The guy from the shop took them across two streets to the inn where Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan lived.

This inn is a restaurant downstairs, and the upstairs is accommodation, and the Sang family happened to have no dinner, so they found a table near the door, so that Zuo Shaoyang and they could see it as soon as they came back.

Sang Mu asked for a few bowls of noodles, and the family ate them slowly.

It was getting dark, and the people in the restaurant were almost gone, and when the shopkeeper kept looking at them, Zuo Shaoyang finally came back with Bai Zhihan, accompanied by the shopkeeper of Hengchang Pharmacy, discussing the case just now.

"Zuo Gongzi!" Sang Mu's face was about to laugh, and she greeted her.

When Zuo Shaoyang saw that it was her, he couldn't help frowning, looked up, and saw Sang Xiaomei, his eyes immediately became gentle like water, nodded to Sang Mu, and walked around her to the table: "Little sister, sister-in-law Qin, why are you here?" ”

Sang Xiaomei smiled softly and didn't speak. Huang Qin shouted happily at Bai Zhihan: "Big Brother Bai! ”

Bai Zhihan didn't even look at her, didn't even snort, stood at the door, with his hands behind his back, which could be described as cold as ice.

Huang Qin's heart suddenly chilled, and the smile on her face froze. Sang Xiaomei felt Bai Zhihan's coldness, and sighed in her heart, afraid that the falling flowers deliberately followed the flowing water, and the flowing water had no intention of falling in love with the falling flowers. I can't help but worry a little about Huang Qin.

Sang Mu chased after her: "Zuo Gongzi, oh, you don't know, you have been gone for two months, our little sister thinks that you have to wash your face with tears every day, and cry in the quilt at night, this person, he is so thin day by day, you see, they are almost as thin as paper paste."

Zuo Shaoyang looked at Sang Xiaomei, when he left Hezhou, Sang Xiaomei had not recovered from the famine and extreme emaciation, at that time she was really skinny, she didn't see her for two months, her body had recovered a lot, and her face was round, although she was thinner than before the war earlier, but it was already good. glanced back at Bai Zhihan, and saw that her expression was light, and her heart was a little open.

In the past two months, he and Bai Zhihan have gotten along with each other in the morning and evening, grinding their ears and temples, as good as honey and oil, except for the last step that has not been taken, the love between men and women has been done, and now he has another woman to find it, if Bai Zhihan doesn't feel it at all, and still smiles and groans, it is abnormal. It's just that Bai Zhihan is everyone's best girl, although her heart is sour, she doesn't show it much.

Zuo Shaoyang went to see Bai Zhihan, which did not make Sang Xiaomei jealous, because she and Huang Qin didn't know that Bai Zhihan, who had always dressed up in men's clothes, was actually a big girl with yellow flowers, so naturally she would not be jealous.

Zuo Shaoyang sat down on the stool next to Sang Xiaomei, Bai Zhihan was beside him, he wanted to say two affectionate words but it was difficult to speak, so he could only say: "Nothing happened, right?" Why is it that almost the whole family is here? ”

Huang Qin withdrew her gaze from Bai Zhihan with some resentment, and interjected: "It's okay, it's okay, my mother-in-law just said, it's the little sister who misses you, and the father-in-law and mother-in-law look pitiful, anyway, the tea shop business is not too busy now, so we left the baby to watch the store, and we also wanted to come to Longzhou by the way, so we came together." Little sister, don't you have a lot to say to Zuo Gongzi, why don't you be angry when you come! ”

Huang Qin's words were very popular with Sang's mother, and Le Zizi nodded and said: "What the baby daughter-in-law said is right, Zuo Gongzi, the third girl in my family wants to whisper to you, or go to the house to talk about it." We're staying here tonight, too, and I'm here, I'm here, I'm going to register a few rooms for us! We stayed! ”

With a smile on his face, the shopkeeper came over to say hello and registered the two rooms next to each other.

Zuo Shaoyang hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Bai Zhihan: "Why don't you go to my house and talk about it?" ”

Bai Zhihan twisted his head slightly, his expression faint.

Zuo Shaoyang took Sang Xiaomei to the second floor, and after entering the house, Zuo Shaoyang closed the door, and both of them were a little unnatural.

Zuo Shaoyang pointed to the two chairs under the window: "Sit down." ”

Sang Xiaomei didn't move, looking at her with resentful eyes.

Zuo Shaoyang walked in front of her, and Sang Xiaomei bravely raised her head and looked at him. Gently called: "Brother......"

Zuo Shaoyang possessed and kissed her red lips.

Sang Xiaomei raised her hand and hugged her neck and kissed back, as if she wanted to take back all the pain of these two months of separation.

Zuo Shaoyang felt the tears rolling from the corners of Sang Xiaomei's eyes, reached out to wipe them for her, opened his lips, pressed against her cheeks, and asked in a low voice, "Miss me?" ”

"Hmmm......"

Sang Xiaomei hugged her tighter, as if she was afraid that as soon as she let go, Zuo Shaoyang would fly.

"Actually, ......, I miss ......you a lot too" Before Zuo Shaoyang said this, he was a little hesitant, and his two months of affection with Bai Zhihan filled his heart. But after saying this, it seemed that the dusty memory had been unraveled, and the love and pity for Sang Xiaomei in the past was called out again, and the tenderness in his heart was occupied again, and he lowered his head and kissed her lips. Sang Xiaomei's tears flowed like a stream, and she happily grabbed the hem of his clothes and cried softly.

Zuo Shaoyang helped her wipe her tears, wiped them and flowed, as if there were tears that could not be dried. He now understands why Jia Baoyu said that women are made of water.

Zuo Shaoyang helped her sit down on the edge of the bed, when she sat down, Zuo Shaoyang felt palpitations, and glanced at this Nanmu carved bed, for two months, he and Bai Zhihan had been turning clouds and rain on it, and now he was sitting on the edge of the bed with another woman in his arms, and he was always a little awkward in his heart. Bai Zhihan's faint and helpless expression appeared in front of him.

There is no such thing as a woman who is not jealous, unless she does not love you at all.

He began to worry a little, it seems that the life of three wives and four concubines is not as comfortable and comfortable as he imagined.

Fortunately, Sang Xiaomei quickly attracted his attention. Sang Xiaomei fell into his arms and said in a low voice: "These days, the imperial court is dividing the fields, which is called the Juntian Order, and the tax is also collected according to the head of the Ding man, not according to the number of fields. Did you know? ”

"I heard that Longzhou is also dividing the fields, but I don't know how much our family has divided."

"That's a lot, 800 acres! With the addition of your own fields, there are almost thousands of acres. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said happily: "Really? How can there be so many? ”

"I heard that because of your military merits, the first batch of shares were divided according to the quota set by the imperial court for each Ding Nan 100 mu, plus you have the title of 'Model for Supporting the Army' canonized by the general, and you have been divided into 600 mu."

"Hehe, so that's the case, I thought that title was useless, I didn't think it was worth so much money."

"Yes, your family has posted a notice to find someone to rent land, and many people who used to receive porridge in your house have come to your house to rent it, by the way, we have tens of thousands of people who have migrated to Hezhou, as well as tens of thousands of military households, and there are also people who used to be treated in your pharmacy. There shouldn't be any need to worry about so many tenants not being able to rent out. After the land tax was levied on a per capita basis and not on the number of fields, the price of fields rose overnight, three times higher than before, and now the high-quality fertile land is six yuan per mu. ”

Hearing the news, Zuo Shaoyang was even more happy and couldn't help but kiss her.

Sang Xiaomei raised her head and looked at him, her eyes were full of joy: "We came this time, it is my mother's meaning, she wants you to take 35 acres of land as a bride price for me to pass the door, because the price of land has risen, and 35 acres can be sold for 210 yuan." I know you won't agree, and I don't want you to do it. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said softly: "Thirty-five acres of land is nothing, I have figured it out now, what to buy a daughter-in-law with money and not buy a daughter-in-law, as long as the two of us are really good, spending money to clear the obstacles, it is acceptable, this is not the same thing as directly spending money to buy a woman I don't know to be a daughter-in-law." ”

Sang Xiaomei looked at him in a daze, she couldn't believe her ears: "You ......, you agreed?" ”

"What's the way, when your mother sat on the ground and raised the price, when she treated her, she swore not to pay a penny as a dowry, just to offset the money owed to me, and now she wants it again, and it has been changed from seventy to two hundred and ten, I don't know how high it will rise in the future, she is sure that I can't bear you."

Sang Xiaomei blushed, if this matter can be solved, then she can become her sweetheart's concubine. The life-long event has been settled. I was grateful, but I felt guilty for my mother's greed, so I took the initiative to lean over and kiss him on the mouth: "I'm sorry, it's all my ......."

"Stupid words!" Zuo Shaoyang hugged her, "If you want to blame, you should blame me, I can't let you be a wife, I can only be a concubine." ”

"I don't care about my reputation, as long as I can be with you, as long as you are good to me, what's the difference between being a wife and a concubine?"

"Well, when I marry my original wife, I will pick you and Lan'er through the door, and the four of us will love each other happily and happily for a lifetime!"

"Well, okay!" Sang Xiaomei snuggled up to him tightly, feeling that the happiness in her heart was overflowing like boiling honey.

Zuo Shaoyang said: "However, I can't accept the thirty-five acres requested by your mother, because I won't transfer the field, and the price of the field will go up, and now Liuguan is still too cheap." Give it to her, and she will sell it when she turns around, and it will be a big loss. ”

"That'...... So what are you going to do? Sang Xiaomei's heart hung again.

"According to the bride price of seventy guan that she said before, the tea shop will pay thirty-five yuan, plus the thirty-five yuan she owes me, for a total of seventy yuan. If she wants to do this, if she doesn't want to, I'll turn my face and take you over the door, she will sue her if she wants to go to court, I have a note in my hand that she doesn't want a bride price, not only will she not give a penny, the tea shop will not return, but she will also ask for 35 yuan in debt. I can win this lawsuit wherever it goes! ”

Sang Xiaomei nodded: "My mother should agree." I'll tell her later. ”

"No, I'll just go tell him." Zuo Shaoyang was about to get up.

"Wait!" Sang Xiaomei put her arms around him, looked at his face, and said softly: "I'll go and say it later, if you can't go, I have one more thing I want to ask you." ”

(To be continued)