Xiao Shiji raised his head suddenly, and actually saw Mu Yelai standing in front of him.

Jing Hai was coarsely dressed, his face was not powdered, his head was covered with a handkerchief, and he was about to walk in from the outside with a small flower cloth bag in his hand.

The last time I saw Mu Yelai, it was the day of the canonization ceremony of the new crown princess, outside the gate of the Marquis of Zhuguo's mansion, Mu Yelai came over crying and kowtowed to their couple to admit their mistakes.

Xiao Shiji pursed his lips, nodded, and said, "Such a coincidence." ”

"yes, what a coincidence! Brother Xiao, I live not far from here, I didn't expect you to come to this kind of place......" Mu Yelai was pleasantly surprised, she didn't have any hope, she could still meet, is this the fate between her and Brother Xiao?

Xiao Shi and Zhilu Dao Mu Yelai was redeemed by the deposed crown princess, but they didn't expect her to live in such a place.

Xiao Shiji nodded again and passed by her.

Mu Yelai was a little disappointed, glanced at his back, turned around and came to the store, and whispered to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, can you give me a little more meat?" My mother is sick and wants to drink some broth...... It's okay if you don't have meat, give me some meat and bones, it's cheaper. I have a satin garment here, can you show it, is it worth a piece of meat and bones? ”

The shopkeeper sighed, shook his head, and said, "It's the last time." Mu Xiaoniang, you better hurry up and find someone to marry, relying on you alone, and a mother who takes medicine all day long, how can you support the two of you? ”

Mu Yelai smiled wryly, left the flower cloth burden on the shopkeeper's case, and took the bag of meat and bones handed over by Xiao Er. Turn around and walk out the door.

After a few steps, she stopped suddenly, and when she looked back, she saw Xiao Shiji leaning against the wall outside the shop, carrying a paper bag in his hand, looking at her expressionlessly.

"Brother Xiao...... You...... Haven't left yet? Mu Yelai suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and asked softly.

Xiao Shiji frowned and said, "Where do you live?" ”

"That's it...... Only...... Over there. Mu Yelai hurriedly pointed to one of the low courtyards on the opposite side.

Xiao Shiji raised his chin over there.

Mu Ye came to meet and took him over there.

Xiao Shiji led the horse and walked slowly beside her.

"Your mother lives with you?" Xiao Shiji asked. He didn't know what to do.

Mu Yelai nodded. "My aunt. My aunt has been coughing for a while, seeing a doctor and taking medicine, and spending almost all the money given by the crown princess. After speaking, he felt weird again, and hurriedly said: "I don't want to borrow money from Brother Xiao......"

Xiao Shiji sighed. Shake your head. "You're too bold. You dare to do such a thing as selling officials. Even if your father harbors evil intentions, what about you? Don't you know what to do and what not to do? ”

Mu Yelai's face turned red. After a while, he muttered, "...... It's my momentary desire for profit that spoils Brother Xiao's big thing. But I ......" she looked up and looked at Xiao Shiji with tears in her eyes, "what am I going to give you back?" ”

"What else?" Xiao Shi was puzzled, and followed Mu Ye to stand still.

“…… I lost Brother Xiao's official position, I don't know ......what to use for it," Mu Yelai muttered.

Xiao Shiji remembered Du Hengshuang's fate, and he felt very uncomfortable, so he looked up silently.

Seeing that they had arrived at the courtyard where she and her aunt lived.

Xiao Shiji took a look and found that the courtyard looked good, not as dilapidated as he imagined.

Following Mu Yelai into the house, he saw Mu Yelai hurriedly putting the meat and bones into the basin to soak, and said to Xiao Shiji: "My aunt just wants to drink the broth...... Don't hide it from Brother Xiao, we haven't eaten meat a few times since we lived here. My aunt was sick, and drinking some broth gave her strength. Otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten out of bed. ”

Xiao Shiji glanced at the upper room through the curtain, and saw Mu Yelai's aunt lying in the house, there was a smell of medicine in the house, and a few coughs came from time to time. The voice is very old.

The furniture in the house is very simple, and it is all things that will be used.

Mu Yelai opened the curtain and went in, helped Aunt Shi up from the bed, beat her back, and gave her medicine.

Aunt Shi said with a bitter face: "I don't drink anymore, I'm bitter to death, and I don't have any taste in my mouth." As he spoke, he sniffed with his nose again and said, "What is it?" It smells so good......"

Mu Yelai was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "Auntie, I just bought some meat and bones from the restaurant and came back, and I will make you broth at night." ”

When Xiao Shiji saw Aunt Shi, he couldn't help but think of his mother-in-law, Long Xiangye. She's been crazy for so long......

Fortunately, Mrs. Yang is still a kind person, although the courtyard of Long Xiangye is not accessible to ordinary people, so Princess Yang went to see her every other day to make sure that those mothers-in-law did not fool Long Xiangye.

Xiao Shiji sighed, put the roast chicken in his hand on the outside table, took out all the silver from his sleeve pocket, put it next to the roast chicken, and silently turned around and walked out.

Coming out of the Mu family's courtyard, Xiao Shiji turned over and got on his horse, and was about to leave, when he saw Mu Yelai chasing him out, pulling his reins, his face was as pale as scarlet, "Brother Xiao, I'm not welcome to roast the chicken, and I stayed." But I can't ask for this silver......" he said, and returned the silver to Xiao Shiji.

Xiao Shiji said lightly: "Your aunt is sick, and if you want to ask Lang Zhong to catch the medicine, you have to use money." So saying, he shook the reins and rode away.

Mu Yelai took the silver and watched Xiao Shihe's tall back fade away in the twilight, and couldn't help but burst into tears......

"Du Hengshuang, don't blame me, Brother Xiao is so good, I can't give up on him, I definitely can't ......" Mu Yelai clenched his fists and cheered himself up again.

When Xiao Shiji returned to the Marquis of Zhuguo's mansion, it was already dark.

When he returned to the inner courtyard, he saw that Du Hengshuang was not in the house, so he asked.

Zhishu hurriedly said: "Master Hou, Madam went to the house of the eldest young master and the eldest lady." ”

Xiao Shiji thought for a while and said, "Prepare water for me, I want to bathe." ”

Zhishu hurriedly ordered people to boil water.

In the large vat in the bathhouse, Xiao Shiji soaked his whole body in hot water, leaned his head against the wall of the bucket, closed his eyes and meditated.

What's happening these days. made him go from anger, to helplessness, from publicity, to introverted, his emotions went up and down, and the whole person was in an extremely excited state.

It was only today, when even Du Hengshuang's life was taken away, that he really fell back to the ground.

These days, he is indeed a little negligent with Shuang'er, negligent. He had forgotten what kind of person she was......

She was carefully raised by Ou Yangniang.

Although Ou Yangniang was born in a family. But she is indeed the biological daughter of the most trusted marrying lady by Mrs. Ouyang's side. She grew up with Mrs. Ouyang since she was a child, and was deliberately cultivated by Mrs. Ouyang, letting her be her eyes and ears and help her take care of the backyard of the entire Ouyang family. Naturally, I learned a lot about ordinary maidservants. Something that even concubines and aunts can't learn. Her insight. It can be compared with the carefully cultivated concubines of the scholar clan.

But Mrs. Ouyang raised her like this, which also hurt her.

The direct result is that Ou Yangniang has made a room. was jealous of the master's mother, and after the most reluctance, he found a mistake and sent him to get married. And because she drank too much shunzi soup back then, she couldn't give birth to children, so after the man died, she came out to be a foster mother in a big family.

Originally, the Fang family had something to do with the people she knew before, and later the Fang family said that their family didn't need such an adoptive mother, but their daughter Fang Yanniang's family had a baby daughter named Du Hengshuang who was looking for an adoptive mother. What the Du family has is silver, and the price that Ou Yangniang asks for is only from them.

In this way, Ou Yangniang came to Du's house and became Du Hengshuang's adoptive mother, and also carefully taught Du Hengshuang the rules and insights of the scholar clan that she learned from Mrs. Ouyang back then.

Xiao Shiji thought with envy that at the beginning, if his family had not fallen because of that incident, his father would have found a truly knowledgeable person like Ou Yangniang to teach him, and he would not have seen many things in the court as thoroughly as Du Hengshuang.

It's not that his ability is very poor, but that their upbringing is different.

He and Du Hengshuang are actually people in two circles.

Although Du Hengshuang is a Hanmen Shu family, she was raised like the daughter of the Shi clan since she was a child, not to mention the Ou Yang Niang around her, even the place where she grew up was in a big family like the Xu family of the Luoyang Dashi clan. For those court battles between the big families, he naturally understands better than him.

And what he has been learning is the way of using troops taught by Du Xiancheng, as well as the ruthlessness of crawling and rolling in the lowest level. What he really lacks is such an experience and vision that is immersed in the high family family.

Originally, if he was given some time, he would have been able to experience the same experience as An Zichang, and he would be able to navigate between the high gates of the court.

But these people didn't seem to want to give him time, so they kicked him down mercilessly.

He's going to fight, but that's about it. He's just a knife, a knife that people take advantage of. Anyone can hold him in his hand, and when the battle is over, it is time to put the sword in its sheath.

Xiao Shiji clenched his fists in the water. He doesn't admit defeat! In his life, he must not just be a knife held in his hand!

He's going to be the one with the sword!

He still had a lot to learn, and he couldn't let it go.

Xiao Shiji's mood finally lifted up.

What is lost, he will be the same, and he will earn it back.

The difference was that this time, when he got those things in his hands again, he had to make sure that no one could take them away.

Fame and fortune are indispensable.

He got up from the bathtub, wiped his body with a cloth, changed into a robe of Tianzhu cotton and walked out of the bath room, and saw that Du Hengshuang had come back and sat in front of the dressing table to remove his makeup.

"Brother Ping and Sister An both slept?" Xiao Shiji asked, fastening the belt of his robe and going out to see the two children.

Du Hengshuang said lightly: "They are already asleep, so don't bother them." ”

"I'll just take a look, and I won't wake them up." Xiao Shiji still wants to go.

"I really don't need to." Du Hengshuang didn't want Xiao Shiji to see the two children again. She must take the child away, and the child must also adapt to life without a father.

Xiao Shiji glanced at her, "What's wrong?" I just looked out the window. With that, he walked out of the room.

It didn't take long for him to come back from outside, and he said with a smile: "Has Brother Ping jumped recently?" I've seen a lot bigger. ”

Du Hengshuang lowered his head and did not answer. She could tell from Xiao Shihe's words how long Xiao Shiji had ignored these three children......

Du Hengshuang took off the hairpin ring on his head, and then went to the bath room to bathe.

Her feet have long been healed, but she has been pretending not to be good, she just doesn't want to entangle with Xiao Shihe anymore.

Fortunately, Xiao Shihe's mind was not on her for a while, and he didn't seem to notice this. He had been sleeping on the couch under the south window for a while.

At night, the two still slept in separate beds.

Xiao Shiji couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning on the couch, so he talked to Du Hengshuang through the screen in the room.

"Frost, are you asleep?"

Du Hengshuang didn't fall asleep, but he didn't bother to talk and ignored him.

Xiao Shiji said to himself, "I saw Mu Yelai in Nancheng today, and she and her aunt lived in the courtyard prepared by the waste princess. Her aunt was sick, and the mother and daughter were destitute, so I gave them a few dozen taels of silver. ”

Du Hengshuang opened his eyes in the dark night, and stared at the delicate embroidery on the bed tent with a slight night light. After a long time, she let out a faint "um".

"You didn't sleep?" Xiao Shiji was a little surprised, so he simply got up from the couch and hugged the quilt around the screen, "I'll accompany you." As he spoke, he had already spread the quilt on the bed next to Du Hengshuang, and asked her again, "Are your feet good?" Can I sleep back? ”

Du Hengshuang did not agree, but he did not object.

Xiao Shiji lay down on his side and babbled to her about today's events, "...... I originally bought a roast chicken and planned to bring it back for you and your two children to try. But when he saw their mother and daughter like this, he stayed with them. ”

Du Hengshuang laughed and said lightly: "It turns out that I have entered the room, not bad, not bad." ”

"What did you say?" Xiao Shiji leaned over and asked her.

Du Hengshuang pulled the quilt on her body, and said without emotion at all: "She's not doing well now?" You said before that you can only have peace of mind if she has a good life. - And now? Can't you have peace of mind? ”

Xiao Shiji was stunned, "When did I say this?" "Does he have it?

"You forgot?" Du Hengshuang retracted his arm back into the quilt, "The letter you gave me is still in the drawer over there, in black and white, you can't even deny it." ”

Xiao Shiji frowned and thought about it hard, and then remembered that it was when he was in Jiangling that time, Mu Yelai wanted to borrow silver, and he was arrogant for a while, and he wanted to send Mu Yelai 100,000 silver, and he also said in the letter that he hoped that Mu Yelai would have a good life.

At that time, he really regarded Mu Yelai as his savior, and he was ashamed of his suspicion of her at the beginning, so he wanted to compensate her more and more.

Everything seems to have started with that silver delivery, and gradually got out of his control.

Xiao Shiji sighed, "It's because I didn't think about it well. Don't be angry. If I know that there will be so many things in their family, what do I care if they live or die? ”

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Two more than 4,000 words. Ask for pink tickets and referral tickets. I went to sleep, and I got up tomorrow morning to see the pink ticket, and the table disappointed me~~~

…… (To be continued......)