The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 139

When Zhou Tianhao came back from the palace that day, Xie Yujiao didn't ask him about it again. It wasn't until a few days later that she called Yun Song who was next to Zhou Tianhao to question him, knowing that both Hong Yuan and Lu Yi had been killed by the queen.

Xie Yujiao felt a bit of a pity when she heard the news. If she had stayed and dealt with her back then, she would have sold her at most. As for the future, it was all up to luck.Being made a fuss by Zhou Tianhao, he lost his life, so to speak, they are just two poor people.

Xie Yujiao had Guishui on her body a few days ago, and Zhou Tianhao couldn't touch her.The two were still sleeping together at first, but just hugged each other and the flames broke out again. Xie Yujiao didn't let him come over for the next two days, so as not to make him feel uncomfortable if he held back.It happened that Zhou Tianhao was really busy these few days studying the military newspapers on the front line, so he slept in the study, and only came to have breakfast with Xie Yujiao every day at Chenshi.

I also met the head of the two Huangzhuang villages and the steward of the dairy farm. Xie Yujiao only kept the account books of the past few years, and planned to take a look at them in her spare time.The heads of the Huangzhuang Village are all literate, and their accounts are clear, which is much easier than Xie Yujiao's research on the rent of her own tenants, so these things are not in a hurry.

That day she just felt refreshed, and seeing that it was almost noon, she ordered the servant girl to send today's lunch to the study, and she went back to her room to dress up and go to the study.

Xie Yujiao actually wanted to go to Zhou Tianhao's study for a long time. He usually doesn't look like he loves to study. He hasn't seen anyone these days, so he doesn't know what he's busy with.However, according to Yun Song, many guests have come to the house in the past few days. The situation can be considered a little clear.

Hearing that Yun Song said that there were no visitors today, Xie Yujiao wanted to go there in person, firstly to see Zhou Tianhao, and secondly to see how the green sparrow she had chosen that day was serving.

Although Zhou Tianhao hasn't returned to the court these few days, he joined the army that day and shot and killed a famous Tartar general, so his prestige in the court is still intact.Besides, everyone knew that the emperor wanted to reuse him wholeheartedly, and there were many people who came to flatter him these days.

It was rare to have a little leisure this day, so he planned to read all the military newspapers that had accumulated for many days, so as to get acquainted with Dayong's current military strength first.Only by being so busy can he restrain his thoughts about that little wife in the room, otherwise, these few days are really like years for him.

This palace was originally the other courtyard of a prince in the previous dynasty, so it was built in a particularly modest way. There is an independent courtyard with three entrances in the front, and small courtyards with two entrances in the back. Now there are only two masters, so they chose the main hall to live in.Xie Yujiao walked straight along the Chaoshou veranda, passed the hallway door, passed through the narrow passage beside the rockery, followed by another series of Chaoshou verandahs, and at the end was Zhou Tianhao's study.

Because this is Jiangnan, the study room is only a small two-story building. There is a place for entertaining guests below, and there are stairs on the left and right. The desk is placed in the main hall. Zhou Tianhao reads in the room on the second floor, and he can see the yard when he looks up. Two hibiscus flowers in full bloom.

When Xie Yujiao passed by, she saw Qingque sitting on a small bamboo chair in the porch, holding an embroidery frame in her hand, embroidering while watching the tea stove.In the past two days, her main job was to make tea and entertain guests, so she was free to do some sewing.

Seeing Xie Yujiao coming, Qing Que put down her work and got up to greet her.

"Why did Madam come here?" Qing Que came up to meet her, but at the same time thought that the prince must not know, so she blessed herself and wanted to go upstairs to answer.

Xie Yujiao stopped her and said, "Just sit still, I'll go up and have a look myself."

Just at this time, the water on the tea stove just boiled, Xie Yujiao asked her, "What kind of tea does the prince usually drink?"

Qing Que only opened his mouth and said: "The guests are served with tribute tea. When the prince is alone, he likes to drink Da Hong Pao. He just brewed a new cup, so the servants have stewed the water again, ready to wait for it to be opened and sent up." .”

Xie Yujiao nodded, seeing that the water had already rolled away, she asked her to use a thick linen cloth to cover it, and carried it up by herself.

Zhou Tianhao was reading those military newspaper memorials upstairs at this time. For a science student in his previous life, these literary things really took a lot of energy.What he especially didn't understand was that he could speak well, so why did he insist on talking about it?Is it because I'm afraid of wasting ink?

At this time Zhou Tianhao was studying carefully, when he heard footsteps on the stairs, he said casually: "Put the water next to it, you just wait downstairs."

After the incident with Hongyuan, Zhou Tianhao still has lingering fears now, and he dare not get closer to any maids even by a distance of one foot. Therefore, even though this Qingque was chosen by Xie Yujiao himself, he never let her serve in front of him. This kind of thing like Mo is also personally experienced.

Seeing that he didn't raise his head, Xie Yujiao wasn't angry at all, and just walked a few steps forward.When Zhou Tianhao realized that the footsteps were approaching and was about to say something, Xie Yujiao said, "My lord is so busy with work that he doesn't even look up?"

Xie Yujiao's voice was crisp and clear, but Zhou Tianhao felt a little soft in his words, and he quickly raised his head. Seeing that she was holding a teacup in her hand, he got up and went to take it.

Xie Yujiao just avoided it, and said in a low voice: "The water is just rolling, you stay away, and be careful to lie down." After Xie Yujiao finished speaking, she only put the tea chaozi on the bronze cushion at the end of the coffee table, and she hadn't stood up yet. Well, Zhou Tianhao hugged her from behind.

Xie Yujiao only felt that Zhou Tianhao bit her ears warmly, and she heard him ask in a hoarse voice, "Are you feeling well?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, she only knew to ask these questions, and Xie Yujiao panicked with embarrassment for him.But when he thought that he had finally endured for the past few days, he felt that he was not angry, so he nodded with blushing cheeks.Hearing this, Zhou Tianhao only hugged Xie Yujiao against his chest, and lowered his head to find her pair of tender red lips.

Xie Yujiao turned her head and responded to him over and over again, until she leaned against his arms weakly.

There was a soft couch on the left side of the room, but it was only for one person. Zhou Tianhao simply hugged Xie Yujiao horizontally and placed it on the mahogany desk that was two widths wide in the middle of the study.

There were a lot of sundries on the desk, but after he swept it, some of them fell down, Xie Yujiao was so startled that she hurriedly begged for mercy, pulled his skirt and said, "Can't we go back to the room?"

Zhou Tianhao couldn't help it now, he just took off the clothes on her body and stroked them together, and said: "You are here, it's so hot outside, the study is cool with ice, and there are no people there. .”

Xie Yujiao saw that he suddenly talked about something serious, but couldn't help but opened her eyes, she just thought about it and said: "I heard you said that Master Kang has accepted your appointment, and I don't know when it will be, before you go , I have to help uncle finish this important matter first."

Zhou Tianhao only nodded in agreement, and then remembered that Xie Yujiao didn't intend to keep him at all, but felt a little depressed in his heart, so he said, "I said I was going to leave, but you didn't keep me. We haven't been married for a few days, why are you?"

Seeing what he said, Xie Yujiao still looked aggrieved, she couldn't help but took his hand, pressed it against his chest, and said with a smile: "I won't let you go, so why don't you go?" Are you done? If you really let go of these trivial matters, why bother to look at those things?" Xie Yujiao said, looking at the messy pile of military newspaper memorials on the ground.

Zhou Tianhao suddenly felt that his wife was too smart and he couldn't fool her, so he could only laugh along with him and said, "Although we have to go, at least we can go a few days later. Brother Huang is not such an unreasonable person."

Hearing what he said, Xie Yujiao started to play tricks even more, she just hugged his neck and said: "I won't let you go, I won't let you go! You promised to come to my house as a door-to-door son-in-law , and now you are working hard for your emperor brother, I don't agree."

Zhou Tianhao couldn't see Xie Yujiao acting like a baby the most, but her bones were brittle because of her words, and he hugged her in his arms, reached out and touched her under her again, scared Xie Yujiao repeatedly begged for mercy, and pulled her skirt Don't let him get rough again.Zhou Tianhao kept asking her: "Then do you agree or not? If you don't, I will only ask your sister?"

Xie Yujiao asked, "Where do I get my sister?"

Zhou Tianhao's palm brushed across her inner thigh, and his fingertips teased some place twice, Xie Yujiao gasped in shock, only then remembered what kind of sister he was talking about!
Xie Yujiao blushed with shame for a moment, and Zhou Tianhao smiled and bit her ear. The two of you kissed each other, and Xie Yujiao was forced to ask for it again.

As soon as the two of them took a breath, they heard a noise from outside. It turned out that Ziyan led the lady in the kitchen to bring lunch.Only then did Xie Yujiao remember that she had ordered someone to deliver it here, so she put on her clothes while supporting herself to get up.

Zhou Tianhao had already dressed at this time, and was about to go downstairs, but saw that the voice downstairs suddenly became quieter. He went to the window and took a look, and saw that Qingque had already greeted him, and was pulling Ziyan to talk. The children didn't dare to come in, they all stood under the tree in a hurry.

"Sister Ziyan is here." Qing Que dragged Ziyan to the porch, whispered: "You tell the women to wait at the door, I'll go up and ask."

Ziyan understood, she just raised her head and looked upstairs, but she didn't see anything, but she nodded and said: "You go, I'll wait here."

Qing Que nodded and entered the door carrying her dress, and when she reached the middle of the stairs, she asked in a low voice: "My lord, madam, Sister Ziyan has brought lunch."

At this time, Xie Yujiao had already dressed, and there was no vanity mirror in the study. Fortunately, Zhou Tianhao had the rhombic mirror in the drawer of his desk. I'll be down in a while."

Zhou Tianhao bent down to pick up the military newspapers and memorials all over the floor, and wiped the table case over and over again with a rag before he dared to put it on.Xie Yujiao straightened her hair. Seeing that he was still busy there, she hugged him from behind with a smile and said, "Who told you to be so impatient, you really..."

He nodded his forehead, let go of his hand and said: "Leave it alone, I will let Qingque clean it up in a while, are you afraid that she didn't hear the movement just now?"

Zhou Tianhao thought about it, so he simply put his things down and went downstairs to have lunch with Xie Yujiao.

Two days later it was the imperial court's rest. Before the imperial court moved south, Kang Guangshou would go around to observe the people's situation on the rest day. In the past two years, he has traveled all over Jiangning.Now that the Kang family has moved south with the imperial court, it is natural to go home on holidays. First, they can see the children under their knees, and second, they can also perform filial piety in front of their parents.

Zuixianlou is located on the banks of the Qinhuai River. Although it is not a brothel for drinking flower wine, you can see the feasting and feasting of the entire Qinhuai River from the window of the private room on the second floor.There are music and music on both sides of the river, and there are all kinds of gorgeous painting boats on the river, and the sound of silk and bamboo is all in your ears, which is distant and quiet.

The waiter filled the wine for the two of them, and then retreated respectfully.

Kang Guangshou picked up the wine cup and took a sip. The wine entered his throat. Although it was a bit choking, the feeling was very pleasant.

"My lord is newly married, why do you have time to ask the officials out for a drink?" Kang Guangshou raised his head, and gave Zhou Tianhao a look, so straight to the point, Zhou Tianhao didn't know how to answer for a while.

As for Xu Yuxing, who was waiting in the corner to listen in the private room next door, he pressed his ears to the wall nervously.

"Even if you are newlyweds, there is still time to treat old friends to a glass of wine." Zhou Tianhao also took a sip of wine, remembering that Xu Yuxing was still next door, and the things he wanted to discuss with Kang Guangshou at first faded a lot, but Kang Guangshou did not expect But he opened his mouth first and said: "I heard from my father that His Majesty met the Gyeonggi Defense Camp in Tangshan. Now that Prince Gong is still in the north, there are not many generals in the capital. The courtiers want you to be the commander in chief. What do you think?" ?”

When Zhou Tianhao heard Kang Guangshou mention this, he felt a little anxious. Although he had already mentioned this matter to Xie Yujiao, the Xie family didn't know about it. Xu Yuxing was listening next door. Wouldn't everyone know it by then?Now, he was really going to be accused of leaving his new wife to go to the military camp.

Zhou Tianhao didn't dare to wink at Kang Guangshou again, so he frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "I haven't thought about this matter well, let's talk about it later..."

Although this mother-in-law's personality is not like Zhou Tianhao's style, in Kang Guangshou's view, she really looks like she can't bear to part with her sweet wife, so she only joked with him: "I heard that the princess had a lunch in the palace, your majesty's The three meals are changed from 48 dishes to [-] dishes, she is such a wonderful person!"

Hearing this, Zhou Tianhao's brows flickered, and he touched Kang Guangshou with a wine glass, only looked at him and said, "Actually, she is not the only wonderful person in her family, don't you know?"

Kang Guangshou was drinking with his head down at this time, when he heard Zhou Tianhao say this, he choked up unexpectedly, his cheeks flushed immediately, but he tried to excuse himself, "What did you say, but I don't understand?"

"It's too boring for you to say that!" Zhou Tianhao just put down his wine glass, stood up, glanced out of the window, and continued: "I want to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and the Qinhuai River is full of river lanterns set by you two. Are you turning your back on people now?"

Hearing this, Kang Guangshou was startled, and hurriedly said: "My lord, don't say that, Miss Xu is chaste and gentle, and there will be a good marriage in the future. I am just a widower..." When Kang Guangshou said this, his voice only became louder. It got smaller and smaller, and finally lowered its head.

In fact, the Kang family has been looking for a continuation for him these past few days, but because of Kang Guangshou's conditions, they did not look for the girls from the rich families. Most of them are girls from the concubine. It's always out of sight.

When Zhou Tianhao saw his scene, he knew that he had some feelings for Xu Huiru, so he said, "Marrying someone you like or marrying someone you don't like is the same for a lifetime. You should marry someone you like, you say?" Yes or no?"

"That's what I said, it's just..." Kang Guangshou met Xu Huiru a few times, and only thought that she was innocent and cute, gentle and virtuous, and really moved his heart a little bit, but such a good girl, let her be his continuation, it was really wronged up.

"It's just that... If you feel that Xuxian has wronged her, you will love her even more. Besides, Huiru is sensible and well-behaved. I'm not bragging. I'm afraid Taifu Kang and his wife will like her too!"

When Kang Guangshou heard this, his eyes couldn't help but brighten. He remembered that Zhou Tianhao had asked him out today, and he seemed to have come here just for this matter. ?”

Seeing that he had guessed a few points, Zhou Tianhao was vaguely complacent, and smiled with his hands behind his back: "Stop daydreaming about you, I just care about you, but... since you have this kind of thought, I will point you out." Ming Lu, I will tell your mother first tomorrow, and it is always good to send a matchmaker to Xu's house to inquire first, what if I agree?"

When Xu Yuxing heard this from the next door, he had already let go of his heart, and seeing Zhou Tianhao teasing Kang Guangshou like this, he couldn't bear to think that he was his future son-in-law, so he straightened his clothes, went out of the room, and pretended Walking to the door, he asked: "Could it be that the person sitting in this private room is Prince Rui?"

Zhou Tianhao heard Xu Yuxing's voice, and shouted in his heart that he was depressed, the joke was over, Lao Taishan is going to come out to protect his shortcomings.

Kang Guangshou and Xu Yuxing were also old friends, so why didn't they hear the voice, and they blushed nervously.Zhou Tianhao had no choice but to bite the bullet and open the door, Xu Yuxing said with a smile, "Just now I had dinner here with a few friends, and just after seeing them off, I heard a very familiar voice inside, I didn't expect it was really Prince Rui."

Zhou Tianhao smiled and called "Uncle", asking him to come in and sit down.

As soon as Xu Yuxing sat down, Kang Guangshou was dumb, so Zhou Tianhao gave Kang Guangshou winks.Kang Guangshou just lowered his head to drink nervously. Zhou Tianhao, who was on the side, saw that his hands were shaking badly, so he just smiled and said, "Brother Kang, what's wrong? I think you didn't have such tremors in your Golden Palace exam back then."

At this time, Kang Guangshou was so angry that his teeth were itching, but Xu Yuxing was right in front of him, if he didn't open his mouth, if he missed this village, there would be no store here.

Xu Yuxing looked at Kang Guangshou with a smile, with a calm expression on his face, as if he hadn't heard their conversation at all just now.

Kang Guangshou took a deep breath, stood up holding his wine glass, bowed deeply to Xu Yuxing, and then said: "Today, in front of the prince, this junior also said something from his heart, this junior wants to marry Miss Huiru , there will be no shortage of three media and six employments, and I would like to ask Mr. Xu for permission."

Zhou Tianhao saw Kang Guangshou's blushing face, and secretly smiled in his heart, but Xu Yuxing still looked calm, and only slowly drank the wine in the cup, and then said: "In that case, I will wait for Kang Guangshou at home. My lord's three matchmakers and six hires."

Kang Guangshou suddenly relaxed the breath he had been holding back just now, and he took a deep breath before saying, "Master Xu, just rest assured, this junior will definitely make arrangements."

Zhou Tianhao saw that the good thing had come true, he just laughed at Mimi and slapped his ass and left, "It's getting late, I'm going home first, uncle and brother Kang have two more drinks."

Xu Yuxing saw that Zhou Tianhao was about to leave, so he stopped him and said, "My lord is newly married, so I should spend more time with Jiaojiao."

Zhou Tianhao was upset about this matter, seeing Xu Yuxing mention it abruptly, he just smiled and said: "Don't worry, uncle, I will accompany Jiaojiao."

Because Xie Yujiao was thinking about Xu Huiru, she knew that Zhou Tianhao had invited Kang Guangshou to drink, but she couldn't sleep alone, so she leaned on the soft couch and waited for him to come back.Because he was afraid that he would drink too much wine, he deliberately asked the kitchen to prepare a sober soup first, but Zhou Tianhao came back early, and he was home at the end of Xu.

Xie Yujiao went up to greet him personally, and seeing that he didn't smell too much alcohol, she just asked, "How's the matter going?"

Zhou Tianhao went in with his arms around Xie Yujiao, with a smile on his lips, he hugged Xie Yujiao horizontally and said, "With my king, what can't be done?"

Xie Yujiao was delighted when she heard the words, so she put her arms around his neck and said, "I knew that the two of them had seen each other for a long time."

Zhou Tianhao only nodded, but carried Xie Yujiao all the way to the inner bedroom, Xie Yujiao felt that the direction was not right, she just hammered his chest and said: "You...you let me down, what do you want to do? "

Zhou Tianhao just threw Xie Yujiao on the bed in a flash, and said with a smile: "Uncle asked me to spend more time with you, how can I be disobedient!"

"You! That's not what uncle said..." Xie Yujiao struggled twice, but again in vain, so she had to relax and let him mess around.

(End of this chapter)