- As soon as this question sounds, the motivation for asking and the answer are a bit questionable.

How can an adult not know how to pick flowers? And how many complicated methods are there for picking flowers?

If it weren't for the fact that the scholar in front of him seemed to have a gentle temperament and deep eyes, and suddenly asked him for advice on how to pick flowers from a strange woman who had seen him one-sidedly, if he met a woman with a sensitive heart, it would be difficult not to think about him with a certain kind of villain.

But this scholar not only asked a strange question, but also looked at the serious look on his face when he asked the question, as if he was really puzzled by how to pick a flower, and as if he wanted to pick a flower, such an ordinary thing really had a kaleidoscopic approach, and he was troubled for a long time how to choose, and was forced to ask the living.

However, since Chen Jiu and this person are only superficial, although she has doubts in her heart, she answered the simplest meaning, and lightly opened her lips and said two words: "A."

"Hmm......" the scholar hesitated, and then bowed shallowly, "Thank you, girl." ”

With that, he turned around and left the courtyard with his two fellow travelers.

Walking out of the inn gate, the three of them stepped on their mounts, and on the saddles hung the water bladders prepared by the innkeepers. The sturdy horse shook its head and tail, full of energy, and when it saw the return of its master, it wanted to run wildly. But before leaving the immediate vicinity of the town's homes, the three riders pressed the reins in their hands slightly, and did not run wildly, but only walked in small steps on the dilapidated and potholed stone streets of the town.

The width of the streets in the town is limited, and from time to time, there are puffing walks on the left and right sides of the street carrying farm tools ready to go to the fields for spring ploughing, which occupies a certain degree, and it is more and more difficult to tolerate three horses in parallel. The young man with the knife took the initiative to take five steps behind, allowing the middle-aged man who was quite a bit of a fairy to ride side by side with the scholar.

The middle-aged man who looked like a cultivator also happened to have doubts, and when he rode slowly on the scholar's shoulder, he said slowly: "Brother Xian's question just now is quite meaningful, but why did you ask a strange woman?"

"There's not just one way to pick flowers." The plain scholar smiled, "I should ask Brother Fang, this is a wise choice." ”

"Hehe, the virtuous brother misinterpreted, the foolish brother didn't mean that the woman was clumsy." The middle-aged man touched his beard and smiled. Then he said, "There is indeed only one way to pick flowers, and if you ask me, I will only answer like this." It's just that the woman's delicate beauty is compared to the appearance of flowers and the moon, and you directly ask a woman how to pick flowers, aren't you afraid of embarrassing the beauty?"

When the scholar heard this, he seemed to directly ignore the half of the words spoken by the middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest, but suddenly became very interested in the method of picking flowers. Immediately expressed his opinion: "I don't think so. To get a flower out of the branch. There can be many ways. For example, the gust of wind just now. If I have the heart to pick flowers, I will be fully loaded. ”

The middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest laughed when he heard this, but there was no contempt in his laughter, as if he had discovered something interesting. Laughter comes from the heart. After a while, he said with a smile: "Take the hand as the pick, rely on the sickle as the cut, and bear the wind...... It is to scrape off the flowers, it turns out that there are several ways to pick the flowers you asked, but in fact, what you ask is not the way and process of acquisition, but the result of obtainment. The results can be in the tens of millions, but there is only one form. ”

The scholar frowned without leaving a trace, and then smiled with emotion. said: "You, a Taoist priest, recite the Taoist scriptures, and you are no different from a guy who often puts Buddhist mantras on his lips, and he doesn't stir people up to death, it seems that it is wise that I didn't ask you just now."

The middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest ignored the disrespectful words that suddenly appeared in the scholar's words. He didn't speak again, and his bright eyes shone with a deep light under his slightly lowered eyelids with a smile.

The scholar avoided ignoring the second half of what he just said, not because he didn't care, but because he was also hiding half of the sentence, and he wouldn't reveal it until he avoided the martial artist behind him.

For this point, the middle-aged man who has been enlightened for many years can faintly feel it, so the question he asked just now was just another test, and when he was sure that the scholar was hiding something and it was inconvenient to speak, he could devise a strategy and make an appointment with the scholar to speak alone.

The young man who followed him unhurriedly did not know about the tacit agreement reached by the two men riding side by side in a few gossips, and he only thought that the scholar in plain clothes had been with the monk hermit for a long time, so that he had slightly changed his former unthinking temperament, and often said some vague and unpredictable words.

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When the three horsemen who were moving slowly dozens of steps away came out of the archway in front of the town, they really raised the reins and whips, the horses spread their hooves, and the three horses galloped into a cigarette on the dirt road out of the town, and quietly followed all the way to the old wine near the entrance of the town before the figure appeared from behind a house wall.

Not only does the backstage owner of Kyoto's Dongfeng House have a lot of status, but the reason why this pleasure place can be sheltered by big people is also because it has a special role in Kyoto.

Chen Jiu, who was once in charge of all the peripheral affairs of Dongfeng Building, in addition to being extremely trained in her ability to recognize people, her ability to track people has also been honed to a certain extent.

Although because of her weak martial arts, her tracking skills are certainly not as good as the group of "cat people and bird people" in the second group managed by Lin Shan, but it is only a small part of the road, and the person being followed is on a broad road, and it is of course more than enough to follow all the way down without being noticed.

Standing at the intersection and looking at the smoke and dust on the dirt road, Chen Jiu recalled that she had just seen the back figure of the scholar on horseback, and was a little surprised by the final result of her inference.

Walking back to the inn in a daze, as soon as Chen Jiu stepped into the threshold with his front feet, he saw Ah Sheng, the guy running the hall, walking over with a smile on his face. He had just received a big reward from the young resident, and he had been happy until this time, and the smile on his face was not gone, which was normal.

The only short-term rental guest in the inn left the store and left, and the guy was also free, Chen Jiu saw the way Ah Sheng went out, and he was going to the small restaurant in the town to relax and satisfy his hunger, so he didn't care, and only said hello to him casually.

But just as she was passing by, she suddenly had a thought in her heart, stopped Ah Sheng, and Wen Yan asked: "Ah Sheng, when did those three guests come in?" How did I not notice it?"

"The day after you came back to stay, the three guests arrived, and you really didn't hear a trace of movement?" The innkeeper Ah Sheng was puzzled at first, and then he said to himself: "But...... Those three guests can be regarded as the most gentle people I have ever seen, gentle and gentle. It's not like the tone that some people are used to shouting and shouting. The three guests are also quite particular about washing and eating, and they are meticulous, not like some people pushing and moving so loudly that even people on the street can hear them staying in the hotel......"

Chenjiu has opened a winery in the town, and the wine is very tasteful, and the guy of this inn, Ah Sheng, also knows it, and has visited it many times in the past year. Usually Chen Jiu saw that he was also an acquaintance of half of Pingshui, and he often grew up with him for a few catties, and he came and went for a long time, and Ah Sheng didn't treat her as an outsider. Some of the grumbling words in her heart were spoken out of sight in front of her.

Chen Jiu's eyes smiled. Listen to what he said later, although it was all trivial nonsense. But he didn't interrupt immediately, but secretly said in his heart: The role of silver is really not monotonous, and the fastest thing to buy people's hearts is profit, and it is the same in this remote town.

"Uh...... That's it...... "Stay until the end of the road, I have been aggrieved by the prejudice of a certain type of person for a while, and I have received anger from a certain type of person." Ah Sheng realized that he seemed to talk too much and was useless. With an embarrassed smile, he carefully considered it before he said: "Forgive the little faux pas, looking at the way you have been so worried these days, you don't even care about the winery, you may really ignore a lot of what happened around you."

"That's the case...... Chen Jiu smiled faintly, "It's okay, you can go on your own business." ”

Ah Sheng nodded and turned around and was about to leave, but for some reason he turned back and hesitated: "The little one saw you chasing you out just now." Anxious steps, could it be...... Do you know those three guests?"

"It's a mistake." Chen Jiu said perfunctorily, and when she was about to turn around, she suddenly stopped, looked at Ah Sheng's face, and said, "It's also a little strange, it's rare to see a guest like them." I can't help but keep an eye on it. Ah Shengna, a big reward like this, you should pay attention to it when you take it. ”

This reason was a little reluctant, but Ah Sheng felt the kind reminder of Chen Jiu, and did not think about it, but only sincerely accepted: "The little one has been taught, thank you for your advice."

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Chen Jiu was silent and melancholy in the inn residence for a few days, until today when she met the strange scholar under the flower tree, and in the rain of flowers that blurred her vision, she caught a familiar image from the scholar, and she suddenly had the idea of walking out of her house and going to another house.

I didn't expect that the one who shook his almost frozen mind out of the cracks would be a stranger.

When she was still a hundred steps away from Lin Shan's residence, Chen Jiu saw the unfancy but extremely familiar doorway, and looked at the two doormen at the door who could teach their names with just a vague glance, and even easily count their favorite meals, although it was only three days after the interval had not arrived, she couldn't help but feel an inexplicable feeling in her heart, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or afraid.

When she walked closer than ten steps, the two extremely astute doormen at the door also recognized her, but although the two doormen were dressed as domestic servants to the outside, they obeyed military orders, and they would not move their posts, so they only stood on both sides of the doorway and smiled at her.

When Chen Jiu stepped up the stone steps, the two doormen exchanged a few words, then retreated to both sides, and only spread one hand to make a gesture of inviting in.

The wine will enter and exit this secret abode of the forest cedar without any hindrance, and there is no need to send someone to guide the way.

However, when these two guards saw the old wine that they hadn't seen for many days, they actually had a big doubt in their hearts. They wanted to know what Chen Jiu had done if he hadn't been here or in the town's tavern these days, so where had he gone? You must know that in their impression, the old wine does not seem to have "disappeared" like this, the winery is still this courtyard, and her figure will always be in one of them.

But they didn't ask, for they could see that Chenjiu's face was slightly haggard.

The thing that can make her sad is obviously not the wine shop she opened in the town that has a lot of customers but was voluntarily closed by her, but probably related to their boss, Lord Lin, who seems to have an abnormal temperament these days. And if Chen Jiu's sadness is related to Lord Lin, no one needs to remind him of anything, and no matter how curious anyone is, all the guards in the residence will consciously choose to shut up.

However, although they were very "well-behaved" and shut up, after Chen Jiu was alone for a few days, his nerves unconsciously became sensitive, and he felt that these people who knew him well suddenly became "silent", and a not quite right atmosphere was obvious.

But she didn't pay too much attention to these small details, and only briefly inquired about Lin Shan's physical condition today, as well as his work and diet in the past few years, and got where he should be at the moment, so she went to find someone alone.

In fact, the residence occupies a small area. There are only two admissions. Except for the two main halls, the rest of the living room, utility room, corner room, etc., totaled no more than twenty-four squares, and the doorman did not have to be so meticulous with the old wine as he did to report the location of the prisoner. It's just that they want to say a few more words to Chen Jiu, but they feel that her expression is different, and it is difficult to say anything else, so they have to talk a few more words on this kind of topic that can be said or not.

Thinking that the separation was imminent, even the guards in the residence were reluctant to give up on this hard-working, kind and wise wine sister.

But when I think about my own adult, I really don't know how he raised it in his heart.

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In fact, there is no need for the guidance of the doorman, if the wine is old, you have to look for the forest cedar. The first place he would go was his study.

But when she traveled to the old place. But he was taken aback by what he saw.

The study room has long since ceased to exist zài. But the houses next to each other were still there, so the sight looked a bit like a row of tooth bones missing a door. The original study was demolished, and the stone bricks, tiles, and beams were all sorted and placed aside, and three piles were piled up. But it seemed that it was to be rebuilt immediately, for several of the familiar guards had changed into burlap robes, with their sleeves up to their elbows, acting as masons, crouching on the foundations of the original study to lay the foundations of the walls.

A guard in charge of carrying the plaster just turned around and saw Chen Jiu, he was slightly stunned and then smiled happily, called "Sister Wine", and the rest of the guards who were squatting down to scrape the ashes with brick knives and jingle looked up when they heard the sound, and then they stood up one after another. There were almost unanimous smiles of joy on his faces, and a few calls of "Sister Wine".

Chen Jiu nodded, and then asked, "It's only been a few days, what's wrong with the study?"

A guard said helplessly: "If someone wants to, no matter how good the house is, it won't be like playing if it is demolished."

The other guard continued, "Still. Just rebuilding a house, a few of us can complete it in less than half a day. ”

The twenty or so guards in the residence, in addition to their superb martial arts, half of them also have the ability to scout and scout, and the other half have learned the skills of masons.

Don't ignore these masons, they mainly learn the ability of the military fort cantonment, and have been trained in harsh environments, and can build the fortress wall several feet high without the need for a ruler line, and at the same time have speed. In addition to their ability to build buildings, their keen eye for architecture can also help them to delve deeper into some information about enemy fortresses when they are on patrol outposts.

Chen Jiu also knew about this, but it was only today that she had the privilege of confirming which guards were who knew how to do the masonry.

Let these people repair a private house, so simple that it can be easily reached. But they probably didn't even think that before leaving this small town in the Northland, Lord Lin would really let them try the feeling of repairing a private house. Therefore, although it was a very simple matter, the few of them somehow ignited a great enthusiasm, and naturally reached a unanimous decision without words and deliberations, and used all their skills to leave a trace of their uniqueness in this town.

Chen Jiu had seen the process of renovating the Dongfeng Building in Kyoto from the inside out, which was somewhat similar to the scene in front of her, so she was surprised: Do these people want to build a study into a fortress with the function of defending against enemies? However, due to the limited space space, this is absolutely impossible.

Seeing that Chen Jiu's eyes were full of suspicion, several guards thought that she was going to ask where Lin Shan was, and one of them pointed her to the East Corner Courtyard.

Chen Jiu was actually about to ask Lin Shan directly about the study, so he stopped lingering next to the rebuilt study. Moving to the East Corner Courtyard, the courtyard is not large, but it is full of evergreen pines and cypresses, which is quite quaint.

Most of these pines and cypresses transplanted by the guards in their leisure time to the countryside and mountains are as dense as a cover, and at this time, it is the season of new pine branches, and a cluster of light green pine needles has newly grown on the top of the dark blue old pine needles, and the pine needles that are also verdant but overlapping with light and dark are like cattails. Looking at the new and old pine needles that seemed to be blooming like flowers, Chen Jiu suddenly remembered the question that the scholar under the flower tree in the inn asked her seriously not long ago.

How many ways are there to deharvest flowers?

How to deflorate ......

A few strands of old pine needles that had been squeezed out by the new pine needles fell gently in the breeze, and the thoughts flashed in Chenjiu's mind, as if he was very close to the answer that was gradually becoming clearer.

But at this moment, a gentle voice came from the oblique angle, and suddenly disturbed the thought that was about to take shape in her mind.

"Doctor Wu, if you don't move again, I may have to accompany you to become a stone man."

"Don't rush, don't you think I'm here?"

"Are you really here?"

"Oh x lack of surgery, lack of surgery to return to the sky......"

Chen Jiu moved his gaze slightly with the sound, only to find that Lin Shan and the former imperial physician Wu Xue were sitting under the tree and talking. Or maybe the two of them had been too engaged before they spoke, and the smoke of the battle was all in their consciousness, so although they sat and played against each other, they were as quiet as no one; Or maybe I just watched the replacement of the old and the new pine needles, and I was so distracted for a moment that I ignored the two people who were only about ten steps away.

The cypress branches are dense and cover the shade of the stone table below, if in the middle of summer, this is indeed a good place to cool and sleep, otherwise the few guards in the residence will not aim at this courtyard, and spend so much effort to select and transplant these rare and dense old pines from the sparsely wooded mountains in the suburbs.

But it's only late spring, and the climate in this northerner town isn't as warm as in the south, so sitting in such a thick shade will inevitably feel a little cool.

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PS: Through my unremitting efforts, I have been able to divide the chapter into two today. Well, I don't think it's good to pick up the chapter name. Chapter 738 is satisfied, and 739 is not satisfactory......

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