As expected, Wen Yantong managed to stay in Chi Jingxi's carriage.
She held a pot of hot tea and sat opposite Chi Jingxi, drinking it contentedly.
Chi Jingxi watched her eat all the pastries on the table expressionlessly, and then asked, "You got into my carriage just to eat?"
Wen Yantong immediately denied it, "How is it possible! I also have food in the carriage, I just want to talk to you, I am too boring in the carriage by myself."
Chi Jingxi said, "Then you don't have to destroy that carriage."
Wen Yantong said, "You don't agree with me coming here, so I have no choice but to come up with my tricks."
Chi Jingxi laughed angrily, "A good idea?"
She nodded seriously. Although the trick is a little bit lossy, but it works
Chi Jingxi didn't bother to talk to her any more, secretly thought that this person's mind was always different from ordinary people, and it's not surprising that he could do such a thing.
Wen Yantong acted like a good boy when he got cheap, and said with a smile, "Young Master, you didn't expect me to do this trick, did you?"
Chi Jingxi raised his eyes slightly, his eyes fell on her smiling face, and suddenly he chuckled, "Didn't you say that being idle is too boring, I'll find something for you to do."
Wen Yantong froze for a moment, feeling that he was about to suffer.
Then Chi Jingxi took out a book and threw it on the table, "If you can memorize the contents of the first three chapters, I will allow you to stay in this carriage."
Wen Yantong read the book, but didn't dare to reach out to take it, and asked, "What if you can't memorize it?"
"Then I'll tie you to the roof of the carriage and wait for Chang'an, what do you think?" Chi Jingxi asked gently.
"This is not very good." Wen Yantong wrapped the little padded jacket around her body tightly.
"When you ruined the carriage, why didn't you feel bad?" Chi Jingxi said ruthlessly, "Recite it to me before going to the city at night."
Wen Yantong let out an ah, and was about to defend herself when Chi Jingxi closed her eyes slightly, as if she was about to fall asleep again.
She had no choice but to pick up the book. As soon as I opened it, I found that the first three chapters did not refer to the first three pages. A chapter has about four or five pages of content. Although it is not the kind of full text, just one page is enough to make Wen Yantong's head big .
Wen Yantong managed to read a few pages, but found that the content was obscure and difficult to understand. She struggled to memorize a single line, let alone memorize three chapters. After reading it for a while, I felt drowsy, so I didn't restrain myself, and the whole person lay on the couch, holding the book and began to doze off.
Chi Jingxi heard her steady breathing, opened his eyes and saw that she had fallen asleep.
He looked at Wen Yantong's face that would only be quiet when he fell asleep, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, a faint smile imprinted in his eyes.
In addition to the sound of breathing in the carriage, there were also the sound of wheels rolling and horseshoes stepping on the ground, but Chi Jingxi inexplicably felt that this moment was very peaceful. He stared at Wen Yantong's face, and he could vaguely see the girl's delicacy and delicacy from it.
Anyone who gets along with her should feel that she is different.
Chi Jingxi never felt that there was anything wrong with his life, but since he met Wen Yantong, he seemed to feel that all of them were in shackles, and Wen Yantong was the only one with free hands and feet.
This kind of freedom has become a fatal attraction for her. Then in an invisible form, it was passed on to the people around.
Chi Jingxi's eyes froze, seeing Wen Yantong's saliva slowly flowing down his mouth, still calm.
That's who she is.
Chi Jingxi thought to himself.
I don't know how long he stared at it, until his eyes became a little sore, and then he slowly moved to another place.
Chi Jingxi has walked the road from Chaoge to Chang'an for more than ten years. Every time, she finds the long journey boring and doesn't want to stop on the road for a moment, but this time it's a little different.
Chi Jingxi wanted to slow down this time.
When Wen Yantong woke up, she was covered with a cotton blanket. She rubbed her eyes and found that it was the same one that Chi Jingxi had snatched away.
Chi Jingxi was sitting across from him reading a book, except for the occasional flipping of the pages, he was basically still.
Wen Yantong yawned and sat up, only feeling refreshed, couldn't help but blurted out, "Young Master, this bed is so comfortable for you to sleep on."
Chi Jingxi responded in a low voice, "The snoring scares the horse so much that it stops walking."
Wen Yantong turned pale with shock, "What!"
She still snores? Still playing so loudly
Of course Chi Jingxi was joking, but it was quite amusing to see Wen Yantong's startled appearance, so he didn't clarify, and kept silent to let her misunderstand.
Wen Yantong scratched his head, thinking that snoring is not uncommon, most of it is hereditary, so he quickly let go, "Then next time if I quarrel with the young master, just wake me up become."
Chi Jingxi raised his eyes to look at her, only chuckled, and cursed in a low voice, "Pig head."
Wen Yantong was overjoyed, and with Chi Jingxi's words, it seems that today will be another day of good luck.
After she woke up, she didn't read much of Chi Jingxi's book. Wen Yantong couldn't stop chatting with him. Although Chi Jingxi didn't say much, she answered every word, and she was so attentive that she just listened to what she had to say.
Wen Yantong is also a chatterbox, the kind who can't stop once he talks, and wants to expand a few words when it comes to anything. However, Chi Jingxi still listened carefully, without any hint of impatience on his face, and he would take the initiative to ask some questions that he didn't understand.
This conversation went on until dark.
They didn't have to travel at night, so they found a town to rest for a while.
This city is called Huayang City, and it is one of the most famous and prosperous cities in Shaojing. At night, the lights on the eight streets and nine streets are lit up, and it is full of brilliance at first glance.
After the long procession entered the city, it attracted the attention of many people. In order to prevent trouble, Chi Jingxi ordered people to send the horses in the stables, and all the salute cars were parked in a special guarded place, leaving only one The carriage is used for travel.
The first thing after entering the city is naturally to fill your stomach first. The men and women in Huayang City are not quite the same as those in Chaoge, and the women here seem to be more open. At night, young girls can be seen walking around everywhere. Although it is winter and spring in February and March, they are dressed a little thinly.
Wen Yantong felt cold when he saw it, and looked disgusted.
His expression is like that of a young man with bare ankles that the aunt sees on the street in winter.
After getting off the carriage and walking to the entrance of the restaurant, Wen Yantong stood still, looked up at the decoration of the restaurant, and felt that it was quite upscale.
Just as he was thinking, a voice suddenly came from the crowd, "Catch the thief!"
The people around stopped in their tracks and became chaotic. Wen Yantong tiptoed to look in the direction of the yelling, and saw a masked man pushing away from the crowd and heading towards the direction very quickly, no one on the road stopped him with his hand.
Seeing the man galloping towards him, Wen Yantong subconsciously stood beside Chi Jingxi, for fear of blocking the thief's way.
It's just that before the man could get to the front, he was bumped by the guard in front of him with his chest, knocking him into a big somersault, the purse in his hand was thrown out, and fell at Wen Yantong's feet.
Before the thief got up, he was pinned down by the guards and couldn't move. The people around him dispersed and gathered around to watch the play.
Chi Jingxi looked indifferent, "Send it to the government."
Wen Yantong bent down to pick up the purse at his feet, and found that it was heavy and contained a lot of money.
Then a girl with tears all over her face ran over, her face was flushed, probably because of the violent running, she was panting heavily when she stopped, and she couldn't speak a word while pointing at her purse.
But Wen Yantong understood what she meant, handed the purse forward, and asked, "Is this yours?"
The girl nodded vigorously, looked up at Wen Yantong, her tear-filled eyes froze for a moment.
Wen Yantong didn't realize it, and handed her the purse, "Miss, put it away, don't bring so much money to the streets next time."
The girl accepted it in a daze, but still stared at Wen Yantong.
Chi Jingxi said beside him, "Let's go, let's eat."
Wen Yantong happily responded, and was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by the girl's outstretched hand.
Chi Jingxi frowned slightly, seeming a little impatient. Wen Yantong saw his emotions, so she wanted to deal with this person quickly, her tone was a bit cold, "What else is there for the girl?"
The girl lowered her eyes, and although there were still tears on her face, she showed a shy expression, and said calmly, "My lord, I don't know, these silver coins are my father's life-saving money, if they are taken away by thieves, I will I'm afraid my father will be in great trouble, but fortunately, the young master is willing to save me. It's the luck of my three lives. I can't repay this kindness, I can only promise it with my body, and I hope that the young master will not despise it..."
Wen Yantong was shocked.
Such a clichéd plot of making a promise with one's body would actually appear on her body?
The girl looked at Wen Yantong embarrassedly, "Being a wife or concubine, a cow or a horse, the little girl has no complaints."
The people around watching the excitement didn't think it was a big deal, they all made strange noises and booed, some even shouted for Wen Yantong to take this girl in as a bed warmer.
Wen Yantong was stunned, his mind was stuck for a while, and he couldn't respond to anything.
She was standing with Chi Jingxi, how could this girl choose her who was short and thin like blind? There must be some conspiracy, right
Chi Jingxi frowned fiercely, "Sixteen!"
The guard immediately stepped forward, "This subordinate is here."
He pointed his chin at the guard who called Sixteen, "He is the one who helped you get back your purse. Even if you promise him with your body, you should tell him."
The girl turned her head to look at the big guard, she was not interested at all, as if she was relying on Wen Yantong, "It was this young master who handed me the purse just now."
Wen Yantong subconsciously said, "I picked it up at my feet."
The girl said, "It means that the little girl's kindness is destined to be inherited from the son, and I hope the son will not refuse me again!"
Wen Yantong shook his head and took a step back, "You should hurry up and save your father."
The girl shed two lines of tears, "Young Master, why did you refuse so resolutely, even if I am willing to be a maid by your side."
Wen Yantong was afraid that Chi Jingxi would get bored, so he simply said, "I don't want such an ugly maid like you, I won't be able to sleep when I see it, you'd better find another lover."
Her words made the girl's face turn pale, and she took two steps back as if she had been hit hard. Someone in the audience couldn't see it and shouted, "Girl, this man has blind eyes, he doesn't want you, I want you!"
Wen Yantong waved his hand very annoyed, "If you want it, you want it, you pull it away, don't bother me."
After speaking, he grabbed Chi Jingxi's hand and pulled him into the restaurant.
Chi Jingxi's face was frosty, and he cast a glance at the person who said Wen Yantong's eyes were ignorant, and winked at the guard beside him.
The girl grabbed her purse and wanted to stop her again, but the guard beside her stood in front of her and said coldly, "If you don't leave, I'm afraid you will suffer a lot."
When Wen Yantong heard the girl's cry, she felt baffled, and went into the restaurant without looking back.
This marriage is too strange, the kind that has no symptoms at all. Besides, it's not bad for that girl to rely on a handsome and tall person like Chi Jingxi, but instead rely on her, which is absolutely abnormal.
Chi Jingxi's complexion has not been very good, probably because of that girl just now.
Wen Yantong had no choice but to take the initiative to talk to him, "This place is too strange, you can meet such people on the street."
Chi Jingxi said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid this woman's motives are impure."
Wen Yantong said, "Maybe it's because there are guards following us and the clothes are luxurious, so they want to climb up to us to get some money."
Chi Jingxi glanced at her, but did not answer.
She said again, "The reason why I fell in love with me is because you seem to be very difficult to mess with, so I dare not say that I promise you with my body, just to see that I am easy to bully."
After finishing speaking, he snorted angrily, "I don't want this kind of crooked melon and cracked dates!"
Chi Jingxi said, "What's not considered crooked?"
In all fairness, the woman just now looks really pretty, although she is not considered beautiful, she is not so crooked.
Wen Yantong said casually, "Naturally, it should be like Young Master, the kind that makes people feel amazing at first glance, and the kind that will still sigh when you look at it later."
There was no change in Chi Jingxi's face after hearing it, probably because he had heard too much praise from Wen Yantong and became immune.
But Wen Yantong added, "However, I feel that Shaojing will not be able to find a second young master like you. You are unique."
Chi Jingxi didn't collapse after all, the corners of his mouth curled up, and his beautiful eyes were filled with a smile, "Slick tongue."
Wen Yantong saw him smile, and unconsciously followed suit, "I'm telling the truth."
Chi Jingxi looks good when he smiles, and Wen Yantong likes to see him smile the most. When I was not very familiar with him before, Chi Jingxi seldom smiled in front of outsiders, and what I saw the most was his slightly frowning, impatient look.
After getting along for a long time, I found that most of him was in a calm state. Even if he was in a happy mood, he would only hide a little smile in his eyes, and it was rare to see him smiling with his eyes bent.
So every time he laughed, Wen Yantong couldn't help staring at it, and even raised the corners of his own mouth.
The two sat in the private room and ordered some meals at random. Because Wen Yantong ate a lot of pastries in the afternoon, he was not too hungry at the moment, he was full after two bites, and he held his chin to watch Chi Jingxi eat.
Chi Jingxi never spoke when eating, and his eyes collided with her many times, and finally couldn't help it, "What do you always look at?"
Wen Yantong said earnestly, "I'm thinking, the young master will marry a particularly smart woman in the future, right?"
These words caught Chi Jingxi's attention, and he asked with great interest, "Why?"
"Because you're smart enough." Wen Yantong said, "If you married a smart wife, how boring would that life be? You plot against me all day long, and I plot against you."
When Chi Jingxi heard it, he felt that it made sense, "Then what should I marry?"
"Stupid." Wen Yantong said, "This is the only way to complement each other."
After speaking, she laughed first, and Chi Jingxi looked at her with smiles in her eyes.
Then Wen Yantong added, "Of course you have to be ugly, after all, young master, you are so handsome, marrying an ugly wife can protect the home."
As soon as Chi Jingxi smiled, she knew that she couldn't say anything nice, so she ignored her and bowed her head to eat.
Wen Yantong talked to himself for a while, and only went out of the restaurant together after Chi Jingxi finished eating with his chopsticks.
After eating and drinking, Wen Yantong naturally didn't want to go back to the inn so soon, so he called Chi Jingxi to stroll on the street.
The night in Huayang City is the busiest, the streets are not as wide and open as Chaoge's, and there are all kinds of vendors on both sides of the road, selling everything.
Wen Yantong was in a good mood, but he only wanted to look at it and not buy it, even if he bought it, he only bought some gadgets, so as not to burden himself. But some traders are very sophisticated, knowing that Wen Yantong is a foreigner, they want to take advantage of it.
She bought a firefly lantern on the street for two taels of silver, but at the end she saw the same lantern again, and when she went up to ask the price, she learned that it was only one tael.
Wen Yantong was so angry that smoke came out of his nostrils, and he called out profiteers, but it was not worth running to the street to argue over a tael of silver, and he couldn't throw the lantern to vent his anger, after all, he spent two taels of silver.
So he shook the lantern angrily, flicking it here and there.
At the end of a street, she saw a girl in white kneeling on a white cloth with a sentence written in scarlet letters. The girl was holding a wooden sign with the words, "Just be kind."
Wen Yantong approached curiously, and saw the words written on the cloth. After a rough reading, the general idea was to beg for the burial father.
She scratched her head in wonder, why did she encounter such cliche things tonight
Chi Jingxi stood by the side for a while, seeing that she only looked at the words on the cloth and didn't express anything, so he asked, "Will you give me some money?"
Wen Yantong shook his head, "I don't have any money on me."
Chi Jingxi also had no intention of giving alms, so the two turned their heads and left. The begging girl looked up at the backs of the two, and after they disappeared into the crowd, she got up and packed the white cloth.
What happened next was a little weird, Wen Yantong found that no matter where he went, he could see the girl kneeling on the side of the road holding a wooden sign. She didn't cry or make noise, just knelt quietly, letting the people passing by look at her, and from time to time someone threw copper coins into the broken rice bowl in front of her.
Wen Yantong stopped, frowned and thought for a while, and finally asked the guards to give the girl two pieces of silver.
This girl was clearly eyeing her and Chi Jingxi, probably because she saw the guards guarding her and thought she was the son of a rich family. She just followed without doing anything, Wen Yantong didn't even have a reason to drive him away, so he might as well use two pieces of silver to send it away.
But no one expected that after the girl took the money, she gave Wen Yantong a tearful look, threw the sign and came over.
Wen Yantong secretly felt that something was wrong, and pulled Chi Jingxi to leave, but when the girl saw that she was going to leave, she immediately knelt on the ground and shouted, "Sir, stop!"
This voice stopped many people, but it didn't stop Wen Yantong.
"The son generously donated money to allow the slave family to bury his father. The slave family has nothing to repay, but can only..."
Wen Yantong quickly covered his ears, "Don't listen to me, don't listen to bastard chanting sutras!"
The girl paused and looked at her in astonishment.
Wen Yantong didn't want to stay for a moment, and pushed Chi Jingxi to leave quickly. The girl chased after her and was stopped by the guards.
The guard said, "If you chase after me again, the money in your bowl will be taken away."
When the beggar girl heard this, she turned her head and went back, put the money in her arms and turned to chase, but the two of them were nowhere to be seen.
Wen Yantong walked quickly for a few feet before slowing down. She was very surprised before, she had been disguised as a man for a day or two, why suddenly got married today, and they became a couple. But just now, his mind was aroused, and he instantly thought of the sentence that Chi Jingxi scolded earlier.
The mysterious metaphysics that Chi Jingxi exerted on her was unpredictable. Perhaps it was because of that strange lucky buff that two girls hit him in succession today.
Wen Yantong didn't dare to walk around the street anymore, and wanted to quickly drag Chi Jingxi back to the inn.
Passing by a flower building surrounded by people, bursts of cheers came from inside, Wen Yantong suddenly stopped in his footsteps.
She looked sideways, and saw that the flower building was covered with vermilion square lanterns, and a bamboo frame was built underneath, and the lanterns on the frame were connected in a string, illuminating the surrounding area very brightly.
The bamboo frame was almost full of men, who didn't know what was going on inside, and there were bursts of laughter.
Wen Yantong hesitated for a while, Chi Jingxi saw her entangled, and was about to go in and have a look, but saw Wen Yantong turn her head, "Hmph, what's so interesting."
Then he stepped up to leave. At this time, a voice came from the crowd, "... Even if the young talent Chaoge comes, he won't be able to take him away."
Wen Yantong immediately put down his raised foot, and said angrily, "It's outrageous, someone is so arrogant, it's time for him to taste the cruelty of society!"
After finishing speaking, he turned his head and asked, "Isn't it, Young Master?"
Chi Jingxi smiled secretly and nodded slightly.
So the guard pushed aside the crowd, and the two walked into the crowd.
Chaoge's young talent actually refers to Chi Jingxi. Because Chi Jingxi is famous for his literature, when he was seven years old, Li Boyuan gave him the palace examination questions. After Chi Jingxi finished writing, Li Boyuan mixed the answer papers into the examination papers, and was sentenced by the Ministry of Rites. .
From then on, he got the title of a little wit.
Wen Yantong couldn't bear the arrogance of someone stepping on Chi Jingxi's name, and after entering the crowd, he saw a man standing at the gate of Hualou, with a mustache on his lips, a brocade cloth wrapped around his head, and a fan in his hand Shaking triumphantly.
What kind of fan do you shake in the winter, you are crazy...
Wen Yantong couldn't help but slander, and asked others, "What are you doing?"
Others answered with a smile, "What about the couplets? It's held by Baihualou. If you tell me a couplet that they don't agree with, you can take away the lottery."
"What is the lottery head?" Wen Yantong asked.
The man smiled narrowly, "Golden House."
Golden house? A house made of gold
A palm-sized golden house immediately appeared in her mind, the kind that glistened.
Wen Yantong was actually interested, and it happened that the man also noticed this side, and asked first, "You two came to the front, but are there any couplets you have prepared?"
Wen Yantong looked at Chi Jingxi, and then said to the man, "Of course I have the couplets, but I just heard someone say that even the young Chaoge talent can't be taken away when he comes. Did you say that?"
The man hooked his lips and smiled, "Of course, if you disagree, you can leave the couplet."
Wen Yantong snorted coldly, "The tone is not small, then you are fine."
"Yan Suo Pond Willow." Wen Yantong said the upper couplet word by word.
This couplet is very famous in modern times, and it is known as the eternal absolute, so far there is no couplet that can match it.
Wen Yantong was quite confident that the dwarf in front of him would not be right.
Sure enough, as soon as this Shanglian came out, people around began to think about it, and some even said three times in excitement!
Chi Jingxi looked at Wen Yantong with calm eyes, carefully chewed this couplet between his teeth, and looked at her with surprise.
The man in front of him thought it over and over, and finally paced back and forth anxiously. He wanted to speak several times, but stopped abruptly. His appearance was very funny.
"Hahaha." Wen Yantong sneered, and said viciously, "I'm sorry for the dwarf! How dare you dare to compare yourself with Chaoge, a young talent, and you haven't woken up from the dream?"
The man was so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick, so he finally had to give up and admit defeat, "It's because I didn't read enough of the following, so I asked this young man, what is the second line?"
Wen Yantong pretended to be disdainful, "Think for yourself. What about your prize? Haven't shown it yet?"
The man gritted his teeth, and suddenly tore off the mustache on his face, and said, "I am the winner. I can't match your upper line, so I admit defeat."
"What do you mean?" Wen Yantong was shocked.
"You can redeem me with money." After the man tore off his beard, his face became a bit feminine, but at a glance he was a woman.
Just not pretty.
Wen Yantong yelled in his heart, shit!
"I made an absolute mistake, and you still want me to redeem you with money?" Wen Yantong couldn't believe it, "I'm crazy, isn't it delicious to have some money to eat delicious food!"
The people around said, "Little son, you don't know something, Liu Liu is the previous oiran of Baihualou! Only by giving her a sentence that makes her unable to answer the first and second lines, can she have the chance to redeem her life.
"Just this oiran?" Wen Yantong pointed at the woman tremblingly, "Shouldn't this Baihualou be closed long ago?"
The woman said, "Do you think that everyone has this opportunity? If it wasn't for your above couplet, I would never have given you this opportunity. Since you have no intention, why did you stand up?"
"Just now someone told me that the lottery is the golden house..." Wen Yantong said.
"The golden house hides the beauty!" The person who told her earlier said loudly.
Wen Yantong didn't think it was funny at all. She had never seen an oiran who looked both male and female, and she was not as good-looking as the girl who begged before!
She said, "Oiran, you should choose another lover, I have no money."
The oiran was naturally not happy, "I have saved the ransom money myself, you just need to let me follow you."
"You've already saved the ransom money, so you can go wherever you want!" Wen Yantong was shocked, and didn't dare to look at Chi Jingxi's face.
"Only the person whose literary talent impresses me can take me out of this building." The woman said, "I have been waiting, and this person is you."
Wen Yantong started shaking the rattle again, "No, this person is not me."
"No, it's you."
"No, it's not me." Wen Yantong said indifferently, "I like men, we are not suitable."
Everyone was shocked, and the sound of horror sounded one after another.
Hua Kui's face turned cold, "In order to get rid of my words? Do you think I will believe it? If you refuse to take me away, I will call out my mother and let you stay with me!"
Wen Yantong gritted his teeth secretly, it was the first time that he hated the koi luck on his body so much.
If these good fortunes were placed on ordinary people, I'm afraid they would be overjoyed, but if they were given to her, it would be a disaster! I don't know how many days it will last, and whether there is a way to crack it.
If things get serious and alarm the government, Chi Jingxi's identity will also be exposed, and I'm afraid it will cause a lot of inconvenience.
She turned to look at Chi Jingxi.
Chi Jingxi's complexion was gloomy, and she looked at the oiran with frosty eyes.
After thinking for a while, she suddenly reached out and climbed onto Chi Jingxi's shoulder, took half a step in front of him, stood on tiptoe, and held his face with the other hand, pulling him very close.
Her breath reached Chi Jingxi's chin, looked up at him, and said softly, "I'm sorry, Young Master."