Young and ambitious (2)

After dinner, Mu Qingtui said that he was tired from the Dharma for several days and wanted to go back to his room early to rest. Gu Li hurriedly nodded yes, and the mother-in-law asked for a while, Wan had been depressed because of Yinghua's punishment, and he didn't dare to say much, for fear of causing Gu Li to be angry. At this time, Mu Qing said that she wanted to go back to the room, she hurriedly got up and said: "It's Huangmei Ji right now, Qi Niang's room was originally wet and stuffy, and the rain has stopped for the past two days, I'll go see if there is anything to wash and dry." ”

Mu Qing was slightly stunned, she said this at this time, it sounded reasonable, but she always felt that something was wrong, so she had to excuse herself, "Don't dare to bother my mother." ”

"Miss Aliu beside Qi Niang is a meticulous girl, with her waiting, the mother is relieved, why bother the mother to do more? It seems that the mother is not thoughtful. Wang rolled her eyelids and said lukewarmly, the pink ice-patterned jade bracelet she wanted a few days ago was given to Yinghua by Mu Qing, and she only got the same concubine's gift, and she has been haunted by it. Today coincides with Yinghua making a mistake and kneeling in the ancestral hall, it is easy to catch Wan's mistakes, and he has to sneer a few words, and it is good to vent his anger.

"What do you say?" Gu Li stopped Wang in his mouth, but his eyes looked at Er Liulang. Rokuro turned to Wang impatiently, "Have you finished eating?" There are so many words, I think it's already finished, and since you're done eating, hurry up and get busy with you, so you don't have to make noise here. Wang had no choice but to leave in a huff.

Gu Li said to Wan Shi again: "Then you can go with Qi Niang, and see if there is anything missing, just come and ask for it." Wan got up and followed Mu Qing to the east wing. Yishang didn't talk to Mu Qing, and walked forward with his head bowed. Mu Qing followed behind, unconsciously raised his eyes and looked at her carefully, in terms of body color, the Wan family is mediocre, she is an inconspicuous woman, it is difficult to see the similarities between her and Yinghua. In terms of qiyun, it is much more detached than Wang's, and in the past few days, it is also comfortable to look at her with a pampered and humiliated state that is not shocked and plain as water. Mu Qing guessed that if she didn't have something to say to herself, she would definitely not be able to jump out.

Entering the house, Ah Liu had returned and was cleaning up in the house, Wan seemed to be a little jealous, hesitant, and looked a little helpless. So Mu Qing sent Ah Liu to boil some water, and when Ah Liu went out, she turned around and covered the door, and said straightly: "There is no one here, my mother might as well say it if she has something to say." ”

Looking at the Wan clan again, he suddenly saluted Mu Qing, and looked into Mu Qing's eyes earnestly, "Qi Niang is young, but she is an understanding person, in front of those who understand, I will just say it." ”

Mu Qing didn't accept her courtesy, turned around, and invited her to sit down and talk in detail. Wan Shi was silent for a moment, took a breath, and said slowly: "Although I am lowly, I have also been taught etiquette. After the death of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the family suffered a mutation, changed his name and surname and was displaced for two years, and was sold as a slave, and then sold to Gu Mansion as a maid, and then was rewarded to your father by the expedition to the west. Because he knows a few words, he can help a few points, and he is still treated leniently by Ah Lang Niang. She sighed silently, and paused abruptly. Mu Qing didn't ask much, nor did he urge, just quietly watched her bland silhouette under the dim lamp and candle.

"I had made up my mind that I would not let my child be born into this world in this life. I am already a lowly, and the child I have born is also a lowly, although I cannot stand up to the heavens and the earth, but I must not live like a grass mustard fly. After being silent for a while, Mu Qing reached out and took a small porcelain bowl, poured a bowl of water and handed it to her, and a white chrysanthemum floated in the water, which was picked and dried in the autumn of last year, and kept for summer and daily drinking. Wan Shi looked at the stretched white chrysanthemum floating in the water steadily, and said again, "In the first two years, I did it, and I lived well in those two years, really well, without worry, and lived a stable life every day." But then I suddenly became pregnant, and according to my original intention, I shouldn't have given birth to her, but I ...... But I finally failed to make up my mind, and this is why Yinghua was born. ”

Mu Qing was a little surprised, and only then did he faintly see the similarities between Wan's and Yinghua, but he didn't know why Wan's wanted to talk about it to her, an irrelevant person. "My mother didn't tell me this just for a few small talks, right?"

Wan Shi was silent for a long time, clenched his fists, and made up his mind: "When Qi Niang gets married, can you bring Yinghua with you?" As soon as these words came out, Mu Qing was really frightened. Wan's family didn't allow her to shirk, "It's not the first time that Yinghua has been punished like this today, this child is strong, her father is shameless in the Hou Mansion, I am even more shameless, she stays here, won't she be the same as me in the future, it's a pity for her arrogance." If you take her out, the world is vast outside, if she has the ability, she will fight for it by herself. Besides, I happened to see the coachman brought by Qi Niang, pointing at Yinghua's fists and feet, seeing that he was not an ordinary coachman, I thought that Xu Du Jia Erlang could not rest assured, and specially assigned him to follow Qi Niang. I guessed in private, Du Erlang must not be the thing in the pool, if Yinghua can go with you, he can also get a good opportunity. ”

"Father can promise?" Mu Qing never thought that Wan Shi would have such a thought, and he didn't know whether to agree or not for a while.

"I don't allow it, and if he does, I don't have to turn away from others to entrust it to you. This is my fault, I should never have brought her to this world to be humiliated, and I hope that Qi Niang can have mercy. Speaking of this, Wan Shi was already teary-eyed, got up and wanted to salute Mu Qing again, Mu Qing couldn't stop her, so she had to half-bend her knees and reach out to help her, "Mother, don't say this, let me think about this matter again." Even if you want to leave, you can't have a reason, so you can make it clear to your father. ”

Wan begged for a while, Mu Qing thought about Yinghua, and finally persuaded her, and sent her out of the east wing. She hurriedly recalled Ah Liu, took the package that had been prepared for food a long time ago, and the songs and lyrics written in the afternoon, and went to the ancestral hall.

During the day, Ah Liu had figured out the direction of the ancestral hall, and the two walked to the door of the small courtyard of the ancestral hall, and sure enough, there was no one to guard it, Mu Qing took the package in Ah Liu's hand, and wanted to go in alone. Ah Liu was not at ease, and said several times that she wanted to go in with her, but she did not promise, so she sent her back to sleep, Ah Liu had no choice but to leave the lamp and go back quietly alone.

The ancestral hall was really gloomy, the green bricks on the ground were damp, the shadows of the trees were heavy, and I don't know what kind of bird was cooing. On a hot day, this small courtyard didn't even feel hot, and the smell of moss rotting was everywhere, Mu Qing's heart went up a little suddenly, and his hand holding the lamp couldn't help but tremble slightly. It was easy to touch the door of the ancestral hall, Yinghua was already waiting by the door, and when he saw that Mu Qing really came, his heart was full of joy.

There was no mat on the ground, so the two had to sit on the ground, Mu Qing opened the package, and in this dim light, he saw that there were two solid steamed cakes and a small packet of pickled sauce wrapped in oil paper. Yinghua exclaimed in a low voice when he opened another oil-paper bag, "Bailing cake!" "In the end, it is the heart of a child, and a piece of sweet cake will be excited.

Seeing Yinghua eating under the lamp, and the ancestral hall was not so cold and gloomy, Mu Qingxin calmed down a little, took out the paper on which he wrote the ballad, and sang softly. Yinghua listened attentively, forgot to eat for a while, and looked at Mu Qing seriously with two eyes open. After singing, he pestered her and hurriedly told her the source of the ballad.

After Mu Qing finished speaking, she wanted to go over the paper again, leaned in front of the faint firelight, and read it word by word, humming in a low voice in Mu Qing's tune. "Recognizable words?" Mu Qing looked at her fingers and pointed at the words, like a young child who had just been Mengmeng.

"Recognize some. Daddy said that the girl didn't have to know so many words, so she didn't go home. My mother taught me some words in her spare time. ”

"Do you recognize the words in this ballad?" Mu Qing asked again.

Yinghua pointed to the word "鞯" in "Xishi Buy Saddle Sheath" and said: "Most of them recognize, only a few strokes with many strokes and awkward mouths don't recognize, just like this word." ”

"Yinghua, sister, if you ask you, you have to answer seriously." When she mentioned the Wan family, Mu Qing suddenly remembered what the Wan family had entrusted her, and her heart moved, "If you leave Guangfu Town, or even Wu County, like the Mulan girl in the ballad, go around and fight for your future, are you willing?" ”

"I want to. Yinghua wants that. It's just that Daddy doesn't allow it, and Grandma is weak and can't leave. Speaking of the future, Yinghua's eyes were brighter than the lights, and she talked about Mulan, who served in the army for her father in the song, and sang in a low voice over and over again. After a while, he asked Mu Qingyan where it was, what kind of scenery it had, what was the Yellow River, and how the flowing water could make a splashing sound. The color of fascination is overflowing. Mu Qing unconsciously slowly agreed with Wan's idea, a little girl at this age, born like that, did not feel self-willing, let alone self-pity, but cast her thoughts and eyes into the distance, it was not simple. If she is confined to the wall for the rest of her life, she will either be as vulgar as the Wang family in the future, and she will live like the flies, or she will be unwilling and powerless to fight like the Wan family, and she will finally lose her interest in life, her soul will be destroyed, and she will be like dead wood.

In the second half of the night, neither of them could support it, so they snuggled up to each other and fell asleep. Sleep until the light of day, a biting chill will wake Mu Qing up, overnight, the green bricks on the ground are even colder, the dew at dawn is heavy, and the whole ancestral hall looks even more mildew and cold. Mu Qing hurriedly woke up Yinghua and told her not to sleep again, and carefully wet her body seriously. Seeing that she came to her senses, she got up and moved her legs and feet a few times, then she packed up the burden on the ground and the burned lamp, quietly walked out of the ancestral courtyard, and looked back at her own wing room in the Li Mansion.

Since that day, the Wan family has seen her on weekdays, and she is still the same, lukewarm, plain as water, but secretly she takes extra care of her, blocking some of the Wang family's troubles for Mu Qing. She didn't mention what she had entrusted that night, as if she was sure that Mu Qing had answered her. Mu Qing felt that he had no friendship with the Wan family, and he didn't want to make extraneous things and bring out some more things.

It's the height of summer in the blink of an eye. Every morning, watching Yinghua dancing with swords and practicing fists and feet in the courtyard, sweat soaked through her clothes, and her little face was red, but she couldn't stop her perseverance. Sometimes Ada would also watch from the wall, and when he couldn't see the place where he could see, he would point his finger with a move and a half, coaxing Ying Huatian to pester him for advice. Ada is a taciturn person, always with a cold face, so Yinghua begged to come to Mu Qing, who was very cute and cute.

Mu Qing couldn't help but have a little more in his heart, in this situation, even if he asked Gu Li and his wife for a girl, I am afraid it would be difficult, let alone take Yinghua away, if there is no reasonable excuse, I am afraid this matter will not be possible. In the end, he is still young, his bottom is thinner, and when he takes on this responsibility, he is full of worries when he has no one every day, thinking left and right, taking care of the east and losing the west, and there is no perfect solution. I just hope that Du Ruhui can go to Wu County as soon as possible, so that she can get an idea.

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