"White Calculation"
big bad wolf with wings
On the day of the fifth birthday, boys in the Great Night Kingdom have to approve a batch of fortunes. Ordinary people find fortune-telling stalls in the streets and alleys to calculate the future for their children. Waiting for Jingui's status, it is natural to invite Master Daye to come to solemnly divination and deduce.
Early in the morning of this day, the central gate of the Zhennan Prince's Mansion was opened wide, and two teams of personal soldiers drove out with a canopy carriage. The double carriage decorated with mica is gilded and carved, and the body is painted with gold and colorful colors. It is the battle of Zhennan Princess.
The chariots and horses drove out of the city gate all the way through the outskirts of Shangjing, which was blown by the cold winter wind. After an hour, they slowly stopped in front of the gate of the National Teacher's Mansion.
The National Teacher's Mansion has already sent people to wait there, waiting for Princess Zhennan and Xiao Shizi to drive. The carriage stopped, and the princess got off with a pair of children.
Holding her left hand is her only legitimate son—Jinan, the eldest son of Zhennan Prince. Ji Nan just turned five years old today. He was born with delicate features and delicate bones. He was dressed in a blue brocade robe that was elegant and bright, which made his figure even more loose.
The concubine is holding another one in her right hand, but it is a little girl, she looks about the same age as Xiao Shizi, with picturesque features, wearing a red brocade robe of the same style as Xiao Shizi. The bright red color is festive and lively, which makes her round face more white, tender and vivid. The little girl has dimples when she smiles, she is really Yuxue and cute.
The concubine walked slowly into the mansion with a pair of little people who looked like golden boys and jade girls, and the lord of the national teacher was already waiting inside. When the two sides met, the national teacher saw that Ji Nan's young son's eyes were black and white, and although they were full of childishness, they were clear and innocent. They faintly inherited the arrogance of Zhennan Wang Ji Ting and added toughness, so he couldn't help but nodded slowly. He praised "Good!".
Princess Zhennan was overjoyed when she heard the "good", and asked with a smile: "I would like to ask the Master of the National Teacher to give me some advice? What is good about my child?"
The national teacher stroked his gray beard, with a smile in his eyes, looked at Ji Nan, and commented: "The star will come to the world, shining brightly in the night."
This fate is of course very good for a general like Ji Nan. Princess Zhennan also smiled when she heard it, but when she thought about it, her only heart was destined to fight in the battlefield. Unavoidably, his eyes dimmed.
While the adults were talking in this room, Ji Nan stood by his mother's hand all the time, quietly observing the etiquette. The cute little girl Yuxue was impatient with the four words "Excellence in martial arts" and "Glory to future generations", and she broke free from the nurse's hand and ran around to play.
The cold-browed young man in black behind the national teacher, who was just called "the disciple of the national teacher's closed door", ran over to pull his sleeve, and asked in a crisp voice: "Little brother, what do you do besides closing the door for the national teacher?" What else? Can you tell fortunes?"
This is the scene when Chen Yubai met Ji Xiaoli for the first time: On an ordinary day, there is nothing special except the weather is particularly good, and boring people come to criticize boring horoscopes. He watched the stars all night last night, and stood behind his master to meet guests a little tiredly. The handsome face that became popular among thousands of young girls in Shanghai has not lost all the baby fat at this time, but it is already cold-eyed. Ordinary people Seeing the girl who didn't even dare to stare, the girl who was as fat as a lotus root in the water, out of nowhere, stretched out her hand and grabbed his black ice silk robe that the moonlight didn't dare to stain it.
The young Chen Yubai squinted his long and narrow phoenix eyes, and suddenly his whole body felt cold.
But that piece of fresh lotus root was completely reckless, and looked up at him, not to mention how stupid it was. Instead, Ji Nan walked over immediately. This Great General King of Shenwu, who made people fearful in the Zhou Kingdom many years later, was still a handsome and gentle boy at this time. He grabbed Xian Ou's hand, and Ji Nan apologized to Chen Yubai in a low voice: "Little sister is young and ignorant." , Offended Your Excellency, please forgive me."
Ji Xiaoli was held by Ji Nan, turned his face and asked him curiously: "Is this little brother only in charge of closing the door? Just like Ah Xiang is specially responsible for opening the curtain for the princess?"
The corners of Chen Yubai's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
The princess empress is naturally referring to Princess Yanyang, the elder sister of the current emperor. The whole Great Ye Country knows the story of Princess Yanyang asking herself to be the concubine of the King of Zhennan. The concubine is the third-class maid who pulls the curtain.
The cold-eyed young man suddenly smiled.
Such stern eyebrows and eyes like a sea of ice and snow, such a gentle smile, like thousands of pear blossoms blooming at the same time, it is beyond words to describe the astonishment.
"Tell me your horoscope, and I will calculate it for you." A smiling Chen Yubai said to Ji Xiaoli.
Let him do the math, this fresh and juicy fresh lotus root is suitable, suitable, which, first, species, death, method!
The movement of the three children was such that the national teacher and Princess Zhennan all looked over.
Smiling, Ji Xiaoli handed to Chen Yubai the note hidden all the way in her sleeve, on which was written her birth date - mother said that girls are not good at fortune-telling, but she really wanted to know when she would be able to cultivate into a god!
Chen Yubai still had that sneering smile on the corner of his mouth, he glanced at the word "horoscope" on the paper, lightly twitched his fingertips in his sleeves, paused, and the smile disappeared.
How...how is it possible!
"You count so slowly, don't you know how to count?" Ji Xiaoli stared at him without blinking, and urged him impatiently for a while.
Ji Nan pulled Xiaoli and scolded her in a low voice not to be so rude, Ji Xiaoli was scolded, pouted and said reluctantly: "Well...it's okay, children are so stupid, I can't recite books ... How about this, when you grow a beard as long as the master of the state, you will have a fortune-telling."
She was so relieved and generous that she was touched by herself.
But the face of the person who was comforted was even worse—Chen Yubai pursed his lips tightly, and he couldn't help showing panic in his usually cold and self-controlled eyes.
Yes, the fresh lotus root was right, he couldn't figure it out.
His family has a long history, and since he joined the national teacher's school, he has been studying the art of numerology day and night. There are no more than five people in Ye Kingdom who are better than him in physiognomy. It was as if there was an invisible high wall blocking her past and future, everything was in front of his eyes, yet out of reach.
Can't calculate the calendar, can't calculate the life, can't calculate the future... He can't calculate it!
That pair of ice-sea and snowfield-like pupils locked on him tightly, even though Xiao Li was ignorant, he felt something was wrong, he took two steps back in fear, turned his head and ran towards the princess, and threw himself into the nurse's arms.
The gentle and kind voice of Master Guoshi sounded at this moment: "Yubai, come here."
The boy withdrew his gaze, walked over with a pale face, and knelt down silently.
"Master... the apprentice is not good at learning."
Hearing what he said, the national teacher laughed for some reason, stroked his beard and smiled like a spring breeze, and didn't ask his beloved disciple to get up, and said to Princess Zhennan with a smile: "My lady, my daughter is precious, easy There is no horoscope. If you don't dislike it, how about I take a look at your love?"
The concubine naturally said yes, and gently called her adoptive daughter: "Xiao Li, come to mother."
The little girl with a bitter face came down from the nurse's arms, the princess pulled her clothes up for her, and said to her softly: "Be good, don't be afraid, go and show the Grand Master to see you."
Xiaoli has a stubborn personality, she is not a cowardly child at all, she was comforted by the concubine, she walked up to the national teacher graciously, and saluted in a dignified manner.
The little girl was dressed in a festive and lively red color, with a pair of clear eyes on her snow-white and soft cheeks, and the master of the state teacher looked at her carefully for a long time with a smile in his kind eyes.
"The image of flowers blooming is auspicious and auspicious; when the phoenix and the phoenix meet, happiness and longevity are complete. He is a good boy." The master of the state teacher said kindly, and took out a kit from his sleeve as if conjuring, and put it in the hands of the ignorant little girl. "This is for you. But you can't open it now, and you won't be able to open it until ten years later, when you give the hairpin a present."
The little girl held up the brocade bag embroidered with auspicious clouds in gold thread, and nodded happily in agreement.
The two children got good instructions, the princess was very happy, and thanked the master of the national teacher again and again. For a moment, everyone in the hall was overjoyed, except for Chen Yubai who was still kneeling on the ground, his whole back was already wet with sweat.
Of course he is not uneducated.
Of course he knew: with his fortune-telling techniques, there is only one possibility for people he can't count—counting others and not himself.
This silly and stupid girl has been deeply entangled with him all his life, so he can't figure it out.
The black-clothed boy fell on the ground, with the cool white jade floor tiles on his forehead, his heart was even colder.
He knew what was in the bag.
It was Chen Yubai's doom.
The author has something to say: fifth year, tenth book