Chapter 139: Trade-offs

Cheng Yiheng listened to the conversation of the roadside person with his ears, and a woman said, "No, Miss Meng Si didn't make a mistake, how can she take a break?"

"Isn't it wrong to get out of nowhere?" said a vendor next to him.

"Not really. Another old gentleman came over, "Miss Meng Si can't give birth, don't you know about this?"

"I know, who doesn't know?" replied the woman, and heard a circle of people around her echo.

Sure enough, there is no secret that can be kept in Xuncheng.

The woman said again: "I want to marry Miss Meng Si when I first married Miss Meng, there were palace guards to open the way, it was really a once-in-a-century wedding in Xuncheng, and now the dynasty is gone, and the second young master's affection is gone." ”

Her words were hidden in a sigh, people slowly dispersed, talking about other family affairs, but their hands had to be busy with their own lives, the sun disappeared into the clouds, and the afterglow of the curtain shrouded the city, and the old man playing chess on the side of the road raised his hand, stroked his beard and smiled: "Eat, I won." ”

Cheng Yiheng stood on the long street, looked back and saw wisps of cooking smoke rising from house to house, and heard a woman shouting: "Damn old man, don't go down, go home for dinner." ”

Then he saw a figure at the end of the long street, and he chased after him.

Siqing was standing in front of the small shop of the candy seller, watching in silence, maybe she wanted to send a little past to Cheng'er, or perhaps, she remembered some of the past.

Cheng Yiheng remembers the first time she saw her, it was here, near the candy seller's stall, when she was only fifteen years old, and her second brother followed her, and his eyes were full of strangeness.

And he and her second brother were also the age of the freshly clothed angry horse at that time.

Time flies, and so long has passed.

He walked over, took down the sugar man that Siqing had been staring at, paid for her, and invited her to go forward with him.

The two walked across the main street, in front of which was the Sunset Bridge, there were not many people on the bridge, and the figures of the two were cast on the bridge railing by the setting sun, which was extremely quiet, and there seemed to be only the sparkling golden light of the water under the bridge, bubbling and flowing.

"What are you doing?" he asked when the pedestrians had completely dispersed.

Siqing said: "Candy man." ”

He straightened his face: "Come on, you know that this is not what I asked." ”

Siqing smiled: "It's just that I've been suspended." ”

He continued to keep a straight face: "Come less, can you deceive others and deceive me?"

Siqing raised her eyebrows: "Then you tell me what you are hiding first." ”

"I ...... What are you hiding from you?" his face trembled.

Siqing stared at him with a nervous expression, and smiled thoughtfully: "I went to find Weng Rongrong." ”

"Huh?" he clenched the railing on the side of the bridge.

"But I didn't see her. She added, "I'll go back again when I have time." ”

"Don't, forget it......" He let go of his hand and wiped his sweat, "If you don't say it, you won't say it, I won't ask, don't I care about you, if it's someone else, I'm too lazy to care!"

He muttered, turned and walked away.

After getting off the bridge, he thought of something again, turned back, and asked: "Since you left the Meng family, where do you live now, you are alone, if you go to live in the floating family, is it inconvenient?"

"Hmm...... I am preparing to buy a house. Siqing said.

"Come on, save some money, I'm ...... The thing is returned to its original owner. He fumbled around and took out an embroidered bag, which was originally going to be thrown over, but after thinking for a while, he took the key out of it and left the embroidered bag.

Handing the key to Siqing, he said, "Twilight home, Nuo, it's over there." Saying that, he stretched out his hand and pointed, "It was originally bought by your second brother, and I gave it back to you, I didn't live much, I just lived for a day, since you want to clear up the relationship in front of people, you can find me if you have something in the future." ”

Siqing took the key and followed his guidance to look ahead, the twilight residence was very close to the sunset bridge, next to the city wall, the city wall was very high, and this was the edge of Xuncheng.

When Huai'an bought this house, it was when he replaced Cheng Yiheng's father as an official, he didn't want to settle in Cheng Mansion, at that time Cheng Yiheng was out, he was worried that one day he would go home and have no place to live, he had to set aside Cheng Mansion, so the court bought another house for him, he was embarrassed, so he bought it out of his own pocket, however, after Cheng Yiheng came back, he refused to return to Cheng Mansion, so he gave him this house, but Cheng Yiheng didn't appreciate it, so that the house was always empty, Huai'an later looked for him several times and wanted to go back, but at that time there was a dislike between them, and he gambled and refused to pay it back。

At this time, he gave it back to Siqing without hesitation.

These two people can be regarded as fighting all the way, and they should have parted ways several times, but they still haven't dispersed.

I never thought that the friendship of my youth could also be long-lasting.

This long-term affection has nothing to do with Fengyue, nor does it have anything to do with the position, there is no need to use righteousness to measure truth and falsehood, let alone use morality to restrain right and wrong.

Siqing really needed a place to live now, so she didn't shirk it, put away the key, and asked with a smile: "Why did you only stay for one day?"

"It's a big house, and it's too lonely to be alone. Cheng Yiheng replied.

"yes. She looked down and thought to herself, she was going to be lonely soon.

I don't know if these people will be lonely for the rest of their lives?

She sighed with emotion, as if she wanted to comfort the person in front of her, straightened her face, and said: "It doesn't hurt to say that this matter has anything to do with you, the second brother said that outside the Meng family, no one is more credible than you." ”

"Of course. Cheng Yiheng patted his chest, but remembering that he had not betrayed, he slapped twice, lost his confidence, and bowed his head uncomfortably.

Siqing's words rang in his ears.

On that day, heavy snow fell on the long street, and Huai'an met the deceased under the eaves.

But it's not a good thing.

Meng Kuo was ordered by Bethhard to come to the Meng family again, they were afraid that Huai'an was protected by the emperor, but after the emperor died, the new emperor was young and fearless, they used Cheng'er as a threat, that was the weakness of the Meng family, Huai'an could not be hard.

In fact, Cheng Yiheng was still in the court at that time, and they were not considered to be no one in the court, and they were still able to deal with Burhard.

The three-year period was a concession made by Burchard.

Jiang Yarong is indeed sick and confused, but she knows Huai'an well with Meng Kuo, she is not necessarily a pawn that the other party has a heart to plant, maybe she is just being used, but she can take Cheng'er out quietly, that is an early warning, which makes Huai'an know that it is too easy for them to take someone away from the Meng family.

Therefore, Burchard gave up the three-year deadline and was not worried about letting the tiger go back, because Huai'an had always been under his nose.

What Burchard wanted was the Meng family's porcelain art skills, but on the day Meng Hongxian died, it was decided: "Never pass it on!"

At the beginning, Burchard sent Cheng Yiheng to arrest Meng Hongxian, Meng Hongxian hit the knife and died, someone gave Cheng Yiheng an idea to arrest Meng Ting'an, but Meng Ting'an didn't leave, and was burned to death, this time Burchard was also on guard, he asked Meng Kuo to pass the word, if he died again, he would take the Meng family to pay for his life, if the Meng family dared to run, the entire Xuncheng would give them backs.

The Meng family has been standing in Xuncheng for a hundred years, and it is not deep-rooted, and the turbulent world has already made this family stormy. And Xuncheng is not a big city, the main street is on the South Street, walking on the street are familiar faces, whoever has a wind and grass can be spread all over immediately.

Although the Meng family is fragile, Xuncheng is close to the imperial city, occupies a favorable geographical position, and was once prosperous, but it is not that it can be moved.

The threatening words were not believed.

But now, the court is gone, and the most affected people are always the ordinary people, the situation is already chaotic enough, and the appearance of Xuncheng's stability is actually as fragile as porcelain.

Huai'an didn't feel that he was a mere merchant who was qualified to protect a city, and if one day, the city really fell, it must not be because of this, or rather, it must not be because of this matter.

But he didn't dare to act rashly.

Burchard wants people, he can go, but he must not give anything that is not passed on.

When Siqing left the Meng family, she took away the core skills of the Meng family's porcelain painting, and all the papers were left in the West Garden, and when she had to do so, she burned them down, but the content was all in her mind.

But Burchard stared at the Meng family, Siqing's rash departure was bound to make people suspicious, and it was even more unsafe to suddenly go away, they could only wait, waiting to find the most suitable opportunity to get out of the city.

That opportunity, it should be that people have downplayed her relationship with the Meng family, and it will not be so abrupt for her to leave quietly, it should be the Meng family's porcelain painting to a higher level under the leadership of Huai'an alone, so that people think that only he is the essence here, and they should wait until the merchants in the various production chains that have been decentralized can master the skills they hold in their hands, which is the back road left by Huai'an for the Meng family.

Of course, they also want Cheng'er to be able to escape and find a safe place to settle down, and no longer a threat to them.

Cheng'er is the hope of the Meng family, if he can leave, Siqing naturally hopes that he can leave the most, but he is still too young, he can't bear what the Meng family wants to leave at this time, and he is too expensive, so he is stared at heavily, only if he stays, Siqing's departure will not be noticed.

This child is the same as the Meng family's porcelain paintings, they are treasures in their eyes, but they can only give up one thing first to protect the other, although their hearts are dripping blood, but they are helpless.

Jiang Yarong's appearance gave Huai'an a suitable reason for Siqing to leave the Meng family, and outsiders said that he was unkind, so he received this infamy, but the two of them never misunderstood, and the trust was self-evident when they walked side by side over the years.

Siqing waited for that opportunity, but couldn't wait, it was close but couldn't go on a blind date, and when it came, it was indefinite to see each other.

Huai'an said that maybe there was another way, and he searched for it during these times, trying to change.

He said a lot, but avoided talking about life and death, which was something that neither of them wanted to think about, and they could only do their best to use this body to protect what they wanted to leave behind.

Based on the thorn in Siqing's heart, what she was worried about, whether Huai'an knew or not, she didn't ask, she didn't dare to ask, she could only take this knot and do the things in her hand.

She lives in the twilight, Cheng Yiheng is right, if there are few people, living in such a large yard is indeed very lonely.

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