The next day, when Mo Qiantao got up, Xia Chunfeng had already gone to the early dynasty. Xia Manxing lay on the edge of the bed, blinking at her with big eyes. Mo Qiantao rubbed her sleepy eyes, "Manxing, why did you get up." ”

"It was my grandmother who called it up, and she said that the girl's family would get married sooner or later, and she would be able to get some cheap back by doing more work for the family." Man Xing looked at her ignorantly, and said, "Grandmother took me to dig red lotus in the morning."

Mo Qiantao noticed that there was sludge between her fingernails, and her heart was surging with blood, and she immediately went to Tang Guili to theorize, but at this time, appeasing Man Xing was the most important thing.

"Did Man Xing have a good time today?"

"Happy. But it's also very tiring. ”

Mo Qiantao smiled, touched her head, and said: "My mother told you that hard work and getting rich, sometimes what is more useful than hard work is the brain, the brain can give you ideas, how to complete a thing as soon as possible, and get the greatest benefits." So what have you gained from your labor today? ”

Man Xing thought for a while, and suddenly became a little entangled, "I don't know, my grandmother asked me to go, and they gave her copper coins and red lotus, and I didn't have anything." ”

"So, the proceeds of your labor are given to others, and you have nothing of yourself?" After wiping Man Xing with a towel dipped in water, the soil in his hand was immediately hugged into his arms, "You are only three years old, it is the time to play, my mother is not old, if you can serve tea and water to your mother, you will be happy for your mother, if you can't, your mother will not blame." No one can force you to do what you don't want to do, and neither can your grandmother. ”

"Besides, my mother hopes that you can marry a husband who will love you and love you for the rest of your life, instead of getting by and respecting each other, if you can't find a man who really loves you, even if you don't marry for the rest of your life, your mother is happy. We women should be held in the palm of our hands for a lifetime, and it has nothing to do with those who work or not. You remember. ”

After Mo Qiantao finished speaking, she stood up, tidied up her clothes, and handed over Manxing to Shang Lu, and then she went to Tang Guili's house in a hurry.

Tang Guili was sitting in the pavilion eating freshly roasted red roots, looking not too hot, as if she had been hungry for eight hundred times. Mo Qiantao also admired her, and a lot of her age was calculated on the head of a three-year-old girl.

"Mother-in-law, red lotus is delicious."

Mo Qiantao appeared expressionlessly.

Tang Guili was stunned for a moment, thinking that Mo Qiantao also wanted to beg for a stutter, "That's it." ”

"It's just red lotus, if you like to eat it, it's not a problem for me to buy you a basket, even if you want to eat until the New Year......" Mo Qiantao rarely spoke with such a calm face, "Xia Manxing is only three years old, and my mother-in-law is thinking about her marriage in the future, so she is too anxious, and besides, she was born and raised by me, what is in the way of others?" How did you lose money? I'll leave the words behind today, my daughter Xia Manxing will marry her as she wishes in the future, and no one can interfere, including your mother-in-law, if you say anything out of line with Xia Manxing again, or take her out to do farm work, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

After saying this, Tang Guili's face was pale, she took a few deep breaths, and her chest rose and fell.

"It's the other way around! It's the other way around! It's the other way around! There is still a daughter-in-law who dares to talk to her mother-in-law like this, you are justified in saying it, otherwise let the neighbors judge it. ”

"Okay, you can go and make trouble, and go back where you came from. If you don't go, we'll go, what do you think? Mo Qiantao is not afraid of her messing around, to deal with a faceless person like her, you have to be stronger, otherwise you really think that you are easy to bully.

Tang Guili thought about it, she knew all the people in the neighborhood, and she must help her speak. It's so big, and she also has an excuse to kick herself out of the door. In this way, the gains outweigh the losses.

"Daughter-in-law, you see that I am so old and confused for a while, you don't have to rest assured." Tang Guili squeezed a stiff smile and said things against her will.

After all, she is an elder, and Mo Qiantao doesn't want to be too ugly, so she has to take care of Xia Chunfeng's face.

"Mother-in-law, pay attention to this yourself, you don't need to worry about the affairs in this courtyard, you just need to eat and drink. If I make such a fool of myself again, I will not spare it. She simply said it, saving three days of noise.

Tang Guili winced and nodded, as if she had compromised. As soon as Mo Qiantao turned around, she scolded at the figure for a long time.

*

In a blink of an eye, it was the day when Xia Chunfeng sent an envoy to Xun Kingdom.

Early this morning, Mo Qiantao stuffed his bags full, she still didn't have enough, and always felt that many things around her could be prepared for emergencies.

"That's enough." Xia Chunfeng stopped her busy background. As he was about to part, he wanted to take one last good look at her.

"Father...... When will you come back......" Xia Manxing hugged his thighs, tears in his eyes and very reluctant.

"My father will be back in three months." Xia Chunfeng squatted down and rubbed her white and tender little face.

"How long is three months?" Xia Manxing looked confused and glanced back and forth between the two.

Mo Qiantao took out a cloth bag embroidered with plum blossoms, "From tomorrow onwards, you pick up a fallen leaf every day, put it in the cloth bag, and when the cloth bag is full, it is the time for your father to come back." ”

Xia Manxing happily took the cloth bag and ran away.

Xia Chunfeng deeply took Mo Qiantaolou into his arms and said, "Wait for me to come back." As he spoke, he took a golden token from his bosom, with the three characters of Xuanji Pavilion engraved on it, and a tiger-shaped carving.

Mo Qiantao knew that it was the token of the master of the Xuanji Pavilion, and was worried that he would be able to use it when he went out in danger, but Mo Qiantao didn't dare to take it, and he couldn't move him, so he took it hard, also to make him feel at ease.

After she nodded, she watched Xia Chunfeng go out.

Hundreds of guards lined up in a neat line at the gate of the courtyard, and the queue was long. Xia Chunfeng jumped on the horse and led the team to leave.

The two mothers and daughters followed all the way to the city wall, watching the neat procession move forward steadily. Until the figures turned into small ink spots one by one, and finally disappeared into the dust.

"Father is gone......" Xia Manxing shook her arm, also looking stunned.

Mo Qiantao looked up at the gloomy sky, and couldn't help worrying that Xia Chunfeng's trip was not going well.

"Mother...... I'm hungry......" Man Xing touched his belly Nunu's mouth.

Only then did she come back to her senses in a trance, and took the little hand full of stars to go down to the city gate.

The summer breeze is blowing, and the blowing Mo Qiantao is full of messiness. The sky was dark, obscuring the lonely figures of the mother and daughter.

Xia went to autumn, Xia Chunfeng left for three months, but only received a reply from him.

Mo Qiantao began to fidget.

Xia Manxing's hurried footsteps sounded in his ears, and the door creaked open, "Mother, you see that the cloth bag is almost full, is my father coming back?" ”

She took the cloth bag and looked left and right, and then secretly crushed the leaves inside, "The stars are not yet full, and my father will not come back yet." Manxing misses his father? ”

Xia Manxing nodded, tears in his eyes.

"Don't worry, my father will come back. If you miss your father, your father will miss you. She can only appease Manxing like this, but her heart is full of intersections.

When Xia Manxing heard this, he just leaned quietly in Mo Qiantao's arms, and obediently did not make a sound.

On this day, the raindrops were big, and they fell on the edge of the house, as if they were scattering beans. She changed into a luxurious court dress and went to the palace to see Emperor Fujing.

The palace was covered with marble floors, filled with rain, and the dark sky was reflected in a pool. The palace maid shuttled among them, holding an oil umbrella, to clean the ground.

Lianxin came out of Longxiang Palace with an umbrella and welcomed Mo Qiantao in.

"The emperor is already waiting, Mrs. Jun, please."

Mo Qiantao hurried to follow.

Through the layers of veils and curling cigarettes, Mo Qiantao saw the small figure of Emperor Fujing's shadow. She stepped forward to ask An Shili, and when she looked up again, she found that Emperor Fujing was actually a lot taller, Xu was often tired, and her face was slightly pale.

When she was looking at Emperor Fujing intently, she didn't find that a line of sight had been following her, and the owner of that line of sight was Wu Muyun.

After a period of greetings, Mo Qiantao's worried appearance had already made Emperor Fujing guess her intention.

"Mrs. Jun is worried about Lord Taifu's comfort?" He sat on a mahogany chair carved with a dragon head, his eyes very sharp.

"Exactly. Before leaving, he said that he would come back in about three months, but now there is no movement at all, and the courtiers have heard that the situation in Xun Kingdom seems to be turbulent these days...... Therefore, the courtiers want to come and ask for a reality. She was so anxious that she got straight to the point. I didn't even want to waste time and look at Wu Muyun more.

"Mrs. Jun, don't be impatient, Taifu's side is fine, Xunguo is in civil strife, with Taifu's wit and talent, it is not difficult to resolve the crisis, Mrs. County will wait a few days, Taifu will definitely return to China safely." Emperor Fujing knew that he couldn't hide it for long, so he told the truth, thinking that she was a woman alone, and she should not have any bold and reckless behavior, so she had to wait for her husband to return at home.

Knowing that everything was fine with him, Mo Qiantao breathed a sigh of relief, but Xun Guo was now a tiger's den in Longtan, how could she rest assured that Xia Chunfeng was staying in a dangerous place......

On the way out of the palace, she was full of distractions and didn't notice that Wu Muyun was following her all the way. As soon as she got out of the palace gate, there was a thunderclap, which frightened her and hid in the corner.

"How did you become so cowardly......"

Wu Muyun's voice was very gentle, and it was not difficult to hear that there was pity in his words.

She turned her head suddenly, her eyes a little dazed......

Wu Muyun grew a mustache and looked a lot more mature. Mo Qiantao was a little surprised, he was a clean habit, and that mustache was obviously not his style. Mo Qiantao couldn't recognize him for a while, and it took a while to find a shadow in her memory.

"You...... It's you ......."

Her sluggish reaction made Wu Muyun very angry, grabbed her wrist fiercely, pulled it to her chest, and a faint fragrance came to her nose.

"You forgot about me?"

Mo Qiantao felt pain and heavy longing from his angry eyes.