Yang Zhen stood in the courtyard for a long time.
She hadn't returned to the General's Mansion for a long time. Her earliest impression was the scene of the General's Mansion in its heyday when she was a child, but it was too long, and she couldn't remember it clearly. Later, the General's Mansion had become a special existence in her mind.
She has been in Qingzhou and has never left. There are countless opportunities to come back to the General's Mansion, but at first she couldn't bear to come back, but later she was reluctant to come back. Later, she wanted to open it, and the General's Mansion had become an abandoned house. , and never came back.
Now this long-abandoned house has been bought by Ning Lang.
Yang really didn't know what to say.
Her emotions were so complicated that she couldn't even utter a single word that could accurately describe her mood.
Yang Zhen thought for a while before saying, "Where did you get the money?"
Ning Lang was stunned for a moment, didn't expect her to say this, and quickly said: "My mother gave it to me, the house in Qingzhou is much cheaper than the capital, you see, this house is so big, it only cost three hundred taels, if it is put To the capital, at least a thousand taels of silver!"
Yang Zhenzhen said: The General's Mansion has been vacant for many years, and it would take a lot of work to clean it up. Qingzhou is a large area with few people, so the price is quite expensive.
But Ning Lang didn't know, he was still beaming.
"I didn't just buy this house yesterday." Ning Lang said, then took her hand and walked into the house.
He pushed open the door, and Yang Zhen wrinkled her nose subconsciously, but there was no dilapidated dust inside. She looked around and found that it was empty at some point.
"What's inside?"
"Those furniture are all high-quality wood. Although it's broken, it's a pity to throw it away. I have someone tow it away to repair it. After a few days, it will be returned as it is." Ning Lang said: "After a few days, You can see it, it's probably about the same as the original. It's just that some of them are so bad that they can't be used anymore, and I haven't had time to buy a new one."
Yang Zhen let out a dull "um".
On the day the house was raided, the whole house was a mess, and now, after several years, the turmoil that had been suffered in the past can still be vaguely seen. Yang Zhen went around the main room and walked back. Ning Lang bought the house in a hurry. The old furniture was moved away, but before he could clean it up, when he stepped on it, countless dust was splashed.
Ning Lang was very embarrassed: "I didn't have time to find someone, so I wiped the plaque outside by myself, or... or I'll find someone now?"
"No need." Yang Zhen said, "Take off the plaque outside as well."
Ning Lang was stunned, and suddenly he was stunned: "... ah?"
"The generals are gone, where can the General's Mansion come from?" Yang Zhen stood still and looked back at him: "Since this mansion has been bought by you, it should be called Ning Mansion from now on."
"I, I, I... not... you..." Ning Lang said incoherently, "You don't want it?"
"I will earn my own things with my own hands." Yang Zhen said: "Three or two hundred silver, I have been the king of the mountain for so long, do you think I don't even have three hundred taels?"
Ning Lang was speechless for a while.
He thought to himself, maybe Yang really didn't like it.
Ning Lang lowered his head, feeling a little frustrated in his heart. If he were smarter and guessed what Yang Zhen was thinking, he would not be busy with work in vain, but he would also make Yang Zhen unhappy.
Ning Lang was about to sigh when suddenly he felt a hand patted his head. He raised his head, but saw Yang Zhen's serious face and a serious expression.
"I know you are kind. You clean up this house and move in."
"I live on the mountain." Ning Lang said quickly, "It's more convenient on the mountain."
Yang Zhen glanced at him with a half-smile but quickly looked away.
Ning Lang changed his words again: "It's a pity that it's empty, or you can live with me."
Yang Zhen didn't answer, she just walked forward quickly. She knew the inside of the General's Mansion like the back of her hand. She took a turn and quickly disappeared in front of Ning Lang's eyes. Ning Lang was immediately annoyed, and worried that he had said the wrong thing. Seeing her figure disappeared, he quickly followed.
Yang Zhen took him around the General's Mansion, and told him a lot of things about his childhood. Ning Lang listened carefully one by one. When they finished walking around, it was getting dark outside.
The two went to the restaurant for lunch, and Ning Lang insisted that Yang Zhen order the furniture, so he was satisfied and let her go back to the mountain.
After they returned to the cottage, the whole cottage knew that Ning Lang had bought a house.
The bandits were all excited: "Five kings, did you really buy that general's mansion? Alas! That mansion is really big, and there may be many brothers living there!"
Ning Lang was still complacent just now, but now listening to it, he heard something wrong: "I bought that house... It's for me to live in, what does it have to do with you?"
The big men all widened their eyes: "What?! Does that have nothing to do with us?"
"If you want a house, you can buy it with your own money. If you can't buy the General's Mansion, you can also buy a small courtyard."
The big men waved their hands one after another: "Five kings, you are wrong, where do we have so much money?"
Although these mountain bandits are quick to make money on weekdays, they spend a lot of money. As soon as they have extra money in their hands, they go to drink, eat meat and visit Hualou, where would they be thinking about buying a house. Not to mention buying a house, even buying a hairpin for the girl in the flower building would make them embarrassed.
Ning Lang thought for a while, the money was also given by his mother, he was immediately ashamed and did not dare to mention it again.
However, after Jiang Yunlan knew the whereabouts of his shadow, after thinking about it, she finally remembered something about General Yang of Qingzhou, she hurriedly called Ning Lang, and asked carefully: "Then Miss Yang's family was executed by the emperor's order. , She escaped by luck, let's not talk about it for the time being, if she hates the emperor in her heart and wants to do something, your father is an official in the court, so be careful to implicate us."
Ning Lang was stunned.
He didn't follow Jiang Yunlan's words, but thought of other places.
So he went to Yang Zhen again and asked her what Jiang Yunlan said.
Yang Zhen looked at him calmly, with no emotion in his eyes, and even his voice did not fluctuate too much, he just asked, "What if I really have a bad heart?"
Did you just give up
Although it was said earlier that he would be stalking, but in the end, it was not as important as his family.
Ning Lang scratched his head and said, "Then... Then what are you going to do against it?"
Yang Zhen: "..."
Yang Zhen looked at him slightly in surprise, Ning Lang noticed the meaning in her eyes, and quickly explained: "I didn't mean that, I am a good person who obeys the law and obeys the law, I promise my father and my mother will not cause trouble again, if you If you want to rebel, I won't rebel with you. But, if you really have this plan, I have someone I can introduce to you."
Yang Zhen: "You? Introduce?"
"I didn't tell you before, but I can say it now. In fact, I came to Qingzhou to play. I was ordered by an adult to come and do things for him. I think you have guessed something. If If you want to rebel, I can introduce that lord to you."
Yang Zhenxin thought about the people who were in the limelight in the capital, and asked, "Who is that person?"
Ning Lang laughed and said, "If you want that house, I'll tell you."
Yang Zhen: "..."
That evening, inside the inn, in Chu Fei's room.
Chu Fei raised his chin and looked at Ning Lang with a stern face and said, "Tell me, what are you looking for this king?"
Ning Lang said to Yang Zhen, "This is the person I told you about."
Yang Zhen's eyes were full of doubts: "Just him?"
Chu Fei's face suddenly became a little stinky: "What? Isn't it because you have something to ask the king, since you have something to ask for, your attitude is not good?"
Yang Zhen glanced at him, and whispered in her heart: If it wasn't for Ning Lang's personal introduction, she would have regarded this person as a disciple of Ning Lang's sister.
Yang Zhen asked directly: "Are you King An? The younger brother of today's sage?"
"So what?"
"I have always heard that you are very holy, but you are going to rebel?"
Chu Fei sneered back: "Who would have known that the descendants of General Yang actually became the leader of a mountain bandit."
Yang Zhen looked at him for a moment, then looked at Ning Lang with suspicion in his eyes: "Are you sure he is easy to use?"
Chu Fei was furious: "Are you looking down on this king?!"
Ning Lang reassured: "She didn't mean that."
Then she turned her head and said to Yang Zhen: "Don't look at him like this, but it's still very useful at critical moments, although I can't tell, but many of his subordinates have come and gone without a trace, and they can always help busy."
Chu Fei: "..."
If it wasn't for Ning Lang being his brother-in-law, he might have already had Ning Lang thrown out.
Chu Fei squinted at Yang Zhen and said, "It's because the leader of the bandit is not good enough to make you want to rebel? How do you want to rebel? Take your band of bandits and kill them in the capital to force the emperor to abdicate? The king hit you, although we all have this idea, but now the world is peaceful, the emperor has not done anything to complain about the world, I am afraid that if you leave Qingzhou, someone will immediately arrest you, even if you are lucky enough to escape, this way How many people can you conquer? When you hit the capital, there are two generals in the capital now, those two generals are a year older than you, and they have killed countless enemies on the battlefield, so they will not be soft on you."
Yang Zhen didn't say anything.
Ning Lang was in a hurry: "She is also very powerful."
Chu Fei raised his hand, motioned him to shut up, and continued: "You are the descendant of General Yang, the daughter of a criminal minister, and now you are nesting in a small hill and hiding for so many years, I am afraid that General Yang's enemies will think that his entire family is dead. Now, if you have been this mountain bandit, naturally no one will come to arrest you, but if your identity is discovered, the mountain bandit leader will be safer than you."
Yang Zhen: "Then what do you think?"
"I just ask you, can you bear it?"
Yang Zhen smiled: "What do you think I have learned in the years I spent in Qingzhou?"
Chu Fei also laughed: "That's good, then the first thing I want you to do is wait."
"Wait until when?"
"Wait until Qingzhou is in chaos."
Yang Zhen paused: "Now there are no foreign enemies."
"There is no foreign enemy, and there is internal strife."
"What news do you have?"
Chu Fei smiled and said, "Guess."
Yang Zhen: "..."
Yang Zhen looked at him silently for a long time, then turned to look at Ning Lang: "It's better for you to be with me. In the future, I will let you be the five kings, which is worse than following him."
Ning Lang glanced hesitantly at Chu Fei, then at Yang Zhen, and said, "What if he is right?"
"..." Yang Zhen had no choice but to turn his head and said, "Then I will believe you for a while. If the civil strife you said hadn't happened, I wouldn't listen to you again."
Chu Fei nodded: "Yes."
The two looked at each other and temporarily reached a consensus.
After the people left, Ning Lang turned back and asked in a low voice, "What is the civil strife you just said? Did it happen in your previous life?"
"happened before."
"Then have you met Yang Zhen in your last life?"
"See you."
"how is she?"
Chu Fei thought about it for a while, and said, "I'm still here in front of the bandits, and I haven't gone out."
In his last life, there was a riot in Qingzhou, and he was ordered to come to appease the mob, and it was also at that time that he met Yang Zhen. Although Yang Zhen was a mountain bandit, what he could do was to protect the people of Qingzhou. The mob broke into Qingzhou, and Yang Zhen took a group of mountain bandits to kill Qinglong Mountain, but he helped a lot. It's just that he couldn't take care of himself later, and he didn't know what happened to Boss Yang, but he didn't hear about her or her name later. She should still be staying in Qingzhou.
I don't know why, but I didn't become her general.
Ning Lang sighed, remembering that Yang Zhen was far away, and quickly followed.
After chasing him out of the inn, he said anxiously, "You have thought about it clearly, do you really want to rebel in the future? If this is a bad thing, it will be a matter of people's heads falling."
"Do you want me to be loyal to the current emperor?"
Ning Lang thought about it, but didn't know what to say.
When the Yang family was raided, it was the will of today's saints.
"I went to the capital to find out that the person who framed my grandfather in the past is already dead, and he died on the battlefield, which is considered glorious." Yang Zhen said: "I originally wanted to hate him, but although he framed my grandfather, he also A hero who defended his family and the country, his family was full of loyalists, all of them died on the battlefield, and now there are only female relatives left in the general's mansion, which cannot be reused."
"..."
"I think about it, but I can only hate the emperor for being stupid." Yang Zhen looked back at him and said, "But he has been in power for many years, Haiyan Heqing, Guotai Min'an, if you say that he is a stupid emperor, he can't be called, if you say he is He is a wise man, and I am not reconciled."
"Although my grandfather died, the people in Qingzhou still remember him and recall him every year. Everyone in Qingzhou knows how powerful he was. Our Yang family has been in Qingzhou for generations. It is also possible to be the general of Qingzhou only in Qingzhou."
"But now you put other choices in front of me, but I'm not reconciled."
"Ning Lang."
Ning Lang quickly came back to his senses and replied, "What?"
"If I fail, you will bring my bones back to the general's mansion and bury me under the locust tree in the yard, which was planted by my grandfather. You said that you would give me that mansion, and it should be returned now. Don't you regret it?"
Ning Lang hurriedly shook his head: "I said I will send you off, and as soon as a man says a word, it's hard to chase after a horse!"
He paused, then said, "The day King An said has not yet come, don't say such depressing words."
Yang Zhen smiled lightly: "If I didn't fail, I really became a general, and then I'll come and marry you."
Ning Lang was stunned for a moment.
Yang Zhen laughed and walked forward quickly.
After her figure was gone, Ning Lang suddenly came back to his senses and said anxiously, "Hey! I'm a man! You married me, not you!"
"If you think so, you might as well take me back as soon as possible to be the Prime Minister of the Zhai Village!"
…
Chu Fei resolved a major matter in his heart and was in a very good mood.
Not long after they left, he pulled out another piece of paper, wrote the letter with a smile, and let the dark guard deliver it to the room diagonally opposite.
After a while, Ning Nuan dressed in men's clothing came over and knocked on the door: "Young Master Chu, I'm here."
Chu Fei quickly adjusted his clothes, opened the door and walked out.
He first smiled at Ning Nuan, then turned to stare at Xiang Tao again. The two glared at each other, and then turned their heads in unison.
"Mr. Ning, I agreed with you yesterday that I will take you to see outside Qingzhou City." Chu Fei said.
Ning Nuan nodded: "I know."
"Since that's the case, why don't your little servant take my eyes off me." Chu Fei ignored Xiang Tao's jumping feet and said, "If you miss this time, you won't have this good opportunity next time."
Ning Nuan: "…"
Ning Nuan glanced at him helplessly, as if she saw the tail raised high behind him again, and she looked very smug.
In the past few days, Jiang Yunlan and Ning Lang were not around, so she went to Qingzhou City every day, but Qingzhou City had been walking a lot, and she had seen everything that should be seen, but there was nothing unusual. Ning Nuan was feeling bored, so Chu Fei took the opportunity to ask her to take her for a walk outside Qingzhou City.
The outside of Qingzhou City is no better than the inside of the city. It is very dangerous outside, and Ning Nuan does not dare to go alone. Just listening to Chu Fei describe the scenery outside the city in the letter made her heart beat.
She was also very hesitant at first, but she couldn't bear Chu Fei's temptation on paper all day. Qingzhou’s folk customs are open, and it’s better to be restrained everywhere in the capital. After staying here for a few days, Ning Nuan couldn’t help but learn Qingzhou’s style of work.
Xiang Tao pouted and said very unhappily, "Young Master, it's inappropriate for you to go out with Young Master Chu alone. Besides, it is very dangerous outside. If you encounter any danger, Young Master Chu will not have time to protect you. This is how to do it.”
Chu Fei raised his eyebrows: "You don't believe me anymore?"
Xiangtao said: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that the safety of our young master is very important, even if it is a little possibility, we can't have it. If something happens to you, young master, and Madam blames me, I can't afford it."
Ning Nuan reassured her: "Mother is still on the mountain now, she won't come down, if you don't tell me, she certainly doesn't know. Besides, I'm just walking on the side, there are many guards around Young Master Chu, and the bandits around here won't either. Don't worry too much about harming people."
She longed for the picture Chu Fei said in the letter in her heart.
She had already made up her mind, Xiangtao and Wang Quan asked about the number of guards around Chu Fei, and then reluctantly nodded and followed.
…
On Qinglong Mountain.
Jiang Yunlan had spent a few comfortable days, seeing that the relationship between Yang Zhen and Ning Lang had grown by leaps and bounds, the big things in her heart were put down, and she began to worry about Ning Nuan at the foot of the mountain.
"These days, A Nuan is alone at the foot of the mountain. Although Lang'er sent someone to protect her, I didn't even go down to see it." Jiang Yunlan regretted: "This is the first time she left the capital, and it was still so far away. , There is a person staying here, and I don't know how scared I am, I, the mother, actually neglected this matter."
Chuntao quickly comforted her.
But Jiang Yunlan couldn't sit still, and hurriedly packed up and prepared to go down the mountain.
The bandits on the mountain got along well with her, and they treated her as their own mother. When they heard that she was going down the mountain, they immediately helped her to pack up, escorted her all the way down the mountain, and helped her to carry the things to the door of the inn.
Jiang Yunlan fervently thanked everyone, but when she turned her head, she saw Chu Fei swinging her fan and walking out of the inn in a sassy manner. She was stunned for a moment, and her whole body suddenly stayed where she was.
Before she could figure out why An Wang was here, she saw another person walking out from behind Chu Fei. She was smaller than Chu Fei and dressed in men's clothes. Could it be the Ah Nuan she was thinking of
How could her A Nuan be with An Wang!
Jiang Yunlan panicked immediately, opened her mouth and called out, "A Nuan!?"
A few people over there turned their heads and saw her, and their faces suddenly showed a bit of surprise.
Ning Nuan was stunned, Chu Fei panicked, but Xiangtao was overjoyed and shouted happily, "Madam! You are back!"
Jiang Yunlan was dazed and hurriedly walked over: "A Nuan, this... why is he here?"
Xiang Tao happily ran over: "Madam, please listen to me, Young Master Chu has a bad heart for our second young master, you are not here these days, he has come to pester our young master all day long, and now he still thinks about it. Take the second young master out of the city!"
What? What second young master
Where did the second young master come from
Jiang Yunlan quickly realized that the second young master in Xiangtao's mouth was referring to Ning Nuan. Along the way, Ning Nuan has always been dressed as a man, and is commensurate with the Ning Lang brothers, isn't he the second young master
King An came to Qingzhou from the capital, and even came to harass Ah Nuan while she was not around!
Jiang Yunlan was so angry that she hurriedly pulled Ning Nuan to her side. She looked back at the bandits standing beside her, pointed at Chu Fei, and said angrily, "Hit him for me!"
Chu Fei's face changed drastically.
And those mountain bandits looked at each other, and in the end they still stood on Jiang Yunlan's side, moving their hands and feet, and walked towards Chu Fei with a grinning smile. They were used to hunting in the mountains on weekdays. When they looked at Chu Fei, there was a bit of a fierce look on their faces, and they looked at him like a prey.
Ning Nuan suddenly panicked.
She never thought that she would say it casually, and she actually met her mother coming down from the mountain.
But although this matter was invited by King An, she nodded and agreed, but now all the responsibility is placed on King An. Look at those mountain bandits, all of them are tall and muscular, and they look very ferocious.
Ning Nuan hurriedly grabbed Jiang Yunlan: "Mother, listen to my explanation."