marry a weak waist

Chapter 55

The day is beautiful and the wind is peaceful, the flowers are colorful and warm, and the chickens and geese in the house next to the wall are squawking and chirping, which is not interesting.

Meng Tiao shrank her whole body under the window base, anyway, it was her mother's couch, no formality was required.She put her arms on the window, her face was crooked in the crook of her arms, while listening to the old lady Mei Qing's two sarcasms, she looked at the window diagonally opposite.

She didn't take a word of those harsh words to heart today, her tender face was always smiling, her pillow was clouded and her temples were sloppy, her tired soul was full of beauty.

Mei Qing looked at her like that on the bench, thinking of the money she lost and her unsatisfactory marriage, she felt a lot of hatred.In fact, I can't hate Meng Tiao, she chose Liu Chaoru anyway.But it's okay that the three mothers are not doing well, but the old dream may continue, and the heart is rekindled.

She angrily threw a handful of melon seeds on the plate, and said playfully, "Miss, shut your mind and don't be crazy. I heard from Shuwang that Mr. Dong is married in Beijing. He is the young lady of the Tai family in Baoding Prefecture. After finishing the work on the other side of Hebei, we will get married when we return to Beijing."

This utterance really brought Meng Yu back to his senses, the body lying on the window was brought into the window, and he grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and licked them.He choked and choked, very forcefully, "Why am I crazy? I just saw that piece of leek in your yard is growing well."

Speaking of leeks, Mei Qing became more and more annoyed, "It's really bad luck for eight lifetimes. If I get my money back, I don't care which street to buy a house this year, and I won't be able to face that poor pickle field. Angry!"

Although Meng Tiao knew it well, he still pretended to care, "What kind of business are you doing? Where can't you get the money back?"

Mei Qing was afraid that she would be ridiculed if she talked to her, but there was no one else to complain about.She usually told her mother about it, but her mother was a little unwilling to listen to it because she said too much, and always suspected that she was using the excuse of complaining to trick her into spending some money.

There's no way, the world is going around, it seems that it's just the three of them.At the beginning, she was determined to marry Liu Chaoru to get rid of this situation, but she didn't want to see the three of them still beside her in the blink of an eye.This is her fate.

Thinking of this, Mei Qing smiled wryly, "Mrs. Ma and I put interest money outside. It was okay in the early days, and we made a lot of money. I put all the furniture in it. It is agreed that the capital will carry interest throughout the year." It was taken back, but who knows that the figure of Baoshan could not be found."

"Who is the guarantor?"

"A man surnamed Wu, who only made money for others, didn't even get back several thousand taels from Mrs. Ma."

Meng Tiao secretly smiled, and worried for her, "Tell Shuwang, ask Shuwang to send someone to investigate."

As soon as it was mentioned, Mei Qing was full of lawsuits, her teeth itching with hatred, "Hm? Huh, what hope? First, I sent people to search for a few days, and then reasoned that there were many things in the yamen, so I couldn't use all the people to do it." Put it on my matter. He also said: "Your business is not in compliance with the regulations. You refused to listen to the advice earlier, and now you should learn a lesson." Listen to this, it's not that it's nothing to do with yourself Do you mean hang up?"

As soon as the words fell, I remembered that in front of Meng Yuan, I only talked about how respectful he and his wife are to each other, didn't I show her the old story again now?Mei Qing felt annoyed again, and pushed the melon seed plate on the kang table, "Forget it, let's not talk about it! Count me as bad luck for eight lifetimes!"

Hei melon seeds were scattered all over the couch, and Meng Tiao raised his hand to sweep, muttering, "I've got my temper again, did you provoke you with this plate? Or take it out on us? There is no such easy business in the world, and my family is not awake. God, who can blame this?"

Mei Qing glanced at the two of them, full of grievances and resentment, and had nowhere to vent, so she opened the door and went out to sit at the house of the neighboring county government official.

Meng Yu looked at her from the window, and glanced at Dong Mo. He was no longer sitting under the window, with one hand resting on the desk, leaning sideways, as if appreciating some calligraphy and painting with Liu Chaoru.

But instead of looking at calligraphy and painting, what he looked at was the pictures of Licheng. Liu Chaoru pointed out where the fertile fields had increased harvests and where the fertile fields had failed harvests, and they were all talking about official business.It is unavoidable to talk about Meng Yu, "You sent Meng Shenzheng to Yanzhou, do you have something to say?"

Dong Mo straightened up and laughed, "You are all over-hearted. I asked him to go because he is a new face in Yanzhou official circles. He doesn't have to worry about the decency of many people. Things are easier to handle. The court is waiting for Shandong's tax. Change Jia to participate in politics, and get entangled by those people, I don't know how long it will be delayed."

"Oh, I still think..."

"What else?" Dong Mo glanced at him, saw that he was smiling deeply, and understood that he was talking about Meng Yuan, so he smiled and waved his hands, "You know that I distinguish between public and private."

Liu Chaoru took the map, put it on the shelf of Duobao Pavilion with his back, "Do you have an idea about the salt affairs? After finishing the work here, you are going to Hebei, so hurry up."

"You and Shao Yun both said that there is no mistake in the accounts. I don't think so. No matter how even the accounts are, without the money, it will not match anyway. In the past, Chu Pei was blocking him in the household department, but now Chu Pei Peidu itself is in danger, so who will take care of them? The new Minister Lou of the Ministry of Accounts, I would like to ask him to carefully check the accounts of Jinan and the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts, and he will definitely be able to find loopholes."

"If you get busy, it's not a small matter. Where are these people going to check the accounts one by one?"

When Dong Mo came out of the case, he cut his hands, "So I have to borrow the master books of each yamen, and check all the accounts together. I did the same check in Shanxi, and found a lot of mistakes, which is really chilling. "

"It's easy for our Licheng county government to assign people to you. It's just people from the lower counties, and you still have to send official documents to the counties."

"It's easy to do."

Dong Mo's face was smiling, and the two tufts of eyelashes on his cheeks trembled, and he raised his forehead towards the window.

On the slanted window opposite, Meng Tiao seemed to be scalded, so he quickly turned his eyes back.

Sure enough, it was scalded, and a little spark jumped out of the cigarette rod she was holding, and landed on the back of her hand. It didn't hurt, but itchy.The two pipes had just been lit, and her mother was puffing and puffing, half-closed her eyes, looking sluggish and gorgeous in the thick fog.

But she was a bit awkward, her posture was a bit too decadent, and she was a little unspirited Mei Ye, afraid that Dong Mo would see her depravity.

The old lady shoved her wrist, "Suck it, you don't drink it after you light it, what are you cooking?"

She was upset again, anyway, all her shamelessness and meanness had been known to him a long time ago, so what else could she cover up?As a result, the smoke was filled in an instant, but he pulled the window and closed it gently, thinking to ask the old lady: "Why don't you still carry the book on your back and look forward to receiving the gift from others?"

The old lady was straightening her skirt opposite, her face full of tiredness and misery, and Mei Qing's complaints also aroused her complaints, "I don't know who is so talkative, I told Shuwang about this matter. He was not very good at first." , I was caught once, and taught me a lesson. It turned against him! I am his mother-in-law, and he dares to say something about me!"

He said it with a guilty conscience, but fortunately there was a fog in front of him, so he sneered at the old lady, "Shu Wang is also right, you old man will let everyone let you go because of your seniority, can it make you ruin your family?" Is it a good job?"

In two words, the old lady felt that her daughter was unreliable, so she became more and more angry, and knocked a cigarette pot on her head, regardless of whether it was still burning, "I will leave the one I picked up all day long, and the one I own will be returned." Come and bully me!"

Some sparks came out of the pot and fell from Meng Tiao's head, she hurriedly jumped down on the couch, a few hairs fell loose.When he got angry, he gave the old lady a look, opened the door and was about to leave.

Catching up with Dong Mo who was also about to leave, Liu Chaoru had just sent him out of the main room, looked at each other, and Qiqi stepped down to the corridor.When it was said urgently, when it was quick, a patch of raindrops fell hard, Meng Yu hurriedly retracted the embroidered shoes.

Liu Chaoru also grabbed Dong Mo, "It's raining, let's go after a while."

At this time, Mei Qing also ran into the courtyard from the outside, looking at Mengyuan from the east, it was boring, and she went out because she was unhappy with them, so she didn't go to that room, and went straight into the main room.Dong Mo couldn't enter the main room because he saw the female relatives, so he just sat next to King Wu in the corridor.

In fact, if you want to ask why, he is a guest, and he is such an adult, even if he goes to the main room, no matter how domineering Mei Qing is, she has no choice but to avoid him.But from the corner of his eye, Mengtiao was also sitting next to King Wu outside the east chamber, so he declined Liu Chaoru, "It's okay, I'll just sit here and watch the rain. You go in, I'll see Mrs. Seems a little angry."

Liu Chaoru joked: "She is angry all day long, probably like all women." He called Tongshan to come and ask him to make some meat-stuffed corners and goose palms, and cook a pot of porridge with red dates and white sugar for everyone to warm up. .Then Sui glanced at Meng Tiao who was sitting diagonally opposite, and went into the room by himself.

The rain was falling rapidly, and the sky that had been clear just now was covered with clouds and twilight. The wind was blowing hard, and the mountains and hills were all gone.A few servants who carried Meng Tiao's sedan chair also came into the courtyard, and when they saw the mother serving the old lady coming and going in and out of the west room, they naturally went to the west porch to shelter from the rain.

The girl in front of Mei Qing and the mother were helping Tongshan with work, going in and out of the kitchen.The mother was fine, but the girl had a look on her face, and occasionally turned her head and cursed into the kitchen, "You can take it at home, and then come to help me. When I'm done here, see if I don't treat you like a dog." Peel off the skin!"

In the corridor, the servants were laughing again, and the girl was cursing again. In the main room, Mei Qing seemed to be arguing with Liu Chaoru, the noise was mixed with the sound of rain, and there was a lot of noise in a courtyard.

Mengtiao knew that Dong Mo was so quiet, these voices piled up, they were obviously not from her family, but they seemed to have something to do with her, as if she had created the chaos, which made her feel a little ashamed for no reason.

She straightened her skirt on King Wu's side, lowered her face, and occasionally glanced over there.Dong Mo was in a school of his own, as if he didn't hear the noise at all, he put his long arm on the railing to watch the rain.

Under the heavy rain curtain, he looked at Mengyao from the corner of his eye, her face was clouded by the rain and mist, thinking of her appearance in the smoke when she was smoking a pipe just now, it felt like the moon in the waves.

After a while, Tongshan came out of the kitchen, moved a small kang table beside Dong Mo, and put Jiang Neng next to King Wu.He brought two bowls of porridge, a pot of stuffed meat, a pot of goose feet, and a pot of milk cakes. He greeted Meng Tiao, "Madam, come and eat together. There are not enough dishes at home."

Putting aside the words, he turned and went to the kitchen, and still took a portion into the old lady's room, and another portion into the main room, and waved his hand behind, beckoning the young man who carried the sedan chair into the kitchen to eat.

Mengyu hesitated and didn't move, but saw Liu Chaoru coming out and said at the other end: "My wife should go in and use some with Mei Qing, if it's okay, then sit down and eat with Zhang Ping. There are really not enough dishes at home, Wanwang forgive me."

It was only then that she stumbled and asked her to sit with Mei Qing at this moment, she was unwilling to do so, and she was hit by the old lady's cigarette pipe and pot, and she was also choked up and refused to share it with the old lady.He had to glance at the back of Dong Mo's indifferent head, "reluctantly" grabbed his skirt and sat on the other side of the kang table.

Although she was sitting there, she had a strange mood and was inconvenient to carry the bowl.It's like eating other people's food, you have to wait for a dwarf to pick it up, and you have to wait for the host to persuade you repeatedly, and you can't stand the persuasion before eating.

Dong Mo stirred the porridge spoon twice and took a bite. Seeing that she refused to eat, he couldn't help feeling anxious for her.With such a heavy rain, hot things will turn cold after a while.

What he ate was not hot enough, so he had to say to her, "Aren't you going to eat?"

That voice was colder than rain.Meng Tiao glanced at him and saw that his legs were crossed, and the hem of his clothes was splashed wet by the rain.Look at her skirt again, there is also a circle of wet sticking to the tights, and there is a chill rising up, and the bowl of hot porridge becomes very attractive.

But he only tried to persuade him once, but he still couldn't eat it, so he lost face.She tilted her chin to the other side, raised her hand to touch the pillar in front of her, and pretended not to hear.

Dong Mo put his legs down this time and glanced at her, "If you don't eat it and let it cool, why bother asking someone to do it?"

Meng Yu turned his eyes and muttered, "I didn't ask someone to do it." After she finished speaking, she also felt that she was being unreasonable, so she lowered her face and picked up the bowl before being persuaded for the third time.

It suddenly fell silent, with the sound of smashing rain behind him, and the crowing of chickens and geese from the neighbors could no longer be heard, and other sounds seemed to have disappeared, and it was a bit dusty and desolate.Dong Mo wanted to talk to her, but he didn't know what to say. Talking about old things was either enmity or resentment. Talking about others was not his style.

He had no choice but to smile, and teased: "With such a refined appearance, he is not the same person as the one who beat me that day."

Mengyu's eyes slanted, he glanced at him, and lowered his face, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that day, I missed it because of panic."

Seeing Dong Mo like this for the first time, he couldn't help thinking that she didn't have the shyness of an ordinary girl in the past.He now knew that she was already in her early twenties, but when she nodded, she was a little sixteen or seventeen years old.

He was squinting at her, but she suddenly squinted again, "In the end, it's not your fault, why are you pulling me so hard? In the middle of the night, a man came to pull me, don't I panic?"

Dong Mo just wanted to forgive her, and it would be inconvenient to forgive her now, so he snorted and sneered, "You're afraid of this too, it's strange."

Meng Yu put down the bowl and stared angrily, "What's none of your business?"

"It's really nothing to do with me." Dong Mozhen didn't care when his back got wet on the railing, he just wanted to stimulate her, "It's just a little ridiculous to think about it. You met someone privately in the rented house on Ping'an Street At that time, you may not be so timid."

Mengyu rolled his eyes, leaned his back against the pillar, and leaned towards him, "You sent someone to follow me?"

In fact, Dong Mo has no position to say the following. He is neither her husband nor her lover, and he doesn't want to meddle in other people's business.Therefore, if he wanted to talk, he had to put on a mocking attitude that had nothing to do with him, and put his arms on the railing.

The wood was already soaked and wet, and his arms suddenly felt cold, but his heart felt a little hot.I couldn't tell what was annoyed, but it was about tearing that layer of window paper, and I felt a little happy that I shouldn't be happy.

He said: "I don't have such leisure. It was snowing that day, and your sedan chair blocked my carriage in the alley. I met by chance. It seems to be a big man from Zhizhou in Tai'an Prefecture. Does Master Meng know? Or maybe it is Under his instigation, what do you want to plot against the big man?"

These words ignited Meng Tiao's fire. She originally thought that her impression in front of him would not be too bad, but now it is so bad that there is no room for redemption.

She got angry, stood up awkwardly, and sneered, "I have nothing to plot against him. We are sincere, can't we? It's up to you to take care of it. If you can't see it, just send a memorial to the court." Here, punish us for adultery!"

The rain that had just subsided suddenly fell again, just covering up her high-pitched voice.The boys were still making noise in the kitchen, the girl in the west wing was chatting with her mother, Mei Qing was losing her temper in the main room, but the old lady's room was quiet, probably taking a nap.Only Dong Mo could hear these words.

Just because he was the only one who heard it, such shocking words were just like a husband and wife quarreling.Get up in a hurry, what's hard to hear, but don't keep it in your heart, the man next door surnamed Chen is good yesterday, but when you wake up the next day, you still feel that other men are not as good as your own man.

Even though Dong Mo didn't take it to heart, he was very angry, and dragged her down to sit down, "Do you think it's very beautiful? Do you want to make a noise so that everyone knows?"

Meng Yu glanced all around, straightened her neck and straightened her spine, "I'm a 'prostitute', what am I afraid of people? If I'm afraid people will comment, I'll be dead long ago!"

Very inappropriately, Dong Mo actually felt that she was a little immature and cute at the moment, like a child, ignorant of the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, so she was not afraid of the sky and the earth, so she had no kingly way.

He couldn't help laughing, put the back of his hand against his mouth, and turned his eyes to the thinning rain.Mengtiao thought he was mocking her, and was furious, "What does my business have to do with you, and I want you to waste your time talking? You should keep these wives who have never been married. You are not in Beijing all day, three years and five years. If you take office outside, be careful and become a bastard!"

After saying that, seeing that the rain was about to fall, he didn't greet anyone, went around to the kitchen door angrily to call for a servant, and walked out wet.

The road is slippery in rainy days, and the little ones walked a little slowly.After the sedan chair was jolted gently, Meng Tiao always felt a little happier in his heart, as if an unspeakable sentence that he had been holding back all day had been blown away by the noise.

She didn't want to listen to the result, but she thought of it.It's human nature for him to want to get married, it's nothing serious, she just needs to vent her anger, and then she will smile in the sedan chair with her legs crooked.

Dong Mo smiled with his lips crooked for a while in the corridor, but he didn't know what was so ridiculous.Strands of water flowed down the eaves, like tiny waterfalls.The rain stopped, the dark clouds gradually dissipated, revealing a piece of sunshine, sparrows chirped all around, I don't know where they are hiding, anyway, it feels like being in the forest, full of comfort.

Hearing that there seemed to be noise in the main room, he didn't want to go in and disturb him, so he just talked to Tongshan and quietly resigned.

The rain stopped and the clouds parted, Mei Qing's voice could no longer be concealed, and she uttered sharply: "You said it lightly, 'it's only a few thousand silver', heh, you showed me a few thousand, I'm afraid You can’t get hundreds of dollars now! Since I married you, I spent all of my food and clothing on my own. If someone married a man to eat, I’m fine. I eat my own clothes and wear my own clothes, and I’d even give someone else to you!”

Seeing Liu Chaoru walk through the door with a pair of jade bones, take a book, go to the small study on the other side of the screen, and insert it on the Duobao Pavilion.When she looked back again, Mei Qing had chased from the other end of the small hall to this end, standing in front of the desk, a little angry, "You are talking!"

Liu Chaoru pulled back the comb chair and sat down, raised her face and looked at her calmly, "What do you want me to say? Your business transactions are not in compliance with the regulations and laws of the country. You didn't know it at first, did you? You committed crimes knowingly and were deceived. Who else can be blamed? I advise you to behave in the future and stop doing these things. The money can be slowly accumulated again, and you don’t like to hear it. What else do you want me to say? You marry me and don’t eat me If you don’t wear mine, is it because I didn’t give you food and clothing? It’s just because you don’t like what I gave you. Change your extravagant preferences in the future, so you can live your life just as well?”

Let alone mentioning it, mentioning Mei Qing reminds me that she pawned a gold collar on Yuanxi, pawned 300 taels of silver, and used it as a trustee to look for the whereabouts of Baoshan, surnamed Wu.In the end, not only did no one visit, but the 300 taels were lost.

She immediately yelled, "You tell the people in the yamen to fetch him for me!"

"Do you have a pleading paper?" Liu Chaoru clasped his hands on the lacquered case, calm and emotionless, "Even if you have a pleading paper, your business is not in compliance with the laws of the country, and you cannot file a case. I will use my public power to send someone to replace you." After half a month of visits, it’s not good to tire these people anymore. They are only busy with official duties on the court’s salary, so if you ask you to stay here, I don’t know how many things in the yamen will be delayed.”

At this time, it was clear that the sun was shining, but there was a thunderclap, and two tears of hatred poured out on Mei Qing's face.She stared at him fixedly for a while, then suddenly went crazy, sweeping her arms across the desk, screaming while sweeping.The voice "Ah...! Ah...!" was piercing.

When the scream broke out, many papers, books and pens were scattered on the ground in a mess, a brush washer was broken, a pen holder was broken up, and elegant "corpses" were all over the place.

Mei Qing was happy and proud, looked at the "corpse" on the ground and laughed, shaking her head back and forth.However, tears kept slipping out of his eyes, line by line, shocking.

She turned to the desk with a smile, expecting Liu Chaoru to get angry and jump up to scold her, even if she was beaten, she would love to.From the bottom of her heart, she hoped that a hand would slap her and wake her up, so that she would no longer have to have unrealistic dreams.

However, Liu Chaoru still had the same face, calmly watching her go crazy, clasping his hands on the case, as if waiting for her to finish crying.After waiting for a while, seeing that she didn't cry enough, he stood up and walked out the door.

Tong Shan and Ya Tou's mother were all around the door watching, leaning their bodies to let in a bright light, which illuminated Mei Qing's face yellowish, haggard and desolate.

When Liu Chaoru went out here, her tears stopped immediately, she turned around and staggered into the bedroom.The three servants at the door performed their own duties, Tong Shan put away things in the small study, the girl hurried to the bedroom to comfort her, and the mother ran to the east chamber to report against the wall.

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