The first snow after the beginning of winter fell for two days in a row, and it was plush and fluffy, making people clearly perceive that winter is really coming. Unlike the severe cold in the capital, the snow melted quickly, and the weather was not as cold as expected.

Ye Chi stood in the room in an inky robe, stretched out his hand to the window, and the tiny snowflakes quickly turned into droplets in his palms. He couldn't help but smile warmly, feeling that time had passed so fast.

Since returning from Shixi Academy last time, the students have become interested in his relationship with Kaoru Yutai. Because Ah Yao didn't go to the school, they couldn't grasp the exact movements, and several even came to the yamen to peep after school.

Ye Chi received an anonymous complaint early in the morning, saying that Kaoru Taitai abused his power and almost demolished the teahouse the day before yesterday, scaring away many people.

He was a little surprised.

Although she was accustomed to solving problems by force, she was still relatively kind to the common people, and the teahouse was a place he frequented, and although it was mixed, it was generally quiet and elegant, so as not to make her suddenly angry.

Ye Chi couldn't figure out what was going on, so he found Su Yu, and the other party frowned, shook his head and sighed: "The little girl came over and asked me about you, but the storyteller wrote a book to slander you, and she quarreled with someone." ”

Ye Chi looked up in disbelief, wondering if he had misheard.

He was clear about the small movements in the workshop, and some of the sour literati and ink writers liked to scribble, which was more common in the capital, and if he really wanted to take care of it, it might take months. Besides, it was harmless, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Obviously, Kaoru doesn't think so.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ye Chi leisurely walked outside the house for a while, just in time to see Kaoru Yutai returning from outside. She didn't look like before, except for a moment when she saw him, nodded to him, and stepped into the hall.

"Kaoru. Ye Chi called out to her, "Where is the bookstore...... What's going on?"

Hearing this, Kaoru Yutai stopped, his eyes were faint, and he shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's nothing, they wrote something that shouldn't be written, I asked them to delete it, and they did it." ”

From Su Yu's description, he also probably guessed what was going on. Whether it's those who write scripts or storytellers, in the end it's just a fool, if Kaoru Tai is really tough, those people naturally don't dare to fight against the state officials, not to mention that in the minds of those people, he has already offered Kaoru Tai, and whoever dares to provoke her will be punished every minute.

"Actually, they don't write anything, and scripts have been popular for at least decades, why do you suddenly think about it?"

Kaoru Tandai was suddenly surprised, "Really?" she said, her eyes wide, "I never paid attention to this before, but this time I'm just angry." ”

"......" Ye Chi was stunned for a moment. This was originally based on him, and he was the one who died the worst, and Kaoru Yutai was still a wise martial artist in addition to Wise Shenwu, and based on his last experience, he thought she would enjoy listening to this.

"Angry?"

"Yes. Kaoru Tandai looked at him, her eyes shining slightly, "I'm very upset that they slander you." ”

"......," he must have misheard, "can you say that again?"

Kaoru Tandai blinked, not very understanding, but repeated it anyway: "I don't like them to slander you." ”

"......" He must have not slept well lately and is hallucinating.

Ye Chi felt that the whole person was light, as if there was a fog in front of him, and there were bubbles, until Kaoru Tantai waved twice in front of him, and then he came back to his senses.

No...... He must have misunderstood, and her thoughts must have been far from his;

Kaoru Tandai watched him suddenly lose his mind and suddenly come back to his senses, and felt that he was probably sick again. Ye Chi's good temper always made her feel disobedient, as if nothing could make him feel frustrated, and he could laugh at every qiē;

Intuition told her that such a character was not a good thing.

She inexplicably remembered the conversation with Changsu last time, frowned and said, "I met Miss Letong just now, she said that she didn't have time to thank her last time, and she wanted to invite us to Lejia for dinner together, do you want to go?"

Ye Chi naturally remembered the incident at Lejia, nodded and smiled: "Okay." ”

***

In the evening, Lejia really sent an invitation letter, but it was written very formally, and the wording was more general and polite, it seems that a lot of people should have been invited.

When Chang Su came back, he still took another letter, and seeing that it was getting late, he lit another lamp for Ye Chi, "Childe, the results of the annual review have come down? The prince has already sent letters several times, don't you consider going back?"

Ye Chi opened the letter and smiled helplessly: "Sure enough, it's still the bottom this year." He shrugged and said, "There's nothing wrong here, do you really want to go back to the capital?"

Changsu shook his head, but still said with a bitter face: "But you really don't ...... for that matter."

In the end, he didn't say anything, silently shook his head and left.

The next evening, Lejia took good care of it and sent someone to greet him. Ye Chi and Yutai Kaoru went to a newly bought house near the outskirts of the city, quiet and quiet, and the scenery was very good, but in addition to them, there were also Yuan Ziling and Su Yu and others who were also invited, almost all the familiar and unfamiliar were found, and the bright red candles were lit in the huge courtyard, adding a touch of color to this cold and pale winter day.

Le Tong tied up her hair today, although she was still wearing men's clothes, but the woman's bun did give people a different feeling, an indescribable beauty of androgyny. Seeing this, Yutai Kaoru glanced around: Sure enough, Tang Mo didn't come.

When she retracted her gaze, Yuan Ziling happened to come over, her eyebrows were filled with extraordinarily joyful looks, and she took her arm and said, "Kaoru, let's sit down." ”

Yutai Kaoru nodded, but suddenly hesitated for a moment, and glanced at Ye Chi, but Yuan Ziling had already pulled her to the seat, and Ye Chi over there also sat at the opposite table with the Yuefu housekeeper.

"Why are you so happy all of a sudden?" she looked at Yuan Ziling and said with some doubts, "Are you making money again?"

Yuan Ziling held the wine glass, the corners of her lips kept curved, squinting at her and smiling, sure enough, there was something happy. In fact, he is very tall, and his appearance is not particularly outstanding, but he is handsome and attractive, and his eyes are like crescents when he laughs.

"I've heard about the Academy. He squinted, "You refused so simply." ”

He almost squirted out the tea when he first heard it, how could Kaoru's child be surnamed Ye? He had decided to have the surname Yuan ten years ago.

Kaoru Tandai looked at him with some strange expression, not quite understanding the reaction of these people from that day. What she understands is naturally literal, Ye Chi is asking if her child can be surnamed Ye, without considering why she suddenly has a child, of course, this is obviously not possible, and the surname is Shantai.

As if habitual, she raised her head to look at Ye Chi, but her sight was blocked, and there was a short and fat middle-aged man standing in front of Ye Chi, nodding and not knowing what he was saying.

At this time, Le Tong handed them two glasses of wine, and Kaoru did not look away, and asked curiously, "What are they doing?"

Yuan Ziling also looked over there when he heard this, only to hear Le Tong smile and say: "Naturally, I am saying kiss, many big families in the city have long taken a fancy to Lord Ye, and when I heard that he was rejected by you, they all rushed to the ground." She noticed the surprised expression on Kaoru Tantai's face, and couldn't help but laugh, "Can't you see that Lord Ye is really valuable? With his appearance, talent, and status, he must be very sought-after." ”

Kaoru Tai didn't hear her next sentence, and continued to look at it for a moment, taking the wine in Le Tong's hand while watching, and didn't even notice that he had drunk both glasses of wine.

At this time, the next table had already begun to talk, but Ye Chi was in crisis. In fact, when he first came to Qinzhou, Chang Su helped to politely refuse a lot of door-to-door explanations. Most of these people are businessmen, to put it bluntly, they just want to pull a relational household, regardless of whether their children are willing or not; there was once a family head who had just entered the door with his front foot, and the daughter of the family wanted to pull his lover to martyrdom.

Today, Chang Su was unwell and didn't follow, the middle-aged man smiled and pulled Ye Chi and said, "Lord Ye, I don't know if you have a marriage match in the capital?"

Ye Chi shook his head and was about to speak, when the man said again: "That's really good, there is a little girl in the old man's family who is about the same age as you, and she is waiting for words, why don't you arrange to meet you another day?"

He said very sincerely, but Ye Chi still waved his hand, involuntarily glanced at Kaoru Tai, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "No need, this official...... I haven't considered marrying yet. ”

The middle-aged man's face suddenly turned cold, he smiled at the corners of his mouth, toasted him with a glass of wine and left.

It's just a lack of heart.

Kaoru Yutai suddenly got up and walked over, sat silently beside Ye Chi, and asked, "Did you agree?"

Her cold words startled Ye Chi. I don't know if it's because of the drink, the scene in front of me seems a little blurry, "Do you care a lot?"

"Yes. "There is no hiding from it.

Ye Chi looked at her in surprise, but felt that what she was thinking must not be like that, maybe it was just curiosity, after all, this is a woman's nature, just like Meng Yuqing came to inquire about them every once in a while.

"Nope. He smiled faintly, picked up his glass, and began to drink it carefully.

The flickering candlelight and the laughter of the people added a bit of haze to the sleepless night. Kaoru Tantai remembered that he didn't drink much, and at first she thought he was very bad at drinking, but I don't know why he drank so much, but even she saw that this seemed to be using alcohol to kill her sorrows, and couldn't help asking, "Are you unhappy about what happened in the academy that day?"

The scene in Ye Chi's eyes was all flowery, and he couldn't even see who was sitting next to him clearly, so he tilted his head and muttered, "Kaoru ......"

“…… Huh?"

Kaoru Tantai didn't get a response, realizing that he couldn't let him drink anymore, and immediately snatched his wine glass, and Ye Chi didn't resist and fell asleep on the table. She held his shoulder and was about to send him home, Yuan Ziling came over at this time, looked at her hand holding Ye Chi's shoulder, frowned, and said, "I'll go see him off." ”

Ye Chi stood suddenly, not like he was drunk, except that he blushed terribly, walked straight to the corner of the wall, picked up a branch and drew a circle, then sat down in the circle, and began to write something on the ground with a branch.

The people on Le Tong's side naturally noticed this movement, and they ran over to take a look, and at first they couldn't tell what he had written, until a sharp-eyed little girl saw it...... Is he writing the Analects?

Ye Chi was in high spirits, writing from one end of the wall to the other, the handwriting was flying and dancing, and the writing was dense, and finally he threw the branch and sat back in that circle.

Kaoru Yudai was standing not far from him. Because he had been acting normally lately, she thought he had forgotten about the academy a long time ago—it was clear that he hadn't forgotten at all.

Ye Chi's body was full of wine, his eyes were blurry, his cheeks were hot, and his senses were magnified at this moment, and even the itching of his long hair brushing his cheeks was so clear. He bent his legs halfway so that the whole person sat in the circle, and silently looked up at the crowd.

"What about Kaoru? I won't come out if Kaoru doesn't come. ”