Chapter 15: The Covenant of the Temple Fair
I still remember that in the morning, Mrs. Yu said that she was going to take Duanyue to the market to play, which made Duanyue excited and sleepless all night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info It's already moonset, and she's still sitting at the round table, with her cheeks on her cheeks and not knowing what she's thinking. Cuiguo circled around her several times, but Duanyue was still smiling and unmoved.
"What is the county lord thinking?" Cuiguo sat down with a frown. She put down the needlework she was holding in her arms and looked sideways at Duanyuelai. "You haven't slept so late, aren't you afraid that you won't grow tall?"
"Mrs. Yu wants to take me out to play, isn't it so excited that I can't sleep!"
Cuiguo's face was full of doubts, she was just going out to play, was she so happy? She shrugged her shoulders and glanced at the darkness outside the house, she calculated, and after two more teas, she urged Duanyue to go to bed. After such a plan, she didn't care about Duanyue's continued excitement, picked up the needle and thread herself, and continued to embroider.
Duanyue moved over curiously, and saw that Cuiguo was holding a palm-sized dark green water-patterned silk satin sachet, and she was embroidering a few fine peach blossoms on it, which was very cute. "Is this embroidered for me?" Duanyue asked. Cuiguo subconsciously hid the sachet in her arms and shook her head awkwardly.
"No, I just embroidered it myself."
"Oh......" Duanyue looked away in disappointment.
"Have fun today." Cuiguo moved away from the topic, and she gently raised the corners of her mouth, like a sister, shushing and asking for warmth.
Duanyue nodded. I really had a lot of fun with Mandarin Mandarin Ducks today, this is the happiest day since I came to Murong Mansion. "Mandarin ducks are fine, play with me." She thought for a moment and added. "I especially like mandarin ducks." The playmates you meet when you are a child are the most innocent and beautiful. Cuiguo naturally understood this truth, and she sighed to herself.
"It's also a bitter county lord, in such a big Murong Mansion, only I can talk to you. Ning Hou Ye didn't know what to do, and he was always out of nowhere. ā
Speaking of the wind, Duanyue's smiling face instantly collapsed and turned into a resentful expression. She puffed up on the table and complained very dissatisfied. "My brother said that he wanted to go to the barracks to be a soldier, and he had to start from the bottom." Duanyue muttered, expressing the unhappiness in her heart. "Don't do it, Ning Hou, you have to go to the battlefield, I don't know what you want!"
"The county lord is worried about Master Hou......" Cuiguo's beautiful eyes wandered around, her fingers inadvertently touched her earlobe, and she smiled. But as a man, the most important thing is to make a contribution. ā
Cuiguo's words were naturally clear in Duanyue's heart, but she subconsciously didn't want her brother to go away. Rather than dying on the battlefield, it is better to spend a lazy life with a false name like Ning Hou. A cool breeze blew into the room through the open door, making the two of them shiver.
"Shhh "It's cold. I'll burn the warm coal, and wait for the county lord to sleep warmer. Seeing that Duanyue nodded, Cuiguo hurriedly took four or five pieces of gray and black warm carbon placed under the root of the outer wall of the house and held them in his arms and put them in the copper stove in front of the bed in the inner room. Ignited with a fire fold, there is no black smoke, but a faint woody fragrance, and the nose only feels very comfortable when inhaled. The room was warm, and after a while, Duanyue's eyelids began to fight, and Cuiguo looked at her so cute, and laughed out loud. hurriedly took her to freshen up and send her to bed.
Listening to Duanyue's snorting gradually subsided, and there was a regular gurgling sound, Cuiguo blew out the candles on both sides with peace of mind and tiptoed out of the house.
"Satsuki slept?" Cuiguo's feet slipped and she was about to step on the empty steps and fall, but the wind quickly stepped forward, grabbed Cuiguo's waist and made it lean against her. Cuiguo was frightened, she only felt herself fall into a piece of softness, and when she looked up, she saw the dark eyes of the storm, and quickly stood up straight to break free from his arms.
Or feeling that something was wrong with the intimacy he had just had, the wind awkwardly looked away from him, and quietly moved back half a step, distancing himself from Cuiguo. Cuiguo was secretly lucky, fortunately it was at night, this dark night covered her crimson face, and only she felt the heat of her face.
She lowered her head and didn't dare to touch the figure of the storm, bowed and whispered. "The county lord just fell asleep, and now I'm afraid I can't move even if it's thunder."
"Oh." The wind coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment, but he was accidentally misunderstood by Cuiguo.
Cuiguo hesitated for a moment and said kindly. "The weather is cold, Master Hou has to take care of his body." She stared at her butterfly-embroidered shoes and muttered for a moment, then said embarrassedly. "Thank you just now, Master Hou for helping ......" The shyness in his tone was fully revealed.
In the face of her such a straightforward girlish heart, the wind can only say "a gesture". He looked up at the moon-dark room behind Cuiguo and frowned in annoyance. Alas, it's late today, so let's come back tomorrow. He spun around, shook off his robe, and walked away. The wide long sleeves are brought up by the movement, and they dance elegantly. The long hair pulled up at the back of his head fluttered wildly in the wind.
Cuiguo remembered his back in her heart, and was stunned for a moment. He just ...... Is it me who is watching?
A loud rooster crow disturbed Duanyue in the quilt so restless, she tossed left and right, and finally it was difficult to defeat the big rooster who didn't know where, and sat up angrily. She used her small pink fist to beat the bed board angrily, making a dull "dong dong" sound, and shouted at the outside to come to Cuiguo. "Emerald fruit! Emerald fruit! ā
"It's coming, it's coming!" Cuiguo was in the courtyard directing his subordinates to clean up the dust, and when he heard Duanyue's cry in the house, he hurriedly ran into the house, lifted the veil, and asked Duanyue. "What's wrong, county lord?"
"I'm going to slaughter that someday!" Duanyue's small teeth gurgled and her eyes widened. She began to complain to Cuiguo about how the rooster had disturbed her, and waved her hands to express her displeasure in anger.
Cuiguo pursed her lips and smiled when she saw her appearance, she walked to the closet to get her clothes and helped Duanyue put them on one by one. "If you kill it, you can add a meal!"
Duanyue sat on the edge of the bed and put on her shoes and socks, and jumped down. She was used to life here, and she was already sitting upright at the dresser without Cuiguo's urging, waiting for Cuiguo's freshening.
"Did Mrs. Yu say when she was coming?" Duanyue tilted her head and asked Cuiguo behind her. Cuiguo shook her head to indicate that she didn't know. Duanyue pursed her lips, it seemed that she couldn't wait in her heart. Cuiguo saw that she was wearing a goose-yellow dress today, so she pinned the silk flowers of spring flowers and peach blossoms for her, which were pink and yellow, and looked delicate and cute.
But it was useless to freshen up and dress up so quickly, she still sat at the table boredly, waiting for Mrs. Yu's arrival. Seeing her staring at the door, Cuiguo smiled slightly and said softly for fear that she would miss it in the blink of an eye. "Then let's have breakfast too." She clapped her hands, and two maids came in from outside the house, put the meal on the table, and then left in an orderly manner.
Cuiguo scooped a large spoonful of laba porridge into a bowl for Duanyue and handed it to her. "If you want to say that in this winter, the best is Laba porridge." Duanyue looked up and accidentally caught a glimpse of Cuiguo's blue and black eyes, and she asked worriedly.
"What's wrong with your eyes?"
Hearing the sound, Cuiguo stroked her face, touched her eyes, and suddenly explained with a smile. "The windows of my house are broken, and I haven't slept well because of the squeaky sound of the wind last night." She waved her hand, indicating that she was fine. But Duanyue didn't give up, she hurriedly put down the bowl in her hand, and the white porcelain spoon and bowl made a crisp sound.
"That's not going to work! You can rest in the mansion today, anyway, nothing will happen with Mrs. Yu here. ā
Cuiguo Naken was willing to go out alone by Duanyue. First, she is not at ease, and second, if the general knows, it will be her own dereliction of duty. She waved her head busily. "This is unacceptable! The slave just didn't rest well, it's okay! No matter what she says, Duanyue just won't let go.
At this time, Mrs. Yu came with the mandarin duck, and Duanyue ran to Mrs. Yu as if she had found a teammate. "Mrs. Yu, you have to help me talk about cuiguo!" Before Mrs. Yu could figure out what was going on, she opened her eyes and subconsciously looked at Cuiguo, and at a glance saw her dark circles, and couldn't help but let out an "oops".
"Oops! Didn't Miss Cuiguo sleep well? ā
"Mrs. Yu, you also saw it, Cuiguo didn't rest this night, I just want to give her a day off, otherwise she will fall down and still trouble me." Duanyue said again and again, and Mrs. Yu also nodded in agreement.
"It's hard to be so kind, and I'm not a barbaric person, Miss Cuiguo, you can rest in the mansion." She gestured to the maid she had brought with her. "You're going to be with the county lord today." Cuiguo saw that Mrs. Yu had spoken, and she really couldn't refuse politely, so she could only smile and thank the two.
Yu Yuanyuan was beside Mrs., she poked her head out and smiled at Duanyue, which was a greeting. Mrs. Yu took Duanyue's hand and greeted her carefully. "Breakfast ready?"
Duanyue nodded and said. "I just ate it, it's Laba porridge."
"Didn't I say yesterday that I was going to take you to the market? It just so happened that someone came to tell me today that the temple fair in the south of the city is out of the stall, how about taking you to the temple fair? "Duanyue thought about it, temple fair? Wouldn't that be more lively and fun? When I was still in Hongye Village, Sister Qichun talked about the temple fair. The streets are lined with all kinds of delicious snacks and jugglers, not to mention how fun they are.
She nodded busily, and the excitement had already been uncontrollable and she left with a commotion.