Gusu snow

The night is dark.

Qian Qiu twirls the pen she bought, sits at the table and looks at the moon outside the window.

In the middle of the month, the moon is particularly beautiful.But Qianqiu didn't have the heart to appreciate it.

He just returned from kneeling in the ancestral hall for an hour. Although his knee hurts a bit, it is no longer the same as before, and he can only crawl because of the pain.

One hour after dinner every night, he and Yun Shen would go to the ancestral hall to kneel for an hour. This has been a common occurrence since Yunfeng passed away.

He kept this pen in his clothes all the time, but he still didn't dare to take it out to Yun Shen.

Although this is indeed a pen made in Chuzhou, it doesn't look very good-looking.Even he himself felt that the pattern on this pen was not at all the same as Yun Shen and his pen style.

It's all because I was inexplicably flustered and upset at the time, so I didn't have time to look carefully.

Annoyed, Qian Qiu put down the pen, and took out the jade pendant that he never left from his underwear.

The word "Xian" glows faintly under the moonlight.

Qi Beizhe's smiling words rang vaguely in his ears: "After half a month, the emperor of Chu Kingdom will visit our Qi Kingdom."

Half a month passed in a flash, and there were only two days left.

Qianqiu is almost sure that Qi Beizhe knows everything, at least he can be sure that Qi Beizhe must know that he is from Chu.

Yes, he is an out-and-out Chu countryman, but he came to Gusu when he was seven years old, was adopted by Yun Shen, and lived in Lin'an, Qi country for ten years.

Qianqiu threw the jade pendant on the ground in a fit of anger, the jade pendant made a crisp sound when it touched the floor, but it did not shatter.Qian Qiu stared angrily at the jade pendant for a long time, but finally decided to stand up and pick it up.

"Qianqiu? Are you asleep?"

Just when he got up to pick up the jade pendant, Yun Shen's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

Qian Qiu was flustered for a while, not knowing where to look, but when he heard the door being pushed open, Qian Qiu hurriedly picked up the jade pendant on the ground and threw it on the bed, when he turned around, he saw Yun Shen walking in: "Yun Shen, what's the matter with you so late? ?"

Yun Shen glanced at the bed intentionally or unintentionally, and said with a gentle smile, "I heard that Qianqiu bought a pen for me in the market today?"

Qian Qiu began to scold Zhu Jiang angrily in his heart: "Ah, yes."

Yun Shen smiled and said: "Then why not give it to me? Or does Qianqiu want to keep it for himself to practice calligraphy?"

Qian Qiu wiped off the cold sweat that didn't exist on his head, and said with a dry smile: "No, no. I originally wanted to give it to you, but I took a look and thought it was not, not very suitable for you, so I kept it for myself."

He felt a little embarrassed, and moved to the outside room with a haha.Yun Shen smiled slightly, with curved eyebrows and eyes, walked around him and walked directly to the table, picked up the pen that Qian Qiu had left on it at will: "This is it?"

Qianqiu closed her eyes in despair.

That pen was indeed quite different from Yun Shen's pen.Especially the patterns on it are full of colorful flowers competing for splendor, so romantic.

But the pens before looking at Yunshen are either with elegant wood grain, or with only a little embellishment on them.That pen is simply not in the same style as the previous pens.

Qianqiu didn't even dare to imagine Yun Shen holding the pen.

Yun Shen also seemed to be choked up, and after a pause, he smiled slightly: "Well, not bad. The weight is right, and the pattern is unique, I like it."

Qian Qiu said dryly: "I know I bought it wrong."

Yun Shen put away the pen, said with a slight smile, "No, no matter what Qianqiu gives, I will like it very much. The important thing is not the things, but Qianqiu's heart."

So Qianqiu felt as if he had eaten honey, and slept extremely soundly all night.

Yun Shen returned to his room, and Zhu Jiang, who was sleeping outside, got up to help him undress, and wondered, "Master, did you really bring this pen back?"

"Ah."

Zhu Jiang Xin said bluntly: "I don't know what the young master thinks about this one. I chose this one. I wanted to stop him and ask him to see if he wanted to see it again, but he left in a hurry. There is no way, I can only pay first."

Yun Shen asked: "Why is Qianqiu so anxious?"

Zhu Jiang thought about it for a while, and said: "There seems to be nothing special, but at that time he heard a few words of Chuzhou dialect... Oh, he saw a person, I heard that the person was very good-looking, the young master stood there It took a long time to see it on the street.”

"Really?" Yun Shen gave Zhu Jiang his coat, "Chuzhou dialect? Qianqiu probably doesn't understand Chuzhou dialect."

"Yes..." Zhu Jiang took the coat and turned around to put it on the shelf, "So I told the young master. The content is that the emperor of Chu State and the princess of Chu State will come to Qi State the day after tomorrow, and those who set up stalls will take advantage of it." There are a lot of people coming to Laian, so that we can do a good business and earn more money, but the young master suddenly became anxious."

Yun Shen slightly lowered his eyes: "Okay, I see. It's getting late, you can go down and rest."

"Yes……"

Xi Wei, Qian Qiu faintly felt that her waist was tight, and turned around in a daze, but still felt that something was pressing on her.

He squinted his eyes in a daze, and felt around the bed with his hand, and suddenly touched something smooth and moist.

Qian Qiu angrily closed her eyes and stuffed the jade pendant under the pillow, and was about to go back to sleep, but couldn't fall asleep anyway.

He sat up and looked at the dawn through the curtain, and pressed his waist, which had been crushed all night, and suddenly felt a soreness and pain.

He pressed it for a while and felt much more comfortable, then took out the jade pendant and carefully put it on the inner coat, then dressed, tied up his hair and washed.

As soon as I went out, I saw that Zhu Jiang was already busy, and Lao Liu was not there, so he was in charge of everything.

However, Zhu Jiang was quite surprised to see Qianqiu. He was stunned for a few moments before he dropped his work and ran over to ask, "Master? Why did you wake up so early? Breakfast is not ready yet."

Qian Qiu said: "Oh, my back hurts a bit, I couldn't sleep, so I got up to have a look."

"Back pain?" Zhu Jiang glanced at Qian Qiu's waist, "Did the young master do something last night?"

Qianqiu: "Get out and do your thing."

Zhu Jiang smiled and walked away: "Young master, if you have a back pain, you still need to go to the young master. It may be more comfortable to ask the young master to massage for you."

This sentence is very real.Qianqiu still glared at Zhu Jiang.Sometimes Zhu Jiang joked with Qianqiu, big or small, but Qianqiu never got angry with him, and Yun Shen never cared about Zhu Jiang's personality.

But most of the time, Zhu Jiang is still conscientiously being the little manager in his mansion and Yun Shen's book boy.

Qianqiu walked all the way to Yunshen's room, knocked on the door, and heard a warm voice coming in from the door.

Qianqiu pushed the door open and entered, and sure enough, he saw that Yun Shen had put on his clothes and tied his hair, had finished washing, and was grinding ink, the table was covered with the paper Qianqiu bought yesterday, and of course the colorful pens Qianqiu bought back.

Yun Shen kept moving his hands, and said, "What's the matter with Qianqiu?"

Qian Qiu faltered a little embarrassedly: "I, I have a backache."

Yun Shen's movements imperceptibly faltered, and he said, "Why does your back hurt?"

"Come on, I slept with something on my pillow all night, and I didn't even feel it. I only felt it when the sky was bright." Qian Qiu said helplessly.

Yun Shen leaned Mo on the side, walked over, covered Qian Qiu's hand on his waist, and said, "Here?"

Qianqiu was caught off guard, and hurriedly dodged the heat sprayed by Yun Shen's speech, his heartbeat accelerated suddenly, his ears started to turn red, he nodded and said: "Mmm..."

Yun Shen raised the corner of his mouth and rubbed Qianqiu's waist with appropriate strength, which really made Qianqiu feel a lot better, but after all, his sweetheart was right in front of him, so Qianqiu couldn't relax at all.

He could only look at the side face of Yun Shen who was close at hand without daring to take a breath, his heart beating wildly like a drum.

Yun Shen casually kneaded Qian Qiu's waist: "Relax, do you feel better?"

Qian Qiu's face seemed to be on fire, and she nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay."

Yun Shen Shi Shiran withdrew his hand: "Let's go, let's have breakfast."

There is nothing to do in Japan today, and Qianqiu is also idle when he is idle, thinking of asking Yunxiu to go out for a walk together.Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the door of Yunxiu's room, before he had time to ask a question, Yunxiu took the lead.

"Brother Qianqiu, Prince Jing will come in a while."

Qian Qiu was surprised and said: "Tomorrow is the day when the emperor and the princess of Chu Kingdom will come. If he is not staying in the palace, what is he doing here?"

Yunxiu said: "I don't know either, but he said, he will be there later." As he spoke, he waved the note in his hand to Qianqiu.

"But he has never been able to pass letters by flying pigeons. I don't know this time..." Before Yunxiu could finish speaking, she heard her personal maid say: "Miss, the lord is here."

Qianqiu muttered, "It's true that Cao Cao is here."

Qi Beisheng was waiting in the lobby wearing dark blue clothes, and it was still a salute for several people to come.

While bowing to Qianqiu, he felt for the first time that the four words that etiquette cannot be broken are indeed very reasonable. Look at the peaceful atmosphere now, and he is much more educated than a certain Master Fufeng.

Qi Beisheng looked a little tired, but looked at Yunxiu with concern, Yunxiu nodded slightly at him, and said: "I came today because I have something important to tell you."

Zhu Jiang handed over some cups of tea.

Qi Beisheng continued: "Brother Huang asked me to tell you that the emperor, princess and envoys of Chu Kingdom will visit Qi Kingdom tomorrow, and you must be prepared to enter the palace at any time."

Qian Qiu jumped up: "What did you say? Why should we be prepared to enter the palace at any time? We are still civilians and not officials, why should we enter the palace?"

What a joke, he, Yun Shen, Yun Xiu, which one is an official in the court?When the people from Chu State came, why did they also enter the palace?What does it matter to them?

Qi Beisheng shook his head and said, "I don't know either. But since he asked me to tell you, it's probably because of Qi Guo's face."

"No." Qianqiu waved his hand and said, "If he doesn't let us enter the palace, it won't matter if we don't come to face or not. He won't rush tomorrow to give each of us a court uniform and throw us a fake The official asked us to "temporarily serve as an official", right? "

Qi Beisheng laughed dryly: "I think you think too much."

He said: "The emperor of Chu State is the hostage given to us by the former emperor of Chu State. This time he brought his sister Chu State Princess here, maybe he wants to come and get married?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Yun Shen intentionally or unintentionally: "The emperor of the Chu Kingdom has heard of Yun Hanzhi's name for a long time."

Qian Qiu's face turned pale: "Don't talk nonsense. Princess Chu is only...only a year old, only 15 years old."

Qi Beisheng looked at Qianqiu and said: "It's already passed the age of Jiji."

Qianqiu lowered his head and did not speak, but Yun Shen took a deep look at Qianqiu, his black eyes reflected an unknown meaning.

Qi Beisheng suddenly said: "How do you know that Princess Chu is only 15 years old?"