Chapter 437: The Hunchbacked Old Man

There was a light rain in the early morning, Yu Shu held a bean-colored paper umbrella, carried his clothes up the steps, put away the umbrella under the eaves, shook the water droplets, and looked up at the door beam.

The small plaque is hung with the three words "Xu Shui Tang", there is a line of spring posts on the left and right in front of the door, the upper couplet reads "暝助岚 Yin Chong", and the lower couplet is "Spring adds deep water".

This thatched cottage is Fang Zijing's private place in the Taishi Library, facing a shallow pond and half of the mountain stones in the back, which is also suitable for the scene.

Situ Qinglan was cleaning indoors, and when she saw Yu Shu, her eyes lit up, so she walked towards her with a dust whisk of plastering.

"Lotus Room."

The day before yesterday, at a wine and dinner in Wangji Building, Yu Shu and her changed their words, and they no longer called "girl" and "miss".

Yu Shu also saw her cleaning the window just now, so he smiled and said, "It's you early again, you're really a diligent person." ”

"Where, I'm used to going to bed early and waking up early." Situ Qinglan said modestly, turned her head to look at the three or five students sitting in the cottage, beckoned to Yu Shu, and brought her to the corridor outside the door to speak.

"I have good news for you here, how are you going to thank me?" Situ Qinglan winked at Yu Shu, a little playful.

Yu Shu thought she was joking, and said briskly: "Let's listen to it, if it's really happy, I'll wipe the window for you." ”

"Hehe, that's what you said," Situ Qinglan was about the same size as Yu Shu, leaned over to her ear, and whispered: "On the Holy Ancestor Festival next month, my grandfather and the other two academicians have elected you to go with you." ”

Yu Shu was pleasantly surprised at first, and then looked at her suspiciously: "Is this true?" You shouldn't be coaxing me to do the work for you? ”

A few days ago, Xue Rui talked to her about the Holy Ancestor Sacrifice Day, and the Taishi Academy would select a few young students to accompany her, and let her inquire about Fang Zijing's style, she has not been looking for an opportunity, who knew that this good thing has already been her turn?

"Coax you to be a puppy, oh, wipe it clean." Without saying a word, Situ Qinglan stuffed the dust in her hand into her, then took her umbrella, and turned around and entered the grass hall.

Seeing that she slipped away quickly, Yu Shu had no choice but to wipe the remaining two windows

This morning class, didn't talk about anything, Fang Zijing only played two piano songs for them to appreciate, one melodious, the other high-pitched, the beautiful name is to cultivate sentiment, although it is not famous, but it is full of rhythm, even Yu Shu, who is blind to the piano, listened to it with relish, and did not yawn.

Yu Shu was thinking about the quota for the car on the Holy Ancestor Sacrifice Day, and as soon as he got out of class, he paid attention to Fang Zijing's movements, and was thinking about how to ask him when the others were clean, and saw Fang Zijing raise his head and look for her.

As soon as his eyes shone, Yu Shu stood up.

"Yu Operator, you come."

Yu Shu was almost sure that what Situ Qinglan told her in the morning was true.

She obediently walked up to Fang Zijing and waited for him to speak.

Fang Zijing sat on the low couch, caressed his "Mei Shaoyue", plucked a string, and stared at Yu Shu for a while, the vague and carefully identified eyes made her feel like she was dizzy and couldn't see people clearly.

The grass hall had just quieted down before he spoke leisurely:

"On the ninth day of the fifth month, every year on the Holy Ancestor Sacrifice Day, the Taishi Book Garden always selects three men and three women to accompany the Holy Driver to the ancestral tomb to pay respects. There are eighteen academicians in Taishi Academy, three people can cite one, the old man has discussed with Academician Sima and Academician Lu, and I think that among the new students this year, you are the most expected. ”

Fang Zijing and Sima Kui are both gentlemen she worshipped, Academician Lu, but the right lady Lu who retired from Si Tianjian?

Yu Shu thought to himself, and on the other hand, he showed three points of joy, and continued: "Thank you to the three academicians for lifting up." ”

Fang Zijing seemed to be satisfied with her modest attitude, nodded slightly, and said: "Let me know about this matter, and wait for two o'clock tomorrow to come to Rongsheng Hall to meet the rest of the academicians, and then I will have something to tell you to wait." ”

After this explanation, he stood up slowly, called Situ Qinglan who was standing at the door, asked her to come over and hug the qin, and left first with his sleeves rolled.

"It's not a loss to you for helping me with my work," Situ Qinglan walked up to her and asked.

Raising his slanted eyebrows, Yu Shu said with a smile: "If you have such good news to tell me every day, you will be a maid." ”

Situ Qinglan smiled and said angrily: "You treat me as a magpie." ”

Yu Shu waited for her to pack up the guqin, and the two went out together, Yu Shu was a little confused, and asked her on the way:

"It's only half a month before the Holy Ancestor Sacrifice Day, and it's not too late to start picking people at this juncture?"

Situ Qinglan said: "What's late, the new students have just entered the school in April, and the academicians must understand for a few days, and they can't arrange it randomly, in case they choose someone who doesn't do anything, then on such a big scene, isn't it a shame for our Taishi Academy?" ”

"That's what I said."

Situ Qinglan turned her head and looked at her enviously: "This kind of opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not only can I pay homage to Long Yan, but all the official orders of Si Tianjian are also here, so you can show your face." Alas, it's not easy for women to enter the ranks, but you're good, the female operator who hasn't been out for ten years is a cut above us. ”

Hearing the slight unwillingness in her words, Yu Shu's eyes flashed, and she told her lightly: "That's because you don't know how I behaved with my head down a month ago." ”

Situ Qinglan was dumbfounded, looking at her face, and thinking of some rumors about Yu Shu that she had heard before, she beat a drum in her heart and quickly diverted the topic.

The two chatted for a while, and parted in front of the small garden, one to deliver the piano and the other to the library.

Yu Shu went to the Dianhan Building, which specializes in collecting the annals of a hundred schools of history in Xiyuan, intending to rummage through the documents about the Holy Ancestor's Sacrifice Day and do his homework in advance.

There were only a few people walking around under the bookshelves on the first floor, and it was deserted.

Yu Shu looked left and right, and sighed in his heart, but it is a pity that these four library buildings full of thousands of volumes, but there are at most 200 students in the Taishi Library, and the books inside cannot be taken out, and people outside cannot come in.

Half an hour later, Yu Shu bent down weakly, stuffed back the two books he had just pulled out, patted the dust on his hands, and complained about the messy classification of the book building for the first time.

She walked out of the aisle, looked around, and finally fell to the figure squatting under a row of bookshelves not far away, and hesitated for a moment before walking over.

She had met this hunchbacked man two or three times, and guessed that he might be a down-and-out scholar, who traveled between several study buildings all day long, and must have known which books were placed where.

"Uncle." Yu Shu shouted, the old man in front of him had gray hair, loose skin, black and thin, and looked over fifty years old.

Yu Shu shouted, seeing that the hunchback man ignored him, thinking that he might be behind his ears, he leaned closer, stretched out his hand, touched his shoulder lightly, and called him again in a loud voice:

"Uncle?"

Only then did the hunchbacked old man turn his face and squint at her with a pair of small eyes.

Yu Shu smiled at him: "Do you know that there are books here that record the Holy Grandfather?" ”

The hunchbacked old man crooked his neck, opened his mouth to show a mouthful of yellow teeth, and almost shouted-

"Huh? What do you say? ”

Sure enough, the back of the ear.

Yu Shu lowered her body and repeated it aloud word by word, and then watched the mouthful of yellow teeth close one by one in front of her:

"Say, what are you talking about?"

"I said," Yu Shu sighed, took the pitch of the quarrel, approached him and said it again, and the result-

"What? Say what? ”

Well, she retracted her previous words, this old man is not behind his ears, he is deaf.

Yu Shu and the hunchbacked old man looked at each other for a moment, decisively gave up the idea of asking him for help, and pulled the corners of his mouth: "It's okay." ”

Then he didn't care about the old man's reaction, went back the same way, and just took two steps forward, he heard a muttering voice behind him:

"There's nothing to shout about."

Yu Shu felt that there was a tendon on his head and jumped twice, turned his head stiffly at the corner of his mouth, and said to the hunchbacked old man who was muttering:

"Uncle, are you happy with me?"

The old man tilted his face, stared at her for a moment, opened his mouth and said in a high voice:

"What the hell are you talking about?"

“”

Forget it, she'd better go home.

Yu Shu didn't find an article that recorded Emperor Anwu, and returned to the Wangji Building, at this time, at noon, she saw Xue Rui sitting on the first floor drinking tea in broad daylight, and thought she was dazzled.

"Came back so early today?"

Since the murder case of Taishi Shuyuan came to the palace, he didn't go out early and return late one day.

"Come back and check on the post to see if you run around."

It was a joke when he heard it, and Yu Shu didn't take it seriously, laughed, sat down next to him, casually touched a red nectarine from the fruit bowl, and put it to his mouth to nibble off a piece.

Xue Rui listened to the crisp sound of her "quack" biting the peach, and the sound of water "tsk", his gaze swept over her lips, and he cleared his throat and said:

"I have to be free in the afternoon, can I take you out of the lake to swim in the lake?"

Yu Shu's mouth paused and said, "This case is gone, where do you have the leisure?" ”

was explained by her untactfully explained the facts, but Xue Rui did not see a little embarrassment, and said as usual: "Ji Xingxuan refuses to confess, there is a limit to the punishment in Dali Temple, and if it is too much, it will become a lynching, and if you violate the law, you will be impeached by the imperial history, I sent someone to inquire about the storyteller, and I have not replied yet, and during this period, I just have time to relax." ”

Yu Shu nodded, knowing that it was not easy for Xue Rui, such a big case, with no head or tail falling on his shoulders, secretly I don't know how many people were staring at him and making mistakes, if it was her, she would have been irritable a long time ago.

"Okay, you say go to the lake, then go to the lake." Yu Shu thought to herself, he didn't let her interfere in Ji Xingxuan's interrogation, she could always accompany him to change his mood.

As soon as he agreed, I saw a smile on his face, and his lips, which were not thick or thin, were raised, and his whole face was refreshed.

Yu Shu didn't notice it before, Xue Rui's face looked particularly good when he smiled, and no matter how personable and Yushu Lanzhi compared, it didn't damage those elegant words.

"Shu?" Xue Rui found that Yu Shu was distracted, and she didn't respond to a few words, raising her hand and shaking it in front of her.

Yu Shu suddenly came back to his senses, the tips of his ears were a little red, and in order to hide that he was stunned, he pretended to "cough cough" twice, patted his chest, and said that he was choked by a peach.

Xue Rui didn't say a word, and as soon as he stretched out his long arm, he took away the remaining half of the peach in her hand.

"Oh, don't, it's a waste, finish it for me."

As soon as she finished shouting, she saw Xue Rui glance at the nectarine that she had gnawed beyond recognition, and put it to her mouth without changing her face-

"Quack". (To be continued.)