Xiao Qiang got up in a daze, and the first words of the young man were still circling in her mind: Which son? Which one...... At the same time, she saw him casually put the jade crown of hair into his sleeve, and then pressed his back again, as if touching some contusion, and he frowned again.

With a sense of guilt, Xiao Qiang approached the young man who was sitting by the pillar. When she walked up to him and couldn't go any further, she stopped, and couldn't help but worry in a timid voice: "What can I do about this?" ”

Her gaze still did not slip out of his attention, and when she glanced at the broken crown she had put in her sleeve before she spoke, the young man said casually, "What to do?" ”

Xiao Qiang didn't know that when the young man said that, her heart was playful, she just tugged at the hem of her sleeves, a little at a loss but said very seriously: "Childe will have to meet guests at the banquet later, how can such an image be ......?"

"Alas......" The young man suddenly sighed, interrupting Xiao Qiang's words about to continue, and then he continued: "It's really a lot of mundane affairs, and you need to be quick to decide!" ”

Xiao Qiang looked at him in confusion, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Since my hair crown has been broken like this, it will not be repaired for a while, so let it go! Who doesn't miss a moment on the pavement? Instead of covering up the disadvantages with crappiness, you might as well tell it frankly, not to mention that this is not a very evil thing. The young man raised his arms and stretched his waist when he said this, and then continued: "Today are all relatives and nobles in the house, and favors are greater than rules, so this matter is not a good thing." They'll forgive, and I don't blame you, and don't blame yourself too much. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, the broken crown slipped from the sleeve of his arm that he had raised and lowered. The remnant of the crown fell from the pavilion. After rolling on the ground for a few laps before stopping, the small piece of jade that was still left before the crown also fell.

The young man looked at this scene and was slightly stunned before he let out a slight "oh".

Xiao Qiang was shocked when she saw this, and her reaction was much bigger than his, and without thinking much about it, she got up and chased her skirt towards the broken jade crown that rolled away.

Su Rong picked up the crown of the hair that only had one metal hoop left, and at the same time carefully picked up the half of the jade that had been broken again on the ground. After running back to the pavilion, Xiao Qiang bowed slightly, spread her hands evenly, presented the crown hoop and broken jade, and said at the same time: "Does it really matter?" ”

She can say that. In fact, it is equivalent to putting your mind at ease. She saw that the owner of the hair crown was not in a hurry, and of course she was easy to relax.

The young man shook his head and said, "My hair is naturally much thinner than normal. Originally, I couldn't bear such a heavy crown. ”

Then, he only took the crown hoop, and did not care about the broken jade. Slipped it back into its sleeve again, regardless of whether it would fall off its sleeve again and fall again as it had just done.

Xiao Qiang watched his careless movements. Just as he was about to kindly open his mouth to remind him, he stretched out two fingers and put them together, shook them between the two of them, and said, "I don't want to ...... either." Well...... I wore this crown like a large necklace pendant on my head. ”

Wear a crown like a pendant necklace?

Xiao Qiang was slightly stunned, and immediately understood, and couldn't help laughing. I can't care about how bizarre the difference in my attitude is before and after.

The young man saw that Xiao Qiang was smiling sincerely, and it seemed that she was really happy, and he also smiled slightly. He said, "Look, you think it's funny, and I'm going to be laughed at many times when that funny look falls into the hall." ”

His words made Xiao Qiang realize a problem that she was worried about before, and smiled. She coughed dryly and said timidly: "After all, it's a bad servant." The jade on this crown must be very precious. ”

"It's just a dead thing."

With that, the young man suddenly stood up from the pavilion railing, and reached out to take the few pieces of broken jade that Xiao Qiang held in the palm of his hand. However, instead of retracting it into his sleeve, he turned around and waved his hand, throwing it into the lotus pond next to the Liu Feng Pavilion.

Seeing this, Xiao Qiang opened her lips in surprise, and it took a long time to say "ah".

Looking at the circular water patterns that were smashed out of the broken jade in the lotus pond layer by layer, the young man said lightly: "Pearl jade, if no one knows and no one holds it, it is actually no different from a stone." But I'm the vulgar guy who can't hold them, so I'll send them where they came! ”

Xiao Qiang didn't seem to understand the meaning of his words, but quickly said another very real question, "Although it is broken jade, it can also be exchanged for some silver." It's a pity to throw it away like this. ”

The young man glanced back at her, just in time to see the regret in her eyes. After his eyes froze slightly, a trace of confusion suddenly surfaced, and he asked, "Are you short of money now?" ”

Xiao Qiang was stunned by his somewhat abrupt question, and then replied honestly: "The master of the house never deducts people's monthly money, so that there is not only no shortage of food and clothing on weekdays, but also some savings...... However, throwing these broken jades away like this, the maid still felt a little pity. ”

The young man groaned when he heard this, and only after a moment did he speak: "Don't pity it, that kind of jade is called 'Shigangqing', once it is broken, there will be cracks all over the body, and if it cannot be carved a second time, it will lose its value and will not be sold for much money." ”

Xiao Qiang was surprised when she heard this: "Is this the case? ”

The young man nodded and added, "Because it still looks beautiful, it is often used to decorate jade, but its actual value is limited by this nature. ”

At this point, he paused, and then said, "Fortunately, you are not really short of silver, otherwise I wouldn't have much silver on me, so I wouldn't be able to help you." ”

The young man's sudden change of subject made Xiao Qiang ignore for a moment the other meaning contained in this piece of jade, which was preserved as a decoration. And because of several conversations, she paid attention to another issue. Her impression of the young man with an unfamiliar face changed dramatically, and not only did she not think that he was frivolous, but that he was very interesting.

However, as a maid who has served in the Prime Minister's Mansion for several years, she quickly realized her current situation.

This young man, who doesn't put himself on a stand for his subordinates at all, should be regarded as half of his own master, and for him, he is a servant after all, and he can't be a friend. On the other hand, if you don't try to find a way to remedy it, maybe you won't have any money this month, and then maybe you will really respond to what the young man just said about the lack of silver.

Xiao Qiang, who was aware of this problem, looked around a little uneasily, and found that there seemed to be no people in the house who had noticed the changes here, so she hurriedly ran down the pavilion with her skirt and prepared to clean up the fruit plates that had been spilled all over the ground.

This scene fell into the eyes of the young man, and he spoke again, and the tone of his words was very relaxed: "It's irretrievable, what are you going to do with picking them up?" Let them be the reason for the Lord of the Banquet to punish you today? ”

The young man's words reminded Xiao Qiang of an important matter, but his identity was faintly revealed in his words. After a few conversations between the two for no apparent reason, he said something for the first time that made Xiao Qiang feel jealous, and her hand that was about to bend down to pick up the shards on the ground froze.

However, after saying this, the young man said nothing more, and he just walked down the pavilion very quickly.

He stood in front of the debris of the place, and first looked around, and then he crouched down and quickly picked up the larger broken porcelain disc on the ground to the tray, and then ran into a forest with the tray.

This series of sudden changes made Xiao Qiang have no time to react, only to see a tree in the corner of the Xiangfu garden squirming for a while. Soon the young man returned, and the tray was gone, but he had another cluster of camphor branches in his hand.

Before Xiao Qiang could speak, the young man had already closed the cluster of branches in one place and held it in his hand, and used such a makeshift broom to whizz back and forth, left and right, sweeping all the remaining debris on the ground into the surrounding grass.

After sweeping the ground, he walked up to the pavilion with a broom, and stirred up the scum left behind by the broken crown jade just now.

He finally walked down the pavilion, threw the branch in his hand into a low bush, and then patted the ash on his hand, and said with a faint smile: "This is the end." ”

Xiao Qiang was dumbfounded, and only repeated his words in a daze, a little stupid: "This is ...... Done? ”

"It's similar to a child making a mistake and being afraid of being blamed by adults, so he plays a little trick to avoid trouble." The young man spread his hands, "However, the situation you have to face today is different, even if you only break a plate, you may also be expelled from the Prime Minister's Mansion because of this!" It seems to me that you don't have to bear that kind of punishment for such a trivial matter. ”

The young man's words were all said to the place where Xiao Qiang was worried, and at this moment she fully understood that he had good intentions, although there was still a trace of worry in her heart because of guilt, but more of it was grateful. But she didn't know why the young man was helping her, and she didn't know how to thank him, so she didn't know what to say for a while.

When the young man saw that she suddenly did not speak, it was the first time that he had guessed what she was thinking, thinking that she was still worried about something, so he said: "Originally, it was most appropriate to throw these scraps into the pool, but considering that there might be a family member who wants to go down to the pond to pick lotus root at the end of the year, I will give up." If you throw it deep into the woods, you may still be found, but if you estimate the progress of the recent restoration of this garden, it must have been several months by then. If the head of the house really wants to inquire about all the servants because he found half a fragment of a plate that was lost a few months ago, you should only assume that today's incident did not happen. ”