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Chapter 139 Congratulations to the Groom (9)
"What you never imagined is Grandma Qiu."

"Grandma Qiu?"

"The wife of Qiu Jinqi, former censor of the left capital."

"Oh? I remember that Qiu Jinqi is a felon on death row, and his family members should all be sold into slaves."

"Exactly. Last year I heard Diexian and the others say that they sold Grandma Qiu on Caishi Street. It turned out that she was sold to Mrs. Wu's house, and now she is serving as a personal mother to the young lady of the Wu family. Mrs. Wu said that Grandma Qiu would never Please, just ask her to bring her to meet me."

"I'm afraid it's for the sake of the [7] matter?"

"One guess is right." Qingtian blurted out with a smile, "Last year, the decision for Qiu Jinqi was to cut him off, but he has great powers, and he managed from top to bottom. During the autumn trial, he was not on the list for the decision. He has survived a round. Now he has been in prison for more than a year. Seeing that the winter solstice is coming, he should be executed again. However, there has been no amnesty for grace and commutation. I am afraid that this time he will not be able to escape. Grandma Qiu wants to keep him. One life, looking for ways around, but now there are not many Dongdang party members who can talk in the court, and they are all self-confident, and no one wants to meddle in this kind of nosy. In the end, Grandma Qiu He went to the doctor in a hurry, and bumped into me to beg for mercy, prepared a generous gift, and asked Qiu Jinqi to write a manuscript for me."

Qi She laughed more and more muffled, "That's nothing new, didn't some officials have the audacity to flatter you, and they all handed you notebooks to say hello?"

Qingtian snorted: "Master Qiu's book is different, it reads 'Mu En Gui Chen Qiu Jinqi' in regular script on the top, I have never been his court official before, and it is not his prison code today, and he is not subject to me. Why did he write the word "恩恩" out of thin air? What kind of favor did he give to me? When I saw it, I couldn't help it, but Grandma Qiu still knelt there and said loudly: "Look at me Our master has been doing business with the empress for many years.' Even Mrs. Wu was so frightened that she blocked her mouth, I endured and endured, so I didn't turn against them on the spot."

Hearing this verse, Qi She laughed out loud, "Hey, Madam Duan is educated! Then how do you reply to them in the end?"

"I told them that I was just a maidservant serving the prince. I don't understand these important affairs of state, and the prince never allowed me to intervene. I wanted to help, but I had more energy than I wanted, so I went to exploit them."

"Those officials and family members who come to flatter you, you can say a few more words if you are happy, and ignore them if you are not happy. It's just a matter of face."

"Why don't you say that? A few days ago, Mrs. Zuo came with everyone. She is the wife of Master Zuo, Shaoqing of Dali Temple. She is very young, but she is only in her thirties. It is the second time. I see her coming to the door for the first time. , I chatted with her a few more words, but I didn't know that her arrogant words made me feel bad. Later I asked someone behind my back, and it turned out that Mrs. Zuo was the daughter of Jianguogong Feng's family, and her grandfather was my former grandfather. Mr. Feng, our guest, is really rare in life. No wonder he has a noble face and a weird smile. I didn’t ask her to curry favor with me. It’s Dali Temple’s vacancy, and her own husband’s qualifications are not as good as Another young minister, who wanted to succeed her next time, asked her to come to me to try and find a way. She felt that she had fallen into the status, and if she didn’t come, she would just come. Why did she come here as if she was doing tricks for me and trying to save me? In fact, I knew very well from the very beginning, whether these ladies and ladies of nobles and high-ranking officials treat me with enthusiasm, or Pi Li Yangqiu, who really treats me as a person and thinks highly of me from the bottom of their hearts? I will treat them more politely. Well, they turned their faces and said that people who are born in a family are really good at socializing, and they don’t know how to be courteous to men. I treat them coldly, and they say that I am just a shrimp on the tail of a dragon. That day. These people are all just trying to win over you, so they have to put down their airs to perfuse me, and they won't bother to take a look at me when you let me go. "

"Look at what you said, why did I just 'I don't want you anymore'?"

Qingtian laughed twice, "That's all I said."

Qi She encircled her and the cat with both arms, and rubbed the mustache on her brows, "Even Mr. Feng's granddaughter was scolded by you, so what is your love for Qiu Jinqi?" Beg for him or not?"

"Don't I just talk about it? I don't care about these government affairs, and it's not my turn to care. You can kill if you like, and pardon if you like. Those men in the past just regarded me as a whore. Should know 'bitch is heartless'."

"If you say that, I won't be soft-hearted. Back then, that Qiu dared to do something to you. I'm still worried about it."

Qingtian Quran stood up and shouted, "How do you know he hit me?"

Qi Sheyang raised his jaw, "What don't I know?"

"According to you," Qingtian rolled his lips, "you should be the first to kill the number one scholar for me, and he was promoted to be the head of the sixth rank of the household department a while ago."

Zai Yu was writhing and humming repeatedly when the two quarreled.Qi She reached down and caressed it twice, and laughed softly, "Don't tell me, you are not a 'stupid boy', but a rare talent. For this financial reform, I promoted his father-in-law Zhang Yanshu as Hubu Shangshu came forward to take the lead, and the Hubu from the second in command Zheng Zhi to the next is almost all remnants of the Eastern Party. Master Zhang's son-in-law is behind the scenes to advise him, he is very clever."

Qingtian was even more teasing, "You appreciate Zhuangyuan Lang so much, let's make him prime minister tomorrow."

"I didn't tell you earlier that this is the time when you are employing people. When the government is stable, there will be a day when all the birds are gone. Besides, I am really grateful to him, if he hadn't been so ruthless in the past. Even if I seized you by virtue of my power, how could you treat me wholeheartedly? With your temperament, I am afraid that most of you are like "crows and magpies fly together, the Phoenix is ​​not happy, the concubine is a commoner, and the King of Song is not happy."[8] "

Qingtian laughed a little, "My master thinks too highly of me. If you are so rich and powerful now, who would want to be with that poor man? When I was with him, I had to pretend to be my grandson every day to please others. Now I am with you." , everyone wants to pretend to be a grandson to please me. Only then did I know that the four most joyful words in the world are 'little, human, deserving, and ambitious'!"

Qi She laughed loudly, and reached out to pat Qingtian on the forehead, "Little man! I knew that I was a hundred times stronger than him, not because I was rich and powerful, but because no one else could match my heart for you."

Qing Tian closed his eyes with a smile, squeezed Zai Yu tightly in his arms, and then burrowed deeply into Qi She's arms.Meng Tianxiang was burning safely, and when it was about to burn out, she woke up, stretched out her hand to push Qi She, and shook again, "Third brother, third brother, wake up, wake up, third brother! —— Have a nightmare? Dream about what?"

Qi She only gave a vague "huh", leaned over sweaty, and hugged her.

Qingtian stroked his shoulder and sighed: "Why do I feel that you have more nightmares recently than before? You must be thinking too much, and you are exhausted. Financial reform is not something that happens overnight. Even the gods can’t fully comprehend it all at once, how can you sleep well after thinking about it every day? Sharpening the knife is not the same as chopping firewood, don’t waste your brain all the time, it’s not too late to clarify your thoughts when you have enough energy.”

Qi She groaned in her ear: "I also want to sleep well. I have a headache all day and I am so tired, but all my thoughts always go into my head, and I can't stop."

After a short delay, instead of Qingtian's voice responding to him, it was her soft and slippery hands, rolling towards his vitals inch by inch, then her soft long hair, and finally, the tip of her tongue.

The night of late autumn just flowed away from the tip of Qingtian's tongue, and morning came.There was no half-grey sun in the sky, but a thin layer of faint blue light had bloomed on the window paper.

Under the hibiscus tent, Qi She opened her eyes, looking down at the woman who was pillowing her heart.Ever since the first fish-and-water play between the two of them, everything followed a natural way, and Qingtian never used any obscene skills on him.And her inferiority complex and defensiveness—like a poor girl in scanty clothes clutching her last fig leaf—Qi She feels sympathetic to her, and never embarrasses her under the bed curtain.until last night.Unprepared, Qingtian showed an astonishing side, which made him feel for the first time that he could be an untethered boat, tossed and tossed by the wild sea of ​​desire, until he was overturned and sank into the deepest seabed .It was the best love and the deepest sleep he had ever had.

Qi She lowered her head and left a kiss between the forehead and hair of the sleeping Qingtian.And that's the part of love he especially loves: the unreserved display of vulnerability and the certainty that it won't be hurt.

She trusted him more and more, he thought, and smiled.

6.
The time is fast, and it is early and the wind is tightening, and autumn is passing and winter is coming.

Qi She was busy with rectifying finances, leaving early and returning late every day, often discussing with his colleagues in Ruyuan's signing room until midnight.Qingtian often stayed up late waiting for him, sometimes it was too late, so he sent all the servants to sleep, and turned around to help Qi She change his clothes and wash his hands.

It was midnight again when he entered the door that night, and he plunged into Tianquan House to review the official documents, and he was not willing to go back to bed until she urged him repeatedly.But he saw a thick and soft golden thread mandarin duck quilt covered with a ball of white snow, in the center of the quilt of the royal bed, sleeping soundly.Qing Tian turned his head and gave a "shh" to Qi She, crept into the inner bed, opened a slit in the quilt from the side, and slid in carefully.Qi She also let out a "hush", grabbed the quilt on her side and gently lifted it an inch, stopped for a while, but suddenly waved her arm, "Go!" Shaking the whole quilt backwards, it was folded straight Zai Yulian rolled a few times and bumped against the end of the bed, and woke up with a high jump.

(End of this chapter)