Great Ye Empress

Chapter 144 Painting
Xie Yunchu pushed the window lattice open, and sunlight fell on the desk mottled from the gaps between the green branches and leaves of the big tree in the courtyard.

The jade-like and flawless Xiao Langjun sat in the window, clutching the spine of the book in one hand, and resting his cheeks in the other, looking at the new green of the mountains, as beautiful as a painting.

She closed her eyes and heard the gurgling water and chirping birds in her ears, which was really refreshing.

Unconsciously, Xie Yunchu slept on the desk with his arms on his back.

A little bit of gold scraps, swaying with the wind...

Leaping on Xiao Langjun's tall and delicate nose, or between the long black eyelashes.

The sleeves slipped on the elbows and wrists, and the slender jade-like arms were almost transparent, and the veins could be clearly seen.

Xie Yunchu only felt the light in front of her eyes flickering in a trance, surrounded by green lights... She seemed to be in a dream, dreaming of the day she saw Ji Jingci for the first time.

Ji Jingci, who came back two days early, entered the Yinglan Pavilion and saw Xiao Langjun lying asleep under the window.

The wind is slowly and the green leaves are whirling.

The pages of the book that were pressed under Xie Yunchu's elbows fluttered up in the wind and fell back.

Ji Jingci stood at the door, with a very shallow smile on his lips, and walked towards the upper room of Yinglan Pavilion...

Hearing the creaking sound of the door, Xie Yunchu's eyelashes trembled, but he couldn't wake up.

Ji Jingci took the cape on the side and put it on Xie Yunchu slowly, only to see Xie Yunchu open his eyes in a daze...

Li Nanyu said that Ji Jing's resignation will not be able to return until the day after tomorrow. This is a dream, right?

Xie Yunchu, who was still awake, couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality, and whispered, "Aci..."

Ji Jingci tightened his palms, his calm expression changed slightly, his black eyes stared at Xie Yunchu, and he saw Xie Yunchu closed his eyes again.

Rokuro, what did you just call him?
Aci...

Xie Yunchu, who closed his eyes, clenched his hands tightly, his heart beating extremely fast.

Ji Kyung is back!

When she unconsciously called Ji Jing's speech, she immediately reacted when she saw that his face changed drastically.

Ji Jingci should have come back early.

But she...

But it was in a dream that he called him Aci.

After a while, Xie Yunchu opened his eyes again, pretending to have just woken up, looking at Ji Jingci who was so close to her, and called out like a kitten: "Master..."

Ji Jingci has not recovered from Xie Yunchu's words...

Thinking that Xu had heard it wrong, he smiled and touched the top of Xie Yunchu's hair, and said to her, "Why did you fall asleep here with the window open?"

"Well..." Xie Yunchu replied, staring at Ji Jingci who stood up and stretched out his hand to close the window, "Master said that he was going to take the exam and asked about it. I wanted to study, but I didn't want to fall asleep..."

Xie Yunchu has been prone to drowsiness since he started to use Gu Shenyi's detoxifying prescription.

When he was in Jiangling Mansion, the doctor said that Xie Yunchu's physique was so poor that it was normal for him to be sleepy.

She held her breath until Ji Jingci closed the window to get out of the way, and then got up and saluted with Ji Jingci.

"You just arrived today, so you don't have to take the teaching exam, take a good rest, and start tomorrow... and Xingzhi prepare for the autumn season together." Ji Jingci said with a smile to Xie Yunchu.

"Yes!" Xie Yunchu hurriedly saluted.

After sending Ji Jingci away, Xie Yunchu held the book, but couldn't read it.

There was a sticky layer in her palm, thinking of Ji Jingci's stunned expression, her heart seemed to be scratched by a cat's claws, and she was restless.

I don't know if Ji Jingci found something in his unintentional murmur.

She put down the book, bit her knuckles, and walked up and down the house.

Thinking of Ji Jingci's smile afterward, she thought... Maybe Ji Jingci just thought she was talking about something else!
Thinking of this, Xie Yunchu sat down at the desk again.

But the book, in the end, still can't read it.

Also unable to read the book, and Ji Jingci...

Ji Jingci sat on the double-eaved pavilion and opened the ancient book and bamboo slips that were recently being restored, but his eyes fell on the fiery red peaks outlined by the setting sun.

He recalled Xie Yunchu's dazed sentence when he opened his eyes... Ah Ci.

Ji Jingci was upset, thinking of the high fever in the twelfth lunar month, and heard someone calling him Aci.

That voice... Could it be Rokuro?
Will not.

Although Rokuro is estranged from his master, his respect is obvious to all.

Calling him with a name like this... No.

So, what did Rokuro say when he woke up hazy just now?
Ji Jingci frowned, puzzled, and his thoughts fell into the memories of Yun Chu.

Early the next morning, Xie Yunchu and Gu Xingzhi waited in the book hall.

Soon, Ji Jingci and Li Nanyu arrived.

Xie Yunchu got up and saluted.

After being seated, Ji Jingci looked at Xie Yunchu with long and narrow phoenix eyes with a smile: "Can Liulang rest?"

"Go back to Master, rest!" Xie Yunchu straightened his waist and said.

He nodded, opened the book in his hand, and asked unintentionally, "Yesterday, I heard the word "Aci" whispered in a dream of Rokuro. I don't know what was the dream?"

Xie Yun raised her heart at once, she clenched her palm tightly, and said goodbye to Ji Jing...

When Yu Guang saw the ingot outside the door, he had already thought of a speech between the electric light and the flint.

"Returning to Master, Master is wrong, Rokuro is talking about quail..." Xie Yunchu lowered his eyebrows, "On the way back, I heard Yuan Bao talk about roasting quail with his brother in the field when he was young. Master laughed."

Ji Jing said goodbye to Xie Yunchu with his eyelids down and didn't look at him, thinking that maybe he missed Yunchu too much.

Li Nanyu is also surprised, why is Master still interested in Liulang's dream language today.

"Xiu Xing, let's start..." Ji Jing arranged his sleeves and sat down.

"Yes!" Li Nanyu sat upright and took the two junior brothers to review.

Xie Yunchu breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing if he was fooling himself.

But no matter what, you have to be very careful in the future.

Ji Jingci leaned on the Yinji, holding the scroll in one hand, and looked at Xie Yunchu, who was seriously reviewing the book, from the corner of his eye.

Xu was thinking of Yun Chu more and more because of the mishearing "A Ci", and he inevitably paid more attention to Xiao Langjun, who was also named Yun Chu in front of him.

Watching him pick up the pen and dip it in ink, and write on the paper...

The sunlight shone in from the window, sketching the movements of Xiao Langjun's writing.

In a trance, Ji Jingci seemed to see Yun Chu sitting against the light, straightening his back and writing with a pen.

At that time, he was sitting at the desk reading a book, and Yun Chu was sitting beside him... Sometimes he wrote, sometimes he painted.

However, Yun Chu's paintings... are really unwatchable, and the quality of the paintings is really poor.

Thinking of the two water ducks that Yun Chu painted at the beginning, Ji Jingci couldn't help but twitch the corners of his lips.

Yun Chu said that he wanted to draw mandarin ducks...

After the painting, he wanted to look at it, but Yun Chu blocked it with his arms, and he was not allowed to look at it.

It was he who asked Li Nanyu to deceive Yun Chu, and only then did he see that honest and cute little duck.

Ji Jingci picked up the teacup at hand, and said slowly, "When the two of them finish their article, let's paint in the afternoon."

　Asking for a monthly pass, darlings!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)