"Greetings to my aunt." Su Qingping calmed down and bowed gracefully.
"Get up." Su smiled lightly, and suddenly said, "Just now the fourth child came to me and said that he wanted to marry you."
Su Qingping fell to her knees with a plop when she heard the words, her expression terrified: "Aunt Mingjian, Ping'er's marriage is decided by the elders, Ping'er doesn't know fourth cousin he...he..." She was at a loss when she said this look like. It turned out that Cheng Lang had already mentioned to his aunt that he wanted to marry him.
Thinking of Nangong Cheng's actions just now, he glanced at Su Shi's room, then shook his head at himself, was he trying to express something? Did he want himself not to admit no matter what Su Shi said, or...
"Ping'er, I know this is none of your business, it's the fourth's wishful thinking. I'm telling you this, just to tell you a few words. When you see the fourth child in the future, stay away from him, so that he won't do anything. What hurt your reputation!" Su said again.
"Yes, aunt." Su Qingping was respectful on the surface, but in her heart she felt her teeth were cold. It seemed that in her aunt's mind, she was not as good as the concubine of the Gu family, and even worse than the concubine of the Nangong family.
"Good boy, get up." Seeing that Su Qingping was still kneeling on the ground, Mrs. Su showed distressed expression on her face, "You are too honest a child, it's none of your business at all, why kneel."
Only then did Su Qingping get up, and sat obediently beside Su's, but she hated it in her heart: If it wasn't for the decline of the Su family, why would she need to kneel and live a life of being looked at by others!
The Su family didn't know what Su Qingping was thinking, but because of Nangong Cheng's matter, she felt somewhat guilty towards Su Qingping.
"Come here, bring me that red jade coral hairpin." Su Shi ordered loudly.
After a while, the maid Yukou came over with a carved sandalwood box.
Mrs. Su took the box, took out a red jade coral hairpin and stuck it on Su Qingping's head, praised: "It's so beautiful, Pinger will wear this when she meets the Wang family in a few days."
Su Qingping lowered her head shyly, revealing her snow-white neck, filled with resentment in her heart: Hmph, my aunt just slapped a sweet date, and really dismissed her as a poor relative who beat the autumn wind!
She half-closed her eyes, her mind wandering.
**◆**
The moon was as cool as water, and the silvery moonlight passed through the shadows of the trees and fell on the door of the ancestral hall.
The gatekeeper Huang Pozi held her stomach, and beads of sweat fell from her forehead.
She looked at the sky, and waited at least an hour for Mrs. Zheng, who was changing shifts, to come, and then looked around, it was pitch black, not even a ghost. Thinking that the fourth master in the ancestral hall should not have the courage to sneak out against Su's order.
In the middle of the night, no one should come, Huang Pozi finally couldn't bear the cramping abdominal pain, and went straight to the toilet.
When Huang Pozi was gone, a petite figure came out from the darkness. She looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she turned her head and whispered: "Girl, there is no one, you can come out."
After finishing the words, a slender figure came out from behind an old locust tree. She was wearing a black cloak, which wrapped herself tightly, and her black bucket hat covered most of her face, revealing her pointed chin.
"Liu Rong, you stay here and guard." She gave instructions to the petite figure, and walked towards the ancestral hall.
"Squeak--"
The door of the ancestral hall was gently pushed open, and the slight noise woke up Nangong Cheng who was kneeling on the futon and dozing off inside.
"Who?" Nangong Cheng followed the prestige and saw a slender figure with his back facing him, closing the gate of the ancestral hall.
The slender figure turned around and took off the black bucket hat, revealing a small face as white as jade, and a pair of beautiful eyes looking at Nangong Cheng affectionately.
"Ping'er!" Nangong Cheng was surprised and delighted, and suddenly got up from the ground, but because of kneeling for too long, his blood was not smooth and fell back to the futon.
"Cousin," Su Qingping rushed to Nangong Cheng's side like a deer, and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"
"Ping'er, I'm fine, don't worry." Nangong Cheng rubbed his sore knee, and said softly, "I'm just a little numb for a while."
Su Qingping said again with a distressed expression: "Cousin, how can you keep kneeling all the time, why don't you stand up and move your legs." She stretched out her hand to help, "Let me help you up. "
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you." At this time, Nangong Cheng couldn't remember what Su's order was, and where this place was. In his heart, only Su Qingping looked at him affectionately.
"Cousin, you have suffered." Su Qingping had tears in her eyes, "Auntie is too cruel, how could she punish you so severely!"
"It's nothing to me, but you, mother, did she..." Nangong Cheng looked at Su Qingping worriedly.
"My aunt looked for me, but she only thought it was you..." At this point, Su Qingping blamed herself, "Cousin, do you blame me for not showing my heart to my aunt?"
"No, how can this be your fault?" Nangong Cheng quickly comforted her, "Mother is furious at this moment, if she finds out about us, she will definitely send you away. At that time, if I want to see you again It’s difficult. It’s fine as it is now, we can think of a way.”
"Cousin, you are so kind to me." Su Qingping said tenderly, "Don't worry, I will definitely live up to you."
"Ping'er." Nangong Cheng was also full of tenderness in his heart. Looking at Su Qingping, who was as beautiful as a peach or plum, he couldn't help his heart fluttering, and hugged her.
Su Qingping didn't resist, she leaned softly and bonelessly against Nangong Cheng's chest like a rootless duckweed.
Nangong Cheng lowered his head and kissed Su Qingping's bright red lips. Su Qingping let out a sigh, her red lips parted slightly, as if she was letting you pick them.
Just when the two were kissing inseparably, a meow came into Su Qingping's ears.
"Meow!"
Su Qingping suddenly came back to her senses, and pushed Nangong Cheng, "Someone is here."
Nangong Cheng reluctantly let go of Su Qingping.
"Cousin, I'm leaving first, take care of yourself." Su Qingping glanced at Nangong Cheng with affectionate eyes, opened the gate of the ancestral hall, slipped out like a thief, and then quickly rushed into the darkness .
At this time, Mrs. Huang also walked to the door of the ancestral hall with her stomach in her arms. Seeing the silence and emptiness, she opened the door of the ancestral hall and saw Nangong Cheng obediently kneeling on the futon. She finally felt relieved.
On the other hand, as soon as Su Qingping entered the pagoda tree forest, she joined Liu Rong, and the master and servant walked the lonely path, and they walked away very quickly.
After passing through the garden, the two of them passed through a corner gate, turned into a gravel path, and walked forward quickly... Suddenly, they heard a rough female voice coming from the front: "Who?! Who? Where?!"
Su Qingping was startled, her steps stopped, and Dingqing looked forward, only to see a shadowy figure in front of her, holding a lantern.
Looks like a night watch lady!
Su Qingping thought in her heart that something was wrong, and now that she had been discovered by this woman, she could only try to fool her away.
Su Qingping pulled Liu Rong into the big elm tree beside the path, and carefully imitated the meow of a cat: "Meow--"
"Hey, where did the wild cat come from again!" the old woman yelled angrily, "Two days ago, I kept barking in the middle of the night, making my mother unable to sleep. I met my mother today, and I must arrest you .” As he spoke, he followed the meowing cat.
Seeing that this posture was wrong, Su Qingping quickly said to Liu Rong: "Liu Rong, go and lead her away."
Liu Rong was stunned, looking at his young lady in disbelief.
"Why are you still standing there in a daze, don't hurry up!" Su Qingping pushed her out impatiently seeing Liu Rong not moving.
Liurong was helpless, a gloomy look flashed in his eyes, he could only grit his teeth and turn around and run away.
Su Qingping's idea was very good, to let Liu Rong distract the mother-in-law's attention, so that she could slip away and return to her room. As for what will happen to Liu Rong after being caught, I'm sorry, she doesn't have time to think about it at this time.
But things didn't go according to her script in the end, the woman saw a black figure running forward at first glance, and suddenly became suspicious, seeing that this figure didn't look like a cat, but a person, could it be a thief in the house up
Thinking of this, the mother-in-law became anxious and immediately yelled. "Come on, catch the thief!" Her voice was loud and sharp, breaking the tranquility of the night.
The ladies and wives who were watching the night in the vicinity flocked to him immediately, asking one after another, "Mrs. Yu, where is the thief?"
"Run there." Madam Yu pointed forward, "Leave some people to search around here, maybe there are accomplices."
Everyone took it seriously, and instantly divided into two groups, one group chased the thief away, and the other stayed behind and began to search the surroundings carefully.
After a while, Su Qingping was dragged out by a fierce woman with a full face like a chicken.
"I found it, I found it." The woman shouted happily.
The crowd immediately gathered around.
"It's a woman!"
"Yo, feelings are still a female snitch."
"It's outrageous!"
The ferocious woman slapped her across the face, and reprimanded disdainfully: "How dare you break ground on Tai Sui's head and come to our house to steal things."
Su Qingping was slapped until her eyes stared at gold stars. Just as she was about to reveal her identity, "Slap, slap!" She was slapped twice in a row, "If you hide your head and show your tail, who else can you lie to by meowing like a cat?"
This time it was Mrs. Yu who did it.
"Let go of me, I'm not a thief!" Su Qingping sobbed softly, but unfortunately, her voice was indistinct because of being slapped several times.
"My old lady hates thieves the most." The ferocious woman slapped Su Qingping's hood twice, but it was a pity that her face was swollen like a pig's head at this time, and others could not recognize her at all.
"Yes, those thieves and thieves are the most hated. I was once stolen ten pennies, but my heart hurts to death!" Someone said with a look of deep hatred, and took the opportunity to kick Su Qingping twice. foot.
Su Qingping cried bitterly, her face was covered with tears, she couldn't see her usual beauty.
But how could the women next to her let her go so easily, and beat her head and face again.