Record of ups and downs in troubled times

Mu Tang stretched out his hand and held the piece of mahogany binocular fish in his palm, but he refused to let it go.

Not wanting to let it go is the next thing, he raised his eyes to look at the girl who sold gadgets, then turned his head, and his eyes were bright and open on the horseshoe money bag with cloud patterns on Young Master Fu's waist, showing that it was a matter of course, To ask him to pay.

"Tsk." Fu Qichen was a little embarrassed.His money bag was embroidered for him by some girl, where did he put money in it?As far as money is concerned, he, Young Master Fu, really doesn't have it now.

However, there is no money without money.

"Girl, do you dare to ask her name?" Fu Qichen grinned, and pushed Mu Tang to the stall again, "Seventh Gu? Okay, Seventh Miss, are all the things on this stall made at home? You really are a A dexterous little fairy! Look at my friend, Xiaotanger, he likes the dexterous daughter's house the most."

The girl smiled with red cheeks, and reached out to pick up the binocular fish in Mu Tang's hand.Don't want to touch the wooden fish for half a minute, but grab Mu Tang's hand instead.

She blushed again, and quickly retracted her hand as if touching a flame.

"It's all carved by me...Young Master, do you have any favorite flowers, birds, etc.? The piece you are holding in your hand has a peach blossom tree carved on the back. If you don't like peach blossoms, but other things, then I’ll go back and engrave another one, and I’ll bring it to you tomorrow.”

The temple fair is only for one day, and the wedding stalls will be disbanded in the evening.Seventh girl talked about "tomorrow", probably because she was really interested in the good-looking Mu Tang; even if she didn't think about getting along with Mu Tang, there was always a trace of admiration.

"Peach Blossom..." Young Master Fu's face froze for a moment, and he quickly grabbed Mu Tang's hand with a smile and helped him turn the binocular fish in his palm, "Peach Blossom is good! My friend , I don’t like anything else, I just like peach blossoms. Girl, you are such a psychic little Bodhisattva. You can even figure out Xiaotang’er’s preferences clearly! Xiaotang’er, look at this flower. Does it look good?"

He said, "Peach blossoms are good, peach blossoms are good", but his fingertips moved away very quickly, almost avoiding them.

There is only one peach blossom, but one has seven petals.The engraving is deep and deep, and each petal is the same but different. It should be that a lot of thought has been spent on it.

Fu Qichen's eyes were sharp, he pointed at the peach blossom from afar, and muttered nonchalantly: "There are so many petals in a peach blossom? Isn't it five petals? This one probably has one, two, three...how come there are seven petals?"

The little girl's face was hot again, and the blush on her cheeks became more and more obvious.Her red lips twitched slightly, she glanced at Mu Tang lightly, and replied shyly, "You are ranked seventh..."

"Yes." For some reason today, Mu Tang always spoke in an inappropriate manner.He raised his head, and explained another sentence for the first time, but as always, he could not exceed three words, "Seven petals."

"Cut, seven petals, have you seen it? I have been traveling all over the world for so many years, but I still haven't seen this raisin with seven petals. All peach blossoms in the world have five petals, but Xiaotang'er, your family's and 'Fan Hua' Different?" Fu Qichen didn't believe it at all, waved his hand lazily, and cast a glance at the little girl with a shy face, "Girl, Miss Seventh, you two are so destined! You are the seventh, and he sees you again." The seven-petaled divine flower, isn't it fate?"

Miss Seventh blinked shyly.

"The two of us are not rich. Seventh sister, you have to... take care of our young master Tang'er a little bit because of this fate, right?"

"Oh!" Miss Seven suddenly realized what Fu Qichen meant.She smiled brightly, and pushed the binocular fish into Mu Tang's arms again, "This one doesn't charge money! It was originally meant to be given to this young master Xiaotang. It's not a valuable thing at all, everyone is here When visiting temples in Jing’an Temple, it’s good to be safe and happy.”

Hearing that it was already given to him without paying, Mu Tang actually nodded slightly, heaved a sigh of relief, turned around decisively and left.

Seventh girl was stunned by this sudden change.Fortunately, Mr. Fu knew Mu Tang's consistent virtue of "running away after eating", so he had no choice but to be this guy's father reluctantly: "Sister Qi, don't worry about it. Xiao Tang's behavior is muddled, but he has no malice in his heart. If you are used to playing with him, you will know his temper."

While talking, there was another pilgrim coming down from the mountain, and they came to visit the happy goods stalls along the way in groups.There are so many tricks here at Seven Girls, and the arrangements are meticulous, and many people come to pick and choose.The little girl looked at Mu Tang again, and smiled sweetly, the two dimples were extremely beautiful.

"It's okay, it's okay! He's gone far away, go and find him." Seventh girl said to him, while helping others to pick wedding goods from the shelf.

"Okay, see you tomorrow! See you again!" Seeing that he was busy, Fu Qichen quickly cupped his hands, not standing stupidly in the way of his hands and feet, but yelling Xiao Tang'er's name all the way, chasing Mu Tang down the mountain.

Mu Tang ignored him, just holding the binocular fish all the way into the palace.

Such things are meant to be given away.But one fish with two eyes, which half should I give?

He sat on the bluestone steps of the side hall of Changle Palace, and touched the fish eyes, fish scales and fish tails carved on the mahogany with his fingertips.Due to his physical condition, his sense of touch was extremely weak, and he couldn't feel the depth of those wood grains at all.What's more, the closer his fingers were to the lines, the more trembling they were. It took him a long time to outline the wooden fish.

But he thought about it, as if he never tired of it.

Mu Tang looked at the front of the binocular fish for a while, then turned it over again, and carefully looked at the seven-petal peach blossom.

For some reason, in Jing'an Temple, looking up at the peach blossom tree, he felt a sense of deja vu.Why is it familiar?Peach blossom trees had never been planted in Ying's teahouse, and he had never seen a peach blossom tree anywhere before, and he had never even heard of the word "peach blossom", but he just knew this kind of flower.

But in Jing'an Temple, although he felt that the tree was familiar, he always felt that something was wrong.It wasn't until later, when he saw the seven-petal peach blossom behind the double-headed fish on the stall, that he suddenly realized that what he was familiar with should not be a peach blossom tree, but a peach blossom tree with seven petals in bloom.

Seven-petal peach blossom tree?

Where has he seen it?Could it be that this flower has some special relationship with him?

Mu Tang tugged on the binocular fish, only an inexplicable, misty feeling in his mind, unable to touch the essence.He looked at the seven petals on the binocular fish again, and it turned out that the peach blossom on the back was also divided into two halves along with the binocular fish on the front, with four petals on one half and three petals on the other half.

This half has one more petal than the other half.

Then give him half of it?

Mu Tang made up his mind and stretched out his hand to untie the wishful lotus knot.The knot was tied very carefully. He tried to untie it for a long time, but he still couldn't untie it successfully. When he got angry and pulled desperately, he finally tore it to pieces, and he finally untied the knot.

He gave Liu Pu the half engraved with four petals.

There is a reason for giving this to Liu Pu.In the sleeping hall of Changle Palace, there is a small couch next to the window.There are four window leaves beside the couch, in the shape of clusters of green lotuses. On the side of the window beam on the upper left side, there is a necklace made of eighteen gold threads. A piece of creamy white jade.

The reason why it is said to be half a piece is because its original body also happens to be a binocular fish.It's just that I don't know who the other half is, probably lost it by accident.

"Bought it?" Liu Pu put the wooden object that Mu Tang handed over in his hand, and looked at it carefully.He didn't think this thing was worthless, but smiled slightly and commented: "This half piece is somewhat similar to mine, hey, it's not just like, it just fits into a pair with the piece in my hand. It's just that the material and style are different." The same, but the engraving is not bad. When I was young, I used to like a mahogany eight-horse case very much. The knife workmanship is very simple. But the queen mother thought it was not dignified, so I was not allowed to use it, so I gave it to..."

In recent days, fewer and fewer government affairs have been handed over to the emperor.Now that Liu Pu is free, he often stays in Changle Palace and gets to know Mu Tang day by day.

Mu Tang is a stupid person, but Liu Pu only lacks someone to listen to him, and the two of them get along very well after coming and going.

"Only this half?" Liu Pu asked again, "This kind of thing is sold in pairs. What about the other half? Lost it?"

Mu Tang nodded.

Maybe he didn't want to be discovered by Liu Pu, but the remaining half was actually hidden in his cuffs.He stretched out his hand and squeezed it secretly. Although he couldn't feel the grain on it, he still felt the warmth and thickness that only belonged to wood.Mu Tang knew that he had always been clumsy, and that Yingguzi was in charge of almost everything, but this time he had his own idea: he thought it would be better to tell Liu Pu that "the other piece was lost".

Mu Tang nodded.

"Oh." Liu Pu smiled again, and pushed the half piece of mahogany double-eyed fish back in front of Mu Tang, "Even if there is only half a piece, keep it for now. Maybe one day, I will find the other half by chance, which means Things that are not allowed."

"Send you off." Mu Tang murmured out two words.

"Send me? You boy, there are more imperfect things than round things. How can you not want them because they are disabled or missing?" Seeing his decisive look, Liu Pu once again took the The wooden thing came back, looked at it for a while in his hand, and then told Zhou Zheng: "Zhou Zheng, take this piece and tie it with mine. There are holes in both pieces, just right. It can be put together and tied into a whole. This kid doesn’t know what to buy, so it’s just right for us to ask for it.”

"A piece of wood and a piece of jade, I'm afraid they don't quite match, right?" Zhou Zheng hesitated.

"Maybe it's not interesting." Liu Pu didn't care.Although he has always been top-grade in clothing and clothing since childhood, he has no intention of being paranoid about it, on the contrary he is very open-minded. "Come on, go ahead. Hang it on my window, whoever thinks it looks bad, don't look at it."

When others saw the emperor for the first time, they would only think that he was not very talkative and his temper was probably cold.But after getting along with him, Mu Tang only felt that he was also a good talker, and it was true that he was irritable, but every time he got angry, there was a clear reason, and he was never angry for no reason.

The two of them were in Changle Palace, they hardly saw each other with their heads down, and it wasn't all idle talk.Mu Tang has another serious business: he can teach the emperor how to learn calligraphy.

Mu Tang's hand could not touch delicate things.But in the past, Yingguzi was very hard-pressed, and would often sit opposite him and urge him to work hard.Naturally, he was not very good at first, and the words he wrote were really like "the pen is like a dragon and a snake", and there were a hundred and eighty turns in one horizontal and one vertical, but Mu Tang had nothing else to do all day long. Daily practice, really practice a good handwriting.

When Yingjidao's uncle was there, he once said: Mu Tang is a child who can sit still, and once he gets started, he will be able to do well.Now it really makes sense.

He looked at Liu Pu who was sitting on the other side of the table, imitating his own handwriting with a pen, and suddenly remembered a very rare thing in the past, a very small thing: In Ying's teahouse, he once hired several teahouses. The servant, one of the old mothers, was fond of gossiping.One day, she was sitting in front of the stove with a waiter girl from another family, and they talked about the "Little Master Mu Tang" picked up by the master's family.

Mu Tang has never realized that his memory is so good.When he thought of this incident, it was as if all the scenes and all the tones were actually re-enacted before his eyes.

He heard the old mother say this: "I really don't know why the master picked him up. He can't do anything, and his temper is colder than a snake. Isn't this picking up a living dead to enter the house? This child, in my opinion, It's the little ghost who made the complaint, and the debt collection is here. Look, sooner or later, Ying's family will suffer from his bad luck!"

If, Mu Tang thinks, I can teach people how to write and take care of others now, will I no longer be a "unlucky seed"?I'm also a useful person, right?

He was just thinking about it, when in a trance, he felt an afterimage that had inadvertently disappeared behind the window paper on his left.

Blink and blink again, it is probably dazzled.