(168), picking locks

"Hmm." Although Lin Shan nodded, Mo Ye could catch a hesitant look in his eyes.

Lin Shan nodded and did not continue to speak, but after glancing at the door of the room, he stretched out his arms around Mo Ye's shoulders and led her to the backyard, before he smiled and said, "Ye'er, tomorrow the master will take you to enjoy the apricots, are you happy?" ”

"Apricot appreciation?" Mo Ye looked suspicious.

Lin Shan explained with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It's a coincidence that we came, tomorrow happens to be the first day of the 'Spring Enlightenment Festival'. There have been several masters in the academy who have also traveled to the Kyoto Spring Enlightenment Festival, and you should have read their accounts. ”

Mo Ye's eyes froze for a moment, she was indeed as Lin Shan said, she had read a book of hand-tied books that recorded this matter in the library of Lizheng Academy, so she quickly remembered that the hand-tied hand described the grand occasion of thousands of trees blooming and ten thousand people traveling together on the Apricot and Shandao Road in Kyoto.

The reason for such a grand event, Tezari has also mentioned, is that the 'Spring Enlightenment Festival' in Kyoto was the first festival set by the emperor in the dynasty. The 'Spring Enlightenment Festival' was only implemented after the founding of the Zhao Kingdom, but it basically overlapped with the national birthday in terms of time, and in fact, seven years ago, the emperor officially drafted a decree to merge the two festivals, aiming to celebrate the Spring Enlightenment with the whole world.

Mo Ye, who has read this codex record, naturally knows the location of the Spring Apocalypse Festival, the core gate of the national capital is wide open on the day of the festival, which is equivalent to the door of the emperor's early court hall, and the civil and military officials who usually only walk to participate in the court meeting will only open the right of way to ordinary people on the beginning of the Spring Apocalypse Festival. However, this does not mean that on the day of the festival, there will be no hundred officials on Xingshan Road, and the number of people may be even greater than hundreds, because Mo Ye suddenly remembered that the gentleman's codex had been specially recorded. On the day of the Spring Festival, the emperor will come in person.

Although the emperor must have come in a small way, and the stay will not be very long, this does not mean that no one knows about it. How can there be fewer officials from the DPRK and China who know or are ready to try their luck? For the emperor who holds the world in his hands and has a noble status, how can there be fewer sycophants in the court. This is a necessity of the world created by human nature. It can only be suppressed, but not eliminated. However, Mo Ye's concern now is not how many people want to be close to the emperor on the first day of the Spring Apocalypse Festival, but the man in the Confucian shirt who is smiling and saying that he wants to take her to appreciate the apricots.

Therefore, Mo Ye, who considered many things, did not express her happy feelings quickly, and after a deep sigh, she asked, "Master, there will be a lot of people who appreciate apricots tomorrow." Will you meet someone you don't want to meet? Let's not join in the fun! ”

"How do you know who I don't want to see?" Lin Shan's expression was very relaxed, his hand on Mo Ye's shoulder pressed it gently, and then said, "Don't worry!" Since I have decided to take you to see the apricots. It has been well thought out, of course. ”

Lin Shan's reply seemed very perfunctory to Mo Ye, but after she was silent for a while, she saw Jiang Chao standing under the well pavilion in the backyard, and gradually she felt a little more relieved. In the end, she chose to trust her master's decision.

Lin Shan noticed what Mo Ye's gaze was pointing at, but he didn't immediately tell Mo Ye that Jiang Chao would not be with him tomorrow, but added: "Don't tell you about this Grandpa Qu, he is old, I don't want him to worry too much." Tomorrow except for apricots, if I have nothing to do, I have to be busy. I'll also take you to some interesting places in Kyoto, and you will tell him that I will take you there. ”

Mo Ye nodded. A happy smile belatedly appeared on her face, and she said with curiosity: "Compared to appreciating apricots, I am looking forward to what interesting places Master will take me to wander." ”

Hearing this, Lin Shan couldn't help but ask, "Don't you like apricot blossoms?" The apricot trees on Kyoto's Apricot and Cedar Road are left behind by the previous dynasty, and each one is dozens of years old. ”

Mo Ye shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with liking it or not, I just hate it when I can't relax while watching those beautiful things." ”

Lin Shan only smiled at Mo Ye's words and didn't say anything more.

When resting that night, Lin Shan beckoned Jiang Chao to choose the rooms on both sides of the big house. This house is basically the same as the house in Xingjia Village in terms of layout, so that Lin Shan is equivalent to sleeping in his original bedroom, while Jiang Chao rests in Ma An's room.

It's just that Jiang Chao doesn't know Lin Shan's living environment in Xingjia Village, in his opinion, Lin Shan's arrangement is just to let two of the four people in the house who know martial arts rest on the periphery, and form a protective trend for the old and the young in the house, so he naturally has no opinion on this.

And Mo Ye seems to have returned to the night of living in the house in Xingjia Village, her bedroom is still on the left hand side of the main hall, next to Lin Shan's study, but the study has obviously not been used for a long time, and there is a lock on the door.

Locking her own room gave Mo Ye a very abrupt feeling, but it was not too early for Lin Shan to take her here, so she hadn't had a chance to see Lin Shan use this study yet.

Lying on the bed, Mo Ye couldn't help but wonder, is there a desk with a retractable desktop in the study next door? Is there a room full of books? And thinking that the room where her aunt used to live now lives Grandpa Qu, a somewhat strange smile slowly appeared from the corner of her mouth.

The next morning, Mo Ye, like Lin Shan, was familiar with all the living facilities in this house, and Mo Ye further understood the layout of the house.

Mo Ye also knew that the house in Xingjia Village was imitated according to the house in Kyoto, in fact, the house with this pattern is the most common small household residence configuration in Kyoto, so there is no special place.

But what Mo Ye wanted to ask was not about the layout of the house, but after she glanced at Jiang Chao, who was standing not far away and had finished washing up neatly and was playing a set of slow boxing, she consciously put up with the doubt in her heart for the time being.

Breakfast is naturally in charge of Qu Xia, this thin old man with a slightly hunched figure seems to be very energetic today, the sound of kitchen pots and pans plays a jumping note, and after the meal is ready to be served, he urges Mo Ye to eat more and eat well from time to time.

When people get older, they are easy to have feelings for their grandchildren, Qu Xia first saw Mo Ye, and fell in love with this delicate-looking, clever and sweet-mouthed child, coupled with some of Mo Ye's predecessors, Mo Ye's grandfather called Qu Xia really transferred a kind of pity and love for his grandson to her.

Although Qu Xia was full of joy and wanted to give Mo Ye more love, but he had lived a lonely life in the house for nearly ten years, and it was inevitable that he would be unfamiliar with the way he expressed his feelings, and at this time, she was the only one of the four people sitting around the dinner table, so he only thought of such a trick, in addition to urging him, the chopsticks in his hand were not idle, but he kept putting vegetables into Mo Ye's bowl.

Mo Ye wiped the sweat in her heart, she couldn't refuse Qu Xia's sincere care, as long as she used the transfer method to move the dishes from Qu Xia's bowl to the master's bowl.

Lin Shan accepted this qiē calmly, and had no intention of refusing, but fortunately, Qu Xia soon realized that something was wrong and stopped the action of picking vegetables for Mo Ye. Jiang Chao didn't know if he was a little unaccustomed to eating at the same table with his protector, or if he realized something, or maybe it was his original habit to be like this, so he only drank two bowls of porridge and hurriedly got off the table.

After resting for a while after the meal, Jiang Chao took over the work of washing the dishes according to what Lin Shan had instructed him to do to help Qu Xia last night. Fortunately, his technique of brushing dishes was much stronger than Ma Anke's, and he didn't hear the sound of falling dishes between when he entered the kitchen and when he left the kitchen, Mo Ye couldn't help but sigh.

Hearing her exclamation, Lin Shan said something casually, Mo Ye then knew that Ma An was startled by a horse on the way to a car when he was a teenager, and he injured his hand when he pulled the reins of the horse, leaving a hand tremor, but fortunately, it was only the left hand, so it had little impact on daily life, but when brushing the bowl, he usually held the bowl with his left hand, so the chance of him falling the bowl would be so great.

Mo Ye thought that in the past, Ma An used to hold a whip with his right hand when he was driving the car, raise a glass with his right hand when drinking, and hold a bowl with his left hand instead of the dinner table when eating, so she didn't pay attention to this. But whether she noticed it or not, she couldn't help but feel a little guilty when she remembered that she used to laugh at Ma An when she used to break the bowl.

Lin Shan couldn't imagine that his casual words would cause Mo Ye to have so many thoughts, he only mentioned a few words about Ma An and then asked Qu Xia for the key to the study, and after being told by Qu Xia that the key had been lost for too long, he went to the bedroom to get the long flat box he was carrying, took a thin cone from it, and pried open the lock on the door in one fell swoop.

Seeing this scene, Mo Ye couldn't help but silently pursed his mouth, and said secretly: No wonder the master is inseparable from this box, it seems that there are really a lot of famous halls in it.

The door of the study opened, and in addition to the direction of the door, there was a large bookshelf in the other three directions, and the bookshelf was full of books, but because Qu Xia lost the key, the study seemed to have not been cleaned for a long time, and the room was full of dust.

When this breath spread out of the door and into the hall, Qu Xia, who was standing next to the door, said apologetically: "This house has not been cleaned for almost a year, and I don't know how many books will be destroyed by moths." It's all because my old man was negligent and forgot where to put the key, so that's why it's like this. ”

"It's okay, most of the books in this room are useless, I'll just read them when I'm passing the time, Qu Bo, don't take the key to heart." Lin Shan comforted Qu Xia with warm words, and then 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