Chapter 280

Goose-yellow single-layered garment, raven-feather long hair.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan sat kneeling before the desk, tapping her palm with two fingers, frowning as she looked at the small pieces of paper on the desk, spread out like snow.

After a while, her fingers stopped; she picked up one of the paper scraps and placed it gently in the center of the desk.

On the paper was drawn a willow branch, its twigs as tough as a sword, yet its leaves hung as soft as silk. The varying shades of ink revealed a sense of aloofness, as if it were standing alone and proud, ready to fly away with the whole piece of paper at any moment. The tips of the willow branches grew out obliquely, not following common sense, yet revealing a sense of dashing charm.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan stared at the willow branch for a while, then found the second piece of paper.

On the second piece of paper was drawn a belt. This time it was drawn very simply, with only a few strokes, just resembling the shape. If others didn't look carefully, they might think it was a rope.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan placed the belt paper scrap to the lower left of the willow branch with a solemn little face, then picked out a piece of paper with a heart drawn on it and placed it to the lower right of the willow branch, parallel to the belt.

She exhaled slightly and solemnly placed the fourth piece of paper below the belt and the heart, vertically opposite the willow branch—it was a crescent moon of ink.

This little crescent moon was drawn cutely, not like the cold moon in the sky, but like the tip of a cat's tail curled up when it was curled up by the window, hooked in a curve, with a bit of lazy cuteness, and the tail end was playfully curled into a small swirl.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan was first amused by the little crescent moon she drew, then her expression became serious bit by bit. Her gaze moved back and forth between the willow branch and the crescent moon, frowning more as she moved. When her brows were furrowed high and could no longer be furrowed, she suddenly began to rummage through the remaining paper scraps.

She wanted to find a blank piece of paper, but found that the paper scraps were either drawn on or written on, with no empty space at all, so she had to pull out a piece of paper that was not very useful, with the words "Ruyi Building" written on it, turned it over, dipped her brush in ink, and drew a small star.

She held this little star, suspended for a moment, and finally placed it earnestly beside the willow branch. After placing it, she stood up straight, tilted her head slightly to look at it, then pushed the little star toward the willow branch, and only then nodded with satisfaction, and the tightly furrowed brows relaxed a little.

Looking at the crescent moon again, deeper thoughts rose in Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan's eyes. After pondering for a moment, she found the fifth piece of paper and placed it directly below the crescent moon, with the words "Xichang" written on it.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan looked at the willow branch, then slowly withdrew her gaze and landed on Xichang again.

Fingers wrapped around green silk, thoughts are vast; at midnight, the lamp flowers shine on their own.

Crackle.

The lamp wick burst with a few golden-red sparks, which splashed on the gold-painted lamp base and disappeared in an instant.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan's eyes moved slightly, and she pushed aside the remaining paper scraps to look for it, but didn't find the one she wanted, so she casually took a piece of paper from "Xiangxue Building," thought about it, determined it wasn't needed, turned it over, and held the brush tip three inches above the paper, but didn't write.

She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again, and wrote two words—Donggong.

This piece of paper was placed under the Xichang paper scrap.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan stared at the layout of the paper scraps on the desk and began to take them back one by one.

Xichang, the little crescent moon, the belt, the heart—even that little star was put away, and in the end, only the willow branch and the Donggong remained, facing each other from afar.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan placed the willow branch and the Donggong side by side, thought about it, and then added three pieces of paper after the Donggong in one breath, divided into two rows, upper and lower.

There are two in the upper row, the first one says "Long History," and the second one says "Luling."

There is one in the lower row, aligned with Luling, with the words "Badong" on it.

Lady Xie Lady Xie Xinghan's two fingers began to tap her palm again, faster and faster, *da da da* like drumbeats, and even her palms turned pale red! Suddenly, she clenched her palm, gripped her fingers, and gasped—

She reached out abruptly, found one from the pile of paper scraps, and placed it between Luling and Badong.

On the paper were only two words with ink like a knife—"Ambush and Kill!"

Bang!

The door was kicked open!

Le Ma pointed her sword at the two, full of murderous intent!

Wang Yang and Seeing Liu Cheng were both stunned.

After Wang Yang was stunned, he immediately said "pleasantly surprised": "Aren't you—"

"How dare you shamelessly deceive me! Do you think I'm easy to bully?"

Wang Yang looked at Seeing Liu Cheng "blankly": "This, this is..."

Seeing Liu Cheng only felt he had lost face and shouted in a deep voice:

"Presumptuous! Put the sword down for me!"

Le Ma's sword tip tilted and pointed directly at the tip of Seeing Liu Cheng's nose.

Seeing Liu Cheng's Adam's apple rolled, and his voice softened by seventy percent: "I, I was mainly afraid you would be tired..."

"You are not a good thing either! I ask you! Are you leaving! Are you!"

The sword tip shook with Le Ma's angry questioning, making Seeing Liu Cheng's face turn white.

Seeing Liu Cheng leaned back, fearing being poked by the sword tip, shaking his head like a rattle, and said repeatedly: "No, no..."

Le Ma looked cold, and the sword tip thrust forward: "Isn't it you talking here with him?!"

"I don't know! I really don't know! He was the one talking to me; I wasn't talking to him..."

Seeing Liu Cheng moved to the side as he spoke, signaling to "draw a clear line" with Wang Yang.

Wang Yang despised Seeing Liu Cheng speechlessly.

Le Ma glared at Wang Yang, and the sword tip turned to point at Wang Yang: "So it was you provoking—"

Wang Yang looked at Seeing Liu Cheng, then at Le Ma, and "suddenly realized": "So you know each other!"

Le Ma said angrily: "Why are you pretending! I told you long ago—"

Wang Yang looked innocent: "You said Liu Chen at the time, not Seeing Liu Cheng!"

Le Ma was stunned, the anger in her eyes seemed to be frozen, and then surged even more fiercely in an instant:

"I was talking about Seeing Liu Cheng!!"

"Chen is Chen, Cheng is Cheng; Chen is not Cheng, and Cheng is not Chen. Chen is the 'chen' in 'dust,' Cheng is the 'cheng' in 'punish.' 'Covered in dust' is not 'covered in cheng' but 'covered in dust'; 'confused by cheng' is not 'confused by chen' but 'confused by cheng.' Chen is just Chen, the morning bell and dust; Cheng is just Cheng, riding the wind before the city. If you want to speak Han language well, you can't fail to distinguish between 'chen' and 'cheng'!"

Le Ma was stupid.

Seeing Liu Cheng was also a bit dizzy.

Wang Yang shook his head and sighed: "Le Ma, your Han language is not good." Then he glanced at Seeing Liu Cheng inadvertently.

Seeing Liu Cheng immediately cheered up and echoed: "Her Han language is indeed not that good."

Wang Yang shifted the tone: "But it's considered good in the Wenyang tribe."

"Not bad, not bad, it's considered good in the Wenyang tribe!" Seeing Liu Cheng sweated wildly.

"Do they in the Wenyang tribe not distinguish between front and back nasal sounds?" Wang Yang looked at Seeing Liu Cheng and asked suspiciously.

Seeing Liu Cheng looked at Wang Yang, "understood the spirit," and then nodded: "Indeed."

Wang Yang slapped his thigh, startling both Seeing Liu Cheng and Le Ma.

"I said so! Le Ma said before that Seeing Liu Cheng was her husband, but her pronunciation wasn't accurate, and she said Liu Chen. I hadn't reacted at the time and was wondering who Liu Chen was; it turns out she was talking about you!"

Le Ma was still in a state of short-circuiting, looking at Seeing Liu Cheng in confusion.

Seeing Liu Cheng looked at Wang Yang, and Wang Yang held his forehead.

*Follow the script, big brother! Don't look at me for every sentence! *

Seeing Liu Cheng didn't know what Wang Yang meant, so he had to grope his way down: "Yes, it's her."

"Then she is my sister-in-law!"

Wang Yang looked at Le Ma "pleasantly surprised": "So we are one family!"

Le Ma's brain was dizzy, and she still couldn't figure out the situation, her pupils slightly dilated due to confusion: "One family? What one family? What is a sister-in-law?"

"Where we come from, we call a younger brother's woman a sister-in-law. My younger brother is Seeing Liu Cheng, and you are my younger brother's woman, so you are my sister-in-law. Aren't we one family?"

Le Ma was taken aback: "Is Young Master Liu your younger brother?"

"Yes. Although not biological, it's about the same."

Le Ma turned to look at Seeing Liu Cheng uncertainly, and Seeing Liu Cheng had to bite the bullet and say:

"He is my elder brother..."

Le Ma looked at Wang Yang, then at Seeing Liu Cheng, and was a bit suspicious: "But is he older than you?"

Wang Yang said indifferently: "My seniority is high."

Le Ma looked at Seeing Liu Cheng again, and Seeing Liu Cheng "tragically" repeated:

"His seniority is high..."

Le Ma was stunned, trying hard to digest the previous information.

Wang Yang looked at Le Ma and said to Seeing Liu Cheng:

"You told me before that your sister-in-law was heroic, both firm and gentle, beautiful and dignified, virtuous and polite! I didn't believe it at the time! Now that I see it, these words are not false! This sister-in-law is good, more than enough to match you, kid! Treat her well in the future; if you dare to bully your sister-in-law, I won't let you off!"

Le Ma was overjoyed when she heard this, her face full of joy! Although she tried her best to keep a smile without showing her teeth, the happy light jumping in her eyes was almost overflowing!

She put her hands behind her back, hid the scimitar behind her back like a bell-ringer, and searched her brains for Han etiquette, half-piecing together and half-creating a curtsy to Wang Yang, lowering her head, pinching her throat, pressing her voice to be thin and soft, and said obediently:

"Le Ma has met elder brother."

This can also work?????????

Seeing Liu Cheng was dumbfounded...

"Please have some fruit, elder brother."

Le Ma handed the washed wild fruit to Wang Yang. Wang Yang took it with a smile and asked: "Has sister-in-law ever thought about going to Jiankang to play?"

Le Ma was pretending to be virtuous and gentle, but when she heard this, she immediately revealed her true colors and shouted: "I, I'm not going to Jiankang! He's not going either!"

Seeing Liu Cheng had a bitter face.

Wang Yang smiled:

"People all say 'wrap your waist with a hundred thousand strings of cash and ride a crane to Yangzhou.' The most prosperous place in Yangzhou is Jiankang. If you have money and don't go to Jiankang to enjoy it, wouldn't you have lived in vain? The so-called 'everyone says Jiankang is good, tourists should just grow old in Jiankang.' It means that everyone says Jiankang is good, and even tourists passing through Jiankang should stay in Jiankang until they are old—"

Le Ma snorted: "Boasting, I've never said Jiankang was good..."

Wang Yang smiled mysteriously: "That's because you haven't been there! The fun in Jiankang is beyond your imagination..."

Le Ma said disdainfully: "What's fun about Jiankang!"

"There's too much fun! I can't finish talking about it in a few days. Just take this silver ring you're wearing; it's very beautiful. Where did you buy it?"

Le Ma said proudly: "My father made it for me!"

"It's indeed not bad, but it's a bit monotonous with just a silver ring. Do you know that in Jiankang, there are several long streets specifically for selling jewelry, with all kinds of jewelry shops, dazzling and everything you could want! Some jade earrings are so thin they can transmit light, and wearing them on your ears is like hanging two small clouds. Some silver bracelets have mechanisms hidden inside, and they can bloom into lotus flowers with a light touch! Some jade rings glow at night, so you don't need candles when you get up at night; just lift the jade ring to shine, and it illuminates the surroundings for several steps! As for gold branches with pearls, silver chains with stars, phoenixes holding tassels, and coral reflecting the sun, there are countless!!!"

Le Ma was a little moved, but still pretended not to care much and asked: "Does Jiankang have mountains and forests? Can you hunt?"

"Yes! Jiankang is a city, and these jewelry shops are inside the city. Outside the city, there are mountains, water, and forests, just like here. Whether you want to hunt, picnic, or go mountain climbing and camping, it's all up to you. By the way, his family also has a villa! You can go to his mountain villa to escape the summer heat and hide from the winter, get drunk under the moon and sleep among flowers, sit around the stove in the cold rain, and spend the days freely—'With a villa as a companion, live a carefree life; ride a horse and gallop, sharing the prosperity of the world!' You can stay as long as you want!"

Seeing Liu Cheng nodded and said: "This is true."

*Sigh, when will I have a villa... *

Wang Yang suppressed his envy and told Le Ma about some food, drink, and fun things, which made Le Ma's heart grow grass, and she could hardly sit still! But she never let go.

Seeing Liu Cheng suddenly interrupted Wang Yang, looked into Le Ma's eyes and said:

"Le Ma, actually... actually Jiankang is not as good as my brother said. But I will do my best to make it that good! Although I don't have the ability to change the whole city of Jiankang, I can change the place where you are. As long as it's where you are, I will make it better!"

"I'll go to Jiankang with you!" Le Ma's eyes turned red, and she threw herself into Seeing Liu Cheng's arms.

Seeing Liu Cheng was also overjoyed, hugged Le Ma, clasped his hands behind Le Ma's back, cupped his hands solemnly toward Wang Yang, and mouthed his thanks.

Wang Yang smiled and also mouthed four words—

"The child is teachable."