At dinner, Jiu'er completely let herself go. She ate a lot and drank two small glasses of wine, but ended up pouring it on the dining table. In the end, Tang Ji and Jiang Ran sent her back to the room.
"Huh~ This stinky girl really needs to lose weight." Tang Ji took a breath and complained.
Jiang Ran chuckled and stepped across the threshold, turned around and closed the door, then walked behind him: "Since you appeared, she has never been hungry again, how can she not gain weight?"
Tang Ji raised his eyebrows slightly: "Then you mean that I shouldn't show up?"
"That's not what I meant!" Jiang Ran's tone was a little anxious. She raised her jade eyes and saw his bright smile. She snorted coldly and started walking in the courtyard.
Tang Ji followed her leisurely. The main courtyard was covered in silver frost cast by the moon. Apart from the withered yellow leaves rustling in the wind, no other sound could be heard. Neither of them spoke.
, and then supported this silence.
After a short meeting, the two of them unknowingly walked through the stone arch into the backyard. The backyard was the largest yard in Jiranju, with two-thirds of the area occupied by a pond.
Jiang Ran stood by the stone guardrail, looking at the oval moon disk in the water. A breeze blew by, lifting her soft long hair: "Tang Ji, why are you so nice to me?"
"Okay? I don't think it's enough!" Tang Ji walked to her side with a playful smile and held on to the cold stone railing. But when he saw that she was looking at him seriously, he put away his smile and tapped the stone irregularly with his fingers.
Bar, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "I...I want to pick you up."
Jiang Ran tilted his head in confusion and asked doubtfully: "Soak me? What do you mean?"
Tang Ji raised his eyebrows slightly and coughed: "You have been with me for so long, don't you still know my feelings? Of course, I like you."
Although she had been prepared in her heart, Jiang Ran felt nervous when she heard these words coming from his mouth. She pinched her fingers and said softly: "But I am a lowly woman who came from a brothel. How can I be so virtuous?"
Are you worthy of being the most talented person in Huaizhou?"
Tang Ji said what he had hidden in his heart, and immediately felt a lot more relaxed. He turned sideways, put his hands on her shoulders, and said with a serious face: "I have never cared about our identities, if you mind
, I can not be the most talented person in Huaizhou, or I can let you be the most talented woman in Huaizhou. You have nothing to do with Yuexianlou now. Tomorrow I will go to Magistrate Yan to help you change your registration. How about that? What else is there?
Can identity separate us?”
Seeing that she didn't speak, Tang Ji continued to add: "Of course, never alienate me because of your identity, I will be sad."
Hearing this, Jiang Ran raised his hand and saw that there were thousands of stars in his gentle and deep eyes. He couldn't help but nodded slightly, but became nervous the next second, hesitantly said: "You, you
Can you give me...a little time?"
Seeing her Xiaojiabiyu look, Tang Ji chuckled: "What? Do you want to marry me one day?"
"I...hum, you stinky scoundrel!" Jiang Ran blushed for the first time today. She found it strange that after staying in Yuexian Tower for so many years, she could always remain calm and composed.
, but why can't I stand in front of him at all?
Tang Ji consciously held her hand, looked up at the night sky, and whispered, "Maybe we can be lovers first."
Jiang Ran obviously had no meaning for the word "lover" in his mind, and looked at him again in confusion.
"You can understand it as a couple who are not married yet." Although lovers do not mean this in later generations, especially in the era of fast food love, some people can change several lovers a day, but in the current world, it is definitely a matter of choosing whoever you choose.
He was responsible for her, so he changed his explanation.
After Jiang Ran heard this, he snorted coldly: "What kind of couple are you if you are not married? You are just a stinking gangster, huh!"
After saying that, she turned around and ran towards the main courtyard, with a smile on her lips.
"It's late at night, please slow down and don't fall." Tang Ji shook his head helplessly and quickly chased after him.
Soon, the two of them chased each other outside a brightly lit room. Jiang Ran adjusted his expression, returned to his previous ladylike style, and said softly: "It's getting late, you should go to bed early."
"Yes." Tang Ji nodded in response. He would go to write the manuscript for the next volume of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" later. Watching her close the door, he planned to turn around and leave.
Unexpectedly, before he took two steps, the wooden door opened again, and Jiang Ran leaned out: "Tang Ji, can you get my things during the day?"
Without thinking, Tang Ji took out the wooden puzzle toy from his sleeve and was about to hand it over when his finger slipped and the puzzle piece hit the ground directly with a "snap" sound.
He knew that this gadget carried Jiang Ran's childhood happiness, so he quickly squatted down, but the eight small puzzle pieces inside were still knocked out. Fortunately, the whole puzzle was not damaged, and he could just put it back. However, he found that the small wooden pieces had two pieces.
A small gap was exposed where the layers were joined, and a corner of a yellowed paper slipped out.
Tang Ji immediately judged it, gently moved the small piece of paper, pushed it in, and then picked up the other fragments.
Jiang Ran sighed and just squatted down, wanting to help him pick it up.
But Tang Ji was a step faster, holding everything in his hands, and said with a smile: "Sorry, my hand slipped. I'll take it to put it together and give it to you tomorrow."
"No, I myself..." Jiang Ran was about to say something, but saw that he had already stuffed something into his sleeve.
Tang Ji interrupted her, stretched out his hand to push her into the room, waved and said, "Good night."
"Good night... good night." Seeing how persistent the other party was, Jiang Ran didn't insist and closed the door again.
Seeing that the figure reflected in the paper in the room was getting further and further away, Tang Ji's expression became cautious. He quickly walked back to his room next door, pushed the wooden lock on, walked to the desk and poured out all the broken pieces in his sleeves.
came out.
He took the wooden block that served as the chassis in his hand again, and saw the note inside again through the gap. After thinking about it, he carefully opened the two layers of wooden blocks that were spliced together, and saw only a baby's palm.
Large and small pieces of rice paper fell out.
Tang Ji raised his lips lightly and slowly opened the letter. He saw that the handwriting inside was a little blurry, and it was in beautiful hairpin regular script. He used the light to read it quickly.
[According to investigations, Lieutenant General Liang Jian left the camp for three hours on the pretext of patrolling on the day before the rebellion. Commander Jiang Zhan did not show up on the day of the rebellion. All his trusted generals were beheaded. There was no way to collect evidence, but Liang Jian allowed collusion.
He was suspected of being a rebel. Afterwards, all the surrendered troops were killed and no one survived. Secondly, Jiang Zhan had no contact with the King of Liao on weekdays, and the exchange of letters was even more unclear. However, the original letter was destroyed, and there was no trace of it.
...]
The handwriting on this piece of paper is not large, but when opened it is only as big as a normal manuscript paper. There is not much content in it, but there is obviously more to it.
Tang Ji touched his chin and fixed his eyes on the word "Jiang Zhan". The reason why he didn't tell Jiang Ran directly was because he was worried that the content in it would only increase her worries and sadness, but now he saw that it was about her life experience.
Come on, this matter may be more troublesome than he thought, because it involves the army.
He folded the letter and put it in his sleeve, but he soon remembered that there were many trinkets in Jiang Ran's baggage in Yuexian Tower, and whether there might be other letters in it.
Thinking of this, Tang Ji sighed: "It seems that I have to go back to being a childish ghost."