auspicious time has come

Chapter 76 I Found You
Xiao Mu came to the courtyard and stopped behind her.

Hearing the movement, Heng Yu turned around and said to him: "There was a cat here just now, it seems to have slipped in and ran away..."

"There is no shortage of shelter for them in the mansion, and the servants will not drive them away." Xiao Mu passed the fox fur and said, "You should care more about yourself, the cold after drinking is easy to invade the body, put on—"

Heng Yu stared at the fox fur that was handed in front of her, and was dazed for a while, trying to stand up.

However, she didn't know if she had been squatting for a long time, and because of the drunkenness, when she was about to stand up, she felt top-heavy, and the snow was slippery. One of them couldn't stand firmly, her feet sprained, and her body leaned forward.

Seeing this, Xiao Mu wanted to help her up, but for some reason, his body stood still for a moment, and in just this moment, she threw him to the ground.

The two of them fell together in the snow.

Hengyu's nose hit his shoulder hard, tears came out from the pain, and her mind was confused.

In this chaos, what she heard was a powerful heartbeat.

She raised her face and looked at the face that was close at hand.

Xiao Mu's expressionless face became more and more dazed at this moment, and even showed a bit of stiffness.

Those eyes, which were always sober and bright, but always seemed to hold countless secrets, were now covered with a layer of hazy drunkenness, just staring at him like this.

At this moment, everything in the world is quiet, only the snow is still falling.

Snowflakes fell on his dark eyebrows, and his eyelashes were also stained with white mist.

Heng Yu slowly stretched out her hand——

The girl's fingers were fair and slender, and there was still a hint of wine fragrance on the fingertips.

As if thinking about it, she lightly poked that cool face with her finger.

"...!" Xiao Mu's eyes trembled, seeing that her face was getting closer again, he could even smell the faint fragrance of her body... and seeing that her fingers were still moving, he hurriedly raised his hand to hold her wrist.

"Get up." He tried to sound calm enough.

The person who poked him in the face blinked his eyes in a daze, and it was obvious that he was even more drunk just by looking at his eyes.

Xiao Mu said patiently: "Get up from this Marquis..."

Heng Yu glanced at the snow stained on his hair bun, and then he came back to his senses after a long time, and said "yes", put his hands in the snow, and reluctantly stood up.

She was already a little shaky, but she felt that she shouldn't be like this—she was aware of her drinking capacity, and she had never lost her temper. Why did she feel as if she was about to get drunk at this moment?My mind is a little fuzzy.

When she stood firm and wanted to reach out to help the person she threw down, her feet hurt so much that she let out a soft "hiss".

Since Xiao Mu couldn't expect her to pull him, he got up now, saw her half bent down, and asked with a slight frown, "Did you sprain your ankle?"

"Seems to be……"

Xiao Mu shook off the snow on the fox fur, put it on for her, and helped her with an arm: "Go in first—"

Heng Yu nodded, tiptoed her left foot, and limped along with him towards the house.

When he was about to go up the stone steps, he was about to lift his foot again, when he suddenly felt his body lighten, and someone hugged him horizontally.

Xiao Mu stepped over the stone steps in two steps, still holding her upright, walked into the room without looking sideways, put the still dazed girl into the chair and sat down.

Heng Yu stared blankly at him half squatting half kneeling in front of her.

"Paper—" he said.

"Ah...?" Heng Yu's mind became numb, and after a while, he fumbled for a snow-white silk handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to him.

He took it, took off the embroidered shoes and silk stockings for her, and held her feet with a handkerchief pad.

"It will hurt a little, but if you come back in time, you will recover faster."

Heng Yu didn't know if she nodded, but stared at him without blinking, as if she had forgotten how to blink.

He held her foot with one hand and put the other on her ankle.

The girl's ankles were slender and white, half covered by the hem of the lilac-colored skirt, but it also allowed him to see a whitening scar on it——

The scar was obviously an old injury, a long one.

Xiao Mu paused.

At this moment, he no longer had any doubts in his heart.

"Master Hou, have we really never seen each other before..." A confused voice came from above his head and asked him.

Xiao Mu didn't look up at her, and a smile gradually emerged between his slightly startled brows and eyes.

seen.

—he replied inwardly.

There was a "click" sound of joints returning to their positions, and Heng Yu took a light breath.

Xiao Mu said: "You can endure pain."

His voice was very flat, but there seemed to be a rare smile on his face.

However, when she raised her head again, she saw that she was leaning on the back of the chair, her eyes had already been closed, and only the corners of her mouth were still moving slightly, as if she wanted to say something nonsense.

This is really drunk.

Xiao Mu had no choice but to put her shoes and socks back on silently.

Not to mention the treat this time, he has become her personal envoy.

He got up and looked outside the house.

The snow is much smaller.

He leaned over, put the hood on her first, and then picked her up from the chair as politely as possible.

"Drunk so easily, with such a lack of defense, what business is there to do—" he said to the drunk in his arms as he stepped down the stone steps.

"I'm a good drinker..." The drunk was barely conscious, and he murmured with dignity in mind: "...in the old days in the Yanchun Building, I drank with others until the fourth watch, and I never got drunk..."

"Where is Yanchun Building?"

"...Of course it is the largest flower building in the capital...the flower girls inside are all like immortals, each with their own charm, for the beauty of Yanchun..."

Xiao Mu: "..."

Sure enough, he has broad hobbies and has lived up to the name of a dandy.

"Master Hou..."

"Ah."

"I should, but I'm very sleepy..." Her voice became weaker and vaguer, as if she was struggling for the last time.

"Well, then sleep peacefully." As if the ice and snow melted, his voice was filled with a gentle smile.

Then, he said to himself——

"Got you."

Yes, he had looked for it.

At first he was unable to take care of himself, but when he settled down in the north, he would always think of that rainy night in the ruined temple.

He never sold the jewelry she gave him, for fear of leaking her tracks.

Or because they were in a similar situation when they met, they seemed to have seen each other from each other; or, as far as he was concerned, he had experienced a sliver of unexpected warmth in the cold ashes, whether it was from that What the little girl got was his little gift——

In short, that encounter has always had different meanings for him.

So he tried to find her, wondering if she had made it home safely.

And because he later heard that Mr. Qinghan had an accident outside the city of Youzhou, and his granddaughter was missing, he guessed whether the girl's surname was Ji——

He searched many things secretly, and after a few gropings, he got a clue and found a group of traffickers, but the information he got was that "she" had unfortunately died.

Later, he suddenly heard the news that Mr. Qinghan's stray granddaughter had been found——

He wondered if the information he got at the beginning was wrong. After all, the clues were too complicated, and there were very few avenues he could use at that time.

But guesses are guesses.

It wasn't until she came to Yingzhou suddenly that this guess became clearer.

Then tonight, it was really confirmed.

Xiao Mu lowered his eyes, looking at the peaceful sleeping face in his arms.

This is the little girl who ate naan bread with tears in her eyes, cried "Ah Weng" in her sleep, and gave him the jewelry when she was parting.

Afterwards, she really returned home safely, relying only on her little self to walk a very long and difficult road——

"It's very bitter."

His voice was very low, and was quickly scattered by the night wind and scattered in the snow.

……

Is it bitter?

If you ask Hengyu, she will definitely shake her head.

Her Royal Highness Princess Yongyang once asked her the same question with distressed eyes.

She answered no.

When people are in extreme hardship, they only think about how to survive, and they have no time to think about suffering or not.

After getting out of the dangerous situation and returning home, there is nothing but rejoicing left, and it is too late to be happy.

So she didn't feel bitter at all.

……

That night, Heng Yu slept very soundly and deeply.

I can't remember how many years, I have never slept in such a relaxed and peaceful sleep.

I didn't dream about those old things, I didn't have any unshakable vigilance, and I didn't wake up when I was startled.

When I woke up, there was no one else in the room, and the sun was shining outside the window, reflecting the snow, making the room brighter and brighter.

The light penetrated the bed net and landed on the girl's outstretched fingers.

Hengyu lay there, raised her right hand and watched quietly, the scene of the two of them falling in the snow last night flashed in her mind.

At that time, the two were very close, and Master Hou's face seemed to be...

Could it be that she was wrong?
She was already extremely drunk at that time, and she stretched out her finger to poke his face without thinking...

Then what happened?

Heng Yu struggled to remember, and moved her left foot under the quilt.

There was still pain in her ankle, reminding her that those fragmentary images were not dreams.

And the image of Xiao Mu kneeling down to straighten her ankle, in her mind at this time, had a vague sense of overlap with the scene in previous years...

Heng Yu's eyes widened slightly - she finally knew where the feeling of deja vu on Xiao Mu came from!

She sat up abruptly.

Eight years ago... in the ruined temple!

But according to her previous speculation, the identity of the boy she met in the ruined temple is very likely to be...

And later she clearly heard that the son of the Shi family who escaped from the capital at the time when Shi's family was punished in Duke Shu's mansion, had already surrendered when he was about to leave the border of Youzhou...

In other words, the gentleman of the Shi family had already died on the way to escape eight years ago.

Heng Yu calmed down slightly, frowned slightly, eyes full of suspicion.

"He is clearly Xiao Mu..." she whispered to herself.

It is true that there are not many similarities between the two of them. Is she... an illusion?
But she has never had such an illusion in the matter of memory in her life.

When Hengyu was sitting in a daze, Jiji walked in with light steps, vaguely saw that the person in the bed tent was sitting, and asked softly, "Miss, are you awake?"

"Well, what time is it?"

"Back to the girl, it's almost noon." Jiji walked to the bed, put away the bed curtain and hung it up: "Miss, do you have a headache?"

Heng Yu shook her head and said with a smile, "I slept well."

"Master Xiao is really too, how could he get the girl so drunk..."

Heng Yu opened her mouth when she heard the words, said "Ah" softly, and explained for Xiao Mu: "He didn't force me, I was drunk myself."

"The girl was really drunk last night. Master Xiao carried the girl back all the way. Before leaving, the girl was still holding on to Master Hou's robe and refused to let it go."

"...?" Heng Yu was extremely surprised, was she so cheeky when she was drunk?

Thinking of the embarrassment of the scene, Heng Yu coughed lightly, changed the topic and said, "It's probably because people are refreshed on happy events, so they tend to get drunk."

However, Xiao Mu was really flattering her, the drink last night was light, but unexpectedly it had such a strong aftertaste.

Jiji was taken aback for a moment: "Congratulations... a happy event?"

"Yes, my Jiji is getting married, isn't it a happy event?"

"Girl..." Jiji panicked for no reason: "Your servant does not have to marry..."

"If you haven't met the right person, then naturally you don't want to marry, but if that person is worthy of your marriage, why not miss it?"

Heng Yu said seriously: "To be honest, I had no intention of being in the Meng family before, and I never considered this marriage. But after that, what I never thought of was that Captain Meng handled the affair very well—— When a dispute arises, everyone is happy, which shows that he is steady in his responsibility, and it can also be seen that even though there are pedantic ideas in his family, he is willing to reflect on and correct them, which is very rare at the moment."

Speaking of this, he smiled a little: "More importantly, he is someone Jiji likes——I wrote a letter yesterday and informed my family about this matter."

Hearing this, Jiji knelt down with red eyes.

"The servant girl has been thinking over and over again these days, no matter what the girl decides, I will listen to the girl, but I...I can't bear the girl..." The little girl lowered her head, tears fell down "patter" .

"If you don't marry someone, you won't see him again."

"But girl..."

"I don't lack people to take care of me." Heng Yu cut off her words softly, and said with relief: "You shouldn't just be around me all your life, but now I can see you doing what you want, and experiencing you I deserve it, and I’m happy.”

She was surrounded by a brocade quilt, her black hair was draped over her shoulders, and she said with a smile on her palm-sized face: "My Jiji family is so nice, and I will be able to live a very good life in the future."

Gigi raised her face full of tears, met those smiling eyes, and showed a smile that seemed to be crying and smiling with her pursed mouth.

The two have known each other for many years, and at this moment, there is no need to say anything else.

"Girl...do your feet still hurt?" Jiji held back her tears and said, "Master Hou sent someone to send a bottle of medicinal oil this morning. May I rub it for you?"

"It really hurts, so let's rub it." Heng Yu moved her body and sat on the side of the bed.

Jiji responded "Yes", took the medicated oil, stepped forward to roll up the trousers for the girl, poured the medicated oil into the palm of her hand, and massaged the wound evenly.

Heng Yu lowered her eyes to look at the serious little maid, her eyes were also reddish before she knew it.

This marriage, she has seriously considered it, in addition to the Meng family's own, she has also considered whether the Meng family is involved with the person who killed her A Weng back then——

Cheng Ping's words gave her the answer, the Meng family was unaware, clean and simple.

So she can nod with confidence.

And now she is one step closer to the truth, and the danger is also one step closer—she brought Jiji by her side back then because Jiji was helpless.Now, before the danger comes, it is really great to see Gigi has her own "home" again and can live in peace and stability.

……

On the other side, after finishing his errands, Meng Dazhu hurriedly went to see his general.

From afar, I saw Yin Hai standing outside the study door alone in the cold wind.

　Recently, it feels like the whole world is snowing, but I don’t have it here, so I can only make up for it in the text, woo woo woo——Snow, what do you owe me?

　　(Wait for the monthly ticket, it seems that there will be double at the end of the month)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)