The moon and stars are sparse, and under the darkness of the night, the bell of the hour rang. The lights in Jiangning City are full of lights, like the outline and skeleton of the city. The horses and carriages passing by and the pedestrians with lanterns on the road pass by fast or slow, like the flow of blood. During the time, the lights formed a light path like a small box.
People enjoying the nightlife have already started to go home at this time. Occasionally, there are knocks and cordial echoes from the big and small houses in the street market. After a few hours, the lights of the city gradually began to fade away, like a swimming duckweed, thinning from the surrounding to the center of the city. The lights of some brothel teahouses were still on, but there was already a sense of bleakness. The building boat and painting boat gradually came to the shore, and then the lights gradually went out, leaving the sparsely sparse rooms still glowing.
The night gradually passed, and the dark place began to float. One hour, another hour, when the city was at its most peaceful, it was located in a stilted building by the side of an inconspicuous river bay on the side of the city, and the bright yellow light came out from the window.
This is a woman's bedroom that seems to be a little chaotic. The original furnishings may be relatively simple, but at this time, there are also many things in the room that were obviously moved in recently, strange flowers and plants in pots, a few strange looking The small cabinet, some interesting knot pendants, several strings hanging on the bed, and several unidentified objects wrapped in bags, some of which have no place to put them, are placed on the chair, and the dresser is full of rouge gouache. When the lights came on, a woman's voice came out.
"Well, Sister Yunzhu will sleep for a while..."
The mosquito net was half opened, and the soft muttering sound came from the wooden bed. Nie Yunzhu was wearing a apron and silk trousers, and reached out to put on a thin coat. The woman on the back of the bed turned over and arched over.
"Okay, go back to sleep..."
Yun Zhu smiled, buttoned up his clothes and got out of bed, putting on cloth shoes decorated with broken flowers, and then took the oil lamp and the fire book to the round table that was a little more empty around him. There was only one guest room in the small building, and in the end, it was simply given to Kou'er, and Yuan Jin'er slept in the same room with Nie Yunzhu under the banner of sisterhood.
They are really good sisters. It doesn't matter if they sleep together. In the past few days, Yuan Jin'er doesn't know where to get so many weird things one after another. They all fill Nie Yunzhu's originally simple and elegant bedroom. Just a little messy. Fortunately, Nie Yunzhu is not the kind of person who is really cold and arrogant and can't let others intervene. Yuan Jin'er is happy, so let her go.
"That Ning Yi... It's strange that he dares to come today." The woman on the bed rolled slowly, her tone dazed, "Aren't you afraid of being scolded by me..."
Hearing her tone, Nie Yunzhu smiled slightly. When they went out, Hu Tao and Kou'er had actually woken up, and they were heating hot water in the kitchen. She also went over to help. After washing his face, he went back to the dressing table in the room and started to do simple makeup and brush his hair. During this period, Yuan Jin'er on the bed mumbled a few more words, unable to understand the meaning.
After a while, the woman had finished dressing up and put on a formal dress for going out. She was still dressed in a simple and plain look. It seemed ordinary. In fact, she actually spent a lot of time in the room every morning. Then she went to the steps outside the door to clean for a while, and after finishing, she just sat down on the steps with the tray with the teacup and teapot on it.
The sky was still dark, the moon could be seen in the night sky, and in the far east, the mountains were foggy, revealing a little floating outline, the wind blew over and whimpered on the Qinhuai River. With the light shining from behind, she made a cup of tea for herself and waited quietly.
After a while, Yuan Jiner, who was dressed casually, rubbed her eyes and came out. Her body is actually slender and slender, a flexible and graceful figure suitable for dancing, and she is not short, but she looks childish at this time. In the past, when Nie Yunzhu was sitting here waiting for Ning Yi, she was either sleeping or walked away after a few words, but today she sat down next to her, leaning on Nie Yunzhu's body and continued to doze, as if she didn't intend to. gone. Yun Zhu put his arms around her shoulders, and Chen Feng easily made people awake. After a while, Yuan Jin'er let out a long sigh of relief, leaned on Yun Zhu's lap and reached out to the other side to pour tea.
"Well, I must scold him when he comes over, it's too embarrassing!"
Yuan Jin'er made this announcement, and Yun Zhu laughed beside him: "You're still angry, what's the point of being angry? They've already rewarded you five hundred taels. You've done a great job."
"But there's no such thing, he's got together! Whether it's good or not, everyone will know by then, where is my face, I'm still alive... "
"But he responds very quickly, and not many people can know."
"It's strange, many people saw it, it was embarrassing at that time..."
Thinking of last night, Yuan Jin'er felt unbearable. At that time, she ran up to give the other party enough face and asked for a reward, but there were only four taels there. It’s okay to have no money for a while, it’s good to write a poem for yourself, but in the end, Ning Yi still turned around and said “five hundred taels” to the girl behind him. I asked the Su family to get together and gave it to Yan Cuilou, but at least the Xue family must have known it, and others must have seen it, there must be a lot...
The first time I was so embarrassed... No, it was the second time. The first time I ran out to scare him and was scared by Liu Qingdi.
Ever since they left the Yancui Building with Yunzhu last night, they have been clamoring for revenge for this, but at this time, they were mumbling and drinking several cups of tea. Not long after Yumaibai finally appeared on the horizon, Morrowind gradually thinned the mountain fog, and the figure with the bandaged left hand finally appeared not far away. Running at the same rhythm as usual, but when he stopped near, he and Yuan Jin'er looked at each other for a moment.
"How dare you come here..."
"How dare you say it!" Ning Yi raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it messy enough?"
"I have nothing to say, four taels of silver! Four taels of silver!"
"I only have four or two pieces of silver, what can I do? Did you discuss it with me at the beginning? Do it yourself!"
"I was covering up for Sister Tiyunzhu. You didn't do it well, it's your business!"
"I'm still covering, and you're doing this for covering? Jiang Ning will be noisy by tonight, do you know that!"
"It's also about me making a fuss!"
"It wouldn't be so noisy without you, and the influence of Yunzhu's coming to power is limited. At most, some people will be curious. If you're making a fuss, it won't end...you'll be making a fool of yourself..."
"To help you save face, it's for Sister Yunzhu's sake, and she said I was fooling around! How many people are begging me to tease me!"
"Thank you, thank you, help me save face, did you see the face of that guy named Liu Qingdi when you came up, he was about to devour me alive, and then you left with Yunzhu, and you still kept hitting on the side."
"So what did you say?"
"Just say I don't know. Who knows who Yuan Jin'er is. I never knew him. Why did he follow? He wants to ask, ask you to go."
"That means my hot face sticks to your cold ass..."
"In short, people are watching me, what you are looking for."
"I don't know him very well..."
In fact, there is no big difference between them, but quarreling, it is a matter of losing the battle. They fought each other for a while, Ning Yi sat down over the tea tray and poured a cup of tea, Yuan Jiner quarreled again After a while, looking for Nie Yunzhu to judge, Nie Yunzhu smiled and put on an appearance of not helping each other, Yuan Jin'er also ran away angrily.
The morning sun was just beginning to show in the east, Ning Yi sat there drinking tea quietly, Nie Yunzhu hugged his knees and was silent for a while, before he lowered his head and smiled: "What happened last night was actually because I was self-willed, and Jin'er was coaxing because of following me. The waywardness of her, hehe... She herself has a troublesome temperament, Liheng... Can you blame her or not... "
"It's fine, I also think it's quite interesting." Ning Yi smiled and looked in the direction where Yuan Jin'er disappeared. He is a person who is used to doing big things, and there are cases where he will pay more attention to the gains and losses in small things, but he is bold. There were a lot of times. I didn't care at this time, but it was just a turning point in my thoughts. "It's just that she was going to take power at that time, and I don't know how many things she promised that Yancuilou."
"Jin'er and Chen's mother are old acquaintances. I heard that you should rehearse the dance for the girls in Yancuilou. I will also help, but it's not troublesome."
Ning Yi nodded: "It's good that it's not too outrageous."
"But... Next, things will be more troublesome..." Nie Yunzhu thought about it for a while, and then said in a low voice, "It's about... with Mr. Qin, isn't it... I'll go to the door to apologize, it's better to push it... "
This is what needs to be discussed the most. Ning Yi looked at her for a long time: "You thought about it before going on stage?"
"Yeah." Nie Yunzhu nodded, "I thought about it a bit, but I didn't think too much."
She was slightly apologetic: "I'll go back and cause trouble for Liheng..."
"No big deal." Ning Yi shook his head, "I will solve it."
"But it's not very good after all..."
"Indeed, I'll tell you."
"I know Mr. Qin too. He treats me very well. It's better for me to go..."
Ning Yi thought about it for a while, then smiled: "Well, I'll find a time in a few days to go there together and apologize. Rejecting the adoption of the adopted father and adopted daughter is not good for causing too much trouble for others after all. , I will take care of the rest, you don't have to worry."
"Yeah." Nie Yunzhu replied and nodded. This time, I won't say sorry, I won't say I'm involved, and being able to do this together just makes her feel happy and at ease.
Before coming to power, I also thought about something, and I also knew that Liheng, who was on the second floor at that time, didn't care about a little thing. She used to be very afraid of such things, and finally got to the end and left the place of fireworks. In the following two years, she was a little afraid of going out too much or approaching those places unnecessarily. Really tired, do not want to be contaminated with these right and wrong.
But this time was different, Liheng didn't care, but she did. Only then did I realize that I cared so much in my heart that the fears I once had had become insignificant at this time, and I already had a sustenance in my heart. Want to play for him on stage, only this is clear.
I wanted to do it, so I did it.
"The city has been a little nervous recently, and the city gate may be closed again. If Liheng is in the morning, should he try his best not to come out? I'm afraid it's not safe."
After chatting a few more words, Yunzhu only said these words when Ning Yi was about to leave. Ning Yi nodded.
"After closing the city gate, I won't go out for a run so early in the morning, and occasionally I will come to see it during the day. It's you girls who really need to be careful. Although the law and order may not be really bad, the atmosphere is really easy. Something went wrong."
"Um."
Nie Yunzhu nodded, waved her hand and watched the figure go away. When she turned around, Yuan Jin'er, Hu Tao, and Kou'er were all looking at this side from the gaps in the window sill in the room. She sighed and laughed, feeling a little lost. Somewhat satisfied, because in a few days, Liheng will bring her over to apologize.
On the other hand, when Ning Yi returned home, breakfast was already prepared in the room, and Su Tan'er laughed when she saw him. She already knew what happened in Yancuilou last night...
"I heard that Xianggong was in the limelight last night..."
That's what they said, but the smiles on Su Tan'er and the three maidservants' faces were indeed a little narrow. It was obvious that several people were discussing this just now.