Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 60

[Chapter 59 2]

Zhu Quan was originally a member of the Wei family. Wei Yu began to serve his life as a child. After Wei Yu married his wife at the age of seventeen and moved out of the Wei family, he also followed him. A year later, Wei Yu lost his wife and did not remarry after that.

In terms of governing the army and border affairs, Wei Yu undoubtedly had a way to govern the army, and there was nothing to blame for the cleansing of border affairs. But after being alone, he began to live a debauched private life, quite open to men and women, and the women around him were more like a marquee. There are not many days left in Yuyang in a year, like rootless duckweed. Lady Xu was concerned, and sometimes summoned Zhu Quan to inquire about Wei Yu. After Zhu Quan returned, he would occasionally persuade Wei Yu to marry again, so that he could settle down.

Wei Yu was usually not annoyed, and just laughed it off.

This time, Wei Yu left for Dai County again, and left in a bit of a hurry, and on that day, he sent the concubines away. Zhu Quan remembered that during this time wei, compared to before, he seemed to be a little depressed after returning home, and his heart was also restless. Fang was just called away by an old acquaintance to eat wine, but he couldn’t push it, followed him to a liquor store a few streets away, sat down to drink a few drinks, noticed that on the road outside the door of the liquor store, people kept running in one direction, shouting “fire” in their mouths, going out to investigate, looking in the direction where they came from in the distance, and sure enough, there was a faint fire in the sky, and they couldn’t let go of their hearts and hurried back. Only then did I run to the intersection of the street, and I saw in the distance that it was really my own house that was on fire, and the fire was not small, and it was raging in the sky.

Zhu Quan was stunned and hurriedly called for someone to put out the fire. Only the summer in the north of Japan is dry, and now although it is gradually entering autumn, the weather is still hot, plus there has been no rain for many days, the fire has burned up, how can it still be suppressed, can only watch the fire gradually engulf the whole house. Fortunately, Wei Yu was lonely, when he first chose a house, he did not like to be adjacent to others, there were no houses around the house, which did not spread out, and when the fire was finally small, it was finally extinguished, and the house was already unrecognizable, the roof collapsed, leaving only an empty shell, and all the utensils inside were burned.

Zhu Quan remembered that before he left the door, there was no fire in the house. I don’t know how the fire burned. The only possibility was that the remnants of Mars in the hearth were not covered, which spread out and ignited the fire.

Zhu Quan was full of remorse, and blamed himself for not going out to eat and drink, and while cleaning up the fire, he sent someone to tell Lady Xu not to mention it.

……

When Wei Shao went out in the morning, he and Xiao Qiao you and I nong, clinging to each other, agreed to come back for dinner in the evening.

In the evening, Little Joe took a new bath, changed into a newly tailored primrose lightly decorated shirt, and slightly stained the mirror with finely perfumed rouge.

The person in the mirror has a slender eyebrow, Qiu Bo is lying horizontally, her face is like a hibiscus, and she is envious of Yunxia, and even she herself is happy to see it.

Xiao Qiao began to wait for Wei Shao to return. I waited until dark, and it was past the agreed meal, but I didn’t see Wei Shao return for a long time.

Little Joe gradually became a little uneasy. I wanted to go to the office and was about to send someone to see it, when a soldier from Wei Shao came and passed on a message, saying that the prince was in trouble and would not come back for dinner, so that the lady did not have to wait any longer.

Wei Shao was busy with his daily affairs, and temporary things were often had, so Xiao Qiao did not doubt that he had it, and he went to eat first.

Wei Shao is sensitive to cats. Although the cat had not yet been sent away, Xiao Qiao had taken a bath, and did not dare to play with it again at night, lest he accidentally get the cat hair or cat spit and cause Wei Shao to be uncomfortable, and after returning to the room, he had no intention of doing anything else, and after calming down, he sat down and continued to copy the scriptures.

The room was quiet, with the occasional slight crackling sound from the burst of desk lamps.

Xiao Qiao calmly condensed, holding the pen in his right hand, and with the tip of the pen, the delicate white veil was gradually filled with lines of Juan Xiuyali’s words. It is written that “for example, the sea is a man who fights for weight, and the number of disasters can still be exhausted.” When people have the heart to seek the Tao, the effort is not stopped, will be a keguo, why not”, she stared at this line with her eyes, slowly stopped the pen, and finally put the pen on the shelf, supporting the candle fire on the desk, and gradually came out of the spirit.

Wei Shao undoubtedly liked her. Recently, she has even gradually felt the degree of infatuation. As for whether he liked, or was obsessed with, her flesh of the face or her as a person, frankly, Little Joe didn’t know. Because the two were together, even during the day, Wei Shao did the most to her, that is, to fiddle with her and do so much of a man’s and a woman’s thing with her.

In addition, Little Joe couldn’t think of any other conversations between the two of them.

Sometimes when she is in a strong mood, she actually wants to ask a little, but she does not have the courage to ask. There is no courage to test: one day, he will not let go of the Qiao family.

Little Joe knew that this idea was both childish and ridiculous. I hope that men will let go of the hatred in their hearts because of a woman, how great is this woman, in order to dissolve the hatred in men’s hearts that were originally regarded as disparate?

Probably only the Buddha has such a power to purify sentient beings.

“The mind dwells in the way of the world. In all things, feel free. She remembered

that when she copied it the other day, there was a sentence in the scripture.

She is just a mortal, and she does not know what is the way to live in the world, but always remind herself that the heart always dwells in the way of self-realization, and can live herself, if she can, it may not be too late to think about the lifelong things with this man.

……

Wei Shao was delayed.

Late at night, Little Joe left the light in his room and went to bed first.

She was a little hung in her heart, sleeping and waking up, waking up and sleeping, until the early hours of the morning, it should have been the time of the child, hazy dreaming of Big Joe and Bi Yan.

Dreams are fragmentary. She woke up, opened her eyes, but coldly met a pair of eyes that shone with a faint glow.

Wei Shao didn’t know when he had already returned to his room, didn’t make any movement, didn’t go to bed, and actually stood in front of the bed, as if he had been staring at himself like this just now.

Little Joe was startled, patted his chest lightly, exhaled, climbed up from the pillow, and looked at him complaining in a soft voice: “Are you trying to scare me to death?” How come back there is no sound. Wei Shao

withdrew the gaze that was looking at her, turned around, and began to undress himself, “When I saw that you were asleep, I didn’t wake up.” You take care of yourself.

He took off his clothes and went to the bathhouse. It came out after a moment. Little Joe asked him if he was hungry, and he said he wasn’t hungry. Then he blew the light and went to bed and lay down.

When he turned around just now, Little Joe actually noticed that his look was a little strange. And before going out in the morning, sentence two people.

Now that he looked like this, Little Joe thought he was a little stranger. Lying side by side with him for a while, I didn’t see him hugging himself, just lying there on his back, as if he had slept in the past, it was really abnormal, and finally he couldn’t help but ask: “What happened to the government office today?” I can’t come back for dinner. “Little

things. It’s just cumbersome, so it takes some gods. Wei Shao replied.

Little Joe could hear that his voice seemed to be a little tired and worried. After hesitating, he leaned over to him and asked softly, “What’s wrong with you?” I don’t think you seem very happy. Going out in the morning is also not like this.

“None.” Wei Shao said, “It’s just that there are many things today, and there are some lack of things at this time.” Not early, you also go to bed earlier.

Little Joe listened, and he didn’t seem to be willing to say anything more to himself at the moment, so he was silent.

That night, little Joe added a little thought and slept very lightly. Wei Shao remained motionless, not to mention the way he had before, when he reached over and touched her in his sleep. I don’t know if he slept too deeply, or how. After a night without words, the next morning, the two got up. Xiao Qiao felt a little mentally ill, and looking at Wei Shao, his face did not seem to be very good. The two packed up and went out to Madame Xu. As she walked down the steps, the cat that was still in Chunniang’s room ran all the way from the corridor, ran to Little Joe’s feet, burrowed under her skirt, and rubbed around and meowedMeow softly.

Wei Shao stopped.

Little Joe saw him staring at the cat with two eyes, as if remembering something, and his expression showed some stiffness, suspecting that he was allergic last time and disgusted with the cat.

It was just that this disgust, just like the silence after he returned to the room last night, came a little plain, so that she could not touch her head.

I hadn’t seen him like that two days ago.

Little Joe hurriedly picked up the cat and handed it to a maid who had caught up with her, telling her to look after it.

Wei Shao had already lifted his feet and went forward. Little Joe kept up with him. The two went to the North House together.

Today is fifteen. Chu also came. Arrived slightly earlier than Wei Shao and Xiao Qiao. Originally, after asking Mrs. Xu about Ann, she was already leaving, but when she saw her son coming, she stopped again.

After entering the North House, Wei Shao finally changed the silence that had begun after returning last night, and seemed normal, and a smile appeared on his face when dealing with Madam Xu. And Xiao Qiao bowed to Lady Xu and gossiped for three or two sentences, and Lady Xu said, “You don’t know it yet, last night your cousin’s house didn’t know how it caught fire, and Zhu Quan said that it burned the essence.” Fortunately, no lives were harmed, nor did it affect the neighbors. He came back these two days and told him to stay at home. I used to be unhappy that he moved out, and when something happened, I just asked him to come back.

Little Joe was a little surprised. He looked at Wei Shao next to him. There was no expression on his face. Only his eyes were slightly narrowed, and he didn’t know what he was thinking.

However, Zhu Shi, when he heard that Wei Yu was going to come back to live, his face showed disgust. Although it has been trying to cover up, the bottom of the eyebrows cannot be hidden.

Madame Xu glanced at her coldly. She was a little embarrassed and lowered her head.

This scene fell into Little Joe’s eyes. Little Joe also had some feelings in his heart.

I have been with Zhu’s mother-in-law for such a long time, and I have dealt with her many times, in fact, I have somewhat touched Zhu’s temperament.

A person’s mindset has a lot to do with their origin and the education they can get at an early age because of their birth. But this is not inevitable. If you have an open heart, the narrow vision caused by the lack of education will slowly open up with later experience, and when it accumulates to a certain time, people will inevitably be reborn.

Unfortunately, This is not the case with Chu’ family. Even now, she seems to have not been able to find the identity of her Houfu lady.

Little Joe certainly had no right to pity her. For this mother-in-law, it did not reach the point of deep hatred.

I just don’t like her.

“In two days, it will be the Deer Li Conference, and I heard that your brother will also participate in the riding and shooting?”

Mrs. Xu turned to Xiao Qiao and looked very excited.

Little Qiao smiled and replied, “I didn’t think he would be in the limelight when the time came.” It is rare to encounter such a grand event, and young people cannot avoid yearning for it. So I didn’t stop it.
Madame
Xu smiled and said, “Why stop it?” Young people should have a competitive spirit. A good winner wins. I used to attend in person in previous years. When you first come to my house this year, you should also show your face. Then come with me.

Xiao Qiao bowed down and thanked Zhu Shi’s gaze.

“By the way, does your brother-in-law have a suitable mount?” Before leaving, Madame Xu thought about it and asked Wei Shao again, “If not, you can choose a good horse for him and step up your training in two days.”

“Grandmother, my cousin has already given him a green horse before.”

Wei Shao replied. The tone is light.

Madame Xu was relieved, nodded and smiled, “I know that he is careful.” Your brother-in-law was not there for two days when he first came, and he received you. When everyone is busy for a while, you have to thank your eldest brother.

Wei Shao smiled slightly.

[End of This Chapter]