Chapter 17: Coming to the door

Recently, Lu Shaoyun's brain has not been idle, being busy with official business during the day is part of the reason, and he still hasn't been able to be idle at night because of the summer frost. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lu Shaoyun entered the military camp at the age of twelve and stayed in the army alone for eight years, although he had heard a lot of meat jokes from his colleagues in the past few years, he had never had any thoughts about women.

The family rules of the Dingguo Mansion are strict, and a man can marry a wife at seventeen, and he must not be contaminated with women before marrying a wife. Especially Lu Shaoyun, his most favored grandson, Lu Xiaoqing's educational philosophy has always been: "If you can't lay a foundation for your future wife with your own hands, then don't daydream about marrying a wife." Lu Shaoyun has always kept his grandfather's ideas in mind and deeply agreed, so no matter how he was ridiculed as a "boy chicken" by his comrades when he joined the army, he was never moved. You must know that all kinds of exercises during the day have taken a lot of energy, and he has to read at night with candles, where is there any mind to worry about women.

After returning from the border pass, Lu Shaoyun, to be precise, Lu Shaoyun after the Lantern Festival, clearly realized that his mind had changed. For him, women are no longer red faces and dry bones that they can forget when they see them, no longer dispensable vase decorations, no longer noisy warblers and swallows like their sisters and sisters in their backyards, but a concrete image that makes his heart move - Xia Shuanghan.

Why he couldn't drive Xia Shuanghan out of his mind, Lu Shaoyun didn't know, he thought of many reasons: maybe it was because of the pair of watery eyes that wanted to talk under the light of the fire outside the teahouse where the fire started; Maybe it's because of the deep affection for Liu Zirun that she showed in her sleep in front of the bedside of Qingfeng Hospital; Maybe it's because in the morning light of Xiaoxiang Garden, she shows her open-mindedness and chic love for men and women when she talks eloquently; Or maybe it's the stubbornness and persistence in marriage and feelings that she showed when she boldly resisted in the study of Xixia Courtyard. In just a few days, a few sporadic encounters left a trace of Xia Shuanghan's figure in Lu Shaoyun's mind, which was not a strong color, but it just couldn't be erased.

Lu Shaoyun felt that he should be sick, looking at the capital, which young master would not feel angry when the woman refused to kiss on the grounds of "my sweetheart is not you", and what young master would miss a girl who knew that his heart belonged to him, and even wanted to marry him? Lu Shaoyun estimated that he might be the only one in the capital, so he thought that he should be sick. He was so sick that when he heard his grandfather's sentence in the study, "There can only be one woman in his life", he couldn't wait to agree, and today, nearly a month later, he still hasn't wavered.

Today is February 15th, and the Xia family handed over a post saying that they were going to visit the door. Lu Shaoyun got up early in the morning as usual, finished practicing his sword in his yard, and kept thinking when he sat down to eat breakfast: "I don't know if I can see her today, has the scab on her forehead been cleaned?" Does the wound on your back still hurt? "It's just, think about it after all, or can only think about it, want to see the female guest who came to visit in the Guogong Mansion? It's a dream!

So, when Lu Shaoyun felt a little stunned after Xia Jingzhi left, he remembered his grandfather's instructions a few days ago: "If Jin Wuwei doesn't have your turn to rest on February 15, you should adjust yourself in advance, and after Yi An leaves, you can go to the 'gluttonous building' to book a private room, and come back after dinner." Oh, by the way, remember to book a private room on the third floor facing the street, which is very important. Although Lu Shaoyun was puzzled by his grandfather's request, he still decided to do it, so soon after the Xia father and daughter left the Guogong Mansion, Lu Shaoyun walked into the private room facing the street on the third floor of the "Gluttonous Building".

"I said Tingxuan, you booked a private room with me a few days ago, saying that you were going to come to the door on February 15th, but since you came, what's the matter if you don't order any dishes?" On the third floor of the gluttonous building of the restaurant in the west market of Beijing, Zhuo Feifei, the owner of the restaurant, expressed strong indignation at Lu Shaoyun, who had never done anything except leaning against the window and drinking tea after entering the door: "Tingxuan, you can't just rely on the fact that the two of us are small and take my property seriously, do you know how immoral it is for you to pack this private room for an afternoon without paying a copper plate or ordering a dish?" Do you know how much I'm going to lose? ”

"Tut-tut, worthy of being the son of the head of the household, he has been a money string since he was born, and it has not changed for so many years." Lu Shaoyun withdrew his gaze from the street outside the window, glanced at the clothes that were dressed like a butterfly, and teased: "Anyway, most of the money you earn is also blind to your colorful clothes, and a little bit of it is spent on my buddies, and it finally saves you from being wasted." ”

"What do you know, you are black, white and blue all year round, I talk to you about clothing and taste, that's called white blindness!" Zhuo Feifei was not angry in the face of Lu Shaoyun's ridicule, he seemed to be dashing, but in fact he closed the folding fan in his hand very badly, sat down opposite the table from Lu Shaoyun, and looked at the street outside the window along Lu Shaoyun's gaze. "Tell me, are you here to investigate the case today?"

"Investigating the case?" Lu Shaoyun raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, since you returned to Beijing last year, you were arranged by the Holy Lord to enter the Jin Wuwei, and the inner Jin Wuwei is in charge of the affairs of the palace, and it has nothing to do with you, but the outer Jin Wuwei is under the control of you, the second-in-command." Zhuo Feifei said this, and mysteriously lowered his voice and said, "Isn't the matter of the Red and White Pill in your hands?" Didn't the first few **** still hurt his right forearm for this? Let's say, didn't you come here today just to investigate the case? ”

"It's not." Lu Shaoyun glanced at Zhuo Feifei with a smile and said, "Didn't I tell you, I'll rest today and don't investigate the case." ”

"Less, you think I'll believe it?" Zhuo Feifei said "Huh" and unfolded the folding fan, with a face of "small sample, just because you still want to hide it from me". "Lu Tingxuan, when we met seven days ago, you said that you were resting, Jin Wuwei is a rotation system, unlike other officials, you take turns off once on the 10th, you said you are resting today, who are you going to be?"

"I really didn't get you." Lu Shaoyun still looked at the street outside the window, took a sip of the teacup and said: "Yes, as you said, the matter of the forbidden red pill and the white pill is indeed under the investigation of the foreign Jin Wuwei, and it is indeed not my turn to rest today, but my grandfather asked me to take a break today, so I have to rest." ”

"Grandpa Guo?" The smug look on Zhuo Feifei's face was replaced by doubt and curiosity, he closed the fan again, gently tapped his head with the handle of the fan, and said, "You mean, it is Lu Guogong who asked you to come to the private room, let you take a vacation today, and let you not stay here until dusk?" But why? Is there any earth-shattering conspiracy that can't be realized? ”

"Where's the earth-shattering conspiracy?" Lu Shaoyun put down the teacup, raised his eyes to look at the shop across the street, and replied, "Grandfather, I want me to come to meet people, to see a woman." ”

"Women?" Zhuo Feifei became more and more puzzled, and he also turned his head to look at the shop across the street, speechless. "Tingxuan, your grandfather is playing with you, look at it, across the street is the most famous antique calligraphy and painting workshop in the capital, Zhenqu Pavilion, see a woman, you should wait for dusk to go to Yichun Courtyard!" Moreover, don't you still have a fiancΓ©e who is rumored to be rumored, come here to see a woman, what, you don't care about the summer frost and cold? ”

"Do you know Xia Shuanghan?" Lu Shaoyun finally completely retracted his gaze from the window, looked his hair up and down, and said, "How do you know her?" ”

"Hey, she's so famous, it's hard to know her or not!" Zhuo Feifei opened the conversation at this time, only to hear him frowning and teasing: "The first time I saw her should have been two years ago, and I saw her on the street at the door." To be honest, it's hard for a girl in an alien costume, brown hair, and riding a horse on the street to get people not to notice. That **** should have come to Zhenqu Pavilion to sell paintings, and you also know that her father Xia Hanlin's Mobao is even very appreciated by the saints, so it is not surprising that Zhenquge is willing to buy her paintings at a high price. ”

"Does she always ride a horse down the street?"

"Most of the time, she comes to the West Market every month, sometimes by herself, sometimes with her brother. Unless you want to buy large goods in the West Market, you generally don't take a horse-drawn carriage. Zhuo Feifei recalled his impression of Xia Shuanghan in the past two years, and said: "To be honest, in fact, many people are not used to her behavior, after all, everyone in Beijing is beautiful, which one is not a carriage on the street?" Even if you get out of the carriage, it is a hat to cover your face and a lotus step to move lightly. It's like her, her face is not covered, she gets on and off the horse neatly, and she is heroic, but she is not a man! What's the use of being heroic? ”