in the world of murder

Chapter 8

Xie Li was injured, so he simply asked for leave, and he stopped attending classes and sword practice.Poor Xizhen, I was busy last night, and I still have to listen to Master Xu's "Historical Records" this morning.It was snowing heavily outside the house, and the house was as warm as spring. Xi Zhen propped his head up, unable to open his eyes no matter what.

Originally Xie Li sat in front of Xi Zhen, always tall and straight, able to block the sleeping Xi Zhen.Now that Xie Li is not around, Xi Zhen is right under Mr. Xu's eyes.When Mr. Xu turned his head, Xi Zhen was already lying on the desk and fell asleep.

Master Xu was very angry, and the bamboo slips hit Xizhen's table with a "slap".Xi Zhen sat up all of a sudden, as if startled by a lotus, with a lingering daze in his eyes.

Master Xu was furious, "Did you not sleep yesterday! Why did you go in the middle of the night! You are sleeping in the school now! Stand up for me."

Xi Zhen then stood up, lowered his eyebrows and eyes, as if his bones were crisp, and his whole body was lethargic.

The second half of the session was sword practice as usual, and on the cliff, everyone was making two-two moves.Xi Zhen was dressed in red, sitting on a rock by the cliff, with a dwarf pine beside him.Snow fell on the dwarf pine, Xi Zhen pulled the pine branches and watched the snow fall down the cliff with the wind.

Chen Song looked at Xi Zhen from a distance for a long time, and heard some disciples around him talking.

"Two days ago, I saw the little junior brother go to the senior brother's yard, and this morning someone saw the little junior brother coming back from the senior senior brother's yard." The disciple winked, "Tell me, is the little junior brother... .”

The other said: "How is this possible? The junior brother and the senior brother have always been tit for tat, the junior brother went to the senior brother's yard, there must be some kind of trick."

"You don't understand now," the man said, "Before the younger brother was targeting the senior brother, but now the younger brother's attitude is much better."

Another person also joined the chat, "Do you know why? It wasn't about Xuan Yunhuai. It seemed that the elder brother saved the younger brother, which made the younger brother change his attitude."

One person laughed and said: "The younger brother is really mean when he is mean, but he also looks really good-looking. I don't believe the elder brother can hold on to such a face to please the senior brother."

"It has to be the senior brother," the disciple sighed quietly: "All the good things on the mountain belong to him, and now the junior junior brother also calls him first."

Chen Song's face was light, and he said: "If you continue to talk, aren't you afraid of the same fate as Xuan Yunhuai?"

Several people were silent, and each dispersed to practice swords.

Chen Song straightened his clothes, walked up to Xi Zhen, and asked with a smile, "Junior Brother, why don't you practice swords?"

Xi Zhen looked back at the people on the eye cliff, and lazily said, "How can we benefit from this group of mediocrity."

After a pause, he looked at Chen Song, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile, "You did a good job yesterday."

Chen Songxi smiled, leaned down beside Xi Zhen, and said, "It's best if the younger brother is satisfied."

Xi Zhen nodded and said: "I have to bother senior brother, you must not tell anything about what happened last night."

"That's natural." Chen Song looked at Xi Zhen's face, and asked tentatively: "Last night, was it the younger brother who rescued the elder brother?"

Thinking of this, Xi Zhen still felt a pity.But he remained calm and said: "Brother Chen, thank you very much last night, if you are fine now, why don't I accompany you to practice swords."

Chen Song immediately smiled and said, "Okay."

So Xizhen got up and practiced sword with Chen Song for a while.Many people on the cliff were watching them quietly, and the rumors became that Chen Song fell into Xi Zhen's eyes.

It has been at noon, and the wind and snow have not abated.Xie Li was writing in the study when he suddenly heard noisy movements from the courtyard.He raised his eyes and saw Xi Zhen came in carelessly, instructing several disciples to move things into Xie Li's room.

Xizhen brought a lot of things. The bamboo couch was put on a mattress sprinkled with gold strips, and a few jade-colored wishful pillows were thrown on it.The pottery pot for drinking tea has also been replaced with Ruyi celadon porcelain with painted flowers, and there is a hexagonal tea pot with flowers and birds beside it.Carpets were laid on the ground, and silver charcoal without smoke was added to the copper wire charcoal basin.On Xie Li's desk, all the brushes, ink, paper and inkstones were replaced with new ones, and a pair of topaz paperweights were placed in front of Xie Li.Xie Li raised his eyes and saw Xi Zhen took a plum vase with several plum blossoms in it and placed it on the flower table.

After the room was refreshed, Xi Zhen walked up to Xie Li in a good mood, "How about it, doesn't it look much better?"

Xie Li looked at the various arrangements, and slowly said: "The aristocratic family really has a profound heritage."

"What is this?" Xi Zhen handed a plum-blossom copper wire stove to Xie Li, and said, "When I was young, I didn't like to wear shoes. In the whole mansion, wherever I went, silk was laid, every two hours It needs to be changed once, and it takes a lot of money in a day."

Xie Li dipped his ink, continued to write, and said, "Can you still use Lingluo for you now?"

Naturally, that is impossible, the Xi family is located in the middle of Shu, and has lasted for a hundred years. The people in the family live and work in peace and contentment, and the family is rich.Even in the face of the emperor, he just listened to the tune and didn't listen to the announcement.Then wars broke out frequently, and no place in the world was a paradise, and the Xi family was somewhat implicated.

After Emperor Yan ruled the world, the head of the Xi family expected that this person would have a tough style and would not tolerate the family, nor would he allow the Xi family to stray outside the imperial power.However, the Xi family did not enter the court and had no support in the court, which is incomparable with many families in the Central Plains.Because of this, the head of the Xi family had to send his clever youngest son to Jiuyi Mountain to make a living for the family.

Xi Zhen snorted and said, "I kindly help you decorate the house, but you still mock me!"

Xie Li didn't even look at him, and said: "I didn't ask you to decorate my house, and, besides, you broke in."

Xi Zhen frowned, and walked to Xie Li, "I am your savior after all, can you have a better attitude?"

"Savior?" Xie Li raised his head and slowly looked at Xi Zhen.

Xi Zhen arched his shoulders slightly, and unconsciously raised his voice, "Why, am I not your savior?"

Xie Li withdrew his gaze, and said lightly: "If I treat you better, it will be worth your life-saving grace?"

"Of course not!" Xi Zhen said, he hasn't figured out how to use this life-saving grace, but it must not be wasted here.

Xi Zhen leaned on the couch, put a Ruyi pillow under his head, and asked: "Your bamboo couch is still too simple, it is not as good as the sandalwood bed in my room."

"Are you planning to live here for a long time?" Xie Li asked.

"How could it be!" Xizhen said: "I put my high bed and soft pillows and don't want them, but live on your hard plank bed and broken bamboo couch?"

"Then there is no need to change it," Xie Li said lightly, "I like it very much."

Xi Zhen turned over, lay on the pillow and looked at Xie Li, suddenly said: "I have been with you for the past two days, do you know what people say about me? People say that I went to be a ghost at night."

"Really." Xie Li's expression was calm and calm.

Xizhen supported his head, Yubai's fingertips fell on his cheeks, and there was a smile in his voice, "I am a ghost, and I am also a ghost."

Xie Li's pen paused, he changed a piece of paper, and said, "You are calm."

Xi Zhen just laughed, "My reputation has always been bad, but it's a pity that senior brother, who is pure and clean, has been ruined in my hands."

Xie Li didn't speak, closed the book and went to take a rest.He hurt his leg, and slowly moved to the bedside, under Xi Zhen's scrutinizing gaze, he didn't feel embarrassed and hasty.

"Senior brother," Xi Zhen looked at him through the curtain, "are you seriously injured? If it is serious, I still need to invite Elder Yao to take a look."

Xie Li closed his eyes and said, "I've already found someone to look at it."

"Oh," Xi Zhen slowly approached Xie Li, "what did Elder Yao say?"

"It's just a skin trauma, no bones and muscles are injured, it will be fine once the wound heals."

Xi Zhen stared at Xie Li on the bed, "Since that's the case, why don't senior brothers go to class?"

Xi Zhen was close to him, Xie Limo was silent, and said: "Because I don't have to work so hard, even if I don't take every class, I can still get the first place."

Xi Zhen's smile froze all of a sudden, the corners of his mouth came down, his expression was almost distorted.

"Eldest brother," Xi Zhen took a deep breath, "You are indeed a genius."

Xi Zhen shook his hands and left, Xie Li only listened to his footsteps, and could feel his anger that had nowhere to vent.

After waking up from the afternoon nap, the snow had stopped, but the sky was still gloomy. Xie Li was lying on the bed, feeling a little unaware of the time.

The bell on the mountain rang once, and it was time to go to class.Xie Li heard movement from outside, it was Fu Gui who came to look for Xi Zhen.

"Let's go, go to class." Fu Gui said.

Xi Zhen sat on the couch, and the small wooden table was filled with bamboo slips, paper and pens.

"I'm not going," Xi Zhen said, "I want to take care of Senior Brother."

Fu Gui looked surprised, "Can you say that?"

Xi Zhen snorted, "Xie Li was injured, and he will miss a lot of classes. Even if I win him in the next flower competition, others will say that it is because of Xie Li's injury."

Fu Gui nodded, "That's true, if the elder brother is injured and still wins against you, then wouldn't you lose face even more!"

Xi Zhen let out a "tsk", and Fu Gui hurriedly said: "This is very good, you neglected your homework to take care of the elder brother, and the Lord of the Mountain can't say anything about you."

"However," Fu Gui asked, "Didn't you promise Chen Song to practice swords with him?"

Xi Zhen's brows and eyes were lazy, "Didn't you already practice with him this morning? It's just to give him some sweetness. In the entire Jiuyi Mountain, only Xie Li is enough to accompany me to fight."

Fu Gui smiled and said, "Then Chen Song must be very upset."

Xi Zhen didn't care if he was high or not.

"By the way," Xi Zhen said to Fu Gui, "you help me write down what is said in the classes Master has taught these days."

"To take notes for you?" Fu Gui said, "It's not impossible." He stretched out three fingers, looking expectant.

Xi Zhen took out the gold beads from his purse, handed them to Fu Gui, and said: "You have to keep an eye on it for me, and don't allow others to take notes for Xie Li."

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Xi Zhen: The Introverted God

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