marriage order

Chapter 3 Uninvited Guest?
Nanshan's ability to hold his breath is first-rate, but it is extremely uncomfortable to be stuffy in the water for a long time, and now he can finally catch his breath when he sticks his head out.

Pei Qu didn't let go of her shoulder, and Nan Shan only thought for a moment, then opened his mouth pitifully, and confessed: "Lang Jun, it's me."

As soon as her voice came out, Pei Qu's figure in the darkness moved, and then he let go of his hand, and said coolly, "Come out."

Nanshan hurriedly climbed out of the bathtub, being careful, and the sounds produced between movements were very limited.Because Pei Qu put some herbal medicine packs in the water when he was taking a bath, Nanshan's body now smelled faintly of the herbal medicine.

At the same time, Pei Qu turned around and went outside the screen to light the lamp, and the room was suddenly lit up. Nanshan pressed the corner of his lips secretly, which seemed to be a heroic mistake.

Before there was any more expression on her face, Pei Qu had already entered the screen again, and in a blink of an eye she had already put on her outer clothes, and asked her in a usual tone: "Why is the Southern media official here?"

Nanshan's wet face was somewhat flustered, his eyes were still bright, and the black pupils looked extraordinarily large and innocent.Before she could answer, there was a sudden knock on the bedroom door: "Oh, Yunqi, you can't sleep, there are too many mosquitoes!" She knocked on the door twice more, and cursed as if venting her anger, "These bastards Mosquitoes!"

In the middle of the night, Xu Miaowen was so disturbed by the "buzzing" mosquitoes that he fell into a fit of insanity, so he scribbled on a robe and went out to look for mugwort in the middle of the night, trying to kill these aggressive mosquitoes.Unexpectedly, when he walked to the door of Pei Qu's room, he saw the light in his room suddenly turned on, and felt weird, so he knocked on the door.

Pei Qu turned his head and glanced at the door, as if he didn't intend to pay attention to him, but Xu Miaowen was so shameless and yelled, "I'll just go in if you don't open the door."

Thinking that the etiquette was exhausted after the greeting, Xu Miaowen pushed the door open and entered, a pair of phoenix eyes swept across the room quickly, and finally caught a glimpse of the abnormality on the other side of the screen.

He strode up to the screen, stared at the slender phoenix eyes, pointed at Nanshan who was dripping wet all over, and said, "Ah, what is the official Nanshan doing? He's so interested in the bathtub I gave him that he won't take it off." Just go in and wash your clothes?" He himself was still disheveled, but he pointed at Nanshan with his finger in the air, "What's the deal, what's the deal!"

He also wanted to say that Pei Qu had reached out his hand to block him behind and told him to shut up.

At this time, Nanshan lowered his head and replied as if he had committed a crime: "Sometimes in the middle of the night, I went to the wrong room in a daze, and when I came in, I realized something was wrong. When I heard the sound of the man turning over, I thought that the man was about to wake up, and was startled. In desperation, there was nowhere to hide, so I hid in..."

"Heh, heh, heh!" Xu Miaowen sneered three times without waiting for her to finish, and ignored Pei Qu's obstruction, raised her eyebrows fiercely, and said, "Yun Qi! Go and see if there is anything missing! Even if I lose a pen hair, I will arrest her and question her! Stealing is not a stick, but I have to flog her, I have wanted to flog someone for a long time!"

Xu Miaowen spoke viciously, feeling a little bit of refreshment in her heart, and suddenly felt that mosquitoes were nothing to hate.

But Pei Qu didn't move, Xu Miaowen glared at him, Pei Qu looked at Nanshan as if he hadn't seen him, and asked calmly, "How did you get into the mansion?"

Since Shi Qing said that she did not return until the closing time, which door did she enter through?And why did you come back at this point?

Nanshan looked at the two people opposite, one was calm, the other stared at her jealously, as if she wanted to avenge her robbed cousin, she thought for a long time, and honestly confessed: "Climbed the wall to get in."

"Climb the wall?" Xu Miaowen almost jumped up, completely disregarding his image as a fourth-rank official in the imperial court, and shouted, "Fart! Who will believe it? Climb the wall! Do your spring and autumn dream! A thief does not forget to beautify himself To become a master of martial arts, you must have crawled in through a dog's hole!"

Pei Qu really couldn't stand his rude appearance, frowning lightly, he blocked him back, and looked at Nanshan again solemnly: "Where did you climb in?"

"East courtyard wall..." Nanshan said with a sincere face, "I can climb it for you to see."

When she said this, even Pei Qu was taken aback.He didn't intend to pursue tonight's matter, but Xu Miaowen made such a fuss, and with Nanshan's unusual performance, he planned to wait and see.

Xu Miaowen heard her words so positively that she didn't even care that the robe was about to slip off, and said sharply like a desperate fight: "Climb! Climb and see if you have the ability!"

The wet Nanshan glanced at Pei Qu's expression, lowered his head and rubbed his nose, and walked out obediently.Xu Miaowen was arrogant like a cruel official holding people, and he still didn't forget to attach a classic line to Nanshan: "Hurry up! What are you doing?"

Nan Shan lowered his head and quickened his pace, thinking about other things in his mind.

The lanterns in the hallway were all sleepy, and the light they emitted was not particularly energetic.Xu Miaowen pulled up his outer robe and drove Nanshan to the east courtyard wall. After standing still, he pointed to the two-meter-high bare courtyard wall and said to Nanshan, "Climb!"

"Then give way." Nanshan didn't even use the honorifics at this moment, and motioned Xu Miaowen to back up. When she was several meters away from the wall, she ran briskly, and then jumped up, like a nimble Climbing up to the wall like a monkey, he stretched up and down, and turned over neatly.

Xu Miaowen was dumbfounded.

The light in Pei Qu's dark eyes deepened.

No matter what mood they were in, there was only a bare wall in front of them, and Nanshan was already outside the wall.

After Nanshan turned over smoothly, she suddenly didn't want to go back. Although her whole body was wet, as long as she could avoid Marquis Wu, she could deal with it anywhere for a whole night. powerful.

Seeing her delay in coming in, Xu Miaowen from inside the wall shouted, "Climb in fucking quickly! I have something to ask you!"

Nanshan was not happy to talk to him, and the monsters of the fourth rank were just monsters, and she was not afraid of monsters.

She sat leaning against the wall and looked up at the sky. The crooked moon was so ugly.

Until Pei Qu opened his mouth and said, "The southern media officials should come in."

Only then was she slightly shaken, turned around and hesitated, and climbed up.But she climbed up the wall without rushing down to the other side. Instead, she sat firmly on the wall, turned her back to the two people inside the wall, and said: "One day, I missed the hour and stepped on the last drum into the square." , but saw that the door of the mansion was closed, and no one paid any attention to knocking for a long time. Because they didn't want to do something like climbing over the wall, they thought about spending the night somewhere, but they didn't want to be discovered by Marquis Wu, who was patrolling the street. They chased a certain For a whole four streets, a certain person was terrified, and finally turned around again, and turned in without caring about the other side. The man's house is the closest to here, and the door is unlocked. The certain person was really dizzy before pushing the door in. Yes, I woke up after entering the house, and was about to leave, but my husband seemed to wake up, so I had no choice but to—”

She paused suddenly, as if waiting for Pei Qu's reaction.

But Pei Qu said: "Come down, I don't blame you. If Marquis Wu comes over later and sees you sitting on the wall, he will still arrest you."

"Wait!" Xu Miaowen couldn't see his friend's soft-heartedness, and stopped him repeatedly, "I won't let her go if she doesn't explain clearly where she learned this ability to climb over the wall." He squinted his eyes and said quietly, "Climb over the wall freely At this level, it is definitely not a good thing to rape or steal."

Nan Shan still turned his back to the two of them, and suddenly tilted his head when he heard this, then straightened it again, and said to the extremely ugly crescent moon: "Shaoqing was born in a wealthy family and was severely disciplined. Did you know that the children of Xiaomen Xiaohu's family can climb over the wall and pick fruit at the age of five or six?"

Nanshan mocked Xu Miaowen for his shallow knowledge.

Xu Miaowen suddenly felt heartbroken, but saw Nanshan's thin arms stretched out suddenly, and turned around in the blink of an eye, facing the wall and looking at him leisurely.

Xu Miaowen's heart is full of heartache, but Renren is another cunning and good official.So he immediately put on a negotiating smiling face, and said: "Yun Qi doesn't care about you, but I won't settle with you here. If I go to Marquis Wu to speak up tomorrow, you will still be arrested. After all, you can walk on the streets at night. If you don’t want to be beaten up black and blue by the brutal Marquis Wu, you still have a choice, and it’s a simple and easy way to get rich.”

Throwing a bait after the coercion is over, although it is a bit corny, but in Xu Miaowen's eyes, it is the most effective way to deal with people from small families.

Undoubtedly, Nanshan is a girl from a small family. Even if she is smarter, she still has the limitations of a small family - she is greedy for life and afraid of death, and she has an eye for money.

Nan Shanshuiliang's eyes rolled, and he was actually talking about business: "What do you say, Shaoqing?"

Xu Miaowen was in a good mood when he saw the fish taking the bait, and said: "Yunqi's vacation seems to be coming to an end, and he will return to the court next month to work. He has been away for nine years, and the relationship between the DPRK and China is complicated. I don't know, it's just black eyes. But as far as I know, you are very clear about the origins of these twists and turns in the court, so you might as well stop being a matchmaker and follow Yunqi as a long-term follower. Anyway, it won’t lose your money.”

Nanshan looked down at his feet, pretending to be stupid and in a daze: "How can someone understand the twists and turns in the relationship? Someone is just a matchmaker."

"The money counts twice, let's forget about tonight's incident, let Yun Qi write and press the seal."

Nan Shan waved his hand: "No, no, no, although a certain one was born in a poor family, but he is not from a lowly family background, there is no need to be a long-term follower."

"Three times, let Yun Qi accept you as an apprentice."

The snake spirit Xu made a rough and domineering decision for Pei Yunqi, tilted his head and patted his old friend who had been silent all this time: "Let's end tonight happily like this." He yawned faintly, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, It seems to be the same as Nanshan said: Humph, I will kill you when I run out of use.

Nan Shan also yawned, and even slapped a mosquito to death.

Xu Miaowen turned around and planned to go back to the room to sleep, but Pei Qu did not follow him.

Nanshan looked at him, he looked at Nanshan.

The two stared at each other for a while, then Nanshan said: "Lang Jun, I'm going down."

Pei Qu nodded slowly.

Nan Shan then jumped off the wall briskly, landed firmly on the ground, lowered his head and patted the ashes on his hands.

She was much more flexible than he expected, as if she could fly over walls, very powerful.

Seeing her coming down, Pei Qu turned and walked to the bedroom.Nan Shan followed behind, pondering for a long time, and when she reached the door of Pei Qu's room, she said, "Your Majesty, please stay."

Pei Qu turned around with her hands behind her back, only to see her frowning and said: "I do have a little skill, but I'm not a person who is blind to money. It's not my ambition to do things for you alone. One, in contrast, a certain person still wants to be a matchmaker."

If Xu Miaowen was still there, she would definitely point her nose at her and scold her as a matchmaker for the rest of her life, but when she said this, the person standing opposite her was the legendary friendly-tempered Pei Qu.

Pei channel: "If a southern media official likes to be a matchmaker, it's not easy for Pei to stay."

But Nanshan said again: "But if Mr. Lang doesn't force a certain to choose one of the two, a certain can take care of both."

Xu Miaowen probably didn't expect that most people from small households endure hardships and stand hard work, and they usually have the idea that they want to pick up sesame seeds, but they are also reluctant to part with watermelons.Although most people have suffered from their own arrogance in this matter, for Nanshan, this problem does not exist.

Because she is a little beast.

You have to carry watermelon, but you can also pick up sesame seeds.

Pei Qu didn't respond to her immediately, looking at her dripping hair and clothes, he just said "go take a shower" and let her go.

He turned around, and Nanshan breathed a sigh of relief, but he turned around suddenly, looked at Nanshan and asked, "You just said that you heard me turning over, so you hid in the bathtub in a hurry, but there is water in the bathtub , I did not hear the sound of water."

The voice is not high, very steady and peaceful, but it sounds scarier than Xu Miaowen's shrew swearing at the street.

He exposed her lie.

Nanshan opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Pei Qu opened the door and went in.

Pei Qu closed the bedroom door and turned off the lights shortly after.Nanshan stood still outside with the club, tilted his head and stared blankly for a while, then spun a half circle on tiptoe, his heels landed lightly, without making a sound.

She is very self-aware, and knows that the nonsense just now can't fool Pei Qu at all.But since Pei Qu acted like he didn't want to argue with her, there was no need for her to send it up for him to wipe his neck.

Even though Pei Qu was suspicious of her, and seemed to be threatened by her confession tonight, Nanshan didn't have the slightest idea of ​​being unhappy.

In her heart, she didn't dislike being Pei Qu's apprentice, and she didn't reject multiple careers. The conditions Xu Miaowen gave were too satisfactory.

Pei's house returned to silence, but Pei Qu tossed and turned.Dreams come and go, but when they accumulate, it turns out to be a long dream. In the end, nothing can be seen, only a vast expanse of whiteness remains.The long memory turned in a big circle in his mind, and many things were vaguely understood. He sat up, lit the lamp again, put on his coat, opened the rattan box next to the bed, and opened the neatly folded clothes on it. Take out a copy of "Luoyang Jialan Ji" from it.

The book cover is damaged, and the blood has dried up, seeping into the texture of the paper and black ink over a long period of time, unable to be wiped off.

The characters are in italics, neat and tidy, and there is a bit of feminine elegance in the handwriting. The artwork is also drawn very carefully, and the artist's intentions can be seen.

Facing the dimly lit lampstand, Pei Qu turned page after page to the end, and before he knew it, it was time to announce the dawn.

The sound of bells and drums is intertwined, but the morning light seems a little stingy.Nan Shan turned over, faced the rush mat and listened to the sound of bells and drums for a while, opened his eyes and counted the dead mosquitoes crushed to death on the mat, and finally sat up with the thin quilt in his arms.

She glanced at the small window, and it was dark outside, with no sun at all, and it seemed to be a cloudy day.Nanshan stretched out his hand to rub his sore knee, guessing that it might rain today.

She put on a round-neck gown with narrow sleeves, wrapped her head around her head, and took a picture of the water in the basin.Under the blue and black gauze is a fair and clean face, um, it looks like a young and aggressive scholar.

Nanshan was dressed neatly, made the bed quickly with his hands and feet, packed his bags and went out.The cool morning breeze poured into the corridor, Nan Shan yawned comfortably, still holding her dirty shoes in his hand.

She went down the corridor and was about to lower her head to put on her shoes when she suddenly heard a miserable sound of "these lowly Luoyang mosquitoes". Nanshan turned to look and saw Xu Miaowen running out of the guest room with a dark face and disheveled clothes, surrounded by There was a cloud of black resentment.

There is a posture that the snake spirit is about to be beaten back to its original shape by the mosquito spirit.

Nanshan adhered to the principle of "being poor is good for oneself", thinking about the meager copper coins on his body, he put on his shoes and left without hesitation.

But before she took a few steps, the sharp-eyed Xu Miaowen stopped her: "Stop!"

At the end of the last wave of open workshop drums, Xu Miaowen endured his resentment towards the mosquitoes, walked up to Nanshan, and asked, "Where is the official Nanshan planning to go?"

Nan Shan pushed forward with the hand that was carrying the burden, and bowed slightly to salute, doing it in an orderly manner.She immediately stood still, and said as a matter of course: "I still have some other things to do, so I won't bother you at the house. I will go out and find a house to live in. I hope Shaoqing will tell Mr. Pei, don't forget the third day of next month The covenant at the White Horse Temple."

"Why don't you remind Pei directly?"

As soon as Nanshan raised his head when he heard the sound, he saw Pei Qu walking towards this side.

Nanshan opened his mouth and replied: "I thought that the gentleman left the mansion as early as yesterday, so I only talked to Xu Shaoqing."

Xu Miaowen snorted lazily and sleepily: "She was afraid that you would detain her as a long-term follower, so she ran away early in the morning in fright."

"Shaoqing's words are wrong." Nanshan interjected, "If a certain person wants to escape, he will naturally not even mention the appointment at the White Horse Temple. What's more, a certain person has a name and a surname, and is hung under the official media office in Chang'an. Where are you going to escape to? Master Shaoqing thinks that Mou is such a villain..."

"Then why did you turn around and run away like you saw a monster when you saw me just now?"

Nanshan slandered, "You are a monster in the first place", and then glanced at Xu Miaowen: "There are differences between men and women, not to mention Shaoqing's disheveled clothes... Naturally, I want to avoid suspicion."

As he talked, there was still a bit of indistinct dislike.

Xu Miaowen endured and endured, Pei Qu said, "Come with me."

Xu Miaowen was taken aback for a moment, but Pei Qu turned around, and Nan Shan followed obediently.

Pei Qu took her to the study room, pointed to a small table next to her and asked her to sit down, then walked to the other table by himself, sat down on the soft cushion, and said calmly: "Since I want to ask Mrs. Cui to see you On the other hand, a letter to inform Xu Neng in advance to be less abrupt, what do you think the Southern Media officials want?"

Nanshan thought for a while and nodded.

"Then there will be Lao Nan's media official ghostwriting."

Nan Shan lowered his head and saw the pen, ink, paper and inkstone already prepared on the table, poured water and began to grind the ink.She quickly polished the ink, picked up a wolf's pen and asked Pei Qu: "I don't know what to write, how about Lang Jun dictate?"

"The bright and white horse, in the empty valley, has a bundle of grass, and its person is like jade. It doesn't sound like gold and jade, but it has a heart."

Nan Shan raised his eyebrows, but did not start writing, but looked at Pei Qu: "Mr. Lang really wants to write this sentence in "Xiao Ya"? It seems..." What he did when he lost a friend has nothing to do with the invitation of men and women ah.

"Pei is afraid that the southern media officials are not comfortable with pen and paper, so I just ask you to write a sentence and practice it."

At this time, Nanshan wanted to imitate Xu Miaowen and rolled his eyes, but he felt Pei Qu's gaze, so he had to lower his head and press his pen to write down the sentence in "Xiaoya·Baiju" verbatim.

She put down her pen, put aside the sheet of calligraphy used for practicing pens, and then looked at Pei Qu: "I think it's very convenient, sir, let's go."

Pei Qu got up at this time, and dictated the invitation to her in a serious manner, which was really subtle and concise.

Nanshan was writing on Xingtou, but Pei Qu said it was gone.So Nanshan bowed his head and dried the ink on the paper, and handed it to him for review: "If there are no mistakes or omissions, when I return to Chang'an, I will hand this booklet to Madam Cui for Mr. Wang."

After seeing it, Pei Qu handed it back to her, and then said: "The southern media official can go out first, don't rush away, it's better to use Chaoshi in the mansion."

Nanshan happened to be hungry right now, so he didn't refuse, picked up the burden on the ground and left the study first.

There is still a lot of ink left in the inkstone, and the pen is conveniently placed on the left, and next to it is Nanshan’s pen practice work, writing the sentences in "The Book of Songs Xiaoya", 25 characters, and the writing is extremely smooth. There are still some shadows of Guanbai Layman, which is just passing by at a glance.

Pei Qu stared at one of the characters "person" for a long time, then looked at the door, and there was only an empty corridor.

Not at all, not the slightest bit similar.

He folded the paper and put it in his sleeve pocket, and walked out silently facing the damp morning wind.

Standing at the corner, Nanshan slightly poked his head to glance at his gradually walking away back, his originally bright eyes suddenly dimmed.

She suddenly looked up at the sky, and the cloud was moving rapidly with the strong wind, as if it could be blown away.But the fact is that more and more dark clouds were brought together by the wind from all over the place, making the day look extraordinarily gloomy.

Nanshan didn't even make a sigh of displeasure, so he hurried to Zhongtang with his luggage.

There were three table tables in the hall, and Xu Miaowen, a shameless bird with a broken mouth, wanted to compete with Pei Qu for dinner, so there were two tables for the top table and one table for the bottom table in the hall.

Nan Shan sat at the end of the table and ate whole. Pei Qu saw that she was always chewing a few times perfunctorily, so he hurriedly swallowed, and persuaded: "Nan Media Officer, don't worry, just eat slowly."

Xu Miaowen sneered: "It looks like you haven't eaten enough, it's really shabby. After becoming Yun Qi's apprentice, if you still look like this in front of outsiders, let Yun Qi tear your mouth apart."

Nanshan slowed down his eating speed.

In terms of eating, since many years ago, she has been used to making quick decisions and never eating until she is hungry.Eating is not a pleasant thing for her, even if there is a feast of delicacies and delicacies in front of her.

This is also good, so as not to live for the satisfaction of appetite all one's life.

After finally finishing the meal, Nanshan got up to say goodbye, but he didn't expect to be left again.

Pei channel: "Pei is about to go out to work in the studio, so it's good to take along with the Southern media officials along the way."

Nan Shan readily agreed, Shi Qing had already harnessed the carriage and was waiting at the door.Seeing that both of them were going out, Xu Miaowen clamored to leave even though he had no plan, so he got into the carriage together.

He squeezed into the carriage, sat in the middle, sneered, looked at Nanshan sitting in the corner on the left, and said: "Nanshan media officials are fine, don't always wear scholar's clothes, they look like stolen clothes, and they even wrap their heads. It's better to be on the left or right." Forget about tying two small buns." While speaking, he joked that Nanshan was like an ignorant child, and at the same time, he stretched out his hand to pull the front knot on top of Nanshan's head.

Unexpectedly, the other hand was suddenly held by Pei Qu secretly, as if threatening to say, "If you dare to tease my future apprentice, you will die, brother Miaowen".

Xu Miaowen coughed and withdrew her hand, turned her head and pointed at Pei Qu with one finger, and said, "Stupid."

After the "intrigue" in the carriage, the carriage was almost at the gate of the square.Just at this moment, the carriage stopped suddenly.

Pei Qu opened the curtain and looked out, only to see that the gate of the square was full of people, and the car couldn't move at all.Shi Qing sat high and could see far away, he saw clearly and hurriedly explained to the inside of the car: "Lang Jun, it seems that someone is dead."

Xu Miaowen, who was born in prison, jumped out of the car as excitedly as if he had drunk wine when he heard that the dead person was okay.Pei Qu was afraid that he would be too impulsive, so he quickly got out of the car and looked back at Nanshan, but Nanshan was still obediently sitting in the car with his bundle in his arms, not moving at all.So he asked: "Don't come down, I will be back soon."

Nanshan then sat down with peace of mind.

As soon as Xu Miaowen met the case, he seemed to be a different person, completely throwing away those indecent gestures, and his eyes were full of sharpness.

An old man nearby shouted: "It fell from the wall of that square! It scared me to death!"

Xu Miaowen only glanced at the condition of the corpse, and knew that he had been dead for a while, probably in the middle of the night.This man was dressed in a blue scholar's robe, except for being stabbed in the heart, he had no other injuries, obviously he was killed with a single knife, and he died very happily.

He knelt down, inspected the corpse with years of experience, and put his hand into the clothes of the deceased regardless of the dirt.

When he touched his arm, his hand paused, and he pulled it out and stood up.

Pei Qu glanced at him, and he glanced at Pei Qu, and said a few words in a very small voice: "He's from the inner guard."

Clever as Xu Miaowen immediately turned around to leave, even if it was a murder case, he was not interested in it at all.

At the same time, Nanshan lifted the curtains of his car and looked out, and the first heavy rain of this summer was splashing down.

(End of this chapter)