As summer approaches, the weather in Pingshou County is getting hot and humid, and people are beginning to change into thin shirts.

Cao Baijing pushed open the window and looked at the sky, the dark clouds were low, the willow leaves were swaying, the fish on the lake were spitting water, and it was going to rain again in early summer.

She returned to the room and continued to embroider, ordinary fine linen, skillful needlework and thread, but it showed a trace of aura, and the three-color pattern was simple, but it was not yet complete.

On the desk, there is a stack of ready-to-wear clothes, which is a valuable Taoist robe, and it is a necessary homework for sorcerers, and clothing embroidery is very rare for male sorcerers, and relatively few female sorcerers, so it is precious.

"It can be completed tomorrow, this batch can be exchanged, used by yourself, and used in the clan" This is actually a kind ......of cultivation, called the five-color embroidery method of spiritual needles.

As long as a woman concentrates on embroidery, she can gradually increase her Dao power, which is the safest and most authentic method, and it is also the most suitable for the young lady of the clan, but this progress is also extremely slow.

Thinking like this, her eyes fell on a painting on the wall, and she read it out: "Pengmen didn't know Qiluo Xiang, and he wanted to hurt himself by asking a good matchmaker." Who loves to be romantic and stylish, and sympathizes with the frugal makeup of the times. Dare to praise the ten fingers for their skill, and do not draw the eyebrows long. I hate to press the gold thread year after year, and make wedding clothes for others.

"I hate" Cao Baijing pinched her sore fingers, amused and helpless: "It's a poem that makes up for the debt, and it's clearly laughing at me, isn't Jinshi great......?"

At this time, she showed a girlish attitude, compared to the southern soft maid bought by the clan, she is a real typical northland girl, tall and long, wearing a green skirt, decent and generous, the same as the lady in the painting.

Although she knew that Lu Dao was joking, this poem was a rare and good product, very eye-catching, and even faintly mysterious, she hung it in the boudoir, looked at it when she rested, and continued to work after seeing a smile.

She has the qualifications of a sorcerer, and she is a sorcerer at a very young age, but she never really wants to take this path, but since Ye Qing was born as a child and a lifter, she suddenly had an enlightenment.

If you want to be close to him, you must be a sorcerer.

It is not difficult to cultivate a magician, there is a Taoist temple in the county to teach the basic law, she sank down, and for two years, she continued to practice with this spiritual needle five-color embroidery method, not only gradually embroidered a three-color spiritual clothes, but also successfully advanced to the second-level magician.

"Bang-"

"Sister, something is wrong" Brother Cao Mingliang hurriedly ran over, this thirteen and a half year old, mysteriously gathered in front of him, looking like I have a secret, you come and beg me.

This is another nasty brat...... Cao Baijing embroidered halfway, and reluctantly stopped: "What's the matter?"

"I heard Ye Xiuxiu say that their family is ...... Oh, now it's the patriarch, and I'm holding the matchmaker to find out the school-age daughters in the county, the Pingshui Lin family, the Jinyang Li family, and ......" Cao Mingliang wrenched his fingers, looked at his sister with bad intentions, and couldn't help but be depressed when he saw that her expression was not moving: "But there is no family in our family, sister, can you still sit still?"

Cao Baijing knocked on his forehead: "We are not a county family. ”

"That's not what you said..."Cao Mingliang shouted, seeing her calm demeanor, he suddenly woke up: "Hey, sister, your reaction is not right, shouldn't you be sad at this time?"

"Oh, you're just here to see me sad?" Cao Baijing looked at his younger brother, and his hand lit up with a bright red light.

"No, I'm here to care about Sister. Cao Mingliang shouted, his eyes rolled, and he couldn't help asking: "Sister didn't like him very much before, and she always ran to him, lingering, and she almost stayed overnight...... Uh, I didn't say anything."

Cao Baijing glared: "Children don't understand, don't follow people to talk nonsense, I'm going to ask for cultivation, which eye of you sees lingering."

"This is not clear, when he is there, the whole person is different, and his brother is not as good as his cousin. Cao Mingliang muttered, seeing that she didn't have a sad expression, she couldn't help but be disappointed: "All the women are water-based poplars?"

"Whew" The wind rose on the ground, rolling a black shadow out of the door.

With that, there was a cry of "oops" from a heavy object falling outside, and there was a loud shout: "You violent woman beware that you will never be able to marry...... Sooner or later, I will come for revenge"

"I'll talk about it when you can beat me. Cao Baijing snorted, the red light in his hand dissipated, but he heard his father angrily scolding: "How did you talk to your sister?

"Uh, Dad......" Cao Mingliang wept, reluctantly apologized, and ran away.

Cao Hu fan in, saw the girl was looking at the window in a daze, a pair of beautiful eyes with a blur, as if through the curtain, looking into the distance, heard the voice, she slowly turned around, there was a quiet and pleasant feeling of eyebrows swept away.

The skin is better than snow, fair and delicate, the eyes are the stars in the night sky, at this time, Yingying is a blessing, it is very moving, Cao Hu fan sighed in his heart, embroidery without night and day for two years, is the gain of Taoism, and people are more beautiful, but the price paid, he saw it in his eyes, hurt in his heart, but he only didn't know what happened just now, and coughed lightly: "My daughter doesn't have to be polite." ”

said and gave her a stack of famous papers: "These are some of the talents who voted for the name, some of them still have the fame of children, and some of them have good character, some of them were pressed down by my father for you some time ago, and now you can take a look at them...... You'll be twenty in the New Year, and the boss is not small. ”

Cao Bai took it silently and said nothing.

Cao Hu Fan had a little headache, afraid that she was already in love and couldn't extricate herself, and didn't dare to stimulate her too much, standing just distracted, muttering for a long time, and finally said: "Daughter, I understand your thoughts, but the Ye family has just done it before, or Ye Qing didn't come back from the Beijing exam, and Daddy can still fight with his old face to say kiss, now that he has won these two lists, one year, we really can't afford to climb high, don't talk about my family, even if it is a county wang, it is a little unworthy, or only the Governor's Lady, Miss Gongqing's family, is suitable." ”

"How could he fail the exam?" Cao Baijing chuckled, looked at the text panel on the wall, and his eyes were gloomy: "He is only seventeen years old and has a great talent, and with such a Taoist industry, Daomen will not refuse such a talent." ”

"It's good if you understand, it's good if you understand" Cao Hu Fan breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw his daughter staring at this character and seeing the content of the poem clearly, his heart suddenly tightened.

Seeing that she thought about it, she said seriously: "However, I'm not delusional, it's just ...... It's just that we had a pact. ”

Cao Hu was afraid that there was an agreement between the two loves, but at this time, most of them didn't count, and nodded: "It's okay, just say it."

"On the eve of my departure to Beijing last year, I went privately and asked, if I can be a concubine if I don't want a wife, he said it was too sudden, too unexpected, and I had to think about ......it."

Cao Baijing's eyes were leisurely, remembering that when she proposed it, Ye Qing was dumbfounded, and she showed a smile: "But on the second day, he agreed when he left...... Don't say that concubines are not concubines, but as long as you come back, you will give me an explanation this year

"Concubine ......" Cao Hu Fan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and his mind was buzzing and he couldn't turn a corner.

"My daughter told you not to expect too much. Cao Baijing laughed: "I'm not an ordinary daughter's family, I understand it very young, especially when I check out the talent of a magician, I was sent to Yunshuimen by the family for a lot of money, and it is impossible to have an ordinary marriage." ”

"To put it bluntly, it's not an immortal sect, or a county with a deep foundation, where can an ordinary family recruit a magician?

Cao Baijing looked at the red light in the palm of his hand, and smiled faintly: "If nothing else, it will be to recruit people to change their surnames, and I myself will have the status of a clan elder in the family in the future, no matter who is the patriarch, you have to be respectful to me, this is the treatment I have obtained due to my strength, and it is also to make up for my marriage sacrifice." ”

"For the family, the key is that I can't marry out of the clan and stay in the clan, and in my marriage, who the husband is is the least important thing...... Especially after I was promoted to a second-level magician, the embroidered Taoist clothes alone were worth an income of 1,000 mu a year, and it was impossible for the clan to let go

"I'm not resentful, the family is already very generous to my daughter, I'm doing well, I can go out freely, how can other people's daughters have this freedom?

"I even have some right to choose, which I am very grateful, not to mention that all my Dao methods have been cultivated by my family...... This is the fate of a sorcerer. ”

Saying such cruel words, the girl's expression was calm and her eyes were gentle.

Seeing such an expression, Cao Hu Fan wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything.

When he returned from his study tour, his wife had passed away, and his daughter was fostered in Yunshuimen by the clan since she was a child because of her talent in magic.

Cao Baijing flipped through the name scroll casually, and sneered: "If these people bend their knees and change their surnames voluntarily, such soft bones are really disgusting, father, what can they bring, they can only be a rice worm, and the clan still needs to spend money to support them and make a scene."

"Even if you have some skills, you are afraid of taking the lead, the clan will not give them a chance, I am a second-level magician, maybe I can be promoted in the future, my husband is my own person, no matter how wise I am, the old lady is afraid that he will not be able to sit still."

Hearing this, Cao Hu shuddered and said softly: "Daughter, daughter...... There are some things that can't be broken...... Don't say that, okay?"

"Okay, I won't say it, it's just that they all stay at home, how much difference is there between the status of this wife and concubine?

"The two families are only a dozen miles away, and when something happens, they can even pretend that the husband and wife are not in harmony, and they go back to their parents' house for seven or eight months out of twelve months a year - and the clan can always borrow some light from the eyes of the public."

"So I went to be Ye Qing's concubine, and the interests of the clan would not be damaged, of course, it would be difficult for other families to say. ”

Cao Hufan's face turned red, his expression was complicated, he couldn't deny this, for his daughter, the way to marry a good man as a wife is over, and being a wife of a fat rice worm really doesn't have much decency.

He was silent for a while, and then straightened his face: "Nonsense, marry and marry, what's not harmonious, you dare to mess around like this, our two families have lost their faces." ”

Cao Baijing knew that his father acquiesced, and smiled sweetly: "Just kidding, not to mention the feelings in the past, I am his cousin, and the etiquette is all in place, the more he marries a wife, the more he has to pay attention to the rules, the more he has to give me a clear courtesy, as for small actions in private, can I, a magician, still call a woman a bully?"

Cao Hu Fan was silent for a moment, and suddenly burst into tears: "Daughter, I can't stand you, you can do whatever you want."

As he spoke, he turned away, his figure desolate.

Cao Bai silently watched him go out of the woods, and secretly smiled bitterly: "I'm sorry, father, in fact, I still hide a lot from you...... The immortal gate is as deep as the sea, a female sorcerer like me, as long as she is not amazingly talented, attracts the cultivation of the master, and becomes an inner disciple, she will basically inevitably sell her soul and flesh after the most humiliation, is this humiliation what I am willing to do?"

"That night, if Ye Qing refuses to accept it, I will only have a dead end. ”