In the cold spring, it was very dark, Du Ruhui and Pei Lin ate two teas in the back wing of the courtyard, talked a few words at will, and expressed their mutual understanding and hatred of each other.

The south floor square at night is really more noisy than the day, three or three two bewitching and vulgar women, or leaning against the door, or wandering around, the group of people who gather to gamble during the day have come out of the various gambling houses one after another, those who have won the money are full of ambition, and immediately there are acquaintances and prostitutes rushing to stick up. Others come in, and these are the ones who want to gamble all night and never leave the shop tonight.

Du Ruhui walked out of the square road alone with his head bored, and the greasy fragrance floated around him from time to time, and he took it lightly, but taught him to miss the people waiting in the house more and more, thinking of her figure passing by in the gambling house at noon, he couldn't help but frown, but he didn't know if she returned to the house safely, and he sped up a few steps under his feet, waving his hand to brush away the strong fat aroma close to his side.

When he hurried back to the house, he saw that the lights in the house were already bright, and he was peaceful, and there was nothing abnormal, so he was relieved. When Du Qi saw him coming back, he hurriedly ran to lock the door, and he glanced at the bright inner room of the main house, "Qi Niang went out today?" ”

Du Qi replied as he handed down the key, "I bought a few ends of fabric, saying that I was preparing to cut spring clothes." ”

"When will you be back?"

Du Qi thought for a while and said, "After about noon, I will come back." ”

In this way, it is okay to be horizontal and vertical, Du Ruhui nodded/, and went to the main house with a relaxed heart. The spring cold is steep, the inner room has been covered with charcoal, the curtain has been lowered, and some spices have been added to the smoked cage, and the aroma is pleasant. As if with warmth, I have never smelled it anywhere else. Mu Qing half leaned on the edge of the bed, with a small hand stove with a bat cloud pattern on his lap, one hand on the stove to warm up, and the other hand held the book "Guiguzi" that he had read several times.

"What kind of fragrance has been added, so strange." He smiled and walked over to her and put his arm around her shoulders.

Mu Qing put down the book, raised his head and said: "A few days ago, the newly made one imitated the recipe circulated in the Han Palace, so it called the incense in the Jianning Palace." It's just that it's strange. This fragrance is unique. Is it comparable to the vulgar incense, so that those people outside the sect smell it and feel good, but there is nowhere to find it. As she spoke, she removed the small hand stove on her lap and reached out to untie the bag and other things hanging from his waist. I changed to the regular clothes of somen noodles. "Have you ever had dinner?"

"No, I didn't." Du Ruhui shook his head and said. In my heart, I had already chewed her headless words. I wanted to tell her the reason why I went to Nanloufang, but I suddenly realized that she was uncertain, and the looming jealousy hit his heart. For a while, he had a heart to promote narrowness, but he didn't mention it, deliberately teasing her.

But she didn't say those words again, only wrapped a collar and a curtain, and went down to the backyard kitchen to eat for him as if nothing happened. At night, Ah Liu brought a night of decoction, he took it easily, and took the first sip for her as usual, the medicine was extremely astringent, "Have you changed the medicine?" It's so bitter. ”

"Doctor Zhao came to take a look, and added a few more medicines." She took the bowl, raised her head and drank it in one go, without even frowning, and handed the bowl back to Ah Liu while wiping the corners of her lips with a silk handkerchief, "I'm used to drinking, and I don't feel astringent." ”

Du Ruhui turned his head and borrowed the halo of the candle flame to take a closer look at her, and her complexion did not change. When Ah Liu turned around and exited the inner room, he stroked her face and said, "I've been taking the medicine for three or four years, don't you feel bitter?" ”

Mu Qing smiled and took his hand away and shook his head.

"Although I don't know medical science, I also know the truth that medicine is three parts poison, if it is only for the sake of the heir, it is not worth it to boil the body. I don't care if you have children or not, I only care about your well-being, you understand? ”

She seems to have some delicate things rolling in her heart, and the sour and soft in her heart swelled together, remembering that she saw him go to Nanloufang at noon, so she had a suspicion for no reason, and at this moment she was a little ashamed, and every time it comes to the matter of birth and upbringing, she teaches her to be unstoppable, ashamed and concurrent, she doesn't feel that her face is red, she lowered her head, and her voice was like a mosquito, "You are already the age when you should be a father, and in a few years, I will no longer be a child, I privately thought that there should be a child, you and I can be called perfect, and dare not ask for extravagance, regardless of men and women, only one child is good." ”

She still has this obsession in her heart, Du Ruhui sighed quietly, and a light smile was still hanging on the corner of her mouth, "It's good to have, but if you don't have it, it doesn't matter, just follow the fate." ”

When he got up the next morning, Mu Qing had already gotten up before him, and when he woke up and was about to get up, he couldn't find the robe he had changed yesterday. was about to call someone to ask, but saw that she had already entered the inner room with a clean silk robe with a smile, and wanted to dress and wash him.

"Why didn't you see that robe yesterday?" He asked casually with his collar straightened.

"I don't know where I got the vulgar aroma, I asked people to take it and wash it." Her tone was even more casual, and she shook off her clean robe as she spoke, and a vague aroma immediately spread, which was the smell of incense in the Jianning Palace in the charcoal cage last night.

After all, she still minds, her words are full of childishness that she hasn't seen for a long time, her sharp teeth and mouth are as sharp as the willfulness of her childhood, which provoked Du Ruhui's secret smile in her heart and couldn't hide it anymore, and slowly crawled to her face, he attached his hands and held down her shoulders, and said word by word: "If I want to go there every day, don't I have to change my robe every day?" How many did you prepare for me? ”

Mu Qing was stunned for a moment, and then laughed happily, "It's enough to prepare just one body, I'll wear it, and I'll go with you." ”

The benefits of the tongue have been taken, but people have not gone with him, and they are confused when they think about it, when they sat in Qiyuefang, how many of them were untainted, and he was never contaminated, and now he will provoke those vulgar fans. No matter what he went to Nanloufang to do, he was not the one who waited for the lower nine streams to lose his physique, but he didn't worry about that heart.

So she made up her mind, and only obediently guarded at home, teasing with Ah Yan, listening to Ah Liu's chatter, gossiping with Ah Yue, and then packing up the big items of the winter. In the middle, at the invitation of the eldest grandson, I went to the Taishou Mansion to sit down, ate a few teas, and came back.

The days passed slowly to the spring, Mu Qing's heart was clear, this peaceful and peaceful day was already surging, just waiting to find a crack, a suitable opportunity, to erupt.

Du Ruhui has been in Nanloufang for two months, Mu Qing no longer asked, only listened to him mention in casual chat, and he had lost to Pei Lin about 100,000 yuan. The gambling money was exchanged for twenty taels of large gold cakes, and the next day someone was sent directly to Pei's house, and none of them missed the appointment, so Pei Lin was happy to sit and accept it, and became more and more familiar with him, so that he called him a brother and a brother, and talked about everything.

The weather has warmed up, the swallows between the beams are circling back and forth, the flowers and plants are comfortable, according to the custom, it should be the season to go to the suburbs of the city to step on the spring, all because of the horror encountered in the suburbs of the city in the late spring, no one in the city dares to go out of the city to enjoy the spring scenery, the small families are busy with their livelihoods, and there is no mind to sing the spring flowers.

On this day, Du Ruhui did not go to Nanloufang, and sat in the house for half a day. The sun shone for several days, and everyone took off their heavy clothes. Mu Qing moved a few needlework, spread it out on the stone table in the courtyard, and sat around with Ah Liu Ayue, lazily supporting her arms, watching the two of her doing needlework, laughing from time to time.

Ah Yue glanced at the main room a few times out of the corner of her eyes, and said softly: "Ah Lang, why didn't he go out today, but he sat in the house for a long time, looking at the lady with straight eyes. ”

"Mo Huyi, he is free to think about his business there." Mu Qing said angrily, and pointed to the needle and thread of Ah Yue's finger, "Look at the needle in your hand, Mo pricked his finger and muttered." ”

Ah Yue lowered her head and smiled silently, Ah Liucha was sitting in front of the main house, with these words, she raised her head and glanced at Du Ruhui's place, but this glance made her heart skip a beat, and she was almost pricked by a needle in her finger. She simply put down the needle and thread, looked up and looked at the front again, and was not mistaken, where was Du Ruhui's gaze with Qi Niang, she was clearly looking at Ah Yue.

Ah Liu's heart was blocked for a while, but she couldn't say much, she lowered her head and stared at the needle and thread in her hand again, her eyes didn't dare to move away, and she even chattered a lot less, and only said a few perfunctory words when Mu Qing asked her, this sudden weirdness taught Mu Qing to be confused.

After a while, Du Ru stood up suddenly, walked to the stone steps in front of the main house, stared straight at Ah Yue a few more times, and beckoned Mu Qing to go inside the house to speak.

Ah Liu's heart was like a small drum beating, banging and jumping, while absentmindedly pricking the needle and thread, while guessing indiscriminately, don't really look at Ah Yue, this is to discuss with Qi Niang to carry the concubine room, how can Qi Niang stand this.

Besides, Mu Qing followed him into the inner room, Du Ruhui had a sad face, and sat and thought for a while.

Mu Qing was anxious, and turned his head to look at him, "What is it, what is it, now that you can't talk freely between you and me?" ”

Du Ruhui groaned: "...... Ah Yue, how old are you now? ”

As soon as this question came out, it became Mu Qing who was stunned and speechless, and she counted her fingers for a while before she hesitated and said, "Xu is one and nineteen." ”

"It's a little older, but it's a good age...... Du Ruhui nodded, and asked again: "How is the character?" ”

"When it comes to character, and she is considered a decent person, I have never felt that she has any misconduct." Mu Qing replied, his heart was full of suspicions, Su Ri never asked the servants and maids in the family, how did he ask about this today, but he didn't know what he wanted. "If you want to talk about the temperament, it is about the habitual training of people in Qiyuefang, it is indeed extremely exquisite, discerning between advance and retreat, and being agile and dexterous in response, which is really rare."

Du Ruhui nodded more and more in approval, "The people you have taught must be credible and reliable, and they will never go far away." ”

"It's just...... Just one ......" she hesitated and said slowly: "Ah Yue's ambition is very high, on weekdays, because she believes in me, when she talks casually in front of me, it is inevitable that she will show some sense of striving for glory, and I am not sure, I always feel that the blessings and disasters are unpredictable......"

"That's great!" He stroked his palms and laughed, his eyes were deep, and he went straight to Mu Qingdao: "If I ask you to ask for her, will you be willing to do it?" ”

Mu Qing sat in front of him dumbfounded, unable to say a word for a long time. (To be continued......) R1292