"Uncle Yuan..."

"Shut up!"

"It's non-negotiable. As soon as the Δ Lantern Festival in "8Δ1" is over, your third brother has to give me an honest and follow the bald donkey to Beijing. ”

“......”

Saying that, half a quarter ago, an incomprehensible arrangement came out of Xia Yuan's mouth.

The content is very simple, and the meaning is probably that the old village chief in the village has already arranged things, and in the next period of time, there will be a serious shortage of people in the Seven Star Courtyard. Therefore, Xia Xunsan went to Beijing to catch the trivial matter of the exam, and no elder would accompany him. However, for the sake of safety along the way, Li Qingfeng has already greeted the Sanzang Zen Master of Huasheng Temple, and Xia Xun and the three of them will follow the team of Huasheng Temple and go out of Yueyang on the sixteenth day of the first month to go to Beijing to catch the exam.

It's as simple as that, but it's intriguing.

Although, before this, Xia Xun had already expected that Xia Yuan would not arrest them back to the north when he went south this time.

However, Xia Yuan led the catastrophe in Kyoto and cut a piece of the king's sky, opening the door to an opportunity for that overall situation. If Xia Xun and them go north this time, they will inevitably encounter some incidents. According to this reasoning, even if Xia Yuan will finally let them go to Beijing, then in the process of release, at least a few cruel words in the three chapters of the law will have to be used. However, this is not the case. Xia Yuan not only did not stop him, but he was very direct and asked them to pack up their baggage, and they set off for Beijing as soon as the Lantern Festival passed. It feels like driving them away, which always makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

And there's something strange about it, and it's something that all four young people here can smell.

It's a faint awkward smell...

"Uncle Yuan..."Xia Yuan scratched the bridge of his nose and asked tentatively, "Are you hiding something from us?"

"No!" Xia Yuan replied decisively.

"Uh..."

"This national exam is in the middle of next month, there are only three of us, and it will only take four days to go north by crane. You let us go out of sixteen, isn't that too anxious?" Xia Xun asked.

"Who told you that he flew there on a crane?"

Xia Yuan took down the dog's tail grass on his mouth, and glanced at the four people on both sides angrily. Then he said: "The bald donkey in Huasheng Temple is a great Zen master, who has experienced red dust, does not ride birds, only rides horses, and experiences all kinds of things in the world. So you didn't fly over, but ran behind someone's ass, do you think it's urgent?"

"Forehead ......"

Xia Yuan's explanation is very reasonable. Let Xia Xun find out what the problem is.

I've been thinking about it for a while...

Xia Xun seemed to feel that no matter how much he asked, with Xia Yuan's temperament, there were some things he shouldn't say or couldn't say, he would definitely not say at this time. Therefore, Xia Xun is no longer too entangled in this content.

"That ......"

Xia Xun stretched out his hand into his arms, slowly took out the "One Leaf Gold Mountain" that the previous year gold did not exchange for him from the green shirt in his arms, and handed it to Xia Yuan: "This is for you." ”

"Huh?"

"He actually took out all this thing..."Glancing at the gold leaf handed over, Xia Yuan lifted a slight look of surprise. However, he did not reach out to take it.

"There are two leaves, and the other leaf is given to the Yueyang Palace. Xia Xun said.

"Hehe..."Xia Yuan smiled with a little disdain: "This is his character, greedy for life and afraid of death, leaving a way back." What did you trade him for?"

"At the end of the game, if the chess wins, the Baojin family will be prosperous from generation to generation. Xia Xun didn't withdraw the palm he handed out, and replied lightly.

"Oh. ”

Responding gently, Xia Yuan had no different colors. The big hand pushed away the gold leaf handed by Xia Xun: "What you promised, just take it yourself." I'm short of people and money, and it's useless to come. ”

"Really?" Xia Xun asked again.

"Don't..."Xia Yuan replied affirmatively.

"Uh... All right. ”

Seeing Xia Yuan's confident appearance, Xia Xun couldn't shirk it, and put the gold leaf back in his arms. After that, his face sank a little, and then he looked at Xia Yuan seriously and said, "Jin doesn't change this person, you have to be careful." ”

Xia Yuan couldn't help but look at Xia Xun's gaze with a hint of appreciation. chuckled: "Yes, your kid's eyes are still so vicious." ”

As he spoke, Xia Yuan waved his palm.

"But don't worry, I know that. What kind of people and what kind of things should be done, I still understand this truth. ”

Xia Xun nodded, put his hands on his knees, and stopped making a sound.

Quiet...

Although the previous question was brushed aside by Xia Xun, doubts still lingered in the minds of several people. Of course, Xia Yuan could see it, but he didn't want to delve too much into this issue at all.

After looking at Xia Xun and Peony for a while, Xia Yuan's tone of speech suddenly changed drastically.

"You two can still make it tonight, won't you?"

"Uh..."

Xia Yuan really has no bottom line when he speaks.

Although it is said that at this time, everyone in the audience is his own family, but how can this matter of men and women be mentioned casually and closed? As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, Peony blushed again. Xia Xun was better, but his face was stiff with embarrassment...

"Uncle Yuan... This... I'm still young... There's no hurry, is it?"

"Humph!"

When Xia Yuan heard this, he was immediately unhappy. The tiger's eyes glared, threw away the dog's tail grass in his hand with one hand, and said sharply: "You were fifteen last year, and you will be sixteen this year, is this still young? Your father and mother have already given birth to you when they are your age, don't he die early, long ago... Uh..."

“......”

At this point, Xia Yuan suddenly closed his mouth.

The reason is simple, he said the wrong thing...

Xia Xun's parents, whether in that terrifying village or now in the Seven Star Courtyard, have always been an unspeakable, taboo topic. If anyone in that village leaks this story, they will be beaten half to death. But, if you say it, you will splash it with water. Some things, it's already too late. As soon as he said his last words, Xia Xun's face sank...

A deep sorrow spread through the room.

Sha...

The shy peony put away a little shy, stretched out her small hand and gently placed it on the back of her big hand. It seems to be comforting and encouraging. Nothing to say...

Seeing this, Xia Yuan didn't want to continue to extend the topic to Xia Xun and Peony. Shaking his head helplessly, he turned his head slightly and looked at Xia Hou, who was cowering and sitting on the other side. deliberately opened the topic and said lightly: "You are drunk today, can you be innocent?"

“......”

Xiahou was stunned.

He knew that Xia Yuan was deliberately pulling up the topic, but he didn't expect this topic to go so far. After thinking about it, he immediately gave up the idea of quibbling, and replied with a shrunken neck: "Although... It's a green house, but... Be... Be... Innocent. ”

"Yes. ”

Xia Yuan nodded slowly.

"The daughter of the former Taishou of Liling County can barely be worthy of you. Then when you come back from Kyoto, you can marry her and be a house-filling maid. ”

"Huh?"

Xia Yuan is pulling the topic even more outrageously now. Xia Hou didn't turn the corner for a while, and said in a trembling voice: "Dad... You... What do you mean by that?"

Xia Yuan glared angrily: "What do you mean? You are four years older than Ah Xun, and everyone has already settled the family affairs, don't you have to hurry?"

"Daddy... Daddy..."

Only then did Xia Hou react and asked cautiously, "You... You... Are you in such a hurry to hold your grandson?"

At this time, Xia Yuan glanced at Xia Xun, who was silent.

Without a trace, he raised a self-deprecating smile, and then said slowly with a little resentment: "It's not me who is in a hurry, it's the village chief who is in a hurry." Before I came out, he asked me to make a military order. If he goes south next year, he can't hold your two dolls, but he will hold me accountable. ”

Xia Hou asked cautiously: "It's only the beginning of the year, isn't it still far from next winter?"

"That's the latest..."

"Can this time still change?"

"Hehe... Who knows?"

“......”

Xia Yuan asked rhetorically, but no one answered.

Mo Xian frowned silently, and Xia Hou fell into deep thought with Xia Yuan's last words. The small hand grabbed the big hand, and the peony blinked her big eyes and looked at Xia Xun comfortingly. And Xia Xun looked at the small hands in the big hands, and his face was extremely sad...

At this point, today's tea party in this small study house can barely be regarded as an end. It was silent for a short time, and at sunset and dusk, the door of the book club was pushed open by Dean Kaiyang, who came to call people for dinner. Seeing that everyone here had a sullen expression, he didn't ask too much, smiled and said a few kind words, and then led a few people back to the stargazing platform.

There is no beginning and no end, and this matter is over.

Then again, let's talk about the water potential of the rivers and lakes...

As the saying goes, boil a frog in warm water, unless the frog is a fool, it will definitely jump. This afternoon, the more than 1,000 teachers and instructors of various colleges and governments who suddenly came to visit were the frogs who felt that the warm water was boiling.

Moreover, they are all frogs with brains.

So, they're really awesome.

Before the banquet started, Dean Kaiyang here led Xia Yuan and a few people to sit down today. Over there, 66 continued, and some people came to toast with all kinds of excuses and different tricks.

This person asked when he would get married, the man asked the old man in the north about his physical strength, and other people chattered about Xia Yuan's old things. All in all, the phrase is, "What do you rely on, so arrogant?"

This chatter is like a swarm of flies around the main table on the stargazing platform, constantly wandering, which is really annoying. So much so that after only one round of the banquet, Xia Xun couldn't bear to sneak out with the peony. Even Xia Yuan, who has always been afraid of big things, but is afraid that things will not be busy, had to slap the table and blast everyone back to their original positions. Only then did the "buzzing" chatter subside a little.

It's just that this subsidence doesn't subside much. Because, tonight, like the chatter on the stargazing platform, it is not the only one. Close to Yueyang, as far as tens of millions of miles in the southern region of the Tang Dynasty, most of the forces are inevitable, and a similar scene is being staged. After all, this still water in the rivers and lakes of the Southern Regions, under the frying of a paper invitation in the past few days, Xia Yuan's southward departure, the reposting of the official list, etc., has gradually approached the boiling point. And the moment it boiled was probably the night three days later...

This is also likely to be the night that will decide the fate of everyone in the South...

......