Minister

30【Six Years of Jiankang】

When the two of them were busy tidying up, the sun was about to set. Saul Hahan looked at Wei Chi who was dressed up by himself with satisfaction. Well, this man really looks like what he is wearing. He changed into this outfit. He really looks like a noble boy from Monan.Wei Chi rubbed his belly: "I'm hungry..."

Saul Hahan smiled: "Are you and I dressed like this, are you ashamed to call someone in for dinner? You go and get some snacks from the study, we will eat some, and we will go out early in a while!"

Wei Chi nodded, Saul Hahan was dressed very plainly at the moment, if she hadn't been born with a noble face, she would have looked like a little maid walking beside her.The snacks in the study room were nothing more than unsatisfactory crispy candies and dried fruits. If you eat too much, you will get tired. Saul Hahan stopped after eating two mouthfuls, and Wei Chi also got tired after eating two more mouthfuls.

"Let's go out." Saul Hahan put a money bag knotted with silver thread into his arms.

Wei Chi cleaned up the dishes and followed Saul Hahan out of the bedroom. He couldn't go out from the front yard at this moment. Although no one in Saul Hahan's house dared to talk too much, it's not worth it to show his prestige for this matter.After leaving the bedroom, Saul Hahan dragged Wei Chi to tiptoe around the backyard.The palace was quite big, and it took the two of them a quarter of an hour to get out of the palace.It turns out that this backyard is a pool, which is different from the rockery pavilions in the Central Plains. The pool here should try its best to show its neatness and grandeur. Although the whole pool is shallow, it is huge. .At the bottom of the pool are patterns laid out on colored pottery shards, which are somewhat similar to the flowers on the Monan blanket.There are no flowers, plants and fish in the pool, but only a clear water, blue and blue.

"Interesting, your pond is square!" Wei Chi looked at the pond from the corridor, and only after walking in did he see clearly that there were countless small canals dug in the square, some leading water into the pond, some leading water out of the pond, The water flows in different directions form a pattern, which is so unique!

It was evening at this moment, and many servants were going from the backyard to other courtyards. Saul Hahan didn't dare to neglect, and dragged Wei Chi to the side door.The two of them turned into a small path after leaving the backyard. The path was surrounded by dense vegetation. There were no tall trees in Monan, and these dense bushes could only cover the bodies of the two of them. In the sunset, two handsome The young people ran hand in hand, one was laughing, the other was also laughing, the flowers and leaves seemed to have lost their color and became their accessories.

Walking to the end of the path, a small door appeared. When he opened it, it turned out to be a nursery. Wei Chi was still curious about these strange flowers and plants, but Saul Hahan panicked and hurriedly dragged Wei Chi to the end. Inside, there was indeed an iron door next to a flower wall. Saul Hahan lifted the flower branches in front of the door, took out a small awl and scratched at the keyhole.Wei Chi is a little funny, it seems this is a familiar road... The flower wall next to the iron gate is covered with purple wood vines. It is not summer yet, and the flowers are just bones. The branches of this flower are so dense that two The people were tightly covered, and Wei Chi saw that Saul Hahan was sweating profusely, so he stretched out his hand to push the flower branches aside, so as to let in some light, so that Her Royal Highness could 'commit crimes'.The night wind blew slightly, and the silence of the garden made the sound of rapid breathing around him quite interesting. Wei Chi looked away and looked at Saul Hahan who was concentrating. Scratching.As the sky was getting darker, Wei Chi raised his hand a bit higher again, and with some force, a few flower bones left the flower branches and landed on her shoulders and back.

'Heh', Wei Chi wanted to say, not sure if the word should be for her or for it.

"Bang!" The iron lock finally bounced open.

"Quick!" Saul Hahan turned around, pulled Wei Chi up and ran out the door. The two of them closed the door after they ran out, when they heard a rough male voice from inside the courtyard wall, and after a while, they heard the barking of a dog. Afraid of Wei Chi's noise, Saul Hahan put one arm around her neck and covered her mouth with the other.After waiting for about half a moment, the male voice and the barking dog gradually moved away, and Saul Hahan breathed a sigh of relief.Wei Chi reached out and twirled the flowers stuck to her bun, and nodded her nose: "Not bad! Not bad! It's like I played truant back then!"

Saul Hahan blushed a little, and slapped Wei Chi's hand off: "Are you going to talk nonsense with me here or go to the market with me?"

"Go to the market, go to the market." Wei Chi showed a submissive expression.

Saul Hahan tilted his head, thought for a while, couldn't help it, and smiled: "Did you play truant to pick locks?"

"Yes!" Wei Chi held out a finger and shook it seriously: "But my purpose of playing truant is different from yours! You play secretly, I steal!"

Saul Hahan took Wei Chi's hand: "You can guess it just by looking at you!"

The market was not close to the palace, when the two approached, the silver hook was already embedded in the west sky.It is said to be a market, but it is not only a market. Monan only has a pleasant climate in spring and summer. It is spring now, and there will be some festivals at the beginning of each month. Today is the "Flower Touching Festival".

"The flowers are not yet in bloom, so people have to touch them to bloom beautifully. This is the 'Flower Touching Festival'." Saul Hahan explained.

"The flowers die as soon as you touch them... What kind of strange festival is this?" Wei Chi was very surprised. Do flowers in Monan need to be touched to bloom?

Saul Hahan couldn't help laughing again: "Are you brainless? Besides the flowers on the tree, isn't there a flower like you?"

Wei Chi thought about it for a while, and understood a little bit. It turned out that he was touching people: "...Is it really possible to touch people?"

Saul Hahan couldn't help but raised his hand and slapped someone on the top of the head: "Your expression is disgusting!"

"You think I'm disgusting and you're still touching me?" Wei Chi covered his head in aggrieved, I'm not a man, so what's so disgusting when I ask this?

"Touching, it's just talking," Saul Hahan said, "it refers to men and women who have a heart-to-heart relationship holding hands in the market, holding hands! Do you understand?"

Wei Chi smelled the smell of the baker, and stretched his neck: "Let's go, let's go, this festival doesn't care about our business! Let's go and see what's delicious."

Saul Hahan curled his lips: "Why don't you care about your business? What if you meet your honest man?"

"Well, you're right! You should help me too! Let me know if you see an honest person, so I can catch up and touch them!"

Saul Hahan raised his hand and slapped this man again.

Although this market is not as diverse as Daqi's capital, it is still lively enough. The two of them squeezed into the crowd and looked around.Wei Chi couldn't understand Monan dialect, he only knew how to watch the excitement, and ran to places where there were many people.Saul Hahan held Wei Chi's hand from behind: "Are there monks giving up marriages in crowded places? Are you going to ask for it too?" Wei Chi scratched his head after hearing this: "I thought it was a sledgehammer ... so many people..." Finally remembered the identity of his guest, honestly led by Saul Hahan, so it's not easy to mess around.

Wei Chi thinks there are several delicious things in Monan, the first one is mutton, Wei Chi didn't like mutton because he used to think it was smelly, but the sheep in Monan is strange, no matter how you cook it, it doesn't smell strange, if it's not very greasy Well, Wei Chi might have to eat it every day.Just after entering the market, Wei Chi pointed at the mutton stall and jumped straight. It was not uncommon for Saul Hahan to eat this every day, but he couldn't resist her, so he had to eat a few pieces of meat with him.The second is Monan's sweet fruit pancakes. Monan does not produce beet sugarcane, except for the white sugar and brown sugar sold from Daqi, they can only eat the 'plum sugar' produced in the grassland.The plums of this 'plum candy' grow on a kind of grass, and they are harvested in midsummer every year, and there are a lot of them, but they are not sweet enough. They are dried and made into sauce and sold in jars. The nobles in Monan dislike its color It's not good, and it's a little sour, so I don't bother to eat this.This sugar is not good for cooking but it is very suitable for pancakes.Whether it's brewed sauce or fresh plums, making the stuffing of sesame seed cakes is simply a delicacy in the world!The sweet and sour sauce is not greasy at all. Once you bite down, the flesh is soft and tough, and you will never get tired of eating it.However, the people of Monan are very concerned about pasta. Those small fruit cakes are exquisite and cute. Wei Chi chose two white rabbit cakes, handed one to Saul Hahan, and ate the other himself.Seeing Wei Chi's lifelike appearance, Saul Hahan couldn't bear to laugh at her.Seeing that the bunny in my hand is really cute, I am not willing to throw it away, just hold it in my hand as a little plaything and watch it.

Walking in front of the noodle shop, Wei Chi couldn't move anymore, so he bought a male doll and a female doll for Saul Hahan to choose.Seeing that Saul Hahan didn't choose, the owner of the other shop babbled a lot of Monan dialect, Saul Hahan blushed and had no choice but to choose the girl doll.Seeing that Saul Hahan was selected, the owner of the noodle shop was proud and proud, and chattered a lot.Saul Hahan buried his head in embarrassment, and hurriedly dragged Wei Chi away.

"What did he say?" Wei Chi had already bit the boy down.

"He said!" Saul Hahan glared at her angrily, "He said..."

Wei Chi rolled his eyes: "Isn't it telling that our lovers will eventually get married?"

The two looked at each other for a moment, then bent over laughing in unison.

Hearing the sound of gongs and drums in front of him, he squeezed in and saw that this was where the tricks were played.But Monan didn't use big stones on his chest to scare the children, they just slapped two big men, and they fell on each other with their bare arms.Strange to say, after crossing the Suijiang River and heading north from Baiyun, the people are not as tall as the people in the north of Daqi, but unlike those in the south of the Yangtze River, they are often short and strong.These two guys are only half a head taller than Wei Chi, but their arms are almost as thick as Wei Chi's thighs!The two of them were jumping in circles with their arms up, waiting for the gongs and drums to stop before going to war.

Saul Hahan took Wei Chi's arm: "I heard that you also learned a few tricks, how about it, can you beat them?"

"Come on...my beautiful fists and embroidered legs." Wei Chi sighed: "I only learn how to protect myself. Can I still go to the battlefield?"

Saul Hahan covered his mouth and smiled: "You don't have any ambition? Don't you Daqi have a drama about a woman who dresses up as a man and goes to battle to kill the enemy? If she can, you can't."

Wei Chi turned his head and looked at Saul Hahan's serious face: "That play? It's fake... I checked the book, and there was no such war at all in those years. Literati, they are very good at making up things. At first it seemed It was to beat the bandits, and the woman was cut off when she rushed in. Later, the bandits were taken in by the officers and soldiers, so there was such a good story. It has become an army of thousands of horses."

Saul Hahan twisted Wei Chi's arm: "Bookworm! You can really discourage yourself!"

Wei Chi couldn't help but groaned, thinking that you are so strong...you might as well become a female general!

Away from the boundary of the performing arts, the market is much quieter, this is the street selling small toys and jewelry.Saul Hahan came to his senses, grabbed Wei Chi and squeezed onto the stall.Wei Chi was also curious at the beginning, but when he got closer, he was a little disappointed. After all, Monan's is not as good as Da Qi's. Although the pattern looks fresh, it always feels unrefined in his hands.Saul Hahan didn't care about these things, he just walked around one by one, as if he was tireless.

"Huh? Didn't you say it doesn't look exquisite? Why did you choose this again?" Saul Hahan saw that Wei Chi was holding a red agate with fragrant wood filigree.

"There isn't one in this Central Plains." Wei Chi carefully looked at the flower in his hand. This flower must have been made after the flowers on the grassland, and there is no such pattern in the Central Plains.

"Are you going to wear it?" Saul Hahan deliberately humiliated her.

"What am I wearing? I gave it away."

Saul Hahan thought for a while: "Who is it for?" It shouldn't be the daughter of Xi Shifeng's family, right?I heard that the little girl was so crazy that she went directly to Wang Yunyi's mansion to ask for someone.

Wei Chi handed the bouquet to the boss and paid the money: "Give it to a girl in the capital."

Saul Hahan was stunned.

"When I first entered the capital, I met a student who was in the same subject as me. Later, he won the top prize in that subject. We got along very well. Although we didn't sworn brothers, we were better than brothers. At that time, I didn't have many friends in the capital. He often visits his house during the holidays. He has a younger sister who is 13 years old. When I saw her, she hadn’t tied her hair in a bun. I often tease her. Although she is not my younger sister, she is the same as I am as close as my own sister. Knowing that I was leaving Beijing, that silly girl cried like a little tearful person... Hey, it’s rare to have some leisure when I come out this time. There is no such flower in the Central Plains, and it’s okay to bring one to her. My regards."

Saul Hahan gave an 'oh' and lowered his head to choose his own.

Originally, I thought the comb in my hand was pretty, but at this moment I suddenly lost interest.It's not easy to throw it away when I hold it in my hand. After thinking about it, I feel stupid, so I took a few things randomly, and threw them to the boss to let him pay the bill.

After leaving the Jewelry Street, we arrived at the center of the market. Countless girls and boys danced and sang around the bonfire in the market.There were so many people, Wei Chi was afraid that he and Saul Hahan would get separated, so he quickly grabbed her hand.The two of them just crowded together with the flow of people. Unlike the hustle and bustle around them, the two of them didn't talk about anything.In fact, after passing the center of this market, it is the end, all the joy and excitement will come to an end.

In the end, they went out, and the flow of people suddenly decreased a lot. It was the most joyous festival at the moment, and very few people left.Although it was still early for the men and women in the arena, these two should have gone back earlier.

"In our place," Wei Chi pointed to his feet: "We have to cross a bridge to get out of the market. When I was young, I went to a temple fair with my master. When I was about to leave, I lay on the bridge railing and felt a little sad. Because I knew that when I entered the temple fair, I had to pass one. At that time, I was very happy when I walked on the bridge, but I forgot to pass one when I came out... Later, when I grew up, I lost interest in many things, and the only way was to pass by the temple fair. When you were looking at the bridge, the people who went in and out of the bridge were a little lost. Who would have known it? When you were happy, did you ever think that the people who passed you by you were sad?"

The exit of the market in Monan is a street intersection, one side of the street is noisy, and the other side is silent.

Facing the silence, Saul Hahan smiled faintly, took Wei Chi's hand and walked on the way back: "Why do you feel sad? Why don't you just come back next time?"

The two of them didn't say a word, they just walked back silently.The brick road in Monan is slightly different from the bluestone road in the capital. It is not so cold and hard to walk on. The houses on both sides have already fallen asleep quietly, and the chirping insects are singing in the corner.Wei Chi closed his eyes, imagining that he was walking on the road to the Imperial Academy, maybe going back to the study, maybe going to the tea room.But the slightly grassy wind on the grassland reminds him all the time that this is beyond the Great Wall, beyond the Great Wall...

When I came here, I felt that the road was long, and when I went back, it seemed to be there in no time. Looking at the branches and tendrils that crossed the flower wall, Wei Chi thought of the way Saul Hahan bent down to open the lock, and how those flower branches lifted by him were floating in his body. In the hand, how those bones fell on her shoulders and hair bun with the sunset.

"I'm going back, you should go back too." Saul Hahan waved his hand at Wei Chi.

Wei Chi pulled her back with a smile, and shook her hand: "What do you think this is?"

Saul Hahan spread out his hands, it was a hairpin with small colored beads and five treasures on it, and a row of small pendants below, which were also colored beads and five treasures—a small, cute and cheap item.

"I don't know anything else except the bun I often wear." Wei Chi pointed to his head: "You can do it yourself."

Saul Hahan was a little embarrassed, but in the end he took off the one on his head and put on the one that Wei Chi gave him.Wei Chi took Saul Hahan's hand and looked left and right: "Oh, Miss Qi Qige, you are really beautiful by nature, you look good with anything!"

"Why didn't you give it to me when you bought it just now? Don't you know that you should give it a fresh gift?" Saul Hahan said angrily.

Wei Chi was taken aback: "There are too many people, I'm afraid you'll stung your hand with the hairpin..."

Saul Hahan made a twisting gesture: "Remember next time, give me a more expensive one!"

Wei Chi hid with a smile: "I know, I know... I hope Princess Palace will forgive me for my small salary..."

The moon had already risen to the sky, and the weather had cooled down. Wei Chi counted his fingers. Although there was no access control, it would be hard to explain why he was late, so he cupped his hands and prepared to say goodbye.

Seeing Wei Chi take off his coat, Saul Hahan hurriedly stopped her: "It's cold, what are you doing taking it off!" After speaking, he tightened Wei Chi's neckline: "Go back quickly."

Wei Chi deliberately teased her: "Yo! Then count it as a gift for me!"

"Yeah! It's for you, is it a reciprocity?" Saul Hahan pushed Wei Chi away: "Go back quickly, it's getting late."

Wei Chi watched Saul Hahan walk up the stone steps, and waved goodbye to her.

Saul Hahan's heart suddenly moved: "Are you happy tonight?"

"Happy!" Wei Chi waved at her.

Just be happy...

Wei Chi hurried to Huta Yasi, and when he was only one street away, he quickly took off his coat and wrapped it up.

"Master Wei? Are you going out tonight?" The soldier at the door greeted.

"Well, did you see Chen Hu?" Wei Chi nodded

"Chen Hu? No!"

After entering the gate of his own courtyard, Chen Hu greeted him as expected: "What is your lord holding?"

Wei Chi said lightly: "Clothes, I will wear them when I go out in the future. Don't put them in my box. You keep them. I will ask you if I want to wear them."

"Yes!" Chen Hu responded, and when Wei Chi walked past him, Chen Hu couldn't help sniffling...it smells so good, the fragrance of flowers...

The author has something to say: a very festive chapter...

By the way, another girl appeared (although it is not an official debut~)~~That's right!It's Master Geng's younger sister!

Saul Hahan really could bear it. For several days, he didn't show any dissatisfaction with being like a piece of trash (huh?)~~~~ But he really cared...

This is the legendary unfulfilled love.