"Oops-" Minglan exclaimed, and his soft and sharp voice made Gu Yunxi's back tense uncomfortably.

"Overseer—"

Qin Zhong's eyes were quick, and when he saw Minglan fall headfirst down from the carriage, he quickly stretched his arms to pick it up. The man caught it, but the new velvet hat on his head fell to the ground, covered with dust.

After Minglan stood firm, Qin Zhong picked up the admiral's hat from the ground, and after dusting it repeatedly, he held it to Minglan.

He knew that his overseer's love of cleanliness was almost clean, and now that his brand new black hat was stained with dust, the dirty color made him see that he must be angry.

“…… Governor, your hat ......"

Lowering his eyes and handing the high hat to Ming Lan, Qin Zhong's face was not embarrassed.

As expected, Minglan held the official hat in his hand, and his bright black pupils suddenly constricted into two small dots, and his entire face, which was so white that there was no trace of blood, finally turned up a thick layer of red.

Rolling his eyes and staring at Gu Yunxi fiercely, he saw her silently retreating to the side to watch the excitement, her delicate and smooth little chin raised slightly, and lightly picked her pink lips, with a smile and arrogant appearance that really made him resentful, but he was also fascinated by it.

"Yun Guan'er, this governor sees that you are tired and crooked......"

"Humph! You deserve to be a cocoon and eat your own fruits! She gave him a blank look and muttered to herself in relief.

"Kind of you say it again?!" Minglan shouted fiercely, and opened his eyes angrily.

Gu Yunxi tilted his head with disdain on his face, and suddenly remembered something when he wrapped his arms around him, and sneered:

"Don't say it once, even if you say it 10,000 times, it's nothing! I don't have a seed, you have a seed? Show it to me! ”

"You-" Minglan was suddenly choked speechless, and the color of his face turned from red to purple.

At this time, Qin Zhong was like a fierce god possessing his body, and he rushed to Gu Yunxi with a muffled voice and slapped him over, with a cold and oppressive yin wind.

The overseer of his own house was played by a hairless boy, how could he, as a close attendant, stand by and watch?

Qin Zhong is a person who practices martial arts, and his palm is fast, if this palm falls on Gu Yunxi's weak and slender small body, not to mention that his bones are completely broken, at least he will spit blood from his mouth.

Gu Yunxi knew that he couldn't dodge Qin Zhong's palm attack at all, so he simply felt his heart and was about to pick it up with his arm, when the figure next to him flickered, raised the steel knife, and directly blocked Qin Zhong's slap with the handle of the knife.

"Brother, don't forget that this is the East Factory, not a place for you to go wild—"

Xiao Xiaoshen's contemptuous eyes swept towards Ming Lan, and then stared at Qin Zhong, his sharp tone was like a blade, and the moment he spoke, he could easily kill the other party.

Seeing this, Qin Zhong withdrew his palm, quickly dodged, his eyes glared at Xiao Xiaoshen, who suddenly blocked the way, and put on a posture of wanting to fight at any time.

"Are you alright?"

Xiao Xiaoshen had just rushed back from the Dongchang school field, and he was covered in hot sweat at the moment, drenched all over, and smelled of sweat.

Before he had time to wipe his forehead, he turned to look at Gu Yunxi with a knife in his hand, and looked at her with concern.

Gu Yunxi shook his head gratefully and remained silent.

Qin Zhong on the opposite side slowly pulled out the sword he was carrying, and snorted coldly at Xiao Xiaoshen:

"You little brother has no dignity and humility, and he disobeys the overseer of my family, how to calculate this account, you Dongchang must give an explanation!"

"Good! I'll settle accounts with you—"

Xiao Xiaoshen glared at Qin Zhong and held the handle of the knife in his right hand.

The two pairs of eyes confronted each other quietly in the air, and a fight was about to begin-

"Be cautious, don't be rude, come back!"

Two figures turned out of the gate, namely Ai Qing, the head of the big block, and Zao Wou-Ki, the head of the third block.

The big block head is tall, the face is square, the complexion is ruddy, the cheeks are surrounded by a black beard, and a bamboo steel whip is pinned to the broad waist.

The head of the third gear rotated the steel ball in his palm leisurely as he walked. With the movement between the fingers, the impact sound of the two steel balls frequently rubbing out is crisp and hard, and the pores of the whole body are sharply constricted at the moment when people hear it, and they are afraid to stand in fear for no reason!

The big block walked to the front of the carriage and smiled at Minglan:

"Lord Ming is polite. In Ai Qing, the big block of the Lower East Factory, the two children were young and didn't understand the rules, and they collided with the overseer, and asked the overseer Haihan. ”

Minglan ignored him, stood in front of the carriage and called back his close attendant Qin Zhong with his back hand.

Looking at Gu Yunxi fixedly, he raised his thin eyebrows and replaced them with a feminine and ambiguous smile:

"That's it, today the governor originally came to visit Grandpa Leng, and since the father-in-law is not there, the governor will go back to the house first. Yun Guan'er, just this governor is just playing with you, don't be surprised. ”

What, playing? Just now, I was still aggressive and wanted to hit someone, but I turned around and thought about it with the two words "playing" lightly?

Gu Yunxi pursed his lips tightly and silently stared at the deep and complicated smile left by Minglan at the corner of his mouth.

The tips of his eyebrows were tightened, and a hint of unease throbbed in his heart.

——

On the carriage, Minglan was closing his eyes and recuperating.

Qin Zhong sat aside, holding Minglan's official hat in his arms. Because it was stained with soil, Minglan disliked it and threw it directly to the attendant, with his head bare, revealing his black hair in a bun.

"Overseer, Yun Guan'er's kid looks honest, but he is full of evil ideas, he almost caused you to fall off the carriage just now, why don't you let me teach him a good lesson."

"Good men don't fight women, it's just that."

Minglan still closed his eyes, only a vain smile, and his mind was full of Gu Yunxi's thousands of delicate smiling faces, until this picture that made him infinitely memorable was shattered by the piercing shouts next to him:

"What? Overseer, you said he was a woman—"

"Shhh...... What are you kid yelling about! ”

Minglan opened his eyes irritably, flew up a soap boot and kicked at Qin Zhong's calf.

"The subordinate knows that he is wrong...... But how do you know she's a woman? ”

Minglan opened his eyes and looked straight ahead, and explained with a smug expression:

"When Bentu deliberately pulled her closer, he could see very clearly, and she pierced her ears and eyes on both sides and ears. Even if he is raised as a delicate boy, at most he has an ear and eye on his left earlobe, and both sides are pierced, who else can there be except the girl's family? Not to mention ......"

"What's more?"

Qin Zhongzheng listened attentively, Minglan suddenly paused, and couldn't help but ask.

What's more, the spies have brought back news recently, Leng Qingtang left the East Factory a few days ago, and although he was accompanied by an official sedan chair on the night he came back, he rode all the way back to the East Factory. At that time, the governor was still the father-in-law in charge of Yongning Palace, and he had been ordered by the imperial concubine to go to Dongchang many times to pass on Leng Qingtang to enter the palace, and he remembered the events at that time very clearly! It was also at that time that there was a little person like Yun Guan'er in the East Factory! If Ben Du is not mistaken, Leng Qingtang rode a horse that night, and the person carried in the official sedan chair must have been his apprentice Yun Guan'er. ”

"If he's a woman, who is she? Why did Father-in-law Leng hide her in the East Factory? ”

The more Qin Zhong listened, the more chaotic his thoughts became, and the more curious he became.

Minglan sneered: "This governor also wants to know the true identity of Yun Guan, and see how much magic power she has, which can make that cold-hearted and cold Dongchang Admiral also have the idea of pity and pity!" Qin Zhong, the key is to start from the side of the Tribute Academy! ”

Qin Zhong's face was embarrassed, and he couldn't stop pouting his teeth:

"Overseer, there have always been people from the East Factory who have personally supervised it, and our people really can't be inserted......

Minglan smiled faintly after hearing this, and said lightly:

"It's okay, if you can't put it in, don't put it in, find a way...... Let the Gongyuan be taken over by our West Factory. ”

——

As soon as Leng Qingtang came back, he listened to Xiao Xiaoshen tell Ming Lan about the trouble outside the East Factory, and when he came to visit Gu Yunxi, he saw her smashing walnuts at the table to vent her anger.

Seeing the overseer, and looking at the messy walnut dregs on the table, her little face suddenly bulged, aggrieved and angry, and a pair of clear apricot eyes were sparkling and full of mist, which made people feel excited but distressed.

Sitting down steadily, Leng Qingtang asked Gu Yunxi to explain the process of confronting her and Minglan on the spot. When he heard the end, his face sank like water, and the light in his deep black eyes surged and he was cold.

"Overseer......"

Gu Yunxi only glanced at his stagnant eyes, and was stung by the cold and yin energy, and his body trembled suddenly, and the bubbling blood in his body seemed to stop flowing in an instant.

Quietly, Leng Qingtang dissipated his anger, his warm and jade-like face was as calm as ever, with an elegant and casual smile.

"Girl, you did something right this time, do you know where?"

Gu Yunxi looked at him and shook his head ignorantly.

"Your willingness to smile at him made him let his guard down easily. If there were no attendants present, it is estimated that Minglan would have fallen hard after being pulled off the carriage by you......"

"He deserves it!" Without waiting for the overseer to finish speaking, Gu Yunxi couldn't wait to pout and scold, and his eyes were soaked with hatred that had not yet disappeared.

Leng Qingtang looked at her, was silent for a moment, and suddenly spoke:

"Girl, don't expose your joy and anger to your eyes. Remember, the most powerful weapon against an opponent you can't handle is a smile! Laughter can help you hide your hatred, hide your murderous intentions, protect you, and help you put powerful enemies to death first. ”

Leng Qingtang finished speaking calmly, but his tone was unacceptable, clearly intentionally teaching his apprentices to relax and stay calm.

Gu Yunxi listened to seven points, and three points still need to be slowly understood and digested. The shallow wrinkle between her eyebrows slowly unfolded, and she smiled at the Overseer, describing her as well-behaved:

"Yunxi understands, thank you for the teaching."

Leng Qingtang nodded with a smile, and looked at the messy desktop again:

"What are you doing here?"

"Smash the peach kernels, then grind them into powder and mix them with white sugar frosting, and in a few days it will be the Double Ninth Festival, and then it's time to make flower cakes!"

Leng Qingtang only felt incredible, and said with a smile:

"If you want peach kernels, send someone to buy them on the street, why bother with all this energy?"

"The feelings are different from those you buy and what you make yourself!"

Gu Yunxi tilted his head and glanced at the overseer, his clear and sweet voice was slightly raised, naughty but also sultry.

After that, she stopped talking, shallow raised her cherry mouth, held a palm-sized hammer and continued to move.

Leng Qingtang sat next to her with great interest, watching her put down her tools after knocking a few times with a walnut in one hand and a hammer in the other, and then peeled off the broken walnut skin with her slender white fingers, and deftly picked out the peach kernels wrapped in the skin.

Leng Qingtang couldn't stand it anymore after just peeling two walnuts, and raised his hand to stop her.

"Don't peel off, watch out for hurting your nails. Can't you just take a break and talk to me? ”

A soft tone, with a hint of tactful plea.

Holding two warm and silky little hands into his palms, he lowered his eyes and looked closely.

The blisters on the little hands have disappeared, and the shallow dry skin is almost gone, but fortunately there are no calluses or scars.

But I peeled a lot of walnuts, and at this moment these delicate fingers were all reddish, and the soft fingertips were made by the hard and rough walnut skin.

Leng Qingtang's heart suddenly softened, and his big hand gently rubbed his little hand, smoothing out the dense pits on her fingers and the walnut crumbs in her hand.

After years of walking back and forth in the officialdom, cautious and walking on thin ice, he has long been accustomed to wearing various masks for himself in order to deal with the swords and swords that are always in the struggle for power.

The more time passed, the more the masks clung to his real face, which still had the temperature and tactile perception of his skin, and the accumulation became heavier and heavier, so that he could not breathe.

Even more often than not, even he couldn't tell which of these many faces was the one he still had to live.

Gu Yunxi, this delicate and lovely little girl who is as sweet as a wisp of spring water, is the only person who can make him willing to let go of that cold and stiff mask, not only to show her true face, but also to treat her sincerely and hold her in the palm of his hand warmly.

With her by his side, he was able to take off all his guards, and only at this moment could he find himself and feel that he was a flesh-and-blood, living person, or the one who had seven emotions and six desires and was really alive Hua Nanhe-

Gu Yunxi sat stupidly, feeling the warmth transmitted from those strong hands, and at the same time, the pinna of his ears gradually rolled up a touch of dry red.

It wasn't the first time that his hands had been held by him with his big hands, but his heartbeat had never been as intense as it was today.

With the ever-increasing heartbeat, an indescribable strange feeling rippled out from the bottom of Gu Yunxi's heart.

At this moment, she was nervous but also a little worried, whether such a muffled heartbeat would be heard by the Overseer, and from then on, it would be difficult to hide from him all kinds of complicated and unspeakable things-

The crystal clear eyes flickered, and Gu Yunxi shyly glanced at the face of the overseer crown jade and quickly moved to the side.

With a few gasps, the slippery little hand quietly escaped from the warm palm. She pursed her lips and bowed her head, smiling acutely, hiding her little hands behind her.