Silver-white moonlight sprinkled into the gauze window, the noisy and mournful cicadas outside the window have also ceased, all the four fields are quiet. Moonlight and silence intertwined a heavenly dream net, all things in heaven and earth were caught in the net and fell into a deep sleep.
But there was an exception.
On the large bed in the master bedroom of the Garden of Respect and Enjoyment, Zhu Pingan rolled over, and in no time at all, turned around again, and then turned around again ……In a short while, Zhu Pingan had tossed and turned no less than ten times.
Tossing and turning, it was difficult to fall asleep.
From time to time, he glanced out the window and saw that the night was thick, so he turned around again ……Why is the long night so long ……
“Brother Zhu, sleep for a while, sleep for a while, just get up a bit earlier tomorrow.”
After Zhu Pingan rolled over once again, Li Shu who was pretending to be asleep on the side could no longer hold back, heartbrokenly stretching out her soft razor to hug Zhu Pingan, pressing Zhu Pingan’s head to the inside of her embrace, letting him sleep on her soft pillow.
Soft and soft, brother Zhu pillow, must be more comfortable than a pillow, so that brother Zhu can sleep.
“Disturbing you.”
Zhu Pingan softly apologised, ready to get up from Li Shu’s chest and lie honestly on one side, no more tossing and turning, so that Li Shu could sleep well.
“You didn’t disturb me, you hurt me.”Li Shu hugged Zhu Pingan and didn’t let go, muffled and petulant.
“But my pillow hurt you.”
Zhu Pingan was in a hurry to raise his head, thinking that it was his head resting on Li Shu’s softness that made Li Shu’s pillow hurt.
“It’s you who don’t sleep and don’t care for your body that made my heart ache.”Li Shu shook her head and hugged Zhu Pingan’s head even tighter, pressing it tightly, “If you don’t believe me, listen to my heartbeat ……”
Dang dang dang dang ……
The heartbeat was soothing, like it was playing a lullaby.
“Sleep brother Zhu ……,” Li Shu hugged Zhu Pingan, her voice was like Juanjuan spring water, and her taste was as sweet as dipped honey.
“Hmm.”
Zhu Pingan gently nodded, backhandedly embraced Li Shu, like a little piglet, arched in Li Shu’s arms, found a more comfortable position, rubbed it a few times, listened to Li Shu’s restful heartbeat, and quietly closed his eyes.
“Giggle ……Your breath, it tickles ……”
After a few seconds, Li Shu couldn’t help it and giggled.
“I’ll get up then.”
“No way.”
……
The night was deep and dreamlike.
“Bang bang bang bang ……”
Outside the mansion, a night patrol nightman passed by, bang-bang-bang, knocking the more points of the Yin hour, vaguely transmitted into the Linhuai Marquis’ mansion.
In ancient times at night every shift, the night patrol’s night watchman would hit the clapper to report the time. The night watchman was now chiming the chen hour, which was around three o’clock.
After vaguely hearing the clapper clapper ringing at chen hour, Zhu Pingan opened his eyes, gently got up from the bed, got out of the bed, carefully covered the quilt for Li Shu, and then gently kissed Li Shu on her forehead.
Then, he grabbed his clothes and gently walked out of the bedroom.
After leaving the courtyard, Zhu Pingan went straight to the stables in the forecourt.
Zhu Pingan originally thought that Liu Dazhou should not have risen at this hour, and was thinking that after taking the horse, he would give a word to the guard on duty in the forecourt, asking him to wait for Liu Dazhou to get up and then give a word to Liu Dazhou, saying that he did not need him to send him off this day. However, to Zhu Pingan’s surprise, Zhu Pingan had only walked to the stables when he saw Liu Dazhou.
“Brother Big Dagger, why did you get up so early?”Zhu Pingan asked with great surprise.
“Hehe, gongzi is early, the young lady sent someone to send me a message yesterday evening, asking me to get up early this morning to wait for gongzi.”
Liu Dazhou laughed and scratched his head.
Er.
Okay.
Li Shu, this girl, Zhu Pingan sniffed and looked up in the direction of Jingxiang Garden with a warm current in his heart.
Because Zhu Pingan got up too early, the curfew time was not yet over, Zhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou took the horse and waited for a while in front of Linhuai Marquis mansion’s main gate, before the curfew lifting gong was slowly struck. The first time he heard the curfew lifting gong, Zhu Pingan turned on his horse and headed towards Yang Jisheng’s residence.
Liu Dazhou followed closely behind on his horse.
Halfway there, Zhu Pingan suddenly remembered that he had not yet taken leave from the Yu Wang Mansion, and since the two places were not on the same route, Zhu Pingan asked Liu Dazhu to divert to the Yu Wang Mansion, and give a word to the Yu Wang Mansion’s gatekeeper, Marquis Wu Wanfu, and tell him that he had something to do this morning, and asked Wu Wanfu to help himself to the Yu Wang to ask for a leave of absence.
“Okay sir, then after I speak to General Wu, I will go and wait for sir outside Lord Yang’s residence.”Liu Dazhou turned his horse around and spurred his horse towards Yu Wang’s residence.
Zhu Pingan continued to steer his horse forward to Yang Jisheng’s mansion, good thing the time was early, there were basically not many pedestrians on the road, all the way was smooth and unobstructed, coupled with the fact that the Killer Horse Black Horse was exceptionally powerful today, the speed was fast, Zhu Pingan only took less than twenty minutes to arrive at Yang Jisheng’s mansion.
Yang Jisheng’s mansion is located in an ugly alley hutong, this hutong environment is not good, there is a mouldy smell when you go in. This hutong yard are used to rent, Yang Jisheng rented yard is the smallest area in this ugly alley, the worst one, just a small courtyard, which is a single door, a main room, a side room, a stove room and a toilet, with the rural courtyard is almost, simple can not be more simple.
A military minister, an official of the fifth rank, a deputy directorate-level cadre, renting such a courtyard is really a bit unimaginable.
The walls of the small courtyard were all a bit peeled off, but the outside of the courtyard was clean.
Yard hung a simple plaque, written on it “Yang House”, from the handwriting, is Yang Jisheng handwritten, look, will feel a sub iron bone clanking righteousness from the plaque overflowed.
Through the doorway, I vaguely saw that there seemed to be an oil lamp lit in the room.
It seemed that Senior Brother Yang had not yet gone out.
Zhu Pingan let out a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately, he hadn’t missed it after all.
“Knock knock knock ……”
Zhu Pingan dismounted his horse and went forward to hold the door ring and gently knocked on the door of the Yang Mansion.
There seemed to be movement within the courtyard, but no one came to open the door.
Thus, Zhu Pingan gently knocked on the door of the room a few more times.
In a few moments
A sound of footsteps came.
“Who is it?”
An older man’s voice came from behind the door.
“Old man, I am Zhu Pingan, a fellow disciple of Lord Yang Jisheng Yang of your house, and I have something to do today to pay a visit to Brother Yang.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand back outside the door, and the face of an old servant in his fifties was vaguely visible through the doorway.
“My master’s senior brother? Why did you come to visit so early? Then you wait.”The old man behind the door was more wary, and after hearing Zhu Pingan declare himself, he did not open the door, but simply told Zhu Pingan to wait outside while he went to the main room to pass on the message.
“Thank you, old man.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked him.
Following this, a sound of footsteps could be heard in the distance, and then the sound of the old man’s pass-through could be faintly heard.
After another moment.
A quick sound of footsteps was heard from far away, then with a creak, the door opened, and Yang Jisheng greeted him with a smile and a quick step.
