It was already dark, but from time to time there would be lanterns hanging on the street, and occasionally we would come across a restaurant. Naturally, the journey along the way could not compare to the Lantern Festival or the Ghost Festival Lantern Market in the capital, but it could still be said to be brightly lit.
The moon is above the willow branches, the evening breeze is gentle, and the shadows on the river are sparkling.
In the middle of the night, he once again asked the question that he had just asked, "Are you afraid of looking for the second sister?"
Yue Baizhi thought openly and said softly: "You can't live without seeing your second sister forever. Baizhi did what he did in the first place. If he makes a mistake, he must accept the punishment. My husband, don't be too accommodating to me."
For this sensible daughter-in-law who makes him feel a little uncomfortable, Ye Sangen naturally understands this woman's temper and does not try to persuade her too much. Even Ye Sangen believes that with Yue Baiji's temperament, she should not have any problems in the past three years. Stop running to the mountains in an attempt to make up for the so-called "mistake". As for the method, Ye San will not believe that it is as simple as kowtowing in the bamboo forest to admit his mistake or serving tea and water to his father. not sure.
After a long sigh, Ye San Geng was naturally not sighing because of the white clothes. He said: "I don't know where that guy Ye Xieyou has gone. I'm really anxious."
Without the restraint that he had after just meeting again, Yue Baizhi became more talkative at this time, "How about I go to the Jingfu Mansion and ask the public to help look for it? The second sister is blind, she can still do it alone." Where to go.”
Ye Sangen, who was walking in front, curled his lips and said, "If she were alone, would I be able to hang out with you here?"
The rhetorical question actually made Yue Baizhi calm down. In the past few hours since meeting Ye Sangen again, his mind was full of random thoughts, and he couldn't even answer the simplest questions, but it was really embarrassing.
In the middle of the night, he didn't pay attention to Yue Baizhi's absent-mindedness behind him, and continued: "I have led my second sister wherever she goes since she became blind. I am carrying her on my back when the road is difficult. I don't know where she has gone now. Some awkward."
Naturally, I could hear the disappointment in Ye Xiayou's tone, which still didn't sound good to Yue Baiji's ears. Of course, it was more due to the fact that she had caused Ye Xiayou to be blind, which made this tall woman blame herself a little: "It's all Baiji." not good…"
"Are you bothered?" Ye Sangen frowned, "If you say things like this again, go home and don't follow me."
Yue Baizhi is obedient.
In the middle of the night, he added: "Second sister is with He Qingshan and Xiaocha now. I'm not worried, I'm just thinking about things at home."
Of course Yue Baiji knows who He Qingshan is, and even her unknown identity as a beggar gang, Yue Baiji is one of the few people who know. After all, she is also the daughter-in-law of the Ye family. This kind of secret does not need to be concealed deliberately. .
Hearing that He Qingshan was following Ye Xiayou, Yue Baizhi, who had not seen Ye Xiayou just now, felt mixed with joy and sorrow. He felt a lot better, and said with a thought: "Would you like to find a beggar to find out where the second sister is?"
He turned his head to look at the moon that was missing half of the sky, calculated the time, then shook his head and said: "I won't go tonight, I'll find a place to sleep."
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Yue Baizhi immediately blushed with embarrassment.
Yue Baizhi couldn't hear what he was saying, and when he turned his head, he could see his shy look. He obviously realized that there was something wrong with his words, so Ye Sangen hurriedly explained: "Everyone sleeps in his own place."
Thinking about it, Ye Sanggeng, who felt it was inappropriate and whose ears were a little red, added, "You can go home."
Admittedly, the matter of a layer of window paper between men and women only became darker and darker, making the atmosphere even more awkward.
Ye Sangen simply changed the topic and said: "I guess I can't find the second sister."
After letting the flow take its course and saying "Oh" before she came back to her senses, the tall woman in white seemed to be able to guess the song and asked, "Did you hide it from us on purpose?"
"It's me, not you."
Probably deliberately emphasizing this personal relationship, in the middle of the night he glanced sideways and behind, looking at the surprised Yue Baizhi, who seemed to be very interested: "Not to mention Sister Ling, the younger brother and the younger sister, the four of them... I believe in Buddhism and Taoism a lot, and it’s okay not to know some too obscure family affairs. I can understand this. When my mother was alive, she kept telling me and Ye Xie to support the family. In the end, I, Ye Xie, The descendants of our family don’t know as much as you, the daughter-in-law of the Ye family. If my father hadn’t told me so much today, I would have thought that Yue Liye Xie You was planning to sell me for money.”
Naturally, he complained more, but the last sentence made Yue Baizhi laugh out loud, but he felt it was inappropriate and hurriedly stopped laughing. Seeing that his husband-in-law didn't pay much attention to it, he said: "What is your husband-in-law referring to?" ?”
He simply sat down on the edge of the canal, put his legs into the river, hugged the stone railing with both hands, and looked up at the stars. When he was about to speak, he saw Yue Baizhi standing aside. After thinking for a while, he took off his shoes and put them on the ground. On one side, he motioned for this apparently elegant woman to sit on it.
In fact, the uppers of the shoes are not much cleaner than the ground, but this also makes Yue Baizhi show off his beauty, and he is careful to get close to him in the middle of the night.
No matter what, you will always be easily satisfied when you are with the one you love.
It’s like the sky is clear and the moon is bright, and the sky is filled with natural stars.
Without answering Yue Baiji's question, he asked in the middle of the night: "Have you gone up the mountain recently?"
"Every day after noon, I go to the mountains to see my father. After I come back, I won't let me go."
"So, what do you think you are doing every day? Dad didn't say that he couldn't move and needed to be taken care of."
Questions and answers came to an end with a very inappropriate rhetorical question in the middle of the night.
Yue Baizhi was speechless.
He also realized that he had spoken a little too much, so he started talking about the topic again in the middle of the night.
"When I went up the mountain this afternoon, my father told me that Emperor Wen Sheng had long wanted to replace this group of old ministers and replace them with young men to take over. The old man was the first to bear the brunt."
Yue Baizhi, who had his head lowered, didn't say anything and waited quietly for the next sentence.
"The so-called rabbit is dead and the dog is cooked. It is understandable that the emperor and the courtiers will be the same. So Niangsheng had already guessed that the court would take this step. Even before she died, she had been looking for Ye Ye in the world. It’s a great opportunity for the family’s love to last for hundreds of years. Dad said that my mother told you these things when you were pregnant, right?”
Yue Baizhi couldn't figure out what was going on in the night, and didn't dare to look at him, so he just hummed softly.
Ye Sangen was speechless and said with a wry smile: "You have been hiding this from me for more than ten years."
Yue Baizhi hurriedly explained: "Mom didn't want you to know in advance because she was afraid that you would worry too early. Later, my mother left, and the second sister asked me not to tell you. She said that she wanted to bear the burden alone and didn't want my husband to worry and get involved."
Ye San glanced at the woman in white next to her who was worried that she would misunderstand and was anxious to explain, causing her face to turn red. She said angrily: "Are you going to marry Ye Xia'er or me?"
The question was straightforward, but Yue Baizhi had no intention of being shy and was so anxious that he wanted to cry again, "Second sister said that if I don't listen to her, she won't let me in."
While speechless, I had to admit that these were indeed words that could only be said by Ye Xia Yu.
Ye San Geng asked: "Is it my mother who asked the old man to win the escort to Ge Wangyou and back seven years ago?"
"Um."
"Is this the person Mom asked the old man and dad to find when he sent Wage Wangyou out of the capital?"
"Um."
"Did Ye Xiayou deliberately lead the matter between the caravan and Zhuangyuan four or five years ago?"
"Not really."
Seeing the doubtful look in his eyes in the middle of the night, Yue Baizhi said again: "Second sister will never cause the girl Zhuangyuan to be sad. It's just that after the incident happened, second sister felt that it was you who should come forward to solve the problem. In the court, I wanted to save some reputation and then I asked grandpa to ask for the discount."
Ye San Geng added: "Did Ye Xiayou deliberately let me get involved in the matter between Liangwei and Mo Ying three or two years ago?"
This time Yue Baizhi shook his head, "I really don't know about this. During that period of time, because of the marriage grant, we were forbidden by the mountain to know the inside story and not to meet our husband and second sister too much for fear of exposing your whereabouts, so during that period I don’t know what the second sister’s plans are. However, in the first year, I followed the second sister to Qizhou. On the way, she mentioned that in recent years, some small families in the capital and the capital have been going too far. The Ye family and the The business under the Yue family suffered some losses. The second sister said at the time that grasshoppers are still meat no matter how small they are, so she wanted to teach those small families some lessons. As for the incident between the Liang family and the Mo family three years ago, I I really don’t know, if it was arranged by the second sister, she should have told me in advance, and I would not come forward to lure the husband out on behalf of those powerful families."
"Sure enough, Ye Xiayou has been taking a break in the past three years. She has planned everything." Ye San couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "So I have been quiet for three years with all my plans in mind. In fact, I have never been in the past." I went down to the city to help that big guy start, and then she started again."
Yue Baizhi didn't know how to explain this logic, and didn't know how to explain everything he had done in the past month to the woman who would become the nominal mistress of the Ye family sooner or later.
But whether it was the Yue family who was ranked high in Gyeonggi Province, or the Ye family she was marrying into, or the palace where she lived had its own special channels to know about the general experiences of the Ye family siblings during this period, Although she did not know the detailed development of the causes and consequences of this experience, with Yue Baiji's intelligence and more or less understanding of the Ye family, she could see clearly and understand the reason why she was blind indirectly. The actions of the second sister of the Ye family, who had gone blind, had no connection but were consistent throughout.
The clues that were originally unclear were picked up on Panshan Mountain at noon, and I planned to explain it to Ye Xie in person, but unexpected changes occurred during this period until now.
Fortunately, Yue Baizhi, the legitimate daughter-in-law of the Ye family, understood the trick to some extent. At this time, Ye Sangen had more or less figured out her thoughts.
As if talking to himself, he muttered in the middle of the night: "You told me on the watershed about the righteousness of a chivalrous person, on Wudang Mountain you told me about drawing your sword to help when the road was rough, and in Phoenix City you played with me like a tea bowl and called me two names, about the moral principles of family and country, She is waiting for me here, she is worthy of being a great player who negotiated a draw with Qi Buyushou, and she plays a good chess game."
Unable to tell whether Ye Sangen was angry or not, Yue Baiji hurriedly excused Ye Xieyou and explained: "This is all what my mother told me at that time, and the second sister also listened to my mother's words."
Ye Sangen curled his lips and snorted, "To allow the Ye family's blessings to last for hundreds of years and thousands of years, is it to let one irrelevant person or thing serve as a stepping stone to satisfy the Ye family's appetite?"
Feeling that his tone was a little sharper in the middle of the night, Yue Baizhi said softly: "Mom said, this was grandma's arrangement back then."
In the middle of the night, I laughed dumbly.
Co-authoring the inheritance of the Ye family's incense, is it all the women hidden behind these big men who are arranging these illusory so-called luck opportunities?
It can be regarded as guessing what my grandma has been thinking all her life. Thinking carefully about the woman who was born on horseback outside the Great Wall, she did not have such a heroic appearance as a woman. In my memory, she would always make summer clothes for her children and grandchildren at the beginning of every spring, and she would cut and stretch cotton to make cotton-padded clothes one after another during the hot summer. When the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, she would start twisting the hemp thread again, stitch by stitch, to collect a pair of thousand-year-old clothes. At the bottom of the floor, winter finally arrived, and the weather was freezing cold. The old lady started weaving as soon as the shuttle machine was propped up, and the clicking sound resounded throughout the winding mountain.
However, she later became ill due to overwork. It is said that the old lady, who was also a martial arts expert, was not as strong as before. Once when she went out, she was beaten by an enemy in her youth at nightfall. From then on, she was left with a hidden disease that was difficult to cure. She became worse and worse day by day, until Pass away and live forever.
The old lady spent her whole life sewing and mending for the Ye family, cutting things that no one could see or touch. Before she died, she only called the woman who had come out of the tomb of her mother-in-law to the bedside and gave her instructions over and over again. Things that neither He nor Ye Hongtu knew about, if you think about it carefully, they might have been passed down from generation to generation.
Ye Sangen, who had lost his temper, turned to look at Yue Baizhi who was also looking at him. When their eyes met, he let out a long breath.
"Are you tired of going one by one?"
