box of hearts

Chapter 122 Drunken Taiping (12)
"Hey, I'm right next to you! I still remember that my mother said that we were all born so weak, but we left our parents when we were ten years old to be maids for others, and eat according to people's faces. What, isn't that too pitiful? First, the prince called us out. I thought that this lady Duan was not happy with her background, but when I heard this, I thought about it. Isn't the lady sold at a young age? In that kind of place, do you eat based on people's faces? She can't help herself. She can be considerate of us, why can't we be considerate of her? Besides, although she used to be a courtesan and behaved more loosely, she always acted in a dignified manner, but she was not It's very respectable. Don't blame the prince for liking it, I can't help liking it."

Just as he was speaking cheerfully, he let out a heavy sneer.Cuiyi pinched the jade ring with her fingertips on the side wall, and shook it contemptuously, "Speaking of which, apart from the prince and a few concubines and concubines, we are all in the palace. Even those young princesses are incomparable, with your eyelids so shallow? A ring can buy you to brag about that bitch? Huh, since that's the case, I should have said it in the hall just now Come out, and now he is not here, and I can’t hear you even if I say it, wouldn’t it be a waste of all this nasty talk?”

Among them, Zui Cuiyi has the best background and is the most favored. Except for Youyan who is good with her and can say a few words, the rest of them dare not offend her face to face.It's just that these words were too harsh, and the four of them couldn't hear them, and they all turned black and didn't say a word.Ziwei is young, but she has changed very organically. Gulu rolled her eyes and smiled, "Sister Cuiyi, we were originally daughters of a small family. Unlike you, my father was an official, so he didn't take these things seriously. It's just me Thinking about it, there are six rings with such a good quality. Even if Madam Duan has savings, she may not be able to afford it for a while. Most likely it was given to her by the prince. Even if we have received the reward from the prince, we will be happy What's wrong? I see that the golden hairpin on my sister's head was given to you by the prince alone last year, but it's been more than half a year, and you still wear it when you come and go. It's also very shabby. Just having another ring, and being able to wear it every day thinking of the lord's favor, my sister should be happy, why did she get angry instead?"

After saying these words with a slap in the face and a needle hidden in the cotton, she was so angry that her beautiful eyes stood on end, she raised her hand to look at Ziwei's face, and then she said, "Well, you bastard, you are just bought by Sun Xiuda with a few taels of silver Come on, can it be that my majestic official lady can't catch up with you, and you want you to teach me in a weird way? Don't let the rice soup blur your eyes, brighten up! If you dare to contradict me in the future, look at me Beat your lower half!"

Although Ziwei's status is not as good as Cuiyi's, she is used to being coquettish, how often has she been slapped?Immediately, his face was bloody, and he stamped his feet and burst into tears, "You are a lady from the official family, and I was bought by a scumbag. Anyway, I am nothing more than 'promoting toads—both are people on the ground with a shovel'! You are not Master's little wife, even Master's little wife, it's not your turn to beat and scold me!"

Cuiyi was even more furious, "What big wife and little wife, the third concubine Shunrongwan in the mansion is just a little wife, please speak carefully!"

"I never said that the three empresses and masters are concubine wives, you said that! Everyone else is my concubine, only you, Cuiyi, are the eldest wife, and I don't know when the master will welcome you back!"

"You little bitch, try saying something again?"

Seeing Cuiyi, Ziwei raised her hand again, and stretched her face straight to her hand, "You hit you! You simply dragged me to show off in front of Madam Duan, what's the point of making a fuss here?"

Xiaojing, Yuepo and Honghe had already grabbed Ziwei from behind, persuading her to go away.Leaving Youyan alone, she stared at Cuiyi with a look of resentment, "How many times do you want me to tell you? It's always so hard to be strong, and it's fine with others. Ziwei and the others are young, and they My own people, why do you bother to fight with them? Today is no better than in the palace, I see that Duan Niangniang has already set her sights on you, so don't be self-willed, don't make trouble in front of the prince in the end and make everyone look bad."

Cuiyi raised her head and sneered, "I'm still looking forward to making trouble in front of the prince, who is afraid of whom!" She threw the ring away with a wave of her hand, and after a few crisp sounds, the emerald color was lost in the night without a trace. Searching.

Another half a month will be the twenty-fourth year, and the streets and alleys are full of people doing New Year's goods, sweeping windows, butchers of pigs and sheep, posting door gods, and nectarine charms... For example, in the garden, everyone is busy cutting window grilles, hanging At the red light, Qingtian twisted many red knots by himself on the narcissus plants in the house, everywhere was full of happiness.

But when Qi She came in and saw these things, his expression was very bad. Qingtian asked, he just said that he was tired, and smiled kindly at her, "Have you eaten? If you haven't eaten, you can eat with me."

"I've eaten it, but it's rare that you have the appetite, so I'll eat some with you." Qingtian took off the silver needle sea dragon fur for him with his own hands, and the cilia was smooth and shiny.

Qi She's supper has always been simple, with only five or six delicate dishes.He dismissed the maid and sat opposite Qingtian Anxian, eating every mouthful, "What did you do today?"

Qingtian took a cup of quail soup, and smiled slightly, "I wrote three characters, practiced two pieces of music, ate half a jar of preserved apricots, and thought about it for a day—" She pointed lightly, pointing at him nose.

Qi She smiled, and put a piece of pickled melon into her bowl.

Qingtian put his hand to his cheeks and rubbed it twice, the two-color tourmaline armor on his fingers was like a few rainbows after the rain, "Look at you, you have worked so hard, and you can't even smile. Hey, I learned a joke today, tell it to me. listen?"

After he smiled silently again, she said in a clear and clear way: "It is said that there is a big family in a village, and the rich family has only one son. At a young age, the matchmaker almost broke through the threshold. It is strange to say that this young man ignored those daughters with outstanding family background, talent and appearance, but picked a fire-burning girl in the kitchen at home. This girl is the daughter of a poor family in the village. , the appearance is also mediocre, and there is nothing outstanding, but the young master has identified her with all his heart, and offered her a generous offer, insisting on begging her to be his wife. The big family had no choice but to follow his son. On the wedding night, After the bridal chamber, the couple fell asleep, and the bride suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. The son asked her why, and the bride said that she had a strange dream. She dreamed that a mangy dog ​​with sores was hungry and howling at her. She gave her a steamed bun, but the dog followed her wherever she went, and finally followed her into the new house and went to bed with her. When she was scared, she woke up. Hearing this, the young master sighed He said with a sigh: "I have had a dream since I was a child. I dreamed that I was a mangy dog ​​in my previous life. I was starving to death. In the end, a woman gave me a steamed bun. I saw you by chance that day, and I recognized you immediately." Come out, you are the man of my dreams.'”

After hearing the second half, Qi She raised her head and laughed endlessly, "In this way, you, the man in your dream, must have given this mangy dog ​​a big steamed bun in your previous life."

"Not only that," Qing Tian squinted his eyes and smiled sideways, "If Master treats me like this, maybe it's two big buns or stuffed with mutton."

Knowing that Qingtian was trying to make him laugh, Qi She smiled joyfully and raised her hand to pat her on the face, "Bad thing."

After dinner, the two moved to sit in Tianquan House.Qi She was at his desk reviewing the public documents, Qingtian accompanied him, cooking a fresh ladle of ancient well water.The water gradually bubbled up, with a slight boiling sound.At this time, Qi She might as well put a pen down suddenly and say: "I won't be coming back tomorrow, I will stay in the Palace during the Chinese New Year, and I will probably get fifteen."

Qingtian was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes, seeing that the water was gushing out and smoking.She raised her eyes in the misty smoke and smiled at him, "It should be, you have been staying here for the past few months, and you should go back on the day of family reunion."

Qi She didn't speak for a while, and then he held the armrest of the big chair with both hands and rubbed it repeatedly, staring at nowhere and said, "This is home."

Qingtian didn't answer, she poured the boiled water into the cup, blew away the fragrant tea with her pointed mouth, and gave it to him with a smile.

Before the fragrance dissipated in Qi She's hands, beside the gilded flying flower smoker cage, Qing Tian had already covered his lower abdomen, his complexion pale.He hurriedly asked someone to fetch the Hewei Pill, while warming her in his arms, his eyebrows scorched, "I haven't seen you for a while, why did you feel pain again?"

She forced a smile to herself: "I blame myself for being greedy. I ate too much preserved apricots today, so I ate something with you. I think it's a temporary accumulation. It doesn't matter. Just take a pill."

When going to bed that day, Qingtian had already relieved the pain, and the two were still hugging each other intimately in the quilt.But for no reason, no one has any desire for intimacy anymore.

Sleeping until midnight, Qi She was awakened by a burst of crying.He called Qing Tian in a hoarse voice, and after calling several times, he realized that she was a nightmare.After patting her on the back a few times, when she woke up, she was still babbling and weeping.He asked again and again, sweating all over his back, "It's such a shock to bump into you, a slow man, what's the matter, crying like this, can you make it work?"

Qingtian's voice was choked up, and he tightly grabbed the sides of his pajamas with both hands, "I, I just dreamed that I was sent back to Huaihua Alley by you again, and my mother forced me to pick up the guests, saying don't wait, third master I don't want you anymore. That dream is so long and so real..."

I don't know if she heard her ambiguous tears, Qi She only sighed deeply: "Look at you, as soon as I said I was going to leave, you had stomach pains and nightmares again, how can I feel relieved?"

There was a rustling of clothes in her arms, she pulled up his sleeves and covered her face, "It's not when you are doing business to keep customers, it's all hypocritical. It has nothing to do with whether you go or not, it's just talking to Zhao Hua during the day Reminiscing about the past, there are also dreams at night."

(End of this chapter)