"Master, please drink slowly! I only have these two bottles! This is what I secretly brought into the palace last time..." Marin held the wine bottle as if he was holding a precious object.
As if, he came to Tong Zhuo's ear mysteriously and said, "This is Dongjue's wine. I asked many people to buy it..."
It turned out to be Dongjue's wine? Tong Zhuo thought about it carefully, no wonder the fragrance lingered on his lips and teeth after the strong smell of wine dissipated. Tong Zhuo looked down at the wine flask in his hand under the moonlight. The delicate and small one,
Like her... I haven't tasted Dongjue's wine for so long and I have forgotten the taste. I don't know if she is the same? Or has it been so deeply rooted in my bones that I can't forget it even if I want to?
"Wait a minute!" Tong Zhuo shouted and quickly snatched the wine bottle from Marin's hand.
Marin obviously didn't expect such an incident. Why was someone snatching his wine before he had even a drop of it in his mouth? What's more, this man obviously had a bottle in his hand...
"Master...Master..." He did not grab it again. He watched helplessly as the wine that was about to go to his mouth was put aside, and asked doubtfully, "Don't you have something in your hand?"
Is this what you are?..."
What was the purpose of his seemingly inexplicable behavior? But he suddenly remembered that the person said that she missed the aroma of this wine. Although he couldn't take her to see the grassland in his hometown again, if he could let her taste what she had been dreaming about.
Wine might also be able to ease her thoughts.
Tong Zhuo covered Ma Lin's pot with one hand, generously handed his own pot to him with the other hand, and said coldly: "This pot of wine can be regarded as your apprenticeship ceremony. Let's just drink this pot."
"Bye, apprenticeship ceremony?!" Marin stood up from the ground in a hurry, but his foot slipped and he fell straight down to the steps. He screamed and rubbed his butt with a grin on his face and said, "I have been following you for more than ten years.
Years have passed, what kind of apprenticeship ceremony is this today? Besides... the apprenticeship ceremony is given by the master to the apprentice, how can the apprentice give it to the master? "
The more he spoke, the quieter he spoke, like a mosquito buzzing, but still every word fell into Tong Zhuo's ears.
"What? Do you still have any objections? Just one pot of wine. At worst, if you have a chance, you can ask someone to bring in a few more pots." Tong Zhuo sneered, shook his head and sighed, "Look at your little-bellied virtues! Should I?
Isn’t it true that I haven’t given you enough things over the years?”
Tong Zhuo, whether as a superior or as a master, was very fond of Ma Lin. If it weren't for him, Ma Lin would not have been promoted so quickly.
Therefore, Marin quickly turned around and said with a smile: "If I had known that the master liked this wine so much, I would have asked them to bring back a few more bottles!"
Dongjue wine is not popular in Kyoto, and it is difficult to buy. Because the wine is too strong and strong, ordinary people are often so spicy that they shed tears before they can even taste the aftertaste of the wine. They often have to wait.
Merchants who travel to and from Dongjue will bring a few pots with them when they return, and they have to happen upon them by chance.
Ma Lin said it so easily, but he was just following his words to avoid embarrassment to each other. He didn't care whether Tong Zhuo really wanted to drink it or wanted to give it to someone else. As long as his master wanted to, it didn't matter if there was no pot left.
Ma Lin was half lying on the steps, with his elbows propped up behind his back. He looked at the long and slender scar on Tong Zhuo's left face and hesitated several times. He had heard about what happened in the afternoon from other brothers, but he didn't expect the master
Will stand up for the prince to protect him from the emperor's anger.
"That's it! My body's skills haven't grown, but my skills with my mouth are getting better and better." Tong Zhuo twisted the wine bottle and threw it to him, smiling, "Drink!"
"Delut! Thank you for the reward, master!" Marin smiled brightly, and his neat row of big white teeth stood out against the white snow. He raised his head and drank a few sips, wiped his mouth with his sleeves and crossed his legs.
He lay down and said, "I haven't drank for so long, but the taste is still so... burp, endless aftertaste..."
His exaggerated expression made Tong Zhuo dumbfounded, but his smile was inexplicably sad, perhaps because he was in this scene.
When Ma Lin entered the palace, it happened to be the time when the Imperial Guard was selecting talents. As soon as he entered the palace, he fell in love with the cold-faced and warm-hearted Tong Zhuo. From then on, he followed Tong Zhuo like a dog-legger. Logically speaking, this is fair
Even if he is no stranger to being courteous to his superiors in the palace, he will definitely be ostracized by those who come to the palace with him.
However, he is a very clever boy. He calls everyone "big brother" in a silly and cheerful manner. He looks harmless to humans and animals. He is active in work. He is also top-notch in flattering. He manages to handle the relationship well with everyone.
In private, he often followed Tong Zhuo to ask questions. Whenever Tong Zhuo was free, he would explain things to him. When Tong Zhuo was not free, he would ask him to wait until he was free to ask again. This back and forth, I don’t know when it started.
Lin immediately called him "Master".
Tong Zhuo tried to stop him a few times, but Ma Lin didn't listen. Out of helplessness, he could only do the next best thing and ask Ma Lin not to scream in front of others. It was okay to scream in private. But those people were not stupid.
, but Chief Tong treated them very well, and Marin often asked people to bring them small favors, so over time it became a tacit secret among their guards.
"Ma Lin, I have been in the palace for so long..." Tong Zhuo looked at the hazy moon in the sky and asked tentatively, "I seem to have never heard about your family affairs, and I have never seen you come home to visit.
Don’t you miss your family after getting married?”
Marin, who had always been cheerful, rarely became serious. He took a sullen sip of wine and shrugged nonchalantly: "No, what's there to think about? They wish I would never go back for the rest of my life, and I don't want to make myself miserable.
"
Tong Zhuo took a sip from the spout of the pot he drank from and fell into deep thought. He had already sent someone to check on Ma Lin. Ma Lin's family background was not complicated.
To put it bluntly, his father was an innocent businessman of the era, and his mother was an innocent brothel girl. After giving birth to him, his mother feared that her future would be delayed, so she wrapped him in swaddling clothes and threw him at the door of Ma Mansion. So,
After living like this for more than ten years, he was kicked out by his father's wife, so he signed up as an imperial guard because he had no other choice.
"Today is different from the past. You are now a guard with a sword. Besides, you are still young. It is not impossible for you to sit in my position in time." Tong Zhuo turned to look at him with a burning gaze and said seriously, "Go back now."
Let's see."
Marin didn't answer, he just kept drinking with his head raised, and the annoyance in his heart was obvious.
I can’t remember how many times I mentioned it in an insinuating way over the years. Marin is usually an easy-going person, but on this matter, he is like a stubborn donkey who will not let go even if he is beaten to death.
"Save some for me!" Seeing that he was silent, Tong Zhuo deliberately fought with him to divert his thoughts, and almost knocked over the wine bottle next to him.
Seeing him carefully carrying the wine bottle into the room, Marin opened his mouth in surprise. After thinking about it for a long time, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and clicked his mouth in disbelief. When he came out of the room, Marin couldn't wait.
He asked: "Master... didn't you want to give that wine to someone just now?"
Tong Zhuo obviously paused for a moment when he sat down, then punched him hard and said vaguely: "What are you thinking about all day long! What are our identities, and what is her identity? Let me tell you.
How many times have misfortunes come out of my mouth, you think I live too long, don't you?"
Underneath his pretended relaxed tone, there was a pair of hands clenched into fists.
"It's good that Master hasn't forgotten..." Marin sighed slightly, "We have spent our whole lives in the palace. Although every day is different, it seems that we are doing the same thing every day when we get up, over and over again... If not
The master is here, I..."
"I've talked too much today. Let the girl from Jinxiufang use a needle tomorrow morning." Tong Zhuo made two gestures on his mouth with his hand, "sew up your unobstructed mouth."
Ma Lin immediately covered his mouth, stood up and ran away. Tong Zhuo was left sitting on the steps. After a while, he simply lay down on the ground, closing his eyes and enjoying the tranquility of everything at this time, but his thoughts had long been following the swirling.
I don’t know where the snowflakes have drifted.
Once the snow starts to fall, it will never end. When I woke up the next day, the snow on the ground was much thicker than the previous few days. Although there were people in the palace clearing the snow on the road on time, there were still deep and shallow snows left.
's footprints.
"Chief Tong." Several palace maids were holding wooden trays, stopped and called out, then hurriedly left, but couldn't help but look back again.
When the sky just breaks, the maids from each palace will come to the inner dining room to receive food from the masters, and they have to take it back to the palace before the masters finish washing. So everyone is in a hurry, and they only briefly see each other.
After saluting, I didn't have time to say a few words, for fear of wasting the time and turning around to make my masters unhappy.
Tong Zhuo hid his hands in his large cloak, making it impossible for anyone who wasn't paying attention to notice.
Without the emperor's special order, no man is allowed to enter the harem. If you want to wait for someone, there is no other place but here.
He wandered around and stopped here specifically to wait for someone.
"What a coincidence, Chief Tong, I can meet you here." Qingglai slowly walked out with a wooden tray, a flash of surprise flashed, and he quickly smiled, "Are you on duty today?"
"Yeah." Tong Zhuo glanced at the food on the wooden plate and frowned slightly.
Why did she eat so little? Could it be that the food in the dining room was not to her taste?
"I won't chat with you any more," Qing Glaze quietly glanced at the scars on his face, bowed slightly, and said with a smile, "Master Tong, please go slowly. I will leave."
Seeing her turning around to leave, Tong Zhuo's hands under the cloak couldn't help but tighten. Since he had decided to give it to her, what reason was there to take it back?