Chapter 16: Winter is Coming
Su Jiu was strange, and the young man's beautiful face showed a strange expression, and he twisted his eyebrows and asked, "What does the gentleman teach my son-in-law?" ”
Jing Nanyang took a sip of tea, the tea was already cold, and he didn't just drink it, he said: "Fight and brawl." ”
It's also that this master doesn't look like he knows how to be polite. Su Jiu thought with a pout, turned his head to look at the sky, Tianmeng Meng Liang thought that it was already the time of the day, and the son had not come back yet, so he was not in a hurry after waiting for a long time, and simply sat down to chat with Jing Nanyang.
The servants and servants everywhere in the palace are also sober, a few servants carry washing things from under the corridor, look at the direction is to go to the Jinhua Palace, the housekeeper entered the account room early in the morning, since King Yong handed over the power of affairs in the palace to the comet to deal with, the housekeeper will go to the Manjing Garden every day to report the accounts, from income and expenditure to daily trivialities.
When the old housekeeper walked out of the Manjing Garden with his hands behind his back, his brows were furrowed, and he happened to meet Mama Liu, who went out to purchase, and pointed to the closed door in the Manjing Garden and said that there was no one, Mama Liu was a caring person, and when she heard that there was no one in the Manjing Garden, she guessed that no one came back in the garden overnight, and after returning to the Fanghua Courtyard, she added oil and vinegar to the concubine and said.
The side concubine is not the master of good things, and she is pregnant and she doesn't want to pay attention to this matter, Mama Liu said with a worried face: "It doesn't matter if he is a man or not, as long as he enters the palace, he is a person in my palace, a person from the prince, and as the male pet of the prince has not returned at night, what kind of system is this, it is simply immoral." ”
"But ......" the concubine wanted to say something.
Mama Liu said earnestly: "Niangniang, you are a side concubine, and you are pregnant with a son, and it is very likely that you will be named a side concubine in the future, how can a little prostitute take your rights and be disloyal to the prince." ”
In the Jinhua Palace, Yin Qilei and Su Jiu waited until they arrived, and saw that the prince had not yet returned to the house, and they were worried that the matter would be exposed, so they opened the door and called the servants in.
This scene was seen by a cat in the corner of the wall, and reported it to Gu Xi in late autumn, in order to offset the guilt of being driven back last night.
Gu Xi was still wearing a garnet-red skirt, with her back against the screen, she couldn't see the joy and sorrow, and waved her hand to let the people who came to report listen to it, and then got up to see Gu Xiao.
The openwork wooden door opened, and the man stood in the center of the very large room with his back to her, the window open, and downstairs was the bustling market, and in the distance across a hill, there was the sea as far as the eye could see.
From the top layer of late autumn, you can see seabirds circling.
"What's next?" Gu Xi informed him of what he had discovered through the secret hearing.
Looking down from the late autumn, the carriage passed underneath, and occasionally there were a few proud people who mostly stopped under the elegant painting building, and there were many in the late autumn, all of which were local officials.
"Today is Xiu Mu?" Gu Xiao pursed his lips and smiled, staring at the adult who stopped his pride in the late autumn in the morning.
Gu Xi looked at him a little puzzled, and then raised his eyes downstairs and said, "I guess I came to find the landlord, but unfortunately the landlord is not there." ”
"How did you know he was here to find the landlord?" Gu smiled.
Gu Xi sneered: "Local officials, there is no one who can't supervise the secret listening pavilion, this person's wife is sick, and she needs a medicine that only the landlord has." ”
"Coincidentally, the medicine I want is only available to the landlord." Gu Xiao said, inhaling the morning air into his body and stretching his body in enjoyment.
He was going to put last night's events aside and go downstairs to meet the county official, and when he was about to step out of the door, Gu Xi stopped him: "You still have the token of King Yong's Mansion?" Picked it up in the corridor, if last night's incident was done by King Yong, how could he be stupid enough to drop a token for you to pick up, or a token from his own home. ”
Gu Xiao chuckled, and said with an extremely playful smile: "Now I am not interested in Qin Yuezhu, but I am very interested in the child yesterday." ”
Gu Xi frowned and stared at him, the indescribable depression in his heart, the man's green shadow had disappeared from the door frame.
"The landlord is not here, but there are two long-stay guests who want to see you." The little guy said politely to the man.
The man is very young, he is the first batch of people to come out of the academy after the restructuring and become an official of Tanhua, his family has been farmers for generations, and he is only an official, he is not an official of Yongzhou City, he is only a county official in a nearby county.
Hearing that the guests of the late autumn were going to see him, he was terrified, the late autumn was already very good in Yongzhou City, and the guests of the late autumn were many people.
The entrance of Wuyi Alley is still full of traffic, the girl's painting boat swims past the alley, and a few hawkers selling gadgets shout on the street, saying how good their things are.
Su Comet stopped in front of a stall selling dim sum, on the left is pineapple crisp Shu ten like, sweet and refreshing can be paired with black tea, on the right there are apple crisp, osmanthus cake, a little white is pear blossom cake, Su Jiu likes osmanthus cake, his master likes to eat apple crisp, pear blossom crisp is his favorite.
"This osmanthus cake can be picked in advance, but this pear blossom is not easy to preserve, and there is still one in this season." Su Comet picked up a piece of pear blossom cake and said to the stall owner, thinking that he would bargain and save money.
The stall owner was an old woman who was a few rounds older than him, with a ruddy and simple face, and when he heard him say this, he immediately raised a smile and said: "Little boy doesn't know, this pear blossom is not found elsewhere, but it is very spectacular in our Yongzhou City." After that, she pointed to the back mountain and told him that more than ten years ago, there was an infatuated son who planted an acre of pear blossoms in the deep mountains to make a place for his loved ones to bury.
The old woman looked up into the distance and sighed: "Yongzhou City is still water on three sides, just that one is connected with the majestic mountains, and it is not easy to plant a pear blossom in the deep mountains. ”
The comet followed the old woman's gaze, only saw a little yellowish, and the rest were blocked by the eaves of the market, he didn't care who planted the pear blossoms, all he wanted at the moment was pear blossom crisp.
"Auntie, one of each of these four things, the pear blossom crisp is more." Su Comet smiled like a child, saying that he died young when he was young, and he couldn't feel the feeling of being a child and grandchild always by his parents' side, and he was kind when he saw the old man.
If Grandma was still there, she would be older than the old man, he thought.
After packing his things, he turned his head to look at Qin Yuezhu, Xu was touched by the story told by the old woman, and he actually looked at the direction pointed by the old woman and was stunned.
"Your Excellency?" You can't call him the prince outside, for fear of revealing his identity, so he calls him an adult.
Hearing him call this, Qin Yuezhu turned his head in surprise, the two of them were very different in size, the comet in front of him was simply a small one, at that time he was holding four bags, a pair of fox eyes looked up, if he didn't understand the temperament of the young man in front of him, he almost thought that he was begging for himself, and his back was cold.
"Give money." The comet said categorically, smiling slightly.
Qin Yuezhu couldn't cry or laugh: "Huh? ”
"I don't have any money on me, if you don't give it, we'll be detained here." Su Comet chewed on the pear blossom cake and said, "It's going to be even later to go home then." ”
"You know it's late?" Qin Yuezhu put on a helpless look, crying and laughing, "You're still ...... late"
Halfway through speaking, the little bastard threw him down and turned to leave.
Qin Yuezhu had no choice but to pay the stall owner, and then followed him unhurriedly, the young man jumped up and down the mountain, the pear blossom cake one by one, stuffed his mouth before he began to chew, and from time to time he looked back at the man behind him, although he was very casual but rude, deliberately keeping his distance.
When the two of them were about to walk to the inn where they met with Su Jiu, Su Comet suddenly stopped, turned around, and happened to bump into a man staring at him with blazing eyes, and forgot what to say for a while.
Qin Yuezhu spoke first: "What's wrong." Xu is injury healed quickly, and he also had the strength to speak and no longer gasped.
Su Comet thinks this is very good, and he should be able to protect himself if he is left alone: "The prince is sitting at the tea stall in front, and he is going to find someone." With that, he pushed half of the pear blossom cake he had eaten into his arms.
"Where are you going?" Qin Yuezhu grabbed the young man who turned around to leave, and asked in a low voice.
The comet suddenly felt a trace of unbearability from the bottom of his heart, but he had no choice but to come to you and his hand was broken away from him, and said, "I'll go back when I go." ”
Every time I said I would go and go back. Qin Yuezhu looked at the back of the young man squeezing into the crowd and thought to himself.
Throwing off Qin Yuezhu, who was in the way, Su Comet quickly found the inn, like the boss inquired, only to find the guest room where Su Jiu and them were, and as soon as he pushed the door open, there was a smell of roast duck.
Jing Nanyang and the boy sat side by side on the window, one holding a roast duck wrapped in oil paper in one hand and nibbling, seeing him standing at the door in a daze, he greeted him and said, "Childe, are you back?" Come and try it. ”
Su Jiu's mouth is full of oil, his master is even more, Su Jiu is estimated to have eaten one, Jing Nanyang's clothes are full of oil and I don't know how many I ate, he left a bag of money for Su Jiu when he left, originally I wanted to use it to buy snacks, and it is estimated that it will be in the soup at this time.
"Master, do you want to go back to the house with Su'er?" Comet walked over to the low table and asked with a sigh.
Jing Nanyang wiped the corners of his mouth and said: "I forgot to bring the silver when I went out for the teacher, I have been walking here from the south for several days, and your master is estimated to have come to find it, and the teacher will live here for a few days." ”
He forgot that he still had a teacher.
"I don't have any money." Comet Road.
It was the first time that Su Jiu had heard his Yajing's son-in-law call himself like this, and his eyes widened in surprise.
Jing Nanyang gave Shu Jiu a look, which meant that he was just panicked.
"Of course the teacher knows that the apprentice is not a dime, then I don't live here, then I can only go to the palace." Jing Nanyang put on a very helpless look.
"Whoosh", a tube flew from the side of his face, which is used by people to pick up vegetables on weekdays, and generally does not hit people to play.
Su Jiu swallowed his saliva, looked at the other official book in his master's hand, and felt that his throat was very thirsty.
The comet had a gloomy face, his eyes were sharp, and he was very angry with this unobtrusive master, but he didn't really be ruthless, and inserted the tube into the low table, and the force had already passed the tube through the table.
"Su Jiu, the prince is at the tea stall downstairs, you can accompany him back to the palace." When Sucomet said this, his face was calm and unwavering, but his voice was cold and calm than before.
Su Jiu is just a servant, whatever the master says, he didn't dare to ask more, but in his heart he felt that today's master was more cold than the quiet young man in the past.
He was holding the roast duck in his arms, a little sad, but when he was about to go out, he heard his master say: "The snacks in the prince's arms are for you and the stumbling ten, don't let him keep holding them." ”
When Su Jiu heard this, he went out happily and muttered, "It's still a son, it's still a child." ”
After leaving Su Jiu, Jing Nanyang walked to the felt opposite him and sat down cross-legged, and took a sip of the tea he made himself, the two of them are masters and apprentices, how could he not know what kind of person this person is in front of him, and then smiled: "Apprentice, what kind of trick are you playing, how can King Yong be outside the mansion, you two won't not return overnight." ”
The man had a smile on his face, but it was self-evident that there was something hidden in this smile, and both of them had their own ghosts.
"Master's illness is cured?"
Comet continued to pour tea.
Jing Nanyang said calmly: "Take the medicine on time." ”
These words were exchanged for a sneer: "Take medicine on time? When did Master settle for the status quo? ”
Hearing this, he paused in the hand that held the teacup, and after a while, he recovered again, picked up the teacup and drank it.
Su Comet said: "Uncle Shi has arrived, right?" He said this is not unfounded, nor is it a guess, from he and Qin Yuezhu came out of the woods in the eastern suburbs, they saw the black feather and white pigeon in the south, the black feather and white pigeon are the same as the red pupil black cat, as long as they are trained, they can be used to find people, and the black feather and white pigeon have a group leader, the group leader has an owner, the group leader will follow the master, and the master will follow wherever he goes.
If he was not mistaken, the one they saw when they went out of the eastern suburbs, with a circle of gold around its neck, was the leader of the group of black feathered and white pigeons.
His master is what Jing Nanyang said, his uncle.
"Master, how much are you hiding from me?" Su Comet pressed the table and straightened up. What he didn't know was that Jing Nanyang may have come from the south a long time ago, or he may have not left since he woke up from the corpse. The two of them carried him behind his back, plotting to hurt Qin Yuezhu.
Jing Nanyang's face did not change, and he looked straight ahead: "You need to get the trust of King Yong, and your uncle and I are just helping you." ”
"Help me?" Su's comet sneered, "If you have respect for me, how can you make a claim without going through me." ”
"What is a proposition, the order given by the elders is an assertion." Jing Nanyang said coldly, and said sternly, "When have you complied with the task we gave you, those black-feathered and white pigeons were not all eaten by you." ”
If you don't put eyeliner around him and eat a few black and white pigeons, what if you don't send a message out of the house, where will they know.
Su's heart was disappointed, but he was helpless against them, after all, this was his master in front of him.
"Su Er, do you know how your father and mother entrusted me before they died?" Jing Nanyang turned his body forward, his eyes were as warm as fire, "With the hands of the royal family, get rid of the party, the royal family is kind, and I want to protect you,"
"No matter how thoughtful I am, I'm a person who died once, just a walking corpse." If he hadn't been thinking about revenge, he wouldn't have survived in the world, and there was no reason to live in the world.
Thinking like this, he felt that there was nothing wrong, he really had no other reason to live in the world, but somehow, Qin Yuezhu's frightened face when he saw the black cat appeared in his mind, and he couldn't stop laughing for a moment.
The place where the three streams of Yongzhou City meet, the whole Yongzhou is located at the mouth of the river, and has been used as a treaty port for several years, and the business has developed.
Qin Yuezhu put a few packets of snacks on the table, and ate the bag of comets he had eaten, the taste of pear blossom crisp was glutinous every day, although it was pastry, it was not sticky at all.
He heard a meow, and the black cat squatted at his feet.
He seemed to have just discovered the existence of the little one, and although he was a little frightened, he did not drive it away, and gave it a piece of cake.
But when he bent down, he felt something strange in his back, and his figure flashed, and he drilled under the table, and the moment he came out from under the table, the table shattered.
"Who are you?" Qin Yuezhu stood up straight, and in front of him stood a group of assassins with masks on their faces.