Magic Palace Fengyue series: Self is the best among flowers

Chapter 1

"Sanliang, let me tell you, the place you want to go to is not an ordinary place. Normally, people can't get in if they want to. The servants there are more than enough to go to the palace to serve people. If it weren't for this time The palace lord said that with your status, you go to dig out excrement for others, and I don't know if they will accept you."

On the quiet street in the early morning, old people and young people walked side by side until they came to the back door of the majestic and resplendent Jiangdu Demon Palace.

"Uncle Liu, don't worry, I'm sure I won't embarrass you, don't you know me? The most hardworking." The young man named Sanliang smiled and straightened his chest, patting his chest.

Uncle Liu took another look at Qin Sanliang's body not much thicker than bean sprouts, and that overly delicate face that didn't look like a country boy at all, and shook his head slightly: "Oh, if Manager Liang hadn't said He doesn't want to be a big and three rough people, and he doesn't want a woman. It is impossible for him to send the child of this distant relative who just entered the city.

Although he is fairly diligent, smart, and cheerful, he is very honest.But this does not mean that he is qualified to serve the master inside.Think about it, although they are both in Yanjing City, no one has seen the true face of the master of Jiangdu Demon Palace, and they don't know what kind of master he will be.

"Is it old man Liu?" The back door opened a crack, and a young servant leaned against the door yawning. He looked Qin San up and down a few times, then opened the door a little wider, and stretched out his hand to swing back. : "Okay, people come in, Director Liang told me. As for you, stop here."

Uncle Liu nodded and bowed with an apologetic smile, begging the young servant to take care of Qin Sanliang, the servant answered impatiently, and closed the door with a bang.

Qin Sanliang walked for a long time, and the servants who led him changed no less than five, and finally entered an exquisite and outrageous courtyard. A very beautiful young man stood on the steps with his hands behind his back, and saw him and another Servant, the young man frowned and said calmly, "You are Qin Sanliang?"

"Yes, I am." Qin Sanliang nodded with a smile, and then seemed to remember something, kowtowed to the young man on the ground, then he got up quickly, and asked with a smile: "Brother, that... I will What are you going to do?"

The title of big brother made the young man frowned even more, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly: "I'm almost forty, you should call me Uncle Ming."

"Ming... Uncle Ming?" Qin Sanliang yelled in fright, couldn't help taking a few steps back, and murmured softly, "You look like this when you're almost 40 years old? Is that a monster?"

Before the words finished, the young man in front turned around and gave him a look. Qin Sanliang was taken aback, thinking, right?Can he hear me so quietly?

But a smile quickly appeared on his face, and he said with an apologetic smile: "Brother... Oh, no, Uncle Ming, Uncle Ming, you are really young. Sure enough, the people in the city can take care of themselves, but they are better than the people in the country."

"From today onwards, you will be responsible for taking care of this yard. You don't need to take care of anything else. As long as the yard is clean, in addition to the monthly money of one tael, there will also be a reward of five hundred coins." Qingming snorted. With a sound, I really don't want to talk to this ignorant bumpkin, so I turned around and entered the hall.

Nangong Jiangdu just got up, and the maids waited on him to wash his face. He sat on the mahogany round chair by the window and looked out of the window. Seeing Qingming coming in, he asked lightly, "Is that the young man? You can ask." ? I don’t want this to happen a fifth time.”

"Yes, Palace Master. Liang Xiao has already found out clearly that this man has a woman who has already been engaged in his hometown. This time he came to the city to find a job and earn two money so that he can go back and get married. And just now his subordinate I also looked at it, but he has a loyal and honest face, and he is a countryman, and the countryman is a heir, and he will definitely not have such eccentricities as Long Yang's kindness..."

After listening to Qingming's words, Nangong Jiangdu finally felt relieved.

Ever since Ade, who used to sweep the yard, was transferred to the branch church in Jiangye because he was separated from women, the newly sent yard sweepers didn't know what kind of evil they were, and they fell in love with each other when they came. If you are alone, if you are secretly in love, it will be fine if you only look at them a few times. No, they insist on running to him and confessing to him, making Nangong Jiangdu so angry that they all sent them out of the palace.

It was precisely because of this that Manager Liang was replaced by Manager Liang to look for someone outside. After searching for three or five days, Manager Liang finally made a decision when he saw Qin Sanliang. What exactly is this, not to mention that he has no kung fu on his body, and that rustic appearance is definitely not something that can be pretended.

In this way, Qin Sanliang lived in Jiangdu Demon Palace. In the huge courtyard of Nangong Jiangdu, there were two huts against the west wall. Because he was an outsider and had no martial arts skills, he couldn't live in other people's rooms. place.However, he was very satisfied with only these two huts, and he was still grateful to the master for his generosity.

It was strange to say that he had been working in the yard for a month, but he didn't see his master in a daze.Like most boys and girls, Qin Sanliang also has a bit of gossip curiosity about his noble and mysterious master.

However, in the past month, the master has never stepped out of the house, which made his hopes dashed, and he also had a bold guess in his heart: it turns out that the master is a person with disabled legs.

Sweeping the yard every day is actually very easy.Qin Sanliang is a hardworking and kind young man. After being idle for more than a month, his bones feel a little ache. However, the people in this yard are very indifferent. Sometimes they want to help others, but they don't even need them.

While Qin San was bored, he suddenly realized that the yard was really not small. Not to mention anything else, the open space in front of his house was enough to open up two or three small vegetable plots.

That's not to mention, in the two large fields on the east side of the yard, one flower garden he knew could not be moved, but the other enclosed field was full of weeds, which was a bit of a waste.

Action is worse than heartbeat, Qin Sanliang immediately started to do it, and in less than two days, he opened up two or three vegetable fields in front of his door.It happened that there was nothing to do that day, so I talked to Butler Liang and went to the street to buy some kidney beans, cabbage and other seeds.

I got up early in the morning the next day. Before the sun came out, I was busy planting seeds and watering. I was having a great time, when I heard a suspicious voice behind me: "Scholarly family, what are you doing?" what are you doing?"

"Growing vegetables, you don't even know this?" Qin Sanliang straightened up proudly, turned to look at the person behind him, but in the next moment his eyes widened in fright, and he took several steps back, Fang pointed at the man with trembling fingers. The man yelled, "Hey, you... who are you?"

Nangong Jiangdu couldn't help but rolled his eyes, thinking it's no wonder people say he's a country bumpkin, he's so stupid, who else could appear in this yard?

But look at the pale bumpkin's face, if he yells "Come and catch the assassin" again, the yard will be lively, and he doesn't want this kind of excitement, so although he disdains it, he still hums He said, "Who else could it be? I am your master."

"Master? You are talking nonsense." Unexpectedly, Qin Sanliang not only did not kneel down in fear and trembling, but straightened his chest even more, pointed at Nangong Jiangdu's nose with a righteous face and shouted: "Master's legs are paralyzed, so I never come out." Housekeeper, don’t bully me because I haven’t met him, just lie in front of me, and you will be struck by lightning if you lie.”

puff……

Nangong Jiangdu almost choked to death with a mouthful of blood, and he almost slapped the bumpkin in front of him to death in anger. It took a while for his distorted handsome face to return to its original state. He tried to calm down and asked, "Who told you that your master's legs are paralyzed?" It's just that although the tone is calm, it seems gloomy.

I don’t know which bastard used such vicious excuses to perfunctory this country bumpkin. Damn it, you better not let me find out, otherwise you will be sent to Miaojiang to feed poisonous insects for the crime of "cursing the palace master" .

"I... I guessed..." Qin Sanliang's confidence was obviously lacking, he shrank back shyly, looked Nangong Jiangdu up and down, but still couldn't help but argue: "You...you Is it really the Palace Master? Then...then since your legs are not paralyzed, why...why have you never left the house?"

"Didn't anyone tell you not to talk too much before you came here?" Nangong Jiangdu was very satisfied seeing the bumpkin finally had a look of fear in his eyes, and his master was showing off his style.

These days he has been retreating in the backyard, and he just came out today, unexpectedly, he made this country bumpkin angry.

"Then... I'm not talking too much, if you are not the master, but... the Jiangyang thief, I... I let you in, then... then I will lose my job..." Qin Sanliang went back She flinched, and said in her heart that it was terrible, seeing that this person was dressed in gorgeous and extravagant clothes, could he really be the master?

"Palace Master..." A familiar voice came, and Qin Sanliang looked back, and saw Uncle Ming who had met once when he came in the first day, and he greeted happily: "Ah, big brother, are you here? So many I haven't seen you for a few days, where did you go? This man said he was the master, did he really?"

Big... big brother?Nangong Jiangdu looked at Uncle Ming, whose face darkened in an instant, with complaints. After a while, he suddenly burst out laughing. He bent down and pointed at Qingming with a smile, "It's very fun, so it's Brother Ming, how is it? Where did you get rich recently? "

Grinding his teeth a few times, Qing Ming gave Qin San a stern look again, and said bitterly: "You don't have to do it, go out tomorrow, and go to the accounting room to settle the monthly payment by yourself, damn Liang Xiao, you'll have to pay for it all!" Who are you?"

"Ah? Why? I... I didn't know the master in the first place, and I didn't do anything wrong. I cleaned the yard very clean, you... If you can find a fallen leaf, I... I won't say anything Leave without saying anything." Qin Sanliang looked like he was very afraid of being fired, but he still defended himself with a straight chest.

Nangong Jiangdu stopped laughing, looked at Qin Sanliang pretending to be surprised, laughed and said: "Wow, you are very smart, find a fallen leaf, this is early summer, the leaves on the tree have just grown, your name is Uncle Ming is looking for fallen leaves, hahaha, not bad, not bad, you are very good, what's your name?"

Qin Sanliang's face turned red to the base of his ears, he just said that out of a hurry, and he didn't mean to be opportunistic, but Nangong Jiangdu said it like he did it on purpose, he never I am proud of my "hard work and honesty", how can I resist this word.

But I wanted to say something more, but I couldn't say anything.Fortunately, Nangong Jiangdu didn't want to argue with Uncle Ming when he passed by. He waved his hand and said to Uncle Ming, "Why did you let him go? It's very interesting, keep it. By the way, I'm going to retreat this time." After a while, the Hall Master Wang from Jiangxi should have come? Where is he now?"

Uncle Ming mentioned a place, and then Nangong Jiangdu went with him. Qin Sanliang looked at their backs, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh of relief, patted his chest and said, "It's so dangerous, so dangerous! Ah, I didn't expect him to be the master, well, he looks very young and handsome, wow, it's amazing."

As he spoke, he squatted down again to fiddle with his vegetable patch.

In early summer, with plenty of sunshine and rain, Qin Sanliang's small vegetable garden was a tender seedling in less than two days, and half a month later, the kidney beans had already bloomed, and the small cabbage seedlings had also grown. The emerald green border looks very green and lovely.

Qin Sanliang was so happy in his heart. The days in Jiangdu Demon Palace were very leisurely. He only needed to clean the yard twice a day in the morning and evening. His hands are very skillful, and he is especially good at carpentry.

Unexpectedly, the good days didn't last long, and two or three days later, when those small cabbages were ready to be eaten, this small vegetable garden was followed by Nangong Jiangdu.

Recently, Palace Master Nangong has nothing to do. Apart from practicing kung fu and shopping, there is no other entertainment.However, as the weather got hotter, he became more and more lazy to go out in the sun. Practicing kung fu and sword every day was just a short time in the morning, so naturally it couldn't help him pass the long days.

It was under such boredom that the Palace Master Nangong discovered the two vegetable fields in front of Qin San's two rooms.This time the Grand Palace Master became interested, and came over in three steps at a time. While looking at those green vegetable seedlings and vines, he smiled and said, "It's growing pretty fast. It's just been planted before, and it's growing now." That's it."

"Hey, who is it? Don't mess with my food." A majestic roar came from a distance, and then the footsteps of "dong dong dong" sounded, and a figure ran towards this side quickly.

"Hey, isn't your practice of lightness skills too good?" Nangong Jiangdu raised his head sullenly, and then saw Qin Sanliang's handsome face under the sun. Fang suddenly remembered that this was the only bumpkin in his palace, let alone lightness skills. , I don't even know how to go to the room, thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, the country bumpkin was standing in front of him, his face was covered with sweat, and the hair on his forehead was wet with sweat, and the black locks stuck to his forehead and cheeks, which was quite touching.

Although her complexion was not as white as that of bullying Saixue, it was light wheat and smooth.The country people who face the loess and their backs to the sky are not tanned like black charcoal, which can be said to be unique.

"Master...Master." Recognizing Nangong Jiangdu, Qin Sanliang flinched, but immediately realized that he had done nothing wrong, so his chest stood up again, and his tone was humble: "Master, what are you doing here? "

"Oh, just walk around and look around, and I saw your vegetable field." Nangong Jiangdu patted Qin Sanliang on the shoulder: "Okay, the vegetables are well prepared, and this one is full of fresh green eyes, which is really cute ah."

As soon as this was mentioned, Qin Sanliang smiled, and nodded excitedly: "Yes, master, if you want to do other things, I can't do it, but I don't want to brag about doing this farm work. I'm the second in the village." , no one dared to recognize the number one, especially the soil in the yard of the master is good, so this vegetable grows very green..."

"Then this vegetable has grown so far, is it ready to eat?" Nangong Jiangdu's eyes were shining, staring at the vegetable field greedily, feeling like his mouth was watering.

He also went to the kitchen to look at it before, but the leaves of those vegetables were not even a little shiny, and they didn't appeal to the appetite. The master chefs said that the vegetables bought in the vegetable market were like that.Now looking at this kind of fresh vegetables in the ground, it is really not comparable to those broken vegetables, and it must taste very good.

Qin Sanliang didn't realize at all that the master in front of him was actually a big bad wolf who was greedy to snatch the fruits of his labor, and nodded happily: "Mmm, it's almost the same, the cabbage leaves are the most delicious at this time , especially when cooking soup, if there are some meatballs, the taste, wow, just thinking about it makes my mouth water.”

"Gudu", as if to cooperate with his words, Palace Master Nangong immediately swallowed a mouthful of saliva, nodded frequently and said: "Little cabbage, right? Okay, I remember it. That... come here, take all these vegetable seedlings." Pull it out, let the kitchen cook a pot of cabbage meatball soup at night, and today I will taste what this fresh vegetable tastes like."

Qin Sanliang's smile froze on his face, he blinked his eyes, and it took him a long time to finally realize Nangong Jiangdu's words, he jumped up with an "Aww" and shouted: "No, no, no, this is the vegetable I planted. I haven't grown it yet. If you are willing to take a bite, you... how can you sit back and enjoy it?"

"It's so funny, can you tell me this? If I don't sit back and enjoy the benefits, am I still the master?" Nangong Jiangdu laughed, and the angry Qin Sanliang was really cute, like a big rooster with its neck hair raised , especially those eyes, the pure anger shining with them is particularly moving.

"Who stipulates that the master can sit back and enjoy what he gets? It's shameful to get something for nothing. Only mice and foxes would do this kind of thing."

Qin Sanliang did not show any weakness.Maybe it was Nangong Jiangdu's smiling eyebrows that encouraged him, maybe it was the anger that the food was about to be taken away inspired him, in short, at this moment, Qin Sanliang completely forgot to be afraid.

"Masters are all sitting and enjoying what they get, and it's not just mice and foxes that get something for nothing, right? Those beasts get something for nothing, such as tigers, wolves, and black bears. When did you see them still farming and working? Don't they still have meat to eat?" ?” Compared to eloquence, how could Qin Sanliang be Nangong Jiangdu’s opponent?

"That...that...that..." Qin San said three "that" words in a row, but couldn't continue. He always felt that there was something wrong with Nangong Jiangdu's words, but he couldn't say it.

"Anyway, this is my food, you are not allowed to move." In the end, Qin Sanliang could only say so, like an old hen protecting the chick from being picked up by an eagle, he stood on the vegetable He stretched his arms and crossed his legs in front of the ground, that posture almost made Nangong Jiangdu faint with a smile.

"It's against you, who taught you to talk to the master like this?" With a loud shout, the housekeeper Liang Xiao approached murderously, and then looked at Nangong Jiangdu: "Master, this kind of servant who doesn't understand the rules is still Send it out, last time the chief manager Ming told the little one, and later said that you want to keep it, forget it, but today you can say nothing to spare him.”

Qin Sanliang quickly lowered his head, like a mouse seeing a cat.Liang Xiao glanced at the vegetable field with disdain, and said to the people behind him, "Pull them all out, take them to the kitchen to make soup."

Nangong Jiangdu looked curiously, but saw the bumpkin with his head bowed and a pair of rough hands twisting the skirt of his clothes. He was obviously heartbroken, but he didn't dare to say a word.

Nangong Jiangdu was surprised, thinking, could the majesty of my master be inferior to that of a little housekeeper?Where did this bumpkin fight with me just now?

He looked at Liang Xiao, who was full of murderous looks, and then at Qin Sanliang, who dared to be angry but did not speak out, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a tinge of pity.

"Enough is enough. It's not enough to feed pigs. One meal is enough. Let's save the rest." Nangong Jiangdu stopped the rough servants in the kitchen, and then waved his hand: "Okay , step back."

After Liang Xiao and the rest of the servants retreated, Qin Sanliang remained silent.

Nangong Jiangdu teased him, but he refused to raise his head. In the end, the Grand Palace Mistress couldn't bear it any longer, and raised the bumpkin's chin with his hand, but seeing the other side puffed up his cheeks, he gave him a hard look, then snorted, and turned his head. Just entered the house.

"Hehe, it's pretty cute." Nangong Jiangdu shook his head with a smile, and looked at the emerald green vegetable field again. A longing for dinner arose in his heart. After thinking about it, he finally shouted outside the house: "You come to me tonight. Go eat in the house, don't worry, I won't eat your cabbage for nothing."

After finishing speaking, Fang turned and walked towards his own room.

Time passed quickly, and the sun went down in a blink of an eye.Nangong Jiangdu sat on the chair in front of the window and kept looking into the yard. In the outer room, Qingming, who had been taking care of him by his side, was painting.

After a while, a familiar figure appeared in sight.

She was wearing a blue homespun gown, with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and the lower body was a pair of washed white cloth trousers, the trouser legs were also rolled up to the knees.However, such a crude attire does not look shabby in the setting sun, but has a wild and unruly beauty.

"Hehe, this guy, he's really here." Nangong Jiangdu took a sip of tea and couldn't help laughing.

Before the words were finished, Qin Sanliang's voice was heard outside the house: "Scholarly Family First, "Hey, Brother Ming, what are you doing here... Wow, are you drawing? My God, you can still draw? No?" Right? Seeing how cold you are, it turns out... oh my god, you are still drawing so well, this sweet potato flower has been painted alive by you."

With a sound of "Pfft...", Nangong Jiangdu spit out a mouthful of water.

He was thinking of sweet potato flowers?How could it be sweet potato flowers?I took a look just now, the painting of Uncle Ming is clearly a chrysanthemum, right?While thinking, people have already rushed out.

What caught my eye was Uncle Ming's face as black as the bottom of a pot, and further down, there was a trembling hand holding a brush. Just when Nangong Jiangdu was afraid that a good picture of chrysanthemums would be destroyed in this way, he heard that Uncle Ming was calm. opened his mouth.

"What are sweet potato flowers?" The tone was calm.Nangong Jiangdu thought that Uncle Ming's concentration was good, and he could speak so calmly at such a time.

"Ah, brother Ming, you are so humble, you even ask me for advice." Qin Sanliang smiled a little embarrassedly, showing his gleaming white teeth.

"Idiot, Uncle Ming is just holding on to his last hope. He hopes that sweet potato flower is another name for chrysanthemum on your side."

Nangong Jiangdu couldn't bear it any longer, and turned his head to Qingming and said, "Uncle Ming, you don't have to look forward to it, the sweet potato flower is what we usually call the geranium peony, in the back yard, it's everywhere, and no one takes care of it. You’ll find out when you go to see it some other day.”