Ou Qing put down the last stroke of the concerto, lifted it up and dried the ink, Xia Ruixi leaned over: "Does this work?" ”

Ou Qing said solemnly: "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, I don't have a word to plead for Beibei, I am singing praises for the emperor, thanking him for eliminating harm for the people and saving the Ou Xia family from dire straits." Every word I say is well documented, and I don't tell half a lie. If he were Mingjun, he should know that Beibei actually had nothing to do with Zhao Mingtao. ”

Xia Ruixi said: "If he refuses, will Beibei die?" She's just a little concubine, and the princesses who are serious about eight hundred are fine, what kind of fault can be counted on her? ”

Ou Qing hugged her: "Let's try to find a way, okay?" ”

The husband and wife went to Xia's house. Since the death of Mrs. Xia, Mr. and Mrs. Xia and Xia Ruidong have moved out, and the current yard is much smaller than before, but it is still too wide for a family of three to live in. Mrs. Xia lived her life attentively, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard were lush and dense, refreshing and pleasant.

Xia Ruidong sat in the study and read, he remembered the things about Mu Fei and Xia Ruibei in his heart, and when he didn't sit for a while, he had to get up and take a turn in a hurry. For a while, he thought that the cicadas outside the window were noisy, and for a while, he didn't think the soup was cold enough, until the little girl came to tell her that the second aunt and uncle were back, and he jumped up suddenly, picked up his robe and ran to the upper room.

Ou Qingjin handed a box to Master Xia: "Dad, it is full of silver tickets you gave me at the beginning, a total of 2.5 million taels of silver, all here." ”

Master Xia opened it and took a look, and sighed: "This thing, I'm afraid it's already waste paper." "Although the strength of the pass number is strong, but it can't stop the chaos, if everyone is dead, the shop is closed, who is going to go? I can only blame myself for my bad luck. He didn't expect the turmoil to come so quickly.

Ou Qingjin's eyes were shining: "I heard that his family is on the side of the new emperor and has raised a lot of grain and silver for the new emperor. The new emperor has now set the capital in the capital, and the head office of Huitong in the capital has reopened, and shops in several places have also opened, which shows that his family has a certain strength. Why don't we try it? ”

Such a large amount of money, if Master Xia wants to mention it, as long as the exchange pass number exists for a day, he will not dare to rely on the account. But if the pass number agrees to their request, there will definitely be a big problem with the operation.

Guo Sida, the owner of the Huitong ticket number, is a big winner, and his eyes are very accurate, and he leans on the big tree of the new emperor. The new emperor relied on him a lot, and now was the time for him to show his talents, who would he not look for trouble with?

Master Xia smiled bitterly: "Do you want to ask him to help save Beibei?" It's not that easy, he has a big backing, and if he dares to reopen, he must be fully prepared, even if we go, we will inevitably be lost in the war, and we may be beaten upside down. "If it is a small denomination, Huitong will not be greedy, but it is difficult not to be greedy for such a large sum of money.

Ou Qing smiled and said: "I didn't give this to the Huitong number, there are piles of waste paper on the left and right, so we might as well give it to someone who has the ability to squeeze out his silver." It depends on what Daddy means. ”

He wants to send this pile of waste paper to the new emperor along with the chapter, turn waste into treasure, the new emperor squeeze silver, and he wants Xia Ruibei to be safe. If Huitong is unwilling and wants to get back the 2.5 million taels of silver tickets from him, then he has to think of a way to settle this matter for him.

Master Xia smiled and pushed the box back to him: "You can do it." ”

"Little radish head, it's fun." There was a burst of laughter outside, he walked to the window, looked out, and saw two figures, one large and one small, sitting in the shade of the tree, it was Xia Ruidong and Da'er.

Xia Ruidong is like a child who will never grow up, carrying Da'er and running wildly in the yard, taking a bamboo pole and netting the spider web to stick the cicadas, and throwing Da'er into the air and catching it for a while, making the yard full of Da'er's joyful laughter and his duck voice during the voice change.

Mrs. Xia stood under the porch and was frightened by his thrilling movements: "You don't run away with him, don't throw, don't throw, his bones are tender, if you drag his hand, see if I don't break your hand!" ”

Xia Ruidong seemed to be deliberately against her, she shouted not to throw, but he picked up Da'er and threw it into the air, and caught it again. This kind of thing is really a piece of cake for him who has been practicing with Mu Fei for a long time, and his mother is really verbose.

Mrs. Xia was so angry that she only shouted that Master Xia would teach Xia Ruidong a lesson. "You're done with your homework for the day?" Before Master Xia spoke, Xia Ruidong ran away without a shadow with Da'er in his arms.

"Stop!" Mrs. Xia shouted, and the older Xia Ruidong became, the more unwilling she was to listen to her, making her more and more uncalm.

Xia Ruixi shook his fan, ate the melons and fruits that had been frozen in the well water, and persuaded Mrs. Xia disapplausively: "It's rare for him to relax, and he's not a child anymore, he is measured, what do you care about being so strict?" ”

Mrs. Xia frowned: "Count on him for everything, no matter how strict you do." Just you and Qing Jin always spoil him, he wants to go to the army to see the excitement, and Qing Jin actually let him go with him to make trouble. ”

Ou Qingjin walked out with a smile: "My mother is complaining about me taking Ruidong to the army again?" My original intention was to let him know a few more people, which would be good for him, and he was not too young to speak, and it was not good to be a man, and it was not good to be locked up at home. ”

A few days ago, he took Xia Ruidong to the army, got to know some people, watched the sergeants fight and practice arrows, Xia Ruidong liked it very much, and drank with those sergeants, he was half drunk at a young age, and he got the smell of wine. Mrs. Xia was afraid that he would have the heart to join the army, and she was a little unhappy.

"No complaints." Mrs. Xia was as calm as water on the surface, but in fact she was duplicitous. Parents all over the world are the same, she is getting old, and she always wants to live a peaceful and comfortable life. She only has one son by her side, she is not afraid of Xia Ruidong's hardships, she is afraid that Xia Ruidong will do dangerous things.

Master Xia laughed: "Your mother said that she didn't complain, that is, you can arrange it as you see it." You, who are brothers-in-law, should take Rui Yu around to learn about the sea, land and air economy, and don't let him sit in the well and watch the sky. When we are old, we will set up a feast in this courtyard for a few days, and you should think about who you want to invite as soon as possible. ”

mentioned Xia Ruinan, who couldn't communicate with the news, and Xia Ruibei, whose life and death were undecided, Mrs. Xia stood up a little sadly: "You guys talk slowly, I'll go see if dinner is ready." Xia Ruixi stood up: "Mother, I'll go with you." "When parents are old, their hope is that they will have children and grandchildren and a happy family.

Time flies, and two months have passed in a blink of an eye, and in autumn, the music sent by Ou Qingjin and the 2.5 million taels of scrapped silver tickets seem to have played a little role. The people who followed Zhao Mingtao to make trouble, died and died, and Xia Ruibei was still locked up in that small courtyard, and it didn't say anything about letting her go, nor saying what to do with her, as if she had been forgotten.

Under such circumstances, Xia Ruixi can only send some food, clothing and medicine every ten days and a half to see her, knowing that she is well, and she can't see her often

Mu Feituo brought news, saying that he knew the situation here, and the division was in an emergency, so he rushed back, and he would probably come back at the end of the year, so that Ou Qingjin and Xia Ruixi should not read it.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, after discussing with Mr. and Mrs. Xia, Ou Qingjin and Liu Lizi begged for favors and wanted to take Xia Ruibei back to her parents' house for the holiday.

In the evening, Xia Ruixi took someone to clean up Xia Ruibei's things, but found that Xia Ruibei was kneeling in front of a statue of Guanyin, holding a rosary in her hand, and chanting with her eyes closed. Fang'er was a little worried, Xia Ruibei was just reading the scriptures before, and after reading them, she had to stay for a long time, but now she seemed to be a little crazy.

"The third aunt and grandmother don't want to become a monk, do they?" Fang'er no longer calls Xia Ruibei Mrs., but aunt and grandmother.

Xia Ruixi coughed lowly: "Beibei, I'll pick you up for the holidays." ”

Xia Ruibei should not, Liang Jiufang stood up and saluted the Guanyin statue, turned around and smiled: "Second sister, are you here?" ”

Xia Ruixi saw that her face seemed to be plumper than the last time she saw her, with the scent of sandalwood on her body, and the sharp gloom between her eyebrows was no longer in front of her, and she was more peaceful and open-minded. She probably figured it out, she can only have two choices in her life, one is self-pity and self-pity, and she dies silently in the pity or contempt of her relatives, and the other is to choose the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha and become a Buddha, so she has a little spiritual sustenance, and she will not be angry with her relatives.

To be honest, Xia Ruibei who looks like this is much cuter than Xia Ruibei, who has a grueful look in her eyes and high morale. But she is still a teenage and young woman, Xia Ruixi is a little sad, Xia Ruibei woke up too late, insisted on going her own way, and after hitting her head and bleeding, it ended up like this.

Xia Ruibei turned a blind eye to the pity in Xia Ruixi's eyes, and said with a smile: "If you want to take me home for the holidays, is it what my father and mother mean?" Or do you mean that? If you persuade you, then you don't need to. I'm embarrassed to see them, and I'm afraid that they won't be beautiful. ”

Xia Ruixi sighed: "It's what our big guy means, no matter what you did in the past, your father and mother still feel sorry for you, or go?" ”

Xia Ruibei didn't insist anymore, and stood in the courtyard with Xia Ruixi waiting for everyone to pack up their things.

A gray moon rose from the sky, the heat of the ground surged upward, a breeze blew, and the fragrance of osmanthus came to the nostrils. If it weren't for Xia Ruibei's incident, it would definitely be a beautiful evening.

Xia Ruixi said: "The Rong family's people who came to pick up the Rong family have already come. We all feel that soon you will be free, it is nothing more than a matter of time. Have you ever thought about your plans for the future? Actually, you don't have to be like this, if you don't want to go home and live, my house is not small. ”

Xia Ruibei looked at the twilight gradually rising in the distance in confusion, and said softly, "Thank you." I've lived for seventeen years, and I still don't know what I want. I have been unwilling to be left behind since I was a child, and I always want to suppress you in everything, fighting back and forth, and now I realize that everything is just a flash in the pan. I don't know what the future holds. I thought that my heart was dead, and I should take refuge in Buddhism, but I couldn't help but feel confused and sad. This is probably fate, and I have no blessing or wisdom. ”

This confused expression reminded Xia Ruixi of the fact that the Rong family went to look for her in the morning.