"Take a leave of absence!"

In the Wenxiu Temple, Yan Wu slowly threw down the bamboo slips, and then waved his hand violently. Suddenly, the naughty boys, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, boiled like opening the floodgates. Only the fool still sat in his place stupidly, with a pair of blank and cloudy eyes, looking east and west, as if he had not fully woken up from the dream.

"Smack!"

The back of the head slammed, the fool was stunned, turned his neck, and looked behind him in a daze, and behind him stood a chubby child, with a mouth missing two front teeth, and a piece of bamboo slip in his hand as a swordman.

"Fourth brother, give me your finches!"

The fat child waved the bamboo slices and kept urging the fool.

The children in the courtyard are all young people who like to be mischievous, and when they saw the little fat man teasing the fool, they all gathered around and coaxed loudly: "Hurry up, hurry up, quickly take out your finch and put it on the table!" ”

"Sparrow, take it out and put it on the table?" The fool was in a hurry, blushing, and asked pitifully, "Brother Fu, really, do you really want to take it out?" Isn't it okay in broad daylight? ”

The fat boy said happily: "Of course, hurry up and put it on the table, let everyone see it together!" ”

"Oh, okay."

The fool was forced to helpless, so he had to get up slowly, untie the belt that was two palms wide, fold it neatly in the corner of the desk, shake his sleeves, slowly glanced at the children, and then closed his eyes, but he lay down on the bookcase and touched his hands down.

"Wow, what does he want to pull out?"

"Fourth brother, what are you going to do?"

The children were stunned, their eyes widened, and the little fat man's wooden sword was pointed at the fool's hand, and his mouth was incomparably wide enough to stuff a big duck egg.

The fool put his hands on his waist and crotch, and was about to touch the finch out so that everyone could watch it carefully, but he was startled by the expressions of the children, and couldn't help covering his crotch, blushing to distinguish: "No, don't you want to put the finch on the case?" ”

"Ugh!"

The little fat man slapped his head with a bamboo piece, squatted down helplessly, and poked the fool's forehead with his finger: "My fourth brother, I don't want you as a finch, but as your finch!" ”

The fool replied, "Brother Fu, I only have one finch. ”

"Hahaha, idiot......"

"Hee-hee-hee, fool, fool......"

The children laughed, but the little fat man suddenly got angry, brushed the ground and got up, carried the bamboo chips, pointed at the children and shouted: "What are you laughing at, dare to laugh at my fourth brother again, I cut his head with a sword!" ”

All the children took a step back, obviously a little afraid of the little fat man.

Although the children who study in the Wenxiu Monastery are all surnamed Ji, they are also close to each other, this little fat man is the only son of Ji Ying, the doctor on the left, and he has been loved by Ji Ying like a treasure since he was born, and he has always been arrogant.

"My fourth brother can only laugh at me, and you are not allowed to laugh!"

"Yes, yes......"

The little fat man waved the bamboo piece to drive the children backwards again and again, and then he was satisfied with the bamboo piece inserted into his belt, turned around to face the fool, and sighed: "Alas, fourth brother, you are really a fool, I am talking about the finch in your sleeve, not the finch in your crotch." ”

"Tell me earlier......"

The fool suddenly realized, got up from the case with a grunt, picked up the belt at the corner of the case and wrapped it around his waist, took out a snow-white bird from the wide sleeve, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, Brother Fu wants this finch, not mine, my finch is used to pee, if it is gone, it will be uncomfortable to hold it in the future." ”

"Haha, fourth brother, you are so stupid......"

The little fat man laughed with the snow-white bird, and his mouth with missing front teeth was extremely funny. He laughed, and the children laughed too, and the yard was full of anger.

A little farther away, Yan Wu kept staring at this scene with his head tilted, and when he saw the fool and the little fat man leave shoulder to shoulder, he couldn't help but shake his head and let out a long sigh.

The fool was eleven years old, but the little fat man was only seven years old, and he was much taller in terms of size, but the two walked almost flat shoulder to shoulder, and if you looked closely, it was the fool who bent his legs.

Limping, rather weird.

There are more than a dozen carriages parked outside the temple, and the curtains are embroidered with the red bird of the sun, which is the emblem of the Marquis of Anguo, decorated with gorgeous and simple, showing the nobility and mediocrity of the owner.

The children came out laughing, and the servants greeted them from both sides of the alleyway, and pulled them into the carriage and drove to the Shaotai Palace.

The only exception was one carriage, which stood quietly in the shade of a distant tree, not in a group with any of the carriages, and the horses pulling the carriage were so scrawny that at a glance the ribs protruded outward, as if they would fall to the ground and foam at the mouth in the next moment. The curtain is only a linen curtain, and there is no embroidery on it. The coachman was also different from other families, tall and thin, dressed in black, with an iron sword hanging from his waist.

The sword is extremely long, with seven feet in two.

The March sun shone on the locust tree, casting mottled shadows, and the coachman stood in the shadows, the shadows of the trees swaying, his face cloudy, and a pair of cold, dead eyes, quiet, straight, cast at the fool who walked in the crowd.

As soon as he saw the coachman, the children who were laughing suddenly fell silent, and the little fat man's face changed several times, and he quietly moved the hand that was hooking the fool's shoulder back, and smiled unnaturally.

"Fourth brother, I'll go first, and when I've had enough, I'll return Xiaobai to you."

The little fat man escaped into the car with a smoke, lifted the side curtain, and waved at the fool.

The fool stood alone at the gate of the courtyard, with his mouth split, smiling stupidly, and waited until the carriages disappeared into the deep alleys, and the courtyard gate behind him was closed at some point, and the fool threw off his sleeves and walked towards the carriage in the shade of the trees in the distance.

"Gray ......"

The thin horse, who was grazing on the weeds by the side of the road, saw the fool coming, flicked his tail, took a few steps forward, snuggled his head up, arched the fool's chest, and stuck out his tongue to lick the fool's face.

"Don't lick, don't lick ......"

The fool laughed, and his smile was bright.

The coachman stepped out of the shadow of the tree, came out into the sun, pressed the iron sword at his waist, and threw a long shadow at the fool who was half-kneeling on the ground, and caged the upright fool in it.

The fool got into the car and smiled.

The coachman also smiled, and the moment he opened his mouth, it was shocking, his mouth was hollow, and there was no tongue!

The carriage drove to the west of the city, passed through the official residences of the princes and doctors, passed the high-walled compounds of the scholars, and sneaked into the cool alleys.

"Ding Dong, Ding Dong ......" The sound of the harp came from the high alley wall, which was quite beautiful, this is the famous wine shop "Cloud Sparrow" in Shaotai City, and it is the industry of Shangqing Meng Yuxi.

Turning out of the alleyway, the eyes suddenly opened up, and what I saw was a low thatched house, and the road became bumpy, and there were a group of boys playing with bare buttocks by the roadside, and when they chased them around, they saw the oncoming carriage and laughed around the carriage.

The fool knew what they were laughing at, turned his head away, and ignored the little boys.

The coachman frowned, shook his whip, and made a "crackling" sound, and the bird's nest in the plane tree was in the middle, and the grass fluttered and fell, and from the bird's nest came a squeaky sound, and the little children ran to the nest that fell in the grass, and the coachman rolled a little chick with a horsewhip and handed it to the fool.

The fool put the little bird that had not yet opened its eyes into his sleeve, and the carriage proceeded.

In the distance, a woman sat in the doorway doing laundry, and the muddy sewage flowed down the woman's fingers, overflowing from the muddier basin of water, and into the loess road, forming one pothole after another.

The end is the end of the pothole.

The driver jumped out of the car and lifted the curtain.

The fool came out and smiled at the woman who was doing the laundry.

"Boom......"

The woman was so busy washing her laundry that she stirred up the sewage in the basin, as if there were not only dirty laundry but also a few big mullets that were alive and kicking in there.

The fool walked up to the woman, looked at the reflection in the sewage, and cried out, "I'm back!" ”

"Huh!"

The woman's hand rubbing her clothes slammed it, but a larger splash of water jumped out of the basin and splashed it on the fool, soaking the hem of the fool's shirt and his shoes.

"Hehe......" the fool laughed.

The woman raised her head, stared at the fool with a pair of slanted eyes, and said lukewarmly: "It turned out that the little marquis came back, and I still thought I was a thief. After saying that, he picked up the huge basin of water, kicked open the door, and walked towards the courtyard.

The coachman led the horse to the backyard.

The fool followed the woman into the courtyard.

The yard is indeed very broken, and the walls are very low, if a thief comes, it really can't be prevented. There were four mud houses in the courtyard, the woman on the east side, the coachman on the west side, and two rooms on the north side, one for the fool and the other for a little maid.

The woman carried the basin into the east room.

At this moment, the little maid walked out of the room on the west side of the north, because she lowered her head, she could not see clearly, but she could see that this was a petite girl, with very thin stripes, wearing a dark bright yellow skirt that was half new and half old, with black piping, her hands folded at her waist, and her gait was light to meet her.

"Hou Zi is back, I have seen Hou Zi."

The voice is also extremely thin, like a small wildflower trembling in the spring breeze, but the etiquette is extremely thoughtful, and it should be strictly adjusted.

"I'm hungry!"

The fool rubbed his belly, strode to the room to the east of the north, and pushed open the broken door full of holes.

The furnishings in the interior are minimal, with only one case, one seat, and one bed. There were two windows in the house, one facing the courtyard and the other on the back wall, and at this moment, the back window above the straw couch was closed.

The fool went to the mat and sat down, opened the compartment under the low table, put the bird in, put some weeds on it, and waited for the meal to be eaten.

After a while, the yellow shadow flashed at the door, and the little maid walked in with a wooden plate, and put three kinds of food on the table, a bowl of yellow and clear bran porridge, a plate of green pickled wild vegetables, and a small urn of slimy things.

The fool drank all the chaff porridge, chewed the pickled wild vegetables, picked up the sticky thing in the urn, sniffed it vigorously, and opened his eyebrows and eyes, it was meat soup.

"Where's the meat?"

Quickly poured an urn of meat soup into his stomach, and the fool touched his bulging belly with satisfaction, and his eyes lit up.

"Yes, it's the chick I caught......"

The little maid knelt beside the fool, twisting her waist uneasily, her voice was as thin as a mosquito, she had a small face, thin eyebrows, a straight nose, a small mouth, and her skin was blown out.

"Up, where did you catch it?" The fool asked stupidly.

"Back, Backyard ......"