incense as a medium

Chapter 4 Name Festival
Liu Sushi's gaze was fixed, and with a stiff smile, she turned around to help her get the clothes, but when she saw the blood-stained apron hidden under the clothes, she took a deep breath.

She pretended not to see the bellyband and threw it on the ground, took the coat and put it on Liu Bailu, and hugged her out of the bathroom.

Qi Peiyun raised his head slowly, touched his face and took a deep breath. Just now he was really frightened into a cold sweat by that girl. He looked down at the wound, and he was a little dizzy after being soaked in water for so long. To put it bluntly, if she gets stabbed a few more times by that girl, this little life will really have to be explained here.

Qi Peiyun glanced at the clothes on his body, and didn't know how that girl did it. The knife came in from above, and every time it either almost pierced him, or wiped it off against the bathtub, and one knife still stuck to him. His spine went down, and his heart stopped beating in fright.

He listened attentively to the movement outside, and he jumped out of the water until there was no sound. This movement pulled the wound again. He grinned, looked at the already soaked veil, and bent over to pick it up. Covering the wound with the green bellyband on the ground, he turned and pushed the window open. He looked down and saw the snowdrifts in the path that had been poured with hot water. He laughed silently, stepped on the window lattice and turned over.

"Cuckoo."

The window slammed lightly, followed by the door being pushed open with a babble.

Liu Junge stared at the swaying window with a stern expression, picked up a rag and wiped off the water stains on the ground and the footprints in front of the window, then threw the rag and turned around to leave.

child time.

Liu Sushi looked at Liu Junge and sighed: "My lord, please rest quickly, I have to go to the military camp tomorrow, with such heavy snow, I'm afraid it will take me an hour to get there."

Liu Junge wiped his face and said, "How can I sleep when something like this happened?"

Mrs. Liu Su sat down by the bed, held Liu Junge's hand, and said, "Master, don't worry, I will take good care of Bailu. Since Bailu chose to hide it, no one will know about it, right? Let's not talk, everything..."

Liu Sushi started to cry while talking, the bathroom was just that big, Liu Junge also went in to see, that person was really hidden in the tub, anyway, her daughter's reputation was ruined.

Liu Junge hugged Liu Sushi into his arms, heaved a long sigh, and after she had cried enough, he said: "That's it, let's rest."

Liu Bailu returned to the room and hurried to the bathroom, but saw that the bathroom had already been cleaned up by Shuang Jiang, she hurriedly called Shuang Jiang, and asked, "Where is my apron?"

Shuang Jiang came from the flower hall and replied: "Miss's bellyband is washed by myself, servants dare not touch it."

"Haven't you seen it?" Liu Bailu suddenly felt an extremely bad premonition.

Shuang Jiang looked puzzled, and asked, "Your servant has never seen it before. Miss, is there something wrong?"

Liu Bailu clenched her lips, and Shuang Jiang asked: "Miss, miss, what's the matter? What happened?"

Liu Bailu shook his head and said, "That's all, that's all, you can go rest."

"Oh, the servant will leave."

Shuang Jiang let go of the doubts in his heart and knelt back to the flower hall to rest.

Liu Bailu was extremely worried, afraid that Liu Sushi would find out that there was someone hidden in her tub.She was born with a little love for cleanliness, even a little too much. When I was a child, I didn't talk about it. When I grew up, I had to change at least three sets of clothes a day.

In the past, her nanny took care of her underwear, so she didn't have to worry about anything, but after the defeat of the Liu family, she felt that Shuangjiang's mother, Yuniang, didn't wash the clothes clean enough, so she started to learn to do it herself. I wash them all by myself, and I won't let Shuang Jiang and her mother do anything about the bellyband and underwear.

Now the bellyband is gone... Either the man took it, or the mother put it away...

Liu Bailu combed her hair with a comb, and really wanted to go to the main room to ask her mother, but she didn't know how to answer if her mother asked back, after all, what she lost was such a close-fitting bellyband. There are so many people in the room...

What if those officers and soldiers took it?

Liu Bailu's face paled suddenly, his hands loosened, and the mahogany comb fell to the table with a "clang".

Shuang Jiang who just lay down in the flower hall quickly put on his clothes and came over, asking: "Miss, miss, what happened?"

Liu Bailu hurriedly grabbed the comb again, shook his head, and said, "It's okay, you can rest."

"Yes." Shuang Jiang glanced at Liu Bailu in a strange way, and then walked back to the Flower Hall.

Liu Bailu turned off the lights and lay on the bed with his eyes wide open, sleepless.

***
Zhang Ting looked at Qi Peiyun, who was dying on the bed, and couldn't breathe with a smile: "I really admire you, my house is on the left, why did you run to the right? That's the diagonally opposite door from my house! Isn't it directly opposite the door! "

"How do I know?" Qi Peiyun glared at him angrily, "Have some sympathy, okay! I'm already like this, and you're still laughing at me."

Seeing that Zhang Ting still couldn't stop laughing, Qi Peiyun picked up the thing at hand and threw it over. Zhang Ting hurriedly picked it up, then hurriedly threw it back: "Hey! How can you give me this thing? You It’s better to keep it and keep it for your wife.”

The emerald green cloth pocket covered him, and Qi Peiyun pulled it off with his hands, only to realize that it was actually a bellyband!With an embarrassed expression, he stuffed his apron into the quilt, and said, "Well, I was in a hurry and didn't look at it, so I used this to cover the wound. That..."

Zhang Ting gritted his teeth and held back a smile, put a pile of bottles and cans on the tray, brought them to the bed, took off Qi Peiyun's clothes rudely, looked at the wound on his shoulder and said, "You How did you get the injury? Where did you soak for half a month? Would you like to come here a few days later? I sprinkle some salt and I can grill it directly. Hey! Why is it black and blue here? Which girl in the building is so dirty Ruthless?"

Qi Peiyun had been going in and out of the Chu Pavilion in the brothel, and there was a bruise on the cornel on his chest, but Zhang Ting didn't think much about it.

Thinking of the charming scenery just now, Qi Peiyun blushed, and his nosebleed almost fell again. He gritted his teeth and threw a wax pill on the quilt, saying: "I didn't make it tonight! For such a crap!"

Zhang Ting stuffed the wax pill back for him, lowered his head and began to treat his wound, but he did not forget to gossip: "I just heard that Zhang San and the others went to search Miss Liu's boudoir, and that Miss Liu was in Bathing? Hey, it’s lucky that Zhang San and the others went, if Lao Ji went, the Liu family would have to go bankrupt and avoid disaster.” At this point, Zhang Ting had a flash of inspiration, pointed at Qi Peiyun’s chest and stammered: "Could this bruise of yours be..."

Qi Peiyun turned his face away uncomfortably, Gu Zuo said to him: "Isn't this a disaster today? It's a good thing to go to the lady's boudoir to search for people."

Zhang Ting took a look at Qi Peiyun and stopped asking questions. After treating the wound, he helped Qi Peiyun get up, took gauze and began to bandage his wound: "It's no wonder, you've been here for almost ten years, why not?" Don’t you know the customs here? The customs here are open, but it’s not like your capital. There are disasters here every year. If everyone obeys the rules like that, how can there be life? Didn’t my mother marry three times? Isn’t this Someone came to propose a marriage a while ago, but my mother doesn't want to remarry, isn't it troublesome?"

Zhang Ting's mother married three times, and all three husbands died. If this was in the capital or south, it would be said to be Kefu's fate.But in this border, there are wars almost every year, and it is common for everyone to die.It is common for a widow to remarry not to mention three times, but four or five times.

Qi Peiyun's face was on fire, he lowered his head, his long hair covered half of his face, he coughed, and said: "Then the Liu family are from the capital?"

Zhang Ting glanced at Qi Peiyun and said, "Isn't it? I've only been here for three years, and I heard that his father used to be the prince and grand teacher."

Prince Taishi?

Qi Peiyun was taken aback for a moment, then remembered something and suddenly turned to look at Zhang Ting: "Why didn't I hear you mention it before?"

Zhang Ting wondered: "Isn't uncle framed and sent to the border because he offended the prince? I thought you didn't like to hear about their family, so I didn't mention it to you."

Qi Peiyun turned his head again, snorted sullenly, and said: "Well, you turn around and tell the neighbors, don't talk nonsense about Miss Liu's."

Zhang Ting sneered and said: "Don't talk about who they are talking about? After moving here for three years, everyone inside and out saw the cook Yu Niang leading the girl Shuang Jiang in and out, and occasionally saw Aunt Bai, don't None of the female family members showed their heads. And I heard that although the Liu family's house was ransacked, the family has a lot of money, and the family wears gold and silver very luxuriously."

"Where did you hear that?" Qi Peiyun thought back to the moment when he entered the room, but he didn't see anything extravagant, but Liu Bailu seemed to have accidentally broken something, and it smelled like fragrant dew. The smell is something from the west side, and that thing is not cheap. He subconsciously rubbed the bellyband inside the quilt, and it felt silky to the touch. It was really not an ordinary material.

Zhang Ting shook his head and said: "Tell me, the house was also ransacked, why is your Qi family so poor? The Liu family has money to buy a shop and a house here. I heard that the young master of the Liu family went to the school to be a teacher." .”

Qi Peiyun didn't seem to want to say more about this, so he just said: "The fifth prince is kind. Don't push it away, I will leave it to you, don't let gossip flow out. What is the girl from Beijing like?" It’s different from here, it respects the rules, and if there is a gossip, you can wipe your neck.”

"As for?"

Zhang Ting glanced at Qi Peiyun.

Qi Peiyun nodded seriously, the difference between the pass and the capital here is really too great, and he was really shocked when he first came here.My mother was also very uncomfortable, and only now reluctantly accepted some of the customs here.

Zhang Ting sighed, it would be really difficult to prevent the neighbors from talking about Miss Liu's family...

***
Liu Bailu kept her eyes open like this until it was light, and before Shuang Jiang came to call, she had already put on her clothes and got out of bed and began to comb her hair.

Shuang Jiang, who came late, was not puzzled, seeing that Liu Bailu was already dressed, and went to the kitchen to fetch hot water and came over to serve Liu Bailu to wash.

When Liu Bailu put on her cloak and stepped out of the room, she saw Mrs. Qin coming out of the west wing opposite. She paused slightly, and knelt down to Mrs. Qin. The latter nodded, and took her son Liu Zongze's hand towards her. Go to the main room.

Liu Bailu walked to the door of the main room, and just now formally greeted Qin: "Sister-in-law, good morning."

"Morning sister." Qin nodded with a smile.

Liu Zongze bowed obediently and said, "Good morning, aunt."

"Zongze is good." Liu Bailu smiled and touched Liu Zongze's head, unexpectedly Qin pulled Liu Zongze back, Liu Bailu's hand fell into the air, and stopped in mid-air awkwardly.

Qin looked at Liu Bailu's bandaged wound, and said with a smirk: "Be careful, don't touch the wound, it will be bad if it is dirty."

(End of this chapter)