At night in Gusu, there was silence when it arrived, and only "Knock!" could be heard. - Knock! Boom! The sound of the watch, the entire Gusu City was silent in the previous darkness, only the candles dotted with stars, like fireflies in the night, emitting a faint light.

At this time, every family is ready to go to bed, the chickens and ducks are back to their cages, the hunting dogs are back to their nests, and the livestock are back to the sheds.

In the Blue Mansion, passing through the majestic vermilion main hall, walking back is the east-west courtyard, surrounded by bluestone bricks, which looks even more dark and cold under the moonlight.

And Lan Yicheng and Nangong Yuexi's room is in the floating pavilion surrounded by the garden.

The three characters of the floating shadow pavilion are taken from Lu Zhaolin: the floating incense surrounds the curved bank, and the round shadow covers the pond.

In front of the bedroom door, there is a pond two zhang wide, the same as the Qing Lotus Garden, are full of lotus flowers, summer night, there will always be a few fireflies flying in the lotus pond, a little dark green light is like a starry sky, the night lotus is covered with a layer of looming beauty.

After dinner, Lan Yicheng stood by the lotus pond, not knowing what he was thinking, and suddenly a woman's inquiry voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Husband, where have you been today?"

I only saw a woman standing next to Lan Yicheng, wearing a light yellow skirt accompanied by a light blue half-arm and a light blue tulle shawl, holding a single screw bun, with pearl tassel earrings, her complexion was like mutton fat and white jade, her eyes were like stars, her eyebrows were like distant mountains, and her appearance was also first-class.

Lan Yicheng stretched out his hand and put his hand on her shoulder, took her in his arms, with a smile on his face, and said happily: "Where else can I go?" Haven't you gone to inspect the firm? When the words fell, Lan Yicheng turned around and pulled the shawl net on Nangong Yuexi's body, and said with concern: "How can you come out if you don't have a good rest, it's windy at night, if you catch a cold, our little Junyu will be annoyed with you!"

Nangong Yuexi gently stroked her lower abdomen, and said a little shyly: "I'm not paper paste, I will fall when I blow it." Besides, Jun Yu is eight years old, and he is well-read, so he can be obedient! ”

When the words fell, Nangong Yuexi gently snuggled on Lan Yicheng's shoulder, put one hand on his heart, and lightly covered his lower abdomen with the other, and suddenly came a complaining mouth, saying: "Husband, it's me who is not good!" Ordinary men are already a group of children at this time, you and I have been married for nearly ten years, there is only one son, Junyu, I know that the Lan family is scarce, if it is ......"

"What if?" Lan Yicheng asked.

"If the husband takes a concubine, bring her back! You don't have to be placed in Qingheyuan, and your husband doesn't have to worry about my taste, but deliberately hide it from me. Nangong Yuexi was almost crying when she said this, and when she came back from the hospital in the afternoon, she was full of joy to see her husband take a beautiful woman back to Qinghe Garden, and also buy clothes and servants for her, which was like a thunderbolt. No wonder he said these days that because of business matters, Qinghe Yuan was quiet and wanted to move over for a few days.

Lan Yicheng pushed Nangong Yuexi away slightly, held her shoulder, and asked with a smile: "How did Madam know that I brought a girl back to Qinghe Garden?"

Lan Yicheng asked himself that he didn't intend to hide this matter from Nangong Yuexi, but he didn't want to tell her so quickly, but everything in the world was so unexpected, how could Nangong Yuexi know?

Nangong Yuexi sighed, brushed his hand away, looked at the lotus flowers all over the lake, and sighed: "How do I know? I don't feel comfortable going to see the doctor today, and on the street when I came back, it was all about you and the woman, and everyone was still talking and whispering, saying that the head of the Lan family finally took a concubine, when did my lady change her temperament and stop being jealous! As soon as he finished speaking, the tears fell down with a snap, wiped away the tears on his face slightly, and said again with a crying voice: "But when have I ever been jealous?" It's all a concubine, isn't it......"

Lan Yicheng suddenly laughed and said, "Madam, it's me who didn't think it through." The girl was the daughter of the deceased, and when she saw that she was pitiful, she reached out to help, and when she found her family, she would leave, and the lady should not be angry, for it would not be good if the fetus was angry. ”

Lan Yicheng coaxed Nangong Yuexi back with some clever words, and seeing that she was sleeping peacefully, he covered her with a quilt very intimately, walked to the river alone, and looked at the lotus flowers all over the lake.

"O moon tide! It's not a good time for you to get pregnant, but it's okay, it's not a big deal to change your plans! Lan Yicheng looked at the looming lotus flower and said indifferently.

Lan Yicheng smiled wickedly at the corner of his mouth, just like the young man in his early twenties who stood on the street of Gusu ten years ago, and his memory also changed from that year to even he couldn't bear to recall.

Nangong Yuexi, the eldest lady of the Nangong family in Anling, is the only descendant of the Dementor Palm, and she is opposite to the Dark Cloud Palm, but she is not inferior at all. She used to be arrogant and invincible, she was raised in the palm of her hand by the Nangong family, lived in a honey pot, and never knew what it meant to be hard, hungry and hard.

Nangong Yuexi didn't sleep very well because she was pregnant with a child, and she woke up not long after lying down, but when she turned over, she found that Lan Yicheng had not returned, and she slowly got up but found that he was still standing by the lotus pond, and she was immediately angry.

In the early morning, the cuckoo in the tree chirped a few crisply, and Nangong Yuexi woke up from her unstable sleep, everything was as she expected, and her husband Lan Yicheng went out early.

Sitting in front of the dresser, Nangong Yuexi took a lotus hairpin, put it in her hand and looked at it carefully for a long time, and couldn't help but think of a woman's appearance in her mind, and then said with a smile: "My Nangong Yuexi's man, no one wants to snatch it!" Ten years ago, no one could have moved, and it still is! ”

Nangong Yuexi has this confidence at this time, thinking that he Lan Yicheng was just a poor chivalrous man who was poor and white ten years ago, without enough food and clothing, without any identity background, neither a famous family nor a prestigious family, he can have today is not all thanks to the Nangong family, let him have the wind and rain, and it will not delay him to be a world-famous hero at all.

Similarly, if he, Lan Yicheng, had the courage to dare to leave Nangong Yuexi, Nangong Yuexi would also have the ability to make him go back to ten years ago and make him nothing.

"Ye'er, send someone to inquire about Qinghe Yuan secretly and see if there is anything interesting there!" Nangong Yuexi called her henchman and maidservant and whispered.

On the other side, before Lan Yicheng went to Qinghe Garden, he went to a restaurant in the city, ordered two pots of sake, two plates of drunken chicken, a plate of lotus root and a plate of cold wild vegetables, put them in the food box, and went to the outside of Gusu City alone with his things.

It took half an hour for Lan Yicheng to come to a very secluded bamboo forest.

In the depths of the bamboo forest in summer, it is the coolest, and at night there is even some biting cold, and the verdant bamboo leaves make these bamboos even more delicate.

Lan Yicheng walked towards the bamboo hut deep in the bamboo forest, took out an old hoe and a broom from the bamboo hut, and went straight to a lonely grave behind the bamboo house.

The tombstone of this lonely grave only reads "The Tomb of the Beloved Wife and Dumb Children", but other than that, not a single word is written.

There is no difference between the tomb of the dumb child and ordinary people's homes, and a lot of dead grass has grown on the grave, and the surrounding area is slowly covered with leaves and weeds.

Lan Yicheng squatted in front of the tombstone, looked at it silently for a while, sighed slightly, and wiped the tombstone little by little with the towel he had prepared.

But after a while, Lan Yicheng picked up a hoe to remove and pull out the nearby weeds little by little, but the weeds growing on the grave were pulled out one by one, and in the end, his hand accidentally made a cut, and there were many old wounds on his hands, all of which were scratched when pulling weeds.

Lan Yicheng sat cross-legged in front of the tombstone, laid out the meals he brought one by one, and left a drunken chicken and sake alone, and put them in the bamboo house.

He reached out and touched the word "beloved wife" on the tombstone, his eyes were very gentle, but there was more sadness and longing in it.

"Dumb, do you blame me?" Lan Yicheng looked at the tombstone with red eyes and whispered.

How Lan Yicheng wished that nothing could have happened ten years ago, if he had to do it all over again, he would rather be beaten to death by a ruffian on the street than meet Mantuo, Nangong Yuexi, and the mute who could make him desperate to protect him with his life.

But dumb, but so humble that the dust is even more humble, obviously he hasn't done anything, but he can make two innocent people become old enemies.

"Dumb, wait for me!" The words fell, holding the wine jug in his hand and raising his head to take a big sip, a tear from the corner of his eye slowly slipped to the corner of his mouth, raised his hand and touched the word "beloved wife" again, and suddenly hated it, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "They owe you, I will get it back for you!" There are still three lives left, I will let them make amends one by one, wait for me! ”

Lan Yicheng sprinkled the rest of the wine next to the tombstone, turned around and walked to the cabin, picked up the drunken chicken and sake prepared for Leng Banxia, and walked towards Gusu.

At noon, Lan Yicheng saw Leng Banxia watching a beggar living on the street in Gusu, and stood silent for a long time.

"What is Miss Leng looking at?" Lan Yicheng said very calmly behind her.

Leng Banxia didn't look back, but she knew that it was Lan Yicheng who stood after her death, her most trusted friend at this time, and she said with some puzzlement: "They have hands and feet, why do they dress like this, sitting on the street and waiting for others to give alms?"

Lan Yicheng's heart ached, looking at these beggars, his brows furrowed, and then his face was calm, and he said slightly: "Everyone has their own way of living, this world is not fair enough to let everyone have no worries about food and clothing, there will be strong people and weak people, and the weak among the weak, when there is no way out, this is their only way, but if there is a little way, they will not appear here, and after a long time, they will get used to it, and there will be no way for them to go, it can only be like this!"

Leng Banxia raised her hand and touched her head, she still didn't understand what Lan Yicheng said, in her eyes, this person obviously has hands and feet, and she can take care of herself, why did she let herself be hungry and full.

"Senior Lan, can we give him a way?" Leng Banxia said very innocently.

Lan Yicheng smiled, shook his head and said, "Call me Brother Lan, and I'll give him a way, how about it?"