marry a weak waist

Chapter 53

Beyond the blue sky, clear snow fell suddenly.The sedan chair got up in the front, and the carriage behind stopped for a while, and then entered the market.Looking at the soft sedan chair again, it has melted into the busy world, and I can't find it.

At the end of the new year, the streets are full of cars and sedan chairs, and crowds of people are rushing to visit relatives and friends at this time. In front of the stalls, there are even dense crowds of people, shoulders rubbing against each other, and snow falls densely on top of the crowds. It is gloomy and darkly connected with everything.

Dong Mo's heart trembled for a long time, he didn't know if it was the joy of reunion, or the boredom caused by this accident.In short, he really didn't expect to run into Meng Tiao in this strange alley, let alone that she would quarrel with another man.

He couldn't tell what it was like, but he wanted to laugh a little, as if she was a loose woman, and the relationship with him, whether it was a conspiracy or a little sincerity, was just a small episode in her many love stories.And he took it as the chance of his life.

Sure enough, he raised the corner of his mouth and laughed, his eyes full of self-mockery and hatred.His stiff shoulders were slightly slanted to the wall, and a bleak and gloomy shadow was reflected beside him.

When I returned to Qingyu Garden, the snow had just stopped, and there was no trace on the ground.It was warm in the study, Liu Chaoru was sitting on a chair, leaning over to the gilt charcoal basin underneath, flipping through a book by Dong Mo in his hand.As the light flickered at the door, he stood up and greeted him, "Zhang Ping, when did you arrive?"

"I just arrived yesterday." Dong Mo stepped into the door, bowed to him, and asked him to sit on the chair together, "I was going to visit you yesterday, but you married a wife, and I didn't send a greeting card, so I don't want to disturb you abruptly." I have no choice but to invite you over today."

Liu Chaoru couldn't stop smiling, and looked around the room, "Since you returned to Beijing, the property of the Chief Secretary has been vacant, as if it was reserved for you. How are you doing in Shanxi? I ​​heard that you are collecting taxes while you are in Shanxi. With a lot of time, how many cases have been handled, and how many corrupt beetles have been dealt with?"

"There is such a thing. Although the battle in Ningxia has been suspended, I don't know when it will start again. You also know that the Tatars hide for a while after suffering a loss, and they will attack unexpectedly one day. The taxes collected in Shanxi are all used. For the war, even the taxes from Shandong and Hebei have to be used as military supplies. When the national crisis is at stake, don’t focus on a few, I’m afraid it won’t make sense to the people who pay the tax, and the court will also take advantage of this pass to make an example.”

Liu Chaoru couldn't help being happy, "I hear what you mean, the emperor is working hard again?"

"In the face of foreign aggression, the emperor has to raise his spirits to deal with it."

After the two exchanged pleasantries, when talking about Meng Yu, Dong Mo moved his body, tilted his chair and smiled, "I just saw him when I came back from the Chief Secretary. It hasn't changed at all, and it's still as humble and restrained as before."

Liu Chaoru laughed contemptuously, "That's outside, I don't know how to be afraid inside. Chu Pei fell out of favor in front of the emperor, and gradually everyone knew it, and now you're coming back to Shandong. He started planning half a year ago, and married Master Luo. The account of Yunsi was clean, without revealing any flaws. Shaoyu searched for more than half a year, but failed to catch any reliable evidence. We discussed that we should start from the few salt merchants in Tai'an Prefecture. It's just that they are also very cautious, we are not from the upper reaches of Tai'an Prefecture, we can't reach that far, and we can't do anything for a while, we are waiting for you."

Dong Mo nodded, but instead he was relieved, "The geese leave traces, and their tails will always be exposed." As he spoke, he changed the topic a little, and asked Meng Yulai, "Meng Yu's wife. I seem to have bumped into her on the street today. , It's cold, I don't know what to run outside."

Speaking of this verse, he bent his back and rubbed his hands on the charcoal basin.The flames jumped into the eyes, burning silently.

Liu Chaoru was about to tell, but then thought of asking him: "Didn't your family show you the relatives? Have you made a decision?"

For some reason, Dong Mo blurted out: "It's settled, we'll get married only after we finish our business on the other side of Hebei and go back."

"Then you don't have to bother with her." Liu Chaoru went down silently, and smiled after falling behind, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I'm afraid you'll think of something after hearing it. Actually, you're engaged, so it's okay to talk about it. After you left, the husband and wife seemed to be at odds. I didn't know about their family's private affairs at first, but I often heard Jing Shi and his mother-in-law talk about it. Meng Yu's concubine is pregnant, and it's time to give birth. Probably because of this , the husband and wife are not well."

The faint bright yellow flame in the pot seemed to burn into Dong Mo's heart, tremblingly, it couldn't be extinguished even if it was extinguished, and if it wanted to burn, there was something missing.Tracing back to the cause, it reminded him of the man he met in the alley at noon, maybe it was because the husband and wife were at odds, which caused the dream to change from spring to spring?

Anyway, she is a loose woman, that's for sure.Thinking of this episode, Dong Mo straightened up and smiled lightly, "Meng Yu still has a concubine? I never heard of it before."

"What do you think his concubine's name is?"

Dong Mo took a suspicious look.Liu Chaoru returned a teasing look, "Zhang Yinlian."

The two of them laughed for a while in the seat, and the old things suddenly seemed like smoke.

When the shadow of the sun is facing west, Liu Chaoru resigns, Dong Mo sits alone in the study, but he feels uncomfortable horizontally and vertically, and it is difficult to decide where to sit.In the end, he sent the boy to call the Xiechun man.

With his back on his back, he flipped through books under the wall-covered Duobao Pavilion, rustling to cover his own voice, "There is an unknown alley on Ping An Street, which is the one leading to the Chief Secretary. There is a vermilion lacquered alley in it The one at the gate, you go and find out who it is."

"Are you asking openly or secretly?"

Dong Mo held the book and looked back at him, he hurriedly cupped his hands, "Secretly inquire, I understand."

The person disappeared, and Dong Mo regretted again, feeling that his self-esteem was very hurt, he flipped through two pages of the book, and threw it on the desk.However, he had already lost a lot of dignity because of her being ridiculed and rolled his eyes at home, so why should he be afraid of a little more?

In any case, he couldn't help but find excuses for himself.

Baozhuan incense sticks, jade leaks or ice drops lightly, making the room even more quiet.Meng Tiao leaned on the couch smoking a cigarette, and wanted to find an excuse to prevaricate Pang Yunfan.But after looking around, they are all old-fashioned rhetoric, I don't know if he will still believe it.

She is not considered a chaste and martyr, and it is common for her to rape people for ulterior motives.But this year was like practicing cultivation, and even Meng Yu rarely got close to her.It seems that he has changed his side-action style, and becomes pure-hearted and ascetic.

The candle was half burned, and Caiyi came in with a late-night snack. A bowl of porridge and two delicate side dishes, another plate of sliced ​​roast chicken, and freshly-cut roast suckling pork were placed piping hot on the kang table.

Meng Tiao put down his cigarette pouch and sat up, looking at the sky outside the window, it was so dark that there was no moonlight, "I just heard the clapper beating, it's the second watch, why are you still cooking these cumbersome meals?"

Caiyi murmured, "My aunt wants to eat. I made some extra in the kitchen and asked my wife to bring it. She is about to give birth, and she is becoming more and more spoiled. She often yells and is hungry in the middle of the night. No matter what time of day, the kitchen dares to be lazy? Even if there is no firewood, I have to rush up the mountain to cut firewood for the stove!"

"I forgot, she's going to give birth soon." As soon as he mentioned it, Meng Tiao readily picked up an excuse to prevaricate Pang Yunfan, all the wind and rain disappeared from his face, and his smile returned.

"My wife still laughs? In the past, we rewarded her with food, but now it's fine. We still want to enjoy her, and my wife can still laugh."

"What's the matter. It's rare to be proud in this world, let her be happy. Don't tell me, I haven't eaten dinner. I'm really hungry."

Meng Yao lost his appetite, so he picked up some porridge to make him hungry.Caiyi also ate with him, and after a few mouthfuls, it suddenly snowed heavily outside the window. Mengtiao moved the candle to the window to shine a light, and large flakes of snow fell on the bright tiles, instantly turning into a water spot, "This must be the last It's snowing."

"Hurry up and eat, I'm just looking at the snow, the food will be cold in a while!" Caiyi took off the lamp and pouted on the kang table.

Meng Yu smiled back, "As soon as the New Year's Eve is over, we will discuss your marriage. You seem to have grown up overnight, and you know how to tell me."

Said so that Caiyi's face was full of red clouds, and she held the bowl and lowered her face to peck at the rice in small bites.

Meng Yu took care of the marriage for her. The man was an unreliable chief bookkeeper of the Chief Secretary, who was in charge of collecting, releasing and transcribing all documents and accounts. He was 22 years old. The people of the field.It was Meng Yu who was the first to take a fancy to it, and Meng Yu was worried, so he decided to go to his house after the New Year's Eve, and check out his family's temper.

According to Meng Yu, this person was good-looking, Caiyi only remembered this, and felt ashamed thinking about it.After being ashamed for a while, I was afraid that Mengyu would still make fun of me, so I hurriedly changed the conversation, "I heard that Miss Mei hasn't recovered the large sum of money she left outside, and I remember that she didn't have the time to talk about the festival these few days. "

Meng Tiao chuckled softly, "Look, she doesn't need me to do anything for such a business, and something will happen sooner or later."

"Why do you say that, madam?"

Meng Tiao snorted, "I found out at the beginning, who are the people who give her money, they are all gangsters who walk around the streets, and they have a few thugs under them. It’s just drinking and gambling in the casino. I originally wanted to make her suffer in secret, but when I heard that it was these people, I didn’t need to be a stumbling block. These people made her uncomfortable. I know these people, when they are good Is it really for you to pay interest and collect money, and when my situation is bad, can I still take care of you? Mei Qing's money, I am afraid they have made them run away, where are they chasing after it? How much is it?"

"I heard the daughter-in-law who served Miss Mei discuss that there are about six or seven thousand."

"This is all her private wealth. This time, she lost it all. I think she will be more dishonest in the future."

Just as he was talking, he heard heavy footsteps outside, and a lantern came from the darkness.Meng Tiao put his eyes on the curtain of the door, and sure enough, he heard the sound of the door opening and closing outside, and Meng Yu opened the curtain to enter.

Frost and snow were pressing on his shoulders, and the wool skirt on his cloak was crushed. He flicked his hands, and walked to the smoked cage in front of the bed to warm his hands, "Are you eating? I think you are eating supper too." , just come and have a look."

"You probably have eaten with Yinlian, right? I won't ask anyone to take the bowl." Meng Yu raised the corner of his eyes, and fell down lightly.

Naturally, Meng Yu didn't come to eat, he had bigger things on his mind.They all fell asleep at first, but turned on the pillow, always thinking that Dong Mo arrived in Jinan yesterday, did he secretly send a message to Meng Yu?After thinking about it, he couldn't sleep anymore, got up and dressed again, and came to this room with a lantern.

Because Yinlian was about to give birth, he had been sleeping there recently, and he didn't come here for many times. Seeing Mengyuan in the dim candlelight, his expression was a little dazed, and for some reason, he remembered when they were just married.

Caiyi went out tactfully, and he sat there, quietly staring at Mengyuan.Seeing him, Meng Tiao's heart was frightened, and he raised his eyes impatiently, "Just watch what I do? Tell me if you have something to say."

Meng Yu clicked his tongue and laughed, "I can't sit still if I have nothing to do? I won't come for a long time, you almost forget that I also occupy half of this room, right?"

In fact, what he wanted to say was that he also possessed her, but he lacked confidence and couldn't say it.Mengyu didn't bother to pay attention to him, and buried himself in picking vegetables for dinner.He turned his face lower, "You seem to have some energy on your face today, go out for a walk, did you meet anything interesting outside?"

Meng Tiao's heart skipped a beat, the panic in his eyes flashed away, and he raised his face calmly, "Just say what you want to say, do you want me to go out for a stroll, or what? You don't want me to go out Go shopping, lock me up, I'm unarmed, can I still run?"

Talking so well, it seems that there is no unusual encounter outside.Meng Yu was relieved a little, and smiled a little shyly, "Why do you always hold on to this matter? It's been a year and a half..."

As soon as he sighed, Mengyuan guessed what he was going to say, and cut off his imagination, "Meng Yu, do you think we can go back to the past if I put this matter aside and don't mention it?"

She put down the bowl, moved the silver pot to the middle of the kang table, and illuminated each other and the leftovers, "Have you forgotten what our past was like? Our past was neither happy nor decent, how much Nasty you and I know it well."

It was snowing outside, and it was cold inside the house. The oily smell in the dishes quickly condensed, yellow and white, with a fishy smell.This was an unpredictable endgame, Meng Yu lowered his head slightly, and suddenly realized that their problem was not with Dong Mo, whether he appeared or not, sooner or later they would come to this situation.

He let out a breath, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he seemed even more unreasonably crazy, "It's just that it wasn't good before, and it needs to be repaired in the future."

Meng Yuan smiled, "You are so self-righteous."

He became even more arrogant, "I'll sleep here tonight."

She didn't sleep well either, Meng Yuan just turned over and turned her back to him, and she didn't answer what he said.Seeing through the moonlight, she closed her eyes, a long black eye slit closed her entire world of beautiful mountains and rivers, he was not allowed to set foot in it, and her frozen bones could only wander in the wind and snow.

In the morning, thick snow has accumulated, and the sky and the earth are so bright that you can't tell the difference between the sky and the earth.The treetops are frozen, water drips from the eaves, and people's teeth are trembling with the cold, but there are warblers singing deep in the snow, and the bright sunshine is exposed between the shadows of the branches.

Meng Tiao puts on her makeup early and is going to Ping'an Street to see off Pang Yunfan.Pang Yunfan waited in that courtyard all night, the servants urged him three times and invited him four times, but he never left. Finally, when it was time to eat, Meng Yuan came over in a sedan chair.

Pang Yunfan couldn't sleep at night because she was so angry yesterday, he hung his heart for a long time, and pulled her before Meng Yao entered the room, "Why did you get angry yesterday, you have to tell me anyway. Could it be for, for me to touch?" What about you?"

Meng Tiao followed him into the room, with a sad face, sitting on the couch and not talking.As he spoke, he also felt aggrieved, and sat down on the opposite side, drooping his shoulders, "Let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart, I am a man, you only want me to respect you, but it is precisely because I care about you, I couldn't help but move my hands and feet. You are also a married woman. What do you not know about this? To be fair, I have been through the wind and rain for so long for you. It is not too much to want to be intimate. Bar?"

Meng Tiao calmed down a little, and smiled softly, "Who is doing this for this? It's shameless to say such things just after they come here."

"Why is that?"

"Why else? It's not because of the little troubles at home!" Talking, Mengtiao lit the cigarette pouch in Caiyi, and smacked the smoke on the opposite side, "When I went out yesterday, the master told me that our aunt I wanted to eat some dried plums from Babaozhai, and asked me to buy them back, but I forgot when I got here. I still remembered that, if I didn’t rush there, I’m afraid they would close. Before the New Year’s Eve, these shops always Open for a while or not for a while."

When Pang Yunfan heard that he was not angry with him, his heart was half relieved, and he raised his grievance again, "What does your aunt want to eat, why don't you send someone to buy it?"

At this time, Caiyi stepped forward appropriately, took Mengyuan's cigarette bag and tied it tightly with a hairpin, "This is our wife's trouble, you love her all the time, but you don't know her suffering. Our aunt has been pregnant since she was pregnant. The baby is in the womb, it’s really good, it’s nothing more than drinking and drinking at home, and showing off in front of our wife! If you want to eat something, the servants in the house don’t bother you, saying it’s 'by the way' and let our wife take it home, there is such a thing "By the way"? Isn't it because she has a body, and wants to take this opportunity to overwhelm our wife, and she will be the master of the whole family in the future."

"Meng Yu doesn't care?"

"The master cares about her? I can't love her enough. For her, how long have we been away from our wife?"

Pang Yunfan rejoiced and felt angry for Meng Tiao, "How can there be such a reason, a concubine's room will step on your head!"

Meng Tiao took the cigarette rod, buried her waist and knocked on the apron, and sighed, "You man, how do you know the difficulties we women have at home? I don't care if she wants to fight for favor, just take it to her. But She is so lacking in heart that she actually wants to ask the master to divorce me!"

Speaking of this section, he raised his eyes and looked at Pang Yunfan, "It is said that I am not afraid even if I divorce, and it is not that no one wants me. But you know, my natal family is not reliable, and I don't have much money. I can't rest in vain. I can do it, and I get a lot of my money. I used to help the master deal with it, so I did a lot of work, right? I want to share some of the family business, isn't it too much?"

Meng Yu wanted to divorce his wife, and Pang Yunfan was so happy that he didn't know what to do, and hurriedly shouted, "Naturally! You deserve it!"

"But they planned not to give me back, and wanted to get rid of me. I think they are dreaming! Although I am a woman, I am not so weak and easy to bully! I am planning now, first find out about this family. I don’t know how many industries there are, so I’ll figure it out, and then everyone will settle accounts! Hey, you know Meng Yu’s business in Tai’an Prefecture, and you can tell me about the income there.”

Pang Yunfan calculated in his mind, and blurted out: "I signed the deed three times before and after, and the sum is worth a million. I have to go back to Tai'an Prefecture to check the deed."

Meng Yu's eyes lighted up slightly, "Where do you have a deed?"

"Yes, they do business. I'm Baoshan in the middle. Naturally, there are. Those merchants have a copy, Meng Yu has a copy, and I keep a copy here. They are all drawn in the hall."

The clear silk on the window is lightly rippling, illuminating the brilliance in Mengyu's eyes.She restrained herself and calculated carefully. Don't be in a hurry, but don't let your achievements fall short because of your impatience. ? For the rest of my life, I can count on sharing the money with him."

"Don't worry, I'll go back and do the math for you. His money is not clean, and you're sure you want to share it with him, but he doesn't dare to say anything."

It was decided at the moment, Meng Tiao smiled brightly and pulled him up, and sent him back to Tai'an Prefecture on horseback.Standing at the door, Meng Tiao thoughtfully kissed him on the cheek.This Pang Yunfan's soul is far away from the five, and his soul is scattered, and he can't wait for the time to suddenly turn to the time when he returns to Licheng.

But still in front of him, Pang Yunfan went on horseback, and Mengtiao got into the sedan chair and was about to go home.When I walked to Ping'an Street, I heard how lively the front was. It turned out that it was a white show on Yuanxi, which attracted tourists to stop and blocked the street.Meng Tiao picked up the curtain and saw that it was difficult to squeeze through, so he ordered to turn the road and pass by Fushun Street.

The snow on the road was stepped out of two long brown waterways, paved on the street, like two long silks and satins, stretched out in a winding and gentle manner, and stretched out to the gate of Qingyu Garden. He found two servants squatting in front of the door.

Since Dong Mo left, Qingyu Garden has been empty, and the government has put three or two servants inside to look after the garden, and the door is usually locked.Meng Tiao thinks so, but in fact she has never been here, she doesn't like to go out in the first half of the year, and she can't go here when she goes out in the second half of the year.After Dong Mo returned to Beijing, she also severed ties with Fushun Street.

She guessed that now that the boy was standing outside, there must be people living inside again.Then there was a burst of shock, because she asked Caiyi: "When did Qingyu Garden live in?"

Caiyi didn't know, but the bearer who carried the sedan chair laughed and said, "A governor from Jinan came to live here, so impressive! I don't know how many officials came to the city the day before yesterday to meet them, and they surrounded a street!"

"What's the governor's last name?"

"I don't know, my wife is joking, how do we people know the name of such an adult?"

I'm afraid he can't be surnamed Dong. How can there be such a coincidence in the world.He was urgently transferred back to Beijing because of his scandal with her that year, where could he be sent here?

Meng Tiao threw down the curtain, thinking about Dong Mo's life in Beijing in the airtight and dim little box.I don't know how he is. According to what he said in the past, his relationship with his family is a bit estranged. I don't know if there is any reliable person at home to talk to him.

But he's engaged, so it's time to get married.The newly married couple, from strangers to acquaintances, and then to gluey, don't know what kind of trivial stories they will go through. Those details must be dripping with honey.

But her heart was dripping with bitter water, and the tick tock was about to drown her internal organs.She suddenly said: "Stop, stop! I'll come down and take two steps."

Caiyi persuaded from outside, "Don't leave, the snow is melting on the road, and the black water all over the place has dirty my wife's shoes."

"No problem, I'm leaving."

The road was slippery in the snow, and the bearers were eager to put her down if they were too busy.Mengyu opened the curtain and walked out, and the gate of Qingyu Garden was in front of her. She didn't know what kind of mood she had, she insisted on passing here in person, she had to be down-to-earth, stepping on the soft snow, as if from her frozen life, A glimpse of spring on the road.

Unexpectedly, when he walked to the door, the two black-painted doors creaked open, and a man walked out with his back facing him, and he ordered to the back, "If Shu Wang comes over, just say that I have gone to the government office, and ask him to sit down for a while."

Meng Tiao shuddered, as if someone had cast a spell on him, and stood motionless under the stone pedal.Dong Mo turned around and saw her at a glance. The ice and snow froze the thoughts of both of them in an instant, and they forgot how to react for a moment.

It was the group of bearers at the back who yelled and asked, "Does your wife still sit in the sedan chair?"

Meng Yu turned her head and looked, the street was bustling with people, figures in red, willow and green came one after another, running past her, reflecting the joy of the festival.There was a sudden mixture of sadness and joy in her heart, the feeling came too quickly, the attack caught her off guard, and she shook twice in a daze as if she couldn't stand still.

The sedan chair came to a stop behind her, and she looked back at the door again, but it was not a hallucination, Dong Mo was standing there, staring at the world with dark eyes.

Meng Tiao panicked immediately, turned around and got into the sedan chair in a hurry!She belatedly remembered that in front of him, she was a vicious and promiscuous adulterous woman!She panicked to hide herself.

The author says:

He chases, she flees, she can't escape with wings~

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