The night in the capital is not as cool as in the mountains, and there is still a trace of the heat of the day in the air. Wang Shutuo is naked, wearing only a small red bellyband and a pair of shorts of the same color, and his chubby body is rolling on the mat in the carriage. Rolling around, bumping into Ji Mingxiu from time to time, the bumps were delightful.
At this time, Ji Mingxiu was a little distracted, unaware that his leg had been smashed purple by the little Hercules.
The carriage stopped at a courtyard house on Qingfeng Street, Yan Feijue dropped his whip, took out a big red apple from his bosom, and gnawed on it.
Shi Qi took out Wang Shu and got out of the carriage, Jing Yun followed lonely.
Ji Mingxiu glanced at someone's unruly hand all the way: "Have you touched enough? It's here."
Qiao Wei withdrew her hand, rolled her eyeballs, raised her eyebrows and said, "I'm afraid you'll be tired, so I'll give you a massage, what are you touching?"
Ji Mingxiu said paradoxically, "Do you need to massage from the waist to the legs?"
Qiao Wei said with a guilty conscience: "Legs... also need to be pressed, I'm afraid you will have a sore back, back pain and leg cramps if you walk too far."
She really planned it this way at first, thinking that it would not be easy for him to save her, but but... His body is so comfortable to press, the texture is tight, strong and elastic, so she couldn't help touching it.
Ji Mingxiu rolled up his wide sleeves, and said calmly: "Don't press where you should press, you will be successful!"
Qiao Wei snorted: "What should be pressed... ah!"
Join the hooligans!
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It was late at night, when Luzhu heard the commotion in the yard, she realized that the master had returned, and hurriedly put on her clothes to greet her: "Why is the master coming back now? Didn't you say that you will go for a month?" Seeing that she was separated from Ji Mingxiu Qiao Wei, who was ten meters away with a disheveled face, smiled brightly, "Madam is here too, come in and sit down."
"Sister Luzhu! I'm here too!" Wang Shu poked out a round head from Shiqi's arms.
Luzhu had seen her a long time ago, but Shiqi hid her in her arms, like hiding some treasure, she didn't dare to go up to say hello rashly, for fear of angering Shiqi, now she took the initiative to talk to herself, Luzhu couldn't ask for more Well, she smiled and said, "Wang Shu is here too? Why are you hiding in Brother Shiqi's arms?"
"Oh, I, I, I... I don't have any clothes on!" Wang Shu shyly covered her face, her butt twisted and twisted, like a little ostrich with its head stuck in the sand.
Luzhu couldn't help laughing.
Jing Yun didn't talk much, Luzhu greeted him, he politely called sister Luzhu and entered the room.
Lu Zhu walked towards Qiao Wei: "Ma'am, do you have any luggage?"
Qiao Wei shook her head: "No."
When I came to rescue people, I didn't expect to meet Mingxiu, and I rushed back to the town immediately after thinking about saving the child, but unexpectedly, he appeared by accident, and it was fortunate that he appeared, otherwise I would have lost this time. hand, it will be even more difficult to save the children.
"Sister Luzhu!" Chen Dadao showed his big white teeth and walked in with a smile on his face.
Luzhu laughed amused by his stupidity, and saluted jokingly: "Chen Gang Leader Jin An!"
Chen Dadao laughed even more silly.
Luzhu arranged accommodation for several people, Qiao Wei and the child still lived in the East Wing, Chen Dadao lived in the West Wing where he lived once before, as for Hua Sheng and A Wu...they rushed to the inn directly after they were woken up by Chen Dadao.
There is no other reason, those two goods are more handsome than Brother Da Dao!
Luzhu called up the kitchen staff to boil water and make supper.
"It's too late, I won't eat big fish and meat, and I can't digest it. Master Yang said to stew some bird's nest with rock sugar, mix a few bowls of cold noodles with shredded cucumber, green pepper, and thin slices of light braised mutton, and make a steamed lily for the children." Egg." Luzhu reported carefully in the east compartment of the station.
Wang Shu crispy and authentic: "I like to eat mutton!"
"Where's Jing Yun?" Ji Mingxiu asked.
Jing Yun nodded.
"Then do this." Ji Mingxiu looked at Qiao Wei again, "Do you want to eat anything else?"
"No need." She was never picky about her food.
"Master, what about yourself?" Luzhu asked shyly.
Ji Mingxiu paused: "Make a cup of strong tea with lotus seed hearts." He glanced at Qiao Wei and said, "Get off the fire."
Qiao Wei: "Cough!"
Luzhu went to the kitchen, it was midnight, the kitchen worker went back, only Master Yang was alone, seeing that he was too busy, Luzhu hurriedly helped him, while going to fetch water from the well in the yard , Chen Dadao ran over in a hurry: "Why is this kind of rough work done by the girl's family? Get out of the way, let me do it!"
Green Pearl gave him the bucket.
He was hit by Wangshu's small weight at night, and his arm still hurts, but he was unambiguous in fetching water, with a bucket in each hand, and he was very stable and powerful!
Qiao Wei bathed the children in the room. She wore the clothes that Ji Mingxiu and his sister wore when they were young. They were more than 20 years old, but they were like new ones. The fabric and style were much better than those in the current shops The best-selling ready-to-wear is much more beautiful, wearing it on the body, it looks like a young master of the capital (little daughter).
"Go and wash, I'll wipe their hair." Ji Mingxiu took a dry cotton cloth from Qiao Wei's hand.
She wanted to wash it, but she didn't bring any clothes!
Qiao Wei pursed her lips: "Do you still have your sister's clothes?"
Ji Mingxiu sat behind the two children, and wiped the hair of the two little buns with a piece of cotton cloth in one hand: "You are so old, it's gone, it was taken away before leaving the pavilion, and the ones left are all worn when I was a child. "
Lu Zhu, who had already walked to the door, took back Ji Wan's goose-yellow tunic skirt in her hand.
Qiao Wei let out a cry of disappointment, and asked again: "Then... let me borrow it from Luzhu, I am about the same size as her, and I wore her clothes the first time I came here."
Ji Mingxiu said, "Her is gone."
Lu Zhu, who walked to the door again, silently took away the new clothes she had bought before...
Ji Mingxiu casually "throws" a white shirt to Qiao Wei.
"What is this?" Qiao Wei opened it and took a look, "Isn't this your pajamas?"
Ji Mingxiu said casually: "Let's wear it overnight, wash your clothes tonight, and you can dry them tomorrow."
Qiao Wei looked at the pajamas in her hand, and there was a clean fragrance on it, which smelled as good as the ones on him: "You didn't mean it, did you?"
Ji Mingxiu said seriously, "You think too much."
Yes, did you think too much? But why do you think this guy is weird? It seems that there is a little bit of... evil intentions.
Qiao Wei came out of the shower, wearing the ancient men's shirt, under the ice silk material, her exquisite and chic figure was looming, the length was just enough to wrap her buttocks, revealing a pair of slender and fair legs, straight and beautiful.
Perhaps because of soaking in hot water, the knees were slightly red, which made people imagine.
Her black hair hangs down, covering the alluring scenery on her chest.
The black hair is like satin, the clothes are like snow, and the skin that can be broken by blows is a bit of hibiscus, like a piece of fine suet jade.
Ji Mingxiu's Adam's apple twitched slightly, which was really self-inflicted. A cup of strong tea with lotus seeds is not enough.
Master Yang made the supper at the fastest speed, but the children were really tired. When the supper was served, their little heads had already started to peck at the rice. Lie down and fall asleep.
Looking at Shu again, he also snored in Qiao Wei's arms.
Qiao Wei rinsed the children's mouths. The children were like dough. They were fiddled with by her, but they just didn't wake up.
Ji Mingxiu's eyes moved slightly. Women, children, oil lamps, meals, and a room without temperature seemed to suddenly have a warm smell, a smell of home.
It was a quarter of an hour after "tidying up" the two children. Qiao Wei was sweating profusely. When she turned around, she found Ji Mingxiu standing behind her. She was startled: "Why do you always act like this?" Quietly? It will scare people to death, you know?"
Ji Mingxiu didn't speak, but looked at her deeply.
Qiao Wei was embarrassed by the sight, she turned her back, and straightened the quilt for Jing Yun with helpless hands.
Ji Mingxiu hugged her gently behind him, resting his chin on her shoulder, breathing in the fragrance of her neck and hair.
"Hey you… "
"Don't move, it will be fine in a while."
Qiao Wei had always been obedient in front of him, and if he said he wouldn't let her move, she really wouldn't move.
However, what does he mean by saying that it will be fine in a while
He didn't want to hug her...do some shameful thing, did he
She's not ready yet!
Qiao Wei was about to speak, but he slowly let her go, turned and left the room.
The moonlight shone on him, stretching his shadow very long, making him appear a little lonely in the silent courtyard.
"The young master came back to visit the princess's grave, right?" Lu Zhu's voice suddenly rang at the door, and she stared in the direction of the study in a daze, thoughtfully.
Qiao Wei was confused: "Princess?"
Lu Zhu brought in a small luminous pearl lamp: "Master's mother."
Qiao Wei was slightly taken aback: "His mother... passed away?" Compared to his mother being a princess, what Qiao Wei cared most about was his mother's death.
His mother passed away, and he felt a little bit bitter, but looking at him, he couldn't tell that he was a motherless child.
Always hide emotions so deeply that people can't see through them.
Lu Zhu and Qiao Wei sighed almost at the same time, and then said: "It has been many years since I passed away. It is said that Princess Zhaoming was gone when the master was only as old as Jing Yun. Every year during this time, the master will stay quietly. In the capital, I must have made an exception to go to the south of the Yangtze River because of something very important this time, but I heard from the tone of the guard Yan that the young master's business seems to be unfinished, so I guess, the master returned to Beijing halfway to attend the princess's grave."
It turned out to be like this, she said why he came back all of a sudden.
Although I have never met that Princess Zhaoming, I feel inexplicably that it is her spirit in the sky who brought Mingxiu back.
The next day, Qiao Wei bid farewell to Ji Ming.
Ji Mingxiu didn't know that Qiao Wei knew about his mother's death. Qiao Wei pretended not to know about it as always. Seeing him ordering a few big boxes to be carried onto the carriage, she tactfully didn't ask if those were for Zhao Yang. The sacrifice of the princess.
Ji Mingxiu waved to Wang Shu and Jing Yun, and the two little buns ran over. He bowed and whispered something to them. Both of them opened their eyes wide and looked at Qiao Wei in surprise. Look over here.
Qiao Wei raised her eyebrows in wonder.
Soon, he didn't know what to say, Wang Shu covered his small mouth, secretly smiled, and glanced at Qiao Wei with sly eyes from time to time.
After whispering, Xiao Baozi ran away, and Qiao Wei came over: "What did you tell them about me just now?"
Ji Mingxiu said inscrutablely: "This is the secret of the three of us, I can't tell you."
Qiao Wei curled her lips, she and Xiaomengbao have no secrets yet.
Ji Mingxiu was in a good mood, and there was a little smile in his eyes: "Ming'an will come later, and he will take you back. I have something to do, so I won't send you back to the village."
Qiao Wei rebuffed: "No need, Da Dao has a carriage, let's go back in his carriage."
If his carriage enters the village and is seen by the villagers, he will be talkative. Unlike Chen Dadao, he always works in the fields. Everyone already knows him and her relationship with the Qinglong Gang. Aunt Liu, no one would think in the wrong direction.
Ji Mingxiu glanced at her: "That's fine."
Qiao Wei hesitated for a while, then asked: "Then what, you beat King Yin like that, King Yin won't seek revenge from you?"
Ji Mingxiu smiled: "Are you worried about me?"
Qiao Wei muttered: "Who is worried about you?" Your mother is a princess, you are a relative of the emperor, and the backstage is so tough...
Ji Mingxiu looked at her, the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Qiao Wei hesitated for a while, but couldn't utter the mournful voice: "It's nothing, I just asked how you and Master Liu met? He said you were kind to him."
Ji Mingxiu knew that this was not what she wanted to say, but he answered her patiently: "King Yin asked him to do business, but he repented halfway and offended King Yin. I helped him hide for a while."
Could it be that Liu Ye terminated his cooperation with Prince Yin after listening to her instigation? If this is the case, it would be very satisfying.
Let him bully her!
Let him snatch her child!
Make him shameless!
Well now, business is down.
When Qiao Wei was happy, her face showed a little complacent expression.
Looking at her, Ji Mingxiu couldn't help but bend the corners of his lips: "Don't ask me why I went to Jiangnan?"
Qiao Wei thought for a while and said: "If you want to tell me, you will tell me yourself; if you don't want to tell me, you can lie if I ask you. Anyway, I didn't install a bug on you. I don't know what you did. have no idea."
Another new word popped out of her mouth, and Ji Mingxiu was no stranger to it. Someday she would look like a serious boudoir woman before the sun came out from the west.
Ji Mingxiu said: "It's not time to tell you yet, I'll let you know when the result comes out."
Qiao Wei pointed to herself: "Is it related to me?"
Ji Mingxiu's eyes paused: "It's sort of."
…
After stepping into the carriage, Yan Feijue gnawed on an apple while asking Ji Mingxiu: "Young Master, what do you mean you have something to do with her? You don't really suspect that the girl five years ago was her? If she is, it would be easy, If not, then she will ask, "What did you want to tell me that day? I have something to do with you going to the south of the Yangtze River. What's the matter?" How would you answer? Tell her the truth, or lie to her?"
"I will not lie to her, nor will I hide it from her."
It doesn't matter if it's her or not.
…
However, after Qiao Wei and her party left the courtyard, they did not return to the village immediately, but went to the Red Man's Pavilion first.
The alley of the Red Man’s Pavilion experienced a thrilling day, but when they set foot on this land again, it was as if nothing had happened, it was extremely calm, everyone was busy as they wanted, and no one was hotly discussing the big names A certain prince in the city actually robbed a civilian girl's child in the street.
Qiao Wei asked Chen Dadao and Xiao Baozi to wait at the tea shop opposite, and entered the celebrity hall alone.
It looks like a private house of a rich family, the courtyard is full of novel flowers, parrots and starling thrushes are lined up in the corridor, and the graceful maids, led by the mothers, practice in the courtyard and in the corridor over and over again. With elegant gait.
The person who received Qiao Wei was a slightly older woman, dressed very decently, but not ostentatious, at first glance, she was no different from a lady from a wealthy family.
"My husband's family name is Qian, so I don't know how to call the girl." Mrs. Qian welcomed Qiao Wei to the main seat, and offered a cup of tea with a pleasant face.
Qiao Wei took the tea cup: "My name is Qiao."
Madam Qian smiled sweetly: "So it's Miss Qiao."
Qiao Wei doesn't like combing a woman's hair in a bun. On the one hand, she is an unmarried soul in her bones; on the other hand, a woman's hair is too difficult to comb, and she can't learn it by life or death.
In addition to her temperament being calmer than most people, her face is more supple than a young girl with cardamom. No wonder Mrs. Qian recognized her as a little girl, but this little girl is too good-looking, It's not how beautiful the facial features are, but the ethereal temperament, which makes people's eyes shine.
If her celebrity hall also has such a beauty, those aristocratic families will fight for it.
Madam Qian smiled: "Miss Qiao, do you want to buy someone, or sell someone?"
"Buyer." Qiao Wei said.
Madam Qian asked with a smile: "I don't know what Miss Qiao wants to do when she buys someone back? Cleaning, personal service, or accompanying room? Do you need someone with great strength, outstanding appearance, or someone with great literary talent?"
It really opened Qiao Wei's eyes that there are so many details in a disguised slave trading market.
"I think the girl is about to leave the cabinet at her age?" Mrs. Qian said with a smile: "We have a special companion maid here, who is beautiful and sincere. Taking her there can not only help you win over your husband, but also take care of you. Backyard, and most importantly, never mind."
Beautiful and heartfelt, and can also take care of the backyard, is this Pinger from the Dream of the Red Chamber? Some people are willing to be Ping'er, but she doesn't want to be Wang Xifeng, serving a husband with other women, just thinking about it is unbearable.
Qiao Wei straightened her expression: "Mrs. Qian misunderstood, I don't want to buy a companion house, I want to buy some workers who can do rough work."
Most of the workers are hired from outside, after all, it is cheap, whether it is the maids trained by the celebrity hall, the servants, or even the nurses and mothers, the price is first-class, and it is not worthwhile to use it for work.
Qiao Wei has also considered the issue of cost, but finding a few untrustworthy ones, the formula is easy to leak, and once others learn her formula, the price of her things will drop rapidly, and that kind of loss is the biggest.
In contrast, spending money to buy a few servants who can handle it is a wise and economical way.
Although Qiao Wei was dressed plainly, but Madam Qian had seen countless people, most of whom were mud-legged, who sold a lot of gold. The servant came up: "This is a servant newly trained by the Red Man Hall. He is quick to do things, hard-working and hard-working. He is the most suitable for work. He can do any dirty work!"
Qiao Wei looked at the five people carefully, and asked Madam Qian: "There are no female workers?"
"Women are weak." Madam Qian said.
"I don't do coolies." Qiao Wei said.
It's not that she treats them differently, but that these boys don't look very good, and they are all dumbfounded and lack of energy. If they really bought it back, she expressed doubts about whether they could complete the task under the quota.
Madam Qian smiled and said, "You only want women?"
Qiao Wei replied: "Both men and women are fine, as long as they are more energetic and kind-hearted, it doesn't matter if they are older."
"Does it matter if you have a family?" Madam Qian asked suddenly.
Qiao Wei looked at her strangely.
She explained embarrassingly: "It's like this. As far as the standards you mentioned just now, I really have a suitable one here. They are a pair of uncles and sisters-in-law of the criminal family, but they have a child. Ordinary people don't buy it." This kind of servant is too troublesome, I see you have a kind face and a kind heart, I don't know if you mind if they have a child."
In the past, Qiao Wei might have minded, but now Qiao Wei is a person with children, who can take the children out to make a living, it is really desperate, just like when she was in business, she had no choice but to send her son and daughter Do you take it with you
Comparing her heart with her heart, she would not dislike someone having a child.
But she is not the Holy Mother, and if the other party does not meet her requirements, she will not buy it home.
Madam Qian called people out. It was a man in his thirties and a woman in her twenties. The man's appearance was not handsome, but he was very tough. Beautiful face, but very comfortable to look at.
"They were originally relatives of the official family. The old man was convicted and his house was confiscated. These people were going to be exiled, but I bought them. They have lived with me for a while. They have no choice in what they do, and they are honest. , the hands and feet are clean, and the body is also good, if you buy someone to do the work, they will be perfect, just... have a child." Madam Qian said, looking at the woman, "Where's Brother Zhong?"
The woman said: "Going to play."
"How old?" Qiao Wei asked.
The woman replied: "In the case of Miss, seven years old."
He is two years older than Jingyun Wangshu, and there is a private school in the village, so he can go to school during the day.
"That child is very good." Madam Qian said.
Qiao Wei beckoned to the two of them: "Come forward."
"Yes." The woman replied, and walked up to Qiao Wei together with the man.
Qiao Wei looked at the hands of the two, which were covered with thin calluses. They were the hands of a pair of working people. Qiao Wei felt the pulse of the two of them again, and they were considered healthy. She nodded with satisfaction: "How much is it?" ?”
This is going to be bought, Madam Qian heaved a long sigh of relief!
When I bought this family back then, it was not because of these two people. There was a pair of brothers and sisters accompanying them. She had taken a fancy to the girl who was so beautiful, but that girl had to buy her whole family, otherwise she would rather hit her head to death. She thought that these people were not bad at looking at them, and she could always sell them with her gleaming mouth, but she didn't know that the brothers and sisters were indeed quickly selected by the wealthy family to be schoolboys and maidservants. The six-year-old child has never been cared about.
It's not that the slaves of big families are not allowed to raise children, but they are families with children, and the whole family works together.
The "family of three" ate and drank here for a month, and they found a buyer.
Mrs. Qian was in a hurry to sell, and she didn't ask Qiao Wei for a price, ten taels of silver per person, and the child gave it away for free.
Twelve bought out a person's life, Qiao Wei shook her head, feeling that human life is worthless than the moment King Yin threw her gold.
Qiao Wei bought the "family of three" for twenty taels of silver without haggling.
The three members of this family are not father, mother and son, but the concubine of the second house, the concubine of the first house, and the concubine of the first house.
When they were in the official family, the three of them didn't have much contact with each other. After the family was destroyed, they became a family that depended on each other.
The situation of the three of them was not very good when they were in the official family, and the exile for a period of time has worn away the remaining pride and airs. Now it is a luxury to live a good life, so I dare not be in front of Qiao Wei take joe.
Qiao Wei said: "The new house hasn't been built yet, so you live in the shed on the construction site first. The conditions may be a bit difficult, but you work hard, and I won't treat you badly. Also, I bought you two, not this child. He is free, and I will not interfere with what he will do when he grows up."
The uncle and sister-in-law nodded gratefully. Now they are most concerned about this child. It doesn't matter if they are slaves, but they don't want this child to be branded as a slave.
"Thank you Miss Qiao!" The woman knelt down and kowtowed.
Qiao Wei helped her up: "From now on, all these vain rituals will be avoided."
"Yes." The woman agreed.
A group of people left Beijing in a carriage.
The man's name is Agui, and the woman's name is Gu Qiniang. Strictly speaking, the two are uncles and sisters-in-law, but Gu Qiniang is not the main wife, and Agui is not the eldest brother's younger brother.
Agui and Chen Dadao were sitting on the outer carriage, Gu Qiniang was sitting in the carriage with Brother Zhong, Wang Shu opened his eyes wide and stared at the new friend, who also looked at her curiously , but Qiao Wei and Jing Yun didn't speak, the carriage was a little quiet, Wang Shu was very understanding, smiled and slipped back into his mother's arms.
Qiao Wei took her to the mountain and packed up a temporary shack for the three of them.
Agui and Gu Qiniang thought they were a rich family when they heard that they were bought by someone, but they found out that they were a farmer when they got into the carriage. They were so surprised that they could not speak.
This is not an ordinary new residence, but a small villa.
It's not a loss to be able to work in such a beautiful little villa.
After the three of Agui settled down, Qiao Wei went down the mountain, packed up a few clean mattresses and sent them to them. Aunt Luo took the burden and said, "Let your elder brother go, he is going up the mountain." Saying that, she gave the burden to the others. Luo Yongzhi.
Qiao Wei smiled slightly: "Thank you, brother."
Luo Yongzhi said: "My own people are polite!"
Luo Yongzhi went up the mountain with his things, and the two children went to Er Gouzi's house to play. Aunt Luo called Qiao Wei into the room: "Those two people look good to me, and they can do things, but why have you been there for so long?" What? Why did you go yesterday?"
Yesterday I was busy robbing Prince Yin for the child.
Qiao Wei got angry when she thought of that bastard, and didn't even bother to mention him: "It's nothing, I just went shopping in the capital."
"It's rare for the children to come to Beijing, so it's right to play more." Mrs. Luo said again: "By the way, Mr. Li hasn't come for a long time."
Qiao Wei snorted coldly and said, "It's better if you don't come."
If that bastard dares to come again, she will kill him with one knife!
Aunt Luo looked at her expressionless expression, and asked: "You really look down on Mr. Li, don't you? Although I look at him coldly, he is a rich man."
It is indeed rich enough, what about the royal family of a country, but so what? The intestines are all black, who knows what will happen to the child? He just raised the children as pets, and if this kind of person really recognized her pair of children, she would never agree.
Aunt Luo thinks that being a daughter is good in everything, but she is too careless about marriage. Other women want to get married quickly, but she doesn't seem to want to find a man at all: "You are still young, get married early, give me a look at you sooner." Shu Jingyun added a younger brother and sister..."
"Um...um...um."
What Aunt Luo said, Qiao Wei nodded obediently, but she forgot it in a blink of an eye.
Aunt Luo has lost her temper with her, and she can see it, this girl, it's not that she doesn't like those men, but that she doesn't want to get married at all, which is very difficult. I can look down on those men, I can find better ones for her, but if she refuses such a thing from the bottom of my heart, it will be useless to search the whole town.
"Oh, I'm so worried about you." Aunt Luo gave Qiao Wei a glance, and went to the kitchen to cook for the children.
Qiao Wei went back to the house, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw the two cute babies lying on the bed with their buttocks pouted, mysteriously doing something: "Wang Shu, Jing Yun."
The little Mengbao sat up and blocked the things on the bed with his body.
"Didn't you go to Er Gouzi's house? Why are you in the room? What did you hide?" Qiao Wei asked suspiciously.
"Nothing!" The two said in unison.
Qiao Wei narrowed her eyes: "There are ghosts."
Wang Shu shook his head like a rattle: "No ghost, no ghost!"
There is no silver three hundred taels here, Qiao Wei walked over.
Wang Shu hid behind his back with one hand, and blocked Qiao Wei with the other: "Don't come here, mother!"
This was the first time she was "rejected" by Xiao Baozi since she was a mother. Qiao Wei felt sour in her heart, what did that scoundrel Mingxiu say to her child, so that her child "blocked" her!
"What the hell is hiding?" she asked gravely.
Wang Shu muttered, puffed out his small chest and said, "I promise it's not sugar!"
Jing Yun hurriedly said, "I can also guarantee it."
Qiao Wei snorted: "Wang Shu, you stole so much candy from the palace yesterday."
"Oh, that... that..." Wang Shu was anxious and stuttered, "I... I, I, I... I really didn't steal candy this time! Mother, why don't you go out and play."
It's hard to describe the feeling of being "bombed out" by the little bun.
Qiao Wei was depressed all night. In her dreams, she dreamed that Xiao Baozi didn't want her anymore, and left with that heartless father. At first, her father looked like Prince Yin, but when the screen changed, it turned into meditation, meditation Xiu took off the mask and became King Yin again. She was in a mess all night in the dream, and woke up the next day with black eye circles.
It was daylight, and a faint light shone in through the window paper.
Qiao Wei touched her side habitually, but found nothing. She opened her eyes in shock, and saw two little cute babies sitting cross-legged in the middle of the bed, looking at her with a smile. The matter of King Yin really cast a shadow on her, she was afraid that the children would disappear when she opened her eyes one day.
To her, the children are no longer just two children, but the whole life and faith, and she cannot lose them.
She touched the small shoulders of the two of them: "I'm scared to death, what's the matter with you today, you wake up so early?"
Wang Shu took out a blank sheet of paper from behind, on which she clumsily drew a picture—a woman holding a stick, a little girl holding a bun, a girl who didn’t know what she was doing. A little boy, and a little white dog that looks like a fat puffer fish.
"This is mother, this is me, this is brother and Xiaobai." Wang Shu pointed his fingers one by one.
Qiao Wei said amusedly: "You were drawing this mysteriously yesterday, why am I holding a stick? Am I hitting you?"
Wang Shu stared: "That's a needle! Mother, you are making clothes for us!"
Qiao Wei: Whose needle is thicker than an arm...
"I see, what you're lifting isn't buns, it's candy, right?" Qiao Wei asked softly.
Wang Shu blushed and said, "That's a birthday peach!"
Qiao Wei burst out laughing, she was the only one who could draw birthday peaches into steamed stuffed buns.
Soon, Jing Yun handed over a small, heavy box.
Qiao Wei stopped laughing, opened the box and saw that it was full of copper plates and pearls, and one or two pieces of silver: "This is..."
"That's all I've earned this year, and I'll work harder next year." After Jing Yun finished speaking shyly, he blushed and kissed Qiao Wei's face, "Mother, happy birthday."
Qiao Wei's breathing stopped suddenly. The two children worked all day and got up earlier than her, just to celebrate her birthday
When I was in the orphanage, it was the first day of every month to celebrate the birthdays of all the children who had birthdays that month. She was never the only one. When she grew up, she gradually didn’t like birthdays. These days are busy and busy. I forgot my birthday.
"How do you know mother's birthday?"
"Uncle Ming said that!" Wang Shu said.
Is this the trio's little secret? The softness of Qiao Wei's heart was touched, and her nose became sour.
Wang Shu blinked his eyes and asked, "Does mother like our gift?"
Qiao Wei hugged the two cute babies and kissed their little heads: "I like it, I like it very much, thank you Jingyun, thank you Wangshu."
Wang Shu smiled and said, "Uncle Ming also has a gift for Mother!"
"What gift?" Qiao Wei asked.
Wang Shu narrowed his eyes mysteriously: "Mother will know in the evening!"
Looking forward to the small trumpet of Shu, the Luo family also soon found out about Qiao Wei's birthday. Aunt Luo killed an old hen, bought a catty of pork belly and a catty of beef, and made a bowl of longevity noodles. The family sat around the table On, had a meal happily.
Before he finished eating, there was a loud noise like thunder outside, and then Er Gouzi yelled, "It's on fire!"
on fire
Qiao Wei put down her chopsticks and went out, the "thunder" rang above her head, a dazzling white light exploded in the night, like countless glowing petals, covering the night.
"What's going on, what's going on?" The village chief ran out of the house in fright, "Why is the sky on fire?"
"It's on fire, it's on fire!" The village chief's wife chased after her with a pale face.
The villagers ran out of the house one after another, looking at the gorgeous "bouquet" of the dome, both scared and amazed.
When everyone gathered at the entrance of the village, the old scholar frowned and said, "It's not sky fire, it's fireworks!"
Fireworks, commonly known as fireworks, were equivalent to gold in the undeveloped Liang Dynasty. Ordinary people struggled to buy firecrackers, let alone fireworks. Most people never saw them once in their lives. In the early years, I worked in the Enbo Mansion, and I saw it by accident, but that time was during the full moon of the crown prince, and the emperor set off a few fireworks on the tower, and he saw a little bit of fireworks from a distance, which was not as good as it was tonight. , the whole piece of fireworks was set off above his head, and seeing that shocking scene made his heart surge.
The village chief has heard of fireworks and knows that they belong to rich and noble officials, but he has never seen them with his own eyes. God, it's just... so beautiful! Although I can't let it go in this life, but I can see it once, and death is worth it!
Bunches of fireworks were set off above Rhino Village, illuminating the whole village.
More and more people ran out, staring dumbfounded at the fireworks above their heads, it was so beautiful...
Agui and Gu Qiniang stood on the top of the hill with their children in their arms.
"Qiniang, do you still remember the fireworks that our family let off?" Agui asked.
Gu Qiniang nodded in a daze, remember, why don't you remember? It's just that they are already slaves, and they can't be let go anymore.
"Old man, fireworks are expensive, right?" the village head asked.
The old scholar nodded, more than expensive? It's the price of gold, and it's something that only officials with backgrounds can buy.
The village chief looked around: "Who let it go? It couldn't be Xiao Qiao, could it?"
Now the richest person in the village is Xiao Qiao. Besides her, the village chief can't think of anyone who is so proud and can buy a few large bunches of fireworks to set off.
The old scholar shook his head. When the young lady was born, the master and his wife wanted to buy some fireworks to celebrate, but unfortunately they couldn't buy them. How could the young lady get something that the old lady couldn't buy
"That's weird, it's not Xiao Qiao, who could it be?" The village chief was at a loss, the fireworks went off for a full quarter of an hour, and there was no sign of stopping, but intensified. Somewhat frightened, he stomped his feet in pain, "Who the hell is such a prodigal?"
The gorgeous fireworks blasted the sky into daylight, first it was white, then green, and then purple. The lonely dome was dyed into a lively and dazzling sea of flowers.
Under the sea of flowers, Qiao Wei raised her head.
She didn't expect to see such beautiful fireworks in ancient times, and she was fascinated by it.
A little bird landed on her shoulder.
She took down the little bird and found a note tied to its leg. She untied it and spread out the note. There were four clear calligraphy characters—Happy Birthday.