Lost Charm

When Xu Qin left Xigui Tea House, the blush on his face hadn't faded away.

"Since no one has told you, then you can continue to pretend that you don't know." Qu Moao said to himself, but he did not miss the schadenfreude smile on the face of this thousand-year-old demon.

He knew it all, so how could he treat it as ignorance? Furthermore, how did he think he should face Yu Chijiong?

Third Young Master Chi's condescending look came to mind again, but this time he was not scolding, but mocking: "I don't like my young master calling Yu Chijiong my brother? Hehe, isn't this a desire for monopoly? You clearly like me Bro."

No, Xu Qin shook his head vigorously, and waved Chi Sanshao out of his mind, but what could be replaced was Yu Chijiong's face.

That red phoenix eye is always looking at me tenderly, the red lips are raised, and the smile on the corner of the mouth is very sincere, although occasionally she looks foolish and even tries to play tricks on herself, but it will never be a joke that crosses the line.

Whenever he speaks, he will stop and listen to himself; whenever there is a crisis, he must find a way to protect himself...even when he is drunk, he does not dislike taking care of him.

Xu Qin thought belatedly, this morning Yu Chijiong said that he was pestering him to sleep together last night, could it be that before he came to his senses, his subconscious had already noticed that he liked him and acted on it?

Shame, so shameful.

Fortunately, Yu Chijiong is in jail, otherwise he really doesn't know how to deal with it.

Xu Qin finally recovered from his contemplation, only to realize that he was just thinking about things and didn't know where he went.Looking at the slightly dilapidated houses in front of him, Xu Qin guessed that he probably walked into a civilian residential area.

Suddenly, a round and slippery pebble rolled to Xu Qin's feet and stopped after touching the shoe.Xu Qin looked down, and saw that the stone was small and transparent, like glutinous rice balls, and he knew it had been polished, so he bent down to pick it up.

"do not touch!"

There was a shout from the front, but when Xu Qin realized that the other party was talking to him, he had already taken the stone in his hand.Xu Qin raised his eyes, and saw a handsome young man running towards him panting like an ox. His pale face was even whiter than Qu Moao's. However, that monster was like this because he didn't go out, while the man in front of him was sick. Angry and dead white.

Xu Qin saw that he was trying to talk to himself, but his voice was stuck in his throat, so he thoughtfully said: "Brother, don't worry, the stone is here, I will return it to you."

After all, he pulled the opponent's arm and put the stone in his hand.

The man finally regained his breath, but he was still out of breath: "Thank you...thank you..."

Xu Qin smiled and said indifferently, "It's a little effort."

He was about to take the opportunity to ask for directions, but unexpectedly the man said in a surprising way: "You are Yuchi's embroiderer...that."

Xu Qin's smile froze, and he said: "I am Yuchi Xiuyi's cousin, and I came to the capital to seek refuge in the capital because of my father's death. Although the three became tigers, brother, it's better not to believe the rumors too much."

The man was stunned, and then said: "I misunderstood. I saw Yuchi Xiuyi and Your Excellency in Chi's Mansion yesterday, and I apologized to Your Excellency for saving the heart of a gentleman with the belly of a villain."

Although Xu Qin didn't recognize the other party, he immediately regained his energy when he heard the word "Chi Fu", and said, "Your Excellency, you are welcome. May I ask your Excellency..."

Seeing Xu Qin's faltering look, the man said in his heart, "I am the Hanlin Academy who compiled the Wei bamboo slips."

Xu Qin's eyes widened, his jaw almost fell to the ground, and he said in surprise, "Isn't your lord the new Tanhualang?"

At any rate, he also heard from Yu Chijiong about today's Jinshi list, among which the most eye-catching one is Tanhua, but he was able to be named on the gold list at the age of 20.It's true that Xu Qin hates intrigue in the officialdom, but it's okay for him to show admiration for the genius in front of him.

Wei Jian was amused by Xu Qin's eyes, and smiled in a rare way, and said modestly, "It's all a false name, it's all a false name."

At this moment, a fat woman walked over from nowhere and said to Wei Jian, "My lord, why did you run away suddenly? The rice is already cooked."

Wei Jian said to the woman: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Wang, cough, I dropped something, luckily this brother picked it up for me, cough cough."

Mrs. Wang frowned and said, "My lord, if you are not well, you have to run around. You can just give me some orders. I am useless, but I still have a son who can run errands for my lord."

"Sister-in-law Wang coughs every day, how can cooking such delicious rice be considered useless?" Wei Jian coughed a few times, and the whole person looked weaker, as if she might collapse at any time.He turned around and said to Xu Qin, "Have you had your meal yet?"

"No." After Xu Qin replied intuitively, he added: "My lord can just call me Xu Qin. I am a grassroots person, and I am truly worthy of being called Your Excellency."

For some reason, Xu Qin didn't want to tell the other party the identity of his embroidered clothes.

Wei Jian made an invitation gesture to Xu Qin, and said, "If brother Xu doesn't mind, why not come to the humble house for dinner. Although it's just a simple meal, brother Xu has brought back important things for me, and I still want to repay you."

Xu Qin thought for a while and agreed: "Then respect is worse than obedience."

After a meal, Xu Qin and Wei Jian became a lot closer. Both of them came to the capital from the countryside, and just talking about their past life is enough to talk about it for three days and three nights.

"Fortunately, the emperor appreciated it and granted him an Imperial Academy to edit it. But after all, the countryside is more comfortable. Doesn't Brother Xu miss his old life?" Wei Jian asked.

"My father is gone, it's the same wherever I go. If it wasn't my father's last wish, I'd like to stay there to keep my filial piety." Xu Qin's smile was tinged with loneliness.

"I'm sorry to talk about Brother Xu's sadness. The moon is my hometown, and I miss my family in the countryside very much." Wei Jian took out the small stone that Xu Qin picked up just now, and said, "This is a unique stone in my hometown. , was taken by my side as a protective stone, which made brother Xu laugh."

Xu Qin suddenly realized, and said: "Since it's unique to my hometown, it's not surprising that I bring it with me, so why laugh at it?"

Wei Jian glanced at Xu Qin and said gratefully, "Brother Xu is so kind. By the way, Brother Xu, when you hit the stone just now, was your body normal?"

Xu Qin tilted his head and didn't quite understand Wei Jian's thoughts, but seeing that the other party's serious expression didn't look like a joke, he thought about it: "It seems that there is nothing special... just that the stone is sticky on the outside, and the fingers are on the first It sticks when you touch it, a bit like mud after a heavy rain, unlike ordinary rocks.”

Wei Jian's face showed astonishment, and he was quickly suppressed again. Seeing Xu Yun staring at him curiously, he explained: "It's like this, this kind of stone is relatively dark, and I've been used to it since I was a child. Others When you encounter it, you will get dizzy."

Xu Qin smiled indifferently and said: "It doesn't matter, I happen to be full of yang energy, and these yin qi can't hurt, adults don't have to worry about it."

Wei Jian suddenly became interested, and asked: "Brother Xu, do you mean that you have more yang energy than ordinary people?"

Xu Qin nodded and said: "Yes, there was a fortune teller who said that my body is more yang than Zhengyang." Sun Lie is a fortune teller, right?

Wei Jian hesitated for a moment, then said, "There is a saying, I don't know if I should say it or not."

"My lord, please tell me."

"I have heard the elders in the family mention that the body of positive yang is born at noon in the daytime, or something is done to the mother's body, so that the baby's yang energy in the womb will be more vigorous. Women are yin, so they can't bear it. They have a lot of yang energy, so most of them die after giving birth." Wei Jian said while carefully examining Xu Qin's expression.

It was the first time someone told Xu Qin this, and it turned out to be a Tanhua.Xu Qin's mood was mixed immediately. The adoptive father once said that he picked him up from the corpse. If his mother hadn't died in a posture of protecting him, he would never have survived the arrival of the adoptive father as a baby.When he was a child, he asked where his adoptive parents were, and his adoptive father told him that he buried his mother in a place where a child was not physically fit to go. Mother, he also forgot about it after a long time.

Whether it is the foster father, Sun Lie, or Yu Chijiong, they must know the price behind Zhengyang's body, but they all avoid talking about it, presumably it is also a way to protect him.

In Wei Jian's eyes, Xu Qin's sudden silence was obviously uncomfortable, so he said, "Brother Xu wants to see mother?"

Xu Qin came back to his senses, and said with a broken smile, "My lord really loves to joke, where do we meet the dead?"

Wei Jian's smile was a bit more profound: "I'm afraid that brother Xu will not think about it for a while, and wants to go against the sky."

Xu Qin didn't see what was wrong with Wei Jian, and said: "Things that go against cause and effect will always have retribution."

There was more approval in Wei Jian's eyes, and he said: "Brother Xu is a good thing to think about it, don't be like some people who can't think about it, they can't come back after they go to Liangshan."

Xu Qin shook his head disapprovingly: "My lord, in the world there is still a talk about reining in a cliff, and Liangshan is just a mountain, and you can come down after all."

Wei Jian gave Xu Qin a meaningful look: "Brother Xu is right."

After talking for a while, Xu Qin saw that it was getting late, asked the way back to Yuchi's mansion, and left on the grounds that he would not disturb Wei Jian's rest.When Xu Qin returned to the mansion, Yu Chijiong and Ning Baihu were not there, and he suddenly felt very deserted.

Did he get used to their company before he knew it?No, I didn't spend much time with Ning Baihu, mainly Yu Chijiong.

When Xu Qin walked to the study, Yu Chijiong once said that he didn't like being here, and would rather stay in the room to do things. The reason was that if he stayed in the study for a long time, he would have a literati temperament, which did not match the usual image of embroidered clothes.He didn't take it seriously at the time, because he had already seen through that Yu Chijiong was just too lazy to walk from the bedroom to the study.Most of the books here are about monsters. He picked up a book casually, sat down and read it carefully.

During the sixty days of prison experience, Xu Qin also knew that he had only learned a little bit, so he should continue to study while he has free time.

After reading the book for a long time, Qian Jiguang came to the door the next day, saying that the people from the criminal department had found Xu Qin's head, and they were going to arrest him directly, but Meng Yingming stopped him, saying that some embroidered clothes had already been arrested because of this incident. Into Nanzhen Fusi's prison, other embroidered clothes should be the same.

"It's the first time I've seen the popularity of the Ministry of Punishments turn sour." When Qian Jiguang sent Xu Qin to prison, he laughed and gossiped with him.

But Xu Qin couldn't laugh, especially when he saw that his cell was connected with Yu Chijiong, and Yuchijiong was gesticulating with two wooden poles that came from nowhere.

"Xu Qin, are you here? Although the place is a bit narrow, I think Xu Qin can learn the fastest in the prison, so he has to make do with it. Come on, we can't lag behind in terms of force, let's learn the Xiuchun Dao usage."

Yu Chijiong smiled like a harmless fox.