After a short meeting, Duan Ming led a boy who was as tall as Yu Jinnian and walked into the flower hall. Before everyone could see what he looked like, they saw the boy kneel down firmly on the ground with a thud, He scrambled and squeezed in front of Yu Jinnian, the tears came as soon as he said it, and he immediately cried bitterly: "Brother! Brother Jinnian, I am Xiaoxu! Xiaoxu has been looking for you so hard!"
Yu Jinnian: "..."
Xiao Xu, Yu Xu? The name does sound familiar.
Not only is this name familiar, but this person is also somewhat familiar.
Take a closer look at the rags hanging on his body - ah, isn't it the one who fought with the little beggar at the door of the Sanyu Building earlier!
This kid was covered in mud, his hair was unkempt, and his hands were so dirty that ink could be printed on him. He wiped a Wuzhi mountain on the hem of Yu Jinnian's clothes, and after he wiped it, he picked it up to wipe his tears and nose, and blew loudly. outsider.
Although Yu Jinnian was not a very particular person, he couldn't bear to be so sloppy. At that time, he wanted to tear off the corner of his clothes and throw it to him, but because of face, he endured it all the time. It was Ji Hong who was considerate and took the initiative to stand up and be a bad guy. With just one wink, there was a sound of "Zeng—", a cold light flashed, and Duan Ming who was standing quietly by the side made a quick move. Before the kid could recover, the corner of the clothes he was holding was completely separated from Yu Jinnian up.
The boy was stunned for a moment, the snot bubbles were still hanging on his mouth, fearing that he would touch him again, Yu Jinnian immediately jumped back and hid behind Ji Hong.
"Don't cry in panic, get up and talk." Yu Jinnian looked him over and saw that his face was covered with flowers, which was really horrible, so he turned to order the boys outside the flower hall, "Uh...you two, get a basin of water, Tell him to wash his face!"
The two young men trotted all the way to fetch clean water, and one by one dragged the boy whose face was soaked in snot to wash his face.
Yu Jinnian breathed a sigh of relief, sat down and recalled it carefully, and muttered: "Yu Xu, Yu Xu..." He suddenly had an idea, exclaimed, and suddenly realized, "Yu Xu, my cheap uncle The kid at home?"
Ji Hong asked suspiciously, "Do you still have relatives?"
"It's, it's not." Yu Jinnian shook his head, and said slowly, "My parents left early, and I was too young to survive by myself, so I was fostered by a farmer's family in the same village, because most people in the village have the last name Yu, if you talk about it, you can also get a distant relative with their family. They do have a son, but I didn't deal with him very much, and I didn't say a few words."
Yu Jinnian roughly remembered the ins and outs of those memories before he came back from the dead, but he couldn’t remember the details, and since it was the past, there was no need to tell Ji Hong about it, so he only picked some rough ones to tell him. explain. However, he remembered that his uncle had mentioned that Yu Xu seemed to be named by his "father" who had gone earlier, saying that the rising sun was a good omen.
It was indeed a good omen, Yu Jinnian's family was ruined within a few years of Yu Xu's birth, even the house was taken by Yu Xu's parents, it really prospered his family's fortune.
While talking, Yu Xu came back after washing his face, his hair was also roughly done by the servant, and he braided it into a big braid behind his shoulders. Looking at it this way, this kid doesn't look like he has suffered a lot. Although his face is a little bruised, his skin is very tender, and there are some old scratches on his hand, which shows that he has done some tiring work.
Qing Huan heard that a "recognized relative" came to the garden, and immediately ran to watch the excitement. She wanted to beat this ignorant liar out, but she entered the flower hall, walked around to the front, and was shocked. Jumped: "Ah, don't say it, it really looks a bit like our brother Nian!"
Little Ding Dong jumped out of the haystack by the lotus pond and jumped straight onto Yu Jinnian's lap. He hugged Yu Jinnian and touched it a few times in his arms. He turned his gaze to look at Ji Hong and said, "Ah Hong, you Does it look like it?"
Ji Hong thought about it for a moment, and then said: "The eyebrows... do have a two-point image."
It's just that their temperaments are completely different, except for this two points, there is no comparison between the two, not to mention that the scale in Ji Hong's heart has been skewed for a long time, and his own boy is even better than a fairy. So he glanced at Yu Xu indifferently, then turned his gaze back to see the boy stroking the cat.
Yu Jinnian himself didn't have any thoughts about the family's uncle and aunt, because when he came here, he was already lying on the mass grave, and the previous incident was more like watching the fire from the other side, and he might not have deep feelings, but the remaining Those childhood memories made him have an instinctive dislike for Yu Xu, so he didn't show much enthusiasm.
He broke up the last small piece of sweet cake left on the plate on the table, put it at his feet together with the small plate, and told Ding Dong to eat it, and then he remembered to ask the boy: "Yu Xu, right? What's the matter, how did you find it here?"
Yu Xu lowered his head halfway, watching the fat cat eating the golden soft snacks on the porcelain plate, and stretching out its paws, playing with the scimitar hanging on Yu Jinnian's waist, and there was a burst of "ding" in the flower hall "Lingling, dinglingling" sounded crisply. Hearing Yu Jinnian's question, he quickly raised his head, his eye circles turned red again, and said in a crying voice: "At home, at home... the robbers have entered, and my parents are gone. It's gone! I, I escaped with great difficulty, thinking that Brother Jinnian was such a relative, so I searched all the way. When I arrived in Xin'an County, someone said that you had gone to the capital, so I followed along the road to beg... Brother Jinnian , I only have you as a family member!"
"Robbers?" Before he finished crying, Yu Jinnian said strangely, "Although Sifang Village is remote, it can be considered rich if you rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water. Of course there are bullies, but nothing has happened in a hundred years Robbers and bandits, why did your house get robbed?"
"My family, my family..." Yu Xu's words flickered, his eyes wandered to other places unconsciously, and there was no reason for "my family" for a long time.
Yu Jinnian smiled, and said: "Could it be that I owed debts again, the house and fields have all been paid off, and I can't bear to let my son go to be someone's donkey in the crotch, and now they have to pay for it with their own lives, in exchange for you to escape birthday."
Yu Xu's eyes widened: "You, why do you say that—"
"Then what should I say?" Yu Jinnian raised his eyes, got up and brushed the cat hair stuck on the hem of his clothes, and took two steps towards Yu Xu, "I sold myself for ten taels of silver back then? I used it myself Wrap yourself in a broken straw mat, and throw it on the mass grave to die? You only say that I am your relative, why don't you say that back then, your only relative, I, almost died in the wilderness ah!"
Yu Jinnian walked up to him, smiled and whispered: "Have you ever seen the will-o'-the-wisps on the mass grave, green, blue... just floating around you, crying. And you are lying on the cold and wet Inside the straw mat, my whole body hurts, my eyes are blackened due to the pain, and I can't even speak a word."
"Aww!"
A strange cry sounded, and Yu Xu yelled in fright. It turned out that the cat walked behind him at some point, and he accidentally stepped on the cat's tail, but he was really startled by Yu Jinnian, and hung down. The two hands at the sides trembled slightly. Before Yu Jinnian finished speaking, he fell to the ground and cried loudly: "It's not my fault! I was young at that time, and I didn't know anything! My parents said you were dead, if I knew you If still alive..."
Untimely, several hungry cries sounded in his stomach, and Yu Xu swallowed hard: "I, if I knew, I would definitely go to the mass grave and bring you home. Brother Jinnian, I really have no idea… "
"Oh. Why are you so scared? I won't throw you into a mass grave." Yu Jinnian picked up his trampled tail, and was so angry that he wanted to scratch Yu Xu's cat. Seeing the boy's freshly washed face, his nose was crying again Tears made the bruises on his face more conspicuous, so he told the servant, "Clean up a yard for him and use it first, see what food is left in the kitchen, and warm him up. His injury is called Su Ting went to see."
When the servant came to help him, Yu Xu hadn't reacted yet, he just stared at Yu Jinnian in a daze until he brushed past him.
"Master Xiao Yu, let's go." Qing Huan said reluctantly.
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When Yu Jinnian returned to Tingyue Residence with Ding Dong in his arms, the boy waiting at the door had already boiled hot bath water, soaked a lot of flower petals extravagantly in the big wooden bucket, and even sprinkled some fragrant beans, which attracted a lot of attention. There was a faint fragrance all over the room.
He followed Ji Hong in the past few months, and he has also been cultivated a little bit of a petulant temper. Just now, Yu Xu touched his nose and tears. Now, seeing the bath water is like seeing a relative, he immediately undressed and stepped on the small stool next to him. Step into the tub and sink yourself, leaving only the neck above the water. Tinker Bell jumped onto the high table next to it, swished its tail and meowed a few times.
Ji Hong asked his servants to warm up fresh milk, and when he came back, he saw him taking a bath inside without closing the door, bolted the door, went inside, put the milk on the table, turned around and blocked him by the bucket. Yu Jinnian didn't feel much better yet, but the cat next to him was very protective, and suddenly stretched out two front paws to touch Ji Hong's arm, "stand up" and push him away, this scene made Yu Jinnian couldn't help but eat Laughed a few times, with the sound of water splashing.
"But really?" Ji Hong said.
Yu Jinnian's face was flushed, his expression was unreasonably blurred, his eyes were wet when he raised his eyes: "... what is true or not?"
Ji Hong lowered his eyes to look at him, the sun had already set in the west, and a silver-white moonlight unknowingly fell from the clouds, through the cracks in the window, illuminating the room lightly, making his eyes dark: "Mass Burial Mound, Ghost fire, ten taels of silver."
The cat saw that the two of them were in love with each other, willing to make a wish, and jumped down with a plop, opened half of the window by itself, and slipped away through the gap.
Yu Jinnian squinted his eyes, sank his back, and sat directly on the small wooden stool placed in the barrel against the wall of the barrel, walked around Ji Hong's arms, and reached out to light the candle lamp on the high table. When the big orange fire lit up, he let out a soft breath, as if he was tired, more like a sigh: "There is no real or false, just to scare him."
But looking at him again, his eyes were full of smiles.
Ji Hongming knew that he was fooling himself again, Erniang also said that Yu Jinchu was really scarred when he arrived in Xin'an County at the beginning of the year, and he recovered after a few days of cultivation, but he didn't know the reason behind it. He put a plain kerchief over the candle that the boy had lit just now, and the flame was instantly gathered into a gentle ball, and he used this light to kiss the boy's forehead.
Yu Jinnian raised his head to give him a kiss, and then took the initiative to pull him down by the skirt of his clothes, humming a thick nasal voice, asking him to kiss here and then there. Ji Hong would neither wrong himself nor the young man. The tip of his tongue traced slowly along his lips. With a small glass of wine, the lower abdomen was hot at the moment, so he took Ji Hong's other hand and touched it.
"Try again today, it will definitely work." Yu Jinnian bit his ear and whispered, his ears turned red as he spoke, "Just now I... just touched it myself, it is soft, it must be fine."
A piece of Ji Hong's sleeve fell into the water, and it was drenched. The water had turned from warm to cold, and his fingertips were soft and hot, and there were clam shells sucking his fingers.
Yu Jinnian complained and muttered: "Do you want it, the water is coming in—"
Ji Hong's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly kissed him to stop his nonsense mouth. At the same time, he raised his hand and took off the snow-white obscene clothes hanging on the hanger, and draped him over his shoulders, completely removing him from his body. Lifted out of the water. Since the first time it was done hard, it made the boy feel uncomfortable for several days. After that, the two tried again, but every time Yu Jinnian cried out in pain, Ji Hong couldn't bear to do it any more, and he often did it as before. Just find a way to relieve it.
With the sound of water, the young man was like a young lotus root, pulled out of the lotus pond with the roots and mud, and the fresh roots that were steaming were stepped on the ground, slippery and unsteady. Ye Cuihe also dripped water tremblingly, and the stems and leaves swayed with the wind.
Originally, Ji Hong still had some business to do when he came back, and some official documents had to be dealt with, but now they are all messed up, so he can only leave it in the study, and clean up the lotus root essence in his arms first. The cotton clothes sucked all the water from his body. Fortunately, it was already summer, so there was no need to worry about catching cold even if there were some drops of water. Yu Jinnian took a few steps back and hit the edge of the table with his back. The small vase on the table was crumbling. Hastily turned around to catch it, so nervous that he ouched.
Ji Hong bullied him, kissed the back of his neck, and said in a low voice: "If you don't like it, why don't you let him stay?"
Yu Jinnian felt itchy and shrank his neck: "What can we do, he was spoiled when he was in the village, even if his family was poor, he would not lose a bite of meat. Today I saw him grabbing food from a group of beggars on the street. If I didn't stay, wouldn't he starve to death on the street? There were some grievances and grievances in the past, but I didn't say it well. His parents have indeed raised me for more than ten years. Now that their son is in trouble, I should give him every bite up."
After a few rustles, a slender jade-like hand rested on Yu Jinnian's back, and he heard ragged breathing sounds and a suppressed low moan. The ink-colored clothes were stacked on his waist in layers, and the four table legs creaked a few times. Ji Hong calmed down and sighed: "You, you are more than soft-hearted..."
Yu Jinnian felt that the table was too hard, so he randomly dragged a piece of clothes to cushion it, and squinted his eyebrows: "I'm not soft, how could you enter my house!"
What a pun, Ji Hong reached out and covered his mouth.
There is a long-necked white vase by the window, in which neither jasmine nor lilies are inserted, but small lotus leaves with curly cores cut from the pond. The leaves were obviously a little wilted yesterday, drooping in a very uncomfortable way. Spiritual, Yu Jinnian was still thinking about pulling it out and replacing it with a new one, but today the leaf somehow became alive again, and the small leaves slowly unfolded, and the short antlers on the leaves shimmered under the moonlight .
Yu Jinnian lost his mind suddenly, and let out an "Ah", a drop of water condensed on the leaf fell down as if startled, and fell into the deepest part of the bottle, merging with thousands of drops of water.
When the moon is in the middle of the sky, everything is silent, even the noisy summer insects are silent, but there are sporadic rattling noises in the room. It was not Duan Ming who was guarding Tingyueju tonight, but two new guards, each of them was so sleepy that he kowtowed and dozed off. He suddenly woke up when he heard a sound or two in the silent night, and immediately drew the saber on his waist and charged. Into the yard.
There was another sound of broken porcelain, and the guard asked, "Your Majesty, are you alright?"
There was a sudden silence in the room, and then there was an angry voice: "Get out."
"..." The two guards looked at each other, had no choice but to take back the knife, and retreated out of the courtyard gate with confusion on their faces.
Yu Jinnian tangles his hair between his fingers, glances down, lays down on the table again, and laughs hoarsely: "Isn't it just reading a few words from the book, so fierce... I can't speak well? Okay Brother, dear brother!"
How can it be a serious storybook, just learned some messy names, Ji Hong was so ashamed by him, turned his pancake over to reveal his snow-white back again, and moved his fingers under the table. Buckle it, and a small drawer pops out with a bang.
Yu Jinnian raised his back, blinked his eyes angrily and said, "You've got a lot of skills, and you've even got tricks!"
"There are more skills." Ji Hong took out something from the drawer, and slapped him back on the table. Yu Jinnian watched him reach for a box of ink pads from the other side of the table, and pried off the lid. A palm-sized one Zhang slipped from his hand.
Zhang Zi looks like a funnel-shaped waist, the whole body is bright yellow, warm and clean, as clear as honey, if you look closely, you can find that the carving on the thin waist is nothing but cinnamon sticks. In the past two years in business, Yu Jinnian has seen quite a few stamps, but most of them are quite satisfactory, or simple and dignified, but the one in Ji Hong's hand has double-sided stamps, that is, there are stamps on both ends of the thin waist.
Ji Hong warmed Zhang Zi in his palm, put it in the ink pad box and pressed it.
Before Yu Jinnian took a closer look, he felt that the originally still summer insects were suddenly making noises. There were golden cicadas digging through the soil in the soft soil. When it broke through the soil, he screamed and hugged the edge of the table. Immediately afterwards, I felt a chill in the side of my thigh - he actually printed that chapter on a place that cannot be described in detail!
"You, you..." Yu Jinnian lost his voice and could only protest softly with sobs.
Ji Hong leaned over and kissed the moisture from the corners of his eyes, it was as light as silk across his cheeks, but the place that should be gentle was not gentle at all, as if punishing him for memorizing obscene poems just now, he just yelled loudly He cried, and he protested, and Zhang Zi printed one more on his body. Yu Jinnian didn't know how much nonsense he had babbled, he felt in a daze, it's over, his back must be completely covered!
It wasn't until the moon was over, that he was finally "beaten into a trick", and he couldn't utter a single sophistry. He only begged the master Qingtian to give him a good time, and then he was carried to the bed by "benevolence outside the law".
Someone fetched a water basin to clean it up. He lay on the pillow and groaned, thinking that his bath at night was wasted. I still don't know what is engraved on the instrument of torture!
Seeing that Ji Hong was going to wipe everything up for him, Yu Jinnian forced his voice to say anxiously: "Don't wipe it, don't wipe it, leave two for me to see!"
After yelling, he fell asleep again in a messy manner.
"..." Ji Hong raised his eyes to look at him, and thought to himself, it depends on tomorrow's dawn and he wants the real chapter, who is so stupid to look at himself, but he looked at the remaining two chapters in a blink of an eye, yes It happened to be printed on the peaks of the pair of round and straight snow-capped mountains. When the boy moved, he trembled like a jade mountain about to collapse.
Feeling bad, he followed Yu Jinnian's wishes and left the two for him to see, then threw away the towel, flicked the snow-capped mountain, went to bed beside him, and rested with his arms around the boy.
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The next day, Yu Jinnian was thinking about this matter, so he fell asleep and his subconscious mind was still playing tricks. He just slept on his stomach all night, not daring to move, for fear that he would wipe off the seal on his back if he turned sideways. He woke up just after dawn, threw off the quilt and jumped out of bed in a hurry, found the bronze mirror from the cabinet, and twisted his white waist to take a look at his back.
From the shoulder blades to the thighs, it was only then that I saw the two chapters angrily.
It's not good to cover it anywhere, it must be covered there!
What kind of bad taste is it!
What was reflected in the mirror was reversed, and Yu Jinnian almost twisted himself into a twist in order to see clearly what words were engraved on the chapter. Ji Hong was woken up by his tossing, opened his eyes and looked, and laughed at him in a calm voice, "How about it, can you see it, can you help me dig it out?"
Yu Jinnian stupidly asked subconsciously: "How to expand?"
Ji Hong laughed that he hadn't recovered from the stupidity of last night, and he didn't take the initiative to remind him. Instead, he followed his stupidity and said, "First find a piece of white paper and spread it on the table."
Yu Jinnian really laid out a blank sheet of paper obediently.
Ji Hong continued to say solemnly: "Sprinkle some water on your body, especially the stamp on your head. Finally, just sit on the paper... that's it."
Yu Jinnian picked up a glass of water and thought about it, when suddenly a clock cleared, blessing his soul, and diluting the stupid clouds that had been dizzy all night around his head—if he really sat down as someone said, then It's not just Zhang Zi, even the things that shouldn't be developed have been developed together!
He put the water glass on the table, rolled up the piece of paper, threw it on the bed in a fit of anger, jumped into the bed curtain, rolled into a ball with him, pinched the man's cheek and shouted: "Ji-hong! Are you still alive?" kidding me!"
Yu Jinnian stopped until he heard an ouch and his back hurt. He fumbled all over his body and finally found the badge.
The accompanying seal with cinnamon twigs is engraved with "floating fragrance and osmanthus shadow" on one end and "difficult to express this meaning" on the other end.
Yu Jinnian lay flat on his chest happily, and asked, "What's wrong with you, if you don't express it, how would I know?"
Ji Hong looked at him in embarrassment, and wanted to kiss the corner of Yu Jinnian's mouth, but the young man avoided them all. He insisted on forcing him to express his intention, otherwise he would neither be allowed to touch nor kiss, let alone get up, which is typical I am proud of my favor. He pursed his lips, and then opened his lips again. Yu Jinnian was about to prick up his ears to listen, when he saw him say helplessly: "You're not dressed, and...you're hurting me."
"..." Yu Jinnian looked down and saw that he was naked with a big lotus root lying on someone's body, and was also mottled with red and purple purple spots. That was shameless, so he hurriedly pulled a small blanket to wrap himself up, and ran to wear it mutteringly. clothes.
After tidying up himself, he put Zhang Zi in his little bag and hung it on his waist, so he didn't bother to argue with someone, just remembered that he had received Xiao Zhang Zi's pleasure, and then picked up the small machete to do the same. He tied it on his belt and opened the door.
He stretched himself, and smelled the smell of summer for a long time, the damp fragrance with the smell of mud and grass juice, and the smell of the water floating in the lotus pond. The maidservants who got up early also put on light summer clothes and were trimming the flowers and plants in Tingyueju. When they saw him come out, they all smiled and called "Morning, young master".
"morning!"
The maidservants said again: "Morning son!"
When Yu Jinnian turned his head and saw Ji Hong hugging him from behind, his heart moved, he took out a small chapter from the kit, wet the side with "It's hard to express this meaning" with his mouth, and grabbed Ji Hong's hand, Covering the back of his hand vigorously, he said happily: "Okay! Does it look good?"
Ji Hong didn't speak, but the maidservants who didn't mind the excitement said in unison: "It looks good!"
Yu Jinnian: "Look, they all said it looks good."
Ji Hong smiled dotingly in his eyes, and said: "Okay, let's go get busy." Then he lowered his head and said to Yu Jinnian, "If you are tired, go back and rest. Ask Shi Xing to watch over the shop. I It’s time to approve the official document.”
Yu Jinnian asked strangely, "Don't you have to go to court today?"
Ji Hong: "Take a rest today."
Yu Jinnian followed to the study room, Ji Hongduan was sitting and processing official documents, while he was lying on the chaise longue next to him bored, admiring the beauties while eating. Although he doesn't need to go out today, but if he really wants to stay at home for a day, he will inevitably find it boring. Then he wandered to the kitchen again, and asked his servants to go to the pharmacy to bring back three catties of ebony plums, one catty of licorice, and two catties of hawthorn. He also grabbed some bergamot and tangerine peel. Go into the pot and boil.
It is the celadon jade cup, sour dew into pulp.
For those who like a thicker taste, you can also grind some rice milk together to adjust the taste, and the taste will be more rice-flavored.
The pot boiled slowly over a small fire, and it would take at least one or two hours to cook. At this moment, Yu Jinnian thought of his cheap brother again. Just as he was about to go over and have a look, he heard chattering and noise outside, as well as Sui Sui's crying. .
He hurriedly put down the spoon and went out to check, only to see Sui Sui walking in from the outside, wiping her tears, followed by Ah Chun who had been coaxing her, and behind him, it was not that sad-faced Yu Xu.
The boy took a shower and changed into a suit of clothes, and he looked a bit decent, and his height was almost as tall as Yu Jinnian. Looking at it like this, one can tell that he really hasn't suffered much before, although according to what he said he came from the capital all the way to beg, but can the little beggar have such a well-proportioned figure
Sui Sui looked up and saw Yu Jinnian, she cried and rushed forward, hugged him and sobbed, "Brother Xiaonian, my pendant!"