When Meng Ying came out of the teahouse, she burst into laughter.
He said, "I won't protect myself anymore." Oh, what a joke. She is Puwei, not Liuli. What's more, who has ever truly protected her?
Let's go to Jiangnan, stay away from this place of right and wrong, and be sad.
I hurriedly boarded the boat, only to find that Hongying was not in the boat and the small stone was nowhere to be seen.
Then he asked Zhu Zhu, "Where is Hongying?"
Zhuzhu hesitated and refused to speak.
Meng Ying was angry and said: "It's too late and you still haven't told the truth. If it's too late, you won't be able to get on the boat!"
Zhuzi then said: "Sister Hongying heard that your birth mother's hairpin has been found and she has already disembarked. She asked me to go with you first. She will join us three to five days later."
"The matter of the hairpin is not urgent at this moment. We will discuss it later. You go and get her back immediately. Just as I said, get on the boat immediately."
Hongying is not the kind of person who waits indifferently, but now she is afraid of long nights and dreams, so she just wants to leave Beijing as soon as possible.
Zhuzi felt guilty and said, "We've been walking for half an hour, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up."
Meng Ying jumped angrily, "If something happens, Lin Xiaobu will skin you!"
When I looked again, I saw that the ship had begun to weigh anchor and was about to set off.
Meng Ying was very anxious, "No, you go and tell the boatman that we are not leaving and move the boxes and cages down."
"Yes." Zhuzi didn't dare to neglect.
After half a cup of tea, Zhu Zhu came back: "Madam, the boatman said that the boxes and cages have been installed, and now the ship has anchored and cannot be moved."
"What, what should I do?" Meng Ying was anxious in her heart, always having an ominous premonition.
Zhu Zhu was calm and said calmly, "Madam, Sister Hongying made it clear. Wait for her in three to five days before she can take a boat to go south. What's more, there are also small stones following her. Don't look down on others for their stupid ideas.
But if there are too many, I guarantee that there will be no mistakes."
Until now, there is no better choice. Looking at the endless waves of the river, the shore is gradually getting further away.
Meng Ying slumped down on the chair helplessly and said: "I hope so!"
Go with the wind and the current, just like the arrow leaving the string, heading south.
By the way, when Tao Huansheng saw Meng Ying leaving heartlessly, he left the teahouse right after him, got on his horse, and headed straight for the capital.
But after riding all the way, his anger subsided. The cow didn't drink water, so why should he force his head to be pressed?
As I walked, I passed Meng's house and saw that the door was closed.
After the person left, this house was no different from an ordinary house to him, but he always resisted looking back and wanted to take a second look.
After turning a few corners, we came to a restaurant with three big characters written on the wine flag - "Apricot Blossom Wine".
Thinking of the apricot blossom wine brewed by Meng Ying, I couldn't help but get excited.
After a few glasses of wine, apart from the spiciness, there was no hint of apricot blossom aroma.
The beauty has gone, and the wine has lost its taste.
Just when I was about to ask the waiter to change my drink, I heard voices coming from the private room next to me.
"Our wife heard that there is a Dengzhi Embroidery Workshop in the capital with superb craftsmanship. She specially asked me to come here to customize the girl's wedding dress. Who knows, it has closed down. If I hadn't met my wife, I don't know how I would have gone back to work with my wife.
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"It's fitting that I'm destined to meet you. If I hadn't passed by the embroidery workshop today, we wouldn't have met."
"Yes, yes, we are really destined. By the way, your embroidery workshop has a great reputation. Why did the owner close it just because it said it was closed?"
"Oh, my boss got married. I heard that he offended someone and couldn't continue the business, so he closed the embroidery workshop."
"Madam, please forgive me for being abrupt, but how different is your craftsmanship from that of your employer?"
"To be honest, when it comes to embroidery skills, even compared with the embroiderers in the palace, our boss is the best at it. However, she no longer embroiders for outsiders. She only does it herself because she is a close friend.
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"Oh, what a shame for such good craftsmanship."
"No, to tell you the truth, the current prince-in-law made clothes from us when he was still a son-in-law. Our boss never touched his fingers. I cut and embroidered all those clothes."
"Hey, you are the one who makes today's prince-in-law, so I can rest assured that our girl's wedding dress will be left to you."
"Don't worry, Madam. Even though I'm no longer in the embroidery workshop, I will not embarrass my employer after having worked for the embroidery workshop for so many years. Your girl's wedding dress will be picked up in three months. I guarantee that you will be satisfied."
The two drank for half an hour, chatted some gossip, and then parted at the door of the store.
The embroiderer who took over the work turned out to be an old woman from the Dengghi Embroidery Workshop, and everyone called her Sister-in-law Guo. After the embroidery workshop ended, she also went to other embroidery workshops, but she never found success in the Dengghi Embroidery Workshop.
Every time she passed by the embroidery workshop, she would look in front of the door from time to time, hoping that the embroidery workshop would open again.
Coincidentally, today I met Aunt Yang who came here to order a wedding dress for her young lady.
Second sister-in-law Guo walked home happily with the five taels of fixed money given by Aunt Yang.
Suddenly, a sword was pressed under his neck.
Guo's second sister-in-law was so frightened that her legs went weak and she shouted: "Soldier, spare your life, I only have five taels of silver here, please don't hurt my life."
The man said: "Don't look back, you will answer whatever I ask."
"A strong man only talks; he knows everything he knows."
"Look, you made this shirt?" I saw a long gown with exquisite embroidery being handed over.
The embroiderer didn't dare to disobey, so she identified it carefully and said, "I didn't make this dress of yours. The stitches are neat and the pattern is unique. It should be..." Sister-in-law Guo thought to herself: I
My dear, my boss has provoked someone else. He hesitates and dares not speak out.
"What should it be?"
"It should have come from the hands of my former employer, Miss Meng of Dengzhi Embroidery Shop." Now that the knife is on his neck, his life is at stake.
The embroiderer's two sides were trembling, and she really didn't know what this man's intention was.
For a moment, his neck felt soft, but he did not dare to look back and begged for mercy: "I have an old man above me and a young man below me. Please spare my life, strong man."
No one answered for a long time, so I turned around bravely, and found that the person had already disappeared.
Besides, the man holding the sword was Tao Huansheng. He wanted to know whether his clothes were made by the embroiderer like Luo Yu, or whether they were made by Meng Ying herself.
When he knew that his clothes were made by Meng Ying, he was convinced that Meng Ying treated him differently.
Perhaps Meng Ying herself doesn't know.
Thinking of this, he got on his horse, turned his horse's head, and headed straight for the ferry.
But when you cross the river, you can hunt and hunt. The river is turbulent, and there are no traces of boats anywhere.
"Is it still too late?" The mist was so vast that there was nothing else to do but sigh.
Tao Huansheng was a little downcast. When he returned to the military camp, he had already beaten the second watch drum.
Get on the bed and toss and turn.
Whether it is learning skills in the mountains, falling grass in Qingfeng Village, or climbing on the ice and sleeping in the snow on the battlefield, what kind of situation have you not experienced? Although you are weak in talent, you have been ups and downs for half your life. You have been alone for many years, and you have already become accustomed to the companionship of a sword.
But now that I have smelled the fragrance of pear blossoms in the wind, I can no longer sleep peacefully.
This was a hard time for the soldiers. They really couldn't understand why the general had taken the wrong medicine. He was sweating profusely on the school field during the day and had to practice more at night.
They were so tired that they cried for father and mother, but after Tao Huansheng finished training them, he still had to practice boxing by himself for an hour.
Some soldiers came in through connections, but they never expected that the city defense camp would be so exhausted that they inevitably wrote letters home to complain.
When the imperial censor heard about this, he wrote a memorial to impeach him: "Soldiers are the foundation of the country. General Tao does not cherish them so much. This is really not what the general did."
But when Emperor Wu heard this, he was very happy. Not only did he not punish him, but he also issued a special decree to commend him: "General Pingxi, be prepared for danger in times of peace, be strict in self-discipline and never slack off. It is really a blessing to the country and a blessing to the country!"
So he was given a hundred hectares of fertile land, two pieces of python-patterned brocade, four pieces of gold-woven brocade, ten good horses, and five hundred taels of gold. He was promoted to the fourth rank of General Huwei, and his wife Meng was granted the title of sixth-rank lady.
The rest is easy to say, but after Meng Ying's title was banned, she needed to go to the palace to thank her.
Tao Huansheng had no choice but to apologize: "My wife, Meng, was ill and went to the south of the Yangtze River to seek medical treatment. She came back soon and went to the palace to express her gratitude."
The queen was deeply moved when she heard that her wife was still so loyal to the country even though she was ill. She also issued an edict and gave her two pieces of palace brocade, two pieces of palace gauze, a set of gold heads and faces, and a handle of Ruyi jade.
For a time, the whole court was praised for its civil and military affairs, and the capital was unparalleled.
Exactly, I am infatuated with a beautiful woman and cannot return, my love is incomprehensible, I can't sleep at night, I am worried in the morning and I am worried in the evening. What kind of king understands this wrongly and rewards her with a thousand gold fur?
Mengying didn't know a word about what was going on in Beijing.
The ship went smoothly with the wind and the current, and moved steadily and quickly. It took only five days to arrive at Linqing.
On this day, Meng Ying opened the window of the cabin, looked at the lonely boat on the river, and there was no one around her. She lamented that her life had been lost, and she couldn't help but drink to drown her sorrows.
Depressed people tend to get drunk easily. Meng Ying, who used to drink a lot, only drank three drinks today before falling asleep at the table.
In the hazy moment, someone called girl, and from the sound of the voice, I knew it was Hongying.
Meng Ying was overjoyed, stood up and said angrily, "You thief girl, you didn't think about it and you took it upon yourself to make your own decision. It makes me miss you."
But when he took a closer look, he was horrified to see that Hongying's hair was disheveled and her face was covered in blood.
"What's wrong with you?"
Hongying didn't answer and turned around to leave. Meng Ying shouted anxiously: "Hongying, Hongying..."
"Girl, girl, wake up!" Zhuzi heard the voice and came in to shake her awake.
It turned out to be Nan Ke Yimeng.
Meng Ying thought about it for a long time, and couldn't bear it anymore, so she told Zhuzi about her dream. Zhuzi comforted her and said, "The dream is reversed. It must be because the girl misses her too much."
But she was still uneasy. Hongying and she had been dependent on each other for four years, life and death. If she had any shortcomings, how could she face Lin Xiao.
So he told Zhu Zhu, "Tell the boatman that we will get off the boat at the next stop."
Seeing that his master had made up his mind, Zhuzi did not dare to delay.
Three days later, the ship docked at Linqing, and the master and servant got off the ship.
However, there were fewer ships returning to the capital than those leaving the capital. Meng Ying felt anxious and walked around the inn all day long.
He also told Zhu Zhu, "If we encounter a return ship, no matter how much the ship fare is, we must let the boatman take us a ride."
Zhu Zhu waited hard at the dock for three days, and finally on this day, a ship arrived.
There were many people on the boat, and Meng Ying was afraid that people would be suspicious if they saw their large luggage, so she changed into indigo cloth, called Zhu Zhu brother and sister, and lied that she came from Jiangnan to visit her relatives.
The boss of the boat was kind-hearted and took special care of them. However, there was a favorable wind when we arrived, but it was a headwind when we returned, so the boat moved slowly.
Fortunately, there was no danger, and we finally arrived in the capital half a month later. After careful calculation, we found that a month had passed.
It was hot summer when they left, and it was almost autumn now. Because they didn't know the situation in the capital, they didn't dare to go back to Meng's house directly, and only found an inn to stay.
At night, Zhuzhu was sent to find out where Hongying was.
Meng Ying waited anxiously at the inn, and half an hour later Zhu Zhu came back.
"How's it going? Hongying is at home?"
Zhuzi said with a mournful face, "Uncle Zhong said that Hongying has never gone back since that day when she came out with us."
Meng Ying sat down on the chair, "Could it be that she went to Jiangnan?"
"I went to shopkeeper Sun, and he said he didn't see Hongying and didn't buy a boat ticket for her..." Zhuzi lowered his head. He naively thought that under the panic of the emperor, everything was clear and everyone was still alive.
Will it be lost?
But no one would have thought that it would actually be lost.
Seeing Zhu Zhu squatting in the corner with a guilty look on her face, Meng Ying couldn't bear it and comforted her: "There is no good news now, but there is no bad news either. Hongying has been in the capital for four years and is a smart person. She should be fine tomorrow.
Let's go look for it again at dawn."
Zhuzi wiped his eyes and went down to rest.
Meng Ying had no sleep all night, and at dawn, she got up to wash up. She combed through all the places Hongying could go, and decided to start with Na Yong's house.
The master and the servant ate two steamed buns in a hurry and wanted to go to Yong's house. As soon as they left the store, a black linoleum carriage stopped beside them.
The car curtain was lifted, Meng Ying took a closer look and couldn't move away.
I saw a person sitting in the car, wearing a long black gown, a sword hanging on his waist, a long body, sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. It turned out to be Tao Huansheng.
"Get in the car!" the person in the car said warmly.
Meng Ying hesitated for a moment, then lifted her legs and got into the car.
The carriage was not very spacious, and there was a tea table just between them, so they could hear each other's breathing.
Meng Ying was a little embarrassed and just put down her bold words, but who knows, they met again a month later.
"You look so bad, is it because you didn't sleep last night?" Tao Huansheng said in a calm tone, as if he didn't care about the tea house at all.
"Yes...no. Hongying's whereabouts are unknown, and I'm a little worried." Meng Ying lowered her head, her voice muffled.
"I'm here to pick you up and go see Hongying."
Meng Ying breathed a long sigh of relief, clasped her hands together and said, "Thank God, everything is safe at last."
Tao Huansheng looked at the person in front of him, and his vision was a little blurry. He hadn't seen him for only a month, but for him, one day was like three autumns, and one night was like half a summer. It felt as if he had lived another life.
I wanted to find an opportunity to file a leave of absence with the emperor and catch that cruel girl back, but I didn't expect that she came back.
Tao Huansheng stared at the person in front of him, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously. He thought to himself: This time, you can never escape again!