In the courtyard, the magnolia spitting, the fragrance permeated the flower windows, and the wisps of green smoke overflowed the entire main house.

For a moment, Zhuang didn't react, she heard too long a sentence, it looked like she was in a dream, and the innocent and lovely child in the dream pulled the corner of her skirt, and had no hatred or resentment towards her, only showing her a snow-white fawn with a happy face.

She wanted to laugh, but her eyes swelled and hurt.

"Ma'am." Hua Yue called her gently, covered her somewhat cold hands, and reminded in a low voice, "Childe is talking to you." ”

Suddenly coming back to her senses, Zhuang looked in the direction of Li Jingyun and wanted to speak, but she felt that something was blocked in her throat, she swallowed and nodded hurriedly.

Seeing this, Hua Yue smiled and said, "Madam, this is the answer." ”

Li Jingyun bowed, his gaze only stayed on Zhuang's body for a moment before he moved away, and he turned his head to meet his father's deep eyes.

"You're back just in time." Li Shoutian said, "For my father, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Zhuang's listened, and hurriedly pulled Hua Yue out, she staggered a little, so shocked that Hua Yue didn't dare to let go, and helped her out of the main house all the way.

"Ma'am." She was slightly annoyed, "What are you anxious about, what if you fall." ”

Her eyebrows frowned slightly, but her face was smiling, Zhuang stroked her hand as before, and said in a hoarse voice: "I...... I'm so happy......"

Slightly sour in her heart, Hua Yue sighed.

She helped Zhuang to walk in the direction of the garden, giving her comfort as she went, until she was completely calm, and then she whispered: "The slave also has something to ask Mrs. ”

The garden was bright in spring, and Zhuang sat next to the rockery, quietly listening to the people around him stumbling about what happened on the mountain.

Hua Yue didn't hide it from her, she told the truth, and beat the drum in her heart while talking, for fear of making Mrs. angry.

However, after listening to this, Zhuang did not scold or question, but only brushed her sideburns with a worried face.

"Do you like Jing Yoon?" She asked.

A warm feeling gushed out of her heart inexplicably, Hua Yue lowered her head in embarrassment, and flatly denied: "The slave maid has no covetousness for the son. ”

"And what are you going to do?" Zhuang said softly, "You can't walk on the cusp. ”

"The slave knows." She half-squatted beside her wife's lap and rubbed with her affectionately, "The slave and maid have already thought about it, and when they petition with the son, they will come to the main courtyard to take care of the lady, and the slave and maid can still stay with the lady as before, and will not go anywhere." ”

Gentle hands gently stroked her black hair, Zhuang looked up at the blurry light in the sky, and suddenly remembered a lot of old things.

"Is she the only one?"

"She's the only one, she doesn't have a good temper, she doesn't like to be close to people, she is stupid, she doesn't like those officials, and she plans to send her to the Raccoon Washing Division later."

"Then let her come with me."

"What?"

"From this day on, she will be my maid."

“……”

The memories carried the visible dust and light, and a pair of incomparably gentle hands, through the nightmare of horror and torment, gently holding her into his arms.

Bang Bang –

Hua Yue thought it was raining, and raised her eyes blankly, but saw Zhuang's eyes staring at a certain place vacantly, and strings of tears came from the corners of his eyes.

"Ma'am?" She hurriedly took a handkerchief and wiped her face, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Zhuang came back to his senses, wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "The light outside is too bright, a little dazzling." ”

She hadn't seen such an excuse a hundred times, and there was at least ninety-nine. Hua Yue looked at her with a solemn expression, and asked in a deep voice, "When the slave and maid were not in the main courtyard, did the general bully you again?" ”

"Nope." She smiled and folded the handkerchief, "The general and I are husband and wife, how can they bully me." ”

What about husband and wife, since she entered the mansion, the general has never spent the night in the main courtyard, and there is no congratulatory gift for Mrs. every year's birthday, and it is difficult to even have a meal together, what kind of husband and wife are these?

Looking left and right, Hua Yue felt that Mrs. was thin, and it was expected that the frost drop caregiver was not as careful as her, and Mrs. was not a harsh person, so she might not have endured many grievances.

She secretly made up her mind.

Li Jingyun stood in the study and listened to Li Shoutian in silence.

"I've thought about it for my father, and I'll follow the head in a few days and let you come to the refining department to work." He sat down in his chair, folded his hands, and said, "That way, in a few years you will be able to take over as a father." ”

"That young lady of the Han family is very good, if you also think it is appropriate, choose a day with your father and welcome her."

"For my father, this huge Li family mansion will depend on you to support it sooner or later."

Li Shoutian spoke earnestly, and he also had a somewhat condescending posture, after all, everyone envied his Li family's military power, and he also had more than one son, and it was his greatest preference as a father to be able to arrange for Jing Yun so far.

However, the person in front of him listened, and there was no emotion on his face.

"How." He was displeased, "Do you have objections?" ”

"Nope." The hem of the blue clothes rose and fell, and Li Jingyun said with a smile, "Father's reward is a blessing that children dream of, but ......"

The tails of his eyes hooked slightly, and the ruffian aura that had been suppressed for a long time came out of the snapping fingers of his hand again.

"I don't need to."

There was silence in the study for a moment, and then a sneer rang out.

"You don't need to." Li Shoutian raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes were deep, "So you want to be a gentleman for the rest of your life, gnawing on the flesh and blood of the Li family, and being a useless waster?" ”

The more he spoke, the louder he became, and in the end he almost took the case: "I won't support you for a lifetime, if you leave the Li family and your identity as the third son, you will be nothing!" ”

Li Jingyun was not surprised by his outburst, he calmly listened to his biological father's mockery, and only took advantage of his breath to ask, "What were you arguing with your mother before?" ”

After stopping breathing for a moment, Li Shoutian frowned, and said with a complicated expression: "Ask what you are doing here, you have never cared about your mother." ”

"No matter how much you don't care, it's the meat that falls from her body." Li Jingyun stretched and said casually, "It's okay not to go to her, if you look at her annoying, she may not want to see you." ”

Choked in his throat, Li Shoutian was angry and laughed: "Are you going to teach me a lesson now?" ”

"Don't dare." He bowed his head, arched his hand at him very seriously, and then lowered his eyelids and said, "It's just that I'm tired of listening." ”

Li Shoutian paused, and the hand on his lap unconsciously retracted.

He hadn't chatted with Jing Yun for too long, and for so many years, he mostly listened to his movements from the mouths of others, let people lock him up in the mansion, or send him to the training ground to sharpen himself.

Looking at it now, this kid seems to have grown taller, and his eyebrows have grown a little more, less solemn on his body, and two more points sharp that he can't understand.

He just stood in front of him, without any awe in his eyes, and said as if gossiping with a friend: "By the way, my son took a concubine on his own initiative." ”

Li Shoutian fainted out of breath: "Take a concubine? ”

Standing up with the table, he said in a hurry: "How dare you, how dare you make such a disobedient act!" What about Yin? Call me for Yin's affairs! ”

Li Jingyun said suddenly: "You pointed Yin Zhangshi to your son's side, because you want her to take care of her son, and report to you whenever there is any trouble." ”

He smiled as he spoke, stretched out his hand and handed over a cup of tea, raised the tea to the center of his eyebrows, and raised his eyes upward: "My son expected this, so Na's concubine happened to be her." ”

Li Shoutian: "......"

The old slave in the house was dozing off outside the study, and he heard a shocking noise, which frightened him so much that he jumped up from the door, and then there was an angry roar from the study: "Get out of here-"

The old slave was frightened enough, and he crawled to the ground to open the door to see the situation, but he was bumping into the third prince walking out of it as if nothing happened.

"Uncle Xiang." The third prince smiled at him, "Prepare more tea for my father." ”

"Oh yes." Xiang Bo subconsciously responded, and then saw the corners of the clothes in front of him floating out of the courtyard in a dashing manner.

Behind him, the old man's breathing came from the dark study, with a few angry coughs.

When he went back to the East Courtyard, Li Jingyun was still in a peaceful mood, and he was even a little happy when he thought that someone would give him a coquettish later.

However, when he saw people, he couldn't be happier.

Hanazuki obediently knelt in front of him, looking at him with sparkling eyes, her little paws gently scratching the hem of his clothes, and she wanted to stop talking.

With a bad premonition in her heart, Li Jingyun squinted: "What do you want to do?" ”

"Childe~" She raised her voice and winked at him softly, "If one day, the concubine falls into the garden pool with your treasure knife, which one do you catch first?" ”

Trembling, Li Jingyun said disgustedly: "Treasure Knife." ”

"The concubine and the book on your soft couch......"

"Books."

"The Eight Horses on That Wall......"

"Eight horses." After answering these stupid questions without hesitation, Li Jingyun's eyebrows jumped, "Are you embarrassed to mention the Eight Horses to the master?" ”

The person in front of him laughed stupidly, glanced at the broken hole on the wall and had not yet repaired the hanging painting, and rubbed his hands gently: "It seems that the concubine is in your heart, and it seems that she has no status." ”

Isn't it appropriate to complain and accuse when this kind of thing is said? How to listen to it from her, it is a little joyful.

He knocked on the low table on the soft couch dissatisfiedly, and before he could speak, the man knelt down before he saw him, and said pleading with his eyes: "Then can you let the concubine go back to the main courtyard to take care of Madame?" ”

Glancing at her, Li Jingyun snorted: "You go back for a few days, and you are not such a stingy person." ”

"It's not." Hua Yue shook her head, grabbed his arm flatteringly, and shook it slightly, "What does the concubine mean, or not...... I won't go back to the East Courtyard. ”

The light in his eyes froze, Li Jingyun slowly restrained his smile, and looked at the person in front of him with cold eyes.

She was still smiling, her eyes were full of eagerness, there was no reluctance, no temptation, only clean begging and sincere light.

The thing that had been securely hung in his heart suddenly broke the rope with a "click" and sank into the bottomless abyss, and the ensuing loss and discomfort made him a little panicked and a little angry.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

Hua Yue was obviously a little surprised by his words, she let out a soft "ah", then withdrew her hand and knelt upright, and raised her eyes to look at him curiously: "Didn't you take a concubine at that time just to block the marriage of Miss Han?" It's blocked now, as long as the concubine is in the general's mansion, isn't it the same when she is next to the lady and by your side? ”

The words made sense, he took a deep breath, nodded and smiled: "You have already calculated it like this?" ”

When she agreed to be a concubine, she did think so, she thought that if she said it, Li Jingyun would readily agree, after all, in her opinion, he didn't like her very much, and even if he could get her away, he would be freer.

Unexpectedly, he didn't seem to be very happy.

With a slight movement in her heart, Hua Yue blinked, with a strange look in her eyes: "Childe, you ...... Reluctant to take a concubine? ”

"Nope." Leaning back, he stretched out his hand to support the soft couch, and his eyelids closed, "Ye just doesn't like to be calculated." ”

Lowering her head weakly, she muttered, "It's also a last resort." ”

The hand propped up on the soft couch tightened.

Li Jingyun opened his eyes a little embarrassed and sneered.

She is the most welcoming slave, she will smile at him and bend down to him, but in the final analysis, she is just temporarily succumbing to his side in order to save her life, she is desperate and forced to do so.

It's been too long, and he really thinks he can live like this forever.

"Childe?" The person in front of him looked at his face with some hesitation, "If you really want the concubine to stay, then ......"

"Whatever you want." He stood up on the soft couch, and the ink hair scattered in the jade crown could cover half of his face, "You can go wherever you want, there is no shortage of people in the courtyard." ”

With that, he brushed off the hem of his shirt and walked out.

"Where is Childe going?" She hurriedly asked.

The man stopped by the door, and showed a non-hesitant smile on his side: "Master go to Qifeng Tower, do you want to come too?" ”

"......" waved her hand stiffly, and Hua Yue smiled, "The concubine is waiting for you to come back." ”

The tight jaw line was outlined by the light outside, he pursed his lips and squinted outward: "What are you waiting for, if you want to go to the main courtyard, hurry up, and clean up everything while the master is away." ”

"Did you say yes?" She tilted her head.

Pulling the corners of his mouth, Li Jingyun waved his hand: "Yes, congratulations to Yin." ”

The sleeve robe lifted up, fluttered in the wind like a black kite, and then ripped out with him. Hua Yue watched him disappear outside the gate of the East Courtyard, and there was a hint of loneliness in his amber eyes.

But it was only a little, not as big as her fingernails, so she quickly covered it up and began to clean up the room cleanly.

Li Jingyun walked in a hurry, took a horse from the stable, and galloped to Qifeng Tower. This place does not open during the day, but the shopkeeper who has been greased and powdered sees that it is him, and without saying a word, he opens a wing room on the third floor for him.

There was nothing in the empty room, but there was enough wine.

After opening the sealing mud, he didn't say anything, took the wine jar and began to pour it.

The shopkeeper has never seen this posture, and the people who have always been exquisite on all sides were stupid in place, and shouted helplessly: "The owner ......"

Squinting at it, Li Jingyun snorted: "Who allowed you to call like this." ”

Slightly suffocated, the shopkeeper immediately changed his words: "Third master, what are you doing in broad daylight, do you want to invite a few other sons over?" ”

"Not necessarily." He smiled, "I'm in a good mood today, come and try your old wine." ”

The shopkeeper didn't dare to say anything, so he brought the wine cup and poured it for him, which was better than drinking it in the whole wine jar.

"What about people?" Liu Chenghe's voice suddenly came from downstairs, "Shopkeeper!" ”

With a frown, Li Jingyun turned his head to look at her.

The shopkeeper was startled, and hurriedly waved his hand: "The little one doesn't know, the little one has been standing here, and he hasn't let anyone know Liu Gongzi." ”

Quite irritably, he swept away the low table in front of him, Li Jingyun got up with the wine cup, slowly shook it down the corridor, and looked down: "What are you yelling about?" ”

Liu Chenghe raised his eyes and saw that he was there, and quickly rushed up around the stairs next to him, panting and said, "I was just about to ask the shopkeeper to go to the General's Mansion to spread the word, Third Master, Changyi went in." ”

The index finger rubbed the edge of the wine glass, and Li Jingyun was a little confused: "Where did you go?" ”

"Prison." Spit out these two words, Liu Chenghe looked at him with a solemn expression, "The person Jingzhao Yin just took someone to get is accused of bribery, and even Lord Xu was invited to the yamen. ”

“……”

The chaos in his eyes dissipated, Li Jingyun threw the cup, turned around and walked downstairs with him, his expression returned to seriousness: "What about the evidence?" ”

"The silver ticket collected by the spring hunt." Liu Chenghe wiped his face quite irritably, "It stands to reason that nothing will happen, who would have thought that someone would keep an eye on it this time, the watermark and secret deposit on the silver ticket have doorways, and you will know where it came from when it flows out, guess who the person who reported it is?" ”

He continued angrily: "It's the slave who came to send the red seal to Changyi, this is good, there are all the human and material evidence, even if you don't have a way to live, you have to pull the Xu family into the water." ”

There was some confusion in his eyes, Li Jingyun was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "What did Mrs. Xu say?" ”

"I've already entered the palace to ask to see the middle palace, but it seems to be ...... Xu can't be saved. Liu Chenghe's face was ugly, "The silver they gave over there dragged our people into the water, how could Zhonggong let go." ”

The middle palace and the eldest princess are a party, and they gave them red seals on Guanshan before, just to let them not interfere, so as to take the opportunity to get rid of some people around the prince who they have been thinking about for a long time. The two parties kill each other in spring hunting every year, and Li Jingyun saved a lot of people in the first year, but then he felt that it was okay, so he took the red envelope and turned a blind eye.

But what he didn't expect was that this year's eldest princess would come with him to break the net.

Probably stimulated by his concubine?

Li Jingyun sneered, got on the horse when he went out, and took Liu Chenghe straight to Jingzhaoyin's mansion.

"Brother Jingyun."

As soon as I arrived at the place, I didn't see anything else, but I saw Han Shuang standing at the door waiting, as if he knew that he would definitely come, and said anxiously when he came up: "Shuang'er has something to say." ”

Li Jingyun didn't look at her, gave the horse to Manu, and turned around to enter the mansion.

"Brother Jingyun, things are not what you think." She took a few steps up, stretched out her hands and stopped in front of him, her eyes were full of anxiety, "Shuang'er will never do anything unfavorable to you, something went wrong in the middle of this matter, and the eldest princess doesn't know, can you listen to me a few words before going inside?" ”

After a pause, he looked up at her impatiently.

Han Shuang was frightened by this look, and took half a step back, but soon she calmed down, pulled him to the side, and said in a low voice: "The slave who sent the red seal is from the Eldest Princess's Palace, but I didn't expect that he was not from my Daliang, but a slave from the previous dynasty. This man didn't know what he was thinking, and he desperately didn't want to run to sue the black, there must be a bigger conspiracy in it. ”

"Brother Jingyun, you can't be fooled by this easily."

His eyes fell on her fluttering eyebrows, Li Jingyun's eyes were bottomless, he listened quietly to her words, but smiled softly.

"Han Shuang." He called her name, "You've lied since you were a kid and liked to look to the left, are you not clear or am I not clear?" ”

With a "chuckle" in her heart, Han Shuang quickly lowered her eyes, pinched her handkerchief and said: "I didn't lie to you, the eldest princess really doesn't know about this, you can't ask anything when you go in now, it's better to check where the silver tickets in your hand have gone." The slave has always been by the eldest princess's side, and he must not be able to find the silver ticket that was sent out, and he should have other accomplices. ”

Looking away from her face, Li Jingyun said coldly: "This is not to worry about Miss Han." ”

The blue and black robe embroidered with dark lines passed by the tender green skirt, and Li Jingyun took Liu Chenghe and stepped into the gate of Jingzhao Yin's mansion without looking back.

"Third Master." After walking far, Liu Chenghe dared to speak, "What Han Shuang said doesn't seem to be unreasonable, the person who complained is holding a silver ticket with a face value of five hundred taels, shouldn't the silver ticket be all in the hands of Yin Zhangshi?" ”

The figure moved slightly, and Li Jingyun didn't speak.

Liu Chenghe saw that something was wrong, and subconsciously lowered his voice: "I don't want to suspect anything, but now that Changyi is in, it's not so easy to come out, and his father is not in good health, if he is really dragged here, maybe something will happen." ”

The slender fingers picked up the drumstick next to the drum and circled around the fingertips.

Li Jingyun looked at the brand-new drum surface, and suddenly chuckled: "The master is here, even if he wants to stay in the prison, he can't stay." ”

The words fell, and the drums began.

Liu Chenghe couldn't stop it, so he could only watch the drum surface vibrate, and then two columns of people poured out of the yamen and slowly surrounded them.

……

After arranging the last piece of clothing, Kazuki suddenly felt a little palpitation, she looked back suspiciously, and saw nothing, so she lowered her head and tied the burden in a knot.

There was still half of the red envelope left, and she didn't dare to count how many silver tickets there were, so she didn't bother to take them away after thinking about it, so she directly stuffed it under Li Jingyun's pillow, only picked up the boxes she bought from Baolai Pavilion, and moved them out with difficulty.

This looks like a person who has made a lot of money and returned home.

Laughing to himself, Hua Yue stepped out of the east courtyard, but couldn't help but take another look at the main house, and then closed the courtyard door.

She couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, and she didn't want to think about it, so she put her things in her own room in the main courtyard and put them away, and then went to bring soup to the general for her wife.

The steaming soup cup was served in the tray, and Hua Yue selfishly took a detour, wanting to pass through the East Courtyard to see if Li Jingyun was back.

As a result, as soon as she passed the moon gate, she saw the housekeeper chasing a group of yacha into the door, and shouted repeatedly: "How can you say that you can search, this is our son's yard, hey...... The general is still in the house! ”