Chapter 74: Nest Gas
"Ling Xiao, look at whether that is Li Miao. Her voice trembled slightly, and she pointed across the river.
Ling Xiao looked back, except for the scattered vendors on the street, she didn't find any familiar figures, and felt that she was suspicious, "I didn't see it, hurry up and eat, and go back to sleep after eating." β
"I saw it just now," Yun Xiu insisted on his opinion, "I don't believe you??"
Before she finished speaking, she looked up, and found Li Miao looking at her with a smile directly opposite the shop.
Yun Xiu was stunned, and the lights on the street were bright, illuminating the expressions of the two clearly.
To be precise, Li Miao is not smiling, she grinned at the corners of her mouth, her eyes were round, resentful and crazy staring at people, and her expression was the same as that of a madman who chopped people.
Then, the blood and broken limbs on the chopping board that night were like a mountain of mountains rolling in Yun Xiu's mind, and then looking at the braised sausages, braised liver and all kinds of water in the bowl, he suddenly felt a burst of nausea.
She didn't care to speak, so she covered her mouth and rushed out, vomiting all the food she had just eaten on the side of the road.
Ling Xiao thought that she was pregnant and not suitable for eating too greasy food, so she threw a few taels of silver on the table and immediately followed.
"Isn't it feeling well?" He clumsily gave her a back. He also asked the shop guy to bring tea to rinse his mouth, "Go back and ask the kitchen to make some porridge?" β
Yun Xiu shook his head desperately, took a breath, and pushed his arm, "You go and stop her, go!" β
Ling Xiao was confused: "Who to stop?" β
"Li Miao."
Before the words fell, a giggling sound sounded not far away: "Isn't this Grandma Ling?" β
In an instant, Yun Xiu's scalp was numb, and he instinctively hid behind Ling Xiao to protect his lower abdomen.
She thought, the road is narrow, but that's it.
Ling Xiao was extremely disgusted with Li Miao, and he could also see that Yun Xiu's fear was not pretended, and his face changed at the moment.
"Little Hou Ye, my girl is sick. Didn't bother you and grandma, did you? Li Miao's personal girl rushed over panting, and apologized, "It's all because the slave didn't watch it, so I'll take someone back." β
Ling Xiao let out an unhappy "um", pulled Yun Xiu's wrist and walked in the direction of the carriage.
The moment she turned around, she looked back, and Li Miao was surrounded by several mothers-in-law.
In the carriage, she muttered with palpitations: "Li Miao is afraid that she has lost her mind and gone crazy, but we should be less troubled." β
"I'm afraid she'll do anything." Ling Xiao snorted coldly, "She's crazy and doesn't do my." β
"A madman can do anything." This is what Yun Xiu is most afraid of, "I was scared for one night and didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. β
"Are you afraid?" Ling Xiao realized that she looked like she was fine, not really fine. "I asked you the next day, and you said that you knew that I would save you, so you were not afraid."
"I don't want you to worry." Yun Xiu turned her head away, frowned, and resented, "I'm pregnant with a child, can I not be afraid?" Do you really want me to run away? What if you provoke the other party??"
Provoked something, blocked back by a kiss that was caught off guard.
Ling Xiao probably wanted to comfort her, but he couldn't follow the rules, so he had to use the most direct means to forcibly and brutally pull people over, pouting, and not allowing her to escape.
With the fragrance of braised flavor in his mouth, Yun Xiu suddenly reacted, struggled to push him away, and said with great embarrassment: "I vomited just now, let's wait for Ming'er to wash up." β
"Didn't you rinse your mouth just now?" Ling Xiao smiled, "I don't dislike you, it's nothing strange." β
Wen Cun, who was originally very good, was wiped out by the last two sentences, Yun Xiu wanted to ask him, those girls who said they liked him came with their skins, right?
Ling Xiao saw her sitting next to her silently, thinking that he was embarrassed, he leaned over and whispered, "I really don't dislike you." β
Yun Xiu gave him a roll of the eye, she was not bold, following this kind of incomprehensible person, the only remaining girl's heart and a little cowardice were long gone.
But after going back, Ling Xiao didn't tell her to stay away because of the heat, but hugged her and slept all night.
It was Yun Xiu, who had a strange dream for a night, constantly turning over and moving around, so that Ling Xiao didn't sleep well.
He must get up late in the morning, he ate a few bites of breakfast, hurried to order, and left first.
After Yun Xiu finished eating, he was sleepy, and went to sleep on the couch with this clothes.
I slept dark and sweet, and when I got up, I was just right for dinner.
The mother-in-law set up the meal, whispered to her to get up, and said by the way: "Grandma, the Li family is here to send a prayer post, and they are waiting for you to reply outside the hospital." β
Seeing it or not, it was clearly coming at her.
Yun Xiu hesitated and said, "You go and ask the Li family, how do you know that Master Hou is in the small mansion." β
The mother-in-law responded and turned back: "The Li family said that Mrs. Xing just finished tea with the county lord of Pingkang, and it was the county lord who said it. β
It shows that the county lord of Pingkang knows about this, and she can't shirk it, so as not to ruin the face of the prospective mother-in-law.
"Okay, I see." Yun Xiu was ready to eat, "Just say I'm here, you can come whenever you want." β
"This yard is quite chic, suitable for the golden house." Mrs. Xing is a man of action, and she rushed over from Yuzhong the next day, and said to the layout of the courtyard, "People rely on clothes, horses rely on saddles, and the same is true for the house, and it is different if there is a woman to take care of it." β
"Madame's first visit to the mansion, right?" Yun Xiu smiled and asked someone to serve some tea and fruits, only turning the page of the previous matter, and dealing with it head-on, "This is the new tea brought from Yangzhou by specially entrusted people, Mrs. taste it." β
As she spoke, she pretended to be confused, "Madame is coming to find Master Hou?" Unfortunately, at this time in the Privy Council, do you have anything to say, I will convey it on my behalf, okay? β
"I'm not looking for Ling Xiao, I'm looking for you." Mrs. Xing tasted it and nodded in praise: "How many people squeeze their heads to drill the salt road, Yun Yushi is low-key and introverted, no wonder the county lord of Pingkang and the old marquis treat each other differently." β
When others said this, Yun Xiu listened to it as a compliment, but when it came to Mrs. Xing's mouth, there was a little more sour tooth taste, and she wanted to say that the Ling family had found a better in-law than the Li family?
Yun Xiu lowered her head and chuckled: "The little girl doesn't know how to be an official, and I listen to my father occasionally talk about it on weekdays, but it also teaches us to be cautious in everything and abide by our duties." β
Duty?
Mrs. Xing sneered in her heart, she had the courage to make a private agreement with a man for life, she was pregnant before marriage, and she didn't know what ecstasy soup she poured into Ling Xiao, and she fascinated people, even the county lord of Pingkang gave three points of good color, if it wasn't for the protection of the Ling family, she would have soaked in the pig cage a long time ago, and died so that there were no bones left.
If you have a grudge in your heart, you naturally have no good words.
Mrs. Xing deliberately talked about the men in the Beijing circle: "The eldest grandmother has the heart to marry Yanjing, I am afraid that she does not understand some unwritten rules, if you want to say that the gentlemen in the capital do not like the family, they are really wronged, but to say that they only love one person, I have seen little, especially the wives and concubines of high-ranking families have three or five rooms, and then make a few confidants, there are many people, and Ling Xiao also had two confidants before." I don't know if you're still in contact? β
Yun Xiu's face was suddenly not colored.
Mrs. Xing is not a person who has no eyesight, and said with a smile: "I don't think I can touch it, I have never seen Ling Xiao so attentive to any woman." β
She took a sip of tea, "Yesterday, the county lord laughed at me for not being blessed, saying that Ling Xiao would look for it, and said that the eldest grandmother is a good person, even if she carries the concubine into the door in the future, the eldest grandmother will not be embarrassed, and it is rare to be generous and tolerant." β
"That's how the county lord praised me?" Yun Xiu wanted to boast that it was really chic, "She told you this, she really didn't treat you as an outsider." β
Mrs. Xing heard her scolding around the corner, and gritted her teeth in her heart, no one in the house dared to disobey her, and showed an old face for her daughter, "We are cousins of the county lord's mother's family, and the relationship is naturally not ordinary." β
She said with a smile, "When Ling Xiao was mentioned yesterday, the county lord was full of worries, thinking that the Ling family would continue the incense and point at him, and he would have to marry a few more houses in the future, and have more sons and more blessings." It's good for me to have two good thoughts in one, it's better to bring my Miao'er in, you make it bigger, she will be small, and there will be more talking companions in the house in the future. β
These people, but because she is not rightful and has the seed of the Ling family, they will disgust her to death.
According to Su Ri's temper, Yun Xiu will smash the lamp and bang people, but when she thinks of the villain in her stomach, she doesn't want to be angry, let alone make a big move.
She stared at Mrs. Xing expressionlessly for a long time.
Mrs. Xing was stared at both embarrassed and uncomfortable, and laughed dryly: "I don't know what grandma thinks?" β
She wanted her to get out, why didn't she get out.
Yun Xiu's clenched teacup was suddenly put down, and there was no temperature in her voice: "Madame calls me a big grandmother, I can't stand it, you ask to be big and small, and I shouldn't be an outsider who hasn't passed through the door, but I want to ask you a question, just a sentence, if it were replaced by Li Miao today, would you ask the same question?" β
Do you need to ask, of course not.
Mrs. Xing replied lightly: "I will naturally say it." Otherwise, when I entered my mother-in-law's house, she would be scolded and scolded me. β
"You have a heart to be a mother, you should be more considerate." Yun Xiu looked at her indifferently, "But what you just said, every sentence has a knife, I guess you should have told His Royal Highness the county lord yesterday, how did she reply to you?" Didn't you ask me? β
She really guessed it, and Mrs. Xing said: "The county lord said that everything is based on the opinion of the eldest grandmother." β
The county lord didn't want to do sinners' things, so he pushed her with a black face, Yun Xiu smiled bitterly: "This kind of thing is to raise a concubine, you always listen to the masters, otherwise when the Hou Ye comes back, I will ask him." β
Since Ling Xiao is fragrant, it is up to him to choose.
What else can Mrs. Xing say, Yun Xiu asked someone to send off the guests, sat alone in the circle chair, and looked at the sun above her head and felt dizzy for a while.
She hurriedly asked someone to help her go back to the house to rest, lay on the bed, stroked her lower abdomen, and thought to herself, mother takes the lead, don't hold back??
Until Ling Xiao came back, she didn't get up, and when she was half asleep and half awake, someone stuck behind her and touched her stomach.
Yun Xiu moved impatiently: "The bath water is ready, I washed and ate, and I smelled of sweat." β
Ling Xiao said yes. Turned around and went to take a bath, and after washing, he saw someone lying down for the first time, and ran away again, "It's tasteless now, right?" β
Yun Xiu snorted: "You eat first, I'm very tired, I won't accompany you today." β
"It doesn't taste good alone." Ling Xiao smeared honey on his mouth, "Even if you don't eat it, you have to think about what's in your stomach, huh?" β
"Don't you have a confidante?" Yun Xiu'er turned his head, "Look for them, the two of them hug each other left and right." β
"Whoever you listen to, there's no business." Ling Xiao didn't admit it, just saying that it didn't work, and he had to pull Yu Heng into the water, "Those are all your second brother-in-law's romantic debts before marriage, I'm afraid that your sister will know about the roof and reveal the tiles, so I can only carry it." β
"Oh--" Yun Xiu stretched out the tail sound, "He is afraid that my sister will go to the house to reveal the tiles, and Hou Yeyi is bold, so he is not afraid that I will go to the house to reveal the tiles?" β
"It's not decent, you won't do it." Ling Xiao said in his heart, which bastard exposed his old bottom and caused him to coax the vinegar jar, "Besides, he is young and frivolous, and he doesn't chase the past." Eat, eat, the shrimp is big today, you like to eat, I'll peel it for you. β
It's rare for him to put down his body, Yun Xiu is not dissatisfied with kicking her nose and face, she is sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals with a gauze shirt, Ling Xiao didn't move her chopsticks, she peeled half a plate in one go, Yun Xiu told him not to peel it.
"You're hungry too," she said, adding a small half bowl of shrimp, "let's eat first." β
Ling Xiao was indeed hungry, took a few bites of food, and seeing her sad appearance, he thought that he was still thinking about the "confidante" in his heart, and sighed, "Since I went back to Beijing with you, I think about you every day, except for asking my golfer to drink with Qi Yuheng, I didn't look for anyone else." β
Yun Xiu glanced at him, thinking that he would not admit himself? Fang Cai was still hard-mouthed, and Lai Qi was on the third master's head.
"I have something to tell you," she put down her chopsticks and didn't say Mrs. Xing's bastard words, "Yesterday, the Li family went to the Hou Mansion again." β
"It's strange when they really get rid of the Hou Mansion one day." Ling Xiao didn't care, "You don't have to worry, after getting married, you want to live in a small mansion and continue to live, my mother knows how to deal with it over there." β
"But don't you want to know what they're going to do?" Yun Xiu asked him, "The Li family wants to persuade the county lord of Pingkang to let you accept Li Miao as a partial house, I think the county lord will not agree, but he must have moved his mind, the Beijing circle is so big, it is not difficult to find two or three girls from good families and be concubines." β
"That's what you think?" Ling Xiao was not happy about her temptation, "Pondering all day long, are you tired?" β
He couldn't eat a good meal, so he threw down his chopsticks and went to the porch to cool off.
Yun Xiu sat in the room and thought quietly for a while, and asked someone to move the small kang table out and bring the food outside.
Ling Xiao ignored it with a cold face, didn't eat, and sent the little servant to inform people to drink.
"Won't you make it?" Yun Xiu stood beside him and said in a low voice, "I don't know what happened recently, I can't smell the pungent smell, and I want to vomit when I smell it." β
Ling Xiao snorted: "It's okay, I'll come back and sleep in other rooms, it just so happens that you are also adapting, don't say that Lao Tzu will snub you in the future." β
Yun Xiu frowned, wanting to speak, but the dizziness of the day began to rise again, she shook her body, and felt that it was dark in front of her, and then she didn't know anything.
Ling Xiao hugged her, at a loss, and hurriedly called someone to ask for a doctor.
He thought that the two of them had quarreled a lot before, why did they faint this time?
Yun Xiu woke up in the middle of the night, the bean wick was through the curtain, and the hazy aperture was full of colors, but it was not good-looking.
"Xiuxiu," a hoarse voice came from overhead, she raised her eyes, Ling Xiao was looking at her anxiously, "I said angry words, why do you keep going to your heart, the doctor said that you are angry, the weather is hot, plus pregnancy, heat stroke." β
Yun Xiu lowered his eyes and was silent, frightened, and was angry the next day, only a little heat, and the child was safe and sound, which was God's favor.
"Xiuxiu, you say something," Ling Xiao felt that even if he cried and made trouble, "don't be bored if there is anything to do, and get angry." β
Yun Xiu sighed and closed her eyes again, what else could she say, she had hoped that the temptation would be relieved, and even the unswerving promise.
But it seems that I am wrong.
A person who has been raised by others is good to you.
She thought, if the county lord of Pingkang gives Ling Xiao a concubine, just accept it, let alone the capital, isn't there a group of aunts living in the backyard of the Yun family?
It's a big deal that she guards her children and strives to be a qualified grandmother.
Yun Xiu fell asleep in a daze, Ling Xiao thought badly, and gambled a lot.
"Xiu, Xiu." He shook her awake, "I can't admit my mistake, make sure I don't go out to drink this time." β
Yun Xiu reluctantly opened his eyes, sleepy, "You can drink if you want, don't disturb me to sleep." β
"Don't drink, don't drink." Ling Xiao tried all kinds of ways to wake her up, "You listen to me." β
"What are you going to say?" Yun Xiu was so annoyed that he sat up and glared at him, "You can't get up tomorrow morning, and you're taking leave, aren't you?" β
Ling Xiao nodded as a matter of course, "I have always been like this. β
Yun Xiu lay down irritably and covered her head with the quilt, "So you don't sleep and don't let me sleep?" β
"I didn't let you sleep." Ling Xiao forcibly ripped off the quilt, "I'm afraid you'll be angry, and Ming'er will faint again." β
"If you can't speak, you won't just shut your mouth!" Yun Xiu finally broke out, slapped him on the arm with two backhands, felt puzzled and kicked again, "Let go!" You're not hot, I'm hot! β
Ling Xiao felt relieved after a few hits, pinched his soft waist, and said happily: "I found out that you have a belly." What does it feel like? β
"I don't feel it." Yun Xiu just wanted to peel off Ling Xiao's brain at the moment, see what was inside, and slap the arm that was pressing on his stomach, "I told you that it would crush the child!" β
Ling Xiao withdrew his arm and squeezed beside her, "I'll sleep next to you." β
As he spoke, he rested his chin on the top of Yun Xiu's head, like a big dog pillowing his beloved hydrangea, and his warm breath sprinkled her face from top to bottom.
Yun Xiu helplessly thought about how she had fallen in love with him in the first place.
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At the same time, the Lee House.
Li Miao made trouble all night again, dropped everything in the house that could be dropped, and cried and laughed for a while. finally stopped, and began to sing Kunqu opera again, several plays were sung together, and more than a dozen mothers-in-law stood outside the house, holding their breath and concentrating, afraid that she would rush out and run to find Ling Xiao.
Mrs. Xing was not afraid that she would meet Ling Xiao, but that she would rush to the Hou Mansion and be seen by the Lord of Pingkang.
"Master, at this juncture, you have something to say." She sat in the study, her eyes crying like walnuts, "Now that Brother Mu'er's life is over, do you want to watch Miao'er finish too?" β
"What do you want me to do?" Li Shilang was also at a loss, blaming Mrs. Xing for all the mistakes. "A loving mother is a loser! It's not that you are used to being spoiled on weekdays, how could two good children end up like this! β
"Who's not used to it?" Mrs. Xing was not convinced, "Lord Pingkang is not used to it?" Mrs. Lu is not used to it? Don't talk about others, just look at Ling Xiao and the third child of the Qi family, the two bastards can't wait to poke the sky into a hole, otherwise my brother Mu will be poisoned by this?! β
"Shut up!" Li Shilang had a headache when he heard this, "Old Marquis Ling called me to the Hou Mansion and really killed the horse to show me?" Is Li Mu right? Let me ask you, did he do the stabbing of his niece? Did he do the kidnapping girl? But what did you tell me? Take me for a fool and keep me in the dark! β
"Even if I didn't tell the truth," Mrs. Xing forgot about the insults, and had to argue indiscriminately, "The girl in the side branch is full of bad water and stimulates Miao'er, shouldn't she teach a lesson?" The girl of the Yun family seduced Ling Bu and said, pulling Miao'er into the water, she was so water-oriented that she was naturally fine, and she was so scared that Miao'er had a fever, shouldn't she be taught a lesson? β
"You!"
"How am I? I have been married to the Li family for so many years, and I have no credit and hard work," Mrs. Xing snorted coldly, "Master, you don't think that Hubu Shangshu is your teacher and will take care of your own protΓ©gΓ©, right?" It's ridiculous, how many protΓ©gΓ©s does Master Shangshu have, but I chose a few of you, why, don't you want to think about it? β
"Although I stay in the inner house all day, I am not completely ignorant of the things outside," she said in a cold voice, "I often drink tea with Mrs. Circle, and I have never heard Mrs. Lu talk about how her family's Dingguo Gong treats his subordinate protΓ©gΓ©s preferentially. β
"You know a hammer!" Li Shilang laughed at her for her long hair and short knowledge, "Or I said that you women can't do anything else except chew the root of your tongue when you sit together!" Dingguo is in charge of the decree of the world's punishment, and he should be strict with himself, and his care of his protΓ©gΓ© is biased and taboo! Can my teacher be the same, he assisted the Ming Jun of the two dynasties, he is in a high position, he is seventy years old this year, and he is close to the next field. Promoting a wave of one's own people is to leave a way back for oneself. β
Mrs. Xing didn't believe it: "Your teacher doesn't want to win over the military department?" Old Marquis Ling said that he was abdicating, and it was privately rumored that the tens of thousands of light horses stationed in Yumen Pass in his hand were not handed over to Ling Xiao, haven't you heard? β
"Pull it down!" Li Shilang felt that he couldn't communicate, "Spread it privately, pass it on privately, you will know that it is false!" The military department is hand-picked by the upper peak, and the holy will is unpredictable, how can you be a woman who should talk about the Tao! The Ling family has had imperial concubines and military exploits, otherwise how could the empress dowager get married? β
As he spoke, he waved his hand: "There are some things I didn't want to say, my cousin is three thousand miles, my cousin is five hundred years old, and our Li family has three long and two short." Your mother's lord of Pingkang can be counted on, but I don't think so. β
"If we hadn't been confused and pressed Miao'er, the two would have become husband and wife long ago." Mrs. Xing's intestines were repentant, "After becoming an in-law, can the Ling family care?" β
Speaking of this, she accused Li Shilang: "Master, dare to say that you have no responsibility for this matter?" Who said that the two had incompatible personalities, and it was better to get married? You said it, I agree with you, and in the end it's all mine. Miao'er is your daughter-in-law, do you want to see her wither at the same age as a flower? β
Mrs. Xing said, as she spoke, tears welled up: "Miao'er is hurt by love, and the bell must be tied to the bell, I don't want to wronged her, let her be small, and see people every day, in order to relieve the pain of lovesickness, and then add a son and a half daughter to the Ling family in the future, and you will have multiple guarantees for your career." β
"Can the Ling family agree?" Li Shilang was in a dilemma, "How can the lord of Pingkang County be so arrogant, how can he leave the matter of taking a concubine to his daughter-in-law who has not passed the door?" Besides, Ling Xiao, are there few girls around him, if you don't move your sincerity, you can guard the Yun family girl all day long? β
"Then my Miao'er won't be a dead end!" Mrs. Xing cried even more sadly, "You keep your mind outside all day long, why don't you know how to put your mind on the house for a while?" The little hooves of the Yun family are planted in their stomachs, helping Yun Yushi soar into the sky, are you willing? β
She pointed at Li Shilang's sore spot and said: "These dignity and opportunities that should belong to you have been occupied by Yunyu Shi, which Yanyan Yushi family is not thick, but no amount of silver can buy titles and merits, we have been in business for many years, but let his family pick up the leak, you can swallow this mouthful?" β
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