Lei Yue Longmen

Chapter 269 Walking Alone by the Riverside

Early the next morning, Chuan Feiyan brought over the late hangover tea.Dizzy, Cen Zhu drank half a cup, feeling something wrong, "What is this?"

"Vinegar!" Chuan Feiyan smiled maliciously, Cen Zhu was stunned for a moment, suddenly felt a strange soreness in her cheeks, she kept digging into the gap between her teeth, so sore that she could barely open her eyes He hurriedly looked for water to drink with a smirk.

After rinsing his mouth, he said angrily: "Senior sister, you...don't bother, you won't be able to ridicule me like this."

"Who said I'm going to sarcasm you, isn't the vinegar just sobering you up? Are you hysterical? Hear me sarcasm you in your dream?" Chuan Feiyan's impeccable righteous expression silenced her, and she couldn't help but I began to wonder if there was really something wrong with me.

In mid-July, the eldest princess personally led a 100 southwest army into Lanque to help the Lanque royal family clean up the rebellion.Cen Zhu collected the [-] taels of silver from the sale of the property, plus the [-] taels of silver notes borrowed from Bao Siniang, and some cash to make up a whole million taels, and handed it all over to Lan Mian. Gao, to help her restore the country.Then he disguised himself as a businessman and followed the army into Lan Que.

This anti-rebellion trip, which lasted only three months, came to an end with the restoration of the Lanque royal family.

On the day of victory, the Eldest Princess was invited into the Lanque Palace to attend the royal family's celebration banquet. At the banquet, she met the new Queen Lanque who was loved by all the officials and the people——Lan Yingrou.

Li Pingzhu couldn't believe his eyes. After repeated confirmation, he was sure that she was the girl he saw on the double hump.Can't help but be puzzled, isn't she already dead?how come……

"I have indeed died once, but my mother gave me a second life." Lan Yingrou wore a crown of jewels made of roses on her head, her words and smiles were beautiful, her manners were royally upbringing, It is easy to distinguish it from ordinary people's daughters.

The eldest princess looked at her in disbelief for a while, and finally she was convinced, "It turns out that you are really not Cen Zheng."

"I am indeed not Ah Zheng. I have already clearly told the Eldest Princess about this on Qixia Mountain." Lan Yingrou smiled and sincerely thanked her for her assistance in the feat of restoring the country.

"Then why were you wearing Lu... Ah Zheng's prayer beads?"

Lan Yingrou was surprised for a moment, and then said softly: "Oh, she gave it to me many years ago. We used to be very good friends. When she first came to Lanque, she was very sick. Fortunately, I was passing by , took her back to the palace. Later, she sent her with prayer beads."

The Eldest Princess's heart twitched, and tears almost came out of her eyes, "So? She's really still alive?"

Sakura nodded firmly.

The eldest princess became visibly agitated, but she still tried her best to maintain restraint: "Then can you tell me about Ah Zheng's childhood?"

"Of course you can, but it doesn't seem very convenient right now." Lan Yingrou looked at the ministers who were eagerly waiting for her to share the joy of victory, and was very embarrassed, "How about this, if the eldest princess has time, she can come to the palace tomorrow , I will tell the princess in detail."

The next day, Li Pingzhu had something to do temporarily, so he came to Lanque Palace in the afternoon, and was immediately led to a quiet palace.Lan Yingrou had already been waiting there, she changed into normal clothes, she was still very kind and beautiful.The eldest princess smiled kindly and said, "Your Majesty is very similar to us Central Plains people, no wonder I mistook you at the beginning."

Yingrou smiled slightly, "It is true in a certain way. My father is from the Central Plains."

The eldest princess suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

"I think the relationship between Ah Zheng and Her Majesty the Queen is not just friends, is it simple?"

"Why did the eldest princess say such a thing?"

The eldest princess smiled and said, "That string of Buddhist beads was something Ah Zheng's mother often wore during her lifetime. It means a lot to her. She gave you such an important thing, which shows how important you are to her."

Yingrou seemed a little surprised, and murmured in a low voice, "Really? She never mentioned it."

The eldest princess was puzzled, seeing that she was stunned as if no one else was there, and sighed faintly, "Miss Su, please allow me to do this? Call you, I know you are very close. I beg you again, tell me the whereabouts of Ah Zheng. Over the years, I have traveled all over the country to find her. I know she has suffered a lot, and I hope I can make it up to her. After all, I am still her mother. You let her come out, even if you can see me once."

Yingrou looked at her regretfully, "It's a pity that she's not here. However, she left a letter for the eldest princess before she left."

After speaking, he took out a yellow letter from his cuff.

Li Pingzhu took it and took it apart decisively. After reading it, his eyes got wet.

The letter was written in a very beautiful lowercase script, "Aniang, I have already left Lanque when I read this letter. I know that Aniang has been searching for my whereabouts all these years, but I want to tell Aniang, I have lived a very good life these years, better than most people imagined. My mother left me a sum of money in Guiyun Bank before she died, so that I can live in peace for the rest of my life. I have made many friends and confidants. Even if you don’t have money, you can take root. Besides, the enemy’s family is dead, and I have no ties. What’s in my heart is only the clear breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains. Thinking of the suffering my mother has suffered in these years, I’m ashamed that I didn’t send a letter to inform the status quo. Today I will go Traveling far, even if you are wandering around the world in the coming year, please don't think of me anymore, so as not to worry about you. Otherwise, it will be Ah Zheng's sin. So farewell, Ah Zheng wishes Ah Niang good luck and good health. "Cen Zheng is written in the pen, and a long life lock is attached as a proof.Li Pingzhu took the golden longevity lock from Yingrou's hand, looked at it again and again, and found that it was indeed given to Xiao Cen Zheng by her back then, and she burst into tears.

At the same time, on the banks of the vast Ruijiang River, a beautiful woman in white was walking alone on the yellow-brown sandy beach, leading a tall black horse.She had a long blue cloth wrapped on her back, which at first glance looked like she was carrying a sword.However, if you look closely, the symmetrical shape of the upper and lower diameters is more like a smooth rolling pin.

The clouds in the sky were thick and it looked like it was going to rain soon.But she didn't care, like a wandering wild crane that was exiled to the sky, unrestrained, light and at ease.

Fortunately, she still remembered that she had to continue on her way, traveling along the great river from west to east.Stopping and stopping, the shoes and socks were soon soaked in sand, and there was a cool breeze coming up from between the toes.This reminded her to find a place to stay tonight as soon as possible.Otherwise, the coming ice rain would make her feel the cruelty of autumn and winter in advance.

But after walking for more than ten miles, I still haven't met a single family.Looking at the boundless reeds in front of her and behind her, a trace of her true loneliness finally appeared on her face.

The horse was tired from walking with her and was unwilling to go any further, so he took the opportunity to bite the reeds by the roadside and chewed them.No matter how the woman pulls, she doesn't care.The woman had no choice but to squat down to see it eating happily, and enviously said: "You are full, but I am still hungry!"

Ma'er obviously has no interest in the courtesy of the world, and does not treat the complaints of beautiful women differently, and still buryes himself in eating his own.The woman sighed and looked up at the crescent-shaped wetland behind the reeds. Several gray storks were poking their long beaks to look for food in the water, and a group of wild ducks were full of food and drink, lying on the water and wandering back and forth.Everything has something to eat, but she is hungry.

This familiar scene reminded her of the days when she traveled west along the Ruijiang River with her master and senior brother to escape.It was still summer at that time, and there were more birds in the Ruijiang River Basin, and the swimming fish were plump and bold enough to jump out of the water.Three bald monks, one old and two young, with empty stomachs, also stared at the river in a daze.

At that time, Cen Zheng didn't know what master and elder brother were thinking. Her mind was full of crucian carp soup and wild duck meat made by her mother, and her stomach growled louder than thunder.

I remember that there are many people fishing with harpoons on the river, and with a few forks, they can catch a big fish.She begged and tugged at Master's sleeve.The master shook his head and gestured no, and then taught her to dig a kind of thatch root that grows by the river.It was the first time for her to eat that kind of thing. It was pale yellow and had a lot of hair growing on it.The master removed the hair, rinsed the grass root in the river water, handed her one, and put it in her mouth as a demonstration, and chewed it carefully.The eyebrows gradually widened, and the expression stretched, as if it was the most delicious food in the world.At that time, the river was clean and clear, like a giant dark blue dragon, calmly stretching its scales, and the cattail grass on both sides of the river regularly lowered down with the summer wind, like a salute to Dajiang and Master? .Encouraged by Cen Zheng, she imitated her master and devoured thatch roots. There was a hint of sweetness in the mouth, but after a dozen or so roots, her face became depressed. This thing can only be chewed but not tube full.The more you eat, the hungrier you will be.

Hunger was the deepest and most intuitive feeling brought to Xiao Cen Zheng during the six months.She finally understood, what is the kind of "hungry" that Dad often mentioned while weeping at the dinner table?It wasn't that she wanted to eat the lotus seed porridge made by her mother, so she didn't eat the white rice in front of her, and would rather wait half an hour longer on an empty stomach; On the grounds of not being able to digest food, no matter what, she would not be given a small treatment.It was a real, empty, hopeless, and bottomless sense of crisis. From that moment on, she realized that the previous comfortable life had completely gone away from her, and she officially embarked on the ups and downs. displaced.

When she was most hungry, her eyes were dim, and she felt that she could faint by the roadside at any time.The senior brother carried her for a while, but he was so hungry that his chest stuck to his back, and he couldn't move.Fortunately, when they were about to run out of strength, they met a kind fisherman on the shore. He returned with a full load of fish baskets, but his face was full of sadness for some reason.Seeing that the master and apprentice were dying of hunger, he gave them a piece of fish from the fish basket.Cen Zheng was so slanderous that his mouth was watering, he wanted to answer it but dared not, so he could only look at his master eagerly.The master asked him why he looked worried?He mentioned that his youngest son had a serious illness and was about to die. No matter how many fish he caught, he couldn't get it back. His life was so sad.So they went home with the fisherman that day and visited his youngest son. The master gave the little boy who was younger than Cen Zheng massage, acupuncture, and medicine, and finally cured him of his illness.The fisherman's family was very grateful and took out the best fish in the house to entertain them.But the master only wanted three vegetarian dishes, and then ordered a small fish for Xiao Cen Zheng alone as an extra meal. The fish was really small, it was only as big as three fingers after roasting.

But it was the most delicious grilled fish that Cen Zheng had ever eaten in his life.She wolfed down the small half and passed the rest to her master and brother, but they didn't eat it.She half-understood, the master laughed and said that she was only ordained and hadn't been ordained yet, so she was only half a monk and could eat meat.But both he and senior brother are monks who have received precepts, and they must never break the precepts.She was still young at the time, and she only had a vague understanding of the monk's precepts, far from being in awe.So he hid the remaining half of the small fish in his sleeve, and at night, when the master fell asleep, he woke up his senior brother, took out the fish from his sleeve and shared it with him.Brother Shi was really a little silly at the time, and was completely moved by her half-little fish.Later, according to him, that was the beginning of him truly treating Cen Zheng as his family.

Cen Zheng heard a fluttering sound, and the recollection came to an abrupt end at this point, only to find that the horse had finished eating grass, and was sniffing, grinning.Stand up and stroke its mane, "Are you full? Then we should continue on our way!" If she remembers correctly, bypassing the crescent bay wetland in front of her, and going southward for five or six miles, there is a village , is the fisherman's home.I don't know, after twenty years, if they still live there, will they recognize her?

Thinking about it, Cen Zheng re-tied his parcel, looked up at the sky, the light was getting darker, and there was only a faint white in the distant sky.It seems that this autumn rain is inevitable.Without further ado, she stepped on the horse in the stirrups, controlled the reins, gave a soft "drive", and galloped away to her destination.