Chapter 485: Small Talk
Stained with the light of these powerful children, they also saw the legendary snow scene of Lishan.
It's really good-looking, Tang Zhongyuan said in his heart, he is just a rough man, he doesn't know how to describe such a snow scene, thinking about it, only the word "good-looking" can be said.
Compared with himself, it is obvious that the snow scene is much more beautiful, and Tang Zhongyuan thinks that he is very self-aware.
However, in the eyes of this Lord Xu, this snow scene doesn't seem to be interesting, and it is not as interesting as talking to him.
So what to do with the snow? Idle?
It's quite idle.
"It's boring." Seeing that Tang Zhongyuan didn't say anything, Xu Hexiu sighed with emotion, and after saying "boring", he looked at the crowd.
Many people walk around in the snow wearing wide-sleeved robes, looking at it is a good "fairy style", if you don't walk for a while and come back to bake the fire or something, it will be more convincing.
The snow viewing platform has begun to prepare, and for many children of the elite who pay attention to it, it is naturally indispensable to watch the snow and sing poems and brush the pen to make danqing.
In the snowy season, the red carpet is soft, but it has a bit of charm. Xu Hexiu walked on the red carpet with great interest, found a soft seat and sat down.
The charcoal basin and heater are actually very well prepared, but they are still a little unbearable compared to the cold weather. He clenched his collar and held the stove in his hand to look at the rows of wide-sleeved literati who were painting at the long table.
"My hands are frozen red." Xu Hexiu picked up the wine cup in his hand and took a sip.
It's good to warm up with warm wine. He had never had much interest in such things, so he drank to himself. I don't know which wine was prepared, the slightly sweet plum wine in the mouth, a few glasses down, the hands and feet immediately warmed, but the stamina also came up a little, and the mind was a little dizzy.
Xu Hexiu yawned, perfunctorily dealt with a few sons who came to greet him, and waited until the pot of plum wine at hand was empty, and then stood up and prepared to leave.
It's just that before leaving, I have to talk to the four cousins in the clan.
This time I came to Lishan to see the snow, I was pulled over by the four cousins in the clan, although he was not interested in it, but he couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the four cousins, plus the recent Dali Temple Yamen was idle and ...... Well, the fourth cousin gave him a golden inkstone. There is no way, although the children of the Xu family have a good life, but the money in their hands, let alone the children of the first-class magnates in Chang'an, is the children of the second-rate or even third-rate clans who have more money than him.
Sometimes, if you want to buy something that looks good, you have to find a solution to borrow money, which really makes the listener sad and the listener cry.
The golden inkstone touched his heart completely, and he came with him.
It's just that he came, and he couldn't play anywhere, Xu Hexiu thought to himself that he had been sitting for a while, which was an explanation to the four cousins who organized this Lishan snow viewing, and he could say to the four cousins and prepare to leave.
After all, the inkstone has already arrived, and it's not up to you to decide whether to go or not?
looked around, but didn't see the shadow of the fourth cousin.
Xu Hexiu frowned, walked to a small servant holding a plum vase at the long table, and shouted, "Kun Zhi." ”
The little guy who was holding a vase for people to paint was suddenly startled by his voice, and the person also trembled.
"Don't move." A young man who was bowing his head to paint immediately shouted, then glanced at Xu Hexiu on the side, frowned and said, "I've been painting this picture of plums falling in the snow for almost an hour, didn't his move make me give up all my previous efforts?" ”
I'm really full! Xu Hexiu snorted coldly, crossed his arms and looked at the young man who was wearing a wide-sleeved robe, and his hands and feet were red from the cold: "Xue Huai, if you want to draw plum blossoms and toss your side, I can't say anything, but Kun Zhi is my fourth cousin's side, what does it matter to you if the people of my Xu family move?" ”
The young man named Xue Huai, who was thin and thin, immediately turned cold and shouted: "What do you know, if you delay my painting......"
"What are you bragging about?" The boy in Tsing Yi, who had stopped writing and hugged the stove on the side, let out a sneer, "Which gentleman said that you have such a talent for painting?" ”
Xu Hexiu recognized this: Yu Shihuan, the nephew of Yu Shiji, the prince of the country, reads books ordinarily, but the painting is really good.
Because of this, he is quite proud of himself in Guozijian.
Xue Huai's face stiffened, and he was about to speak, when Yu Shihuan, who was holding the stove, had already grabbed the painting on his painting table and raised it, and said loudly: "Come and see, everyone, let's see what masterpieces Xue Huai has drawn by the little guy around others!" ”
Tang Zhongyuan, who was looking at the snow scene in a daze, was startled by a burst of laughter, and then turned his head to look at the laughing crowd instinctively.
I saw a young man in green clothes holding a painting in his hand and laughing, no matter how he looked at that smile, there was a sense of contempt, and the young man who was surrounded by everyone and stood in the middle had a very ugly face.
Is it a bad drawing that is being made fun of? Tang Zhongyuan said in his heart.
It's really not good. Xu Hexiu looked at the few plums on the painting paper, and he didn't know how to appreciate it, and he couldn't see it well, as if it was painted by a child who was just learning to paint, the brushwork can be called simple, and the shape and rhyme are even more miserable.
But the key is that Xue Huai is not a beginner who learned painting, he has been studying for ten years, Xu Hexiu sighed as he watched from the sidelines. When he and Cheng Ze were studying in Guozijian, Xue Huai studied painting in Guozijian, and he visited several painting gentlemen in Guozijian three times and twice, and those gentlemen who were damaged in Jinling and caused people's lives were also among them. But these gentlemen all shook their heads and refused, without him, the talent was too ordinary.
In other words, it's not the material to learn Danqing at all. This is something that everyone knows, and there is no shortage of children in the Guozi Prison who can't do everything, this is a common thing, but Xue Huai's persistence has not been said in private.
It's just that being pulled out in front of so many people and laughing at it like this, Rao is Xue Huai is also the first time.
In the face of everyone's ridicule, Xue Huai gritted his teeth fiercely, stretched out his hand and pointed at Yu Shihuan, and hatefully put down a cruel sentence: "You wait for me!" ”
Who wouldn't be ruthless? The laughter of the crowd was a little louder, Xue Huai stomped his feet, didn't even pack his things, turned around and ran out of the crowd.
Listening to the laughter of the crowd behind him, Xue Huai glared fiercely at the official on the side, and said, "What do you see?" I'm going down the mountain, get ready! ”
Tang Zhongyuan, who was pointed at his nose and said, took a deep breath, turned around and walked to the driveway where the carriage was parked with a few officials around him.
It's not the first time I've encountered such a thing as anger.
After Xue Huai left, everyone who had laughed for a while felt bored, and they didn't mention him after saying a few words.
Xu Hexiu said to the little guy holding the plum vase on the side: "Kunzhi, where is my fourth cousin?" ”
Kun Zhi shook his head, looked around blankly, and there was no shadow of his master among the people he saw, so he hurriedly said: "Gongzi asked the little one to wait for him here, he said that he would go elsewhere to see!" ”
Look elsewhere? Xu Hexiu frowned when he heard this, and said, "I didn't see the fourth cousin's person!" ”
People are here in the Snow Viewing Pavilion, because of the convenience of enjoying the snow, since the previous dynasty in the Snow Pavilion here carved out this wide snow viewing platform, such an empty and wide snow viewing platform, to find a person can be said to be unobstructed, but what you see is not seen four cousins.
Xu Hexiu was in a hurry, and was about to go to the official to find someone to help find someone, when he heard someone shouting: "Lord Xiao Xu." ”
turned his head to look, but Yu Shihuan, who was surrounded by several people in the crowd, shouted at him, and then said a few words to a few people around him, and then pushed aside the crowd and walked towards him.
"Lord Xiao Xu." Yu Shihuan raised his hand to him and saluted.
Although this person is not a person in their poetry and painting circle, no matter how much they talk about the wind and the moon, they need those in the clan who are officials in the court to consolidate the power of the family. Therefore, to Xu Hexiu, a child who has been able to enter the clan with his own eyes, Yu Shihuan is very polite.
"Fourth Prince Xu went to Lanyuntai to prepare." Yu Shihuan said, "Later, everyone will go to live in the Que Tower of Lanyuntai, and he will be responsible for these things." ”
Xu Hexiu sighed, suddenly.
Lanyuntai has to walk up a little further from the snow viewing platform, and then cross the bridge and arrive.
"There's an official following him!" Yu Shihuan said and led him to the Snow Pavilion.
From the snow pavilion standing on the edge of the cliff, you can see the bridge built in the mountain and the four-story tower at the end of the bridge.
Although it is a little far away, and the wind and snow are added, it is not very real, but the officials who are guarding the bridge can still see it.
Xu Hexiu sighed, turned his head to Yu Shihuan and said, "In this way, I will just go to find the fourth cousin." Trouble Yu Gongzi to tell my fourth cousin for me, those few glasses of plum wine are a little too strong to drink, so I will go back first. ”
Listening to his prevarication, Yu Shihuan only laughed twice, and said "yes" without reluctance.
Xu Hexiu breathed a sigh of relief and strode towards the mountain road.
Just as Tang Zhongyuan, who had arranged the carriage, went and returned, Xu Hexiu patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I'm sorry for this poor master to send Xu down the mountain, and take him home by the way!" ”
Tang Zhongyuan looked at the sky, now it's all time, wait until he goes down the mountain from here, and then sends Xu Hexiu home, it's dark, well, of course, his errand is over.
Knowing that he deliberately ordered himself to be "lazy" and go first, Tang Zhongyuan hurriedly responded and walked towards the lane where the carriage was parked with Xu Hexiu.
The darker the sky, the heavier the snow will become, and people like him can't understand the spring and white snow, and they don't want to continue watching, so it's better to go home and eat and sleep.
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Back in the West Pavilion, let people serve hot tea and glutinous rice dumplings, Pei Qingqing cheered, sat on the chair and kicked her legs, while picking up dumplings and eating them, while talking to Qiao Ran and Zhang Xie who were sitting at the table.
Case or something, she actually didn't have that much interest. Pei Qingqing bit the bean paste glutinous rice dumplings and said, "Will that Miss Yuan go back to Chang'an?" ”
Compared with the case, it is more important to eat and live.
Zhang Xie glanced at Qiao Ran, who was holding a teacup and smiling lightly, and said "Yes". If nothing happens to him, he will be delivered to His Majesty in seven days, and His Majesty's place, if the reaction is fast enough...... Yuan Jiaojiao will probably leave Shanxi Road and return to Chang'an in half a month.
"I don't know what she's trying to do." Pei Qingqing bit the ball and muttered vaguely, "I always feel that she has a hard time, but I don't know why she is so hard." "That young lady Yuan made people look at it, and they felt as if this person was surrounded by a bitter breath, and it was very uncomfortable.
In fact, after careful calculation, compared to Miss Qiao, Miss Yuan has such a great ability as "flesh and bones of life and death", and there is the original family who dislikes Miss Qiao behind her to help. If you want to be famous, if you want money, you want money, and I don't know why she is always so indignant?
Miss Qiao is much more tired than her, she has to go to Dali Temple every day to make money to support her family or something, these Miss Yuan was born, and I don't know why she complains so much?
Biting the ball, Pei Qingqing was puzzled.
Miss Qiao ran Shanxi Road as a last resort, so why did Miss Yuan have to follow?
"There are only bean paste dumplings here, and I still want to eat sesame dumplings." After the two dumplings were eaten, Pei Qingqing pulled Qiao Ran's sleeve to express her thoughts.
It's not a difficult idea. In a word, Qiao Ran smiled, turned her head and called the housekeeper named Qianniang to say something.
Qianniang answered with a smile, "yes", and called the two maids to go to the small kitchen to prepare.
After Qianniang left with the two maids, Qiao Ran withdrew her gaze, rubbed the ball on Pei Qingqing's head, and said, "I'll take you to the street in a few days." ”
Compared with Pei Qingqing's excitement, Zhang Xie calmed down a lot, he only looked at Qiao Ran, and hesitated: "It's dangerous in the city." ”
Qiao Ran was silent for a moment before she slowly spoke: "It's just as dangerous to stay in the hotel. ”
General Gu and Lord Zhao were assassinated in the hotel, that is, they captured an assassin, but they knew that the other party could not come to the second or third?
"If you don't solve the head that gives orders, you will always have hands and feet to pounce on you to do things." She paused, sighed, shook her head, and said, "No way! ”
She really had no choice but to do it. Even sending Yuan Jiaojiao away is actually doing a good thing.
"Although she killed the second master at that time, it was calculated that I was calculated, but she always did me a favor." Qiao Ran smiled, gradually smiled, and said, "Since this is the case, I will accept this love." Send Yuan Jiaojiao back this time, it can be regarded as returning this love! ”
I don't know if I was "scared" by her, the original family actually wanted to push Yuan Jiaojiao up to do things for His Majesty with "their own strength".
If you want to replace her, there is naturally no problem with this idea as an opponent.
But the matter of Shanxi Road is really not something that can be decided from far away in Chang'an.
Besides, what she does is not irreplaceable, even if the original family does not help, there is never a shortage of people who do things for His Majesty, the difference is only the level of ability.
Her path has never been easy.
Compared to her, Yuan Jiaojiao's road is an avenue that no one can walk except her. No one can replace such a "miracle doctor".
Even if there is no guarantee that she will be able to beat her with the hole card of Yuan Jiaojiao in her hand, as long as there are no accidents, the original family will at least not lose very badly.
You see, from the beginning, she was actually much more difficult than Yuan Jiaojiao.
The original family even wanted her to occupy this road.
Is this really trying to go her way so that she has no way out? Thinking of this joke in the modern world, Qiao Ran couldn't help but shake her head.
It's a pity that the rules of this road are not the final word of the original family.
Yuan Jiaojiao's miracle doctor can be said to be "talent", but if you want to create a "talent" on this road, the original family can't help but think too much.
What is true is true, and what is false can never be true. It is the original family who wants to help, but things are changing rapidly, and at an important juncture, how can the original family in Chang'an help thousands of miles away?
His Majesty gave the original family this opportunity, and naturally we must see the results. It turned out that Yuan Jiaojiao was not enough to deal with the incident on Shanxi Road.