Chen Wenhao has always just wanted to be a simple reader, only reading, only learning the truth, and never thought about the day when he wanted to become famous.

But now he met a Mu girl, forcing him to go to Cheng'an to make a name for himself.

I don't know if this is against his original intention, but he still did it, maybe in his heart, a Mu girl, comparable to all his wishes.

But when he fell in love with the girl, he stopped caring about himself. He whispered in his mind, "What do you want?" what do you like, but he never asked himself again.

The two stood in silence for a long time, and when the surprise in Mu Chunyu's eyes subsided, he said softly: "Gongzi Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"It's been a long time. ”

Chen Wenhao didn't know what to say for a while, he was full of joy when he met again after a long absence, he was like a wooden man who stayed in place, and finally Mu Chunyu slightly stroked the green silk that fell on his ears, and asked: "I haven't seen you for two years, where have you been?"

Mu Chunyu's green silk fell on his shoulders, and Chen Wenhao was a little inexplicably glad in his heart, "I went to Cheng'an." ”

"Ahh ”

"Actually, it's fine. Chen Wenhao replied: "Cheng'an has the scenery of Cheng'an, which is actually good. It's very good. ”

"What interesting things happened to Cheng'anke?"

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Wenhao replied: "Cheng'an is much busier than Suzhou, it's not interesting, but the Lantern Festival is much more lively than Suzhou!"

"Oh, is it?" Mu Chunyu asked again: "Then there must be a lantern riddle, is there any difficult lantern riddle? Say it and tell me to guess it!"

Chen Wenhao froze in place, "No, oh no." It's just that I've never cared much about these things, maybe there are, but I don't know. ”

Mu Chunyu let out a low sigh, but there was not much disappointment in his eyes.

"By the way, what have you done in Cheng'an all these years?"

"I've done everything, when I first arrived in Cheng'an, I entered the government and became a copyist, and later I worked as a master, Mr. Bookkeeper, and even the shameless thing of selling poetry on the ground has always been a time. Chen Wenhao did not deliberately hide his experience in Cheng'an, these things sounded a little undignified, but there was no embarrassment on his face, it was very natural.

is different from the "shameless things" in his words, in his opinion, as long as he can earn a living, there is no distinction between high and low at all when he can support himself with his own ability.

However, Mu Chunyu didn't seem interested in these things, so he just said, "Yes? That's a bit bitter." If that's the case, then come to my house, and naturally you won't be short of food and clothing. ”

"No, it's a shame to be an adult's staff now, and I've been an adult's staff for some time, but he can't interfere at all. ”

"Oh. Mu Chunyu smiled, "Why are you coming back again?"

Speaking of this, Chen Wenhao suddenly stood up, clenched his fists, and asked in a low voice after a while: "Is what you said back then true?"

"What?"

"It's that you're saying you're never going to like a nerd yourself, if I can make a name for myself, then ... ”

"Hey, hey, hey!" Mu Chunyu was laughing, "You shouldn't take it seriously, right? Didn't I just say that? Eh, blame me, I should have made it clear to you a long time ago. It's all my fault, it's all my fault. ”

Chen Wenhao looked at the smile on Mu Chunyu's face and was a little lost, he originally liked her because of her smile, and he always felt that her smile was the spring of Suzhou, and the warm was the sun in September.

At this time, he felt that her smile was extremely cruel.

It is said that the sweetest time between men and women is the ambiguous time, but ambiguity is also the most hurtful.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Mu Chunyu stretched out his hand and waved in front of Chen Wenhao, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing. Chen Wenhao came back to his senses and smiled reluctantly.

Mu Chunyu looked around, "It's not a good thing to always stand here, do you want to have a cup of tea?"

"Okay. . . ”

Before he finished speaking, he only heard Mu Chunyu exclaim, and smiled at Chen Wenhao with a slight apology: "Look at me, I forgot that I still have something to do, I have to go to the Lion Park to participate in a tea party, I must have waited for me for a long time, that... ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I've already had a cup of tea anyway. Chen Wenhao hurriedly replied: "Since you are busy, then you should go first!"

Without asking Chen Wenhao if he wanted to join him, Mu Chunyu nodded at Chen Wenhao and stepped past Chen Wenhao.

Chen Wenhao turned around to look at Mu Chunyu's back, opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

After taking two steps, Mu Chunyu froze in place, and suddenly turned around and threw something at Chen Wenhao.

Chen Wenhao hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch it, and when he looked closely, it was a small red bag.

"This is the bag that my mother asked for me in Pingsha, and I have opened it, and I am blessed to give it to you. ”

Chen Wenhao smiled and was very happy.

The sweetness that surged in his heart overwhelmed his head, but he was just a reader, a reader who couldn't even do a single bit of copywriting.

An old lady beside her said to her, "Young man, think about it, she doesn't like you." At the end, the old lady said, "I am from here, I know." ”

Chen Wenhao didn't like it in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, he just saluted the old lady and walked away quickly.

This night, Chen Wenhao tossed and turned, smelling the sweet fragrance on this bag, and he couldn't sleep.

Lying on the bed in the inn, he kept thinking that Miss Mu gave him a personal bag, so did he also need to give Miss Mu something?

Yes, that's right.

Then send it, what to send?

Jade bracelet gold necklace? No, no, no, it's too cheesy.

A word and a painting? No, no, no, I don't know what type Miss Mu likes.

So what to give?

The moonlight in the middle of the night shone on the windowsill of this sleepless man, and he thought about it, it is said that the peony flowers in Suzhou in February are extremely bright, and Miss Mu must like it.

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The spring color of the Suzhou Peony Garden is extremely pleasant, and the flowers are full of flowers, like the budding mind of this pedantic reader.

Secretly plucked a few bright peony flowers, Chen Wenhao sniffed carefully, and the smile on his face rippled.

There were footsteps in the distance, Chen Wenhao hurriedly hid the peony flower behind him, turned around and saw a young man in tight clothes, and smiled, "Your Highness, didn't you say you went to Yangzhou?

Jiang Lili pursed her lips, "Suzhou is not far from Yangzhou, and you can get there in less than three days by carriage." After thinking about it, I still want to see how you nerd was so broken that I can make myself happy. ”

Catching a glimpse of the blush behind Chen Wenhao, Jiang Lili raised his eyebrows, "What do you say?"

"Nope. ”

"What's going on?"

Chen Wenhao said: "Miss Mu gave me a gift, and I should give it back, thinking about it, it is still the best peony in this peony garden." ”

Jiang Lili didn't care about Chen Wenhao's face at all, "At the beginning, that Zhang Jiuling said that your Mu girl already knew that you liked her, and she didn't pick it out or avoid it, so she let yourself do such flattering things stupidly." said that she likes the feeling of being liked and flattered. In my opinion, she is nothing more than raising your mind, if you become a famous official, she can climb your banner, if you have been a nerd all your life, she will treat you as a piece of shit, no matter what else. So you can see that she is a villain who tends to be inflammatory, if you report the reputation of the staff of the Nanyang Palace, why can't you take her down?"

Chen Wenhao didn't make a sound, and he couldn't see any look on his face.

"What?" Jiang Lili laughed, "So your sweetheart, are you annoyed?"

Chen Wenhao sighed, "It's a little annoying, but it's more helpless." ”

Looking at the spring in the garden, Chen Wenhao said again: "What you said makes sense, but I still want to rely on my own ability to see if Miss Mu can like me." It's me, not anything else. ”

"What if not?" Jiang Lili clenched his fists and sneered.

Chen Wenhao was speechless.

Anyone can understand the truth in a book, but if it is really placed on oneself, few people can follow the truth.

This is also true.

Now Chen Wenhao is in this extreme, if Mu Chunyu doesn't like himself at all, only likes the false name around him, then how should he deal with himself?

It stands to reason that he should have left her, but could he let it go?

Can you put it down? Can't you put it down?

Chen Wenhao asked himself silently, even when Jiang Lili left this place, he didn't have the slightest memory at all.

He couldn't answer, and he couldn't figure out what he should do.

In the end, he made up his mind, looking at the two or three peonies in his hand, he told himself that it would be better to try it first, if Miss Mu really likes herself!

Is it possible? Is it impossible?

Chen Wenhao's back was slightly hunched, like an old goat, trembling in the autumn wind.

This should not be the appearance of a young man who is not thirty years old, lifeless and without any vitality.

Some undeserved sorrow bent the young man's body, and these sorrows were slowly killing the young man.

Allow me to repeat here that he is a scholar, a reader who only wants to read, and a nerd who has never wanted to be a man of the world.

Now, in his twenties, he is living the way he wanted to be in his seventies.