The Golden Crow sank several times, the sky was very cold, the body was cold, and the heart was cold.Meng Yu didn't make up all the lies, since she finished the matter of redeeming Feng Guanren's life, she really didn't bother with her anymore.

Mrs. Feng Guan asked her aunt to invite her several times, and this day she sent someone to invite her again, but no one came. After finishing her dressing, Mrs. Feng turned to find Mengyao to make decisions.Mengtiao just got up, and heard Caiyi come back saying that Dong Mo sent someone to Xiaochanhua Lane and said that he was going to Xiaochanhua Lane to look for Mengtiao in the afternoon.

Meng Tiao wanted to go to Mei Qing's room to tell Liu Chaoru about it, so he had no time to socialize with this little shepherd, so he casually said to the little girl, "Go and send her away."

The little girl faltered and couldn't move, Meng Tiao slapped the flower tin in his hand on the table, turned around, "Oh, why don't you have a clear mind? You said that there are guests at home, and I can't smoke here." Get off and invite her to sit at home some other day."

That girl just left, and Meng Tiao ordered Cai Yi again, "You go to Little Cicada Alley first, I'll go there at noon."

After washing up, she dressed up as "Zhang Yinlian" and went to Mei Qing's room.As soon as she entered the door, Mei Qing was groping for dominoes on the couch, lighting the smoked cage from a distance, Meng Yuan glanced at it, sat down on the couch with a smile, "You just light the smoked cage this day?"

Because of Mei Qing's poor health, she was more spoiled than others, so she started lighting charcoal in early October.A basket of silver bone charcoal costs two renminbi after burning for three to five days. She doesn't think it is expensive, but it is an expense of the house anyway.

She put the cards aside, made the girl take them away, and sneered at Mengyu, "Sister, do you love money? It's not the money of the envoy. The expenses of the house have always been borne by the brother-in-law. I really think he How can my relatives save for him? It’s not worth it, I can afford it myself.”

Meng Tiao almost rolled his eyes and passed out, and immediately his face was not good-looking, "Since you have the ability to spend, you should leave here early, so you don't have to worry about it." After finishing speaking, he regretted that his words were too harsh, bit his lips, and said lightly Frowning, "That Liu Chaoru agreed, and not long after, he invited someone to be a Baoshan, and went to his family to say goodbye. What kind of gift do you want from him, you go and discuss it with your mother."

At the first sight, Mei Qing smiled happily, "Where did he get the money? I don't want him, but my mother raised me, so I should give her some. I'll pay for him as much as she wants."

Because she couldn't get used to her cheerfulness, Meng Yao said: "Mother wants two or three thousand silver, are you willing?"

"Two or three thousand?" Mei Qing immediately changed her color, shook her shoulders and snorted, "Mother really opened her mouth. I'll talk to her old man later."

Mengyu didn't want to interfere in their affairs, when the news got there, she got up to leave.Mei Qing glanced at her plain attire and covered her mouth to laugh, "I heard that my sister recently pretended to be a commoner girl to trick Mr. Dong, the chief secretary, tsk tsk, three or four years have passed in a blink of an eye, although my sister is not old Dealing with people, once dressed up, is still the same as before."

"Nowhere is it better than you, it's always like dancing in a big show." Meng Tiao took a step while supporting the screen, looked back at her, and saw her protruding chin under the water-green screen window, as if she was about to ascend to heaven. Complacent.

After a moment of silence, she stepped back suddenly, looked at Mei Qing and smiled, "I advise you, take care, I don't think you and that Master Liu will be able to make a good talk of 'talented scholar and beautiful woman', but don't make it a joke." OK."

Mei Qing staggered her chin, didn't turn her head, and still looked out of the blurry window. It seemed that there was a thick layer of fog in the late autumn, and all the splendor seemed not so brilliant.

In fact, these words were not intended to curse her intentionally, nor could there be any evidence to prove them, they were just Mengtiao's feelings.Mei Qing didn't take it to heart, and she didn't worry about it even more, and went straight to Xiaochanhua Lane.

On the other side, Dong Mo was still in the future, and Meng Yu couldn't guess what he had to do, so he was bored waiting, and it was cold outside, so he drank tea in the main room.Caiyi put out the Ou melon seeds, ate them and talked to Mengyu about the new things in the alley.

Speaking of the young daughter-in-law who was often beaten by the man next door, Caiyi moved her waist and hips, with her delicate eyebrows fixed, "I heard what the daughter-in-law said. Our house used to live in that family, also surnamed Zhang, and also two sisters." .”

The daughter-in-law also said this before, Mengyu only thought it was Meng Yu who lied to the neighbors, but now it sounds like it is not, this panic is a bit real.She patted the round melon seeds in her hand and thought for a while, "Your master said that he promised a high price for the family he lived in before and told them to move to another place."

"Hmm." Caiyi nodded her chin, and pouted her lips indifferently, "Maybe the master made up the panic through their family. Now that there is such a family, and now there are two sisters, they are not afraid of Dong Mo's investigation."

Mengtiao suddenly remembered the umbrella, so he found Caiyi, opened it and looked closely, the engraved "Silver" was still lying on the handle, and the lotus was still blooming on the umbrella.

She raised her eyes and looked, her heart tightened for no reason, and she smiled, "These two sisters are probably also called Yinlian and Yulian, maybe we stole their names."

Before my thoughts could go far enough, I heard a joke suddenly, "On a sunny day, hold an umbrella and wait for the old world's money?"

Wu was so startled that Mengyu jumped, and turned his head to look. It was Dong Mo standing under the densely packed pagoda tree, with his arms cut. He had stood there for an unknown amount of time and heard something.

Mengyu threw open the umbrella, put her elbows on the window sill, and smiled at him from a distance with her chin propped, "When did you come in? There was no sound of footsteps."

"Just arrived."

He was wearing the dark green round-neck gown "tailored" by Meng Yao, like an old locust tree sculpted into a human shape, so handsome.Meng Tiao was not paying attention for a while, and was fascinated by the color, and her two sharp eyes became more and more bent, "Come in and sit, it's very cold outside."

Dong Mo was still in the same place, tilting his chin slightly, "Girl's boudoir, it's not easy for me to venture into it, right?"

"Who wants you to come into my bedroom? Sit in the main room outside!" Meng Yu gave him a goosey look, grabbed her skirt and jumped to the bed.

Her honey-colored shirt sleeves fluttered at the window, and they were swept away in an instant.Dong Mo watched from afar, lowered his eyes and smiled, and hurriedly walked towards the main room.

The two met again in the dusty hall.The main room was empty, and the table was moved outside the kitchen, only a rattan reclining chair and a bamboo stool leaned against the bottom of the wall.

Mengtiao used the burnt wooden stool as a table, and served refreshments beside each other, and asked Caiyi to move an extra long stool for Dong Mo to sit on.Dong Mo's tall figure matched the "low table", so he felt uncomfortable, so he lowered his back and propped his elbows on his knees.

That's good, if you raise your eyes a little, you can see Meng Yao's face.Mengyu put the dim sum plate in front of him, and didn't ask him why he came, but only said, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Are you asking about lunch or dinner?" Dong Mo tilted his eyes and smiled, and took out some soft balls of thread from his sleeves, "I want you to make a knot for the smoked ball."

Meng Yu's eyes fell to his waist, where a hollowed-out silver smoked ball was hanging, shining brightly and giving off a chill of iron.She also bent down, leaned over, and grabbed it in her hand, "The carving is beautiful, but the cage is not suitable for you, so don't cage it."

She lowered her eyes, pouted her lips, and said "no", as if she was acting like a baby.Dong Mo straightened his waist involuntarily, staring down at her slender fingers caressing the carved patterns of the smoked balls, as if stroking the tortuous meridians all over his body, strangely, he felt a little hot.

Holding the smoked ball in his hand, Meng Tiao looked up and waved his clear eyes, "Did you follow my words?"

Dong Mo's heart was beating so hard that he felt guilty.He twisted the silver chain and pulled the smoked ball back, "You didn't say that because you were lazy, did you?"

"I'm really doing it for your own good." Meng Yu gave him a slight look of hatred, "I have nothing to be lazy about, I can make a network for you, and I can repay the debt, I wish I could."

Speaking of repaying debts, Dong Mo lowered his waist again, "When will the scarves I entrusted you to make be ready? I have agreed with your county lord. I will go to someone's family to say goodbye in November, but don't worry about it." hold up."

Meng Tiao bit her lips and smiled, her voice was light and light, "I'll leave it to you at the end of the month. How much will you pay me this time?"

Dong Mo had no account at all in his heart, so he blurted out: "It's worth five taels, what do you think?"

Meng Tiao was startled, Shuo Shuo opened her round eyes, her chin clenched in shock.For some reason, there were two watery black eyeballs embedded in that milky white skin, which reminded Dong Mo of the bright red husk left on the plump and juicy fresh lychee.

He wanted to peel off the gorgeous broken shells on her cheeks with his hands, but just thinking about it, Meng Yuan whirled into the bedroom like a gust of wind.Dong Mo turned his head and looked into the gap of the indigo door curtain, but he couldn't see anything, he could only hear something rustling inside, which made people's heart flutter, and the pores were numbly itchy.

Soon, Meng Yuan came out again like a gust of wind, smoothing the trembling hairs on his body.She was carrying the booklet with the original blue cover, the threads were not neatly bound, it was obvious that she had ordered it herself.

She flipped through the pages in front of him, Dong Mo's eyes were sharp, and the paper was filled with daily expenses, such as when to buy wool, which day to buy pork, and which day to buy firewood.Turning to a page, it reads "50 taels of silver owed to Dong Zhang Pingwen" in a big way, and there are small characters on the side to record the discounted amount.

After doing some calculations, Mengyu raised his eyes with a smile, "Look, you are only 38 taels short."

The last touch of golden autumn light shone in her eyes, and Dong Mo thought that her happiness was real.He also wanted to make her happier, so he turned his head and called into the bedroom: "Yulian, get a pen."

Meng Yao didn't know what kind of medicine he sold in the gourd, so he waited eagerly.After a while, Caiyi took out a rough brush dipped in ink and handed it to him, and surrounded him with his knees and waist bowed.He raised the pen, brushed off the uneven hairs against the sunny light at the door, fine-tuned the tip of the pen, and wrote on the ledger: "On the eighth day of October, Yinlian smiled, and the discount was equivalent to ten taels."

While he lowered his head, Meng Yuan's smile froze on his face.She worked hard and worked hard to plan, and at this unexpected moment, she knew that he already loved her a little.But she wasn't proud of what she had accomplished, instead she was frightened, because of the uncontrollable joy in her heart.

Even though she didn't want to admit it, the faint green joy in her heart was still like a prisoner who had been imprisoned for many years was suddenly released. Facing the sudden freedom, she was at a loss, hesitant, joyful, and gasped for breath.

Under the old locust tree, it was soft and clear, and Dong Mo didn't need to raise his eyes to know how surprised Meng Yuan was in the silence at this moment.

But he had thought it through, even if she didn't know anything, how he fought against his cautious nature, broke through those contradictory doubts and thoughts, won the painful victory, and came to Meng Tiao.

Even if she is a liar, it is nothing more than defrauding him of some money. If she is more ambitious, she will deceive him into favor, tell him to marry her as his wife, and fulfill her grand wish of flying on a branch and becoming a phoenix.

He thought about it, and it was no big deal.So he wrote a few frivolous words, but his heart was extraordinarily solemn.He returned the pen to Caiyi, raised his sleepy eyelids and looked at Mengyuan.

On the contrary, Meng Tiao was a little at a loss, closed the book with one hand, and carried it to the bedroom.Going under the curtain, she finally sorted out her messy emotions, and looking back at him, it was Meng Yuan who was good at acting, "Is my smile so valuable?"

This woman is so good at playing tricks, Dong Mo was afraid that she would be proud, so he got up with his clothes up, and took two long steps, "It's not that your smile is valuable, it's that I'm rich, and I'm used to being extravagant."

"Bah!" Mengyu spat at him, opened the curtain and went in.

Dong Mo, who was secretly laughing, and Cai Yi, who was confused, were left in the main room.Caiyi felt that some subtle changes had taken place between the two of them, but she didn't understand why this change occurred.I was thinking hard, when I heard the sound of cars rumbling outside the wall, and someone shouted: "Tofu... sell tofu!"

The voice was like singing, ups and downs several times.Caiyi called Mengtiao through the curtain: "Sister, can I buy some tofu?"

Meng Tiao lifted the curtain and came out, "Zhang Ping, you stay for dinner, buy a piece of tofu and fry it." Without waiting for Dong Moying, he took out a few copper coins from the jar and went straight to the courtyard, "Hey, the tofu seller , stand still!"

Dong Mo followed out in a strange manner, and watched Meng Yuan's wooden cart circling around from the gate of the courtyard.The cart was pulled by manpower, and the tofu seller took two bricks to pad in front of the wheel, and the cart was pushed down obliquely.Not only sell tofu, but also soy milk and bean dregs.

Meng Tiao held the bowl and pointed to a square one.The tofu seller saw that she was young and didn't look like a head of the house, so he asked for a price and asked for four coins.

She bargained with others for this piece of tofu, "Where do you want four liters? They are all two liters. You see, I am young, are you cheating on me?"

The tofu seller shouted at the top of his voice, "Ouch, can I make a fortune with just two pennies from you? Two pennies, when is the market going?" He impatiently scooped the tofu into the dream bowl, and walked toward the door. Take a first look, "Look at the dignitary's clothes are so decent, and they don't lack a few pennies. Why does my wife have to argue with me for this little money? Let the neighbors hear it and laugh at it."

Meng Yuan was so embarrassed that he was holding the bowl and his face was flushed.Wu suddenly remembered that when she was a child, Mei Qing refused to show her face to talk to these men walking around the streets, and the old lady also wanted to show her face and refused to bargain, so she had to insist on a few pennies.

In the end, she was stabbed by Mei Qing, saying: "My sister is too stingy to search, is it worth a few pennies?"

Dreaming about it made him angry, and he pretended to pour the tofu back into the barrel.The tofu seller grabbed her, "You fell back and knocked it to pieces, can I still sell it?"

Dong Mo came down from the door, slapped his wrist, and sneered, "If you bully the market again, I'll send you to see an official."

Seeing his style, the tofu seller finally only had two coins.Meng Tiao got angry for no reason, and complained in his heart that he was "difficult to deal with the people", and hated to take a look at this dilapidated alley and go in with a bowl.

Dong Mo followed all the way to the kitchen. Seeing Mengyu's face was ugly, he wanted to coax her, but he didn't know what to say, so he walked slowly around the stove, "May I help you light the fire?"

"You will?" Meng Tiao felt in his heart that it was so easy to escape from this dirty and poor place, and he jumped back because of him, so he blamed him a little.In order to know his emotion, he rolled his eyes more and more confidently, "Don't get your clothes dirty, what will the son of a rich family do..."

He wanted to raise his neck and call for Caiyi, but Dong Mo said, "You can learn it."

He sat down on the short wooden pier under the stove, intending to get close to her world, so he tilted his head and delved into the dark stove for a while, lit and stuffed the hay into it, "What's the problem?"

This is not a dream world, but an illusion created by her.But when she nodded and looked at his face illuminated by the fire, she felt a little dazed, as if they were in their gold-woven cages, releasing the frank and honest souls that should have existed, and creating a dream together.

Dong Mo thought the same way, leaving behind his always sober reason, and putting them all in the complicated officialdom, which shouldn't be put on a little woman.What could she do to him?It's nothing more than a city that loves vanity, and it will not hinder your life.

He threw down the firewood in his hand freely, but unexpectedly overwhelmed the dim light in the stove.Meng Yu squatted down in her skirt and laughed at him, "Who told you to throw such a log in? Burn the thinner ones first." She turned around and picked some dry branches, and stuffed him with a handful of hay, "Order some more."

The light of the fire came back on, and the gurgling gurgled weakly on the dead wood branches, shining brilliantly.Meng Tiao squatted beside him with her knees hugged, raising her eyes from time to time, and he also squinted his eyes from time to time, and the fire was burning in the dark eyes, which burned the gloomy green light to death.

Mengyu put her face on one side, and suddenly tilted her head and asked, "Zhang Ping, who did your mother go with?" She blinked, "Xiechun told me."

Previously, this was a topic that Dong Mo had kept secret, but at this moment, he felt that there was nothing he couldn't tell her, "I don't know, it's one of my grandfather's disciples, I haven't seen it, I was still young at that time." His tone was flat, and he carried a long piece of burning firewood in his hand.

"It must be that your father treated her badly." Mengyu asserted.

"Where did you see it?"

Meng Yu smiled, "A woman, if her life is safe and sound, she can't afford to take such a risk. She elopes and gets caught, it's a big crime."

"My father is not willing to ask her about her crimes. He died because of her illness." The gap in Dong Mo's heart leaked warm blood thinly, "My mother is the sixth daughter of the Guozijian Jijiu family. Daughter, I was very angry at home, and since I married my father, I have been held in his hands. Why she ran away, I can't figure it out. "

The more Meng Yao listened, the more confused he became. He pondered for a while, but couldn't figure out why.She knows men well enough, but she often worries about women, their hearts are too tortuous.

Dong Mo smiled, "Look, you don't understand even if you're a woman. Don't think about it, the pot is hot."

"Oh, I almost forgot!" Meng Yu jumped up and hurriedly burned oil and cut tofu, fried it first, then added water to stew, covered the pot, she squatted back and smiled next to Dong Mo, "Smoky! , you go to the house and wait, I will burn it myself."

Dong Mo didn't move, just sat on the wooden plinth quietly and aggrievedly, and suddenly said: "At present, the taxes of various state capitals are being paid to the chief secretary, and I will probably be a little busy."

Mengyu nodded, and heaved a sigh of relief, "You are busy with your work, and I will never forget the job you entrusted to me."

Unexpectedly, he stretched his long legs and glanced at her casually, "No matter how busy you are, there is always time to come and see you."

Meng Tiao instinctively wanted to escape, but rationally, she had a heavy responsibility on her body, so she had to face the difficulties, and smiled at him with a crooked face, "Call the servant before you come, if I'm not at home, Yulian knows Go find me."

The pot was bubbling and bubbling, and from this day on, it seemed that in the gap between "Zhang Yinlian" and "Meng Yuan", in a fantasy, another life emerged.It was the dream of receiving and giving love, a girl who was strangled by the old lady in poverty.

It is also a prison bird that Meng Yu has been watching all year round. He knows that she exists, but he is still bound by himself and cannot rescue her.

Even Mengyu noticed a subtle change that even Mengyuan himself hadn't noticed.For example, Meng Yu went to Xiaochanhua Lane more and more frequently, for example, that day Lidong, Meng Yu asked the needleworker to take the handkerchief made for Dong Mo to check.

A charcoal basin was lit under the round case, and a gilt-patterned silver smoked cage was placed on the case, in which a cluster of yellow flowers bloomed, shining brightly and dimly on her crabapple-like face.

She held the handkerchief and frowned, "I said earlier that the cloud pattern should not be too complicated. Use silver thread. Look, you embroidered it, it looks like a girl's home. This one is invalid. Bring the thread, and I will embroider it myself." .”

The maid hastily fetched a piece of azure blue satin with a border, and twisted her needlework before going down.Meng Yu wrote the letter to Tai'an Prefecture on the couch, and laughed lukewarmly in the gap, "Dong Mo will not be able to do it like this? A cloud pattern, and so picky."

"He's not particular about it, it's just that the girl in front of him said that he doesn't like cumbersome looks." Meng Tiao locked up the embroidery frame and sat on the opposite couch, "I've talked about it, I'll embroider cumbersome looks again." Go, isn't it because I don't care?"

Meng Yu picked up the veil and continued to write, "Should you be concerned about his affairs?"

Crackling flashed a spark, lighting up a dream.She understood the sourness in his words, and looked at him with a smile, "I don't care about him, how can he care about me?"

With a few rustling sounds, Meng Yu put away the pen and paper, and called the boy to hand in the letter. His tone was as cold as the sky, "Send it to Tai'an Prefecture to Pang Daren, and send a message that it will be delivered next month in the Year of Salt." In Tai'an Prefecture, the money must be collected before the end of the year."

Seeing that the faces of the two of them were cold, the young man didn't dare to stay, so he hurriedly went to receive the letter.Meng Yu got off the couch and told the girl to get his squirrel cloak.Mengyu hesitated for a moment, then pulled the thread and asked, "Where are you going?"

Meng Yu put on her cloak and smiled suavely, "Lord Salt Transport Si Luo is offering wine and treats to guests, go there and don't have to wait for me to eat."

Entertainment is a common thing, Meng Yuan nodded without raising his eyes.She only put down her work after waiting for someone to go out, and chased after Qi Chuang to watch his shadow disappear into the mist.

Meng Yu went out of the mansion here, got into the carriage and sat there for a while, thinking about the noisy banquet, it seemed that it had already started in his mind, the urgency of the waitresses, the adults' cups and glasses, It's so loud.

I can't sit still at home. Sitting there, through Meng Tiao's face, I can see her and Dong Mo sitting in the courtyard of Xiaochanhua Lane and chatting. Two people are under the locust tree, one is sitting on the bench One end of each other, one end at the other, separated by enough distance to make one's heart flutter.

He closed his eyes, and there was a faint pain in his temples.

The little servant didn't hear the order for a long time, so he opened the curtain and asked shyly, "Master, where are you going?"

He was silent for a while, bent his back, rubbed his face in his hands, and let out a sigh of relief, "I don't know if Miss Zhang has recovered from her illness. Go and see her."

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