Chapter Seventy-Four: Afternoon and Winter
"What the hell are you going to do?" Xu Mingwen looked at Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan, who were suddenly approaching again, and felt that something seemed to be a little wrong, so she pulled the corners of her mouth and asked.
"Nothing." Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan smiled gently, "We just want to ask you a few small, small questions." β
"Okay, you ask." Xu Mingwen said.
"One, how did you and Zhai Dagongzi meet that night? Second, after Zhai Dagongzi saved you, why did you come back with Xu Sui so late? Three, why are you and Zhai Dagongzi so silent about what happened that night? Xu Yourong asked one by one.
"Well, my stomach suddenly hurts a little and I feel uncomfortable, so I'll go to the toilet first." Xu Mingwen said that she would let Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan ask casually, but she didn't say that she would definitely answer, so at this time, when Xu Mingwen heard that Xu Yourong was really asking about the night of Ronghua Palace, when she and Zhai Yu were together, Xu Mingwen immediately wanted to run away.
"Sister-in-law, are you sick to your stomach?" But Xu Mingwen had just taken a step, and Xu Yourong grabbed her collar, "This is not a trivial matter, you must not ignore it." Let's go lie down and rest, and I'll go and tell my grandmother and my mother to kiss them at once, and ask them to send someone for you to get a doctor. Xu Yourong looked at Xu Mingwen and said with a smile.
"......" Xu Mingwen was speechless.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? What's uncomfortable again? β
"No, I'm not uncomfortable anywhere."
"Really, then your stomach doesn't hurt?"
ββ¦β¦ It doesn't hurt anymore. β
In the end, Xu Mingwen was still under Xu Yourong's obscenity, and she and Xu Youshan were put together in an inconspicuous corner. avoided the eyes of Mrs. Qi and them, and took turns to use indiscriminate bombardment to extract a confession from Xu Mingwen, so that Xu Mingwen finally explained everything clearly.
It turned out that the night of the Ronghua Palace. After Xu Youshan wore Xu Ming's coat and ran out as bait to lure away the Dragon Tiger Guard, Xu Mingwen planned to chase after Xu Youshan desperately to change Xu Youshan back, but she was immediately stopped by Liu's mother and told her that Xu Youshan had already ordered, if she didn't cooperate by then. Even if Liu's mother knocked her unconscious and took her away, she wouldn't let her rush up. Liu's mother told Xu Mingwen not to live up to Xu Youshan's intentions.
In the end, the delicate Xu Mingwen certainly didn't beat Mother Liu. fled in the opposite direction to Xu Youshan, but that day, no matter whether Xu Youshan and their way forward or retreated, they had already been surrounded by the second prince Xie Yan and the third prince Xie Wen, even if there was a team of dragon and tiger guards that were led away by Xu Youshan. But there's another team. So not long after Liu's mother escaped with Xu Mingwen, she was blocked again.
At that time, Liu's mother immediately let Xu Mingwen run first, but of course Xu Mingwen refused to sacrifice for her alone, so she insisted on letting Liu's mother go, saying that these people would not do anything else if they caught her. But Mother Liu asked Xu Mingwen to think about Xu Youshan, not to let what Xu Youshan did in vain, Xu Mingwen was stunned, and Mother Liu immediately pushed Xu Mingshan. Then he rushed out to attract the attention of his pursuers, and led them in another direction.
And then when Liu's mother was full of elite dragon and tiger guards in the army. It didn't take long to catch up, and the result was obvious, even Xu Youshan and they wanted to kill people, let alone Mother Liu.
But after all, Liu's mother has a foundation, and her skills are vigorous, after Long Huwei found out that Liu's mother was a bait, she withdrew a lot of troops to chase Xu Ming's daughter-in-law, leaving only one or two people to deal with Liu's mother, and because of this, Liu's mother was only seriously injured in the end, and did not lose her life, otherwise Xu Ming's mother would not know what she would be guilty of.
But since in the end, Xu Youshan and Liu's mother left her side in order to act as bait and lure away the pursuers for Xu Ming's wife, then Xu Ming's wife fled alone later, but Xie Yan and Xie Wen forced Xu Youshan and the trails in the area they forced into were all intricate, not to mention that Mother Shi, who was familiar with the apse of Ronghua Palace, led the way, they were all lost and lost for a long time, not to mention that now Xu Ming's wife, who was not familiar with Ronghua Hall at all, was alone and scurrying around in this maze.
Therefore, in the following period of time, Xu Mingwen was anxious and frightened, she was anxious to return to the main hall to find Mrs. Zheng and them to move rescue soldiers to save Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan; What I'm afraid of is whether Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan will have been murdered now.
And Xu Mingwen was in such a panicked situation, stumbling all the way, even if her face and wrists were scratched out of blood marks by the cold branches in the deep winter, Xu Mingwen continued to run regardless of it, and as soon as she heard some other movements, Xu Mingwen would be like a frightened rabbit, trembling and curling up and hiding, and this was the only picture she saw when Zhai Yu found Xu Mingyu.
It was a tall and thick banyan tree, and the dark green leaves on the tree were still the same green and deep even in the middle of winter, except for one or two fallen leaves that had just fallen under the tree, and among those fallen leaves, very few of them looked so different, because the place where they fell was not the earth, but a curled figure that was still trembling slightly.
"Miss Xu San?"
Some people's voices and their looks are just the opposite, such as Xie Jing, his appearance is so beautiful, beautiful can be worthy of the words "the color of the city", but the voice of such a beautiful person is completely annoying to the point of outrageous, at least for Xu Youshan. Because Xie Jing's ridiculous and ridiculous face that does not hide his true temperament at all as long as he is facing her is hateful, it really makes Xu Youshan hate it to the extreme, not to mention Xie Jing's cold voice that can reveal irony from his voice.
But there are examples like Xie Jing's face and voice that are inconsistent, and of course there will be different existences like Zhai Yu.
Zhai Yu has a handsome face, which goes without saying, but perhaps because of the long-term bloody battlefield, on Zhai Yu's white and handsome face, the feeling of deep coldness actually directly overwhelmed people's other perceptions of him. can only remember this person's bad approach and sense of distance, thus ignoring Zhai Yu's handsome face. And the same situation is Zhai Yu's voice, the indifference that comes out of his bones. It burst out with Zhai Yu's opening, making people involuntarily ignore the others, and only remember Zhai Yu's extremely indifferent voice.
And Xu Mingwen was originally one of the people who could only notice Zhai Yu's indifference and the sense of distance that people were rejected thousands of miles away, but because of Xu Yourong and Xu Mingcheng's matchmaking actions one by one, one by one, unintentionally inserted willows and willows, Zhai Yu and Xu Mingwen had ordinary and special memories of the Dragon Boat Festival lanterns, starlight, and under the acacia trees at the beginning, and it also made it possible to make it happen later, whether it was a big or small thing. Everything is different between Zhai Yu and Xu Mingwen.
Whether it's the perception of each other, or the gaze of each other, or the change of feelings for each other. Unconsciously, there is a change, a slow but determined change.
Just like Xu Mingwen for Zhai Yu, she can already find his handsome face from his deep coldness, and she can also find it from his indifferent voice. From time to time, I noticed his smile that was not obvious at all.
But these are in normal times. In Xu Ming's state of not being so anxious and frightened, so when Zhai Yu, who came to see and see with Xu Xuan and Xu Chen, the big lake between the main hall of the Ronghua Hall and the apse, found Xu Ming's daughter-in-law, the sound of "Miss Xu San" failed to let her hear that this was Zhai Yu's voice, but made her trembling and curled up into a small ball of body completely frozen.
"Miss Xu San."
Fortunately, even in such a panicked situation as Xu Mingwen, even if Xu Mingwen could no longer hear Zhai Yude's voice, she could still get close to Zhai Yu. For the first time, she smelled the fragrance that she was now too familiar with to be - crape myrtle flowers.
"Zhai Yu?"
Xu Mingwen quietly raised her head like a drowning person grasping the last straw, and looked at the person who was already standing in front of her stupidly.
"It's me. Miss Xu San, what's wrong? β
Xu Mingwen didn't look up, but when she looked up, the shallow blood marks on her face made Zhai Yu shocked, and the evil aura in her eyes that had never disappeared but was hidden very deeply also slowly flowed at this time.
"Is it really you?"
But at this time, Xu Mingwen couldn't see anything, just looked at Zhai Yu stupidly, and then there were tears in her eyes, and she began to flow non-stop, "It's really you?" Zhai Yu, it's really your ......" Xu Mingwen kept asking Zhai Yu word by word, repeating word by word.
"It's me, it's ......"
And Zhai Yu now answered Xu Mingwen word by word with great patience, and took off his robe and draped it on Xu Ming's body, "Miss Xu San, let's get up first, are you still injured, tell me first, okay?" β
"Hurt?" Xu Mingwen said worriedly: "I'm not injured...... Zhai Yu, please save Sister Rong, please save Sister Shan, Zhai Yu, Mother Liu just ran over there alone in order to divert the pursuers...... Zhai Yu, help me, please. Xu Mingwen was like an amnesiac person who suddenly remembered all the past things, grabbed Zhai Yu suddenly, and was anxious and flustered, and even said something hoarsely that others might not understand.
"Okay, I'll help you, Miss Xu San, don't be afraid, first tell me where Miss Xu and Miss Xu Si are, and which direction Mother Liu ran to, you say slowly, I will definitely rescue them, don't be afraid."
But maybe others really won't understand what Xu Mingwen said just now, what she was talking about. But Zhai Yu understood that he didn't care that Xu Ming's beautiful nails, which were rounded, were already embedded in the flesh of his arms that he hurriedly relaxed, and he didn't pull away Xu Ming's soft nails that made him feel pain, Zhai Yu just quietly looked at Xu Ming's crying flustered, and her indifferent voice sounded softly, reaching the bottom of Xu Ming's heart.
"Sister Rong and Sister Shan are ......"
And what I have to say is that after Zhai Yu's words, Xu Mingwen really slowly calmed down, but Zhai Yu's question made her a little stunned, where are Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan, Xu Mingwen doesn't know at all now!
Xu Ming's face was already very white just now, but now it is getting more and more snow-white, so white that she feels a little dead, so that Zhai Yu, who has been watching her, frowned, gently pulled the hand she grabbed and said, "It's okay." It's okay if you don't know, just tell me where you ended up parting, it's okay. Miss Xu San. β
Zhai Yu's words made Xu Ming's face change for the better again, she looked at Zhai Yu with a hopeful face, and after Zhai Yu looked at her and nodded, Xu Mingwen was overjoyed and wanted to tell Zhai Yu where she and Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan were separated in the end.
But this time, before Xu Mingwen could say a word, Zhai Yu suddenly approached Xu Mingwen violently. covered her mouth, and in Xu Ming's eyes, when there was only a finger left between them. Zhai Yu told Xu Mingyu with a mouth shape, "Someone is coming." β
But in fact, to be honest, Xu Mingwen didn't notice what Zhai Yu was saying at all, especially when Zhai Yu turned her head. After staring in the direction where the voice came. Xu Mingwen looked at his side face even more, and her heartbeat would jump out of her throat. Although it is not right to have this reaction in this case, Xu Mingwen doesn't know why?
And then Zhai Yu fled with Xu Ming's wife, and there was no need to save Xu Youshan or anything else, under so many dragon and tiger guards outflanking and intercepting, Zhai Yu could only take Xu Ming's wife to avoid the pursuers alone, and he couldn't do much about the rest.
After all, two fists are still hard to beat four hands. What's more, now Zhai Yu still has a powerless Xu Mingwen.
Therefore, the next thing is just that Zhai Yu took Xu Mingwen to avoid the dragon and tiger guards all the way to hide. It wasn't until Xu Youshan told almost everything in front of Emperor Zhou Hui that Long Huwei, who had been intercepting Zhai Yu and Xu Mingwen, was arrested or retreated, and Zhai Yu took Xu Mingwen to quietly meet Xu Xuan at that time, and after personally handing Xu Mingyu into Xu Xuan's hands, Zhai Yu left quietly.
But if that's all the way things are, then why are Zhai Yu and Xu Mingwen so tight-lipped?
Of course, this is because Zhai Yu took Xu Mingwen to escape along the way, in order for Xu Mingwen not to be discovered by those dragon and tiger guards, Zhai Yu hugged and hugged her, all the things that were not polite, Zhai Yu did almost all of them to Xu Mingwen, and even if Zhai Yu was doing this to save Xu Mingwen, Xu Mingwen's reputation was almost gone.
In this way, Zhai Yu has to marry Xu Mingwen, especially now that the two men are unmarried and the women are unmarried, there is no suspense to talk about at all. And because of this, it is no wonder that Zhai Yu and Xu Mingwen are silent about this matter.
Among them, what is the specific reason for Zhai Yu, others don't know, but as for Xu Ming's words, then Xu Youshan and they understand, at least now, under the current situation that Xu Ming's wife told them all, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan really don't know each other.
"If I don't know anything, then I can still tell my grandmother all this ruthlessly, crying and shouting for my grandfather and grandmother to make the decision for me, but unfortunately, I already know everything about him, so how can I force him to marry me in the face of him like this? How could I possibly bear to treat him like this, to treat the person I like so much......"
The heavy snow in the late winter is not relentless, and the flying snowflakes also fall on the vast land, making people feel that the future is uncertain and the world is impermanent.
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In front of the gate of the Beiding Palace, from the morning, there was a lot of traffic, although the birthday of the old princess of Beiding did not invite a few people to the banquet, but although many people did not receive the post, but people could not come, but they still sent a car of congratulatory gifts, so that the concierge of the Beiding Palace was also busy and should not be overwhelmed, and received the congratulatory gifts from the car from the morning.
Beiding Palace, west side of Shiji.
"Ancestor, grandchildren have given you a birthday."
In the morning in Dongyang Lane, after the Xu family's big room and the second room were reconciled, they came to the Beiding Wangfu together, and on the way, although the old lady Qi and the others found that Xu Youshan and the three were a little different from usual, they were silent a little. But because they were in a hurry, they didn't ask in detail, just when this time was Sheng Anxuan's examination, they may have been tired of studying recently, not to mention that after coming to the palace and getting together with Xu Mingxi, the three little ones returned to normal, so Mrs. Qi didn't ask anything more.
And when everyone arrived at the west bank of Shiji and greeted the old princess of Beiding, Xu Youshan and the three of them had already laughed and said goodbye to the old princess without a trace of different colors.
"Okay, good, all good boys, let's get up quickly." The old princess of Beiding said with a smile.
"Thank you, Ancestor." Xu Youshan and the three got up obediently, Xu Yourong was beckoned by the old princess of Beiding, and she was by her old man's side, while Xu Youshan and Xu Mingwen returned to the back of Pei and Yan and sat down.
"Ancestor, don't you know, when we first came, the carriages full of congratulatory gifts outside the gate were going to flood the gate of the palace." Xu Yourong said to the old princess of Beiding.
"That's it, Ancestor, didn't you see it, I'm about to be scared by so many gifts." Xu Mingcheng echoed.
"How can there be so many, just the two of you are exaggerated." The old princess of Beiding smiled happily.
In fact, if you want to talk about the ability to please the elders, Xu Yourong and Xu Mingcheng are really the best, so that Xu Youshan and Xu Mingwen, who are behind the Pei family and the Yan family, look at Xu Yourong and Xu Yourong, who amused the old princess, they are really like a mountain looking up. If this were the two of them, it might be a cold situation, after all, one is not good at exaggerating, and the other is not good at doing what he likes.
And the time after that, of course, was the time for Xu Yourong and Xu Mingcheng to shine alone, the two sang and coaxed the old princess happily, and even ate an extra bowl of rice for lunch, and they were amazed to see the night when they served the old princess.
After lunch, it was time to take a walk to eat, so everyone surrounded the old princess like stars and moons, and wanted to go around the courtyard on the west side of the rocky rock. But after glancing at the huge team behind her, the old princess teased: "You are going to go for a walk with me, so many people, unknowing, still think that they are going to move." Okay, where do you want to go, just go, don't follow me, look annoying. β
As soon as the old princess said this, except for Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Zheng, the others did not follow the old princess, especially Xu Youshan and their generation, and the old princess even asked them to go straight to play, so they didn't have to stay here, so under the signal of the Pei family, Xu Youshan and the four of them ran away with the lord of Shuoyun.
Moon cold fasting
"Qin Xin, these are a few plates of pastries, you send someone to your uncle and grandfather in front of you, so that your uncle and grandfather don't have to talk to Cousin Xuan and Chen'er a few times, and they don't even have a good lunch." Xu Mingcheng instructed Qin Xindao.
"Tsk, look at what this good wife looks like." And after Xu Yourong listened to Xu Mingxi's words, he teased her.
"Hmph...", but Xu Mingcheng just glared at Xu Yourong, and continued to turn around and busily instruct Qin Xin, afraid that Qi Xuan was really hungry.
"Look, look, our sister has finally grown up, I'm really old." But Xu Yourong didn't let go of Xu Mingxi, and talked to Xu Youshan, Xu Mingwen, and the county lord of Shuoyun.
"Xu Yourong !!" And this time, Xu Mingcheng was finally amused by Xu Yourong.
"Okay, eldest sister, why do you always tease my sister like this." Xu Youshan looked at her current eldest sister who was too naΓ―ve to do it, and said with a smile.
"That's it, Sister Rong, if you don't get angry with your eldest sister for a day, you won't be happy, right?" Xu Mingwen also rubbed her temples and smiled helplessly.
"Don't talk nonsense, when am I teasing Mingxi, I'm complimenting her, you're right, sister-in-law." Xu Yourong said to the Shuoyun County Lord on the other side.
"Yes, don't burn my body with your war, I'll retreat." Lord Shuoyun said with a smile.
"You see, Xu Yourong, this is all supporting me and crusading against you." At this time, Xu Mingxi was no longer angry, and said proudly.
"Okay, you're thick-skinned, how can this be considered to support you, I can remember the appearance of your good wife just now." Xu Yourong raised his eyebrows angrily.
"Xu Yourong !!"
"Hahaha......"
The winter was warm in the afternoon, and the heavy snow stopped, it was really a good weather at this time, Xu Youshan and the others sat in the courtyard of Yuehanzhai, basking in the sun, drinking tea, eating pastries and fruits, and Xu Yourong and Xu Mingcheng also fought by the way, which made the other three laugh and laugh, leaning forward and back, this is really a warm afternoon winter day. (To be continued......)