Chapter 126: The City
The nurse is still alive!
This news had a great impact on Ah Yao, so much so that she was a little distracted for the rest of the morning, so much so that the master who had always cared for her began to ask questions frequently.
Fortunately, what she taught in the morning was mathematics, and this was the main content of her learning with Mo Daru. Mo Daoxuan is worthy of being a famous Confucian all over the world, and his understanding of many things is not comparable to ordinary people at all. The academy master was verbose for a long time to explain the content, and he penetrated into it and directly touched people's hearts in a few words.
Such a master is most suitable for a student like Ah Yao who is more diligent and less talented.
A solid foundation is there, and even if you are uncertain, it is more than enough to deal with the Master's questions.
The line of thought ...... It's wonderful! β
After Ah Yao used a more streamlined way of thinking to solve the number of techniques, the master who had wanted to persuade her to learn from her completely forgot her original intention and began to immerse herself in this new and mysterious idea.
The master is also quite famous in Qinglin Academy, and this fame comes from his strictness - he never praises people lightly. However, now he not only praised people uncharacteristically, but also looked at the girl of the Hu family with a red face after praising him, and his eyes were as hot as a young man who had just begun to fall in love-
The girls are boiling!
can make the master of Shushu open his mouth to praise, it seems that Hu's Ayao is really smart. This cognition has become the consensus of everyone, and it is more certain and affirmative than when Ayao worships two famous people in the world as teachers.
Treat the top students as warm as spring, without Ah Yao doing anything, and the girls who are gradually getting acquainted with her are becoming more and more enthusiastic about her.
"Master Shushu actually praised you."
"In this regard, in the years I have been in the academy, it is the first time I have seen him like this, even to Song Qinwen, he has never been so kind."
Hearing someone mention Song Qinwen, the girl with the cage drawer in her hand hurriedly interrupted, "Mention him to do something, Ah Yao tasted the refreshments made by my mother, and she specially made a bunny-shaped hair cake for you." β
"Why are we different from A-Yao's?"
The matter of preparing refreshments in turn is still Ayaotiy, and the academy girl is simple-minded and simple-minded, but occasionally she will compete, such as in the matter of refreshments.
"Could it be that A-Yao is like you?" The girl who brought the refreshments smiled softly, but the words in her mouth did not let in the slightest.
She made so much sense that we were speechless, and the girl who was coaxing her to be quiet. But after all, she was a young girl, and she didn't have anything to worry about, and soon she resumed playing again. This time, everyone's attention was focused on the opening of the silk market, which will take place soon.
"It seems that A-Yao's canonization ceremony was also on that day?"
Ah Yao nodded lightly, "If you look at the yellow calendar, that day is the best day, and there have been many things in Qingcheng recently, and there is less tossing in one place." β
"You are still afraid of tossing this kind of big thing, if I can be the county lord, I will definitely have to do a good job, so that the whole state will know about it." A straightforward girl said.
"In the whole state, the county lord of Ayao is something that the entire Great Xia knows." The girl next to her teased.
"It's really the whole Great Xia who knows it, and the merchants from the Western Regions where my inn lives all know, and they also say that Ah Yao ......" This is a girl who runs an inn at home, and when she said this, she suddenly paused, and her face was full of embarrassment.
The rest of the people were chattering about the canonization ceremony, but they didn't pay much attention to these things. Qingcheng has developed commerce and trade, and every household is wealthy, but the fear of officials is not so strict. Even if they knew that A-Yao, the county lord, had a high status, the female schoolgirls didn't react much. Of course, this is also related to A-Yao's approachability, she doesn't want to make herself a sculpture in the temple because of a county lord.
Just because they didn't pay attention didn't mean that Ah Yao didn't pay attention, the sudden appearance of the nurse made her whole body alert. Slowly approaching the girl who had just spoken, she asked in a low voice, "Did the merchant of the Western Regions say something?" β
The inn girl was obviously startled, and hurriedly denied: "It's nothing. β
There's definitely something! More and more sure, Ah Yao's expression became as soft as possible, and asked in an inducing tone: "They are all classmates of the academy, you are like me?" β
"No," the girl shook her head like a rattle, and her expression grew more and more nervous as she persisted in looking over. At last she seemed to have made up her mind, and she clenched her fists and said, "This is what you want to know, then I'll say it." β
"But it doesn't hurt to say it."
"They...... Those people say you're ...... The stone girl is ruthless, and even the closest people can do it. β
The inn girl's voice was not low, and the girls who were chattering next to her quieted down.
"It's a woman...... Ah Yao is indeed not a man, should she be ruthless if she is a woman? What do these businessmen from the Western Regions think, should they eat more walnuts to replenish their brains? "This is the shop that the family has cut and cut, and her favorite food is walnuts.
This sentence caused people to laugh, but it didn't take long for a girl with better schoolwork to react, "It's a stone of stones, stone girl, you just can't ......"
The latter words were swallowed back by her, but after she reminded her like this, everyone reacted. Stone girl, isn't it a girl who can't give birth, I heard that this kind of person is hard-hearted.
"Ah Yao is definitely not that kind of person."
"There is no wind and no waves, these merchants from the Western Regions will say such things, could it be that they heard something from elsewhere. Shen Moci has been so many times before, don't we all believe it? β
Many girls looked ashamed and promised that they would never fall into the trap again this time.
Accepting their apologies for the past and the assurances and comforts of the present, Ah Yao's mind turned elsewhere. Shen Moci! She finally knew where the inexplicable alertness in her heart came from.
With something in her heart, Ah Yao's expression was inevitably a little strange. Ordinary people can't see it, but this does not include the little marquis who always pays attention to her.
Lu Jingyuan came to pick up Ayao in person, he was well-behaved in Hu Mansion, Hu Jiuling's territory, but he didn't give an inch outside. Ah Yao went to the academy to pick him up, Ah Yao went to the shop and he accompanied him, and when Ah Yao went to Sangtian, he took her around the field.
In short, outside of Hufu, he declares his sense of existence all the time.
Hu Jiuling also protested against this, but because of his identity, he could only start from his own side, and said that Ah Yao occupied too much time for Hou Ye, which was not conducive to Hou Ye's injury.
Lu Jingyuan's answer is always only two simple and crude words - by the way.
He is not looking for excuses, even if he is "recuperating", he is still helping the emperor's uncle. Jiangnan is the money bag under the sky, and the Emperor Taishang has been in power for many years and has long been firmly in control of this place. Even if he had to give up the throne later due to some things, he firmly grasped what he should have grasped in the palm of his hand.
When the emperor's uncle first ascended the throne, the officials of the entire Jiangnan officialdom, all of them were the henchmen installed by the emperor, as well as the capable people promoted by the henchmen. These people are intertwined, and they have surrounded the officialdom in Jiangnan like an iron bucket, with dense roots and deep underground, firmly grasping every bit of oil and water in this rich land. The water can't be poured in, the oil can't be burned, and the newly enthroned emperor's uncle can only see a mountain of gold and silver separated by a crystal cover.
The side of the couch does not allow others to sleep soundly, and the emperor's uncle has been quietly changing blood for Jiangnan officialdom over the years. It's hard to fathom, and even if the pure water drops into the ink, it will turn black. The environment is like this, and it is unavoidable. Even if there is a determined talent who can withstand the torrent of huge officialdom, the remaining energy is not enough to support him to make any great achievements.
Overall, little has been achieved over the years.
It's a thankless task, and these things have to be done. After learning that he was going to "heal" in Jiangnan, the palace tonic was sent like a stream, mixed with the emperor's uncle's secret decree - to secretly investigate the officialdom in Jiangnan.
It was with this that he was completely sure that the emperor's uncle had seen through him. Through the bright yellow paper stamped with jade seals, he could even imagine the resentment of the emperor of the Qianqing Palace who treated the courtiers seriously when he wrote this secret edict: stinky boy, tell you to be lazy and arrange heavier work for you.
No matter what the emperor's uncle thought, he always stood still and took care of the girl first.
There is no way, who called him talented, and his martial arts talents and scheming are far higher than ordinary people. The gap between the girl's busy work, the little effort exposed between her fingers, is enough for him to make a difference.
Occupy the daughter-in-law first! Nothing is more important than that!
The goal in his heart was extremely firm, but the little marquis standing at the gate of the academy was full of cold and frost, and the grass within eight feet of his feet was shivering.
And after seeing Ah Yao, who was surrounded by female school girls, the curvature of the corners of his lips became even more condensed, but his steps unconsciously accelerated. Walking in front of her, he threw an eye knife at Su Xiaoqiao next to him, which frightened the latter to reflexively release the paw that he held A-Yao's little hand to comfort him.
The carriage set off slowly, and in the spacious carriage, the two people sitting in each other were speechless.
Lu Jingyuan is angry, this girl is too good at messing with flowers, look at how close she is to the girls who are studying for girls. Especially Su Xiaoqiao, the two of them got together when there was something in the shop, and they even held hands in the women's school, and they were about to become conjoined babies.
Why didn't I see her so affectionate to him! He's just not happy anyway.
However, Xiao Hou Ye is a talented person after all, even if he is unhappy in his heart, it does not prevent him from observing the shadow between Ah Yao's eyebrows.
"What happened to the Academy?"
"It's nothing, it's just that someone said I'm ......" A familiar and reassuring greeting came, and A-Yao subconsciously wanted to talk about her troubles. But in the end, thinking of the two shameful words, she still stopped.
I didn't tell him anymore, this question is very strict.
"Huh?" Lu Jingyuan added a key crisis.
"Actually, it's not a big deal......
Ah Yao didn't want to hide the people she trusted, and besides, this matter was not something she could solve alone. It's just the word "stone girl", how can she say it. The bottom of her heart was half distressed and half shy, and when heavy pressure hit, she subconsciously grabbed the flower bud on her head, but touched a hand first.
Got it! Even if he was worried about her, Lu Jingyuan's powerful and bright head still split into a backstage window and jumped down, and then he changed his touch to grasp it very naturally, firmly imprisoned her small hand in his big hand, and sat beside her.
In this way, he unconsciously completed the transformation from sitting silently to holding hands and relying on each other intimately, with the warm fragrance of nephrite in his arms, Lu Jingyuan's voice also became gentle.
"Silly girl, sue me, huh?"
There is a slight maturity in the voice of the voice. As if bewitched, Ah Yao raised her head, and less than an arm's length, she could clearly see the young man's face. The sword eyebrows and starry eyes, the bridge of the nose is high, like a masterpiece carved by the best carver, the corners of the lips that usually have disdain, which will raise a touch of patience and gentle arc, and the impeccable facial features are set off by the dark color underneath, setting off a trace of majesty that is not at this age.
Zhilan Yushu, the gentleman is like jade, people can see a certain Cheng dΓΉ, just that face is there, it is enough to make people sink.
What's more, the person with this knife-and-axe face is still so good to her.
What else can't be said?
At the same time as this realization rose in his mind, Ah Yao had already subconsciously opened her mouth and told him what happened in Qinglin Academy.
After hearing what she said, Lu Jingyuan was furious.
Stone Maiden? It's good that you Shen Moci dare to arrange the girl he holds in the palm of his hand like this.
I wanted to spare her life, but now it seems that it is...... No, the decisions he made never changed lightly. He not only wants to keep Shen Moci's life, but also let her live a long time. It's just that how she lives, whether she wants to live or not when the time comes, that's another story.
"That's the way it is," Ah Yao's voice brought out some distress, "Brother Jing, am I worrying about the sky?" But so many things have happened before, and now I encounter a little wind and grass, especially this kind of gossip, I will always subconsciously think about the worst. β
The other hand that did not hold the hand wrapped around her shoulder, holding her small body in her arms, Lu Jingyuan's multi-tasking high-performance brain, the exclusive window of "eating tofu" in the background made a big victory gesture. From intimacy to directly hugging people, how natural and natural he is to do it, he hasn't even discovered this girl in the slightest, he is really talented.
Of course, this kind of thinking is only a small part of his brilliant mind, which will take up most of his mind with anger and worry.
He nodded slightly, then shook his head again. Holding her tighter, he comforted her in a deep voice: "Don't worry, there is still me." β
In just five words, A-Yao's anxious heart settled down all morning. Leaning on his strong chest, the excessively dark environment in the carriage made her slightly uncomfortable, and when she raised her arm, she lifted the curtain and swept it out casually, but she was stunned when she happened to look at the mouth of the alley.
In order to avoid Hu Jiuling, when Lu Jingyuan came to the academy to pick her up, he would never take her back directly, but would take her around, and the same is true today. After the carriage left Qinglin Academy, it drove all the way to the newly opened shop in the south of the city. In order to prolong the time of solitude, the coachman specially trained by the Hou Mansion has always been able to go around in circles and never take the right path.
With the enhancement of the possessiveness of the little marquis, the coachman is also racking his brains to drive a new route that β‘β‘ time-consuming, and today is the newly discovered one. This road mostly passes through secluded places, and you can walk as long as you want. After stumbling upon the New World, the coachman felt that the Hou Ye would definitely give him more money.
The disadvantage of secluded roads is that the roads are narrow and inconvenient for horse-drawn carriages to walk. But this is only for the average coachman, the coachman from the Hou Mansion must be the best among the coachmen in Daxia, the eighteen bends of the mountain road are like walking on the ground, and the bluestone road in Qingcheng is just a piece of cake for him. After overcoming the road conditions with skillful techniques, the rest is the benefit.
The biggest advantage of all kinds of detours is to be familiar with Qingcheng, which is very beneficial to A-Yao, who has been raised in the boudoir for thirteen years and took over the Hu family's industry but is not familiar with Qingcheng. And the other advantage is that many of the things that are not seen in the dark are done in the middle of nowhere.
For example, now, Ah Yao sees a familiar and strange person in this narrow alley that is mostly empty.
It was a middle-aged man with a loyal face, wearing a slightly loose silk shirt on his body, with wide sleeves attached, and said something respectfully to the merchant wearing a Western Regions robe on the back.
The sound of the wheel running over the bluestone slab woke up the two, and the middle-aged man looked this way, and through the half-opened curtain, he happened to see A-Yao with a surprised face in the carriage.
"Run."
Without thinking about it, he straightened up and ran towards the exit at the other end of the alley with a sharp figure that did not fit his shape.
"Stop him!"
Ah Yao, who reacted, shouted outside, and after realizing that only Mrs. Che was short of hands, she looked at the little marquis next to her with a little pleading: "That's the son of the nurse, he must know something." β
This girl finally knows how to rely on her.
Enjoying her pleading eyes, Lu Jingyuan's posture of hugging her did not change in the slightest. Kneading the other hand that she had withdrawn, he took out two copper coins from the purse around his waist and threw them out through the curtain.
"Brother Jing didn't bring anyone either?"
The waiting time seemed to be extremely long, and it was clear that the two of them had only run a few steps outside, but Ah Yao felt that a long time had passed, and the opportunity that was so long that it was close in front of her was about to pass. Anxious, she couldn't help but start urging.
As soon as the words came out, a strange scene appeared. The two people who originally ran out of their legs seemed to have been immobilized as if they had been spelled, maintaining the movement of stretching their arms and lifting their legs in place.
This...... Zhang looked at this scene with wide eyes, and was too surprised, and when she came back to her senses, she had been carried out of the carriage by the little marquis, and walked towards the two sculptures in the posture of the princess.
Realizing this, she struggled to get down, her expression was slightly ashamed, and she didn't dare to look at Brother Jing who was holding her.
"It's just that I think you're anxious, and I see that you're surprised that you can't walk, so I'll take you down by the way."
A cold voice came overhead, I don't know if it was her illusion, I always felt that this voice was more majestic than usual, and I always felt that it was covering up something under too majesty.
Soon she knew what he was covering, and he said it was in passing, but he carried her firmly until he reached the two statues before letting him go.
"Brother Jing?" Staring at his arm, she wondered.
"Help people to the end. Besides, it's just two steps, and it's troublesome to put down. β
So why are the roots of your ears red? Keenly aware of this, Ah Yao's eyebrows that had been twisted all morning slowly stretched, and her face with a three-point smile regained its brightness, and she looked up at him and said sweetly, "Brother Jing is so good." β
Knowing that he was good, Lu Jingyuan's fierce expression became gentle, and he stepped forward to face the two frightened sculptures, and asked the one in the silk shirt first.
"You are the son of Hufu's former nurse?"
After speaking, the tip of his boot tapped the stone on the ground, and the stone flew and hit the man in the silk shirt, and he shuddered when he unlocked the dumb hole: "Demon ...... Sorcery. β
It's no wonder that he is so frightened, Song Qinwen is also handsome, but compared with the young man in front of him, it is completely different. This man is so handsome that he doesn't look like a man in the world at all. But under such a good-looking appearance, his momentum is really scary. As he watched, he only felt that 36,000 sharp needles were poking into each of his pores, directly penetrating into his limbs and hundreds of remains, and seeing through his secrets.
The legendary Purgatory Shura is a being whose appearance is completely contrary to his heart.
This miraculous technique, he can't move words before the person arrives, it can't really be an asura.
The son of the nurse was completely frightened and speechless.
Seeing this, Ah Yao sighed, stepped forward slowly, and went straight to the point: "Is the nurse still alive?" β
As she spoke, Lu Jingyuan, who had already restrained his momentum, coughed lightly when he saw her coming over. With a single sound, it became the last straw that bent the camel's back.
"Yes, my mother is still alive."
After entering the academy in the morning, when she first heard Su Xiaoqiao talk about it, Ah Yao's first reaction was not to believe it. After all, the nurse is dead, and she committed suicide when she was found stealing and was interrogated by words and deeds. Although she had never seen it with her own eyes, many people in the Hu Mansion had personally experienced it. Even the nurse's family has already organized a funeral for her.
How can someone who is already dead come back to life?
But Su Xiaoqiao swore that she had seen the nurse herself. It's no wonder that she knows the nurse, the Hu family is also a family with a face in Qingcheng, and the status of the nurse is already higher than the big girl next to the girl, plus there is a girl in her hand who obeys her words, and even the nurse is a character in Qingcheng. She wants to save face, she showed her face in front of people a lot before her death, and there are many people who know her appearance, and it is reasonable for Su Xiaoqiao to recognize her.
Seeing her words, Ah Yao was not easy to refute. Then the innkeeper's girl's words made her vaguely feel - maybe Xiao Qiao was not mistaken.
With Brother Jing's assurance in the carriage just now, she gradually regained her senses after being at ease, and she was eager to see the son of the nurse, and she was eager to make sure of the doubts in her heart.
The affirmative answer was spoken, and there were no mixed feelings in her tone, and she only had a sense of "sure enough".
"Shen Moci managed to arrange for her to fake her death, and then saved her?"
The nurse's son widened her eyes, and the girl was with Asura, and she also had psychic skills? How could she say this as if she had seen it with her own eyes.
Ah Yao already knew the answer from his surprised look alone. The doubts that have been lingering in my heart were solved, and in my previous life, after the defeat of the Hu family, she took away the jewelry she had accumulated over the years, and completely cut off her nurse who saved Yinliang, and it was really Shen Mo Ci'an's eyeliner that β‘β‘.