Master Xia looked at the smile on her face at the moment and returned to its previous appearance, the coldness and hatred in her eyes disappeared without a trace, as if it did not exist, and the suspicion in her heart deepened.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Xia Qingyu smiled to himself: "In the past, when my mother was here, she would also plant a lot of peony flowers."

"She loves peony flowers too?"

"I don't like it." Master Xia looked at her suspiciously. "She planted it because someone liked her." After a pause, Xia Qingyu thought for a while and said, "Maybe I like it." She likes it because someone likes it. ”

"What about her?" Master Xia suddenly became interested in her mother-in-law. "It's long gone." I don't know how to hear this, Master Xia began to feel sullen in his heart, and became a little uneasy.

Master Xia looked at Xia Qingyu on the other side, and looked carefully to explore, but she couldn't see it clearly with the black plaster on her face, and it was true that only those beautiful eyes looked like her the most, but they were just like her, but they didn't have half of her charm.

Master Xia relieved his heart and no longer doubted it, and sighed leisurely, where is she now? He has been looking for her all these years, but he can't find any trace of her. He had never spoken a word about her since she was gone, and the only thing he had to do with her was the painting he had painted for her, which was now burned, and the thought of it pained in his heart.

"Master Xia, have you ever had any regrets and helplessness in your life?" When Master Xia saw her ask like this, the wound in his heart was like being torn apart by someone, and the pain in his eyes could no longer hide his weakness and said, "Alas, I once suffered a person who shouldn't be responsible."

Xia Qingyu immediately laughed: "Master Xia, don't be surprised, I just asked casually." But I never thought it touched your sadness. ”

Master Xia didn't speak, and said after a long silence: "You can play chess, how about accompanying me to play this game?" Xia Qingyu didn't say anything, her goal had been achieved, she only played a few steps casually, and soon her chess path was blocked.

Xia Qingyu took the lead in standing up and said, "It's over, I should go." When the words fell, the person had already left the pavilion and walked away indifferently. Master Xia, who was dumped again, didn't care about Xia Qingyu's rudeness, but just fell into his own pain and couldn't extricate himself.

Xia Qingyu heard the news that Concubine Li was going back to the palace, and was also told that she would also go with her because of Concubine Li's liking for her.

Xia Qingyu took out half of the jade pendant in her arms and held it up, thinking thoughtfully: In the first two days of the Xia Mansion, she really had no intention of entering the palace with her, blindly looking for various ways to get out of Concubine Li's hands, but now she has other ideas.

Nan Yiheng was in the palace, and when Xia Qingyu thought that he was thinking about it, he always secretly looked at the half jade pendant he left for her behind his back in a daze, she wanted to go to him. Shangguan Lian is also in the palace, she has to go to see her. After thinking about it so carefully, Xia Qingyu felt that it was quite good to follow Concubine Li back to the palace.

The day before departure, Xia Qingyu used the excuse of going to visit Sucheng and got the permission of Concubine Li to leave the Xia Mansion with red sleeves, and the injury on her face was also healed at this time.

Xia Qingyu asked Red Sleeves to buy the eggs and walnut cakes of the Sifang Inn under the pretext of eating them, and waited for her under a tall banyan tree at the intersection. After the red sleeves left, Xia Qingyu shouted to a group of children playing in the distance: "Hey, come here."

Seeing this, a group of children shouted, "Who are you?" Why should we be called to pass? ”

"Huh...... But don't you come? Xia Qingyu took out a handful of silver from his arms and put it in his palm, picked one up and showed it to them, and said with a smile: "What about you, if anyone comes over, I will give him the silver, how about it?"

When the little hairy children saw that there was really silver, they didn't care whether he said it was true or not, and they hula-la-la.

Xia Qingyu smiled proudly when he saw it: "I'll ask you a question with a smile, and then I'll give you silver." The children stared at her and said, "Ask, ask."

"Who of you knows an old guard in the yamen who is a little older and has a big black mole on his upper lip." I saw all the children, you look at me, I look at you, they all shook their heads after looking at each other, only one of the children behind raised their hands and said: "You are talking about Hu Lao Liu, he lives next door to my house."

"Very good, then who of you knows where is the house of a pockmarked guard named Lao Si in the yamen?" Another child told her he knew.

Xia Qingyu smiled on her face, and then gave the silver to the group of children, and asked the two children who knew the way to show her the way, and when she arrived, she gave him a few taels of silver, and the child ran away happily.

Xia Qingyu recognized the road when he followed, first recognized the home of the fourth child of Mazi, and then carefully looked at a broken wooden door of Hu Laoliu's house, and the dilapidated appearance of the four walls of the house.

Xia Qingyu heard that Hu Lao Liu's family was just him, an eighty-year-old mother, and a five-year-old child. Xia Qingyu saw Hu Lao Liu's children playing with stones in the yard from the open broken door, she didn't go in, but still returned to the banyan tree and waited for the red sleeves.

At night, Xia Qingyu was stunned again, and the red sleeves secretly slipped out of the Xia Mansion from the courtyard wall in a remote place, and sneaked into the fourth Mazi house with his memory, and saw that he was lying face down on the bed and snoring and sleeping.

She first threw the incense into the window, and when she saw that he was no longer silent, she knew that she had fainted, Xia Qingyu moved a big stone from under the windowsill and pressed it directly on his waist, thought about it and smiled and drew a "×" on his pockmarked face, in revenge for kicking him on the night of the Lantern Festival.

Xia Qingyu wrapped the remaining gold given by Master Xia that day in a cloth and slipped into Hu Laoliu's house, threw him on the bed, and came back. It was time for them to set off after dawn.

It was only when it was time to set off and get into the carriage that Xia Qingyu knew that the arrogant and stinky girl Xia Qi also followed her to Beijing, and she was in a terrible mood, and they were still a carriage.

It's just that the Xia Qi she saw this time and the arrogant and domineering little girl she saw before are like two people.

I saw Xia Qi, who was sitting opposite her, just sitting on the couch in a daze, her eyes were dull, her eyes were blank, her face was pale, and she was like a corpse.

Xia Qingyu shook her hand in front of her, but there was no response, and after shaking it again, it was still the same. Xia Qingyu simply reached out and pinched her face, but she didn't expect to react, thinking that she wouldn't be flooded with water.

Xia Qi was about to commit suicide because of her marriage, and after the suicide attempt, she went on a hunger strike to become this person, not a ghost.

She has no strength now, she is only looking for death, so naturally she has no heart to deal with Xia Qingyu. After Red Sleeves and Xia Qi's personal maid Qingping also entered the carriage, they set off for Beijing.

Along the way, Xia Qingyu felt very bored, but fortunately, before leaving, she told the red cuff in advance to carry two rows of small sour fruits, and from time to time she picked one up and put it in her arms to feed Xiao Liuli while everyone didn't care, otherwise she would have to starve to death and lose weight if she didn't have to starve to death along the way.

Although Red Sleeves felt very strange that she was carrying such a large backpack of small sour fruits, she was a simple-minded person, and once she believed Ye Gongzi, she no longer doubted it. And Xia Qi was Qingping taking care of her all the way, and she relied on Qingping's feeding to eat, and the whole one was like a wooden beauty. However, Xia Qingyu is very happy, and hopes that she will always be like this.