(Chapter 95) Jiangnan Smoke and Rain (45)
"Childe, are you alright?" Sun Hu hurriedly walked over from a distance.
I shook my head, "I'm fine, it's fine." β
As soon as I got closer, Sun Hu saw the bloodshot and tired look in my eyes at a glance, and he blamed himself, "That day, you left me in the other courtyard, and after you said that you went to find Lord Jia, I was stunned by His Royal Highness the Prince's men, and His Highness was not willing to let me out until today." Childe, I was too negligent, and I should have been alert when Lu Ding suddenly appeared in front of me. β
"You don't need to think much about this, what the prince wants to do, how can you and I easily stop it?" I smiled at him, my eyes darkening for a moment, "Relax." β
Sun Hu heard the indifference in my tone, he opened his mouth to say something, but after thinking about it again, he still changed his words, "We are about to return to Beijing, Gongzi can remember to bring that box of firefly moon powder, don't miss the appointment in front of the beauty." β
"Firefly moon powder?" I was stunned for a moment, and when I saw Sun Hu's strange expression, I suddenly remembered, "Oh, so that's what you said." I pulled the little porcelain box out of my bosom.
"Why did Childe take it with him?" Sun Hu looked at the porcelain box in my hand in surprise.
I saw that it was still intact and tucked it back into my arms.
"A gentleman makes a promise, how can he break the appointment in front of a beautiful woman?" I raised my eyebrows, "Ben Gongzi can mean the same thing for you and Ben Gongzi." β
After saying that, I turned around and left, and when I got to a small stall, I bent down and picked up a folding fan with a plum blossom on it. β
"Childe has good eyesight. This is a famous plum snow picture copied by a crane in the south of the Yangtze River, and I have this treasure here. As soon as the vendors saw that there was business coming to their door, they hurriedly bragged.
I put the fan in my hand and knocked on it, and there was a knowing smile on my face, "Ten copper plates." β
The peddler's face darkened, and his tone became bad: "Childe, I see that you are also a child of a big family, how can you not know the name of a crane, how can the fan he painted be worth ten copper plates?" β
I agreed with his words, nodded and said, "A crane's painting, naturally a daughter is a piece of gold, and it is reasonable, you can tell me, how much do you want for this fan?" β
Hearing me say this, the black-faced peddler immediately laughed into a flower, and he lowered his voice to me in a hurry, as if I had picked up a big bargain, "Today, Gongzi, you are my first business, and I will not lie to you, when I got this fan, the transaction price was five taels of silver, and now a copper plate does not make money, so the transaction price will be given to you, which is considered to be a repeat customer, how about it?" β
"Little brother, is this good?" I also followed him and lowered my voice: "You have been busy for so long a day, and you have just come to me for such a business, can you support your wife and children at home?" β
The peddler listened to me so secretly sarcastic, but his face was still not red and his heart was not beating, and he pretended to be pitiful at the moment, and lamented with a sad face, "Childe really talked about the difficulties of our small merchants and hawkers, we are all small businesses, we do business without a covered faΓ§ade, and we don't even have a place to sell things regularly. β
I was amused by the hawker's words, and I played with the folding fan and asked, "Is the world difficult?" Where did you hear that word? It's funny. β
The peddler didn't hear my remarks, so he raised his hand and pointed to the teahouse opposite to the right and said, "I often listen to books there, but I learned this from the gentleman sitting inside." β
I didn't speak, just nodded slightly.
"Childe, do you want to buy this fan?" Sun Hu, who was behind me, saw that I had been messing with the street vendors, so he couldn't help it, and came up to me and asked me.
Before I could speak, the vendor took the first step to put a high hat on me, "That's right, your son is going to buy this, this is a fan painted by a crane, and a character like Childe should be matched with such a fan!" β
Sun Hu has always been disgusted by these boastful patters, and he is not as polite as me at the moment, so he said directly, "It's just such a fan, even if it is thrown on the ground, no one is willing to pick it up." What else to say? What is the fan painted by a crane, a crane is the master of my son-in-law, who is a teacher in the White Crane Academy, and his paintings are as many as there are for my son-in-law. You talk nonsense like this, how do you know that you are a class with an axe and leave people to laugh at? β
The peddler was stunned by Sun Hu's words, and he couldn't answer, and when Sun Hu threw ten copper plates from the money bag to him with a cold face, he realized that he had encountered a hard stubble today.
Reaching out and grabbing all the copper plates into his small cloth bag containing money, the vendor said embarrassedly, "It's all for a mouthful of food, forgive me, forgive me." β
Listening to his words, I laughed and said, "I'm afraid you also learned this from that gentleman sitting in the hall, right?" β
The peddler rubbed his hands and said, "The story told by Mr. is good, and I have unconsciously learned these two elegant words. β
I shook my head with a smile, held the folding fan, and left while knocking on my palm, Sun Hu glared at the vendor and immediately followed.
"Xiaohu, how about you say that we should also listen to Duan's story?" I asked him.
Sun Hu was silent for a moment and said, "Does Childe really want to hear that?" If Childe really wants to hear it, I'll go with you. β
I didn't speak.
Sun Hu hesitated again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and walked a few steps quickly in front of me.
"Childe, the convoy back to Beijing is about to leave." Sister Literature Network
I paused, and my face turned cold.
"Childe, if you can't hide, you can't hide, what you can't escape is that you can't escape, even if you find a hawker to entangle, you can't change anything." Sun Hu could see that I was angry, after all, as a subordinate, he was not qualified to stop me and say these words to me, but the team was about to depart, even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was willing to wait, and the emperor was also unwilling.
"Have you ever thought about it, once the emperor knows that Gongzi has delayed the hour for no reason, what will be the consequences? My emperor is the hero of Shengming, which affirms that he is a suspicious person, you are in such a high position, you should be cautious everywhere, if it is just because of a moment of anger, everything that has been planned in the past will be wasted, don't you think it is ridiculous? β
I stopped tapping the folding fan and looked at Sun Hu who was standing in front of me, and suddenly I lowered my eyes and laughed, and a trace of bitterness passed through my eyes and sank to the bottom of my heart.
One day, the person in front of me who is nervous and cares about me will also be strangers to me.
"Let's go back." I spoke.
Sun Hu's tense expression relaxed, and he immediately turned sideways to make way for me.
There is a good saying, today there is wine and today is drunk, tomorrow's sorrow tomorrow is sorrowful, when I was facing Cen Xi sitting in the carriage, I kept reading this sentence in my heart, in order to warn myself, no matter how much grudge there is between us, that is also something that should be considered after returning to Beijing, at this moment, no matter what I do, I can't say anything disrespectful and do something rebellious.
"You've been staring at me like this, and when you return to the capital, I'm afraid your eyes will fall off." In the end, Cen Xi, who closed his eyes and recuperated, couldn't stand my gaze and opened his eyes.
I didn't speak, for I was afraid that if I opened my mouth, it would be a great disrespectful sin of disobedience.
Cen Xi saw that I was still staring at him motionless, and said helplessly, "If you are still angry about Gu Yuancheng's matter, I can give you a few punches, how about being angry?" β
I still don't speak.
Cen Xi couldn't help me, so he simply stretched out his hand and put it in front of me, "When I was a child, we agreed that if one day one of us made the other party sad, we would put the word 'pig' in the palm of that person's hand, and we would not wipe it for a month." Now I write to you, and you don't want to do it again. β
Hearing him mention what happened when I was a child, I couldn't suppress the anger in my heart anymore, slapped his hand away, and scolded, "Cen Xi, you are a villain who cheats secretly, you have the ability to ignore me for the rest of your life!" After calculating me, do you still want me to tell you something nice? Get out of here! β
I opened my mouth and cursed non-stop, until I poured out all the ugly words I had learned in my life, and almost scolded his ancestors together, but the remaining reason still allowed me to leave this bit of morality, and at the same time left my little life.
Cen Xi watched me scold him quietly, and he didn't reply or get annoyed, and when I was tired of scolding, he actually laughed, laughing so much that his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and he was wanton.
What a blind look for this good skin!
I thought hatefully.
"After returning to Beijing, my father will definitely ask you what reward you want, and you will say that it is okay to come to my palace to study with me?" Cen Xi suddenly spoke.
I was slightly stunned, then waved my hand and said, "Are you joking with me?" I am the minister of a country, how can I be the prince's companion? Besides, I finally struggled out of the White Crane Academy, how can I be justified in re-entering the sea of suffering? β
Cen Xi's expression remained unchanged, and he looked at me fixedly, "You know what I mean." β
I pursed my lips and looked away.
"If not, you can let your father reward you with ten thousand taels of gold, you are willing to do this." Cen Xi said.
I didn't plan to let go, but since Cen Xi put down his body and said this to me, I should always give him some face.
"Okay, just ten thousand taels of gold."
When Cen Xi heard this, he sighed and said, "It turns out that I am not as good as the white silver after all." β
"Wrong." I seriously corrected him, "It is not silver with white flowers, but gold with shining gold, ten thousand taels of gold." β
"Poof, haha......"
"Is it that funny? You are blaspheming money! "I was indignant.
"Shen Qingzhi, when my father heard what you said, he wouldn't have a good face for you." Cen Xi said with a smile.
I looked like I was going home, "When the time comes, I must implore the emperor to raise Zhang Fenglu and live a life of treating money as dung." β
"Okay." Cen Xi promised me, "In the future, I will go with you to plead with my father, and if you can't ask for it, I will give you mine." β