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Chapter 12: The Prayer That Backfired

Shunyin was led back to the city on horseback. Moreover, from the city gates all the way to the military governor's mansion, Mu Changzhou personally held her reins, the two horses always close together. Even with her head bowed behind the veil, she could feel countless gazes upon her along the way… The afternoon sun shone warmly from outside the door to the corner of the table. Shunyin gripped her pen and closed the notebook in her hand. Having just finished writing a few lines describing the scene outside the south gate, she couldn't help but recall that day, a lingering unease in her heart. Suddenly, Shengyu entered from outside, holding a card in both hands and presenting it to her, announcing loudly: "Madam, an invitation has arrived." Shunyin snapped out of her reverie and took it, asking, "Who sent it?" Shengyu replied, "It's Governor Lu, inviting Madam to the Buddha's Birthday celebration." Shunyin unfolded it and examined it...
A Romantic Collection of Chinese Novels

Chapter 9: A Green-Stained Hand

                       

After the three things were ordered the night before, the military mansion changed the next day, and even the footsteps in the mansion seemed to be much louder.

At three o'clock in the morning, Changfeng quickly sent an official document into the main house. Mu Changzhou had already gotten up, leaning on the couch in his robe, holding a military official document to read, closed it and took it in his hand, unfolded it and read it, closed it again, handed it to him together, and waved his hand.

It shows that these are trivial matters and can be sent directly to the government office for disposal. Changfeng took it and lowered his head and asked, "Is the military commander going out today?"

"Hmm." Mu Changzhou got up from the bed, tucked up his robe and buttoned it around his collar, and pulled the belt around his waist with one hand, quickly and neatly, and was already used to it.

Changfeng heard the affirmative answer and already understood, and exited the door.

Mu Changzhou took the arm guard in his hand, went out to the outer courtyard, and glanced sideways when passing outside the east house, Changfeng was loudly asking his wife to go out in front of the door, and Shunyin's figure flashed through the door, obviously getting up early.

He remembered the situation last night, inexplicably pulled the corners of his mouth, turned his head and walked towards the mansion.

Hu Boer and Zhang Junfeng were waiting in front of the mansion gate.

Seeing Mu Changzhou come out, they were all looking to see if he would follow his wife behind him, after all, no matter how you look at it yesterday, there was a conflict, otherwise what would you do if you sent people back to the house? I don't want to take her with me today.

Before he finished thinking, Shunyin walked out of the mansion gate.

The two of them threw their eyes together, then looked at each other, and each turned their heads silently and got on the horse.

Shunyin wore a curtain hat, and when he came out, he only glanced at Mu Changzhou, as if nothing happened last night.

Mu Changzhou had already looked at her, couldn't see her expression clearly, didn't say anything, turned his head and asked someone to lead the horse.

There was wind today, and Shengyu followed out, adding a cloak to Shunyin behind him.

Shunyin raised his hand to tie it, but saw Shengyu take another piece from the crook of his arm and handed it over with both hands. She glanced through the veil, it was a long black brocade cloak, obviously worn by a man, and she immediately understood who it was.

After returning to the house last night, the military officer went straight into the lady's room, and summoned the whole house to give orders, every sentence was directed at the lady, and the house knew it. Shengyu expected that this auspicious day was approaching, and these little things were naturally done cleverly.

Shun Yin already understood, and after the veil, his eyes swept around, and he couldn't stand all the time, so he had to take the cloak and walk towards Mu Changzhou.

The horse had been brought, and Mu Changzhou was about to walk down the steps when he suddenly saw her in front of him, still holding his cloak in his hand, his eyes turned to her, and he said nothing.

Shunyin deliberately didn't look at him, waved his hands, unfolded his cloak, and just raised his hand, finding that he was too tall, and frowned.

Mu Changzhou didn't mean to be short, just looked at it like this, and when he got closer, he could see her frowning eyebrows through the drape, and last night's incident surfaced again, and he smiled and said, "No need, it's not that cold."

Shunyin quickly glanced at him, caught a glimpse of his eyes, and always felt that he was very sure at the moment, and after learning the secret of his deafness in his left ear, it was as if he had held her whole body, and there were still so many pairs of eyes watching, so he simply put his feet on his feet and put the cloak on his shoulder.

Mu Changzhou held his shoulder with one hand, and the cloak did not slip off.

Shunyin withdrew her hand: "I remember that Brother Mu was not in good health before, and now he looks strong, but he may also ......" After a pause, she finished coldly, "It's better to put it on." After saying that, he walked on his horse.

Mu Changzhou's eyes raised slightly, and he turned his head to look at her on horseback, feeling that after she had just paused, she seemed to be about to say that he was "strong outside and hard in the middle".

Shunyin rode to the left side of the road and waited, and saw that Mu Changzhou had raised his hand to tie the cloak, and walked aside and mounted his horse, but he glanced at her again.

She turned her eyes away, just as if she hadn't seen it.

The team set off, but the military officer and his wife were a little weird.

Zhang Junfeng deliberately walked slowly, and after keeping a distance from the two people in front, he quietly tilted his head and whispered to Hu Boer: "I just seemed to hear a sentence 'Brother Mu Er' before'?

Hu Boer's round eyes were like bells, and he whispered, "What was before? I can only see that they are getting closer and closer day by day.

Zhang Junfeng didn't bother to explain to him, sat and looked at Shunyin's back, and muttered to himself: "It's not such a coincidence......"

Today I still chose a secluded road out of the city, but it was out of the east city gate.

Outside the East City Gate is not deserted, except for the patrolling soldiers who can be seen from afar, there are still a lot of people coming and going, and even the road is wider.

This is the main trade route, and the only way to the Central Plains is naturally much busier than other city gates. Shunyin also entered Liangzhou from this road, although he had already seen it, he quietly looked at the city again when he left the city.

As they reached the wilderness, they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves.

Shunyin couldn't hear the direction, so she immediately tightened the reins to look for the source, but saw Mu Changzhou glancing at her from the front right.

She sat still, thinking that there was another danger.

The team paused their march, and soon a fast horse dragged dust and smoke over, and the people on the horse saw that they were dressed as civilians, but they immediately knelt down on the ground as soon as they got off the horse, and confessed to Mu Changzhou repeatedly: "The military commander spared his life, the military commander spared his life, we had no eyes before......"

Shunyin watched silently, and didn't know what was going on, but felt that his accent was a little special, and it seemed that he was not a Han citizen.

Mu Changzhou sat on the horse without moving, and his tone was warm: "Go back and prepare for life, don't show up again in a short day."

The visitor kowtowed again and again: "Yes, it's ......" as he said while kneeling and stepping back.

"Wait." Mu Changzhou's hand holding the bow pointed back, "This is Madam."

The visitor paused, suddenly moved forward a little more, and bowed again to Shunyin's horse: "Madam, forgive me, I won't dare next time."

Mu Changzhou waved his hand, and he finally got up, got on his horse and hurriedly left.

Shun Yin only heard his accent clearly at this time, it seemed to be the accent of the Shatuo tribe, watching him ride a horse and run away, and then thinking about the words he had just confessed, he frowned and thought, could it be the sand bandits she encountered before entering Liangzhou City?

Huber snorted rudely from behind: "It's not stupid to know that you came in disguise to make amends."

Mu Changzhou suddenly turned his head to look at her.

Shunyin made eye contact with him, looked away, and didn't say anything, knowing that he was reminding her to "discuss" good things last night, not just letting her pretend she didn't know anything.

The team continued to move forward, turned right, stepped on the grassy path, and marched aimlessly for a while, and suddenly opened up in front of them, revealing a gray and white camp tent against the mountain in front of them.

Shunyin immediately looked over and guessed that there were camps outside each city, and sure enough.

When the team stopped outside the camp gate, everyone dismounted, and there were already soldiers in the camp to greet them, and they all saluted them.

I probably never saw anyone who came to the camp with his wife, and a group of people looked at Shunyin from time to time.

Mu Changzhou turned around and said: "You just look outside the tent, and you won't be interested in checking the camp today."

As soon as Shunyin dismounted, he pretended to be realnodded with interest, and walked to the side casually: "Then I'll take a walk on the periphery."

Mu Changzhou saw her walk out and said behind her: "You wait here first and watch some." After saying that, he led the others into the camp gate.

Hu Boer and Zhang Junfeng received the signal and understood what he meant, so they had to stand by the camp gate left and right, Baba paid attention to Shunyin's figure, and it was not easy to ask her to come out and be in danger today.

The nearby mountains are not high, but they are extremely steep, and they are all sharp stones, which are natural support.

Shunyin walked to the corner of the camp and stood higher, taking a panoramic view of the entire camp, almost the same size as the camp she saw in the ruins yesterday.

I can't get into the camp, and there are soldiers on guard around, and there is nothing else to see after reading here. But it's already good, at least it can continue to come out now.

She memorized in her heart, but turned her head to see Zhang Junfeng and Hu Boer standing by the camp gate, and there was a row of archers outside the door, their faces facing her, so she had to pretend to look around at the scenery.

Before I knew it, a long time had passed, and she was still standing on the side of the mountain.

Zhang Junfeng sighed at the camp gate: "I am a dignified assistant, why do I want to do this kind of guarding thing?"

Hu Boer stared there and looked around, only to feel that he didn't understand: "How comfortable is she staying in the military division's mansion, why is she not better than her previous Taoist temple?" What manuscript did you not write......"

"What Taoist temple?" Mu Changzhou's voice came.

Hu Boer turned around and saw that he had come out, stood up straight and said, "Taoist temple, Madam used to live in Chang'an, I didn't tell the military officer when I came back from welcoming my relatives?"

Mu Changzhou said: "What you say the most is that Feng Wuji is unhappy all the way."

Huber was surprised: "How does the military commander know the name of the lord of the Feng family?" I don't even know!

Zhang Junfeng immediately looked over.

Mu Changzhou didn't answer, and looked at Shunyin. She had come down from that high place, and she didn't know what she was thinking, her clothes hung on the sharp stone, and she almost fell down with a shake, and her hand grabbed the stone next to her in time to stand firm, stood up and looked at her hand, and then walked down.

Hu Boer turned his head and saw it, "Tsk" twice: "It can be seen that there are also benefits of being down, at least not squeamish, and you can climb high and low like this."

Mu Changzhou looked over there and said to them: "I have finished checking inside, you can also check it."

Hu Boer immediately stopped looking at it, Zhang Junfeng didn't ask much, and the two went into the camp to investigate together.

The bow guard led the horse to the camp gate, Mu Changzhou did not give an order to prepare to set off, handed over the bow in his hand, and left the camp gate.

Shunyin was walking and looking at the surrounding terrain, when she suddenly turned her head and saw him coming, so she had to stop looking at it, and walked over silently, just looking around casually.

Mu Changzhou approached head-on, glanced at her hand, slowed down to her right, and scanned his eyes around: "I haven't asked about the current situation of the Yue family so far, what relatives do Yin Niang have left?"

Shunyin might as well ask him about this suddenly, pursed his lips and said, "Mother and brother."

"What about the others?"

"Go or ......" Shunyin didn't continue.

Mu Changzhou stopped and nodded: "Mourning."

Shunyin couldn't help but look at him, no matter how he said that he had lived in the Feng family for four years, there was only one understatement of "mourning"? Suddenly remembering what she knew yesterday, she said in a muffled voice: "I just learned that the Duke of Wuwei is also gone."

Mu Changzhou glanced at her and said clearly: "I heard that Lu Qiao came to the house yesterday, and he must have said it." Yes, they are all gone. Both

? Shunyin thought to himself that it seemed that the princess's wife was also gone, and his tone didn't even change at all.

Mu Changzhou walked out from her right, took about ten steps, stood down, turned his head and said loudly: "Come here."

Shunyin's thoughts were still on what he had just said, and she walked over with a cold face.

Mu Changzhou's boots clicked: "Pick off the leaves of this grass and crush them."

Shunyin saw a grass with thin vines and long leaves on the side of his boot, and lifted the curtain hat with one hand: "What are you doing?"

Mu Changzhou said unhurriedly: "Did Yin Niang forget about the good things discussed?"

"......" Do you even have to pretend not to know this? Shunyin bent down and pulled a few leaves, rubbed them on his fingertips, and was already a little angry, "What then?"

Mu Changzhou said: "Knead the juice and pour it on your hands, which can dissolve blood stasis and activate blood."

Shunyin was already annoyed by his words, and at this time it was even worse, he put down the drape veil and turned to leave: "Brother Mu Er, go tease others."

Mu Changzhou only took one step and blocked her way.

Shunyin just frowned, raised his eyes and took the uncrushed leaves in her hand, squeezed his fingertips hard, and suddenly grabbed her hand with the other hand and poured the juice on the back of her hand.

Suddenly there was a tingling pain, and Shunyin found that the back of her hand was swollen, it was the sharp stone that she caught when she almost fell just now, it was just a little red, and now it is swollen and bruised, and she has been looking around, but she didn't care, she glanced at Mu Changzhou, and realized that he was reminding her of this, and she was going to deal with it herself.

Suddenly felt his thumb on the back of his hand, she suddenly shrank her fingers, glanced at his hand, that hand had lifted her curtain and hanging veil, her five fingers were slender, the back of her hand was slightly veined, and she was no longer as white as when she was young. The pad of the thumb that wiped the back of the hand was also slightly rough, and the place where it was rubbed seemed to leave a hot mark, and the juice melted and cooled slightly. She subconsciously looked at him again, met his raised eyes, and withdrew her hand.

Mu Changzhou stood up straight and threw away the dried leaves: "Okay, the tease is over."

Shunyin squeezed his finger unconsciously, turned around and left.

Hu Boer and Zhang Junfeng came out after checking the camp, and saw that Shunyin had finally come back from afar. She smeared green juice on the back of one hand, which was particularly eye-catching, but as soon as she got closer, she withdrew her hand into her sleeve.

"Injured?" Huber whispered.

Zhang Junfeng said: "I didn't expect her to know how to find herbs." As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Changzhou came back and shook his hand as he walked.

Hu Boer was just about to ask but was about to leave, when he suddenly saw that he also had a silk green on his hand, and was immediately surprised: "The military commander is also injured?"

"No." Mu Changzhou shook his hand again, and it was stained with juice, which was inexplicably sticky.

"Then how ......" Hu Boer still wanted to stretch his head to look.

Mu Changzhou glanced at him.

Hu Boer suddenly stopped looking: "No, no."

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