marry a weak waist

The autumn light was still sunny, and the clouds and water were already chilly. Liu Chaoru had just returned from Nanjing. Hearing that Dong Mo was ill, he didn't even bother to go to Meng's house to pick up Mei Qing.

I had to meet Dong Mo in the room, and saw that he was fine, but he was sick and thin, a little lack of energy, and greeted him with a smile, "Please go to Nanjing for this trip, and it will make you newlyweds separate for a long time, I am very sorry.”

Liu Chaoru didn't care much, but was worried about his illness, and he couldn't show that sad look, so he could only tease, "You have been ill twice this year, Jinan seems to be a bit out of character with you. .”

Mentioning something on Dong Mo's mind, he turned around bleakly, and led Liu Chaoru to sit on the chair, "You are really right. This place really beats me. When I came here, I originally planned to sort out the salt affairs in Jinan. Jing Hao was promoted to Zhengdu Censor. I never thought that it would be a waste of money."

Liu Chaoru was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

The windows in the study were wide open on all sides, and the wind was a little heavy, which made Dong Mo cough.The young man hurried in and closed the window, and took the medicine.Dong Mo ate half of the bowl, heaved a sigh of relief, went to the desk and took a letter for him to read.

The letter was written by Dong Mo's grandfather, and there were not many words, but the words were sonorous and forceful, and Dong Mohao was furiously reprimanded.Liu Chaoru frowned, "What does this mean? What do you mean by 'disgraceful behavior and dishonoring the family'? You have never even been to Luoying Lane in Jinan, how did you come up with these words?"

Dong Mo's eyes were slightly cold, and he sneered with slanted lips, "Do you still remember that Miss Yinlian?" Liu Chaoru nodded suspiciously, guessing something, but never thought of what he said:

"She wasn't called 'Zhang Yinlian', but Mengyu, and she was Meng Yu's first wife."

Liu Chaoru was shocked by this, and stayed for a while, then leaned over and nearly knocked down the teacup, "You mean, the Meng Futai used his new wife to play a trick?"

"Shang Mengyu accused me of being obsessed with prostitution and leisure, disregarding etiquette and law, and taking plunder. The emperor's decree came to Jinan in about two days, and asked Jia Shenzheng to review the matter and transfer me back to Beijing to report on my duties."

"Then what about the Jinan side?" Liu Chaoru got up from his seat in embarrassment, and took two quick steps with his arms scissored, "On the other side of Nanjing, the person surnamed Xie has already confessed to Zhang Mi, as long as Zhang Mi is caught and pried open his If you don’t talk, you can sit down and decide that Meng Yu is forming a party for selfish purposes and is short of national wealth. How can you be transferred back to Beijing at this juncture?”

Dong Mo coughed twice against his fist, and then laughed mockingly, "I still don't understand? The emperor doesn't want to investigate for the time being, so he sent me back to Beijing to protect Chu Pei and not offend my old lady. Meng Yu's move It is just in line with the holy will to raise the soup and stop the boiling, and send a person recommended by Chu Pei to judge Zhang Mi's crime, and Chu Pei decides what to do, so that big things can be turned into small things."

"Then those confessions in Nanjing, aren't they just waste paper?"

"Of course it's not waste paper. The emperor gave Chu Pei face, and Chu Pei has to pay the emperor an explanation. It can only be justified in front of the court and my old lady." Dong Mo raised his hand and asked him to go back to his seat, "Zhang Mi is running anyway. I can't drop it. I've thought about it carefully, if I go back to Beijing, you will meet with Shao Yu, he has been watching the private salt in and out of the salt class, as long as the evidence is convincing, I will find the right time in Beijing to attend Meng Yu again. "

However, Liu Chaoru was a little discouraged, "The timing... I don't know how long it will take. Chu Pei is so proud now that even the emperor protects such a thing. I'm afraid that if he waits a little longer, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will become his henchmen." , in the future, he will have more wings and will be more and more difficult to handle."

Dong Moyi smiled, "The emperor protects him at this time, just because of a moment of arrogance, and Chu Pei's flattery to the villain is just right. Just wait and see, there will be wars in the north in two years, and the emperor will rely on others at that time." , so I can’t take care of him. Don’t be impatient, think about how many courtiers have accomplished one thing since ancient times, and it would take a few years? It’s hard to be eager for quick success and quick profit.”

After his persuasion, Liu Chaoru could only feel relieved, and sighed with a smile on his eyes: "You are still in a hurry when you encounter this kind of thing. What about this scandal on you? How do you plan to clean it up?"

At this moment, Dong Mo's face showed a trace of disappointment, "Mrs. Meng Yu has already testified to Jia Shenzheng about the scar on my chest, and I can't tell it apart even if I have a long mouth all over my body."

Besides, he himself is not innocent, he smiled, "I can't make excuses, a little affair between a man and a woman will neither damage my career nor kill me, but I will be punished with a cane."

"From what it means, you seem to have noticed the identity of this Yinlian girl early in the morning, so why did you fall for this?"

Dong Mo lightly scraped the tea bowl twice, took a sip of tea, and put the tea bowl on the table casually, his movements were gentle as if it was an insignificant matter, "That's why I really deserve this punishment, maybe I can put my mind to sleep." Wake up."

Although he spoke lightly, Liu Chaoru could still feel that he was frustrated, and he didn't know whether it was for public or private reasons. In short, his thin eyelids were drooping slightly downwards, and his eyelashes held up a wisp of ruined twilight.

After a while Liu Chaoru was about to go back, Dong Mo went back to the room alone, Xie Chun was bringing medicine for him, and while his eyes were buried in the bowl, she pretended not to say: "I heard from the servants of the Meng family, Miss Came back from Suzhou."

Dong Mo took the medicine for a long time, and his mouth has long been used to it, and he doesn't feel it is very bitter.Now bowl after bowl is being stored in my stomach, but I feel that Wu Nei is bitterly marinated, and it floats to the surface, "Yeah."

He took the veil and wiped his mouth, couldn't help but cast a sideways glance at Xie Chun, "Does she have something to say?"

Xie Chun took the bowl and turned her back, slightly shaking her head.

The matter was clear and clear, but Dong Mo still harbored some vague thoughts, wanting her to send a letter, even if he refuted it for herself.She didn't receive a letter, and she wanted to wait for the day when Jia Shenzheng was questioned, and when she met her, she would ask her in person.

From this point of view, what he said to Liu Chaoru just now was not angry words, while he was thinking this way, he really hoped that a stick of stick could break the little remnants in his heart.He couldn't help despising himself.

But he said that Liu Chaoru resigned that day and went home thinking about it, always thinking of the scene when Dong Mo led Meng Yuan to his house.The two men were chatting freely in the small hall inside the screen, while Meng Tiao sat alone outside the screen.

She has an oval face, her eyebrows are not like a weak willow, and she has the heroic spirit of a man.Fortunately, there are two pools of clear water floating in the eyes, which are full of water, which balances the heroic spirit, making the whole person look extraordinarily clean and elegant.There was a charcoal basin under her skirt, so she bent her back, put her elbows on her knees, and quietly warmed her hands there.

At that time, Liu Chaoru didn't talk too much, it wasn't that he was indifferent to his friend's private affairs, it was just because he thought they were so well matched, she and Dong Mo seemed to be squeezed out of one fetal bone, both of them had a bookish air of cold fragrance, When you open the book, there is a happy ending.So he didn't even bother to comment.

Now he was greatly surprised, and the next day he took the excuse of taking Mei Qing home to the Meng Mansion to inquire.

Seeing him coming to pick her up, Mei Qing wanted to roll her eyes to the back of her head, she didn't even bother to say hello to him, and sat on the couch, "You came back so early? I thought you were going to spend a new year in Nanjing before coming." .”

Liu Chaoru knew that she was dissatisfied with him, and it happened that he was also dissatisfied, so she never cared about her indifferent attitude, so she could only talk to her, "After finishing my business, I will come back naturally, and there are many things waiting for me in this yamen."

Mei Qing cast a sidelong glance and caught him again.In terms of appearance, Liu Chaoru can definitely be regarded as heroic and graceful.At that time, Mei Qing wanted to marry him precisely because she was so fascinated by seeing him.It's just that no matter what you do, I can't imagine that he has the pedantic nature of a scholar, but he is also a stubborn person. He doesn't listen to persuasion, no matter how you persuade him, he will never flatter in officialdom.

Thinking about Mei Qing's furious anger, she came up again, "Since you are busy with something, what are you rushing to pick me up for? You just keep busy!"

Liu Chaoru forced a smile, "You don't bother me here for a long time, do you?"

The incense in the jade furnace was very cold, Mei Qing took it down and put it on the kang table, turned around and looked at the incense tower in the cage, without looking at him, "This is my natal family, my mother and sister are here, I will stay for a while What's the trouble? My mother, sister, and brother-in-law haven't disliked me yet, but you are the first to dislike me, why are you?"

Liu Chaoru's heart skipped a beat, and her smile cooled down. "It's up to you. I'll go see my mother-in-law first."

Just as she was about to get up, she didn't expect that the old lady was coming, and she was still outside, so her voice came to the bedroom first, "Mei Qing, come with me to visit your sister, and I heard that she is a little sick. Most likely it's from the front..."

As soon as he opened the curtain and entered the door, he saw Liu Chaoru, with a look of surprise on his face, and then changed his mouth, "Hey, when did you come back?"

Liu Chaoru smiled at him, and only thought of clapping his hands when he was behind. "My son-in-law just arrived yesterday, and today I came to see my mother-in-law. I brought a few pieces of material from Nanjing, which were woven by Jiangning, and brought them to my mother-in-law along the way."

Sure enough, there were four or five pieces of material piled up under the window on the couch, he moved aside, and the old lady sat over to touch it.

It's really a good material made inside, and it costs several taels for a horse. I don't know how he saved money to buy it.Anyway, the old lady didn't care about these things, just touched the material and nodded and smiled, "Okay, I was thinking about cutting clothes, and your fresh colors and patterns came just in time."

Liu Chaoru sat down on the stool and brought up the matter, "Did you just say that sister was sick?"

The old lady and Mei Qing exchanged glances in secret, and sighed, "Yes, we went to Suzhou for a while, and there was probably a wind on the way back, so we won't have the energy to talk, just sleep in the room." Then I heard the girl say Ask the doctor to prescribe two medicines, and I am taking them now."

Liu Chaoru took advantage of the situation and got up, "I should go to see my sister. Ever since I got married to Mei Qing, my sister has been exhausted by our marriage, so I haven't seen her yet."

Meng Tiao followed Dong Mo to meet Liu Chaoru before, and they both knew about it, but they all pretended to be good and didn't expose it.Right now, Mei Qing is afraid that because of this relationship, when Liu Chaoru goes to see him, Mengyu will talk nonsense to him, so she wants to stop her, "Sister is sick, I'm afraid she hasn't dressed, why are you going to see her?"

Unexpectedly, the old lady gave her a wink in secret, and did not stop her, "If he wants to go, let him go. If you marry him, your sister is his sister, and we will see each other sooner or later."

After speaking, the old lady got up and led Liu Chaoru to the West Garden.

The old lady is no better than Mei Qing, she is very clear about Meng Yuan, and there is no one who doesn't know about the flesh and blood shed from her body.After Mengtiao passed this time, his heart was completely dead, his heart was dead, what else could he say?

As soon as he entered this room, the old lady asked Liu Chaoru to wait outside, and opened the curtain to enter the bedroom alone.Meng Tiao was taking medicine by the bedside, and Cai Yi was slowly feeding her medicine one mouthful at a time.When the two saw the old lady coming in, they didn't make a sound.

Meng Tiao only lifted his eyelids slightly, and then slowly sank down, as if he didn't see it.

The old lady stood by the bed and smiled, and leaned down to tuck her quilt, "Are you still angry with mother? Speaking of which, I haven't seen you and mother have a bad temper these days, it seems that it really hurts your heart." No matter how hard my heart is, I have to say, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. After you hurt your heart this time, you will be fearless in the future, and you will be a hard-hearted person in the future. Who can bully you? "

As he spoke, he sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Meng Yuan's pale face wistfully, "Meng'er, mother is really not selfish this time, no matter how many benefits Brother Yu promised me, I didn't do it for his things. I'm only thinking about you. I've told you a lot about the truth before, but you just didn't believe me, now you see, is what I said true?"

Speaking of this episode, Mengyu opened his eyes and cocked the corners of his mouth, not knowing whether to laugh at her or himself.

The old lady's piercing eyes just pierced into her heart, and said: "Even you are like this, why do you expect men in the world to be infatuated? If you want to be sincere, you should grit your teeth and endure it." If you can’t stop, you have to accept your fate.”

Meng Tiao shook his shoulders, turned his hateful eyes, and transferred to another place.The old lady smiled, "Liu Chaoru came to see you, think about it, no matter how much you say at this time, it will be in vain."

Yin Hou's cold gaze still fixed on her for a while, and then he called Caiyi out and called Liu Chaoru in.

When the two of them saw each other, they both felt a little embarrassed, they didn't bring up the past, Liu Chaoru just asked from the chair, "Do you have anything to say to him?"

Meng Tiao had a thought, and propped his body up on his head, originally wanting to explain a few words.But think about it, she was originally a deceitful person, full of lies to deceive people, her identity and name were all false, only a little sincerity, and she personally destroyed it.He also thought that Meng Yu was called by Jia Shenzheng to answer the question today, and what he wanted to say was also given to him by her.

In that dark night, no matter what Meng Yu asked, she answered, or he kissed her, or hugged her into the tent, and she never refused.

Looking back now, I still feel terrible, she is like a walking corpse with an empty soul, unable to keep her mind.She also betrayed Dong Mo, this is such a conclusive fact.

Unable to argue, she turned back wearily, a line of tears streaming down her withered face.After crying for a while, she asked hoarsely, "Is he really going back to Beijing?"

Liu Chaoru sat a little far away, didn't see her crying, and nodded on the chair, "Actually, he didn't go back to Beijing just because of the two of you, even if there was no such thing, the emperor would find other reasons to transfer him back to Beijing." .”

"Oh." Meng Yu hid herself in the half-arc tent and said nothing more.

Liu Chaoru waited for the meeting, saw that she didn't make a distinction, and it was inconvenient to sit for a long time, so he left.In the next afternoon, go to Qingyu Garden to tell Dong Mo about seeing Meng Tiao.Dong Mo sat on the couch without saying a word for a long time, his expression still had a strong sickness.

Just when Liu Chaoru thought he had nothing to say, he asked in a low voice without giving up, "Do you think she has suffered any physical pain?"

Liu Chaoru thought about it carefully, and had to shake his head, "No, I just heard that I got some wind on the way back from Suzhou, and I felt a little sick." Then he smiled, "You two fell ill together."

After laughing, he looked solemn again, "Zhang Ping, forget it, go back to Beijing, with your official position and family background, your talent and appearance, you don't have to worry about not finding a satisfactory marriage. Think about it from a different standpoint, and it's a lot of trouble." Trouble."

Now that the matter has come to this point, Dong Mo can only wait for Jia Canzheng to ask him to question him. Maybe he can see Meng Yuan in the inner hall and ask her personally.Maybe it was approved, and a stick came down to completely break the afterimage of this dream.

However, this matter did not come true.It was not until the day of the questioning that Jia Shenzheng cared about the dignity of the two families, and was also afraid that the two adults would turn red and embarrass each other, so he decided on the Meng family's words the day before.

Dong Mo listened one by one, there was nothing to distinguish, his eyelids drooped, and he recognized them all.In fact, it was just an explanation for Meng Yu's memorandum, no one cared about this little affair between a man and a woman, and no one dared to ask Dong Mo to be punished.Including Meng Yu, the purpose is nothing more than to block Taifu Dong's mouth, make Dong Mo return to Beijing, and relax Jinan's salt affairs.

All the public and private entanglements were entangled, and the latter seemed so insignificant, even Dong Mo himself felt that it was very insignificant, so he didn't mention it again.

After that, I never saw Meng Tiao again, maybe I did, but I didn't see it clearly.That day, he was going to take a boat back to Beijing via the canal. On the pier, there was a carriage parked there for a long time. The young man driving the carriage looked familiar, like it belonged to the Meng family, but he was not sure.

Dong Mozheng was saying goodbye to Liu Chaoru on the bow of the boat, the little servants and maids who came and went put their things on and off the boat, and the pier was also full of figures, those who were sending people off to pick them up, all in clusters of brocade clothes were floating in one place .Li Fu, who was carrying the goods, shuttled through the crowd of people, looking at the piles of goods, and in the lively and grand scene, Dong Mo still saw the carriage.

"You go, I don't know when we can meet again."

Liu Chaoru sighed, and Dong Mo turned his eyes back, and properly arranged the affairs of Jinan, "Naturally, we will meet again. The person Chu Pei sent to interrogate Yan Yinkuang is about to arrive. I think Meng Yu has been prepared for a long time. It’s all people called the Salt Transport Department who communicated with the salt merchants, and he didn’t leave any evidence in the accounts.”

Liu Chaoru smiled helplessly, "This time Zhang Mi must suffer a big loss."

"I have also learned a lesson." Dong Mo smiled bleakly, coughed a few times facing the wind of the river, and solemnly said, "Even if the new salt transport envoy arrives, Meng Yu will still push him to deal with these salt merchants. I see Yanyin’s shortfall, but I can’t find out any evidence for him, so I can only start from Tai’an Prefecture.”

Liu Chaoru nodded, "Don't worry, I will contact Shao Wan, and I will write to you as soon as I have news. Although your affair has not been punished by the officials, I am worried that it will not be good for you to go home Confession. Your home..."

"Just reprimand me a few words." Dong Mo still smiled coldly, thinking of the scene at home, the wind seemed to be blowing bones, picking at him one by one.

He looked at the carriage again, the sun was shining brightly at the moment, and he could see a graceful silhouette in the curtain of the carriage, his chin seemed to be a little sharper, and his figure was thinner, like the moon in the early dust. See Plum Blossom of Broken Soul.A piece of Xiang-colored skirt blows out from the corner of the car, swaying calmly.

She probably came, but she refused to get out of the car to make a distinction.He couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, but he wanted to laugh a little. After a year of hesitation, he suddenly had a big dream. The funny thing was that he knew it was a dream, but he was willing to fall into it.I wanted to cry again, but my eyes were dry, and I only felt a little bit of soreness and hatred.

Until the departure of the boat, Meng Tiao was still sitting in the car with his face half lowered and silent, his hands clasped quietly in front of his stomach, like a clay sculpture of indifference.

Meng Yu sat beside her, shook her hand, and said in a relieved and relaxed tone, as if she let out a breath that had been held in her heart for a long time, "After he leaves, our future life will be peaceful."

Meng Tiao kept her face down and said nothing as usual, but in fact, she didn't have to be so vigilant, she went down to see Dong Mo shamelessly.

During the two months of being locked up, she saved a lot of things to say to Dong Mo, wanted to tell him that she persisted because of him, and also wanted to tell him that she had made up her mind for him.But how easy it is to break that determination, since she failed to persist that night, those good words can't be established in an instant.

Thinking back later, she seemed to have said those words to other men before, and after careful comparison, her acquaintance with Dong Mo was also the same as before, and there was nothing particularly new. She was just repeating a Another conspiracy.The true meaning in the illusion cannot stand scrutiny.

It was really the sentence her mother used to say - love is unreliable.It's just that it's her own love that can't be estimated and unreliable.

She was very frustrated with herself, but why did she have to come this way?Probably knowing that this is a farewell, I selfishly want to see him for the last time.Across the uproarious wharf, the boat started to move, the white high sails fluttered, as if the wind and waves could be heard, pushing the big boat far away to the end of the world.

The brilliant sun shot through the window, penetrating Mengtiao's heart, making her feel like being shattered suddenly.

She hung up her usual cold lips, "Go home."

With this smile, the first snow fell to the ground, and it will be another year.

The author says:

I lost some words today, I will make up for it tomorrow~