Chapter 3: The first bullet of the concubine's misstep
"What do you do?"
Xu Langyin sighed twice, and said without looking back, "This black light is blinding, where can you let me go to find pen and ink for you." ”
The man was silent, as if it was what Xu Langyin said.
When Xu Langyin took the pen and ink and handed it back to the visitor, he deliberately glanced at his face.
Sure enough, as she expected, the visitor was not afraid of her lighting the lamp at all, and his face wore a half-faced carved dragon mask, covering his eyes and nose, revealing only his smooth and white chin.
The man was dressed in a dark robe, about seven or eight feet high, and the fabric of the piece of clothing on his waist was obviously darker than the color of other places, so Xu Langyin speculated that he should have been injured in the waist and abdomen.
After the man took the pen and paper, he lay down on the desk and did not know what was written.
After about a cup of tea, he got up, rolled the written paper into a small strip, walked to the window, whistled loudly, and after a while, a dark blue Hai Dongqing flew over and landed on his arm, and then he put the written note into the small bamboo tube on Hai Dongqing's leg, touched its shiny feathers, and then let it fly away.
Xu Langyin watched from the sidelines, without squeaking, she vaguely guessed that this person should not have been sent to the General's Mansion on purpose, he should have been injured, and he wanted to inform others of any news, so he entered the General's Mansion.
Seeing that there was no one guarding her Jingxi Garden, he entered her room.
"Your Excellency, go well, never see you again."
Although Xu Langyin didn't mind that he broke into his room, after all, at night, lonely men and widows were in the same room, and it was a joke to spread out, so now she issued an eviction order.
The man glanced back at her, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but still didn't say anything. just suddenly threw something at Xu Langyin, and Xu Langyin took it easily.
A token that looks quite extraordinary, with a lifelike crane carved on it, and a "Yan" character engraved on the back.
Xu Langyin was a little confused, and just wanted to look up and ask him, but found that the person was gone.
Xu Lang thought about it again and again, and felt that this brand was not a vulgar thing, so he put it away.
That person can raise something like Hai Dongqing, and she knows that he is not simple.
In the blink of an eye, more than a few days have passed.
Xu Langyin lives like a fairy every day.
On this day, Xu Langyin was idle and had nothing to do, learning to embroider there, but this one by one, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a four.
"Miss, Nantu said that there is still no progress so far, and he will send two more waves of people."
Fu Xiang walked in from outside, holding an envelope in his hand and handing it to Xu Langyin.
Xu Langyin was not in a hurry to read it, put the letter again, and continued to embroider.
"This matter is not urgent, you tell Nantu, continue to search, tell me in time if you find anything, don't act rashly."
"Good.
"By the way, Miss, today is eleven, and there are new dishes in Huixiang Building, why don't we try them?"
Xu Langyin's eyes lit up.
Through the fourth article of the survival manual: you should eat, drink, play, and you must not treat yourself badly.
"Let's go, Fu Jiu, Miss, I'll take you to have a good meal!"
Fu Xuan pursed her lips and smiled, it was clear that Miss wanted to have a good time.
The two said they would go.
Xu Langyin was afraid of inconvenience, so he specially changed into a men's dress, a white brocade robe with a moon moon, the dark pattern of the branch flower at the front placket was wrapped all the way to the bottom of the hem, the waist was tied with a light cyan jade belt, and a half-moon jade pendant of the same color was decorated on the left.
The ink hair is tied behind his head with an ivory hairpin, and the slender willow eyebrows are thickened with an eyebrow pencil, and the edges and corners come out.
Xu Langyin was originally good-looking, but now he is dressed up, just like a handsome son, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, and the elephant bone fan in his hand, "Huh!" opened it with a bang, fanned it twice from time to time, and the elegant moon-white made her wear a bit of bohemianism.
Fu Jiu is also dressed as a small servant.
As soon as he entered the Huixiang Building, Xiao Er bowed down to greet him, "Two guest officers, the private rooms on the second floor are full, do you want to sit in the private seats?" "Although these two are young, their clothes are excellent materials, maybe they are the sons of which family, and a little reward is enough for half a month's salary.
Naturally, I can't afford to neglect it.
"Hmm" Xu Langyin nodded, and didn't have much opinion on where to sit.
Xiao Er led the two of them to a window seat and sat down.
"I wonder what you two want to eat? You can try our new dish, stepping on the snow and red plums. ”
Xu Langyin was a little surprised, she didn't expect this dish to have such an elegant name, which not only aroused her curiosity, but also aroused her gluttony.
"Okay, let's come here first, then have a dried scallop with hydrangea, almond bergamot, lotus tofu, and a candied green plum."
Xu Langyin rubbed his hands, and without looking at the menu, he reported a string of dish names, but Fu Jiu had been counting on the side, and the two of them couldn't eat so many dishes.
"Okay! Please wait, the dishes will be coming soon."
After a while, the dishes ordered by Xu Langyin were ready
This snow red plum is the best mandarin fish as the bottom, the fish meat into garlic cloves, I don't know what method was used, the skin is crisp and not greasy, the meat juice is fresh and refreshing, the meat is covered with a layer of dried plum blossom preserved fruit, the color of rose red and the white of the fish meat form a sharp contrast, bright but not abrupt, plus the plum blossom is cooled into dry and absorbs all the essence of the flower, the flower fragrance is a lot richer, and the fishy smell left by the mandarin fish is also drowned.
Xu Langyin feasted on a big meal, and her tongue was about to swallow it, but Fu Jiu didn't see much to eat, but helped her hand her a cup of water and a handkerchief from time to time on the side
Fu Jiu saw Xu Langyin leaning on the chair, touching her bulging belly with satisfaction, her face was a little weird, why was her young lady still eating when she went out, no, in the final analysis, she instigated her to come, she originally wanted to break the young lady's character of seeing and eating, but this time it played a role in pulling out the seedlings and helping them grow.
Alas! Why didn't she turn the corner?
After resting for a while, Xu Langyin raised his hand and beckoned Xiao Er to come over.
"Little Er, check out!"
When Xiao Er was fiddling with the abacus, Xu Langyin's eyes wandered on the noisy street, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Hey, Xiao Er, why is it so lively outside?" Xu Langyin rubbed his chin and couldn't help asking.
"This guest officer, you don't know, today, but on the day King Xun returned to Beijing, this King Xun managed the Huaijiang River in an orderly manner at a young age, and for so many years he has paid tribute to the imperial court every year, and the extra grain is distributed to the people according to the population and family status, and there are ......"
Xiao Er's spittle flies.
Xu Langyin only paid attention to the word "King Xun", her pink lips opened slightly, and her expression was a little surprised, she didn't expect that the day when King Xun would return to Beijing would come so soon. In my heart, it's really not more than half a month.
Just when Xiao Er was about to say some great deeds of King Xun, Xu Langyin waved his hand, paid off the meal, and gave him a piece of broken silver as a tip by the way.
"Alright, you go down first."
Xiao Er thanked him again and again, took the money and left.
"Fu Jiu, do you know King Xun?"
Fu Jiu nodded and shook his head, "I know, I know, but it's almost the same as what Xiao Er said just now." ”
Xu Langyin closed the fan in his hand, knocked it again and again, lowered his eyes, and didn't know what he was thinking.
The two of them wandered outside for a while, buying a lot of bits and pieces.
Xu Langyin held a fan in one hand, and the corners of his mouth hooked a wicked and unrestrained smile, which attracted the attention of many people, I don't know when there was such a handsome boy in this imperial city, especially those girls, who all looked at her with blank eyes.
Xu Langyin raised his eyebrows from time to time, shook his hair, threw a few winks by the way, and sent out a few autumn waves, which made the other party excited.
Fu Jiu followed her slowly, carrying something in one hand and helping her hold an umbrella with the other, for fear that if she didn't pay attention, she wouldn't cover the sun overhead.
Just when a certain girl threw a purse to Xu Langyin, and she was hesitating to pick it up, someone in the crowd shouted, "Look! It's King Xun's team! ”
The people retreated to both sides, and Xu Langyin was squeezed by them, and everyone's shouts were in his ears, one overshadowing the other. When she came back to her senses, Fu Jiu had long since disappeared, and she tried to squeeze forward, wanting to see the true face of King Xun.
She wants to see who this King Xun is.
Many girls threw their purses at King Xun's carriage, and Xu Langyin also tried it, but they were stopped by the guards with tall horses around the carriage.
Xu Langyin rubbed her smooth chin with one hand, these people looked like that, but she was not so easy to deceive, these guards placed around the carriage should be for others to see, and they were of no great use at all, but this carriage was a little interesting.
If it weren't for Xu Langyin's eyesight, he wouldn't have found that the top of the carriage was surrounded by a circle of small dark arrows made of dark iron, and there was a mixture of fish and dragons here, if someone took advantage of the chaos to assassinate, Xu Langyin dared to guarantee that as long as someone approached the carriage, he would definitely die!
After a while, the carriage that King Xun was riding drove to Xu Langyin's part of the crowd, Xu Langyin made the strength to squeeze to the front, and vaguely saw that under the curtain blown by the wind, King Xun's white side face and tall nose bridge, but suddenly it was dark in front of her, she was unstable, and the whole person was in front of the carriage.
Before she fainted, she seemed to hear the neighing of horses.
It's a shame this time......
After Xu Langyin woke up, she found that she seemed to have been sent to an inn on the side of the road, and she didn't know who was so kind, so she was sent to the inn to rest.
She had long forgotten to hold an umbrella at that time, but she didn't expect that it would be the middle of the night, and Fu Jiu must have died in a hurry, thinking of this, she hurriedly packed up and left.
Xu Langyin didn't dare to go through the gate, and went directly through the backyard over the wall.
Sure enough, before he arrived at Jingxi Garden, he saw Fu Jiu's figure walking in front of the door from a distance, and when he looked up and found Xu Langyin who had returned, he rushed over in a few steps, and his voice was anxious.
"Miss, where have you been, why did you come back so late!"
"It's okay, didn't I come back?" Xu Langyin laughed a few times, and didn't tell Fu Jiu about his fainting, otherwise he would have to be nagged by her several times.
Seeing what else Fu Jiu was going to ask, Xu Langyin hurriedly said, "Fu Jiu, help me prepare for the bath." ”
The topic was changed away all of a sudden, and Fu Jiu's thoughts were cut off, she didn't think much about it, nodded, and followed Xu Langyin into the courtyard.
Early the next morning, Xu Langyin was tossed up and went to the palace for a banquet.
Fu Jiu prepared a azure palace dress for her, with three layers inside and three layers outside, which made her uncomfortable.
I also applied some fat powder on my face, and the finishing touch was that at the end of the left eye was a strange vermilion flower, a small one, but the texture was very clear and exquisite, and the eye waves flowed, as if it was in full bloom.
Xu Langyin fiddled with the mirror twice, feeling that his image was not bad, not too eye-catching, and not too simple.
"Grandpa is waiting for me over there, so I'll go first."
"Okay." Fu Jiu nodded, knowing that his young lady didn't like this kind of occasion, and before leaving, he didn't forget to add: "Miss, you must be more careful when you enter the palace." ”