Chapter 25: Undercurrents
A few days after returning from the Taishou Mansion, Xu Guo didn't have any trouble, I don't know if he was frightened by Wang Li that day, or was rectified by Liu Yan.
The house is temporarily calm, and Wang Li is also happy to be stable.
The neighbors were quite surprised when they noticed that there were people living in this courtyard, they all knew that this was occupied by Xu Erye back then, and for some reason there were other families living in it. According to Second Master Xu's temperament, he is not a poor master, and he will not sell the house for nothing.
The house occupied by Xu Erye back then is now occupied by Wang Li, and the feng shui takes turns, which is enough to make people sigh and sigh.
After a few days of taking care of the yard, it gradually became lively. According to what Wang Li said, Sun Zheng went to the oil cake bun shop for breakfast, and for lunch, he had to get two meats, or chicken, duck, goose and rabbit, or fish, sheep, shrimp and crab.
I haven't gone out these days, Sun Tong didn't have much to do, and he followed Gao Fu and his wife to help. Gao Li and Gao Fu cleaned the courtyard inside and out, and also added new items and prepared them.
Wang Li sent her money and asked her to take charge of the accounts temporarily, and Sun Zheng's money for buying vegetables was also spent from her.
The girls gradually became familiar with the environment, and knew that the young man had a gentle temperament and treated them very well.
They helped Sun Zheng and Gao Li to learn to do some simple work, not very tired, and Wang Li deliberately told Sun Zheng to buy them some goat milk every day to replenish their bodies, and their faces gradually became rosy after a few days.
It was early in the morning, and the pond behind Namsai had been cleaned by Takafuku, and the water was already very clear. The freshly trimmed bamboo on the pond bank is green, and the fragrance wafts to the east house with the moisture.
Wang Li was sleeping comfortably on the bed, and a girl wearing a light blue back gently pushed open the door of the room, and saw that the curtain of the bed was closed, and her thin little face was smiling.
Gently opened the curtain, and when she saw Wang Li who was sleeping, the girl held back a smile and called softly: "Master, master." ”
Seeing that Wang Li didn't move, the girl was accustomed to it, and pushed Wang Li's shoulder with her hand, muttering: "Wake up, master, it's been a few days, and the oil cakes are almost soft!"
Feeling that someone was pushing him in the haze, Wang Li opened his eyes and saw Chu Yi in front of the bed, and said, "When is it, I'm really sleepy!"
Chu Yi hung up the curtains on both sides, and his handsome little face has grown slightly plump in the past few days, although he is still a little thin, and his pointed chin is very delicate, but he is no longer as sickly thin as when he first entered the mansion.
Chu Yi raised his thin eyebrows, lowered his eyelids and bent down to serve Wang Li. Wang Li waved his hand, got up and put on a light purple cool shirt.
She helped Wang Li smooth out the wrinkles, and her little hands were slender, which made Wang Li very comfortable.
She said softly: "It's all at the right time for eating, Aunt Sun is cooking lunch, the oil cake buns and goat milk I bought in the morning are cold, and you are too sleepy, master." ”
The sound is as crisp and tender as spring water.
"Also, where did the master's clothes go yesterday, Chu Yi took them for you to wash. ”
Facing Shang Chuyi's bright and clear eyes, Wang Li had a headache, and he said, "I washed those clothes myself after washing them last night, so I don't need you to wash them." ”
Wang was accustomed to the lifestyle of his previous life and did not want others to wash his clothes, especially his underwear, so several times Chu Yi asked him to dirty his clothes, but he shirked washing himself.
After a few days, Chu Yi even didn't ask for Wang Li's clothes, and they were all washed by himself, and today is the case, Chu Yi thought that he had done something wrong, Wang Li didn't like her, his little face finally couldn't hang up, he hung his head, sobbed silently, and tears flowed down his cheeks.
"Eh, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
Seeing that Chu Yi didn't move, he turned around and saw her crying, Wang Li couldn't help but panic.
"Does the master hate Chu Yi, Chu Yi can be changed if he is wrong, please don't sell Chu Yi, Chu Yi will wash clothes, and will not wash old man's clothes. Chu Yi lowered his head, not daring to look at Wang Li.
Wang Li couldn't laugh when he heard this, what kind of thing is this, "No, you didn't do anything wrong, how could I hate you." It's just that I'm not used to letting others wash my clothes, I used to wash it myself, I'm used to it. Besides, if you do something wrong, I should punish you for working more, where will you be allowed to do nothing, I like Chu Yi like this, do you think?"
After thinking about it carefully, Xiao Chuyi finally stopped crying, his eyes were filled with tears, and when he heard Wang Li say that he liked himself like this, his little cheeks turned red again.
Xiao Nizi didn't know what she thought, she didn't dare to look at Wang Li anymore, and trotted out.
Shaking her head, Wang Li put on square cloth shoes and was about to go out, when she saw Chu Yi, who still had a red face, carrying a plate and putting it on the food table next to the Baishi book case outside, she said softly: "Just now, Aunt Sun warmed it for the master, and the master will eat it as soon as he washes up." ”
Chu Yi served Wang Li to wash up, and stood quietly beside Wang Li, the atmosphere was a little stiff.
Wang Li was unsteady eating, and was about to find some topics to talk about, but Chu Yi said: "In the future, the master's clothes will be washed by Chu Yi." ”
With a pleading tone, the voice was as thin as a mosquito's moan.
Wang Li turned his head and saw her sparkling eyes, the morning sunlight passed through the window lattice, reflecting on Chu Yi's thin face, and the fine fluff on her cheeks was dyed with golden light, which was distressing to see.
Seeing that Wang Li still didn't speak, Xiao Nizi's eyes turned red again, and her eyebrows frowned.
Wang Li hurriedly stopped, and said helplessly: "Wash you, wash you, don't cry, don't cry." ”
swallowed the buns and goat's milk, and asked the girl to take the plate back to the kitchen, for fear that there would be any more moths.
Wang Li is not used to this open-mouthed, increasingly depraved life, and now he doesn't have to wash his clothes by himself, stretching his waist, Wang Li sighed: "Evil!"
After breakfast, the king left Nansai and continued to read the book, the world looks familiar, but in many places it is very different.
Wang Li knows that if you want to live, not to mention live a wonderful life, at least to live normally, you must fully understand this place.
After studying the Wenju system here for a long time, as early as when he first entered the city, Kong Chengshi and Wang Li talked a lot, but it was too fragmentary, and now after reading the system, I found that I had made a fuss before.
In addition to the names given by their parents, they also had inscriptions when they became adults, either given by the elders or by themselves, in order to live in the Wen Palace.
When he and Duan Subai went all the way back, he asked what his inscription was, presumably after he stole Pei Du's "Creek House", he thought I was a scholar and a Confucian scholar, and I also said what is the literary name, it is really an oolong.
Wang Li shook his head, and said in his heart that Duan Gongzi hadn't seen him in the past few days, and he was afraid that he had already returned to Beijing. I don't know if he was troubled by Xu Qian, but he is a child of the big clan in the capital, although Xu Guo is not bright, but he is not brainless.
......
"Hmph! You brainless, sooner or later you will cause trouble outside! Last month, you made trouble in Qingyun Building to make Xu Junshuo, do you think the Xu family doesn't know? Why did you provoke the Liu family again in the past few days?"
Xu Guo was angry with his father, and stood in the hall with his hands down, bowing his head and saying nothing.
"This morning, Liu Taishou sent someone to Yulu Hall to send a message, and told me that you want to occupy his nephew's house property, teach me to ask, why did you do this! You rebel! Don't you think that this Jade City belongs to my Xu family? Hmph!"
Xu Lin saw Xu Jing standing motionless like a dead man, angry, and clapped his hands angrily on the table, "Don't pretend to be dead for me, you can tell me what you did!"
Xu Kuang was taken aback, raised his eyes to look at Xu Lin's angry pale face, and whispered: "It's not my son who occupies his house, it's he who occupies mine first, I went to ask for it, he is not a human, he is a monster." ”
"Begging for a dozen ruffians and begging for a monster? You don't have to say it, from today onwards you are not allowed to go out of your own yard again, let me stay at home well, and I am not allowed to go anywhere!"
Xu Kuang was in a hurry when he heard this, and didn't let him go out, didn't he want his life, and wanted to say something, but Xu Lin drank him out of the hall.
"What are you still doing? Get out!"
Xu Guo went out of the door, pacing back and forth in the verandah irritably, thinking of a way to sneak out, but unexpectedly ran into Xu Sheng who came over to the side, Xu Jing was startled, turned around and pretended not to see it, and was stopped by Xu Sheng again.
"Stop! Did you just meet an adult?"
Xu Guo turned around, complained bitterly in his heart, bowed his head and said, "I've just met." ”
"Hmph! Trouble for adults outside all day long, I told you yesterday, you still want to annoy Uncle Pan to your case, it's really lawless! Although the adults are in the cabinet, there are Xu Hongyuan nearby, and Liu Yan is far away, if the handle is pinched by them, don't you understand the end! It's ridiculous, but now you have provoked them all!"
Xu Sheng was wearing a water-colored large-sleeved shirt, and when he said angrily, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and point at Xu Jing's nose.
Xu Guo was afraid that his eldest brother would be better than Xu Lin, and he was scolded so much that he didn't dare to breathe at this time.
"Stay in your own yard!
This time, Xu Guo completely gave up the idea of escaping, and drooped his head to his own courtyard in the west.
Xu Sheng scolded, his heart was much more comfortable, and he hurriedly went to the main hall. When he entered the door, he saw Xu Lin pondering behind the felt case, and he saluted, "Father." ”
"Hmm......" Xu Lin came back to his senses, "You are here, Xu Guo was locked up by me just now, you should take a look at him more in the past few days, don't let him run out to make trouble again." ”
"Yes. ”
After being silent for a while, Xu Lin spoke: "Some time ago, Xu Er, the shopkeeper of Zhengshan Hall in the Zhengshan Hall of the Treasure Qi Fang, told me that there was an extra stranger around the Kong brothers, and I didn't care about it at first. Hmph! He Liu Yan came to this jade city with only one grandson, where did he come from! The brothers of the Kong family visited the Liu Mansion that day, and they must have asked for something, and that nephew is afraid that he is not the same person who entered the city with the brothers of the Kong family. ”
When Xu Sheng heard this, he said, "I went to see Lixian yesterday, and he told me that Uncle Pan met a medicine king a few days ago. ”
"Medicine King?" Xu Lin was taken aback, "Is the pharmacist dispatched from the Yang Patrol Platform?"
Xu Sheng paused and said: "I don't know, it is said that the man rescued a dead person empty-handed under the outer hall in a moment of time, the injured person was over sixty years old, and he did not take medicine after being rescued, and he was able to speak and answer." ”
"Shhh
Xu Lin took a breath of cold air, "I've never heard of this kind of medicinal technique, who is he?"
The man only said that his surname was Wang, and that he was not a minister, and he did not know anything else. ”
"Surname Wang?" Xu Lin was shocked, "The nephew Liu Yan said is surnamed Wang, and he is called Wang Li!"
"This ......," Xu Sheng hesitated, "Could it be the same person?"
At this time, he suddenly remembered what Xu Junyan told him two years ago.
Neither of them tried to be talented, and one day Xu Junyan invited him to Qingyun Tower to listen to Qinyue's singing at a banquet in Qingyun Tower. Xu Junyan drank too much during the banquet, and asked Xu Sheng if he knew why his father was a superman in medicine, Xu Sheng listened to it interestingly, so he was interested in Xu Junyan and asked him to continue.
Xu Junyan laughed and said, "My father is a student of the Qingzhou Medicine King, Kong Wen!"
Xu Sheng pouted and said, "Who doesn't know this, what amazing secret my Dao is." ”
Xu Junyan raised his head and drank a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "Then do you know, immortal law?"
"Immortal law?"
Xu Junyan laughed, "Back then, Kong Wen's medicinal skills were amazing, and it was not a problem to bring the dead back to life, and it was rumored that there was an immortal method in the Qingyu Pavilion. The adult studied under Kong Wen, I thought it was passed on by his own family, but who knew that yesterday I accidentally read the letter on the adult's bookcase, Brother Jie, guess who sent this letter?"
"Who is it?"
"Haha, no matter how much you Xu Jiezhi can't guess, it's the letter of the Imperial Pavilion of Qingyu Pavilion in the capital, Su Heng and Su Qingxiang!"
Xu Sheng only thought that this was Xu Junyan revealing that his Xu family had a backer in the capital, but he was shocked by Xu Junyan's next words.
"I read the letter, but it turned out to be about an incident from eight years ago. ”
Xu Junyan poured the wine, raised his glass and leaned against the railing, his eyes were misty, "It is rumored in the pavilion that Kong Wen is carrying the immortal law, but Kong Wen has not been passed on to my father." Eight years ago, Su Qingxiang found my father and invited my father to conspire with him. In that year, my father went north to Yucheng with Kong Wen to dispatch, and took care of Su Qing inside and out, killing Kong Wen, copying Confucius's mansion, and taking immortal methods, hahahaha......"
What Xu Junyan said drunkenly would not be false, Xu Sheng knew what he was like.
secretly remembered everything Xu Junyan said that day, and he never told Xu Lin that since the Xu family could collude with Su Heng, the Xu family could not compete with it, and it was better to have less than one more thing.
Now that he heard that the person who was with the Kong family brothers also had that resurrection technique, Xu Sheng instantly thought of this, and his heart was like a terrifying wave.
"Didn't Xu Junyan deceive me that day? Although Xu Hongyuan's medicine skills are superhuman, he is far from being able to bring the dead back to life, and even the medicine king can't be so exaggerated." Could it be that the immortal law on that person is the real immortal law? Yes, the disciple betrayed the teacher, how could Kong Wen hand over the real immortal law, it must really be on the Kong family brothers......
After sorting out all this, Xu Sheng suddenly realized.
"Sheng Er pay more attention, if it's the same person, it's interesting. Xu Lin didn't know what to think, and instructed: "Also, Enke is about to release the list, and the emperor will set up a talent ceremony in the near future, and you have to put the trip to the sun on the agenda, don't make a mistake." ”
"Yes. ”
......
Taishou House.
Liu Yan was walking in the garden, and a tiger-headed child suddenly ran in from the flower gate, hugged Liu Yan's thigh, and said in a milky voice: "Father, father, have you seen Han'er's shuttlecock?"
"Eh, don't shake, don't shake," Liu Yan pinched Han'er's face and said, "I didn't go to ask my mother, your mother said, you haven't looked for her for a long time, she is a little angry, go find her." ”
Han'er turned her head and ran away when she heard this, "The eldest mother is bad, she doesn't kick the shuttlecock with Han'er, and she hides Han'er's shuttlecock, Han'er doesn't look for her stubbornness." ”
Liu Yan was amused and laughed.
Not long after Han'er slipped out, a strong man hurriedly walked into the garden, called out to the clumsy man, and handed a letter to Liu Yan.
Liu Yan opened the letter, looked at it with a slightly heavy face, folded the notepaper, paced left and right for a while, and ordered a small man in a deep voice: "Go to General Tongguan to take Wang Gongzi over, go now." ”