In the afternoon, the Meilin courtyard was quiet.
The pot of snow-white orchids on the windowsill stopped swaying as the wind stopped at noon.
Ye Weilai liked to be held in Ouyang Rong's arms like a protector after finishing her busy work, with her body pressed against her and her messy silver-haired little head resting on his arm.
Ouyang Rong's slightly snoring breath blew against her red ears and neck, which was a little itchy and comfortable... The surrounding area was filled with his unique scent.
Whenever this happened, Ye Weilai would breathe quietly, for fear of disturbing him, but she couldn't help hugging his waist, turning her eyes upward, and carefully looking at his slightly tired sleeping face.
She was a light sleeper and woke up after taking a rest. Ouyang Rong had the habit of taking a nap, and he was busy now, so he just needed a rest.
He was just recovering from his illness, so why bother him again... Ye Weilai suddenly felt remorseful in her heart, and she was secretly annoyed for a while.
But she just couldn't help it.
For some reason, Ouyang Rong always gave Ye Weilai a sense of alienation sometimes, a sense of indifference to everyone around her, including her.
It is obvious that Tanlang is very respectful and polite to everyone around him, including the humble servants, and is not cold or mean.
But it just gives people a sense of alienation and indifference.
Just like layers of curtains, he is independent of this world, standing in the high clouds and watching everyone.
You can easily look at it, but you can never get close.
This feeling is very strange, as if I don't belong to the same world.
Maybe it's because Tanlang is an upright gentleman, who restrains himself, returns to etiquette, and acts alone... Ye Weilai thought about it for a long time and could only explain it this way.
However, for the people of Longcheng, county government officials, Meiluyuan servants and other people who are far away from him, this kind of upright gentleman may be like a refreshing breath of spring breeze and make people admire him.
But for those who want to get close to him, it is very troublesome and distressing.
Ye Weilai didn't know if Madam Xie felt this way, at least she felt so.
So on some occasions, when it was discovered that the more gentlemanly Tan Lang was and the more alienated he was, the more Ye Weilai wanted to lift off the veil of being a gentleman and get close to him, passionately and intimately.
This is also the reason why Ye Weilai couldn't hold back and clumsily "seduce" Tan Lang not long ago.
Otherwise, there is no shameful desire for a girl in her late teens. What can really make her emotionally moved is the happiness and satisfaction of her sweetheart, the closeness and love for her, and she is willing to do anything for her.
There are three thousand kinds of medicines in the world, but this one is the most aphrodisiac.
Even so, looking back now, Ye Weilai still feels a little guilty.
Because after finishing not long ago, Tanlang's expression seemed to be a little reluctant.
Ye Weilai, whose cheeks were burning, squinted slightly and found that Tan Lang looked ashamed and sighed.
Tan Lang was still considerate and protective of her, carefully coaxing her to sleep, but he seemed to be a little reproachful to himself, and then continued to murmur about "losing his integrity" and "recording one more offense".
Ye Weilai didn't quite understand, but could only understand that Tanlang strictly required himself according to the principles of a gentleman and was unwilling to break the precepts.
On the bed, looking at the man in front of her, the white-haired girl couldn't help but feel more and more admiration and adoration in her eyes.
Ouyang Rong didn't know Ye Weilai's strange thoughts. When he opened his eyes, there happened to be a cool breeze blowing into the house outside the window.
"Not sleeping?"
Ouyang Rong yawned and asked Ye Weilai, who had his head hidden under the quilt.
The latter shook his head, nodded again, and looked at the lazy-looking Ouyang Rong with his big gray-blue eyes without blinking.
"Would you like to sleep a little longer?"
Ouyang Rong laughed, put on his clothes and got out of bed, turned around and poured a cup of tea and handed it to Ye Weila.
The girl also got up from the bed, grabbed a light pink lining, and put it on silently. Under Ouyang Rong's gaze, she blushed, closed her open breasts, tied her belt, and covered her arms.
"Not thirsty."
Ye Weilai whispered, but the next second, she found that Ouyang Rong was staring at her lips, handing the tea without saying a word.
The aftertaste of certain flavors immediately touched the taste buds again. As if recalling something, Ye Weilai took the tea cup and drank it all. However, she did not swallow it immediately, but kept a mouthful of tea in her mouth, covered her mouth with her little hand, and said There were some gurgling sounds, and the roots of his ears turned redder.
As if he was afraid that the white-haired maid would be shy, Ouyang Rong coughed lightly and looked away. He only occasionally raised his hand to hold her fair chin and gently wiped the red and swollen corners of her lips with his thumb.
Ye Weilai covered her mouth and lowered her head and asked, "Why is Tanlang so kind to slave?"
"Am I good to you?"
Ouyang Rong suddenly asked back.
Ye Weilai nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, her eyes were very serious.
There is no one like you in the world.
Ouyang Rong thought for a while and lowered his eyes: "If someone is good to me, I will naturally be good to her."
"There are many, many people who want to be nice to Tan Lang." Ye Weilai blurted out.
Ouyang Rong smiled and did not reply.
Ye Weilai seemed to have remembered something, her eyes flickered, and she said calmly:
"Then if there is such a woman, she treats Tan Lang very well, even better than herself. She doesn't ask for anything in return, doesn't ask for credit to seek favor, and even gives silently. Even Tan Lang doesn't know about it."
Ouyang Rong shook his head, "How can there be such a stupid person?"
Ye Weilai couldn't help but look sideways and asked: "But what if it really happens?"
"If it is true, I will definitely catch her and ask her why she is so stupid." Ouyang Rong said, half joking and half serious.
"Are we going to arrest her even to the ends of the earth..."
Ye Weilai couldn't help but ask, but just halfway through her words, a soft sound suddenly came from the yard outside.
Ouyang Rong and Ye Weilai inside the room looked curiously.
"Nothing, you guys go on, I'm just passing by and watering the orchids, you can just pretend I don't exist."
I saw outside the window a girl with a heavy burden and beautiful face. She walked over with a normal expression and came to the window sill. She watered the orchid with the water ladle in her hand without looking away.
His expression seemed to be very focused, and he did not look at the two people in the room.
Ye Weilai looked around with a somewhat cautious expression, and found that her clothes were still neat, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Little junior sister."
Ouyang Rong, who was sitting beside the bed, stood up and said in surprise.
Xie Lingjiang squinted his eyes and asked, "It probably didn't disturb senior brother."
"Why are you bothering me? Come on in and sit down. I woke up at noon and just wanted to go find you." Ouyang Rong said with a smile.
"Oh, is it so."
Seeing his senior brother's sincere and enthusiastic look, Xie Lingjiang's face seemed to look better. He put down the water ladle, put his bare hands behind his waist, and walked into the house.
Facing Ouyang Rong in the room, Xie Ling Jiang looked left and right, shrugged the tip of his nose, frowned and asked:
"What is the taste?"
Ouyang Rong also looked around, wanting to ask, but immediately realized something, and immediately shook his head, pretending not to know.
"Tan Lang, slave, go bring some tea to Miss Xie." Ye Weila suddenly volunteered.
Xie Lingjiang wanted to refuse, but a certain white-haired maid didn't wait for her to say anything, and slipped away from the two of them, running out of the house with her cheeks burning.
Ye Weilai's steps were slightly disordered.
You can't tell Miss Xie that this is the smell of Tanlang Haoran's righteousness, right?
"This girl is getting more and more reckless." Ouyang Rong pretended to have a straight face and criticized.
He looked at the younger junior sister's expression calmly, and was slightly relieved when he saw that there was no suspicion on her face.
"You can't say that. She has been very attentive to taking care of senior brother these days." Xie Lingjiang said casually.
Ouyang Rong asked Xie Lingjiang to sit down, and they sat around the table.
After not seeing each other for several days, Ouyang Rong couldn't help but look at his junior sister up and down.
I don't know if she is running around outside, but the younger sister's skin is a little darker, but this kind of blackness is just a little darker compared to the snow-white skin that appears and appears on her neck. .
On the contrary, Ouyang Rong felt that it would be good to have a little tan. In addition, the junior sister's skin is easy to whiten. I don't know if it was because of the Qi refining. At first, Yi Lanxuan was ill in bed for a while. When she went to the government office the next day, she was so white. Dazzling, Ouyang Rong still remembers...
Apart from this, today Xie Lingjiang is still dressed in men's red clothes and a small crown on his head, sitting at attention at the table.
In addition, I don't know if it is Ouyang Rong's misunderstanding. After not seeing each other for a few days, I always feel that my junior sister is a little more broad-minded. Wait, there is still room for development?
Ouyang Rong couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he thought of his young junior sister's young age and great potential.
"Elder brother, there's no need to watch. Junior sister, I'm fine. This trip went smoothly."
Xie Lingjiang never imagined that his senior brother's frequent side glances were concerned about her development, and mistakenly thought that he was concerned about her development, so he couldn't help but explain.
"Young junior sister, I can rest assured when you do things." Ouyang Rong nodded, poured a cup of tea for Xie Lingjiang, lowered his eyes and took a sip.
Although he told Ouyang Rong to stop looking, Xie Lingjiang repeatedly put down the tea cup and looked at Ouyang Rong.
"Don't look at me, little junior sister. I'm fine. It's just a cold and a minor illness." Ouyang Rong blinked and joked.
Xie Lingjiang hesitated to speak, but finally said: "I heard what they said about senior brother at Di Gongzha. Why is senior brother so stupid?"
Ouyang Rong did not answer, but suddenly raised his head and said: "Little junior sister, you were not the one who drew the sword on the dam that day, right?"
Xie Ling Jiang was startled.
Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes and looked at the moonlight sword at her waist. If the junior sister used the sword, there should be dazzling moonlight. The junior sister had demonstrated it to him before.
That day when he was soaking in the water, he vaguely thought it was his junior sister. But when he woke up, he thought about it again and eliminated this option.
Facing Ouyang Rong's gaze, Xie Lingjiang nodded:
"It's an unknown Yue girl."
"Yue Nu?" This time it was Ouyang Rong's turn to be stunned.
"Yes, I also listened to what they said after I came back. By the way, your maids were there at the time. From their description, the starting position and movement of the sword should be that of a Yue girl from Yunmeng Jianze."
Xie Lingjiang looked at the sky outside the house and sighed:
"Maybe she happened to pass by Di Gong Gate, or maybe she was attracted by the movement of the flood gate. After all, she is also very close to Yunmeng Jianze. This Yue girl must have been touched by your actions, senior brother, and chose to help, repelling several enemies. Waves and waves...
"But I heard that the Yue girl didn't stay on the gate for long. Later, when the rain stopped, in full view of everyone, she rode the waves and disappeared into the depths of the water."
"Is that so..." Ouyang Rong was thoughtful.
Just at this time, Ye Weilai returned with a plate of pastries. Ouyang Rong couldn't help but turned around and asked a few questions, and the little girl answered carefully.
"Weila, can you clearly see what she looks like?"
"I was worried about Tanlang at the time, but I didn't see it clearly."
"You didn't leave any names?"
Ye Weilai glanced at him, shook her head, and couldn't help but add: "Maybe she doesn't want to leave her name."
"That's a pity." Ouyang Rong shook his head regretfully: "Otherwise, if we have the chance to meet again in the future, I would have to be grateful."
Ye Weilai hesitated to speak, and finally lowered his head and looked at the plate of mung bean cake in his hand.
This is the craft taught to her by the embroiderer. Xiu Niang left. I heard that she was returning to the master's gate to handle an important matter and could not stay in Longcheng for the time being.
Immediately, the topic of Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang turned to their trip to Gezao Mountain.
"So, the old man named Chong Xuzi is upright, kind and kind."
After Ouyang Rong heard this, he smiled.
Xie Lingjiang couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.
Naturally, she didn't say everything she said to Xuzi, but only picked out the normal ones, so Ouyang Rong didn't know the old naughty side of the former.
Xie Lingjiang was unable to complain.
She can't just talk about everything, is she losing face?
At this moment, as if he remembered the secret incident revealed to Chong Xuzi again, Xie Lingjiang's face softened, he raised his head and suddenly said:
"It would be great if Senior Brother could practice Qi, then what happened at Di Gong Gate that day would not have happened, and the disease would not have continued."
Ye Weilai, who was cleaning the bed in the back room, heard this and turned her head to look at the living room. It seemed that a certain mute woman had expressed a similar meaning to her.
"Why did little junior sister suddenly mention this?"
Ouyang Rong was startled for a moment, then shook his head.
"Senior brother, don't you want to practice Qi?" Xie Lingjiang asked.
Ouyang Rong hesitated and continued to shake his head:
"I don't know my situation yet, so I don't think so."
He was about to throw away his hands and walk away, practicing his hammering spirit, but he couldn't say this clearly in front of the enthusiastic little junior sister, so he had to find an excuse and answer as if he was resigned to his fate.
But who would have thought that his salty attitude made Xie Lingjiang's eyes light up and he said:
"So Senior Brother is right, but he just has no choice but to leak the gas."
Ouyang Rong raised his eyes and looked at her without any excuse.
Xie Lingjiang seemed to be in a good mood. He got up and walked around the house several times.
Suddenly he turned his head and changed the conversation:
"Elder brother, do you know what is the most important thing for the people of the ten realms today, both inside and outside the capitals of Guanzhong and outside the country?"
Ouyang Rong looked surprised, why the topic changed so quickly, but he still answered truthfully:
"Let's fight for Li Wei."
He shook his head and said with a cheerful expression:
"It has been nearly ten years since the Holy Queen changed her name from Qian to Zhou. Although most of the Li clan in the previous dynasty were slaughtered, those who survived were demoted. Those who changed their surnames to Chou changed their surnames to Chou. However, as the Holy Queen's flesh and blood, the two The two princes are still alive and well, and one is still being raised in a deep palace, with no shortage of holy pets.
"Moreover, there are many ministers in the court who are traditional conservative civil servants. Li Qian has been raising scholars for seventy years. They are always willing to break up. Naturally, they care about Li Gan and secretly support the Li family prince."
Ouyang Rong replied casually, lowered his head and took a sip of tea. In fact, he had understood the situation of the court situation as soon as he woke up. However, Longcheng County was too far away from Luoyang Court, so most of the time it had nothing to do with him. After all, He is a seventh-grade county magistrate in a remote corner of Jiangnan Road.
Ouyang Rong stared at the tea, curled his lips and said:
"But the Holy Emperor's natal family and several princes from the Wei family are quite ambitious, or rather unwilling. After all, they have already made suggestions all the way to make the current Holy Emperor change his career to Zhou. The royal family of the Zhou Dynasty must have My surname is Wei, how can I return my surname to Li?
"Now that the Holy Emperor is old and the position of the emperor is still unresolved, it will naturally lead to competition between Prince Li and Prince Wei. The people of the world are paying attention to this matter... But little junior sister, why do you ask this?"
"Then who does Senior Brother think will win?" Xie Ling Jiang narrowed his eyes.
Ouyang Rong drank tea for a while.
Last night while typing, my back suddenly ached, my head swelled, my forehead and palms felt warm. I could hear my heartbeat in my right ear, and my eyes were sore. After typing, I felt dizzy... At first, Xiaorong thought he might have a yang, but then he asked around. , I found that it seems to be kidney yang deficiency... It's outrageous. Xiaorong is twenty-four. He has been weak at a young age. It's so scary. I just recovered a little bit today. I don't dare to torture my body anymore. I have always relied on my youth... Everyone You should also pay attention to your health. Good health is more important than anything else! (or the second day after rebooting)
(End of chapter)
