There was a knock on the gate of the courtyard, Xuanyuan Po went to ask questions, and came back not long after. Although the boy's face was full of beards, he couldn't completely cover up the redness. The young girl followed him to the library.
Tang Thirty-Six looked at the pretty girl, and said slightly: "Where is a girl like a lilac?"
Xuanyuan Po rubbed his hands nervously, and said, "I don't know which family's lady it is, and I didn't tell when I asked."
Tang Thirty-Six said: "Then you let her in? Even though the Qixi Festival just passed last night, why is it so?"
Xuanyuan Po quickly explained: "She said she knew Chen Changsheng."
Chen Changsheng was reading a book. Hearing these words, he put down the scroll and looked out of the threshold, and found that he really knew her—it wasn't the lady from any family, but Shuang'er, the eldest maid of the East Imperial God General's Mansion.
Naturally, he would not explain to Xuanyuan Po, got up and walked outside the library, and said to Shuang'er, "Long time no see."
Indeed, it has been a long time since Shuang'er came to the Orthodox Academy to look for him, several months have passed.
Shuang'er closed the oil-paper umbrella and signaled him to follow her to a remote corner.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
Shuang'er looked at him, thinking about the rumors about the Ivy Banquet last night, her expression was a bit complicated, and after thinking for a while, she said: "I heard about you, and I must admit that you are indeed beyond the expectations of many people, Madam and I The evaluation of you at the beginning was not correct."
Chen Changsheng said: "You have your stand, so there is no need to apologize."
What he said was the truth, and all along, he would only speak the truth.
Shuang'er raised her eyebrows slightly, and said: "Don't get me wrong, I may be wrong about you, but it doesn't mean I support you to be with Miss, even if you have learned a lot, but you don't know how to practice, you are still a... "
Although she didn't like Chen Changsheng, she didn't have any bad intentions after all, so she took back the word trash.
But everyone knows what she means.
Chen Changsheng said: "Whether you support it or not has no meaning to this marriage."
Shuang'er was a little angry, and said: "Miss and I love sisters, and I care more about Miss's happiness than anyone else. You took out your marriage certificate at the Ivy Banquet and raised your eyebrows, but have you ever thought about it? Miss and Mr. Qiushan We are a good match, but you destroy it like this, how can you bear it?"
"So, are you here to defend Qiu Shanjun?"
Chen Changsheng looked at her and said, "You should know that at the Ivy Banquet last night, your young lady asked Bai He to bring a letter in which she admitted to this marriage, but now you seem to have a different view of this marriage. opinion, and even fight for other men?"
"You do this, does your lady know?"
Shuang'er couldn't speak, she didn't know why Miss did this.
Chen Changsheng said, "What else is there?"
"I really shouldn't have said that sentence before."
Shuang'er calmed down, raised her arms, wiped off the water droplets between her bristles, and said, "Miss asked me to bring you a sentence."
"What words."
"Don't get me wrong."
Hearing these words, Chen Changsheng was silent for a long time. Shuang'er said something similar before, which was very hurtful. What did Xu Yourong mean
He asked: "What is the misunderstanding?"
"I don't know." Shuang'er looked at his face and said, "You should understand."
Last night, Baihe returned to the capital with that letter traveling thousands of miles away. In the letter, Xu Yourong expressed his attitude. Although he knew very well that Xu Yourong could not really want to marry him, she must have hidden other meanings in doing so, but for her The disgust was still much lessened.
But at this moment, listening to the words relayed by Shuang'er, he couldn't be in a good mood.
"that's it?"
He looked at Shuang'er and said, it meant that he was going to see off the guests.
Shuang'er said: "Miss also said that if you have anything to say, you can write to her directly."
With the sound of a crane cry, the white crane fell from the sky, flapped its wings, and landed outside the library, water droplets on its feathers dripped slowly.
Chen Changsheng looked at Baihe and nodded.
Bai He walked up to him, lowered his thin neck, and touched his right arm, looking a little affectionate.
"How have you been all these years?" He looked at Bai He and said.
Bai He mingled twice, as if answering.
Seeing this scene, Shuang'er was very surprised.
When Bai He flew away last night, Chen Changsheng felt that he had forgotten something. At that time he thought it was the black dragon at the bottom of the abandoned garden. Only then did he realize that he should write a letter and then ask Bai He to bring it to Xu Yourong. There are many things, and it is much better to communicate directly. .
Shuang'er has always played the role of a middleman between him and Xu Yourong, he doesn't like this.
After arriving in the capital, Xu Yourong only wrote him a letter in his own hand. There were only four words in that letter, which seemed to be very stingy.
—It’s good to do it for yourself.
Chen Changsheng picked up his pen and thought for a while. He should write four words that are decisive, full of deep meaning, and uncompromising, so as to reply to the other party without losing face.
This was also the first letter he wrote to her after she was ten years old.
But in the end, he just wrote a letter very plainly, with ordinary words and ordinary things.
He is not very willing to get angry with the little girl.
Even if she was Xu Yourong, even if she was only three days younger than him, she was still a little girl.
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Thousands of miles south of Kyoto is the Saintess Peak.
There is a forbidden area under the Saintess Peak, and there is not a small town until three hundred miles away. The people living in the town are ordinary people, there are iron shops, wine shops, butcher shops, and gambling shops. Gambling shops usually play Pai Gow and dice, but there is a room with a simple decoration in the deepest part of this gambling shop, with a table.
This table is playing mahjong.
Sitting on the east hand is a beautiful girl.
The girl was fourteen or fifteen years old, her eyebrows were picturesque, her eyes were like lacquer, she was not like ordinary people.
The three people at the table knew that she was definitely not a mortal.
Two years ago, when the boss of the gambling shop was about to attack her who was younger at the time, looked more timid, and more likely to arouse human desires to commit crimes, she died very badly. The middle-aged man at the west end of the table.
From that day on, every once in a while, the girl would come to the town to play a game of mahjong, and she was not allowed to leave the table for two days and one night.
That plainly decorated room is only opened every few months, and the people who play mahjong with her are the first three people, who have never changed. Those three people are ordinary people, real ordinary people, who would have thought that they would meet to such an unusual thing.
It took them a long time from the initial fear and uneasiness to not shaking hands when building cards, but now, they can get along with that little fairy naturally. Realistic gestures to win or lose, and sometimes even dare to complain a few times.
What a blessing it is to be able to play cards with such a beautiful little fairy
And sometimes, you can really win money.
There was a cry of cranes outside the window, and the girl said, "I have something to do tonight, so I won't fight."
The three of them were very surprised, wondering what happened, and this time it ended so early? Do you still want the rule of two days and one night
The girl took out a few gold leaves and put them on the table as compensation, then turned and left.
The three looked at each other, and one of the women said worriedly: "Young lady, I don't know what happened, she is not very interested."
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On the side of the wild cliff outside the small town, Xu Yourong untied the letter from Bai He's lap, and opened it at will.
Under the sky full of stars, the paper was clearly illuminated, the sentences on it were ordinary, the handwriting was clean, and the text was not long, but she read it for a long time.
In those sentences and handwriting, she saw restraint, but no resentment, not even a little negative emotion.
It was hard for her to imagine that a teenager could be so calm after going through so many difficult days in Kyoto.
If it were her, she would definitely not be able to do it.
She remembered that he was only three days older than herself.
She looked in the direction of the capital and said, "If it's not a fake, this guy is either a gentleman or a real person."
Bai He groaned, obviously disagreeing with her statement, the disagreement here refers to the word forgery.
Xu Yourong was a little helpless, and said, "Why do you like that guy? I don't remember what kind of person he is, and there is nothing worthy of your liking."
The white crane groaned twice, reminding her of what she said earlier about a gentleman and a real person.
"Whether it is a gentleman or a real person, they are not people who can accompany the long years of cultivation. That would be too boring."
She looked at Baihe and said, "I don't want to live a boring life."
Bai He tilted his neck slightly, looking a little confused, if Miss, you don't want to marry Chen Changsheng, why did you write that letter and admit this marriage in front of the world
Xu Yourong didn't explain anything, she had her own thoughts, neither her parents nor teachers, the Pope or the Holy Empress knew about it.
Then she opened Shuang'er's letter and began to read, and then she knew what happened at the Ivy Banquet last night.
She raised her eyebrows slightly, a little surprised.
Since the marriage letter has been announced to the world, at least it can be peaceful for a while, right
It's just that the guy is really surprising.
Then she saw the conversation with Chen Changsheng that Shuang'er relayed.
She put her hands behind her back, looked in the direction of Kyoto again, and remained silent for a long time.
"I suddenly remembered... When I was eleven years old, I secretly wrote a letter asking you to take it to Xining."
The white crane tapped its slender beak, it was the last time it went to Xining, and no one in the entire Eastern Imperial Palace knew about it.
"I seemed to have said in that letter that I would not marry him."
"He didn't write back to object, so what is he insisting on now?"
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What Chen Changsheng insisted on was never this marriage. Except for the master and brothers in the old temple in Xining Town, in this world, only the black dragon under the palace knows about it. Of course, he didn't know that the middle-aged woman he met by the pool knew too.
For that matter, he even gave up the habit of going to bed early and waking up early, and spent the whole night in meditation and in the marrow washing with starlight. Although it seemed that there was no progress, but before the last moment, He never stops trying.
In the early morning, he woke up in the library.
Just like yesterday, he was still woken up.
In front of the Orthodox Academy, there was a terrifying loud noise.
He pushed open the door of the library, and walked over with Tang Thirty-Six and Xuanyuan Po.
The door of the Orthodox Academy was broken.
The Orthodox Academy was broken into.
The courtyard gate, which had been tidied up for only a few months, was knocked down by a carriage.
The ground is full of gravel and wood, which looks very pitiful.
A horse fell on the wet ground, its eyes wide open, and its hooves kicked slightly.
The smoke gradually dissipated.
More than ten riders appeared outside the gate of the Orthodox Academy.
Fresh clothes and angry horses.
Extraordinary horse.
Those knights had indifferent brows, and they were obviously not ordinary people.
A young knight looked at the dilapidated courtyard gate and said expressionlessly, "Is this dilapidated courtyard still necessary?"
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