Chapter Twenty-Four: Shangyuan Carnival Night
As soon as he returned to the Yue Guo Mansion, Ji Huan fled as if he didn't know where he went, Liu Chen was stunned for a long time, and then he came to the garden of the back house with his shoulders drooped, and Ji Wanzhu with a smile on his face was already standing there waiting for him.
"It's okay!"
"Can't die!"
"Yo, who provoked you again, let's talk about it, my mother will avenge you!" Ji Wanzhu took Liu Chen's arm and led him into the dormitory, arranged for him to sit down and then filled him with a cup of tea, seeing Liu Chen's sullen appearance, she couldn't help but feel a little funny in her heart, Liu Chen knew how to complain, that is, there was not much estrangement with her, this was a good phenomenon, which made Ji Wanzhu happy in her heart.
"How do I feel that my mother knows that man in black? Who is he?" Liu Chen took a sip of tea, looked at Ji Wanzhu who was smiling like a flower with puzzled eyes, and said, "Are you hiding something from me?"
"How can it, how can my mother hide it from you, that person's strength is extremely high, how can a general high-ranking person, how can he easily take action to hurt you a flurry boy, besides, who is my mother, Yue Guogong, listen to the owner of the Snow House is your aunt, who dares to hurt you for no reason, listen to the taste of the Snow Building's pursuit and killing, that is refreshing, no matter how high the cultivation is, when you haven't taken a nap? Don't think about it too much, the mother is comforting you, if I also make a look of great compassion and suffering, don't you think too much?"
"Alas, people say that my grandmother is not as good as my stepmother, but now I have a lot of knowledge, ouch!"
Ji Wanzhu rolled her eyes with a disgusted face, raised her hand and twisted Liu Chen's ear and said: "How can you talk to your mother, when Gongsun Ying's ugly monster was alive in the past, he ate fasting and chanting Buddha all day long, and he was so withdrawn like something, and he didn't bring you up for his mother to soak and pee, what's wrong, now that the wings are hard, they are starting to dislike their mother's no?
Seeing that Ji Wanzhu was not really angry, Liu Chen's heart was also very happy, and getting along with normal people, the pressure was really much less.
"Remember, I won't see your aunt in the future!" Liu Chen's appearance of teeth and claws made Ji Wanzhu can't help but sigh, let go of the hand that twisted his ear, and rubbed him a few times instead: "She has a problem with her brain, and she hasn't been normal since she was a child, but don't go crazy and hurt you again, it's not good!"
Liu Chen kept nodding with a shy face, but he couldn't help but complain in his heart: "I see that you are not normal, when you were in the Longmen camp, you were much more brutal than that Liu Wuxin!"
The mother and son talked for a while, Liu Chen came out of the Yueguo Mansion, and asked Ji Huan to prepare some gifts for himself, and visited several governors of the country when they were fighting in the northwest in turn, and it was getting late when the entertainment was over, and he didn't want to go back to Ji Wanzhu's place, so he had to think about it, and he went to the Jin Mansion for the night today, and it was good to meet the little monk.
When the wind and snow first stopped, Liu Chen came to the Jin State Mansion again, and not long after the little novice who went to report went in, Liu Chen saw a little monk in a black plush coat running towards him happily.
Today's little monk is dressed very warmly, and a black plush hat is also tightly covered with a black plush hat on the bright little head, which looks extremely funny and cute.
"Brother Chen, you're here!" The little monk trotted all the way over, his breath was slightly short, and when he came to Liu Chen's side, he grinned and said very happily: "Let's live here today, I will ask someone to clean up the guest room for you!"
Liu Chen smiled and nodded, but saw the little monk grab him and walk directly towards the outside of the mansion, "Let's go see the lanterns, the lanterns in the imperial capital I longed for when I was in Jinzhou!"
Walking in the lively and extraordinary Chang'an West City, although the snow is still there at this moment, but on the last day of the new year, the passion of the people of the imperial capital has long turned this place into a sea of brilliant lights, people are crowded, laughing, making noise, the hawkers' shouting, the elegant and moving silk strings of the geisha on the drum tower, and the lantern appreciation and laughter of the sons and beauties, all painted a picture of the most beautiful scenery in the eleventh year of the Apocalypse.
Kankan didn't go far, the little monk's hands were already full of all kinds of food, whether it was a sugar gourd or a little sugar man, Liu Chen looked at him quietly and smiled, here, there is no battlefield of life and death, here, there are no rules and regulations in the academy, yes, just a slightly older boy, with a slightly younger boy, walking hand in hand in the snow, focusing on heaven and earth.
"Suffering, have you ever been to the palace?" casually found a small shop and sat down, ordered two steaming tofu brains, the tempting fragrance of the little monk was so happy that he didn't even have time to clean up the sugar stains on the corners of his mouth, so he picked up the bowl and sucked it up.
"The Imperial Palace?" The little monk was a little stunned, looked up at Liu Chen with a puzzled expression, and then wiped the corners of his mouth with his cuffs and said, "I haven't been there before, but just now Uncle Shi said that His Majesty Ming'er wants to invite us to dinner, and it will be in the Imperial Garden!"
"Is the palace big?"
"I heard that it's bigger than the academy!" The little monk leaned forward, lowered his voice slightly, and chuckled: "The storyteller in Jinzhou said that the emperor has three thousand mothers-in-law and aunts, so he has three thousand rooms, how big are three thousand rooms? ”
Liu Chen frowned when he heard this, and began to feel distressed in his heart, the man in black asked him to go to the imperial study to steal something, he didn't know where this imperial study was, not to mention, the palace was so big, where did he start looking for it, not to mention whether he could find it or not, the defense of the palace must be the strongest in the world, and the masters were endless, a young man who knew martial arts really didn't even have the qualifications to deliver food.
"Little brother, it's such a big snowfall, don't you bring an umbrella!" Just when Liu Chen and the little monk stared at each other, a short and thin middle-aged man with a hawker shape walked to Liu Chen's side with his waist bent, wrinkling his wrinkled old face, and smiling.
"It's not snowing?" Liu Chen was suddenly confused, but he was vigilant in his heart, everything that had happened in recent days made him have to be vigilant from time to time, who knows what chaos will happen in this Chang'an City, be careful.
"Why isn't it snowing?" The vendor approached Liu Chen's side slightly, stretched out his hand and pressed it on Liu Chen's table, which happened to be blocked by the bowl, so that the little monk couldn't see what was hidden under his palm, "Remember not to bring an umbrella when it snows, bring a knife!"
Originally, Liu Chen was almost about to rebel, but he didn't expect the vendor to finish this clueless sentence with a smile on his face, so he glanced at Liu Chen deeply, and disappeared into the crowd without looking back.
"Brother Chen, who is there, there's something wrong!" The little monk stretched out his head and looked at the man's back, his face was full of confusion.
Liu Chen didn't reply to his words, and when he looked down, he saw the note left on the table by the vendor, the note was not big, hiding under the pottery bowl full of tofu brains, which read: "Open the banquet for an hour, leave the venue early, someone will take the lead, after bringing a knife, see the southeast fire starting, act!"