ladybug

Title: The Second Bet

Summary: He was a storyteller in the city of Chang'an.

On March [-]th, the second year of Yongxi, when I woke up, my pubic region was in severe pain.The scent of peace of mind is wafting, the warmth of the pillow is still there, and there is no one around.I got up and put on my clothes, shoes and socks, dumbfounded by the changes in the wing room.

In the house, there is an extra red sandalwood chair with a gold butterfly pattern, and a varnished huanghuali inlaid ivory table next to it.There is a small bronze pixiu incense tripod on the table, and thin smoke is puffing from its mouth and nose.The Persian carpet on the ground is woven from gold, silver and mulberry silk.Wei Yan knelt in the shadow of the corner of the room where he entered the door.There are only four small items, each of which is worth a thousand gold, and this wing room is instantly glamorous.

The door opens.Six big men in black filed in silently, with three on each side standing against the wall facing me.Two other people dressed in Tsing Yi came in, one was holding a teapot, the other was holding a plate for cups.The two put utensils on the table, poured out a cup of Ruilong tea, and then, one on each side, stood in the line of big men in black.The wing room became crowded.

A soft sedan chair carried by four people stops at the door of the wing room, with thick woolen curtains, door curtains hanging in front, and emerald tassels.The girl in blue who led the sedan chair bowed and raised the curtain of the sedan chair, and a young man stepped over the brazier placed inside the sedan chair, coughed lightly with his left hand fisted to his mouth, and slowly stepped across the threshold.It was already Yangchun, but he was wrapped in snow-white fox fur.His complexion was paler than the fox fur around his neck.The girl in pink behind him stopped outside the door and closed it to keep out the wind.He stopped coughing, sat in a red sandalwood chair with a gold butterfly pattern on the back, raised a cup and drank tea, his pale face was slightly rosy due to the steam of tea, making his face even more beautiful.

I tightened my coat belt indiscriminately, sat on the bunk and cared for him: "Marquis Wei, I heard that you are at the principal's place in Lizhou. I was supposed to visit, but I didn't take off my body. Spring dryness is easy to cough, I take Sichuan Fritillaria will steam a pear for you and send it to the Lizhou Governor's Mansion. Where is the Lizhou Governor's Mansion?"

"It's next to the Jiuhe Pagoda at the west gate. But I'm fine. I just came to Lizhou and caught the cold a while ago." Wei Jin shook her head at me with a complex expression, put down the teacup with her right hand, and bent her index finger to tap on the table. Made a muffled sound.

Wei Yan walked a few steps from the corner, faced Wei Jin, and knelt between me and him.

Wei Jin said: "Doctor Li, I want to have the audacity to ask for a gift back."

Something is wrong.I said nothing.

"As the name suggests, the shadow guard is the shadow guard of the master's family. The master can have countless shadows, but when has Dr. Li ever seen a shadow with two masters?" Wei Jin said, "The reason why the Wei family doesn't brand the shadow guards is because they don't need them. .One day is the shadow guard of the Wei family, and he will be the shadow guard of the Wei family for the rest of his life. When he is about to die, he has to crawl back to die."

Wei Yan remained motionless, his back straightened like a javelin, and he was deeply inserted into the precious Persian blanket.

"Origin and fate, wishful thinking." Wei Jin said slowly, "The road is rough and dangerous, but Dr. Li is afraid that he is being sentimental. Whoever asks him to go to the Wei family, he will do his best and be omnipotent.

I just asked, "How did he say it himself?"

Wei Jin paused, glanced at Wei Yan and replied to me: "He came yesterday to report that your life is about to die. As the Six Yamas, he wants to go back to the God of Wealth Mansion to work and get promoted. He has done everything he can. Doctor Li, don't be harsh on him. "

"Last night." Wei Yan turned around and knelt in front of me, "It's a farewell."

Then he kowtowed three times "bang bang bang" and looked up at me.His forehead was red, and he said in a deep voice, "I have known you for nine years, and I will never forget it."

Wei Jin waved his hand, and suddenly said to Wei Yan's back: "I... tried my best. Come with me." Wei Yan left with his group of people.

I went to the courtyard alone, scooped up a large ladle of well water and splashed it on my face.I wiped my face and calmed down, my dantian was empty and cold, and then I was in severe pain.

As dusk approached, I woke up and kept replaying Wei Jin's expression and words in my mind, and finally fixed on Wei Yan kneeling in front of me with blushing forehead and deep eyes.He opened and closed his lips, "Knowing each other for nine years, I will never forget" gradually turned into "The master lives on".

I stood up abruptly and ran out.The ground was slippery on Chunrilu, and I fell two somersaults in succession.Regardless of dusting, I ran to the porter and said, "I want an empty carriage to go to the Jiuhe Pagoda." He climbed up and gave the driver the twenty Wensai wrapped in his belt to send him.

The horseshoe hits, and my heart is about to jump out of my chest following the sound of the horseshoe.

When I arrived at the main gate of Lizhou, I said to the concierge, "My name is Li Ping, and I want to see Marquis Wei." I paid another [-] cash to send the concierge, and the concierge said, "I'll report." After a while, the concierge came back and opened the gate, and I went around Passing the screen, Wei Jin was sitting in the front hall with a sleepy look.Three big men in black stood on either side of him.

The girl in blue stood in front of me and said, "It's so late, and you're quarreling with our Lord Marquis again." Wei Jin said, "Kong Qing, step back, I let him in. Doctor Li sit." Kong Qing went out from the side .

"Why isn't Xiangru here?" I wiped the dust off my face with my sleeve and asked casually, looking for a seat next to him.

"Xiangru is getting old, I let her out and promised a good family." Wei Jin said.

I cut to the chase with Wei Jin: "Master Hou, where is Wei Yan?"

Kong Qing came back with a cup of steamed pears.Wei Jin took the steamed pears, took a small spoonful and said, "I thought I made it clear to you?"

I said firmly: "I don't really believe what Lord Hou said."

Wei Jin swallowed what was in her mouth, frowned and said, "Doctor Li..."

"Please come out and ask him to repeat what he said when he came to you, and I will believe it." I mustered up my courage, stopped the God of Wealth, and said, "Master Hou, eat slowly, don't worry."

After eating two mouthfuls, Wei Jin put down the pear bowl and said, "Kong Qing, take the tea cup with you." Kong Qing pouted, "Master Hou only eats this." He took out the pear bowl.

Wei Jin sighed: "That's right, I made up those words. How did the doctor guess it?" Three young girls in green clothes came in from the side.The first one holds a tea bowl, the second a bowl, and the third soft silk.Wei Jin took a sip of water from the girl No.1, and spit it into the bowl held by the girl No.2.I said: "Wei Yan is different from ordinary people. He rarely speaks long sentences coherently, and it is even more impossible to express all his thoughts in an orderly manner." He complained of pain like ordinary people, and it took him six years. Live on, but abandon me again, unlike what he did.” Besides, I don’t believe that it’s just my own wishful thinking and sentimentality from the beginning to the end with him, “There must be something else going on.”

Wei Jin picked up the soft silk in the hands of the third young girl, and wiped the water stains that did not exist around her mouth: "Doctor... is indeed Wei Yan's recognized master, and he really knows him very well. Tan Qing said that he must leave and delay Stop you. So I made up a random excuse in the morning to get him away." He curled his lips, "I didn't expect to be exposed by Dr. Li so soon. Wei Yan came over and said a word and left through the west gate."

I asked, "What did he say?"

Wei Jin frowned and recalled, "What... If there is someone in my heart, I can't let him be sad."

If Wei Yan is in front of me, I want to kick him and hug him tightly.

"What kind of nonsense!" There was a big man with a square face and a beard sitting across from him, and he shook his head at me.

"Tan Qing?" I said, "What a coincidence, you're here too."

"Unfortunately," Tan Qing sneered, "I made a special trip to Lizhou Governor's Mansion to give Wei Yan the palm thunder that Liu Yanluo should have, but I waited for you."

I asked, "Where is Wei Yan?"

"He's preparing to start a bet." Tan Qing continued, not giving me a chance to speak. "That guy is stubborn and very stupid. Stupid people can only use stupid methods, the simplest and most effective. In the past, when he wanted to see you, he always suffered minor injuries that could be avoided. This time you start a game with the God of Gamblers, He did what he said, and he actually gambled for the remaining two games." Tan Qing became angry, "My warning, you turned a deaf ear to it."

Tan Qing said, don't start the game with Tang Bai, he thought of a way to win the game for the God of Gamblers in the third game.

"As a last resort, Bai Zhi set up a gunpowder mechanism." I said, Nan... Twelve... "Is Wei Yan's second gamble the Southwest Twelve Villages?"

"Yes." Tan Qing replied, "The second game of the God of Gamblers is to ask him to bring the Southwest Twelve Villages under Tianyi's teaching. He got the map of the Miao territory drawn by Tang Bai in advance, and hopes you can save your life. He I know that you are suffering from the pain of thousands of needles brought by Qi Jin’s ultimate move. Humph, according to me, if the hand hurts, the hand is cut, the foot is cut off, and the stomach is cut open. Ordinary people hurt themselves, of course they treat it by themselves. Among people, Wei Yan is probably the only one who would goug himself out for your little pain."

I was speechless for a moment.Last night's farewell to his former minor injury Wolf Valley's low-grade fever.He repeated stubbornly over and over again, the master does not die, the master lives.I thought he was trying to instill faith in me, but he was convincing himself.

In a few words, all the answers were revealed, and I was so shocked that I was speechless.

Tan Qing said: "You go back to Shen Lingbin's other courtyard with me first." I nodded and said: "Okay."

"Wait a little longer," he turned to the sleepy Wei Jin, "I'm thirsty." Wei Jin said, "Kong Qing, Feng Ruilong, come up and prepare the carriage."

Kong Qing offered Tan Qing a cup of Ruilong tea, and Tan Qing drank it all in one gulp.When I arrived at the gate of Lizhou Principal's Mansion, I got into the carriage.

When the carriage passed by the tiles of Lizhou City, Tan Qing put up a line of the window, and Yiyi's babbling singing floated in.Then the sound of silk and bamboo gradually faded, and the bamboo boards were beaten, and the storytelling was replaced.Tan Qing pointed out the window, I looked in the direction he pointed, and said, "Yan Butou from Chang'an City won the roster and captured Old Master Yang. false."

Tan Qing said, "Yes." He lowered the car window.

Get off the carriage at the gate of Shen Lingbin's other courtyard.Night fell.Tan Qing said: "Wait at the door, it should be around this time."

I was curious: "I have traveled more than [-] miles to the Miao area, and someone came to see me off?"

"Not only to send you off, but also to 'symbiosis' with you." Tan Qing said.After waiting for a while, a red flower with seven petals exploded in the sky.I asked in a trembling voice, "Did Wei Yan go to pick the second match? His Tianyi Xinfa has reached the eighth level, so there should be a great chance of winning."

Tan Qing looked up at the orange dusk sky, noncommittal.

Suddenly, I saw a young man in red riding a black hoof on the snow.The majestic eyes of the phoenix are not inferior to the safflower in the sky.

I couldn't help asking again: "Where is Wei Yan now?"

"Doctor Li likes to listen to the stories of Jianghu," Tan Qing said, "so he told stories in Chang'an City, his mouth was like a river, his tongue was like a lotus flower, and the guests came like clouds."

I couldn't answer in embarrassment, and before I could speak, the young man in red rode his horse and approached.