Theism

"My lord, someone sent a basket of peaches." Ding Ban knocked on the door and shouted to Chu Xingsi who was in the room.

"Well, okay, I see, come out right away." Chu Xingsi glanced at the figure outside the door, and responded.

After Ding Ban got the answer, he left, and Chu Xingsi temporarily put away the things in his hands.

Putting a white silk handkerchief on the half-opened jade box, tidying up the sleeves, covering her pale and thin arms, quietly wiped off a trace of excess blood with her fingers, rubbed her fingers together, and her fingers were blushing.

The cyan clothes concealed his thin body, and the hair hanging down the back was wrapped in circles with cyan headbands, making him look noble and cold. These days he has lost some weight, less lively, and more Kind of quiet.

In summer, it dawns early, and the ground has been exposed to the sun for a long time. I watered the flowers in the morning, but there was no wind, and the water drops remained on the flowers and leaves. The soil under the shade of the flowers looked a bit The black, luxuriant leaves are growing well, and the hydrangeas that bloom on them also change their colors day by day. The bigger they bloom, the more flexible stems lean on each other.

The original light yellow and tender green buds have been dyed a little pink, and the other plant is blue. When it blooms, the flower branches hang down on the bluestone slab, and the drizzle hits the petals and thick leaves. There are tiny drops of water, which look crystal clear, round and lovely.

There are small black worms, lying on the large leaves, with two red dots on the back, very bright and dazzling, reflecting light like rubies, completely different from the low-key black body.

Chu Xingsi walked by quickly, the hem of his clothes swept across the flowers, stained with water droplets, and the watermarks spread on the fabric, trying to catch his footsteps, but the fragrance of flowers did not contaminate him at all.

"My lord is here, and the things are here." Ding Ban was not here, only a servant from the mansion was guarding here, "I don't know who sent the things."

Seeing him coming, the boy muttered, and Chu Xingsi walked over quickly. Sure enough, there were two big boxes of peaches at the door. The bamboo basket was quite full, and the peaches inside were moist and pleasant. , People want to take a bite when they look at it.

Chu Xingsi glanced at it and said, "Did you say anything when you delivered it?"

"I didn't say anything, I just said that the peaches at home were ripe, and there were too many to finish, so I brought them here." The boy replied.

"Well, it's nothing, it was given by a friend before." Chu Xingsi probably already had a candidate in mind, so he said, "Take half of the basket to me, and share the rest among the houses."

"Oh, yes." The boy replied and moved the things around neatly.

When Chu Xingsi went back to the house, he found that the door was open. When he went in, he saw that it was Mei Jing.

He was dressed in black, looking at the things on the table with a serious face, when he heard a movement from outside the door, he looked out and happened to meet him.

Mei Jing looked a little angry, but Chu Xingsi remained calm: "What's wrong."

In fact, he was asking why he came here. The white cloth on the table seemed to have changed, as if it had been lifted and covered by someone. Coupled with Mei Jing's serious expression, Chu Xingsi almost knew what happened.

Chu Xingsi asked openly, but Mei Jing felt a little uncomfortable.

"It's nothing." Mei Jing was very angry when he saw these things on the table, but when he thought that this matter was settled a long time ago, he couldn't get angry anymore.

"Oh." Hearing what he said, Chu Xingsi ignored him, sat down beside him, and stretched out his hand to lift the white silk handkerchief.

A white jade box, a celadon teacup, a slender lancet and a silver needle roll are displayed on a brown-red wooden tray.

There was less than half a cup of blood in the teacup, and a silver needle was pulled out alone, and there was a lot of blood on it, which looked badly stained, and some bloodshots stuck to the tray.

Chu Xingsi took out the teacup and put it in front of Mei Jing, raised his head to signal, Mei Jing took it and pushed it aside, then took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve.

Mei Jing took his hand, rolled up the sleeve from the wrist, and pushed it to the elbow. There was a trace of scarlet on the white elbow, and there were red spots pierced by silver needles.

Mei Jing pressed lightly, but Chu Xingsi shrank back abruptly, but was caught.

"It hurts?" Mei Jing looked up at him.

"Hmm." Chu Xingsi said that of course it hurts, the skin was punctured, bleeding, and so much was taken, of course it was very painful.

"A few more times." Hearing what he said, Mei Jing became more careful, wet the veil with water from the side, then gently wiped off his remaining bloodstains, dipped her fingers in some ointment, and gently wiped it on him past.

"At least two or three times." Chu Xingsi thought he would scold him, but he didn't expect it.

It takes at least half a month to feed a blood silk with blood, and it is fed once every three days. It has already been fed once, and today it will be taken away, and it will be enough for three more times.

Now that the blood silkworm female is still there, it is not so easy to re-feed an uncontrolled one alone.

Chu Xingsi also raised a blood silkworm before, and he has been with him for a long time. Last time, in order to save Ning Yumo, he had to plant a blood silkworm for him, but that blood silkworm was a derivative of his mother. If the mother worm dies, the larvae die too.

And now his female worm has been taken out, so now he has to raise a female worm again.

I remember that when he was still on the mountain, the old man directly planted the female worms for him. At that time, he was dying. After emergency treatment, he barely had a glimmer of life.

After the female worm was planted, his body was still recovering day by day.

Looking at the hot sun outside, Chu Xingsi suddenly missed the scene when he was on the mountain. There are many trees on the mountain, all of which grow tall and prosperous, with overlapping branches and leaves. Only those small gaps can reveal a little sunlight Light, at that time the gaps between the trees were full of sunlight.

Passing through the dark green, leaving streaks of light and shadow in the air, the projection on the ground is also mottled.

"Okay." Mei Jing put down his sleeves after finishing, "I'm leaving."

After saying that, Mei Jing grabbed the teacup on the table and left the room.

Chu Xingsi felt a little bored, propped his chin with one hand, and looked out of the window. There are still twelve days, how should he survive.

desalination garden

At this time, the rice seedlings are growing very well, and they can be harvested around mid-July, but it is only mid-June now, and there is still one month left.

Today, Prince Min, Prince Rui and the Crown Prince finally got together.

After all, today is June [-], the beginning of autumn.

According to the custom, there will be a banquet in the palace today, and there will be dumplings, sauced elbow, roast duck, eggplant and so on.

Pear, crisp and juicy, sweet and sour, can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and promote body fluid, and relieve autumn dryness.

Lotus root, nourishing yin and clearing away heat, nourishing the lungs and relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the nerves, nourishing the spleen and stomach.

Longan, relieve fatigue, relieve autumn dryness.

These three are also necessary.

Today the palace is holding a family banquet, which can be regarded as a relationship with the royal family. On the left side are the royal family members, and on the right side are the emperor's sons.

The crown prince is at the front, Prince Rui is fourth, and Prince Min is seventh. They are ranked according to age, but these three are the most outstanding among the emperor's sons.

The crown prince was born by the empress of Yuan Dynasty, King Min was born by his successor, and Prince Rui was born by Concubine Li Gui.

But now apart from Concubine Li Gui, there are no more Yuan Empresses or successors, and the emperor has no more empresses. Now he is accompanied by another emperor's recent favorite, Xun Zhaoyi.

The emperor was very happy to have her in his arms, and had a great time drinking. The clan members were also busy greeting each other and connecting with the emperor.

During the banquet, there were singers and dancers singing and dancing, and rows of beauties were delicate and soft.

Light yellow and tender green, smiling like a flower.

The emperor chatted and laughed with the others, while Ning Yumo ate and drank there by himself, and sat quietly by himself if he had nothing else to do.

His slender and fair fingers picked up the jasper jug, and poured another glass. The clear wine drew a graceful arc in the air, and fell into the glass again without revealing a single drop.

Ning Yumo held the wine glass, raised his head slightly and saw Zhang Zhuolin, he raised his glass to signal Ning Yumo, and Ning Yumo also respected him.

After putting down his wine glass, Ning Yumo thought again of that day in March, when Fengmanlou first opened, he was quite reserved the first time he saw him, he looked polite, but in fact he was quite scheming.

The banquet ended, and the guests also left. The banquet in the palace was held quite late, and it was already dark when they left the palace gate. There were horse-drawn carriages from all the prefectures waiting outside.

"My lord, side concubine Xu." Seeing them coming out, the servant immediately went forward to greet them and put the stool away.

The maid supported Concubine Xu to go up, and Ning Yumo wanted to follow up at first, but suddenly there was a figure behind her, and her footsteps stopped.

"My lord?" Xu Dongji asked softly, stretching out a hand in the carriage.

"Ah, it's okay, you go back first." Ning Yumo stepped back and ordered the servant, "Send the side concubine back."

"Yes, my lord." The servant led the horse around, got up and drove the carriage away.

Ning Yumo walked towards the shade of the tree in the distance, and in the thick shadow of the tree, a thin figure stood there quietly.

"Why are you here?" Ning Yumo asked, "What's the matter?"

"Yes, very urgent." The voice of the visitor was gentle and firm, it was Chu Xingsi.

"Let's talk while walking." Ning Yumo didn't ask him why he came here, but walked beside him very naturally.

"Okay." Chu Xingsi responded, and walked outside with him.

Ning Yumo is wearing a jade red robe embroidered with colorful koi today, while Chu Xingsi is wearing a cloisonne embroidered robe with water patterns, one red and one blue, both of them are about the same size, but they look good when they walk together.

long frontage

Changlin Street sells goods during the day and becomes a gathering place for various snacks at night.

"Have you eaten dumplings today?" Chu Xingsi asked casually through the crowd with him.

"I ate it during the palace dinner." Ning Yumo also agreed.

"Then do you eat kebabs?" Chu Xingsi asked, but his footsteps had already moved to the side of the kebab stand.

Although he asked, he was just asking.