The moon comes to take pictures

The lantern at the door was still on, and two doorkeepers squatted under the stone lion, peeling peanuts in their hands, chatting slowly while eating.

"I heard from the first class that the master brought someone back?"

"It can be said."

"Hey, I know how rich and powerful gentlemen can bear no one in the house..." The man rubbed the peanut skins, thinking nonsense, "I just don't know if I can stay for a long time."

"You still want to please?"

The man just smiled.

"Let me tell you, don't lose your wife and lose your army."

"Is there a saying here?"

"Our wife's natal family has status in the south of the Yangtze River. If you say Naxiao, if you don't know how to speak to that grandma, how dare you do it?"

"It's a strange way..." The two looked at each other and smiled, and were about to write something else, when they heard the sound of horseshoes coming, suddenly a horse galloped up, stopped its hooves, and threw dust on the two people in front of the door .The two of them were about to scold, when an eunuch-like figure fell off from his horse, and he shook his waist badge, raised his head and asked, "Is your master at home?"

The two gatekeepers fell to the ground, shivering, "At home, at home!"

Just as he was about to ask what was the matter, another sedan chair arrived, and the eunuch on horseback went to report to the small window, said something in a low voice, and stretched out a hand inside, making some slight gestures.

The eunuch turned around and said proudly: "I heard that our master's friend is here for a while, and our master came to pick him up."

The servant kowtowed: "Let's go in and report!"

The two of them didn't know why, they fled into the house together, and when they turned around a corridor, they saw a yellow lantern winding out in front of them, it was a little maid leading someone out.

If you look closely, there is a fair and handsome young man who is following behind, with a grim complexion, he is walking towards the corner door with a wobbly step.The two servants looked at each other, pulled the maid leading the way and asked, "Is this the person brought back by the master?"

The little maid stuttered and said something, and the two servants slapped their foreheads, thinking that Xie Yan had already made arrangements, so they held up the little boy's arm, and they were more affectionate than their own mother, and called "Master" earnestly. , Walking all the way, laughing all the way, and hurriedly sent people out.

The sedan chair carrying the people went away, and the two servants let out a long breath with lingering fear.

"What do you think is going on..." The two muttered as they walked, when they suddenly encountered a dark figure behind the corridor, they were both startled.

"Who came just now?"

Listen to the voice, it is their master.

The servant trembled and said, "It's a husband who said he wanted to pick him up."

"Oh." Xie Yan on the other end was silent for a while in the darkness, "Didn't you say anything else?"

"I didn't say anything else." The two shook their heads.

"Go."

"Yes……"

Xie Yan stood there without moving. One of the servants was bold. He glanced back and didn't know if he had left. Out of my body!"

"Let's say a few words..."

The two of them gossiped about each other, and they didn't dare to mention what happened just now. They just occasionally looked back at the gate, and no one came out there.

The family said it well, a big girl with a veiled head was sent to the house, and once she entered, the house was locked, and no one was allowed to enter.It didn't take long for it to come out?They couldn't figure it out, how could it be a man brought back by this formation?

……

The autumn coolness is getting stronger, and several eunuchs are tidying up the potted chrysanthemums in the garden. When they suddenly see the returning guests, they know each other: "Our grandfather is in the back room."

Wei Shui made a bow and went to the back room. He saw Cui Zhu resting on his head, and an eunuch beat his leg with a soft mallet.It seemed that the banquet had just ended, but the courtyard had already cooled down and was quiet, it was a different world from Chang Xi's house.

"It's over now?" Wei Shui looked at him curiously.

Cui Zhu just fell asleep, when he heard Wei Shui coming, he raised his hand casually, and told the leg-thumper to go out: "I'm not my fifth uncle, it's exhausting to stay for a long time in the lively scene."

"I think you can handle tasks with ease, I can't think of it." Wei Shui sat down, glanced at no one outside, and the tight shoulders relaxed a little.

Cui Zhu knew what he wanted to say, but he just went around in circles and looked at him: "Yo, the one who followed you, sent home?"

"I fell asleep on the sedan chair, and Tianjie stared at me all day, taking advantage of this moment, to talk to my father-in-law." Wei Shui sighed, but judging by his appearance, he didn't seem heavy.

Cui Zhu seemed to be consoling: "The most difficult thing to bear is a beauty, after all...you begged him."

"I don't want to ask for it, and the governor will give me one as well. At this moment, there is no need to be unhappy with him." Wei Shui shook his head, frowning slightly: "Then again, an actor who sells jokes is better than Those old things are still tough."

Cui Zhu was noncommittal, picked around the fruit plate with his hand, chose a pomegranate, and laughed twice: "Why don't you say it's a beauty's favor?"

"Elder-in-law is light, just enjoy yourself, why do you always use this to poke my sore spot?"

Cui Zhu groaned and covered his mouth: "Isn't this all your wish?"

Wei Shui answered vaguely, and got back to the point: "The people who came tonight are all those who want to attach themselves to Eunuch Cui. Why invite that kid here? Many things have been broken."

"You mean the young master of the Ning family? With the elder son watching, what can he do badly?" Cui Zhu said with a smile, "Didn't he know that Tongzhi was coming? It was just for Chang Xi to see. I don't know if Chang Xi knew the second son of the Ning family. What do you think of my master having so much fun at my table?"

Wei Shui didn't know, he was just waiting for Cui Zhu's words, and immediately said with emotion: "You don't have any enmity with their family, do you?"

"There are many people who have no grudges and no grudges in the world, but there are also many people who are born at the wrong time. There must be someone as a stepping stone." Cui Zhu took the pomegranate on the plate and carefully peeled it off with his nails. "I might as well tell you the truth. In Beizhili, the opportunity has come."

"The son of the loyal uncle..."

"He." Cui Zhu squeezed a crystal pomegranate seed in his hands, "Without him, I would never be able to make friends with people from the Ning family, nor would I be able to win over those literati who write like knives."

Cui Zhu paused, crushed the pomegranate seeds in his hand, and wiped his hands nonchalantly: "Besides, it's time for him to weigh things up in Nanjing today."

When the white moon was setting in the west, Wei Shui came out of Cui Zhu's house, and Jinling City was pitch black.His sedan chair was still parked outside the door, and when he approached, a lazy voice came out: "Why did you come out?" , I dare not speak anymore, and shrank back in embarrassment.

Wei Shui got into the sedan chair without saying a word. Hearing the silence outside, he felt uneasy.He probably knew that the situation in Nanzhili was now a foregone conclusion, and no matter how hard others tried to turn the tide, it would be useless.