Xia Ji's life in Bailu is comfortable and leisurely, but she always thinks about Qu Hao, who went to Yingdu to be the leader of the beggar gang.

Now that it has been nearly a year, Xia Ji remembered that Uncle Xia Yu said that someone invited the couple to attend the wedding, and thought that she would take the opportunity to go to Yingdu, and by the way, you can also have a fun outside, which is a tour.

Xia Ji thought that Chen Ermao and Chen Qing were also in Yingdu, and it was more convenient to let Chen Damao and his wife accompany her, because only Chen Damao was the insider, and she was most assured that if she saw Qu Hao, she could let Chen Damao come to the intermediary to pass on the information to avoid misunderstanding.

At noon that day, after eating, Xia Ji hugged Xia Zhengshu in the lobby to roast the fire, and Uncle Xia Yu went out to have something, Xia Ji asked Chun'e to call Chen Damao, saying that she wanted to discuss cooking.

After Chen Damao came, Xia Ji first chatted with him about cooking, and then handed the child over to Xia Chan and Chun'e, and asked them to take the child out to bask in the sun.

"Da Mao, it's about to be the New Year, will Ermao and Chen Qing return to Zhuye?"

"Back to Mrs. Xia, maybe not."

"It's just you and me here, no one else, don't be inhibited, just chat between us as friends."

"Okay."

"Since Ermao and Chen Qing are not coming back, you and Li Yue can go back to Chenjia Village to accompany your parents for the New Year, but you have to go back to Xia Mansion earlier, I want to go to Yingdu with Uncle Yu on the eighth day of the first month to attend the wedding of one of his friends on the Yuan Festival, you and Li Yue can accompany me, so that you can meet Ermao and Chen Qing." Natsuhime said.

"Shangyuan Festival? A friend of Lord Sima? Is his surname Qu? When Da Mao heard this, why was it so coincidental, he was thinking about how to ask for leave to attend the wedding of the boss Shangyuan Festival, but he didn't expect Xia Ji to invite him to accompany her to the Shangyuan Festival wedding that was also in Yingdu.

"Yes, Master Sima said that he was a man named Qu Wu, and he also donated sixteen taels of gold to our porridge shop in Xia Mansion, how did you know?" Xia Fu said.

Chen Damao was taken aback when he heard this, he didn't expect Xia Ji to attend his former lover's wedding without knowing it, what an embarrassing scene it would be.

"Mrs. Xia, I think you'd better not go." Chen Damao felt the need to stop Xia Ji, and her sadness at this time was always less hurtful than the pain at that time.

And if Xia Ji and Uncle Xia Yu go to Qu Wu's wedding, what kind of spiritual shock will the boss experience when he sees Wu Mengyao and Uncle Xia Yu in pairs? Chen Damao was a little unexpected.

"Why not? I've never been to Yingdu, and Qu Hao is there. ”

"Mrs. Xia, it's precisely because of this that you'd better not go, do you know who Qu Wu is?" Chen Damao said worriedly.

"Who is Qu Wu? You mean Qu Wu is ......" Xia Ji suddenly realized what Chen Damao was going to say, but she couldn't believe it.

"Yes, Qu Wu is Qu Hao."

"Huh? How so? Natsuhime stood up from her seat suddenly, her eyes straightened, beads of sweat broke out on her forehead, and then she sat down abruptly, obviously surprised.

Qu Wu is Qu Hao, which means that the donor of the porridge shop that he refused to see is Qu Hao, and he easily wasted a great opportunity to send it to the door without realizing it.

After a moment of sluggishness, Xia Ji's tears poured down, and she couldn't help herself.

She suddenly thought: Isn't the mysterious space meteorite hanging around Qu Hao's neck engraved with the word witch? Why was he so stupid that he didn't associate Qu Wu with Qu Hao?

Chen Damao was startled when he saw Xia Ji's reaction so strongly, and comforted her: "Meng Yao, don't blame him, after all, he still thinks that you are no longer alive."

"Da Mao, tell me, who Qu Hao is marrying." Xia Ji said while crying, she was sure that Qu Hao was married to Chen Qing.

"The boss's wife is called Ziyan."

"Ziyan? Do you know each other? Who is it? "It's not Chen Qing, which makes Xia Ji a little surprised.

"Ziyan was met by the boss when he was looking for you. The boss was tired and fainted on the suburban road when he was looking for you in Shucheng on the day you were kidnapped, and was rescued by Ziyan and his grandfather, and the boss said that if they didn't save him, he might have been eaten by wild beasts, because he had no strength at all. ”

Xia Ji heard Da Mao say that Qu Hao fainted because he was looking for her, and there was another heartache. But she was unwilling, Ziyan had to marry her after saving him, is this still love? She asked, "Is it because of gratitude?"

"Not all, the boss helped them later. Besides, the two of them have been dating for a long time, and they didn't settle down until more than two months ago. ”

"Da Mao, why didn't you tell me that Qu Hao was engaged last time when you were in Gusu?" Xia Ji said bitterly, although she also knew that what she told her at that time was only for her to know the truth ten days in advance, and it couldn't change anything.

"Because it's not something for you to be happy about." Chen Damao said.

"It's not just an unhappy thing, it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a bolt from the blue." Natsuki continued to sob.

"Mrs. Xia, you don't have to be too sad, the eldest is not too young, marriage is only a matter of time for him, and you don't ...... it" Da Mao didn't say that Xia Ji was also married, he was reminding her that Qu Hao had changed, and you Wu Mengyao had also changed.

"That's different. You won't understand. Xia Ji knew very well in her heart that Chen Damao didn't know the situation when she married Uncle Xia Yu, nor did she know that Xia Zhengshu was Qu Hao's bloodline, and the essence of her marriage with Uncle Xia Yu in name could not be specified.

"Okay, Da Mao, you can go out and leave me alone for a while." Xia Ji still couldn't stop her grief and said to Da Mao.

Da Mao just turned around and wanted to go out, but Xia Ji stopped him again: "Da Mao, does Qu Hao love Ziyan?"

When Chen Damao heard this question, he was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to answer.

Isn't it obvious that the boss Ai Ziyan is hurting Wu Mengyao?

Saying that the boss doesn't love Ziyan is obviously inconsistent with the facts, the two of them are obviously not just the superficial love between men and women who are attracted to each other of the opposite sex, but the feelings that slowly arise after months of staying together and understanding.

Seeing Da Mao's hesitation, Xia Ji guessed his thoughts, and said to him, "Okay, you don't have to answer, go out."

After Da Mao went out, Xia Ji was so weak that she almost collapsed in her seat, and the news that Qu Hao would marry her was like a burning flame suddenly extinguished by the cold water falling from the sky, which made her at a loss for a while.

Although she knew very well that Qu Hao's behavior was not a betrayal, for him, he just forgot, and took the initiative to forget the original love in desperation.

And for her, the Wu Mengyao in Xia Ji's heart, Xia Ji asked herself: even when she thought that Qu Hao was not alive, she was trying her best to maintain her loyalty to Qu Hao.

But she was still forced to marry Uncle Xia Yu, because there was no other way to protect herself and the child in her womb at that time.

Xia Ji slowly calmed down, took out a piece of rice paper, and wrote a poem by the Yuan Dynasty poet Gao Ming with a brush:

I would have turned my heart to the bright moon,

However, the bright moon shines on the ditch.

Falling flowers deliberately follow the flowing water,

Flowing water has no intention of falling flowers.

After writing it, Natsuhime looked at it for a while, then crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the brazier in front of her.

Xia Ji retracted her thoughts of going to Yingdu. Now that he and Qu Hao have their own lives, although they still love him in their hearts, they are not sure that they will abandon Uncle Xia Yu, who accepted him in the most difficult time for love, because this is forcing him to choose between love and conscience. And if she renews her old relationship with Qu Hao, she may also hurt the strange woman who is about to marry Qu Wu, which is also something Xia Ji does not want to do.

The next day, Xia Ji told Uncle Xia Yu about her decision not to go to Yingdu, which made Uncle Xia Yu quite surprised, because she had emphasized many times before that she wanted to travel to Yingdu.

Xia Ji asked Chen Damao to strictly guard the secret that he was Wu Mengyao, especially to Qu Hao, and if Wu Jiang continued to check the list, Xia Ji said to Da Mao that she had no choice but to let Li Yue take the burden to reveal the information to Princess Ji Shao, for which Xia Ji had to give Chen Damao ten taels of gold, but Chen Damao refused to accept it.

Xia Ji also gave Chen Damao a vacation to Yingdu so that he could attend Qu Wu's wedding, and Chen Damao also said that he would go back quickly and not take Li Yue with him.