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19. Hide one's feelings

After hearing what Zhai Yu said, Xiaoman lowered his head silently and still knelt there without saying a word.

Zhai Yu looked at the top of her head and couldn't explain what he felt. Her feelings for Xiaoman have always been complicated - Xiaoman obviously grew up with her, took good care of her life, handled everything properly, and couldn't find a single fault; but whenever she had something to do with her fourth uncle, A trace of dissatisfaction, and when he thinks that she is Fourth Uncle's confidant, he will get angry at her, and occasionally lose his temper at her...

For example, just now, he actually told her to die...

Zhai Yu felt a trace of guilt in his heart. Just as he was about to help her up, he felt someone approaching the carriage on horseback and directly raised the curtains of the carriage. Zhai Yu looked angrily and saw Zhai Jue's delicate face that made peach blossoms bloom with a smile.

"I just heard something breaking and came over to take a look," Zhai Jue's lips curled up slightly, his sparkling phoenix eyes wandering around the car, "Tsk, tsk, what's going on? "

Zhai Yu looked back and said coldly: "I am disciplining my maid, I don't dare bother Uncle Qi."

"I don't bother," said Zhai Jue. With a ruffian smile, he winked at Xiao Man again, "I'm just a little sympathetic. But where does the discipline need to use a dagger? Could it be that the palace maid wanted to assassinate you and you found out?"

He had sharp eyes, and he immediately saw the dagger that he had knocked down on Xiao Man's side.

Zhai Yu was in a bad mood and didn't want to explain to him. He directly reached out his hand and pulled back the curtain he was holding and put it down again. Two chuckles were heard outside, and the clatter of horse hooves gradually faded away.

"Take this away," Zhai Yu sighed softly, tapping the dagger and the bone china cup that was broken in half on the edge of the blade.

While Xiaoman was cleaning up, Zhai Yu asked her to bring the mirror again and took a closer look at herself in the mirror, whose eyes were swollen and haggard, like a ghost.

"Xiao Man, comb my hair, it's a little messy."

Xiao Man was busy holding the horn comb to tie Zhai Yu's hair, who was turning sideways.

"You were the one who combed my hair this morning, right?" Seeing that her hair was about to be tied up, Zhai Yu suddenly asked her.

Xiao Man shook his hand, and the jade crown in his hand was almost unsteady.

"Why are you so scared?" Zhai Yu saw her expression in the mirror and smiled slightly, "I just want to say that you even had time to comb my hair, why didn't you Wrap my breasts for me? Uncle Qi came here just now. Even though he couldn’t tell anything after thinking about it, he was a little nervous at the time and is still a little scared now...

Hmm...could it be that you were frightened because you thought I was testing you? How much did you see this morning? You're overthinking it. Even if I knew it was you who put on my clothes and even untied my bundle... I mean, even if you saw everything, I wouldn't want to kill you to silence you. No matter how shameful my affairs are, what else do you not know?"

Xiao Man pursed his lips, lowered his head, and fixed Zhai Yu's high-tied black hair with a jade crown.

It turned out to be just a sigh from His Highness... She thought she had seen something.

She shook her head slightly. In fact, she had guessed everything wrong. She had not seen any unbearable scenes.

The only thing he witnessed was... Zhai Chen held her in his arms and gently combed her hair while she was sleeping.

**

It was early in the morning, and it was still dark. Xiao Man, who had not slept all night, walked to Zhai Yu's room in fear. He did not dare to make any move, but he Zhai Chen's Qingyuan voice first came from the room, asking her to come in.

She originally felt a thump in her heart, thinking that he had stayed after all. She didn't know that last night...but she walked into the room lightly, raised her head, and happened to see such a scene.

There was still no expression on Zhai Chen's face. He only slightly lowered his eyebrows and eyes, without any distractions, but it was already a gentleness that Xiao Man had never expected to see from him.

She hurriedly lowered her head, not daring to look again, and listened to him calmly ordering her things one by one. When she was told about the Bizi Tang, her feet gave way and she finally knelt down. She originally wanted to ask fearfully if it was too cruel to say or do this, but she heard him say it very softly with a slight mockery. She said, "I did something wrong."

At that moment, Xiaoman suspected that there was something wrong with her ears, because she couldn't believe that Zhai Chen would say that he was "wrong".

Although anyone who looks at this matter will know that he did it wrong, bad timing, wrong way... it does not mean that Zhai Chen will say this word. What's more, Xiao Man could tell that although he really felt that he was wrong, he really didn't have any regrets.

"If she wants to hate me, let her hate me." These were the last words Zhai Chen said before he handed Zhai Yu into her arms and turned to leave.

Xiao Man added four words for him from the bottom of his heart - "The deeper, the better."

**

After a day of riding in a carriage, we finally arrived at the inn at dusk.

Zhai Yu already felt like vomiting. He hid in the room around the fox fur and warmed himself by the fire, refusing to go out to eat.

But there was someone who was very shameless and ignorant. He only knocked twice symbolically and pushed open her door. Without asking her opinion, he greeted a group of attendants to come in and out, and soon they were all gone. A banquet was laid out.

"Come, eat." Zhai Jue picked up the chopsticks quite freely and invited her to come with him.

"Uncle Qi, my nephew has a headache and wants to take a nap. Can you go somewhere else to eat?" Zhai Yu tried his best to control his temper so as not to kick him out.

"If you have a headache, you need to eat more." Zhai Jue didn't seem to hear the intention of expelling guests in her words. He scooped up a bowl of gastrodia chicken soup and put it on the table, "I just happened to have this soup. Drink a bowl and you will never know what a headache is."

Zhai Yu was so angry and helpless that he simply said: "If you don't leave, I will leave!" and wanted to hug his beloved white fox. Qiu looked for another place to sleep.

Unexpectedly, he stretched out his hand and grabbed him after a few steps, and said with a smile: "Why are you so angry? If you don't want to eat, you won't eat. Why don't you sit down and chat with me?"

Zhai Yu grinded his teeth and was forced to sit down. As soon as he looked at her, he smiled lazily and put two pieces of meat into the empty bowl in front of her: "Looking at your poor complexion, you really should eat some good tonic. Listen to Uncle Qi and drink this soup first. , eat more meat. And what I mentioned to you last time is your height... Well, Xiao Feather, maybe it’s because you are picky about food that you are thin and short, or else..."

"You're the reason for my bad look. I'm happy to be thin and short. What does it have to do with you?" Zhai Yu's head almost exploded. He pressed his temples and cut off his words unbearably, "Don't talk about these things. "Yes, tell me what you want to say."

Zhai Jue no longer teased her, but his expression was equally teasing: "Do you know why Zhai Chen wants to go north?"

"How do I know?" Zhai Yu didn't want to pay attention to such questions and answers, and replied lazily: "Maybe it's because he doesn't know the way? So he ran in the opposite direction?"

After Zhai Yu finished speaking, he was still confused. With a calm face, Zhai Jue burst out laughing at the joke, pointed at Zhai Yu and said, "We haven't seen each other for a few days, Xiao Yu, you are getting better and better at joking."

Then Zhai Yu glared at him impatiently, He had already tapped the mahogany table with his fingers, frowned slightly and said what he wanted to say, "There is a possibility that he is going to Taiping Mountain."

Taiping Mountain?

Zhai Yu thought of the former Danyang Village and the current Changfeng Village, and thought of Xia Feng.

I also thought of Qi Danqing.

Suddenly my heart moved.

20. Xiao Xie

Later, I fell asleep. For some reason, I was surrounded by the sad sound of the flute. I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and found that someone was really playing the flute. Xiao.

Perhaps it was because the stove was too hot, or perhaps because the quilt and fox fur were wrapped together too tightly. In the winter night, Zhai Yu was sweating all over. She got up and fanned a few times with her hands, got out of bed with her bare feet, opened the door, and looked up along with the sound of the flute. Sure enough, she saw a lavender figure standing on the roof, holding a jade flute in his hand, lowering his head and blowing .

I don’t know when it started to snow. A shallow layer has accumulated on the ground. The gaps in the roof tiles are also filled with crystal white. The sky is filled with flying snow particles. Zhai Yu The moment she raised her face, the wind blew a drop of ice and fell on her cheek, melting instantly like a small teardrop.

So beautiful...

Zhai Yu was shocked by the beautiful scenery in front of her. Of course, there was also the beauty on the roof that had blended into the snowy scene... Even though he was not a person she liked, Zhai Yu was shocked by the beautiful scenery in front of her. The anger in Yu's heart towards Zhai Jue also gradually disappeared without a trace amid the weeping and complaining sound of the flute.

The sound of the flute suddenly stopped. Zhai Jue turned his eyes and looked at her for a while. Then he jumped down from the roof, landed steadily, and walked to her, as if he had just Zhai Yu smiled as if it had never happened before: "Are you awake?"

"You were woken up by some unscrupulous person who played the flute in the middle of the night." Zhai Yu gritted his teeth and squeezed out the words.

"No way," Zhai Jue turned the jade flute between his fingers and frowned thoughtfully, "I remember that you slept soundly under the sound of my flute yesterday. I thought my flute could hypnotize me."

"How can you induce sleep? Most of the people in the station were so disturbed by you that they dared not speak out." Zhai Yu rolled his eyes.

"How do you know they are not enjoying it? After all, such a beautiful flute cannot be heard all the time." Zhai Jue spread his hands helplessly and walked to the eaves.

Zhai Yu gave him a blank look: "Yes, yes, it was the seventh prince, the most noble of our Southern Dynasty, who blew it."

Zhai Jue smiled charmingly and accepted her sarcastic words. praise. His eyes gradually dropped and fell on her feet without shoes and socks. He frowned and sighed: "Your feet are so small. They are just like women's."

Zhai Yu was a little embarrassed. He was panicked, but he held himself back and glared at him: "You look like a woman." Then he looked at him very calmly and sighed, "Actually, I also think it is small. I heard that people with small feet Not tall."

"Yes, short." Zhai Jue laughed softly.

Zhai Yu glared at him with disgust, bared his teeth and said, "I'm too lazy to argue with you."

Zhai Jue curled his lips again, "Go back quickly, the cold starts from your feet. Don't catch a cold on the first day you go out."

Zhai Yu nodded and turned back to his room. Just as he stepped across the threshold, he heard his voice again from behind.

"Hey, Xiaoyu, I'm sorry just now, I...should never say anything about your mother and concubine...it wasn't intentional, don't take it to heart."

Zhai Yuzhuan Turning over, I met his eyes that were not demonic but gentle, and smiled childishly, "Forgive you, after all, didn't I just kick a stool at you regardless of age?"

"Yes, you are really not easy to mess with," Zhai Jue shook his head and asked her seriously, "But are you really unwilling to accept help from me who has the same disease and empathy?"

"I will protect my mother and concubine myself," Zhai Yu pretended to be stubborn and proud, smiled, thought for a while, and said, "Besides, even if you have no intention of taking advantage of me, it is not because you said that my mother and concubine suffered Damn, you sympathize with me. You just want to argue with Fourth Uncle. You thought I could be so loyal to him, but you thought wrong.

He is indeed very special to me. After all, he brought me up. Grandpa Huang also said that he is both a teacher and a father in my heart... It is impossible to have this kind of feeling for others. But I am nothing to him. Even if you fight with him everywhere, taking me away won't have much impact on him, and it doesn't make any sense. ”

“You’re going on for a long time, don’t you just want me to give up?” "Zhai Jue touched the bridge of his nose lazily and pondered for a moment, "Okay, even if what you said makes sense, you don't know who I am. You should go and ask around. I will never give up until I get what I like, whether it is a treasure or a beauty.

Zhai Yu shouted at him with a downcast face: "Can I compare with your romantic affairs?" Am I a woman? "

"You are my nephew," Zhai Jue smiled, "but you are like a treasure, and your appearance is almost as beautiful as mine. "

Zhai Yu finally ran out of energy: "You are so shameless and stubborn! I'm going to sleep! "

"Hey, Little Feather," Zhai Jue smiled and stopped her as she was about to close the door. "I heard that you play the piano well. Even if you don't come with me for the time being, you might as well come with me next time. All the pianos and flutes are playing in unison? "

"Not interested. "Zhai Yu glared at him and closed the door.

Strangely, although Zhai Jue felt annoying and annoying, his mood actually became much better.

Maybe , As long as she can stop thinking about Zhai Chen, Zhai Yu, who is still at a loss as to how to retaliate, feels a headache again. And if you want to take revenge, you may end up with a more tragic ending.

But if you really want to pretend that nothing happened, and leave as calmly as a breeze, your heart will feel like it is being held by some thread. No matter what, I don't want to.

Zhai Yu suffered from insomnia, and it was the same for the next few days.

The road became particularly difficult after it snowed. , after some of the snow melted, the road was full of mud.

On this day, the carriage Zhai Yu was riding on slipped into the mud.

Zhai Yu. He Xiaoman had to get out of the car and wait for the attendant to push the car out.

Zhai Jue has not been riding his Ling Yao in the past two days. The weather is too bad and the cold wind is often raging. How could he, who cherished his appearance, let his face be roughened by the strong wind, so he also hid in another luxury carriage in front of him. At this time, he leisurely got out of the front and asked Zhai Yu who was standing on the roadside rubbing his hands. ,"how? I don’t dislike you. Will you go with me first? "

When he said the word "dislike", he bit it very hard, because at first he wanted to ride on Zhai Yu's carriage, but Zhai Yu mercilessly used it as an excuse to protect Xiao Man from being molested. Turning him away. At this time, Zhai Yu just glanced at him lazily: "No, I'll just wait.

Zhai Jue let out a "chi" and stopped trying to persuade her. He just nervously wrapped his face with white fox fur, stood beside her and sighed, "It's easy to walk over this mountain road." , the weather will be warmer. "Zhai Yu nodded.

Because the pit was a bit deep and the carriage was made of nanmu with iron plates for safety, it was extremely heavy. The attendants on Zhai Yu's side lifted the carriage for a moment. The guards on Zhai Jue's side gathered around to help, and they worked together to lift the carriage out of the pit. The coachman looked at the pit and suddenly said: "No, there is something weird about this pit. "

At the same time as his words came out, Zhai Yu saw a small figure in his peripheral vision, seemingly getting into Zhai Jue's carriage. She and Zhai Jue used Qinggong to rush there almost at the same time. But when he opened the curtain of the carriage, he saw only a dirty little girl holding the snacks on the small table in the carriage and devouring them. There were snack residues in her hair after eating, but she choked and coughed. The entire car sprayed was filled with wet snack foam.

Fortunately, Zhai Jue reacted quickly and used the car curtain to block his and Zhai Yu's faces. At the same time, he wailed: "My carriage!"

Zhai Yu laughed unkindly. Zhai Jue became even more angry. He glanced at Zhai Yu with his watery phoenix eyes, opened the curtain again, and shouted at the little girl: "Where did you come from, little bastard, get out of here!"

The little girl flinched, glanced at him with her big pitiful eyes, and finally curled her lips in disdain, then raised her chin and turned her face: "No!"

"You!" Zhai Jue He stretched out his hand as if to grab her out of the car, but he held back and said to Zhai Yu, who was still smiling brightly next to him, "Go and lift her off! She's so dirty!"

"Hey, Do you find it too dirty?" Zhai Yu looked at him in surprise, "I used to see you sitting around and thought you were very casual."

"I was... "Zhai Jue found it difficult to finish his sentence.

"I understand," Zhai Yu took over, "You are pretending to be chic."

Under Zhai Jue's dark expression, Zhai Yu smiled and looked at a pair of black and white The little girl, whose eyes were rolling, stretched out her hand: "Come on, girl, big brother will take you to eat other delicious food."

Zhai Yu called this "Xiao Xie" The little girl brought back her carriage.

Xiaoman found some water, washed the little girl's face with silk cloth, and then exclaimed: "Ah, she is a little beauty!" Then she was startled and looked at Zhai Yu, "And ...The young master seems to have two similarities..."

Zhai Yu was also stunned and looked at Xiao Xie. Indeed, the nose and eyes were somewhat similar.

Xiao Xie seemed to be used to hearing compliments on her appearance. She continued to let Xiaoman wash her hands quite comfortably, and even narrowed her eyes with a sweet smile: "Beauties always look alike. But I think My eldest brother is prettier than me, it’s not fair, the boy is so good-looking, it’s no use!”

This carefree and charming smile looks different. Zhai Yu himself has never smiled like this. Or maybe, when I was as old as her, I had?

With a wry smile, she brought the snacks in the car to Xiao Xie and asked her: "You are not an ordinary child. How come you are living here and are so hungry that you rob someone's carriage?"

Xiao Xie pursed his lips in grievance, looked at Zhai Yu, and his eyes lit up: "Brother, can you take me in? Will I follow you from now on?"

Zhai Yu frowned: "How can you keep taking me in? Your family will also be worried."

"I'll marry you!" Xiao Xie patted his chest, which was flatter than Zhai Yu's, with a surge of pride. Then, with Zhai Yu's stunned expression, he fainted again, "My brother won't worry about me. He will train me coldly, but he will train me coldly. This time I ran out because I had a falling out with him."

After hearing this, Zhai Yu remained silent for a long time. Xiao Xie frowned in confusion, patted the crumbs on his hand, and crawled towards Zhai Yu's legs obediently, and put his arms around her waist: "Brother, don't be sad, it was me who let you Are you in trouble? Do you think Xiao Xie is not good enough for you?"

Zhai Yu is extremely uncomfortable with such a hug, but in his heart, he is only a few years younger than himself. The little girl has a different kind of emotion. He touched her head with his stiff hand and asked, "Do you miss your brother?"

"No!" Xiao Xie raised his head stubbornly, then lowered it, "I do. But he is so cruel, always forcing Xiao Xie to practice calligraphy, playing the piano, and reading. He scolds Xiao Xie when he wants to play. It's really annoying..."

"But I still want to," Zhai Yu was stunned. He sighed blankly, "I'd better take you home. Your brother may be anxious too."

Xiao Xie didn't speak for a while, and finally nodded in her arms: "I live at home. Jinling.

"

Zhai Yu said "Hmm", "That's just the way. "

It was late at night that day, so we rested in a small town not far from Huai'an City.

I had just settled down with Xiao Xie and came out after she fell asleep. He almost bumped into Zhai Jue, who was standing in the courtyard.

"You really treat her as your little wife?" "

When they entered the town, Zhai Jue did not come with them. Zhai Yu, who did not want to explain his identity in front of Xiao Xie, took it upon himself to stay at the inn instead of staying at the inn. He glanced at Zhai Jue With one glance, she asked: “Are you jealous? Are you jealous that I easily won the heart of this little beauty? "

"Tch, she is so small and has no level of appreciation. She even said that I am not good-looking. Can you tell me where her eyes are? "

Zhai Yu felt funny when he thought about Xiao Xie not buying into Zhai Jue's appearance.

"What are you laughing at? Zhai Jue glared at her and smiled mysteriously, "Do you know where I just went?" Who did you see again? "

"Not interested. "Zhai Yu shook his head and walked around him.

"I saw Zhai Chen. "Zhai Jue didn't stop her, he just walked lazily as she passed by, very sure that she would stop.

But Zhai Yu just stopped for a moment, then pretended not to hear and continued on. Okay.

"He is in Huai'an City," Zhai Jue's voice started again, "and he went to a brothel. ”

“A brothel?” "Zhai Yu finally stopped, frowned, and then finally said, "It has nothing to do with me. "

"Do you really think so? "Zhai Jue smiled and caught up two steps.

"Yeah," Zhai Yu stopped and clenched his fists, "And what's the big deal about going to a brothel? You have to go to know him. Be there. Is it rare for him to go to a brothel? "

"It's rare, this is the first time," Zhai Jue touched his chin and nodded, "I thought you should know too..."

"Stop! Stop it! "Zhai Yu waved his hand to interrupt him from repeating his old talk.

Zhai Jue laughed and grabbed her hand: "Let's go, I know you are curious, uncle, I will take you to see it. ”

Zhai Yu never thought that he would go to a brothel in his lifetime, and he never thought that he would be in the darkroom of a brothel, looking through the small hole dug in the wall to see the corners of people.

When she thought that the person inside was her fourth uncle, her hair stood on end and her whole body trembled uncontrollably. The feeling of his hands and lips rolling over her body came out little by little, wrapping around her like a vine. , it was difficult to breathe.

"Don't be afraid," Zhai Jue lowered his voice and said in her ear, "Nothing has happened yet, there won't be any needle holes. "Then he opened the cover of the small hole and pressed Zhai Yu in front.

Zhai Yu closed her eyes tightly at first, and then she slowly opened them when she heard someone's voice. This little The hole was behind the bed, and through the gauze, she saw a very familiar figure. When she saw it, her breathing became chaotic without obeying the command... She hurriedly looked away and saw the figure sitting opposite Zhai Chen. He was a young man in white clothes. He couldn't see clearly through the gauze in front of the bed, but he should be extremely handsome.

Zhai Yu reached out and closed the small window, and Zhai Jue asked her, "It's true. What?

Zhai Yu glanced at him: "He went to a brothel to drink and chat with a man. How can he be so weird?" Do you have to drag me here? "

"Man? "Zhai Jue curled his lips with disdain and amusement, "That's obviously a woman, just pretending to be a man. You can tell at a glance. What kind of eyesight do you have? "

Zhai Yu was so shocked that he almost jumped up: "Can you see this? ”