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Seeing Mu Jiu's calm expression, Ling Xun couldn't help wondering if he was thinking too much. He tilted his head and stared at him for a while, then sat down on the table behind him, picked up the white jade paperweight on the table and threw it away to play.

"You know that Wu Qing is always provoking in front of Brother Zhongli, so it's hard to say whether Brother Zhongli has any thoughts in his heart. After all, we are in other people's territory, so we can't really steal the show. He was about to agree to help Hanzhong just now, and you just wanted to say that." The words aroused the excitement of the crowd, and they wished to immediately follow you to send troops, wasn't it intentional?"

"It is beneficial to send troops to Qingping Mountain, but the minister is just reporting the truth and has no other intentions, so how do you know Mr. Zhongli's thoughts?"

"Really." Ling Xun was dubious, thinking of Zhonglishan's state, he couldn't help frowning, and sighed, "Probably I was thinking too much, this matter is related to the survival of Qingpingshan, and I have to discuss it with Brother Zhongli tomorrow."

Mu Jiu kept looking at the paperweight in Ling Xun's hand. When he tossed the paperweight up again, he came over and waved to take the paperweight. Because of this movement, the two got very close.

Ling Xun raised his head, squinted his eyes slightly and smiled at him, deliberately teasing: "Oh, what kind of treasure is this paperweight Huaifeng, you can't even look at it?"

Mu Jiu paused for a moment, then handed the white jade paperweight back to Ling Xun, "If my lord likes it, feel free to take it."

Ling Xun took a closer look at the white jade paperweight, and felt that although the white jade was ordinary in quality, it was more unique in its style. He had never seen anyone carve a paperweight into flowers and plants, and the clusters of three leaves were dotted with small flower buds. , the buds just fell on the lavender texture of the white jade, very delicate.

"Is this... alfalfa?" Ling Xun asked.

Mu Jiu glanced at Ling Xun, "Exactly."

Ling Xun chuckled, "Why do you use livestock grass as a paperweight?"

Mu Jiu remained silent, seemingly displeased.

Ling Xun laughed halfway and suddenly realized, isn't this alfalfa's alias Huaifeng?Bad, bad, he actually said he was livestock grass.Mu Jiu attaches so much importance to this paperweight, maybe there is some great reason behind it, but he joked about it, which is a bit disrespectful.

"Well, at this time, Jinyan should come to deliver the soup, why don't you see anyone?" Ling Xun deliberately changed the subject.

Mu Jiu has the habit of reading at night, so every night the little book boy Jinyan will ask the kitchen to bring some food such as soup and snacks, and calculate the time, this time should come.

"Tonight's dinner, I asked Jinyan to have a few glasses of wine too, I probably forgot, it doesn't matter."

It was rare for Ling Xun to wait for such an opportunity to express himself, so he took Mu Jiu's hand and walked out, "How could this be possible? I don't think you ate anything at the banquet. It's getting late now. I'm afraid the big kitchen has turned off the fire. My courtyard There just happens to be a small stove here, so I can get you some."

"Don't dare to bother my lord..."

"Let's go, let's go, I just happened to show you a hand." Ling Xun couldn't say anything, and directly pulled Mu Jiu to the small kitchen in his yard. When a servant saw him, he wanted to follow up to serve him, but Ling Xun shut him at the door In addition, tell them what to do, and no one is allowed to approach.

The servants were confused, they didn't know what their masters wanted to do, they didn't sleep in the middle of the night and shut the staff into the small kitchen, they could only leave with suspicion.

Finally successfully abducting the man, Ling Xun let out a long sigh of relief facing the closed small kitchen door, and when he turned around, he found Mu Jiu was standing behind, looking at him with a faint smile.

Ling Xun deliberately didn't look at Mu Jiu, rolled up his sleeves, scooped water from the big tank in the corner of the kitchen to wash his hands, "Honestly, I'm not bragging, I really know how to cook, when I worked in the embroidery workshop, I gave three More than a dozen embroiderers are cooking."

Mu Jiu still didn't speak, his eyes dimmed.

Ling Xun really couldn't bear such silent staring, so he frowned and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"I thought of a word." Mu Jiu said with a slightly serious face.

"Tch, I know what you want to say. Gentlemen stay away from the kitchen." Ling Xun was squatting under the stove when he spoke, and his ears were a little red because he didn't know if it was hot from the fire.

"That's not it." Mu Jiu denied it, and rolled up his sleeves to help Ling Xun add firewood and fan the wind.

"Oh? Which sentence is that?" Ling Xun stood up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked down at the man squatting on the ground to make a fire.

"Wash your hands and make soup." The corners of Mu Jiu's lips raised inadvertently as he spoke.

Ling Xun didn't understand poetry, so after thinking about it for a while, he felt that this sentence had no meaning of praise or criticism, but it was just a statement, which was also in line with the situation where he had just washed his hands and prepared to cook, so he didn't pursue it further.However, if he knew where this sentence came from and who it was describing, he might not think like this now.

In just a quarter of an hour, Ling Xun cooked a bowl of scallion noodles. Although it was simple, the taste was really good, and the heat was well controlled.

"How about it?"

"Excellent." Under Ling Xun's expectant gaze, Mu Jiu tasted a few strands of noodles, and praised sincerely.

Ling Xun was about to wag his tail to the sky, and sat beside Mu Jiu with his head propped up while smiling, watching him eat noodles, "Do you still remember the Hui Niang we met in that lacquerware village? It's the princess from the Greedy Wolf Kingdom? "

Mu Jiu paused slightly with his chopsticks, "Remember, why did my lord suddenly think of her?"

"The night we lived in Lacquer Ware Village, she crazily brought you a bowl of soup, saying that she would make up for you." Ling Xun suddenly thought of Hui Niang for some reason, maybe just seeing Mu Jiu Eating noodles, I suddenly felt like preparing food for my son who worked hard at night, but this time he restrained himself and didn't really say anything.

"Looking at her appearance at the time, she may have taken you as her own son. In fact, she was really wrong. You have the habit of eating at night."

"It's just a crazy woman, why should the lord guess what she thinks."

While chatting, Ling Xun also ate a little bit. Seeing that Mu Jiu ate up a bowl of noodles, he was in a good mood and tried to make up for the mistake he made just now while the iron was hot.

"I said the wrong thing just now. That paperweight must be very meaningful to Huaifeng. I shouldn't be rude. Don't take it to heart."

"My lord, don't worry about it." Mu Jiu and Ling Xun looked at each other, with an unspeakable emotion in their eyes, "But the paperweight was indeed a gift from an old friend."

"If I'm not mistaken, it should have something to do with your font size?"

"Well, the person who gives the paperweight is the person who gives the letter."

Ling Xun was very surprised, "I remember you said that it was a child who gave you the words."

This time Mu Jiu just smiled and didn't answer.

Looking at the unintentional tenderness in Mu Jiu's eyes, Ling Xun understood something instantly.

Why is it just a child's Wuji child's words, so Huaifeng is used as the word?Ling Xun couldn't figure it out at the beginning, but only now did he understand that perhaps the fate of the child in Mu Jiu's mouth is not as simple as giving words to him, but the difference in age between the two is only four or five years old. A deep bond.

I have heard rumors that Mu Jiu is as good as Long Yang, but I don't see him really favoring anyone. From this point of view, I'm afraid it's just that he has a heart for a long time.

For some reason, Ling Xun suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and the original good interest disappeared immediately.At this moment, a woman's scream was suddenly heard outside.

Ling Xun's heart skipped a beat, "It's Mama Liu's voice."

Mu Jiudao; "The listening direction should be the back mountain side."

Ling Xun's face turned pale instantly, and he stumbled and ran out, "It's Xiao Gan..."

While Ling Xun and Mu Jiu were busy in the kitchen, Wu Qing had already caught up with Zhong Lishan and accompanied him all the way back. During this period, he naturally said a lot of things that hindered the dispatch of troops to Hanzhong.

"Brother, think about it, if you really listen to the advice of Feng Wuge and Mu Jiu, the power of the array mage in Qingping Mountain will become more and more powerful in the future, won't your being the head of the family be useless? Are you really Would you like to see so many years of hard work finally fall into the hands of others?"

Zhong Lishan didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, Wu Qing thought that he was almost persuaded by him, so he became more and more persuasive. It was not until he arrived at the back mountain that Zhong Lishan sighed and said to Wu Qing: "Brother Qing, I remember that you were also a caring person in the past. When did the builders become so narrow-minded?"

Wu Qing was taken aback for a moment, but was dumbfounded by Zhong Lishan's words.

Zhong Lishan came out of the banquet and blew the cold wind all the way. He had already calmed down at this moment. Just now he saw those brothers who had shared life and death with him want to follow an outsider. Come on, sending troops to Hanzhong is indeed a wise move.

"Brother..." Wu Qing blushed and turned pale, as if trying to defend himself.

Zhong Lishan looked at him meaningfully, "Ah Qing, this world is not just a Qingping mountain, let's take a look outside more. Some snakes and rats who are stalking people should stay far away if they can."

Wu Qing was very ashamed and indignant by Zhong Lishan's words, he knew that Zhong Lishan was implying that he was instigated by Wang Qi and deliberately opposed Feng Wuge.In fact, he also knew that Wang Qi was not a good thing, but he couldn't stand Zhonglishan's straightforward accusation, he couldn't help being wronged and angry, he didn't want to stand in front of Zhonglishan to show his shallowness and narrow-mindedness, and was about to throw up his sleeves and leave. Suddenly, a woman's scream was heard.

Zhong Li's face, which was still very tired a moment before the mountain, froze instantly, and then became ferocious, and rushed towards the back mountain.

Wu Qing's heart suddenly felt cold, and an ominous pre-cold came out.

Something happened to Zhongli Gan!

After the banquet was over, Yuan Xi also returned to his residence. As an outsider, it was naturally not good for him to interfere in the affairs of Qingping Mountain, so he never expressed his opinion on the matter of Hanzhong's envoy.

As soon as he returned to his room, a guard sent a secret letter, which was from his father Yuan Xiang's family, urging him to go to Yangzhou as soon as possible to help him take care of Jiangdong.

When Yuan Xi saw this letter, he couldn't help but gasped in his heart, thinking of what Mu Jiu had said to him three months ago.