Everyone put away their hoods, loaded up their gear, and rode after them. The snow in the Valley of Confusion was so thick that it seemed as if they were breaking through a wall of snow.
"The morning cocks are crowing, the evening crows are chirping, who doesn't want to go to the world of mortals? The road is long, the water is long, fame and fortune are all on the road to Chang'an. Young today, old tomorrow. The mountains are still beautiful, but people are haggard."
This song "Shanpoyang·Missing the World" is a famous work by Chen Cao'an in the Yuan Dynasty. It is easy to understand and almost everyone can sing it. Its popularity is similar to the later "The Vast Horizon is My Love" in "The Most Dazzling National Style".
As soon as "Qi Liu Hai" started singing, hundreds of people joined in, and the singing became even more desolate in the snowstorm.
Mu Chun wanted to liven up the atmosphere. He followed closely behind "Qi Liu Hai" and said in a loud voice: "I also know a song called "Shanpo Yang". Do you want to listen?"
Everyone said: "No!"
Mu Chun just greeted politely without consulting the others and sang:
"Pine-like buns, warm and fragrant quilt, a spring boudoir sleeps in sorrow. Willow blossoms fly, little Qiong Ji cries "snow is auspicious", and the dream of reunion is awakened. Who doesn't do it? Bah, it's you!"
This song "Shanpoyang·Guisi" is also a very popular folk song, and its popularity is similar to the later "Sweet Honey". It tells the story of a young woman who missed her husband and had an indescribable spring dream, but was awakened by the maid's cry of "It's snowing". She then said in disappointment, it was you!
This must be a maid from the south.
Mu Chun sang and acted at the same time. He posed coquettishly on horseback and said “Pooh, it’s you” but hesitated to speak. His expression was so vivid that even his saliva came out. He looked more feminine than a woman and made everyone laugh and sing along.
So, in the blizzard, there was a burst of "Pah" sounds, and the atmosphere added a touch of human fireworks, and it became inexplicably warm.
Seeing that the soldiers' morale was high, Mu Chun sang more and more enthusiastically, and his singing became more and more obscene.
"It was early evening when I came, and I made love to my lover till the second watch. I whipped his fat flesh and kept close to him. I turned over and over, letting him indulge me. My sister said: My lover is like a pole in the fast water, and I, little Anunu, am like a boat drifting alone in the wild ferry."
In the blizzard, there was a chorus of boos. Although the second-generation dandies of the Yingyang Guard and the bandits from Guaishiling in Jiangxi and Shibazhai in Xi'an were not devils, they were not decent people either. They were all aroused by Mu Chun and thought of their lovers or wives. They were so distracted that several of them almost fell off their horses.
Lascivious music!
The eleven-member group of Mu Ying's faction felt so ashamed and angry that they wished they could saw off the young master's mouth. The singing girls at Qinhuai River could not sing as charmingly as their young master!
Seeing the army's morale soar and their blood boiling, Mu Chun was very satisfied and was about to sing another song when the military doctor stopped him and said, "Master Mu, you are of noble birth. Don't bring disgrace to the Mu family and ruin the reputation of Marquis Xiping!"
You have brought shame to the Xiping Marquisate!
Mu Chun snorted disdainfully. Originally, he wanted to sing a more subtle song, but now the military doctor brought up his father and ordered him to shut up, but he refused!
Not only that, he insisted on singing something explicit, severely trampling on the reputation of his father Mu Ying. This old pervert with many wives and concubines, who is almost forty years old and has a fourteen-year-old concubine, has done everything he could think of. I am singing a clear and innocent song, so who is more obscene
Being at the most rebellious age, Mu Chun said: "I just dreamed of eating white rice dumplings from my hometown. Let me sing the "Zongzi Song" for everyone."
The Yingyang Guards and the bandits all said it was bland and too plain, and that if they wanted to eat something they could just eat meat dumplings.
The eleven-member group felt a little relieved.
"Qi Liu Hai" remained silent from beginning to end, as if he was deaf.
Muchun sang: "The Dragon Boat Festival in May is my birthday. I wear a green silk jacket, my feet are wrapped tightly and pointed, and I untie the silk belt..."
The eleven members shouted in unison: "Shut up! This is disgraceful! This is disgraceful!"
However, Muchun still insisted on singing the whole song of "Meat Zongzi Song": "... bite me all over my body."
The eleven-member group felt that even if they could bring the young master back to the capital safely this time, he would probably have to commit suicide to make amends. The young master did not lose his life, he just brought shame to the Mu family and trampled on him a hundred times with horse hooves.
"Qi Liuhai" pulled the reins and said coldly: "We are out of the Valley of Confusion. Look at the compass in your hand."
Muchun opened the box, and the compass finally stopped spinning wildly.
Chen Xuan and others also opened their compasses, nodded, and expressed their gratitude.
"Qi Liuhai" did not take this rescue seriously and said as if it was a routine matter: "Follow the direction of the compass back to the city, I will not escort you there. I have to get back to the Yuan army camp in time, otherwise it will arouse the suspicion of the Yuan army. Goodbye."
Mu Chun followed him and asked, "Hero! What's your name? I will definitely repay you in the future."
"Qi Liuhai" recalled the "obscene song" sung by the young general just now, and he was not very confident that he could survive the next Northern Expedition, so he said: "My identity must be kept secret."
A dying man is simply wasting his time.
Mu Chun, with his bangs plastered on his face, said, "You can't be a scout for life. If you run into any trouble when you come back, just go to the capital and tell me my name—"
Muchun took off his sheepskin riding gloves and reached into his trouser pocket to look for the keepsake. He felt around like he was catching lice and pulled out half a walnut, five cold sugar-roasted chestnuts, a few dimes of silver, and straw paper that was about to break into pieces... He couldn't take anything out.
Mu Chun started to touch his upper body instead. Just when Qi Liuhai thought that he looked like a ball of mud after not taking a bath for a month, he took out a fan case with gold thread and silk, pulled out the fan inside, and handed it to him carefully, "Take the fan case to Xiping Marquis' Mansion, and they will bring you to me."
"Qi Liu Hai" refused to take it. "Such a precious thing, I am afraid that if I hold it in my hand, my identity will be exposed. I don't need it. Besides, I am alone now, without any ties, and there will be no time for me to ask for help."
Mu Chun was cruelly rejected again. He felt a little embarrassed and had to pick up the fan case and put the fan in it. In the severe cold, everyone was wearing gloves. Just now, Mu Chun took off his gloves in order to touch the token. Now his hands were exposed to the blizzard and were frozen stiff in a moment. His fingers were clumsy and the fan case was tight. He couldn't put the fan on no matter how hard he tried. His hand slipped and the fan fell down.
"Qi Liu Hai" was quick-witted and responsive. He first stretched out his long legs and gently kicked the fan that was about to fall on the snow like a shuttlecock, then caught the fan accurately and returned it to Mu Chun, "Be careful, the things you carry close to you must be very precious."
But Mu Chun didn't appreciate it at all, and even yelled and blamed his benefactor, "Hey! Even if you want to kick me, don't kick my fan! Let me see if it's broken..."
Mu Chun blew a few breaths of warm air on his frozen hands, and then opened the fan with a snap. The golden Sichuan gold fan was semicircular and did not appear to be damaged on the surface.
Mu Chun breathed a sigh of relief, gently blew away the large hexagonal snowflakes that fell on the fan, carefully closed the fan, and put it into the fan case, "Fortunately, it's not damaged."
Mu Chun's entire attention was on the fan, and he did not notice that the moment he opened the fan, the expression of his benefactor "Qi Liuhai", who had never been moved while listening to him sing those Wuzhong erotic songs, changed drastically.
When his eyes met the signature "Hu Shanwei", it was like flints colliding, with a sound and sparks flying.
However, it was only for a moment, the sparks went out, and "Qi Liuhai" blinked and immediately returned to normal. He said to Mu Chun calmly: "This fan is good, I like it very much."
What he meant was, just give me the fan.
Mu Chun shook his head like a black whirlwind in the desert. "You can pick any of the others, but this and the longbow on my shoulder won't do."
"Qi Liu Hai" did not force it, and smiled very gentlemanly, "It must be a gift from a very important person."
Mu Chun smiled vaguely, neither admitting nor denying. This was a matter between him and Sister Shan Wei, and he didn't want others to know.
Mu Chun patted his chest and said, "My name is Mu Chun. If you treat me as a brother, please come to Beijing to find me when you have time."
Mu Chun, the eldest son of Xiping Hou Mu Ying, is well known to every military household in the capital. Xiping Hou is the Grand Marshal of the Northern Expedition this year. He raided the Yuan army for seven days and seven nights and won a great victory. Unexpectedly, his eldest son is actually... so weird.
Everyone bowed and said goodbye to "Qi Liu Hai" and followed Mu Chun. After running a few steps, they heard the benefactor shouting from behind: "Whose matchlock gun is it?"
Everyone checked the equipment on the horses. Captain Shi found that the holster was empty, so he turned his horse around and ran over, "Sorry! I lost it!"
At that time, the captain went back to get his gun, and everyone continued to follow on horseback.
"Qi Liu Hai" stood in the snow with a gun in his hand. Out of respect, the captain dismounted to take it.
"Qi Liu Hai" seemed to ask the captain casually: "Listen to Lord Mu singing a little song... Lord Mu got married and had children at such a young age?"
Thinking of the lewd music just now, especially the part about eating zongzi, even Shi Baihu, who was born a bandit, blushed for Mu Chun and hurriedly clarified:
"Our lord has not yet married. He sang that little song with no ill intention. He just wanted to boost the morale of the army and stimulate our desire to survive. He often does this kind of thing, and we are used to it. It is normal for our benefactor to be unable to accept it when he sees it for the first time. In fact, Lord Mu has his merits, otherwise we would not follow him into battle."
"Qi Liu Hai" said, "It turns out that Lord Mu has a pure heart, innocent and romantic. I misunderstood him. Just now I saw him open the fan to check it. He cherished it very much. I thought it was a gift from his wife."
Seeing that there was no one around, Captain Shi smiled and said, "To be honest, our Lord Mu is still a virgin and doesn't even know where the gate is. He just talks too much and pretends to be a seasoned veteran in order to suppress the old veterans in the army."
"Qi Liu Hai" asked: "Who gave you that fan? Why did Lord Mu take it so seriously?"
Captain Shi shook his head, "I don't know. The longbow on Lord Mu's shoulder is a relic of his grandfather, and the fan is probably a relic left by his mother."
At that time, the captain followed the main force with his musket.
"Qi Liuhai" stood in the snowstorm, opened the compass and looked for the way back to the camp. This place was far away from the confused valley with turbulent magnetic field. The needle pointed to the south steadily, but his heart was in turmoil, like a compass in a maze, swinging wildly:
Mu Chun's mother is the eldest daughter of Feng Guoyong, Duke of Song, and her surname is Feng. How could it be her
At her age, she should have remarried and given birth to a child, so why did her name appear on Muchun's fan? Was it just the same name or the same person
Could it be that... she didn't remarry
What is her relationship with Muchun
In the snow, people are still there. But their hearts are in turmoil.
"Qi Liu Hai" rode his horse back to the Yuan army camp, where he was a clerk in the Privy Council of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
The Privy Council was an institution in charge of military secrets, national defense, and the imperial guards of the Yuan Dynasty. After years of painstaking efforts, instigation, and infiltration by the Ming Dynasty, some of the Privy Council members were already informants of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, many people in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, especially officials, were simply not used to returning to the nomadic life of the barbaric era, and they wanted to go back.
How many people like this are there? So many that when the Privy Council meets, if they say there are traitors among us, five out of ten will feel guilty.
"Qi Liu Hai" wrote a secret letter to Shangguan, asking about the current situation of his fiancée Hu Shanwei, and signed it with his original name: Wang Ning.
The author has something to say: Hahahaha, you all guessed it yesterday.
I will give out 100 red envelopes tonight. And a high school Chinese language question with a 100-point red envelope. The question is also the origin of my pen name "Mulanzhou":
"The fragrance of the red lotus has faded, and the jade mat is cold in autumn. I take off my silk dress and go up the orchid boat alone. Who sent the brocade letter from the clouds? When the wild geese return, the moon is full in the west building.
Flowers fall and water flows. One kind of lovesickness, two kinds of idle worries. There is no way to eliminate this feeling, it just leaves the eyebrows, but it stays in the heart. "
May I ask: What is the name of this poem
aMantingfang bShanpoyang cYijianmei dManjianghong