Chapter 42 "There Are Bandit Gentlemen"
In the small kitchen, there is a night-like silence, and the sun shines through the window on the two people like golden boys and girls, which looks so warm. A group of chirping sparrows flew outside the window, Xiao Xinyi was startled, turned around and took a long chopstick to stir the soaked medicinal herbs, the two didn't know what to say for a while, and Zhuge Qinghong was silent for a while before he spoke: "We will leave for Yongcheng early tomorrow morning, after arriving in Yongcheng, I will first go to Lanyufang, I have been looking for someone for ten years and has never stopped, if this is the case and suddenly do not look for it, it will inevitably attract the attention of some people with a heart, so I still have to do it."
Xiao Xinyi replied: "Okay, but the purpose of our action this time, what did you say to Hua Gongzi."
"He knew for a long time that I was investigating this gang of bandits, I just didn't tell him that this gang would have something to do with what happened ten years ago, and he rarely cares about these twists and turns in the rivers and lakes." Zhuge Qinghong replied.
"Looks like you're on good terms." Xiao Xinyi said.
"It's okay, he seems to be my first friend in the rivers and lakes." Zhuge Qinghong said and curled the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Hua Gongzi is a very interesting person, he must be pampered at home to develop such a cheerful temperament." Xiao Xinyi said when he saw the subtle change in his expression.
"That's right, the eldest grandson of the Hua family, although his mother family is not as good as the current Hua family, but he is also a famous rich businessman in the Langya area, he has been a group of servants in brocade clothes and jade food since he was a child, plus he is talented and intelligent, and he has learned a good ability to break into the rivers and lakes to become famous, which can be described as the pride of the sky." Zhuge Qinghong replied.
"And how did you meet?" Xiao Xinyi asked.
"When he was young and vigorous, he had to enter Zhusong Mountain alone to eliminate harm for the people, and the bandits who made trouble in Zhusong Mountain were eliminated by him, but when he went down the mountain at night, he encountered wolves who came out to forage, and he was injured at that time, if I didn't happen to pass by, even if he could escape from the wolves, I am afraid he would have to end up with a lifelong disability." Zhuge Qinghong remembered how embarrassed he was when he first saw Hua Rujiang, and slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, quite gloating.
"Oh, no wonder Hua Gongzi likes to stick to you so much, it turns out that you are still his savior." Xiao Xinyi couldn't imagine that the high-spirited Hua Rujiang would be so embarrassed.
"When I mentioned this stubble, I only hated that I didn't escape overnight when I saved him, and I guarded him for five days and five nights before sending him to Langya, and I left Langya for only one day, and he chased after me, and followed me out for more than half a year before he was kidnapped back by his father." Zhuge Qinghong said helplessly.
"However, I see that you also like Hua Gongzi very much, although you look cold to him, but every time you see him, your mood will be much better." Xiao Xinyi looked at Zhuge Qinghong and said.
"Really? You don't say I didn't find out, maybe he was the first friend I made in the martial arts. "There was one more sentence that he didn't say." He was fortunate to have him in those most difficult days. ”
Zhuge Qinghong seemed to think of the days when he was entangled by Hua Rujiang again. Although he is often disturbed by his noise, he is no longer alone in the north and south. He never took his subordinates with him when he checked Xiao's family affairs, and he didn't know if there were any spies around him and whether they would betray him. But Hua Rujiang is different, he never asks Zhuge Qinghong why he often wanders aimlessly in various deep mountains and old forests, just eats and drinks behind him, and finds some fun for himself, although he has not helped him much, but he has never caused him trouble. Later, Langya's Hua family's business became bigger and bigger year by year, and Hua Rujiang rarely had time to go out to play unscrupulously, but this time he was kicked out of the house for some reason.
Zhuge Qinghong and Xiao Xinyi talked about some interesting things between him and Hua Rujiang, Xiao Xinyi listened to it with relish, and now she feels that Zhuge Qinghong has the appearance that only a teenager should have, he is obviously only twenty years old, but his usual style of acting is already like a year, and his voice and appearance seem to be more mature than his peers, he must have been very sad for more than ten years. Xiao Xinyi looked at him and felt a little apologetic, if it weren't for the Xiao family, he could have ridden and shot arrows like an ordinary teenager, and there should still be a childishness between his eyebrows and eyes. Although he lost his mother very early, he still has a father who dotes on him very much, and he should have lived a good life, all for the sake of the Xiao family and Cang'an Villa, so that he will be so young and old, step by step.
During the conversation, the medicine had been decocted, Zhuge Qinghong didn't let Xiao Xinyi touch the hot crockpot, and walked in front with the medicine bowl after filtering the medicine residue himself, and before the two of them entered Hua Rujiang's room, they heard Hua Rujiang's voice coming from the room: "Sister, I'm just talking a little louder, you don't need to be so angry."
The two walked a few steps quickly, and when they entered the room, they saw Yu Luo sitting on the edge of the bed, Hua Rujiang hiding behind her and only revealing half of her head, looking timidly at Leng Moyan who was full of anger.
Xiao Xinyi walked quickly to Leng Moyan, pulled her aside and asked, "What's wrong."
Leng Moyan snorted coldly and said, "You ask him."
Xiao Xinyi turned his head to look at Hua Rujiang. Seeing Hua Rujiang, he also looked puzzled.
Zhuge Qinghong turned around and asked Hua Rujiang: "What good things have you done?"
Hua Rujiang looked aggrieved: "I didn't do anything."
Leng Moyan took out something from her hand and threw it on the table: "What is this?"
Everyone looked towards the table and saw that it was a finely made sachet, the sachet was pale cyan, and there were a few red impatiens embroidered on it, Xiao Xinyi picked up the sachet, then sniffed his fingers, looked at Leng Moyan and asked, "Is this a impatiens?"
"Yes, after you left, I called the purple dove out and found that it had been curled up, not eating, drinking, or moving, I searched all over the room and found this under the table, which is the position where he sat today, what else do you have to say." After Leng Moyan finished speaking, she looked at Hua Rujiang on the side.
Hua Rujiang looked dazed, he knew that the snake was afraid of impatiens, but he didn't know what it had to do with him.
Zhuge Qinghong looked at the sachet in Xiao Xinyi's hand, and said to Leng Moyan: "Miss Leng don't be impatient, wait for Huashan to take the decoction, and I will give you an explanation." After speaking, he walked to the side of the bed and said to Hua Rujiang: "Drink the medicine first, and it will be cold after a while."
Hua Rujiang looked at him with a face full of grievances and didn't speak, Yu Luo took the medicine bowl and fed him spoonful by spoon with a white porcelain spoon.
Zhuge Qinghong turned around and asked Leng Moyan and said, "Miss Leng, has anyone been to your room except Huashan today."
Leng Moyan snorted coldly and said, "No."
Zhuge Qinghong nodded and said to Xiao Xinyi: "Please also ask Miss Jiang to find the guy who brought us food today."
Xiao Xinyi put the sachet on the table and said, "Okay."
After Xiao Xinyi left, Zhuge Qinghong said to Leng Moyan: "Miss Leng, this sachet can never be owned by Huashan, although he is stubborn, he acts openly and disdainfully to do some villain acts. And although the sachet is finely made, it is the most ordinary fabric on the street, Huashan is the most picky about the things he carries, and he will not use cotton and linen. ”
"Couldn't this be the snake he bought on purpose to kill me?" Leng Moyan asked Zhuge Qinghong angrily.
"I'm like this now, how can I go out and buy such a boring thing to deliberately harm your snake." Hua Rujiang swallowed a mouthful of decoction in his mouth and asked Leng Moyan with confidence.
At this moment, Xiao Xinyi came up with the guy who had delivered them food in the morning. The guy was seventeen or eighteen years old, white and delicate, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the sachet on the table with a happy face, and saluted everyone and said: "It turns out that my sachet was picked up by you, and I didn't find it all morning, thank you guests." As he spoke, he stepped forward to take back the sachet.
Leng Moyan stretched out her hand to stop him: "Why do you say that this sachet is yours."
Xiao Xinyi pressed Leng Moyan's hand and said, "I asked him below, he did lose a sachet, and the style and color are the same."
The guy's face turned red, and he said a little shyly: "Don't hide it from the guests, this sachet is a gift from the villain's fiancée, and the rusty pattern on it is her maiden name, and there are yellow characters of the villain's surname on the seal of the sachet."
Xiao Xinyi picked up the sachet and looked at it carefully, the seal was wrapped with five-color silk threads and some wrinkles, Xiao Xinyi opened the folds and saw the yellow characters embroidered with the same color silk thread as the sachet, so he returned the sachet to him and said: "Bother the little brother to run this trip, this thing is very precious to you, and I hope to keep it for a good life, don't fall elsewhere."
Xiao Er took it with both hands and bowed to Xiao Xinyi and said, "What the girl said is very true, I think I accidentally knocked over a bowl in this girl's room in the morning, and I accidentally lost it when I was cleaning up the residue, so I don't want to cause trouble to the girl." The guy looked at Leng Moyan and said apologetically.
As soon as he said this, Leng Moyan remembered, it was indeed this guy who delivered the food to her room in the morning, when the purple dove was napping on the table, when the guy put the food on the table, the purple dove was awakened and stretched out half of his body, at first the guy thought that it was a purple jade ornament on the table, but he was frightened by the purple dove spitting out the letter, so he accidentally broke the soup bowl in his hand, and the sachet should have fallen in her room at that time. I don't know if she was kicked under the table by the guy in a panic or by Leng Moyan, because the round tables of the inn were covered with long tablecloths, so she didn't find the sachet under the table, until Hua Rujiang came to her room, Leng Moyan called out the purple dove to find the abnormality, and then found the culprit from under the table.
The matter was finally figured out, the innkeeper apologized again and again, and Leng Moyan's face was even more angry. Seeing this, Xiao Xinyi sent him out, turned to Hua Rujiang and said, "Mo Yan is just impulsive, I blame Gongzi, and I hope that Gongzi Hua will not take it to heart."
Hua Rujiang looked at Leng Moyan's gloomy face and said: "I also have something wrong with this matter, if I hadn't provoked Miss Leng early in the morning, she wouldn't have suspected me, so I was at fault first, and I should apologize to Miss Leng."
Xiao Xinyi didn't seem to expect him to say this, and her eyes looked at Hua Rujiang with a little more solemnity, and she seemed to understand why Zhuge Qinghong could become close friends with him.
Sure enough, there are bandit gentlemen, who are good at banter, not abuse.