Minister

117【Seven years of Jiankang】

Saul Hahan didn't know when he fell asleep, he seemed to be pushed a few times by Wei Chi while he was half asleep and half awake.Saul Hahan deliberately stayed awake, because she was doomed to have a guilty conscience and dared not ask Alki to come up to help.Sure enough, after she muttered and complained a few words, she was finally carried to bed.The extravagance of Zhongyuan is introverted, and Saul Hahan felt that he was lulled into a deeper sleep by the faint incense of the silk blanket, so when Wei Chi asked her, she didn't want to answer so much.

There are only three days, it seems that I should work harder, but suddenly I want to be lazy.

That's all for today, Saul Hahan gave himself a holiday... Tomorrow, I'll clean you up tomorrow.

Before pulling down the gauze curtain, Wei Chi made a few faces at Saul Hahan, the girl was completely asleep, smiling three parts smugly and seven parts cunning.Wei Chi sighed, and pinched the quilt for her - I'll clean you up tomorrow.

The next morning, the weather seemed to have changed from what it should be like in summer because of the rain last night.Wei Chi slept soundly all night, so she got up earlier than usual, but when she walked onto the terrace, someone came to announce that His Highness had already had tea in the courtyard.

Saul Hahan's subordinates seem to have a tacit understanding with her, and there is no such panic and ink marks as the common servants. Saul Hahan gave an order, and all the subordinates disappeared. Now they are the servants of the tea house. waiting.The one who came to report was a little maid from the south, about the size of Zhu'er in Wei Chi's mansion. She said that drinking tea is breakfast, which is what southerners say.

"Why do you wake up so early?" Eunuch Chen was still sleeping, Wei Chi walked into the small room, and the little maid quickly served her breakfast.

"You also got up quite early." Saul Hahan didn't look back, looking at the rain outside, he was not in a good mood.

Wei Chi picked up a chopstick of shredded tofu: "It's good, it's good, we can't play anymore, let's go back to the city early."

Saul Hahan didn't turn his head to talk to her, his back was still straight, Wei Chi was startled by such a cold attitude: "Are you angry? Are you angry?"

"Yes." Saul Hahan replied coldly.

"It was just a joke just now, why did you suddenly become so stingy..."

"It's not a joke, I just think you are insincere, why did you choose to take me out on a rainy day?"

"What's this mess?" Wei Chi moved over with a bench: "I'm not from the Tianjiansi. If I knew the weather, I'd be drenched like a monkey yesterday? I'd have to take off my clothes and let another monkey wear them." ?”

"Anyway, I'm in a very bad mood..." Saul Hahan still had a straight face.

"Yes, yes..." Wei Chi lowered his voice: "Last night, you stayed in bed, you didn't have to be in a bad mood when you yelled and begged me."

"I didn't!" Saul Hahan had to turn his head back with a blushing face, to stop Wei Chi from continuing.

Seeing Saul Hahan nervously looking at the maid standing in the corner, Wei Chi couldn't help secretly laughing.

Unexpectedly, Saul Hahan saw Wei Chi smiling, stood up abruptly, and walked out without saying a word.

"Hey? Hey?" Wei Chi hurriedly chased him out: "What's wrong?"

"..." Saul Hahan turned his head away.

Wei Chi couldn't help becoming nervous: "Did someone mess with you this morning?"

"You..." Saul Hahan paused, "You seldom consider my feelings, and you seldom consider my reputation as a woman. At least what you said just now should not have been said."

"..." Wei Chi didn't expect that Saul Hahan cared so much about the maid in the corner of the room, and a girl like Xiangganaji gave Wei Chi a misunderstanding—women outside the Great Wall do not shy away from the relationship between men and women.But as far as this matter is concerned, Wei Chi's approach is indeed a bit excessive, and the statement of lying in bed will indeed make people laugh.

"I...I, I think this is King Yan's place, and King Yan knows if it's passed on. You know, he knows I'm a woman, so I'll make a mistake." Wei Chi quickly explained.

"You need to correct your ridiculous sense of superiority as a man." Saul Hahan said coldly.

This sentence made Wei Chi a little uneasy.

Saul Hahan bypassed Wei Chi and walked up the stairs quickly.

Alkey was making the bed when he suddenly heard the door being slammed shut: "Have you eaten yet? Your Highness?"

Seeing that Saul Hahan didn't say a word, Alki didn't ask any further questions, but just walked out of the room, stood on the balcony and looked into the yard, and came back and said, "Poor Mr. Wei, standing in the yard at a loss where."

Saul Hahan stood up after hearing the sound of Alkey closing the door, and pushed the window that she had closed just now, and the drizzle mixed with the cold wind blew in. Looking at the capital city from a distance, there was only a cloud of mist and rain. The peonies on Lianzhu Mountain are only faintly red, which makes it difficult to see clearly.This is not the season for rain!Saul Hahan was very frustrated. The bright sun and the trip that he had planned in advance had all come to naught. It seemed that God had just played a joke, making the day he had carefully prepared dull and unbearable.

As for this stinky girl, she still doesn't know how to watch her words, she is already in a bad mood, and she is happy as if she had picked up money!Thinking of this, Saul Hahan couldn't help but feel even more frustrated. He only felt that Wei Chi was not only annoying, but even the itinerary for the past few days was ridiculously arranged—it was said to be Lianzhu Mountain, but it was actually a small mound. The few flowers that were blooming and thanking were raining again... and they arranged to live in King Yan's courtyard... It was really too bad to say anything.

Saul Hahan pulled out the hairpins of the Han people on his head and threw them back on the table of the dressing table. The heavy hairpins made a clanging sound, and a few glazed beads broke the golden thread and rolled into the corner of the dressing table.Saul Hahan ignored it, and sat back on the bench in front of the dressing table angrily.

After sitting for a long time, he finally felt a little cold. Saul Hahan shrank his shoulders and was about to add a coat, but he was stunned when he got up—Wei Chi?

Wei Chi smiled calmly: "Your maid doesn't seem to be used to inserting the door bolt."

This time it was Saul Hahan's turn to be at a loss. The person named Wei Chi in my impression was actually sensitive and irritable by nature. The harshness I had just done to her just now was beyond her tolerance. Now she It should be arrogant and indifferent.

But Wei Chi just smiled calmly, then took the coat over, handed it to Saul Hahan, and sat next to her on the stool in front of the dressing table: "I was about to come in to reason with you, but you just had a face full of The way I looked out the window resentfully reminded me of myself, the first time I realized that we could be so similar."

Saul Hahan awkwardly wrapped himself in the silk coat: "..."

"What a ferocious expression, it's like wanting to eat people." Wei Chi laughed.

"It's not like this!" Saul Hahan said while secretly kicking the glass bead by his feet into the corner of the cabinet.

"In the academy, there is a clumsy student. His movements seem to be slower than others, so he is always punished. My teacher is a learned person, but he is not a good teacher to be precise. He prefers intelligence. student, he was always impatient with such a slow-moving idiot, and would always add some harsh words when reprimanding him. I think I caught his bad habit unknowingly at that time, so I was in the academy I always walk alone. Before my hair grows long and the students in the college have not seen my ability to memorize memorization exams, I am the last person you want to meet. I don’t want to pay attention to them, in my heart I have my own ideas, so I often hide in the bookstore alone to read, and go to bed when I am tired. That clumsy person is always punished by the teacher to clean the bookstore because he can’t memorize something. One day, I saw Tired of studying, so I climbed on the window and looked far away. When I felt cold, I turned around and found him staring at me blankly with a broom. Then he said to me: Wei Chi, your face doesn’t look too happy .”

Saul Hahan couldn't help pursing his lips: "It's indeed a clumsy topic."

"We talked for the first time that day," Wei Chi continued: "He was the first person to say the words "repaying grievances with kindness" piously. I may never be able to accept such thoughts, but that day I met this clumsy person. There is no way to refute it in front of him. He is not good at study, but he has good cultivation. It is a pity that my bastard teacher will never know how to pay attention to this aspect. There are so many people in the college. Maybe he is my only close friend. In front of others, I What I felt was my talent and self-confidence, and when I was with him, I felt how out of place, how vicious and rebellious I was against him, and how sad I was.”

"What do you want to say?"

"I want to say that I admire him very much. After many years, when I came to the capital and bumped into walls everywhere, thanks to the peaceful heart he taught me, I, a hideous villain, can barely live happily and know you." Wei Chi paused for a moment: "Your attitude just now made me half dead. After you left, I went to the small room and drank a whole bowl of tea. I brewed an argument for about an hour and prepared to have a big fight with you, but after I came in , I suddenly remembered him, so I decided to let you go, you should thank him well."

"You can have a big fight with me. This is more in line with your demeanor. You don't need to tell me to repay me with virtue."

"Does Your Highness really want to spend one of the remaining days arguing with Lord Wei?"

After confirming that Wei Chi wasn't being sarcastic, Saul Hahan shook off the kind hand that Wei Chi took the initiative to reach out with peace of mind: "It's raining so heavily outside, what else can we do if we don't quarrel inside the house?"

"Princess, there is something called an umbrella in this world..."

After Wei Chi tried his best to keep the two of them warm, he came downstairs with an umbrella painted with herbs.The shopkeeper hurriedly ordered someone to prepare two pairs of clogs for rainy days. Wei Chi looked at them and said, "Take both pairs from men." Then the shopkeeper remembered that the foreign princess didn't have her feet bound, and quickly ordered someone to find another pair.After changing his shoes, he practiced walking a few more steps before he left the courtyard gate of 'Qingchunfang'.After walking a few steps, Wei Chi stopped again.

"What's wrong?" Saul Hahan walked unsteadily.

"Cough!" Wei Chi pretended to be serious: "Husbands and wives can only share umbrellas... as a woman's reputation..."

Saul Hahan then squeezed Wei Chi hard: "Will your mouth hurt if you don't speak?"

Sol Hahan's entourage were all playing a card game in a dedicated room, and everyone's attention was suddenly attracted by Balak's shout.

"Your Highness is out!" Ba Le, who was eating fried soybeans by the window, shouted.

Alkey threw away the money he just won and rushed to the window.

"Al, you're not right..." Baler chewed on the soybeans.

Alkey looked at the backs of the two walking on the bluestone road: "..."

"Let's follow."

"No need." Alkey shrank back and closed the window.

After leaving the 'Qingchunfang' for less than half a mile, the road became narrow all of a sudden, and the bluestone slabs were slippery after the rain. Saul Hahan felt that the embroidered shoes on his feet seemed to be difficult to keep pace with the clumsy clogs.This time Wei Chi took her arm consciously: "You have to go well yourself, don't rely on me."

Saul Hahan immediately leaned forward, and Wei Chi could only sigh.

It only takes two hours to go from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and the slope is very gentle, revealing a soft green.Different from those fields around the capital, here seems to have a little bit of the elegance of the south of the Yangtze River, so there are few things here that have no incense and many more interesting things.

Under the tree by the roadside, a young daughter-in-law holding an umbrella was selling a handful of calamus.Because it was still early, it seemed that the calamus was condensed with dew instead of rain, and the clear green color was gratifying.The little daughter-in-law is holding an umbrella in one hand and laying out her stall with the other. Her taupe-colored sleeves will slide to her elbows when she raises her arms.On her wrist is a bracelet made of jade beads, faintly shining with pea green light.

The little daughter-in-law saw Saul Hahan looking at her curiously, so she greeted: "My lady, please buy a calamus for your officials, it's very auspicious!"

Unexpectedly, Wei Chi was not alarmist. At this moment, he was really misunderstood as an official lady. Saul Hahan was a little embarrassed for a while, but he was afraid that his blush would make Wei Chi laugh, so he had no choice but to not make a fuss about this title.

"My lady, come and have a look. It was only picked at five o'clock in the morning! The lady's officials look like a champion, and it would be better if you want to be auspicious!" , really went to see.

Wei Chi laughed softly: "It's only a copper coin, buy it and play."

Saul Hahan took out the small bag of copper coins that Wei Chi gave her, and like a stingy family member, he touched a coin and handed it to the village woman: "Then buy one!"

The village woman accepted the money with a smile, thanked her, took out a calamus and tied it into a straw knot and handed it to Saul Hahan. Wei Chi taught her how to tie the straw knot on her belt.

"Is there any peony to see today?"

"Is there anything you can't see?" The village woman pointed to the south: "Young master, if you see a house that doesn't open the yard, it would be a strange thing. Although there are fewer customers at the moment, what is the reason for the garden? If the son If you see which one is not open, just come to me."

After thanking the village woman, the two slowly descended the mountain to the south.Saul Hahan curiously played with the straw knot on Wei Chi's clothes: "What does this mean?"

Wei Chi smiled and said: "This is Shichangpu, it is used to wake up one's ambition. People who are going to Beijing to rush for the exam will make this picture auspicious."

It was only then that Saul Hahan remembered that Daqi was just in time for the students to rush for the exam, no wonder the village woman was full of auspicious words.Saul Hahan pursed his lips: "Hmph! Why didn't you tell me earlier when you passed the exam? It cost me a penny!"

"So stingy!" Wei Chi saw Saul Hahan tightly holding her small purse.

"It's you who are stingy! I counted it just now, and there are only twenty coins in this bag, so just give me such a little...Damn it." Saul Hahan thought carefully about his nineteen cents: "That penny just now It's a waste of money, and you will never win the number one prize in this life... oh..."

In the grass beside the road, there are some wild peonies. Unfortunately, the wind last night was not small, and the flowers are delicate and almost gone. Instead, there are many small red fruits that are not named by the roadside, with a layer of misty Fluffy, like candied cherries.Saul Hahan said it was poisonous, Wei Chi expressed hesitation, and the two argued about this boring question again. It is a pity that Wei Chi is not good at memorizing medicine books, and was finally cornered by Saul Hahan. After Wuwu was speechless, she vented her anger on these little red fruits, crushing everything that could be crushed.The splashed water landed on Saul Hahan's skirt, and she was so angry that she wanted to paint a bastard on Wei Chi's face.

Going a few steps further south, you will reach a slightly gentle area, and here is the continuous peony garden.

When the people of the Central Plains set their capital in the south, they liked more elegant plants, but once they arrived in the north, they especially loved this kind of rich and noble flowers.Lianzhu Mountain only began to have peonies 30 years ago. It was first sold to the palace, and then sold to the market. In the end, the business became bigger and bigger, and the entire mountain was split into a peony garden.Every year when the peonies are at their peak, the gardens will be opened to appraise the flowers. Although there is no need to earn one or two dollars, the big business orders for the coming year will all be placed at this moment.So just as the village woman said: Even if it is the end of the season and it is raining again, the flower farmers are still willing to open the flower farm and wait for the good news.

Saul Hahan walked and watched, but couldn't make up his mind which courtyard to enter.Wei Chi told her that you don't have to buy it once you go in, and the courtyards are the same, you can choose one to go in, and come out later.Saul Hahan stubbornly refused to listen: "I walk slowly, just choose a good one and go in, how can I have the time to watch every one? It's really like what you said, but I missed all the good ones."

"Have you seen peony before?" Wei Chi remembered that there was no peony in Saul Hahan's yard.

"I've seen it, but it's just on the drawing."

"Oh... do you like it then?"

"Seems a little too big."

"I like it..." Wei Chi said shyly.

"Oh? Don't the Central Plains people pay attention to low-key and introverted? Why are you so tacky as a scholar?"

"Yes, yes... But I really think it looks good. The last time I came was three years ago, and I just came to Beijing."

Sol Hahan thought of Wei Chi rushing to the capital city wrapped in a square scarf and carrying a bag of books on his back, and then timidly came here to look at the flowers, and found it very funny: "Three years ago, my lord gave me Have you bought calamus yet?"

"You can't buy it by yourself. You want your wife to give it to your husband, your siblings to your brother, and then your teacher to give it to you again. There is no reason to buy it yourself. I came here alone, and I didn't win the first prize, so I kept my penny. , tsk... You still spent it today."

"You've given me the money, it's mine!"

"Yes yes yes..." Wei Chi nodded quickly: "Qi Qige, what are you doing as a princess? You should be a rich man, big fights come in and small fights come out."

"Hmph! I'm very generous. I spent one penny on you for twenty cents."

When Saul Hahan was about to start an argument about the penny, a group of mules suddenly came out of the fork next to him. The brass bells rang loudly, and an old man and a young man yelled from side to side.

Wei Chi hurriedly pulled Sol Hahan aside.

The old man laughed and said, "Brother son, mules don't walk on rocky roads, so you should take yours."

Wei Chi nodded and was pulling Saul Hahan to leave, but this man became curious about this group of mules: "Uncle, what are you going to do on the mountain when it's raining?"

The old man straightened his coir raincoat: "Hello, little madam, I went up the mountain to untie some wooden planks a few days ago, and the water will rot them when I go down, so why don't you bring them down?"

There were three mules in all, and their hooves were covered with mud.

"Does the uncle's house have peonies?"

When the old man heard this, he was very happy: "How can there be no? The lady is here to see the flowers, right? I left so early and haven't bought them yet? If you haven't bought them, come to my house to have a look!"

Everyone was so busy talking, they didn't notice that the mule chewed the calamus that Wei Chiyi had brought with him!The young man happened to notice it when he was sneaking a peek at Saul Hahan, and he cried out quickly.Wei Chi stepped back, and the grass rings were already scattered.

Wei Chi said: "Oh, what a pity to lose your penny! This mule is going to win the first prize!"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

So I had to go back to the road up the mountain. Fortunately, it was only a few miles away. I entered a fork in the yard of this old man. The old man’s surname is Shan. He is 65 this year. This young man is his grandson. His son and daughter-in-law are all in the capital. He likes it. Hua, reluctant to leave.

There are a few milk sheep at the entrance of the garden, and they seem to recognize the mules, and they all open their nostrils to sniff this way.

"Yo yo!" A little girl greeted her sheep: "Grandpa! Brother! Are you back?"

"This is my little granddaughter!" The old man laughed and said, "There are guests coming, go, go!"

The 15-year-old girl has a pair of beautiful dimples when she smiles. After hearing the old man's greeting, she quickly tied the sheep to the fence next to the courtyard wall and went into the garden to say hello.

Wei Chi sneaked close to Saul Hahan's ear: "Look, that little girl looks a bit like you."

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