Li Xiaoqi closed her eyes and fell asleep for two or three hours before she opened her eyes smartly, her whole body was sore beyond words, and her legs were hot, but in her dream, she lay down in the extremely beautiful and cold sea water again.

Li Xiaoqi came to his senses, the soreness all over his body cheered and drilled in and out, his bones seemed to be soaked in vinegar, his skin and flesh were soaked in chili water, Li Xiaoqi reluctantly raised his hand, looked at the palm that was red and swollen, faintly oozing blood, and took a breath gently, he was really amazing! Li Xiaoqi slowly turned his head to look at the light moon and begonia who kept moaning in sleep, and sighed, it is not easy to be yourself, and it is even more difficult to be your own girl.

This hand and this leg, I'm afraid that there is no good skin, Li Xiaoqi is lying on her back on the kang, feeling the pain on her body everywhere, but her mind is very clear, this trip to Taiping Mansion is by no means peaceful, if Wu Guifei and the eldest prince are not idle people as Su Zicheng said, then she is just walking on the tip of the knife, if she is not careful, she will have to stay in Taiping Mansion forever I don't know which corner is in the corner, and when she enters Wu Land after a while, she must be cautious and cautious. Li Xiaoqi looked at the rough cedar beams, pondered for a long time, turned over with difficulty, gritted his teeth and sat up, took his clothes and put them on slowly, helped the kang out of the inner room, sat on the chair outside, poured a glass of water with trembling hands and drank it, put the cup back, and thought for a long time, shouted in a hoarse voice, the door curtain was lifted, Xi'an came in neatly, shook it for a while, looked at Li Xiaoqi and waited for her to command, Li Xiaoqi looked at him and asked, "Where is Changming?" ”

"A letter came three hours ago, and it has already passed Zhengcheng."

"When will I be able to enter the Taiping Mansion?"

"The letter said that when I entered Wu Di, I was going to stop walking day and night, so it would take fourteen or fifteen days to enter Taiping Mansion."

Li Xiaoqi pondered for a moment, and then asked, "If we take the car day and night, how long will it take to get to Taiping Mansion?" ”

"The girl has been very tired these days, she can't rush too hard, she has entered Wu Land, she has to be slower for the first few days, and when the girl rests, she can hurry up, so it will be twenty days younger." Xi'an answered in detail, Li Xiaoqi lowered his eyes and didn't speak, Xi'an was right, those wood-wheeled carts ran on the uneven dirt road, and the bumps were really fatal, forget it, she entered the Taiping Mansion in twenty days, only four or five days later than Changming, and it was about the same.

"Tell Nanning that the thicker the mattress in the car, the better, both cars, what time is it? Let someone prepare a medicinal bath, and when you are ready, you will set off. Li Xiaoqi then instructed, Xi'an agreed, took a few steps back, Li Xiaoqi wanted to stand up, but his legs and feet hurt and had nowhere to focus, and he tried twice before he stood up with the table, moved to the door of the inner room, and held on to the door frame not to go in, only raised his voice to wake up Danyue and Haitang and ordered: "Get up, soak in the medicinal bath, take the medicine and eat again, get in the car and go to sleep." ”

Danyue and Begonia gritted their teeth, the three of them soaked in the three big buckets in the clean room at the back for half an hour, changed their clothes and came out, Nanning had already brought the food that people had arranged, Xi'an came in with three small bowls of soup and medicine, Li Xiaoqi took a bowl, drank it with his eyes closed, rinsed his mouth, and ate most of the bowl of rice without knowing the taste.

Nanning looked at the three of them with pity, the first time he marched like this, he almost lost half his life, and the three delicate girls were able to hold on all the way, which was really impressive. Watching Li Xiaoqi eat, Nanning reported with a smile: "The things that the girl said •••••• are ready for the funeral, but in fact, it's nothing, now I have bought a few clothes and a few mourning sticks, why don't we change them when we get to Wudi?" It's not appropriate to put it on at this point. ”

"Hmm." Li Xiaoqi nodded in agreement and asked, "Two years ago, the master went to Taiping Mansion to marry, who in this group showed up at that time?" ”

"I haven't shown up." Nanning replied with a simple smile: "That trip was Changming escorting the master, Dongping and Beiqing were waiting with him, Xi'an and I, and Chang Yuan were lying in Liang••••••" Nanning vaguely said a few words, and then said: "Girl, don't worry, whoever followed into the Taiping Mansion last time, I didn't pick any of them." ”

"Well, that's good, if you enter Wudi, if someone asks, just say that we are from the county, go home to mourn, the people who go all the way home are unlucky, and ordinary people have to avoid it when they see it, so it's the best, it's just the same, there are too many guards, you and the long-term look, don't all follow together."

"Rest assured, the long-term has been arranged, a total of four batches, two before and after, our place, on the long-term, Xi'an and I will bring a few old guards to wait,." Nanning replied with a smile, Li Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief, she really didn't have to worry about things on the road.

Lying on the car, although the bumps are terrible, although it is still day and night, but compared with the rapid march on the horse, it is the difference between the abyss, after seven or eight days, the three of them took a breath, and walked for a few days, and entered the territory of Hexian County, in the evening, the car passed by the county gate, Li Xiaoqi lifted the curtain, looked at the county gate from afar, thinking about the situation of the five brothers and sisters fleeing here in a panic two years ago, suddenly as if it was yesterday.

At night, the group avoided the crowds, and when it was close to dawn, they looked for a place in the grove to avoid the white cloth on the car, Li Xiaoqi changed into a plain silk jacket bought in Zhengcheng and an embroidered plum blossom skirt, and the light moon and begonia changed into the green clothes and plain skirts often worn by Wu Di's maidservants, and Chang Yuan and Nanning, Xi'an and others changed into indigo coarse cloth jackets and pants, and the group pretended to be the masters and servants of the rich and noble families who entered the Taiping Mansion, slowed down the trip, and rushed to the Taiping Mansion unhurriedly.

The group rushed to the north gate of the Taiping Mansion, it was already the time of Shen Zheng, the Taiping Mansion was as prosperous and lively as usual, although it was nearly late, it was still bustling, Li Xiaoqi lifted the curtain of the car, and looked out carefully with a solemn face.

At the gate of the city, Fifth Brother Zhao was dressed in a dark green silk robe, draped in a black silk cotton cloak, and was stretching his neck to look back and forth, Li Xiaoqi saw him at a glance, hurriedly knocked on the carriage board, and ordered Nanning through the crack in the curtain: "The one in front wearing a dark green robe and black cloak is Fifth Brother Zhao." Nanning agreed in a low voice, watched Fifth Brother Zhao take a few steps to meet him, and raised his hand to greet: "Fifth Brother!" Over here! It's me! I've seen you from afar! ”

Fifth Brother Zhao looked at Nanning quickly, and trotted over with a smile on his face, and responded: "You kid is here!" I've grown taller, and I almost can't recognize it! Is the girl feeling better? It's the road. ”

"Alas! What a good one! Okay, still come to Taiping Mansion? Don't mention it, it's sad to mention this, it's really not easy to go all the way•••••• "The two of them gossiped loudly affectionately, and when they got to the car together, everyone came over, talking loudly as if they had been reunited for a long time, Nanning's eyes looked around, and he introduced in a low voice: "The girl's surname is Mu this time, Xing Wu, the fifth brother just calls me Xiao Ning, this is Brother Da Chang, this is Xiao An, we all have the surname of the owner." Fifth Brother Zhao quietly recognized everyone, and Li Xiaoqi asked in a low voice through the cracks in the curtain, "It's all arranged?" ”

"Yes, according to the instructions of the fifth girl, everything is in order." Fifth Brother Zhao bowed deeply to the car and replied respectfully,

"Well, let's go into the city, and I'll talk about what I have to say." Li Xiaoqi commanded in a deep voice, and Fifth Brother Zhao agreed, leading the car in front of him to a three-entry mansion not far from Jiangnanfang.

The house is hidden in a quiet and somewhat remote alley, and when he entered the alley, Fifth Brother Zhao said through the curtain of the car: "I took the fifth master••••••"

"I'm going to call the girl." Nanning corrected in a low voice with a smile, Fifth Brother Zhao nodded his head and thanked him, and then said: "After receiving the girl's letter, Uncle Sun and I started from Jiangnan Fang, looking at the house everywhere, in the past two years, there are few empty houses in Taiping Mansion, and finally found this place, which is suitable everywhere, that is, the house is old, the girl rests first, if you are really not used to living, you will find another place to go." ”

"Well, buy or rent?"

"I bought it, I refused to rent it, and the house I was willing to rent was not suitable, and it cost a thousand dollars of silver."

"It's all drawn from the daily running water of Jiangnanfang? How much cash is left on the counter now? Li Xiaoqi frowned and asked, Fifth Brother Zhao hurriedly replied in a low voice: "No, Uncle Sun said that there was still a lot of silver brought by the •••••• girl last time, but he didn't use the running water on the cabinet." Li Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief, and while speaking, the car arrived at the door of the house, Zhao Wuge hurriedly walked a few steps forward and opened the door, turned around and handed the key to Nanning, bent down to remove the threshold, and watched the two cars come in, before loading the threshold with a guard.

Li Xiaoqi got off the car in the second door, turned his head and looked around, this is an ordinary courtyard that can no longer be ordinary, a door is a snow-white shadow wall, the front is painted with Wufu Yingmen, the back is painted with Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum four gentlemen, the shadow wall is planted with a pomegranate tree on one side, while planting a wisteria, walk a few steps is the weeping flower door, through the weeping flower door, two wings on each side, there are two bright and dark two main houses on both sides of the middle hall, this is a private house, there is no hand verandah, the wing room and the main house are connected with the eaves, through the hall is the main courtyard, the main courtyard faces three main houses, left and right or two wings, next to the main house a small moon door leading to the back of the kitchen and other places, these two yards are very small, the ground with bluestone spread out of the blessing and longevity and other auspicious patterns, the main courtyard by the left front of a small rockery, the mountain is full of dark green moss, a somewhat withered vine climbs up and hangs down from behind the rockery, except for some, there is nothing else in the yard, Li Xiaoqi stepped on the moon door and looked back, a row of six rooms in the back are much lower than the front house, the left three are opened, and the pot stove is built, The rooms on the right are supposed to be used as the quarters of the next people.

Changchang, Nanning and others lived in the front yard, Li Xiaoqi took Danyue and Begonia into the main house, the house was full of brand-new elm furniture, and the curtains everywhere were also clean and complete, Danyue and Begonia were busy looking for stoves, teapots, teacups, tea leaves, etc. to prepare for the fire to boil water to make tea, Li Xiaoqi slowly sat on the couch under the south window, pushed open the window and looked at the narrow courtyard outside, and suddenly gave birth to a heart full of stability and satisfaction, just want to drink tea lazily in such a yard, let the time pass slowly, and end up.