The room was dim, with only seven tiny pores in a row on the top exposed: the room was only eight steps square, and only a small couch was placed, and only one person could stand. Qi Su Niang stuck on the door to listen to the movement outside, but she couldn't hear any sound, only the noise of pedestrians on the street came in through the air holes from time to time.

Although Qi Suniang didn't like this feeling of waiting blankly, she could only bite her lip, sit on the couch, and hold her knees and look at the air holes blankly, "Brother, it's all your fault, it's because of you every time that I bumped into the fourth elder brother in this building......"

I also know how long the time has passed, Qi Su Niang waited silently, looking up and watching the exhaust of air holes slowly darken one after another, and finally dissolve with the surrounding darkness, only a faint light was scattered in the remaining hole.

"Brother Chen...... Chen Yan......"

A faint cry slowly sounded, echoing weakly in the closed secret room, "Is Su Gao San so good...... Are you better than me......"

The last glimmer of light in the small hole finally faded, and the chamber was plunged into complete darkness.

When the feast was gone, Lian Zhenyun hurriedly opened the door of the dark room, and the candlelight shone in, and he saw the woman leaning on the wall and sleeping, her face full of tears. Lian Zhenyun panicked in his heart, leaned on the edge of the couch and helped the woman up, "Madam, madam, but are you afraid of the dark?" I'm sorry, just ...... Fourth Master...... I ......"

Lian Dahe, who was closing the door and exiting, was startled, and couldn't help coughing lightly, Lian Zhenyun was stunned, and suddenly remembered that the woman in front of him was met by the fourteenth elder brother, so he had to swallow halfway, but fortunately, the woman seemed to wake up half and half at this time, rubbing her eyes while saying vaguely: "What ......?"

Lian Zhenyun was full of love and pity, held her slender waist, and said softly: "That master just left, and it happened to be another guest, so it was inconvenient to open the door to avoid gossip, so I ......" looked at the dark room, afraid that she would be frightened, and was about to whisper in her ear to comfort her, but finally sighed, and withdrew her hand before the woman noticed.

Qi Su Niang was half asleep and half awake, vaguely knew that the door was open, and groped her way to get off the couch. She walked to the door, and as soon as Fang opened her eyes, she was pierced by the light of more than a dozen candlesticks in the room, and immediately raised her hand to cover her eyes, groaned slightly, and turned her head.

Lian Zhenyun was reluctant to let her leave his arms. Although he didn't dare to hug her anymore. but by the narrowness of the secret room. Be intimate with the woman. Let her lean against her chest. "Madame...... Do your eyes hurt......" bent down slightly. Keep your head down. Look at her desperately rubbing her red eyes. coaxed: "It hurts more when you rub it...... Close your eyes. It'll be fine in a while......"

Qi Su Niang had already woken up at this time. I also felt that the pain in my eyes had subsided. Open your eyes and see. But it was sticking to Lian Zhenyun's chest. I was taken aback. Slipped back sharply. The back of the head slammed into the wall. She snorted softly in pain.

Lian Zhenyun was stunned. Hurriedly pulled her out of the secret room. To the candlestick. Fang had to look down at her wounds. But I saw the woman suddenly fall aside. Bend over to cover your mouth. Voices in the throat. Seems to vomit.

Lian Zhenyun was shocked. Hurriedly helped her sit down. "Ma'am. What's wrong with Madame? Seeing that she spat out a few more mouthfuls of water. Hurriedly shouted: "Big River." Order some tea. ”

The table of the eight immortals was full of scraps. Chrysanthemum wine was also drunk. It is obvious that the guests and hosts are happy. Qi Su Niang only felt a pain on her head. The heart is tight. Didn't eat at noon or night. An acid welled up in his stomach empty. After spitting a few mouthfuls of water, he vomited again and again. At this time, he couldn't even spit out the water.

Lian Zhenyun saw her eyes full of tears. The face is flushed. One is sweat. I know that she is extremely uncomfortable. While comforting softly. While raising his hand to go to the river, he brought the walnut almond tea and fed it to the woman. There was a pause. But he slowly withdrew his hand. He said softly, "Madam." Tea is coming.

Watching the woman raise her head, she took the tea from Lian Dahe's hand and drank it slowly.

Lian Dahe whispered in Lian Zhenyun's ear: "Madame looks like she hasn't eaten, do you want to ......?"

Lian Zhenyun nodded and looked at the woman, "Madam, it's good to use some fine porridge......

Qi Su Niang drank most of the bowl of walnut and almond hot tea, and felt much better, shook her head, looked up at Lian Zhenyun, and said with a reluctant smile: "Don't work hard, it's getting late, I'm going back." With that, he stood up and put the teacup back on the table. She took a few steps back and bowed to Lian Zhenyun slightly, "Thank you for the protection of the big boss today." ”

Lian Zhenyun reluctantly returned the salute, "Madam is polite." After a pause, "I'll send my wife back......"

Qi Su Niang was about to speak, when she heard someone in the corridor calling: "Grandma, grandma......"

Qi Su Niang was surprised, strange and happy in her heart, and hurriedly responded: "Bi'er, I'm ...... here" While speaking, she hurriedly walked to the door, opened the door, and said with a smile: "Bi'er, I'm here, why did you come to pick me up, it's so dark outside, you don't" As she spoke, she was suddenly stunned, and her voice was stuck in her throat.

Outside the door, Xiao Lian bowed and saluted, and said: "The little one asks grandma to say goodbye, the little one comes to talk to grandma first, the grandfather was worried that grandma will go to the capital alone, and he will rush over later, but he didn't expect to meet the governor of Liangjiang on the way to cross the border and close the river, and check the warehouse silver in Yangzhou Mansion, the master is so anxious that he can't do it, and now the uncle sends a letter to be more relieved, and the grandfather still has a few days to take the boat, let the grandmother and the uncle live in Gaoyou, and wait for him to come and pick up the ......."

Bi'er helped Qi Suniang to sit on the four-wheeled mule cart with red oil hanging silver top and Tianjin heavy along the pinjin to walk around the water, Xiaolian carried a lantern, led the mule and horse in front, and slowly walked on the West Street Road in front of the state government.

Qi Su Niang leaned in the carriage and listened to Bi'er sitting at the entrance of the carriage and talking slowly to Xiao Lian, "Xiao Lian, Li'er is okay at home, grandma didn't take her when she came out, didn't cry?" ”

Xiao Lian smiled: "Sister Bi'er knows her best, where will she not cry, but it's not because grandma didn't take her out to cry, she just felt that grandma didn't tell her to take care of her, and asked her to take care of her father, so she left in a hurry, she felt uncomfortable." ”

Bi'er smiled lightly, "This child is too real, but with her brother Tanabata and sister Changsheng, she must not be crying for long." He hesitated, but "Tanabata" paused again.

Xiao Lian glanced back at Bi'er, looked at the carriage again, nodded and smiled: "It turned out that grandma was sympathetic to her, Li'er, as long as she can't see Qixi and Changsheng for a day, I'm afraid she won't even be able to sleep." After a pause, he said, "I haven't seen my grandmother for a few days, and I'm worried that my grandmother is unstable on the road, and she hasn't eaten well or slept well." ”

Bi'er smiled and retracted again, "Master has already ransomed Miss Su?" ”

Xiao Lian hesitated slightly, and replied in a low voice: "The matter is handled by Mr. Tovey." After reading the letter, he was worried about his grandmother, and hurried out of Yangzhou City. Now he is in a hurry to rush to Gaoyou. Miss Su, she still lives in the Ten Bow Tower. He paused again, and then said after a while, "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, my grandfather heard that my grandmother was not coming home, so I thought that I happened to discuss the matter with Mr. Wei, so I didn't come back...... Sister Bi'er, if Miss Su hadn't kowtowed to her grandmother for tea, she wouldn't have stayed overnight...... On weekdays, it is Mr. Wei who invites them...... Go and scatter together......"

Bi'er listened to the slightest movement in the carriage, sighed secretly, and had to say: "Grandma also knows this......"

It was very late, Qi Su Niang got out of the carriage, entered the small courtyard of Fan Lane, and instructed Bi'er while walking to the inner room, "Start cleaning up." Wait for him to come, uncle and him

Let's go back to the countryside. Hearing this, Bi'er sighed secretly, and had to

The evening breeze blew, and four lanterns hung under the front porch cast a hazy shadow. Xiao Lian unloaded his horse in the yard, and was about to draw water from the well to wash the horse, when he saw a thin figure reflected by the light on the stone steps, but the human figure was hidden behind the pillars, or because of the wind, the shadows on the steps swayed, and they wanted to enter and stop.

Xiaolian laughed, turned his head and said, "Zhi'er, he asked me to talk to me on Qixi Festival."

A blushing face came out from behind the pillar, Zhi'er carried her skirt, walked down the steps in two or three steps, and walked to Xiao Lian, Fang was about to open her mouth and was very ashamed, biting her lip and whispering: "Brother Xiao Lian, Brother Qixi He" Before he finished speaking, his face was already flushed, and he stammered for a while: "Brother Xiao Lian, Mr. Zhou is in good health"

There was a bang, and Xiao Lian pulled a bucket full of water up from the well. He looked sideways at Zhi'er, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, "Hello Mr. Zhou." When I was leaving, Tanabata said to me that he was okay too. ”

Zhi'er smiled sheepishly, and her eyes shone brightly, overshadowing the light under the eaves. Xiao Lian laughed while carrying water to the horse, and picked up the brush to smooth the hair, "You don't have to worry about this kid, he often follows the master for a while, and is responsible for taking care of the literature in the yamen." ”

Zhi'er heard that Qixi followed Chen every day, her eyes blinked, and her face darkened. She thought about it, rolled up her sleeves, scooped a scoop of water from the bucket, slowly poured it on the horse's back, helped Xiaolian wash the horse, and after a while, Fang asked softly: "Brother Xiaolian, it is rumored all over the city that the new governor of Liangjiang has arrived, and the lord must be busy at this time, do you still want to entertain the famous gentry outside?" ”

Xiao Lian couldn't help laughing and said: "You and Sister Bi'er have learned a lot, and you talk like this, don't worry, you don't go to the river house to entertain those celebrities now, and you naturally don't have to go to Qixi Festival." ”

The roots of Zhi'er's ears suddenly burned, "Brother Xiaolian"

"Grandma told me to go out to socialize, but those celebrities can't be offended, so I entrusted Mr. Zhou, and I can push it myself. Mr. Zhou said that Qixi had talent and wanted to read more, and refused to let him go in and out with the entertainment, for fear of being fascinated by the sound and distracting his mind, so he let him follow the master. In addition to dealing with the errand of the governor of Liangjiang patrolling, he did not leave the yamen for half a step. Fortunately, Mr. Zhou has always been elegant, and although those celebrities don't like Mr. Shogunate's background, they can also intersect in front of the master. Xiao Lian looked at Zhi'erdi's face and seemed to be relieved, and finally laughed, "It's just that without Mr. Zhou's constant help and guidance, the master was in a hurry to find grandma, and he almost made a mistake in front of the new governor."

Zhi'er was startled and hurriedly asked, "How?"

Xiao Lian didn't seem to want to say more, but said: "You don't need to know about these things outside, I'm quick to talk for a while." Mr. Zhou said that the more experienced the master is outside, the more he deliberately picks thorns, and he can also deal with the past" Looking at Zhi'er's appearance of understanding or not, he smiled dumbly, knowing that she didn't understand the rules outside, and said with a smile: "Before leaving, Qixi also said to me, even if he went to visit relatives, why didn't he give a letter, just leave, could it be that he was careless in what he said and acted, and Zhi'er's sister was annoyed?" ”

Zhi'er was stunned and slowly lowered her head. Xiao Lian couldn't help but be stunned when he saw her like this, "Could it be that that kid did something messy on Qixi Festival?" I thought it was because my grandmother saw that my grandfather didn't return overnight, and I was in a hurry to go back to my parents' house for a while, and you didn't have time to inform me."

Zhi'er still didn't say anything, hanging her head and looking at the ground.

Xiao Lian hesitated for a while, then put down the brush in his hand, "Zhi'er, Brother Xiao Lian looks, although he is a little dull and not very old on Qixi Festival, he is a responsible place." If it's a trivial matter, you can't worry about him, if it's a big thing in the house, Changsheng is all his sister, not to mention our ordinary background, so naturally we live a good life wholeheartedly. After a pause, "If you worry about it in the future, you can't do it." If Grandma knows, she will only rejoice."

Zhi'er raised her head and looked at Xiao Lian, her eyes slowly turned red, "Brother Xiao Lian, what's so good about Su Gaosan, you like her so much?" It's hairpin and a banquet, the daily price is getting later and later, and the smell of fat powder all over the body makes grandma sad Brother Xiaolian, I can't bear to ...... grandma and Sister Bi'er"

Xiao Lian was taken aback, and seemed to understand the meaning of Zhi'er's words, and seemed to be clear or not, but he was anxious in his heart. He thought for a moment and wondered: "Ordering the sister to accompany the table is the rule of Yangzhou official gentry's entertainment, and the same is true for the sister hairpin flower for the escort at the banquet, Mr. Zhou is now going to socialize, when Miss Su accompanies the table, Mr. Zhou also wants to make hairpins, as well as the lord in Wang's mansion, Mr. Wei, and those celebrities, when ordering Miss Su's accompaniment, they all gave Miss Su hairpins."

It's nothing. ”

Zhi'er looked at Xiao Lian, wiped her tears, thought for a while, endured her shame, turned sideways, "It's okay to have a hairpin, Brother Xiao Lian, my lord is so late every day"

Xiao Lian hurriedly shook his head, "After the banquet that day, Mr. Wei composed a poem for Miss Su's three arrows, and all the scholars and celebrities in the city came to respond. Don't you know, those celebrities are extremely presumptuous when they are drunk, and some village dialect slang comes as soon as they open their mouths, and they often order the things in the boudoir in the building, and it is common to be stained with some fat powder. The rules of the land can be set up well, the internal affairs are all in the hands of the grandmother, Miss Su did not kowtow to the grandmother to serve tea, according to the rules into the door, he has never sat alone with her in a room, once I said that when Sister Bi'er came to ask, I answered honestly. ”

Zhi'er raised her head, her face was happy, but it slowly dimmed, and she muttered to herself: "Sister Bi'er didn't use these things to persuade grandma and grandma to think about it, and I couldn't guess that grandma only said that grandma had Su Gaosan in her heart." She looked at Xiao Lian, "Brother Xiao Lian, you follow Ye every day, but Ye has Su in his heart"

Xiao Lian half opened his mouth, and he couldn't speak for a long time, and he hesitated for a long time and said, "I don't understand the master's thoughts."

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I want to say something, about the addition of more and about Chen Yanjiu's absence from appearing:

The concubine is a necessary thing in life in that era, it was originally a plot clue set by the outline, and the emotional drama is not the most critical, the key is to express some emotions through this plot, depict some characters as truthfully as possible, and bring out the future plot.

When I set the outline, I never expected to abuse my relatives, nor did I expect that there would be so many votes. Promised to add more,I won't break my promise.,When the manuscript is sold out.,I'm anxious to rush the article.,There aren't many of them.,And,Frankly speaking, this paragraph is really difficult to express.,Can't write your ideal effect and have to revise the article repeatedly.,In order to be satisfied.。 Therefore, now I have more than enough heart and insufficient strength, and I can't really get the double and three changes that my relatives require, so I can only update as many as I get, like the nearly 6,000 words of the previous chapters, and the 4,000 words of this chapter, all of which are uncut and pasted when they are obtained. It's not that I'm stingy and counting the words with my relatives.,It's a little bit of a heart.,Please understand.。

As for Chen Yan, I understand and am moved by the feelings of my relatives, but I am very sorry, not writing about him at this time is the need of the plot, and it is definitely not deliberately hiding and not writing to try to ask for votes. I just followed the outline and walked down step by step. If the pace is disrupted, the rest of the plot cannot be continued.

After all, although love is the main line of life, it is not the whole of life.