Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 50

[Chapter 50 27]

Wei Shao’s horse was only half an arrow away, and Wei Yu drove forward to meet him, saying in a loud voice, “Second brother, coincidentally, I just returned from hunting, and I actually met here!” Wei Shao

had already seen Wei Yu and his party, and slowly stopped their horses in the middle of the road, the two big horses were wrong, and a smile appeared on their faces: “How about today’s hunt?” “The

second brother sees for himself!”

Wei Yu turned his head and pointed to the prey behind him that was hanging on the side of the horse.

Wei Shao took a look at it and praised, “Sure enough, it was a lot of harvest!”

Wei Yu smiled, “If the second brother is empty, come to my house again, our brother drank and drank last time, this time take wild meat to drink, I think it will help the wine to be more happy!”

Wei Shao said, “Just what I want!” While talking, two eyes had already swept towards Qiao Ci behind Wei Yu.

Qiao Ci sat on the horse in a daze at first, listening to a few conversations between Wei Yu and the young man, and no matter how long he stayed, he guessed that the person should be Yanhou Wei Shao, his brother-in-law. Seeing that his two eyes swept towards him, although he still had the smile on his face when he spoke to Wei Yu, the gaze he threw could not feel half a smile, and he hurriedly turned over and dismounted and stood on the ground.

Wei Yu turned his head along with Wei Shao’s gaze, and then smiled, “He is the younger brother of his younger sister, the son of the Yanzhou Qiao family, the second brother of your brother-in-law.” Yesterday you happened to be out of the city on two days, and I followed my grandmother’s words and took Qiao Gongzi to fulfill the friendship of the landlord. Just returned from hunting in the fishing mountains, just happened to meet here.
When
Wei Yu spoke, Qiao Ci saw that Wei Shao’s eyes had been looking at him, a little cold, and couldn’t help but think of the words that Sister Ah had repeatedly told herself yesterday, saying that the brother-in-law was old and heavy, and his personality was lonely, and now when he saw it, sure enough, his expression became restrained, he hesitated, he took two steps forward, chong Wei Shao saw a salute, called him “brother-in-law”, and then there was no word, standing there motionless.

At the age of four, Wei Shao began to follow his father to draw a bow and learn arrows, the arrow technique was exquisite, and his eyesight was like that of an eagle falcon, in fact, he saw this teenager who came side by side with Wei Yu from a distance. Seeing that his face and eyebrows were similar to those of Little Qiao Xiao, he immediately guessed that it should be his wife and brother Qiao Ci.

As far as Wei Shao’s thoughts were concerned, for this trip northward by the emissaries sent from Yanzhou, he not only did not expect anything, but he was a little bored.

In his subconscious, he didn’t want to have anything to do with any of Joe’s family except Little Joe.

But that’s just a thought. After all, at the beginning, whether it was for the order of his grandmother or the purpose of taking advantage of the geography of Yanzhou, he had already married Qiao Nu, and no one had taken a sword to his neck at the wedding that day, so it had only been so long ago, at least for now, that he could not completely break the line with the Qiao family.

Therefore, a few days ago, when Yanzhou and his party were about to arrive in Yuyang, Zhuo County suddenly sent news that there was an accident and needed him to personally go over and deal with it as soon as possible. He took it for granted, and without any psychological pressure, left to do what he felt was more important.

The night before leaving, in the study, when he told Little Joe the news, he was not unaware of the disappointment that swept through her eyes.

At that time, I did hesitate. I wonder if I want to explain it to her. But this hesitation passed in a flash.

He was dismissive, and felt completely unnecessary to explain anything to her for such a coincidence.

Then he went to Zhuo County. On the first day everything was normal during the day, and at night, I don’t know why, as soon as I closed my eyes, I always remembered the eyes that she looked at herself with the color of disappointment last night, and finally she smiled at herself. My heart seemed to be a little empty, and I couldn’t sleep.

The next night, last night, at his worst sleep, he got up and came out, rode outside alone and rode a circle of horses, and came back in the middle of the night. Pushing the door in, I saw another beauty on the bed. It turned out that Zhuo County, who had only been promoted for a few months, was quite “interesting” and personally sent it to his room after he left the room.

Wei Shao used to be nicknamed “Little Bully”, in addition to acting violently, giving up who else, turning his face faster than turning over a book is also a lead, after coming in, staring at the beauty lying on his bed, he did not know which lung tube was poked, he was furious on the spot, pulled out his sword, and cut off the bedpost with a sword, and the top of the bed was half down, and the frightened beauty screamed and crawled out of the house with a rolling belt.

Early this morning, Wei Shao withdrew the county guard who had slapped the horse’s foot, hurriedly settled the matter, and immediately set off to rush back. Didn’t arrive until this time in the evening. Unexpectedly, I met my brother-in-law here. Just now I saw him and Wei Yu riding side by side on horseback, very intimate, talking and laughing with him, when he saw himself, he became strange, the lung tube inexplicably seemed to be poked again, his face was not good, nor did he get off the horse, only nodded slightly at Qiao Ci and asked: “When did you come?” “It was

noon yesterday.”

Qiao Ciying. I thought that Sister Ah was indeed right. This brother-in-law is indeed high-ranking, arrogant and unkind, completely different from Cousin Wei. Fortunately, I had to have sister’s advice in advance, otherwise if I didn’t know, I was afraid that I would have been annoyed at this moment.

I also thought that Sister Ah would have to live with such a man every day, which must be very difficult.

After all, he was still young, his face could not contain the thoughts in his heart, and when he stared at Wei Shao, his expression became more and more estranged.

The brother-in-law and brother-in-law were speechless. Wei Shao paused, turned his face to Wei Yu and said, “It’s not early, so let’s go back together, right?” In the evening, a feast was set up to pick up the wind for him, and his brother also came with him.

Wei Yu smiled in response. Wei Shao glanced at Qiao Ci, lifted the reins of the horse, and the horse continued to move forward, Wei Yu followed, and a group of retinues got up from the ground to follow, Qiao Ci saw the situation, and hurriedly turned over on the horse, a group of people and horses, hula was huge, straight into the city gate to the Wei mansion.

……

Wei Shao entered the door and ordered a banquet to be set up, and then went straight into the West House.

His footsteps were at first hurried, and when he entered the inner courtyard, he resumed his usual steps, and finally pushed the door in, stepped into the threshold, looked up at the front, but did not see Xiao Qiao come out as usual, and he took a few steps in, opened the curtain, and did not see her on the bed.

Wei Shao looked back and saw that the servant woman had already followed, and asked, “Why isn’t the lady there?” The

servant woman bowed and said, “At the Golden Dragon Temple’s festival today, the old lady took her lady and the lady to go early in the morning, but she has not returned.”

Wei Shao paused.

……

The sky will be dark, and the side hall of the Wei Mansion is already brightly lit, the four corners are burning with burning scepters, and a rectangular feast is laid in the hall. In the evening, the prince Wei Shao, who returned from Zhuo County, entertained his brother-in-law Qiao Ci and the emissary Yang Feng, who had come from afar. In addition to Wei Yu, there are also Li Dian, Wei Liang and other cadres. Wei Shao sat on the main seat, with Qiao Ci in his left hand, and went down to Yang Feng. Wei Yulie was located on Wei Shao’s right hand, opposite Qiao Ci, and the rest of Li Dianwei Liang and other accompanying guests also sat in their seats according to the sequence, and the guests and hosts gathered together and sat on a long feast. The dishes are sumptuous, with cattle, sheep, deer and everything, and the beautiful maid holding the wine is constantly pouring for the guests. In order to help the sake, there are also bare-chested samurai dancing on the puffy drum to make a ghost-faced dance. The court must not be called Minghua, and the banquet must not be said to be delicious.

But the atmosphere of this table is a bit dull.

When the Yanzhou emissary Yang Feng opened the banquet, he held his hands high to the wine bottle, and Bi respectfully conveyed Qiao Yue’s thanks to Wei Shao, saying that the previous time he led troops to help, it was like saving the difficulty of falling down, relieving the difficulty of fire, worshiping the virtue of the clouds and the heavens, and feeling the grace of the grass. And so on, gushing.

In fact, as far as the facts are concerned, Wei Shao’s joint Attack on Xuzhou and the lifting of the siege of Yanzhou this time, saying that it saved the difficulty of hanging upside down and the difficulty of fire, but it is not an exaggeration. However, when Yang Feng said it in such a tone, it sounded like he was praising virtue, and the flattery breath was even more overwhelming.

Qiao Ci’s face was red as she listened. The courtiers who saw Wei Shao on the other side all looked at themselves and Yang Feng, and there was no sound in all directions, leaving only Yang Feng’s voice ringing in his ears. His position was at Wei Shao’s hand again, and he noticed that When Yang Feng first started saying these words, WeiShao’s eyes clearly revealed disgust, waiting for Yang Feng to talk at length, seeing that he was forcibly patient, he did not interrupt it, and he couldn’t help but think of the words she said to herself yesterday when she asked for others than on herself, and she was even more ashamed, although she was full of precious wine in front of her, where was she still in the mood to feast and drink?

It was hard to wait for Yang Feng to finally finish his thanks, Wei Shao just raised a glass in a vain way and responded lightly. The scene suddenly became awkward. Fortunately, Wei Yu, who was sitting opposite, made a sound and hit the round field, and the feast was able to continue.

From beginning to end, Qiao Ci did not have a single sentence except for a few necessary questions and answers.

Wei Shao’s look was also always self-sustaining, and he didn’t say much.

The brother-in-law and brother-in-law invariably made a gourd for the mouth, and the rest of the accompanying guests naturally had little interest. It was all up to Wei Yu to talk loudly on the side, and Li Dian, Wei Liang, and others to echo it, so that the feast would not go on in the cold.

But it also dispersed early.

……

Wei Shao returned to the Westinghouse again. The candles in the room had already been lit by the next person, but the grandmother had not yet brought Little Joe back.

Wei Shao went to the study instead, sat down in front of the case, and held in his palm the book that he had not yet had time to finish the night before he left for Zhuo County, and browsed it intently.

After a moment, he suddenly turned his head and looked out the window. “Snap”, put down the book, get up and walk away quickly.

Anyway, it was nothing to do, and it was late, so he decided to pick up his grandmother himself.

Wei Shaocai stepped out of the threshold of the study, and heard the end of the corridor leading to the bedroom in front of him, and there were several faint sounds of women’s voices, mixed with the voice of ChunNiang.

Wei Shao then retreated. After sitting down again, I finally finished the book in my hand, rolled it up neatly again, and put it back in place, before I got up and went back to the bedroom.

……

Xiao Qiao followed Lady Xu to the Golden Dragon Temple in the north of the city in the morning.

In a chaotic world, Buddhas, The Tao, and even witches and immortals have flourished unprecedentedly. The festival at the Golden Dragon Temple lasts from morning to night, and good men and women listen to the lectures religiously. At the end of the day, I took a nap at noon, and at this point, don’t say that Zhu’s heart is not here, even Xiao Qiao also feels difficult.

She quietly looked at Madame Xu beside her. I found that she was still concentrating, at least, there was no fatigue in her look.

Finally, when the festival was over, Lady Xu offered sesame oil and was sent out by the Zen master, and then left for the Wei mansion.

After a day of stopping outside, Xiao Qiao had just changed his coat, sat on the dresser to remove his makeup, and when he removed the bun, the door behind him was pushed open, and he turned his head to see Wei Shao come in.

She didn’t show any other expression either. Because the bun had just been half removed, he didn’t get up, only smiled at him slightly, and said in his usual tone: “Husband Jun is back?” After a while, I will serve my husband to change his clothes. Wei Shao

walked in, stopped a few steps behind her, his gaze fell on a face she reflected in the bronze mirror, and flicked his hand. Several maids who had originally surrounded Xiao Qiao on the side got up one after another, bowed to Wei Shao, and then went out of the door.

Wei Shao came to Xiao Qiao’s back, knelt down, and raised his hand to pull out a gold hook and claw inserted in her bun.

The full head of green silk immediately fell like a waterfall, wei Shao’s other palm spread out to catch it, squeezed a bunch of cool and slippery green silk in the palm of his hand, and slowly rubbed it a few times.

Wei Shao’s body was tall and majestic, and the two of them sat back and forth like this, and he was also half a head taller than her.

Xiao Qiao did not turn around, nor did he move, only raised his eyes and looked at Wei Shao sitting behind him in the bronze mirror.

The mirror polished smoothly like water clearly illuminates the two faces before and after. Even the roots of his eyebrows on the peak of his eyebrows could be seen clearly.

Wei Shao brought the green silk in his palm to the bottom of his nose, sniffed deeply, and his lips immediately attached to her ear, whispering, “I only came back in the evening.” A family banquet was set up, and the wind was received for your brother.

Little Joe lowered his eyes. He muttered softly, “I’ll know when I get back.” Wei Shao

grabbed the sides of her waist with both hands, held her whole body like a doll and turned it in a direction, letting her face himself, looking down, his lips touching her moonlit forehead, slowly moving down.

His lips dried slightly, touching her soft cheeks that had just been moistened with water, bringing a slightly rough feeling of rustling.

He took both of her arms and rested them on his shoulders, stared into her eyes, commanded her, and hugged him tightly around his neck.

Little Joe’s eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he closed his eyes.

His body was light, and he was lifted up in the air.

……

In fact, it was only two nights apart.

But little Joe sensed his eagerness. It was as if he hadn’t touched her in a long time.

A little different from the way he was used to opening and closing before, he seemed to have a little flattering meaning tonight. Although I could feel his eagerness, I didn’t force it to join her at first, and when she was slowly touched by him, she was also flushed, and her breathing had a delicate meaning, which was what she wanted.

During the whole process, Little Joe closed his eyes most of the time, feeling that his head was a little dizzy, but the limbs and skeletons were very comfortable, and at the end, it seemed to be washed by a warm current, and the whole person was slightly shivering, and his toes were tightly curled up.

It can even be said that this is the best time she feels after having a marriage with him.

[End of This Chapter]