Chapter Eighty-One
On the first night I stayed in Luo Mansion, Luochuan did not sleep.
He just held the bronze mirror in both hands and sat for a night in a meditation way.
He did not follow Jiang Bo's advice and mobilize the slightest breath in his body to touch the water in the bronze mirror fiercely to observe the meaning. He just followed his own feelings and the vague and profound memory of Luochuan's childhood in this world, and in a nearly sleepy and clear way, he forced to "see" everything in the bronze mirror.
That feeling is mysterious.
It was like the first time he stood at Hukou Waterfall in his previous life, watching the chaotic river water rushing with a roaring momentum, just like the first time he walked out of Zhongjing City in this life, going to the Han River that was wide and unseen on the other side, and feeling the infinite amount of river water that could not stop the power of going east thousands of miles.
He held a bronze mirror as big as a palm in his hand, but he seemed like a weak child holding a big river carefully, trembling as if walking on thin ice.
So after just one night, he was so tired that he seemed to sleep for many days, and just wanted to lie down on the bed and sleep for a few days and nights.
But he didn't have this time.
He got up, washed up, soaked his face in the cold water, continued to put on his solemn official uniform, and went out to Cangyan Mansion.
In addition to the old coachman and Siqi, the young female Taoist who served as a teacher was watching people, and Luo Changgong's thirty-blooded cavalry.
When the group left Luo Mansion, Luochuan lifted up the curtains and looked out. Fugui Lane had returned to peace. Except for the more officers and soldiers guarding the gates of several families, everything here was no different from the past.
The convoy drove out of the alley and entered the main street, and the prosperity of Cangyan City came into view.
There were endless pedestrians, cars and horses coming and going on the street, people were in and out of shops, and street vendors were still selling freshly baked breakfast.
Luo Chuan saw one of them in a stall surrounded by two or three people. A vendor poured eggs into the cake. His familiar appearance suddenly brought him back to the morning of that world. He urged the old coachman to park the carriage there, jumped off the carriage and walked there.
Unexpectedly, the people who were conspicuous blood cavalry had already seen around him, and they would not know who the person in front of him were. Before he could get close, they knelt all over the ground.
Luo Chuan's thoughts returned to his eyes. While sighing about the fatigue and fatigue of the night last night, he said to the people around him in a gentle voice, "Get up, get up, it's so cold in the ground in this winter." Seeing that the people around him had no intention of getting up, he could only helplessly walk to the street of the vendor stall selling cakes, "Master, hurry up, give me a set of cakes and take them away."
The vendor felt an illusion. When Luo Chuan called him for the second time, he was so excited that he got up. While bent down and bowed down to salute, he was busy making cakes. He was originally skilled and could spread three or five cakes at the same time, but now his hands were trembling and it was difficult to make only one.
"Siqi, do you want one too? This thing is delicious," Luo Chuan smiled and pushed Siqi with his shoulders beside him, and turned his head to look at the expressionless young woman on the other side and said, "Sister Fairy, do you want it? I'll treat you."
The young woman raised her eyebrows slightly, looked at the cakes on the simple iron plate on the street, and shook her head expressionlessly.
"Then I'll try it," Siqi nodded and looked around and said, "Young Master, this won't be the case next time."
Luo Chuan nodded perfunctorily, took a cake from the vendor and didn't care about the image. He bit it on the cake in one bite, humming comfortably, then stretched out two fingers to the vendor and muttered, "Master, come two more."
The vendor nodded repeatedly, made two more cakes and bent over and handed them to Siqi.
Luo Chuan reached out and touched it in his arms, then looked at Siqi awkwardly.
The maid who grew up with him didn't know what it meant. She took out a small piece of silver from her sleeve and put it on the hawker stall.
Seeing this, the vendor trembled even harder and was still jogging over to hand the broken silver on the stall respectfully to Siqi and said tremblingly, "Sir, where can I collect your silver... Where can I collect your money..."
Luo Chuan chewed the cake and reached out to push his hand holding the silver hand back, "Why can't you collect it? You have to pay for it after eating your cake. It's natural to collect it, so don't worry about the hawker's response." After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the carriage without carriage.
The vendor raised his head and said anxiously, "Sir, sir... this..." He looked at the people around who also raised their heads, and his face turned red in an anxious way, "This... these three cakes are not worth so much!"
Luo Chuan held the cake in one hand and nibbled it casually with the other hand, "I'll come again next time, just treat it as a prepayment to you."
The convoy slowly drove away, leaving only the people who had climbed up from the ground, looking at the distant convoy and talking nonstop. Luo Chuan, who was sitting in the carriage, ignored these things, just carefully stuffed the last bite of the cake with rich dipping sauce into his mouth, rubbed his hands while comfortably leaning into the soft cushion in a corner of the carriage, then picked up the bronze mirror and placed it on his chest, muttering to himself, "I didn't expect that I could still eat this kind of thing in this world..."
Siqi, who sat beside him, had a good ears. "This cake is delicious, but it's okay to say that the best food in the world is probably not worth it. I like the old Wang family bun shop in Zhongjing City even more."
Luo Chuan smiled and said nothing, closed his eyes and felt the water vapor in the bronze mirror. It was not until the carriage stopped again that he let out a long breath to wake up from the mysterious feeling.
Siqi gently wiped his forehead with a scarf, "Otherwise, take a rest in the carriage before going down."
Luo Chuan shook his head and took the lead in getting off the carriage, strode into the side hall next to the conference hall.
In the side hall, there were already servants who cleaned up from inside to outside. All the cushions and fabrics on the couch were replaced. The two maids who looked like maids were waiting in the meeting hall. When they saw Luo Chuan and his party entering the side hall, they followed them carefully. As soon as they entered the side hall, they knelt at Luo Chuan on the main seat. One of the girls who looked particularly fair-looking said softly, "County... County Guardian, the county magistrate arranged for us to serve at the county Guardian's office... If you have any instructions, call us," she looked up quickly and then lowered her head, "My maid is called Lushui, and her sister is called Lianyi."
"Dew, ripples, I didn't expect that the county magistrate was still a gentleman," Luo Chuan nodded to the two of them. Seeing that they were not dressed in thick clothes, he probably had been waiting in the hall early in the morning, his hands were frozen purple. "Come on someone to get some charcoal fire, the room is too cold."
The two girls stood up and left with their heads down.
Luo Chuan shook his head as they left, "Siqi, slowly, will I become a character who is arrogant and needs to be served by others in everything..."
"Young Master is a noble person who should be served. It is a great blessing for those below to meet a master like you and be cared for," Siqili said as much as he should.
Luo Chuan sighed, "There are no such things in this world?" However, he did not go deeper on the issue of challenging the values of this world, but patted the chair and said, "Go and shout... The county magistrate."
Chapter completed!