He Qizhou thought to himself, one of these two brothers is so arrogant, and the other is so respectful to him. I really don't know why God arranged them into the same family. But he didn't want to have a fight with him, so he slowly climbed up the stairs.
, nodded to the girl and walked up.
At the end of the stairs, people were coming down one after another. They were all gorgeously dressed, and a few of them were actually wearing official uniforms. The highest official rank was as high as third rank! Two people were standing at the entrance of the stairs, busy seeing off the guests. They must be the host of the banquet.
Among the family members, one looks like a housekeeper, and the other looks like a middle-aged woman.
Standing at the top of the stairs, I couldn't see the scenery clearly outside the window, but I felt it was unreasonable to barge into Qi Zhou. I didn't think much about it, so I ran downstairs and wanted to take a look at the fourth floor. I was halfway there when I saw that the girl just returned.
When the woman saw Qi Zhou coming down, she asked again: "Are you really not connected? I just found that my senior brother used some internal force when he pushed you. Can you feel it again to make sure there is nothing wrong?"
"Thank you for your trouble. It's okay. Why don't you go back with your senior brother?" Qi Zhou replied.
The woman frowned and said more charmingly: "He just came with me on the same journey. I'll go up and take someone else's carriage. Why don't you go into the building? Is there anyone stopping you above?"
"No, no, the banquet has not ended yet, and the host is seeing off guests. I'm sorry to go in and disturb you. I'll go to the fourth floor and have a look."
"You are from Jiangnan, right? The view on the fifth floor is better. How about I take you in? Anyway, you can just come out with your eyes."
"Is it important? I see there are many officials, is it possible..."
"It doesn't matter, it's a celebration banquet hosted by the Xiao family for the eldest young master. The main banquet won't start until evening. I have some connections with his family. There are too many people in the evening and I don't want to come, so I came here at noon to say congratulations. You can feel free to
Let me go up."
He Qizhou was overjoyed and said: "You are such a working girl, how do you know that I am from Jiangnan? In fact, I am from Jiangling, not even from Jiangnan."
The two of them continued to talk as they walked up. The woman covered her mouth and said with a smile: "No man in Jiangbei has as fair and tender skin as you."
He Qizhou was a little embarrassed, thinking, you can tell whether it's tender or not by touching it, so he asked casually: "Is this Xiao family the Xiao family, one of the three great families?"
The woman said: "Exactly, it was Young Master Xiao who made military exploits in the north. No, the emperor's reward has already come down before he returns home in triumph, so the Xiao family chose this place to hold a celebration banquet for Young Master Xiao."
"Xiao Jihuai?" He Qizhou was excited. It would be great if one day he could ride the battlefield like Young Master Xiao.
"Yes." The woman's answer was quite cute and natural, but it lacked the admiration of Zhang Qingrou and the others.
As soon as the two arrived at the stairs, the middle-aged woman who was seeing off the guests saw the two coming up and hurriedly came over and asked: "Miss Xiaohe, why are you back again?"
The girl said: "There is nothing interesting in the afternoon class. I will come back to find sister Xiaoxue and take her carriage into the city. We can also chat more on the way. Oh, this is my classmate. It is his first time to come to Baiyun Tower and he wants to go up.
Enjoy the view from the top floor, Auntie, please don’t get in the way."
"What are you talking about? Please, I have to see off guests here, so I won't accompany you." Aunt Yuan said with a smile.
He Qizhou followed the girl into the building. Different from the three-story layout, the octagonal floor was divided into eight private rooms. If you wanted to enjoy the view, you had to enter the private room. He walked through three private rooms in a row. Either the doors were closed, or there were people inside.
Drinking and singing, it was really out of the ordinary to walk in like this.
The girl knocked on the door and entered the fourth box. He Qizhou thought that no matter what, he would have to enter the fifth box. If he turned around, he would have to face the southwest. Fortunately, the guests in the fifth box had dispersed and there were only two waiters.
After clearing away the dishes, a huge round table was placed in the spacious space. Facing north and west was a large row of carved wooden windows.
He Qizhou walked to the window and leaned on the railing to look out into the distance. The autumn sky was high and the sun was beautiful. The Yellow River came from the west and went from the east. Both ends of the river meandered without end and disappeared at the junction of heaven and earth, leaving only white clouds.
There are still rolling hills in the land of Henan, but looking from the distance to Hebei, it is a vast expanse of flat rivers and fertile fields. Just when I was sighing casually that "the Yellow River is far up, and the white clouds are long", two waiters had already begun to fold the tall screen on the right side of the box. It turned out that the third
The fourth and fifth private rooms were connected to each other, but were separated by a screen. He Qizhou unconsciously looked to the right, and the person in the right balcony also happened to look over.
There are four people sitting in the box on the right, whispering softly. One of them is the woman who brought Qi Zhou up, and there are three others. One of them is about fifty or sixty years old, wearing a brocade, red and green, embroidered with various exotic flowers and plants.
Full of nobility; there is also a woman who is extremely beautiful, plainly dressed, tall and thin, and looks like she is only in her early thirties; but Qi Zhou's eyes always stay on the last person, presumably the girl named Xiaoxue
At this time, he was looking at He Qizhou with a pair of big crystal clear eyes in surprise. His small mouth was slightly open, and his white and neat teeth were exposed under his red lips. A pair of small tiger teeth were even more eye-catching.
Xiaoxue was wearing a lake blue silk pleated long skirt, sitting diagonally on an armchair, with the hem of the skirt casually scattered on the ground. She wore a slim pink short jacket on her upper body, which made her slender figure even better, and her oval face was slightly thin.
Her complexion was white and rosy, as if she could be broken by a blow. When he saw Miss He, Qi Zhou felt that she was extremely beautiful in the world, but the person in front of him was three points whiter and more beautiful than Miss He.
It's three points thinner, a little less frail, and a lot more beautiful.
"How outrageous! You haven't put up the screen yet!" the richly dressed old woman shouted, causing Qi Zhou to wake up immediately. He quickly looked away, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Then he pretended to look out the window at the magnificent scenery again.
But my thoughts were always on Xiaoxue, and I felt like a fairy, and even felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy, as if I had known him in a dream for a long time.
The two waiters quickly opened the screens that were close together. Miss He stuck out her tongue. Xiaoxue, who had come back to her senses, pulled Miss He together to say goodbye to the old man and stood up to leave. The old man glared fiercely and gradually disappeared under the screen.
Qi Zhou was looking out the window, patted Xiaoxue's hand, whispered a few words, and watched the two of them go out.
Qi Zhou's mind went blank. He pretended to look at the scenery for a while, then hurriedly ran to the third floor in despair.
Sitting in the carriage, Xiaoxue asked Miss Xiao He if she recognized the man who looked at them just now. Miss He answered Xiaoxue's question truthfully and said: "Liu Muzhi wanted to be attentive, but I didn't go along with his wishes. It happened to be
Looking for an excuse, I can spend more time with you. But I think the boy on the corridor must have just arrived in Kyoto from the southern countryside. His eyes are clear and he doesn't look like a young person. It's not an eyesore, so I'll do him a favor.
Don't worry about that man's rudeness just now. Alas, which man doesn't always look like this when he sees you?"
Xiaoxue said: "Sister Xiaohe, please stop making fun of me. You see, people like Liu Muzhi are very courteous to you. The children of those aristocratic families and young talents are all lining up to marry the gentle, beautiful, well-educated and sensible Sister Xiaohe.
Paying a betrothal gift? How can I be a rough guy and not understand the charm at all?"
"Oh, then I'll have to ask Mr. Xiao when I get the chance. Why did he even refuse the emperor's offer of marriage for the sake of this 'rude man' who doesn't understand the charm?"
Xiaoxue said angrily: "How dare you talk nonsense? Are you unbearably lonely? Believe it or not, I arrested the man in front of the window just now. Maybe the more you look at him, the more you like him?"
"What kind of abilities can the boy from Tianxingyuan have? Okay, okay, I won't joke with you anymore. I heard that Young Master Xiao won't come back for two or three months. Are you really not coming tonight?"
Xiaoxue said: "You also know that I have always been afraid of this kind of excitement. I almost have no place to hide at noon. There are so many people at night, and it annoys me to death. Didn't you just come here at noon?"
After the carriage sent Miss He away, Xiaoxue murmured: "Tianxingyuan..."
He Qizhou hurriedly returned to the third floor. As soon as he rushed in, he saw five people standing by the window. A familiar figure had his back to him. He heard the footsteps and saw that it was Qi Zhou. He shouted sharply.
He shouted: "You, come here and stand still."
When He Qizhou saw that the man was actually Wang Jun, he couldn't help but scream secretly. The only time he slipped out, he was caught. He stood beside Lin Chuan in despair.
Wang Jun pointed his fingers over the heads of Yang Shan, Zhang Qingrou, and Lin Chuan respectively, and said angrily: "You, you, you, do you know when it is? Don't want to go to the test? Don't want to enter the military training hall? How many days have school started?
Just skipping classes during the day?" He glanced at Qi Zhou and then said: "Are you the same as him? There is no hope! Are there no classes in the afternoon? No extra classes in the evening? That's nonsense! And Junzhi, what should I say?
How are you? If you want to make more friends and fulfill your friendship as a landlord, can't you put it on a day of rest at the end of the tenth month?"
Liu Junzhi said hurriedly: "Uncle Wang, oh no, Professor Wang, yes, Mr. Li is here to treat us. We don't have classes in the afternoon. The gentlemen allow us to study by ourselves every afternoon, so we won't be late in the evening."
Wang Jun said angrily: "Study here?" Then he said softly to Li Ruogu: "Ruogu, what did the supervisor say? You are a newbie here, so you should avoid walking around the city. I know you have no classes in the afternoon.
, but don’t let others instigate you to blame others.”
Li Ruogu replied harmoniously: "Thank you, Professor Wang, for your concern. We have been studying quite diligently in the past few days. We just took advantage of today's free time to find a quieter place to share our experiences. We will definitely not miss any classwork. I hope Professor Wang can be at ease."
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Wang Jun smiled and said: "I know you still know how to behave. You guys are not in the literature and history class, so you just know how to eat and drink. I'm warning you, it won't be the same next time. Don't be late at night!" After that, he looked at Qi again.
The boat flew away with a puff of sleeves.
Wang Jun secretly thought that Yang, Lin, and Zhang were in the same group as Qi Zhou, and Li Ruogu seemed to have known He Qizhou on the first day of school. Obviously, this trip had something to do with He Qizhou, but he was just curious about Liu Jun's behavior.
He actually hung out with them, probably following Lin Chuan, Yang Shan and the others. It seems that He Qizhou will definitely be a troublemaker in the future!