To outsiders, He Mulan seemed to be dumbfounded at the handsome general who came riding on a white horse, unable to even take his eyes back.
In the eyes of Hua Fu, this situation is interpreted as this:
- High-energy alert ahead! High energy alert ahead!
The man who can make his daughter look straight has finally appeared in front of them in his lifetime!
A-Danzhuo said, "Oh my God, this aunt still wants to disguise herself as a man like this to make everyone in the world blind? What kind of man can she pretend to be when she has such bright eyes, white teeth and beautiful eyes? !"
He Guang was not sure whether Di Yefei knew him or not. This general had been transferred to the northwest five years ago to intimidate all the tribes in the Western Regions. The border is peaceful.
And five years ago, he himself was just a baby boy.
It was only a moment for He Mulan to suddenly retrieve Hua Mulan's memory, but in her wonderful memory, Di Yefei was almost the friend who had just separated from her.
In Hua Mulan's memory, this Di Yefei was an arrogant young girl who occasionally blew up her hair, with fragility and loneliness that others could not see.
For a long time, Mulan regarded him as a sister.
After they separated, Di Ye flew into Emperor Wei's camp. Because of his good looks and excellent martial arts, he was appreciated by Cui Hao by chance (Student Cui Hao was said to be a beautiful woman when he was young), and he became one of the suwei who closely defended Emperor Wei.
Afterwards, Mulan met him many times.
She is the guardian of the right army, responsible for protecting the safety of the right army and your Majesty's Yulin army, and interrupting or supporting according to the situation of the battlefield. Tuoba Tao is a leader who likes to drive personally and fight on the front line. In order to protect his safety, Hua Mulan also faced many dangers in the following days. Fortunately, Jiren has a natural appearance, and they all survived without any risk.
So most of the time when she could meet Di Yefei was when he was in a state of embarrassment.
Because the escort of the right army needs to come to the rescue, the situation on the side of the emperor must be very urgent. And as the old guard on the side of the emperor, he was naturally embarrassed by the enemy.
When Hua Mulan was defeated by Rouran that year, she was mixed with a sixth-rank general, and Huwei's "miscellaneous number" has never been taken off her head, even though Hua Mulan was later promoted to the fifth-rank general. , is still the official title of "General Tiger Power".
However, her old friend in the army has risen step by step because she sacrificed her life to save the emperor many times, and became the fifth-rank general in Yulin, becoming the largest among the Hu people of his origin. miracle.
He is not even from Xianbei, let alone a descendant of the Han people.
Later, Hua Mulan's memory of him became blurred. It seemed that he invited her to have a wedding wine, and it seemed that the marriage was over. Later, when Hua Mulan had died several times, it was also the friend who was looking for him. The imperial physician treated her.
But there seems to be no more intersections.
"How did you come?"
He Mulan was more surprised than everyone when he met Di Yefei who was supposed to be guarding in the northwest.
"I have something to do when I am back in Beijing, so I came to see my old friend by the way." Di Yefei got off his horse, and politely asked his family to hold gifts for Hua's father, Hua's mother and Hua's younger brother. He even carefully prepared flowers for Hua's father. The family's married elder sister Hua and elder sister Hua have a pair of children's things.
He Mulan learned from his memory that Di Yefei was a naked man who had gone out with Hua Mulan in the same camp. He glanced curiously a few times, but did not stop him from sending things.
He is different from the Fourteen Feather Lin Lang, Hua Mulan and them are just nodding acquaintances, but they have a "roommate" relationship with Di Yefei, of course they can't be the same.
Di Yefei also seemed surprised that there were two children standing beside Mulan. After being stunned for a while, he took out a few gadgets from the Western Regions from his arms. They were probably bought for the family's children and nephews, and they were given to A Danzhuo and He Guang each.
"I didn't even know that my friend and nephew were guests here. I am her comrade, Di Yefei, the general of Zhenxi. Who are you?"
He Mulan walked over and patted Adanzhuo on the shoulder.
"This is the son of my fire chief, A Shan Zhiqi, A Shan Zhuo."
Di Yefei nodded slightly.
"I've admired your grandfather's name for a long time, but now that you see it, you can see how brave your father was back then."
He naturally knew how Adanzhuo's muscles that could not be covered by his clothes came from.
This is to praise him.
Ah Dan Zhuo was more happy than Di Yefei praised himself, grinned and grinned, thanking the little shuttle dart that Di Yefei sent.
This is a hidden weapon in the Western Regions, which is not common in the Central Plains.
When the gift was handed over to He Guang, Di Yefei moved slowly in his hand, but he still handed over the tourmaline baubles in his hand as if he hadn't noticed anything.
"Young master is so handsome, I never imagined that a rough character like Hua Mulan would have such a nephew."
"What do you mean, Hua Mulan can only have rough sons and nephews?" He Mulan rolled her eyes angrily. "But you guessed it right, this is really not my nephew. This is the cousin of the magistrate here, who is a guest at my house."
"Well, as expected." Di Yefei said meaningfully, watching He Guang take the tourmaline ornament. "Things are vulgar, don't dislike it."
"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it. Compared with the shuttle darts of the Di people, this is quite good." He Guang looked up at him with a smile and thanked him.
"Stop talking here, let's go inside the house." He Mulan thought it was absurd for a group of people to stand in front of the house looking at the broken persimmon tree, so she called everyone back to the house.
She regards Di Yefei as her idol's "comrade-in-arms", which is polite.
"You have come from a long journey, and it is only right to rest first."
Di Yefei moved his eyes to the "firewood" that Mulan was about to split, and his pupils shrank slightly.
"Did you fight someone last night?"
Father Hua's smile froze.
He Mulan cried out in her heart, and she hurriedly covered up while staring at Di Yefei: "Where, a wild boar came to our house last night, don't look at it, go in quickly, you will be arrested by the village later. People are watching!"
"It turned out to be a 'beast'." Di Yefei lowered his eyebrows.
There are roads in front and back of this flower house, woods on the left and right, and no mountains. Where can wild boars come
"Mulan, do even beasts dare to provoke you?"
A few egrets hid in the hollowed-out tree trunks and scratched the wood angrily after listening to Di Yefei's words.
You are a beast! Your whole family is a beast!
They are egrets! Egret!
"Cough... They don't know me as Hua Mulan."
He Mulan snorted guiltyly.
Di Yefei was not a fool. Seeing that He Mulan deliberately changed the subject, he didn't say much. He instructed several generals and servants to rest in the yard to feed the horses, and followed He Mulan into the main room of the Hua's house alone.
He is no longer the "military goddess" he used to be, and his perennial expeditions made him, like Hua Mulan, have the same sharpness that he wanted to express. It's just that Hua Mulan is a woman after all, and it has been almost two years since she was released from her armor and returned to the field, and she is still restrained on weekdays.
He swept away the thieves and rebels in the Western Regions, and his murderous aura would not be recovered for a while, which made the two women in the family who were serving tea and water feel uncomfortable.
Mr. Fang didn't even dare to look at him, so he hurriedly poured the water and ran back to the kitchen to find brother Hua who was boiling water for cooking.
From this point, we can see the difference between Dugu Nuo and the fourteen little soldiers and veterans in the army.
Sometimes it's not looks that decide everything, but temperament.
Father Hua was so familiar with this temperament that he even narrowed his eyes comfortably. Mulan's past military acquaintances have all come to the house, and they all have this smell of iron and blood pouring on them.
But Hua Mulan's comrades are all in the army now, and they only get one vacation in half a year in the barracks. They still live in the south, so they don't run very often.
Father Hua has never sat with such a high-level general before, let alone the pride in his heart.
A Danzhuo was a little uncomfortable when Hua Mulan was entertaining guests. He was a guest after all, and the general had obviously never had any dealings with his father. It was embarrassing to stay here, so he said, "I'll go to the stove to help Uncle Hua." ran away.
He Guang also had his own plans. He pleaded guilty and left the house, leaving "I'm going to drag that persimmon tree back", and walked towards the woods outside the house.
At first, Hua Mu thought it was a big girl looking for her daughter, but when she saw her Adam's apple, she felt a chill in her heart.
It's no wonder that this man in the army has grown up like this, and no one likes her daughter.
No wonder she later disarmed and returned to the field, and she has no comrade to marry!
Hua Mu didn't even think about the kind of people in the army who were in their thirties and didn't have a wife, but she kept scolding the appearance of this Zhenxi general in her heart. Hua's father saw that Hua's mother's mood suddenly became inexplicably low, and thought that her "suffocation" had committed again, so he followed her back and dragged her to the inner room to find pills.
For a while, He Mulan and Di Yefei were left in the main room.
Di Yefei, who is over 30 years old, is much more mature and calmer than the Di Yefei in Hua Mulan's memory. The wind and sand in the northwest are more terrifying than those in Mobei, so the skin on the face of this "military goddess" is no longer as fair, and even has a lot of fine lines, but even so, if you wear women's clothes, it will be better Mulan didn't know how beautiful it was.
"I heard..." Di Yefei spoke first after sitting at the desk. "Are you looking for relatives in your hometown?"
"Huh? Huh?? Huh!!!" He Mulan suddenly stood up, "Who said I recruited relatives in my hometown?"
Where did Mulan recruit relatives in her hometown? It's obviously the mother of flowers who expressed her worries about Mulan's life in front of outsiders. Would the matchmaker and all kinds of weirdos come to the door by themselves
At best, she was forced to wear men's clothes to see if those men were reliable. How could she even know about the Northwest
She suspected that there were still people in the entire Wei who didn't know "No one wants Hua Mulan"!
Who has such a big mouth and such enthusiasm!
"I went back to Beijing in the winter to ask for reinforcements. I met an old friend and chatted a few words at the banquet." Di Yefei said calmly, "I was on the way here and heard a rumor here that it was from Beijing. I went to a dozen generals, riding a BMW, carrying gold and silver treasures to beg you to marry you, and if you ask carefully, it seems that it is Dugu Nuo's heartless man..."
"You don't mind the widower anymore?"
"Dugu Nuo's wife didn't die, just divorced." He Mulan corrected Di Yefei's mistake, "Besides, I refused and drove them back to Beijing."
"Why don't you agree? The Dugu clan is a big family, and the Dugu Nuo family is the most powerful family in Wuchuan. If you marry, no one will dare to look down on you. You will live well." Di Yefei also knew Dugu Nuo, naturally knows that this kid is not very flexible except for his head, and his character, family background, and appearance are all chosen in a hundred. Such a good husband does not want, what does she want
"I said that one, two, or three are faulty? We haven't seen each other for many years, so you told me this as soon as you came up?" It was the first time He Mulan knew that Di Yefei was such a gossipy person. "You ask me why I'm not married, and you're not married either!"
"I'm different, I'm a widower."
"Ah, sorry." He Mulan turned to this piece of memory. This Di Yefei was once valued by a senior general in the army and married his own daughter, but because the girl with whom Di Yefei was betrothed was dissatisfied with the marriage and thought it was a humiliation to marry an asshole, she wanted to commit suicide Frightening the family, the result is really enough fake drama, really dead.
Later, the family and Di Yefei also had grudges, and her brother even hated Di Yefei because of it. In order to express his regret for not marrying this girl, Di Yefei never remarried.
Over time, the family's grief gradually faded, and they forgave Di Yefei, but instead helped him in the court, secretly and secretly.
"It's nothing, it's been too long, I haven't seen that girl from Erzhu's family."
Di Yefei really didn't show how uncomfortable he was.
"I was forced by my family so much that I had to perfunctory one or two. Dugu Nuo and those Yulin Lang are His Majesty's good intentions, but I really have no intention of getting married. It's really annoying." The memory is still there, so I am somewhat familiar with Di Yefei.
"Fortunately, my grandfather and grandmother don't rush me now, and His Majesty's Dugu Nuo will make it clear when he goes back." He Mulan relaxed his brows, "Now I teach Adanzhuo martial arts every day, and help Working at home is easy.”
"It's easy for you..." Di Yefei sneered, "If you want to abandon our military comrades to live like this, then why expose your female identity, why don't you continue to live in the army with your male identity? The day is over."
"Hua Mulan, no matter how you disguise yourself as an ordinary person, you know it in your heart. Whether it's your experience, your martial arts, or even your past relationship, you can't be an ordinary person."
"What do you mean, it's better to continue living in the army as a man..." He Mulan looked at Di Yefei dissatisfied, her face sank. "When old friends meet, do you have to be so sarcastic? Do you think it's a good applause?"
He Mulan lifted up her sleeves and showed Di Yefei the knife and arrow scars on her arms.
Di Yefei's eyes gradually darkened.
"I still have a lot of wounds like this! Are you someone who has scars on your body? When the weather is cloudy and rainy, don't you ever have these wounds that are itchy and itchy? Do you think that licking blood on the knife's edge can be compared to someone else's? Is it a good day to live a glorious life with your life?"
"Di Yefei, open your eyes and take a good look! Is the Hua Mulan you know such a person?"
…
He pursed his lips, somewhat speechless.
After a long time, he sighed.
"I know, Mulan. I know what kind of life you want, so I haven't come to you. I have never advised you what to do."
"I just pity your talent. You are such a dazzling and special hero, yet you have to live a life like a village woman in this country..."
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"That's why you came here to do this? Come and see if your old companion lives like a village woman? Are you chopping wood at home, feeding pigs, being unable to marry, and being bullied by animals? Are you waiting for me? Are you crying bitterly in your arms and regretting it?"
He Mulan was furious when Di Yefei said it.
It's a shame she treated him like a different friend!
It turns out that she is not the same as everyone else!
"I just... Forget it." Di Yefei rubbed his forehead in distress. He never knew that Hua Mulan was such a eloquent and aggressive woman.
It's not like that in the military.
Or, he and she have been separated for too long, and they have changed too much
hum. Speechless.
Not to mention a friend whom he hadn't seen for many years, even if he was a life-and-death friend, he didn't interfere so much in people's private lives.
Hua Mulan loves to chop wood, feed pigs, and live the life of a village woman. Can you manage it
"Okay, it's rare for you to come here. Can't you talk about something happy?" He Mulan always felt that she had forgotten something important after seeing Di Yefei, but there were some fragments of memory about this important event in her mind. nothing. She is not the real Mulan, so she can only entertain this friend for Mulan, just like she used to greet the college students who came to N City to play.
"How have you been recently? Work... uh, are things going well in the military?"
'Don't talk to me like that, Mulan. '
Di Yefei showed a sad expression.
'Don't use such a polite tone. '
"Hey hey hey hey, why are you showing such an expression..." He Mulan's eyes widened in shock, "Is the situation on your side so bad?"
She clapped her hands suddenly.
"You said you went to Pingcheng for help, and is there going to be another war in the west? Which clan rebelled? Di clan? Yan Shan? Tuyuhun?"
"...No." Di Yefei shouldn't have said it, this is a secret in the court, but Hua Mulan is no longer in the court, so she casually mentioned it. "The remnants of the state of Xia have incited the countries of the Western Regions to send people to Wei to take over the monks and to resist His Majesty's suppression of Buddhahood. The use of the Zhenxi Army will cause blood to flow into a river, so I went back to Beijing to ask Cui Situ and His Majesty to see if we could suppress the Western Regions by other means. All races."
Tuoba Tao believed in Taoism and called himself "Tai Ping Zhenjun", even the country name was changed to this. He ordered the monks to return to the secular world several times, destroyed temples and Buddha statues, and returned farmland to the state treasury, which has long aroused the dissatisfaction of many believers.
Since the Han Dynasty, many countries in the Western Regions have believed in Buddhism. Most of the missionary monks from the Liu Song Dynasty in the south and the countries in the north came to the Central Plains through the Western Regions. They came from the Western Regions and preached all the way. The believers along the way, from kings to commoners, all offered people, horses and property, and sent them to the east in tears.
It's just a pity that the Buddhist sects in Dawei are now squeezed by the Taoist sect, and even the monks can't do it, even if you are from the Western Regions, from Tianzhu, or an eminent monk from somewhere, either go back to the west or return to the secular world. .
If someone deliberately incites, it is not surprising that something will happen.
He Mulan thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of a terrible thing.
"Xia Guo, that's not the queen of the dynasty..."
"That's right. That's why I only brought so many people to Beijing quietly. Now that it's over, I'm going back to Dunhuang." Di Yefei sighed. "Why is this lady who made the golden man? Fortunately, she has no children, otherwise the previous dynasty will be uncertain, and the harem will be in chaos again."
Empress Helian, the empress of the dynasty, was the princess of the Xia Kingdom who was wiped out by the Great Wei. She and her sister later entered the palace to serve Tuoba Tao.
In order to appease the generals who surrendered from the Xia Kingdom, when Tuoba Tao needed to appoint a queen, he also let their sisters participate in the "Hand-forged Golden People" after the election of the Great Wei Dynasty. The woman who cast the golden man alone is the wife of the leader. As a result, countless concubines in the harem failed, but the eldest princess of the Helian clan did it, and according to Tuoba Tao, she also had her own queen.
Their big Wei "children die", but it is a good thing that she can't give birth to a child, and some people say that His Majesty the emperor refused to give her a child.
No matter which one it was, Di Yefei didn't care.
He is the general of the Great Wei Dynasty, and it is his duty to defend the territory and open up the frontier.
Although He Mulan didn't care about these things, because Tuoba Tao once asked Hua Mulan to be the "nanny" of the prince, after Hua Mulan refused, he even invited her to be the babysitter of his newborn grandson, although Hua Mulan refused. But He Mulan didn't think her refusal would make Queen Helian happy.
Now that she heard that Queen Helian might also be involved in the troubles of the various clans in the Western Regions, she was naturally a little embarrassed.
"Mulan, now you know why I'm here." Di Yefei lowered his voice. "Your Majesty doesn't seem to have the heart to die about the babysitter. You have rejected Dugu Nuo's marriage proposal. I think His Majesty's heart will be even better. Xia Guo still has the remaining sins, and I don't know if you and Queen Helian still have any. connect… "
"In addition, Su Hejun told me that Queen Helian and the Crown Princess are also involved now, so be careful yourself."
Tuoba Tao has repeatedly called Tuoba Jun "the grandson of the emperor" in front of everyone, and Kou Tianshi also said that he has "the appearance of the Son of Heaven".
But since the prince grew up, he had some differences with the emperor, and he was no longer favored by the emperor. On the contrary, Tuoba Tao regarded the eldest son of the crown prince as a treasure. This eldest grandson was taken by his side all day long. Tuoba Tao even opened the door for him himself, dressed him, wiped himself, and handled his daily life.
The prince is older, and the babysitter he chooses is basically symbolic. His biological mother was given death, but in fact, he already has his own nurture palace. But this little grandson is different. His biological mother is still alive. As soon as he is established as the "grandson of the first emperor" or is established as the prince in the future, his mother will be given death.
The mother of this little prince was an aristocratic princess of the defeated Rouran Khanate that year. She was unable to be defeated in the political struggle after Rouran's defeat and defected to the Northern Wei Dynasty.
This is almost another reincarnation of what happened more than ten years ago. Whether the princess of the defeated country can stay alive depends on whether her son can gain power or not.
Such power, I am afraid that no one wants to get it.
"...I understand. I thanked you and Su He-Jun first for your concern. The old friend in Beijing you mentioned is also Su He-Jun, right?" He Mulan asked clearly.
Di Yefei didn't want to hide it, but hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"It's not easy for him either. His daughter is now the company of the princess in the palace. She's actually a proton. No matter how much information he has, he won't dare to reveal it."
"Su and Jun's daughters are old enough to enter the palace as company..." He Mulan couldn't help sighing. "The years are really killing pigs. The past seems to be still in front of me. The Su Hejun in my memory is still a seasoned young man, and now..."
He Mulan didn't dare to think too much.
No matter how much she thought about it, she would think of He Guang's three-year-old son.
She suddenly became a grandmother. If her friend Gu Qing found out, she still didn't know how to laugh at her.
"Speaking of which, even Su and Jun have children, why haven't you married?" He Mulan recalled the rumors of "broken sleeves" spread in the army, and some people even said that Di Yefei was actually the emperor's man. No, but he never believed it.
"Don't say it's because you are afraid of Lord Erzhu's anger. You are not such a timid person at all."
When Di Yefei heard He Mulan's question, he was stunned for a moment, and then opened his mouth somewhat uncomfortably.
"Those women, who are not as neat as me, why marry her?"
"Wow, that Huamu... I have no hope at all. Hehe, don't show such an expression, I'm just joking, joking..."
He Mulan shook his head regretfully. She actually thinks that Hua Mulan and Di Yefei are a good match. If Hua Mulan comes back and wants to find a partner, Di Yefei is pretty good.
It's a pity he's a face control. A person like Yan Control is reluctant to come.
She is a beauty control herself.
"Compared to those pretty girls... I'm even more patchy."
Still a scar.
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