"The eldest sister has been in Jingshi for three years, and she hasn't entered the palace yet, who knows when she will be able to enter? Besides, when I marry him, let my father take care of him, won't it be over! ”

Cheng Mei pursed her lips. "What's more, even if you marry into the family of the third grade, what is the point if you can't be a clan wife? I don't want to look at the faces of the concubines! ”

"Are you going to do it against me?" Mrs. Cheng became angry as she spoke, and poked her index finger on the corner of her forehead, "He is not only a commoner, but he already has a wife, you have to hang yourself on his broken tree!"

"Which of those innocent official sons in the Beijing division is not better than him? I'm mad at you! ”

Cheng Mei argued with her: "What does it have to do with me when he gets married?" Can't I handle an ignorant little woman? If he can marry me, it's done! ”

Mrs. Cheng listened to the anger and turned her back to lift her forehead.

When he turned his head and saw his husband, he sent his daughter out again.

Cheng Xiao asked, "Who is she talking about?" ”

"Who else? Isn't it the Du gradually you brought back! Mrs. Cheng pursed her lips.

Cheng Xiao talked about people saving his life all day long, and she didn't take it seriously.

The eldest daughter Cheng Tong is just around the corner when she marries into the East Palace, and when the crown prince ascends the throne, as the daughter of the new emperor's cronies, she can also be a princess.

Cheng Mei has a sister who is the imperial concubine, and her worth is naturally high, what kind of child do you want? How can you cheapen Du Yan, who was born in the common people?!

When Cheng Xiao heard this, he immediately frowned and did not answer.

Cheng Tong is already seventeen years old, and it is said that if he wants to enter the palace, he can enter, but Luo Yuan listed such a condition in front, and let him do this before letting Cheng Tong enter the palace, which is somewhat threatening. Where would he be as confident as Mrs. Cheng?

Mrs. Cheng urged him to change his clothes, and he looked up and said, "The accounts I handed over to you last time, you give them to me, and I will go to the study again." ”

was stabbed by Mrs. Cheng's pride, and he couldn't sleep.

Luo Yuan said a month ago that he would send someone to Changxing, but he didn't arrive for a long time, perhaps, after Shen Changying left, he should also find someone to transfer this hot potato out.

When the rain fell, it stopped.

The night was already very deep, and because of the rain, the street tourists also fell silent early.

Du gradually returned to the room to cover the door, and there was a faint pop in the darkness, and the firelight lit up, and then illuminated the dozen or so black-clothed people standing quietly in the room.

Du gradually walked into the house, and the man in Tsing Yi with a light soft armor immediately walked up to him and put the soft armor on him.

"Where's Xie Peng?" He asked.

"I've already led people to ambush me." After the man in Tsing Yi finished speaking, he took the night clothes and helped him put them on, and the sword resting on his side hung on his waist, and finally handed over the face towel.

Du gradually covered the face towel, and after a slight pause, he took it off again: "Go and see Shen Changying." ”

The man in Tsing Yi paused: "The female general from Nankang Wei?" ”

Du gradually fell silent. The man in Tsing Yi was slightly confused, and then waved his hand to the back, and two men in black had already quietly opened the door and went out.

There is still tea in the house, which is suitable for cold and warm.

He stood up at the window.

The clouds were rolling in the sky, and the light moon tried hard to catch the gap in the clouds and come out to show up, but obviously it couldn't succeed.

The shadows of the trees swayed, and in the almost dark night, they were full of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.

If she returned to her father, Shen Changying took a walk after dinner, drank tea for a while, and went back to the room. The lights went out before the hour came. ”

The people who went out came back very quickly.

Du gradually did not comment.

The scene of seeing Shen Changying sneaking out from Cheng Xiao was still hovering in his mind.

She is Nan Kangwei's general and Tan Shao's subordinate, according to Nan Kangwei's practice of contacting magistrates, there is nothing to make a fuss about her potential secret grasp of Cheng Xiao's handle.

But he still felt that she needed to use this means to grasp the handle, which seemed a little strange.

He couldn't help but think about what was coming.

Of course, maybe he was thinking too much?

How could such a secret thing make her, a low-level general, receive the news?

Anyway, there's no way she'll know what's going to happen tonight.

Thinking of this, he withdrew his hand holding the edge of the window, spilled the residual tea, and waved out the light.

"Let's go!"

The night grew darker and quieter.

Cheng Xiao finished reading the account in his hand, and finally yawned.

He got up and walked to the door, and a sudden gust of wind blew the lamps on the table to tremble.

With his hands on the doorknob, he looked back at the lamp, blew it out, and then went back to check the closed bookcase door again before closing the door and walking out.

Mo Lan by the pillar under the door was shaking in the wind, he glanced at it, raised his feet and left.

Changying has been hiding on the screen door for two hours, and keeping the same posture for two hours does not make her impatient, although she is not sure when Cheng Xiao will come out, but the time is approaching, and she knows that she will not wait long.

She turned her head and looked around at the direction where Mrs. Cheng, Cheng Mei's sister and brother, and Tongzhi's family lived, adjusted her breathing and calmed down.

According to her several speculations about the scene and the information she gathered, the bandits should have acted separately, that is, when Cheng Xiao's side was restrained, the rest of them should have died at the same time.

Otherwise, if one of them makes a noise, most of the others will be aware of it, and they will not all die in their sleep.

But at the moment, she can't act rashly, she secretly doesn't know how many pairs of eyes are hidden, as long as she moves, maybe the bamboo basket will be empty.

So she arranged in advance for Huang Ji, Zhou Liang and Zi Yi to stay at the residence of Cheng Mei's sister and brother and Tongzhi and his wife, Shaoqing was at Mrs. Cheng's place, and she was squatting at Cheng Xiao.

Now I just hope that everyone can do their part.

Du gradually was on the tree opposite Cheng Xiao's study.

Although February in the south of the Yangtze River is not as cold as in the north of the Yangtze River, the evening breeze instigates the treetops, but it makes the night even quieter.

He stared at Cheng Xiao who walked out of the study, and controlled his breathing more slowly.

Cheng Xiao walked much slower than usual tonight, it was so quiet on all sides, it was not that he had never returned to the room late at night before, but there had never been a time when it was so treacherous as tonight.

He seemed to be walking in a graveyard, and the sound of his footsteps hit his heart and even echoed.

"Shala-"

A gust of wind passed, and a slight sound was heard from nowhere.

There was a slight sweat on his forehead, he cleared his throat, and straightened up to call people - there were people on duty in the house day and night, and at this moment he had been out for a while, and no one had come to guide the way with the lights on all sides, which was already unusual.

But before he could open his mouth, the sound began to intensify, as if he were about to shout, and soon changed from intermittent to continuous, and in less than half a moment, like a prelude to a rainstorm, the clicking sound resounded through the eardrums, and followed in full swing from behind!