Chapter 7: The Voyeur in the Night
After returning home, Mu Lingkong was seriously ill because of a cold, and the old lady summoned the best doctor in the house to consult and prescribe medicine for her, but unfortunately she didn't like to take medicine, so a little wind and cold dragged on for a few days.
And Meng Ruyue, who also fell into the water, had nothing else to do except choke on some water and jump around.
Mu Lingkong was lying on the bed sickly, looking at Meng Ruyue, who was actually sitting next to her, eating happily with her snacks, unhappy, "Why don't you have anything at all?" I'm going to get sick and take medicine! ”
Meng Ruyue's mouth kept talking, "Because I got off the boat to save you, God must have seen me act bravely, so let me be disease-free!" ”
Mu Lingkong reminded, "I saved you!" ”
Meng Ruyue nodded, "So I'm coming to visit the patient now!" ”
Mu Lingkong squinted at her, looked at it and couldn't help laughing, lying on the bed laughing weakly and coughing.
Meng Ruyue half-helped her up, patted her back gently, and smiled, "I feel that you have changed a lot since you fell into the water, and you are not as annoying as before!" ”
Mu Lingkong blinked, "I'm your savior, and I can endure it if I hate it!" ”
At this moment, Qingli came in to report, "The third lady is here!" ”
Meng Ruyun also came to visit the patient, looked at the two people sitting on the bed, covered her mouth and smiled, "The eldest sister and the second sister seem to be a lot closer because of this falling into the water!" ”
The smile on Meng Ruyue's face faded a little, "You are also here to visit?" ”
"Nature~"
Meng Ruyue nodded and said hello to Mu Lingkong, who was lying on the bed, "You have a good rest, I will come to see you next time!" ”
Mu Lingkong watched her leave, and then raised her eyes to look at Meng Ruyun, she watched Meng Ruyue walk out of the door with a look of grievance, and then looked back at Mu Lingkong, "Sister, why do you say that the second sister is like this, she will leave when she sees me." ”
The matter between Meng Ruyue and Meng Ruyun, Mu Lingkong heard Qingli talk about it. If Meng Ruyue and Meng Ruqing had a bad relationship before, it was entirely because of Meng Ruqing's bad temper and virtue, and Meng Ruyue and Meng Ruyun were because of their mother.
As the head of the house, the eldest lady can't stop Meng Huai'an from taking a concubine. It doesn't matter if Na's concubine is docile and obedient, but Aunt Wan seems to be gentle, but in fact, she can't move to make people have a headache, and she is spoiled and spoiled, which really annoys the eldest lady.
It wasn't until one time that she didn't know that she was pointing fingers at Meng Yu's homework that the doctor couldn't bear it anymore.
As the eldest lady of the General's Mansion, she was originally a violent temper before marriage, and she smoothed her edges and corners over the years, but her arrogance was still there, so she ordered someone to drag her late aunt out of the yard, and she whipped it with her own hands.
Aunt Wan finally waited for Meng Huai'an to return home and sued seductively, but he didn't react to this, and Aunt Wan settled down.
Mu Lingkong didn't answer her words, but instead looked at the things she was carrying, "What did you bring me?" ”
Meng Ruyun smiled lightly, stepped forward and put things on the small table next to the bed, "I know that you love to eat snacks recently, this is specially prepared by my aunt, dried sweet potatoes and rock sugar gourds, I heard that it is a small snack over there in the Northern Underworld, so I opened a shop in the city, and let the maid buy it early, so that you can taste fresh!" ”
Mu Lingkong twitched the corners of his mouth and said in his heart, "I'm tired of those snacks, I still like your little snacks in the south recently!" ”
"Aunt Wan really has a heart!"
"This is all as it should be, the eldest sister is not accompanied by her mother, and my aunt often tells me that she treats you as her own child, and she should take care of you more. It's just that the eldest lady, I didn't come to see it last time I fell into the water, but this time it's like this again, it's so indifferent. Seeing that you and my sisters are all at the age of marriage, and no one comes to the door to propose marriage, her own biological daughter must have a plan, but I don't know how the two of us will arrange it at will. ”
Mu Lingkong's heart gradually brightened, this was scurrying her to make trouble with the eldest lady.
So she sighed wistfully, "I committed such an ugly thing as eloping before, and I don't have the face to remarry, so I'm going to stay with my grandmother for the rest of my life!" ”
Meng Ruyun carefully looked at the expression on her face, and saw that she looked serious, as if she really thought so, and laughed dryly, "My sister is still young, how can she have this kind of thought, isn't this exactly what the eldest lady wants?" ”
Mu Lingkong just shook his head vigorously.
Meng Ruyun saw that she was unmoved, and she couldn't sit still, so she found a reason and left.
Probably because she slept too much during the day, Mu Lingkong couldn't fall asleep in bed at night, so she found out the words that Qingli bought for her from the city and flipped through it, and only read a few chapters, all of them were concubines, and the story of the moon before the flowers, she was bored and finally a little sleepy, so she blew out the candle and fell asleep.
Suddenly, she was sleeping well in bed, but she suddenly opened her eyes, and a feeling of being watched hit her heart. She slept with her head facing outward, her eyes moving slowly, looking beyond the curtain.
In fact, it was pitch black in the house, and she couldn't see anything except the faint moonlight by the window, but Mu Lingkong's intuition told her that there were people around.
Finally, at the edge of the window, the moonlight shone through the window paper, shining a faint halo, and a vague figure, very short, seemed to be there observing her.
She sat up abruptly and whispered, "What people! ”
The dark shadow disappeared in a flash.
Sitting on the bed, Mu Lingkong touched the cold sweat on his forehead, knowing that it was not her hallucination just now, it was really someone peeping at her.
Lying on the bed for a while, I didn't feel sleepy, and I felt that this prime minister's mansion was really weird everywhere. The letter that didn't have time to be sent in the cracks of the bookcase, Meng Ruqing, who suddenly eloped, what scared her, and the voyeur tonight, squeezed into her head like a ball of thread. She repeatedly warned herself that she was just a passer-by in the Prime Minister's Mansion, she was just staying here temporarily, don't be curious, don't care about these idle things.
But after spotting the voyeur outside the window for the second time, she couldn't help but push the door open and chased out.
The person who thought he would escape without a trace actually stood under the flower tree at the door. You can't tell the men and women when you look at the back, but they are very short.
When the man saw Mu Ling chasing after him, he immediately ran in the direction of the courtyard gate. It was late at night, and the courtyard gate had already been locked, but this man seemed to be able to martial arts, and with a light touch on the courtyard wall, he quickly crossed the wall and disappeared into the night.
Mu Lingkong hesitated for a moment, but his feet were already exerting his strength, and he jumped up the wall lightly and followed the man.
The man appeared and disappeared in front, Mu Lingkong followed far behind, and gradually realized that something was wrong, this person was not panicked when he was discovered, but as if he was going to take her somewhere.
She slowly stopped, and sure enough, the person in front of her also slowed down, and finally stopped not far away. For a moment, neither of them moved, only the rustle of the wind through the flowers and leaves of the trees.
At this moment, a light flashed around the corner, and it was a patrolman coming.
The man flashed into the flowers next to him with great agility, leaving Mu Ling standing in place.
"Who?"
The nursing courtyard patrolling over there also found someone here, and in an instant, more than a dozen lanterns swayed, and they gathered on Mu Lingkong's side, and when the lanterns illuminated Mu Lingkong's face, the nursing homes hurriedly saluted, "Miss!" ”
Mu Lingkong knew that he had to find a reason for his behavior at this time, so he had to say, "I can't sleep at night, come out for a walk, you can continue to patrol, don't worry about me!" ”
The crowd should have been, and then went on patrol elsewhere with lanterns.
Mu Lingkong waited for the courtyard to walk away, and then walked to the edge of the flowers, picking up the lush forest leaves, but there was no one inside.
The man had slipped away without a word.
Mu Lingkong stood in place and thought for a moment, then looked at the surrounding environment.
She only paid attention to the person in front of her just now, and didn't care about the location around her, it was pitch black at this time, she didn't react for a while to chase somewhere, until she saw a delicate cornice, she suddenly recognized that this was the residence of "Meng Ruqing's" biological mother before she died.
She had never been here before, firstly, she had heard that the pavilion had been sealed, and secondly, this place was really remote, but today she had an urge to go in and have a look.
Circling around the courtyard wall, probably because no one has taken care of it for a long time, the wall is full of creepers, and on the vermilion gate at the entrance of the courtyard, there is a half-new plaque hanging on it, with the book "Zijin Pavilion", the courtyard door is closed at this moment, as Dongxue said, there is a copper lock.
She reached out and touched it, the lock was smooth and clean, someone should come over often.
Could it be Prime Minister Meng Huai'an?