Yutai Bi

Chapter 67 Who Are You?

Seeing the tiredness on Kong Qing's face, Cen Sanniang suppressed her curiosity.

Kong Qing went out the door and lowered the curtain made of reeds.

Cen Sanniang was also tired, and soon fell asleep in bed.

Kong Qing heard that there was gradually silence in the room, so she walked to the door lightly, opened the curtain a crack, stared blankly at Cen Sanniang who was sleeping soundly on the bed, with a faint smile on her face.

He lowered the curtain, went to the corner of the outer room and pulled out a wooden plank, and took out a sword from it.With his fingers slightly exerting force on the mouth, the sword let out a soft moan, and jumped out of the sheath.Kong Qing put the sword back into its sheath cherishingly, lay down on the bamboo couch with the sword in her arms and closed her eyes.

When Cen Sanniang woke up, she saw beams of sunlight shining through the cracks in the room.She got out of bed and lifted the curtain to see Kong Qing lying on the bamboo couch and falling asleep.She tiptoed over and looked down at Kong Qing from above.

It was as if this was the first time she had looked at him closely.King Teng's appearance can be described as handsome, and the nobleness overflowing from his body makes people notice him at a glance.After leaving King Teng, Cen Sanniang discovered that Kong Qing was actually not bad looking.He has very beautiful eyebrows, straight and energetic like willow leaves, slantingly inserted into the temples.Her gaze moved down and landed on a purse hanging from Kong Qing's waist.

She believed him because of this purse.

Cen Sanniang reached out to touch the purse.

The wrist was suddenly grabbed, and a force pulled her and threw her down on the bamboo couch.A dazzling light flashed in front of her eyes, and Cen Sanniang cried out in fright.

Kong Qing was already standing in front of her, the sword in her hand was out of the sheath, and the point of the sword was facing her.

Realizing that it was her, Kong Qing withdrew the sword: "Sorry, I didn't hurt you, did I?"

Cen Sanniang shook her head.

"Are you hungry? I'm going to cook." Kong Qing put the sword on the wooden table and walked out.

Cen Sanniang sat up and patted her chest: "The reaction is so big, I'm scared to death." She stood up, walked out after her, and rolled up her sleeves: "I'll help you."

Kong Qing brought a pile of firewood from the back of the house, and quickly lit a fire.

Cen Sanniang consciously didn't compete with him, she carried the bamboo basket, filled the bowls and chopsticks, and took the pot to the water to wash.The clothes in the baggage are probably prepared temporarily, and they are too big.The sleeves could be rolled up, and the skirt was tied high at the waist and still dragged on the floor.She didn't pay attention, and walked towards the water's edge with the corner of her skirt in one hand.

"Wait." Kong Qing stopped her.

He walked over to take a look, reached out his hand to feel the dagger from his boots and squatted in front of Cen Sanniang: "I didn't think of preparing your clothes beforehand, I've wronged you."

Cen Sanniang knew what he meant and wanted to tear off a section of the skirt so that it would not be too long.She stood still, thinking it was a good idea.

Kong Qing pinched the corner of the skirt and cut a cut, then tore it forcefully.

With a crash, the skirt didn't tear off along the skirt corner as expected, but unexpectedly tore a big hole upwards, exposing her snow-white calf.

Kong Qing looked at Bai Shengsheng's legs in front of her, and was stunned.

Cen Sanniang backed away subconsciously, and found that he was still holding on to the corner of her skirt in a daze, and pushed him awkwardly: "Let go!"

Kong Qing woke up like a dream, let go of her hand, and quickly turned her head to the side: "I'm sorry."

Cen Sanniang looked at the torn skirt dumbfounded, so she had to put down the basket and pot, and went back to the back room.

The dress I changed last night was covered in mud and I couldn't wear it anymore.There are also several sets of men's clothes in the bundle.The deep clothes were loose, and it looked like they were made to match Kong Qing's figure.Cen Sanniang had no choice but to choose men's short brown instead.Tops and bottoms, pants are too big.She fastened her belt and carefully rolled up her trousers several times.

When she finished packing and walked out of the room, she saw that the wok under the locust tree with the crooked neck had been put on the stove and a fire had started.Kong Qing is not there.

Cen Sanniang walked over and lifted the lid of the pot to take a look.She only knows how to use the rice cooker, and it's not her turn to enter the kitchen when she comes.This kind of iron pot stewing rice is too difficult, so she covered the pot and sat on the tree bump next to her to wait.

It took a while to see Kong Qing come back, holding a branch of washed lotus root in his hand.

Cen Sanniang finally felt that there was work to be done, and she reached out to pick it up: "I'll cut it up and fry lotus root for dinner."

"You rest." Kong Qing refused her.

"I really know how to cut." Cen Sanniang felt that she could still do some work.

"Okay." Kong Qing was stunned and took the lotus root into the house, picked a bamboo dustpan from the wall and put it on the table.

Cen Sanniang hurriedly followed, and stretched out her hand excitedly: "Give me the kitchen knife."

Kongqing drew out the long sword.

Cen Sanniang looked at the sword in his hand stupidly, blinked her eyes, and asked Xian: "Come on."

A smile leaked from Kong Qing's tightly pursed lips, and he threw the lotus root into the air, the sword light flickered... The snow-white lotus root slices fell into the dustpan like rain.

Cen Sanniang opened her mouth wide in admiration: "Amazing!"

A blush flew across Kong Qing's face, and he picked up the dustpan and went out: "I will live here for a while. Tomorrow I will go to the lakeside town to buy some things."

When the sun was westward, the food was served.Stewed rice, stir-fried lotus root slices, and a plate of marinated small fish.The two were tired all night and were so hungry that they ate all the food.

The sun sank below the surface of the lake, and the sky was full of sunset.After recovering, Cen Sanniang sat on a tree bump under the eaves and watched Kong Qing put the leftover rice balls into a few small bamboo baskets.

"Leave it overnight, you will catch fish and shrimp tomorrow." Kong Qing explained.

Cen Sanniang rested her chin on her arm and tilted her head to look at him intently.

Kong Qing finally couldn't bear her burning gaze, lowered her head and said: "When Chang'an settles down, after a year or so, I will send you home."

"In a year and a half, will King Teng stop looking for me? Kong Qing, who do you belong to? Why did you take me away?" Cen Sanniang asked curiously.

"I won't harm you." Kong Qing put on the bamboo basket, got up and walked towards the water.

"I know." Cen Sanniang stared at his back and said with a smile, "Could you be from my grandfather?"

Kong Qing suddenly turned around.

Cen Sanniang nodded her chin towards his waist: "Mother left me a branch of gold and silver flowers to distract the moth. The pattern embroidered on your purse is almost exactly the same as that of the hairpin. There are fewer flowers. I counted them. There are 27 flowers on my hairpin. Thirteen gold and fourteen silver. You only have a few golden flowers in your purse."

Kong Qing looked down at the purse on her waist.The purse was exquisite and small, with nine golden flowers embroidered with gold thread on the brown satin, and a silver moth lay among the flowers.A trace of astonishment flashed in his lowered eyes, a trace of understanding.

Kong Qing neither admitted nor denied that the purse had something to do with Cen Sanniang.But Cen Sanniang felt that Kong Qing no longer planned to return to King Teng's side.

She was a little worried: "How about you go back. If you can't find me, you should go back and report, otherwise he will be suspicious of you."

Kong Qing sat on the steps of the thatched hut, tied bundles of dried reeds, said without raising her head, "I don't worry about you being here alone."

Cen Sanniang bit her lip, crouched in front of him and said seriously: "The waterway here is complicated, no one will come in. I will take care of myself."

"In the ten days of the month, the weather will cool down. I'll dry some reed grass to pad the roof." Kong Qing picked up a large bundle of reed grass, climbed up the bamboo ladder to the roof, laid it layer by layer, and then Press tightly with stones.

Seeing that he changed the subject again, Cen Sanniang became angry, and threw her waist at him to lose her temper: "Who are you to me? I can't thank you enough for letting me go. You go back quickly, and I will be safer if you pass the news of death. You Follow me and want to implicate me?"

Kong Qing didn't answer, she buried her head in laying the roof.

Cen Sanniang jumped up and down, looking up at him angrily.For some reason, there was a sour feeling in my heart.Just like when Xu and Baicao wanted to fight with the women in the weaving house of the Cen family because of themselves, she was moved and sad at the same time.

"Kong Qing, go back and report back. Maybe he will think I'm really dead. It's good for you and me." Cen Sanniang tried to reason with him.

Kong Qing finally stopped what she was doing, and jumped down from the roof: "I know. But when I go back, I don't know when I will find a chance to come here again. I can't rest assured that you are here alone."

"It's very secret here, and I don't like to run around. If someone comes, I will hide in the water. Don't worry."

After staying in the sandbar for seven or eight days, if Kong Qing doesn't go back, King Teng will really be suspicious.Cen Sanniang hopes that when Kong Qing goes back, King Teng will believe that he is dead, so that Nanny and Baicao will have a chance to leave.

"You're right, he won't look for you until he thinks you're really dead." Kong Qing seriously thought about it and said, "Tomorrow we'll go boating to the town on the other side of the lake to buy things. Then I'll leave Yes, you can live a little longer."

In the early morning of the next day, the two of them rowed the Upon boat to the small town on the other side of the lake.

"It's not too far from Jiangzhou. If you go ashore, you will find Lushan Mountain. If you stay for a month or so, the wind will not be so tight, so I will find a chance to send you to Chang'an." Kong Qing said softly.

Counting the days, Cen Sanniang missed Xu and Baicao: "Today is Chongyang, I wonder if Nanny and Baicao will go to Meiling as planned."

Kong Qing thought for a while and said: "You are right, I will go back to report the news, the prince will not force them to stay." He felt a little guilty, "Leaving you alone on the sandbar, will you be afraid?"

"No!" Cen Sanniang smiled.

The sun was just rising, and the two had already landed on the shore.

(End of this chapter)