This sleep seems to have been asleep for a long time, and the dream is full of sparkling stars, and the lingering fragrance of cinnamon is accompanied by the breath of him she is familiar with.

By the time she woke up, the sunlight had pierced through the tulle on the pane and sprinkled evenly on her face and hair, and the dazzling light pierced her eyes with a slight pain. She turned over, trying to avoid the blazing light, and subconsciously arched her head to the outside of the bed, but suddenly found that there was no one lying around her.

Mu Qing sat up from the couch and rubbed his eyes, there was no one around. Looking at the sun, I am afraid that it has already entered the sun, I don't know when Du Ruhui got up, and I don't know how he returned to the room from the waterfront pavilion last night.

Ah Yue was called twice, but no one came in. She had to get up and step on her silk shoes and hang up the curtains. There was a letter on the case in the outer room, and Mu Qing picked it up, but there was no name on it, and I don't know who it was for. She raised her hand and glanced at the letter in the sun, which was Du Ruhui's handwriting.

Thinking of all kinds of abnormalities last night, she suddenly felt a palpitation, inexplicable panic surged into her heart wave by wave, the fingers holding the letter gradually became cold, she wanted to dismantle but did not dare to dismantle, pinched until her fingertips were white, and still stood by the side of the desk in a daze.

"Qi Niang." Holding her stomach, Ah Liu pushed the door and stood at the door, carefully probing her complexion. Seeing that she was stunned with the letter in her hand, her face was the same.

Hearing someone calling, Mu Qing came back to his senses and saw that it was Ah Liu, and forced a smile on his face, Put the letter back on the desk Why did you run here, come in and sit down. As he spoke, he turned back to the inner room and moved a high chair out.

Aliu helped the door into the house and peeked at the untouched letter. He hesitated and didn't sit down, only swept his eyes between Mu Qing and the letter, and then thought that if she didn't say something, I was afraid that no one would dare to say it in this mansion, so he pointed to the letter on the case and said: "This letter was written by Ah Lang to you, have you ever read it?" ”

Mu Qing still had a smile on his face, his smile stiffened and weak, and he shook his head and said, "There is something to see." If anything. Wouldn't it be better to talk to me in person when he came back? ”

Ah Liu stared at her face, looked at her for a long time, and sighed: "Since you already know, why hide your heart." All the way to the present. What else can't be done? ”

Mu Qing lowered his head and was silent for a while. Eventually, I picked up the letter. Picking open the cover, a piece of paper was displayed, and her eyes were full of her very familiar and powerful handwriting. She held the paper as if she was holding a piece of burning charcoal, the burning pain jumped from the palm of her hand to the bottom of her heart, and she read it back and forth a few times, and finally she crumpled the paper into a ball fiercely, raised her hand and threw it out of the door, gritted her teeth, and sneered a few times, "He really left me here." Why accompany me back to Yuhang to worship, what bought the Gu family's old mansion for me, even the bowl of soup and medicine last night has already been calculated. ”

Turning her head, she saw Ah Liu standing to the side with her frowns hanging down, and she snorted again and again, "I'm afraid that you all know everything, and you will come together to fool me, really...... When I really ...... "The words are not finished, I suddenly feel that my blood is rushing, and I am blocked in my heart for a while, and I can't finish my words, and I can't get angry, so I have to help the family around me with one hand and caress it on my heart with the other.

Seeing this, Ah Liu hurriedly stepped forward to help, and she threw out her hand again, not teaching her to touch her hands with a cold face. Outside the door, there was the sound of Suosuo, and there were people looking in from a distance, Mu Qing walked quickly to the steps outside the door, and the servants of the family stood on the ground, swept away at a glance, and everyone was there, except for Du Qi, who was expected to leave with Du Ruhui.

She grimaced, raised her eyebrows and said, "I want to treat you all the time, but now I have joined hands to bully me." Today they will all stand under this poisonous sun, and no one will be allowed to return, until someone tells you where your Ah Lang is. ”

After that, she retreated into the house, sat down at the desk, took a deep breath, and looked at the seven or eight servants and maids in the courtyard outside standing with their heads bowed under the sun, no one dared to raise their eyes, let alone speak, and soon the sweat was dripping down.

Mu Zhan put his arm on the desk, held his forehead, closed his eyes and suppressed the fire in his heart, and the words on the letter passed through her mind one by one.

Roughly swept over, to the effect that he had chosen this path, he had already regarded life and death as ordinary, and that day he witnessed Yang Xuan's frustration and ashes, and the rotting corpse hanging upside down on the city gate, only to know that it was not easy to sacrifice his life, although he was not afraid, but he really couldn't imagine that she would also fall into this situation. Thinking about it, the teacher is highly respected, and benefits future generations, although people are no longer there, under the sealing of the old mansion, they can still be in the troubled times without committing any crimes, but they can be kept safe in this place. Tell her to live on her own, take care of the Jiangdu industry in her spare time, only the salt industry will be taxed by the state in the future, and she cannot move it without permission, and the rest can be disposed of by herself. Just wait for the day of the great determination, I will come back in person, and I will never leave.

Ah Liu sighed again and again, unconsciously a few tears crossed his cheeks, looked back at the people sitting alone in the house, and then looked at the people standing with their heads bowed under the big sun, he really couldn't bear it, he hurriedly wiped away his tears, slowly walked back to the house, and knelt down beside Mu Qing, "What is the suffering for those people, if Ah Lang deliberately does not teach you to know where he is, how can he teach them to know?" ”

As if she hadn't heard it, she opened her eyes and said to herself, "Ah Yue! Last night's decoction of Ah Yueduan. She hurriedly stood up, ran out of the house, took a few steps down, rushed to Ah Yue, and said sharply, "How did you know that I was in that pavilion last night?" ”

The people around him were all stunned, Ah Yue was not shocked, took a few deep breaths, and slowly said: "Ah Lang informed me in advance and ordered me to send medicine to the pavilion of Gui Shulin after the time of the day. He lifted the medicine hanger and looked at it, and then instructed, if the lady asked how to find her, she would say that it was Sister Aliu who pointed out. Ah Lang commanded, Ah Yue didn't dare to disobey. I really don't know the rest. ”

Mu Qing guessed that he must have added some ingredients to the decoction when he was looking at the medicine, thinking that it should be the golden flower and the fine xin, which had been used once in Jincheng County, and the feeling of psychedelic vertigo was similar to last night. Ah Yueshen lowered her head and stood still, unable to ask anything more.

She walked up to Ada a few more steps, grabbed his strong arm with her probing hand, and asked earnestly, "Ada, Ada, if you sue me, you must know, and he will never hide it from you." ”

Ada had never seen her so out of shape, and her eyes burned with anger and eagerness, looking a little hysterical. "I ...... I don't know. Yesterday before dinner, Ah Lang privately told me that he wanted to leave, and asked me to stay and take care of the guard lady, I asked him where he was going, but he insisted on not saying, only that if I knew, I would not be able to survive the lady's interrogation, if I didn't know. ”

She suddenly settled down, turned around and stumbled up the steps, stood still and looked at the people below one by one, and after a long time, she finally let out a long sigh and waved her hand weakly, "That's it, let's go." ”

Everyone hesitated and dispersed, Ah Liu came out of the house, and was about to persuade again, but Mu Qing raised his hand to stop her, "I understand, there is no need to say it again, you go and rest, take care of yourself." ”

Ah Liu had to slowly walk down the steps, walked to the outside of the Yizhu Courtyard, halfway through, still not at ease, stopped and looked back at her, only to see her looking forward fixedly, I don't know where to look, it seems to have penetrated the courtyard wall and looked into the distance.

Ah Liu shook her head, felt sorry in her heart, and secretly said that she used to be very easy to be sad, but now she doesn't even shed tears anymore, seeing that her temperament is becoming stiff and strong day by day, good and bad, but she can't tell the difference.

For a while, Mu Qing was the only one left in the Yizhu courtyard, and she sat down indifferently on the stone steps, her arms wrapped around her knees, and she stared blankly at the invisible place in the distance. After sitting for more than an hour, his eyes gradually returned to his senses, and after sitting for a moment, he suddenly stood up categorically, turned around and entered the house, closed the door, and never came out again.

Until dinnertime, Ah Yue knocked on the door with a food box, at first she was afraid that she would not want to eat, thinking about how to persuade her if she said that she had no appetite, but she did not refuse, and ate everything she had laid down, which made Ah Yueqi secretly relieved in private, but she didn't make any trouble.

In the evening, Mu Qingtui said that he would like to stay quietly alone, and Ah Yue was not allowed to accompany him, so he sent her to sleep with Ah Xing. In less than a shift, the candles in Yizhu Courtyard were all extinguished, and she really fell asleep quietly. The people who had been on the night looked around carefully, and there was nothing unusual, so they left.

When he went outside to report the fifth watch, Mu Qing got up and lit the lamp, fetched water and freshened up, changed into a man's robe, coiled his hair in a bun, tied his head, and found a long sword that Yinghua had worn in the past, buckled it around his waist, and carried the small silver knife with an elbow in his arms, and tightly tied the bag that he had packed up yesterday afternoon.

After being busy for most of the hour, she also left a book, telling Ah Liu that she would go after Du Ruhui, so that she could wait for childbirth here with peace of mind, and the money for daily expenses could be taken from the treasury, and if it was difficult, the utensils in the treasury could also be sold for money, and she and Ada must take care of this huge mansion, and thank her husband and wife again and again.

Open the door of the house, there is a trace of cool sweet fragrance in the air outside, the sky has faintly white, she strode on the glimmer of the stars and the moon and the sky, went to the ancestral hall dedicated to the spiritual position of Gu Biao and his wife, bowed three times, inserted the fragrance in front of the offering, and prayed secretly: Please Daddy and Mother will protect Qi Niang all the way, and find her husband safely and smoothly.

When the incense ash burned out, the sky was unconsciously brightened a little, she was afraid that there would be an early servant bumped into her, so she hurried out of the ancestral hall, and hurriedly went to the horse shed at the back corner door to lead the horse, but fortunately, there were few servants and maids in the mansion, and few people came to the section of the ancestral hall to the horse shed, and there were no people all the way. She took a sturdy chestnut brown horse by the hand, pulled the heavy deadbolt from the back corner door, opened it, and went out stealthily by herself.

There were few people on the road in the morning, galloping all the way to the city gate, just as the city gate was opened, she took the reins, looked up at the reddened sky in the distance, showed a faint smile, and said to herself: If you dare to be the first in the world, Qi Niang will die and live together. (To be continued......) R1292