She took a piece of shower gel and five small towels, walked out of the room, and walked towards the river on the other side of the crop field to the west.

Seven years have passed, and it is now the end of the eighth year. Six quarters have passed since Qiao Yilong was bitten by the "copper-colored poison".

Although it was now after seven o'clock in the evening, the sun was still like a blazing yellow fireball, and the cold air did not weaken much. She walked through the field of fruit trees, and the snow-white fruit trees bloomed from the cotton peaches, and soon they were about to pick the fruit trees.

It's a long way to get to the river, almost a mile and a half. After the cotton field, you have to pass through a sparse woodland over there.

Despite being tired, she was willing to walk this way. The weather was very cold, and the ground was sweaty and sticky. After a day of cleaning the room, she was covered in dirt.

She moved all the carpets to the open space at the back of the house, dusted them off with a long laundry stick, then wiped all the floors clean, and put them back in their place.

Therefore, it is necessary to clean a small bath thoroughly, rather than dragging a white iron bathtub in the kitchen to fill some water for swimming. Qiao Yilong went back to the study after eating, you won't notice her.

Walking through the fruit trees, she began to walk through the woodland, where a small squirrel was jumping and squeaking at her.

A black finch flew off a branch into the distance, green?

Don't be in a hurry and enjoy this free feeling before swimming. She wasn't supposed to come out for a swim.

Because she knows that she has left Qiao Yilong's territory, this is only possible with your permission. If you find out, you will be very upset.

But she didn't care.

The thought of being able to take a long and comfortable bath in the river right away is worth it to make you angry even if you find out.

Although you are still as cold and distant as ever towards her, and your attitude is still so cold, you seem to be a little more polite than before you were bitten by the snake.

Although he didn't show any coldness, he didn't speak to her so harshly. Is it because she saved your life?

When she brought you breakfast to your room that day, you vulgarly thanked you, and you never mentioned it again, and she didn't say anything more. She tried her best to avoid you, lest I lose control of my feelings.

The morning sickness of the pregnant woman in Luludi has passed, and my health has improved, so she asked me to go to the field to bring you Chinese food, and she will bring tea in the evening.

She acts with moderation and never speaks when you don't talk to her.

She never baked you again, but she still treats you nicely, just trying not to talk.

As long as she can restrain me, Qiao Yilong will never know what she thinks of you. She suppressed her inner feelings tightly, not letting them come in and out.

The heavy work enabled her to do so. She worked desperately with a vengeance, so that I would not think about you.

She had never been so tired. Six seasons went on without a hitch, and she wished it could go on forever.

She saw the river through the trees in front of her. There are five wide sand banks on the river, and the river is like a small green pool.

The river water sparkles in the sun. She threw off her shoes, and with her bare feet, she squeaked on the loose sand, and her heart was very refreshed.

She took off her tunic and petticoat and placed it on a dead log with her bath towel. Naked, she picked up the shower gel and stepped into the water, which was up to her waist.

The water was so cool and pleasant that she sank completely into a happy and pleasant place, splashing with her hands like a child. Lulu Floor Body Wash is soft, creamy, and has a purple tincin scent. She loved the foamy body wash.

Wipe your arms and front first, and then clean your hair thoroughly. She soaked in the water for about half an hour, swam around, and finally reluctantly walked up to shore and dried herself with a bath towel.

Her hair was still on the ground, and she thought about drying it in the sun and getting dressed, so she found a small, flat piece by the water's edge.

The earth is yellow and stone, spread out the bath towel, lie down on your back to the sky, one leg bent. Surrounded by rivers and trees

。 She resembled a fairy who lived in seclusion in the mountains, forests and rivers, and she couldn't help but smile when she thought of it.

It's a place that no one will ever find. The warmth of the sun shone on her bare skin, and she felt so much.

She had never felt so laid back before, and it was a very small pleasure to be so alone after a busy day in the noise.

The sunlight slowly diminished, but it was at least an hour before it got dark. She closed her eyes and began to think about it.

She thinks about Lulu and doesn't know what I'm doing now.

She hopes that my situation will be better than hers, and at this moment, maybe the strong Zhao Yijing who bought me is serving me.

I don't know if I will ever see this sturdy and aggressive little English swallow again.

The little family was on the boat together in those days.

It seems like it happened many years ago.

Her experience at 10 Place Montague also seems to have taken place in another century.

Now she can think back to the past without anger or distress.

The things of the past are gone, far behind her, and gone forever.

And the future that lies ahead is just an elusive mystery.

She must have been asleep for a while, for by the time she opened her eyes, her hair was all dry, and feathers were surging on her head.

Something woke her up, an unusual sound. She sat up quickly, suddenly uneasy, and she distinctly felt that someone was peeking at her.

A cow was neighing, she was startled, and when she turned around, she saw Qiao Yilong sitting with his feet apart and straddled a horse a few yards away from her.

There is no expression on your face. She doesn't know how long you've been standing there. She stood up, forgetting for a moment that I was the ground.

You still look at her indifferently, unresponsive. The cow was grazing at the edge of the woods, and Qiao Yilong was sitting on the saddle of the cow, holding the rope loosely in his hand.

"She knew she could find him here," you said.

She grabbed the bath towel and quickly surrounded herself.

She looked for him everywhere," you continued, your voice calm and flat. "I searched the house, the yard, and the barn.

Lulu finally told her that I saw him take five lilac baths with Lulu, and she guessed he had gone for a swim in the river. "He was right."

"His hair was like a fire in the sun, a cloud of soft fire.

He knew that he would not leave her land without her promise. If any other servant did this, she would have beaten the ground with a stick. ”

"Is he considering whipping her with a stick?"

"She doesn't need to think about it," you said nonchalantly.

"Anyway, not this time. It was so presumptuous for him to be here. There are many young scoundrels in this area, the sons of Sigmendi.

I've never seen a little villain, and Jason Barnett, a young villain with extremely bad morals.

What would happen if any of you ran into him and saw him lying like that, an idol of flesh and blood Venus beauty? ”

"But none of you ran into her," she replied. "He, how long has he been standing there?"

"It's none of his business," you replied.

You must have been riding your oxen slowly through the woodland to get here. You deliberately didn't wake her up, but the neighing of the cow woke her up.

"There was a look of challenge in his eyes," you said. "He had seriously violated her rules.

Now his blue eyes looked at her like that, as if to tempt her to do something.

An hour or two ago, I bowed my head and sent her an evening tea floor, where was the humble and meek girl? ”

"It's a pity, Boss Qiao Yilong, if he is not happy," she said indifferently.

"Oh, look at him, that cold, aristocratic tone is here again, and he's still reading. she

There is a missing volume on the bookshelf in the study. She thought it must be in his basement. ”

"When I get back, she'll give it back to him right away."

"Don't worry, as long as he doesn't interfere with his work, he can read any book in her room freely. It seems that she bought a versatile maid. ”

"A servant," she corrected. "The land bought on the auction table will be the property of another land for the next fourteen years."

"She felt that I was a lucky man. Unbeknownst to him, she had thought he had run away and was going to escape from her place.

She felt a little, a little panicked when she couldn't find him anywhere.

Lulu was relieved when she told her that he had brought a towel and body wash. ”

She didn't answer, still covering the front of her body with a bath towel. She looks at you calmly, but she trembles with nervousness inside.

Since you were bitten by a snake, Xiaojia hasn't said a few words like this. She finds you out of the ordinary.

Despite the cold look in your eyes, she never seemed to see you so at ease.

Have you finally discovered that she is not only your servant, a valuable property, but something more valuable somewhere?

"He's still getting dressed, Marita. The little family has to go back, and it's going to be dark. "She'll walk back to the ground," she told you.

"He can ride on the back of an ox," you corrected her.

She didn't want to run into him in the woods, even though he was in his pocket. Hurry up and put your clothes on.

Then put on a faded beige striped cotton blouse and the carefully mended shirt.

Then he brushed his hair with his hands, shook his head again, and let his hair hang down naturally. Then casually put on your shoes.

It all took a full five minutes, and she thought you would be happy.

"Are you all right?" You ask lazily.

She picked up the towel and nodded. You take the ox to where she is standing and stretch out your hand to her. She grabs you by the ground, steps on the bull kick, jumps on the ox, sits behind you, and wraps her arms around your waist.

As soon as Qiao Yilong lifted the rope and pulled it gently, the ox began to slowly move through the woodland. The two of them didn't say anything.

She saw the thick, curly hair on the back of your head, and the cotton shirt that was taut over your broad shoulders.

Her legs are pressed against yours, and she visibly feels the strength of your calves.

When the cow walks on the uneven road, she leans on you and puts her face on your back.

She considered how pleasant it would be to be able to love each other openly and honestly, freely, in words and in deeds.

She had managed to suppress my love for several quarters, but at this moment it was aching in her heart, hurting her, breaking her heart.

The fruit tree, which was still snow-white just now, was suddenly dyed faintly pink and black. The fruit trees cast a thick shadow on the ground.

What a beautiful and enchanting view, and she really thought about crying out for this enchanting view, for the passion that was suppressed in her heart and could not be expressed.

Qiao Yilong sat straight in front of her, and your back was stiff. I don't know how you're feeling right now, what you're thinking about.

Thinking about her?

Are you still reminiscing about the scene of her lying on the rock, or are you thinking about what happened elsewhere, considering the price of fruit trees, thinking about tomorrow's work?

The sun has all set.

When the little family returned to the yard, it was already dusk.

The tree casts a long shade of purple, and the sky continues to darken, and the sky takes on a deep blue color.

Qiao Yilong stopped in front of Niu Ji and called out to the manservant who was waiting for you to come back. When the servant heard the shout, he immediately stepped out and took the string.

Qiao Yilong got off the cow first, and then, patted her waist with both hands, and held her down to stand beside you. As the little family walked into the house, the bees chirped and the fireflies began to flutter around the fig tree next to the back porch.

The old house looms ahead. As the tree moves in shadows, a ghostly one

White is spreading. She felt melancholy, she felt sad.

"He said he was looking for her everywhere," she said softly to you. "Does he need anything?"

The little family stopped in front of the stairs at the back. There was a lamp in the kitchen that shone on the porch.

She can see your face clearly, but there is still no expression, you are wary, and you are still using very little effort to hide some kind of feeling.

"She's going to Charles City tomorrow, Marita. She thought he would be glad to accompany her to the land. ”

She was taken aback and couldn't answer for a moment. Qiao Yilong waited for a while and then continued, your voice was as cold as usual.

"After she was bitten by a poisonous snake, he did many things for her, but he was not willing to accept any reward, and she considered taking him to Charles City to have fun, and he might be satisfied.

She believed that he could buy a lot of things for the kitchen there, sugar, coffee, and there must not be much in the kitchen. ”

"She thinks that he will buy the land."

"That's usually the case."

She didn't know why he was taking her, she did things without any reward.

She did it just because. ”

"He listened," you interrupted, and you were a little annoyed at the voice.

"She is going to go, he can go with her, or he can stay at home, she doesn't care! She was just thinking that maybe he would be happy to go out for a walk.

She departs at six o'clock in the morning, and she has breakfast at half past five. If he wants to go to the earth, get ready! ”

You step up the stairs, step over the porch, open the back door, slam the door shut, and go inside.

She hears you angrily walking through the kitchen, through the small hall, and then only the sound of bees on the floor under the stairs. Her sudden anger surprised her, but it also pleased her, and she wondered if the wall of ice you had built around me was finally beginning to thaw.

The next morning, when the little family set off in the ox cart where Qiao Yilong took her to the place where Biaoshuyin came, it was still very dark.

Qiao Yilong didn't have any beautiful ox carts, nor did he have fashionable clothes.

Everything depends on this creaking old ox cart on the farm.

After eating, you instructed Zhao Yijing and Lulu that you should work on the ground when you are not at home. Zhao Yijing has been worried about the fruit tree, and proposed to take the fruit tree back immediately.

Qiao Yilong said Wait for you to come back and collect it, the weather is cold and dry, and it won't rain.

She knew that if there was a heavy rain, the whole orchard would be destroyed, but the family only went out for three days.

I will be back on the evening of the third day, and there is no risk of delaying the harvest of the fruit trees a little.

When Qiao Yilong saw that she was getting dressed and ready to accompany you on a trip, he didn't say anything. She put on her best clothes, a faded brown cotton garment with gold stripes on the top. Due to the diligent cleaning, several places have been patched.

It's the land she's been collecting for a long time, and the pair of high-heeled shoes look very old.

Qiao Yilong was wearing your overalls, but she knew that you still had some good clothes in the bag in the back of the car.

The sun had just risen as the ox cart walked on the rough dirty road. As the little family drove past Mrs. Maude Simmons' land, Magnolia Garden, the bright and dazzling sunlight replaced the pink and black at dawn.

The servants are picking fruit trees in the field and putting them in small cloth bags that are dragged behind your backs. Plantation houses can be seen in the distance.

The house is small but lovely, supported by white columns, and lined with tall green wax trees on both sides of the double porch, hence the name of the magnolia garden.

The wax branches are covered with small white flowers, making it look more like ash. and wood

Compared with the orchid garden, the shade of the label tree is even more shabby. In the next few hours, the small family passed through the plantations, and the houses were the same.

Almost everywhere the local servants were busy picking fruit trees. She began to wonder if it was wise for Qiao Yilong to travel away from home at this critical moment, regardless of the change in the weather.

The road is just as bad as it gets. The road is bumpy and pothole-ridden, and she keeps bumping over you.

At one point, she had to grab your arm to keep it from falling off her seat.

In some sections, the road is lined with tall and small trees, and the lush foliage is staggered over the top of the small home, forming five green tunnels of the active ground.

The landmark trees in the Label Shade Plantation also hang this gray-green moss. Lulu once compared it to a "Spanish beard".

It hangs like a green belt over the road floor, and it's a beautiful sight. She had never seen such a beauty in England.

Qiao Yilong didn't say a word. You haven't spoken to her since you left Dong Shuyin, and I don't know if you're still angry with her, because she didn't happily obey when you invited her to go on a trip yesterday.

Three times along the way, you've driven the bullock cart to the side of the road and let the oncoming cart pass. Each time, the other party stared at the small family unabashedly.

She thought that it wouldn't be long before the word spread that Dow Qiao Yilong took the girl you bought to drive the ox cart to Charles City.

Your neighbors will think that she is already the woman you share with. But no matter what you guys talk about, Qiao Yilong won't care.

Maude had already told her that Qiao Yilong was an opinionated person, and he wouldn't care what others said about you.

At about one o'clock in the evening, when the sun was scorching, you pulled your car over on a grassy slope under a few trees.

She took the rice basket she had prepared before departure. When she pushed away a tablecloth and took out the food on the floor, Qiao Yilong lay on the grass with his head on his back. You're still silent, and she's determined not to speak first.

You are lying lazily on the grass, with thick eyebrows and a slightly open mouth, like a lazy pasha.

She thought about throwing this iced tea on your face, but she didn't.

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