The street was very cold, Xu Chuniang was wrapped in a thick cloak, holding Tang Pozi who had just poured hot water, walking slowly. If Jiang Shen was beside her, he would have strode forward impatiently, but Chijin didn't, and the black cloud boots walked with her, without leaving her behind.
Chu Niang tilted his head, and couldn't help but said: "Your Excellency, you can go first, I know where the medicine hall is, and we will meet up later."
Chi Jin glanced at her and smiled lightly: "I look anxious?"
"It's not..." Chu Nian shook his head, "But I walk really slowly, you and I can't even walk."
Could it be that he came out with her to take a step? Chi Jin pursed her lips, feeling that the girl from the Xu family was really stupid, everyone could see what he wanted to do. She was the only one with a frank face, completely unaware.
In other words, he didn't think about it at all.
"Just finished lunch, walking too fast is not good for your health." Looking at the small stalls on the street, Chi Jin said, "It's good to just walk and watch."
Such a gentle temperament, Xu Chuning couldn't help sighing, it turns out that men can also be gentle like this.
"Does this look good?" Chi Jin stopped by an old woman's stall, looked at the things on the stall and asked her.
Looking back at the first brewing, I saw many hairpins carved from wood on the bamboo raft shop. Although they were rough, they were also simple and elegant.
Seeing someone stop, the old lady hurriedly said: "Take a look, you two, girls and boys wear them all, and they are also cheap, two yuan a piece."
The first-tier cities have just been connected to the river, and the drought has eased, but the lives of the people are still not easy. Seeing the large patches on the old man's clothes, Xu Chuniang couldn't bear it, touched his pocket, and planned to give her money directly.
However, Chi Jin stopped her, squatted down and took a closer look, and said: "No one in the house has seen this kind of thing, so buy one for each of them. It's just right."
As he spoke, he picked up a female hairpin and handed it to her. He also took one and squeezed it in his hand. Then he wrapped up the rest and handed over two taels of silver.
"This... this is too much." The old man was a little panicked.
Chi Jin smiled and said: "Miss is kind-hearted, she understands that you are old, and let you go back to rest earlier, and buy some delicious food to go home when you have more money."
Looking at Xu Chuniang gratefully, the old woman nodded again and again: "Thank you, thank you!"
Xu Chuniang was very embarrassed, returned the gift to her and followed Chijin, whispering as he walked, "You gave me the money, how can I be kind?"
Chi Jin smiled and played with the hairpin in his hand, and asked instead: "Do you want to try?"
When she left Yinping, she didn't even pack her luggage, so she didn't have any jewelry on her head. After thinking about it, Chu Nian reached out to touch the bun and inserted the hairpin in her hand.
Chi Jin looked at it. Nodding: "That's right."
"Do you want to try it, too?" She happily touched the hairpin and asked.
Looking at his hand in embarrassment, Chi Jin said: "I'm not very good at pulling my hair. Once I take off the hairpin on my head, I'm afraid I'll have to let my hair loose."
"It's okay, I will!" Xu Chuning looked around, took him to a side alley, avoided people's eyes, and said in a low voice, "Squat down."
With a slight movement in his eyes, Chi Jin handed her the wooden hairpin in his hand, then turned his back and squatted in front of her, allowing her to undo his original bun, use her hand as a comb, and quickly retie it for him.
With his back turned, Xu Chuning couldn't see, Chi Jin put his index finger on the tip of his nose, and laughed silently for a long time.
After a while, both of them wore new hairpins on their heads and continued to walk slowly towards the medicine hall. Xu Chuniang was a little depressed at first, but looking at the people's livelihood on the street, and occasionally eating a couple of street snacks, she suddenly felt that it was a waste of time to worry about the spring and autumn, and she had to live steadily, so much Aren't people who are more ill-fated than her still trying to live
Taking a deep breath, Xu Chuniang's steps became lighter. His eyes became clearer too. Followed Chijin to the pharmacy to choose medicinal materials, went around to the next street to buy candles, and went back to the princess mansion talking and laughing.
"What I brought for you." She happily put a large pack of wooden hairpins on the table.
Today is on vacation, everyone is staying in the mansion, bored, seeing this movement, Qing Xian was the first to jump up: "What what?"
However, Bai Ai moved faster than him. He stepped forward to unpack the bundle, let out a "huh", picked up a hairpin and looked at it, raised his eyebrows and asked Xu Chuniang, "What's your interest? Why did you think of buying this?" ?”
Chu Niang said with a smile: "The old man sold them, Chi Jin was very kind, so he bought them all. This first-tier city is not a prosperous place, everyone does as the Romans do, and Dai Dai is not bad."
Hearing this, Qing Xian said without even thinking about it: "When will Chi Jin feel better?"
Isn't he famous for being cruel, merciless and scheming in Feiyun Palace
Glancing at Qing Xian lightly, Chi Jin said: "There are not enough hairpins, if you want to keep two hairpins for His Highness and Your Majesty, don't take them."
Qingxian choked, and immediately changed his words: "I mean, when did Lord Chijin lose his mind? Oh, look at my mouth, it's not easy to talk when it's cold."
As he spoke, he touched a hairpin and shrank to the side.
Xu Chuniang was about to laugh, but turned his head to see Huaiyu and Ziyangjun finally came out.
"Hey, what is this?" Li Huaiyu looked closer curiously.
Jiang Xuanjin walked over with her expressionlessly, glanced at the table and said, "Haven't you seen the wooden hairpin?"
"I've never seen it before, but it's very ingenious." Picking up one and looking at it, Huaiyu said with a smile, "The carved hairpin is still lifelike."
Bai Ai sized her up carefully, seeing that her complexion was as usual, and she was not feeling well, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice: "Chi Jin brought it back, Your Highness, do you like it?"
"This one!" Huaiyu took a peony-shaped one, and gave Jiang Xuanjin a plain hairpin, ran back to him and gestured on his head, smiling authentically, "You really look good in anything you wear!"
Everyone: "..."
Jiang Xuanjin stiffened, slightly annoyed: "Shut up."
"Just now you kept telling me to shut up, and now you still tell me to shut up?" Li Huaiyu put his hands on his hips dissatisfied, "I'm not wrong!"
It's not enough to tease him in the house, what's more? Jiang Xuanjin's ears were flushed, and there was nothing he could do about her, so he rubbed his forehead with quite a headache.
Xu Chuniong looked at it, with a little envy in his eyes. Even after so many things, when the two got back together, it seemed that nothing had changed.
For a moment, it gives people the illusion of a timeless world.
"Don't like this?" Li Huaiyu muttered, looking at the Su hairpin in his hand, "Isn't it good?"
Jiang Xuanjin took the hairpin in her hand and glanced twice, then glanced at Chi Jin and Xu Chuyong next to her, and said, "The hairpins are all in pairs, the female hairpin has a big head, and the male hairpin has a small head, since you took the peony, Why don't you give me the other half?"
"Huh?" Huaiyu noticed now, "It's actually the right hairpin?"
Chi Jin paused slightly, and looked up at him. Jiang Xuanjin looked back calmly, his eyes clearly fell on his bun.
Was discovered? Chi Jin raised his eyebrows, then smiled.
The hairpin on his head can't be seen clearly from a distance because of its small flower head. The ones on Xu Chuyong's head are much more obvious, they are three plum blossoms.
"I didn't even notice." Xu Chuniang watched in amazement as Huaiyu found the peony male hairpin, and asked sideways at the hairpin on Chijin's head. "Then my lord also has another half?"
Looking down at her, and then at the hairpin in her hair, Chi Jinyun said calmly: "Don't worry about it, it's just a hairpin, just follow the fate."
He said it indifferently, it was clear that he had set someone up in advance. Mrs. Xu was so simple, she didn't think much at all, she responded, and turned around to help Huaiyu look at the hairpin.
Jiang Xuanjin looked at Chi Jin for a while, and suddenly felt that his second elder brother was Merry and Merry, and in terms of means, perhaps he was really no match for him.
"Your Majesty." Cheng Xu whispered beside him, "There is news from the capital."
Feeling relieved, Jiang Xuanjin nodded, and asked Li Huaiyu with a straight face: "There is a good show, do you want to watch it?"
"What a good show?" Huaiyu leaned his head over, his eyes full of curiosity.
After touching her hand, Jiang Xuanjin wrapped her tiger skin cape tightly, and said in a low voice, "Follow me."
The people next to him were confused, so they watched the two whispering to each other for a while, and walked out together.
"Hey..." Qing Xian looked at their backs unhappily, and muttered in a low voice, "Just came, and left again?"
"This is a common thing." Chi Jin said, "It's been a long time to reunite, so it's going to take some time."
"But Mr. Ziyang, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a person who likes to be greasy."
Xu Chuning listened, and said in a low voice, "He just doesn't like to be intimate with others."
Huaiyu was different, she had discovered in Jiang Mansion before that the Lord had no patience with anyone, he was too noisy and annoying, but when he was with his wife Jun, no matter how tightly he frowned, he never rushed over people.
During that time, everyone thought that His Majesty's temper had changed, he was easier to talk and get along with. It wasn't until Mrs. Jun left later that everyone realized that Jun Shang hadn't changed at all, but he was gentler with others when he was in a good mood.
He gave her all the exceptions, and the others could at most benefit from it, nothing else.
very nice.
Jiang Xuanjin walked towards the guest room with a stern face, Huaiyu followed him, shaking his hand: "You have been sulking for two hours, is it still there?"
It's okay not to say it, but when he said it, he remembered what happened in the red curtain again, his jaw tightened, and his eyes were not friendly.
"You said you wouldn't bully me again."
The results of it
With stars in his eyes, Li Huaiyu hooked his little finger and said: "Then how can it be considered bullying? You are too serious and always shy... Hey, don't make a bad face, it's not shy! How can Mr. Ziyang be shy? I mean Reserved! You are too reserved!"
Jiang Xuanjin looked at her coldly.
Huaiyu felt happy looking at this familiar look, and teased him in a low voice: "Next time, don't attack me, just beg for mercy, it will be useful to keep it!"
Letting go of her hand, Jiang Xuanjin said expressionlessly, "Go back to the house by yourself."
"Huh?" Huaiyu stared, "Didn't you say there is a good show for me to watch?"
"Suddenly gone."
With a wave of his green sleeves, Jiang Xuanjin turned around and entered the guest room, closing the door with a bang.
Huaiyu supported the pillar next to him and laughed straight, and said to Chengxu: "Why is your lord so lovable?"
Stumbling under his feet, the corners of Chengxu's mouth twitched: "To provoke... to be loved?"
"Look." Stretched out his index finger and pushed on the door string, and the two doors opened with a "squeak".
Li Huaiyu laughed so much that it made a flower branch tremble: "If you are so angry, you don't even hit the door bolt, isn't it very lovable?"
Chengxu remained silent, raised his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat off his head, thinking that if you dare to say this, your subordinates would not dare to nod in response, isn't this courting death
Holding her stomach and laughing for a while, Huaiyu entered the door, and saw Jiang Xuanjin sitting on the soft couch with her back to her, looking even more angry. But when he heard the movement behind him, he got angry and spread out the soft cushions piled up next to him, covering all the hard corners of the couch. At the end, he snorted coldly.
Huaiyu really wanted to pounce on him and kiss him, but she was too heavy to jump up. He could only climb onto the soft couch obediently, and poked his arm with the wooden hairpin: "This young master?"
The young master ignored her and threw a letter indifferently.
Seeing the seal of the post station in Kyoto, Huaiyu raised his eyebrows, not in a hurry to tease him, first opened the sealing wax to have a look.
With just one glance, her expression became serious.
"Zhang De... pursue the crime and move the coffin to the sea?" Li Huaiyu couldn't believe his eyes, and frowned. "What happened here?"
Zhang De is the servant next to Emperor Xiao, that is, the eunuch who wanted to deceive her to be humiliated in Li Shan Palace, but was delayed by her. When he died, the ruling and opposition parties condemned the eldest princess for being cruel, and allowed his coffin to be hidden in the fairy mountain protected by dragon spirit in order to atone for the royal family.
But now, his coffin was about to be dug out and thrown into the sea, and was reported by the Taiwei Mansion. In other words, everyone in Kyoto knew about it.
What kind of crime can make Li Huailin make such a decision? He should be clear. Convicting Zhang De is tantamount to rectifying her past behavior.
"Zhang De has an adopted son who lost money in a bet some time ago and was chased by someone with a knife. In order to save his life, he shouted in the street that he had the will of Emperor Xiao, and he really brought out a decent bright yellow scroll. The emperor was furious when he learned about it, and executed him in the name of blasphemy, and held Zhang De accountable."
The person with his back to her said coldly: "You are lucky, so you can take advantage of this good show even if you are thousands of miles away."
Huaiyu was stunned, put down the letter paper and looked up at him: "You think I'm stupid? Zhang De has been by my father's side for so many years, can I not know whether he has a adopted son?"
Back stiffened, Jiang Xuanjin was silent for a moment, and then said: "Your Highness is not a god, so you can't know everything."
Angry and laughing, Huaiyu stretched out his hand to pull him, pulled him over, and looked into his eyes: "It just so happens that I really know everything! I didn't receive the news, but you got it first. Ziyang Your Majesty, tell me frankly that you love me and want to clear my name, is it that difficult?"
His eyes moved slightly, and Jiang Xuanjin pursed his lips.
This is something he has been preparing since he learned about her past from Qingsi. He spent a lot of thought and used all the tricks and schemes he had always disdained, and it finally came to a successful conclusion.
But let him open his mouth to say... How do you say this? Could it be that I knew someone bullied you, so I helped you find a way to bully you back
Ziyang Jun felt that this remark seemed to be asking for credit, which seemed very naive, so he didn't want to say it!
"People from the Jiang family don't do anything sinister." Looking at her righteously, he said, "I don't know about this matter."
Li Huaiyu narrowed his eyes: "I don't know, right? Good!"
"Qingsi!"
Someone came in from outside the door, Huaiyu looked at her and said, "Check it out for me, and see how Zhang De was convicted!"
Qingsi was astonished. I glanced at the person next to me, thought for a while, and nodded in response: "Yes."
Jiang Xuanjin was quite helpless: "Why bother to spend all this energy? If the result is good, it will be fine?"
Zhang De must be convicted, and the big crimes imposed on the eldest princess for so many years will be dissipated. Although many people may still habitually think that Danyang is a villain, many people will also realize that for so many years, the eldest princess has made more achievements than her faults.
He didn't know anything else, but the Jiang family would definitely understand.
He is not deluded. There is no love for the wrong person.
Li Huaiyu stared fixedly at the person in front of him, and said after a long time: "I was stupid, I only realized it now."
The last time the indictment was for favors, he planned it early in the morning to publicize Li Shan's evil deeds for her. She only saw the construction plan of the tributaries and canals given by Pingling. Didn't you see the sudden relaxation of the princes' attitude towards her later
It's no wonder she couldn't think of it. Jiang Xuanjin hated her so much at that time. Who would have thought that he would hide such thoughts under such strong hatred
"You..." She pursed her lips, looking down at the back of his hand.
There was a shallow scar on it, very similar to the one on her neck, where he had made it when he prevented her from killing herself.
He didn't seem to have said anything more, but what he should have was no less than her.