Bundled and stored for departure (1)

Before closing, six people and two cars had returned to their homes. Yinghua has always talked to Mu Qing about the essentials of horseback riding, and then talked about how the white hoof is extraordinary, Mu Qing listened patiently, and was very amused by her. Ah Liu wanted to interject to persuade Mu Qing not to ride a horse again, but it can be seen that her sisters are rarely in high spirits, and it is difficult to interrupt. It wasn't until after dinner, when she bathed her, that she took off her dress and saw many bruises on her body, and her heart tightened and she dropped her face and said: "Why do you have to ride a horse, look at this injury, but how is it good." ”

"It's just a few bruises, and you need to make a fuss. I went back and took the powder that dispersed stasis, melted it with wine, and wiped it a few more times. Mu Qingfan looked at the injuries on his arms and shoulders and said.

Ah Liu was still unconvinced, chattering in pieces, Mu Qing closed his eyes and lay in the bathtub, smelling the faint aroma of Peilan sprinkled in the water, while listening to Ah Liu's chatter, she still took the cloth soaked in hot water and gently rubbed the bruises, and slowly relaxed physically and mentally. Since her mother passed away, no one has been reading her in her ear like this, complaining that she doesn't care for herself. When I was young, I thought she was more verbose than my mother, but today I heard that this wordiness can make her feel peaceful and relaxed, and she can't leave her unconsciously. Mu Qing also thought about it several times, Ah Liu was four years older than her, and by this age, she was already nineteen years old, and she should have been married a long time ago, but she has been with her in exile. Occasionally, Mu Qing also said that he would find a good family for her, and he married a wife seriously. Ah Liu always said that he didn't want to leave her, and he would talk about it in a few years, Mu Qing didn't mention it, but she deliberately didn't mention it, she was afraid that one day Ah Liu would leave her, so she deliberately bypassed the problem of Ah Liu's marriage, this is her selfish willfulness, she knew it in her heart, but she couldn't let go of this hand no matter what.

For more than ten days, Mu Qing went to the suburbs outside the city every day to practice horseback riding. Due to the gathering of hungry people outside the city, she instructed Ah Yue to go to the market every day to buy a large number of steamed cakes, and when she left the city, she scattered them to the people who had fled. One day, when I returned to the city, I saw the car of the eldest grandson's family, the exquisite and beautiful eldest grandson was sitting in the car, and a few maidservants around me were distributing food, medicinal herbs and scattered copper coins to the refugees. This taught Mu Qing to admire her, and didn't want her to be not only beautiful, but also pure-hearted, and born with a compassionate heart, no wonder her name was called Guanyin. He is a woman who is worthy of motherhood, in contrast, his young sister only cares about naughty all day long, without a trace of righteousness, which is far from it.

After days of falling and bumping, Mu Qing was sore and unbearable, but fortunately, she endured it for a while, and the horse was ridden decently, and she herself was quite proud. In a blink of an eye, the lotus leaves in the pond stretched and supported as much as possible, and the fist-sized buds were planted in a clear manner, and the petals gradually bloomed with some urgency, and the pink and white were delicate red. Such a large lotus pond has attracted two herons to stroll and play among the lotus leaves all day long.

Mu Qing invited Mrs. Dou to enjoy the flowers once, and naturally he couldn't miss Mrs. Xianyu, who was almost inseparable from Mrs. Dou, and several Mrs. Tang Guogong. Although the house is not as small as the Tang State Mansion, it is better than the exquisite design of the water diversion and the lotus leaf field. Mrs. Dou pointed to the lotus in this pond and said, "Your lotus is finely raised, and it is better than the lotus pond in the West Garden in the imperial city." In the lotus pond of Xiyuan, it is often necessary to hinge the lotus and water chestnuts and other things with colored paper cloth and tie them in the pond. ”

Yinghua on the side laughed loudly, "The colored paper is blown by the wind, and the cloth is rotten in the rain, how many days can the lotus pond arranged like this last for a few days?" "Mrs. Xianyu said in her heart, the vulgar and rude girl, she has very little knowledge, and she is really an unpopular one, Guanyin doesn't know how much better than her, and she was still afraid that this rough girl would be friendly with Erlang, but now it seems that they are all redundant." The place where the saint often lingers, naturally does not tolerate decadence, and every day someone takes the newly hinged lotus leaves and lotus flowers to replace those on the next day. Mrs. Xianyu replied to her with some pride.

Mrs. Dou raised her eyes and glanced at Mrs. Xianyu, and shook her head secretly in her heart, she thought about it, if this Mrs. Xianyu didn't speak, she looked dignified and solemn, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she showed her shallow style, and she was still showing off her knowledge in front of a child, and she was stupid and vulgar and didn't know it, if it wasn't for the eldest grandson brother and sister beside her, how could she be friendly with this kind of stupid woman. She turned her gaze from Mrs. Xian Yu to Mu Qing, and secretly laughed at herself, this husband is also a character to be firmly held in her hands, but she is far more difficult to grasp than Mrs. Xian Yu, every time she sees her smiling and smiling, she is still naïve and clever, but she can't figure out her thoughts.

Mu Qing noticed Mrs. Dou's gaze, raised a smile to greet her, Mrs. Dou leaned over, took her hand, patted it lightly and said, "Do you know when Keming will come back?" Mu Qing lowered his head and shook it lightly. It's hard for you this time. Mrs. Dou sighed lightly.

As soon as the ladies and ladies were sent off in the afternoon, the steward of He Sui came in a hurry, and saw the flying slave come back early in the morning, bringing the paper tube, but he was afraid that Ah Lang and they were already on their way home, and they should be near. Due to the large number of talented women, it is inconvenient to come in and return to the ceremony. Mu Qing suddenly stood up at a loss, took the paper tube and unfolded it in a daze, and sure enough, he said that he was back today, and he was in a hurry, or he could arrive before the curfew of the closed city. The joy came suddenly, and she was not allowed to be prepared in the slightest, and for a moment she was wrapped in great joy, and the note was pinched in her hand, and she put it down and picked it up and read it again, and so on several times. Until He Sui's steward reminded him: "Do you want to prepare the car immediately, and my mother will go to greet you?" She came to her senses and nodded her head in response. He Sui steward turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by her again, "You don't need a car, prepare a horse for me, it's better to be faster." ”

After sending Ah Yue to the back kitchen to ask for more wine and food, Mu Qing went back to the house to wash her makeup and dress up, Ah Liu compared her hair bun several times, but she didn't like it, and she didn't know what to wear, even the dress, she couldn't pick out a dress that suited her heart. Ah Yue returned to the house from the back kitchen and couldn't help but sneer, "Mother is not happy and confused, Su Ri Qingshui's makeup is the most flattering." Saying that he quickly picked out a light blue lapel riding suit from a pile of dresses, picked up the silver grate and tied it out a cloud bun twice, looked at it, and firmly fixed it with the treasure flower golden hairpin that Mu Qing inserted in his hair every day, "This bun is stable and not easy to scatter, and it is most suitable for horseback riding." ”

Wear a make-up and cover your face with a hat. Because Aliu and Ayue could not ride a horse, the steward He Sui instructed Du Qi to follow. The two of them hurried out of the city. It wasn't until he left the city and saw the post road crossing on the outskirts of the city that Mu Qing grabbed the reins and got off the horse. Du Qi caught up from behind and jumped off the horse and said, "My mother doesn't seem to know how to ride a horse at all, but this one is faster than me." The two laughed at each other, tied their horses to a small tea pavilion at the entrance of the post road, called for a pot of tea, and sat and waited.

Waiting until the west slope of the sun, Mu Qing leaned over to the post road I don't know how many times, every time a horse passed by, it always made her heart hang. Seeing that the sun was sinking little by little, and the tea pavilion had been closed, the old man who sold tea said kindly: "Mother, let's go back first, and then don't enter the city, turn around and close the city gate, but I'm going to sleep outside." ”

Du Qi thanked her husband and persuaded her to go home first. "Wait another half an hour." When Mu Qing said this for the second time, the sky had gradually become crow-colored, and she was anxious in her heart, thinking that she didn't know what was holding them back, when there was a crisp horse bell in the distance, and then the sound of the horse's hooves also remembered, becoming clearer and clearer. Mu Qing tried his best to look at the entrance of the post road, the post road was built with loess tamping, at this time a piece of yellow dust was raised in the distance, and he vaguely saw two horsemen galloping forward and one behind. The figure on the horse was vague and familiar, the corners of her lips uncontrollably raised, and her eyebrows and eyes were full of joy.

Du Ruhui rode his horse to see her when he got closer, hurriedly grabbed the reins, turned over and dismounted, and threw the reins to Ada who followed. She stood there with a smile on her face, and the scene was like a vision, and he was in a trance, suspiciously in a dream. Hesitantly, he reached out and touched her cheek, and the soft, warm touch made him sure that the person in front of him was real. Mu Qing carefully examined him from head to toe, only to feel that he had become dark and thin, his face was full of fatigue, and the smell of dust and sweat all over his body was sour and unpleasant. He was about to stretch out his arms to take her into his arms, but she smiled and frowned and pushed her away. Immediately, he himself burst out laughing, "I was in a hurry to come back to see you, and I forgot to take a shower and change clothes." Ada said in a muffled voice behind him: "Not only did you forget to take a bath and change clothes, but you are even exempt from sleeping and eating." He lay down in his clothes for only two hours during the day. ”

In the twilight, Mu Qing stood in front of him in the glow, his heart was full of warmth, his eyes were sour, and his tears were full of tears. There is a family house here, and she is waiting here for her husband who has been away from home for several months, although it is hard to miss and wait, but if no one needs her to wait, how desolate it is. Not to mention that someone rode his horse around the clock, in order to rush back to see her, he answered her waiting. In an instant, her heart was filled with great happiness, and there was no more vacancy.

In the distance, the first drum beat of closing the gates was heard, reminding everyone, "The gates will be closed." Mu Qing took the reins handed by Du Qi and urged, "Let's go back first." After speaking, he took the lead and jumped on the horse on the stirrups. Du Ruyan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed silently, she didn't see her in April, she actually knew how to ride a horse. She was slender, and although she was not very heroic on the horse, she looked skillful, and I don't know how many times she fell because of it. He turned on his horse, loosened the reins, and whipped up to him, and the group of four hurried into the city.

Rushed to the city gate, the soldiers on duty were about to close the city gate, and when he saw a few more people, he happened to be unhappy that day, with a black face, and stopped scolding and was about to come forward to investigate. Du Ruhui was in a good mood, and glanced back at Du Qi, Du Qi was clever, and took out a handful of money from his arms and stuffed it into the hands of the soldiers guarding the city, "I'm sorry, it's late, and I delayed this big brother's wine, so I invited this wine." The defenders of the city were silent, and waved their hands impatiently, signaling them to hurry up. When they arrived at the gate of Sishun Fang, Yinghua and Ah Yun were already waiting at the gate of the fang, and they saw someone coming from a distance, and hurriedly sent Ah Yun back to report the news. Over there, the house has already prepared soup and food.

Although Yinghua is young, she also knows what her sister and brother-in-law are doing, as well as the Li family Ah Lang who accompanies her riding and archery every day. Therefore, when he went home, he picked out some innocuous things and said, one time about his sister's horseback riding, and another about the things in the hall. When Du Ruhui freshened up and bathed and sat by the desk to eat refreshed, she went to the front yard of the second gate to look for Ada in an interesting way.

Mu Qing didn't ask him how effective his trip was, he didn't ask about the details of the matter, he just taught him to eat slowly, and then went to the study to rest. Du Ruhui worked hard for days, ate a few bites indiscriminately, her eyes became foggy, and she asked her blankly, "Is it okay?" Then he didn't know what to say. And this is what he has asked several times from the time he met at the post road outside the city to now. Mu Qing laughed at him a few words, called Du Qi, and sent him to sleep.

The next morning, Du Ruhui pushed the door out of the house, a gust of breeze on his face, mixed with the sound of brushing leaves, raised his eyes were full of lotus leaves, blue to the sky. It was dark and sleepy last night, and I didn't notice any of this. Mu Qingzheng was bathing in the refreshing morning breeze, leaning obliquely on the couch under the eaves to read a book, wearing a plain water-colored skirt with broken flowers, casually setting up a blue-green light silk, facing the pond of wind and swaying, the shades of turquoise lotus, staggered and separated by large pink lotus flowers, almost overnight, the petals are soft and translucent, like the cheeks of a beauty, blowing and bursting. He looked a little trance-like, almost feeling that he had returned to the quiet and tranquil Jiangnan, and at the end of summer, it was common to see the young girl with drooping hair, with a pink ribbon tied to her hair, facing the lotus pond, or swinging her legs in the water, or reading poetry and books quietly, which was as pitiful as the newly rolled water droplets on the lotus leaves.

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