The steward stood with me under the eaves, and he said to me in a flat tone: "The ninth master is inside, you can go in." [This book consists of]"

Feeling apprehensive, I gently pushed open the door and slowly walked inside.

As I walked, I looked at the room in front of me, which was simply furnished, and the style of the eye was very consistent with the scenery seen outside the house.

But I couldn't see anyone, and I felt a suppressed nervousness in my heart, and I walked around behind the screen, and there was a man sitting at the table by the window, and there was a half-game of chess, and the curtains were half-hidden, and the light in the room was a little dim.

The moment he raised his head, I took a deep breath.

Why does this person look familiar?!

I searched through my memories and was sure that I had never seen or heard anything related to the name Ji Jiu since I had traveled into this world.

I'm pretty sure!

In addition to being sure, I was shocked!

If I had any reservations or doubts about what the bustard had described to the nurse, when I saw him here, I understood that the man's face was somewhat similar to mine, as they said.

The difference is age!

I saw that his face was beautiful, his skin was still firm, but what was striking was that his hair was already half white, and he turned his head to me softly, and his voice was as hoarse as the one I had just heard, and it was not at all human: "What's your name?" ”

He stretched out his hand to pull the curtain open that blocked the light, and saw my face clearly, and there was a slight look of surprise on his face, but soon I caught another layer of meaning in his eyes, which was fleeting sorrow, but fortunately he immediately regained his calm, and his tone was a little more cordial than before.

"Don't be afraid, when you come to me, you don't need to be like them."

"My name is Kobayashi." After careful consideration, it was most appropriate to use this code name, so I bowed my head and saluted, and said in a deferential tone.

He didn't wait for him to speak again. I said to myself: "The eldest lady of the West Courtyard said that I am more suitable to come to the Ninth Master, and I heard that you are better here." “

He looked at me with interest and said, "You call the person in the West Courtyard Auntie?" "Then what to call her, it's better to call her a girl."

Hear the words. A smile suddenly appeared on his lips, as if he had heard something funny, and he turned his head away to the window, and only from his slightly trembling back could I tell that he had been smiling.

After a moment, he regained his calm expression and said to me, "You can stay with me, you don't have to go back tonight." "Tonight? Remain? “

I muttered twice. Stunned, he raised his head to look at him, his eyes flashed with horror, could it be that the old bustard said that from now on, he will only serve him alone, is it a double meaning?!

My mind was spinning. Since the old bustard chose a young man for him to serve, that is to say, his orientation is

I cautiously opened my mouth and said tentatively, "What does it mean not to go back tonight?"

A strange look flashed in his eyes, and after looking at me for a few seconds, he placed the chess piece he had just held on the table.

After a few moments, he got up and walked over to where I was standing.

I can see clearly that he is very tall, taller than my senior brother Lan Tianfang, but not as tall as Yun Chu. The height between the two of them.

As the distance got closer, he frowned, and his eyes stared at me for a moment.

It was as if there was something about my face that made him feel strange!

Walking up to me, he stopped and reached out to hold my chin.

It's so cool! Caught off guard, he made this move, and was frightened. His movements are very gentle.

Even so, I still had goosebumps on my back, how could this man's hands be like ice!

His cold fingers gently cupped my chin, lifted it, and looked left and right. Then put it down.

Without saying a word, he turned back to the table, and there was a quarter of an hour of silence, and the room was eerily quiet.

What does this mean? I changed my composure and stood there with a panicked expression.

Thinking about the next words, he whispered, "I mean, you stay here, there is a vacant house to the west, and the steward will tell you what to do every day. “

That's great! I breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it wasn't what I thought it was, otherwise I was going to talk to him, wasn't he picky?

I settled down in the East Courtyard and lived in a room to the west of that Ji Jiuye, very close to the bamboo forest.

The courtyard where he lives is incredibly quiet.

My heart is full of questions, didn't I hear the old bustard say that he is in charge of all the little people in the entire East Courtyard?

But I saw that he was in the house all day, but I couldn't see anyone outside visiting him, and from morning to night, the bamboo forest was quiet and only the sound of the wind could be heard.

The only time people come is when the ingredients are delivered.

There is a big kitchen in the east courtyard, and there is a small kitchen here in Ji Jiu, and there is a cook who took me to cook in the first two days, the chef is different from the fat master, and he has little patience, but fortunately, I have a foundation, and the dishes I have learned are not one or two, so I get started quickly.

But by the third day, I was really just one person.

That's fine, I'm working in the kitchen, and no one will bother me every day.

The ingredients are all sent by the steward in the big kitchen of the East Courtyard every day, and I only need to pick out some fresh dishes to make simple dishes.

Ji Jiu eats very little, so little that I have the illusion that he is about to become an immortal, except for this, it is my own full meal.

The important task of cooking is on a par with cooking, and he needs to boil medicine once a day, and when it comes to this, it is the most terrifying place, and I can actually recognize several of the medicinal herbs he drinks.

There is no one that is not poisonous.

This worries me, this person doesn't like to eat, likes to drink poison, one day suddenly burps, what should I do?

I sat melancholy on the bluestone by the bamboo forest, in the east, in the east courtyard, the west courtyard, there were piles of beauties.

The land of drunken fireworks, the gentle township, but nowhere is it a good place!

Sighing, counting the hours, the medicine is almost boiled, I have to send it to him.

I didn't dare to delay the hour, for I had failed to see the fire two days before, and it was extinguished in the middle of the process, and the herbs were boiled later than scheduled, and when I got to his lodgings, he fell to the ground, and his hands and feet were spasmed, and he almost scared me to death, thinking that he was about to go to see Hades.

Before I could panic and run out of the yard to call someone, he grabbed my hand fiercely, and it was the only time I came here that he was angry.

His hand was already in my throat, and it felt like I was going to get it in the next second.

I hurriedly poured the medicine for him, and most of it was spilled on the placket of his clothes.

An hour later, he returned to his usual state, apologized to me in a low voice, and told me not to delay the daily delivery of medicine when he left.

Nonsense, still use him to say ?! I'm not here to die in Sealand!

On this day, when I returned to my residence after delivering the medicine, I had one more thing in my hand that he had given me.

Anyway, the place where he lives is not ordinarily big, and he doesn't shy away from me, and there are two huge secret rooms in the middle of the room where he lives, open the secret door.

When I first went in, I was excited to see some rare treasures, but he only let me go to the outer room, and when I walked in, there were all kinds of flutes hanging on the walls around the inside.

There are bamboo flutes made of purple bamboo, jade flutes carved from beautiful jade, and all kinds of Xiao made of porcelain clay that dazzle me.

Among them is a tube of cyan, I can't tell which kind of bamboo it is made of, it is particularly small and delicate, and it is the one I am holding in my hand now.

He told me that he made it himself, but he had never played it after carving it, but the bamboo flute was warm and smooth to the touch, as if it was often wiping, and it must have been his beloved thing

When I entered the secret room, I repeatedly looked at every pipe stored in the first secret room, and I couldn't help but take it off and play with it in my hand.

He asked me, "Will you?" “

I nodded, "I had a friend who taught me, but I wasn't good at it, so I could only play one or two tunes." “

He looked at me thoughtfully and said, "Since you like it, let's try it." “

Sitting on the edge of the bamboo forest, in my fixed position, I first learned the leaf flute, and then the flute, but followed Yun Chu to run around, and I have only learned to play the first half of the song "Acacia Snow".

This song is the most tactful and entangled, Mian, in the past in the General's Mansion, Yun Chu recovered from his illness, and patiently taught me the scene under the bamboo in an instant, but now things are people, and I don't even know where others are.

Before I knew it, I was in tears, and I heard footsteps behind me, but I couldn't pay attention to it.

Seeing that the first half of the rungs were about to be blown out, there was a sudden movement outside the courtyard.

I quickly wiped away my tears, put down the bamboo flute in my hand and followed the prestige, and that day I came to meet Ji Jiu's two nursing homes, and walked in one after the other

I couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so I had to watch them come in silence, and when I walked to the edge of the bamboo forest, they didn't dare to go forward.

The place where Ji Jiu lives, the people in the outer courtyard are basically similar to the forbidden land, and there are only a very few people who can enter.

When they saw the thing in my hand, they looked at each other and laughed, and the smile fell on my eyes, how obscene it looked.

I frowned, glanced at them coldly, and said, "Something to do with the Ninth Master?" ”

This is not the case now, and I don't need to be overtaken to them.

Hearing what they said, I took a stack of books and said, "I'll report it." ”

After saying that, I turned around and left, the account book in my hand was a little heavy, no wonder I didn't see him busy, it turned out that the period from my entry to the present, it was not yet the time when he was busy.

There was also a faint conversation behind them, mixed with deliberately suppressed laughter.

"Here in the Ninth Master, do you still need to learn this?"

"You don't understand this, the ninth master is an elegant person, and he likes these things the most."

"Makes sense."