Early in the morning, He Zhe was already lying on the desk in his bedroom. The messy quilt on the bed shows the passion of last night. Shen Danhe's mature and charming carcass was exhausted, and he was falling asleep on the bed.

He Zhe has a habit. Whether he was an official in the court or a little magistrate earlier, he would keep it again after managing his finances and keeping accounts for him. This is what his father told him, and it is necessary to be on guard. In particular, it is necessary to guard against housekeepers and financial managers.

"Last night, August 23rd, I received congratulatory gifts: Ziyun tassel alchemy furnace, ancient blood wolf brush, and five-color mending stone. Ten catties of gold, 100 catties of silver, and 100 horses of silk. Send congratulatory gifts: quenching snake spear and full moon bow, a horse of sweat and blood in the Western Regions, two bottles of white frost dew, and 20 catties of gold. ”

He wrote in another notebook, specifically recording political affairs: "A large Lingyin Temple is planned to be built in the south of the city, the Gao family accounts for 70% of the main funds, and the remaining 30% of the shares will be divided into 10 of the Qiao family, 5 of our house, 5 of the Zheng family, and 10 of the Li family." Tomorrow, each family will send manpower and funds, and it is expected to be completed by the end of the year......"

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Outside the bedroom.

Zheng Ergou yawned on the secluded verandah, pacing idlely. Wait for the eldest lady to get up and have breakfast. In the bedroom, He Yue, who was a little sleepy, had already sat up today, washing with the water that Zheng Ergou had brought her just now.

"Ahh But what the hell is that stone, I always think about it, and I can't sleep......"

He Yue was combing her hair, looking at herself in the bronze mirror tiredly, her mouth was flattened, and she complained in her heart.

The five-colored mending stone relict lay quietly in an open bluestone box, placed at the head of Heyue's bed. He Yue stretched her body slightly, and the tiredness disappeared, and her whole body was full of energy, but she was very sleepy and yawned all the time.

In the mirror, her face seems to be even more beautiful than yesterday. The fair-skinned goose egg face is ruddy, and the slender eyes are even more beautiful, full of vitality and aura. She has a tall nose, ruddy lips, and long black and clear hair. It's hard to imagine why just ten days of family life have transformed her from a peasant girl to a lady, giving people an air of maturity, which is somewhat incommensurate with the age of fifteen.

"Zheng Ming. This is Zheng Ergou's name, He Yue's crisp voice came to the small corridor, the tone was flat, and the relationship between the two masters and servants was still clear.

And Zheng Ergou, who was drowsy outside, heard He Yue's cold call, and hurriedly opened the door lightly, and humbly performed a servant's Gui'an salute to the master, saying, "What do you command?"

"What time is it?" He Yue didn't look at anyone, and continued to stare in the mirror, fiddling with her hair with her hands. The master's posture was sufficient, but it made Zheng Ergou laugh in his heart. "The sun hasn't been shining for long, it's two o'clock. ”

"Well, there's still a lot of time to leave school so early. He Yue brushed her hair with both hands and draped them over her back. "Miss, do you want breakfast?" Zheng Ergou asked cautiously.

"No, my father said that it would be better for the body to get up early and take a walk for a while before eating. You come with me. He Yue stood up, his tall figure taller than the boy in front of him. She walked out of the door, and Zheng Ergou hurriedly followed.

Outside the bedroom of Heyue is the back garden of the Hefu. The back garden of the Hefu is the size of a front garden and a half, and the winding path is winding, and the flowers and plants are magnificent. However, the exotic flowers and plants are far less than those in Gaofu, and the garden is dominated by common flowers and plants such as peonies, orchids, and mimosas, which are simple and dignified in beauty, but not enchanting.

In the early morning, the sun softly pours into the garden. He Yue took a different trail than the previous ones.

She walked very slowly, and her steps were methodical and she learned the way of walking in etiquette, and she walked very beautifully. There are mostly peony flowers on both sides of this path, with bright and dazzling colors, He Yue looked at it in a comfortable mood, and Zheng Ergou followed idlely.

"Zheng Ming, can you hear a voice ahead?" He Yue walked to the edge of an artificial pool and suddenly stopped and asked. Her hearing was now beyond that of any normal person, but she didn't notice it at all.

"Oh, maybe it's a sweeper. Zheng Ergou replied casually - he didn't hear any sound, can He Yue still hear it?

"No, it sounds like a woman in her twenties, and it's so sad... You tell me, is there such a sweeper in our house?" He Yue turned his head and glared at Zheng Ergou, very dissatisfied with his perfunctory.

Zheng Ergou stopped, surrounded by a peony bush, which was so gorgeous that it was a little distorted. He gathered his spirit with all his strength and spread his soul consciousness outward. "Miss, this voice is coming from that direction, should we go and take a look?" Zheng Ergou pointed to his left rather suspiciously, looking at He Yue.

"Walk, follow this path. ”

The two walked on the path among the dense peony bushes, which was a secluded path that did not match the surrounding scenery. The cry was getting closer, and the grief was already striking against Heyue's eardrums very clearly. The flowers and plants on both sides of the narrow road have also changed several styles, from peonies to moon seasons, and finally they are not very prosperous

A pear grove. Zheng Ergou also paid attention, catching the cry with curiosity and doubt.

"Miss, do you hear me? There is a voice of speech in the midst of this cry. ”

"Really, it seems to be talking, but I can't understand a word?"

"Uh... The villain didn't understand it, but it did look like a woman was crying. It must be a dialect somewhere, right? We in Blackwater City have always used the lingua franca, and there are no dialects. ”

"I've heard that the capital seems to have many dialects of its own... By the way, my father is a native of the capital, and this crying woman should also be from the capital...... This voice is also relatively young......."

"It won't be the ....... of the city lord" "Shut up, Zheng Ming!"

Zheng Ergou glanced at the girl in front of him quite amusedly, how could he understand it so quickly? It was completely different from the ignorant girl ten days ago.......

"Miss, it's very likely... Lord of the city, he is a big man, three wives and four concubines, and it is normal to fall in love with this today and that tomorrow... Naturally, I can only cry if I can't look down on it......" Zheng Ergou ran to Heyue with a hippie smile and walked side by side with her.

"Zheng Ming, you have a lot to say today. "He Yue was amused, but immediately regained the majesty of his master, and rebuked: 'You talk nonsense like this, I tell my mother to go, what do you think she will whip you?'

"Okay, okay, damn the villain, I'll shut up!"

The two walked to the end of the trail.

The crying had stopped for a while, and in front of He Yue was a two-person high stone wall, smooth and flat. But there was a hole in the center of the wall the size of an index finger that looked like someone had smashed through it. Zheng Ergou saw the small hole and leaned his head up to take a look - across the wall was a small building made of red tiles, which looked quite luxurious, two stories high, and was completely built according to the identity of a noble wife. Suddenly, several mournful cries came from inside the Red Mansion, scaring Zheng Ergou half to death.

He Yue heard this cry, her willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and she was silent for a while, and the mournful cry was particularly harsh. After a while, she spoke, "Zheng Ming, before... There is some truth to what you say. ”

For some reason, when she walked in front of the high wall and heard the cry, He Yue immediately thought of a woman in white, with a pretty and godless face, her mouth grinning stupidly, and letting out a mournful cry. This picture really made her heart bristle.

"Haha, eldest lady, of course I understand this kind of man's thing a lot, this must be some abandoned woman of the city lord, she ......."

"Shut up for me!" He Yue raised her voice helplessly and scolded, Zheng Ergou smiled on his face, and asked with a smile: "Okay, Miss, do you want to turn over and have a look?"

"There's nowhere to settle on this wall, and if it's not so smooth, so am I... I can turn it over. But this wall, alas. He Yue said with some disappointment. She has an intuition that she shouldn't go over the wall because of curiosity now, maybe it's really like Zheng Ergou said, this is her father's abandoned wife, knowing this, it won't do her any good. But there was another voice inside her that she had to figure out what was going on.

"Oh, what's the matter? Isn't there me here? I'll carry you on my back and turn over at once. If you're afraid of heights, just close your eyes. Don't mention the high wall of these two people, even if I have cut the same cliff with a knife, I can climb over it!"

"You carry me?" He Yue pondered, hadn't he never been carried by the village boy before, what was there to be shy about? "Hey, don't brag, just your body, not as tall as Miss Ben, can you climb up?

Zheng Ergou laughed, and immediately bowed his back, "Miss, you put a hundred hearts, even if you fall, there will be a villain to cushion you!"

He Yue listened to the cry on the other side, and she also heard itchy, and she didn't hesitate, she hugged Zheng Ergou's neck with both hands, and sandwiched her legs between his abdomen, "Zheng Ming, you... Hurry up and don't let anyone else see it. ”

Zheng Ergou laughed again, if it weren't for you, the eldest lady, he would still need to climb and fly.

Zheng Ergou picked up Heyue on his back and stepped onto the stone wall in one step. His feet seemed to be suckers, firmly anchored to the wall, and the other foot stepped upward. After two or three steps, they climbed to the top of the wall and leaped, but the two of them fell very slowly, and finally landed lightly in the grassy soil.

Zheng Ergou put down Heyue, and the dress on her body was not stained in any way. "Zheng Ming, why are you so powerful, you can really fly the eaves and walk the wall!" He Yue had no shelves to pretend to be at this time, and praised admiringly.

"Actually, you can do it too!" Zheng Ergou thought to himself, and said with a smile: "A few years ago, I learned two-handed qigong with an old god stick in an alley in Bogu County, and it's not a piece of cake to climb over the wall?

"Really... Ahem, okay, stop blowing, look at where the gate of this building is!"

"Obey..."Zheng Ergou couldn't help but gently rub her hair with his hand when He Yue bent over to stretch his muscles.

"Hey, the villain is wrong, don't don't!" Zheng Ergou parried He Yue and beat him angrily, while repeatedly asking for mercy, a little happy in his heart, this kid has a little strength in his fist, it seems that soul alchemy is really useful for the body!

"Dead Zheng Ming, I said why do you like to rub my hair so much lately! Go back and tell my mother, your... Yours... Pig hand!"

He Yue bared her teeth and threatened, but her appearance was very cute.

"Who... Who... Who are you, why are you here!" The two of them suddenly realized that the mournful crying had stopped for a while. A surprisingly simple woman walked out of the Red Mansion, and her white dress was torn into strips in a few places, revealing her plump and smooth thighs.

The woman has tears in the corners of her eyes, and her face is as beautiful as a small jasper. It's just that the big eyes are weak and sluggish, and they don't care if their skirts are torn, so they show it like this. She looked at the two of them with some curiosity, and her expression quickly turned to sadness, and after smirking twice, she showed a fierce expression.

"Where are you? crying and crying in the daytime, you can hear it in the back garden, and there are no rules at all!"

He Yue frowned, even if this woman who can be called a beauty is really a concubine who has fallen out of favor, Zheng Ergou is too presumptuous. When a servant says something like this, it is neither big nor small. She just wanted to open her mouth to scold, but she saw that the woman's expression was stunned, and she stammered: "Down... Immediately, she wailed like a knot, stretched her hands directly into her chest, and took out a dagger with a sheath, pulled it out, and stabbed Zheng Ergou frantically.

"Zheng... You... Shut up!" He Yue panicked, she didn't know that she could deal with three crazy women with knives like this. When the dagger stabbed at Zheng Ergou hard, it actually took the woman's whole body forward, which showed that she didn't know anything about fighting at all. Zheng Ergou also saw from her reaction to the word "inferior" that this person's status was absolutely extraordinary. He only kept his mouth shut, dodged and did not return fire. But that's it, after a few cuts, the crazy woman was already sweating profusely and panting, but the madness on her face did not diminish in the slightest.

Zheng Ergou hid easily, but He Yue stared at him and was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. There was a strange fragrance in the air, and the two of them chuckled in their hearts, this was clearly the sweat of the crazy woman, and there was such a strange fragrance?

"Ma'am, please stop and listen to me explain!" He Yue couldn't help but shout when he saw that the madwoman was still fierce with the dagger in her hand despite her exhaustion.

When the mad woman heard this, the dagger in her hand fell to the ground with a thud. Tears welled up in her big beautiful eyes, which quickly slid onto her pointed chin, making her face even paler. She stood there in a daze, muttering, "Madam, madam, the slut pretended to call me sister, but he never used 'you', and even my Acang didn't call me my mother anymore......!"

She's from Yuncang... "Oh my God! Is this my father's... Wife?!" He Yue's expression was extremely complicated, and he looked at Zheng Ergou, but he was also looking at it helplessly.

"Little girl, you... Who are you?" the crazy look on the woman's face was swept away, and in its place was a submissive, cautious look. There was shyness and panic on that beautiful face, which made people feel pitiful.

"Madam, I am the adopted daughter of the Lord of Hezhe City, you ......"

"Adopted daughter, it's only been a few days, and the dead ghost really went out to look for flowers and ask willows again?" interrupting He Yue's words, the woman's face was crazy again, "Haha, slut, I knew that there would be such a day! Ah, wait to be like my mother... I... I'm waiting for you here! Ahem..."After a series of vicious curses, the woman began to cough violently, but her face was still very pale with a maniacal smile on her face. Although the woman did not explicitly refer to it, He Yue had already heard the reason, after his father really accepted Shen Danhe as a concubine, he abandoned this wife who was also very beautiful! The woman in her twenties who cried until her intestines broke her bowels in front of her was really as Zheng Ergou said, she was He Zhe's abandoned woman.

“... ，... I'll call you Madame. Madam, you misunderstood, although I am the adopted daughter of the lord of the castle, but... Father, he didn't take me in because of my adoptive mother. The more she talked, the more chaotic it became, and He Yue felt a little difficult to justify. In fact, so far, she still hasn't understood the real reason why He Zhe accepted her as her adopted daughter, so this explanation is also a little weak.

"Hey... What are you nervous about? I don't care, I really don't care!" The madness on the woman's face magically dissipated all at once, her eyes wandered, and she spoke softly, but a few silent tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes, rolling down on the barren grass.

"This lady, this is your fault. The mother of the eldest lady was a farmer at the foot of Luofeng Mountain, how could the dignified city lord look down on a peasant woman?" Zheng Ergou couldn't help but interject, causing He Yue to stare fiercely, but she didn't get angry, maybe only this explanation can clear up the misunderstanding.

"Two stupid children! What is a peasant woman? That slut was just a cheap prostitute in the Qinglou before, and the dead ghost didn't eat it right? and held it in his hand like a treasure, which is simply a shit!" The woman scolded viciously with a smirk on her face, and then the expression on her face darkened again, as if she thought of something more sad, and she was not hysterical, she left the two of them and walked directly into the Red Mansion.

Her figure froze suddenly, "Mother!"

He Yue's crisp voice sounded, and seeing that the woman turned around and was looking at her with incredible eyes, He Yue's tone became panicked: "That, can I call you that......?"

"You're... The adopted daughter of the dead ghost, the mother... Mother... You know who I am!" saw that the woman was shocked, and her face showed a look of extreme chagrin, and a pair of beautiful eyes were closed, as if she had caused some catastrophe. "It's over... Finished... They won't let me go... I can't even stay here anymore... Woohoo......"

She sat down on the wasteland and cried to herself. He Yue was helpless and panicked, while Zheng Ergou shook his head silently on the side. They were all thinking--this woman was really crazy!, but she thought they wouldn't be able to see who she was! and listening to her words, it seemed that Ho Zhe had ordered her to keep her identity secret. He Zhe, who seems to be approachable and upright, actually has such a dark side, not only abandoning his wife, but also being ashamed of their relationship! This makes Zheng Ergou a little unacceptable in his heart, let alone He Yue.

He Yue's heart was cold at this time. She didn't want to think about it, and she didn't dare to think about He Zhe and Shen Danhe, who were so good to her. But the immediate urgency is to pull the woman on the ground out of her madness.

He Yue motioned to Zheng Ergou not to move, walked to the crazy woman lightly, and sat down slowly. The pure white and slender Luo skirt covered the crazy woman's bare thighs. He Yue's slender and slender fingers gently caressed her beautiful face, "Mother, don't cry......"

"Don't! Don't call me that! I'm nobody, I'm nobody!" the madwoman put her hands over her ears, screamed, and burst into tears, looking already mad and miserable, and pitiful.

He Yue didn't speak, just gently patted her bare and beautiful shoulder, like a mother comforting her daughter who was hurt by love.

The crazy woman suddenly put down her hand, leaned her head into He Yue's arms, and the whole person leaned on He Yue's arms. She finally couldn't hold back the pain in her heart and cried out loud. His mouth was venting his pain in a dialect that He Yue couldn't understand. And He Yue just smiled lightly and said softly: "It's okay, it's okay... Don't be afraid, good. I don't call you Madame, that's it... It's okay, don't cry......"

Zheng Ergou sighed, no matter how you look at it, the eldest lady is more like a mother.

I don't know if He Yue was born to be a girl who is good at comforting others, or if she has a calm and calm temperament that makes people return to calm, after the crazy woman howled and cried in her arms for a while, she reached out and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, sat up, and completely returned to normal.

"Good boy, good boy... I love to hear it, and I love to hear you call your mother ......" The madwoman said in a tone of sincere joy at the end, with a little crying.

After He Yue called out to her mother in a voice like a silver bell again, the crazy woman finally broke into laughter, got up, pointed to the Red Mansion with a smirk, looked at He Yue and Zheng Ergou and said, "That, it's a little messy inside, you go and sit down for a while." I'm going to wash my face first, it's unseemly... The servant comes once a week and is not there now... There is fruit on the coffee table at the entrance, you can take whatever you want. ”