Chapter 42: Hiding the Heart
Wu Jin circled his two hands and closed them around his mouth, shouting loudly: "Leaf! ”
His voice was not crisp and loud before, but it was thick and low, resounding in everyone's ears, but it could not reach Mo Leaf's ears.
Cheng Ting immediately waved his two hands: "Leaf Wind!" Leaf! Dog! Dog! ”
Wu Jin also raised his hand, but his gestures were very elegant, his eyes were earnest, and he was gentle, Shi Qing couldn't help but look up twice.
After a while, Mo Lingfeng finally heard his shout and slowly beat his horse over.
Her face was covered with sweat, and the buckwheat blossoms had broken their waists and broken spines, and they had been flattened in the bridles of the horses, and she was obviously tormented.
Yin Nan followed her, meticulously swept over Wu Jin and the others, especially stayed on the Shi family brothers and sisters for a long time, and even did not let go of a plain silver twelve-line bridge hairpin on Shi Qing's head.
Once her gaze slowed down, it was like a knife, slowly cutting at them, Wu Jin didn't move, let her look at it, Cheng Ting's eyes were too wide, and he didn't pay attention to it, and the Shi family brothers and sisters felt that this gaze was too good, and couldn't help but hang their heads.
It wasn't until Yin Nan confirmed that there was no danger and indifferently removed his eyes that they regained their composure.
Several people dismounted and regrouped.
"Leaf," Cheng Ting patted her, "when did you come?" Why don't you wait for us, I fought Wang Jing's clam just now, you missed it. ”
The dazzling sunlight made Mo Lingfeng frown: "Who is Wang Jingclam?" ”
Cheng Ting said excitedly: "It's Wang ......"
He couldn't remember what Wang Jinghua's father was called for a while: "His father is Wang Zhizhou." ”
"Oh," Mo Lingfeng nodded, "I know, Wang Yunsheng's son." ”
Wang Zhizhou's name, she said it very naturally, like a person of the same generation as Wang Zhizhou.
Shi Yuan heard that her speech was not like an ordinary lady, and then looked at the red gold longevity lock around her neck, and after a little thought, he knew that she was the younger sister of Mo Jiedu's envoy.
No wonder he didn't shy away from Wang Zhizhou's name, and he heard that Mo Jiedu would take her with him wherever he went, hugging her on his lap and not leaving him for a moment.
Shi Yuan saw that she was full of chaos, childish, not as obedient as rumored, only a pair of Danfeng eyes, the opening and closing of the divine light was dazzling, and the charm was very.
He pulled his sister and greeted him respectfully.
Mo Lingfeng bowed his head, his gaze crossed from Shi Yuan's body, fell on Shi Qing, turned his head to look at Wu Jin, looked at Cheng Ting, had a moment of understanding, and fell back to Shi Qing.
She stared at Shi Qing for a moment, and Shi Qing was at a loss, thinking about dressing up in a panic, the more she thought about it, the more cramped she felt, and her face became red.
"Mo, Miss Mo......"
Mo Leaf retracted her gaze, and suddenly pulled out a pair of short hairpins from her head - today she combed her own hair, afraid that the rope would not be firm, and inserted a pair of short golden hairpins into the two horn buns.
The top of the golden hairpin is a lotus flower, which is unremarkable, but the center of the flower is inlaid with a southern pearl the size of a lotus seed rice.
She sent the pair of golden hairpins to Shi Qing: "Send you, a meeting gift." ”
Shi Qing was startled, and looked down to see that the golden hairpin was ordinary, but the two beads were smooth and crystalline, round and delicate, and they were good southern pearls at a glance.
Her face became more and more red, and her hands made a shadow: "No, no, no, thank you Miss Mo for your kindness - I can't accept it." ”
Shi Yuan didn't expect Mo Lingfeng to make such a move, so he was shocked and resigned.
Mo Lingfeng directly stuffed the golden hairpin into Shi Qing's hand, with a small face, and shouted very majestically: "Here you go!" Take it! ”
The two stones kept her in place, all frozen in place.
Mo Lingfeng said again: "I still want to ride a horse, can you go?" ”
The two Shi were dumbfounded, only shaking their heads, and Shi Yuan said goodbye again.
Cheng Ting's good intentions had already made Mo Lingfeng smash it to pieces at this moment, he rolled his eyes in his heart, and turned over on the horse: "Running horses." ”
Mo Lingfeng and Wu Jin also rode horses to follow.
When he was far away from the Shi family brothers and sisters, Cheng Ting took the reins and winked at Wu Jin: "Shi Qing is a very good girl, literate and reasonable, and can run a family, she is the same age as you, and she looks very good, what do you think?" ”
Wu Jin said very seriously: "Don't want to ruin Miss Shi's reputation." ”
Cheng Ting sighed: "Yefeng, you also think Shi Qing is good, you also give her two hairpins!" ”
"It's not." Mo Lingfeng replied casually, but did not say why.
Wu Jin couldn't help but glance at her, and vaguely guessed in her heart the reason why she gave the golden hairpin.
Shi Qing's family is poor.
People from poor families, even if they pick up their own decent, must show their feet.
What she wore didn't match anything, but it was the best thing she could wear.
However, Wu Jin couldn't help but wonder in her heart.
Did Mo Lingfeng give her a golden hairpin because Shi Qing's family was poor to save her from starvation, or did he use this golden hairpin so that Shi Qing and him did not have to be matched by Cheng Ting?
Or is it either both?
While he was speculating, Cheng Ting was still talking about the Shi family.
Shijiakong has a big mansion, and the inside is already a family with four walls, and the poor almost can't survive the year, and only after a set of golden silk nanmu shelves handed down from the ancestors have passed the year.
The Shi family's parents are now counting on Shi Qing to marry a good husband and get a sum of money, and what Mrs. Shi revealed to Mrs. Cheng is that regardless of age and family background, as long as she is not a concubine.
Shi Yuan didn't want his sister to marry unsatisfactory, so he quietly asked Cheng Ting, who had friends all over the world, and asked him to find someone with the same talent and appearance.
As soon as Cheng Ting heard the words "talented", he immediately remembered Wu Jin.
At this moment, Cheng Ting said bitterly to Wu Jin: "Shi Qing's grandfather is a great Confucian, and I heard that there are a few ancient books left for Shi Qing as a dowry." ”
Wu Jin said with a straight face: "If I marry a wife, I will love her with all my heart, and I will not seek other people's wealth." ”
Cheng Ting smiled evilly: "Then who do you love?" ”
Mo Lingfeng also tilted his head to look at him.
Cheng Ting giggled twice: "Oh, I know, you love Mr. Zhao, as soon as Mr. Zhao comes, you won't talk to us anymore, and I will do the same to Sister Huiran." ”
"Don't talk nonsense." Wu Jin suddenly had a nameless restlessness in his heart, raised his horsewhip, threw out a crisp sound in mid-air, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and shouted in a low voice: "Drive!" ”
The horse spread his hooves and rushed out.
The wind was whistling in his ears, the grass was everywhere in his eyes, the kindness of the Shi family brothers and sisters, Cheng Ting's matchmaking, and Mo Lingfeng's gift of the golden hairpin, all of which were stirred up, suddenly exploded in his mind, touching an extremely secret corner of his heart.
It was a secret that even he was aware of.
Just lifting it like this was enough to make him frightened and confused, and his momentary thoughts were so sinful that he hated himself.
He's going to crush his thoughts into powder.
In the hot sun, he greeted the delicate golden light and thought hard about his own cake shop.
Even if A-Niang wipes diligently every day, it is still cramped and cramped, and the oil stains are soaked into the tables, chairs, and counters, and can never be wiped clean.
He, his home, his family, these things he had, not to shame him, but they were real enough to destroy any delicate glass bead.
It's also enough to extinguish any dazzling throbbing.