I was Idle and Cool

do not know.

She didn't know anything about Xue Kuang's personal habits.

First, because the relationship between Lu and Xue Kuang was unfamiliar, and they did not leave any words related to this; second, Xue Kuang passed away for nearly six years, which was a long time ago, and people around did not mention Xue very much. Besides, the servants in the house have all changed.

Even if Lu Jinxi wanted to know, there was nowhere to ask.

If you try to inquire, it will be too revealing.

What's more, she never thought that she would face the current situation...

Looking at Xue Tingzhi's eyes, Lu Jinxi suspected that he must have made a mistake, but he was not sure whether it was because Xue Tingzhi heard the story too outrageous, or found out which details of the story she was telling were wrong.

If a flaw is seen...

That's just fun.

Facing Xue Tingzhi's gaze, Lu Jinxi's eyes had a bit of deep dark light flowing, but she concealed it well, even if she had guesses in her heart, she didn't show it on her face.

At the moment, he just put on a slightly surprised expression, and said with a smile: "When did you come? Really, the maids outside don't know the rules, so they told you to wait outside. It's time to teach you a lesson."

Xue Chi and Luo Dingfang, who had just finished listening to the story, came to their senses when they heard the voice and looked towards the door.

Xue Mingli and Xue Minglang were standing outside, just like them, they recovered from the story.

The expressions on the faces of the two little girls were a little dazed.

Xue Tingzhi alone, his eyes narrowed, he had already bowed down and said: "I see my mother, please give her peace. When Tingzhi and the two young ladies came, they only listened to the story of the mother inside, and they were very focused and did not dare to disturb. , so I didn't ask anyone to report. But I didn't wait long, and I ask my mother to forgive me."

Forgive...

Lu Jinxi's eyes swept over the body of the maids at the door, and then glanced at Qingque standing next to him, after all, he suppressed some thoughts in his heart and did not settle accounts for the time being.

She didn't lose the smile on her face, and only invited them to come in: "Don't stand outside, come in and sit."

A few people just walked in.

Luo Dingfang was still young, and he didn't have anything to say to avoid suspicion. The old and young people, both inside and outside, greeted each other with curiosity.

After that, Lu Jinxi called and sat down.

Xue Mingli folded her hands in front of her, knowing that Lu Jinxi was going to talk to Sister Lang today, so she felt a little nervous when she sat down.

Today, Xue Minglang was forcibly pulled over.

She didn't want to come, but she didn't know where Sister Li found Xue Tingzhi, and coaxed her to come to pay her respects. So at this moment, her face was not very good. Although she asked An, she didn't look at Lu Jinxi, looking stubborn.

Lu Jinxi had already planned to solve this problem today, so she didn't mind it very much when she saw it, she just said to them: "I went out today and I have chosen gifts for you all. When I came back, I asked the maid to deliver them to your yard. It’s a random choice, if you see any you like, or if there is something missing in the room, you can report it, and I will buy it for you later.”

The gift was given out before, and several people had it.

Xue Tingzhi also received it early.

It is a golden fan from Shu.

The fan is painted with landscape patterns and decorated with gold foil. It is very precious. There is also a topaz fan pendant on the bottom.

The maid said that it was brought by the second grandmother, and said that she brought it when she went out today.

When he looked at it, he couldn't tell what he felt.

At that time, I guessed that someone else had it too.

Now that I'm here with Lu Jinxi, listening to her talk, I know what I expected.

Xue Tingzhi lowered his eyes slightly, and after the others thanked him, his face was calm and unchanged, and he thanked him: "Tingzhi also received the fan sent by my mother. I sincerely thank my mother for her kindness."

Oh.

In fact, she just bought it casually, just to make up the number.

Lu Jinxi's feelings towards Xue Tingzhi were always very strange: he didn't like it, he didn't hate it, he didn't care much, but he cared about it inexplicably.

But because she caught a glimpse of the child's emotions last time, she was actually extra careful when she treated him.

Listening to him thanking her, she just folded her hands on her knees, smiling dignifiedly and dignifiedly: "But it's just a fan. I saw it when I was passing by, and I bought it. The eldest son doesn't dislike it."

smoothly.

These two words, like two nails, plunged into Xue Tingzhi's heart at once.

His face turned white for no reason, and he vaguely sensed that Lu Jinxi's attitude towards him contained a hint of indifference that was hard to detect...

"My mother gave me a gift, how dare I dislike it."

It's good to just wait for him to dislike it.

It's just that Lu Jinxi wouldn't say it, and now he's just showing his attitude a little bit to let Xue Tingzhi know something.

Xue Chi, who was on the side, looked at his left, and then at his right, thinking that he came back late, and he hadn't gone to his house to see it, so he didn't know if the gift was there.

Itching in his heart, he couldn't help but ask, "Mother, do I have it?"

"Yes..." Lu Jinxi looked at his expectant eyes and shook his head helplessly, "How dare you forget your little ancestor?"

"Ah, mother is really good!" Xue Chi was so happy that he almost jumped up from the chair, but he said immediately, "But mother, don't tell me what it is. When I go back to see, Just a surprise!"

As a child, there are more rules.

Lu Jinxi sighed again in his heart, but of course he still followed him: "Yes, yes, it's all about you. I won't tell you if you want to be surprised. If you want to listen to the story, I'll tell you the story, okay?"

"Mother was telling a story to my brother just now, a story about my father?"

Xue Mingli was outside just now and listened to most of it.

Hearing Lu Jinxi mentioning "storytelling" at this moment, he couldn't help being curious and asked in a low voice.

Lu Jinxi smiled and said, "You have heard a lot, right? That is to say, Brother Chi came with the second son of Luo today, because they saw the Hong Lu sword, and somehow it got involved with the general and wanted to drag me to talk about it. The story. I put together a few jokes that Mr. storytellers often tell, and made up a few paragraphs."

The joke that Mr. Storyteller often tells?

in vain?

When other people listened to this sentence, they didn't feel anything at all.

But for Xue Tingzhi, who had been at the border and had a certain understanding of Xue Kuang, this section was a big problem. He remembered the doubts that popped into his heart when he heard it earlier.

A face, still a little pale.

He stared at Lu Jinxi and took her words very naturally: "Mother is too modest, and this story is also very well told. Listening to Tingzhi, it is very close to what Mr. Cai said at the beginning."

Mr Cai...

Lu Jinxi recalled the battle reports he had read and knew who Xue Tingzhi was talking about.

Xue Kuang was fighting at the border back then, and he was in charge of the tiger talisman and led the army.

There are more than ten generals under his command, including the current nine-door admiral Liu Jin. Fang Shaoxing came to prominence too late, and at first he was not very ranked there; in addition, there was one person who was very noticeable.

This person is Cai Xiu.

This person does not have any title in the army, but he can speak half of Xue Kuang. He is the number one think tank in the army, and the counselor among the counsellors.

Commonly known as "white paper fan" is also.

After the war ended, some of Xue Kuang's former troops returned to the capital to serve as officials, such as Liu Jin; some were dispersed to daily garrison at the border and never returned to the capital.

Cai Xiu, a white-paper fan in the army, is said to have returned to the capital, but eventually returned to the border.

Now that there is no war, I don't know what to do.

Lu Jinxi knew that Xue Kuang had stayed at the border gate, but he didn't know that he knew what happened to Xue Kuang back then.

"I remember when you were in that battle, you shouldn't have been born, right? But I was very lucky to have Mr. Cai tell you the story from the beginning. I can only read the battle report and make nonsense based on it. Since you listened to it. Well, why don't you tell us about it too?"

Children love to hear stories.

They couldn't hear the deep meaning hidden in Lu Jinxi's words, so they just looked forward to it, and they all looked at Xue Tingzhi with expectant eyes.

But Xue Tingzhi heard that little bit...

Satire.

As Xue Kuang's wife, she could only know everything about her husband from the battle report.

Now I'm talking to him secretly like this...

After all, even if Xue Kuang has been gone for six years, she still cares about it, right?

This thought just flashed through his mind, but it was not at all dull.

Xue Tingzhi's fingers were silently stiff and a little tight, and he only smiled slightly.

"Mother has a life, I dare not refuse to obey."

"It's just that Mr. Cai was very brief. He only said that when my father first arrived, he did encounter some difficulties. But after the incident, he was all convinced by his father."

"Beheading Prince Yikun is three moves to take the head. Because of his arrogance and arrogance, he didn't take his father seriously."

Cai Xiu was actually very young back then.

Calculating this year, he was actually about the same age as Xue Kuang, thirty-three or four. When he spoke, he only had an old-fashioned tone mixed with faint sarcasm.

Xue Tingzhi knew that it was mocking those who despised Xue Kuang at the beginning.

"As soon as Prince Yikun died, the Xiongnu army fell into civil strife, and the dragons were leaderless."

"Yunzhou City got a chance to breathe because of this, and my father became a hero who turned the tide. At the celebration banquet, the people presented the local unique Liyun wine to reward the sergeant."

"The original guards in the city are all at this banquet, toasting their father and making amends for their previous rudeness."

When he said this, Xue Tingzhi's voice was very natural, as if what he said was what Cai Xiu said at the beginning.

Between those handsome eyebrows and eyes, there was a faint coldness of Bianguan Liangyue.

His eyes turned to Lu Jinxi, but he was calm: "Father finally drank with them, and all the grievances and grievances before the cup of wine were gone, and he became the well-deserved general of the defense of Yunzhou City."

Killing Yi Kun with warm wine, of course, does not exist. But in fact, the speed at which Xue Kuang killed this person and took his head was definitely not slow.

Lu Jinxi's previous compilation, apart from being a little exaggerated, was really inseparable.

The long and thick eyelashes trembled, and the divine light in her eyes, under the cover of its shadow, became somewhat obscure.

After listening to Xue Tingzhi's words, she was silent for a while.

"Mother, are you alright?"

Seeing that she didn't speak, Xue Tingzhi hesitated, and finally asked.

"fine."

Lu Jinxi seemed to have reacted just now, but when he raised his eyes to look at him, the bottom of his eyes became more and more distant, and his smile was so faint that he was almost invisible.

"It's just that I didn't expect that the general also drank in the army. I thought..."

After that, he didn't say anything.

Xue Tingyi couldn't help looking at her, but she saw her brows and eyes were downcast, and her smile seemed to be a bit reluctant, giving people a pale feeling.

So suddenly I feel very cruel.

——He was actually doubting her identity. He also made up unwarranted things to deceive her, trying to test her truth...

In the army, Xue Kuang did not drink a drop of alcohol.

It's not that he doesn't drink, but it's easy to make mistakes when drinking, and he rules the army very strictly.

Wherever it is.

Lu Jinxi could only infer the situation at that time based on the battle report, and added the words of the storytellers to make up such a story.

Even the details of drinking after killing Yi Kun sounded so abrupt and wrong to him.

But listening to her words just now, she clearly knew that Xue Kuang did not drink alcohol in the army...

For her, what she just said might just be a story.

But when she learned from his mouth that Xue Kuang actually drank alcohol, how should she feel in her heart?

will be lost?

Disappointed?

Or some other emotion?

He deceived her, but right now he can't say a word to redeem the lie.

Xue Tingzhi could only look at her and fell into a strange silence.

Such silence was caught in Lu Jinxi's eyes.

But she withdrew her gaze, and she laughed coldly from the bottom of her heart: Xiaonencao, this little scheming, do you want to plot against her? It's still early!

As early as when she saw his eyes, she felt that he was doubting herself. But at that time, I wasn't sure what the mistake was in my previous story, I just had a vague hunch.

But then Xue Tingzhi talked about the events of the year, and at the end he seemed to mention drinking unintentionally.

Where is she not sure?

It is not too late to mend the dead.

A sentence of "I didn't expect", a sentence of "I thought", is enough to dispel all the doubts before Xue Ting, plus...

A little guilt-inducing trick.

In fact, I knew that Xue Tingzhi was a little careful about her...

Lu Jinxi felt that she was despicable.

But how many saints are there in the world?

Therefore, although Xue Tingzhi felt a little guilt towards her, she did not feel any guilt towards Xue Tingzhi. She just sighed, and then changed the subject naturally and talked to the other four children.

Xue Chi said the most, and Luo Dingfang occasionally added two sentences.

Xue Mingli was listening most of the time, but because Xue Minglang didn't speak today, she had to say a few more words on behalf of her sister, barely maintaining the lively atmosphere in the room.

Xue Chi was also presenting treasures, dragging his two sisters to look at the swords on the table.

Luo Ding had conveniently told him the origin of Hong Lujian earlier, so at this moment he proudly showed it off, and said that when he grew up, he would also be a general with a sword.

From start to finish, Xue Tingzhi was a little distracted.

Until I heard that gentle voice say: "...It's a gift from the Grand Master Gu of the Grand Master's Mansion, you said that Honglu doesn't make swords anymore, where can I ask for a second one? Niangke Not so great!"

Raising his head, he saw that Lu Jinxi had stood up at some point.

With a smile on her face, she just lightly tapped Xue Chi's forehead, she covered the sword box with both anger and amusement, and asked the maid to hold it down, only saying: "It's time to eat, keep the sword. You can watch it anytime, it’s not over yet.”

Hong Lujian.

Grand Master Gu of the Grand Master's Mansion?

Xue Tingzhi captured these key pieces of information, and the fingers on the armrest suddenly trembled. I noticed for a while that the sword box was also expensive red sandalwood...

A gift?

He didn't know why, but he suddenly remembered what he heard when he was behind the screen.

That was the ghost hand Zhanglai, who gave him acupuncture behind the screen. The people sent by Princess Yongning came to the room, and they seemed to have given something to Lu Jinxi.

Later, Lu Jinxi went out to send the ghost hand Zhang. He went out of the room, and when he flipped through it, he found that it looked like a roster used by Iceman to talk about matchmaking.

Judging by the age of most of the people above, most of them were prepared for Lu Jinxi.

First there was the roster, and now there is a gift from the eldest son of the Grand Master's Mansion...

It's hard to say that this feeling is not subtle.

Xue Tingzhi sat in his position and did not move.

Instead, Lu Jinxi turned to look at him and said with a smile, "Second son Luo is here today, and you all have known each other, so you can stay and eat in a while. I have already asked the kitchen to prepare, and there are almost all of your favorites. Dish, the eldest son also stay."

This time, in fact, there was not much room for him to refuse.

Xue Tingzhi also did not refuse, silent for a moment, and then responded.

In no time, there was a meal in the house.

The sumptuous dishes were lined up on the table, and several people were sitting around the round table. At the beginning, he still practiced eating without talking or sleeping, but because of Xue Chi, a chatterbox, the table soon became a battlefield.

Even Xue Minglang, who didn't talk much, started to pinch Xue Chi because he wanted to grab a piece of meat from him.

Lu Jinxi was still the same as before, and didn't mean to stop it at all.

Seeing the two children fighting each other with rage, her eyes were full of smiles, so bright that it seemed to reflect the stars in the sky.

As soon as Xue Tingzhi looked back and saw it, he could hear his heart beating violently.

...

This meal took about half an hour before and after.

After drinking the tea, the sky outside was completely dark, so Lu Jinxi ordered someone to light a lantern and send Luo Dingfang back to the house, and Xue Chi naturally followed him for a while.

She didn't stop.

The remaining three, Xue Tingzhi, Xue Mingli, and Xue Minglang, will also leave.

But when he was about to leave, Lu Jinxi stopped Sister Lang alone and said, "Eldest Young Master and Sister Li, go back first, and Sister Lang will stay for a while. I have something to tell her."

When Xue Minglang was about to leave, he immediately stopped.

She was a little surprised, her body was a little stiff, and she looked at Lu Jinxi who was walking towards her...