Chapter 29: Stone Carving
When a few people were talking, Wen Liang Zhoutong had been standing beside him, and he couldn't help but look sideways at this time.
Although Wen Gu grew up in Liangzhou since she was a child, she had also seen the eunuchs and supervisors sent by the Emperor Wei when she was a child, and she had already known a thing or two from the gossip of the maids.
At this time, I couldn't hide my surprise when I heard that Nan Chu wanted the future pillars to act like this.
Zhixia was even more shocked on the side: "They are also willing?" ”
The county ordered: "There is always someone who is willing, the Xu family Saburo in our county, enlightened at the age of three, studied day and night, and has been reading for 18 years today, in addition to taking this road, what else can I do?" If you tell him that the imperial examination will not be successful, will he be able to bear it? In the end, he bit his teeth and stomped his feet, maybe he could still respond. ”
When a few people heard this, they were also embarrassed, and Wen Gu heard something else from his words: "So, these people didn't know about it before they went to Beijing?" ”
The county ordered: "Maybe I've heard three or two sentences, and I've also said some of them, but I'm always a little lucky, and I have to go to my heart in person to be sure." ”
Everyone sighed for a while, but Zhou Tong looked at the waist of the palace and county commander one by one: "Then to put it this way, if you become an official in Nanchu in the future, you will have to ......."
The county magistrate sighed, and said "I naturally don't have it", but after thinking about it, it seemed that it was not clear enough, and added two more sentences "I have it" and "I won't". On the contrary, it became more and more unclear over and over again, so I simply stopped talking about it.
Wen Liang looked at Zhou Tong who was smiling with disgust, and after a few more gossips, the female county lieutenant arrived.
Although Zhixia deliberately does not show it on weekdays, his kung fu is not weak, and seeing the female county lieutenant's body movements, she is obviously also with kung fu. Then he whispered and revisited the old know.
It wasn't just a "cross-face", Wen Gugang still thought that the heart of this county order was not bad, like a person who could afford to be a parent official, but he was a little confused, and now it seems that it is not.
The county magistrate said two more polite words, then took his leave, and glared at Zhou Tong before leaving. The county lieutenant would take them to the strange man's dwellings.
The female county lieutenant is just over twenty, named Jin Xuan, a native of Shangtang County in the south of Tongcheng, and her father and three brothers have served as soldiers in the Dingyi Army, but the highest is to be a team general. My mother also practiced martial arts, and I didn't fall behind in kung fu when I came to her.
Two years ago, in order to find such a county lieutenant, the palace county commander entrusted the door to Tongcheng and found her.
Jin Wan carried a sword in his hand, a whip in his waist, and his official uniform looked neat and spirited when he wore it on his body. They didn't talk much, so they found someone to help them take care of the carriage, and led the way to the mountain.
When he asked for the name of this person, Jin Juan said: "His name is Li Xun, and he said that he was a Mr. You Fang earlier, and he stayed in Qianlong County. ”
Wen asked again: "I just heard from the palace county order, this person is some... Yin and yang. This sounds strange, but I don't know why? ”
Jin Juan said that when she came to Qianlong County, the saying of yin and yang was handed down, saying that Li Xun had just lived here, and there was a little lady from Lianzhou, I don't know which nobleman's family came to the door, and asked him to approve a hexagram, and when he left, he left these two words for him. And so it spread.
But Jin Juan felt that these two words might have other meanings.
When she asked again, Jin Juan didn't say anything, just let her go to see her first, and she should have a clear idea.
The five of them went up the mountain all the way, and walked for nearly half an hour, until they were a little tired of their old days, and then they saw a lonely hut on the mountainside from a distance, and there were more than a dozen figures standing in front of the hut, standing upright and upright, not moving in the wind.
Seeing that Jin Qian was not abnormal, he didn't ask much, knowing that Xia Wenliang and Zhou Tong were on guard. Thinking that they are there, more than a dozen good hands are not enough to see.
It took another cup of tea to get closer, and everyone saw clearly that those figures were carved from stone, pasted with mud, standing or sitting, high and low, and the posture was lifelike, except that the facial features were not engraved.
"These, are they all carved by Li Xun?" Wen asked.
As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden strange sound on Wen Gu's side, Wen Liang and the three of them were on guard, knowing that Xia was immediately protecting Wen Gu, and with his long sleeves closed, he was about to pull out the dagger hidden in his sleeve.
At this time, Jin Juan suddenly threw off the long whip and hit a stone sculpture not far from Wen Gu's side.
I only heard the sound of the stone cracking and falling, and the "stone carving" hurriedly avoided it.
The four of them were taken aback. But I heard the "stone carving" speak: "What are you doing, do it without saying a word." ”
Jin Wan replied: "Let you pretend to be a ghost." ”
The "stone carving" wanted to pounce on the broken clods on his body, but his hand reached halfway and stopped, and lowered his head to see if the cracked mud on his body could be repaired, but the mask on his face suddenly fell off, fell to the ground, and shattered into several pieces.
The "stone carving" made another oops, and he pulled it with his hands casually, and shook off all the broken mud pieces in a few clicks. It turned out that he used a whole piece of satin, brushed with mud, wrapped it around his body, dried it motionless, and put on a mask, so that it was no different from the stone sculpture next to him.
During the action, Wen Liang touched the other more than ten stone carvings one by one, and confirmed that they were all solid stones, so he was relieved.
At this time, the "stone carving" mask fell, although there was still some dirt on his face, but he was also a handsome person, with long eyebrows like willows, and he was a very good-looking character.
"Li Xun, someone asked you for a few words." Jin Wan casually sat down on the stone bench next to him and said.
Li Xun looked from near to far one by one, and when he saw the old man, his gaze obviously stopped for a moment, then he dusted off his hair, found a place farthest away from Jin Wan and sat down, said goodbye, and said, "Ask." ”
Seeing him like this, Wen was suspicious in his heart, and asked, "It's us who bother, don't be surprised, sir." I will compensate for the loss today, but there are some things I want to ask my husband to help me see. ”
Li Xun didn't reply, and replied loudly: "I won't see it!" ”
Zhou Tong frowned, and was about to scold, but was stopped by the review, and asked again: "It's not that Mr. wants to see anything..."
Before he finished his words, he was interrupted by Li Xun: "I don't look at it for a while, the little lady's idea has become so fast, it's strange." ”
Jin Wan flicked the long whip in the air, made a crisp sound, and reprimanded: "Speak well!" ”
Li Xun said: "Jin Wan'er, you are a bully, you have to use the whip if you ask two words, if I don't speak well, you won't kill me immediately?" How dare I? ”
"Okay, if you let me kill you, then I'm welcome." Although Jin Xuan said this, he was not annoyed, and when he stood up, he was about to walk closer to Li Xun, and the long whip was also raised to make a gesture to beat.
Li Xunming was afraid of this female county lieutenant, and hurriedly said: "Don't move!" If you want to move again, I don't care about this little lady's blood and light disaster! ”