There is a cage hanging in the corner of the study.

There is a parrot in the cage. The parrot can learn the human tongue, and after listening to Liu Jianran's words, he also learned to croak: "Ask her to send it, ask her to send it." ”

Liu Jianran smiled, reached out and took a little broken rice from the small table, and fed the parrot a few bites. "I'll just say the last sentence, boring."

"Boredom, boredom." The parrot continues to learn the tongue.

Shi Ximo took a sip of tea and said lightly: "My injury, bear with it, it can be healed." I do not want to work for irrelevant subordinates. ”

"It's only three days. When she brings the potion, you can reward her with a little silver. Liu Jianran thought of Qiu Wen's appearance, and couldn't help but sigh again, "This Pan lady actually let her be a fire girl, and wronged her." ”

"Listening to your tone, you actually want to fight unevenly?"

Ximo drank tea and moved his muscles and bones, but the wound was still faintly painful. But he couldn't stay idle and wanted to write. Writing can be concentrating and calming. While writing, I plan in my heart.

Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, in order to win the hearts of the people and give amnesty to the world, he has also released the wicked who are traitors and criminals on death row. Near Jiangcheng, there are death row prisoners in rebellion. They commit adultery, robbery, and plunder, and do all kinds of evil. One of the notorious thieves nicknamed Huang Yiba even took advantage of the mountains and forcibly abducted women from good families, and when they got tired of it, they were sold into brothels, and old sins were added to new crimes, although death was not enough to vent their anger.

Last time in Junshan, Shi Ximo went to find this thief and eliminate harm for the people.

More importantly, Junshan is strategically located. Offensive and defensible. The new emperor's ascension to the throne is suspicious, and there is a suspicion of swords and axes. And he took the throne, and did not change his previous atrocities, wine and meat, ponds and forests, and sang songs every night. In January, there are only a few days of court. The major affairs of the DPRK and China were only entrusted to a few of his cronies.

The ministers of the court and the central government have long been dissatisfied with the emperor's actions, but they are afraid of the torture of the new dynasty, and no one comes forward to advise.

Previously, the king of Bac Ninh returned to the capital and made an appointment with Shi Ximo. When it comes to all kinds of things in the DPRK and China, they are all indignant. The king of Ningbei told Shi Ximo to pay attention to the affairs of Junshan. Destroy the thieves and bring Junshan under your command.

Junshan is in the middle of nowhere. Three no matter. The terrain is treacherous. Shi Ximo has not entered the office, has no official title, is not an official of the imperial court, and cannot go to Junshan to carry out the affairs of the government officials. But he made a wide range of friends and met many people in the green forest. These people were forced to fall into the grass for various reasons, and unlike Huang Yiba, who bullied the people, they had a sense of justice in their hearts.

If Huang Yiba is subdued, he can secretly arrange a group of green forest heroes to be stationed in Junshan, thinking that they will be used in the future and listen to the dispatch of the king of Bac Ninh.

Huang Yiba's martial arts are not weak.

Shi Ximo fought fiercely with him and injured his left shoulder. Huang Yiba was defeated by Shi Ximo, was seriously injured, and gradually lost the battle, and finally fled.

did not capture Huang Yiba alive, Shi Ximo was very regretful. You have to chase after it.

However, he also succeeded in destroying Junshan Huang Yiba's lair, arrested a yellow-haired thief, and sent him to the king of Bac Ninh. King Bac Ninh is the half-brother of the current emperor. The new emperor ascended the throne, and the king of Bac Ninh had a premonition that the situation was not good, so he took the initiative to ask for help and stationed at the border pass. Akari obeyed and secretly investigated the real cause of the death of the emperor.

The former emperor was also the brother of the king of Bac Ninh.

The first emperor died strangely, but he left an edict and granted him the position of the second emperor's younger brother and ordered him to ascend the throne. At that time, the king of Bac Ninh was not in Kyoto. When he hurried back to the palace, the new emperor had already ascended the throne. What is done cannot be undone.

The new emperor did not deal with the king of Bac Ninh for the time being, but because the foundation was not stable, he rashly found a crime and put his half-brother king Bac Ninh in prison, which would inevitably cause disgust among the people.

Although he is violent, he is not confused.

And put it off for a while, slowly find out the evidence against the king of Bac Ninh, and when the time is ripe, it is not too late to kill him.

Shi Ximo is the man of the king of Bac Ninh. Liu Jianran too.

Back in the house, Shi Ximo is a son of a family who does not care about the world, has no quarrel with the world, and is even a little pedantic. Once he left the house, Shi Ximo became a different person. Martial arts are strong, there is a strategy, sassy and heroic.

Liu Jianran also learned Shi Ximo's tone. "That girl is indeed pitiful."

Shi Ximo glanced at him.

Liu Jianran mentioned the fire girl, and there was always some excitement on his face. Since the death of the red girl, Liu Jian's complexion has been dull, and he has never had a bright face. Now it's different.

"You go with me to the back garden."

"What?"

Shi Ximo said: "It's for you." After a rain, a lot of fresh bamboo shoots appeared in the back garden. You've always loved dried bamboo shoots, and I'll keep an eye out for you. It's just that the fresh bamboo shoots are delicious, and it takes some effort to pull them off one by one. I'll carry the basket for you, and you can pick it up yourself, okay? ”

Liu Jianran showed a touched look.

"Good. It's hard for you to remember. Yes, since I followed you, only you remember my preferences. There are many delicacies in the world like carp crossing the river, but I prefer these dried bamboo shoots, what bamboo shoots tip steamed buns, bacon bamboo shoots dried soup, pickled sour bamboo shoots...... I don't get tired of eating every day. ”

Liu Jianran showed a melancholy look. "In the past, it was Yanhong who helped me with my diet. She cooks good meals. ”

Yan Hong was born in the dust and is Liu Jianran's confidant.

She was in the hook bar, refusing the high price of silver from other guests of the wind and moon, and hid in her room with peace of mind, or embroidery, or cooking. Liu Jianran thought of her infatuation, and she couldn't interfere with the money. Yan Hong devoted herself to cooking, and learned that Liu Jianran was fond of eating dried bamboo shoots, so she even changed her method to make him the most delicious bamboo shoot side dish in the world.

But she got tuberculosis and died.

She died in Liu Jianran's arms and died without regrets.

Liu Jianzhi is familiar with the autumn pattern, also because her appearance and figure are slightly similar to Yan Hong. Fang Cai entered the stove room by himself and stared at Qiu Wen's back, which really made him fall into a trance.

Love me, love my dog.

In the afternoon, the weather cleared.

Shi Ximo was wearing mango shoes, on crutches, carrying a bamboo basket, and Liu Jianran was still wearing a long sword, and the two walked side by side, in the backyard of the huge Shifu, eye-catching and strange.

There are many little women who steal curious glances.

Needless to say, Uncle Liu and Master Liu made an appointment to come to the bamboo forest again to pick tender bamboo shoots.

There is a large bamboo forest in the back house of the Shifu. Quiet. Luxuriance. Charcona is shaded. You can bask in the sun in winter. There are two small pavilions in the forest. There is a piano platform and a flute in the small pavilion. Once you sit down, you can play the piano and play the flute.

A tasteful place.

Here, Shi Yuquan doesn't come often.

As long as Shi Ximo is common, he rarely steps on it.

But today, Shi Ximo found out that something was wrong. A good forest was shoveled, and many of them were pulled out along with the bamboo roots, and the ground was full of messes.

"What's going on here?" Ximo asked an old man.

The old servant was old, hunched over, deaf, and difficult to communicate. After asking several times, the old servant saluted and said, "Uncle, this is what the second master ordered." The second master took a fancy to this place, saying that the place was big enough to set up a stage, so he asked someone to cut down the excess bamboo. ”

Chopping bamboo, in order to build a stage?

In Shi Ximo's mind, he instantly remembered a few actors he had seen in the Plum Blossom Temple.

Liu Jianran hugged his arms: "Doesn't he have a place?" The place where he lives is also big, and it doesn't take up any space to build a stage, so I really don't know why he wants to look here? ”

In fact, the bamboo forest is close to the grass house. The subordinates who manage the forest are also under the jurisdiction of the grassland. If Shi Yuquan really wants to build a stage, it is reasonable that he should indeed report to his eldest brother Shi Ximo.

Not a big deal. But be respectful.

But Shi Yuquan was jealous of Shi Ximo when he was a child. He competed with Shi Ximo everywhere openly and secretly. He invaded Shi Ximo's territory just to undermine his dignity.

If Shi Ximo cares, then he will lose his generosity as an eldest brother. He will use this to promote it.

"Oh, say Cao Cao Cao arrived. Look at ......" Liu Jianran raised his eyebrows and motioned to Ximo: "He must be provoking trouble when he comes." ”

Shi Ximo stood under the forest, silent.

In the darkness of the bamboo forest, a man in an orange robe walked up.

The man is the same tall as Ximo. But when he got closer, he looked at his expression and attitude, but he was far from Shi Ximo. Ximo is handsome and rich. Yuquan is obscene and emaciated.

Shi Yuquan went to his grandmother, Mrs. Shi, and told him all the wonders of building a stage in the forest, which was coaxing and noisy, but the old lady reluctantly agreed, and only told him: The construction of the stage should not be too extravagant, the style is generous, and the economy is practical, and it is okay.

Yuquan saw Ximo carrying a basket on his back and smiled. "Big brother, you're getting more and more funny now. In the past, when picking bamboo shoots, I only carried a small basket. Now the bamboo basket is used. Isn't it, Ming'er still has to use a big basket to pick up all the bamboo shoots here and put them under the corridor in your courtyard, so that your maids there can eat enough? ”

Yuquan said again: "Big brother, in the future, you can simply be a mountain farmer." If you are so diligent, you should leave Jiangcheng and go to the mountains to live in seclusion, and be a master of the world. You are pretending, what Tao Yuanming to learn, and what kind of grass house to change the yard. If you are really determined, you should be ruthless, and don't be a master, just shave your head and become a monk! You eat bamboo shoots, and monks are also vegetarians! ”

Yuquan wished that Ximo would not come back for the rest of his life, or he would die.

Dead clean.

He became the only son of Shi Fu. In the future, the lord and the official will be his.

Liu Jianran sneered beside him, he didn't eat Shi Yuquan's set.

"Is enough for the second master? How can Brother Shi be a monk, isn't this a joke, it's a bastard? He is the eldest son in the house, and he will rarely become an official in the future. With him in front, in short, there is nothing wrong with you without the second master. This, second master, you have a clear heart. Since ancient times, the eldest brother has been like a father. When you see your eldest brother, you don't say hello, you speak arrogantly, you really shouldn't. I can't listen to it anymore as an outsider. “

Facing Shi Yuquan, the straightforward Liu Jianran never spoke politely.

The son of the second room of the Shi family, I thought that I had a historical surname, and I really thought that he was the son of a wealthy family. He had to poke Shi Yuquan's sharpness.

Sure enough, Shi Yuquan couldn't hold his breath.

He hates his eldest brother, and he hates Liu Jianran, who is the same as his class.

In his eyes, what kind of thing is Liu Jianran? It's just a master under the fence. He, a wandering guest, dared to meddle in the affairs of the Shi family.