Hello Chang’an

Chapter 163 Is Minister Wei a thief?

In the letter, Duan made an agreement with her that he would take her with him to the Princess Chongyue Mansion to offer sacrifices on the Double Ninth Festival.

Princess Chongyue's Mansion is not something you can enter anytime you want. Even if you are a Duan family, you have to have a name. It is both emotionally and logically appropriate to offer sacrifices to old friends on the Double Ninth Festival.

Now there is only more than half a month left before the Double Ninth Festival.

The matter was settled, and Chang Sui Ning had confidence in his heart, so he put the letter away, gave it to Xi'er, and said to Wei Shuyi: "I'd like to thank Shi Lang Wei and Mrs. Duan for replying, so I won't break the promise."

Wei Shuyi didn't know what his mother-in-law had invited Chang Sui Ning to do on a certain day, so he just smiled and nodded in agreement.

Then he looked at Chang Sui Ning with a smile and said: "Today I went to see General Chang off according to the sage's instructions. I thought I would see Madam Chang at the city gate so that I could pass this letter on, but I didn't see Madam Chang. So I have no choice but to come to your house to make trouble."

As he said that, he looked at Cui Jing: "But I didn't expect Governor Cui to be here...Does Governor Cui plan to go back?"

Cui Jing said "hmm" but did not move her feet.

Although Wei Shuyi greeted everyone with a smile and could exchange a few words with a mosquito that flew by, he always felt that this man treated Chang Sui Ning differently from others.

Speaking of which, when he saw Chang Sui Ning for the first time, she appeared with Wei Shuyi.

At that time, she and Wei Shuyi returned to Beijing from Hezhou and were assassinated together.

Because he was not used to delving into other people's private affairs, although he saw that she was a girl and quickly learned her identity, he never investigated in detail why she appeared in Hezhou and what she had experienced.

He didn't know, but Wei Shuyi knew.

In this way, Wei Shuyi and her met earlier, and they seemed to have some common secrets and tacit understanding.

She likes to make friends so much and forms groups in the Imperial College, so in her eyes, Wei Shuyi can be considered her friend, right?

Cui Jing's face was cold and calm, but her fingers behind her back were tapping silently from time to time. Her eyes silently went back and forth between Chang Suining and Wei Shuyi, paying attention to the conversation between the two.

The two chatted for a while. Wei Shuyi's eyes fell on the chessboard beside him and asked curiously: "Ms. Chang was playing chess just now?"

"Well." Chang Suining looked at Cui Jing and said in a casual tone, "I played a game with Governor Cui."

Wei Shuyi became more and more curious: "Who loses and who wins?"

Cui Jing looked at him: "I lose, she wins."

Wei Shuyi looked away from the chessboard, looked at Cui Jing, and laughed in surprise: "Duke Cui actually lost?"

Cui Jing: "Her chess moves are exquisite, she can advance and retreat freely and decisively, so it's no surprise that I lose."

Wei Shuyi laughed again.

When he saw Cui Ling'an, he was not only convinced, but he also had a vague feeling that he had lost very well and that he had lost very well. Is this how he should be losing?

"This is the first time I've heard Governor Cui praise someone like this. I'm afraid he's exaggerating on purpose, right?"

Wei Shuyi's eyes turned back and forth between the two of them, and finally he looked at Chang Suining with a smile: "I wonder if Mr. Wei is lucky enough to be taught by Madam Chang, so that Mr. Wei can distinguish the truth from the lies of Governor Cui's words?"

Chang Sui Ning refused without thinking and said that next time, she had already sat for half a day. Even if the King of Heaven came, there was no way he would ask her to sit for another half day. However, when she was about to speak, she heard a voice that preceded her. step.

"Since I lost, you have no chance of winning, so there is no need to do anything unnecessary." Cui Jing said lukewarmly.

Wei Shuyi frowned: "Cui Ling'an, are you saying that I am inferior to you in terms of chess skills?"

Cui Jing looked calm and didn't say anything, but her expression gave her answer.

Wei Shuyi simply raised his hand to point in the direction of the chessboard and suggested: "It's empty talk, how about you and I play a game now?"

The opportunity to play chess with Cui Ling'an is even rarer than playing chess with Chang's wife.

Cui Jing: "I have no time today. I will be waiting for you at any time in Xuance Mansion tomorrow."

Wei Shuyi didn't choose, and took back his hand: "Okay, then it's settled!"

Cui Jing nodded and said: "Since Minister Wei has brought the letter, I think it's time to go back."

Wei Shuyi: "?"

He hasn't even had a cup of tea yet.

Cui Jing has invited: "How about we go together?"

Uncle Wei was surprised.

Should he say it or not, this was the first time he had been "invited" by Cui Ling'an to do something together.

He seemed to think for a moment, then nodded and said with a slight smile, "That's fine."

He said goodbye to Chang Sui Ning and Chang Sui An, not forgetting to smile with Chang Sui Ning and said: "... In this way, after I defeat Mrs. Chang's defeated opponent, I will play chess with Mrs. Chang again."

Chang Suining nodded with a smile and glanced at Cui Jing: "Okay."

Cui Jing was not squinting, but Yuan Xiang felt that deep down in his heart, his governor had already set up a chess formation in front of the steep Shudao mountain gate, with one man blocking the way and ten thousand men unable to open it.

Upon seeing this, Chang Sui'an said: "Let me give it to Governor Cui and Minister Wei!"

"No need to bother." Wei Shuyi said with a smile: "Wei is already familiar with the road in the front yard of your mansion. You can just leave the mansion on your own."

Cui Jing looked at him: "..." Is this person showing off?

Chang Sui An did not insist on seeing each other off, but still sent a servant to lead the way.

Cui Jing took two steps, but suddenly stopped as if remembering something, and looked back at Chang Suining.

Chang Suining: "Do you have anything else to do, Governor Cui?"

"In case something like last time happens again, I have asked people to bring Liuhuo back to Xuance Mansion." Cui Jing said.

This was a good thing, but Chang Sui Ning felt a little strange in her heart. Why...why did he tell her specifically about Liuhuo?

"I remember that Liuhuo was very close to you when we were at Furongyuan Racecourse." Cui Jing explained: "You promised that you would go see it again."

Is it because of this?

Chang Suining came back to his senses, seemed to think for a while, and then nodded: "It seems that this is the case."

But this was obviously just a polite remark she made at the time. Did he actually take it seriously?

Cui Jing said seriously: "Liuhuo is extremely smart, and as he gets older, he has become more understanding of human nature. Since you agreed to see it, it will always be worried if it doesn't see you."

Chang Suining agrees with this. Now that she has the opportunity to see Lihuo openly, she will not refuse it, so she nods: "Okay, then I will go to Xuance Mansion to see it when I have time."

Cui Jing nodded and then left.

On the way, Wei Shuyi looked at the young man beside him curiously and asked in a low voice: "I said Cui Ling'an... you have to drag me along. Are you trying to prevent thieves?"

The young man paused slightly and turned to look at him. He did not deny or evade, but asked him: "Is Minister Wei a thief?"

Facing the young man's naturally noble and cold eyebrows, Wei Shuyi was suddenly startled.

The autumn wind blew by, and the two looked at each other silently for a moment.

Wei Shuyi's eyes flashed slightly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he raised his foot and walked forward, half-jokingly: "You just take it as me, right?" Cui Jing looked at his back, and after a moment, she continued to walk forward.

Wei Shuyi slowed down two steps and waited for Cui Jing to come over. Suddenly he asked out of curiosity: "What is pomegranate fire...?"

Cui Jing said quietly: "I don't answer the thief's questions easily."

He should have some secrets and tacit understanding with her that are not shared with outsiders.

Wei Shuyi felt that the other party's target was so straightforward that it was ridiculous: "I said Cui Ling'an, why don't you cover it up?"

But the other party answered calmly: "Everyone knows it, why do we have to cover it up?"

Wei Shuyi didn't know that he was putting on a show that night. Even if he was doing it to make the show more realistic in front of outsiders, there was nothing wrong with his actions - Cui Jing thought.

"You..." Wei Shuyi shook his head in amusement, but couldn't help but sigh: "Before this, Wei really didn't expect that Governor Cui would be so... natural and unadorned when he fell in love with someone."

Cui Jing ignored him and moved faster.

Wei Shuyi walked quickly to follow him. When he stepped out of the gate of Chang's Mansion, he asked again: "If you don't answer the thief, then Governor Cui will still agree to play chess with the thief?"

Cui Jing didn't look at him: "Of course it's also to guard against thieves."

"..." Wei Shuyi looked up to the sky and sighed: "It is difficult to find another person as sincere and magnanimous as you in this world."

Cui Jing just took it as a compliment, got on his horse and left after leaving Chang's Mansion.

Wei Shuyi looked at the figure riding a horse and disappearing into the square, and then he smiled with an incomprehensible meaning.

He raised his head and glanced at the door of Chang Mansion. After a moment, he said, "Let's go."

When Qiao Yubai got off the carriage outside the gate of Chang's Mansion, he happened to see Wei Shuyi's official sedan go away.

"Whose official sedan was that just now?"

After being welcomed into the Chang Mansion by his disciples, Qiao Yubai asked curiously.

"Shilang Wei has just arrived. Governor Cui also came to see the general off in the morning and has just left."

Hearing Cui Jing's name, Qiao Yubai subconsciously felt a little nervous, but then relaxed again - maybe there was too much talk outside, he could hear his ears pricking every day in the Imperial College, and after being in it for a long time, he would always feel It is easy to forget that Governor Cui and Ning Ning collaborated to stage the hibiscus flower banquet for outsiders to see. The mood always wanders back and forth between tension and excitement and relaxation and joy.

Qiao Yubai soon met Chang Suining.

"I think there are classes in the Imperial College today, why is Brother Yubai here?"

"I asked for leave." Qiao Yubai said with a smile: "Uncle Chang went on an expedition today, and my father and I went to see him off outside the city. My father couldn't ask for leave, so he returned to the Imperial College first."

Then he said, "Mom and dad said, since Uncle Chang is not at home now, Ning Ning, you will inevitably be lonely alone, so why not just move to the Imperial Academy to live there, instead of running back and forth every few days."

He is here to pick up people.

Chang Sui'an on the side stared wide-eyed: "What do you mean Ning Ning is alone, and I'm still at home!"

As soon as his father left, Qiao Yubai, a thief, came to steal his sister!

When Qiao Yubai heard this, he looked at him and was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have thought that there was Chang Sui'an in the Chang Mansion, but it didn't affect anything: "Our place is more lively, with Mianmian and Ning Ning as company, and after all, It would be more appropriate to have elders around to take care of you.”

"Am I not here?" A Dian, who had just come to find Chang Sui Ning, immediately raised his hand: "Am I not the elder of little A Li? I can take care of her!"

Chang Sui'an: "...Yes, he's a bit of an uncle!"

A Dian grabbed Guanshi Bai and stood in front of him: "There is another one here!"

As he said that, he glanced at which servant looked old enough and wanted to catch them all to make up the number.

"..." Qiao Yubai could only look at Chang Sui Ning: "Ning Ning, what do you think?"

Chang Suining thought about it for a moment and said, "The autumn harvest has just finished recently, and all the farms are busy. I will finish this period of work before going to the Imperial College."

Qiao Yubai knew that she was interested in the farm, so he didn't force her. He only told her not to work too hard, and to remember to go back to the Imperial College when she had time.

Chang Sui Ningdu responded with a smile, and finally said, "While I'm away, Brother Yubai will have to worry more about matters within the Wuer Society."

In the future, the days when she has time to go to the Imperial College to play polo will probably become fewer and fewer.

…

Soon after, Chang Sui'an successfully passed the Xuance Army's re-examination and was selected into the forward battalion as he wished - but he was not immediately able to go to the battlefield to fight as a forward. The Xuance Army's forward battalion was full of elites, except for their personal abilities. , and also need to have sufficient combat experience.

Now Chang Sui'an has been selected into the forward camp as a recruit, just as a forward candidate. If he wants to truly become a qualified forward soldier, he still needs to go through some actual combat training.

This is a very happy thing for Chang Sui'an, and his hard work of training day and night over the past few months has finally been in vain.

Next, as a new recruit, he needs to enter the camp to adapt to military life, undergo drills, and become familiar with military regulations.

It would take seven or eight days before he could return home. Before leaving, he repeatedly and carefully told his sister for a long time that he wished he could turn her into a little bamboo dragonfly in A Dian's hand and carry it with him in his baggage to feel at ease.

Naturally, this wish could not come true. After Changsui An got on his horse, he turned his back to his sister and secretly wiped away two tears.

After sending his brother away, Chang Sui Ning went to Zhuangzi again.

The autumn harvest everywhere has ended. Shen Sanmao brought the account books that had been processed to Chang Suining. When Chang Suining looked through them, he rubbed his hands uneasily, bowed slightly and said with a smile: "This year's harvest is not very good. All goes well, but don’t worry, girl, next year..."

"No, I'm very satisfied." Chang Suining looked at the account book and said, "It has doubled."

this…

Shen Sanmao smiled coquettishly.

It's true that it's doubled, but that's because the previous harvest was too ugly, basically just like semi-waste. This time it's too good to double.

"The villain originally promised the girl that he would at least quadruple it first..."

Chang Suining smiled and said: "How can you become fat after one bite? You have just taken over this season, and it is considered a temporary appointment. Besides, you are in charge of more than one farm. Every place has been idle and neglected for a long time. When you go to the fields , even the farm servants, it is not easy to sort out, and you have only waded across this river for the first time. The result you have achieved now shows that you have not slacked off at all. "

Shen Sanmao was stunned when he heard this.

He originally thought that the girl who dared to use him, a dead liar, to do things was somewhat out of touch with reality, but now she was so realistic, so tolerant and considerate.

Shen Sanmao, who was prepared to be scolded or even buried because he failed to fulfill his boast of Haikou, felt deeply moved at this moment. He could not help but shed tears of grievance at the corners of his eyes, and his voice became choked with sobs.

"The girl just got to the point. Those lazy farm servants are really difficult to discipline and unreasonable. At first, because they were dissatisfied with the villain's arrangement, they even gathered a crowd and hit the villain with cow dung!"

Chang Suining looked at him sympathetically. It was very miserable. She asked with concern: "Then did you hit him back?"

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(Help, my life seems to be completely dominated by 4,000 words a day. The obsession with updates is everywhere. I had a dream during my nap today. In the dream, I was on a blind date. When I saw the time, it was getting dark, and I immediately went crazy. I went back to code and write an update! In order to go back and code, I got into a crazy argument with all my relatives. In the end, my sister stole a motorcycle and we ran away just to write an update... I woke up very tired because I was arguing like crazy in my dream. In addition, I ran for a long time before getting on a motorcycle o(╥﹏╥)o)

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