In the southeast of Yixin, Changzhou, on the edge of Taihu Lake, there is a tavern, called Panhu Restaurant, because it is located on the shore of Taihu Lake, the lake and mountains are seen by the building, and the wine and food can be drunk, so although it has only been opened for more than two years, it is also quite famous for its experience. [ 八一 Chinese ?〉〕.) ８]１}Ｚ}>．? Ｃ)Ｏ]Ｍ〉

At this time, it was early in the morning, and the restaurant had just opened, and the shopkeeper was cleaning and arranging the restaurant. I only heard the sound of the stairs, and a woman came from the second floor. The woman was dressed in a long white dress, graceful and graceful, but her face was covered with a white veil, and her face could not be seen.

Seeing the woman come down, the guys all stopped what they were doing and greeted the woman one after another. The shopkeeper walked out from behind the counter and said, "Big lady, why do you have time to come to the front today, is there anything wrong?" ”

The woman Wu said: "There's nothing to do, just come out and take a look." Let's all go our separate ways, so you don't need to greet me. Although she couldn't see her face clearly, her voice was very pleasant.

It turns out that this woman is the owner of this restaurant, but she usually covers her face with white gauze, not showing her true appearance, and many guys have been here for more than two years, but they have never seen her appearance. But this woman was graceful and graceful, and she was very gentle, and she was very considerate to her subordinates, so the men respected her very much, and called her "the eldest lady."

As they were talking, they saw footsteps, and three people walked in from outside. Among these three people, two of them were in their twenty-fifth years old, their eyes were blazing, and they showed a high level of cultivation. The other person's eyes flashed from time to time, and he was a rare master of the house, although he looked to be about forty years old, but it was difficult for such a person to tell his actual age from the appearance.

As soon as a customer came to the door, the shopkeeper immediately got up and came up to greet him. But when the woman saw these three men, her body trembled slightly, and she immediately got up and went into the inner room.

However, the three of them did not pay attention to her, and after entering the store, they followed the shopkeeper up to the second floor and chose a table by the window to sit down. Because now when it is not an informal meal, there is no guest upstairs, only the three of them, the shopkeeper follows and waits, the three of them order some wine and food, and then the shopkeeper leaves, while enjoying the light and wind on the lake, while talking about the wine.

The gray-clothed man sitting on the right said: "I have long heard that this lakeside restaurant is the best restaurant by Taihu Lake, sweet and sour fish, roasted snails, yellow stuffy loach, are three signature dishes, take advantage of this opportunity to go to Lin'an, let's come here to compensate." It just so happens that there are no other guests now, and you can also settle down and be clean. ”

The middle-aged man sighed while holding the dishes: "For more than two years, we have been incognito, but we have also suffered a lot of crimes, and it is rare to have the opportunity to come out." ”

A man in Tsing Yi on the left said: "Uncle Xie, we have been lurking for more than two years, and this time Senior Brother Zong suddenly recruited us to Lin'an, could it be something big?" ”

Uncle Xie nodded and said, "Yes, there is a good opportunity now, as long as we can achieve it, we won't have to go through this kind of hard work immediately." And after more than two years of making them beautiful, it's time to come to an end. ”

The man in gray was still a little worried, and said, "Is Senior Brother Grandmaster sure this time?" We're right, but the court? ”

The man in Tsing Yi said disdainfully: "What kind of court, it's not Yueji usurping, the real court should be the people we support." ”

Uncle Xie said: "Okay, whether it's Yue Ji or usurpation, he is sitting in the current court." It's useless to say anything, it's better to do our things well honestly. And while there's no one else here, don't get too carried away and don't say something here. Eat quickly, and you'll have to hurry after eating. ”

A few people stopped talking, bowing their heads to eat and drink. Half an hour later, they had all eaten and drunk, and then they got up to pay their bills and left. The guys chatted while tidying up the table: "It's a good deal today, and customers will come to the door as soon as the door opens." Suddenly turned around, and now the woman didn't know when, Yijing was standing beside her, and she couldn't help but be startled, and said, "Big lady, when did you come out." "I still wonder why I didn't show up in Kyoto just now.

The woman stood in front of the window as if she hadn't heard him speak, looking down through the light veil and leaning on the railing, only to see the backs of the three people gradually drifting away, and her heart couldn't help but fluctuate: I haven't heard from them for more than two years, why did Senior Uncle Xie, Senior Brother Qin, and Senior Brother Liu suddenly appear here? Will the Grandmaster be with them as well? Where are the other brothers and sisters? Do they have to do something...... Forget it, the Tianji Palace Yijing doesn't exist anymore, and what they want to do has nothing to do with me, they didn't show me, and I didn't think I hadn't seen them, go their separate ways!

Thinking about it, the woman turned away from the window and returned to the inner chamber under the surprised gaze of the men. A maid greeted her and said, "Lady, you came in just in time, and the eldest sister woke up with the scriptures and is asking for you?" Check it out! ”

When the woman heard this, she hurriedly lifted the light veil covering her face, revealing a beautiful and delicate face. It turned out to be Ye Muxue, who I hadn't seen for a long time. She walked quickly to the bedroom, only to see a little baby girl sitting on a bed, with two small hands open, shouting with a crying voice: "Mother, mother." I want my mother. ”

Ye Muxue hurriedly came to the bedside, hugged the little baby girl in her arms, patted her back gently, and said with a smile: "Make a shadow, my mother is here, my mother is here." ”

It turned out that more than two years ago, after the dissolution of Tianji Palace, Ye Muxue and Yang Yan were boating on the West Lake and spent an overnight relationship. Since then, Ye Muxue has gone to the countryside around Taihu Lake to live in seclusion, planning to spend her life here, and never ask about the world again. Fortunately, she carried a lot of money with her, and she was quite accidental, so she changed her name and surname, opened this lakeside restaurant on the edge of Taihu Lake, and became the proprietress of the house.

And when Ye Muxue walked the rivers and lakes in the past, he had saved the lives of more than ten members of a family of a teacher surnamed Liu in the Taihu Lake area, so after living in seclusion this time, he was invited to be the shopkeeper of the lakeside restaurant, and the usual affairs were handed over to the shopkeeper Liu. This shopkeeper Liu is also quite loyal, and he has always been grateful to Ye Muxue, so he is also very responsible for taking care of the restaurant. In addition, the shopkeeper Liu is a local, and when he was a teacher, he also met a few local squires, and he hired a few dudes to do his job, so that Ye Muxue was very relieved.

It's just that Ye Muxue didn't expect that she and Yang Yan would be secretly married and pregnant this night. She thought about it again and again, and finally decided to give birth to the child, and after October, she gave birth to a daughter, named Rongying.

However, Ye Muxue knew that she was beautiful, but she was afraid that she would provoke pockmarks, so she was masked with a light veil in front of people, and all the affairs of the restaurant were handed over to Shopkeeper Liu on weekdays, and she did not come forward, and at the same time, she asked Shopkeeper Liu to find two honest and diligent maids to serve her and Shadow's daily life, and her life was also very peaceful.

Even if there are occasionally some ruffians, or local bullies come to the restaurant to make trouble, or the shopkeeper of Yongliu asks someone to come forward to make peace, or Ye Muxue secretly makes a decision, so for more than two years, it has been safe and sound.

And the three people who came to the restaurant to eat today were all known to Ye Muxue, and Uncle Xie was Xie Qingfeng, one of the seven disciples of Tianji Palace back then, and those two young people were also disciples of Tianji Palace, one was called Qin Huang and the other was Liu Jingtian. After seeing these three people, Ye Muxue was suddenly reminded of the dusty past, the process of interacting with Yang Yan, and the scenes of the love that night, and clearly remembered in her mind, as if she was born yesterday.

In the past two years, although Ye Muxue rarely goes out, the guests coming and going in the restaurant are often places where news gathers, and Yang Yan is now a hot figure in the Great Song Dynasty, and naturally has become the focus of heated discussions among ordinary people on the streets and alleys. All kinds of news about Yang Yan have actually reached Ye Muxue's ears in a steady stream, so although Ye Muxue is living in seclusion by Taihu Lake, in the past two years, what happened to Yang Yan, rectifying the military system, going to Hunan Road to investigate the civil uprising, and this expedition to Western Xia, Ye Muxue knows it clearly.

She originally planned to have an overnight relationship with Yang Yan, but she also fulfilled her wish and made a decision with Yang Yan from then on. But he gave birth to a daughter for Yang Yan, and this time he couldn't break it if he wanted to. Therefore, every time she heard the news about Yang Yan, Ye Muxue would feel a ripple in her heart. Yong Qi won a big victory in the Western Xia expedition this time, and many people praised Yang Yan and said that he was the reincarnation of Yue Fei, who was amazing, but Ye Muxue also felt very comforted when he heard it.

Although she only said to Shopkeeper Liu and others that this child was her widowed daughter, her father was no longer there. But sometimes I also think that the child will grow up day by day, but she has never seen her father, should she keep her daughter with her all the time? And although the daughter is still young and ignorant, she will eventually grow up to be sensible, if she asks herself about her father in the future, how will she explain it to her? If Yang Yan knew that he had a daughter here, what would he think? Will you come and pick up your daughter? Or take yourself back to Yang's house together? And will I really go back with him?

At this time, after Ye Muxue's comfort, the shadow stopped crying, but laughed. Ye Muxue looked at the daughter in her arms, although she was still only a two-year-old baby, she was also embroidered, it was foreseeable that when her daughter grew up, she would definitely be a stunning beauty like herself. I couldn't help but sigh softly, and for a while, I didn't know what to do.