The south of the Yangtze River is very humid, and the morning mist shrouds the hundreds of gardens in a dream-like atmosphere, with pavilions and pavilions appearing faintly, like beautiful castles in the air.
Xia Chuyi asked the housekeeper to lead the way and walked directly towards Lin Yueya's small building.
Behind her, followed a tall and strong foreign man and a man in black with his head lowered. The chief steward saw that the man in black did not look like the man who followed the censor yesterday, but he said no
Come up with a reason.
He knew what kind of person the smiling and kind-looking Xia Chuyi was in front of him, so he kept his mouth shut sensibly and did not ask more questions that he should not ask, nor did he see more things that he should not see.
He sent the three of them to the door of Yue Pavilion, then lowered his head aside and did not go in again: "Master Yushi, this is Miss Yue Ya's residence."
Xia Chuyi looked around and said casually: "This residence is quite remote."
The first steward lowered his head and said respectfully: "Reporting to your lord, Miss Yue Ya likes to be quiet and doesn't like to interact with others, so she specifically asked the young master to choose this most remote courtyard."
"Well, go down and I'll call you if anything happens."
Xia Chuyi waved his hand and asked the butler to retreat. Then he raised his head and looked at Jin Yuanbao, who had his head lowered: "Are you sure you want to go in alone?"
Jin Yuanbao's eyes moved as he looked at Xia Chuyi, and then nodded: "Since she wants to see me, she should have something to tell me. I think I must see this side."
Xia Chuyi shrugged, spread his hands and said: "Then Chang Huan and I will keep watch for you downstairs. If you want to say anything, please say it quickly. If something happens, just make some noise, and Chang Huan and I will
Rush forward."
As she said that, she couldn't help but rolled her eyes at Jin Yuanbao: "Aren't you proud enough to let a censor be your bodyguard?"
Jin Yuanbao smiled, walked up to her and said softly: "Yesterday, someone got some frozen carps and they have been raised in another courtyard. They are definitely something you have never eaten before, and they are very delicious."
Xia Chu suddenly raised the corners of his mouth with satisfaction and reached out to pat his shoulder: "Why don't you go in quickly?"
Jin Yuanbao did not hesitate, stretched out his hand to lift the hem of his clothes, and stepped in. The moment his expression turned away from Xia Chuyi, his smile quickly faded away.
These small buildings all have two floors. Xia Chuyi and Chang Huan were on the first floor, sipping tea and eating melon seeds, killing the boring time and paying attention to the movements upstairs.
Jin Yuanbao was led up to the second floor by the maid who had been waiting for him. The journey was smoother than Xia Chuyi had imagined.
She couldn't help shaking her head and sighing: "This Lin Yueya is really smart. She deliberately exposed so many flaws, as if she specifically asked me to lure Yuanbao here."
Looking up at Chang Huan, knowing that he didn't understand what she was saying to him, she couldn't help but sigh again and closed her mouth. She couldn't even feel the taste of the fruit she just ate.
While she was lost in thought, she suddenly felt her sleeves tighten. When she looked up, she saw Chang Huan pulling on her sleeves.
She immediately tilted her head and looked at him in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Chang Huan pulled her hand over and opened it finger by finger, asking her to open her palm. He solemnly placed his hand on hers and suddenly let go.
As soon as Xia Chu took back her hand and took a look, she saw a handful of melon seeds in the palm of her hand, which made all her depression disappear immediately.
She raised her head and looked at the man in front of her with watery eyes. She pursed her lips and looked like she was about to cry: "How Changhuan, my sister has always loved you in vain."
Chang Huan seemed to feel that she was praising him, his eyebrows raised, and his smoky gray eyes became lighter again.
Xia Chu opened her mouth and poured the melon seeds into her mouth. Then she shamelessly extended her hand to the innocent child and said seriously: "Um... peel another handful."
, I will only eat a handful."
So the parents, Huan Huan, and their children really believed the lie of the fox in sheep's clothing and began the important task of peeling melon seeds without complaint.
Alas, the road is long and long, and there will be no end to being squeezed by Xia Chuyi!
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Jin Yuanbao walked up to this attic for the umpteenth time, but his steps had never been as heavy as now.
The maid walked to the entrance of the second floor and never went in again. She stretched out her hand to lift the hanging bead curtain and respectfully said to Jin Yuanbao: "Young Master, please."
Jin Yuanbao walked in and waved his hand behind him, and the maid immediately stepped back, as sensible as before.
He slowly walked into the house, and his favorite Ningshen fragrance lingered in the house. The smell was not strong, but it made people feel at ease.
The familiar furnishings are light and elegant, and white gauze curtains cover the room layer by layer, dividing it into several parts.
He slowly walked into the innermost room and saw the elegant figure, currently sitting on the soft couch, arranging the chessboard on the small coffee table.
She was wearing a lake blue gown today, and her already thin body looked as if it was about to float away in the wind.
The charcoal fire in the room was burning warmly, turning her fair face slightly red.
Hearing his footsteps, she raised her head and smiled at him with a decent smile as before: "You are here. The chessboard has been set up. Do you want to play another game?"
This was the most tacit exchange between them before. Jin Yuanbao liked smart people, so facing a lot of women in the Baiyuan Garden who only knew how to dress up, Lin Yueya's appearance was undoubtedly the first flower to bloom in early spring.
Peach blossom.
In this city lord's mansion, there are too few people who can speak to him, and even fewer who can match him in chess.
That day he came back drunk and saw her playing chess with two corners in the garden. He immediately became interested and went up to play a game with her.
Then, if he was in a good mood and tired of dealing with things, he would come here to play a game with her. Later, it seemed to have become a habit for him.
For him, Lin Yueya is not the future young lady his father raised for him, but his confidant.
He walked slowly to the soft couch, with the white pieces he was accustomed to using in his hand. He couldn't help but smile: "Let's play another game. I just don't know if I have deteriorated since I haven't played for a year."
"The young master is so smart. If these things are engraved in his mind, he will never forget them."
Lin Yueya smiled softly and looked at those familiar eyebrows for a long time before moving to the chessboard.
One person is black and the other is white, a bloodless contest.
Once the game started, the two of them immediately changed their appearance and stared at the chessboard with all their concentration. You came and I went back and forth.
Just when Xia Chuyi was downstairs and ready to take a nap before getting up again, a game of chess finally came to an end.
Lin Yueya threw the chess pieces in her hand back into the chess box, lowered her eyes and smiled: "Young master did not regress, it was me who regressed."
"It's not that you have regressed, it's that you are absent-minded." Jin Yuanbao also collected the chess pieces and raised his head to look at her, "Is there nothing you want to tell me?"
The smile on Lin Yueya's face did not change, but for some reason, she always felt that it was tinged with loneliness and misery, like the sunset at dusk.
She stretched out her hand to trace the white pieces on the chessboard, and said quietly: "Sometimes I really feel that life is like chess, if you make a wrong move, you will lose every step. Some things are like the beginning of this chess game. Once you start, you must finish the game.
Until you die. If you make a move, there will be no way out."
"Yueya..."
Jin Yuanbao frowned and picked up a chess piece on the table in his hand. Unconsciously, he crushed it into powder and dropped it all over the table.
Lin Yueya listened to Jin Yuanbao calling her, raised her head and showed a bright smile to him: "Call me again."
Jin Yuanbao's brows deepened, his tightly pursed lips opened slightly, and he said again: "Yueya..."
He didn't want to call her, because when he called her, her expression seemed to be too bright, which reminded him of Epiphyllum in his mind.
The next moment a flower blooms, it withers.
Lin Yueya looked at Jin Yuanbao infatuatedly for a long time. She lowered her head and chuckled helplessly: "I thought I would never see the young master again, but I didn't expect that the censor was so capable that he could make me
I can see you again in my lifetime."
Jin Yuanbao felt something was wrong when he heard these words, and his eyes suddenly turned sharp: "Did you really steal the account book?"
"I'm sorry." Lin Yueya smiled sadly, raised her head and looked at him, "Young Master, you trust me so much, but I did something I shouldn't have done."
Jin Yuanbao clenched his fingers into fists: "Who did you give the account book to?"
Lin Yueya stood up, walked to the incense burner on the table, stretched out her spoon, scooped out a spoonful of fragrant powder and put it in the furnace cauldron, and said calmly: "Young Master, do you know what my name is?"
Jin Yuanbao wanted to call Yue Ya, but in the end he just opened his mouth and said another sentence: "What's your name?"
"Fei Wu. The flowers are blooming and falling, Fang Fei Wu, this is the name my mother gave me to marry." She turned her head and smiled lightly at him, "Can you call me Fei Wu?"
"Fei...wu..."
Jin Yuanbao spoke slowly, but found that his mouth was a little dry and he couldn't move.
He wanted to reach out and make some noise so that Xia Chuyi below would know. But he couldn't lift his hand at all. Apart from his eyes, head, and consciousness, he couldn't do anything.
He stared at the cauldron with white smoke on the table with wide eyes. When the smoke drifted out, it looked like a ferocious monster, but it dispersed in the air in an instant.
He thought a lot about it, but he never thought that she would attack him.
"Young Master, why do you never want me? Do you know that the most regretful thing in my life is that I did not become your woman."
Fei Wu walked up to him, reached out and grabbed Jin Yuanbao's hand, put it on her face and touched it, then she pressed that hand and slowly placed it on her chest along her neck.
Jin Yuanbao looked at the two blushes on her face. When he first came in, he thought it was due to the charcoal fire in the room. But now he looked and saw something abnormal.
He didn't want to think about what the feeling in his palm was. He looked towards the corridor, hoping that Xia Chuyi and the others would come up quickly.
"Young Master, please stop looking. The tea and pastries I prepared have been drugged. No one will bother us. This is Fei Wu's last wish in this life. Don't refuse, okay?"
Jin Yuanbao opened his mouth, but couldn't spit out a single word.
Fei Wu took his hand and put it on her belt. With a slight hook, she untied her coat, directly revealing the inner coat embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water.
He quickly wanted to turn his head away, but his hand suddenly became hot. Fei Wu took his hand and pressed it directly on the tender and soft place!
"Young Master..."
She shouted without emotion.
The next second, Jin Yuanbao felt his hand loosen, and Fei Wu, who was pressing him in front of him, fell directly on top of him.
He looked up and met Xia Chuyi's teasing eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"Yuanbao, have you disturbed your good deeds?"
Jin Yuanbao blinked at her quickly, and saw her pinching his nose and passing the all-purpose small porcelain bottle under his nose to smoke it, and he was able to cough immediately.
Xia Chuyi reached out to hold his chin and stuffed a pill into his mouth. After a while, Jin Yuanbao felt that the strength in his body was gradually returning.
He quickly pulled up Fei Wu's clothes, then hugged her on the couch and put her away: "What's wrong with her?"
"It's okay, I'll just pull out the needle and it'll be fine." Xia Chuyi waved her hand, walked to the couch, stretched out her hand and sucked on her neck, and then pulled out the silver needle she had just inserted.
come out.
But after the needle was pulled out, Xia Chuyi's expression changed.
She quickly stretched out her hand to explore Fei Wu's consciousness, and her expression suddenly became serious: "She wants to die!"
Jin Yuanbao's expression froze: "What happened?"
"She took the poison in advance and can only live for another hour at most." Xia Chuyi hurriedly got out of the way and pressed Yuanbao next to the couch, "If you have anything to say, please tell me quickly."
Jin Yuanbao looked at her in shock: "You can't do anything?"
"It's not that there's nothing we can do. It's just that this kind of antidote is too difficult to prepare. It takes three days and three nights just to refine it. Unless she has the antidote herself, she will have died hundreds of times by the time I get it."
Xia Chuyi spread his hands with a helpless expression on his face.
As she was talking, she saw that the person on the couch had woken up. The moment she saw Xia Chuyi, she was stunned for a moment: "How could you..."
Xia Chuyi curled his lips and said: "I am an alchemist, I don't know what my level is, but it is enough to break the medicine you gave me."
"That's it." She smiled helplessly, and then her eyes fell on Jin Yuanbao, "Young Master, I'm sorry...ahem..."
Jin Yuanbao quickly helped her sit up, reached out and patted her back gently: "Stop talking, I don't blame you."
"There are some things, there are things I must say to you." Fei Wu wanted to reach out and touch Jin Yuanbao's face, but in the end she lowered her hand and said softly, "My hands are dirty..."
Jin Yuanbao took the initiative to take her hand and put it on his face: "You are not dirty, not dirty at all."
Xia Chuyi felt that he couldn't stand these scenes the most, so he simply went downstairs, leaving the last time for these two people.
Jin Yuanbao asked quickly: "Antidote, do you have an antidote?"
Fei Wu shook her head and laughed silently: "I just want to die, how can I prepare the antidote?"
She felt the warmth coming from the palm of her hand that only belonged to the man in front of her, and she suddenly felt that she had no regrets in this life.
"Young Master, I destroyed the account book and didn't give it to anyone. I won't let anyone hurt you... From now on, when you are alone, you should take more... take care of yourself..."