Chapter 42: Crossing the Cold Lake
Pei Shi smiled: "My sister heard what she said, and she told me about it." ”
Rao Di said lightly, "It's nothing, it's just that along the way, I saw that the layout of the houses around here is complicated, and I am a little confused." Just now let the mountain ghost familiarize himself with the terrain and see how those silk and satin Zhuangzi nearby walked, sister, you also know, sister loves precious fabrics. ”
As she spoke, she looked at the row of servants standing in front of the Shen Mansion, these people, she had never seen them when she first entered the mansion, she turned around and said, "Madam, what does this mean?" ”
"I placed my sister in the plum blossom dock, these are the rough subordinates on the dock, for my sister to send."
"Plum Blossom Dock? What a beautiful name. ”
"The yard where my sister lived before was too deserted, so I took it upon myself to move my sister's things to the plum blossom dock, Yan Bing liked it, and the plum blossoms on the dock also bloomed, it was an elegant place, and it was close to my residence."
"Thank you, madam, the concubine is terrified." Although Rao Tu said so, her expression was full of calmness, how could she be a little uneasy.
Shen Mansion is built around the lake, Meihuawu is in the middle of the lake, you need to take a half-pillar incense boat to get there, on the waterway, Pei Qingwei is not following. Rao Tu looked at the ruined lotus leaves in the lake, and said to the mountain ghost: "Look at the residual lotus in this lake, how elegant is it?" In the light rain, it is just 'to leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of the rain'. ”
The mountain ghost smiled: "I can't see if the wind is not elegant, but the scenery is there, girl, look at the pavilion on the dock, it is really more magnificent than the broken yard we lived in before." ”
Rao Tu closed her eyes and concentrated, the breeze carried the quiet fragrance of plum blossoms on her face, and she said lightly: "A concubine with a low status, even if she is favored, she should not have this special encounter." Mrs. Pei is really a big deal. In this way, everyone in the capital knows that I am a pungent and arrogant woman. ”
The mountain ghost glanced at the little guy holding the boat next to him and pulled at Rao's sleeve.
She smiled and asked the little girl, "What's your name and how long have you been here?" ”
The servant replied: "Slave Xiaoshun, the boat that has been here for three years. ”
"Oh? Lord Shen likes to come to the dock? ”
"Yes, in previous years, when the plum blossoms bloomed in winter, Lord Shen would come here to stay for a month."
"I'll live here for a long time in the future, but I'll have to bother you a lot." She said to the mountain ghost: "When you get to the shore, go and get fifty taels of silver and reward Xiaoshun." ”
Xiaoshun didn't dare to accept it, and hurriedly said: "This is the slave's business." ”
"When I become your ship in the future, I will entrust my wealth and life to you, and if I can do my part well, I will deserve it. Dock, all who serve me have a reward, and you are not alone, so you need not be afraid. ”
When he arrived on the shore, Xiao Shun was grateful for a purse of broken silver, and it was not until Rao Di walked away with the maid that he dared to stand up and peek at her back, thinking that although Mrs. Rao had a bad reputation, she was a generous master.
The mountain ghost here was a little painful, and asked in a muffled voice: "Girl, there are more than 30 people on this dock, and they all reward like this, and they can't spend more than 1,000 taels of silver?" ”
Rao Tu squinted her eyes at the little girl who fell into the money hole, "Don't be so stingy, didn't we make a net profit of three thousand taels from the Pei family because of soft smoke a few days ago?" ”
The mountain ghost "Oh-" sighed, still very depressed, "The icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, even if the girl rewards everyone, I'm afraid that there are few who can remember your good." ”
Rao Tu said: "Therefore, you must have a strategy, gather all the subordinates who serve on the dock, first reprimand them collectively, and you will see their reactions, and then set the rewards for each person." But you are only responsible for training people and rewarding people, and Liu Xing and I still have spring, summer, autumn and winter. ”
The mountain ghost said aggrievedly: "Why am I the only one singing blackface? ”
"You look fierce."
"Ahh
That night, the mountain ghost reluctantly summoned those people over and set up a rule. Rao Di watched behind the curtain, secretly observing everyone's reactions, and then personally rewarded Mother Xu in the kitchen, Xiao Quanzi who fetched water, and Steward Zhang on the dock each with one hundred taels of silver, and the rest also rewarded fifty and twenty, all of which were handed over to Liu Xing and Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Among them, the two girls who were originally placed next to her to do fine work did not have a reward, and Rao Tu said: "The girls around me are enough, and the two of you still go back to Mrs. Pei to serve." ”
The two girls went with red faces, and the mountain ghost snorted: "I just look at these two unpleasant eyes, their eyes are evasive, and they are arrogant, and they are Pei's dog legs at a glance." ”
Rao said: "Mountain ghost, now you are staring, if there is still such a thing on the plum blossom dock, send it away, and there will be no unclean people around me." ”
The mountain ghost was a little unconfident: "My eyes are not as accurate as the girl, what if I see it wrong?" ”
"Wrong is wrong, you just have to look at what is not pleasing to the eye. The meticulous work around me is handled only by a few of you. Also, except for Mother Xu, none of the others in the kitchen can be in charge, and a few grandmothers sent to the valley by Yang Qian a few days ago will be transferred to the kitchen, which is Shen Zhu's person, and there will be no big problem. ”
The mountain ghost nodded and grinned: "Girl, you look serious, so handsome." ”
Rao Tu smiled and stared at the flickering candle flame, "Since she wants to play, I'll play with her." ”
After dinner, she called Steward Zhang, "I heard that adults used to live on the island, but I don't know which side room it is?" ”
Steward Zhang is an old man in his sixties, tall and thin, with white temples and sunken cheeks, looking like an honest and vicissitudes of life. After all, people are old, and they have always seen a little bit of the world.
Now that he heard Rao's question, he replied in a proper manner: "My lord does not live in an attic wing, but a tile house in Merlin. ”
Rao's expression changed slightly, "Vasher? ”
"Exactly, Lord Vasher never lets anyone in." Steward Zhang saw that Rao's expression was different, so he added a sentence lightly.
"I see, take me to see the plum blossoms in the woods."
Steward Zhang hurriedly asked the little servant to take a few lamps to illuminate the front and back, and led Rao Di to Merlin. The forest is full of heart-saving plums, the snow is pressed on the branches, the cold fragrance is lush, and people are drunk.
At that time, she married Shen Zhu despite her father's objections, and lived with him in a Merlin Washhouse, she remembered that in the cold winter of the year she got married, he cut a plum blossom and raised it in the house, and the fragrance of the flowers lasted for half a month. At that time, when he looked at Meihua and looked at her, he would also smile happily.
Later, he gradually stopped smiling, and was dull day after day, she only said that he was tired of reading, and served diligently every day, but what he got back was the coldness in his eyes.
Later, he went on a study tour and left her alone in the empty Washer for five years.
In the end, he became Tanhualang, she heard the gong sounding all the way, and stood at the door of Vashe waiting for him with teary eyes, her legs were like lead, and she couldn't take a step forward, but she saw him carrying a charming woman named Pei Qingwei Yan Yan ......
She couldn't walk anymore, so she leaned on a tree and gasped softly.
The plum blossoms in Qingzhou are also blooming, right? Is the old house in Qingzhou still there?
Seeing her like this, Steward Zhang just thought it was an old disease, and hurriedly greeted the maid, Rao Di waved his hand, "I'm fine, give me a lantern and let me go shopping alone." ”
The mountain ghost brought up a light glass lamp, and Rao Di took it: "You are all waiting here, I'll walk alone." ”
She carried the glass lamp into the depths of the plum forest, the wind blew, the snow and yellow plum fell on her hair and shoulders, she didn't realize that at the end of the deep road, there was a green tile house.
Rao Di stood still, looking at the building, she slowly covered her heart, dull, dull unable to breathe.
The glass lamp fell, shattered and shiny, and she trembled and picked up the flickering candle and walked to the window of the blue-tiled cottage. The candlelight approached, and the room was dim, still the tile house of that year, the bed of that year, the wooden table of that year, or the vase of flower arrangement.
In the bottle, a withered plum.
The wind blew out the candle flame like a bean, and the darkness obscured the old scene in the house, and the two lines of sparkle on her cheeks.
……
Everyone waited outside for a long time, only to see Rao Di slowly walking out of the forest, the mountain ghost hurriedly stepped forward to support her, frowned, and said, "Why did you come out in the dark, how can you fall?" ”
"I accidentally broke the glass lamp." Rao smiled, "If this is not the case, how can you know the wonder of listening to the wind on a cold night and floating in the dark fragrance?" ”
The mountain ghost said worriedly: "Girl, you can play, something went wrong, we people are waiting for Lord Shen to come back and pick up the skin and cramp." ”
Rao Tu smiled slightly, her body suddenly softened, and she closed her eyes and fainted.
The mountain ghost screamed a few times, but she didn't have any reaction, and the mountain ghost couldn't help but be shocked, and ran back with his arms around her, beating his chest and scolding himself for his crow's mouth.
Sent Rao Tu back to the warm pavilion, the doctor came to see, said that he was frightened, caused by emotion, prescribed medicine and drank it, slept for a night, and woke up leisurely on the second day.
The two mountain ghosts and willow apricots were waiting by the bedside, and there was a little sadness between their eyebrows; Spring, summer, autumn and winter are cleaning outside, and there is a little trepidation between their eyebrows.
Looking at this scene, Rao Di couldn't help but laugh, "You guys, what's wrong?" ”
The mountain ghost complained: "Girl, you are embarrassed to ask, can you stop scaring us?" ”
Rao Tu said innocently: "I saw a lonely ghost in the forest yesterday, and I was really startled, so I fainted, and I can't be blamed for it." ”
Liu Xing stepped forward and touched her forehead, wondering, "The girl doesn't have a fever." ”
The mountain ghost snorted: "You listen to the girl's nonsense! ”
Rao Tu smiled: "I didn't lie to you, come back from the dead, aren't you just a lonely ghost?" ”
The mountain ghost let out a "hmm" and asked casually: "Tell me, what does that lonely ghost look like?" ”
Rao Di thought about it, looked at Liu Xing, and was silent.
Liu Xing took a few steps back, and said fearfully: "It won't look like me, right?" ”
Rao Tu smiled and said nothing, the mountain ghost really couldn't look at it, and waved his hand in front of Rao Tu's eyes, "Girl, if you keep staring at Liu Xing, she won't dare to sleep at night." ”
Rao Tu sighed lightly, and said boredly: "Forget it, I won't joke with you." ”
"Mrs. Pei came to see last night and sent a box of Ejiao paste, what should the girl do with it?"
"Bring it to me and I'll taste it."
The mountain ghost was not happy to take it, "It's not a good thing, I can't even look at it." ”
"Ejiao is expensive, it is a good medicine to replenish qi and blood, why is it not good?" She retorted with a smile.
Liu Xing muttered sullenly beside her: "After Pei's hands, no matter how good it is." ”
Rao Di shook her head: "People love the house and the black, don't hate the house and the black." You have to remember that you can hate someone, but don't hate her things. If you don't eat sweet dates because she likes to eat sweet dates, and you set so many rules and regulations for yourself, what's the fun of living? ”
In one line, Liu Xing'er heard two words, grinned and said: "Sweet dates, I like to eat sweet dates the most." ”
Rao Di coughed, "Mountain ghost, go find sweet dates, I want to eat them too." ”
Outside Qiudong said: "I saw many winter jujube trees planted outside Fangcui Garden!" ”
Rao Tu nodded and said, "Okay, it's the jujube of Fang Cui Yuan!" ”
Fang Cui Yuan is the residence of the Pei family.
The mountain ghost was helpless: "Why is it always me who suffers and suffers, and you sit on the ground and enjoy happiness?" ”
"Because you're more capable." She smiled and said with a hateful face.
The mountain ghost was not convinced, "I don't believe it, what kind of ability does it take to pick a date!" Saying that, he dragged Liu Xing and Qiu Dong out to pick dates together.
Three go out and one comes back. In the evening, Rao Di was sitting on the bed reading a book, glanced at Qiu Dong, who was carrying an empty basket, and asked, "What about the mountain ghost and Liu Xing?" Lai refused to come back under the date tree? ”
Qiu Dong cried with a sad face, and said: "Liu Xing was beaten by Pei's girl Baoyue, and then the mountain ghost beat Baoyue again, and made trouble in Mrs. Pei's courtyard. ”
Rao Tu frowned: "Didn't you just let you pick a date, why are you so violent?" ”
As he was talking, he saw Chun Xia come in and said, "Mrs. Pei brought someone." ”
Rao Di put down the book in her hand, looked out the door with a smile, and saw Pei Qingwei walk in with a slightly angry face, followed by Liu Xing, who had a blue nose and swollen face, and Baoyue, who had a blue nose and swollen face.
Rao Tu said in surprise: "Madam...... What's going on? ”
Pei Qingwei didn't say a word, and looked at Baoyue with a cold face.
Baoyue knelt down with a pounce and cried: "In the afternoon, the slave maid saw Liu Xing and the mountain ghost picking dates outside the Fangcui Courtyard, because this piece of winter dates was planted for the lady by the adult's order, and the maid did not dare to pick them indiscriminately on weekdays. The slave and maid stepped forward to reprimand a few words, but Liu Xing'er and the mountain ghost ignored it, and the slave and maid reached out and hit Liu Xing'er for a while, who knew that it annoyed the mountain ghost, beat the slave and maid severely, and begged the second lady to be the master of the slave and maid. ”
Rao Di snorted and scolded: "What about the dead Nizi of the mountain ghost!" Tell her to come over and see if I don't break her hands. ”
Pei Qingwei said lightly: "I will help my sister do the work for my sister when it comes to punishing the maid." It has already made people press down the slave who doesn't understand the rules and beat them for thirty boards. ”
Rao Di quietly let out an "oh", "Thirty boards? ”
"Yes, the girl who doesn't understand the rules should be rewarded with fifty boards, but I read that it was my sister's maid, so I only ordered a small punishment and a big commandment."
Rao Di looked at Pei Shi and said slowly: "Mrs. Pei really gives Rao Tu face, since this is the case, then ask Mrs. to send her back quickly, that Nizi is used to me on weekdays, and I am reluctant to scold, but now I have to be taught by Mrs., and I should know some rules." She will take it to heart, and she will repay it in the future. ”
"If my sister can think like this, I will be at ease."
Rao Di beckoned to Liu Xing'er, "Look at the injury on this face!" Could it be that if you hug the moon and beat you, you will look dead like this? ”
Liu Xing stared at Liu Xing, "Where is it all of a sudden, Baoyue beckoned a few little servants to beat the slaves and maids." ”
Hearing this, Rao Di glanced at Baoyue lightly, and looked at her with a thrill.
"Since Huyue has called out to you, why don't you stop? If you can really walk sideways in this mansion, even if Lord Shen has said this, you can take a look at Madame's face! ”
Liu Xing said aggrievedly: "I really didn't hear the voice of Huyue. ”
Rao Di was looking at Baoyue, "Don't you even have a word of reminder, and you will hit people when you go up?" ”
Baoyue trembled and said: "It was the wind that ...... that time."
Before she finished speaking, Rao Tu sat up and said to Pei Shi: "Rao Tu didn't know that there were such rules in the house, and when she first arrived, she didn't understand a lot of things. For example, today's events, I don't know that those winter dates are the beloved things of the lady. Because in the concubine's hometown, winter dates were originally not a valuable thing, and the lady didn't care about it, so she instructed the maid to pick some and come back to try them. The concubine did something wrong, and hoped that the lady would give her guidance, if she was so brutal, the concubine would not dare to stay in the house, and begged the lady to allow the concubine to leave. ”
The words were sad and pitiful, Pei Shi was speechless for a long time, and was silent for a long time before helping Rao Di back to the bed and lying down, "My sister is not in good health, don't be angry because of these things." I didn't expect this girl to be so stingy, and she actually started beating people first because of a few dates, which is really embarrassing for me. ”
Rao Di asked, "I don't know what Madame plans to do with Baoyue?" ”
"Also...... It's just a 30-big board. ”
Rao Di shook her head and said: "Today's incident started because of the moon, the mountain ghost and Liu Xing were beaten before they knew what was going on, and the mountain ghost fought back just to protect himself." If the lady does not take the moon seriously, the concubine will not be able to rely on it. ”
Pei Qingwei squinted her eyes, hugged Pei's leg in fright, and cried: "Madam, please forgive, slave...... The slave didn't dare anymore. ”
Pei kicked her away, and said hatefully: "Colorless things, go out and get fifty canes!" ”
Rao Tu said, "Madame is wise, the concubine thinks that a small punishment is enough, but there is no need to get out." In autumn and winter, you go to find out Xiao Quanzi's flat shoulder that carries water on weekdays, and personally give Baoyue a long memory. ”
Qiu Dong, who had been standing next to him with his head down, shook for a moment, and then responded in a low voice.
Rao Tu smiled: "Qiu Dong, you are from the princess's mansion, you should know the severity of your attack." ”
Pei Shi walked away with a black face, and the wails of hugging the moon in the courtyard were smaller and smaller, until the moaning was completely inaudible, and the sound of the board falling on the person was still ringing again and again.
Rao Di said slowly: "Liu Xing'er, do you know why I asked Qiu Dong to beat her?" ”
Liu Xing said in a low voice: "The slave knows. When the moon hit us, Qiu Dong ran first. ”
Rao Di said "um", and said coldly: "The jujube tree in Fangcuiyuan was mentioned by her, and she tried to provoke trouble, but she wanted to be alone, how could there be such a cheap thing?" ”
Pei sent someone to send a basket of green round jujubes with thin skin and sweet meat. Rao Di asked Liu Xing to wash it vigorously and then send it to the room.
The mountain ghost was carried back by Yang Qian, the little girl held her buttocks, looked at Rao Tu who was gnawing on dates like no one in the warm pavilion, and said with a sad face: "Girl, you still have the appetite to eat dates, these ones are all bought by my butt blood." ”
Rao Tu choked on a mouthful of jujubes and threw down the half-gnawed dates, "I really don't have an appetite now." ”
The mountain ghost limped to the outer bed, "I'm here to keep vigil today, anyway, my butt hurts so badly that I can't sleep." ”
Rao Di was about to stab her a few words, but Liu Xing came in with a bottle of medicine from outside, "Guards Yang gave it, and it was said that it was the best Jinchuang medicine." ”
Rao nodded and said, "Take it." ”
Mountain ghost: "Phew! snorted, "I don't want the stinky stuff of poplar wood!" ”
"You don't want to? Then just lie on your stomach in bed all the time. Rao Tu looked as usual, took the bottle of medicine, pulled out the stopper and smelled it, "Hmm", "The smell of medicine is too strong, it's really not a good thing!" ”
The mountain ghost also smelled the medicine, and could smell that it was a good plaster, she wanted to refute Rao's opinion, but she couldn't open her mouth, and after thinking for a long time, she said, "I smell it." ”
Rao Tu took the medicine bottle, "That's not good, the stinky stuff of poplar wood, what should you do if it smokes it?" ”
The mountain ghost pursed his lips, "Didn't the girl say that you can't hate the house and the Wu?" I smelled it, in case it was used, it saved the money for plasters. ”
Rao Di then threw the medicine bottle to her, "Who gave you the board?" ”
The mountain ghost said angrily: "It's not Yang Qian's subordinate yet, I have a little friendship with him, and he actually let his subordinates beat me." ”
Rao Tu nodded and sighed: "You should thank him, if the thirty board is a dead hand, don't want your legs!" ”
The mountain ghost's cheeks were red, and he was a little embarrassed, "Yang Qian, that dead man, didn't have any good intentions, he took advantage of the danger of others, anyway, I formed a bond with him." ”
Rao Tu raised her eyebrows and said, "You little conscienceless, what's going on?" ”
The mountain ghost said indignantly: "He...... He actually wanted to check the wound on my buttocks, and he was stabbed a thousand times! ”
Rao Tu pursed her lips and smiled and asked, "Did you see it?" ”
"Nope! I won't let him succeed if I die! ”
Rao Di looked at the indignant little girl, and a trace of tenderness swayed in her heart, and the displeasure she had for beating people casually before disappeared. She stared at the mountain ghost for a while, her eyebrows were light and distant, her starry eyes were bright, and she was an extremely attractive little beauty.
The mountain ghost said weakly: "Do I have flowers on my face?" What does the girl look at? ”
"Yes, there are peach blossoms." It's like a smile, not a smile.
The mountain ghost wiped his face indiscriminately, and his sleeves were clean, how could there be anything? She couldn't help but wonder.
Rao Tu doesn't explain, young men and women are emotional, and ignorance is the most beautiful. What does it mean if it is broken by outsiders?
Seeing that the others were not there, the mountain ghost said in a low voice: "Girl, did Lord Shen know the layout around the Five Kings' Mansion?" ”
"I don't know."
"Does the fifth prince know?"
"Maybe you know."
The mountain ghost shook his head: "I think the fifth prince is a lazy person, so he may not be clear." I know a thing or two about the Victory Aversion Technique, the gossip ghost domain around the Five Kings' Mansion is aimed at wearing down his vitality and suppressing his qi. If the five kings had known, how could they still dwell in it? ”
Rao Di didn't answer her question, rubbed the corners of her forehead, and muttered: "Layout a no-man's ghost domain with the Disgust of Victory, this is witchcraft and evil arts, who in this dynasty has so much courage to dare to treat a prince like this?" ”
"Girl, you don't know, the fifth prince is not favored now, and he has a lot to do with his mother. I've heard...... The mother concubine of the five kings murdered the emperor with the art of disgust, and was later given dove wine and died. ”
Rao Di was slightly stunned, "There is such a thing?" Why did his mother murder the emperor? ”
"I don't know, this is a royal secret, and I just listened to a few dead men in the ministry talk about it."
Rao Tu nodded lightly: "He is the prince, but he can't even believe his biological father, I'm afraid that indulging in wine is just a pretense." If you're a little smarter, you're in danger. ”
The mountain ghost sighed: "Girl, the snow in our house has been sealed, and you still care which piece of his house has frost!" ”
Rao Di relieved herself, smiled slightly, and felt that what the mountain ghost said was not unreasonable, "Exactly, there is a dead girl lying here with a rotten ass in front of me, how can I care about other people's affairs?" ”
The mountain ghost frowned and retorted: "Girl, what you said is also very ugly!" ”
In the blink of an eye, the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and there are ice skates hanging on the eaves, and the plum fragrance on the island is becoming more and more intense. Rao raised for more than a month, and her body gradually improved, this day she and Liu Xing cut plum blossom branches in the forest and walked back, and accidentally saw Xiaoshun squatting on the bow of the boat on the water's edge, as if he was drinking.
She stepped forward, Xiaoshun drank by herself, and didn't see her. Liu Xing shouted, and he was suddenly shocked, hid the wine bottle behind his waist, wiped his mouth, and called out unconfidently, "Mrs. Rao." ”
Rao Tu smiled and asked, "What kind of wine do you drink?" ”
Xiao Shun's face was flushed, and he said tremblingly: "Mrs. Hui, it's just a shoddy cinnamon wine, just brewed this year, it's not strong, and the villain only drinks it as sugar water." ”
Rao Tu was interested: "Cinnamon wine? Can you please give me a try? ”
Xiaoshun said honestly: "There is a can hidden in the small boat, but it is so shoddy that I am afraid that Mrs. will not be used to it." ”
Rao Tu was quite leisurely, and said with a smile: "In this way, you row slowly, let me sit on your boat for a while." ”
Xiao Shun hesitated for a while, "It's windy on the lake, I'm afraid that my wife will catch a cold, and the little one will die!" ”
"It doesn't matter. It's also my business to catch a cold, and it has nothing to do with you. Rao Di said, and was helped by Liu Xing to get on the boat.
Xiaoshun took a clean gourd scoop and poured half a scoop of cinnamon wine with fine foam. Rao Di took it and took a sip, "Hmm! With a sigh, he said pleasantly: "The clear scoop of cinnamon wine is for Yale." ”
She smiled, the crown was beautiful, Xiaoshun was stunned for a long time, how can there be any plum blossoms, cinnamon, cold pond dry lotus? It's not as good-looking as the lady in front of you.
Liu Xing coughed and reminded: "Xiaoshun! Watch your eyes! ”
Rao Tu smiled: "Don't murder him, we are now sitting on other people's boats and drinking other people's wine, can't we let others take a look?" ”
Xiao Shun, who said a few words, was flushed, but it was not that he watched Rao Tu, but Rao Tu played him.
Liu Xing coughed again, "Girl, please respect yourself!" ”
The boat sailed to the center of the lake, in the cold day of Lajiu, a thin layer of ice formed on the water surface, and the boat broke the ice, making a crisp and distant sound, but it would be very quiet everywhere.
Rao Di drank almost half a scoop of wine, her cheeks flushed, and she raised her eyes and sighed with a smile: "What a scene! ”
Liu Xing snatched the wine from her hand, "The girl can't drink it anymore." ”
Rao Di let out an "um", got up and stepped out of the cabin crookedly, "Give me the oars, and let me support the boat on the return trip." ”
Xiao Shun was frightened, and hurriedly raised the oar behind her, Liu Xing grabbed her hand and said nervously: "The girl fell carefully!" ”
Rao Di shook her head and went to grab Xiaoshun's oar, how dare Xiaoshun grab it from her, so she hurriedly let go and handed the oar over. Rao Tu smiled and said to Liu Xing: "Don't catch me, you can't fall!" ”
Liu Xing was almost crying: "Girl...... Please don't scare me......"
At this moment, Xiao Shun pointed to the boat coming from the opposite shore and said in fear: "It's the big lady's boat!" ”
Rao Di stood on tiptoe and looked at it, nodded and smiled: "It's her ship, and the corners of the cabin are hanging silver balls, how luxurious." It seems that Shen Zhu and Mrs. Pei have been swimming in the lake to watch the lotus, painting boats and listening to the rain. ”
She drank and started drinking, and her speech was a little slurred, Liu Xing hurriedly said: "Xiaoshun, don't hurry up and send the girl ashore." ”
Xiaoshun was also anxious: "The girl is holding the oar, I don't want to be here!" ”
Rao Tu couldn't stand steadily, leaning on the oars, "What's the hurry?" I have something to say to Madame. ”
She held the oar tightly, and Liu Xing broke it a few times, but it was useless, so she was in a hurry.
From time to time, Pei's boat had rowed closer, and Pei Shi walked out of the cabin and looked at Rao Tu and said with a smile: "My sister is in a good mood to come to the lake today." ”
"Yes, in the middle of the lake, drinking cinnamon wine, watching residual lotus, smelling the fragrance of plums, what is life?" Rao Tu said with a lazy smile.
"My sister stood in the limelight, took the oar again, and fell carefully." Pei kindly reminded.
Rao Di shook her head: "Don't get in the way, the concubine once learned to hold the boat with an old boatman, if the lady has the guts, please get on this boat, how about the concubine support the boat for you?" ”
Pei Qingwei said with a smile: "My sister has this Yaxing, but she is disrespectful. Immediately, the slender man on her boat pulled the two boats together, and Pei Shi got on the boat and said with a smile: "I'm tired of my sister." ”
Although Rao Tu was drunk, she was very stable when she really held up the boat. She rowed for a while, Pei Shi walked to the bow of the boat, came to her side and smiled: "Sister, stop first." ”
Seeing that she was holding a jade dish of fish food in her hand, Rao Tu asked, "Madame is going to feed the fish?" The fish in the lake should be down there by now. ”
Pei Qingwei grabbed a handful of fish food and threw it into the water, and said with a smile: "Sister, please take a look." ”
Rao Tu looked at the surface of the water intently, but saw a red carp float up, swimming in the water to eat the fish food clean, Pei Shi grabbed another handful and threw it into the water, which soon attracted more swimming fish.
Pei Shi looked at the red carp swimming slowly on the cold water, "Sister, look at how happy these fish are, there are few winter eclipses, and when the fish food in this jade plate is sprinkled, I am afraid that it will also attract red carp all over the lake." ”
Rao Di smiled lightly: "Madame is really kind-hearted. It's just that...... Rong Raodi said something that should not be said, the water surface is cold in winter, and these swimming fish may not be able to swim after eating a few times, and they are frozen alive and sealed in ice, and there are also some. ”
Pei Shi was startled for a moment, and suddenly said: "Sister Gaojian!" No wonder every time I come to feed, I can always see a few fish that have their white bellies and float up after eating. I still wonder how this food is non-toxic, how can it die! ”
Rao Tu said with a smile: "Fish die for food, it's nothing, just like in this capital, how many people put life and death aside for the word right?" ”
Pei Shi sighed: "Sure enough, this is the truth. She took a few steps forward, poking her head out of the boat, and looking at the fish as if to see if they were no longer swimming.
Rao Tu smiled and said nothing, the wind blew, the hull of the boat moved slightly, Pei Shi staggered and didn't stand firm, seeing that he was about to plunge into the water, he hurriedly grabbed the corner of Rao's skirt.
Rao Di frowned, gently raised her leg and took a step back, Pei's hand slipped, and she plunged into the water at once.
There was a "bang" and a huge splash. Rao Tu sneered and looked at Pei Shi who was fluttering in the water, and did not move.
Xiaoshun shouted, and was about to jump into the water to save people, but Rao Di shouted coldly: "Don't move!" ”
Xiao Shun was stunned, turned his head and saw that Rao's eyes were as cold as ice, and there was no doubt, he didn't even dare to blink his eyes at once.
The lake water was cold and biting, Pei Qingwei didn't understand water, and the water was heavy when her clothes were wet, she fluttered a few times, and when she saw that Xiaoshun on the boat didn't come down to save her, she couldn't help but panic, opened her mouth to scream, sank into the water again, and choked on a mouthful of cold water.
Pei's boat was far behind, and several boatmen had already jumped out of the boat and swam towards the place where she had fallen overboard. But the distance was too far, Pei Shi fluttered a few times, slowly sank into the water, the water bubbles gurgled up, but she didn't come up for a long time, as if she was sinking to the bottom of the lake.
Xiaoshun reacted, puffed down and knelt down and cried: "Mrs. Rao, if you don't save people, it's too late, you have mercy and pity the poor little one......"
Rao Tu sneered: "You just saw it, it's not that I pushed her down, but she must rely on me after she goes ashore, and you and I have to bear this responsibility, why save her?" ”
Xiaoshun cried: "If the little one is not saved, it will not be a good death, and the little one has the old and the young......"
"That's it! You go and save it! I didn't expect her to die so cheaply! ”
Xiaoshun jumped into the water with a plop and quickly fished Pei Qingwei up, her face was pale and she had long been unconscious.
Xiaoshun pushed a few handfuls on her chest and cried, "Madam, ma'am...... You can't die......"
Several boatmen on Pei's boat also swam over, and when they climbed on the boat and saw Mrs. Pei like this, they were all stunned, and they didn't know what to do.
Rao Tu said coldly: "In the book, drowning people need to press their abdomen, use their mouths to cross the qi, so that the qi comes out of the mouth, the breath is open, continue to cross the qi, and press the chest and abdomen to make them vomit out filth in order to be saved." ”
Several boatmen naturally knew the method of artificial ferry rescue, but none of them dared to go, Rao Di reminded: "If you dare to hesitate, Madame will die, and then you will all have to die." ”
A short and thin man trembled when he heard this, and he had no choice but to step forward to rescue Pei Qingwei, pressing his chest and abdomen, pinching his nose and breathing, and tossing for a long time, Pei Qingwei coughed a few times and vomited a mouthful of blood.
Rao Tu saw her open her eyes leisurely, stepped forward and squatted beside her, "Mrs. accidentally fell into the water, Xiao Shunzi fished Mrs. up, these old brothers took a lot of effort to rub their chests and cross their breath to save Mrs., and the loss of Mrs. was hard." ”
Pei Qingwei pressed her chest weakly, the placket of her clothes had already been tossed and messed up, revealing a large piece of snow-white breasts, she was ashamed, angry and hateful, and couldn't say a word.
Rao Tu intimately straightened her clothes and persuaded: "Madame must want to open some, but she has to be abrupt to save you." Madame, don't worry, you fell into the water, Rao Di will not say a word to the outside, and these people will never say it, after all, it is about Madame's innocence. ”
Pei Qingwei was furious, she was looking at the water once, making outsiders think that it was a femme fatale to kill her, but she didn't expect such a scandalous thing to happen, making her a woman with her breasts exposed, and being pressed by a man, how can she still say it? She could only break her teeth and swallow it in her stomach, which was a great shame, and she was so angry that she rolled her eyes and fainted.
Rao Tu looked at a few boatmen coldly: "You guys, you should know the severity, right?" ”
Several boatmen nodded their heads and said, "Don't dare to speak to the outside world." ”
Pei Qingwei's luxurious painting boat was approaching, and Rao Di ordered Pei Qingwei to be sent back for resettlement, and she said that she was sick and returned to Meihuawu.
On the way, the little girl Liu Xing was full of energy and said proudly: "The girl is so domineering today!" ”
Rao Di said calmly: "You go to appease Xiaoshun later, so that he doesn't have to worry, Pei will not pursue this matter in the future." ”
Liu Xing said worriedly: "Then will she add fuel and vinegar to sue in front of Lord Shen?" ”
Rao Tu sneered: "Such an ugly thing, if she is chaste, she should kill herself." But I expected that she wouldn't dare, she didn't dare to die, how could she dare to tell Shen Zhu? ”
Liu Xing was completely relieved, "The girl is really amazing." ”
"If she wants to harm me today, I will tell her plainly that I am a person, my life, and she can't just play tricks on her mind to harm me."
Rao Tu raised her head, and the warm sunlight fell on her face, revealing a kind of tenacity and calm that made her heart tremble.
She is Rao, not Xu Yu.
At night, the mountain ghost heard the news from Fang Cui Yuan, and it was only rumored that Mrs. had inadvertently fallen into the water and was infected with the wind and cold, and understated today's thrilling past.
The mountain ghost said: "It's fake to fall into the water unintentionally, it was Pei Slut who jumped down by himself." However, it is true that she is infected with wind and cold, and just standing outside the Fangcui Courtyard, you can hear her cough one after another, and the cough is tuberculosis. ”
At night, Rao Tu wrapped the fox fur, held the stove, and said that she was going to Merlin to go around, and no one was allowed to follow, but halfway to the water's edge, she took Xiaoshun, and she propped the boat to the center of the lake alone.
The evening breeze was very cold and the mist was hazy, so she parked the boat in the middle of the lake and let a small boat drift with the waves.
A long time ago, the woman named Xu Yu would also prop up the old boatman's boat in the middle of the night and go to the center of the river to wander alone.
She once watched the bright moon shining on the river alone, watching the rising sun on the water, watching the spring flowers filling the riverbank, and watching the water drawn by the feet of the jackdaw. She was so lonely.
Rao Di took out a long flute and put it under her lips, blowing it in a tune, and gradually became a song.
The sound of the swaying oar, the sound of breaking the ethereal flute, in the mist, a flat boat came leisurely. Rao Tu stopped the, and her eyes fell on the slender figure on the light boat.
He was wearing a silver-gray cloak, standing with his hands in his hands, and the wind pulled up his wide sleeves, reflecting him like a fairy.
"The girl is the lonely person in this long cold water." He smiled lazily and spoke.
Rao Di's face was not shocked: "Fifth prince, it was also very cold. ”
Xiao Yanning smiled freely, his feet lightly touched on the small boat, and the whole person flew up and landed on the boat, without even shaking the hull of the boat for half a minute.
Rao Tu sat down steadily, and said slowly: "The prince is so handsome. ”
Xiao Yanning sat down casually and sent a pot of wine to Rao Di, "Osmanthus brewing." ”
Rao Tu shook her head and said, "Concubines are not good at drinking. ”
Xiao Yanning laughed, not reluctantly, his thumb pushed the lid of the wine jug away, raised his head and took a sip, the clear wine flowed into his mouth, rolled with the Adam's apple, and slid into his abdomen.
The wine is full of aroma! Rao Di seems to see the golden cinnamon falling with the wind in the autumn sun, dancing golden light and shadow in the air.