When I met the red fly, I was taking the exam. The house leak happened to rain overnight, so I wrapped my book in a still dry quilt and put it aside, and sat down next to each other.

The surname Sikong is not common in my original village, my family moved from other places, and it is said that my ancestor used to be a big official, but then declined. My father left early, and my mother passed away two years ago, so I belonged to one person to feed the whole family, so I brought books and a bag with me to Beijing to catch the exam.

It's a pity that the inns near the examination institute are too expensive, even if it is an ordinary room, there is not much left of my plate after the plate. Give up staying at the inn, go to a farther place to try your luck, see if there are any broken temples, broken Taoist temples, or abandoned houses that no one lives in, just to try your luck. Otherwise, you will have to live on the streets.

Fortunately, I found a deserted grass house, and I heard from people nearby that this family used to hunt for a living, and the family fled in the early years. It's broken, but I'm not disgusted. After being cheeky and tidying up, I was still very satisfied.

The only drawback is that this place is too remote, and the backers of Orion live are a little far away from the ordinary villagers. I said, "It's okay, it's good to be quiet and warm up your books when there are few people." So he took out his book.

At that time, I forgot that a small number of people is not necessarily quiet, and too quiet may be haunted.

The weather was not beautiful, and it rained for several days.

All the pots and pans that can be used are used, and I don't have to go out anymore from drinking water, brushing my teeth, washing my face, and taking a bath. The only thing that was terrible was that there was water in the house, and the firewood was stained with moisture, and some of them were simply soaked in water. Hungry and cold, fortunately, it was summer.

At the beginning, I still had some dry food left, and I could satisfy my stomach by soaking in cold water, but in the end, I was still cold water except cold water.

I was hungry, and I went out with an umbrella to find some fruit and came back, hunting... I looked at my arms and legs and gave up decisively, unless there was really a rabbit or something blind and killed in front of me.

When it rains, the mountain road is not easy to walk, it is not easy to go down the mountain, there are wild vegetables that can't rise to the fire and can't cook hot soup, so you can only find some wild fruits. There is no staple food, and after eating for a few days, the more hungry I get.

I curled up in the still dry part of the bed with my book, and sighed softly. The first priority for the rain to stop was to fix the roof, and I fell asleep with that thought. When you wake up, you have nothing to do but study, so let's read.

I took out a book I had bought and tried to open it but couldn't. I frowned, and patiently twisted the foot, trying to pick out the page and find a gap. As a result, the book turned the pages of the book by itself, and it seemed that something came out of it, and he didn't care about it, so he hurriedly reached out and caught the book, but he didn't get wet.

I was relieved to see that the book was intact. "It's okay, it's okay..."

looked up at the two people who appeared out of nowhere in front of him, and his body was stunned. The Taoist in the black robe with a whisk of dust and a little cinnabar between his eyebrows was as warm as jade, and smiled at the double-bearded girl wearing a narrow embroidered skirt with a hibiscus flower pattern on the side: "Look, I didn't lie to you." I said seven seven and forty-nine days, not much in one day, but not many in one day. ”

The girl glanced at me, and for some reason looked quite satisfied, and put her hands in front of her and hummed. "You're still a little useful."

"In that case, the bet I promised you has already been given to you, and the bet between the pavilion master and me, the endless wine jug, can it also be given to the poor Dao?" The man smiled and held out his hand to her.

The girl snapped her fingers, and a jade wine jug filled with elixir and jade liquid, which could not be drunk, fell into the hands of the Taoist.

"Poor Dao said goodbye, and I will have a good time with the pavilion master another day." The Taoist turned into a wisp of black wind and disappeared, leaving the girl still in place, curling her fingers and knuckles against her chin to look at me. I don't know whether to say it or not, my mood at this time is really "Saint, what a cow, ghost, snake god." The son is silent, and the strange force is confused, bluff me? ”

"My name is Red Dragonfly, Lord of the Pavilion—"

"Girl, wait a minute."

Seeing that she was going to sit down, I picked up the book and put it in my arms and stood aside, gave her the place where I had been sitting, and barely gave up one hand to signal: "It's tidal, girl, sit here." ”

The other party looks not small, but he is not very old, and it doesn't hurt to take care of it a little more, although... Maybe I'm nosy.

I saw the corners of the lips of the person who claimed to be the red fly hooked, and the eyes that looked at me seemed to be a little more satisfied.

She didn't sit down where I had made way for her, but pulled a straw out of the broken straw mat on the bed, made a throwing gesture, and threw it at the roof in a heroic motion. As if scattering beans into soldiers, the straw instantly split into thousands and hundreds, and automatically slapped one by one on the roof, weaving a new roof like a weaving cloth.

Red Fly glanced around again, stretched out a finger and circled in front of her at random, and the water vapor in the room centered on her, gathering in front of her into a huge ball of water, which she splashed out of the window with her fingers.

In less than a cup of tea, the grass house that was still damp and cold just now became dry in the blink of an eye, my expression froze, but my heart was already dumbfounded, holding the book in the quilt, what "Zi is silent and strange" There is no word left.

"Put the book down." She sat on the edge of the bed, crossed her legs, and looked at me for a long time.

I did as I was told, muttering in my mouth, "Snail girl? ”

She laughed when she heard this, "Wake up, I'm not here to help you. My name is Red Fly, and I'm the Pavilion Master of the Ghost City Pavilion of Bliss. Sikong Yuan, the master of this pavilion has taken a fancy to you, let's do things with me. ”

“…”

Well? Fancy me? I can't lift my hands, I can't carry my shoulders, and I'm not half as good as her. What do you like about me?

"Dare to ask the girl... What's up and down? ”

The red fly stared at him tightly, and said righteously: "Face! ”

Yes... That's right.

"Girl, although you are poor, you don't sell yourself."

Prostitution? Seeing that I was answering so seriously, Red Fly didn't react to what she had just said for a while. Suddenly, his face turned red, and he knocked his fist on the bed board and said, "Sell, sell something, it's not that you want to do that kind of thing!" Is this the kind of person who is the lord of this pavilion? Which sage book teaches you like this?! ”

When a girl looks at my face and asks me to follow her, she usually thinks that's the kind of thing, right? I smiled helplessly, saying sorry on my lips, but I thought so in my heart.

"Ahem." Hongfei coughed lightly, put away the shame on his face, and said, "This pavilion master has taken a fancy to you, your face just makes this pavilion master look at you more pleasing to the eye, not what you think." ”

I put down the book, smiled and nodded at her words.

Red Fly: "The one who is in charge of the pavilion master, many years ago, I saw a young man with red lips and white teeth, gentle and handsome, cough, very eye-catching. ”

Seeing that I looked at her awkwardly, she put away the many descriptions of the young man's appearance, straightened his colors, and continued: "I made a bet with the man just now, if he helped me find the man, I would give him the endless flask. ”

"That boy is it—"

"That's you."

I laughed twice in my heart, I couldn't think of how I was bumped into by her, and I had been thinking about it for so many years. Thinking, thinking, even I panicked.

"Girl, the ghost market you just talked about..."

"Ghost Bazaar, what's wrong?" Ghost city, ghost market, what else can it be? Readers don't even understand this, tsk. She looked at me with a stupid look on her face.

I raised my hand to cover my face and said, "Girl, how can you go to the ghost market on an errand when you are the next living person?" ”

"But you've lived so far." She looked at me innocently.

I was stunned, as if I didn't hear what she had just said, and couldn't help but say, "What, what? ”

"You will die of typhoid fever today due to the rain and cold air for several days, and it is clearly written in the book of life and death. I just know this, I'm afraid that I'll miss it too late and let you run to reincarnation, so I made a bet with the demon Dao to come to you first and sign the contract with you. Who knows what that old boy is talking to me, don't hurt the cause and effect of others, wait for the will of God. I squatted in that book with me for so many days before you bought it back, but I didn't expect him to be right. ”

I was stunned and said, "I will... Typhoid death? ”

Red Fly nodded, "Absolutely. Even if I help you change the environment, the cause and effect of life and death is not something I can change if I want to, not today, but it will be fulfilled tomorrow or soon. You are destined to die, it is better to sign a contract with me to work in the Pavilion of Bliss, avoid the suffering of reincarnation, and I will give you good treatment! ”

She smiled, but didn't see the blankness on my face.

"But, I want to participate in the imperial examination."

"If everyone is dead, it means that you have no official luck. Even if you take the test, you may not be able to pass the test, and there will be no good results if you pass the test. Why bother? ”

"But I've always wanted to participate in the imperial examination." I was a little stubborn.

The red fly tilted its head, what's going on? I see that his face is not a person who is obsessed with fame and power, how can he be so unable to let go? "You, want to be an official? Why? Want to marry a beautiful wife and concubine, want to be under one person, above ten thousand? Or is there something unpaid? ”

Men are nothing more than women, power, and talents.

"If the mountains and rivers are broken, what use are they?"

Hearing him say this, Hongfei couldn't help but feel that what he said was indeed right. It's a pity that such a person with a pure heart has a short life, it's a pity. is good-looking, full of poetry and books, and is upright, how good it is for her to be a steward. In this way, the more you look at it, the more pleasing it is, you must not let go.

She can sometimes give some sweetness to her subordinates.

"Bliss Pavilion specializes in making deals with people, as long as there is something I can like, it doesn't hurt to give you a chance." Hongfei thought to herself: "I fell in love with him, and now I have broken his cause and effect, which can be regarded as the fate of heaven." Since there is an organic fate to be found, it doesn't hurt to go along with it. ”

"Something you can see?"

Red Dragonfly hummed, "This Pavilion Master can make a deal with you. I'll let you go on a trip to officialdom, but as for how far you can go, it's your own cause and effect and luck, I can't help it. The day you leave the officialdom is the time you enter my Pavilion of Bliss. How is it? ”

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and this condition is too favorable for me, so I can't help but ask, "Enter the Pavilion of Paradise... Be in charge? ”

Red Fly was eerily silent, then nodded. "Okay."

I swallowed, what is it called, what should you have asked me to do? Why did you pause just now? But do I still have a pick? Pick and choose until the end, nothing. Be content and happy.

I thought so and made a deal with the red fly.

The moment the transaction was successful, a burning sensation came from my back and burned me. "What is this?" I pressed my shoulders and asked.

Hongfei smiled, and said with an unfathomable expression: "My people, those who do business with me, must have my mark." You take two, and give you a special one. ”

"I just want the ordinary ones. Is ordinary bad?

This is the encounter between me and the red fly, and later I was admitted to the lifting of people, participated in the palace examination, and got the Tanhua.

*

"In a few days, I will be awarded an official in front of the palace, and it is better to visit these unquiet places to visit Hualang less, so as not to lose his heart and fall into the mouth."

In the teahouse that day, I met the famous Pingning county lord in Beijing, and his demeanor and conversation were indeed different from ordinary boudoir daughters. Although the words and deeds make people feel a little frivolous, but when you think about it, you feel that there is another deep meaning.

The official in front of the palace, distracted and out of order, and the tongue of the mouth... Will something happen to the pre-palace magistrate because of this? Thinking of the person who was a little suspicious of finding fault, I understood, and folded my hand and saluted her. "Yes, thank you for the reminder."

After saying that, he left the land of right and wrong.

After leaving, a shrunken red fly peeked out of his sleeve and floated lightly on the palm of his hand.

"That man's mouth just now owes a lesson." She clenched her fists coldly, as if she was going to pick someone up and beat her

"The water in the capital is very deep, don't act rashly, don't interfere." I handed her a chestnut, and when she didn't take it, he smiled, peeled it and handed it over to her. Seeing her holding the chestnut and opening her mouth to bite it, she stuffed a full bite like a hamster, and her cheeks were agitated and chewed.

"Who was that girl just now? It's pretty good-looking. The red fly finished eating and licked its fingertips.

I said, "It's the lord of Pingning." Although she is the lord of the county, she has always been treated as a princess since the first emperor, her father is the god of war of the Li Dynasty, and after the death of the war, only her bloodline remains, and the royal family attaches great importance to it. Generally, what she says is a little more useful than that of ordinary officials. ”

"She's just like she's reminding you."

"It should be. It's my negligence, people in Beijing often have something to say, and I don't know how many people are involved in one thing. Before conferring an officer, we should be more cautious in our words and deeds. ”

If he is a ginseng at this time, no matter what the official position was originally given to him, he will be unworthy. Since he chose a place like a teahouse, the momentum is still so big, and Jing Zhaoyin didn't react... I'm afraid he's not alone.

Sure enough, when the official was conferred, several Jinshi were implicated because of this, and even the list eye was not spared, and his original position was taken by another person under the recommendation of the ministers. In my memory, that man was later quite close to several rebellious ministers and thieves who had fallen in the Li Dynasty.

Since then, I have never seen the Lord of Pingning again, and when I met again, I never thought that it was at the wedding banquet between His Majesty and her, and I saw her poison half of the ministers. Picking up the secret letters she had spilled, I learned that there was a reason to have to fight so much when sending troops to fight.

Soon after that, there was a great transfer of personnel inside and outside the court, and Hongfei also told me that the Li Dynasty was also at the end of the strong crossbow, and I resigned after seeing through it. On the day I left, I got up early, but I didn't expect that His Majesty would come to deliver it in person.

The chariot of the Son of Heaven stopped at the gate of the city, and the mute little eunuch named Bu Ku got out of the chariot and saluted me.

I immediately understood who was sitting in the car and saluted respectfully. "Your Majesty."

A pale and sickly hand without a trace of warmth lifted the curtain, revealing cold fingertips, and the person inside could only vaguely see a silhouette in the darkness.

“… Your Majesty. ”

Xiao Chulan: "I've worked hard for you all these years. If it's not bad luck, you shouldn't stop there with your talent. ”

"Your Majesty praises falsely, and the minister still has something to learn."

Xiao Chulan raised his eyes and glanced at him, "It seems that you already have a place to go." Anyway, the number of courtesies and vitality has been exhausted. Once this time is gone, don't look back. ”

"Yes."

*

Three hundred years later, the Pavilion of Bliss.

The curtain of the bed was lifted, and Sikong Yuan got up with his clothes on, but was grabbed by the person next to him with one hand.

"Where are you going?" the red fly opened her eyes.

I smiled and kissed her on the forehead. This girl, what did she say to let me be in charge, and what she did turned me into a husband. Girl...

"If you don't get up, who will take care of these things in the cabinet? Little lazy bugs. ”

Red Dragonfly yawned, shrunk into the size of her hand, climbed onto his shoulder, and chose a comfortable position to lean on his neck and put her arms around him, and fell asleep again. “… Together. ”

I smiled helplessly: "Okay." ”

"Zhan Sui Yu and Zhang Qining, are you for the grace of sending each other back then?"

I nodded, "Back then, I was young and vigorous, and some of my words didn't take it seriously. Your Majesty ignores my past suspicions, and I am grateful in my heart. ”

Red Dragonfly: "It doesn't matter if I am, excellent old ladies just want to give the losers a long face!" ”

"Yes, yes, you're right."