17. Chapter XVI
The Peony Villa in Xiancheng is more simple than I imagined, perhaps it is a decision to relocate, and there are not many books on the decoration, and the village looks a little in disrepair.
The city is backed by Luoxia Ridge and stretches for thousands of miles. In addition to the peony villa occupying a hill and cultivating the medicine field, it is still a primeval forest further inside, so there are often scattered medicine pickers coming in and out.
These retail investors will also be more or less connected with Peony Villa, doing trading and trading. After coming and going, the business has stabilized, and there is not only one family living on the back hill of Peony Villa, but there are also many grass houses for retail households scattered around the periphery, and there are also inns for people to rest, but it is much more humble than the town.
I already knew about the Peony Villa raising some retail households, so when His Majesty didn't come with me so empty-handed, he thought that we would probably settle in the inn outside - after all, His Majesty's identity has not yet been made public.
Maybe His Majesty originally planned to do the same, but we picked up a Ji Yunqing on the way......
So when Ji Yunqing was dressed in brocade and dressed in fine clothes, looking like he was carrying a large bag of luggage as usual, and handed the token of the Heavenly Mirror Palace to the guard of Peony Villa, His Majesty led me with his tail fingers, and I held the dog in one hand, and walked in calmly in the distorted face of the doorman.
The dog finally landed on the ground, walked two steps to find a doorpost, and raised his hind legs......
I hurriedly groaned, and pulled the dog chain a little unbearably: "Dog! Dogs! Don't do that! ”
Doorman: "......"
His majesty did not move like a mountain, looking up at the clouds. Ji Yunqing straightened his backpack, as if he didn't understand why I was so embarrassed, and said seriously as he walked by: "You said it, but it didn't understand." ”
The old guard's face twitched twice: "It's okay, I'll clean it up later, a few adults, please." ”
I said sorry again, and then followed His Majesty's steps and walked inside.
Ji Yunqing's identity is special, we just walked around a garden all the way, and there were more than a dozen men in front of us, with jade crowns and hair, solemn and solemn. If I hadn't recognized them in my previous life, I would have been fooled by the righteousness on my face. The first old man in his fifties, I looked a little familiar, it was my "husband" Li Jing, who died early. In my boudoir, there was a portrait of him hanging for years.
Li Jing greeted us, raised his eyes and fell on His Majesty Xià, who was the leader, and greeted him warmly: "Lord Heavenly Master is here in person, and I am not welcomed." "He probably just got the news, and he only knew that someone was coming, but he didn't know which one it was.
Bac Ninh believes in gods and Buddhas, and the royal family worships the imperial heavenly master and lives in the Tianjing Palace. The Heavenly Master believes, abandons the seven emotions and six desires, and does not eat grains, but the Heavenly Master does not come out of thin air, so he has to prepare several disciples who inherit the mantle, and Ji Yunqing is one of them.
The relationship between their master and apprentice is extremely mysterious, they are not in the same place, and only they know how to communicate. However, he is probably not a good celestial master, because he loves to eat.
His Majesty knew that he was not speaking, so he had no words. Ji Yunqing has always had the skill of opening his eyes to see people gone, and somehow he didn't talk to him, and looked intently at a morning glory in the corner.
Time passed like this, and the atmosphere began to be delicate.
I grabbed the restless dog in my hand, and I had no choice but to pretend to be a magic stick and speak: "You're welcome. ”
Seeing that someone finally accosted him, Li Jing turned his gaze to me for the first time, his eyes deepened slightly, and then he said: "Where is the Heavenly Master, it's just that the mountain villa is simple, and it is really ashamed, please inside." ”
When you get to the living room, take a seat. Seeing that we didn't mean to say hello, he said bluntly: "I don't know why the Heavenly Master came this time?" "This time it was directly at me.
I glanced at His Majesty, and he gave me a subtle expression from the beginning of my own answer, and then completely left it alone. But no one talks to me in advance, what can I do? Edited?
"We came by order, and the reason is inconvenient to disclose for the time being." Glancing at the servant maid serving in front of the hall, his heart suddenly moved.
Ji Yunqing's token will naturally make them jealous, but even if the royal family believes in gods and Buddhas, there are still people among the people who don't believe in it, or they are as suspicious as I used to be. If you don't show some real god skills, I'm afraid that I won't be able to control the scene. So he pretended to be calm and relaxed, and picked up the teacup at hand: "The owner of the village doesn't have to worry, although this time I have tired the owner, in return, by the way, I can also solve a troublesome matter in the village." ”
Li Jing's cloudy expression was slightly solemn, and he glanced at his eldest son Li Siming, and stood up: "Heavenly Master is serious about this. ”
But if it is a god stick, it will be cheap to give people a favor for no reason. Then I also put on the unattainable and unruly nature that a magic stick should have: "Naturally." But...... These days of chatter......"
"Let the Heavenly Master command."
"The owner of the village has prepared a few quiet and clean dwellings for us, and the other maids who serve only have two maids, Autumn Leaves and Summer Breeze. He also instructed Li Sijue, the young master, not to run around, his birthday is coming, and he needs to pay extra attention to his behavior, and it will be bad if he hurts anything. We sometimes walk around the farm, and we hope that the owner will not mind. ”
In his previous life, Li Sijue was a person who was afraid of the little Yama, but now he is only seven years old, and it is the time to be domineering, and I am afraid that I will have a headache when I bump into him.
Li Jing's eyelids jumped, as if he was stunned: "Thoughts? In an instant, he reacted, full of anger, "Go and call the autumn leaves and the summer breeze to clean up the heavenly master's house." ”
The room was filled with silent shock, and those who were far away couldn't help whispering, and the eyes that looked at me were a little awe-inspiring.
I bowed my head to drink my tea, and raised my eyebrows at His Majesty by the way.
His Majesty ignored me, but then he also picked up the teacup, covered his lips slightly, and said two words with his mouth.
"Boom."
Of course I was dumbfounded.
When I was at the door of Peony Villa, I saw the word "peony" engraved with familiar brushstrokes on the stone tablet, and my heart was still trembling. In the previous life, I endured it little by little, and somehow I endured it. Now that I have overthrown it and started all over again, I have a dark feeling when I think about my life in my previous life. I was born to be at peace with what happened, and I can't tell what is wrong with the past, but I don't dare to look back, and I am terrified when I look at it.
But when I climbed the stairs, my majesty let me hold my tail finger. There wasn't too much touch, but it was a real bond, which just happened to calm my heart.
Then I realized that he was so careful. I grew up like a wild horse, climbing over walls and fighting, although I am a woman, how can I even need someone to help me walk these few steps on the mountain road. He just wanted to give me some comfort.
Someone feels sorry for me, how can I not be scared.
It didn't take long for us to get up and go back to our room to rest, after all, we were a little tired after a day's journey.
Li Jing sent us off, and the head of the house made such a gesture, and naturally followed a large number of people, and the expression on his face was really polite and humble.
Walking to the other courtyard, Li Jing said obediently, "Heavenly Master, rest early." "Then he was leaving.
A large number of children retreated, only the eldest son Li Siming stood in place, froze his foot, hesitated three times and then said abruptly, "Li has something to ask the heavenly master, I don't know ......"
Li Jing had already turned his back, and when he heard Li Siming speak, he broke off and shouted: "Siming!" The Heavenly Master is not here for us, and there is a lack of going up the mountain all the way, so let's talk about it tomorrow. ”
My heart was cold.
Looking at it, the glow of the fire brightened, and a group of more than ten people, except for Li Siming, no one showed any special feelings, and looked at it from afar.
I've only heard of this in the past. said that it was the truth, but I always regarded "it" as a product of unrecognizable self-recognition after the clouds, and I didn't dare to believe a word, but now looking at everyone's reaction, I have a trace of belief.
In the second year of my marriage into Peony Villa, the second son Li Siyuan, the second son of the village, did not have to have fewer concubines, and the family was particularly prosperous, and the maids and servants in the past were not enough. Yazi heard that he came to sell the child, but it turned out to be a book, and there was a mute man in his teens, who was slightly demented, and it was Li Siming's eldest son who disappeared three years ago.
Li Siming is not farther than Li Si, he values love and righteousness, and has only one wife and one son in his life. As soon as his son was lost, he had no intention of doing business, ran around looking for his son, and finally died in a foreign country.
Speaking of which, this is the "official history" that I have heard from my clan. Later, Akiba, who took care of me, said to me, the eldest son of a mountain villa, if you want to find a son, wouldn't it be easier to assign people, why do you have to go by yourself. gave up the position of the owner, harmed his own people, and finally died of a violent illness.
She also said that this qiē is all because of Si Cheng.
In order to make this relationship last longer, he proposed to his sister to blow more pillow wind, so that Si Cheng and Si Ningxue could come to the villa more often.
Autumn Leaf Dao, that is, Si Cheng took Li Xuan into the depths of Luoxia Ridge once, and when he came back, he was left alone. He was also frightened at the time, he was shaking at first, and then crying while saying that he had killed Li Xuan. Many people were present at the time, and as soon as Li Jing heard that something was wrong, he asked the idle people to go down.
But Qiu Ye got along well with Li Xuan when he was a child, he was the most temperamental one among the young masters, thinking that Si Cheng was a murderer, so he had to listen to it and hide in the back window. Only then did he know that he had planned to go to collect medicine with Li Xuan, but after all, he was inexperienced and mistaken about the herbs.
Li Xuan was instructed by him to pick a plant, and it didn't take long for him to be unable to walk, and he foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground. He was frightened crazy, and no one called for help, thinking that he was dead, and he ran all the way back and still couldn't come back to his senses.
When the owner heard this, even if he was looking for someone, he could find that there was still a trace of someone when he went over. There were blind tigers and bears in the mountains, and it rained all night, and there was no trace of it.
That year, Si Chengzheng participated in the imperial examination, and he got a fairly good ranking at a young age, which was even praised by the emperor. If this kind of scandal of abandoning his nephew's life reaches the ears of the emperor and the emperor, his career will be ruined.
Si Cheng panicked, but Si Ningxue's mind was very clear: "Brother Cheng is young, and it is really sad that he can't afford to do things in danger. But uncle, you must think twice, if you want to destroy another person for the sake of one person who is gone, it will be more than worth the loss. The honor and disgrace of our Si family and Peony Villa are all on Brother Cheng alone, and at this time, he must not be sloppy. ”
This matter was suppressed, and I was afraid that people would leak the news, so I couldn't look for it with great fanfare. Si Cheng listened to her sister's words, and said to Li Jing a few times with trepidation. Li Jing couldn't find anyone and gradually lost hope, and was mentioned a few times by his own backer, and then he stopped looking for it completely. Who knows if this man will be alive in the end? It's just dumb and stupid, and I don't know how much I have suffered outside.
Now, Li Jing is reluctant to let Li Siming mention this matter to me, and I am afraid that I will specially open an "eye in the sky" for them. At that time, everything will be poked out, and the heavenly master is the person next to the emperor, and Si Cheng's way of being an official will be buried in a big hidden danger.
If at the beginning, when I mentioned that I could help, Li Jing was still a little shaken, and now he has spoken out to stop Li Siming, which shows that his position is already very firm.
Tiger venom doesn't eat children, what kind of people are these?
With such an interruption, Li Siming didn't dare to speak again in front of everyone and the interests of the clan. Family affairs are difficult to break, and I just don't know what to do, so I can go into the house.
After entering the house, His Majesty turned around and asked me, "You are pretending to be a ghost today, but what do you know?" ”
I glanced at Ji Yunqing, who was looking around in the room, and listened to what His Majesty said, so I told him what I knew and what I heard.
Although Ji Yunqing didn't seem to be listening, he came up after I finished speaking: "What you said is much more detailed than I could have predicted, Master Gu Yu, do you really want to accept me as an apprentice?" ”
His Majesty pursed his lips and was surprised: "You want to worship her as a master?" ”
Naturally, I didn't have time to explain it to His Majesty, and I told him about the supernatural event, saying that I could hear the voice of the ghost.
In his previous life, he didn't believe in this kind of thing at all, so the timing was not right at the beginning, and I didn't know how to explain it to him. After saying this time, he was silent for a long time, which made me feel a little uneasy, afraid that he would say that I was talking nonsense with my eyes open.
As everyone knows, after a while, he tilted his head to look at me: "Why didn't you come to me when you met a ghost last night?" Scared? ”
My heart warmed, and somehow, it was like taking a bite of candy out of the air, and it was sweet to the heart: "I don't dare, she always follows me, I don't dare to sue." And brother, you are also resting. ”
He asked, "How did you get rid of it?" ”
I said truthfully: "I talked to her, and when I got up from sleep, she was gone." ”
"You're really big."
My old face flushed, and I couldn't help but excuse myself: "At first, I was scared for a while, but I was not afraid to hear her say that it wouldn't harm me!" ”
There was a slight smile in his eyes: "What kind of red face, I'm praising you." Otherwise, if you have such an ability, you have to worry that you won't sleep well, isn't it very adaptable? ”