Bamboo Horse

A leaf grows and falls, falls and regenerates; swallows fly and come again, come and go.Such a cycle makes the years fly by.

"Young Master, I went to Li's Mansion today, and I heard the master of Li's Mansion say that he is going to marry his daughter to you." Two years passed, and Xia Rong's appearance became more and more handsome, unknowingly, he was able to match Mu Yu's.Facing the sudden arrival outside, the two people from well-to-do families talked a lot, but Xia Chang didn't know it.He stood by the desk and rubbed the ink vigorously, as if he wanted to wear the inkstone through.

Seeing his angry look, Mu Yu wondered, "It's a good thing that someone likes and favors your young master. Why do you look like 'I don't allow it'?"

"I..." Xia Yan was about to argue, but suddenly stopped talking.

"Why don't you talk?" Mu Yu put down the brush in his hand, walked in front of him, and leaned closer to him, his warm breath brushed Xia Rong's face, and said with a faint smile, "Xia Rong, why are you blushing?"

Xia Yan regained consciousness at dusk, and took a step back, "Master, Master, I suddenly remembered that there is still porridge in the kitchen, so I'll go serve it now." Before Mu Yu could speak, he rushed out.

Mu Yu looked at the steaming porridge beside the desk, and smiled helplessly, "Idiot, here is the porridge, where do you want to serve the porridge?"

Xia Chang panted and ran to the garden, hid directly in the pavilion by the lake, caressed her beating heart, and slowly calmed down against the wind.

The moment Mu Yu approached just now, Xia Chang's heart was about to burst, almost thinking that he had discovered something.He has been by Mu Yu's side for so many years, and he ruthlessly rejects everyone who expresses his heart to him, regardless of their status, even if they are in a high position, even if they are relatives of the emperor, Mu Yu will not miss it.I remember that there was a good-looking girl next to him who tried to recommend herself as a pillow mat, but was kicked out in the end. If Xia Chang didn't plead for mercy, I'm afraid she would have been a lowly prostitute in a brothel by now.

But even so, Xia Yan still served Mu Yu by his side, and fell in love with him without any surprise.When Mu Yu was young, he did not know where to find many idle books, and secretly read them without telling the people in the Mu family. Among them was a story about men liking men.It's just that there is no good ending after all.

Xia Qian's heart was slightly sour, and he choked with sobs, "Master, if you know what I mean, I'm afraid my end will be the same as that girl's."

"Xia Rong! Xia Rong! Xia Rong, why are you here?"

"Ah, young master, I..." Xia Yan was startled, and hurriedly wiped away the tears on his face.

Mu Yu had already noticed his movements, and deliberately pretended not to know anything, "I was looking for you."

"What orders does the young master have?" Xia Yan didn't dare to look at his face, lowered her head to suppress the affection in her heart, and kept thinking that she was the young master's bookboy.

"I have something to tell you, let's go back."

Along the way, Xia Yan followed behind Mu Yu anxiously, constantly guessing what Mu Yu would say, thinking about it, and felt that the biggest possibility was that Mu Yu realized that he was about to face the situation of being kicked out, so he couldn't help thinking about it silently. Saying goodbye to Mu Yu.

Back in the room, Mu Yu pulled Xia Rong in front of him, "Xia Rong, you are not young anymore, do you have someone you like?"

Xia Yan trembled for a while, "Master, I, I don't, I don't have anyone I like."

Mu Yu pulled him to his side, and began to write with a pen, "I mean, if you have someone you like, just tell me, I'll make the decision for you, and I will make you embrace the beauty."

You are the only person in my heart, but I am a man, how do you want me to tell you?Do you want you to marry me and bear the reputation of broken sleeves?The Mu Mansion has given me a peaceful life now, how can I disturb your life?He took a deep breath, "Master, I really don't have anyone I like."

Mu Yu vigorously wrote two words on the paper - Xia Rong.

"Do you still remember the first time you told me your name? I still laughed for a long time because of the word '苳'."

Xia Chang's heart was full of bitterness, "Remember, the young master said that I should treat you as a family member and an elder brother." So, are you reminding me not to overstep the rules?

"There is no other person in charge in this mansion. I can be counted as your elder brother for the time being. An elder brother is like a father. Do you want to listen to my words?"

"Well, if you have something to say, young master, you might as well say it directly."

Mu Yu nodded, stared into Xia Rong's eyes, and said seriously, "Xia Rong, if you have someone you like, no matter who it is, you must tell me."

"Yes, master." But, there will be no one else but you.

"Then, until I find someone I like, you can't fall in love with someone else." Mu Yu showed a sly smile like a fox, which made Xia Ling a little terrified.He was a little confused, and asked blankly, "Why?"

"Because I'm the young master." Mu Yu dropped an ambiguous sentence, then lowered his head and wrote his name under Xia Rong's name, "Oh, it's still not good-looking."

Mu Yu has been depressed for a long time because of his handwriting.When Xia Rong was summoned to be a bookboy by his side at the beginning, it was just to let him deal with his master. He thought that his handwriting was immature, but Xia Rong was not very old, so there should be no difference between the two characters. It was easy to fool the past. Let Xia Rong write the copybook for him, and he was stunned when he saw Xia Rong's brushstrokes in one go.How can this look like a child's handwriting? It's not too much to say that it was written by a famous calligrapher, okay?So Master Mu's idea of ​​wanting Master Xia to write for him was wasted.Not only that, I don't know when the old man who taught saw Xia Chang's handwriting, took it away and framed it, and hung it in his school. He would listen to him admiring the handwriting every day in class, and his ears would start to wake up. cocoons.From then on, when Mu Yu practiced calligraphy, he never let Xia Chang get close to him, and his attitude became more serious.

It's just that Xia Yan was waiting for Mu Yu in the room next to the school, and she didn't know anything about these things, so she didn't know what her young master's handwriting was.It wasn't until one day when he was sorting out the old things on the desk for Mu Yu that he suddenly saw a few crumpled rice papers, and found the words that Mu Yu thought were ugly and unreadable.

In all fairness, Mu Yu's handwriting is not bad, it is still a little better than other people in the school.It's a pity that he didn't like to practice calligraphy since he was a child, but Xia Rong spent his time writing in other courtyards, so naturally he can't compare.

"Master, I want to go out for a stroll." Xia Yan stared at the words on Mu Yu's paper with his mouth curled up, feeling a little proud in his heart.My young master has practiced calligraphy and read books for so many years, but he is still not as good as himself.

If Mu Yu knew what Xia Chang was thinking, he would definitely vomit blood.He hated memorizing "Zhihuzhe" the most in his life. Although his knowledge was not bad, it was not as good as Xia Yan's memorizing it backwards.In fact, my handwriting started to be practiced seriously in the year Xia Rong came. At that time, Xia Yan had practiced handwriting hard for three years, and then I practiced together again. How can I make up for the early three years?

"Just go and come back early." Mu Yu told him.

Xia Yan thought for a while, "Is there anything the young master wants me to bring back?"

The writing brush in Mu Yu's hand paused, and the writing was destroyed once again. He grabbed it, crumpled it up and threw it aside, and said angrily, "Go and buy a few more catties of rice paper."

Xia Chang can't laugh or cry, young master, rice paper is not cabbage, it doesn't matter how heavy it is!

Half a month later, Xia Chang went to hire a tailor early to make new clothes for her young master. The reason, of course, was that New Year's Eve was coming soon.But the tailor felt weird, there were still two months before New Year's Eve, why was this young man so impatient?

"Master, which color of these two pieces of cloth do you think suits you?" Xia Chang looked at the several pieces of cloth in front of him in distress, his face full of confusion.

Mu Yu wasn't very interested, "Choose whichever you like."

"No, young master, these are your clothes."

Mu Yu got up and rubbed the top of his hair, adjusted his clothes again, and said helplessly, "My clothes have always been decided by you, why do you want me to pick them today?"

The two have been together for many years, and Xia Yan has long been accustomed to Mu Yu's actions, so she didn't run away, "Master, can this New Year's clothes be the same as the usual clothes? It's fine as usual, and the New Year represents the beginning of a new year, so you can't do it casually." ah."

However, the attitude of the two of them deeply shocked the tailor. To be precise, they were shocked by Mu Yu's doting on Xia Ling, and they froze in place for a while.

"Master, what are you doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and get a measurement, and wait for my young master to ask you?" After all these years, Xia Yan also had a bit of Mu Yu's momentum, and the tailor said these two words in cold sweat. Mao, walked over in a hurry, "Don't be angry, young master, I'll measure it right away, I'll measure it right away."

After he finished measuring, Mu Yu sent a message, "Measure him too. Then make some clothes with my fabric."

Compared to your fabric?The tailor was stunned again, the young master's fabric was expensive satin, and the young man took each 'Master' one by one, no matter how you look at it, he is not the master, right?Or... the tailor's eyes suddenly became a little strange, these two people, can't they really be broken sleeves?

Xia Yan didn't think too much, just retorted in a low voice, "Isn't that good, I'm a school boy, how can I wear the same clothes as the young master?"

"Why not?" Mu Yu smiled and pushed him in front of the tailor, "I'll order a few more sets for you after the measurements are made. I see that your original clothes are a little too small."

"Oh..." Xia Yan obediently raised her arms, and asked the tailor to measure him.The tailor didn't say much, but he confirmed his guess in his heart, and secretly glanced at Mu Yu from time to time.

"Master Mu, the size has been measured, can the villain go?"

"Wait, I still have something to ask you. Xia Chang, go and bring the snacks from the kitchen."

After Xia Chang left, Mu Yu suppressed the gentle smile on his face, walked up to the tailor, "What were you looking at just now?"

The tailor wailed in his heart, "Young master, the villain, the villain is here." He wanted to lie to fool him, but Mu Yu's eyes were so oppressive that he had to tell the truth, "The villain is looking at you, young master. "

"Why are you looking at me?"

"Because, because..."

Sitting on a chair in the hall, Mu Yu said calmly, "But it's okay to say."

"The villain sees that the young master is taking good care of your talented young master, and can even stand side by side with you, so I can't help but boldly guess the relationship between the two of you. I know I was wrong, and I hope the young master will forgive me!" The tailor knelt down straight towards Mu Yu There is a layer of crystal clear sweat on his forehead.

"I know that there are a lot of rumors outside." Mu Yu picked up the teacup on the table and poured himself a cup of tea, "Zuo just suspects whether I am Duanxiu and whether I have an affair with the bookboy next to me."

The tailor nodded hastily, "Yes, Young Master Mu is a man of talent and suave, surely he won't be..."

"They guessed right, I do like my book boy."

Before the word "broken sleeve" came out of the tailor's mouth, Mu Yu blocked it back, and then covered his mouth to prevent himself from screaming.It took a long time before he asked carefully, "Young master, if you have something to say, just tell me, the villain will never talk nonsense."

"Do you know Miss Li, the daughter of the Li family?"

"Miss Li is famous, so the villain knows it." The tailor replied puzzled why Mu Yu suddenly mentioned the daughter of the Li family.

"Very good, I want you to find a way to marry her to the second young master of the Su family, and if you do it, you will be rewarded," Mu Yu said.Xia Chang had just mentioned her half a month ago, and this Master Li handed over the invitation to him, inviting him to travel to the south of the Yangtze River, and he wanted to know what this Master Li was up to.

"But, the villain is a tailor, not a matchmaker, how can he hold the red thread?"

"Are you going to Su's mansion to deliver clothes for the second young master in the past few days?"

"Yes." The tailor was even more puzzled. What Young Master Mu said seemed irrelevant.

Mu Yu continued, "You just need to 'unintentionally' mention it in front of Mrs. Su when delivering the clothes. The young master of the Su family doesn't like women, and Mrs. Su also let him go, but recently he is doing it for her. The second son is looking for a wife, and he should be looking for Miss Li. In my opinion, Miss Li is also a good match for him. I want you to send a letter to invite the young master."

"But, what if Young Master Su doesn't want to come?"

"Just find a place where no one is around and tell him quietly that it was Jingzhi's invitation, and he will definitely come." Jingzhi is Mu Yu's name, the Su family has been officials for generations, and Su Yuelin, the young master of the Su family, is Mu Yu's descendant after he went to Jiangnan. The friends I make are only few people know.

The tailor was covered in cold sweat when he heard Mu Yu's words. On weekdays, this young master Mu didn't leave his house, so he knew everything about the city clearly. It was all he needed to know which young master and young lady were suitable, but the young master of the Su family was Duanxiu didn't even know that he, who had lived in the city since he was a child, knew that this young master Mu...

"Yes, the villain will do it now."

"Go right away, the sooner the better. Also, if anything about the young master of the Su family is leaked, your life will be unnecessary."

"Yes! Yes!" He couldn't help but grabbed his sleeves and rubbed his sweat. Thinking about the things outside about the Master Li's betrothing his young lady to this Young Master Mu these days, he realized it was because the young master didn't want to marry him. That's why they had to stuff people into the Su Mansion.

"Master, you want some snacks. Hey? Why did he kneel down? What happened?" As soon as Xia Chang entered the door, she saw the tailor kneeling in front of Mu Yu, her first reaction was to move closer to Mu Yu, "Master , are you bullying people again?"

The tailor was shocked again, but he didn't dare to look up at Mu Yu's expression.Hearing this, Mu Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "I bullied someone?" Then he looked at the tailor, "Did I bully you?"

"No, no, no, the young master rewarded the villain, and the villain thanked the young master for rewarding him. This young man must not misunderstand." The tailor suddenly recovered and answered hastily.

"What I have told you, I will give you another reward after it is done. Three days later, Mr. Li invited me to travel to the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, Miss Li's family will also go with me. Do you know what to do? If you know, go down."

"Yes, the villain stepped back first."

Xia Yan watched the two of them playing riddles, and instantly lost face, "Master, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand a single word?"

Mu Yu rubbed Xia Rong's head, stared at Xia Rong's bright eyes, and replied very gently, "I'm solving my life's event." Isn't solving the obstacles in my way of chasing my wife the same as solving the life's event?It's a pity that this little idiot is insensitive, if I don't give him a push, I'm afraid he will never express his feelings, so what's the point of me insisting on bringing him by my side?

Xia Chang felt cold in his heart, and the smile on his face froze, like a layer of cloud covering the bright moon in an instant.

Young master, you are finally going to get married, did you marry Miss Li?He forced a natural smile, "Then, when the young master is planning to go to Li's mansion to propose marriage, I can prepare a dowry for you. Miss Li is not bad, so I can't wrong her and let others see the young master's jokes."

"Let the housekeeper prepare the dowry gift. As for you, just accompany me to Master Li's appointment."

Xia Yan only felt the bitterness in her heart, but she didn't dare to show any strangeness in front of Mu Yu, so she could only lower her eyebrows, "Yes, young master."

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