Harue Kagetsu

On the way, Ah Ting was next to Sister-in-law, happily, chatting all the way, and the car was full of her joking.

Luoshen chatted with Ah Ting without a word, but his eyes drifted out of the car window from time to time.

She had seen it long ago that Li Mu seemed to have something else, and the reason why he agreed to send him out was because of Lu's instructions.

It was fine in the town, and Luoshen occasionally heard his greetings with the townspeople of Jingkou who came to say hello.

After leaving the town, there were fewer people on the road, so he didn't say a word, he rode beside the car, his eyes were looking straight ahead, and he was clearly thinking about something else.

Luoshen sneered in his heart, dropped the curtain of the car with a puff, and stopped looking at him.

The bullock cart wandered along the country dirt road for another moment, passed a stone bridge, and stopped.

Changle Garden has arrived.

A stop did not wait for the car to stop, and jumped down by himself.

Luoshen bent out of the car door, Li Mu stepped forward and stretched out his hand, but Ah Ting suddenly got behind him, vying to help Luoshen.

Luoshen smiled, supported A Ting's outstretched hand, stepped on the footsteps put down by the maid, and got out of the car.

Li Mu withdrew his hand.

Ah Ting smiled smugly at him and looked at the manor in front of him.

The door was open enough to pass two large cars side by side. The walls on both sides are built with large pieces of bluestone that are flat and cut like a knife. A clear stream leads into the wall, and when you look in through the gate, you can vaguely see the pavilion and rockery on the opposite side, overlapping one another. Under the leadership of the steward, a dozen or so servants and servants quickly came out of the door and greeted them here. There was no smile on his face.

A Ting's eyes widened, he couldn't help wowing, and turned to Li Mu: "Brother, sister-in-law's family is really big! When will brother be able to earn such a garden?"

The steward brought his servants, and when they got close, they called out "Li Langjun" and "Little Lady" in unison, and suddenly heard such a sentence coming out of A Ting's mouth, and they all looked at Li Mu, who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. Looks, looks weird.

Li Mu smiled, and didn't care. He just raised his hand, touched A Ting's head, and turned to Luoshen, who looked at him coldly: "Let's go, I'll take you in."

"No need." Luo Shen said lightly. "A's family only asks you to **** us here. We are here. If you have something to do, you can just go."

Li Muluo hesitated, then nodded: "Alright. Then you have trouble today to take care of Ah Ting. I will come to pick you up when applying."

"Brother, won't you accompany me and sister-in-law?"

A Ting looked disappointed.

"Brother A has something to do, go back when you go. Don't be naughty when you get here, you have to listen to A-sister-in-law." Li Mu instructed.

A stop should be fine.

Li Mu turned to Luoshen, smiled apologetically, said "you have a job", turned on his horse, and galloped away in the direction of the town. The figure quickly disappeared at the end of the road.

Luoshen stared at his disappearing back, looked away, took A Ting's hand, and said with a smile, "Come with A-sister. Treat this as your home."

…

This manor occupies a vast area, divided into three areas: living, planting, and gardening. It is a unique place in the interior, and several landscaping can also be seen in originality. But it pales in comparison with the magnificent or exquisite gardens built by the ancestors of the top gentry and wealthy Sanwu gentry around Jiankang. In Luoshen's view, it was only still eye-catching, but seeing A Ting was so excited, like a little mouse that fell into the rice jar, looking for freshness everywhere, he also cheered up and accompanies her in the garden go shopping.

After lunch, I went for a few more walks, and A Ting finally stopped walking, and it was approaching the time of Shen.

Luo Shen took Ah Ting into the house, and the two rested for a while, just waiting for Li Mu to pick them up.

When it was almost time for Shen, Li Mu did not show up, but someone came and sent a message, saying that he had not gotten out of the matter and could not come back for a while, so he sent him to pass a message first, asking Mrs. Gao and Ah Ting to stay here again. Take a break, he will come later.

As soon as the messenger left, Luoshen ordered someone to set up a car, took A Ting to board, and, surrounded by the servants, he set off for the town first.

On the road, the car was swaying. Ah Ting had been playing for a day. Sitting in the car, he gradually became sleepy. In no time, he lay on a sack, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Luoshen covered A Ting with a cloak to keep out the cold, sat by the window, rolled up the curtains a little, and sat tucked his knees, looking at the landscape outside the window.

The distant mountains are like daisies, and the water waves are smoky. In the distance, between Jiangzhu and Jinshan, the eaves of the tall tower of the Imperial Temple on Jinshan towered into the clouds in the clear blue sky of late autumn, looming.

If you climb the tower, you will have a panoramic view of the great river that divides the north and the south.

When Luoshen was in a trance, the road gradually widened, and there were more people on the road.

As he was about to enter the town, Luoshen didn't want to follow so many servants beside the car, swaggering through the city, causing people to wait and see, so he ordered everyone to go back.

Aju sent people away, leaving only two followers to continue with her to send the little lady back to Li's house.

When the car entered the town entrance, Luoshen lowered the curtains. Suddenly, there was a loud noise in front of me. A man seemed to be shouting something, mixed with the voice of a woman's plea.

Luoshen had just arrived, and he didn't care about anything else, but the woman's voice was quite familiar to his ears. Listening to it again, it looks like Mrs. Shen. I couldn't help but lift the curtain a little and looked out.

At the door of a pawnshop on the side of the road, there was a man in Chinese clothes with a few people who looked like slaves. He was blocking a woman's way and scolded something sharply.

The woman was wearing a gray-blue cloth, with a handkerchief on her head, and a basket tightly slung in her arms. It was Mrs. Shen, the wife of Jiang Tao.

She seemed to know the man on the opposite side and kept begging in a low voice.

The man became more and more fierce, and he snatched the basket from her arm and knocked it to the ground.

A small bag of fresh rice fell out of the basket, the rope tied to the mouth of the bag came loose, and the rice was scattered on the floor.

Another string of copper coins fell out of the middle, the rope was broken, and the money rolled to the ground.

The man raised his foot, stomped on the white rice and copper coins on the ground, and shouted, "I told you to marry a poor ghost! I told you to marry a poor ghost!"

"Third brother, please raise your hand!"

Shen shi cried and knelt down to the man.

Passers-by came to hear the wind, gathered nearby, and pointed.

Although Luoshen had not come to Jingkou for a few days, he was no stranger to Shen Shi, and knew that she was the wife of Li Muyi's brother Jiang Tao.

Shen shi was beautiful and capable. Luo Shen had a good impression of her. She never imagined that she would be so humiliated by the man she called "third brother" when she met here in a large audience.

How could Luo Shen leave immediately? Ordered to stop.

I saw that the man finished stepping on the rice and copper plate, stepped forward and grabbed Shen shi's arm again, turned his head to face the onlookers and said loudly: "My sister, when you married Jiang Tao, the family was wrong! Now Jiang Tao is in the wrong place! Incompetent, I can't even support my family and my wife, so my sister actually took all the dowry that the Shen family gave back! , I will definitely take her back and discuss it clearly in the ancestral hall!"

"Third brother! This matter has nothing to do with me, Jiang Lang! He doesn't know anything about it! Please, don't force me too much!"

Shen shi cried with tears streaming down her face.

Shen San didn't show any sympathy, but sneered: "Usually you rely on Li Mu's backing, and don't take my Shen family in your eyes. Today I asked me to catch a current, this is my Shen family's family! Not to mention Li Mu, it is the king of heaven. Now, let's see what else he can say!"

The passersby talked in a low voice, showing sympathy on their faces, but they dared not to speak out.

Luoshen was sitting in the car, and he was burning with anger.

Although I don't know whether the Shen family's **** dowry is to supplement the Jiang family's family, but even so, it shouldn't be treated like this by this so-called elder brother, how can he bear it? He shouted: "Stop! Let go of my sister-in-law!"

There was silence all around, and everyone turned around.

Shen San heard the voice of a girl full of anger behind him, and turned around, seeing a car parked on the side of the road, the sound came from the car, he was stunned: "Who are you? What about the Shen family?"

In the car with Aju, seeing the little lady's brows furrowed, she spoke like this, knowing that she was about to intervene, so she had to get out of the car, walked towards Shen San, and said coldly, "The one who spoke just now is the The wife of Li Langjun you mentioned is the daughter of Jiankang Gao Xianggong. Mrs. Shen is her sister-in-law. Can Mrs. Li take care of her affairs?"

The Shen family has lived in Qianyang County, a few dozen kilometers away from Jingkou, for generations. In the local area, it is barely considered an aristocratic family, but it is far from enough to cling to the Gao clan. Li Mu got married a few days ago, and the Shen family did not show up that day because they were not qualified to go to a banquet with the local nobility. Suddenly I heard that the girl in the car angrily scolding her was Li Mu's newlywed wife, the daughter of the Gao family, and when she saw the woman who got out of the car, she saw that although she was dressed as a companion, she spoke with an aura of two words. His eyes were all powerful and arrogant, and his arrogance disappeared. He slowly released the hand that grabbed Shen shi's arm, and said embarrassingly: "It was Mrs. Li passing by... misunderstanding, misunderstanding... I was just angry, so I said a few words. Just ranting..."

The door of the carriage opened, and everyone saw a woman in a lichen wearing a curtain getting out of the car, walking towards Shen shi, holding the stunned Shen shi's arm, and calling out "A-sister-in-law" softly.

Her voice was like a milky owl, and it was so pleasant to hear that one couldn't help but want to peek at her face, but unfortunately, her face was covered by the curtain.

Under the gazes of countless eyes, she and Shen shi boarded the car together, and disappeared behind the door with a beautiful shadow.

Aju ordered his entourage to pick up the money and rice bags scattered on the ground, leaving Shen San who was dumbfounded, and followed the car.

The bullock cart continued to start and moved forward.

The onlookers looked excited, their whispers suddenly amplified, and they kept discussing the direction in which the ox cart was leaving.

This scene all fell into the eyes of several people parked on the opposite street corner.

These people wore ordinary Han clothes, and they looked like they were people from the north and the south who passed by here. One of the weak-crowned sons who looked like a master was born with snow-white skin, painted eyebrows, a high nose bridge, and a beautiful purple color in his eyes in the sunlight. Xu is in order not to attract attention on the road, and put a bamboo hat on his forehead to cover it.

He stood there, watching the back of the ox cart receding in front of him, his eyes flickering with purple light, for a long time, he muttered to himself, "Daughter of the Gao family? She is the daughter of the eldest princess of Qinghe? The daughter of the Gao family, It really lives up to its reputation…”

"Little Lord?"

An attendant called him.

The young master seemed to come back to his senses, turned his head, looked at the end of the westward direction, squinted his eyes, and said, "Jiankang is ahead, let's go!"