After all the storm, the bed was in a mess. Chongming's inner clothes were all wrinkled and stained with powder. They were thrown casually at the end of the bed, half on the bed and the other half on the floor.
Yun Xian panted slightly in his arms and rested for a while. He sat up, picked up his clothes and put them on, then sat in front of the mirror and fixed his hair.
The tide of love subsided, and Chongming leaned back on the soft pillow contentedly, watching her sitting under the window, dressing up in the mirror.
Yun Xian looked at the man's gaze in the mirror. He had bright eyes, a tall nose, and fair skin. He had the charm of a foreigner and the handsomeness of a Han.
She stroked her temples and smiled sweetly: "Seeing that the envoy is about to marry your noble daughter, I would like to congratulate the envoy first."
Eyes are turning, and there are all kinds of charms.
Chongming leaned against the soft gold pillow and joked: "I say congratulations, but in the end it's me who gives you the gift."
She glared at him angrily: "I think this is the kind of person I want to be. I'm so heartless. I'll just move back today."
"It's so good, why do you want to move back?"
He felt something under the pillow and took it out. It was a copy of "The Biography of Li Wa". He had never read these things, so he opened a page and read it casually.
Yun Xian looked at herself in the mirror in a daze. The red marks on her neck were a little obvious. She opened the powder box and spread a layer of powder to cover the abrupt marks. She said: "You are about to marry the princess of the Qiang tribe. Princess." If I know that I am hiding my daughter in a golden house before I get married, I am afraid that I will be dissatisfied. It is better for me to move back as soon as possible. Living here alone is boring. When I go back, I can talk to the sisters in Cuihua Building to pass the time. .”
"Isn't it easy to find someone to talk to here?" He looked down at the contents of the book, not noticing the slight change in Yun Xian's face in front of the mirror. "You didn't just come back from Shen's house today, and I don't want to hold you back."
"I'm afraid of trouble."
"What trouble?"
"You are not afraid of being blamed by the princess, but I am afraid of you." She secretly spat in her heart, cursing the filthy man with a heartless heart, with a smile on her face: "What if the princess finds out that I have been hiding in the Helian Mansion not far away from you?" In the house not far away, the princess loves her husband and will definitely not embarrass her, but if I talk about pampas grass, I am afraid that my life will not be protected if the princess says a word."
Her voice was delicate and soft, with a bit of nourished satisfaction and a little bit of anger: "It turns out that those words that the envoy said about pity for the slaves were all lies. After all, the world is as dark as crows. They only care about themselves and others." No matter how good or bad you are!"
He raised his head and smiled: "I just can't bear to leave you. Why am I so bad in your heart?"
"You can't find a satisfactory lover, so you just read these books?" He shook the book in his hand, and Yun Xian paused, a little embarrassed on his face.
The Biography of Li Wa tells the story of a prostitute and a scholar falling in love, the prostitute redeeming herself, moving out of the brothel to live with the scholar, supporting the scholar to gain fame, and finally the two of them achieved enlightenment.
"Just passing the time."
Chongming got out of bed and stepped on the nanmu footboard. There was a soft "squeak" sound. He opened the curtain full of embroidered oleander and hung it on the silver hook. He walked behind her barefoot and looked at her face in the mirror. He raised his hand and touched her chin, with a frivolous smile on his lips: "How about I redeem your body directly and raise you here, just like Mrs. Shen, and you will become a good family from now on?"
She looked at him: "How can a slave compare to her? She is a decent and innocent wife from a white family. Even though a slave has been a good man, he was also a prostitute. What's more..."
She laughed and said, "If one day the emperor no longer cares about the slave, and the slave has nothing to offer, he will still have to go back to his old profession."
"Oh?" He stroked the smooth and oily hair on his fingertips happily and said casually: "If one day I am ruined and all my wealth is lost, will Yun'er be willing to follow me? Just like Li Wa in the book, who lost all his savings. , I will never leave Zheng Sheng."
Yunxian raised his eyes and looked at his expression, sneered in his heart, put a butterfly love flower gold hairpin on his temples and compared it, and said quietly: "I'm afraid that even if I say that I am willing, I won't believe it."
"My mother used to tell us that the most taboo thing about being a prostitute is to have real feelings for a man. You have to win over the men from the brothel, suck their blood, and wait until they are empty shells before replacing them with another one. , the men who come to brothels are not good men."
When Chongming heard the words, he laughed, like a clear spring flowing on the stone, and the clear cong was pleasant to the ear.
He nodded appreciatively: "That's right, that's exactly what it should be."
That night, grandma helped Yun Xian pack up her belongings and returned to Cuixian Tower in a warm sedan.
Shen Yinxiao also asked A'duo to bring her a plate of newly made pumpkin cakes at night. A'duo saw that the yard was dark and deserted. After asking the neighbors, he learned that the people who lived there that night had left in sedan chairs.
When A'duo got the pumpkin cake back, it was as cold as a stone. A'duo asked her if she wanted to heat it up before sending it to Cuihua Building. She thought it would be too troublesome, so she shook her head.
The next day, it snowed heavily and the ground was white. A funeral was held at the Governor's Mansion. Along the way, the people of Youzhou, who had rich families, set up roadblocks to offer sacrifices in the distance. The mournful music played in Fanyang City for most of the day. The Wei family members all wore silk clothes. Send the souls of the late master and the late mistress out of the city.
The eldest son of the Wei family, Wei Zheng, succeeded you as the governor of Youzhou. The second son of the Wei family, Wei Cheng, temporarily succeeded you as the governor of Youzhou and oversaw the Youzhou army. On the same day, Wei Cheng issued a proclamation to lead an army to attack Liu Min and recover it in three days. Jizhou.
Another emergency report came that day that Liu Min was assassinated by an assassin. Apart from a few incompetent brothers from the side, the Liu family only had two young sons left, who were incompetent. Now the Jizhou army was leaderless and was killed by one of Liu Min's former subordinates. The general named Zhang Yao occupied the magpie nest.
Seeing that she was about to go to Jizhou, and Jizhou was going to fight again, it was like pouring cold water on Shen Yinxiao, so she had to take out the map and change the route.
If there was to be a war, the army would definitely pass through the main road between Hejian and Zhongshan first. She could only take the small road, and go to the Hejian Kingdom or Zhongshan. The Zhongshan Kingdom was richer than the Hejian Kingdom, and the refugees in the war were also relatively small. If there are fewer, it will be safer for her to take her parents to Zhongshan Kingdom.
In this way, the general route can be determined, first passing through Yishui, then to Peiping, passing through Lunu and Julu, and then crossing the Fuyang River to Xindu.
She was about to breathe a sigh of relief when suddenly her heart ached again.
What if Wei Cheng wins this battle.
Isn't that no different from not escaping from Youzhou?
Another basin of cold water poured down on Duotou, making her feel cold from head to toe.
Bingzhou is close to Fan Yang, but it is not a livable place because the Xiongnu are always looking at it. If Wei Cheng really regains Jizhou, he will have to go further.
I can’t go to Chang’an either.
That day they heard that Chang'an appointed him as General Wei, and that he would take office in the capital after he recovered Jizhou.
She gritted her teeth. She had never even been out of Youzhou, but now she had to take her parents to such a far away place.
Looking at the several prefectures and counties around Jizhou, he only prayed that Wei Cheng could lose to Jizhou. He also dug out the small portraits of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism from the box, set up an incense altar, lit incense, and prayed devoutly.
Please protect me from the three families. Wei Cheng will not be able to send troops this time. It is best to return home halfway.
Otherwise, she would really have to take her parents across mountains and rivers to go further to Yangzhou and Yanzhou.
The day before the expedition was New Year's Eve, this time, Wei Cheng personally came to pick her up and take her to the other courtyard on Huaiye Street.
She guessed what would happen tonight and put on the anti-prevention pill she had prepared in advance.
