Don't go back to hometown

Jiang Xianyu didn't listen to what else was said in the room. He was stunned for a while, then stepped back lightly, and stood under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree outside the courtyard.

The weather is getting cooler, the sweet-scented osmanthus flowering period is almost over, and the aroma is much lighter.He took a deep breath and suddenly wanted to eat sweet tofu flower with red bean osmanthus honey.

Just as he was thinking, the study door opened.

"Xiao Yu?" Xie Cheng walked towards him in surprise, "When did you come? Why didn't you come in?"

Jiang Xianyu squinted his eyes and smiled, and raised the book in his hand, "I just arrived, and I want to go back to the academy with you to visit Master. I heard Shimo said that you are here, so I came over to say hello to my uncle."

In the room, Father Xie also came out.

"Uncle Xie, long time no see." Jiang Xianyu smiled warmly and politely.

Father Xie saw a bit of Jiang Jingtao's shadow from him back then, and he missed him very much. He was in a good mood and smiled at him, "Going to visit Master with Ah Cheng today?"

"Ah."

Father Xie looked at Xie Cheng: "There is a newly acquired inkstone in the study, take it to Master."

Xie Cheng nodded, went to the house to get the inkstone, and left with Jiang Xianyu.

After walking away, Jiang Xianyu secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?" Xie Cheng was keenly aware and turned to ask him.

Jiang Xianyu's expression was slightly stagnant, and he quickly covered it up, and said with a smile: "Uncle is in a good mood today, he is not as serious as before."

Xie Cheng thought of his father's attitude towards Jiang Xianyu just now, and had to admit that it was indeed much gentler.

Suddenly I understood why the boy was afraid of his father before.

But today's father is in a good mood because he won the exam and because he wants to discuss marriage - I don't know if the young man heard it outside the courtyard just now.

Judging from the boy's expression and reaction, it should be nonexistent.If you heard it, how could you be so indifferent?

But... Xie Cheng paused. In fact, since they shared the secret of each other's rebirth, he had revealed his thoughts on the boy, but the relationship between them was still delicate.

He forgot his words, he thought that there was no need for more words to express their position between them, but the boy never expressed his heart—even if he never rejected being intimate with him, never refused his approach, and even promised to spend his whole life repaying him. .

But that's just "yet", not necessarily love.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xianyu noticed that he stopped suddenly and turned to look at him.

Xie Cheng looked at him for a while, suppressed the dark thoughts raging in his heart, and comforted himself in his heart: Don't be impatient, you have already lived your life again, what else can you wait for?

He calmed down and said, "I'll change into my clothes before going out."

Jiang Xianyu had no doubt about him, and followed him back to Xiuzhuyuan.

When she went out again, Qingzhu had already found out the homework that her young master had finished, and was waiting outside Xie's mansion with the horse.

Jiang Xianyu got on the horse, not intending to bring the green bamboo.

The green bamboo was missing, Jiang Xianyu suddenly turned around, "Go to Juxian Building to book a private room, I will bring Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing over for dinner later."

"Hey!"

Qingzhu, who had found a place to use again, hurriedly responded happily, and waved his young master to leave.

……

Xie Cheng's return to the academy naturally attracted crowds of onlookers, and he was immediately welcomed into the first class of scholars by the stars, sharing his experience in the scientific examination with his master and classmates.

Jiang Xianyu couldn't join in the excitement, so he went to the children's class with his homework.

It happened to be Mr. Liu who was in class, and he was asking everyone to answer the scriptures.Others were writing furiously, but Tan Yunhan scratched his head and couldn't think of any of them.

"Pfft—" Jiang Xianyu who was standing outside the window smiled unkindly.

Everyone raised their heads in unison——

"Little Yu!"

"Brother Yu!"

Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing immediately dropped the pen and paper and ran to the window, looking at him in surprise and joy.

Although they knew that Jiang Xianyu was back yesterday, they missed Xiu Mu, so it was not easy to skip school to pick him up. After school, they thought that he was probably having a family reunion, so they didn't come to the door.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xianyu came to the academy to see them today!

"Good brother! I knew you would never forget us!" Tan Yunhan embraced Jiang Xianyu through the window, his eyes were red with excitement.

Jiang Xianyu was about to start laughing at him, when suddenly he said "duh duh", Master Liu tapped Tan Yunhan's table with a ruler, and said with a sullen face, "What are you doing? Are you done silent?"

As he spoke, he picked up Tan Yunhan's answer sheet with a ruler to read it.

Tan Yunhan was shocked, and rushed over to save his "face", "Master, I was wrong, I haven't finished writing yet!"

Mrs. Liu sneered, "You yell the loudest and wait for me to write to you?"

Everyone sat down quickly, Tan Yunhan looked at Jiang Xianyu regretfully with his mouth pursed, and then got another ruler on his head.

This time the pain was so painful that he almost burst into tears, Tan Yunhan covered his head, quickly picked up the pen and continued to write silently.

Master Liu retracted the ruler and turned his back, inspected the entire field, and finally set his sights on Jiang Xianyu, and walked outside the classroom.

"came back?"

"Yes, master." Jiang Xianyu presented his homework.

Master Liu flipped through the pages, his deliberately tense face eased, and he stroked his beard with a smile, "That's right, the handwriting has also improved."

Jiang Xianyu smiled and replied, "It's all taught by Master."

Master Liu snorted, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Stop flattering me! Let me ask you, do you still read this book?"

Jiang Xianyu put back his smile and said truthfully: "Master, you also know that I am not a talent in the imperial examination, and it will be difficult to get out if I continue to take the exam. It is better to go to Jinling with my brother as soon as possible and learn how to do things."

Mrs. Liu's face was slightly gloomy, and he looked at Jiang Xianyu with a bit of regret.He has been teaching and educating people for so many years, Jiang Xianyu is definitely not the only one who dropped out of school.But every one of them, he felt regret and regret.

But I heard Jiang Xianyu say: "Although I won't come to the academy in the future, I will continue to read the books. Brother and Xie Cheng found a lot of books for me, and I will read them carefully, and I will not waste or slack off."

Only then did Master Liu nodded in satisfaction, "There is a golden house in the book, as long as you understand it in your heart."

In the classroom, Tan Yunhan quickly copied Wen Qing's answers while his teacher was not paying attention, and finally filled up all the gaps and handed in the answer sheet on time.

After class, Jiang Xianyu went to the teacher's room to chat with Master Liu for a while, and saw with his own eyes that Master Liu wisely picked out the answer sheets of Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing and put them in front of him.

Jiang Xianyu looked at the two answer sheets that were exactly the same, and couldn't help but mourn for the two friends in his heart: fried pig's trotters with bamboo shoots are not far away from you two.

Coming out of the teacher's room, Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing rushed up together, chirping and asking him something.

"What did the master tell you? When will you come back to class?"

"Is Jinling fun? Why did it take you so long to come back?"

"I didn't expect Brother Xie to really understand Yuan. Did he come with you?"

"Stop!" Jiang Xianyu raised his hand to stop the two chattering, "Do you want to eat in Juxianlou?"

Tan Yunhan and Wen Qing, who had been hungry for a long time, swallowed spinelessly: "Eat!"

It happened that Xie Cheng also came to look for him after seeing his master, and they went to Juxian Tower together.

……

Mother Jiang took Mingya around Yangzhou City for two streets, and also came to Juxianlou for lunch.

As soon as the carriage stopped outside the gate of Juxian Building, Xiao Er immediately came up to greet her, saw Mother Jiang, and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, Mrs. Jiang, your young master also booked a private banquet here today, you and Is he still one?"

Mother Jiang was slightly surprised, she turned her head to Ming Ya, and said with a smile: "This kid still said he was going to see his master, but he didn't have a word of truth in his mouth!"

Ming Ya stepped forward and took her hand, jokingly said, "Brother Xiao Yu definitely doesn't want to play with me."

"We won't take him either." Mother Jiang smiled and asked Xiao Er to open another private room, and then asked Jiang Xianyu which one he booked and if he came.

Xiao Er replied: "The Penglai Pavilion booked by Young Master Jiang has not arrived yet, and your servants are inside."

Mother Jiang turned her head and patted the back of Mingya's hand, "Then let's eat first, and we'll settle the score with him later."

Ming Ya pretended to be serious and nodded: "Well, it's all up to you."

Just as he was about to enter the door, there was the sound of horseshoes behind him.

Mother Jiang and Mingya looked back subconsciously, and saw a man in a black suit get off his horse and turned around.

Ming Ya was slightly surprised and stopped.

Isn't this Xie Yancheng who just won the martial arts competition?Why did he come to Yangzhou?

Mother Jiang noticed Ming Ya's strangeness, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know this person?"

Ming Ya was about to speak, when the man in black clothes fell on her, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Just as he was about to step forward, he noticed Mother Jiang beside Mingya, suddenly froze for a moment, then quickly covered it up, showing a gentle and warm smile to Mingya.

This smile made Ming Ya also feel puzzled, and asked him: "Do you recognize me?"

Xie Yancheng—that is, Ren Xiaoyao stepped forward and said with a smile: "I just feel that the girl has a kind face, and there is a sense of déjà vu."

Mingya thought of how she disguised herself as a man to go to the martial arts test that day, and Xie Yancheng stopped the broken gun head that flew in front of her, so maybe she had some impression of her because of this.

But she remembered what Jiang Xianyu told her, so she kept an eye out and pretended to lose her memory, "But I don't recognize you."

Anyway, it is impossible for outsiders to know that she has gone to the martial arts test and paid attention to the news of the martial arts dragon and tiger list.

The smile on Ren Xiaoyao's lips froze, unexpectedly Li Mingya didn't remember him at all.

That day in the martial arts test, he recognized Li Mingya who was disguised as a man at a glance, and then flew to stop the amputated gun head, almost falling off the competition platform and disqualifying.

Obviously at that time Li Mingya looked at him with amazement and admiration, how could she lose her impression of him when she turned her head?

What surprised him even more was that Ming Ya actually came to Yangzhou with Jiang Xianyu as he had heard, and was so intimate with Jiang's mother.

——She still favored Jiang Xianyu in the end.

The speculation in his heart made Ren Xiaoyao so uncomfortable that he couldn't laugh.

In order to hide his embarrassment, he forced a warm smile: "Maybe I misidentified the wrong person. A few days ago I met a young man in the martial arts test field, who looked a bit like a girl, so I was a little surprised to see her today."

Ming Ya didn't expect that he actually recognized her, and felt that Jiang Xianyu's reminder was reasonable, her pretty face tightened, and she emphasized: "You have recognized the wrong person."

When Mother Jiang heard this, she already guessed the identity of the "strange" man in front of her.

The person on the other side's leather mask is very delicate, and there is no flaw at all, but Mother Jiang is a martial artist, and she doesn't just know people by face.

Voice, tone of voice, expression, gait... all can identify a person's identity.People. Leather masks can only fool ordinary people.

She had already learned from Jiang Xianyu that Ren Xiaoyao had changed his identity, and that he accidentally saved Mingya during the martial arts test.

When Xiao Yu mentioned this matter, he suspected that Ren Xiaoyao had ulterior motives.

Mother Jiang thought it was a coincidence, and advised Xiaoyu not to be too nervous, but now she found that Ren Xiaoyao dared to mention Mingya in men's clothing to get close to her. Of.

Dare to appear in Yangzhou now, must have ulterior motives!

Mother Jiang sneered from the bottom of her heart, and shielded Mingya behind her, "Since the young master has identified the wrong person, let's make room and don't get in the way."

Mingya looked at Mother Jiang in surprise—Auntie seemed to know that she didn't like this person very much, did brother Xiaoyu tell her?

Ren Xiaoyao was also surprised by Jiang's mother's ruthless attitude. When she was a guest at Jiang's house, Jiang's mother was clearly a very gentle and kind elder. She would never treat strangers so forcefully... She simply defended Mingya. Or heard what Jiang Xianyu said and recognized him?

His eyes sank, and there was still a hypocritical smile on his lips: "Auntie, don't get me wrong, I'm not a villain, I just feel that I have a destiny with this girl."

"No, we can't afford it!"

A familiar voice came, Jiang Mu and Ming Ya turned their heads, and saw Jiang Xianyu and Xie Cheng walking over with two teenagers.

A group of people blocked the gate of Juxian Building tightly.

It was Jiang Xianyu who spoke.

He didn't expect that Ren Xiaoyao would dare to appear in Yangzhou as "Xie Yancheng", wearing this human leather mask to pester Mingya, and he was instantly furious.

He approached Ren Xiaoyao, with a sneer on his lips, and said in a low voice: "I won't expose you, but you dare to come to the door by yourself."

Ren Xiaoyao pursed his lips to put away his smile, glanced at Xie Cheng, stopped pretending, and whispered to Jiang Xianyu, "Let's talk."