When it was Lan Qiao's turn, he pondered for a moment and prepared for a while before he finally started writing: "Hang the pot to help all the people, and all the poor households will benefit all living beings." He put down the pen, put the two couplets together and read them again.

, chanted loudly: "Bend down and taste the herbs, taste all kinds of sweet and bitter tastes; hang the pot to help all the people, and help all the poor and poor living beings. What does Uncle Xu think?"

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Xu Qiuyu clapped her hands and laughed, picked up the two couplets and looked at them carefully, then handed Lan Qiao's couplet back to him. Lan Qiao reached out to take it, but unexpectedly touched the girl's body and was shocked.

Then his hand shook and he knocked the pen off the table again.

He hurriedly squatted on the ground to pick up the pen. When he got up again, he saw that Li Jingshu had laid out the second half of the couplet written by Lan Qiao, and then used her unique small regular script to write "Blue" on the corner one stroke at a time.

The word "bridge".

"You know my name?" Lan Qiao looked at the girl in front of him in surprise and said calmly.

The girl's pretty face was slightly red, and she smiled at him, but she didn't answer him and just drifted away.

Lan Qiao didn't know whether he was excited or disappointed. He watched the girl's figure gradually go away, and his eyes fell back on the signature the girl wrote for him. He just felt that the girl's writing looked good no matter how he read it, and couldn't help but use

Gently rub it with your fingertips.

Xu Qiuyu chuckled and said, "This girl usually looks very attentive, but why did she become so careless today? I don't know who disturbed her mood."

Lan Qiao said in shock, "What's wrong?"

Xu Qiuyu pointed to a fallen sachet beside the threshold and said, "I was walking in such a hurry that I didn't know if something had fallen."

The sachet is made of three layers of twelve pieces of Hangzhou silk satin stacked together and alternately woven with two sets of gold threads. It is smooth to the touch, exquisite in form, and has vivid patterns. If you get closer, you can still smell a scent.

The refreshing medicinal fragrance, of course, is also accompanied by a faint wisp of girl's body fragrance.

Lan Qiao played with the sachet, feeling the scent of the sachet and the girl's remaining body temperature. The wonderful feeling was like an intimate contact with the girl, which made him reluctant to let go for a long time.

Xu Qiuyu stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Go and return it to her. She lives in the east room."

Lan Qiao walked to the door of the east room and lingered for a long time, but in the end he did not knock on the door.

I don't know whether it was cowardice or selfishness, but he actually hid the sachet and hid it for eight years.

He didn't dare let anyone know about it.

More than a month later, Lan Qiao recovered from his injury and bid farewell to Xu Qiuyu. Li Jingshu walked him to the door with a calm expression and asked him in a low voice, "You don't have anything to say to me." She stared at Lan Qiao without fear.

, there was actually some hope and reluctance in his eyes.

Lan Qiao lowered his head, thinking of the life in the world he was about to start again, and the sachet he had hidden in his chest seemed to be getting hot. He did not dare to look into the girl's eyes, and shook his head in silence.

"Then, goodbye." The girl's expression returned to indifference, and she suddenly ran back. Under the winter sunshine, her blue dress fluttered in the wind, just like the pure sky.

Lan Qiao still can't forget this profound memory. The mountain scenery of Xu Qiuyu's Medicine House has also reappeared in his mind countless times. The eight acres of medicine fields and nine miles of long embankment there seem to have become his most attached to these past few years.

place.

No matter how dangerous the situation is, as long as he thinks of Xu Qiuyu's Yaolu, he will feel warm and at ease.

When Lan Qiao opened his eyes again, it was already dawn.

The golden sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the leaves and through the holes in the roof, shining directly on his face, causing him to open his eyes and squint again.

He turned over and sat up, but Li Jingshu was missing. He couldn't help but call, "Xiao Shu."

no respond.

Lan Qiao was startled, stood up and pushed the door open, but Li Jingshu was still nowhere to be seen.

But he finally didn't lose his composure, and soon noticed a series of her footprints on the ground, followed them, and finally found her by the lake.

Li Jingshu was squatting by the lake, shaking her wet hair that seemed to have just been washed. When she saw Lan Qiao coming to him anxiously, she waved to him and said, "I saw you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't have the heart to call you.

"

Seeing her like this, Lan Qiao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Why don't you get up early in the morning and run to the lake to take a bath?"

"No way? I've been working hard all day and my body is so dirty." Li Jingshu said and glared at him and said, "Do you want me to wait until you wake up before washing?"

Lan Qiao recalled that after she and Bai Xueyin finished practicing in the river valley near Luzhou, the first thing she did was to run behind the waterfall to take a bath. She couldn't help but muttered, "It turns out that girls love to be clean so much."

Li Jingshu raised her eyebrows and said, "Hey, judging from the tone of the young master, which girl has I ever seen taking a bath?"

"No," Lan Qiao quickly denied, "I just said that casually."

Li Jingshu looked at Lan Qiao, showing a look of hesitation, looking away, and continued to focus on her hair.

Lan Qiao sighed softly and said, "Let me help you." He lit a bonfire again, asked Li Jingshu to sit next to it, sent out hot air with the power of his palms, and soon dried her hair.

Li Jingshu said sheepishly, "I've caused trouble for you."

"It's just a little effort." Lan Qiao said with a smile, "It's also an honor for me to serve a beauty."

"Have you said this to every girl?" Li Jingshu joked while arranging her hair. "Did you know that just by relying on your skill of blow-drying a woman's hair, you can have enough food and clothing?"

Lan Qiao feigned anger and said, "You underestimate me too much. If that's the case, you also have special skills."

Li Jingshu wondered, "What special skills do I have?"

Lan Qiao thought about using her shoes and socks to repel mosquitoes last night, and smiled without saying anything.

Li Jingshu didn't know if she realized Lan Qiao's meaning, her pretty face suddenly turned red, she took out a small golden headdress from her pocket and put it on.

Lan Qiao had seen this thing when she was going through her pockets last night, but she never expected that Li Jingshu, who had just freshened up her clothes, would be so beautiful wearing it.

The headdress was worn on her forehead. The left and right sides were woven with extremely fine gold wire to form the shape of a golden phoenix spreading its wings. In the middle, there was a drop-shaped white jade hanging between the eyebrows. If you look closely, it seemed that there were mountains hidden under the clouds and mist. It was extremely exquisite.

.

"How does it look good?" Li Jingshu said with a charming smile.

Lan Qiao nodded hastily.

Li Jingshu slowly explained, "This is called Golden Jade Spreading Wings. It was a birthday gift from Emperor Taizu when I was nine years old. It was said that the gold and jade woven on it symbolizes a good marriage, and it will be used as a dowry when I get married in the future."

"It turns out it was a gift from the emperor. I'm so disrespectful." Lan Qiao said in surprise, "There are so many skilled craftsmen in the capital, so it's no wonder this thing is so exquisite."

"It's a good thing." Li Jingshu sighed softly, took off her headdress and put it away again, and said with some melancholy, "It's a pity that it has been more than ten years and I still haven't used it."

Lan Qiao knew that she meant that she hadn't married in more than ten years, and just as he didn't know how to comfort her, footsteps suddenly came from behind him.
Chapter completed!