After exposing each other's shadows, Xie Jie and Wei Lan quickly established a revolutionary friendship.
After Xie Zichen prepared how to prevent Xie Jie from killing him, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
In his previous life, Xie Jie used the simple trick of inserting poisonous needles on the horses during the spring outing. Now he adds Wei Lan, who has killed people from the frontier and made meritorious service, and is not a good look or character at first glance. I am afraid that the situation may be wrong. changed.
Xie Zichen didn't care about Xie Jie alone. It was not easy for him to kill Xie Jie, but it was much easier to keep Xie Jie from touching him. But now that Wei Lan was killed out of nowhere, this matter began to become a matter of life and death.
No one knows better than him how despised a person's life can be after he has killed someone. Anything that can completely solve the problem without leaving the roots will never let that person live.
Thinking of this, Xie Zichen couldn't help feeling a little frustrated. Closing the account books of his shop, he called out his servant Xie Tong and said, "Now the capital flow is basically no problem, and the informants are also pretty much set up. You and Jin Zi will build the Anbu according to the plan. Also, Ask the informant to keep a close eye on Wei Shizi."
"Yes." Xie Tong respectfully responded, and Xie Zichen waved his hand tiredly, making him retreat.
After he left, Xie Zichen looked at the beam and thought desperately—how about a little compromise
As soon as this thought came out, many thoughts popped up.
For example, Wei Lan actually looks pretty good;
For example, he also compromised for a while, dealing with the other party, not letting the other party get close;
For example, in fact, even if you get close, as long as you don't do it too much, Wang Ning went crazy at that time, it seems nothing;
Another example, in fact, Wei Lan is very useful if she is on your side. After all, she is the only one in so many families. She has private soldiers, brains, is favored, and is not sure Will someone who will die in the future, who has no history of fighting with him in his previous life.
All these benefits came up one after another, Xie Zichen sighed, and asked himself a question - after thinking so much, do you have the ability to play with or reject a person who looks like a prodigal son
Thinking back to his previous life when he was a bachelor for more than 30 years, Xie Zichen didn't have any confidence in himself when it came to relationships. I have never liked anyone in my life, the only person who seemed to be tempted, stabbed myself to death in the end...
It is estimated that no one wants to try this kind of emotional experience.
But now that things are up, even if it doesn't work, I have to force myself to work hard, after all, nothing is natural.
So Xie Zichen thought about it, and finally decided, at least to stabilize Wei Lan first, until he enters the palace as a companion.
He is a man of action, so he immediately asked Xie Tong to prepare his clothes and went directly to Wei's mansion.
It was already midnight at this time, Xie Zichen did not go through the main entrance, and went directly over the wall from the backyard of the Wei residence, but just as he jumped onto the top of the wall, he saw a jade-colored figure with wide sleeves standing in the yard, holding a jade flute in his hand, Looking at him with some surprise.
The starlight fell in her eyes, and the peach blossoms were about to scatter, when the wind blew over and swirled around her. The young man stood alone among the peach blossoms, smiled calmly, and said calmly: "Thank you, Fourth Young Master, long time no see."
Xie Zichen pondered for a moment, and he had finally made sufficient mental preparations, but it seemed to collapse again at this moment.
No matter how he thought about it, he felt that he was not a person who could commit himself to a man.
However, he is used to forbearance and dormancy. In his previous life, in order to climb up, he went through all kinds of hardships and hardships. Now it's just a few months of hypocritical dealings with a man, a good-looking man with a gentleman-like temper, he can bear it.
So he made up his mind, looked up at the young man who was watching him quietly, and said seriously: "Does what Wei Shizi said before still count?"
After hearing Xie Zichen's words, Wei Lan immediately understood that she and Xie Jie were too close, and Xie Zichen might be in a hurry. She couldn't help but smiled and bent her eyebrows, and said gently: "What I say to Mr. Xie, I always mean what I say."
"Then I promise you." Xie Zichen raised his eyes to look at her, and said calmly, "If you don't marry a wife, I won't marry a wife. And I won't let anyone get close, neither men nor women."
Anyway, he didn't have Wei Lan in his previous life, so he lived like this...
Those noble daughters from aristocratic families, all the good ones looked down on him, a concubine, and he looked down on the rest. After finally getting through and becoming an official, he has been so busy that he has lost his head.
He has always been obsessed with cleanliness in matters of relationship, he would rather be short than excessive, rather than find someone to make do with, it is better to live alone for the rest of his life.
So Wei Lan's words, if it wasn't for the deeper meaning revealed in the words that made him unacceptable, he didn't care about the literal meaning.
Thinking about it, he said again: "Including you, don't come close to me at will."
"Yes." Wei Lan nodded. In fact, she wasn't in such a hurry. When she recovered her identity, at least...be more stable. She just wanted to raise a jade cabbage, and she simply didn't want to be humiliated by pigs.
After saying this, the two of them seemed to have nothing to say. Wei Lan looked at the handsome young man who was squatting on the wall, and couldn't help but softly said, "Come down first, you're tired from squatting on it."
Xie Zichen thought about it, and felt that he still wanted to ask Wei Lan more about Xie Jie. He was still a little worried based on Wei Lan's verbal promise. So he turned over and jumped off the wall. Wei Lan subconsciously reached out to pick it up, but the black-clothed boy landed on the ground very accurately and calmly, obviously a practitioner.
Wei Lan couldn't help laughing, but she didn't feel embarrassed. She withdrew her outstretched hands and praised, "Thank you, Fourth Young Master, for your handsome skills."
Xie Zichen didn't respond to her praise, and said directly: "How did you discuss it with Xie Jie?"
"It's hard to come here, why do you talk about these disappointing things as soon as you come up?" Wei Lan sighed, and led Xie Zichen to the side of the stone table. Xie Zichen remembered that he still had to deal with her "hypocrisy", so he didn't Rejected, and after sitting down frankly, he watched the person in front of him lift the wine pot that was gurgling on the table, and heard the other party say: "Lan sees the moonlight is very good tonight, so I want to play the flute to comfort the beautiful scenery. Lan was very pleasantly surprised to see the moon by himself, but Fourth Young Master Xie came unexpectedly."
As she spoke, she poured a glass of wine and pushed it to Xie Zichen, saying gently, "This is the sweet-scented osmanthus wine I brewed last year, Fourth Young Master Xie might as well try it."
Xie Zichen nodded, raised his glass and took a sip.
His movements are extremely standard, every move seems to have been deliberately trained for a long time, rigid standard, different from Wei Lan's self-styled appearance, but also because of the standard, he is particularly good-looking.
Seeing the beauty drinking, Wei Lan couldn't help feeling more joyful in her heart, and said, "I'll play the flute for Fourth Young Master Xie. It won't be too late to talk about Xie Jie after you and I have done the elegant thing of drinking and listening to the flute first."
Xie Zichen nodded, what else could he say if he wanted something from others.
Wei Lan laughed lowly, and then a brisk tune rang out.
She is proficient in the six arts, especially playing the flute. Even if he didn't have a good impression of her, Xie Zichen couldn't help admiring from the bottom of his heart, this person's skill in playing the flute was indeed at its peak. It was originally a simple ditty, and it was sung by men in Chu State when they were courting women, but it was also played by her in an extraordinary mood. The anxiety and joyful mood and gestures of men when courting women seem to be vivid in their minds.
Blowing and blowing, Wei Lan changed to a soothing tune again, Xie Zichen quietly sipped his wine, feeling quiet in his heart, his dislike just now faded a lot, as if following the low voice on a flat boat, standing on the The bow of the boat moves slowly between the water waves.
His figure was reflected on the surface of the river, and the moonlight shone on the surface of the river. He broke through these shadows without delay, and his heart was clear.
Xie Zichen hadn't felt so relaxed for a long time, so Xie Zichen couldn't help drinking a few more glasses. After Wei Lan finished playing, she looked at Xie Zichen with a pair of clear eyes and looked at her quietly.
His fair cheeks were slightly flushed, and there was some confusion in the depths of his clear eyes. Wei Lan could not help but smile slightly, and lowered her head.
Her breath spewed on his face, carrying a slight fragrance of orchids, and her hair was blown in the wind, brushing against his neck, slightly itchy.
She raised her hand to part his hair, with a calm smile on her beautiful face.
"Thank you, Fourth Young Master," she said in a low voice, her voice was mixed in the night, and she asserted, "You are drunk."
So for a split second, Xie Zichen suddenly felt that he seemed really, a little drunk.