After marriage and marriage, I became the favorite of the group

The jet-black decoction was spilled all over the floor, and the entire Wan'an Palace was filled with a strong medicinal smell.

The guards were alarmed, but even if a hundred guards came, they only dared to surround the outside and approached.

The regent, Helen Sur, had loose hair and was only wearing a single shirt. His back was wet with sweat, and he was holding a long sword. He looked like a red-eyed demon.

He stood at the bottom of the steps, and the Empress Dowager supported by Eunuch Zhou stood on the steps.

Between the two, the thick and black soup "drug" slowly spread out, like a river crossing.

Helian Sur looked at her with blood red eyes: "Sister!"

The queen mother just looked back and said calmly, "What's the matter?"

Helen Sur clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand, and raised the long sword a little bit. The Empress Dowager's expression froze, and she asked again: "Who do you want to kill?"

He looked into the empress dowager's more rational eyes, and he knew why he raised the sword.

Of course he dared to kill anyone in front of sister.

After a long pause, Helian Suer turned back and put the long sword across his neck. He cried and shook his head at the queen mother: "Sister, please, please."

Seeing him crying, the queen mother also slowed down a little: "Su Er, be obedient."

Helian Sul was tearful, and while backing away, she shook her head: "Sister, I want everything, I am very obedient, I have always been obedient, only this matter... only this matter..."

Thick black ink was splashed on the paper, and the tip of the pen swam away, leaving black marks.The good ink of Liang Guo is used, and the hall is full of fragrance.

He Lianzhu was standing behind Ruan Jiu, holding Ruan Jiu's right hand with his right hand, and was teaching him to write Jiwu characters.

One stroke at a time, as sharp as a knife.

Ruan Jiu wrote two strokes with him, but he always felt that there was no energy.

He glanced back, and saw Helian Zhu's thin lips with a resolute and resolute chin between the young and the young.

At this time, He Lianzhu took his hand and led him to another stroke, lowered his eyes, and said: "Ruanjiu, concentrate."

"it is good."

Ruan Jiu really saw something was wrong, so he could only turn around and continue practicing calligraphy.

His handwriting is really beautiful, each one is round, Mr. Liu said that his handwriting is like a beetle.The characters of "雄乌" are twisted and twisted one by one, which is more similar.

Today He Lianzhu said that he happened to be free, so he taught him how to practice calligraphy.

After writing two more words, Ruan Jiu still felt that He Lianzhu looked weird, so he looked back again.

He Lianzhu said again in a low voice: "Concentrate."

Ruan Jiu turned around: "Oh."

Another two words, Ruan Jiu turned his head again, this time looking down, and finally told him where to send it.

"Helian Zhu, why are you standing on tiptoe?"

was issued.

He Lianzhu stood silently, and became a forehead shorter than Ruan Jiu again.

"...Concentrate, concentrate."

Ruan Jiu was so happy that he even held his pen firmly.

He Lianzhu pestered Ruan Jiu to practice calligraphy for a day, and after returning from Wan'an Palace, Ruan Jiu never went out.

Early the next morning, Ruan Jiu saw Ulan ordering people to pack up.

Ruan Jiu asked, "Who wants to go out?"

Ulan packed the gift: "The king is going to visit the teacher."

"teacher?"

"Well, it's from a Han teacher who taught the king Chinese."

Ruan Jiu was puzzled: "Old man Liu?"

Ulan smiled and said, "It's Mr. Liu, another old man named Zhuang. Mr. Liu came here a few years ago. He came here because this teacher taught the king Chinese. He is the king's enlightenment." teacher."

Ulan lowered her voice and added: "He is the first Han courtier who came to Jiwu. He was restructured from assisting the former king, but after the reorganization, the former king... just used him."

"I want him to be sent to teach the king. If the previous king used him again, he would be willing to let him go to other places, lest he assist others and keep him in the territory of Jiwu."

"He lives in a pasture outside Shangjing City. He is a capable minister born in the world, but the king hasn't visited him for a long time to avoid suspicion, and he should be able to visit him now."

Ruan Jiu nodded with a vague understanding: "When will that little pig go?"

"The horses are leaving and may be in the pasture for a few days."

"Ah?" Hearing this, Ruan Jiu became happy, "Then I have to go there too, it's meaningless for me to stay in the palace alone."

"Well, whether the Queen wants to ride a horse or a carriage, I will tell them to arrange it."

"Riding a horse." Ruan Jiu looked down at the tonic he was holding in his arms, "You tell Xiaozhu to wait for me, I will send the things to Wan'an Palace, and the horse will come back."

"it is good."

After Ruan Jiu said this, he turned around and ran away with his things in his arms.

He Lianzhu tidied up his clothes and came out of the hall.

Ulan looked at him, bowed his head and saluted: "Your Majesty."

"Ruanjiu said to go?"

"Yes, the queen said to go to Wan'an Palace first, and she will be back soon."

"Okay." He Lianzhu nodded.

"But..." Ulan hesitated, "What if the regent still makes a scene like yesterday, was bumped into by the queen, and hurts the queen again?"

"." He Lianzhu put on his outer clothes, "Today."

He looked calm, but he seemed to have the power to disturb the situation, and he lifted the weight as if it were light.

Holding the tonic, Ruan Jiu soon arrived at the gate of Wan'an Palace.

The palace door was closed tightly, seeing a person, Ruan Jiu knocked on the door, but he still didn't make a move.

Maybe the Queen Mother hasn't gotten up yet, she is in good health, so I still need to disturb her.

Ruan Jiu put the tonic for the Queen Mother at the door, turned around and left.

Back at Daedeok Palace, he heard He Lianzhu say: "Take the queen's homework too..."

Ruan Jiu did it, and said slowly, "Why do you have to do your homework when you go out to play?"

Seeing that he came back, He Lianzhu smiled immediately, and said patiently: "The teacher's knowledge is very good, if you have something to understand, let him teach you."

"It's me." Ruan Jiu snorted at him, "It will be like old man Liu hitting my hand again. It's your teacher, it's mine, and I'm just going to play with it."

Despite Ruan Jiu's [-]-point protest, in the end, Ulan helped him bring homework.

Ruan Jiu He Lianzhu made a bet that if that Mr. Zhuang also hit Ruan Jiu's fist, He Lianzhu would be the one to suffer the hand fist, and He Lianzhu would also help Ruan Jiu do all the homework.

If not, Ruan Jiu will write He Lianzhu's homework.

It was settled, and the group left the palace.

He Lianzhu has always liked grand ostentation, and there are no more than a dozen people around him.

Traveling lightly, He Lianzhu and Ruan Jiu were riding in front of them, but in fact, the two puppies and a little wolf should be running in front of them.

Ulan drove the carriage with gifts and followed behind.The rest are four guards.

All the way out of town.

In early spring, the withered branches and leaves outside the city of Shangjing are buried, and there are occasional dots of greenery.

The location of Shangjing City was originally the base camp of the Jiwu tribe. It is one of the largest grasslands in Northwest China with abundant water and grass.

Therefore, there are still many pastures outside Shangjing City.The ranch is also one of the profitable assets of the rich and powerful in Shangjing.

So is the royal family.The Empress Dowager had a dozen pastures. After the Empress Dowager died, her pastures were also transferred to the Queen Mother.

He Lianzhu had two in his hands, which were gifts given to him by the former king, empress dowager according to the custom when he was born.

Each pasture is self-contained, grazing production, every tribute, balance of income and expenditure, the people inside can stay there almost all their lives and never leave.

That Mr. Zhuang, with his last identity in Jiwu, is the teacher of Prince Helianzhu, so he lives in Helianzhu's ranch.

It was rare for Helian Zhu to come to the ranch without prior notice. The people below knew about him and even recognized him, thinking they were the children of a noble family who came outside the city for an outing.

Jiwu often has this kind of thing, go out for an outing and hunt, pass by someone's Zhuangzi, even if he is there, he can stay in Zhuangzi for a few days.

No one paid any attention to them, and the group left the ranch.

Although the former king hated He Lianzhu in his bones, maybe he wanted to show it to others, maybe when He Lianzhu was just born, his own flesh and blood was indeed a little moved, and the pasture given to him was not wrong.

The pasture is large, with fertile water and soil. Because it is further to the east and the terrain is lower, verdant pastures have already grown when the outside of Shangjing City was still brown.

Herdsmen sow pasture seeds, weave hay cages, or raise lambs, all busy with their own affairs.

Ulan got out of the car, asked someone for directions, and came back immediately.

"Your Majesty, Queen, Mr. Zhuang's residence is on the east side. Go eastward and see a stone house on a small hill. That's it."

He Lianzhu nodded, and turned around on his horse.

According to the words, to the east is an open grassland.After walking for a while, you can see a small hill protruding in front of you, and there is a stone house.

The house is hidden among the pastures blown by the wind, and it feels like a paradise.

It's just that this stone house is really dilapidated.

Mr. Liu from Xiyuan also lives in a stone house, but he still has a yard built with stones, and the house inside is still made of wood. Like the architecture of Liang Guo, there are corridors and side halls.

This stone house is directly piled up with stones, a solitary one standing on a hill.

When they arrived at the house, He Lianzhu and Ruan Jiu got off their horses.

The two of them, He Lianzhu knocked on the door, but found that the dilapidated wooden door was ajar, he knocked it open.

Ruan Jiu hurriedly pulled the door back: "Knock lightly. In case someone..."

Before he finished speaking, the wooden door creaked, and it fell from Ruan Jiu's hands.

"Be careful." Helian Zhuyan swiftly caught the falling wooden door.

Ruan Jiu froze in place, and Mi Fan barked as if gloating.

After a while, he looked at He Lianzhu in a daze: "Did I drop this, or did you knock it off?"

Helian Zhu also knew.

Ruan Jiujiu: "It's in your hands."

He Lianzhu glanced at the room: "The teacher is here, help him reinstall the door, he knows."

Ruan Jiu nodded, and the two tacitly supported one side, leaning it against the door frame.

After doing it for a while, Ruan Jiu was a little annoyed: "It's so strange, how did this door get installed?"

In fact, He Lianzhu also understood: "..."

Ruan Jiu asked again: "Maybe your teacher is more powerful. Does he teach mechanics?"

"Yes, he taught me how to read."

The two looked at each other and continued to install the door.

Later, Ulan went to the herdsman's house to borrow tools, and He Lianzhu did it himself to restore the wooden door to its original state.

The two of them closed the door carefully, not daring to move again, waiting for Mr. Zhuang to come back.

After waiting for quite a while, Mr. Zhuang came back, and the three small animals stayed again, so Ruan Jiu took them to play.

Running and having fun in the vast grassland is something that every small animal likes to do.

Small animal soft chirp is also one.

Ruan Jiu led the little wolf and puppy at first, but later Mi Fantou broke free from the rope and ran away by himself, Ruan Jiu chased him again, and he could only lead Kaifan.

He was still in sync with the meal, and since he was in Yong'an City, he has been leading the meal away.

He Lianzhu stayed with him all the time, and when the attendants from the palace asked him to report the incident, he went there first.

Ruan Jiu led the dinner, and wandered around the vast grassland.The slightly cold wind blows head-on, but it is also comfortable.

Suddenly, there were two barking sounds when the meal was served, and Ruan Jiu looked up, only to see a little white color dotted among the green grass.

In the distance there is a little lamb.

Ruan Jiu smiled, and patted Kaifan's head: "It's a sheep, you've been here for so long, and you haven't seen a sheep yet."

Kai Fan acted like he had never seen a sheep before, and insisted on pulling Ruan Jiu over to have a look, but Ruan Jiu pulled it past, so he could only let it pass.

One person and one dog left, only to send rice and steamed buns here.

The two of them surrounded the poor little lamb, let it go, circled it, and smelled it from time to time.

The fragrance of lamb.

When Ruan Jiu came, the two of them showed him the newly caught prey as if taking credit.

——Hey, look, it’s amazing!

Then Ruan Jiu patted one of them with each hand, and patted their heads: "It's messing around again, this is a human sheep."

Ruan Jiu picked up the shivering lamb and checked it.Fortunately, these two have not had time to bite, if they bite badly, I am afraid they will accompany the herdsmen.

He "touched" the soft ears of the little lamb, and looked around.

Here is a piece of grass, seeing houses, and even seeing a grazing man, could it be that this sheep ran out by itself?

Ruan Jiu was a little puzzled, and planned to take it for a walk first.

Logically speaking, how could the shepherd put the sheep here and leave by himself?

He glared at Mi Fantou: "Follow me, Xu ran away."

The two of them understood it at all, they jumped around for a while, and rolled a few times, until they saw Ruan Jiu walking away, they hurriedly chased after him.

Ruan Jiu put his hands on the little lamb's belly, which was quite warm.

After a long time, Mi Fantou chased after them, they overtook Ruan Jiu, and continued to run, their figures disappeared in the grass, only their small tails showed where they were.

Ruan Jiu was very helpless, and called "come back" twice, but they still scrambled into the grass.

Suddenly, Mi Fan wailed twice, and Ruan Jiu listened hard, fearing that it had stepped on a trap set by the herdsmen, so he hurried to check.

Behind the rocks, the grass was overwhelmed, and a thin old man with a white beard was lying flat on the grass, his eyes closed as if he was sleeping, but his hands were precisely pinching the back of the rice's neck, like a chicken. , lift it up.

"Bad thing, I'm dead again, and you still eat me."

He speaks Chinese.

Although he is tall, he is indeed a fake.

Mi Fan wailed, looking at Ruan Jiu, Ruan Jiu hurriedly said: "Old man, this is my dog, get up."

The man opened one eye slightly and glanced at him.

The young man was holding a lamb, his face was whiter than the lamb's wool, and he looked at him sincerely with light-colored eyes, hoping that he would let his puppy go.

The old man opened his eyes wide and took a closer look: "Why are you holding my sheep?"

"Oh, sorry, it was almost..." He was almost eaten by my dog ​​wolf.Ruan Jiu "touched" and "touched" the tip of his nose, and said differently, "Yes, I saved it."

The old man sat up: "Give me back my sheep."

Ruan Jiu said: "Then you give me back my dog ​​first."

He held the lamb by the back of the neck, like an old man carrying rice, carrying the lamb.

The lamb is timid, so it just hangs in the air, and it screams louder than rice.

The old man threw the rice into Ruan Jiu's arms: "Return it to you, watch it, and run around."

Ruan Jiu returned the lamb to him: "Here you are."

At this time Ulan shouted from a distance: "Queen? Queen?"

The old man grabbed Ruan Jiu's wrist and pulled him behind the stone.

"You stand too high, you are too conspicuous, and it is easy to attract people."

Ruan Jiu retreated urgently: "You, are you a fugitive?"

"..."

Just as Ruan Jiu was about to yell Ulan, the man covered his mouth and dragged him back.

Ruan Jiu became more and more convinced that this man was a fugitive who fled to the ranch, struggling crazily.

The old man gritted his teeth and said, "I'm a fugitive, I'm just afraid of debt collectors coming."

debt collection?Ruan Jiu blinked, indicating that what he said was what he said.

"Really." The old man said, "When I was young, I came to find someone to partner in business, a big business, but the partner betrayed me, and I lost it. I got all my money back."

"After that person died, that person's son will come to me to collect debts."

"What are you here for?"

Ruan Jiu pushed his hand away: "I'm here to walk the dog, and there are wolves."

"That's fine." The old man moved to the side to make room for him, "They are looking for me, help me, go out, hide here for a while, wait for them to leave, we will go out again .”

After a long time, Ruan nodded, "Okay."

"Thank you." The old man stuffed the lamb behind his back as a pillow, and lay down comfortably with his feet crossed.

"Why are you doing this?" Ruan Jiu pushed him away and pulled the lamb out.

"..." The old man Jia Nai said, "All right, all right, if you like to hug, you can hug."

Ruan Jiu hugged the lamb, and Mi Fan squatted beside him, stuck out his tongue, and "licked" the lamb until it trembled.

Ruan Jiu looked at the old man and asked, "Did you also work as a grocer when you were young?"

"Grocery shopkeeper?" The old man paused, "Oh, I just put my own things in a load and sell them everywhere, and anyone who sees them buys them. That's what I do."

Ruan Jiu was puzzled: "Then how did you pay?"

"In the beginning, no one saw my stuff. When I was in Liang Guo, no one bought it. Then I came to Jiwu, but there was someone who liked my stuff, and I partnered with him to sell it for a while. , when it sold well and made a lot of money, he was afraid of me, so he asked me to sell it and drove me away."

"He is a mad dog. If he drives me away, I will just leave. But he is afraid that I will find someone, so he will help him away. If he robs him, he will let me go, so he keeps letting people watch me .”

"When he died, I still stayed here. His son inherited his family business, and now he is watching me again, and asked me to go back and help him."

Ruan Jiu firmly said: "You can go back again, if that person's son, like that person, is a mad dog, it will be bad."

The old man was deeply convinced, held his hand, and patted it: "Heroes see the same thing."

The two initially reached a consensus and formed a friendship. When they were cherishing each other, two sounds suddenly came from their ears.

"Soft Chirp."

"teacher."

The two turned their heads to look at the same time, and saw He Lianzhu lying on the rock, looking at them with a smile.

The old man shouted: "Run!"

As soon as he stood up, he pulled Ruan Jiu to run, but he pulled.

He turned around: "Little friend?"

Ruan Jiu was furious: "Are you saying that you are a grocer?!"

"Yeah, I'm a grocer!"

Putting his talents and learning on his shoulders and selling them along the way, Liang Guoxing was well established, so he crossed the desert alone and came to Jiwu.

The former king looked at his goods and bought him back.At the beginning, he was treated like a teacher, but later he abandoned him like a shoe.

He is indeed a grocer, or a failed grocer.

"Forget it, let's run separately, and see you later."

The old man let go of Ruan Jiu's hand, even wanted the sheep, and fled away with a swipe.

Ruan Jiu stood on the spot, looking at He Lianzhu: "Little pig?"

He Lianzhu jumped up from the rock and hugged him: "Ulan said I found you, I was terrified."

"Then he..." Ruan Jiu glanced back.

"My teacher, Zhuang Xian."

Not long after, Zhuang Xian came back.

He raised his hands horizontally, and was blocked back by Ulan and others.

"Mr. Zhuang, please, the king and queen are here."

This time it was Zhuang Xian's turn to be furious, and asked Ruan Jiu: "Why are you a queen? Do you mean you are here to play?"

Ruan Jiu replied to him with what he said: "Yes, I just came here to play!"

Zhuang Xian turned his head angrily, He Lianzhu said: "How do you say you married a male queen?"

Ruan Jiu also turned his head, and He Lianzhu said, "How do you say your teacher is from here?"

In the stone house, Zhuang Xian pushed hard on the wooden door.

The wooden door opened, hit the wall, and shook twice.

Ruan Jiu and He Lianzhu glanced at it, it's very good, the matter of breaking the door has not been revealed.

But Zhuang Xian was very puzzled, he locked the door and shook it vigorously.

Ruan Jiu hurriedly stopped him: "What are you doing? You broke the door again later."

"This is a door, just a door panel. It has been broken for a long time. It was supposed to lean against it. Why did it suddenly recover today..."

Ruan Jiu and He Lianzhu exchanged a shocked look again.

"I thought it was me who broke it, but the little pig repaired it for you!"

Only then did Zhuang Xian stop his destructive actions: "Okay." He looked at He Lianzhu: "Even if you help me repair the door, I will be an official."

He Lianzhu nodded: "Teacher, I know."

The room was muddy, with a pit dug in between, and there were still unburned ashes.

Zhuang Xian pushed the ashes away with firewood, and soon the fire started up again in the fire pit.He makes tea in clay pots.

Ulan said: "Mr. Zhuang, let me come."

Zhuang Xian also declined, and gave him the clay pot: "Okay, you come." He emphasized to He Lianzhu again: "Even if you ask someone to make tea for me, I will never be an official, especially Ji Wu."

He Lianzhu still nodded: "Teacher, I know."

Then He Lianzhu's four attendants brought the prepared gifts.

Zhuang Xian sighed: "Your Majesty, I taught you a few things when I was a child. I have really become an official. I have already sworn an oath. Besides, it is obvious that with my old bones with one foot in hell It's..."

He Lianzhu interrupted him: "Teacher, I really know."

"Okay, you know, you should take yours quickly..." He glanced at Ruan Jiu, "Queen, go back. Ah, to be honest, your talent is better than that of the previous king, you can do it by yourself."

"The teacher may have made a mistake." He Lianzhu said, "I'm here to invite the teacher to become an official, I just came to see the teacher, by the way..."

"By the way, invite me to be an official?"

"By the way, take Ruan Jiu out for a walk with the dog." He Lianzhu's face was sincere, as if fake, "I brought Ruan Jiu out to play."

Zhuang Xian still had some faith: "Okay, let's go play."

Then he watched He Lianzhu and Ruan Jiu search for a groundhog hole in the grassland all day.

He had some letters at first, and then...

Later, he joined the team looking for groundhogs.

Find the groundhog and let it go!

After gaining nothing all day long, Immortal Ruan Jiuzhuang was in mourning.

In the evening, several people were sitting around the fire in the stone house. Ruan Jiu touched the rice grains in the bowl with his chopsticks, and sighed softly: "Maybe there are no groundhogs in this grassland at all."

Zhuang Xianfu: "I think so too."

Another room was prepared for Helian Zhu Ruan Jiu in the ranch. After dinner, the two of them sat down for a while and were about to leave.

He Lianzhu suddenly said: "Ruanjiu, you mean you understand something in your homework, do you want to ask the teacher?"

Ruan Jiu was shocked: "When did I say that?"

"It's time to come." Helian Zhu's expression changed.

"No, I am determined to do my homework."

"Wrong." Zhuang Xian expressed his appreciation, "Show me your homework, and I'll take a look."

Ruan Jiu had no choice but to willingly took out two books from his luggage and handed them to him: "This is it, read it, and tell me if you have any questions."

Zhuang Xian casually flipped through two pages, then threw the book into the fire with a wave of his hand.

"Just looking at it, you can tell it was arranged by Liu Changsheng, a nerd. You can do it, you can do it."

Ruan Jiu was shocked at first, and then he was so moved that he covered his mouth and shed tears: "Little pig, this teacher of yours is much better than that teacher!".