Chapter 2: Time Changes

Qi Ao quickly set about teaching Qin Xi about handling official duties, he knew that what she said was just for him to hand over the position of city lord with dignity, if not, I am afraid that she would not even say a decent word to him. She treated him a lot, and now she treats him so indifferently. It's all about him reaping the consequences, and he can't blame others.

It was already early (spring chūn) and the weather was slightly cold. From morning to dusk, every three or four hours, Qin Xi buried his head in stacks of official documents, unable to rest. At first, she asked Qi Ao to transfer all the documents in the past two years, and she flipped through each volume one by one, she wanted to understand every important event that had happened in Qinzhou in the past two years in a short period of time, and make up for the gaps in her memory.

It is not easy to govern a city, Qi Ao has been cultivated as a prince since he was a child, he has taken care of the overall situation, and the annotations made on the document have a clear meaning, and he briefly records the method of dealing with it and the person who dealt with it, she spent a lot of energy and effort to study, but fortunately, she was talented and intelligent, and she saw a lot and gradually understood the way out.

Later, when Qi Ao was reviewing the documents in the study, she sat on the side, first listed what she thought on the paper, and after Qi Ao finished annotating and compared it slightly, about seventy or eighty percent were the same as what he thought, and the remaining two or three percent were biased because of her shallow experience, and she was not as stable as him. encountered a lack of transparency, Qin Xi directly proposed it, and argued with Qi Ao, until she solved her doubts, and then gave up.

Qi Ao knew that when she was bored in Qin Cheng's study alone, he rummaged through all the classics on the shelves, and was not surprised by her rapid progress, he had already said that she was very talented, she never forgot it, she understood it at one point, and changed her lazy problem, at least a few years, her cultivation and knowledge would not be worse than him.

Qin Xi did not insist on personally handling the future documents, Qi Ao had done a good enough, and she would not do better if she took over, so she only asked for every (day) document to be brought to her for review. In other words, the big and small things that happened in Qinzhou City must be under her nose, especially the movements of the Dugu Murong family.

She suffered a loss once, and she did not (允yǔn) Xu fell in the same place a second time.

Another thing she spent her energy on was to wake up from a nap in the afternoon to dusk, and go out of the house to inspect the streets and alleys. Every time she goes out, she will bring two guards, and if she goes to a remote place with few people, she will bring four to five people.

Qi Ao didn't ask about her whereabouts, and they had been keeping a distance from each other, which was very good.

When she was young, she went to every place in Qinzhou, which street had delicious food and fun, and which village had a fertile land and simple people (情qíng), she was familiar with all of them. She has experienced the scenery for fifteen years alone, and after meeting Li Xuan, she personally accompanied him to experience it as if she was sharing a treasure. There are footprints they have walked together in almost every inch, and now she walks alone, sad and sad.

She is the stupidest person in the world. After more than half a year of getting along, even if she has a little keenness, she will not indulge in Li Xuan's lies. With her, what contempt did he have for her stupidity beneath his gentle appearance? She lured the wolf into the house, buried her father's life, caused herself to be in a foreign land, and almost affected the foundation of the Qin family.

She couldn't forgive herself for her absurdity. Pour her heart to (love ài), soft (love qíng) to pay, in exchange for deception and betrayal, how can she forgive Li Xuan and forgive herself?

For so long, she had forced her mind not to think about anything about Li Xuan, there was no room for sand in her eyes, and what had happened five years ago was enough to put her on a dead end, and she would take the poison of being overbearing like forgetting worries. Once again, she will not allow herself to die easily until she finds the truth.

Bo Xishan, Qin Xi returned to Qin's mansion, and Qi Ao sat in the front hall waiting for her. I don't know where he is, she approached and didn't see him react, not (want yù) to talk to him more, she asked (sex xìng) and said coldly: "If you have nothing to do, I will go first." "There is nothing to say with him except for business.

He came back to his senses, said sorry, pointed to the post on the table, and said, "An hour ago, someone from Murong Mansion sent a post, and she wanted to ask you to meet her. ”

Murong Ying's name, she didn't want to hear it, so she turned around and left, leaving behind a sentence: "Why bother to see irrelevant people?" ”

She doesn't care about the past, but does Murong Ying want to worry about her? Based on what Murong Ying did back then, without killing her, she was already thinking about the two ancestors, and if she didn't provoke her, Murong Ying dared to let people come to her house.

Qin Xi returned to the study, and immediately gave an order with a cold face, anyone from Murong Mansion who dared to come again would be driven away, and they would not even be allowed to enter. offended Murong Ying left and right, and let Dugu Hao come forward to settle the matter.

On the way through the study, she saw that the branches of several peach trees were faintly budding, and ordered someone to cut down those peach trees immediately: "Let me see it again, and you don't have to be on an errand in the Qin Mansion." Frightened, the people were busy, and quickly packed up the peach tree and threw it out of the house.

She is not harsh on the subordinates in the house, but she is rarely kind and pleasant, and the subordinates can't understand her spleen (sex xìng), and most of them are a little afraid of her.

That night, she gave another order. This time it alarmed Qi Ao. At that time, she was drinking soothing decoction spoonful by spoonful, and she couldn't sleep at night, so she developed a habit of relying on medicine.

He stood as straight as a green pine, suppressing his anger: "Why did you seal the Xi Garden for no reason? That's where you grew up, and you don't even want to leave a little thought? ”

She had only sealed the garden where she had lived, and he minded more than she did. Qin Xi drank the decoction indifferently, remembering that when she was a child, she often sneaked over to see him, and he almost didn't drive her out, she hooked her lips and smiled: "When you visited the Xuan Palace's mansion at night, didn't you realize that my residence was exactly the same as Xiyuan?" ”

"Bai (日rì) I walked on the street, everywhere I walked with Li Xuan, I can't make the entire Qinzhou disappear from the Kyushu mainland, and I can't destroy the vendors' stalls, smash restaurants and restaurants, and fill up the Bishui Lake. So when I went home, I had the peach blossom tree cut down and lock the Xiyuan. Because when I saw this, all I thought about in my mind was Li Xuan's shadow. ”

She raised her cold eyes, and there was no light in them: "I don't want to miss him, so I have to destroy something related to him." ”

"Why do you torture yourself? If Master were still alive—"

Qin Xi interrupted him coldly: "My father is dead. "How could she have forgotten how her father died? An arrow pierced the heart, killed on the spot, and did not even leave a last word. At night when she didn't take the tranquilizer, her father's death would fall asleep every night, and she couldn't forget the look that her father threw at her before he died, desperate and sad.

"The Qin Mansion is boundless, if you mind living next to a deserted garden, I will order someone to build another garden for you."

"Not necessarily." Qi Ao clenched his fists, and wanted to ask her, she wanted to erase her past with Li Xuan, but what about his past with her? Is their past so worthless? How many pounds and taels does their young (情qíng) mean in her heart?

He still didn't ask, she was already so sad, why did he add another knife to her heart? It's nice to be by her side.

Even after taking the tranquilizer, Qin Xi didn't fall asleep for long, and she got up at the beginning of the sky. She slept lightly, and it was difficult to fall asleep when she woke up. When dressing up, listening to the maidservant who was sweeping the outer room whispered, she ordered not to let the people of Murong Mansion enter the door, and those people retreated and simply stood outside the gate of the mansion and waited for a whole day.

Although the maid tried her best to keep her voice low, those words still floated into Qin Xi's ears word for word, she was not annoyed on her face, she stood up calmly, lifted the bead curtain and walked out, and looked at the two maids with broken mouths, using cheap fat powder, but the things on her wrists and ears were worth a few cents, guessing that she had received the benefits of others in the past.

Working on errands in her house, but doing things for irrelevant people, such half-heartedness overestimates her temper. She doesn't like to be clever people, the former Xiaoye has been a profound lesson, and she is fed up with being used.

The two of them saw her approaching, and they closed their mouths in a familiar manner, and Qin Xi said to the maid with a slightly higher rank on the side of (身shēn): "The two of them talk a lot, and it is not suitable to be an errand next to me (身shēn), so find a reason to transfer to another place." ”

The handmaid bowed her head and took the two out of her sight. Qin Xiyi (身shēn) stepped out of the door in a white dress, it was raining lightly outside, the air was moist and fresh, and the rainy season should come. She walked leisurely under the cloister, like a very beautiful painting. After a twist of fate, her temperament has precipitated, lonely and lonely. The innocence of the past (日rì) is so full that there is no going back.

She really had to be impressed by Murong Ying. In the past, Murong Ying was not so thick-skinned, and she was willing to ask Dugu Hao to be a lobbyist, and she was willing to stop until she saw her. At that time, she used a small bowl of porridge water, and was buried in a stack of papers, handsome and neat writing stroke by stroke, the doors and windows of the study were wide open, just enough for her to enjoy the scenery of the light rain when she raised her eyes to think, and only after reading three or five volumes, Dugu Hao came to the door.

If she knew that he was here for Murong Ying, she should have asked her subordinates to turn him away earlier. She didn't want to hear a word about Murong Ying.

Dugu Hao got straight to the point: "I saw that you were hard-hearted towards Murong Ying, and I came to you to ask for a (love qíng) face." ”

Her annotation action did not stop, and her eyelids did not lift, and she spat out coldly: "Why are you?" With the grace of saving lives on Qinglu Mountain? Since she mentioned the incident of Qinglu Mountain back then, her god (情qíng) was cold again: "Why did that snake attack me, you know it." ”

He gave his life to save her and almost died, and she was a grateful person who never doubted it. By chance, she found a book in the study, which recorded the method of using medicinal powder to lure snakes into a manic state, and she remembered that one (日rì) lying on his back and smelling a strange smell, and her heart felt like falling into an ice cave.

She curled the corners of her mouth self-deprecatingly, she didn't know that people (性xìng) could be so sinister, and she believed that he was willing to give up (性xìng) her life to save her, she really wanted to repay him when he was in trouble, and also sacrificed her life for him.

Dugu Hao didn't expect her to suddenly mention the old thing, her face was extremely ugly, and now she was as sharp as a sword out of the sheath, and she could easily stab his weakness, and he was speechless for a while.

"Murong Ying got married next month, and she was worried that the lord of your city would not give her thin noodles and would not appreciate the light, so she begged me to find you. Right now, your new city lord, she is considered your ally, and if you don't attend the ceremony, it won't sound good to spread the word. ”

Dugu Hao's clever tongue is like a spring, and in a few words, the relationship between her and Murong Ying is clear, Murong Ying can't afford to lose this person, and she Qin Xi can't afford to lose this person. The marriage of the head of the Murong family is a grand event in the entire Qinzhou, and she wants the position of the city lord, and she can't say that she can't refrain from resigning for any reason.

"I thought she wouldn't marry you."

"People change, Murong Ying and you and I are all mortals, time changes, it's not a big deal."

How light it was, just one sentence, as if all the suffering she had suffered should be written off. Qin Xi's hand holding the pen tightened: "Murong Ying has made a lot of efforts in the death of your eldest brother, this is why you want to help her?" ”

She provoked this secret matter, but it was to give Dugu Hao a big embarrassment.

"You-" Dugu Hao was so angry that his teeth itched, Dugu Qian's death in an "accident" was already a turning page, she dared to mention it at this juncture?

His angry reaction was tantamount to acquiescence, Qin Xi was very calm, put down his pen, and took the tea in his hand: "You seem to be surprised that I will know?" can't give Murong Ying a name, but you can give her what she wants more, you are a scheming person, I have suffered a loss from you, why is it difficult to guess? ”

Dugu Qian seems to be mediocre, so that Dugu Shibo can abandon Dugu Hao and not choose, presumably there is still some ability, such a person sat on the throne for two years before dying violently, and it is probably useful to leave him behind. Sadly, he was born as a child of a family, and in the end he fell victim to the change of power in the family.

Dugu Hao sneered and twisted: "What, I have another woman, do you regret not marrying me in the first place?" ”

"I'd rather die of old age alone than marry someone who doesn't (love)."

In Qin Xi's opinion, Murong Ying is reaping the consequences, but I don't know which good son wants to marry such a femme fatale?

The conversation with Dugu Hao broke up unhappily, he left in a hurry, and she didn't feel happy in her heart, and her young playmates all became another strange appearance, which really responded to that sentence, people's hearts are changeable.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, she stood in front of the window, quietly looking out of the house, there were a few maidservants walking under the porch with things, with a light smile on their faces, such a good age, such a good heart (情qíng). She couldn't even afford to be jealous, and maybe she was as carefree as them when she was young.