Chapter 221: The Vast Dream (5)
Mu Qing's illness has been wilting in the house for seven or eight days, and he has taken a lot of decoctions, but the effect is always slow. provoked Ah Liu to sigh once, if Doctor Zhao was still there, it must be medicine to get rid of the disease.
At the twilight of this day, I saw that I was almost getting better, and my spirit gradually recovered, and I even ate porridge and mussels for several days, and I lost a lot of weight. Ah Liu saw that her face was not as pale as a few days ago, and she also increased the amount of food, so she was allowed to wrap her in big hair and scatter it slightly under the verandah outside the house.
The heavy snow had stopped for days, and although it was twilight and it was getting late, the white patch of the courtyard still stinged her eyes. I sat under the porch for a while, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the two red plum trees in the corner of the courtyard that were blooming brightly, and I was stunned.
"If you like it, order someone to break it and put it in the big white porcelain bottle in the house, and it will not be beautiful, and there will be a dark incense around the room, which is more interesting than the incense you used to make and play with." Seeing that she was obsessed, Ah Liu casually mentioned it.
Mu Qing said slowly, "Yinghua left Jiangnan in the first year and came to the Eastern Capital, and she encountered such a big snowfall, which made her so happy, the big red suckle fell in the snow, it was really beautiful......
Ah Liu's heart sank, she was very sad for Yinghua to pass away for a while, and it took more than two months to gradually ease up, who knows that although she doesn't mention it on weekdays, her heart is still hurting, and a touch will remind those old things related to Yinghua, and in the long run, I am afraid that it will hurt the inside.
"In the past, the red plum blossoms in the backyard of the Tang Guogong Mansion were also very good, and at that time, the saint was not even the son of the Tang Guogong, and everyone had to call him Erlang. In the New Year's Festival, he sat with Yinghua in the plum garden and played the flute, just like a pair of beautiful people in the painting, and I don't know whether the people reflect the red plum snow scene, or the scenery is bright and bright. Saying that, Mu Qing's eyes suddenly withdrew from the red plum tree in the corner of the courtyard, and the anger in his eyes floated, "Around that time, the eldest grandson said that he wanted Yinghua to enter the mansion and sisters, and he was afraid that he had already killed in his heart." is such a cold and exquisite-hearted beauty, and only people like her can sit in the harem. ”
Ah Liu refused to teach her to talk more, and interjected through the gap in her words: "Speaking of the palace." Those six palace people. What exactly is Qi Niang going to do? Is it possible to indulge them like this? ”
Mu Qingyu sighed, put aside the matter of Yinghua and didn't mention it anymore, looked around, and stood up with the pillars of the corridor. "Let's go inside and talk."
Go back to the house. Aliu refilled the smoke cage in the house with carbon bars. He lifted a small copper kettle that was warm on the smoker cage, poured a cup of hot jujube syrup and handed it to Mu Qing.
"After drying them for a few days, can they still be safe?" Mu Qing took a sip of jujube syrup. I deliberately separated them from each other and left them dry for a few days, wanting to see what they would do.
"I sent a servant to each of them, and the four of them accepted it, and the other two insisted on refusing to ask for it, only saying that they were ordered by the queen to come to Du Mansion to serve Ah Lang's wife, how dare they ask someone to serve them, and they screamed in distress. I really couldn't, so I had to remove the two of them's maidservants. Ah Liu said carefully, not daring to omit a word.
Mu Qing nodded a few times, "The two who refuse to accept the maidservants, but Gao Danniang and Lu Ayuan?" ”
"Exactly." Ah Liu's eyes widened and wondered: "How does Qi Niang know? ”
Mu Qing put down the jujube syrup and counted it with his fingers: "Among these six people, four of them are genuine palace people, and they are also dedicated to the head of our house, and they sincerely want to be a concubine by Cai Guogong's side, so that they can be trusted for life, but they are unable to bear the heavy trust of the eldest grandson, and these four people are easy to dismiss." It's the two of ...... Danniang and Ah Yuan," she lowered her eyes and muttered for a while, "I don't know what they are about, it's not easy to care." The two of them were placed in a courtyard to see how these different people were. ”
"It's strange to say, in the past few days, these people have come to me to beg for words, and all they ask are to serve and take care of Ah Lang, but Lu Ayuan is alone, and he has begged two or three times, as long as he comes to serve the lady, he is resolute, but he never mentions Ah Lang." Ah Liu suddenly remembered and said suspiciously.
Mu Qing pondered for a long time and was silent, Gao Danniang and Lu Ayuan were abnormal, and the reasons or their respective purposes were incomprehensible.
Seeing that she was recovering from her illness, Ah Liu didn't want her to bother, so she patted the back of Mu Qing's hand a few times, "It's just a few girls who are less than twenty years old, and they are not a great character, there is always a way to deal with it, and there is no hurry, the most important thing now is to take care of the body." Then sit and sit a little, eat and rest, the cold days are short, and the more you sit, the colder it gets. ”
Mu Qing's words of "unwilling to create karma" have been in his mouth, and he still swallowed it back into his stomach after turning around, and it was in vain to say it, and who was born to create karma, but every time he encountered a situation where the gods and Buddhas could not save him, he struggled to save himself. Therefore, the so-called karma, there should be a time, and no one can escape.
The snow melted in the middle of the night, it was cold and cold, Mu Qing woke up from a thrilling spirit in his sleep, and was half-dropped to the bed, the smoke cage outside the curtain was half-extinguished, and the eaves outside the house seemed to have the sound of dripping snowmelt. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the empty side, and she didn't know what time it was, Du Ruhui hadn't gone into the house to sleep yet, and wanted to stay in the study again tonight.
The sound of the report started, and the little maid on duty at night reported the third watch, which eliminated most of her sleepiness. Mu Qing covered his hands and feet for a long time and still felt that his hands and feet were cold and warm, and suddenly remembered that Du Ruhui never liked to be served with him, tonight was so wet and cold, and no one in the study was staring at the charcoal fire, let alone serving a hot tea, how could he stand it in the middle of the night.
The more she thought about it, the more she couldn't let go, although there were servants and maids on duty at night, she still wanted to take care of it herself, so she simply got up and put on a jacket, wrapped in a wool cloak used during the day, and thought that there were all kinds of smoking cages and tea making utensils in the study, so she only held a wind lamp to light the way, and went out of the house.
As soon as she went out, she couldn't help but shiver with the cold air on her face, and although she was wrapped in a thick cloak from head to toe, her exposed hand was still cold and painful.
When Mu Qing walked through the verandah, he saw the flickering light of the study shining through the window lattice, and a familiar silhouette was vaguely outlined on the thick window screen, calm as stone. She unconsciously raised the corners of her lips, as if the figure was as bright and warm as a lamp, attracting her to move forward.
Near the study. Suddenly, a black shadow appeared at the door of the study, which really frightened Mu Qing. She lifted the wind lamp and shone forward, but it was a woman's figure, standing at the door of the study, as if looking at the study in a daze.
The woman was bluffed by the sudden light, staggered and jumped two steps, Xu stood in the cold for a long time and her body was frozen and numb, and she stumbled several steps before she could stand firm, and looked up at the light, Mu Qing was already standing in front of her. "But Danniang?"
Danniang was taken aback before. At this moment, he found that it was Mu Qing standing in front of him. His face turned red, and he bowed his head and said nothing.
"Why are you standing here on such a cold day? It's not stubborn to freeze. Mu Qing frowned and reached out to take her cold hand. While slightly angry, he pulled her to the study. "I didn't add any more clothes. It's coming. How about standing outside the door, go inside and have a cup of hot tea, warm up......"
"Nope. Don't ......" Danniang seemed to be frightened, and hurriedly pulled out her hand from Mu Qing's hand, "Danniang saw that Du Shangshu was reading at night and there was no one waiting, so she just wanted to do her duty as a servant, make tea and add charcoal, so as to teach Du Shangshu not to be attacked by the cold when he buried himself in the first case, and wanted to come...... Thinking about Du Shangshu, he is probably not used to having someone by his side when he handles official business. ”
Danniang's voice became lower and lower, and when she said the last sentence, she could barely hear what she was saying. Mu Qing snorted coldly in his heart: I really know how to pick up Qiaozong, I am afraid that I will touch my nose when I see this situation, but I still know the bitter plan to make the cold night hard. The mouth was still warm and warm, "It's not a stupid child, it's good to be frozen and how to give birth to yourself, don't be like this in the future, although there are not many family members in our house, but there are also many people who go to the night, but Keming has a strange temperament, and he doesn't like people dangling in front of him, so he will let his temperament go." ”
Mu Qing's words were extremely soft and charitable, Dan Niang raised her watery crystal eyes, and stared at her for a long time, she used to listen to Pei Sishu, who had trained her, talk about the methods that Mu Qing had used, and she shuddered when she heard it, and she was only depicted as a sharp and sharp appearance in her mind. At this time, when I heard her soft words of concern, I put most of my heart down, and secretly thought to myself that in the turmoil of war, there are also exaggerated and untrue words passed on by everyone.
Seeing that Mu Qing still had the intention of pulling her into the house, Danniang hurriedly curts, "It turns out that Danniang doesn't understand the rules, and I hope that the lady won't complain, so Danniang will retire first." ”
Mu Qing smiled and nodded, and handed her the wind lantern in his hand, "It's melting snow, the ground is slippery, so you have to be extra careful when walking at night." ”
Danniang took the wind lantern, saluted again, carried the wind lantern, and turned back into the dark courtyard.
Mu Qing stood in place, staring at the thick darkness where Danniang left for a long time, his thoughts were floating, looking at the current situation, this Gao Danniang had made up her mind to be a concubine in the Du Mansion. The weather is freezing to this point, and she was rejected by Du Ruhui, she was able to endure the cold and the humiliation of rejection, and stood outside for a long time, which shows her perseverance, and the eyes of the eldest grandson are now exquisite, and she really did not find a mistake.
was pondering in a daze, when suddenly the door of the house behind him was pushed open, and a gentle voice came with a warm firelight, "Everyone has gone away, what are you still standing there for?" Not afraid of freezing? ”
Mu Qing smiled back, walked into the house quickly, put down the heavy curtain on the door, and faded the heavy wool cloak on his body. "Since you know that the little lady is standing in the snow outside the door, how can you not have the slightest pity for the jade? Pushing people out doesn't count, but teaching people to suffer from the cold in vain. ”
"Since I have no heart, I should cut off her heart as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble in the future." Du Ruhui raised his eyes to look at the narrowness on her face, covered her cold hand, and brought her to the side of the warm smoked cage, "Sharp teeth." That being the case, if she comes again tomorrow, I will invite her in to make tea and play chess, which is an elegant thing. How do you say? ”
Mu Qing glanced at him, knowing that he couldn't say anything, so he ignored him, and warmed his hands on the smoker cage, and shook the copper cho that was warm all over the ground on the smoker cage, but it was empty. Looking at his high case again, there is still half a cup of residual tea, and it is cold and cold.
"You don't care about your body like this, but I'd rather Danniang come in and wait, so that I can have a cup of hot tea to eat." Mu Qing poured the cold tea into the water bowl with a little annoyance, and when he lifted the copper cho, he was about to go out to pour water and re-brew the tea.
Du Ruhui held her hand and said with a smile: "You are generous." It's too cold outside, it's freezing carefully, don't go, I'm done here, let's go back to the house and rest. ”
Mu Qingzi speculated that in the past few days when she was sick, he often ate cold tea, and he was not only annoyed that his body was useless and he was going to fall ill, but also complained that he really didn't know how to maintain it, and he always taught people to worry about it in vain. Therefore, he still has a face and does not want to deal with him.
Du Ruhui looked dazed, and while taking care of the case, he said casually: "This woman's name is Danniang?" It's a difficult one, tell me, how are you going to settle these women? ”
Mu Qing was silent, and after a while, Fang replied in a stiff tone: "If you still have this leisure, why don't you split it and take care of your ......own body."
Du Ruhui stretched out his hand to take her into his arms, and said softly: "Why are you really annoyed, but a sip of cold tea, I will pay attention to it in the future." Don't you say that I don't care about my body, but talk about yourself, just a few days after you got better, you ran out of the house in the cold night, and you were still standing outside, and you taught people how to rest assured? ”
Mu Qing pursed his lips, opened his mouth and couldn't refute anything, raised his head to meet his deep eyes, and then smiled again, "You just have to rest assured, I want to take care of this body and bones, and I will guard you for twenty, thirty, and forty years." ”
Mu Qing's heart and eyes were hot at the same time, he hurriedly lowered his head, picked up his cloak, and the two of them pushed the door out of the house with each other, stepping on the slippery and muddy snow, and went to the main room in the backyard. (To be continued.) )
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