The Emperor is Expecting!

"Brother, what kind of person is Xu Jing?" Hua Ling suddenly asked.

"In his early twenties, his parents are said to have died, and he is the only one in the family." Yan Shibian watched with vigilance.

"It's so good to be so young." Hua Ling sighed. "I really want to see him soon."

Yan Shi keenly noticed that when they mentioned Xu Jing, the sound on all sides seemed to be much lower, and Yan Shi gently put the dagger into the sheath.

I walked into Xiaxi Village without any surprises. There were not many people in the village, but everyone was vigilant when I saw them. Some things even clenched the things they held in their hands. It seemed to be the next moment. Decisive battle.

Yan Shi frowned slightly, the village seemed a little strange.

"Excuse me." Qu Liuxuan asked someone who looked good, and asked, "Where is Xu Jing Xu Jieyuan's family?"

"You're here for Xu Jing?" This man's eyes were not less alert than others. He looked at them up and down with two eyes, and seemed to be judging what they said was true.

"Exactly," Qu Liuxi replied.

"Who are you? What to ask Xu Jing for?" The man continued to question.

"We are scholars. We met Xu Jing before and raised people, so we met each other." Qu Liuyi wrote another set of nonsense. "At that time, Xu Jing invited us to be a guest, but there was a delay, so we are here now."

The man looked at them for a while and seemed to believe. He pointed back with his hand and told them where the Xu Jing family was.

This village is not very big, and it looks like dozens of households.

Hua Ling came down from the donkey and walked slowly beside Yan Shi: "Brother, do you think this village is a little strange?"

As they passed by, the man looked at them with great vigilance. Not only that, some people's eyes have red / naked desires / desires, which makes them very uncomfortable.

When they entered other villages before, the villagers also looked at them, but they only looked at them curiously, and it was nothing.

Yan Shi made Hua Ling's hand tighter: "I'm afraid there's inconvenience in this place. I'm afraid some people haven't even been out of the village all their lives. They are curious when they see outsiders."

Hua Ling nodded and didn't ask again.

The entire Xiaxi Village looks very poor, and Xu Jing's home is even poorer when he looks at it. If nothing else, he says that the outside door is dilapidated, and I do n’t know how many years have been corroded by wind and rain. For powder.

Qu Liuyi carefully pushed the door open. First, it was a quiet path. On both sides of the path were vegetable gardens, but there was no food at this time.

The room was a bit dark and there were no lights.

Qu Liuyi knocked on the door: "Is Xu Jieyuan at home?"

Immediately afterwards, there was a noise inside, someone walking, and the back door opened.

Standing in front of them was a young man with a clean face and a tall man who was just thin and thin, but his eyes were very energetic, as if there was light to shoot out of it.

Qu Liuxi took out the usual set of rhetoric again. Xu Jing's eyes shined even more brightly, with a smile on his face: "Some brothers please come in soon."

Yan Shi and Hua Ling went to the state of the art, and Qu Liuyu waited for them to enter before he followed.

Xu Jing's house can really be described by the four walls of the family. The most expensive thing is probably the closet, but the closet is also crumbling. I am afraid that it will suddenly fall apart.

Xu Jing seemed very happy and cramped. He put his hands on his clothes and let them find a place to sit. There was only one chair in the whole room, and it was still lame.

Xu Jing told them to wait a moment, ran outside and took back some big stones, and pulled out a few rags from the cabinet, spread them on it, and then asked them to sit down again.

Yan Shi looked at the stones on the ground and said refused.

"Several brothers haven't eaten yet? I happened to be cooking just now." Xu Jing rubbed his hands hurriedly. "Just

There is nothing good to entertain you, please do not be disgusted. "

Xu Jing said that it was not polite to entertain them without good things. The Xu Jing family did not have anything.

Hua Ling looked at the bowl of rice and a plate of pickles on the table and refused.

Xu Jing looked even more cramped when they didn't use chopsticks.

Yan Shi picked up the chopsticks and ate a bite of rice: "The taste of this rice is good, it is soft and glutinous, and it has a clear fragrance."

Xu Jing embarrassedly put his hand on his clothes: "This rice is a rice made by the imperial court. I have to say that the imperial court is really good to us, so that I can still eat rice. There are many people in my village. I ca n’t even eat rice, and when I ’m alone, I ’m reluctant to eat dry rice.

Yan Shi knew for sure that this was to see them coming, or to do something good.

Hua Ling originally didn't want to eat, and when he heard Xu Jing say that, he picked up the chopsticks and ate it, and Qu Liu saw that both the prince and the princess had eaten, so he had to follow suit.

After taking a bite, Hua Ling asked Xu Jingdao: "Xu Jieyuan, why is it so poor here?"

Xu Jing replied, "We are surrounded by mountains in Xiaxi Village, the land is barren, and the crops we plant are not harvested for ten years. Moreover, the place is remote, the roads are rugged, and there is no place to work odd jobs."

Yan Shi said, "It's really good for Brother Xu to get a solution."

Xu Jing scratched his head with a little embarrassment: "Isn't the ancients a cloud?" Heaven will descend to be a clerk, and he must first suffer his mind, strain his bones, and starve his body and skin. .'Although life here is bitter, it is also a kind of discipline to me, and I can better serve the court in the future. '

"I don't hide that Brother Xu said that I am also a raiser this year." Yan Shi said, "I will also go to the Imperial City to take the exam next year. Then I hope to work with Brother Xu in high school to serve the court. official?"

Xu Jingyi smiled: "It doesn't matter what official, as long as it is an official who can do things for the people."

Yan Shi smiled, and talked to him casually.

Qu Liuxi asked curiously: "I have no idea about Brother Xiu. It is reasonable to say that there are few people in Xiaxi Village who can read characters. So how does Brother Xiu read the book?"

Xu Jing explained: "My family is poor and everyone has seen it. When I was seven years old, my mother suddenly had a serious illness. I owed a lot of foreign debt to cure my mother. Fortunately, my mother Her illness was cured, and she lived a few more years. In order to repay her debt, my father had to leave the country and go to a foreign country. This was a year away. After returning, he said that he worked a long-time job in a big family. That big family There is also a master who is about the same age as my family. The master invited him to teach him to study, but the master did not want to study and often sneaked out to play. He was angry with the master and often punished the master. "

Speaking of the past, Xu Jing smiled with a slight smile on his face: "My dad didn't understand it at the time, so he told the master that no one knew the word in our village, but also lived a lifetime. And your family The great cause is great, the young master does n’t have nothing to read, and he wo n’t starve to death after inheriting the family business. It ’s not that he is fragrant and hot every day. The old master is a good man. My father said why he must let the young master read. "

"I even talked about the fact that many Hanmen's children shined in the door after studying in high school, and my father was impressed when he heard it. My mother's health has not been very good. They only have my son. My father always said that I didn't. Brothers and sisters, I ’m afraid I ’m too lonely after they leave. Now when I hear the master say something about reading, he wants me to read too. It ’s also a coincidence that the book boy who was with the master was redeemed by his family. Just because there was a book boy, my dad took the opportunity to tell the master that he wanted me to be a book boy, and do n’t have any monthly money, just let me follow the literacy and study.

"My dad was never lazy when he was working at the grandfather's house. The grandfather also had a good impression of my dad, so he agreed, so I had to have the opportunity to study with the young master."

"I was a young master's book boy when I was eight years old and stayed with him until he was seventeen. I didn't return until my mother was in critical condition again, and never again

Went out. "

Yan Shi saw the hidden thoughts in Xu Jing's eyes, and said something casually with him.

"By the way, some dears." Xu Jing said, "you better not walk outside."

Yan Shi and Qu Liuyi glanced at each other: "Why is this?"

Xu Jing said vaguely: "This is for you, don't ask more." When he said that, the expression on Xu Jing's face became a little more serious, and he changed his appearance.

Yan Shi reconsidered what happened when they first entered the village, and the doubts in their hearts were even worse. What secret seemed to be hidden in this Xiaxi village?

After having dinner, Xu Jing arranged accommodation for several people. Fortunately, although Xu Jing's family was poor, he still had an extra room.

"This was where my father and mother lived." Xu Jing learned that Yan Shi and Hua Ling were husbands and then took him to a room in the east. "After they were away, they did n’t live here anymore." I have lived, but I often clean, and I can live now. As for Brother Qu, I have to be wronged and live in a room with me. "

Because Yan Shi and they came, Xu Jing turned on the oil lamps that he usually couldn't bear. It was too early to eat and didn't rush to sleep. Yan Shi sat down and talked with Xu Jing. This Xu Jing's knowledge and literary skills were really good. At first sight, the two became more and more excited, and did not return to the house until they were late.

Hua Ling was so sleepy that she almost fell asleep on the pillow.

Yan Shi was very spiritual, and always felt that there was something weird in Xiaxi Village. If he didn't figure it out, he would not sleep peacefully.

Yan Shi stomped to the ground and quietly pushed open the door. As soon as the door of Xu Jing's house was pushed, there was a sound. Yan Shi had to take twelve minutes of caution to ensure that the door was silent.

He went outside. Tonight there were no stars in the sky, and it was extremely dark, which also facilitated his actions.

When Yan Shi first arrived here, she didn't plan to go too far, she just planned to walk around Xu Jing's house.

He performed lightly, one jumped out of the wall, and only went to the west.

When Yan Shi entered a family's courtyard, far from the house, she could hear the cry of a woman and the roar of a man, as if a man was beating a woman?

Yan Shi frowned, and didn't want to see it again, so she turned out of the yard.

He walked forward again. This one is more peaceful than the one just before, but occasionally there is a roar of men. Yan Shi went in and saw that she was still a man shouting at a woman. , Half point afraid to resist.

Yan Shiben intends to go back to this, and then turns around and suddenly sees a little light revealing in the windows of the family, and the figures on the windows are moving, which attracts his interest.

The people in Xiaxi Village are poor. At night, there are too few people who are willing to light up the oil lamps. Even scholars like Xu Jing are reluctant to light oil lamps, let alone others. So, this house lit up an oil lamp, and Yan Shi was a little curious.

He lightened his steps and walked to the other side. When he reached the bottom of the window, he opened a small gap with a dagger and looked inside. There were four men in it, either sitting or standing.

"The three men who came today look really good," said one of the men. "They look better than the girls."

When Yan Shi's heart moved, that was what they said.

Another man snorted coldly, "What good is it to look good, but not a girl."

Another man disagreed authentically: "What happened to the man? You don't know that men and men can be married now?"

"A man can be married to a man?" The man's voice suddenly raised, "This is possible!"

Yan Shimei's eyebrows froze slightly. Since the establishment of the Dayuan Dynasty, the law has been established. Men and men can be married to each other for hundreds of years. This Xiaxi Village is really remote, but it doesn't even know this.

A man patted his shoulder and said, "This is something, I tell you, it's much better for a man to be married to a man outside. It's already a common thing to marry a woman."

"This this……"

The man still seemed unwilling to believe, and he continued after a while, "Even if a man can marry a man, I won't like a man."

A man whispered a few times: "That's the three men you didn't see today. It looks so good, and it's not too much to say that it's heavenly." With a little **** / swinging in this tone, Yan Shi heard Get upset.

The remaining two men also echoed: "The tender little face can squeeze out water, no wonder someone likes playing with men, and I like it too. You know Li Er's family, the woman looks like That's not bad, but compared to the three men today, it's really one heaven and one underground. "

"You seldom bluff me here," the man still didn't believe. "I don't believe that there are men who look so good in the world. Even if they look good, I don't like it. Think of being disgusted with a man. Okay, you guys are going back too. I'm going to bed so late. "

Immediately after hearing the movement of someone inside the house, Yan Shi hurried out from the window and hid in a place where no one could see. After the men had gone far, he returned to Xu Jing's house with light work. .

There was a small warehouse next to the main house. When they came, Yan Chai didn't pay much attention to it. But now, the ghost walked over.

The small warehouse is more rundown than the main house. The door is locked and there is only a small window on the wall. Now the window is nailed tightly from the outside by wooden boards. Before the feast was approaching, I heard a slight movement in it. He thought it was a mouse at first, but when he put his ear on the wooden board, he felt that there was a faint thick breathing sound.

The feast has learned martial arts, and the eyesight and ear strength are better than ordinary people, and now it is quiet at night, but any sound can be heard clearly.

Yan Shi frowned slightly, but he wasn't sure if anyone was in it. If it was really an individual, why would he be held there? Tomorrow I have to find a way to look inside.

After making up his mind, Yan Shi pushed the door of Xu Jing's dregs at the touch lightly, and returned to the room.

Hua Ling slept soundly, and even the quilt fell down. Yan Shi smiled and covered the quilt for him, and went to bed to rest.

When he wakes up, Xu Jing will have breakfast ready.

After taking a random sip, Yan Xi took Hua Ling to the courtyard for a walk, and Xu Jing accompanied him.

After Ban Qi asked what kind of crops are suitable for planting here, then Feng Feng turned to the small warehouse he saw last night: "Brother Xu, why is this warehouse locked? But is there any grain in it?"

When Yan Yan mentioned the warehouse, Xu Jing's face flashed uncomfortably: "Some of them, but not many, we can't produce too much food here."

Yan Shi would have prepared the stones before Xu Jing bounced out of the warehouse, and the warehouse suddenly made a noise, which surprised Xu Jing.

Yan Shi said: "Brother Xu, there are mice here. Open the door, we will help you catch the mice."

Xu Jing refused: "Brother Yan is a guest from afar. How can I let you do this kind of thing, I can catch the mouse myself in a while."

Hua Ling crooked her head: "But there is food in it. I do n’t know how much food the mouse will spoil if it is caught late. We have a lot of people and will help you catch the mouse soon." The movement of squeezing the sleeves seemed as if the mouse was just in front of him.

"It's cold outside, let's go back to the house, a few brothers and Taiwan." Xu Jing did not answer Hua Ling and quickly shifted the topic.

Xu Jing said this, and Banxi wanted to see what was in there. Later, he used the excuse to get out of the thatched cottage and turned around the warehouse, but the warehouse was very tight, but there was a little gap. The place was blocked, and it looked tighter than the house they lived in.

Yan Shi picked up the lock again and could only return to the room.

Near noon, Xu Jing was cooking in the kitchen. Yan Shi quickly said with Hua Ling and Qu Liuyu's discovery last night: "Quongzi may open the lock?"

Qu Liu yelled, "Yes, yes, but the lock will become useless when it is opened." This method will not work, just in case

The things were different from what Yan Ban thought. When they did this, Xu Jing was afraid that he would no longer agree to vote for him.