Chapter 245: Jinling's Little Love
readx;? In a blink of an eye, it has been half a year since Lu Yifan left Jinling City, and in the past six months since he left, Jinling City has generally been safe and stable, and nothing special has happened. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Lu Mansion is still as plain as ever, except for Liu Qingyuan, who will recite a few words to Lu Yifan from time to time, Lu Haoqian is busy with major affairs in the court every day, but he has no time to think about whether his son is doing well. And Lu Jun and Lu Wencai, who were placed in the city army on errands, compared to Lu Yifan, who was honed in northern Xinjiang, had to enjoy a lot, after all, the two of them were from the mansion of the Duke of Wending, and this place was Jinling City, so even if the two of them were nominally just two small city army guards, but in fact, in the big camp, even if the city army generals saw them, most of them greeted each other with a smile, and they could choose from various positions in the city army, and they could do whatever they liked, so Lu Wencai didn't want to do it, let alone assign any drudgery to the two of them?
Lu Jun is quite dedicated to doing things, but as for Lu Wencai, it is simply a post in the city army, purely to enjoy. Slept until three poles in the morning every day, and cried and shouted to go back to rest after patrolling a few steps, if it weren't for Lu Jun often following him and urging, I was afraid that Lu Wencai wouldn't even bother to take a spear during the days when he was on an errand in the city army.
At the end of summer, there is already a trace of autumn in Jinling City, the so-called autumn is cool and breezy, such a good weather makes Lu Wencai more willing to follow Lu Jun to patrol the city during the day, one is to move his muscles and bones, and the other is to be reasonable in front of the generals of the city army.
In the early morning, Lu Jun and Lu Wencai walked on a rather remote street in the west of Jinling City with seven or eight city troops, this is a diagonal street, it stands to reason that the patrol city army only needs to inspect the main street in the city, as for the oblique streets like this in the city, there are countless them, and there is no need to inspect them one by one. If this thing can be lazy, if it is replaced by other city troops, I am afraid that it will not be able to ask for it, but it has become a special case for Lu Jun, because he will be the first to come to this diagonal street almost every morning when he takes people to patrol, this is not because Lu Jun is loyal, but because the drunkard does not mean to drink, Lu Jun comes here every day to actually have another deep meaning.
"Lu Jun, what excuse are you going to find to knock on someone's door today?" Lu Wencai, who was lazily following behind Lu Jun, was wearing a helmet on his head and dragging a spear in his hand at random, the whole person looked more like a little ruffian, where is there a little bit of the majesty that the city army should have? But because of Lu Wencai's identity, even if his image is so hanging, no one dares to say anything, at this moment he is staring at Lu Jun with a wicked smile on his face, and said jokingly, " In the past three or four months, you have come almost every day, and if you don't bother me, I'm annoyed! If you like people, why don't you just say it? You Lu Jun is no worse than any man?"
"Wencai, don't talk nonsense!" Hearing Lu Wencai's ridicule, Lu Jun, who has always been cold, looked a little nervous today, only to see his face slightly red and scolded angrily, "Fluttershy is a good girl from a serious family, you don't want to take out that face in Fengyue place!"
"Tut-tut!" Lu Wencai pouted and said with a disdainful expression, "You really should look at your current appearance, it's just peach blossoms in your eyes and affectionate eyes!" Lu Wencai deliberately raised his voice and exaggerated what Lu Jun said just now, "Xiaodie is a good girl from a serious family, you don't want to take out that face in Fengyue Place...... Ha ha...... It's really sour, you can see that the hairs on my body are standing up sour by your words!"
"Haha......" Lu Wencai's joking caused several city soldiers behind him to laugh.
"Okay! stop talking nonsense!" Lu Jun turned his head and glared at Lu Wencai viciously, and then he waved his hand to interrupt the city army behind him, and said loudly, "You guys just wait for me here!
"Why don't you let us go with you?" Lu Wencai said with a disdainful face, "If so many of us go together, we will definitely give you a long face!"
", just count you to embarrass me!" Lu Jun said and waved his hand to hit Lu Wencai's helmet, "Hurry up and clean up, and don't look at what you look like now?"
"Cut! You will teach me a lesson, and when you meet Fluttershy, you will be scared like a cat and a mouse!
"Haha......" As soon as Lu Wencai said this, everyone laughed again, and in this burst of laughter, Lu Jun's face became a little more ruddy. Then he didn't say anything more, and pushed Lu Wencai who was smiling evilly a few times again, and then took a deep breath to strengthen his courage, and then strode towards a deep alley on the side of the street.
The western part of the city is mostly the courtyard of the common people, and the dense courtyards are scattered in the various alleys on the side of the street, and there is not a wide house compound in the whole street here, but mostly dilapidated courtyards and muddy land, which looks quite simple. And most of the people who live here are ordinary ordinary people, most of them do some small business to support their families, and the dignitaries and dignitaries in the city will not come to this kind of place at all. This is the case in the imperial city, where the rich and noble can be said to be extremely rich, while the poor are also extremely simple, and the two poles are clearly separated from each other and have little contact.
"Yo! Lu Gongzi is here......"
"Brother Lu Jun, what delicious food did you bring us today?"
"Brother Lu Jun, are you coming to Sister Fluttershy again, I'll help you get her out......"
As soon as he entered the alley, the people who lived here greeted him one after another, especially the children who were running and playing in the alley, and they even chattered around Lu Jun, pulling the corners of Lu Jun's clothes to talk and laugh, it seems that these children are already very familiar with Lu Jun, and they also like their Lu Jun brother very much. And Lu Jun also changed his cold face after entering the alley, replaced by a simple smile, when the children surrounded him, he hurriedly took out some honey from the armor and distributed it to this group of lovely children, and the children were even more excited after getting Lu Jun's candy, jumping and jumping around Lu Jun one by one, and Lu Jun also seemed very happy surrounded by the children, this happiness is definitely a rare heartfelt happiness in Lu Jun's life.
The children surrounded Lu Jun until he walked to a dilapidated courtyard deep in the alley, before they dispersed under the shouts of the adults.
Lu Jun stood in the alley, looking at the two dilapidated wooden doors in front of him that were already difficult to close, as well as the two faded door god New Year paintings pasted on the doors, his face became more ruddy, he slowly reached out and took out a pair of unpretentious black cloth shoes from his arms, this is a new pair of cloth shoes, every stitch and thread are so meticulous and clean, and Lu Jun has always put these shoes in the position of his heart, reluctant to stain the slightest. At this moment, when he took out the shoes, his face was filled with a sweet smile, and then he put the brand-new cloth shoes under his nose and sniffed deeply, as if there was still a faint fragrance of osmanthus in the hand of the person who took the shoes for him between the needles and threads.
Finally, after Lu Jun hesitated again and again, he finally mustered up the courage, and he wanted to knock on the courtyard door behind him, but before his fingers touched the door panel, the two old wooden doors were suddenly opened from the inside, and then a young woman who was just about to step out was startled by Lu Jun who suddenly appeared there, and couldn't help but exclaim and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Lu Jun's eyes were quick and he grabbed the woman's arm in time, which did not let the woman knock the door frame, and when his right hand touched the woman's arm, the trembling as if struck by lightning spread throughout Lu Jun and the womanFrightened, the two of them hurriedly took a step back, and the place they had just touched was hurriedly separated again.
The woman slowly raised her head, and a white and beautiful face appeared in front of Lu Jun. The woman looks no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, her figure is quite petite and exquisite, the upper body is wearing a white floral cloth dress, the lower body is a slightly faded light violet skirt that has been washed, a long black hair is combed neatly draped over the shoulders, under the bangs is a fair and flawless forehead, the eyebrows are picturesque, the skin is like snow, the red lips and teeth are white, although it is not graceful and luxurious, but it gives people a clean and immaculate simple beauty, and the most memorable is the faint fragrance of osmanthus exuded by this woman, this fragrance is neither from any precious spice, nor ordinary vulgar powder, unpretentious but so memorable, ordinary but not mediocre, pretty but not gorgeous, if you have to use one sentence to describe such a girl, I am afraid that Lu Jun's sentence "the daughter of a serious family" is the most suitable.
And she is the little Fluttershy that Lu Junkou has been reading in the center.
Fluttershy comes from a poor family in Jinling City, and her mother died when she was six years old. Fluttershy and her father are the only ones left in the house, and Fluttershy's father is an honest craftsman who has been making his own shoes and selling them to make ends meet. Now that her father is old and in poor health, she has been bedridden for the past year or two due to overwork, and the burden of supporting her family falls on Fluttershy's shoulders, but Fluttershy has learned her father's craft with ingenuity, so she can barely earn a little money thanks to her father's honest reputation in Jinling City for so many years, and do everything possible to get medicine for her father while making ends meet.
Fluttershy and Lu Jun met five months ago, when Lu Yifan had just left, and Lu Jun and Lu Wencai had just joined the city army, and they were not in a very good mood. One day, while patrolling the streets, he encounters a few gentlemen who flirt with Fluttershy in front of her stall, and some even do something to the young and beautiful Fluttershy, and threaten to pay a lot of money to buy Fluttershy back as a concubine. This happened to be touched by Lu Jun, who was in a bad mood, and he naturally did not hesitate to draw his sword to help, and after beating away the group of gentlemen, Lu Jun and Fluttershy were officially acquainted. In order to repay Lu Jun's kindness, Fluttershy often chatted with Lu Jun during that time, helping Lu Jun relieve the sorrow in his heart, and Lu Jun was an upright person, very different from those gentlemen, and over time also left a deep favor in Fluttershy's heart, and the two became friends who did not talk about anything, and the two of them, who were at the beginning of their love, also fell in love with each other for a long time, and gradually sprouted a trace of indescribable affection, although neither of them was clear, but the feelings between the two were self-evident, and the bitter and astringent feelings made the two deeply trapped and unable to extricate themselves。
Fluttershy is unpretentious, and she doesn't know Lu Jun's prominence when she first meets him, so she gets close to him. Later, when Fluttershy learns that Lu Junnai is a member of the Lu family in the Wending Mansion, she has a gap with Lu Junmeng in her heart, and she doesn't want to be told that she is so close to him because of Lu Jun's identity. And the more Fluttershy does this, the more Lu Jun's heart can't let go of her, so Lu Jun will visit Fluttershy's house almost every day, and he won't say anything just to see her!
Today, that's exactly what it is!
At this moment, Fluttershy is staring at Lu Jun with a pair of big surprised eyes, and the two of them are looking at each other like this, and neither of them says a word.
"Little ...... Fluttershy ...... "After a long time, Lu Jun finally mustered up the courage to break the deadlock, and forced an ugly smile on the corner of his mouth, "Going out so early?"
"Yes, go and help my dad get the medicine!" Fluttershy didn't seem to dare to make eye contact with Lu Jun, and said timidly with her head slightly hanging her head and a ruddy face, "You...... Came earlier today than usual......"
"Oh!" Lu Jun heard this, but suddenly realized that he hurriedly raised the pair of cloth shoes in his left hand, which Fluttershy had made for him a few days ago, "No!"
Fluttershy was taken aback by Lu Jun's movements, and when she saw the cloth shoes in Lu Jun's hand, she frowned and asked worriedly, "What......? Don't you like it? Or am I not the right size?"
"No, no, no, I like it, I like it very much!" Lu Jun hurriedly explained, "It's just that when I gave you money a few days ago, you insisted on refusing to ......ask for it."
"A pair of cloth can be sold for two or three silver shells at most, where can I give it to a thousand silver shells?" Besides, this is a gift from me, if you give me money, then I won't give it away!" Fluttershy seems to be a little angry, and reaches out to get the shoes back, but Lu Jun moves quickly, and almost instantly tucks the cloth shoes back into his armor.
"What are you doing?" Fluttershy looks at Lu Jun with a puzzled expression.
"Actually, I came today to ask you, if an outsider comes to buy your cloth shoes, will you still sell them?" Lu Jun smiled with a simple face, "You also know that I am on an errand in the city army, and the brothers in the army spend a lot of shoes running all year round, so they all want to make a few more pairs of cloth shoes......"
"Of course, if I don't sell cloth shoes, how can my father and I live? But ...... Aren't there military boots in your barracks?" asked Fluttershy, with a suspicious face.
"That's different! Cloth shoes are comfortable to wear!" Lu Jun hurriedly said, "It's easy to say that you sell them, in short, you make a hundred pairs of these cloth shoes for me, and we will pay you one hundred silver shells for each pair!"
"What ......"
"Don't refuse!" Before Fluttershy could exclaim, Lu Jun immediately interrupted, "I didn't give this money, it's the military expenses of the city defense camp, even if you don't do it, we will find someone else to do it!" and we still think your skills are the best...... So......" said, and without waiting for Fluttershy to react, Lu Jun took out a bulging money bag from his waist and threw it into Fluttershy's arms, "Here's a hundred gold shells, which is ten thousand silver shells, your wages!"
"But I haven't done anything?" says Fluttershy with a look of surprise.
"Well, how can you finish the shoes all at once? You do it slowly! Give it to me when it's done! It's okay for a year, it's okay for two years, and we're not in a hurry anyway!"
Lu Jun ran away from the alley at a brisk pace, afraid that if Fluttershy asked a few more questions, he wouldn't know how to make it up.
Looking at Lu Jun's back, Fluttershy slowly lowered her head to look at the money bag in her hand, and then took out the only three or five silver shells from her cloth bag, her eyes turned red at some point, and at the same time, a tear suddenly fell on the money bag, smearing a touch of wetness......
"Lu Jun, I owe you...... I'm afraid it's not over in this life......"
After leaving the alley, Lu Jun and Lu Wencai were stopped by an old man in a gray robe before they took a few steps, and this old man Lu Jun and Lu Wencai were already very familiar, he was Lu Haoqian's cronies, ancient.
"Ancient, how can you ...... old man?"
"Lu Jun, Wencai, Lord Lu asked me to see how you have been doing recently! By the way, I want to invite you to have a morning tea together!" The ancient face always had that kind smile on his face, "If you two don't have anything important, then come with me!"
"The patriarch invited us to tea?" Lu Jun and Lu Wencai couldn't help but glance at each other, with a look of incomprehension in their eyes, "Where to drink tea?"
"Han Fu!"
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