Chapter 20
When he saw the closed door of the Li family, Lingxiao's heart suddenly cooled half, and there were two cold white lions standing at the door, facing the street with their mouths open.
Xia Sheng held Lingxiao's hand, "How do we get in?"
Lingxiao pulled Xia Sheng up the steps, and the big red iron door was clasped with a sound, and someone came to open it in the middle of the door, and it was a family member who opened the door, and saw two young women standing outside the door.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Excuse me, does Li Maolian live here?" Lingxiao looked inside and asked the family.
"Live here, who are you?"
"Who's knocking on the door there?" a voice interjected, it was the son of the young old housekeeper Li, who is now the housekeeper of the Li family.
Butler Xiao Li came over and saw that there was a young lady outside the door, and he knew about the recent incidents of the second young master, and immediately guessed one or two.
"Who is the girl looking for?" "I'm looking for Li Maolian." ”
"You're a girl from Yanyu Building, right?" Steward Xiao Li was still very friendly to her.
Lingxiao was stunned for a moment and nodded.
"Please go back, the young master was locked up by the master, and he can't come out, and he can't see you. Saying that he was going to close the door, Lingxiao was in a hurry and put his hands against the door.
"This son, please wait, could you please tell me why he is being locked up?"
"Of course, it's because of you, the whole city is about to know about you and our young master. Steward Xiao Li slanted his eyebrows, although the beautiful woman at the door did not seem to have the frivolity and charm of ordinary Qinglou women, but people should not be good-looking, and he did not dare to disobey the will of the Li family.
Lingxiao was startled, and his eyes suddenly became hazy, sure enough.
Steward Xiao Li looked at Luo Lingxiao, who was distracted, shook his head and was about to close the door, but Lingxiao leaned against the door again, "Wait a minute." ”
Steward Xiao Li was stunned for a moment, and Lingxiao took out a handkerchief from the show bag on his body, "Please help me give this to Maolian." ”
Butler Xiao Li waved his hand, "How can this be done, if you let the family know——"
"Please," Lingxiao pleaded bitterly, with tears in his eyes, and anyone who saw that face would feel distressed.
Steward Xiao Li still nodded, agreed, took the handkerchief and stuffed it into his clothes, and hurriedly closed the door.
Lingxiao watched the door close little by little, cutting off her last thoughts about Maolian, and her heart hung in the air, standing outside the door for a long time.
Mao Lian had been kneeling for a day and a night, and he was already overwhelmed, and the food sent by his subordinates was placed aside, and he was motionless, and finally it began to be dark in front of him, and he fainted.
When he woke up, he was lying on his bed, the portrait in front of him gradually became clear, and the mother looked at her haggard son anxiously, "Maolian, are you awake?"
Mao Lian struggled to get up, Mao Chun also came over and helped her younger brother up, "You can be considered awake, it's another day when you're dazed, get up and eat something, how can you do if you haven't eaten for three days and have nothing in your stomach." ”
Mao Lian didn't speak, but still wanted to get up and go to the ground.
"What are you going to do?" Mao Chun helped him, Mao Lian looked up at his brother, "I'm going out, let me go out." ”
"You're going to Yanyu Building again, why are you so unlucky!" Mao Chun got angry and threw down Mao Lian, who lost her center of gravity and fell off the bed unsteadily.
The mother helped her son up in distress, "Maolian, why are you so suffering? Listen to your father's words, break off with that woman, and we will give her a sum of money." ”
Mao Lian looked at her mother, sad and speechless, how could she let them understand Lingxiao?
"Mother, go out. Mao Chun helped his mother out of here, and gave Mao Lian a blank look when he left, "You can do it yourself." ”
Mao Lian lay lonely on the bed, weak and unable to move, after the person walked away, the door slowly opened again, and a person came in, it was Xiao Li's housekeeper, he was holding a bowl of hot soup.
Maolian looked up.
"Second son. Butler Xiao Li sat on the edge of the bed, put the soup on the table, and covered the quilt on Maolian's body, "You have to eat, if you don't eat, your body will be bad." ”
Mao Lian shook her head, a wry smile on her lips.
Steward Xiao Li took out the handkerchief from his body and handed it to Mao Lian, "This is what the girl told me to give you." ”
A flash of surprise flashed on Mao Lian's face, and he hurriedly took the handkerchief, a lilac handkerchief, a wisp of familiar fragrance, which was Lingxiao's, the familiar rouge of her.
"She's been here, when?"
"It was early yesterday morning, she knocked on the door to look for you, I didn't dare let her in, so she asked me to give this to you. ”
Steward Xiao Li got up to leave, and when he left, he instructed, "Remember to drink the soup." ”
Mao Lian couldn't care so much, took the handkerchief and looked at it carefully, and there were two poems embroidered on the handkerchief: the rain and clouds are unintentional, and the lonely morning and twilight. Tonight in the depths of the mountain, the broken soul divides the tide back.
It was Mao Peng's "Cherish the Flight", and Mao Lian once read this sentence to Lingxiao to explain her feelings of longing.
Mao Lian put the handkerchief on his chest, and all that appeared in front of him was Lingxiao's face, and he held the handkerchief tightly, as if he had touched Lingxiao.
Lingxiao sat at the table, under the candle, in the dim light, she lowered her head and carefully embroidered the female red, Xia Sheng came over and brought tea, "Miss, why don't you sleep yet?" "You sleep first, I'm not sleepy." ”
"Don't worry about Maolian Gongzi, after all, he is his own son, what can his father do to him. ”
Lingxiao shook his head, "I'm afraid I'll never see him again." ”
"He'll come to you. Xia Sheng squatted down and held her hand, and Lingxiao stopped what he was doing. "I promise, I can see how much Prince Maolian likes you, he is not a kind person, he will definitely come back. ”
Lingxiao's eyes moistened, and a tear fell and landed on the blood-red phoenix cloak in his hand.
The wandering needlework is lifelike is a golden phoenix, Lingxiao is sewing a wedding dress for herself, a wedding dress that she has started since she met Mao Lian, exquisite and beautiful, unparalleled in the world.
Mao Lian lay on the bed for two days, without eating or drinking, and finally Master Li began to compromise and came to his room, "Do you want to starve yourself to death on a hunger strike?"
"I'm going out, let me out. Mao Lian's face turned to the side.
Master Li couldn't resist his son, sighed, glanced at the untouched food next to him, retreated, and looked back at his son when he walked to the door.
"Eat it, I'll let you out. ”
Mao Lian turned around, his father had already left, and he struggled to get up, his eyes shining with surprise.
Lingxiao sewed the wedding dress in a chaotic manner, one stitch and one foot was fine, thinking of Mao Lian, her eyes were dizzy, and a needle accidentally pierced her fingertips, and the pain in her heart struck, and she put her fingertips in her mouth.
At this moment, the door opened, Lingxiao turned his head, and the next moment he stood up, and the phoenix cloak fluttered to the ground, and the person outside the door was none other than Mao Lian, who was thinking about it day and night.
Lingxiao couldn't care less and ran up, and the two of them hugged each other tightly.
Mao Lian's slender fingers stroked Ling Xiao's smooth long hair, Ling Xiao lay on his shoulder and cried excitedly, the warm tears wet the clothes on Mao Lian's shoulder.
"I'm sorry to worry you. ”
Lingxiao shook his head, holding Mao Lian's cheeks with both hands, after a few days, Mao Lian lost a lot of weight, her cheeks were sunken, and her eyes were deeper.
"Are you okay?" Lingxiao asked Maolian crying.
Mao Lian nodded, "Hello, I'm fine." ”
Xia Sheng stood outside the door and watched everything, her eyes moistened, and she wiped her tears.
Twenty years later, it was still those eyes, although they were dim, but they were still moist, and Xia Sheng looked at the two people in the room in a lost mind.
When Xiu Yuan and Unswerving heard this, they were completely immersed in the fact that twenty years ago, such a story happened in this place.
"What happened later?" asked with concern as he looked at Xia Sheng.
Xia Sheng sighed, "I thought that Mao Lian and Miss would never be separated again once they were together, they loved each other so much. ”
The good times didn't last long, and finally after the Li family had gradually given up the fight against Maolian, Maolian and Lingxiao did live a fairy-like couple for a while.
"Maolian, I want to redeem myself, I want to get out of here. Mao Lian was painting there, and Lingxiao was shaking a fan for him beside him.
Mao Lian raised her head, and there was a hint of darkness in her eyes, "But I don't have that much silver yet." ”
Lingxiao brushed the hair hanging down from his forehead, "I have a lot of savings, it should be enough." ”
"Lingxiao," Mao Lian looked at her guiltily, her right hand touching her smooth face, "This matter should be me, I am really ashamed of you." ”
Lingxiao's index finger rested on Maolian's lips, "Regardless of you and me, I just want to stay with you, for the rest of my life, until the vicissitudes of life." ”
The next day, Lingxiao was like the old bustard in the Yanyu Building at that time explained the intention of redemption, the old bustard picked his eyes, Lingxiao, who had already refused to accept guests, was enough to give her a headache, she was angry and scolded, even if she was unwilling in her heart, but she thought that Lingxiao wanted to redeem herself, but she could take this opportunity to finally knock her hard and earn the money.
The bustard made a price, Lingxiao agreed, and the two reached an agreement Lingxiao went back to make money.
If it had been a few days earlier, maybe Lingxiao's fate would not have been like this.
Just when Lingxiao went back to collect money, the government sent a matchmaker and sent a dowry directly, it turned out that Master Guan wanted to marry a concubine, and since she saw Lingxiao, she had her idea.
Seeing the matchmaker and the bride price, the old bustard was shocked, what kind of family affair is this choice, who dares to spit out a word, not only agrees, but also happily sends the girl over.
In the afternoon, the bustard and the matchmaker came to Lingxiao's room and explained their intentions.
Lingxiao was furious, blasted out the matchmaker, and slammed the door slammed.
The matchmaker shouted outside the door, "Okay, you little hoof, Lord Guan also dares to offend, tell you about this family business, you have to agree, if you don't agree, you have to agree, there is no room for you to choose, in the past two days, Lord Guan will carry a sedan chair to marry you, which can be regarded as giving you enough face." After saying that, he left pretentiously.
Seeing this, the old bustard was frightened and knocked on Lingxiao's door, "Lingxiao, you open the door, let's talk about it if you have something, there's nothing you can't talk about." ”
Lingxiao sat in the room, listening to the movement outside the door, she didn't mean to open the door, what she was thinking about was marrying Maolian, and she had no other plans.
Xia Sheng was afraid, this Guan Da was a high-ranking and powerful person, and it was said that he had the support of a celebrity in front of the emperor, so no one dared to offend.
"Miss, what shall we do?"
Lingxiao's eyes rolled, "Xia Sheng, let's go find Maolian." ”
Early in the morning, Lingxiao and Xiasheng came to Li's house, the Li family opened the door, Lingxiao didn't dare to go in, and Xiao Li's housekeeper saw that it was Lingxiao and called Maolian out.
"Lingxiao," Knowing that Lingxiao came to find her, Mao Lian hurriedly ran out, at the door, Lingxiao was wearing a light cloak, and at first glance, it was equipment that came out too early to guard against dew. "Why are you here?" Lingxiao saw Mao Lian, and all her grievances were undisguised for a while, and she told Mao Lian everything about it.