Southerners

Chapter 8 Yellow Bird 6

At this time, a group of people watched with cold eyes, most of them did not know Song Zhi, seeing Song Zhi's refusal of Chuo Man, one was surprised, and the other was funny, they were all waiting to see the joke.

Song Zhi knelt on the ground without saying a word.

Chuo Man was really annoyed, and said: "Is it true that Miss Ben won't hit you?" She raised her hand and hit you.

The long whip was made of unknown material, it was tough and soft, and it was dazzlingly red. The thin whip fluttered in the air and landed on Song Zhi's back in the blink of an eye.In an instant, a bloodstain appeared on Song Zhi's back.

Song Zhi snorted, it hurts.

Song Zhixin said that it was broken, this was a newly bought jacket, it must be torn, but she insisted on not begging for mercy.

Seeing this, Chuoman was even more annoyed.

"That's enough, boy," Meng Huan suddenly opened his mouth to relieve the siege, "Picking up a ball, is it important to have your life? Even if a person has ambition, he shouldn't do it like this. The life Zhang Youcheng saved so hard, let you do it like this." cheap?"

Song Zhi didn't speak.

Meng Huan squatted down and looked at him: "Raise your head."

Song Zhi didn't move.

Meng Huan then squeezed his chin, forcibly lifted his face up, his hand was so strong that it hurt Song Zhi's chin.Song Zhiyue had probably never eaten a whip, and her forehead was sweating from the pain, but her eyes were stubborn, with a hint of resentment, and her pale pink lips turned white from biting.

Inexplicably, Meng Huan looked away unnaturally, then let go of his hands and stood up, the sense of familiarity came back in his heart.

Meng Huan said: "I'll give you a chance to pay off your merits. Follow Ms. Chuo Man's order and pick up the ball for us, otherwise today's matter will be a big deal."

Song Zhi tilted her head and saw the impatient and contemptuous look in Chuoman's eyes, so she lowered her eyes: "Yes."

humiliation.

Song Zhi almost gritted her teeth while picking up the ball.

These people might not kill Zhang Hui for the sake of his face, but Song Zhi knew that he was no longer Zhang Hui's person. Without the protection of this identity, these people wanted to kill him just a matter of backhanding. .

He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that Xiuniang will be sent to a black-haired person by a white-haired person.

As expected of a domineering young lady, Chuo Man was very obsessed with teasing him, kicking the cane very far from time to time, and then ordered Song Zhi to pick it up.

Meng Huan, Meng Gutai and the others kicked the ball for two hours, while Song Zhi ran here and there for two hours, panting for breath, the wound on his back was stained with sweat, excruciatingly painful.After Cuju was over, Chuo Man happily rewarded him with a handful of silver tickets, and seemed to be having a good time.

This Cuju competition was originally a competition between juniors between two camps. One was the team headed by Meng Gutai and the other was the team headed by Meng Huan. It basically represented the current situation in the imperial court.

Chuo Man was with Meng Huan, and they were both Boyan's people. Chuo Man's mother, Bo Luohas, was An Tong's younger sister. An Tong had always hated Ah Ma, and had written to the ancestors many times to impeach Ah Ma.

Both sides competed, and no one was willing to lose, but in the end no one was able to win.When going out from Ahema Mansion, Song Zhi was exhausted, and just after walking not far, she heard Meng Huan's voice behind:

"Song Zilan."

Song Zhi stopped her feet when she heard the words, but didn't look back.

Meng Huan was not annoyed, he simply strode over to Song Zhi, looked Song Zhi up and down, and asked, "Have we met before?"

Song Zilan answered simply: "No."

Meng Huan smiled: "I think you look familiar."

Song Zhi was unmoved: "Lieutenant Meng must have made a mistake. The villain lives in a civilian alley, so there is no chance to meet Captain Meng."

Song Zhi's words were stinging, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Meng Huan said: "Since you have self-knowledge, why do you disobey Miss Chuo Man and dare to talk to me like this? Who gave you the courage?"

Song Zhi raised her eyes and glared at him, then said with a sneer, "Even the untouchables have their own backbone!"

"Spine?" Meng Huan sneered, "If you really have backbone, you should have died under Chuo Man's whip just now. How can someone who is greedy for life and afraid of death have the face to talk about integrity?"

Song Zhi blushed suddenly.

Meng Huan said again: "Your Majesty makes great use of Confucian officials. I heard that you are full of talents, but you are not willing to be used by the court. In this case, don't waste it... How about you come to be my Chinese teacher?"

Song Zhi didn't expect that Meng Huan's next sentence would be this, so she refused without thinking, "No way!"

Meng Huan smiled, and squinted at him with unclear meaning in his eyes.

Song Zhi snorted, and said, "I'm just a pariah, I'm afraid I won't be able to teach Captain Meng."

Meng Huan: "It's up to you to teach or not. It doesn't count if you say it, but I do. I'm ordering you, not asking for your opinion. If you promise, you have to agree, and if you don't agree, you have to agree." Meng Huan touched it. Touching the long knife at his waist, he continued softly, "Otherwise I will kill the girl from last time."

Song Zhi was taken aback, and soon realized that Meng Huan was talking about Bai Man'er, and said angrily, "Doesn't Captain Meng feel that deceiving people is too much? Man'er has nothing to do with this matter at all. You are not afraid of getting caught if you bring innocent people in." Retribution?"

Meng Huan looked at him with some amusement: "I have been on the battlefield all these years, and I don't know how many souls have died under the sword. If there is retribution, it should have come down long ago, so I don't need you to worry about it."

At this moment, Chuo Man had already gotten into the carriage, lifted the curtain and said to Meng Huan, "Hazier, come quickly!"

Meng Huan finally said to Song Zhi: "In three days, I will see you at my residence. If you don't come, you will know the consequences."

After saying that, he left.

Song Zhi was so angry that her teeth itched, but there was nothing she could do.

After Song Zhi returned home, she didn't dare to tell Xiu Niang what happened today, and she bought medicine secretly. Because the injury was on her back, it was really inconvenient, so she asked the people from the pharmacy to help apply the medicine, and then lied to Xiu Niang that the jacket was taken by someone. If it is scratched, let her mend it.

After Song Zhi took off the new jacket, Xiu Niang took it over and looked at it with doubts on her face, then suddenly changed her expression, pointed at the "cut" cut and asked in a deep voice, "Is this blood stain also scratched? "

Song Zhi bit her head and nodded.

Xiu Niang stared at him for two seconds and said, "Master, tell me the truth, are those Mongols... bullying you again?"

"No." Song Zhi said, "Xiu Niang, you are too caring. With Mr. Zhang protecting me, who would dare to touch me?"

Seeing that Xiu Niang didn't believe it, Song Zhiqiang smiled easily: "You don't know who Mr. Zhang is? That's Zhongshu Youcheng, a second-rank official, and an old minister of His Majesty's hidden residence. He is very favored. Yes. He is here, no one dares to touch me easily."

Xiu Niang didn't know whether she believed it or not, so she didn't ask any more questions, she just asked: "There is blood on the robe, I'm afraid you also have injuries on your back, is the injury serious?"

Song Zhi patted the back of Xiuniang's hand: "It's a small injury, it's fine, I've already asked Father Liu from the medicine garden to prescribe the medicine, so don't worry, Xiuniang."

Xiuniang made a gesture to watch, but Song Zhi hid away with a smile, and took out two bank notes from her bosom: "The reward for getting up early and being greedy for dark these two days is enough for us to use for a long time."

Xiu Niang gave him an angry look, but finally accepted it.

Song Zhi also instructed: "Man'er and Aunt Bai are having a hard time as orphans and widowed mothers. Xiuniang should take care of them."

Xiuniang knew that Song Zhi was changing the subject, but she didn't get serious with him, and said, "It's natural, if the young master doesn't say anything, Xiuniang will."

Song Zhi remembered that the clothes she had borrowed from Qi Luqian a few days ago hadn't been returned, so she asked if the clothes were washed and dried.

After hearing this, Xiu Niang took out a cloth bag: "It was washed two days ago, the young master is busy these days, I didn't have time to mention it."

Song Zhi took the cloth bag: "Please trouble Xiuniang, I will send it to him tomorrow."

In the early morning of the next day, Song Zhi went out.

Qi Luqian lived in Lihua Hutong of Sichengfang near Qihuamen Street, quite a distance from Danguifang.

Song Zhi took the greeting card and knocked on the door of Qi Luqian's house, a young man in green clothes came out, but it was not Tian Bo.

Song Zhi handed over the greeting card and said, "I'm here to pay respects to your master, please inform me."

The young man saw that he was dressed decently and was wearing a square scarf, so he smiled and said: "It's really a coincidence, sir, my master has just gone. If you are not in a hurry, you can sit inside. The master will come back when he is young." .”

Song Zhixian didn't have anything to do, so he agreed immediately, went in and drank two cups of tea, and Qi Luqian came back. He learned from his servants that Song Zilan was here, so he laughed from afar, "I don't want Zilan to come today. , Some lose far to welcome, some lose far to welcome!"

Qi Luqian seemed to be in a good mood, and said happily, "Why is Zilan coming over today when you're free?"

Song Zhi handed him the cloth bag in her hand: "The clothes I borrowed from you a few days ago, I have been too busy these days to return them. Today I am free, so I will meet you and return the clothes to you."

Qi Luqian waved his hand, but didn't accept it, and said, "Hey, it's just a piece of clothing, and Zilan is still thinking about returning it, so that means he doesn't consider me a friend!"

Song Zhi smiled and said, "It's just a piece of clothing. Brother Boheng sent it all the way to me, let's continue!"

Qi Luqian begrudgingly let the young man accept it, and then asked: "Zi Lan will not just come to give you a piece of clothing today, will he?"

Song Zhi smiled: "I have nothing to do, just walk around as you like."

"I see that brother Boheng is young, but I didn't expect that he was already serving as an official in the imperial court?"

Qi Luqian scratched his head: "What kind of job do you do? It's just a little star in the Taishi Bureau!"

Qi Luqian loves to delve into astrology, calendar and arithmetic, but for Confucian scholars, these are all obscene and obscene skills.

Qi Luqian said: "Zi Lan won't look down on me, will she?"

Song Zilan hurriedly said: "How could it be? Brother Boheng entered the Taishi Bureau at a young age, out of reach of ordinary people, how dare I look down on you?"

Qi Luqian smiled: "Zi Lan looks younger than me, why do you keep saying that I am young? When did Zi Lan give birth?"

Song Zilan said: "The eighth day of the first month of the fifth year of Jingding."

Qi Luqian said: "Then Zilan has to call me brother, I was born on April [-]th in the fourth year of Zhongtong."

Calculated, Qi Luqian was about nine months older than Song Zhi.

Song Zhi immediately called out "Brother" politely.Qi Luqian laughed.

The two talked for a while, Qi Luqian saw that Song Zhi was still frowning, and asked, "What's on Zilan's mind?"

Song Zhi was taken aback when she heard the words, and thought to herself that she was so obvious?Shaking his head: "It's okay."

Qi Luqian asked, "Is the burn better?"

Song Zhi smiled and rolled up her sleeves: "It's all over."

Qi Luqian saw that it was really healed, the blisters from the burn disappeared, and the redness also faded, so he stretched out his hand to feel it again.

Qi Luqian: "Okay! Very good! Zilan's arm looks more delicate than a woman's! You can paint again!"

Song Zhi glanced at him, Qi Luqian smiled and said, "I'm just complimenting you!"

Song Zhi: ...Forget it.

"You really like my paintings?"

Qi Luqian: "It's truer than gold!"

Song Zhi: "Then I'll make a good one for you some other day."

Qi Luqian: "How can this work? Mr. Song's masterpiece, how can you give it away as soon as you say it, you set a price, and I will buy it!"

Song Zhi smiled and said, "A painting is worthless, and only if you are willing to give it to you and give it to you, you won't let it be buried. It's settled like that."

Before leaving, Song Zhi asked Qi Luqian about Meng Huan's residence.

"Hazier?" Qi Luqian was surprised, "The celebrity in front of General Boyan?"

Song Zhi nodded.

"What are you doing asking about his mansion?" Qi Luqian asked casually without further questioning, "Hazier's father, Hu Duhu, is now serving as a consolation envoy of West Zhejiang Road. He is a foreign official and is not in Beijing. Hazier is alone. People living in Beijing seem to live in Taipingfang in Xibian'er and Yimen."

Song Zhi: "..."

Sichengfang, where Qi Luqian lives, is in the east, and Taipingfang, where Hazier lives, is in the west, which is farther away from Song Zhi's house.

Song Zhi thanked Qi Luqian and left.For the past two days, he was still hesitating whether to go or not. Unexpectedly, Meng Huan seemed to understand his thoughts very well, and gave him a warning the next day, forcing him to go.

That day Song Zhi was reading in the room as usual, when suddenly she heard a scream from the next door, it was Bai Man'er's voice.

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Note: ⑴Song Zhi said that her birth date was Song Lizong's reign name Jingding, and the fifth year of Jingding was 1264. Qi Luqian used Kublai Khan's reign name Zhongtong, and the fourth year of Zhongtong was 1263, so Qi Luqian was about nine months older than Song Zhi.Qi Luqian was born in 1263. This can be found on Baidu, but I don’t know the detailed date of birth. I made it up. Don’t take it seriously. If anyone knows, please tell me and I will change it.The reason why Song Zhi used Jingding was because he always believed that he was from the Song Dynasty and did not recognize the Yuan court, so he didn’t use the year name of the Yuan Dynasty, or he could also use the Ganzhi to record the year. 1264 is the year of Jiazi. So the year name of the Southern Song Dynasty was used.

([-]) Danguifang, Sichengfang, and Taipingfang are all there. I made up the names of the alleys. You can find the map on the Internet.