Although they entered the inner room together, Mu Qing could sleep anywhere.

It was already summer, there was no rain for a long time, the day was dry and hot, but the night was cool, and the double curtain in the inner room had long been replaced by a light drapery. Mu Qing opened his eyes and looked at the curtains that fluttered slightly in the wind, listened to the sound of deep and steady breathing on his side, and did not feel sleepy until the second half of the night, rubbed his sore eyes, and fell asleep on the arms beside him.

The next morning, she was dreaming in a daze that Ah Yue had come back and cried to her, but she was suddenly awakened by a push. Du Ruhui lifted her up, who was not yet fully awake, with a happy face, "It's done." ”

Mu Qing opened his eyes and propped himself up, "Is it really done?" ”

"Pei Gongjian is only suitable to make people come, it is said that Ah Yuezhan dances with Tuozhi, don't say that it is Li Gong, and everyone is drunk."

"How is Ah Yue now?"

Du Ruhui hurriedly said while changing her outer robe: "Naturally, it's good, she is already on the way back to Taishou Mansion with Duke Li at this time, I'll go see you and see how the situation is." ”

"Went back to Taishou Mansion? So fast? Mu Qing suddenly felt as if he had been hit in his head, brushed away the thin jacket piled up beside him, and jumped up from the bed, "The eldest grandson has seen her." ”

Du Ruhui's face was tense, he froze the movements in his hands, stood still for a while, and suddenly sped up the action of changing clothes, and said quickly: "Erlang went to Honghua County to move troops privately, and I am not in the mansion recently, as a foreign man, I can't enter the backyard of the mansion, and now you can only drag her and don't teach her the origin of Ah Yue." ”

Mu Qingyang urgently called Ah Liu, but she didn't respond, only heard the childish voice in the courtyard learning her tone childishly, and also called "Ah Liu, Ah Liu", if on weekdays, Mu Qing smiled so early that he bent over and covered his abdomen, but at this moment he had no thoughts, picked up his silk shoes, and went to the makeup mirror to comb his bun.

"You hurry up, I'll go to the backyard to find Ada and prepare the horses. Wan had to meet the eldest grandson before Li Gong and Ah Yue returned home. Du Ruhui changed into his robe, and left a message while walking quickly.

Ada will set up the car, and Mu Qing has already rushed over, only wearing a homely plain skirt, with no hair ornaments on a simple single screw bun, only wrapped with soft silver wire. Before she could place the pedal, Du Ruhui reached out from the car, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her straight into the car.

The big market opened early in the morning, there were a lot of people on the street, and the car had to stop and stop, Mu Qing couldn't stop opening the curtain to visit, and anxiously put down the curtain.

Du Ruhui was silent for a long time, and pulled her back to her side, "Don't worry, it's useless to be anxious at this time." It's hard for us to go all the way, and it's not fast for them to come to Li Gong. ”

I don't know how many times I looked at the curtain, and finally heard Ada's hurried "arrived" outside the carriage. Du Ruhui got out of the car before Mu Qing, and before Mu Qingren got out of the carriage, he heard Du Ruhui's voice as if he was smiling, "Li Gong." ”

Mu Qing hurriedly got out of the car and faced Tang Guogong, who was turning over and dismounting. She smiled lightly and stepped forward to salute, "Li Gongan is good." ”

Tang Guogong raised his hand to help him, but his eyes looked at Du Ruhui, showing a hint of suspicion, "Did Qi Niang come to the house early this morning?" ”

"I made an appointment with Mrs. Changsun, and I wanted to learn to make some small stubborn things in Qi Niang's hometown, and the brocade color threads were prepared, but it was not good to teach Mrs. to wait, so I came earlier." Mu Qing talked about some trivial matters between women, Tang Guogong was impatient with these, nodded slightly, and then turned to the car behind him.

The servant woman in the house, who had already received the news, came out of the gate with her head down, placed her footsteps beside the car, and reached out and carefully helped out a woman wrapped in a dark cloak and wearing a soap veil hat from the car. As soon as the woman got out of the car, she saw Mu Qing unconsciously stunned, and in an instant, she returned to normal, and turned to Tang Guogong in a curling manner.

"Qi Niang is about to go to the backyard, so you go in with her." Tang Guogong stretched out his hand to help the woman and led her to Mu Qing, "The housekeeping in the house is now in charge of Erlang's main wife, you go to meet Qi Niang first, so that she can arrange a place to live for you." ”

The woman stepped forward and looked at Mu Qingyingying bowing. This bluff made Mu Qing's heart tremble, and he was busy with the same ceremony, bowed to her, pinched a handful of sweat in his palms, and secretly said that Ah Yue was confused, and he wanted to bow to her at this time, teaching people to look at her and be suspicious.

Du Ruhui laughed softly, "This lady is too polite, but she is going to bluff Neizi." ”

Tang Guogong also laughed out loud, threw the reins of the horse to the servant with one hand, and waved it into the gate with the other, beckoning Du Ruhui to speak inside.

Ah Yue was only counted as a concubine at this time, and according to the rules, she was not allowed to enter through the gate for the first time, so she lowered her head and followed Mu Qing and a servant woman who greeted her, and went straight to the side door into the backyard.

Along the way, because of the distance between the servants, neither of them could speak. Three turns and two turns through the side door, into the backyard, the eldest grandson also got the letter early, sitting in the backyard with an open door in the big house, the heart is very disturbed, thinking that after a few days to wait for Erlang to return home, if he tells him Li Gong to pick up a woman from Jinyang Palace, he has a temperament, and he must be annoyed.

Raising her eyes, a servant woman led Mu Qing into the backyard, and a woman with a cloak and hat around her was tightly covered, speculating that the person from Jinyang Palace was about her, but she vaguely felt that her figure and posture seemed familiar, but she was not familiar.

The three of them stepped into the house, and when they came to the woman, who untied the ribbon and removed her hat, the eldest grandson's eyes widened in astonishment, and he half opened his mouth, half raised one arm, and slowly stood up from his seat, but he did not know what to do.

Mu Qing turned his head, covered his mouth and coughed, his eyes quickly glanced at the servant woman beside him. Fortunately, the eldest grandson was not stupid, and calmly changed to a light smile, his half-raised arm paused in mid-air, changed his fingers to wave, and repelled the servant woman who led the way.

There were only two henchmen left on the left and right, and the eldest grandson came from the seat with a look of disbelief, "Ah Yue? How could it be Ah Yue? ”

"It's Ah Yue." Mu Qing stepped forward and pressed her shoulder lightly, and said in a low voice: "Just because Li Gongsheng had the intention of retreating, he had no choice but to use Ah Yue as a person from Jinyang Palace to lure him into trouble, so as to force him to raise troops." Erlang also knows about this, and now that Mrs. knows it, remember not to make a noise, just don't recognize Ah Yue, and don't ruin Erlang's plan. ”

Mu Qing knew very well that if he wanted to ensure that the eldest grandson's side did not leak out, he only needed to take Erlang to talk to her, and keep it safe. Sure enough, the eldest grandson gradually calmed down, and looked at Ah Yue, who was still wearing a tuozhi dance costume who was fading her dark cloak, and nodded thoughtfully.

"There is no Ah Yue now, Mrs. must remember that she is Guo Yueniang, a native of Jinyang Palace." Mu Qing took Ah Yue's hand and said with pity: "No matter what she is for, who she is for, since she has given up herself, there is no doubt that Erlang has benefited the most from it." Moreover, she has followed me for many years, and her affection is not thin, and I hope that Mrs. will look at Erlang and me in front of her, treat her well, and not teach her to be wronged in vain. ”

The eldest grandson has always been an understanding person, Ah Yue is harmless to her, and she is also happy to be a favor, so that Qi Niang owes her a share, and how to count it is counted. Immediately, he took Ah Yue's hand affectionately, and said with a smile: "That's good, I also know Sister Ah Yue's character, such a smart person sent to me can share this annoying back house trivia for me." Sister Gu will complain that I worked Sister Ah Yue? ”

Mu Qing pursed her lips and smiled, "She hasn't experienced any big scenes, but she's afraid that she will cause trouble for her wife." But he said in his heart, the means of winning over are learned quickly, so that he raises Ah Yue like this, so that he owes her a favor, and pleases Tang Guogong, and when Erlang returns, he can win his praise, such a delicate mind, if Yinghua really married Erlang, would there be a way to live?

After talking nonsense for a while, the eldest grandson took Mu Qing to go to see someone to arrange Ah Yue's residence, and pointed to a small cross-courtyard near the main courtyard, where the flowers, trees, mountains and stones were ready-made, and there were also furnishings in the house. The eldest grandson went inside to take a look, and was a little dissatisfied, and then pulled Mu Qing to the warehouse dedicated to furnishings to pick a few fresh ones.

Mu Qing followed her for a long time, until Ah Yue's residence was properly settled, and she was so tired that her whole body was weak, and sweat soaked the hair on her sideburns.

"Sister Gu, why did you sweat so much?" The eldest grandson saw that she kept wiping her sweat with a silk handkerchief, and her sideburns were wet, and she felt strange.

Mu Qing sat softly in the brocade leaning, dizzy, there seemed to be a golden gong ringing in his head, buzzing, entangled, thinking that it was about last night's suspense Ah Yue, and he didn't have a good sleep, and he was busy for a long time at this time, and he was inevitably tired and tired.

She didn't hear the words of the eldest grandson, until she asked again, Mu Qingfang woke up like a dream, and replied blankly: "It's the middle of June now, and it seems to be especially hot this year, and there is no rain at all, so people can't stand the heat." ”

The eldest grandson beckoned a maid and sent her to prepare a food table, and specially instructed to add a newly made cold apricot cheese to Mu Qing's food table. The maid took the order and left, and the three of them sat and rested for a while in Ah Yue's courtyard, gossiping casually.

The buzzing sound in Mu Qing's ears became more and more frequent, the sweat on his forehead became more and more intense, his chest was depressed, and he couldn't hear what they were saying clearly for a while, and in a trance, he only heard Changsun said: "Lunch is ready, Sister Gu will accompany Ah Yue here to eat and then come back." ”

She nodded indifferently, propped up the table and wanted to stand up, but she didn't know if it was too violent or something, and the general was half of her body, and the person fell to the ground continuously. The last thing I heard was an exclamation from someone else.

After a while, she gradually regained her senses, and vaguely felt that someone was supporting her up, wiping the sticky cold sweat from the sideburns of her forehead with her sleeves, and then her body tossed, as if she was being picked up horizontally. It was as if it were repeated, and she was desperately trying to remember in her confusion where she had experienced it.

Yuhang was damp and cold on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, on the night of the heavy rain on the outskirts of the eastern capital, Jincheng County trembled after jumping from the small building.

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she felt, and suddenly she woke up from her daze, and suddenly opened her eyes, her hand was tightly grasping the chest of a robe, and the familiar breath filled the tip of her nose in an instant, and she took a deep breath of air mixed with her reassuring breath, and slowly gathered her scattered gaze and looked around.

It was in the speeding car, there was no roofless river water that taught her to be afraid, there was no cold rain like a knife, and there was no sense of powerlessness that instantly pulled out of her body, she was lying peacefully in Du Ruhui's arms, and the sudden discomfort had dissipated without a trace, like a dream, and now she was fine.