Introduction The carriage that drove through Lulin Town
The towering and trembling archway in the east of Lulin Town has been erected for two hundred and thirty years. The four characters "Good Weather" and the original pattern on the archway can no longer be clearly seen. In some stone gaps, long and short wormwood grow from the withered yellow grass.
Grass grows from inside, and it grows vigorously.
The early morning sunshine passed through the vibrant wormwood and fell on Lin Xi's body. The mottled light and shadow gave this handsome boy of seventeen or eighteen years old with a lazy face an illusion of vicissitudes of life.
Opposite him stood a pretty girl, two years younger than him, with two ponytails, a little thin, and her eyes looked big.
This pretty girl was not from Lulin Town. She walked out of nowhere and walked up to Lin Xi. Lin Xi had never seen this girl before, but this girl had already asked him many questions about him. Her face
She always had a serious look on her face, which made her look not childish at all.
"It's really hard to explain to you. It's just boring anyway..." At this moment, Lin Xi was also talking to the girl seriously.
"Okay." The pretty girl nodded and asked seriously, "Then why are you standing here, stretching your neck and looking up? Is there anything interesting about this archway?"
"I don't think this archway is beautiful." Lin Xi shook her head and clicked on the top of the archway, "That bird's nest may fall down later. There are two little birds in it. I don't know if I can catch it. If so,
If you can live with it, you can give it to my sister as a gift."
This is a somewhat strange scene, as if a student is answering the teacher's questions obediently, but the teacher is younger than the student, and the two people in the game don't seem to find anything strange.
After hearing what Lin Xi said, the pretty girl didn't say anything else. She nodded and said goodbye to Lin Xi. She turned around and walked through the archway, passed through three alleys, and walked towards a car parked across the street.
Carriage on the gravel road in Lulin Town.
The pretty girl who was only fifteen or sixteen years old got on the carriage, sat down on the coachman's seat, grabbed the riding whip, and drove the two gray old horses to drag the carriage forward slowly. Her movements were skillful and natural, as if she had already done it.
I'm used to this kind of thing.
"Are you sure?" A cold and proud female voice came from the silent carriage tent.
"His name is Lin Xi. He is the son of the Lin family shop in Zhenxi. He is eighteen years old and has a sister who is seven years younger than him." The delicate girl did not look back and waved her riding crop gently. She did everything with a smile.
He has a very serious demeanor, whether he is asking questions or answering questions while driving.
The cold and proud voice in the tent just asked, but she continued, "People here like to call him Second Young Master Lin."
"Oh? Why?" The voice in the tent was a little curious.
"Because he often says weird things and likes to talk about people, people here think he has some brain problems, which may have been caused by a severe cold more than two years ago, so people here call him
He is Second Young Master Lin." The pretty girl turned her head slightly and replied.
"Then do you think there is something wrong with his mind?" The person in the tent was silent for a while and then asked again.
"He speaks very clearly and clearly. It doesn't seem like there is anything wrong with his brain, but he does say some weird things." The pretty girl frowned slightly and said in deep thought, "I asked him for a while, and he asked me if I was checking the household registration.
, asked me why he was asking so many questions. I asked him what a household registration check meant, but he told me that even if he explained it to me, I wouldn’t understand it. And in the end, he told me that he was standing under the archway because
A bird's nest up there was about to fall down soon, and there were two little birds in it. He was going to pick it up there. If he caught it, he could give it to his sister as a gift, but the bird's nest was very close to a beam under the eaves.
It's solid and just exposed a little, so it won't fall off even if it's windy or rainy, and most importantly, even I can't see if there are any birds inside."
"Even you can't be sure. It seems to be a bit tricky..." The woman who made a cold voice in the carriage tent was silent for a longer time. It was not until the carriage was about to leave Lulin Town along the fine stone road that a cold voice came out.
Then it finally rang again, "But Qingluan Academy shouldn't find this difficult."
The pretty girl's brows furrowed even more tightly and she asked more seriously, "I don't understand what you mean, miss."
"When he passes Lu Dongling Mansion, let Li Xiping arrange for him to go to Qingluan College. Counting on the time to get there, it's almost the right time." The woman in the carriage tent said.
"You want to recommend him to take part in the Qingluan Academy exam?" The pretty girl was silent for a while and asked, "Why?"
"This reason sounds ridiculous. I remember when my grandfather told me about that person when I was a child, he also told me that that person used to shout: It's windy, it's thundering and it's raining when it's not raining.
Everyone, hurry up and collect your clothes." The voice of the woman in the carriage tent became lighter, and she seemed to have remembered some good things, and she must have a slight smile on her lips.
"Is it Dean Zhang?" The pretty girl did not turn her head, but her back clearly trembled.
"Other than him, who else is qualified for my grandfather to talk about it all day long?" The woman's voice in the carriage tent became clearer again, "When you go to find Li Xiping, ask him to talk about it all day long."
Zhang Zhendong has been appointed. A mere town governor with a commoner background actually has seven villas. Let him serve as a frontier soldier in Longshe Valley for three years. If he comes back alive in three years, he will be given three of the seven villas.
"
"Is there anything else you want to tell him?" The pretty girl nodded and waved her riding crop gently.
"Li Xiping has been in the border army for six years and has been the governor of the mausoleum for thirteen years. Such an old cunning guy is much smarter than you think. There is no need to say anything more." The woman in the carriage tent.
She sneered, but after saying this, she seemed to remember something again and said lightly, "Tell him again, I don't want others to know that this Lin Er was recommended by me."
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The wheels of the carriage made a slight sound on the gravel ground. Several children playing in a boxwood grove outside Lulin Town stopped and watched curiously as the carriage walked out of Lulin Town and climbed up a small slope in front.
Finally disappeared from their curious sight.
"It turns out that there are really masters in this world..." Lin Xi stood under the winding and rainy archway. The second young master Lin, who was somewhat famous in Lulin Town, had a strange look on his face at the moment. He had a thoughtful expression, which made him unconscious from time to time.
He touched his forehead as if there was a bag there.
"Almost." Suddenly, his expression became serious again, he pulled up the hem of his gown, made a pocket, and looked up at the arch above his head with concentration.
"Crack!"
Almost as soon as he finished this strange action, it may have been too long since it rained, and perhaps a young wormwood sprout squeezed out tenaciously from the gap in the stone tiles. The originally normal archway cornices
On the top, there was a slight explosion in a wooden edge, and the beam suddenly tilted.
Amidst the rapid chirping of the chicks, Lin Xi took advantage of the situation, as if she knew how the bird's nest made of withered grass would fall down, and firmly caught the bird's nest that suddenly fell.
A bright smile suddenly appeared on his face, and the morning in Lulin Town became lighter. A young boy of seventeen or eighteen years old held a withered grass bird's nest on the gravel of Lulin Town.
Running on the road, passing through the gravel roads in the town, and stepping onto the stone streets of the neighborhood that have been polished smooth over the years, the cheerful footsteps brought about a series of laughing noises.
"Ouch, run slower, be careful not to knock your head."
"It's really Lin Er...he's such an adult and still wants to dig out a bird's nest."
"Oh, that's right. You're such an adult and you still want to play with birds."
"..." Lin Xi got goosebumps when she heard the fat lady beating her clothes beside the pond saying the word "playing with birds". She didn't stop and ran until she reached a small white wall with two stone lions in the north of Lulin Town.
He stopped in front of the courtyard. After taking two deep breaths, the handsome young man puffed up his chest and pushed open the red door of the small courtyard. Like a general returning from victory, he shouted proudly and proudly into the small courtyard.
: "Sister, come out and have a look, I've brought you something good."
"Brother, what a good thing!"
With a sound of surprise, a girl wearing a small jacket rushed out from a room in the courtyard.
The eleven or twelve-year-old girl is beautiful, with picturesque eyebrows and a small ponytail. Her eyes are extremely clear, but there are a few streaks of ink on her pink and white face, which makes people laugh.
"Ah... little birds! Ah! Two little birds!" After just one glance, this beautiful and cute little girl stayed there, and then she screamed with joy as if she had just woken up from a dream.
"Lin Xi!"
A woman with hidden anger and worry on her face walked out of the backyard quickly. The woman's features resembled that of a girl, Lin Xi. Although there were wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, in a place like Lulin Town,
, there is still a bit of a wood show in the forest.
"Mom, this fell from the Feng Yushun archway. I didn't climb to a high place to get it. Otherwise, my clothes would have been a mess." When Lin Xi saw this beautiful woman, she immediately stuck out her tongue.
, explained quickly.
The good-looking woman glanced at Lin Xi's clothes, and the lines on her face suddenly softened. In fact, she also understood that since she woke up from the cold, apart from always talking nonsense, her son
I have never done anything to worry myself again.
"Don't touch it too much, Qianqian, go wash your face first, and then I'll tell you how to take care of it..."
"Ah, mother, you are so good!" The cute and beautiful little girl immediately jumped up for joy.
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"Brother, there are exactly two birds. Otherwise, one is called Lin Xi and the other is Lin Qian."
"Uh...silly girl, how can you call yourself a bird? Isn't that equivalent to calling yourself a bird in a different way?"
In the early morning of Lulin Town, in this quiet courtyard, a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old and a girl with a clean face were holding their cheeks while looking at the food in a bamboo basket under the window sill.
That bird's nest was talking while talking.
In that bird's nest were two fluffy yellow-mouthed birds that were already full.
In a room on the other side, a good-looking woman was tidying up the pens, inks, paper and inkstones on the table by the window, while looking at the young boy and girl who were talking and smiling from time to time.