When Zhanzhao and the others returned to Kaifeng Mansion from the palace, Tianzun and Yin Hou had already returned.

A few people obviously had just arrived, probably hungry, and Chen Xing'er and Crescent Moon were cooking noodles for them to make supper.

Bai Yutang glanced at Tianzun, who was sitting at the table yawning.

Zhan Zhao also glanced at Yin Hou, who was about to wash up and sleep.

Everyone looked at each other - how could they talk to a few old people about letting them go to Taixue to teach......

At this time, I saw Hong Jiuniang walking out of the room and asked Cui'er who was passing by, "Cui'er, do you have a thicker quilt?" ”

"Yes." Cui'er nodded, "But the quilt hasn't been dried in winter yet......"

"It's okay, take it and hang it up." Hong Jiuniang pointed to the shelf on the side.

Cui'er went to hug a thick quilt, and as soon as she hung it on the shelf, she saw Hong Jiuniang lighting a fire to roast the quilt, and Cui'er was so shocked that she screamed, "The silk quilt is going to catch fire!" ”

As he spoke, sure enough, the quilt "boomed".

Everyone was shocked, and saw Jiu Niang raise her hand and wave...... The fire was extinguished instantly.

Look at the quilt again, fluffy and fluffy.

Jiuniang picked it up, patted it, and ran into the house with it.

Everyone looked at each other and looked into the room curiously.

I saw that Jiuniang was covered with a quilt on the bed, there was a person on the bed, who was sleeping, Jiuniang had pressed two quilts.

Everyone looked back at Zhan Zhao, who was eating noodles with Yin Hou, and the people in the Demon Palace who were not curious at all-who was on the bed?

After counting the number of people, everyone found that it should be the sick scholar Wu Yiyi.

Sure enough, when Jiuniang covered the quilt and stood up, twisted and walked out, everyone glanced at the bed, and the sick scholar seemed to be asleep, so he showed his forehead outside.

Gongsun blinked and asked, "Are you sick?" It's not cold on this day, so it doesn't matter if you cover so much? ”

"It's okay, this sick bag has been a little sick recently, my hands and feet are cold, and I sleep better with hot spots." While speaking, Jiu Niang reminded everyone, "Also, don't go and disturb him to sleep, this sick bag is usually rubbed and flattened casually like a sick cat, but he gets up angry, if he doesn't sleep well and is woken up by someone halfway, the consequences will be strict." ”

Everyone raised their eyebrows - how strict zhòng?

"Ho ho ......" Granny Heishui seemed to remember something, and shook her head, "Quite strict." ”

Everyone gasped, feeling dangerous......

"Speaking ......"

Long Qiaoguang, who was sharing a grapefruit to eat with the little fourth son, suddenly asked, "Does Wu Yifu know how to shoot arrows?" ”

Everyone turned their faces to look at him.

Guang Ye chewed the grapefruit and looked at everyone puzzled, "What are you doing?" ”

Everyone stared at him for a while, and then they all tacitly agreed to do something else.

Zhao Pu kicked him, "What are you doing here?" Go back to your own home. ”

The corners of Long Qiaoguang's mouth twitched, and he pointed at Zhao Pu, "You don't seem to be from Kaifeng Mansion, okay......"

Zhao Pu pointed to his grandson, "Family!" ”

Gongsun glanced at Zhao Pu, and everyone also touched their chins, it seemed that something was wrong......

Zhao Pu blinked, moved his arm to the side, and pointed at the little fourth son, that means - family!

The little fourth child blinked and nodded, indicating - yes! Dependents!

Everyone thought about it, and subconsciously went to see Bai Yutang again.

Bai Yutang was looking at the white strips that Tianzun silently stuffed over at this moment, and on top was the number of them he lost to Hong Jiuniang today.

Bai Yutang handed the note to Chen Xing'er and said, "Let Bai Fu send the money tomorrow." ”

Chen Xing'er nodded and ran away with a note.

All the aunts in the Demon Palace nodded - family!

Zhan Zhao and Yin Hou both supported their foreheads.

At this time, I saw Master Bao walk in and said, "Are you discussing going to Taixue to teach?" ”

Everyone was stunned, Bai Yutang and Zhanzhao scratched their heads, and several old men asked curiously, "Teaching?" ”

Master Bao touched his beard, "Hehe, it just so happens that Lin Xiao is arranging the classes for the new school season these days, and the emperor seems to have asked him to arrange them together." ”

After speaking, Master Bao left happily.

Yin Hou Tianzun, they all looked at a few small ones curiously-what do you mean?

The corners of Zhan Zhao and the others' mouths twitched - Zhao Zhen's hands and feet were too fast! Damn! Now there is room for manoeuvre!

……

And at this time, there are also old masters Lin Xiao in the first two big ones.

The old master scratched his head and looked at the list of people who Zhao Zhen gave him to teach by order, he couldn't cry or laugh, the old man always felt that Xintaixue was in danger of collapsing again.

At this time, a family member ran in, "Master, someone is looking for you." ”

Lin Xiao wondered...... Who is looking for him at such a late hour? He asked, "Who is it?" ”

"I don't know, it seems that I just arrived from out of town, and he asked me to give you a letter." The family handed the letter to Lin Xiao.

The old man took the letter and opened it, and saw that the letter was written by an old friend, Chen Zigui, the original bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and recommended a scholar to him to study in Taixue.

The letter said that the student was the son of a friend of Chen Zigui, whose family died prematurely, but this son was an extraordinary character and a rare talent. His results in the local examination reached the standard of entering Taixue, although he was not a famous family, but Taixue could also accept civilian children, as long as someone recommended him, so he recommended this person to Lin Xiao. And Chen Zigui said in the letter that this person is very interesting, and he has a relationship with Lin Xiao, and hopes that Lin Xiao can take care of his life in Kaifeng.

After reading the letter, Lin Xiao hurriedly said to his family, "Please let him in." ”

Putting down the letter, the old man was quite surprised, Chen Zigui was a noble person, and he used to work in Hanlin, his status was extraordinary, and he rarely recommended anyone. Among so many people, he praised him as a "rare talent", and as far as Lin Xiao knew, only Bao Zheng was back then. can be personally recommended by him, which shows that this son has real talent and real learning. Lin Xiao is thirsty for talent, so he really wants to meet this scholar, and at the same time, he is also a little puzzled, what does this scholar mean that he has a fate with himself?

After a while, the butler walked in with a tall and thin young man.

Contrary to Lin Xiao's expectations, he originally thought that this young man would be a scholar of the same type as Bao Yan, quiet and intelligent, or elegant and generous like Wang Qi.

But the young man who walked in made Lin Xiao unable to connect with the words Wensheng Gongzi.

I saw that he was very tall, about the same as Ge Qing, and his figure was also tall, wearing a slim black coat, white outside, dressed in a rough manner, with short chestnut hair, carrying this bag in one hand and a wine jar in the other, and walked in slowly. At the age of only seventeen or eighteen, white skin, outstanding appearance, a pair of red phoenix eyes, high nose and narrow cheeks, and a casual appearance, what should I say...... Like a good-looking bum......

Lin Xiao must have had a very shocked expression on his face at this time, and the man was obviously also looking at the old man in front of him.

Lin Xiao is kind and purposeful, and he looks like a learned old man at a glance, but he should be quite old-fashioned.

The young man raised his eyebrows at the old man, stretched out his hand and put the wine jar on the table in front of Lin Xiao, and said with a smile, "Meet the gift." ”

The corners of Lin Xiao's mouth twitched, and he asked uncertainly, "...... are you?"

The young man was looking at Lin Xiao's study at this time and said, "My name is Lin Xiao." ”

The corners of Lin Xiao's mouth twitched, "...... Lin"

The young man spread his hands, "The sky of the clouds." ”

Master Lin Xiao finally understood what Chen Zigui said in his letter, what it meant to be "fated" with him, the name is the same as the sound, this is funny.

Lin Xiao nodded, and also felt that his expression might be a little rude, so he said, "Oh, please take a seat." ”

The boy put down his bags and sat down in a chair, and the butler brought him tea.

Lin Xiao glanced at the young man's bag, and saw that it was very simple, a small bag, an umbrella, and a long cloth bag, looking at it, it seemed to be a knife or sword.

He looked at the young man again, and he didn't know why, this young man always gave Lin Xiao a kind of Jianghu atmosphere close to Zhanzhao Baiyutang, so he asked, "Young Master Lin, can you martial arts?" ”

Lin Xiao blinked, and when he saw Lin Xiao looking at the strip of cloth, he reached out and pulled the cloth cover, which was not a sword, but a long bamboo flute.

Lin Xiao suddenly realized, feeling that he might be thinking too much, but he was curious, "This flute seems to be longer than an ordinary flute." ”

Lin Xiao nodded, "Well, it's easy to use." ”

Lin Xiao couldn't laugh or cry, the tone of his voice didn't look like a scholar, Chen Zigui couldn't be happy with him?

"That...... Lin Gongzi, where does your family live? Are there any relatives in the family? Lin Xiao inquired.

The young man shrugged his shoulders, "I'm from Hangzhou, my father and mother made umbrellas, and I passed away ten years ago." ”

Lin Xiao nodded, and at the same time, he also noticed a paper umbrella that Lin Xiao placed under his baggage.

After glancing at it, Lin Xiao frowned slightly, it was a white paper umbrella, and a simple single snow bamboo was painted on the umbrella, and the word "bamboo" was written next to it.

Master Lin Xiao stood up, stared at the umbrella, and unconsciously walked over and reached out to pick it up.

Lin Xiao was looking left and right at this moment, not sitting in the same position.

However, Lin Fuzi didn't care at all, but opened the umbrella and looked at the snow bamboo picture on the umbrella surface and the word "bamboo".

After a long time, the old man raised his head and asked Lin Xiao, "This umbrella ...... Who did it? ”

Lin Xiao glanced at it and said, "I did it." ”

The master blinked, looked down at the umbrella again, and sighed in his heart - calligraphy and painting are unique! This word "bamboo" is simply flawless! And with a mad aura.

"If you like it, I'll send you." Lin Xiao said while rubbing his stomach, "I'm so hungry, is there a stove?" I'll eat ...... next bowl of noodles."

The old man held an umbrella, "It's so valuable, can you give it to me?" ”

The young man was amused by him, "What is valuable, it is very fast, there are four handfuls of Meilan Zhuju, one for the coil, two for the wine, do you like to have time to make a few more for you?" ”

Master Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows.

The boy stood up and "ate the noodle ......"

"What kind of noodles?!" The old man put down the umbrella and grabbed the young man, "Go, please eat something delicious!" ”

After speaking, he dragged the young man out of the door and went to Taibaiju to order a table of banquets.

Taibai Curie, Lin Fuzi held his chin and watched the young man in front of him eat a lot, and the amount of food was not small......

The guy in Taibai Curie is still curious, where did Lin Fuzi find the rice bucket?

While eating, the young man suddenly raised his eyes, glanced out the window, and stared in a certain direction in a daze.

When Lin Fuzi saw that he was listening, he turned his eyes and looked in the direction he was looking. It was pitch black outside the window, and it was late at night, so I couldn't see anything...... However, the arrogant meow tower in Kaifeng Mansion in the distance towered into the sky. Lin Xiao thought he was looking at the building, so he said, "That building is from Kaifeng Mansion." ”

Lin Xiao was stunned, stuffed a Sixi pill into his mouth, chewed it, and said to the guy, "Alas, close the window, it's windy at night." ”

Xiao Liuzi ran up to help close the window.

Master Lin Xiao took a sip of the wine glass, and raised his eyebrows, "Good wine!" ”

Lin Xiao stuffed his mouth full of food and pointed at the old man, which means - it's delicious!

The old man laughed, feeling that Chen Zigui was really not teasing him, but sent him a strange and interesting child.

After eating, the two of them just came out of the gate of Taibai Ju and met Ouyang Shaozheng, who was returning home with a team of soldiers from the imperial city.

After Ouyang ate supper in Kaifeng, he took Chunhua back to the house together.

At this time, Chunhua was sitting on a horse and dozing off.

Ouyang Shaozheng saw Master Lin Xiao and a young man at a glance and wondered.

"Master." The fire qilin sat on his horse and greeted the old man, "Why don't you bring a few entourage when you go out at night?" ”

The old man waved his hand straight, "It's just a few steps, what kind of entourage do you bring?" ”

Ouyang nodded, looking at the young man behind Lin Xiao.

"Oh, a nephew of mine." Lin Xiao introduced.

Ouyang nodded, and patted Chunhua, who was dozing off.

Chunhua woke up, rubbed his head and subconsciously covered his buttocks.

Ouyang Shaozheng was speechless and motioned for him to say hello to Master Lin.

Chunhua hurriedly saluted Lin Xiao, Ouyang asked the old man to go home as much as he could, and ordered a few soldiers to send Lin Xiao back to the mansion safely.

Lin Fuzi took Lin Xiao away.

Lin Xiao walked and looked back at the soldiers and horses of the Imperial City who were walking away.

Lin Fuzi smiled, "Have you heard of it?" Pioneer officer Ouyang Shaozheng. “

Lin Xiao nodded, "Fire Qilin." ”

Lin Fuzi said with a smile, "The young man next to him is also a Taixue student, you are not familiar with life here, I will introduce them to you tomorrow." ”

Lin Xiao nodded, and suddenly asked the old man, "Old man, aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person?" ”

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand, "Alas, you were introduced by Zigui, how can you be a bad person?" ”

"Maybe the letter is fabricated." Lin Xiao shrugged.

Lin Fuzi shook his head and said, "Words are like people, I don't see much else, old man, calligraphy and painting are much more visible, you will never be a bad person, don't worry, you can live in my house as long as you study in Taixue, haha." ”

Lin Xiao followed the old man back, and when he turned the corner, his steps were a few steps slower, and when he turned around, he glanced back at a dark alley behind him...... Lin Xiao's eyes were a little cold, with a faint murderous aura. Then, inadvertently, he had already turned around and continued to go back to the house with Lin Xiao.

At this time, Ouyang Shaozheng's men were almost in front of the mansion.

Chunhua saw Ouyang Shaozheng frowning slightly, as if he was thinking about it, so he asked, "Uncle, what are you thinking about teaching?" ”

Ouyang came back to his senses, shook his head, and asked Chunhua, "Do you know the young man behind Lin Fuzi just now?" ”

Chunhua shook his head and touched his chin, "I haven't seen it." ”

Ouyang Shaozheng didn't say much, and was a little puzzled - this young man's kung fu is quite good, does Lin Fuzi have relatives who are so good at kung fu?

Ouyang arranged some men and horses to secretly protect Lin Xiao's mansion and Taixue. But if you talk about officials, the least hated person in this world should be this old master who is too learned. The old man is as good as something, and he doesn't have much power to teach a craftsman, so no one should trouble him, right?

……

That night, in the dead of night.

After Zhanzhao washed, he put on a cloak and rushed to the stable, and looked at Duoduo before going to bed, but he couldn't sleep at all without looking.

Bai Yutang also followed him, grabbing a few handfuls of candy and feeding them to the other horses.

Zhanzhao leaned in front of Duoduo's stable, reached out and gently stroked Duoduo's neck, looking at the bulging belly and being a little worried, will he give birth tonight?

The young man also came over, and Bai Yutang was afraid that it would make a lot of noise, so he reached out and grabbed its wings and dragged it aside.

He was used to teasing Bai Yutang on weekdays, thinking that Bai Yutang was playing with it, so he flapped his wings twice, flew up with Bai Yutang, and flew to the top of Meow Tower, spreading his wings and circling on the roof.

Bai Yutang jumped off its back and sat on the roof of the meow tower, watching the night view of Kaifeng City. It's been a long time since I've been back, and there are some subtle changes in the night scene of Kaifeng, probably because many houses have been rebuilt.

He fell down and obediently lay beside Bai Yutang, with his big wings still standing up to help him block the wind.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and gently touched the big head that was leaning against his leg.

One person and one dragon sat like this for a while, Bai Yutang looked at the night scene while touching it, I don't know why, I always felt that there seemed to be something different, obviously I had seen the Kaifeng night scene many times, but tonight I felt particularly incongruous. The fifth master has also studied it, and it should not be a problem with the newly built house.

Finally, Bai Yutang began to look around seriously, and finally, his gaze settled.

Bai Yutang looked at a few points of light on the halfway of the West Mountain, a little inexplicable, is there a house in that place? I've never seen lights there before.

"Yutang."

At this time, Zhan Zhao also came up, fell to his side and stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder, "Gongsun said that Duoduo shouldn't be born tonight, go back to sleep." ”

Bai Yutang nodded, but didn't move.

Zhanzhao squatted down to look at him, "Go to bed early, aren't you tired?" ”

"Hmm......" Bai Yutang agreed softly, frowning and stretching out his hand to point in the direction of Xishan, and asked, "Mao'er, what kind of house is that?" ”

Zhan Zhao looked in the direction of Bai Yutang's finger and was suddenly stunned.

After staring at the brightly lit mansion for a moment, Zhanzhao suddenly stood up with a "boom".

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhan Zhao frowned, his eyes were full of doubts, and he spoke, "That's, the old mansion of the Jin family!" ”