(166), one life and one promise
Jiang Chao approached the table, although he didn't speak, he had already remembered what Lin Shan said to Mo Ye just now, and deduced that this medicine should be the girl's drink.
However, based on the type and quantity of this dregs, it should be a very heavy medicine, and you can already know from a distance that it must be extremely bitter. It was hard for Jiang Chao to imagine the scene where the girl who was smiling in the hall just now took this medicine.
That girl's usual mood is not as gloomy as a person with a medicine jar, and the strangest thing is that after taking such a heavy amount of decoction, the patient should be seriously ill, right? He himself was originally a martial arts practitioner, and he was able to practice some skills in observing and mastering a person's breathing rhythm and qi and blood activity, and he looked at the girl's complexion based on this, and the preliminary results he obtained were obviously very healthy!
He was silently pondering this in his heart when he heard Lin Shan ask, "Is that group of sergeants patrolling in the city also from your night horse?" ”
Jiang Chao replied contemplatively: "The night cavalry is divided into two parts: vertical and horizontal, the scope of duty of the horizontal team is on the outer city, and the column is only responsible for the defense affairs in the main hall. However, because the apricot blossoms in the inner city have already bloomed, and His Majesty has already promulgated the start date of this year's 'Spring Enlightenment Festival', so in the days before and after this festival, a group of personnel drawn from the night cavalry team will be added to the security affairs in the city to patrol the city. ”
Lin Shan didn't look up and asked, "What day is this year's spring apocalypse?" ”
Jiang Chao thought for a moment and said, "It's tomorrow." ”
Lin Shan smiled and said, "Then I just caught up, this is really a coincidence." ”
Jiang Chao thought for a while and asked, "Are you going to go to enjoy apricots tomorrow?" ”
"Yes, it's better to hit the day than to choose the day." Lin Shan just lowered his head and used chopsticks to distribute the medicine residue in the gauze spread on the table after filtering the decoction, and said casually.
Jiang Chao's eyes showed a trace of worry, and he hesitated and said, "The emperor has granted permission." The main purpose of these grand events in Beijing is to have fun with the government and the people, and there are no restrictions on the identity of the participants, and many people will gather on the day of the apricot viewing...... But didn't you just say that you have to be on guard against others? ”
"If I meet someone I don't want to see while enjoying apricots, I will naturally try to avoid them, and crowds are the biggest barrier. Again. This festival is meant to be used for relaxation. Who would look around at such an hour with their heartstrings and ignore the beautiful apricot blossoms that bloom in the middle of spring. ”
Lin Shan's tone eased and then said: "I remember that on the first day of the 'Spring Enlightenment Festival', His Majesty would take a small service to appreciate apricots, so the first thing that anyone who eats Junlu on that day is how to get to His Majesty's side without revealing his identity!" ”
Lin Shan's words do sound a little convincing. But Jiang Chao always felt a little uneasy, but he couldn't come up with any words of dissuasion for a while.
After a while, Lin Shan finally finished the dregs. Raised his head and looked at Jiang Chao and said, "Speaking of appreciating apricots, I have one more thing to tell you, you don't have to go with you tomorrow." I'm only going to take Ye'er with me. ”
Jiang Chao lost his voice when he heard this: "This ......"
Without waiting for Jiang Chao to continue, Lin Shan continued: "It's not that I'm avoiding you with this arrangement, it's just that I'm worried that the edge on your body is too sharp, but it is eye-catching. It's been almost ten years, and tomorrow I just want to enjoy the apricot blossoms in Kyoto, and I have a few more things to say to that kid. ”
Lin Shan had already picked out his words very clearly, and Jiang Chao had to promise in a deep voice.
Lin Shan picked up the bowl of medicine. After taking a few steps, he stood still, and Wen Yan said, "Tomorrow you will find a wine shop where Kyoto's down-and-out drunkards like to gather." Let's learn the kung fu of alcoholism first, and look at the attitude of those drunkards, so that you can blunt your edge a little. ”
"I see." Jiang Chao nodded seriously.
Lin Shan was about to walk away, and after a moment of hesitation, he opened his mouth and said, "Jiang Chao, I want to tell you one thing, if you can agree, please keep your promise." ”
The atmosphere in the room seemed to become a little heavy at this moment, and Jiang Chao's expression became solemn. Regarding Lin Shan's request in this tone, because of the environment that accompanied him growing up, he almost habitually couldn't hesitate in his heart, and he didn't dare to slack off and said solemnly: "Please ask Brother Lin to command." ”
Lin Shan didn't speak immediately, but walked to the kitchen door in two steps and closed the door, only then did he look at Jiang Chao when he turned around, and said, "If anything happens in this house in the future, please be sure to leave with the old and the young first." If something happens to me, you take them away from Kyoto and never come back! ”
Jiang Chao's expression froze when he heard this, and he immediately exclaimed, "Brother Lin...... What a statement! ”
Lin Shan didn't explain, but said again in an almost persecutive tone: "Can you keep your promise?" ”
"No......" Jiang Chao shook his head in a daze, and muttered again: "It's not that I can't keep my promise, but this promise is too heavy, and I may not even have the strength to take on him, so how can I keep my promise." ”
Seeing this, Lin Shan didn't speak, but just sighed deeply.
Seeing Lin Shan sighing, Jiang Chao's originally flat pair of eyebrows with Sichuan character lines flashed away, and he only said in a firm tone after a moment of silence: "Jiang Chao is not talented, although he can't make a promise to what Brother Lin ordered just now, but if that kind of thing really happens, Jiang Chao will definitely swear to defend it to the death!" ”
"Why waste a life?" Lin Shan shook his head slightly, then turned to open the door and leave.
Jiang Chao stood alone in the kitchen, he looked at the back of Lin Shan's departure, he didn't take a step for a long time, and he was even more puzzled in his heart.
Duty without hesitation, sworn to the death, this is the order that the entire Night Rider members are following, from the moment he joined the group, this decree has been scuttling his soul every day until it is immersed in his bone marrow, he has never hesitated to do this, in fact, the members of the Night Rider have also done so.
But today, he got a different voice from his first person to work, was this a casual joke from that person, or was that person really thinking?
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Mo Ye followed Qu Xia's side, originally to give him a hand, but her own body had just grown a little, her hands and feet were not long enough for adults, and it was not her turn to shake the quilt and make the sheets, and in the end, she could only do some work to wrinkle the sheets and bedding.
However, after following Qu Xia to make the beds in the three rooms, Mo Ye found with some novelty that the system of this house could be said to be ninety percent the same as that of the house in Xingjia Village, and she couldn't help but sigh at this.
Qu Xia learned about the situation after chatting with her for a few words, but he became happy, and said with a smile: "That's fine, you shouldn't be unable to sleep because of the bed recognition on the first night you rest here." ”
Qu Xia didn't know that Mo Ye had never recognized the bed when he slept, but because of Qu Xia's 'recognition of the bed', Mo Ye thought that although this house was the same and the people were all there, except for the master, the identities of everyone else had changed a lot.
Although Grandpa Qu is very kind, after all, he can't compare to his aunt's meticulousness. Uncle Ma left and came again, but that young man made Mo Ye feel that he had a fierce aura from the first time he saw him, maybe he didn't need the master's reminder, and he rarely had a relaxed mood to joke with Uncle Ma like he did.
As soon as Mo Ye thought of this, she suddenly realized that the master's introduction to Jiang Chao just now was very one-sided, and she didn't know where Jiang Chao came from at all. But thinking that none of the people who sent Ma An away were left to serve as Master's attendants, then this Jiang Chao should not be a member of Master's subordinates in the past.
So who appointed this attendant who waited in the old mansion when she and Master just stepped into the gate of Kyoto with the front foot, and took the initiative to send it to the door with the back foot?
Mo Ye glanced at Qu Xia, and after thinking about it for a while, he asked softly, "Grandpa Qu, is that Uncle Jiang Chao a subordinate of Mr. Li Gai?" ”
Qu Xia, who was laying out the futon, didn't think too much about Mo Ye's question, because his mind hadn't been on answering the question at this time, and the question Mo Ye asked was really insignificant because it was too simple for him, so he replied casually: "Yes." ”
Seeing Qu Xia's relaxed answer, Mo Ye hurriedly seized the opportunity and asked, "Why does Mr. Li take such good care of my master?" ”
Qu Xia only heard some questions from Mo Ye's words at this time, but he didn't think it was necessary for Lin Shan to hide Li Gai's affairs from Mo Ye, so he explained after a slight hesitation: "Li Gai is your master's brother, and he knows that your master will not bring a retinue when he returns to Beijing, so of course he has to pay attention to it." Why haven't you heard your master talk about these things? ”
"Master doesn't like to talk about his own business, so I didn't ask too much." Mo Ye said perfunctorily, and the thoughts in his mind were quickly exchanged. She quickly remembered that she had once asked Master about her parents, and that time it seemed that she was sick, so Master mentioned it a little, and he seemed to have said that his father was his good brother.
Thinking of this, Mo Ye couldn't help but feel a little excited, but she quickly cooled down her mind a little more, and after a deep groan, she swallowed the sentence that was about to jump out of her throat just now, and asked in a different tone: "My master has made a lot of friends, but unfortunately I know very few." ”
Qu Xia had already made the bed at this time, he stood up straight when he heard this, and said with some confusion: "Your master has two brothers who worship the son, this friendship cannot be compared to ordinary friends, why hasn't he told you about it at all?" ”
Mo Ye's head was hot when she heard this, and she was about to speak, but when she heard a footstep quickly approaching the room, when she turned around and saw that familiar face, she quickly closed her mouth for some reason.
Lin Shan didn't mean to enter the house again after walking to the door with the medicine bowl, he just beckoned to Mo Ye. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Biquge www.biquge.info to vote for recommendations and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation