Ten stone rice, two baskets of verdant seasonal vegetables, ten catties of mutton, two fat rabbits, plus two silks, and two silk clothes. When the Dengfeng County Bureau sent someone to send these many things to the grass house, Du Sanniang couldn't help frowning when she heard the bamboo shadow return. Especially when she learned that it was only two errand officers who came to deliver things, she was even more annoyed. However, before she could speak, another voice came from outside the room.

"Is this here to sell rice, or is it to sell vegetables, meat, and cloth? They're embarrassed! After sneering, the voice suddenly raised a few points, "Du Nineteen, are you here?" If I don't say anything, I won't tell you! ”

Du Sanniang heard a movement inside, and then saw her brother come out from behind the lattice fan, and walked straight to the door and raised the bamboo curtain. She looked up at the gap between Du Shiyi's raised hands, and at a glance she saw the young man in the courtyard in a fine kudzu robe. Although she had followed her brother before and had seen this Cui Shiyi Lang a few times, every time she saw that face that was more beautiful than herself, and those phoenix eyes, she always had the illusion that she was looking at a woman, and this moment was no exception.

"What a rare guest, Brother Eleven actually found here!"

"What, not welcome? Don't forget, you still owe me more than a dozen dollars to search for ducks, I don't care if this has anything to do with the county office, I just know to ask you! ”

"Brother Eleven is a rare guest, how could I not welcome it? Please come in, please come in, the home is shabby, and I am sluggish. Hearing that Cui Jianxuan seemed to be a little unreasonable, Du Shiyi immediately smiled, and immediately turned sideways and let him in.

As soon as Cui Jianxuan entered the door, he swept all kinds of bamboo furniture in the room, his eyebrows were raised, and when he saw Du Sanniang, who had no time to retreat, he was stunned. He himself is a boy and a girl, so a few times ago, he saw Du Sanniang dressed in men's clothes following behind Du Shiyi, and he only thought that the Du family also had a handsome servant, but at this time, although Du Sanniang did not insert hairpins and knotted hair, she was dressed up in women's clothes, which naturally had only one answer.

"This is the thirteenth mother of the house. Before, because I was running around, she was not at ease, she had to follow her life and death, I couldn't resist her, I could only let her dress up in men's clothes, and the eleventh brother must not be publicized. ”

Du Sanniang was uncomfortable by Cui Jianxuan's gaze, and after saluting, she retreated straight to the inside. However, it was just a thin paper lattice fan, and Cui Jianxuan's words from outside still inevitably came in: "This is the sister who went to Songyang Guan to kneel and beg in order to treat you?" No wonder he was able to impress the Emperor of the Underworld, if he was really sincere, he would not stay at home for the daughters of other people's families, and he would not stay for the next moment, for fear of damaging his snow-like skin! If there is a brother, there must be a sister, well, you brothers and sisters are good! ”

glanced thoughtfully at the paper lattice fan, although she couldn't see what Du Shisanniang's face was at the moment, Du Shiyi also knew that the little girl would never be happy because of the praise, maybe she muttered because of Cui Shisanlang's straightforward heart. Thinking that when the errand officer sent by the Dengfeng County Administration saw Cui Jianxuan just now, he was like a snake and scorpion, he raised his eyebrows, and when he invited Cui Jianxuan to sit down, he immediately sat cross-legged on the main seat, and then asked: "Why did the eleventh brother come today?" ”

"Can't you come if you're fine?"

Cui Jianxuan snorted lightly, and saw that a young maid sent slurry water up, he glanced at people casually, took the pottery cup and took a sip of it to his mouth, and then said, "If you are still the prodigy who is famous for his poems and texts, I am too lazy to take this trip today." Du Nineteen, to tell you the truth, do you know that Weishenme's county lieutenant Qian Lu has to drive you back to the thatched hut to recuperate?

These days, the controversy between the DPRK and China over the locust plague has finally settled. Yao Xianggong won a complete victory, and even Ni Envoy Jun of Bianzhou, who once resisted the most fiercely, had to personally lead the crowd to hunt locusts after receiving the document from the political affairs hall. And in the past two days, a superintendent sent by the imperial court is about to arrive in Dengfeng. At this time, my seventh uncle and the county lieutenants of the county bureau are all accompanying him around the countryside, otherwise when the imperial historian personally inspects the fields, if people see that it is you who are not related to the people who are busy in front of them, their efforts to exterminate the locusts will be gone! ”

As soon as these words came out, Du Sanniang's uncontrollable low exclamation suddenly came from behind the fan. And Du Shiyi was not surprised by this reasonable answer: "I see." Since the imperial court is working hard to control locusts, it seems that there should be no famine this year. ”

Cui Jianxuan stared at Du Shiyi tightly for a while, and when he saw him looking back calmly, he couldn't help but ask in disbelief: "Aren't you annoyed?" ”

"Then if it is replaced by the eleventh brother, then I should ignore it and take the villagers to show their might in front of that imperial history, so that people can see that the matter of Dengfeng and exterminating locusts is all because of my own merits?"

Seeing Cui Jianxuan nodding without thinking, Du Shiyi suddenly knew that he had asked the wrong person, and Cui Shiyi Lang was obviously this kind of person. So, he couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth, and then said: "Brother Eleven has also been running around with me these days, catching locusts and killing locusts, and he must have seen it.

Even if I have worn out my tongue, there are still people who are unwilling and unwilling. This is still me under the order of the Ming Gong and leading the county office, if I only rely on my strength, then no one will listen to me. And now that the imperial court has sent the imperial history to such a turn, there will inevitably be more people who respond, and the result is naturally better than ours. When a good thing is done, it is not necessary to ask for praise and reward, not to mention, there are eleven brothers who specially come to fight grievances, which is already an unexpected joy for me! ”

"Who said I'm here to upset you?" Cui Jianxuan's phoenix eyes raised his eyebrows, but in Du Shiyi's smiling eyes, he still said inwardly, "I'm just looking at your hard work these days, so I'm here to remind you." If you don't care, what does it matter to me? ”

Although he was a little indifferent to Cui Jianxuan at first, seeing such a noble son of a family who was like a girl stubbornly following him all over the country, even if he was unforgiving, Du Shiyi's impression of him had already changed. At this moment, seeing that he was still so old, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly and said, "Then I lost my words." By the way, Brother Eleven doesn't seem to be a native of Dengfeng, I don't know how long he will be in Dengfeng? ”

"What, could it be that you Du Nineteen think that I won't leave, and you want to issue an eviction order?"

"Brother Eleven, has anyone ever said that your mouth is too mean?" Seeing Cui Jianxuan's face turned blue with annoyance, Du Shiyi sighed and said, "Forget it, it's my own fault, I have to beat around the bush with a straightforward person like you." I'm asking you, do you come to Dengfeng to visit the mountains and rivers, or to visit relatives and visit the old, why do you have so much spare time to go with me to exterminate locusts? Now that someone else has taken over this matter, what are your plans? ”

Cui Jianxuan was about to get angry, but when he heard Du Shiyi's later words, his sudden fire disappeared without a trace, because he said in a muffled voice: "I am indeed not from Dengfeng, I am from the Eastern Capital, but I am temporarily staying in the county office." My grandmother asked me to go to Hanging Lianfeng Lu Haoran to study, but I didn't have the slightest interest in this poetry, and I followed you around, just to pass the time! I heard that Lu Haoran is very strict with his disciples, in case I can't stay and be driven back, it won't be a loss for the Cui family......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that he had unconsciously said the biggest scruple in his heart, and he was very annoyed for a while, and couldn't help but stand up and say: "Okay, I came to see you today to tell you about the imperial history to Dengfeng, since you don't care, I can't care about it." Du Nineteen, we'll have a meeting later! ”

"Eh, come as you say, leave as you say, what do you think of me as a place!" Du Shiyi didn't wait for him to turn around and go out, so he got up and stopped Cui Jianxuan, and then said with a smile, "If you don't mention the Lu Gong of Hanging Lian Peak, it's okay, since you mentioned it, then I just found someone to discuss." Eleventh brother, I won't tell you, I also happened to be recommended by someone, and I was hesitating to go to Xuanlian Peak to ask for that Lu Gong. However, studying is naturally what I want, but firstly, I depend on my sister and I don't want to leave her, and secondly, I am a ...... Like you, some of them are uninhibited. ”

"Are you true?" Cui Jianxuan glanced at Du Shiyi suspiciously, and saw that he couldn't help but press himself on the seat just now, and then came to the bookcase in the corner, bent down for a moment, and walked over with a bamboo tube in his hand and handed it to his eyes. Seeing that the ink on the bamboo tube was like Brother Lu's personal opening, and the inscription was Sima Ziwei's worship of two lines, he couldn't help but take a breath lightly.

"Is it a letter of recommendation from the Shangqing Sect Master Sima?" After receiving Du Shiyi's nod and reply, Cui Jianxuan's face couldn't help but be extremely strange, "It's really a coincidence...... My grandmother said that she asked for me, and it was a letter of recommendation from Master Pu Lin of Songyue Temple in Songshan. We recommend a monk together, one is the patriarch of Zen, the other is the sect master, we are not monks and non-Taoists, it seems that we are difficult brothers! ”

Speaking of this, Cui Jianxuan's face was bright for a while: "Go, why don't you go?" If it's really me, I'll go out to play around the states and counties of Henan Province, and then go back to the Eastern Capital, it's a big deal to eat my grandmother and grandpa and auntie at that time, but since we have you as a companion, then let's just go together to see the demeanor of that Lu Gongyinyi Gaoshi! If it is not the spleen and stomach, let's come back quietly, and at that time I will also build a thatched hut near you, and we will live next to each other, wouldn't it be beautiful? ”

If I really live next to you, won't I be killed by you?

Du Shiyi saw that Cui Jianxuan had made such an unauthorized decision, and couldn't help but be angry. However, thinking about it, he didn't live up to Sima Chengzhen's letter of recommendation, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then let's be clear." I just took Thirteen Niang to relax. ”

"Then it's decided!" Cui Jianxuan stood up with a smile, flicked the corner of his coat and said, "Early in the morning, I'll let people drive." By the way, regardless of Luoyang, Chang'an, the nobles all over the street don't even bring their hats, and take their maidservants around to run around to play, there is no distinction between men and women at all, and your thirteen mothers don't have to be so restrained. The seventy-two peaks of Songshan Mountain are all summer resorts, just take the opportunity to have enough! ”

As soon as she heard this, Du Shiyi was completely sure. What did Cui Shiyi say about going to Hang Lian Feng to see Lu Hong with himself, in fact, he didn't have hope in his bones, he was planning to go to the mountains and rivers at all!