Chapter 123 Extra 4
After the two of them finished dressing, Hualu and Xiaosongzi brought breakfast and served them. The breakfast in Jiangnan is mainly light: small wontons with thin skin and tender fillings, soft and fluffy rice balls, and sweet tofu pudding filled with brown sugar. Although you can eat these in the palace and they are more exquisite, the food in the inn has a more down-to-earth feel.
Hualu seemed to have not slept well last night and could not stop yawning. Seeing this, Jiang Xing asked, "But you can't get used to sleeping in the inn?"
Hua Lu knelt down quickly and said, "I have been disrespectful in front of the emperor. Please forgive me, Your Majesty and Empress."
"We are already in Jiangnan now, so we should save as much as possible on the palace stuff." Lin Qingyu said, "Just treat us as the young masters of ordinary families."
Xiao Songzi couldn't help laughing: "Master, Hualu read the storybook for half the night yesterday, I'm afraid she didn't get enough sleep."
Hualu said anxiously, "Eunuch Song!"
Jiang Xing smiled and said, "What's the interesting storybook? Let me have a look too?"
Hua Lu's face turned red with embarrassment: "In reply to Master, I was reading "Prince Ding's Pampering of His Wife"."
Upon hearing the name, Jiang Xing laughed out loud: "Hualu is old enough to read romance novels now."
Lin Qingyu asked: "Where did you get this book?"
Hualu whispered, "My Lord, this is one of the books that the young master bought yesterday."
Lin Qingyu looked at Jiang Xing. Jiang Xing looked innocent: "I just bought some storybooks to relieve my boredom, how could I have known there would be such a book among them."
Lin Qingyu exposed him: "Why do I feel that you just like reading this kind of book."
Jiang Xing refused to admit it: "How is that possible? I'm not Hua Lu."
Lin Qingyu hit the nail on the head: "Then why did you watch "Huai Bu Shi Jun"?"
Jiang Xing: “…”
After breakfast, the group set off for Kuangsu Mountain. When we reached the foot of the mountain, the carriage could not go up the mountain, so we had to walk. There are many rapids and waterfalls in Kuangsu Mountain, which is famous for its majestic and dangerous features. The mountains are covered with dense forests and shrouded in clouds and mist. Ordinary people would easily lose their way if they were not careful when entering the mountains.
When Xuanhu Hall learned that Lin Qingyu was going into the mountains, they introduced him to a country bumpkin. This villager grew up in Kuangsu Mountain and is familiar with the terrain. Although he is sixty years old, he is still as strong as ever, but he has a somewhat strange temper. After walking for an hour, the villager was still walking briskly, as if he was walking on flat ground.
Lin Qingyu was walking in front, chatting with the villagers about the rare and exotic plants in Kuangsu Mountain, when he heard Jiang Xing say, "Qingyu, we have been walking for an hour, let's take a break."
Lin Qingyu turned and looked at Jiang Xing. Jiang Xing's breathing was steady and he had no physical problems at all. He probably just wanted to be lazy. "I have several places to go before dark. Time is running out and there is no time to lose." Lin Qingyu whispered, "How about asking the shadow guard to show up and carry you?"
Jiang Xing smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, forget it. I can't afford to lose face like that."
The villager glanced at Jiang Xing, shook his head, and continued walking forward. The closer we got to the top of the mountain, the colder the weather became. Soon, a light rain began to fall. It rains a lot in spring, so Xiao Songzi brought enough rain gear. Jiang Xing took an umbrella and said, "Shaojun and I will share one. Xiao Songzi, you take care of Hualu."
At this time, Jiang Xing was able to keep up with Lin Qingyu and the village man. Since entering the mountains, Lin Qingyu has been devoted to medicinal materials. Now that he and Jiang Xing are under the same umbrella, he seems a little absent-minded.
The spring rain drizzled on the umbrella and on the ground, and my nose was filled with the smell of moist earth, but I could still smell the fresh, natural, warm and lazy scent on Jiang Xing.
The mountains are hazy in the rain, and your clothes are wet. Ignoring the difficult mountain road is also a kind of elegance.
After walking for another half an hour, they heard the sound of rushing water ahead. They saw a waterfall rushing down thousands of feet, splashing water. The broken cliff seemed like a natural screen, blocking their way.
Xiao Songzi stared at it and said, "It's so beautiful!!!"
Jiang Xing said: "The flying curtain is like a jade curtain, and the Milky Way falls from the sky." It turns out that the ancient people's poems were not exaggerated.
The villager squinted his eyes and looked at the cliff opposite. Suddenly he shouted, "Glass grass."
Lin Qingyu's eyes lit up: "Where?"
The villager raised his hand: "On the cliff opposite."
It is difficult to see in the rain and fog. Lin Qingyu took a few steps forward and was almost at the edge of the cliff before he could see clearly a solitary blade of grass growing on the cliff. Lin Qingyu said softly: "It is indeed Glaze Grass."
Jiang Xing held Lin Qingyu's hand and asked, "What is glass grass?"
Lin Qingyu explained to him: "The unique medicinal herbs of Kuangsu Mountain prefer humid environments and usually grow on cliffs and waterfalls. They are extremely precious and can be used as medicine after being dried. They have a miraculous effect on congenital palpitations."
"Extremely precious. How precious is that?"
Lin Qingyu's voice was slightly cold: "Even in the Imperial Medical Bureau in the capital, there are only two, and Prince Heng took them away last year."
The villager snorted and said, "You are lucky. You can see glass grass on your first visit to the mountain. The last time I saw it was two years ago."
Jiang Xing looked at a small spot on the cliff and asked, "Qingyu, do you really want it?"
Lin Qingyu nodded: "I really want to. But the glass grass grows on the cliff, it is difficult to pick, and it is raining."
Jiang Xing smiled and said, "So what? If my madam wants something, I will go through fire and water, even risking my life, to get it for you."
Lin Qingyu's heart sank, and he said coldly: "Just shut up."
Hualu recalled a scene she had seen last night in "The Story of Prince Ding's Pampered Wife": Prince Ding and Princess Ding went into the mountains for a spring outing together. Princess Ding praised the wild flowers blooming on the cliff for being very beautiful, so Prince Ding desperately picked them for her. He slipped and nearly lost his life. The princess turned pale and cried bitterly. Prince Ding gently wiped away his wife's tears and said lovingly, "As long as Princess likes it, I will find it for you even if it's the stars in the sky."
Such deep love moved her deeply. Unexpectedly, the Emperor treats the Queen the same way Prince Ding treats his Princess. No wonder she is willing to be a substitute for the other two men. It is not easy for a king to achieve such a level.
Hualu was just feeling moved when she heard the emperor change his tone: "--Did you think I would say that?"
Lin Qingyu: “…”
Hualu: “???”
Jiang Xing estimated the height and distance of the cliff and concluded that the risk was very high. Of course, he could let Shadow Guard give it a try, but the water was slippery on rainy days, and even someone as skilled as Shen Huaishi might not be able to make it without any mistakes. The shadow guard’s life is also a life.
"Good medicine is valuable, but life is more valuable." Jiang Xing coaxed, "Baby, be obedient. This is too dangerous. Let's not take it."
Hualu froze.
Lin Qingyu smiled and said, "Okay, no."
The villager looked grim: "Are you sure you don't want it? The picking period of Glaze Grass is only a few days. If you miss it today, you will miss it next time. Do you know how much gold a Glaze Grass can be sold for?" According to the rules of the industry, he led the herbalists on the way and got a share of the profits.
Jiang Xing said: "We are not short of money."
The villager said anxiously: "Why are young people nowadays so afraid of death?"
Xiao Songzi's face suddenly changed when he heard this: "How dare you! Do you know who you are talking to!"
Jiang Xing stopped Xiao Songzi and smiled nonchalantly: "Calm down, the old man is not wrong. I am indeed afraid of death."
The villager stamped his feet and said, "If you don't want it, I want it!" Then he was about to go find help.
Jiang Xing said calmly: "I advise you to think twice."
Lin Qingyu smiled silently. He knew that Jiang Xing was not afraid of death.
When Jiang Xing was still Lu Wancheng, he took life and death very lightly and had almost no desire to survive in the first half of the year. Later, he had something to worry about and someone to worry about, so he did not hesitate to use strong medicine to fight poison with poison, just to live a few more months.
After that, he experienced the death of Gu Fuzhou. Now he values his life even more than before. He will not try anything with even the slightest risk.
It’s a good thing that Jiang Xing is afraid, because this way he won’t put himself in danger. He hoped that Jiang Xing would always cherish his life and be afraid of death.
Although he missed the Glaze Grass, Lin Qingyu still gained a lot. When going down the mountain, the backpack was filled to the brim. The next day, Lin Qingyu heard from the staff of Xuanhu Hall that when the village man who led the way found help and went into the mountains again, the glass grass had withered due to the erosion of rain. The villager was so angry that he fainted and fell ill when he returned home.
Lin Qingyu felt quite sorry, but didn't think much about it. In the next few days, he continued to visit famous doctors in Yuzhang and benefited a lot. Jiang Xing summoned the governor of Yuzhang to inquire about the tax reform.
The group stayed in Yuzhang for five days and then continued heading south. It takes a day to get from Yuzhang to the next stop. In the carriage, Lin Qingyu was flipping through a book called "Kuangsu Materia Medica", comparing the medicinal materials recorded in the book with those he had seen one by one. When he turned to the page recording the glass grass, Lin Qingyu's fingertips paused, and he thought of the precious grass that he had missed.
When he turned to the next page, a dried glass grass sandwiched between the books suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Lin Qingyu was slightly startled and looked at Jiang Xing. Jiang Xing was lying on the couch, reading "The Story of Prince Ding's Favored Wife" with great interest. Noticing Lin Qingyu's gaze, Jiang Xing raised his head and asked knowingly, "What's wrong?"
"How did you get it?" The plant on the cliff had clearly withered, so where did the one Jiang Xing gave him come from?
Jiang Xing tilted his head to look at him, smiling: "Baby, what are you talking about? I don't understand."
“…”
Lin Qingyu realized that Jiang Xing seemed to like creating various small surprises for him during the ordinary days.
Just like the engagement ring that he thought he would have to wait half a month to receive was slipped into his fingertips the next day; just like the magical herb that he thought he would never get suddenly appeared before his eyes.
It was just an ordinary little thing, but it always made him feel very, very good.
He really likes Jiang Xing very much. What a blessing it is to spend the rest of my life with such an interesting soul.
Lin Qingyu's chest began to heat up, and his body also became hot. He stopped talking nonsense, opened the carriage window, and said, "Xiao Songzi."
Xiao Songzi said: "Queen?"
Lin Qingyu said, "Find a deserted place to stop the carriage, and have everyone, including the shadow guards who are secretly protecting you, turn their backs to the carriage and guard the emperor half a mile away."
Xiao Songzi felt that the queen's order was strange. He didn't dare to think too much and hurried to prepare. Jiang Xing seemed to be thinking about something, and said slowly: "Qingyu, you are not going to..."
Lin Qingyu chuckled: "It would be boring if we just thought about it."
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