Night Raid

The Caohe wharf made a commotion for a long time, and there was no way to find any eyebrows, and everyone dispersed in the middle of the day. The people discussed in the compartment of Qiyuefang, and Mu Qing took out all the five calligraphy sheets and asked Liu Ao to change them, and the income made up for the lack of salt pans.

Back to the Moon Residence, Du Ruhui raised his eyebrows and looked at her and asked, "Why do you want to make a living?" Is this because you can't trust me and don't want to cling to me? Mu Qing held his chin and tilted his head to think about it and said, "I didn't think about it so much, I just felt that I wanted to do it, and I should do it, if you don't like it, I just don't do it." He still looked at her as if there was something on her face that made her look deeper, and after a while he smiled and said, "It's all right, if you like it, do it, don't hold yourself back." You are here with me, and any wanton will make. ”

In the next few days, I only saw Liu Ao running inside and out, busy as if the wind was blowing under his feet, and he just saw him go to the study, and he disappeared after a while. Hearing that Du Yan had returned to Jiangdu, he really shifted his attention to the mess that made him anxious, Mu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, but he still didn't dare to leave Qiyueju lightly, and only sat in the compartment of Qiyuefang with Du Ruhui at night, a pot of osmanthus stuffed, and looked through the curtain at the send-off between the singers, dancers and men, and the love scene was real. Du Ruhui said that he had heard Liu Ao complain that among these businesses, only this Qiyuefang was the most difficult and cautious to operate. Liu Ao didn't say the reason, but it is true, the most difficult thing in the world is the mind of women, almost all of them are women, to operate this Qiyue Fang, we must firmly grasp the minds of every woman, and do not teach them to be sincere to men at will, so as not to leak the news and put the wrong tone.

Hearing what he said, Mu Qing paid more attention to the women in the market, and came to this compartment every night to observe the words and looks, and figuring out their smiles and smiles became her best pastime. Soon she was able to identify some eyebrows, guessed and deduced the relationship between the two countries, and asked Du Ruhui, and she was able to think of the right ten**. During the day, he occasionally said something to listen to Yu Li, but Yu Li advised him again that it was not appropriate for his daughter's family to go to the Fengyue Field less. If she continued to talk about it, she inevitably mentioned that Mu Qing sold the calligraphy to participate in the salt plate, and earnestly and helplessly blamed her for being young and ignorant and reckless, and also blamed Du Ruyan for indulging her.

After more than half a month, Liu Ao finally stopped his busy footsteps, and reported that Du Yan had thrown out the salt tray as expected, promised not to touch salt in his hands again, and raised funds to buy all the raw silk from Liu Ao that had been raised in price, which was regarded as saving his life. Although he suspected that this sudden disaster had nothing to do with his nephew Du Ruyan, he had no evidence and nowhere to investigate, so he had to swallow it in a muffled voice. Kang Lang got the salt, so he didn't stay much, and after thanking Du Ruhui for his blood, he hurriedly set off with a caravan to the outside of the Western Regions Pass.

This matter is over, and the rest of the decentralized operation, he doesn't ask more, and he has Liu Ao to take care of it. Du Ruhui was free, and he took her to buy and prepare for the line every day. The next day, he took her out of the city to swim in the lake. Autumn has risen, the rippling lake surface was full of lotus leaves have been slightly ruined, a group of lotus pickers laughed and played with each other to harvest the remaining lotus canopy in the summer day, and then sang a soft and tactful song together, startled a heron bird, the water droplets on the lotus pod to be picked rolled, as smooth as crystal beads. This scenery Mu Qing saw very ordinary, the lake and water color he saw from childhood to adulthood were nothing more than this, but Du Ruhui was fascinated, leaning on the bow of the boat and looking at it obsessively, sighing softly, "I will leave in a few days, such a beautiful scenery, I really don't know when I will see you again." Lotus is born according to water, and there is a lot of water in the south of the Yangtze River, so it can be born with a swaying style, if it is transplanted to a dry and cold place......"

"Is there no lotus in the Northland?" Mu Qing understood his worries in his heart, and didn't want him to think about it anymore, so he scooped up a broken lotus leaf, "It was also born in the soil, but because the silt at the bottom of the river was sparse, it struggled to grow, broke out of the water to seek life, and I didn't see it swaying in the wind and felt that it was delicate, but the silk inside was constantly entangled." As he spoke, he gently covered the lotus leaf in his hand on the top of his head, and sang the ballad of the lotus picking girls softly, showing his coquettish mood.

"Sixteen lotus picking, Ling Ge is idle, wearing lotus leaves under the sun, smiling and leaning on the edge of the South Pond." Du Ruhui smiled and responded, causing her to giggle out loud, nearly two months of careful recuperation made her face moisturized, the sun reflected the water flowing on her face, in his eyes like a bright and soft dewdrop, he didn't dare to reach out to hold it, for fear that the dew would disappear in an instant.

The two lingered on the lake until the sun sank into the water, Yinghua naughtily let Ada's flying slave come to look for it, Fang boarded the car and went back, Ada hurried, and when he reached the city gate, the sky was already dark, and he would catch up with the city gate and get under the key. After entering the city, they made up their minds, and the two of them leisurely went to Qiyuefang to have some food, wandered for a while, talked and laughed for a while, until the beginning of the year, the crowd on the street dispersed, and some shops and liquor shops fell on the door panels, Mu Qingzhi shouted tired, and then couldn't go shopping, so he got in the car and went back to Qiyueju.

"Ada, you're tired from a day." Mu Qing got into the car and smiled apologetically at Ada, then leaned on Du Ruhui's arm and fell asleep. "Mu Qing, Mu Qing, don't sleep yet, be patient, and you'll be there soon." It was useless to push and shake a few times, and he had to let her sleep. The car was lit with dim lights, swaying, he couldn't help but think of when she was young, Yuhang City opened a curfew every festival day, she pestered Yu Li to take her to the street, sometimes Yu Li was not empty, Mrs. Lu would entrust him to take care of it, and when she was tired of playing and returned home, she would fall asleep as worryless as now. It's still the same now, but the person on the arm has been polished by the world, even if he sleeps as innocent as before, I'm afraid that the dream will not be so clear again.

The carriage traveled quickly to the side gate of Qiyueju, the night was cold and windy, and there was no one to see in the morning. The horse suddenly seemed to be frightened, and suddenly fell to his knees, the carriage shook violently, and before Mu Qing could wake up, he was pushed violently, fell out of the carriage, and fell to the ground. Looking up again, the horse rolled sideways with the carriage, and almost at the same moment as he landed, the horse and the cart fell to the ground with a heavy blow. All I heard was Ada's rough scolding, the shrill sound of metal objects colliding, and the frightened neighing of horses. She struggled to get up, but she was so weak that she had to hold her arms on the ground to prevent herself from falling down again.

Mu Qing came to her senses completely, and remembered that she suddenly heard Du Ruhui screaming in a low voice in the carriage, and a slender and shiny thing like a sword pierced down from the roof of the carriage, and then another one pierced out of the back wall of the carriage, and then the fire in front of her lit up, and she was jerked out of the carriage by him, and the carriage overturned almost at the same time. Looking around, four or five people were fighting in front of the fallen carriage, and among them only Ada, but Du Ruhui was missing. She endured all kinds of pain in her body, forced her body to stand up, dragged her numb legs, and moved towards the carriage.

Suddenly, a thick figure dressed in brown clothes ran towards her, holding a shiny wide-backed knife in his hand, and not far away, Ada was surrounded in the middle, unable to get out, only shouted: "Mother, be careful!" Mu Qing was so frightened that she trembled everywhere from her knees to her fingers, and saw the fierce figure gradually approaching, only a few steps away, her hand touched a hard lump on the ground, and she didn't know if it was a clod of soil or a stone, so she bent down and picked it up and threw it forward. The hand shook so badly that the lump landed right in front of the man's feet, and the man kicked it away.

"Du is here." Du Ruhui staggered out of a pile of car wall debris, pulled out a long sword pierced in the car wall, stood up with the wheel facing the sky, and said loudly: "You are looking for trouble, isn't it exactly what you are looking for?" Since I am here, I have nothing to do with anyone else. The brown-clothed man really left Mu Qing and walked towards him. Although Du Ruhui had practiced at home, he was not a serious martial artist, and when he overturned, he didn't know where he was injured, and he showed weakness after resisting less than half a pillar of incense, and gradually became a little powerless to block it, and the other party's blade pierced him in several places.

Mu Qing didn't know where he got the strength, stabilized his trembling body, picked up the stones on the ground and smashed them at the brown-clothed man, hitting him in the back, the man was distracted, scolded and slashed at Mu Qing. It was a critical time, and the head of the nursing home of Qiyueju led the usually well-trained nursing homes to pour out from the side gate and the main entrance. The torches surged, and for a moment the flames soared into the sky. Seeing this, the men stopped fighting, and left Ada and scattered in all directions. Ada wanted to take someone to chase after him, but Du Ruhui hurriedly stopped, "Forget it, you don't have to chase." Needless to ask, this must have been done by my good uncle, and we set off early the next morning, alarming the officials and delaying the matter. ”

Yu Li ran from the side door with Ah Liu and Yinghua, Ah Liu was so frightened that he couldn't move, but Yinghua blamed himself for coming late. Under the firelight, Mu Qing clearly saw Yu Litie's blue face, and glanced around the slanted and broken carriage, the servants came over to lead the frightened horse that fell to the ground, the sharp weapons scattered on the ground, and the blood-stained Ada on his face. Then he looked at Du Ruhui, who was ragged and wolf, and looked at him fixedly for a moment with a frown. Finally, his gaze swept over Mu Qing, who was also unbearable, but he saw that her frightened face was only muddy and dirty, but there was no helpless eyes that he expected to be crisscrossed with tear stains and trembling. The torch was whirring and reflected on her face, and Yu Li seemed to see a trace of anger in her eyes, which flashed in an instant, lest she herself not even notice it.

It wasn't until noon the next day that Ah Liu recovered from last night's fright, and carefully examined Mu Qing's hands and feet, but fortunately there were only some slight abrasions, and a thin layer of medicine was fine. Mu Qing looked at her sad face from the bronze mirror and asked, "But it's bluffing?" Ah Liu put down the medicine and shook his head, "Since I left the gate of the Gu Mansion, I know that I will not be able to live in peace in the future, as long as I can accompany Qi Niang every day, I admit that I am not afraid, but I came early, and I was caught off guard." ”

As he spoke, Yu Li stood at the open door of the room and tapped the door frame a few times. Mu Qing got up to greet him, and when he saw that he was dressed like he was going out, he also understood in his heart that he was going to leave today, and this was to say goodbye to himself. "Brother, will you leave today?"

Yu Li nodded, habitually reaching out to caress her face, this time she didn't dodge, his hand paused half a finger away from her face, turned to her soft and fine braid, and brushed it gently. I couldn't say a word of what I wanted to say. Just now, he went to say goodbye to Du Ruhui and told him what he had been thinking about for most of the night. "I know what you have to do when you go to the East, and whether it is right or wrong, I do admire your courage. I think you also understand what it is, is it that you have to drag Qi Niang and roll through with you in the bloody rain and bloody wind and sword mountain and sea of fire? If you are really good for her, let her go with me, and I am willing to give up my official position for her, find a place she likes, and from now on the clouds and the wind will be calm and stable for a lifetime. ”

Du Ruyan looked at him indifferently, thinking that Yu Li's affection for Mu Qing was only a lot more than him, and he was indeed ashamed, but he only knew how to protect her carefully, as if he had never carefully probed the things in her heart. "Brother Yu has asked Mu Qing if he wants to be stable for a lifetime? In your eyes, she has always been the same as when she was a child, but now, do you know how she wants to live, and is it really what she wants? I'm afraid that she has tasted the ups and downs, and she will no longer be the obedient and innocent child she used to be. You can ask her, if she wants to go with you, I'll let it go. ”

He smiled bitterly, stroked her hair, looked at her carefully, and wanted to engrave her appearance in her blood and bones, no matter when and where she was in the future, he could clearly remember every line and every expression of her. Before leaving, he asked Ah Liu to take good care of her, and said a lot one by one, lest he miss something, so that Ah Liu's tears flowed down uncontrollably. Mu Qing's eyes were also red and swollen, but Yu Li didn't let her cry, saying that she wanted to remember her smiling, so she tried to smile with red eyes.

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