Peach concubine

Jian Ruolin, who was invaded internally and externally, became more and more slender and thinner. Standing in the sun, her thin body seemed to fall down when the wind blows.Walking on the street, the hot sun made her eyes dizzy. Jian Ruolin didn't sweat, but her whole body was tanned as if she was transparent. Her jade-like skin revealed a warm texture when exposed to the sun.

In some matters, the brothers of the Jian family insisted on doing things by themselves.For example, the selection of medicinal materials, such as the escort when purchasing... Perhaps it is precisely because of such rigor and meticulousness that this incense powder shop can gradually become famous in Suzhou, which is beyond the reach of others.

Deliberately avoided, but Jian Ruolin did not expect to see Xiao Jingmo in this situation.

At that time, he had just finished counting the quantity of various medicinal materials, and watched the people under his hands packing large bundles of medicinal materials into the truck.

With his back to the door of the pharmacy, the middle-aged shopkeeper greeted him in a friendly voice: "Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao are here to pick up the medicine again? Hurry up and sit inside, the sun is so poisonous, next time I'll send someone over to let me know." , I will send my second elder brother to the village, so as not to make the two of you make an extra trip."

"It's okay, today I just happened to accompany my wife to the Peach Blossom Temple to ask for a lottery, and I came here to pick up the medicine on the way back, so it's also on the way."

The voice was indifferent and low, and it was familiar, but it didn't have the usual flamboyant banter.Jian Ruolin paused, and when she straightened up, she suddenly felt dizzy for a moment.

The shopkeeper yelled, laughing and saying: "Madam is really lucky. Having such a good husband-in-law as Mr. Xiao, I don't envy others." While speaking, the servant below has already fetched the medicine bag prepared earlier: " It’s still the same anti-pregnancy formula, decocted one dose a day. This formula is warm in nature, most nourishing and gentle, even if you drink it every day, it won’t hurt your body.”

"Thank you, shopkeeper." After saying a word, there was a rustle, and then the man exclaimed in a low voice: "Wanzhen, why did you come out, be careful."

The woman's voice was soft and gentle: "It's okay, don't be so nervous. Look at you, you're sweating."

The scene in front of her was too beautiful. Under the warm sunlight, the woman's lavender skirt was elegant and elegant. With a satisfied smile on her slightly raised face, she gently wiped her husband's forehead with a sweat towel.The man turned sideways and let her move, but then reached out and grabbed her slender waist, whispering softly: "Don't wipe it, go back to the car and sit down."

The soles of Jian Ruolin's feet seemed to be nailed, and her already pale face looked even more miserable at this moment.No matter what, he couldn't move his eyes away, and his brows, ears, and temples were all raised together, showing off dazzlingly in the sunlight.

As soon as he turned around, he unexpectedly met the man's gaze, and felt that gaze coming, and when Fang touched it, he froze in surprise.But only for a moment, the man moved his eyes away, as if nothing had happened.

The blue sky was bright and the sun was shining brightly, but Jian Ruolin was frozen in a cold sweat and her whole body was stiff.

The questioning and interrogation that lingered in his mind could not go away again and again: Is that man who gently smiled at the strange woman Xiao Jingmo? !Is that man holding a charming young woman Xiao Jingmo? !

In sight, Xiao Jingmo helped the woman in purple clothes into the carriage, her voice was still calm and without any tremor: "Wanzhen, you go back first, I have something to do."

The woman called "Wanzhen" sensitively followed the man's gaze and glanced at Jian Ruolin who was standing blankly by the door, then nodded meekly: "I told Li'er to make your favorite shortbread. Remember to come back early to eat together."

Xiao Jingmo nodded in agreement, and stood in place watching each other off.

When the carriage was moving, the "gurgling" sound became farther and farther away, and finally became inaudible.

Stupidly froze in place, not knowing how to react, it was like being in a dream.Jian Ruolin really wanted to pull out a calm and calm smile like she did when she met by chance, but even the muscles on her cheeks were so stiff that she couldn't control it.He saw Xiao Jingmo walking towards him, obviously standing still, but Jian Ruolin had the illusion that his whole body was shaking violently.

Xiao Jingmo approached, stretched out his hand and tugged at him: "Follow me." Jian Ruolin's expression was a little dull, and she clenched his hand tightly, only then did she feel the handsome man trembling violently.Even my heart seemed to tremble faintly.

The servants brought by Liufang Pavilion who were loading goods looked at each other in dismay, and passers-by on the road frequently cast doubtful glances.

As soon as Jian Ruolin took a step, she realized that her legs were weak, and was pulled by Xiao Jingmo, so she could only stumble forward.He could no longer control those suspicious or probing eyes, his eyes were blank, and his legs just moved forward alternately mechanically.

The sparsely populated place is the Qinghe Lake where they set off water lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival a few months ago.

That night, the lights reflected the peach blossoms in the distance, Jian Ruolin took the peach wood hairpin that Xiao Jingmo gave him, and acquiesced in him taking his jade hairpin in exchange; it was also that night, Jian Ruolin's heart opened for the first time, and her love was like drizzle Silently infiltrating and addictive.

The peach blossoms are still blooming beautifully, but it has come to the end of this season.The petals fell all over the ground, were trampled and crushed, and the dark red residual flowers were mixed in the muddy water, without the romantic love of peaches, plums, and plums, and scattered into mud, in Jian Ruolin's eyes, it became a pain. The words are desolate and desolate.

"I wanted to tell you later, but I didn't expect to meet you." Suzhou City is still really small, isn't it?Xiao Jingmo spoke a calm tone, and his face was also calm and unwavering, there was no familiar smile, no cunning aura, only a little hesitation and trouble in his eyes.

Jian Ruolin had a slight smile on his face, which was his most common kind of gentle as jade, modest as a gentleman: "What do you want to say?"

On the contrary, Xiao Jingmo also laughed: "We are together during this period, it is really a rare happy time for me. I have never met someone like you before, gentle and beautiful. Apart from being a man, I really can't pick you as a lover. Something else went wrong."

"Hmm..." Jian Ruolin just responded lightly, with a little helplessness in her childlike clear eyes.

Looking at Jian Ruolin who was standing upright, his face was slightly pale, Xiao Jingmo felt a little irritable in his heart.I have had many lovers in the past, including wealthy daughters and noble ladies, and when I got bored, I left them without any regrets, and there has never been an exception.It was the first time that he was with a man like a couple, but he didn't feel any difference.With his identity and standpoint, as Bai Qi said, "just play for fun", if he takes it seriously, he doesn't know who he hurt in the end.

She had made up her mind a long time ago, but when she spoke, she would hesitate and hesitate, which was unexpected.

"Do you think...that it's wrong for two men to be together?" Xiao Jingmo opened his mouth tentatively, and every time Xiao Jingmo said, it seemed that he had used great strength: "You are so beautiful and kind, beyond gender, so The beauty of you attracted me, so I did those things. Thinking about it now, the impulse is actually more than affection. Because I was misunderstood by you and rejected by you, I was unwilling to get close to you and let you accept me willingly... ...Actually, thinking about it, it seems more like being angry." This analysis and explanation, I don't know who is trying to persuade and comfort whom.

Jian Ruolin pursed her lips, her expression froze slightly, she stood there with a dazed look, pitifully thin.

"Actually, you have never really believed my intentions, have you?" said the evil and charming man like a fox, his eyebrows raised, and every word was cruel: "I saw it the other day, and I knew you didn't understand What do you mean by acting on every occasion... How do you think that a man's love can end up with good results?" Every sentence is more aggressive, those eyes, that kind of expression, there is a hint of playfulness in the look, very familiar, but very strange.

Jian Ruolin avoided, lowered her gaze, and kept stirring the corner of the clothes with her fingers, as if she wanted to smash it into pieces.

He thought of playing the piano and making tea under the moonlight, and the shadows in the small courtyard accompanied him; on the night of the Lantern Festival, he gave him a mahogany hairpin; on his birthday, he washed his hands and made soup for him, and set off fireworks all over the sky... Everything is titled "acting on the spot", how can it be so embarrassing?

The proud son of heaven who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth... Xiao Jingmo's long black hair fluttered in the wind, his straight back, his haughty posture, and an inexplicable light flashed in his dark eyes.I have made up my mind... let's take advantage of this moment to make a decision: "I already have a wife. Originally, Wanzhen has a gentle temperament, and it's not that I can't tolerate you. It's just that since you are so lonely, Ruolin, you must not be willing to compromise. ...There is no precedent for accepting male wives in the imperial dynasty, not to mention the fact that the Xiao family needs to continue the incense, let alone allow me to do anything arbitrarily."

Jian Ruolin's face became even paler, almost a transparent color, like colored glass that would break at the touch of a touch.

"Since it was originally wrong, it's enough to come here. Fortunately, it's not too late to rein in the precipice." Xiao Jingmo made the judgment coldly like a bystander: "This is originally a request for your love and my wish. It's just that you got too deep into the drama."

Jian Ruolin felt something blocking her chest, both depressing and suffocating with despair.

"It's better to have a good beginning and a good end, to get together and to part, you, maybe you understand?"

Xiao Jingmo's words seemed to have been brewing for a long time, and they poured out in an instant with overwhelming force.After finishing speaking, she gritted her teeth and watched Jian Ruolin's reaction, there was a few imperceptible hesitation between her brows, but in an instant, it turned into irreversible coldness and indifference.

Jian Ruolin didn't know how to react for a while.What he should ask, who is the woman who was with him just now, and what is his relationship with him?What did he mean by those words in the Yihong Pavilion? Why did he have to flirt with a lowly young man?And... Xiao Jingmo and him, the previous things, are they true or false?

It's just that he was too tired, and his reserve and pride as a man could not tolerate his questioning and accusation.

It took a while for Jian Ruolin to nod her head, and smiled awkwardly: "I see." In a panic, she touched the jade pendant at her waist, and immediately let it go as if it was burning her hands, then grabbed the skirt of the skirt on the side, and squeezed it tightly. After that, Fu put it down again uneasily, at a loss for what to do.There was a coldness in the palm of her hand, Jian Ruolin felt the blood was hidden under the skin, and it throbbed violently, she could hardly suppress it: "Well, there is something else waiting for me to deal with in Liufang Pavilion, if there is nothing else, I have to go back first .”

The pace of turning around and walking away, but Xiao Jingmo didn't know why, but he saw a trace of faltering in a hurry.

Jian Ruolin walked back to Liufang Pavilion slowly, but she had no memory of which street she passed and met some vendors.It's just that the road is familiar, although my mind is a little dizzy, I still wandered to the door.

As soon as he came back, the servants in the pavilion were all in a hurry. Uncle Qi, the manager, saw that his face was not good, and asked, "Are you all right?".

He smiled and said it was nothing, then turned around and asked someone to bring the account details of recent years to his room.

For a whole afternoon, Jian Ruolin sat in the room and read the account book without even moving it.Liufang Pavilion has been established for more than [-] years, and the backlog of accounts piled up is higher than him, and it is written in small script so densely that I feel dizzy after staring at it for a while.Jian Ruolin seldom manages the big and small affairs of the pavilion, and always only develops new incense according to his duties, but he suddenly has a whim to check the accounts, and the people below naturally dare not have any objections, so he is allowed to look through it. .

At noon, the servant brought food directly to his room, two meat and one vegetarian, the staple food was delicate millet porridge, which was very easy to eat.Jian Ruolin doesn't like dry and hard rice, and prefers porridge since she was a child, so she also eats more corn porridge for dinner.When the servant came in to call him, he took a look at it, put down the account book, sat at the table and ate slowly.

Although the speed is slow, but several dishes are eaten cleanly, and a bowl of porridge and soup can be drunk to the bottom.

After eating, I sat back and continued to look at the accounts. After a while, I felt my belly bulging and churning. As soon as I rushed outside, I vomited in a mess in the courtyard flower garden.Vomiting like scratching his stomach, his face turned blue in the end, and he kept regurgitating bitter bile.

This noise alarmed the people in the pavilion. Uncle Qi yelled to call for a doctor, but Jian Ruolin stopped him with a gesture: "It's okay, I don't have a good appetite these days, I didn't pay attention, and I ate too much at noon It's gone." Uncle Qi still wanted to say something, but Jian Ruolin insisted: "Don't bother, everyone should do what they should do."

After the crowd dispersed, Jian Ruolin sat down by the door weakly, with a faint smile on her lips, but it made people palpitate.

Until the sun went down, he also maintained the original posture without moving.Limbs have long been sore, limp and stiff, not listening.I also tried to stand up several times in the middle, but I always failed. The strength in my body seemed to be completely exhausted by the vomiting, and I was weak.

Simply looking up at the sky, the clouds are dyed golden, and the falling flowers are flying, and they come into view, and they look bleak in the dusk when no one is there.

Watching the sun go down, my heart also sank a little bit.

This long and endless peace was broken by someone who suddenly broke in──

The boy rushed in in a hurry, staggering.Against the sun, Yunxia was crimson, but his face was pale and frightening, he heard his panicked voice, out of tune.

"It's not good, sir, son, something happened."

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Finally ready to torture, er, Mr. Xiao's setting itself is a flirtatious and affectionate noble son, and being heartless and unfeeling is actually an inevitable ending, because he is used to acting, sometimes even he himself can't tell whether it's true or not. Decisions are driven by instinct and habit.So there is no question of whether it is scum or not. It can only be said that Mr. Xiao still can't see his own heart clearly.

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