Looking for plums under the moon

Ling Guyue walked along the corridor to Lin Jue's private room, the person inside was half lying on the soft couch, turned her head and smiled with squinted eyes: "Mr. Ling, how are you?"

Ling Guyue didn't answer his words, her phoenix eyes raised slightly, she looked at the cup in his hand, and said with a half-smile: "This colored glaze looks very clear, it seems to be a valuable antique."

Lin Jue was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "That's right, my father bought it from a down-and-out concubine when he went south in the past. Could it be that Mr. Ling has taken a fancy to it?"

Ling Guyue smiled slightly, took the glass from Lin Jue's surprised eyes, stared at it for a moment, shook her head and said: "At first glance, I thought this glass glass was very pure, without any impurities, but when I looked closely, I found that there was something inside. There are many rough places." Looking up at Lin Jue, he deliberately said, "It turns out that I was wrong."

Lin Jue raised his eyebrows, "It doesn't matter if it's clear or rough, the cup is still the same cup, and it won't change. It's only when the eyes of those who enjoy it change that they think it has changed."

"So, Your Excellency's gaze hasn't changed? It's my fault. It's always easy to believe what you see."

Lin Jue knew that he was unhappy, and tried to comfort him, "It's just a cup, with thousands of faces and eyes, no matter how others look at it, it's still just a container of water, so why are you so persistent?"

"Persistence? No, no, this is a lesson for me..." Ling Guyue chuckled lightly, squeezed the glass cup into pieces with force in her hands, and the shattered blue pieces slipped from between his fingers in an instant , fell to the ground and made a crisp sound, "I don't want to read the wrong thing a second time."

Lin Jue's complexion changed suddenly, from blue to white, and the hem of the clothes in his hands was loosened and tightened, tightened and loosened again.

Ling Guyue glanced at him indifferently, seeing that his chest kept rising and falling, repeated several times, and then slowly calmed down.

At this moment, Lin Jue dropped her usual smirk, stared at Ling Guyue expressionlessly, and said coldly, "What do you mean?"

Ling Guyue also confronted her coldly, "I want to ask you what you mean, you obviously don't have shortness of breath, but you lied to me that you want the Nuanyanyu from the Western Regions as a medicine. I know you hate me, Nuanyanyu is fake, It's true to ask a fat old man to humiliate me, now that your goal has been achieved, do you want to continue the show?"

Lin Jue stared and said, "You think I want to humiliate you?"

Ling Guyue retorted, "Otherwise? Since you know Fang Yuchou, your father is one of the old heroes, and Uncle Ge is helping you, most of the way is to get a piece of jade from Zhao Qiushan's hand, why do you need me? "

Lin Jue sneered and said: "You are not stupid. I really hate you so much, but what you said is not true. It is only a small part of the reason why I am looking for you to get jade for me. I am embarrassing you. I want to see your face even more. Junior brother has suffered a crushing defeat..." Lin Jue glanced at Ling Guyue and said in a long voice, "Haven't you discovered Shen Luo's thoughts?"

Ling Guyue's heart skipped a beat, "You... what do you mean?"

Lin Jue said to himself: "As far as I know, several people have died in Pingchuan recently, and many people think you are the murderer."

Ling Guyue frowned and said, "You've already said this."

Lin Jue continued, "Don't you suspect that Shen Luo did it?"

Ling Guyue said: "Do you think I will believe your instigation?"

"Are you instigating? Listen to what I'm going to say first." Lin Jue's eyes flashed coldly, staring at him and said, "I told you a few days ago that Shen Luo came to see me behind your back."

Ling Guyue said: "You said he made a deal with you in order to remove my suspicion."

"It's not false to remove the suspicion, it's just not to remove your suspicion."

Ling Guyue said impatiently: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Lin Jue seemed to find it very interesting to play tricks, so he said unhurriedly, "Are those disciples of Pingchuan who died in miserable conditions?"

"So what?"

"I wonder if you noticed the fatal wounds on their bodies?"

"The wound is in the throat, and the throat is sealed with a sword."

"That's right," Lin Jue raised his eyebrows and said, "That method is straightforward, using the Pingchuan mental method, and it has been practiced to at least the sixth level."

Ling Guyue asked vigilantly, "You even know this?"

Lin Jue snorted, but did not answer the question, "Except for the three elders of Pingchuan and your brothers and sisters, who else has practiced Pingchuan's mental method to the sixth level?"

Ling Guyue said: "There is no one else."

"Just imagine, if you become a murderer, how will the three elders deal with you?"

Ling Guyue pondered: "Either I will be imprisoned in Houshan for life, or my martial arts will be abolished and I will be expelled from Pingchuan."

"And who is in the best interest of that?"

Ling Guyue pursed her lips, "Three elders?"

"What did they frame you for when they were old?"

Ling Guyue choked, and said after a long time: "It can't be him."

Lin Jue sneered and said: "What is impossible? There are too many things in the world where brothers fight against each other, and father and son fight against each other. The world is full of hustle and bustle, all for the benefit of the world. You are just brothers of the same school. How can there be any affection? Let alone you It's just his first plan, the three elders are his follow-up goals, without you, who else can shake Pingchuan's position as head?"

Ling Guyue laughed and said: "In terms of martial arts, I am not as good as him, and in terms of people's aspirations, I am not as good as him, so why should he get rid of me?"

Lin Jue shook his head and said, "If you are gone, Pingchuan will be the only one in charge, which is a great attraction for anyone."

Ling Guyue took a few steps and said indifferently: "I just think this kind of thinking is ridiculous."

Lin Jue's eyes darkened, "For a person like you, your superb martial arts and absolute desire for control are not attractive to you, but to others, they are quite different."

Ling Guyue waved her hand and said, "Have you finished?"

Lin Jue said: "It's over, I know you can't accept it for the time being, I wanted you to find out for yourself, but I didn't expect that the relationship between your brothers and sisters is not as bad as the rumors. But I have a hunch that you will soon Know the true face of Shen Luo."

Ling Guyue just felt that he was unreasonable, and was about to leave, but Lin Jue's voice came from behind: "I believe you are a person who keeps your promises, and you must get the warm smoke jade."

Ling Guyue turned her head and said, "Why must I?"

Lin Jue said: "Zhao Qiushan is a stingy and shrewd businessman. All his treasures are strictly guarded. He spent a lot of money to ask Feng Zhousheng to build it in three years. If he is not willing, whoever comes Return in vain."

Ling Guyue asked doubtfully, "Who is Feng Zhousheng?"

Lin Jue said: "This person is good at Dunjia, is proficient in the five elements and eight trigrams, and has profound attainments in building houses and arrays. He can be called the best in the world. It's just that his whereabouts are uncertain all the year round, and he will not be born to take over unless the money on hand is spent. Otherwise, no one will be able to find him. At the beginning, I also wanted to invite him to build Qingyuxuan, but unfortunately, I did not find his whereabouts after searching all over the Jianghu. discount."

Ling Guyue crossed her arms and said, "Then why do you insist on the Nuanyan jade? Could it have other special uses?"

Lin Jue's complexion changed, "This is something for later, it won't be too late to explain to you after I get Nuanyanyu."

Ling Guyue glanced at the glass fragments on the ground, "The cup is broken, how can it be restored?"

Lin Jue said: "Just let the useless things go. Why cling to the past? The present is the most important thing."

Ling Guyue said: "Boss Lin is really ruthless."

Lin Jue looked up and smiled and said, "How many people still talk about friendship in today's Jianghu?"

Ling Guyue snorted, flung her sleeves and walked out, Lin Jue's calm voice came from behind, "No."

Ling Guyue didn't respond, but when she opened the door, she bumped into the third master, yelled "Sanshu Ge" vaguely, and was about to walk away.

"You..." The third master stopped in front of the door. Seeing his uneasy expression, he probed inside, "Did you quarrel with the landlord?"

Ling Guyue answered with a frown, then walked out the door.

The third master watched his back gradually leave his sight, only heard the sudden panting sound from the room, and hurried in to have a look.

Lin Jue was pinching the embroidered cushion under her body, staring at the fragments on the ground bitterly, out of breath.

"This..." The third master bent down and picked up the fragment of the glass cup, "This is the Wanhai glass cup...how did it break? Did he drop it?"

Lin Jue gritted her teeth and said, "Ling Guyue..."

The third master sighed and got up, patted him on the back, and said calmly for him: "He didn't know it was a relic left by your father... Besides, why did you make him angry?"

Lin Jue turned her head abruptly, and asked with redness in her eyes: "Why did I provoke him? He scolded me first when he had something to say!"

The third master said slowly: "Okay, okay, maybe there is some misunderstanding... Since you refuse to tell him your plan, he is naturally annoyed at you for keeping him in the dark, and it will be fine when you tell him."

Lin Jue bowed his head in silence, calmed down for a while before sneering, "I won't argue with him for the time being, and wait until I get everything that belongs to me...I'll settle the score with them!"

The third master reprimanded: "Xiaoyu, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Lin Jue's eyes flickered, he thought for a while, then suddenly looked at the ground again, and said like a child angrily, "Third Uncle...help me tidy up the pieces and put them in boxes, and let him repair them for me when I meet Wu Benxiang. Repair it, maybe it can be restored..."

The third master sighed, bowed and picked up the fragments one by one and put them into his arms.

Ling Guyue walked out of the front building, feeling a little less sullen, and arrived in the back garden without knowing it. When she looked up, she happened to see a young girl in emerald clothes walking through the red medicine bushes in the garden.

The girl also saw him, and waved her hands in a rare way: "Young Master Fei Yi, why didn't you go to see the singing and dancing in the building?"

Ling Guyue approached the flowers, and talked to her through a few rows of flower trees: "I've been looking at it for a long time, and I came out to get some air," and then laughed: "Miss Luyuan, you seem to be in a good mood today?"

Lu Yuan lowered her head with a smile, cut off a delicate red medicine, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it for a while, and then whispered: "The landlord promised to take me to find my sister."

"Sister?" Ling Guyue blinked, "You two have been separated for so long...how can you still find me?"

Lu Yuan said seriously: "The landlord said that he has already found out the whereabouts of my sister."

Ling Guyue wondered: "He knows who your sister is, and where is she?"

"The landlord won't lie to me," Lu Yuan put the freshly picked flowers into the basket, "The landlord knows everything, he said he has news about his sister, I believe him, after a while the building will be free , he will take me to find my sister."

Ling Guyue rubbed her chin, "Do you still remember your sister's name?"

Lu Yuan lowered her head and fiddled with the flowers in the basket, said: "I don't remember, I only know that my sister's name sounds nice."

Ling Guyue asked again: "Then what does she look like?"

Lu Yuan shook her head, "I can't remember, I just have a vague impression...she is the most beautiful person in the world."

Ling Guyue also shook her head and said: "Since Miss Luyuan can't remember anything, how do you know that the one you found is your sister?"

Lu Yuan said to herself: "I'll know it as soon as I see her, she smells like weeds."

Ling Guyue glanced at her suspiciously, seeing that she was full of joy, she didn't hit her hard, nodded and said: "Then congratulate the girls and sisters for their reunion first."

Lu Yuan raised her eyebrows and smiled, and picked out the most delicate flower from the flower basket and handed it to him, "Mr. Crimson Clothes, I'll give it to you."

Ling Guyue took a moment of daze before taking the flowers, "Thank you."

"I'm off to work," Lu Yuan turned her head and said with a smile, "Young Master Scarlet Clothes, stay a while." After saying that, she picked up the basket and left from the other side of the flowers.

Ling Guyue stared at the flower in her hand, and saw that the petals were still stained with early autumn dew, she couldn't help imitating the green kite and brought the flower close to the tip of her nose, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, instantly her nose was filled with the fragrance of red medicine.

"Sure enough, it has a very special taste." Ling Guyue hid the flowers in her wide sleeves, looked up at the sky, for some reason, the distant sky was covered with black clouds and mountains, and it was quite rainy The meaning of the wind is full.

A few days later, under the signal of Qing Chan, Ling Guyue arrived in front of the side gate of Zhao Mansion in a light carriage.

It seems that Zhao Qiushan gave an order in advance, the young man at the gate greeted him with a smile, nodded and bowed his head and said, "Is this Mr. Feiyi? The master has been waiting for a long time, please come to the back garden to talk about it."

Ling Guyue opened the curtain, and immediately someone knelt down on the ground as a footstep, he frowned slightly, turned over and got out of the car from the other side.

The boy lowered his head and only dared to look at the hem of his bright red clothes, he stretched out his hand to greet him and said, "Young Master Fei Yi, please come inside."

Led by the servant, Ling Guyue walked to the back garden of the Zhao Mansion, surrounded by rockery and green radishes everywhere, which kind of means "winding paths leading to seclusion", it doesn't look like the mansion of rich merchants, It looks like the residence of a literati.

"How many wives does your master have?" Ling Guyue asked curiously, "I heard from others that rich people have wives and concubines in groups, is there such a thing?"

The young servant stared at his red dress embroidered with gold, and replied cautiously: "Mr. Feiyi, besides the late eldest lady, our master also has three wives and nineteen concubines."

Ling Guyue was dumbfounded when she heard this, and asked again: "How many young masters and ladies are there in the house?"

The boy said: "A total of 28 young masters and seventeen young ladies."

Ling Guyue shook her head, thinking: Zhao Qiushan has so many children, it's too sad to let Zhao Yihuan out to play.

When he was about to arrive, the servant stopped and pointed to the moon gate in front of him, "Master is in the garden, Mr. Feiyi, let's go in."

Ling Guyue looked up at the inscription on the moon gate: Chao Huan Yuan, and said casually, "Thank you."

The servant subconsciously glanced at him, and was stunned for a moment, feeling that the person in front of him seemed like a god in a fairy mountain, not like an ordinary person.She blushed and said, "Young Master Feiyi...it's serious, you're welcome..." After saying that, he ran away as if in a wilderness.

Ling Guyue didn't notice the servant either, and when she walked into the moon gate, she suddenly saw two rows of palace-like houses, and a huge maple tree in the center of the wide courtyard covering most of the daylight.It was autumn, and the maple leaves were billowing like fire. There was a white marble square table under the tree, with round stools at the corners.

On the table is a jade pot and gold bottle, which contains fine nectar and jade liquid. Sitting in front of the table is a man, dressed in a gorgeous brocade suit and a purple gold belt, pouring himself a drink, with a proud expression on his face.

Seeing Ling Guyue coming, Zhao Qiushan put down his wine glass and said in amazement: "Young Master Feiyi, you really made me wait."

Ling Guyue reluctantly walked to that person, only to feel that the other person's squinting eyes looked particularly glaring, "I haven't seen you for a few days, Master Zhao has become more energetic."

Zhao Qiushan stood up and wanted to hold his hand, but he dodged it, leaving the hand to shake in the air awkwardly, and hung down unwillingly, "Mr. Feiyi sit first." Seeing Ling Guyue sitting down, He calmly pushed a glass of wine in front of him, "It's just you and me in this garden today, why not talk about wine and drink happily."

Ling Guyue just shook her head slightly.

Seeing that he didn't touch the wine glass in front of him, Zhao Qiushan hurriedly said: "This is the most famous wine in Jinling, known as 'Seven Days Drunk'. It is said that after drinking this wine, one can be drunk for seven days without waking up. Mr. Feiyi won't taste it. ?”

Ling Guyue still shook her head, "I don't drink well, I don't know how to drink strong alcohol."

Zhao Qiushan rolled his eyes and poured a new cup for him with a jade pot, "Young Master Fei Yi must try this, this is sweet-scented osmanthus and green bamboo brew, mellow but not intoxicating."

Ling Guyue looked down at the yellowed liquid in the wine glass, hesitated for a while, and only heard Zhao Qiushan say quietly: "The Nuanyanyu is in this garden, as long as today's wine is drunk to your heart's content, Mr. Feiyi wants me The entire Zhenbao Pavilion, Zhao will not be stingy..."

Ling Guyue had no choice but to raise her cup and drink it with her head raised.

Seeing this, Zhao Qiushan smiled and said, "How is it? Is it fine wine?"

Ling Guyue only drank the Plum Blossoms from Pingchuan, and the taste was sweet and clear, while the osmanthus and green bamboo wine sounded like flower wine, but it was bitter and pungent.Knowing that the wine is tricky, he hurriedly used his internal force to force out the wine, and it poured out along the fingertips.

"Isn't this really liquor?"

Zhao Qiushan wondered: "Could it be that Feiyi really still feels strong? Today I specially ordered people to prepare the seven-day drunk and sweet-scented osmanthus and green bamboo wine. If Mr. Feiyi feels strong even the sweet-scented osmanthus and green bamboo wine... then the seven-day drunk will be even worse. .”

Ling Guyue could only shake her head and said: "It's okay, maybe it's because I don't drink often that I feel a little uncomfortable."

Zhao Qiushan poured him another glass while nodding, "I don't know what you want Nuanyanyu for?"

Ling Guyue looked down and saw the reflection of the maple leaf in the cup, coughed lightly and said: "It is said that Nuanyanyu has the effect of dispelling cold and rejuvenating the face, Feiyi is very curious, and wants to try whether it is really as good as the legend It works wonders."

"Is this really the purpose of Mr. Scarlet Clothes?"

Ling Guyue blinked and said, "Naturally."

Zhao Qiushan squinted his eyes and said nothing, and said after a while, "Do you know how I got the Nuanyan jade?"

Ling Guyue didn't know what he meant, so she could only ask: "How did you get it?"

Holding the wine glass, Zhao Qiushan recalled: "At the beginning, I also accidentally ran into a dying man from the Western Regions in the desert. The man fell under the scorching sun and hadn't had water for several days. Fortunately, he met me. At that time, he told me Begging for water, as a businessman, I asked him to take something in exchange.” Zhao Qiushan said with a smile, “I wanted to play a joke on him, after all, I, Zhao, is not a person who would never save me. I didn’t expect him to search After searching all over my body, I found a piece of jade and handed it to me, and said that there is a shocking secret hidden in this piece of jade, and when the time comes, everyone in the Wulin of the Central Plains will be crazy about it."

Ling Guyue frowned and said, "What secret?"