"My lord, please wait here for a while." A young man in a Taoist robe bowed and said, poured tea for the guests and exited the pavilion.

Shen Wenxuan sat alone on the soft cushion, and turned his head to glance at the surrounding scenery. Hewang Mountain, fifty miles away from Pingyuefu, was already in early summer, and it was full of greenery, with gurgling streams flowing in it. Very elegant.

Defu stood at the bottom of the steps and wiped the sweat from his forehead. The weather became more and more unforgiving this day: "Young master, we have all climbed from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain. We are very tired. Why do they tell us to wait?"

"Shut your mouth, don't talk too much." Shen Wenxuan said, looking out of the pavilion with a cold and indifferent expression, just like his expression, it can't be said how good it is.I don't know if I came here suddenly to escape or to follow the trend of Hongzhang Academy.

On the open space on the left under the pavilion was a well-manicured vegetable garden. Shen Wenxuan swept over it casually, and his eyes suddenly stopped on the canna. A few broken leaves are very ugly, and the narcissus he gave Ajiao has long since faded away.

Shen Wenxuan squeezed the cup in his hand and his thoughts gradually drifted away. He didn't notice that a man suddenly stood up in the vegetable garden, dressed as a farmer, with a worn straw hat on his head, holding a sickle and a vegetable basket in his hand, walking along the road. Looking at the ridge, he picked and picked in the vegetable garden while tidying up the fields. He didn't leave the vegetable garden until the basket was full of melons and vegetables. When he turned around, he saw Shen Wenxuan in a daze in the pavilion.

This little brother... is quite handsome.

The old man with half black and half white hair raised the brim of his hat and looked at him for a few moments, then walked over unhurriedly with a basket in his hand, and Shen Wenxuan raised his head to meet his eyes only when he was about to enter the pavilion, paused and breathed Just about to stand up, the old man waved him to sit down, put the vegetable basket on the side table, and sat down opposite him:

"The guests come from afar, and I don't have anything to entertain. I grow all the things in this basket. If you are hungry, you can take some at will."

"No, you're being polite." Shen Wenxuan said, looking down at the leaking teacup in his hand, he didn't pay attention when he squeezed it just now, it cracked, and put it back into the saucer calmly, as if nothing happened.

"Needless to say that layman is not layman, I am now an old man of a certain kind of land, with no virtue and talent, not worthy of the word 'layman'." Weixiu said with a smile, took a sip of tea to quench his thirst, and took off his hat Fan yourself:

"Originally, I was thinking of visiting you in a few days, and the invitation stickers have already been delivered to your home. I didn't expect you to come first."

Shen Wenxuan: "I have already received the greeting card. I came here on a whim this time. I hope the old man will not blame you."

Weixiu waved the straw hat in his hand: "Let's stop saying these kind words, you have your own reasons, I just want to ask, did you come with a new draft?"

"...New draft?" Shen Wenxuan asked hesitantly.

"I pray that it is clearly written in the letter."

Shen Wenxuan paused for a while, then took out the unopened letter from his sleeve, the envelope was clean, without any trace of tampering... This is embarrassing.

Shen Wenxuan raised his head and looked at Weixiu for a few moments, and said without blushing, "I have admired Weixiu's name for a long time. After receiving the letter of worship, I was so excited that I couldn't wait to come here. I forgot to take a look at the layman's bag." Xin, I'm young but really confused."

"Actually, the letter didn't say anything, so don't read it if you don't read it, it's just—"

Weixiu suddenly put his hands on the table and got very close, his eyes were full of longing, "The four gentlemen who wrote such a great book are kept in your house? Can you recommend one or two, so that Weixiu and The four gentlemen had a good time drinking and discussing each other?"

Shen Wenxuan silently leaned back a little, seeing such an unruly layman Weixiu fell into silence again, and glanced at the very abrupt crane embroidery on the sleeve corner of his coarse cloth bunt, he remembered Wang Muze told him that Weixiu layman respected Taoism, after a while, said, "Actually——"

"Actually, you wrote this yourself?" Wei Xiudao thought that it is not impossible to think about the pipa practice that has been circulated in the market.

Shen Wenxuan: "No, these four books do have their own authors, but these four authors have passed away long ago, which is a pity, but every night one of them will drive a crane to Shen's dream and talk about it. Such and such."

His calm expression did not seem to be fooling people at all.

Weixiu paused, frowned, and slowly sat back on his tufted cattail. He pondered for a while and said, "Weixiu has only heard of such a shocking and shocking story in the Miscellaneous Notes of the Mountains, but Taoists once said Taoist celestial beings fly to the sky on cranes, they are gods, they are gods, they live with the heaven and the earth, live with the sun and the moon, and these immortals actually entrusted you with dreams... Maybe it is a rare fate?"

Shen Wenxuan nodded, he did what he said.

"However—" Weixiu straightened his sitting posture, and his heart was still eager like a cat's paw, "Have the four immortals finished explaining these four books to you?"

Shen Wenxuan changed his mind, and said: "No, the four immortals come to my dream in turn every night, and they only talk about one chapter, and it must be after I have a deep sleep. ,I am afraid--"

"This - little friend, you are young, why are you worried?" Wei Xiu anxiously hammered his legs between his brows, and asked.

Shen Wenxuan sighed a few times with deep eyes, and said: "For me, a poor student from Yuzhou, Han Chuang, who studied hard for more than ten years, could not enter the threshold of that higher education institution, and spent all his family wealth for the children of the merchant family, but could not get an entrance examination. The academy was controlled by the government and turned into a profit-making tool, and I also complain that there are mixed fish and dragons in the academy, which hinders the future of talents in Dayu."

Weixiu blinked his eyes a few times, understood, and suddenly said: "Is that so? But, the nearest congee shed outside Longxi County was set up by your family, right? There are also Yuejiang County and Yunzhong County. , Shanggu County, Yuyang County, etc., the Shen family is not short of money to be able to do these things, if that is the case, why not also distribute some of the family wealth to Hongzhang Academy?"

The old master actually knew this.

Shen Wenxuan said with a smile: "The old man is really well informed."

"Lingtong is not considered, but it is not blind and deaf. I know a thing or two about officialdom and folk affairs in Yuzhou, but I have made a poisonous oath that I will never go to the muddy water of officialdom again in my life. If you want me to contact people in the officialdom to achieve certain goals for you, I would like to advise you not to think so."

Wei Xiu picked up the purple sand pot and refilled tea for himself with drooping eyes, sipped it slowly, and ignored Shen Wenxuan. Although he often lived in the mountains and forests, he was very transparent about worldly affairs. This man came to him suddenly. What you want is certainly not simple.

"Even if Shen can no longer continue to write four novels, it doesn't matter?" Shen Wenxuan laughed.

Wei Xiu paused for serving the tea.

Shen Wenxuan: "I don't want to force you, old man, but since you know so much about the situation in Yuzhou, you must also know about the refugees in Yuzhou. I just want to say that Shen wants to save Yuzhou before the worst situation." Come on, when you find the old man, the public interest comes first, and the personal interest comes second.”

Wei Xiu frowned and slowly put down the teacup in his hand, saying: "There is no conclusion yet about the refugees."

"A common man can lie about this matter, but tens of thousands of common people lie about this matter. Is it possible? The old man was also a great Confucian who was a first-rank official and respected by ordinary scholars. It is impossible not to Knowing the pros and cons, apart from Yuzhou, the southwest is dead.”

Wei Xiu suddenly raised his eyes, and scolded: "You little businessman, how do you know what death is? Even though my southwestern five continents are disliked by the current emperor, but under the sky, is it the land of the king? How can the imperial court ignore the land that has been conquered? Besides, there are millions of soldiers and civilians in this land, and my Daqing soldiers are all brave and good at fighting, brave and resourceful. The power is simply a joke!"

Shen Wenxuan drank tea quietly and listened to him. This kind of extremely smart person is either stubborn or pretending to be asleep after being scolded. time to wake up.

Wei Xiu stared at Shen Wenxuan, seeing that he didn't make a sound, he couldn't help fidgeting on the spot, it's okay for this person to refute him, and he can still seize this person's mistakes and omissions to fight back, but this person didn't say anything , You can do whatever you want, with silent versus sound, those unreasonable things can't help but magnify in his heart, after a while, he said in a deep voice:

"Anyway, my poisonous oath can't be broken. If I don't step into the muddy water, I won't go into the muddy water. Please go ahead."

After speaking, I will get up and leave——

"Shen didn't want you to go into the muddy water, old man." Shen Wenxuan said, looking up at him firmly. He didn't expect such a stubborn person to change his principles easily. If it was so easy, the old man wouldn't As for resigning from office and going into hiding.

"A school is different from an officialdom. It is not difficult to serve as the dean of Hongzhang Academy in your capacity. After you take office, you should clean up the style of study and let more students go out of Yuzhou and enter the imperial court to bluntly speak out about disasters in the Southwest. Why not?"

"Businessmen can't go out, ordinary people can't go out, officials are not allowed to move at will unless there is a summons, only students can."

Weixiu was stunned, his heart agitated, and he sat back on the tuanpu unconsciously, drooping his eyes and meditating. After a few breaths, he raised his eyes and asked, "You said just now that public interests come first and private interests come second. What is your selfish interest?"

"It's not a big deal. It's just that there are two juniors in my family. They are not bad in education. It's not a matter of being an official. But I want them to study in Hongzhang Academy to broaden their knowledge. I also ask the old man to give me business records and There is a way for the children of poor families."

This request... is not difficult, but——

"What good is it if I promise you?"

Shen Wenxuan: "Only repairing, the intention is to be virtuous but to be good at government. The government is to support the people. I set up porridge sheds widely, which will not affect the people in Yuzhou and will not give up the refugees outside the state. There will be no starvation on the roadside and no turmoil in the state. This is the benefit. If you don’t come out, this benefit will be like a flower in a mirror or a moon in water, you don’t need to touch it, it will be broken by itself.”

Speechless, Wei Xiu tilted his head and looked out of the pavilion. After a while, he sighed deeply, put on his straw hat and said, "I'll think about it."

Shen Wenxuan said with a smile: "Old man, please think about it quickly, otherwise I will have to sleep again tonight."

Weixiu immediately held his breath and couldn't get up or down in his heart, and let out a "hum".

Neither of them said a word, they sat and drank tea, Shen Wenxuan looked at the sun in the sky and then at the vegetable garden, now it was afternoon, I wonder if Ah Jiao had eaten, taken medicine, and rested on time, when he came out Angry in my heart, I didn't look back at him.Ajiao's abnormalities these days may be because he is not feeling well, so why should he be angry?

"When you came here just now, I noticed that you were in a bad mood, why?" Wei Xiu asked suddenly.

Shen Wenxuan glanced back at him, was silent for a while and said awkwardly: "...I had a quarrel with Fu Lang."

But Xiu for a moment... could not see through him: "Your lips are thin, your nose bridge is straight, the corners of your eyes are sharp, and the eyeballs are black but not brown. No matter how you look at it, you have a naturally indifferent face. You can persuade me Coming out of the mountain is enough to surprise me, but you can still...get Fulang?"

Shen Wenxuan didn't like to hear these words, got up and said, "Let me pull out some canna plants."

Before he finished speaking, he went down the steps to the vegetable garden and leaned over to carefully select a few. He took the scissors that Defu took from the carriage and cut them carefully. Each of them was the same length and neatly of.

Weixiu laughed, watched him get into the carriage and waved away, picked up the purple sand pot and got up leisurely, muttering: "The sword eyebrows are in the temples, the sun horns are dragon courts, the jaws are sharp and angular, and the dragon looks interesting. ,interesting."

......

"Jiao Jiao, let me ask you a question, can you tell me the truth?" Dr. Zhao asked, his eyes turned red, "Have you recalled the previous memory?"

Jiao Shihan straightened her head from the bend of her knees, the hair on her forehead was sticky with sweat or tears, and it looked a bit messy on her face, her eye circles and nose were pitifully red, she was sobbing slightly, and her breathing was a little unsteady.

"Is there?" Dr. Zhao asked again, his heart trembled unbelievably, even his hands were a little cramp.

"I—I—" the sour breath rushed to his forehead again, and Jiao Shihan's crying sound resumed, "I don't want to say this, I hate my previous life, I hate it to death, I don't want to think about it, Dad, you go help Can I get Ah Xuan back? I didn’t, I didn’t mean to say that, I made him angry, what should I do—”

He stomped his toes angrily, tears in his eyes, and coughed a few more times, feeling dizzy.

"No, nothing, nothing, I'll send someone to look for him." Dr. Zhao took the handkerchief in the hand of the green sleeve and pinched his nose to let him blow his nose. Put the water basin into the hand of another maid, and trot to the gate to see if the young master came back.

Dr. Zhao patted his forehead and said that he was confused. The child obviously lived well in the capital. He picked up a boiled egg from the water basin, peeled the shell and applied it to Ajiao's crying and swollen eyes: "It's okay, it's okay, if that kid Ah Xuan dares to get angry with you, I'll beat him up, it's okay, it's okay."

......

Yan Qi and Zhao Er stood on the steps of the Tingshu building, with their backs leaning against the door, the storyteller inside was talking about Water Margin, while the spitting was flying all over the place, only Ting Ting followed with real feelings of annoyance, and the people on the street outside came and came Often, the sun at the end of the afternoon is very dazzling, Zhao Er and Yan Qi stand under the shadow of the eaves, and they can see the main entrance of Wen Le Ning Mansion with their heads tilted.

Gou Sheng was sitting next to them, while Yan was not paying attention, he gently bit the jerky bag around his waist, pulled it off, and ran back to the door of the house to eat while continuing to guard the door, Yan Qi looked at the storyteller while he was talking Guazi, I didn't pay attention, but Zhao Er noticed it, but he just smiled and didn't remind him.

The Jia Bing Battalion two streets away from here is recruiting recruits. He and the refugees trained by Yan Qi have all gone to sign up. Without the familiar faces, he couldn't help laughing, it seems that he was recruited successfully.

Also, the ones they trained must be better than those wild ones.

Those people also clearly saw him and Second Master Yan, and they nodded quietly to them as they passed the listening library.

Zhao Er pretended not to see it, turned his head to look to the other side, and saw a carriage with the logo of the Shen family coming from the end of the street.

Zhao Er paused, quickly patted Yan Qi, ran back to the gate of the mansion and stood there, Yan Qi was listening happily, and was not happy to be disturbed by him, but when he turned around, he saw Shen Wenxuan's carriage had stopped at the gate of the mansion , quickly ran back and stood up.

Shen Wenxuan didn't pay attention to the two of them. He got out of the carriage with canna in his arms and entered the gate of the mansion. When he first entered the city, he passed by a lantern seller. He bought lantern paper, wrapped it up well, and tied a silk one at the root. Bowknot, hold a bunch full of it, so pretty.

Lu Xiu wandered around the door anxiously for a while, then turned around and suddenly saw Shen Wenxuan, he was relieved when he caught sight of the things in his arms, and ran ahead of him to notify Hanxuanyuan.

"What's that? How did you do it?" Yan Qi asked, craned his neck and took a few more glances.

"What? You want to get one for Miss Yu's family too?" Zhao Er laughed.

Yan Qi kicked him: "Get out!"

By the time Shen Wenxuan entered, the idlers in the room had already left.

Seeing him coming in, Jiao Shihan stood up. He had obviously washed and washed, and even changed his coat. He was not as embarrassed crying as before, but the red and swollen eye circles could not deceive people, and there were two people rolling on the mirror next to him. a hard boiled egg.

"Axuan, have you had lunch?" Jiao Shihan asked, glanced at Shen Wenxuan with a hint of caution, but the corners of his mouth still turned up when he saw the flowers in his arms, "The flowers are beautiful."

Shen Wenxuan felt a sharp pain in his heart, held the root of the flower and handed it out, standing there hesitating without moving, Jiao Shihan walked over and hugged the flower, touched his hand and held it with his finger, inserted it between his fingers Button, the fundus of the eyes flushed again:

"sorry."

He said, biting his lips tightly to cry or not, even his eyes were trembling.

Shen Wenxuan pulled into his distance, and lowered his head slightly to rest on his forehead: "Don't cry, I'm about to cry."

Jiao Shihan sniffed: "Then don't be angry, okay?"

"I'm not mad, and I'll never be mad at you."

"But you just walked away—"

"sorry."

Shen Wenxuan tilted his head and kissed him on the cheek, all the way to the corner of his eyes, and slowly hugged him tightly, wanting to rub him into his flesh and blood: "Will you hate me one day?"

Jiao Shihan shook her head sharply, and said eagerly: "No, I hate you, and I won't hate you—"

Shen Wenxuan laughed, no way, he is naturally indifferent, unable to empathize, unable to learn to understand, and unable to let go, if there is such a day, his eyes will be full of killing.

"Canna, do you like it? Shall we grow it alive?"

作者有话要说:感谢在2021-02-0300:57:01~2021-02-0515:59:45期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: 5331;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Chacha, Yungui, and Full Moon Sky;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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