Chapter 140 Extra 9

Brother Xiao Li is in a good mood. Ever since he went to Qianyan Mountain with Ji Zhexi for the temple fair, he usually looks for people. Although he doesn't pay much attention to him, the naked eye is much stronger than before, and he doesn't hold his gun in his words. Bring sticks.

That being the case, he ran even more frequently.

"It's about to end soon, you just accept it, in case it works."

Ji Zhexi used to deal with the affairs of the bookstore when he was taking a bath, and he still had a lot of time left to study books, but now Zhang Ruili took up most of the remaining time.

He was holding a book of poetry and essays, with his eyes on the top of the page, facing Zhang Ruili's delivery, he said: "Does your brother know that you give his things to men?"

"When my brother left, he confessed that he would give it to someone who is destined." Brother Xiaoli raised his eyebrows and raised the corners of his mouth: "You are someone who is destined."

Ji Zhexi was already immune to this person's glib tongue, he said: "Then I'll take a look today, and you can take it back after reading it. Your painstaking efforts are not in vain, and then you can give it to someone who is destined."

Brother Xiaoli smiled and nodded: "Okay."

Seeing Ji Zhexi earnestly reading and writing, Brother Li felt a little pleasing to the eye, he asked the person in front of him with his face on his face: "I come to accompany you to study when you are resting, are you happy?"

"I'd be happier if you didn't come."

Brother Xiao Li said cheekily: "You can't deceive anyone with your eyes, you are obviously happy."

Ji Zhexi: "..."

"Then do you feel that you can't leave me now?"

"..."

"It's enough to play the trick of playing hard to get, can't you admit it generously?"

Ji Zhexi said: "Stop talking and disturbing my reading."

Brother Xiaoli pursed his lips, but he felt at ease physically and mentally.

After leaving the bookstore, he patted his chest and said to his companion, "I feel that things are already developing according to the plan. Sure enough, there is nothing that I can't do if I take action."

Banyan asked in a low voice: "When is the young master going to stop?"

Brother Xiao Li was taken aback, as if he was so busy sticking to Ji Zhexi that he even forgot when he closed the net.

"Well.......I know it in my heart, and you will know it when the time comes."

When mentioning this incident, for some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, so he attributed the matter to the previous incident of the fall of the season and the downwind of the stream.

After a while, midsummer turns to autumn, and the weather is still hot. Zizhu Academy will have a busy farming holiday every year, and let the scholars from the farm go back to their hometown to help with farming or harvesting crops at home. Farming and mulberry is a major event in the country. The academy naturally also attaches great importance to it.

Hearing that Ji Zhexi was going back to his hometown, brother Xiaoli decided to see him again on the day of rest, and after half a month, the relationship faded, but it was not conducive to the progress of his plan.

In the afternoon, he prepared some pastries to eat, as well as some bottles and cans such as mosquito repellent lotion and sunscreen juice bought at home. He packed them together and prepared to go to the gate of the academy to wait for Ji Zhexi, and give them to him at that time Even if he goes back to the country, he can use his things, and that's not enough to see things and think about people.

Brother Xiao Li hugged the box and giggled for a while, he came a little early, and no one came out from the academy yet, so he rolled up the curtain of the car to look around.

"My lord, don't pout so high, be careful not to fall."

Ban Yan wanted to pull back the person who was lying on the side of the carriage, but Brother Li suddenly turned around and said to Ban Yan: "Look, there is a young lady waiting for someone in front."

Hearing this, Banyan got up and took a look, she was a young lady, standing quietly outside the courtyard gate, looking earnestly into the academy. Every rest day, there will be many people waiting outside the academy.

Brother Xiaoli held his chin and said, "It's a bit enviable. My brother has been studying at Mrs. Luo's house, and we have never experienced waiting for someone outside the academy."

Ban Yan smiled and said: "This is not the wish come true."

The master and the servant didn't say a word, when there was a noise, and after a while, the fast-footed scholar came out from the gate of the courtyard, and Brother Li hurriedly poked his head out from the window of the sedan chair, trying to see Ji Zhexi coming from Come out.

It's just that there were so many people, no one came for a long time, a large group of scholars had gone away, and those who came out of the courtyard became lonely, he was afraid that he would miss someone in the carriage, so he hurriedly got out of the carriage, just as he got out of the carriage, he saw Ji Zhexi came out side by side with his classmates.

Brother Xiaoli heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that he was worrying too much, even if he was squeezed in the crowd, Ji Zhexi was so outstanding, he could be seen at a glance, how could he miss it.

He smiled and asked Banyan to bring the box over. He was about to call out to Ji Zhexi, but he saw someone laughing with his classmates, and then he turned and walked towards the little lady who he saw waiting at the gate of the courtyard just now. After saying a few words, they walked side by side in another direction.

I don't know anything else, but seeing the two walking at a leisurely pace, they seem to be very happy.

Brother Xiaoli was stunned in place, and his companion Yanzi also saw the scene just now, seeing his young master's face getting more and more ugly, he called out cautiously: "Young master."

"That person just now can't be his wife!"

When Ban Yan heard the words that came out of Brother Li's mouth, he shrank his shoulders: "Maybe not."

Brother Xiaoli stared at the scholar who had just come out with Ji Zhexi in a blink of an eye, ran up to stop him a few steps, and asked bluntly: "Excuse me, sir, do you know who the little lady who just walked out with Mr. Ji is?" ?”

The scholar glanced at Brother Li, and was stared at: "I'm asking you something!"

"Oh, that's Brother Ji's cousin just now."

"Cousin, what cousin!"

Seeing Brother Xiaoli's eager expression and not being very polite, the scholar thought he was an unruly and self-willed rich man, so he said angrily: "I should be a cousin who agrees with each other, Brother Ji, this gentle and virtuous cousin is not once or twice Come and wait for him, the two of you are very friendly, Brother Ji even rejected the lady of the master's family because of her."

Brother Xiao Li gritted his teeth, and frowned, the scholar saw that he was about to get angry, and ran away in a hurry, Brother Xiao Li ignored him, and his heart was only burning with anger.

"He still has a sweetheart!" Brother Xiaoli threw the things he had prepared on the ground: "Sure enough, what Daddy said is right, the poor scholar has such a bad temper, and the money-losing son thought he was a clean girl!"

Seeing things scattered all over the floor, Ban Yan knew that Brother Li was very angry, so he quickly comforted him: "Sir, don't be angry, it's better to recognize it earlier than to regret it later, isn't it?"

"He dares to lie to me. He treats my Zhang family as easy to bully, right? I'm going to let him know what it means to plunder and plunder today. No one will feel better about it!"

Brother Xiaoli went back angrily, instead of going back to his own house, he took a carriage to the Ji'an Martial Arts Hall, had a grievance with his uncle, and when he was about to go to the elite of the Martial Arts Hall, he led people to stop him on the official road They missed two people who were returning to the village.

"Cousin, these people..."

Ji Zhexi and the little girl went back to the village in an ox cart. The cart drove slowly and was soon overtaken by horsemen. Seeing a group of burly men surrounding the small ox cart and blocking the way, the driver was frightened , The people in the car also shrank into a ball.

"fine."

Ji Zhexi glanced at the ferocious martial artist and saw the logo of Ji'an Martial Arts Hall on his sleeve, so he knew that he would not hurt anyone.

Immediately afterwards, Ji Zhexi saw Wufu step aside, and Zhang Ruili walked in with a sullen face, the two stared at each other for a while, but no one spoke, the people next to him were too frightened, Wu Fu quietly waited for Brother Li to give orders and go over to tie up people.

After a long while, they only waited for a sentence: "Forget it, let them go."

After saying that, Brother Xiao Li turned around suddenly, and returned to the carriage in a despondent manner.

Although the martial artist is puzzled, it is what the master says.

"Young master..."

Brother Xiao Li sat on the carriage with his legs crossed, shook his head, and motioned for Ban Yan not to speak.

Seeing the little girl hiding behind Ji Zhexi so pitifully, he still couldn't bear to do anything. He was already annoying enough, so he just counted it as a virtue.

Brother Xiaoli went back and lay down for a few days, but he couldn't bring himself to look up. He was all chattering, and he had lost a lot of weight in the past half a month.

Zhang Fangyuan asked Xu He, but he couldn't find anything. The doctor only said that people's hearts were depressed, and it was caused by the hot weather and he didn't think about eating. He had to take the accompanying cigarettes to question him.

Banyan didn't dare to reveal about Brother Xiao Li, knowing that it was his fault, she told Zhang Fangyuan and Xu He that it was due to missing the young master.

"Your brother sent a letter saying that the other end has been settled. If you really miss it, then go and see brother and little star brother. This will also put Dad's heart at ease."

Xu He and brother Xiao Li said so.

"real?"

"If you want, then daddy will write back to your brother and let them arrange to pick you up."

Brother Xiaoli nodded: "Then let me think about it."

Xu He couldn't help him: "Okay, accompany the smoke, so I can look at the young master."

"yes."

Brother Xiao Li was lying on the bed, flipping through the scripts absently. He couldn't muster up the energy to do things. He had read all kinds of scripts and dramas since he was a child. What is emotion.

But just because I think I understand what it is, I am angry, and I am angry that I have fallen into a cliché.

In the past, I looked down on the dramas of poor scholars who fell in love with rich ladies, thinking that they were all made up by poor scholars for the comfort of their peers.

There's nothing wrong with him being a sensual rich son who is quiet and being sought after by others. He has to be smart and crazy to deal with him, but now he is with his wife and broke the army.

And it is estimated that at home they are already laughing from ear to ear.

What a disgrace to him.

Brother Xiaoli beat his chest and stamped his feet, and tossed and turned for a few more days. He couldn't do anything at home, so he packed his bags, and went to his brother's place in despair.

The prefectures of Tibet are prosperous and prosperous, although Siyang is also prosperous, but the county seat is no better than the prefecture city.

Brother Xiaoli changed his mentality when he arrived in Fucheng, ate and drank, and took Luo Yuxing to go out for a long time. When Zhang Ruijin came back from his business trip, there was probably no one in the house. Then I have an opinion.

"When do you plan to go back?"

"How long have I been here, and my brother wants to drive me away!"

Zhang Ruijin said: "You can stay here as long as you want, but what's the matter with you always taking my husband with you?"

Brother Xiao Li said: "Brother and Brother Xiao Xing are young couples, but Brother has been mature and stable since he was a child, but Brother Xiao Xing is not, why should I play with him for a while longer?"

Zhang Ruijin shook his head: "This year's provincial examination has passed, I think it's better to find a suitable early marriage for you among the young candidates in Siyang."

Brother Xiaoli didn't take the matter to heart, and jokingly said: "Brother is a young genius, you should find me a Jinshi."

"You have a broad vision." Ruijin said quite seriously: "The new emperor ascends the throne and opens Enke. Those who passed the provincial examination this year are lucky. They don't have to wait another three years. They only need to catch up for the general examination next year."

Brother Xiaoli heard the words: "Then brother really bothered. It's just that if I find it in Fucheng, then I don't have to marry far away."

Ruijin smiled and said, "I'll watch it from Siyang."

"Come on, the small place of Siyang has a few talents, but it can't compare with Fucheng." Brother Li said, "I don't want to get married."

After saying that, the man rushed away, Ruijin couldn't help shaking his head looking at him.

Seeing that the weather was cool today and his young master didn't go out, Banyan just sat in front of the window and lost his mind, so he couldn't help asking: "Young master, are you wondering if Mr. Ji will be on the list?"

"I don't care what he does, he has nothing to do with me."

Seeing the duplicity of the people, Banyan couldn't help but sigh: "When does the young master plan to go back?"

"I haven't stayed here enough, why panic."

It's not good to say anything with the smoke.

The autumn is cool and crisp, and Brother Xiao Li was not familiar with the place when he first came, but he is good at polo and chuiwan, he is also good at fishing, and he is good at cockfighting and horse racing. The day is pestering his little sister-in-law, and it will be the end of the year in a flash.

The weather in Tibet is warmer, and it is much more comfortable than Siyang in winter. This winter, there is a lot of rain in Siyang. Zhang Fangyuan sent a letter asking Xiao Li to stay here until the spring of next year. go back again.

Brother Xiaoli received the letter, and stayed at ease in Fucheng again.

Years later, Brother Xiaoli ate and drank here, gained weight, and his face became rounder. The weather was getting better day by day, so he asked his companion to pack up, and he planned to go home after a while. Okay, but it's not the place where I was born and raised. After playing enough, my heart has been evacuated, and I still miss my family.

On this day, Banyan came rushing in with a letter: "My lord, the concierge gave me a letter saying it was yours. I looked around and saw that it wasn't the letter from the master and husband. I don't know who sent it."

Brother Xiaoli was suspicious: "That's weird, if you're from Fucheng, you don't need to send letters."

While talking, he opened the letter, glanced at it and closed it abruptly.

"My lord, whose letter is it?"

Brother Xiaoli didn't reply, but got up suddenly and went out the door.

He trotted out all the way, walked around the door from the mansion to the alley next door, and saw a tall scholar standing under a cluster of begonias sticking out of the wall from a distance. He didn't know how long he had been waiting there.

After leaving for a few months, Brother Li felt a little trembling in his heart. He tried his best to calm down, with an ordinary expression: "Why are you here?"

Ji Zhexi said: "You are getting fatter."

"That's right, I eat, drink and have fun at my brother's place. Naturally, I will grow some meat."

"Since that day, I haven't seen you in the bookstore again. After several inquiries, I heard that you have come to Fucheng."

Brother Xiaoli twitched his brows slightly: "What...why do you want me for?"

"Come to Beijing to catch the exam, and come to see you."

Brother Xiaoli frowned. Siyang didn't have to go through the Tibet Mansions to go to Beijing for the exam. If he had to go this way, he would have to go around for at least two days. He Ming, on the contrary, is always in a hurry."

Ji Zhexi said: "When I was young, I lost my mother and then my father. My aunt took pity on me and wanted to support me. She promised me my cousin after I got on the examination list."

"Mr. Ji has passed the provincial examination, so he must have returned home with a beautiful woman. Congratulations."

"If I had accepted the support of my aunt's family from the beginning, I wouldn't have to run around copying and writing." Ji Zhexi said: "My cousin loves her wrongly, and I can only live up to it."

Brother Xiaoli pursed his lips. This is to explain the previous matter to him again. He felt a little awkward, and he couldn't say anything nicely: "Then congratulate Mr. Ji for being named on the gold list as soon as possible. Brother said that the dignitaries in Beijing are very important." He likes young scholars, Mr. Ji is outstanding, maybe he can find a better family in the capital."

Ji Zhexi sighed slightly, he didn't say yes or no, instead he took out a jade pendant tied with a red string from his waist and handed it to brother Li: "A little heart is to thank Mr. Zhang in Siyang earlier. enthusiastic."

Brother Xiaoli didn't pick it up, but Ji Zhexi stuffed it into his hand: "If you like it, keep it, if you don't like it, throw it away, left and right are not valuable things."

After finishing speaking, Ji Zhexi nodded slightly at him, turned around and left without saying anything.

Putting the jade in the palm of his hand, there was still some residual warmth from the former owner. It took a while for Brother Li to come back to his senses. He turned his head and watched the person go away, and wanted to speak, but he still didn't say anything, just watched the person disappear into the Alley mouth.

In the middle of the month, Rui Li set off to return to Siyang, and went to Tibet for half a year. When he went back, he had to meet old friends, and at the same time, he paid attention to the matter of the Beijing-China Trial.

He often held the jade pendant of Ji Zhexi to watch it at night, and he was a little surprised that the man even ran to the Tibetan Mansion to find him an explanation. He couldn't make up his mind, did he really take him down?

He didn't quite trust him, so he sent people to the village to inquire secretly, and he didn't feel relieved until the inquired news was the same as what Ji Zhexi said.

Until June, there was still no news about this year's imperial examinations, but they waited until Ruijin came back. His brother asked for leave and brought Xiao Xing back to visit his family.

The whole family had a joyful gathering, and brother Xiao Li felt that the double happiness was coming, and he was even more happy.

At night, after the dinner party was over, Ruijin called Brother Xiaoli to stop him.

"Brother wants to lecture again?"

"What are you talking about?" Ruijin said, "Do you remember what I told you in Fucheng at the beginning of the year?"

"What are you talking about?"

Ruijin said seriously: "You are my father's heart. Now that my brother has married and his official career is smooth, you are the only one who is worried. You have been fond of teasing cats and dogs since you were a child, and you can't be like this for a lifetime."

Brother Xiaoli suddenly remembered the proposal he had made in Ruijin, Fucheng, and he wanted to avoid it: "Brother, I'm still young."

"Let me tell you first, you also have a reason, whether you should or not depends on you."

Ruijin's words reached the point, so Brother Li could only listen patiently.

"This year's palace examination, Yijia Tanhua came from Siyang."

Brother Xiao Li's eyes widened when he heard the words, and he couldn't believe it: "Who is stronger than brother?"

"A young scholar who came from a poor family and has not yet married." After speaking, Ruijin sipped his tea, glanced at Brother Li, and added a special sentence: "Good-looking."

Brother Xiao Li pursed his lips. His elder brother went bad when he went out to be an official, and he learned to be like a matchmaker, but he could brag: "I'm a prostitute, I don't have a family, and I'm still from a poor family. Don't the nobles in Beijing love it, and they can take turns." Look at me, brother, don't offend the people in the capital just to grab me a husband."

Ruijin smiled: "Without your consent, I don't have to go through such a lot of trouble. It's just that I have met that person several times in the past, and I admire each other's talents. If it wasn't for his filial piety due to changes in his family, he would still be able to Take the provincial examination with me."

"However, good things take time. Meeting Enke can be regarded as making up for the sluggishness of the past. Gold always shines."

Brother Xiao Li heard something familiar, and asked, "I don't know the name of this Tanhua Lang?"

"Ji Zhexi."

Brother Xiaoli almost bit his tongue when he heard the words, his pupils dilated, he tried his best not to show any strange expression, and asked cautiously: "Brother is talking about kissing for others, does anyone know?"

"That's exactly what I want to say. When I met him in the past, I knew he was interested in you, but later on, something happened. He didn't study in the academy, and I was busy with scientific research, so I rarely saw him again. I didn't know him. I am so pleased. I learned that you were in Tibet at the beginning of the year, and I made a special detour when I was rushing to take the exam. I don’t know if I saw you.”

"It's in vain that he has been in love for many years. Speaking of which, I am also a person who has been there. I would like to say something nice for him and introduce him. It's just that he said that he has no fame. If he knows how to be famous, he will have the face to speak."

Brother Xiaoli gave a dry cough with difficulty, this scheming Ji Zhexi had known his brother for a long time!

"Brother said he was deeply in love? I don't know when it happened? I...why don't I remember having an encounter with this person."

Ruijin thought for a while: "It happened many years ago."

He turned his head to see Brother Li, who seemed very interested: "If you are interested, you might as well ask in person, wouldn't you understand it more clearly?"

"Okay! Such a good marriage, I'm so happy that it's too late! Brother hurry up and write back to Ji Zhexi, telling him to come back to Siyang as soon as possible, so that I can see this person well."

Brother Xiaoli pulled out a smile, gritted his teeth and said.

Ruijin was slightly taken aback: "Didn't you resist very much at first?"

"Isn't that because I'm afraid that I'll be sentimental? Since the other person has already sincerely agreed, how can I refuse?"

Ruijin, who didn't know why, nodded in satisfaction: "It's so good."

In July, when Jizhexi returned to Siyang, the city was full of excitement.

As Ji Zhexi's old friend, Ruijin went to the gate of the city to meet her, and went to meet her at the gate of the city. A group of people who were waiting to cling to Tanhualang fell to nothing.

Brother Xiaoli followed Ruijin to pick him up, and the two met at the gate of the city. Seeing that familiar face, Brother Xiaoli turned his head and got into the carriage without saying a word.

"This child, why are you so ignorant of etiquette?" Ruijin scolded, and gave Ji Zhexi an apologetic look: "Don't take it to heart, he's just embarrassed."

Ji Zhexi glanced at the man's back, frowned and smiled, probably not because of embarrassment, but because of malicious intentions.

The group returned to Zhang's house, Ruijin took Ji Zhexi to meet Zhang Fangyuan and Xu He, and the two chatted for a while, before Ji Zhexi had time to meet Brother Li.

"Angry?"

Brother Xiaoli rolled his eyes: "Who dares to be angry with Tan Hualang?"

Ji Zhexi looked at the yin and yang strange person, feeling helpless. He didn't answer, but said: "I haven't seen you for a long time, do you have to be like this?"

"Who told you to play me for a fool!"

"There is also reason to say that everything is just a coincidence, and they also ridiculed me to attract people's attention deliberately, saying that I was attracted to sex, who is interested in sex, I have never seen such audacity..."

Before he could finish speaking, the person in front of him suddenly held his face, leaned over to block his annoyance.

Brother Xiaoli calmed down, but his face blushed. He turned away from looking at Ji Zhexi: "Brother said you knew me a long time ago, really?"

"Ok."

"when?"

Ji Zhexi pulled people to sit down, and sighed: "Maybe you don't remember it for a long time. You have always loved to talk frivolously and tease people, so you don't know which one of them I am."

"Ask you carefully, it's useless to talk about it." Brother Xiao Li felt a little guilty: "Don't hurry up and say it."

"In the past, the Zhang family bought the Gongshan Mountain next to the village. I was collecting firewood on the mountain, and I met you once when I went down the mountain."

Brother Xiaoli doesn't remember this incident, but when his father bought the mountain in the past, he really went to the mountain to have fun, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "So you are just looking for sex~"

"This is called intentional promise."

"You tell me honestly, am I right from the beginning? You obviously just inquired about my whereabouts!"

Ji Zhexi said: "Not all of them. I have been working in the Zhang family's property for a long time, and I also went to the places you often go to, but it was not a coincidence before. Sincerely, this is the follow-up."

"Since that's the case, why did you say some crazy things to annoy me when we met?"

"With your temperament, if I say something good, can you listen to it?"

Brother Xiao Li pursed his lips: "You really are a scheming person."

"It's right to take care of you." Ji Zhexi suddenly stood up, and said seriously: "I've been confiding in my heart, what about you, Mr. Zhang, what do you think?"

Brother Xiaoli took a sachet with gold threads from his waist and threw it over: "What others can do, I can do too."

Ji Zhexi caught the sachet, passed it with his fingertips, and said with a smile: "Although the craftsmanship is a bit poor, it's rare to have a heart."

Brother Xiaoli smiled.

Mr. Ji, the rest of your life is long, just wait for the move...

——End of extra episode——