He went out and was just about to get on his horse, when suddenly a person shouted from afar: "Lord Shen! And he ran to them.

Shen Ruoyu helped Dou'er onto the horse, but pulled Ma Shun Street straight down. Liu Tingbing anxiously shouted two more times and chased after him. Shen Ruoyu walked around the corner of the street, turned a corner, and then stopped, turned to look at Liu Tingbing, who ran closer, and said:

"Second Young Master, it's inconvenient to talk at your doorstep."

Liu Tingbing ran out of breath, his face full of panic.

"Your Excellency...... Beam...... Ms Leung...... Missing ......"

Shen Ruoyu stopped him and whispered:

"I know. Rest assured, she's fine. She couldn't stay in the building anymore, so I asked a brother to hide her, and she's safe now. ”

Liu Tingbing let out a long breath, and his tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he was almost about to sit on the ground. Shen Ruoyu held him up and asked:

"You finally know who she is? Who told you that? ”

"Hong ...... What the Hongjiang brothers said ......"

"So, you met her again later?"

"See...... When they met, it was arranged by Brother Jing and Yun'er. ”

"Tell me, Young Master Ting Bing, have you thought about marrying her?"

Liu Tingbing hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to redeem her, but Yuchun Lou doesn't do it, saying that there are dignitaries and nobles who want to redeem her, no matter how much money it is." ”

"She doesn't belong to Yuchun Tower now, and it is impossible for her to go back. Are you going to marry her? ”

Liu Tingbing said shyly: "I'm afraid I'm not worthy of her." I'm just an ordinary man, how can I have the blessing to touch such a fairy. ”

Shen Ruoyu said softly: "If you really think so, it's okay." I'm just afraid that if you have to marry her, you'll end up sad and disappointed. ”

Liu Tingbing asked cautiously, "She already has someone in mind, right?" ”

"I don't know. I'm far away from her, and I don't know her very well. Shen Ruoyu said, "It's just her identity - she has never been a Qinglou woman; Although your family is rich, after all, she is only a businessman, and in the end, she is even lower than an ordinary farmer, and I am afraid that she will not be able to climb high. If you took the exam at the beginning, got a fame, and got into the office, you still have a chance now, and you can barely be regarded as the right person. But it's too late to say that now. ”

Liu Tingbing's eyes widened; There were almost tears in those eyes.

"Who the hell is she? Her identity - I understand how a woman like her could not be of noble birth. Who the hell is she? ”

Shen Ruoyu sighed: "I can't say it yet, it won't be long before you know." I originally wanted to help you get married. But things were unexpected, and now I can't do anything about it. Whether it is fate or not, you can only resign yourself to fate. ”

After speaking, he got on the horse, said goodbye to Liu Tingbing, and rode his horse to his house.

Finally got home. He picked up the beans and hurried them to the door. Husheng came out of the house, looked at the two, and asked strangely:

"Where's Madame?"

Shen Ruoliao didn't answer him, and said to Dou'er:

"Dou'er, you go boil water and cook. I want to taste the difference between a daughter-in-law and a girl. The meal was ready and brought to my house. ”

Dou'er quickly cooked the meal, brought it to Shen Ruoyu's house, and saw her master sitting by the bookcase, staring at the Feixing Guqin on the case in a daze.

"The old man's meal is ready." She said.

Shen Ruoyu heard the maid's crisp voice and raised her head blankly. Dou'er laid out the meal on the table of the Eight Immortals, and then stood aside and watched him.

He looked at the hot dishes, and after a moment's pause, asked:

"Dou'er, I haven't been back for the past few days, what has Madame said? How did she remember to go to Liu's house? ”

Dou'er said: "When the master was out fighting, Mrs. had a relationship with the eldest young grandmother of the Liu family, first Mrs. Liu came over, saying that the second young master of the Liu family and the master are friends, and Mrs. is alone at home, she should come over to take care of it." Come and go, and they're fine. Mrs. Liu often came to sit and often invited her to come and sit. Later, Mrs. Liu fell ill, and Mrs. Liu also asked her cook to stew chicken soup and bring it over. The old man didn't come home the next night when he came back, and the lady was sad again, so she naturally remembered the Liu family. Coincidentally, Mrs. Liu came over in the morning, so she took her to Liu's mansion. ”

"People can't hold back at home all the time," Shen Ruoyu said to himself, "If you hold it for a long time, it will change, and people will become unreasonable." A woman's family should have her own close friends, which is normal. It's just ......"

He paused, just silently.

Dou'er was a little discouraged: "Master, I really don't understand you." Brother Husheng told me that the day you went home, you were almost carried in by a family, and you were covered in injuries. He helped you take medicine for two days, and you went to Liufu to find your wife just a little later. Madame didn't know anything, and thought you had forgotten her. Why don't you say anything? ”

Shen Ruoyu was silent for a long time, sighed, full of sadness, shook his head lightly, and said with a wry smile:

"What can you do when you say it? Use her pity and sympathy to earn a temporary reunion and linger and deceive yourself? She never loved me at all. Why am I admitting it today? ”

Dou'er looked at him innocently and said kindly: "Master, don't think so; Of course Madame loves you. She's just playing a tantrum. In fact, Mrs. is also very bitter, when you are not there, she always says that she misses home, misses her uncle, misses her grandfather, and says that her life in the mountains is so good, why do you have to run out if you are not satisfied. She regretted leaving her grandfather alone at home, and always memorized a poem repeatedly, and I memorized it all, 'An Neng broke his eyebrows and bent his waist to the powerful, making me unhappy?' ’”

"'Breaking the eyebrows and bending the waist to the powerful', how can it be so." Shen Ruoyu smiled bitterly. "I brought her here, I didn't lie to her about anything. In fact, I can choose to stay in Beiping, and I will not have so many contradictions in this life. But even if I really stayed in Beiping, I couldn't stay together and go home every day; I have what I have to do, I'm not a peaceful person. I thought that she understood me, understood my choices and aspirations, and would be willing to accompany me, but she was just a child - she had always been just a child, and after two days of freshness, she still needed someone like Hong Jiang to spoil her every step of the way. I can't give it. What's next? ”

Dou'er said: "Don't worry, sir, Madam will definitely come back." After two days, she was discouraged, and she would immediately figure out that the master was still good to her. ”

Shen Ruoyu shook his head.

"Actually, I treat her very badly, and I always rank her after business, not to mention that there is Hong Jiang to compare with me - people like me may not be worthy of marrying a wife by my side."

Dou'er looked at him sadly.

"Sir, how can you think so. How many officials and soldiers in the world are out on the battlefield, and no one can go home, and I haven't heard of anyone's wife leaving him because of this. Madame is unhappy in her heart, she will not leave you. Besides, isn't there another saying, called 'marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog'? ”

Shen Ruoyu smiled bitterly: "Do you think I'm a chicken or a dog?" ”

Dou'er blushed: "I didn't mean that." ”

Shen Ruoyu said: "It doesn't matter if you mean that or not, you are not my daughter-in-law." In Qiu'er's eyes, maybe I'm not even as good as a chicken and a dog. ”

Dou'er said: "Master, you are really, it is better to pull Mrs. back directly." Anyway, you forcibly pulled me back. When Madame returns home, she may relent. ”

Shen Ruoyu was slightly stunned and said, "By the way, I almost forgot." Bean, who is he? ”

When Dou'er saw his expression, her face immediately turned red and she lowered her head.

"What the hell, who did the master say?"

"Play dumb. Thought I didn't see it? ”

“…… No......"

"Dou'er, how old are you?"

"Sixteen."

"Twenty-eight years old," Shen Ruoyu said, "It's time to get married now." It's just that you can't just mess around with your in-laws, and you still want to hide it from me. You're not going to elope with him, are you? ”

"Sir!" Dou'er's face was purple.

"Don't tell him who he is. If you don't say anything more, I'll marry you to Husheng. ”

Dou'er snorted shyly: "He is...... He is...... ...... in Liufu One...... One...... Well...... The ...... of the fire"

"The ...... who burns the fire Where is he from? What is your name? How old is it? ”

“…… Well...... His surname is Qiu, he is five years older than me, he is from Anlu, and he is ...... is a distant cousin of Mrs. Liu......"

Shen Ruoyu thought for a while and said, "Dou'er, you should be counted as my family, because, if I violate the king's law and want to be beheaded all over the house, you and Husheng will not be able to escape." Do you understand? ”

Dou'er's face was full of embarrassment. "Sir...... Why do you say this? ”

"Since you are my family, I am responsible for your life's events, and I can't be hasty. Do you like him very much? What do you like, do you really want to marry him immediately, do you want to do his laundry and cooking, and give him a large group of children? ”

Dou'er blushed: "Master......"

"Say, bean; I don't mean to embarrass you, but you're young and you've never loved someone before, right? You don't understand a man's mind. I don't want to see you marry a wicked man and end up losing. ”

"No, he said he had to marry me...... He said he was ...... Loved my ......"

Shen Ruoyu lowered his voice and said seriously: "Of course, he must have said so. I also know what kind of good girl Dou'er is, you must like him very much to get to this point. But at this time, there must be a cold outsider to see his attitude towards you. In these days, people's hearts are the most difficult to say. The Liu family is so magnificent, and the courtyard is full of young maids, not all of them are inferior to you, and even most of them are more beautiful and gentle than you, how old is he? - Twenty-one years old, a little older than me, then he should have seen more beautiful women than me, it seems that he has been in Liufu for a long time - why did he fall in love with you, have you thought about this question? ”

Dou'er looked at him with some grievances: "Master is saying that he is lying to me?" ”

"Not really. He may be sincere, the two of you are destined to marry; Perhaps, he has ulterior motives. Anyway, I'm sitting here, I don't know anything; You, carried away by the enthusiasm, can't see anything clearly. So, I want you to wait. It doesn't take long, three months is enough to cool down a relationship that doesn't go the right way. I can also take a good look at the person you mentioned during this time and help you check the gates. Three months, you can always wait, right? ”

Dou'er nodded, and asked a little ignorantly: "Did the master wait three months to marry his wife?" ”

Shen Ruoyu was silent for a moment, and said softly: "Sometimes I feel that I have waited too long and have wasted the best time. Sometimes I feel that I am too anxious, and I can't wait to marry her, and to this day, she is clamoring to break up with me. I don't know. It's hard to say; However, after all, it is not your business, because for the two of you, I am an outsider. Lookers-on see most of the game. ”

Dou'er said: "The master is worried again." Minor misunderstandings will be cleared up soon. ”

"It's not a misunderstanding, the problem between me and her is not in communication at all, there is no so-called misunderstanding," Shen Ruoyu shook his head and said, "'The Tao is different, not conspiring with each other', this is the root of the problem." If you don't understand, you don't need to understand this, just add trouble to yourself. You marry the husband of Liufu, as long as he doesn't have any hidden ambitions, you will not have such a problem as me and Qiu'er in your life. You don't care. ”

"Sir, eat something. I did it all for nothing. Dou'er pouted.

Shen Ruoyu smiled: "Husheng is so hungry that he grows hair, but you have to let the food cool in my place." Give it to him. Don't I know the craft of Bean'er? I have to take a good look at which guy it is, such a blessing. ”