Wen Cheng's birthday was obtained from the moment the elder of the Wen clan saw him and picked him up, and pushed it forward for a month.

Because of this, when I was a child, every year when Wen Cheng celebrated his birthday, he went to kowtow to the clan elder.

Later, Wen Cheng arrived in Jianle City, and after the patriarch left in his seventies, he never took it to heart and never lived on his birthday.

Wen Cheng's birthday is February 27.

Early in the morning of the 27th, on the way to the scattered court, Gu Xi bumped into a long team of bright and festive gongs and drums with new clothes and hats.

Behind the gong and drum team, there is a long queue holding huge longevity peaches, exaggerated longevity noodles, and a large bunch of bright peonies, moon seasons, wood fragrances, spring primroses, camellias, and other seasonal flowers.

At the end of February and the beginning of March, it is the time when a hundred flowers are blooming.

This bright and festive, lively team of flowers, mountains and flowers, and Gu Xi went straight to Prince Rui's mansion and stopped outside the west gate where everyone in the west courtyard entered and exited.

The loud little guy sang birthday greetings, and sent a longevity peach, a box of longevity noodles, and a bouquet of flowers into the side door, and Mr. Wen was born.

Gu Xi stood on the steps of the main entrance, staring at the lively sea of flowers in front of the side door, watching Wen Cheng rush out, stunned at the sea of flowers in front of him.

"Go ask Miss Li." Gu Xi instructed Ruyi as he walked inside.

After filling the spacious side door of Prince Rui's Mansion with flowers, several of the most popular Xiaoquer masters in Jianle City stood in front of the side door of Prince Rui's Mansion, knocked on the sandalwood board, and sang the auspicious words of congratulations on his birthday.

Ruyi ran fast, Li Sangrou was not found in the Shunfeng Express Shop, and Fried Rice Lane was not found, so I had to rush back, at the gate of Prince Rui's Mansion, the idlers who had already sung the song blocked half of the street.

After the small song, there is a small excerpt of the auspicious hat play of several troupes.

Gu Xi simply stood in the side door, looking at his side door, the troupe left, the juggling came up, and after the juggling left, there was a team of scattered musicians......

One after the other, for a moment, until it was dark.

"Have you offended Miss Li?" Gu Xi's head was big, and he couldn't help but ask when he looked at Wen Cheng who was standing next to him with a bitter face.

"It's a birthday." Wen Shunzhi watched it for a day, he didn't feel tired at all, he was full of interest, and couldn't help but correct his sentence.

"Have you ever seen anyone celebrate their birthday like this?" Gu Xi blocked the sentence.

"Isn't that it?" Wen Shunyi smiled and pointed out the side door.

Gu Xi couldn't help but give Wen Shunzhi a roll of his eyes.

"It's dark." Wen Cheng didn't let go of his breath, a group of light-footed little guys, holding green umbrellas, green umbrellas around the small lanterns with plum red wisps of gold, starting from the side door, rotating the umbrella, a team came over, and then a team spun out.

In the air, in the falling night, a large number of fireworks exploded, dazzling.

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After the next day, Gu Xi pushed Gu Jin and entered Ming'an Palace.

"What happened yesterday?" As soon as he entered the palace gate, Gu Jin immediately asked.

"I don't know yet, I didn't find Miss Li yesterday. This kind of thing, there must be no one else but her. ”

"Well, what about Shouzhen?" Gu Jin frowned.

"Zhihe drank with him for most of the night." After a pause, Gu Xi continued: "He has been doing well in front of me.

This morning, on the way to the court, Zhihe whispered to me that he had fallen asleep last night, and Shouzhen brought a pot of wine to him and asked him to accompany him to drink.

said that Shouzhen only drank, and he didn't speak, and he didn't let Zhihe speak, and the two of them just drank sullenly, and in the second half of the night, Shouzhen got drunk. ”

Gu Jin kept his face calm and didn't speak.

Gu Xi pushed Gu Jin into the side hall, then carried him to the kang, and watched Xiao Nei serve tea.

Gu Xi sat sideways next to Gu Jin, hesitated for a moment, looked at Gu Jin and said, "A while ago, I took Ah Yue to Liangyuan to enjoy spring, and on the night I came back, Miss Li sat behind the Shunfeng shop, drinking in front of the moat, looking very unhappy.

I drank with her for half the night, and she was the same, she didn't speak, she didn't let me speak, she only drank, but she drank well. ”

"Yesterday's incident, Ah Yue probably doesn't know yet, but it's fast, and there was too much movement yesterday." Gu Jin only said half of what he said, and he didn't say anything later, only sighed repeatedly.

"Miss Li definitely didn't mean that to Shouzhen.

What is the reason for her trouble yesterday, I have to wait for me to find her and ask her. Gu Xi furrowed his eyebrows.

Gu Jin glanced at him obliquely and didn't speak.

Why, he thought about it a little, but from the beginning to the present, he didn't even want to know, and when he said it, he didn't want to say it, and he couldn't say it.

That Miss Li is a very smart person, she must be like him, she knows, but she might as well not know, she is helpless and incompetent.

"You told Miss Li that life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, so she wants to open up." After being silent for a long time, Gu Jin looked at Gu Xi and said.

Gu Xi was a little inexplicable, but nodded simply, "Okay." ”

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In the afternoon, I heard that Miss Li had entered the Shunfeng Express Shop, and Gu Xi hurriedly came out of the household and went straight over.

Li Sangrou is guarding a small stove, boiling water and making tea.

Seeing Gu Xi coming in, he motioned for him to sit.

"I looked for you yesterday for a day." Gu Xi sat down and looked at Li Sangrou, who was squatting by the stove, listening to the sound of water, waiting to make tea.

"Yesterday I went out of town to watch the fireworks. It's nothing, it's just to celebrate Mr. Wen's birthday. ”

Hearing that the water was boiling, Li Sangrou lifted the pot and poured the boiling water into the large teapot.

"You are so particular about water, this pot should be changed to a smaller one." Gu Xi looked at the huge teapot on the table, and couldn't laugh or cry.

"The small pot is too troublesome." Li Sangrou poured the water in the copper kettle into the large teapot, lifted the teapot and shook it a few times, waited for a while, picked up a cotton thread tied to the handle of the teapot, took out a white gauze tea bag, and put it in an empty cup.

Gu Xi glared at Li Sangrou and took out the tea bag, stayed for a moment, laughed out loud, and stretched out his thumb to Li Sangrou, "In terms of saving trouble, you should be the best, at least build Lecheng, and you can rank first." ”

You and Shouzhen, is there really anything wrong? On the day Liang Yuan came back from appreciating spring, you sat here, drinking without saying a word, and drank until midnight.

Yesterday, after your fireworks, Shouzhen pulled Zhihe, and drank wine in the middle of the night, but he didn't say a word.

You two, what kind of tacit understanding is this?

Tell me about it. Gu Xi straightened his legs, looking ready to listen.

"I like him, he likes me?" Li Sangrou poured two cups of tea, looked at Gu Xi and smiled.

Gu Xi laughed out loud, laughed for a while, and then looked at Li Sangrou, "Shouzhen doesn't care about him, with your temper, you really like him." Gu Xi's words paused, "Didn't you say that whoever you like is directly on the bed with a knife?" ”

"You know, I don't need to say more.

There is really nothing else, I just want to give him a life, lively and lively, you know me as a person, I want to play a play.

He went to Wen Siye for a drink, and he probably thought of his life experience. Unfortunate, but lucky. Li Sangrou smiled.

"Well, Zhihe said the same thing.

Shouzhen is a person who is good at everything, but his mind is too heavy and he thinks too much about everything.

He said many times that he would not marry or have a family, and he would do his best for the Wen family for the rest of his life. said that if you become a family, you will inevitably plan for your small family and your children, and you will be distracted.

Alas, I persuaded him, later. ”

Gu Xi's words paused, lowered his eyes, and continued after a while: "Qi Liang can't coexist, sooner or later you will live and die, my eldest brother and I, keep the truth, and make peace, in the past ten years, have been preparing."

Shouzhen doesn't plan to start a family, and Zhihe will have to wait until after this battle, and so will I.

In this battle, either the north and south of the river are left to me, or the ......"

Gu Xi didn't say the rest of the words.

Li Sangrou looked at him sideways, for a moment, and asked with a smile: "The West Lake in Hangzhou City, the scenery is excellent, next to the West Lake, there is a place, there are many female warrior families, have you heard of it?" ”

"Of course, when I was on an envoy the year before last, I went shopping.

There is a long causeway in the south of the West Lake, green willows and red peach, the scenery is excellent, by the south side, both sides are the flower building house, very lively, very rich.

Those female dancers can't rely on color alone, they can't be popular, they pay attention to a skill.

Those who are good at chanting poetry and painting are stronger than ordinary scholars, and they are even more exquisite. ”

"I heard that they have a stunt, after eating fish, they can spit out a lot of fish bones, and they are still placed on the plate, or in the shape of a fish, but the meat is gone." Li Sangrou laughed as she spoke.

Gu Xi raised his eyebrows, "I don't know about this." ”

"I have already thought that when the time comes, I will have to knock down that piece and the causeway will belong to me.

Then, in the spring and autumn of each year, two competitions are held, and in the spring these female dancers compete to eat fish, with crucian carp, the smaller the fish, the better, to see who eats the fastest, best and most elegant.

In the autumn competition, you can't use eight crabs and seven crabs, so you can use your hands, and after eating, you can put them back for a quarter of an hour to see who eats the most.

I have to invite Pan Qiye over and comment on the spot, if I can invite a few more Hanlin, it would be better. ”

Li Sangrou waved her hand happily.

Gu Xi's eyes widened when he heard this, and after a moment, he laughed.

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The golden retriever followed Lu Hepeng, starting from Xiangcheng County, Huaiyang Prefecture, all the way to Wuwei Prefecture, and by the end of February, after the lawsuit was over, the two went west along the river and went north from Yangzhou back to Jianlecheng.

Li Sangrou plans to open the Yangzhou line at the same time, and also open the line from Yangzhou to Wuwei.

The two of them looked all the way west from Wuwei Mansion.

When I arrived in Jiangning City, it was March.

The two of them entered Jiangning City around the beginning of the year, found a residence shop and settled down, and the golden retriever and Lu Hepeng said: "Mr. rest first, I'll go out, if you come back late, Mr. will eat first." ”

"What are you going to do?" Lu Hepeng saw that the golden retriever's face was gloomy, and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, go to the riverside and put incense on the brothers." The golden retriever hesitated, and replied truthfully: "Sir also knows that we were originally doing night incense business in the Jiangdu City opposite.

In the winter of last year, Wu Huaiyi went to Jiangdu City and washed the night incense line in blood.

For a while, we can't go back to Jiangdu City, which is separated by a river from Jiangdu City, so I will go to put incense sticks on my brothers and send some paper money. ”

"I'll go with you." Lu Hepeng hurriedly stood up and said.

The golden retriever hesitated, and together with Lu Hepeng, he went out of the store, found a white shop, bought incense, candles, and paper money, and went straight to the riverside.

Lu Hepeng followed the golden retriever and went straight to a somewhat desolate Dragon King Temple by the river.

"Our brothers followed our boss and ate a full meal for a year, one by one, according to our boss's words, there was no place to hold on.

In the summer, there was a group of people who had a good water nature among our brothers, so they stripped naked and stared at the Dragon King Temple, comparing who swam there first from Jiangdu City, and swam from the area around Jiangdu City Wharf, and it was the easiest effort to get there.

At that time, we also hid two small boats under the Dragon King Temple, and later used them when sending the prince back to Jianle City. ”

The golden retriever's words paused, and it took a long time before he continued: "Back then, I was so happy. ”

Lu Hepeng sighed heavily.

The two stopped talking, and when they arrived outside the Dragon King Temple, the golden retriever half-knelt on the ground, stabbed the ground with a knife, first inserted the incense candle on the ground and lit it, then lit the incense, took a few steps back, and knelt on the ground.

Lu Hepeng squatted beside him, spent paper money, lit incense candles, and burned them one by one.

The golden retriever kowtowed, squatted next to Lu Hepeng, took the ingots pressed together, took them out one by one, and threw them into the fire.

After the two of them burned a thick pile of paper money and ingots, they took a few steps back, watching the paper ashes being swept up by the wind and scattering in all directions.

"Well, let's go." Lu Hepeng put his hands behind his back and sighed again.

"I'll go to the temple and kowtow to the Dragon King. Once upon a time, we swam over, and we must kowtow to the dragon lord. The golden retriever hung his head and entered the dilapidated Dragon King Temple.

"Master Dragon King, if you meet our brother, please take care of one or two, and in the future, wait for our boss to come over and build a temple and a golden body for you." The golden retriever knelt down and kowtowed, looked at the dragon king who had lost an arm, and prayed.

"Mao ...... Brother Mao? A faint voice came from behind the statue of the Dragon King.

"Who?" The golden retriever's eyes widened suddenly, and as soon as the voice fell, he pounced on the dragon king.

In the corner behind the statue of the dragon king, a thin man with a withered description stared straight at the golden retriever, "Brother Mao, I'm dreaming again." ”

"Channeling! It's me, it's your brother Mao, you didn't dream! Channeling! The Golden Retriever rushed up and picked up the strip.

"Brother Mao, I always dream of you, Brother Ma, and the boss, I'm dying." Channeling was extremely low, hanging his head and muttering to himself, looking a little delirious.

"Hurry up and take him back, quick! Gotta get a doctor! Lu Hepeng pushed the golden retriever.

The golden retriever bent down and picked up the strip and ran.

Lu Hepeng hugged his long shirt and followed behind, running out of breath.

Rushing into the house, the golden retriever rushed straight into the house with a channel, Lu Hepeng grabbed the shopkeeper, and his breath was so anxious that he couldn't breathe, "Quick, please doctor!" The best! Fast! ”

With his other hand, Lu Hepeng took out a silver ticket from his arms, and he didn't see much clearly, so he stuffed it into the shopkeeper's hand and pushed him violently, "Go!" ”

The guys in the shop are very eye-catching, and they don't need to be called, so they hurriedly send soup and food and hot water to the house.

The golden retriever picked a bowl of chicken soup, hugged the strips, and fed him half a bowl in his mouth, and the doctor arrived.

There was a knife wound in the back, an arrow in one leg, the shaft of the arrow was broken, and the arrow was still inside, still bleeding.

The shopkeeper made another trip and asked another bone-setting doctor to come over.

The two doctors were busy for an hour, washed the wound, took out the arrow, applied the medicine, bandaged it, prescribed the decoction, boiled it out immediately, and poured it into a bowl.

The golden retriever kept watch in front of the bed all night, and at dawn the next day, Lu Hepeng brought the two doctors over again, changed the medicine, and diagnosed the pulse.

Near noon, after a hot sweat, he opened his eyes.

"Channeling." The golden retriever pounced.

"Brother Mao, I'm dead, right? You're dead too? "The voice is still very low.

"Fart! Dead fart! Alive. What do you want to eat? Meat paste? The golden retriever wanted to laugh, but tears fell.

"Can you eat meat paste?" Lu Hepeng also stretched out his head and looked at the bloodless squirrel on his face.

"Yes, the boss said yes. How many bites shall I feed you? The golden retriever replied, picked up the meat paste bowl in the warm pot, and fed it to the mouth of the strip with a spoon.

"It smells so good." Channeling swallowed hard.

After feeding three or four spoonfuls, the Golden Retriever stopped feeding, and then fed a small half bowl of chicken soup.

Channeling a long exhale, "Brother Mao, is it really you?" It's definitely a dream. ”

"I didn't dream, the boss asked me to go to Wuwei, never to go to Yangzhou again, after Jiangning, I wanted to send some paper money to the big guys, just after sending the paper money, I thought about kowtowing to the dragon lord and leaving, and I ran into you.

Don't talk, take care of yourself first, sleep and eat at ease, we're in the boss's territory. The Golden Retriever said in his ear.

"Then I'll get some more sleep." He slammed his mouth, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.