In the twenty-third round (middle), Helan Que's new deputy general defeated the old steward of Wuhou Mansion and resigned

When Shi Nianyuan walked out of the back door of the main hall of Wuhou Mansion and walked out of the curtain and came to the courtyard, Ruohu, who was silver-haired like a waterfall, greeted him, and the two snow-white pointed ears on his head moved, and asked suspiciously: "They are all foxes for thousands of years, so they don't have to act like a fox...... What does that mean exactly?"

"Well......" Shi Nianyuan was stunned for a moment and explained: "In the seven counties of Jiangnan Prefecture in the empire, there is a gentleman surnamed Pu, whose study is called 'Liao Zhai', and he wrote many works in Liao Zhai, the most famous of which is called "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei", commonly known as "The Legend of the Ghost Fox", and then ...... The thousand-year-old fox is to say, the fox is very cunning...... Smart, the thousand-year-old fox is even smarter, able to see through the truth behind the falsehood, and is not easy to be deceived by the scene. ”

Ruohu suddenly leaned his face closer to Shi Nianyuan, Peach Blossom's eyes widened, and he asked seriously, "You just wanted to be cunning, right?"

Shi Nianyuan shook his head vigorously as a wave drum and said: "No, no, no! Absolutely not! How could I say that the fox is cunning, the fox knocks cute, and I knock love!"

"Fox...... Knock?" Ruohu Shui Lingtao's eyes were puzzled, he clenched his pink fist and knocked Shi Nianyuan on the chest: "Is that so?"

Ruohu didn't exert much effort, but Shi Nianyuan flew straight into the distance, and Li Cripple and Mao Caishen, who came out from behind Shi Nianyuan, looked at the human-shaped pit recessed in the courtyard wall in the distance, and Shi Nianyuan, who was cut into the snow like an onion under the pit, leaving only two long legs and a shrug move.

Li Cripple and Mao Caishen glanced at each other, pretended not to see anything very tacitly, and then hooked their shoulders and backs, pretending to laugh and chatting about the Qingqi of the Wanxue Building, and gradually drifted away.

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In Lin Shenyuan, in front of the table in the hall, Shi Nianyuan was staring at a piece of paper in a daze, and he stiffly curled his lips.

Murong Shan walked into the room with a glass of fruit smoothie in her hand and glanced at the paper in front of Shi Nianyuan.

Shi Nianyuan saw Murong Shan approaching and sat down, and pushed the paper towards him: "The herald of the Funeral Flower Palace intercepted in Lou Xue Lou that day, I didn't expect it to go so smoothly, this is a rubbing, but the letter is encrypted, and I can't understand these ghost paintings on it at all." ”

Murong Shan pushed the paper back without even looking at it, picked up a spoon and scooped a mouthful of smoothie into his mouth: "I don't know much more, I'm good at leading soldiers to fight." ”

Shi Nianyuan pulled out a piece of manuscript paper again, wrote and drew on it, and muttered non-stop: "It's not like Caesar's password, it's not like Zhu Gao's password, I've tried to decrypt the fence, and I can't find it at all...... My mother will probably be able to solve it, but she will definitely not tell me......" Shi Nianyuan put down the pen and paper and rubbed his temples: "The braincase hurts......"

Murong Shan glanced at the top of Shi Nianyuan's head, but didn't see the snow-white fox hat, so she diverted the topic and asked, "What about Ruohu?"

"Turning into a little fox in the snow, she seems to like to play in the snow. Shi Nianyuan put away the rubbing secret letter and asked casually, "Where did you run just now?"

Murong Shan raised the smoothie in his hand: "Go shopping, buy something." The eldest lady said, girls should look like girls, I'm studying. ”

Shi Nianyuan glanced outside the door, the goose feathers and heavy snow were still falling, and then looked at the smoothie in Murong Shan's hand, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his throat: "Shouldn't girls drink more hot water?"

Completely ignorant of Shi Nianyuan's inexplicable and wonderful stalks, Murong Shan blinked his eyes and asked seriously, "Is it?"

Shi Nianyuan waved his hand: "No, it's actually good to be like you." If the eldest lady is here, she may have to join in the fun when the hall opens just now, and she will definitely come to tell me a lot of good things about being kind to people after the fun. ”

"My man is busy with his career, shouldn't a woman stay by the side obediently, and don't know what she shouldn't know?" Murong Shan flipped her hand, a book appeared in her hand, and when she opened the page with the bookmark, Murong Shan pointed to the words on the book and read: "That was the content of Article 37 just now, I happened to see here, and the next one is...... Article 38 of the Wife Guidelines, if hearsay that your man has entered the Qinglou, please believe that he is going in to do business, not to prostitute himself. ”

Listening to Murong Shan's words, Shi Nianyuan was stunned for a moment, blurted out a sentence of "scum", and then continued: "What the hell is this book?

Murong Shan tilted her head suspiciously and said, "I don't quite understand what you mean, but yesterday we went to Wanxue Tower, you are indeed doing business, yes." ”

Shi Nianyuan rolled his eyes: "Do the right thing?" please...... That's because you follow me, a place like Qinglou, if I go alone, I will definitely go to do corrections. ”

Murong Shan nodded and said, "That's no problem, you listen......" Murong Shan pointed to the handwriting on the book and continued to read: "Article 39 of the Criteria for Wife, if you see your man enter the Qinglou, you can't disturb him, please believe that he must be going to do something corrected, definitely not to prostitute." ”

Shi Nianyuan's jaw fell on the table, and after picking it up and finally putting it back, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his eyelids jumped: "What the hell is this kind of brain-dead book? What is the author's name? Hong Shixian?"

Murong Shan closed the book and glanced at the cover: "No, the author's surname is He, He Shuhuan." ”

"Mother, this kind of strange book has been written, and what's even more damn strange is that there are still people reading it, it's really no one......" Shi Nianyuan stood up while chattering, stretched his waist and said lazily: "I can't solve the secret letter, I'm too lazy to study, I'm going to play in the snow with my little fox, do you want to come along?"

Murong Shan was stunned, flipped a few pages to the front, pointed to the previous one and read: "The thirteenth rule of the rule for a wife, when your man frankly proposes to find other women in front of you, it is because he trusts you, so you must also trust him, be sure to give him a certain amount of free space and time." ”

Shi Nianyuan was no longer able to complain, and gave a thumbs up: "The scumbag is a real fucking cow ......"

When Shi Nianyuan stepped out of the door, he saw Murong Shan following behind, turned his head and asked, "Aren't you going?"

Murong Shan glanced at Shi Nianyuan with disdain like a fool: "It is better to believe in a book than to have no book." ”

“......”

The snow-white little fox stood in the snow, and its snow-white fluff matched the snow. When Shi Nianyuan walked to the courtyard, he happened to see that under the big maple tree, the little fox rolled twice in the snow, stood up leisurely, then twisted his head left and right, and then suddenly jumped high, and plunged into the snow with his head and feet.

Shi Nianyuan stepped forward with black lines on his head, held the little fox's snow-white plush tail, pulled out the little fox like a radish, hugged it in his arms and gently patted the snowflakes on his body, and complained: "You are a ...... Nature?"

The little fox was coquettish, stretched out his tongue and licked Shi Nianyuan's face, Shi Nianyuan smiled: "Poof...... I didn't laugh at you for being naïve, you were shy. Let's go, go to Cripple Li and give him the Cleansing Pill. ”

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In the Songbai Courtyard, Li Cripple spread out a familiar xuan in front of the table, soft and inky, and first dropped three words - a letter of recommendation.

After the New Year, the big competition of the fish and dragon camp will start to operate, and Li Cripple suddenly thought of the swarthy young man who had promised to share the account with the young master in the fish and dragon camp, and if he got good results in the big competition, he would recommend him to go to the night wolf camp of the Western Xinjiang Guerrilla Army. Today, since Liu Shan arranged for him to come to Wuhou Mansion to stand and open his post, his results are not bad.

Li Cripple smiled, and then raised his head with three words - rabbit cub, suddenly felt that something was wrong, Li Cripple crossed out the three words, and rewrote the three words - Camp Commander Li.

"Damn, that's not good, it's too embarrassing for the rabbit cub!" was when the cripple was cursing and muttering, when the door was pushed open from outside.

Those who entered the door of the big housekeeper of Wuhou Mansion and never knocked on the door, except for Mao San, only Shi Nianyuan was left.

Li Lizi stood up and called "Young Master", and only after Shi Nianyuan waved his hand impatiently did he sit back in the chair, pick up the soft hair and continue to write.

Shi Nianyuan came to Li Cripple, glanced at the rice paper in front of Li Cripple, and said: "Li Shutu, this kind of official document looks up, you should write 'Stone Character Army Crossbow Legion Night Wolf Battalion'." After a pause, Shi Nianyuan continued to ask, "Is there a descendant in the Fish Dragon Camp that you admire?"

Li Cripple nodded, and replied with a smile: "It's Yu Dan who is in the same account as the young master." ”。

Shi Nianyuan nodded, then turned over his hand and took out a brocade box, and said happily: "Li Shutu, this is the medicine I found for you to heal your legs, and I don't know what the effect is." ”

Li Cripple has tried too many medicinal stones in the past twenty years, and when he heard Shi Nianyuan's words, he smiled happily, but he didn't have too much hope: "Old slave, thank you young master." ”

Shi Nianyuan saw Li Cripple's expression and encouraged: "This is the Immortal Family Pill, which was originally used in conjunction with the Enlightenment Pill in order to stimulate the rotation of the light, so as to enlighten the Spirit, so that mortals can step on the Immortal Dao, it is said that it is quite effective for these old diseases, you have time to try it, and the instructions for taking it are attached to the box." ”

When Shi Nianyuan said "Qiling Pill", Li Cripple's eyes lit up without a trace, but Shi Nianyuan only thought that Li Cripple heard that it was the Immortal Pill, and gave birth to a little hope, and did not take it too seriously.

Li Lame looked at Murong Shan, who was silent after following Shi Nianyuan into the house, and said with emotion: "Lord Murong, your eyebrows are really similar to the general, and there is this military spirit on your body, which makes the lame man feel very kind." ”

Not knowing that Li's disability was left by Murong Lu, Murong Shan smiled and said sincerely: "Butler Li, I wish you a speedy recovery." ”

Li Cripple looked at the snow-white little fox who was amusing Shi Nianyuan in Shi Nianyuan's arms, and suddenly said: "If you like this thing, you should get strength and happiness from liking, rather than spending all your strength and happiness to like it." Love letters are not easy to write, confession must not be white, people who want, things you want, you must try to catch up, it is useless to rely on lip service. ”

Shi Nianyuan was stunned: "Li Shutu, although you like to read quietly, but you never speak literally......"

The old lame man blushed, raised his eyes to look at the lonely, bare loquat tree in the courtyard, and saw that the branches were covered with new snow, and he limped out of the door, blowing the wind, and entering the snow.

Li Cripple, who walked to the loquat tree, gently brushed off the snow on the loquat branches, and at first glance saw that a branch facing west actually had a little new green in the cold winter snow that had not yet arrived in early spring, and the lame Wuhou Mansion steward had a sour nose and stood in the snow for a long time.

Twenty years of old things are covered with dust, and the winter snow smiles alone year after year.

There is a loquat tree in the garden, which was planted by hand in the year of my wife's death.

Spring to the summer solstice, autumn to winter, stay to the most happy summer solstice of the year, the sun is good, but the pavilion is like a cover, far like the Yi people in the past to hold an umbrella, each has half of the body budding cool, and then give half a life of sadness.

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Laba porridge, drink for a few days, 23, sugar melon sticky, 24, sweep the house, 25, frozen tofu, 26, go to buy meat, 27, slaughter roosters, 28, make noodles, 29, steam steamed buns, 30 nights to stay up......

In the nursery rhymes sung by the children holding hands and running tunes by the bridge, the snow is falling, and Chinese New Year's Eve is coming.

Liuye City is lit up everywhere, and the people are happy to celebrate the New Year.

Wuhou Mansion is happy, whether it is the palace guard, the martial slave, or the maidservant, or the husband, today they all put on the newly issued red clothes in the house, and outside the Lin Shen Courtyard, there was a long queue, and the faces of the people in the mansion were full of smiles.

In previous years, this event was presided over by the lady, but this year for some reason it was changed to a young master.

Under Shi Nianyuan's strong request and coercion, Ruohu and Murong Shan both put on festive red robes, and in front of the stone pavilion, several long tables were spliced, and the tables were full of red envelopes.

Shi Nianyuan smiled, and when he saw that Li Cripple and Mao Caishen had finished filling all the red envelopes, he shouted at the courtyard door in the shape of a trumpet: "Happy New Year—girls!

Standing next to the courtyard gate, Ruohu and Murong Shan opened the courtyard door, and walked to the long table first, the people in the house who were queuing outside the door saw the second daughter at first glance, and suddenly felt amazing, and wanted to take a few more looks, but they were afraid of breaking the rules, and they followed behind the second daughter from time to time and peeked at it and were reluctant to go over, and the back didn't know why the front team didn't move, and they wanted to enter the courtyard early to receive the New Year's red envelope.

"Happy New Year, Young Master! Wishing you prosperity!"

"Young master is so blessed! The two young ladies are so beautiful!"

......

Shi Nianyuan sat on the chair, half-squinting, all of them were used.

The people in the house said that Ruohu and Murong Shan, who were wearing big red robes and incarnated as fortune boys, gave a red envelope.

As for the red envelopes, they are naturally all silver tickets for the builder's bank.

The maid brought hot tea from the house, and obediently poured three cups and placed them in front of Shi Nianyuan, Li Cripple and Mao Caishen, Shi Nianyuan picked up the teacup and invited Li Cripple and Mao Caishen to drink together.

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On Chinese New Year's Eve, Liuye City was full of fireworks, and Wuhou Mansion was full of laughter.

Under Shi Nianyuan's arrangement, the reunion dinner was placed in the Jiangtaoyuan house, and the main seat was naturally Zhu Xianlan, the wife of Wufu, and the left and right seats were occupied by Ruohu and Murong Shan, Shi Nianyuan, who was sitting between Li Cripple and Mao Caishen, looked around left and right, and the people on the table also knew Liu Shan, the commander of the fish and dragon battalion, Liu Shan, the bearded captain of the Chengnan blacksmith, Yao Song, the widow of the horse gang, Liu Zisu, the widow of the horse gang, and the four first-class maids of the Wuhou Mansion, two Wunu captains, two captains of the guards, and some other faces, Shi Nianyuan didn't know at all.

It wasn't until he was toasted and listened to his introduction, and listened to Li Cripple and Mao Caishen's explanations on the side, that I knew that those people were the owners of several Jianshang Qianzhuang branches, and several senior officials who stuck to their posts in the six divisions directly under the Wuhou Mansion.

Of course, when it was their turn to toast Shi Nianyuan, Young Master Shi, who was completely open to drink, was already drunk and hazy.

In the incessant sound of fireworks, everything seems beautiful and peaceful.

His face was flushed, and Shi Nianyuan, who was leaning on the chair, was intoxicated in muttering, "Li Shusan, Mao Tu, drink ...... again".

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In Lin Shenyuan, Ruohu helplessly helped Shi Nianyuan untie his hairband, take off his coat, shoes and socks, and then bring hot water, wring out a hot towel on the basin, and helped Shi Nianyuan, who didn't know what he was talking about, wipe his face and hands, and then change a towel to wipe his feet, and finally pulled the quilt over and carefully covered it for Shi Nianyuan.

Leaning on the door of Shi Nianyuan's bedroom, Murong Shan, who had been silently watching Ruohu's movements, said loudly: "I have read a lot of books recently, and I just read a sentence in the past two days, saying that every man will meet two women like this, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red one has changed into a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one is still the bright moonlight in front of the bed; ”

Ruohu, who had silver hair like a waterfall and a simple hairpin, turned his head and looked over: "The road ahead is chaotic, and walking with him is the world." As for the red roses and white moonshine or something, I didn't think about it. ”

Murong Shan looked at the hairpin that previously belonged to Zhu Xianlan in Ruohu's hair, and said, "The Great Lord of Xuqian Liufeng seems to like him too. ”

Ruohu's gaze kept falling on Shi Nianyuan's long eyelashes, and he replied calmly, "Yes." ”

Murong Shan took a few steps forward and asked, "Are you too?"

Ruohu nodded vigorously: "I call myself half a living person, seeing mountains like barren valleys, seeing the sea like still water, seeing flowers and grass, and also like dead air, I have always believed that everything in the world is lifeless, and finally enter the day when the white bones wither." Only when I saw him, the barren valley was colored, the still water was rushing, the flowers and plants were all renewed, everything was colored, and the soul was returned. It seems to be a particularly interesting thing to ask for immortals and obtain immortality. ”

Murong Shan frowned: "What if he doesn't choose you in the future?"

Ruohu smiled, and a cinnabar-like mark appeared in the center of his eyebrows: "He has his mountains and seas, his heavy mountain shadows, and his thousands of miles of waves." If that day comes, the wind will give him, the desert will give him, and the sky will give him. It's the unrestrained wind, the desert where it rains heavily, and the sky covered with stars. All things are given to him, and he is set free. ”

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Shobai-in.

Li lame held up an oil-paper umbrella, dragged his lame leg to the loquat tree, lit a few ripe xuan, the night wind was cold, Li lame moved his body, trying to block the cold wind.

In the firelight, the wind that Li Cripple did not block blew the corner of the rolled rice paper, and saw "The Book with His Wife No. 1321", Li Cripple reached out and pulled back the rice paper, and then saw "Hold an umbrella in the snow again, and you will no longer come." ”

Xu is a true piece of acacia, and he can send no one with a pen.

Leaving white sideburns to listen to the twilight, how can Naidan pay the snow.

This night, the big housekeeper of Wuhou Mansion, who had two unopened brocade boxes next to his pillow, slept soundly.

Just because of a big dream, I saw the mountains and flowers in the dream, and I was overjoyed to see the old people holding umbrellas in the past.

The next day, before dawn, Wuhou Mansion posted an obituary, and Li Shutu, the former deputy commander of the Shizi Army and the chief steward of Wuhou Mansion, passed away.