Jinghong Building

Chapter 382 Mr. Zhou

The next day, Zhou Cangyue came to Renyi Mansion early. In order to show that he was polite, he specially brought a gift to Mrs. Meng.

It was a pot of blooming camellia.

Zhou Cangyue couldn't name it, but it was a flower raised by Sister Su Si, so it must be a good flower.

Sister Su Si loves to grow flowers. Even if she moves, she doesn’t forget to bring dozens of pots of flowers she has taken care of carefully.

Old Mrs. Meng hasn't seen a guest for a long time, but when the maid gave her the pot of camellia to see, Old Mrs. Meng showed a child-like innocent smile: "Oh, this flower is so beautiful, who did you say it was sent to me of?"

The maid smiled and said, "It's a young master Zhou."

Old Mrs. Meng smiled and said, "Ah, you're a young man. Are you looking so pretty?"

Maid: "It's a good-looking young man."

Old Mrs. Meng pretended to be angry: "You girl, since you are a beautiful young man, why don't you invite him in?"

The maid had no choice but to invite Zhou Cangyue in.

At this time, He Ran was still having a meeting with Feng Xieying and others to discuss the test questions, so Xiaoli asked Zhou Cangyue to walk around the garden by herself. When the maid found him, Zhou Cangyue was fighting with Xiaoba.

When Zhou Cangyue learned that Old Lady Meng was about to see him, he left. Xiao Ba flapped his wings behind and shouted, "If you can't make a noise, run away. What kind of hero?"

Zhou Cangyue: "I am not a hero, you are, okay?"

Old Mrs. Meng can already go to the ground. She occasionally goes to the front yard to chat with He Ran, but she still doesn't know anyone very well, and she forgets a lot of things, from Jing Dashan trying to be with her and Li to Duke Dingguo fleeing south , the decades in the past few years no longer exist for her.

She forgot the people and things that made her unhappy. In her consciousness, she was still the exquisite woman in her prime back then, who liked bright colors and flowers and plants.

The old lady Meng that Zhou Cangyue saw was still delicate, her snow-white hair was combed in a slight tangle, her ruby ​​was inserted, her lips were covered with mouth fat.

But the moment she saw Zhou Cangyue, Old Lady Meng suddenly burst into tears and exclaimed: "Young Master Zhou? Haven't you been looking for a child? Why are you back?"

The maid next to him quickly reminded: "Old lady, you remember wrongly. Mr. Zhou is a guest of the boss, and he is here to find the boss."

Old Mrs. Meng blamed: "You are just talking nonsense. Mr. Zhou doesn't know the boss at all, right? Mr. Zhou?"

Zhou Cangyue was confused, but he had already seen that the extremely noble old Fengjun didn't seem to be very smart, so he had to explain: "Old lady, I know the boss."

Old Mrs. Meng looked like a stubborn little girl, and she said sternly: "Hey, Mr. Zhou, why are you talking nonsense with them? How could you know the boss? The boss has led his troops to fight against the King of Xiping. I have them all. I haven't seen her for a long time."

Zhou Cangyue was stunned, King of Xiping? That King of Xiping in Yulin back then?

He instantly realized that the boss mentioned by Mrs. Meng is not the boss, so this is what Jinghong.

Since that's the case, perhaps Mr. Zhou, whom Mr. Meng mentioned, may not be him?

Zhou Cangyue's heart moved. Old Mrs. Meng mistakenly recognized him for another person. Could it be that the man, in addition to his surname Zhou, even his appearance is similar to him?

"Old lady, I fell to my head on my horse and forgot a lot of things. You just said, I'm going to find a child, do you know where I'm going to find a child?"

Old Mrs. Meng's eyes were full of pity: "Oh, it's a pity. I see you as a slut. It turns out that you were stupid."

The maid hurriedly said, "Young Master Zhou, the old lady."

Zhou Cangyue smiled and said, "The old lady and I are old acquaintances, not outsiders. It doesn't matter. While the old lady is happy, we will talk to ourselves. You don't have to care about maids and sister."

The maid had to respond "yes" and stood there silently.

Old Lady Meng glanced at her: "Daily, I always care about me, it's not fun at all."

The maid didn't dare to interrupt again, and Zhou Cangyue smiled and smoothed out: "It's okay, she is not fun, but I'm fun, old lady, can we play rope-flipping?"

Old Mrs. Meng clapped her hands and said, "Okay, okay, play with ropes, play with ropes."

Zhou Cangyue took out a red rope from his arms like a magic trick and started playing with Old Lady Meng.

While playing, Zhou Cangyue suddenly asked, "Where did my child go? Do you know?"

Old Mrs. Meng sighed, "Is that needless to say? Wars are everywhere, and the two of them must have fled among the refugees."

"Who else do you think of them, except my child?" Zhou Cangyue asked again.

"Who else can be there? Of course it's Wet Lady Wang." said Old Lady Meng.

But next time, Zhou Cangyue asked again, and Old Lady Meng began to repeat the previous words repeatedly, and her consciousness became chaotic again.

At this time, Xiaoli came to look for someone and said that the boss had time now, so he asked Zhou Cangyue to come over.

Zhou Cangyue said goodbye to Mrs. Meng and followed Xiaoli to see He Ran.

When Zhou Cangyue came in, he saw that in addition to He Ran, there was a young woman in the room. The woman was wearing an official hat and an official robe, and was writing quickly. She was obviously a female official.

Seeing Zhou Cangyue coming, He Ran pointed to the next door and signaled him to come over together.

The two of them arrived next door one by one, and this was obviously the place where He Ran received her close friends.

There were blankets on the ground, and a few large welcoming pillows and futons were placed casually. In the vase on the small table, there were a few flowers that could not be named.

Zhou Cangyue was not polite either. He threw off his shoes and picked a futon and sat down.

"Are you so busy every day?" Zhou Cangyue looked around curiously and saw a low table next to him with a set of four treasures of the study.

There is also a vine basket full of them, including morning newspapers and evening newspapers.

Obviously, this place is actually He Ran’s office.

He Ran smiled and said, "I'm not too busy today, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to come here."

He asked again: "Have you met Mrs. Meng just now?"

Zhou Cangyue nodded: "Old Mrs. Meng is very happy."

He really felt that it was as good as Old Lady Meng, who had gone through thousands of sails and returned to his innocence.

He Ran nodded: "Yes, I think so too."

She remembered her great-grandfather. When she left, she was already ninety years old and had a clear mind. She was merciless when she was scolding people. She could start scolding her when she was three years old and scold her until she was in her sixties. She was beaten when she was in a meeting. Sleepy, full of energy, and loud.

"You said, I want to tell me one thing, can I say it now?"

He Ran bumped into Zhou Cangyue's expectant little eyes and the corners of her mouth bent.

She didn't go around the circle and went straight to the topic: "It's your life experience, strictly speaking, what I know about your life experience."

After learning about Zhou Ying's incident, He Ran wanted to tell Zhou Cangyue all of this, but there was no suitable opportunity. Now that we have finally met, He Ran decided to tell this.

This time I parted, see you next time, I don’t know what year or month it is.

"Do you still remember that year in Zhending, we met by chance at an alley entrance, and then made an appointment to go to that tavern to have a drink. I'll let you play suona in front of He Mansion."

He Ran's voice is calm, like a stream flowing quietly in the mountains. Times change, ups and downs. Perhaps a figure will appear in unofficial history after a thousand years. The brief fluorescence of the princess in troubled times will trigger the beautiful speculations of countless literati and poets, perhaps In their story, Zhou Ying and her beloved boat on the lake, found a peach blossom land, and lived in seclusion here from then on, no matter the troubles in the world. However, the facts are not beautiful. The woman who may have been portrayed for thousands of years has always been in the world.

Zhou Cangyue listened quietly, as if listening to someone else's story.

After He Ran's story was finished, he still maintained his listening posture, his eyes calm, like an old monk entering into meditation.

Until He Ran's voice came again in his ears: "Black sister?"

Zhou Cangyue slowly looked at He Ran: "So, the old friend whom Master asked me to visit in Zhending is actually my grandmother. Master wants her grandmother to see me, right?"

He Ran smiled: "She is proud of you."

Zhou Cangyue smiled bitterly: "She later returned to Wanchun, and my mother was also buried in Wanchun. I lived in Wanchun for several years, but I didn't know anything. Am I stupid?"

He Ran chuckled: "Who in the world dares to say that Zhou Cangyue is very stupid? Then he must be tired of living."

Zhou Cangyue seemed to agree: "That's true."

He Ran clapped his hands, Xiaoli came in, and He Ran ordered: "Two fried chicken legs."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Xiaoli agreed with a smile, and after a moment, she brought in two freshly fried chicken legs.

He Ran picked up one by himself, pointed to the other in the bowl, and said to Zhou Cangyue, "Your."

The two looked at each other and focused on eating chicken legs. Zhou Cangyue said, "This cook has good skills, yours?"

He Ran nodded: "He has a good understanding. I just said it roughly and he did it."

Zhou Cangyue said, "In the past, there was a fried chicken legs at your school gate. Every time I passed by, I had to swallow my saliva. At that time, I thought, one day when I got rich, I would buy three fried chicken legs, one for Grandpa, give one to me and another to you."

He Ran looked over in surprise, Zhou Cangyue buried her head in eating chicken legs. This was the first time He Ran saw someone chewing chicken legs and lowering his head.

From He Ran's angle, she only saw a crimson earlobe, like a colorful cloud, covering the entire field of vision.

After gnawing the chicken legs, Xiaoli brought water in. The two of them cleaned their hands. He Ran asked, "How is that good?"

Zhou Cangyue: "Okay."

He Ran said, "Then you go and take a walk, or sit here for a while, you."

Zhou Cangyue thought of the female official outside: "Can I take up a little more time for you, just a little bit."

He Ran smiled, sat down again, and took a look at the ears: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

He Dadao was busy with official business, so Zhou Cangyue also delayed her time. He told He Ran what he heard from Old Lady Meng.

He Ran narrowed her eyes slightly and recalled carefully that there were many people named Zhou in her memory, but she couldn't remember any Master Zhou who had ever had an association with Mrs. Meng.

By the way, Old Lady Meng said that she went to fight King Xiping. That battle lasted for a year. Perhaps the appearance of Mr. Zhou was in that year.

He Ran remembered Zhong Yi and Li Jinxiu. If anyone still remembered what happened back then, then there would be only these two.

In the story she told Zhou Cangyue just now, there was Zhou Cangyue's grandmother and mother, but his biological father was not there.

Even Zhou Ying didn't know who his biological father was.

The reason why Zhou Cangyue was interested in the Prince Zhou mentioned by Mr. Meng, shows that he has always wanted to pursue his own life experience.

Everyone has the right to know where they come from, even if that comes from is not beautiful.

"Okay, leave this matter to me, I'll check it for you." He Ran said.

Zhou Cangyue felt regretful: "It's a pity that I'm leaving the day after tomorrow."

He Ran: "It's okay. If you can't find out within two days, then I'll write to you."

Zhou Cangyue's eyes lit up: "Keep your word, be sure to write me a letter."

He Ran smiled: "Okay."

She walked out with her whole robe, free and easy, without any trace of the water.

Zhou Cangyue looked at her back and felt an indescribable feeling surged in her heart, as if she was a little entangled, but she was confused for some reason.

Zhou Cangyue took out a morning newspaper from the vine basket and looked at it, and then he became distracted.

There was also newspaper in his dream, but he didn't expect to run a newspaper.

However, even if he thought about it, he could not produce such a good morning newspaper and evening newspaper.

Sister Ran is so amazing. She is both literary and martial. She is so good and outstanding. No one in this world can stand shoulder to shoulder with her.

Neither can he.

Zhou Cangyue put down the newspaper, looked up at the roof, and suddenly grinned again.

Although he is not as good as Sister Ran, he finally doesn't have to hide behind the tree to peek.

He can now sit in Sister Ran’s tea room, sit on the ground with her, and talk with her. Sister Ran and him are friends!

He can now say loudly to the world that he, Zhou Cangyue, is He Ran’s friend!

Now that he says this, no one should ridicule him.

At least not in person, Zhou Cangyue is still a bit famous.

As for whether those people would laugh at him with shamelessness behind their backs, they wouldn't care. They would laugh when they wanted to laugh, but they didn't laugh at him in front of him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Cangyue became happy. When he returned, he would reorganize the military discipline. Yes, destroy Wang Hao first. It was not that he wanted to compete with Nong Liuniang for territory, but that he unilaterally disliked Wang Hao. What’s wrong with me, because Sister Ran hates Wang Hao.

Yes, although He Ran had never said that she hated Wang Hao, Zhou Cangyue just felt that Sister Ran must hate Wang Hao very much.

What Sister Ran hates is what he hates.

Go back and take Wang Hao’s life!

It was a pleasant decision like this.

At this time, He Ran was discussing the matter of Jiangnan Academy with Yao Linlang.

The female official Zhou Cangyue just met was Yao Linlang. She passed the second official exam and ranked first in the women.

Yao Linlang became famous in one fell swoop, and the relatives of the Yao clan wanted to use their marriage to control her, and later found the capital. Unfortunately, Yao Linlang had already returned from an internship and followed He Ran.

The relatives of the Yao clan dared not say anything, and left in shame.

Yao Linlang presented her re-embellished plan to He Ran. After reading it, He Ran became interested and said, "Linlang, you are here to host this literary meeting, are you confident?"