If today is the first day when Xu Shicong started to feel uncomfortable, then in Li Zisang's opinion, today is the first day of his spring life.

After coming out of the cell with Mo Xiao, Li Zisang took Mo Xiao to the courtyard behind the yamen.

I have taken Mo Xiao to visit the first half of the yamen, that is, the office part, but now it is the private part.

Of course, with his current relationship with Mo Xiao, he dared not take Mo Xiao to see his mother directly. If Mo Xiao is scared by his mother's big mistress wind, then his spring will turn into winter.

To be on the safe side, Li Zisang cleverly walked around the main room with Mo Xiao and walked along the rain sheltering corridor to the back garden.

"Haha, I didn't expect you to be really bragging. This back garden is pretty good." Mo Xiao's eyes lit up as soon as he walked into this back garden.

Sanyang County is located in the south. Generally speaking, the gardens in the south are green tiles and plain walls and brown doors and windows, mostly fresh, free and easy, small and delicate, elegant and beautiful. Because they are far away from the political center of the Central Plains, the bureaucratic political awareness is weak and the bookish spirit is deep.

But the small garden in front of me is different, and each place presents a high-pitched and majestic beauty.

The rockery is made of stones from the houses and mountains above the eaves, the lifelike gilt cranes on the stone steps, the majestic stone lions in front of the Fengyu Pavilion, and the tall pine, cypress and locust standing like giants in the corner.

Even flowers and plants are mostly rich and atmospheric varieties. The ones planted in that conspicuous position are the peony, the king of flowers, and the peony, the similarity between flowers. The two flowers are originally similar, but their charm is slightly different. When planted in one place, they actually have a beautiful feeling of being strong and beautiful, complementing each other.

"I really deserve to come from the northern Kyoto. The back garden is so high-pitched and majestic that it is not visible in the south. The person who builds the garden must be County Chief Li." Mo Xiao praised again from the bottom of his heart.

After hearing this, Li Zisang tilted his head behind his back with his hands in his arms and smiled, "You guessed it wrong. This garden was a sketch drawn by my mother, and then it took several years to build it."

He was in a good mood today. He was walking side by side with Mo Xiao, so he jumped forward for two steps to walk in front of her, then turned around and walked back, looking at Mo Xiao, and said, "My father was busy with yamen affairs all day long. On the contrary, my mother missed her grandmother after coming to Sanyang County. Whenever she remembered her grandmother, she was always sad. My father said that instead of being depressed, it was better to miss people when she saw her. The former county magistrate's wife did not like flowers and plants, and did not take care of the back garden. At that time, the back garden was deserted. My father suggested to build a back garden similar to my grandmother's house. My mother almost agreed immediately, cheered up and started to take action."

Li Zisang pointed to the sketches and flowers and trees that had passed along the way and introduced them to Mo Xiao.

"This is a strange stone from Taihu Lake."

"This is a peony from Luoyang."

"This is...wow, this is the locust tree seedlings I dug in the suburbs when I was five years old. Haha, they all grow so tall."

Li Zisang excitedly circled a two-meter-high locust tree on the edge of the rockery.

"What are you laughing at? It's so ugly!"

Li Zisang was excited when he heard Zhao Xiuli's cold voice coming.

Zhao Xiuli and Xu Shijie walked over one after another. As soon as Zhao Xiuli came over, she took Mo Xiao's hand, glanced at Li Zisang and said, "Mo Xiao, let's not pay attention to such people who ignore favors and only talk about the law in the future."

Li Zisang's face turned cold, his hands were on his hips, and he was very angry and said, "Then Xu Shicong had violated the law of the king. My father was sentenced according to the law and locked him in the death row. I used the official hat on my head to protect him, begging my father to do extra-judicial grace, and avoid killing the stick. He put him from the death row and into an ordinary cell. What else do you want me? Don't forget that Xu Shicong is a death row prisoner, not a visitor to the yamen! He even said that I am a mess, good, Zhao Xiuli, we have been in a relationship for more than ten years, can't we even beat Xu Shicong?"

Zhao Xiuli also knew that her complaint was unreasonable, but when she thought that Xu Shicong would stay in such a place and had to stay for a few months, she couldn't calm down. After listening to what Li Zisang said, she knew that there was no hope of changing the cell again, so she just lay on Mo Xiao's shoulder and cried.

Xu Shijie originally wanted to say a few good things, and wanted Li Zisang to be kind again, so he exchanged his elder brother out of the cell. When he heard Li Zisang say this, he realized that he was too naive. The elder brother committed a death sentence. Although it was reasonable to forgive him, it was difficult to forgive him.

"Stop crying, it's ugly to cry."

Mo Xiao took out a handkerchief to wipe Zhao Xiuli's tears, and then comforted her in her ear: "If you really like him, just wait for him at home. It's not okay to cry. When Xu Shicong came out, what should I do if he thought you were ugly and didn't want you? Didn't you say before that Xu Shicong had already asked someone to choose a good day at the end of the year to get married? If what Chonglou said was accurate, then it was just right, and the good news would come to bad luck. Isn't it good?"

Zhao Xiuli nodded when she thought of the marriage at the end of the year, but...

She looked up at Mo Xiao with tears in her eyes, "But Shicong..."

Mo Xiao looked at her and shook his head gently, saying, "Don't say that letting him go out is a dereliction of duty. Li Zisang refused to abolish his public for personal gain. Even if he asked Li Zisang to save him from the pain of prison, it was not a good thing for Xu Shicong. You may think the pain in prison is a pain, but for Xu Shicong, it is a kind of redemption. He killed someone and violated the law of the king. If he did not accept the punishment he deserved, he would not be able to be a human being in the future."

Mo Xiao said this normally. Li Zisang and Xu Shijie heard it. Li Zisang was sincerely grateful for Mo Xiao’s relief, and admired him for such a clear view. Xu Shijie was a little ashamed. He just wanted his elder brother to suffer less, but never thought deeper that it was good to suffer some of the suffering.

"Okay, since we're all here, let's take a look at the back garden of Li Zisang's house. I've only been shopping less than half of it."

After Mo Xiao said that, he took Zhao Xiuli's hand and walked forward, throwing Li Zisang aside. Li Zisang was not angry and said to Xu Shijie who was standing behind him, "Why, are you interested in walking around?"

Xu Shijie smiled and nodded, "I have heard that the back garden of the county magistrate's house has a northern aura and is rare in the south. I am lucky to come today, so of course I cannot miss it. Please lead the way in front of Captain Li."

Li Zisang raised his eyebrows slightly, haha, the third son of the Xu family is becoming more and more mature.

Li Zisang and Xu Shijie followed behind and walked slowly. Mo Xiao and Zhao Xiuli had already walked away with each other.

Zhao Xiuli was a big friend in the yamen. She walked through these winding paths of all sizes without kicking her feet with her eyes closed.

"By the way, why are your family so familiar with the Li family? The Li family is an official family, and your family is a businessman. Logically speaking, it is impossible to get together." Mo Xiao asked Zhao Xiuli while walking.

Zhao Xiuli pursed her lips, as if she was wondering where to start. After a while, she said, "Do you know the four beauties in Beijing?"

"Four beauties in Beijing?"

Mo Xiao nodded and tilted his head to think, remembering that last time he heard a storyteller in a teahouse, "It seems to be Jian Qian and Xu Jin. The second-ranked Qian seems to be my colleague. The daughter of the First Hospital of the Imperial Hospital is not only beautiful but also a genius of medical skills."

Zhao Xiuli shook her head, "These are the four beauties in Beijing. What I want to talk about are the four beauties in Beijing in the previous generation. Do you know which four are there?"

"Wow, the title of the Four Beauties in Beijing has been replaced."

Mo Xiao was not surprised. Isn’t this similar to the beauty pageant in that world? It’s just that the list has been updated a little longer. “The new one was also heard by Mr. Storyteller, but the old one didn’t know. So, is it that Mrs. Li has something to do with the four beauties in Beijing?”

Zhao Xiuli smiled proudly after hearing this, "It's not just Mrs. Li, but also my mother. The four beauties in Beijing in the previous generation were Jin Yang and Zhang Feng. This one refers to Mrs. Li, and Feng is my mother."

Mo Xiao suddenly realized, "Oh, it turns out that your mother and Mrs. Li were best friends before, no wonder."

"Yes, Mrs. Li is the youngest daughter of the old minister Zhang Xiang, and my mother is the daughter of the general. The Zhang Feng family is a family friend. These children have been together since childhood. My mother fell in love with her father who went to Beijing to do business, and Mrs. Li married into the Shangshu Mansion. Unexpectedly, she met again in a small place in Sanyang County. This fate is so great. You don't know that Mrs. Li and my mother almost wanted to get married and let me get together with Li Zisang."

When Zhao Xiuli said this, she looked back quietly, and made sure that Li Zisang and the others would not hear it. She said, "Fortunately, I have never dealt with him since I was a child. Don't think that the relationship is still harmonious now. When I was a child, I was in a mess. The elders in the family asked someone to help us get married, saying that they were born with disagreements and fate was in conflict. Haha, I really want to thank the Mr. Testing. If it weren't for his words, I would be miserable now."

After Zhao Xiuli finished speaking, she burst into laughter, which led to the two people following her walking two steps faster.

"Why are you laughing at? You're so happy?" Li Zisang asked.

Zhao Xiuli and Mo Xiao looked at each other and didn't say anything.

"It's not about someone's ugly things when he was a child, right?" Li Zisang looked around the two of them suspiciously, and finally locked on Zhao Xiuli, squinted her eyes and pointed at her, "It must be you talking about me about wetting my bed when I was a child in front of Mo Xiao, right?"

Mo Xiao almost spit out a mouthful of saliva. Is there anyone who is so self-inflicted? Is this Li Zisang really a qualified captain?

Zhao Xiuli rolled her eyes, "Who has time to talk about your ugly things?"

She pulled Mo Xiao and said, "Let's go, let's continue to walk ours and ignore him."

Li Zisang knew that Zhao Xiuli had not yet calmed down and didn't care, and said, "You can go and have a walk around. I've already asked the girl to prepare sugar water. Come to the pavilion to eat later."

Zhao Xiuli didn't look back and just said, "I understand."

After walking a little further, Mo Xiao gently hit her with his elbow while walking, "You are still angry with Li Zisang. He is also doing business and there is no way."

Zhao Xiuli sniffed, turned her head slightly and glanced back. She saw Li Zisang and Xu Shijie walking from another shortcut to the pavilion, and said, "I know too. Actually, I'm not really angry with him. I just feel bored. I used him as a punching bag. Anyway, he is thick-skinned."

Mo Xiao laughed and said, "It turns out that he is used as a punching bag! Li Zisang is also unlucky enough. He is used as a punching bag after being favored by his personal relationship. But I think his stomach is OK, and he is not really angry when you treat him like that."

After hearing this, Zhao Xiuli slanted her eyes at Mo Xiao and looked at her with thoughtful eyes.

"What are you doing when you look at me like this?" Mo Xiao's scalp was numb when she saw it.

"Look at whether you are true or false to Li Zisang!" Zhao Xiuli said.

“What is true or false?”

"Of course, it means that you really like him or just perfunctory him on the surface."

Zhao Xiuli pulled her aside. Although there was no one passing by nearby, she lowered her voice and asked in a low voice: "We are the only one here. Let's talk about it. Do you think it's interesting to him? I see that Li Zisang is determined to marry you. If you don't have that intention, let him lose that thought as soon as possible. Although I have always wanted to get you together, if you really don't like him, I will not be happy to force you together."

Mo Xiao laughed, even if she rubbed her hard, she and Li Zisang would not be together.

"I didn't have that meaning to Li Zisang from beginning to end, and I never had that, okay." Mo Xiao said.

"Ah, really not? But I think sometimes you get along well with him, and sometimes I am among you, and I feel it's a bit redundant. I often don't understand what you said, but you can understand each other. I also say it's not because you like it? You are sixteen this year and are not young anymore. If you really like it, don't say it clearly. Be careful that the other party becomes someone else's husband." Zhao Xiuli nodded and said that it was time to lie to her.

Mo Xiao reached out and patted Zhao Xiuli's shoulder, "Who said that he was a couple? I have a more tacit understanding with Chonglou. He didn't even need to talk. I could tell with one look that he wanted to do."

"Haha, this is another thing I want to ask. To be honest, you suddenly don't like Li Zisang anymore. Is it because you fell in love with Chonglou?" Zhao Xiuli stared at Mo Xiao, and this time she must let her say it clearly.

"I suddenly don't like Li Zisang. I've said it. I've never liked Li Zisang, okay? I always think he is a friend. Besides, why did I become a fan of Chonglou? Who likes that inexplicable guy?" Mo Xiao pouted, and his two gentle words denied Zhao Xiuli's two choices.

What else Zhao Xiuli had to ask, Mo Xiao suddenly spoke first.

"Oh, don't always care about things that I don't even have. Tell me about yourself. Your family should know about Xu Shicong's sentence, right? What do you say with your parents?" Mo Xiao asked.

If this happened to the man in that world, who would be willing to marry his daughter? Besides, the two of them had just been engaged and had not officially passed away. At this time, it was normal for the woman to propose to withdraw from the marriage, and the man had nothing to say. However, judging from Zhao Xiuli's attitude towards Xu Shicong, she must have been determined to wait for Xu Shicong to be released from prison. The Zhao family's attitude determines the future fate of the little mandarin ducks.
Chapter completed!