When Qi Su Niang prepared the return gifts of Governor Quan, Governor Xu and several Xiangkun, she sent someone to send them over, and she must have a big event in her heart, it is almost the first month of the year, and she is in a hurry to prepare for the New Year.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, still in the middle of the night, Chen Yan was woken up by Qi Suniang, washed up after the Cold War, and ate vegetarian rice and vegetarian soup. Qi Su Niang combed his braids black and straight with shavings water, changed him into a seven-pin embroidered four-clawed five-python stone blue Ji suit, and wore a plain gold-topped smoked mink crown.

Chen Yan opened the door, and the cold wind swept small snowflakes in his face, which made him shiver from the cold, and hurriedly turned around and said, "Su Niang, don't go out of the room, it's very cold outside." You will hear the sound of firecrackers, and then you go out to see the spring festival. ”

Qi Su Niang looked at the dark sky outside, smiled and raised the candlestick, and walked to the door, "I haven't seen Grandma's spring festival yet, Brother Chen, will the ground be repaired after today's sacrifice?" It's the New Year, and it's still snowing......"

Chen Yan smiled and nodded, "Cao Shang led the boat through the lock, and there were deaths and injuries every few days, so I finally had a way to slow down, not to mention the snow, it was a knife, and the people on the Cao Gang and Cao Si had to rush to do this." With that, he hurried out and rode to the county office.

Qi Su Niang sat in the inner room to bake the fire, after half an hour, she heard seven and a half county gongs loud, firecrackers loud, Qi Su Niang walked to the door of the cottage, and saw the black pressure and a group of people coming from the direction of the county seat.

The dark clouds blocked the light of dawn, and the sky was dark. In front, "quiet, avoid" tiger head wind and fire card opens, and in the middle of the clear flag, golden gong, guard card, and big fan are listed. Under the official umbrella of the blue silk heavy eaves, Chen Yan took official steps, and two teams of nearly 100 officials, gentry, and juzixiu followed behind him. Later, the big red box was a red sacrifice of "pigs, fish, and chickens" sent by the government to the concubine Niangniang Mazu.

After the sacrifice, it was the Cao gang headed by Lian Zhenyun and Li Siqin. Although it was the first month, the Cao Gang was wearing a single thin coat, a red scarf around their waists, and their faces were solemn. Behind them is the three-headed red banquet noodles offered by the Cao Gang to Mazu Niangniang, with eight bowls and sixteen plates on it, and the names of the dishes are all pasted on yellow paper, which is very rich.

On the road from the county seat to Gaogang, it was already crowded with the people of Qinghe County, the firecrackers were put all the way over, the boats on the river were brightly lit, and there were many people who went ashore to rejoice. The crowd of people went to the high post, praying for the blessing of Mazu Niangniang on the first day of the new year,

After a day of trouble in front of the Tianfei Palace, Chen Yan burned incense in front of the imperial dam and started work, and renovated the gate dam project according to the drawings presented by Lian Zhenyun. Not only did the Cao Gang cheer, but the people of Qinghe County were also overjoyed.

It was getting late, the cold wind was still blowing, Qi Su Niang looked at the grand occasion on the dam from afar, Chen Yan was so cautious, the Qinghe Cao Gang was actually a New Year's Day, and he was rushing to start work on the first day of the New Year, his heart was heavy, and he slowly walked back to the backyard.

The backyard of the four compartments is surrounded by a high courtyard wall, almost blocking the sunshine that is not bright in this world. The door in the backyard was just two planks, and she didn't even have the freedom to go out. The study room is full of Chen Yan's river drawings and official documents, Jiangxi Jiji rice paper and two-ball official paper are thickly piled, but her engineering drawings can only be secretly drawn with charcoal made of eyebrows.

She slowly walked to the door of the inner room and reached out to pull it open. A wave of heating came to the face, as if walking in and closing the door could block the cold of deep winter, but the mahogany and silver furniture was always covered with a layer of rotten death, so that the women in the house could not breathe no matter how much they could endure it. A cold wind blew, Qi Su Niang's feet seemed to be tied, and she couldn't step into the room, the wind blew into the house through her, stirring Zhu Yunjin's tent, a little golden light on the bedside pillow swayed slightly, and the gentle shimmer caressed Qi Su Niang's heart, and unconsciously untied the rope on her feet.

Qi Su Niang walked in.

Ruyi Jinchai lay silently on the pillow box, it was silent, but it never left her. Qi Su Niang gently took the golden hairpin in her hand, and her fingers swiped the tip of the hairpin, leaving a white mark, and the tip of the hairpin was blunt.

"It's dull again, and I have to grind it a little more before ......I can use it," Qi Su Niang sighed lowly, opened the pillow box, and took out the backup engineering drawings. is different from the drawing given to Lian Zhenyun, one of the drawings in this drawing is dotted with a heavy red circle with Bian Fumao's rose rouge. Qi Su Niang stared at the red circle, go? Or not going?

The room was as quiet as a grave, and it seemed that the sound of breathing could not be stopped. Outside, however, the cold wind blew louder and louder, whining and whistling through the open door. The vermilion brocade tent swung into the air, the vermilion lotus branch Su silk bed tent was blown by the wind violently, and the edge of the bed tent rose and fell like the waves of the sea, beating the skirt of Qi Su Niang, revealing the natural feet that she had never wrapped in although she was wrapped in ancient embroidered shoes.

On the edge of the bed tent, Chen Niangzi taught, Qi Su Niang's own embroidered lotus branch pattern looming, Qi Su Niang stretched out her left hand, gently and slowly stroked the lotus branch pattern, grasped the engineering drawings in her right hand, and muttered to herself, "Rules, you have to get in, you can get out...... "Slowly stood up, walked to the courtyard, looked at the gray outside the courtyard, could not see the way ahead, but the wind was blowing freely in the sky, "I can't help but go...... Let's bet on the reputation of the past five years......"

After everything was ready, Chen Yan returned home tired and fell asleep, while Qi Su Niang was busy taking care of the New Year's goods and sending them to the Li Mansion in Texas. After that, until the fifth day of the first month, it was sealed. In order to avoid filial piety in those years, the door was sealed with red paper, and the big book was "avoided", and he only mixed with Qi Su Niang in the back hall for fun.

Qi Su Niang lay on the pillow, opened her eyes dimly, and saw that the sun was bright outside the red silk tent, and it was almost noon. She squinted, only to feel that her body was sore, she moaned slightly, and wanted to turn around and sleep again, but Chen Yanyou, who was pressed on her back, did not wake up from a sound sleep, making her unable to move.

The long hair of the two of them was wrapped around her **** shoulders, and it was full of lotus seed and lily pillows, and Chen Yan's slow and long breath stroked the side of her face, bringing a slight itchy sound.

Qi Su Niang struggled to move gently, and the messy goose yellow bandeau breast, white Luo robe, cyan gown and other things on the side of the bed slid off the bed with an uproar, fell out of the tent, and spread out on the ground.

Chen Yan only felt a soft sound, and the delicate female body under him moved faintly, he struggled to open his eyes, and felt that the warm skin of the two **** was rubbing, which made people sleepy. Chen Yan's big hand slid along the soft arm, wrapped the small hand with a slight callus, and pressed his body down, so that the soft female body couldn't move anymore, closed his eyes and muttered: "Su Niang, it's not early today." ”

Qi Su Niang was overwhelmed by the heavy body on her body, and reluctantly said, "You are so heavy, sleep in a different way." As he spoke, he vigorously pressed the back of his head against Chen Yan's forehead.

Chen Yan only felt that Qi Su Niang was tossing and turning under him, and finally half woke up, let go of her hand, stroked the long hair on her shoulders at will, bit the back of her neck, and said with a vague smile: "What are you moving?" Let me sleep a little longer, and we'll ...... again when we've slept enough," he said, turning over and falling asleep again.

Qi Su Niang's breathing finally became smoother, she felt slightly thirsty, picked up an agarwood-colored fur jacket from the foot of the bed and put it on, covered the quilt for Chen Yan, and got up lightly. She put down the silk tent, unveiled the vermilion double happiness cloud brocade, and came to the outside room to drink water, when she suddenly heard a loud slamming sound on the back door, and a rough voice shouted: "Lord Chen, Qi-Mrs. Qi, open the door, open the door, there is an accident on the dam!"

Qi Su Niang was suddenly startled, her eyes widened, and she heard Li Siqin's voice. Then Wang Zhutou's voice sounded anxiously, especially with a hint of sleepiness, "Li Er is in charge, you are lighter!" Don't be alarmed by the Lord and the Madame! ”

Qi Su Niang faintly knew what was going on in her heart, she glanced back at Chen Yan who was sleeping, hurriedly put on her jacket, tied her skirt, took the Ruyi gold hairpin from the dressing table and curled her hair, took out the bib from the cabinet, and walked out of the inner room lightly. She turned and closed the door, put her hat on the windowsill, grabbed a handful of snow from the windowsill and wiped her face, and ran to the backyard and opened the door.

Li Siqin looked anxious, saw Qi Su Niang open the door, and said hurriedly: "What about the adult?" My eldest brother said that there was a problem with the project and the organs, and asked me to invite the adults to take a look. ”

Qi Su Niang glanced at Wang Zhutou, he was also in disarray, most of them were dragged up from the hot quilt, "Madam, the Cao Gang has been rushing to work for days, and it seems that they are in trouble, so they want to ask someone who knows how to do arithmetic to discuss, so I came over and asked the adults to come over." ”

Qi Su Niang said slowly: "The adults are still resting, and the concubine will go over and take a look." ”

Li Siqin glared, as if he didn't want to, and suddenly thought about something, "It's okay for you to go, I heard people say that you understand, my eldest brother said that as long as you invite one to come." ”

Wang Zhutou didn't dare to say more, but Qi Su Niang breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she didn't tell Chen Yan about it, one is because although Chen Yan is good, but she is a woman who only understands family affairs and arithmetic, she actually knows these engineering skills, how can she explain it clearly to Chen Yan? It only makes him suspicious, but it is better to conceal it. Her origin can only be buried in the bottom of her heart in this life. The second is that Chen Yan is an official, and he is not allowed to know about these things, in order to leave a way out, in case of an accident in the future, he can still get away with not knowing.

But she secretly discussed this matter with Lian Zhenyun, regardless of the vulgar etiquette to meet Lian Zhenyun privately, it was really risky, in the end she didn't know about Lian Zhenyun, and her drawing must not be known, in case Lian Zhenyun used this as a handle to threaten her, it would be a huge hidden danger. When she was sick in bed, she thought hard every day, not only to make a pattern and win the letter from Lian Zhenyun, but also to work hard to set up a line on the pattern to prevent Lian Zhenyun from mistakenly believing it. After he was in good health, he originally thought of inquiring about whether Lian Zhenyun would marry a wife, if he could summon his relatives to come to the mansion, after the women walked around and became acquainted with each other, it would not violate the etiquette law to go to Lian Zhenyun's mansion and occasionally meet a few times. But I thought that Qinghe Caosi and Cao Gang had been carrying it, Chen Yan was impartial, she loved Xiang's family on weekdays, and she didn't dare to move around more, she didn't like Wang Xu's, and she didn't dare to break off contacts, she just liked Lianxiang and a girl, and she didn't dare to go to Xu's mansion to explore, where could she be close to the female relatives in Lian's mansion? I had to give up. Seeing that there was only one chance to make an appointment with Lian Zhenyun, he had to violate the rules and take a risk in the cloud mansion, he didn't expect Lian Zhenyun to come, but fortunately, Lian Zhenyun was really a big deal, and now he is really careful and trustworthy, although Li Siqin came to invite her, he clearly didn't know the inside story, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But in order to prevent Lian Zhenyun, she had to set up such a scheming line in the pattern, she planned it at the beginning, thinking that it was just a small place, and she would not miss a big thing. Unexpectedly, looking at the situation on the dam in the spring festival, the Qinghe Cao Gang has been suffering from the accident on the dam for a long time, and they are anxious to work on the first day of the new year, not to mention that this project is more refined than the current dam project, only to say that this rush is the most prone to accidents, and the small things on the drawings will become big things. In this way, even Zhenyun is not easy for her to explain, if there are a few lives, she is really uneasy.

Fortunately, Lian Zhenyun asked Li Siqin to invite him this time, obviously to invite Chen Yan, but he actually invited her. I'm afraid that the project is halfway through, and the drawings can't be understood, as for this arithmetic, although it has little to do with the project, it is a good excuse, if there is no arithmetic foundation, the engineering things are also difficult to understand, but let her spend less effort to find excuses. Thinking of this, Qi Su Niang glanced back at the closed door of the right wing, gritted her teeth, went to the windowsill to take a bib and put it on, and finally went out.

The road leading to the gate was covered with a thick layer of snow, and the wind was blowing. Doors are closed and markets are empty. The official who carried the sedan chair also celebrated the New Year at home.

Qi Suniang hurried all the way along the river, and the small courtyard of the grass hall was left far behind. The sound of water mixed with the sound of mud and sand poured into her nostrils, and the noise of men and women could be heard from afar, although there was no roar of cranes or the loud noise of cement agitators, but the cries of people on the dam site were so similar. The snowflakes drifted down, and all these strange and familiar sounds and breaths surrounded Qi Su Niang, who seemed to be running on the construction site that had been connected all over the world, ready to go to work as her project supervisor......

This idea was thrown away by Qi Su Niang in a blink of an eye, she smiled bitterly in her heart, the project on the dam wants to be built, without her watching on the spot, something must happen, that is, she has no intention of coming forward, in order to prevent the scheming line set by the drawings from missing the project on the dam, in order for the project to be really usable, it is necessary to go to the dam......

Lian Zhenyun stood on the dam, watching from a distance as the woman wore a long gauze sand sand and hat, blocking her upper body at all, carrying an agarwood-colored jacket and skirt, and ran over quickly, revealing a tight bun with Ruyi gold hairpins on the top of the bib.

He restrained his pace and stopped at the edge of the dam, not rushing to catch up, waiting for her to come.

The cold wind blew over the Cao River, and the surface of the river was half covered with a thin layer of ice, and even the dirt road on the riverside was covered with some ice ballast, which was hard and slippery, and became more and more cold. The rough women who delivered lunch carried their food burdens and walked into the gate.

Qi Su Niang hurriedly walked up to Lian Zhenyun, supported her waist with one hand, panting, her long veil hung down to her waist, and asked, "Big boss, but what's wrong?" Lian Zhenyun bowed slightly, and before he was about to speak, Li Siqin rushed over, his black face was as heavy as the bottom of a pot, and he glared at the woman and said angrily: "Don't you know that falling on the ice will break bones?" There are no deaths, what are you anxious about?! ”

Lian Zhenyun frowned slightly, but saw the woman turn her head sideways, her long eyelashes flickering twice in the gap between the veils, and she seemed to smile at him, "You are more anxious than me." After that, he turned his head, looked straight at him through the gap in the two-point veil, and asked, "Big boss, how is it now, please tell the concubine to listen." ”

Lian Zhenyun didn't have time to ponder the woman's different names, took out the pattern from his sleeve, pointed to one place, and said: "From here, I look at it and understand that the parts have been made, but I don't know how to put it together, and the connected brick walls are extremely unstable when stacked." ”

The woman lowered her head and leaned sideways, Lian Zhenyun felt her gentle breathing fall on his palm through the mask, he unconsciously spoke, explained in detail, and when he finished speaking, the woman was silent for a long time, and said for a long time, "What about the people who work?" The concubine went to the dam and said, "They just do it." ”

Lian Zhenyun glanced at the woman fixedly, although some women on the dam went in and out to deliver food, but after all, she was a daughter of the imperial court and a dependant of the official family......

Qi Su Niang smiled slightly, "Wearing a bib, no one knows that it is me...... "She has been not afraid of hard work in the past five years, farming in Gaoyou, and housework in Qinghe. With this reputation, she is free to go out of the house every morning to buy vegetables, visit the market, and talk freely with people, and no one gossips about her. is from an old family like Mrs. Xu, and she feels that she is inappropriate, and she can't be said to be "unvirtuous" in the end. At the beginning, Mrs. Chen taught her to keep the rules in ordinary affairs and gain a reputation, if she encountered something that she thought she must do, or something that she had to do, she could put the rules aside, act in secret, and cover it up. It was not only the sailors on this dam, but women could be seen coming and going to deliver food from time to time, and she was seen as a woman, who could speak as long as she did not know who it was.

Li Siqin hesitated and said, "Lord ...... County?"

"Madam, except for the rude men, there are all poor women on this dam," said the king...... the king.

"Big boss! Oh no! Suddenly, a panicked cry came from the dam, interrupting Qi Su Niang's words.

Lian Zhenyun frowned, glanced at Qi Su Niang, and waved his hand to block the sweaty Caoshang sailor in the distance above the dam, "Bai Lao Wu, what's wrong?" ”

"Big boss! Somehow, the brick wall had collapsed! ”

Qi Su Niang's heart tightened, "Did you hurt anyone?" ”

Bai Lao Wu couldn't see her face, he didn't know who she was, and when he was hesitating, Lian Zhenyun asked, "Can someone be injured?" ”

"If you go back to the big house, you haven't hurt anyone."

Qi Su Niang breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't dare to rest assured, knowing that no one was in charge of this project, there must be an accident, although Lian Zhenyun had drawings, he only knew it but didn't know why, it was inevitable that something would happen, and if he was not careful, he would hurt people's lives!

She was about to speak, but Lian Zhenyun looked down at the picture and said slowly: "The grass people let them avoid it, and then ask Mrs. to go down, and then talk about it after you understand it." ”

Wang Zhutou glanced at Lian Zhenyun, "Madam, do you want to ask the adults first?" ”

Lian Zhenyun heard the woman's words: "The adults are still sleeping, this is easy, I'll just take a look." I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and I vaguely felt some joy.

After Lian Zhenyun exhaled all the sailors from the dam to avoid, Qi Suniang followed him to the imperial dam, and saw a wide and deep trace in the middle of the loess stone dam, knowing that it was left when leading the boat across the dam. She walked to the gate, took the pattern, and talked slowly to the gate and the dam for half an hour.

Qi Su Niang answered them one by one, there was no impatience at all, but the more serious Lian Zhenyun was, the happier she was, but she couldn't explain it clearly when she got to the key point, one was because Lian Zhenyun had never studied arithmetic and mechanics, and the other was because Qi Su Niang couldn't find the right words and sentences.

Qi Su Niang bit her lip and thought about it, and after a while, she raised her head and said, "Big boss, you have already understood the big shelf, let's do these first." When the place is unclear, the concubine will come to the dam to explain again, and you will be able to understand. Lian Zhenyun still looked down at the pattern, "Madam, if you come to the dam again, it may be inconvenient for the county lord." ”

Qi Su Niang sighed, looked at Lian Zhenyun, and hesitated, "Big boss, can you slow down this matter...... but she stopped, knowing that it must not make sense, so she had to say: "If the concubine doesn't come to this matter, if she is not careful for a while, I am afraid that something big will happen......" After thinking about it, she looked at Lian Zhenyun, "As a woman, she is good at these side ways, and her reputation will be hindered." The concubine is not a dead person in these major matters. The big boss was tired, so he said that there was a lack of someone who knew how to calculate in this matter, so he asked the clumsy husband to send one person to help, and the rest of the concubines went to try it themselves. ”

When Lian Zhenyun heard her say this, he knew that this woman had only looked for him to do this sale and purchase for no reason, it turned out to be the ripples left by the rush to obey the power and the knotted rope in that rainy night. He had already guessed that this picture was from this woman's hand, and seeing that she valued her reputation so much, his cold heart became more and more hot......

Qi Su Niang walked on the riverside without people, although she was not full of excitement when she came, but she still had a faint joy in her heart. It was already afternoon, there was no movement in the courtyard, and Chen Yanying was still asleep. Qi Su Niang stabbed the fire on the stove door and steamed a basket of cut cakes that had been made early on the fire. She took a shower, washed away the cold sweat, wore an agarwood-colored fur jacket and skirt, grabbed the neckline, and tiptoed back to the inner room with a celadon pot of hot tea.

As soon as Fang opened the door, she felt a warm breath of residual lotus fragrance coming to her face, her whole body trembled, and she sneezed a little, spewing out all the cold air in her heart cavity, and warming up from her heart to her body. Qi Su Niang was in good spirits, hurriedly closed the door, listened, there was no movement on the bed, and Chen Yan was really asleep.

She put down the teapot, gently opened the red silk tent, and was dragged to the bed by one hand, Chen Yan hugged her and smiled: "Where did you go?" Don't say a word to me. How did you get cold? As he spoke, he hugged Qi Su Niang tightly in his arms and pressed the quilt tightly, "Is it cold?" ”

Qi Su Niang was startled, nestled in Chen Yan's arms, but slowly settled down, "It's not cold at all now, Brother Chen......" Chen Yan laughed, lowered his head and sniffed in her somewhat moist ear, "Bathing?" As he spoke, he unbuttoned her clothes, "What's so urgent that you are in a hurry?" His hands reached under her clothes and caressed her, but he touched a piece of bare and smooth skin.

Chen Yan snorted in her throat, took off her upper and lower clothes, and threw out of the tent, Qi Su Niang hugged Chen Yan tightly, moaning, and said intermittently: "Fang Cai...... The project on the dam stopped halfway, and they want you to take a look......" While speaking, Chen Yan had already entered Hong Kong, and the two of them were entangled in mian, panting and moaning, so they couldn't talk anymore......