Xia Ning

The sun outside the window was just right, and the streets were noisy. Xia Ning was sitting on the second floor by the window, listening to the conversation with great interest: "I saw the leopard leap forward, he lowered his head in a panic, and the leopard jumped to the ground. Behind him on a stone that was as tall as a man, the two sides faced each other in this posture. At this moment, a leopard came up behind him, and the man said: "I am going to be buried in the belly of this beast today!"..."

Yi An stood in front of the window and looked at the scene on the street: "My lord, Wang Zhizhou has arrived at the gate of the teahouse."

As soon as the words were finished, Wang Ruiqi pushed the door open and entered: "Zhenming, don't come here!" The moment Wang Ruiqi stepped into the room, his face was full of smiles, greeting like two old friends.

"Huangfu." Xia Ning nodded slightly at Wang Ruiqi and said, "Before everyone arrives, sit down first."

Wang Ruiqi quickly agreed, and sat on Xia Ning's right hand. Yi An stood behind Xia Ning near the window. Wang Ruiqi was not sure what Xia Ning meant by inviting him to listen to the book, but felt that Xia Ning's smile had a kind of different meaning.Looking sideways at Xia Ning, he saw that he was listening to the book seriously, without the slightest intention of opening his mouth, so he pressed his uneasy heart to listen to the book.

Not long after, Cui Zheyun arrived, and as soon as he entered the room, he heard: "Patriarch Cui is here, sit down."

Cui Zheyun: "It's because I came down late, I replaced the wine with tea, and apologized to the adults." After finishing speaking, he picked up a cup of tea, raised his head and drank it, with a graceful and graceful gesture.

Xia Ning: "We came early."

Cui Zheyun put down the teacup and sat down on Xia Ning's left. Xia Ning gestured to Yi An, and Yi An quit. After a while, he heard the storyteller say: "Let's just say that the county magistrate Wang is so bold that he teamed up with a rich local gentry Cui Qi, when the natural disaster came, he embezzled the relief funds, causing countless people to starve to death, and even the son of Yi was eaten, but the rich gentry Cui Qi's house was too fat to walk. If you say that Wang County It makes corruption shameful, and Cui Qi is even more unforgivable..."

When Wang Ruiqi heard this, his face was pale and his fingers trembled. Although Cui Zheyun was not like Wang Ruiqi, he could still see the ups and downs in his heart from his pale lips.

"Huangfu, what do Patriarch Cui think of this folded book?"

Looking at the smiling and handsome face, Wang Ruiqi felt a chill coming from him, and was speechless for a while.Cui Zheyun suppressed the uneasiness in his heart: "It is lifelike, and the content is vivid."

Xia Ning: "Oh, I guess I have experienced it myself!"

Cui Zheyun said angrily, "What do you mean, my lord?"

Xia Ning smiled and said, "What do I mean, does Patriarch Cui really not know? Huangfu, do you know?"

Wang Ruiqi wiped the sweat from his head, "I don't know."

"Okay, okay!" Xia Ning said and threw two books in front of the two of them. When they saw this, they found that they were their account books, and Cui Zheyun also had letters between him and Wei Guocheng.

Wang Ruiqi was shocked, "How is it possible, I obviously hid the account book in the pawn..." Before he finished speaking, Xia Ning smiled, and Cui Zheyun looked at him helplessly, and realized that he had made a slip of the tongue.

"Yi'an, go to the pawnbroker for a walk." After hearing this, Wang Ruiqi was immediately discouraged, saying that he was helpless.

Cui Zheyun flipped through the account books and letters, and said: "Master Xia is very calculating, I wonder if Master Xia can answer one or two questions for me, so that I can know what went wrong."

Xia Ning: "Patriarch Cui, as early as a year ago, people from Liang Guoan who were stationed in Wei Guo discovered signs of your relationship with Wei Guo's Prime Minister Li Si, and the letter was obtained from Li Si. And the natural disaster relief food at the beginning of this year, I didn't expect Patriarch Cui to be so bold that he got to this point, and together with Wang Ruiqi, he stole it privately. When I arrived in Xinchang, I knew that Zhuangzi, who had hidden the relief food, had never touched you, just because he wanted to find the ledger, but everything With all the evidence, you must pay the due price for this crime of treason and harm to the people.”

After finishing speaking, he called people in to suppress him, and on the other side, Cui's house and the magistrate's mansion were already surrounded by groups, the house was ransacked, and women, children and servants were thrown into prison.

One month later, Xia Ning forced Wang Ruiqi, Cui Zheyun and others into the capital for judgment. Wang Ruiqi was sentenced to beheaded, his family property was confiscated, and used for the disposal of victims of Xinchang disasters.Cui Zheyun and his family members were executed by beheading, and the three clans were exiled, and they were slaves for life.

For several days in a row, the blood at Caishikou was washed away, and the people only felt very happy when they talked about it.

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It's by the stream outside the city again, just like seven years ago, the same scenery, the sunset gradually, no longer the youthful person at that time.Jing Zexian looked at the profiles of the people around him, wondering why he and Xia Ning returned to Chang'an.

Jing Zexian recalled what happened the day before leaving Xinchang. Xia Ning came to his house suddenly and said, "A Xian, I'm going back to Chang'an. Will you go back with me?" He wanted to refuse, but looked at Xia Ning. The inadvertent expression of hope in Ning's eyes, praying, turned into a "good" word on his lips.At that moment, he seemed to see the light bursting out of Xia Ning's eyes. At that time, his heart became full, and there was only that person in his eyes.

Xia Ning: "Do you remember what you promised me seven years ago?"

Jing Zexian: "Remember, you asked me to do one thing." The afterglow of the setting sun shone on Xia Ning's face, blurring his facial features and softening his temperament. man.

Xia Ning looked sideways at Jing Zexian: "If I say, I like you, you would like to be with me."

Jing Zexian was taken aback, his heart couldn't stop beating, but then he laughed and said: "A-Ning, you must be joking!" But seeing Xia Ning's solemn appearance, he suppressed the joke, and said, "Are you serious?" of?"

Xia Ning: "Yes." Jing Zexian was uncharacteristically, and did not speak for a long time. Xia Ning looked at his expression, knew the answer in his heart, and said, "I see, you have never heard these words today, I will I won't appear in front of you again." After speaking, he turned and left, the setting sun elongated his figure, showing a sense of loneliness.

Looking at Xia Ning's leaving figure, Jing Zexian felt that there was a piece missing in his heart, empty.He couldn't tell whether he liked Xia Ning or not, he just knew he couldn't let Xia Ning leave, so he shouted at Xia Ning's back: "A Ning, I don't know if I like you or not, but if I don't see you sad, I have to be able to see you." Goodbye to you, then, I think I like you."

The sudden words stopped the figure from behind, and stood like this for a long time, then turned around and smiled at Jing Zexian.

One month later, in the city of Luoyang, two men were walking on a busy street. The man in black clothes held candied haws to the mouth of the man in brocade and white clothes. .

The man in black is Jing Zexian, and the man in brocade and white is Xia Ning.Since Xia Ning confessed his heart to Jing Zexian a month ago, he handed over the zhezi and resigned from office, and walked the rivers and lakes with Jing Zexian.

Jing Zexian asked him why he did this when he knew about it, and he replied: "I know that you don't want to be an official in the court, and you don't want to be bound by the world, so I will walk the rivers and lakes with you and be a pair of swordsmen. There are lovers."