Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 178 Water Source Travel Notes

Fan Ning hurried to the gate. A young man with a red bundle on his back, a brown jacket, leggings, and cloth boots was standing at the gate. He was holding a rattle in his hand. It's the messenger who delivers it quickly.

"I'm looking for an official named Fan. Does he live here?"

"My surname is Fan!" Fan Ning hurried forward and said.

"May I ask the official's name?" the messenger asked very politely.

This is the industry rule, you have to say the name of the recipient to receive the letter, Fan Ning said: "I am Fan Ning, right?"

"That's right!"

The messenger handed over the letter to Fan Ning, and asked Fan Ning to mark it on the note, and then he saluted and left in a hurry.

Fan Ning looked at the letter in his hand, there were actually two letters, and from the handwriting, one was written by Ouyang Qian, and the other was written by Zhu Pei. These two young ladies actually wrote letters by themselves at the same time.

"Fan Ning, don't you have my letter?" Su Liang asked with his head.

"No, it's all my letters."

"Who wrote it, Ouyang Qian?" Su Liang asked, salivating.

"Go aside!"

Fan Ning pushed him away, and said to him: "Hurry up and buy some spring water, do you need me to remind you about this kind of thing?"

Only then did Su Liang wake up, and hurried back to the house and went out with two large kettles.

Just at the gate of the old Caomen Wazi, there is a itinerant water vendor who drives a donkey cart from thirty miles south of the capital to fill the city with spring water every day to sell. Although it is very hard work, the income is not bad. Four or five pennies.

Fan Ning returned to the room with the letter, he read Ouyang Qian's letter first, it turned out to be the letter written by Ouyang Qian in the morning.

Ouyang Qian's letter was very short and was written hastily. The letter said that her father had been preliminarily designated as the examiner, and that his father had restrained her. She was no longer allowed to go out, and no one was allowed to visit. Being criticized, this "semi-house arrest" state will continue until the end of the imperial examination. Ouyang Qian apologized for the appointment with Fan Ning to go to Baigang to watch the snow.

Ouyang Qian seemed to want to write something later, but it was probably too late, so she had to close the pen in a hurry, and even wrote half of the words to wish him the gold list high school.

Fan Ning put Ouyang Qian's letter away, and then opened Zhu Pei's letter. Zhu Pei's letter was even shorter, with only one sentence, "Visit the day after tomorrow, on the third day of October." '

Fan Ning shook her head with a smile. Zhu Pei came to see her several times, but she was not there. This time she simply made an appointment first.

At this time, Cheng Yuanyuan's voice came from the yard, Fan Ning walked slowly to the window, and saw Cheng Yuanyuan frying tea on the stone table in the courtyard, Su Liang sat on the stone bench, looking at Cheng Yuanyuan's skillful frying tea with his chin resting on his hands, the two People chatted and laughed in a low voice from time to time.

Fan Ning was quite emotional, there is still a destiny between people, Su Liang has kissed so many girls that he doesn't like it, so I don't know how he and Cheng Yuanyuan met his eyes.

Just before dawn, Fan Ning was awakened by a knock on the door. He read a book a little late last night, and the bed was so warm that he couldn't open his eyes because of the sleepiness. The knock on the door annoyed him endlessly. .

"Fan Ning, Ju Pei is here, why don't you get up quickly!"

Hearing that Zhu Pei was coming, Fan Ning forced himself to get up. He opened the window, and a gust of cold wind hit his face, which made him shiver, and hurried back to bed, but the drowsiness was gone.

"Juppe, sit in my study for a while, and I'll tidy up!" Fanning said, yawning big.

But there was no voice from Zhu Pei in the courtyard. Fan Ning was a little surprised, and quickly put on a soft sheepskin bijacket and two thick tights on his lower body, and then he put on the soldier's uniform.

He opened the door, and there was no sign of Zhu Pei at the courtyard door. At this moment, Su Liang poked his head out from his room and pointed to Cheng Yuanyuan's room opposite.

Immediately, Zhu Pei's laughter came from Cheng Yuanyuan's room.

Fan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, and then went to the well to fetch water with the copper basin. Enduring the bitterly cold well water, he washed his face hastily, and brushed his teeth with sand salt.

At this time, Zhu Pei, who was wearing a fox fur coat, came out and saw that Fan Ning's hands and face were red with cold, she thought for a while and said, "Fan Ning, you should hire a maid! water, do some chores, etc.”

"We have also considered that it is not convenient to live together. If we want hot water, we will buy some. The old Caomen Inn sells hot water. It's just that we are too lazy to run, and it doesn't matter if we get used to washing with cold water."

"What about at night? It's more comfortable to sleep with hot water on your feet."

Cheng Yuanyuan walked out with a smile, "In the future, Du Juan will be in charge of boiling the water, so that everyone will have hot water. We will start tonight. Later, I will ask my brother to buy the stove and the big kettle, as well as some wood and charcoal."

As soon as the words were finished, Cheng Ze came running in with several bags of buns, "The buns just out of the cage are still hot! Everyone, eat them while they're hot."

When he looked up, he happened to see Zhu Pei. He was so shocked that he almost threw away the buns. There is such a delicate lady in the world?
If Ouyang Qian's beauty is gentle and pretty, but Zhu Pei's beauty is exquisite and grand, she is a typical woman from a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, with a kind of watery aura, crystal white skin, rosy mouth and tall nose As if outlined in a painting, a pair of eyes that were as agile as autumn water shone with a jewel-like luster.

Although Cheng Ze is a son of a rich family in Yangzhou, he has never seen such a beautiful woman as Zhu Pei, so he was stunned for a while.

When Cheng Yuanyuan saw her brother's ugly face, she gave him an annoyed look, and introduced him, "Brother, this is Miss Zhu, and she is here to find Fan Ning!"

She purposely emphasized the word 'find Fanning' a little more, implying that her brother should not have any unreasonable thoughts.

Only then did Cheng Ze come to his senses, and he laughed dryly, "Everyone have breakfast first, and then we'll leave after breakfast."

When he turned around, he almost bumped into Jianmeizi who had just walked into the yard. He slowly raised his head and couldn't help but gasp, who is this!How tall like a dominatrix.

Jian Meizi ignored him and stood directly behind Zhu Pei, causing Cheng Yuanyuan's face to change slightly in fright. Although she guessed that this woman was Zhu Pei's guard, she must be too tall!

Like the thin and thin maid Du Juan, who was only as tall as Jianmeizi's waist, she was so frightened that she hid in the room and dared not come out.

Since Cheng Ze wanted to explore the source of water with his sister, Fan Ning didn't want to go. Today, there happened to be a trade of Wan surnames, so he just wanted to go shopping.

Fan Ning was making the quilt in front of the bed. At this time, Zhu Pei walked to the door and whispered: "Dumb, I also want to explore the source of water, can you come with me?"

"What did you call me?" Fanning turned around suddenly.

"Call you dumb! Didn't I always call you dumb?" Zhu Pei said with a smile.

Fan Ning hurriedly cupped his hands, "Grandma, I sincerely ask you this time, please forget about calling you an old man! No one calls me this name anymore, even Su Liang doesn't know it, so save me some face If it spreads out, it will be laughed at by everyone in the world."

Zhu Pei thought for a while and said, "Then you promise to accompany me to see the water source, and I promise not to call you dumb in front of them."

"You should call me Aning! Everyone in my family calls me Aning."

Zhu Pei curled her lips. She originally wanted to say that Ouyang Qian also called you Aning, but thinking that Fan Ning's parents also called him Aning, she decided that this Aning could not be used exclusively by Ouyang Qian.

"Okay! It's okay to call you Aning, then you must agree to accompany me to explore the source of water."

Seeing that she was in good spirits, Fanning nodded in agreement.

"Since you want to go, I will accompany you."

(End of this chapter)