Bastards

Fan Lingxiu happened to be working in a teahouse that day.

The Fan family has many industries, from all walks of life, almost covering the entire Chang'an City.As an heir who is being forced by his father to practice, Fan Lingxiu is very busy every day. Many things are inconvenient at home, and he is tired from running around the city. He simply designated this house to be in the center of the city. He often comes here these days to meet guests from afar. He sits here for a whole day. He talks about most of the things that don't need to be watched.

I was busy kicking my back foot, and when I heard a servant report, a young man surnamed Cui asked him if he was there.

"Surname is Cui?" Fan Lingxiu's slender eyes widened suddenly, "You don't have a face, but you know this is our teahouse. Ask me if I'm in?"

The servant had lingering fear on his face: "Yes, the guest who came back for the first time didn't sound like a local. When he entered the door, he asked the young master if you were there. He spoke very softly, and he was sitting in a wheelchair. It's very fierce, the person in the wheelchair looks so good-looking and the little one couldn't help but take a second look, that young man looks like he's going to eat the little one alive, it's too scary!" As he spoke, he didn't know what he had imagined, and his eyes glowed. She was completely horrified, "Master, didn't these two come here to seek revenge?"

"What are you thinking about! That's the young master's friend!" Fan Lingxiu casually slapped the account book on the face of the visitor, "Damn! I told you to forget the rules and keep sweeping the guest's face!"

The servant had a mournful face and was very aggrieved: "It's really not my fault, that young master is really... really good-looking..."

Fan Lingxiu ignored him, ran to the mirror to tidy up his appearance, and smoothed his smooth hair, making sure that there was nothing wrong, he immediately jumped out: "Young master wants to meet guests, don't come here to disturb me if it's nothing serious !"

"But less..." Before the servant finished speaking, the door had already slammed against the wall and bounced back, and Fan Lingxiu's figure had disappeared like the wind.

……

The private room on the second floor has a good view. It faces the street by the window. If you look out casually, you will see the pleasant autumn scenery and the avenue filled with fireworks and people coming and going.When the sound is far away and the vision is wide, people can always feel a different kind of beauty, which seems close and far away, ethereal and invisible, as if touching the dusty memory, as if foreseeing the beauty of the future, the mood of a certain moment, warm and want to make people feel Comfortable sigh.

Yang Xuan looked at the faint smile on Cui Yu's lips, and reached out to help him straighten his sideburns for the umpteenth time today, so that's right.

A good-looking rabbit should be peacefully satisfied like this, smiling, making him feel at ease too.

Fan Lingxiu arrived at this time.

Cui Yu sat in a wheelchair, smiling quietly, with a jade-like profile, as beautiful as a painting.The young man standing beside him looked at him intently, and gently helped him tidy up his hair at the temples—even though Cui Mata's satin-smooth hair was not messed up.

The sunshine in the early autumn was extremely bright, covering the two of them with a layer of gold, which seemed to bring the temperature left over from the hot summer. For no reason, the atmosphere became a little fiery.

In a trance, Fan Lingxiu felt that Sha San's eyes seemed not only focused, but also somewhat enthusiastic?

"Fan Lingxiu."

Sensing someone coming in, Cui Yu turned around at the right time, and greeted Fan Lingxiu with a smile: "I didn't make an appointment, but I came here without permission, are you bothering Brother Fan?"

Even though he had known Cui Yu's face for a long time, it was still too surprising to meet him so suddenly. Fan Lingxiu was stunned for nothing, and then gave a fake cough to cover up, and waved his sleeves smartly: "Who is the young master? You are amazing, so hurry up and deal with it." It's only a blink of an eye, why bother? Our life-threatening friendship, what appointment is there, you come anytime, the young master welcomes you with your hands and feet at any time!"

While talking, Fan Lingxiu walked to the table, frowned and called out: "How do you treat the guests with this tea? Take out the Jin Junmei from the young master's room, and ask Master Liu to make some small dishes and serve them over!"

After speaking, seeing the grievance of the servant who was at a loss, he immediately ordered: "These two are young master's friends and distinguished guests. When you come back in the future, we will all follow this standard, understand?"

The servant nodded like pecking at rice, his mind was confused by Cui Mata's smile, and he walked out with fluttering footsteps.

"Why do you think of coming to play with me today? Is it because you are not used to living in Xie's house?" Fan Lingxiu turned his head, rolling his eyes, instigated, "As I said earlier, Xie's family has a lot of rules, and living in a restrictive way, choosing a date is worse than bumping into him." Day, how about moving to my house today? My house is..."

"We just went out for a walk, and we happened to come here when we were tired." Yang Xuan glanced sideways at Fan Lingxiu, trying to lure Cui Yu home anytime and anywhere. Does this person have any ideas?

Cui Yu also smiled: "Xie's family is very good, Sha San and I just came out to take a look. If Xie Cong knows that you will spare no effort to poach his corner anytime and anywhere, he will definitely be in a hurry with you."

Seeing that Cui Yu pushed, Yang Xuan looked away, very satisfied.

Fan Lingxiu subtly sensed a wave of dissatisfaction and hostility for a moment, which was so fleeting that he thought it was an illusion.He looked at Cui Yu, then at Yang Xuan, to make sure there was nothing wrong, Fang smiled again: "Can that nerd outshine me? See if I don't bully him."

The clerk in the store quickly served tea, Fan Lingxiu still talked about Xie Cong: "He said he wanted to invite me to the autumn banquet at his house, but I didn't agree."

Cui Yu stretched out his hand to hold the teacup, and asked casually, "Why didn't you agree?"

I don't want the teacup to be carried away by Yang Xuan.Cui Yu tilted his head to look at Yang Xuan, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"What's the specification of his autumn banquet? What's a business like me doing? Do you look down on me?" Fan Lingxiu laughed at himself.

Seeing that Yang Xuan took away Cui Yu's teacup, brought her own tea cup which had been hanging by the window, put it in Cui Yu's palm, and said "hot", Fan Lingxiu raised his eyebrows slightly, with a meaningful expression on his face: "Before Xie Shudai told me that Sha San is good at serving people, but I still don’t believe it, now it’s really... tsk tsk.”

Cui Mata paused slightly.

Yang Xuan's expression was calm, and she even raised the corners of her mouth slightly, not ashamed but proud: "Envy? It's a pity that your parents didn't give you a good face."

Cui Mata: ...

Fan Lingxiu felt quite the same, and laughed loudly: "That's right! Cui Liu is worthy of anyone's loyalty!"

Yang Xuan is upset again, anyone kneel and lick?Kneeling... licking... His sharp eyes fell on Cui Yu, and he had to keep an eye on this good-looking rabbit!

Cui Yu didn't understand the brain circuits of these two people, so he stopped thinking about it, went straight to the point, and asked Fan Lingxiu about Wang Fu: "I don't know many friends, but you are the most knowledgeable and memorized, so I came here to learn from it."

Fan Lingxiu was very comfortable with this little flatterer. He didn't even ask Cui Yu why he asked Wang Fu, and rolled up his sleeves like chicken blood: "That's right! When it comes to gossip, no one is as good as the young master! Cui Liu, what do you think?" Knowing what this person is, the young master has nothing to say!"

Another idiot fooled by Cui Mata.

Yang Xuan rolled his eyes.

"Anything is fine. I am very curious about this person. You can say a little bit about everything you can think of." Cui Yu rested his chin on his fingertips and slowly sipped his tea. His smile melted into the autumn scenery outside the window, which was like a painting.

Fan Lingxiu blinked, chuckled twice to regain his senses, and then spoke crisply.

The aristocratic family has many talents, especially the Wang family of Langya, there are many talented and brilliant people, this Wang Fu is one of them.

As Xie Yan said, Wang Fu has shown amazing talent since he was a child. He reads books with his hands as soon as he can walk. This habit has been maintained since he was three years old.It seems that there are only books in his life, and everything else is unimportant. He didn't even marry a wife and have children. He even went to White Horse Academy because this place was handed down from the previous dynasty and had a rich collection of books.

When Wang Fu was young, besides reading books, he was also good at talking with others, and he was very talkative. Other than that, he was writing books and annotating them to educate his disciples.From his husband to the head of the mountain, Wang Fuchu's heart has always remained the same, leaving many good stories in various circles...

And he is very principled, he only loves books and knowledge, and he doesn't want to get involved in politics.Today's Holy Majesty has invited him several times to observe politics, but he has not agreed, and he has not responded to asking him to teach the King of Yue, even the imperial concubine's invitation, he dared to directly refuse.

When Fan Lingxiu said this, he sighed and commented: "Thanks to his good background, if it weren't for the protection of the Langya Wang family, he would not be able to live so comfortably."

As he recalled, he said that Wang Fu’s personality was not always the same as it is now. He was neither sad nor happy, nor angry, like a rock. He used to be gentle with others, calm in situations, praised what he liked, and laughed when he was happy. If you are not happy, you will get angry. This kind of big change, after all... it started five years ago.

"Five years ago... what happened?" Cui Min subconsciously tapped on the table with his fingertips, his brows slightly frowned.

"I don't know." Fan Lingxiu also seemed to feel very strange, "I've never heard anything about it."

Cui Yu's gaze moved down slightly, and landed on the teacup. The white smoke was misty, covering the thoughts in his eyes.

"But I do know one thing." Fan Lingxiu suddenly patted the table, his eyes widened, as if remembering something.

"what's up?"

"Five years ago in the winter, Wang Shanchang changed his past and lost his temper. Many people know about it."

Fan Lingxiu described Wang Fu's anger. He didn't know where it came from, and which point poked him. He was very angry. It was almost Chinese New Year, and he lived alone on the mountain of Baima Academy. He didn't eat or drink, and he didn't go down the mountain. .Seeing the heavy snow cover the mountains, the servants were worried and wanted to call him out of the room, but he pushed them away with his hands and smashed things in the room.

For Shanzhang Wang Fu, who came from a family and had a lot of gentleness, it was very difficult to see, and it scared the crowd quite a bit.

"What I want to say is that someday later..." Fan Lingxiu lowered his voice.

In the midwinter season, it was the time for businesses to take inventory and settle accounts at the end of the year. Fan Lingxiu was turning eleven. He was still a child, but he had been vigorously raised by his father.Needless to say, it's not possible to go far away, but around Chang'an, his father didn't let him go, and he walked around with him.

During those days, accounting, settlement, and New Year gifts for various relationships, everything was busy, and I was so busy that I forgot the time if I was not careful, and hit the heavy snow.The father and son had no choice but to stay in a temple deep in the mountain for a few days with their close entourage.

Right here, the naughty kid running around with nothing to do, ran into Wang Fu.

"At that time, the masters had just finished their evening class, and there was a meditation room with lights on. It was a place that the adults had warned them not to approach. I was curious, and there was no one around at that time, so I went quietly to take a look."

Fan Lingxiu's slender eyebrows were raised high, and his voice was mysterious: "I saw an old monk with nine ring scars on his head and very long earlobes. The old monk knocked on the wooden fish with his eyes closed, and Wang Shanzhang was kneeling beside him. On the Zen mat, the expression... how to put it, I can't describe it, it seems to be very, very empty, and I can't see anything."

"The old monk read a few scriptures, but I don't remember most of them. I just remember that 'everything has potential, such as dreams and bubbles, such as dew and electricity, and it should be viewed in this way'. Life and death, the lights are on and off...', the atmosphere is very, very heavy."

Cui Yu's eyes turned slightly: "Who died?"

"I wonder too," Fan Lingxiu spread his hands, "but the information from all parties was transparent at that time, and no one died. Wang Fu's family and friends, even the people close to him, were healthy and alive. Later, people mostly rumored that Wang Fuzhi's change, It’s because I’m stunned by reading.”

Cui Mata shook his head, impossible.Wang Fu must have encountered something that particularly hit him. This incident even slightly shook what he had always insisted on, so he made this change.

He has a feeling in his heart, as long as he finds this point, he will definitely pass this test!

"Then what, I have never mentioned these words to outsiders, Cui Liu, you have to keep it a secret from me." Fan Lingxiu looked at Cui Yu, and then glanced at Yang Xuan.

Cui Mata smiled and said, "Naturally."

Yang Xuan returned a fierce look: How dare you doubt his integrity?

Fan Lingxiu pretended to be confused, and laughed along with him.

In an instant, Cui Yu had countless thoughts in his mind: "Brother Fan grew up in Chang'an, are you familiar with the disciples that Master Wang took in? Especially some famous and talented ones?"

"Of course, I know all those who are famous! For example, Fei Yan, Liu Shi, Li Defeng..." Fan Lingxiu wrung his fingers, counting every one of them.

Cui Yu silently remembered it in his heart.

The people who can influence Wang Fu, apart from his family members, are probably the disciples he once taught.He has changed so much, and the surrounding family, friends, and even servants are all the same. Could it be some student?

When students grow up, they have their own things to do and their own understanding to be realized. They don't always follow the master.

If Wang Fu really changed because of this reason, then this disciple must be unusual, no matter what aspects Wang Fu misses, this student must not be mediocre.

……

Fan Lingxiu finished emptying his stomach and filled two glasses of water before he breathed a sigh of relief: "If you want to know more about Wang Shanchang, you can find a storyteller, there are so many stories!"

"A lot of stories?" Cui Yu couldn't help chuckling, it seems that Wang Shanchang has a very high reputation among the people.

"Yeah," Fan Lingxiu rested his chin and let out a long sigh, "Speaking of this, I worry, Cui Liu, you don't know how well the books written by this Wang Shan sell well, as long as he writes, No, don’t talk about writing, as long as he has an annotation, he will rush to grab it immediately! My family didn’t keep an eye on the market in the first year, and printed a batch of books, and now they are still in the warehouse. I don’t know if they will be sold in the year of the monkey!”

"It will always be sold, young man, work hard." Cui Yan stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, "Then that's it for today, and I'm saying goodbye to Sha San?"

Fan Lingxiu immediately grabbed Cui Yu's arm and frowned: "How can this be done! You two finally found me, how can you not even eat a meal? You can't leave, don't leave anyone, I will take you to eat later delicious!"

"Are you sure?" Cui Yu tilted his head and pointed his chin far away, pointing to a middle-aged man outside the window who was anxiously looking around outside their door, "He came before a cup of tea, don't deal with it Is it?"

Fan Lingxiu curled his lips and clicked his tongue lightly, full of displeasure.

This private room is facing the street, but there is not only one window facing the street, there are also small windows on the inside near the stairs outside the door.Because the weather was neither too hot nor too cold, and they didn't say anything confidential, they didn't close the small window. Who would have thought that a servant came looking for them!

This person is also blind, he has ordered not to disturb if there is no serious matter, and he tried his best to pretend not to see, this person didn't know how to leave, so he kept poking there, this time it was good, Cui Yu saw it!Cui Yu is so clever, he wished to grow a delicate heart, how could he not see it?

"Okay, don't be awkward, let's deal with things first, we still have more time, so we can make an appointment for dinner another day." Cui Yu gently advised Fan Lingxiu.

Fan Lingxiu didn't like the uncertain 'another day' the most, and said casually: "Then tomorrow night, I will treat you to dinner!"

Cui Yu thought for a while, anyway, he was fine, and replied with a smile, "Okay."

Yang Xuan violently tore off Fan Lingxiu's hand holding Cui Yu, his eyes were dark: "See you tomorrow night."

Fan Lingxiu touched his sore paw, raised his eyebrows, looked at Cui Yu, then at Yang Xuan, and slowly, with a meaningful expression on his face: "Then... I won't send it away? Sha San takes good care of Cui Liu ah."

"No need." That's what Cui Mata said.

"I want you to worry about it." This is Yang Xuan.

Of course, as the master, Fan Lingxiu still sent the man downstairs.Watching the two walk away from a distance, their figures seemed to blend together, Fan Lingxiu's lips curled up, and he couldn't hold back the 'poof', and he showed his teeth and claws in a showy smile.

The waiter was startled by him, he jumped back two steps with a whoosh, and called out in a trembling voice, "Young...young master?" Did he eat the wrong thing, or was he suffering from epilepsy?

When Fan Lingxiu turned around, he had rubbed his face and put away his smile, his expression was as serious and shrewd as ever: "What happened?"

Just an illusion?The waiter patted his chest, which was still in fear, and pointed to one side: "It seems that something happened to the grain store."

……

After Cui Yu and Yang Xuan returned to Xie's house, they did not go around to inquire about Wang Fu's news. They only brought Xie Wen's promise to see the past residence newspapers collected by Xie's house.

The Xie family has a wing room dedicated to storing mansion newspapers, a row of five open rooms, two of which are full, and there is not much room left, only a table in the middle, which is difficult enough for two people to sit opposite each other.

Cui Yu and Yang Xuan didn't care too much, they covered the candle and slowly looked at it.From the last ray of light in the sky disappearing, to the beginning of the crescent moon, the moon is in the middle of the sky... It has not come out.

The candlelight danced in the bottom of the eyes, the handwriting fluctuated on the fingertips, the moonlight moved into the window a little bit, and then moved away a little bit, the room was extremely quiet, as if only the light touch of paper and the breathing of each other could be heard.

Cui Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter, he knew it!

He will definitely win this agreement!

But smart people are not satisfied with one stone and one bird, there are things that can be done by the way!

Cui Yu lightly twirled his fingertips, his eyes flickered, and within a moment, he had an idea.

……

On the second day, at the end of Shen Shi.

Fan Lingxiu was waiting for Cui Yu and Yang Xuan to come at the agreed place, and when he saw the shadows of the two from a distance, he ran to the door to greet him: "Haha, it's finally here! I promise I won't bother anyone with long eyes today, we can let go of the big belly Eat and drink, and get drunk!"

Yang Xuan glanced at him sideways, as if holding a razor blade in his eyes, the scalp hurts from scratching: "Cui Yu's injury is not healed, don't drink."

Fan Lingxiu: ...

His teeth were sore and depressed, and he heard that Cui Mata had brought him a big surprise.

Cui Yu's eyebrows were crooked, his smile was modest, his son was like jade, and he said something that didn't seem to suit the temperament of an exiled immortal, but it made him bloody: "Brother Fan, do you want to make money?"