Cold and warm depend on each other

The door of the guest house is creaked shut, separating the inside and the outside of the house into two layers of mountains and seas.Xue Wanxiang didn't see that behind the deep red agate bead curtain, Su Zhe seemed not awake, but tears rolled down the corners of his eyes, blinking without a trace.Su Zhe didn't see it either. The wind was blowing, and an insignificant cold gold note on the table was rolled up, and it fell into the depths of the birch cabinet in an arc of falling leaves returning to dust.

Expecting that Xue Wanxiang had gone far away and would not look back, Su Zhe took a deep breath, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and got up with the quilt.A few drops of round red were left on the light-colored soft brocade spread on the bed, and after a few hours, it was already a little dull.She stared blankly for a while, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, indifferent and desolate, she blinked slowly and slowly, restrained her expression, gathered a skirt, and meandered down to the bed.

I like you.

that's enough.

North Shierxuan of Linhuai City is adjacent to Beishi, and it is a place where shops and stores gather in the commercial port. The Chai family is here, more than the top, not enough, more than the bottom.Chai Weng's name is Taboo Jiusheng. Three generations of his ancestors were merchants. From his father's generation, he and his uncle took root in Linhuai City, and gradually expanded the family business, leading to today's Chai Mansion.

Chai Jiusheng has two sons, Chai Muqi, the eldest son, and Chai Yufei, the eldest son.Chai Muqi's mother is Chai Jiusheng's first wife, she has not been pregnant for three years after entering the house, so Chai's parents decided to choose a concubine for Chai Jiusheng.The concubine strives for success, and in the second year after entering the door, she gave birth to Chai Yufei, and the mother became the side wife of Chai's mansion because of her son.

Merchants have never been famous.The Chai family has always hoped that one or two children in the family will be successful in the examinations, and they will become fourth-rate officials from seven merchants and eight guests.So when Chai Yufei was young, his family hired an old master to enlighten him. Unfortunately, he couldn't learn the Four Books and Five Classics, but he was very interested in the gold and silver strategies in the market. Over time, the family regarded him as the heir of the Chai family, as the concubine. His mother naturally had high hopes for him.

Unexpectedly, when he was six years old, Mrs. Chai Jiadi, who had been in the door for ten years, suddenly fell into his arms. Seeing that she was 26, no one expected that she would be pregnant. What is even more amazing is that ten months later , the fruit is ripe, Mrs. Chai gave birth smoothly, and Chai's mansion finally ushered in a son, Chai Muqi.

Chai Jiusheng was in his thirties, and he suddenly had a son-in-law, so happy that he laughed at everyone, and invited him to the banquet for three days.During those three days, Chai Yufei was held in his mother's arms every day, listening to his mother crying about the difficult times in the future and the injustice of the heavens. Why should there be a concubine in the world? After giving birth to a son-in-law, her poor son will also lose the family property.At that time, he didn't understand the so-called difference between a concubine and a concubine. Day after day, as he grew up, he finally understood why his mother smiled and abused others. He finally understood that the Chai family had a concubine. It became a joke.

Chai Muqi grew up to be three years old, and his father usually invited him a master. This master was a scholar, and some people called him Master Xue.Chai Muqi is a quick learner, he can memorize a poem after reading it several times, and he can even articulate it at a young age.

Everyone in Chai's house was startled, they surrounded him like a phoenix every day, wishing him to shine in the family and honor his ancestors.

Chai Yufei is also working very hard, learning the way of doing business, learning about money and wealth.His father always took him by his side and asked him to go in and out of important occasions. He used to think that it was his father's value, until one day, his father took him to send a thousand taels of gold to a so-called great scholar, begging him to accept his son as a disciple Only then did he know that everything in the family business was to pave the way for his younger brother.

That's right, Chai Muqi, who only knows how to read sage books every day, doesn't have to do anything, just because he is a legitimate son, he can get everything.

How reconciled!

The wind was so cold that day, and the lotus leaves in the pond were all withered. If a person fell into the pond, how long could he live?

Chai Yufei smiled coldly, found an excuse, and coaxed out the younger brother who could only read. He hid behind the hidden flowers by the pond, watching Chai Muqi slip and fall on the wet mud he had prepared early in the morning, and fell into the water. into ice water.

Thump it, the faster it sinks.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.But before he could really smile, a figure leaped into the pond with a "poof". While yelling loudly to save people, the man swam to his younger brother with all his strength, and pushed him to the shore by holding his neck.

He was angry and anxious, clenched his fists behind the flowers, thinking about how to make them die completely.It's just that he was only a young man in his teens, and he was already panicked when he killed his younger brother into the pond. At this moment, seeing the servants and maids surrounded him, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, so he had to sneak back while no one was paying attention. own house.

Later, I heard that my younger brother was rescued. He had a high fever all night. It was his master Xue Qingshan who jumped into the cold pool to rescue him. He was also sick after being frozen for a long time.

I don't know if my younger brother's high fever will subside, and if he does, will he tell his father that he lied to him to go to the pond, and I don't know why Xue Qingshan appeared there, and whether he has seen himself hiding in the dark.Chai Yufei stomped around the house, his mother asked him what was wrong, he gritted his teeth and remained silent, hiding his panic with a cold face.

Chai Mu Qi burned for five days. After waking up, Chai Jiusheng thanked the heavens and gave porridge at the gate of the temple for a hundred days.

Only Mr. Xue, who was originally a thin and weak scholar, hurt his kidneys and lungs in the winter, and it didn't get better after several years of intermittent care.Before he died, he told Master Chai that there was only one woman under his knee who was worried and asked Master Chai to take him in.

This is Tuogu.

Chai's mansion felt his kindness to his son-in-law's life, and agreed to marry him.The son-in-law wants to become a dragon and a phoenix, and if he marries a famous lady, he must not be married to him.Master Chai ran a business with integrity and managed his family. When Mrs. Xue was dying, he wrote a marriage engagement agreement, and ordered the eldest son Chai Yufei to marry the orphan daughter of Xue's family.

Xue Wanxiang was taken into the Chai Mansion just like that, and lived in an independent small courtyard with a little girl and an old woman given to her by the Chai Mansion, and kept filial piety for her father.After three years of filial piety, she will marry the son of Chai's parents.

At that time, Xue Wanxiang was 15 years old and had just reached the age of Ji.

Master Chai had only brought her here according to the agreement, but after getting along for two years, he found that this girl was educated and reasonable, gentle and virtuous, comparable to many ladies in the world, and marrying her as a daughter-in-law would not make her lose face, so he decided to take care of her. Secret praise, let her feel at ease to marry.

Miss Xue's family lived in Chai's mansion for more than two years. In the third year, Chai's mansion began to prepare for Chai Yufei's marriage. They can get married only when they are filial piety in the next year.Although he is a concubine, he is the eldest son after all, and everyone in the whole family is a little happy.

This happy atmosphere lasted until the end of spring, when Xue Wanxiang's mother was offering sacrifices, the Miss Xue family took the little girl out to the temple to offer incense, but on the way she was kidnapped by gangsters alone and disappeared without a trace.

Miss Xue's family has lived in Chai Mansion for quite some time, she is intelligent, gentle and kind, gentle and courteous, everyone in the mansion knows her well, seeing that she is going to be a young mistress in her early years, this incident has really made the servants and maids I sighed for a long time.

So on this gloomy and cold winter day, when Miss Xue knocked on the door of the Chai Mansion with only a small bundle, the doorman who was dozing beside the stone lion woke up suddenly.

"Xue Xuexue, Miss Xue!" Mending stammered.

Xue Wanxiang nodded, and calmly walked into the vermilion gate, before reaching the atrium, the butler had already greeted her.

"Miss Xue." The housekeeper was astonished, and did not forget to salute her. When he looked up at her, his face was a little difficult to distinguish. He seemed to be happy for her, but also seemed to feel pity for her. "I've been away for more than half a year. Where are you going?"

Xue Wanxiang saluted, stood in front of the screen wall of the courtyard and asked, "Is Master Chai in the residence?"

Hearing that she was asking about the master and not the eldest son, the housekeeper almost patted his heart and called it a fluke. He lowered his eyes slightly and replied: "The master has gone to the shop, and he will return to the house before he wants to come to hold the lamp. The girl came back from a long way, why don't you go back first?" Rest in the house?"

Xue Wanxiang also knew the time when Master Chai used to return to the mansion, so she nodded, thanked the housekeeper, Uncle Zhong, and went to the backyard.

The courtyard is spacious and spacious, and Xue Wanxiang's figure looks even more slender.Uncle Zhong watched her turn around a cluster of flowers and trees. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but then remembered his status as a servant, so he shook his head and called for a boss boy, and asked him to go to the store to give to Master Chai first. Let me just say, Miss Xue, who had been missing for more than half a year, suddenly came back.

One stone, I'm afraid it will stir up a thousand waves!

The north is vast, and the big families occupy an extraordinary amount of land.The small courtyard Xue Wanxiang lives in is in the northeast corner of the back house, a small courtyard that has been unoccupied for a long time and is slightly dusty.Not too run down.Thinking about it, it is true that a wealthy mansion will not be entangled with cobwebs.

Xue Wanxiang stepped into the house, found a fairly clean chair, put down the burden, went to the well to draw water, and before he could wash his face, he heard a loud voice calling outside the door.

"Miss! Miss, are you back?!" The man yelled and pushed open the courtyard door.

Xue Wanxiang raised her eyebrows and looked up, and saw Xi'er, the little girl accompanying her in the Chai Mansion, rushing in from outside.

Seeing her, Xi'er immediately rushed forward and hugged her arm, crying and laughing at the same time: "Miss, you really are back! Uncle Zhong didn't lie to me! You really are back! Woooooo!"

Xue Wanxiang has been with her for more than two years, and usually treats her like a younger sister, seeing her crying and laughing with sincerity, her eyes are reddened, and she said with a tearful smile: "Don't cry, silly girl. Look Shouldn't I be happy?"

"Happy. I'm so happy." Xi'er wished that flowers would bloom on her face immediately. Seeing that half a basin of water had been drawn by the well, she thought that the lady was about to wash up, so she jumped up and said, "There is hot water in the kitchen. I'll get it for you!"

"Hey!" Xue Wanxiang stopped her, shook her head and said, "There is no need for such trouble. I... I don't need the things here. I just want to see Master Chai later, and I am too embarrassed to make sense, so I come back to freshen up."

"Don't use the things here?" Xi'er stared at her stupidly, but after a while, another tear filled her big eyes, and it fell down like beans: "Miss, you know everything, right? Wuwuwu , you must know, the young master he...he..."

Before she could finish her sentence, a haughty voice came from the front of the courtyard door: "Where did this wild girl come from, and she actually broke into the back house of my Chai Mansion? Someone! Why don't you drive her out!"