After the news of Ma Zhen's selection spread throughout Xiping, the business of their family's Zhenyao Workshop suddenly boomed, and after Cheng Qi heard about it, he specially asked Cheng Dai to send a congratulatory gift, and secretly celebrated for himself.

From now on, I am free!!

No, Cheng Qi knew that he would not enter the palace, but he couldn't believe that the final place would fall on Ma Zhen's head, after all, that person could be said to have no bright spots except for the good female celebrity.

But no matter what, he doesn't have to enter the palace, Cheng Qi is still happy in his heart, every day in the three-story dormitory of Tinglan Water Pavilion, in addition to eating and drinking, he is practicing calligraphy, humming that song all day long, don't be lonely anymore.

"I'm waiting for you when the leaves are falling, and I'll take you to see my original intention, which is just like the sunny weather in my childhood, someone sings about the green grass, how hard I want to ......"

The charcoal basin in the building burned very vigorously, and there was a very soft animal skin blanket on the ground, Cheng Qi casually sat cross-legged in a light blue silk bedgown, pulled his sleeves loosely on his forearm, while turning the brush, while admiring his calligraphy works, after thinking for a few seconds, he threw it into the charcoal basin at will, and let its ashes disappear.

"Not good, not good."

Cheng Qi picked up another sheet and spread it on the ground, wrote two strokes and stopped, glanced at the snow outside the window, took a deep breath, and felt that the days had never been so quiet and peaceful.

This is the time traveled, the life that the protagonist should live, those who fight and kill, tear and force, don't be too tired and annoying, Cheng Qi took a sip of tea and nodded contentedly.

She was so graceful that she didn't notice the three people standing on one side.

Qingmiao took the tea in her hand and blinked, looked up and said, "Sister Yueying, what's going on with our girl these days?" He lowered his voice and didn't dare to let Cheng Qi hear it, "It won't be the queen of the broken phase...... My heart is like ashes, and I decided to cultivate my mind and cultivate my temperament to become a sister-in-law. ”

Xi Xin held his hands and looked coldly: "What nonsense, go get snacks and give them to the girl." ”

Qingmiao did as she was told, handed the tea in his hand to Yueying, the man looked at Cheng Qi, who was very Buddhist, and felt that Qingmiao's words were quite reasonable, and echoed: "Anyway, I look at the girl's appearance is wrong." ”

Xi Xin didn't see it, and shook his head: "There's something wrong." ”

Yueying couldn't say it, or her thinking was still limited to ancient times, and to those rules that had all kinds of constraints on women.

In Yueying's cognition, let alone Cheng Qi's broken appearance, even if the average woman breaks her appearance, she will become a defective product that can't see the sky, and it is a great luck to be able to get married, not to mention, it is Cheng Qi's identity.

Breaking the phase, this should be a fatal blow.

should have entered the palace and become the darling of the palace, but now he is practicing handwriting here.

However, no matter how anxious they are inside and outside the Guogong Mansion, on the other hand, Cheng Qi, people still should eat and drink, and they don't put things in their hearts, not only do they not worry about the problem of scarring wounds, but they also think about going out for a walk after the weather is a little warmer.

Aren't you afraid of being seen and pointing?

"Girl."

Yueying felt bitter in her heart, but she didn't dare to say more, for fear that Cheng Qi's current state was a strong support after despair, and she persuaded her to break this balance a few more words, which would make Cheng Qi fall into a state of collapse.

"It's time to change the dressing, and help you get up from the ground."

Yueying said, asked Cheng Qi to get up from the animal skin blanket, and said many times that there was no earth dragon on the third floor, even if he sat on the blanket with a charcoal basin, but in case of emergency, he still went back to the tent bed to sit so as not to catch a cold.

When you first start practicing calligraphy, you will still have a curiosity to get in touch with new things, and if you persist with this curiosity for a while, you will feel bored with repeated frustrations.

Cheng Qi had been writing for a long time, and he had long been uninterested, so he handed over the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to Xixin to put away, got up and went to the dressing table to be well-behaved, and reached out to tear off the gauze on his face, but he saw the green seedlings coming with snacks, so he asked Yueying to wait, picked up the Poria cake and ate it in a big gulp.

Yueying waited beside her with the medicine sticker, her expression was really a little angry, she really didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing for her girl to be so big-hearted, so she urged her twice before she reluctantly put down the snack.

Yueying helped Cheng Qi remove the gauze, looked at the wound that was healing smoothly, and sighed: "How could that bottle of ointment be mixed with maggots." He muttered to himself, "That's the elixir that Zhou Lao personally prepared for you, Zhou Lao will not harm the ghosts, slave look, there are people with bad intentions, and they have done tricks and feet in that medicine, just to make the girl completely break her appearance and not be able to enter the palace." ”

This itself was Cheng Qi's own doing, so she couldn't take Yueying's words.

But the little girl has always been a protector, and she was very angry, and said angrily: "In the opinion of the slave, it must have been done by those people in the Vermilion Bird Tower." Suddenly stopped glaring and hesitated, "It can't be... Ma family girl. ”

Cheng Qi was amused by her crankiness and waved his hand: "What nonsense are you talking about." ”

Yueying refused to give up, and continued to analyze reasonably: "Look, the girl of the Ma family has a good relationship with you, and the bed is so close to you, it is the most convenient to start." After a pause, he took out what he thought was the most favorable evidence, "Don't forget, you lost your qualification to enter the palace, and the quota fell on her head." ”

"Alright, don't talk in my ear."

Cheng Qi looked at the green seedlings who came up in a hurry and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Qingmiao said: "Wanjia's carriage has arrived, waiting for the girl outside the corner gate to go to the appointment." ”

Cheng Qi sighed and ordered: "You go and say it, and say that I will go out immediately." ”

Miao nodded and left.

Yueying put on a new medicine patch for Cheng Qi, frowned and said worriedly: "Girl, otherwise we will push this matter today, the injury on your face is not healed yet, Zhou Lao said, this wound can't blow the wind." ”

Cheng Qi glanced at the mirror, and smiled indifferently: "It's okay, I've put on the medicine patch and gauze, and I'll just wear a hat, just don't need to draw makeup, let's save trouble, isn't it?" ”

Yueying said unhappily: "Even if it is not hardcover and refined, you still have to put some rouge on it, and it looks better." Holding Cheng Qi's thin shoulders, he said uneasily, "Girl, you said that the girl from the Wan family has nothing to do, what do you ask to go out for, in the past, in the Vermilion Bird Building, didn't she often cooperate with Han Yi to squeeze you?" ”

Cheng Qi still hid the arson of the person in her heart, and Wan Jingjing asked her to go out for no reason, just for this matter, and most of them were afraid that she would say it.

went to the appointment today, Cheng Qi came to completely show his attitude, and secondly, he also went out to breathe, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

"Blush flutters."

Cheng Qi has been holding back in the mansion for so long, he couldn't help it anymore, and urged: "Anyway, I have to go out of today's door, you hurry up, don't rub it in." ”

Yueying couldn't persuade her, so she had to go, and after changing clothes and makeup, she helped Cheng Qi out, looking at the carriage of the ten thousand families, still awkward: "Girl, otherwise, let's take our own carriage." ”

Cheng Qi said with a smile: "People personally sent a carriage to pick it up, if they refused, it would be too rude." He patted her hand and beckoned to Qingmiao, "You can stay in the mansion and ask Qingmiao to serve." ”

Yueying didn't have the slightest way to take her, so she had to tell Qingmiao to stay an inch, and after the carriage left, seeing that she was going out of the city, she called a small group to go around the path and quickly go to the Green Pavilion to inform Cheng Yan.

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On the other side, in the Wuwu Courtyard, several people who had breakfast sat together and drank tea, and Aunt Meng, who was the first gossip collector in Xiping, took the lead in speaking and mentioned the matter in Dongfu.

"Over there in the East Mansion?"

Ji put down the teacup and said casually: "What can happen in the East Mansion, it's nothing more than that kid Cheng Hang is in trouble again." "I murmured in displeasure," Cheng Ri knew that he was messing around with Wen Chang and delaying his studies. ”

Hearing her say this, Aunt Meng pursed her lips disdainfully, that Cheng Ming itself is not a good thing, when did he become a close ink black, he would really wash his son, and it was not all the way.

Seeing this, the Zheng family in the second room hurriedly put down Cheng Xun in his arms and went to Mrs. Cheng's arms, and said: "It's not Cheng Hang's business to think about it, no matter what trouble the boat has, there is always Mrs. Bai behind it." ”

"Ah Yun." She is obviously the lady of the main room in the second room, but when she faces Aunt Meng, she is always a little restrained, "You said that the Dongfu side will not be Miss Tang'er's business." ”

Aunt Meng was lazy to pay attention to Ji's family, nodded and said: "It's Cheng Tang's matter, I heard that she was very favored at the beginning since she married the master of the Fan family, but later, her treatment plummeted." He knocked on his leg lazily, as if he was chattering, "It's not that you don't know that the old man of the Fan family...... What kind of temperament is it, what you want to play is an interest, but it's a pity that Cheng Tang is dull and boring, and he is not outstanding in appearance, and he will soon be unknown to everyone. ”

When Zheng heard this, he only felt that it was inappropriate, Mrs. Cheng was still sitting next to her, and Aunt Meng said it with a sneer, and she also used everyone wrongly, so she reminded in a low voice: "Ah Yun, pay attention to proportion." ”

After that, she looked at Mrs. Cheng a little obviously, but what kind of person was that, the county lord was born, and she hadn't seen any big scenes, where would she be choked by Aunt Meng's two or three swear words.

What's more, Aunt Meng has been married into the Guogong Mansion for some years, and no one knows this person's tone.

And Mrs. Cheng was so unfazed, but it seemed that the Zheng family was making a fuss and making a big fuss.

Ji sneered, this Zheng family is really from a small portal, she can't get on the big stage, she is timid in talking and doing things, and she always reminds this and that for no reason, for fear that others will not know her rules.

I really don't know how this kind of person made Cheng Yun haunt his soul for more than ten years.

I'm afraid it's not that person has a bag in his head.

"My concubine."

Mrs. Cheng spoke slowly, and she didn't shy away from anything: "I wanted to use Cheng Tang to set this game of chess, but I didn't expect that child to be a stinky child, this move is wrong, it's wrong." ”

Aunt Meng nodded, it was a pity for Cheng Tang: "It's just that I pity Tang'er's child, who is as good as a flower, and will spend a lifetime in that glass flower room." ”

Cheng Xun lay on Mrs. Cheng's lap, and the half-grown child understood those words, and then looked up at Mrs. Cheng very aggrievedly: "Grandmother, can't you let Sister Tang'er come?" ”

Old Madam Cheng rubbed the top of his hair with pity, and said kindly: "Does Boli want Sister Tang'er to come back?" ”

Cheng Xun nodded vigorously to show his sincerity: "I think, Sister Tang'er's tea is the best, and she speaks the best, but I haven't seen her for half a year." Baozi's face wrinkled, "And Sister Axiu, she doesn't play with me, she runs around all day long." ”

Only then did Gu Shi smile and said, "Then the eldest aunt will teach your sister Axiu a good lesson next time, and when the time comes, you can go to Tinglan Water Pavilion to find her and ask her to accompany you to have a good time." ”

Cheng Xun smiled brightly.

Zheng called Cheng Xun back to his side: "Don't bother grandmother. He looked up and said to Mrs. Cheng, "Mother, Cheng Tang's child really can't come back, right?" promised benefits, then the master of the Fan family will release him, right? ”

Ji leaned back disdainfully: "Zheng Fang, you don't want the kindness of a woman in this matter, your bodhisattva heart is not good." Then he kept pouring cold water, "What do you mean, you want your mother to speak?" ”

Zheng's face turned pale: "No." ”

"Besides." The Ji family was too lazy to squeeze the Zheng family in front of outsiders, but it seemed that he was not generous, "Cheng Tang promised to the old man of the Fan family, that was the idea of the old lady Bai of the East Mansion, and it has nothing to do with our Guogong Mansion, and the old lady Bai is a person who cares about reputation, take Cheng Tang back, even if it is separated, she will be said to be an abandoned woman, this is a humiliating thing for the lintel, and the old lady Bai will not do that." ”

Aunt Meng also said: "Presumably, the master of the Fan family will not let him go." ”

Zheng's heart was cold: "Then say so, Cheng Tang ......"

"To each man has a life."

Ji Shi said neatly: "Who let her stand up to such a grandmother, she is blind and has a good background." There was a thorn in his words, "I think anyone can be like you, a small gateway into the Wang family, can you still be a lady?" ”

Zheng was more and more restrained by what she said, but Gu looked at it and said, "That's it, let's run out of morning food, don't disturb my mother's rest here." ”

After saluting Mrs. Cheng, he took them and left together.

Mrs. Cheng went back to the bedroom, and when she heard the red ginseng say that Cheng Qi had gone out, she called Yueying to interrogate, and then learned that the person had gone to the appointment, and she was a little worried that Cheng Qi would go out rashly.

"There is only one such small seedling by my side." Mrs. Cheng said, "You are also up to her." ”

Yueying said: "Old lady rest assured, the slave has already sent someone to inform Young Master Zongyu, if the girl goes out of the city, there will also be a care on the side of the Green Pavilion, besides, the identity of our girl, the family will not dare to slack off." ”

When Mrs. Cheng heard this, she was a little relieved, praised Yueying for her carefulness, and then told her to go down.

The old lady was helped by Zhou's mother to sit on the tent bed, and said, "...... Cheng Yan. ”

Mother Zhou was puzzled: "What's wrong with Young Master Zongyu?" ”

Old Madam Cheng shook her head: "This face of the desert, I'm afraid it won't be good, such a big scar on the face, let alone entering the palace, even if it is difficult to marry." ”

Mother Zhou hurriedly reassured: "Don't worry, old lady, the girl's face will be fine." ”

Mrs. Cheng didn't seem to listen, and thought about something in her heart: "She Cheng Qi is not a Xi Shi Diao Yang Guifei." Glancing at the pot of rich bamboo next to him, "I have to plan for another time." ”

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"Girl, where are we going?"

Qingmiao sat next to Cheng Qi, a little sleepy, leaning against her slightly, but she didn't dare to exert herself.

Cheng Qi smiled bitterly at the child's struggling steps at such a young age, told her to rest assured, and said, "Wan Jingjing asked me to talk to the nine-story tower next to the Vermilion Bird Tower, let's go out of the city." ”

There were just the two of them in the carriage, and Qingmiao said cautiously: "Go out of the city?" Still going to that tower? Grabbing the corner of Cheng Qi's clothes, "This is really strange, girl...... Otherwise, don't go. ”

If you want to talk about private things, you naturally have to be in a place where others can't see it, Cheng Qi told Qingmiao not to be nervous, and urged the coachman to hurry up, until it was noon, and he arrived at the nine-story tower.

The tower has been vacant for a long time, but it is often cleaned, it is not dirty, and there is a pavilion in front of the tower, covered with a thin layer of snow, and Wan Jingjing, who has been waiting for a long time, sits in it.

The man didn't bring a handmaid, and when he saw the green seedlings who got out of the car, his eyebrows frowned.

Cheng Qi didn't care, and pulled Qingmiao over, Wan Jingjing's face looked very haggard: "Wan Jingjing, I came as promised, if you have anything to say, hurry up." ”

Wan Jingjing looked at Cheng Qi's face through the hood, and couldn't see it clearly, so she said: "You must know what I want to say, and please retreat left and right, let's go up to the tower and say." ”

Cheng Qi glanced at the tower, and had to agree to Wan Jingjing's request, she stepped forward, and after the two entered the tower, Wan Jingjing locked the door, and said: "I'm afraid that someone will follow up, don't blame you." ”

How could Cheng Qi be afraid of a little Wan Jingjing, but it was just a soldier who would block the water and cover the earth, and the two of them went up to the ninth floor without a word, where the high windows were not blocked, and if they fell down without paying attention, they would be crushed.

"Cheng Qi, I ......"

"Do you want to go up the house and take a stair?"

As soon as Wan Jingjing spoke, Cheng Qi had already seen through it, she was stunned, her face was a little difficult: "You are really smart, no wonder Han Yi is planted in your hands." ”

Cheng Qi turned around and said calmly: "When you locked it, I had already stepped on it." He straightened his sleeves and looked at the dust on the clouds, "You are looking for me today just to ask me to help you." ”

Wan Jingjing couldn't speak, but nodded.

Cheng Qi continued: "Han Yi hasn't woken up yet, but listening to the news of Liang Cheng, he is about to wake up, and that person will definitely come to you to settle accounts at that time, you are afraid, and you want me to give you an idea, right?" ”

was completely pierced by Cheng Qi, Wan Jingjing simply revealed her true appearance, her eyes were slightly red, and it seemed that she also had endless remorse for her impulsive actions at that time.

She was so ignorant that she did something that could overturn the family because of those few words.

"Cheng Qi."

Wan Jingjing said uncertainly: "You won't ...... Don't help me. ”

"In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Jingzhou pampered his young son and snubbed his eldest son Liu Qi, and Liu Qi was worried that he would be pulled out by his stepmother as a thorn in his side, so he asked Zhuge Kongming to give him advice. Cheng Qi took a deep breath calmly, "He said, Shen Sheng died inside, and Chong'er was at peace outside, now, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Wan Jingjing frowned and thought, "You want me to leave Xiping?" ”

"I heard that your brother-in-law is quite powerful in Queensland, even if the relationship is not good, when you go to take refuge, you must always make some appearances in the face of your relatives." Cheng Qi said lightly, "What's more, Han Yi woke up, and it was only you who was in a hurry to find the account, although she had Ge Yuanjun who was her uncle, but that person has been an official for many years, and he is the best at distinguishing the pros and cons, Han Yi is already an outcast on his plate, how could he stretch out his hand to Queensland so far away for Han Yi, even if he takes care of your uncle's face, after a long time, it is just a big thing and a small matter." ”

What Cheng Qi said was very reasonable, Wan Jingjing turned around in her mind, and felt that this was the only way to do it at this time, but ...... But she can't go to Queensland, she can't go to Queensland!

"Cheng Qi." Wan Jingjing was embarrassed, "I can't go to Queensland." ”

Cheng Qi was puzzled: "Even if the relationship between your mother and your aunt has been stiff for many years, you are also her only niece, she will not ignore you, if you stay in Xiping, you will not be able to escape from Han Yi's palm." ”

Wan Jingjing shook her head, turned sideways and said extremely embarrassed: "Cheng Qi, not everyone is like you, there are brothers and sisters who love you, and not all uncles and relatives are like your uncle. ”

Cheng Qi felt that there was another mystery in these words, so he waited for Wan Jingjing to continue to speak.

The man couldn't hold on, and sure enough, he told the truth of the matter: "Cheng Qi, it was my mother and my uncle-in-law who got along privately at the beginning, but ...... My grandmother favored my aunt, forcibly broke them up, and asked my aunt to marry her husband to go to Queensland to live a good life, my mother was angry, and made a big fuss on the day of marriage, and scratched my aunt's face, and since then for nearly 20 years, the two families have no contact. ”

When Cheng Qi heard this, he was secretly shocked, it turned out that every family had a scripture that was difficult to read.

"If my aunt hears about me." Wan Jingjing said helplessly, "Don't talk about helping me, I'm afraid I have to set off ten miles of firecrackers to celebrate, so." She looked up, "Please help me." ”

Cheng Qi hesitated: "But how can I help you?" ”

Wan Jingjing said calmly: "Cheng Qi, the current Xiping, there are only your Cheng family and Chen family...... can fight against the Han family, the Chen family and I can't reach it, and the Cheng family ...... I'm just looking for you. ”

Cheng Qi's face turned a little cold: "Wan Jingjing, let's not mention your arson without permission, it has nothing to do with me, just say that in the past, how you humiliated me in the Vermilion Bird Tower, why do you think that I will do my best to help you like this, you are too selfish." ”

Since Wan Jingjing had asked her to go to the tower, she was naturally ready for everything, she glared, took a step in front of the door of the ninth floor, and said desperately: "Cheng Qi! You have to help me today! If you don't help, you have to help me! If you don't help! Then the two of us will fall down together and die! ”

Cheng Qi was stunned: "I wipe?" ”

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