There are always some people who will have a good impression at a glance, and the reason doesn't make sense.

After Chen Ping'an saw the scholar, he walked through half of Fulu Street and swept away the heavy emotions he had accumulated, and walked forward quickly with a clay pot.

The young scholar smiled kindly, did not stand in place, but walked towards Chen Ping'an, and took the lead in speaking: "You are Chen Ping'an, my name is Li Xisheng, and I am the eldest brother of the treasure bottle." The latest letter sent by the treasure bottle in the Mountain Cliff Academy, I have received it, I am an elder brother, I really don't know how to reciprocate, I heard that you have been studying, you may as well come to my house often in the future, I still have some books, please take it yourself. ”

Not only that, after the young man took the clay pot from Chen Ping'an's hand, he also bent down and bowed, "I have to thank you for my great kindness." ”

This made Chen Ping'an a little at a loss, so he had to point to the clay pot and said with a restrained expression: "Li Gongzi, there is a mountain carp in the clay pot, which I found on the mountain on the way back and came to give it to the treasure vase." ”

Li Xisheng glanced down at the golden swimming fish in the clay pot, he raised his head, looked at Chen Ping'an, and said with emotion: "I have seen the magical depiction of the mountain carp in the pen of the sages, the golden mountain carp, there is no one in ten thousand, I didn't expect that there will be a chance to witness it with my own eyes in this life, rest assured, I will definitely raise it carefully, and she will be very happy when the treasure bottle goes home in the future." ”

Li Xisheng's sincere enthusiasm for the son of a high-ranking family made Chen Ping'an completely unsure of how to answer, although he dragged Cui Dongshan with him at that time, staring at the mighty group of mountain carp, and finally stared at the sour eyes, and finally caught this one, but no matter how recorded in the book, no matter how mysterious Cui Dongshan said, for Chen Ping'an, it is really not rare and valuable.

As long as it is someone close to Chen Ping'an's heart, he is willing to dig out his heart.

Chen Ping'an is really not good at chatting warmly, scratching his head, saying goodbye, and about to turn around and leave.

Li Xisheng hurriedly called out to Chen Ping'an, "Why don't you go to the house and sit for a while, I'll take you through it today, and then I'll come to the door to read by myself, and I'll tell the porter later." ”

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said, "Next time." ”

Li Xisheng smiled helplessly: "Then let me put down the carp and return the clay pot to you, right?"

This time, Chen Ping'an was not polite, nodded and said, "Then I'll wait here." ”

Li Xisheng smiled: "Wait a while, I'll go back when I go." ”

He turned around and trotted all the way with the clay pot in his hand.

At this moment, the young man is no longer like the sage master who talks about the truth in the book, but really looks like the eldest brother of the little girl in the red cotton jacket.

It didn't take long for Li Xisheng to run back with a clay pot, with several books under his armpits on both sides, Chen Ping'an took the clay pot, bent down and put it on the ground, wiped his hands vigorously, and then took those books, sandwiched them under his armpits, and finally picked up the clay pot with funny movements, "I'll return the book after I'm done." ”

Li Xisheng smiled like a spring breeze, waved his hand and said: "Don't be in a hurry to return the books, just read them slowly, they are much better than the treasure bottle, but they won't run around by themselves." ”

Li Xisheng put away his joking expression and said slowly: "Chen Ping'an, don't think that I invite you to read a book is a polite word, I really hope you come more, although the treasure bottle is very smart, but after all, she is still young, and she has a child's heart, so it is really more difficult to let her read quietly at home." So for so many years, it feels like I'm the only one at home flipping through books, and when I think about it, it's actually quite boring. ”

Li Xisheng said a lot of things in his heart in one breath.

If the Li family figures were present here, they would definitely think that the sun had come out in the west.

Because this little-known eldest son of the Li family, under the backdrop of his younger brother Li Baozhen, seems too old-fashioned and boring, although he is kind to everyone, but he has very few words, dull and boring, every day he is either hiding in the study and burying his head in the study, or walking alone in the mansion, watching the sunrise and sunset, the wind and snow and the bright moon, and everything, the ghost knows what Mingtang can see. Fortunately, Li Xisheng is the eldest grandson of the Li family, and his popularity is not bad, and no one in the house will hate an easy-going future head of the family, but he is not likable compared to his younger brother Li Baozhen.

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "I'll come." ”

Li Xisheng hummed and waved goodbye to the young man.

Looking at Chen Ping'an's back gradually moving away, Li Xisheng muttered: "I see how charming the green mountains are. ”

He smiled knowingly, "What should Qingshan be?"

Li Xisheng turned around and walked towards the door, crossed the threshold, smiled all over his face, and said to himself, "It's another good day." ”

But as soon as Li Xisheng thought of the news from the capital, he sighed, there was no way, every family had a scripture that was difficult to read, walking, walking through the corridor, and the young man laughed to himself again, "Don't delay today's beauty." ”

In the corridor, a young maid greeted him, slowed down, gave a blessing sideways, and said softly: "Young Master." ”

Li Xisheng habitually slowed down, nodded with a smile, didn't speak, and just passed by.

The good-looking maid turned her head to look, she inevitably felt sorry for herself, and sighed in her heart, the eldest prince is good, but unfortunately she doesn't understand the amorous feelings.

If you change to the second young master, you must stop your body, chat with yourself, and praise a few words of beautiful headgear you have newly bought.

Naturally, she didn't know.

This eldest grandson of the Li family really doesn't understand the customs here, but he is well versed in other customs.

Such as showers and dry lotus, spring breeze blowing iron horses, beauties looking in bronze mirrors, generals wearing treasure knives, heavy snow full of green mountains.

It is all the beauty of the world in that person's eyes.

Li Xisheng returned to his courtyard, which had a small pool of various pebbles.

Li Xisheng squatted next to the pool, looking down at the clear water, there was the golden crucian carp in it, shaking his head and tail, forgetting his worries.

It's hard to imagine, this kind of pool, all the credit of Li Baohua alone, every time the little girl sneaks out of the door, most of them will go to Longxu Creek to pick up stones, accumulate over time, a few pieces to move home, and then one day Li Baohua had a whim, looking at the mountains of stones piled up in the corner, he wanted to create a pool for the eldest brother who can raise fish and crabs, Li Xisheng couldn't stop this, so he had to help make suggestions, but from beginning to end, the work was all Li Baohua alone, Li Xisheng, the eldest brother, wanted to help, she was still not happy.

Li Xisheng saw a little guy probing his brain under a bluestone slab, and said with a smile: "You two, get along well and don't fight." ”

Li Xisheng stood up, went to the small study with a plaque as "Knot", and began to lay paper and grind, and pick up a pen to paint.

It is a picture of a green pine pressed by snow with a strong sense of antiquity.

After putting down the brush, Li Xisheng shook his wrist and began to look down at the painting, the ink was not dry, and the ink was fragrant.

Finally, he blew lightly into the painting.

In the painting, if the green pine encounters a strong wind, it is rustling, and the snow on the branches dissipates instantly.

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Ruan Xiu happily returned to the blacksmith shop, but did not find her father's iron-striking figure in the sword furnace, and after looking for it, she found that he was actually drinking alcohol on the bamboo chair under the eaves.

Ruan Xiu asked strangely, "Dad, don't you strike iron?"

The middle-aged man shook his head.

A fart of iron is not suitable for forging a sword today. But if it is to beat Chen Ping'an, the man is a hundred willing.

Ruan Xiu sat aside, "Dad, I forgot to bring you a pot of wine today, and when I go to town tomorrow, I will definitely buy you a good pot." ”

Worse.

The girl naturally didn't know that as soon as this sentence came out, it was tantamount to pouring salt on her father's wound.

Ruan Qiong sighed, took a big sip of stuffy wine, looked at the Longxu River in the distance in a daze, and asked in a low voice, "Xiuxiu, do you like Chen Ping'an?"

Ruan Xiu smiled: "I like it." ”

Hearing his daughter's answer so neatly, Ruan Qiong breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that there was still a chance to remedy the precipice, the military saint asked, "Do you know why I didn't agree to accept Chen Ping'an as an apprentice?"

Ruan Xiu was stunned and wondered: "Dad, haven't you already said it before, you said that you have a good impression of Chen Ping'an, but it's a pity that you are not in the same way, you two are not suitable to be masters and apprentices, I know this." And then there is Chen Ping'an...... It's not the same, so my father is worried that because I get too close to him, I will attract the attention of many behind-the-scenes forces, so you are actually not very happy to see me and Chen Ping'an as friends, I can understand it. ”

Feeling that all the truths had been said to her daughter early, Ruan Qiong was suddenly speechless, forcibly resisted the words that ran to her mouth, and took a big sip of wine.

The man borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, thinking that since he knew the truth, he would not mess with Chen Ping'an's guy in the future, stupid girl, you don't lack that bullshit opportunity, besides, now Chen Ping'an has also lost the ability to lure "moths to the fire", not to mention that you are the biggest opportunity! As soon as I heard that the people had returned to their hometowns, they rushed all the way from Qilong Lane to the stone arch bridge, and then pretended to take a leisurely walk, and walked slowly to their own shop, who are you fooling?

Ruan Qiong put down the wine jug and said indifferently: "As soon as Qi Jingchun leaves, it will be the end, but now this Longquan County, although there is no big danger, such a big piece of fat in Lizhu Cave has fallen from the sky, saying that it is surrounded by jackals, it is not too much at all, many things are not as simple as you think, Dad is still the same sentence, Chen Ping'an caused the trouble himself, it is easy to solve, once you mix, it is very difficult to solve." ”

Ruan Xiu stretched out her legs, leaned back on the back of the bamboo chair, and said with a lazy look in her eyes: "I know." In short, I will practice well, and when the time comes, I will see that whoever dares to be dishonest will not need your father's help, and I will be able to solve it myself. ”

It's another big handful of salt, which falls on the man's wound like snow.

It hurt Ruan Qiong to almost spurt out a mouthful of old blood.

The soldier saint stood up angrily, and when he passed behind his daughter, he rewarded a chestnut down, "Turn your elbow out!"

The girl turned her head and looked at her father's back, the corners of her mouth curled.

Neither striking iron nor taking care of the shop, the girl had nothing to do, so she shook her wrist slightly.

The bracelet "came to life", and the little fire dragon that had woken up from its slumber began to slowly rotate around the girl's white arms.

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Ruan Qiong walked towards a newly built sword furnace, now in addition to a large number of young and strong laborers, he has accepted three new apprentices this year, for the time being, they are only named, not counted as disciples in the room, one of them is a young man with long eyebrows who realized the sword intent by the well, suddenly opened his eyes, trotted to Ruan Qiong's side, and asked softly: "Master, do you want to strike iron?"

Ruan Qiong shook his head, changed his mind, did not go to the sword furnace, and walked towards the Longxu River, he was going to personally weigh the weight of the gloomy river, if it was enough, he could open the furnace and cast the sword according to the agreement.

The boy with extremely long eyebrows followed.

Although the master and apprentice have succession, the two of them have walked all the way together.

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Chen Ping'an returned to the shop in Qilong Lane, handed over the clay pot to the boy in Tsing Yi, and then handed the key and books to the girl in the pink skirt, and asked them to go back to the ancestral house in Mud Bottle Lane first.

He walked to the Yang family pharmacy alone, regardless of the wind and rain, year after year, the Spring Festival couplets hanging on both sides of the shop will be changed every year, but the content of the writing has never changed, it is "I hope that people in the world are not sick, and I would rather put medicine on the shelf to ashes".

Chen Ping'an asked a young shopkeeper with a new face, and learned that the old man Yang was in the backyard, walked through the side door, and saw the old man sitting on a small bench in the yard, bending over and cross-legging, swallowing clouds and spitting fog there.

Chen Ping'an didn't speak, and he was a little unusually restless.

Old man Yang got straight to the point and said, "Do you want to ask about your father's mother?" Is it possible that like Gu Cang's father, his soul can still stay in the town after death?"

Chen Ping'an's breathing instantly became heavy.

"Nope. ”

The old man exhaled a large puff of smoke and gave the answer and reason bluntly: "Because it's not worth it." ”

The boy lowered his head and stopped talking.

There were only a pair of badly worn straw sandals on the ground, and I couldn't see it clearly.