Chapter Twelve: Teasing Qiu Ju
The days ahead will be interesting!
The Hu Ben Guard guarding in the small yard was withdrawn. What was strange was that even Zhang Jingfang disappeared and there was no trace again. Instead, Zhang Jingrui had come a few times and said a few words, but he didn't say anything more.
On this day, it had just rained and it was slightly clear. Cheng Geng stretched out his waist and looked at the scenery outside the window, thinking about how to leave the Zhang Mansion and return to Qintian Town to take a look. Thinking of his huge wealth in Qinfeng Bank, he felt relieved.
A rapid voice came. Looking around, Qiu Ju was running towards the courtyard, and she secretly complained in her heart, "Is this wild girl here to find a problem?" She had always had a deep prejudice against Cheng Geng.
Cheng Geng hurriedly looked around and hid inside. The evil slave was difficult to deal with, so he couldn't help but be afraid.
Sure enough, Qiuju stretched out her fist and smashed the door hard, "Boy, open the door? Open the door quickly?"
The earth was shaking, and almost a storm was storm in Cheng Geng's world.
The answer was not right. If she didn't answer, who could stand it if she kept knocking like this. Cheng Geng thought again, "If she doesn't open the door, she is so fierce that she can't do anything to herself. You can't light the fire, right?" So he plucked up his courage and said, "What's the name? I'm older than you, but I actually called me a brat, do you understand the rules?"
Qiuju put her hands on her hips and tilted her head, "If you have the ability, please open the door, and I promise not to beat you to death."
Cheng Geng looked at Qiu Ju through the crack in the door and said with a wicked smile, "I'm just afraid that you will beat me to death, so I didn't open the door."
Qiuju said angrily, "You are a bastard."
"It's up to you, as long as you like, you can do whatever you like." Cheng Geng guessed that Qiu Ju came to find him, which must have something to do with Zhang Jingfang, so he said that on purpose.
"Okay, I won't bother with you for now." Qiu Ju softened when she heard Cheng Geng's words, "I'm here to pass the message on behalf of my lady."
Cheng Geng said boredly, "What do you want to do with your lady?"
"My lady asked you to go to Xiaojing Lake tonight, she has something to say to you." Qiuju said angrily.
Cheng Geng secretly wondered, "Zhang Jingfang asked me to go to Xiaojing Lake, and I still have something to say to me?" Cheng Geng remembered the kiss, and his heartbeat increased, "I understand, you can leave now."
Qiuju blinked and gritted her teeth, "Then I'll leave." Her voice was very long.
Cheng Geng was secretly funny, "Let's go, why do you have to make such a long sound? It's really interesting." Cheng Geng was ready to open the door, but when he just touched the door, a sudden light of inspiration appeared, and he quickly retracted his hand and looked into the crack of the door. There was no one. A faint scent of jasmine flowers came. He knew that this was the unique smell of Zhang Jingfang. Qiu Ju was Zhang Jingfang's girl, and she also had this smell. She deliberately elongated her voice just now and deceived Cheng Geng.
"Interesting, little girl liar, do you know that the nose of a lie will grow? People will become ugly, the Adam's apple will protrude, the voice will become thicker, and the armpit will grow hair?"
"You're just wearing hair under your armpits?" Sure enough, Qiuju didn't leave.
"Don't believe it. What I said is true. Haven't you read it? Does anyone always shoot wood when they say the wrong thing?" Cheng Geng said with a smug smiled and said proudly, "You definitely don't know why this is?"
"Why?" Qiuju cooperated very well.
"It is said that for a long time, people learned to tell lies, and some people deceived Nvwa. Nvwa is the god of human creation. She looked at the people she created with one hand, but she learned such a hateful bad habit for no reason, and even gradually infected many people like plague. Nvwa's original intention of creating human beings was not like this, but after people had life, they gradually formed this bad habit. Of course, God would not agree. In order to stop this bad habit, she used magical powers to lay a spell. If anyone lies to make people, their noses will grow, people will become ugly, their Adam's apples will protrude, their voices will become very rough, and even hair will grow under their armpits."
Qiuju was fascinated by the sound of hearing, but she still didn't believe it and hurriedly said, "You are a lie. I have seen a lady deceive the master and his wife, but she not only did not become ugly, but was more beautiful."
Cheng Geng was funny, but he sighed deliberately, "You don't know this. After Nuwa set this spell for humans, something strange happened. Because there are too many people lying, everyone's noses cannot grow longer, right? She also slowly discovered that some people lie to save people, or even hide things that are unbearable. If the hidden things are known, it may bring great disasters. So she also sets up a spell to understand the spell, which is to pat the wood. What do you think is for the strengths?"
Qiuju said in a trembling voice, "It's a tree."
"By the way, when the tree grows towards the sky, you pat it hard, can it still grow?" Cheng Geng looked at Qiu Ju's increasingly ugly face and almost smiled.
Speak out.
"I, I don't believe you." She said as she reached out and touched her nose and Adam's apple, and stuttered, "Why didn't my lady slap the table when she deceived the woman and the master?"
Cheng Geng coughed dryly and said, "That's because there is another spell. Didn't I tell you? Some lies are good, so the lying person was not exposed in person, and even if the other party didn't know, the spell would not work. Think about it, you just lied to me and said you were leaving, but I exposed you, and you were really cheating on me, so..."
Qiuju was scared and hurriedly reached out to take a few shots on the door frame.
"It's too late. When I expose you, you have to do this. That's all right. It's too late now." Cheng Geng held back his smile and continued, "Do you feel uncomfortable all over, your heartbeats faster, and even a little panicked, oh, by the way, is your nose a little itchy and your throat is dry?"
Qiuju's face became increasingly ugly, "Then, what should I do?"
"Wait until your nose grows long, what else can you do?" Cheng Geng deliberately elongated his voice.
"It's all caused by you. If my nose really grows, I will kill you." Qiuju shouted aggrievedly.
"It seems that someone is going to be retribution." Cheng Geng teased deliberately. When he saw Qiu Ju crying, he couldn't bear it and hurriedly said, "But there is another way to crack it."
Qiu Ju reached out and grabbed her nose. The more she grabbed her, the more she wanted to grab her, and she was worried that she would really ask, as Cheng Geng said, "What is the solution?"
"Ah, you're so loud that you scared me to death." Cheng Geng deliberately patted his chest, "I'm not in a good heart. I forgot when you're scared. What should I do?"
Qiuju leaned on the door, "Then, then you think about it carefully. This is related to me, I, I haven't gotten married yet."
Cheng Geng couldn't help laughing out loud, Qiu Ju said aggrievedly, "What are you laughing at? This is all caused by you. If it weren't for you, how could I lie?"
Seeing that she was pitiful, Cheng Geng comforted her, "Don't be fierce, let me think about it carefully, maybe I will remember it."
Qiuju hurriedly said, "Okay, then think about it, I'm not fierce." Her fat baby look was very pity.
"I remembered it." Cheng Geng shouted, opened the door, and scared Qiuju.
Qiuju's eyes shone, she rushed in, stared at Cheng Geng eagerly and said, "Speak quickly, tell me quickly."
Cheng Geng remembered Qiu Ju's attitude towards him over the past few days, so his face darkened and waved his hand to her, meaning to let her get close to him. Qiu Ju hurriedly came up, and Cheng Geng whispered, "You, after you go back, find some carbon ash and apply it on your nose. Oh, by the way, you also have to apply it on your neck for three days to get better."
"Carbon ash?" Qiuju hesitated, "Is this OK?"
Cheng Geng said, "That's sure, carbon ash is the ash left by the fire, with a raging air, and it works very well? You can't use the fire to roast your nose and neck, right? Oh, right, there are also armpits?"
Qiuju nodded seriously and put it down with her head.
Cheng Geng was afraid that she would be suspicious and hurriedly said, "Oh, your nose has really changed and it has become red."
Qiuju screamed in surprise, hurriedly touched her and ran outside.
Cheng Geng looked at the direction of Qiuju's escape and could no longer help it. He held it on the door and laughed. He even imagined a fat girl hiding in the room, holding a box of carbon ash in one hand, and smearing her nose, throat, and armpits in the other hand.
This has been more than three months in the Zhang Mansion. The sky gradually darkened. Suddenly, a bright moon appeared in the sky, round, facing a silver mirror.
Cheng Geng looked at the bright moon and thought about the day. When it was Mid-Autumn Festival, he couldn't help but feel sad. He lived alone, and there were no people celebrating. He thought of the beautiful, Gu Qiu, Zhuo Bufei and others, those who had had an association with him, but they were far away from him. A sadness surged in his heart and felt that he was the loneliest person in the world.
He thought of Zhang Jingfang, and for some reason he asked to ask him to go to Xiaojing Lake. He was bored and didn't know how to pass the time, so he simply headed towards Xiaojing Lake.
This Xiao Jing Lake is the lake water he and Zhang Jingfang saw that day. He walked through the long corridor and met several patrolling Hu Ben Guards, but did not stop him, which made him begin to believe Zhang Jingrui's words.
It's strange that he could understand Zhang Jingrui's difficulties. He never saw Zhang Jingrui again in the past few days, and he didn't even know what he was busy with. When he remembered the conversation that day, he became alert. According to Zhang Jingrui's words, he was fishing bait. The enemy was in the dark and the light, wouldn't it be very dangerous? This is also the reason why he knew he was free but never left the Zhang Mansion.
In a few days, no information was found
In doubt, he began to doubt whether what Zhang Jingrui said was true or false, but it was strange. Since that day, he has never seen the elder of the Cao Gang come to the Zhang Mansion again.
Cheng Geng looked at the sky and felt that an invisible big net was secretly spreading, but he had no idea whether he was the target of him or the Zhang family.
Before I knew it, I arrived at Xiaojing Lake. At this moment, the moonlight was like a scattered on the lake surface, coating the lake water with a layer of silver light. The lake water also reflected a full moon, which was very bright.
The lake water is like a mirror, and the moonlight is like the moon in the mirror, very pleasing to the eye.
The fish in the lake are swam towards the bright moon in the moonlight, surrounding the moon shadow in the water, like a flower growing in the water, which looks very strange.
Cheng Geng trembled and remembered the dream. At first glance, the flowers in the dream were very consistent with the strange scenery in the lake. He couldn't help but lose his mind and recalled the scene in the dream.
"What are you thinking?" He patted Cheng Geng's shoulder with one hand. Cheng Geng quickly turned around, but found that there was no one, and his heartbeat increased. He gasped and slowly turned around. At this moment, he saw this beautiful cheek again.
Zhang Jingfang put her hands behind her back and said playfully, "Did you startle?" She seemed to be holding something in her hand, probably for eating. He asked for a faint smell of food.
The breeze around her accidentally twisted her hair. Cheng Geng's eyes were blurred. She was wearing a cheongsam today. Her concave figure was visible under the moonlight. Her delicate headdress emitted a cold light in the moonlight, which made Cheng Geng unable to bear to remove her eyes.
Zhang Jingfang noticed Cheng Geng looking at her, shyly lowered her head, took out an exquisite box from behind, blocking her cheeks, then turned around to the pavilion by the lake, placed the box on the stone table, paused, and waved to Cheng Geng.
Cheng Geng walked over in a daze. At this moment, he had hallucinations, and even the person in front of him overlapped with the person in his memory again. He remembered the beautiful appearance of eating osmanthus cake and couldn't help but smile.
Zhang Jingfang shyly opened the box, which was like a mooncake, but there were a few candles on it. Cheng Geng didn't know what it was, so he sat on the stone bench in a daze.
Zhang Jingfang took out the fire note, lit the candle, and said to Cheng Geng, "Today is my birthday. I used to celebrate it for me, but this year it is much deserted. My brother has his affairs, and maybe he can't remember my birthday! But it doesn't matter. I want to celebrate it for myself this year. You are the only person I want to invite!"
Cheng Geng became lost. If the beauty of the past was out of reach, then Zhang Jingfang now was undoubtedly a sustenance given to him by God. He even choked up, but he could only hide it in his heart. He didn't know what Zhang Jingfang meant.
Zhang Jingfang closed her eyes, leaned down, and blew a breath at the candle in the box. All the candles were extinguished. She pulled out the candle, took out the exquisite dagger in the box, and cut the round food, one portion in two, then took out the celadon pan from the box, picked up a piece with the dagger, placed it inside, took out a silver fork, placed it on it, and handed it to Cheng Geng.
Cheng Geng took the blue and white porcelain plate in a daze and looked at the food on the plate carefully. It was a fragrance that smelled better than the jasmine fragrance emitted by Zhang Jingfang. It was a white layer, like the spring and white snow, plunged on a soft steamed bun.
Zhang Jingfang smiled and said, "This is a delicious cake that I learned when I was abroad. In English, the cake is for birthdays. You can try it and see how it tastes."
Cheng Geng picked up the silver fork, tried to take off a small piece and put it in his mouth. The strong fragrance smell was polarized in the mouth and it was very delicious. It was also at this moment that Cheng Geng fell in love with sweets.
"How is it? Is it delicious?" Zhang Jingfang smiled and took a bite, aftertaste for a moment, her face changed, "It's too sweet, I put too much sugar, I don't know what Qiu Ju is thinking? I asked her to put less, she put so much?"
"Actually, it's quite delicious." Cheng Geng exclaimed.
The moon is very bright, illuminating the entire pavilion. In Cheng Geng's eyes, Zhang Jingfang is the fairy in the sky at this moment. At this moment, her shadow is deeply engraved in Cheng Geng's heart.
"Do you think people will get evil?" Zhang Jingfang asked, his eyes full of confusion.
Cheng Geng said, "It probably won't be?"
Zhang Jingfang said disbelief, "I asked Qiu Ju to find you back today, and she changed her whole body." Zhang Jingfang's eyes were full of doubts, and she recalled Qiu Ju's appearance, "She didn't know what she had encountered, and she was touched with carbon ash, and she was still hiding in the room, but she didn't see her coming out. I thought it was strange, so she secretly looked through the crack in the window, and guess what?"
Cheng Geng remembered Qiu Ju's chubby appearance, laughed loudly, and leaned back and forth with a smile.
Chapter completed!