Yuan Ri.

Jianjing City broke free from the gray winter, the lanterns and red silk on the streets revealed a strong color, and the atmosphere of the Spring Festival in the imperial capital was strong.

Dingguogong's carriage stopped at the edge of the West Market, and the servants went into the workshop to buy things.

Xia Sushuang rested his chin on the window lattice of the carriage, let out a breath of cold air, and looked at the Jianghu artists who were performing on the street and had more than a dozen bowls on their heads.

He has a few heavy buns and a head full of pearls, and the weight is not much different from them.

"I still came out to sell my ...... for the New Year"

Xia Sushuang muttered, narrowed one eye, aimed a piece of silver at the place, and ejected it.

The silver flew out like a hidden weapon, and fell impartially into the gong where the artist received the reward.

Hearing the loud sound, the top bowl artist hurriedly went to check the gong containing the money, and it turned out to be a large piece of silver! He was surprised and delighted, and looked in the direction where the silver was flying, and Xia Xushuang hurriedly closed the curtain.

"Good ...... Risk"

The way those poor people in the wind and snow bowed down to her, Xia Sushuang couldn't get used to it.

In order not to fall into a helpless situation, she hid first.

The action of pulling the curtain was too urgent, and the heavy head shook again.

She sighed, it had only been three days since she arrived in Jianjing, and she was not used to dressing up like this.

When he was in the difficult mountain, the cloth skirt and the hairpin also dealt with the days, and now he has entered Jianjing, lived in the Dingguo Mansion, followed the customs of the villagers, and could not be too casual every day.

It's better in the guest house where I live, but today is the first day, and the Duchess of Dingguo personally invited me to listen to the common words of Master Ande Temple, and it is rude not to dress up.

Xia Sushuang is no longer interested in vulgar speaking, and she has to give face to the eldest apprentice's aunt and go out of this door.

The female envoy in the courtyard dressed her according to the dress of the Jianjing ladies for the banquet, Xia Sushuang didn't expect it to be so troublesome, every time she thought it was going to end, the female envoy added a new hairpin to the cloud bun, as if she wanted to build a house on her head.

She has practiced swords for many years, but she has not practiced her neck, and it has only been two hours now, and her neck is sore, and it is inconvenient to walk in the dress she has changed.

Thinking about it, the curtain moved slightly, and a girl wearing men's clothes came up and did not hide her bright eyes and teeth, smart and pretty.

"Master is so beautiful today—"

As soon as he got into the carriage, Xiang Jingkui couldn't help but sigh.

The person who came was the concubine of the Xiyue Marquis Mansion, and she was also one of the two apprentices that Xia Xushuang's master, Bai Qishanren, accepted for her.

Seeing the little apprentice boarding the carriage, Xia Sushuang straightened his posture and said helplessly: "You also said such things yesterday, for the teacher every day is this face, what is not good-looking." ”

Xiang Jingkui was unconvinced: "I'm the daughter of the Marquis of Xiyue, I haven't seen how beautiful the little lady in Jianjing City is, I said that the master is good-looking!" ”

Xia Sushuang shook her head with a smile, and took out a red seal,

"I heard that this is the old practice of the first day of Jianjing, the elders want to seal the juniors red, this is for the teacher to you, I wish our little sunflower every year, safe and sound."

"Little Sunflower" is the nickname given by Xia Sushuang to his little apprentice, and the fox he raised is called Bu Bu.

Xia Sushuang probably grew up in the mountains since she was a child, and she was very lonely, and all the creatures she liked on the difficult mountain were nicknamed by her.

Her eldest apprentice Song Guanqiong also has a nickname called "Mu Mu", but every time she shouts, the eldest apprentice has to sigh.

Like a young gentleman lying in the mountains and clear streams, he is called such a nickname every day, no wonder he sighs.

Over time, Xia Sushuang stopped calling him that.

Xiang Jingkui happily accepted the red seal and said sweetly, "Thank you, Master!" The apprentice wishes the master happiness like the East China Sea, and Shaohua will stay forever! ”

Xia Sushuang touched her head, "Today is the first day, why don't you entertain relatives and friends at home with Lord Hou?" ”

"I don't like to stay with my father and those aunts and sisters, so let's go and watch the excitement with Master."

Xia Sushuang smiled: "That's good, I don't think there is anyone to talk to." ”

Xiang Jingkui poked his neck and looked at the front and rear convoys: "Why don't you see my brother's horse?" ”

No wonder she asked, how could there be a lack of senior brother by Master's side.

In the past, when she was on the mountain, her senior brother often told her to disturb her master less if she had nothing to do.

The person who can disturb Master the most is obviously him.

Xiang Jingkui usually sees the master, and most of them are also under the guidance of the master to learn the sword with the senior brother, but the senior brother is not, most of the day will guard the master's courtyard, or ask for sword skills, or help the master tie a lantern, read books and learn calligraphy......

Senior brother to the master, that is the filial piety of Tianzi No. 1, but now there is no one in the festival, which is strange.

Xia Sushuang said: "He went out early in the morning, saying that he had an errand. ”

Before dawn today, Song Guanqiong hurriedly came over, saying that he was going out to run errands.

Xia Sushuang opened his eyes in a daze and glanced at the sky outside,

"In a hurry?"

"Hmm."

She didn't ask much, she took out the seal red made last night from under the pillow, stretched out the curtain and handed it to Song Guanqiong.

After saying some auspicious words, and telling him to go early and return early, he fell asleep again.

"Master......"

Song Guanqiong didn't leave yet, but called her.

From the moment he entered the house, his eyes had been on the master in the tent.

In front of everyone's eyes, I can't always look at her for too long, and in this inner curtain, I can look at her so bluntly.

The master has been here for three days, because of the Duchess of Dingguo's side, Song Guanqiong has been refraining from coming to see her less, today is the first day, but he has to go out to do errands, so he goes straight into the inner curtain.

When he was on the mountain, Xia Sushuang had long been accustomed to his filial piety in front of bed every day, and he was defenseless against him.

When she handed over the seal, the bed tent was lifted a little, and Song Guanqiong watched the silk bedrobe slip off the master's arm, and the collar was loosened a little because of the movement.

He half-knelt beside the bed in a humble posture, but his eyes became deeper and deeper.

The person who is like snow in front of him, if he hugs it tightly, there will be no cold at all.

Song Guanqiong looked at her wrist from her fingertips, followed by her sleeping face, and there was a little itch in her throat.

"Master looked at the apprentice."

His tone was like a thin, yellowed piece of brittle paper.

Xia Sushuang cheered up and opened his eyes to look at him: "What's wrong?" ”

She was still drowsy, and she only felt that the apprentice's eyes were a little too focused.

These eyes are beautiful, but the pupils are too dark, and when you look directly, you always feel that you will swallow people up, get lost in them, and your thoughts will wander away from ignorance.

Song Guanqiong said: "The apprentice has grown up, does the master know?" ”

Of course, she knew that even if Song Guanqiong in front of her was half-kneeling, his figure was as tall and straight as a green pine, and in this small inner room, he naturally had a sense of oppression.

Standing normally, Xia Sushuang had to tilt his head when he saw him.

Xia Sushuang didn't understand why he was entangled in growing up, no matter how old a person was, he was a junior in the eyes of the master.

A red seal, what the elders should give, he just accepts.

She said lazily with her pillow arm: "Ah Ji has grown up, and the master is still your master." ”

Ji Wei is the word taken by Bai Qishan before the death of Song Guanqiong, although he has not yet used it, but he does not want to be called "Mumu", Xia Sushuang changed it to the title of "A Ji".

Is Master still my Master...... Song Guanqiong took Feng Hong into his arms, and his smile was not as light as his eyes, "Yes, Master sleeps peacefully, and the apprentice will come back soon." ”

"Good."

Touching his head, Xia Sushuang turned over and fell asleep again.

There was silence behind him for a while, and the quilt was pulled up by him for a while, before the sound of departing footsteps sounded.

"I can't rest on the first day, and the senior brother really has to be valued by the prince." Xiang Jingkui sighed, then stopped caring about it, and carefully looked at the master's outfit.

Master's original face depicts the wind and the moon, its appearance is as bright as a clear light, elegant and vulgar, with a light and spiritual atmosphere, and the luxurious style of Jianjing is dressed on her, but it is not contrary to the original temperament, which shows that the jewelry is exquisitely selected.

Now Xia Sushuang's whole person is like a delicate brushwork, and the sketched brushstrokes can't take their eyes off when they see it, and it makes people itch in their hearts.

"Did the senior brother pick it?"

Xiang Jingkui looked at the rubies falling from her black hair, and the peach-pink rouge on her cheeks, which really set off Master's snow-like skin.

Xia Sushuang nodded: "Yes." ”

In the yard where she lives, there is actually no hairpin ring jewelry on the dresser.

The world doesn't know that the sword fairy Xia Sushuang, who is lonely with a sword, actually has a big weakness.

That is, she has a very difficult choice to make.

When Xia Sushuang was in the mountains, she was invited to officiate the marriage of a couple of Orion that she had saved, and there was a local custom that the officiant would give a bouquet of fresh osmanthus flowers to the bride.

Before the main marriage, several bouquets of osmanthus flowers were placed on the plate with the word "Xi", but Xia Sushuang almost delayed the auspicious time for people to get married.

Song Guanqiong was on the side at the time, listening to the master's chanting: "This bouquet is good, with dew, fresh, this bouquet is good, the flowers are blooming, it must be blessed......"

She didn't know what to choose.

In the end, Song Guanqiong saw that the atmosphere in the hall was not right, so he stuffed a bouquet of osmanthus into the master's hand and pushed her to turn around, so that the wedding ceremony did not cause chaos.

However, since then, Xia Sushuang has also become famous in ten miles and eight towns, and has lost all the qualifications for the main marriage.

For this matter, Xia Sushuang himself was extremely embarrassed, and did not allow others to mention it again, and even avoided those Orion farmers who lived around the difficult mountains.

As time passed, the temper of the mountain owner who was preached by everyone became more and more unpredictable, and his temperament was as cold as ice.

When she arrived in Jianjing, this problem did not change, the box full of jewelry was placed, but she wore black hair and couldn't step out of the room for a long time.

In fact, when it comes to dressing up, she can't make up her mind, just let the female envoy in the courtyard call the shots, but Song Guanqiong is not too troublesome, and she puts together a set of hairpin dresses and sends them over every day.

Every day is different, and she just replaces it, saving a lot of hesitation.

It was the daily wear that Xia Sushuang arrived in Beijing and was made by his apprentices.

The master and apprentice said some other gossip, and the servants purchased by the Dingguo Mansion had returned, and the carriage continued to Ande Temple.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the carriage window, and Xia Sushuang heard it, thinking that Song Guanqiong had come back from errands, and opened the curtain to look.

There was indeed a horse outside the window, but it was not her apprentice, but a middle-aged man she didn't know.

Wearing a green robe, his body was a little thin and bumpy on the horse's back, and his eyes looked at it, and some of them were straight and hooked.

Do they know each other? Xia Sushuang was a little puzzled.

Yang Shao didn't even see her at all shy, the girl who practiced martial arts in her heart was really unrestrained and bold, and she was dressed up so grandly today, which even won his heart, could it be that she knew that Sister Ah wanted to protect the media for the two of them, and she deliberately dressed up for herself?

If he was staring at Jianjing's young lady, he was afraid that the curtain would fall early, and he would be scolded for "ascending to the disciple", but Xia Sushuang didn't understand the meaning of the man's long-term gaze, so he looked back suspiciously, waiting for the stranger to say something.

Neither of them spoke, and between their eyes, the man's mind came alive.

He is the younger brother of the Duchess of Dingguo, and it is a great honor for her to be able to look at this mountain woman, so don't you just catch up.

Yang Shaolian drove the horse closer, and saw that her complexion was different from the cold fairy on the day of the first meeting, adding a little bit of expectation.

"Uncle, is there anything wrong with you?" Xia Sushuang asked politely.

Old...... Uncle? Even if he just came out of Pingkangfang in the morning, as for being so in good spirits, let her recognize her as an old man? It's a joke, it must be.

Yang Shaolian wiped his face, calmed his complexion, and said: "Don't be joking, you are dressed up very well today, you will save my sister from bothering later, and it will be decided as soon as possible, I have time to take you to visit Ande Temple." ”

Anyway, I have to reach out and touch her face.

Xia Sushuang didn't know who he was, but he understood the meaning of the words, and when he saw the outstretched hand, he immediately frowned.

It turned out to be a disciple!

She has never had a good face for this kind of person, after the death of Master Bai Qishan, there are often people from the rivers and lakes who go up the mountain to provoke, and many of them speak disrespectfully to her, saying that they want to take her into a forbidden place, foul language, and disgusting.

Those people all let Xia Sushuang beat down, and the most important ones cut off their fingers.

Some of the people who went up the mountain and were beaten were famous masters of the rivers and lakes, and they were defeated, attracting more people to challenge the mountain.

After that, she was so annoyed that she went into seclusion in a more secret place in the mountains of Toch.

I didn't expect to meet such a shameless person in Jianjing.

She retreated to avoid Yang Shaolian's hand, and the ice silk on her wrist trembled out and wrapped around his other wrist.

Yang Shaolian's hand holding the reins tightened for some reason, and then a force pulled his body crookedly, and he fell off the horse with the whole person, and fell firmly.

The iron-clad wheels rolled over and almost ran over his face.

Yang Shaolian couldn't care about the pain, and then he was so afraid that he rubbed back again and again, and when the carriage was far away, he dared to look at his wrist, and the ice silk was bleeding.

He couldn't help but scold: "A slut, shameless!" ”

Xiang Jingkui heard the crazy words that the man said, and she was so angry that she wanted to scold back, but the person fell down suddenly, and she knew that it was the master who made a move.

But she couldn't get angry, leaned out and scolded again: "Where is the idiot, dare to speak disrespectfully here!" Get out of here, or you'll cut off your tongue! ”

"Doesn't he recognize this as the carriage of the Dingguo Mansion?" Xiang Jingkui sat back, still a little indignant.

"I think I recognized the wrong person."

Xia Sushuang tore off the bloodstained ice thread and threw it out.

On the other side, Yang Shao didn't even ride a horse, and limped to Sister A's carriage.

The carriage of the Duchess of Dingguo Yang was at the front, and Yang Shaolian wanted to see Sister A, and he had to start begging for a message from the outermost female envoy, and the words were passed on for a long time before he was allowed to board the carriage.

The Yang family has been pampered for many years, and her graceful and bright face can't tell her age, and Song Guanqiong's good appearance comes from her.

She leaned on the soft pillow with the hand stove in her arms, and when she heard the movement, she lifted her eyes and looked, even this glance could not hide the sharp scrutiny,

"What's the matter?"

"Sister, you have to call the shots for me!"

Yang Shaolian explained the cause and effect, and showed Yang the injuries on his face and hands.

Yang glanced at it, "I haven't told her yet, what are you in a hurry to get up, don't lose your identity in vain and let a woman look down on you." ”

It's no wonder that she doesn't care about her younger brother, although Yang Shaolian calls Yang his sister, he is not Yang's own brother, but Yang's father succeeded Yang Shaolian from his cousin because he was old and childless.

This Yang Shaolian's original partner died early, and he has never raised his wife, three days ago, on the day of Xia Sushuang's arrival in Beijing, he fell in love with someone, so he came to ask the Yang family to make peace, although it is a stepfamily, but it can be regarded as a great blessing for Xia Sushuang.

The Yang family looks down on his son, the so-called female master, very much.

When she regarded him as the only son she relied on, she was taken away by Dingguo Gong and sent to practice martial arts on the difficult mountain, the Yang family was about to die and live, if it weren't for Dingguo Gong to divorce his wife and deprive him of the position of the son of the world as a threat, Yang would never have let go of his son to leave him for so many years.

Later, she learned that Song Guanqiong worshipped a female master, and she was even more furious, and she must change her son to a master.

Later, it was suppressed by Dingguo Gong, and when she heard that Xia Sushuang was five years older than her son, her mood calmed down.

Even though Dingguo Gong's father and son were very respectful to this female master, the Yang family didn't look down on it from the bottom of their hearts, but they just got by on the face.

Even if she has some "sword immortal" reputation in the rivers and lakes, she is just a reckless in the rivers and lakes, I am afraid that she is not as good as the martial artists in the house and the head of the army, so she has no background.

To let her live in a guest house in the Dingguo Mansion is to take care of this female master for the sake of the face of the prince.

The Yang family expected that this female master came down the mountain at this age because she wanted to take advantage of the momentum of the Dingguo Mansion to find a good family for herself.

It's a pity that they are already twenty-four years old, even if they are still good-looking, they have no background at all, what can they find?

That is, she was lucky, so Yang Shaolian peeked at it, and then she begged Yang's sister to be a matchmaker.

Seeing that Sister Ah didn't care about it, Yang Shaolian said ruthlessly: "Now that she is so fierce, I don't dare to marry back!" ”

Yang nodded: "Okay, you said earlier that I would save trouble, don't delay me to listen to the master's vulgar lectures later." ”

Yang Shaolian refused to give Xia Sushuang decency, what does it have to do with her.

Seeing that he couldn't handle the Yang family, Yang Shaolian begged again and again, "Sister, good sister, you can't pretend not to see the injury on my body, you must look at each other, but please Sister Ah beat more, so that she will not dare to do this in the future." ”

Yang had long been accustomed to having someone hold her to a high place, and sighed faintly:

"Your brother-in-law has been shepherding the northwest for many years, where is not me in charge of the inside and outside of this country's mansion, and the concubines in the mansion are restless, and I have to guard against how many rats are looking for benefits here during the New Year......

came to this set again, Yang Shaolian slandered in his heart, and nodded again and again on his face, saying that he was not filial.

Finally finished being admonished and retreated from the carriage, Yang Shaolian threw the corner of his robe, "Phew! Born in a sparrow, the phoenix's shelf is quite sufficient! really has the ability, Dingguo Gong can't see his mother's family! ”

How many years have passed, he has not been promoted in the position of the supervisor of the hundred instruments, if the Yang family, the Duchess of Dingguo, is really decent, why can't he blow the wind on the pillow, let the Duke of Dingguo find him a good errand and go to the cabinet to pay respects!

What else is "losing her identity", she is just a good fate, the small family married a capable golden beetle son-in-law, and her son is valued by the prince, if it is on her own? Phew-

After Yang Shaolian finished scolding, he also made up his mind in his heart, if he looked at Ande Temple later, if Xia Sushuang was a little disagreeable, he would not marry, and he would definitely let this woman suffer a lesson.

Checked the medicine in the cuffs, this is a good thing that even the Oiran of Pingkangfang can't stand it!