In the mansion, the snow melted.
The snow on the roof flowed down and condensed into crystal sharp icicles under the eaves.
Occasionally there will be a crisp cracking sound.
Just came out of the corridor.
Luo Qingzhou pulled Bai Ling to avoid a sudden attack by an icicle.
Then he took the opportunity to hold her soft and delicate little hand and did not let go.
Bai Ling struggled a bit at first, then pouted and said, "Uncle, let go, it's not good if people see you."
Luo Qingzhou ignored her and still pulled her forward.
In the night sky, the bright moon is bright.
The moonlight fell like water, covering the two of them with a thin layer of moon-white clothes.
The temperature at night is still very low.
The two hands held together gradually warmed up.
Walked for a while.
Bai Ling struggled slightly again and said softly: "Uncle, don't be like this. I belong to the young lady, not my uncle. The young lady has not yet agreed to be my uncle's maid."
Luo Qingzhou turned to look at her pretty, flowery face and said, "Isn't your lady mine? Even she is mine, so naturally you are mine too, right?"
Bai Ling immediately pouted and retorted: "No, that's not true. My uncle is the wife's wife. We can only say that my uncle belongs to the young lady, but we cannot say that the young lady belongs to my uncle."
Luo Qingzhou raised his eyebrows and said: "Okay, then I will go to my father-in-law later and tell him that after thinking about it carefully, I think the second young lady is better."
The atmosphere suddenly fell into silence.
After a long time.
Bai Lingfang said softly: "Uncle, it turns out you understood everything just now."
Luo Qingzhou looked calm: "I'm not a fool."
Bai Ling looked at him with a puzzled expression and said: "Then the uncle... the second lady is so kind to the uncle, so gentle, and has the same interests as the uncle. Why did the uncle just... refuse?"
Luo Qingzhou looked ahead, silent for a moment, and suddenly stopped under a big tree. Then he turned around, hugged her gently, lowered his head and kissed her mouth, and held the two of them together. He picked it up with his hand, put it in front of her eyes, and said, "Do you understand?"
Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, looking at the hands held by the two of them. He looked dazed for a moment, his lips moved, but he stopped talking.
"Of course, there are other reasons."
Luo Qingzhou held her hand and continued to walk forward slowly, looking at the darkness in front of him and said: "The eldest lady is just cold-tempered, and she is not bad to me. I have worshiped with her, and we are now husband and wife." . Even if she proposed this matter on her own initiative, I still feel a little reluctant to give up. What's more, I'm not a commodity, so there's no way I can let it go. If she divorced me directly, I wouldn't have any objections, but she If you want to give me away, then..."
At this point, he paused and then said: "Also, I think this will have a great impact on the second lady's reputation. Of course, she won't care about that, but if she becomes my wife, she will always be I will feel uncomfortable if you point fingers behind your back. And... the second lady is too weak, and I can't protect her yet. I still have some things that I haven't finished yet, and it will take some time."
Bai Ling was silent for a moment and said, "Uncle, there is actually a way to solve the problems you mentioned."
Luo Qingzhou looked at her and said, "What can we do?"
Bai Ling stopped, stared at him with stern eyes and said, "When my uncle takes the high school exam next fall, he will be famous. At that time, he doesn't need to be divorced by the young lady, and can directly... marry another one. In this case, It can prevent the family scandal of my sister from robbing my sister's father-in-law from happening, what do you think?"
Luo Qingzhou was stunned and immediately scolded: "Nonsense."
After saying that, he continued to pull her forward and fell silent.
Bai Ling held back a smile and glanced at him, saying: "My uncle, are you thinking, this girl Bai Ling is so considerate and so cute, how does she know that I think so? Can she see through my mind? Okay. I love this girl!] Uncle, is that right? Is this what you think in your heart?"
Luo Qingzhou: "..."
"My uncle's silence is his acquiescence."
Bai Ling approached him with a smile, and for the first time he took the initiative to put his cheek on his arm, and said crisply: "Uncle, as long as you work hard, all the ladies and maids in the Qin family will belong to me from now on. Including..."
"you?"
Luo Qingzhou turned to look at her.
Bai Ling smiled and said: "Including me, of course, and... Chanchan."
Luo Qingzhou was slightly startled and said no more, seemingly lost in thought.
The two held hands and walked in the Qin Mansion in the dark night.
Even if any maids and servants see it, they will stay away from it.
When they were approaching Meixiang Xiaoyuan, Bai Lingfang broke away with all his strength and whispered: "Uncle, please don't show your lust to me in front of Chan Chan again."
Luo Qingzhou said: "Why?"
Bai Ling said: "Chanchan is very lonely. I have to accompany her to be lonely. If my uncle is too close to me, she will feel that I have abandoned her, and she will feel very uncomfortable."
Luo Qingzhou thought about what he saw in the flower garden those two nights. He was silent for a moment, nodded, and agreed: "Okay."
Entered the Meixiang Garden.
The cold figure was still standing in the shadow under the eaves, not knowing whether he was in a daze or thinking about something.
After seeing them, her eyes focused.
Bai Ling whispered: "Uncle, I'll go in and call the lady. Give Chanchan something to eat, she must be starving."
After saying that, he ran into the house.
Luo Qingzhou walked to the eaves, handed the chicken legs and snacks in front of the girl, and said: "Xia Chan, what I brought for you should still be hot."
Xia Chan glanced at him coldly, then looked away and ignored him.
Luo Qingzhou couldn't help but grabbed her little hand, stuffed the thing into her hand, and ordered: "Eat."
Xia Chan narrowed her eyes and looked at him coldly again.
A chill hit Luo Qingzhou.
But he had no fear. He looked into her eyes and said: "If you have the ability, draw your sword and kill the man who once jumped into the water to save you. He stayed with you under the bridge in the wind, rain, lightning and thunder, and helped you in the flower garden on a cold night." The good uncle who planted flowers and stayed with you all night when you were sick and had a fever!"
Xia Chan: "..."
Luo Qingzhou threatened: "If you don't eat, next time you fall into the water or thunder, I won't save you. Next time you go to the flower garden to plant flowers, and you get sick again, I won't accompany you." Go find Bai Ling and see if she is as gentle and considerate as your uncle."
Xia Chan turned around and snorted, but she had already grasped the thing he had just given her tightly in her hands.
"Eat it while it's hot, I'm leaving first."
After Luo Qingzhou finished explaining, he turned around and left, facing the room and saying: "Bailing, tell the eldest lady, I'm going back first."
The study window suddenly opened.
Bai Ling shouted from the window: "Uncle, won't you wait for us?"
Luo Qingzhou walked to the door, turned around and said, "I still want to go back to study. You and Xia Chan should go back with the eldest lady."
After saying that, he left quickly.
Bai Ling looked at the door where his back disappeared, and was startled for a moment. Fang closed the window, turned around and said, "Miss, that's what my uncle just said. He said he couldn't let you go and didn't want to be divorced by you, even if you ignored him. He also wants to be husband and wife with you for the rest of his life."
Qin Jianjia sat at the table and looked at the poems on the rice paper quietly. After a moment of silence, Fang said, "Don't he like Wei Mo?"
Bai Ling thought for a while and said, "My uncle didn't say anything, but judging from the situation, it seems that my uncle only likes... Chanchan."
Suddenly a cold voice came from outside the window: "Obviously, it's you."
Under the light, Bai Ling's face turned red and he muttered in a low voice: "That's not true."
Luo Qingzhou returned to the small courtyard.
After reading books about monsters in the Black Wood Forest for a while, Xiaodie came back and explained: "Master, I went to Sister Xiaotao's place."
As she said that, she took out something from her back and said with a smile: "Young master, look, this is what Sister Xiaotao saw in the Jinzhuang Pavilion outside today. The shop owner said that these are socks passed down from the neighboring country of Hundred Flowers. Women there like to wear this kind of socks, and women in our hot Kyoto and many big cities are now also popular in wearing this kind of socks. Sister Xiaotao thought it was very strange, so she bought a few pairs back and planned to try to imitate them. Give it a try and see if you can make it. I want a pair back, and I’m going to learn how to do it.”
Luo Qingzhou looked at the white stockings in her hand and was stunned for a moment. He quickly took them in his hand, touched them, pulled them, and even smelled them.
Soft, silky, bouncy, and tastes...
"Sir, do you look good?"
Xiaodie said excitedly: "I'm going to make a few pairs of fabrics from other colors. I heard from Sister Xiaotao that different fabrics will have different effects. Some are more transparent, some are hazy, and some look like pants. They're just as thick. Anyway, with these socks, you don't have to wear pants anymore. I heard that many aristocratic ladies in Kyoto are wearing them like this now."
Luo Qingzhou was in a daze for a while, then handed her the stockings in his hand, hesitated, and said: "Xiaodie, actually, there is no need to make all these socks this length. You can make them shorter, thigh-high. Knee-length, calf-length or ankle-length ones. Also, I think black, white, or ones close to skin color look better. There are also striped ones, which are okay. As for the colorful ones , embroidered stuff, I don’t think it’s necessary.”
Xiaodie looked at him with wide eyes as he continued to talk, and said with surprise on his face: "Master, why do you look so understanding? Have you ever worn one before?"
Luo Qingzhou: "..."
Xiaodie quickly added: "Oh, I forgot, this is for girls. Have you seen it in the shop?"
Luo Qingzhou waved his hand and said: "Okay, I'll read a book for a while, and you go and do your work. There's no need to come over tonight, I have something else to do."
The little girl pouted her lips, said "Oh", and left a little sadly, muttering in her mouth: "I'm going to wear these socks tonight to sleep with the young master."
When she walked out of the room and was about to close the door, Luo Qingzhou suddenly said: "By the way, Xiaodie, I just thought about it. There should be nothing to do tonight. You should come over and help me warm the quilt later."
The little girl immediately beamed and said happily: "Yeah!"
Then he closed the door, returned to his room, and began to carefully observe the smooth and soft white stockings in his hands.
After a while.
She locked the door, climbed onto the bed, took off the pants under her skirt, revealing a pair of slender, snow-white girlish legs, and then began to carefully put on the stockings on her legs.
"These socks... Why do I feel so... shy when I wear them?"
The little girl looked at the white silk on her legs, her face turned red unconsciously, her heart was full of doubts and strangeness, she didn't know why she felt like this.
"I wonder... will Young Master like it?"
After a while.
The little girl put on a thin nightgown and slippery white stockings. She left the room with a blushing face. She went over to knock on the door and said, "Master, are you going to bed?"
Luo Qingzhou said on the bed: "Come in."
The little girl opened the door and walked in shyly. After closing the door, she climbed onto the bed and got under the quilt. Like a docile kitten, she clung to his chest and whispered softly. He murmured: "Sir, I want to..."
"I want to eat shit, but I promised you next year."
"It's almost the Chinese New Year. Master, I just want to say that I miss you. I haven't warmed the blanket for you for many days."
"Oh, then let's keep warm tonight."
"Master, I hope you will keep your word. When the New Year is over, this slave will grow up. By then..."
"Snoring, snoring..."
"Oh, sir..."
"Snoring... snoring..."
"Sir, if you pretend to be asleep again, I won't be polite to you."
"Snoring, snoring..."
"snort!"
The little girl snorted, suddenly shrank and got into the quilt.
Luo Qingzhou's snoring suddenly stopped.
Outside the window, the moonlight is like water.
Plum Garden.
In the study, cigarette smoke curled up, and the candlestick was still lit.
A girl in a plain white dress, with long silky hair and a pair of snow-white socks, sat in front of the desk, stepping on a soft velvet blanket, holding a pen in her hand, still writing beautiful words under the lamp. Small print.
Qiu'er, dressed in goose-yellow gauze, was quietly studying ink at the side.
"Cough... cough cough..."
The girl who was copying a story suddenly started coughing.
After a short pause, he coughed again.
Then she suddenly picked up the snow-white handkerchief next to her, covered her mouth, and coughed violently.
Qiu'er hurriedly walked behind her, patted her back, and said hurriedly to the outside: "Zhu'er, hurry up, the lady is coughing up blood again, hurry up and take the hot medicine!"
Pearl hurriedly ran into the kitchen and put the medicine she had prepared on the stove.
Holding the cattail leaf fan and fanning it anxiously in front of the stove a few times, she suddenly remembered something, put down the cattail leaf fan and ran out of the door.
Running all the way.
The night is silent and the wind is biting.
When she ran to the door panting, banging the door hard and shouting, Xiaodie was wearing thin pajamas, with a red face and a silly smile on her face, brushing her teeth under the eaves of the small courtyard, when she heard the sound, Not caring about going back to the house to get dressed, he immediately ran over and opened the door.
Pearl's face was full of anxiety and she said: "Xiaodie, hurry up, let me come over, my young lady is coughing up blood again."
Upon hearing this, Xiaodie hurriedly ran back to the house.
After Luo Qingzhou heard the news, he quickly got up from the bed, put on his clothes, thought about it, and took the storage bag.
When he and Pearl hurried over, the weak girl was still sitting stubbornly at the table, silently copying the story he brought.
Qiu'er stood aside, studying ink with red eyes.
Luo Qingzhou took off his shoes and entered the room.
The girl turned her head to look at him, with a hint of apology on her beautiful and pale face, and said softly: "Brother-in-law, I'm sorry... the slight ink is useless, I bother you again."
Qiu'er quickly retreated and closed the door.
Luo Qingzhou walked closer, took out the porcelain bottle from the storage bag, held her white and weak hand, and poured a drop of black liquid on it.
Immediately, he took out another porcelain bottle and poured a drop of dark blue liquid into it.
The two drops of liquid quickly blended into her tender skin and disappeared.
Luo Qingzhou put away the porcelain bottle, let go of her little hand, looked at the beautiful little words she had written, and said, "There's no need to work so hard."
The girl's eyes also looked at the small words, and she said softly: "It's not hard at all. Only when I write my brother-in-law's poems and stories, Wei Mo's body and heart will feel better."
Luo Qingzhou thought about tonight's events and looked at her pale face with long eyelashes hanging down. He was silent for a moment, then suddenly bent down, hugged her in his arms, and then blew out the candle next to her. With the lights on, he walked towards the back room.
The girl lay quietly in his arms, looking at him softly with her eyes, without struggling or speaking, she was quiet, only gentle.
Luo Qingzhou sat her down on the edge of the bed, then squatted down, lifted her delicate feet, and helped her take off her snow-white socks.
"Second Miss, what happened tonight..."
The girl suddenly stretched out a slender jade finger and gently touched his lips. She looked at him softly and said, "Brother-in-law, don't talk... even Wei Mo understands..."
Luo Qingzhou squatted in front of her, holding her snow-white and delicate girl's jade feet in his hands. He lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said: "Second Miss, if that is really the only way to alleviate your condition, then I …”
The girl suddenly lowered her head, and her two cold and soft pink lips gently touched his lips. Two rosy clouds quickly appeared on her fair cheeks.
Under the girl's trembling eyelashes, there is a pair of shy but brave eyes.
Luo Qingzhou was startled by the sudden "attack" and his body trembled. He unconsciously grasped her delicate and smooth jade feet tightly in his hands, and there was a "pop" sound in his heart, causing ripples in circles.
Didn’t leave for a long time...
