On the day when the blue bird flew back from the East Garden, Mei Ziyan rushed a bunch of stray cats and dogs from nowhere to raise them in the Caoyue Flower House, used a large clay pot as a feeder, put the leftovers of the night into it, and stuffed the whole clay pot into the arms of the dumb slave, saying: "Your job in the future is to feed them, and it will be your turn after they have eaten and drank." ”

The dumb slave looked at her coldly and threw the clay pot to the ground without thinking about it, but Mei Ziyan starved him all night, and still let him feed him the next morning. He ignored it with a straight face, Mei Ziyan was not angry, poured the food left for him in a clay basin and took it to feed the cats and dogs, and said:

"The eldest husband can bend and stretch, but he is desperate for his life but he is not willing to feed the cat, what are you? If I can treat you with such a mood, why can't you treat them with the same feeling? Everything in heaven and earth has a sexual spirit, and you are the most noble?"

In the early morning of the third day, when Mei Ziyan got up, she saw that the group of cats and dogs in the yard had already gathered in a pile eating delicious food, and if you looked closely, there were still some fish bones mixed in it.

The mute slave sat on a stone bench under the locust tree on the east side of the hut, his head resting on the trunk, his eyes slightly closed, as if he were sleeping.

She patted him on the shoulder, he opened his eyes, and she reached out to him and gestured to him.

He looked at her suspiciously, and in the morning light, the corners of her eyes were full of smiles, "This is sign language, I'm asking you, are you hungry?"

Are you hungry? This is the first sign language that the dumb slave learned.

The bluebird brought back a few silk cloths from the east garden, and the sign language was densely painted on them.

The dumb slave was still indifferent, but the anger in his eyes was getting weaker and weaker day by day, and one day Mei Ziyan was surprised to find that the dumb slave would reach out to rub the cat's ears, and there was a faint smile in his eyes.

Even, it's a little childish.

However, Mei Ziyan is very precious to the tanuki, and she has always taken care of it herself.

On this day, Mei Ziyan sat in the flower house and licked the first black powder, and said to herself to the tanuki who was napping on the side:

"Little fox, it's been a month, why hasn't there been any movement, it's a little abnormal...... And we're running out of money to spend. ”

It's not normal. A month ago, she asked Lu Huaiji to quickly end the Huaiji Hall in Tiandu, and leave Tiandu with the money accumulated over the years to go to Mianyuan to temporarily avoid the limelight. Lu Huaiji originally had the heart to run the ancestral business, but after Lu Zepeng almost died, he also regarded the Mu family as a flood and a beast and couldn't avoid it, so after careful consideration, the Lu family disappeared from the sky overnight.

When bidding farewell to Lu Huaiji, she looked at the middle-aged doctor with gray hair and handed him an ebony card, saying that if there is any difficulty, she can go to the Xingchun Hall in Huilong Gorge far away, and naturally someone will help Yunyun.

30,000 taels of silver, in exchange for two medicine mountains, the people who have to wait, wait for a month, and there is no movement.

There was not much left of her gold leaf.

Obviously, he has already made a name for himself in Tiandu, but in the past month, no half of the patients have come to the door.

She went to the market, and she thought it was good to buy rice and two sets of clothes, but when she came out of the ready-to-wear shop, she only took a set of blue men's clothes and stuffed them into the arms of the dumb slave, and she flashed into a small shop, and came out for a long time.

"What are you going to do there?" asked the mute slave with an expressionless face and gesticulating.

She smiled mysteriously and spread her hands out in front of him. In the palm of his hand lies a fairly fine gold ring.

"Don't move. She was not as tall as he was, and pulled at the hem of his robe to make him bow his head, and put the gold ring on his earlobe, and said:

"I heard that when the Xijon man was about to reach adulthood, his family would bring him a gold ring. I saw you have a pierced ear in your right ear, are you over eighteen?"

The dumb slave's body stiffened slightly, and the ink in his black eyes was thick, as if something was rippling into the depths.

He grabbed the clothes in his hand, "The rest of the gold leaf, you used it to make this?"

"The shopkeeper is too picky, and he doesn't want to give me any left. Eh, what kind of expression do you have? Don't tell me you're very touched now, you signed a contract with my person, I'll just leave a mark on you!"

She turned around and walked away without care, dragging her long figure in the sunset. Behind her, he looked down at the slender shadow, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and silently followed her back to the grass moon flower house.

In the first half of his life, his heart had never been so calm, indifferent or even happy as it is now.

When she was about to reach the grass moon flower house, the bluebird flew down from the treetops on the side of the road and landed in her palm.

"A distinguished guest has arrived. She frowned slightly, but there was a little more joy and anticipation in her eyes.

Sure enough, in the open courtyard of the Caoyue Flower House, a noble son with a handsome face and a free and easy face in a moon-white brocade robe was sitting on a stone bench looking at her and the dumb slave leisurely, and there were two house slaves with their heads hanging down beside him.

Mei Ziyan walked up to him and stared at him for a moment, her eyes gradually showing disappointment.

"Bold, you still don't salute my son?!" the house slave on the side shouted, the dumb slave glanced at him coldly, and he suddenly felt that the cold gaze brought a burst of coolness.

"Excuse me. The noble prince smiled at Mei Ziyan, "Are you the sensational Doctor Mei?"

The smile is like a spring breeze blowing on the threshold, and the warmth touches people's hearts, and it is easy to dismantle people's guards. Mei Ziyan also smiled back, her sallow face was lifeless, only a pair of phoenix eyes were shining, and she asked generously:

"You are Mu Cheng?"

Mu Yu's smile did not change, but his eyes were cold, "Do you think that my third brother should work hard for trivial matters?"

Mei Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to be a little frightened, "Scared me to death, fortunately you're not him." Then this son, if you have something to say, please move the big driver if you have nothing to do, the temple is small, and you can't greet the big gods. ”

Mu Yu's face was a little unbearable, what do you mean by "Fortunately, you are not him"? So he sneered: "Mei Ziyan, I heard that the Dongfang family can't keep you, you choose such a remote and desolate place to live, aren't you afraid that when a wind and rain or a natural fire will destroy this grass house?"

"Natural disasters are avoided, but as for man-made disasters, I should still be able to avoid them, and I don't bother with it. Mei Ziyan thought about it, and suddenly said: "Who did I say, there is such a strong fat powder on his body, could it be that Mu Yu, the fourth son of Mu who boasted of 'being in the midst of thousands of flowers, and not a single leaf sticking to his body'?"

Mu Yu's face changed slightly, "Mei Ziyan, this son doesn't have a verbal dispute with you." Let me ask you, where did Lu Huaiji's family go?"

It turned out that there was a request for people. The corners of Mei Ziyan's mouth curled, "I prefer to be called 'aunt' by others, polite words are comfortable to listen to, and I can naturally say anything when I am in a good mood." ”

The corners of Mu Yu's mouth twitched, but there was an inconvenience attack. In the past month, he couldn't find out where Lu Huaiji's family had fled, and he crossed the sea in front of Mu Cheng and said that Lu Huaiji's whereabouts must be found today, and now this woman .......

"Auntie," he said, squeezing the words out between his teeth, "I want to teach." He swore fiercely in his heart that he would definitely not let Lu Huaiji go after knowing her whereabouts!

"Good-" She responded with a smile and a long tone, and then said in embarrassment and guilt: "But, I really don't know where the Lu family has gone." You must have searched this place inside and out since you came, right? How can you hide a large family in the four walls of your family?"

"Mei Ziyan!" Mu Yu Tie blushed, got up angrily and slapped his palm on the stone table, "You are so bold that you dare to tease this son!

The dumb slave flashed and stopped in front of Mei Ziyan. Mei Ziyan pulled away the dumb slave and said coldly: "Lu Zepeng is just in love with the shogunate maid Dongming and can't help but be offended, but Mu Sigongzi actually let people use the wild mountain ginseng stained with poison powder to lure Lu Zepeng to identify, Lu Zepeng was poisoned because of this, and almost lost his right hand; You go back and tell Mu Cheng that what he wants is no longer on Lu Huaiji, and if you want it, come to see me yourself;

"Kill you, and then it's not too late for me to start accumulating blessings again!" he raised his eyebrows, and with a wave of his hand, the two guards' long swords were unsheathed. No one has ever dared to provoke him like this, not even someone from the Oriental family!

"The fourth prince spent a month to let the doctor of Xing'antang give free medicine in this area, I thought you were trying to accumulate blessings, but now it seems that you are just trying to make me unable to make ends meet. The two medicine mountains of the Lu family, I plan to sell them for a good price. Go back and tell Mu Cheng, if there is sincerity to negotiate, let him come to me, of course, there is no way to talk about business in the shadow of the sword, does the fourth prince understand?"

Mu Yu laughed angrily, "I want to see my third brother, but I'm afraid that your life will be lost faster." ”

The two guards forced a step forward before, and wanted to put the sword on Mei Ziyan's neck, but their arms suddenly went numb, and the dumb slave took the long sword from their hands with a strange gesture and threw it directly to the ground.

And they were still in a daze, as if they couldn't believe that the ghostly figure was the unruly Xijon man in front of them.

"It turns out that there is a master by your side!" Mu Yu walked over, not angry but laughing, as soon as his body moved, he shot at the dumb slave, and after a few moves, Mu Yu strangely "Huh", took two steps back, stared at the dumb slave and said:

"You don't have internal strength?"

The dumb slave's expression was as cold as frost, and he stood silently, and Mu Yu dropped a sentence before leaving: "The move is good, but I dare to say that with you, this woman will definitely not be able to keep it!"

When twilight fell, Mei Ziyan warmed up the buns she bought from the market and beckoned the dumb slave to come over for dinner.

The mute slave's face was as calm as water, and he asked her in sign language, "Who are you, and why did you provoke Mu Shi?"

"Suspect I'm a bad person?" she said with a laugh, "I've never asked you where you came from, even though you may not be a good person." ”

"If you don't want me to know, then I don't. It's just that we can't stay in Tiandu anymore. He gestured fluently, but unfortunately he still had that indifferent expression on his face.

"Are you worried about me?" Mei Ziyan looked at him, with a big grin on her face, and said while nibbling on the bun:

"I'm not afraid of what you're afraid of? Besides, wouldn't it be a trip for nothing to go back if you can't see Mu Cheng? But then again, this Mu Yu has a white-faced appearance, presumably Mu Cheng is not much better...... Alas, it's not as good as the ...... that fell that day."

I remember that the man was dressed in a green shirt, with a clear and handsome face, sparse eyebrows, and a smiling arc at the corners of his mouth......

That demeanor is a bit like his own father......

She patted her forehead, broke off her thoughts, and looked down to see that the dumb slave had already cleaned up the empty dishes and chopsticks on the table.