Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Four

In the small kitchen, I listlessly rolled up my sleeves, kneading the dough balls, and patted them feebly from time to time. "Third Master likes to eat this chicken heart cake the most. Madam's craftsmanship is a masterpiece in our house. When Third Master was young, Madam often cooked for him. The taste is so delicious that even Master Qing and Second Miss love it." Came here secretly to eat, once the third master ate too much, and his stomach was upset all night, which made the waiter very anxious, and gave his wife a hard training, and the third master will not dare to eat more in the future." Xie Sanniang in the kitchen While teaching me how to make chicken heart cakes, he talked in a hurry.

My heart moved, and I couldn't help blurting out: "The third master is really a filial son!" Xie Sanniang saw me who had been silent all this time open my mouth, and said excitedly: "That is, when my wife was alive, she always cried secretly behind her back. The third master didn't like to talk since he was a child, but when he saw his mother crying, he would cry." Always open the chatter box and make his mother laugh, but you are sensible, so Miss Mu, you are a blessed person, you must serve the third master well..." The topic suddenly changed, and it became the original non-white personality cult ideological education class, where I smiled and listened hard.

Suddenly there was commotion outside the door, and a cold-faced guard came in and said that Qi Botian, a court prisoner who had been sent to the capital, had escaped from prison, and he might have escaped into our garden. Miss Jin brought someone to see if there was any movement, and I wiped it. Flour in both hands, thinking that he is the leader of the largest peasant uprising army in the history of the Dongting Dynasty, and he will be included in the history textbook after a thousand years, so he asked the guard: "Has the third master returned?" As soon as the words fell, a beautiful and silver bell-like laughter came: "My sister is really holding on to the third master now. It's only been a long time since we separated, so I can't think about it."

I said helplessly: "You little hoof is getting more and more unscrupulous, it's because Sanniang just finished making chicken heart cakes, and she just wants Sanye to try it." Jinxiu hugged me from behind with a smile, grabbed a piece of chicken heart cake and stuffed it into her mouth, Zhenshou leaned her chin on my shoulder, and said with a giggle: "Sanniang, you said my sister is so hypocritical, she is obviously Missing the third master, pretending! Look, the little daughter-in-law is cooking herself." Sanniang knew that Jinxiu was a celebrity around Qingjiang, so she respectfully blessed her and called "Hello, Miss Jin". When she heard her say that, she looked at me ambiguously, covered her mouth and smiled, I was anxious Looking at them, he stammered and said, "You, you, don't talk nonsense. If you talk about it, I won't eat it for you."

I wanted to slap her little devil's claws on the chicken heart cake, but her martial arts were so strong, she dodged left and right, and I couldn't touch her hand no matter what. "Well, it's delicious, it's really full of love, sister, remember, you used to make pancakes for me, but you always say that, come, pick a small fancy one, I'll try it." She giggled coquettishly there Laughing, the stunning face of the beauty in men's clothing is even more glamorous and moving. The guards outside couldn't help but look a little straight, even including our two newly transferred from Xifengyuan. They all said they were very professional and cold-faced guards.

While laughing and fussing, the guards came back after searching, Jinxiu nodded and pulled me to a secluded place: "Mujin, it's our birthday tomorrow, what gift do you want?" I shook my head and smiled and nodded her pretty nose: "I don't want anything, as long as your little hoof is safe and sound, then what gift do you want my sister to give you?" She smiled and stared at me: "Mujin, I thought the same as you at the time, as long as you are safe and sound..." My heart felt sad for a while, and tears fell from my eyes: "Jinxiu, my sister is incapable, so I made you suffer..."

Jinxiu panicked: "Mujin, don't cry, Jinxiu has never blamed Mujin, Jinxiu has never forgotten, Jinxiu will always be with Mujin, you will not die alone, so don't cry." But I cried even more fiercely. Jinxiu wiped my tears for me, and her own eyes also overflowed with tears: "You are a big fool, always thinking of others, it's really annoying..." Jinxiu and I looked at each other through tears and laughed, wiping each other's tears, as if we were children again, twisting each other's buttons, braiding each other's hair, washing each other's faces, wiping each other's tears, and waking each other's noses...

Before Jinxiu left, she pulled my clothes for me: "It's getting cold, add more clothes, I'm a girl now, don't make people laugh, I'll send someone to send you some nice things tomorrow." "Don't worry, Sanniang has prepared everything for me. I have everything here. Just keep it for yourself. Miss Jin, don't worry about it!" I brought some chicken heart cakes and said they were homemade and delicious just out of the oven, so I secretly wrapped some for Jinxiu and sent her to the door with a smile. She curled her lips helplessly at me, then suddenly approached me, and asked in a voice that only I could hear: "It seems that the third master's kung fu is good, but you have to be more restrained."

I didn't understand at first, and I looked at her smiling face foolishly, but when I looked back, I suddenly came to my senses, my face turned red to the base of my neck, I shook my hand, and pointed at her bright and charming but extremely hateful smile: "You little girl!" Bastard, bad hoof, you, what nonsense are you talking about." She loudly said innocently in that room: "Who is a brat? Fishy." All the guards looked at me in unison, their eyes full of ambiguity, okay, this time I jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it off, I stomped my feet angrily, turned around and left, Jin Ruo smacked her coquettishly behind her back smile.

I turned around and went into my own room, my face was still flustered, looking at the red and swollen lips in the bronze mirror, I was also a little dazed, why Jinxiu deliberately made fun of me in front of so many people today, when she used to not like this. Well, Ziyuan will spread the trouble of Jinxiu to me and Yuan Feibai kissing me, so what, if it gets to Feijue's ears, what will Feijue think? While I was in trouble, a black shadow passed by, and my goosebumps stood up. The so-called "artist is bold", when I felt the reward, I came out of the shell and stabbed it. Facts have proved that I overestimated my tripod Cat martial arts, and it definitely belongs to "blind and bold". After a few moves, I was stunned to find that my reward had successfully helped the other party cut off the chain, and then smoothly fell into the other party's hand, pointing at my throat : "If you speak out, I will kill you."

A lamp like a bean, under the dim light, I saw a person with black hair loose, tangled with the mud, beard shaggy, clothes torn, limbs with heavy handcuffs and fetters, only his eyes were naked, his mouth With a flash of ridicule, I thought of the prisoner that Jinxiu said just now that he would hunt down, so this person is Qi Botian! ? I looked at this figure who will occupy an important position in the history of peasant uprisings in the future, turning his head quickly, slowly nodded to him, and he walked around behind me: "You take me out, and I will let you go , Otherwise, I will let you never see your lover for the rest of your life." My fingers touched the bead crossbow on my right wrist. It happened that Zhang Demao helped me find someone to make the bead crossbow. It was just delivered the day before yesterday. The arrows and crossbows just now were infected with a huge poison, so I named it "Hujin". Yesterday I took out the snow spirit bead from the right earring that Song Minglei gave me, and put it in my unique antidote for the bead crossbow. I was about to turn the bead crossbow quietly and aim it at his thigh, when I heard his last words, it seemed that he had listened to all the conversations I had with Jinxiu, I had a flash of inspiration, what a good opportunity this is, go out Meet Feijue!A woman in love is really bold and blind! With an invisible smile on my face, I said to him: "It's easy to say, strong man Qi, I will definitely take you out, please don't kill me." He looked at me viciously: "Don't play tricks, or your head will fall to the ground immediately, and your glory and wealth will disappear in thin air." This kid's talk is quite interesting, but if I go out like this, the two guards will definitely be suspicious, and they won't let me out, will they? I looked at him sideways and said, "Qi Zhuangshi, your face is recognized by people as soon as you go out. I suggest you trim it up a little bit and change your clothes before you leave! You take me out of the garden, and I will take you out." You go out of the West Corner Gate, flee into the mountains and hide for a night, and come out wearing gold and silver tomorrow, no one will recognize you." I was spitting all over the place, he stared at me blankly for a while, then began to think seriously, nodded and said: "This plan is very good, why do you help me? Could it be a trick?" what! ?This man must be the leader of the peasant uprising army. He is very simple. If you ask me that, I will definitely say no, so I tried my best to say sincerely: "I am dissatisfied with you, Qi Zhuang, my sister and I are also from poor families. , I bought it for the original family in order to treat my father's illness. You stand out for us poor people, so I have always admired it in my heart. In heaven, I will never dare to deceive the strong man Qi." I swear there, with my hands behind my back Striking crosses, I said in my heart, God, this doesn't count, this doesn't count. He was there, looking at me dubiously, slowly put down the reward, and I said to him: "Use my dagger to shave your beard and hair quickly, there is a third master's replacement clothes in my cabinet, you quickly change into it." , and before the third master comes back, I will send you out of Ziqi Villa." I pointed to the cabinet, and he asked me to get it. I moved my feet as slowly as possible, and took out the suit. Qi Botian was really lucky, and it happened that there was a white satin gown with the word Tuanfu on it that was torn. Xie Sanniang wanted me to sew it for him personally, so I had to take it back. Biying secretly sewed it up for me a few days ago, and I haven't had time to take it back to Yuan Feibai, otherwise, with my craftsmanship , Yuan Feibai would never wear a dress with a centipede crawling on the front, so give it to the leader of the peasant uprising today. Seeing that I was still obedient and honest, he let go of his wariness, slowly shaved his beard in front of the bronze mirror, and looked at me cautiously from the mirror. Appearing in front of him, I really can't tell, just now he looked like a 40-50-year-old man, but now he is just a young man in his 23-40s. When he wore Yuan Feibai clothes, I couldn't help laughing, and I laughed out loud. As expected, temperament is more important. Yuan Feibai wore this dress, which was obviously extravagant and looked like a fairy, but this comrade wore it like... ...like an arty upstart. He glanced at me there, his face flushed, and he showed the honest and uneasy characteristic of peasants: "Don't laugh, I have never worn such nice clothes before." I suddenly felt that I was a little too much, so I bowed to him immediately, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Mr. Qi Zhuang, I shouldn't have laughed at you, I'll make it up to you." He was about to come to help me with a reward, I was so frightened that I ran away quickly, he blushed shyly there, and I wondered if this man was rewarded with a thousand taels of silver for his arrest, all of them said he was vicious The cunning imperial court committed a crime. His lightness kung fu is very good, he took me over the high wall of Xifengyuan lightly and deftly, we passed through the terrifying Xilin, and after a while, we came out of the compound of Ziqi Mountain Villa, I watched the sky shine brightly He let out a sigh of relief, and cupped his hands: "Okay, strong man Qi, I have already sent you out of the mountain villa, but you can go out tomorrow after hiding in this mountain for one night." I pulled out two silver hairpins from my head, took off two jade bracelets, and stuffed them in his hands: "We came out in a hurry, and we didn't bring any silver tickets with us. You pawn these jewellery, and buy some new ones." Yi escaped from birth, live a good life." With tears in his eyes, Qi Botian knelt down on his knees with a plop: "This, this, it's too much for me to force the girl to send me out. If someone bumps into me, I will also hurt the girl. How can I accept the girl's things again?" I quickly helped him up, smiled and shook his head: "I respect the strong man the most in my life, it's really admirable, and I don't think the strong man Qi is like a desperado who commits crimes, why does the strong man Qi rebel against the imperial court? " Qi Botian gritted his teeth and said: "To tell you the truth, the insects in our hometown are too noisy, and the county magistrate is not allowed to exterminate locusts. We farmers, the harvest is our destiny, and it seems that there is no harvest. My parents, three My younger sister starved to death, and the body of my younger sister was eaten up by those locusts before it was buried. The landlord’s son Qi Zixiong called for robbery and robbed my daughter-in-law to pay off the debt. I ran to the landlord’s house to ask for it. People, they insisted that I want to rebel against the imperial court." As he spoke, blood and tears flowed out in unison. I secretly sighed in my heart, since ancient times, peasants have indeed been at the lowest level of life, no wonder ancient emperors always emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, and those dog officials in the fish and meat village rely on sucking the flesh and blood of these poor people, and still want to live in broad daylight Squeeze ruthlessly and oppress kindness.The so-called officials force the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel. In those places where the emperor is far away from the mountains, there are many bully landlords and dog officials, just like the earth emperor. I secretly wrote down the landlord's name, Qi Zixiong, and asked Qi Botian if he knew what was going on with his daughter-in-law. His tears became more intense: "After Xiulan was robbed into Qi's mansion, she couldn't stand the torture and committed suicide by hanging herself." I heard that Qi Zixiong fed Xiulan's body to the dogs in a fit of anger, so I really turned my back in a fit of anger." I nodded heavily: "Scholar Qi, don't worry, within a year, someone will avenge you and let you return to your hometown. .” He bowed his hand and said goodbye to me moved, and was about to turn around when I remembered that the reward was in his hands, and I really liked Yu Feiyan's gift, so I called him: "Strong Qi, this dagger is from my brother." Gift, can you return it to me?" Just as Qi Botian was about to hand me the dagger, a voice came coldly: "Brother, stop, don't be fooled." A cold sharp knife rested on my neck, and my sweat slowly flowed down, but this The voice is a bit familiar. Qi Botian hurriedly said: "Little brother, put down the sword quickly, this girl Hua is my savior, come and thank her for elder brother." The voice came again: "Brother is really stupid. In any case, she saw your true colors and let her go. There will be endless troubles, and you really cooperated with force. She must hold a grudge in her heart. She brought you out just to get out You have to give in, if you return this peerless weapon, she will find a chance to kill you, why don't you let me kill the grass and roots, and it will be over once and for all."