Chapter 20: Keeping the New Year

Supporting his sleepy head with his elbows, he kept worrying about why he asked Chu Mo to keep the New Year with me, I thought that when I was playing and making trouble, I should rest and rest, but I didn't want him to have to let me sit quietly until dawn.

"High Priest, the emperor will be to blame if you know that you are still in my palace so late." I felt like I couldn't open my eyes, and my whole consciousness became confused.

Chu Mo handed me a cup of tea, and replied leisurely, "The emperor already knew." You just concentrate on keeping the New Year, and the blessings of the year are not sloppy. ”

I have drunk seven or eight glasses of water this night, and I have been to the toilet four or five times, so naturally I can't drink it, so I waved my hand and continued to lie on the table, watching Chu Mo turn into two figures.

There was a loud noise in the courtyard, which frightened me into sitting up, and I ran away from drowsiness for most of the time, and then stood up and ran out of the hall.

"What's wrong?"

The lights were already on outside, but they were not too bright, and they couldn't see what was going on in the yard clearly, so they saw Chu Lige walking over slowly, with the smell of gunpowder all over his body.

"It's fine." His voice was muffled, as if he was enduring something, and my first reaction was that he had injured himself, and pulled him to the hall, but he was unwilling to move in ink, which made me a little angry in my heart, why is this kid always so nonsense.

"What's wrong with you? Don't you dare to see Master when you get into trouble? ”

"Hmm." He didn't refute me for the first time, but it surprised me a little, but when I thought that he was injured somewhere, I didn't bother to talk to him, "What are you afraid of, with me in Chu Mo, I won't discipline you, come with me in to see if you are injured." ”

When he heard me say this, he stopped insisting and followed me into the temple. The entire Yilan Hall was brightly lit, and the light was naturally better than the outside, and I looked at the gunpowder ash on his body, as well as the trembling right hand, and knew that he was secretly playing with fireworks and injuring himself.

When Chu Mo saw me and Chu Lige coming in at the same time, he looked at Lige in embarrassment, and his good-looking handsome face suddenly darkened a little, and he was a little displeased. Also, Chu Mo is a person who pays attention to the rules so much, his apprentice not only secretly violated the palace rules by firing a cannon, but also made himself like this, he should be angry.

"Master."

“……”

"Master."

“……”

"Master, the apprentice knows that he is wrong." After speaking, Chu Lige knelt on the ground with a thud, his eyes were red, he held back his tears, and although his right hand was painful, he was also tightly behind him, which made me unbearable. dragged him up, but the kid was also stubborn, Chu Mo didn't speak, he knelt steadily, not moving the slightest.

"Chu Mo, let him get up, his hand is injured, can you punish him after applying medicine first?" I can't pull Chu Lige, I only have Chu Mo.

Chu Mo didn't refute my face, nodded with a cold face, I pulled him up, and hurriedly sent the imperial doctor early to heal him, the imperial doctor said that fortunately, the amount of gunpowder was small, and if it was bigger, I was afraid that this hand would be useless. Hearing this, my heart was shocked, and Chu Mo's face darkened.

When the imperial doctor bandaged it, he didn't say a word, and his whole little hand was red and red, although there was no blood, but it was shocked under the flesh, and the pain was even more acute. Chu Mo didn't say anything to comfort him, nor did he blame him, but after he finished bandaging, he said lightly, "Shut up, copy the scriptures." Take the punishment and go. ”

Chu Mo's red eyes finally couldn't help but shed tears, after all, he was a child, and he had to be punished by the master if he was injured, and he must have been extremely aggrieved in his heart, so I opened my mouth to intercede again, "Chu Mo, he still has an injury on his right hand, is this kind of punishment too heavy." ”

Chu Mo ignored me and asked out loud, "Is it heavy?" ”

"It's not serious, it's the disciple who made a mistake and deserves to be punished." Lige sniffed and replied in a choked voice.

This is the first time I have seen Chu Mo get angry, I used to see him was polite and gentle, I never got angry, and I didn't see him angry with anyone, but now Lige hurt his hand, he was so angry, not only angry Lige was naughty, but also angry that he didn't take good care of this child. Seeing that the master and apprentice are willing to fight and suffer, I can't say anything.

"Still not going?" Chu Mo's voice was faint, and he couldn't hear any emotion clearly.

"Wait, tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve, let him Ming'er punish again, let Lige get injured I am also responsible, I didn't let the slave put things away before he was injured."

Chu Mo looked at me, and when he heard me say this, he couldn't bear it in his heart, and finally relieved, "Jiu'er pleaded for you twice, then tomorrow." ”

I asked Sang Ma to bring the snacks and supper I had just made, and put a bowl of bird's nest porridge for Lige, although Chu Mo was relieved, but the master and apprentice were silent, which made me feel a little embarrassed, and I didn't know how to mediate.

Chu Mo no longer insisted that I keep the year until dawn, seeing the two of them like this, I also had no intention of sleeping, so I let Sang Ma take the song to the side hall to rest, just injured is always easy to wear, the entire main hall of the Yilan Hall is only me and Chu Mo, I took a piece of dim sum and put it on his plate, and whispered, "I'll tell you about our time and space, do you want to hear it?" ”

I thought he wouldn't bother with me, but I didn't want him to smile and nod to me, since he was willing to listen, then I was naturally willing to speak, and I was also afraid, afraid that I would forget if I didn't remember it.

"We have a very wide road there, do you know the road? It's bigger than the palace corridors! Our women can go out and do work, even better than your men, and women can be officials......

I've been talking, I've been thinking, I've been recalling, Chu Mo just listened quietly, occasionally asked me a word or two, I looked at his face, and always felt that all this was too unreal, so why did I come to such a place.

The Chinese New Year's Eve passed slowly in my broken thoughts, and on the morning of the first day of the new year, my mouth was dry and tired, and he was sleepy, but he was still in good spirits. Chu Mo asked me to rest for a long time, so I was about to go back with Lige, but I didn't want the child to sleep soundly, and it was not easy to wake him up, so I asked Chu Mo to go back by himself first.

After he left, I called Sang Ma Bai Zhi to bathe and change clothes for me, and prepared to go to Shuyi Hall to ask for peace, although I was sleepy, I couldn't forget the rules, this is the harem woman, or the sorrow of the ancient woman.