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When he arrived in Changzhou, it was already past Xiaohan. Tao Cheng was worried that Qingmo was cold and weak, so he wrapped him up like a cotton ball all day long, and Qingmo was reluctant, "I can only show him from top to bottom. Looking at you with two eyes."

Tao Cheng was particularly awkward, "If I see frost on your eyelashes, don't even try to show your eyes."

"But I want to kiss you." Qingmo squeezed towards Tao Cheng with great effort, there was only such a big space on the carriage seat, he was not happy to ask him to go to the carriage to warm up the stove, but wanted to ride the horse together in the snow , Qingmo's voice was muffled in the scarf, and he looked up at Tao Cheng eagerly, "You see there is no one in front, don't you want to take this opportunity to smell one?"

It's really pampered to be more and more coquettish. Tao Cheng holds his face and looks at him steadily. Unfortunately, Qingmo is not threatened at all. He consciously pulls off the plush scarf to reveal a pair of pouting lips, "It's the first time I'm so close Seeing you in a fur cloak really makes me salivate."

Tao Cheng kissed him with a smile in his eyes, there was nothing he could do, the soul of the person who was waiting for the kiss was almost lost before he let go, "Since I'm so coveted, why don't I wear it to fuck you at night?"

The body was tightly squeezed together, and the head was also resting on Tao Cheng's shoulder. Qing Mo laughed out as soon as he imagined that scene, "It's empty inside, and it's naked and naked, doesn't it look like a moth?"

Tao Cheng choked up, and unceremoniously pulled the scarf tighter for him, "Flipped moths can also yell at you, when Aunt Zhou is called over, and ask you what you do in the middle of the night, you can just say 'on the bed There's a big moth that scares the hell out of me'."

Qing Mo laughed so hard that she was about to fall off the carriage, "Aunt Zhou heard that it was a big deal, and she was about to come in with her shoe soles to help me slap the moths to death, but when she opened the door, she saw that the moths were eating people, I guess it was really scary kill her."

There are still twenty days until New Year's Eve. In the past, the lonely Qing Mo and the lonely Aunt Zhou spent it together. The two of them gathered together to make dumplings and drink a bowl of hot soup. I fell asleep under the covers.

This year, the two of them decided to come to Changzhou to find Aunt Zhou. They started from Lidong, when Qingmo had fully recovered from his injuries. They wandered along the way for two months, playing and resting. I don’t know how many delicacies and rewards they enjoyed on the way. The scenery, every day, Qingmo is ecstatic, accompanied by Tao Cheng's side, I don't know the day and night.

The orchard hasn't changed much from when it left five years ago. It's the time when the sales of new year's goods are tense. When the carriage is driving all the way, you can see the carts of citrus and apples. huh, fruity fragrance."

Tao Cheng replied, "Yes, I heard it more than ten years ago."

It was the fragrance soaked in the letter that Qingmo sent back to him, the two of them agreed, Tao Cheng parked the carriage in a place that was out of the way, and led the chubby Qingmo to the garden, but unfortunately asked It took me a while to find out that Aunt Zhou was married and opened a porridge shop with Ruyi Lang, who was selling sesame seed cakes, and they had a good time together.

The snow fluttered, and the two went to the city again. When the red lanterns on the long street were extinguished one by one, the carriage stopped at the entrance of the porridge shop.

The shop was neither too big nor too small, and the little girl behind the counter buried her head in her abacus, heard the sound of footsteps, raised her head, said "closed" in her throat, and looked at Tao Cheng with bright eyes.

"We're here to find someone," Qingmo breathed out, "Excuse me, is Aunt Zhou there?"

As soon as the words were finished, Aunt Zhou lifted the curtain from the kitchen in the backyard and came in. The two of them met face to face, and Qing Mo laughed, "Aunt Zhou!"

Aunt Zhou was stunned for a moment before she strode over in surprise, "It's Qingmo!" Then she looked at Tao Cheng, "Master!"

The little girl's ears were extremely high, and the voice of the person in front of her was as breathtaking as his appearance, "Don't call me 'Master' anymore, just call me by my name."

Qingmo's face flushed with joy, staggering Aunt Zhou, he said, "We specially found you from the orchard to see you!"

Behind the shop is a small courtyard. After setting up the carriage, Aunt Zhou told the two of them to drink a bowl of casserole porridge to warm up. She called behind the counter, "Qianqian, go find your father!"

Qianqian hurried to go, and came back with a man with a simple face after a while, she rubbed to Aunt Zhou's side, "Er Niang, is this the brother Qingmo you always talk about?"

Aunt Zhou patted the back of her hand and introduced, "It's a coincidence that the man has the same last name as me, Zhou Zhu, and this is his daughter Qianqian."

"It's really great." Qing Mo said heartily, "We were afraid that it would be too deserted for you to spend the New Year alone, and it's really great now."

Aunt Zhou was about to cry when she heard this, "So you are here to accompany me to celebrate the New Year? Then don't leave, and stay until the New Year. There are so many people that you don't mind the excitement!"

Zhou Zhu and Qianqian also agreed, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl looked at them with watery eyes, no matter which one she looked at, her face would heat up, "Yes, if the two brothers don't dislike them, then stay here! In the past, it was just me and my father, but this year there is a second mother, she talks about brother Qingmo every day, worrying that you are not familiar with Taizhou, so she sent you many letters, did my brother receive them all?"

Qingmo raised his eyes to look at Tao Cheng, he didn't know how to speak for a while, there was a little girl who was not familiar with the world, Qingmo said expediently, "I received it, I thought this is coming, everyone is here, the letter is just Did not return."

After dinner, it was getting late at night. Aunt Zhou took the two of them to the empty room on the second floor of the small courtyard, "The newly made quilts are definitely not comparable to Tao's, but they are better than the inn, so I feel wronged." Eldest young master."

Tao Cheng hung up the cloak and said with a smile, "It's already good. There's no need to tidy up Qingmo's room anymore, we'll sleep together."

Even though there were many guesses in her mind, Aunt Zhou was still shocked by this sentence, Qingmo was a little shy, "I didn't have a good time to speak at the dinner table. Actually, I didn't go to Taizhou. Grandma Qiao sold me to the brothel."

Qingmo pulled Aunt Zhou to sit at the tea table, and briefly explained the ins and outs, but she was still shy, "Aunt Zhou, didn't you know that I had something wrong with Tao Cheng a long time ago, and now I have finally come to the end of my hardships."

Aunt Zhou was panicked and full of emotions, she really wanted to complain about Tao's house, but because Tao Cheng was sitting opposite, she said, "Do master and second mistress know that you are in Changzhou?"

Tao Cheng said, "I sent a letter to Tao Che just before we set off. My father was angry and threatened to change my surname if he tried to control me. He secretly ordered people to follow him all the way. Every now and then, there would be a few bags of silver dollars in the carriage. Keep an eye on him."

He didn't have the pretensions of a wealthy family when he was serving Grandma Qiao. Aunt Zhou laughed when she heard his relaxed tone, "It's right and wrong, I hope the master will see it as soon as possible."

It was still dark the next morning, and the snow seemed to be falling even more heavily outside the window.

Qing Mo yawned, rubbed his eyes and kicked the quilt, "Get up..." Then he pushed the hands around his waist, "Get up..."

Tao Cheng hugged him even tighter, buried his head in the hollow of his shoulder, and muttered "I'm sorry".

"Don't wake you up, tell you to get up, let me go..." Qingmo couldn't push and push, the warmth made him sleepy, "I have to get up... help, help Aunt Zhou... "

Tao Cheng couldn't help it, he had to be more sensible to live under the fence, his head was bowed down again, he rubbed off Qingmo's little coat, and opened his mouth towards the tender red spot, biting and sucking, Qingmo would soften the root of his tail all at once, "You Ugh... bastard..."

After messing around in the bed for a while, the two of them got up. They didn't need to be soaked in the wind and snow today, so Qingmo could at least wear it lightly. As soon as he went downstairs and entered the shop, he could smell the aroma of tea eggs.

Seeing the two of them, Zhou Zhu was shocked, "Wake up so early?"

Qing Mo smiled, "Is there anything I can do to help? Both of us can help."

That's really bad, Zhou Zhu listened to a story from the old man before going to bed last night, he was very embarrassed, and wanted to confess the two of them as honored guests, when Aunt Zhou came with a big basket of steamed buns that hadn't been cooked yet. "The journey is exhausting, why don't you sleep more?"

"I'm used to getting up early, and I can't fall asleep. Let's see if there is anything I can do." Qing Mo lied and laughed, "Just give me two tea eggs."

But they refused, and the two put on aprons as they wished. When Aunt Zhou handed the tea eggs to Qingmo, she saw a bruise running through his nails. How painful!"

Holding it in front of my eyes, I realized that there were many large and small scars printed on the palm of Qingmo's hand, and her eyes turned red immediately. Aunt Zhou tore off his apron without saying a word, "No matter what you do, just be honest with me. , you go to the counter and help Qianqian cash register and bookkeeping."

Tao Cheng agreed very much, and also patted him on the back of the head, "Go, I made a mistake and added money to make up for the loss."

Qianqian was still sleeping, and Qingmo was alone at the counter, but the shop became more and more lively one after another, Tao Cheng was busy serving dishes, casserole rice porridge, steamed bun dumplings, sesame seed cakes, and Qingmo watched from the cash register He was busy, and suddenly imagined that the two of them were the shopkeepers of this shop, living the ordinary life of ordinary people, and he didn't know which one was more beautiful, the rural life of men farming and women weaving.

Qianqian's arrival shattered the illusion, Qingmo touched the tip of her nose, "I'll help you from today on."

Qianqian thought she was still dreaming, but she turned her head and saw Tao Cheng greeted the guests, the man exclaimed again after so many people, "Old Zhu! Where did you find such an eye-catching waiter!"