incense as a medium

Chapter 32 The bed is messy
The year in Xiongtang County was dull and depressing. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the head of Xiongtang County and his family were taken away by Kang Yibang on suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country. Charged with dereliction of duty and dismissed from office.

Spring in March.

Xiongtang County, which is located in the northeast of Dazhou, is still very cold. If it were in the capital, the willow trees would have already sprouted buds at this season.

Liu Bailu still delivered meals to Liu Junge every day. From the beginning she wore the veiled hat, but later on she saw more people coming and going. After the veiled hat was taken off, everyone got used to her beautiful appearance and never attracted crowds. She just got used to it.

There are two gratifying events in the Liu family years. First, Liu Zifeng went to the military camp at Kangding Pass to join the army. As for why he didn't choose the Yongding Army, which is close to home, it was because Liu Junge was in the Yongding Army, and the sinful minister and his son were with him. A military camp is a taboo.

Second, Qin Shi is pregnant.

Having been in the family for so many years, Qin has only one son under his knees, so the number of people is much thinner. If it were placed in the past when the Liu family was at its peak, Liu Zixuan would inevitably have a few concubines around him to help the Liu family.But now Liu's family has problems even eating, so naturally they don't have extra money to raise concubines and housekeepers.This is also one of the reasons why the Qin family has not complained about the decline of the Liu family so far.

Liu Bailu hasn't seen Qi Peiyun since New Year's Eve. It is said that just after the second day of the Lunar New Year, he went to the pass with Yingda merchants to buy things, hoping to go west to sell some goods when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom. Some silver taels.

Qi Peiyun naturally does not have any capital to run this business, but it is only because he is proficient in the language of those foreigners, and he is extremely smooth and good at dealing with people.So the big businessman hired him as an interpreter, and he took advantage of this convenience to carry some private goods back and forth.

And Ying Mo, Ying Da's precious daughter, is Ying Da's cash cow and cornucopia, so that Ying Da will take her with him wherever he goes.What should I do?He fell in love with the poor boy Qi Peiyun again, so that wherever Qi Peiyun went, she followed, so this time when he went shopping in the pass, Ying Mo followed him.

Liu Bailu was able to know all this thanks to her sister-in-law of the Lin family. According to the sister-in-law of the Lin family, Zhang Ting also often ran around with Qi Peiyun to earn some money to support the family.

Liu Bailu's landscape painting had already been embroidered, and before she could decide whether to sell it or put it away, Kang Yibang, who had been watching her all the time, bought it for 100 taels of silver.Liu Bailu originally wanted to refuse, but Kang Yibang sealed her mouth with a reason of "preparing a wedding gift for Duan and Princess".She naturally knew what kind of market her embroidery was in Beijing, not to mention that the Liu family was really short of money, so she sold the embroidery.

During this period of time, when she had nothing to do, she would teach Lin Lin, the daughter of the Lin family's sister-in-law, to embroider. Lin Lin was only ten years old, but she was helping the house. If she didn't have time to come over during the day, she would come to study after dinner every day.

Liu Bailu carefully taught Lin Lin how to draw flowers, and suddenly a very faint fragrance seemed to float over, she frowned, and said to Lin Lin: "You draw first."

"Yeah!" Lin Lin nodded on the kang table while grabbing a pen.

Liu Bailu walked to the door and glanced outside, Shuang Jiang was helping Yuniang and had no time to come over, so she entered the bedroom and closed the bedroom door smoothly.

It was an extremely familiar feeling, and it was a disgust that came from the bottom of her bones. She frowned and said, "Isn't it enough to be a gentleman on Liang Shang?"

Qi Peiyun touched his nose and jumped off the beam. He felt a little embarrassed when he wanted to play around: "How did you know?"

Liu Bailu glanced at him with disdain, and said with restraint: "A big man makes a good smell all day long. You are not afraid of smoking others."

"Can you smell it?" Qi Peiyun asked in great surprise.

"What?" Liu Bailu asked back. After asking, she realized that now is not the time to talk about this. She pointed at the bathroom screen and said coldly, "Hurry up, you are not welcome here."

"Hey, I saved your life, right? Why didn't you admit it after I left for only a few months? You still want to drive the savior out?" Qi Peiyun originally planned to leave, but Liu Bailu said With these words, he was unwilling to leave, lifted his clothes and sat down on the fragrant and soft bed.

The clean and tidy bed collapsed into a corner, and the dust stained on the corner of Qi Peiyun's blue clothes left marks on the plain sheets.Liu Bailu's hairs stood on end, she strode forward and grabbed Qi Peiyun's arm, gritted her teeth and said, "Hurry up and leave me! This is my boudoir!"

How could Qi Peiyun, a man weighing [-] to [-] pounds, be dragged up casually by Liu Bailu, but he got up, and stood in front of Liu Bailu, looking down, he could see the veins and veins on her forehead. With goosebumps on his neck, he looked at the willow egret that looked like a fried chicken and laughed muffledly. Before Liu egret got mad, he broke free from Liu egret's hand and jumped out of the bathroom window.

The messy bed, the strange fragrance left in the air reminded Liu Bailu again, that person is back again!
"Sister Liu, what's the matter with you?" Lin Lin, who heard the movement here, pushed open the half-covered door, and was startled when she saw Liu Bailu, who was always smiling, looking angry, and asked timidly.

The immature voice brought her back to her mind, Liu Bailu pursed her lips tightly, what's wrong with her?She tried her best to calm down, with a light and appropriate smile on the corner of her lips, she smiled at Lin Lin: "It's nothing, I just saw a mouse."

"Oh, I have rat poison at home, do you want to bring some for my sister? It works!" Lin Lin raised her head and offered a treasure to Liu Bailu.

***
Qi Peiyun jumped off the wall of Liu's house, staring at Shi Ce who was leaning on the wall full of shame: "You did it on purpose!"

Shi Ce shrugged and said helplessly, "My stomach hurts and I have diarrhea, it's not my fault."

How can Qi Peiyun believe it?Turning around and questioning the honest man Wu Zeng: "You are also an accomplice!"

Wu Zeng wondered, "Didn't you want to go first?"

It was calculated by these two people!Qi Peiyun turned his head and stared fiercely at the gate of Liu's house. The Zhang's house is diagonally opposite the Liu's house. The gates of the houses in this alley are all similar. He ground his teeth and said, "Needless to say! This must be Zhang Ting's house." idea!"

Both Shi Ce and Wu Zeng are rough people, Shi Ce is a bit of a playboy, but he doesn't have much brains, the only thing that could fool him is Zhang Ting, who made an excuse to go home early to see his mother today!

Being exposed, Shi Ce and Wu Zeng were not embarrassed, and went to look at the gate of Zhang's family happily.

Qi Peiyun rubbed his nose and stared at the backs of the two of them, then turned his head to look at the gate of Liu's house. He felt around on his body, and finally threw something into the courtyard wall of Liu's house, then clapped his hands and walked into the gate home gate.

Ever since Qi Peiyun left, why did Liu Bailu feel that there seemed to be some strange fragrance in his home? This fragrance was exactly the same as it was a few months ago, but the fragrance a few months ago was not so obvious. Some are too blatant.

After a few days like this, Liu Bailu finally couldn't bear to ask Shuangjiang: "Did you smell anything?"

Shuang Jiang was a little strange, but he still walked around the room and smelled it: "No."

Liu Bailu frowned, the same smell as that person really made her panic, she waved back the frost, walked around the room, and finally stood in front of the back window of the bathroom, the smell here It's bigger.

She opened the window and looked down. The snow in winter had already melted, and there were piled up with dead leaves, branches and rotten sycamore flowers that were almost turned into mud.

Among the piles of rot, she saw a pearl-like mung bean-sized ball, and the fragrance seemed to emanate from this thing.Liu Bailu closed the window, went out, stood in front of the small passageway between the East Wing and the wall, looked at the dirty and messy passageway, and stopped immediately.

"Sister, what are you doing here?" Sitting on the veranda leaning against the beautiful woman to bask in the sun, she saw Liu Bailu standing motionless by the wall for a long time, and asked.

Liu Bailu turned to look at Qin Shi, first curtsied to her from a distance, and then asked, "Did sister-in-law smell anything?"

"The sunshine is very good today." Qin answered irrelevantly.

Liu Bailu's brows frowned even tighter. Qin's nose has always been very good, especially after she was pregnant. Sometimes she would burn incense in her own room, and only choose the very light and elegant spices. Qin's nose can also be smelled in the west wing room. Arrived, and judged that there was musk in it, and asked her to extinguish the incense.

Pregnant women can't smell musk for long, what's that thing behind her?What if there is musk in it?
Although Liu Bailu didn't get along with Qin Shi, the child in her womb belonged to the Liu family. She didn't want Qin Shi to have any surprises.

Liu Bailu called Xiang Bo over, pointed to her bathroom window and said, "Xiang Bo, there is a white pearl-like thing over there, go and pick it up for me."

Mrs. Liu Su heard the movement in the room and came out, seeing Liu Bailu's order, asked, "Bailu, what happened?"

Liu Bailu watched Xiang Bo go in, then turned around and walked to Liu Su's side to pay respects, and then greeted Qin who came over again, before saying: "Daughter has been smelling something in this yard these days. Where did it come from. I asked Shuangjiang, but Shuangjiang didn’t know. My sister-in-law didn’t smell anything either. My daughter thought it was strange, so she looked around, and found something behind the bed, so I asked Xiang Bo to take it out.”

Qin's complexion changed when she heard this, and she looked at Liu Bailu and complained: "I am pregnant and can't smell the fragrance. In the past, the house was big, and you could use the fragrance if you like it, and I don't care about you, but now it's so big. In a small place, you still use incense at will, do you want to harm my flesh and blood?"

Liu Bailu looked at Qin seriously, with the same smile on her lips: "Sister-in-law. A small amount of musk is harmless to the fetus. That's why I dare to use incense. If musk is casual, it can make women infertile. If my sister-in-law was pregnant, I would not fiddle with those incenses. What's more, my sister-in-law's belly is the flesh and blood of the Liu family. After the fragrance, I also put those musks in the shop."

(End of this chapter)