After coming out of the Princess Mausoleum, Ji Shangqing and the leader returned to the capital. Ji Mingxiu and Qiao Wei took the little bun to the cemetery of Qiao’s family. At the beginning, Mrs. Qiao broke up with the Qiao family and went to the Taoist temple to live the rest of her life. He couldn't be buried in Qiao's house. It was Qiao Zheng who moved his mother's coffin to the cemetery after he won the title of head of the family.
The cemetery of the Qiao family is not as grand as the Princess Mausoleum. It occupies a small hillside in the huge cemetery. From the bottom to the top are the ancestors of the Qiao family. Mrs. Qiao is a newly passed away, and the grave is the outermost. Further inside, the highest point is the ancestor of the Qiao family.
Qiao Wei didn't know much about the rules of sweeping graves in ancient times, so she just obediently followed behind Ji Mingxiu, watching him clean up the graves of the ancestors first, insert willow branches, and then draw ladles from gourds to clean the graves of the rest of the ancestors. They took care of them one by one. Before them, Qiao's family should have been here, and fresh offerings and unburned incense candles were still placed on the grave.
If he ordered his servants to do these things, he wouldn't be able to find any faults, but he was willing to do it himself, taking care of her natal family's cemetery like the Princess Mausoleum.
There is no way not to be moved.
"Come on, put the willow branches on the graves of my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother." Ji Mingxiu handed two fresh willow branches to Jing Yun and Wang Shu's hands. Looking back, seeing Qiao Wei looking at him with a smile, he also smiled. This smile, like the spring breeze in March, can warm the heavy snow.
"Great-grandfather, I'm Jing Yun, and I'm here to visit your grave!" Jing Yun inserted the willow branches. He had worshiped at the Princess Mausoleum before, and he was quite skilled in business. He lit the incense candles very skillfully, knelt down and kowtowed The three heads inserted the incense into the incense altar.
Wang Shu held the incense in a dignified manner: "Great-grandmother, I'm Wang Shu, and I'm here to see you!"
As he spoke, he followed his elder brother's example and kowtowed.
Jing Yun put his head on the bluestone floor with special scheming, Wang Shu thought that the kowtow would hit the ground, so he smashed it down...
The floor is cracked...
The last grave almost destroyed her grave, and Qiao Wei was also angry. The Prime Minister personally took her daughter aside to teach her a lesson: "Does the headache hurt... Let Dad see if it's popular..."
Qiao Wei's face darkened.
After sweeping the tomb, it was still early, and the family went for a walk in the countryside for a while.
The two little guys were running around on the grass, sweating profusely. Jing Yun couldn't outrun Wang Shu, but he had a lot of eyes, throwing sugar for a while, throwing a jujube for a while, Wang Shu ran all the way Picked it up, but actually ran behind him.
Qiao Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved to the two of them: "Come here."
The two ran over huffing and puffing, and threw themselves into Qiao Wei's arms.
Qiao Wei led the two to the carriage, wiped off their sweat, and changed into dry clothes. Wang Shu wanted to go down again, but she caught her.
Wang Shu's hands and feet fluttered: "Mother, what are you doing? Let me down!"
Qiao Wei wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "It's getting late, we're going home."
Wang Shu pursed his lips in dissatisfaction: "But it's still so bright!"
Qiao Wei couldn't laugh or cry more and more, when did this little girl know how to watch the weather? But it will be bright at this moment, and it will not be bright after walking for a while, so I have to go home for dinner.
Wang Shu probably knew that mother is the worst person to fool around, so she gave up the idea of conquering mother, and instead climbed onto father's lap, clinging to father's arms and acting like a spoiled child.
Ji Mingxiu glanced at Qiao Wei, saw Qiao Wei holding her arms, squinting her eyes, looking at him with a half-smile, and immediately rubbed the top of her daughter's hair: "Daddy, go give you candied haws?"
Wang Shu's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
In an instant, he forgot about the outing.
The child was tired all day and ran wildly on the grass for half an hour. He was already exhausted, and he began to fall asleep after wandering in the carriage for a quarter of an hour.
Wang Shu was pecking at the rice in his father's arms.
Qiao Wei hugged Jing Yun into her arms, Jing Yun yawned and fell asleep comfortably.
After walking for a while, Qiao Wei also started to feel sleepy. Ji Mingxiu wrapped her arms around her and let her lean on his shoulder. Qiao Wei curled her lips and closed her eyes in peace.
Inside the carriage, there was an even sound of breathing.
It is only thirty miles from the cemetery to the East Gate, but there is another thirty miles from the East Gate to Ji's house. It would take an hour to get there, but Ji Mingxiu asked the driver to slow down the speed for fear of bumping his wife and children. When he arrived at the small shop selling candied haws near the courtyard, it was already slightly dark.
Ji Mingxiu put Wang Shu into Qiao Wei's arms. Qiao Wei opened her eyes and asked in a daze, "Are you there yet?"
Ji Mingxiu said softly: "Not yet, I'm going to buy some candied haws, you wait for me in the car."
"Okay." Qiao Wei agreed, hugged the two little guys in her arms, closed her eyes and fell asleep again.
Ji Mingxiu got out of the carriage, walked through the alley, and went to the time-honored shop selling candied haws.
Qiao Wei leaned against the wall of the car and fell asleep in the dark. She didn't go to bed late yesterday, and she didn't do anything shameful. It's really surprising that she was so sleepy during the day. However, seeing the two little ones sleeping more She is still fragrant, and she is relieved again.
Spring sleepy spring sleepy, isn't spring a time of sleepiness
The mother and son were sleeping soundly, when suddenly there was a piercing scream from the alley: "Help—"
Jing Yun was startled by the voice so that his small body trembled.
Qiao Wei patted her son's shoulder quickly, coaxing him to continue to sleep, and then gently placed him and Wang Shu on the seat, and the two little guys' heads were pressed against each other, sleeping soundly.
Qiao Wei opened the curtain, lowered her voice and said, "What happened?"
The coachman said, "Go and have a look."
As soon as he finished speaking, the girl in the alley rushed out.
Qiao Wei was not interested in meddling in other people's business, but that group of people unexpectedly bumped into her carriage, and it was fine if they accidentally knocked over. After the collision, he kicked the wheel disdainfully. He made a shot through the window, grabbed the man by the skirt, and without waiting for the man to react, threw him heavily into the alley!
Seeing that their companion had been beaten, the group immediately separated two people and rushed towards the carriage.
Qiao Wei jumped out of the carriage, pulled out the dagger, and burned the sky to cut the iron like mud. There were only two clangs, and the long swords of the two were cut off. The two looked at each other and cursed in words that Qiao Wei could not understand. After a few words, he threw away the long sword, flashed his palm, and slashed at Qiao Wei fiercely.
Qiao Wei kicked the two of them into the alley.
The martial arts of the two are actually not weak, but they didn't expect Qiao Wei's strength to be so strong. When Qiao Wei kicked out, the two of them blocked it, thinking that they could block it properly, but they were kicked mercilessly flew.
The first guy who was thrown into the alley by Qiao Wei had already stood up with all his strength, but was smashed to the ground by two brothers one after another, spit out a mouthful of blood, rolled his eyes, and fell unconscious.
These two guys who were kicked away by Qiao Wei were not much better than their companions, and I don't know what this woman grew up eating, didn't she just get kicked? But half of my body is numb...
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining two withdrew.
The girl who was chased and shouted for help ran over in shock, bowed deeply to Qiao Wei, and said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, the strong woman, for your help... Huh? It's you?"
Her voice was hoarse, and Qiao Wei couldn't tell who it was by hearing the voice, but her tone clearly knew her. Qiao Wei gave her a strange look: "You know me?"
The girl pushed back the dirty hair on her cheeks, patted her chest and said, "It's me!"
Qiao Wei looked her up and down. To be honest, she was unkempt and unrecognizable. Her only eyes were like black pearls, clear and moving. He opened his mouth and looked embarrassed and shabby.
"You...you don't remember me?" The little girl was so anxious that she cried.
Qiao Wei stared fixedly at her face, and after a while, she asked tentatively, "Little Junior Sister?"
The little junior sister was so excited that she grabbed Qiao Wei's arm: "It's me! It's me!"
Qiao Wei just asked casually, how did she know that she was right when she bumped into a dead mouse? This is really a bolt from the blue, how did the high and mighty daughter of the Suxin Sect become such a virtuous person
"The Suxin sect has collapsed?" Qiao Wei said with her eyes widened.
After fleeing for so long, the little junior sister finally found someone who could speak, the grievance in her heart welled up all of a sudden, she choked up and said, "Suxinzong is fine..."
Qiao Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it's okay, there are still three gold mines in the Suxin Sect, so don't make any mistakes before she takes over!
Casting a glance at the junior sister, Qiao Wei said again: "Since Suxinzong is fine, why didn't you stay in Suxinzong well, but came to the capital and made it like this? The group who chased and killed you just now What about people?"
"this… "
Qiao Wei said indifferently: "It's a long story again, isn't it?"
"Yeah." The little junior sister nodded, "I'm here to see the fourth senior brother, can you let me meet him?"
Qiao Wei said hehe: "I still remember the accounts from the past, do you think I can let you see him?"
The little junior sister was so frightened that she burst into tears, she wiped her tears and said, "But I have nowhere to go..."
Compassion is something that Qiao Wei threw away in her previous life. Seeing her crying so hard, she didn't lift her eyelids: "It's your business that you are desperate, why bother me?"
The little junior sister was crying out of breath: "Aren't you... the Suzerain's... suzerain? Your disciple is in trouble... how can you not help?"
Damn, forget about this one!
When Ji Mingxiu bought candied haws and came back, he saw Qiao Wei chatting with a female beggar standing in front of the car. Not good, walked over with a sullen face: "What's going on?"
The little junior sister cried and raised her head: "Fourth senior brother..."
Click.
The candied haws in Ji Mingxiu's hand dropped...
…
The two brought the junior sister back to the carriage, and when the two little guys opened their eyes, there was a dirty older sister in the carriage, so startled that they lost their sleepiness.
The little junior sister lowered her head in embarrassment, she knew how shameful she looked like without looking in the mirror, she was just seen by her senior brother and sister-in-law, but now the two little fellows saw it too, she really wanted to find a crack in the ground and sneak in!
Strange things happen every year, especially this year. Qiao Wei is one of the ten thousand girls who never expected her junior sister to be so downcast. Anyway, her father is the suzerain of Su Xinzong, and her grandfather is the grand master of the court. I have to give her three points of thin noodles, just relying on her three words, Xu Liyue, is enough to eat and drink from Suxinzong to the capital.
Although Qiao Wei was puzzled, she didn't ask her in front of the children.
The carriage soon arrived at Ji's house. Ji Mingxiu led the two little buns in front, and Qiao Wei led her in the back. Seeing the picture of the father and son, she felt a burst of envy.
Qiao Wei glanced at her, and said flatly: "I warn you, don't hit my princess, or I will kick you out right now! Let you starve to death on the street!"
The little junior sister's body trembled, as expected, she hadn't seen her for a few months, this woman is still very fierce...
Qiao Wei took her to Qinglianju. The leader was sitting in the yard drinking tea. When he looked up, he saw the dominatrix leading a dirty beggar back, and immediately sprayed out a mouthful of tea...
Bi'er went to Ganoderma lucidum hall to get the medicinal materials, and Chan'er went to take care of the two little guys to take a bath. Qiao Wei called Yan'er to take the junior sister down to take a bath, and find a set of clean clothes for the junior sister to change into.
"Young Madam, what do you call this girl?" Yan'er asked softly.
Qiao Wei looked at the little junior sister and said, "Let's call her Miss Xu."
Yan'er responded, and said to her junior sister: "Miss Xu, please follow me."
The little junior sister went with the smoke.
The leader walked over swaggeringly, gossiping: "Then who is it?"
It just so happened that Ji Mingxiu came out of the room at this moment. He knew that Qiao Wei cared and stayed inside to avoid suspicion, but Qiao Wei still gave him a half-smile look and said sinisterly, "Your elder brother's With a good heart, I almost became your sister-in-law."
Ji Mingxiu was wronged.
The little junior sister washed seventeen or eight buckets of hot water, and finally washed herself clean.
It was time for dinner, and Ji Mingxiu cunningly took two little buns to Mrs. Ji's Luomei Courtyard. The leader was happy to watch the fun, and stayed at Qinglianju to have dinner with his eldest brother's "love".
The dinner was made according to the appetite of Wang Shu and the leader, a plate of marinated water, a plate of roast goose, a plate of crispy duck, a pot of mushroom soup, a bowl of braised pork ribs, and a few other dishes. Served a few dishes of refreshing cold dishes, stewed a few cups of ginseng chicken soup, now that Wang Shu is away, the portion is a bit too much.
The leader happily picked up the chopsticks, there was no little fat man fighting with him for food, it was all his own!
He went to pick up roast goose.
Whoosh!
The roast goose was caught!
He went to pick up the crispy duck.
Whoosh!
The crispy duck was caught!
He went to scoop up the ribs again. Hurray, most of the pot of ribs was gone.
The junior sister gobbled it up, and Qiao Wei hadn't put down her chopsticks, and the table was overwhelmed. The leader snatched a duck leg, and before taking a few bites, the younger junior sister stretched out her hand.
The leader finally saw what it means to have mountains beyond mountains and people beyond people.
After eating the last duck leg, the little junior sister covered her swollen belly and hiccupped.
Qiao Wei and the leader stared at her dumbfounded, and she smiled coyly: "Sorry, I haven't had a full meal for a long time..."
Qiao Wei said: "I see." She ordered the kitchen to make a new table.
While waiting for the food, Qiao Wei asked about Su Xinzong: "Now you can eat and drink, and people are safe. You should tell us what happened, right?"
The little junior sister lowered her head: "I dare not say."
Qiao Wei said unceremoniously: "Then throw you out!"
The little junior sister was wronged and said: "I... I am already very pitiful... Can you stop killing me?"
"No." Qiao Wei said expressionlessly.
The little junior sister sniffed. As the saying goes, her arms can't twist her thighs. She used to be the high-ranking daughter of Su Xinzong, and Qiao Wei was just a village woman who didn't stand up to the public, but she was better than others. Now she is a "prisoner", Qiao Wei Wei is the hostess of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she dare not offend Qiao Wei: "I escaped from Suxinzong."
"I guessed it." Qiao Wei glanced at her, "Why did you run away?"
The junior sister said: "They want me to marry, but I don't want to."
Qiao Wei sneered: "How did you agree to your senior brother's marriage when you didn't want to get married?"
The little junior sister said seriously: "Senior brother is someone I know, I know what kind of person he is, and I know that he will definitely not bully me after we get married, but that person... I have never seen him before, who knows what he is Virtue? What if he is a bastard? If I followed him, wouldn't my life be over?"
This girl is not confused, Qiao Wei's eyes moved, she drank tea and said: "Your parents love you so much, they must not be willing to wrong you, and they must be looking for you. You must go away without saying a word." Wouldn't it chill your parents' hearts?"
The little junior sister hummed: "Who told them to force me to marry someone!"
Qiao Wei took a weak breath: "If you don't want to marry, just tell them well. If you really don't want to, can they still tie you to a sedan chair?"
The younger junior sister said in a low voice: "This marriage was actually not arranged by my parents, but by the elders of the Suxin Sect, so my father has no good solution."
Qiao Wei said amusedly: "Your father is the suzerain anyway, why do you still obey the orders of the elders?" In the Tana tribe, He Zhuo respected the elders, but it was not to the point of letting the elders ride on their heads.
The little junior sister's voice was low, as if she didn't have the confidence: "Didn't you already give up the suzerain position to you? My father said that he is only an acting suzerain now, and has no right to interfere with the decisions of the elders."
Qiao Wei sneered and said: "First of all, your father did not give me the position of suzerain, but I won it myself; secondly, even if your father handed over the order of suzerain to me, he is still the uncrowned king of your Suxin sect, so It is pure nonsense to say that you are not qualified to intervene in the elder's decision-making!"
The little junior sister lowered her head, pinched the hem of her clothes and said, "My father said that the elders are also for my own good."
Shit!
Qiao Wei said indifferently: "Who is that person? Your elder insists on marrying you to him?"
The little junior sister said: "It is said that he is a direct disciple of the five elders. He has been teaching secretly by his side and has not announced it to the public. Therefore, few people know his existence. However, I grew up in the Suxin sect. I have never seen or heard of such a person, even if he is the elder's direct disciple, I don't want to marry him."
Silly girl, you have said that you have never seen or heard of it, so of course he is not a member of the Suxin sect.
Thinking of something, Qiao Wei said again: "Just now you said that several elders betrothed you to others, and they left the customs?"
The little junior sister said: "No, someone spread the news. When they leave the customs, they will hold a wedding for me, so I escaped before that."
"How long will it take for them to leave the customs?" Qiao Wei asked.
The little junior sister thought for a while and said: "Originally it was scheduled for October, but for my marriage, it is said that I will leave the customs earlier."
October? It's only April now, and I've heard of leaving customs early, but I haven't heard of it being so much earlier. This group of elders really took great pains for this marriage.
Over there, the food was ready, Yan'er came to ask whether it should be placed here or in the upper room, Qiao Wei asked if the junior sister would eat it, the younger junior sister shook her head, Qiao Wei asked people to put the food in the upper room up.
After dinner, the leader did not return to the room in a hurry, but pulled Qiao Wei and said, "After thinking about it, I think this matter is strange."
Of course there is something strange, the junior sister has a special status, marrying her can almost be regarded as holding the entire Suxinzong in his hands, it seems that the other party has a lot of appetite and wants to swallow Suxinzong in one go.
The leader raised the corners of his lips that were more jealous than women, and said with a sinister smile: "Hanyasha, I have an idea about the Suxin sect."
Qiao Wei frowned: "You don't have any ideas! When did you not have an idea to trap yourself to the end? Last time you got yourself in! I beg you, please do me a favor, go back to the house and take a nap Bar!"
The Hierarch was ruthlessly kicked out. Seeing the door slamming shut in front of him, the Hierarch curled his lips in disdain: "I really have a good idea."
…
When the moon was dark and the wind was high, a big golden eagle quietly hovered over Ji's house, and after flying from one courtyard to another, it landed on a carriage outside Ji's house.
The woman touched the golden eagle's head: "Have you found it?"
The golden eagle called out.
"Hush—" the woman gestured for silence, the golden eagle fell silent, and the woman said, "Take me there."
The golden eagle flapped its wings and flew into Ji's house again.
The woman performed lightness kung fu and followed the golden eagle all the way into Qinglianju.
The golden eagle landed gently on the roof, hiding its breath.
The woman climbed over the courtyard wall and landed on the ground without a sound, avoided the servants on duty at night, picked up the feathers left by the golden eagle, and came to the house of the leader.
The leader is used to going to bed early, but today he couldn't express his thoughts, and felt depressed, so he ran to the bathtub to take a bath, and he was not in the house at this time.
The woman entered the house and rummaged up and down. She couldn't find her copper bell on the bed, drawers, cabinets...all of them.
Suddenly, footsteps and voices came from outside the house: "I haven't eaten enough tonight, so bring me a braised elbow, a cup of bird's nest with rock sugar, and I want blood swallow."
"Yes, Second Young Master." Yan'er agreed.
The leader opened the door.
The woman happened to open the closet, and there was no time to hide elsewhere, so the cat got into the closet, sat inside, and held her breath.
From the gap in the cabinet door, she saw the leader walk in.
The leader has just taken a hot bath, his hair is wet, there is a thin layer of water vapor in his eyes, his lips are as red as cherry blossoms, his skin is almost transparent, and his whole body exudes a clean and charming smell .
He loosened his hair, and the black hair was like a smooth and soft ink-colored brocade, hanging down on his muscular shoulders, making his already fair and delicate skin more translucent.
The woman's eyes didn't blink.
The leader locked the door and took off his mask.
The woman's eyes froze.
Such a face is almost comparable to that of the Moon Immortal.
The leader walked towards the closet.
The girl's pupils shrank!
The leader stood in front of the closet, his masculine breath, the pleasant aroma after bathing, and the warmth on the skin floated in through the crack of the closet door.
The woman's eyelashes trembled, and her heart was agitated. She held down the dagger at her waist...
The leader did not open the lower cabinet door, but opened the upper one, took off a set of plain white pajamas and put it on the table, just when the woman thought the leader was about to turn around and leave, the leader suddenly took off the clothes Unbuttoning, the baggy robe just fell off, revealing his perfect body.
The woman suddenly saw something she shouldn't have seen!
So ugly!
She forgot that she was still holding the dagger in her hand, and covered her eyes.
There was a bang, and the dagger hit the wooden board!