In the middle of the night, a full moon hung outside the window, and Ji Shu sat on the warm kang, sewing a dark gold vein on his forehead by candlelight.

The forehead was roughly embroidered, and she bit the thread and put down the needle, lifted it up and looked at it in front of her eyes.

There is a word sewn into the gap on the inside of the forehead, as long as you turn it down, you can't see it, and no one can guess that there is such a secret love hidden here.

Ji Shu put down his forehead with satisfaction, yawned, and was about to go back to the room to rest, when there was a small sound outside the curtain, like the wind blowing open the door.

"Peach?"

Xi Tao was in the ear room at night, Ji Shu habitually called her to close the door, but she didn't know that there was no movement after shouting two voices.

She picked up the candle and was about to go to the ground, when the wick in her hand was blown out by a gust of wind, Ji Shu raised her throat and was about to shout, when she suddenly smelled the familiar cold fragrance.

Ji Shu tentatively stretched out his hand in the dark night, "General? ”

After a few breaths, a pair of warm big hands held her firmly, Qi Ye hummed in a low voice, listening to the sound was pleasant and satisfying, he was very happy that Ji Shu could recognize it every time, and the person who came was him.

"Why did the general come back so soon?"

Ji Shu put down the candlestick and groped his way up Qi Ye's shoulder, and under the touch, he could feel that he was wearing regular clothes, and it was the last wave of spring cold recently, and the clothes on his body still carried the cold temperature of rushing back.

Qi Ye lay on her neck and opened her mouth lazily: "It will take five days for the camp to return to Beijing." The school field is close, and I rushed back to ask for a favor, so that some people would forget. ”

"No, it won't." Ji Shu retorted in a low voice.

"I still need someone to accompany you every year."

“……”

Ji Shu was silent, she was keenly aware that something was not quite right, and sure enough, Qi Ye said lightly in the next sentence: "I still want to have a child at the age of the year." ”

"I didn't!"

Ji Shu understood, it turned out that Qi Chengxu's conversation with her that day was listened to by Qi Ye's people, and she knew! That damn bastard is not stingy and shouts under the corridor in all directions, talking nonsense, sooner or later his mouth will rot!

Ji Shu pursed his lips, "He pestered me, I just said a few nonsense to scold him, and he stopped, and those words were not counted!" ”

It's not counting, but it's harsh, listening to Qi Chengxu's mother-in-law, what treats her well, Qi Ye can't wait to shut him up forever.

He lowered his eyes and calculated: "There are ten days left." ”

"That's right! The aggrieved general will wait with me......" Ji Shu kissed Qi Ye's lips flatteringly, she also had something to worry about, with the Ji family behind her, it was impossible for her to completely get out of the Hou Mansion if she didn't make a big deal about it, the latest big day was the birthday of the Marquis of Wuding, and it couldn't be faster.

Ji Shu was wheezing unevenly when she was let go, she closed her eyes for a long time, and said in a dumb voice: "The general lights the lamp, I have something for you." ”

Qi Ye put her down, and it didn't take long for the candle to light up the boudoir.

Qi Ye had already seen the forehead wiping in the basket, and his first reaction was not too happy, he twisted his eyebrows and pulled Ji Shu's hand, looked at her palm, and said helplessly: "What are you doing in such a hurry." ”

"I didn't rush out in the past few days, I did it with Brother Yuan'er, and I just took it out and made up for it."

Ji Shu turned over the lining on the inside, and the word 'year' was trimmed with gold thread inside.

Ji Shu straightened up, put his forehead on Qi Ye, smiled like a flower, and said coquettishly: "Quietly stamp the general first." ”

Seeing Qi Ye's well-versed gaze, Ji Shu skillfully wanted to run, but he intercepted his waist and pulled him back.

After a kiss, Ji Shu's eyes were blurred, and they softened into a puddle of water, Qi Ye leaned over and buried it in her neck socket, and his low panting made Ji Shu tremble.

Qi Ye stood up, lowered his head slightly, kissed her neck reverently, brushed Ji Shuhan's forehead with his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Etiquette is still exchanged." ”

When Ji Shu fell asleep, Qi Ye hadn't left yet, and the two separated the bed curtain, one on the bed and the other under the bed.

The next day, Xitao came in and called her, Ji Shu also lifted the curtain and looked in the house, everything on the floor was clean, as if he had never been there.

Ji Shu was in a trance for a while.

"What are you looking for, Miss?"

Xi Tao soaked the cloth towel and handed it over, Ji Shu washed his face, shook his head and said, "It's nothing...... Did you sleep well yesterday? ”

"Somehow, the slave felt like she slept very hard last night, and she wasn't very tired......

Ji Shu lowered his eyelids weakly, and Xi Tao didn't know it.

She got up and dressed, Xi Tao cleaned up the bed and the warm kang on the side, picked up the basket, Xi Tao sighed lightly: "Why is the ink gold forehead embroidered by Miss missing?" ”

“…… I put it away. ”

Xi Tao did not suspect it, and after the master and servant cleaned up, the steward Qiao in the front yard sent the list of subordinates who were responsible for all aspects of Wuding Hou's birthday.

In the Changle Courtyard, Steward Qiao said respectfully: "The people in charge of this are all the old people in the house, and the young lady will order the little one to go down if there is no problem." ”

Ji Shu: "That's it. Hou Ye's birthday in the year of the Mandate of Heaven needs to be held in a big way, and various officials in the capital, the royal family and nobles, the current manpower in the house is not enough, you send someone to post a recruitment notice, recruit some temporary maids and servants to come back, take care of these days, pay the wages on a daily basis, and then go to the account to register. ”

"Yes."

Steward Joe took the booklet and went back to do it.

Ji Shu flicked the tea lid and looked at Xi Tao: "Have you arranged it?" ”

"The slaves and maids have all been ordered, Miss don't worry."

Two days later, a carriage stopped in front of the Marquis of Wuding's mansion, and three brightly dressed men and women came down from the carriage, the older one with a woman's bun, it was Qi's second wife, An Shi, and her two children.

Knowing that the second wife returned home, Ji Shu had to come to the front yard to greet people, and as soon as he arrived in the yard, he heard a loud noise in the hugging building:

"What kind of tea is this! It's bitter and astringent, you look at me and I just came back and can't take you, how can I?! You didn't take me as your master! ”

Ji Shu stopped, and after a few breaths, the little maid ran out with red eyes holding the teapot.

"Crying for what?"

"Young lady! The second wife thinks that the tea in the house is not good, so she wants the slave maid to make a Taiping monkey Kui to ......"

The maid is aggrieved and afraid, there are arrangements for making any tea in the house, where she wants to take whatever she wants, and this green tea is very precious, there is a shortage of money and silver in the house, and I don't know if there is anything in the library, even if there is, I don't know if I will give it or not!

Ji Shu: "Xi Tao, you go to the treasury with her and make some tea for the second wife." Let the people in the house remember that since the second wife's family has returned, they must be treated the same as Mrs. and Hou Ye, and they must not be lazy, they just have to pay for whatever they want. ”

Anyway, in the future, the money in the treasury of this mansion will be managed by herself, and she will spend it, what is the Taiping Monkey Kui of forty taels and one pound.

"The slave remembers."

Xi Tao led the girl to leave together, and Ji Shu entered the hugging building alone.

"Second aunt."

"Yo! Ji Shu, I haven't seen you for years! ”

An got up and walked forward, she was a short and fat woman, with a noble character all over her body, eight of the ten fingers on her hands with gold rings, and the remaining two with jade, I don't know which woman from the country gentry I thought it was.

It's just that he went to Jiangzhou to take office for four years, how can there be such a big change, you must know that four years ago, An's was still a search woman, in order to be in charge of the family, stealing oil and water from the public, and making the house unpeaceful, it seems that the errand of the second master Qi in Jiangzhou 'did a good job'.

The two didn't say a word, and the girl sitting next to her opened her mouth: "Sister-in-law, we've been away from Kyoto for four years, why haven't we seen my cousin?" He wouldn't have returned to Beijing now, would he? If you want me to say that my sister-in-law should loosen her mouth and let my cousin and sister Najiang come back, after all, my sister-in-law is the later one. It should give way. ”

Qi Chengxu, who had just stepped into the hugging building, turned white with fright.

"Qi Yaoyao, what nonsense are you talking about!!"