At home, Zhuang Yuncheng has already told Beiyan about Chen Qi'er's going, and he has not said anything, Rong Cangjie insists on keeping her, because she is a key person, she knows a lot, but she is not allowed to say a word about Beiyan's identity, keeping her is to monitor her, and for Beiyan, it is also to repay. So after discussing with Katoriko again, Beiyan decided to let her be in the city, as for the residence, Yun Yun has her own plans, because Zhuang Yuncheng and Xiaodie have been busy dealing with various things recently, she is bored, so she strongly asked Zhuang Yuncheng to leave Chen Qi'er with him for a while, although Zhuang Yuncheng thought that Chen Qi'er was a woman who was already a wife and should not live here, but Yun Yun refused, and he had no choice.

The next day, Zhuang Yuncheng went to the store again, and Qu Yingjiao only brought her little girl with her today. She entered the store and found that Zhuang Yuncheng was also there, but she didn't say a word, but scanned the spice lattice on the shelf, and said, "This is exactly the same as yesterday." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng smiled, took out Qu Tianlin's handwritten letter from his arms, and said, "See if there is anything you need here?" ”

A trace of doubt flashed in Qu Yingjiao's eyes, she still took the piece of paper, looked down at a few lines, and understood, she folded the letter and said, "I still have something to do, take it back and read it slowly, and come back tomorrow." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng nodded, Qu Yingjiao immediately turned around and went home with the little girl.

On the third day, Zhuang Yuncheng still went to the store early, but Qu Yingjiao did not come.

In the afternoon, Zhuang Yuncheng waited in vain for an afternoon, and she didn't come, just when the sun was setting, she came.

Zhuang Yuncheng didn't ask her why she was late, and Qu Yingjiao didn't explain, she just asked the little girl to mix daily spices here, and she and Zhuang Yuncheng went inside to talk.

Qu Yingjiao sat on the chair, stared at him for a long time, and said, "You are really unusual." ”

"How?"

"My father lives in the mountains, and we never told anyone where he is, and you can find him, and no one ever asks for it, and you do it."

"It was also a mistake." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

Qu Yingjiao only smiled, she said: "After reading this letter, I thought about it for a long time and didn't think of who could make my father write this letter, but today, I went back to my parents' house for a day to check, and I might be able to guess who you are." ”

"So you're doing this today."

"Yes, I can't put doubts in my heart," Qu Yingjiao said, "About twenty years ago, I was only nine years old, I can still vaguely remember my father's panicked and anxious look, the family is chaotic, the whole family is gloomy and gloomy, like the soul has been lost, like the sky is about to fall, I can't be at peace for a moment, I don't know anything, just afraid, just crying, just having nightmares, they sent me and my mother to my uncle's house, I don't know what happened after that, half a month later, I returned home, everything returned to normal, only my father resigned, and he was idle at home, I was only happy that he could spend more time with me, but I didn't know what was going on. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at her, she told the nightmare of twenty years ago, her face was as calm as water, and there were no waves.

"After that, I grew up, no matter from there, I could always understand the events of the year intentionally or unintentionally, but I didn't chase deeply, until I got older and older, I understood, just because the Qing government fought a defeated battle, and cut the land, and paid compensation......" Qu Yingjiao sneered, said, "Later, the layers of accountability also affected the father, he didn't know what the consequences would be, maybe it was a catastrophe, but he didn't know that under this huge pressure and anxiety and fear, he wrote a letter to a friend who was in an important position in the court back then, Then after half a moon and a dark day, the matter was settled. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng deliberately avoided her eyes, and Qu Yingjiao said bluntly: "The benefactor's surname is 'Zhuang'." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng turned to look at her directly, and Qu Yingjiao said again: "I asked someone to ask last night, and your surname is also Zhuang." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was silent, thinking that she would say all the words of gratitude, but seeing her calm expression, he felt that she didn't want to think like that.

"However, even though it is my father's order, I will not easily obey your words." Qu Yingjiao said.

Zhuang Yuncheng didn't know why, and asked, "What do you mean, madam?" ”

Qu Yingjiao only smiled, hesitated for a while, took out Qu Tianlin's letter from her arms, handed it to Zhuang Yuncheng, and said, "You don't have the spices I want on it." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng knew that this was a letter, not a list of spices, but when she said this, it obviously had another meaning, but he didn't know, so he asked tentatively: "Then you want that spice?" ”

Qu Yingjiao said: "I want a spice called 'Huitou Xiang', which is also called 'Huixin Xiang'. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was stunned for a moment, he had never heard of such a spice, and asked, "This is—"

Qu Yingjiao interrupted him and said with a smile: "Find it, if it really works, I will do my best to ask for any of your requests." ”

Before Zhuang Yuncheng could react, she turned around and left, went to the outer hall, called the girl, took a bag of spices and left.

Zhuang Yuncheng followed out, looking at her back, feeling like a fascination.

A few people in the family had been waiting for dinner for a long time, and when they saw him with a suspicious face, they asked, "You came back so late today?" ”

"It's good to be able to see people," Zhuang Yuncheng sat down at the table and said, "This woman is really peculiar." ”

"What's wrong?" Fluttershy asks.

"She's amazing, she knows me very well, but I can't understand her, you know, she's the opposite of you." Zhuang Yuncheng said, "What about you, always unsmiling, often indifferent, and she, always calm, often with a smile on the corner of her mouth, giving people a very cordial feeling, but this kind of kindness makes people feel distanced, making it difficult to approach, maybe it is the fear born of her ignorance." ”

Yun Yun couldn't understand it, and asked rhetorically: "You have been coming and going in the past few days, just to see this woman, has it happened?" ”

"You know what?" Zhuang Yuncheng scolded her, and then said, "Half-business, it's not playing!" Besides, you think she's an ordinary woman, and that's wrong. ”

Yun Yun glanced at him, turned her head and whispered to Chen Qi'er.

"How, exactly?" Fluttershy asks.

"When I waited until evening, I thought I wouldn't see her, but she came, and in the end she said she could help me, but with a strange condition." Zhuang Yuncheng frowned, still unable to understand.

"On what terms?"

"She wants a 'scent', and I'm afraid you've never heard of it."

"What?" Yun Yun asked, "I know a lot more, any incense, you give me a smell, I will know its name." ”

"Heh, 'turn back' incense, have you heard of it?"

"What?"

"It's also called 'change of heart' incense, you know?"

"This ......" Yun Yun lowered her head and meditated for a while, "where is this incense?" ”

"Tell me what you don't know," Zhuang asked Fluttershy again, "you know what?" ”

She shook her head, too.

Yun Yun hurriedly said: "I didn't say big things, any spices, it is impossible to name it with such words, I think she must have made it up to deliberately make things difficult for you." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng first thought that she didn't admit defeat before saying this, thinking about it, it was really possible, but there was a deeper meaning in it, and he couldn't guess it, so he had to ask when he saw him again.

Saying that, Chen Qi'er's child cried again, she had to take it in to feed, Yun Yun hurriedly ate, and also followed, and asked Chen Qi'er, she said that she was full, so she played with the child. The baby is approaching November, and Chen Qier is ready to wean him. When he was full, he stopped crying, Chen Qier put him on the bed, he lay on the bed, crawled with his head up, held the bed rail at the head of the bed with a small hand, and struggled to climb up. "Hey, he wants to stand up." Yun Yun said with a smile.

Chen Qi'er picked him up and let him close to the head of the bed, so he held the railing tightly with both small hands, and his two feet trembled, Yun Yun was afraid that he would fall down all of a sudden, so he protected him with his hands, he hummed hoarsely, and his two big round eyes looked at everything curiously.

"You only call him Xiaobao, does he have a full name?" Yun Yun asked.

"I haven't taken it yet, there is a custom in my hometown, if it is a boy, you must wait until he is one year old to name it," Chen Qi'er sighed, "Poor Xiaobao, you haven't reached the age of one, and you don't have a father, who will name you?" ”

Yun Yun was afraid that she would be sad again, so she didn't ask anymore, just teasing Xiaobao.

The next day, Fluttershy goes with Zhuang Yuncheng to meet Qu Yingjiao, who sees an extra woman next to him and asks with a smile, "What is this?" ”

"Family."

"Family?" Qu Yingjiao was surprised, "No one would answer my question like this, what kind of family is it?" Brother and sister or husband and wife? ”

"Neither." Zhuang Yuncheng smiled and shook his head.

"That's the lover." A smile on the corner of Qu Yingjiao's mouth was fleeting, and there was no warmth between her words, she said coldly, "This is not a family." She said, sitting on her own.

Zhuang Yuncheng didn't understand, but he knew that Qu Yingjiao was a little angry, and the reason was her lover, he frowned deeply, countless thoughts flashed in his mind, Fluttershy pulled him and whispered, "Turn back, change your mind, what do you think?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was suddenly, a gap in his mind seemed to be released, all his thoughts were related, he understood, and said with a smile: "You want to turn back to Xiangxiang, I found it." ”

Qu Yingjiao was unmoved, she asked: "There are thousands of fragrances in the world, I can't identify if you fabricate it arbitrarily, what I want is not incense, but its efficacy." ”

"So, if you want the effect of 'changing your mind', then I really don't have this kind of incense."

For the first time, a sad look appeared on Qu Yingjiao's face, and she was silent.

"Why don't you make it clear?" Zhuang Yuncheng said, "Since you and I each take what we need, why go around and around? ”

Qu Ying suddenly turned her worries into joy and said, "I want to see if Young Master Zhuang is smart enough, otherwise you won't be able to solve my problem." ”

"Then you've tried enough, Miss Qu, can I?"

Qu Yingjiao shook her head and said, "You can't do it, you two may be able to do it together." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at Fluttershy, smiled, and said, "By the way, she's not my lover." ”

"I know, I know the way a man looks at his lover, not you."

Zhuang Yuncheng was confused again, and when he was about to fall into the quagmire of imagination, Fluttershy pinched him, and he was stunned for a moment, and asked Qu Yingjiao, "Since this is so clear, with all due respect, what happened to your husband?" ”

"As you must have guessed, he has a lover in his heart," Qu Yingjiao said, "We have been married for ten years, he has me, I have him, and now he is in love with someone else, and I am about to lose him." ”

"It's been ten years, you should have a deep relationship, how can it be?"

Qu Yingjiao smiled helplessly: "He is a talent, I thought he was in love before, but now I know that he is also affectionate...... But I know he still loves me, but now he doesn't just love me, he loves her. ”

"You want him to turn back?"

"Yes." Qu Yingjiao said, "But this is difficult, his lover is a talented woman, if his love for me is through the years of tempering and precipitation of each other, then the love for her is the intersection of the heart to become a confidant, difficult to abandon." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng meditated for a moment, and then asked, "How long have they been?" ”

"It's been half a year, and in the last month, he has moved out to live with her, and comes back from time to time, but despite this, he still respects and loves me, and tells me everything directly, which teaches me to be powerful and nowhere to go...... For this reason, he has become infamous and criticized in this cultural circle, and his father fell out with him, and even wanted to cut off relations with him, but he waved his sleeves away, not caring about the eyes of others and the feelings of his relatives. ”

"According to you, it is more difficult for him to turn back than to ascend to the sky." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

Qu Yingjiao looked at him, speechless, only worried.

"But amorous people are always hurt by affection, perhaps...... He will turn back, just wait. Zhuang Yuncheng said.

"Wait? It's okay to have three days and five days, but what if it's three years and five years? I'm just worried about him, I don't want to see him destroy his future, I don't know that woman is not amorous, now that she has her, he doesn't care, he willingly bears all the pressure, and once he loses her, Hikoki is finished. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng frowned and said: "Zhang Yanxi, when you talk about him, I have a little impression, although I am not in the cultural circle, I still remember a few lines of his love poems." ”

Qu Yingjiao smiled reluctantly and said: "I have read books for a few years, I can't be called a talented woman, I can understand his poems, understand his meaning between the lines, and I haven't found anything wrong until a year ago, the heroine in his words is no longer me, at least not only me." As she spoke, she was stunned, with only infinite reverie in her eyes.

"I understand," Zhuang Yuncheng said, "It's just, do you really think I can help you?" ”

"I expect to, but I just rushed to the doctor, blame you for finding me at this time, I can only try, put aside the kindness of my fathers, now you have to ask me, I put forward a condition, isn't it fair?"

Zhuang Yuncheng had no choice but to nod and say, "But you don't know me." ”

"I know a person, I won't meet more than three times, this is the fourth time we've met, I've got my eye on you."

"You don't know me." Zhuang Yuncheng shook his head with an oath, and the corners of his mouth lingered with bitterness.

"Then we'll see." Qu Yingjiao smiled and said, "As long as Yanxi is allowed to turn back, I can almost agree to any request you make." ”

"Any?"

"From your eyes, I don't see ambition, your requirements, I think I can meet them."

"Okay." Zhuang Yuncheng pouted.

At this time, the sun was obscured by a dark cloud drifting over, the sun that was hot a moment ago disappeared, and the black clouds overlapped and painted the sky into a huge ink painting, suddenly, a white light flashed in the clouds, and a thunderclap came from nowhere, interrupting people's thoughts, "It's going to rain." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

Qu Yingjiao also said goodbye in a hurry, the old man gave her an umbrella, Qu Yingjiao said a few words and went out with the little girl.

"Let's go, too." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

Fluttershy stepped out of the threshold and looked at the sky, as the wind whistled and struck her face with dust, she squinted and stepped back, saying, "It's windy, it's dark, I'm afraid there's going to be a heavy rain." ”

"Yes," Zhuang Yuncheng also asked the old man for an umbrella, but he said no, there was no way, the two of them walked like this, the sky of lightning and thunder, the wind was raging, the people on the street fled like rats crossing the street, no one cared about the people around them, Zhuang Yuncheng and Xiaodie ran side by side all the way, with their heads down, afraid that the dust would fly into their eyes, and saw that there was still a side street, and the heavy rain was pouring down, Zhuang Yuncheng stretched out one hand to block the rain for her, which also didn't help, and the two of them were drenched.