Chapter 66: A Narrow Encounter
Three years later, in August of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Kyoto.
Today is a sunny day, with a few white clouds floating leisurely in the blue sky.
The street market in the capital is still the most prosperous place every day, with many stalls, wine flags fluttering, people everywhere are boiling, and the crowd is bustling, shoulder to shoulder, and the river is endless.
It was only after noon, and people tried to get rid of the fatigue of the morning and the laziness after lunch, and continued to bury their heads in the work at hand, trying to earn as much money as possible with their own hands on this day, so that their families could live a good life.
This effort and hard work constitute a unique and beautiful scenery in the capital, so that every time I see it, I feel that the stable life of the people should be like this.
The sun rises and the sun sets.
It's just that there is still a big gap from a rich life.
Today my colleague was dealt with very quickly, and after noon, I was able to retire and go home. It's just that the princess has been busy preparing for the Queen Mother's birthday banquet recently, and the time to go home is getting later and later. At this point, the two of us were busy and seemed to be in reverse.
Originally, I wanted to wait for the princess in the palace and wait for her to go back together. It's just that I have another task today, which is to go to the Buddha Wenzhai and help the group of students in the Taixue Hall get some new books and textbooks.
Although I mentioned the idea of buying a batch of new books for the students of the Taixue Pavilion, the princess immediately expressed her strong support when she heard it. I also asked Ziyu to assist me in negotiating with the boss of the ornamental Wenzhai, and ordered these books at half the price originally agreed.
Hearing that this thing was done so smoothly, I couldn't help but admire Ziyu's amazing negotiation ability. Although I like to go to the decoration of Wenzhai to see new books when I have nothing to do on weekdays, and most of the books are also bought there, plus the relationship between Xiaoyaosheng, the boss of the decoration Wenzhai and I are also familiar with it.
I'm also a person who can only read books and can't buy and sell, and others say that they gave it to me at a low price, so I believed it.
After seeing Ziyu's bargaining ability, I realized that I had been deceived for many years without knowing it!
Therefore, now when I see the smiling appearance of the boss of Tou Wenzhai again, I will feel unbalanced, and I feel that this old boy is beating my purse again.
Fortunately, the princess had the foresight to let Ziyu accompany me and Ah Zheng at this time to ensure that nothing went wrong. But then I will think, of course, going to the study is what I want, and accompanying the princess is also what I want, and I can't have both, so I must have given up the study and accompanied the princess.
But this time, the princess seemed unwilling to let me accompany her, and personally sent me to handle the matter, but did she take the book and send it home to register first?
The more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes, doesn't the princess think we've been too tired lately? Ah, it can't be the so-called seven-year itch in the legend, right? But the princess and I have only been married for a few months, why is it itchy?
I couldn't help but reach out and scratch my somewhat itchy back, tickle, tickle, tickle......
Ziyu, who had been following behind me, looked at me with a strange expression, and saw that I not only had a strange expression, but also behaved unusually, and couldn't help asking:
"Son-in-law, aren't you making an old mistake?"
What's going on with this girl Ziyu lately, she feels uncomfortable all over her body if she doesn't tease me for a day.
"No, I am very good, I can jump and jump, what old problems can I have?"
I couldn't help muttering and said, if there is a heart disease, I can't guess my daughter-in-law's mind recently.
"Look at your scratch, isn't it a rash on your body, I can see your neck and back of the neck, there are faint red spots, the weather has been a little hot recently, if the son has a rash, Ziyu will go to help the master with a few doses of medicine, and ensure that within a few days, the rash will disappear!"
As soon as I heard this, my face immediately turned red, I scratched my cheeks in embarrassment, and my heart fluttered, this was not a rash, but ......
Alas, I always feel too shy to speak.
"It's really rare, you care so much about my son, I'm quite comforted!"
After saying that, I smiled smugly.
Ziyu was expressionless, didn't take my words to heart at all, and said lightly, saying:
"Ziyu is just afraid that the rash of the prince will be transferred to the ...... Young lady, and recently I also found that the young lady's neck also seems to have this red rash, no, let's hurry up and match a good condensation dew, let the young lady try. ”
When it comes to the princess, this girl is more powerful than anyone else, and my angry cry can no longer reach her ears, in her heart, Her Royal Highness the princess, will always be the first!
I shook my head helplessly, glanced at Ah Zheng, who had been following behind me and leading the carriage, and looked at the back of the purple jade girl with an affectionate face.
"Alas~"
I couldn't help but sigh deeply again.
"Yo, that's not high...... I haven't seen you for a long time, but I'm glad I will!"
In the middle of this lamentation, he unconsciously walked into the ornament Wenzhai, and the boss's cunning and smiling face resurfaced in front of him, and it was an enlarged version, and he could almost count how many beards were at the corners of his mouth......
If this old boy hadn't shouted like this, I would have bumped into him!
With a wry smile, he hurriedly took three steps back, nodded politely, and said:
"yes, it's been a long time, shopkeeper Wen. We came to pick up the books as agreed. ”
"Oh, we're awake, we've already packed the books, and we just need to sign the deed and they're ready to be loaded into the wagon and taken away. ”
The service of the shopkeeper is really more and more enthusiastic and thoughtful, and I don't know if I am afraid of Ziyu, or something else. But the fact that he was able to do things so well saved us a lot of effort.
I couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
"Childe, do you need to go and make it clear in person?"
The shopkeeper seemed to be a little worried that he had not done enough well.
I glanced at Ziyu behind me, and Ziyu nodded at me with a reassuring expression.
"No need, let's count this purple jade girl into the inner hall with your gang, order those books, and pull them directly into the carriage, our carriage is just outside the door, and there is a shopkeeper of Lao Wen." ”
"Don't bother, don't bother, it's all we should do, Gao Gongzi can rest here for a while, and I can send someone to handle this." ”
After speaking, the shopkeeper made a request to Ziyu, and the two entered the library of the inner hall together.
Seeing how easy things were, I couldn't help but stretch my waist, move my muscles and bones a little, and suddenly feel refreshed.
I looked around again to see if there were any new books available for reading in this ornamental Wenzhai recently. Walking here and there, walking back and forth between the bookshelves and the mountain of books, I soon found a book of interest in a corner of the study, gently leaned on the bookshelf, and read it with great interest.
Maybe I'm so engrossed in reading that I don't even know that there are other guests coming in the study. If it weren't for the conversation between these people, which interrupted my thoughts, I was afraid that I would only ignore them as ordinary guests.
What really disturbed my mind was not the content of the conversations, but their voices......
There were definitely no less than three people coming, but there were only two people who kept talking.
One person's voice is calm and mellow, while the other's voice is loud and deep. It's as if it's their own personality, one is calm and sophisticated, while the other is impetuous.
"Why, don't you go into this study and choose two books?"
A calm voice said with a smile.
"No, I have a headache when I see these books, and I'm just waiting outside. ”
The other replied in a high, rugged voice.
"Lao Jiong, you are just too impatient, you have to be restrained. Buddhist sutra chanting is the most calm, you should practice one or two more to reduce the fierce aura of your body. ”
The person who said this was an elegant and mighty middle-aged man, who slowly walked to the bookshelf full of books such as Buddhist scriptures, and tapped his fingers gently and rhythmically on the refined bookshelf of rosewood, sending out a sense of rhythm that seemed to be a certain movement, and this brisk rhythm seemed to indicate the joy of its owner at this moment.
Another man with a somewhat rugged figure is a burly, muscular muscular northern man, who has a somewhat murderous face, but has a black blindfold on his left eye, as soon as this pedestrian sees this person, he will immediately hide round, no wonder the elegant man will say that this person has a fierce face.
I saw that the rough man was a little gloomy and stretched out his hand to caress the eye with the blindfold, and the other sound eye suddenly exuded an astonishing murderous aura, as if he could see the flames burning in his eyes.
"My ferocious aura is the hatred of my life, and if I don't destroy that person with my own hands, my hatred will not disappear for a day, and my ferocious aura will only increase!"
When the elegant man heard this, he only sneered twice.
And when I heard this conversation, I couldn't help but shudder all over my body for some reason. Suddenly, he closed the book in his hand, and secretly glanced at the place where the two people were from the gap in the bookshelf, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart.
That voice, déjà vu......
The figure of the elegant man was blocked by the bookshelf, I couldn't see it really, but the rugged man waiting outside the study was seen by me at a glance, and that appearance came into view, which instantly made me break out in a cold sweat, and the book in my hand suddenly couldn't hold it steadily, and it fell to the ground.
The elegant man was disturbed by the sound of books falling to the ground, and when he came out to take a look, he saw a book dropped from a bookshelf in the corner of the study, but no one showed up to pick it up.
There was a strange look in the elegant man's eyes, and he moved step by step towards the place where the book fell, his gaze crossed a bookshelf in one place, and finally gathered in the place where the book fell.
When he rushed forward to investigate inside, it was empty, and half of the figure was not seen, and after a while, a fat cat came out of the side, meowed at the elegant man a few times, and then quickly ran away.
Is it your own delusion?
The elegant man's eyes converged, sneered, and then bent down and reached out to pick up the book, and patted the dust falling on the book, but found that the book had been read by someone......
When I escaped and sneaked into the back hall of the study, I hid in the library, and just after a few breaths, a little guy came out of it, and I was so frightened that I almost lost my soul.
"Guests are not allowed to come and go without permission!"
As soon as the little servant finished speaking, he wanted to expel me, but when he saw that it was me, he immediately became respectful, and hurriedly said:
"It turned out to be Mr. Gao, I don't know what you ordered, our boss is counting books with Miss Ziyu, are you going to look for them?"
I patted my chest, trying to calm my breath, I really didn't expect that I would meet that person here today, on a narrow road, if that person saw and recognized him, he would have to be torn to pieces by that rough man.
"No, no need, I'll just want to take a look at the library, there's nothing else, you go get busy first!"
I was in a hurry to send this little guy away, and I didn't know if my words would be heard by the man outside.
The little guy was also sensible, and after a bow, he turned away and went about his business.
I kept looking out with fear, just to see if the man came in.
After checking for a long time, I haven't seen anyone come in, so I guess I have escaped the man's tracking, or although I have doubts, I don't bother to investigate it, that person is also a conceited person!
Before I could recover from my nervous feelings, I was slapped behind me like this, and my whole body jumped up in fright, my face turned pale, and cold sweat began to appear on my forehead.
"Childe, why were you scared like this?!"
Ziyu behind her looked at me with some concern, she had never seen me like this, as if her soul had been scattered, there was something going on, how could she explain it to Her Royal Highness the Princess.
Hurriedly stretched out his hand and wanted to help me with the pulse, but I shook my head and refused.
I know I'm just scaring myself. No matter how terrible that person is, I am no longer the weak scholar I was back then, and I am not alone.
I have a grand ambition that must be accomplished, and I have someone who will desperately protect no matter what, as long as I think about this, no matter what kind of bumps and bumps I encounter in front of me, no matter what obstacles I encounter, I will move forward and never retreat!
"I suddenly saw something terrible, and I was just scared. ”
"Something horrible?"
Hearing this, Ziyu looked out for a moment, but didn't see anything strange, and then asked in a mocking tone:
"I look like I'm not afraid of the sky and the earth when I see my son on weekdays, but I didn't expect that there are things that I am so afraid of?"
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, it turned out that I was such a storage in this girl's mind, and said:
"Of course I'm scared of something!"
"Oh, what is that, Ziyu asked curiously. ”
"You don't want to treat me with this scared thing in the future, do you?"
I looked at Ziyu suspiciously, this girl stuck out her tongue, and her expression was recognized, which made me laugh a little.
"Cut, stingy, don't say pull down. ”
"Haha, it doesn't hurt to say it, if you can ask him to move, ask him to treat me, then it's also a good one. ”
"Who?"
"My uncle. ”
It was simple and clear, I felt that I was already very honest, but Ziyu stared at me with a speechless face and white eyes.
Aren't I talking about Gao Qin, the left prime minister who is under one person and above ten thousand people? !
When she was the prime minister, could she be called by a girl who said she would call?
Ziyu snorted coldly, only saying that I was slandering her, and I was displeased.
"I didn't lie to you, my uncle started fighting, it hurts. ”
As I spoke, I was reminded of that old story. And that old thing has something to do with the two people I just met.
Because of that incident, Gao Wei and I were called back to Gao Mansion by my uncle, asked for family law, and were severely taught a lesson.
And the qiē at that time, now looking back, it seems like a dream......