Chapter 88

Yesterday's peach cake was half given to Zhou Baoying, but Jiang Xuening was still a little frustrated.

She dropped her head and low eyes and followed Xie Wei into the side hall.

Xie Wei didn't look at her either. He just pointed to the piano table in the hall and said, "practice."

At this time, Jiang Xuening didn't notice.

Xie Wei didn't speak much and didn't say a word. She was used to it.

Last time I was not quiet, but this time I was a little quiet.

After sitting down and playing, she felt good and wanted to hear what Xie Wei said.

But unexpectedly, when listening to the piano, Xie Wei looked out of the window all the way, until the sound of the piano curled out, then he looked back at her and said: "at the beginning, the heart was too floating, playing more quickly, the middle part was slightly better, and the end was floating again. Often after you feel satisfied, you will soon be dissatisfied. Practice makes perfect. It's better to be more familiar and calm. "

Jiang Xuening looked at her fingers, thinking.

But Xie Wei said, "the time of articulation is too fast, and the string sound is too short. You have to wait until the last rhyme is about to finish."

So, Jiang Xuening finally faintly realized -

but this discovery has nothing to do with Qin.

It's only about Xie Wei.

He doesn't always smile. The smile he often has in his eyes is usually polite. However, if his eyebrows and eyes are soft, they are always pleasant.

Perfect.

But in this side hall, he would frown and scold her with a cold smile when there was no one else.

Today, however, everything is going down.

It's not cold, it's just light.

Although it seems that there is no difference between words and deeds and ordinary times, Jiang Xuening always feels as if he is alienated and separated by a layer.

The idea came too quickly and too directly.

She didn't even have time to sort out where the feeling came from, let alone what clues to follow.

Thoughts fly back to the piano in the blink of an eye.

"Zheng..."

Jiang Xuening tried again according to Xie Wei's words, but it was worse than just now, and there was no way.

She looked at him at a loss.

The girl's eyes were a little confused. She seemed to want to ask him again, but she didn't dare to.

Xie Wei then thought, she seems to have always been like this, some afraid of their own.

It's no use talking about learning the piano.

He moved to Jiang Xuening's side, gently put the volume of book on her piano table, subconsciously bent over to put his finger on the string. However, when he leaned over, the broad sleeve robe fell down on the girl's slender arm, so he gave a pause.

The peach cake came back to him.

What does she think of him as?

Or, who does he think of himself as?

With the same look, Xie Wei reaches out his hand and moves the piano to the side.

The distance with Jiang Xuening has opened up.

With his eyes, he raised his finger, hooked the string and played the part just now. Then he returned the piano to her and said, "try again."

This time it's close and you can hear it clearly.

Jiang Xuening understood about it.

She had a try, and she was much better.

Just lift eyes to gaze at Xie Wei from the piano table by the figure, she felt more and more just across the heart of that kind of feeling, is not an illusion.

Restraint, alienation.

This feeling of keeping a distance, whether it is compared with the past smile reprimand, or compared with the past, will make her a lot easier.

After all, she wanted to be far away from Xie Wei in the beginning.

But now, I feel relaxed, but I don't know what's wrong.

But when I think about it, I don't know what's wrong.

If this short day or fear is still her illusion, then in the next few days, this "illusion" will gradually deepen into a real perception.

It's really light.

The same as Wen, the same as Qin, Xie Wei is the usual Xie Wei, who is familiar to all the civil and military people in Manchu Dynasty. But he had no temper. Jiang Xuening didn't even dare to show a little bit of willfulness and obstinacy to such a person. There were no more cakes and snacks in the side hall, and he almost didn't make any tea, let alone asked her to drink as usual.

What does it feel like?

It's like one step out, one step back, one step back.

Jiang Xuening is not comfortable and comfortable for no reason.

Her intuition told her that something had happened in the dark when she didn't know it, or maybe she had done something wrong unintentionally, but they had so much contact that she couldn't think of it.

Every time he wants to ask Xie Wei, he feels hypocritical.

Clearly everything looks the same, where can she ask?In addition, the day of Yongyi Hou Fu Yan's coronation ceremony is approaching, and Jiang Xuening gradually put down the other things, and didn't think much about them.

In the last life, she prepared a birthday gift for Yan Lin, but she failed to send it out in the end.

in this life, she prepared the same gift, hoping to make up for the regret of the last life and give it to the young man.

When he went out of the palace to rest again, Jiang Xuening didn't even have time to ask you how things were going, so he ordered people to go to the sword foundry in the west of the city.

It's always written in the script that the sword should be clear about the master.

But in fact, it's only the craftsmen who can make a good sword. They never choose who can make a good sword. Those who can make a lot of money will be the "Lord".

It is obvious that the "Jiang Er girl" they are not familiar with is such a rich "Lord".

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as early as half a year ago, Yanlin, the young Marquis of Yongyi's mansion, had already attracted the attention of most of the capital. I don't know how many ladies to be married are waiting for the day when the young man will add the crown and get the words. The icemen who are talking to others everywhere have even prepared the roster early, waiting for the crown to break the threshold of the Marquis's mansion.

However, today's situation, but no one expected.

However, just half a year later, the Yongyi Marquis's house, which used to be so prominent that it could stand side by side with the Xiao family, is in danger, and there is a risk that the whole house will be reduced to a prisoner at any time. in the past, people flattered each other all over the place, for fear that they would not be invited when the young Marquis presented the gift, and would be ridiculed by the capital. Now, they are handing out gilded invitation cards to all the government offices. They either shut their doors or take them back, for fear that they might get involved with the Marquis's office again and cause trouble.

People are warm and cold, but so it is.

Except for Jiang Xuening, all of you in yangzhizhai had little personal relations with Yanlin. Originally, most of them were pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages and didn't intend to go.

Can not stand Shen Zhi clothes to go.

Not only will she go, but she will go openly and openly.

All of them were accompanied by the eldest princess. As soon as Shen Zhiyi said that she was going, she hesitated. Then Xiao Shu said that she was going. The rest of them were put on the fire. It was not good not to go.

Everyone a discussion, simply accompany Shen Zhi clothes to go together.

this is why we have to investigate the matter in the future, and have nothing to do with the family behind them. It is only a group of girls who are accompanied by the royal highness of the princess.

Therefore, on the eighth day of November, all of them set out from the palace together to go to the house of marquis Yongyi.

Shen Zhi's clothes originally said that she would go with Jiang Xuening, but she was called by Empress Dowager Xiao before she set out, so she had to let them go first and come later.

It happened that Jiang Xuening and Zhou Xuening came together.

After the last "borrow cake" thing, the relationship between the two people will be close to a lot. But Chen Shuyi, Yao Xi and others seem to mind Zhou BAOYING's favor for Jiang Xuening. They are always afraid that the little girl will be abducted by her fox spirit. No matter whether they are studying in FengChen hall or gathering in yangzhizhai, they all drag Zhou BAOYING and are very defensive against Jiang Xuening.

Zhou BAOYING is also confused. She doesn't seem to care about this.

Anyway, with food in your mouth and chess in your hand, you can sit all day without listening to things outside the window.

This time she was in the same car, and Zhou BAOYING was very happy.

After all, the last peach slice cake is so memorable.

As soon as she got on the bus, she hugged the big headrest. Baba asked Jiang Xuening, "sister Ning, they won't let me talk to you or come to you. These days, I'm so greedy! Do you have any more peach slice cakes? "

It's really a pot that doesn't open.

Jiang Xuening has been talking about it for several days.

It's a pity that this is neither made by her, nor by her cook, nor by the imperial dining room in the palace. Xie Wei never mentions anything other than piano and literature these days. It's just like there is no other relationship between him and Jiang Xuening except the teacher-student relationship.

But

It seems to be true.

Therefore, Jiang Xuening is more and more afraid to ask anything, for fear that he might be offended by what he did wrong, or he might be too eager to do something about his appetite, which would make him think of the past and fear her.

At the moment, she sat in the car, but also some helpless, a faint smile, back to Zhou BAOYING said: "no, that some, after half to you, the rest I eat."

Zhou BAOYING's small face suddenly collapsed.

She frowned and complained in a low voice: "I knew that. When Mr. Xie took it away, I shouldn't have been so generous. I didn't even take a few of them myself... "

"Mr. Xie?"

Jiang Xuening was stunned.

"Mr. Xie?"

"Ah." Zhou BAOYING nodded, a little at a loss, and then he shrunk his mouth and said, "sister Ning, you don't know. I took back the peach slice cake you gave me last time and ate a few pieces. The rest of them were put into paper bags after counting them before going to bed at night. I want to keep them for the next day. As a result, I didn't expect to be caught by Mr. Xie when I secretly went to eat outside the hall the next day. "Jiang Xuening finally realized where he was wrong.

Zhou BAOYING had a steamed bun face and said: "I didn't expect that Mr. Xie should be such a person! When he asked about the peach cake, I couldn't help answering. Before I went to the palace to study, my father taught me to respect my teacher, so I invited him to have a taste. I thought he only took one piece, but I didn't know he took all the rest and asked me what was wrong! People themselves are reluctant to eat... "

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Jiang Xuening's thick and long eyelashes came down, but he was in a trance for a moment.

The horse's hooves clattered and the carriage swayed gently.

The old memories of her past life suddenly became clear in the mist.

It's one of the most strict rules of the aristocratic family that a gentleman is far away from cooking, just like women in some places are not allowed to enter ancestral halls.

A gentleman is a saint.

But at that time, she was just a country girl. She didn't know his identity or the rules of laoshizi. After listening to the people who came to pick her up, she never doubted that he was really a distant cousin who went to Jiang's residence in the capital.

After they met the bandits, they lived in the mountains and did not know what other people had heard or even how to get out of the predicament.

Mountains and valleys are like prisoners.

At that time, Xie Wei was not seriously ill. He just looked a little weak. He had a cough when he was on the same road with her to Beijing.

Jiang Xuening already knew that he was the legitimate daughter of Jiang Fu.

The other party is just a distant relative who can't get together.

She was afraid that other people would think she was a country girl, and she was also afraid that other people would look down on her. Even if she was in trouble, she still wanted to ask Xie Wei to pick some wild fruits to eat and beat some prey to satisfy her hunger.

The result, of course, is that it doesn't work.

After falling into trouble, Xie Wei holds his violin on his lap, sits on the collapsed rock, and looks at the fading sky between the mountains.

He didn't seem to hear anything.

In fact, he seems to be thinking about something more serious than disaster, as if he had entered another world. But Jiang Xuening didn't understand at that time. He thought that this man didn't give himself face, so he was still a little annoyed.

I had to go by myself.

Of course, it's not very downright.

But Jiang Xuening had no other way at that time. She turned her head around and forced herself to act. She found a good reason: the diseased seedling was about to fall down in two steps. Let alone go out to catch a pheasant or a hare, she just went out to pick some wild fruits. It's not sure that she could break her leg in the woods even if she faltered. At that time, wouldn't she have to figure out how to carry this person with her? It's not worth it.

So I quickly adjusted my mind.

Therefore, the skills of those noble people in Beijing who are not in the class on the Grange are finally put to use.

There is no fruit in the mountain forest in winter.

But with her hands and feet, she tossed about a trap, caught a stupid grey hare with great luck, and went back to the rock in her arms.

The stupid rabbit in the mountain has never seen anyone. When he was caught, he was still alive.

But Jiang Xuening was comfortable in her arms, and soon she was safe in her arms.

"She sat up and showed off happily! Is the rabbit I caught good? "

Xie Wei heard the voice, and finally turned his head to look at her, also looked at the rabbit in her arms, the eyes are super dust indifference, and maybe even a little pity.

Jiang Xuening also reached out to touch its soft fur.

Xie Wei asked her calmly, "do you want to make a fire?"

At that moment, her whole body was stiff.

Blinked an eye, looking at Xie Wei to return but God.

Because, until Xie Wei asked this, she suddenly remembered: catch this rabbit, is to eat, she and Xie Wei have some time did not eat, very hungry, very hungry.

She stood there and did not answer.

Xie Wei waited for her for a while. When it was dark, he probably knew that she couldn't answer, so he didn't ask any more. Instead, he carefully put the piano in a proper corner and went to one side to collect firewood to make a fire.

The fire started.

The surrounding temperature also gradually came up, not very blazing fire in the thick as ink in the dark, according to her holding the rabbit does not let go of the figure, shaking on the ground.

Xie Wei stood in front of her.

He is much higher than he is.

The light of the nearby fire reflected on his face. Because of the depth of the outline, it had different light and shade. A pair of deep pupils gathered the light and only reached out to her to take the rabbit.

Jiang Xuening subconsciously hugged him tightly, looked up at him and said: "let's, let's not eat anything else, I, I'll go and get something else..."

Xie Wei looked at her in silence: "are you willing to eat the next one?"She stood there in a daze, not knowing how to answer.

Xie Wei's hand still stretched out.

She hugged the rabbit hard and didn't want to give it to him. But she was so hard that she hurt the rabbit. It bit her on the back of her hand and let it go.

It ran into Xie Wei's hand.

He took out a knife tightly tied to his wrist from his broad sleeve robe.

At that time, Jiang Xuening knew that this man had a knife on him.

Now think about it. What kind of knife does a sick young master of distant watch, a scholar with no power to bind a chicken, carry with him? Anyone with a knife hidden in his body is on the most dangerous road, ready for any accident at any time.

But then she was stupid and didn't know how to think.

Xie Wei grasped the rabbit, pressed it on the stone beside him, and wanted to use a knife.

But she stood there shivering.

It's about red eyes.

When Xie Wei saw it, his hand stopped. After a while, he didn't say a word and walked away with the rabbit. By the time he came back, the stupid rabbit had been skinned, gutted and put on the sharp Branch, which he gently put on the fire.

The man even found some wild leaves and sprinkled them with spices.

Jiang Xuening holding his knee, sitting beside the fire, buried in biting his sleeve, did not shed tears.

Xie Wei roasted the rabbit, broke a rabbit leg and handed it to her.

As soon as she saw, the skin of the rabbit leg was golden, and the grease was still oozing from the hot fire, stained with some unknown spices. The part of the meat that was torn apart was one by one, and finally she couldn't help crying out.

Cry to choke, cry to burp, cry to out of breath.

Xie Wei has nothing to do with her.

The rabbit's leg was not picked up, and she was not familiar with it, so I didn't know how to persuade her, so I had to take it back and eat it without any waves.

After eating a little half, I can see that she is still crying.

He stopped, looked at her for a moment, took out a clean towel in his arms, opened it and put it beside her.

There are not many peach slices in it.

It's just not much. I put it in my arms, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and crushed it a lot. It doesn't look very good.

Xie Wei said to her, "if you can't eat it, you can eat this."

Jiang Xuening is still hungry after all.

She also knew that the rabbit had to eat, but she didn't want to eat it and didn't dare to eat it when she thought of the way it had just shrunk in her arms. Although she couldn't get used to this distant relative, she picked up the handkerchief and ate the peach cake.

That's the best pastry she's ever had in her two lives.

Sweet, soft.

It is mixed inside the tears did not feel bitter.

But it's just that.

After eating, the feeling of hunger was even more aroused.

So I became very angry.

Qi himself is a spineless man. After all, he took another rabbit leg from Xie Wei, and continued to cry while gnawing at the right roast rabbit meat. He also found reasons for himself: "who, who told it to dare to bite me..."

Xie Wei quietly looked at the fire nearby, as if with a smile. Then he disappeared and did not speak.

At that time, the fire was burning for a long time.

The pine branches thrown in have a fine sound of bursting.

Jiang Xuening didn't remember what the rabbit tasted like, but she still remembered the soft and sweet taste of the peach cake. Besides, Xie Wei's clean white clothes fell on the ground, stained with some smoky dust, and stained some black

When people are in a desperate situation, many things are ignored.

I can do things I don't dare to do and say things I don't know how to say.

People may not be the same as usual.

In front of life and death, all people peel off the mask of hypocrisy in the world and show their truest, perhaps the best, or the ugliest side.

But is it true that people are trying to live in a short period of hopelessness?

Or is it true that people are busy and hard-working in the flashy world?

Jiang Xuening really doesn't know.

Seeing that she had not spoken for a long time, Zhou BAOYING didn't know whether she was happy or sad. She felt a little uneasy. She was afraid that she had done something wrong. She carefully pulled her sleeve and asked, "yes, what's wrong?"

Jiang Xuening's eyes moved, and then she came back to herself.

She bent her lips as if they were nothing. She sighed in a faint voice and said, "it doesn't matter."

Xie Wei's heart is smaller than the tip of a needle.

"Jiang Zhifang stopped and drove the horse to the front of the carriage

Jiang Xuening said to Zhou Baoying, "I'm going down to get something. Please wait for a moment."

Zhou BAOYING then "Oh", obediently sitting in the car waiting for her.The people in the sword casting workshop knew that she was coming to pick up the sword today, and they had made good preparations.

The sword is three feet and two minutes long.

The edge of the sword is made of meteorite iron. It is not decorated with gems and cast with gold and silver like Yan Lin's previous sword. It is just so simple and straightforward.

When the green front comes out, the cold light is pressing.

In the last life, she didn't know the depth of the world. All she wanted was that Yan Lin was a general and would lead the army to fight in the future. She should have a sword to kill people.

in this life, everything has gone through like smoke and dust. Looking at this sword again, it shows a kind of cruel and timely.

How much do you think of that young man, who is always as blazing and brilliant as the scorching sun?

But God forbid.

Wolves are not allowed to show their tusks in the dark.

After the swordsman showed her the sword, he put it in the box and handed it to Jiang Xuening with both hands.

She picked it up obliquely like a harp.

But I had to go out of the door. When I got to the carriage, I remembered that the sword box was not a Qin, it had to be laid flat.

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due to some delay in the sword casting workshop, Jiang Xuening and Zhou BAOYING arrived at Yongyi Marquis's house at the right time.

It's probably because today, when Yan was at the crown ceremony, all the soldiers of the Weifu had retreated to both sides.

It's not so scary at first sight.

There were not so many guests, but there were not so few. They all handed over the posts one by one in front of the door, and were led in by the smiling housekeeper. It seemed that there was no difference from the old days of the marquis.

Shen Zhi clothes after starting from the palace, at this time but almost at the same time with Jiang Xuening.

As soon as I lifted the driving curtain and saw her, I called out: "Ning Ning!"

Jiang Xuening got out of the car with the sword box.

Shen Zhiyi jumps out of the car directly, and ignores the servant's white face. She goes to pull up Jiang Xuening and runs to the gate of Hou's house: "let's go, let's see Yan Lin!"

Who doesn't know her?

None of them came forward to stop her. They all gave her the way.

She also asked the people next to her: "where is Yan Lin now?"

The housekeeper laughed, and his face looked very kind: "the son is talking with his royal highness Yanping outside Qingyu hall."

Shen Zhi clothes then knew the position.

When she was a child, she came to Marquis Yongyi's residence many times. She could walk with her eyes closed. At the moment, she didn't want to stop for half a minute. She took Jiang Xuening to run all the time. She walked around the screen wall, through the hall, through the corridor, and finally saw someone outside the Qingyu hall near the water.

Shen Zhiyi then stretched out her hand and waved to the other side, shouting: "Yan Lin!"

All the people over there looked at it.

The young man, who was standing under the water corridor with his back to them, was just finishing a fold in the corner of his new Robe by Qing Feng. Now when he heard the voice, he turned his head to follow them. When he saw that it was them, their flat eyebrows and eyes suddenly rose like morning stars, bright and bright.

Yan Lin's first smile to Shen Zhi Yi, way: "you also come to join in the fun."

Finish saying words, eyes but fell on the person beside her.

Shen Zhiyi turns her head and sees that Jiang Xuening is still standing there, so she pushes her. Jiang Xuening is pushed forward two steps, and stands in front of the boy at a loss.

Some days later, the outline of the youth is more and more clear, and more sharp than in the past.

But when I looked at her, everything softened.

"You're here, too."

That originally the most intimate word "Ning Ning" was buried in his heart, but he didn't want to call her "Miss Jiang Er" strangely, so he said hello to her.

At this moment, it seems that the situation of the Marquis's house is in danger.

He looked down at the box she was holding and asked her with a smile, "what's this?"

Jiang Xuening then reflected that after a lifetime of life and death, he finally held the sword box in both hands and handed it to the young man. He looked at him and laughed back: "birthday present."

It's for you.

I wanted to give it to you in my last life.

May you always be like this sword.

In this paper, the author introduces the concept of "Lai Liang ~

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Lai Liang ~

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