"In Penglai County, have we broken our hands again?" After a few more moments, the woman asked again.

As she spoke, she took off the hoe on her shoulder and thumped it on her waist, and her whole body was filled with heavy exhaustion.

This time, the man finally saw it.

There was a trace of warmth in his eyes, and when he saw that the sky was getting dark and there was no one nearby, he took two steps forward, took the woman into his arms, and his palm fell on her waist, gently rubbing it for her.

"You too, that flower hoe is not light, why don't you know how to put it down? Is this going to have a sore back? He seemed to be extremely distressed, and did not answer the woman's previous question, but only whispered softly.

The woman didn't refuse, she snuggled him gently, closed her eyes slightly, felt the envelopment of the strong arms, and her body became heavier and heavier.

The moon had risen, the autumn stars were bright and sparse, the lake was covered with silver waves, the distant courtyard candles were shining, red and yellow, warm and far away, and the wind was mixed with faint laughter.

"I just asked you about it, why didn't you answer?" The woman asked again, a slightly hot breath that swooped into the man's ear.

His heart fluttered, and he hugged the woman's arm and clamped it hard.

In such a posture, he was talking about business, and he couldn't help but feel emotional: "Liu Pan is dead." He showed his whereabouts and was targeted by the men sent by Pei Shu, who rushed to make a move before he could get out. He...... Didn't get out. ”

The woman closed her eyes, and her face was extremely gloomy.

This was the umpteenth time she had heard of death, and every time she heard it, her heart would turn gray.

"That's it, don't talk about it." She sighed, still clinging to the man's arms, and her voice became lower and lower: "Are the children all right?" ”

The topic was finally relaxed, the man breathed a sigh of relief, and replied softly: "The princess is relaxed, the little county king and the little county lord are very good, the Zhuangzi is far away from Shengjing, and the place is partial, although it is bitter and cold, but fortunately, no one disturbs it, and the villagers are simple." Now, the little county lord has finished reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and is learning the art of war from his master, and the little county lord is also very smart and healthy. ”

"That's fine." The woman's heart was relieved, and her voice was soft.

Because of the extreme proximity, when she spoke, her lips gently brushed the man's earlobe, and the words she said were like whispers: "I entrusted them to you, and I didn't ask Lao Bai and Snake Eyes to follow them, and it was true...... It's also ......."

A hot teardrop suddenly dripped down, wet, and rubbed against the man's cheek, and it turned out that she was crying.

"I know, you don't have to say it. I know it all. The man seemed to feel distressed again, and his voice was extremely soft: "I know what you think, I have children myself, I know what you think, I know what you think." ”

He held the woman tighter, almost rubbing her into his chest, and with the other hand he grabbed her chin, lifted her face up, and put his lips on it, sucking away the hot and cold tears.

The woman seemed to be touched by her heart, tears welled up, and she cried quietly: "After all these years, I sometimes feel really tired. Those two children are my lifeblood, and the only thing I have in this world. I don't ask for anything but one wish, may the two of them live a long life. As for...... If those things are not in life, then they ...... Not at all. ”

"I know, I know." The man was burned by the hot tears, clinging to the soft body, his throat tightened, and his voice was slurred: "You see, I don't and never tell others about that place, do I?" You know about it, and no third person knows about it. ”

He gradually became emotional, tightening his iron arm more and more, the woman couldn't help but feel pain, "Boom", Jiao panted and pushed him: "Master lighter, the slave's waist is about to break." ”

This "slave", tactful and delicate, made the man's heart burn, and he couldn't care about it anymore, his arms closed his arms around her waist, and he actually lifted her up in the air.

The woman was shocked, but her heart was soft and soft, and her voice was also watery: "What are you doing...... Are you crazy...... Don't put the slave down yet......"

"I'm driven crazy by you!" The man buried his face in her chest and abdomen, and his pleading voice almost trembled, "Good man, I can't wait, shall we enter the house?" ”

He did not slow down at all when he spoke, and despite the woman's objections, he forcibly carried her into the courtyard and went to the courtyard.

The woman earned it, but she couldn't earn it in the end, so she had to let him do it.

At that moment, no one saw the sorrow on her face and the dry tear stains on her cheeks.

The door opened and closed, whispering quietly, and gradually, the elegant courtyard returned to Khotan, only the light moon moved up the tree slightly, and a thin white moonlight was sprinkled to the world.

…………………………

When Tang Xiucai walked out of the teahouse, it happened to be a burst of rain.

The pouring raindrops, not big, but tight, poured on the body, and in a short time the clothes were wet, and the gray stone on the floor also turned into dark gray.

The rain came so quickly that all the pedestrians on the street avoided it, and the children jumped and rushed under the eaves, and the crisp children's voices called "It's raining, put away the clothes".

Then, there was another burst of crisp laughter.

Tang Xiucai was also laughing.

He held up his umbrella, smiled and looked up.

The dark green silk umbrella surface is brushed with several layers of tung oil, and the light can be seen.

He held an umbrella with a smile, watched the pedestrians on the road running to avoid the rain with interest, carrying one hand, walking slowly, humming a tune from time to time, but it was an excerpt in the Fangcai teahouse.

The horse monkey plucked out his ears, plucked a dead grass on the side of the road, and put it in his mouth, no different from the street urchin.

Tang Xiucai's footsteps were slow, perhaps because he was in a good mood, and he even gave a few big coins to the two beggars on the street corner.

Horses and monkeys dotted him not far away, and the two of them walked through a few alleys and alleys one after the other, and came to a slightly remote long street.

At this point, the horse monkey did not follow any further, but turned into an alley and poked out half of his head to look out.

Tang Xiucai's green umbrella and his gray and blue robe stepped into a courtyard gate at this time.

"Bang", the courtyard door was slammed shut, and the horses and monkeys spit out the grass stems with a "bah", and their eyes were firmly fixed on the yard, not for a moment.

That was Tang Xiucai's rented residence in the capital.

In fact, Tang Xiucai sold all his family property and left Jinan, so he bought a boat and went to sea, went around half a circle along Shandong Province, turned around halfway, abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, and went straight to Beijing.

And since he came to Shengjing, he has been living in this courtyard and has never moved his nest. When he went out today, he made an appointment with someone to meet in the teahouse, and after the two of them separated, Ma Monkey was responsible for staring at Tang Xiucai, and there was a little green skin nicknamed "Pig's Head", staring at the person who met Tang Xiucai.

It's just that Tang Xiucai was too honest, and he actually went home directly, which made the horse monkey feel quite bored.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and he squatted down against the base of the wall, and took advantage of the few tiles stacked on the wall to shelter himself from the wind and rain, and his body shrank into a ball, and he looked thinner and thinner.