into the bosom

Chapter 339 Two Last Letters

Qin Niang answered "Yes" and got up slowly, but her expression was somewhat restrained.

Xu Jiao raised his finger and pointed to Zhuzi beside him, "Sit down!"

Qin Niang thanked again, and then sat down on the twig.

Seeing this, Xu Jiao frowned slightly and asked, "Could it be that Qin Niang will have a separation with me after my mother left?" His tone was not without sadness.

After Qin Niang heard this, her complexion changed, and she waved her hands again and again, "No, no, my lady, don't think too much about it. Thanks to my lady's great kindness, my maidservant can now sit there safely, and there are those in the courtyard of Xikuayuan Everyone is thinking of coming to kowtow to the lady and the gentleman for their kindness."

"You are mother's people. You have served mother for most of your life. You are loyal. I can't leave you alone. After Qin Niang went back, she told the others to rest assured that as long as they are with mother in the future Do your job with heart, I will treat you as my mother treated you in the past." Xu Jiao's words were sincere.

Qin Niang is such a shrewd and capable person, how can she not tell the truth?Immediately, he laughed, "What kind of person is the lady, does the maid not know? The maid just changed places and felt a little uncomfortable, but she didn't have any intention of meeting the lady, otherwise the maid would The son will not come to see the lady at this time."

As soon as Xu Jiao turned his eyes, he landed on the things Qinniang brought.

Qin Niang didn't come empty-handed, she also brought two boxes, one large and one small, which are now placed on the table.

Qin Niang followed her gaze and looked at the two boxes together, "Actually, Madam gave an order early in the morning. After a hundred years, all the properties under her name will be directly entrusted to Madam. The servant girl is free these few days." It is cleaning these things. In this box are all the land deeds and house deeds under the name of the lady, as well as the account books of those shops, as well as the personal deeds of the people in the Xikuo courtyard. It's better to take over earlier." Qin Niang said and gently picked up the big box and brought it to Xu Jiao.

Xu Jiao looked at the box, but he didn't reach out to take it for a long time, his eyes were quietly moist again, "Mother Qin knows very well what happened to me and mother, mother left suddenly, and I can't even avenge her, so where did it come from?" face to pick up these things?"

"The lady said this is wrong. What is the relationship between the lady and the wife? What else can it be other than mother and daughter? How does the lady treat the lady? The maid is not blind. She can see clearly, even if she is her own daughter. Madam From the day she was identified as her daughter, in the eyes of Qin Niang, the lady is the lady, and these things should naturally belong to the lady. Besides, although the lady has taken over the property, she has also taken responsibility. We follow Madam's family and life will depend on Madam alone." Qin Niang smiled lightly.

These words made Xu Jiao ponder for a while, and finally reached out to take the box over, feeling heavy in his hand and heart, "If I do something wrong in the future, I will ask Qin Niang Tell me more about it."

Qin Niang bowed her body when she heard the words, "In the future, Qin Niang will naturally want to stay with the lady. As long as the lady does not despise Qin Niang, Qin Niang will definitely take good care of the lady for the lady." After finishing speaking, Qin Niang turned her eyes , fell on the other smaller box at hand, but there was a little more hesitation on the face, "This thing was discovered by the servant girl when she was cleaning those things. It was not there earlier. It seems that the madam prepared it, and deliberately Hidden, the servant girl is in a hurry to come over now, mainly because she wants to bring this thing to the lady."

Hearing what she said, Xu Jiao immediately knew that the thing Qinniang sent was extremely important, she frowned suspiciously, and took the box over.

Before she could open it, Qin Niang got up and said goodbye to her, "It's late at night, since the things have been delivered, the servant girl will not bother you here anymore, the lady is tired these days, please take care of yourself Rest."

Xu Jiao understood what she meant, so she wouldn't keep her, she just said to her, "I'll go and see you tomorrow, if there's anything you need, just tell Neg Xue first."

Qin Niang thanked her again, and Xu Jiao asked Lixue to send her out, then looked at the two boxes on the table by the faint candlelight, and after a moment of pondering, dragged the smaller box over.The box was locked, but Qinniang handed her two keys besides these two boxes just now, Xu Jiao tried it, unlocked it with one of them, and opened the box.

The box was actually full of letters, Xu Jiao took it out and looked at it by the candlelight, the slender Emei picked it up in surprise, it turned out to be a letter written by the cheap father to Mrs Zhao, or a letter of love, No matter how elegant and elegant the words are, they cannot get rid of the lingering meaning between the lines. Xu Jiao looked at the thick stack of letters in the box, and his expression suddenly became intriguing. , are all love letters?
Xu Jiao thought about Qin Niang's expression just now, shook her head in her heart, and then continued to read those letters patiently.

This love letter gradually became a family letter. Looking at these love letters, Xu Jiao's impression of Cheap Daddy became more and more concrete in his mind. This is a talented but dedicated and gentle man. No wonder he was able to charm thousands of girls.Only Xu is because of his extraordinary talent and affection, he has the arrogance of a literati in his bones, and he is also much more sensitive emotionally.

After reading these letters one by one, I just revisited the relationship process between the deeply affectionate but short-lived couple, but there was nothing that Xu Jiao thought there would be. Could it be that she was wrong?

Suspiciously, Xu Jiao folded up the letter in his hand, and put it back into the box in order.Feeling her eyes were a little sore, she blinked and raised her head, turned her head to look out the window, the night was dark, thump, thump, knocking three times...

Xu Jiao frowned, and called out to Xue Xue.

Negative Xue was outside, hearing the sound, hurried in to listen to orders.

"It's already this hour, and your husband hasn't come back yet?"

Negative Xue shook her head, and Xu Jiao's brows frowned even tighter.Looking up, I saw Lingxue standing under the lamp, dressed in plain clothes, and looked thinner in the night. These days, not only her, but also the people around her have decreased a lot, Xu Jiao felt guilty and distressed , said in a soft voice, "You go and rest first! I sleep a lot during the day, and I'm a little sleepy now, please brighten the candle for me, I have something to look at, just waiting for Mr. .”

Negative snow looked at her, hesitated for a moment, and then said "yes", and prepared two more candles for Xu Jiao, which illuminated the room as if it were daytime, and then retreated.

Xu Jiao looked at Mr. Jiuyi's letter again by the candlelight, until she picked up this letter, she was slightly taken aback, two conspicuous red dots faintly appeared on the back of the paper, Xu Jiao unfolded the letter paper, carefully Upon closer inspection, as expected, those two spots looked like blood.Xu Jiao frowned suspiciously, and then lowered his eyes to read the letter carefully.

This must be the last letter written by Mr. Jiuyi to Mrs. Zhao——

Beloved wife, Ah Wu, sees the words like meeting: the deadline is approaching, and I am afraid that there will be no return date after leaving.For the rest of my life, in my family, in my country, and in my loyalty, although I have regrets and unwillingness, I have no regrets and no regrets.The only one who bears my wife and children is the white prime minister Zhuang Chengkong.However, there are some things that have to be done, but I hope that when we meet in the spring, Ah Wu will forgive me.There is one more thing, Heng has nothing else to do in this life, the only paintbrush that can still be passed on, all the paintings are stored in the box, and I will keep them with my wife and children.If the child likes to draw, I hope that Awu invites a famous teacher to teach him carefully.When the boy is an adult, I will entrust all my paintings to the boy.absolutely.

This is obviously Mr. Jiuyi's last letter. Xu Jiao felt a little uncomfortable reading it. His eyes fell on the two drops of blood. The places where the two drops of blood spattered happened to be on the word "painting". On the painting of the brush, the other place is on the painting of my painting in the last sentence. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but those two places happen to be where the head and the tail meet. Xu Jiao read the letter silently in his heart, and put the painting He read the word again, and a light flashed in his eyes.

Her heart was pounding, if these two characters for "painting" were the clues specially left by Mr. Jiuyi, she could think of it, but how could others not think of it?When the late emperor was able to spare the Jingfu, he must have been sure that Mr. Jiuyi did not dare to leave any clues, and even the things left by Mr. Jiuyi, the late emperor had already secretly sent someone to check them one by one to make sure that there was no problem at all. Don't worry, how did Mr. Jiuyi hide it from the late emperor's eyes and ears?
Besides, Mr. Jiu Yi mentioned his paintings. She had checked those paintings countless times, but she couldn't find any clues. Did she think too much, or did she miss something?
Thinking of this, Xu Jiao's doubts in his mind not only did not resolve, but also piled up one after another, making it more and more difficult to solve.

Frowning and glanced into the box, she couldn't help but froze.There is actually a letter lying at the bottom of the box, but this letter is clearly Mr. Jiuyi's last letter, and Mrs. Zhao should have sorted out those letters just now in chronological order. This should be the last letter. .

Xu Jiao hurriedly put away the letter in his hand, and hurried to get the letter.He picked it up and looked at it by the candlelight, but his fingers froze on the envelope.

The writing on this letter is not Mr. Jiuyi's, but the three characters "Heng Lang Qi" in the letter are in the elegant lower script with hairpin flowers, written by a woman, and Xu Jiao can recognize the handwriting, which is exactly from Mrs. Zhao's hand, and the ink The stains are still fresh.

Xu Jiao hesitated for a moment, but still slowly took out the letter from the envelope, and slowly unfolded it before his eyes.

Mrs. Zhao's words are much more straightforward than Mr. Jiuyi's, but Xu Jiao's heart tightened suddenly and tears filled his eyelashes.

Ah Heng, I can't remember when I heard about you from someone else, saying that you were gone.From then on, the whole world seemed to me to be nothing but chaos and no clarity.At first, I thought it was you who broke our vows, abandoned me, and took away my only reason for living.Both you and the child are gone, and in the extreme fear and longing, I have bred resentment towards you.I have been entangled in love and hate for several years, and my resentment always finds an outlet. Inadvertently, I became what I would hate myself.Perhaps it was because of God's pity that he bestowed Ajiao on me. This child is my salvation.Several months of dreaming seemed to be a gift from God. On this day, I woke up from the dream in a nightmare. When I opened the window, I could see the galaxy above my head, and the sky was full of stars. Just like when you were there, I suddenly felt relieved.Ah Heng, I no longer resent the injustice of fate. Everything is tempered by God. I will slowly walk towards the end of my life with the thoughts of you.I believe that you will keep your promise and wait for me by the bridge of Naihe.Just wait for me, when I come to see you, I will tell you what happened in the second half of my life without you, the scenery I have seen, and all kinds of things about my Ajiao.I have handed over all of your paintings to Ajiao. I believe that she was sent to me by you in the dark. She is your Ajiao.

After reading a letter, Xu Jiao was sobbing, tears welled up in his eyes.Xu Jiao couldn't imagine how Mrs. Zhao felt when she just woke up from the dream and remembered everything, but she would rather believe that Mrs. Zhao was really relieved.I would rather believe that under the Nine Springs, beside the Naihe Bridge, at the end of time and space, they have really met again, and they will never be separated hand in hand.

Tick, tick... from time to time, Xu Jiao frowned uncomfortably in his ears, and it took a long time before he struggled to wake up from the dream.

Only when I opened my eyes did I realize that the sky was bright, and the ticking sound was the rain had stopped, and the rain fell from the tip of the leaves.She was lying on the soft couch, with the letters she read yesterday scattered around her.She didn't know when she fell asleep last night, she sat up, looked around in a daze, and called out to Xue Xue.

Negative snow entered in a hurry, Xu Jiao hurriedly asked, "Did your lord not come back last night?" When he asked this, his brows were already furrowed, and worry was visible between his brows and eyes.

Negative snow shook her head, "I haven't come back yet, but Mr. Lang sent someone back to tell me that he has some official duties and can't go back to the mansion for the time being. I just want my wife to feel at ease and take good care of my body. When he is free, he will come Come right back."

Where can Xu Jiao really feel at ease?She has been living in a muddle these days, but now she has woken up and counted, the incident in the lotus garden has passed for more than half a month, guessing the time, there should be some movement on the other side of Beijie. "Go and discuss with Qin Niang about the distribution of errands for those people in Xikuayuan, and ask someone to move all the calligraphy and paintings I brought from home into the house." But she can't worry about those things either. , might as well do what you can do.

"Yes." Negative Xue didn't say anything, just looked at her with a little worry, and then obeyed.

After a while, they really sent a few servants to move Xu Jiao's large boxes of calligraphy and paintings into the house.

With a wave of Xu Jiao's hand, he pushed everyone out, and asked Lingxue to close the door, "Don't disturb me without my permission."

No one dared to object and watched the door close.

Qin Niang looked at Ling Xue with some worry, "What's wrong, my lady?"

"It's not surprising that Madam is like this when she paints on weekdays. It's just..." It's just that Madam Zhao has just left, and they have seen Madam's state a few days ago. It is impossible not to worry, but Can't stop.

"It's okay, let's pay more attention, and come and see it every once in a while. Another person will go to the palace gate to guard, and the gentleman will tell him as soon as he comes out. This mansion only speaks the words of the gentleman. Willing to listen."

(End of this chapter)