Chapter 255: Meeting on a Narrow Road
The cold poison gradually receded, and in addition to some chills all over her body, Xia Qian had no other discomfort.
With a cotton cloak added, Xia Qian planned to go outside the South City Gate to continue repairing the murals, Huo Zun and Jing Ya looked at her with pale and interlocking brows, but Xia Qian insisted that they couldn't bear to stop her, and accompanied her out of the South City Gate.
"Have you found it all out?" Huo Zun asked at the monkey.
"When I took over this matter from Fan Mang, the boatman was already dying, except for confessing that Guang Hansan was a gift from a woman, and he himself had a grudge against his sister-in-law because of Master Qiufeng's humiliation in the palace, he died without saying anything."
Huo Zun's sword eyebrows locked slightly, and he asked suspiciously, "Master Autumn Wind? So he was avenging the humiliation suffered by Master Qiufeng in the court? Can you find out the woman who gave her Guanghansan? ”
"He was a boatman in the East Wing, who had been punished for stealing chickens and dogs in his early years, and had been helped by Master Autumn Wind when he was poor. A few months ago, this person came here to visit relatives, and heard that Master Qiufeng was humiliated by his sister-in-law in the country of Yi, so he held a grudge against his sister-in-law, but he happened to be taken advantage of. This wide cold scatter is a strange poison in the world, from Simon, presumably the woman who provided this poison...... It should also be from Simon! The monkey looked at Huo Zun and deliberately lengthened the last sentence.
Since that day, Xia Qian's diet has been carefully inspected by the monkeys, except for the quiet and homemade ones.
In the afternoon of this day, Huo Zun finished the affairs of the Nanshan camp and stood under a willow tree and quietly looked at Xia Qian.
Thinking that she was in a hurry to finish repairing this mural, it was nothing more than to leave Qinglong City without worry when the retirement took effect more than two months later, his face was unconsciously covered with a layer of ice. After a moment's pause, he strode over and picked her up from the ladder.
Xia Qian struggled to jump out of his arms, and complained dissatisfiedly: "What are you doing, I haven't finished painting these swallows yet?" “
"What do you draw? Have you forgotten our agreement? Could it be that the loving couple in your heart is standing on it and painting endlessly, and I am standing in the distance and staring idlely? If you don't take acting seriously, you won't count the letter of resignation! ”
Huo Zun said with a serious face, and there was a strong anger in his words, Xia Qian stared at him inexplicably for a long time, and was about to put down the brush in his hand to talk to him theoretically, when he saw Qin Xinyue walking towards them with a big belly and a smile.
Xia Qian smiled easily, turned around and took a cup of tea, and looked at the river leisurely while drinking.
The scenery on the river is picturesque, tourists are crowded, and the market is bustling not far away, and she is thinking that if the two of them don't leave, it will be a good choice for her to go to the market.
Seeing that the two chatted affectionately for a while, and walked towards the market side by side, Xia Qian put down the teacup and continued to repair her mural seriously.
"Sister-in-law, Mrs. Qin is infatuated with the general, don't you care at all?" The monkey poured a new cup of tea, went up to the wooden shelf where Xia Qian was standing, and asked with a smile.
"It is your man's dream to have a group of wives and concubines, there are a bunch of women who are desperately clinging to him, he is happy, and I am happy!"
The monkey pursed his lips and corrected Xia Qian's words a little: "It is indeed the dream of most men to have a group of wives and concubines, but the general is an exception. On the surface, he accepted three concubines, but none of them he really liked. Sister-in-law, it's okay if others can't understand the general's thoughts, you still can't understand it? ”
"I don't like anyone, but the one just now has a big belly? If you dare to talk nonsense again, be careful that she is in a hurry and gives birth to the child in the Void River. When Huo Zun went crazy, don't blame me for not reminding you!"
Xia Qian was scribbling the murals on the wall, and at the same time, she smiled lightly, so frightened that the monkey's face changed, and he froze on the wooden frame with tea for a long time.
He couldn't guess Huo Zun's thoughts, although he could see that his feelings for Xia Qian had not changed, but he also saw that Huo Zun had spoiled Qin Xinyue in his heart. But Huo Zun just told him a few days ago that he only had Xia Qian in his heart, and let him reconcile the relationship between the two, why did he spoil Qin Xinyue everywhere?
The more the monkey thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out, so he simply drank the tea, turned around and took a cool nap.
Xia Qian stood on the wooden frame and painted one stroke at a time, I don't know how long I painted, I felt the wooden frame under my feet gently shake a few times, and looked down to see that it was a radish selling pottery at the gate of Xicheng.
Xia Qian climbed down the ladder with a smile and asked happily, "Brother Radish, why are you here?" ”
"Nanyuan is lively here, and there is a lot of traffic, so I transferred here to sell things, but I didn't expect you to be here! Come, rest for a while, and eat a bun!" Radish smiled and took out an oily paper bag from the rickshaw and handed a few buns to Xia Qian and Jingya.
"Nanyuan is indeed more lively than the West City Gate, most of the people who come here are to pass the time, and things should be better sold. However, Nanyuan is now more strictly controlled, pets and livestock are not allowed to enter, so many pottery you use a rickshaw to pull a lot of effort! “
Radish smiled innocently and said that this little work was nothing at all. After the completion of Nanyuan, his business improved again, and he took in seventeen or eighteen orphans, planning to rent a house in the city with the money given by Xia Qian for the second time, so that the children could live in it and study in peace.
"There are many dignitaries and dignitaries in Qinglong City, and there are almost no people who can spend their money on the poor people, but Brother Radish, you are not afraid of hard work and spend all your thoughts on these homeless children, which is really admirable!" Xia Qian looked at the bottles and cans on the radish rickshaw and said thoughtfully.
"My parents forgot about it, and when they were young, they wandered around with their younger brother, and then they ......," Radish sighed and swallowed the second half of the unspoken sentence into her stomach, "I don't feel hard to have the opportunity to take care of these orphans now." Besides, this money is all from you, and it took me some time, so it's not worth mentioning at all! ”
During the conversation, the radish's eyes fell on the peach wood hairpin between Xia Qian's buns, saying that this hairpin was carved with the peach wood short sword that his mother asked for from the temple many years ago, which can eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits and keep peace.
Xia Qian touched the hairpin in surprise and thanked the radish sincerely.
In fact, she has added a few new pieces of jewelry in the past few days, but in the past half a year, she has lived a frugal life, and she has been accustomed to coarse tea and light meals, and occasionally she will take out the hairpin and wear it.
Xia Qian stared at those pottery jars and thought for a while, and instructed Jing Ya who was standing aside: "If there are some new tricks on some pottery, maybe they can be sold faster, you go back and take those goose eggs I painted and dyed, and give them all to Brother Radish!" ”
After returning to the West Courtyard, she asked Jingya if she wanted to live with the radish, Jingya said that she would follow Xia Qian wherever she went, Xia Qian shook her head helplessly, put the peach hairpin into the box, and tied it in a bun with a green jade.
In the evening, Huo Zun walked into the west courtyard and gave Xia Qian a small and delicate fan.
Xia Qian took the fan and looked at it for a while, and felt that the fan was exquisite, and it would be more interesting if it was inscribed with Meng Haoran's "The lotus wind sends fragrance, and the bamboo dew drops are clear", so he picked up the pen and added two sentences on it.
"Sister is so interested, a pot of tea, a pair of pen and ink, so that the fragrance in this west courtyard floats, intoxicating!" Qin Xinyue stood outside the West Courtyard for a while, walked in and smiled lightly at Huo Zun and Xia Qian.
Xia Qian couldn't hear the sound, but when she put away her pen and looked up, she saw that Qin Xinyue also pinched a fan in her hand, and walked towards her with a smile on her lotus steps, while Huo Zun, when her eyes fell on the other party, the expression on her face was like the warm sunshine in March.
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