marry a weak waist

Chapter 59

The golden crow is slanting to the west, the blue wind blows away, and the spring love of the painting hall is short.Meng Tiao talked with Dong Moxian a few words, thinking that the other side was busy packing things and would move in soon, so there was no rush for Qingqing and me at this moment, just wait for Xiechun to bring her girl in her arms, and give it to her. If you don't have a red envelope, you will resign.

In this rush, Dong Mo forgot to ask her about those contracts.He remembered that the copied deeds fell out of her around that night.I don't know how she kept these things, but the contract was signed by Baoshan, and it was Pang Yunfan.He had some doubts about the real reason for her "adultery" with Pang Yunfan.

Such suspicion made me a little happy in my heart, at least it could show that she had no feelings for Pang Yunfan, and other reasons were easier for him to accept.

He sent her out of the garden, and asked repeatedly at the door: "Do you really want me to send someone to pick her up? Do you have many things?"

Meng Tiao's hand was held by him, and the whole person was leaning on his arm, looking thinner and thinner, like a feather falling on the palm, "Although there are many things, there are servants to give them to you at the other end. Although I am no longer their My wives, they are still somewhat afraid of me."

Dong Mo squinted and smiled, "Oh? Are you so good at managing the family?"

"I have a lot of means, you just don't know."

"How good that is, Xie Chun will be afraid of you."

"That's not necessary." Meng Yu opened his chin towards the green shade, with a somewhat awkward and coquettish attitude, "I'm not your serious wife here, at most, at most a concubine, and I'm not their serious master either. You don't have to be afraid of me, and I don't have to come and discipline the people here."

Dong Mo was very surprised, except for the encounter under the porch of Liu Chaoru's house, in the noisy rainstorm, she almost never mentioned his engagement.Is there any woman in this world who is not jealous?He wasn't sure, and found her to be a riddle, and it was always impossible for people to see the answer to the riddle.

"Miss..." He rubbed the word, feeling a little crude and a little funny, and asked her intentionally, "You come to live with me without a name or distinction, won't your natal family scold you?"

"Forget it, they wouldn't scold me for this kind of thing."

Speaking of this, Meng Tiao came back to his senses a little.She was so happy these past few days, she was so happy that she couldn't find her way out, and she almost forgot about her ugly past.The past that Dong Mo knew belonged to "Zhang Yinlian", but he still didn't know anything about her humble past.

I am afraid that no man can accept her past frankly, especially a man like Dong Mo who has studied poetry, books, rituals and music since childhood.She became uneasy, stood up straight, and shook his hand back.

Walking to the door, let the warm wind blow, and blow away the melancholy, and blow away the worries of parting.Meng Tiao laughed again, put both hands into his hands, and raised her face facing each other, "I'll be coming in two days, you have to clear half of the room for me, I have a lot of things."

"Hey, in this way, you don't plan to live in a room alone and sleep next to me?" Meng Yu rolled his eyelids and thumped his chest.He laughed again, "Understood, I still have to order someone to build a dressing table, or there is nowhere to put your rouge jewelry."

Meng Tiao stepped on his feet and buzzed in his ear without knowing what, and gave Dong Mola a kiss behind the door for a while before letting her go.

This car went home in a sedan chair, and when I entered the house, I saw that there were two large boxes and cages there, and the colorful clothes were waiting for a few servants to pack them up outside.Mengyu caught her skirt and crossed the threshold, because she asked Caiyi: "Where are the pair of jadeite bracelets that I asked the housekeeper to find for me?"

Caiyi turned around, with a face full of lawsuits, and pulled her into the bedroom, "Really, the lady walked forward, and the old lady and Mei Qing came back. The old lady said that she still has a lot of things in this house. I will come over to move in a few days, and I asked a few women to decorate it for her. When I came to this room, the housekeeper just happened to take the bracelet and showed it to the old lady. She insisted that the color matched her, saying that you were too young After a while, I couldn't hold back the color of the water head, so I took it away."

While talking, he held tea, and Meng Tiao was eating. When he heard this, he scalded his mouth and stuck out his tongue, "She just took it away? I found it and gave it to Yinlian as a thank you gift! You guys That's right, why didn't you wait for me to come back?"

"You don't know the old lady's temperament? I dare not stop her. If I say one more word, she will give me a big show. Don't mention it, you have a pair of ruby-studded temple hairpins for Miss Mei. One."

Meng Tiao stunned on the couch for a while, then waved his hand, "Forget it, let's just give it to them. I can't go out of this house for two days, I have to wait until everything is packed!"

"That's right, tidying up things is the best time for people to take advantage of loopholes. There are so many things that you don't know you have until you tidy them up. Isn't it just a waste of people picking up cheap things?"

Meng Tiao had no choice but to ask the housekeeper to find another pair of amber bracelets for her, put them in an exquisite box, and carried them to the Yinlian room.I bumped into Yinlian who was setting up dinner. On the table there were a few delicate dishes, but only a bowl of rice.Meng Tiaoyin asked her: "Master, won't you come back to eat?"

Yin Lian hurriedly invited her to sit down, and replied with a smile: "Master has sent a message that Mr. Li is hosting a banquet, and he has gone to Mr. Li's residence." After thinking about it for a while, she added, "I am afraid that Mr. Li is a little busy these days."

It was to avoid moving Meng Tiao, Meng Tiao understood and nodded with a smile.Yin Lian hurriedly invited her, "Madam hasn't had dinner yet, has it? Would you like to have some with me?"

"Alright, my head is a mess."

The two invited each other to the table, Mengyu remembered and handed the box to her, "Thank you for persuading Brother Yu for me, this is a little of my heart."

Yinlian refused several times in fear, "I dare not accept the gift from my wife. I didn't say anything, and I didn't do anything for my wife. I was always taken care of by my wife. Even my sister's marriage that year was arranged by my wife alone." , I should thank you if you want to.”

"Hold it, push it around, I don't like it the most."

Yinlian had no choice but to accept it and hand it to the girl, and the two sat down to eat.

Outside the window, the dusk is drunk, the green shade is silent, and the courtyard is full of slow time.Meng Tiao held the bowl and looked at it, feeling a little indescribably messy.It seems that everything has nothing to do with her anymore, she wants to go to another world, like a traveler without a homeland, wandering from one place to another.

Although the parting place is not my hometown, but because I have been here for a long time, it is inevitable that I will feel a little sad about leaving the country.

She looked back with a smile, her voice was almost like the wind from the end of the world, and she said, "We have been a family for so long, and we have never sat together for a meal together. The fate in this world is really strange. I have a mother." I have sisters, but they didn't help me in major matters, but you, who have no relatives and no reason, helped me."

"Madam, don't say that, I can't afford it." Yin Lian pressed the bowl to her chin, a little timidly embarrassed.

Mengyu stopped talking, smiled and remained silent, she knew that a woman like Yinlian was used to putting herself very low, but for the love in her heart, she could always hold her head high.

On this point, Meng Tiao admires her very much.

When night fell, Meng Tiao leaned on the couch and looked at the boxes and cages all over the floor, holding the cigarette pole, and checking the glory of her half body through the smoke, all of which were the trophies she captured by strangling the hearts of many men.Are they okay?Maybe some people are suffering from serious diseases, some people get fame in the exams, some people marry wives and have children...

I don't know if they will remember being fooled by a woman on a certain day, and they will never forget it.But then I thought it was too extravagant for a person to never forget himself.

She took a puff of smoke, and saw her past and future in the smoke screen, blurred, like an adventure.

The next day the old lady also came to move her things, because Meng Yu had nothing to do with Meng Yu, her mother-in-law naturally had nothing to do with Meng Yu, so there was no reason to deposit the salute at his house.

About this day was unlucky. When she went out, she sucked on a bag of cigarettes, choked her throat, and her speech became a little hoarse.It suddenly reminded her of an old friend, who was always silent and didn't speak, holding a book and seeing the sky dim.When she leaned over, bumped into him and joked, "Hey, are you really preparing for the No. [-] exam?"

Only then would he put down his book and start talking, "When I pass the No. [-] exam, I want you to be the No. [-] wife."

She knew it was a joke and she never took it seriously, but she couldn't help but her heart skipped a beat.I'm afraid this is a secret that even she herself ignores. Today, when she suddenly thinks about it, it must be a relationship that has been stable for a few years and then drifted away again.

When the wind picked up, catkins rolled up from the wall, and the old lady closed the door that had just been opened, "This poor Jinan, what are you planting so many willows for?"

It just so happened that Liu Chaoru was about to go to the yamen, and when he saw her coming out from the corridor, he withdrew his feet playfully, cursing hoarsely behind the door.He went to the door of the east chamber and said, "Xu Fengtian is like this, and there are many willow trees in this alley, so it will be fine in a few days. Aren't you going to Meng's house to move things? Do you want me to call you in the yamen?" A servant to help you?"

The old lady opened the door again and came out, flipped the hairpin Dai Cui's bun, "No need, there are servants to help carry it over there."

"You're very stubborn." Liu Chaoru smiled while scissoring her arms, and without much persuasion, looked down at her, "What's wrong with your throat?"

"I choked on a puff of cigarettes. It's really unlucky, I choked on it when I got up early in the morning!" The old lady glanced at the wall. We can finish moving the bottom today."

The two walked out together, the Liu family didn't have a sedan chair, so my mother went and hired a soft sedan chair and waited at the entrance of the alley.Liu Chaoru always walks to the Yamen.It was rare for the two of them to go out together, in the hazy sky, Liu Chaoru kept looking at her.

The old lady cast a sideways glance, "What's so good about it, why don't you get enough of it every day?"

Liu Chaoru was wearing a green men's suit, a black shadow in the sky, the moonlight gliding across the silk, "It is said that women are like flowers, I have been thinking about what kind of flower should I compare you to."

If it was normal, the old lady wouldn't be in the mood to talk to him about these romances.But today is different, the sun has not risen, the night has not faded, the dew is still heavy, pressing on my heart, it is unavoidable to be a little depressed, and I need to shake it off.

She raised the corners of her lips, contemptuously and proudly, "What's so interesting about flowers? If you have to compare me to anything, you might as well compare me to a parasitic weed. In the past two years, I was flipping through books in my free time, and I came across two lines of poems, 'It seems that the bottom of the tree is muddy and slippery, but there is a lot of rain and dew on the top of Ying'ai' It seems to be talking about me. I used to parasitize Yu Geer, but now his tree is unreliable, so I have to parasitize here again. I don’t know your tree When the tree is unreliable, where will it settle down?"

Facing the falling moonlight, it will illuminate people's minds and eyes.In fact, she knew better that she was parasitic on her two daughters and absorbed their nutrients.She knew in her heart that this was shameless and selfish.But she was used to being selfish.

The relationship between people and people in this world is nothing more than you owe me and I owe you, because you owe it, you can maintain it.Those who do not owe each other are often strangers.She shed tears, fortunately the sky was too dark, Liu Chaoru didn't see it, not to mention her voice was a little hoarse, so she couldn't hear it.

Liu Chaoru smiled to himself: "You can rest assured. Even if Mei Qing and I are separated someday, you can stay here for a long time. That room was originally prepared for you."

The old lady's vanity was satisfied, and she gave a playful wink.Just at the entrance of the alley, her mother came up to help her, and she grabbed her skirt and cat waist and got into the sedan chair.The sedan chair went to the right, Liu Chaoru stopped and watched for a moment, then walked to the left.

A round of egg yolk-like golden crows appeared at the end of the Quxiang, illuminating the continuous blue tiles with a black oily light, and the sky was completely bright.

When Xia Ji came to Meng's house, all the old lady's things were decorated in the house where she lived before.She made her mother watch the boys carry them, and she went to Yuanpuju to talk to Mengtiao with the cigarette stick.

Meng Tiao had a lot of things, so he picked up seven or eight boxes and cages. When the old lady entered the cave door, she heard her ordering from the corridor, "First, carry these packed things to Qingyu Garden, and go to the door to open them yourself." There are housekeepers to guide them, and they will tell you where to put it. You just put it down and don’t need to put it back.”

The butler took the order and called on the servants to carry out the cages one by one.The old lady stepped aside, looked back and walked to the bottom of the veranda, "You have packed so many things, how much is left unpacked?"

Meng Yu turned back and went into the house, "Put the rest together, there are at least [-] boxes and cages. I don't want these furniture, even the furniture. I don't know when I will move." While speaking, She caressed the dressing table with dark red carved peonies, "Unfortunately, I have been using this for several years, and the paint hasn't even faded."

The old lady landed on the couch, and the servant girl brought tea, she took a sip, and then said with a smile: "What's the pity? You go over there. Although you don't have a status, you will always have a lot of money. If you want to buy anything, just buy it now." Cheng. I don’t think Dong Mo is a stingy person. It’s just that his family will be in trouble when he returns to Beijing.”

Those little servants moved their things away from the courtyard, and the women and maids also went to the warehouse to collect things, it seemed that the sun was quiet at the beginning of the day.

Mengyu didn't want to think about Beijing's affairs, so he smiled lightly, went around a few boxes and came to sit down, "I'm not asking for his money, nor do I have to ask him to buy me something. It's not that I don't have money, I can buy anything I want.”

The room is in a mess, with things piled up here and there, and on the bed table are piled up some bundles of fabrics, light yellow, pink satin, black gauze... colorful and dazzling.

Far away, the old lady caught a glimpse of a sapphire blue brocade on the bunk, hurriedly grabbed the skirt, picked it up and touched it, "Hey, I am short of a skirt made of blue material like this. You look old-fashioned in this color. I took it."

Meng Tiao was reluctant behind his back, "You just took my pair of jadeite bracelets from me yesterday, and you came to get them again today. No matter how many things I have, you can't help picking them up like this. Besides, mother Are you still short of materials? There are also a lot of materials that you packed up at the other end, and I was blind when I opened my eyes."

"The material is there, but it lacks such a color." Regardless of the old lady, she hugged the material and put it on the kang table, and sat down with her skirt brushed.

Seeing Mengyu's impatient face, she smiled and patted the material, "I'm still arguing about this with my mother, do you want anything in the future? He has more money than Brother Yu. But I think he is, Ding It’s Ding Mao’s, and he’s definitely unwilling to help relatives like us. I know their family background, and they’ve always been unwilling to deal with people like us. It’s not easy for you to get in, let alone me. And it’s not me A legitimate son-in-law. My mother can't rely on him, so is it possible that my daughter can't be trusted?"

"Take it if you want, there are so many words."

"Hey, you're still not happy about me talking about him? He hasn't lived there yet, so he's protecting him first."

The sun shines through the screened windows, and the room is always gray due to packing things up.Meng Tiao opened the window with his hand, allowing brighter light to come in, illuminating the sapphire blue material as quiet as the sea, you don't need to touch it, just looking at it is cold.

The old lady glanced at her and sneered coquettishly, "I know you are determined to change your old life. Do you think that with a new life, you can be a new person? You often feel that you are more beautiful than Mei Qing. Smart, that's what you think, but in fact, you two are just half a catty. Don't you think I'm a mother and don't miss you? I am more than anyone else. An empty heart."

Meng Tiao's confidence rising in the morning with the beginning of tomorrow was lightly broken by her few words.It seems that just after reaching a new intersection, someone came to tell me what kind of bumps and thorns lie ahead.

Her mother has this kind of ability, and sometimes Meng Tiao really hates her very much, but in this hatred, there is also a deep and sad love and attachment.She thought that Mei Qing must have the same state of mind as her.

Seeing that there was no answer from Mengjiu for a long time, the old lady had no choice but to stand up holding the material, "I have finished moving at the other end, let me take a look."

Yu Biman squeezed his waist and limbs, moved in lotus steps, and walked out. The sun had already risen to the corner of the eaves, shining on the green shadows, and the flowers and trees were lush.After seeing the pavilions, towers, pavilions, forests, flowers and grasses for several years, they have long been reflected in my heart.Now everything is still climbing up, but she feels that the embroidered shoes are heavy and hollow.

On the day Meng Tiao really left the garden, she also felt a little bit of the same feeling, which even she couldn't understand.

Yinlian came to see her off at the door, she confessed some insignificant things, nothing more than the expenses of the old family's accounts, Yinlian answered nonuo.It is estimated that for a long time, Meng Yao catches the skirt and Dengyu, opens it and looks at her again, as if a dove has taken over the magpie's nest.

She felt funny in her heart, why would she think so?It was obvious that she herself wanted to go elsewhere.

But after careful calculation, she did have the idea of ​​staying here for a long time.It's just that fate has a hand in the dark, pushing her forward.

The other end of the Qingyu Garden had been cleaned up to make room for it, and an empty room was specially swept out to be used as Meng Yuan's warehouse, where she was responsible for locking her unusable gold and silver porcelain and making clothes.

There were some unworn clothes in it, which were pressed in a cage.Mengyu rolled over a few times and came out, and two of them were on Xiechun's body, "I cut them all and didn't have time to wear them. You know that some masters are slow. When the clothes are cut, the season is over. How else to wear it? Put it there, and forget it in the second year. If you don’t dislike it, wear it, your stature is about the same as mine.”

They are all made of high-quality materials, and there is a large cloak with a fox fur collar. "

"I've worn your clothes several times, and you wear mine too, what's the point?"

This day, the pool hall was clear and the wind was soft, Xie Chun led the little girls in the room to visit.Another person from Mengtiao gave a set of clothes to wear, and each gave five taels of silver.When everyone got something, they were naturally happy, and they all returned those things to her diligently.

Fortunately, Dong Mo's room is big, and the things he used to use are plugged in and placed, but it doesn't look crowded.Dong Mo moved the canopy bed to one side, leaning against the wall, leaving a good space at the other end, with a window, under which there is a newly-made chicken wing wood dressing table, which is bright and does not take up space.

I don't know when it changed to a huge cabinet, which took up a large wall and used it for the two of them to store the clothes they often wear in the season.Meng Tiao stood at the bottom, looked up, the cabinet was half body taller than her.She touched it with her hand, and it was polished very smooth, then she smiled, "When was this cabinet made? I haven't seen it that day."

Xie Chun replied from the side: "On that day when the girl came, the master ordered to be called. My man has no other skills, but he obeyed orders quickly. On that day, he invited more than a dozen master carpenters to work together, day and night. , I made it out of nowhere in a hurry. If there is anything the girl can ask him to do in the future, he also has his benefits."

"Of course, I think Zhang Ping is very good at employing people. He brought you by his side. You must be more capable than ordinary people. Hey, where is Zhang Ping? Why don't you see him?"

"He has something to do in the yamen, and he has to delay for a while. I'm afraid he won't be home until dinner."

Unexpectedly, after saying this, I heard the voices of the girls outside saying hello.Meng Tiao hastily opened the curtain and ran out to have a look. Sure enough, it was Dong Mo who came back. I'm afraid he walked in a hurry, sweating, and was taking off his silver frost-colored cloak outside, and only put on the pale Taoist robe inside.

It was a gray sky, overcast, simple and old.But under his smile, he turned over a new leaf.As if the clouds were about to disperse, and the dull smell of decay was exposed in the sun, and the smell began to become fresh.Meng Tiao's sleepy mood when he left Meng's house melted away, and ran towards him head-on.He just handed the clothes to the girl, turned his head and opened his arms to her.

Meng Tiao made him take two steps back, and he kept shouting, "Oh, oh, slow down, I'm sweating all over."

She touched the handkerchief and wiped his forehead, "Xie Chun said that you probably won't come back until dinner is very late."

"Well, it was at that time that I had to come back, and I called a few officials from the yamen for a meeting. I told them to stop talking nonsense and pick the most important ones, which saved a lot of effort. Have you brought all your things?"

Meng Tiao dragged him into the bedroom, inside Caiyi Xiechun led four or five maids who were still busy, it was a joyous scene.Mengyu looked back with a smile, "All moved here at noon, the storehouses are all tidied up, only this room is left. I don't like your tent, can I change it?"

Dong Mo supported her and stood behind her with one hand, squeezing his throat to imitate her soft voice, "Of course I can."

Meng Tiao pulled out her hand and thumped him.He laughed, and went to throw the tent from the moon hook, "You can tell them to change the color you want. I remember there are many useless gauze in the storeroom, you go and choose a color."

Meng Tiao couldn't help sticking out his tongue, "I just went to your warehouse to see, why are there so many materials? How long have you been away from Beijing?"

"They were all given to me when I was in Shanxi. It's just a gift. It's nothing more than these things. It's too cumbersome for me to bring it around. You go and pick it up. If you like it, you can cut it into clothes and wear it. You don't like it." It's up to you to reward people and give gifts."

"I'm better myself, and I can't wear it."

"Send some to your mother and sister, you women always have endless clothes to cut."

Meng Tiao turned the corner of her mouth slightly, "Who will give it to them?"

Dong Mo debated the meaning of his tone, pulled her closer, and tilted his face to look at her tenderly, "Why, you don't seem to have a good relationship with your mother and younger sister? Did they offend you?"

"Hey, I can't say I'm offended or not. When three women are together, they always quarrel." Mengyu didn't want to say more, his eyes rolled around, "Hey, where is the little shadow? I didn't see it when I came here."

"Perhaps the movement of lifting things was too loud, and it was scared to hide. Or it went for a stroll in the garden." Dong Mo also glanced around, and yelled "Mengying Mengying" twice.

He insisted on calling her by first and last name, saying he was called a cat, but in fact he was teasing Meng Tiao.Meng Tiao hated it for a moment, stepped on his boots and crushed her embroidered shoes, rolled her eyes and wanted to look outside.

As soon as I walked under the curtain, I heard a low "meow", which sounded like I was in the bedroom again.The two bowed down and searched under the furniture.A girl leaned against the cabinet door and listened, and said with a smile, "It seems to be in the cabinet."

Opening the door of the cupboard, a white shadow jumped out, Biqing cast Mengyuan across her eyes, and jumped into Dong Mo's arms.Seems to be the fault of her keeping him in it, or encroaching on its territory, who knows.

Anyway, Mengyu stretched out his hand to hug it, and it retracted its head and front paws into Dong Mo's arms, leaving a tail like a white feather duster, sweeping in the palm of Mengyu's hand.It's tickling and warm.

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①Ming Quyou's "Parasitic Grass"

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