Ning Gu

There are few birds in winter, and only when the sun is still good will there be eaves birds.Now it's warm and cold, and many early warblers come and chirp, which disturbs the dream most.Xie Wuling probably fell into a deep sleep because of indulgence last night, it was rare that he was not awakened by the birdsong, when he woke up it was already daylight.

The intense consequences of last night were fully reflected on Xie Wuling today, tormenting Xie Wuling.

The headache after getting drunk can't bear the pain from the body.

Xie Wuling's whole body seemed to be falling apart, especially when the pain came from his body, which declared that Xie Wuling's experience last night was nothing.

He moved his feet slightly, trying to turn over, but when he moved, the wound was pulled, and Xie Wuling gasped in pain: "Hiss——"

"It hurts?"

Zhao Zuo woke up earlier than Xie Wuling. When he woke up, Xie Wuling's even breathing sounded in his ears. For a moment in his heart, he hoped that the sun would rise slowly and the people around him would wake up later.

He was still thinking about how to deal with this matter when Xie Wuling woke up, but all the thousands of thoughts and excuses that he had in mind just now disappeared with Xie Wuling's voice.

Hearing Zhao Zuo's concerned question beside him, Xie Wuling turned his head to look over, his ears turned red immediately, his full of affection and obsession turned into embarrassment at this moment.It turned out that last night was true, and the "Qingshan, you" last night was also true, Xie Wuling thought.

"No, cough cough."

Xie Wuling just made a sound, his voice became unbearably hoarse, he cleared his throat in embarrassment.

This hoarse voice reminded him of his absurdity last night.He had something wrong with Zhao Zuoxin, but he didn't dare to put it on the front line.

He knew in his heart that he and Zhao Zuo could have all kinds of other interests involved, but it couldn't be such a bond of love.

So all these years he has been hiding it, not letting Qingshan walk alone, and not letting Qingshan bear his deep affection.

"I..." Zhao Zuo didn't know what to say for a while, and I didn't continue for a long time.

The two sides were silent for a while, but it was Xie Wuling who spoke first.

"Master Gu Zang." Xie Wuling said it was a serious matter, as if the wanderings of last night had changed with the sun rising and the moon setting, "General Ye in the northwest has a son and a daughter under his knees, named Fuzhou Peeping Fish."

"Yeah." Zhao Zuo listened to Xie Wuling's hoarse voice, changed the subject, and skipped the part of confusion and obsession last night.He also followed him and talked about the Northwest, "I heard from Shen Sanlang that Ye Fuzhou was a talented general. He entered the barracks at the age of 15. At the age of 16, he and the three cavalry teams under his command suppressed several bandits. He became famous at a young age. Time. As for Ye Peeping Fish, I heard it's not easy."

"Ye Peepyu has a team of female soldiers who are good at short daggers. They are the most difficult to defend against when they are close. So everyone is shocked. But compared to Ye Peepyu, Ye Fuzhou is more important. Fame is in the youth, but to become famous, you must press Press it." Xie Wuling's voice was soft, like whispers between lovers.

"Press?" Zhao Zuo frowned, "Mr. Xiao wants me to press?"

"How can you suppress it?" Xie Wuling smiled, with a bit of frivolity in his words, "As you did to me last night?"

Zhao Zuo who asked this question didn't know how to answer, Zhao Zuo was at a loss and kissed Xie Wuling's forehead.

Xie Wuling was joking, but Zhao Zuo took it seriously, and was a little dazed for a while.When he came back to his senses, he comforted himself that this move was mostly a play on the occasion, his sincerity could be handed over, Zhao Zuo's sincerity, he could not have it.

After a long while, he pointed out: "If you go to the northwest, look, but something happened to the Ye family. If so, you can help him."

"Didn't you just say pressure?"

"That's not you to press. But you can still press. In this matter, Emperor Hui's method is the best," Xie Wuling raised his hand, lifted it a little higher, and raised the other hand to fold on this hand, exerting force Pressing it down, he said, "You have to support it high first, then you can hold it down."

Xie Wuling explained it calmly, but there was some bitterness in his eyes.This is what Emperor Hui taught him. Yong Guogong is one, he is one, and Changle is almost one, but Xie Wuling didn't say this after all.

"However, Master Guzang, it's better to go earlier. Taking advantage of this vagrant chaos, you can save some effort."

"After the next year, I will go to the school. You..."

"what?"

"You should also be careful in Fufeng. Household Department, although there are not many officials and family members, every courtier has worked hard and made great achievements. But the emperor will not move anything that can be opened or closed."

"Ok, I know."

"There are many dandies in the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials. If you don't want to wander, you can hand it over to Changle. As for Xuancheng..."

"It's hard to talk about love, but I think you can trust him once."

"Have you really thought about it?"

"Well. If I am in the future..." Xie Wuling looked up at Zhao Zuo, forced a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "I will always leave you a way out."

If I die, you must live too.

"Daddy! Master!" Xianzhi trotted into Fatan all the way, and he was about to open the door and come in sooner or later.

Before Zhao Zuo had time to refute Xie Wuling's words, Xie Wuling immediately said, "Xianzhi, don't push the door!"

"Ah?" Xianzhi paused with his hand on the door, but the door was still opened a little.Xian Zhi curiously peeped through the small slit.

He saw his father get off the master's bed, pulled the coat on the hanger and put it back together, Xianzhi asked cleverly: "Master, Xianzhi wanted to find Daddy, but he didn't say that Father was here at Fatan, and Xianzhi wanted to ask Has Master seen Daddy?"

Zhao Zuo pulled the blue ribbon that Xie Wuling hung on the hanger, gathered up the scattered blue silk, then stepped forward to open the door, regaining his former majesty and said: "Looking for me?"

"Daddy!" Xian Zhixin thought that she had also caught her father's pigtails, and her father must have come to Master's place to be lazy and sleep back in the cage.After thinking about it, he had a bad idea, wanting to expose the fact that his father was lazy in front of the master, and make his father ashamed.

Talking about Xianzhi, he poked his probe inside, grinned and said, "Where's Master?"

"Master is sick." Zhao Zuo raised his hand to stop Xianzhi, seeing that he was about to rush out, he pushed him out again.

Hearing the sound, Xie Wuling also coughed twice in cooperation with Zhao Zuo, pretending to be sick, and hearing the hoarse voice, it seemed to be confusing the real one.

Seeing this, Zhao Zuo took Xianzhi and took two steps outside, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Master agreed to take Xianzhi to the Lingjian Monastery today to pay homage to the Queen Mother, so Xianzhi got up early today and took Aunt Zou'er's car to drive out. Originally, Xianzhi wanted to ask Dad to go with him. But Master is ill..." The joy on Xianzhi's eyebrows was instantly overwhelmed by disappointment, "Then Xianzhi can't go either."

The two father and son outside the house stare at each other, while Xie Wuling inside the house is desperately trying to survive.He gritted his teeth and got out of bed, picked up a coat on the ground, looked unfamiliar, but had no time to subdivide whether it belonged to himself or Zhao Zuo, so he had to put it on his body, and covered all the shameful things on his chest. After barely covering it, he moved his steps and walked awkwardly towards the door.

When Fang walked to the door, he heard Xianzhi say this, Xie Wuling poked his head, and saw Xianzhi's brow drooping, he couldn't bear to say: "Go. Let Jiumu take you there?"

Before Xie Wuling finished speaking, he met Zhao Zuo's eyes, and was so frightened that he took back his foot that was about to step out.It was indeed too cold outside, Xie Wuling was wearing only an outer shirt, Xie Wuling thought about it, it should be that the temperature is not something he can bear, it must not be because of Zhao Zuo's cold eyes.

He cleared his throat, pretending not to see Zhao Zuo's eyes, but still hid himself behind the door: "The master and senior brother are old acquaintances, and they have only met each other for a few days, so nothing will happen. Since Xianzhi wants to go, why not do something for Master?"

"What's the matter?" Seeing that things had turned around, Xianzhi's eyes lit up, and he put aside his curiosity about why his master was hiding behind the door.

Xie Wuling cast his eyes on Xianzhi, and said: "There are some old paintings in the painting hall next door, can Xianzhi send them to the temple owner for me? Then I have to tell the temple owner that I have to remember this time. Do you remember your father's name?" Seeing Xianzhi nodded, Xie Wuling paused, turned his gaze to Zhao Zuo, and explained, "The temple master will resell it and use the money to do meritorious deeds."

"Has it happened before?" Seeing Xianzhi running away, Zhao Zuo asked the person at the door, "I don't need merit."

"It's like this every year, but it was originally named 'Jiangnan Second Son'." Xie Wuling casually mentioned a sentence, and then retorted, "Xianzhi needs you to have merit. I also..."

Zhao Zuo was full of heart on the casual mention in front of Xie Wuling, but ignored the latter.He took a few steps to help Xie Wuling back to the bed, and said: "The 'Second Son of Jiangnan' is actually a little gentleman?"

"It's not just me, it's also Qi Zhisheng, I'm taking his name..."

"Who is Mr. Qi Lang?"

"Young Lord of the Qi family in Yangzhou, his name is more famous in the south of the Yangtze River, and the price of paintings with his name will always be higher."

"A person like you?"

"He, that's different from me. He only wants to use his sword to gallop his horse, and hang a pot to help the world,"

"It's different." Zhao Zuowu muttered to himself, "At least you don't know how to ride a horse."

Although Xie Wuling has the uninhibited attitude of a Jianghu person, he is still a scholar of Confucianism and has never learned riding, archery or kung fu.And the old abbot didn't pay much attention to this matter when Xie Wuling was young. When Xie Wuling grew up, the only thing he could defend himself was the dagger that Huixuan gave him...and lost it in the Northwest Hudi.

Of course, Zhao Zuo also knew about Xie Wuling not knowing martial arts.

As soon as Zhao Zuo's teasing words fell, Xie Wuling gave him a slap in the face.This action made Zhao Zuo's heart feel like honey.

He had never experienced this kind of taste before, and even Changle's exquisiteness never made him feel that this eye knife was born to be so touching.

But all the good things in the past are now a thing of the past.

Zhao Zuo looked at Xie Ling who had fallen asleep in his arms for a long time before putting him back on the bed and twisting the quilt for him.

Just now he was still talking about those old things, but after only a few sentences, Xie Ling's words became lighter, Zhao Zuo saw that his eyes were full of tiredness, so he echoed softly.When he really fell asleep, he left to deal with today's papers.

Zhao Zuo stood up and heard footsteps entering the hospital, followed by knocking on the door and the voice of Xianzhi.

"Master?"

Zhao Zuo went to open the door, and looked at Xianzhi with a serious face. Seeing that Xianzhi's eyes were blue and his face was slumped, the only radiance came from the light in his eyes.And Xianzhi seems to have no feeling for his appearance.

He saw that the person who opened the door for him was Zhao Zuo, lowered his head, and said, "Father, I want to find Master."

"He's resting." Zhao Zuo stopped Xian Zhi without looking back.

But Xianzhi still looked inside, and saw his master rubbing half of his body up, and said: "Is it Xianzhi?"

Xie Ling fell into a shallow sleep, and sought peace in Zhao Zuo's arms, and fell asleep for a while, Zhao Zuo thought he was fast asleep, so he let him go.At that time, he realized something, but after all, he was not that one-year-old child who couldn't leave people when he couldn't sleep.

What's more, he is not like Zhao Zuo and others who have practiced martial arts. He can't hear those slight footsteps, so he just closes his eyes and rests for a while.But when someone knocks on the door, this feeling is really driven away.

When Zhao Zuo heard the words, Xianzhi replied: "Master, it's me." Xianzhi wanted to bypass Zhao Zuo and enter the house, but Zhao Zuo still stopped at the door and whispered: "Remember your propriety, Xinling."

Zhao Zuo's words weighed on Xian Zhi's heart, neither light nor heavy, impartial, but they couldn't make Xian Zhi An breathe.

Xianzhi nodded, and Zhao Zuo let him go.Then he followed Xianzhi to the bed, took a stool and sat down, his face was not as gentle as when he saw Xie Ling just now.

However, Xie Ling turned a blind eye to Zhao Zuo's changes. Seeing that there was no figure that should exist behind Xianzhi, suppressing the panic in his heart, he tried his best to ask Xianzhi in a steady voice: "Xiao Qier, really...disappeared?"

This is what Zhao Zuo said to him before, and only the three of them understand it.Probably a little bit of conscience left behind by Xie Wuling. Every time he cooks Biluo, the words "disappear" are used to describe those who lost their lives.

That's why Xie Ling reacted like that when Zhao Zuo mentioned this word last time, he couldn't even deceive himself and others.

Xian Zhi shook his head quickly when he heard the words, and Xie Ling took a breath.Then he took out from under his hand the Linglong box that he had found in the garden.

"Master."

When Xie Ling saw the Fang Linglong box, there was no big change on his face, as if he knew it a long time ago: "Found it? Then open it."

Feeling envious, he opened the exquisite box in front of Zhao Zuo.

The Linglong box was made by borrowing some ingenious configuration of Kong Mingsuo. It is an educational toy given to children by Zhaoxing people. The old abbot originally gave Xie Wuling a few. Only this Linglong box was kept, and the others were made. Xie Ning's crime was handed over to the temple to testify.As for where he is now, Xie Ling doesn't know either.

Xianzhi took off the last shaft, and the wooden lids in the Linglong box were taken off one after another.Xianzhi took out a jade seal from inside, raised his hand and turned his wrist, and saw three characters engraved on the jade seal, "Zhaoxingyin".

"This..." Xianzhi glanced at Xie Ling suspiciously, and handed the jade seal in his hand to Zhao Zuo, but Zhao Zuo's brows tightened a bit.

"It's for you."

Wen Yanxian knelt down on the ground, bowed his head and kowtowed, all the thoughts in his mind at once turned into this kowtow in the end.He said with excitement in his voice, "Master!"

"Okay. Guanzhi always needs to be held by someone, so I left this square seal for you." Xie Ling wanted to help him, Zhao Zuo first stretched out his hand for him, "You have to use this seal well." Although the spider admitted to doing things for Zhaoxing, it did not admit to doing things for the Wei royal family. When you hold this seal in your hand, you have to weigh it carefully, whether you are envious of it or Xinling."

"Yes, Master."

"Brother Zuo," Xie Ling called Zhao Zuo sideways, seeing Zhao Zuo raised his eyebrows and said again, "Can you bring me a cup of birthday eyebrows?"

Zhao Zuo was stunned for a moment, and after understanding Xie Ling's meaning, he got up and went out, leaving Xie Ling and Xianzhi talking.

On the other side, in the depths of the Chongque, Guanzhi leaned on the window lattice, looked at the blue sky in front of him, listened to the man in black hiding in the shade, and said quietly: "The Lord of Xinling had a drink with Princess Changle yesterday." Tea for half a day, rest at Lingjian temple at night."

"He's still one day away, isn't he in a hurry?" Guan Zhi clasped his hands on the window lattice, squinted his eyes and pondered, "Or maybe Lu Qi is not that important? Uncle Sang Luo's deduction is wrong?"

"Master, after discretion, I said that the head of the Lu family has arrived in Fufeng, and the north wind should come."

"Uncle Sang Luo spread the news a few days ago that he is going to the northwest. But there are many teachers outside, so Xianzhi may not go to the northwest in person. Think of a way, how about letting Sister Peeping Fish go to see Xianzhi?"

With cunning in Guan Zhi's eyes, he glanced at a row of geese flying by that day, thinking that he was not far away from the geese entering Qingyun.

"You can do it. Tell Sister Yuyu to go to Juheng Garden today, let her meet the teacher, and let her be... a gift from me." Guan Zhi curled his lips.

"Yes." The man in black replied in a low voice.

"By the way, how is my brother Hou with a different surname doing?"

"The subordinates don't know, but it shouldn't be bad to be on the side after the discretion?"

"That's good. We'll have to rely on him in the future. We can't let him get bored with us first. Go ahead. I hope to hear good news tomorrow."

Hearing the sound, the man in black went to the red wall, and then his figure disappeared among the yellow tiles.

Guanzhi closed the window, sighed in a low voice, pretended to be frowning, and could not hide the joy in his eyes, and murmured: "Perhaps my wise 'father' is not a traitor at all." It's not those bastards like Ju Heng, but the people around him."