The noise of the night market finally dissipated in the sound of a gong, and the night was truly immersed in the earth, Xie Ruqing took a small sedan chair with a lantern on the top, and walked quietly in this dark night.

This small sedan chair is like a small and faint dawn in the dark night, and it is like a thin silver thread, slowly stretching out.

Its existence is incompatible with this night, it is like a bright ray of sunshine in the night, which is no longer so frightening in the darkness and dispels the darkness in people's hearts.

In such a dark night, Brown Sugar slowly came out of the street and walked to Xie Ruqing's small sedan chair, Brown Sugar lowered his head and asked:

"Master, let's just leave everything to Master Gao, do you want us to secretly let someone investigate."

"No need, although Gao Qi is ruthless, he is indeed famous for his promises, not to mention, he must be concerned about the affairs of our wife, Gao Qi's side, you don't have to worry."

"But, remember, go back and find some people with a good face, ask you to be trustworthy, and quietly place them in each room, and carefully watch their movements."

"Master, are you suspicious ......" Brown Sugar just wanted to tell his conjecture, when he heard Xie Ruqing gently knock on the wooden board in the sedan chair, so he immediately silenced and said:

"Yes, master, the year before last, Jiangnan Province just cultivated a batch of Kunlun slaves, you originally said that you were going to insert it into Fuxi Country, but on the side of Fuxi Country, you settled Qin Ye and Fang Ye last month, if Kunlun slaves passed, I am afraid that they will not be as good as Qin Ye and them, so it is better to ......"

"No, although Ah Qin and Ah Fang are shrewd, they are hard to beat with four fists, those Kunlun slaves are their hands, eyes and ears, no matter how anxious they are at home, they can't go beyond the state affairs, withdraw some of the people from the Qingzhou Palace family back to Beijing, and let them enter our mansion to do things."

"But the Gong family is not our henchman, this is the hand that we have finally inserted...... If so......"

"The Gong family is not stupid, we have found some eyebrows a few days ago, we can't fold our hands, besides, I have already made other arrangements for the Gong family, and it is better to act than our Kunlun slaves." Xie Ruqing turned the jade wrench in his hand and said casually.

"Yes, master, you are wise~"

"You don't have to compliment me, you don't have to go back to the house with me now, go to Chen Ji to buy a bowl and pot, Madame's hometown taste, the chef in our house doesn't look like it, Chen Ji has been a master for many years, you buy it back and give Madame a taste." Xie Ruqing opened the sedan curtain and said.

"Yes, the little ones will go."

After Brown Sugar got Xie Ruqing's order, it disappeared into the night silently as if it came.

The first rays of dawn quietly cut a line from the sky, and gradually became brighter and brighter, and it began to drive out the night, and let the darkness disappear.

As the dawn continues to grow, everything on the earth begins to awaken, and plants, trees, flowers, birds, insects, they all begin to come alive and prepare for the new one.

Xie Ruqing stood at the door of Hefeng Hall, glanced back at the first ray of brightness in the sky, then withdrew his eyes, and then pushed the door in.

At this moment, there is still a strong smell of Chinese medicine wafting in the main house, Gu Ruosu is still asleep at the moment, and did not notice Xie Ruqing's arrival, but Murong Shu, who did not sleep all night, stayed by Gu Ruosu's side, and found out Xie Ruqing's arrival at the first time.

"Brother-in-law."

"Well, you go back and rest first, my aunt has me to take care of you here."

"Yes......" Murong Shu didn't want to leave, but looking at Xie Ruqing's cold gaze, he didn't dare to say no, so he could only reluctantly leave Gu Ruosu's house, and secretly made up his mind in his heart, when Xie Ruqing went to the court, he came over again and stayed by Gu Ruosu's side.

"Why haven't you woken up after sleeping for so long, are you tired, hard work, marry me......"

"Let's sleep a little longer...... Just for a moment...... I've all come back from Gao Qi...... I have to wake up soon, so that I can rest assured......" After Xie Ruqing took off his robe and mask, he immediately sat down beside Gu Ruosu, grabbed Gu Ruosu's little hand, and kept rubbing it while babbling about his thoughts.

Xie Ruqing very much hoped that Gu Ruosu would wake up sooner at the moment, but Xie Ruqing was afraid that she would wake up Gu Ruosu and disturb her rest, so she kept her voice down while talking, until the ever-increasing dawn light entered the room, and she refused to stop.

I don't know how long Xie Ruqing has been muttering to himself, but I know that when the dawn intensifies, the sky becomes more and more beautiful: the color of the sky changes from ink to dark blue, and then dark blue gradually turns to light blue, and then turns pink, orange and yellow, the sun begins to appear in the sky, and when the light makes the whole earth brighter, the moment Gu Ruosu wakes up, Xie Ruqing also stopped muttering to himself.

"Hmm...... I'm so sleepy......" Gu Ruosu turned over sleepily and said.

Xie Ruqing couldn't hide the smile in his eyes at this moment, he watched Gu Ruosu turn over on the bed, and then, after doting on Gu Ruosu and putting his head on his knees, he gently patted Gu Ruosu's back like a child, and said in a joyful tone:

"It's okay, I'll have breakfast later, drink the medicine, let's sleep for a while, let you sleep well, and don't let anyone disturb you......"

"Hmm...... Good ......," Gu Ruosu replied confusedly.

But the quiet picture of these years was only half a moment, and I heard Gu Ruosu suddenly say: "I miss the fourth sister." ”

Xie Ruqing paused, and then said: "She will miss you too, she has been watching you from the sky......"

"My fourth sister is the nicest person...... Why don't good people live long...... Why is her daughter so miserable...... It's all my fault, why didn't I care about my sister's children......"

"It's not all your fault, the tiger poison doesn't eat children, who would have thought that the people of the Murong family are all inferior to beasts, and their own daughters and sisters are also willing to harm ......"

"For so many years, they have written to us, saying that Shu'er is doing well, and you want them to come to Beijing, but they have also repeatedly prevaricated and refused, if they really say that there is a mistake, it is also my fault, and they did not remind you in time that something is wrong......

"Shu'er, is she okay...... I want to meet her......" Gu Ruosu said in a muffled voice.

"She's okay, I accompanied you for a day yesterday, but you fainted, I don't know, I just let her go back, wait for her to go back and have a good rest, I'll call her to you again......" Xie Ruqing said with relief, but seeing that Gu Ruosu's brows were still tight, she continued:

"Murong Shu's deed of sale I have taken it back from the 'Butterfly Love Flower' and burned it, I will also handle the rest of the things one by one, no one will know, Jiao Niang is Murong Shu, in the future, Murong Shu will only be a relative of our Xie family, a guest - Gu Shu."

"Gu Shu?" Gu Ruosu wondered.

"Well, Gu Shu, she said, she doesn't want to be surnamed Murong anymore for the surname that makes her ashamed, she wants to take your sister's surname as her surname, use your sister's surname, do something big, and glorify the lintel of your Gu family."

"Hmm...... Truly...... Don't want the surname Murong...... Save the trouble for us...... But in the matter of changing the surname, do you have to ask the elders of the Gu family and the Murong family to ......?"

"Don't worry, I will arrange these things for her, you don't have to worry, just take good care of your body......" Xie Ruqing couldn't help but feel a little distressed when she looked at Gu Ruosu, who was constantly worrying about various things at the moment, and hurriedly interrupted, reassuring Gu Ruosu's heart.

"I asked brown sugar to buy you your favorite pot, a few days ago you said you want to eat, it happened that Chen Ji came to a master, wait for you to taste, the taste is good, if it's good, I let brown sugar buy it every day, please come back."

"Thank you......" Gu Ruosu said.

"Thank me for what, I am your husband, protecting you and making you happy is the most important thing in my life, as it should be, there is nothing to thank me." Xie Ruqing touched Gu Ruosu's head and said.

"You don't understand ......" Gu Ruosu sighed, alone in her heart: [I am not your wife, but I occupy your wife's identity, occupy her life, and enjoy the dividends and care you give......

"I don't understand, I just understand...... In this world, there is only you, only you...... It's my wife......" Xie Ruqing deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of "you" for some reason when she said this, as if she meant something.

But Gu Ruosu immediately shook his head, thinking that this was his own delusion......

But Gu Ruosu was afraid that Xie Ruqing would be suspicious, so he said again: "Nonsense, you are not only my wife...... You married one before me...... She also gave birth to a lot of children. ”

"Your relationship should be very good, at least, I remember the first time the third child saw me, he told me the story of your love with his mother under my coaxing...... What flowers before the moon, morning thrush...... It's not all of them......"

"I respect each other with Yu's family, but what the third child said about the flowers before the moon and the thrush in the morning, absolutely nothing happened...... At most, his mother and I once enjoyed the moon together on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival with our children.

Moreover, the third child, this kid looks at things quite simply, and will associate some of the things that he doesn't have, you listen to what he said, but you really wronged me. ”

"Nonsense, although the third child is a person in the military camp, he is not as twisted and circumstantial as you civilian officials...... But it's not stupid, why is it quite simple, and I like to associate it...... It's clear that you have ......a weak heart," Gu Ruosu muttered.

"I'm never weak-hearted, these things, when the third child comes back for the New Year, I will ask him in front of you, what he saw when he was a child."

"The third is coming back? Why didn't you say it before? Gu Ruosu suddenly opened her mouth in surprise, her attention at the moment had already shifted from Xie Ruqing's emotional problems to the third child of the Xie family, for no other reason, she had already seen all the children of the Xie family, but she had never seen this Xie family Sanlang who guarded the frontier all the year round, so she was inevitably quite curious.

"Well, I'm coming back, I've been guarding the frontier for ten years, it's time to go back to Beijing, it's time to go back to Beijing, it's just that there are too many things in the house recently, and I'm busy preparing for the reception etiquette, so I haven't had time to say it."

"That Rushi knows, she is a weak woman with two children, and her husband is not around, which is quite pitiful."

"I should know that the third child values his family the most, and he has already repaired the book for Ru's."

"Well, that's good, forget it, I won't ask him about you when the third child comes back."

"Why?"

"Cut, you're his father, does he dare to say you're bad...... Moreover, the reunion of the family is the most important, so what's going on with this?

Besides, I'm not...... Original...... I'm not a small-bellied person. Gu Ruosu was about to tell the "truth".

At this moment, Xie Ruqing darkened his eyes and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, but continued to pat Gu Ruosu's back again and again, coaxing the only heart in his life......

Xie Ruqing and Gu Ruosu on the other side were unable to be completely honest with each other at this moment, and there were some little-known sorrows.

And Rushi, who was alone in the empty room on the other side, just received a letter from Xie Jiazaburo Xie Haojia as Xie Ruqing said, and became ecstatic.

"My wife is personally enlightened, everything is fine at the border, only there may be arrangements for the march in the near future, the matter is critical, involving the major matter of our country's espionage, so I will not talk to my wife in detail, in the future, I am afraid that I will not be able to communicate with my wife for a while, I hope that my wife will not think, live well at home, I will try to return as soon as possible, I only hope that on the day of return, my wife can personally take the osmanthus wine under the locust tree, and I will get drunk and rest." Xie Changdong stood on the edge of Ru's couch, reading the letter for Ru's in a milky voice.

After reading it, Xie Changdong threw himself into Ru's arms with great joy and said, "Mother, my father said that he will try to return early to drink with you, does it mean that he is coming back!" I miss him so much! ”

"Yes, yes, I guess I'm coming back soon...... Ordinary people change the guard at the border every seven years, and your father has been at the border for ten years now. Rushi caught Xie Changdong and said with a smile.

"Really! Then I'll tell my brother to go when I get back! He must be happy, too! Xie Changdong said with a smile.

"Your brother...... By the way, why haven't I seen your brother come these days, didn't you tell me that you were sick, why, isn't your illness still healed? Rushi said with a frown.

"Mother...... In fact, my brother's illness is pretending to be ....... ”

"What?! Your brother has never lied!? But what happened, is there someone in the ethnography who bullied you? Rushi anxiously grabbed Xie Changdong's shoulders and asked nervously.

Xie Changdong shook his head and said, "No, no, everyone is very good to us, Mr. is also very good, Mr. likes my brother the most, and says that my brother is smart!" ”

"Then your brother can tell you why he is pretending to be sick?" When Rushi heard Xie Changdong's words, he softened his face and asked as calmly as possible.

"Hmm...... I do not know...... My brother only said...... Just say...... Let me study well with him...... After that, take my mother to be an official somewhere else! Get away from here. ”

"Your brother is a fighting spirit, you have to learn from your brother, but how does he know that the world is so big, but there is no good reason for Kyoto~" Rushi said with a smile.

"Cut~ Brother has no fighting spirit~" Xie Changdong snorted and said.

"Oh~ Where is there no fighting spirit? Your brother's homework is all first-class~ How can you be like you, every time you are passable~" Rushi poked Xie Changdong's little head and said with a smile.

"Hmph~ Mother, you don't know, my brother asked me to study hard every day, but he has been alone recently, he hasn't studied well, he just got up today, and he went to find his uncle, saying that he was going to borrow a few miscellaneous books to read, but I followed my brother, and my brother obviously went out! And I'm still going to find the grape sister next to your mother before! They also went into the house together!

Sister Grape makes wine-stuffed meatballs are the most delicious! My brother must have gone to eat alone behind my back!

I saw it with my own eyes...... Why don't you take me along...... Mother! You're going to have to breathe this for me! Xie Changdong puffed up his little bun and said coquettishly.

Rushi's face stiffened when he heard this, but he still smiled and said: "Okay, okay, your brother wants to come out to find your grape sister to be delicious, maybe it's just a little bit to catch up on the old days~."

You~ I think about eating, drinking, and having fun every day, I can tell you, if you don't study well in your schoolwork...... I'm afraid that when your father comes back, he will find out, your father is going to beat you up, listen to your brother, studying hard is the right way......" Rushi touched his little son's head and said.

"By the way, Dong'er, when your brother comes back, let him come to his mother's place, and say that his mother has something to look for him, and let him come no matter what." Ru's tone was still gentle, but there was a bit of indisputability in his tone, which made Xie Changdong frown uncomfortably for some reason.

But Xie Changdong still said obediently: "Yes, mother, don't worry, even if you tie up, I will tie my brother in front of you!" ”

"Good~" Hearing this, Rushi smiled with satisfaction and said, and then set his eyes on the locust tree in front of the window, his eyes glowing, as if he was expecting something...... However, when Xie Changdong left, he silently dimmed his gaze again, and seemed to inadvertently cut off the Buddha beads in his hand.

"Mama, you go and give the grapes a few dollars, so that she can live her life well, since she is out of the house, it is best not to have contact with the people in our house anymore."

"Yes, Grape has recently become a mother, and she should be able to understand your good intentions, Madame."

"I hope so, too, and if she doesn't understand, I'm going to be very distressed." When Rushi said this, he rubbed his temples as if he was distressed, and then said:

"By the way, Mama, I heard that the girl brought by the little uncle went to the courtyard of the Duchess of the Kingdom, and made the mother-in-law dizzy.

"Xu was beaten up, Grandpa Guo is not a good-tempered person."

"Alas, it's a poor girl, wait for someone to go back to our uncle's yard, go and send some plasters, just say that it is some of our hearts, and mention a few words to her, let her work harder, let the sixth master work harder, mother-in-law is the most soft-hearted, and she can be a family in the future."

"Madam, you are kind, why don't you call someone over to chat with you about the Buddhist rites, copy the scriptures, and pray for the Duchess of the Kingdom?"

"That's not necessary, just copy the book by me, so that I can show that I am sincere." Rushi squatted down, picked up the Buddha beads scattered around, and said with a soft face......

(End of chapter)