Southern Qi Fenghua Record

The time of doing nothing always passes very slowly, and people can't help but recall the past.Now that period of history in memory has flown far away, they have to do the current thing without stopping.

Xia Houshu looked at the incense burning on the table, it was already the second stick, but there was still no sign of Xia Houyi, and he couldn't help feeling suspicious.

The Duke of Yue's mansion is so big that even the second uncle's family can't live in the capital. It's not easy to find a remote place where no one is around to talk. Why did Xia Houyi choose to meet here?

Yunxi is a glutton, so he didn't notice Xia Houshu's thoughts.After making tea, she went to the old man to find out where there were fun and delicious things nearby.

Xia Houshu sat alone in the cabin, holding his teacup and looking outside for a long time, lost in thought. He always felt that there was a small boat floating in the misty misty rain, and there was a figure looming on the boat. How can not see clearly.

After finishing a cup of tea, Xia Houshu refills another cup for himself.Just after taking a sip, she suddenly saw a figure on the lake crash into her sight, she ran to the bow of the boat in a mysterious way, and looked at the figure standing on the bow from a distance, like a banished fairy, like a ghost, as if the misty rain all over the lake could not impregnate him.

Xia Houshu is not a person who often commits nympho, but looking at that figure from a distance, he only vaguely feels that the person in Misty Rain has good-looking features.

Just when Xia Houshu was in a trance, the figure suddenly disappeared into the thick fog, as if everything before was just an illusion, and she was blinded by it.Unconvinced, she opened her eyes and searched carefully, searching the entire lake, but found nothing.

"Shu'er."

The boat suddenly shook slightly, and Xia Houyi landed behind Xia Houshu like a feather, and his snow-white clothes set him off like a fairy descending to earth.

Xia Houshu turned around and looked at Xia Houyi, then looked behind him, and then looked around. Except for the water, there was only fog, so he asked anxiously, "Are you alone?"

"Why, did you date someone else?" Xia Houyi froze for a moment, then looked into the cabin.

"Of course not." Xia Houshu replied, but he was a little disappointed in his heart.

It turned out that the elder brother didn't realize that there were other people on the lake, maybe he was really blind.

After Xia Houshu comforted himself, when he looked at Xia Houyi again, his eyes changed into a teasing smile, and he said, "I just want to see if there are people in this world with high aspirations like us, who come out to swim in the lake in heavy wind and rain." , the spirit is commendable!"

Xia Houyi dismissed his sister's cynicism, went straight into the cabin, and poured himself a cup of tea.The rain-drenched hair fell quietly on his shoulders, looking a little messy, but he ignored it completely, and reached out to pick out Yunxi's snacks in the white porcelain plate, which seemed unsatisfactory, and finally picked Put a piece in your mouth and taste it.

Xia Houshu followed him in, sat down cross-legged opposite him, and asked, "How is the matter going?"

Xia Houyi drank tea calmly, and said after a while, "It's a bit tricky."

Xia Houshu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he cheered up instantly, staring at his brother with burning eyes.Xia Houyi, who seems to be omnipotent on weekdays, doesn't change his face when he meets a beautiful woman. To be able to show this expression must be because he has encountered a particularly difficult matter.What will happen?

Maybe it's because his two elder brothers are both well-known and too good. Xia Houshu grows up under this kind of aura, so it's inevitable that he will be a little curious and gloating about things that can make Xia Houyi a headache.But thinking that Xia Houyi had always treated her kindly, and she was not good at being too obvious, so she cleared her throat and asked casually, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"You? Want to help me?" Xia Houyi looked at his younger sister in disbelief, as if he had been greatly frightened, and the situation where Xia Houshu was not capable enough but kept forcing him to submit immediately popped up in his mind.He calmed down, waved his hands and said mercilessly: "That's not necessary, you will only help more and more."

"Don't take kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs!" Xia Houshu gave him a hard look.Although she was just asking politely, with a bit of joking, she was somewhat dissatisfied when she got such an answer, and said angrily: "Don't underestimate me, even though I forged my identity through you at the beginning. , but passed the assessment based on real skills."

"I don't dare to underestimate you. As for your ability..." Xia Houyi tried hard to think of words to describe it.He thought for a while before saying the words "different people have different opinions", and he did not forget to remind, "The important thing is that you don't forget your identity."

What Xia Houyi said just now has two meanings. One is to let Xia Houshu not forget that he is a daughter, or a noble daughter from the Xiahou family. Behind him is the Yue State Palace and Prince Gong's Palace. Every move attracts attention , Don't forget your identity and put yourself in danger when you get carried away.The other level is to gently remind Xia Houshu not to skip the ranks. After all, Yinjie is only the lowest-level spy in Changqingmen, and Xia Houyi is the future successor of Changqingmen. It is self-evident who has the right to speak.

Xia Houshu was noncommittal about the first meaning, but she just wanted to laugh when she heard Xia Houyi's advice not to leapfrog.In fact, Xia Houyi himself doesn't follow this rule very much. To be precise, he often does relegation.For example, he often secretly assisted him in investigating cases or gathering information, paving a broad road for her to gain a firm foothold in the Evergreens.

Of course, Xia Houshu is not an unreasonable person. She has no way to refute her brother's warning, and she doesn't want to make meaningless arguments, so she put aside Xia Houyi's doubts about her strength and nodded obediently.

"If I'm not wrong, you have another mission." Xia Houyi sipped his tea, changed the subject suddenly, and looked clear about it.

Xia Houshu was stunned for a while, feeling suspicious in his heart.Although Xia Houyi has started to take over part of the Changqingmen's affairs with the support of his uncle Zhong Zan, Zhong Zan is still the one who is really in power, so not Xia Houyi knows everything about the Changqingmen.

"Can you read minds?" Xia Houshu said as he took out a piece of cloth from his sleeve and handed it to Xia Houyi, intending to test whether he really knew.

This is a new task sent by the carrier pigeon yesterday, and it only says "Prime Minister's Mansion Yiwu" five lowercase letters.

The way Changqingmen assigns tasks is like guessing charades at the Lantern Festival. You are given a puzzle, and then you have to find the answer within the specified time.Don't ask about the process, just the result.

Xia Houyi took the cloth strip, and was startled when he saw the small characters on it.The familiar handwriting was indeed from their uncle Zhong Zan, but the meaning behind these five words surprised him.If the uncle knew that the person who took on this task was his niece, would he regret it?

Xia Houyi quickly returned to his composure, and returned the cloth strip casually.

Xia Houshu had a panoramic view of his brother's subtle expressions, and he was sure that this mission was sent by his uncle Zhong Zan, and Xia Houyi probably didn't know about it.

In fact, after receiving this task, Xia Houshu had already thought about it seriously, but so far he has no clue.She thought that Wang Chonghou, the prime minister of the current dynasty, was a capital official and the head of civil officials, and had a close relationship with the vassal kings, and Xia Houyi had been paying attention to the movements of the vassal kings in various places over the years, so he would definitely know something.After making up her mind, she tentatively asked: "In these years, you have come into contact with people and things related to the Prime Minister's Mansion. How much do you know about the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

"Not much, not much." Xia Houyi said modestly, "I heard that a concubine died not long ago."

"A concubine?" Xia Houshu became more and more puzzled. The death of a concubine in such a big prime minister's house is not a big deal. Now not only the Changqing family needs to be investigated, but even Xia Houyi has noticed, there must be something strange.

Thinking of this, Xia Houshu suddenly had an idea, and asked, "What's the name of that concubine?"

"It's a coincidence." Xia Houyi pointed to the cloth strip in her hand, "It happens to be called Yi Wu."

Xia Houshu couldn't hold back the surprise and curiosity in his heart anymore, and suddenly leaned in front of Xia Houyi, carefully observing the changes in his expression like watching a monster, and asked forcefully, "Second brother, to be honest, did you already know This mission? It’s not the mission you asked uncle to give me, right?”

Xia Houyi turned pale, but pretended to be calm and took a sip of tea from the cup, and said unhurriedly: "It doesn't matter whether I know or not, what matters is whether you can do it. I think you can ask this question." The question is enough to prove that you are really not suitable to be a spy. Or, forget it?"

It's fine if you don't get a positive answer, and you are despised and ridiculed again. Xia Houshu dared not speak out, so he curled his lips in displeasure.

At the beginning, Xia Houyi really couldn't stand her stalking, so he helped her forge an identity and sneak into the Evergreen Gate, but since she passed the assessment and became a secret agent, Xia Houyi suddenly went back on his word, and came to persuade her to give up every now and then.But Xia Houshu is not such a person who gives up so easily. It is not a joke that she has worked so hard to be a spy. After all, this is also a knot in their Xiahou family's heart.

After the elder brother Xiahouyi was ambushed by the enemy, the Beiyuan Kingdom only said that Xiahouyi and his 500 cavalry soldiers had been ambushed.Later, Xia Houyuan was ordered to return to the imperial court, and he only brought back the silver armor that Xia Houchen often wore. He built a clothes tomb at the ancestral grave of Xiahou's family, and erected a tablet to enshrine in the ancestral hall.Because of this, there are still rumors that Xia Houxuan did not die, but was held hostage by the enemy country.What's more, it is said that the reason why Xia Houxuan was captured was that someone deliberately leaked his whereabouts to the enemy, and the purpose was to suppress the Xiahou family who was in the limelight...

But so many years have passed, but there is no news to prove that Xia Houxuan is still alive.

Rumors come back to rumors, for the members of the Xiahou family, no matter whether Xia Houyi is alive or dead, they always want to see people when they are alive, and corpses when they are dead.

Xia Houshu was born late, and after he was born, he went to Boyun Temple to cultivate for almost eight years. He didn't have a deep impression of his elder brother, but in the past few years, she often saw his mother sitting in the ancestral hall looking at Xia Houshu's life. The tablet is in a daze or weeps silently, and I often see my father staring at the calligraphy and paintings left by Xia Houchen when he was young, and he is secretly sad. Even the wolf brush on his father's desk that has been placed on the pen holder all the year round but not allowed to be touched by anyone was also used by Xia Houchen back then. ...

Xiahoushu is the most outstanding child among Xiahou's peers, and he has been placed with high hopes since he was a child. Xiahoushu naturally knows his weight in the hearts of his parents and his status in the entire Xiahou family.The proud son of heaven suddenly fell, and there was no body left, but rumors spread all over the place, and even ordinary people couldn't accept it calmly.Therefore, the purpose of her joining the Evergreen Sect and Xia Houyi's secret planning over the years are both to track down Xia Houxuan's whereabouts, which can be regarded as the same goal by different routes.

In order not to bring up the old story again, Xia Houshu changed the subject and continued to ask: "Prime Minister Wang is a Beijing official, and I'm just a secret agent of Yinjie. Why do you think uncle asked me to investigate this case?"

"I think you're thinking too much. Uncle still doesn't know that Mozhen is you." Xia Houyi didn't stick to the topic he just raised, but directly dispelled her doubts.Seeing that Xia Houshu seemed to be angry again, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Father came back from his camp tour today, and he seems to be in a bad mood. Be careful when you go back, and don't touch his bad luck."

Xia Houshu knew Xia Houyi well, as long as he didn't want to say a word, even if he forced him with a knife on his neck, he would not confide a word easily.It's a blessing, not a curse, and it's a disaster that can't be avoided.No matter who gave the order to investigate this case, or what was hidden behind this case, as the silver ring spy of Changqingmen, she had no right to question it.

Since she had to investigate, she would not be timid.

It just so happened that the rain stopped outside, and the sun passed through the thick clouds, leaving behind a ray of brilliance, wrapping the earth warmly, and the thick fog on the lake slowly dissipated, revealing the beautiful mountains on both sides of the bank and the small hills built on the mountains. Town and pavilions and water pavilions.

Mountain darkly, vista.Xia Houshu was obviously affected by such a surprise, and the sadness that had been lingering for many days disappeared in an instant, and he found a docking point and was about to disembark.

It had just rained heavily, and there were few people in the town. Occasionally, a few people came out of their homes, or went to the fields to tend vegetables and fruits, or to check whether the nets cast early on the shore had caught any fish.

Xia Houshu dragged Yunxi along the plank road by the lake for a long while before walking to the pavilion by the water to meet Xia Houyi.

In the pavilion, Xia Houyi had food prepared in advance.It was only then that Xia Houshu realized that Xia Houyi's invitation to visit the lake was not just a pretense, it had already been arranged.

After being out for a long time, Xia Houshu is really hungry now.

The two brothers and sisters sat down, and the innkeeper who delivered the food hurriedly introduced the dishes, with a bit of sophistication in his complacency.Xia Houshu didn't have the time to pay attention to whether his fish was just caught that morning, so he just tasted it with chopsticks and found that the taste was indeed delicious, so he asked Yunxi to take the money as a reward.

The shopkeeper took the money, and exited the pavilion tactfully, leaving the two of them to eat happily in the pavilion.

After drinking and eating, Xia Houshu brought up the case of Yiwu in the Prime Minister's Mansion to Xia Houyi again.

Xia Houyi didn't refuse this time, but just smiled helplessly.