Chapter XXII

Xiao Yan suddenly said "ah", "Brother is with them, won't he also disperse?" ”

Shen Qingyi snorted.

Xiao Yan immediately patted his head and smiled, "Brother is so smart, he won't be dissatisfied." Besides, if my sister is here, my brother will definitely not touch it. ”

Shen Qingyi snorted again.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but wonder where she was provoking her, could it be Chun. Medicine? In fact, she just mentioned it casually, can she still use it? With whom? Xiao Yan couldn't help laughing, and then fell on the couch with laughter.

Shen Qingyi glared at her, "What are you happy about?" ”

Xiao Yan couldn't think of anyone to use spring with. medicine, so he replied with a smile: "I think, maybe there is a Lang Junxing who exudes heat, bare his clothes and bare his chest on a snowy day, and walk and sing loudly, isn't it fun?" As she spoke, she was really interested, and sat up with a skeletal eye, her eyes shining.

Shen Qingyi said coldly: "You can't see it, the door to the inner courtyard has been locked." ”

Xiao Yan sighed a little disappointed, then smiled again: "It's okay to lock it, don't let them disturb the courtyard." If the skin is like coagulated fat, the lips are like Zhu, the face is like white jade, the waist is like willow, the mouth contains blue musk, and the body is fragrant and soft, you can still see it. ”

Qinghui smiled, lowered his head and smiled.

Shen Qingyi also helped his forehead and squinted at her, "Are you praising yourself!" ”

Xiao Yan opened his eyes innocently, "How come?" "She really thinks so, she has to have a figure even if she is naked and bare-chested, if she encounters a black and rough individual, won't she be stumbled?

She raised her wide sleeves and sniffed, as if she sighed, "I use agarwood incense, not the kind of soft incense." ”

She remembered that Xiao Shishi's lavender used that kind of incense, such as orchid and musk, which was actually an elegant incense, but she didn't wait to see Xiao Cheng, so she tasted "soft" - lined with the arrogant and domineering Xiao Cheng, isn't it very interesting?

As she spoke, she lifted Shen Qingyi's wide sleeves again, leaned in and smelled it, and a fragrance rushed into her heart from the end of her nose, like plum and snow, clean and cold.

She couldn't help but raise her eyes, "My sister's incense is too cold...... "I thought about it, "I should use a softer incense, it will be warmer." I also noticed that there was also a fragrance of plum in the house, and when I looked around, I saw a pot of human-high plum blossoms in the southwest corner, and the astragalus was blooming.

Warm? Shen Qingyi was stunned, it was the first time she heard that incense was used to warm people, and she couldn't help but hook her lips, "That's called warm incense." ”

"Well, yes, Nuan Xiang," Xiao Yan nodded, "Lily Incense, Qi Nan Incense, Yue Lin Incense...... It's all good. ”

These incense and courtyards are naturally there, but Shen Qingyi dislikes being too sweet and doesn't like to use them, listening to Xiao Yan at this time, his lips hooked slightly, his fingers stroked the warm and smooth felt surface, and said with a smile: "Okay, next time there will be a little smoke in the house." ”

The two gossiped for a while, and Shen Qingyi was too lazy to move to the study, so he taught Xiao Yan to learn from the couch in the leisure room.

At the time of Shen Zheng, Chi Shao, who was guarding the door, came in and reported that the soup had been dissolved in the front yard.

The first moment of the unitary will be eaten at night.

Shen Qingyi glanced at Xiao Yan and said, "Ah Yan is eating here today, right?" Shen Zheng was two moments, and he used it to go back with loose food. I asked Xiao Chengzhong to go to Jingyuan and say, you don't need to prepare dinner for dinner. ”

Xiao Yan hesitated, but she didn't want to disobey Shen Qingyi, thinking that it wouldn't take much time to go back after using up the food, so she nodded her head. Shen Qingyi had a smile in his eyes and told Chi Shao to prepare the meal.

After two quarters of an hour, the red peony came in and reported that the food was ready.

Shen Qingyi's body was warm, and he didn't want to go to the dining pavilion downstairs to eat anymore, so he ordered the dining table to be moved to the east pavilion upstairs.

The east pavilion is a formal place for hospitality, just next door to the east of the bedroom, there is an inner corridor between the two rooms, the southern half of the inner corridor is the tip of the fruit on the maidservant's sencha, there is also a corridor with a door opening to the outside, the north half is a flower gallery, there are seven or eight pots of turquoise holly trees, and the whole corridor is covered with a light green long blanket.

The dining table in the pavilion has been set up, the charcoal tripod has been burned, and the other maids have withdrawn, only Bai Su, Qinghui, and Chi Peony are waiting, and Shelan is waiting outside the door of the hall.

Shen Qingyi sat on the east seat, Xiao Yan sat on the west side, the food table in front of the two of them was the same dish, although it was an afternoon meal, because it was eaten in the evening, there were seventeen or eighteen kinds of cages, all of which were small portions, dazzling, and appetizing.

"Ah Yan drink some osmanthus wine?" She looked at Xiao Yan with a smile, and Qing Lingling's cold eyes revealed interest.

"Okay." Xiao Yan will be thirteen after February next year, and it doesn't hurt to drink a few more wines like osmanthus wine, which has a light taste and little stamina.

Bai Su held the pot and walked on his knees, and poured six points of wine into the white jade square mouth bowl on the dining table of the two people.

Xiao Yan raised his hands and raised his hands in respect, and then covered his sleeves and drank, his mouth was fragrant.

She also often drinks a kind of cherry wine in Qingning Courtyard, which is produced in Luoyang, with a sweet taste, and Xiao Yan likes it very much.

This osmanthus wine is also slightly sweet, and it is more fragrant and fragrant than cherry wine.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but squint his eyes.

Shen Qingyi smiled softly and said, "I know that you like sweets, even wine." It's a pity that this jar of wine is still a little lighter, it is brewed by the autumn dew of this year, and if it is buried in the ground for a year, the taste will be sweeter and farther away. ”

Xiao Yan looked at Bai Su and poured another six points, raised his eyes and smiled: "Sister bury a few jars, and wait for next year to drink again." Saying that, he raised it and drank it slowly, with a very pleasant expression.

Shen Qingyi's eyes flashed with a smile, and said: "Don't just drink, use some Hu cannon meat, this is roasted with tender lamb belly, and it has a unique flavor when used with this wine." If you feel greasy, use this herring soup. Then use this liyu and steamed bear...... After using a few cups of cinnamon wine, go to the sake of Yunxi Boluo and pair it with these five fish tart. There is also this immortal belly, which uses fresh goat milk, and when I go back, tell SΓΉ Niangzi, you don't have to drink goat milk tonight......" Shen Qingyi said with a smile, and his clear voice came one by one, whether it was wine or meat and vegetarian dishes, Xiao Yan liked or liked them.

Xiao Yan's eyebrows and eyes overflowed with joy, and she felt that this sister treated her very well.

After a meal in a pleasant atmosphere, the two of them rinsed their mouths and cleaned their hands, and then returned to the rest room of the bedroom from the inner porch.

The inner courtyard is very quiet, the noise of the front yard has not stopped, drumming and passing flowers, composing poems within a limited time, if you have a good poem, the laughter will be high, all Langjun plays music in unison, Xiao Cong blows the flute, Xiao Shen plays the piano, Du Dalangjun drums, Su Dalangjun plays the pipa, Huan Erlangjun drums, Linghu Langjun sings, Yang Dalangjun dances, and the music sings and dances. There is also Lang Jun dressed and out of the hall, walking in the garden of the courtyard, singing the wind, and Lang Jun leaning on the doorstep, the big sleeves fluttering, the horizontal flute plays harmoniously, the flute sound is clear, straight into the clouds.

The inner courtyard is quiet and tranquil, and the room is newly smoked with Qi Nan incense, and the gentle and sweet fragrance is overflowing, which makes people's hearts warm.

It was already two o'clock, Xiao Yan and Shen Qingyi said goodbye, walked out of the main courtyard through the north corner gate of the inner courtyard, avoided colliding with the Lang Jun who were walking and singing in the front yard, and walked out of Chenghe Courtyard under the escort of Xiao Chengzhong.

The feast in the front yard did not stop until a moment in the morning.

Seeing off the guests, Xiao Cong bathed and changed clothes, returned to the inner courtyard, held a box in his hand, and opened it in Shen Qingyi's study.

Shen Qingyi personally brought the tea soup, came from the inner corridor connected to the study of the West Pavilion, put it on the bookcase in front of Xiao Cong, and swept his eyes twice, "Shiro is watching the chess game?" ”

Xiao Cong picked up the top chess game and said with a smile: "This is the game of chess that you and I played against each other, and Ah Yan gave you a solution." ”

Shen Qingyi smiled, "No wonder it feels familiar." That game of chess stuck in her mind, and she still remembers it clearly.

She glanced at the lacquer box again, "Could it be that this is all a game between Shiro and Ah Yan?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Cong's eyes flashed, "Look, Ah Yan is really talented. As he spoke, he took out the stack of chess games and handed them over

To Shen Qingyi, the tone was uncontrollable and excited, "I played seventeen games with Ah Yan, and there were only seven wins, and the losers always had the advantage first, and in the middle or back game, Ah Yan had a stroke of genius to break or defeat my layout." ”

He couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, got up and paced a few steps, turned around and smiled: "There are five of us brothers, it seems that Ah Yan has inherited his father's talent for Yidao. ”

Xiao Yu was famous for calligraphy, painting and chess when he was young, and entered Chang'an at the age of 20, playing against Li Yihong, the first master of the royal chess road, forcing a draw and becoming famous, and entered Chang'an at the age of 30, and played against the King of Wei again. "In Hexi, it is invincible, no one dares to play with him, but he is also fond of chess, every time he pulls people to play until the sky is white, he is still tireless, and then when he hears him play chess, relatives and friends and subordinates have avoided it, and the director of the Guogong Mansion Xun and the governor of the Governor's Mansion Shi Gu Di are the fastest to slip away, so that Xiao Yu sighs every time: "There is no hero in the game!" "Xiao Suo, who expresses that no one dares to play against him, is lonely.

"This time my father has an opponent." Xiao Cong smiled, his eyes shining brightly.

Shen Qingyi flipped through the chess game in his hand, and his heart was like a mirror, "Shiro wants to present it to his father?" ”

Xiao Cong nodded and said, "Ah Yan's talent should not be buried. My father didn't know how extraordinary Seventeen was. "How can you not like such a son?

His voice was firm, "This year, I'm going to try again." ”

Shen Qingyi knew that he was talking about the temple sacrifice and the Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet.

She looked at Xiao Cong for a while, and couldn't help but sigh lightly: "Shiro is a good brother. ”

So dedicatedly planning for the seventeenth brother.

Xiao Cong said with a soft expression: "How can a younger brother like Ah Yan not be liked? Just like Qingyi, if you change someone else, how can you recognize you as a younger brother and teach carefully? ”

Shen Qingyi said in a light voice: "Ah Yan is Shiro's younger brother. ”

First your brother, that's why it's my brother.

Xiao Cong was relieved to hear this, and half-jokingly said: "Ah Cheng and Ah Yu are also my younger brothers. ”

Shen Qingyi flipped through the chess game without looking up, and his voice was cold, "These two uncles are probably not patient with the teaching of multiple sisters. ”

Xiao Cong remembered Xiao Cheng's domineering and domineering, Xiao Jue's ruthlessness and gloom, and couldn't help frowning, "If they have half of Ah Yan's peace of mind, I don't have to be anxious." ”

Shen Qingyi put down the chess game, his cold eyes moved slightly, "I heard my mother say the day before yesterday that the fourteenth and nineteenth want to join the Hexi Army?" ”

Xiao Cong's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, and his tone revealed displeasure, "What's more, I still want to join the Xiao Cavalry." ”

The 100,000 Hexi Army is divided into five armies, the Xiao Cavalry Army is one of the armies, all of them are cavalry, and the whole army is only 5,000 children, but all of them are the brave β–‘β–‘ selected by the five armies in cavalry, and they are the elite of the Hexi cavalry.

Shen Qingyi said slowly: "In the past few years, Hexi has been relatively calm, and even if the fourteenth and nineteenth Lang join the army, there should be no danger of a big war in recent years." - The second uncle seems to be the Hexi Army who entered the army at the age of fifteen? ”

Speaking of the eldest brother Xiao Zhang, Xiao Cong snorted lightly, thoughtful between his eyebrows, pondered for a while, and said: "After the New Year, Ah Cheng will also be fifteen, so it's good to go to the army to practice, and go to that impetuous air." ”

Shen Qingyi knew that Xiao Cong had listened to her words.

Although the Lanling Xiao family is as important as other families, but the cultivation of the children of the concubine is also quite important, Xiao Zhang, as the eldest son of the concubine branch, is different from other concubines, if he fights very high prestige in the army, Xiao Cong may become a thorn in the chest after taking over as the governor of Hexi, the Xiao clan can not let Xiao Zhang alone get the prestige in the army, if Xiao Cheng enters the army and wins military merits, he can become Xiao Cong's arm in the future, after all, the two are half-brothers.

Xiao Cong picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then talked about Xiao Jue: "Nineteen years of anger, reading more Confucian scriptures and cultivating one's self is the truth." It's just that the fourth uncle has always been lenient and benevolent, and I'm afraid that the clan can't control him. ”

The fourth uncle refers to Xiao Fang's cousin Xiao Fang, who ranks fourth in the "day" generation, is in charge of Xiao clan studies, has extensive knowledge, is proficient in the three schools of Confucianism, Xuan, Buddhism, and enjoys high prestige in the Xiao family, but as Xiao Cong said, this fourth uncle is not a strict person, for a child like Xiao Yu, respect is greater than fear, and the rules in the school are in front of Xiao Fang, as soon as Xiao Fang leaves, it is uncontrolled.

Shen Qingyi thought to himself, such as Xiao Yu, it needs to be a knowledgeable and wise person like Ren Xun or Gu Di to be able to suppress it, Xiao Fang's benevolent gentleman is of course inappropriate, but Ren Xun and Gu Di are Xiao Yu's masterminds, if Liang Guogong is interested, he must have a plan, but Shen Qingyi will not mention this Jian Yiyi casually, only persuaded Xiao Cong and said: "This matter is not urgent, think about it slowly." ”

Xiao Cong nodded, looked at the chess game again, showed a look of relief in his eyes, and smiled at his wife: "Anyway, there is a worry-free one." ”

Shen Qingyi said in his heart: I'm afraid this is the one you don't worry about the most.

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