Chapter 74

But she said that after reporting the situation of Miss Wang to Xu, she immediately went back to the Academy in a carriage and wanted to meet with Miss Wang before the show ended. By the way, she wanted to find out the truth of Miss Wang and see what she meant. When she arrived at the examination room, she saw Miss Wang talking and laughing with her young master from a distance, and she was shocked --

"I'll go first, little girl Man

Qiao Wei pats Qiao Yuqi on the shoulder and leaves the examination room with Luo Yongnian and her three children.

Qiao Yuqi reluctantly watched several people disappear in the crowd and sighed a long time.

The servant girl said with a smile: "there are elder sisters, younger brothers and younger sisters in the mansion. The young master can go back to fight with them."

Qiao Yuqi turned his lips in disgust, just like Qiao Yuxi's cat face. Come on? People who only know how to please the prime minister's office are not ashamed!

After confirming that the young lady and her party had gone far away, mother Wang came over with small steps and said with a smile, "how did you do in the exam, young master?"

"Not bad." Qiao Yuqi said without salt.

Mother Wang took the water bag from Guizhi's hand and opened the bottle stopper: "young master, drink some water."

"No!" Qiao pushed away impatiently.

Mother Wang handed the water bag to Guizhi, approached Qiao Yuqi and said with a smile, "who was the young master talking to just now? So happy? "

"I help my benefactor!" Qiao Yuqi said frankly, with a much better tone than before.

Mother Wang's eyes flashed and said, "she looks very young. She has three children. Is she ten years old It's not natural, is it? You said, "why didn't his father come for such an important exam?"

Qiao Yuqi looked at mother Wang warily: "why? You want to talk to me? I'm warning you, don't hit my benefactor! I know you have a silly son, but if you dare to cheat her into being your daughter-in-law, I can't spare you! "

Mother Wang took a cool breath, now the child! It's so beautiful!

……

When Qiao Wei took the children to and from the road, she thought about the traffic problem earlier, so she asked Chen Dadao to stop the carriage at the east corner of Nanshan street. However, several people waited there for a long time, but they didn't see Chen Dadao. Qiao Wei guessed that Chen Dadao might have lost his way.

Chen Dadao really lost his way. In order to maintain his image of being able and tall in his wife's mind, he didn't mean to tell her that he was actually a road maniac. His wife told him the route on her front foot, but he didn't know what to do on his back foot. He didn't dare to ask anyone for the way, for fear that they would point him in the wrong direction, because he used to be such a jerk

He circled the streets, ran round and round, ran round and round, and finally, he was found by his wife.

The moment he saw his wife, he was so excited that he almost cried!

Several people were starving. There happened to be a Shaanxi noodle shop nearby. There was an old uncle guarding the stable in the small backyard of the noodle shop. The horse was ten Wen and the carriage was twenty Wen. Qiao Wei gave him twenty Wen.

Thanks to Chen Dadao's loss, this place is far away from the major examination rooms, but the price is much lower. A bowl of saozi noodles is worth 30 Wen.

"What are you going to eat?" I'll give you a pot of cold white tea. This kind of shop can't afford free tea.

"What do you have?" Qiao Wei asked.

The second child said: "saozi noodles, chumian, Liangpi, Liangmian, roujiamo, Mashi, Jiong, mutton paomo, and sauced beef. What would you like, my guest?"

Qiao Wei asked for a bowl of saozi noodles, the children each asked for a bowl of mutton steamed bread, and Chen Dadao asked for oil spilled noodles, plus a big rougamo.

The second child answered with a smile: "my guest, just a moment, it will be ready soon!"

Qiao Wei stopped him and said, "cut the sauced beef into two plates."

"Ah, good!" Xiao Er goes down happily. No one doesn't like big guests, not to mention they are so beautiful!

Chen Dadao didn't know that several people had a thrilling morning. He thought that everything was as smooth as it should be. He asked them how they got on the exam.

"Not bad." Ah Sheng said that he was not in a high mood, and he didn't know whether he did not do well in the exam, or he felt guilty that he had made Jing Yun miss an exam.

"And you? Little Wang Shu. " Chen Dadao touches Wangshu's head.

Wang Shu said confidently, "I've done it all!"

Chen Dadao looked at Xiaobai acutely: "Xiaobai, how is the hair on your tail bald?"

Woo woo, it's

Qiao Wei touches Jing Yun's head and doesn't ask him how he did in the exam. It's unfair for him to miss an exam. She doesn't want to give him any more pressure.

A few people's food was quickly brought out. The amount of food was very large. They were all big bowls. The taste was great, authentic and vigorous. Saozi noodles were slightly spicy, while streaky pork was fat but not greasy. Carrots and tofu were very delicious. Qiao Wei fed the two children. Wang Shu was so spicy that he vomited his tongue. Jing Yun's face was all red.

Xiaobai doesn't like to be a vegetarian, with the exception of sweets. Qiao Wei takes out her mink bowl from her bag, takes a few pieces of thick sauced beef, rinses them with clean water, and puts them into her bowl, and she eats them wheezingly.Wang Shu and Jing Yun don't like it very much. A Sheng likes it. His family's conditions are so poor that he can't eat noodles every day. Braised pork is the most luxurious dish. It takes a big day to have it. The two best meals he has this month are his two trips to Beijing.

A Sheng looks at the steamed stuffed bun with sweat on the tip of his nose. Qiao Wei gently wipes the sweat on them, as if they were the world. It's moving.

Jing Yun and Wang Shu in his memory are not like this. They are always dirty, yellow and skinny. They are like children who have never had enough to eat. They are always pitiful to sit on the rocks at the entrance of the village and watch a group of children play. But no one wants to take care of them except Er Gouzi.

Now, they are fat, clean and respectable, and the whole village's children are chasing after them, scrambling to keep company with them.

Is it all due to sister Joe?

He also wants to have such a mother.

A Sheng's stomach is limited, so he can't eat a few pieces. Most of the sauced beef goes into Chen Dadao's and Luo Yongnian's stomach.

The sophomore saw that several people ordered more, and sent three bowls of noodle soup and a plate of Liaohua sugar.

Liaohua sugar is the later Polygonum sugar. It's made of glutinous rice. It looks like a drumstick. There is a layer of white sesame and granulated sugar in the golden skin. Inside it is a snow-white honeycomb sugar heart. It's sweet, crisp, fragrant and loose. It's delicious.

The kids love it.

After having enough to eat and drink, Qiao Wei settled the bill. It's 430 Wen in all. It's very cheap and good in the capital.

……

The child prodigy examination was regarded as a small imperial examination in our Dynasty, and its influence should not be underestimated. The house prices of all the inns have increased several times. The closer to the examination room, the more expensive the price is. Several Inns Near Nanshan academy have gone up to six Liang silver, which is a sky high price.

They have to reserve at least two rooms. That's twelve Liang.

Qiao Wei's preserved egg business has improved, but she can barely afford the money, just -

"it's full, I'm sorry." Said the shopkeeper apologetically.

Asked several inns are like this, willing to spend no place.

"Or Stay far away and get up early tomorrow? " Luo Yongnian suggested.

Qiao Wei nodded: "it can only be so."

Luo Yongnian drove his carriage all the way west along Nanshan street. Unexpectedly, he didn't find a guest room. Instead, he met an unexpected acquaintance.

"Brother seventeen? Oh, yes, yes, uncle, stop the car Wang Shu, holding his train, jumped out of the carriage, turned around and ran to the boy in Xuanyi in the alley!

Standing in the lane less than two meters wide, he clasped his hands in front of his chest, held his sword in his left hand, looked up at the restaurant on one side, and didn't seem to hear anyone call him at all.

Wangshu ran into the alley: "Seventeen brothers!"

Downstairs, a figure suddenly fell down and rushed to seventeen like a ghost. Seventeen threw up the hilt of the sword, pulled out the sword in mid air, raised his foot and kicked the scabbard into the air. He didn't look at Wangshu from the beginning to the end, but he put Wangshu in his arms accurately. As he soared, he covered her eyes with one hand.

Wang Shu exclaimed excitedly: "Wow! I'm flying

Seventeen's sword pierced into the man's heart. The man didn't even have time to cry for help, so he opened his eyes and was kicked back to the restaurant by seventeen.

"Ah -"

inside the restaurant, there was a scream of horror.

Seventeen holding Wangshu fell back to the ground, the scabbard that he kicked into the sky also fell back, firmly inserted in his sword.

He walked out of the alley with Wangshu in his arms.

Everything happened so fast and clean that Wangshu thought that brother 17 just took her to do a hug. He was so happy that he wanted to do it again.

Qiaowei heard the scream of the restaurant, and always felt that it had something to do with Shiqi, but Shiqi couldn't speak, and she couldn't ask anything.

"Brother seventeen, I took the exam today, and so did my brother and brother a Sheng." Wangshu broke off four fingers. There were three people, but she didn't know how to count them. "We're looking for the inn. We won't go back tonight. We'll live in the capital. We'll have to take the exam tomorrow."

Seventeen's steps stopped and he looked at Qiao Wei with deep meaning.

Qiao Wei didn't understand his meaning at first, but the more she looked at it, the more her heart beat. She was vaguely aware of something. She said, "no, seventeen, no, really no, if you still want to see Wangshu..."

Before he finished speaking, seventeen, holding Wangshu in his arms, lost sight of his lightness skill.

"Seventeen!" Jovi, stamp!

Chen Dadao is stunned. He is one of the seven masters under the prime minister. He can't catch up with him in this lightness skill!

Luo Yongnian opened his mouth: "sister Where do you want to take Wangshu? "

Qiao Wei pursed her lips. If she guessed correctly, she should It's there.

Oh, you really hurt me!……

Luo Yongnian will drive, but also familiar with the streets of the capital, after meeting with him, the carriage will be given to him.

Qiao Wei asked him to drive the carriage to the siheyuan in Qingfeng street. Luo Yongnian had been there and knew how to get there. He soon drove the carriage to the end of the lane.

Jing Yun thought they were going to live with Uncle Ming tonight, and her big eyes were shining. But the next second, Qiao Wei got out of the car alone: "you wait for me here, I'll be right back."

Jing Yun's eyes are full of loss.

Qiao wei walked to the courtyard. She heard Wangshu's excited cry from a long distance. From time to time, she burst out laughing, "it's here!"

Have a good time!

With a curl of his mouth, Qiao Wei slightly knocked on the door of the courtyard.

It's Ming An who opens the door. Last time, Ming An disclosed the address of siheyuan to Qiao Yuxi without authorization. He was beaten 20 times by the master, and now he has recovered. To make up for his previous mistakes, he wants to break himself into two people. He's so diligent that he almost doesn't look like him.

When he saw Qiao Wei, his eyes lit up: "madam, you are here! When you are old, come in and sit down Said, looking at Qiao Wei behind, only to see the empty alley, eh a, "King cloud?"

"He's in the carriage."

"I'll get him!"

"No, I'll leave soon."

"Ah?" Ming An frowned disappointedly, looked at the direction of the courtyard, and finally gave way to Qiao Wei, "OK, madam, go in."

Qiao Wei crossed the threshold and stepped into the courtyard with faint fragrance of flowers. The broad courtyard changed the desolation of winter, full of colorful flowers and warm spring.

Wangshu squats on the smooth ground to play marbles, which is different from the mud rubbed beads in the village. The colorful glass beads on the ground are similar to modern glass. The transparency of the glass is a little bit poor, but it does not affect its beauty. In ancient times, the price of glass was very expensive, and it was a rare thing to see.

The ground also dug a few small holes, Wangshu with a mother marbles, the rest of the bullets into the hole, very interesting.

She had a lot of fun and didn't notice that her mother had entered the yard.

Qiao Wei's heart can't help eating. She's worried about the little guy's worry. She's afraid that she'll be taken away by 17 at first, and she won't be used to it. She'll be afraid, and she'll miss her sadly. She's even ready to hold her in her arms, so as to comfort her. But it looks like Seems totally unnecessary?

"Look..."

Just as she was about to open her mouth, Wangshu entered a marble and jumped up! Smiling, like a white rabbit, he jumped three times to the peach tree and looked at Ji Mingxiu, who was sitting on the rattan chair and reading the slips: "Uncle Ming, I've entered all of them! Am I sharp? "

Ji Mingxiu slightly raised his lips, and there was a kind of tenderness in his eyes: "fierce."

Wangshu is so happy that she is praised by Uncle Ming. She is more happy than the marble!

Wangshu jumped back to play marbles again.

Qiao Wei's eyes could not move away from Ji Mingxiu's body. He was wearing a pale white robe with a pale cyan gauze outside. The gauze was blown gently by the breeze. It was plain and elegant. On the peach tree, the pink petals fluttered in the wind, and people were more beautiful than flowers.

On the whole, the stranger is like jade, and the young master is unique in the world.

Qiaowei's breath was delayed for a second. How could this man be so beautiful

"Here you are." Ji Mingxiu puts down his letter and looks at Qiao Wei. His tone is not urgent, and his expression is not strong. It seems that he is the same as usual. However, if he makes a detailed distinction, he can still detect his politeness. In Qiao Wei's opinion, such politeness has a sense of alienation.

Qiao Wei's attitude also became polite and alienated: "Wangshu is naughty. I'm here to take her back."

Young master, he removed his "surname".

Ji Mingxiu's attitude became colder and colder: "well."

Without looking at Qiao Wei again, he picked up the book and continued to read it.

Qiao Wei ignored him and went to embrace Wang Shu.

Ming An is so anxious to watch. What's the difference between you two? What, what, strength?!

Is that interesting? How old are you? It's like two little kids!

"It's all your fault! It's nothing to gossip about. I've let the matter between my Lord and my uncle's house slip. Is that ok? They're on the bar! "

Green bead wrongly glared at him: "how can you blame me? The whole capital knows about your relationship with uncle's house. I thought she knew about it. "

"You're the only one who talks!" Ming An resents the death of Lvzhu!

"Well There's a misunderstanding. Isn't it over to explain it clearly? Women are easy to coax... "

"Coax?" If the occasion is not right, Ming an almost laughs. With the superior temperament of the adult, it's better to ask him to go to hell to coax a woman!

He never coaxed the old lady!

What's more, Mrs. Qiao's words were also very hurtful. What's meant by "I have nothing to do with your master, I'm just a friend of seventeen" and "my man is doing business outside. If I come back some other day, I can jump into the Yellow River and I can't wash it out". Isn't it clear that I want to draw a clear line with adults?Who didn't know her man was dead?

"Sneeze!" Ji Mingxiu under the peach tree sneezed without warning.

How can a man who is so proud of himself be treated like this by a woman?

Unless he's out of his mind.

"Sneeze! ahchoo! Sneeze

Ji Mingxiu sneezed three times in a row!

"Puff - puff -" Qiao Wei couldn't help laughing.

It's a bad scene to see such a cold man sneeze.

Ji Mingxiu sat up straight, as if he didn't know that he was laughed by Qiao Wei. He continued to look at the book in his hand, concentrating on it.

Qiao wei walked by him and glanced at him. How lucky that she had learned so many words since she came to ancient times, and finally she was able to win back in front of him?

She slightly bent down: "young master, you took the book down."

Ji Mingxiu's expression is a little wonderful.

……

Wang Shu stopped playing with marbles. He ran to him, reached out his fleshy hand, touched Ji Mingxiu's forehead, and asked with concern, "Uncle Ming, are you sick?"

Somehow, Qiao Wei wanted to laugh even more.

But soon, she couldn't laugh.

"Niang, uncle Ming is ill. Can we stay and take care of him?"

No!

Wangshu's small eyes are full of innocence and expectation. It's like the first time she opens her eyes when she goes through a strange world. She sees the poor little girl with a soft heart. She is suddenly stabbed. Qiao Wei can't say a word of rejection.

"We can't trouble uncle Ming."

"Green pearl, go and clean up the room."

Two voices sounded at the same time, Wangshu automatically ignored his mother's, small body swish out of the yard: "brother! Brother! We're staying with Uncle Ming tonight! "

"Did your mother agree?"

"Yes, yes!"

Anyway, she didn't hear what she said!

Qiao Wei, who was sold by her daughter, also has a wonderful expression.

That night, the group stayed in the courtyard.

Once Chen dadaotou went into such a clean and beautiful courtyard, it was as fresh as grandma Liu went into the Grand View Garden. Especially those servant girls who worked in the courtyard looked like little fairy daughters, and they looked straight at him.

Luo Yongnian grabs him by the ear and drags him into the house.

The servant girls were all laughing.

Lu Zhu arranged three rooms for the group: Qiao Wei and a pair of children still live in the East chamber, Luo Yongnian also lives in the North chamber, a Sheng lives with him, and Chen Dadao lives in a separate room next to him.

Ji Mingxiu's study is next to the East chamber and opposite the North chamber. In Chen Dadao's opinion, it was arranged by the prime minister on purpose. He felt that his wife was finally willing to live with the prime minister.

"What a blessing, madam! The prime minister is a good man Chen Dadao said with emotion.

Luo Yongnian thought that Chen Dadao knew from whom the prime minister punished yuan wailang. He said, "it's very good. It's much better than King Yin, who can only shield dog officials. At least, he knows how to make decisions for the people."

"That's it!"

Who is king yin? I don't know Chen Dadao.

Wangshu shared his new toy colorful glass beads with his brother and a Sheng. The toy was given by the 17 elder brother, and the holes in the ground were dug by the 17 elder brother.

"Is brother seventeen the one who can fly?" Ah Sheng asked enviously.

Wang Shu nodded!

Ji Mingxiu likes to be quiet. People don't dare to go out of the atmosphere when they do things. There is always a dead silence in the yard. A pair of steamed stuffed buns come to make it lively.

The three children were sweating. Lvzhu prepared water for them to wash in their respective rooms. A Sheng washed it himself. His mother twisted the two steamed buns back to the bathroom.

Qiao Wei's two children finished washing first, and wrapped their wet hair in a dry cotton cloth. She was wet and needed to be changed.

Jingyun goes to pull the stink, and Wangshu sits on the bed playing with marbles. She puts the marbles one by one on the lid of the box and puts them in a neat shape. Then she swishes them all into the box, and then puts them again and again. She enjoys it all the time. Until a figure stands in front of the bed, she turns her head and looks at them: "Uncle Ming!"

I don't know when the cotton cloth on her head had fallen off, and her wet hair came down and put it on her shoulder.

Ji Mingxiu sat down beside her. Her slender hand picked up the cotton cloth that fell on the head of the bed and wiped her hair. Her hair was light and soft. Like her people, people would unconsciously want to love her.

Wang Shu happily closed his eyes. Uncle Ming's hands are so warm, light and comfortable. Her mother always wipes off a lot of her hair. Uncle Ming didn't break one of them!

This is the most comfortable hair Wang Shu has ever wiped, and the scalp is also pressed warm.

She yawned like a satisfied kitten.Ji Mingxiu put the cotton cloth aside: "have you had enough dinner? Would you like something else? "

Wang Shu tilted his head and thought, "I want to eat sugar gourd, the kind bought by brother 17."

"I'll have someone buy it."

"Don't bother them." Qiao Wei dressed up and came out of the bathroom, "tell me the place, I'll buy it."

Just smoked by the hot air, the skin is pale pink, and the eyes are full of thin water vapor, which is breathtaking.

Ji Mingxiu took a look at her and said, "well, I'm just going back to the mansion. I'll give you a ride along the way."

Qiaowei gets into his carriage. The coachman is Mingan.

The sky was completely dark, and the carriage was bright with the glow of the night pearl. He looked at the book, Qiao Wei looked out of the window, no one spoke.

Seventeen to buy sugar gourd is an old shop, remote terrain, but because of good taste, especially many repeat customers.

The carriage couldn't drive in. Ji Mingxiu got out of the car and led Qiao Wei to go inside. He finally found the shop after crossing seven or eight crisscross alleys.

"How many strings, ma'am?" Asked the boss kindly.

Qiao Wei thought about it and asked Ji Ming, "do you have any children in your family?"

"I'm not married." He said.

Qiaowei choked: "where do you want to go? I'm asking if you have a nephew Since his grandmother built it, the rooms under his knee should not be separated. He is not young, and his brothers and sisters have children, right?

"No

It is because there is no one, I have to force him to get married, so as to give her a great grandson.

Qiaowei bought four strings of sugar gourd. They turned around and walked in the same direction. He walked in front of them. Qiaowei twisted the sugar gourd and followed him not far or near. What they didn't know, they thought they didn't know each other.

After walking for a while, when he was about to reach the busy street, Ji Mingxiu suddenly moved his ears, his eyes were bright, and he stopped. Without waiting for Qiao Wei's reaction, he turned around, covered her mouth with one hand, and put her back with the other hand, and put her heavily against the wall!

It all happened so fast that he had a lot of strength. Fortunately, he had his arm on it. Otherwise, Qiao Wei really suspected that he would break him.

Qiao Wei's eyes widened in horror.

What does this guy want? It won't be a sudden animal outburst You want to do her here?

"Don't move."

He whispered.

The only breath that belongs to him envelops Qiao Wei. Qiao Wei really doesn't move.

Then he released his hand, lowered his head, and put it on her lips.

Qiaowei's breath can't be found all of a sudden. Her heart is like running into a gazelle, beating incessantly, and the world is quiet. She can only hear her heart beating.

Eyes shut uncontrollably.

However, half a day later, the imaginary kiss didn't come. She opened one eye and then opened the other. He tilted his head slightly, his face was close to her face, and his lips were facing her lips. This was a kiss gesture, but he didn't really kiss it.

It's really close enough to exchange breath.

Qiao Wei can even feel the temperature on his lips, which is permeating the air and creeping up the corner of her lips.

"Son of a bitch! Where are you going to die! "

A delicate woman's voice came from the street not far away, "I see you! Still hiding, right? Get out of here

Qiao Wei blinked. What's the situation?

"Ming An! You're hiding from your aunt, too

She knows Ming An!

Ming An's voice rang out with a smile: "Oh, isn't this grandma? It's only been a few days. It's beautiful again! I almost didn't recognize the little one

"Glib! Give me less! Where's your master? Where are you hiding? " The woman twisted Ming An's ear.

Ming An cried out in pain: "aunt! Hello, my aunt! You must be light! My ear is about to be twisted off by you

The woman increased the strength in her hand and twisted: "do you tell the truth? If not, I'll pull out both your ears today! "

Ming An was so hurt that tears almost came out: "grandma, please forgive me! I said! I said! I said it all

The woman snorted coldly: "where is that smelly boy?"

Ming An said with a sad face: "I don't know."

"You have a hard tongue to answer!" The woman twisted his ear again.

Ming An's body was tense: "ah, ah! I really lost my aunt! It doesn't matter if I lose my ear. It's not good if I dirty your hands! "

"To tell you the truth!" The woman was angry.

Ming An ran said: "what I say is the truth. I really don't know where the young master has gone."

The woman pointed to the curtain: "his carriage is here, how far can people run?"

Ming An tearfully said: "the adult is not in the carriage, the small one is going back to the house by himself."The woman sneered: "the old lady and his little fiancee are waiting in the house. Will he not go back? He's happy with my appointment. Isn't he going to see the little fox spirit? "

Fox spirit? Is that Qiao Yuxi? Is this guy rushing back to the mansion to meet Qiao Yuxi?

Ming An waved his hand: "no, Auntie and grandma, I promise you with my head, young master, he won't go to see her for the sake of that fox spirit

"What did you say he did?" Asked the woman haughtily.

Ming An touched his swollen ear for fear that he would be found by the other party. He blocked it with his body and said with a smile: "young master, he He has something important to do. It's not convenient for me to tell you the details, but the young master really didn't go back to the mansion to see the little fox spirit. It's not that the young master asked me to go back to the mansion and tell the old lady that he can't go back tonight? "

The woman looked at him suspiciously: "you didn't cheat me?"

Ming An patted her chest and said, "Auntie, I dare not cheat Bodhisattvas

The woman nodded Ming'an's head: "if I find Mingxiu nearby, you'll wait to see me with your head up!"

As soon as her voice fell, there was a rapid sound of footsteps coming from the alley. I could tell that she was coming towards Qiao Wei and Ji Mingxiu.

Ji Mingxiu's body suddenly became a little stiff. He turned his back to the alley. The woman couldn't see his face, but if he was familiar enough, he should be able to recognize it by his figure.

"Ming..."

Without waiting for her to open her mouth completely, Qiao Wei raised her hand, which had been frozen on her side and didn't know where to put it. She hugged Ji Mingxiu, flipped him over and knocked him on the wall!