Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 60

[Chapter 59 2]

Zhu Quan was originally a servant of the Wei family. Wei Yan has been serving him in his daily life since he was a child. After Wei Yan married a wife and moved out of the Wei family at the age of seventeen, he also followed. Wei Yan lost his wife a year later, and has not remarried since then.

In terms of military and frontier affairs, Wei Yan undoubtedly managed the army in a proper way, and the frontier affairs were clean and prudent, and there was nothing to blame. But after being single, he began to live a dissolute private life, and he was quite open to men and women, and the women around him were more like a revolving door. There are not many days in Yuyang in a year, like duckweed without roots. Madam Xu was concerned, and sometimes called Zhu Quan to ask about Wei Yan. After Zhu Quan came back, he would even persuade Wei Yan to re-marry, so that he could settle down.

Wei Yan is usually not annoyed, just laughs it off.

This time, Wei Yan set off for Dai County again, and went a bit hastily, and before leaving that day, he sent concubine Ji again. Zhu Quan remembered Wei Yan’s days. Compared with before, he seemed a little depressed and restless after returning home. I was called away to have a drink by an old acquaintance just now, but I couldn’t push him away. I followed him to a liquor store a few blocks away, sat down and drank a few glasses. I noticed that on the road outside the door of the liquor store, people kept running in one direction. He shouted “Fire”, went out to check, and saw the direction from where he came from in the distance, and there was a faint fire in the sky. Only when I ran to the street, I saw from a distance that it was really my house that was on fire. The fire was not small, and it was raging into the sky.

Zhu Quan was shocked, and hurriedly called for firefighting. It’s just that the summer in the north is dry and scorching hot. Although it’s getting into autumn now, the weather is still hot. In addition, it hasn’t rained for many days, and the fire has already started to burn. How can it be suppressed? A house engulfed. Fortunately, Wei Yan has a withdrawn temperament. When he first chose the house, he did not like to be adjacent to others, and there were no dwellings on the left and right sides of the house, so it did not spread. When the fire finally subsided and was finally extinguished, the house had already changed beyond recognition, and the roof collapsed. There was an empty shell left, and all the utensils and household items in it were all burned to the ground.

Zhu Quan remembered that there was no fire left in the house before he went out. I don’t know how the fire started. The only possibility is that the residual sparks in the stove were not covered, which spread out and ignited the fire.

Zhu Quan was full of remorse, and blamed himself for not going out to drink and making a mistake. While cleaning up the fire, he sent someone to report to Mrs. Xu without mentioning it.

When

Wei Shao went out early in the morning, he and Xiao Qiao were reluctant to part with each other, and made an appointment to come back for dinner in the evening.

In the evening, Xiao Qiao came out of the shower, changed into a freshly-cut primrose-colored light-scented robe, and dyed the mirror a little with fine-scented rouge.

The person in the mirror has cut eyebrows, autumn waves lying down, face like a hibiscus, and the color of the clouds is envy, even she is happy to see it.

Xiao Qiao began to wait for Wei Shao to come back. I waited until it was dark, and the appointed meal time had passed, but Wei Shao was not seen coming back.

Xiao Qiao gradually became a little worried. Thinking that the government office was not far away, I was about to send someone over to take a look. A personal soldier of Wei Shao came and passed a message that the prince had something to do and would not come back for dinner, so his wife didn’t have to wait any longer.

Wei Shao was busy with affairs on weekdays, and there were occasional events too often. Xiao Qiao had no doubts about it, so he went to eat first.

Wei Shao is sensitive to cats. Although the cat hasn’t been sent away yet, Xiao Qiao has already taken a bath and doesn’t dare to play with it at night, for fear that Wei Shao’s discomfort will be caused by accidental contact with cat hair or cat saliva, and he has no intention of doing anything else after returning to the room. , after calming down, sit down and continue copying the scriptures.

The room was quiet, with the occasional light crackling sound from the explosion of the desk lamp.

Xiao Qiao calmed down, holding the pen in his right hand, with the tip of the pen lifted and picked, the delicate and white silk surface was gradually filled with lines of graceful and elegant characters. When she wrote, “For example, one person can fight in the ocean, and he can experience a lot of doom. He has a sincere heart to seek the Tao, and he is diligent. He will be a fruit, why not”, she stared at this line of words, and slowly stopped. The pen, and finally put the pen on the shelf, Zhi Yi faced the candle on the desk, and gradually became fascinated.

Wei Shao undoubtedly likes her. Recently, she even gradually felt the level of infatuation. As for whether he likes or is obsessed with her face or her, frankly, Xiao Qiao doesn’t know. Because the two were together, even during the day, what Wei Shao did to her the most was to play with her and do things like men and women with her.

Besides, Xiao Qiao couldn’t think of any other conversations between the two.

Sometimes when the love is strong, she actually wants to ask, but she has no confidence to ask. There is no confidence to test: one day, will he let the Qiao family go.

Xiao Qiao knew that this kind of thinking was childish and ridiculous. I hope that men will let go of the hatred in their hearts because of a woman. How great does this woman have to be to resolve the hatred that was originally regarded as mortal in the hearts of men?

Probably only the Buddha has the power to save all sentient beings.

“The heart is always on the way to save the world. For all things, feel free.”

She remembered that there was such a sentence in the scriptures when she was copying it a few days ago.

She is just an ordinary person, and she doesn’t know why she lives in the way of saving the world in her heart, but she always reminds herself that she always lives in the way of saving herself, and she can save herself. It’s not too late.

…

Wei Shao has not returned.

Late at night, Xiao Qiao left the lamp in the room and went to bed first.

She had Wei Shao in her heart, and she woke up, woke up, and went to sleep.

Dreams are fragmented. She woke up, opened her eyes, and met a pair of eyes that shimmered slightly.

Wei Shao didn’t know when he had already returned to his room. He didn’t make any noise, and he didn’t go to bed. He actually stood in front of the bed, as if he had been staring at him like this just now.

Xiao Qiao was startled, patted his chest lightly, let out a breath, and sat up from the pillow, watching him complain in a sweet voice: “Are you trying to scare me to death? There was no sound when I came back. ”

Wei Shao withdrew his gaze from her, turned around, started to undress, and said, “I didn’t wake you up when I saw you fell asleep. You can sleep on your own.”

He took off his clothes and went to the bathroom. Came out after a while. Xiao Qiao asked him if he was hungry, and he said he was not. Then he blew the light and went to bed.

When he turned around just now, Xiao Qiao actually noticed that his expression was a little different. And before going out in the morning, they are two different people.

Now that he is like this, Xiao Qiao thinks that he is a little strange. I lay side by side with him for a while, but I didn’t see him hug me, I just lay there on my back, as if I had fallen asleep, it was really abnormal, and finally I couldn’t help but ask: “What happened to the government office today? Dinner? I can’t come back to eat.”

“Small thing. It’s just cumbersome, so it took some time.” Wei Shao replied.

Xiao Qiao heard that his voice seemed a little tired and worried. After hesitating for a while, he leaned towards him and asked softly, “What’s wrong with you? I don’t think you’re happy. It’s not like going out in the morning.”

“No.” Wei Shao said, “It’s just that there are a lot of things today It’s a bit boring at the moment. It’s getting late, you go to bed earlier.”

Xiao Qiao heard it, and he seemed to be reluctant to say anything more to himself at the moment, so he fell silent.

That night, Xiao Qiao added a bit of thought and slept very lightly. Wei Shao remained motionless, not like before, when he had to reach out to touch and hug her in her sleep. I don’t know if he slept too deeply or what. After such a night of silence, the two got up early the next morning. Xiao Qiao felt a little out of spirit, and when he looked at Wei Shao, his face didn’t seem very good. The two packed up and went out to Mrs. Xu. When walking down the steps, the cat that was temporarily kept in Chunniang’s room ran happily all the way from the corridor, ran to Xiao Qiao’s feet, got under her skirt, and rubbed around. Meow meow meow softly coquettish.

Wei Shao stopped.

When Xiao Qiao saw his eyes staring at the cat, he seemed to remember something, and his expression became a little stiff. He suspected that he was allergic to cats last time and was disgusted with cats.

It’s just that this disgust, just like the silence after he returned to the room last night, came a bit plain and left her confused.

I haven’t seen him like this two days ago.

Xiao Qiao hurriedly picked up the cat and handed it to a maid who was chasing after him, telling her to be optimistic.

Wei Shao has already raised his feet and moved forward. Joey followed him. The two went to the North House together.

Today is fifteen. Zhu Shi also came. A little earlier than Wei Shao and Xiao Qiao. Originally, after greeting Mrs. Xu, she was about to leave, but when she saw her son came, she stopped again.

After entering the North Room, Wei Shao finally changed the silence that he had started since he came back last night, and seemed to be normal. When dealing with Mrs. Xu, a smile appeared on his face. He Xiao Qiao greeted Mrs. Xu, and after a few gossips, Mrs. Xu said, “You don’t know yet. Last night, your cousin’s house caught fire for some reason. Zhu Quan said it was completely burned. It didn’t affect the neighbors. He came back in the past two days, let him live in the house. I used to be unhappy that he moved out, but when this happened, I just asked him to come back.”

Xiao Qiao was a little surprised. He glanced at Wei Shao beside him. There was no expression on his face. His eyes narrowed slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

On the other hand, the Zhu family had a disgusted look on his face when he heard that Wei Yan was coming back to live. Although he was trying his best to cover it up, he couldn’t hide it from the bottom of his eyebrows.

Madam Xu glanced at her coldly. She was a little embarrassed and lowered her head.

This scene fell into Xiao Qiao’s eyes. Xiao Qiao also felt a little bit in her heart.

Having been with Zhu’s mother-in-law for so long, and dealing with her many times, she actually got a little bit of Zhu’s temperament.

A person’s vision and mentality have a lot to do with one’s birth and the education that one can get at a young age because of one’s birth. But this is not necessarily the case. If you have an open mind, the narrow vision caused by the lack of education will gradually open up with your later experience. After a certain period of accumulation, people will inevitably be reborn.

Unfortunately, Zhu is not like that. Even now, she doesn’t seem to have been able to find out the identity of the lady of the Hou Mansion.

Of course, Xiao Qiao is not qualified to pity her. This mother-in-law didn’t even feel disgusted.

Just don’t like her.

“In two days, the Luli Conference will be held. I heard that your brother will also participate in riding and archery?”

Mrs. Xu turned to ask Xiao Qiao, looking very interested.

Xiao Qiao replied with a smile: “I didn’t expect him to be in the limelight. It is rare to encounter such a grand event, and young people inevitably yearn for it. So I didn’t stop it.”

Madam Xu smiled: “Why stop? You should be competitive. Only by being competitive can you win. I will attend the meeting in person in previous years. When you come to my house for the first time this year, you should also show your face. Come with me then.”

Xiao Qiao bowed under Zhu’s eyes thank.

“By the way, does your brother-in-law have a suitable mount?” Before leaving, Madam Xu thought about it and asked Wei Shao again, “If not, choose a good one for him and train more while there are two days left. Practice.”

“My grandmother, my cousin has given him a green turf horse before.”

Wei Shao replied. Soft tone.

Madam Xu was relieved, nodded and smiled and said, “I knew he was careful. When your brother-in-law was away for the first two days, he was the one who received you all. After everyone has been busy these days, you have to thank you very much. Brother.”

Wei Shao smiled slightly.

[End of This Chapter]