Bianshanhan [farming]

In the winter month of the sixth year of Datong, because of their meritorious service in defending the border and repelling the enemy, a group of soldiers from the border town were called to the Beijing Miansheng to be rewarded according to their merit.

Zhou Fengnian returned to the capital as he wished, and held a banquet for Li Qingwen, Qi Min and others in high spirits.

The ancestors of the Zhou family have been honored and have been lonely for several generations. Zhou Fengnian, a dude, originally went to the border town to avoid disaster, but ended up staying there for ten years.

After eating at Zhou's house, they felt dissatisfied, so Zhou Fengnian took them to Qinglefang.

When they saw the Zihua Pavilion from a distance, Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong couldn't help but take a second look. Zhou Fengnian wanted to show his kindness as a landlord, so he turned around after seeing it.

This is the second time I came here, under Zhou Fengnian's favor, a group of people went to the backyard, Li Qingwen only saw it upstairs last time, and had never been here before, and when I was walking on the path, I couldn't help but think of the last time I saw my second brother here...

"Qing Zhuo!"

Qi Min's surprised voice sounded in his ears, Li Qingwen turned his head, and saw the person standing beside the flower bed, with a slender figure, a plain white face behind the plum blossom branches, bright and crescent moon eyebrows, and cold and silvery eyes.

If it's not Li Qingzhuo, who else is it?

Li Qingwen: "..."

Is this too coincidental, or what reason?

Before Li Qingwen could speak, he saw several people appearing behind his second brother, and they were all familiar, Lin Tan, Chen Wen and...

Seeing the tall figure at the back, Zhou Fengnian and others said, "Master Hongda!"

The last one is Hong Yi.

The four of them were obviously together, which seemed a little weird, but when they appeared on such an occasion, everyone would tacitly not ask any more questions, and Zhou Fengnian warmly invited them to drink together.

In this way, a group of people arrived at the spacious and quiet inner room. After they were seated, fine wine and girls poured in, filling the room with fragrance.

When he saw the beer and sorghum wine from the border town on the table, Li Qingwen immediately thought of the numbers on the ledger, and sighed in his heart that their wine really sold well.

Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong were sitting next to each other. Ma Yongjiang looked at the unique shape of the jug on the table, and picked it up to take a closer look, but before he could see it clearly, the wine spilled all over Li Qingwen.

Jiang Cong was talking, but he turned his head when he heard the commotion, and instead of picking up the handkerchief handed over by the girl next to him, he took off his robe and gave Li Qingwen the drink.

Li Qingzhuo was sitting across from them, and was about to get up when he saw Jiang Cong holding Li Qingwen's hand and wiping it carefully, he was slightly taken aback.

Lin Tan poured wine for Hong Yi, saw him looking at Jiang Cong and Li Qingwen, and said, "These two brothers have always been so good."

Hongyi raised his eyebrows, the meaning in his eyes was unclear.

Even though he has been away from Beijing for many years, Zhou Fengnian's reputation in Qingle Fang is still there, Lady Butterfly who heard the news soon came in with a beautiful and gentle girl, before entering the door, she said: "Congratulations, Mr. Zhou, congratulations, Mr. Zhou! Since you came back, the girls in this town have been thinking about it all the time!"

Lady Butterfly is the owner of Zihua Pavilion. She is good at dancing. When she was young, she was extremely beautiful and gorgeous. Because she danced like a fluttering butterfly, she used to be called Lady Butterfly, but now she is Lady Butterfly.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Hongyi who was sitting lazily, the smile on Lady Butterfly's face froze for a moment, and her tone dropped halfway, "Your Majesty, you are very polite, you come to Zihua Pavilion, we are really flourishing."

Hongyi held the wine glass casually, looked at her with a half-smile and said, "I heard that your girls are not only beautiful, but also talented in poetry and writing, especially that girl Ruozhu, who gave the gift of poetry and wine to Mr. Li. , is really enviable."

"This, this is really unbelievable. Ruozhu can barely read a few words. She admires Mr. Li's talent and learning. It's all rumored by outsiders. It can't be true..."

When facing other guests, Lady Butterfly's tongue was like a lotus flower, but she didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Hongyi. After all, this is a place for fun, not the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but she can't help this living hell king a few times.

"Admiration?" Hongyi raised his chin lightly, "Mr. Li is sitting here now, and Miss Ruozhu won't come out to see her?"

Lady Butterfly was sweating from her head, her face was as white as paper, she almost knelt down and begged for mercy.

The most impatient to see this appearance, Hongyi was about to get up.

Hearing Hongyi's aggression and knowing his ruthlessness, Li Qingzhuo reached out and grabbed his arm, saying: "I sell poems, they buy them, the money and the goods are equal, there is nothing else to do, no one knows what will be passed on." Now that this is done, report this matter truthfully to your lord, there is no falsehood."

Lady Butterfly nodded her head, not daring to say another word.

Li Qingzhuo's subordinates pulled Hong Yi back onto the wooden couch with all his strength, worried that he would make trouble again, so he immediately poured him wine.

Seeing his actions, Lady Butterfly almost dropped her eyeballs to the ground in shock, making noises repeatedly.

After drinking the wine, Hongyi put the blue and white porcelain cup back on the table. Just as Lin Tan was about to raise his hand, Hongyi glanced at it lightly, and then shrank back.

After being entangled by this man in the prison of Dali Temple for a long time, Li Qingzhuo felt a little bit of this man's temperament, and took the largest bowl of warm wine, which was clean, and after pouring the wine, the petals at the bottom of the bowl seemed to be floating Slight shaking, very vivid.

"My lord has a lot of them, I just wronged my lord." Li Qingzhuo said.

Seeing this, Ma Yongjiang immediately replaced the cup as big as a thumb in his hand with a bowl, and he was impatient and kept pouring it down, really not enjoying himself.

Seeing that Hongyi's expression was unclear, Zhou Fengnian immediately asked someone to change all the wine glasses.

Li Qingzhuo also took one, the fist-sized lotus seemed to be blown, causing slight ripples in the wine.

The two bowls are next to each other, and the double flowers are side by side, just like the same heart.

Hong Yi's brows stretched.

Li Qingwen's clothes were very wet, so he went to the next room and changed them, so that he was wearing a lot in winter, so he took off one layer, and there were several layers left.

Jiang Cong stood at the door and waited. After Li Qingwen finished changing, the two of them didn't go back immediately, but went to the vestibule.

The vestibule is full of plum blossoms, and Muxue is in full bloom at this time, the petals are clear and faint, and the faint fragrance does not tame the endless cold wind.

After admiring the plum blossoms, Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong went to the Wenxiang wall in the front building, which was the high wall covered with paper fans. Fans in various colors and types.

It seems that the business of Xihua Pavilion is good.

Before he arrived, he saw a young man holding a ladder, and a person was standing on the ladder, looking for a fan on it, while a woman in a brightly colored dress looked up at him.

"I found it." The person above took out one of the fans, and read: "Drunk and awake Meng Xinghe, green smoke waves."

"Take it off, take it off!" The woman said urgently: "Only this one, do you have any others? This damn girl told her to put away those useless thoughts a long time ago. !"

The one who spoke was Lady Butterfly, who escaped by chance just now. She was really afraid of Hongyi, worried that something would happen again, so she hurriedly ordered to burn all of Li Qingzhuo's belongings, so as not to cause trouble again.

Hearing the poem written by the second elder brother, Li Qingwen looked up, just in time to see Lady Butterfly about to tear the fan, so he quickly said, "Please be merciful."

When Lady Butterfly first entered the door, Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong went out to change clothes, but they didn't see her, and the servant next to her quickly gave her a wink.Lady Butterfly folded the paper fan and faced each other with a smiling face, "What's your order?"

"Since I don't want it anymore, can you sell this fan to me?" Li Qingwen reached out to touch the silver. He took a closer look at it last time. The fan with the second brother's poem on it is very delicate. It would be a pity if it was ruined like this.

After finishing speaking, Li Qingwen added, "The poem above was written by my second brother."

Lady Butterfly looked at Li Qingwen calmly, Jiang Cong leaned forward slightly, blocking most of her line of sight, and said politely, "I wonder if it's a convenience?"

The people in the room had been drinking for a few rounds before Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong came in. Zhou Fengnian shouted for a fine drink, Li Qingwen obediently received the punishment, looked down at the wine bowl on the table, and immediately begged for mercy.

While they were yelling non-stop, Li Qingwen quietly walked around behind Li Qingzhuo and handed him the fan.

Li Qingzhuo's drinking never showed on his face, only in his eyes. At this time, a layer of water floated on his eyes, and when he blinked, the water light fluctuated and kept rippling.

After taking the fan, Li Qingzhuo opened it casually, saw the poem on it, and read it quietly for a while.

Zhou Fengnian knew about the fan wall, so he walked over with a wine bowl, leaned over to have a look, and said, "Huzhou tribute paper is the fan, and dragon scale bamboo is the bone. I'm afraid it's all gold and silver."

Li Qingwen didn't have such good eyesight as his. After hearing about it, he felt that what he had just done was too right.

The others didn't know what the mystery of this thing was, so they asked one after another, and Zhou Congxin, who hadn't even touched a drop of alcohol, came one by one.

The fan in Li Qingzhuo's hand has only poems, and the other side is blank, with nothing on it.

Everyone showed regret, and originally wanted to see what they could draw.

Just as he was about to put away the fan, a hand was stretched out in front of Li Qingzhuo.

In an instant, the paper fan was in Hong Yi's hands. He lowered his eyes, played with the fan in his palm for a while, and then opened it with a "swish". There was a pleasant sound between the opening and closing.

"It's a bit eye-catching when it's empty." Hongyi said this, and stamped his private seal on the smooth fan.

On the white jade-like paper, the bright red lacquer print is very clear, and the characters dyed with vermilion lacquer are like vines, stretching out arrogantly and recklessly. It is only a small seal, but it shows a bit of domineering with its fangs and claws.

After the cover was finished, Hong Yi took a look and was very satisfied, so he asked someone to hang it up.

Li Qingzhuo took the fan back first, and stuffed it into his arms. Even if it was a private seal, it would be inappropriate to put it on a white paper, let alone put it in such a place.

Jiang Cong leaned on the back of the wooden couch with his head tilted slightly. Li Qingwen's sideburns kept poking mischievously on the side of his face. He reached out to touch it, his eyes swept over Li Qingzhuo and Hongyi, and they passed by in an instant.

He drank the wine until midnight, Li Qingwen woke up late the next day without any surprise, everyone else left, only Jiang Cong was waiting for him.

Now that it was late, Li Qingwen turned over and closed his eyes again, and fell asleep until noon.

It was only after arriving home that Hong Yi was taken back to the Princess Mansion like an iron bucket surrounded by officers and soldiers early this morning. Because he didn't resist, there was no movement, and he didn't even disturb the guests inside. Of course, Li Qingwen was also included.

Qi Min, who had witnessed everything, told Li Qingwen that Hongyi was arrested and went back to make an engagement.

The leader who once commanded the tens of thousands of imperial troops in the capital probably never thought that one day he would be imprisoned at home and forced to marry.

Li Qingwen understands the concern of parents, but feels that forced marriage is particularly bad. The melon that is forced to twist is not sweet, let alone human beings. Throughout the ages, there have been too many tragedies caused by this.

Although I haven't seen him a few times, Hongyi has saved his second brother many times. The Li family has never been ungrateful, so Li Qingwen went to Qin Shuyuan after failing to find his second brother for several days.

The first thing he looked for was Su Shuqing, but it was just at the time when the taxes of various states and counties were going into the treasury, the household department was busy lighting the lamps all night, and his ears hurt from the loud sound of the abacus outside the door, so Li Qingwen didn't bother him.

Qin Shuyuan was not idle either. When Li Qingwen went to the Imperial Academy, the little official who led him in first went to the side hall. The people inside said that Mr. Qin had just left and went to the waiting room. Li Qingwen followed to the waiting room. He still didn't see Qin Shuyuan when he arrived. He said that he had just gone to the Book Hall.

When Li Qingwen saw Qin Shuyuan, he was looking at the invitation, the engagement and ceremony invitation from the Princess Mansion.