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On the second day, Wen Xiuwen took the letter and hurried to Yukou Lane.

Zuodi has not yet arrived, so Li Qiao is alone. The two said hello and sat down.

The two exchanged pleasantries casually. Li Qiao said: "Brother Wen has ever told Ling Zun about Lingmen Village?" ”

Wen Xiuwen shook his head: "No." In the next should be the second miss, unless it is about the father, I will not reveal the slightest tone. ”

Li Qiao's head bowed: "Brother Wen is a gentleman, he will do what he says, and Li can be trusted." He teased,

"What about proposing to Miss Zuo...... What are Brother Wen's plans? ”

Wen Xiuwen was stunned, and smiled helplessly: "Brother Li, don't make fun of it." Mrs. Zuo's official residence is a product, and Miss Zuo's famous and noble women are both talented and beautiful, which is what hundreds of schools want. How can you think of it in a white body in the lower district? ”

Li Qiao heard this and said, "Second Miss doesn't think like this. I have known her for many years and know her character best. If she said it, it would not be gibberish, but she would have said it after she had already thought about it. ”

Wen Xiuwen smiled bitterly and was silent for a long time. Li Qiao didn't speak again, only held hands and made a pot of tea.

The heat was rising, Wen Xiuwen was silent for a long time, and suddenly mustered up the courage to say: "Brother Li, this word can come out of my mouth and into your ears, don't say it to others." Feasible? ”

Li Qiao nodded and looked at him quietly.

Wen Xiuwen sighed: "I admire the temperament and peculiarity of the second lady, and she is also a friend and a sister." The only son in the Xia Nai family, she longs for a young girl like her. Therefore, treat it with sincerity and be willing to protect it. ”

He shook his head and sighed, "Such a woman, peerless and graceful like the moon and the high wind, how can ordinary mortals dare to have the slightest blasphemy?" Miss Zuo is her eldest sister, and there must be similarities between the two. In the next place, how can a mere mortal in the flesh dare to expect such a beauty? ”

Li Qiao shook his head and said loudly: "Brother Wen's words are not a gentleman enough. Why don't you say that such a woman is a friend, but she can't be a wife? What Brother Wen wants to marry is a dignified and virtuous woman who is comfortable with her parents, so he is worried that Miss Zuo will be difficult to control like the second miss. ”

Wen Xiuwen's face was pale, and he was ashamed.

Li Qiao's words changed: "If this is the case, Brother Wen doesn't have to worry about it, Li Qiao knows a little about Miss Zuo." The temperament is gentle and virtuous, and he is a good match for Brother Wen. It's just that Brother Wen is worried about more than that, right? ”

Wen Xiuwen was stunned and said ashamedly: "I still can't hide it from Brother Li." It is true that Brother Li knows the origin of his father? ”

Li Qiao said: "The former dynasty Honglu Temple! ”

Wen Xiuwen nodded: "Exactly." After the Holy God established the Kangguo, my father knew that the current Holy God was heroic and strategic, and he was a rare master. Therefore, it is lowered. Thanks to the Holy Lord's refusal to abandon him, he still holds his original position. But after all, he is a minister of the previous dynasty, and it is inevitable that he will be tongued. The father of the family is upright, does not form a party and does not engage in personal interests, it is to protect Mingzhe's life. ”

Li Qiao continued: "And Mrs. Zuo is in a high position, and he has been repeatedly plotted by villains, and he has gradually developed a gap with the saint. So Brother Wen doesn't want to wade into this troubled water? ”

Wen Xiuwen bowed his head helplessly: "Mrs. Zuo only has two concubines, if he marries him rashly, he is afraid of affecting his father......"

Li Qiao was noncommittal: "Brother Wen has his own concerns, but Lord Wen is above board, how can a marriage be ruined?" I also hope that Brother Wen will think twice and miss Miss Zuo, Li is afraid that Brother Wen will regret it for the rest of his life. ”

Wen Xiuwen was thoughtful and ashamed when he heard this, and said gratefully: "Wen Jun's words are better than ten years of reading." is too pedantic in the next, and almost disappoints Brother Li and the second lady. I will make a decision after discussing with my father! ”

Before Li Qiao could reply, someone outside the door suddenly said crisply: "What to decide?" Tell me about it! ”

The two of them looked up, and a fiery red figure floated into the room with a delicate face full of smiles.

The whole room seemed to light up with the arrival of this man.

Wen Xiuwen touched his nose in embarrassment, and arched his hand: "I have seen the second lady." ”

Li Qiao looked at the delicate and lovely Zuo Di, smiled warmly, and said softly: "Coming?" Have a seat. ”

At this time, it was early autumn, Zuo Di took off the big red shawl, and Qiu Ju took it.

Suddenly, a parrot flew out from under the shawl, resting its wings on the left shoulder, and combing its feathers.

Zuo Di said with a smile: "Let me introduce to you, this is my little friend, named Hongguoer!" ”

The two laughed dumbly, but did not comment or pay attention.

Qiu Ju poured tea for the three of them, and then avoided the side room.

The three of them sat down, took a sip of tea and said, "There is something in that stone." ”

"Oh?" Li Qiao raised his eyebrows, "Let's hear it." ”

Zuo Di explained the matter of breaking open the stone and discovering the water spirit, and the water spirit had already submerged into his body. She only concealed the Phantom Bead and the Red Fruit.

When they heard this, they both sighed that the warlock had harmed the entire village for his own selfishness.

Li Qiaodao Zheng's remnants should also be looking for this thing, thinking that the other party also has a strange existence like Zuo Di, he repeatedly told this matter not to leak out, lest those people target Zuo Di.

Wen Xiuwen should be followed.

Zuo Di was very happy, these two people didn't say a word about their arson since last night.

She thought for a moment and said, "You didn't ask me about last night, I'm glad but I don't want you to have doubts in your hearts. ”

The two of them did not speak, but looked at her quietly.

Zuo Di continued: "I don't know what other people who want to find the spirit of water are capable of. But it's definitely different from me. I've been able to communicate with the flames for as long as I can remember, except for Qiu Ju and Mama Wang, and only the two of you know about this matter at present......"

The red fruit on her shoulder "quack" screamed twice as if in protest, and Zuodi was speechless......

Li Qiao and Wen Xiuwen looked at each other and smiled, Wen Xiuwen said: "At least this matter will never be known by others from here!" ”

Zuo Di nodded with a smile: "I believe it!" I'm here today for a side trip. ”

She looked at Wen Xiuwen and said with a smile, "Eldest sister and Lu the day after tomorrow, you can send a matchmaker to the door!" ”

Wen Xiuwen: ......

Zuo Di didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued: "The eldest sister has a gentle temperament, dignified and virtuous. Although she is a noble girl, she does not have the arrogance of a noble girl. I won't humiliate you! As for my father, he will resign after the court, and you can continue to be your free scholar without worrying about being swept into the court! ”

Wen Xiuwen and Li Qiao's faces changed when they heard this! Mrs. Zuo wants to resign? The news was so sudden!

Zuo Di drank all the tea in the cup, and said proudly: "My father's ambition has never been in the court, but in the people of the world." Since he stayed in the DPRK, he could only survive and be restrained everywhere. It's better to get away from this battle and take a step back! ”

Wen Xiuwen hadn't reacted yet.

Li Qiao picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "Mrs. Zuo is the real heart of the world." Li replaced wine with tea to show respect. After speaking, he drank it all.

He felt a lot of emotion in his heart, the Dudao Zuo family was already at the end of the captivity, and there was only one way to destroy it. Who would have thought that Zuo Zhangheng would be able to make up his mind to draw his salary. In this way, at least the Holy Favor can be kept alive, and it will be difficult for those ghosts to move him again!

I just don't know - is this really what Zuo Zhangheng meant? Or is it the second lady's idea......

Wen Xiuwen slowed down for half a beat, his face showed shame, and said to Zuo Dizheng:

"Mrs. Zuo Fu is high and bright, and he learns to be rich in the world. Mrs. Zuo will be a tiger girl and a heroine. The second lady is so beautiful and brilliant, I think it must be a good thing to come to Miss Zuo. I can only look forward and backward from my worries, which is really ashamed! Today, thanks to the second lady who does not give up, I will definitely show her parents and choose a day to propose marriage! ”

Zuo Dixiao's eyebrows were gone, thinking that the eldest sister would be overjoyed to know the news.

After all the things that should be talked about are finished, Zuo Di runs out of the house every day, and Yang has already had a lot of complaints. In addition, the eldest sister is about to die, and the family needs to do a lot of things. She didn't want to cause trouble to the Yang family, so she prepared to go home.

The three of them discussed, there is still a lot of time for the Hengzhu Dynasty Meeting, and they continue to inquire about the exchange of news on weekdays, and then leave without mentioning it.

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The small kitchen of the Chunxiao Courtyard of the Taifu Mansion.

Mama Li put the golden bird's nest porridge that Aunt Fang asked for in a jade bowl and put it on the dining table. There will be a little maid to pick it up and send it over.

Chunxiao Courtyard was locked by Mrs., Aunt Fang was also grounded, and the people in the courtyard complained all day long that they had nothing to do, and their lives were quite lazy and boring.

Mama Li didn't feel that life was going to be difficult at all. Stay quietly in the kitchen, silently watching the stove, or look at the trees in the courtyard and the blue sky overhead. Even if she watched it all day, she was so happy.

- She felt that this was the day she had always dreamed of.

People don't feel sorry for things they never have, because they don't know what it's like to have them. And the most terrible thing is to have it and then lose it.

Hug the painting is dead. She heard it from someone else. Others only said that death was strange and scary, but she knew that there was something more terrifying than that death.

After knowing the news, she understood that her current leisurely life would be one day less! It won't be long, maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow...... Someone will come to her, and if she refuses to answer, then what awaits her is an even more terrifying death.

Mama Li is nearly 40 years old. She recalled her life, her childhood was long blurred, but her youth was living in purgatory, and the only thing that made her feel at ease was these days in the house.

Thinking of the Gu people who couldn't stand the pain and died, I thought of Luo Li, who was burned to death...... She exhaled softly, and it was worth it—wasn't it? Have at least half a lifetime of stability.

She touched the cold dagger that had been hidden in her sleeve, and secretly resolved that if the day came to be found, she would kill herself!

She never thought of betraying the second lady and then joining those people.

From the day he took the oath, he was determined not to abandon this young master, not to try to relieve himself of the Gu he had promised, not to promise to let himself live, just for-

In the eyes of the second lady, she is not an experiment, not an object, but a living, flesh-and-blood person!

Mama Li took a greedy breath of the fragrance of flowers and plants from the yard, today is about to pass, and she will live one more day.

She slowly got up from the pestle, and was just halfway there, and suddenly! A pebble was thrown through the window.

She immediately froze, and her whole body shook violently! Could it be ...... Is it today? Your last day?

Mama Li opened the window with trembling hands, and saw-

There was a girl standing outside the window, her eyes were shining, and her delicate face was like a pearl and a beautiful jade, smiling with two sweet dimples.

She said crisply: "Mama Li, I will fulfill my promise and give you an explanation!" ”

didn't hear Mama Li's reply, she tilted her head and wondered, "You don't believe it?" ”

Mama Li stood still, her mind blank. After a while, she heard her voice drifting from nowhere, trembling in a trance:

"Letter...... The old slave has always believed in ......"

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