embroidery

Tao Cheng came to the backyard of the brothel with a bundle in his hand, and when he pushed open the low gate of the fence, he woke up the dozing boy.

The boy hurriedly got up, and the book in his arms fell to the ground, he picked it up and patted it with an "oops", and then came to Tao Cheng, "Master Tao."

Tao Cheng nodded in response, and asked, "Is he awake?"

The boy replied, "When I got up at midnight, I drank a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and then I ordered the boy to move the deck chair under the tree by the lake, and rested again." Afraid that Tao Cheng would think that he would take a nap because he didn't take good care of him, he shivered. She said something for herself, "Young master sees that Young Master sleeps so sweetly, so I'm so hungry, I hope Eldest Young Master..."

"It's nothing." Tao Cheng gently curled the corners of his lips, "Am I looking fierce or unkind?"

Unparalleled handsome, too dazzling, the young servant was shaken and shouted in his heart, "It's going to kill me", he put up the painting book with both hands, and said, "Young master ordered the little one to find it, and he said he wanted the pictures to be exquisite and beautiful. , Young Master was already asleep when the younger one came back, so he didn't go up to disturb him."

Tao Cheng took the book, flipped through it hastily, and paced back and forth, "Go down, I'll just stay here."

Most of the pictures in the book are flowers, plants, fish and insects. Tao Cheng knew without thinking that this person wanted to embroider again. He sighed with a smile, closed the book, raised his head, and stopped when he was about to take a big step .

In his eyes, Qingmo was sleeping on the couch with his head tilted, defenseless, with one hand hanging by his side, and the other holding a leafless willow branch in his arms, and his long ink-like hair was not tied up , blowing slightly in the breeze, with a lazy and graceful appearance.

Tao Cheng stood there for a while, and then approached softly after he had enjoyed enough, put the bundle and books on the stone table beside him, bent over and sat on the stone bench again, stretched out his hand into Qingmo's fluttering hair, was caught It was a little itchy, from the palm of the hand to the heart.

Here Tao Cheng is in a daze, while Qingmo there is about to be unable to pretend, he is silently reciting some wild poem in his heart, "Under the willow tree, the beauty is lying, the willow flowers are falling, pecked between the lips", and then suddenly " The word "peck" hurts, I did all the intimate things last night, but Tao Cheng, Qingmo tried hard to think back for a few moments, Tao Cheng definitely didn't peck between his lips.

Qingmo also fell like a willow flower, falling directly from the clouds into the dust, he felt wronged, he was not willing to play any pretend games, he suddenly clenched the wicker in his hand, opened his eyes, waved his arms, and caught where Where to smoke.

Tao Cheng received a whip that was neither light nor heavy, and his eyes were filled with smiles. He looked at Qing Mo even more resentful, his hands became more and more disorganized, and he acted like a 12-year-old naughty boy. Watching him go through a few tricks in vain, and then easily folded Qingmo's wrists with one hand and locked them in front of his chest, "Is it such a temper to disturb you to take a nap?"

Qingmo glared at Tao Cheng with what she thought was the most fierce eyes, but in fact the drum in her heart was about to be smashed, "You, kiss me once, and I'll calm down."

Tao Cheng just laughed, touched Qingmo's back waist with the other hand and squeezed, "Are you still uncomfortable?"

Qingmo was sore and itchy from being kneaded, and begged for mercy, "Master, please do me a favor!"

Tao Cheng withdrew his hand, "Who called me by my first name and surname last night, don't mention it? Please help me think about it."

Qingmo choked, stuck her neck, and broke the jar, "Kiss me once, and I'll help you think about it."

Tao Cheng laughed again, his mouth was slippery, and he really wanted to be beaten, so he went to snatch his willow branch, Qingmo held on tightly and refused, flicking his wrist, he threw the flexible branch out of a series of waves, "You What do you want to do, are you going to whip me?"

The willow branch still fell into Tao Cheng's hands, he was curious, "Where are the leaves?"

Qingmo was still firmly imprisoned, unable to move, so he simply rogue to the end, "Kiss me once, and I'll tell you."

Tao Cheng was in a good mood when he was offended, he tapped Qing Mo's lips with the tip of a willow stick, "Why do you want to kiss?"

The word "think" choked in his throat, and then he felt embarrassed, Qingmo's whole body was on fire, because of his self-indulgence and wishful thinking, he immediately dissipated his playful arrogance, murmured Said, "There is no reason, if you don't kiss, then don't kiss."

Tao Cheng let go of him, played with the willow sticks, and changed the subject, "You don't need to call me 'Master' from now on. Firstly, you are no longer a servant of Tao's family. Secondly, it doesn't please my ears. I told you before. Bar."

"...Mmm." Qing Mo rubbed his wrists. In the past, the two of them hid in the rockery and met secretly. Tao Cheng would take out peanut crisps, glutinous rice cakes and other treats carefully for Qing Mo to eat from his skirt or cuffs. Qing Mo After happily saying "Thank you, Master", Tao Cheng withdrew his hand and threatened with delicious food, "If you call me 'Master' again, there will be no delicious food."

As a result, the seven-year-old Qing Mo was probably the only servant in Tao Mansion who dared to call the young master by his full name.

Tao Cheng pulled him up, the soreness overflowed from between the flesh and blood, Qing Mo grinned in pain, his shoes were not on, and his bare white feet stepped on the green grass, Tao Cheng frowned and said, " Bad habits."

With a listless mind, Qingmo didn't want to talk to him, but she couldn't bear to talk to him, slowly curled up her legs and stepped on the edge of the recliner, with her hands wrapped around her, looking like she was being wronged and punished.

Tao Cheng laughed again, "Get up, get up and move."

Qingmo let out a reluctant "uh", and with a flash of inspiration, he hurriedly asked about the business, "Well... You let me stay here for the time being... Yes, yes, you want to keep me..."

Tao Cheng raised his eyebrows, "Think of you as a young lady?"

Qing Mo said "hmm", but she didn't dare to look at him, "I guessed, I'll just guess..."

"Let me ask you," Tao Cheng smiled, "Which young lady would dare to beat his guests with a willow stick?"

Qingmo whispered, "Isn't this... fun..."

Tao Cheng laughed amusedly, "Ah? What's wrong with you? Say it again."

Qingmo pretended to be deaf and dumb, and even persevered in wanting to say "you kiss me and I'll say it".

Tao Cheng stood up and saw that the other side of the deck chair was empty, so he went back to the house and took out Qingmo's shoes, "Put on well, the weather is warm, but here is near the lake, the humidity is heavy, be careful of the wind and cold."

After being sweetened, Qingmo finally felt better. He put on his shoes obediently, and any muscle that was stretched during the movement was terribly painful. His buttocks were glued to the recliner, and he raised his head and hummed, "It's going to fall apart, really, You haven't tried it, you don't know."

Without saying a word, Tao Cheng bent down and picked up Qingmo horizontally, and carried him to another willow tree before putting him down, "Hold him, twist his waist, and kick his legs."

Qingmo was full of reluctance, put his hands on the tree trunk, and thought about the movement of twisting his waist, but he couldn't do it, it was too shameful, so he stepped back and kicked Tao Cheng, "Do I look like a young man?" A bad old man over half a hundred."

Tao Cheng smiled lightly, turned around and leaned against the tree trunk with his chest in his arms, "You guessed that my mother sold you here, right?"

Qing Mo was taken aback for a moment, and remained silent.

"It's indeed my mother." Tao Cheng seemed to sigh.

Last night he talked with the teacher for a while, and when he returned to the mansion, it was already dark. As soon as he dismounted from his horse, he bumped into a short man who was born on the same side. Tao Cheng was a little surprised. He cursed like a stone in his mouth, probably because he was dissatisfied with the bank notes in his hand, and stuffed them into the skirt of his clothes after making a mess.

Tao Cheng thought he was a thief with dirty hands, and was surprised that he dared to sneak into their Tao mansion blatantly, and threw him against the wall as soon as he caught him, "Sneaking while it's dark?"

The man stared, and the banknotes in his arms were scattered all over the floor. He waved Tao Cheng away in annoyance, and squatted down to pick them up, "Sneaking? It's the Tao family who are stalking, right? They're even a rich man, selling them secretly." People, still squishing and swishing."

The scolding was so vague that Tao Cheng could only understand a few words. After the man stood up again, he picked up the collar and threw the man into the dark corner. He pinched the man's throat with his fingers. Let that person only vent his anger.

"What exactly are you doing? Tell me clearly, sneaking around at the door of my Tao Mansion."

The short man struggled wildly, holding Tao Cheng's arm and pushing and scratching, Tao Cheng loosened his strength, "Say."

"I said, ahem, said," the man gasped for breath, his words didn't make sense, "I'm going to sell someone to a brothel, I can't handle it, and I even hired a big man to help me carry him, which is not enough money We split."

Tao Cheng asked, "Sell someone to a brothel? Someone from Tao's mansion?"

"I'm quite handsome, but why did I get a scar on my neck? The person in charge caught me and confiscated twenty gold ingots from me," the man was angrily, "The woman in charge of your house is also so stingy, and turned back on her promises." , saying that I didn’t sell enough, and I only paid half of the agreed 100 taels..."

Tao Cheng was so startled that his heart trembled violently. He let go of his hands and turned around to get on the horse. He turned back and took out a handful of broken gold and silver from his arms, and threw them all at the man who fell to the ground. "Weigh it yourself, shut up!" .”

While picking up gold and silver, the man coughed and muttered, "Who cares to say that there is no good thing."

The city of Suzhou is rich and rich, and there are many brothels. Tao Cheng was lucky. The first one let him find the right place. Tao Cheng tilted his head to look at the person who changed his legs and flung himself around. thousand.

"Do you know why my mother hates you so much?" Tao Cheng asked, "Why did she suddenly sell you to a brothel?"

"I'm unlucky, she doesn't want me to play with you." Qingmo murmured rather dejectedly, "I don't know why she betrayed me, but anyone who wants to come to the house will be happy to see me disappear. Except Aunt Zhou," she said, raised her eyes to Tao Cheng, and then quickly retracted her eyes, "Except for you, everyone else despises me as an unlucky person and stays far away from me."

Tao Cheng was speechless for a moment, his chest ached from the sadness in his heart.

Qingmo stopped kicking, hugged the tree trunk, and lazily glued himself to it, his face was a little bit worn on the bark, he said, "It's a blessing in disguise, no one knows who I am now, I finally got rid of it." After arriving in Tao Mansion, I am actually a little happy."

Tao Cheng walked behind him, and pressed his hands on his waist without saying hello. The strength of his martial arts hands should not be underestimated. Qingmo's face turned pale from the sudden pain, and his wailing sounded like nothing. There was still joy last night, but there was only pain left, "Are you going to kill me!"

Tao Cheng exerted light force, and massaged skillfully, but after a few strokes, Qingmo hummed comfortably. Tao Cheng said, "Since my mother sold you to the brothel, you should stay in the brothel. If you know what to do, do it, lest she What is it that hurts your mind again?"

Qingmo responded with "hmm", "Listen to you, I'm not going anywhere." After a pause, he continued, "If your mother finds out, you won't be as relaxed as Shiban, right?"

Tao Cheng stared at Qing Mo condescendingly, seeing his face pressed against the tree trunk, his lips pouting into flesh when he spoke, Tao Cheng laughed, "It might kill me directly."

Qingmo laughed "hehehe", "Then be careful, don't die."