To The Land of Nevernight

From Meilin all the way along the pond, after walking dozens of steps, they suddenly realized that they came to the courtyard where Wang Qin lived.

Wang Qin originally lived on the most secluded west side of the palace. To the west is a quiet bamboo forest, and looking outside the bamboo forest is the quiet and ethereal Qinhuai River.As they walked, the snow fell harder and harder. When they reached Wang Qin's yard, a layer of snow fell on both of their shoulders.

The umbrella couldn't cover the snowflakes coming from all directions. Tang Shen's hair was covered with snow, and so was Wang Qin.

Two gray-headed young men entered the house under umbrellas, and they were immediately warmed up.A pot of hot charcoal was burning in the center of the room, dispelling the cold air from Tang Shen's body.It was already late at night, and the water in the teapot was cold.Wang Qin put the kettle on the charcoal basin and heated it with a thin layer of barbed wire.

"At night, the servants are all asleep, junior brother, let's just drink some hot tea."

Tang Shen thought to himself: The boy is asleep, why didn't you sleep.

But he didn't ask, but obediently took the hot water handed over by Wang Qin, took a sip, and now his whole body was warm.

Tang Shen sat on the cushion, holding a teacup, carefully looking at the room.

This is Wang Qin's bedroom.

When Tang Shen came to this courtyard in the afternoon, he only went to Wang Qin's study, and did not go into his bedroom to have a look.After entering this room, I saw that the furnishings in the room were extremely simple, so I put an Arhat couch, and a few pots of unknown wild flowers were placed on the shelf.There are three paintings hanging on the wall, which are the three friends of Suihan, pine, bamboo and plum, and one corner of the painting is Wang Zifeng.

This bedroom was elegant and clean, Tang Shen didn't know if Wang Qin's Shangshu Mansion in Shengjing also arranged the bedroom so simply.But then he thought, Wang Zifeng has a deep mind, which is always unpredictable.His study is always elegant and luxurious, full of antiques and calligraphy and paintings, but the sleeping place is simpler, which is not impossible.

Tang Shen sneaked a few glances, and Wang Qin said, "Why did you come to Jinling today?"

Tang Shen was silent, and didn't say that he came here to avoid the blind date. "I went back to the Gusu Mansion for the New Year, and my brother knew about it. I happened to be free, so I wanted to visit Jinling. I have been doing business with the Zheng family in Jinling, so I went to Jinxiu Pavilion, and I happened to see that there was a brother's shop in the shop." The inscription. The smoke cage, the cold water, the moon cage, and the sand... Unexpectedly, it was written by the senior brother himself."

The more Tang Shen spoke, the more emotional he became. How could he have thought that he and Wang Qin still had this kind of fate.

But Wang Qin said, "I already knew that this poem was written by you."

Tang Shen was taken aback.

Wang Qin: "You forgot, when Mr. formally introduced you and me, I asked you what Yanlong Hanshuiyuelongsha's next sentence would be."

Tang Shen suddenly realized: "I only thought my brother was from Jinling. I only knew this poem after I went to Jinxiu Pavilion. I never thought it was like this!"

Wang Qin lifted the kettle with a flick of his sleeve: "The teacup."

Without even thinking about it, Tang Shen obediently handed over the cup and asked Wang Qin to pour tea for him.

Tang Shen: "Brother, do you often go back to Jinling for the New Year? I remember you didn't come back last year."

Wang Qin drank tea lightly: "I don't come back often, I will come back once in a while."

"When will you return to Shengjing?"

"tomorrow."

Tang Shen asked in surprise, "So fast?"

Wang Qin smiled slightly: "If you come one day late, I won't be in Jinling anymore. The Ministry of Household Affairs is busy with official duties. Although the official leave is until the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, I have to go back early."

"That's really a coincidence."

Tang Shen pushed open the window and looked at the snow outside the window.The snow fell even more heavily, flakes of goose-feather-like snowflakes sprinkled down from the sky one after another, and as far as the eye could see, they were all white.He couldn't go back, so he had to go back to the house and continue to wait.He sighed and said, "If I had known, I wouldn't have gone out and wandered around in the middle of the night, and my brother caught me."

Wang Qin suddenly said: "Little junior brother is in a good mood?"

Tang Shen raised his head.

Wang Qin smiled: "You said a lot more than usual tonight."

Tang Shen frowned, carefully pondering Wang Qin's words, only to realize that tonight was really different.

He had a nightmare tonight, and when he woke up, he couldn't remember what he had dreamed about, only that he must be very sad.When he opened the window, he saw heavy snowfall outside the window. This snowflake immediately reminded him of three years ago, the day Liang Song left, there was also such a heavy snowfall.He was so empty in his heart that he couldn't sleep, so he went for a walk in the garden.Then, he met Wang Qin.

At first, it might be really sad, but after coming to this room with Wang Qin, drinking tea and chatting, he gradually got out of the sad mood.

Could it be that Wang Qin saw that he was in a bad mood, so he brought him here to enlighten him?

Tang Shen had complicated emotions in his heart, and his gaze towards Wang Qin suddenly changed, and he said seriously, "Thank you, senior brother."

Wang Qin: "...?"

For the first time, he was not sure what his junior brother was thinking, and after thinking for a moment, Wang Qin said, "I don't know what you are thinking, but Jing Ze, it seems that the snow outside will not stop for a while."

The two walked to the window and pushed it open. Sure enough, a thick layer of snow had already accumulated on the ground, almost reaching ankles by visual inspection.Tang Shen wanted to go back, but of course he couldn't know the way by himself, so Wang Qin had to personally send him back.But with such heavy snow, he could walk against the snow, but he was embarrassed to trouble Wang Qin to see him off in person.

Wang Qin said: "Why don't you stay and rest for one night."

There was no other way, Tang Shen could only say: "Then bother senior brother."

Hearing this, Wang Qin gave Tang Shen a meaningful look, but didn't speak.

When it was midnight, the two of them took off their clothes and went to bed to rest in only a thin unlined garment.It was warm in the room, but not hot under the quilt.If it was at her own home, Aunt Yao would make a hot soup for Tang Shen and put it in the bed before he went to bed.But fortunately, although there was no hot soup, the room was not cold, so after a while, Tang Shen recovered.

The bed is so big that even if two big men sleep on it, they won't feel crowded, and they won't be able to touch each other.

Tang Shen closed his eyes, and after a quarter of an hour, he didn't feel sleepy at all.He heard Wang Qin's steady breathing and knew that Wang Qin was asleep, but he still couldn't fall asleep.After tossing and turning for a while, an elegant voice sounded: "Little Junior Brother can't sleep?"

Tang Shen was surprised and said, "Brother still not asleep?"

"Ah."

"I thought you were asleep."

Since neither of them could fall asleep, they talked again.

Tang Shen talked about some helpless things he encountered when he was sorting out the papers for Zhao Fu in the Palace of Qinzheng.It stands to reason that officials should not leak the content of the memorial, but the two officials in this room know each other well, and they are also high-ranking officials who are deeply favored by the emperor.

Tang Shen picked some innocuous things, such as Zhao Fu's birthday two months ago, a local official wrote an account for three consecutive months, hoping to personally rush to Shengjing to celebrate Zhao Fu's birthday.Zhao Fu didn't tire of irritating him, and when he finally turned back, he almost scolded the other party and let him stay where he was cool.But the official seemed unable to understand human speech, and continued to write notes again and again to show his loyalty.

Wang Qin said: "In the Palace of Qinzheng, there are already familiar colleagues."

Tang Shen was silent for a moment, then said, "Isn't the brother I know the most?"

The highest state of rainbow fart is to moisten things silently.

Mr. Tang is well versed in this point. Where Gusu Jia's Yin can compare, he can only hope to catch up.

Wang Qin was silent for a while, and suddenly let out a low laugh.

Tang Shen: "???" Didn't Rainbow fart well?impossible!

Suddenly, Tang Shen's foot accidentally touched something hot.Wang Qin's smile stopped abruptly, and Tang Shen was also stunned.He subconsciously wanted to retract his foot, and he knew that he had touched Wang Qin's foot.But Wang Qin said: "At this moment, I think of a word."

Tang Shen: "What?"

"Sleep with your feet up. Junior brother, you put your feet up and we sleep together. Isn't that just sleeping with your feet down?"

Tang Shen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he thought for a while, bent his knee, and lightly touched Wang Qin's knee.Wang Qin was slightly stunned, only to hear Tang Shen imitating his tone, and said: "At this moment, I thought of a word to hold a long talk. Senior brother and I hold a talk. We have a long talk late at night, isn't it just a long talk?"

Wang Qin smiled: "At this time, I thought of another word, different dreams in the same bed. Junior brother and I sleep in the same bed, but it is destined not to have the same dream, isn't it just the same bed and different dreams?"

Tang Shen said in his heart: Are you saying that I don't agree with you, are you beating me on purpose?

How could Tang Shen get his biggest backer to say that.He blurted out: "Senior brother's words are wrong. I can see that we should be sharing the same quilt. Senior brother and I are covered with the same quilt and pillow. Isn't this not sharing the same quilt?"

After the voice fell, there was silence in the room, and Wang Qin didn't answer.

Tang Shen was a little stunned. He realized that he had said something wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while.Obviously when the two of them were chatting just now, the atmosphere was very harmonious, why did it suddenly become like this.

Tang Shen raised his head and looked at Wang Qin carefully.

Xu Shi's eyes were used to the darkness, when the moonlight reflected the snow and shot into the house through the thin paper window, Tang Shen saw Wang Qin's dark eyes looking at him quietly in the dim light.The eyes of the two suddenly met, Tang Shen's lips moved, and his throat was inexplicably astringent.

After a long time, he heard Wang Qin sigh softly, and said, "We slept together under the quilt, but we didn't use it right." According to "Taiping Guangji", Pan Zhang and Wang Zhongxian fell in love at first sight, and they slept together under the quilt as if they were a couple. Make good friends."

There was a buzzing in Tang Shen's head, he was stunned, his mouth opened, but he couldn't speak.

Wang Qin said in a long tone: "Love is like a couple, is my junior brother and I right? Pan Zhang and Wang Zhongxian are both men, and they are for the good of Longyang. For the good of Longyang... So, Jing Ze, do you want to break your sleeves with me?" ?”

Tang Shen: "..."

Thousands of thoughts flooded into his mind, Tang Shen felt ashamed and annoyed, he only hated himself for saying this idiom casually, even though he had never forgotten it!There are so many idioms that are not used, why did he say that we sleep together in the same quilt!Now it's all right, he was dumbfounded by Wang Zifeng's question, and said nothing.

After a long time, Tang Shen pulled the quilt over his head, and said sullenly: "I have never been crowned, I am still a child, and I am not good at reading. Brother, don't always tease me."

"Child?" Wang Qin let out a gentle and nice laugh.

Tang Shen: "..."

Wang Qin didn't speak any more.

At the same time, out of shame, out of shame, Tang Shen actually fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Tang Shen opened his eyes and found that Wang Qin was still sleeping.

This is really rare, he actually got up earlier than Wang Zifeng, he actually saw Wang Zifeng sleeping late!

Tang Shen got off the bed lightly, and quickly put on his clothes.The snow outside had stopped, and it was dawn. Even without Wang Qin leading the way, he could still find his guest room.Without further ado, Tang Shen pushed the door lightly and left, but he had just walked out of the bedroom door, when he turned his head, he saw a young man carrying a water basin.

The boy was standing at the gate of the courtyard, and when he saw Tang Shen coming out of the house, he opened his eyes wide in shock, looked around, and made sure that he had gone to the right place, that he had entered the courtyard where the eldest son lived.

Seeing the boy's terrified expression, Tang Shen frowned slightly, always feeling something weird.He stepped forward and said, "Excuse me, do you know how to walk in the courtyard where I live?"

The servant hurriedly showed Tang Shen the way.

Tang Shen nodded his thanks, and returned to his yard along the path.

The young man was holding a water basin and was in a dilemma. He didn't know whether he should enter the house or run back to the third master who was in charge of the house, asking what to do at this moment.But then he was a little strange, seeing that Mr. Tang left the room with a quick figure and light steps, it didn't look like... something had happened.

Could it be that he is the eldest son of his family...

The boy was terrified again.

At this time, the door was pushed open from the inside, and Wang Qin was dressed in black and said, "Come in."

Boy: "Yes."

Wang Qin rinsed his mouth, washed his face, wiped his hands with hot water, and said to the boy, "Did you see anything this morning?"

The little servant replied respectfully: "If you go back to the eldest son, the little one saw it..."

Wang Qin smiled and looked at him gently.

The little servant froze, and slowly he said: "The little one hasn't seen anything, and I don't know what the eldest son is talking about..."

Wang Qin sighed, "Let's go to the front hall."

After breakfast, Tang Shen bid farewell to Wang Qin, took the book boy and left the Langya Wang family.No matter what he said, he refused to stay any longer, because Wang Qin was going back to Shengjing in the afternoon, and it was really not easy to keep him.When sending Tang Shen away, looking at Tang Shen's back from afar, Wang Hui, the fourth master of the Wang family, pointed and said, "Does it look like you ran away in despair?"

Wang Qin glanced indifferently: "Why did fourth uncle say that?"

Wang Hui: "I heard that today the boy went to another courtyard to deliver things to Mr. Tang, but found no one in the house, and even his school boy didn't know where he went. Zifeng, do you know where he went?"

Wang Qin gave a low laugh and shook his head, as if lamenting that it was rare for him to be caught.

Wang Hui: "But it's him?" When he said this, his expression was solemn, and there was no trace of joke in his eyes.

Wang Qin stopped, looked at Wang Hui, and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "What is it?"

"You know what I'm talking about."

"The fourth uncle should also know that I said ten years ago that I never thought that one day I would meet that person. I want someone, but that person may not want me. It doesn’t matter if it’s him or not, he’s not in the same league, and I’m not his good match.”

After leaving a long speech, Wang Zifeng left with a flick of his sleeves, leaving the fourth master of the Wang family standing there in shock, speechless.

However, after a while, Wang Hui came back to her senses, and said with a smile: "Just talk nonsense. Ever since you were a child, what have you wanted, and what can't you get?"

In the afternoon of that day, Wang Qin went north by boat and returned to Shengjing.

A few days later, Tang Shen bid farewell to all the relatives and friends in Gusu Mansion, and also went north to return to Beijing.As soon as he arrived in Shengjing, he called Yao San and asked, "How are you preparing for the Liuli Workshop?"