Chang'an Ferry

The moon was in the middle of the sky, and the evening breeze was blowing. The servants of the Mu family brought the tea and snacks prepared in advance to the yard and then retreated.

"Brother, you must remember to write more letters," Mu Yanying said.

While fiddling with the tea set, Mu Dingyang said, "Well, yes."

"Ding Yang is a boy who is usually a little careless, A Cai, please take care of him," Jiang Ning instructed.

Miao Acai nodded with a blushing face, "Madam, don't worry."

"Brother, you have to express that, you see, sister Acai has taken care of you." Mu Yanying kept winking at Mu Dingyang, and Miao Acai listened carefully.

Mu Dingyang nodded, "A Cai is 19 years old this year. I heard from my teacher before that if a woman gets married and has children too early, it is not good for her health."

Miao A Cai's face suddenly turned red.

Jiang Ning glared at Mu Dingyang unhappily, "Get married first, and then you can take your time to have children."

Miao Acai wanted to find a crack to get in. Mu Dingyang looked at Miao Acai and said with a smile, "I'll go to Miao's father to propose marriage when I return to Sichuan. I hope my mother will prepare the dowry."

"Okay, I'll personally deliver the dowry when the time comes," Mu Yanying raised her hand and said happily.

"Okay!" Jiang Ning took a bracelet from his wrist and pulled it over Miao Acai's hand, "I prepared this in advance, and it will be a member of our Mu family from now on."

"Ma'am" Miao Acai called softly.

Jiang Ning patted Miao Acai's hand, "I'm waiting for you to change your name next time."

"Then mother, you should prepare the red envelope," Mu Dingyang said bluntly.

"It's natural." Jiang Ning nodded, "You too, please take care of A Cai and don't be busy with business."

"Mother, don't worry," Mu Dingyang said seriously.

"Your Excellency is fine," Miao A Cai whispered, her face was already blushing.

"Oh, look at Sister Acai protecting her brother," Mu Yanying said, holding her face.

Mu Dingyang took a piece of snack and stuffed it into Mu Yingying's mouth, "You will meet again in the future, don't worry"

"No." Wiping her mouth, Mu Yanying retorted.

"Okay, it's too early for Yan Ying to be young, let's watch the moon." Jiang Ning changed the subject.

Since Mu Dingyang was leaving early tomorrow morning, he didn't look at the moon for long before going back to rest.

The next day when Mu Yanying woke up and went to Mu Dingyang's yard, it was already quiet, and she called a servant to clean up, "Second brother, has he left already?"

"Yes, the second son said he was afraid that the third son would cry." The servant said truthfully, and Mu Yanying rolled her eyes in her heart, so I wouldn't cry. "I see, you should be busy!"

"Mother" Mu Yanying walked into Jiang Ning's yard, Jiang Ning was looking at the account book, "Second brother left without saying hello"

"Your second brother is afraid that we will be sad." Jiang Ning changed another book and continued to read, "This year's autumn hunting will not be held. If you want to go, go and play."

"Well, good." Mu Yanying nodded, but she didn't know where to go! "Then mother, you are busy slowly"

"Wait a minute" Jiang Ning closed the account book "I made you a pair of shoes to try" Jiang Ning took out a pair of shoes from the back room and squatted down.

"Mother, I'll do it myself" Mu Yanying hurriedly stopped, put it on by herself, and walked back and forth in the room a few times, "It's very soft, thank you mother"

"I originally wanted to make a suit, but I've been busy during this period and only made a pair of shoes." Jiang Ning said, carefully looking at Mu Yanying's figure, secretly thinking that he must find time to make a suit "Go out and play." If you want to spend money, go to the cashier to get it, don't wrong yourself"

"Don't worry! Mother" Mu Yanying hugged Jiang Ning's arm and acted like a baby.

Jiang Ning stroked Mu Yanying's hair, "Childish!"

Although Autumn Hunting is not going to be held, Mu Yanying's usual friend Shaolin Chen is not around and doesn't know where to go to play. She wants to ask Li Shengye if he has time, but as a prince, he can't be so free, and he is a little bored for a while.

"My lord, the post from the Fourth Highness" Qing Shu came in holding the post.

Mu Yanying took over, "A Ye asked me what plans I have for the next few days?"

"Then it just so happens that you can go out to play with His Highness the Fourth Highness." Qing Shu said as he prepared his pen and ink, "Do you want to reply to Your Highness?"

"Yeah" Mu Yanying quickly wrote "You go there yourself"

"Yes"

Li Shengye put away the map, "Tomorrow I will wait for Yiying at the mansion"

"Yes" Qingshu rushed back all the way after receiving Li Shengye's reply letter, "My lord, let's pack up quickly."

Early the next morning, when Mu Yanying went out, she saw Li Shengye standing by the pillar looking up at the sky boredly, "Aye"

"This time I plan to take a carriage with you," he said, taking a bundle from his shoulders.

"Well, Qingshu came back yesterday and said that he saw you looking at the map and guessed that the place you were going to be a little far away, so he cleaned it up yesterday." Mu Yanying said.

"Yeah" I stretched out my hand to help Mu Yuying get into the carriage and sat down together, "I'm planning to go to Mingyue City, there will be a flower show in the city during this time, besides, the mountains outside the city are full of maple trees, and it just turns red during this time."

"Well, by the way, Aye, didn't my uncle arrange things for you?" Mu Yanying knew that my uncle had arranged many things for several princes in recent years.

"Father rushed to finish the work two days ago, so he simply let me go on vacation," Li Shengye said.

While speaking, we reached the gate of the city, because the emperor gave the ministers a holiday, so there was a long queue at the gate of the city, and they all took this opportunity to go out to play. When Mu Yanying opened the curtain, he saw Er Er riding a horse to maintain order at the gate of the city. Prince Li Shengqi.

"Aye, why is the second prince here?" Mu Yanying asked, and at the same time the second prince saw them and his expression changed immediately, but he snorted heavily because of his official duties, and rode to the other side .

"Aye, why does the Second Highness seem to dislike us?" Mu Yanying said suspiciously

Li Shengye shook his head indifferently, "Originally he planned to take the opportunity to go hunting, but my third brother and I gave him the task of guarding, so he was very upset."

"Ah, how could the Second Highness agree with his temper" and won't make a fuss?Mu Yanying thought.

"Third brother is using the excuse of taking the little princess out to relax. As for me, I just finished what my father told me, so second brother can't postpone it anyway..." Li Shengye said.

It happened that the carriage passed by Li Shengqi. Li Shengqi was not happy when he saw Li Shengyu go out at first, but now he saw Li Shengye going out leisurely, and his nose turned out of anger, "Look, I'll go up to the tower to see" ?Hair!Li Shengqi felt that he was about to explode.

But the weather didn't work out, the sky was still clear when I went out in the morning, and the sky began to change in the afternoon, and there was a heavy rain coming.

"My lord, the inns in the city are full," Qing Shu ran over against the wind and rain and said loudly.

Fortunately, the rainproof measures for the carriage were well done, but the rain was loud outside. Mu Yiying didn't hear what Qing Shu said clearly, and Li Shengye didn't dare to lift the curtain, "Is there no room?"

"That's right! There are a lot of people who came out to play today and they all live here when it rains," Qing Shu said loudly.

"Hey, can't you find a place to live?" An old man in a bamboo hat and coir raincoat ran over carrying a burden.

"Yes! Old man, do you know where there is a free inn?" Qing Shu asked hastily.

"My house has it, do you want to live in my house?" the old man said.

Qing Shu hurriedly climbed into the carriage to convey to Mu Yanying and Li Shengye, "It's raining so heavily, why hasn't this old man gone back?" Mu Yingying asked suspiciously.

Li Shengye looked up at the four walls of the carriage, "No matter what, let's find a place to settle down first" and took out a sword from the hidden compartment. Seeing this, Qing Shu nodded and retreated.

"Don't worry." Li Shengye handed the dagger hidden in the boot to Mu Yanying, "Keep this for self-defense"

"This, isn't it?" Mu Yanying took the dagger nervously, Li Shengye smiled reassuringly, "Just in case"

The old man's home is on the outskirts of the city, Qing Shu drove the carriage through one alley after another and finally arrived at the old man's house, "Here?"

The old man jumped out of the carriage, "Turn left from my house and walk for a while and you will see the official road. You can go straight out tomorrow." Then he went to open the fence, "Just enough to pull the carriage in, come in quickly!"

Qing Shu glanced at Chu Ping, then pulled the carriage in, "Come on, come quickly, park the carriage here." The old man built a shed in the yard, and he cleaned it up and greeted Qing Shu, "It's good luck, my son and daughter-in-law are here today." I’m driving a donkey cart back to my mother’s house, you can just put the cart in here” and then shouted into the house, “Old lady, I’m back”

When Chu Ping jumped out of the carriage, the old man saw the sword he was holding, and suddenly he was a little afraid that he might have attracted evil people!

"Young Master" Chu Ping stretched out his hand, Mu Yanying put on the cloak and came down under Chu Ping's hand, Li Shengye followed closely behind, the old man saw that Li Shengye was also holding a sword in his hand and backed away a few steps in fright, my God!Another one with a sword!

"Aye" Mu Yanying signaled Li Shengye to put the sword away, "Old man, don't be afraid, we are not bad people"

The old man was slightly taken aback when he heard the voice, what a handsome man!Li Shengye blocked the old man's sight in displeasure.

The wife of the "old man" opened the door and leaned out to see Mu Yanying and his party in surprise.

The old man quickly laughed, "I met this on the road, they have no place to stay" and then greeted, "Come in quickly, a lot of noble people have come to the city today, and the inn is full."

"Oh, so that's how it is, come in quickly!" The old woman opened the door, and Qing Shu was the first to go in, looking left and right before turning sideways to let Mu Yanying and the others come in.

"Oh, you're all wet, I'll boil water for you." The old woman wiped her hands and walked to the kitchen.

"It's okay, mother-in-law, I'll boil the water." Qing Shu put down his burden and followed, the old woman didn't think too much, "Young man, you're all wet, it's okay, let's go to the fire to dry your clothes."

"Old man, I don't know if your house has a spare room." Li Shengye asked, because of the heavy wind and rain, the hem of Mu Yanying's clothes was already wet.

"Yes, I will take you to my son's room." The old man pushed open the door, "There are clean sheets and quilt covers in the cabinet, and I will get them for you."

"Thank you, old man." Mu Yanying took off the cloak and put it on a shelf, Li Shengye opened the bag, "Old man, we will change the sheets, please."

"Okay, okay." The old man put down the things in his hands, "I don't want to disturb you, I will call you when the water is ready."

"Thank you." Li Shengye stepped forward and closed the door, "Aying, quickly change your wet clothes."

"Yeah." Then Mu Yanying looked at Li Shengye, and Li Shengye turned around belatedly, "Just in case I'm still inside, I won't look!"

"That's not what I mean, I want to ask if your clothes are wet, do you want to change?" Mu Yanying said jokingly.

Li Shengye twitched the corners of his mouth, but he really didn't have the courage to turn around, took a few steps back, took his own clothes and changed them at a very fast speed, "Aying, hurry up, don't catch a cold."

"Um"

"My lord, the hot water is ready, hurry up and wash up," Qing Shu shouted from outside.

Since the old man's house is not so particular, he had to simply wash up. "You two, come over and enjoy the fire." The old man waved his hands.

"Thank you, old man. I don't know what the old man's name is?" Mu Yanying took the hot soup from Qing Shu, took a sip, and immediately felt warm all over her body.

The old man added some firewood, "My surname is Liu, you can call me Old Man Liu, that's my wife"

"Oh, Grandpa Liu, Granny Liu" Mu Yanying called them politely.

"Oh, you are too polite, sir." Old man Liu waved his hand.

"The firewood room has been tidied up. Fortunately, the child has repaired it before and there is no leakage." Granny Liu and Chu Ping came over.

"Thank you, mother-in-law, come and eat something soon." Mu Yanying picked up the things she bought during the day, and mother-in-law Liu shook her head, "I've already eaten!"

"Oh." Mu Yanying nodded.

Granny Liu sat down next to Old Man Liu, hesitant to speak, Li Shengye asked, "Does Granny have any questions?"

"Eh..." Granny Liu glanced at Mu Yanying, "You are really blessed."

Li Shengye: ...

Granny Liu said again, "Your daughter-in-law is so pretty!"

"Pfft..." Mu Yanying couldn't hold back and sprayed out, "Grandma, I'm not!"

"Old woman" Mr. Liu pulled his old woman, "Both others are boys"

"Ah! It's not like it! It's like..." Granny Liu stopped talking, "I'm sorry, my old lady's eyesight is dull."

"Oh, it's okay!" Mu Yanying shook her head, took the handkerchief from Qingshu's hand and wiped it by herself.

Qing Shu scooped up a bowl again, "Grandma's eyes are too far away."

Li Shengye didn't speak, and lowered his head to hold back the thoughts in his heart, daughter-in-law!Um!nice!

"Okay, you've been driving for so long, you should all rest! But I don't know how you arrange it." Old man Liu was a little embarrassed, and he asked them to come to his house because his house was indeed a bit rough.

"My lord, how do you arrange it?" Qing Shu asked.

Mu Yingying glanced at Li Shengye and saw that he lowered his head and wondered what he was thinking, "Uncle Ping went to clean up the woodshed just now, how did it go?"

"My lord, you can't live in a firewood house." Qing Shu waved his hand.

"After laying some hay, the old man came over with a quilt. Qing Shu and I slept there, and the young master and the fourth young master lived in the room," Chu Ping said.

"Yeah." Mu Yanying nodded, "Aye, do you have any objections?" Seeing that Li Shengye was still in a daze, "Aye!"

"What?" Li Shengye came to his senses and asked suspiciously.

"I said, I live in the same room with you, do you have any comments?" Mu Yanying felt that Li Shengye was a little strange today, and was always in a daze.