The night shrouded Chang'an, and the entire Liufu gradually quieted down.

Ji Yanning stood under the eaves, looking up at the starry sky, his eyes were stunned.

Ziyu stepped forward and put on a velvet cloak for her and tied the belt: "Miss, the weather is cold, let's go into the house and rest." ”

Ji Yanning turned around, nodded slightly, and stepped into the room.

She sat on the stool, watched Ziyu add some charcoal to the brazier, and said, "You go down and rest, I'll sleep later." ”

Ziyu bowed silently, then stepped back and closed the door.

Ji Yanning listened to Ziyu's footsteps and gradually walked away, and reached out to pour himself a cup of tea.

The tea was already a little warm, running down the throat and cooling to the bottom of my heart.

"Knock-"

There was a knock at the door.

Ji Yanning raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the door and said, "Come in." ”

The door was pushed open, and a man in his thirties, holding a long sword, came to Ji Yanning, half-knelt on the ground, and said with his fists clenched: "In Xia Yuan Wu, he was the personal guard of the old marquis, and he came to protect the young lady on the orders of the marquis. ”

Ji Yanning put down the teacup in his hand: "No need to be polite." I don't know martial arts, so please put more effort into it. ”

She had met Yuan Wu when she was in Luzhou.

Yuan Wudao: "The subordinates will definitely do their best. ”

Ji Yanning said: "The side courtyard of this courtyard houses my twenty guards, and I asked Ji Jiu to reserve a room for you." ”

Yuan Wu is the head, since the Hou Ye sent him over, from now on, he will be Ji Yanning's personal guard, and he will naturally be inseparable from Ji Yanning.

A breeze blew outside the window, and the courtyard suddenly remembered the slight sound of footholdings, and Yuan Wu, who had always been vigilant, immediately stood up, clenched his long sword and quickly arrived at the door.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and he drew his sword and stepped forward.

Yuan Jiaojiao, who just wanted to enter the door, flashed a sword light in front of her eyes, and suddenly a sharp sword was put on her neck, and she suddenly raised her hands: "Spare your life!"

"Stop!" Ji Yanning said, "I found her, don't worry." ”

Only then did Yuan Wu withdraw the sword in his hand from its scabbard.

Ji Yanning continued to say to Yuan Wu: "You go down first." ”

Yuan Wu turned around and saluted Ji Yanning, glanced at Yuan Jiaojiao, and then retreated.

Yuan Jiaojiao hurriedly stepped aside, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She walked into Ji Yanning's room and said angrily: "You almost scared me to death, where did you pick up someone with such high martial arts, wouldn't you feed him poison again?"

Ji Yanning's eyes were crooked, and he said, "Don't worry, only you have such an honor." ”

Yuan Jiaojiao listened to her words so badly, although she gritted her teeth with hatred, she was helpless, she sat directly opposite Ji Yanning.

Ji Yanning asked, "I heard Zisu say that you went to the casino and won money, and you were still being targeted?"

Yuan Jiaojiao snorted coldly, she knew that Zisu would definitely sue, and said, "You said that you would not restrict my freedom." ”

Ji Yanning nodded, and did not deny it: "If you are sure that your face will not be seen by others, I will naturally not care." But in this Chang'an City, there are too many people who have seen Murong Yixue, if it is too public, I may not be able to help you if I show my feet. ”

Yuan Jiaojiao thought of today's danger, and her heart became a little empty: "You can't let me stay in the house all the time." ”

Ji Yanning said: "There is a White Horse Temple on the outskirts of the city, if you are bored, it is a good place to go." ”

"What's so fun in the temple, I'm a thief, can it be that I burn incense and worship the Buddha and ask the Bodhisattva for blessing?" Yuan Jiaojiao sneered.

Ji Yanning said: "Don't you want to know Yuan Jing's past? His mother, General Weiyuan's wife, is now in the White Horse Temple. There is only one son of Yuan Jing in the general's mansion, after he left, although the general's mansion is in, but it has declined, Mrs. Yuan moved to the temple, eating fasting and chanting Buddha all day long, looking forward to Yuan Jing being able to come back. ”

Yuan Jiaojiao was slightly stunned and silently said "um".

She asked with some curiosity, "You are not older than me, how do you know so many things?"

Ji Yanning said indifferently: "If you want to inquire, there will naturally be a way to inquire about the news you want." ”

Yuan Jiaojiao didn't suspect that Ji Yanning's Zuixiang Building was used to collect news, and she also knew it, not to mention that Baochangji had been in Chang'an for many years, so naturally there were some relationships.

"Don't think I'll be grateful to you if you do this," she said. ”

"I don't need your gratitude, I just need you to do things for me. Ji Yanning took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Yuan Jiaojiao, "If you are short of money, go to the mansion in this list and search it, take as much as you want, just don't be stupid and always steal the same family, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department are not vegetarians." ”

Yuan Jiaojiao took the list, glanced at it, and said, "I'm afraid that I'll make you poor, just say it." ”

Ji Yanning said: "I'm afraid your hands are itchy." ”

Yuan Jiaojiao snorted softly: "If you eat and drink well, who would be willing to take risks." By the way, you didn't say you wanted me to steal anything for you!"

"If it's the palace, how sure are you?" Ji Yanning raised his eyes to look at her, and suddenly said with a straight face.

Yuan Jiaojiao immediately stood up from the stool: "You are bold enough! What do you think the palace is, where do you think people come and go at will? I can't do this." ”

She still wants to save her life!

Ji Yanning was not surprised by her answer, the palace was indeed not an easy place to enter.

"Well, there's no rush on this matter. Ji Yanning said.

Yuan Jiaojiao said: "No matter how urgent I am, I can't do it, maybe I will be arrested as soon as I climb into the palace wall, although I am alone and have no scruples, but my master said, it is better to die than to live, there are many beautiful things in the world! ”

Ji Yanning said indifferently: "If you are not sure, I will not let you go into danger." ”

Yuan Jiaojiao put her mind at ease, listened to Ji Yanning muttered a few words, and left.

Early in the morning of the second day, Ji Yanning still began to practice archery as always.

The big trees in the yard have lost their leaves, and they are bare as if they are dead, which is not at all like the vitality of Jiangnan.

The guards said that Liu Changyuan was outside the courtyard, and Ji Yanning asked them to let him go.

When Liu Changyuan entered the courtyard, he happened to see Ji Yanning put away his bow and arrows.

He stepped forward and said, "My cousin is practicing archery?"

Ji Yanning bowed: "Yes, I will practice for a little time every day." What's the matter with the third cousin coming so early today?"

Liu Changyuan said with a smile: "Mother is afraid that you will not be suitable when you first come to Chang'an, so I asked me to come over to accompany you to relieve your boredom, the second brother is at Ah Lang's place, explaining that he will go to the Egret Academy in two days." ”

"It's good to go to the academy and make a lot of friends. Ji Yanning said, "It's just right that my cousin came over, I was planning to ask the maid to send some gifts to my cousins and cousins, and I don't know if they like it or not." ”

Liu Changyuan said: "The gift lies in the heart, and giving it is your gift, as long as you don't make a mistake, don't seek to meet their wishes." ”

Ji Yanning nodded lightly and asked Ziyu to present the things she had prepared before, she picked out one of the long boxes and handed it to Liu Changyuan: "This is for the third cousin, you can see if you like it or not." ”

Liu Changyuan was very surprised, he took the long box and opened it, it was a scroll of paintings.

He was indeed a lover of painting.

Liu Changyuan slowly opened the picture scroll, his eyes were full of surprise: "This ...... This is a picture of the cranes in the West Mountain, which is really true by the painter Ye Qiuzhen, and the imitation is too real, right?"

Ji Yanning chuckled: "This is not imitation, this is the real work, from the hand of Ye Painter." ”

Liu Changyuan was even more surprised: "Ye Qiuzhen's paintings are hard to buy, and the price of paintings has risen even more since his death, where did my cousin's painting come from?"

"I got it by chance before, and I heard my second cousin say that you like the paintings of famous teachers, so I gave it to you. Ji Yanning said, speaking extremely easily.

In fact, after she rescued those missing girls, others gave her a thank you gift, and there were a lot of things sent at that time, and Steward Wu found a lot of good things after sorting it out, and some people directly sent silver money.

Liu Changyuan pushed the box back: "I can't accept such a valuable gift, cousin should collect it well." ”

Ji Yanning smiled with a smile in his eyes: "It's useless for me to keep it myself, Lang'er doesn't understand these yet, it's better to give it to someone who understands and appreciates, and my cousin shouldn't refuse." If you don't want to, then don't you regret it when I give it to someone else another day?"

Liu Changyuan heard her say this, and he couldn't help but pick up the picture of the cranes in the West Mountain.

Ziyu sent the gifts to each room.

In addition to the people in the big room, the people in the second and third rooms she gave simple things, women gave jewelry, and men gave treasures, which was not rude.

It didn't take long for Liu Pingting from the second room, Liu Yunting and Liu Qingyun from the third room to come over together.

"The third brother is also here. Liu Yunting stepped forward and said, she was the youngest, one year younger than Ji Yanning.

Liu Changyuan suppressed his smile and said, "You guys came over to accompany my cousin to relieve boredom." ”

Liu Pingting said with some dissatisfaction: "My cousin's shelf is really big enough, and there are guards in this courtyard, even if we want to come over, we may not be able to come in, right?"

Since seeing Ji Yanning for the first time, Liu Tingting didn't like this cousin who came out of thin air, she looked like a fox and pretended to be tall.

Ji Yanning said: "I'm used to it." I'm like this in Jiangzhou, I don't like people to come in and out of my yard at will. ”

"Chang'an is not comparable to a small place like Jiangzhou, and our Liufu doesn't need to worry about these at all, unless we are weak-hearted. Liu Tingting meant something.

Liu Changyuan listened to her talk like this, and he didn't like it in his heart, so he said, "What are you talking about! My cousin kindly gave you a gift, and that's your attitude?"

Liu Tingting said to the maid behind her: "Peach, bring the things." ”

The maid behind her stepped forward and handed the box.

Liu Pingting took the box, put it on the table and opened it, and there was a string of white jade bracelets inside, each bead was shiny and shiny.

She pushed it in front of Ji Yanning and said, "This is a return gift for Cousin Ji, I want my cousin to give me a jade bracelet for a lot of money, and I can't let my cousin suffer too much." ”

I thought that Ji Yanning would be surprised when she saw this white jade bracelet, but she didn't expect that she just thanked her lightly, and let Ziyu put it away, and didn't take it to heart.