Just when the young man in the monk's robe by the kitchen sink looked at the place where a certain Xie noblewoman accidentally "left" her small clothes.

Lin'an Temple, the gate.

In the wet bluestone alley, a huge carriage pulled by four tall horses is quietly parked.

Inside the carriage, there is a carpet of flowers, a fragrant silk quilt, and a heated stove.

A lady sat upright, rubbing her eyebrows with her fingers, closing her eyes and waiting.

"Madame, Miss is back!"

Wanqing was the first to run out of the temple gate and came to the carriage to announce the good news.

Xie Xue'e breathed a sigh of relief, opened her eyes, and immediately saw a little girl without makeup wearing a long dress and a long skirt boarding the carriage lightly.

The flush on her face was still there, and there was a slight smile on her red pink lips, and she didn't know what she was thinking, and after she got into the carriage and sat down, she forgot to greet her aunt.

"Seventeen Niang still knows to come back?" Xie Xue'e's tone was a little complaining.

"Huh?" Xie Lingjiang came back to his senses and was in a trance: "Oh, my sister-in-law has been waiting for a long time." ”

Xie Xue'e saw that her niece was stupid, and her blood pressure suddenly became a little unbearable.

Her eyes couldn't help but fall on the familiar fox white shawl on Xie Lingjiang's shoulders, and her complexion changed slightly:

"What did Seventeen Niang and him do in the temple?"

Xie Lingjiang immediately replied: "I have a bowl of longevity noodles to eat." ”

Xie Xue'e asked, "Just eat below?" ”

"Or else?"

"Didn't you do anything else?"

"Oh yes, there's one."

Xie Xue'e immediately asked, "What's the matter!" ”

"There was a gluttonous rat in the kitchen, and before I changed my monk's clothes, the senior brother warmly helped me catch it."

"Seventeen Niang is still afraid of mice?"

Xie Lingjiang thought for a moment, "I'm a little scared tonight." ”

"And then?"

"And then ......"

In the carriage, Xie Lingjiang leaned forward, pinched the small iron tongs, carefully stirred the charcoal fire in the stove, and smiled sweetly:

Then I looked at its stupid appearance, and suddenly I was not afraid, and I felt ...... It was lovely. ”

"......" Xie Xue'e.

You'd better say rats.

……

The entrance of Lin'an Temple.

A luxurious carriage drove slowly.

The monks respectfully watched the two noble daughters of the Xie family leave and return to the door.

About a quarter of an hour later, a slender figure walked out of the temple gate, waved goodbye to the monk who saw him off behind him, and left the alley.

Ouyang Rong had just taken a few steps when a familiar snort suddenly sounded from behind.

"Dongmei?" He looked back curiously.

Immediately saw Yan Liulang wearing a cloak and hat, leading a jujube red horse out of the alley.

"Mingfu, you're finally out! Let me wait for a while. ”

Ouyang Rong looked them up and down: "Why is Liulang here?" ”

"I'm not waiting for you yet."

Yan Liulang sighed and said:

"I was going to leave just now, not to disturb the two-person world of Mingfu and Miss Xie, but it suddenly rained heavily, and I remembered that you didn't seem to have enough umbrellas, so I turned back and got rain gear to find you......"

Ouyang Rong bowed.

Yan Liulang talked a lot and talked about what happened at the dinner in Xunyang Tower after he and Xie Lingjiang left hand in hand.

Ouyang Rong listened silently, nodded, and patted Yan Liulang on the shoulder:

"It's hard work. Let's go. ”

"Okay." Yan Liulang's eyes were curious: "Hey, what's in Mingfu's arms?" ”

He looked at Ouyang Rong's somewhat bulging chest placket, which seemed to be stuffed with some clothing fabric.

Ouyang Rong, who put on his regular drying clothes again, said seriously:

"It's a monk's robe, it's worn, it's quite commemorative, take it back."

Yan Liulang smiled and said: "I see, I thought it was some kind of love token from Miss Xie to the Ming Mansion." ”

Ouyang Rong's eyelids jumped, turned his back, and led the horse away.

"What are you thinking, go back quickly."

The tone is a little weak.

……

After the birthday banquet, Ouyang Rong didn't see his little junior sister for three consecutive days.

Her sister-in-law seemed to be going to spend the Yuan Zhengri in Jiangzhou, and some relatives of the Xie family of Chenjun arrived one after another.

The little junior sister couldn't spare the effort to come to Huaiye Lane for a while.

Ouyang Rong also understands that there is not much mustard.

If you want to be a long-term lover, you need to learn to delay enjoyment.

That aunt also seemed to be staring at her a little tightly, and she spent all her time with her little sister during the day, so she didn't give him too many opportunities.

It faintly has the meaning of fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-gentleman.

Ouyang Rong was speechless.

It's just that the days without the little junior sister are indeed a little lonely.

When he was concentrating on his career before, Ouyang Rong didn't feel that there was nothing to do during the current Yuanzheng holiday.

set a precedent again, and experienced the "rancid smell" of love, and he suddenly felt a little bit of marrow.

Especially the sturdy body of a man in his twenties is like a furnace, and it is difficult to extinguish even if he drinks ice.

This caused Ouyang Rong to get up and go out every day, and he couldn't help but look up at the three-character plaque of "Drinking Ice Zhai".

Some lamented the foresight of the original owner and mentor Xie Xun who gave him this house.

There's a fire in my body.

Laughing to death, it is difficult to extinguish this fire of righteousness by drinking ice.

Ouyang Rong rubbed his face.

Recently, when he tossed and turned in the middle of the night, he gradually understood the good intentions of the little junior sister to leave those two blue-pink light, narrow, and soft fabrics.

This is called trusting things.

But then, it seems like they need to be dried every day.

Fortunately, there is a well-behaved and sensible Ye Weilai in his house, who can do it for him......

But after thinking about this, Ouyang Rong couldn't help but feel a little guilty, knowing that he had also given some gifts to his little junior sister.

This kind of lovesickness, the little junior sister's side, should not be easy......

No matter what, after holding hands with the little sister and confessing, the wild thoughts of these days were accompanied by the bright fireworks in the sky on the night of the "New Year", and all of them remained in the old year.

When he got up the next morning, he opened the window, and suddenly he saw that it was covered in white and covered in snow.

It's snow.

To the south of Jiangzhou, the first heavy snow of the winter has finally fallen.

The New Year is coming, and Ouyang Rong is a little busy.

The current Chinese New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve" in this era.

After the "year division", it will officially usher in the next day's "Yuanzheng".

In Xunyang City, every household gathers for dinner and drinks pepper wine, which not only dispels cold and dampness, but also adds the warm atmosphere of the festival.

At the same time, every household should also put on a new peach charm to "ward off evil spirits" and welcome the new year.

Huaiye Lane Mansion is no exception, on the day of the Yuan Dynasty, Ouyang Rong dressed in new clothes, and drank pepper wine with Zhen Shuyuan, Ye Weilai, Ban Xi and other female dependents.

This is a very spicy and pungent turbid drink, faintly bitter "sweet", Ouyang Rong barely took a few sips, but Ye Weilai surprisingly likes to drink, a little greedy cup, the little face is drunk red fluttering, like two small apples, the white-haired girl lies in his arms, burping cutely, calling Tan Lang Tan Lang......

Ouyang Rong couldn't help laughing.

As the male head of the house, he led the ladies to the door, turned their backs to the goose feathers and snow on the street, and pasted a new peach charm on both sides of the door of the house.

This is also Ouyang Rong's first New Year's in this world.

The only pity is that the little sister is missing.

Well, strive to spend the New Year in Shendu next year.

The first "flag" of the beginning of the year was erected.

Ouyang Rong smiled, turned his head to look at the vast snow behind him, and suddenly felt extremely stable in his heart.

He whispered:

"In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

"Thousands of households have pupils, and they always put new peaches... Swap out the old charms. ”

In the shining eyes of Zhen Shuyuan, Ye Weilai, and semi-fine novelty, the young man with peach charms turned around and walked into the door.

The Great Zhou Dynasty ushered in the new year in a peaceful and joyful atmosphere.

……

God bless the second year, January.

After Yuanzheng, there are four days of holiday.

But Ouyang Rong had already received the notice, returned to the Jiangzhou lobby, and was busy again.

However, he is not alone, and there are Wang Lengran, Yuan Huaimin and others.

Because what everyone is busy with is not the official business of the court, but the emperor's family affairs.

Her Majesty the Empress rewarded the King of Xunyang with many gifts, as well as the palace envoys sent to comfort the King of Xunyang.

Some of them are routine gifts, while others are special gifts.

According to His Majesty's great joy and auspicious temperament, the most important festival of the year is naturally rewarded, and there are many things.

The celebration in Luoyang is even grander, and Xunyang City, thousands of miles away, is considered to be polished.

In fact, these are the royal practices of the past years, but this year, Xunyang City has a special Xunyang king, which also makes Jiangzhou officials enjoy a "distress".

For most local officials, the emperor's family affairs were more important than official duties and people's livelihood.

Ouyang Rong, as the governor of Jiangzhou, followed the king of the assassin Lengran and went out of the city together to greet the angels of Luoyang who came after Yuan Zhenghou.

On the road, Ouyang Rong and Wang Lengran rode horses at the front of the team.

One after the other, there is no communication.

At present, the relationship between the two is stiff, and they only maintain the most basic etiquette of not arguing in front of their colleagues in the Jiangzhou lobby.

Ignore each other as if they didn't see each other.

It's just that Ouyang Rong found that it seemed to be the aftermath of the birthday banquet of the Xie clan in Chen County, except for Yuan Huaimin, who was still open-minded, many colleagues looked at him and their eyes changed faintly.

Even Ouyang Rong vaguely found that they seemed to be more respectful and reserved to him, a weak crown long history, than Wang Lengran.

Ouyang Rong was helpless, the Xie clan of Chenjun, as the top Jiangnan scholar, had already penetrated into the bone marrow of Jiangnan scholars and officials from top to bottom for hundreds of years.

Xie's son-in-law, marrying a daughter with five surnames is rare.

However, Ouyang Rong felt that it was not without benefit to greet these Luoyang envoys in the face of the heavy snow in the cold winter.

He was able to enter and exit the Xunyang Mansion of the Water Repair Workshop in a bright and bright manner.

Together with the envoys, he condolences to the king of Xunyang, who has "recovered from a serious illness", and does not have to sneak over the wall in the middle of the night.

Before, he had never visited here during the day, and he didn't even know where the little junior sister lived in the mansion......

These two days ushered in the send-off, but I am gradually getting acquainted.

In the afternoon of this day, another group of palace envoys arrived with gifts, accompanied by some officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Ouyang Rong rode Dongmei and went to the post station outside the city to greet him.

Shaoqing, he walked in the forefront and led this Luoyang team to Xunyang Palace.

Halfway through the line, turning the corner of the street, Ouyang Rong noticed that a certain gaze fell on him, and suddenly turned his head to find that it was a goatee official at the back of the messenger team.

He is about thirty or forty years old, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a green official uniform.

was discovered by Ouyang Rong on the spot, the goatee official did not panic, smiled, said hello, and looked away calmly.

Ouyang Rong made a note of his face and looked away.

After a while, everyone entered the Xunyang Palace, where the gate was open.

Passing by the officers and soldiers of the Zhichong Mansion patrolling the streets and gates, Ouyang Rong led the envoys into the main hall without squinting and went to the main hall to find a break.

He's got a good driver.

The officers and soldiers at the gate of the palace were nominally to protect the king of Xunyang, but they were only transferred by one person.

Wang Lengran.

Ouyang Rong, as a long history, can't be called.

During the day, in front of the public, he could only pretend not to know each other when he saw Lixian and Lidalang and others, and he was businesslike.

About an hour later, the envoys left, and Ouyang Rong sent them out.

As he passed by a long corridor, he suddenly saw the figure of the goatee official from before.

I saw that he was walking out of the direction of the depths of the house, and was taken to the back door by a person who had left the house, as if he was leaving.

Looking at the back that was gradually moving away, Ouyang Rong frowned slightly.

That night, on the day of the agreed study meeting, Ouyang Rong rushed to Xunyang Palace.

In the study, there was no little sister, only a sincere letter left.

Ouyang Rong opened the letter and browsed with his eyes down, while listening to Lixian and Wei Mei's narration.

It turned out that after Yuan Zheng, the little junior sister was temporarily taken back to Wuyi Lane in Jinling by Xie Xue'e to participate in some matters stipulated by the ancestors of the scholar clan, and it took half a decade before she could return.

Ouyang Rong looked east at Jinling, sighed lightly, and quickly restrained his emotions.

Shaoqing nodded calmly and asked about the recent meeting with the envoy.

Reply honestly, no matter how big or small.

Ohqing, finding that there was nothing suspicious, Ouyang Rong turned his head and took the initiative to ask the goatee official.

After a pause, he answered truthfully:

"This person's name is Guo Yu, from the Xiangwang Mansion, is the eighth brother's person, since the beginning of the king's recovery, he comes once every ten years to maintain communication.

"If anything happens in the capital, we will be notified in time."

Wei Mei sighed: "We don't have eyeliner in the palace, and sometimes we are frightened, and the information transmitted by the Xiangwang Mansion is the most important channel for us to understand the movements of the palace." ”

Ouyang Rong bowed: "Is this person's identity reliable?" ”

"It's a descendant of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he came with a letter from his eighth brother."

Ouyang Rong asked, "Do you know my relationship with you?" ”

"We never revealed Tanlang, but ......"

"But what?"

"But Eighth Brother, he should know a little."

Lixian said with a wry smile:

"A few days ago, the eighth brother suddenly mentioned Tan Lang in a letter, saying that Tan Lang impeached his little sister Changle at the beginning, and he was instigated by the villain to say some angry words, and he had no intention of offending Yingcai, I hope Tan Lang will not blame."

Ouyang Rong picked up the teacup and took a sip:

"His Royal Highness the Prime Minister really looks down on him, and he personally deigns to apologize."

He looked up and smiled and said, "It's right that there are talents in his house." ”

Wei Mei asked carefully, "Tan Lang is angry?" ”

Ouyang Rong shook his head, calmly: "It's just emotion." ”

Scratching his head with a smile:

"When I was in Dragon City before, the eighth brother and the little sister have always been very helpful.

"Tan Lang, I heard that I was able to reset the throne when I heard that day, and they also came out to speak for me."

He sighed at Ouyang Rong:

"The eighth brother is pampered and pampered, and he may be arrogant to outsiders, but he is sincerely concerned about his brother, and I don't think it may be as malicious as Tan Lang guessed......"

Ouyang Rong glanced at the departure of his brother and friend, and nodded lightly:

"I hope so, keep an eye on everything."

"Okay."

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