Chapter Ninety-Six: Departure for Spring Hunting

After the New Year, even if it is spring, I have to get up early on the morning of the first day of the new year to be auspicious, everyone slept late last night, and got up early in the morning, Ling'er sat in front of the mirror with two big eyes and didn't know anything for a long time, and my brain was also a paste, who am I, where am I, what am I doing? !

"Knock Knock"

Outside, there was a knock on the door, Ling'er finally woke up, and Hu Lu shouted with a face: "Who?" ”

"It's me, Yiyi." Shouting outside.

"Here, I'll open the door." Ling'er shouted, but her body was disobedient and she couldn't get up.

"Don't come, hurry up and wash up and go to eat, my master told me to call you." Yiyi finished speaking and left.

Ling'er really didn't get up, she was still sitting in front of the mirror and looking at herself in the mirror, well, the more you look at it, the better it looks, haha, it's so narcissistic, what was Yiyi doing just now? Hurry up and wash up! The little girl hurriedly brushed her teeth and washed her face for a while, and only after washing her face did she wake up.

"Knock Knock"

There was another knock on the door, thinking that it was Yiyi again, so Ling'er went to open the door with a cloak, and saw that it was Ah Jue.

"Happy New Year, morning." Ah Jue smiled at Ling'er.

"Happy New Year, why are you here?" Ling'er dodged and called him in.

"Look why you haven't gone yet, I'm waiting for you, both left and right have gone." Ah Jue pulled her to sit down in front of the mirror, picked up the comb, and combed her in a woman's bun.

"How do you comb like this?" Ling'er asked.

"On the first day of the new year, you don't want to show off your hair in a bun." Ah Jue looked at the little face in the mirror and said with a smile.

"It's up to you, as long as you don't ask me to comb it myself, anything." Ling'er looked left and right, "It's not bad." ”

"Have you washed up? Let's go. Ah Jue asked.

"Wash it up, let's go." Ling'er took Ah Jue's hand and went out.

After the sixth uncle saw that Ling'er and Ah Jue were coming, they arrived and began to fire cannons, crackling and crackling for a long time.

"It's the beginning of the new year! Booming! Uncle Sixth came to a conclusion after the cannon was fired: "Let's eat!" ”

Everyone sat down according to the order of last night's meal, in fact, they used to sit like this every day when they ate together.

"Pour the wine!" Shi Gong shouted.

"Do you drink in the morning?" Ling'er's eyes widened with swollen peach-like eyes.

"Why, I didn't drink alcohol on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Imperial City of East China before?" Shi Gong asked rhetorically.

"Drink, it's just fruit wine, it's still hot." Ling'er yawned, obviously not sleeping well.

"Why didn't you go back to bed so early last night and didn't sleep well?" Shigong looked at her like that, she had no energy on the first day of the Lunar New Year, she was angry, and she wanted to beat people.

"I slept at the end of the vigil in the house." Ling'er thought about what kind of rules were broken, and only slept until dawn when she was a child, so that a fool could sleep well.

"We elders don't have the same spirits as you! I'm going to take you to spring hunting today! "Shigong hates to see Ling'er who can't make steel.

"Harumi?" Ling'er listened to the spirit.

"Eat well, pack up two clothes and set off in a while, aren't there people in the imperial city who come to visit the New Year, we have no place to pay New Year's greetings, take advantage of these days not to study "University", take you out to relax, and catch the winter tail." Shigong picked up a sip of wine and drank it. "Here, the first drink!"

"Happy New Year to Master (Master)!" Everyone said in unison.

"All are obedient," Shigong happily enjoyed the process.

"Master, will everyone go spring hunting in a while?" Zuo Zuo asked with big eyes and cuteness.

"I'll take a few of you children there, and your senior brother will have his own affairs to be busy at home." Shigong meant that he would take a few young apprentices and grandchildren. "There are too many people to live in, there is not as big as the valley, and the room is not enough to live."

"Master, I forgot to say when I came back, the hut in the ginkgo forest we went to last time couldn't burn at night, and it was very cold." Ling'er stopped her chopsticks and suddenly thought of it.

"Oh, the chimney of that kang is blocked, just open it." Shi Gong didn't raise his head and said casually.

Ling'er didn't dare to look at himself when he saw him, this little old man must have known last time, it must have been deliberate! Ling'er didn't say much, endured it, bowed his head and ate the vegetables!

The wine is still over three rounds, and those who drink are also looking for each other to toast, at the beginning of the new year, you can't lose in drinking, Ling'er saw that the formation of a few uncles should be let go of drinking this morning, anyway, their master is about to go on a spring hunt, and no one cares about sleeping for a day, and you don't have to work if you drink too much, how good.

The first meal on the first day of the Lunar New Year ended in drinking, Ah Jue also drank some, feeling dizzy, the whole audience also followed Ling'er and Zuo Zuo did not drink, the rest of the face was flushed, and the eyes were also red, you said that this New Year, it is nothing more than staying up late to play cards and drinking, to relax the tension of the year, and the complete relaxation of the body and mind.

After eating a good meal, everyone went back to pack up some necessities and followed Shigong to spring hunting. Shigong took Sheng'er, Yiyi, A Jue, Ling'er, Zuo Zuo, Shi Mi and Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang asked to go, but his master was not going to take him, he didn't want to stay with the three old four, five and six who had drunk too much, saying that he had his own things to be busy, but in fact, he was just relaxing and sleeping.

Eight people and two carriages set off, I have to say, in this valley is really good, there are houses to live in the surrounding mountains, and the nature of the courtyard, this master obviously took a group of children to find a warm vacation, I heard that this time is to go to the south of the mountain in front of it, it is said that the spring and peony, camellia have been opened all over the mountains, because the south of the mountain is much warmer than the valley.

"Master, it's so warm there, why just build a larger yard and house, and don't live there for a long time." Ling'er was bored in the carriage and chatted with her master.

"There are bears and blind people who often hang out, and there are wolves and snakes, but there are no of these in the valley, and it is much safer." Shi Gong replied.

"I see, so is it safe for us to go this time?" Ling'er was a little worried, she was afraid of those animals, especially the ferocious ones.

"It's just the Spring Festival, the bear blind man shouldn't have woken up yet, I have a sword and a crossbow here, you see, this strong crossbow can kill a bear blind man, it can fire continuously, similar to Zhuge repeater, but it's more powerful than that, specializing in dealing with large and ferocious beasts." Shigong showed Ling'er weapons.

Ling'er looked at Zuo Zuo with a look of admiration, but Yiyi was not so strange. This time, it was Shi Gong who took Zuo Zuo, Yiyi and Ling'er in a car, and the remaining four men in a car, and the car in front was Shi Gong showing off weapons and equipment, boasting about how he killed a blind bear back then; Che Sheng'er in the back drove the car, the three men in the car had different thoughts, and there was harmony in front of him, Mr. Wang was showing off his literary talents, as a disciple, Ah Jue and Shi Mi worshipped, but in their hearts they greeted his ancestors 800 times, and finally rested and didn't want to learn.

After driving the car for a while, Sheng'er was bored sitting in front of him, so he rescued the little uncle and the little junior brother, "Mr. Wang, what you said has been talked about by my master before, but the opinions are different." ”

As soon as Mr. Wang heard this, the two of them had to learn from each other, how to say that Mr. Wang's teacher was Ling'er's Taishi, and that was also a great Confucian in East China! There are people who have different opinions from him, that's okay, and he is also a master from another country, he should also be a great Confucian, this kind of thing is something that Mr. Wang's generation will never tolerate, he hurriedly moved to sit next to Sheng'er, and the two of them drove the carriage together, Ah Jue and Shi Mi in the car were relieved, and felt that Sheng'er was really a savior, if you listen to it all the way, your ears can be calloused.

"What are you laughing at?" Shi Mi asked Ah Jue with bad intentions.

"I'll laugh whatever you laugh at." Ah Jue breathed a sigh of relief.

"You know what I'm laughing at? I didn't laugh. Shi Miben raised his face and pretended not to smile.

"It's not uncomfortable to endure it." Ah Jue gave him a blank look.

"You, are you with Ling'er?" Shi Mi lowered his voice.

"Yes, sometimes affection is not controlled by one's own heart." Ah Jue lowered his head and smiled.

"Congratulations!" Shi Mi looked at him and smiled generously.

"Did you really tell Ling'er that you wanted to ......?" Ah Jue didn't say much, Shi Mi just understood it himself.

"Otherwise, I'm killing myself, Ling'er can't tolerate me here, she has a way to tell me to go back, then all the sacrifices I made in the imperial city were wasted, I promised her, maybe I can stay here decently, learn swordsmanship, go back and have an explanation with my old father and His Majesty, and I can't waste it in vain Your father to write a letter to ask my master to call me over." Shi Mi is also telling the truth.

"She's the kind of soft-hearted girl, if you treat her well, she won't let you down, of course, you can only be a friend, not a suitor, I don't know why she hates suitors so much, perhaps, it's too much to annoy." Ah Jue said these words thinking about Ling'er's appearance.

"Are you the one who approached her as a friend and gained her heart?" Shi Mi asked with a smile.

"No, at that time, I was still a rival, but I was beaten by her." Before Ah Jue thought about confessing his feelings, he was also entangled in his heart for a long time, and his feelings naturally flowed out in the depths, and he couldn't admit it if he didn't want to.

"You're showing off nakedly." Shi Mi pretended to be a casual joke.

"I'd love to be the same friends you used to be." Ah Jue looked at Shi Mi sincerely.

"Okay." Shi Mi also looked at him, and the two men suddenly burst out laughing, all the unpleasantness in the past was over, at least Ah Jue was in the past.

A group of two cars, the front car chatted about the past, the back car said the golden mean, there was no rest at noon, the lunch problem solved in the car, and really rushed to this valley before dark in the afternoon.

There is a large flat area in the valley, without trees, and full of all kinds of wildflowers. At the end of the flat land is the courtyard, with a high courtyard wall, after opening the door, there is a front yard inside, and there are several rooms, there are special cooks, special meals, which is much larger than the house in the ginkgo forest.

"There are three rooms, Ling'er and Yiyi live in one room, Shigong and I live in one, and Sheng'er and A Jue Shimian live in one." Shigong looked at the sky and locked the courtyard door, it was still not safe after dark, "Let's bring enough things to eat for dinner today, and after a while, Sheng'er will take Yiyi to cook, Ling'er will take Ah Zuo to make the bed, Ah Jue and Mi'er will chop wood and then warm up the kang in the room." ”

"Master, what are you doing?" Zuo Zuo raised his head and looked at the little old man and asked.

"Hmph, the master has a master's business, the children go to work, you see Ling'er is gone." Shigong pointed to Ling'er who turned around and said.

Zuo Zuo was not annoyed, and followed Ling'er and went in, "Sister, you said that the master has arranged all the work, can you rest?" ”

"Little guy, Master must have his own things to do, what about you, go get a rag and wipe the bench and table, and then I'll make the bed in this room, you go to bed and rest for a while, and wait for dinner, okay?" Ling'er said as she made the bed.

"Sister, I'll just sit on the bench for a while after I'm done, I'll go wherever you go, and the master told me to follow you." Zuo Zuo obediently took a rag and wiped the table.

"Zuo'er is really getting more and more sensible." Ling'er saw how well he was doing and praised him.

Everyone worked together, and when Ling'er made the bed and took Zuo Zuo to the stove where the rice was cooking, Shi Mi and Ah Jue also came, it seems that they will definitely be able to sleep warmly tonight, and everyone will come to the stove to help after finishing the things at hand.

"Yiyi is so powerful, you can burn everything." Ling'er boasted about Yiyi.

"Yes, it's also the crown princess, Ling'er, look at you." Ah Jue made a joke about Ling'er, but Ling'er didn't reply, only threw him an eye kill, which means you wait!

Ah Jue did not show weakness, picked up a pot and said, "I'll go make tea for the master." ”

"I'll go with you." Ling'er wants to take revenge on him.

"Don't, it's freshly boiled water." Ah Jue took the pot to scare Ling'er, Ling'er pretended to be very scared and ran away, in the eyes of others, they were all very ordinary and simple actions, in Shi Mi's opinion, they were all showing affection to him, but he had to put on a willing look.

Ah Jue took the pot to the door of the master's room, "Knock knock, the master is me, Ah Jue." ”

"Come in, the door isn't closed." The master said inside.

Ah Jue pushed the door in, Shi Cheng was lying on a chair that could shake the Taishi and read the book, Ah Jue couldn't help but say when he saw him reading like this: "Master, it's night, the light is too dim and my eyes hurt." ”

"Hehe, silly boy, I'm starting to take care of my master, just look, I'm starting to close my eyes here, what are you doing? Is that what they are here to discipline me? Shigong put the book aside and began to close his eyes again.

"I'm here to make tea for you, the mountain spring water is boiling." Ah Jue took the pot and brewed a pot in front of the teapot in front of the table.

"Master, did you bring this teapot or have it been here all the time, why do I look the same as in the valley." Ah Jue asked while pouring water.

"Your master's sword can be separated from his body, and the pot is not separated from his body, it's just such a hobby." The master said slowly, "By the way, An Ajue, I think you and Ling'er have gotten along recently?" Deliberately didn't tell me? The master opened his eyes and looked at Ah Jue.

"Yes, Ling'er said that I can't tell you that the gift is too easy to receive, so I won't tell you." Jue replied with a joke.

"This little girl, I'll talk about her in a moment!" The master was really annoyed.

"Don't, you'll hit me." Ah Jue confessed.

"Was that Mi'er like that in the Imperial City before? No wonder your father didn't call him, your father wrote to say that he was helpless by his father's begging, and asked me to take the child and give him some face. The master continued to close his eyes and speak.

"He, before me, had a longing for Ling'er." Ah Jue told the truth.

"I didn't ask this, I always thought this kid was weird, not the city you should have at your age." The master does not beat around the bush either.

"Well, I'm not a close friend, just a polo friend, and his skills are okay." Ah Jue didn't know how to answer.

"Well, you have a longer heart, and you have to think more about everything." The master looked at Ah Jue, this child was still simpler in Wenfu.

"Master, Ah Jue, it's time to eat!" Ling'er shouted outside.

"Let's go, let's eat." The master got up, took a sip of tea and took Ah Jue away.