In the afternoon of the next day, the sun was high, Xin Yi lay down on the waterside couch in the Liushui Pavilion and slept soundly, with Chi Chi lying next to his head. Bai Jiu was flipping through the desk on one side, and after a while, she suddenly leaned over and turned Xin Yi over.
His chest was soaked in sweat, but he could still sleep soundly without moving. This kind of kung fu was not something ordinary people could do.
After returning to the original place, the book hadn't turned a few pages, and Qu Lao could already be seen leading Xie Jingsheng to this side on the water corridor in the distance. Bai Jiu closed the book, simply sat and leaned against the railing, fed the fish and waited for people to arrive.
Surrounded by water on all sides, the Liushui Pavilion is sent to the top of the pavilion on the water by the axis of the water wheel, and then connected by four wings to form a water curtain. It is a "cool house" that only emerged in Kyoto. There are no stone tables and seats in the pavilion, but fragrant rosewood, with soft mats and small wooden cases on top. You can enjoy the coolness of the water curtain on all sides, and just listen to the sound of water droplets flying from all directions.
Elder Qu sent people outside the pavilion, Xie Jingsheng changed into soft-soled inner shoes before coming in. As soon as he stepped on the "Huanghuali" floor, he smiled. Rubbing the tip of his handsome nose with the fan in his hand, he said with some pleasure: "This huanghuali can't be found in the palace, but my lord actually made Rehmannia glutinosa here. If the lord Jiaozhang finds out, I'll have to play my lord's book again." ” After he sat down to register, he tapped the yellow sandalwood and said: “It’s really a good thing. The sandalwood in this pavilion is clean and refreshing, and it will be even more amazing if your lord enjoys a bowl of iced sandalwood.”
Bai Jiu sprinkled fish food, smiled when he heard this, and said to Qu Lao: "Go on the ice, look at how greedy he is."
Qu Lao smiled and ordered someone to bring it up. The dark wooden bowl contained the smoothie and fruit pulp, which was exquisite and beautiful. Xie Jingsheng pushed the fan back and started eating. Bai Jiu cleaned up the fish food in his hands before wiping his hands with a handkerchief. Now Xie Jingsheng had almost finished eating.
Bai Jiu didn't open his mouth, Xie Jingsheng couldn't wait for him to open his mouth, sat up straight after eating the smoothie, thought about it and said: "My lord, the case of He Experience has found out the reason."
"Good thing." Bai Jiu smiled lightly, "You and He Anchang plus Zuo Kaizhi, there's no reason why we can't find out."
Xie Jingsheng licked his lips and said, "This case... I'm afraid the outsider will be implicated."
The one outside.
It's a tactful way to say it, but it's not common. He has always been a fearless mouth, even the king of Qin dared to name him directly, but he didn't even mention the title of this one. This person has not been in the capital often in recent years, and at the beginning of this year, he accompanied the empress dowager and her old man to the capital to face the Buddha. Looking at the time, he will not be back until the end of this year.
When he mentioned this person, Bai Jiu only smiled and said: "The prince has never been idle."
Bai Jiu spoke softly, but Xie Jingsheng didn't come and felt cold. He cautiously opened his mouth and said: "Not only the prince is involved, but the turmoil is very wide. The Shanyin domain has been vacant for a few days, and no matter whether there is a candidate for the emperor, the king of Qin himself is already ready to move. He has been the prince's eyeliner in the capital for so long. According to the prince's Temperament, there is no reason not to give him some sweetness. I am afraid that the king of Qin has nothing to fear from the early morning on this case."
If this case is just a murder case, it is not enough to discuss, but there are so many clues behind it, and there are too many unclean people. This grabbing took a lot, messed up the scriptures, hurt the vitality, someone may not know who to charge the account, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and there are many dangers. Besides, the king of Qin is a different matter, Xin Wen is so bold and reckless, only the crown prince can protect him, if he really bumps into the crown prince head-on, my lord, I'm afraid it will be difficult to respond. Xie Jingsheng has been with Bai Jiu for many years, he said to He Anchang that adults understand me, and now he is just comforting himself. Bai Jiu and the prince are the most difficult people to be positive at this moment. Regardless of the relationship between the two in the early years, even the current court situation is not suitable. Bai Jiu is closely watched by Zhang Taiyan, and if the prince is also tightly stumbling, Bai Jiu's life in the court will never be too easy.
Xie Jingsheng was ashamed to speak up about this matter, so he remained silent.
Bai Jiu narrowed his narrow eyes slightly, and said, "How is Jin Yiwei?"
Xie Jingsheng was taken aback for a moment, and said: "With adults around, I have always been very stable."
"But you are not well." Bai Jiu looked up at him, "You are out of order."
Xie Jingsheng trembled slightly, his heart tightened, and the first thing he remembered was He Anchang's smiling face in the sunset last night. His eyes suddenly avoided Bai Jiu, and stared down at his hand, gradually understanding, but it seemed that he had expected it long ago. He didn't agree to He Anchang's investigation of the case because of his enthusiasm, but he couldn't say that He Anchang didn't play an important role in it.
The shaved ice is crisp and shaken in the bowl, and the water curtain splashes.
"He lives in the middle of the capital." Bai Jiu poked the ice with a wooden spoon, and said, "In the back there is He's family to lean on, and in front there is Zhang Taiyan to make a screen. Even if he is really forced to the point of desperation by the prince, he will never be left without bones." .You live in the outer city and you are alone. If the crown prince wants to take you, it will be like crushing an ant."
"I see."
"You still need to check."
"check."
The wooden bowl was placed on the table suddenly, Xie Jingsheng felt a chill run down his spine. His chest was pounding, and his palms were cold and wet. But Bai Jiu said: "The prince has been away for a long time, if he wants to be a counselor, someone must teach him the rules."
Xie Jingsheng raised his head abruptly.
Bai Jiu leaned against the fence with a relaxed expression, and pressed the well-blended smoothie bowl against Xin Yi's cheek, Xin Yi's eyes trembled and he opened his eyes sleepily. Bai Jiu said: "You are amazing, even the hot lining is wet and you can't bear to wake up."
Xin Yi was still not awake, he just nodded indiscriminately, reached out to touch the side of the bowl, and smiled in a daze.
Bai Jiu stretched out his fingers to brush the slightly wet hair from Xin Yi's cheeks, and said, "You hold a piece of heavy soil in your hand, and you are Dalan's wolf, so be afraid like a domestic dog." He narrowed his eyes and stared at Xie Jingsheng, "Since you are thinking, why are you afraid of them? Everyone praises the prince, but I think he is too young to be in this position, and he can't handle this chaotic situation. Everyone has to be reasonable, they don't understand If you can't bite, there is still He Anchang, if you can't fight, you can stop and go back to the nest. It is no longer the time to obey orders in Kyoto. Prince, before you take the throne, you are just the son of the Holy Majesty. Your Majesty has already picked off one of his sons, so how can you be reluctant to part with his other son?"
Xie Jingsheng looked shocked, but he understood Bai Jiu's meaning. My lord not only wants to take King Qin, but also wants to move the crown prince. These words are shocking, but they really make people tremble.
"I don't care about my son." Bai Jiu traced Xin Yi's eyebrows with his fingertips, and said, "Others don't care about his son anymore. Take it clean if you want to." He smiled coldly, "Lian Guansi Let’s pick it up too. I think his father was busy with papers in the Inspector’s Office, so he forgot how to teach his son. Guan Si is still young, so he has to learn the rules.”
Xin Yi got up abruptly, only hearing the name of Guan Si, he felt familiar, but couldn't remember who it was. Taking Bai Jiu's ice bowl, he said to Xie Jingsheng: "I haven't thanked my lord yet, the palace banquet the day before yesterday was kindly rescued by your lord."
Xie Jingsheng didn't know that he could speak, but he looked normal after hearing the sound, and leaned back, not accepting his thank you gift. Said: "Master, you are welcome, who will we follow... Cough, we are a family."
Xin Yi only regarded him as being polite, dimpled. His hair was messed up by sleeping, and the hair crown was crooked. Xin Yi didn't know it, and said with a serious expression: "I'm just ashamed to let my lord go through this case. The adults must speak."
Thinking in his heart, how dare you dare, Xie Jingsheng coughed and said with a smile: "What the son said is that if you need it, you must speak."
Xin Yi smiled, and Bai Jiu stretched out his hand to straighten his hair crown, and said, "Eat quickly." Xin Yi agreed.
Xie Jingsheng always winked, he took the fan back into his hand, stood up and bowed to leave. Old Qu followed the others to go out, Xin Yi took out the wooden spoon that was in his mouth, looked at Bai Jiu, and said, "Next time, my lord, don't talk about things in this easy-to-hear place."
Seeing that he was serious, Bai Jiu just smiled.
Xin Yi was slightly annoyed, "Such a bold statement, what if others listen to it?"
"It doesn't matter if you listen to it." Bai Jiu raised his hand to untie the hair crown that he couldn't even straighten, put his hair back in his hand and smoothed it, and still said in a low voice: "Sit down."
Xin Yi sat down honestly with his back to him, still thinking to himself: "I don't think this case is so important, does your lord really want to move the prince?" Bai Jiu didn't reply, and ran his fingers through his hair, making Xin Yi feel uneasy few. Xin Yi thought for a while, and said: "However, what your lord said is right. I don't care about my son, so why do you expect others to care? Over the years, the Holy Majesty has personally wiped out quite a few sons. Looking at it now, there are only a few left. My lord?" Bai Jiu still didn't answer, Xin Yi paused, and called out hesitantly, "Jing, Jing Yuan."
"I'm not the one who wants to touch him. After the death of King Ping, the emperor has only three sons left. Everyone wants to be a dragon, but only one dragon is needed." Bai Jiu put a hair crown on him, but didn't say anything. She slid her hand to his shoulder, pressed her chin on the top of his hair, narrowed her eyes slightly, and said, "Lean, lean on for a while."
Xin Yi was surrounded by his breath, his ears were hot, and his thinking seemed to be dull. I want to push it away, but I can't bear it. Bai Jiu treats him well, but he doesn't know what kind of good it should be. Bai Jiu treats him intimately, but he doesn't know why. Just as he was about to sigh, the person behind him suddenly pressed on his back, his arms slid to his waist, his chin also slid to his shoulders, and he was hugged into his arms from behind. Xin Yi blushed, struggling and surprised. Bai Jiu's chest vibrated, and he could clearly feel it against his back.
"Tired." Bai Jiu whispered in his ear.
Xin Yi was so close that he was about to smoke, he said: "Then go back to the house."
Bai Jiu's arms tightened, and just when Xin Yi thought he would not let go, he let go of his arms, leaned back against the fence, raised his head to the side of the fence, really looking sleepy. The viscous atmosphere between the two made people feel numb. Xin Yi only felt that the two were becoming more and more unusual, but he didn't know how to bring it up.
Bai Jiu's lapel was a little messy, he never dressed properly in the mansion. The thick and beautiful eyebrows made idleness shine, and he said: "Next month's Mid-Autumn Festival, Beiyang will come to see you." The ice in Xin Yi's hand stirred, and Bai Jiu said: "Don't want to see?"
Xin Yi hummed.
"It's useless to stare at the bowl, just look at me." Xin Yi stuffed a mouthful of smoothie, and rarely paid attention to him. Bai Jiu laughed, stretched out his hand to touch Xin Yi's forehead, and said, "Speak."
"I don't want to see you." Xin Yi stopped his hands and sighed, "But I have to."
"They remember it clearly." Bai Jiu looked at the smoothie, took his hand, scooped a wooden spoon and put it into his mouth. Seeing that the wooden spoon was about to sink into his mouth, Xin Yi said anxiously: "My lord, I have only eaten this spoon before."
Bai Jiu didn't seem to hear, and took a bite. Xin Yi's throat twitched, and it was unknown whose saliva was on the spoon. His face was red, and he was very serious, and said: "We celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival at home."
Xin Yi will feel that it is none of his business to live in the sky. There is still half a bowl of smoothie. Whether he should put it down or continue is a big question.
"Have you been?" Bai Jiu asked him, but he just nodded. Bai Jiu paused, then asked again: "Don't you want to eat?" He stirred it up and took a big mouthful, perhaps because his expression was too fierce, Bai Jiu couldn't stop laughing, and said, "No one is robbing."
After dinner, Xin Yi took Chi Chi for a walk, and when he passed the study, he heard Bai Jiu calling him. Turning around to ask why, Bai Jiu leaned against the window, and threw something over, Xin Yi caught it, and turned his hand to see that it was himself, the jade that Bai Jiu had been carving for the past few days, and it became a jade plaque. He didn't understand what it meant, and raised his head to ask, but Bai Jiu had already moved away from the window, looking down at a book.
Xin Yi was carrying the jade card and Chi Chi, while Elder Qu on the side only smiled, and asked, "This is it, my lord?"
"I'm in good spirits." Qu Lao shook his beard with his hands behind his back and said, "My lord, it's hard to see such good spirits."
Xin Yi said: "It's said that he is often unhappy." Qu Lao thought that it was indeed true, but he didn't answer. Xin Yi couldn't put it down, his dimples were deep, and he said: "I think he has a very good temper." He teases people when he has nothing to do, and he has a gentle face.
Elder Qu couldn't help laughing now, he quickly stroked his beard with his hands, and said: "Your Majesty is right, our lord has a very good temper, and it is always others who don't have eyes and talk nonsense." What nonsense? truth.
Xin Yi smiled.
After turning off the lights at night and getting under the quilt, Xin Yi held the jade plaque in his hand to look at it again, as if he couldn't get enough of it. Remembering that it was Bai Jiudiao's, the tips of his ears were red hot, he buried his face on the pillow, and still hugged him to his chest.
The next day, Bai Jiu was in the study, and Xin Yi was fishing in the pond. He heard Xiao Yang call out: "My son, my son! There is a big one!" He closed the book, brought tea to the window to read. Seeing Xin Yi reaching out to send the lively fish into the fish basket, he found that it was too big to fit in, so he bent down and asked Xiao Yang in the water for water plants, and Xiao Yang found one for him. Xin Yi nimbly threaded the fish through his fingers and held it in his hand. From the lapel of the thin shirt, a jade tablet worn with a black string slanted out.
Bai Jiu sipped his tea, turned around and reopened the book to continue. The pen did not pause on the sides of the characters "Wu Meng Qiu Zhi" and "Tossing and Turning", leaving ink marks smoothly.