Chapter 6: The Raven Sets Up (6)
Haha, success.
Qi Bei lay low on the eaves, watching the open fire in the room, the door opened, and Mrs. Bailing poked her head out in a long robe, and saw a peony on the ground as promised, just like a few nights ago.
Qi Bei's heart was simply happy, she came out, she received it!
“...... Who could it be?" Mrs. Bailing repeatedly looked at the blooming peony, without a clue, was it Shi Yu? Could it be that Shi Yu is back? No, sending flowers has never been Shi Yu's style, besides, why did he obviously go back to the house, but never showed up, and threw a flower to expose his whereabouts? So besides Shi Yu, who else came to deliver flowers every night? In Fenglin City, she was just a passer-by who was stumped and couldn't leave for the time being, and she didn't know many people.
Qi Bei heard Mrs. Bailing's muttering with a tailwind ear, sweet and sad, and thought: It's me.
There was no one in the courtyard except for the soldiers on duty at the door, Zhi'er rested, Xiaocui also fell asleep, Mrs. Bailing didn't stay at the door for long, the peony was inserted in the thin-necked white bottle, and went back to rest.
Pretty good. Qi Bei thought, although she didn't know that it was me, but I was still very happy, let's come back tomorrow night; the mountains and rocks near the boundary of the wind are still blocked, and they can't be cleaned up in ten days and a half months, and the carriages and horses in Jun'an City will not set off soon, and the number of times they may easily see her is getting less and less.
He was stunned, and thought to himself: Qibei, Jun'an's palace is no better than the loosely guarded old mansion, there are 18,000 rooms in it, the palace walls are higher than the other, can you get in?
Thinking like this, he was a little discouraged, slipped off the eaves, and went back to the temple sullenly.
The lark, which was hidden in the dark, flew over the sky that Qi Bei could not detect, and a bubble of bird feces fell on his hair badly.
However, the dark shadow, which flew higher and more agile than the lark, skimmed by.
Qi Bei seemed to hear the sound of "Ga-", which sounded miserable, and looked at the sky. Of course, he didn't see anything.
In a dark corner, the lark, whose internal organs were all broken, died tragically.
The black crow spread its wings and skimmed over the doorway of Lady Bailing, dropped the dead bird on the threshold, and then docked on the branch of the old mansion, its paws dripping with blood, and remained motionless in the dark.
Behind the bright eyes were hundreds of round, bright eyes.
A large group of crows came down in the night, one, two, three, four...... All stared at the unconscious Lady Bailing who closed the door of the house.
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The second lady who left the country brought soup and personally sent it to the sickbed to take care of Mrs. Taishi, who had been ill for a long time.
Mrs. Taishi, whose face was very gloomy, had already been tossed by the nightmare, her lips were chapped, and it seemed that she had not drunk water for a long, long time. In a trance, I saw that the second lady was about to open the lid of the bowl, and when she was seriously ill, she grabbed her hand vigorously and trembled: "Be careful...... Be careful with fish inside. ”
The second lady was very distressed, and hurriedly showed Mrs. Taishi: "Sister, don't worry, this is the lotus seed soup I cooked myself, I have seen it many times, and there is no fish in it." ”
"Really?"
"Nope. The second lady repeatedly confirmed, "Since I came to Fenglin City, I have watched the meals of my sister and my little son, and I am sure that there is absolutely no goldfish in the soup." My sister was frightened by the nightmare, for no reason, how could there be goldfish in the soup and water we drank. ”
"You...... You don't understand......" The weak Mrs. Taishi let go of her hand, which was so thin that only bones remained, and lay down in despair, "My son, how is my son?"
"Little boy, he ...... Alas, but I see that today he has a good appetite, and he has drunk a whole bowl of soup, and when this child is sick, as long as he can eat, he will definitely be cured. The second lady helped Mrs. Taishi up, fed her a few mouthfuls carefully, and persuaded, "Sister, you can't skip meals and drink." All the meals were really checked dozens of times, and there was no goldfish as my sister said. Sister, this is a heart disease. ”
Although it was determined that there was no goldfish monster in the soup, Mrs. Taishi still didn't dare to touch it, as if wherever there was water, a big goldfish would pop out of thin air, and she said while crying: "Sister, you don't understand ......"
"Alas, I don't know how long this storm will be going to be noisy. The second lady sighed, the scheduled return date had already passed, but unfortunately the border road between Fenglin and Huoli was still not completed, and she stayed in Fenglin City like a bird in a cage, of course she would be deeply disturbed, "But sister, don't worry, Master Taishi must have a way." Isn't there still a Star Tower here, isn't there another Golden Crow Divine Envoy? Everything will be fine. ”
"My Ji'er ......"
"Sister, don't worry too much, Ji'er will definitely be able to take care of herself. He is such a filial child, he must know how to swim, think about it, it is because it is inconvenient to send letters at sea, so there is no way to report safety to the family. In a few days, the letter will come. The second lady tried to maintain a calm and relaxed tone, and no one could say what would happen in the next second. Didn't Gongzi Yang, the eldest son of the Taishi couple, go to sea like this and die at sea, and now there are no bones.
"Where......'s Xin'er? It's okay. ”
The second lady lifted her spirits and said to her, "Okay." No, the land boundary is sealed, and Xin'er can't go to Jun'an City, so she spends her days fiddling with flowers and plants in her small garden. ”
"My daughter...... hearing that at least one of the three children was fine, Mrs. Taishi's gray face finally had a little smile.
"My daughter......" she said, "I want to see her." ”
The second lady hurriedly said, "I'll go and bring Xin'er." ”
"No...... It's not ......" Mrs. Taishi put her cold hand on the back of the second lady's hand, shook her head with difficulty, and pursed her chapped lips, like a dry land that has not rained for three years.
"Sister doesn't want to see Xin'er?" Since they are sworn sisters, of course the second lady also knows the deepest secret hidden in Mrs. Taishi's heart, she took a breath and asked tentatively, "Sister wants to see ...... She?"
"Right...... Over the years, the only one who hasn't been around is her......"
The second lady rubbed her hands nervously: "Sister, didn't you say that you would never mention the past again?"
"Sister, I'm afraid that one day I'll be gone, and I won't even be able to see the last one. Mrs. Taishi struggled and said, "She's still in Fenglin City, isn'......t she?"
"Don't think badly, you're still alive and well, what are you saying that is unlucky. The second lady couldn't help wiping away her tears and said, "Does Master Taishi know?"