Wei Liang opened the exquisite pocket watch bought from a Persian merchant for the third time, and looked at the time. The scenery on the street outside changed. Three thousand miles of Huaiyang ground was mid-autumn. The city is full of tenderness and prosperity.
But he had no intention of appreciating it, and instead gave birth to a bit of uncontrollable apprehension.
About to see that person.
But he began to worry that if he did too much this time, would he bring any harm to himself
Things have to start from last summer.
At that time, Wei Liang was still studying in Yangzhou Shuangzhong Academy. Although he was not the number one talent in the world, he was well-known in the Jiangnan realm.
Unexpectedly, when I was about to abandon the boat for a day trip to the lake, I met a strange girl.
The figure is slim and exquisite, wearing gold and silver, the pearls hanging on the earlobes are worth thousands of taels of silver, but the pale yellow hang silk clothes are full of muddy water, as if they were just fished out of the mud pit, even The head and face were not spared. Especially that face, it seems that he wanted to wipe the muddy water in a hurry, but failed, and instead wiped a face even more.
When she saw their group of students landed, she immediately greeted them.
The group of people who made good friends with Wei Liang are all young and knowledgeable young talents. On weekdays, there are many bold girls who take a cruise on the lake and throw sachets and sweat towels. When they see a girl, they take the initiative to greet them. Subconsciously, he thought that he was taking the initiative to show his hospitality, but it was only after seeing him that he was so embarrassed that he stopped for a while.
Although Wei Liang has a talent and name, his appearance is only ordinary, not so amazing.
In the past, the scholars who were all colleagues were very popular.
So at that time, he only stood in the crowd, completely out of the way, waiting to see the follow-up.
But no one would have thought that when a friend who was traveling with him frivolously asked, "Which girl are you looking for?" the girl blinked and glanced at the place where he was standing, and said without any shyness or embarrassment: " I'm looking for Young Master Wei Liang Wei."
Suddenly the lake was quiet.
Wei Liang himself was stunned for a while, and was really taken aback.
Everyone else looked at him.
The girl was still generous, with such a dirty and indistinguishable face, when she smiled, she gave a bright illusion, and said to him, "Mr. Wei, can you take a step to speak?"
Those friends who traveled with them have always been watching the fun and don't think it's a big deal, and deliberately booed and booed next to them.
He immediately felt a little burnt on his face.
His feet were as still as they were nailed to the ground, and he replied to the girl in a straight-forward manner: "What is the girl looking for, you might as well say it on the spot, you don't need to take a step to speak."
The girl looked at him strangely, her eyes wandered, she didn't know what she was thinking about, and after a while, she raised her eyebrows: "Do you really want me to talk here?"
Wei Liang's heart jumped, and he subconsciously said, "Everything can't be told to others."
She looked at him seriously, and repeated it mysteriously: "Master Wei, you have thought about it, do you really want to say it here?"
At that moment, all kinds of images flashed through Wei Liang's mind, and all kinds of self-doubts popped into his head: Which girl have I ever felt ashamed of after studying in Yangzhou? Have you ever made a promise with a prostitute in a brothel but never fulfilled it? Have you ever picked up something inappropriate while walking on the road in the middle of the night and haven't returned it to the owner? In the academy, isn't it enough to be cautious enough to annoy someone without knowing it
But the answer is all no.
Although his family is not rich, he is not poor, and he still has basic vision and insight. One is that he will not do any excessive things that come to his door, and the other is that even if he does, it will not leave people with obvious clues.
But this girl's posture...
Did you miss something
The eyes of others fell on him, as if pierced by a needle.
Wei Liang was inexplicably nervous.
In the end, he still couldn't hold back the war between heaven and man in his mind, he coughed and said unsurely: "Then, take a step to talk?"
Afterwards, he thought about this bad decision in a moment of confusion several times. It can be said that he lost his reputation under the feet of others—
What is there to avoid if you are not guilty
Since then, it has been rumored that he has an unusual involvement with a mysterious girl in the academy, and he is often teased out.
It's just that at that time, my mind didn't turn around, and I didn't realize the consequences of this move.
Instead, the girl smiled and bent over.
At the end, he waved his hands very naturally with his other friends and said, "The little girl and Young Master Wei will go talk to each other first. If you can't finish talking for a while, the Young Masters don't have to wait for him. I will naturally send him back to the academy after that."
The friends thought they were sensible, and they all smiled narrowly and dispersed.
The setting sun spreads the water, and the half lake rustles.
The willow branches on the bank were already thin, leaving him standing face to face with the girl who couldn't see her face, looking at each other.
Wei Liang frowned and said, "I don't seem to know the girl."
The girl said with her hands behind her back, "Young Master Wei doesn't know me, but I've heard of Young Master Wei's name for a long time."
Wei Liang was puzzled: "The girl also likes to read?"
The girl shook her head: "I hate reading the most, but I have some other hobbies recently."
Wei Liang didn't know how to answer the call.
The girl smiled at him: "I heard that Young Master Wei has also done a lot of research on this, so I came here today to ask for advice."
Wei Liang finally didn't hold back his curiosity: "This one?"
The corner of the girl's lips parted: "Cultivation."
Wei Liang: "..."
The moment he heard these two words, Wei Liang's eyelids almost jumped up, and his scalp was even numb. There was a shocking feeling that his innermost secret was being discovered.
He was shocked: "How did you know?!"
Looking back on the scene at that time now, it is actually somewhat indescribably funny, but it is hard to deny: at least at the time, there was still some fear in his heart. Not because he was afraid of being known, but because he was afraid that the family would come to trouble him.
Agricultural business.
Scholars are the highest, and what scholars have done for ten years is just to jump over the Dragon Gate to become the master of that person, and down to the end of the agricultural business.
Generations of poetry and book families naturally despise the lower three.
However, Wei Liang was different from others since he was a child. When he saw rain in the sky and water dripping on the ground, he wanted to find out what the astronomical almanac was all day long. When he entered the bookstore, he secretly bought a copy of "Qi Min Yao Shu"; later, when others raised orchids in flower pots, he had a deep relationship with the Persians and Semu people, and planted one of them in a blue-and-white porcelain pot. Excessive stuff, what's a potato...
When he was young, others thought he was joking.
When he was older, the elders in the family finally discovered his deviant nature, searched out all the almanac and agricultural books and burned them, and gave him a family law, saying that if he failed the exam, he wanted him to look good. .
Only then did Wei Liang "return from the lost", and used this flexible brain to return to the "right way" of reading, writing strategy theories, reading the scriptures, and in a few years, he was considered to be a conscientious person, and he gained a little reputation. .
After leaving home, he went to Yangzhou to study.
No one in the Shuangzhong Academy was taking care of him, and when he was free, he used a knife to swipe at the potatoes he dug out, and roasted a few like sweet potatoes for friends to eat. Of course, after one of them had diarrhea, no one dared to try his food again.
It can be said that Wei Liang never imagined that on the boundary of Yangzhou, someone would know that he actually does not like to read, but prefers farming!
The girl seemed to have expected him to be so surprised, so she didn't answer his question, just looked at him with a smile and said, "If I say that there are thousands of acres of land vacant right now, just wait for someone to plant something, Mr. Wei. Would you be interested?"
Wei Liang thought she was talking nonsense.
Where can a yellow-haired girl dare to say that there are thousands of acres of open space waiting for people to plant? At that time, he almost refused without even thinking about it, but the girl was noncommittal, and only handed him a famous post with the address of the other courtyard on it, saying that if he changed his mind, he could find it and wait for him at any time.
Therefore, Wei Liang was unable to resist such temptations after all.
After returning to the academy, after only staying up for six days, I couldn't help but follow the map and went to the other courtyard.
I just didn't see the girl again.
The person who stayed in the courtyard to entertain her was another with a handsome face, who personally handed over a letter, several Honda deeds, and booklets to him, and took him to the so-called "open space" to check it in person.
From then on, Wei Liang boarded the thief boat and entered the thief's den.
only…
A lot of things have been done, and a lot of money has been taken. This year's rice harvest is really gratifying, but he doesn't know who he is doing things, which really makes him uneasy.
Especially recently…
The carriage has reached the Jinling boundary.
Pedestrians flocked outside, lively and noisy, and even if the sun was about to go down, there were voices soliciting business everywhere. Some people even came out to set up stalls until this time.
The river is full of lanterns.
"Call-"
Outside the carriage, the driver pulled back his horse and stopped to ask for directions.
"Little brother, may I ask how to get to Wuyi Lane?"
Passers-by give directions to the driver.
The stop was about near the tea house, and I could vaguely hear the voices of people gossiping and discussing from the second floor.
Wei Liang frowned after listening for a moment.
"If you want me to say, there must be a fight between the real Wanxiu and the master Yuanji, the sect of heaven is Taoism, and the white horse temple must advocate the Buddhadharma. The quarrel has been quarreling for several months, and this is a proper fight. Get up! I think it's better to pack up, stay away from Jiangnan these few days, and God knows when the war will start again?"
"It must be the Yuanji monk who is more powerful!"
"Yeah, the sage trusts him so much, I heard that even Master Xie has been estranged in the past two years. If you think about it, Master Xie is the real emperor. He is a monk who inserted in the middle halfway. People, how can you still seal a national teacher?"
"Oh, don't dare to say nonsense..."
"Oh, it's messy, it's messy!"
"Fortunately, the Tartars have lived a lot in the past two years, and they have not caused trouble for the big army. Otherwise, this internal and external trouble will be triggered at the touch of a button, and it will simply kill our little people!"
"If you want me to say, it is necessary to be a powerful sect of heaven! What is Datong? What people and heaven teach for is Datong! After a few households in our village had no land to farm, they couldn't even be bandits, so they all joined the sect of heaven. Was it forced by dog officials and profiteers?"
"Fortunately, Jiangnan is a rich and prosperous place, and it has little impact..."
"Didn't you say that the emperor will tour the south next year?"
"That's not it, do you know where have so many wealthy businessmen and tycoons come from Jinling in the past two weeks, and there are BMW cars everywhere? It's just for this! A trip to the south of the country is labor-intensive, and the dog officials don't want to pay, but Can't we catch these wealthy businessmen and giants? I heard that they are the ones who paid the money, and whoever pays the most will give more of the salt from the official salt next year."
"The world is getting harder and harder..."
"Who said no?"
…
The coachman asked where Wuyi Lane was, and drove to it, and it gradually got farther away. Those voices were slowly blurred in the back, mixed with the sound of the chariots and horses, and became blurred.
Wei Liang lowered his eyes and touched his sleeve.
This season's account book is quietly hidden inside, tied to the arm, firmly.
The driver said, "Young Master Wei, here we are."
Wei Liang lifted the curtain and got out of the car.
In the long Jiangnan old alley, moss grows in the cracks of the bluestone slabs, and a few golden autumn leaves from nowhere are scattered on the ground. The courtyard in front of him was deserted, and there was no luxury, not even a specific name. There was only a black plaque on the top with the words "Xibaiju" written on it.
He stepped forward and slammed the door knocker.
Not long after, someone answered the door.
She was a maid with clear eyes and beautiful eyes. She was not surprised to see him, but her eyes showed a certain amount of scrutiny, and she said lukewarmly, "Young Master Wei is here, my master has been waiting for you here for a long time after hearing from you. Please come in."
It's hard to see from the outside, but the inside is quiet and peaceful.
There are a few parrots hanging in the hallway.
When he saw someone, he called out, "Who is coming, who is coming!"
Wei Liang was speechless.
Going all the way to the depths of the courtyard, after passing through two hanging flower gates, you can enter a waterside pavilion facing the lake. The beauty of the water pavilion leaned on the edge, with a sloping back chair, and a square table next to it, with a melon and fruit plate on it, and an open account book.
There was a girl sitting on the chair.
And not sitting upright, but sitting cross-legged, looking lazy. On his jet-black and shiny hair, there was only a red agate hairpin with a rich color of red Qiong. He was facing Pinghu and his back to the water pavilion. He looked at the fishing rod on the railing with his hands on his cheeks. He seemed bored and was waiting for the fish. Take the bait.
Wei Liang could only see half of her back from behind.
For a while, I wasn't sure if it was the girl I saw last year.
The maid who led the way said, "Miss, Young Master Wei is here."
The girl didn't look back: "Holding the girl's money, planting the girl's land, detaining the girl's account book, pressing the girl's harvest, and daring to use this as a threat, she wants to see me, ask me The truth. Young Master Wei, now that the world is running rampant with bandits, you are not worried about any accidents on the road, and one accidental death?"
Wei Liang recognized the voice immediately.
Light and light, like the wind passing the ear, like the undercurrent of the spring, it is extremely pleasing to the eyes and makes people daydream.
Standing in the back, he naturally heard the dissatisfaction and threats hidden in these words, but he asked himself that he had never done anything wrong, and he was not afraid even in the face of jackals, so he calmly replied: "Go. At the request of the girl, Sui Sui managed thousands of acres of fertile land, and the harvest was quite good. Although the girl promised a lot of profits, at that time, because of the excitement, he didn't think much about it. But when each farmer reported the harvest, he thought about Yanmen Pass. The foreign Tatars are eyeing the tigers, and the celestial religion is rampant in the hinterland of the Central Plains, so they have to be a little confused about the whereabouts of these grains. If it is put into the market, it is not a problem. It's Wei's fault."
The figure of the woman in front suddenly stopped moving.
Wei Liang went straight to the point: "So Wei came here today just to ask a question, is this girl so skilled, is she serving the sect of heaven?"
"… "
Serving God's Religion...
Does she look like someone who is not afraid of death and dares to mess with the celestial religion
The corner of the woman's mouth couldn't help but twitch, and she finally turned her head and looked at Wei Liang: "Young Master Wei is really, devoted to farming, and doesn't hear about the world, how can you put such absurd thoughts in your head? ?"
Just like the previous life, it is only suitable for farming!
In the future, Tanhualang is such a brain, who can write well and grow the land, but he can't go to the officialdom and fight with others. She should have known earlier that she shouldn't have too much hope for this person's brain!
When she turned her face, there was a bit of impatience on her face.
On the goose-egg-like cheeks, the snow skin is delicate and can be broken by blowing a bullet, and a layer of golden red is plated under the shadow of the sunset.
It's just that the corners of his lips are pulled with a half-smile, adding a little mockery to this boundless beauty.
Wei Liang only saw her once last year.
At that time, her face was full of mud, how could she have such a face
She has rarely dealt with women in the past, let alone how beautiful she is. Wei Liang was inexplicably embarrassed when she looked at him with both eyes. He felt a wave of heat rush to his face, but he couldn't speak much. .
Jiang Xuening threw the fishing rod and raised her eyebrows: "Who told you that I work for Tianjiao?"