Chapter 107 Spread with Them
Until Cui Jing put down his pen.
Yuan Xiang then asked quietly, "Grand Commander, over at Dengtai Tower... should we go over there?"
Cui Jing glanced at the time and said "hmm".
Yuan Xiang, who had been ready to go out to the banquet with his own commander-in-chief since early morning, smiled and turned around to bring the uniform prepared for his commander-in-chief.
Soon, a group of people set out from Xuance Mansion.
Cui Jing was accompanied by only three people, including Yuan Xiang. Dengtai Tower was not far away and there were many people around because of the festival. So the four men and four horses walked slowly to avoid disturbing or bumping into the people on the street.
By slowing down like this, the conversations of people along the street could sometimes be heard.
"You may not know yet, but Dengtai Tower is very lively today..."
"What you said, when is Dengtai Tower not busy?"
"It's different from usual... Today, Qiao Jijiu of the Imperial College held a banquet in Dengtai Tower to celebrate, saying that he had accepted a disciple, and it was a female disciple!"
"Female disciple?!"
"Yes, I heard about it too. Today is the apprenticeship banquet held by that female disciple!"
"This apprenticeship banquet is very grand, with many extraordinary people coming!"
"Which big shots? Tell us more about them!"
“…”
Seeing Cui Jing tighten the reins and stop for a moment, and looking at the people who were discussing the apprenticeship banquet at Dengtai Tower, Yuan Xiang asked in a low voice: "Grand Commander, is there something wrong?"
Along the way, they had heard from several places that Madam Chang was holding a teacher-apprentice banquet today.
Cui Jing's gaze fell calmly on one of the people who left.
He was a man in a long gown. He was the one who had initiated the apprenticeship banquet. He left the others to discuss and walked away.
He walked towards the front where the crowd was denser, his eyes searching as if he was looking for something.
"Have someone follow this person secretly and pay attention to whether there is anything untrue or inappropriate in his words. If he is suspected of spreading rumors and slander, take him to Xuan Ce Mansion for interrogation immediately." Cui Jing said.
Yuan Xiang agreed, turned around and whispered to another subordinate to follow the man.
It's not that he was lazy, but he had been following the Grand Commander all year round, many people had seen him, and he had used his face too much, so he was not suitable for doing these secret tracking tasks.
The subordinate agreed and left quickly.
Cui Jing simply got off his horse, sat down in a tea stall set up outside a teahouse on the street, and ordered a pot of herbal tea.
"It's really hot today." Yuan Xiang gulped down a bowl of tea. While wiping the sweat off his face with his sleeve, he noticed that many young ladies passing by were secretly looking over here. He followed their gaze - and finally landed on his own commander-in-chief who was sitting there drinking tea.
Yuan Xiang looked at his own governor and at this moment just wanted to sigh in his heart that God was unfair.
It's all because of the governor's face. The foundation given to him by his parents was too solid, so solid that he didn't care about other people's lives. Even though his skin color had become much rougher after leading troops in battles for two years, it returned to normal after covering it for a month or so in Beijing.
Yuan Xiang carefully looked at his own commander-in-chief's eyebrows, nose bridge... and then looked at the sweat on his forehead. He felt that when a man is handsome to a certain extent, even the sweat beads reveal a kind of clean and crystal handsomeness! Not to mention those young ladies who just met their commander-in-chief, even he felt relaxed and happy when he looked at him, like a cool mountain spring cleansing his heart, and the heat was dispelled a lot, making people feel that the beauty of summer is nothing more than this.
"Brother Yuanxiang, have another bowl to get rid of the heat!" The brother who was traveling with him handed him another bowl of herbal tea.
"Thanks, brother." Yuanxiang took the tea bowl, and the next moment he couldn't say thank you.
He lowered his head to drink water, and was caught off guard when he saw the originally dark face reflected in the tea. Now it was shiny due to the heat, too greasy.
Yuan Xiang curled his lips and immediately lost the desire to drink tea.
But this frown made the situation even worse.
“…”
If the governor's face made the ladies feel that summer was beautiful, then his face was simply the kind that made the ladies feel more and more annoyed the more they looked at it, and they decided to just go home.
Looking at the tea bowl in his own hand and the governor's hand, he felt that the same bowl had different fates.
The governor’s tea bowl - a blessing from the previous life.
His tea bowl - if he had known it would be broken today, he would have just broken it.
"Brother Yuanxiang, many girls are secretly looking at our governor..." The companion whispered enviously: "The governor will have no trouble finding a wife just because of this face."
Yuanxiang couldn't help but sigh.
But the person who has the least worries about finding a wife has no plans to get married at all.
After the pot of tea was finished, the subordinate who was responsible for meeting someone returned.
"Reporting to the governor, that person only spread the news of the apprenticeship banquet at Dengtai Tower along the way, and there was no slander in his words." The subordinate whispered to Cui Jing, "But what is suspicious is that I have found someone else who has the same behavior as this person, also spreading the news of the apprenticeship banquet everywhere, it doesn't seem to be accidental... In the governor's opinion, do we need to let someone intervene in this matter?"
"Well." Cui Jing said, "Then let's have people spread it with them."
subordinate:"?"
Cui Jing had already stood up from the tea table. Yuan Xiang took out a piece of silver and placed it on the table. Before leaving, he whispered to his puzzled companion, "Just do it!"
He had understood that the person who spread the news everywhere was probably arranged by Mrs. Chang herself.
"Commander-in-chief, Madam Chang really likes to be in a crowd..." Following Cui Jing on his horse, Yuan Xiang couldn't help but whisper, "I'm afraid everyone on both streets knows that Madam Chang is holding a banquet to pay respect to her teacher at Dengtai Tower today."
As he said this, he couldn't help but look at his own governor.
Although Madam Chang's action was a bit ostentatious, it was generally consistent with Madam Chang's style... But intervening in such matters was definitely not the style of our own governor.
"Grand Commander..." Yuan Xiang asked cautiously, "What kind of girl is Madam Chang in your eyes?"
Cui Jing glanced at him and said, "Will speaking less cost you your life?"
Yuanxiang immediately pursed his lips and tried to remain silent.
Cui Jing drove his horse forward and looked straight ahead.
His horse was not fast, so the crowds did not rush to get out of his way. The sounds of laughter and hawking, mixed with the scent of mugwort in the hot air, formed a unique atmosphere that floated around him.
The sun was scorching, and three days ago, the playing field of the Imperial College was also shrouded in such heat.
Cui Jing's eyes flashed with the scene when the girl handed over the ball stick - what she returned was Qiao Yubai's ball stick, and it was also the justice she had fought back for everyone.
When she was fighting Chang Miao on the field, he thought it was a giant bullying a child. But thinking back now, she was thin and had no advantage in terms of innate conditions.
Her little movements were quick, accurate, fierce and sharp. Others could not see clearly, but he could see them clearly - she knew very well her strengths and weaknesses. She had only practiced martial arts for a short time and did not have enough strength, so she mostly used clever moves.
Therefore, what really suppressed the opponent was not her appearance and strength, but her fighting style and momentum.
The fighting style is the military style.
Momentum is the momentum of fearlessness.
As for her fearlessness, he had already noticed it when she faced the attack of the divine elephant in Dayun Temple.
No, or rather earlier...
Early to the first time he saw her.
On the way back to Beijing, Wei Shuyi encountered an assassination attempt.
It was strange that he had not really noticed her at that time, and his eyes had not really lingered on her, but now it was as if he had returned to the time when they first met, and everything was inexplicably clear.
It was dusk when she emerged from the forest with Wei Shuyi. She was dressed as a teenager and indeed looked like a real teenager. However, she was in a dishevel, as she had just escaped death. Her clothes were torn and her hair was covered with grass and leaves.
But her eyes were calm.
Apart from her outward appearance, it was hard to tell what she had just been through.
Cui Jing rode his horse and looked ahead, but his mind seemed to have returned to that day, and he looked into those fearless eyes in the dim twilight.
So, if you ask her what kind of girl she is...
He believes that we should first discard the word "girl" and not limit our evaluation of her based on the distinction between men and women.
She is undoubtedly a very different person and one who is very worthy of appreciation.
She is like a green bamboo shoot just breaking through the soil, full of vitality and growing very fast. With just a spring rain, she becomes a straight green bamboo in the blink of an eye.
So, what will happen next? If she is left to grow like this, what will she look like? Cui Jing's eyes were filled with contemplation.
We soon arrived at Dengtai Tower.
Yi Hu, who was waiting outside the building, saw Cui Jing and others coming, so he ran into the building to inform his husband: "My husband, my husband, the eldest husband is really here!"
Poor him, he has to wait outside in the scorching sun until now, and the pot of water is about to smoke due to the sun.
Cui Lang ran out like a gust of wind.
"Brother!"
When he came forward, Cui Jing had just dismounted from his horse.
"My eldest brother is finally here!" Cui Lang bravely took the reins from Cui Jing and diligently led the horse for his eldest brother.
Yuanxiang dismounted and took out an invitation from his arms.
Cui Lang saw the invitation with his sharp eyes, and suppressed the sudden sadness in his heart, and asked with a forced smile: "Brother, are you also invited by Madam Chang?"
Cui Jing caught a glimpse of his expression, paused, and said, "By the way."
As Cui Lang followed Cui Jing into the restaurant, a glimmer of hope rose in his heart - his elder brother was stopping by to attend Madam Chang's apprenticeship banquet, right?
Looking at Hu Huan, Xi Zhiyuan and others who also came out to greet them, Cui Jing said: "With me by your side, you will feel uncomfortable - I brought this jar of wine specially to cheer you up."
Yuanxiang had taken down the jar of wine hanging on the horse's back and walked over.
Cui Lang's eyes lit up, he reached over the pot, took the jar of wine and held it in one hand: "Thank you, brother!"
Seeing her husband looking so worthless, Yihu sighed and thought that a jar of wine would be enough to coax her husband into submission.
Cui Lang happily followed Cui Jing inside, holding the jar of wine, but was stopped by the waiter.
“What?” Cui Lang hugged the wine jar tighter—wasn’t he allowed to bring his own wine?
The waiter smiled and reminded: "My dear, how about you hand over the horse to me?"
They've even brought the horse to their lobby! Although he could guess the identities of the two brothers and knew that the owner of the horse was the one from Xuan Ce Mansion, he couldn't do this.
Cui Lang came to his senses and handed the reins to the waiter, saying, "This is my elder brother's horse. Feed it well!"
The waiter obliged.
Yuanxiang showed the invitation to the Chang family servants waiting at the stairs, and Cui Jing went upstairs.
Cui Lang held the jar of wine and showed it off to his classmates with great joy: "This is what my elder brother brought specially from Xuan Ce's mansion!"
His tone was quite imposing, and with such exaggeration, everyone looked at the jar of wine with awe in their eyes.
Hu Huan even had an illusion - after drinking this, he would be able to do a mid-air flip directly onto the battlefield and kill at least a hundred enemies immediately.
Cui Jing has arrived at the second floor.
He arrived relatively late, and looking around he saw that most people had already taken their seats, and the ceremony of paying homage to their teacher had already begun.
Cui Jing stopped the servant who was about to speak and told him not to disturb them.
He walked to the side of Chang Sui'an who was standing nearby and stopped, his eyes falling on the girl who was performing the ceremony of paying homage to her master.
Chang Suining raised his hand to salute, lowered his eyes and bowed.
Seeing this scene, Chang Sui'an turned his head away, holding back the tears in his eyes.
"?" Cui Jing looked at him in confusion.
Chang Sui'an choked up and whispered, "I... I just thought of the time when my sister left home when she got married."
Cui Jing: “…”
Chang Suining bowed three times, and Qiao Jijiu smiled and waved at her: "Come here, Master."
Chang Suining then stepped forward.
"I have also prepared a gift for you." As Qiao Jijiu was speaking, a servant came over holding a long box.
Everyone looked at the long box.
The dozen or so students from the Imperial Academy who were invited already had the answer in their hearts.
Someone compared the length of the box and whispered, "When did the chief priest catch such a long fish..."
"Since it's in the box, it must have been dried into salted fish."
Therefore, Chang Suining was prepared to see a dried fish that was long enough and salty enough.
But the box was opened by the servant, and what Qiao Yang took out was actually an umbrella.
The umbrella handle is made of fine purple bamboo, and the umbrella cover is painted with green mountains and waters.
"This umbrella was made by your teacher. I haven't even had time to fish in the past three days..." Wang smiled and glanced at Qiao Jijiu, then said to Chang Suining in a gentle voice, "Take it."
Chang Suining came back to his senses, took it with both hands and held it in front of him.
She looked over and saw Qiao Yang and Wang, both looking at her with smiles on their faces. Looking to the side, she saw Old Chang, whose face was filled with satisfaction.
Giving an umbrella as a gift means seeking shelter.
Even without this umbrella and this apprenticeship banquet, they would still protect her.
They had been her family for a long, long time.
But what she wanted more was to be the one who could protect them one day.
"Thank you for the gift, teacher." Chang Suining said seriously, "With this umbrella, students will be determined to learn, and will study hard regardless of whether it is sunny, snowy, rainy or windy, day or night."
Qiao Jijiu was stunned after hearing this. After a moment, he nodded with satisfaction and emotion: "Okay, very good..."
The good thing is that he himself didn't know that giving an umbrella as a gift could have such a profound meaning.
Sure enough, sensible students know how to help teachers elevate their ideas.
Most people around were nodding with smiles on their faces.
"Why do I suddenly feel that the student accepted by Jijiu...is not so naughty after all?" A student whispered again and again.
His classmates nodded in agreement.
After the apprenticeship ceremony, Chang Suining saw Cui Jing standing aside watching the ceremony and walked towards him.
Good night everyone!!! (End of this chapter)
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