"Haven't moved over there for a few days?"

The carved window covered with cellophane is open, and you can see a small yard from the window, planted with a few pots of unknown flowers, because of the season, now only green leaves are left, and some even have bare branches, except for a thin begonia in the corner.

It's like a backyard of a house, but the air is filled with a strong smell of medicine, which makes people calm down.

Xuan Shao was half-leaning on the window lattice, and a small dagger was flexibly turned in his slender fingers, and his thick eyelashes that were not curled were slightly drooping, covering most of his eyes, making people wonder if his gaze was on the dagger in his hand that looked simple but glowed black.

Even with such a leisurely posture, Xuan Shao's back was straight, and his cold and noble temperament exuded from within. It is said that a person's origin is not judged from the deliberate dress, but from the temperament that is unintentionally revealed in his gestures.

A man with an ordinary face and a tall figure stood in the backlit place with his hands tied, and replied: "A few days ago, a person went out, and his subordinates quietly found that they were contacting the ships going to sea in Tianjin. ”

Xuan Shao didn't raise his eyes when he heard this, he only bent the index finger of his other hand, and flicked it lightly on the dagger of Ugin, which turned out to be a "woo-" sound, and let out a low sword roar.

The subordinate raised his head curiously when he heard this, and said with a "huh": "This doesn't seem to be the dagger that Gongzi used to use before?" The sound of this dagger was a little more muffled. That Xuan Shao said lightly, "This is what I asked Jian Su to rebuild." ”

"Hasn't Jiansuo already collected the mountain?" The subordinate curiously glanced at the unsheathed dagger, and saw that it was indeed ninety percent similar to the one used by Xuan Shao before. I heard that the previous one was left by the prince a long time ago.

Xuan Shao didn't answer, only raised his eyes slightly. His dark eyes shone like a diamond.

"Keep watching, no matter what they do, until the group shows up."

The subordinate immediately straightened up, grimaced, and respectfully replied "yes".

"Let's go down."

"Yes. The subordinates retired. ”

The man quickly retreated, not forgetting to quietly close the door.

Xuan Shao's posture did not change, and he only stood with his eyes down for a short while. With a movement of the wrist, the dagger disappeared in the blink of an eye. He walked towards the door.

Out of the courtyard, there was an alley outside. Walk through the alleys. Turning a corner, a plaque at a medical center can be seen looking up.

Xuan Shao walked into the medical hall, and the shopkeeper hurriedly handed over the guests to the guys on the side, walked over himself, and shouted softly: "Childe." ”

Xuan Shao nodded lightly, and his eyes swept in the façade of the medical hall: "Someone is looking for me today?" ”

The shopkeeper knew that his son-in-law had always asked such a question recently, and hurriedly said: "The little boy didn't come today, if he came to look for the son, his subordinates would send someone to the son's side." ”

Xuan Shao nodded. He turned around and walked out of the hospital.

The street outside is not very wide, and the old bluestone pavement is full of mud in the cracks. Cut the whole road into cracks. It is said that when this street first appeared, it was inhabited by small traders who came to the capital with dreams to do some small business. At the time, the road was just a dirt road. When it rains, it's muddy, and wearing tall clogs doesn't guarantee that your shoes and socks won't get dirty.

There is no way for the poor to build a good road on their own, but the wisdom of the working people cannot be ignored. So when it rains, some people spread a few stones with a flat surface in the middle of the road, which people usually pick up by the river in the outer city, and wait for the rainy day to come in handy.

It's just that at that time, the stones were sparsely paved, and you had to be nimble and jump to get over from above. Even some young women or women who are going out are no exception. So when it rains, the whole street is lively, and of course some people come to see it. At that time, this was also a beautiful scenery on this small street.

No one thought that over the years, the stones on the street would become more and more paved, and finally it would become a stone road. This road has a nice and lively nickname because of this, Jumping Street.

The people who live around here are also small families, and the richest one is only the grocery store owner who made his fortune buying some seafood for the common people in the early years.

Such a place is the most mysterious force in the imperial court, where the stronghold of the Iron Eagle Guard is located. Because the former commander of the guard believed that the great hidden should be hidden in the city.

Xuan Shao walked alone on Jumping Street, with a cold temperament, handsome appearance, and a tall posture that led the little daughters-in-law and eldest girls in the streets and alleys to blush and look at them heartbeatly.

Xuan Shao has seen a lot of this kind of gaze, when their family was just exiled to the north, there were men and women, young and old, they were very strong, and his father had met a woman who was more daring than this, and the prince was still beautiful in his heart at that time. Until one time, a beautiful orchid chased them to their house, and she wanted to die and live so much that she had to be a concubine, and after being rejected by the prince, she took out a dagger and wiped her neck because of her strong temperament. In the end, although he was rescued, he also hurt his throat and couldn't speak.

Since then, the prince of the world, who has always been narcissistic and coquettish, no longer dares to show off that he has been in the midst of thousands of flowers, and the leaves are not touched. He also admonished his young son with a bitter face: Shao'er, you remember the words of your father! Women, I can't afford to mess with them!

With a burst of crisp laughter, a bright peach blossom flew diagonally and landed at Xuan Shao's feet.

What the? No peach blossoms at this time?

Because it is a silk flower, it also has a fat powder fragrance.

Xuan Shao turned a blind eye, and didn't even deviate from the route he took, and his black boots stepped on a pink petal, which broke his heart.

Two days later is the Xia Yuan Festival, and there are people who buy gold, silver and tin foil on the side of the road.

Somehow, Xuan Shao suddenly remembered what his father had said one year ago, when they were in the north, life was hard, but the family was very happy. It was a Mid-Autumn Festival, and the prince carved a wooden hairpin with Chang'e running to the moon and gave it to his wife.

Although the handiwork is very clumsy, the hairpin is polished very flat.

Jiang was very happy after receiving it.

Shizi glanced at his son and whispered a word in Jiang's ear, which made Jiang smile immediately but was very bright.

The prince curled the corners of his mouth and was secretly proud.

Although Xuan Shao pretended not to hear anything, he had practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his ears were very good. What the prince said at the time was: "In your lifetime, I will give you a gift on any festival without a wheel." ”

Xuan Shao frowned, no matter what festival you want to give a gift? Then the next metaverse festival is also a festival, right?

Xuan Shao couldn't help but stop, his eyes swept around, and he saw a person buying rouge gouache in a stall selling "dark clothes" and "gold and silver bags", and his eyes couldn't help but light up.

The person who bought rouge gouache was an elderly woman, and when she saw a guest coming to the door, her face suddenly smiled like a dried chrysanthemum.

"Ah, little brother Jun, what about buying rouge? Come, mother-in-law will find you the best, this one - this is the peach blossom rouge, which was shipped from Suzhou and Hangzhou. ”

Xuan Shao pursed his lips and took the rouge handed over by the mother-in-law. A small box, half a palm-sized, white porcelain box. It looks elegant.

The mother-in-law took out another identical one and uncovered it, and the rich fragrance of flowers wafted out.

"Smell it, isn't it smelly? The color is also very good, I wiped my family's rouge, and at the age of eighty, I immediately became eighteen. ”

Xuan Shao frowned slightly: "Rouge smells like this?" "He had a sensitive nose and knew how to heal, so when he smelled it, he asked about the ingredients of rouge, which contained lead powder.

"Huh? No...... Yes, other people's rouge doesn't have my fragrance. The mother-in-law was old-minded but very lively, and opened her mouth to say.

Xuan Shao thought about it and put down the rouge in his hand. The mother-in-law thought that the business had failed and was a little disappointed, but Xuan Shao took out a small piece of broken silver and handed it over.

The mother-in-law took it inexplicably, is this want or not?

Xuan Shao didn't say anything, turned around and walked back, and soon arrived at the pharmacy.

"Huh? Son? Why are you back again? The shopkeeper saw Xuan Shao go and return, and said a little strangely.

Xuan Shao walked straight to the place where the accounts were settled, wrote a few lines of pen and paper on where, and then handed the paper to the shopkeeper, and lightly ordered: "Find these things for me." ”

When the shopkeeper saw that there was a task order, he immediately took it respectfully, and looked at it seriously, but he ...... Most of these things are not medicines, right?

"Childe, what is this?" The shopkeeper looked up in confusion.

Xuan Shao's face remained unchanged: "I found it, I have a use." ”

"Yes, Childe. The subordinates will go. The shopkeeper didn't dare to ask any more.

Xuan Shao waited on the side, and the shopkeeper was also a capable person, so he quickly found all the things Xuan Shao wanted, carefully wrapped them and handed them over.

"Childe, this is what you want."

Xuan Shao nodded, took the things and left.

The shopkeeper wiped the sweat on his head and wondered: What does Childe want to do with a bunch of rouge things?

***

What Xuan Shao did with that pile of things, no one knows.

On this side of Mao'eryan Hutong, Sanniang was talking to Xue.

"The day after tomorrow is the Xia Yuan Festival, and Mrs. Zhou invited me to participate in the dojo specially prepared by the Royal Dabei Temple this year. I've heard that the ladies of Kyochu don't want to go. When the time comes, I'll take you with me. Xue's face was happy.

This Mrs. Zhou is the last time Sanniang and Xue's were making clothes in Yunxiang Building, the last time they met Mrs. Yushi of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, at first these ladies looked down on Xue's filling house, but a series of things happened after that, but they all felt that Xue's was a person who could be befriended, and Sanniang contributed a lot in this change. (To be continued)