Chapter 83: Five Watches
"Xiaocui, you go back, I don't have a problem with myself, you and Yingying just accompany Dr. Xu. I'll go back to rest in a moment. Tang Haitang knew that Xiaocui was still guarding outside before she left, she was not used to taking a bath and being watched, so she found an excuse to take Xiaocui away.
Hearing the young lady shouting to leave herself, Xiao Cui felt that the young lady was probably drunk at this time, and this time she was relieved that she was inside: "Then the young lady, I'm going to the front, don't soak for too long, rest early." ”
Listening to the footsteps of Xiaocui leaving outside, and feeling that she was really leaving this time, Tang Haitang relieved herself to tie the hair ornament on her head, let the black hair like silk satin fall down, lightly untied her clothes and took off the burden on her body, and she squatted on the edge of the pool to test the temperature in the pool with her fingers first. Feeling that the problem is suitable, it is neither hot nor cold, so I sit on the edge of the pool and soak my feet in the pool water first.
The warm water temperature instantly came from the soles of her feet and spread to her calves, tempting her body to slowly sink into this pool of tenderness. When his body fully adapted to the temperature of the pool water, Tang Haitang excitedly plunged into the pool with floating petals, and let the gentle pool water soak his whole body.
"It's so comfortable!" After holding it for a long time, until she felt that the air in her lungs was almost exhausted, she lifted her head from the water, pulled back the wet hair on her face with both hands, and inhaled the air deeply, which was mixed with damp water and an intoxicating agarwood.
Tang Haitang turned around and put her arm on the edge of the pool, her chin rested on her arm, and let her body lie freely in the pool with the buoyancy of the water, she enjoyed the feeling of weightlessness now, looking at the lotus incense burner that was still burning on the ground with green smoke, Tang Haitang closed her eyes intoxicated.
Outside the house, the cicadas chirped and sang like an early summer serenade. The beauty of the house was so drunk in the pool that she forgot what it was. And Ma Xiaotian, who rushed back all the way, took Zhuo Songbai into the city just before the city gate was closed.
Ma Xiaotian had the general's customs clearance charm in his hand, and there was no obstacle to pass through the city gate, and the two of them did not delay at all, and when they arrived at the gate of the horse mansion, they saw that Xu Qingfeng's carriage and horses were still tied to the bolted horse stake in front of the door. Ma Xiaotian dismounted first and threw the reins to Zhuo Songbai. He lifted his feet up the steps and tapped the door with his knocker.
Xu Qingfeng has been arranged to rest in the guest room, and Xiaocui and Qian Yingying have also gone back to their rooms. Ma Sloppy is cleaning up leftovers with Xiaofeng in the front hall. Hearing the sound of knocking at the door, Ma Sloppy didn't dare to delay, and trotted all the way to answer the door.
"Who?" When he arrived at the door, he didn't open the door in a hurry, but just leaned on the crack of the door and looked out.
It was already dark, and then the moonlight could only see two people standing at the door, and asked in the door, and a person outside the door replied in a low voice: "It's me, Ma Xiaotian." ”
Ma Xiaotian's sloppy voice was recognized, and when he heard that his grandfather was back, he hurriedly stepped forward to open the deadbolt and open the door.
"Master, you're back, I haven't been notified by you, I don't know if you've eaten? Need me to prepare something? As soon as he saw that his master had returned, he welcomed his master in a sloppy and courteous manner, and introduced the yard to his master with a warm greeting.
Ma Xiaotian stood in the door, did not rush in, but waited for Zhuo Songbai to bolt the horse, and the two entered the courtyard together.
"What about people?" While walking towards the yard, Ma Xiaotian asked in a low voice what the people in the sloppy yard were doing?
"Master, Mr. Xu arranged to rest in the guest room after having dinner with a few girls. The girls also went back to their rooms. Sloppy answered the master's question seriously. Accompany the master to the front hall.
"Master, will I prepare dinner for you now?" Ma Xiao asked, his name is Ma Hu, but he is very cautious and attentive to serve the master, not sloppy at all, Ma Xiaotian came back with people at this time, obviously in a hurry to get home all the way to the house, from the barracks to home, if the distance is calculated, at this time should have missed the meal, and neither of them eaten.
"Prepare simply, first arrange a guest room for this Zhuo brother, and deliver the food to his room, and mine will also be sent to the backyard." Ma Xiaotian had already arrived in the front hall, and after he stood in the middle of the front hall and instructed Ma Hu, he said to Zhuo Songbai: "You follow him to rest tonight, and now it is estimated that your junior sister is also resting, you two will catch up early tomorrow morning." ”
"Yes, General. You also rest early. Zhuo Songbai respectfully agreed. He will respond to whatever the general arranges. Anyway, along the way, he saw that if it weren't for Uncle Qian's words, the general wouldn't want to take his own, and now that he has arrived safely in Mafu, he will be as he pleases, and the master will arrange for him to do it.
"Well, rest early, you two get busy." Seeing that everything had been arranged, Ma Xiaotian was not polite to them, and turned around and walked towards his backyard.
Along the way, I passed by the courtyard where Qian Yingying and Xiaocui lived, and saw that the courtyard was so quiet that there was only the sound of insects, and there was no human figure. He didn't stop, he didn't want to disturb them, and quickly came to the backyard where he lived.
At this time, Tang Haitang was still soaking in the pool, and he didn't hear the sound of Ma Xiaotian coming back. Ma Xiaotian stood in the courtyard and saw that the bedroom in the north house was lit up, but he didn't go in. Instead, he turned and went upstairs, and upstairs in the north room, there was also a bedroom.
The layout of this bedroom is similar to that of the downstairs, except that the location of the study is also made into a bedroom. The house was empty and unoccupied, but it was spotlessly cleaned. It is enough to see that Ma Hao and Xiaofeng have done a lot of work in this house every day, each room is cleaned so carefully, and the room that no one lives in time is also so attentive.
After Ma Xiaotian entered the house, he tiredly walked to the couch and unbuttoned it, took off his coat, put on a white undershirt, and paced back and forth in the open space of the room, not knowing what to do, and the restlessness in his heart rose again.
I wanted to come back to see how the little rabbit was doing, but when I came back, I found that she had gone back to her room to rest, and I couldn't see it tonight, so at this time, Ma Xiaotian was restless and depressed, he didn't know why he was so concerned about Tang Haitang, and what did he do if she was good or not? There had never been a woman who could have bothered him so much.
For so many years, Ma Xiaotian's side, the only woman is his sister, and his sister is in charge of the big and small affairs of Ma Fu, although Ma Xiaotian has never married a wife, and he has never worried that there is no housemother to handle the affairs of the family, but his sister's age has already reached the time to leave the cabinet, but because he did not marry a wife, his marriage was delayed.