Chapter 21

I guard you.

The porter announced loudly through the screen wall: "Miss, girl, there are two guests outside the door."

Qin Jun was taken aback, holding the willow stick in his hand, "Who?"

Most of the people serving here didn't know Qin Jun's identity, so they said, "It's the two young masters."

Another servant at the door had already invited people to the front hall to serve tea, but the tea hadn't been served yet, but Qin and Li were too restless to sit still.

It's only because the princess is a female family member, otherwise the aggressive two would have broken into the backyard long ago.

Qin Jun heard the noise and looked sideways at Assassin Fei.

The assassin flew back silently and disappeared into the dark place, Ji Si got up and went back to her room to get dressed.

Qin Jun said, "Let's go if you need something."

The boy replied behind the screen wall: "Here."

Jin Xiu went forward to tidy up Qin Jun's skirt, but she had one hand, which was very inconvenient.

Ji Si came quickly, "Let's rest."

Jin Xiu nodded and stood aside, her eyes suddenly fell on the willow stick Qin Jun was still holding, "Little..."

"Jun'er!" Li Wuduan and Qin Kuang rushed in hastily.

"Sister, I heard—"

Both of them were stunned for a moment, dumbfounded under the screen wall.

Ji Si stood sideways, her side face revealed, and she was running her fingers through Qin Jun's beautiful hair. The waterfall-like black hair flowed through her fingers and was placed behind her head.She straightened Qin Jun's skirt, straightened the cuffs, and took the wicker in Qin Jun's hand. It didn't take a few breaths to finish all this.

Only then did Ji Si turn around and salute the two in the atrium.

"My lord, this is the inner courtyard." Ji Si said.

Qin Jun stroked her hair, seemingly unintentionally, but she had been paying attention to Qin Kuang all the time, and coughed softly, "Jin Xiu, invite the two young masters to the front hall, set the table, and ask the kitchen to add two dishes."

It was only then that Li Wuduan felt that his behavior was really abrupt, even though he was a younger sister, there were other women around, so he immediately folded his sleeves and cupped his hands, "Thank you, sister Jin Xiu."

Qin Kuang had long been obsessed with where he was, staring at Ji Si in a daze, "You, you..."

Ji Si nodded and walked in front of the two to lead the way: "Young Master Qin, please."

Li Wuduan followed, and suddenly felt that Qin Kuang was motionless, looking back wondering: "Brother Qin, what's wrong?"

Qin Kuang's eyes were flushed with disbelief, and the excitement and joy of finding it again, "Lady Pin, you...you are still alive...I thought you, so I never searched for it carefully, for fear that my hope would be lost..."

Li Wuduan: "Brother Qin?"

Ji Si took the lantern from another maidservant.Qin Jun came up from behind, "This is my maid, brother knows?"

"Your maid?" Qin Kuang was slightly surprised, but immediately remembered something, and his face twisted.

Ji Si led the way with a lantern. She changed into two outfits today. This outfit was not as flashy as attending the Mei Banquet during the day, but it was still very pretty.

The white skirt flared slightly from the knees and brushed against the brown wood.On the top is a blue dress with blue hems hanging down to the thighs and overlapping the hips and legs. The clothes are matched with ink and wash, and the waist is tied with a dark belt two palms wide.Wide sleeves are just the right size.

Wearing this kind of skirt, the pleated skirt is like a flower that has just bloomed, and it has not yet fully bloomed from the bone, but it will reveal the color and it is already a hundred styles.The upper garment is long and wraps tightly around the legs, allowing the woman to walk like a lotus flower, with her waist and hips slightly twisted, her body like a full body, and every step is a painting, as beautiful as a fairy in a painting.

This skirt is difficult to wear, and it is not suitable for girls who are used to walking quickly. Not only are they prone to tripping and falling, but they will also get angry when walking.

If you don't know how to twist your hips, you can't wear this kind of skirt. If you twist it a little more, it will easily look sloppy and irregular. If you twist it a little less, you will lose your daughter's figure.

Naturally, those who are not in good shape and passable can't wear them.

Now Qin and Zhou are open-minded, and both men and women are pursuing pleasure. They just learn and do what tastes good, how happy, how good-looking.

But the ministers of the older generation in the court do not admire this kind of clothes, and the famous families do not allow their relatives to wear them. They have verbally banned it, but this dress still enjoys countless fans among the people, and the ladies of the official family will also secretly buy it.In order to try on in the boudoir.

Li Wuduan lives in Jiang Prefecture, which is located in the deep part of Qin and Zhou dynasties. He has rarely seen this kind of skirt, only heard it from his colleagues who often go to restaurants and brothels.But seeing Ji Si wearing it, he only cares about admiration, and has no intention of intimacy.

This woman looks too noble and pure, her appearance and demeanor are repulsive to others, and there is already a look of disdain between her frowns. If she is two years older, she will be very precious, I'm afraid it won't be easy to look directly at her.

Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking.Li Wuduan watched Ji Si serve Qin Jun with vegetables and food, and wanted to blurt out several times, where is that prostitute?

Looking at her attire, she vaguely felt that the prostitute was Ji Si, but when she looked at her appearance, she became uncertain again, so she hesitated, and couldn't eat enough for a meal.

What about Qin Kuang?He has been absent-minded for a long time, and he looks dazed for a while, laughs with regret for a while, feels extremely absurd for a while, and has a wonderful expression.

It's cold, in the first month of the year, it's the coldest day of the year, Qin Jun's body feels warm after half a bowl of chicken soup, looking at Li Wuduan's staring eyes, and Qin Kuang's sad expression, he can barely drink the soupI have a stomachache and don't know how to speak.

Needless to say, the two of you are here today to interrogate Mei Yan.

Li Wuduan and Qin Kuang didn't use much food, so they used some at will, and waited for Qin Jun to finish eating, so as to ask the teacher.

It's all your fault, Qin Jun secretly glanced at Ji Si.

But Ji Si made a mistake, took the bowl from Qin Jun's hand, pinched her chin with two fingers of her left hand, took a silk handkerchief from her side with her right hand, and wiped her lips bit by bit as if no one else was around.

Qin Jun: "..."

Li Wuduan was dumbfounded.

Qin Kuang was furious.

Qin Jun laughed dryly, grabbed the handkerchief, "I'll do it myself."

Ji Si stood aside, looking at her with a half-smile.

It's just a maid, how can there be such a servant who waits on the master, wipes his mouth and rinses his mouth, as long as he brings water, a pot and a cloth towel, the master doesn't have no hands, can't he do it himself?

Li Wuduan frowned, "Jun'er, don't be so lazy."

Presumably the nobles of Capital are used to enjoying it, but this is the first time Li Wuduan saw that someone puts food into a bowl, wipes his mouth with someone else's hand.Capital is such a style of extravagance and pleasure, it should have been banned long ago!

Qin Kuang didn't know why, but he snorted coldly when he saw this: "Oh."

The reproach in Li Wuduan's eyes deepened.

Qin Jun was really suffering, her eyes wandered, and she glanced at Ji Si quietly, "..."

The corners of Ji Si's mouth curled up slightly, "Miss, I can't eat too much."

Qin Jun: "..."

She is not full yet!

Qin Jun pursed her lips, "Come on, please leave."

Dispersing the dining table, eating and drinking enough, this is a serious matter, and it is time to talk about it.

Jin Xiu came into the front hall to serve Qin Jun, with her right arm still hanging in front of her body, saluted and stood beside Qin Jun with Ji Si on one left and one on the right.

"Why is Jin Xiu hurt?" Li Wuduan asked curiously.

Jin Xiu replied: "I fell and injured it a few days ago."

A black shadow flashed outside the door, so fast that one might think it was an illusion.

Li Wuduan frowned, thinking he was suspicious.

Qin Jun: "Cousin, why did you come here at night?"

Li Wuduan glanced at Ji Si unobtrusively, looked at Qin Kuang, and said, "Brother Qin, let's talk first."

"Just tell me," Qin Kuang asked Qin Jun, "fourth brother asks you, why is Lady Pin in your house? Do you know her identity?"

Qin Jun groaned, feeling a little guilty: "I was rescued by accident. I didn't know her identity before. What's the matter?"

Qin Kuang looked at Ji Si with unclear meaning, and said anxiously: "Then, do you know that she, she is..."

She is a prostitute, Li Wuduan added in his heart.Thinking about it, this is more appropriate for my cousin.Probably because Jun'er has no cousins in Capital, her mother died young and she has no one to teach her, so she learned the crooked trend of raising a pet girl.If he brought his family with him, it would be even better if Jun'er's sister-in-law would break it down.

Qin Kuang immediately said, "She is the one I told you—"

Li Wuduan didn't hear it clearly, and just nodded in satisfaction with his teacup, thinking, under such teaching, if Jun'er wakes up, I will try to persuade her to find an innocent man in Jiang Prefecture to marry and marry her.It is not difficult for the two to get together and part ways.

Qin Kuang's face was flushed, and the three of his lovers couldn't tell what to do. When he remembered that the woman he had longed for had become his younger sister's pet outside the palace...he just!He is heartbroken!

He doesn't think about eating and drinking day and night, and looks so embarrassed. It's not uncommon for Qin Jun to visit... No, no, no, Jun'er didn't know that Lady Pin was his favorite. After the fine jade building caught fire, why couldn't he find Lady Pin?Is there no one to do it?

Li Wuduan sighed, stroking Qin Kuang's shoulder with his big palm, patted to comfort him, and then said: "How do you think brother Qin is angry? I shouldn't have said this to you and your fourth brother."

Qin Kuang's head was dizzy, and he repeatedly struggled between thanking Qin Jun for saving Ji Si and complaining that Qin Jun might have hindered his search for Ji Si.

Qin Jun smiled mischievously, and waved to Ji Si, signaling her to step back quickly.

When Ji Si came out of the front hall, Qin Kuang followed her with his eyes, but he felt yearning and felt even more sad.

Seeing Qin Jun dismissing Ji Si, Li Wuduan said that she was guilty, and then began to persuade: "Jin'er, you are too bold, it's fine if you take this girl to the plum banquet, and you still make such a sensation, thenIsn’t it known all over the world?”

Qin Kuang was shocked: "Everyone in the world knows..."

Brother and sister fighting against each other, for a woman?How ridiculous!

"Ridiculous!" Qin Kuang suddenly became angry, and waved his big hand on the tea table, causing the tea cup to fall to the ground.

Li Wuduan was surprised: "Brother Qin? Calm down!"

"Jun'er!" Li Wuduan stood up, "Quickly admit your mistake."

Qin Jun: "..."

It's not good to take someone's love, Qin Jun stood up and was about to speak.

Jin Xiu said: "It's just raising a girl, the prince's son, there is no need to be so laborious."

Li Wuduan: "..."

Qin Kuang: "..."

Qin Jun took a deep breath.

Even Li Wuduan couldn't control his temper anymore, and said angrily: "Aunt Xiu, why are you like this... Is that an ordinary woman!? That's a prostitute!"

"Nonsense!" Qin Kuang yelled, "How can you call Lady Pin by a prostitute!"

There was silence.

Li Wuduan was taken aback by Qin Kuang, "What, what!"

Qin Kuang blushed and had a thick neck: "Lady Pin is clean and self-conscious, what kind of prostitute, Brother Li, don't belittle her!"

Qin Jun: "..."

Harm, Qin Jun flicked his sleeves.

"Good, you Qin Kuang!" Li Wuduan reacted and cursed, "No wonder we met at the door earlier, I guessed from your excited expression on the theater that you came to the theater. Seeing this girl, I became distraught again.I thought you finally looked like an older brother! After a long time, you are also the guest of this prostitute! You and Jun'er..."

Qin Kuang immediately went to see Qin Jun, "Lady Pin and I are innocent!"

Qin Jun held his forehead and sighed helplessly.

Li Wuduan became more and more angry, "You, really, this Capital is really filthy...I want to take Jun'er back to Jiang Prefecture!"

Qin Kuang immediately said: "No way! How can Jun'er go to Jiang Prefecture to suffer!"

"Going to Jiang Prefecture is a hardship!"

Li Wuduan and Qin Kuang started to quarrel, one disliked the other and didn't know how to make progress, and only wanted to have fun.The one who dislikes the other party is old and dull, and only preaches to others.The noise made Qin Jun a headache.

"Okay," Qin Jun said suddenly, "stop arguing!"

Li Wuduan and Qin Kuang stared at each other angrily, their nostrils flaring angrily, watching each other gnash their teeth, and finally they could only turn their backs to each other angrily before they calmed down.

Qin Jun cleared her throat and said, "Cousin, Fourth Brother, Lady Pin is indeed my maid, but things are not what you think."

"I just feel sorry for her and just keep her by my side." Qin Jun said.

Li Wuduan stretched his sleeves and said: "This girl can't be kept, you send her away, if she wants to find a good family..."

Qin Kuang's eyes flashed suddenly, "Kang Wang's residence still lacks a maid."

Li Wuduan: "Qin Kuang! You bastard, you see the color..."

"Okay, okay," Qin Jun pressed her forehead, "No need, I have promised Lady Pin to take care of her for the rest of her life. She is also grateful for my life-saving grace. She was born in the land of fireworks and sees the red dust. Now she vows not to marry, and she is willing to be with me in the future."Master and servant are commensurate, serve till old age.”

Outside the hall, Ji Si hid behind the pillar, with her hands folded over her chest, the corners of her mouth slightly raised to listen to the movement in the hall.

Qin Kuang felt as if he had been hit by a bolt from the blue, and was deeply shocked: "... She, really said that?"

Li Wuduan was taken aback, thinking that he had misunderstood?"Jun'er?"

Jin Xiu glanced at Qin Jun, with a sense of divine presence that said nothing.

Qin Jun said: "Let's leave it at that. I will always say the same when anyone comes in the future. Is there something else for the two elder brothers?"

Qin Kuang came back to his senses, saw Jin Xiu's expression, secretly felt that he had been deceived, and immediately said in displeasure, "It's nothing! Just leave it alone!"

After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and rushed away angrily with his hands behind his back.

Qin Jun: "...Cousin, is there anything else?"

Li Wuduan shook his head helplessly, saw Qin Kuang leave, and said, "I really have something to tell you."

Jin Xiu sent someone to clean the hall, sweeping away the broken teacups.Qin Jun and Li Wuduan sat down holding the teacup again.

Li Wuduan said: "Your Majesty wants to send me to Jindi to suppress bandits."

Qin Jun froze for a moment, then nodded back to her senses. In fact, this matter is not difficult to guess. Jindi borders Jiang, and there is a yuan sandwiched between the adjacent territories.The barbarian lands are all nomadic. The Yuan Dynasty had a vast land but not abundant products. They repeatedly violated the Jindi and spared their livelihood. They cannot just sit idly by and deal with the Yuan people. The most experienced person is to repel the Yuan people six years ago.General Lee.

Li Yezhen was too old to go to war, and his son Li Yuechuan was in his forties and fifties, who happened to be in the prime of his life, unfortunately he was also seriously injured, and the root cause of his illness was taken care of by Jiang Prefecture.Li Yuechuan fought with Li Yezhen against the people of Yuan Dynasty, so he was the best candidate.

Qin Jun guessed that Qin Bian's goal at the beginning was to let Li Yuechuan go to suppress the bandits, but Li Yuechuan was Li Yueying's older brother, and Li Yueying died of dystocia.Qin Bian was not sure about convincing Li Yuechuan, so he started with Li Wuduan, who came to Capital at the age of 20.

"Cousin agreed?" Qin Jun asked.

Li Wuduan shook his head, "Not yet, today I wanted to write a letter from my family and send it to Jiang Prefecture to inform about it. But considering that Jiang Prefecture is hundreds of miles away, it took me more than half a month to get from Jiang Prefecture to Capital.I don’t have a good horse, so I’m afraid it won’t be delivered in time, so after much deliberation, I can only discuss with you.”

Qin Jun pursed her lips, "Suppressing bandits is no small matter."

"Don't worry," Li Wuduan smiled helplessly, "I'm just suppressing bandits, I can't die, but I'm ashamed that although I know martial arts, I only have courage and strength. I'm afraid that the failure to suppress bandits will ruin the reputation of grandfather and father."

Parents are wise and martial, famous all over the world, while children are aggressive or rebellious or humble and inferior.Qin Jun took a sip of the tea, looked at Li Wuduan's full of melancholy, and finally said: "I have a plan, cousin can listen to it, and if you want to go to suppress the bandits."

Li Wuduan looked at Qin Jun in surprise, "Say it."

Qin Jun smiled and said, "Go to the study."

The two left the front hall, and Ji Si appeared with a lantern at some point, and followed to the study.

In the study, Qin Jun spread out a map in front of the desk, which collected Qin Zhou's territory and the places where he surrendered.

"Look." Qin Jun said.

Ji Si held up the copper lamp and moved closer to light it. A burst of plum blossom fragrance approached her. Qin Jun scratched her ears and gave her a sideways look.

Ji Si has been taking medicine all the time, but she has never smelled of herbs when she was serving Qin Jun, and when she came back from the plum forest today, she has a faint fragrance of cold plum.

"Huh?" Ji Si asked Qin Jun with a smile.

Qin Jun: "...you go out first."

"Let her stay here, where is Jin Xiu?" Li Wuduan pressed his fist against his chin and coughed lightly, looking at Ji Si displeased.

Qin Jun knew that she had to avoid suspicion, "Jin Xiu went to see if fourth brother came home, lest he go get drunk again."

Li Wuduan nodded, "Auntie Xiu is getting better and better, I didn't realize when she disappeared."

"Why do you have this?" Li Wuduan looked at the map.

Qin Jun grinned: "I saw it in Kang Wang's mansion before, but the fourth brother didn't give it to me. Who knew that it was delivered on the first day of the year. I put it in the bamboo garden and have a look at it occasionally."

Ji Si added tea for the two of them, and made the charcoal fire in the stove burn brightly, warming the surroundings.

Qin Jun: "Winter is the time when bandits are most active, but once winter comes to spring, if the issue of bandits in Rucheng and other places is not resolved, they will rob spring seeds and delay spring plowing."

Li Wuduan frowned and nodded, "There are more and more rogues. According to the records from years ago, the number of waves varies. A rough estimate is at least five thousand."

Qin Jun was slightly surprised: "Five thousand?"

This number is already comparable to an elite soldier.

"Yes, my sister has any good plans, but it doesn't matter."

When Jin Xiu came back, seeing Ji Si guarding the door, she stopped talking and prepared to go back to her room to rest.

Ji Si nodded and nodded in response. She found that Jin Xiu's attitude towards herself has improved since the last time she fought against Assassin Fei, when she cleverly attacked Fei's armpit to save Jin Xiu's right arm.

Ji Si pursed her lips, leaned against the pillar, and lightly closed her eyelids.

Qin Jun and Li Wuduan talked for two full hours, their mouths were so dry that they drank a few teapots.

Two hours later, Qin Jun saw off Li Wuduan, who was anxious and angry when he came, but he was refreshed when he left.

Qin Jun's face was exhausted. There were many things to do today, and it felt like a day of flying around.

Ji Si put away the map for her, and saw the four characters on the top of the mountains and rivers——Jin Xiu Mountains and Rivers.

Qin Jun said wearily: "The map is precious, private drawing and stealing are not allowed, the father once gave the fourth brother this map, let him face the mountains and rivers every day, hoping that he will reap the joy of playing."

"It's a pity," Ji Si traced the scroll with her hands, she had a relationship with Qin Kuang several times, and the Fourth Prince was also one of the people who wanted to buy her first night, "This picture has eaten a lot of ashes in the palace."

Qin Jun and Ji Si looked at each other and smiled, thought for a while, and said, "Lady Pin, Qin Zhou has no generals. You said two years ago, will wars be fought in the frontier?"

Ji Si raised her eyes: "The princess is afraid of fighting?"

"War disaster," Qin Jun stared into her eyes, as if wanting to see into the depths of Ji Si's heart, "No one is afraid."

Ji Si narrowed her eyes slightly, and a smile flashed in her eyes, "If this day comes, I will fight for the princess."

Qin Jun's eyelashes trembled, she turned her face away, and said guiltily, "No, that's not what I meant."

Ji Si smiled, handed the candle to Qin Jun, closed the door and went back to the room with her, "I don't know how to fight, and I haven't read many sage books. The books I read are all pornographic/love books, and the songs I can sing areObscenity/song beauty/song."

The night is bright and windy, there is no snow tonight, and it is very cold.

Qin Jun slowly walked back to the room with Ji Si, thinking, but you are very talented, Jiang Guoda Sima is a rare talent, he will teach you literary talent in person, please invite the first assassin? Madam to teach you martial arts.In a few years, you will become the number one military general of the Jiang Kingdom, making the people in the world fearful, and Qin Zhou is also on your list of meritorious service.

It was too late, and Ji Si was afraid that Qin Jun would catch the cold, so she only called hot water to wash her face and feet.

Qin Jun blushed, "I'll do it myself..."

"I made a mistake today, and the princess hasn't punished me yet," Ji Si said, rubbing her feet carefully, "Come here, slave."

Qin Jun was sitting on a wooden stool, hugging the complicated skirt, showing her slender and straight calves. For some reason, she felt a little embarrassed. She shrank her toes, "No, you don't need to wash it so carefully."

Ji Si smiled: "Yes."

The soles of the feet are constantly being charged, and the itching rises up, making the earlobe and the back of the skull numb.Qin Jun swallowed her saliva and broke her foot from Ji Si's palm, "Okay, okay, I'm sleepy."

Ji Si then wrapped Qin Jun's feet with a cloth towel, picked her up, and placed her on the couch outside the screen, "Princess, don't be afraid."

Qin Jun was taken aback for a moment, blushing and speechless.

Ji Si sat on her knees on the ground, leaned towards Qin Jun with her hands on the ground, stretched her waist like a cat and approached, "It's really like fighting a war", she whispered in Qin Jun's ear, "I will protect you."

Qin Jun's ears went numb, her face immediately heated up, she shrank back, and then got up again, her skirt flipped.

boom!

The Hu stool on the ground was knocked to the ground, and a shadow of a figure was printed on the screen, quickly shrinking and fading away, turning into a phantom.Qin Jun rushed to the inner bed, blew out the lamps and candles, and threw herself on the bed, wrapping herself into a chrysalis with a quilt.

"It's getting late, Lady Pin should go to bed earlier!" Qin Jun shouted to Ji Si who was outside the screen.

Ji Si: "No."

"You really bother." Assassin Fei appeared quietly at the end of the corridor, standing in black with arms folded, looking coldly at Ji Si who came out.

Ji Si smiled obsessively, without looking at the assassin, put her hands on her waist, squatted gracefully towards the closed door of the wing, and then stood up gracefully.When turning around, Ji Si's smile disappeared, her eyes flew towards the assassin coldly, and when she turned around, she said calmly, "Practice."

Assassin Fei: "Tch, I'm a top assassin. If I take disciples, this person will have to line up a long street for ten miles. It's good to come to you. Put your little master first in everything?"

Ji Si: "Oh."

"Who the hell is serving people during the day and still comes to practice martial arts at night! Forget it, I was poisoned," Assassin Fei cursed, and his voice followed Ji Si away, "...Sooner or later, he will stab that girl to death!"

Ji Si's voice came from afar, and it was as calm as clear water: "If you don't want this mouth, you can cut it off and feed it to the dogs."

Assassin Fei: "You—"

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