small county magistrate

"Master——" In the afternoon, the sun shone warmly on me. I lay down on the stone table in the yard, looked up at the sun, and sighed.I just cleaned up a lot of messy things, and I was so tired that every bone in my body was crying.I wonder when my master has dealt with so many things.

"Master—" Xiao Fu ran over lightly, "Is he still awake?"

I nodded sadly.

"How wonderful this is!" Xiaofu was obviously very irritable, scratching his head, "I never thought he would be the prince. When he came to see you in the morning, I thought he was just a friend you made somewhere. Woolen cloth."

"You think my master is just like you, and I have nothing to do with friends outside." I sighed, and thought of the boy in red again, "The prince won't go back, so what can I do?" With a long sigh . "This is good, I sent a few restaurant owners away, but the yard was messy and no one cleaned it up. The prince passed out drunk in my yamen, and now I finally got him back to lie on my bed. My lord, I I don’t even have to take a nap.” Looking at the cold stone table, thinking that I’m going to sleep on this place at noon, I feel really desolate. "Where's Miss Ruhua?"

"It seems that he hasn't left yet." Xiao Fu said.

"What about General Ying?"

"It has been arranged to rest in the guest room." Xiao Fu said.

I let out a long sigh. "Call Ruhua over here first." Touching the mark on her forehead, she couldn't help but sighed again.

Ruhua came over with a smile on her face.As soon as we met, he was so considerate, "Master, you are tired, let Ruhua accompany you to relieve boredom."

"How much did you earn in Yicuilou in the morning?" I lay on the table, not caring about my image in front of her, anyway, she saw my image at its worst.

"Eight thousand taels." Ruhua smiled. "The prince took out the bank notes and put them in my hand, but it was a heavy stack."

"Just a dance in the morning?" I couldn't help but lament the injustice of heaven.

"Yes." Ruhua smiled.

"You already knew he was the prince." I squinted at her, "I knew he was looking for me, why did you still play tricks on me like this!" I touched my forehead, and then looked at her forehead being drawn by me The vivid Bingmei couldn't help but sigh.

Ruhua covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, and sat down gracefully, "Isn't this sum of mine just to cut off the crown prince's extravagant expectations of you, master? You should thank me, master."

I snorted.

Like a flower, he said with a smile, "I never thought that the prince of this dynasty would be so fanatical for a person who met only once by chance, and worked so hard to please you, my lord. When I saw him coming to Yicuilou to hire someone , I was really taken aback."

I snort again.

"It's a pity, General Ying. If he hadn't come, I'd just go down with a knife, cut off everything that deserves to be cut, and avenge everything that deserves to be avenged." Ruhua's eyebrows and eyes were like knives, her words were sullen, and her expression was slightly sad, "just in time When the prince is frustrated in love, he uses alcohol to relieve his worries, when he is defenseless—"

"Ruhua..." I rubbed my temples recklessly, "I haven't paid close attention to you for a long time, I didn't expect you to grow so big."

"Thank you, sir, for your compliment." Ruhua put away the hideous look between her brows with a smile, and still had the appearance of Xieyuhua.

"When the prince wakes up, I will send someone to take him back." Thinking of the young man in red who was still lying drunk on my bed, I said for a while.

"What about me?" Ruhua suddenly called out.

"You can just be your Yicuilou red card and your proprietress with peace of mind, can't you?" Headache.

"Li Fei—you—" Ruhua's expression changed, and she pointed at me, "You—"

"I don't want to have too much to do with the imperial court anymore..." I was distressed, "I beg you, don't make troubles, let General Ying escort him back to the capital, I will continue to live my life, and you will continue to be Your lady boss, is life not good now?"

"What about Mo Qiao?" Ru Hua glared at me for a while, then suddenly calmed down and sat down quietly, "Do you still want Mo Qiao?"

I sighed. "Instead of being sad, it's better to retreat separately, the sea and the sky will be brighter." I put down my left hand, touched the fabric of the calf, and gently rubbed the skin of the calf through the fabric.A faint tingling spread out in his hand. "Ru Hua, you only know half of many things."

"I know half of it? Then what else do I not know? Tell me!" Ruhua stood up and took a step back, "You tell me? Mr. Li, tell me, what is worse than my hatred?" Big? Is there something I don't know? Is there anything that could make me pass up my chance?"

My heart is so sad.Why is this little girl so strong? "You better not know." He sighed again.The afternoon sun shone on my body, and I felt a little dizzy.Is the sun too hot?Or was it too much time in the sun?

My body... After all, it's not as good as it used to be...

Ruhua took another step back, and behind her, autumn leaves fluttered down like butterflies, "Li Fei, I really misread you!" She scolded, Ruhua's chest heaved uncomfortably, but her lips moved, she turned her head and left.

A red leaf fell and landed on the cyan stone table.I flicked my sleeves and wrapped it into my sleeves.

"You are not worthy of my brother at all!"

Those who left, let go of such a sentence.

is it?

Another yellow leaf fell, hovered a few times, and stopped quietly on the blue stone table.The leaves are soft from the stem, yellow and wrinkled, just like my weak mood at the moment.

"You are not worthy of my brother at all!"

Mo Qiao... did you hear that...

With a slight movement of the hand inadvertently, the tip of the red leaf in the sleeve rubbed against the skin of the wrist, and suddenly there was a faint warmth, which was the light of autumn.

I raised my head alertly, it was Ying Shao.

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With a slight movement of the hand inadvertently, the tip of the red leaf in the sleeve rubbed against the skin of the wrist, and suddenly there was a faint warmth, which was the light of autumn.

I raised my head alertly, it was Ying Shao.

Autumn is speechless.

The flying leaves are all gone.

The sky is like washing.

The red leaves in the sleeves are thin and slender, but there seems to be a steady stream of warmth flowing out from the tip of the leaves.

Ying Shao came over and sat down quietly.

"General Ying was successful in escorting him today. Congratulations." I cheered up and said with a smile.

He didn't answer, he stretched out his hand, his slightly rough fingers brushed across my forehead, Ying Shao brushed aside the messy black hair on my forehead, and put his index finger on the lip print, "What is this?"

The voice was a little stiff, I raised my head and glanced at him carefully, but I couldn't see any angry look on his face.

"I left it after playing around with others." I said with an apologetic smile, "I lost my good career as an official. If I had known that the person who came today was the current prince, I would have to kill the prince in the yamen no matter what I said." All the affairs were moved out, and I got a good impression of being diligent and caring for the people.”

"You are not such a person." He interrupted me abruptly with a soft sentence from General Ying.

I feel a little unhappy.His general put on the appearance of being a close friend of mine, and he did something that hit the nail on the head, as if he himself was my master's good teacher and friend, as if he could see how deeply I was.But—this is what I am most upset about.

"What kind of person does the general think you are?" There was a consistent smile on his face, which made me feel how beautiful life is, how happy life is, and how sunny the world is. I didn't expect that I would have a different image in the general's heart."

Ying Shao frowned slightly. "Master Li, I don't quite understand what's going on in the hearts of your civil officials. I always speak frankly. I sincerely want to make you a friend, but you have always been perfunctory, hypocritical. I have seen a lot of officials. No. You don’t need to block me with that kind of polite talk.”

"Then how does the general want the subordinate to speak?" I smiled brightly, "If the general always thinks that the subordinate is a different kind of person, if the general always wants to find something different from the subordinate, if the general thinks that I He is the kind of person who hides his official position, then, I just want to say, General, you have found the wrong person. Li Fei is incompetent, has no talent and no virtue, and just wants to live his life in peace, doing nothing and not seeking attention. I don’t The general’s great talent and grand ambitions. If I want to be safe, I have to get used to putting on the official face of the general. The lower officials don’t take it as a luxury.” Damn it!I seem to have offended three people today.First the arrogant little prince, then Ruhua, and then the general.

"You—" Ying Shao stood up abruptly.

"Xiaofu, send the general back to his room to rest." I waved my hand and called someone over. "I'm sorry, General, I'm a little sick, so I can't accompany you."

Ying Shao's tall body stood motionless, his hawk-like eyes stared at me for a while, and finally stepped up and left.

Where the autumn wind passes, the red leaves fall.

When the leaves were flying, I opened my eyes wide and stared at his back. Ying Shao's back is wider than Mo Qiao's, and his figure is bigger than Mo Qiao's, but why, that waist is so similar...

Some angry people quickly disappeared around the bend in the path.

I let out a sigh of relief and slumped on the table.

How can a word be so tiring...

Lying lazily on the table, thinking of Ying Shao, he is proud of his official career and high-spirited, making friends is also a feat of pride, but looking at himself, he looks more like a dingy mouse.I, Li Fei, He De, and how can I make the celebrity in front of you want to get close and become a confidant!

Yes...how can I...

With a sigh, he took out the red leaves in his sleeve and enjoyed them carefully.

Red leaf note, Acacia sent in one vein.

The fingertips are delicately drawing the thin stems with beautiful lines on the red leaves, the faint warmth flows along the fingertips to the wrists, and the small satisfaction in the bottom of my heart rises like spring water, full of heart .

Actually... I don't want much...

As long as I have a little happiness, it is enough, why, why do you have to give me too much?

He slumped on the stone table, his face pressed against the cool bluestone table, his eyes were slightly hot.I closed my eyes, a tingling pain came from my left leg, I put my hand down gently, and rubbed lightly.

"Master..." Xiaofu's voice was soft, as if he was right beside him.

I answered.

The slight sound of a porcelain cup hitting a stone table.I opened my eyes and looked up, and saw Xiaofu put a bowl of white fungus soup on the table, "My master ate so many hot things in the morning, but I still have to eat something clear."

There was a sudden shock in my heart.

I sigh.

"Xiao Fu, shouldn't Master stay here?"

"It's better here, it's peaceful and quiet." Xiao Fu said.

I nodded.Very emotional.Although now there is one more general, one more prince, life is a little more irritating, but in general, here is still very quiet, at least, I don't have to think too much, and force myself too much.

Except for... the occasional miss...

"Actually, I don't want the master to be promoted at all. I wish the prince could go back to the capital as soon as possible, so as not to be troublesome here." Xiao Fu said.

I gave a big nod.

"Originally, the mountain was high and the emperor was far away. We live here in peace and contentment, but after that general came, there will be no peace here."

"Yeah..." I felt the same way.Thinking of how we cried with Xiaofu three years ago, and thinking about our life now, it's really a world of difference.

"Besides, master, you are a person who has been injured. Xiaofu sees you talking with those people with a smile on your face, and Xiaofu feels uncomfortable." Xiaofu said in a choked voice.

I was very moved for a moment, thinking that I am lucky to have such a loyal servant.Moved in my heart, I hugged Xiaofu and said, "Xiaofu, you have been with my ineffective master for many years... The master has never done anything to you... Tell me, what wish does the master help you realize, master Do your best."

"As long as I can serve the master for the rest of my life, Xiao Fu has nothing to ask for." Xiao Fu said, "I just hope that the master can treat our servants well..."

"It's natural." I nodded repeatedly. "My master will not treat you badly."

"Also, lord, Xiaofu has no parents and has been with lord all his life. You are my reborn parents, lord. You said that day that you would betroth Miss Xiaolan to me..." Xiaofu said coyly.

"Master, I will send someone to Xiaolan's house tomorrow to propose a marriage." I replied with all my mouth.Although it was just a casual joke that day, I didn't expect this kid to still remember it today.

"Master, you asked Xiaofu to buy two taels of Longjing tea leaves yesterday. Xiaofu paid for it himself. Can you pay it back now, sir?" Xiaofu said boldly.

"Of course." I touched my sleeves, took out a few taels of silver, and put them into Xiaofu's hands.

"And master, when Xiaofu was tidying up your study yesterday, he accidentally knocked over your inkstone and stained one of your paintings. Master, you shouldn't blame Xiaofu, right?"

I was startled, "Which one?"

"It's the painting you just painted a few days ago, master. The person playing the piano in it was dirty. I dried it and put this painting together with other scrolls. Master, little one Since I was seven years old, I have been your schoolboy, Master, you have never beaten or scolded me..."

A vein popped out on his forehead.That's the picture my master drew for five days.I sighed, "That's natural. Master, of course no one blames you. It's not intentional to miss you."

"Master, you are so kind to Xiaofu." Xiaofu sighed, which made me feel very satisfied as a master. "Master, when Xiaofu knocked over Master's inkstone yesterday, he not only stained the painting, but also stained a pair of words that Master was reading. Master, you will not blame me. Xiaofu has always been hands and feet since he was a child. Unfavorable and clumsy, but master, you have never blamed me. Xiaofu has always been very grateful to master in his heart."

There was another blue vein on his forehead.That's the word my master bought with a hundred taels of silver.Thinking of what I said just now, and looking at the bowl of white fungus soup on the table, I couldn't help suppressing my anger, "Forget it. I don't want to blame the master today. Tell me, what else did you mess up?"

"Master, you also stained the fan you painted." Xiaofu said, "Master, when I cooked tremella soup for you just now, I almost burned my fingers. Xiaofu hasn't cooked anything for many years. Today A cook was driven away by the little prince, so Xiao Fu had to cook himself."

I stretched out my hand, and with my fingertips, I pressed down the blue veins on my forehead.

"What else?" I smiled kindly.

"It's gone, but master, there were ten sets of fans that you put aside at that time, and they all seemed to be dirty..." Xiaofu glanced at me cautiously, and held out a finger pitifully, "Look, master." , when I was cooking white fungus soup for you, master, I accidentally burned my hand to a blister..."

I tried my best to restrain myself, and retracted the trembling hands that stretched out towards Xiaofu's neck.

"Master feels at ease today and won't be angry. Just say..."

"Xiaofu also broke a vase." Xiaofu said, "Master, Xiaofu has followed you since he was a child..."

The veins on the forehead were throbbing.Master, I scratched and pulled down the hair on my forehead that Ying Shao had pulled up just now, covering it indiscriminately, and said with a charming smile, "What else?"

"Actually, master, after the inkstone was knocked over, it fell to the ground and broke." Xiao Fu looked at me and said, "Master, Xiao Fu knows that you will not..."

"Yes, my master will definitely not punish you." Master, my hair was disheveled, and I smiled brightly.

"That's good. I knew you were good to me, Master," Xiaofu raised his head and smiled, "Master, I really feel at ease now, Xiaofu. Apart from these important things, there is nothing else."

I was greatly relieved. "Gone?"

"It's gone." Xiaofu smiled, "But when I was packing those things, there was a small glass cup, which was broken by my foot in my haste."

"A small glass cup..." I moaned while holding my forehead.

"That's right. Master, I know that your calligraphy and paintings are valuable. If the little one is damaged, I am worried that I will be scolded by the master. I didn't expect you to be so kind..." Xiaofu said happily.

"Go..." vibrato.

"Master Han also said yesterday that the master will definitely make Xiaofu suffer for these calligraphy and paintings. Unexpectedly, the master is still very kind to Xiaofu..."

"Go..." the intermittent trill.

"Master, don't worry, Xiaofu thought that he would be more loyal to you, master. I promise, I will never mess with the things in the master's study in the future...Master...what do you want to say?" Xiaofu looked at me strangely and gasped.

"Go to hell!" I roared violently, my face twisted, "Go to hell with me—"

It was a warm autumn afternoon, but I saw a young man with disheveled hair and phoenix eyes trembling, stretched out his paws to grab Xiaofu's neck,

"Go to hell! Go to hell! My glazed cup—the nine-pan colored glazed cup I bought for 500 taels of silver—"

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"Yi! Shirt! No! Whole! That! One! Person——No! Yes! Old! Master! You!" Xiao Fu gritted his teeth and said word by word.

There was a bang in my head.

"Master, how many times have I seen you like this!" Xiao Fu said.

I smile wryly.He lowered his head and stared blankly at the bowl of vinegar soup in front of him.This kind of taste can only be tasted by one person after depression.

Xiao Fu looked at me, sighed, put away the dishes, and walked out.

Then Ying Shao, what did I do to him?

A clank man with strong bones, if it's true what's wrong, I'm afraid I should keep it in my heart, grit my teeth, and won't insist on it.

When did I become so weak?

When I looked up, I could see Xiaofu walking from the open window in my room, and I couldn't help but think of three years ago, when I was in the same mood and with this kind of person.The difference is that at that time, the rain hit the sad person,

At this moment, I am well in Fenzhou.

Yes, I can stay in Fenzhou well.

When people think of this, they feel at ease, and they still take their donkeys out for a stroll every morning, and come back after a stroll.

Every morning, I still eat a bowl of Mrs. Hao's tofu.The old lady has a round and chubby little grandson. I named it randomly, and I actually got a month of free tofu.

I can't help but secretly sigh that the season is no longer, thinking that when the new department was about to pass, Fengqionglou, the largest wine shop in the capital, sent people to ask for a word with a thousand gold, but it was still too small, so they returned with a pen.

Today's three words, only one month's tofu money.

I can't help but sigh in my heart.But I still go to drink tofu soup happily every day.

After drinking the tofu soup, I still went to see the long-lived old man Hu. Even though his father Hu lived happily, his teeth were still hard and loud.

However, I will never go to Yicui Tower again.

Haven't seen Ruhua for a few days.

I'm afraid that people are extremely sad, and they don't want to see people like me anymore.

It's all over.

But if you don't go to see Ruhua, you still have to buy flowers. In the past, I still had a few words with that sharp-mouthed flower girl, Lan'er, and let the girl wrap flowers while squinting at Xiaofu, blushing and bewildered.

life...

Laughing bitterly, he saw the figures in the courtyard.

The prince was depressed for several days, and he didn't ask anyone to go out to play with him again.Every afternoon, I read miscellaneous books from my study and moved a stool to sit in my yard.

As for me, I still take my afternoon nap according to the old routine.Because General Ying has already come to Beijing, I don't know why, but the guest room he used to live in is vacant, just enough for me to live in.

The little prince had a gloomy look on his brows, I just wrote it down in my heart, and didn't want to ask in detail.I went to say hello every day, but he didn't have much to say, so I came back graciously.

It's just that one day when I woke up in the afternoon and hadn't had a drink yet, I saw Xiaofu hurried over and said mysteriously, "Master, the prince is injured."

I was shocked.The tea bowl in his hand almost fell to the ground.Quickly asked, "When did it happen?"

"I don't know either." Xiao Fu said, "It's just that when I washed the Prince's clothes in the morning, I found that his underwear and jacket were stained with blood."

I was shocked.

His eyes couldn't help but look at the red shadow in the courtyard, the young man was still sitting and reading a book, but he was extremely quiet.

First secretly followed Xiaofu to look at the clothes.

The clear water from the well, when the clothes were soaked in it, traces of blood trickled out.

There wasn't much blood, but the skirt of the left shoulder was also torn, probably someone tried to stab the left heart with a sword but failed.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

This is like a flower, what should I do...

I don't know what she said to the prince, so that he was injured and kept silent.

Fu hurriedly rushed to the yard to see the prince.When I came in front of this person, I realized that every day at noon he was sitting in the sun in my yard holding a book and he was not concentrating on studying, but lying on the table with the book under his face, squinting his eyes and looking at the autumn warmth. sleep every day.

Bright saliva flowed out and flowed on my book.

I couldn't look past it and turned my eyes away.I remembered that a book was moved out of my study every day, and I don't know how many books were stained with his saliva.

Uh... Maybe it should be called "Dragon Saliva"...

Really heartbreaking my book...

But the little prince's face was rosy in sleep,

I couldn't bear to wake up the little boy, so I had to go back to the room and take a book to pass the time. After a cup of tea, I went out to have a look. He was still asleep in autumn, so I sighed and came back, and then I picked up the book to read.

I don’t know when I bought a mountain and village book. It’s about lonely ghosts and people running around. It’s really lively, but I always think about the injured young boy, and I can’t read a few pages. I ran to check again, but they still didn't wake up.

After repeating this three times, in the end he was really impatient and couldn't bear to wake him up, so he had to stand aside with his hands down.

The little prince was dressed in red, sleeping soundly, his breathing was heavy, and the red leaves were flying all over the table in autumn.

It wasn't until after three o'clock in the afternoon that the little prince rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, woke up, and muttered something in his mouth, it was still sleep talk in a dream.

I straightened my sleeves again and again, "His Royal Highness is awake, I have been waiting for the prince for a long time."

The little prince yelled, as if he was frightened, he stared at me with rounded eyes, looked at me for a long time, saw that my heart was trembling with uneasiness, just now he snorted, turned his head around, and turned a The black head turned to me, "What's the matter?"

"I heard that His Highness was shocked when he was assassinated yesterday—" I said.

"Hmph, don't worry about it!" I was interrupted by the prince before I finished speaking. I was at a loss for words, and I didn't know how to answer such a childish sentence.

Silence for a while.

The prince didn't even say a word.Sitting with his back to me for a while, he seemed to feel bored, got up angrily, closed the book and was about to leave.

I closed my eyes, put my hands on my forehead, and watched him close the pages like this, and also closed the saliva that was flowing between the pages just now... Uh... "Dragon Saliva"...

"Your Majesty, please return to the palace as soon as possible." I knelt down behind me.

The figure in red stopped for a moment, stood motionless for a while, and then said in a muffled voice, "Li Fei, are you just driving me away so impatiently?"

"I don't dare!" I hastily reported in detail, "The public security in this county is not good recently, I'm afraid it will be bad for His Highness the Crown Prince, please return to the palace as soon as possible with the dragon's body as the most important thing."

The prince snorted twice, "If you are willing to enter the palace with me, I will go back."

"what?!"

I froze for a moment.stunned.

"How is it?" Maybe I was stunned for too long and did not respond, the prince turned around hastily, "How is it?"

I was too shocked to speak.

Why is this prince so reckless, even worse than me back then.

"Don't you really want to see your master? You can see him when you come to Beijing. How about it?" The prince looked anxious, seeing that I didn't respond, after thinking about it, he hurriedly added conditions, "But you You are only allowed to meet him, you are not allowed to do anything, and then you will come back to live in my East Palace. Your master belongs to my father."

I was speechless.

This prince, how could he be so arrogant!Who does Mo Qiao belong to?Who am I?Hahaha, is it his family's imperial land in the whole world, is it true that people in the whole world are also?

"The talent of a lowly official is not enough for the post of the capital." I said.

"You..." The prince stared at me angrily for a long time, then snorted and said in a muffled voice, "It's fine if you don't go. At worst, I'll be here..."

"..." I was speechless for a while.

"Hmph! Li Fei!" The prince grabbed the book bitterly, and looked at me sideways, a knife shot out from his black childish eyes, and stabbed me to death one by one, "I'm just staying in your yamen, I'm so annoying You! Hmph! Even if I was stabbed to death by someone, hacked to death with a single knife, and turned into a hedgehog by thousands of arrows, I will stay in your yamen, die in your yamen, and live in your yamen. At that time, my father will send someone to your yamen, I will see if you dare!"

"..." What a scary threat!What a threat!

"I don't dare." I waved off my sleeves respectfully, "The small county is dangerous, so I hope the prince will return to Beijing as soon as possible."

"Humph—" With a wave of the red sleeve, the prince left angrily.