After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

Zhou Xun was walking on the street with a few books in his arms. He was not in a hurry to get back into the carriage, but found a nearby teahouse to sit down.

This teahouse looked familiar to him, but he couldn't remember when he had been there before.Zhou Xun only looked at the front, naturally he didn't know that the young master surnamed Liu who wanted to make friends with him came down from the restaurant, saw him disappearing in the crowd and couldn't find him anywhere, so he stood there and sighed fiercely .

Zhou Xun entered the teahouse, where as usual there were literati sitting and chatting in twos and threes.He found a secluded table and sat down, ordered a cup of tea casually, and carefully placed the few books the old man gave him on the table.

He arranged them very carefully, without disrupting the order at all, or even disturbing the angles between several books.After arranging the books, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to observe attentively.

If it were someone else, they might think that the old man's intention of giving these books was really just to save those few taels of silver, and take them back at will.However, Zhou Xun didn't seem to have such an idea at all.

""Yingzhou Dream Talk", "Zheng Feng", "Wei Zhenggong Collection", "Jiang Xue Collection"..."

Several books are placed in sequence, and "Jiang Xue Ji" is the one that is pressed at the bottom.

He read the titles of these books one by one and pondered them in his heart.

Suddenly, he remembered that the old man had opened the "Zheng Feng" before giving it to him, and it seemed that one of the pages had folded a corner.Zhou Xun quickly pulled out "Zheng Feng", and found that the page called this was the section "Chicken Crowing" in "Zheng Feng".

Xiaoer was delivering tea for others, and what he saw when he passed by was the young man in blue sitting by the window, his slender white fingers dipped in the tea, writing something on the wooden table, his lips slightly parted, as if he was thinking wearing something.

After a while, the young man's eyes seemed to light up slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It was at this time that Yan Jia broke into the teahouse.He hurriedly glanced at the teahouse, then grabbed a waiter and said anxiously: "Excuse me, waiter, have you ever seen a young man in blue clothes holding a book?"

"This……"

Xiaoer had a deep impression on Zhou Xun, Yan Jia followed his gaze and saw the young man sitting by the window.

After seeing that figure, Yan Jia was taken aback.

The young man sat under the light, and his silhouette carried a unique and different temperament from ordinary people. Even if he sat in the most remote corner, it was hard to feel that he was not enough to stand out from the crowd.There was a pile of books beside him, and he seemed to have thought of something, and smiled slightly, like spring water blooming.

Yan Jia couldn't help staring blankly for a while, but time waits for no one.He saw the young man standing up, as if he was about to leave, so he hurried over.

Zhou Xun put away the book and was about to leave.As soon as he got up, he was blocked by a person.

"Brother," Yan Jiagang said, he saw the pile of books in Zhou Xun's arms, and he saw the one he needed at a glance, and couldn't help being happy, "Xunxiongtai has held this book for a long time. I don’t know if Xiongtai can bear the pain and part with you?”

Zhou Xun:?

This reckless young man asked for a book as soon as he opened his mouth, and he looked out of breath, as if he had been looking for him for a long time.Zhou Xun has always been straight-forward to those who obviously have no ill will towards him: "Where did you find it, and what book do you want?"

"This..." Yan Jia was stunned for a moment before realizing that he hadn't declared his family name.

But the young man in blue seems to have a good attitude.There was no deliberate intimacy or superfluous etiquette in his words, but his straight-forward way of speaking obviously made Yan Jia, who was eager to ask for books, more useful.So he quickly repeated what he had said to the old man.

Zhou Xun pondered for a moment, and said: "This is the book that the old man gave me. So far, I have no way to make claims on these books..."

Yan Jia immediately showed a disappointed look, and Zhou Xun continued: "...But in two days, I may be able to give you this book."

Yan Jia was overjoyed.Although he didn't understand why there was a gap of one or two days, but he was relieved to have the book.

After reacting, he thanked this strange young master again and again, and made an agreement to meet here two days later.He had just bowed to the young master, when he caught sight of the waist badge hanging on the young master's body, he immediately let out a "huh".

Seeing him staring at the badge on his waist with a strange expression, Zhou Xun asked him, "What's wrong?"

"This..." Yan Jia smiled embarrassingly, "Young Master, this badge is very similar to the badge of an old acquaintance of mine. At first glance, it seems to be the same..."

This waist card belongs to the palace, Yan Jia has seen something similar?

For some reason, Zhou Xun vaguely felt that there should be something hidden in this.Anyway, it's okay to be idle, he heard Yan Jia say the next sentence: "But it's different if you look carefully."

"Young Master and his waist card are very similar in texture, carving, and pattern. They should be taken from the same piece of jadeite. It is rare to see this kind of green jadeite, and similar patterns are also rare. , so it turned out to be the same when you looked at it just now. But the son’s jade card is engraved with a phoenix, and his jade card is engraved with flowers, so they look the same from a distance.” Yan Jia was embarrassed to explain. Said, "I didn't mean anything else just now..."

Zhou Xun smiled: "It's okay."

Today, this incident passed without any risk.Zhou Xun left Moyuan, got into the carriage, and the guards were about to drive away.

The young master surnamed Liu was still looking for him in the ink garden, but he couldn't find him, so he couldn't help but stomped his feet and sighed.

This Mr. Liu is also the son of a high-ranking official and a well-known playboy in the capital. He usually likes to ask flowers and ask Liu.His family is quite powerful, so let him make troubles, and the family will help clean up if something happens.He was especially interested in beauty—even to the point of writing a book called "Critics of Beauty" in which he elaborated on the art of "appreciating beauty."

"Forget it, go back and ask the boy to look for it." Mr. Liu was annoyed, and he felt a little more at ease, "Look at that person's clothes, it should be the next year's exam, let people look for it in the ink garden. I have never heard of such a character, it should be from other places...from other places..."

He smiled excitedly: "Since I'm from another place, I have to do my best to be a landlord. Otherwise, he is alone in the capital, how lonely and easy to be bullied? He seems to be alone, and next year he will have another Before the exam, I guess I wouldn't dare to have any troubles in other places before the exam..."

After thinking about it, he left Moyuan with endless regret and even more implicit excitement.

Zhou Xun, who was weak, pitiful, alone and did not dare to cause any trouble, was sitting in the royal sedan chair at the moment.The guards saw him coming up, and when they were about to speak, they heard Zhou Xun say: "The brothers in Moyuan have worked hard too, let them go back to rest earlier."

The guard was shocked when he heard the words: "Mr. Zhou, you... this..."

Zhou Xun looked at him, his expression still indifferent.The guard said in fear: "This...Although the emperor said to let you go around alone, and you also said to go alone, but we..."

——How dare we let you go shopping alone!If something happens to you, the emperor gets angry, we can't bear it!

"It's okay, I know you are doing your duty." Zhou Xun said, "I also thank you, at least no one else has noticed that you are following me."

The guard breathed a sigh of relief.Although he didn't know how Zhou Xun discovered them and kept his face all the time, he also knew that Mr. Zhou was quite capable and must have his own way of observation.He ordered those people hiding in the ink garden to evacuate, and Zhou Xun said behind him: "Speaking of which, I have something I want to ask your lord."

When the guard turned his head, Zhou Xun held his badge in his hand and asked, "What is the origin of this badge? Does it come from a unified system?"

"This badge..."

The guard thought for a while and said: "This waist card should have been there when the late emperor was there. When the late emperor was there, a large piece of jadeite was presented from Yunnan. They dug up such a piece as soon as they were digging, which is an auspicious sign. The first emperor loved jadeite and was very happy. He ordered people to divide that large piece of jadeite into many pieces, and found the most capable craftsmen to make many popular jade plaques. , distributed to his favorite few people, including the prince, concubine, princess, minister..."

Zhou Xun let out a "hmm" and said, "What patterns do these jade plaques have?"

The guard thought for a while, and said, "There are eight jade plaques in total, engraved with phoenix, auspicious cloud, lotus, peony, unicorn, coiled dragon, white tiger, flying swallow..."

flowers...

Zhou Xun remained calm and said, "Do you know who owns these jade plaques now?"

"This..." Although the guards didn't know what Zhou Xun was asking for, everyone knew that the emperor regarded Zhou Xun as a brother and sister. He could answer honestly what Zhou Xun wanted to ask. The jade tablet of the dragon, the jade tablet of the unicorn is given to the current emperor, the jade tablet of the phoenix is ​​given to... now it is on you, the jade tablet of Xiangyun is given to the biological mother of the late emperor, and now it is with the empress dowager, the jade tablet of the white tiger is I gave it to the general, and the lotus and peony jade plaques..."

What Zhou Xun wanted to hear was the lotus and peony jade tablets.

"The Peony Jade Plaque was given to the late emperor's most beloved daughter—now she is the younger sister of the present emperor, the eldest princess of the court, Princess Changle," the guard said, "and the other lotus jade plaque...is now in..."

He looked carefully at Young Master Zhou's expression, and hesitantly said: "It's..."

"It's on my elder brother, Zhou Cai and Zhou Hanlin." Zhou Xun said indifferently, "Is this jade tablet also the basis for him to freely enter and leave the palace?"

Without having to say that person's name in front of Zhou Xun, the guard naturally breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, yes."

Zhou Xun nodded.

Lian Hua... It seems that the young man he met today, who claimed to be the son of Yan Shang's calligrapher, and the jade tablet he saw earlier, which was similar to the jade tablet on his body, was the jade tablet on Zhou Cai's body.Yan Shangshu had only married one wife in his life, with only one son and one daughter, so the eldest sister he mentioned should be Zhou Cai's fiancée Yan Ruoqi.

But the story of Yan Ruoqi and Zhou Cai's heroic rescue of the beauty is something that the whole capital knows.

The relationship between her and Zhou Cai is so happy, how could she be depressed before getting married?And what was Yan Jia's hesitation when talking about her sister?