Li Xia stopped and looked at Jiang Yanshi approaching with admiration. He sighed softly and said in a low voice: "The moonlight is like water, and the young master is like jade."

Jiang Yanshi was startled, then he bent down with a smile and bowed to Li Xia, "Young girl is really..." Jiang Yanshi straightened his upper body, the smile on his face was too thick to disappear, and he stepped forward to let Li Xia.

"Let's go this way. It's better to enjoy the moon on the mountain behind Dule Gang. It's also very quiet. That's right," Jiang Yanshi paused and leaned over again, "We have to walk a few more steps. If the girl..." Jiang Yanshi pointed

Next to it is a small green bamboo sedan.

"It's such a beautiful moonlight, let's go for a walk." Li Xia clasped his hands behind his back and looked sideways at Jiang Yanshi. What a rare moonlight, sitting in a sedan chair was a bit unsightly.

Jiang Yanshi laughed, met Li Xia's gaze, avoided it for a moment, raised his hand and patted his forehead, laughing non-stop.

She was so unscrupulous, and he actually felt... so wonderful.

"A while ago, I heard that you were injured, and I was very worried." The two walked side by side for a while, and Jiang Yanshi said, his voice sounding a bit harsh.

"Well, you were too close to watch the fun." Li Xia glanced at Jiang Yanshi.

Jiang Yanshi laughed out loud, and nodded while laughing, "If you don't get closer to see the fun, you won't be able to see clearly, and you won't be able to see the excitement. If you get closer," Jiang Yanshi turned his head and looked at Li Xia, "I said he was injured.

Half the face? Which half?"

Li Xia frowned slightly, "It seems...I forgot. When it doesn't hurt, I forget which side is which."

Jiang Yanshi laughed heartily, "Axia, have you forgotten the pain after forgetting about the scar? Look at it like this, next time there is excitement, you still have to take care of it?"

Li Xia smiled and nodded, "I think so. It's just that next time I watch the fun, I can't get so close. It'll be too painful."

Jiang Yanshi laughed, shook his head and sighed, "Axia, you have such a good temper. If I have a chance in the future, I will accompany you to watch the fun. I will definitely let you watch the fun without getting hurt."

"If you accompany me, you're not just watching the fun, it's the excitement." Li Xia turned her head and glanced at Jiang Yanshi, "I heard from the seventh sister that one year during the Lantern Festival, Mr. Jiang patrolled the streets and people who saw Mr. Jiang,

Is the imperial street blocked?"

"What's the matter!" Jiang Yanshi denied it flatly, sighing repeatedly, "Axia, don't listen to people's nonsense, there is no..."

"Really?" Li Xia drawled his voice, interrupting Jiang Yanshi's words.

"Okay, I was wrong. It was the first year I led the Supervisory Office to inspect the Lantern Festival fireworks. I was careless. Someone threw flowers on the Royal Street, and I caught them... Later, everything got messed up.

"Jiang Yanshi looked helpless.

Li Xia kept laughing, "It's a pity that I didn't see such a lively thing."

"Axia." Jiang Yanshi sighed, looking at Li Xia with a helpless smile, "If you really want to see it, I will take you with me during the Lantern Festival next year, and you won't miss any of the excitement."

"That won't work. Didn't I say that if I follow you, I won't be watching the fun, but being watched by others. It's better for me and Seventh Sister to stand on the street and watch the fun." Li Xia smiled and waved her hand.

"Then when your seventh sister gets married, I will accompany you to watch the fun." Jiang Yanshi looked sideways at Li Xia, his tone was light and casual, but his expression was very serious.

Li Xia smiled and turned his head away and did not answer this question.

"I lived with my mother-in-law in a village in Siming Mountain since I was a child. The first time I saw the excitement was when I went to Mingzhou City to take the children's exam. After I passed the exam, I happened to catch up with the opening of a restaurant and invited almost all the people in Mingzhou City.

The red opera song and dance was creating a buzz, and I went up to watch the fun, but in the end, I got too close and got into a fight."

Jiang Yanshi changed the topic almost immediately.

"Did you win?" Li Xia asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I lost and was beaten very badly. Not only half of my face was injured, but I was injured from head to toe."

"What happened next? You definitely wouldn't just let it go." Li Xia asked.

"We in Mingzhou have strong folk customs. There is a rule that if you agree to a life-or-death fight, you have to live and die at your own risk. The next day, I blocked him at the gate of the Confucian Temple and challenged him to a life-or-death fight. He agreed."

Jiang Yanshi suddenly took a step forward, jumped up, broke off a sprig of osmanthus from the osmanthus tree leaning out from the roadside, smelled it, and handed it to Li Xia, "The osmanthus in the mountains has a particularly good fragrance."

Li Xia took it and looked up at Jiang Yanshi, "You killed him? Is he your enemy or your family's enemy?"

"Why do you say that?" Jiang Yanshi looked at Li Xia with wide eyes, eyes full of expectation.

Li Xia looked at him sideways and lowered the corner of his mouth, "In Mingzhou, anyone who dares to fight with you... also has the surname Jiang?" Li Xia suddenly asked in the middle of his sentence.

Jiang Yanshi burst into laughter, and while laughing, he bowed his head to Li Xia, "I... well, I admire the girl's intelligence. Yes." Jiang Yanshi stood up straight, put his hands behind his back, and looked very proud, "She is my half-mother.

Brother, I was killed. The day after I returned to the mountain, my grandfather went to the villa in person, picked up my mother and I, and brought me to the capital."

Li Xia was a little stunned.

She didn't know much about Jiang Yanshi's family background.

Jiang Yanshi's father, Jiang Huixian, was a man of his own temper but not very talented. He had a childhood sweetheart and was a maritime merchant. It had not been three generations since his family had been expelled from the country. Naturally, the Jiang family would not let him, the eldest son, marry a woman from such a family.

When he came back, he made an appointment with a girl from the Wei family of Mingzhou, a scholarly family, who was Jiang Yanshi's mother.

As soon as the marriage was arranged, Jiang Huixian took his childhood sweetheart Yang home without saying a word, made raw rice into cooked rice, and accepted Yang.

Hearing that Mrs. Wei was very arrogant, she got engaged and delayed for four or five years before marrying into the Jiang family. Within a month, she moved from the Jiang family's mansion to the Jiang family's village on Siming Mountain. Jiang Yanshi

I was born on Siming Mountain and grew up on Siming Mountain.

He also has a half-brother, which she has never heard of. She doesn't know much about Jiang Yanshi's past.

"Alas." Li Xia sighed softly.

"Why are you sighing?" Jiang Yanshi lowered his head and looked at Li Xia.

"Your mother-in-law took you to live in the mountains and stay away from home. You were still young at that time. You must have been willing to listen to your mother-in-law. If you could start a fight, you must not be the one who started the fight. Well..." Li Xia tilted his head and looked towards

He looked at Jiang Yanshi and said, "According to your temper, he probably put the eldest brother's pedigree in front of you. He is quite stupid. He can raise such a son. His biological mother can imagine it. No wonder your mother-in-law hid in the mountains.

It’s quite annoying.”

Jiang Yanshi raised his eyebrows high and kept laughing, "Axia, I really admire you. But now I also listen to my mother-in-law."

"Really?" Li Xia paused, extremely surprised.

Jiang Yanshi raised his hand to his forehead, "A-Xia, don't be like this. I mean, if my mother-in-law is right, I will definitely listen. What about you? Do you listen to your mother-in-law's words?"

"Of course, listen, I'm different from you." Li Xia shook his arm a few times, "My mother said that I can't eat more ice in hot weather, so I won't eat it. My mother can't be greedy for cold, so I should put less ice in the basin.

I won’t let it go, I’ll listen to whatever grandma says.”

"Then besides not eating too much ice and not being greedy for cold drinks, did your mother-in-law say anything else?"

"Anything else? What else is there?" Li Xia tilted his face at him with a smile.

"For example, let you learn sewing and cooking skills at home without leaving home?"

"My mother-in-law is not good at needlework, and her cooking skills are not good either. It sounds like we are from an uncle's house, but in fact, we are similar to a family in the market.

When we were in Taiyuan Prefecture, we lived next to the mansion. The opposite door was the escort's house, and the left collar was Zhang Daxian's house. Zhang Daxian's mother was so fierce. I don't remember it. The fifth brother said that Zhang Daxian's mother was just three steps away.

Wu climbed over the wall to steal the vegetables we grew. One time, when he was halfway over the wall, he bumped into Auntie Zhong. Zhang Daxian’s mother was riding on the wall and scolded Auntie Zhong. Fifth Brother said, “It’s a lot of scolding.”

It lasted two hours without stopping."

Li Xia was talking and laughing. When Jiang Yanshi heard this, his eyes widened at first, and then he slowly lowered his head. Looking at Li Xia who was laughing so loudly, he felt so sad that he couldn't bear it.

The pain she had suffered was like a knife to his heart. From today on, he would hold her in the palm of his hand and take care of her carefully.

"...My mother-in-law knows nothing but daily necessities, rice, oil and salt, and neither do I." Li Xia looked at Jiang Yanshi, who was staring at her in a daze, and spoke the last few words very slowly.

"We're here." Jiang Yanshi met Li Xia's gaze and pointed to the front hurriedly as if he was frightened.

There is a large four-cornered pavilion in front of it. In front of the pavilion, a flat area protrudes.

Behind the pavilion is a mountain, and in front is a vast space. The round moon hangs in front of the pavilion, its clear moonlight spreads all over the ground, and the breeze blows through the trees.

Li Xia followed Jiang Yanshi and passed through the pavilion. The front was flat in the middle and covered with a thick white felt blanket. Li Xia walked to the middle of the felt blanket and sat down.

Jiang Yanshi took two steps back, looked at Li Xia who was sitting in the middle of the carpet, stayed for a moment, took another step back, leaned over and said with a smile: "What do you want to hear?"

"Anything is fine." Li Xia raised his head and looked at Jiang Yanshi, who was shining brightly against the full moon in the sky. A burst of sourness came over him, and his heart slowly tightened and started to hurt.

Jiang Yanshi lowered his head slightly, raised his flute and put it to his lips. A ray of music was like a breeze, passing through the trees, joyful and proud, flying upwards, wrapped in the moonlight, spreading all over the ground. It was quiet for a moment, and then straight.

Flying upward, rushing into the sky, traveling all over the world in a moment, falling gracefully, and returning to the breeze and moonlight.

Jiang Yanshi put down his flute and looked at Li Xia, who was sitting in the middle of the carpet and looking straight at him. He subconsciously avoided his gaze and felt a little shy in his heart. He coughed lightly and said, "Do you still want to listen?"

"

"Ah." Li Xia suddenly realized that this song was enough and she had to go back.

"It's time to go back." Li Xia stood up and bowed his knees deeply to Jiang Yanshi, "All the beauty in the world is in this song of the young master. Li Xia thanked the young master for enjoying the music."

"Miss, you're welcome. I want to hear it. I'm going to play the flute and just listen to my instructions." Jiang Yanshi quickly bowed in return.

Li Xia stood up straight and looked at him with a smile, "It's late, it's time to go back."

"Yes." Jiang Yanshi responded in a low voice, and walked side by side with Li Xia through the pavilion, along the way they came, and walked down the mountain.

Not long after walking, Jiang Yanshi saw Xu Huan looking around with his hands behind his back from a distance. He paused and laughed softly: "It's your uncle, go ahead. I'll watch you."

Li Xia hummed and walked towards Xu Huan.
Chapter completed!