Chapter 5 Cool Time

It's been a few days since Xi Luotong came over last time, and I unconsciously entered a state of silence again, lazy and unwilling to say a word, Gong Nan Twilight asked me to do something before I would answer two sentences, that day when the twilight was about to come, I suddenly remembered the piano, it has been many days, I wondered how to ask Okay, this is the first time after Xi Luotong appeared between us to appear awkward silence. Thinking so, he walked over and asked cautiously, "Can the piano you said still work?" "Yes, the main thing is that I took it out last time and saw that one string was a little loose, and the string was made of spider silk, so it took some time to repair." "Spider Silk?" I asked suspiciously, "Spider silk is, you don't understand it, you are so stupid." I flattened my mouth and walked silently.

Then Gong Nan Du began to let me check and filter all the account books of the entire palace and all the large and small expenses, I was a little flattered, but there are some account books that I haven't touched, and I don't know what they are. And these are just the palace's up and down in and out of the silver and some of the rare treasures, or sent into the palace large and small objects and lists, in fact, there is no trouble, everything is the chief housekeeper in the palace to file the original account book sent, I said that the last person to check the accounts for the prince, record whether there are false accounts, do omissions, make wrong accounts, etc., but after all, each is a matter of Gong Nandu, I will still do my best to complete. I insist on checking all the ledgers that I send me every day. It's just that the ancient method of keeping accounts is really backward and troublesome.

I just didn't mean to mention to him, "It's a waste of time and energy for you to keep accounts like this." He heard it, but he smiled indifferently and asked, "How should I remember that, you still have this?" I watched him not take it to heart, just when I was joking, and I didn't insist on passing by silently. After sitting for a long time, he would stand by the bookcase with the account book and look at it, and he would come and stand with me to look at it, and then ask gently, "Is it good or not?" "Well, it's pretty simple." I thought all the time in my heart, "Everyone in this palace is still very serious, and every account, every object and list is not sloppy at all." Or is it that Gong Nan's usual appearance is too serious and indifferent. I was busy here, and I heard a proclamation, "Lord, Shu Fengyi is out asking to see you." ”

Gong Nan was silent for a long time before he said coldly, "Come in." I looked at his expression and silently thought in my heart, "You have a lot of wives and concubines, this is really not very favored, but it is so obvious." "I'm used to two people like Gong Nandu, so when she came in, I was silently still looking down at the account book and didn't mean to speak." The concubine has seen the prince. "Hmm," Gong Nan said coldly. This is the barley and lily porridge that the concubine boiled for you herself, you can taste it, the prince is busy with official business in the study all day long, and he should also take care of his body. "Put it down." "The concubine didn't see that it was the princess, but I saw the princess." She bowed in surprise, and I said faintly, detachedly, "You don't have to, you don't have to" and then lowered my head and stopped looking at her. "What's wrong with you, princess, it's the concubine who thinks you're still locked up in Liao Leng Pavilion, so I don't dare to admit it for a while, don't be angry with the concubine." I looked up at her inexplicably, and said lightly, "Oh, I didn't." "Chi Wan is such a character, it's not interesting." Gong Nandui's voice came faintly.

I breathed a sigh of relief. "Yes, the concubine knows." She looked at Gong Nandu's face and said earnestly. I glanced at Gong Nandu, his face was faintly impatient, and his heart rippled slightly, "He has never shown me such an expression." "Let's study some more ink." He suddenly said "Okay" I walked over and roughly sorted out his official documents, and seriously studied the ink, in fact, every time I was most afraid of grinding ink, I always couldn't get it right, and the research was not very uniform, so there was always some faint anxiety in helping him to study ink, and he also disliked the ink I developed, but it was only a little spoiled and disgusted. He looked at my hand and chuckled and said, "You just can't find a way, and the force is out, but it can't work." "Come, let me teach you, I have to tell you little things little by little." He said helplessly in a funny tone, like a child in need of patience. I looked down and smiled in embarrassment.

"Let's put some more scales out of here." As soon as I reached for my hand, the other hand preempted me. I looked up and saw that it was her, Shu Fengyi of Gong Nandu. It turned out to be called Shu Yan. I didn't say anything and retracted my hand, "Come on, concubine," she said softly. "Separate these official documents from these account books and put them with you first." Gong Nandui continued to command, "Okay" I just promised to go over. Shu Yan took the lead and put it on my small bookcase, and I had to retreat silently again. "Pour me some more tea." Gong Nan Twilight looked at me and said. I nodded and prepared to walk over. Shu Yan quickly went over again, poured a cup of tea, and handed it to Gong Nandu. I looked at her, and she smiled gently at me. I silently bent the corners of my mouth and didn't say anything. Gong Nan Twilight watched quietly and never said anything. I simply stood beside Gong Nandui and quietly watched him deal with official documents and read some account books. I didn't care what he commanded. Because I always couldn't catch up with Shu Yan's speed, and I didn't feel that I was robbing her of what to do, which made everyone a little embarrassed, so I silently waited by Gong Nandu's side. He looked at the tent book and the bookcase showing a few strong beams of light coming from the cracks in the bamboo window, as well as large and small spots of light, some dazzling and some reflective. He whispered, "These lights don't work, they're too much of an eyesore." I looked at him with concern and said, "You mean these sunshines." "Well, it's too bright." He looked back and chuckled. I thought about it for a moment, and finally said, "Aren't there pieces of cloth in the house?" Bring a larger one and hang it on both sides of the bamboo window. "Well, that's reasonable, I ordered you to go down and order someone to hang it up." He said with a little thought,

"Let's use the moon-white ones."

"Is it moon-white?"

"Well, it's not too obtrusive, and it corresponds to the study."

"Okay, tell me to go down." Gong Nan Du turned back to his subordinates and said. I saw a smile on his face. Thinking happily, "Am I smart, I'm not that stupid, haha," and then turned his face to endure the urge to laugh on his face. I personally instructed them to sew a wide edge on both sides and the bottom of the cloth, hide the raw edges, and sew the top edge of the cloth on a round pole about the thickness of bamboo, and then firmly attach it to the upper edge of the bamboo window. The cloth fell down and landed slightly, blocking the intense beam of light thrown in from the window, the cloth was already a little faint pattern, the moon-white color was more translucent in the sun, and the smooth fabric fluttered with the wind like undulating water waves. Actually, it's a beautiful big curtain. Gong Nan Du stood in front of the bamboo window, with an irrepressible smile on his face. I also turned my face away and held back the corners of my mouth that wanted to go up. "It's good." He complimented him with a faint smile, and I smiled back to him warmly without speaking.

In the middle of the night, I was just about to come in from outside, but I heard Gong Nandui's voice, "Shu Yan, I didn't see that you are still so considerate, how about staying here and helping those people take care of the study in the future." "I peeked at Gong Nandui's expression, although he smiled faintly, there was indescribable sarcasm in his words." Lord, you're joking with your concubine. Shu Yan lowered his head silently with doubts, and for some reason there was a little touch in my heart "I'm not a person who doesn't feel at all, but I don't want to worry about anything with anyone, and it's not an important matter, I just don't want to admit that it will be a little uncomfortable to see him around me, I thought Gong Nan Twilight didn't find out about this, and he wouldn't care." I didn't expect you to say it that way. I pretended to be expressionless and skipped them. Shu Yan had already retreated, and I took a stack of checked account books and handed them over, "Nan Dusk, okay." "It's a little awkward to call him by name for the first time. He looked at me with a cursory look and an approving look at me. When I was done with nothing to do, I lay down on the bookcase and tried to sleep for a while, when he came up and asked, "Sleep?" I looked up at him and smiled without saying a word. Instead, he handed me a small Fluttershy Begonia cake, "Eat the pastry." After a while, "Sooner or later, you have to learn to adapt to them, you have to accept the dignity and humility of these concubines, and the order of the top and bottom, this is a fact that the law cannot be changed." Gong Nan Du looked at me seriously and said earnestly. I glanced at him silently, smiled a little shyly, and didn't answer.

Twilight will always come, even if it will be later. I stepped out of the study and walked slowly to the end of the corridor, but it seemed that I saw Gong Nan Du standing in front of him waiting for something, how could he stay here before me, he usually doesn't take this road, I hesitated and stepped forward to say hello, "Why are you here." "Where are you going?" He didn't answer and asked me. "I'll go back to Liao Lengge." "I'll go to Luotong's place, just drop by and go together." "Oh" I replied in a daze, the study is in the back of the front yard hall, and the ladies are in the backyard, only I live in the backyard, some remote, Luotong's residence is higher than mine, so it is quite a passing, I stood there silently thinking. "Let's go." "Hmm," I quickly followed. This is the first time I left the study and stayed alone with Gong Nandui, we walked silently, he didn't speak, and I naturally didn't speak.

But they all smiled all the way and visited the scenery on the road by the way. "Where's Adu," I asked, "let him go on something else." "Ao" didn't say anything all the way, and soon walked to the intersection, and in front of him was the courtyard of Luotong, "Then you go back by yourself first, be careful on the road." He spoke gently. Well, you can go," I said as I walked down the road to the other side. As he walked, he looked back at his back and faded away. I strode away, with a faint joy in my heart. "Miss, it's pretty fast today." "I came back with Gong Nandui, and I walked faster." "Miss, the prince sent you back?" "Well, sort of, he came along by the way, he's going to Luotong." "Ah, why didn't the prince come back with you." "What is he doing here, let's go and eat, I'm a little hungry." I walked briskly to my room, and Suichi followed quietly without saying anything.

I've been here for two or three months, I've seen one or two of his wives and concubines, and I've never been in contact with anything else and people, the most time I've spent with Gong Nan Dui, after Shu Yan came last time, the others have come a few times frequently, except for Xi Luotong Gong Nan Dusk is cold to other people, and the first time I met was not very pleasant, the woman with a charming posture also walked in with a food box today, "Participating in the construction of the prince" She looked charming, and said in a delicate voice, When I heard this, the brush in my hand trembled. "I've seen the princess Niangniang" I smiled and said politely, "Get up" "Lord, this is the black chicken soup stewed by Chu Xue himself, and some ginseng tonics, fresh and want to replenish the prince's body." Lord, take a break and taste it. She stepped forward and pulled Gong Nandu's clothes. Okay, you go back first, and I'll see you later. "Gong Nan Du is a little helpless." Lord Wang, the concubine has prepared your favorite dishes and is waiting for you to come over. "Well, let's go back first." "Then the concubine will retire first." She saluted Gong Nandui and bowed slightly to me before leaving. "Is that her?" I said, "That's the one who fought with you." You Chuxue is Luotong's cousin. Gong Nan looked at me with a smile and said. I glared at him in disbelief and smiled softly. Gong Nan Yu really didn't waste it, and ordered his subordinates to pour two servings of chicken soup and bring them over and hand me one of them. I tasted it and said, "I should put more chili peppers, more peppers." "Why do you eat so many chili peppers, it's on fire." When he heard this, he smiled and said, "I didn't put chili peppers in this," "It's good that you have chili peppers in your heart." He laughed twice after he finished speaking. I smiled happily when I looked at him.

Now I often feel that time passes too fast, and I can't grasp anything, and I don't even have any residual warmth. Gong Nan and I, although we will not be the ones who talk the most, but we are the people who understand each other the most and cherish the most. I feel that he will become more and more dependent on my existence, and I will try my best to satisfy all his habits and affairs, and I will help him remember what he has to do every day, forgetting that I always have to remind him, the official documents he has to deal with, the account books to be read, etc., I will prepare for him in advance, manage the placement and disposal of all his things, and even when he improvises to compose a poem or paint, I will hand him a kind of rice paper that he likes to use the most, or even which brush, I know everything clearly, no matter how big or small. I know what he wants to do next and prepare for him in advance, sometimes he lowers his head and is dealing with things, and his hand habitually stretches out in the direction of the teacup, I quickly pick up the teacup and put it in his hand, watching him prepare the brush for him in advance when he is dealing with official business, and when I am not by my side, he will run over and ask me where I put something,,,

He began to happily take me out for a walk, or occasionally take me to visit his own property, will occasionally ask for my advice, when he is not there will always tell me where he is going, or explain some things, or tell me who he is going to meet, we will also make some jokes from time to time, I will laugh calmly in front of him, he will show the most real side in front of me, I now know when he is happy, when he doesn't want to talk, when he is upset, We never had to say anything to each other, but I just knew that I was someone he trusted. And everything about him seems to be my most deferential, the best, the most important thing to do. The closest to him is the only one who values him the most. He also said that if I wasn't there, no one else would understand me so much, and I gradually became dependent on this feeling, and even became a little addicted. Xi Luotong also appeared again unexpectedly later, which set off a slight wave in my heart, but when I looked at her again, I also had a different feeling.

I used to use some steamed buns, eggs and soy milk for breakfast, so every time I asked about it in Gongnan Twilight, I always answered, and he finally couldn't help but ridicule a sentence "I still eat steamed buns, my brain has eaten steamed buns", and when I didn't speak, he would continue to ask, "Why do you love steamed buns so much, if I eat one thing for two or three days early and get tired of it, let alone eat steamed buns." "I don't like to eat steamed buns, I'm just used to eating steamed buns." I would also look at him quietly and reply with a serious face, and then he would probe me with an interesting smile. If he had ordered someone to bring me some pastries when I wasn't having breakfast, I wouldn't have eaten them, but my heart would still be warm. Occasionally, when I was unwell, he would repeatedly ask me what was wrong, and there was also a time when I was upset or irritable when the monthly letter came, and at this time I consciously sat in front of my bookcase and was too lazy to move, and I was always reluctant to speak.

He will have nothing to say to me something funny, or will tell me something he thinks is happy, I always have a silent face to deal with it, he looks at me really not in the mood, just sit there silently and don't talk anymore to disturb me, sometimes because I don't know what to say, I am inexplicably a little angry and always deliberately unwilling to pay attention to him, he sees that my face is not very good-looking will deliberately come over to me with a book, and then find the words to give me a few words to discuss, He wasn't reassured until he saw a slight smile on my face. When reading a book silently with him, he would suddenly be interested in writing on rice paper, "What book are you reading?" Then he threw it in front of me. When I saw his childlike behavior, I would be stunned for a moment, silently picked up the pen and returned to "Guess, don't read your book seriously" and then threw it back to him, "I read it with my heart, you are definitely not as serious as me." "Are you very idle, don't disturb me reading." "Can you understand it with your copycat mind?" "Are you questioning me? I already know them all, okay? "I don't see it, is it still you?" "That's right" I threw it heavily in front of him, and showed a smile at him, he looked at me, then picked up the pen and wrote the three words Gong Nan Du under our line of dialogue, and then threw it to me, I followed his example and added my name under Gong Nan Dusk Leng Chiwan, watching me and his name being written together, I suddenly had an inexplicable sense of belonging and satisfaction in my heart, and I laughed silently when I looked at it.

Sometimes I will also have some interest, because I finished a book independently, and I am happy like a child in front of him, and I smile innocently and say, "I finished reading this book again," and he will smile helplessly and say, "Are you going to marry Ruyi Langjun?" I just smirked and ignored him. Sometimes when he walked over and inadvertently saw me lying on the bookcase in a daze, he would laugh and blame me, "Have you finished reading your book?" In a daze again. I smiled at him, and quickly got up to flip through the book, and he looked at me and said funny, "Why are you so afraid?" I turned around and smiled at him and continued to read my book. But I couldn't help but ask myself in my heart, "Yes, from the fact that we are strangers to the current harmony, it is not easy to get along all the way, and I don't know why I am always inexplicably afraid of you in my heart?" "I remember that time you asked me to hand over some raw Xuan, in ancient times, the rice paper they used was actually raw Xuan, cooked Xuan and semi-cooked Xuan, Gong Nan Du has the habit of separating them as different ways, usually I carefully place them separately.

That time, he occasionally took the half-cooked Xuan by mistake and handed it to him, and when you took it in his hand, he looked at it and said helplessly, "It's been so long, you still dare to take the wrong one." There was a faint smile and surprise in Gong Nandu's expression, not a dissatisfaction and accusation, as if he was just stating an ordinary fact to me, and I didn't know why I was a little at a loss, my eyes were wandering and I couldn't say a word, Gong Nan Du immediately said gently the moment he noticed my reaction, "Let's go eat some pastries." "Well, it was just an accident." I said with a little guilt and embarrassment, "Okay, then I'll wait for your next surprise." Gong Nan Du laughed, and I also bent the corners of my mouth warmly.

Do more, the brain is easy to make mistakes and make some things, this day there was a big accident, the chief housekeeper Xiao Steward took the account book that was sorted out last month to ask Gong Nandui "Lord, this is last month's account book, at the end of the month is a batch of tributes that you were ordered to pick up in person, you checked and said that you would add it, but there is no record and list of these tributes." "This matter was handed over to the princess by this king, and she has a record there." I thought about it for a while before I remembered that at the end of last month, I was carefully checking the account books, and Gong Nan came over and handed me a list, saying that it was the record of the tributes to be promoted, the number of them, and the list of the tributes to which they belonged. Ask me to make up the account book, "Well, I recorded it on the last day of the previous month, and I have all the book records here." I explained. Princess Niangniang, the old slave has seen it and searched it several times, but he has not found it. ”

"Impossible, you can show it to me." "Yes" said he stepped forward and respectfully handed me the account book, I quickly flipped through the date, obviously the last page was gone, I personally took the list handed to me by Gong Nandui and copied it, how could it be gone, I looked through it several times and it was indeed not, my mind recalled it over and over again, I was sure I recorded it, how could it not be? "Didn't you?" Gong Nan Du asked, "Except for the last day, the only thing missing is the record of these tributes." I said truthfully, "You've written it down how it didn't, and then look through it." Gong Nandui came over and took the account book and looked through it carefully, but I couldn't find the list, and I began to panic a little, and there was already a dense layer of fine sweat on my back.

I stared blankly at Gong Nandu, who didn't say anything. "Lord, when the time comes, if Gonggong Chen, who is next to the emperor, checks the tribute and does not have the record of these lists, I am afraid it will be a little troublesome. If you suspect that you are secretly hiding tribute, then 。。。。。 "By the way, I still have all the records in the account book here, and I am afraid that something will go wrong, so I will record one myself as a backup." As I spoke, I took out the book and showed it to them, but strangely enough, it was still missing. "It's a bit troublesome now, the tributes can't be opened and checked at will, even the prince doesn't know what some of the tributes are at this time." "Later, did you forget to record this?" "No, I remember it very well." "How could it not be?" Gong Nan looked at the ledger thoughtfully. "Even if the prince can't find it in the account book, the list you gave me is still there" "Those will be destroyed." It has been avoided from attracting people's eyes. I looked at him with some blankness.

"You go down first, this king will take care of it." "Yes, the old slave is retired." After Mr. Xiao stepped down, we both fell into deep thought, and for a while the room was surprisingly quiet. After being silent for a long time, Gong Nandui said slowly, "You have to check it a few more times in the future, don't leak important things." Be careful next time. Hearing him say this, I wanted to explain, but in the end, I only looked at him deeply, and then said lightly, "Okay." I took a deep breath and thought to myself, "Why don't you believe me, I really have a record." Gong Nandui didn't say anything when he looked at me again, and he didn't blame me, "Lord, the emperor has issued a decree to invite you to enter the palace." "Adu walked in and asked for instructions." Okay, I'll change my clothes right away. Gong Nan Du looked at me and walked out. I slowly walked in front of the bamboo window and looked into the distance: "Gong Nandu, it turns out that you don't believe me either?" After calming down for a moment, I walked back to the bookcase and recalled the scene of that day, and then began to rummage through it a little bit, I clearly recorded that there was, and I remembered that I went out after I was busy that day. I wasn't here for a while, and then the book was spread out on my desk. But how could I lose it? I was unwilling to look around, and I thought to myself, "Could it be that I didn't see clearly and tore that sheet away and threw it away as waste paper?" Then I'm not going to tear up both books and play with them. "I started with my bookcase, his bookcase. Every layer of books, every corner did not let go of the search over and over again, and finally I saw a lump of paper in a rather hidden corner outside the bamboo window, I went out and picked it up and saw that it was the two lost lists, "I said I recorded it, or quite lucky." "I walked in excitedly and happily. Looking at the already dark sky outside, I sat down quietly, picked up the list and copied it carefully.

"Why haven't you gone back yet?" Gong Nandui's voice suddenly sounded, and my hand shook. "How did you get here?" "Found it?" He looked at my account book and asked, "Hmm," and I nodded. "How many more?" "It's over," I said, bowing my head and writing down the last list and handing it to him. "In the future, you should remember to be careful, and you must put away the account books or other important official documents and letters in a timely manner." He looked at me and said earnestly. "yes, got it." I said yes softly. "Let's go back quickly." He and I quietly turned our backs and left, and we disappeared into the thick night without looking back, and he did not blame or explain.

It's been a few days, and everything has returned to its usual normal, so flat that I've forgotten a little. But one afternoon, I saw Shu Yan walking in. "The concubine is a princess, and I have seen the princess." "Get up." Gong Nan Twilight has always had a cold tone. "The princess, please forgive me, the concubine accidentally spilled the tea that day, and it happened to be spilled on the two account books you spread out, I was afraid that the handwriting would be pasted, so I hurriedly wiped it and accidentally ripped it off. I was afraid that you would blame me, so I didn't dare to make a noise, crumpled the two pieces of paper and threw them out. The concubine is illiterate and doesn't know that it is a very important thing. Shu Yan stepped forward and knelt on the ground and said softly. Without the prince's opening, how did she get into the study? When I heard her say this, I remembered that afternoon, when Gong Nandui came back, he looked at his bookcase and ran over to me and asked, "Have you sorted out my bookcase, and then told me in a serious way, but now the original place of these things has changed direction." ”

I was smiling in shock, and he looked at me a little smugly and said, "I'm very careful." But I didn't take it to heart, now it seems that she actually framed me behind her back, I thought in my heart while I could only deal with it mildly, "It's okay, I found it, you get up." "In the future, you are not allowed to enter or leave the study at will without my orders." Gong Nan didn't raise his head and ordered coldly. "Yes, the concubine will keep it in mind." Shu Yan lowered his head and said cowardly. I watched this scene quietly, my heart fluctuated somewhat, should I be happy or sad? It's okay for Miyanami to end up with such a result. Seeing Shu Yan standing there in fear, I only lowered my head indifferently and didn't say anything. I know I don't have any position and I don't know what to say. "You stand down first." "Yes, my lord, the concubine retired first." Shu Yan slowly walked out of the door. Gritting his teeth all the way. Gong Nandui looked at Chi Wan's somewhat melancholy face, and looked at her hazy and detached eyes as if she had been hit in the heart by something. "This is also the best maintenance for you, and it won't let you become the target of public criticism, and since you don't know what kind of process, you never have to know." Thinking like this, Gong Nan Du glanced away a little stiffly. also skimmed off the faint waves in my heart.......