In the blink of an eye, the beginning of winter has arrived, and Chu Xiu and Chu Yuntang did not stay in Ziqi Yuan for too long, but went to the inn in the city to stay temporarily. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Ye Jinyi understood the concerns in their hearts, since Ji Ling had made up his mind to stop entanglement with Chu Yuntang, it was naturally rare. And his own and Chu Xiuping's identities have been exposed in front of each other, and their positions are awkward, which is naturally rare.

However, Chu Xiu still occasionally came to Zi Qiyuan to play chess and talk to Ye Jinyi, not for reminiscence, not for pastime, but to know more about his opponent.

It's just that every time the two of them break up with Chu Xiu's cold face, they drop the chess pieces unhappily.

Because Ye Jinyi would always say something to him: "It's wrong to go like this, stop it." ”

And it turned out that Chu Xiu was indeed wrong, every time he was on the chessboard, he was always wiped out.

Even if Chu Xiuyi brushed his sleeves away with a cold face, Ye Jinyi knew that he would come again next time, because this was the case when Chu Xiuyi competed with Yu Langyu in the sword, and if he lost, he would compete again until he won it back.

After Chu Xiuyi left, Ye Jinyi always faced the chessboard and couldn't help sighing: "You are still so competitive." ”

Since he saw Gong Zhudu that day, he ordered Liu Su to take someone to send Gong Zhudu back to the Evil God Temple to heal, it is true that Boyaju is a safe place, but if he has placed Gong Zhudu in Boyaju for too long, he is worried that there will be chaos.

Wen Jiufeng often wrote to him to ask him how he was doing, and he always replied that the future was long and that he had to think about it in the long run. But he also knows that although it is a long-term plan, it must not be too long, because not everyone can bury their hatred deep in their hearts for a long, long time.

And Wei Qingxiao, who had been sticking to him, began to disappear all day long, even if he met him, he left immediately, as if he would eat Wei Qingxiao in his night brocade clothes.

Things will always be so complicated and messy, but he knows that such days will not be long, because there is news from the other side of the pavilion that Qingyue Mountain Villa and several major sects have agreed to completely eradicate the two killer gates of Wuji Gate and Evil God Temple at the time of the martial arts conference in April next year.

Ye Jinyi knew that it was the best opportunity.

Ji Ling began to practice swords day and night, Xu wanted to be stronger, in order to take revenge, Xu wanted to stop thinking of Chu Yuntang in this way. Ye Jinyi no longer interfered in this matter, but just sent a ghost to protect him.

And he stayed in the Boundless Villa most of the time, he didn't forget his identity as the young owner of the Boundless Villa, nor did he forget that in the heavy snow ten years ago, Ren Xiaodu's words gave him a place to stay.

He became more and more concerned about the affairs of the Boundless Villa, and almost all day and night to calculate and sort out the account books or stay in Jizhu City to supervise the craftsmen's imperial weapons, except for going to the small courtyard where Yu Ning lived every day to accompany her to eat.

Hidden in the green hills behind the Boundless Mountain Villa, it is called Jizhu City because it is the place where the machine is refined, and there are 300 craftsmen in it to carry out the daily refining operation, 100 craftsmen to burn the furnace, 20 guards and supervision craftsmen, and 30 painters to copy the weapon map drawn by the machine and distribute it to the 20 supervising guards.

The man in charge of the city was a thin old man who liked to wear a blue coarse cloth shirt, with high cheekbones, and always liked to braid his hair around his neck. When he wasn't refining the weapon himself, he would wander around the city with a pair of iron crutches, checking for any mistakes.

At this time, Ye Jinyi wore a coarse cloth clothes and inspected the situation along the various refining rooms with the machine, and after a short time, they walked to the warehouse where the weapons were stored, and the huge warehouse was filled with tens of thousands of forged weapons, knives, swords, whips, halberds, and so on.

Ji Zizi stroked his beard and said, "In less than half a month, that batch of 10,000 weapons will be delivered." ”

Ye Jinyi said: "You have been refining weapons for decades, and I am very relieved to hand these over to you." ”

Ji Zhuzi turned his head sideways and said, "When will the brocade boy also compliment my little old man." ”

Ye Jinyi turned his head and planned to walk out of the warehouse: "It seems that you are not boasting about the old machine." ”

"Alas, brocade boy. Ji Zizi hurriedly pulled Ye Jinyi back, and said in a low voice, "I have something to say." ”

"When will you old machine also have something to say. Ye Jinyi turned around and teased.

The machine didn't answer, but walked to a corner of the warehouse on crutches, twisted the mechanism on the side, and a door opened.

Ji Zizi turned his head and pointed inside, and said mysteriously: "Come and see, what is this?"

Ye Jinyi walked over, stood at the door and saw that there was a pool of water in the cave, a high platform in the pool, and what goods were piled up on the high platform, because it was covered with ice silk brocade, so it was impossible to see what the pile of goods was.

"Black powder. ”

Ye Jinyi frowned, and immediately said these three words.

At this time, it has passed the beginning of winter, the weather is cold, and although the temperature in Jizhu City is higher than outside, it is not very hot. But this pile of things was placed on a high platform in the pool of water, and it was covered with fire-resistant ice silk brocade, and he really couldn't think of anything else except black flames.

"Yes, it's black powder. Only then did the machine twist the mechanism again, and slowly closed the door.

"Which batch of gunpowder is in this shipment?" Ye Jinyi turned around and asked Ji Zizi.

"It's exactly the number of those 10,000 weapons. Ji Zhu Zi said.

Hearing this, Ye Jinyi stared at the stone gate, with a solemn expression, as if thinking about something.

Ji Zhuzi said: "I want you to see these to remind you that when the time comes, pay more attention to the delivery, the other party's origin is unknown, and he ordered such a large batch of weapons, and it also contains black powder, I am afraid that something will go wrong." ”

After a while, Ye Jinyi said, "Does Ziyu know about this?"

Ji Zhuzi nodded: "This business was discussed by the second son, so he naturally knows it." I'm afraid that he is young and inexperienced, and he will be taken advantage of. ”

Ye Jinyi lowered his eyes and said: "Okay, I remember, thank you seniors for reminding me." ”

Hearing this, Ji Zhuzi shook his beard and said with a smile: "The brocade boy sees the outside like this, but I am very unaccustomed to it." Why don't you have something honest. ”

Ye Jinyi smiled, turned around and walked outside the warehouse, and said as he walked: "Five altars of flower carvings, send them tomorrow." ”

Ji Zhuzi hurriedly followed with crutches, and said quite dissatisfied: "Eight altars." ”

Ye Jinyi didn't reply: "Three altars." ”

"Okay, good, five altars, five altars, five altars. ”

In the evening, Ye Jinyi accompanied Yu Ning to finish dinner, and then rode back to Ziqi Garden, unexpectedly, Wei Qingxiao, who had always been absent recently, sat upright at the stone table in his courtyard, drinking quietly, and when he came back, he raised his hand to fill another cup.

"Come back, have a drink with me. Wei Qing said with a smile and drank all the wine in his cup.

I don't know why, Ye Jinyi always felt that Wei Qingxiao at this time was not quite right, he knew that although Wei Qingxiao usually looked cynical and indulgent, but in fact, he was steady and meticulous, and the things hidden in his heart were no less than his own. But even so, the seriousness and quietness that Wei Qingxiao showed at this time still made Ye Jinyi a little unaccustomed.

Ye Jinyi walked over slowly, sat opposite Wei Qingxiao, raised his eyes and glanced at him, and then said unhurriedly: "Why, the sun is coming out in the west today." ”

"Do you have someone you like?"

Suddenly, Wei Qing's thin lips opened slightly, and such an inexplicable sentence popped out.

Ye Jinyi was about to pick up the wine glass, but when she heard Wei Qing's words, she stopped moving, looked up and swept Wei Qing's smile with the same face, and then raised her hand to bring the wine glass to her mouth.

"Yes. Ye Jinyi said calmly, and then poured the glass of wine into his mouth.

Chu Xiuping's face surfaced in his heart, but it was not Chu Xiufei at this time, but Chu Xiufeng ten years ago, slowly, that face slowly turned into another face, and when that face slowly became clear in his heart, he suddenly panicked, and his dark pupils flashed.

As if to hide his current mood, Ye Jinyi hurriedly raised his hand and poured himself another glass of wine, covered it with his sleeve and drank it all, before he looked at Wei Qing and smiled: "Why did you suddenly ask this question?"

If he saw it well, Wei Qing Xiaofang stopped at the wall, and on the other side of the wall was Wang Xu's boyaju. If it was normal, he would not feel strange, but Wei Qingxiao's gaze at the wall was sad and hesitant, which made him have many questions in his mind.

Because he knew that every time he looked at Chu Xiuping's back leaving, there was also this emotion in his eyes.

Because, every time he saw Chu Xiufei's straight but lonely back, he would ask himself in his heart, if it wasn't for the original incident, would he and Chu Xiufei have lived the life they fantasized about when they were young, he is nostalgic, he is regretting.

He knew that Wei Qingxiao was not a person without a story, so he was curious about what Wei Qingxiao was missing and regretting at this time.

Hearing Ye Jinyi's question, Wei Qing smiled and withdrew his gaze on Ye Jinyi's face, he didn't answer Ye Jinyi's question, but asked another question.

"What would you do if one day, the person you like marries someone else?"

Ye Jinyi's temples tensed suddenly, and the wine glass swirled in his hand.

The person Wei Qing Xiao likes is married to someone else, is it the girl named Linlang? Ye Jinyi once heard Wei Qing laugh at this name when he dreamed, he didn't deliberately remember it, but the name Linlang was more familiar to him.

Ye Jinyi looked at the wine glass in his hand and said ethereally: "Different situations have different practices. ”

"Tell me about it. Wei Qing smiled with an inexplicable smile on his face, but this smile did not disappear into his eyes, he just took the cup in Ye Jinyi's hand, and filled the wine and pushed it in front of Ye Jinyi, looking very indifferent.

This indifferent appearance is naturally fake, otherwise why bother asking this question.

Ye Jinyi understood, so she said seriously: "If that woman is happy after getting married, it is naturally best not to bother." However, if the woman is having a bad time, you might as well go and grab her and take her away. ”

Ye Jinyi swore that what he said was true, although he was born in everyone's best girl, but in the past ten years, there has been not much left of the ethical outline that he had in his mind, and in his heart, he just feels that he likes it as much as he wants, where there are so many scruples at all.

What kind of parents are famous, the words of the matchmaker, if you are not happy, you will run away, and then you will meet some strong ones, and you will directly take a pair of scissors and finish your work in the marriage room.

Every time he heard these things, he had to silently praise those women in his heart.

He looked up at Wei Qing and smiled, seeing that his face was hesitant, as if he was thinking about something, he added: "However, no matter what you want, you have to agree to it, otherwise the hard-working mandarin duck elope will become your robbery of a good woman." ”

Hearing this, Wei Qing smiled and looked up at Ye Jinyi, his eyes were gloomy, and he asked a question that was irrelevant to the topic at this time for a long time: "You are very familiar with Wang Jinqing?"

"Yes. Without hesitation, Ye Jinyi said this word.

He and Wang Xu's friendship with almost everyone in Tokyo is known, that is, he and Wang Shu are each other's confidants, and he will build such two houses on this street back then, named "Boyaju" and "Ziqi Yuan", which means that the two of them know each other as well as Boya and Ziji.

It is worth mentioning that the plaques of "Boyaju" and "Ziqiyuan" are still written by Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, who are friends and confidants of the year, and they have different meanings.

Wei Qing smiled and asked, "How is this person?"

Ye Jinyi raised her eyes, looked at Wei Qing's slightly pale face, and did not answer this question: "You shouldn't ask me this question?"

Wei Qing smiled: "Why?"

Ye Jinyi said: "I am a confidant with him, how can I evaluate myself, besides, I have a close relationship with him, and what I say may be biased." ”

Wei Qing chuckled helplessly, buried his head in the wine glass in his hand, and after a long time, he looked up at Ye Jinyi's eyes and asked, "I only ask you one thing, and you tell me truthfully." ”

Ye Jinyi raised the wine glass and took a sip, "You ask." ”

"Is he good to the princess?"

Hearing this, Ye Jinyi's dark eyes shrank suddenly, and he didn't even raise his head, and the cup in his hand had already broken into powder in his hand. He raised his head at an extremely slow speed, his eyes shining coldly and gloomily at Wei Qing and smiling, with a hint of disbelief on his face.

Wei Qing smiled and asked him so many questions, just for the last sentence "Is he good to the princess".

Therefore, can he guess that the woman he likes in Wei Qingxiao's mouth is so unfortunate that it is Wang Xu's wife, the eldest princess of Shu, Zhao Qianyu.

He vaguely remembered that Wang Shu had said that Zhao Qianyu's name was Linlang, but he would never associate Wei Qingxiao with Zhao Qianyu.

The position of his temples jumped suddenly, and he wanted to speak, but his throat seemed to be stuck, and he couldn't say a word, so that he could only look at Wei Qing and smile with that kind of vigilant and cold gaze.

Obviously, Wei Qingxiao saw what he was thinking at this time, and opened his mouth without smiling, but the voice was extremely harsh, like a sharp blade cutting through the silence, which made people's hearts tremble.

"Yes, as you think, Zhao Qianyu is the person I have been looking for for so long. ”

He looked at Ye Jinyi, who had a strange expression at this time, quite seriously, and said softly: "Can you tell me now, is Wang Jinqing good to her?"

Ye Jinyi still didn't speak, but he had always been calm, but a thin layer of sweat oozed from his forehead at this time, but it was obviously winter at this time. His hands tightened on the table, and the powder from the cup stained the palms of his hands, but it seemed to fall on his throat, making his throat hot and dry.

He wanted to answer, no.

Ye Jinyi's mind came up with the scene he saw in Boyaju that day, and remembered Zhao Qianyu's happy expression when he looked at Wang Shu and another woman that night, fragile and sad but pretending to be calm, the pain oozing from the eyes of the water was so obvious that he couldn't ignore her sadness standing outside the window.

But he couldn't be so hasty.

Because Wang Xu, Zhao Qianyu, and Wei Qing laughed at the identities of the three of them were different from others, he didn't want Wang Shu to be ashamed, and he didn't want to see Wei Qing take this risk.

"She's having a bad day, is she?"

Seeing that Ye Jinyi didn't speak, Wei Qing chuckled lightly, and said this sentence a little helplessly, and the faint sadness in his words rippled in this blurry night.

"Yes. ”

That word finally came out of Ye Jinyi's mouth.

"No wonder. Wei Qing smiled and laughed, he directly picked up the wine jug and poured it into his mouth.

People always like to drink when they are hurt.

Ye Jinyi lowered his eyes, let the cold wind of the night blow away his loose hair, and just sat there quietly and laughed with Wei Qing. It was already very cold, and he sat there, only to feel that his fingers were cold, and it was cold to the bottom of his heart.

He looked up, looked at the wall, glanced at Wei Qing again, and sighed faintly.

In this world of ups and downs, who is not covered with scars, and who is not with stories.