After Xu Guan left that day, the old slave in the corner came out again: "Master, the patriarch is in a hurry." ”

"Wait. Xianglin sighed.

"How long will we have to wait?"

"Wait until he finishes the last test. ”

"Some time ago, there was news in the clan that they planned to start a war against the inn within ten years, and I hope the master will be cautious. The old slave reminded. The Lich Clan has begun to recall their clansmen from all over the country, and those who are in retreat are also guarded at the entrance of the cave, and once they get out of the customs, they will be brought back to the clan, and the combat power of the whole clan is being prepared.

"I see. Xianglin replied softly. The old slave had no choice but to retreat.

Before Xu Guan set off for Beijing, he came to the fat powder shop again.

Xu Guan only felt that the way into Beijing was far away, and he was naturally a little reluctant to go back and forth for more than a month, so he took Xianglin's jade hand and looked at it again; Xianglin knew that Xu Guan's last exam was over, she should leave, and she was unwilling in her heart, because she was more emotional than Xu Guan, and her slender jade fingers caressed Xu Guan's cheeks, and her eyes were slightly red and looked at him.

That night, the moonlight was like water, like clouds.

Early the next morning, Xu Guan packed his bags, left the fat powder shop, and went to the capital. The two agreed that Xianglin would wait for him to come back in a wedding dress.

Half a month later, Xu Guan finally arrived and saw the tall gate of the capital.

He stopped by the Yongding River, put down his luggage, walked to the river, saw the tired face reflected in the river, picked up a handful of water, washed his face, and briefly combed his messy hair. I put my bags on my back and was about to set off, when I suddenly heard a voice from the grass next to me: "Young man, you have something to eat, give it to me, the old man is dying of hunger." ”

Xu Guan felt strange when he heard this, got up and brushed away the messy grass, and saw an old beggar lying in the grass with a layer of hay spread under him.

"Old man, what are you doing here?"

"I'm waiting for someone here. The old beggar sat up and crossed his legs.

"Who are you waiting for? aren't you waiting for me?" Xu Guan smiled, turned around and took out a dry food from his bag and handed it to the old beggar.

"Just give this to the old man, do you want to choke me to death?" the old beggar looked reluctant when he saw the dry food.

"I've eaten this all the way, and if you don't want it, there's nothing else to eat. Xu Guan was helpless and made a gesture to take back the dry food.

"If you don't eat it, you don't eat it, who is rare about this broken dry food. The old beggar lay down again.

Xu Guan was about to leave, but suddenly stopped, looked back at the old beggar lying there shaking Erlang's legs, closed his eyes and hummed a small tune, he was angry, and asked: "You old man is really strange, I just said that I was going to starve to death, but you didn't eat dry food." Now I won't give you dry food, and you won't cry out hungry. How can there be such a reason, I put the dry food here, if you are really hungry and can't stand it, eat it. ”

Xu Guan wrapped the dry food in a small piece of cloth and put it next to the old beggar, turned around and just took two steps, he felt that his foot was hooked, and when he looked down, the old beggar stretched out his foot and hooked his ankle.

"Why are you so unreasonable, old man?" said Xu Guanqi.

"Why are you so rude, young man?" the old man said in Xu Guan's tone.

"Where am I being rude?" Xu Guan was inexplicable.

"Old man, I just said that I was waiting for someone. I've been lying here for a month. The old man said aggrievedly.

"Then you waited for your people, I didn't hinder you. ”

"I'm waiting for you!" the old man hugged Xu Guan's calf, "You made me wait for a month, and at this time you actually sent me away with a dry food, how unreasonable is this!"

"I don't even know you, why are you waiting for me for a month?" Xu Guan felt funny.

"From the moment I lay here and decided to wait for someone, I made a plan, and I will wait for whoever comes. ”

"I don't think you're right. Loosen up, I'm going into the city. Xu Guan squatted down and tore the old beggar's hand away.

"Why don't you ask me why I'm waiting for you?" the old beggar would not let go.

"Why are you waiting for me?" Xu Guan had no choice but to follow him, and let himself go after speaking.

"Because I'm going to give you something. The old beggar took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms, the jade pendant was warm and smooth, the carving was meticulous, Xu Guan looked closely, only felt that the jade pendant seemed to hide a pool of blue waves, faintly surging, the water waves swayed, Xu looked dizzy, hurriedly closed his eyes, shook his head vigorously to ease up.

"You're so weird. ”

"You can really see that this piece of jade is extraordinary. The old beggar calmly put away the jade pendant and said, "It's so decided, this jade pendant will be given to you, but I can't give it to you now, and I'll give it when the time comes." ”

Xu Guan only thought that the old beggar was playing tricks on himself, and he was bored, and said, "What do you like?" Just don't always show people when you meet them. Be aware of being robbed. ”

After finishing speaking, he packed his bags and left, the old beggar looked at Xu Guan's back and muttered, "Rob me? They have to have this ability!"

After the exam, the list was issued in the downtown area, Xu Guan was on the list, and he was born in the same jinshi, although he was only a third-list jinshi, but it was already very good.

The news of Xu Guan's list was transmitted back to Shunde, Xianglin was happy and didn't know what to do, she prepared a few wedding dresses and tried them one by one, which seemed to be very satisfied, but it seemed that she couldn't match Xu Guan with any of them, and after changing it dozens of times, she finally chose one, and began to help Xu Guan choose the groom's clothes.

As soon as Xianglin was praised by everyone, she was even more overjoyed, and distributed the candy and rouge incense powder and other things she bought in advance to her friends who came to say goodbye.

With excitement, Xianglin waited day by day, until the night before Xu Guan returned to Shunde, Xianglin was still wearing a bright red wedding dress, babbling and humming a little song in front of the bronze mirror, while admiring the lovely people with happy faces in the mirror.

Suddenly, the wrinkled face of an old slave appeared in the mirror. "The hosts. ”

"Go down, don't you see I'm busy?" Xianglin looked at her makeup carefully in the bronze mirror, and the eyeliner in the left corner of her eye seemed to be slightly higher than the corner of her right eye.

"Wu Yan. The old man with a strong voice stepped on the floor silently and walked behind Xianglin.

"Wuyi Protector?" Xianglin's eyes jumped.

"That's it, go back with me. Wu Yi was slightly resentful. Wu Yan is a rare genius in the Lich Clan, he really doesn't want Wu Yan to focus on these trivial matters, not to mention that the war has begun to prepare, the Lich Clan is planning a shocking situation, and Wu Yan needs to go back and do his part.

"I have important things to do tomorrow, and I can't leave right now. Xianglin put down the mirror and looked at Wu Yi solemnly.

"I know the scholar will be back tomorrow. "Wu Yi knows everything that's going on here.

"You can't let me not see him for the last time, right?" Xianglin's tone was dissatisfied, and in order to wait for Xu Guan, she did not hesitate to annoy the Dharma protector in the clan: "Moreover, if I insist on not wanting to, you alone may not be able to take me back." ”

"I've really grown up and can make my own decisions. Wu Yi sighed: "I won't do anything with you." It's just that if you don't go back with me tonight, the scholar will never come back. ”

"Don't hurt him!" Xianglin seemed to be hit hard in the underbelly.

"From the capital to Shunde, the road is long, who can guarantee what accidents will happen on the way?" Wu Yi turned and walked outside the house.

"I want a sedan chair. Xianglin made the last insistence.

"Yes. ”

Xianglin folded the groom dress she had chosen for Xu Guan neatly, put it there, and went out in the sedan chair in her wedding dress......

When Xu Guan, who had returned to his hometown, was dressed in brocade clothes and rode a tall horse to the fat powder shop, he only saw a piece of black wood burned into ruins. Xu Guan asked all over Shunde City, and everyone said that they didn't know, only a few plane trees that were roasted to death by the fire next to the fat powder shop shook in the wind, and the dry leaves fell Xiao Xiao.