When I arrived in the capital, it was the first day of the new year.

The July sun is hot on the ground, and the people with Yanjing accents on the post road outside the city gate are already everywhere, and the familiar scenery on both sides of the road is gradually awakening Changying's memory of this city outline.

When she returned after many years, Changying's heart began to turn over the river and the sea, she simply put down the curtain and sat up straight with her eyes closed.

After a moment she opened her eyes again and called for a stop.

Ling Yuan was next to the car, and when the car stopped, he took a few steps forward, looked back, and then reversed his horse.

Changying got out of the lane: "Let's part ways here." ”

Ling Yuan's gentleness that had been maintained for more than ten days dissipated instantly: "What kind of way?" Guo Jiao will take you directly to the Hou Mansion. ”

He is a Qincha, and there will be officials at the city gate to greet him, and it is inconvenient for Changying to go with him, but he can go first.

"Nope." Changying said, "I've asked Xiuxiu to help me take care of the house." Find an inn to live for two days, pack up and live in. ”

"You-"

"I'll go see my aunt later, but I'm not ready yet." Changying clasped his hands.

How can you go to Ling's house at this time? Before entering the city now, those things had already rushed out of the city, she was not even sure if she could stay calm after entering the city, what could she say when she went to the Ling family at this time?

She also has a disgraceful identity, and there are countless people in the capital waiting to spit on her, and with these, she is already passive.

If she wants not to mess up, from now on, she needs to work hard to devote herself to this competition, she will not, and she does not want to appear in the image of being isolated and helpless again.

Ling Yuan stood still and looked at her for a long time, and said coldly, "Whatever you want." ”

Having said that, he looked away with a heavy face and did not act.

Changying gets on the bus first.

He reached out and grabbed the window again: "When are you going back!" ”

Changying pinched the tip of his hand and said, "Let's wait a while." ”

Ling Yuan looked at her unfazed face, and at this moment he also felt that she was really ruthless.

……

Setting off again, Huang Ji sped up a little, they had three carriages, but after all, they were not as large as the team of Wu Ninghou who had returned to the dynasty, and they accelerated out of three or five miles, and then left the distance.

Under Changying's arrangement, Shaoqing followed Ling Yuan along.

Entering the city, Changying saw a neatly dressed official under the city gate waiting under the gate with a military general from the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, in addition to Feng Shaoyin and Feng Shaokang, who were waiting for him.

Looking carefully, there are two other children of the family who are often served, and the most eye-catching one among them is elegant and gentle, handsome and abnormal, it is Fu Rong, the prince of Guangwei Hou who is as famous as Ling Yuan.

These were all frequent visitors to the Ling family in the past, but now they are all the same, but she is different.

Changying retracted her gaze and said, "Let's go to an inn outside Chestnut Hutong first." ”

Two quarters of an hour later, he asked for a room in the inn, and Chang Ying sent Zi Yan first: "You go to Rong's house to send a message to Xiuxiu, see that it is inconvenient for him to come out, let her take time to come to the inn." ”

Rongfu is in Lizi Hutong, and she chose to live here to make it convenient for Xiuxiu to come out.

When the people came, she pushed open the window, and the window showed a corner of the cityscape of Beijing, the houses and official residences, the streets and alleys, and the northern trees and vines scattered in the corner of the garden under the window, which fit with the memory of the long past, and friction with the memory of Jiangnan in recent years.

"Girl!"

The door behind him opened, and the footsteps came quickly and suddenly, and Changying trembled when he heard the sound and turned around.

In front of the door stood a woman of the same age as her, the green silk that had been separated for a long time in the past had been pulled into a woman's bun, and the figure that was not very plump in the past was even thinner.

Her lips trembled, with tears in her eyes, and because of her anxious arrival, her upper body leaned forward: "Girl! ”

"Xiuxiu." Changying stepped forward, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was hoarse.

Xiuxiu knelt down with her skirt up, and tears fell to the ground: "I can count it as letting Xiuxiu see you when she is still alive!" ”

At the end of the words, the emotions finally burst and the voice was broken.

Changying tried her best to endure the surge in her heart, squatted down and hugged her in her arms: "You have suffered. ”

Zi Yan withdrew from the door with red eyes, gently closed the door, and summoned Pan Zhu to go down to serve tea.

With her back to the door and listening to the soft snort coming from the room, she couldn't help but bow her head and wipe the corners of her eyes.

In the past, in the Shen family, in the Ling family, those happy and peaceful days were gone, and the time of hardship and hardship after leaving the Ling family was unforgettable.

Even when living with dignity has become a luxury, where is the mind to divide the master and servant?

They tried their best to maintain Changying, who seemed to be forced to die at any time, and Changying repeatedly struggled between giving up and persevering, and finally was afraid that after she died, several of them were even more helpless and gritted their teeth and survived.

At that time, everyone thought very simply, that is, to live.

In this regard, they have finally succeeded.

The sobbing in the room was interrupted by the sound of a peeling peck coming from the door.

Changying pulled Xiuxiu to get up, Fanzhu came in with refreshments, blessed Xiuxiu, and went out and closed the door again.

Xiuxiu handed the handkerchief over to Changying to wipe away her tears, and said while stabilizing her emotions: "Are you okay on the road?" I heard that I came back with Master Hou? ”

looked at her again, and tears came out again: "It's still so thin, it's hard to work in the guard, right?" It took three years to go from a sergeant to a general Xuanwu, and you were tired of even embroidering pillowcases. ”

"There's nothing you can't overcome." Changying said slowly. "What about you? Do you have children? ”

“…… Not yet. I'm fine. She said, "In the end, it is the Xuanwei General's Mansion, and there are rules for food and clothing."

"Rong Yin has few times at home all day long, I almost don't go out of the room much, I have to quarrel in front, and I don't have anything to do. I'm fine. ”

She repeated.

Changying looked at her: "If it's good, how come you don't even have children so far?" ”

Xiuxiu's face was a little unnatural, and she swept her hair.

Changying said: "When I settle down, I will negotiate with Rong Yin and pick you up." ”

The letter Xiuxiu who went south always rarely mentioned herself, and her situation in the Rong family could only be known from her previous understanding of the Rong family and the information in the letters.

has been with Rong Yin for three years, and if she is lucky, she can give birth to two, but she has no children, either Rong Yin snubbed her, or she was pregnant and did not keep it, or someone did not let her conceive at all.

What is she not clear about these dirty things in the inner house? What's more, Xiuxiu used to be her person, and she had no status in the Rong family, she could imagine it.

Originally, I thought that if she had children, she would make a decision based on her will.

Now like this, what reason does she have to continue to let her stay in the Rong family?

Xiuxiu's eyes reddened again. His lips were pursed, and he wanted to distinguish between two sentences, but he didn't say anything more.