Chapter 18: Cats (1)
Ji Fu became timid the moment he saw Ling Yu, he pinched the plain white invitation card in his hand, and he suddenly lost the courage to go up directly to propose marriage. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
He looked at Miss Ling's calm face, and didn't know what he had to disturb the other party. To the other party, he is just a stranger and may not have a sense of existence at all.
He thought so, but the shopkeeper had already walked over.
"Did Third Young Master Ji bring an invitation card again today?" The shopkeeper who is always smiling is obviously accustomed to Ji Fu, who comes to the store every day, but recently the proprietress is sitting in the store, he looks at the young master of the Ji family, and then glances at his own master. Ji Fu naturally understood the meaningful look.
The young man in purple embroidered with auspicious clouds and dark patterns retracted his hand holding the invitation card with some embarrassment, and smiled embarrassedly at the shopkeeper. His mind was racing fast, thinking about something that would allow him to talk to the girl he had always dreamed of, and within a moment, he really thought of something.
As if he had gained some kind of support, he strode to the woman wearing a bright red brocade and gold embroidered silk skirt, and bowed a little stiffly, "Miss Ling, there is something to ask for below!" ”
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Although Ling Yu doesn't care about things that are extremely boring to her, she knows everything that happens in this town.
As for the man in front of him......
"I am very grateful that Ji Gongzi comes to me every day to forget tea, but I don't know what you want from an invitation every day?" Ling Yu raised her eyes and looked at the tall young man in front of her with a smile. The man's facial features are excellent, the bridge of the nose is straight, the lips are scarlet, the eyes are bright, and the two sword eyebrows are lined with it, which is a beautiful man.
But obviously, such a beautiful man can't impress Ling Yu in front of him. Ji Fu has always understood his lethality to women, but seeing that the person in front of him looked at him without blinking, he seemed to be really curious about why he came over every day. He sighed again and again in his heart, but took a deep breath on his face, and said, "Miss Ling, my friend Zhuang Qian has encountered a lot of strange things recently, and I hope Miss Ling can help." ”
"Help?" Ling Yu lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes put a small shadow under his eyelids, it was obviously a delicate face, but Ji Fu felt that the woman in front of him had a god-like attraction to him, so he couldn't take his eyes off.
The woman sneered lightly, "Since it's your friend's business, he should personally deliver this invitation." Besides, something strange has happened in recent days, Ji Gongzi, but you have sent invitations for more than a year. ”
The voices of the two of them are not too loud, and there are not many customers in the store, but Ji Fu still feels that his face must be flushed, yes, I have sent invitations for more than a year, but I have never seen you again. He thought, not knowing how to respond to the sarcastic words.
Ling Yu shook his head, and continued to the man who looked a little stupid in front of him: "I forgot that tea is just a shop that buys and sells tea, you always take care of our business, and I won't be embarrassed by you." As for your friend's business, it is better for him to come and consult with me in person. To help or not to help, it is not possible to agree with you. ”
The woman's voice fell, she gathered the brocade fur cloak she was wearing on her body, and walked back to the inner hall.
Ji Fu looked at the woman who was leaving a little confused, he didn't have the courage to step forward to stop her, and he didn't know if it made sense to stay here. Thinking about what the woman had just said, he suddenly felt that he still had a chance to see her, as long as Zhuang Qian's kid was willing to help him. The young man thought, a smile undisguised at the corner of his mouth.
Lingtong on the side saw that her master had returned to the inner hall, put down the things in her hand and was about to go back, and when she saw Ji Fu's smile, she walked over for the first time. opened her mouth, but heard a cold voice calling her, "Suzuki." ”
Suzu Tong settled down, what did she think, the girl wouldn't want to take care of this idle matter. She glanced at the third young master of the Ji family with her spare eyes, if she was bitten by a snake once, how could she reach out to provoke it again. She didn't think much about it anymore and walked back to the inner hall.
That Ji Fu looked at Ling Tong who was still talking and stopped at a loss, shook his head, raised his feet and walked to the dealer's house.
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Zhuang Qian and Ji Fu can be regarded as growing up together since childhood, and they are not as noble as Ji Fu, the third son of Ping'anhou, Zhuang Qian's family is just a farmer. However, Zhuang Qian's father also read the book of sages when he was young, but he didn't have the brain to take the top exam. Not to mention the champion, but he didn't even get in. When Zhuang Qian was born, his father thought that even if he didn't have any fame, it was always good to learn something, so he sent him to the school when Zhuang Qian was six years old.
And the two of them naturally met in the academy. However, no more than Ji Fu, who is lazy and has no ambitions, Zhuang Qian has been a serious student since the school period, and now he is only in his early twenties and has been admitted to the juren. In this Qiluo Town, he can be regarded as a very respected literati.
In this era, most men will be engaged or married at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and there are only a few people like Ji Fu, who have two eldest brothers and have someone they like, so they don't want to get married. And Zhuang Qian, needless to say, originally had a wife, and he was a two-term one. His first wife followed him when he was still a bitter talent, but died of illness after only half a year of marriage. Two years later, he was admitted to the juren, and was urged by his mother to marry another daughter-in-law, but after another half a year, the second wife died in miscarriage.
Since then, although he is a noble person, no one is willing to marry his daughter, but he only thinks that although this Zhuang Qian is a good person, he is afraid that he will be his wife. Fortunately, Zhuang Qian only focuses on poetry and songs, which has no wife, and the reputation of his wife also makes his mother have no idea of forcing him to marry a wife. He is now happy and idle, living alone in his own house, and living with the holy book every day.
However, Zhuang Qian is still a person after all, and it will be lonely to live alone, so he dug a small pond in his yard and put a few koi fish in it.
And the strange thing that Ji Fu said as an excuse started from his pond more than two months ago.
First of all, rats.
On that day, he looked at the handscroll that he had specially entrusted someone to bring back from the East, and suddenly he heard the sound of Suo Suo at the door, and he pushed open the door, but saw several corpses of rats with their throats bitten in the doorway. Those filthy things that live forever in the shadows, never close their eyes until they die, just staring at him who opened the door with their gray eyes.
Seeing this kind of thing at night, Zhuang Qian was naturally disgusted, and he didn't have the heart to go to study anymore, but found a rag casually, rolled up the corpses, and burned them in the yard.
Then, there is his koi.
A few days have passed since the rat's incident, and Zhuang Qian didn't think much about it. The town of Qiluo is close to a large forest, and if a weasel or something occasionally catches a mouse and is disturbed by him when passing by his door, it is possible to put down the prey and run.
But that morning, when he got up to look at his koi, he opened the door and saw the corpses of his little pets. The little things that were alive and kicking around the day before were now lying in his doorway so wet, and one of them was even trying to save himself. But before Zhuang Qian could put the still breathing koi back into the pond, it had already stopped moving.
Zhuang Qian doubted whether all this was artificial. But he has always been dedicated to his studies, and has never had a dispute with others, let alone any grudges. He disposed of the corpses of his beloved koi with doubts, and couldn't help but tell Ji Fu, who happened to come to visit, about it.
The third young master of the Ji family has always liked to read some strange miscellaneous books, and when he heard his friend say this, he was also interested, and immediately said that he wanted to live in the dealer for a few days to see if there would be strange things happening. I stayed like this for a few days, but nothing happened.
Zhuang Qian thought about it for a long time, but he could only regard this as a coincidence. Who knew that on the night when Ji Fu was sent away, he encountered something that shouldn't have happened again.
This time it was no longer the carcass of an animal, but a candle.
He didn't encounter any strange things for a few days in a row, and he didn't want to think about it, and after sending Ji Fu away that night, he was studying hard there with a few books. But when he didn't want to be serious, the red candle on his table suddenly went out. You must know that it was still winter, and he naturally wouldn't open the window at night, so this candle would be self-extinguishing without wind!
And he didn't have time to light the lamp again, only to feel that two cold hands touched his neck, and with the cold touch, there seemed to be some thin lines floating on his face little by little!
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Persimmon allergies again, so I'm embarrassed to break off the changeˊ_>ˋ allergies are really a very troublesome thing...... However, in order to compensate everyone, today Persimmon decided to make two more (☆_☆) I hope that dear readers will not abandon my text!