Qi Su Niang rubbed her temples, trying to recall the construction on the Qinghe gate, and heard a cheerful footsteps, and hurriedly hid the half-drawn engineering drawings in her hand into the pillow box, tightly covered the box, and covered the red rope embroidered handkerchief that was being drawn on the box.

Lianxiang was only thirteen or fourteen years old, with a small melon seed face, forehead hair and eyebrows, a long braid on the back of her head swaying gently with the pace, holding a bowl of medicinal soup and walking in, and said with a smile: "Madam, drink the medicine." Lian Xiang specially made sweet snail rolls for you, you have to drink them in one gulp before the adults will let you get out of bed. ”

Qi Su Niang was not a reckless person in her previous life, but because of her youth and vigor, she accidentally lost her life in a hurry. After coming to this world, in order to survive and live cautiously, he finally won a good reputation, when Chen Yan's life was handed over, he was in a hurry, but he fell into the handle, although Chen Yan was relieved and tolerant, and there was also a good reputation to cover up, it would not be how, after listening to Mrs. Xu's words, she still felt tired, and now she saw Lianxiang's big eyes radiant, and her long thick eyebrows flew obliquely, so radiant, carefree, like her youth and youth, and she didn't know the sinister situation of the world. Somehow, this tiredness dissipated with Lianxiang's smile, and she was in a particularly cheerful mood, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”

She was taking medicine, Chen Yan moved in with a cane, Qi Su Niang hurriedly asked Lian Xiang to go up to help, Chen Yan was full of joy, and said with a smile: "Su Niang, Gaoyou has a letter." ”

Qi Su Niang was also happy: "Uncle Wang has a letter?" Then read the letter.

Chen Yan smiled: "After drinking the medicine......" sat on the side of her bed and took the medicine in her hand. Lianxiang pursed her lips and smiled, and thoughtfully withdrew. Qi Su Niang drank the medicine spoonful by spoonful in Chen Yan's hand, and while asking Chen Yan to wipe her mouth, she hurriedly opened the letter and looked at it, and said with a happy smile: "Uncle Wang said that Mr. Zhou, who was introduced by Master Liu of Gaoyou Prefecture, is very knowledgeable, and the children in the village have been sent to study in Guanyin Nunnery. There was no flood last year, the cotton harvest was good, the tooth shop was harvested, and the family's 380 acres of land received 260 taels of rent, and Uncle Wang collected it for us. ”

Chen Yan was very happy, and nodded again and again, "Su Niang, thanks to you for thinking about running a village school, I also had this idea, but I was busy with business, so I forgot about it." ”

Qi Su Niang pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Brother Chen, I still want you to have an idea about the matter of this village study." Since Mr.'s Shu Xiu is from our family, why not turn the fifty acres of land in Chenjia Village into sacrificial fields, and use it for the children of the four surnames to study, one saves us the trouble every year, and the other is that everyone is more down-to-earth, so as not to think about coming to your eyes on an errand. ”

Chen Yan groaned: "That's okay, if it wasn't for the Chen family to let my mother and me go, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have a place to live, so I should have repaid one or two." ”

When Qi Su Niang heard him say this, she knew the difficulties of orphans and widows at the beginning, and all the vinegar and complaints in her heart disappeared. Seeing him with a sad face, he knew that he remembered Mrs. Chen, so he leaned on Chen Yan's shoulder and said softly: "The emperor said that my mother was born in a scholarly family in Jiangnan, what kind of place is the daughter of Miss Qian, who raised your son so well?" ”

Chen Yan laughed, hugged Qi Su Niang tightly, and said slowly: "My father is a native of Hangzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and has been talented since he was a child, proficient in geography, but he has tried and failed. My mother came from a scholarly family in Hangzhou, and her ancestors had the honor of five scholars in the previous dynasty. My mother is quite talented and learned, when she was in the Qingming Festival, she met my father by the Qiantang River, and the two had a long talk across the curtain, and they made a private contract for life."

Qi Su Niang knew that Chen Niangzi was not an ordinary woman, and she was still shocked to hear such an anecdote. Chen Yan looked at Qi Su Niang and smiled slightly, "Unexpectedly, my mother's family refused to allow marriage because my father had no merit, and my mother cut off her hair and feet, and my father would not marry." After staying in Kangxi for ten years, my father was fortunate to meet Lepu, the governor of the river, and unfortunately he was accepted as a guest. He lowered his head, kissed Qi Su Niang's forehead, and sighed, "My father was imprisoned, and my mother's family was afraid of being implicated, so she persuaded my mother to remarry." My mother was furious and took me out of Hangzhou, wandering around, just waiting for my father Zhaoxue, but I didn't expect ......"

Qi Su Niang felt sour when she heard this, she wanted to coax Chen Yan to be happy, but she didn't expect him to become more and more sad, so she quickly changed the topic and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, I didn't wrap my feet either, why don't you dislike me?" ”

Chen Yan was stunned, and then laughed, "In the early years of Kangxi, the emperor issued an edict prohibiting women from binding their feet, but the Han people in the Jiangnan area did their own thing, and their small feet were beautiful. It's just that when my mother took me around and wandered around, she complained every day that she was not doing well, and regretted that she should not have been ignorant and listened to her parents' orders when she was young, and she would suffer in the end. He looked back at the door, turned his head, and whispered, "Your feet are delicate and boneless, and I am very ......."

Qi Su Niang didn't wait for him to finish, and immediately pushed him away, blushing and annoyed, and chirping: "I have calluses on my hands and feet, don't I know?" You're so clearly coaxing me......"

Chen Yan laughed more and more, held her hand, and kissed it gently, "The calluses on my hands are here for my laundry and cooking, I haven't been in the field for the past two years, where is there still on my feet?" You don't care about yourself, you're in good health, we're ...... tonight."

Qi Su Niang's face turned red, and she bit her lip and pushed him: "What are you talking about, your leg injury is not healed......

While speaking, Lianxiang's footsteps sounded outside, Chen Yan hurriedly let go of Qi Su Niang's hand, took the red rope embroidered handkerchief on her pillow box, coughed, and pretended to be serious: "This is a gift for the three elder brothers?" ”

Qi Su Niang watched Chen Yan reach out to the pillow box and made a false alarm.

Lianxiang lifted the curtain and walked in, and Shi Li asked, "Madam, do you want to set up dinner?" Qi Su Niang sighed lightly and said with a smile: "I'm sorry for you to put it outside." Seeing that Lianxiang nodded, Fang smiled at Chen Yan and said, "Naturally, it's for them." Manchurian rules, the bride should give a red string scarf to relatives and friends who add makeup as a return gift, although they don't look down on it, I still have to do my best. ”

Chen Yan said with a smile: "Most of the ninth elder brother is in the face of Brother Qi Qiang, the fourth elder brother has accepted your love, why did the fourteenth elder brother also send it?" Those straight wool materials, big hairs and small hairs, are lifted in two. At the beginning, he didn't say that you were in the flag, but I pinched a cold sweat. He let out a sigh and said: "Last year, you twisted to quit your family, and you went to the capital again, you don't know what my heart has become." ”

Qi Su Niang was stunned, looked at Chen Yan for a long time, suddenly laughed, and raised her head to kiss Chen Yan's lips. Chen Yanzheng was strange, suddenly felt the fragrance soft on his lips, stretched out his arms to hug her, lowered his head and entangled with her lips and tongue, and was reluctant to part for a long time. Outside, Lianxiang set up the dishes and chopsticks and called, "Sir, madam, the meal is ready." Chen Yan was startled, and when she was about to let go, Qi Su Niang was entangled, Chen Yan hugged her tightly, raised her head and reluctantly said, "Miss Lianxiang, you can go back to the room to eat." ”

Lianxiang seemed to sense something, and hurriedly answered and walked out. Chen Yan heard the sound of the door, so he went to unbutton Qi Su Niang's clothes, and said in a dumb voice: "Su Niang..."

Qi Su Niang hugged Chen Yan's neck with both arms, took him down on the bed, and gasped slightly: "Brother Chen, weren't you afraid at the beginning?" ”

Chen Yan kissed her and said vaguely: "I'm afraid it's useful?" If you take half a step back, you will be someone else's......" As he spoke, he reached into the quilt and took off Qi Su Niang's close-fitting trousers, "I am alone, my parents are dead, what else is there to be afraid of......"

After the two of them had finished the rain and rain, Qi Su Niang blushed, shrunk in the quilt, touched Chen Yan's legs, and said fearfully: "Brother Chen, will it hurt?" ”

Chen Yan was sweating on his forehead, hugged her in his arms, and smiled lowly, "It's not that place that makes the force, so naturally it won't ......"

Qi Su Niang buried himself in his chest, smiled for a while with a red face, raised his head and said, "Brother Chen, don't worry." The fourteenth elder brother just took pity on me at the beginning, worried that one day you don't want me, I have no support, no place to return, so I want to leave me in the palace to wait for him. After that, he smiled again: "Anyway, he is an elder brother, and he doesn't care about me eating alone." ”

Chen Yan also smiled and said: "I think most of the people mean the same, but although there are not many of you and no less of you around him, I have to be you here......"