What is the most difficult thing to hide in the world
It is a rumor.
The news that the emperor and the empress dowager were going to give Su Fengnuan a marriage spread out of the Southern Qi capital within a few days, and gradually spread to the border.
When Su Fengnuan heard the news, he was walking back to Beijing in an old bullock cart.
The old ox cart swayed slowly, swaying every step, as if it was about to fall down at any moment, but she was not worried at all, holding a scroll by herself, leaning against the old ox cart. In the set up carport, sheltered from the scorching sun in the scorching heat, legs slightly crossed, reading a book leisurely.
Sitting with her in the old ox cart was a young and handsome boy, about the same age as her, about sixteen or seventeen, sitting in front of the shed, waving a broken whip made of broken rope, Driving the car boredly.
The mountain road is uninhabited, only the creaking and creaking of the old ox carts can be heard as the wheels move around.
As the noon approached, the old cow was tired and couldn't walk anymore. After the young man pretended to wave his whip a few times, he looked back and muttered, "What kind of broken book, you read it with great interest."
Su Fengnuan raised his head, with a smile on his brows and eyes, reached out and knocked on the scroll, pointed to a place and said with a smile, "Reading poems and books is a waste of talent, and being a romantic among the brocades. This poem is very appropriate."
Hearing the words, the young man snorted and rolled his eyes, "Sure enough, he was reading a broken book."
Su Fengnuan shook his head, "This is not a broken book, I think this is the most interesting writing."
The young man snorted again, "Market nonsense, random writing, what do you care about it? It's not a serious thing after all."
This time it was Su Fengnuan's turn to roll his eyes, "In the eyes of the third brother, only the Four Books and Five Classics are good things."
This boy is Su Fengnuan's third brother Su Qing.
"Of course!" Su Qing laughed, "My little sister knows me."
Su Fengnuan snorted softly, "You are so pedantic at a young age, I'll see what kind of wife you will find in the future."
"Are you still worried that I won't be able to marry a wife?" Su Qing looked at her, "You have to be careful that you can't get married. You run around all day, and you don't see anyone all year round. No one wants you, wild girl."
Just as Su Fengnuan was about to answer, a crow flew over and landed on her shoulder. She stretched out her hand to untie the note from the crow's leg, opened it, and was immediately delighted. She said to Su Qing, "You don't have to worry about whether I will marry you or not." Go out, I am afraid that the men in the world can be chosen by me."
Su Qing's eyelids rolled up when she heard the words, as if she was going to go up to the sky, she pulled the note in her hand, glanced at it, and said, "What kind of wind is blowing from the east, west, and north to the emperor and the queen mother? I don't know if you are a wild girl." Why? I want to give you a marriage?"
Su Fengnuan shrugged.
Su Qing crushed the note casually, "I don't know which unlucky guy married you."
Su Fengnuan raised his foot and kicked.
Su Qing quickly jumped out of the old bullock cart, stood outside the cart with her waist in her arms, "Stinky girl, kick me again, do you still want to fight?"
Su Fengnuan poked his head out and looked at him, "Can you beat me?"
Su Qing choked for a while, and said for a while, "I am your third elder brother, and my elder brother is like a father. If you beat me, you will beat our father."
Su Fengnuan laughed, "You are like a father, but you are not a big brother."
Su Qing stared at him, "Father asked me to follow you just to take care of you. Although I am the third elder brother, but now they are not around, I am the biggest. Naturally, you can't disrespect me."
Su Fengnuan pouted, "Hitting you is not enough for me to move my fingers." After saying that, he glanced at the burning sun and got back into the old ox cart.
Su Qing muttered "Smelly girl", and asked impatiently, "I've been walking for half a month in this old ox-drawn cart, and I've only walked two hundred miles. If this continues, when will I be able to reach the capital?"
"What's so good about the capital? It doesn't matter if you don't go." Su Fengnuan lacked interest.
Su Qing suddenly realized, "Oh, I understand, I thought you insisted on making this old wrecked cart to enjoy the scenery along the way, so you didn't want to go to the capital."
"What's there to see about the scenery? In these years, where have I not seen the scenery?" Su Fengnuan sneered.
Hearing this, Su Qing poked her head into the carriage again, "I heard that my mother has already been taken back to the Su Mansion in the capital by someone sent by the emperor."
"You still listen to me." Su Fengnuan reminded him.
Su Qing quacked, "The capital city is very good. When our family left Beijing when we were young, I remember that you were unwilling to leave. Later, you often sneaked back to the capital city to play. In the past two years, why did you get bored with the capital city? You didn't want to go gone?"
"I'm tired of it." Su Fengnuan said.
Su Qing looked at her, explored for a while, but didn't see why, and said, "Father asked me to follow you, just because I was afraid that you would sneak away and disappear. Now, if you don't want to go to the capital, I'm afraid you can't. Didn't the letter just say that Are the Empress Dowager and the Emperor going to give you a marriage? If you don't hurry back to Beijing, when the time comes, the imperial decree, or the Yi decree, will give you a crooked melon and split dates, so you really won't be married?"
"This is a problem." Su Fengnuan rubbed the center of his brows and complained, "Northern Zhou had a good life, so why fight? I'm really full. Otherwise, our house is still quiet now, and the emperor can't think of Dad , the prime minister does not recommend it, father does not need to be reinstated, and our Su family does not need to move back to the capital."
Su Qing was speechless for a while, "You are playful, what are you doing to blame Bei Zhou?" Then he said, "No, this time, you insist on going to the border with dad to fight. After dad and elder brother are injured, you use a series of tricks, Seriously injured Chu Han, the prince of Northern Zhou Dynasty, and defeated the army of Northern Zhou Dynasty. Even my father said that the plan was vicious. You don’t want to go to the capital, you can’t vent all your grievances on Bei Zhou, do you?”
"I didn't kill Chu Han, it's cheaper for him." Su Fengnuan snorted.
Su Qing was speechless for a moment, then looked up at the sky, "I'm really worried about my future brother-in-law, the so-called most poisonous thing is the heart of a little girl."
Su Fengnuan glanced at him, put his thumb and index finger to his lips, and whistled softly.
After the whistle sounded, two high-end BMWs with extremely shiny fur came running not far away, one black and one red.
Su Qing's eyes lit up, "Have you agreed to go back to Beijing?"
Su Fengnuan nodded, and when the horse approached, she grabbed the rein, leaned out of the carriage, and jumped onto the horse neatly.
Su Qing was suddenly jealous, "Stinky girl, you haven't learned martial arts from your father these years, and you ran around everywhere, but you have made a good martial arts."
Su Fengnuan sat on the horse, holding the bridle, looking towards the direction of the capital, his eyes deepened, "Third brother, how about the horse race?"
"Okay." Su Qing also flew on the horse, sat upright on the horse, and said, "I'm suffocating to death in a broken bullock cart these days. It's no fun to race for a hundred and eighty miles. Why don't we race all the way to the capital? How about it? See Whoever gets to the capital first."
Su Fengnuan turned her head to look at him, "You made such a big bet, do you want to get a big bet? Tell me, what do you want?"
"The Fragrant Cold Jade you snatched from Prince Bei Zhou Zhou." Su Qing said immediately.
Su Fengnuan shook his head decisively, "This won't work."
Su Qing stared, "Are you afraid of losing?"
Su Fengnuan stroked the reins of the horse, but said nothing.
Su Qing looked at him and said triumphantly, "In these years, my second brother and I have often raced horses. When it comes to martial arts, you have a lot of miscellaneous knowledge and tricks. Brother, I am not your opponent, but if it is about horse racing..."
Su Fengnuan interrupted him, "If I bet Xianghanyu, what do you take?"
Su Qing thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take the thousand-year-old snow lotus that I have hidden for ten years. Its value is comparable to that of Xianghanyu, right? It's hard to find a plant. How about it?"
"It's a deal." Su Fengnuan responded happily.
The two agreed on a bet, and they galloped to the capital together.