selling cakes

Jinling City, Tianyi Mansion.

When Shen Yunjie opened his eyes, it seemed like a lifetime away.Jiang Lingxin was sitting beside him, fiddling with a newly acquired fan, without turning her head, she said, "It's only been a year, Guan'er, you came back sooner than I expected."

Shen Yunjie coughed lowly, his voice was so hoarse that he couldn't speak.

"It's just that your body may have to recuperate for a few years." Jiang Lingxin put down the fan in his hand, got up and sat beside Shen Yunjie's bed.

Shen Yunjie's face was bloodless, and he coughed so hard that he covered his lips and gasped for breath. It took him a while to recover, and he muttered to himself, "I... where is this?"

"At home." Jiang Lingxin patted the back of his hand lightly, and comforted him, "You'll be fine when you come back."

Shen Yunjie's pupils constricted suddenly, he sat up propped up, pressed his forehead, and frowned in pain: "I'm still alive?"

Jiang Ling's expression was calm, and he said: "Being heartbroken will not kill you immediately, but it will look like you are dead. If you get the antidote within half a month, you will be saved."

Shen Yunjie's eyes showed pain, his fingertips clutched the bedding tremblingly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Master, why..."

Jiang Ling raised his eyebrows, and said coldly: "You can hide what you did in the imperial prison from others, but you can also hide it from me? Since you felt that you owed him back then, I allowed you to pay the debt. And I want you See clearly, why is it difficult to recover after being overwhelmed by water. Why? Still not giving up?"

Shen Yunjie pressed his chest, the pain from the poisonous attack seemed to still linger in his heart.It turned out that his risking his life was just a lesson given by his master.

"Guan'er, you are the child I raised with my own hands, and the disciple I raised with all my care. If you turn around in time, Master does not blame you." Jiang Lingxin put the most patience in his life on this stupid apprentice.

Shen Yunjie rested his fingertips on his abdomen, and the wound was painful: "Master, I know I was wrong."

Jiang Lingxin's expression turned pale, and he picked up the medicine bowl from the table beside him: "Drink this bowl, and the dust will be gone, and there will be no such person as Shen Yunjie in this world."

Shen Yunjie's pupils tightened suddenly, his pale lips moved slightly, and he said after a while: "Master and child..."

"As long as he is an ordinary person and stays out of court for the rest of his life, I will not touch him." Since Jiang Lingxin knew Xie Yunyi's whereabouts, he was naturally not afraid of him having trouble again.

"Thank you, Master." Shen Yunjie took the medicine bowl from Jiang Lingxin's hand, and the black soup reflected his eyes that were no longer sad or happy.If he didn't drink this medicine, Jiang Lingxin wouldn't keep him, and Xiao Ning and his children would be wiped out immediately.

The thick and bitter concoction entered his throat, and the white jade bowl fell from the edge of the bed, shattering all over the floor.

Forget all the past, from now on, he can only be Shen Guan.

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I'm so short

In the cake shop at the end of the East Street, only Lang Jun, who sells cakes, was left. There was a small cradle beside him, and a quiet baby was sleeping in it.Every day before going to school, Xiao Yuan would kiss the baby's soft face, pinch his little hands, and say goodbye to him in a low voice.Pedestrians were coming and going on the street, it was very noisy, even if the baby was woken up, he seldom cried, just looked at the noisy street with round eyes.

When Xiao Ning was free, he would pick him up from the cradle and coax him, calling him in a low voice: "Nian Nian."

Xiao Niannian looked more and more like Shen Yunjie's brows and eyes with a soft smile, showing a new white tooth with a grin.

Neighbors and neighbors are very rare of this white and soft baby, so you can come and pet it on the pretext of buying cakes, and I will come and tease it.Xiao Niannian didn't recognize her life, she frowned all day long and smiled so much that her saliva was drooling.The aunts and aunts next door competed to make tiger-toed shoes, and gave him a small hat.

From spring to autumn, year after year, Xiao Yuan began to grow tall like a stick, lost his soft appearance, and his eyebrows became more delicate and clear, but his baby face remained the same, looking innocent and immature.Little Niannian has also grown from a baby in the cradle to a soft dumpling who will pick up her elder brother from school at the door on her short legs.

Xiao Yuan watched Nian Nian running staggeringly from a distance, and would bend down cooperatively to hug the soft dumpling that crashed into his arms.Taking advantage of the situation, Nian Nian wrapped her small arms tightly around Xiao Yuan's neck, and called her brother in a childish voice.Dressed in the afterglow of the setting sun, Xiao Yuan carried his younger brother to Qingshi Ting.

Xiao Ning watched the child come to his side, wiped off the flour on his hands, patted Xiao Yuan on the shoulder, and said, "Go wash your hands, and eat later." dust.Xiao Ning sometimes thinks that those years when Shen Yunjie was there was like a big dream.Occasionally, Shen Yunjie's shadow could be vaguely seen in Shen Nian's eyebrows, and just now he remembered the scene of him closing his eyes in his arms covered in blood, the pain in his heart had long since ceased to hurt, it was just cold, as cold as the twelfth lunar month, heartbreaking.

If there were no Xiaoyuan and Niannian, Xiao Ning thought, from the day Shen Yunjie left, he would only regret that the years were too long and there was no hope of meeting each other.

"Father?" Xiao Yuan frowned slightly, "If you don't eat, the food will be cold."

Xiao Ning came back to his senses, took two mouthfuls of rice, put down the bowl and chopsticks and said, "Go upstairs and do your homework."

Xiao Yuan nodded obediently, and walked upstairs holding Nian Nian's little hand.Xiao Ning closed the stall, it was already dark outside, and the wind blew up for no reason.

As night fell, Xiao Ning bolted the door panel, and just as he was about to go upstairs, he heard a knock on the door.

"The cake is gone, let's get up early tomorrow." Xiao Ning said to the outside while holding the stairs.

There was a moment of silence outside the door, and a voice came into my ears through the door panel, "Is there any Huahua Mantou?"

It is the kung fu of a sound transmission into the room, the sound is steady and light, which shows that the inner family's kung fu is extremely solid.Xiao Ning said calmly, "What do you want?"

"Not burnt, not blurred, not raw."

Xiao Ning's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly raised his head, staring at the door panel.The people outside didn't hear back for a long time, and seemed a little impatient. They slammed their palms on the door. The two doors were not damaged at all, but the latch inside shattered into several pieces in an instant.The door opened with the wind, and there was a person standing outside the door, with white clothes and black hair flying, a figure like bamboo, wearing a snow-colored curtain on his head, gently closing the door with pale and thin fingertips, and said: "Boss Xiao, it's okay to talk about business." good?"

As soon as the man in white finished speaking, two people followed behind him and carried a box. The ebony box was heavy on the ground, and when he opened it, it was full of gold ingots.

"What do you think Boss Xiao wants?" the man in white said softly.

Xiao Ning made finger marks on the ladder, he didn't even look at the wooden box, but stared at the man in white with a curtain on his head.After a while, I suppressed my heartbeat and forced myself to calmly say, "I wonder what kind of business you want to talk about?"

The man in white said: "In the middle of last month, someone came to Boss Xiao's place to change his face. I am ordered to investigate the matter, and I need Boss Xiao's cooperation to draw his current appearance."

Xiao Ning came down from the stairs, approached step by step, looked down at the man in white with heavy eyes, stopped when there was only a step between the two, and said: "Your Excellency, what business are you talking about if you don't show your true face?"

The accompanying guards beside the man in white put their hands on the scimitar at his waist, their murderous intent suddenly revealed.The pale and thin hand was raised slightly, signaling the guards to restrain their murderous aura, the man in white stretched out his hand and put it on the curtain fence, the white gauze was flying, the curly black hair flowing, under the curtain fence, revealing a beautiful and quiet face.

"So, is sincerity enough?"

There was a gleam of red at the end of Xiao Ning's eyes, and there was a dead silence in the room. After a long time, he closed his eyes and smiled lowly, then the laughter became louder and louder, his figure staggered, almost insane.

The man in white just looked at him, frowned for a while, and thought to himself, the legendary ghost hand of the Xiao Clan, could it be a lunatic?

Xiao Ning bent down with a smile, and when he raised his eyes again, his face was wet and cold.He rubbed his chin with his hand, wiped away his tears, and said hoarsely, "Who are you?"

The man in white didn't want to hide it from him, so he just took out the dark gold plaque on his waist and said, "Tianyi Mansion handles the case."

"Tianyi Mansion...Shen Guan?" Xiao Ning's tone was full of sarcasm, and his eyes were filled with unexplainable exhaustion and desolation.

Shen Guan was a little surprised: "You know me?"

Xiao Ning looked at Shen Guan's eyes, those eyes were engraved in his heart in Midnight's dream, full of tenderness.But now, Shen Guan's eyes were as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, cold and unkind.Xiao Ning felt a bit absurd in a trance, he didn't know if the Shen Yunjie in the past was just a dream, but now that he woke up from the dream, what fell in front of him was the ever ruthless Shen Guan.

"I have admired your name for a long time." Xiao Ning pressed his heart, his face pale as paper.

Shen Guan said: "Since Boss Xiao is willing to cooperate, let's start." He clapped his hands lightly, and his attendants immediately prepared pens, ink, paper and inkstones and placed them in front of Xiao Ning.

Xiao Ning looked at Shen Guan coldly, the end of his eyes were bloodshot, and his heart was sad.Stretching out a fingertip to pick it up, the inkstone hit the paper, splashing ink all over the table.

"Who said I would? The Xiao Clan never reveals the appearance of their customers. This is the rule of the world."