We had agreed to play with Yan Junqi on the last day, but we were still delayed for half a day.
After arranging all the work for others, Lu Xu made a round of inspection and saw that there were people in charge everywhere and there was nothing he needed to take care of, so he took Yan Junqi and ran away shamefully.
Lu Xu rented two donkeys near the north city gate, and he and Yan Junqi rode the donkeys out of the city gate.
Continuing to go north, in about half an hour, they arrived at their destination.
Lu Xu jumped off the donkey first and ran to help Yan Jun get off the donkey.
"How is it? Is it fun? Are you scared?"
His tone was completely excited.
Yan Junqi shook his head and landed on his feet, feeling truly at ease.
When I first got on the donkey, I was really a little panicked.
"When there is a chance in the future, I will take you to ride horses." Lu Xu took two donkeys with one hand and led Yan Junqi to find the hiking trail: "This is right here. When we came back, we saw someone going up the mountain from here. They said there were people on the mountain. This is a very spiritual mountain temple, and there is a red leaf on the mountain behind, let’s go see the red leaves.”
Yan Jun smiled and said, "Okay."
The two of them walked side by side on the narrow mountain path, smelling the fresh autumn mountain air and looking at the colorful mountain scenery, feeling very good.
Lu Xu couldn't help but think of the embarrassing incident when he and Yan Junqi walked along the mountain road next to Lujia Village into the city, but it rained heavily when they returned home, and he even fell.
Lu Xu: "Do you still remember the last time we walked on the mountain road together..."
As soon as Lu Xucai said this, Yan Junqi started laughing, and he seemed to have a deep memory of that trip.
The two of them talked as they walked. When they reached the wide areas, they walked side by side. In the difficult areas, Yan Junqi walked in front and Lu Xu led the donkey behind.
Lu Xu said very loyally: "If you fall, I will catch you from behind! I can't catch you, there is a donkey behind you!"
Yan Junqi: "..."
As we approached the top of the mountain, there were several steps of two-foot-high rocks. It was obviously difficult for the donkey to get on.
Lu Xu looked around, considering whether to carry the donkey up or leave it where it was, "You said there is no one else on this mountain, right?"
Yan Junqi: "I heard that people only go up the mountain to worship gods on the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month."
Lu Xu: "Today?"
Yan Junqi: "None of them."
Lu Xu happily tied the two donkeys to the mountain road and let them eat leaves and grass. He first stepped up the stone steps and then turned around to pull Yan Junqi.
"Your robe is beautiful, but it's not convenient for walking on mountain roads."
Yan Junqi: "..."
The new clothes he put on specially.
Lu Xu helped brush away the dead branches and leaves that Yan Junqi had touched. Seeing that Yan Junqi hesitated to speak, he changed his words and said with a smile: "I blame me for not telling you to climb the mountain. Let's go, we saw the temple!"
The small temple on the mountain is a small cave with three clay sculptures enshrined in it. The one in the middle is the mountain god and there are two children on both sides.
The colorful clay sculptures are mottled, but there are many incense ashes and offerings in front of the cave. It can be seen that the incense is strong.
Lu Xu looked at it curiously.
He had visited famous Buddhist temples and monasteries before, but this was the first time he had seen such a small ashram full of wild charm.
He saw half-red wild fruits on a tree nearby, climbed up the tree, picked a few and threw them to Yan Junqi, then jumped down and placed the fruits in front of the cave, as an apology for disturbing the mountain god's repair during non-working days, or as a bonus. An entry ceremony to someone else’s territory.
Lu Xu put it away in a nondescript manner, which was considered as his best intention.
Then he pulled Yan Junqi and swaggered along the mountain road to the back mountain.
The people he met by chance on the day he returned to the city did not lie to him. The leaves on the mountain turned red, and when the sun shined, they looked like transparent agate, shining red.
Gorgeous and dazzling.
Lu Xu stood on the stone and looked around, and suddenly found something in a red leaf that was redder than the February flowers. He said excitedly: "Wait for me here!"
Yan Junqi was at a loss, Lu Xu had already run away like a monkey.
After a while, Lu Xu ran back with a pocket of wild hawthorn in his clothes.
"Look at my eyes! In such a large area of red, I can see hawthorns at a glance!" Lu Xu put the hawthorns on the stone, picked a big one, wiped it clean with his clothes, and handed it to Yan Junqi: "Try it, is it sour?"
Yan Junqi put it into his mouth without trust, took a small bite, and his face wrinkled with soreness.
Lu Xu laughed loudly, rubbed one on his clothes and stuffed it into his mouth.
"I'll go! Bah, bah, bah!"
Yan Junqi pinched the remaining hawthorn, eyes widened with a smile, "Take it back and dry it, and make tea in the winter."
Lu Xu struggled for a while, but finally refused to admit that the hawthorns he had worked so hard to pick were inedible. "I can also throw away two pieces of the stew."
He kicked the vomited wild hawthorn away, but Yan Junqi pinched the big hawthorn and ate it in small bites.
Lu Xu couldn't help but feel sour in his mouth when he saw Yan Junqi eating it like he was trying poison. "Isn't it sour?"
"acid."
"Then don't eat it. I'll go back and make candied haws for you."
"..." Yan Junqi thought about it. Most of the candied haws made were a waste of sugar and a trap for children, "Let's forget it."
Lu Xu laughed and lay on his back on the stone, basking in the sun while watching Yan Junqi fight with the remaining half of a hawthorn.
The sun that was just past noon shone slantly on the side of Yan Junqi's face, casting a hazy halo on his increasingly angular profile. He lowered his eyes and ate hawthorn seriously, with an expression that was a little painful, a little persistent, and a little cute.
Lu Xu looked at it and couldn't help but be amused.
Yan Xiaoshulang can be very stubborn sometimes.
Once you finish a book, you will never read it. No matter how ugly it is, you will read it with a frown on your face. After you finish it, you will make a sharp criticism, scolding others for seeking fame, not knowing what they mean, and a waste of paper, ink, and money.
When he eats, he must finish the rice in the bowl. He will never leave until he has finished the last grain of rice. Lu Xu secretly complained that it was actually easy for him to gain weight like this. As long as he added a little more food to each meal, it would work over time.
If he is in a bad mood, Yan Shulang also likes to practice calligraphy to vent his anger, but he doesn't like to waste ink. Every time he gets angry, he has to force himself to practice calligraphy until he runs out of ink.
Yan Junqi's handwriting when he was angry was free and elegant, penetrating through the back of the paper, and looked very powerful. Lu Xu particularly liked it, and he collected several of Yan Junqi's "not angry" words.
He also asked Yan Junqi to write him a note saying "I am the best in the world" while he was angry. Unfortunately, Yan Junqi was not so angry that he could not write it to him.
…
After Yan Junqi finished eating the hawthorn, he saw that Lu Xu was about to fall asleep, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to go back?"
Lu Xu shook his head firmly, "No! One of the ten greatest pleasures in life, you can steal half a day's leisure."
Yan Junqi: "Where are the other nine?"
Lu Xu: "Eat, drink, play, have fun, I can't think of anything else."
Yan Junqi smiled and said, "It's fine as long as you have your leisure."
Lu Xu: "You can take some time off. I've been busy for so long. It's my turn to take a break. They're busy."
Yan Junqi shook his head. When did he not want to bother with something and others had to follow suit?
"If you keep doing this nonsense, my second uncle will give up."
Lu Xu recalled the look in his uncle's eyes when they ran out, and couldn't help but feel amused, "I don't want to split into two teams. How could they not remind me that there are so many trucks and goods? Besides, the trade route can't rely on me alone. Lu Xuan and the others can do it!"
He sat up and asked: "We are not here, you have to help me look at some Luwen."
Yan Junqi: "Lu Wen?"
Lu Xu: "Well! Among us brothers, the kid is smart, and the kid is cruel. He wants to get everything in his own pocket, so how can that be done? Everything must be mutually beneficial to last long, otherwise sooner or later you will have no friends. .”
Lu Xu thought for a while: "If he doesn't want to listen to what you say, just let Lu Zhou go. We, Lu Zhou, are the most patient and love to reason."
Lu Xu thought about the scene where Lu Zhou chased Lu Wen to debate and preach, and he could laugh to death, "I have seen through it all, we Lu Zhou, only Ke Lu Wen."
Yan Junqi smiled.
It was obvious that the two brothers had a good relationship, so Lu Wen was willing to listen to whatever Lu Zhou had to say.
It turns out that Lu Zhou and Lu Wen didn't like to play together in the village before. It was after Lu Xufei forced Lu Wen to cut wheat that the relationship between the two brothers gradually improved.
Lu Xu: "There's no need to hold him too tight. Most of the time that kid's rebellious phase comes early and ends late. As long as he doesn't violate discipline and law, let him do whatever he wants. At most, he will offend others and pay compensation. Please help me mark him down." Who, wait until I come back and come to apologize."
Yan Junqi: "..."
After a while, Yan Jun smiled and sighed: "What a good brother."
Lu Xu didn't understand for a moment whether Yan Junqi was praising him or hurting him.
He blankly tried to see something on Yan Junqi's face, but in the end he saw nothing.
Lu Xu thought Yan Junqi was praising him and said, "You are also a good brother."
Yan Junqi: "I am not as good to Wen Zhen as you are to your younger brothers and sisters."
Lu Xu raised his tail and said: "No matter where you are, we don't distinguish between you and me. I will also be your and Wen Zhen's brother. I promise to treat you and Lu Zhou the same!"
Yan Junqi: "No need."
Lu Xu: "...?"
Yan Junqi: "I don't need a brother."
Lu Xu: "...???"
He scratched his head and said humbly, "Oh."
It's his own passion.
The atmosphere was inexplicably weird. Lu Xu couldn't figure out which of his words he said wrong. He grabbed another wild hawthorn and stuffed it into his mouth, using the sour taste to stimulate his brain to wake up.
Lu Xu thought about it and compared his feelings. Maybe Yan Junqi was not like him and didn't like to have relationships and make sworn friends.
Although Jun Qi is younger than him, he is much more mature and reliable.
Lu Xu swallowed the hawthorn and asked hesitantly: "Jun Qi, did I delay your study?"
Yan Junqi:? ? ?
Didn't he ask Lu Xu out first today?
Lu Xu: "Not today, I'm not in Guanyang...uh, and when I'm here..."
Looking back, not only after moving to Guanyang, but also when they lived in the village, he would go to Yan Junqi every three days. From the beginning, he loved to ask Yan Junqi to give him advice and become a military advisor.
He hasn't given any money yet.
When others hire an outsourced accounting consultant or something, they have to pay wages.
Yan Junqi was silent for a while and said honestly: "Yes."
Lu Xu felt even more guilty, and he said with a guilty conscience: "I think so."
The county magistrate was right. If he hadn't had no one to drag Jun Qi to help him, Jun Qi would have taken the exam long ago, and maybe he would have gone to school in the state capital by now.
Lu Xu silently took out the small chapter that he went to the jade shop to get in the morning. She originally wanted to give it to him to play with before leaving, but now it can only be used as an apology gift, "Then, then I will make it up to you!"
Yan Junqi: "Okay."
Lu Xu: "They said this lotus frozen stone is a very good seal material. I asked the jade shop to help carve a small seal..."
Yan Junqi: "When I pass the Juren exam, how about you accompany me to Beijing for the exam?"
They both spoke up and then fell silent.
Lu Xu: "...ah?"
Yan Junqi stared at the small pink seal on his hand that was carved into a mouth that roared like a little unicorn.
Lu Xu: "Of course I will send you to you when you take the exam."
Lu Xu was confused, what kind of compensation was this?
He even sent Yan Junqi to the state capital for exams, let alone to the capital?
He can send food to Qiu Hu, Tan Shitou and others thousands of miles away, and of course he can go to Beijing for Yan Junqi.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Xu frowned again.
After thinking about it, he awkwardly discussed with Yan Junqi: "But can you not take the exam too fast? How about three years?"
Before Yan Junqi could answer, Lu Xu was already analyzing on his own.
Lu Xu: "You are still young anyway, and you will be able to take the exam in two or three years! In two or three years, I will almost be able to pay off the debt. The business route should be smooth, and my mother's business should be stable." , there is nothing for me to worry about at home, when the time comes, I will accompany you to the capital to take the exam."
"Three years?" Yan Junqi smiled bitterly: "Are you too confident in me?"
Why is it so easy to take the imperial examination?
Lu Xu put the small chapter in Yan Junqi's hand: "I believe you will definitely pass the exam!"
Yan Junqi lowered his head and touched the round little pink seal, and said with a smile, "Okay, we agreed, I will definitely pass the imperial examination within three years. When the time comes... you have to accompany me to Beijing to take the imperial examination."
Lu Xu took care of everything: "No problem! I will definitely have saved a lot of money by then, and all the food, accommodation and travel expenses will be covered by me!"
Seeing Yan Junqi smile, Lu Xu felt relaxed, "Jun Qi, how about I pay you a salary? Do you want dividends or do you want to pay money every month?"
"No need." Yan Junqi raised the small seal, "This is enough."
"I'll carve a bigger one for you later!"
Yan Junqi put Xiaozhang away and said, "Lu Xu."
Lu Xu was excited: "Huh?"
Yan Junqi: "Go home."
Lu Xu: "Oh..."
He led the donkey and carried the hawthorn down the mountain. He couldn't help but think about it, had Jun Qi called him "Lu Xu" just now?
Why?
Obviously, I always called him "Brother Xu"...
After climbing the mountain, has his image in Yan Junqi's heart collapsed?
Lu Xu turned around, and in the autumn scenery of green and orange, Yan Junqi was walking on the quiet mountain road in a blue robe, making people forget about the autumn colors all over the mountain.
At this time, Yan Junqi was both strange and familiar. Lu Xu clearly recognized it, but also felt that there was something he had never understood, and the fog seemed to have cleared today.
Lu Xu stood there blankly, as if he was a fool.
"Lu Xu."
"Um?"
"Shall we walk back?"
"good."
Lu Xu, just Lu Xu!
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