After a period of greetings, Guo Songtao said to Xie Jingxi: "Little nephew Jingxi, you wait here, Uncle Guo has asked people to find Hui Zhi, she will come over in a while, you go to all parts of Guo's mansion together, I will accompany your uncle to play cards, see you later." After Guo Songtao finished speaking, he went to Guo Songtao's study with Xie Renlu to play cards.

At this time, a maid from the Guo Mansion ran over, she stared at Xie Jingxi very strangely, and she said: "Are you the young man Xie who ran out of that temple and later became a petty official of the Imperial Procuratorate?

"Hey, who are you? How can a girl look at a man like that? You're too naughty?" Xie Jingxi said.

"What's the matter? Praise you for being handsome, your tail will be cocked, and you are still a son, and you say that the lady is naughty as soon as you meet, this is too much?" said the maid of the Guo Mansion.

"Okay, let's not say you're naughty, in other words: Madam is above, Xie Jingxi is polite here, who are you? Where is your young lady?" Xie Jingxi teased Yahuan and said.

"Hehe, you are Xie Jingxi's son, you are quite good at pretending, it's funny, tell you, I'm the maid of Guo's mansion, and I am Guo Xiaoling, the maid next to Miss Guo Huizhi, Miss Guo asked me to tell you first, she will be there soon, let you have a cup of tea first, wait for her, I'm done, let's go, you wait." After Guo Xiaoling finished speaking, she left in a hurry.

Xie Jingxi thought: "Miss Hui Zhi is gentle and elegant, smart and polite, how can this maid beside her be impatient, reckless, and rude. It's a bit puzzling to shout 'you' to guests and not know how to call 'you'. ”

After a while, Miss Guo Huizhi came, she looked at Xie Jingxi, smiled sweetly, Xie Jingxi said, "Huizhi, are you okay? Jingxi didn't expect to see you again so soon, I'm so happy!"

"The little girl didn't expect you to appear in our Guo Mansion, I thought you would continue to be your layman in the Hanging Temple. Continue to meditate on the Dharma. As soon as you see me, you can still call my name, which means that you haven't forgotten me, which is great. Come. Two more cups of tea. Then I will take you to all over the Guo Mansion to see, and my father said that you will accompany us on a tour of the Hanging Temple. You come to Guo Mansion, I have to accompany you on a tour, although Guo Mansion is not big, but it is good to have a back garden, I can take you to see it. Guo Huizhi said.

"Hui Zhi, your father is too polite, he has spoken many times about the exchange of courtesies, in fact, I can meet you and your father in the Hanging Temple, and I can introduce you to the Hanging Temple, it is my luck, and it is also a very happy thing, it is rare that we can meet at that time, now there is no need to say kind words, I am so happy to see you in Guo Mansion today." Xie Jingxi said.

"Father invited you to come to Guo Mansion, he didn't tell me in advance, he just sent someone to tell me, I heard that you came to Guo Mansion, I couldn't believe it, I thought it was a dream, you can come, I am so happy, just now my mother looked for me, there is something wrong, I am afraid that you have waited for a long time, first call Xiao Ling to come over and tell you, Xiao Ling is a daredevil, but she is a very good-hearted girl, she must be rude to you?" Guo Huizhi said.

"Haha, she is a straightforward person, straightforward and fast-talking, very good, she said that as soon as she praised me for being handsome, I cocked my tail, and she also said that you have a good impression of me, I want to know, is this true?" Xie Jingxi asked deliberately.

"Xiaoling said that you have a cocked tail, you are really self-righteous, you think it is quite beautiful, who will have a good impression of you?" Guo Huizhi said.

"Hui Zhi, I can enter the Guo Mansion to see you today, I want to thank your father, according to my guess, it must be your father who intended to let my uncle take me to visit the Guo Mansion, before coming, my uncle did not say that it was General Guo who was going to visit, I just came in, I saw General Guo, I was very surprised, and hurriedly went up to say hello to him!" Xie Jingxi said.

"I believe that my father must have told your uncle about your visit to the Hanging Temple, so the two of them left so quickly under the pretext of going to play chess together, and asked me to accompany you to play around the Guo Mansion, do you see it? They must have arranged it intentionally, and my father knows very well that I never accompany guests to play. Guo Huizhi said, she was very shy, and her face turned red again.

"I feel it too, but it's good to have me alone with you, I like it!" Xie Jingxi said sincerely.

"You're not shy, aren't you embarrassed to just say it directly? It seems that you have a bad stomach, and it is premeditated!" Guo Huizhi said.

"It's not a bad stomach, but a warm heart; it's not premeditated, but I've long liked you, after talking to you in the Hanging Temple's 'Sending the Child Guanyin Temple', I can't forget you in my heart, after you went down the mountain, I've been thinking about you, fortunately, my uncle took me back to the capital from the Hanging Temple, and became a petty official in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that I have the opportunity to see you again, this may be the will of God, so that the two of us can be together again, I really want to thank God." Xie Jingxi said.

"Said that you had a premeditated plan, and sure enough, it was true, the Hanging Temple just met, and I liked, you were embarrassed to say it, at that time, in front of my father, you had already shown an affectionate expression to me, in fact, my father had seen it, and came back and kept asking me, let me tell me about my impression of you, I said that you have crooked talents, some cleverness, and are also very good at bragging, some knowledge, but like to shake dew, is a nasty guy!"

"Haha, your father must have said, 'Good daughter, I see, what you say is the opposite, he doesn't hate it, but it's cute!, right?' I can really imagine that your father must have said that. ”

"You really hate it, you're so ghostly, you really guessed it, and your father praised you a lot, saying that you were a very talented young man. Guo Huizhi said.

"Jingxi knows that your father's impression of me is relatively good, and he has already felt that the impression between the two of us is very good, and he has great expectations for me, I guess that the reason why I was able to return to the capital to serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate is that it is very likely that your father has also contributed to the court, although my uncle did not say it, but I can feel that my uncle has a very good relationship with your father, and not long after I went to work, my uncle brought me to visit your father, so I guess your father must have helped me. Moreover, he also specially asked you to accompany me on a tour of the Guo Mansion, indicating that your father likes to let you get closer to me, and it is not difficult to guess that my uncle's opinion is the same as your father's. Xie Jingxi said what was in his heart.

Guo Huizhi listened to Xie Jingxi's words, her face turned red again, she said: "You want to be beautiful, who wants to get closer to you? You are whimsical and smart, so I don't want to get close to you!" Guo Huizhi was very happy in her heart. But she deliberately blamed Xie Jingxi. Sprinkle coquettishly.

"Okay, don't come near me, let me come close to you, okay? I've been close to you for a long time. Do you know? When I entered Guo's Mansion just now. I don't know how happy I am to see your father, and I immediately think of you. I wanted to see you as much as possible, your father may have guessed my thoughts, he whispered to me, I will let you accompany me on the tour in a while, I was so excited, but I didn't dare to show it, I think, I like you too much!" Xie Jingxi said frankly what he thought in his heart.

"You are so annoying, keep talking, deliberately embarrass me, don't say it, the little woman understands, in fact, you know, I ...... I like you too!" Guo Huizhi said the last sentence and hurriedly lowered her head.

They talked for a while, Xie Jingxi thought to himself: "I've been talking to Hui Zhi here intimately, this is not good, General Guo asked Hui Zhi to take me to visit Guo's mansion, if you stay here for too long, it's not too inappropriate, you have to go for a walk, otherwise, General Guo comes back and sees that we have been in this living room, it's not appropriate." ”

So, Xie Jingxi said to Guo Huizhi: "Huizhi, you take me around, let's talk here all the time, if your father comes back, if he sees that we haven't gone to play yet, it's not good, let's go!"

Guo Huizhi felt that Xie Jingxi was reasonable, she listened to him and took him out of the living room of Guo's mansion.

Guo Huizhi took Xie Jingxi to see the flowers and bonsai in front of the living room of Guo's mansion, visited the painting and calligraphy in the painting and calligraphy room, and visited the precious ancient wooden furniture and antique jade art in the showroom.

This garden is not very large, the people of Guo Mansion call it "Ning Cui Xiao Yuan", it is said that at that time, the imperial court explicitly forbade the princes and ministers of the capital to build a large garden in the mansion, perhaps because of this reason, the scale of the garden built behind Guo Mansion is not large, and the name is called "small garden".

Although "Ning Cui Garden" is small, but the layout of its park appears very atmospheric, the setting of the building is also very magnificent, the mountain rock is not very tall, but it seems very steep, the arrangement of flowers and trees is smooth and fresh as the main style, although there are not many pavilions, platforms, floors and pavilions in the garden, but the location where it is located is arranged very appropriately, making people feel that there is a way of sparseness, echoing nature, far-reaching, the style is more magnificent, but the surrounding environment seems to be very warm.

Guo Huizhi led Xie Jingxi to look around, she said to Xie Jingxi: "Although my father is a soldier, his personality is very bold, but he is thick and fine, he is very particular about garden flowers and trees, and he also likes it very much. The paths, etc., are all approved by his father himself, and on weekdays, he often comes to the garden to play when he has free time, and his expression when he wanders in the garden is completely different from the look he shows in front of his subordinates, he is very much like a showman, focusing on savoring the flowers and trees in the garden, which is very interesting. ”

Guo Huizhi pointed to a plaque on a pavilion in the garden and said: "This 'meeting Yuyi' was inscribed by my father himself, and these four words come from the Tang poet Wang Wei's "Weichuan Tianjia", the original poem: 'The slanting sun shines on the ruins, and the cattle and sheep return to the poor alleys. The wild old man thought of the shepherd boy, leaning on the staff and waiting for the thorn. The pheasant wheat seedlings are beautiful, and the silkworms sleep and the mulberry leaves are scarce. Tian Fu hoeed to, and the words of each other followed. That is, the envy is leisurely, and the groaning is declining. ’”

Guo Huizhi said with emotion: "Although my father is a general, he hates war and killing, and at the same time he is also very disgusted by the battle of officialdom. ”

"General Guo is open-minded and magnanimous, I didn't expect him to be so careful about the garden and poetry, and like the freshness and calm of the idyll, which is really rare, with such a father, you must be very happy!"

"To be honest, I have liked poetry, calligraphy and painting since I was a child, which is also influenced by my father, in my eyes, my father is very much like a literati who likes poetry and gardening, not at all like a general who fights on the battlefield and kills decisively, he is very much like an artist, and has a very cute side. Guo Huizhi said.

"Actually, on the Hanging Temple, I have already felt that your father is not only a majestic general, but also very talented, when he listened to me explain the story of Buddhism, he actually knew it very well in his heart, but in order to encourage me, he deliberately said that he didn't understand, deliberately made fun of me, is a very lovely elder, to be honest, meeting your father, let me like you more, there must be a father and a daughter, you must also be very good," Xie Jingxi said.

"You're so annoying, you're starting to talk poor again, don't you know if I'm good now? It's just because you met my father that you think I'm very good, and since you're not sure, you still say that you like me, you're such a big villain!" Guo Huizhi pretended to be angry and said to Xie Jingxi.

"Okay, I apologize, I just want to express my admiration for your father's all-round civil and military talent, it may be inaccurate, please forgive Miss Hui Zhi! I know very well in my heart, you are very good, sensitive and intelligent, knowledgeable, beautiful and elegant, sincere and affectionate, I simply can't find the slightest shortcoming, living is all advantages, I like you so much!" Xie Jingxi said.

"You're really slippery, apologetic, flattering, and quite fickle, so do you think you'll always be good to me in the future? Also, your uncle has really discussed with my father, and they intended to let us be together, is this true?" Guo Huizhi asked with concern.

"My liking for you is from the bottom of my heart and unswerving, I will always be good to you, I believe that you can also feel that I will be good to you, just as you will always be good to me; as for my uncle and your father, I am convinced that they have already discussed, this time we can meet, I think it was also deliberately arranged by their two seniors, otherwise, how could you let you accompany me on a tour alone?" Xie Jingxi replied.

Guo Huizhi said: "Okay, it's very pleasant to read what you said, your statement is sincere, your appearance is good, the little girl doesn't care about you, when you are sincere, let's go, I will take you to visit a secret place, a ......place that few people know about." (To be continued......)

PS: Unexpectedly, Xie Jingxi, who has always been dignified and strict, was also very romantic when she was young, and her wife Guo Huizhi was also sensitive, intelligent, knowledgeable, beautiful and elegant when she was young, but later, she showed more virtuousness, when she was young, Guo Huizhi wanted Xie Jingxi to visit what mysterious place after visiting Guofu Garden http:///Book/3051739.aspx?

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