.” After a pause, he said, “I wanted to teach you to take a few guards with you, but there should be a city garrison patrolling by Luoyingquan, so there should be nothing wrong. But if you don’t Don’t worry, you can…”

“Thank you Aunt Wei! The guards don’t have to…” He Yan said happily, and suddenly remembered something, and asked Xiao Jue: “Lin Shuanghe and Chiwu, what if they want to see it too?”

Xiao Jue looked back, Chiwu and the others had already backed a few steps together, shook their heads at him, and signaled that they didn’t want to look.

Also, rough guys don’t like things like fireflies, and even if they like them, they don’t dare to show it here.

“Then let’s go up first.” He Yan was very happy, and got on the awning boat first.

This boat is not as gorgeous as the boats on the Chunlai River in Shuojing City. It is even simple in appearance, but it is also spacious inside. There is a ground collapse and a small stove for cooking. If you sit here, you can eat something. , Blowing the river breeze, looking at the illuminated night markets along the banks of the river, it is really a beautiful thing in the world.

He Yan bent over to enter, sat on the ground, and looked at the river.

The Jiyang Canal is extremely long, passing through the city. Today is a festival. Many lanterns were lit on both sides of the bank. Everyone was yelling and laughing, and it was very lively. The boatman is a middle-aged man wearing a hat, he is very strong, his arms are strong, and he paddles hard.

He Yan was lying on the bow of the ship. She was a little afraid of the water, but now the surroundings are really lively, maybe because of Xiao Jue’s side by her side, she has forgotten a lot of her previous fears, leaving nothing but freshness.

She was watching with joy, and she didn’t know that a small boat next to him passed by. The people on the boat were also a pair of men and women. The woman suddenly poured water over her, and He Yan was unconsciously splashed over her face. , The whole person was stunned.

The boatman laughed: “The girl is a foreigner. I don’t understand our Jiyang rules. This is on the canal. If two boats meet, everyone will fight each other. Everyone says that the water in the canal feeds Jiyang. City people, it is not water that is splashed, it is Fuze and luck!”

The girl also looked at her and smiled, kindly, with a little cunning, making it difficult for people to make fire. He Yan said in his heart, what kind of rule is this, don’t you fear that your clothes will get wet and you can’t go out?

He Yan’s thoughts actually wronged the people of Jiyang, but anyone who knew that he would be on the boat tonight for a water fight brought a few pieces of clothes for easy replacement. Only when she came here wearing a dress stupidly, Cui Yuezhi may have not been in the firefighting boat for a long time, and this would have been the case for a long time.

Probably seeing that she was very playful, there were a few boats around him, no matter men or women, they all bent over and slammed a handful of water from the canal towards He Yan.

He Yan: “?”

She said loudly: “Boatman, please shake the boat farther!”

Before she finished her words, a large handful of water hit her face. He Yan was startled. The next moment, someone stood in front of her and pressed her head into her arms, blocking the oncoming people. water.

Xiao Jue glanced at the opposite side. It was a man who smashed the water at He Yan, and he was a man without the slightest sense of pity and jade, and he was silly at He Yan. Xiao Jue curled the corners of his lips. The next moment, the teacup in the boat made a large floating trace in the water, and a large pile of water made a “crash” sound, which showered the man from head to toe.

The man next to the man didn’t know whether it was his wife or lover, and said anxiously: “How can you do this?”

Xiao Jue looked at each other with a faint smile, and said slowly, “I don’t have to thank you for giving you some luck.”

He Yan: “…”

She lifted her head from Xiao Jue’s arms and said, “Actually, there is no need to care about it.” She glanced at her surroundings again and was speechless for a moment, “Seeing it scares people.”

There were still a few boats surrounding him, and he probably thought He Yan’s reaction was very interesting. Seeing the lessons of the man’s previous traffic, they dared not come forward and asked the boat owner to row the boat far away, as if to avoid the plague.

Xiao Jue laughed: “Are you still in the mood to care about others?”

He Yan looked down at herself, half of her body was wet with water, Xiao Jue stood up, walked to the stern, took a veil for her, threw it over, and sat down by the small stove where tea was being made. ,”come over.”

He Yan went over and said, Xiao Jue: “Bake your hair dry.”

He Yan obediently responded, handing out the long hair to the small stove, and roasting with the heat, said: “Du Governor, are you hungry?”

“You are hungry?”

He Yan touched his stomach, “Very much.”

Her appetite has always been amazing. Xiao Jue sighed and said something to the boat family. After a while, the boat family shook the boat and went to a water market.

Said it is a water market, in fact, there are dozens of boats together. The boats sell dim sum, hot tea, various snacks, and even roast chicken and goose. The smell is very beautiful. The boat stopped by the water market, Xiao Jue asked He Yan to come on the bow: “Pick it yourself.”

The food on the boat all had Jiyang characteristics, very different from Shuojing’s. He Yan was greedy for this, but couldn’t bear that. He picked a bit of everything, so he carried a large pile of oil paper bags. Xiao Jue was silent for a moment and asked, “Are you a rice bucket?”

“If you can’t finish it, you can take it back to Lin Shuanghe and the others,” He Yan said with a smile, “I have been very restrained.”

Xiao Jue was speechless for a moment, he also picked a few, paid the money, and helped her carry the contents of the oil-paper bag into the boat.

With these food and drink, He Yan was very happy. Sitting on the ground, looking out the boat, happily unpacking paper bags to eat and drink. She had a good appetite. After a day’s hungry, she had no image when she ate. Xiao Jue endured it and said, “Pay attention to your manners.”

He Yan gave a nonchalant hum, still doing his own way, reminding him twice that there were no results, and Xiao Jue gave up.

She put her hands on the small window of the boat, and suddenly remembered that when she was a teenager, she had taken a boat to Jinling with her classmates in Xianchang Pavilion. There was also Xiao Jue at that time. She was on a boat for the first time and was so seasick that she vomited several times on the boat and almost did not die on the boat.

Nowadays, I am not seasick anymore, but the teenagers back then went to the east and west, and in the end, Xiao Jue was still by his side.

The world is unpredictable.

“There seems to be a water stage over there.” He Yan said in surprise: “Boatman, can you shake the boat over there?”

The boatman said: “Good.” Paddling the boat to the side of the water stage.

Under this stage, I don’t know what it was used to support, only some wooden stakes were on the water, and on the wooden stakes, the stage was erected. The spectators around had to sit on the boat and look up, and they saw the opera singers painted on their faces, singing vigorously. The Wusheng dance is very beautiful and babble. Although I can’t understand it, it is very lively.

There was also a boat selling delicious honey water. He Yan ran to the bow to see that there were many girls buying. Seeing He Yan’s enthusiasm, the hawker explained with a smile: “Girls, it’s all fresh. I’m tired from watching the show. We have everything here, such as lychee cream water, bayberry thirsty water, apricot crisp drink, plum wine, Sugarcane juice, pear juice, sweet bean soup…”

He Yan saw that in the small cup that was placed, there was a snow-white snow-white, ice-cold, red ball on top, and asked, “What is that?”

“This is Leng Yuanzi with sugar ice and snow. Sweet and cool, one bite, absolutely no loss, girl, come and have a cup?”

He Yan was a little greedy. Just about to speak, Xiao Jue asked, “Is this cold?”

“It’s cold,” the hawker replied warmly, “the ice hasn’t melted, it’s cool!”

“Don’t use this, heat exchange.” He said.

He Yan was taken aback, but the vendor said enthusiastically, “Then the sweet bean soup? I just cooked it, and it was warm in my hands. Oh, did the girl just get wet?” The vendor smiled. He scooped a spoonful of sweet bean soup from the small bucket and put it into the bowl and handed it to He Yan, while saying: “Then you have to drink more to warm your body, it’s the son who is caring!”

He Yan was at a loss. He didn’t care about what the person said at the moment. He just asked Xiao Jue, “Don’t you drink something?”

“I don’t drink sweets.” He turned and walked into the boat.

He Yan asked the vendor: “What’s not sweet?”

“Perilla drink is not sweet.”

He Yan took out several copper plates from his sleeves: “I want another cup of perilla drink.”

Holding the sweet bean soup in one hand and the perilla drink in the other, she followed Xiao Jue into the boat and handed the perilla drink to Xiao Jue: “This is not sweet, I asked. Drink it, I invite you!”

Xiao Jue was speechless: “I gave your money.”

“It’s all about your mind, how can you care so much?” He Yan scooped a spoonful of sweet bean soup by herself. The sugar water was sweet and warm. She squinted her eyes: “It’s really delicious!”

Xiao Jue said: “It’s so easy to feed.”

“You don’t know,” He Yan said, “I seldom eat sweets before, but in fact I like sweets very much.” She said, “Jiyang is so good, I also want to be a Jiyang native.”

“You can stay here.”

“How can it work,” He Yan sighed, “There are always many other things to do.”

While speaking, a small boat came next to him. Someone exclaimed and exclaimed. He Yan climbed over and saw a craftsman sitting on the bow of the boat, who was kneading dough. He would pinch whatever he was singing on stage. The pile of grass was already filled with faceless people, who were exactly the same as Hua Dan Xiaosheng who sang operas. They were really excellent in craftsmanship.

He Yan lay on the bow and watched the dough change rapidly in the hands of this man without blinking. The old man of the dough maker smiled and asked, “If the girl likes it, I can buy one? I can pinch one for you. The same faceless man.”

“really?”

“certainly.”

He Yan was a little moved, but he hesitated for a while, “Forget it.”

Xiao Jue was cooking something on the small stove for making tea. Hearing this, he looked up at her and asked, “Why not?”

He Yan turned around and said in a low voice: “I am a woman now, so I can buy it. But if I go back to the sanctuary, I have to dress up as a man. It is always inconvenient to bring this face with me, in case it is used as evidence. It’s not right if you find it. If you always have to lose it, why have it?”

Xiao Jue stared at her, suddenly raised his lips and smiled, and said faintly: “You are not tall, and you have a lot of heart and eyes.” He clicked, and a bunch of copper coins flew to the craftsman’s table, “Give it to her.” Make one.”

The old man smiled and put away the copper coins: “Okay.”

He Yan hurriedly turned around and walked to Xiao Jue: “How did you buy it! I bought it back. I can’t take it away when I leave Jiyang. Why waste money?”

“You don’t like it,” he moaned his lips. “If you like it, buy it. In this world, if you don’t fight for it because you are afraid of losing, it would be too boring.”

Seeing He Yan still motionless, his eyes were ridiculing, but his tone was very calm, “Miss He Da, this is in Jiyang, today you can do everything you want to do without worries. What you were originally like, is What it looks like. What you like and what you hate can be said directly. You don’t have to wrong yourself, and you don’t need to cheat everyone.”

He Yan was speechless for a while, and didn’t know what to say.

After a long while, she said: “I can really do whatever I want?”

Xiao Jue shrugged, “Do whatever you want.”

He Yan sat down.

The old man who pinched the dough was very good, but in a moment, he squeezed one, and he greeted He Yan on the other end: “The girl’s dough is pinched!”

He Yan thanked him and accepted the Face Man from him. The face man is extremely delicate, even the lace on the skirt corners is exactly the same as her body, and she looks pretty. She can see the gods, holding the face man for a long while and asks Xiao Jue: “Du Governor, do you think she looks like me? ?”

Xiao Jue replied nonchalantly: “It’s more than enough to beat you.”

He Yan was accustomed to being run by him, and was not annoyed. He only said happily: “I actually look like a woman.”

She saw that Xiao Jue was pulling something out of the pot above the small stove and put it in a bowl. He Yan went over and looked at it. I don’t know when, Xiao Jue cooked a bowl of clear noodle soup. The noodles were white and added a little soy sauce. There is no green onion, there is only an egg lying in it, and a bit of green greens emits a tangy fragrance.

He Yan was startled. She had been busy watching the scenery outside and eating and eating. She didn’t know when Xiao Jue cooked a bowl of noodles. She asked, “Dudu, are you hungry?”

Xiao Jue didn’t speak, only pushed the bowl in front of her, and handed her a pair of chopsticks: “Eat.”

“Give it to me?” He Yan took the chopsticks, flattered, “Why? I bought a lot of food, and I didn’t…”

Before the word “hungry” came out, I heard the man in front of me lightly saying: “Isn’t it your birthday today?”

He Yan was stunned.

After a long while, she asked: “…how do you know?” Even in front of Cui Yuezhi, what she said was… a few days after the vernal equinox.

“Miss He Da,” Xiao Jue said slowly: “Do you know that your ability to deceive is erratic and sometimes full of loopholes.”

He Yan didn’t speak, and after a while, she spoke softly: “So today, the reason why you are so good to me is actually because you know that today is my birthday, right?”

“Good?” Xiao Jue raised his eyebrows: “You seem to have a lot of misunderstandings about Good. How am I to you?”

no. He Yan said in his heart that, except for Liu Buwang, she had never met someone as good as Xiao Jue to her. No one has ever remembered her birthday. On past birthdays, they called her “He Rufei”. That was He Rufei’s birthday, not hers.

But today’s bowl of shou noodles was made by Xiao Jue for “He Yan”.

She raised her head, facing Xiao Jue, smiling and said: “The Governor, you are so kind to me, thank you.”

The corners of the girl’s eyes were curved and she was clearly smiling, but her eyes were a little red from the steaming heat. Xiao Jue was slightly startled, just about to speak, He Yan was already eating noodles.

He didn’t say anything.

The sky was completely dark, the sky was like ink, tens of thousands of stars were sprinkled, and the water became a galaxy, pressing a ship of old dreams like promises.

The boat owner slowly paddled, and at some point, he had already left the most prosperous middle section of the river. There were fewer boats around, and a cool breeze was blowing. Blow people happy and happy.

A little dark green streamer glided across the water and stopped at the bow of the ship.

The boatman had stopped paddling, and the boat floated quietly on the water.

He Yan took Xiao Jue and went out to look together, and saw that by the spring water, deep in the dense forest, countless points of bright or faint streamers, bright and dark, flying around the water and around the woods. Like the light rain that shines, thousands of points of flying light are reflected in people’s eyes.

“It’s so beautiful.” He Yan sighed.

In the past few years, it’s not that I haven’t seen good scenery. It’s just that I am on the road to the army, and I don’t want to appreciate it. After all, I haven’t let go of everything in this way for many years.

She would never forget such a night. He Yan turned his head and saw Xiao Jue lying down on the bow, with his hands resting behind his head, looking at the fireflies in front of him. She thought for a while, and lay down beside Xiao Jue, with her hands resting behind her head like Xiao Jue, looking at the indelible brightness of the night wind, as if the stars were at hand.

“Today’s birthday is the happiest birthday I have ever had, Governor, thank you.” She said.

Xiao Jue was noncommittal, saying: “When you are born, don’t you have to make a wish? After all, there is a beginning and an end.”

“Make a wish?” He Yan said, “I don’t have any wishes anymore.”

Praying for God’s gifts is probably a self-deception. You have to fight for what you want.

“So indifferent?”

“If I really want to say something, I hope there is such a person in the world who comes for me.”

Not for He Rufei, not for General Feihong, but just for her, for her.

“What kind of wish is this.” Xiao Jue sneered, “I thought you were going to say that if you add an official to a nobleman and make a good career, no matter how bad you are, you will also enter the Jiuqiying.”

A little light in the forest, shining up to the night. Xu is the wind is too good tonight, Jing is too wonderful, and she wants to say a few more words.

She said: “The Governor, have you noticed that since I was with you, I have always been a stand-in for others. One moment it was Cheng Lisu, another moment it was Wen Yuyan. Next time, I don’t know what my identity is.”

Xiao Jue said: “Wronged?”

“No, it’s just…” She looked into the distance with a sense of sorrow, “Sometimes after being a stand-in for someone for a long time, it is inevitable that you will forget who you are.”

“Captain, you must remember my name.”

“My name is……”

“He Yan.”

The girl faced the sky and smiled slightly. Xiao Jue looked sideways and saw that her eyes were clear. In her happiness, there seemed to be a layer of dark sorrow, so the past brightness was gone, as if there were countless unspeakables. The pain of the watch, in the end, was swallowed one by one.

He turned his head and looked at the sky. In the wilderness, luminous wild lights danced, stars flowed like waterfalls, cool breeze blew people’s cheeks, and the water surface was unsteady.

I don’t know how many people’s dreams will fall tonight, and how many people have seen the dim light in the middle of the night.

The young man curled up his lips and slowly said, “Such a terrible name, you will remember it once you hear it.”

“Don’t worry that I will forget, Miss He Da.”

“He Yan.”