Chapter 43: Salted Fish and Vinegar
Pan Yue sat in the study, picked up the book, and suddenly said with a smile in his ears:
"General Banyue is like a gatekeeper, with no appearance, no taste, who wants to marry?"
With a shy look on his face, he touched his forehead.
She's just a self-righteous, open-mouthed guy, so why should she care about what she says?
But with a book, you can't read anything.
I always think, where did she run in the morning? Nothing will happen, right?
Just thinking about it, the top of his head "plop!" "A bang.
There was not much movement, followed by a few miserable "meows!" Ah~woo~"
Soon, the white cat burst into his room, slumped to the bottom of the bookshelf, and refused to come out, leaving a long string of wet plum prints on the floor.
I've never seen it so panicked.
He got up and searched for the paw prints, only to see that the claw marks were coming down the stairs.
How can there be water upstairs?
As soon as he reached the second floor, he saw a bucket of water at the entrance, splashing all over the ground.
There was a smell of salted fish in the air, and he followed the smell to find it, and suddenly saw a salted fish soaking in the water, and the rope tied to the salted fish hung on the edge of the barrel.
On the roof, there is an same rope hanging above the barrel, about 50 centimeters from the bookshelf.
The cat's paw prints start from the edge of the barrel.
As you can imagine, there used to be a salted fish hanging from the bottom of the roof rope, and this cat was greedy, so he climbed to the top of the bookshelf to catch it.
When it jumped and grabbed the salted fish, the rope could not withstand its weight, and it fell into the bucket along with the salted fish, and was greatly frightened.
The rope is so thin, it's obviously a prank.
Who is so boring to play tricks on their own cat?
He packed up the bucket and made a noise, and a laughing voice came: "General General, please leave the salted fish."
He looked up, smiling and poking his head out from behind the innermost bookshelf.
She made this thing?
Come to think of it, she is afraid of cats, so she uses this way to deal with cats?
It's disgusting!
Why do you have a cat? It's rat-proof.
She scared her cat away, and wouldn't the rat run rampant?
These books are her own treasures, and she usually doesn't allow anyone to enter, and she made a mess of this place as soon as she came, which is really unreasonable!
He angrily walked over to get rid of the troublemaker.
The further you went, the more vinegar tasted, and when she turned a corner at the end, she was sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a bamboo slip in her hand, and several vinegar jars were placed beside her, and the lids were all lifted.
"What are you doing here?" He became more and more annoyed, and made the salted fish smell already smelly, and the vinegar smell was even more unbearable.
"Cat-proof, otherwise how can I read a book?" This is the plan she discussed with Grandma Turtle last night, and it really worked.
"You!" He really wanted to pick her up and throw her out, but when he saw that there was no one beside her, he laughed while reading the book, and said, "It's so well written." ”
Completely immersed in the book, she has ignored his existence!
Anyway, it's better for her to read here than for her to run out of the General's Mansion to cause other trouble.
"Do you count?" He remembered what she had said and changed his mind.
"What did I say?" Two eyes blinked with long eyelashes, staring blankly at him.
"Before you finish the book, you will never leave the General's Mansion for half a step."
"Yes, but without these cat-proof relics, I can't read with peace of mind."
"Cat, I'll help you out."
"Great." smiled brightly at him.
With this smile, his anger completely vanished.
How to say it, she is hateful, but sometimes there are some shames that make people admire, such as her spirit of concentrating on reading.
He did what he said and immediately called someone to come and take the cat away.
"Wait for the young lady to leave, and then let the cat in. As long as Miss is here, she must not be allowed to appear. He commanded the housekeeper.
"Yes."
After solving this little trouble, he sat down, and his mind was much more settled, and he was able to read and write.
Occasionally, he would look up at the rooftop, a smile unconsciously on his lips.
"General." Uncle Qian walked in, "Chen Qiao and Nian Bei are here. ”
"Please come in." He put down the brush.
The reason why he asked Uncle Qian to invite these two was to discuss with them, whether they were willing to be smiling personal guards?
"Everything is subject to the general's arrangement, and I will not hesitate." They gladly accepted.
Banyue asked them to live in the General's Mansion, as long as they traveled with a smile and followed behind at all times.
With the two of them plus Jin Ning and Xiaoyue's escort, if Hanxiao moves out in the future, safety should be guaranteed.
At this point, the hourglass indicates that it's time for lunch.
Uncle Qian brought the food. Upstairs, there was no movement.
Doesn't she remember eating?
"You go and prepare one for Miss Xiaoxiao and send it over." He instructed Uncle Qian.
When Uncle Qian sent the one with a smile, there was still no movement upstairs, so he had to go up to see what was going on.
I saw Hanxiao sitting there cross-legged, looking at the book with relish, forgetting to sleep and eat.
"You're not hungry?" Banyue asked.
Before he finished speaking, he heard a smiling belly gurgling.
He almost laughed when he heard this, and turned his face away from her.
"You reminded me." With a smile, he got up and left.
There were several rolls of bamboo slips piled up on the ground.
"Won't you clean up after reading the book?" Banyue stopped her.
"I'm going to come back anyway, so I won't pack up the books."
Ban Yue didn't like things to be spread out the most, and criticized: "You look at a roll, take a roll, how can you spread so many bamboo slips on the ground like this?" ”
"I read several volumes at once, so I take several volumes at a time. These have just been taken down, and I haven't had time to see them yet. ”
"How many volumes at once? How many have you already watched? ”
He smiled and pointed to the top row.
Those are all ancient books, esoteric and difficult to understand. Banyue felt unbelievable, she wanted to finish reading this row, and she couldn't do it at all without a month, how could she finish reading it all?
He casually pulled out a volume and opened it, it was the "Hetuluo Book".
There are two mysterious patterns in the Hetuluo book, which are said to have existed in the Fuxi period in China, which are extremely mysterious.
"What do you do with this picture?" Banyue asked.
"Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to two yi, two yi gives birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip. Isn't that what it means? The Book of Changes is derived from the idea of this picture, right? ”
Ban Yue casually took out another volume, called "Lianshan".
It is known as the "Three Changes" along with "Gui Zang" and "I Ching", which are extremely esoteric books of ease of learning and are quite difficult to understand.
"What is "Lianshan"?" Banyue asked again.
Smile is not willing to answer, such a simple question to ask yourself, too much to look down on yourself, right?
"If you can't answer, you'll only have to take one book at a time next time." Banyue threatened.
"The "Lianshan" is like the clouds of the mountain, endlessly. It starts with the Gen hexagram, such as the continuous mountain, so it is called Lianshan. He finished with a smile.
Banyue was still not convinced, and pulled out a few more volumes, but no matter how she asked, she could answer them fluently.
Now he had to take it.
With her knowledge, I'm afraid Fan Lu will be impressed when he comes.
"You have such a good memory, how can you forget who you are?" He was deeply skeptical.
Xiaoxiao poked her temple with her finger: "I really don't remember." ”
Seeing her annoyed face, Banyue didn't want to embarrass her, so he changed the subject: "It's time for lunch." ”
looked at him with a smile, that look, no malice.
"What to eat?" She licked her lips, revealing her greed.
Banyue didn't say anything, just made a gesture of please.
Smiling and not polite, walking straight in front of him, Pan Yue looked at her graceful figure, and her heart jumped and accelerated inexplicably.
To be honest, since I've ridden with her, my heartbeat has been a little abnormal.