Chapter 40: Love, To Stay?

Guo Quanan wanted to take in the three of them, but Liu Ming thanked the other party for his kindness and wanted to leave Changzhou Mansion the next day.

"Brother Liu, you are not allowed to leave!" Yuan Moqing pleaded with tears.

"That's right, Brother Liu, where can you go?" Yuan Chen also said.

Liu Ming said with a smile: "I once said that I was going to Suzhou Mansion, and the shopkeeper Zhao of the Shunxiang Post House there invited me to help him take care of his business." Remember? Also, didn't that blind old man who divined fortune say that I would make a fortune in business? So I'm going to get rich. ”

Although he was smiling when he spoke, the reluctance in his heart was very clear to Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing. But as a man, he shouldn't take the fence as a way out, not to mention that he has to face two girls who have a good impression at the same time, rather than having no choice, it is better to leave.

Liu Ming's words made the atmosphere present change from joy to depression, and Yuan Moqing was already sobbing.

Guo Quanan was silent for a while and said, "Don't talk about these things first, this is all up to be discussed." That's it, Mo Qing, I'll arrange a place for you to live first, and you can settle down first. ”

When Guo Xing saw the old man speak, he immediately said, "I'll arrange it." Guo Quanan nodded, and Guo Xing withdrew from the living room.

After chatting for a while, Guo Xing came back and said with a smile: "Master, everything has been arranged." ”

"Mo Qing, don't cry." Guo Quanan coaxed and persuaded, "Go, go and see where you live." Liu Ming, you can go with you. ”

"Thank you, uncle." After Yuan Moqing and Yuan Chen thanked each other, they walked out of the living room with Guo Xing, and Liu Ming had no choice but to follow.

The group walked through several courtyards, walked through the garden, and came to a courtyard gate.

"Mo Qing, this courtyard is yours." Guo Xing stood still and said.

Yuan Moqing's eyes widened in surprise, walked into the moon gate, and came to the courtyard. Yuan Chen and Liu Ming also walked in.

This is a rather chic small courtyard, although the area is not large, but everywhere shows exquisiteness. On the green brick paved path, the pattern of flowers and butterflies is pieced together with red stones in the middle, and some precious flowers are planted on both sides of the road, and behind the flowers are two rows of peach trees, and under the peach trees, a small table is placed for the shade. At the end of the path, there is a house. A few people walked closer. Although the house is not large, there is only one hall and one bedroom, black tiles, plain walls, dark red pillars, and the plain curtains can be faintly seen from the window lattice. At this time, there were already two maids standing at the door of the house.

"It's nice here." Yuan Moqing said, "I like it very much. ”

"This is your home, and those two servants are at your disposal." Guo Xing said with a smile.

"Thank you, Uncle Guo!" Yuan Moqing also smiled.

Guo Xing hurriedly waved his hand, "How can you thank me?" These are all given by your uncle. ”

"Thank you for that, too." Yuan Moqing said, and then said to Yuan Chen, "Sister Yuanyuan, we will live here in the future." ”

Yuan Chen was about to speak, but Guo Xing interrupted: "Mo Qing, no matter how bad our Guo Mansion is, we can't let two girls squeeze into one room." The master has prepared a yard for Miss Chen. After speaking, he made a "please" gesture and led the three out of the courtyard.

The courtyard prepared for Yuan Chen was actually next door to Yuan Moqing, the houses in the two courtyards were connected back to back, and the decoration style was roughly the same, and there were also two maids standing in front of the door with their heads bowed.

"This is Miss Chen's residence." Guo Xing said.

"Thank you, Mr. Guo." Yuan Chen thanked him.

"You're welcome." Guo Xing smiled and said, "But you call our master uncle uncle like Mo Qing, should you also call me Uncle Guo like her?" ”

"Oh, thank you, Uncle Guo." Yuan Chen changed his words.

Guo Xing laughed and said, "Okay." Then let's take a look at the courtyard prepared for this strong man. As he spoke, he was about to walk out of the courtyard gate.

"I, I don't need to." Liu Ming hurriedly stopped, "I'd better go to find an inn on the street to stay, and it's convenient to go tomorrow morning." ”

"Brother Liu!" After Yuan Moqing heard this, she pouted and looked at him, and her eyes were a little red again.

Guo Xing turned around and said to Liu Ming: "Liu Zhuangshi, I am not arranging a temporary residence for you, but a place to live for a long time. Our lord really keeps you. ”

"I know, I can also appreciate the kindness of the master and Mr. Guo. But...... I'd better go. Liu Ming gritted his teeth and said.

Guo Xing pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, since you insist on leaving, I won't force you to stay." But no matter where you stay tonight, I still hope you can stay and have a bite to eat, and it's never too late to leave. In this way, I will go to prepare the meal first, and then send it to Mo Qing's courtyard in a while, so you can rest for a while. ”

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Guo." Liu Ming clenched his fists. Guo Xing shook his head, sighed, and turned to leave.

"Brother Liu, come and rest in my yard." Yuan Moqing grabbed Liu Ming's shirt and said.

Liu Ming looked at Yuan Chen, and then looked back at Yuan Moqing, not knowing what to do.

"Brother Liu, you go to Mo Qing's yard to take a rest, I, I'll go change my clothes." Yuan Chen made an excuse and pushed him to Yuan Moqing.

"Okay." Liu Ming replied helplessly.

"Sister Yuanyuan, come to my yard to find me after you change your clothes." Yuan Moqing said, but I don't know if it was true.

"Okay." Yuan Chen responded, turned around and walked into the house. Yuan Moqing pulled Liu Ming and couldn't wait to walk towards his yard.

Yuan Chen entered the room and sat on the bed. Two maids walked in and stood aside, bowing their heads.

She looked up at the two of them, and both girls were very young, one was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and the other was estimated to be only fourteen or fifteen years old. Yuan Chen felt pity in his heart and said, "Don't stand, sit down." ”

"Huh?" The two girls didn't seem to hear clearly, more like they didn't understand, and they were stunned for a moment.

"I said, "Sit down. Be casual and don't be inhibited. Yuan Chen said again.

"Don't dare, miss. You are the master, we are the servants, how dare you have no courtesy. The older girl said.

Yuan Chen smiled, got up and came to the girl's side and said, "Don't be like this, I'm not a master, from today on, we are all called sisters." All right? ”

"Don't dare! Can't! The two girls fell to their knees as if frightened.

"Hurry up! Get up! Yuan Chen hurriedly helped the two of them up, "What's wrong with you?" Me, did I say something wrong? ”

"Could it be, did we do something wrong?" The two girls were about to cry, "Please miss, don't do this, if the master knows, he will drive us away." ”

"This ...... How so. Yuan Chen couldn't laugh or cry, "I don't think you did anything wrong, why do you ask?" ”

"Because, for no master has ever spoken to us like this. We thought we had done something wrong and provoked you to say something angry. The older girl gradually stopped crying and replied.

"No, no." After hearing this, Yuan Chen laughed. Maybe her kindness was too abrupt, so she decided to get acquainted with each other first, so she asked, "What are your names?" How old is it? ”

"My name is Cui Ping, and I am sixteen this year." Said the older girl.

"My name is Xiaohe, and I am fourteen this year." The younger girl whispered.

"Cuiping, Xiaohe. My name is Chen Yuanyuan, and I am twenty years old. I'm not a young lady, and I'm used to bitter words, if you don't dislike it, you can call me Sister Yuanyuan, okay? Yuan Chen looked at the two of them with sincere eyes and said.

"Huh?" The two girls raised their eyes and looked at Yuan Chen, as if they couldn't believe their ears.

"Come on, call and try." Yuan Chen looked at the two of them and said with a smile.

"Circle...... Sister Yuanyuan. Cui Ping called tentatively.

"Good sister." Yuan Chen agreed, and turned to Xiaohe and said, "You also scream." ”

"Sister Yuanyuan." Xiaohe whispered.

"Sister Xiaohe." Yuan Chen smiled and hugged the two girls.

The two girls also breathed a sigh of relief and laughed sheepishly.

Yuan Chen said to the two girls: "Don't be restrained this time. In the future, there will be no outsiders, so let's be sisters. ”

The two girls nodded and smiled even more.

"Alright, you guys can rest for a while, and leave me alone. I also want to take a break. Yuan Chen said.

"Hmm." The two girls nodded, exited the bedroom, and sat down by a bed in the corner of the hall.

Yuan Chen closed the bedroom door and lay on the bed, looking up at the beams above his head. finally lived a seemingly stable life again, and at this moment, her nerves that had been tense for many days were finally relaxed. Looking back on the experience of the past few months, it was like playing a roller coaster with ups and downs, and now that it has finally stabilized, she has time to think of Wu Ruojie again. I don't know where he is now, I don't know what will happen to him. Liu Ming has already confessed to himself, will Wu Ruojie also meet a girl who confesses to him in this era? Thinking about it, she felt her eyelids fight. yes, she's so tired these days.

Just as she seemed to be asleep, the sound of something breaking suddenly came from next door.

Yuan Chen hurriedly opened his eyes, sat up, and pressed his ear to the wall. The wall separating the two rooms was not as wooden as the inn that night, but it was not heavy, so if you listened closely, you could still hear the sound. She stuck to the wall and recalled the ** incident of Liu Ming and Yuan Moqing that night. But this time, it's very different.

"You say! Why do you have to go! It was Yuan Moqing's cry.

"I ...... I'm not leaving, what are you going to do here? It was Liu Ming's helpless voice.

"Does it have anything to do with what you do? I think you're having a hard time choosing between me and Sister Yuanyuan, right? Yuan Moqing cried.

"It's not!" Liu Ming denied it, but his tone was unreserved.

"That's it! You just want to escape! ”

"Nope!"

"None? You think I don't know? ”

"What do you know?"

"I heard your confession to Sister Yuanyuan that night. It's just that I didn't know how to deal with it, so I pretended to pass out and the next day I pretended to forget! Yuan Moqing cried.

Liu Ming was silent, and Yuan Chen, who was separated by a wall, also fell into deep thought. It turned out that Yuan Moqing had been silently bearing this matter, not saying it, and not embarrassing the three of them. From this point of view, she is very mature and tolerant for the sake of her beloved.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Then I met the blind man again, and he was talking nonsense. Yuan Moqing continued, "In his meaning, isn't my name just the same as yours?" You don't want to be with me, but in front of me, in my uncle's house, you can't be with Sister Yuanyuan openly. So you just want to go! Do you still have a sense of responsibility? Do you still have a sense of responsibility? ”

"I didn't! I didn't think so at all! I've never taken the divination to heart! Liu Ming suddenly said loudly.

"Then why are you leaving!" Yuan Moqing cried again.

"I'll admit what you said before, I really don't dare to face both of you at the same time. But the point is, I don't want to eat and drink here for nothing. I'm a man, I have dignity, I can't be a little white face who rubs rice! ”

A moment of silence ensued. Liu Ming and Yuan Moqing next door were silent, and Yuan Chen was also silent.

After a long time, Yuan Chen silently climbed out of bed, opened the door, and walked out of the bedroom.

Cui Ping and Xiao He were reclining on the bed, and when they saw her come out, they hurriedly stood up.

"Sister Yuanyuan, is there anything you want us to do?" Cui Ping asked.

"No, you can rest and leave me alone." After Yuan Chen finished speaking, he slowly walked out of the door, but sped up his pace and walked out of the courtyard gate, and finally ran towards Yuan Moqing's courtyard.

When he arrived at the gate of Yuan Moqing's courtyard, Yuan Chen found that the door was closed, and pushed the door, which seemed to be locked from the inside and could not be opened. It seems that Yuan Moqing didn't mean it when she asked her to come over after changing her clothes. Yuan Chen felt sad for a while, has this girl reached such a point of estrangement from herself?

She raised her hand and knocked on the door, and in a short time the courtyard door was opened by the servant.

"Where's your young lady?" Yuan Chen asked.

"Wait a minute, let's go and say goodbye." The girl said, turning and walking towards the room.

After a while, the girl walked back, opened the courtyard door, and invited Yuan Chen to come in.

Yuan Chen walked straight to the house, only to see a vase shattered on the ground, Yuan Moqing sat on the bed with red eyes, and Liu Ming sat on the chair.

Yuan Chen stood for a while, no one spoke, and the scene was quite embarrassing. She had no choice but to call: "Mo Qing." ”

"How?" Yuan Moqing twitched and answered.

"I ...... I hear your conversation. Yuan Chen hesitated for a moment and said.

Yuan Moqing and Liu Ming's eyes widened in surprise and turned their faces to look at her.

Yuan Chenqiang squeezed out a smile and repeated: "Our room is only separated by a wall, and I heard your conversations. ”

"Yuanyuan......" Liu Ming stood up, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

"Brother Liu, Mo Qing. In fact...... I didn't expect that I would cause you so much pain. Yuan Chen lowered his head, rubbed the corners of his clothes and said, "I know, you are a couple." And I'm just your good friend. I have no intention of bothering you, not before, not now, and not in the future. ”

"Yuanyuan, we ......," Liu Ming said. Yuan Moqing also whispered: "Sister Yuanyuan......"

Yuan Chen raised his hand and said, "Don't interrupt me, since I've said it all, let me finish speaking." ”

The two stared at her and fell silent.

Yuan Chen let out a long sigh, his eyes were a little red, but he still forced a smile and said, "Seriously, Mo Qing, Brother Liu, you are really my best friends." Moreover, you are all good people, and if you make a pair, I will bless you. If I, as a friend, bother you, then I'...... Would rather leave. ”

"Leave?" Liu Ming was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, leave." Yuan Chen repeated his words, "Brother Liu, you better not leave, just stay in the Guo Mansion, stay with Mo Qing, she really needs you, she really can't do without you." I'll go if I can. I won't bother you here anymore, I'll go to a place where you can't find me, and live my own life. ”

"Sister Yuanyuan!" Yuan Moqing, who had been listening, suddenly cried out loud, "Sister Yuanyuan, I blame you by mistake!" It's me who is bad! ”

Yuan Chen's tears also gushed out, and the two girls hugged each other and cried loudly. Liu Ming's eyes were also red.

After crying for a while, the two separated, and Yuan Moqing wiped her tears and said, "Sister Yuanyuan, I was wrong, I was too naΓ―ve." Don't go, Brother Liu won't go, don't go. ”

"No, Mo Qing, I have made up my mind, I must go." Yuan Chen had tears in the corners of his eyes, but he said firmly.

"You are a woman, it is inconvenient to go anywhere, so let me go." Liu Ming said.

Yuan Chen turned around, looked him in the eye and said, "Brother Liu, listen to me, if you don't want to be sorry for Mo Qing, then don't leave." ”

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