Chapter 37: Fiction and Reality
Xiao Gu sat diagonally on the small pestle, and asked casually: "Guangping Bo's Mansion is also one of the best people in the capital, do the other two young masters of his family also want to join the army?" โ
"If you really want to join the army, you should be like that Qianhu Lord, since he was a child, he was taught martial arts by a famous teacher, and then he went to his father's generation to experience one or two, these two sons have no job and no position, and they came here for nothing, but I am afraid that there are some strange things."
Miss Huang Er flashed her lively and charming eyes, although she said it with a straight voice, her tone was slightly pretentious, obviously from her parents at home, "That fifth son is very thin, and he falls down when the wind blows, I heard that he used to study in Guozijian, and suddenly came to a military camp like ours, which is really strange!" โ
"As for the seventh son, he is still a teenager, but he looks like a fairy child in a painting, and he said that he accompanied his brother to the military camp to experience and observe."
When she said, she wrinkled her little nose and said with some dissatisfaction: "When did our Jingying become a children's nursery, these noble and famous families have no effort to insert their children and grandchildren in to seek advancement, it is simply ......"
Although she is straightforward and fast-talking, she feels inappropriate when she says this: although the other party is a slave and maid, if he talks nonsense in front of her, if he preaches it, he is afraid that he will also cause trouble for his father.
"Is Miss Second thirsty? This is the jujube kernel tea I just cooked, and it is the most mellow and warm-warming......"
Xiao Gu stood up and refilled tea for her, which just invisibly resolved this dull embarrassment.
Miss Huang Er looked at Xiao Gu's dark and inconspicuous face, her eyes flashed with a look of reassurance, and then glanced at the cowardly appearance of the moon who was cleaning the yard, snorted coldly in her heart, and asked with a pleasant face: "Xiao Gu, your hands are really skillful, this tea soup smells really sweet." โ
She made a look, and the maid who was waiting behind her took out a purse, she personally handed it to Xiao Gu, and said with a smile: "I have asked you to serve me these three times, you can take this little thing to play." โ
The purse is not delicate, but the silver coin inside is heavy, about three taels.
Miss Huang Er gave the reward, and suddenly she was a little spitting, and her face was slightly scarlet, the maid was shrewd, pulled Xiao Gu aside, stuffed the purse into her sleeve, and asked softly: "Sister, you have always served in the house, do you know the way...... Did Mr. Shen have any family affairs? โ
This maid was wearing an apricot yellow short jacket with a light blue cotton skirt, smiling very sweetly, she hugged Xiao Gu affectionately, and asked in a low voice, but Xiao Gu stood in a daze, not hearing her question at all.
Her eyes were fixed on the maid's snow-white wrist, which had been carefully painted with cinnabar, and her skin was even more vivid and charming.
Lotus emblem!!
Could it be ......?!
She was deep in thought, and the maid saw that she was stunned, and quickly shook her arm gently, "Sister, sister? โ
Xiao Gu just woke up from a dream, and replied with some uncertainty: "Young Master Guangsheng is not engaged, the eldest brother in the family is about to end this year, and it is not too late to discuss marriage after thinking about this hurdle, and the elders and young are orderly, so it will be delayed." โ
It's rare for her not to pretend to be stupid, but she finished speaking very smoothly in one breath, Miss Huang Er listened to it very clearly, and suddenly smiled like a flower, and took a few sips of jujube kernel tea and went back satisfied.
Xiao Gu watched their master and servant leave with a pair of dark eyes, and frowned thoughtfully.
If you are not mistaken, the lotus pattern, I am afraid that it is ......
She narrowed her eyes slightly, her eyes flashing with vigilance and worryโ
Hopefully, not as she thinks.
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Guangsheng came back very late that day, and came back drunk and carried back by others in the near first shift.
His steps are unsteady, his starry eyes are half-open and half-closed, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows are lazy and blurry, making people's eyes red and heartbeat at a glance.
At the beginning of the month, Yingying flashed into the room, first took a wet towel and wiped his forehead carefully, and then unscrewed Hu Shang's crystal bottle and dripped three drops of rose fragrance into the face wash, and then applied a hot towel to the temples.
At the beginning of the month, there was a burst of joy, but then his eyes were deliberately red, and he choked up: "Why did the young master drink like this today, so he cares about his body!" โ
She stepped forward and took the decanting soup in Xiao Gu's hand, sat down in front of the bed and served him diligently.
She opened her mouth slightly and blew on the hot soup, and her red lips were bright and moist with moisture, which looked even more innocent and tempting in the hazy light.
"Young master, you sit up first and drink slowly."
She held up Guangsheng with her arms, and the two were very close to each other, full of ambiguous atmosphere.
The corners of Qin's mother's lips bent disdainfully, unwilling to stay here to watch the play anymore, she bent her knees slightly and was about to take Xiao Gu and Chu Lan down, when there was an exclamation from the beginning of the month, and then she only heard a clang, and the soup bowl fell to the ground into several petals, and the brown soup fell to the bed and the ground.
At the beginning of the month, his hands seemed to be hot, and the pear blossoms looked frightened with rain.
Guangsheng leaned on the head of the bed, closed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Clumsy, you go down first!" โ
Then he called out to Xiao Gu, "You leave me and wait for me to bathe and change my clothes." โ
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they obeyed the order and dispersed.
At the beginning of the month, his eyes were unwilling but stunned, staring at Xiao Gu for a while, and finally retreated, leaving only the two silent people in the room.
Guangsheng took a deep breath, ripped off the hot towel, rubbed his temples, sat up straight again, and silently recalled the scenes at the banquet.
Someone stood quietly beside the bed, blocking the light, his eyes were a little dim, and when he looked up, he saw Xiao Gu holding a clean robe and waiting quietly.
She is not like the beginning of the month and those maids at home, her hands and feet are diligent and eager to untie his clothes - they all want to talk and rest, want to refuse and welcome, obviously with the ambition of a sparrow to become a phoenix, but they are still shy and lovely.
And she, a complete nerd, stood as straight as a log, and never seemed to smile on her black face.
But Guangsheng remembered that he had seen her several different expressions - in the tattered firewood room, she smiled pitifully and slyly, "Knock me unconscious"; In Zhenwei Xuan, she pulled his sleeve as a scoundrel, and asked him to take the officers and soldiers to rob the bride; Not long ago, on the cold night of the third watch, she said softly and firmly, "If it is useful to me, I am willing to go to the soup and fire."
"Silly girl......"
Unconsciously, Guangsheng let out a long sigh, the expression on his face softened a lot, he got up and went to the isolation screen, took off his clothes and pants that were wet with the soup, and took off his hair crown hairpin and wrist guards.
When I looked up again, there was already a large bucket of hot water waiting next to the screenโXiao Gu always did things silently and quickly.
She still stood on the outside of the screen with her hands down, and she didn't mean to wipe his back at all.
Guangsheng smiled silently, the corners of his lips swept up in a gentle arc, he got up and moved the bucket into the screen, took the bath bean noodles and pancreas and wiped the back towel and went directly into the bucket to soak.
The heat is steaming, and the young man's sturdy and thin figure is projected on the screen, clear and real, and the smell of atractylodes mixed with sandalwood, although strong, is strangely good.
The sound of the water was murmuring, and there was still silence between the two, but there was a quiet tacit understanding.
After a while, he finally broke his contemplation and spoke:
"There will be a night banquet in the main general's tent tomorrow night, and you will go with me."
Into the barracks?!
Xiao Gu's eyes contracted instantly, and the next moment they returned to their original state - she was about to try to sneak into the military camp to find out the truth, and he was going to take him there, it was a great opportunity!