3. For whom the cold branch falls

Kong Shen was in a trance and looked at the hibiscus, and subconsciously touched his hair crown, fortunately it was daytime.

"What is the little girl doing sneaky!" Kong Shen walked in with a precious face, pulled out a chair and sat down, picked up a bowl of soup in front of him and prepared to drink.

"Hey, that ......" Hibiscus was about to say that it was ginseng soup, and Kong Shen drank it.

"Tons and tons ...... Ahh

"Who let you drink it so urgently, besides, I'm not a poisonous soup! I use pig's hand licorice and ginseng to boil medicinal food, it's very replenishing, this ginseng is my father's work on epidemic prevention, and the emperor gave it!" Mu Hibiscus said proudly, not noticing the pale Kong Shen in the corner.

"Your trick is really the same as your eldest brother!" Kong Shen vomited until he even came out of the baked cake he had just eaten, and then stood up against the wall.

"What do you mean by a pit person, why don't you eat ginseng, are you sick?" Mu Hibiscus looked at Kong Shen with an innocent and cute face, "Come here, I'll check your pulse." Without waiting for him to be unified, Mu Hibiscus pulled Kong Shen down in front of the table, pushed the soup cup to the side, took out a small pillow from his arms and put it under Kong Shen's wrist and began to check his pulse.

Kong Shen looked at the small pillow the size of a sweet potato, and stared at the chest of Hibiscus and Pingchuan, and couldn't help laughing, but he was afraid that Hibiscus would find out, so he forced back his laughter.

"Hey, you're so weird. "A normal person's pulse is four to five solstices per breath, even if they are sick, the slow pulse is only three solstice, and the tight pulse is only six or seven solstice. Kong Shen's pulse is actually only one breath and one arrival, this is the pulse that only people who are dying will have!

"Brother Kong, your pulse is too weird, maybe my medical skills are still shallow, my father is in the house recently, you might as well ...... Hey, where are you looking!" Hibiscus explained the pulse to Kong Shen, but followed the other party's line of sight and found that he was actually staring at his chest!

"Ah!!, you rascal, what are you looking at!" As she spoke, Hibiscus withdrew her hand that had taken Kong Shen's pulse, quickly pinched and wrapped her clothes tightly, and looked at him with a wary expression.

"I said, it turned out that I had such a thing!hahaha!" Kong Shen seemed to have done nothing, and actually commented unashamedly, "What do you cover, do you think Lao Tzu is rare, Su Xiaoxiao's peerless enchantress I regard as dung, I now know what Zhou Daoru's words mean, hahaha!" After speaking, he took an iron bucket from the corner of the study and walked away.

Mu Hibiscus was ashamed and angry by what he said, he was only sixteen years old, and there was still room to grow up!

If Kong Shen, who was fetching water by the well, heard this, he would have to reply, Lao Tzu has not only seen Su Xiaoxiao, but also heard his play!

Besides, Chen Shizi, who was summoned, didn't have time to go back to the room to change clothes, so he followed the two officials into the carriage.

Sitting in the carriage swaying from side to side, Shi Zi couldn't help muttering in his heart, this Master Li has just been demoted here, why don't you go to hand over the documents and seal the ribbons first, and then find those powerful squires to eat and drink, what are you doing to find yourself such a poor literati.

"Official, I don't know why this Lord Li summoned the grass people to go?" Although he is also a well-known literati in the Dengzhou area, but adhering to the fine tradition of the people not fighting with the officials, these two officials are the people of the Lord Zhizhou, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, right? Shijing was very polite to the two officials who did not even have a good product.

These two fat servants, who were called and drunk on weekdays, were flattered to hear that this scholar was so polite to him, so they combined what they had seen and heard in the morning.

The black fat official spoke first: "Mr. Chen, you are too polite, we are just running errands and miscellaneous people, you call our official master to torture us!" This Lord Li just arrived in the state capital, did not say anything to us, directly took off his shoes and gown, only wore a white cotton shirt and began to sleep on the couch, the hill of the official document pile did not go to the review, at noon, there came another handsome boy, and Lord Li played with Shuanglu for a long time, and now it is estimated that he is still playing there! Later, when the adults were playing, they sent us to invite Mr., but the reason really did not say. ”

Shi Zi wrinkled his brows, according to his temperament, what he thought in his heart would definitely not be shown on his face, after listening to these two officials, he said in his heart: "Although this Li Bangyan was once a chief assistant, he really did what his father said, acted unrestrainedly, was dissolute, and did things rudely. Since I didn't know the reason for announcing me, I could only go and act at the opportunity. ”

This little abacus in his heart was just a moment, and he immediately replied with a smile on his face: "Master Li is really a scribe and a chic and dignified man. How far do we go?"

"Sir, don't worry, after passing through this room, it will be Lord Li's mansion. ”

After a while, he arrived at the Li Mansion, and Shizi remembered that he had never brought a gift, and he came to the door empty-handed for the first time, and there were faux pasas, so he said to the two officials: "Two officials, grass people, go buy something." ”

"Hahaha, why is Mr. Chen so polite, come to the old man, why do you need those red tape!" Before the official could speak, there was a hearty laugh from the door of the house, and then he walked out quickly A middle-aged man with a light posture walked out, only to see that the man was not wearing a crown on his head, only wearing a green silk jacket outside, burly, more than eight feet long, but he did not see heaviness when he walked.

The sides and the mouth are large, and the beard is not crowned, but it is neatly combed and spread out.

"This must be Li Bangyan. Shi Zi thought.

"The grass people meet Li ......," he was just about to kneel

"Oh, no need to be polite, hurry up. Li Bangyan relied on his tall figure and lifted Shizi, who was about to kneel, up. "Come on, come on, follow the old man into the house. As he spoke, he put his hand on Shizi's shoulder, I didn't know, I thought the two of them were friends who hadn't seen each other for many years.

Shi Zi's face was gloomy, but it was not easy to refuse, what kind of system did he become as a dignified governor!

"I heard your name in Tokyo, and after I came over, I heard from them that you are the youngest Huiyuan in our Dengzhou in a hundred years, and this can be regarded as the second of Wen Zhenggong!"

"My lord, it's too famous, and the grass people are just lucky, and they just happened to take the chapter I am familiar with. Shi Zi just followed these words, bowed to Li Bangyan, and took the opportunity to break free from his hand.

Li Bangyan smiled on his face, but he couldn't help but slander in his heart, this kid! The old man is close to you just to see your father's face, you are so uninteresting!

So the two of them had a ghost in their hearts and greeted each other with a smile.

Entering the inner hall, Shi Zi wanted to see the interior of the mansion of the state capital, but was attracted by a man on the couch.

It is most appropriate to describe this man with graceful demeanor, but the man in front of him immediately made Shi Zi think of Kong Shen, who was still watering flowers in the academy at the moment. The appearance of this man, as if taken off from the painting, and then applied to the skin, has a pair of red phoenix eyes, depicting distant mountain eyebrows, the skin is as smooth as mutton fat boiled in the golden year, and the lips do not know what is decorated, as if he has just drunk blood.

"You are Chen Shizi. The man sat on the couch, holding a cake of gold-patterned tea balls in front of him, and as he spoke, he broke the tea balls little by little and put them into the cast-iron tea mill on the table. "In the early years, when the emperor was looking through the imperial examination papers, he found your article and had a good impression of you, but it was a party dispute at the time, and he really couldn't give you any position, so he had to wronged you to be a gentleman in Huazhou Academy. The man crushed the tea balls and put them into the tea mill, and began to gently grind the tea leaves with the mill, "Now I have the honor to meet because of Shimei (Li Bangyan, the word Shimei), which is really interesting to say." ”

The whole room echoed with the man's low and soft voice, mixed with the sound of tea grinding and rolling.

In line with prudence in words and deeds, he didn't see the situation clearly and didn't say much, but just bowed down and replied respectfully: "The clumsy work of the grass people can be loved by the saints and adults, and the grass people are afraid. ”

Although I said this, I couldn't help but think in my heart: Mother's death pervert, yin and yang person, I'm afraid it's not a eunuch! Lao Tzu's article doesn't need you to like it, it's disgusting.

"Lord Dong, is this the Longyuan Shengxue rewarded by the emperor?" To Shizi's surprise, Li Bangyan was very respectful to this handsome man, just like the tone of the two officials who spoke to him just now.

"You're not shallow in your knowledge. The man surnamed Dong smiled, and said to Shizi again: "I haven't asked Mr. for his words yet." ”

"Oh, if you go back to your lordship, the grass people will be the word. ”

"Instrument, instrument, hahaha. Do you know that the imperial court is going to be rebuilt?" the man laughed to himself after hearing Shi Zi's words.

"My father is the Imperial Physician Bureau, and he once participated in the compilation of the year, and the grass people have heard a little about it. ”

The water in the tea stove gradually boiled, and a faint aroma came out, and Shizi always felt familiar when he smelled the tea fragrance.