Xiaoqi hugged his arms with both hands and gently tapped his fingers on his arms.

"... Then what day did you say 'these days'?

Seeing that Xiaoqi started asking for details, Feng Yishu knew that she had let go and couldn't help but smile and replied, "It's the day when the beginning of winter!"

Xiaoqi calculated, "It's the day after tomorrow?"

"Yes," Feng Yishu nodded, "But I had to join His Majesty's guard of honor early that morning. After I sent her out of the city, I would come back to pick you up quickly, and we would go to Mr. Mei's side to pick Ayu together."

“All arranged?”

“All arranged!”

Xiaoqi narrowed his eyes and stared at Feng Yishu meaningfully for a while, "...Are you afraid that Mr. Mei will not be suitable for you to take his sister out alone, so he took me with him to make people feel relieved?"

"Oh, no!" Feng Yishu shook his head repeatedly, "I have a gift for you--you!"

Xiaoqi murmured in a low voice, "...what is a gift."

"Every year, the Museum Department will count the collections. The collections containing more than ten items in the warehouse are sent to Sibaojian and then go to the private sector to find buyers. At that time, I will take you to the warehouse that you counted out and take whatever you like. I will pay for the money, how about it?"

"Hmph." Xiao Qi calmed down his lips and suddenly couldn't help laughing, "Okay."

Feng Yishu finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Then are you willing to forgive me?"

Xiaoqi punched Feng Yishu in the chest, "Don't be too happy too early, I'll see your performance then!"

...

At night, Qingxiu held firewood and followed Kuang Lu to do the transportation work.

When passing by the tea room, the boy's eyes remained unchanged at the lights and shadows that were leaping on the windows.

"Kuanglu." He suddenly shouted the old man's name.

"Um?"

"You said that old lady who lives in the palace dared to go to Daizong Mountain at this time?" The young man suddenly looked over, "Why do you think she should be far away from Daizong Mountain now, right?"

Kuang Lu laughed, "She is the emperor, and everyone in the world is watching her every move."

"so what?"

The old man thought for a while, "Then let me give an example? For example, we went to somewhere together? There are many rumors that this place will soon become very dangerous, but only the gentleman insists that it is safe? Let us stay here and not walk around - but what would you think if the gentleman left here himself?"

"...What do I think?" Qing Xiu looked at Kuang Lu for some reason? "Since the sir asked me to stay here, then I will stay here."

Kuang Lu raised his eyebrows slightly? Trying to continue the explanation? "But if this place is safe, how could the sir leave?"

"There must be a reason for the gentleman to leave. If you want to know why he left, you will ask. If you can tell you, the gentleman will definitely say it? It's useless if you can't say it's not useful if you ask?"

"...Forget it." Kuang Lu reached out and covered half of his face, "Anyway, the emperor did this to reassure the people in the city."

"Why can she reassure the people of Luoyang by doing this?"

"I can't explain clearly," Kuang Lu sighed? "After moving the firewood in a while, you go and ask the sir."

Qing Xiu jumped and said "Oh"? The steps under his feet suddenly got faster. He ran barefoot on the wooden floor. He was like an ordinary eleven or twelve-year-old boy.

He ran to the kitchen quickly, then quickly returned to Kuang Lu? Looking at the old man pitifully? "Can I move the remaining firewood over in a moment?"

"No." Kuang Lu calmly refused.

"Why!"

"Don't rely too much on spiritual power?" The old man's voice was as always, with unhorrisome determination, "You must learn to live on your own."

A displeasure visible to the naked eye appeared on Qing Xiu's face. He glared at Kuang Lu gloomyly, and when he passed by the old man, he deliberately bumped into Kuang Lu's shoulder. The old man easily flashed past him.

The two of them moved the firewood they bought from the door to the kitchen. Every time Kuanglu carried a small bundle, Qing Xiu carried a pile of firewood as high as three or four of him in one breath. While the old man was walking back and forth leisurely, the young man had already rushed back and forth three or five times.

The firewood mountain piled at the door gradually became less and thinking that after moving the firewood, Kuang Lu yawned, but when he and the boy passed by Xiaying's tea room for the last time, they heard an unusual sound, as if an iron tool had fallen to the ground.

Kuang Lu and Qing Xiu stopped at the same time, and the sound of hard and painful gasping came from the tea room.

"gentlemen……"

Both of them realized something was wrong and immediately threw the firewood in their hands on the ground. Qing Xiu rushed in front and saw Xia Ying kneeling on the ground as soon as he pushed open the door.

His left hand tightly grasped the wrist of his right hand, and there were several round wounds in the palm of his right hand. The center of the wound was bright red, and there were bloody blisters, and a string of light white dots appeared on the edge.

Qing Xiu stepped forward a few steps before he wanted to help Xiaying get up, but he heard Xiaying scolding in a threatening voice.

“…Don’t touch me!”

Qing Xiu trembled all over and stopped.

Not far from Xia Ying's body, a turtle shell rolled down, and three copper coins were scattered near the turtle shell, which was the same size as the wound in Xia Ying's palm.

Following the sound just now, Kuang Lu slowly touched the turtle shell and a copper coin.

"...Sir, what's the matter?"

Xiaying did not answer, and after the initial unbearable severe pain, he returned to peace again.

He endured the pain of the wound and got up and went to the drawer nearby to get medicine and bandages.

Qing Xiu turned around and looked at the copper coins in Kuang Lu's hand, his eyes turned red, "Mr.'s copper coins used for divination... I... I have all washed and burned..."

"It's not your fault," Xiaying whispered while applying medicine to herself, "It's me that I forgot to wear gloves and thought about something else, and I neglected it."

He quickly bandaged himself, then skillfully bit off one end of the bandage.

"Nothing, minor injuries."

"Qing Xiu," Kuang Lu ordered, "Pick up the things on the ground and take them to reprocess them."

"...Okay." Qing Xiu listened to Kuang Lu's instructions in a panic, but his trembling hands went to pick up the copper plates on the ground several times but it was not very successful. It took a lot of effort to put the remaining two dollars into the turtle shell.

"Sir, be careful." Kuang Lu bowed gently to Xia Ying, "Since it's okay, let's step down first."

"Yeah." Xiaying nodded.

Soon Xia Ying was left alone in the tea room.

He returned to his position and sat down, looking at the white gauze gloves placed on the table, and was a little dazed.
Chapter completed!