marry a weak waist

Chapter 67

Whose Su flute circles the moonlight, and the blue lanterns lightly flame to reflect the stars.Meng Tiao just sobbed and cried on the desk, but he didn't see Dong Moyan laughing silently on the pillow.

After a while, Xiechun opened the curtain and asked Dong Mo with his eyes. Dong Mo suppressed his smile and waved to her.She put it aside, went back to her room with the baby in her arms, and told a little girl on the porch, "It's supposed to be supper later, go to the kitchen and ask to prepare it."

The girl followed her out of the courtyard with a lantern.The green bamboos are empty and there is no one talking or laughing outside the corridor, Meng Tiao felt that her crying was sudden and seemed a bit unreasonable, she hurriedly picked up her waist to find a handkerchief to wipe her tears.

I don’t know where the handkerchief was picked up by the cat, but I couldn’t find it for a while, Dong Mo handed over one, “Are you still crying?”

"Bah," Meng Yu grabbed the veil and spat at him, "I didn't cry for you either."

Dong Mo suppressed his smile, and nodded indifferently, "It's because I know it's not for me that I can't coax you."

Mengyu gouged him out with tears streaming down his eyes, a teardrop curled in his eyelashes, reflecting the candlelight, like a faint star.Her somewhat heroic eyebrows were stained with tears, showing the desolation of a hero's end.Dong Mo's heart softened again and again, and he touched Zhang's handkerchief and stretched it out to wet her tears.

She opened his arm angrily, "Who wants you to apply it." Stretching her waist, she turned slightly to the other side, folded the veil in her hand, sniffed her nose twice, and wiped it a few times.

Dong Mo had no choice but to chase this side and say soft words, "Okay, stop crying, your eyes are red from crying, won't you wake up tomorrow morning with swollen goldfish eyes?"

Meng Yuan turned the other side again, flickered the candle, "You just said no, what's wrong with this?"

"Doesn't it really make you angry if you don't coax?" Dong Mo squinted his eyes on her shoulder, with a half-smile, "Stop crying, there are too many tears, let the wind blow, carefully face pain."

Meng Tiao wanted to laugh again at this moment, but because of his face, he glanced at him lightly and stopped talking.I still feel a little wronged in my heart, and I am ready to forgive him after waiting for him to say a few good words.

He hugged her behind him and laughed helplessly, "It's enough to coax a woman who loves to cry, but a woman who doesn't love to cry is scary. She has the strongest temper and can last a whole day when she is angry. Forced people to walk on the street I didn’t dare to go home after wandering around for a day. I’ve grown up, and I’ve never wandered around the streets like today, like a ruffian.”

Meng Tiao originally struggled twice, but thinking of his pitiful appearance, Yao gradually stopped, and cast a sideways glance over his shoulder, "Who told you to provoke me? If you provoke me, everyone will be unhappy."

"Okay, I'll learn a lot from a pit, and I won't dare to offend you in the future."

He was quite different from other men in this.Other men always say "okay, okay" when they have no choice but to say "okay" several times in a row, some are forced to admit defeat, make promises under pressure, and compromise unwillingly.He only said "yes", lightly, but with the strength of tens of thousands of catties, Mengyu felt for no reason that he could do what he said.

Meng Tiao leaned on his shoulder, turned around, and looked up at him, "You really haven't eaten?"

"I really didn't eat."

"There are so many restaurants on the street. If you go out for a day, don't you know which one to eat?"

Dong Mo smiled sincerely, "I thought about it, and there is indeed something wrong with me. They are my family members, and no matter if they scold or beat me, they cannot put me to death. You have nothing to do with them at this moment, and they treat you no matter what To be polite is to treat you as an outsider. My state of mind is different from yours, and I can't blame you for being uneasy. I don't even have the heart to eat."

Talking dreamily, two more tears fell, "I'm just afraid that your second sister doesn't like me. I want to find ways to please her, but there is really no place where I can be liked."

Dong Mo lowered his face and kissed her, "Is it enough for me to like you? How many people do you want to like? After all, this is between us and has nothing to do with outsiders."

"It's easy for you to say." Meng Tiao wiped away tears, turned his head, and called a girl to come in and order the dinner.

The meal was placed on the kang table in the bedroom, and the sound of frogs made lights for the music stars, which meant that they were drunk and drunk.Think about it, the future of their marriage is indeed not very promising, but neither of them wants to talk about it seriously.The moon, which had been washed away by tears outside the house, came down again. It was as vast as last night, but it was a pity that the moon was full.

Within a few days, the second daughter of the Dong family arrived in Jinan by water.Dong Mo took a break from his official duties that day and went to pick up people at the pier with Meng Tiao.

I inquired that the boat would arrive at about noon, and when Meng Yao arrived, I got up to wash up, deliberately drew my eyebrows gracefully and gently, lightly dyed my rouge, painted my red lips thinly, and handled them lightly, for fear that heavy makeup would appear frivolous and indecent.

After trying on the clothes four or five times in a row, I finally settled on a silver cream plain-faced bijia, which went with a silk-colored gown, a blue-gray skirt, and a pair of dark-colored shoes with twine branches.With her hair tied in a bun, and only two small pearl flowers on her head, she looks so clean, elegant and unique.

Dong Mo saw no one when he woke up, and when he lifted the curtain, he saw her sitting on the outer couch waiting, with a melancholy face, whispering to Xie Chun.He was wearing pajamas and fell beside her, smiling sleepily, "When did you wake up, you're all dressed, it's rare."

Meng Tiao pushed him back, "Hurry up and wash and change clothes, the carriages and horses are all ready, and we'll be waiting for you."

"It's still early, what's the rush?"

"It's the end of Mao's hour, and it's still another hour to get to the pier. If the second lady and the others arrive first before our pick-up arrives, it's rude to tell them to wait. Hurry up, don't fall backwards again."

Dong Mo got up helplessly, walked into the bedroom with the girl who brought the water, washed and changed clothes for a while, but did not see breakfast.Meng Tiao said in a hurry: "Just buy something on the street and eat it. I'm afraid it's too late to set up breakfast now. Besides, I ordered the kitchen to hold a banquet to welcome the second lady. I have to buy all the vegetables in the kitchen. It's still busy now." But come here, how can you have time to make our breakfast?"

Helpless, Dong Mo had no choice but to take advantage of the carriages and horses to walk to the street, and sent the boy to buy two fruit-filled pretzels to eat.

The two of them sat in the car together, Meng Tiaokong held up a cake and refused to eat it, feeling uncertain.Dong Mo stuffed the cake into her mouth, jokingly said: "The ugly daughter-in-law is going to see her in-laws eventually, and I'm afraid it will be too late. If you don't like it, then don't like it. She only lives here for a month and then leaves, and she doesn't want to spend time with us. For the rest of your life, you just treat her as an ordinary guest."

Meng Tiao was not in the mood to joke with him, so he took out a small mirror and took several photos along the way.When I arrived at the pier, it was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there were many travelers, coming and going, so it was very lively.The two of them just waited in the car, and at the beginning of noon they saw the boat chartered by the second lady.Mengyu hurriedly got out of the car all day, and asked Xiechun how he was dressed several times, but he was still not at ease.

When the boat docked, the housekeeper commanded a group of young servants to carry things and get off the boat, and came forward to bow to Dong Mo and lead Dong Mo and others to wait.

After a while, the second lady's husband disembarked first and greeted Dong Mo, "Third uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time, has it been three or four years? I heard that you were appointed governor and are staying in Jinan today. We just happened to Fu Ling returned to Kaifeng, and then returned to Beijing via this route."

Dong Mo returned the courtesy and answered, "Your father passed away, and I couldn't express my condolences due to business. I hope you will forgive me."

The second lady's husband's surname is Kuang, and his style name is Qiusheng.Meng Tiao peeped from behind, and saw that he was about thirty years old, tall and thin, wearing plain clothes with white teeth, tied in a bun, and wearing a filial forehead, with no beard, handsome eyebrows, and elegant appearance .Compared with the unruly children of the aristocratic family in Jinan, the son under the emperor's feet has a refined nobility.Meng Tiao couldn't help but click her tongue in her heart, and stretched her neck to look for the figure of the second young lady on the boat.

From time to time, I saw a few servants coming off the ship from the deck with a woman in their arms, also wearing plain clothes, with a small white silk flower in the crow's bun and a plain forehead scarf.

The white lower part of the head reveals long almond eyes, without losing the charm of youth, without losing the charm of Huaxin. A pair of long eyebrows are slanted into the temples, and the face that looks faintly smiling is a little cloudy and breezy.This point is somewhat similar to Dong Mo.As she came down, her eyes squinted downwards, the people on the pier were just the water under her feet, and the dream was just a drop in the ocean in her cold eyes, she didn't even see it in time. she.

Meng Tiao can also be regarded as galloping on the wind and moon, being praised like stars and moons by men in the past.Today, in front of such a natural and noble Feng Yi, she suddenly fell into dust.Still far away, she couldn't help lowering her head slightly, not daring to lift it up easily.

Until Xie Chun tapped her a little with his elbow, "Girl, I am calling you, go see me quickly."

Looking head-on, Dong Mo turned around ahead and waved to her.Meng Tiao had no choice but to bite the bullet and go forward.Dong Mo introduced her, "This is the second sister, and this is the second brother-in-law."

Mengyu hurriedly said Wanfu, followed by "Second Sister and Second Brother-in-law".His second sister also bowed back and said, "Hello, Miss Meng. Let's call me Second Miss, that's what everyone calls me at home. It doesn't matter if you call me by my first name. My name is Dong Kouhen."

Kou Hen always had a polite and distant smile on his face.The basket of greetings that Mengtiao had prepared suddenly stuck in his throat, he didn't know whether to vomit or swallow, so he had to take half a step back and stood side by side with Xiechun.

I have seen each other in a hurry, and each boarded my opinion.Meng Yu got into the car, sat down and let out a sigh of relief, "It's strange that you never came to Jinan to ask for flowers, but I dare say that all the ladies in the capital are like this. Compared with the girls and grandmas here, the girls and grandmas here They all look like village girls."

Dong Mo sat down, straightened the hem of his clothes and laughed, "I don't want to ask Hua Liu what has to do with this? The scenery is different in different places, and not all the ladies in Beijing are good, and the ladies here may not be inferior."

Mengtiao straightened her skirt and bumped him with her arm, "Are you trying to comfort me?"

He grabbed one of her hands, turned it over and squeezed it, "I'm telling the truth, men look at women differently from how you women look at women."

Meng Tiao curled his lips and laughed too.A group of people rushed back to the city again, Mengtiao opened the curtain to look at the market, and a stone fell in his heart.Finally, they met face to face. Although Kou Hen had a cold attitude, he was polite, not like the person who deliberately made things difficult for him.But this is the cultivation of her famous daughter, so it doesn't mean that she will take people seriously.Another big stone was raised in Mengtiao's heart.

Returning home in the afternoon, Meng Tiao busily laid out the banquet, just like the mistress of the garden.But if she didn't do it, Dong Mo could only order Xie Chun's man to do it, blindly asking the subordinates to Zhang Luo, how could he act like entertaining guests?

Besides, these two are close blood relatives, neither of them are talkative people.Sitting on the couch, the scene became cold again and again.Fortunately, Kuang Qiusheng moderated and joked, so the atmosphere would not be as cold as ice.

Qiu Sheng has always respected Dong Mo as a person, and Dong Mo is an outstanding member of the Dong family, so he wanted to get close to him, but Dong Mo was withdrawn and indifferent, and he also had an older brother who was always in the middle of it, so the two never got along. come and go.

It was rare to meet in Jinan this time, and no one else would say anything bad about Dong Mo, so Qiu Sheng was naturally happy to chat with him.The two discussed the court situation, and Dong Mo had no choice but to accompany him to talk loudly.Kou Hen was annoyed by hearing it, so he shook his fan and said, "Go to another room and talk about it. I have heard the sound of waves for a few days, and my ears are buzzing. How can I stand up to your noise?"

Dong Mo led Qiu Sheng into the study to talk.Only a few maids and Meng Tiao were left in the room to accompany them.From time to time, I heard the butler talking back and forth, saying that the couple's things had been moved into the house and put away, so Kouhen stood up and said, "Miss Meng, I want to go to the house to change clothes. If you are free, please guide me." I'll go there."

Meng Tiao hurriedly agreed, and accompanied her to the north side of the garden.Along the way, the flower walls cover the shadows, the bamboo shadows are rustling, the warblers and cicadas are breaking and chattering, and the pavilions stand still.Kou Hen walks leisurely in the courtyard, looking forward with both eyes, not at all cramped for a guest, although he doesn't talk much, his attitude is graceful and his manner is elegant.

On the contrary, Meng Tiao felt uneasy, and didn't know how to move his hands.The surface is well done, and it is considered calm to shake the double-sided silk fan.It's just that her calm attitude is pretending, and she glances at Kouhen from time to time, lest she will expose it, or if she doesn't need to expose it, she will show her timidity first.

Fearing that the scene would be cold, she pointed at various roads and said with a smile: "Second Miss, that road leads to the other side of the big pond. The lotus is still in bloom at this time. Second Miss can go and have a look if you are bored. That road detours Going out is the corner gate, and the big path goes straight out to the top of the main gate. The garden is quite big, so the second girl can take a stroll in her spare time."

Corresponding to her words, Kou Hen asked, "Is this garden the property of the Chief Secretary? The property in Gongmenli has always been in disarray, but there are two people guarding it. This garden is well tidied up."

"It belongs to the Chief Secretary. Zhang Ping allocated him to live in when he came to Jinan that year. Zhang Ping is here, and many people respect him. One reason is that he is the governor appointed by the emperor, and the other reason is that he is a member of the Dong family."嚜."

Meng Tiao privately praised the lintel of the Dong family, thinking that she, a young lady from the Dong family, would naturally be happy.Unexpectedly, when she glanced at her, she always had a faint smile on her face, looking up at the few golden osmanthus trees beside her, as if she didn't care much.

The golden sweet-scented osmanthus is obviously more attractive than Mengtiao. Mengtiao understands that she doesn't really want to ask her anything, but seeing her so enthusiastic, it's not polite enough not to ask her a question.

She fell silent in embarrassment, and walked to a moon gate in a moment, Meng Tiao led her in, and there were several bright rooms.In the past, it was empty and uninhabited, but now there are people everywhere, and a few servants brought by Kouhen are busy cleaning.

The two walked into the main room, Kou Hen waved the fan on the couch, "Miss Meng, please sit down, I'll change clothes in the inner room, and then I'll go there with you."

Meng Tiao sat down on that couch, and looked around, the three maids were putting things away, taking out some of the things that the couple used daily from the gold-painted box cage, or putting them on the table, or putting them on the shelf. Go to the Duobao Pavilion, on the desk...

The maids wear filial piety around their waists, their skirts are quiet, and they are circling around, but their footsteps are quiet, and they are busy in an orderly manner.Mengtiao gradually felt that she was the guest, and when she came to someone else's house, she felt a little uneasy.

When the wine was over and the banquet was over, and the evening was dark, Dong Mo sent Kouhen Qiusheng back to his room to rest.Going into the room, I saw Mengyu lying on the bed, her embroidered shoes still on, her feet falling under the bed, holding the cat in one hand and stroking it again and again, feeling a little dazed.

The light in the room has just been turned on, and the state of mind seems faint but not faint.Dong Mo walked over and sat on the bed, rubbed his pillow and sighed, "I didn't expect my second brother-in-law to talk so much, it made my mouth dry. If I continue talking, I'm afraid my tongue will burn."

Meng Tiao was still lying down, talking blankly beside his lap, "Didn't you talk to your second brother-in-law before? It seems like you just met him today?"

"In the past, we didn't get along very well, but during the holidays, we would be polite at the family banquet." Dong Mo put his hand on her head, stroking her temples, "Did my second sister say something bad to you?"

"No, not a single word." Mengyu sat up, crossing his legs in front of him, "Are you wondering why your second sister didn't even ask me, as if she didn't know about our affairs. What do you want to say?" She doesn't care about me at all, and she speaks politely, but if you want to say that she cares about me, she doesn't ask a single unnecessary question. "

Dong Mo was exhausted, and he looked up and smiled, "Wouldn't it be better not to say more? When she didn't come, you were afraid that she would make things difficult for you, and you would feel uncomfortable if she didn't make things difficult for you."

"Maybe your family has such a temperament, no wonder you don't understand. Didn't she ask you?"

"I asked some questions. You also heard it at the table. It was nothing more than asking me if I am here and when I will go home."

"You see, she also knows how to greet you." Meng Yu pursed her lips, hugged her knees, and put her chin on top, "Maybe she doesn't treat me like anyone, she just treats me like a girl, a servant. I haven't seen her asking if Xie Chun is okay. Xie Chun is always her acquaintance, right? I don't think I need to put my face on someone's cold ass, and I don't have to bother to be courteous. She lives here and lives here. I treat her like a guest."

She spoke on her own, making up her mind on her own.Dong Mo fell asleep with his head up. He was usually busy with business and never fell asleep while talking to her. It must be very exhausting for him to be entertained.

Meng Tiao didn't wake him up, and lay on his side next to his lap again, curled up into a ball, and put his head on his lap.The afterglow of the evening and the candlelight are intertwined together, and the yellow light is reflected on the relief cabinet, which is gorgeous and desolate.

The next day Dong Mo had to get busy with business, and went out to pay his respects to his sister because of etiquette, and told them to take a car and go out for a stroll, accompanied by a young man who was familiar with Jinan City.

Kou Hen's attitude towards him was naturally a little bit more affectionate, and he also saved a little bit of politeness. He pointed his finger at the couch, "Aren't you going out in a hurry? Come and sit down, I have a few words to ask you."

Dong Mo only thought that she wanted to ask about Meng Tiao, but who knew that she first talked about his affairs in Jinan, "I'll go home before I come, and I heard from my grandfather that because you handled several cases in Shanxi, The emperor praised you in front of his old man. Grandfather is very happy. You know that his old man doesn't care about the eldest son and concubine, he will value anyone who is promising. In our family, you are the most promising right now. A few brothers are just relying on their families to make a living in the officialdom."

Dong Mo nodded slightly with a faint smile, didn't say anything, and didn't ask how his family was doing.

Kou Hen glanced at him, and slowly opened his fan, with a dignified and light attitude, "I heard when I got home that my grandmother told you about your marriage, she was a lady from the Tai family in Baoding Mansion. I know that lady, she is not very nice. She is in her early twenties and has not yet left the cabinet. I heard that she has a bad temper and ugly appearance. She is simply out of shape. I told my grandmother that if I resigned from that marriage, we have no luck with such a lady, so we should choose another one."

Seeing Dong Mo winking, she smiled again, "Let's talk about this matter slowly, there is no rush. You still have business to do, so go first, and I'll talk to you when I get back."

Dong Moli got up and bowed to say goodbye, then put a hand on his lips and smiled: "Meng'er ordered the kitchen to prepare breakfast. She was afraid that her sister would not be used to the food in Jinan, so she ordered some dishes from Beijing. If sister Go out, please don't disappoint her kindness, stay at home before leaving."

"Oh, Miss Lao Meng is bothering you, thank her for me." While talking, Yue Hen sent him to the corridor without mentioning Meng Yuan.Perhaps Meng Yuan is not worth mentioning at all.

Even Dong Mo noticed her chilly indifference, like an autumn wind blowing past a person naturally, without leaving a trace of affection, and it was not worth looking back at.

Her words of thanks spread to Mengyu's ears through the girl, she was very polite, very cold and polite.Meng Tiao originally wanted to say hello to her, but now he also hesitated.He was also afraid that it would be bad to sit at home for a long time and not greet her, so he simply went out and went to Liu's house to find her mother and talk to Mei Qing.

Hearing these words, Mei Qing curled her lips on the bench and said, "Just listening to you, I'm tired of her. She is indeed a young lady from a noble family. She neither offends nor makes people feel uncomfortable. It's really thoughtful to not fall into her airs. Sis, I didn't curse you harshly, if you really marry into such a family, you won't be comfortable with yourself?"

The old lady rolled up the cigarette pouch, and lazily stretched out her hand to put it on the window sill. She casually picked up the needlework basket at the corner of the couch, rummaged through it, picked out an embroidery needle and picked a big blister on the back of her hand, "Oh, such a person, Wealth is overwhelming, but it can suffocate a person to death. If you want me to say, she lives with her, just ignore her and let her go. Anyway, she won't come to trouble you. Ouch!"

Accompanied by a sound of "Ouch", the knuckle-sized blisters burst out of water, and the blisters collapsed, wrinkled and spread on the hands, which was a bit ugly.

Meng Tiao touched the handkerchief and handed it over, staring at her with eyebrows rubbing the back of her hand, "I thought so too, so I just hid away. To avoid bumping into her in the garden, she thought that I would not greet her when I was free, On the contrary, they have opinions on me. I guess I will go back after Zhang Ping leaves the Yamen."

The old lady threw the veil out of the window after applying it, and called her mother from afar to take it out and throw it away, then she turned her head and said to Meng Tiao: "Yinlian suddenly came here yesterday to find out what you are up to, like I have something to look for you."

"What are you looking for me for?" Meng Tiao cast a narrow glance at the two of them, his eyebrows deeply knotted.

"I don't know. When I asked her, she didn't say that she must be looking for you. She just said hello. It's strange. She's not my daughter. Why did she come to greet me? I think she has something to ask for you, and it's not big. Cheap to go to Qingyu Garden, want to ask me to deliver a message."

Mengyu was puzzled for a while, too lazy to provoke those past events, he waved his fan, "Ask me again, you just say that I am very busy and don't come here often. If I have nothing to do, I will go to the Three Treasures Hall. What's the matter? It's nothing more than something to do with Meng Yu, I don't bother to care about it."

The old lady nodded in response, and turned her head to beat Mei Qing, "Didn't you agree to go to Daxing Lane? If you don't leave now, Shuwang should go home later. Although he doesn't care about your whereabouts, you can go home It's late, so I have to ask a few more questions."

Mei Qing stood up with annoyance all over her face, twisting the handkerchief in her hand twice with hatred, "This Lian is getting more and more difficult to deal with! I'm going to hate him to death."

After all, the money in his pocket was shining so cutely that no one could refuse it.Although Mei Qing gritted her teeth, she still moved her legs and feet without delay, and went back to the main room to paint her eyebrows and put on makeup.

After a while she walked through the courtyard, and Mengyuan watched from the window.Seeing her dark clouds piled up, light Luoyan skirt, reflecting the red rouge, like a ghost, the erotic silver dangling soul chain rattled in her purse, and she fluttered to welcome her. .

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