Jinyuan County originally belonged to Yizhou Chengdu Mansion, after the Wuhou hanging arch two years, the imperial court will Yizhou four counties separately opened, another Shuzhou, the governance office is in Jinyuan County, so far it is only more than 40 years, so Jinyuan County is actually the state city of Shuzhou.

The city is still the original city, the new assassin history yamen has not been expanded, Jin Yuan is located in the country of abundance, has always been a place of people, these years the government is harmonious, the population and goods are more and more prosperous, so it is said that the county is more and more lively year by year.

It was dusk when the carriage entered the city, and Li Xi didn't want to speak, so he simply opened the curtain and looked at the lively streets and alleys outside.

As the sun sets, the whole city seems to be painted with a layer of bright dancôme.

Bright and bright.

The wide bluestone street spreads out smoothly forward, and the neighbors on both sides of the street are lined with shops.

Crowds of people, wine and sales, and the sound of selling one after another.

It's just that no matter how you look at it, you can't find a little familiarity.

This is the Tang Dynasty.

There are no high-rise buildings, no cars, no telephone poles, no billboards...... There are no stockings and beautiful legs.

Alas......

Sighing, Li Xi lowered the curtain.

Liu Rong thought in his heart that Li Xi couldn't adapt to the huge contrast between the past and the present brought about by amnesia, and his heart was feeling tight, so in addition to saying a few words at the beginning, he didn't say a word along the way, leaving all the time to Li Xi and letting him figure it out for himself.

The carriage finally stopped at the mouth of a small alley, and Liu Rong patted him on the shoulder and said nothing.

Picking up the curtain and seeing the narrow and cramped alley in front of him, Li Xi seemed to wake up from his thousand-year-old thoughts all of a sudden, he stretched his waist and yawned, turned around and smiled at Liu Rong, and said in a deep voice: "Second brother, thank you for sending me, the incident just now...... Excuse me for a few days, I want to think about it. ”

Consider it, in fact, there is nothing to consider, even Li Xi, a half-traveler, feels that it is estimated that he can't get along in the county school, and he is not the son and son of a wealthy family, so at this time in the Tang Dynasty, once the road of studying and taking the Jinshi is blocked, what better way out can he have?

Being able to go to the Yamen of the Assassin History to be a small official and eat the emperor's food from now on is indeed a good errand and a good future for himself at the moment, but maybe it is the pride in the bones of modern people in his heart that is causing trouble, he always feels that since God has let him pass over, it will not be to let himself be a small official for the rest of his life, and his wife and children will spend a dull life on the hot kang, right?

I should always do something, don't ask for anything to shock the world, and I don't want to leave a name in history, at least I have to make my life comfortable, and I can't hold the job of a small official in the history of the assassination and spend my whole life in a daze.

Liu Rong nodded silently when he heard this, and Li Xi turned around and got out of the car and walked into the alley.

He didn't notice that not far from where the carriage had stopped, there was a carriage parked.

Although this Hubi Alley is narrow and cramped, there are forty or fifty families living in it, and no one should laugh at anyone, whose courtyard walls and houses are all in tatters, but along the way, Li Xi is still watching with interest...... There are also poor people in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Xi's home is in the middle of Hu Cake Lane, and there is a lush mulberry tree at the gate that is seven or eight feet high.

When Li Fu was the chief bookkeeper of Jinyuan County, he was very honest as an official, and he was honest every month to eat that little money, although there were some industries handed down from the previous generation at home, but he was not good at management, and there were losses and profits.

Later, after he died of illness suddenly, Li Xi and his mother had no income, and even soon fell to the point where they couldn't afford to rent a yard, so in the end, Li Xi and his third uncle came forward to deal with the excess property in the family, and bought a single-door and single-family small courtyard in this Hu Cake Alley with the money in exchange, and the mother and son lived together for some ordinary days.

Li Xi's mother died after living in this small courtyard for less than two years, which is of course due to the fact that her husband died early and she was overly sad, but in fact, it has nothing to do with the blow of this kind of difficult livelihood in the family.

However, after crossing over, he lived in this dilapidated small courtyard for more than ten days, and Li Xi quickly got used to it.

After a small bend, he had already seen the big mulberry tree, and was walking confidently over it, but suddenly he saw a layer of smoke shrouded in smoke above his yard for some reason, which looked like smoke caused by a fire!

At this moment, Li Xi suddenly panicked, although the courtyard was broken, it was also the only place for him to live now!

Running quickly to the door, he pushed open the courtyard door, saw where the smoke was, and immediately went straight to the kitchen, but when he walked to the middle of the courtyard and saw the situation in the kitchen, he unconsciously stopped again.

The courtyard is very small, the shade of the big mulberry tree almost covers the entire courtyard, except for the three dilapidated thatched cottages facing north and south, there is only a low east wing with a room on the east side, that is, Li Xi's kitchen.

Other than that, there is nothing left in this small courtyard.

And now, suddenly there are two more people in the kitchen.

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Liu Wan'er had never entered the kitchen once in the sixteen years she had grown up, but when she came to this dilapidated courtyard, she still decided to cook him dinner.

The thought came suddenly, but it was extremely firm.

In fact, as early as ten days ago, after the second brother went home, he said that he fell from the restaurant, and at that time, she wanted to come and have a look, but in the end she was persuaded by A-Niang's good words, saying that the girl who had not passed the door would go directly to her future husband's house. So in the end, she had to send her second brother to come over for her to take a look, and later heard that he didn't hurt anything, so she was relieved.

It's just that then she got the news that he has become a fool who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to learn, she doesn't believe it, so a few days ago she agreed to follow her second brother to participate in the Jijiang Pavilion Ya Meeting, you know, she doesn't bother to participate in the so-called poetry meeting that is usually gathered by a group of boring literati who are just fame and reputation in her opinion.

Although there were more than 100 Jinglun present at the whole poetry meeting, she only paid attention to one person, and she didn't even have the mood to write poems, so she just dealt with two poems casually and handed them over.

Although in the end, one of her two poems was ranked third and the other ranked fifth, which can be called amazing, but in the face of the admiring eyes of the young ladies and maids around her and the chatter and applause of the scholars outside the curtain, she didn't care, and just had a thought in her heart - he really couldn't write poetry!

When she got the news, she just thought for the first time, how sad should he be in his heart, when he suddenly became a wasted person?

She couldn't think of any good way to comfort him, in fact, with her cleverness, she naturally understood that this kind of thing couldn't be comforted at all, so she could only let him slowly calm down, but she felt that her fiancée had to do something, otherwise she would always feel more panicked than him.

So when she saw with her own eyes that he had been living in such a place for more than ten years, and she had been living in clothes for more than ten years, she walked straight into the low kitchen.

She has never cooked, although Yu'er is a maid, but after all, she is also Miss Liu's personal maid, who has followed her all these years, and is also a person who almost never enters the kitchen, even if she occasionally goes to the kitchen at home, she mostly goes to talk and order food or something, where have you ever cooked? So the first step of cooking for two people was directly stuck.

I don't know if it's Chai He wet or what, anyway, it just can't ignite the fire, there is obviously Chai He in the chest, but it just doesn't, only a thick smoke billows out, and after a while, the two delicate girls coughed loudly.

Li Xi stood in the middle of the courtyard, watching the smoke billowing out of his kitchen, and under the thick smoke, there were two girls hunched over and coughing, and he was completely stunned for a while.

After I don't know how long, the two of them tried many methods, but they couldn't catch fire, and finally they couldn't stand the smoke and ran out of the front and back feet.

Hearing the sound of footsteps and the coughing sound that suddenly became clear, Li Xi suddenly came back to his senses and looked up.

Both of them are about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the first face was very delicate, just looking at the hair accessories and clothes, you can know that it should be a maid, as for the one who ran out later, it should naturally be a young lady.

At this time, I suddenly thought of Liu Rong's narrow eyes when he first got into the carriage, why did he let the carriage run slower, it was clear that he was helping these two delay time!

So obviously, the identities of the two of them are already about to come out!

Thinking about this section, Li Xi immediately put all his eyes on the young lady who should be named Liu Wan'er.

She wore a moon-white thin Luo shirt on her upper body, covered with green jade half-sleeves, and a light yellow long Luo skirt on her lower body, with jade around her waist and hairpin in her hair.

At this time, she had just come out of the smoky kitchen, her face was stained with speckled grass and wood ash, just like a little flower cat, but those eyes were as cool as water, bright as paint, and her facial features were beautiful, and her expression was delicate, and she was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, she was a charming scene, and it looked really beautiful at this time.

When she saw that there were people in the yard, she was stunned for a moment, and then her face turned red, facing the sunset, her sudden shyness made Li Xi, who boasted of being a beauty hobby in her previous life, couldn't help but skip a beat, and then she couldn't wait to walk over in three or two steps, hold her face, and gently blow away the eye-catching grass and wood ash on her face.

This is my fiancée?

At that moment, Li Xi just stared at Liu Wan'er with both eyes and looked stupid, and looked at Liu Wan'er so shyly that he had to turn around, but he completely forgot that there was another one standing in the courtyard.

And just by listening to the name, it's obviously not a hassle-free.

Seeing this, Yu'er snorted coldly, and suddenly stepped between Li Xi and Liu Wan'er, and coughed heavily.

Anyway, there is one thing Li Xi still didn't understand until after the crossing, and it wasn't until recently that the chili pepper hadn't been transmitted to China during the Tang Dynasty, so what should I do if Chinese I want to eat spicy food?

The answer is, with dogwood.

Hearing a cough, Li Xi suddenly came back to his senses.

He rubbed his hands and smiled enthusiastically, and the shy appearance that had not left the poetry meeting for a moment just now had long since disappeared, "When did you come here and still want to cook for me?" ”

The words were said to the two of them, but his eyes still fell on the young lady, especially the white and greasy neck under her crow bun, which made Li Xi look leisurely.

Seeing this, Yu'er glared at him fiercely, turned her head and walked to Liu Wan'er's side, the two of them whispered a few words, then she turned around and looked up with her little face, that proud appearance, she couldn't wait to even raise her eyebrows, "My young lady said, you are not married, she is not married, it is inconvenient to talk, if you have anything to say, just say it to me, I am responsible for passing on the word to you." ”

After finishing speaking, she coughed again and said, "Our young lady also said that she knows everything you did a few days ago, so don't be discouraged, it's okay to forget the previous things, as long as you study hard from now on, it should be yours, and it will be yours in the end!" ”

When the two of them whispered just now, Li Xi leaned out and listened, but unfortunately the voices of the two people were too small to hear anything, and when he heard this again, his brows immediately wrinkled, and he said with a bitter face, "You just say a few words to me." He didn't feel embarrassed at all.

Liu Wan'er, who was facing away from him, didn't speak, but Yu'er couldn't help but stare at him again when she heard this, "No!" ”

"Just one ......"

"Not a word, if you don't think about coming over to deliver something to you, we shouldn't even enter this door, once the news spreads, you are not ashamed, our young lady should not be ashamed!"

"Uh......" Li Xi finally turned his head when he heard this, and looked at Yu'er suspiciously, "Send something?" What to send"

At this time, Yu'er turned around and took a few pieces of paper from Liu Wan'er, who was facing away from Li Xi, and handed it to Li Xi.

When I opened it, it was a birthday message and two birthday poems. On the pale pink paper, a small Kaijuan is delicate and smart, which is clearly a woman's handwriting, but it is very indescribable.

took a few pieces of paper in front of him and sniffed them gently, and suddenly there was a faint fragrance of his daughter's body lingering on the end of his nose.

"Indecent!"

Yu'er couldn't help but scold, and there was a hint of anger in her eyes, and then she turned around and looked at Li Xi with disdain, while lying in Liu Wan'er's ear and chanting words.

Liu Wan'er quickly lowered her head in shame, I don't know if it was an illusion, Li Xi felt that even her round earlobes suddenly turned a touch of slush.

At this moment, Liu Wan'er suddenly spoke, although the voice was like a gnat, but Li Xi could finally hear it.

She lowered her head and said shyly: "Yu'er, you tell Li Gongzi, just say that the day after tomorrow is my father's fourth birthday, tell him not to forget to go, those poems and that fu were written by me, so that he must also be familiar with it solidly, carefully at the birthday banquet someone wants to test him, and then don't be timid to show flaws." ”

After listening to her, Yu'er turned around and glared at Li Xi angrily, and then said according to the script: "My young lady said, the day after tomorrow is the fourth birthday of our master, so you must not forget to go, those poems and that fu were written by her for you, you must also be familiar with it solidly, be careful that someone at the birthday banquet wants to test you, and don't be timid to show your flaws when the time comes." ”

"Uh......"

Li Xi opened his mouth and couldn't answer, and said in his heart, what is the difference between this and talking to me yourself?

Is it necessary to detour around this bend?

"That...... You thank your young lady on my behalf, and I will remember all her words. That's it, just help me ask your young lady, can I still see her at the birthday banquet then? ”

Yu'er turned to Liu Wan'er and said, "Miss, he asked me to ask you, saying that you can still be seen at the birthday banquet." ”

Liu Wan'er hesitated for a moment when she heard this, and then said: "Yu'er, you tell him that my father's adult lives in Sima in Shuzhou, and there will be many irrelevant people in the house who will come to pay their respects, I don't like to come into contact with those people, and I am **, that is, I accompany my mother and foreign female relatives in the back hall, he is, he can't see me." ”

Hearing this, Yu'er turned around and repeated it, and then raised the corner of her eyes to look at Li Xi.

Li Xi snickered in her heart, thinking that her daughter-in-law's face was really thin enough, it was obviously a conversation between two people, and she had to ask for a messenger to endorse in the middle.

"Miss Yu'er, you tell your young lady, just say that I want to see her that day, if she doesn't come out, I'll go to the back hall to look for her!"

Liu Wan'er was taken aback when she heard this, and almost turned around, and immediately forgot that Yu'er, the middleman, had not yet spoken, so she replied directly: "You must not come nonsense, my father is the most important in peace, and he is a very face-saving person, if you cause trouble at his birthday banquet, he will not go around you idlely, and then he will only be afraid of you and mine, you and mine...... He'll regret it. ”

When she said the two words in the middle, her voice was surprisingly small, and Li Xi didn't hear it after a lot of effort, but it didn't matter anymore, the important thing was that these words had not been processed through the second formalities, and she said it to herself personally.

He couldn't help but smirk at the moment.

When Yu'er saw the smile, she immediately understood what he meant, and immediately scolded: "Light! ”

Then without waiting for Li Xi to react, she had already turned around and walked to the door of the kitchen, picked up a small silk bag from the ground, walked over and threw it in Li Xi's arms, and said coldly: "This is what our young lady gave you, all of which she saved from the monthly routine in her usual days, she knows that your livelihood is difficult, but our lord's birthday, if you don't prepare some birthday gifts, you will inevitably make people laugh, even if you can't get it on your own face, although this money is not much, you can also buy a reasonable birthday gift, take it." ”

After finishing speaking, she pulled Liu Wan'er's little hand, turned to Li Xi and said, "You get out of the way, we are leaving." Then Li Xi was not allowed to speak, and directly pulled Liu Wan'er, who lowered her eyebrows and lowered her head, to turn around and go out.

Li Xi chased to the door and watched the two people stride forward in the alley, and finally disappeared into the small clip bend. hesitated several times, but in the end, he neither reached out to stop him, nor did he call out for it.

He just checked the small burden in his hand, listened to the rattling of copper coins, and sighed inexplicably.

The beauty is in love, but the taste of this downfall, the taste of being upside down by a woman, is not so easy and comfortable!

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