Xiao Jingxi watched Ren Yaoqi slowly step out of the courtyard, there was still a slight smile in his dark and beautiful eyes, but a hint of contemplation appeared quietly.
He turned around and slowly walked back to the stone bench and sat down. With his slender two fingers, he picked up the rounded pieces that had been retracted from the chess jar, and resumed the previous chess game one by one, his movements focused and leisurely.
There was only one person and one sheep left in the quiet courtyard, forming a silent landscape.
At some point, a man in a gray shirt quietly stood behind Xiao Jingxi, and stood there without saying a word.
Xiao Jingxi didn't look back. He waited until the pieces on the chessboard had been placed before he spoke, with a low and hoarse voice like an ancient movement: "The Han family's affairs are the family affairs of the Han family, so they don't have to interfere."
The man in the gray shirt responded unconsciously at first, and then said again: "Han Dongshan went to ask Director Gu beside the lord, and Director Gu sent someone to investigate."
Hearing this, Xiao Jingxi tilted his head slightly and frowned his beautiful eyebrows: "Why is the palace so busy recently?"
The gray-clothed man bowed his head, not daring to answer.
Xiao Jingxi looked at the chessboard, his fingers lightly changed the chess game on the chessboard, and said leisurely: "Go and tell Director Gu that if you can't even handle your own housework, what else can the Yanbei Palace expect from them?" He Although the tone is soft, the words spoken are extremely heavy.
"Yes, son, this subordinate understands." The man in gray hurriedly lowered his head and replied.
Xiao Jingxi continued to play with the chess game, sometimes retreating and re-playing, the move was silent, only the sound of rustling.
Just when the man in gray thought that Xiao Jingxi had nothing to say, he heard him speak again: "Go check Han Dongshan."
Although the man in gray was a little strange why his master suddenly paid attention to the Han family, he still bowed his head and answered the order right away.
"How is the military now?" Xiao Jingxi immediately left the matter of the Han family behind and asked about something else.
"Back to the son, Mrs. Wu took Miss Wu back to the mansion, along with Wu Xiao and Zhou He, an old strategist by his side. Zhou He asked to see the prince three times in the past few days, and the prince should meet him twice. "
Mrs. Wu in his mouth is the wife of Wu Xiaohe, the current Ningxia commander, as well as Xiao Wei, the county owner of the Yanbei Palace, and the aunt of Xiao Jingxi.
When Xiao Jingxi heard the words, his eyebrows did not change at all: "I asked about matters in the army, not about the palace."
The gray-clothed man paused for a moment, then buried his head and said, "Since the news of the disarmament in the imperial court was publicized last time, there have been several riots in the Yanbei Army under the instigation of a few people with ulterior motives. For the time being, I did not move, and secretly wrote down the people who were provoking trouble. Today, I heard people report that they plan to gather more people to make trouble in the near future, and plan to hide in the mountains with money after looting several large shops in Yunyang City Zhanshan is king."
Xiao Jingxi didn't speak when he heard the words, staring at the chessboard with a thoughtful look, not knowing whether he was thinking about the chess game or what his subordinates reported.
After a while, he picked up the chess pieces one by one on the chessboard that were gradually divided into winners and losers: "Go and ask Tong He to prepare the carriage and return to Yunyang City today."
"Then here at Bailong Temple..."
Xiao Jingxi said lightly, "The Tongde Association will stay."
His voice just fell. Out of nowhere, another man with an ordinary face and a medium stature came out, and bowed respectfully to Xiao Jingxi.
"Give you a month to resolve the matter between the White Dragon Temple and the major temples." Xiao Jingxi glanced at Tongde who had just walked out, and instructed softly.
"Yes, son." Tongde bowed his head and replied.
Xiao Jingxi got up and walked out, the slender figure quickly disappeared at the door of the cave.
When Ren Yaoqi came out, she didn't see Xiao Jinglin, the maid Apple squatted under the eaves in front of the wing, and when she saw Ren Yaoqi came out, she ran over and followed behind Ren Yaoqi.
No one was encountered along the way, the master and servant left the yard.
At the door of the yard, Xi'er, the eldest maid next to Li's, was calling the two old ladies aside to ask questions. Seeing Ren Yaoqi coming out, she hurriedly greeted her: "Miss, are you alright?"
Xi'er looked at Ren Yaoqi worriedly.
"I'm fine, the county master just invited me to drink a cup of tea." Ren Yaoqi comforted Xi'er warmly.
"Why did you come here?"
"My wife heard that you were taken away by the county master of the Yanbei palace, and she was a little worried, so she sent the slaves to watch." Xi'er asked curiously: "Fifth young lady, how do you recognize the county master? "
Ren Yaoqi shook his head as he walked: "It's the first time I saw the county master today, and I didn't know him before."
"Then why did she invite you to drink tea for no reason?" Xi'er didn't seem to distrust Yao Qi, but she was very curious and puzzled.
I heard that the princess in the Yanbei Wangfu is very eccentric and does not return to the palace once a year. The most incomprehensible thing is that she is obviously a girl's family, but she has to follow several Yanbei Wangfu's generals to patrol the border dance. Knife and gun, stronger than a man.
This county owner is a rumored character. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is no different from the legendary women sung in the play and the legendary women written in the book. However, such a woman suddenly forced her own lady to drink tea, It's just that the two have never met before, and they don't know each other at all.
This is really incomprehensible.
"The county owner only said that he wants to find someone to accompany you to drink tea. As for why it is me, I don't know." Ren Yaoqi explained patiently.
Not only a few maids and old ladies were surprised that Xiao Jinglin dragged Ren Yaoqi to drink tea, but when they returned to the resting yard, Mrs. Li, who had been waiting for a long time and was about to come out to find someone, was also very puzzled.
Ren Yaoqi said it again according to the answer just now.
Mammy Zhou comforted Mrs. Li: "Since the county master has no malicious intentions, then you don't have to worry, madam. And the county master likes our fifth young lady, which is a good thing. Although this county master does not often return to the Yanbei Wangfu, he is extremely It is liked by King Yanbei."
Li nodded: "You are right. Although this county owner has a strange temperament, he has never heard of any evil things."
Ren Yaoqi didn't know that Xiao Jingxi returned to Yunyang City shortly after she left, and that she and Mrs. Li left for Baihe Town early the next morning.
When the carriage went down the mountain road, the wind blew the curtain, Ren Yaoqi glanced out casually, just in time to see two nuns in light gray robes talking and going up the mountain along the mountain road.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but glance at the older nun. She was fair-skinned and charming. When she was talking and laughing with others, her eyes were somewhat unintentionally charming. From the edge of the hat beside her ears, she could still see the black hair. Boundary, she didn't shave her head.
Ren Yaoqi was thinking about the identity of this nun, but the nun turned her head slightly and glanced at this side as if she had a feeling. Seeing that it was a carriage used by the female family members of a large family, she turned her head and continued to meet a younger man. The nun laughed.
Ren Yaoqi sat in the carriage, and could hear her unabashed and crisp laughter. On the contrary, the little nun who was traveling with him saw that passers-by were looking at them, and whispered to remind the nun with hair to be quiet.
The nun with hair was as if she hadn't heard it, and still laughed loudly.
Mammy Zhou glanced out and frowned, "Why does this woman look like a monk?"
However, Ren Yaoqi remembered what he heard about a female nun in Baiyunyan nearby when he came to Bailong Temple last time. This nun with hair must be the sister-in-law surnamed Liang.
The last time Bailong Temple sent someone to adjust the matter of Baiyunyan, they went down the mountain and returned to Baihe Town, and did not see the follow-up of this matter. But later I heard Xiangqin say that the two sisters-in-law's family said they were going to report to the official, but this kind of housework was difficult to be judged, and the fact that Mrs. Liang and the tenant farmer were struggling should not be publicized, and they had no evidence to prove it. It was the ghosts of the two sisters, and in the end, the matter was over.
Aunt Liang's husband's family suffered a loss, and no one of the female relatives dared to go up the mountain to ask for trouble, and the men were also stopped by the monks guarding the mountain gate at the foot of the mountain, and could no longer go up the mountain.
Looking at this Aunt Liang today, she has a wanton temper. What happened last time, she can still stay in this Buddhist clean place to hide and relax, and her face is not affected. This woman should not be a simple person.
The carriage passed by the two nuns, and Ren Yaoqi slowly retracted his gaze.
After going down the mountain, I turned from the Huanshan Trail to the Official Road. After walking a short distance, I saw a few carriages approaching from the direction of Yunyang City. I saw that the style of the carriages was actually the same as that of Ren Yaoqi and Li Shi. are very similar.
"Madam, the second wife's carriage is behind us, from the direction of Yunyang City." Someone reported from outside.
"Second sister-in-law said earlier that she was going back to Yunyang City to attend her nephew's wedding banquet. She should have come from her mother's house. Tell me to stop first and wait for the second sister-in-law's carriage to go first." Li shi said softly.
So the carriage of Li's group slowly stopped, and the carriage behind quickly caught up and stopped beside Li's carriage. The second wife, Mrs. Su, lifted the curtain, revealing an ordinary and gentle face.
Li also lifted the curtain of the car and called "Second Sister-in-law" with a smile.
Su Shi nodded gently: "I just saw the carriage of the Ren family in front of me, and I thought it was the master of the house who came to Bailong Temple to burn incense. It turned out to be the third younger brother and sister."
Ren Yaoqi called out to his second aunt.
"Huh? Fifth elder sister is there too?" Ren Yaoting's voice sounded in Su's carriage, and immediately saw Ren Yaoting's face appear by the curtain.
Su shi frowned and scolded her daughter lightly: "Ting'er, don't say hello first when you see the third aunt? No rules."
Ren Yaoting hurriedly called out "Third Aunt", but his eyes were looking into Li's carriage.
Li shi spoke for Ren Yaoting with a smile: "The sisters haven't seen each other for a few days, so it's natural to be closer."
"Mother, I want to sit with the fifth sister. Last time I talked to the fifth sister about the big cousin, and the fifth sister said that most women in the capital are spoiled and hard to talk. But my big cousin is not, my daughter is going to talk to her about the big sister-in-law. The matter of the cousin." Ren Yaoting begged.
Hearing the words, Su Shi didn't stop her, nodded and said gently: "You ask your fifth sister what you mean, if she wants, your sisters can go to the carriage behind."