After a serious illness, Qishan turned into a porcelain doll.
Since he didn't have to do anything, he said he was so free that he could only sit under the porch and bask in the sun, holding the cat he had just hired.
He also gave the raccoon a name.
Vegetarian
When Chu Yao heard the name and looked at Qi Shan's pale and weak appearance, he said, "I gradually feel the autumn leaves startling me, the fading cicadas chirping in the evening, the Su Shang season - Su Shang? Why did you give your 'new bride' such a sad name? It would be better to call her Huai Xu."
The white color of autumn is "Su", and the cold wind in autumn is the same as "Shang", so it is called "Su Shang", which sounds unauspicious.
Qi Shan lazily raised his eyelids: "Because it sounds good."
Summer has passed and autumn is coming, and vegetarian business is very appropriate.
As for whether to celebrate or not—
Qishan doesn't believe these.
Shen Tang was bored and was watching the fat boy practicing martial arts. He took the initiative to join the conversation between the two and said with great interest: "It has nice eyes. It can be named 'Cuiwei'. What do you think?"
Qi Shan and Chu Yao said in unison: "Vulgar."
After the words fell, the two looked at each other with subtle expressions, their brows twitched fiercely, and they turned their faces in different directions.
Shen Tang: “…”
Is your tacit understanding used in places like this
Fortunately, the knock on the door relieved her embarrassment, and she hurriedly put on her clogs and went to open the door. Standing outside the door were two familiar faces, one familiar and one unfamiliar. The familiar face even gave her a bright and warm hello. It was Zhai Le: "Hello, Brother Shen."
The other person is of course Zhai Le's cousin.
Shen Tang was surprised, but still stepped aside to let the two in.
The cousin looked somewhat embarrassed and helpless.
Zhai Le was very comfortable with it, with his hands behind his back, his long ponytail swaying left and right as he walked, as if even the hair carried the owner's inner joy. He put his arm around Shen Tang's shoulder in a familiar manner: "Brother Shen, why didn't you go out to sell wine today?"
Shen Tang: "So you're making this trip just to buy some wine?"
Although Zhai Le looks young, he is really addicted to alcohol.
"Of course not, ahem - and it's about the Wudan Tiger Talisman." Zhai Le took Shen Tang aside, and carefully watched his cousin's face from the corner of his eye. Seeing that his face looked okay, he whispered, "Didn't I tease him last time -"
“What’s the reaction?”
Zhai Le said with a bitter face: "What can I do? I've been taught a lesson."
The key is that the disguise is quite powerful. Zhai Le cannot remove it, so he can only come to Qi Shan for help and buy some wine by the way.
Shen Tang: “…”
On the other side, Zhai Le's cousin also exchanged greetings with Qi Shan and explained the purpose of their visit, which made Qi Shan smile bitterly.
"If you had come earlier, you could have helped."
Cousin Zhai Le looked a little panicked: "What does this mean?"
Qi Shan pointed at himself, smiling bitterly, "I encountered something yesterday, and I was so angry that I hurt my lungs. I have to rest well in the next two days and not be too impatient. If you are not in a hurry, I will come another day. If you are, I will try my best."
When Zhai Le heard this, he hurriedly spoke before his cousin could.
"There's no rush for this. Mr. Qi needs to recover from his injuries."
Cousin Zhai Le saw that Qi Shan's face was pale, his eyes were blue, and his breath was sometimes long and sometimes short, sometimes weak and sometimes strong. He was indeed injured. Zhai Le also said that he had asked for the disguise because of his stubbornness. The responsibility was on Zhai Le, not the scholar in front of him, so it was not easy to force him.
He also said: "Recovering from the injury is more important, this matter is not urgent."
After a pause, he said, "I have some knowledge of medicine. If you trust me, could you let me take a look at your pulse?"
Qi Shan did not refuse: "Thank you."
Not to mention that this person's eyes were sincere and did not seem fake. Even if they were fake, his injuries were real and not false at all.
Zhai Le also came forward, not daring to breathe.
After checking the pulse, he asked, "Brother, how is Mr. Qi's health? How come he is so ill after not seeing him for just one or two days? What could make a scholar so angry?"
Zhai Le has cooperated with Qi Shan before.
Although Mr. Qi's literary talent was not as good as his brother's, his strength, experience and knowledge were all better than his brother's. Putting himself in his brother's shoes, he couldn't imagine what kind of blow his brother had to go through to become so sickly and weak overnight.
Zhai Le's cousin glanced at his cousin.
The latter just shut up.
He asked: "Mr. Qi, are you from Xin country?"
When the notice was posted yesterday, many people in Xiaocheng were cursing Zheng Qiao's ancestors. In any case, the restaurant near where the two of them stayed was full of people slamming tables and smashing bowls and cursing. Some of the literati with high tempers even fainted from anger.
He understands this feeling.
No matter how bad Xin State was, it was at least a place that gave them a stable life in the first half of their lives. Geng State was strong, and it was normal for Xin State to go downhill and be destroyed. In the past two hundred years, there have been so many countries that were founded and destroyed that even dozens of hands cannot count them.
Xin State was just one of them.
Once Zheng Qiao's operation came out, it became "unique". I have never seen such humiliation after the destruction of a country.
The people used to not care who sat on the throne, but now they are gritting their teeth and cursing, hoping that some country will take in the tyrant Zheng Qiao.
Some people even said, "Zheng Qiao is such a flatterer. He must have remembered that he got his position by relying on a ruined land. He felt angry and humiliated. He thought that if he could let his enemy's daughter be taken away, he would be innocent and comfortable. Humph, rotten is rotten!
Qishan’s face turned pale.
He nodded and said, "Yeah."
"well."
Cousin Zhai Le sighed.
After careful consideration, he wrote another prescription. Qishan also knew some medical knowledge, and judging from the prescription alone, the prescription written by this young man was much more reasonable than the previous doctor, so he asked the old woman to help him go to the pharmacy to get the medicine again.
After a conversation, he found that the young man was quite to his liking. He could get along well with both him and Chu Yao, and they had a very pleasant conversation.
Zhai Le was bored, so he pulled Shen Tang to play with him using wooden swords.
In comparison, Gong Cheng was not so relaxed. The doctor prescribed strong medicine to save his life.
The house was filled with a strong, bitter smell of medicine.
"Yun Chi, if I had known you would react so strongly, I shouldn't have told you." Guan'er sighed and looked at Gong Cheng, who looked like he wanted to die, as if he was angry at him for not fighting, but also felt pity and sympathy. But what he was thinking in his heart, only he and Gu Chi, who was drinking tea with his eyes downcast, knew.
Gong Cheng said: "We will know sooner or later."
It was quiet for a while.
He then said: "Weng Zhi, why did you bother to save me..."
Guan'er advised: "Wang Ji is already... But the other members of the Gong family are still alive. If you are gone, they will have no one to rely on..."
There are rumors among the people that the King of Xin loves Gong Cheng more than Wang Ji. He clarified that this is not a rumor but a fact.
As the prince of Beimo, when he was a hostage in the capital of Xin State, he got along well with Gong Cheng and several other children from aristocratic families and became close to them.
With the help of Gong Cheng, he occasionally went to the inner court to play polo with Wang Ji and other noble ladies, and learned some secrets—
For example, the king did treat Gong Cheng more intimately.
For example, Gong Cheng and Wang Ji were childhood sweethearts, but when Gong Cheng tried to test the king's attitude and asked if he could be his son-in-law, he was rejected. Some of the speculations among the people are not without basis.
For example-
It is said that Zheng Qiao once admired Wang Ji.
But she happened to be the king's male concubine.
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