Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Woman Who Fell into the Water

Ma Xiuying stood on the lakeside pavilion and looked into the distance, on one side is the endless lake, on the other side is the criss-crossing mulberry fields, the water and the sky are the same color, and the green mountains are like daisies. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The temple with overlapping palaces and towering buildings in the distance is the Quanfu Temple where Zhou Digong's house is a temple. This ancient temple stands quietly between the mountains and rivers of Zhenfengli Town, silently watching Zhenfengli Town transform from an idyllic water town into a typical small bridge and flowing water house in the south of the Yangtze River. Many years later, people may still be able to see the vicissitudes of history from the mottled wall tiles.

The years have passed by in a snap of a finger, and the excitement is only seized! Ma Xiuying smiled faintly, retracted her gaze and planned to Shen Wansan: "The place that your old man chose is really good. In the future, Zhenfengli can be used as a base for commodity trade and circulation, taking advantage of the convenience of Baiyan Lake connecting the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the west and the Liuhe River in the east, transporting silk, ceramics, grain and handicraft products from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to overseas, and then buying back foreign goods and selling them in the hinterland of the Central Plains. ”

Shen Wansan changed into dry clothes, and habitually took out a small notebook wrapped in oiled paper from his arms and recorded it.

Lu Xiaoqian's lips pursed and she looked at Ma Xiuying in confusion. The little girl still looked smart and mischievous, as if the sudden feeling of oppression just now was just an illusion. But when she saw that her fiancé actually changed his hippie smiling attitude and seriously wrote down everything Ma Xiuying said, he was more obedient than the students in the school, and Yao Tianxi just stared and smiled, and felt that it seemed that they had always been like this, and the three of them had an indescribable tacit understanding.

Lu Xiaoqian didn't like this feeling of being excluded, so she snatched Shen Wansan's small book and flipped through it, the more she looked at it, the more surprised she became, "The Book of Bloodlines, the Book of Attack...... What are these?"

Shen Wansan was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, "Grandma, be gentle, this is my wealth accumulation." ”

"Gather wealth?" Lu Xiaoqian was confused, what kind of wealth can a small book gather?

Shen Wansan explained solemnly: "Really, the experience recorded in this book is every word, and I can integrate these experiences, and I will be able to make the business bigger and better in the future, and even do it in the whole country and even Fanbang." ”

"So powerful?" Lu Xiaoqian refused to let go even more, and insisted on borrowing the book back to read.

Shen Wansan hesitated, "Some content is not suitable for you to watch, wait for me to copy a copy for you later." ”

"What's the big deal!" Lu Xiaoqian threw the notebook back, feeling a little sour in her heart, her fiancé took other people's words as holy decrees, but he couldn't even read them.

Ma Xiuying shook her head and said, "Little San, you should tell Sister Lu all your plans, she will be your lifelong partner in the future, if you can't even trust your closest people, how can you talk about credibility to outsiders?"

Shen Wansan had long wanted to find someone to show off, and with Ma Xiuying's consent, he immediately proudly revealed the "Central Plains Partner" plan.

After hearing this, Lu Xiaoqian's eyes rolled, "I also want to join your organization!" so that she would not be excluded.

Ma Xiuying had planned to bring Lu Xiaoqian in and use the Lu family's power to help Shen Wansan develop business channels, so she smiled and said, "I have no opinion, as long as Brother Yao and Xiao San don't object." ”

"I don't have a problem with that. Yao Tianxi naturally echoed Ma Xiuying's opinion.

Shen Wansan was left wanting to take Qiao, Lu Xiaoqian's eyes widened, "If you dare not agree, I will tell my father and Uncle Shen about you molesting me today!"

Shen Wansan's face turned pale, and he hurriedly said, "I promise!"

Ma Xiuying and Yao Tianxi couldn't help laughing, wherever the happy couple went, they were very lively.

Everyone was laughing, and suddenly there was a cry from downstairs, "Someone has fallen overboard!"

Then someone shouted, "Save people!"

Ma Xiuying and the others hurriedly poked their heads out and saw Cheng Cheng dragging the long hair of a woman in white to swim to the shore.

"Let's go down and have a look. Several people hurried down the attic and squeezed into the crowd of onlookers.

The captain had dragged the woman to the shore. The woman lay motionless in the grass, her long wet hair was scattered in all directions to cover her face, and her soaked skirt was clinging to her body, revealing her curvaceous figure.

Lu Xiaoqian hurriedly took off the shawl and covered the woman, moving her head to the front.

But I saw that the woman was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with jade skin and delicate skin, weak bones and slender shape, moth eyebrows like daisies, delicate and delicate like fat, but her eyes were closed, and the sides could not tell whether it was water or tears.

"This little lady is good-looking, why can't she think of it. Shen Wansan sighed, completely forgetting that his fiancée was still around, and the mistake of pity for the jade was committed again.

"Girl, girl?" Lu Xiaoqian glanced at Shen Wansan, lowered her head and slapped the woman's back vigorously, trying to make her spit out water.

Yao Tianxu asked calmly, "Father, how long has this girl been in the water?"

While twisting his clothes, the captain replied: "I was drying nets on the shore, and suddenly I heard a pop, and I saw this little lady jumping down from the Fu'an Bridge, and from the time I got into the water to the time I rescued her, I may have half a cup of tea, and I don't know if I can save her or not." ”

Everyone looked at the woman, hoping that she would save the day. However, the woman's eyebrows were frowned, but the person did not wake up, her lips became whiter and whiter, and her breath was like a gossamer.

"Maybe I'm choking, I'll try it. Ma Xiuying pressed the woman's chest, and when she saw that she didn't react, she began to do artificial respiration.

"Ahh

"Miss Ma?" Yao Tianxi frowned, although Ma Xiuying was just a little girl, but this move was too shocking.

Ma Xiuying was in a hurry to save people, and she didn't care about thinking about weathering, so she took the opportunity to ventilate and simply explained, "I'm helping her breathe." ”

Hearing that it was to save people, everyone stopped talking and waited and waited.

Ma Xiuying "kissed" for a while, the woman's chest began to rise and fall, and the corners of her mouth slowly overflowed.

"Wake up, wake up!" Seeing that the woman was really rescued by Ma Xiuying, everyone's eyes changed from horror to joy.

Ma Xiuying exhaled a breath of turbid air and waved her hand, "You all disperse, let her breathe." ”

At this moment, Ma Xiuying's words were holy decrees, and everyone dispersed according to their words.

The woman woke up with a "bang", opened her eyes like a black pool, looked around everyone in confusion, saw the environment in front of her clearly, and suddenly felt sad and cried: "Why do you bother to save me!"

Yao Tianxi frowned, "The girl is at a prime age, why do you practice herself?"

The woman glanced at Yao Tianxi, lowered her head and continued to sob.

"If you have any difficulties, speak up and see if we can help. The two sons beside me are the young master of the Yao family and the young master of the Shen family, and the clothes you wear are those of the Miss Lu family. Ma Xiuying revealed the identities of Yao Tianxi, Shen Wansan and Lu Xiaoqian, these three are all children of rich families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the people here don't know.

"That is, if there is any difficulty, just say, we can help you. If it weren't for Lu Xiaoqian's hard pull on Shen Wansan, it is estimated that Shen Wansan would have rushed to the woman and patted her chest to ensure it.

The woman's eyes lit up and soon dimmed again, she stood up tremblingly, wrapped her shawl, and said: "The little woman Li Qi'er has seen all the young masters and young ladies, but outsiders can't help the little woman's affairs, and the little woman doesn't know how to talk about it......"

Could it be another woman trapped by love? Ma Xiuying drove Yao Tianxi, Shen Wansan, and the onlookers away, leaving herself and Lu Xiaoqian, and comforted her softly: "If you don't say it, how do we know if it's okay? It's all women, what can't you say? Since God won't let you die, there must be a way to let you live." ”

Li Qi'er silently wiped away her tears, looked at the lake in a daze, and after half a ring, her lips slowly opened, and she said sourly: "My father was originally the commander of Qiantang County, and in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, the traitorous minister Boyan suggested to the Tartar Emperor that 'please kill the Han people surnamed Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao', and my father was dismissed and put in a cell overnight, and none of my uncles and brothers were spared. Uncle Feng, the servant of the family, escaped with me, and I have survived all the way to this day. But now that Uncle Feng has also passed away, I am alone and have nothing to rely on, so I simply went to Huangquan to meet my father and brother......"

Boyan, a powerful minister of the Yuan court, threatened to kill the five Han people, and Ma Xiuying and Lu Xiaoqian also heard about it, and many people left their hometowns and changed their names and surnames. This matter made a fuss, and Guo Zixing praised himself as an unpredictable prophet in front of Ma Xiuying more than once, and asked Ma Xiuying to change his surname in advance, avoiding the risk of being arrested.

Now seeing Li Qi'er lonely and miserable, thinking that both parents were tragically poisoned by the Yuan people, Ma Xiuying couldn't help but sympathize with the disease and persuaded: "It's better to die than to live, you forget the past and live well." ”

Li Qi'er lowered her eyes and remained silent.

Seeing Li Qi'er's indifferent expression, Ma Xiuying accentuated her tone, "If you die, how can you be worthy of the loyal servants who saved you and the family under Jiuquan? You are their last concern, and you should live bravely and live this life happily!"

Li Qi'er burst into tears, "I'm alone now, how can I survive?" said and suddenly turned over and knelt down, "Please have pity on Miss, if you can accommodate me, I am willing to be a cow and a horse to serve Miss." ”

Ma Xiuying hurriedly waved her hand, it was not that she didn't want to help Li Qi'er, but she herself was sent to see Da Zhang's face, how could she bring Li Qi'er back?

Li Qi'er switched to Lu Xiaoqian's knee again, and Lu Xiaoqian couldn't agree, she was already an engaged woman, and she would marry into the Shen family in a short time, it was not appropriate to marry Li Qi'er in the past, and she would have to be alone in the end without Li Qi'er.

"What should I do?" Li Qi'er couldn't hide her disappointment, and fell to the ground crying bitterly.

Yao Tianxi and Shen Wansan saw them pushing back and forth, and their faces were full of sadness, so they came over to inquire about the situation.

Ma Xiuying finished telling the story and said, "Why don't you two think of a way to leave Li Qi'er behind." ”

Li Qi'er immediately raised her head, and begged with tears in her eyes: "Please show mercy to the two young masters, let me stay and be a maid, I can play the piano, grind ink, wash clothes, cook rice, ......."

"Wow, that's going to be a lot. Shen Wansan's eyes fell on Li Qi'er, and he suddenly looked straight. Lu Xiaoqian's shawl was too short, not only did it not cover Li Qi'er's wet body, but it made people reverie boundlessly.

At this time, Li Qi'er raised her head pitifully, a puff of wet hair was attached to her fair neck, her clothes were tightly attached to her body, the two flesh balls on her chest were about to come out, and the drops of water at the tips of her hair flowed into the deep chasm......