Chapter Seventy-One: Improvisation

Lying on the bed, Xia Chen thought that he would talk to Yang Jingcheng tomorrow, he would either honestly tell who instructed him, or don't blame himself for having a black hand, she didn't have time to delay this kind of little minion.

Early in the morning, he came to the academy as usual, Xia Chen came to Mr. Wu's study first, Yang Jingcheng had not yet arrived, and only Wu Juan'er sat behind the bookcase. Xia Chen was a little surprised, usually Wu Juan'er would always happily step forward to ask long and short questions when she saw her, what happened today? Could it be that you have the same strange dream as yourself?

She dreamed of the pair of phoenix-like birds again yesterday, and even they said some inexplicable things to themselves. It is said that their nine spirits were scattered thousands of years ago, and only seven souls were attached to a pair of rings, and their owners gave the rings to a boy before they died...... Anyway, they were separated later, and I hope that I can reunite them, and if possible, find a place for them to cultivate.

The more Xia Chen thought about it this morning, the more funny he felt, he had really been thinking too much recently, and he was even dreaming so mysteriously. But even if it's a dream, she doesn't mind doing a good deed, just as it is to fulfill a pair of lovers, but the other one is in He Wuyi's hand, and the distance between him and herself is not 108,000 miles, but how can there be thousands of years of time and space.

Wu Juan'er found that Xia Chen had arrived at her side at some point, and suddenly came back to her senses: "Chen'er, when did you come in?" ”

"Uh, what is Sister Juan'er thinking so obsessed with?" Xia Chen retracted his wandering thoughts and smiled.

Wu Juan'er's eyes turned red, she reached out to hug Xia Chen's waist, and cried: "Chen'er, I will go to the palace to participate in the draft in three days." ”

Xia Chen was stunned: "Don't worry, King Kang didn't say it." In your case, will you be replaced? ”

Wu Juan'er sobbed and said: "Chen'er, King Kang ordered the day before yesterday that only one daughter in the family is not among the candidates, and one of my sisters has been notified that she doesn't have to go, but I ...... I didn't get it. ”

Xia Chen understood, King Kang was not dishonest. But just as she had been worried. King Kang would not care about a certain person, let alone deliberately explain Wu Juan'er's affairs, but Yan Shiming was determined to rectify her.

Someone pushed the door open and came in. Xia Chen raised his eyes and saw that it was Yang Jingcheng. Wu Juan'er was in a very chaotic mood, completely ignoring anyone coming in, and continued to bury her head in Xia Chen's chest and cry non-stop.

"Xia Chen, you...... What did you do to her? Yang Jingcheng was stunned for a moment. With a roar, he rushed over.

Xia Chen picked up a book on the table and threw it over: "It's none of your business, what should you do!" ”

Yang Jingcheng subconsciously stretched out his hand to block. Then he was even more furious: "You let go of Juan'er." ”

Wu Juan'er raised her face and wiped her tears: "Senior Brother Yang, if you go out first, I'm going to be annoyed to death." ”

Yang Jingcheng's face seemed to have been slapped violently: "Juan'er, you ...... You're driving me away? As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at Xia Chen: "What about him!" ”

Wu Juan'er said: "What are you, he's." Didn't you hear me say I'm annoyed right now? I just want Chen'er to stay here with me for a while. ”

Xia Chen looked at Wu Juan'er, who was playing with Miss's temper, and then at Yang Jingcheng, who looked sad, and suddenly understood something in his heart. Isn't this kid eating his own flying vinegar? Whether his brain is made of lead or not, how old he is! No matter how precocious you are, you can't be ripe to fall in love at this time?

However, Xia Chen underestimated the large scale of the ancients in the end. They do have many yardsticks for late marriages, and there is even a decree that if a woman does not marry at the age of seventeen, her parents will be punished. As for early marriage, there is no such thing, and many wealthy families buy a concubine room to prepare when their son can't walk.

There are three unfilial pieties, and the concept of no queen is one of the reasons for early marriage in ancient times, and then there is that most people in ancient times had a very poor living environment, not to mention medical conditions, and military service and conscription also made many people die at a young age, so the idea of early marriage and early birth of children is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Dayun State clearly stipulates that men are sixteen and women are fourteen can get married, this is still a virtual age, and no one will ask if they are two years old, and there are those who are even engaged in their mother's womb at the age of seven or eight.

Xia Chen is now more than nine years old, in Yang Jingcheng's opinion, growing up into a teenager is a blink of an eye, although Wu Juan'er is a few years older than him, but this does not affect Wu Juan'er to like him. What's more, Wu Juan'er's attitude towards him is ten times better than that of others, and every time he is together, his face will unconsciously reveal a coquettish attitude that makes Yang Jingcheng envious and jealous.

At this time, Mr. Wu pushed the door and walked in, looking at the three of them glaring at each other angrily, he was slightly stunned: "Chen'er, why don't you go to the school yet?" Sincerely, bring me the book and the four treasures of the study. ”

"Oh." Xia Chen replied.

"Yes." Yang Jingcheng should go directly to the bookshelf to prepare what Mr. Wu wanted.

Wu Juan'er loosened Xia Chen's sleeves when her father came in, bowed her head and pretended to sort out the bookcase, she heard about it from a sister next door, and in the end, she didn't want her father to know.

As soon as Xia Chen entered the door of the school, she saw that almost all the students were gathered in one place and whispered something, and when several people in front of the door saw her, they immediately shut up and glanced at the people with their backs to her, and then they all returned to their seats in silence.

Seeing this situation, Xia Chen snorted secretly in her heart, people who like gossip are really everywhere, and she vaguely heard them say "Wild boy, Fengyue Gongzi", it turned out that she was talking about herself.

At this time, Sun Maosheng walked over, put a very exquisite brocade box on Xia Chen's table, bowed down and said: "Xia Chen, the pen I lost has been found, yesterday's act was really rude, please accept this jade pen holder as an aparation." ”

Xia Chen glanced at him: "I didn't take yesterday's incident to heart, so I'll be forgiven if I make amends." ”

Several other students chimed in: "Xia Chen, you can take it." ”

"Yes, Sun Maosheng is really sincere."

"Just give him a chance."

Xia Chen secretly thought, these children are really different from modern times, at such a young age, they have learned to do one thing in person and one thing behind their backs. She stretched out her hand to open the brocade box, and the white jade pen holder in the box belonged to pear blossom white jade, which was lustrous and flawless, and it was also a rare high-quality color, but it was a grade worse than the mutton fat white jade she had seen in the antique shop before.

"This thing is not bad, but it can't be on my desk, so you might as well keep it for yourself." Said lightly and closed the lid.

Xia Chen's actions made many people look surprised, how could this white jade pen holder be worth twenty or thirty taels of silver, he couldn't even say that he couldn't get on the table!

"Xia Chen, I'll see what kind of high-quality products your general's mansion uses." Zhao Zhi and Sun Maocheng have always had a good relationship, and when they saw Xia Chen mocking his friends so much, they started to report grievances. According to him, General Xia just walked the way, was sealed as an official who was less than four grades, and made an exception to give him a mansion, and he was an ordinary family before, and this General Xia was only Xia Chen's uncle, Xia Chen himself is an orphan, and it is already very good to be able to study in this official school.

"That's right, you don't know the goods." There were also people who couldn't get used to Xia Chen's arrogance and followed.

Xia Chen smiled indifferently: "You guys just don't know the goods." As he spoke, he took out his jade pen holder from his schoolbag and placed it on the table very casually. Although this frame is not full of green, but from the base to the top from deep to shallow, like a blue mountain, it is as natural as a blue mountain, more charming, and the luster is crystal clear, in comparison, the white jade pen holder is overshadowed.

Everyone stared at the pen holder in front of Xia Chen, and they were speechless in shock, this wash could never be bought without a hundred or ten taels.

Xia Chen naturally knew that she really couldn't afford this kind of pen holder, and the Qian family would naturally not buy it for her, this frame was actually given by Cen Shaoze, one was to see that she couldn't put it down, and the other was to encourage her to practice her calligraphy well, because her brush writing really made Cen Shaoze dare not compliment. The Cen family is a family, whether it is a civil servant or a military general, there has always been no shortage of people in high positions, the emperor's reward plus the collection of several generations, although this kind of thing cannot be said to have it, it is definitely a lot, so Xia Chen is not very polite.

Sun Maosheng's face turned red, his white jade pen wash was already the best one in the family, if it weren't for seeing Xia Chen's methods and worrying that he would be retaliated against, he would not be willing to take it out. Framing others as thieves is an extremely bad behavior, and with his strength, he doesn't believe that Xia Chen will let him go lightly.

Xia Chen smiled and handed him the brocade box: "Take it back, don't say whether the things are good or bad, I can make do with one of them, and I have to put so much effort into managing one more, in case I lose it...... I don't want to look around. ”

At first glance, Xia Chen's words were quite tactful, but the people in this room were all insiders, and everyone could hear the irony, especially when he said that the pen holder of hundreds of taels of silver was just for improvisation, and his face became as green as jade.

At this time, Wu Shengsheng came over, Sun Maosheng hurriedly returned to his seat with the brocade box, he felt a chill rushing into his body, and he shivered unconsciously.

Xia Chen caught a glimpse of his pale face, and wondered if he had scared this child? She doesn't seem to be much of him, does she? Suddenly, I remembered that someone said that Sun Maosheng's father was from the Criminal Department, wasn't he fantasizing that he would give him eighteen kinds of torture, right?

Mr. Wu didn't talk much today, so he quickly assigned them some homework and left.

Xia Chen noticed that Mr. Wu's expression was a little wrong, and he was a little absent-minded, and he missed several sentences in an article.

After a while, someone pushed the door in, Xia Chen didn't pay attention to it, still drawing on the paper, she wanted to outline the beautiful scenery in her dream.

"Xia Chen, come with me." Yang Jingcheng's cold voice came from behind him. (To be continued)

ps: Thank you for the midnight shepherd girl for her pink support, thank you Fan Er for rewarding the sachet, Shujian-Xiao, the eldest young master of the Li family for rewarding the peace charm, Mo Mo Da~~R655