Chapter 3: Some Sneaky Things
After dealing with everything, Sheng Qian hadn't forgotten what his daughter said, and asked him to come to her secretly at night.
The night was getting dark, and the road ahead was dark.
Sheng Qian rode a horse from the government to his home, it was late in the summer, and he could see the road at this time, but today it was raining, and the road was not clear.
Sheng Qian delayed on the road for a while, and the more he walked, the darker it became, and he often said with Ma Wu next to him, "There is a lantern shop ahead, otherwise let's go buy one?" "It's almost Lantern Day, too, he thought.
Sheng Qian thought for a moment, "Hmm."
It's closed early, and there are only two guys left in the lantern shop. Opened the door in a daze, Sheng Qian swept past the two guys, and looked at the lights placed above, all of them were extinguished, dark red, and some rabbit lanterns that children liked.
"Master, do you want to buy lamps for the children at home?"
It is customary here in Bingzhou that every household with a child under the age of 14 will use a red lantern. After midsummer, there will also be a lantern festival.
Sheng Qian looked up at the light. The guy looked at him in luxurious clothes, and endured a yawn, "Master, I can't see clearly when it's dark, I'll light a few for you, and it looks convenient to put on the lamp." The man in front of him did not speak, but continued to watch in front of the lantern, and the man covered his mouth and yawned, and beckoned the other man to light it.
One by one, the red lanterns lit up. The candles inside are generally red candles with thin heads, the lamp is very soft, Sheng Qian tilted his head, but this kind of light shook his eyes.
She used to be very fond of red clothes, and when they first met, she was on the boat, and smiled at him in red clothes.
His eyes sank, and he didn't look at it.
I picked a red light, took a rabbit lamp, and prepared to go back to the eldest daughter.
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"Daddy", seeing that little light from outside the Huxin Pavilion from a distance, Sheng Mingzhu rushed into Sheng Qian's arms like a milk swallow.
"Rabbit lantern, for the spirit beads?" She glanced at the lantern his father was carrying.
Sheng Qian said, "It's for you." ”
"I'm a big girl," she said, but she still took the lantern in her hand, and asked again, "What about the lantern of the spirit bead?" ”
"Your mother takes it." Sheng Qian didn't want to talk about it, so he asked, "What are you talking to your father about something very serious today?" ”
The words are too hard, Sheng Mingzhu can see it. He didn't like Lingzhu, he didn't see it very much, but the scene in her dream, Lingzhu ran away from home later.
The father and daughter entered the house, Mingzhu poured tea for her father, and she sat on the other side, "Daddy, I had a dream a few days ago. The scene in the dream is a bit unbelievable. She said, pausing again, looking at her father, "It also scares me a little." ”
"What dream?" Sheng Qian was a little strange, she used to have nightmares and always threw herself into Yun Niang's arms.
The dream is too long, sometimes when she wakes up Mingzhu forgets, except for some profound or very sad scenes, she hangs her head, looking a little depressed, "I dreamed that my mother and father are dead, the spirit bead is gone, our house was raided, and I was arrested." ”
Sheng Qian: ...... He doesn't get angry. My father died, my mother died, and my sister died. Don't get angry.
"It's just a nightmare, and it can't be true." He said.
"I don't think it's serious, but I've been dreaming for half a month!" Mingzhu tugged at her hair a little unbearably, "My mother said that I was in a bad mood, and I also felt that I was, but Dad, it confirmed it, I dreamed in my dream that you were promoted to the capital, this is the time!" ”
She looked up at Sheng Qian, her eyes unblinking, trying to make him believe in herself.
Sheng Qian's expression also became solemn, and his voice was low, "Nan...... You tell Daddy", he sank a little closer, Mingzhu put her ear over and listened to him, "Are you playing some game with Daddy?" ”
Sheng Mingzhu felt that her father's face was better than his brain.
"What I said is true!"
Sheng Mingzhu hated to pull all the hair off his head.
"And how did we all die?" Sheng Qian was afraid that she would pull out her beautiful hair, so he asked for face.
"Niang ......" Mingzhu didn't want to say bad things about the Song family, Sheng Qian was the only two women, and they were not bad to her, "In my dream, I was ordered by my mother to sink into the pond." ”
She exhaled, feeling a little hard to say.
Sheng Qian looked at the sky, he was handsome, and now the silhouette was deeper under the night, and he lowered his body and rubbed her soft hair, "Nannan, your mother saved your grandmother and your father's life when she was young." Dad knows that you have a high spirit, and Dad also feels very sorry for you, and he can't give you the title of a concubine, but if he gives it to you, Dad will do his best to give you the best. ”
"Daddy......" Sheng Mingzhu knew that this would happen, so he didn't dare to tell Yun Niang about this stubble, so he skipped it and said, "After that, Dad became strange, and I couldn't see it clearly in my dreams." After that, there was a man named Dingguohou who was very beautiful, and there was a person surnamed Jiang, who also appeared in my dreams for a long time. ”
She rubbed her head, she really didn't remember clearly.
"The surname Jiang?" , the big family surnamed Wei Jiang, only Princess Huai'an's family. Jiang is surnamed Jiang.
After waking up from the dream, I was not afraid, but now that I repeat it, Sheng Mingzhu's body trembled inexplicably, "What I remember now is that after entering Beijing, they all wanted to merge the state and the other two provinces with taxable taxes and the yield of land per mu." She looked at Sheng Qian, "I didn't want to give it until I dreamed about it, but I didn't know why I gave it, and then my father was unhappy." ”
Sheng Qian's hand, which was originally on her shoulder, suddenly tightened. He has these things in his hand, others may know, but a little girl can't make up so much even if she knows.
"And then?"
Sheng Mingzhu thought about it carefully, but it was too chaotic, "I only remember that our house was copied by the Dog Emperor later." There was a man named Dingguohou, who was said to have blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Yes, Dad, I also saw the emperor and empress of Great Wei in a dream, and the emperor looked a little trance-like, but I remember that he had a mole on his eyebrows. ”
Hell, the dog emperor, but at this time, he didn't have time to worry about the issue of his daughter's name.
"What else?" He remembered that the emperor had no moles on his eyebrows, but the reigning person at that time was not necessarily the emperor.
Sheng Mingzhu shook his head.
After a while.
"Mingzhu" Dad didn't call her, "This matter is very important, after telling Dad tonight, no one else can tell you." He looked at her with a solemn expression, "Don't tell your mother, let her worry in vain." ”
Sheng Mingzhu nodded, and pulled his sleeve again, "Dad, will dreams come true?" She wasn't very scared before, but now seeing her father like this, she couldn't help but panic.
"Don't worry, it's just a dream", Sheng Qian touched her face and it was cold, it was just a dream, but the girl's dream had something she never knew, "Dad has something to do, you go back to the room and go to bed early", Sheng Qian hugged his daughter, went in the direction of her room, and stopped when he arrived at the door, "Remember, the emperor has a mole on his eyebrows, don't say it." ”
Whether the dream is true or not, it is a mysterious and mysterious thing when it comes to the royal family.
She nodded, "I understand." ”
Sheng Qian turned around again, his face was indistinguishable, "Nannan, did you really dream that your mother was sunk by her?" ”
Again, the answer is the same as before.
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It rained halfway, and Sheng Qian was drenched when he arrived at the study.
quickly wrote a letter, and just wanted Ma Wu to send it back to the capital, but he folded it back. Even if he asked the prince with a mole on his eyebrows, he couldn't do anything. He returned to the bookcase, wiped the water on it, and stared at it for a while.
Dingguohou, the ledger, the Jiang family, he waved his pen, trying to sort out the relationship.
But when the tip of the pen touched the paper, it involuntarily became a woman's name: Liu Yun Liu Yun Liu Yun
He threw away his pen and crumpled the ink-stained paper. Pulling out an umbrella, he pushed open the door of the study, and the figure quickly fell into the night again.
As soon as she sent the spirit bead back to the room at night, Yun Niang picked up her previous work again.
There was a knock on the door, thinking that it was about Huang's mother talking to her about Ming'er's dishes, so she pulled her soft embroidered shoes and got off the bed. opened the door again, "It's raining heavily, what's the matter with Ming'er......" Before the words fell, he was suddenly put on his shoulder.
Yun Niang wanted to struggle, but the outside was only three steps away from the bed, and she was quickly thrown onto the bed.
She frowned, "Why is the master here so late?" He hugged her and she recognized her.
"This is my mansion, you are my woman, you can come whenever I want." He said domineeringly, and hung his head to unbutton her shirt. Immediately exposed a piece of jade-like skin, and did not share a bed for a month, Sheng Qian soon caught fire, Yun Niang struggled, and could only plead, "The children are asleep, you move smaller, don't wake them up." ”
Sheng Qian didn't know where the anger came from, and suddenly bit her shoulder.
The sensory stimulation and pain made her exclaim, "Don't ......"
"Yun Niang, Yun Niang", Sheng Qian hugged her waist, "You hold me", he kept whispering next to her, seeing her crying pitifully, and comforting her, "Sleep very soundly, don't worry." ”
Two children sleeping soundly.
"Is Daddy beating his daughter-in-law?" Lingzhu tugged at the crack in the door.
Sheng Mingzhu covered her eyes with her hands, and dragged the small ball back, "It's you who will be beaten again......" Shentang is the fault of an unclean woman, and she thought it was her father who was looking for trouble when she heard the sound in her mother's room in the middle of the night.
The sound inside is still going on, Sheng Mingzhu can't wait to shake his ears and make you troublesome!
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The wind and rain gradually stopped, and the candle flame that had been flickering and dimming was completely extinguished.
All that remains in the house is the smell of long-lasting erosion after clouds and rain.
Sheng Qian lowered her head and looked at the person in her arms, she was tired, there were layers of thin sweat on her forehead, her eyes were tightly closed, her cheeks were still flushed, her lips were a little swollen, and she was like a cherry in the rain.
He gently ruffled her sweaty hair, making her otherwise delicate face completely jump into view.
"Yun Niang ......"
Her skin was as beautiful as before, and after so many years, he found that what should be light was still not light. Buckling the person into his arms, Sheng Qian thought, even if she betrayed herself, what would it be? He wanted her to live, he wanted her to sleep next to him like that, no matter what.