This son-in-law is shrouded in a fog.

Lu Jinxi thought about it, but she didn't see it clearly. She just thought that the other party came to greet him and left a prescription.

But there is nothing to be diligent about, not a traitor or a thief.

Could it be that just because she had spent a few baskets of charcoal, he was influenced by this "mother" who ignored him all the year round? Lu Jinxi didn't believe it.

It is not so easy to cover a stone, let alone Xue Tingzhi, who is sane and assertive?

She frowned, looked at the handwriting on the page, slowly put it down, put it on the kang table, and said, "You two just go back and do some work, and then give the eldest son some household goods. I don't care about the decoration. I want to see what medicine he sells in the gourd."

The two maids of Qingque and Egret are used to knowing Lu's attitude towards Xue Tingzhi.

When I saw her laughing and laughing just now, it didn't look like a real smile, and when she said anger, it didn't look like real anger. She couldn't figure out what she was thinking, and she didn't know what was going on between her and Xue Tingzhi, so she was confused for a long time.

Hearing her order at this moment, he glanced at each other and responded.

Lu Jinxi stretched out his hand to ask for the medicine list wrapped in a long roll: "Is this also presented this morning?"

"Yes. It's almost the same as the eldest son's prescription."

Egret hurriedly handed over the list.

"Pan Quan'er left a message, saying that if you want to give more, he happened to know a pharmacist in Shaanxi, and he can trust him. When the time comes, when the medicine is loaded into the truck, only the deposit will be given, and then it will be sent back to Shengtang to see, and then the money will be paid. It's more secure that way."

"This consideration is very thorough."

Lu Jinxi nodded and looked at the list of medicinal herbs: Codonopsis, Astragalus, Angelica Radix, Qiang Huo, Diyu... All the medicinal herbs used for daily common ailments are all available.

"There is no need to change the medicine list. As for the amount, Huishengtang uses a lot of medicines, so they have to prepare a portion that can be used for half a year."

Saying that, she had finished sweeping the list, rolled it up again, and handed it to the egret.

"In addition, he asked by the way, Doctor Zhang, is there a cure for rheumatism and cold legs. Whether you believe it or not, come back to me before the birthday banquet."

Egret took the order and blinked, his eyes immediately brightened, and he immediately knew what the lady said before sending "yes".

She was overjoyed, and she replied crisply: "The servant will go immediately!"

"Wait." Lu Jinxi hurriedly stopped her and added, "After explaining to Pan Quan'er, you can stop by the British government and give me a message to Mrs. Shizi for me. Just say, the snow melts, that one will be there. back."

When Lu Jinxi was talking to Princess Yongning, the maids were not there.

Therefore, after hearing this endless sentence, Bailu didn't understand it at all, and she only pretended to be playing a riddle with Mrs. Shizi, and didn't dare to ask more questions.

She remembered the words in her heart, and didn't dare to miss a word. She raised her skirt and quit. She went to Ermen first, passed Lu Jinxi's words to Pan Quan'er as they were, and then turned around again. British government.

Lu Jinxi stayed in the house to take care of the internal affairs.

There are more than 200 mouths up and down the general's house, and there are too many things to manage.

In the position of the lady in charge, she knew that it was not easy when she sat down.

In one case, Lu was ill for more than half a month, and he had accumulated a lot of things, all waiting to be dealt with.

The account books in the mansion, the invitations from other houses, the harvest gift list on the Zhuangzi...

She had to look at everything.

Although the second day is still cold, the solar term has entered the spring, and many things in the house must be purchased.

How to tidy up the garden, how to make up the shares of each house, and what to cut down in winter...

matter to matter.

The genius just dawned, and outside the East Courtyard, the maid and old lady who were waiting for the matter crowded together.

Lu Jinxi looked through the crack of the window, sighed with a headache, and only asked Qingque to take someone out and asked, "If you have something important, stay here, bring it in and come back to me. If it doesn't matter, you will leave it until another day and tell them all to go back. Stop blocking the door."

As a result, most of the outside talent gradually dispersed.

But this is the case. From the beginning of the day until it was dark, Lu Jinxi was only able to straighten things out by three points, and there were a lot of people waiting behind.

A big family with a large population is actually more troublesome than a big company!

It's no wonder that the original body can't hold up well.

Even if it was replaced by an "iron man" like Lu Jinxi, who often worked overtime and was used to high-intensity operation, he felt dizzy after a busy day, and he couldn't bear it very much.

Originally, she had planned to take advantage of the night when the children came to greet her to learn about Sister Lang's situation.

But at that time, she didn't even have much strength to speak, she could only ask a few ordinary things, and then told them to go back first.

In the days that followed, it simply pushed the matter to a later stage.

First, because there are so many things at the moment, and there is an imminent matter of the birthday banquet at the Grand Master Gu's house, which needs to be managed, and she has no skills.

Second, she found that Sister Lang still resisted her. Even if she greeted her every day, she looked sullen and didn't like to talk. She guessed that it would take some time to communicate with Sister Lang.

It won't happen in a while.

Therefore, Lu Jinxi devoted all his thoughts to the affairs of the General's Mansion.

At first, she was a little unfamiliar, but within two days, with amazing adaptability, she figured out what was going on inside and out.

In addition, the hard things are put in the front, and the trivial things are left after they are dealt with.

So after seven or eight days, whether it was the internal affairs that had been accumulated for more than half a month, or the matters that needed to be managed after the beginning of the spring, they were all settled one by one.

The whole house is stunned!

Who would have thought that after Lu Jinxi recovered from his illness, he would have such a resolute and resolute means to keep up with a clockwork Western bell?

For a while, the atmosphere was a little prudent, and everyone looked at her with admiration.

On the ninth day, Lu Jinxi was free.

Ye Shi, the wife of the crown prince of the British government next door, wanted to visit Lu Jinxi for a long time because of the words she sent, and when she learned that she was finally free, she stepped in at the beginning of the afternoon and came to visit with a gift.

Lu Jinxi was still entertaining guests in the Westinghouse as usual. As soon as someone came in, he got up and greeted them: "Mrs. Shizi, I won't be seeing you for a few days, and I was thinking of finding a chance to sit with you. You'd better come first, and bring me with you. Giving gifts can make you feel alive."

Because the weather has warmed up a bit recently, Lu Jinxi rarely wears brighter colors.

Inside is a honey-colored large-sleeved shirt, and the outer cover is covered with bamboo and green embroidered gold and silver threads all over the place.

The eyebrows are like spring mountains, the eyes are like the autumn moon, and the face is radiant.

Besides, her skin is snow-white, and her beauty is like snow on the branches.

When Ye Shi saw it, he almost didn't dare to recognize it, and jokingly said, "It's not a matter of birth. I haven't seen you for eight days. You are actually several years younger!"

"In that case, I have to accept your gift." Lu Jinxi took Ye Shi's hand and asked her to sit down on the east side of the heated kang before smiling, "I am now under Doctor Zhang's side. Tzu is doing well. Although I have been busy these few days, I didn't dare to stop taking the tonic soup and medicine, so my complexion has increased."

"That's why you are lucky, you can invite Gui Shou Zhang, and others won't envy you."

There was also some admiration and emotion in Ye's words.

"Doctor Zhang is also the holy hand of Xinglin. The wound on my Dingfang's arm is not shallow. After using the medicine he prescribed, it has only been a few days and he is almost healed. In two days, he should be able to send him to school. Brother Chi explained it."

"That's next."

Lu Jinxi looked like she didn't care, just remembering Xue Chi's sullen look these days, she couldn't help sighing.

"Don't you know that brother Chi is not seriously injured, he went back to study in the school a few days ago."

"But the Second Young Master is not here. He is such a foolish overlord that it is hard to find a playmate. He comes back to me with a dejected face all day long, as if I owe him eight hundred dollars!"

"I just hope that Second Young Master can return to Xuezhai as soon as possible, so that he won't lose face."

This is honestly said.

Ye Shi also heard that it was true, and laughed: "The child in my family is too. He can't stand it when he is locked in the house, and he wants to go out to play."

"But you also know that the past few days have been warm and cold, and a little snow has fallen one after another. It's spread outside. The snow is melting now, and I don't know when it will be clean..."

Melting snow.

As early as after talking with Princess Yongning, this word has a different flavor.

Of course Lu Jinxi would not think that Ye was referring to its own meaning.

The thick eyelashes, hanging down long, obediently cast a quiet and thick black shadow on the bottom of her eyes, with faint waves of light passing from the depths of her eyes.

For ventilation, the carved window has a half-palm-width slit.

Lu Jinxi raised her head and looked out.

After a few days, the branches of several trees in the yard have grown a little deeper green. A thin layer of residual snow was still hanging on the new leaves and branches, and it was glittering with the dim sunlight outside.

It seems that it will be cleaned up soon.

But, if she remembered correctly, the mountain was always much colder than the ground.

Out of Xizhimen, and further west for thirteen miles, there is a continuous mountain range with a soft outline.

There are no majestic peaks, no steep canyons, only the beauty of heaven and earth.

Mingfa Mountain is the outermost one, and the Jokhang Temple is built on its mountainside.

The pilgrims who came to the temple to offer incense and pray in an endless stream came in and out, only adding a bit of secular firework to this ancient temple on the mountain.

There is only the one stairway leading from the mountainside to the snow-green top of the mountain. In this lively scene, it remains motionless and still as cold as ever.

Step by step, the white snow covered is thin.

When the little novice Hui Ding stepped up with the letter in his arms, he saw that a series of footprints had been printed on the steps in front of them, evenly spaced.

Thinking about it, it was left by the abbot Jueyuan.

The footprints have gone and never returned, and people should still be there with their uncle Juefei.

Thinking about it, Hui Ding stood on the mountain road and looked up.

All the strong old pine grows along the road, the dense pine needles are wrapped in ice and snow, and only a faint deep blue green emerges from the ice.

At the end of the mountain road, several wooden houses were built among the strange rocks and pines.

The clouds are faint, and they are all floating under the eaves of the wooden house, like a hermit's residence.

Jueyuan Abbot has been in the house for more than half an hour.

He was sitting on the Luohan bed with three screens of beech wood by the window, holding a black stone in his hand, staring at the chess game played on the Qingyun chess table in front of him, frowning and thinking.

Gu Juefei was wearing a crab-shell blue-green brocade robe and a two-inch black-green belt with dark silver clouds and thunder patterns. Because he didn't wear a crane cloak, a snow-white half-moon-shaped crouching crane jade pendant hanging from his waist was exposed.

Wide shoulders and narrow waist, tall and slender.

Just standing next to the copper stove burning silver charcoal is already a splendid and fascinating one.

"Have you thought about it yet?"

Holding a thick stack of salutations in his hand, he listened to the chess table behind him being silent for a long time, and finally asked a question.

Abbot Jueyuan felt that the black spot on his fingertip had turned into a burning coal, so hot that he wanted to throw it away, and sighed: "Rong Laona think about it again..."

"No matter how you think about it, it's nothing more than the difference between losing three and a half eyes and losing six eyes. Brother Jueyuan's meditation practice should point directly at his original heart. Why can't he see through it now?"

In Gu Juefei's voice, there was a faint smile.

Jueyuan Abbot was suddenly speechless.

Gu Juefei only opened the top letter in the pile of invitations, and there were several block letters neatly written on the top: "By the Minister of Work, Li Wenlang."

At the beginning, he was the minister of the Ministry of Industry, but now he has finally become a minister.

It took six years to get to this position, really...

slow enough.

Glancing at the post, Gu Juefei's eyes didn't stop for a second, and he threw the post into the copper stove in front of him.

"Snapped."

The gilded post hit the red charcoal, splashed a few sparks, and immediately ignited.

The fire was bright and yellow, but it couldn't see through his deep pool-like eyes.

Abbot Jueyuan looked at his skillful movement, and his eyelids began to jump again: "Their news is very well-informed."

Gu Jue not only smiled.

He opened the second, third, fourth...

Zhao Xiangxian, Governor of Huguang, Chang Jianzhi of Hangzhou Academy, Lv Ruliang, Bachelor of Hanlin Academy, Tang Ruijing, Minister of the Military Department of Yingtian Governor, Song Qi, a wealthy businessman in Yangzhou, Meng Zan, a co-organizer...

Most of them were high-ranking officials of the first and second rank in the DPRK, and there were also a few famous celebrities, including a few wealthy businessmen.

He turned it over one by one, and threw it into the furnace lightly one by one.

Fire, the more it burns, the more prosperous it is.

Seeing that the flames rose more than a foot, but there was still a small part of the post in his hand, and the abbot felt that it was a pity: "Keep it, don't burn it. With so many posts, I will ask someone to move them down and throw them in the kitchen to make a fire. Isn't it good?"

"Knock knock knock."

Before Gu Juefei could answer, there was a knock on the door.

"Uncle Juefei, there is a new letter coming from the mountain, saying that it must be presented to you face to face, and that you will definitely read it when you see it."

This voice is the little novice Hui Ding.

Gu Juefei could hear it, but it was a bit interesting.

The divine light in his eyes flashed and disappeared, he laughed inexplicably, and he didn't turn over the invitation card in his hand, he just threw the rest towards the corner of the wall, clapped his hands, and said, "Come in."

The little novice Huiding opened the door carefully, came to Gu Juefei respectfully, and held the letter in both hands: "It was handed over by a pilgrim in the Temple of Heavenly Kings just now, Huiding is stupid and can't tell who he is. "

Looking at the ordinary letter, there is a faint scent of peony dew, which is elegant and fragrant.

As soon as Gu Juefei received the letter in his hand, he guessed where the letter came from. With a slender thumb and rounded nails, as soon as it touched the seal, he opened it a little and saw a small "Yi" at the bottom.

At that moment, there was a trace of mockery in his eyes, and he suddenly felt a little funny: Where did she get such confidence, that he would definitely see it when he saw it?

It's because the day went too smoothly, and that conceited frivolity came up again?

Shaking his head for a while.

Gu Juefei's eyes were ruthless and emotionless, and he only loosened his fingers.

The envelope smeared with incense floated into the copper furnace, next to the fire, ignited, and burned to ashes.

It's too lazy to even take it apart!

The little novice Hui Ding looked dumbfounded.

However, Gu Juefei, as usual, turned around and walked towards the Arhat bed, sat back opposite the Abbot Jueyuan, and said casually: "Your abbot has explained, the pile of posts in my house, when I look back, I will set fire to the temple's kitchen. You go back. Say it, when the snow melts and the road is easier to walk, I will ask someone to come up and move it."

"Yes."

Hui Ding subconsciously glanced at the corner of the wall.

All kinds of invitations, messed up, piled up into a mountain of "posts", these are old sent a few days ago;

On the other side listening to the wind bottle, there was also a pile of posts, half the height of a person. These are the new posts sent in the past two days.

Thinking of the endless stream of people coming in these days, Hui Ding secretly wiped away a cold sweat. Seeing that Gu Juefei didn't care about the appearance of these people at all, she felt a tremor in her heart.

Abbot Jueyuan talked with Uncle Juefei. He didn't dare to stay any longer, so he bowed and left, carefully closing the door.

After Gu Juefei sat down, he held a white stone, tapped the edge of the chessboard lightly, and said to Jueyuan, "Are you still going?"

"Alas." Jueyuan was extremely helpless, "I have played chess with you for the past six years, and I have never played chess so badly. I don't know if you were perfunctory in the past, or serious today."

As he said that, he finally put the sunspots that he had taken for more than a moment into the chessboard.

admit defeat.

Gu Juefei laughed: "Is this bad?"

It took almost an afternoon.

Jueyuan stared at him for a long time, and was silent for a long time before he said: "Although the snow on the mountain has not been cleaned up, the birthday banquet is tomorrow, and I can't wait. Are you still not leaving?"

"..."

Gu Juefei glanced at him, didn't speak, just looked back at the increasingly slanted sun outside the window, illuminating the jagged rocks, and the ancient pine was vigorous.

The snow on the top of the mountain is still covered with a layer of it.

Departure?

He slowly retracted his gaze, looked at the white jade chess piece, and felt it was cold. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the temperature transmitted from his fingertips to his heart was cold or hot.

The dusky sunlight filled the snow-green roof, and a layer of gold foil was spread all over the capital.

Lu Jinxi has been looking out of the window for a long time without speaking.

Seeing her dazed for a while, Mrs Ye hesitated: "Madam, are you also looking at the snow? I have already inquired about it, but the snow on the mountain hasn't melted yet."

"Isn't it melting? But I think it doesn't matter if the snow on the mountain doesn't melt."

Lu Jinxi finally regained her senses. She remembered all the rumors about this young master Gu, especially the suspicion that she had a falling out with her family six years ago, and only slowly pondered it.

"Just look at it, the snow in my heart can't be melted..."