He ...... It wasn't that easy for him to come out, I don't know......"

I was afraid that the man would be so frightened at night that he would not dare to come out.

"It's not easy to come out? What family is he? ”

"He is a son of a family, and his family is strictly controlled...... I couldn't get out during the day, so I sent a letter, and he asked someone to reply to the letter, and we ...... Got an appointment for the evening. ”

"You and him......" I hesitated.

Wu Zhen hurriedly waved his hand: "I have nothing with him." I just thought he was very good, and when I was in Hexiang Pavilion, those girls excluded me, intentionally or unintentionally, and he came to talk to me. There is no ...... between us There is no compromise. After leaving Tujiazhuang, we only wrote two letters......"

"Who bumped into you just now?"

Speaking of this, Wu Zhen's face was even more ugly: "The door was bolted, and the people in Liu Yuan were all asleep, and we only said a few words after he came, and we didn't drink tea...... Suddenly there was a noise outside the window, and then someone outside shouted that there was a thief......"

"He's gone?"

"Hmmm......"

I opened the window and saw a faint glimmer of light on the snow, and a few shallow marks could be faintly visible, as if they had been left on the tips of my feet.

"Is this what he left behind?"

"No, he came from that side."

Then that's what the people outside the window left behind.

Who is the person peeping out the window? Who is it that cries out that there is a thief?

I originally thought it was inadvertently broken by the Bai family's descendants, but it doesn't seem to be the case this way.

"It's not early, you go to bed first, be more careful, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

I have softened my tone, Wu Zhen still looks too frightened and overly weak, I am a little helpless and go out of her door. When the cold wind blew, I felt a little dazed.

It's not because of anything else - I've always felt that Wu Zhen and I are good, good sisters.

Except for my father, I only have such a relative.

I've always felt like we'...... But now I suddenly realized that I didn't know Wu Zhen at all, and I didn't understand what she was thinking.

She knew this man surnamed Shang, and she had corresponded, but she didn't reveal a word.

This incident made me feel very uncomfortable in my heart. Compared with this, it is a trivial matter that she was knocked out in the middle of the night private meeting at someone else's house.

Bai Quan is a very sophisticated person. He said that the thief had escaped, but perhaps he had ordered someone to let him go. If you catch it, you will be confronted tomorrow with the gong and the drum. Wu Zhen, me, and my father, we were disgraced and thrown into Beijing together. But Bai Quan is by no means an indiscriminate person, he let that person go. But he has to understand things to me, so that no one will take him for a fool.

But if Uncle White was here tonight, he wouldn't have done that. This person is born with a huge inexplicable good impression of the chicken and the dog thief stealing incense and jade, if he is here tonight, Bao Buqi will politely invite the thief to sit down, and the two of them will talk about the wind and moon together. Whether the man was in the mood to talk to him or not is another story.

I went back to the room and sat down for a while, then lay down again. But I couldn't sleep.

Looking in the direction of Liu Yuan, I regretted a little in my heart - I really shouldn't have lived separately from her, if the two of them lived together, I was afraid that there would be no tonight.

However, the courtyards in Uncle Bai's house are extremely exquisite, and the guests are always placed separately......

I tossed and turned. I thought about it until it was almost dawn. I just took a nap, but after I got up, I couldn't help but freshen up carefully, the little maid Yao Huang took the washing water, and came in with a burden: "Witch girl, this is what the manager asked me to send." ”

She opened the bag, and inside was a new tuft of clothes, shoes, socks, and jewelry, three or five bodies, and two cloaks, one snow-white and one red, with shiny and silky fur, and these two clothes were definitely worth a lot. Yao Huang carefully took them out one by one and spread them out: "This is our master heard that the girl was coming, so he prepared it for the girl in advance, the girl tried to see if the size was inappropriate, and hurriedly ordered someone to change it, this winter the capital is extremely cold, and the head of the right said that the girl has to dress thicker, but don't freeze." Girl, look at it, which outfit do you want to wear first? ”

I nodded: "Excuse me and Uncle Quan." ”

The clothes were of the right size, as if they were tailor-made. I don't believe my father would tell Uncle Bai all my size in his letter—he doesn't have to. This man had a natural instinct and a rich imagination for women's affairs, and he even drew the style of the dance clothes himself, and decorated the singers and dancers of the house with gorgeous costumes and beads, and I saw their songs and dances once, and those clothes were as colorful as neon, and the flowing yarn was beautiful.

I casually pointed to one: "That's it." ”

Yao Huang changed my clothes for me, and the figure reflected in the big dressing mirror made me feel stunned.

Sure enough, people want clothes, and Buddhas want gold.

It was the first time I wore such luxurious and elegant clothes, the eyes of the girl in the mirror were as bright as stars, and her face seemed to be slowly blooming buds against the background of brocade clothes, and there was a kind of brightness that made people breathless.

I don't think it's like me at all.

Yao Huang was stunned for a while, and whispered: "The girl is really beautiful, and this dress is also beautiful." ”

Wu Zhen came to knock on the door, she also put on new clothes, the clothes also fit, a butterfly with a white bead on her head swaying, the butterfly's wings and whiskers are delicate and light, lifelike, when walking, the butterfly trembled slightly, spread its wings and wanted to fly.

I looked at her...... Maybe it's the change of new clothes and buns, she looks completely different from my impression of Wu Zhen.

The Wu Zhen in my impression has been stuck on the day she first came to the 100-yuan residence, and I remember it very clearly.

Her face was yellow and thin, and her eyes looked very large, as if they were bulging out. Her hair was thin and short—ringworm on her bare feet, and there were blood blisters and tears—and she stood outside the threshold, looking at me timidly.

I smiled and beckoned, "Come in, I'll take you to a snack." ”

She hesitated, then slowly raised her leg and crossed the threshold.

Everything is vivid, as if it were yesterday.

But now Wu Zhen is slim and slim, and his posture is slender, even if he wears a brocade mink fur, he is not bloated at all. She wears a bun that flatters her face.

"You're up early."

Wu Zhen smiled.

I guess she probably didn't sleep last night, although she didn't look haggard with fat powder, but her expression was stiff with a forced smile.

"Does the garment still fit? Uncle Bai has always been thoughtful, and the last time I came, he asked people to make Jingyuan soup every morning and evening to cool off for me. ”

"It fits perfectly." Wu Zhen rolled down his sleeves and touched the edge of his mane again: "I don't know how to comb my hair like this, it was Liu Yuan's maid who helped me comb it." ”

Yao Huang behind me whispered: "What kind of bun the girl likes, the little maid will also comb it." ”

"Don't bother, I don't like to make things cumbersome on my head, the simpler the better, and I don't need jewelry."

Wearing a beaded hairpin and shaking, of course, is beautiful. But you have to be careful with every move, if the action is a little bigger, you have to worry about the hairpin slipping and slipping, or the hair is scattered and messy, which is really troublesome.

When my mother left, she left behind a box of jewelry, many of which my father said were priceless and heirlooms. But my father also said that my mother kept these only because they were ancestral heirlooms, remembering my ancestors, and my mother rarely wore them herself.

"Has the snow stopped?"

"It's stopped, but it's still cloudy."

"Then let's go out for a walk."

I fastened the white cloak, and when I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I happened to meet Bai Quan.

"Where is the witch girl going so early?"

"Uncle Quan is also early. The last time I visited, I heard that there was a pond garden not far to the east, and the plum blossoms were excellent, so I wanted to go there with Wu Zhen to have a look. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll have someone prepare the car." (To be continued)