Chapter Ninety-Three

Yuan Changqing's toes were lightly clicked, and he jumped down from the tree with Shanniang in his arms.

And until he landed, Shanniang had been looking at him so stunned. She didn't even know what harsh words to use to accuse him - the previous time it was a night break, this time it was better, she just went straight to the kidnapping......

Seeing her glaring at him so directly, Yuan Changqing hooked his eyes and said with a smile: "Now we can speak with confidence." ”

Only then did Shanniang react, and suddenly an elbow hit his chest, and said angrily: "Let me down!" ”

Yuan Changqing shrank suddenly, and he didn't know if he was hurt by her elbow, or if he was snickering. He didn't listen to her and let her down, but grabbed her and got under the tree, and whispered, "You're not heavy." ”

As she spoke, Shanniang smelled a distinct smell of wine wafting from his mouth. She was stunned and looked up at Yuan Changqing.

By this time he had straightened up. Moonlight shone through the sparse, broad leaves of the magnolia tree, casting mottled shadows on his face. In the uncertainty of light and darkness, his eyes were so bright that people were frightened, and if you looked closely, you could see that his cheeks were very red and suspicious.

"You, drunk?" She asked.

Yuan Changqing was silent and stared down at her.

After coming out of Shanniang's house, for some ulterior purpose, he pulled Zhou Chong to drink again. And after a period of side knocking, he finally asked him to confirm that Zhou Chong really had something that he shouldn't have for Shanniang. This couldn't help but make him feel remorse and annoyance, and Zhou Chong said something one by one, "Thirteen said that you are an expedient measure......

Yuan Changqing has never been a person who is willing to confide in others. He even felt that telling others what was in his heart was like stripping himself naked and exposing himself to broad daylight, which made him feel ashamed, embarrassed, and insecure. He couldn't tell Zhou Chong what he really thought, so out of revenge, he poured Zhou Chong unconscious. And although his alcohol consumption was exercised by several uncles since he was a child, because of the depressed breath in his heart, he lost control for a while, and unconsciously drank a few more sips. But if you want to say drunk......

"Nope." He replied to her, and gently laid her down—not on the ground, but on a branch.

Shan Niang was startled, subconsciously grabbed his shoulder, and looked down at the empty ground under her feet. Only then did she realize that her feet were naked—her shoes had fallen upstairs...... Not to mention that she still got up in the middle of sleep, and now she was wearing only a pajamas...... It's also a shame that she was afraid of the cold before, so she temporarily pulled a coat and put it on.

And it was he who had seen her more wolfish with his own eyes, and it was he who had personally helped her pick up the bones of her injured leg, so that for no reason a big man could see her bare feet...... It's still a little unacceptable to Shanniang.

As soon as she looked up, she happened to see Yuan Changqing's eyes falling directly on her feet.

In the moonlight, her feet looked unusually white.

Shanniang was suddenly embarrassed, and shrank her feet suddenly, but she almost fell off the tree. It was also thanks to Yuan Changqing who reached out to support her in time.

She took the opportunity to pull the hem of her clothes to cover her feet, raised her head and glared at Yuan Changqing angrily, "Look at what!" Don't you understand indecent behavior?! ”

Yuan Changqing looked at her and blinked silently. In fact, he really wanted to say, you are my daughter-in-law, what can't you watch...... However, he was not born to practice the kind of flamboyant skills, so he lowered his eyes, said "oh" very honestly, and then took a step back in a proper manner.

Bishan Niang was sitting on a branch at this time, and Yuan Changqing still picked a branch that was not very thick very badly. As soon as he retreated so suddenly, Shanniang felt that she was not leaning on all sides for a while, and she was busy reaching out to grab him.

Then she saw a smile flash in his eyes. She immediately understood that he was deliberately taking revenge on her "indecent" words just now.

"Let me go, don't mess around!" She tugged at his arm and whispered at him.

"It's cold on the ground." He said with a smile.

"Then send me up!" She let out another low roar.

Yuan Changqing only bent his eyes and looked at her with a smile but did not answer.

She was annoyed, "What the hell are you trying to do?!" ”

When she was angry, her voice became a little louder uncontrollably.

"Shh Yuan Changqing hurriedly leaned over and put a finger on her lips.

Shanniang was stunned, and Yuan Changqing was also stunned. Then his eyes flashed, and he let his finger linger on her lips for about a moment as if he had no intention of it, and then withdrew it as if it were all right, and whispered, "Be quiet, don't alarm the night watchman." ”

Shanniang, who was blinded, couldn't help but roll her eyes, "You're not afraid of alarming people if you kidnap me?!" ”

"It's fine," he said, with a hook at the end of his eye, "I've got good ears, and if anyone looks for you, I'll send you back again, and I'll keep you from being discovered." ”

"Just because no one finds out doesn't mean you can do it!" Shanniang said angrily.

"Can't you?" Suddenly, he approached her. The smell of alcohol on that body suddenly alerted Shanniang for a while.

"You...... Half in the bag! She said.

He lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment before he said, "No." After a pause, he added, "At least not so drunk that you don't know what you're doing." ”

Shanniang was silent, and always felt that it was best not to ask in detail about this sentence. So she asked, "What are you doing here at such a late hour?" ”

"I couldn't sleep for a while, I wanted to come out to relax, but I didn't expect to meet another person who didn't sleep in the middle of the night."

As he spoke, a smile tugging at his lips.

The smile made Shanniang drop her eyes and be silent for a moment, and then suddenly flipped her left hand. In his left hand, there was the small porcelain vase he had just stuffed into her.

"What is this?" She asked.

"Sobering pills." Yuan Changqing said, "It is very effective in relieving hangover and headache. ”

Shan Niang suddenly narrowed her eyes, stared at his face and said, "How do you know I have a headache?!" Or is it ...... Did you peek out the window and we chat?! ”

Yuan Changqing was stunned, and his smile suddenly closed, which made Shanniang want to push the corner of his lips to restore that smile for no reason......

"I ...... That's not what it means......" It was then that she remembered that she had seen his boat drift downstream......

"Where are you going?" She asked, digressing the subject.

"Just hang out." He said.

"And then it was parked under my window?!" She punctured his lies.

Yuan Changqing's eyes drooped, and after a while, he raised his head, looked at the porcelain bottle in her palm and said, "If you have a headache tomorrow morning, ask the maid to take a pill with water for you, the effect is better than buying outside." He added, "This is my master's own match." You know...... Oh, you don't know, my master is a good drinker. Without waiting for Shanniang to answer, he said, "You probably don't know that my master is not only a monk, but also a very good doctor. ”

Finally, his skills in this crooked building were full, and Shanniang finally asked him to take the wrong topic, and asked him: "Your master, is that ......?"

"Hmm. Old bald donkey. Yuan Changqing said the three words for her that were inconvenient for her to say, then looked up at her, and smiled again.

His smile not only softened his facial features, but also dyed his cold eyes with an unexpected childishness—he suddenly looked a little like Hou Rui in some ways.

Shanniang blinked, and then remembered that Yuan Changqing was actually the same age as her brother Hou Rui...... And she subconsciously always treats him as an adult......

"That's what you said, I didn't say it." She responded to him softly, and suddenly her heart softened a little inexplicably.

Yuan Changqing has always been very sensitive to other people's feelings, and even if he captures her, he is soft-hearted. Shan Niang sat on the branch, holding the branch with both hands. So he pretended that he was just casual, and quietly moved his right hand to her left, looking up at her, and corrected, "Your father always called him that." ”

Although he felt the heat coming from the edge of his palm, just as Yuan Changqing had always thought before, Shanniang's approach to him didn't seem to be as sensitive as to others, so she only tilted her head and asked curiously, "Isn't your master a monk?" How can you still be good for wine? ”

"My master often said that if you don't enter the world, you can't live in the world, and if you don't really experience something, you can't say you have experienced it."

When he said this, Yuan Changqing's thoughts couldn't help but drift slightly. In the past, he couldn't understand his master's words, and he felt that not everything had to be experienced from beginning to end before it could be called an experience, and many things were also experiences after a shallow taste. For example, his thoughts on Shanniang.

So, when he realized that he had his heart set on her, he didn't feel that he had to have any results with her, he felt that he had experienced that feeling, understood what it was like to like someone, and that was enough for him, he didn't need more. What's more, she had made it clear that she was not interested in him, and he also felt that she was not so important to him that she could not forget. So, every day he can rationally control himself not to think about her, but every midnight when he dreams back to her, he can always dream of her, and he still insists on his decision. It was he who inexplicably exchanged the reward given to him by the prince for the Western pocket watch, it was he who still silently followed her every move after sneaking back to Jiangyin, that is, he knew that she was counted because of him, and he still firmly believed that she was not so important to him......

Until she really encountered danger and got lost in the heavy rain of the mountains......

At that time, he was almost insane, and braved the heavy rain to search for her desperately in the dark, despite the danger of breaking his leg; He shouted "Thirteen" again and again, shouting so loudly that his voice was hoarse, and when he was afraid that she would never be able to answer him again, he suddenly realized that it turned out that unconsciously, she had become his indispensable person...... So after that, he played tricks...... He changed his mind, and he decided to grab her in his hands first.

She still maintained her inexplicable resistance to him.

And if she really resisted him, whenever no one else was there, whenever he was close to her, she didn't seem to hate him...... This could not help but give birth to a lot of hope in him.

"Thirteen."

He called her softly.

"Huh?" Shanniang looked up.

"Otherwise, marry me like this." He said.

Shanniang was surprised for a while, and looked at him for a long time before she reacted, suddenly frowned, and asked, "But what's wrong?!" ”

Yuan Changqing's right hand moved slightly, covering her left hand. He raised his eyes, looked at her and said slowly, "I...... I can't imagine what it would be like for me to marry someone else. Like I'm ...... I can only imagine what it would be like to marry you. I ......," he paused, "I think I'd rather marry you." ”

-- For Yuan Changqing, who is accustomed to hiding his thoughts, such words are already the closest words to confession.

Although he really wanted to be like Zhou Chong, tell her bluntly: I like you, I really want to marry you...... But such words were too straightforward for him to speak. If he stayed up and didn't say anything, he was afraid that Zhou Chong's little bastard would take the lead...... Although Zhou Chong broke off his thoughts, he could come up with hundreds of methods, but only if he occupied the territory in her heart first, it was the best way to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Only in this way can he truly have no worries......

Shanniang looked at him silently, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings in her heart. She naturally didn't know Yuan Changqing's inner struggle, for her, the Yuan Changqing he knew was always so decisive, and it was impossible to have any struggle and hesitation. Moreover, he has many advantages in him that she envies, such as his adaptability. Even if things don't go his way, he can always adjust himself quickly, and then create the most favorable solution for him from the most unfavorable conditions.

Obviously, she is not his most ideal choice, and now he has found a solution that can be accepted by him - I am afraid that it is the kind of way of getting along with husband and wife that he talked to Lin Ruxuan in the lecture hall at that time......

Perhaps, for Yuan Changqing, marriage is a dispensable thing. For him, there is no fundamental difference between marrying her or marrying someone else......

Once she also imagined what Yuan Changqing's reaction would be after she died in her previous life. No matter how she thought about it, she felt that he should not miss her, and even more likely, her death would be a relief for him. She felt that with his personality, he should not be able to continue the strings, because it was difficult for him to get along with people who did not fall in love. Maybe after her, he will have no one else, but, even so, he must be a happy widower......

Shanniang smiled silently. In her previous life, she must not be able to understand his thoughts, but in this life, she is miraculously able to understand him.

Yes, in fact, for him, if it weren't for the persecution of Old Madam Yuan, he would not need anyone in this life, he has his own world, and that world doesn't need others - just like she is just beginning to understand now, her world can also not need others, she only needs to save for herself.

Shanniang felt that in fact, Yuan Changqing did not have any expectations for marriage, and at this moment, she was actually like him, in her previous life, she had exhausted all her longing for marriage, and now she would rather pursue a quiet and serene life. And at least at this point, she and he are still in tune. If what he wants is a marriage that doesn't interfere with each other, that's exactly what she wants right now......

"Do you mean to change this 'expedient measure' to 'long-term solution'?" She looked up at him.

That's why things in the world are always so complicated and difficult to solve. When you start chasing the sun because of someone, maybe that person is turning to the moon because of you......

Not only did Shanniang misunderstand Yuan Changqing, but Yuan Changqing also misunderstood Shanniang, thinking that she understood his vague confession, she couldn't help but look at her with bright eyes and said, "Are you willing?" ”

Shanniang thought for a while, shrugged her shoulders and said, "Why not." And, exactly what you want, is what I want. "-- Do not disturb each other. Very good.

If Yuan Changqing hadn't been distracted by a thought at this moment, with his acuity, he should have been able to catch the strange gloom in her voice, but he was moved by lust at this moment, and his attention was all focused on his hand.

He took her hand, light to heavy, and then he took her hand away from the branch and pressed it lightly against his drunken cheek.

"I won't let you regret it." He looked at her and whispered as if he were vowing.

"I also hope I don't regret it." She muttered too.

She watched him put her hand against his cheek, but there was a strange sense of isolation in her heart, as if the person who was doing this was not Yuan Changqing, as if the hand held by Yuan Changqing was not hers......

Her blank eyes made his heart twitch slightly. For some reason, he felt that her expression at the moment was not only dazed, but also seemed to be a little sad. So he raised his left hand, put it over her cheek and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"What?" Shanniang blinked, still looking like she had never returned to her senses.

The dappled moonlight fell on her face, making it look like it wasn't even the size of his palm. Her eyes were originally elongated, but now they are even more slender when they are so blinded.

His fingertips brushed her half-drooping eyelashes, and found that her eyelashes were not as thick as his, but they were slender and surprisingly soft...... As soft as her heart......

He smiled, his gaze slowly moving down the bridge of her nose and onto her lips. Unlike her slender eyes, her lips were round and full, and even when she wasn't smiling, the corners of her lips were still slightly sunken, like a fresh and tender water chestnut......

Xu thought of "water chestnut" and couldn't help but make him tongue-in-cheek for a while. He swallowed subconsciously, the Adam's apple moved slightly, and his eyes suddenly became deep. His thumb followed his gaze, landing gently on the hollow at the corner of his lip......

It wasn't until she felt the fingertips brushing over her lips that Shanniang suddenly came back to her senses. She was startled and threw herself back, trying to avoid his hand, but she forgot that she was sitting in a tree...... It was also thanks to Yuan Changqing's other hand that was supporting her back, so she didn't let an upside-down onion fall from the branch.

"You ......"

She couldn't help but scream, but immediately called Yuan Changqing's palm horizontally and covered her mouth.

"Shh He said softly.

This is the third time!

Shanniang glared at him, raised her hand to grab his hand that was still covering her mouth, and took a bite of the edge of his palm......

Compared to the last time she bit him, this time it was much lighter.

Yuan Changqing's eyes flashed, and he suddenly held her hand with his backhand, pulled her hand to his lips, and gently bit her.

Shanniang: "......"

She never thought that he would be so childish...... Of course, at his age, he is still ......

Just as the two looked at each other silently for a while, there was a sudden sound from upstairs, "Girl? ”

Sanhe's head suddenly poked out of the window.

Shanniang was startled and almost fell again. Yuan Changqing hurriedly hugged her, and then the two of them silently raised their heads and looked at Sanhe through the not too dense branches and leaves.

It was also a shame that they hid under the tree, and from the upper floor, they could only see a faint shadow.

"Where did you go?" Sanhe muttered suspiciously, and retracted his head back into the window.

Seeing her shrink back, Shanniang was anxious, and reached out and twisted it again under Yuan Changqing's ribs, "You said you could hear the movement?!" What do you do if you call me now?! ”

Yuan Changqing smiled awkwardly. Didn't he just get distracted at that moment......

His fingers pressed her lips again, then he bent down to pick her up, leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Trust me, I never prepare for just one thing. ”

And his second preparation was to take her over the courtyard wall of Chunshen Garden. Putting her under the porch, he was just about to speak, when he suddenly heard a small sound of footsteps coming from the stairs, and Sanhe's voice calling "girl" in a suppressed voice.

Shanniang was afraid that she would see Yuan Changqing, so she hurriedly pushed him back, so she hurriedly ran up the stairs and blocked Sanhe, who was about to go downstairs, and said, "I'm here." ”

Sanhe breathed a sigh of relief, and asked curiously, "What is the girl doing downstairs?" ”

"Uh," Shan Niang rolled her eyes before she thought of an excuse, "I can't sleep for a while, so I can turn around casually." ”

"Barefoot?!" Sanwa pointed to her bare feet striding on the stairs.

Shanniang was embarrassed, "Ah, that's it, it was a little hot just now......"

"You can't go without shoes when it's hot!"

Fortunately, Sanhe was afraid of waking up the other girls, so he only complained softly and didn't say anything more.

When Shanniang returned to the east room, the north window had been closed by Sanhe. It wasn't until after Sanhe was disbursed that Shanniang had the opportunity to go back to the north window, quietly opened the window a crack, and looked downstairs into the Luomei River.

Then I saw that on the bank of the river, the boat with the lantern was still moored in its original place. Under the lantern, Yuan Changqing stood with his hands behind his back and was looking up at her window.

Shanniang's heart jumped, and she suddenly hid sideways in the corner. And the place on the back of his hand that he had bitten suddenly became a numb itch......