Chapter 41: Chasing the Shadow
"I heard that Mrs. Xuan brought that Dai Xue back to the house for you this time, you kid is very lucky!" Wei Chixin met Xuan Shao, who had just returned to the city from Cangxuan Pavilion and was about to enter the palace, at the gate of the palace, and teased. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Xuan Shao shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly: "Believe, don't make fun of me..."
Wei Chixin continued to joke with interest: "What are you sighing, that Dai Xue is a closed disciple of the Lord of Yichen Pavilion, she is talented and intelligent, and it is rumored that she was born with picturesque eyebrows, bright and moving, this beauty is worthy of a general, isn't it right?" ”
When Xuan Shao heard this, he had to sigh again and again.
"That's it, how come I don't know you, three thousand weak water, only one scoop." Wei Chixin looked at Xuan Shao's sad face and stopped laughing with him.
"Even though I know that she is elegant, beautiful, knowledgeable, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has a very high status in Cangxuan Pavilion, these things that my mother likes are meaningless to me."
"But you were born in an aristocratic family, how many aristocratic marriages are not involuntary? What's more, you are the only male in the Xuan family's generation. Wei Chixin put away the previous joking tone, and said: "You are different from me, Xuan Shao, I am alone, and you, carrying the hopes and responsibilities of your entire family, do not think about it and know that your mother will definitely choose a woman for you to marry who will help you and the future of the entire family." What's more, in the eyes of Mrs. Xuan, Dai Xue must be the most suitable person in her eyes. ”
After listening to Wei Chixin's words, Xuan Shao was silent, and the two of them walked to the door of the Hongde Hall of Jiayang's twilight dormitory, and he said in a deep voice: "I can't let her go." ”
"I understand." Wei Chixin patted Xuan Shao's shoulder, "Can ...... Let it be. ”
Xuan Shao knew that he would have to face this matter sooner or later, he knew his mother's character and style of doing things too well, and inviting Daixue back for dinner this time was just the beginning, and he believed that his mother would definitely do more things to achieve her goal.
But to Xuan Shao's surprise, in the weeks since, his mother has not arranged any more banquets for him to meet with Dai Xue, and gradually he thinks that his indifference and resistance have made his mother give up the idea of introducing Dai Xue to him.
However, many things, every time you think it will be around you, it disappears, and when you are about to forget that it exists, it creeps in.
Just when Xuan Shao was almost forgetting about Dai Xue, she appeared in front of Xuan Shao again, but this time for business.
The mages of Cangxuan Pavilion sensed that a valley in the northeast of Xizhao had suddenly appeared a few days ago with an astonishing amount of wind elemental magic, so Cangxuan Pavilion hoped that the monarch of Xizhao would allow their magicians to enter the valley for further exploration, and after determining the source and storage of magic in the area, they would assist Xizhao in developing and using it.
Dai Xue came to negotiate this matter with Xi Zhao as a representative of Cangxuan Pavilion.
In the Huayang Hall of the Xizhao Palace, Dai Xue saw that the king was not cowardly, and after she saluted Jiayang Twilight with proper manners, she said the intention of Cangxuan Pavilion concisely, and pointed out from the side the impact that these wind element magic would have on Xizhao if they were not properly handled in time. In a short time, she showed everyone her extraordinary eloquence and diplomatic ability, and all the ministers in the palace nodded their heads without objection, and praised the young woman.
Jiayang Twilight even looked at Dai Xue with approval, "Naturally, I won't refuse an offer and cooperation that is beneficial to Xizhao and the surrounding area." ”
As expected, after Jiawen III finished the first day of the banquet in the palace for Dai Xue, Dai Xue was invited to the mansion by Yan Rujin the next day.
When Xuan Shao walked into the hall, Yan Rujin and Dai Xue were chatting about something. Xuan Shao glanced at Dai Xue, who was covering her lips and chuckling, without greeting, preparing to go directly through the side door of the main hall to return to her Liuyun Xuan.
Yan Rujin saw Xuan Shao coming in and stopped him: "Shao'er, what are you doing standing at the door, come and talk to Miss Daixue." As he spoke, Yan Rujin thought of him and waved his hand to signal him to sit down.
Xuan Shao looked at his mother's warm tone, but said expressionlessly: "No, mother, you talk, I still have some military information to go to the study to deal with." With that, Xuan Shao walked to the side door, ignoring the somewhat embarrassed smile of his mother behind him.
When passing through the courtyard, Xuan Shao vaguely heard the neighing of "chasing shadows", and he nervously immediately walked to the stable in the west corner of the courtyard. He is a person who loves horses, when he was young, he tamed a wild horse in the grassland in the southeast of Xizhao, with excellent coat color, sassy posture, fast as lightning, and named "chasing shadows". Over the years, Xuan Shao regarded him as a brother and gave him careful care and domestication, and on the dangerous battlefield, "Chasing Shadow" also saved Xuan Shao in danger several times.
Xuan Shao saw the "chasing shadow" in the stable lying on the ground wailing in pain, and after examination, he found that the old disease on the horse's hooves had flare up again, and it was bleeding. Chasing Shadow was once pierced through the horse's hooves by an iron halberd in a battle, and although it was later healed, it would go to the battlefield again every time it was not completely healed, and over the years, old injuries accumulated, and new injuries continued, so the injuries on the horse's hooves flared up from time to time.
Xuan Shao took medicine and gauze, stroked the shadow in distress, and was about to medicate it, when he heard footsteps approaching, turned his head, and found that it was Dai Xue by the dim light in front of the stable, so he turned around and said while applying medicine to the shadow: "I don't have anything to talk to you about, I'm sorry, I'm busy, please take care of yourself." ”
"If you give it medicine like this, it can only stop the pain for a while, and it will recur soon." Dai Xue didn't pay attention to Xuan Shao's words, but looked at the horse's hooves chasing the shadow and said.
Hearing Dai Xue's words, Xuan Shao turned his head to look at her in some astonishment: "What? ”
"I mean, it's useless for you to do this, its hooves will be scrapped sooner or later." Dai Xue stroked the shadow who was moaning in a low voice, her eyes full of regret.
"What? That...... Do you have a way? Xuan Shao asked suspiciously.
"I'll try."
Dai Xue stepped forward and slowly raised her hands in the direction of the horse's hooves, when suddenly a gust of wind blew, and then a visible air current-like energy gathered around Dai Xue's hands, and after a while, the "wind" wrapped around her hands flowed in the direction she had guided, surrounding the horse's hooves. When the air flow disappeared, the wounds on the horse's hooves were actually healing at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye, Xuan Shao took a closer look, and the wounds on the hooves of Chasing Shadow actually disappeared in a moment, Chasing Shadow stood up, stopped wailing, and walked a few steps around the stable, probably without pain, it immediately leaned up and showed favor to Dai Xue.
"Okay." Dai Xue gently stroked the head that chased the shadow, "This is really a BMW." ”
Seeing that the chasing shadow was no longer painful, Xuan Shao hurriedly thanked him. At the same time, he was about to apologize to Dai Xue for his bad attitude just now, but just as he was about to speak, Dai Xue's words interrupted him: "Don't thank me, don't think about it, I don't have any other meaning to treat this horse, I just think it's a pity if this BMW really wastes the horse's hooves." With that, Dai Xue turned around and left.
"Am I going too far? Maybe Dai Xue doesn't have the same thoughts as her mother, but her mother is wishful thinking. I've always been prejudiced against her, and today it seems that she may not be an offensive person. Xuan Shao looked at Dai Xue's back with some confusion.
Yan Rujin, who was standing in the small corridor at the back of the courtyard, looked at her son with a little apologetic on his face, and then looked at Dai Xue who was slowly walking towards her, and her heart was full of relief: "What a clever and intelligent girl, it seems that Shao'er will accept her soon." ”