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The next day, the sun rises three poles.

Qingmo wakes up leisurely, still lazy in the bed and unwilling to move, her body that has worked hard for more than ten years has become more and more delicate after being loved these few months.

Tao Cheng beside him has already left, and vaguely remembers that he said goodbye while kissing, Qingmo tried hard to recall, looked at the carousel lantern under the eaves outside the window with a pair of lazy and satisfied eyes, did not remember the words of farewell, only thought that he was better than Cowherd and Weaver Girl And be happy.

Hugging the thin brocade quilt for a long time, Qingmo finally got up, as sweet as she was tired.He moved to the tea table to drink water, and saw a hand letter:

Take a good rest today, see you tomorrow morning, and go to private school together.

Sign the word "Cheng".

A cup of tea smelled like honey syrup, Qingmo folded the letter and put it in his precious iron box.

Du Liu'er stayed in the courtyard all morning, the sun was getting more and more dark and speechless, I don't know what kind of miserable appearance his little master was made last night, as soon as he saw Qingmo pushed the door and came out, he rushed to meet him, "Young master , are you okay?"

Qingmo raised her hand to hit him, "Dare to ask anything!"

The little servant cheerfully presented the ointment for reducing swelling and pain, "Small slip of the tongue, don't ask, don't ask." He said again, "Young master, you have been fasting for half a day, what do you want to eat now?"

Ying Jing'er, with a long string of "咕---" on her stomach, Qing Mo smacked her lips, "I haven't used up all the flour yesterday, let's rub some cat ears and eat."

The job of making noodles fell to Du Liutou. Qingmo was brushing the curtain by the well, washing the small green vegetables, and humming a little song leisurely. When he turned around, he saw that one leg of the recliner was split, revealing the yellow and white inside. wood core.

Qing Mo grinned, completely blind. After being blind for a while, he remembered that the tools used to make the bird's nest last time were still in the cabinet, so... let's clean up the mess, so that the management can stop mumbling sentence.

After the dough was kneaded and put it awake, Du Liu held the bowl and moved to Qingmo's side, "Master, when I came in the morning, I saw these scattered on the table, so I gathered them up."

In the big porcelain bowl are flowers, leaves and stones.

Qingmo was fiddling with two willow branches that were thriving. He heard that he took the porcelain bowl and knocked, "Thank you. If you sweep them away, I will cry for you."

The boy couldn't help admiring his wit, and asked curiously, "Look at them, where did you get them?"

Qing Mo laughed, "Master Tao gave it."

Boy: "..."

The little servant held back, but didn't hold back, "Young master! You are usually favored, why did the young master give you these when it's your birthday?"

Qingmo twirled an unknown blue flower, sniffed it, "Liu'er, if one day the young master gets married, I will stop in the middle of the street desperately and ask him to come with me. Tell me, he will come with me!" ?"

The boy's eyes widened, "This...saying it will hurt your heart, but...isn't this a fairy tale?"

Qing Mo tilted her head to look at him, but there was no trace of sadness, "He will follow me."

"Du Liu'er, Tao Cheng and I have known each other since we were very young. We have been going around for a long time. It's fate." Qing Mo didn't want to say much, and sighed with a smile, "I'm not a lovable person, and he's not a benefactor either. It's not what you think."

Du Liu was dumbfounded.

Qingmo took his hand and put it on the willow branch, "In the future, they will be as graceful as a cover, and please take care of them from time to time."

Du Liu was stunned, and only listened to the side saying, "We will leave this place soon."

After the dough wakes up, take a small piece and rub it on the curtain with the palm of your hand, and a curly cat ear will be formed.

The two of them ate half of the pot and ate the bottom of the soup. Du Liu regained his strength and asked, "My lord, where are you going?"

Qingmo copied what Tao Cheng said to Liang Zhi, "Go to the ends of the earth."

Tao Mansion.

The men were all busy, and only Qiao Qing was left at home. She stood under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, dangling with her baby in her arms, "Shuangjiu is so good."

Tao Man, I can't say I like this name very much, so I went with Master Tao. Tao Che gave her a baby name, which is really random. Since she was born on September [-], the Double Ninth Festival, it should be called Double Nine.

The personal maid hurried over and whispered, "He's back, in the woods behind the mansion."

Shuangjiu was carried down by the nanny, and Qiao Qing went to meet people alone with a cup of tea.

The woods shaded the sun, and a tall and thin man was sitting on the floor. Seeing Qiao Qing approaching, the smile on the corner of his mouth was quite unpleasant.

He said, "Everyone in your Tao family is not big. Master Tao has been famous and prosperous for most of his life. You are the only woman in the family. What people outside talk about is nice. You have the same case, and you are very good at each other. I don't think so."

Qiao Qing said flatly, "None of your business."

The man still laughed, "I guess..."

"You don't have to guess." Qiao Qing squeezed the lid of the cup to shake the tea leaves, "Use money to do things, stop talking nonsense."

The man spread his hands and shrugged compromisingly, "Liang Zhi, eighteen years old, can't speak since she was a child, the only daughter in the family, her mother has leg problems, her father passed away last year, and she had to be buried with the help of one person. Right now, she is working as a tailor in the brothel courtyard. , exquisite workmanship."

Qiao Qing asked, "How does it look?"

"See how you compare it. Compared with a pleasant person, it's mediocre. Compared with ordinary people, let's make do with it."

"That's where the problem lies. The master clearly said that she has the appearance to be an oiran."

But the man answered irrelevantly, "The person who helped him bury his father was the young master of your mansion."

Qiao Qing was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly her heart beat violently.

The man deliberately slowed down his speech, with malicious intentions, "Second Grandma Qiao, you have to hold on to the tree, and be careful that you won't be able to stand later."

Qiao Qing scolded, "Don't play tricks! Be careful not to lose your money!"

"Okay. You asked me to check Qingmo by the way, but I found out a lot of interesting and valuable things." The man's words were like a thunderstorm, "You guessed that he was being ruined every day, and his food, drink and housing were crowded in a safe place. In the human building, it is exactly the opposite, he has a small waterside courtyard all to himself, and is only trampled and ruined by one person, and that person is Young Master Tao, your eldest son."

With the crisp sound of the porcelain cups colliding, Qiao Qing couldn't restrain her trembling hands, and half a cup of tea splashed on her dress.

"According to Keren, who was admitted to the hospital with him, he was left behind by the nanny to train him because he refused to follow his body when he was washed that night. On the way, he met the steward who brought Young Master Tao to look for him."

"Last night, they were talking with Liang Zhi in the octagonal pavilion. I pretended to be taking a walk. I heard that the young master said that he is a country and a city. I took a look out of curiosity. It's really good." The man laughed. Cherish your life and run away quickly."

Qiao Qing was terrified when the teacup fell to the ground.

The man is still not average enough, and his words are like Ling Chi, "It's the first time I've seen Duanxiu making out, and that scene must have blinded me."

Seeing Qiao Qing's face pale, the man mocked, "Will you lose my money? Now you should give me a hundred taels of gold to preserve the reputation of the young master of the Tao Mansion!"

Qiao Qing couldn't say a word, tears were streaming from her wide eyes, and the man was still provocative, "Master Tao may be doing something like cutting his sleeves somewhere, I'm pretending to marry a woman to stop my tongue, the young one can Where are you going?"

Qiao Qing sat on the ground, her body covered in cold sweat. Her decadent posture satisfied the man. She broke a piece of grass and held it in her mouth. She leaned her hands on the pillow and leaned against the tree, waiting for Qiao Qing to recover.

After a while, Qiao Qing murmured, "Let me think about it first, and we will meet here again in Shen Shi."

The man didn't care much, "I have nothing to do, so I just lay it here and sleep a few times waiting for you. It took me a lot of effort to visit brothels for a few days."

Qiao Qing stood up with difficulty, wiped away tears, straightened the hem of her skirt, the teacup was smashed on the stone, she stared blankly at the dirt-covered debris for a moment, then walked out of the woods without looking back.

Misfortune never comes singly.

Qiao Qing paced back to the mansion in a despondent manner. As soon as she entered the door, the maid greeted her and said anxiously, "Second Grandma Qiao, the official family is here."

The person who came was Yang Shuyao's mother. She was sitting in the front yard. Even though her makeup was heavy, she couldn't hide her haggardness. , is something on your mind?"

Qiao Qing's mind was confused and she was on the verge of falling. She barely sat down when she saw a "retirement post" on the table, and her heart was beating. Could it be that the family ugliness had already been known?

Mrs. Yang also didn't want to make a detour, "My sister just gave birth, and she is all on the child. Maybe she doesn't know what my shameful girl is doing!"

Qiao Qing really didn't know, "What's the matter?"

"She is a girl who has a marriage contract and has not yet left the court. She actually went to a brothel to find a nice girl. Everyone laughed at her. Really... what will I do in the future!"

Qiao Qing didn't know whether to like it or not.

Mrs. Yang handed over the post, "I wrote it the day before yesterday. I didn't want my daughter to be a monster at home. I didn't have time. I hurried here this morning while she was still asleep. I was afraid that it would delay your son."

Qiao Qing just smiled and shook her head, and accepted the post, both of them sighed.

At noon, Mr. Tao returned to the mansion, and the young servant followed behind with two bunches of fresh lychees, but he didn't want the maid to greet him and say that Second Grandma Qiao was bedridden and unwell, so he asked the master to use it for lunch.

Master Tao went to the bedroom. As soon as he approached, he heard Shuangjiu's crying. Qiao Qing coaxed, "Don't cry, don't cry."

Lifting the bed curtain, one big and one small were crying, Master Tao jumped up, sat on the side of the bed and hugged Shuangjiu into his arms, "What happened?"

"I haven't been out of the house for a long time, and I'm still in the dark about the changes in the world."

"how you said that?"

Qiao Qing endured the collapse of her heart, and turned back to slap the divorce post on Master Tao's arm, "You go out every day, and you don't even know that your unmarried daughter-in-law has something wrong!"

"I'm at a loss for resources, summer is the time when the orchard is so busy that I don't even touch the ground." He tore off the cover and swept it hastily, "That's all, Cheng'er still has that girl Liang Zhi."

Qiao Qing was so depressed that she wanted to strangle Master Tao to death. Where is Liang Zhi?Liang Zhi was just covering up!It is really worth Tao Cheng's painstaking efforts to make such a move.

Then he realized how ridiculous it was, the two brothers got together, and looked at Master Tao again, Qiao Qing fell hopelessly on the bed, and sneered at herself in her heart, Hua Ting really has the ability, and she will be involved in life and death. The children who were born are so capable of making life difficult for her.

In the afternoon, in the grove, a man was lying on his side on the ground with his arms bent and his head propped up.

Qiao Qing threw him a sachet, "I heard that you used to be in the army, how are the prostitutes in the barracks doing?"

The man opened the sachet, shook out a stack of banknotes, and looked very satisfied, "What can I do, if I get fucked to death, I throw it into the river, and let the fish eat only the bones."

Qiao Qing frowned at the vulgar words, "Then throw it in the barracks, tonight."

The man seemed deliberate, "Who are you throwing at? Your son or your son's love?"

"I'll help you trip Tao Cheng." Qiao Qing trembled with disgust, "You have to be invisible and keep your hands and feet clean!"

"Deling." The man sighed after laughing, "Master Tao must be anxious, look at how sticky they are, tsk tsk."