See Jiangshan

Xu Ran sat in the lively lobby of Feifeng Building, eating meat in a big bowl.

A long knife is carried behind her back, and the other is standing at her feet, the tip of the knife is bleeding, and the guests who come and go can't help but look at her.The surrounding tables were empty.

Suddenly the back of the knife was flicked, and the echo was clear.

Gu Xuejiang sat down Shi Shiran: "What is this for? Are you poor enough to sell knives?"

Xu Ran raised her head to scold him for being mentally retarded, but saw the person behind him, waving happily: "Cheng Shan, Li finally came out to provoke him!"

Cheng Qianren poured tea and handed it over: "Eat slowly, be careful not to choke."

She took a big gulp of tea and sighed contentedly: "Comfortable, delicious, I want to drink."

Cheng Qianren summoned the store clerk: "A pot of daughter red."

He ordered a few more dishes, keenly aware that more than one person's gaze fell behind him, and he couldn't help frowning.

Seeing this, Xu Ran said in a low voice: "I'm directly across from you in the private room on the second floor, behind you, sitting with Zhong Tianyu and his group, looking over here. It's very annoying. Zhong Shiliu is not here. Do you want to put a sack on them and beat them up? Run when you're done."

Gu Xuejiang: "So you stand here with the sword? You should persuade yourself to calm down."

Cheng Qianren: "What are you doing today..."

Extra excited?

Xu Ran raised a wine bowl to invite them: "I'm happy, I'm happy to see you coming out, I'm happy to win the fight, too. Come, let's go."

The two had no choice but to drink with her.

"After the fight just now, someone asked me where you were. Could it be that you were hiding because you were afraid of trouble? I said that you retreated in the library to win the top three in the battle of the two courtyards. Compared with the honor of Nanyuan, which is more important? ?” She laughed loudly as she spoke, “His face at that time! Not only him, everyone was shocked by me! It’s the first time I can talk like this! Like Gu Er! Hahahaha!”

Cheng Qianren was confused: "Is someone looking for me?"

"It was there before, it's gone now, and it won't be in the future. I'm waiting to see you fighting in both courts. I didn't expect me to solve so many troubles with one word. I'm happy, come and have another bowl!"

Cheng Qianren said in a daze: "You said that I am going to win the top three in the double court fight?"

Gu Xuejiang lowered her head and lit her bong, smoking silently.

Xu Ran blinked her big eyes: "It should be no problem to be top three in the literary test, right? Aren't you doing very well?"

Cheng Qianren: "...Why do you think so?"

"Last year, our teacher assigned a homework. I couldn't write an article on Daoism. You wrote it for me. At that time, all the students were criticized as 'full of nonsense, and thousands of miles away from the topic'. Only my comment was 'flowing clouds and flowing water. Song', Mr. praised in public, circulated throughout Qingshan Academy."

Cheng Qianren understood a little bit.

If the grades of the people around you are worse than one, and only one friend is barely good, it is easy to have the illusion: my friend is the best in the world.

Gu Er gasped, too lazy to speak.Cheng Qianren didn't have a temper with Xu Ran, and patiently explained: "That article was circulated in Qingshanyuan, just because its sentences are fluent and there are no typos."

Xu Ran finally realized that the atmosphere was wrong, and put down the wine bowl: "Is that so?"

Cheng Qianren: "Put it in Chunbo Terrace and the backyard of Nanshan, it is 'full of nonsense and digressed'. At the end of last year, I ranked No.6 in the class, and there were 46 classes in Nanshan. Assuming that I was in every class Can be ranked sixth, there are 230 people in front... Do you have an idea now?"

Xu Ran lowered his head and said to himself: "I only heard that Lin Du is great in your academy, who knew there were so many great ones."

Cheng Qianren: "It's not that they are powerful, it's that I'm too weak."

Xu Ran still wanted to struggle to the death: "But a gentleman's words are hard to follow... I only talked about the top three, and I didn't talk about the civil and martial arts test. Why don't you try to practice the sword?"

Cheng Qianren: "..."

Alas, it's a good time to talk.You can't drink fake wine.

But seeing Xu Ran listless, like a begonia beaten by frost, he couldn't help comforting him: "Just say it, let it go. At least the two courtyards were clean before the fight, which is good!"

Anyway, he is alone now, and he is not afraid of any trouble.

Holding her slender gold and jade bong, Gu Xuejiang suddenly looked back, raised her eyebrows and smiled, parted her red lips slightly, and slowly exhaled white smoke.

Cheng Qianren followed him back.Half a bustling lobby away, outside the elegant room on the second floor, seven or eight young masters in brocade clothes and richly decorated with Zhu Ying jewels stood leaning on the railing, watching them condescendingly.

They are all familiar faces.

When their eyes met, Zhong Tianyu raised his glass arrogantly and drank it down in one gulp.

The three of them walked out of Feifeng Tower and strolled along the busy Chengnan Avenue.

Xu Ran: "I don't understand you people from the imperial capital." If you want to scold, you can open your mouth, if you want to fight, you can strike. What does it mean to raise a glass and drink?

Gu Er was speechless: "He is like this. I couldn't remember his name at all before. How can he represent the imperial capital?!"

Cheng Qianren thought to himself, I understand what you mean, refuse the map gun.

Xu Ran: "Whose names can the lake master remember? Fu Keji and Yuan Shangqiu who have thrown mud with you? Hey, what kind of people are these two?"

Gu Xuejiang felt a little embarrassed and didn't want to talk more: "The two of them are far from being able to explain clearly with a sentence of 'sick mind'. If you meet by fate in the future, you will naturally understand. But I still hope that you can see Qiu Bei or A normal person like Yuan Xiasuo." It also helps to improve the impression of the imperial capital.

He didn't expect that his words would come true at this time, and they would meet again in the not-too-distant future.

While chatting, Cheng Qianren had turned into a cloth shop, and Xu Ran and Gu Er followed in without knowing why.

The largest cloth shop in the south of the city is full of beautiful things and piles of splendid embroidery.The customers who buy cloth and tailor clothes, the guys who come and go to greet them, and there are many nobles who try on new clothes, are surrounded by a group of servants and maids, playing fans and mirrors, flattering and flattering.

The articulate guy stepped forward: "Sirs and ladies, do you choose fabrics or ready-to-wear?"

It was the first time Xu Ran was called Miss, and her whole body was stiff.

The clerk recognized Cheng Qianren, and said happily: "Mr. Cheng, the Xuehua brocade you ordered has arrived. Sit down for a while, and I will pick it up for you."

They were invited to the teahouse under the window, and there were melon seeds and snacks on the table.The two looked at Cheng Qianren in disbelief.

I only listened to the latter's explanation: "I was planning to send Zhu Liu to a private school, thinking that I must have new clothes, so I ordered a few bolts of brocade for him."

So no one spoke.Until the three guys lined up holding wooden trays, either graceful and magnificent, or elegant and plain.

"Xuehua, Yunzhong, and Soft Smoke are all the best materials this year, new products that just arrived..."

Cheng Qianren said in one word: "Buy."

When entering school, Nanyuan sends out a set of spring and summer clothes, and a set of autumn and winter clothes. Students usually cut a few more according to the style, so that they can be changed and washed easily.Handy female students would embroider some inconspicuous flowers, plants and colorful butterflies, and the children of rich families would not be willing to be mediocre. The courtyard uniforms look the same from a distance, but the dark pattern embroidery and other mysteries can only be seen up close.

Cheng Qianren's hospital uniforms used to be made of the most common materials, but that rainy night got out of hand, and he destroyed all the washed clothes, and now there are not many clothes that can be worn.

"Since you're here, let's go and see the ready-to-wear."

The guys hurried to lead the way.All kinds of ready-to-wear are hung on neatly arranged wooden beams.

Seeing a riding suit with a red background and gold trim, Xu Ran recalled, "Like the one my mother made for me when I was a child."

Cheng Qianren: "Buy." He turned to Gu Er, "You pick a few."

"I don't choose."

Cheng Qianren: "Then I'll pick for you, you can think clearly about my vision."

Gu Er: "...Let me choose for us."

Each person buys seven or eight pieces, which are available in all seasons. A few beautiful women ask the three of them to stand still and take a measuring tape to measure for them.

The clerk held up his pen and ink: "Please leave your house number, all the clothes will be made within three days and delivered to your house... What do you cut the brocade you bought just now? What do you do with the leftovers?"

Cheng Qianren: "Nanyuan courtyard uniforms. Two sets for one person. If you have spare materials, make some cigarette pouches for him."

Gu Xuejiang: "..."

Cheng Qianren said goodbye to his friends and went to find five or six masons and carpenters under the bridge in Xishi to repair the walls of his own courtyard and the noodle restaurant of his employer.

When choosing the sword formula, he had no other distractions, and only now did he think of these mundane things.He didn't take too much trouble, and arranged everything properly.In other words, as long as you are willing to spend money, these things are not troublesome.

The craftsman saw that he was wearing a sword at his waist, and he was wearing the uniform of Nanyuan Academy. He thought he was a practitioner in the academy, so he didn't dare to cheat.When it was dark, everything was in order, and Cheng Qianren sealed the door of the noodle shop and locked it.

The long street is empty and silent, only the old trees in front of the store are swaying and rustling in the cool summer night wind.

"I originally wanted to sell this house deed and land deed for money, but in case you come back one day, there must be a place to stay. So be careful, don't really be killed by your junior brother..."

A few words of soliloquy drifted in the wind, gradually becoming inaudible.

***

In the backyard of Nanshan Mountain in summer, the vegetation is lush and lush, and the shade of trees blocks out the sun.From a distance, it looks like a whole piece of clear jasper, and the winding stone steps on it are the lines of jade.

The school house is hidden by flowers and trees, and there is no need to put an ice basin in the corner, and there is a cool breeze from the mountains.

As usual, the students who came earlier greeted their friends, chatted loudly, and competed with the summer cicadas and insects to add excitement to Nanshan.

But he didn't know what to say, suddenly his voice dropped, and several people moved closer to whispering.

"The one who announced that he wanted to win the top three in Shuangyuan, but I went to ask the senior at the registration office yesterday, and he hasn't signed up yet."

"I remember it's due next month, what is he waiting for?"

There is not much difference between everyone on weekdays, but only he entered the Tao overnight and became a practitioner. Thinking about this, it is inevitable to envy and hate.And because the other party can win glory for Nanyuan and is happy, such a person is of course honored to be a teacher and a classmate of himself.Then they merged into a strange, complex and indescribable state of mind.

Just as he was talking, a person walked in.

The dormitory fell silent for a while, the embarrassment of chatting dissipated, and I sat back to my original position, flipping through the book and brushing up.

This was the first time Cheng Qianren came to class after being absent for dozens of days, but everyone still remembered the coercion that erupted that day.

He didn't look much different, he was still alone, and he didn't talk much, except for the sword at his waist.

After the bell rang, Mr. Xu walked in with his books in his arms. He was surprised that the discipline was unusual today. All the students in the room were quietly reviewing their books. When they saw him, they all got up and said hello.

"Sit down, let's go to class."

After finishing his studies, he didn't need to make a living, he didn't need to go to the noodle shop to settle accounts, he didn't need to take care of his younger brother, and he went to the restaurant for meals. Cheng Qianren suddenly found that he had more time, so he used it to practice swords.

He thought to himself that he would eventually get used to this kind of life, just like when he first came to this world, he was used to the life of picking up corpses by himself.

Gu Xuejiang and Xu Ran still felt that Cheng Qianren had changed.

Even if this change is not obvious, and there is no abnormality on the surface, joking is still the same, but there are fewer words and fewer laughs.

On the contrary, the students with superficial relationships have a deep understanding: In the past, this person did not speak, and did not respond to face-to-face ridicule.Now this person doesn't speak, but just sits there, feeling unreasonably cold.Mr. Zhang once tried to strike up a conversation, but he looked up and forgot to say anything, so he had to leave in a hurry.Later, when talking about it at the wine table, he complained: "Originally, I wanted to ask him if he had found a suitable team for the double-court martial arts. Why was he so indifferent? I almost thought he was going to draw his sword."

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, Cheng Qianren was called by his husband to Hanhai Pavilion, and the three of them gathered in Feifenglou for dinner at noon.

The dishes in the building have been ordered in different ways, and now every guy knows them.

"The sun is poisonous, the back kitchen has freshly made sorbet, let me serve you three first?"

Xu Ran was in a good mood eating the refreshing and sweet ice products.

"Why did the master ask you to go? Are you urging you to sign up, but we are still short of one person... Hey, Gu Er, do you want to eat or not? If you don't, give it to me!"

Gu Erduan avoided her with a bowl: "What do you know, you just have to stir it back and forth so that the honey poured on top can be mixed evenly."

Cheng Qianren: "It's not about signing up. Mr. Xu told me not to go to class recently. He didn't say when he would let me go back."

He remembered what Mr. said.

"You are not thinking about the scriptures. You used to be young brother, but now you are focusing on swordsmanship. You can't force it."

"But no matter what you do in the future, don't lose what I have taught you. If you learn swords and forget how to count, don't say you were my student."

"There are three thousand roads, and there is no learning that is useless. As long as you learn, it is not for nothing."

Gu Er: "In that case, what are your plans?"

"I plan to practice sword every day. I can't do it at home. I'm surrounded by ordinary people. The sword energy is easy to disturb the people, and there are too many people riding and shooting. I want to find a quiet place in the academy."

In a quiet place, Xu Ran's first reaction was Bailuzhou in Taiye Pool.No matter how many boats and boats come and go on the lake, they will stay far away from the small island in the middle of the lake. Looking from a distance, the water and grass are lush and the mist is vast, and egrets fly out of the water from time to time.

Gu Er: "Do you know who lives there?"

Xu Ran: "Is there someone living there?"

"Your Excellency."

"……forget it."

Gu Xuejiang turned to Cheng Qianren: "I do know a place, and it happens to be a holiday tomorrow, so I'll take you there."