He looked at me silently, his eyes were so complicated that it seemed that thousands of emotions came up at this moment, intertwined, and even he didn't know what kind of mood he was in in his heart.

After a long time, he took a deep breath.

"Okay."

“……”

"I'll be with you."

I smiled and slowly turned away.

There are many people around, they come in a hurry, and they leave in a hurry, but everyone has their own life, they can't see, and they don't care at all when I turn my back to him at this moment, what kind of mood it is, I can't see what kind of expression he has on his face, which has always been indifferent and cold.

……

Next, we went to a lot of places.

Probably relying on my bulging purse and his follow, I gradually began to spend big.

Speaking of which, I have not been short of money over the years, but there are few times when I go to the street to scatter silver, or maybe women are born with a love of shopping, like to buy things, the more they shop, the more energetic they are, the more they buy, the happier they are, and after a while, his hands behind me are filled with large and small bags and brocade boxes.

Then, we went to a silk shop.

He was so tired that he walked in and said hello to the shopkeeper, and he sat down to drink tea and wipe his sweat, while I looked at the brightly colored satins and the very beautifully cut ready-to-wear clothes, and after looking at them for a while, I chose one, brought it to him and asked him, "Is it good?" ”

He glanced up, noncommittal.

I also know that he probably has never had such a time in his life, helping a woman look at clothes or something, so he didn't embarrass him, and turned around and tried it himself.

When the clothes came out of the boat, I walked up to him and asked, "How is it?" ”

He shook his head and didn't speak.

Seeing him like this, the shopkeeper next to him hurriedly came up to play a round: "Madame's suit is well chosen, it is unique in our store, look at this material, this cut!" ”

He didn't speak.

I turned around and chose another one.

After putting it on, I walked up to him and asked, "What about this one?" Is it good-looking? ”

He only glanced at it, then reached out and dusted the corner of his clothes.

The shopkeeper smiled beside him and said: "This gentleman has a really high vision, this dress is not my boss's boasting, even if it is taken to Yangzhou City, there are few shops that can make such fine clothes." ”

He still didn't speak.

I didn't complain, I turned around and continued to pick, and after putting it on, I walked up to him and asked for his opinion. In this way, he changed several sets in a row, and the changed clothes were piled up on the shop into a mountain, and the boss smiled bitterly: "This Xianggong, the clothes in the small shop are famous far and near, can't Xianggong look down on a single one?" Look at this lady, she's sweating when she tries it. ”

Liu Qinghan glanced up at me, then at the pile of clothes, and then said, "The fourth." ”

"Huh?"

The boss and I looked at each other, and then looked back at the pile of clothes, both dumbfounded, who remembers the fourth test of which set?

He said silently: "Shi Qing's set." ”

The boss hurriedly ran over and pulled out one: "This? ”

He nodded.

The boss seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, there was a rare thing that he looked pleasing to the eye, and felt that the business was probably going to be done, so he hurriedly said: "Xianggong has a vision, look at this clothes, this material, this cutting ......"

However, although the boss said it was fanciful, I looked at the dress, but I really didn't think it was very good, compared to the other sets, the color of this dress seemed very simple, and the stone blue was not too eye-catching, put it in a pile of clothes, he didn't say, I wouldn't look at it a second time.

I frowned slightly: "Why did you choose this set?" ”

"Simple, generous, and sturdy." He glanced at me, lowered his head again, but seemed a little cramped: "You are white, you look good in this color." ”

Looking at his squirming appearance, I was silent for a while, a little bit unsmiling, then turned around and said to the shopkeeper, "That's it, wrap it up for me." ”

The boss agreed, and hurriedly asked the man to wrap my clothes for me, I took the paper bag, turned around and handed it to him, he did not complain, after taking it, he picked up the previous bags, brocade boxes, and went out of this silk village with me.

The two of them went back and forth like this for a long time, and by noon there were too many things for him to take, but I still refused to stop, and went to a tooth shop that specialized in renting carriage servants, hired a carriage, and also hired a coachman of a rather old grade, who looked honest and honest, signed a contract for half a year, paid the front money, and asked them to wait for me at the entrance of Jixiang Village tomorrow.

After walking out of the shop, I breathed a long sigh of relief.

Liu Qinghan followed behind me, but he was silent all the time, just watching me deal with these things back and forth, and at this time I looked back at him: "Are you tired?" ”

He was noncommittal, and only said, "How can you walk faster than me, the one in new shoes, in old shoes?" ”

I laughed, "Old shoes fit." ”

He couldn't help but sigh and shake his head.

This time, I didn't embarrass him, the two of them found a teahouse to drink tea, but also rested, and when they entered the private room, they felt a burst of coolness, and he was finally relieved, put everything aside, and sat there to wipe his sweat.

I sat down next to him, looked at him sweating like rain, smiled, took out a handkerchief and handed it to him, and said softly: "You better take off that mask, it's sweaty like this." ”

But before I could finish my sentence, he immediately straightened up and stepped back.

Seeing that I was holding a handkerchief in my hand, instead of taking off his mask, he seemed to be relieved, but looking at my somewhat stiff face, he coughed lightly and said, "It's okay, get used to it." ”

“……”

I was silent for a moment, did not speak, but still handed the handkerchief to him, he looked at it, took it, carefully wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and then squeezed the handkerchief in his hand.

I glanced at him and didn't say anything, just turned my head to greet the shopkeeper and brought some refreshments in.

The two of them drank tea while sitting in the shade, the cool breeze blew in through the cracks in the bamboo curtains on the windows, and they could hear the lively sound of the street outside, which was very pleasant. He took a few sips of tea, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked back at the mountains of brocade boxes and paper bags that we were piling up on the side, and couldn't help but smile: "You can really buy it." ”

He smiled wryly, "You can really buy it." ”

I laughed and said, "After so many years, I've almost forgotten the feeling of spending money like dirt." ”

He couldn't help but laugh too.

I continued, "But don't worry, it's all a small fee, but it's necessary on the road. You see, I haven't touched the money you gave me. ”

As he spoke, he shook the purse on his waist.

After following me out for so long, he is a careful and sharp-eyed person, of course, he already knows that I also have a lot of money on me, including the banker tickets that Rue Xiang gave me that cannot be used for the time being, and I only took one of the large stacks of silver tickets that Uncle Ai gave me to use it out, and it has not been used up yet.

This time, he finally asked, "What are you going to do with so much money?" ”

I smiled, "Posing for the score." ”

"Swing the score?"

I nodded, and then said, "Although I am going to the capital and I also want to find the wonderful words, this qiē must not be at the price of me re-entering the palace and staying by the emperor's side." I looked up at him and said calmly, "I left him back then, and paid the greatest price in my life, I won't, and I can't go back!" ”

His face sank slightly.

After a long silence, he said, "But, if the Emperor wants to find you—"

Without waiting for him to finish, I continued: "I know that he is the Ninety-Five, and if he wants to find a woman, he can take it by force." ”

“……”

"But, if he wants to find Miss Yan, it's not that simple."

“……”

He immediately seemed to understand something, his eyes lit up, and I said calmly: "So this time when I enter Beijing, I will no longer be like in the past, I will be alone everywhere I go, a weak woman, of course, others can bully as much as they want, I want to put on a score, there must be many servants who call and hug, and I want to appear as the eldest lady of the Yan family." ”

He said, "Well, if you need a guard—"

"I'll go back and hire the militia, you don't have to worry."

He looked at me for a while, as if he was smiling, and then as if he was crying and laughing: "How can you not be worried." ”

“……”

"How many things will happen on the road for a person like you."

“……”

"Even if you have arranged everything on the road, what about after you arrive in the capital? How do you settle down? ”

I laughed and shook the heavy purse again, "That's why I asked you for money." ”

He looked at me: "Huh? ”

"I'm going to go to the capital and buy a house."

"Ahh

"Miao Yan's illness, I heard the medicine elders all say that even if they can really practice the method of conjuring spirits, it will not be successful overnight, it will take a long time to recuperate, I will go to the capital to wait for her to get better, and find a chance to see her, or-" I pursed my lips and didn't finish my words, but continued: "The time is definitely not short, so I plan to buy a house in the capital." ”

“……”

"But you also know that from ancient times to the present, the land in the capital is the most expensive, and the money to buy a large manor in these places is probably only enough to buy a latrine in the capital."

He burst out laughing.

"So—"

He watched me shake my little money bag again, smiling, but also a little worried: "Your money should be enough, but if that's the case, your next life-"

"I'll figure it out."

He didn't speak immediately, but was silent for a while, and said, "Maybe, I can help you find a way." ”

I glanced at him, "What's the solution?" ”

"I have a house in the capital, a private house."

"......" I raised an eyebrow and looked at him with a complicated expression.

He looked at me and smiled: "You don't have to look at me like this, who can not have one or two such private houses as an official?" ”

"Where?"

"Near Tongque Terrace."

"How old?"

"Three in and three out."

My eyebrows are raised.

Although it is very common for officials to be able to buy private houses, not all officials have the ability to buy large houses in and out of the area near Tongquetai. I have been in the palace for so many years, and I have done Jixian Hall orthography, and I have been in the officialdom, and I know more or less where those things come from, and I looked at him with a smile: "Your popularity seems to be good." ”

He smiled: "If I don't be a good person, I won't be able to be an official." ”

When he said this, I was silent.

Indeed, when the water is clear, there are no fish, especially his status in the imperial court, if he can only do things at a glance, he is afraid that he will already make tens of millions of enemies, where is there still room for him to exert his strength.

So, I laughed a little and let him continue.

He thought for a while, and then said, "Although this mansion is my private house, I don't usually use it much, and only one family is guarding it for me." The man in that family is called Lao Zhu, and he is also a simple elder, I will write a letter to him, you bring it over, and after he reads it, he will naturally know. It's just—"

"But what?"

"I hope that house has not been found out yet."

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that he was now wearing a guilty body, and all the previous qiē had come to naught, and I don't know if this house will also be investigated.

He called the shopkeeper, asked for paper, pen and ink, and soon wrote a letter, sealed it and handed it to me.

"If you're lucky, maybe you can save it," he said. ”

I took the letter and smiled faintly, "I hope too." ”

After drinking tea and resting enough, the two of us went out of the teahouse, he still helped me hold those things, and the two of us walked all the way to the west of the market, a very lively area.

Here are some tooth shops, introduced to the servants of large families, outside their shop, there are some little girls, all in ragged clothes, with straw marks on their heads, that is, they are from poor families, and they come to sell themselves into slavery.

Liu Qinghan asked, "Are you—"

"It's too far on the road, I'm going to buy two girls to stay with me."

"Oh."

"Then you can help me take a look and pick a clever one."

He didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

Most of the people who came here to sell themselves as slaves escaped from Jinling, because of the disaster this year, but the taxes are extraordinarily heavy, not only the taxes are heavy, even the military service is heavy, many people are overwhelmed, they can only escape from home, but once they get out of the household registration, there is nothing, plus Yangzhou here a while ago after re-measuring the land, many squires and tyrants privately occupied the cultivated land under the unified jurisdiction of the imperial court, uncultivated wasteland is almost difficult to find, these people have no land, leave the household registration, can not survive, They can only be sold into slavery.

Liu Qinghan sighed, while watching slowly in the crowd, I know that he has been an official for so many years, and he is still very accurate in seeing people, and after a while, he pointed to a trembling figure in the corner and said to me: "That, it looks good." ”

I turned my head to look, and the man slowly raised his head and met my gaze.

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