Inside the White House.

Bai Zihao approached her mother, with some mysteries, "Do you know where Bai Yuhan went yesterday?" ”

The woman who was originally drinking tea put down the tea cup and looked calm, but she couldn't hide her smugness: "Aren't you with Fang Qingzhu's kid?" If you want to talk about this incident, Fang Qingzhu has to thank me. ”

Bai Zihao snorted coldly: "Things are not as simple as you think~" When he didn't finish speaking, he also sat down on the side, and also picked up a tea cup, but seeing that the tea was cold, he hurriedly ordered the girl with heavy makeup who was beating Ma Suqin's legs on the side to pour him tea.

That Huiyu was so delicate that she gave Bai Zihao a white look, Bai Zihao also replied to Huiyu with a smile, the two of them had already been seen by Ma Suqin, Ma Suqin twisted Bai Zihao's ears, and said warningly: "Don't think that I don't know about the two of you, follow the rules, don't cause trouble, offend me as a child, offend your father is not up to you, in fact, you also know that an illegitimate child is no better than the relatives in the family, who does he favor in his heart, but he doesn't say it explicitly, Don't you know that your father feels that he owes her too much in his heart, and intends to make up for her with his future money? Who will inherit his family business in the future? ”

After speaking, Ma Suqin sighed, but Bai Zihao drank the tea that Huiyu had just brewed without paying attention, and was calm: "But what would my father think if he knew that Bai Yuhan had stayed with that painter all night?" ”

"What you said is true?" Ma Suqin suddenly became interested, and her expression suddenly became excited.

"It's true, when I went to the inn yesterday, I accidentally saw the painter carrying the unconscious Bai Yuhan away, and then I inquired from the inn where Fang Qingzhu was, and his face was painted in a mess, and he was vigorously untying the strips of cloth that tied his hands and feet, you didn't see his embarrassed appearance, the belt of his trousers was broken by the painter, and he could only carry his pants."

Huiyu laughed out loud on the side, seeing that Bai Zihao and his wife were looking at him, he was a little embarrassed for a while, but suddenly thought that this was an opportunity for him to perform.

She then said respectfully in front of the two of them: "I have thought of a good idea, and I can grasp Miss Bai's handle even better, I can follow her after she goes out, and then tell you her whereabouts for a day, and tell the master when I find a good time." ”

"That's a good idea." The two spoke in unison.

"Reward you well when it's done." Ma Suqin said with satisfaction.

"Thank you, ma'am." Huiyu said happily.

Bai Qiuyue came back at noon, she had been a little apprehensive when she came back, and later she learned from the maid that her father had been busy with business these days and had no time to take care of the family's affairs, so she was relieved, but she felt strange that Ma Suqin did not ask too much.

When I came back to my room alone, my mind was full of pictures in the studio, and the time I spent with him was really beautiful.

I still remember that when the morning sun sprinkled into the studio, she found that the studio was a bamboo house, very elegant, and the gentle and moving woman hanging on the wall seemed to be smiling at herself, Bai Yuhan saw her, there was a kind of sincere envy, she had at least once got Liu Yanxi's heart.

And when I was thinking.

At this time, Qiaoyu came over, and she couldn't hide the excitement in her heart: "Miss, I thought you were gone?" ”

Bai Qiuyue asked with concern, "Where did you go the day I went out?" Why didn't I find you. ”

Qiaoyu's face was melancholy at this time, and her tone was hesitant: "I... Above... One day..."

Bai Qiuyue found a few more scars from the hand holding Qiaoyu at this time, suddenly realized something, and said coldly: "Who bullied you?" ”

Qiaoyu thought of the humiliation of that day, so she closed her lips tightly and didn't say a word, but tears couldn't help but flow out of her sadness.

Suddenly, Bai Qiuyue turned her back to Qiaoyu and said angrily: "I will tell you anything in my heart, because I understand that you are my confidant, and you are buried in your heart, and you don't tell me, it's okay, I hurt you in vain." ”

Qiaoyu shook the placket of Miss's clothes, but Miss didn't care.

Qiaoyu sighed, and then recounted the story of that day, but when she narrated it, her face appeared with helplessness and haggard that should not appear at this age.

On that day, I was cleaning in the courtyard, and suddenly I heard coquettish and playful words in the young master's room.

At that time, I panicked and accidentally dropped the basin on which I sprinkled water on the ground. Unexpectedly, when he was about to leave, the young master suddenly opened the door, and Qiaoyu saw the young master and Huiyu appear in front of him in disheveled clothes, and her mind was blank.

"Say! How much are you eavesdropping on outside? The young master asked lukewarmly.

"Nope." Qiao Yu just wanted to resist but was grabbed by Huiyu's hair, and her vicious words were in her ears: "Look at her, is she the same as her cheap master, what do you hear, what are you arguing about?" Qiaoyu couldn't tolerate her slandering Bai Qiuyue like this, so she took a bite of Huiyu.

Huiyu was bitten by her very painfully, so she slapped her with her hand and knocked her to the ground.

Qiaoyu glared at her viciously on the ground, but she didn't expect this glare to make Huiyu even more rampant, she actually proposed in front of Bai Zihao: "I guess she shouldn't have met a man to like eavesdropping so much, young master, it's better ~" She whispered in front of Bai Zihao.

Qiaoyu understood that it must be an obscene idea, so she immediately got up from the ground and was about to run away.

Unexpectedly, he was subdued by the three family members called by Bai Zihao.

"Yang Tian, Gu Yi, Lu Dan, the three of you must have never tasted the taste of a woman~" He winked and motioned for them to drag her down.

Qiaoyu recognized them, they were notoriously scoundrels, and they were helpless to work in Baifu because of gambling, but they followed the young master and did all kinds of evil.

Qiaoyu knew what was going to happen next, she kept breaking free, constantly howling, but in exchange for the desire of the three of them to conquer, they dragged the Baifu to a place where the fire had become a ruin because of the fire in the past.

"Help!" She felt the pain, she struggled to push away the man who was pressing on her, but her strength was finally unable to withstand the coercion of the three people, she grabbed with her hands and kicked with her feet, but in exchange for their violent beatings.

The matter ended with Yang Tian's panic, "It's very evil here, I always feel that there is something." ”

"It's that you think too much, what can you have, it's just the wind." Although Lu Dan said this, his voice was also trembling, and he seemed to hear a woman crying or a cat meowing in his ears.

"Let's go. Have you forgotten that incident that happened years ago? Gu Yi lifted his pants and got up in a panic.

Qiaoyu's heart was about to despair, and her consciousness began to fall into a coma, as if she saw a woman in red floating in the sky, singing in mourning.

"If Aunt May hadn't helped me that day, I wouldn't have been saved. They have already succeeded in it. Qiaoyu couldn't help but cry when she fell into a painful memory just now, and her expression turned pale.

"Fool, where did Aunt Mei come from, maybe someone who dried the red clothes there caused a reverie." Bai Qiuyue hugged Qiaoyu distressedly, what a blow to a girl like this, and Qiaoyu was the closest person in Baifu except for her mother, she couldn't care about it.

"Qiaoyu, they are really too deceitful, I will seek justice for you!" Bai Qiuyue said angrily.

The chill of the faint moonlight poured between the strings.

It's about to be half a moon, and the moon at night is big, like a round mirror, but it is laughing at the broken mirror in the world that cannot be reunited.

In the distance, there was the sound of the flute again, she was stroking the piano with the sound of the flute, she couldn't know if the painter would still borrow wine to kill his sorrows like yesterday, but she knew that he must be missing the old man at this time, but today's flute sound seemed to be even more sad.

Qiaoyu walked with her side, and suddenly changed her face: "Miss, it's late at night, aren't you still sleeping?" ”

"I don't want to sleep yet." Bai Qiuyue noticed Qiaoyu's strange appearance, and when she looked at Qiaoyu again, she was already pale, and when she was puzzled, Qiaoyu suddenly took Miss's hand, pointed in the direction she wanted to go, and said in a trembling voice: "Miss, don't go any more, have you forgotten the ruins?" ”

Bai Qiuyue naturally remembered that the original piece was not a ruin, but the mansion of the Bai Mansion, but because of the fire many years ago, it became a ruin.

And such a gentle and lovely woman was buried in it. She probably didn't think that the wedding that a woman was looking forward to the most in her life would eventually become her funeral.

Her name is Tang Yumei, when she first came, she was still the little girl who sold herself to bury her father, her pity was due to the fact that she was bought back by her father, after entering the White Mansion, she was gentle and graceful, diligent and diligent, and loved embroidering plums, Bai Qiuyue was still a child, I saw the plum blossoms she embroidered, each real and beautiful, just like her character.

She impressed her father and became the third lady of Thana. He also built a house for her, and on the day of the wedding, the bride was alone in the new house.

And the father was drinking with people in the old house, and the tragedy happened.

A fire that burned everything. No one heard her heart-rending cries inside, and by the time she found out, it was too late.

's mother is such a gentle and obedient person, and she usually treats her well, but on that day, due to her lack of health and heavy worries, she did not attend the wedding, so it became a reason for Ma Suqin to frame her for arson.

When she was a child, Bai Qiuyue often saw her mother's tears, and she often saw her sad eyes, but she didn't understand her thoughts. Eventually, my mother planned to take refuge in Buddhism.

When she left, what she saw was Ma Suqin's cruel ridicule of herself.

She swore that if she had a chance to come back, she would definitely tear Ma Suqin's ugly face in front of her father.

In addition to helping Qiaoyu, she also wants to give her mother justice.

The moonlight shone in through the screen window, and Bai Qiuyue was inevitable.

Thinking about the past, I can't sleep.

Maybe the flute was too sad, Bai Qiuyue had a very bizarre dream at night.

At the beginning, it was also under the moonlight, but this moonlight had an indescribable feeling of drowsiness, in the moonlight, a dark blue orchid grass glowed with a strange light, and suddenly there seemed to be a light split between heaven and earth, the orchid grass was gone, and he seemed to be in his bedroom, and then he heard a woman's lament.

Leisurely, as if in reality, and like in a dream, she saw the wind blowing the door open, blowing a gust of cold wind, and then, the light yarn was blown up, and a figure stood in the light yarn, she walked closer and closer, and couldn't see her face clearly, but saw her holding a plum, it was red, like blood, no, it should be blood, it was dripping down, and she had an intuition to tell Bai Qiuyue that the person was the dead Tang Yumei, and Bai Qiuyue heard the person sigh softly.

"Is it Aunt May?" Bai Qiuyue asked timidly.

"It was, it wasn't." There was a touch of poignancy in the man's soft tone.

"Do you have any grievances?" Bai Qiuyue continued to ask.

Suddenly, there was a sneer, and the woman's tone was full of hatred: "Time has passed, but my heart is unwilling, my hatred has long been buried, I just hate, I hate that I shouldn't have come to this place in the first place." The purpose of my visit is to tell you that you can't stay here for a long time, you can't stay for a long time~"

"Did Ma Suqin kill you?"

"No, who else would she have! She set me on fire! She ruined me! Her tone became extremely strong, and suddenly a raging fire broke out, and the woman cried out in a burned voice, and in an instant disappeared without a trace.

Bai Qiuyue was shocked by the strong red of the fire, and suddenly woke up.

She hated Ma Suqin more and more in her heart, and she was also thinking about how to deal with her.

Huiyu was a little uneasy when she went to Bai Qiuyue's bedroom. When I got up in the morning and walked around the garden, I didn't expect to meet Bai Qiuyue, only to see her expression indifferent, and her voice was cold: "You come to my bedroom, I have something to ask you." ”

When she approached Bai Qiuyue's residence, she saw that she was lazily tending to the orchid grass by the window at this time, but this calm made Huiyu feel uneasy, but she still stepped forward calmly and asked with a smile: "I don't know why you asked me to come over, Miss, I can't stay here for long, and I will have to serve Mrs. later." ”

"It won't take you long, it's just trying to settle some personal grudges." Bai Qiuyue turned around and was looking at her with cold eyes at this time.

Huiyu's expression was abrupt, and then she said indifferently: "What should I do?" Didn't you just give you a slap in the face at that time? ”

Hearing her disrespectful words, she didn't expect her to be so arrogant, Bai Qiuyue first tried her best to suppress the anger in her heart, and just asked flatly: "What else?" ”

"Also," Huiyu obviously had some weakness, but she still raised her head high, looking proud: "If it weren't for your maid glaring at me like that-" When she just wanted to say that Qiaoyu deserved it, she was slapped hard by Bai Yuhan, and when she looked at Bai Yuhan again, Bai Yuhan's eyes were full of murder, and her tone was full of threat: "If you had suffered this, what would you do?" Do you know what that means for a girl! ”

Bai Qiuyue's aggressive momentum made Huiyu panic a little, but Huiyu shouted out the door as if she had grasped a life-saving straw: "Madam." ”

Bai Qiuyue let go of the hand that was holding her arm and looked out the door.

"I said why Huiyu is gone, it turned out that I came to you," her eyes saw Huiyu pouting aggrievedly, covering the scars on her face with her hands. Qi said: "Even if my maid does something wrong, it won't be your turn to teach you a lesson, you are becoming more and more arrogant!" ”

Bai Qiuyue ignored her and wanted to go out.

Her indifference was in Ma Suqin's eyes, and Ma Suqin was not to be outdone: "In the end, it is a wild girl who has grown up in the mountains for eight years, and she lacks parental discipline, which is really a matter of etiquette!" ”

When Bai Qiuyue heard her words, she didn't want to deal with it, and said coldly: "I don't know if you don't need to care about the number of rites, but the person who knows the number of rites knelt in front of his father like that back then and asked him to take him in In order to win sympathy, how many things did the people who knew the number of rites do that were contrary to the surface, and how could the people who knew the number of rites teach such a maid?" ”

This sentence was extremely ironic, Ma Suqin raised her hand and wanted to hit her, trembling with anger: "You~"

Bai Qiuyue forcibly restrained Ma Suqin's arm, "Also, if you know the etiquette, you will never beat anyone!" ”

Ma Suqin was completely crazy, ignoring her noble image as a lady, she was about to pinch her with her other hand, Bai Qiuyue naturally pushed her with her hand, this push, Ma Suqin simply stayed on the ground and splashed, she cried, attracting many onlookers.

And Master Bai stood between this group of people, his face was gloomy, and Bai Qiuyue knew that it was his father's reason that Ma Suqin couldn't get up on the ground.

Ma Suqin walked up to Master Bai and cried: "Master, look at what your daughter has become now, even I will beat her." ”

"What is the reason?" Old Man Bai said angrily.

"Didn't she ask me for what her mother had left behind, and I told her that there were a few things that had been given to those maids, and if she didn't come back, she would have to ask for them, and beat me." Ma Suqin said aggrievedly, and Huiyu also echoed on the side: "Yes, yes, I was originally going to ask me for it, saying that Mrs. must have given me a lot, but if I don't give it, she still beats me." ”

Bai Qiuyue knew that no matter how much she explained, it was useless, not to mention that her father's heart was already in Ma Suqin's.

But Master Bai, who originally came back with a gloomy face, did not pursue it this time, he just waved his hand weakly: "Suqin, return the things left by Zhenjing from the past to Yuhan, Yuhan, you come with me." ”

This time, his father's actions were unexpected, and probably Ma Suqin didn't expect that this matter would be solved so lightly.

When Bai Qiuyue followed her father into the house, she knew that the reason for her father's bad mood was the failure of the business, and seeing that the records in the account books were all loss-making data, her father's eyebrows were tightly locked, and he lamented again and again: "This year, due to a flood, this year's rice harvest is not good, and there are very few people who come to buy rice, and I have to pay the rent and pay the rice farmers, and if this continues, my store will not be able to open." Yuhan, do you have any ideas?"

Bai Qiuyue is naturally not good at doing business, but when her father asked herself, she thought about it for a while, and then said: "Since the weather is bad this year, resulting in a bad harvest, then other rice factories must be the same, you might as well understand the market first, and then make price adjustments, according to the proportion, rice farmers and field rents should be reduced a little, you can also buy rice at a low price in other places, and then sell it at a high price locally, because there are no floods in some places, it is really not good, and you can also merge with the winery." In this way, you can reduce the store fee, and you can also join forces with other rice mills to do business and discuss countermeasures. ”

These words made Master Bai suddenly realize, he didn't expect his daughter to have talent in this area: "Yuhan, you will run the rice factory in the future, okay?"

Just when Bai Qiuyue wanted to respond, Ma Suqin pushed the door and entered: "Master, did these words make you shake the decision that you once said to give it to Zihao?" ”

"I'm not interested either." When Bai Qiuyue saw Ma Suqin coming, she was immediately disinterested, and said indifferently. And then went out.

This day was very boring, she actually wanted to see Liu Yanxi, but because of the constraints of her family, she didn't go out.

I still remember the day before, Liu Yanxi let me go to get the painting when I was free.

But as everyone knows, the painting is gone. And Liu Yanxi has no intention of painting again in the past few days. It's strange that there is no flute today, and I'm still a little unaccustomed to it.

And the reason why yesterday's flute sound was bleaker than before.

It's because it happened yesterday.

When Liu Yanxi went back, he saw that the painting he had made with his heart was gone, and when he was looking for it, Liu's father came over with gold: "Xi'er, I bumped into fortune today, and as soon as I went out, a man dressed as a businessman gave me such a large sum of money, which is enough for us to use for a long time."

"Father, this picture of a moonlit night was made by a woman whom I promised. Why did you sell it without my consent? Liu Yanxi said angrily.

"Huh? How much do you sell to that woman as much as I sell? People always have to be realistic, don't blindly live in unreality, you know, you have to live, always muddy, will eventually harm yourself. Do you know that most people are laughing at you behind your back, and my old face has long been lost by you. ”

Father Liu was talking and talking, he was angry, and suddenly saw the portrait of Dai Xi hanging on the wall, and became even more angry, and he was about to burn a candlestick, but it was too late for Liu Yanxi to stop him, and Father Liu had already burned a corner of the scroll with fire.

Just as he poured out the water, Father Liu sighed: "She caused you to sink like this, do you know, many people think you are crazy, and you always play annoying tunes." The so-called people can't be resurrected after death, so you forget her, why bother yourself like this? You know that your painting skills are not as good as before, and you don't make as much money as before. Our lives have become difficult. ”

"Father, I know that today's song will be the last, and there will be no next time." Liu Yanxi said sadly, so he put on his cloak and went out.

Liu gradually became sad at the moonlit night, if he stopped playing the flute, would he reduce this pain by a few points?

He buried the flute. But I don't know if the love in my heart will be buried.