Now that he had made up his mind to spend time with Kou Hen, Meng Tiao lost some enthusiasm, ignored her, and lived with her in Qingyu Garden, but sent Xie Chun to greet her every two days to see if she lacked anything.

Most of the time, Kou Hen replied that there was no shortage, and always followed by a cold sentence "Thank you, Miss Meng, for your concern".Meng Tiao heard it in his ears, and felt a little unhappy in his heart.That kind of unhappiness is hard to vomit, and it lacks a name.He was obviously polite and polite, it was so helpless for Meng Tiao, he didn't show it on the face, but he was a little restless at night.

Dong Mo accidentally woke up early, and saw Meng Tiao lying sideways by the pillow with his eyes wide open, and he didn't know how long he had been awake.Her gaze was frozen with cold light in the chaotic sky, like a falling moon, a little bit of depression that was over.

He turned over and hugged her for a long time, warming her body, stroking the back of her head, "When did you wake up?"

The cat jumped onto the quilt, Mengtiao carried it into the quilt, and hugged it between the two of them, "I woke up at five o'clock, and I couldn't sleep anymore. I was a little hungry, and I wanted to find something to eat, but I was afraid to move around." woke you up."

"Huh? Are you hungry?" Dong Mo was a little confused, turned over and got out of bed, hung up the curtain, lit a candle, and went to the bed to order some snacks.

At the first moment of Maoshi, occasionally a rooster crowed once or twice in the vast silence.The shadow of the moon was dim, and some time before sunrise, the sky had faded a layer of color, and the blackness was not so deep.After all, it is autumn, and the wind at dawn is cold, blowing arrow bamboos and rustling, giving people a sense of emptiness in the boundless wilderness.

Dong Mo stared at the window in a daze for a moment, Meng Yuan looked at him from the bed behind him.He always dreams at night, often sleeps poorly, and sweats a lot.Sweat. Wet his jade-white pajamas, the material sticks to the back, faintly revealing the tight skin inside.Against the moon, he seemed to be standing in the misty night rain, looking at him dreamily, feeling his majestic and torrential loneliness.

In fact, from the first day they met, the story between them has not been so ups and downs, and it has never involved life and death.It's not like on the stage, when a young man and a beautiful woman meet, they will cry, make trouble, die, live, and show their ambitions with life and death, proving how eloquent and evocative the relationship between them is.

At this time, Dong Mo came back with a snack plate and handed it to Meng Tiao, "Eat a piece first, and have breakfast later."

Mengyu sat up and looked into his lonely eyes, which made her also puzzled.There are no such tragic plots between them. Is this love?Or are they just afraid of being lonely.

She ordered another cup of tea, and ordered him around very smoothly.Covered in a cotton cover during the tea night, it was still hot, with a little smoke coming out.Looking at him through the light smoke, the candlelight is also dim, his ears, eyes, mouth and nose are a little blurred, it seems to be an ancient memory, there is only a rough outline of the story, but no detailed pulse.

The dim sum choked in the light throat, dry and hard to swallow.She hurriedly took a sip of tea, but the tea made her nose sore.Dong Mo brushed her sleepy hair, his voice was a little muffled, "I know you must be thinking wildly and not sleeping well, don't think too much, anyway, I'm the one who won't marry you."

Meng Yu raised her eyes and said, "Who thought of this? I took a long nap last night, so I woke up earlier at night."

Dong Mo didn't try to expose it, he knew that she couldn't be simple and pure, she had too many complicated experiences, which destined her to have complicated thoughts.He smiled, put back the snack plate, lifted the quilt and sat back on the bed, leaning on his arm, looking up at the ceiling in a daze.

After a while, he suddenly laughed and said, "The second time I saw you was on the street opposite the door. At that time, the street was clearly full of people coming and going, but I felt very quiet, drifting away from you. , like a girl playing the piano there."

Meng Tiao laughed, "I am that girl?"

No, she is that tune, cold and peaceful, with no ups and downs, but it sounds like there are endless things on her mind.

The reason why he said the second encounter was probably because the first time was too shocking and messy, he was unprepared, and his mind was hasty and blank.But the second time he met her, she began to write stories in his blank heart.

At this time, he can somewhat explain his sudden meddling mood at that time.In fact, he had an inexplicable impulse at that time, as if the two of them had the same concerns. In the crowd, he wanted to go up, listen to her loneliness, and tell her about his loneliness.He felt that she must understand.

He himself was also confused and embarrassed, squinting at her, "Fate is so funny."

Meng Tiao buried her face behind the cat's fluffy head, looked at him with a pair of smiling eyes, and didn't speak.However, with the pulse and eye waves, they can understand what each other wants to say.

Dong Mo hugged her and kissed her for a while, while rolling his lips and teeth, he said that sentence again: "Don't think wildly, I must be the one who didn't marry me."

Meng Tiao was kissed so hard by him that his heart softened, and he was so angry that he had no time to think of anything else, so he just put his hands on his shoulders and looked up a little.Gradually, he pressed her heart harder with his hand, Meng Tiao couldn't help but frown slightly, and snorted in confusion.

Although he kept telling her not to think wildly, he was also a little helplessly embarrassed, so he held her in his arms like a trapped animal, without any rules, and just played tricks with all his might.After finding the exit, she instinctively got in, and felt that the road was a bit confusing, so she pressed down on her waist, wanting to touch it to the bottom, to touch it to the bottom!

The two of them stuck together sweaty, sticky, sticky, and Dong Mo kept panting and asked, "Do you believe me? Do you believe me?"

Mengyuan believed in 1 people, and it was precisely because of this belief that I felt that I should fight for something for him.But this was a dizzying thought, when the feeling of being overwhelmed gradually subsided, she lay on his side in his arms, saw the sad blue color poured down by the moon, and felt a great emptiness again.

With the idea of ​​treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, she waited for Dong Mo to go to the yamen, washed and dressed, and walked neatly to Kouhen's room.

Li Kouhen had just finished breakfast, wearing a honey-colored gown, a moon skirt, light makeup, and was still paying filial piety for her father-in-law.She was sitting under the window flipping a book, her whole body was as clean as a handful of snow, her whole body was covered with light and cold ice, even the morning sun could not melt her away.

The two maids were busy clearing the dining table, when they saw Mengyu come in, they blessed her gracefully and called her "Meng girl".Alarmed by Kou Hen, she came out of the screen and led Meng Tiao to the small hall, where they sat on the couch and had tea together, "Good morning, Miss Meng, is there something important to come here at this time?"

Meng Yu walked around, but her husband, Kuang Qiusheng, was nowhere to be seen. He smiled and said, "It's nothing important, I'm here to see if the second girl is used to living here. I'm afraid our food in Jinan might not suit the second girl's appetite. Why don't you see me?" Where is uncle?"

"He has two fellow students in Jinan, and he went out to visit them." Kouhen smiled delicately, just right, "Miss Meng is too polite, I ate very well the crabs delivered yesterday, thank you."

"This is the season when crabs are coming out. It just so happened that someone sent two baskets yesterday. I don't know if the girl likes to eat them. I just want to give the girl a fresh taste."

As soon as the words fell, she regretted herself, saying something about "tasting something new", as if she had never eaten crabs.She stood there in embarrassment, secretly spying on Kou Hen's face.

But Kou Hen was fine, still smiling, but stopped talking, only staring at Meng Yuan with a pair of piercing eyes.After watching for a while, Meng Tiao didn't go away. She seemed to have nothing to say to socialize with Meng Tiao, "I heard that Miss Meng has a mother and sister at home? Where do you live now?"

Meng Tiao was overwhelmed by flattery, and hurriedly replied: "My sister is married to the magistrate of this county, and my mother lives with her at my brother-in-law's house. My brother-in-law is also Zhang Ping's best friend."

Kou Hen let out an "Oh" and nodded slowly, "Where is the ancestral home?"

"My ancestral home is Wuxi, and I moved to Jinan when I was a child."

Kou Hen smiled, "I thought that Miss Meng came here with no one to rely on. I was afraid of hurting her, so I never dared to ask." The tea came from a sip, "Miss, drink tea."

Meng Tiao took a sip of tea and realized what she meant. It meant that a woman with a family and relatives unexpectedly came to live in a man's house for no apparent reason.But she didn't accuse her clearly, as if she was saving face for Meng Tiao, but in fact it was just giving her room to feel ashamed.

The young lady of the rich family is really thoughtful, Meng Yuan is so embarrassed, she doesn't know how to tell the difference, in a hurry, she said: "I left my previous husband's house, I don't have a house to live in, I wanted to go to my brother-in-law's house to borrow some time. It's time, but my brother-in-law's place is not too spacious, and I'm in a dilemma. Zhang Ping said that he has a big place here, and he can take me in. I think I'm a single woman, and I'm afraid it's not safe to rent a house outside. In desperation, I came to live here."

She turned her mind and bowed slightly, "In this world, there are not many places for us women, what does the second girl think?"

Originally, he wanted to win Kouhen's forgiveness with the feeling of "connecting the same kind", but Kouhen smiled and said: "Don't worry, girl, I am not such a person who blindly accepts the rules. It is very common for two people to be happy. Our family People, there are a few close-fitting maids in the man's room. It's nothing unusual. But in my opinion, between men and women, the responsibility should not be blindly pushed on the man. Sanmo invited the girl to live with good intentions, why? Telling the girl this, it seems that he is taking advantage of others' danger, and the girl has no choice but to do so."

As she said that, she turned her eyes and showed some majesty, "If it is true, it means that my Dong family has no way to teach their children, and Sanmo should be beaten."

Mengyu hurriedly waved his hands, "No, no, I lived here voluntarily." Thinking about it later, Kou Hen didn't seem to really blame Dong Mo, obviously he said it to her, to make her regret her failure to take responsibility.

This second young lady is really powerful, but a few words not only made Mengyu see her irregular behavior, but also made her reflect on her lack of moral character.But she calmly comforted him, "Don't help him talk, although our Dong family is a famous family, but the big family has its own disadvantages, the population is too large, the most taboo is the poor morals of the children Humiliated the lintel. If he has a little bit of bullying behavior, let alone the elders in the ancestral family, even I will not let him go."

After listening to this meeting, Meng Yu finally caught the loophole in her words, secretly wanted to vent his anger, and carefully probed, "I heard that Zhang Ping has several brothers, and they must be like Zhang Ping, full of poetry and books and full of talent."

Kou Hen's eyes flickered for a moment, thinking it was embarrassing to be exposed, but he swayed and sank again. He didn't think so, and took the initiative to tear down the stage, "They are all incompetent people. To tell you the truth, Miss Meng, we In my generation, there are many brothers, but only Sanmo is promising. Because of this, I can't tolerate any troubles from him. I don't ask him to honor his ancestors, but just ask him not to cause any bad reputation. I think this request is not necessary. Is it too much? What does Miss Meng say?"

Immediately, Meng Yuan was silenced, she thought that Kou Hen really didn't come for nothing, if it was just to tell Dong Mo's family that he didn't agree with him, she wouldn't make the trip, and it would be the same to say it when she returned to Beijing.Kou Hen also shouldered other important responsibilities, so he came to dismiss her.

Meng Tiao was afraid to continue talking, but Kou Hen pressed her with blunt words, she begged with tears, and there was a scene of beating mandarin ducks on the stage, embarrassing and embarrassing for each other.She didn't say anything, she said she still had something to do in the house, and left.

Kou Hen didn't leave her behind, sent her to the corridor, turned around and entered the door.When Mengyu looked back at the gate of the courtyard, Kouhen had already sat back under the window, half-turned, holding a book, basking in half of the sun, still not melting at all.

Going out here, I bumped into Kuang Qiusheng coming back in the garden, walking hurriedly, with the front of his straight body open, his whole body was wet, as if he had fallen into water, he changed from his previous politeness, and looked a little embarrassed.

He also saw Meng Tiao, a little embarrassed, cupped his hands in front of her, and also called her "Meng Girl".

Seeing him in this outfit, Mengyu wanted to laugh at first, but was afraid of being inappropriate, so she just smiled and nodded, "Where did my uncle do it like this?"

He waved his hands in embarrassment, "Forget it, I chartered a boat in Daming Lake to meet my two classmates. Everyone was joking, and accidentally fell into the lake, making the girl a joke."

"Go back and change your clothes, let the wind blow if you're wet, you'll catch a cold."

The two bid farewell in a hurry, Mengtiao walked back to the room, and the cat clung to her and rubbed against her skirt.She bent down and hugged it in her arms, stroked it a few times, and went to the bedroom to get the cigarette pouch on the couch.

Because he couldn't find the purse containing the tobacco, he called Xie Chun outside.Xie Chun came in to find it for her, and didn't bother to go out, so he sat on the couch and talked to her, "What did the young lady say to the second young lady?"

Meng Tiao busily clicked her tongue, choked herself, and coughed twice, "Stop talking, your second lady's words are impeccable, every sentence is a trap. I only said a few words to her and regretted it I’ve said it several times. I’m afraid that if I continue talking, I wish I could go home and beat myself to death and reflect on myself! I didn’t dare to talk to her anymore, so I quickly hid.”

Xie Chun held a thread shuttle and smiled leisurely, "Our second girl doesn't talk much, but everything she says is reasonable. Fortunately, she is not a man. If she were a man, she would go to the Imperial College to be a teacher. How many students are here?"

Meng Tiao smiled helplessly, she could only laugh, she said it very lightly, like a joke, but her heart was unavoidably heavy.The unbelievable and immoral behavior she found out by Kouhen's few words is just the tip of the iceberg, even this tip of the iceberg is enough for her to feel ashamed in front of Kouhen's dignified and demure, how dare she throw herself into a trap and ask Kouhen to come out more many?

She sighed with a smile, spit out a wisp of thick smoke as if needlessly, and covered her shiny red lips with some gray color, "It's the second son-in-law, I just ran into him, he is not as gentle as before, Fell into the lake, soaked like a child."

"He just likes to have fun." Xie Chunxian said.

Meng Tiao was a little puzzled, "He likes to have fun? I can't tell."

Xie Chun smiled inscrutably, picked up a shuttle in the basket to wind the thread, and leaned his upper body to the Kang table, "We all know it. In fact, it's not a big deal for a son of such a wealthy family to have fun, it's all like this, What's more, the literati are elegant, and they are judged in front of the imperial hospital. It is common for them to socialize with prostitutes. It's just that the second girl is very strict, and it's not easy for him to show it."

This is unexpected, Meng Tiao originally thought that a person like Kou Hen would treat her husband with respect and kindness, "So the second young lady is a shrew at home?"

"That's not true. The second girl is like that. How can she be a shrew? There are reasons. One is that the second girl is two years older than Uncle Kuang, and she has such a temperament. My uncle is a little afraid of her; The family is very important, and the master of the Kuang family often asked the girl to restrain the uncle when he was alive. Therefore, the uncle has always been gentle and respectful in front of the girl. They respect each other too much, but they are alienated. Unlike other couples, it is better to be intimate when they are noisy."

Meng Tiao agrees very much, like her and Dong Mo, even with Dong Mo's temper, who treats her so well, and occasionally quarrels, although she always provokes a lot of troubles.But no matter how good it is to make a fuss, it seems to be better than before the fuss, I just wish I could twist my whole body into hemp rope and get wrapped around him.

According to her experience, a man is very strange. He is willing to respect you, but he may not necessarily love you, and he may not necessarily be obedient if he is blindly obedient.She felt some pity for Kou Hen, and because of this pity, she suddenly felt a little relieved.

When Dong Mo came home, he saw her talking to the cat on the couch, smiling, and gently pulling the cat's ears, as if she was in a better mood.

The fatigue all over his body also dissipated somewhat, and he faintly relaxed.Asked for tea from the girl outside the curtain, walked in with the curtain wide open, leaned beside Meng Tiao, pinched her chin and turned around, rarely making a dirty joke, "You are suddenly in a good mood, Is it because I worked so hard in the morning?"

Meng Yu suddenly changed his face, and left the cat blushing to beat him on the stomach, "Nonsense!"

He clutched his belly and frowned, pretending to cry out in pain, causing Mengyu to apologize, and to scratch his hand to see how the beating went.

After giving him a catch, she fell down on his heart, struggled a few times at first, then her head stretched, and she lay comfortably on his body, "You came back a bit late."

Dong Mo smiled close to her ear and said, "There was some movement in the salt field. After the yamen came out, it happened that Shao Yun sent a message to the servant. I went to his house."

As he spoke, he took a closer look at her face and found no abnormality, so he smiled with peace of mind, "Now you don't worry about Meng Yu at all."

Meng Yu rolled his eyelids and said: "He has someone who worries about him, so he can't blame me. Why do you always mention him in front of me? You did it on purpose, to see if I still have him in my heart, right?"

"I can't hide it from you." Dong Mo leaned back on the pillow, and said something into her ear, which caused Meng Yu to beat him repeatedly.

The two laughed and chattered, and the dense shade of the bamboo trees rustled and rustled. It was a world of mortals three hundred feet outside the door, and it was a little far away from them at this moment.

After a short rainy autumn every few days, it was a bit cloudy, and a drop of water fell from somewhere by chance, like a satin covered with crab shell green, and it was so wet that it would never dry.

Mei Qing got off the sedan chair, and in the alley of Daxing Lane, she took a quiet look at the two green doors, but her heart was bright and light.I made a plan with the old lady to blackmail that connection and make a big deal today, and from then on, I let go of it, and I no longer have to deal with dry intestines and skinny bones, as if I had unloaded a poor burden that I was reluctant to throw away in the past.

In the room inside the door, Liantong Juan had been waiting there, idly lying on the couch, opened the golden corolla in the box and took a look, feeling a little uncomfortable.Why did Mei Qing entangle him with him? She also had some idea in her mind, she didn't want him to be young and handsome, right?Turning around, nothing more than some money.Liu Chaoru is a clean and honest official, and Mei Qing is used to being extravagant, how can she keep her duty?

Tong Tong always felt that the money was a bit uneconomical. If he bought a good-looking concubine outside, it would only cost two to thirty taels of silver, and it would not cost much to keep it at home.It's not that he loves money, it's just that the money is being spent on Mei Qing like water, and she can't become his person after all.It is better to have a long-term plan in place.

While drawing in secret, she saw Mei Qing come in, her skirt was a little wet because of the water on the road, she stomped her feet and complained, "This rainy day is very annoying! Everywhere you go, there are puddles, and your shoes and skirts are wet." Take a slice!"

Liantong got up in a hurry, went up to her with bright eyes, held her skirt to take a look, and smiled cheerfully, "It's okay, only one corner is wet, I'll ask the girl to light a smoked cage to dry it. I'll do it."

After that, he ordered the girl to light a charcoal basin and put the smoker cage in the bedroom.As soon as Mei Qing heard the word "bedroom", she felt sick to her stomach. Anyway, it was the last time, so she endured him and followed him into the bedroom.

Tong Tong took the golden flower crown to her as if offering a treasure, "Take a look at it, it's made according to the style you said last time."

In the hand, it weighs eight or nine, and the style is also exquisite. It is a gold silk inlaid jade crown, in the middle is a piece of white jade with magnolia flowers on both ends, and a circle of pink tourmaline gemstones are inlaid on several sides of the white jade.

Mei Qing put the crown back into the box with a smile, hugged the box to her, and thanked her sweetly.

It's really a thousand dollars to buy a smile, and even more panicked in the heart of the judge, and deliberately tested, "Master Liu often buys these things for you?"

Mei Qing only thought that he was jealous, and dealt with it casually, "What can he do with his salary? Fortunately, I still have some money in my family. I need to eat, drink, and wear it all with my own money."

"Didn't you suffer? People say that a woman marries a man, and she wears clothes and eats food. If you marry a man, you have to spend your own money. So what's the point of marrying a man?"

Mei Qing stopped asking, but how she thinks Liu Chaoru is bad on weekdays is her own business, and she can't tolerate other men saying bad about him.Firstly, he belittled her; secondly, he felt a little bit wronged for Liu Chaoru in his heart.She thought to herself, it's not that he is bad, it's just that he's a bit pedantic and not considerate enough, but how can these villains compare to his moral character?

She glanced at him, and when she was about to sarcasm, she would make a sentence, and then she was thinking about opening her mouth, and even coaxed and threatened him for money, so don't offend him ruthlessly.Then he gave up, only smiled infinitely and desolately, "This is fate, what can I do, it's impossible to change my fate."

Liantong Juan took the opportunity and said: "I don't think so, your sister divorced Meng Canzheng, didn't she turn around and follow Governor Dong? He is a governor appointed by the emperor, or a third-rank official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he has such a family background." .Who said that women go downhill, but I think your sister is going uphill."

Mei Qing gave him a desolate look, "That's why you guys have shallow eyesight. My sister used to be with Meng Yu, who was the head wife of the married couple, but now she's as close as Mr. Dong, even in terms of status, women, bitter ah!"

"Oh, it's not bitter, it's not bitter, it's not bitter!" Lian Juan frowned, as if tearing out his heart, and yelled out for Mei Qing, "It's not bitter! Now that you know me, why would you suffer?" Woolen cloth?"

After talking, she dragged Mei Qing to the bunk, outside of the world where the branches were shaking, there was another world where the branches were shaking.

I saw the old lady leading the mother in front of her, rushing into the house aggressively, met with two scattered servants and girls on the way, and went forward to meet her, "pa pa pa" is two ears.

I don't know how many times I did this job in the early years, and practice makes perfect.Even if the person standing in front of him is the general in front of the temple, that is an unstoppable battle with reason.

The author says:

Ah, I picked this name randomly, because I am incompetent in choosing names, so picking random names is my usual style hahaha.The original name was "Weak Waist in the Cage".Because the word "cage" cannot be used, it was changed.

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