Cersei's favorite is Li Ji's Bianjing roast duck.

Li Ji has his own duck house, and the ducks fed out are fat and fragrant, with big skin and thin skin. The duck's belly is stuffed with Beijing winter vegetables, and the outer layer is smeared with honey, and it is roasted until it is plump and mellow, and the color is ruddy. Slices of Japanese dishes were served with chrysanthemum-like dishes, and the duck bones were rolled into the soup and bowls of mung bean noodles, which made the appetite move and I couldn't stop.

It also has the impassioned storyteller, talking about the past and the present, and only feels that life is beautiful, but that's it.

Desheng felt that Cersser's oily mouth was very piercing, and he couldn't bear to look at it directly. Turning his head to look at his family's descendants, looking at the crooked appearance of his smiling eyes, he couldn't help but twitch on his face, and his stomach was not very comfortable. is when I think of the picture of the cold and self-contained son and the oily face standing together, I only feel that the wonder of the world is nothing more than that.

Lin Huaijin felt that the appearance of combing the girl's bun and bulging cheeks was very cute, he looked at the cheeks that were moistened with pity, and recalled the little girl who was lying in the snow with blood stains at that time, and felt a sense of accomplishment.

Cersei was uncomfortable by Lin Huaijin's gratifying gaze, but he couldn't say that he didn't feel anything, and when he went to the backyard when he changed clothes, he saw the appearance of the long-term worker of the duck house feeding the ducks, and suddenly realized. When I came back, I looked at the duck on the table, but my eyebrows were tangled, and I couldn't eat a bite.

The three of them came out of Li Ji, but snow stars floated in the sky, and they were sprinkled all over the sky after a while.

The stalls in the streets and alleys were hurriedly collected, and Cersei hurriedly ran to the corner of the street, and quickly wrapped two pieces in front of the cake seller, ready to go back and bring Yancao. As soon as he turned around, he saw a woman in white kneeling at Lin Huaijin's feet.

Chow Se walked back with the hot cake, just in time to hear the woman crying sadly: "The slave family has suffered such a great change, and it is really a last resort, so I came to ask the son." The voice was tactful and delicate, and when it came to the truth of love, it had to be folded three times, coupled with her pale and sad but difficult to hide her beautiful little face, which made people's hearts tremble three times.

"Desheng, give her a hundred taels of silver, and let her bury her brother first." Lin Huaijin turned around and instructed Desheng, who looked unbearable, and took the opportunity to stretch out his hand to Cersser's face and pinched it: "It's so red from the cold, go to the carriage to cover it first." ”

After realizing that the Ming Temple was hugged, the boundary between the master and servant seemed to be eliminated, Lin Huaijin did it naturally, and he was calm, the corners of Desheng's eyes twitched, and he turned around to go to the carriage to get two silver taels.

"Childe!" The woman shouted bitterly, threw herself forward, grabbed the corner of Lin Huaijin's robe, and the person upstairs poked his head out and watched this scene with interest. "Childe! The slave doesn't need money, he just wants to avenge his brother, if the son can't help the slave, even if the slave has 1,200 taels, there is only one point of no return! As he spoke, he lowered his head and sobbed, and the snow on his shoulders fell, and he realized that she was thinly dressed, thin, and her wrists were frozen blue.

Lin Huaijin was grabbed by her by the corner of her robe, neither advancing nor retreating, very embarrassed: "You get up first." In this case, take my prayer note and let my little servant accompany you to the yamen. ”

"The one who killed the slave brother was the son of the protector of the country, and the slave family was only afraid that the people in the yamen would become small and small, and they would hastily push someone out and have the right to explain." The woman wept bitterly again, like a little white flower that had been ravaged by the wind and frost, and was about to fall off its branches and turn into mud.

Lin Huaijin showed a contemplative look. The old protector of the country, like the old An Guogong, both relied on the dragon's merit to become an official. However, the Lin family, as a military general, handed over the talisman after being knighted, and only held a fictitious position in his hand. And the protector of the country is a civil minister, even if he is crowned the prince of the country, he still receives a real position.

It's just that the emperor has always been very fond of the Anguo Mansion, so on the surface, it seems that the Duke of Protector and the Duke of Anguo are on the same footing. The protector of the country is cunning and cunning, and he is well versed in the principle of "checks and balances" of the emperor, and has always been-for-tat with An Guogong in the court. Whenever An Guogong agrees, he can always say the reason for disagreeing, and there are a lot of crooked reasons, forcing Lin Wenjing, who was born as a military general, to stammer.

Lin Wenjing suffered too much loss from the protector, so he forced Lin Huaijin to study since he was a child, and sent him to Chengtian Academy, so that he could study with a group of students from the imperial examination, and at the same time, Lin Huaijin indirectly attracted civil officials in the future officialdom.

The emperor has always been impartial to the two princes in the court, and even gave Lin Wenjing some preferential treatment, but in recent months, he has obviously snubbed Lin Wenjing and favored the side of the protector. Thinking of what my father said before, I am afraid that the Protector Office did that incident, which made the emperor dissatisfied with the Anguo Mansion......

Lin Huaijin looked at the woman in white again, and her expression became solemn: "Although I don't know who instructed you to come to me, but this matter is very important, I need to know my parents and find out if what you said is true." Go home with me. ”

Cersei hurriedly went up and picked up the little white flowers trembling in the wind and snow. The little white flower seemed to be extremely weak, leaning on Cersei weakly and bonelessly, with a pair of wonderful eyes shining, and wanted to say goodbye: "Slave...... Autumn evening, thank you for the great virtue of the son. ”

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Since returning home, Cersei was arranged to take care of the autumn girl, and she didn't even have time to give away the cakes she bought for Yancao, and all of them went into the belly of the autumn girl.

After the autumn evening girl had recuperated her spirits, Cersei accompanied her to the upper room of the main courtyard.

I have to say that this Qiuxi girl is really a wonderful person, after crying, everyone in the upper room looked at her with pity, and Mama Tao even added a cup of hot tea to her.

Cersei hung his head and didn't dare to move, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was really the same life.

The father of this Qiuxi girl was originally a conscientious official in Suzhou Prefecture, but when she was young, she was dismissed for offending someone on an errand, and she fell ill not long after. After her father died of illness, she went to Beijing with her mother and brother to join her, but they encountered bandits on the way and wanted to kidnap her. In order to protect her, her mother was stabbed to death by bandits, and her brother took her to escape.

The brother and sister arrived in Kyoto, but found that their relatives had already moved away, and they did not know where to go, but the brother and sister had to rely on each other, the elder brother went out to sell coolies, she did some embroidery work at home to make a living, but unexpectedly the brother carried heavy objects, and saw that the prince of the protector could not dodge, and the horse of the prince was startled, and the street was whipped by the people of the princess of the country, and he died in a few days after going back.

Miss Qiuxi is also a smart person, she has long found out that the Anguo Mansion and the Huguo Mansion are not in harmony, and there is a tendency to fight against the courtesy, so she used the silver to find out Lin Huaijin's appearance and the places she frequents, and guarded for several days before finding him.

is also without relatives and no support, what happened to this autumn girl sounds much more pitiful.

"If you sue the Protectorate, there will be no place for you to stay in Kyoto in the future." Mama Tao pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and couldn't bear to say authentically.

Qiu Xi paused, got up and bowed: "Qiu Xi is willing to write down the deed and sell it to the house as a slave and maid, just ask the grandfather and wife of the country to seek justice for Qiu Xi." ”

"This ......" Zhou hesitated: "If you stay in the mansion, it is not suitable, and this will put the Protector Mansion and our mansion on the opposite side." ”

Qiu Xi's little face cried with pear blossoms and rain: "If this matter is okay, Qiu Xi is willing to go to Tongzhu Temple for the rest of his life." ”

Everyone in the room was stunned. The bronze temple is the place where the prisoner's daughter is imprisoned, the conditions are extremely hard, she is a delicate little girl, no one cares, there is only a dead end to enter.

"Mother doesn't have to worry," Lin Huaijin came in with a curtain, saluted and stood still, with a beautiful scene: "The Protector Mansion set on slaves and committed murder, and this time my father must join him fiercely." "The root is still in the Wen Po who was caught by the Protector Mansion, but Lin Wenjing has already been resolved, if the important matter can be properly arranged, plus the matter of Qiuxi, the two-pronged approach, the Protector Mansion will not be able to pass over the head of the Protector Mansion.

Zhou looked at Lin Huaijin, who was standing tall and tall, and then looked at Qiu Xi, who was kneeling on the side, and his eyes flashed: "Then let Mama Tao lead her to sign the deed of life, and temporarily settle it in Jihui Courtyard." ”

Lin Huaijin thought about it: "You don't have to sign the deed, it's better to let the girl live in the guest room temporarily, and then send her away from the capital and stay away." ”

Zhou took the teacup and took a sip: "This is not appropriate." The Protectorate Mansion is powerful in the end, and Qiu Xi has no relatives and no reason, and offended the Protectorate Mansion, it is too easy for them to find her. When she leaves Beijing, we can't take care of her, so if we leave her in the house, we won't have to live a hard life for her alone. ”

Qiu Xi knelt on the ground and tears rippled: "Mrs. Xie and the son are very gracious, Qiu Xi voluntarily entered the house as a slave, and in this life, I have to repay the kindness of my wife and the son." ”

Lin Huaijin nodded: "Mother is right, then leave her in the main courtyard." ”

Zhou smiled: "I only entered the house in the autumn evening, and I must have to learn the rules for two years first." This rule is best taught by Mama Zhou. And Qiuxi is fourteen this year, but it is not suitable for me. I originally wanted to put her in Huaiyu and Huaike Courtyard, but I thought that your two younger sisters were concubines, if you had the face and worked as a few years in the courtyard of the prince, the limelight would pass in the future, and give her a free slave, so that she would be a good family. ”

Qiu Xi kowtowed again and again when she heard this, and Lin Huaijin also felt that Zhou's thinking was very proper, so she asked someone to pick up Qiu Xi and write the deed of life with Mama Tao.

As soon as Lin Huaijin and the three of them left, Mama Tao couldn't help but say, "What is the purpose of Madame's doing this?" ”

Zhou took a sip of tea and said slowly: "I thought about it carefully, the prince treated that beggar differently, it was nothing more than his generosity and charity, and he felt sympathy when he saw her pitiful. And because the beggar was picked up by him, he had a sense of responsibility in it, so he always paid attention to her. Now there is another one who is just as pitiful, the same one that he has to pick up, and I want to see if he can still care about the beggar. ”

"But if the prince falls in love with the autumn girl......"

Zhou picked up Qiuxi's body deed and looked at it carefully: "That's okay, whoever the prince likes is better than a beggar of unknown origin." The grandfather only confessed that it was necessary to keep the beggar's life, regardless of the dignity of the world. This autumn night, he is a good family, he has an innocent background, and he signed a deed. If the prince wants her, it would be better, and he will marry his wife and give the deed directly to his daughter-in-law. ”

After that, Zhou smiled again: "What's more, I think that Qiu Xi also has some thoughts, otherwise she is a little lady with an innocent background, she can live here, and she is too popular to marry someone to be a serious lady, why do you have to sign any deed and enter the cheap nationality plainly." It's just profit-seeking. ”

Mama Tao also smiled: "Madame is meticulous, who can hide from Madame." ”

Zhou raised his forehead and sighed: "When I am a mother, I always break my heart for the sake of my children." By the way, what have Huaijue and Huaipo been busy with these days? ”

Mama Tao lowered her voice: "The two literate girls you picked for the second young master at that time are knowledgeable and interesting, and they are very beautiful, and the second young master is now more and more beneficial in poetry, and he can make some poems every month." The third young master was reading the Tao Te Ching recently. ”

Zhou is very satisfied: "Although the Tao Te Ching is obscure and different from the Confucian classics, it is mysterious. Our government doesn't expect the concubine to make a contribution, this book is only good to read. Go back and talk to the Xixi of our house, don't blindly detain them, let them do more things they like and read some favorite books. ”

Mama Tao deserves to be respectful: "You can rest assured." ”

Zhou smiled slightly. In this mansion, the man who has become a climate can only be Lin Huaijin. As for the concubine, of course, you have to educate well, and marrying well is also Lin Huaijin's help.

"This mother, always breaks her heart for the sake of the child......"