marry a weak waist

Although autumn is known by the rain, the pink powder is not left, the green shade is not adjusted, and the weather is still hot as usual.It's just a breeze in the heat, occasionally with a withered yellow leaf.

Dong Mo returned home from the yamen at noon, but he didn't see Meng Tiao, so Xie Chun came to ask, saying that Meng Tiao had gone out with Caiyi to make rouge.Caiyi is coming out of the pavilion soon, Meng Tiao has been planning for it all day long, no matter how thorough he is, there are still occasional mistakes, so he can't help rushing here and there to buy it.

Dong Mo had lunch alone, resting in the small study, before he sat down, saw a man from Xiechun come in, and delivered a letter from the household department.After a closer look, although the letter was written by Mr. Lou from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the words in it are vague and ambiguous.In short, it means that although there is a deficit in Jinan's salt tax, the amount is not large, and it is reasonable to say that the accounts of various provinces are inconsistent every year.

This piece of paper spoke lightly, and it suddenly seemed like a heavy weight was dropped in Dong Mo's hands, making his forehead darkened and his eyes darkened.

From time to time, Dong Mo would come to Liu's house, read the letter to Liu Chaoru, and paced back and forth before the case, "Looking at Lord Lou's meaning, it seems that the situation in the court has changed, but we haven't noticed it yet in the local area. .”

Liu Chaoru finished reading the letter, and shook his head on the table, "Is Lord Lou deliberately protecting Meng Yu? I can't figure it out. By protecting Meng Yu, isn't it helping Chu Pei? Why should he do this?"

"I don't think so." Dong Mo picked a chair and sat down, put his hands on it and clenched his fists, "Chu Pei's power is gone now, and he won't be favored by the emperor. It will be a matter of time before he quits the pavilion. If you can keep him, his affairs are not only in Jinan. I think Mr. Lou is so perfunctory, maybe he has something to do with Meng Yu."

"Chu Pei just lost power, Lord Lou just gained power, Meng Yu was able to catch up with Lord Lou, this is so fast..."

Speaking of this episode, Liu Chaoru felt a little bit depressed, and he couldn't complain that there were many officials like Meng Yu in the local area. .

With his forehead raised, Dong Mo was sitting under the window, his face was also somewhat bleak, reflecting the early autumn outside the window.A few half-green and half-yellow willow leaves flew down on the courtyard wall, and the bleakness presented by the slender leaves was also subtle and mysterious.

He slumped his back slightly, and smiled leisurely, "When I was occasionally discouraged, I would also think that the world is vast and people's greed is endless. Now that I think about it, it was just wishful thinking. If we really meet today, it is still unavoidable." Disappointed. In fact, I can’t blame these people. Thinking about myself, when I came to Jinan, it was just to fight for fame and fame, and to get promoted.”

Liu Chaoru was silent for a while, folded the letter and handed it to him, and smiled, "If you are really such a person, we can't be friends these few years. You are just angry with the same family, they look down on you , the more you try to make them treat you differently, even though you don't think of the common people, you are not ashamed of the common people. Are you different from these people? Take me for example, I don't have any talents, so I have to Shrunk down to a small place to protect the common people, even if you can’t leave a name in history, you can still be worthy of your conscience. We all have our own circumstances, and it’s all good if we do what we do, so why think so much.”

Dong Mo slapped the armrest twice, tilted his head and nodded, "You are the best at comforting people."

Liu Chaoru smiled and turned the topic slightly, "Thanks to your foresight, you asked Shao Yun to set up this trap in Tai'an Prefecture. Even without the help of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Meng Yu can't escape this time."

When it came to this section, Dong Mo straightened his face and said with awe-inspiring tone, "Shaoyu will go back to Licheng soon? As soon as he arrives in Licheng, tell him to come and see me right away."

"I know. I haven't heard anything about his one-month stay in Tai'an Prefecture. It's probably because things went well."

Sure enough, a few days later, Shao Wan went back to the city and visited Dong Mo in the Qingyu Garden. When he talked about the Taian Prefecture, he was surprised but not dangerous:

"The humble official followed Pang Yunfan back to Tai'an Prefecture secretly, and contacted those merchants. At first, they still had some salt in their hands, and they were not in a hurry to ask for salt. It was Pang Yunfan who persuaded them, saying that the imperial court raised taxes in various places and did not take advantage of this time. Put more salt in your hand, I am afraid that the salt tax will be tight at that time, and the price will increase. After hearing this, they are willing to buy an additional thousand stones at this time. Meng Yu arrived in Tai'an Prefecture half a month ago, and originally There was some hesitation, but then I signed it."

Dong Mo paced back and forth in the study, "Do you know why he hesitated?"

Shao Wan shook his head on the chair, "I don't know, Pang Yunfan went to ask him and he didn't know. I guess it's because we are afraid that we will investigate closely and want to avoid the limelight."

Since you are avoiding the limelight, why put yourself in danger?Although Dong Mo expected that Meng Yu would agree, he did not expect him to hesitate.This hesitation just shows that his city is deeper than Dong Mo thought.

After Dong Mo returned to his room, he still had some doubts. He sat on the couch and stared blankly at Meng Yuan, pulling a piece of material and making gestures on Caiyi.The material is a piece of silver-red flowers, spun all over the patterns of rabbits and flowers, it is playful and beautiful, against the pretty face of the colorful dress, it slightly raises a little joy.

This kind of joy permeated Mengyuan, making her even less sad for days.She rewrapped the material and handed it to Caiyi to hold, "I'll give you this too. When you get there, ask the master to cut next year's spring clothes to wear."

Caiyi thanked her happily, and went out with the materials.Meng Tiao straightened her dress in front of the mirror, walked up to the couch, looked at Dong Mo's face, and waved her fan in front of him, "Why are you so dazed here?"

Dong Mo came back to his senses and hugged her on his lap, "I'm thinking about business."

"What business is it? It's rare to see you worry like this."

"Meng Yu." Dong Mo raised his eyebrows lightly, and pinched her waist.

Meng Yu became a topic of conversation for him to tease Mengyuan, and he joked about it from time to time.There may not be a double-point temptation in this joke.Mengyu knew it, but she could neither refute nor deny her indelible history.

She rolled her eyes and raised her chin jokingly, "I knew you weren't that generous, but you still have to pretend to be generous. Huh, man, you have a small stomach..."

"Why am I so small?" Dong Mo held her waist and shook her twice, making her giggle, and he also laughed, kissing and biting her chin.

After a while, he straightened his smiling face slightly, "I'm really worried about him. Your old friend is not easy. I know that there are tigers in the mountain and I prefer to go to the mountain. I don't understand him."

"What's so difficult to understand." Meng Yu rolled his eyelids and sat across from him, leaning his elbows on the Kang table, and raised his eyebrows towards him, "Let me listen to what you say."

Anyway, being idle, Dong Mo will figure out how to set up a bureau, how to lure Meng Yu to sign the contract, and how to use the evidence of conviction to talk to Meng Yuan.

Back then, he lifted the hem of his clothes and raised his legs, "Just wait for the batch of salt he sold, Pang Yunfan's land deed and confession, and then try those merchants. Meng Yu's conviction is a certainty. I thought he couldn't let it go." The huge profit in front of him is bound to take the bait. But according to Shao Yu, he hesitated for a few days. This is strange, hesitation, just shows that he suspects there is a fraud. Since he doubted, why did he still make this deal? Is Yin Zi right? For him, life is more important than life? I don’t think so, people do what they want, and safety comes first.”

Meng Tiao waved the fan unhurriedly, his eyes were full of golden light, and Jin, who was rubbing the broken pieces, stared at him and talked eloquently.I heard Meng Yu talk about these things in the past, although he was well-reasoned, but the purpose was unbearable, and after all, he was a bit deceitful and dirty.However, listening to him talk about his official affairs in detail, he seemed righteous, and his sleepy brows were full of solemnity, which made her show some admiration.

She giggled, stood up on the Kang table and kissed his forehead.Dong Mo was surprised, "What's the matter?"

"I want to kiss you, can't I?" Meng Yu rolled his eyelids and fell back, covering his fan and thinking, "Meng Yu, if you say he loves money, it's not true. He was lonely since he was a child, and suffered a lot. Bai Yan, in fact, what he is asking for is just to get ahead. Most of the money he got was given to the high officials in Beijing. He often said that people in the world are greedy, but you have a bit of similarity, and you are very accurate in judging people. He was able to rise to the top because of this ability. I think he must have planned some way out for taking such a risk."

Dong Mo immediately thought of Lou Shangshu, and immediately became suspicious again, "Once the stolen goods are obtained together, the money will not reach his hands. It is not worth taking such a risk. I don't believe he is so stupid."

"Maybe it's not the money he's after. He asked me to pester you before, because he knew that you couldn't let him go, and wanted to catch you as a way to control you. When you come back to Jinan this time, he can guess you better." It’s coming for him, and he’s doomed.”

Dong Mo was lying on the pillow, and suddenly woke up in silence, calmly affirming, "He wants to die and live later."

"Huh?" Meng Yu turned around and waved his fan, "I don't understand these things about you, anyway, he is not a fool."

Perhaps Meng Yu knew that he could not escape this catastrophe, so he simply did not hide the shortfall in the salt business and found another way out.But not long after Lou Shangshu took office, the foundation is not stable. How can he turn black into white?Lou Shangshu might not be the way out for Meng Yu.As for who it was, Dong Mo vaguely guessed, his heart fell like a stone into the sea, and he was at a loss.

Meng Tiao looked at him from the opposite side, seeing him in a daze and silent, his eyes were suddenly lost and empty.Her heart felt sore, there was no exact reason, but she couldn't bear to see his defeated appearance.He should be as strong as the sky, and the hot heart wrapped in his cold cavity should not be cooled by the wind of the world.

She waved her fan in front of him, "Hey, what are you thinking about?"

Dong Mo suddenly came back to his senses, and smiled absently, "It's nothing, I thought, you really know him well. You loved him before, right?"

"That was a long time ago. Are you thinking of being jealous now?"

"I just said it casually."

Meng Tiao Zhiyi looked at the two clumps of arrow bamboos outside the window with a face, his eyes reflected the lake green, and looked at the old things calmly and melodiously, "I occasionally thought, I have been husband and wife with Meng Yu for several years, originally there were so many chances that would come naturally, but I don't know why, but we still got separated. But you and I, with so many misunderstandings and so many misses, can still get together in the end, why is that?"

Dong Mo smiled, took the fan from her hand, and fanned it towards her, splitting the bewilderment on her face, "I think it's because he doesn't love you as firmly as I do."

Meng Yuan turned around and gave him a scolding look, "This is what I said, who knows if it's true."

But she believed it in her heart, she couldn't help but blush slightly, and giggled.Dong Mo sized her up and smiled, "Since you don't believe me, why should you be ashamed?"

"Who is ashamed?" Meng Yu jumped up, took the opportunity to come to the end, and threw herself into his arms, "You give me back my fan."

"I won't return it." Dong Mo held the fan high, and Meng Tiao couldn't grab it many times, pouted angrily.He wrapped his arms around her waist, leaned into her ear and whispered, "Unless you do it again like that night."

Meng Tiao suddenly felt her mouth sour and soft, as if something was in her mouth, and it was pressed against her mouth, and she couldn't close her mouth, as saliva gushed out from both sides.The hot blood in her body rushed to her face immediately, and she pushed him with a blushing face, wishing to pluck out his brains and erase those shameful memories, "What, I didn't do anything, don't frame me!"

Dong Mo didn't speak, and just glanced at him with a pair of lazy eyes.Meng Tiao showed him nowhere to hide, and was sweating all over, "Don't mention another word!"

"Did I mention it?" Dong Mo bit his lower lip, put his hands on his knees, and fanned her face with a fan, "I didn't say a word. I just thought, as soon as I closed my eyes, I thought Incredible."

Sure enough, he closed his eyes as he spoke, with an expression of drunkenness.Meng Tiao gritted his teeth in hatred and stood up, "I don't even think about it!"

Dong Mo opened his eyes, looking at her from beginning to end with sensuality, "It's really domineering, you even want to control what I think? Maybe you can control it, and I can't control it myself."

Meng Tiao made a gesture to leave, but was dragged into his arms by him again.He held her hand, pulled her to press it, and whispered hot breath in her ear, "Try it, can I not control myself?"

The scalding heat made Meng Yuan sweat even more, making her bones weak, and she couldn't even beat him hard, and her soft fist hit the heart of her heart.

The door curtain was gently flipped over by the wind, rising and falling, half covering the two people entangled and fighting, as if there was no human trouble.

Even under the autumn wind and autumn moon, she still clarified Zhao Cuiwei.At this moment, some festive red was reflected on everyone's faces.Sending colorful clothes out of the pavilion, Meng Tiao also took the opportunity to invite her mother and Mei Qing to come and send them off together.Although there was no banquet at this end, the firecrackers were set off a few times, and the colorful clothes were sent out the door vigorously.

The Hong family is a small family, but they are quite respectable, there is no shortage of golden gongs, drums, and sedan chairs, and there are many relatives and friends who come to welcome them.Caiyi stood in front of the sedan chair, and when she was about to get on the sedan chair, she turned around and knelt down again.

Mengyu hurriedly helped her up, wiped away tears with a smile, "When you go, don't be as stupid as before and take care of your family more."

Caiyi couldn't stop weeping, and finally asked the two women to get into the sedan chair, and a group of people surrounded them.Quiet in front of the door, firecracker crumbs all over the floor suddenly looked depressed, Meng Yuan looked at the road for a while, and asked Xie Chun to persuade him to turn into the garden.

Dong Mo was not at home, so Meng Tiao invited the old lady and Mei Qing into the house to talk.First, I chatted a few words about Caiyi getting married, and the old lady couldn't help sighing, "This little girl, when you bought her in the past, I didn't agree. It's not good to choose a smart one, who is stupid and naive. Just look at her." Well, if you marry into the Hong family, she will definitely not be able to please her parents-in-law. After a long time, the family members will be displeased, and the husband will also hate her."

Meng Tiao was setting out the fruit plate. Hearing this, she took a look at her, and sat down opposite, "Mr. Hong, I have seen it myself, and I exchanged a few words with him. He is not that kind of person."

"But after answering a few words, how can you conclude that he is not that kind of person?" The old lady took a sip of tea, took a sip of the cigarette slowly, and exhaled the smoke, which smoked her eyes that could see the world.

After giving her such a glance, Meng Tiao felt a little uncertain, "I saw that he speaks politely, behaves in a gentle manner, and has read a lot of books. Besides, he also promised me that Caiyi married and would not treat him harshly. Two, don't treat her as a little girl, don't treat her as a lonely girl, only treat her as a rich and powerful lady."

The old lady laughed twice, shaking her shoulders lightly, her laughter seemed to contain the unfathomable mystery of a god or Buddha, "That's what she said, whoever takes it seriously is foolish."

She poured her mean thoughts into the hearts of her two daughters all the time, as if planting them as a curse in their hearts.She glanced at the two of them, a little satisfied, one has already achieved initial results, and the other is a little rebellious and needs to be admonished.

Mengyu guessed her next tirade, fearing that her heart would be shaken again after hearing too much, she quickly raised her hand to stop, "Stop talking, there is nothing to rely on if you open your mouth and keep your mouth shut, only money is reliable. Isn't money spent when?"

Gradually, Meng Yuan took advantage of the situation to turn the conversation around, "I've been busy with Caiyi's affairs for the past few days, so I didn't go to see you, what are you doing at home?"

This question made Mei Qing chuckle, covered her mouth and nose with the fan, and rolled her eyes on the lake green fan, "Sister, don't make detours, I still can't guess what you want to say? Last time you If you bump into me in the alley on Daxing Street, why don’t you hold back and ask me about it? Just ask, since you’ve seen it through, there’s nothing to hide.”

The girls in the room tidied themselves up, Meng Yuan sat on the couch facing the old lady, and Mei Qing sat on the stool underneath.Originally, the three of them played against each other, only Mengyu felt a little uncomfortable, but this put it bluntly, Mengyu's uneasiness disappeared, and she turned around, "You still look like this, thanks to the fact that I have been hanging around for a few days. What is your plan? Let Shuwang know about this matter, how do you open it?"

"Don't you tell me where he's going?" Mei Qing slightly raised the corner of her mouth, and smiled sarcastically, "Besides, even if he found out, it might not be a big deal. What does he care about? As long as he doesn't He may not take it to heart when it involves the affairs of his yamen."

As he spoke, he hummed in his nasal cavity, lightly, and didn't care much about the situation.Meng Tiao felt soft-hearted, and glanced at the old lady she met before, and then persuaded Mei Qing, "At that time, you wanted to marry him wholeheartedly, and you couldn't persuade him. Now that this is the case, let's live a stable life and attract people. What does the connected judge do?"

Mei Qing raised her eyes, not concealing her sarcasm, "Tsk tsk, sister is like a different person after following Mr. Dong. Why don't you know I'm going to provoke him?"

As he spoke, he dragged the stool forward a couple of times, and spoke seriously, "I discussed with my mother, and when I steal some more money from him, I'll hit him hard." flash.

Meng Tiao was startled, and even put aside the matter of persuading her, and just looked at the two of them and said: "The Tong Tong Judgment is extremely stingy. When you walk around in the early years, the courtesy you saw him make, how can you compare with others? If you open your mouth like a lion, if he can't get it out, you will be at a disadvantage."

The old lady waved her handkerchief and said with a smile: "Don't worry, as the saying goes, don't treat a lecturer with admiration for three days, he is getting better. I have inquired carefully, and he has done things in the name of his servants in the past few years. The tea business is doing well, and several shops have been opened in Licheng. He can get the money, but don’t let his wife know. If you don’t believe me, ask Mei Qing how much money she got from him recently.”

Mei Qing picked it up and raised her waist, somewhat proudly, "I gave six to seven hundred intermittently."

"Six or seven hundred?" Meng Yu counted the days in secret, amazed, "It's really that the iron rooster has changed his temper, his hands have become more generous, and the money is also generous. It seems that he really misses the past when he treats you."

When the matter of affection was mentioned, Mei Qing's expression changed suddenly.It's nothing more than money, but when it comes to good or bad between two people, she immediately thought of Lian Pan's bone-like hand crawling over her body, crawling slowly inch by inch, as if wanting to pass through her still tender body. Squeeze away her few youth in the skin.

She had goose bumps all over her body, shivered, and the tea in her hand suddenly felt sick, so she stopped eating, and slowly put it back on the kang table, "What's not the same before, if it wasn't for his money, Who has the time to deal with him? Mother, when will we start?"

The old lady squinted, "Isn't it waiting for you to squeeze more money here? This will come again."

Relying on the meaning of the two people's agreement, when the connection is in the middle of the case, he is willing to spend more money in his pocket.Waiting for him to show signs of losing his hand, and then the old lady came forward to blackmail him, and it would be of the utmost use.

On the one hand, Mei Qing was reluctant to part with the money, but on the other hand she was really bored with him. Comparing the two, she swallowed hard, "It's done, I have to wait."

Meng Yu peeped at her unwilling expression, as if seeing her before, she was disgusted and pity her in his heart, thinking of it, he persuaded, "You're going to trap his money, and when you run out of money, go trap her again." Who? Just like you spend money without counting, how much money is enough to toss? What about when you are old? Who will you go to when you are old? It’s not that I like to take care of your business. A few sentences. Do a little self-examination, plan to plan, so why can't you go on?"

The interrupted words resumed again, and Mei Qing couldn't listen to a word.The more Meng Tiao tried to persuade her, the more she hated her.But he also knows that he can't hate Mengtiao's head, just like Mengtiao kindly persuaded her mother to pick her up at the beginning, the intention was good, but the ending of the matter was unsatisfactory.

But Mei Qing still holds a grudge in her heart, this grudge has no owner, so she can only keep it in her heart, burning herself every day.

The sun in the garden was also burning, and Meng Tiao invited his mother and sisters to have lunch, and sent them out.On the way back, thinking of her mother's words, she couldn't help but worry about Caiyi.If it is true what her mother said, the person surnamed Hong just looks good from the outside, wouldn't he have harmed Caiyi?But according to what her mother said, there is no good match in the world, so how many people get married and start a career, and the house is full of children and grandchildren?

Her head was buried in her thoughts, the sun shone on her back, and the pores on the inside of the thin shirt were slightly stinging, the pain was too weak, so it was difficult to detect, it was like a slow fire, some effects were unconsciously Deep in the bone marrow.

"Girl wait for me!"

Suddenly there was a cry from behind, Meng Yuan turned around to look, and saw that it was Xie Chunyang running from the side road with a letter, "The old lady and Miss Mei have gone back?"

"Going back." Mengyu walked side by side with her, and his eyes fell on the letter in her hand, "Whose letter is it?"

Xie Chun turned over the envelope and said with a smile: "My man just gave it to me, saying it was a letter from our second lady to the master. The girl said it was strange, the second miss remembered to write to our master, the two of us I couldn’t say a few words at home before.”

"Second Miss is Zhang Ping's second sister?"

"Well, the second young lady was born by the elder. She is nearly thirty, and she left the court long ago. She married a judge from the Beijing Central Taiyuan Hospital."

Meng Tiao sounded funny, "Your family is really confusing. How did you marry an imperial physician, a good young lady? It's not that the imperial physician is bad, but I think, with such power as the old master, why don't you choose someone?" What about the big officials who hold real power or military power?"

Xiechun looked at both sides, gossiped with Mengyu on his arm, "Miss, I don't know. The court judge, although I can't speak in the imperial court, is doing the errand of making medicine and buying medicine in the palace. Don't talk about the palace, All the pharmacies in Beijing are related to them. This is a big fat job."

"It's strange..." Mengyu clicked his tongue again and again, took the letter and flipped through it, "His second sister wrote to him, I don't know what to say. Tell me, could it be about me and him?"

"This matter has nothing to do with the second lady. If you want to answer this letter, you should also answer the old lady. It's just been so long, and there is no reply from home. I don't know what it means."

Walking back to the room, Xie Chun put the letter on Dong Mo's desk.Meng Tiao, however, seemed to be fascinated by the letter, and could not leave the letter without looking away.

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