Bai Qiling was a madman. He threw his brother's body into a mass grave with gongs and drums, and ordered people to remove the white curtains in the mansion and the black cloth on the lanterns overnight. And he, standing at the door of Baifu, with his hands behind his back, a rare joy on his face, said loudly: "Have a good year!"
The chewed-up servants were sent to the village at the foot of Huoling Mountain, and replaced with a few capable and considerate ones. Man Yanzhuo's beautiful bonsais were collected, and the Bai Mansion was happily transformed.
While Xian Chan was pouring out the ink embryos, he heard someone on the side say: "It is said that Mr. Bai is going to ask to marry a girl from Mr. Ye's family. Now he is ready."
Xian Chan didn't talk much. She listened to what others said for fun. After a while, Master Mo would curse others because the bamboos on the ink embryos poured by those people were not clear. It was only the second day that Xian Chan saw how powerful Master Mo from Huizhou was. I can't blame the Hui ink made by others for being purchased by the imperial court.
When it was getting dark, Bai Qiling came and said that Xiaonian would give everyone some meat and noodles. There isn't much, just enough for a family to enjoy a full meal of dumplings. After saying that, he ignored everyone's applause and gratitude and pointed at the cicada: "Come out."
Xian Chan was a little scared.
Early in the morning, I heard from Master Mo that someone wanted to take over the job of Mo Fang and wanted to replace her because she was the only woman in Mo Fang. He wandered up to Bai Qiling, lowered his head and looked at his toes, not daring to express his anger.
"I remember you." Bai Qiling said, "That day at the Sun family banquet."
"Yes." She lowered her head, fearing that Bai Qiling would ask her to serve him.
"Are you strict with your mouth?" he asked.
Xian Chan raised his head with a "Huh?", not knowing why he asked this.
"Answer me, are you strict with your mouth? No one else can pry your mouth open no matter what means they use. Can you do it?"
"..." Xianchan didn't know how to answer, she just thought this was too weird.
"What Shopkeeper Bai means is that if you are given some work, you are not allowed to know about it, not even your mother or the people who grew up with you in Willow Lane. You can't tell. Can you do it?" Master Mo? I don't know when I came over and asked Xianchan softly.
"Things that are harmful to nature..." Xianchan can't do bad things. She was frail since she was young, and the fortune teller wants her to do good deeds and accumulate virtue so that she can live longer.
"Copy the book." Master Mo said.
"Why can't others know when copying a book?" Xian Chan didn't understand.
Without saying much, Master Mo took her into the carving room, closed the door and handed Xianchan a book. After reading two lines, Xianchan's eyes widened and her hands began to shake. She was obviously frightened: "This... this... this is going to make me lose my head... I..."
Master Mo put away the book and smiled: "Just kidding you. Copy the Four Books and Five Classics."
Xianchan pinched the hem of her clothes tightly and looked at Master Mo in disbelief. The latter took out a stack of books and handed them to her: "Copy it!"
Xianchan went out holding the stack of books and saw that Bai Qiling's sedan had already left. Carrying the meat and noodles, he went to the Yamen to look for Zhaoye and asked him to come to his house for dinner. Teruya smiled at her, put his cloak on her, and asked her to go back first. It is said that Xinzhi County is going to be promoted to court.
"What kind of hall should I be promoted to?" Xian Chan asked.
"It's said that he caught a craftsman."
"Xi Zuo?" Xian Chan opened his eyes wide and hissed at Zhao Ye: "In this world, with internal and external troubles, it is common for Xi Zuo to sneak in. Don't make it known, otherwise you will die."
Xianchan nodded hurriedly, pulling on Zhaoye's sleeves and wanting to say a few words to him. Zhaoye said softly, "I'll wait for you at your door early tomorrow morning."
"good."
During the night watch, Fei Nu was surprised and went to feed the fish again. This behavior was really weird. Hua'er asked him quietly: "You didn't eat the fish yourself, but fed it to the cat. Aren't you hungry?"
Fei Nu didn't say anything, just reached out and touched the cat. No matter how ferocious the cat was, it had become familiar with him after feeding him a few times and no longer bowed to him. Hua'er knew Feinu to a certain extent and patiently advised him: "Brother Feinu, it scratched you before because it is an animal. Don't get angry with it. People can't argue with animals, don't you think so?"
"Hehe." Fei Nu patted her head: "What are you thinking! I plan to take good care of it, and it will be useful later. I heard that the White House is going to replace a group of servants, and the old housekeeper is a weirdo. Someone secretly told me that he is old. The housekeeper will let the cat recognize people, and he will choose whomever the cat likes."
"Is there such a thing? Let the beast choose someone?" Hua'er knelt down after hearing this and took a closer look at the wild cat for the first time. That wild cat is different from the one in Willow Lane. The one in front of me is really fierce, like Bai Qiling. Even when he was eating the dried fish he gave you, he didn't seem to care about him, and he didn't even look at Fei Nu through his narrowed cat eyes.
"Hey, cat, call me." Hua'er tried to touch its back, but it didn't hide. The wild cat in Wicker Lane also has a kiss with Hua'er. She laughs at herself that she is useless, but she is good at attracting cats and dogs.
Zhaoye called them from the front: "Follow me, we are going to the back streets."
The two of them jogged a few steps to keep up with the team.
Hua'er thought of Bai Qiling's usually depressed face and shouted at the top of her lungs. After shouting, he covered his mouth and snickered. Zhaoye was sweating on the side and wanted to say something. Ah Hui stopped him: "Brother Zhaoye, don't worry about it. Hua'er has run errands for Mr. Bai several times, she must know what she knows. Dare you shout like that."
"Call." Hua'er chuckled: "The Bai Qiling is currently busy taking over the Bai family's property, and they simply put me aside. They haven't come to trouble me in the past two days. What's more, what Xianchan heard: He I’m anxious to donate my official position and propose marriage to the Ye family!”
After the Ye family fell into despair, they moved back to their ancestral home. The ancestral home was not in Yanzhuo City, but in Liangqing, a hundred miles away. In this freezing season, if Bai Qiling wanted to propose marriage, it would be a big fight!
Zhaoye seemed to have something on his mind, Feinu asked him what was wrong? He deliberately slowed down his steps to stay away from other government officials before speaking in a low voice: "Today the county magistrate reviewed a detail, and the detail said one thing, saying that Huo Lingshan colluded with other countries and sent people to massacre the goods gang coming from the south. As a result, that The gang belongs to the Jianghu gang, and the little bandit leader was found by the Jianghu people and killed. They said that the Jianghu people would destroy their faces first when they killed people. People who died at their hands had such injuries on their faces..." Zhao Ye finished speaking. On the face, from the corners of the eyes to behind the ears: "Such an injury. Who do you think of?"
Fei Nu frowned and said nothing, while Ah Hui opened his eyes wide and said, "No way?"
Zhao Ye hissed: "It's hard to tell if it's that person right now. Fortunately, no one saw it when we rescued people. The world is so chaotic now. The emperor is said to be bedridden, and the prince and princes are fighting fiercely; outsiders are trying to break in. , our place in Yanzhuo is too close to the border fortress..."
Hua'er stuffed her cold-red hands into her sleeves and remained silent. After returning home, I secretly went to the shabby house. Huo Yanshan is still there, and he is not afraid that she will shake him out. When you see flowers, pat the straw mat next to you. He had nothing to do, so he made a straw mat so that she could have a place to sit when she came.
Hua'er looked at Huo Yanshan and asked him word for word: "Let me ask you, that day people came down from Huoling Mountain and slaughtered the gang of people coming from the south. Do you know about this?"
Huo Yanshan leaned against the wall, coughed, and laughed when he looked at the flowers: "Why should I know?"
Hua'er kept her mouth shut tightly and didn't say anything about Zhaoye saying that he might be a bandit. Everyone in Yanzhuo was frightened when they mentioned Huo Lingshan. For many years, the three things that have frightened people in Yanzhuo the most are: paying taxes, performing military service, and encountering bandits. So what is the boundary of Huoling Mountain? Good people never come back, and bad people are like fishes in water. They burned, killed, and looted within a radius of 500 miles, and even the government had nothing to do with them.
It is said that people who are bandits in Huoling Mountain will have mountain-shaped marks on their bodies. Hua'er's eyes fell on Huo Yanshan several times, interested in taking a look.
"Want to see it?" Huo Yanshan asked her, "You don't care about the defense between men and women?"
"Don't care."
"You are young."
"I just want to see if you are!"
Huo Yanshan smiled: "If I am, what should you do with me? If I am not, what should you do with me?" Seeing Hua'er's brows furrowed, he sat up straight and whispered, "Let me show you!"
Hua'er was focused on searching without any distracting thoughts. She stared at him and slowly pulled away his belt and tore open the outer coat that was riddled with holes. The inner coat was full of blood, but he didn't care and slowly opened it. Show it to the flowers. The chest was clean, with only one or two minor injuries. He said: "It was from falling down when climbing a tree when I was a child." Seeing that Hua'er didn't move, he turned around and presented his back in front of her.
Hua'er breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't know who she was saving, but no matter who it was, it would be easier for them than the Huoling Bandits.
"Your name..." Hua'er said again.
"My fathers gave us names to scare people."
