The sky was already slightly gray, and more than a dozen birds and finches returned to their nests to perch on a three-foot-thick banyan tree, and on both sides of the big banyan tree, the whole street was lined with teahouses and wine shops. There was a huge stream of guests.

A column of more than ten people slowly stopped in front of the Wangchun Inn, led by Zhu Qin took the lead in dismounting, his palms were frosted around the chin that had just been shaved clean before going out, and the collar was straightened, the sleeves were straightened, the belt was tightened, and finally the sword tied to the waist crotch, took two steps, and walked vigorously.

Zhao Yanheng and Li Fei got out of the carriage, they were all plain clothes, and they were just dressed as a rich lady. Zhu Qinhu pressed the hilt of his sword and motioned for Zhao Yanheng and Li Fei to walk in the forefront.

At this time, it was already two minutes, this place was twenty-five miles away from the south city gate, Li asked for a separate cross-courtyard foothold, and after walking through the crooked verandah, Li Fei saw a familiar servant sister-in-law Wei at the gate of the cross-courtyard.

Most of the guards stopped outside the inn, only four people followed behind Zhu Qin and Zhao Yanheng, these four people stopped at the gate of the courtyard and did not enter, Sister-in-law Wei smiled and led Li Fei into the door and said: "We have just settled in the inn, three girls, please wait, I will go to see Mrs. Hui." ”

Seeing his mother, why did he have to go back, Li Fei was anxious, and followed Sister-in-law Wei and said, "I'll go too, so I can serve my mother." ”

The wind and dust went to the inn to rest, basically bathing and changing clothes and resting these things, and the daughter happened to stand next to the handle.

Sister-in-law Wei said: "I shouldn't have stopped the girl, but Mrs. met an old friend at the port, the maiden family Liao, Mrs. and Mrs. Liao have been catching up on the old ......."

Li Fei heard this, and stepped back to his seat, Sister-in-law Wei entered the inner room and returned, and it was more than a quarter of an hour to go, Li Fei was waiting quietly, Zhao Yanheng was the old god with his eyes closed, Zhu Qin looked at the back door from time to time, and his hands clenched into fists and occasionally pressed the joints to click.

Before anyone saw it, they heard it.

I only heard a strange voice as bright as Huang Ying's voice come first, and said: "I can't wait to meet my sister's daughter, I have heard about it in Yangzhou, and my sister has raised a good daughter." ”

Then Li Yue's voice was melodious: "It's good, it's the scenery you see outside, and it's good inside, let's do it and see it." ”

A burst of hollow orchid fragrance hit, and the two ladies walked from the back to the front in an instant.

Don't say that Zhu Qin's amazement, Zhao Yanheng's surprise, Li Fei was stunned at a glance, Li Yue is a woman's dress at the moment, Li Fei has not seen Li Yue in women's clothes for many years, and she is still dressed up at the moment.

Wearing a light blue smoke cage plum blossom brocade short jacket, below is a white long skirt that mops the floor, embroidered with green grass on the skirt, a white brocade belt tied up a slender waist like a girl, and then wrapped a long sable fur around his arms to make a shawl. The jet-black hair is curled into a high mustache Lingyun bun, and she is wearing a set of plum blossom white jade jewelry, which is elegant and fresh.

Li Fei used to wear men's clothes, that is to put on words and deeds, walking steps bigger, looking at people with sharp eyes, speaking loudly and heartily, except for a face that is too feminine to hide, the others are all men's style, heroic and chic, now wearing women's clothes, he reverted to the woman's attitude, took lotus steps, held the shawl with both hands and lifted it slightly, ten fingers as thin as green onions, dotted plum blossom makeup, swept willow eyebrows, the face was gorgeous, and a pair of peach blossom eyes were full of mature and charming style.

Li Yue and Zhu Qin looked at each other, there was no evasion or twisting at all, their eyes fell on Zhu Qin's knife-like face and eagle-eyed demeanor, and he smiled and said: "Zhu Guogong is becoming more and more majestic and mighty!"

As he spoke, his gaze turned to Zhao Yanheng, who was dressed in an ordinary dark brocade robe, and took Mrs. Liao's hand and said, "This is His Royal Highness King Xiang." ”

Mrs. Liao wore a white jasmine jacket, and below it was an eight-panel skirt with pleated skirts, a silver tassel pendant, a regular bun on her head, four mutton fat white jade lotus hairpins, a pair of beeswax silver rings on her ears, and a pair of mutton fat white jade bracelets on both hands. She is obviously younger than Li Yue, but she is much older than Li Yue in terms of clothing, and in terms of appearance, Mrs. Liao has her own beauty, her face is like congealed cream, she is a very amorous woman, and her demeanor is also graceful and elegant, bowing down to Zhao Yanheng.

Zhao Yanheng said weakly: "The two ladies don't have to be polite. ”

Mrs. Liao stood up straight, lowered her eyes and greeted Zhu Qin: "Grandpa Guo." ”

Zhu Qin listened to the sound, then withdrew his gaze from Li Yue, and fell on Mrs. Liao, Zhu Qin searched for a time, only remembered, and said: "It's Liao's second sister, I haven't seen her for more than ten years, are you okay all these years?"

Mrs. Liao's father, Master Liao, has no son, and Master Liao has been dead for many years, and there are only two sisters left in the Liao family, one in the north and one in the south, who are married far away, so Zhu Qin asked.

Mrs. Liao sighed sadly and said: "My husband's family treats me very well, but the good times don't last long, and my husband left early, but I have a son, and I have raised children over the years, and my life is rich." ”

In other words, Mrs. Liao is now a widow.

The elders have all continued the old ones, and Li Yuecai gestured to Li Fei: "This is Second Aunt Gu." ”

Li Fei was busy to visit, Mrs. Liao held Li Fei with both hands and said with a smile: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." "Mrs. Liao's maiden family and husband's family are a little bit here, but Mrs. Liao's husband was not in good health before his death, he was just a lifter, he had never been an official, and Mrs. Liao was just a widow now, and she was not honored by Li Fei's younger generations

The two sides were deadlocked, Li Fei asked Li Yue to take an idea, Li Yue nodded, and said, "That's it." ”

Mrs. Liao glanced at Li Fei a few times, and said with a smile: "I'll avoid it first, and then stop disturbing." ”

Li Yue sent Mrs. Liao to the door, Mrs. Liao went to the opposite room, she and Li Yue lived in the same courtyard, so that when Li Yue turned her head, her face had turned cold, and she said to Zhu Qin: "Grandpa Guo, my daughter and I haven't seen each other for a long time, but we have a lot to say, it's really inconvenient today, so you can avoid it." ”

Originally, it was enough for Zhu Qin and Zhao Yanheng to live in the courtyard, but Li Yue invited Mrs. Liao and a widow to live, which meant that Zhu Qin was not welcome at all.

"I'm ...... in front" Zhao Yanheng accompanied Li Fei over, just to alleviate Li Fei's embarrassment of being caught between her parents, at this time, she walked out empathetically, Zhu Qin's feet were sticky, and he seemed to have a lot to say, but Li Fei had already turned his face and pulled Li Fei to the inner room.

Seventeen years have passed, Li Yuecun zài Zhu Qin's appearance in his mind is a little different from today, the years are ruthless, the girl's delicate is retreating, and the edge around her has also been worn away a lot, this is not to say that Li Yue has lost her brilliance, now Li Yue's brilliance is not floating on the surface, it stops at the skin, it is the brilliance that penetrates the muscles and penetrates the bones, and exudes from the inside out. lost her husband, came out of the Xuanguo Mansion, she can live a good life alone, not to say who her father is, not to say who her husband is, now Li Yue is Li Yue, she can wander outside like a man, return home, she also preserves the softness of women, every move is after the vicissitudes of life, steep, overlapping, abrupt, which makes it more intriguing rugged beauty.

"Mother, you look so good dressed up like this. ”

Li Fei touched the soft shawl wrapped around Li Yue's arm, and couldn't help but admire, just now he looked at Zhu Qin, to be precise, Zhu Qin was fascinated, of course, fascinating Zhu Qin was not Li Yue's intention, but they hadn't seen each other for seventeen years, and Li Yue couldn't lose the scene in front of her ex-husband.

However, after Li Yue wore women's clothes, she seemed to release the natural softness of a woman, and at this time, with her back to the person, Li Yue still softened her figure, showing the gentleness of the woman: "You are in that mansion, does the Xu family look at you unpleasantly, but do you embarrass you?"

Li Fei blinked his eyes slyly, and said: "There are people who don't like me, but I really don't have to make it difficult for me, the two sides are almost single-family houses, and the well water does not interfere with the river water." ”

"Such a big living person is placed in front of her, she has a bit of Cai's true inheritance, but she can bear it. Li Yue smiled regretfully, a flash of fierceness flashed in her eyes, and she said that the important business came up: "What kind of regulations is the dowry that the inner government has prepared for you now." ”

The royal daughter-in-law and concubine, that kind of confidence is not comparable to the second family, the woman's dowry is the royal set aside a set of silver, the concubine and the concubine have a rule, and the identity is not lost decency, some people just value the dowry and the dowry, and they try their best to stuff their daughters into the royal family. Of course, some people with a foundation don't want this bit of silver, and the royal family has a set, and the mother's family has another addition.

Li Fei said with a smile: "We don't have to worry about these things, he said he would keep an eye on them." "Slaves are the most treacherous, especially royal minions.

When it came to Zhao Yanheng, Li Yue just snorted, as she herself said, the people who wanted to take away her daughter who she had worked so hard to raise were all for her daughter's more tolerance, and she was really not happy.

"Mother, don't talk about me, talk about Guangxi. Li Fei took Li Yue's hand and said, "Mother has encountered danger there in the past six months?"

"It's okay, I've walked back and forth in that area many times, and I know a lot of Chinese people, brokers, and docks in various places, but I just have a familiar face and a few words. The real situation is definitely not so simple, Li Yue said a few perfunctory words, obviously unwilling to elaborate, and said: "You tell me, what is the attitude of the emperor and the queen and the concubine towards you now." ”

Li Fei rolled his eyes upwards and said: "Of course the emperor thinks that his son is a good one, and the queen mother is a rule-abiding person, as long as I have good rules, I am kind and angry, and the lady concubine is a short-term protector, but if I really want to say how happy she is to see me, but she doesn't." ”

Li Fei entered the palace on the sixth day of the first lunar month, and the three of them met at the same time.

The royal family is also similar to ordinary people in daily life, Li Yue has been a daughter-in-law, she is a person who has come over, and she whispered to Li Fei: "The emperor will see less in the future, he really wants to find fault with you, there are ways to spy on you in secret, and the queen and the concubine are the majority, you don't expect too much from them, as long as they don't interfere too much in the internal affairs of the Xiangwang Mansion, they will treat you well......"

Just as she was talking about it, Sister-in-law Wei ran over with a small rag and said, "Madam, at the gate of the courtyard, Grandpa Guo and Song Ye are on top like horns." ”