Chapter 35: Heroes Save Beauty
The man in the green robe squeezed her wrist and said triumphantly, "Run again?" Hugh said that he was the king of Chengwu, and he came up as a saint, and he couldn't save you today! He said to the onlookers, "What do you see, I will teach the people in the house, if there is anything to see, let me get out of the way!" ”
The steward of Ruyi Building turned sideways, blocking Shen Hanxi's sight, and looked embarrassed: "Let the adults laugh." He is dealing with some family matters, do you want to invite him here? ”
So saying, he led him to another staircase.
Shen Hanxi stood there without moving, looking like he was watching a joke.
Song Ran struggled, suddenly saw him, and couldn't help shouting: "Lord Shen! ”
The green robe was stunned, she had already broken away from him, and walked quickly to Shen Hanxi: "Lord Shen, the cake ball that Lord Xia brought you that day still suits your appetite?" ”
Shen Hanxi looked at her. The person in front of her was plainly dressed and white-robed, and the appearance of a weak and weak teenager was like a flower that could be destroyed at will, but even if she was embarrassed, she still had incredible reason in her eyes.
If she hadn't met him today, her situation would have been hopeless, but in her eyes, there was no compromise or abandonment. It's like he brought back to the Imperial Guard that day - she wants to live, and she is not afraid of death.
Her cheeks were slightly red, and her dark eyes looked at him expectantly. As he spoke, he stepped forward and gently tugged at the corner of his sleeve and whispered, "You can do well." ”
Shen Hanxi looked at her for a moment, and in her earnest gaze, he said, "I haven't eaten yet." ”
Although this answer was very cold, at least she didn't pretend not to know her, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Luopao couldn't guess her relationship with Shen Hanxi, but it was a pity to let her go like this, and he stammered: "No, I don't know that Lord Shen is here." Don't tell you that this girl had a holiday with me a few days ago, and my body is ...... injured," he said and opened his robe again, "Here, here, and here, you see, she let her subordinates beat her, and my money bag, which she also stole it!" Today, people have obtained stolen goods, I am a dignified prince of Dajing, if I can't ask for an explanation, I really can't swallow this breath. Although I don't know what her relationship is with you, but you ...... You can't protect it! ”
Song Ran said: "Lord Shizi, it is obvious that you are light first, and the money bag has also been returned to you." As he spoke, he stood behind Shen Hanxi, "Lord Shen, you can't just listen to him. ”
The green tendons on the corners of the other party's forehead jumped: "You will still sue the wicked first......"
Shen Hanxi said impatiently: "This is not the place to ask questions, since the two of you have their own opinions, it is better to follow me to the Imperial Health Division for questioning." ”
The little overlord's expression froze and he flinched: "No, no." Because of Shen Hanxi's words, he was very thorough, "I suddenly remembered that there was something important at home, so I said goodbye first, and said goodbye." ”
As he spoke, he quickly withdrew with his house slaves.
Out of Ruyi Building, Shen Hanxi casually glanced at the girl beside her, and with just one look, she understood, and hurriedly told him what happened. He smiled coldly when he heard this: "Miss Song is really a broom star, wherever she goes, trouble will follow." ”
"Your Excellency, you're so right." Unexpectedly, instead of being angry at his statement, she nodded very approvingly, "The folk girl was also a little suspicious for a while, whether she was in conflict with the feng shui of this Ling'an City, otherwise why would there be so many rights and wrongs." ”
He raised his eyebrows, and finally affirmed her: "You are not stupid, and you thought of mentioning King Chengwu to him." Seeing her expression change slightly, he said, "Your little dealings with King Chengwu, don't think that this official doesn't know." ”
She returned to normal, and explained with a wry smile: "I can't hide anything from you." When the people's daughter was imprisoned by you in the Imperial Guard's Division, Uncle Zhong was also helpless, thinking that there was a fellow villager on duty beside King Chengwu, so he went to visit the palace and wanted to use the prince's hand to fish out the people's daughter. However, isn't it because your words come out of the Imperial Guard? The kindness of the adults is remembered by the women of the people. ”
He sneered softly: "Miss Song doesn't have to be in a hurry to explain to the official, it is not easy to survive in Ling'an City, especially women, it is just human nature to want to climb a high branch, people like you, the official has seen a lot." ”
How could Song Ran have expected that his efforts to survive would be a manifestation of sophistication and clinging to him. Although she is easy-going by nature, she also feels that his ridicule of "climbing high branches" is unreasonable and a little sad, but fortunately, she has always understood measure, neither refutes nor justifies herself, and silently follows behind him.
Sensing that the people around him suddenly fell silent, Shen Hanxi's eyebrows tightened slightly, was his words so unpleasant?
"You just said that you have a fellow villager who is on duty next to King Chengwu, but that Xu Yuan?"
She was stunned: "Do you also know Third Brother Xu?" ”
Third Brother Xu? It's a kind call.
"The hottest person around King Chengwu, he is not big, but he has unparalleled wisdom, and he has heard of it a little."
When it came to acquaintances, her expression finally relaxed, and she spoke more confidently than Shicai: "I grew up with Brother Xu since childhood, he has been smarter than other children since he was a child, his father doesn't want him to take the fame test, let alone run around, he just wants him to take over his mantle and make an account in the big house, but he is determined to be on the battlefield, and no one can stop him......"
Halfway through speaking, he was interrupted by Shen Hanxi: "Did the official ask you?" Noisy. ”
Song Ran had to keep his mouth shut. She also touched this master's temper, who knows when he was angry and where the point of anger was.
Shen Hanxi didn't know why she was upset, she just felt that when she faced herself, she was not as open as she was to Xia Xiaoqiu. He was used to being high, so he naturally didn't realize that there was something wrong with his expression.
He was not happy, so the fault was naturally her.
The two of them had their own thoughts, and suddenly a child bumped into him, collided with Song Ran, and sat on the ground. The sugar gourd in his hand also rolled into the mud.
She was hit by him like this, and her clothes were stained by the sugar coating of the sugar gourd, but she didn't care at all, squatted down to help the child up, dusted off his clothes for him, and asked him if the fall hurt.
But the boy only cared about the sugar gourd on the ground, and he was about to cry. Song Ran hurriedly took his hand and comforted him softly: "Don't cry, I'll buy you another one, you see, the one who sells sugar gourds hasn't gone far yet." As if he had finally found an opportunity, he said to Shen Hanxi, "My lord, the folk girl will leave first, and I owe the adult a favor for today's matter, and when I have the opportunity in the future, the folk girl will definitely repay the adult." As she spoke, she gave a slight salute, and led the boy across the street to chase the sugar gourd seller.
Repay him? What did she repay?
Shen Hanxi watched her walk across the street, bought a sugar gourd and stuffed it into the young man's hand, the young man ran away happily with the sugar gourd, she watched his back go away, and finally remembered, and gently dusted off her clothes with her hand.
Standing in the midst of the noise of people and the noise of the market, he suddenly remembered many years ago.
When he was five or six years old, he was poorly clothed and hungry, and finally grabbed a small half of a steamed bun in the place where the porridge was placed, squeezed it out of the hungry pile, but ran a little hurriedly, and accidentally bumped into a gorgeously dressed woman.
When the woman saw that he had soiled his clothes, she was so angry that she kicked him to the ground, but he did not care about the pain, and reached out to scoop up the half of the steamed bun. But he saw one foot and stepped on it heavily. After stepping on it, I made up for it several more times.
The ugly face and the foul words that came out of her mouth, he still remembered.
If there is anything that has supported him to this day over the years, it is probably the disgust for that ugly face.
There's no more high-sounding reason, he just hates people, incomparably so.
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted: "My lord, Lord Helan invites you to go back to the yamen and discuss something." ”
He withdrew his gaze and said to the shadow guard who appeared behind him silently, "Got it. He signaled Song Ran's direction again, and casually instructed him, "Go and follow the girl in front of you, and when she returns home safely, come back and report to me." ”
"Yes."
He said again: "I remember a while ago, Prince Chun wanted to ask for a position in the Hanlin Academy for the second son of the palace, and you went to the palace to pass on a word to the official, saying that with the virtue of the second son, if he really entered the Hanlin Academy as an official, he, the father, had to wipe his buttocks, or let him go." ”
When Song Ran returned home, Zhong Bo and the mute man were repairing the roof on the spot, which was in disrepair, and the wood under the bricks was old and rotten, and when it rained, the water fell down the cracks of the bricks. When the mute was not there, she felt sorry for the money she hired for the small worker, and she was not willing to repair it, but now she has free labor, and she doesn't have to use it in vain.
Zhong Bo was planing the board underneath, heard her footsteps, and stopped what he was doing: "The young master is back." ”
Song Ran went to the kitchen to make a pot of tea, and took it outside to greet the two people who were working: "Uncle Zhong, dumb, rest first, and then continue to repair tomorrow." ”
The dumb man nailed the board in front of him, climbed down the ladder, took a handkerchief handed by Uncle Zhong, and said, "It's almost half a day in time." ”
Uncle Zhong asked Song Ran: "The young master went out today, nothing happened, right?" ”
She didn't want Uncle Zhong to be upset with her, so she hid the matter between the prince and Shen Hanxi, and only complained: "The face of the ticket is one hundred taels, but it is only fifty taels of silver, and the shrinkage is too great." ”
Zhong Bo responded to the sentence that people often hang on their lips today: "The world is not good. In a few years, I'm afraid I won't even be able to redeem these fifty taels. ”
Song Ran sighed: "It's still more practical to carry this heavy silver in your arms." Then he looked at the mute who was limping slightly and walked to the water tank to wash his face, "How is your injury?" Although Uncle Zhong knows some pharmacology, he is not a professional doctor in the end, do you want to find another doctor to correct your bones, so as to save the root of the disease in the future, and you will not even be able to marry your daughter-in-law. ”
He scooped water into the basin and rejected her offer: "No, I have no intention of marrying a wife." ”
Song Ran looked at him: "Dumb, tell me honestly, are you deliberately pretending to be disabled in order to hide from Xia Xiaoqiu?" ”
He silently stepped aside, carried the scrap wood to the corner and piled it up, and did not answer her question.
Song Ran looked at his back and forth, and asked Uncle Zhong in a low voice, "Am I right?" ”
Zhong Bo smiled: "He is injured, how can he get better so quickly, the young master should be too worried this time." ”
Song Ran pursed his lips and said, "Okay." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a knock on the door, and she frowned and went to open the door.
As soon as she opened the door, she was stunned, the person in front of her was tall, although he was dressed in regular clothes, but he couldn't hide the physique and noble spirit of Kong Wu.
She was surprised: "Lord Wang? ”