Ning Gu

The wind blows the red jade into pieces, and Juheng Garden also adds a lot of loneliness.

Xie Ling didn't get a good rest last night, maybe Zhao Zuo didn't come back all night, maybe it was because he was wandering in the garden when he was tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and he was looking at Xuancheng in the depths of the corridor talking with a shadow, maybe it was this huge city Here, everyone is busy getting rid of him.

Sheng didn't fall into a light sleep until the sound of the watch was fading, and he didn't sleep for a long time before he was woken up by the noise.

The Cuttan House is not located in the center of the garden, but in the east of the garden, next to the fence, and separated from the outer avenue by a wall.

Xie Ling got up and asked the boy why it was so noisy outside, only to find out that the unique temple fair in this street was approaching in summer.

He felt curious and wanted to go to that temple fair, but he couldn't remember the last time he saw this temple fair.He asked someone to place the teahouse at the corner of the corridor away from the entrance of the garden, while he lingered in front of the corridor at the entrance of the garden, hesitated a few times, and finally did not dare to take the step across the threshold.If Xie Ning appeared in front of people again, what kind of commotion would be caused, he could guess even if he didn't imagine it.

He is a sycophant who has been written into the loess, and even the few words about him in the history books are notorious.He twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled wryly, probably he could only do this. He used to stand behind that person, but now he lives behind everyone.

The little boy was picked up by Xie Ling from the mountains, and he didn't know the relationship between Fufeng and Xie Ling. Seeing Xie Ling's behavior, he turned his head and asked, "Your Majesty, don't you want to go out and have a look?"

When Xie Ling heard him asking questions behind him, he coughed lightly, thinking that he had acted too much, so he calmed down, sat back in front of the tea table, took the small letter, and refused in a low voice: "No need."

Xie Ling picked up a pen and jotted down something in the small note. Seeing that the little boy was getting tired and was about to take a nap leaning against the railing, Xie Ling seemed to remember something and urged him to say: "That's right. , go and see for me, is the old lady at the tea stall at the corner outside the garden where the shade of the willow is borrowed is still there? If she is still there, buy a bowl of tea from her."

The little boy agreed, and after a short while came back with a bowl of tea and put it in front of Xie Ling, but frowned again and said worriedly: "Mr. Lang, this is crude tea."

"Yeah." Xie Ling brought the tea without raising his head, frowning and drank it in one gulp, at the end he stuck out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that Xie Ling drank the tea, the little boy was surprised: "Your Majesty, can you drink this tea?" But he was slandering Xie Ling in his heart, since he could drink rough tea, why did he instruct him to fry it when he lived in the back mountain of Zhaoxing? That birthday eyebrow.

But Xiao Tong gave up after thinking about it, what was more important was what the old woman at the tea stand told him, as if she had some friendship with the owner of the garden.

"Is the old woman all right?" Xie Ling put the tea bowl on the table, interrupting the boy's thoughts.

"It's okay, except that the hair is whiter, and the complexion is better than yours." The little boy described it casually, then looked up after a pause and asked, "Your Majesty, do you know her?"

"Yeah. We've met each other a few times." Xie Ling responded lightly.

"Then do you know the owner of this garden?"

Xie Ling raised his eyes and looked at Xiaotong, his heart was agitated, Xiaotong couldn't keep things hidden in his heart, he must have said something from the old woman at the tea stand when he asked like this.

Xie Ling pretended to be calm and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The old woman at the tea stand told me that most of the owners in this garden are not used to drinking rough tea, but every time she buys tea from the tea stand, she always frowns and swallows hard, thinking that she can fool her old man. Later When that person comes to buy tea, she will always add a spoonful of sugar to him." The little boy didn't have the ability to observe words and expressions, so he got used to it, and continued on his own, "And after the master passed away, the garden was also deserted. Few people buy tea from her. Hmm... Also, she added an extra spoonful of sugar to this tea, saying it was for those who bought tea today."

These words hit Xie Ling's heart in a serious manner, like a small stone falling into a deep pool, not as magnificent as it was, but it caused ripples.He took the tea bowl back into his hand and looked at it carefully. The tea bowl was made of pottery, not as eye-catching as other celadon, but after so many years, it is still being used by people.

It's like some kindness, time has passed, but there are still people who inherit it and pass it on.And some people, there are always people who are thinking about it.

"Lang Jun," the little boy called Xie Ling softly when he saw that Xie Ling's eyes were flushed, and then asked again when Xie Ling regained consciousness, "Are you familiar with that old lady?"

"Familiar." Xie Ling admitted without hesitation, "I took Xianzhi to Luzuo that year, and I have some relationship with her."

Xie Ling poured the freshly brewed birthday eyebrows into the tea bowl mixed with sugar, and began to chat.Curls of smoke rose from the animal head beside him, and the morning light was just right, filling the cup to add warmth.

At that time, Xianzhi was still a teenager, and it was also the time when he didn't know what it was like to be sad.He Mei woke up and ran to Fatan's small courtyard, and saw that his master had been up for a long time, drawing a picture of mountain flowers in the courtyard with a pen and ink.With a shy face, he ran to call his master, and before he could stand warm in the yard, he was led by his master to leave through a small gate at the back of the garden.

"Master, why did you come here?" Xian Zhi hadn't gotten used to it yet, a little confused.

Xie Wuling led Xianzhi's footsteps without stopping, and only stopped when he reached a fork in the road, pointing to Xianzhi.Only then did Xianzhi see that there were many carriages and horses parked at the gate of the garden, and the voices of people were noisy outside the fence, which could be called a bustling crowd.

"They are all here to send greeting cards, do you want to see them?" Xie Wuling asked intentionally, before the words fell, he saw Xianzhi's head shaking like a rattle, so he pursed his lips and said, "Let's go, take you go play."

After speaking, he strode away, and Xianzhi followed behind.Along the way, he fantasized in his heart that his master would go on strike for a day and wanted to take him to that mountain temple for an outing.But he didn't expect that in the winter, his master took him to Luzuo land inside the Guoguo outside the city.

Most of the common people live in Luzuo, and the life of those common people is something Xianzhi has never seen or felt.

Last night he was still lamenting that his life was miserable, he lost his mother early, and because his father was an unfavored prince, so he had to act like he knew how to advance and retreat early.He can't act like a baby until he is behind others and in front of his master.But after today, all his self-pity and self-pity turned into clouds and scattered all over this place.

His steps slowed as he passed among the thatched houses.The thatched shacks occupy more than half of the land, and there are at least one or two green tile houses dotted among them.Smoke was burning everywhere, and from a distance I thought it was cooking smoke, but when I looked closer, I realized that several houses were burning firewood to keep warm in a yard next to each other.The people in the shed were doing things by the light of the sky, but there were few sunny days in winter, and it seemed that the whole area was a little dark.

The winter wind is bitter, and the scenery is chilling. The thatched grass on the roof of the shed is still not resistant to the cold and wind. A few yellow grasses are flying and trembling from time to time.

There are one or two innocent children chasing and frolicking with unknown bones on the street, but most of them are relatively silent people.There were even some who couldn't see their faces clearly, huddled up, wearing summer shorts, squatting in the corner to shelter from the wind.

And Xianzhi's Chinese clothes looked very out of place from the moment he stepped into this place.Xianzhi looked back for his master, only to find that his master had also removed the fur coat his father brought yesterday, and came here only wrapped in a windbreaker.

Xie Wuling also seemed to have noticed the strangeness, and found out that it was his own negligence, he forgot to ask Xianzhi to change clothes and come back again.But before he had time to sigh, he felt a few gazes.Xie Wuling raised his hand to put Xianzhi into his wind robe, blocked those gazes for him, and led him forward.

Xianzhi looked at the road ahead and found that Xie Wuling was going to take him to a pharmacy, he was puzzled, so he looked up at Xie Wuling, before he could speak, Xie Wuling broke his mind.

"Look at it, listen to it. It turns out that the righteousness of the scriptures I read is not as good as coming here." Xie Wuling's words were calm, but Xianzhi heard a sense of helplessness. He probably didn't know that Xie Wuling also went to Bin Lu Zuodi of Zhouzhou came up with such an idea; and he didn't know that what really broke Xie Wuling's arrogance was not the remaining prestige of Emperor Hui, nor his master's death, but Lu Zuodi in this prosperous age. The world has brought him all kinds of states.

"I don't come to this place often. Come here once, just enough to experience it." Xie Wuling raised his hand and patted Xianzhi's back, "So this time you have to experience it enough. Otherwise, when your birthday is asked by your grandpa, my grandson Master's position will not be guaranteed."

Xianzhi heard the sound and closed his eyes, he could tell how much jokes and truths were in Xie Wuling's words, and he also knew the importance of Xie Wuling's words saying that he should be asked by Emperor Hui.At least, he didn't want to change his master yet.

Xie Wuling led him into the pharmacy, then let him walk around by himself, and only told him: "The people here should not be bullied or kissed."

Xianzhi nodded ignorantly, and saw Xie Wuling enter the house to find a doctor.He walked around the courtyard of the pharmacy.

The pale-faced adult patients, some children who fell into a coma, and of course there were three or two elderly people in the corner of the courtyard.Envy's eyes accidentally bumped into someone's eyes, the eyes were full of confusion, but seemed to be filled with lifelessness, or with some other unknown things.

But that person's eyes quickly moved away, just like the people here, unlike those people on the street who just turned their eyes on him, he was also happy and relaxed.

After going around a few turns, he saw a child decocting medicine in front of a high platform. The child should be about the same age as him, but taller than him.

He frowned and walked in, wanting to take a look.It was the first time he saw such a big pot, his eyes froze, and he didn't come back to his senses until he was yelled at by that child.

Zhi'er's temper is not very good, a bit like his Uncle Xiu Huang, but Uncle Xiu Huang is generally better than him.

"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way." Zhi'er ran away to grab a handful of medicinal ingredients that Xianzhi didn't know, and ran to the big pot in a hurry, and threw the medicinal materials into the pot.

"What are you... doing?" Xianzhi came here, seeing his appearance, he also forgot the etiquette, so he just asked.

Who knows that Zhi'er ignored him, enviously thought that he didn't hear it, so he asked again, Zhi'er was busy with what he was doing, and said angrily: "It's decocting medicine, didn't you see it? Where are you?" My little son, come to ask about the sufferings of the people? Unfortunately, the people are suffering every day, so don’t give your condolences, and go back to your place earlier, how about it?”

The child spoke a series of eloquent words, and Xianzhi only picked what he wanted to hear, and only picked what he wanted to answer: "Yeah. I am..." Xianzhi thought for a while and said, "Come with Mr. Xie Xiao of."

What Xianzhi didn't expect was that Mr. Xie Xiao's name was not only useful in Chongque, but also in this place.

"Mr. Xie Xiao is here again?" The child's movements were slightly sluggish, his eyes lit up, he put down what he was doing, and moved a seat for Xianzhi.

"Yeah. Here we come." He glanced at the civilians outside the courtyard, and suddenly... didn't dare to sit down safely.This place is quite different from Fufeng where he was born and grew up.He just watched the child continue to be busy, and interrupted from time to time, "Does Mr. Xie come here often?"

"It doesn't count. I haven't been here for a few years. You don't know. I was young a few years ago, and I always heard from my parents that he was a big man. Every time I came, I always brought something. I heard it might be gold leaf, but every time Every time I only brought it to a few clinics."

"Oh, then you..." Before Xian could say anything afterwards, Zhi'er cut off his beard.

"I came here because there are gold leaves here, so I'm sure I can make a living." Zhi'er turned around and gave Xianzhi a silly smile, with a bit of sincerity in his words.

"Then... did you get the gold leaf?" Xianzhi asked, blinking.

Zhi'er shook his head, and Xianzhi's hand touched his waist, but unfortunately he failed to fulfill the wish of the two children, and he didn't bring out anything.

Xianzhi raised his hand, and touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment. Fortunately, Zhier didn't force it, and he didn't say much when he saw his appearance, but his eyes were a little bit disappointed, and he continued to work .

Xianzhi followed him up and down the room, and when he saw him turn around, he continued to ask: "Are you... are you short of gold leaves?"

"Who is not short of people here?" Zhi'er's words were flat, without any hint of mockery, but to Xian Zhi's ears, it seemed that something had hit her heart.Zhi'er sighed, and said leisurely: "You are not from here, so you won't understand."

Xian Zhixiang continued, "I can understand", but these three words stuck in his throat.

"People here are like this. If you look outside, you can see old people in twos and threes, because they have no money, and some of them are seriously ill. They dare not even look at the doctors because they have no money; look at those sick people, you Have you looked into their eyes? They are all lost, probably the only people in this place who are at ease and carefree are the children outside the pharmacy. Sigh."

"But you are also a child..." Xian Zhi whispered

"I'm different from them, and I can't be a child anymore." Zhi'er shook his head, rubbed his hands on his clothes, and then pushed Xianzhi, pushing him out of the decoction place, "It's not here. It suits you, let's go, I have to work. I have to finish decocting the medicine earlier today, and my mother-in-law is still waiting for me to go back earlier at home."

Xian Zhi turned his head and looked up at the child in front of him, obviously the child was not much taller than him, but at this moment he was extraordinarily tall, he felt that there was a smile on the corner of the person in front of him, like the sun he could see when he looked up in spring.

But the sun fell into the water, and he couldn't help him disperse the duckweeds around him, and he couldn't feel his warmth, so he could only stand on the shore and watch silently.

Xianzhi felt a little lost and went to look for his master. The child's mood is not like that of an adult, and he always comes out of nowhere.

It was like this when Xie Wuling saw Xianzhi again.At that time, he was putting a bag of gold leaves in front of the doctor as consultation money.

The doctor nodded, and asked someone to bring a bundle of gadgets, saying that the people here wanted to give Xie Wuling these few years.

Xie Wuling took it with a smile, and asked Lang Zhong to thank the people from Lu Zuo for him, then he waved to Xianzhi who was walking towards him.

He looked at Xianzhi's drooping eyebrows and eyes, and felt worried, thinking that he probably forgot all the instructions he gave him when he just entered this courtyard.

"What's wrong with Mr. Xiao Lang?" Seeing Xie Wuling going to lead the young man in brocade clothes, the doctor knew that he probably brought the child, so he showed a worried expression.

"It's okay, I should have been frightened." Xie Wuling took Xianzhi into his arms, put his hand on his back and patted him twice, and asked, "Go back?"

Xianzhi's eyes moved when he heard this, and he nodded sharply.

After leaving this place, Xianzhi always looked a bit sleepy, Xie Wuling took out a candied haws from somewhere to tease him.Only then did he gradually regain his senses.

But Xianzhi always felt that the candied haws that day was the worst he had ever eaten.

He stopped, tugged on the corner of Xie Wuling's clothes, and called out in a low voice: "Master..."

"What did you see and hear just now, tell Master?" Xie Wuling also stopped and squatted in front of him, asking.

"I don't understand, Xianzhi doesn't understand." Xianzhi muttered, and then said, "But that little brother is very unhappy, Xianzhi understands."

"En." Xie Wuling sighed silently in his heart, Xianzhi is a clever ghost, he must understand more than what he said.But Xie Wuling had no intention of forcing him, and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder, "You have to remember the people there, don't bully them, and don't marry them."

He doesn't know what the little brother in Xianzhi's mouth mentioned to Xianzhi, but it can be seen that it is not a good thing, and it can't be said that he has other plans.

Xianzhi didn't have so much fuss in his heart, he kept rambling on the matter in front of him: "The words of the saints are all lies? The words of the master are also false? Haiyan Heqing, there are 10 families, are they all false?"

Xie Wuling didn't take any further steps, he turned around and looked at Xianzhi, and said seriously: "It's not a lie, it's just that it has never been done, your grandpa hasn't done it yet, and your father may not be able to do it in the future, as for You..." Xie Wuling paused, and then said, "First of all, it depends on whether you want to do it or not."

"I think, but I can't do it, I don't have the gold leaf for him." Xianzhi admitted defeat, and he didn't know what he suddenly thought of, and his dim eyes lit up again in an instant, "Master, you can give me some Gold leaf?"

"Want gold leaf?"

"Well! He said they all lack this."

Xie Wuling was provoked by his sudden childlike innocence, and his eyes became cold: "Will you give me whatever is lacking?"

"I just want to help them." Xianzhi said timidly.

"Apart from Fufeng City, there are Eight Daos and Sixteen Departments. Have you helped those people again?"

"But…"

Xie Wuling suppressed Xie Wuling's unspoken words, and Xie Wuling handed him the burden brought back from Luzuo.

"Since you want to help, think about how to help. There are so many people's lives and righteousness, there is always something you can use. As for the gold leaf," Xie Wuling raised his eyebrows, and his serious face disappeared, "it must not be possible. Have a good day today Think, before entering Chongque the day after tomorrow, tell Master, Master instructed you to enter Chongque to face your grandpa."

Xianzhi nodded, and returned to the garden with Xie Wuling.

The days in Xinyuanzi always go by so fast, and Xianzhi feels that he should go to Chongque before he has figured out why.

That day when he knelt in the Changming Hall to say hello, he felt that he could kowtow himself to sleep, and his memory of the few words that Master told him in the morning was a bit vague.However, he roughly remembered that in the first night, the only thing he could think of was "teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish." It is always better for people in those places to find a good job.Later, his master asked him what he would do if he was his father, and what if he could manage a piece of land.

Finally, before he came to Chongque, he didn’t hear that Mr. Xie Xiao asked him to go to Luzuo to pick up the mother-in-law who helped the child from the pharmacy to set up a tea stall here. He said that there were many people sending greeting cards outside, thinking about it It's summer, and I can't even get a sip of tea. This is Zhaoxing's rudeness.A smile unconsciously appeared on Xianzhi's face, and there was a bit of air in his expression.

On the other side of Chongque, in the Yuanbao Palace, where he got up early to prepare, an unexpected person came.

At least someone Yuan Bao didn't expect.