An Feng Bamboo Horse

?6. The hero saves the beauty

After one night, under the order of Marquis Ding, he came to the ancestral hall to release the young master's servants, and pushed open the door of the ancestral hall, expecting to see Xia Anfeng curled up on the ground sleeping unconscious.Surprisingly, the young master was still kneeling straight in front of the ancestral tablet, his face was pale and pale from a sleepless night, and there were thick shadows under his eyelids.

The family member was very surprised. Although Master Hou punished him to kneel in the ancestral hall, he did not really assign him to take care of it. The young master had been in trouble since he was a child and knelt in the ancestral hall until he was a child. Just depend on it.This time he behaved like a different person, did he really realize that he was wrong?

It can be regarded as watching this young master grow up, and I still feel a little distressed, so I hurried forward to help:

"Second Master, Master Hou asked the little one to take you to the study."

Xia Anfeng climbed up with the help of the opponent's arm, his legs were weak, and it took him a while to stand up straight.

In fact, he really wanted to sleep in the dark with the futon in his arms, but there was always a clear voice in his mind reminding him that it doesn't matter if he made a small fuss, but yesterday he really lost his composure and let his father Lost face in front of many dignitaries.

He is stubborn and stubborn, but he respects Ding Guohou in his heart. He has always been proud of having an upright and awe-inspiring general father, and he definitely does not want to smear him easily.

Following the servant, he stumbled to Dingguohou's study with a disheveled face.

Unexpectedly, Marquis Ding Guo was still wearing the clothes that greeted the guests yesterday, sitting in the study with a sullen face, and there was also a faint layer of blue under the eyelids, and he hadn't slept all night.

The two father and son faced each other, Xia Anfeng called out to his father, Dingguo Hou let the servant go down, and pushed the tea on the table towards him.

"Eat something first."

Xia Anfeng didn't dare to say that Bu Zhang came to deliver steamed buns in vain last night. Under his father's watchful eye, he took a few pieces of snacks and stuffed them into his stomach.

Ding Guohou asked: "Yesterday in the theater, what did your elder brother say to you that you got so angry?"

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake choked in his throat before he could swallow it, and the red-haired boy stared wide-eyed.His father looked calm, and said: "Punishing you to kneel in the ancestral hall is to blame you for losing your composure in public and attacking your elder brother. Even if he is at fault again, my Marquis's residence will not allow brothers to fight in full view, this is etiquette."

Xia Anfeng swallowed the unfinished sweet-scented osmanthus cake two or three times, angrily: "He framed Xiaobai's grandfather as greedy for life and afraid of death, collaborating with the enemy and traitorous to the country! Is it allowed to say such nonsense?"

Ding Guohou's face darkened by half, and he said coldly: "Are you sure he really said that?"

He knew why the eldest son wouldn't dare to do anything, but he secretly tried his best to bully the other two sons. He even heard rumors that he harassed the son of the Bu family; but because Xia Feng had never done these things in front of him, Without conclusive evidence, Ding Guohou will always turn a blind eye to it, but if he dared to spread such rumors that ruined his reputation yesterday in the middle of watching a play, I am afraid that he will no longer be able to do anything against him. Don't ask.

"I said this kind of thing for no reason. Fortunately, only Xiaobai and I heard it. If it spreads to more people, will Xiaobai still take the academy exam and become an official?" Xia An Feng did not think about what would happen to his family who took in the traitors, and he was full of thoughts about his friend's future, "Father, let me be honest, if you give me another chance to do it again, I will still grab you!" Beat him up with his collar!"

Xia Zun sneered: "With the skill of a three-legged cat like you, you fight cocks and run dogs all day long, and spend your days together. Can you beat your elder brother?"

Xia Anfeng was stuck for a moment, and found that he could not refute his father's words. For the first time, he felt a faint regret for wasting his time in the past.

Seeing that he was embarrassed, Xia Zun didn't continue to ask, but changed the subject and asked, "Brother Zhang's school exam, when is it?"

"Next month... He's been very aggressive lately. Third aunt told me not to disturb him and let him study quietly." Xia Anfeng said unwillingly, "Father, I accept the punishment if I do it in public, but brother there……"

Ding Guohou cut off his words: "I already know, don't mention this matter again. You listen to the third aunt these days, don't bother Bu Zhangbai, if you want to play, go out of the house by yourself."

Hey, Dad actually let go of things in the theater like this lightly, and even allowed him to go out and wander around for the first time?Was it stimulated by something?

Xia Anfeng opened his mouth so wide that he could swallow an egg, but he felt that his father had changed his personality overnight and became very considerate.

Ding Guohou waved his hand and sent him away: "Go back to your mother's place to wash up, she has been thinking about you all night."

He himself was still sitting in the study, Xia Anfeng looked back when he left, and Ding Guohou's fingertips slowly stroked a Pixiu jade carving on the table, his serene and solemn face was thoughtful.

The commotion in the theater was lightly exposed in Hou Ye's mansion, and it ended with Xia Anfeng kneeling alone in the ancestral hall all night, and there was no punishment or involvement in other people.

Xia Zun didn't mention it anymore, and Xia Anfeng didn't know how he resolved this matter with Xia Feng in the end. His elder brother who refused to let it go easily kept himself safe for several days and never came to trouble him or Bu Zhangbai again.

But Xia Zun heard that Bu Zhangbai was going to refer to it next month, so he specially arranged someone to follow Mr. Bu's dispatch; but on the days when Bu Zhangbai didn't go to the school, three meals would be sent to the courtyard where he lived, so that he would be spared. The cumbersome etiquette of eating with everyone in the Xia Mansion.This is a great expectation for Bu Zhangbai.

Because of the promise he made at the beginning, Xia Anfeng couldn't bother Bu Zhangbai for three days, so he could only wander outside Hou Ye's mansion with his confidant and servant Chang Le for several days.

The busiest street in the city is in the northeast corner. There are teahouses, restaurants, music shops, and brothels on the street. Often, villagers from outside the city come to this street to go to the market with fruits and rice.When Xia Anfeng has nothing to do—seriously speaking, he has nothing to do all day long—he likes to take Bu Zhangbai to wander the street, buy street food, and listen to ditties Son, go to the cloth shop and pull two or three bolts of silk back to my aunt. As long as you give him time, he has the ability to wave from dawn to dusk.

This day, he and Chang Le walked from the street to the end of the street again, and it only took less than half an hour.Without Bu Zhangbai's company, I always feel dull, and the fried fruit in my mouth also loses its chewiness.

Chang Le thoughtfully pointed out to him a study next to him, and suggested: "Second Master, since we are about to finish our shopping, why don't you bring back a good set of the Four Treasures of the Study for Mr. Bu?"

This was a good excuse for meeting Xiaobai. Xia Anfeng's eyes lit up, and he immediately praised him for his cleverness. With a turn of his feet, he walked into the study.

The owner of the study is a kind and fat businessman. Seeing that the person is dressed luxuriously and has handsome features, even though he looks like a teenager, he knows that he is a big fish. He graciously introduced all the expensive products in the store.Xia Anfeng picked out the brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and looked around with two brush washers. After struggling for a while in choosing the pattern, he still took the most expensive one and asked the shopkeeper to wrap it up.

After paying the money and walking out of the study, the interest in shopping was gone, thinking about hurrying back to the mansion.

Just walking to the middle of the street, I suddenly heard a horse neighing in the distance, followed by shouting: "Make way!! Make way!!"

Four tall horses pulled a plainly decorated carriage, coming from far away, and the dust was filled all the way.People on the street ran away one after another, and the owners of several fruit stalls at the corner of the street also hurriedly closed their stalls in order to avoid being trampled by the fast horses.

Xia Anfeng and Chang Le, who was holding a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, also took refuge under a roof on the side of the street at the right time, wondering which family's carriages and horses this was, and the pattern of plum patterns inlaid had never been seen before——suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a man with ram's horns tied into it. The braided, two or three-year-old little girl seemed to be separated from her mother, and stood motionless in the middle of the street, while the four horses were galloping towards the little girl.

Before Chang Le could react, his second master had already rushed out, rolled to the side of the little girl, and picked the child up by the waist.Just as he was hugged in his arms, the carriage had arrived, and the violent wind slammed into Xia Anfeng with the weight of four horses.

Even though the groom on the carriage pulled the reins wildly with quick eyes and hands, the momentum could no longer be stopped.

"Second master—!" Chang Le only had time to let out a scream.

Fortunately, the blood of a generation of generals in Xia Anfeng played a key role. His instinctive reaction made him not stop for a while after hugging the little girl, but rolled over seven or eight times in a row, before the horse's hoof stepped on his face. The belt overturned, and crashed into the cloth paving of the nearest one that hadn't had time to tidy up.

"Boom!" The smoke and movement were louder than that of the carriage.

A large number of cloths flew into the air, and then fell to the ground one after another, covering the eyes of Xia Anfeng and the little girl one after another in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple.The little girl was hugged tightly by him to protect her head and face, she was not injured, she stared blankly with watery eyes.

The speed of the four horses slowed down slightly due to this unexpected change, but they had no intention of stopping to check.

Xia Anfeng was dizzy, and from the space where the last few pieces of cloth were scattered, he raised his eyes to look at the carriage, just in time to see a hand lifting the curtain on the carriage window, revealing a young face with a serious appearance, a pair of star-studded Mang's eyes stared deeply at Xia Anfeng in the gap where the carriage passed by.

Immediately, the carriage dragged the smoke and dust away, and the whole street became calm again.

"Second Master, Second Master!" Chang Le crawled to Xia Anfeng's side with limp hands and feet, his face was pale, as if the person who almost died under the horse's hooves was not Xia Anfeng but him, "Second Master, does it matter to you!"

This year, I was really an offender of the Five Elements. I was almost killed by a horse twice in a row...

Xia Anfeng said weakly, "Get those satins off my head, ahem, take them away."

Only then did Chang Le find out that he was buried in a piece of cloth on the ground, and hurriedly dug his young master out.The little girl's mother also arrived belatedly at this time, half-deadly frightened by the scene just now, shaking her hands to help dig people out.

When the little girl was hugged by her mother, she grinned and smiled at Xia Anfeng, "Brother, thank you!"

The little Hou Ye felt his heart melt in the little girl's cute smile, his arm was bruised and swollen, and he even lifted it up and waved it.

——That carriage is really abominable, it almost trampled such a cute little child to death, and it didn't even have the slightest intention of apologizing, so it just ran away regardless...

In the future, if you meet a carriage with that kind of plum pattern embroidered on it again, and catch the owner of the carriage, you must teach him how to behave!

A master and a servant squatted in front of the cloth shop for a long time before Xia Anfeng gritted his teeth and helped Chang Le up.This experience was different from the previous few days when he was holding Bu Zhangbai and rolling down the grass. He hit the ground solidly, with too much force, and he felt pain as if his ribs were broken.

Chang Le supported him worriedly: "Second Lord, otherwise let's go to the medical center to see a doctor first."

Xia Anfeng thought about it too, it was better to heal the injury outside than to go back and make father, aunt and Bu Zhangbai worry.He said: "Wait a while to see the injury, after taking the medicine and returning home, you directly send the Four Treasures of the Study you just bought to Mr. Bu's yard, and I will not show up, lest he worry about my injury."

"Yes, Second Lord."