When the old man returned to the old pen in Lane 47, Sang Sang was still squatting in front of the stove, frowning at the burning firewood, concentrating on the magic techniques he had learned on weekdays.

"Let's eat. The old man said.

Sang Sang had been distracted before, but he didn't notice that the old man had been away for a while, and when he heard this, he stood up in a daze, looked at the old man's edge wet with snow water, and vaguely understood something, the corners of his lips slowly curled, and smiled.

The old man smiled and sat down at the table.

Sang Sang didn't ask him what he had done when he left Lao Bizhai, but served him a bowl of rice, then heated the yellow croaker, sandwiched the fattest one and put it on the pile of rice in his bowl, and poured a spoonful of the delicious steaming soup.

"What kind of dishes did Aunt Wu make at noon?"

"Garlic and oil. ”

Sangsang asked, "Is it delicious?、。

The old man replied, "It's still ...... But I don't understand why Ru Wuqing put salted fish in the dish. ”

Sang Sang raised his head and asked suspiciously, "Why do you want to put salted fish?"

The old man was puzzled, looked at her little face and said, "But you put it in the last time you made oily wheat vegetables." ”

Sang Sang lowered his head and said, "When the young master made oily wheat vegetables last time, he didn't even have garlic. ”

The old man was stunned, sighed with emotion, and said: "Well, I remember...... "The green vegetables I ate in the Taoist temple last time were hard to see even the oil, and I didn't know what was wrong. ”

"The young master said that this is called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to difficulty, everyone is the same...... Teacher, you don't have to blame yourself. ”

Sangsang comforted him.

As soon as it was dawn on the second day, the old man got up, folded the futon on the table carefully, put it back in the corner behind the display shelf, and then pushed open the door of the old pen shop, looked at the morning light in the distance, and squinted his eyes.

Last night, Sang Sang relayed Ning Que's sentence "From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift...... which inexplicably touched him...... He found that he was a little too greedy for the life and life in the old pen room, and he forgot to look for the shadow of the night.

In the morning, I still ate hot and sour noodle soup, and when the old man was about to carve the bowl after eating, Sang Sang motioned for her to come and let the old man rest. The old man smiled and said that he was going to go out for a walk today, and he might not come back for dinner at noon.

"It's good to go out and hang out...... It's not a problem to be at home all day. ”

Sang Sang thought for a while, took out a piece of broken silver from his belt and handed it to him, and said: "If you are tired of shopping, you can sit and sit in the tea shop, don't be reluctant to pay money, just don't go too far, if you can't remember the way, don't be embarrassed to ask people, the people in Chang'an City are very enthusiastic...... It's really not good, you just find a gambling house to report the name of the fourth master, and someone will send you back. ”

The old man was afraid of the nagging of the female disciples, so he took the broken silver and carefully put it into his arms, and went out again and again.

Leave Lin47 Lane...... He went all the way north, from the east city through the palace to the Xuanwu Gate out of Chang'an City, and came to a hill in the north of the city covered with winter snow. Climb high and look far away...... Naturally, he could see the extreme distance, and the old man looked at the north silently, only to see that the morning star was dim, and it seemed that he was gradually about to be melted into his bright body by the brilliance of Haotian.

The plum branches in the back garden of the South Gate View are covered with very light snow.

National teacher Li Qingshan lazily leaned on the windowsill, looking at the snow on the plum branches and the small buds that seemed to never bloom, and suddenly coughed violently, and the cough echoed in the quiet Taoist temple, sounding extremely painful

Loosening the handkerchief covering his lips, the snow-white handkerchief was as bright red as plum blossoms, he glanced at the plum outside the window in annoyance, and reprimanded: "It should be opened in winter but it is not always opened, I prefer to let your Taoist master open a few first." ”

The Nanmen Dao Gu Dao Men were silently guarding outside the hall, their faces full of worry, but no one dared to enter.

He Mingchi walked over with a medicine bowl, motioned to a senior sister to take away the yellow paper umbrella under her armpit, walked onto the dark smooth paulownia floor, walked behind Li Qingshan and said bitterly: "Master, you can't do any more hexagrams." ”

Li Qingshan took the medicine bowl and drank it slowly, folded the blood-stained handkerchief upside down, wiped off the medicinal juice left on his beard, looked at his favorite disciple, and said expressionlessly: "Wei Guangming appeared last night, and sure enough, he is still in Chang'an City, and the direction is limited to the three squares, but there is a vague intention to leave, this matter must be grasped quickly." ”

He Mingchi took the medicine bowl and said: "The military department and the Tianshu Department have already started to prepare, but they are worried about alarming that person, so they have not entered the streets and alleys north of Xiangfang to search for the time being, and now only Shi Bo is there alone." ”

Thinking that the senior brother was alone in Dongcheng at this time, looking for that powerful and terrifying guy, Li Qingshan was silent for a long time and nodded, without saying anything, waving his hand to signal everyone outside the hall to disperse, and the disciple to retreat.

A black carriage is driving slowly on the streets of Chang'an Dongcheng, if you don't look closely or even touch it with your own hands, then it is difficult to find that the carriage is actually made of steel, and there are some indescribable lines engraved on it, and the special wheels are crushed against the hard stone road, which looks extremely heavy.

Master Yan Se in the carriage leaned between the splendid soft seats, and the gaze shot from his triangular eyes greedily searched through the curtains for the traces of the Great Priest of Light, and there was any heaviness on his old and obscene face.

If you can really meet, then you will fight, if you really can't beat the other party, you will die, and it is not too important to kick your legs and swallow your breath, as long as you are a person, there will always be that day, not to mention that I have a successor.

The eaves of the newly built Spring Breeze Pavilion swept outside the window, and Master Yan Se suddenly remembered Chao Xiaoshu, and then remembered his apprentice who had no news as soon as he went, that apprentice was a student on the second floor of the academy, and the master was naturally too lazy to worry about his safety, just thinking that he might not have the opportunity to meet again, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

At this moment, he remembered that before Ning Que left Chang'an City, he had carefully asked himself to help take care of the little maid named Sangsang, but he was so busy with that thing these days that he forgot to go to see it...... Lao Dao shook his head, thinking that he was just looking for that old guy in Dongcheng today, and it would be good to take a look after finishing his business.

The first person to come to Lao Bizhai today is not Master Yan Se, nor is it an old man who returned from looking north outside Chang'an City...... Rather, it's a ...... Young fat man, when the fat man jumped out of the carriage, although the stone slab of the street near Lane 47 did not tremble like an earthquake, the flesh on his round face really rippled for a long time.

The young fat man pushed open the closed door of the old pen shop, sat down on Ning Que's customary circle chair, felt that the meat on his thighs was a little painful, spit out a few words in annoyance, and then shouted loudly: "Serve tea." ”

He really didn't think of himself as an outsider.

Sangsang is preparing pine branch yellow bacon in the backyard...... This is the craft she just learned from Aunt Wu, and she was about to get dozens of catties to surprise Ning Que, when she suddenly heard a shout from the waves...... Thinking that the door of the shop has been closed recently, I couldn't help but be surprised and took a towel...... While wiping his hands, he walked into the front bunk and closed the door at the first time

The young fat man looked at the thin black maid who came over and ignored him...... I went to close the shop door first, and I couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then frowned and said, "The shop door is closed in broad daylight, how can I do business?"

Sangsang explained: "If you open the door, the threshold will be broken by the people who come to grab the book. ”

The young fat man was stunned, thinking that this was indeed the truth, but he had forgotten Ning Que's great name in Chang'an City now...... Looking at the little maid, he asked, "My name is Chen Pipi, have you ever heard Ning Que say it?"

Sang Sang was not surprised when he heard this name, Wei Fu saluted and said, "Sang Sang has seen Chen Gongzi. ”

Chen Pipi rubbed his fleshy and cute round chin, looked up and down at the thin little girl who was Tao, and suddenly shook his head and said, "It really makes sense for Ning Que to ask me to take care of it...... Although this genius was born with an extraordinary bearing, and you can know at a glance that you are not an ordinary character, but you are still too gullible after all...... I'm afraid something will go wrong. ”

Sang Sang said: "I know you are Chen Pipi. ”

She had been to the academy a few times, but the two of them had ever met each other...... Chen Pipi believed that his impressive memory would never have a problem, and he was puzzled: "Why are you sure that this genius is this genius?"

Sang Sang looked at him and explained the scriptures seriously: "The young master often mentions you, he says that you are as fat as you but not ugly, you are not obscene and disgusting, and you can even say that there are not many good-looking people, so I know that you are you." ”

Chen Pipi's right hand rubbing his chin stiffened slightly, thinking that he didn't know how Ning Que slandered himself in front of this little maid on weekdays, and felt that although this evaluation mentioned fat, it seemed to be somewhat useful, so he didn't know how to answer.

"Don't talk about that. ”

Chen Pipi coughed twice, pretending to be a mature appearance, looked at Sang Sang and said, "I came here today, naturally I came to see you at the request of Ning Que, after all, as a senior brother, I have this responsibility and obligation. ”

He really hoped that Sang Sang would show a touched look, but Sang Sang obviously didn't react, just looked at him with a blank face and thanked him softly, and then went to make him a bowl of cheap flowers.

Chen Pipi looked at her back and said, "The little junior brother said that he wanted to invite me here for a meal, and he said that your skills are good." ”

Sang Sang looked at his chubby face, frowned and thought to himself that it was no wonder that he would have this winning appearance, but he had no intention of keeping guests, put the tea bowl beside him, and said softly: "After the young master comes back, Sang Sang will cook for Chen Gongzi." ”

The meaning of what I want to express is very clear, Ning Que invited you to dinner, you have to wait for him to speak in person, you rashly broke into the door to eat, there was no door. Don't you need to add more vegetables to more than one pair of chopsticks? You have to add at least two dishes for your size, right? If it has to be a meat dish, how much does it cost?

Hearing this, Chen Pipi's self-esteem was hit, looking at the broken taro petals in the bowl, the fat on his face twitched slightly, so he had to decide to tell the truth: "Ning Que said that there is a person who is smarter than me hidden in this shop, and I always feel that this is impossible when I think about it, so I want to confirm it." ”

Sang Sang glanced around the shop and didn't find anyone hiding

Chen Pipi covered his forehead and said helplessly: "He said that the smartest person in the world is you." ”

Sang Sang was stunned, thinking that Ning Que would only say that he was stupid, how could he praise himself for being smart?

Although she was very happy to be praised by the young master as the smartest in the world, she was still very confused by this statement, frowned and thought for a long time and suddenly thought of some past events, and said slightly ashamedly: "I'm not smart, but I have a better memory." ”

Chen Pipi looked at her and smiled contemptuously, and said, "It's memory, and I don't believe that there are people in the world who are stronger than me." ”

Sangsang looked down at the small tip of his shoe sticking out of the hem of his cotton skirt, and he had no intention of arguing with him at all.

"Ning Que is not good at cultivation, and his knowledge is extremely poor, the genius of this genius has been recognized by the Haotian Dao Sect, and even the mountains behind the academy are also recognized, and I don't know what he thinks, but he dares to say that you are stronger than me. ”

Chen Pipi became more and more angry when he saw her like this, and said angrily: "What do you do with small shoes?

Although he knew that Ning Que was close to this Chen Gongzi, Sang Sang, who listened to him mock his young master, had a quiet temperament and was even a little wooden, was a little angry, and no longer looked at the embroidered ...... on his feet Shoes, raised his head to look at Chen Pipi's eyes, and said very seriously: "My memory is also recognized by Weicheng.

This is a true saying, in the years she lived in Weicheng, she was always the most popular notary, because she had the best memory and did not lie, but Weicheng and Zhishouguan...... The difference between the levels of these two places is inevitably too far away, but Sang Sang's expression is still so serious, without a trace of embarrassment, as if he wants to tell sù Chen Pipi, since Weicheng recognizes that I have a good memory, then it is really good.

In the world, as long as there are two people, then they generally do not recognize each other, which is probably the second reason of Wu Wu, especially in the face of Sangsang and temperament, Chen Pipi wants to prove that he is smarter than her and has a better memory, but it is useless to rely on his mouth, and he has to come up with some real skills.

"Let's compare. Chen Pipi said.

Sang Sang didn't have any hobbies to test his IQ or memory, thinking that the pine branches under the bacon in the backyard were smoking, where would he agree to his request, walked back to the backyard by himself, picked the pine branches with a wooden stick to make the smoke bigger, and then took out a new urn from the kitchen and squatted at the well to wash it seriously.

A few days ago, she was lazy with a pot of chicken soup, and the old man drank it very happily, and there was a lot of soup on his beard. She thought that the young master also liked to drink his own lazy chicken soup, and it might not be enough to use the old urn of lazy chicken soup when he came back, so she went to a small shop in Anpingfang to buy a new urn, thinking that when the lazy chicken soup was lazy in the future, there would be two urns, which should probably be enough to drink.

Chen Pipi looked at the busy thin back of the little maid, and kept pestering: "I don't care, you have to take something to defeat me today, otherwise I won't follow, is there a book in the shop......?" We bet on money!"

Listening to the word silver, Sang Sang's hand suddenly stopped washing the urn and glanced back at Chen Pipi.

Then she stood up, wiped her little red hand that was stimulated by the cold well water on her apron, turned around and walked into the bedroom for a while, and then walked out again...... "Her face was slightly red, and she said with some shyness and regret: "I can't read those rune books of the young master, and I can't read other books." ”

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