(3)
Everyone was at a loss when they met Mrs. Li who was so capricious. Even Su Qing, who had been seeing her day and night for days and nights, found it unexpected.
In an instant, Su Qing felt an ominous premonition welling up in his heart. He suddenly walked out of the house and called out several times: "Anu, Anu." However, Mrs. Li did not agree and left directly surrounded by officers and soldiers. In the courtyard, only a few servants were left to clean up the corpses on the ground.
"It's over." Su Qing groaned feebly: "Anu definitely doesn't want to help us anymore. If I had known this, I should have continued to coax her, at least to avoid the immediate trouble first!"
Bai Feng borrowed a pot of wine from someone else and used it to wipe the bloody sword on a handkerchief. Hearing Su Qing's complaints, he couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Look at how beautiful that woman is! Her body is full of fragrance! She is so fragrant!" Her hair and figure are as passionate and unrestrained as cirrus clouds and waves. Not only is she rich, but she also has countless suitors. How can she be willing to be taken advantage of?"
After hearing this, Su Qing suddenly felt helpless, sighed heavily, sat on the stone steps in front of the house in a daze, and murmured: "Yes, why would Anu give up everything for me?"
Only then did Su Qing clearly feel that the distance between the birds and the fish could not be shortened by simply giving love and begging to stay. Such a gap across the world is enough to make two people who were once close become strangers.
Birds originally flew in the sky and fish lived in the water all their lives. Originally, they would never meet each other. Even if they overcome all the shackles of family background, prejudice, class, etc., it is still difficult to overcome the inner difficulties in the end - one of them cannot be soaked in water for a long time, otherwise he will suffocate and die; the other will always have to live in the water. Stranded, you can only wait for death to come.
At this moment, Su Qing felt regretful and kept stroking her forehead and sighing.
When Murong Yan saw Su Qing being laughed at by Bai Feng, she quickly called Zichai to comfort her young master, for fear that her beloved brother Feng would drive away such a capable friend.
Later, in order to mediate the conflict, Murong Yan had to do something to ease the current predicament.
The Xianbei witch cautiously approached Bai Feng, twisted her voice, and complained delicately and miserably: "Brother Feng, you praised Mrs. Li so beautifully, are you falling in love with someone else?"
"Haha, do you like her?" Bai Feng sneered: "If I like such a woman, I will make her angry sooner or later. Presumably our Su Qing, Mr. Su, abandoned her first in order not to be kicked out. ?”
"Brother Feng!" Murong Yan suddenly squeaked, and looked at Su Qing with concern, and then whispered to dissuade her: "Stop talking, if you keep talking, Mr. Su..."
"Why can't you say it?" Bai Feng wiped the sword, threw the handkerchief on the ground angrily, drank the remaining wine in one gulp, turned to Su Qing, cursed, and said: "Su Qing, Brother Su, I respect you You are older than me, and you have been tolerant and respectful just now, but what I see today is a coward who is willing to escape and never face reality! Please forgive me for disagreeing with the way you deal with your mistakes."
"Do you think you are very free and easy? Huh, you are just a little bastard! I have seen a truly free and easy person. He is not happy with what he has gained, nor sad with what he has lost. In his heart, there is only a deeper state. , always guiding him and those around him.”
"Then... what state is that?" Su Qing stared wide-eyed, looking forward to getting a specific and accurate answer.
Bai Feng felt a little drunk, and a wave of heat surged into his heart. However, he was speechless for a moment, and spoke in a daze. He didn't know what to say: "I...I can't tell, but, what I did today, I can't do without." He taught earnestly..."
Before he finished speaking, a maid suddenly ran out of the deserted courtyard and hurriedly delivered a note, saying only: "This is from my wife to Mr. Su, please see Mr. Su."
"It's three o'clock in the evening. Get your bags ready. We have something important to discuss." After Su Qing finished reading, she immediately wanted to find the maid who delivered the message and ask for details, but she didn't expect that she had already left.
Obviously, Mrs. Li wanted to send Bai Feng and others away safely before Xiao Sigu arrived. However, this move would not stop the pursuer, so Su Qing held the note and read it for a long time, trying to read some of Mrs. Li's thoughts from the handwriting.
"This letter is neatly written, and the ink has not yet dried. It was obviously written just now!" Su Qing smiled happily: "She, she actually still remembers me..."
Everyone else laughed and said nothing. Bai Feng was drunk and spoke eloquently. He also scolded Su Qing for being unworthy of these women who treated him sincerely.
Su Qing straightened her messy clothes and dirty appearance, as if she had just remembered that she had been beaten up just now, and replied: "All we can do now is to obey the orders. In this last 'reunion', we can't let Anu do it again." disappointed!"
After finishing speaking, everyone immediately returned to the house to pack their luggage, and then gathered under the same roof to sit and relax for a while. Sure enough, when midnight arrived, there was already singing and laughing outside the house, and there were actually people setting up a stage to play music and dance in the usually deserted courtyard.
"Dong dong dong!" There was a knock on the door at the right time. The person who came was the maidservant who had delivered the message earlier. After she confirmed the true identities of the four people in the house, she immediately said urgently to Su Qing: "Master Su, I will bring you Here are some new clothes for you to put on, but you can’t walk around in blue clothes so that others can recognize you at a glance!”
Su Qing agreed silently and changed into a long brown woolen jacket embroidered with mink fur. He looked like a broker who was about to rush to a distant place.
Then, the little maid held the green clothes she had changed into and motioned to Su Qing and others to follow her footsteps.
As soon as they walked out the door, they were shocked by the lively and grand dinner scene. Zichai had never seen a high platform rising from the ground. She pointed to the stage in the middle of the courtyard and said, "Isn't it still an open space during the day? How come it becomes like this at night?"
"This is Madam's effort to cover your escape." The maidservant whispered back: "Everyone, please follow me closely, there are many people talking here."
After that, the five people passed through the crowd, crossed several thresholds in succession, and arrived at the side door of the mansion. Only people presenting goods were allowed in and out of this place, so during dinner time, there were few people around.
They thought that Mrs. Li just arranged a car and a few guides to escort them, but what they didn't expect was that Mrs. Li would actually come to see them off in person.
When they first arrived there, Mrs. Li was still preparing the carriage. She climbed up and down in the carriage house wearing a short jacket and short haori. She didn't seem to feel the cold night weather at all. Su Qing saw that she was so devoted to him, so he naturally stepped forward to help and said, "You are dressed like this, aren't you cold?"
"I drank, so I don't feel cold. Besides, my affairs have nothing to do with you from now on. Hurry! Girls, get on the carriage, Mr. Bai will drive the truck behind..."
Seeing that the other party still hated him, Su Qing ignored him, like a pug wagging its tail begging for mercy, dangling in front of Mrs. Li: "Anu, I'm sorry for you, really! What will you ask me to do in the future? , I can do it for you, as long as we can escape tonight... By the way, we sneaked away, how should you deal with Xiao Sugu? His killers will come after us like swarms of swarms as soon as we leave. ?”
"Do anything for me? How about you kneel down now and kowtow to me a hundred times?"
As soon as the words fell, Su Qing fell to her knees and kowtowed three times. Madam Li stopped her and said angrily: "Hey, hey, you are such a naughty boy, you have no backbone at all! The best in the slave family! I hate how men always kneel down!"
"I...I shouldn't lie to you, I should actually make it clear from the beginning..."
"Okay, stand up quickly! How can the slave family be inferior to you when you have such a stupid head to think of things?" Mrs. Li was as arrogant as ever, but there was no lack of warmth when she treated Su Qing, "The slave family wants to Okay, let the killer who died in the courtyard during the day wear your clothes, put on makeup to look like you, and claim to the outside world that I killed the famous 'little thief' Su Qing. All the dignitaries in Li Mansion can do it. Bear my witness."
Mrs. Li was sitting in front of the carriage, condescendingly mocking her: "The 'little thief' Su Qing was beaten to death by officers, soldiers and servants for committing crimes like this! How pleasant it sounds!"
"This, is this another crime placed on my head?"
"Otherwise, do you still want to escape unscathed?"
"No." Su Qing said, "How dare I think about it!"
"There's one more thing." Madam Li suddenly became serious, put her little face close to Su Qing's ear, and continued: "Don't let me hear from you again in the future."
After speaking, she jumped down from the carriage and walked back to the mansion with swaying light steps. She had tears in her eyes but didn't know it, but all this was clearly visible in the eyes of others.
In the end, she was so affectionate as if she was a wife, bidding farewell to her husband who had just entered the battlefield, watching Su Qing, disguised as a deliveryman, and the four of them drive into the vast night.
