They were going back to Beijing in a hurry, besides, Min Ji had stayed outside Beijing for too long, he had lost his official position in Beijing, even though it was close to the end of the year, the court had just come back from a big break, Relying on the appreciation of the emperor, he didn't make any trouble.
But on the one hand, it was Min Xiang who urged him to return to Beijing quickly; on the other hand, it was against the rules; third, he stopped for a few days to recuperate Sui Sui. Now that Sui Sui's cough is basically recovering, he didn't want to stay any longer. Departure at noon.
Yu Jinnian and the others packed up separately, went out to buy some things they needed on the way, and prepared some medicine along the way.
After passing Taoxi Town, you have to pass through a stretch of hills to the north. Although you can meet some post stations on the road, they are simple and simple, and naturally they are not as comfortable as living in a prosperous town. Yes, of course I can't wrong myself right now.
Taoxi Town is next to a small hill. Half of the town is in the shade and the other half is exposed to the sun. It’s okay when the sun rises, but once it’s past noon, the sun gradually shifts to the west, and the other half of the town will be covered in shade. In the midsummer, it feels quite refreshing and pleasant, but now it is early spring, and the breeze passing between the black tiles and white walls still carries a hint of chill.
Fortunately, Ji Hong had expected it a long time ago. He turned around and took the prepared cloak from Duan Ming's hands. He walked quickly against the wind, put the cloak on the young man's shoulders, and used his fluffy snow-white collar to cover the part of his body that was exposed outside. The neck is rounded up.
In fact, Yu Jinnian didn't feel cold, so he gave way, and the two tussled for a while, Ji Hong suddenly raised his eyebrows, wrapped him up involuntarily, and reprimanded softly: "Don't move, dress well!" Yu Jinnian raised his head and glanced at him , Ji Hong shook his head, and said to him earnestly, "Your illness is just right, be obedient, it's better to be a little hotter than freezing in this season."
Yu Jinnian was quite critical of this statement, but before he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Duan Mingte doggedly: "Your Majesty is right, didn't the old man say that when spring is covered and autumn is cold, miscellaneous diseases will not arise .Young master, just wear it!"
"..." He blinked at Ji Hong, trying to launch a bloody offensive, but this man seemed to have the strength to resist, and he didn't accept his tricks at all. He raised his hands and pulled him back, and personally gave the cloak to him. He tied it and tied it in a very strong bow.
After all, Yu Jinnian couldn't get away with it, half of Yu Jinnian's face was blocked by the rabbit fur collar of the red cloak, walking on the road like a big pepper with white hair, and like an exquisite gift that was about to be given away , in the well-clothed and charming accompaniment of others, he is the only one who wears the cloak that he would put on when the snow falls in the twelfth lunar month like a neurotic.
What's worse is that Prince Ji is still very satisfied with his masterpiece, and even more eager to sew up the front of his cloak that was opened a seam.
Carrying the things he bought, walking through an alley so resignedly, Yu Jinnian's forehead was covered with fine sweat, and his collar was damp with a ring of rabbit fur sticking to it. It was itchy and uncomfortable. He turned around while walking. He turned his head, as if he had lice on his body. While being tormented, he turned back to ask for help, only to see someone with a face like Zhang Yuci's, with the corners of his mouth pursed, looking very chic.
But Yu Jinnian worked as Ji Hong's private doctor for half a year, and he was inseparable for twelve hours. He provided all the health care services in bed. It's not too boastful to say that he can even think about what the man's eyelashes are thinking. Make a guess, let alone talk about others.
Standing at the entrance of the alley with his small saber dangling, he tilted his head slightly to look at Ji Hong, and urged him, "Come quickly."
Ji Hong quickly caught up with him, but his feet were not steady, Yu Jinnian suddenly put something on the ground, stretched out his hand from the cloak, and hugged him as if bumping into or hugging him, before Ji Hong could understand this move Meaning, he ran his hands down the sleeves until the end, and gently grasped both of his hands.
"What are you doing?" Ji Hong opened his mouth, as if there was no warmth on his face.
Before he finished speaking, the things in his hands were also removed, and the palms were pulled into the boy's cloak, and wrapped in some warm place. Under the thin clothes was a young and soft body, exuding a mouth-watering fragrance. the heat.
"Warm or not? In the past, my father always said that I wore too little clothes, but in fact, I wasn't cold at all. If I said I don't want to wear them, he would be angry, angry all day long, and ignore me when I eat. "Yu Jinnian raised his chin, and suddenly talked about something irrelevant. He pouted his lips while smiling, "I found out later. In fact, he felt cold himself, so he felt that I too It must be cold."
He changed his voice: "So I guess, you are the same."
It took a long time for Ji Hong to recall that this was a lot of gossip and gossip, and it turned out to be a tactful concern. Looking down, Ji Hong felt that the heat was rushing up along the meridians and directly burning into the blood vessels, making every muscle and bone of him ache.
Yu Jinnian was very close to his chest, raised his eyes slightly, and suddenly said in surprise, "Huh?"
"Why?" Ji Hong was taken aback by his surprise.
Yu Jinnian compared something, looked left and right: "Have I grown taller?"
Such a comparison, it seems that it is indeed a little higher. Ji Hong watched him hold his feet and use the tip of his nose to touch his own, as if the two of them would be as tall as this, so he couldn't help but raised his hand and pressed him down like a mushroom, and smiled with lowered eyes: "How old are you?" It's still small, so it will naturally grow."
Yu Jinnian counted with his fingers, and he was not too young. In his previous life, he pulled out a large section like a green onion when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, but he hadn't touched it since he was seventeen. But in his last life, he obviously developed very well, but in this life he turned into bean sprouts. He looked at Ji Hong, and remembered the scene where Min Xuefei stood with him that day.
Yushu Linfeng and Wushuang Meiyu, he was a little envious for no reason, and he really wanted to be like Ji Hong and stand side by side with him.
Ji Hong couldn't help but said: "Don't be afraid if it doesn't grow up, that's fine, it's comfortable no matter what."
Yu Jinnian: "..."
The two stood at the alley for a long time, and met Shi Xing and others who were out to buy a carriage. The car is still the same car as before, but it looks different again. Yu Jinnian went in and took a look, and saw that the original wooden seat had been dismantled, a few pillows were thrown against the wall of the car, and two giant flat persimmon-like round balls, the "persimmon" shell was made of soft silk, and the inside It is stuffed with fat cotton, and there is a depression in the middle for people to sit on.
Yu Jinnian tried to sit for a while, but he felt as comfortable as being trapped in a cloud, not to mention the thick velvet blanket under his feet. When the car was running, he could hardly feel the bumps, and he could even fall directly on the ground when he was tired. Sleep in the car. What's even more novel is that there are a pair of mechanisms or something embedded in the two ends of the car wall. He knelt down on the soft blanket and touched it curiously.
With a bang, a wooden plank fell down from the wall of the car, and there was a pair of protruding little feet on the other end of the wooden plank, which fit tightly onto the wooden mechanism—it turned out to be a small table. Moreover, there are seven ingenious grooves engraved on the table. From a distance, it turns out to be a map of the Big Dipper.
Afterwards, Shi Xing took out a wooden dowry graciously, took out tea sets from it, and introduced: "This set is called the Seven Star Cup. There was also a set in the Shizi's house before, but it accidentally fell into the fire and burned. Two days ago The prince drew this blueprint, and the craftsman worked day and night to finish it, drinking and drinking tea on the way, it is also a fun."
The seven cups have different shapes, corresponding to the seven stars on the table, which is very interesting.
Shi Xing said again: "There is also a set of jade chess sets, which are invented by the young master..." He couldn't remember what it was called for a while, and Duan Ming poked his arm and reminded him in a low voice. Only then did I suddenly remember, "Yes, yes, backgammon!"
Sitting sideways on the edge of the car, Ji Hong saw that the young man was dazzled, and said with a smile: "Didn't you complain that the car is too bumpy and the road is too boring? How is it now? If there is any dissatisfaction, tell them to go again Set up."
How could Yu Jinnian think of any dissatisfaction
Shi Xing continued: "At the back of the car, according to the young master's instructions, a wooden box was nailed up. At that time, the young master's belongings can be put in it, and you can take it as you like. It's just that the time is really tight, and I couldn't make a box. When the auxiliary medicine box came, I had to buy a ready-made one." He rubbed the back of his neck and said embarrassedly, "We are all warriors, so we don't know what should be in the medicine box..."
Ji Hong waved his hand, Shi Xing stopped talking and withdrew.
Yu Jinnian couldn't help sighing in his heart: "It's really easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal!" After riding in such a carriage and receiving such treatment, how can he look up to others
Ji Hong handed over the purchased odds and ends to his servants, and was about to instruct Shi Xing to take the car back to Zhuhua Pavilion with the others, but found that the young man had suddenly stopped moving. He lifted the curtain of the car and peeked inside. Yu Jinnian lay on the window, staring out from a carved gap.
He looked out following Yu Jinnian's gaze, and saw a very familiar figure, with his head down, walking hurriedly out of a pharmacy behind the street. She seemed to be worried about something, stood in front of the store and looked around, and after a while, she walked away quickly in a daze.
—It was with a smile.
The girl walked into an alley, like a shortcut back to Zhuhua Pavilion. Yu Jinnian didn't know what he saw or thought, and suddenly opened the curtain and jumped out of the car: "I'm going to buy some medicinal materials! - You don't have to follow, I'll go back when I go."
"..."
After a long while, Ji Hong could hardly wait, and when he was about to go in and arrest people, Yu Jinnian finally showed his face from inside the pharmacy. Walking in the middle of the road in a trance, a donkey cart suddenly lost its rein and ran towards him screaming. He was so engrossed in thinking about things that he didn't even have a reaction.
Ji Hong grabbed him back, but there were bundles of firewood tied to the cart behind the donkey. After all, a branch scratched Yu Jinnian as it passed by, and Ji Hong threw him into the carriage. , Turned his elbow over and looked, as expected, there was a tear in the sleeve, and a bloodstain was rubbed on the arm, and he was annoyed and annoyed: "You should be taken away by that donkey!"
"It's okay, a small wound..." Yu Jinnian looked up and then lowered his head, and finally said guiltily, "I'm sorry."
"There must be ghosts in the pharmacy, and everyone has been sucked out of their souls." Ji Hong teased people like no other.
But Yu Jinnian's heart was not in his chest. Ji Hong said a few jokes, but he didn't have the heart to answer them. After pondering for a long time, he stomped heavily and told Shi Xing to drive back to Zhuhua Pavilion quickly.
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"What the hell is going on?"
As soon as he returned to the inn, Yu Jinnian went to the backyard. When he walked around the courtyard, he deliberately raised his head and saw that the rooms of Qi Wenjun and Lu Yanjia were already lit, but the windows and doors were closed tightly. I couldn't see a half-inch human figure, and I didn't know what was going on inside.
When he arrived in the backyard, he saw a clerk walking by carrying a casserole. He raised his nose and stopped the clerk: "Which company's medicine is it?"
The guy didn't know, so he went in, and replied: "Master Zhang at the front ordered it."
Yu Jinnian forcibly lifted the lid of the pot. The medicinal materials inside had just been soaked in water and had not yet been boiled. Kidney-tonifying and aphrodisiac potion, his face darkened, he hurriedly closed the lid, said "sorry" repeatedly, and asked, "Did you see a girl making medicine?"
"Girl?" The clerk thought about it carefully, then laughed suddenly, "You're talking about Mrs. Lu? Just now I saw her walking by with a medicine bag, and I asked her if she needed a medicine jar, and she didn't." Answer me, it's really strange... "
Yu Jinnian asked, "Where did she go?"
The guy said: "Look at what you said, where else can I go, the back kitchen!"
Yu Jinnian replied "Thank you", and went to the back kitchen amidst the waiter's repeated "Guest officer, guest officer". At this time, it was almost dinner time, and all the cooks were in full swing. The water man, the vegetable man, and the food delivery guy, all kinds of people came and went in and out of the back kitchen, making the small kitchen full of people, very lively.
He and Ji Hong stepped in, as if stepping into a chicken coop, causing chattering laughter.
This one dragged him to look at the newly made dishes, that one wanted to drag him to look at the new oil dim sum, Yu Jinnian was dragged from left to right, in the end it was Ji Hong who showed kindness and took advantage of his height to get him out of a group of people. The girl was rescued—how did the two get into the kitchen, and how did they escape.
Standing in the corner and sighing, they saw the person they were looking for come out of the back kitchen with a food plate in his hand.
Before Yu Jinnian could catch his breath, he ran up and shouted, "Wait a minute!"
With a smile on his shoulders, he froze on the spot, and then turned his eyes to the side for a moment, and asked softly, "What's the matter, Mr. Xiao?"
Yu Jinnian turned in front of her, staring at a bowl of river fresh tofu soup on the food plate, his eyes were so sharp that he seemed to drill a hole in the bottom of the bowl, he squeezed his lips hard, then let go after a while, his expression softened, and said : "Last night I went back and thought about it, and I deeply felt that there was a medicine in the prescription that was not prescribed properly. The lady must not have decocted the medicine yet? It's so good, can you let me have a look at the prescription again?"
"Medicine, prescription..." Hanxiao faltered, "I just finished grabbing the medicine, and accidentally lost it on the road."
"Really?" Yu Jinnian suppressed his voice and smiled, he raised his head to look at the smiling bun, and said suddenly, "I see that the silver hairpin on my lady's head is not bad, could you please take it for me to take a closer look, I will I also want to buy one for my loved one.”
Han Xiao took half a step back, becoming more nervous: "This hairpin is just a second-rate item in a silver shop, not worth much."
Yu Jinnian's eyes flashed from the corner of his eye, and he smiled and suddenly felt his head loosen. Immediately, the hairpin was transferred from Ji Hong's hand to Yu Jinnian's. With a jingle, a silver hairpin smashed right into the porcelain bowl.
Hanxiao turned pale with fright, shook her hands, and almost knocked over the bowl.
I saw the silver hairpin in the soup, gradually forming a layer of black flocs on the surface.
Yu Jinnian's eyes darkened, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, covered the mouth of the bowl, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid this soup is stained with dirt, it's not clean, and it won't fit into people's stomachs, my lady, I'd better get another bowl."
Having reached this point, there is no need to go any further, Yu Jinnian turned his head to leave.
"Why." Hanxiao said suddenly, but it wasn't out of fear of being exposed, but with resentment, as if the white silk covering the mouth of the bowl was a humiliation to her, "You know it well, why did you deliberately expose it? !"
Yu Jinnian turned to look at her, but he didn't see the expected angry expression.
With a smile, she lowered her head halfway, bit her lower lip, and complained to the piece of white silk, "You know that he treated us like that. Only I know how much Sister Wen Jun wants to have a child! That beast, that beast , He is not human at all! He only took good care of his sister on a whim now. After a few months, his sister has a big belly and has trouble moving. If you want to fight, who can stop..."
Yu Jinnian: "But you can't—"
With a smile on his face, he stared: "Why can't I? This is his retribution! Tomorrow we will set off to go back. If we don't make up our minds now, how long will we have to wait?"
"Okay then, let me ask you." Yu Jinnian said, "What about after this? It's true that he got his retribution, and you will die for it. The remaining one is just pregnant, and it's hard to say whether the fetus can be kept or not." Madam Lu, what should she do?"
Swallowing her saliva with a smile, she said in a low voice, "Our sisters are very affectionate, and it is for her own good that she understands me."
Yu Jinnian smiled: "You sisters are very affectionate, then do you think she will swallow her anger and watch you be beheaded for public display, or will she take the blame for you when you go to court? Or you are cruel and went with that beast, guess what? What will happen to her?"
"If you think these things don't matter, and you can live and die together, then it's me who is talking too much. When the time comes to add me to the guillotine, I won't be a loser. At least it will fulfill the love between you two sisters." Righteousness."
Ji Hong suddenly narrowed his pupils and stared at Yu Jinnian.
"..." Hanxiao opened her eyes wide, obviously not considering this possibility. Immediately thinking about it for a moment, he still resisted conceitedly and wanted to refute "she won't", but these three words came to his mouth, but he couldn't utter them.
——Qi Wenjun will, will take the crime and say that she did everything, and will take the newly formed child down to find her.
This young lady of the Qi family was quiet by nature, but every time Lu Yanjia wanted to make a smile, she would stand up and hold her back. For the fearful smile who had just entered the house, she was far more reliable than the so-called "husband". At that time, Qi Wenjun seemed to be not afraid of pain, and afterwards he would comfort the weeping and frightened smile, saying, "You came to our house to enjoy blessings, so it's not good to cry all the time."
Qi Wenjun said, I was the only one to suffer this crime, I shouldn't have brought you in, it was my fault.
Smiling and squatting on the ground, the prescription fell out of her cuff, she didn't care about it, she just covered her face and wept silently.
Yu Jinnian bent down to pick up the prescription, but Ji Hong picked it up with a stride, and immediately opened it to look. Yu Jinnian only felt a sharp pain in his head, the misery in front of him couldn't be resolved, and finally another one appeared to show his strength and anger.
Under the tremendous pressure from behind, he said to Han Xiao with a smile: "I am not advising you to continue to endure this hard life, but some things need to be considered in the long run. Animals are animals. If you sacrifice your life for an animal, wouldn't you be too stupid? ?Little Madam, that’s all I can say. If you go on the road with us tomorrow, I’m sure he won’t bully you again in front of everyone... The rest, we’ll think about it on the way.”
Before leaving, Yu Jinnian looked at the soup on the ground again: "This soup, you can figure it out. As for the medicine, if someone asks, they will say it poisoned the rats."
"Feel sorry… "
This sorry, presumably he said it to Yu Jinnian.
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Back in the room, Ji Hong sullenly turned the door behind him. Yu Jinnian just sat on the side of the bed, as expected, the next moment he was pressed between his chest and the bedpost, and he heard a low voice questioning: "Did you poison the mouse?"
"Ah..." Yu Jinnian sighed, took the prescription from him, and opened it to take a look. There was a lot of arsenic in the blank space between the medicine on the square paper, and he said with a sneer, "Isn't it? You said these days, why do people use such silly and sweet things to poison mice?"
Ji Hong held back his annoyance, turned him back to look at him, and said in a low voice, "It's time to poison you mouse."
Yu Jinnian leaned back against the bedpost, loosened his shoulders under someone's gaze, and said helplessly, "You are very irritable today, just now you told me to be taken away by a donkey, and now you are telling me to be drugged."
Ji Hong didn't care about his gags, and just taught him: "Do you know the law of the court? There is a lot of arsenic on the prescription. Whoever buys it, whoever heals it, and who sells it at the pharmacy must be registered in the register. When someone dies, You can't get away with it! You have a hundred mouths, how can you speak clearly? Even if I keep you, how can you practice medicine in the future with such a reputation on your back?"
Yu Jinnian touched his nose: "It's not that nothing happened..."
"Don't play tricks on me." His voice was stern, and he couldn't help but tighten Yu Jinnian's collar, "Yu Jinnian, let me give you an ultimatum first, if something like this happens again in the future, no one will care about you. I will put you Shut up in the mansion, locked in Jinyouting, let you guard a pond of lotus as a companion, so as not to save you from being tricked by others!"
It looks arbitrary and domineering, but it is actually stern.
Yu Jinnian was forced to have nowhere to hide, but boldly used his eyes to describe him, drawing along the red lips from anger over and over again, and when he drew more strokes, the other party would get angry, and he took the lead to lay down again. Be low and small, lower your posture and be obedient and submissive: "Okay, I got it. I promise!"
Ji Hong asked: "What do you promise?"
Yu Jinnian looked into his eyes, and imitated his words: "Shut up in the mansion, locked in Jin Youting, keeping a pond of lotus as company... is that okay, Ah Hong?"
Ji Hong used to be so angry that he wanted to tell him to learn a lot from the pitfalls, to keep his mind on everything in front of others, but who would have thought that this soft "Is it okay" would call him soft again, and he didn't wait for his anger to come out. , it was kneaded soft and smashed.
He almost laughed angrily, so angry that he threw the "innocent" boy on the bed. Just about to get up and go, I heard him screaming in pain, hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't hold it back, turned around and sat heavily on the side of the couch, pulled his arm over, and checked the wound: "Are you going to be obedient in the future?"
A wound that is bigger than fart, the kind that will heal one step later, is not worth dealing with. But Yu Jinnian watched him clean his wound intently, nodded: "Be obedient."
Ji Hong: "Are you still making a mess?"
Yu Jinnian slightly bent his eyes: "Don't make a mess."
After treating the wound, Ji Hong raised his eyes and saw that this little thing still had a sweet face, as if he knew his mistake and corrected it. But what can he do, how can he be willing to really look coldly at him, he has to watch him more closely, and then soak him in a bigger honey pot, let him soak in it and be happy.
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On the road the next day, after Yu Jinnian's flickering about the importance of pregnancy protection and safety, Mr. Lu, who had become a father for the first time, was also very happy, so he nodded and agreed to go with them. go the same way.
The two teams merged into one, with Ji Hong's men clearing the way in front, and Lu Yanjia's men guarding the rear, striding forward on the mountain road like high officials traveling.
And the one who enjoys it the most is leaning in the carriage at this time, resting on the leg of Duke Li's son, eating tea from Prince Qingluan, as if he is about to ascend to heaven.
Lying down until his bones were soft, he hypocritically felt that he had enjoyed too much, so he sat up and looked out of the window, only to see a village man and woman selling mountain delicacies occasionally by the roadside. A wild vegetable, that one sells a hare, nothing valuable and interesting, but someone's load is full of white and fat things.
Yu Jinnian didn't see clearly either, and asked aloud, "Hey, what's that?"