Qi Hui was about to leave after collecting the account book, and joked: "He hasn't been in a good mood lately, you'd better not mess with him." ”

Jian Feng sighed: "He must not have helped you get things done, he was in a hurry." I've told him several times that if he can't do it, I'll come, you see. And our Jane's family has customers all over the world, and it is easy to hide you and Niangniang. ”

Qi Hui smiled: "I don't want to hide with my mother, I don't want her to leave the palace and enter another cage, so I have to leave everything here clean." Leaving the palace is not a flight, nor is it an escape. ”

Jian Feng felt a little guilty: "I didn't mean to underestimate your ideals. ”

Qi Hui didn't care, walked out of the account room with him, and suddenly remembered that Shifeng was going to arrange a marriage recently, and asked, "Did your family go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to propose marriage?" ”

Jian Feng shook his head: "For the sake of the accounts of the Chamo family, I haven't been home for several days, why don't I ask?" Although our family is all girls, there are several of them of the right age, but there is a difference between the eldest and the youngest, and I don't know if the Prime Minister's Mansion looks down on it. ”

Qi Hui said with a smile: "Your house is a scholarly family, and your daughter's family is gentle and virtuous, and he has always been afraid of women, saying that as long as they are gentle, it will be fine." ”

Jian Feng laughed, full of bad thoughts, and was bound to play a good trick on Shi Feng. When parting, he remembered a new thing, took out a finger-thick and short thing from his arms, and shook it in front of Qi Hui's eyes, I don't know how he got it, and in an instant he stretched out a sharp thin cone, which was originally just the length of a finger, but the awl was twice as long as a wooden handle, if it was used for self-defense or attack, it could directly pierce and pierce a person's body, or even kill him on the spot.

Qi Hui frowned, took it to his hand and saw that he had some talent, and quickly found the location of the mechanism, and the awl brushed the ground to retract the wooden handle, and it turned into an inconspicuous little thing again.

"I took it from the Ministry of Industry to play, saying that it was something that appeared in the capital recently, and the people from the Ministry of War have collected a large number of things, so that the Ministry of Industry can study the doorway inside." Jian Feng stretched out his hand to take it back, but after thinking about it, he said generously, "You can take it and play with it, and I'll ask someone from the Ministry of Industry for another one." ”

Qi Hui accepted it, and after thanking Jian Feng for his help, he quickly disappeared into the household department.

When she returned to the cold palace, Concubine Xian was asleep, Xiangxiang sat aside, doing needlework at dawn, she was sewing very strange clothes, the materials were removed from other clothes, and when she saw Qi Hui returning, she put down the things in her hand and asked: "You have been out for a long time, have you eaten?" ”

It can be seen that Qi Hui looked at the things she sewed strangely, so he unfolded it to show him, and said: "This is for dancing and wearing, and when the skin and flesh on the wound grow well and will not tear again, I will wear it to dance and show Niangniang." ”

Qi Hui said: "My mother can't see it, you wear the same thing to dance, why do you have to work so hard to make dance clothes?" ”

Xiangxiang carefully put away the needlework and clothes, and said very seriously: "For me, it is true that I can dance with anything, but my mother can't see it, I have always thought about how to let her see it, so I make these clothes." She gently lifted her skirt and said with a smile, "If the clothes are windy, and the mother can feel the wind blowing in her face, she will know that I am dancing, and if she can touch some more, it will be more real, and the mother will be happy." ”

"She may just be a casual remark, and you put so much thought into it? Maybe my mother has forgotten, won't she fail you. Qi Hui was slightly disgusted with his mother's desire to watch Xiangxiang dance before, he knew that his mother had not forgotten her life twenty years ago, and even felt that she still had some nostalgia for the emperor, but seeing Xiangxiang so dedicated, he couldn't help but reflect on what he had done for his mother as a son.

"But I can only dance now." Xiangxiang smiled innocently, but his eyes showed a bit of inferiority.

That is the fact that no matter how cheerful and free her temperament is, she can't change it, even if she hasn't betrayed her hue, she has been seen by countless men wearing thin dance clothes, Qi Hui doesn't care about the past, but the past is in her own heart. Watching Qi Hui wrestling in many troubles day by day, she has nothing to help, it is inevitable to face up to her own existence, and the only thing she can do well at the moment is to take care of Concubine Xian.

"This is what I can do, and if I can make my mother happy, I will be satisfied." Xiangxiang said, "I don't know what will happen to us in the future, but I will do everything I can to make myself worthy of you." ”

Qi Hui was slightly angry and asked with a smile: "Did I dislike you anything?" Or did I do or say something that made you misunderstand me. ”

Xiangxiang hurriedly shook her head, her eyes flashed, she didn't say complicated truths, only said: "Because from now on, I am no longer a dancer." ”

A very simple sentence, but it made Qi Hui feel the blood surging up his back, and the indescribable joy had nothing to do with whether Xiangxiang could still dance or whether he would still be a dancer. He opened his arms slightly, Xiangxiang was stunned, and immediately threw himself into his arms lightly, wrapped his hands tightly around his waist, and said happily: "I know, you will understand my mind." ”

That night, Shi Feng drank wine alone in the Closed Moon Pavilion, unfortunately Xi Niang had a guest today, and she couldn't come to talk to him for most of the day, and when she came with her hair scattered, her shoulders were exposed, and she wore it in front of Shi Feng without shying away, Shi Feng couldn't help but say: "You can't dress up, and I'm not in a hurry to see you." ”

"Little bunny, I used to follow me with my fart, and now I can't get used to it?" Xi Niang smiled and scolded, it can be seen that Shifeng is holding his face, funny and distressed, the monkey came up and hugged him and asked, "Silly boy, what happened to you and was depressed?" ”

"You sit down and talk." Shi Feng pointed to the side, Xi Niang's body was drenched in sweat, he couldn't stand it.

"I'm not going to eat you again." Xi Niang took a sip lightly, called the little girl to bring hot water, and wiped her body with her clothes untied across the screen, because Shifeng wanted to speak, she asked the little girl to retreat, she shouted in the screen, "Can you help me wipe my back?" ”

Shi Feng said angrily: "You always bully people like this, I will never come again." ”

Waiting for Xi Niang to shine out neatly, seeing Shi Feng pouring a glass of wine, she stepped forward and held it down, but she said: "Go back drunk, the adults are going to reprimand you again, why bother?" ”

"Things have not been satisfactory recently, and there is still a hurdle waiting for Qi Hui and my family, and it is not easy for me to be caught in the middle of who loses or wins." Pang Shifeng sneered and insisted on drinking, "Why do I think something very simple is so complicated and difficult to handle in their hands?" Qi Hui just took Concubine Xian away, where did he have so many scruples? ”

Xi Niang had poured herself a glass of wine, drank it with red lips, looked at the night sky outside the window with soft eyes, put down the wine glass and whispered: "After all, that was his former ideal, he didn't really let go, as you said, to go or not to go is only in a thought, if you want to go, everything is not an excuse." Wait a little longer, maybe one day, he will drop everything. ”

Shi Feng was a little drunk, and slapped the wine glass on the table: "I'd rather he never put it down for the rest of his life, if he gets on the ......"

Ke Xi Niang suddenly covered Shi Feng's mouth, and sure enough, someone came in front of the door, and the old bustard shouted outside: "Daughter, there is a guest, can you see it?" ”

Xi Niang chirped: "Why don't you say that I have a guest tonight, who doesn't take the rules of the Closed Moon Building in their eyes, and what is it to make trouble?" The third prince is here with me, don't you need to say hello? ”

The old bustard said: "It's a big customer, as long as you see each other, it's thousands of taels of silver." Last time, someone made trouble, I met it when they dispersed, and promised that they would be treated as guests when they came back, and you saw that people sent a thousand gold, so let's show a smile and not be embarrassed. When the queen died, how much business was delayed, and the girls' golden hairpins were all exchanged for silver, and they still had to make a living. ”

Shi Feng was annoyed, but Xi Niang held him down and said softly: "It's all black-hearted mother-in-law, if you don't let her take the silver tonight, you won't be able to sleep at night." If you don't dare to come at me when you turn around, you should be angry with other girls. You sit, I'll come when I go. ”

Xi Niang got up and straightened her clothes, pushed the door out, the old bustard was very happy, and led her downstairs to the private room, saying along the way: "It seems to be from other places, I have never seen it in the capital, and the other girls have received the reward." ”

Xi Niang looked downstairs, there were no more guests, she couldn't help frowning, and the old bustard hurriedly said: "This master has already wrapped up the field, and the guests below are gone." ”

Xi Niang suddenly stopped, and said with a cold look: "You are really fascinated by money, forgetting whose territory this is, in addition to the huge people, can there be a second person to charter the venue?" Don't say a thousand taels of silver, even if you bring gold and silver, it won't work. Hurry up and drive people away, he is from out of town, just leave if you have fun, you offend the prime minister when you turn around, do you want to mix up in this business? ”

The old bustard was dumbfounded, but Xi Niang was reasonable, but she still coveted the silver, and people said that as long as she showed up, it would be a thousand taels of silver, so she still had a little luck, trying to persuade Xi Niang: "Why don't you go and tell the master these truths, we don't do business, and the silver will be collected." ”

"Phew!" Xi Niang chirped, "Why don't you go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, if the huge person nods, you strip me naked and send it away, and I will never have a 'no' word, and all the money collected will be yours when the time comes." ”

The old bustard suddenly died down, where did she dare to break into the Prime Minister's Mansion, and although she was in charge of the Closed Moon Pavilion, Xi Niang was the one who really made the decision, where was her turn to persecute Xi Niang.

They were saying these words upstairs, and the man at the bottom stood at the top of the stairs, hearing it clearly, and the girl who accompanied the guest came out behind him, and said softly: "Master, where are you going, wait a minute, Xi Niang will come." ”

At this time, the old bustard came down from upstairs with a perfunctory smile on his face: "Wait a little longer, Xi Niang is dressing up." ”

The man smiled gently: "Legend has it that it is difficult to laugh at the daughter, I only have a thousand taels of silver here, and I am indeed not sincere enough." He gently pushed away the beauty wrapped around his body, and said good-naturedly, "The silver is left for the girls to buy flowers to wear, and when I bring a thousand taels of gold, I will come to see Xi Niang again." ”

The old bustard's heart was full of joy, and he couldn't wait to personally carry the guests out of the door, upstairs Xi Niang heard these words, frowned, and looked down against the railing.

The man was tall and graceful, and when she turned around, she remembered that he was standing in front of the door when someone had made trouble the day before yesterday and the guests had dispersed.