Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Inn

Xia Lanxin didn't care who she and the guests and praisers at the ceremony would be, and she didn't delve deeper, but Shen, the wife of Kang Pinghou, understood her mother-in-law's painstaking efforts after a little thought. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Xia family is a nobleman, and three generations of officials in the court will inevitably attract envy. Tianhuang nobles inserting hairpins for their daughters is just a temporary icing on the cake, but it is better to choose the Yun family, which is indisputable with the world, and getting along with this kind of family is the way of life that has always been simple and clumsy for his father-in-law.

Shen immediately wrote a letter to Mrs. Yun, expressing his meaning tactfully. Mrs. Yun arrived simply, and after a few words of humility, she responded, and promised to bring Yun Zhi to congratulate her early.

Xia Lanxin slowly said to Murong Wei to listen, but what was hovering in Murong Wei's heart was Yun Yang, the second son of the Yun family, what kind of person was the dragon and phoenix, and she was a heroic and righteous Sister Lan.

I have the heart to ask, but I don't agree with the courtesy. Thinking that Xia Lanxin didn't know, she was inconvenient to joke, so she turned the topic to business: "I want to ask my sister for something, my sister is not here today, I also want someone to send a post to invite."

When Xia Lanxin heard this, she casually picked up a few pine pulps from the blue-ground gold-edged flower dish on the small table, blew off the epidermis, and gently held it between her teeth, with a fluttering smile, "Ah Wei, the third brother has been out early and returned late for the past two days, but is doing something for you?"

Although Murong Wei and Su Duhan have no marriage contract, they are a tacit pair in the eyes of most people. Her brother has not yet decided on a marriage after he is over eighteen years old, and after thinking about it, Xia Lanxin can only pretend not to know.

Xia Yu was so busy a few days ago that her feet didn't touch the ground, Xia Lanxin was anxious in her eyes, and there was no one to say. She bit her lip lowly, leaving a neat row of tooth marks: "Ah Wei, are you having some misunderstanding with the prince of An Guo?"

Even if she was afraid that the third brother would inadvertently become a wicked person, and she was afraid of delaying Murong Wei's business, Xia Lanxin's heart was seven more tricks than usual, and she still didn't know how much to do.

In the white curtain woven by the light snow, there are a few old plum trees that are unyieldingly stretching out the craggy branches, and a tree is like a fire, which seems to be the most beautiful yearning in the world.

Murong Wei moved to the window, stared quietly, and looked at Xia Lanxin solemnly: "Sister Lan, the Xia family is the founding father, three generations of officials, and one is loyal, Murong Wei is no matter how confused she is, how can she blaspheme the third brother and make the Xia family dusty?"

Xia Lanxin also understands the reason, but if she cares, she will be chaotic, and if she asks the wrong thing, she will make a mistake.

Xia Lanxin was also honest, put down the hot tea in her hand, and learned from Murong Wei to stand against the window: "Since my sister is worried, I have never said that Ah Wei has any other motivation, I will transfer it to the third brother for you." ”

Sharing honor and disgrace, the Xia family and Xixia have long been firmly tied together, and Xia Lanxin has deeply understood this truth since she was sensible. She doesn't care about the details, but she has been with her grandfather and grandmother since she was a child, but she has an unusual sensitivity in the direction of the court and the affairs of the monarchy.

"Ah Wei, the New Year is approaching, and the palace seems to be singing and dancing, but I see that it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, is there something big about to happen?" Xia Lanxin pinched the water-colored biscarlet silk handkerchief, and silently added a trace of solemnity between her eyebrows.

"It's not known what to do. Murong Wei turned around indifferently and gently stroked the jade bracelet on her wrist, her eyes were boundless, and she was mixed with the eyes of the superiors.

The two stood side by side in front of the window, looking at the red plum and snow, and the fragrance of a tree. Murong Weihao's wrist was like snow, caressing Xia Lanxin's soft hair.

The soft words seemed to be unintentional, but they also seemed to be intentional, like the wind blowing through her ears, leaving a slight ripple: "Sister, don't worry, how I am with the prince of An Guo has nothing to do with the third brother." The third brother and sister are both breezy and moon-like characters, and Murong Wei sincerely admires your righteousness. ”

Xia Lanxin only knew that the three generations of the Xia family had done their best for Xixia, which attracted Murong Wei's deep admiration, but she didn't know that what Murong Wei said was the righteousness of the rebel army in her previous life, she looked back and smiled, and shook Murong Wei's hand heavily.

The cinnabar red lotus leaf-shaped mud inkstone is carved with hazy clear water and distant mountains, as faint as no trace. Murong Wei took a pen and poured thick ink in the inkstone, and sketched it carefully on the paved rice paper.

Counting the time, this person should be in the capital. It's just that the years are old, and the impression is that it will look like a few years later, and the eyebrows are about seven points similar at most. With the vague imprints, Murong Wei deliberately painted the person young, carefully and carefully on the rice paper.

"Give this to the third brother, and be sure to find the person in the painting. can't make a big show, you can only rely on the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to pay attention to it privately. If you find out, you must find a way to keep it, and I want to see you. Murong Wei recalled it briefly from memory, and muttered: "It should be surnamed Luo, and his name is Nayan." ”

Xia Lanxin nodded in agreement, and carefully put the portrait into her purse: "I know, if I find this person, I will definitely tell you immediately." ”

"The sooner the better, you ask the third brother to bother more", Murong Wei repeatedly advised.

"Ah Wei, you have changed a lot in the past few days, and my sister doesn't know what kind of medicine you are selling in the gourd?"

Knowing that Murong Wei was in a hurry, Xia Lanxin didn't sit anymore, took the piano score given to Yun Zhi, and left the palace. When he returned to the house, he didn't even return to his own yard, so he sent the portrait to Xia Yuzhi's study first.

The snow has not stopped, and the storm has started again. Xia Yuzhi's eyebrows were twisted into Sichuan characters, and he looked at the young man on the portrait for a moment before writing a post and instructing Leng Yu to send it to Xiao Luochen, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division.

The snow was heavy and frosty, and the dim oil lamp held up a small square of faint warmth.

On the side of Wannian Bridge on North Street in Beijing, a simple courtyard house, sewing a big word "Su" on the blue edge of the green cloth in front of the door, the family inn where the widow and mother-in-law rely for a living.

There are three or two tables in the small hall for guests to eat, and the simple courtyard is connected to the back. In the courtyard there was a bare old locust tree with lush branches, a deep well under the tree, and only four or five rooms apart from the owner's own residence.

Next to the window seat in the hall, the dim oil lamp illuminated the sorrowful and embarrassed Ronyan.

The owner of the shop, Yu Mother-in-law, was about sixty years old, and there were a few small patches on the whitened green cloth jacket, and she stood next to him with a look of embarrassment.

"Guest officer, you also understand the difficulties of the old woman, my family depends on this inn to make a living, and you have been exempted from rent for seven days, it is really a small business, you should live elsewhere. ”

A bowl of hot sorghum rice mixed with soybeans was brought to the table, and Granny Yu spoke again: "Guest officer, send you this dinner, eat it and leave, the old woman still has an unknown son to support, and you can't afford to default on the rent anymore." ”

This conversation has been experienced no less than three times in seven days, and now a new guest has come to the door, and Ronyan is already ashamed to read the books of the sages, and he has no shame to continue.