The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

When Xue Pan returned to Jinling City, it was already the first time when the lights came on.He casually went to a tailor shop under his family to change his outer robes, and put away the big red peony gown made by Mr. Shi, and then returned to Xue's mansion in a calm manner.

When he heard that "Brother Lin" suddenly fell from the sky, even though he was open-minded and strong-willed, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in astonishment.

"Daddy, are you kidding me!" Xue Pan looked at Xue Zhizhang in amazement.

"Bastard! This person has already been arranged to live in Lucuixuan, who can't make fun of you. You think everyone is like you, laughing and joking all day long, and has no right to do it!" Xue Zhizhang reprimanded pretending to be angry.This master is still brooding over the fact that Xue Pan carelessly forgot his parting words with Fourth Master earlier, which caused him to be a little frightened now!

Seeing that he was angered again, Xue Pan touched his nose helplessly and laughed.

Seeing this, Zhuang You quickly said, "If you say it, it's really a fate. What do you think? The adopted son of Mr. Lin is Lin Mozhi, the senior brother of your Lin family. Three years ago, he won the championship in one fell swoop. Yuan Jidi is the old man's favorite student. You should learn from him!"

Hearing Mr. Zhuang talk about going to school, Xue Pan fell silent again as if his tongue had been bitten.

He lowered his head stubbornly, shrunk his shoulders, and seemed to be in a state of despair.

Seeing this, Xue Zhizhang couldn't bear it.He coughed dryly twice, and said as if changing the subject: "Your senior brother really wants to see you. He has just been placed in Lucuixuan, and you happened to go over to say hello. Our Xue family is also very polite."

"My son knows." Xue Pan answered quickly, then bowed respectfully, and slipped out of the study with a "swish".

Behind him, Mr. Zhuang sighed helplessly, shook his head and said, "You have spoiled me. Every time I talked about going to school, you interrupted me, and then dismissed people quietly." Go. It’s no wonder that Pan’er can only write two characters, recognize a few lines of poems, and can’t understand any stereotyped essays. Fortunately, the old man has an excellent disciple who is a three-yuan student, otherwise, you will lose your reputation for the rest of your life. son's hand."

Xue Zhizhang blushed when he heard this.Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered that he blamed Xue Pan just now but was distracted by Zhuang You.I couldn't help adding two pieces of anger, snorted coldly, and said dissatisfied: "We two are laughing at each other, it's just each other."

After finishing speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled, tacit understanding.

Let’s say that Xue Pan fled in a hurry, passed through the vertical flower gate, walked down the cobblestone path along the chaoshou veranda, and then followed the green pines and cypresses all the way to Lvcuixuan.Sure enough, I saw a little more people's voices and frolicking in Lvcuixuan, which was so quiet and quiet in the past.Xue Pan entered the gate and went straight into the courtyard, where he saw several boxes and cages parked in the courtyard without having time to clean them up.A few maids and servants who didn't know each other came back and forth, presumably they were Lin Mozhi's own servants.

Xue Pan grabbed one of his servants and asked, "Where is Mr. Lin?"

"I'm reading in the study!" the boy replied sharply.

"Oh!" Xue Pan nodded meaninglessly, and went straight into the room towards the study.It happened to meet Lin Mozhi who heard the voice and got up to greet him.I saw the appearance of a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, smart and handsome, with a temperament beyond dust.It can really be called a person with Zhong Lingyuxiu's aura.only……

Xue Pan looked at the man's eyebrows and walking movements with some hesitation. He was obviously a strange person, but he felt an indescribable sense of familiarity.

Shaking his head, he shook out the unrealistic thoughts in his mind.Xue Pan clasped his hands and shouted: "But Senior Brother Lin, next to Xue Pan, I am also a disciple of Mr. But compared to Senior Brother Lin, I am much duller. Please take care of me when we meet for the first time."

Hearing the words, Lin Mozhi slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, and a warm breath rushed towards his face.I saw that he also imitated Xue Pan and cupped his hands, and said modestly: "Don't dare, I have to ask Junior Brother Xue to teach me a lot."

So the two invited each other and sat down at the same time.Long ago, a clever little maid brought a tea tray and came over to serve tea.Xue Pan picked up one of the cups of milk tea and used it himself, pointing to the other cup of oolong and said, "I like sweets, but I don't have any elegant tastes. I am the most impatient of this kind of bitter tea. But Master likes tea very much." I think my brother should have the same taste as the master. This is a new oolong tea this year. It is brewed with dried lotus leaves, and it has a good health effect. Please taste the tea, brother."

Lin Mozhi nodded with a smile, reached out to take another teacup, lifted the lid, flicked the tea leaves casually, and said suddenly: "Actually, bubble tea with latte is also good."

"Pfft!" Xue Pan was caught off guard and spewed out a mouthful of milk tea. "What did you say?"

"Did I say something that shouldn't be said?" Lin Mozhi raised his eyebrows indifferently, and asked with a relaxed expression.

"That's not it..." Xue Pan scratched his head hesitantly, and suddenly got up and moved to Lin Mozhi's side, asking mysteriously, "Hey, kid, where are you from?"

"Of course they came from Yangzhou. Why didn't Uncle Xue and Mr. Xue tell you?" Lin Mozhi replied leisurely.Looking at Xue Pan's lively suspicious expression, he secretly smiled.

"...a secret signal!" Xue Pan squinted his eyes and looked at Lin Mozhi for a while, then suddenly said: "The king of heaven and the earth tiger——"

"..." Lin Mozhi raised his eyelids and glanced at him, silent.

"Yuan Fang, what do you think?" Seeing this, Xue Pan asked again after being bored for a while.

This time, the corners of Lin Mozhi's lips curved slightly, but he still didn't respond.

Seeing this, Xue Pan had no choice but to take out his big weapon, and asked viciously: "I don't know Wu Tenglan in my life—"

"..."

After waiting for a while, Lin Mozhi still didn't speak.Xue Pan raised his eyebrows angrily, snorted coldly, turned his head and left.When his left foot just stepped over the threshold, he heard a soft sigh from behind, and Lin Mozhi said helplessly: "Didn't you always like Sora Aoi, and when did you change to Muteng Lan, didn't you tell me?"

Hearing this, Xue Pan froze suddenly, turned around in disbelief, and pointed at Lin Mozhi dumbfounded.

"I haven't seen you for many years, but you are still so impatient." Lin Mozhi curled the corners of his mouth and said dotingly.

"You, you are..." Xue Pan tremblingly pointed at Lin Mozhi, feeling his mind was blank.At the end, he asked with a look of surprise, "Why did you come here even after you died?"

The sound was so loud that it was deafening, making Lin Mozhi's ears ache.

Trying his best to suppress the twitching corners of his mouth, Lin Mozhi looked calmly at the girls and boys outside who stopped suddenly, and said in a deep voice: "Master Xue is joking with me! You continue to do your work. "

All the people in the yard agreed, and then they all pretended to be busy, made excuses and left the yard one by one.But for a moment, Xue Pan and Lin Mozhi were the only ones left inside and outside the courtyard.

Lin Mozhi sighed, turned to Xue Pan and said, "Why do you still have such a loud voice?"

"Because I've been using the watermelon cream throat lozenges, ahem..." Xue Pan was habitually wrangling, and when he saw Lin Mozhi looking at him reproachfully, he abruptly silenced his voice.

Lin Mozhi had a headache. Ever since he guessed that Xue Pan's identity was different, he had secretly imagined the scene of the two recognizing each other many times.It's just that I never thought that even if I was reborn once, this person's temper and heart would still remain unchanged.Pulling Xue Pan to sit down in the hall, he said uneasy: "You and I have different identities, you should be more vigilant at ordinary times. Why are you still so careless? If you are suspected..."

Xue Pan fell asleep after being admonished.Hastily interrupted Lin Mozhi's words: "Okay, don't leave, my father came and you, the nagging is endless!"

"You—" Lin Mozhi choked so hard that he couldn't come up.But thinking of Xue Pan's temper, he had to change his route and said, "When did you come here? Do you feel comfortable and comfortable these few years?"

"I'm okay..." Xue Pan babbled to sum up his experience in the past few years, and suddenly found that it was nothing more than eating, drinking and having fun.Immediately coughed twice, and asked calmly, "What about you?"

"I'm fine!" Lin Mozhi nodded, "When I woke up, I became a young son of the Lin family. His family was defeated, his father died young, and only a widowed mother was left... Later, by chance, he worshiped Mr. Zhuang as his teacher. , participated in the imperial examination, and was adopted by Lin Ruhai... probably like this."

Intentionally or unintentionally, neither of them mentioned the things of the previous life during the conversation between the two.

"Then you are sister Lin's elder brother now, tell me, what do you think?" Xue Pan looked at Lin Mozhi with dim eyes, and asked excitedly.

"What do you think!" Lin Mozhi sighed softly, and said, "Let's take one step at a time!"

"Cut, I really have no ambition." Xue Pan gave Lin Mozhi a contemptuous look.

Lin Mozhi laughed for a while, and said, "What about you! What are your ambitions?"

Xue Pan laughed with his hips on his hips, and was about to speak nonsense when, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Xue Zhizhang and Mr. Zhuang who hurried in at the gate of the courtyard, and immediately wilted like a leaked balloon.With a quick flattering smile on his face, Xue Pan greeted him out of the courtyard, nodded and bowed his head and asked, "Daddy, master, why are you here?"

"You boy!" Xue Zhizhang poked Xue Pan's head with his fingers in a very ironclad manner, and shouted in a low voice: "I asked you to greet the guests, why do you say everything you have?"

"I didn't say what I shouldn't have said!" Xue Pan covered his blushing forehead with his hand, his face was puzzled.

"Then why did a boy just come over and say that you cursed Nephew Lin 'why you're not dead'?" Xue Zhizhang snorted coldly, and angrily hit Xue Pan with a chestnut. "It really spoiled me."

Xue Pan hesitated and couldn't explain, so he could only look at Lin Mozhi with hopeful eyes.

Seeing this, Lin Mozhi shook his head helplessly, and said, "Master, uncle, please sit inside."

After everyone returned to the room and sat down one after another, Lin Mozhi explained with a smile: "Master and uncle may have misunderstood Junior Brother Xue—"

"My nephew doesn't need to excuse this evil. I still know what kind of temperament he is. I was spoiled by me when I was a child, and he is used to speaking rudely and offending others. Uncle, please accompany my nephew first. He is a bastard, my nephew has a thousand words." Just don't care about it like him." Xue Zhizhang said, arched his hands at Lin Mozhi, and sighed.

Mr. Zhuang also beat the side drum to make amends. "You are the most naughty junior. You haven't read any books, and you can't read a few words. Your words are a bit rough, but your temper is pure, and you don't think it's malicious..."

Lin Mozhi backed away, dumbfounded, and then said: "Uncle and master, you really misunderstood. Pan'er just asked me how I 'know the fourth master'. It seems that the servants outside listened to the left words and spread rumors That's what makes people misunderstand."

"Is that so?" Hearing this, Xue Zhizhang and the two looked at Xue Pan suspiciously, only to see Xue Pan nod fiercely.Seeing the actions and expressions of Lin Mozhi and Xue Pan, it really doesn't look like there is a suspicion, so he is a little relieved.It's just that Xue Zhizhang still reprimanded with a little worry: "Why is the fourth master not the fourth master, and it involves today's secrets, so can you talk about it?"

Xue Pan timidly agreed.While Xue Zhizhang and Zhuang You weren't paying attention, he stuck out his tongue at Lin Mozhi and kept making faces.

The entanglement was nothing but a false alarm, and Xue Zhizhang and the two were also happy to warm up the atmosphere, but they were worried about putting Xue Pan and Lin Mozhi together alone.Sitting together and chatting for less than half an hour, Xue Zhizhang noticed that it was getting late, and immediately said to Lin Mozhi: "It's time to set the meal, my nephew will go to the main hall for dinner with us. Let your junior brother do it for once." My host, I'll cleanse you up."

"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders." Lin Mozhi said, standing up respectfully.Together with Xue Pan, they walked side by side in an intimate state.Zhuang You saw it in his eyes and sighed softly.

He, the favorite student, looks gentle and gentle on the surface, and he is easy to talk to.But only after getting along for a long time, can he appreciate the difference between those wunderkinds he played at the same time.But it's also true, if you only have literary talent but no scheming, how can you win the favor of the fourth prince and take such a secretive position...

Thinking of this, Zhuang You secretly shook his head.He didn't know exactly what happened just now, but I hope that silly apprentice Pan'er really didn't offend other people's taboos!

A meal is a joy to eat.

After dinner, I went back to my yard to rest.

In addition, Mr. Zhuang, who has been restless all the time, finally found out that Xue Pan did not return to his gentle hometown at night, but slept after Lu Cuixuan and Lin Mozhi arrived and fell asleep. Go turn off the lights and go to sleep without mentioning it.

And here, Xue Pan continued to pester Lin Mozhi and asked, "Mo Zhier, are you going to Beijing with us this time?"

"kindness!"

"Then you want to take sister Lin to live in Rongguo Mansion?"

"kindness!"

"Why, why don't you take sister Lin to live outside?"

"..."

"..."

"Hello!" Xue Pan raised his eyebrows angrily, and stared straight at Lin Mozhi, who was breathing steadily and sleeping peacefully in front of him.After a while, he snorted angrily, lay down with his back to Lin Mozhi, and fell asleep angrily.

Having nothing to say all night, when Lin Mozhi woke up the next morning, he looked at Xue Pan who was almost half of his body falling under the bed, and sighed softly.He stretched out his hand to pick up Xue Pan, who was sleeping in the dark, and he himself fell to the ground in fear.It was just getting brighter outside, and there was a sobering cool breeze in the air, and the sky was dyed a fiery red by the rising sun.There are crisp and melodious birds chirping in my ears, as well as the rustling of flowers and plants in the wind.The moss-stained stone steps are covered with dew that has not had time to dissipate in the early morning.Lin Mozhi suddenly took a deep breath...

I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and I have been preparing for a long time... so we meet.

"Why do you get up so early and stand at the door like a wooden stake?" Xue Pan, who was wearing a coat behind him, rubbed his eyes and asked angrily.

"Do you think everyone sleeps like you?" Lin Mozhi gave Xue Pan a look, then turned and went in to get dressed and wash.

Xue Pan shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and followed him back to the house.

"You should have kung fu today, right? Come out with me later!" Xue Pan asked with a smile.

"Where are you going?" Lin Mozhi raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Zhen's family." Xue Pan said indifferently: "A friend of mine has just won the Juren, and is about to go to Beijing to participate in Chunwei. Now I am studying hard at home every day, almost like a fool."

Lin Mozhi also came here in the same way back then. Hearing this, he couldn't help but smile knowingly.

"I thought you were the No. [-] Scholar after all, how about going with me and letting him enjoy your joy?" Xue Pan said tentatively.Of course, he would never admit that he wanted what he thought was a good brother and good friend to get along well.

Lin Mozhi and Xue Pan have known each other for two lives, so they naturally know Xue Pan's habits.I always like to be lively, call friends and friends, and there are a lot of people when I go in and out.I don't care.He smiled lightly and said, "I have nothing to do in Jinling these two days, so let me arrange it as you like!"

"That would be great!" Hearing this, Xue Pan said happily.Immediately urged Lin Mozhi to wash up quickly, and then took Lin Mozhi to Jiuwen Zhai and asked Mr. Zhuang to go back to Ruirongtang to have breakfast with his parents and sister.During this period, Daiyu looked sleepy and didn't move her chopsticks much.Xue Pan could see the uneasiness between Daiyu's eyebrows, but he was an outsider and a man after all, so he couldn't say much.He had no choice but to wink at Baochai.

After dinner, Xue Pan took Lin Mozhi out of Xue Mansion in a hurry, walked out of "Renyi Street" and turned left dozens of steps to Jiangning Weaving Mansion.Its majestic style is naturally not inferior to that of the Xue family. The gatekeeper at the door saw Xue Pan's figure, and immediately approached him with a smile: "I have seen the Xue family's uncle, but the Xue family's uncle has not come for a while."

"Isn't this coming?" Xue Pan smiled and said to the porter: "Hurry up and report."

"What kind of talk is the uncle talking about? You will go directly to the mansion when you come, so there is no need to report it!" the porter bowed and flattered.

"If no one comes, what do you want?" Xue Pan scolded with a smile, waved his hand and said, "Go quickly, don't keep me waiting."

"Hey!" The concierge responded, looked at Lin Mozhi who was standing beside the jade tree, and smiled hesitantly: "I don't know if this master is..."

Hearing this, Xue Pan stood on tiptoe and grabbed Lin Mozhi's neck with difficulty, and said proudly: "This is the celebrity in front of us today, the third-ranked and the number one scholar Lang Lin... Hurry up and let your uncle personally Come out and greet."

The concierge was startled, and hurriedly bowed and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Lin, you are so blind, and no one came out—"

"Stop the ink, go!" Xue Pan impatiently interrupted the concierge's flattery, and said repeatedly like chasing flies.

After a while, Zhen Baoyu, who was studying in the study, hurriedly responded.After all parties greeted each other, Zhen Baoyu ushered them into the main hall humbly and respectfully.Because Baoyu had always lived in Xue's house and studied under Mr. Zhuang, and had been studying abroad for more than a year after winning the Juren, Xue Pan was serious and didn't go to Zhen's house for a while.Now after seeing the scene in the main hall, Xue Panli was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but said: "Are you copying the house?"