Yu Jinnian's first thought was "It really is so", but he didn't relax because of it. The man in red was not outstanding in appearance, but he was by no means mediocre, but compared to Ji Hong and even Bai Haitang. A little inferior, the clothes are not too gorgeous, and the person is gentle, he is a person who does not feel the slightest edge.
It's just that his face seems a little pale. I don't know if it's because he is white, or because the weather is too cold? Yu Jinnian met him for the first time, but for some reason, he always felt a little uncomfortable, and for a moment he just stared at him and forgot to speak.
But the young man next to the man in red cheered and said, "Brother Ji San!"
Yu Jinnian took off his cloak, put it on his hand, and went to the cupboard to turn over the tea pots to make tea. These people looked unusual, they looked like Ji Hong's acquaintances, so naturally he couldn't lose Ji Hong at the reception. It's a pity that a bowl of noodle shop is the size of a palm, even if the entire roof is turned over, there is no good tea to serve customers.
After a second thought, he took out the sweet-scented osmanthus tea that had been dried earlier, and planned to make it with Wumei ginger powder, which can also warm the stomach and dispel the cold.
Who would have thought that just after he took out the tea pot, Ji Hongli ignored the young man, turned around and took his hand, led him to the backyard, and said in a low voice: "The clothes are all wet, go and change them first, you don't need to worry about such trivial matters." Work for them yourself."
Yu Jinnian looked at him stupidly: "But..."
"Brother Ji San, is it really Brother Ji?" The young man was also wearing narrow-sleeved riding clothes. Although the color was almost dark green, it was trimmed with gold and silver threads. On his wrists were locked a pair of filigree silver cuffs in the style of Taiping flowers. Inlaid with red onyx and topaz, and an ivory belt buckle in front of the body, there are only two jade pendants on one waist, which look a hundred times richer than the man in red, and wish he could hang all kinds of decorations on his body. As soon as he stood up, there was a jingle on his body: "Second brother didn't lie to me!"
Yu Jinnian saw that he looked familiar, and suddenly remembered, wasn't this the little boy who blocked people in the street a few months ago and scared Ji Hong to say that his surname was Wang.
Ji Hong still ignored him, and only said: "Sorry, I think you have misunderstood the person, my surname is Wang."
Yu Jinnian: "..." I thought to myself, everyone is coming to me, so why don't you stop desperately resisting
The man in red also seemed to find it funny, leaning on the table with one elbow and looking sideways at the two of them. You are born exactly the same, and I can recognize at a glance which one is your real body."
This person's tone is light and familiar, and he doesn't put on any airs in front of Ji Hong, who is he
Young Master Xianyi next to him said: "I'll just say that I look alike, but who knows it's me!" He raised his hand and knocked the heads of the two guards behind him, and said angrily, "You still say I'm hysterical, so it's obviously me!" Third Brother Ji!"
Poetry covered his head and scurried away, while Yu Jinnian was driven back by Ji Hong to change his clothes. After he put on dry clothes as quickly as possible, he ran out with a handkerchief on his head. Lazily looking at the group of people: "Xuefei, what are you doing here?"
Min Xuefei grabbed the troublesome Min Mao with one hand, turned her head and said briskly, "Come and see you."
"Then now that you've finished watching, go back quietly!" Ji Hong said, and opened the curtain to leave.
Hearing that he was so tough, Min Xuefei was not annoyed. Instead, he frowned and showed his pity: "It will be New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. If we leave now, don't you want me to celebrate the New Year alone in the wilderness? Chixue, new here, New Year's Eve, but I don't even have time to taste a cup of hot tea. Shuluan may not be too cruel."
Min Mao was even more reluctant to leave immediately, he followed Ji Hong eagerly, if Min Xuefei hadn't stopped him, he might have jumped on Ji Hong directly. Min Xuefei deliberately showed weakness, and he was even more shameless: "Yes, third brother Ji, don't chase us away. We could have come a few days earlier, who would want to run too fast on the road and suffer from wind and frost, second brother, he —”
"Can't the rice cake soup stop your mouth?" Min Xuefei looked back at him.
Min Mao hurriedly covered his mouth, lowered his head and ate the rice cake, not daring to speak.
Min Xuefei took over the words and said, "There were some accidents on the road, so we were delayed."
Ji Hong wanted to say something more, but when the words came to his mouth, they all turned into a helpless voice. He sighed: "You don't need to be like this. You know that I can't catch you, and I won't drive you away. But I also rely on you here." Mr. Yu Xiao is taking care of him, he is the host and I am the guest, if you want to stay overnight, I am afraid you will have to find another place."
Just as he was talking, Yu Jinnian suddenly let out a sneeze, which was particularly noticeable in the clean front hall, and all the eyes of the audience were focused on him for a moment. He was quietly standing aside, lowering his sense of existence throughout the whole process, but who knows what happened today, the sneezes came one after another, the aftermath of the last one was not over, and the next one swarmed up, so three or four in a row Only then stopped.
He covered his nose and looked up at Ji Hong, his eyes were teary from the sneezes.
Ji Hong touched his hand, it wasn't very cold, he said worriedly: "Don't be sick, go and rest indoors, I'll make you some ginger tea."
"Forget it." Yu Jinnian went to the kitchen, "There are guests coming from afar, I'll make some meals."
"What kind of guests are they? Be obedient." Ji Hong gently took him to the room with his arms around his waist, turned around, and went to the kitchen to boil water.
Min Xuefei followed, and saw that the backyard was small, not as big as a firewood house in Ji's mansion, a timid little girl who didn't know whose family it was, grabbed the door frame of a room in the corner, and peeked at them with blinking eyes. Luo Bai in the courtyard, he was dressed in red, like a red marrow falling from the sky in the twelfth lunar month of winter, when he entered the kitchen, he felt even more cramped, he looked down at the man who was breaking firewood, and asked with a frown, "What are you doing?" doing what?"
Ji Hong: "As you can see, burning firewood."
Min Xuefei frowned: "I know, what do I want to ask you?"
Without raising his head, Ji Hong said again: "Boil water with firewood and make some ginger tea. I think you should also need to eat wind and drink dew all the way."
This is obviously not the answer Min Xuefei wants to get. He rather hates iron for being weak, and bent down to smoke the firewood in Ji Hong's hand: "I think you are angry that I am playing tricks behind your back, so I call it a sick run." Come to this corner of the southern land to relax, if so, I apologize to you."
He took one away, and Ji Hong went to get another one himself. He heated up the fire in the hearth, and boiled the white water in the pot. He took a knife and sliced a head of old ginger, and added three spoons of honey and four or five red dates. Put them into Choshi together, then close the lid and simmer. He did it with ease, and in the end he even told Min Ji to back off, so as not to let his anger burn.
Min Xuefei stepped back three feet, said in a hoarse voice for a while, "Are you angry with me?"
"No." Ji Hong's face was indifferent, without the slightest hint of annoyance. He used to be like this, Min Xuefei often came uninvited, whether he sat around the fire to enjoy the snow, or talked with him around the lights, even if he secretly took poems to the Qingluan Poetry Fair, Ji Hong never got angry, At most half-truth and half-false reprimand him for "seeing off guests".
In Ji Hong's boring life, Min Xuefei is the only friend he can talk to, and the only person who won't be kicked out of his study, but whoever wants to eat in Ji Hong's study , especially the slag ones, even Min Xuefei would be thrown out unceremoniously.
They have very different personalities, Ji Hong is not interested in anything, even if a knife is being stabbed outside, he doesn't bother to go out and take a look; Min Xuefei is usually full of smiles, has a good face, is more than kind to everyone, but hides a knife in his smile. When two diametrically opposed people collide, they lose their temper.
The water in Choshi boiled for a long time, Ji Hong brought a white porcelain teapot, poured some jujube and ginger soup into the small pot, and handed it to Min Xuefei: "Take it, be careful not to burn it."
Min Xuefei was holding the teapot, thinking that he still knew to tell me to be careful, so he shouldn't be so angry, so he tentatively said: "Shuluan."
Before he finished speaking, Ji Hong said: "Your red dress is an eyesore."
"..." Min Xuefei choked, this is really an old story.
The wives of Ji Min's family were close friends in the boudoir before they left the court, and they made handkerchiefs together, so Min Xuefei often went to Ji's mansion to play tricks when he was young, just like Ji Hong, he beat Xiao Ai and ran after Ji Yan's ass, It's just that Ji Hong was reserved and shy when he was young, and because he was disliked by his aunt in the house, even if he looked forward to seeing his second brother every day, he just squatted in the small garden and waited obediently.
Min Xuefei was different, he was the direct son and grandson of the Min family, and he was sought after by others wherever he went. What Ji Hong didn't dare to do, he did it all over again, and he was able to follow Ji Yan more openly. At that time, Ji Yan was a leader among the generation of officials and eunuchs in Beijing. Min Xuefei said more than once that he would become a great person like Ji Erge in the future, but he had only made up his mind for less than a year before something happened to Ji Yan.
So the bones were not drawn, only the skin was drawn, and Min Xuefei learned 50% or 60% of Ji Yan's dress and temperament. The second elder brother of the Ji family likes to wear crimson in winter when the snow falls, standing in the snow like a plum blossom, so he also wears it, and wears it a lot when he is young, and it becomes a habit when he grows up. Although Ji Hong sometimes looked at him twice, he never said anything dissatisfied, so he didn't think too much about it.
Now Min Xuefei looked down at himself, choking and speechless, this is not saying that his clothes are an eyesore, it is saying that he is an eyesore in a roundabout way.
This is really picking up the red clothes and smashing his own feet. He said: "The third brother wrote to me, saying that he saw a person who looked like you in the small town of Nandi. I guessed that you were not sick, otherwise you wouldn't even stop me at the door. After hearing about you, I Immediately set off to see you, for fear of missing the slightest... But you are using this method to anger me?"
Ji Hong held another teapot in his hand, originally intending to send it to the young man in the room, now, after hearing what Min Xuefei said, he gave the teapot a heavy meal in his hand: "Why am I treating you like this, Min Ji, you don't understand? "
He was called "Aji" when he was young, and "Xuefei" when he was older, but he had never been called by his first and last name. Min Xuefei froze, holding a teapot and staring at Ji Hong. The other party didn't say anything. Feel guilty first, so I tried my best to keep a gentle smile.
"How do you play power tricks? I know you have no malicious intentions, so I never say anything. But Min Ji, you have played." Ji Hong said coldly, "I regard you as a friend, so no matter what you do, I feel It doesn't matter. Even if you say that you need my hand and half my life for your official career, I will give it to you without complaint."
"But you know, I hate being manipulated by others the most. You pretend that I don't know that you responded to the champion's gauntlet without permission, that I don't know that you made a bet with the emperor, and that I don't know who you made the bet with." , is it Princess Rongyu, or Princess Zhaohua? You treat me as a fool... are you so eager to get the emperor to give me a marriage?"
Min Xuefei finally stopped laughing, and weakly argued: "I didn't..."
Ji Hong suddenly sighed: "That's all Xuefei, we shouldn't argue about this. Go ahead, Min Mao is still waiting for you." He reached for the pot, but was blocked by the other side's foot. No part of Min Xuefei looks like the second brother, but if someone learns from another person for a long time, there will be some shadow of the other person. When Ji Hong is stopped by him, he seems to really see the second brother for a moment, but then he feels funny.
At least Ji Yan was gentle when he was still, and free and easy when he moved. There was never a time when it seemed that he had no choice but to take urgent measures to strengthen his power.
"Okay." Ji Hong took a step back, he didn't bother to argue with others, he might as well surrender first, "I was wrong."
"I didn't manipulate you, I didn't intend to manipulate you." Min Xuefei was eager to clarify, and the gentleness he had learned from Ji Yan gradually faded, "Ji Shuluan, why don't you understand? Watching Duke Ji fall, how many relatives are waiting to grab your title. You are a concubine, even if the emperor favors you, so what can you do if you seal a son of Duke Li? You have no power, no power, can you hold on? ?”
"Only you, Ji Hong, stand firm on your own, and you can get everything you want. Zhaohua, Rongyu grew up with you and me, no matter which one can stabilize your position. The princess is affectionate, and the emperor is also interested. When the time comes A poem on the Qingluan Terrace confirming love can also be passed on as a good story. What is your fault? You Ji Shuluan is lonely and arrogant, you are that elegant fairy, disdain to roam the rich and powerful, disdain to flatter. Okay, I, Min Ji, will run eastward for you Go west, pull the rope for you, I don't want your hand, and I don't want your life, do you call this manipulation?"
Min Xuefei finished speaking in one breath, her chest fluttered: "Shuluan, don't you be ignorant of good and bad, and cold and warm."
Ji Hong looked at him quietly and said, "Sorry, you are right."
Min Xuefei thought that he could understand some of his painstaking efforts, so his face relaxed, but unexpectedly he said: "But I will take what I want, and I will guard what I want. I really don't need others Come to earn a future for me, you just treat me as ignorant of good and bad."
The two confronted each other, and there was another clear sneezing sound outside.
Ji Hong raised his head and saw a corner of his clothes protruding from the kitchen door. When he went out, he saw the boy standing against the wall with his head lowered as if punished, holding a small tea pot in his hand. Min Xuefei also followed, but in a short time, he had calmed down, still gentle, stable, and graceful, and when he saw Yu Jinnian, he still showed a gentle smile on his face, as if the quarrel in the kitchen just now was just Yu Jinnian's hallucination.
This person has a very strong smell of sandalwood, which is not unpleasant, but right now Yu Jinnian's nasal cavity can't stand the slightest irritation, and the cold wind is enough to make his nose itchy. One, and sneezed loudly and inappropriately, as if he disliked him.
Min Xuefei didn't really care, but the boy's body shook slightly with the sneeze. Min Xuefei's gaze was attracted, and he slowly moved to the other's waist, and fixed on the trembling knife bell.
His eyes froze for a moment, and he looked at Ji Hong in disbelief.
Yu Jinnian didn't notice it, and said: "I want to send a tea pot. I made Wumei ginger powder, which is more convenient than cooking ginger now."
"No need, it's ready." Ji Hong took the tea pot.
Min Xuefei didn't say a word, but his face was frighteningly pale, and his lips were tightly pressed. He glanced at Yu Jinnian lightly, managed to maintain the smile on his face, said "I'll come back tomorrow", and turned his head leave. Yu Jinnian wanted to stay for a while, anyway, it was night, and many restaurants outside were closed, so it was not easy to find a restaurant, but he was dragged into the room by Ji Hong before he opened his mouth.
Min Mao came over earlier and wanted to talk to Ji Hong, especially to ask him to put a poem on his clothes. He was looking forward to it, but his second brother came out in a hurry like a gourd. He was heartless and full of interest. He asked, "Where's Brother Ji?", but only got a gloomy look from Min Xuefei. He rubbed his brows sorely: "Brother Ji, Brother Ji, forget about your surname in the past."
Min Mao can't wait, he is also a dispensable person in the Min Mansion, if he can be in the same family with Ji Sange, he will be so happy. It's just that he thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say it that way. He was all counting on hugging his second brother's thigh so that he could get close to third brother Ji, so he said, "How can that be, second brother is my real brother."
Min Xuefei felt a little relieved, and Min Mao looked at the backyard again, and couldn't help asking: "Where is Brother Ji San, why didn't you come out?"
"..." Min Xuefei really spewed out a mouthful of blood, this wolf-hearted brat.
In the room, Yu Jinnian held a cup of ginger tea, rubbed the tip of his nose and said, "I seem to have really caught a cold." Before Ji Hong could answer, he said, "That person has a good relationship with you, I've never met him before." You are arguing with someone... It's very strange. Are you from Beijing, what's your name?"
"Min Ji, Min Xuefei. They are my childhood friends." Ji Hong has nothing to hide. He didn't want to mention it before, and it was also out of selfish considerations that he couldn't bear to destroy this leisurely life. It's just that Min Xuefei's arrival today let him see clearly that there are some things It's not that if you don't mention it, you can't exist. He squatted beside the bed and took off the boy's shoes and socks. As expected, the soles of his feet were cold. It must be that the wet snow had penetrated into the soles of the shoes, so he caught a cold.
"Why don't you know if the soles of your feet are wet?"
Yu Jinnian groaned, and oh again for a long time, he was stunned.
Ji Hong wrapped his feet with a small blanket, hugged him warmly, looked up at the young man for a while, saw that he was silent, like a stone sculpture, he couldn't help sighing and asked, "How much did you hear just now outside the door?" ?”
Yu Jinnian gradually woke up from the petrified state, and said without any haste: "All of it..."
Ji Hong: "Aren't you shocked?"
Yu Jinnian smiled: "I can bear it well, and I've been scared."
After finishing speaking, he closed his mouth again and continued to pretend to be a stone statue. It didn't look like he was frightened by what he said, but he seemed to be frightened stupid.
The son of heaven, the princess, the son of Duke Li, the letter of war under the number one scholar, and the poetry meeting on the Qingluan stage... all seemed to be something in the sky. When Yu Jinnian thought of the Yang family, the group of Yang family members who suddenly changed their temper overnight and respected Ji Hong; thinking of the inexplicably completed lines in the dilapidated Qingluan poetry collection, he was surprised to think that Ji Hong was also Qingluan The son's poetry fan. What a fan of poetry, he is his true self!
Yu Jinnian also remembered that he once said that Mr. Qingluan might be an ugly monster who dare not see others, so he wished to take it back, rub it, rub it, stuff it in his stomach again, and wondered what Ji Hong felt when he heard it? Are you secretly laughing at him
It's not that he can't accept it. After Yu Jinnian's two lifetimes, even the most mysterious thing like resurrection from the dead has happened to him. It's nothing. It's just that he couldn't absorb it all of a sudden. A lot of information is like a basin of water, full, overflowing, and gurgling out. But he could only watch it flow clumsily, but he didn't know how to stop it, so he was a little dazed.
Ji Hong stood up, held his face in both hands and rubbed it vigorously. His face had just been sifted cool by the wind in the yard. After being rubbed like this, some blood color finally came out, and some vitality was released. Yu Jinnian regained his soul, looked up at the man in front of him, and said sadly: "Oh, I just didn't expect you to be such a noble person, didn't I steal a star in the sky? It doesn't have to be a star, it could be someone else the moon."
Ji Hong didn't take it seriously: "It doesn't matter what it is. You pick it off, it's yours, keep it if you like it, throw it away if you don't like it. Use it to make lanterns, pendants, whatever, it's nothing special."
Yu Jinnian laughed twice, but he didn't look happy at all. He was not someone who could hold back his words, especially in front of Ji Hong. Just looking up at him like this, he felt that countless butterflies were about to fly out of his chest. , At this moment, his mind was buzzing wildly, thinking countless times in his heart, I really like this person, but his mouth suddenly lost confidence: "I want to stay, but I'm afraid I won't be able to."
This person is too high, so high that even if he stretches out his hands and stands on tiptoes, he probably won't be able to touch the slightest bit.
This question has never been in Ji Hong's consideration. He was afraid that the boy would be afraid, shrink back, or avoid. Something that can’t be kept. A little monster that descended from the sky, would you still be afraid that you won’t be able to keep someone?”
Hearing what he said, Yu Jinnian also opened the other's palm and drew something inside.
Ji Hong asked: "What is this?"
"A curse." Yu Jinnian said nonchalantly, "Don't all monsters know how to cast curses? If you want to escape in the future, I will recite the curse and forget all about you, the princess, and you only remember me." .I will tie you up and lock you in a cave, and listen to my mantras every day."
Ji Hong followed his words and laughed, feeling that Guan Shandong's idea was not bad: "How did you recite this curse?"
"Come here and I'll tell you." Yu Jinnian beckoned feebly, Ji Hong bent down and listened to him, Yu Jinnian rushed forward, pushed him down and whispered. Ji Hong was inexplicably bitten, but after hearing the whispered words behind him, he regained his energy, turned his body over, and the two of them turned upside down, and said, "Say it again?"
Yu Jinnian didn't want to say anything anymore, he stared at the man on his body, reached out and touched his nose and eyes, as if confirming that this man was real, not some paper-made dummy, so that the ambiguity between the two of them was steaming , he whispered in a low voice: "You are the one who is homeless, you are the one who is terminally ill, you are the one who is amazingly talented, and you are the one who is unattainable. Anything else is yours. Say it together, so as not to scare me." Round two."
Ji Hong thought for a while: "It's gone right now, I'll add it later when I think about it."
"I'm afraid you will think of a shocking secret in the future, for example, you are actually a fairy, and you came down to the mortal world to cross the catastrophe." Yu Jinnian shrank his neck and rolled out from under him. He wanted to put his hand on his shoes, but was caught by Ji Hong After going back, he hid and told him not to make trouble, fearing that the night was not yet deep, and there were still a bunch of people outside, and the two of them would start having sex.
Ji Hong just prevented him from continuing to wear the wet shoes, and took another pair of shoes and socks to put on for him.
"Don't listen to what those people outside say, especially Min Xuefei, he's used to bewitch people." Ji Hong supported his foot, held it in his hands and squeezed it, Yu Jinnian's soles were so itchy that even this leg was sore Limp in Ji Hong's hands, he couldn't take it back, so he had to listen carefully to what Ji Hong said, "Trust me, listen to me."
"Got it, don't pinch it anymore." Yu Jinnian curled up his toes in shame.
As soon as Ji Hong let him go, he couldn't wait to jump down to the ground, and when he was about to go out, Ji Hong caught him back and kissed him again. Yu Jinnian was really big-hearted, even if he overheard a bunch of amazing things, his mind was only complicated for a while. On the contrary, it was Ji Hong who seemed to have lost his mind, and caught him back again and again to confirm.
Yu Jinnian tirelessly said what he wanted to hear, but the window slit behind him was opened at some point, and half of his eyes were exposed from the slit, eager to look inside: "Ji... San... brother?"
With a bang, Ji Hong casually picked up something beside him and threw it far away, causing a loud bang on the window, and the person outside covered his eyes and screamed.
Yu Jinnian looked back: "What?"
Ji Hongwen said: "Don't worry, I'm sick."
The two came out of the room slowly, only Min Mao with one blue eye was sitting in the front hall. Yu Jinnian thought that the left and right were going to make dinner, and it was time to add a pair of chopsticks, so he asked where the other person had gone. Min Mao stared straight at Ji Hong, thinking about how to ask him for a poem, but when he heard Yu Jinnian's question, he pointed outside absent-mindedly.
"Just now I saw my second brother hurried out, saying that he was looking for an inn to stay."
Yu Jinnian said: "This year's festival, all the ones that should be closed are closed, and the ones that are not closed are also fully occupied. Where can I find an inn?"
Min Mao put all his heart on his third brother Ji, how can he care about his second brother, he waved his hand casually: "Oh, don't worry about him, my second brother is very good, even if there is no room in the whole city Now, he can persuade others to give him a room with his mouth, which is even more amazing than a fortune teller."
So Ji Hong said he was good at deceiving people
When Yu Jinnian saw Min Xuefei before, he always felt that something was wrong, but he hadn't figured it out, but now he saw a series of footprints in the snow in front of the store, so he ran out to take a look.
It was ice and snow outside the door, and there were no pedestrians, and I didn't know where Min Xuefei went to find the inn. Yu Jinnian squinted his eyes and looked around, and suddenly saw a red shadow on the ground in the distance, like a red silk that was about to be thrown on the snow. , turned into a pool. He took a few careful glances, opened his eyes wide immediately, and shouted as he ran, "Ah Hong! What's the matter with Min, Min...his brother!" He shouted wildly, "Oh, you're transformed!"