Chapter 107
Chapter 107
After the incident in the Xili Desert, the master of Taiyuan Temple "disappeared", and his eldest disciple Si Qianyu was imprisoned for plotting to destroy the marriage between the two countries. Although the remaining disciples could try their best to support it, Taiyuan still hurt the root and was not as good as before. up.
Taiyuan is weak, and the Golden Crow is more prosperous.
Therefore, this year's new disciples entering the temple became more and more complicated, so that not long after Li Bizhi had lunch with Zhong Tang, he was invited away by the disciples sent by Wenwei.
As far as Yu Zhongtang was concerned, suddenly without his senior brother by his side, he couldn’t get used to it, and he couldn’t even take a nap. After tossing and turning on the couch under the Tang tree for a long time, he simply got up again and planned to go back to Wuweizhai Go check it out.
Speaking of Wuweizhai, since returning to Lin'an with Li Bizhi, Zhong Tang can be regarded as a complete hands-off shopkeeper. He only came to look through the ledger occasionally when he remembered it, and if he couldn't remember it, he didn't even come to see it for half a month.
The letter sent in advance today came suddenly, which caused the shop assistants to be stunned, and then shouted happily into the shop: "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, the shopkeeper is finally back."
The guy next to him was happy, but Zhang Shunzi was not so happy.
He held the abacus in his arms, and ran out of the account book in a flash, followed Zhong Tang, and smiled weakly: "Shopkeeper, why do you have time to come back today and take a look?"
Zhong Tang gathered the vermilion sleeves, and cast a sidelong glance at him: "Naturally, I have to come back, otherwise, I don't know who owns my shop."
Zhang Shunzi felt really bitter. He did take money from people in the early years, and took good care of him by Zhong Tang's side. He thought that no one knew about this matter, and he could happily receive two wages a month.
But who would have thought that the shopkeeper revealed to him after he came back from Xili, that the person who hired him at the beginning was actually Li Daochang from the Golden Crow Temple.
The two of them were like glue, a little matter was over in a blink of an eye, but when it fell to Zhang Shunzi, it was not so easy to be fooled.
Fortunately, Zhong Tang was thinking about his old love after all, and never really drove him away, but every time he came, he couldn't help scratching him a few words.
"Shopkeeper, what are you talking about?" Zhang Shunzi followed Zhongtang, and took the refreshments from the boy, "Of course this shop is your shop, and I, Zhang Shunzi, am definitely your buddy."
"Oh, is it?" Zhong Tang glanced at him again, and stretched out his hand directly in front of him: "Then take it out, how can my buddy still charge other people's wages?"
Zhang Shunzi almost turned green, but he remained calm in the face of danger, and quickly brought the dim sum in front of Zhong Tang: "Look, shopkeeper, this is a new trick that I led the masters to make."
Zhongtang glanced at it, and there were seven or eight large copper plate-like snacks neatly stacked on the small white porcelain plate, but he didn't know what was used on the outer layer. Tang fruit pickled in a little vermilion flower juice.
Zhong Tang looked at it, and just about to take a piece to taste, there was some movement outside the shop door, and then several guards came to ask the miscellaneous people in the shop to retreat.
Seeing this, Zhong Tang winked at Zhang Shunzi and told him to take the other guys back a little and walk to the door to have a look.
As expected, what I saw was the car of Prince Duan's Mansion.
However, in the past few months, the wind direction in Lin'an City has changed a lot.King Ning was weak and short-lived, and his mother survived by sucking other people's blood.
At the beginning, Li Bizhi beheaded Suyi Fairy Mother and brought King Ning out of the pool of blood, which interrupted the continuation of his life.
Unwilling to die just like that, King Ning finally accepted Si Qianjin's flattery and continued his life with the help of Miao Zun—it's a pity that now Miao Zun has also been punished by the Dao of Heaven, and King Ning's life has no supply. It withered quickly, and tried all the panaceas, but there was no turning back.
Zhong Tang heard Ji Na's meaning the day before yesterday, he probably won't live until autumn.
Seeing that his son-in-law was dying, the emperor still sought out famous doctors for treatment on the surface, but he had to rely heavily on Prince Duan inwardly.
In addition, now that King Duan and his concubine are singing in harmony, and with the help of Xili, after a few years, the throne will no longer be left behind.
Just as Zhong Tang was thinking, four maids in Xili dresses stepped forward one after another to place pedals and hang up the curtains. Not long after, a young lady with a red gauze covering her face helped the maid to leave down.
Zhong Tang couldn't help squinting his eyes, suppressed the smile on his lips, stepped forward and saluted, "Caomin has seen Her Royal Highness."
The woman who covered her face with a red veil didn't speak, and the maid beside her said for her: "Master Zhong, please get up."
"Our concubine heard that the shopkeeper of Wuweizhai has excellent craftsmanship, so I came here to ask for advice, and I hope that shopkeeper Zhong will not hide his secrets."
"It's a great honor for the princess to appreciate the craftsmanship of the grass-roots people. How can she hide it?" Zhong Tang smiled and saluted again after hearing this, and led everyone to the backyard: "It's not suitable to talk here, the princess still invites you." Come in with the grass people."
After hearing this, Princess Naduan nodded to the maid, and actually let everyone stay where they were, and went with Zhong Tang alone.
As soon as she entered the backyard, a vermilion halo flashed by. Princess Duan raised her head to look at Zhong Tang, but Zhong Tang's tone of voice lost its previous caution and respect, and instead became brisk: "It's nothing, just added a spell, you Don't worry."
After hearing this, Princess Duan's light blue eyes seemed to relax a bit, and she immediately took off the red veil on her face, revealing Aji's face.
"Master Zhong, we haven't seen each other for a while."
After the Jinghualou incident that day, although Li Bizhi was seriously injured and Zhong Tang was nowhere to be found, unexpectedly, Aji's soul was saved.
After Wen Ji came to the rescue, after a few months, Ah Ji finally returned to normal.
Although he doesn't have a pipa now, he still has half body demon blood after all, and he has also learned some illusions of disguised transformation in the Golden Crow Temple, and he still looks like Hu Yanjue outside, which is more than enough to deal with ordinary people.
As for the real Hu Yanjue, he stayed with his younger brother in Prince Duan's mansion for a while, and after making sure he was safe, he and General Wu Chunxie went back to Xili. Find news of the long-lost second daughter.
After going round and round, she finally returned to her hometown as she wished.
Of course, Zhong Tang at this time was more concerned about the immediate matter.
"Why, you didn't really come to me to learn the craft, did you?"
Facing Zhong Tang's question, A Ji shook his head repeatedly. This time, a very transparent person seemed to have something unspeakable. ..."
"What are you thinking about?" Seeing Ah Ji's appearance, Zhong Tang couldn't help feeling a little curious, sat down on the stone bench in the backyard, and asked while holding his chin.
"I want to ask Shopkeeper Zhong about something else—"
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"You mean, you have been married to Prince Duan for half a year, and he has never touched you?" After listening to A Ji's narration, Zhong Tang deliberately lowered his voice, but he couldn't hide his surprise.
Recalling the first time he sneaked into Duan Wang's mansion, seeing the relationship between Aji and Duan Wang, Zhong Tang actually felt that they had such a relationship at that time, but he didn't expect——
"Yes." Ah Ji gritted his teeth and admitted, "That's why I want to ask Shopkeeper Zhong for advice. Do you know...why..."
Zhong Tang really never imagined that one day he would be asked such a question, and his thoughts were very confused: "This, this is really hard to say."
"If you think it's worse, maybe Duan Wang is treating the man..."
Hearing this, Ah Ji shook his head: "No, it shouldn't be... I thought about it before, and I turned into a woman's body, but it almost made him angry."
"Angry?" Zhong Tang murmured disgustedly after hearing this: "Why does he have the face to be angry? After being married for so long, you still have to worry about such things. Could it be that there is some hidden disease?"
Unexpectedly, A Ji hurriedly shook his head again, his face was so red that he was about to burn: "It's not... I, I used my hand, he... is fine."
Zhong Tang couldn't help coughing a few times, he really didn't want to continue the awkward chat, but he also understood that Aji had no other choice, so after thinking for a long time, he asked, "Aji, how old are you this year?"
A Ji obviously didn't expect Zhong Tang to ask this question, and he said after a while, "My birthday was only celebrated last month, and now I'm seventeen."
"Then I probably...know why."
Although Zhong Tang said that he disliked King Duan, after all, he remembered that he and Li Bizhi had such a similar experience back then.
Zhong Tang was transformed into a demon in human form by Tangmu, although he was small when he first transformed into a human form, he grew extremely fast, and within a few years he became a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old.
At that time, his feelings for Li Bizhi were still hazy, with both an innate dependence and the throbbing of his first love.
Until one day, he sneaked into the desert to play while the real person in the early Yuan Dynasty was teaching Li Bizhi how to practice sword.Because the crabapple tree has absorbed the evil spirit of misfortune, the caravans coming and going have been able to cross the desert safely, and Zhong Tang can often find some novelties from them.
It was the same that time, Zhong Tang met several Dachong businessmen who had lost their water bags due to the sandstorm, and led them to find the water source.These Dachong merchants were very grateful to him, so they gave him many books.
Zhong Tang is very good at memorizing the Taoist scriptures, but he has never read any novels, so when he read these things for the first time, he was immediately attracted, and took them to the tree to secretly read them day and night.
In those story books, apart from the legends of chivalry and chivalry, there are also many stories about love between men and women, spring||boudoir anecdotes, many of which are rich in rhetoric. Every night I dreamed of telling my brother my heart.
Zhong Tang was still a monster after all, and he was born with a monster's frankness. After he realized his feelings for Li Bizhi, he didn't panic or hide at all. Instead, he thought about how to let his senior brother know.
So on such a moonlit night, Zhong Tang took advantage of Yuan Chu's absence, sitting on a crabapple tree and calling out: "Senior brother, senior brother, come and see!"
At that time, Li Bizhi didn't know what Zhong Tang was thinking, and when he heard Zhong Tang's panicked voice, he immediately jumped onto the tree full of begonia blossoms.
It's just that he didn't expect that not long after he landed on the branch, before he could see Zhong Tang's figure clearly, his eyes were blocked by a blooming Tang flower.
All he could see were the blossoming vermilion begonias, but at some point, a cool touch fell on his lips.
It was a kiss, the first kiss between Zhong Tang and Li Bi.
The little goblin didn't kiss well, just imitating the words mentioned in the storybook, gently touching the brother's cool lips, then carefully sticking out the tip of her tongue, and nodding gently.
But soon, after the initial shock, he heard his brother's voice: "A Tang, do you know what you are doing?"
Tang Hua brushed across his face again, and Zhong Tang almost fell into Li Bizhi's arms, nodding his head very bluntly: "I know, I'm...kissing senior brother."
"Why?" Li Bizhi opened his eyes suddenly, and the Tang flowers that blocked his sight were scattered on the two of them. He looked into Zhong Tang's pure eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "A Tang, why did you kiss senior brother?" ?”
"Because..." Looking at each other at this moment, Zhong Tang felt a little embarrassed. He pressed his face to Li Bizhi's chest again, and said quickly, "Because I like senior brother!"
Such an answer almost made Li Bizhi's eyes tremble, and then he supported Zhong Tang's chin, and said softly, "A Tang, do you know what liking is?"
"I know," Zhong Tang blinked, and suddenly he fell on Li Bizhi's chest and laughed: "I know, I like senior brother."
"Does the senior brother like me too?"
What responded to him was the second kiss between Li Bizhi's lips that were close again.
On the crabapple tree, more brilliant flowers bloomed in an instant.
During that night, Zhong Tang was immersed in the joy called "Like", whenever he had time, he would hang around Li Bizhi's side, enjoying the hugs and kisses of his seniors.
But gradually, he was not satisfied with this. When he looked through the scriptures, he found that there seemed to be more intimate things in the world than kissing.
So another night, Zhong Tang once again took advantage of Yuanchu's drunkenness and called Li Bizhi to the crabapple tree.
He lay happily in the arms of his senior brother, kissing him lingeringly, recalling the words and sentences in the storybook, tentatively rubbing against Li Bizhi's body——
But this time, he was stopped by Li Fangzhi.
"Brother?" Zhong Tang was a little confused, opened his slightly red eyes, and looked at Li Bizhi strangely.Brother obviously...has already reacted, why stop?
"Ah Tang." Li Bizhi stretched out his hand to caress Zhong Tang's eyes, the cold spiritual power was circulating in his body, suppressing the desire in his heart and body: "Don't do this."
Zhong Tang was very puzzled, shook his head and rubbed Li Bizhi's hand covering his eyes, and asked curiously: "Brother, why?"
"The book says that if two people like each other, that's fine. Senior brother, don't you want to?"
Li Bizhi lowered his eyes, and met Zhong Tangtang's thin lips, which opened and closed lightly, but it was so irresistibly attractive to him, how much he wanted - but Li Bizhi still held back.
He lowered his head in Zhong Tang's hair, sniffing deeply the intoxicating Tang fragrance, and then kissed Zhong Tang's forehead delicately and preciously.
"want."
Li Bizhi said hoarsely, "But Ah Tang, you are still too young, I can't treat you like this."
"When you grow up, when we... tell the master, make a marriage contract, and form a Taoist couple..."
At that time, Zhong Tang actually couldn't fully understand what his senior brother said, but he was still immersed in Li Bizhi's kiss and embrace after all, forgetting any "more intimate things" in the back of his mind.
Then when he woke up the next day, Li Bizhi burned none of his short story books left.
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"So, King Duan and you have not touched you for so long, probably because he thinks...you are still young." Zhong Tang reluctantly packed up those memories, and then said to A Ji with "sincerity and sincerity".
"Is that so?" Aji still had a perplexed look on his face, but his eyes told Zhong Tang that he believed it to the fullest.
At this time, there was another noise from the shop ahead, Zhong Tang listened carefully, but it was King Duan who was also looking for him.
"Here, you just left for a while, and he followed. It must not be for other reasons, so don't worry."
"Otherwise, you can go back and ask him about it yourself, but don't procrastinate and drag out the rift."
A Ji felt that Zhong Tang's words were very reasonable, and finally thanked Zhong Tang three times, and left with Duan Wang.
Zhong Tang looked at the backs of the two walking away hand in hand, the corners of his lips kept rising, looking up at the afternoon sun, he suddenly felt that this was really an excellent day.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Bizhi's voice came again, Zhong Tang looked up and saw Li Daochang walking towards him.
Zhong Tang didn't want to stay where he was, and jumped to Li Bizhi's side in a few steps, then stopped and said thoughtfully: "Brother, I want to read the short story book."
"Don't look at it." Li Bizhi firmly grasped Zhong Tang's hand, and scolded like an elder.
But Zhong Tang got up reluctantly, embraced Li Bizhi's arm, and leaned on his shoulder: "Why, I'm old enough now, I'm not allowed to watch it."
Li Bizhi couldn't be entangled with him, he lowered his head slightly, looked at Zhong Tang's smiling face, then suddenly grabbed his waist and hugged him: "Do you really want to see it?"
Zhong Tang rubbed his shoulder and nodded, and said lightly: "Yes, I really want to see it."
"If you want to read it, let's take a good look." Li Bizhi's eyes slowly dimmed, and his cool lips pressed against Zhong Tang's ear: "After reading it, the senior brother will come to the school to test you."
Zhong Tang also hooked his neck, and lightly raised a seductive smile: "Okay, brother, just come—"
"After passing the exam, whether it's a reward or a punishment, it's up to you."
The author has something to say:
I accidentally talked too much nonsense, so I wrote it long cough cough cough
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