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"What's the matter with this foot?" After going upstairs, Leng Fengyin was already waiting at the stairs, and when he saw Xiao Ran limping, he immediately pushed away Bai Ye who was beside him, and personally helped Xiao Ran go up the stairs and brought him in. In the room, sat down at the table.

"The landlord and Canxing are really average. Canxing saw me at the door just now, and the first question she asked was the same. But she didn't see clearly at night, so she just said goodbye." Xiao Ran chuckled, turned over the glass and chanted for Leng Feng Canxing poured hot tea and poured another cup for Bai Ye before raising his hand, but Bai Ye had already taken it by himself.

Leng Fengyin raised his eyelids. "Why, there is a master around, can't you take care of it?"

These words sounded like a joke that Xiao Ran couldn't take care of himself at such an adult, but after careful consideration, he clearly accused Bai Ye who was beside Li Ran for not taking good care of Xiao Ran.

Bai Ye curled his lips, but it was rare that he didn't reply.He himself also felt that there was something wrong with him, if he hadn't wanted to take Xiao Ran to watch the fun yesterday, would Xiao Ran have heard the nonsense of that little bastard?If he hadn't heard those words, would Xiao Ran feel restless?

Leng Fengyin and Canxing looked at each other curiously when they saw that Bai Ye hadn't blown his hair, it seemed that there was something really wrong?

"It's not Bai Ye's fault. It's so dark that I can't see clearly." Xiao Ran also sensed that something was wrong, and quickly waved his hands and laughed, while pulling Leng Fengyin and Canxing to sit down.

Seeing that Xiao Ran was helping him, Bai Ye let go of the remaining anger in his heart, pulled Canxing away and sat down beside Xiao Ran, peeled two melon seeds for Xiao Ran and placed them in front of him.

In fact, Xiao Ran didn't speak for Bai Ye, but was too familiar with this person.Knowing that he would bear his temper and endure Canxing and Leng Fengyin's accusations, but if Canxing or Leng Louzhu said a few more words later, it is hard to guarantee that he will not turn his face.Last night, Jia Lan's words stimulated him, but Bai Ye didn't feel well at all, not to mention that he was injured afterwards... He was indeed annoyed, this would be like a firecracker, only a spark was missing.

After drinking for three rounds, Leng Fengyin finally asked the whole story, and then said "Oh" in satisfaction, while Canxing poked his head over again.

"Xiao Ran, I heard something today, I think it's better to tell you earlier."

"What's the matter?" Xiao Ran was eating the shredded chicken that Bai Ye had just made for him.It is not up to Bai Ye to explain this kind of thing, especially because he and Leng Fengyin and Canxing are not at odds. If he were to explain the details in detail, he and Canxing might have already started fighting before the details of what happened.That's why he was the one who was talking about what happened recently, and he just took a few mouthfuls of food at this meeting.

"Mr. Tongpan Ma retired to his hometown last month. Today, I heard from Mr. Zhizhou that the emperor already has a candidate and he will take office next month."

"What do you tell Xiao Ran about this? Do you expect him to do some dredging and make friends with the new adult, so that you will have good fortune and prosperity?" Bai Ye sneered while peeling the shrimp shells for Xiao Ran. "If you let him do this, you might as well break his leg first!"

Canxing glanced at Bai Ye and smiled coldly. "I'm afraid this new lord, even if Xiao Ran doesn't go to make friends, he will come to his door by himself? Bai Ye, do you know who is here?"

"who?"

"Young master of the Zhang family, Zhang Ting. Bai Ye, don't tell me that you forgot about this person."

Zhang Ting.

Neither Bai Ye nor Xiao Ran will forget this person.

For Xiao Ran, Zhang Ting was once his most proud disciple, but the beginning of his relationship with Bai Ye was precisely because of the drugged wine in Zhang Ting's pot.

What Zhang Ting did, to Xiao Ran, was betrayal and deceit, and even more... made Xiao Ran afraid.

Xiao Ran never knew that Zhang Ting actually had such thoughts for him, no matter whether he gave up later, or whether it was really like what he said in Deyilou at that time, just look at Xiao Ran from a distance, but, Xiao Ran As long as he thinks of what Zhang Ting once wanted to happen to him, he can't help shivering.

Even, if he imagined that Zhang Ting was really on his body that day... Xiao Ran couldn't help the nausea.

Xiao Ran's face was pale, and Bai Ye's face was unfriendly.

Zhang Ting, he also remembered.From the very beginning, he knew that this man had a strange feeling for Li Ran. At that time, he only thanked this man for giving Xiao Ran the pot of wine. He made it easier for him, but now, Bai Ye only felt that it was dangerous.

Two years, short is not short, but long is not long.I can miss Xiao Ran for two years, but what about Zhang Ting?

"However, Zhang Ting is quite good. I remember that he just passed the entrance examination last year, and he was able to pass the sixth-rank judgment in just one year?" Although Bai Ye thought a lot in his heart, he didn't show it on his face. At the same time, while putting the shelled shrimp in Xiao Ran's plate, he took another one and peeled it in his hand, asking naturally.

Bai Ye knew about Zhang Ting High School.When he came back last year, he met the over-excited Zhang family who were holding a running water banquet. Anyone who could have something to do with them was invited. It's hard not to know these things.

"Oh, don't mention you, I'm also very surprised." Canxing and Xiao Ran Baiye are both people who have known Zhang Ting for a long time. They are also very curious about Zhang Ting's sudden rise to fame, and in the afternoon they all inquired. some. "I heard that the Zhang family went to look up the genealogy, and found that they had a long-distance relationship with the prime minister. Zhang Ting's foundation is already good, and he is handsome and pleasing to the eye. During the palace examination, the emperor paid attention to it." Now, and with the Prime Minister's promotion, it's not surprising that he can be promoted so quickly."

Bai Ye nodded. This is indeed the case in the officialdom. It is easy to talk to someone with a high position-in fact, which thing is not like this, otherwise why are there so many people in the world who want to get involved with Xuantianmen.

But Xiao Ran didn't think so.What Zhang Ting did back then was unacceptable to him, but after all, the master and apprentice for so many years had no feelings at all, so it wasn't Xiao Ran anymore.Zhang Ting is a hard-working student, and he knows all the hard work he has done for many years, but now he feels a little blocked when he hears Canxing say that, so he just defended Zhang Ting lightly. "Hanwen was originally a smart boy, and I believe that even without the good words from the prime minister, he would still be successful in the future."

Bai Ye's originally unkind face immediately turned darker. Zhang Ting framed you so much back then, but you still speak up for him?

Leng Fengyin had noticed the changes in Bai Ye's and Li Ran's expressions from the very beginning, and when he saw Bai Ye's increasingly ugly expression, he smiled. "Why, Xiao Ran, do you have any relationship with that lord?"

"Lord, that Mr. Zhang is the young master of the Zhang family that I told you about..." Canxing coughed lightly, lowered her head and leaned closer to Leng Fengyin and said softly.

Speaking of Zhang Ting in front of Xiao Ran in the Deyi Building, the first thing people remember is not that he was Xiao Ran's disciple, but that he once drugged Xiao Ran.

Leng Feng groaned "Ah", and finally remembered, wasn't he the one who heard Bai Ye and Canxing talk about in the past... was unanimously classified as a scum by both of them?

He frowned. "Xiao Ran, if you really don't want to see him, I'll find a way for you to go. A general judge can still control the position after all, as long as you open your mouth..."

Xiao Ran panicked and quickly stood up, bowing to the cold wind. "Master Leng must not! Hanwen was only young and ignorant back then, but later he realized his mistake and stopped talking about it. Moreover, as time has passed, Xiao Ran and Xiao Ran have long forgotten what happened back then. Hanwen can pass the judgment now. It's really not easy, why waste the child's life for things that have already passed? Please don't think so, Mr. Leng. "

Now Xiao Ran is familiar with Leng Fengyin, although he still doesn't know his origin, but he still knows two things.First, Leng Fengyin is good at dancing with long sleeves and has a strong background; second, he is very good to himself.

After all, Xiao Ran is no longer a nerd who doesn't understand anything. He has been in and out of Deyi Building a lot, and he has more or less socialized with people in the bookstore, so his eyesight for people has improved a lot compared to before.Leng Fengyin has long sleeves and is good at dancing, but more importantly, Xiao Ran can perceive that the reason why those high-ranking officials and nobles who came to Deyilou did not make trouble is not to give Leng Fengyin face, but because they dare not make trouble.

Naturally, the owner of a brothel would not make people so fearful, Xiao Ran knew that there should be someone else behind Leng Fengyin.

And Leng Fengyin was very kind to him, caring and considerate, sometimes Xiao Ran would feel that he really had an elder.Not to mention what li xuan thought of, even if li xuan didn' t think of it, he would think of himself thoroughly.

Although Xiao Ran came to Deyilou more and more times, he still didn't want to run into other people. In his heart, he was a scholar after all, and he was a teacher. It was always indecent to go to such a romantic place and spread the word.Leng Fengyin knew him, so he always entertained him and Bai Ye in Canxing's small building, and even the delivery of food could only go downstairs, and all the servings were done in empty words, just for fear that Xiao Ran would be in the proud building I feel uncomfortable.

Once when it was getting colder, Xiao Ran came to the building once. He was wearing less clothes, and he got a bit of cold wind on the road, so he started to have a stuffy nose when he was in the building.Leng Fengyin asked Kong Yan to cook hot rice wine for Xiao Ran to drive away the cold, after the meal, others served clear tea, and ginger soup for Xiao Ran.On the second day, Kong Yan went to Qingfengzhai to deliver two sets of cold medicine to Xiao Ran, and a few days later, he sent a brocade robe trimmed with rabbit fur to Xiao Ran, which stimulated Bai Ye so much that he kept whispering in Xiao Ran's ears every day. Say someone is upset.

Xiao Ran knew that if he said something about Zhang Ting today or showed that he didn't want to see Zhang Ting again, Zhang Ting's official career might be affected from now on.Zhang Ting...Maybe it was just ignorant curiosity back then, the child didn't really have any malicious intentions, it's all over, why bother?

What's more... Bai Ye can get along with him like this now, so how can he hate Zhang Ting so much?

Seeing that Xiao Ran was so persistent, Leng Fengyin hurriedly helped him stand up and smiled, "I just said casually, how can you take it so seriously? Xiao Ran, why do you still have such a sincere temper? How long have you been the boss Now, why can’t you tell which ones are jokes and which ones are serious? Hey, isn’t it coaxing people to bully you by letting them out?”

While talking and sending him back to his seat to sit down, Bai Ye also laughed. "Lord Leng, this proves how much we, Xiao Ran, believe in you, that's why you take everything you say seriously."

Leng Fengyin beamed with joy when he heard it, he pulled Xiao Ran and asked directly, is that really the case?

Xiao Ran gave Leng Fengyin a half-truth and half-fake training just now, and now he is still blushing, and nodded when he heard Leng Fengyin. "Xiao Ran knows that the landlord will always be good to Xiao Ran, so when the landlord just said that, Xiao Ran became anxious and made the landlord laugh."

That Leng Fengyin didn't know what he was happy about, he couldn't see from the smile, he just said it's okay, as long as you, Xiao Ran, feel fine.

But at the moment when Xiao Ran lowered his head to drink, Leng Fengyin and Bai Ye exchanged glances.

Canxing is a very clever person, and there is no mistake in the meeting of the eyes of those two. After seeing that everyone was almost finished eating, he dragged Xiao Ran to the study room, and said that he wanted Xiao Ran to draw two paintings for him to add some elegance.

"Zhang Ting, do you want to come?" Leng Fengyin and Bai Ye said it bluntly, and they looked at each other a little unpleasantly.Just as Xiao Ran walked away, Leng Fengyin asked bluntly.

Bai Ye played with the white jade cup in his hand, thought for a while and shook his head. "Xiao Ran has already heard the news, so come and come. But you still need to be more careful... Leng Zhuzhu, if you are really for Xiao Ran's good, remember to find a way out, if the kid surnamed Zhang is still ruthless , kick back to the capital early, so as not to cause trouble for me..."

Leng Fengyin laughed mockingly upon hearing this. "Well, I'm not as foolish as you, so don't count me in. I know what you mean, and I'll pay attention."

Bai Ye is much more shrewd than Xiao Ran. If it was someone from the Jianghu who was covering the cold wind, he would not have heard of the rumors. But if he is not from the Jianghu, those who can maintain such a big face are either high-ranking people or relatives of the emperor. up.

Now that Leng Fengyin said this, no matter what, Bai Ye felt much more certain in his heart.After taking another sip of wine, he deliberately pretended to be smelling of alcohol, tilted his head and looked at the cold wind and groaned: "Lord Leng, you said that you are not as thoughtful as I am, and I don't deny that I have thoughts about Xiao Ran, but I don't understand, if you don't like Xiao Ran too, what are you doing to him so hard?"

Leng Fengyin's smiling face froze, and he twitched the corners of his mouth for a while, as if he felt that he couldn't laugh anymore, so he simply put down his wine glass and walked to the window. "Xiao Ran... is very much like an old friend of mine. The old man has passed away, so Leng can only get closer to Xiao Ran to make up for his regret and lovesickness."

If it was someone else, maybe just say "sorry" and stop asking, but who is Bai Ye?Can he consider others so much?This person is not Xiao Ran, so Bai Ye turned his head and thought for a while, and asked: "Remember, when you first met Xiao Ran, you said that he looked similar to an old friend of yours, and you also greeted Xiao Ran's father... Could it be , the old man, you mean Xiao Ran's father?"

"... It's okay not to mention the past. But no matter how I count it, I will regard Xiao Ran as my nephew. Bai Ye, I know that you have thoughts about Xiao Ran, and I can see that you are sincere to Xiao Ran now, so you and I won't interfere with Xiao Ran's affairs, but I also know about those things you did back then, remember, if you feel sorry for Xiao Ran again, I will do everything I can to make you feel better." Leng Fengyin turned her back to Bai Ye, said it coldly.

Bai Ye raised his head and laughed. "Oh, I don't want outsiders to point fingers at me and Xiao Ran. I know what I want, and I can just know Xiao Ran. Mr. Leng, it's getting late, and Xiao Ran and I will leave first. Regarding Zhang Ting's matter, since you don't care about Xiao Ran If you are so concerned, I will trouble you."

"Okay, I won't stay any longer."

When Li Ran and Canxing came out, Bai Ye pulled Li Ran to go home, Leng Fengyin stared at Li Ran and covered up the cloak tightly before sending the two of them out, directly downstairs, and Xiao Ran still asked the master Leng to stay a few times, Only then did he reluctantly watch the two go away together.

Going back upstairs, Canxing was looking carefully at Xiao Ran's paintings just now with empty words, a picture of plum blossoms and a sketch of orchids.Canxing said with a smile that Xiao Ran is a gentleman, next time Xiao Ran must draw a green bamboo and a golden chrysanthemum to make up the four gentlemen.Leng Fengyin also stood on the side as if watching carefully for a while, then raised his head and said to Kong Yan: "These two pictures will be framed and delivered to my room tomorrow."

"Oh, landlord, if you want to borrow something to express your love, don't steal my things..." Canxing pouted and said in a fake displeasure, while letting Kong Yan roll up both paintings.

At this moment, Leng Fengyin no longer had the cheerful look of talking and laughing just now, and his whole body was full of depression.He raised his hand and patted Canxing's head, smiling wearily. "Canxing...you want to be nice to someone, but you have to hide it and do it naturally. Tell me, why is it so troublesome?"

"Lord, don't think too much. Canxing doesn't know the relationship between you and Xiao Ran, but Canxing understands that you are kind to Xiao Ran. I can see it. How could Xiao Ran Don't know? Xiao Ran is a good person, he will remember whoever is kind to him, no matter what you are for... I think Xiao Ran will remember your kindness. "

"Hey, I don't ask if he remembers me at all. I just hope that this child will always be by my side so that I can take care of him. Seeing him happy is enough."

"Lord...this doesn't look like you anymore..." Canxing felt sorry for Leng Fengyin looking at it, when did their landlord put me so at ease?Even that adult... I don't see how caring, but why can't Xiao Ran know that he cares about him more than ordinary people? "Canxing really doesn't understand why you are so kind to Li Ran, but you don't want Li Ran to know about it?"

"...Because, I don't want that child to know that I treat him well."