Jiang Qing

Perhaps it was because the sun was too warm, the second day Mei Shao lived in the White Mansion, it was raining lightly outside.

From the outside, the White Mansion doesn't look much changed, but when you enter the inside, you find that the corner of the corridor has changed a lot, and the layout of the scenery has changed a lot.The wing room where Mei Shao lived was not far from Bai Bingchen's courtyard, and it took a little time to go around.

The misty rain was hazy, and the pear tree shivered and trembled outside.Mei Shao sat on the railing of the promenade, with half of her body outside, not afraid of the rain, turning two dice with her left hand instead of her right hand.

"Bored?"

Bai Bingchen, who was sitting in the corridor, glanced at his absent-minded appearance, put down the scroll in his hand, and asked softly.

Although he was fully prepared psychologically, he knew that Bai Bingchen had always favored Zhou Yue.But ever since he lived in the White Mansion, Bai Bingchen let himself cling, did everything by himself, and always cared about his own feelings and preferences. Only then did he realize that the gentleness he had glimpsed and firmly grasped was just a little bit, and all the gentleness of this person Both the smile and the smile were given to that person.

He began to regret that he let Zhou Yue go. The person in front of him is so gentle now, like spring water, he wants to be tightly locked in his arms.

"It's raining lightly today, and the fish in Xiyan Lake are more active. Ask Ning Kuan to bring two sets of coir raincoats. Let's go fishing?"

Under the eaves, Mei Shao was still bored, Zhou Yue was five years younger than him, and before the Mei family accident, he was only a half-grown child, and he had always treated him as a younger brother.

He once also suspected that Zhou Yue called Bai Bingchen "senior brother", whether they were also the children of some Jianghu sect, but Bai Bingchen kept avoiding answering, and only said that it was for Zhou Yue's identity to explain, so he called him "senior brother" , In the past few years, I have also made open and unannounced visits, and I really didn't find anything.

Looking at it now, hiding their identities and matching their seniors and brothers may be due to another matter. The relationship between Bai Bingchen and Zhou Yue is not simple.

He was still thinking about it, but the dice in his hand had long been unsteady and fell into the soil.

Caught off guard by rubbing his head, he raised his head and saw that Bai Bingchen had already put on his coir raincoat, and was smilingly holding another one for him to change.

Xiyan Lake draws running water from the city, and the golden carps that were originally released have long since disappeared, but there are many grass carp and silver carp swimming over. One look at it and you can tell that the mansion does not take care of it, and does not pull fishing nets at the entrance.Just like this, free-range breeding has turned a lake of koi into a fish pond.

The continuous drizzle fell on the coir raincoats of the two of them, and it took a long time to get wet.

Not long after, a large silver carp was lying in the fish basket beside Mei Shao. He looked around, broke off a few willow sticks, twisted them into one strand, tied them to the fish basket, and tied the other end to the willow tree to cover them. Put the fish on the fish basket, and keep the fish in the shallow water by the lake.He planned to ask the kitchen to add a fish head soup in the evening, braised the fish body with spicy peppers, boiled the hot oil, thick oil sauce red, Bai Bingchen liked it best.

Thinking about whether tofu or mushrooms is better for the fish head soup, Mei Shao sat back to his original position, and saw Bai Bingchen sitting next to him with his head down, his bamboo hat covering most of his face.He leaned over and saw that Bai Bingchen's fish basket was indeed empty.

Although Mei Shao seemed to have a temper, she was the most patient. He could squat by the river with weeds in his mouth for an afternoon just to crave a mouthful of fresh fish soup.But Bai Bingchen couldn't do it. Every time I wanted to take him to go fishing, I had to grind for a long time. He became sleepy after sitting beside him for a long time. Why did he bring the empty fish basket back with him? .

After copying the fish basket beside Bai Bingchen, Mei Shao is going to catch two more fish, which can be kept in the kitchen and cooked as sweet and sour fish in two days.

His shoulders sank, and Bai Bingchen, who was dozing off, tilted his head and leaned against himself.

Holding the fishing rod tightly, Mei Shao sighed through the mist formed by the drizzle.

He was almost able to deceive himself, deceiving himself that this was just an ordinary afternoon playing around in the White Mansion.

With such a skin, he dared to temporarily and shamelessly ignore the hatred between the two.But he found sadly that he could only use Zhou Yue's face to warm up the old things that used to be so common and common.

Bai Bingchen seemed to have really fallen asleep, his even and slender breath was in his ears, Mei Shao could finally be sure that his relationship with Zhou Yue was so intimate, an intimacy he had never thought about in that way .Behind what he couldn't see, they used to get along like this.

Originally, he just thought that Bai Bingchen was protective of his weaknesses and cared more about his younger brother, but now it seems that those partial favors and indulgences all the time turned out to be a little bit of friendship that can be traced.

The person leaning on his shoulder was so close to him, so close that he could strangle him to death as long as he wanted to.

After the assassination in Jianzhou, Mei Shao sent someone to follow Zhou Yue, and learned that he disappeared after leaving Jianzhou. Even Bai Bingchen was looking for him everywhere. As long as he took this opportunity to attack, after he escaped, the wanted man would be early. Zhou Yue was missing.

After weighing the pros and cons, he stretched out his hand under the cover of the wide coir raincoat.

The person in front of him was sleeping very lightly, breathing shallowly and slowly, his long eyelashes covered the bruises under his eyes, which made his complexion paler.

Ripples fall one after another on the surface of the lake filled with water vapor, and the breeze blows towards the face, bringing with it a touch of cool rain, making people feel that the water, sky and light are all in harmony.

Looking at it from a distance, there is a rainy lake, with two coir raincoats leaning against each other, the weeping willows by the lake are overcast, and four or five orioles are light yellow on the willow tips.Anyone who looks at it is a lingering good scene.

Mei Shao stopped, and then straightened the broken hair on Bai Bingchen's forehead.He suddenly couldn't bear it.I can't bear him to die in such a happy way in such a beautiful spring.

An oriole flew to Mei Shao's fishing rod. It turned its head and stared at him with bright black eyes.When Bai Bingchen woke up, what he saw was such a picture of wide-eyed and small-eyed.

"Did you catch any fish?" Bai Bingchen, who was waking up slowly, didn't feel that there was anything wrong with waking up on Mei Shao's shoulder, and asked very naturally.

Mei Shao moved the fishing rod, and the orioles on the rod rushed into the rain.He picked up the empty fish basket beside him and put it on Bai Bingchen's lap, letting him hold it. He collected two fishing rods by himself, hung them on the wooden wheelchair, and pushed Bai Bingchen back: "I'm not lucky, I didn't catch anything. There is no fish soup tonight."

Bai Bingchen obediently hugged the fish basket, and didn't ask where the other fish basket was.

The two fishing rods hanging on the wheelchair swayed as they walked, like willow branches hanging down.

The grass that had lost the ankle covered the fish basket by the lake.Yusi and weeping willows all fell down, but the big silver carp raised its head as hard as it could and jumped up in the closed fish basket.

"Plop—" It seemed that something had fallen into the lake, disturbing the sparrows pecking at the lake.

After dinner, Bai Bingchen went back to his study and continued to carve the statue of Maitreya Buddha.

There are more than two months left for the birthday of Cao Bai, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. In addition to the birthday gift prepared early in the morning, Bai Bingchen found a piece of good wood and prepared to carve a Maitreya Buddha statue for him. After all, on the surface, their relationship is not Not just colleagues.

Years ago, Bai Bingchen got engaged to the official daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and they could get married if they picked a good day in the past two years.

Bai Bingchen is not too young, and His Majesty also intentionally or unintentionally suggested a marriage for him, but he refused several times because of his leg problems.Until Cao Bai, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, came to check on him personally, saying that his daughter caught him at the Huachao meeting and was making a fuss at home, and asked him if he could sell his old face and accept his daughter to serve at the house.

Cao Bai is a veteran minister in the court, and after careful calculation, he assisted Zhao Zhen to enter the East Palace back then, and he was also there to support him.In addition, since ancient times, the man came to ask for marriage in marriage, and the woman rarely came to ask for words. Cao Bai showed an old face again. He didn't even want his name, and he could even say "serving in the house". He even found it on his old man's head.

The two parties got engaged in this way, Bai Bingchen thought in his heart, according to his current body, after two or three years, maybe he could be buried in the soil, and the marriage would not have to be concluded, and the girl would not be delayed, which is very good.

He changed the carving knife and carved the auspicious cloud under Maitreya Buddha, listening to Jiang Yan's return.

"After dinner, Zhou Yue went to the old owner's residence in the backyard. The purple bamboo forest in the backyard was being pruned, so he didn't go in. He took a look at it from a distance and left. After that, he went out to the west end of the street to watch the excitement. Ning Kuan Follow behind." Jiang Yan reported "Zhou Yue"'s movements for a day to Bai Bingchen as usual.

As soon as Mei Shao entered the mansion, Bai Bingchen sent someone to watch his every move, and found that except when he was with Bai Bingchen, he was always wandering around in the mansion, and there was no certainty. People follow.

"Today, the Patriarch shouldn't have sent me and Ning Kuan away, and stayed in Xiyanchi with him alone."

"I just wanted to test him out. I was almost sure that he was Mei Shao, but he didn't take advantage of me today, so I found it strange." Bai Bingchen stopped what he was doing, thought for a while, "I really I can't think of anything else he wants from my house other than my life, unless..."

Bai Bingchen covered his words and did not continue.

Unless King Xie En wants to get something in the White Mansion?But he could imitate Zhou Yue's face so much, why did he still have a flaw in the earlobe?Does he really want to be recognized?

"How many days will it take for King Xie En's convoy to reach Pingdu?" Bai Bingchen returned to his senses.

"It's only two or three days. I could have arrived sooner. Recently, more and more people have come to Pingdu. King Xie En is a lively person, so there will inevitably be delays on the way."

Blowing on the debris on the wood carving, Bai Bingchen seemed to think of something because of Jiang Yan's words: "I've been confined in the mansion for the past few days, but I didn't pay attention. The martial arts competition between Jing and the eldest princess is about to start. No wonder the people on the road More." He turned his mind slightly and asked, "Are there any people who are easy-to-understand in Pingdu recently?"

As soon as he asked, Jiang Yan reacted suddenly: "The head of the family suspects that the person who Yi Rong came to the White House has something to do with Jing and Princess Chang's martial arts contest to recruit relatives?"

Since ancient times, the courts and rivers and lakes have not interfered with each other. Even if the princesses of the past dynasties compete in martial arts to recruit relatives, they are only selected among the princes of the aristocratic families. Few of them are so liberal that they have informed all the major sects of the rivers and lakes.

This martial arts competition between Jing and Princess Chang was quite lively, and many Jianghu guests took this martial arts competition as an opportunity for juniors from different families to learn from each other. For a while, the inns in the capital were overcrowded.

"The list of sects confirmed to participate is in the hands of the Ministry of Rites. Zhou Mao is a member of the left, so we can only investigate secretly in the city." Jiang Yansi thought: "But the ones who are really good at this are the Chen family in Lanzhou. Chen Jiazu's training does not involve the imperial court, so they probably won't join in the excitement."

"Lanzhou?" Bai Bingchen quickly caught the place name, a little surprised.

He remembered that Mei Shao was also from Lanzhou, so there couldn't be so many coincidences, right?Bai Bingchen put down the wood carving in his hand, crossed his hands, and stroked the finger on his right hand. This was a subconscious habit when he was thinking.

When Mei Shao came in, Bai Bingchen didn't notice it, and when he realized it, a sugar figure had already come in front of him.

Mei Shao went around the busiest west side, and saw that the painted tiger of the sugar man on the small stall was well painted. A thin bit of sugar was twisted three times and twice, and it turned into a tiger descending the mountain, lifelike. Like a shadow puppet.

"My lord, do you want a sugar figurine?" The peddler asked with a smile when he saw him staring at the tiger.

Mei Shao stared at the tiger for a long time, showing a rare youthful air.

"Is it sweet?"

The peddler was amused by this nonsensical remark, he just thought he was a son who was ignorant of the world and had never even seen a sugar man, and hurriedly replied: "Sweet! How can it not be sweet! On this street The candy figurines I sell are the sweetest, even the little princes and ladies from those aristocratic families can't like them."

He looked at the young man in front of him, and seeing that he should have a child, he added: "Young master is also going to buy it for his own children? The young master must belong to the tiger. See how energetic this tiger is, how much like a little boy." Young master. Considering his age, the young master must be two years old, and it is the time when he likes to eat sweets!"

Mei Shao showed an innocent smile, thinking that Bai Bingchen didn't like sweets the most, a little bit of revenge suddenly rose in her heart, thinking that since he loves Zhou Yue so much, it would be good to let him eat sweets with this face OK.

Thinking of this, he was in a good mood, and he found a piece of broken silver, and without looking for it, he took the candy tiger and left.

He was not in a hurry to go back to the mansion either, he walked around half the street with the sugar figurine, and walked to the Qingluan Terrace.

Qingluan Terrace is a arena for martial arts competitions to recruit relatives. It was already late at this time, and there were already no one there, and there were also many guards on both sides.

Seeing that she couldn't get in, Mei Shao didn't try to force her way in, as if she was just wandering here, and went back to the White Mansion with the sugar figurine in hand.

The weather has long since warmed up, and the sugar figure who followed Mei Shao around the street slightly softened.

Seeing the sugar man in front of him dripping syrup, Bai Bingchen frowned, and silently pushed the wood carvings and books away from the table.

Squinting her eyes to see his disgusted look, Mei Shao felt that it was very useful, and raised her hand again, motioning for him to take a bite.

Finding him unhappy is really a good way to make yourself happy.

Bai Bingchen glanced at the candy figurine in front of him who could vaguely recognize a tiger, and reluctantly took a small bite to prevent it from dripping on his valuable pear-blossom table.

Very sweet.

The melted sugar figurines don't have the crispness, and what's left is all greasy sweetness, which makes people panic.Bai Bingchen calmly picked up the tea at the side and took a sip.

Mei Shao withdrew her hand, somewhat lacking in interest.

Along the way, he was thinking about how to trick Bai Bingchen into eating this unbelievably sweet candy man, imagining his embarrassment and disgust, he felt happy in his heart.

Now watching him eat, I feel unhappy instead.

He is so obedient, in the final analysis, it is because of his own skin.He has never been so gentle and obedient in front of him, what is left to him is always such a stubborn and indifferent look.

Looking at the extra fingers on his hands, the extra softness on his body, the person in his heart, these subtle changes made Mei Shao feel dazzling and unwilling.

Mei Shao once thought that he had everything, a prominent family background, and a harmonious family, but the love he should have enjoyed was like quicksand between his fingers, gone forever.He had to grab something and keep himself alive.If I said that when I was young, I was ignorant of Bai Bingchen's heart, but now it is a desire to destroy, I don't want to see him look safe and glamorous, I want to see him begging for mercy, see him hysterical, and see him cry bitterly, See all his appearances that have never been shown in front of others.

Did this person who tried so hard to kill himself not have any mood swings after hearing the news of his death?

He doesn't want to pretend like this anymore, he really wants to tear up the warmth floating on the surface now, rather than being tortured in a soft voice.

"Following senior brother's wishes, Mei Shao has already died in Jianzhou." He opened his mouth without any context.

Although there was a layer of skin on his face, Mei Shao had never felt that he was so humble and naked in front of that person. He pursed his lips tightly and stared at Bai Bingchen's every move. , I want to find something from his actions.

He even felt a kind of thrill of hunting, looking forward to Bai Bingchen's expression when he recognized himself and recognized that the person with whom he was in love was not Zhou Yue.

"En." Gently, a word fell.

Bai Bingchen's face remained calm, and he refilled himself another cup of tea without any hesitation or pause in his movements, and he didn't even shake his hands.

This word is like the ice and snow in the cold winter, pouring out Mei Shao's extravagant hopes.He felt his body cooling down inch by inch, but he smiled relievedly on his face.

"How about going out for a walk tomorrow, do you want to go to Jing and the eldest princess's martial arts competition to recruit relatives?" It was still a patient and thoughtful arrangement.

"Okay, brother!"

Mei Shao walked out of the room, and heard her cheerful response falling into the room.

The sugar man had already dripped all over his hands, so Mei Shao casually threw it in the grass.He sniffed his fingertips lightly, it was really sweet.

Sticky and sweet, it's disgusting but can't be shaken off.