After getting Xing Feng's promise, Lin Shan didn't say anything more to him, and turned around and went back to the carriage after saying goodbye.

Looking at the back of Lin Shan's departure, it wasn't until he walked away that Xing Feng suddenly remembered something, and the hand that was originally hanging down was subconsciously raised again. He seemed to have something to say, but in the end, he only moved his lips and did not make a sound, and this scene made Mo Ye, who was sitting in the carriage slightly lift the corner of the curtain and looked into the eyes.

Mo Ye could probably guess what Xing Feng suddenly wanted to call Lin Shan for, naturally not because he wanted to revert to the promise he had just made, but even so, she didn't say anything, just silently lowered the curtain.

When Lin Shan returned, the carriage continued to move forward. In fact, Lin Shan could think that when he handed the envelope to Xing Feng, Mo Ye in the car should have seen it. It's just that this letter, in his words, is something he handed over to Xing Feng, and in addition to asking Xing Feng to keep it secret, he doesn't plan to announce the things in the letter to a third person. So Lin Shan had already made perfunctory wording before coming back.

And now, although he didn't know why Mo Ye didn't ask anything about this matter, he wouldn't say anything more, but it was better to save a few words.

Mo Ye was holding back an impulse in her heart at this time, and her mood was not much more cheerful anyway. Feeling the shaking of the car body, listening to the sound of the wheels crashing on the ground, after waiting for a while, she estimated that it was some distance away from the position just now, and then she glanced at the master who had already leaned on the pile of books on the other side and closed her eyes to recuperate, and then turned around and lifted the side of the curtain of the car window.

And the next scene she saw from the window made her hands tremble.

Outside the window, on the distant mountains by the roadside, the figure of a young man in cloth clothes on a horse loomed among the trees.

Xing Feng rode his horse forward on the bumpy ground between the hills with this speed and direction. Although they were walking with the carriage on the road, they kept a distance between the ride and the cart. He didn't have to go to Kyoto, so he did it just to see off the carriage.

When Mo Ye lifted the curtain of the car's curtain, Xing Feng had just reached a break in the hill. It's hard to move forward. So he had to rein in the reins, and after the body changed slightly, he also saw Mo Ye who lifted the curtain and looked at him. Mo Ye didn't know what Xing Feng was thinking at this time, and he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly. I saw that he was on his horse and did not move, and after a moment he raised his arms and raised his eyebrows. Bow your hand this way.

Mo Ye wanted to wave at him, but she was inexplicably hesitating, only hesitating. The carriage suddenly turned to the right on a detour, and Xing Feng's figure was thrown behind the car, and it was difficult to see from the side window of the carriage.

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It was nearly noon, on the side of the official road in the east of the county seat, an elderly man in a broad robe squatting on a boulder moved his legs, which had become a little stiff because of holding a movement for a long time. Then he stretched out one hand, looked at the shadow reflected on the ground, and let out a long sigh.

Then he stood up. Flicked his sleeves and prepared to leave.

That's when it happened. He heard a familiar voice calling out to him, so he stopped again, and then looked sideways in the direction from which the voice came, and saw a tall and thin old man running briskly not far from the official road. The old man's dress was quite stylish, but the two poles covered with cloth bags on his back made him look more marketable.

However, this did not affect the old man in the broad robe to the old man's perception of the old man, and after the two approached each other, they both smiled and bowed their palms, and greeted each other.

These two old men are none other than the deans of the two major academies in the county. The broad-robed man has a slight figure, a round face, and a simple smile, and is the dean of Lizheng Academy. And the old man who came later, with a double pole on his back, walking like a meteor, and shining brightly, was the dean of Shanshui Academy.

After taking a look and greeting each other slightly, the dean of Shanshui Academy said in a somewhat hurried tone: "Brother Fool heard that Brother Muwen resigned to you in Lizheng Academy yesterday, and was about to come to the academy to find you, Brother Xian, but I didn't expect you to be there, and I asked several people before I found here." What are you doing here? Coming to see you off? ”

When Dean Lizheng heard this, there was a sense of helplessness in his eyes, and he said meaningfully: "Muwen has left, and there is only Lin Shan" in this world. ”

Dean Shanshui looked abrupt, and said slowly: "I just quit yesterday, and I left today, which is too hurried." ”

"Isn't that his temperament?" Dean Lizheng casually said something that did not hinder the itch, and after a slight pause, he looked at Dean Shanshui and said, "Listen to the meaning of my brother's words, is there something to find him?" ”

Dean Shanshui smiled and said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, Brother Fool was going to hold a practice feast for him, which is a farewell to our friendship for ten years, but I didn't expect him to go so fast." ”

Dean Lizheng shook his head lightly and said, "Forget about the practice feast!" Has my brother forgotten the purpose of the whole fish feast in Zephyr Manor? What's more, this time, he didn't have any time left. Just now I heard that the scholar I sent to Xingjia Village came back to tell me, and it seemed that it was not dawn, so he drove away. ”

"That's the case......" Dean Shanshui's eyes showed a hint of surprise, and after he pondered for a while, he said again: "He must have returned to Beijing this time, so you are staying on this road, do you also have something to do with him?" ”

"This morning, someone sent a letter written by him to the academy and handed it to me, but the things entrusted in this letter are now a little difficult for me to do! That's why it occurred to me that if I could meet him in the middle of the road, I might as well discuss the matter in person, so as not to miss anything about him. After Dean Lizheng finished speaking, he took out a letter from his bosom and handed it out.

Dean Shanshui hesitated for a moment and then took the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked at it a few times, then smiled and said, "How can this kind of trivial matter make you embarrassed?" ”

"Brother doesn't know, after Brother Lin left at noon yesterday, in the evening, the original party of Shaoxue also came to resign." Dean Lizheng sighed lightly and continued: "I have also mentioned this student to your brother before, so you should know that this young man named Yuan Fang has always been unmotivated in the academy, and the other masters have not placed much hope on him, so he wants to resign, and I have no reason to force him to stay!" Unless Brother Lin can tell me about this earlier. ”

Dean Shanshui's gaze fell back on the letter paper spread out in his hand, with a thoughtful expression, and he slowly spoke: "Even if this letter came a little later, but he has been teaching in your academy for so many years, and the days of getting along with the original master are not short, didn't the virtuous brother find out that he attached great importance to this student before?" ”

"As a teacher, Lin Shan can be said to be very good to every student in the academy, so I didn't pay much attention to this aspect." Dean Lizheng pondered for a moment and then said, "But even if I noticed it before, it is impossible to imagine that Lin Shan's emphasis on the original side has reached this level. Brother, this is the first time he has written such a trust to me. ”

Dean Shanshui retracted the gaze that fell on the letterhead, raised his eyes to look at Dean Lizheng and said: "I asked you to secretly push you to help Yuan Fang enter the academy and directly recommend the internal audit roster, this kind of thing is indeed the first time he has done it." He sighed as he spoke, and said, "It can also be seen from this that this student named Yuan Fang is so ignorant that he can force Brother Lin to this role." Presumably, Brother Lin usually works him, but he doesn't appreciate it, so Brother Lin has no way to do it in the normal way. ”

He looked around at the empty four fields next to the official road, and suddenly smiled and said: "Actually, one thing I want to know very much now, is that such a young person with a heart like cold iron, what does Brother Lin value about him?" ”

"Don't talk about things you can't possibly know." Dean Lizheng waved his wide sleeves and said with some annoyance: "Hearing my brother's words, I am more and more worried, will missing his trust cause him some trouble in the future?" ”

Dean Shanshui shook his head with a smile when he heard this, and said slowly: "According to my inference, this kind of thinking of the virtuous brother may be too much. With Brother Lin's temperament, if he will take it, it is absolutely impossible to put the entrustment just on a piece of paper. If he really attaches so much importance to this matter, how can he act so rashly, has he not considered the variables? ”

Dean Lizheng was stunned and said, "You mean to say that this letter is actually just the last attempt before Brother Lin leaves?" ”

Dean Shanshui folded the letterhead and put it back in the envelope, and said thoughtfully: "Probably this should be the case, he didn't tell you about this directly in the academy, and he didn't trust him with a letter until he was about to leave, except that there might be an accident, maybe it's really because he is also hesitating." He said that, and handed back the letter that was in good condition.

"If that's the case, then I can only rely on the will of God." Dean Lizheng sighed, then took the letter handed back by Dean Shanshui, and suddenly smiled: "My brother is in Shanshui Academy, and I only see him once or twice a month, how can I think about his character in such detail?" ”

Dean Shanshui laughed heartily and said, "Because Brother Lin is just a good planner, but his personality is actually not that complicated. ”

After he said this, he untied the two poles wrapped in cloth on his shoulders, handed one to Dean Lizheng, and said with a smile: "Actually, when I knew that you were here, I probably guessed what you wanted to do. Waiting for people was boring, so I brought two fishing rods. ”

After a slight pause in his tone, he added: "Now that the sun is beginning to set west, counting the hours and footsteps, it is estimated that he has already left this area, and there is no point in waiting." But I've told my scholar to keep watch on this road, and if I can't wait, there's nothing I can do. ”

After sighing softly, Dean Lizheng could only nod, took a pole, and followed Dean Shanshui to the narrow wild pond that was faintly visible two miles away from the official road...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation