Ning Gu

The moon sets and the sun rises, day and night.

Suddenly there was chaos in front of his eyes, Xie Ling raised his hand to clear the obscuring fog, but saw a heroic figure approaching from a distance, Xie Ling couldn't really see the face of that person, only that the person had recently handed him a ring pendant , engraved with the word "Qi" on the ring.

Before Xie Ling could say anything, the figure disappeared.

Later, Liang Jianyan contended, disturbing people's dreams, and called Xie Ling back.

When Xie Ling got up, the person next to his pillow was no longer by his side, only the remaining warmth remained under the thin quilt.

Thinking that Cong Shanlang should go to the Chongque Hall to ask about politics, Xie Ling explained to himself, but still couldn't help frowning.

Glancing over the bedside table, the blue ribbon that should have been placed on the table table disappeared, which made Xie Ling's mood even less bright today.A cloud of sorrow suddenly appeared between the brows.

But there is still good news, for example, waiting outside the door of "Fatan" is the boy who has been with him for several years, called Mangzhong.It was because Xie Lingyuan picked him up at the foot of the mountain during the three-year Grain Grain season, and knowing that he had no name, he gave him the name Grain Grain.

Xie Ling stayed in his "Fatan" yesterday, when he came out from the back room, his eyes attracted the booklets that were halfway across the table in the front hall.His steps faltered, and finally he just raised his eyebrows and went straight to open the door.

Fang opened the door, and saw the awn seed sitting by the door dozing.Mangzhong seemed to be awakened by the "squeak" of the door opening, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, raised his head and said, "Mr.

"En." Xie Ling replied coldly.

Mang Zhong has been by his side for more than three years, hearing his voice, he knew that this man must have just got up, and the morning spirit has not gone yet.

Looking at it again, seeing that the man's long hair is all loose, he understands a little better.He curled his lips and pulled a blue ribbon from his waist.

"Here, sir." Mang Zhong triumphantly handed over the blue ribbon in his hand, and seeing Xie Ling take the blue ribbon to tie his hair, the sadness between his brows gradually dissipated. The apprehension followed.

He didn't know why this gentleman liked blue ribbon hair so much, but he would always prepare one or two for him.

The little bit of unhappiness in the morning quickly passed away, Xie Ling left the small courtyard of "Fatan", and searched for a scene in the garden.I asked Mangzhong to spread Xuanlai, picked up a brush to paint, and wanted to chase away the lingering figure in my mind.

Xie Ling took the pen, supported his right wrist with his left hand, stabilized the brush, and then gradually started to write.

The fence is weaved with plum, the wall is drawn with vines, and the world is outlined with a few strokes.The rockery and Xiushi are surrounded by spring water.On the top of the hill, on the half-moon platform, in green shirts and black clothes, the hatchback cuddles together, just like yesterday.

Xie Ling pursed his lips and bit his pen, looked at his peach blossom eyes again, and admired the painting for a long time before saying: "I wish to watch the clouds rise together."

Xie Ling spent a whole morning concentrating on this painting, the corners of his mouth were slightly curled up, and his eyes were full of smiles.Change the pen and ink, and want to write an inscription on the side.Before the pen was finished, it was disturbed by Namangzhong.

"Lang Jun, the new tea that Mr. Qi sent is said to be from your old friend." Mang Zhong came with the brocade box in his arms, bringing the liveliness of the mountains and fields.

"What tea?" Xie Ling asked without stopping.

"Songxi Shoumei."

"Then you go, find someone to set up the tea set," Xie Ling said, stopped writing, put down the pen, turned around, looked into the Xiushi pile behind him, and said, "Prepare an extra cup .”

Mangzhong responded and called someone to set up a cup. After a lot of tossing, Xie Ling started to cook tea with a spoon, so he found a piece of bluestone, and said, "Lang Jun, is there anyone drinking tea today?"

Xie Ling looked up at him, raised his hand and turned one of the three cups set up by Mangzhong upside down, and said, "Just now I neglected my duty and dozed off in front of the door." With a smile, he joked, "You don't have a share today."

Mangzhong's eyebrows drooped instantly, and he looked a bit like Lu Qi who used to have fun around his knees.

"Here, I only allow you to take a sip. If you take too much, you won't be able to sleep. Go down and rest for a while. Your eyes look like I punished you for copying books all night." Xie Ling poured a cup of tea in front of him. Passed it over, waited for him to taste it, returned the cup, and said, "Go, wake up, and come find me again."

Mangzhong left at the sound.Xie Ling waited until the boiling water had evaporated, filled another cup with new tea, and said to the air, "After peeping for so long, why don't you take a break with a cup of tea?"

Just now Xie Ling turned his head to look back at a man walking out of the pile of stones. The man was dressed in brocade clothes, with Han Ou flower petals embroidered on the collar and sleeves.As he got closer, he began to speak politely: "Mr. Xie Xiao, how would you know that someone is in this garden? If you invite someone like this, are you afraid that the person who comes here has evil intentions?"

"Didn't your brother clear the garden for me just now? Now that he can be in the garden, I'm afraid he won't have any evil intentions for a while." Xuancheng pursed his lips and smiled when he heard Xie Ling's words.Xie Ling handed him the cup of tea prepared for him, and said, "Since you've come here, why have you been peeping there for so long, but you don't want to see me?"

"Don't dare," Xuan Cheng waved his hand before even taking the teacup, "Don't speak nonsense."

After finishing speaking, he dared to take the teacup from Xie Ling's hand.Fang took a sip, and then heard Xie Ling ask unhurriedly: "What happened to that child who followed me two days ago?"

"A few years ago, Xianzhi let some old servants return home, and found some newcomers to enter the garden. A few months ago, before the imperial brother went to the palace, he came to live in the garden for a while. If someone moved, they called me over and let people stare at them. After all, the slaves have been in the garden for some time, and they will not dare to move things in the garden. I thought Lu Qi was naughty, and he felt that he was naughty when he moved the silver bell. Brother Huang made a big fuss, I didn't realize that it was all a lot of nonsense. Those new slaves used the silver bell to send a message and I called someone, followed the clues, and found that the person behind was actually Sang Luolang. But..."

When Xie Ling heard the word "Sang Luo", he didn't react except that the hand taking the teaspoon paused.Looking up at him, he continued to ask, "But what?"

"The silver bells in this forest have other secrets?" Xuancheng knocked on the table with his hand, and said again, "Brother Huang can tell at a glance which silver bell has been moved."

"It should be..." Xie Ling frowned, thought for a while, and then said cautiously, "It's just that when the silver bell was hung, I sent him to hang it. But the silver bell was also hung at will, but it's just a good picture. .”

"Huh?" Xuancheng didn't hide his surprise, but he seemed to have figured it out after a while, and it was something Xie Pingzhi would do, so he wasn't so surprised.

Xuan Cheng replied with a smile: "If Brother Huang knew that every plant and tree he has been thinking about these past few years is nothing more than ordinary, you do what you want, and you don't know what face you will turn into.

I don't know which sentence touched Xie Ling, his eyes softened, and he asked back: "How do you know that he doesn't know about this?"

Seeing Xie Ling's appearance, Xuancheng couldn't help taking a breath, but the interest in drinking tea just came, and Xie Ling's next words killed his interest.

"Or, Xuancheng thinks that Pingzhi is not the old Pingzhi, so he just prevaricates me with such jokes?" Xie Ling didn't give Xuancheng a chance to argue, and only raised his hand to invite him to sit down. With a smile that was not a smile, Xuancheng's back felt cold, and he said, "Sit down, Ansheng has tea, should I ask?"

Xuancheng moved two steps and sat down, but it seemed like he was sitting on pins and needles.The hand holding the tea trembled uncontrollably, he swallowed his saliva, cleared his throat, and said with a look of a strong man going to die, "What do you want to ask, Mr. Xiao? Xuancheng will know everything and say everything. "

"Then let's talk about it, why did you come to live at home today? Is the concubine at home unhappy?" Xie Ling teased.

Xuancheng glanced at his mouth, thought for a moment that his brother Huang really didn't tell him what he couldn't say, and asked Pan: "Brother Huang said that you are no different than in the past. There are many things going on recently, so let me accompany Ping Zhi Relieve the boredom." Wei Dun added, "Besides, my beautiful concubines are not as good as mediocre ones."

Xie Ling accepted all these words with a smile, filled another cup for himself, lowered his head and took a sip, feeling hesitant.If there are many things going on recently, it should be difficult for Zhao Zuo to get away and go to Xianshan Palace.It can't be said that it happened in these two days.

Seeing Xie Ling put the teacup down, Xuancheng didn't make a sound, and his heart panicked even more. Naturally, he was lucky enough to have seen Xie Pingzhi's original method.

It turned out that Mr. Tao, who sold officials in the Ministry of Officials, could still call Xie Xiang brothers a second ago, but he was willing to bow his head and beg for mercy, and admitted that he had sold officials to sell nobles.At that time, this story was spread among poor scholars, and all poor scholars praised Xie Wuling, but all the nobles in Fufeng were shocked by this.

And he was sitting next to Xie Wuling at that time, listening to Xie Wuling divide the cup, he greeted Master Tao's immature son with a half-smile and said that he was okay.

Later he heard from Xie Wuling that the son of Mr. Tao's family inherited Xie Wuling's shadow, after defeating the innocence of the women in the house, he still got his life, and lived in a temple in the western suburbs.

The whole of Fufeng had been tacitly aware in the past few years that it was making a deal with this Xie Pingzhi. What he wanted was nothing more than a favor, and sometimes it was a life.

But now the only thing that can make Xuancheng breathe a sigh of relief is that the tea that Xie Pingzhi invited Master Tao to taste at that time was Biluo tea, but what he invited him to eat today was just a cup of Shoumei.

Xie Ling put the teaspoon back in his hand, and said in a calm manner, "Is the Northwest still safe? Sang Luo has gone, I should find a day to visit the wine cellar he left for me."

"Pingzhi..." Xuancheng swallowed his surprise in his throat, expelled the carefree air he had been wearing just now, sat down seriously, and looked at the person in front of him.He remembered what Zhao Zuo said last night when he ordered him to come and watch today. Xie Ling's memory is not as good as in the past, and he can't remember many things, but today, it sounds nothing like what his brother said.The Xie Pingzhi of today is no different from the Xie Pingzhi of the past.

Seeing his posture like this, Xie Ling knew he had hit the target.At the foot of Zhaoxing Mountain, Lu Qi saw some pictures in the secret room of the bamboo house, so naturally he also saw them.In the painting after Changle, there is the northwest desert.If there is a caring person, killing Huixuan, using Sangluo, burning down Yongguo's mansion, and creating chaos in the northwest is also expected.

As for those few paintings, if Lu Qi can guess, he can naturally know; if Lu Qi can't know from the paintings, he can still have some experience.

Although he is still a bit confused, the feeling for each painting is always different.And Qi Zhisheng once said: "Feelings can never lie."

He didn't believe it at first, and kept laughing at his close friend until he saw the picture of the opera robe for the first time.What came to his heart first was sadness, then it turned into fear, and finally it all turned into pain.Thinking about it now, Qi Zhisheng sincerely did not deceive him.

Xie Ling sighed, and then said: "I'm fine now, and Mr. Qi is also in Juheng..." After a pause, he added, "Instead of guarding me, it's better to help Xianzhi. Qi'er these days Years will grow by his side."

"Well——I see," Xuancheng's seriousness has not yet dissipated, and he still has a bit of grandson, "'Sister-in-law' is really fine."

He blurted out his jokes, which really provoked people's anger. Even Xie Ling's kind nature in front of others, after hearing the word "sister-in-law", couldn't help but glance at him, and said: "In today's tea I didn't refill the wine, if you get drunk, go back to the mansion of your city lord Xuan and go to the absurdity."

Xie Ling said so, but the corners of his mouth still curled up.Xuancheng saw it clearly, raised a cup to beg for tea, and begged for mercy in a low voice: "It's wrong, it's wrong, I'll share a cup of tea in Pingzhi."

The smile in Xie Ling's eyes couldn't be hidden, probably that's why Xuancheng was able to take the place for him, and took five points behind Zhaoxing for him.He is always more exquisite than Xie Ling.

Xie Ling raised his hand to add tea for him, and added casually: "There should be nothing wrong with Changle, at least until they find out what is hidden in Changle, nothing will happen to Changle, otherwise..."

"Otherwise, they don't have to let Lu Qi disappear from our sight." Xuancheng continued, brushing away the worries in his heart to Xie Ling, and his scruples were a little less.People with fewer scruples will never be too restrained in doing things.This is exactly what Xie Ling needs.

Xie Ling flicked his sleeves, stood up and looked at his eyes, and said sadly: "The game started early, the chess is messed up."

"But I have given Bao'er the kit you left in me." Xuancheng frowned, got up as well, and asked again, "If it was the original situation..."

"If it's the original game, you should hand over the cloud pattern jade," Xie Ling said, turning around and looking at Xuancheng's sleeve robe on the right.On the string of jade bodhi on Xuancheng's wrist, there is a black jade with a pattern of clouds, which is faintly visible under the brocade clothes.Xie Ling took a step forward, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, raised his eyebrows, and jokingly said, "Why don't you use it while it's available now? They all know that Qi'er was once my adopted son, so they must do their best and have no time to talk nonsense. "

Xie Ling's words dispelled the last worry in Xuancheng's heart. Although Xuancheng took over half of Zhaoxing's power from Xie Wuling with his own hands, he is a member of the royal family, and he is most afraid of doing something wrong. There was trouble in the mixed half wall.

So ever since he found out that Lu Qi hadn't received a spiritual recommendation yesterday, he has been enduring the idea of ​​using his power to find someone for Xianzhi.

Xuancheng raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and said boldly: "I would like to get rid of this burden earlier, but there is no successor." Xuancheng rolled his eyes, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.There was a successor, but that person let go.

Xuancheng still had a happy smile on his face: "A person like me who is well-versed in civil and military skills, I don't think there will be many people in this world, so I should be a first-class person in Fufeng."

"You, you are the first class in Fufeng with just your lips and beautiful concubine." Xie Ling put his hand on his shoulder and pushed his shoulder pretending to be disgusted.

Seeing the appearance of the person in front of him, Xuancheng couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, it's been a long time since he felt so relaxed.Zhao Zuo is the green hill in the temple of Chongque, while Xie Pingzhi is the green hill in Fufeng City, which can shelter them, maybe they rely on it, and the wind and rain will not stop.

But Xuancheng a few years ago never imagined that the person who would cook wine, tea and discuss painting with him would become what he will be in the future.

At that time, Xie Wuling had just returned to Beijing from Binzhou to report on his duties, and he had just been given the feudal city of Xuancheng.

It was the first day of the Lunar New Year, the old Wangsun's family banquet was postponed, Xuancheng held a banquet at the mansion, following Yuan Bao's wishes, invited Xie Wuling to have a drink with them.