Mallow returned to the room, her palms full of sweat. The body seems to have been washed with water. The composure that had just been forced was only relieved in the dark. Su Wen asked, "Girl, do you want to light the lamp?"

"No, I don't. "Mallow just sat in the night under the window, wearing a moon-white dress against the moonlight, she was entangled in her heart, two years, do you want to make a bet with fate? Undoubtedly, this is an opportunity, a girl from a small family in the countryside, in this life, she can marry a simple and honest person in the village, and she will be able to marry a simple and honest family in the village, and people like Zhao Shinan are not easy to see, but God arranged for herself to see it, and she entered the eyes of the old lady again, and had the opportunity to be a concubine. But this opportunity is slim, only if Du Heng has no heirs within two years, he has hope. Two years, can you afford to spend it? Two years later, I will be eighteen, if it doesn't work, how can I get married when I return to the countryside?

Malvac has had a big idea since she was a child, but it was the first time she made a difficulty. She lit the candle and thought for a long time. He took out a silver dollar from the old lady and threw it on the table. The front side is left, and the back side is back.

The silver dollar fell to the ground, but the mallow did not dare to look at it for a long time. Zhao Shinan's clear figure appeared in his mind, the affectionate eyes and words in the brocade, although the words were not said to her, but for the first time, it ignited the thirst and impulse for love in the girl's heart. If I go back, I really won't have the chance to hear that in my life.

Malallow took a handkerchief from her sleeve and put it over the silver dollar, and without looking at the pattern, she twisted it with the handkerchief and threw it back into the drawer. Fate can be in your own hands, isn't it? Mallow smiled shallowly.

With a two-year appointment, Du Heng's heart was slightly soothed. The medicine had already been drunk to his stomach, and Du Heng was now pantothenic acid when he smelled the medicine, so he had to stop the medicine first. The heart has a request to send ghosts and gods, Du Heng is now on the fifteenth day of the new year, and he will go to the Guanyin Hall in Yangzhou City to worship and send his son Guanyin, only asking God and Buddha to give her a man and a woman.

Mallow now only serves in front of the old lady, deliberately avoiding Du Heng's time in the morning and dusk. When Zhao Shinan came back late in the evening, when he asked the old lady to say goodbye, he could always see the smiling mallow. At first, he would greet him as usual, but then he got used to seeing each other, so he only asked the old lady to say goodbye and stopped making a sound.

Mrs. Zhao sometimes deliberately said: "I'll go to the back room to change my shirt, and Shi Nan will come out and have something to say to you later." ”

Leaving only Malallow and Zhao Shinan outside, Zhao Shinan sat on a chair and drank tea leisurely, but his eyes never looked at Mallow. Mallow said something that had been brewing for a long time: "Young master, is he still busy with business?"

Zhao Shinan hooked his lips: "Busy." "There's no support.

Malallow smiled and asked, "I heard that Cheng Yuejin has now become a family heirloom that must be prepared by the wives and wives." It is also rumored that Cheng Yuejin is already famous all over the world. Malqueh deliberately said what Zhao Shinan was most proud of, thinking that he would take this opportunity to open the conversation, but Zhao Shinan just replied with a faint "um".

Malqueck racked his brains and asked again, "Can the young master go back to Gujiazhuang recently?"

Zhao Shinan was a little tired, so he simply didn't say anything, and after a while, he stood at the door of the inner room and said in a deep voice: "Mother still has orders, if not, my son will go back to the house to rest first." ”

Mallow eyes froze as she waited for an answer. From half a point of cowardice to a trace of loss.

The old lady came out of the room and said softly: "Mallow serves me very well, and he is diligent and quick-witted. It's just that she hasn't studied, she doesn't know a few words, and sometimes it's hard to read a letter list, so why don't you come back every day in the future and teach her to read and write? ”

The old lady felt that in the face of a beautiful woman like Mallow , if she found a reason for the two of them to get along for a few days, and Mallow was very pleasing and exquisite, she would not be wrong.

Zhao Shinan refused completely this time, and his voice was a little cold: "If you learn words, there are a lot of literate and hyphenated characters in the family, and you can teach any one, but it's really not good, and the gentleman of the family school will give her a few more silver dollars to teach her." I get home too late every day and just want to sleep. Mother should have dismissed the idea. ”

Zhao Shinan didn't care that the mallow and the subordinates were present, and there was no room for refusal without any affection. The old lady couldn't, so she sighed and said, "In that case, let's talk about it." "Say goodbye and quit.

Mallow's heart cooled. It has been three months since he entered the mansion, from late spring to midsummer, seeing that the end of summer is about to come to autumn, but Zhao Shinan has never even looked at himself. The topics he tried to think of, he ended up with "hum", "ha" and "um", and the sweet soup he loved to eat was only a taste of the old lady's face, and he just tasted it and said "good". How can you get into this person's heart, even if he can take a good look?

Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, Steward Zheng asked someone to send a message to Mallow "If it doesn't work, come back, tell you about your family, and come back to see the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Mallow's heart became anxious, her father and mother were anxious, she herself was anxious, and the old lady was also anxious, but Zhao Shinan was not in a hurry. On the day I heard the message, Mallow didn't sleep in the house all night, and finally decided to give it a try. If I don't try again, I'm afraid that I will have to go home in the Mid-Autumn Festival to be the daughter-in-law of the dogs in the village.

On the second day, Zhao Shinan still didn't come back until seven or eight o'clock, it was already dusk, and he was going back after saying goodbye to the old lady, and the mallow also followed. Malallow followed behind Zhao Shinan, fell half a step away, and suddenly asked, "Young Master, I have learned a few words with Young Master Cousin in the past few days, and I have learned to write my own name." ”

Zhao Shinan didn't say anything, the old lady was not in front of him, and he didn't even bother to deal with it.

"Young master, my name is given by the young grandmother, the young grandmother must have read a lot of books, right?"

Sure enough, when Du Heng was mentioned, Zhao Shinan's face finally showed a trace of warmth, and he said softly: "Yes, she studied in a private school earlier, and later went to a new-style girls' school." ”

"No wonder, the young grandmother always speaks in a good way, that is, when it comes to the young master, sometimes I can't understand what she says. Mallow said with a smile.

Zhao Shinan's heart itched, "What did she say about me?"

There are several ways to return to Du Heng's front yard from the old lady's backyard, one is the most direct through the courtyard, and the other is a rockery pavilion that bypasses the garden. Mallow deliberately walked a little forward at the fork in the road, and walked along the road from the rockery. And Zhao Shinan wanted to hear what Du Heng said about himself, so he didn't care, and followed around.

"The young grandmother said that the young master's words are crepe, and I can't learn it, I think it means that I can do business and have a good personality. Mallow thought of excuses. Seeing that Zhao Shinan didn't care, he said: "The young grandmother also said that my original name is Xiaoyu, and the fish plays lotus Yedong or something, is this also a poem?"

Zhao Shinan responded: "Xizhou Qu." Thinking that when Du Heng was in the lotus pond, his eyes were still bright and beautiful, but now he is shaped like a tree, and he can't help frowning.

Saying that, the two walked to the side of the rockery, and a crescent moon was reflected in the pool, and mallow smiled: "Looking at this scene, I think of a poem, but I see the crescent moon spitting moth eyebrows." "This poem was learned by Mallow from the young master of his cousin, I don't know what it means, I just want to use it in front of Zhao Shinan, maybe it can make him happy.

Zhao Shinan was stunned for a moment, the moon-white dress of the mallow had a fluttering meaning in the moonlight, and then chanted a homesick poem, "I don't see the hometown book passing the goose feet, but I see the crescent moon spitting moth eyebrows" is really not like that country girl, and can't help but be slightly stunned: "Are you homesick?"

Is this poem homesick? Mallow was stunned and hurriedly said, "No, no, no." "Drawing a tiger is not an anti-dog. Malallow was a little annoyed.

Zhao Shinan twitched the corners of his mouth, looked at the moon, even though he worked hard and lonely, how could he compare it to nature, and said coldly: "Just be yourself, Heng'er is not easy to learn." ”

The spark of hope that had just been extinguished by the mallow was extinguished, so it had to respond: "Yes." Feeling ashamed and annoyed, he saw that Zhao Shinan was already walking back with his feet raised, his heart was horizontal, his feet were crooked, and he fell into the pool with a "plop".

Zhao Shinan turned his head to see that the mallow was already fluttering in the water, and hurriedly ran over and stretched out his hand: "Quick, grab me." "Zhao Shinan and Mallow are some distances, but Mallow is water-savvy, and it is not a problem to swim over.

Mallow's voice was a little crying: "There are aquatic plants in the pool, and they are wrapped around their feet." ”

Zhao Shinan couldn't do it, he was just about to untie his shirt and jump down, when he suddenly saw a wooden stick next to the pool, as if it was falling from the sky, and hurriedly handed the wooden stick to the hand of the mallow: "Hold it." Mallow stretched out his hand and was dragged to the case by Zhao Shinan.

"How can you be so careless. Zhao Shinan looked at the wet mallow, and had no intention of reproaching, "Can you still go?"

Malvac shivered: "It's okay." But as soon as he took a step, he fell to the ground, "My foot hurts." As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Zhao Shinan beggingly, "Can the young master help me back, I don't want to call my subordinates, and I have alarmed the old lady to rest." ”

Zhao Shinan nodded with a cold face, and helped the mallow up, the mallow limped and walked with a limp, hissing and snorting, Zhao Shinan hesitated, what year and month will it take to go back at this speed?

Malallow was only stunned for a moment, and her heart almost jumped out, Zhao Shinan's broad chest made her whole body burn, she thought about this scene countless times last night, but she didn't expect the real moment to happen, but it was dreamy. She felt that it was worth it for her to fall into the pool, even if she turned to ashes and flew into smoke, it was also worth it. couldn't help but stick closer to Zhao Shinan's chest. Zhao Shinan's body stiffened, and his steps were faster.

Entering the courtyard of Chuntang Pavilion, the mallow who had been beating the drum in his heart couldn't hold back any longer, trembling and slowly stretched out his hand to wrap around Zhao Shinan's neck, a pair of thin eyebrows didn't dare to look at Zhao Shinan's eyes, just lowered his head.