"Let's go up and have a look."
Yuan Taiping took a step forward, grabbed Qin Rulan's soft little hand, and with Qin Rulan's unexpected exclamation, he took her up into the air and landed on Qicai Xianli's back.
Chirp——
The colorful Xianli flapped its wings, carrying the two of them, circling and flying over Baiyun City.
When the people in the city heard the loud cry of Qicai Xianli, they walked out of their rooms one after another and looked curiously at the sky. Then their eyes were deeply attracted by Qicai Xianli's beautiful feathers.
Zhou Jianlai was walking in the garden with his mother. When he saw the colorful fairy glass flying in the sky, he couldn't help but curled his lips and said with a smile: "Slut."
Yuan Taiping helped Qin Rulan sit down on Qicai Xianli's back and asked, "Do you like it?"
"It's like a dream." Qin Rulan was still in shock and had an unreal feeling in her heart.
Yuan Taiping smiled and said no more, looking at Qin Rulan quietly, waiting for her to calm down.
Qin Rulan was dressed extremely delicately and beautifully today, and Yuan Taiping couldn't help but be fascinated and stared at her in a daze.
Qin Rulan slowly calmed down from the shock, and found that Yuan Taiping was staring at her dreamily. Her cheeks immediately turned red with embarrassment, and she asked coyly: "Idiot, what are you looking at? Are there flowers on my face?"
"Sorry, Taiping is rude." Yuan Taiping quickly looked away from Qin Rulan's face and apologized with a blushing face.
Qin Rulan looked at Yuan Taiping's embarrassed look and couldn't help being amused by him and laughed happily.
After laughing, he asked curiously: "Did you really surrender this fairy bird?"
Yuan Taiping nodded and said: "I thought you would like it, so I surrendered it and wanted to give it to you. I don't know if you like it?"
"Ah? Is it really for me?" Qin Rulan asked in surprise.
"certainly."
"But... I'm afraid I won't be able to raise it." Qin Rulan said worriedly.
"It doesn't matter, I'm here."
"Yeah" Qin Rulan blushed and nodded.
"Today, your majesty wanted to take advantage of the banquet to make things difficult for me. If I didn't fulfill her wish, I'm afraid I would have made her furious."
"She probably just wants you to invite her in the backyard to show her authority as an elder." Qin Rulan said.
"I know. She is an elder. I cannot respect her too much, and I am willing to respect her and honor her."
"Then you still..." Qin Rulan asked with eyes, wanting to know why Yuan Taiping "knowingly committed the crime".
"I want to use today's incident to tell her and Brother Qin that I have the right to refuse some things they propose, and once I refuse, my attitude will be very firm."
Yesterday, Bi Shuang told him something, letting him know that Qin Chuo coveted the position of the Lord of Baiyun City.
And the fact that Qin Chuo entertained him so enthusiastically today had already made him sense Qin Chuo's inner plans.
He didn't want to get involved in official affairs, so he wouldn't help Qin Chuo fight for the position of city lord.
Besides, Bi Shuang, the new city lord, did quite well, but some of the methods Qin Chuo used to get Bi Shuang to dismount were very disgraceful.
Yuan Taiping felt that the superiors had made reasonable considerations in not appointing Qin Chuo as the new city lord.
"I understand." Qin Rulan nodded.
She felt that it was inappropriate for Yuan Taiping to deliberately make his mother angry, but at the same time, she felt that what Yuan Taiping did was not wrong, so she simply didn't help anyone and let them suffer on their own.
"I have hired a matchmaker and started discussing the marriage proposal. Do you have any good suggestions or requests? You can tell me."
"..." Qin Rulan blushed immediately when she heard this, buried her head and said in a voice as loud as a mosquito: "I don't have any opinion, it's just... I just want you to be nice to me and not bully me."
"Yuan Taiping swears to God that he will always pamper the second lady in this life. If he violates this, God will strike with thunder!"
Qin Rulan felt as sweet as honey as she listened to Yuan Taiping's vows of eternal love.
But in the backyard of the Qin family, Mrs. Liu was as angry as if she had swallowed fire. She slapped the tea table with one hand, pointed to the door tremblingly with the other hand, and shouted at Qin Chuo with a dark face: "What does Yuan Taiping mean?"
Don’t you think that because you are so successful, you don’t take me seriously anymore?”
"Mom, it's true that you left him dry for an hour, and the Ni Bodhisattva is still very angry." Qin Chuo complained about Liu, feeling that she didn't accept the situation well, so it was so embarrassing.
Snapped!
Liu was furious when he heard this, grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it at Qin Chuo's feet, cursing: "Asshole, who am I doing this for? For myself? Not for you!
You heartless thing, it was you who came up with the idea, but now that the trouble is unpleasant, you are now blaming me.
Get out, get out!"
"Mom, it's the child's fault. Please calm down quickly. Your anger will hurt your health." Qin Chuo was startled and quickly apologized and comforted Ms. Liu.
After Liu's anger subsided, the mother and son discussed the plan again. They felt that Yuan Taiping was no longer as easy to handle as before, so they had to change their strategy.
The next day, Qin Chuo invited Yuan Taiping to his house again, but Yuan Taiping declined politely.
Qin Chuo didn't expect Yuan Taiping to refuse at all. He just felt that he couldn't lose face, and his face was livid with anger, but at the same time he became uneasy.
He wondered if Yuan Taiping would start to look down on Qin Rulan after seeing many more outstanding ladies in the prosperous imperial capital.
So he hurriedly went to Qin Rulan to talk to him, and after getting Qin Rulan's denial, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But he was still worried, so he went to Mrs. Liu and expressed his worries.
However, instead of giving him reassurance, Mrs. Liu became worried.
It seemed that after Qin Chuo's reminder, she finally realized that Yuan Taiping was no longer the poor boy with a hateful appearance. Today, he has risen rapidly through the ranks.
Qin Rulan is not the only choice he cannot give up. As long as he nods his head, the matchmaker in Baiyun City can level the threshold of his family.
So Liu went to Qin Rulan's courtyard, hoping to get some reassurance from Qin Rulan's mouth.
But she heard Qin Rulan say quietly: "I hope that when mother is planning the future for her second brother, she can also think about the child a little bit." "Don't worry, mother is thinking of you." Mrs. Liu comforted Qin Rulan, and then left worriedly.
into the small courtyard.
She suddenly remembered the tragic experience of her eldest daughter Qin Xinru, and worried that she would be self-defeating and make Qin Rulan follow in her footsteps.
…
Southwest of Baiyun City, close to the Black Forest, in the abandoned Liujia Village at the foot of the mountain.
It was noon, and in a courtyard at the front of the village, a bunch of green smoke floated into the sky from the chimney.
It was not Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa who returned to Liujia Village, but a stranger's family who ended up here for unknown reasons. Seeing that Liujia Village was uninhabited, they chose the four courtyards in the front row to settle down.
They came to Liujia Village in September last year. As soon as they settled in the village, the family went to the town to buy farm tools, reclaimed ten acres of abandoned fields, and then planted wheat.
This family's surname is Song.
The old man's name is Song Zhengyang. He is thirty-three years old. His body is a bit old, but he is still able to move around.
The old man has three sons named An Ding, Ankang and Anle, all of whom are married.
The big family has not yet separated, so they eat three meals a day together.
The old man Song Zhengyang walked out of the courtyard, squatted against the wall next to the door, and looked at the ten acres of yellow wheat in the fields to the south, with a happy smile on his wrinkled face.
This year's wheat is growing extremely well. Wait five or six days for the big sun in the sky to give it a boost, and then it will be ready for harvest.
I just hope it doesn’t rain in the next half month.
"Grandpa, you forgot to take your cigarette pouch."
The grandson of the eldest son's family ran out of the yard with the old man's pipe and brought it to the old man.
"Haha, my dear grandson, you are so capable!" The old man took the pipe from his grandson, stretched out his big calloused hands, stroked his grandson's little head and praised.
The grandson is five years old this year. He is smart and very popular with the old man.
"Grandpa, why don't you smoke a cigarette?" the little grandson looked at Old Man Song longingly and asked.
"Grandpa, take a rest and smoke again later."
"Grandpa, don't you like smoking pipes anymore?"
"Ah?" Old Man Song looked stunned and asked in confusion: "Why do you ask that?"
"I remember that you used to smoke two packs of cut tobacco a day, but now you haven't finished a pack of cut tobacco for several days. You must not like smoking anymore." The little guy said with a serious expression.
The reason why he observed so carefully was because he liked to help Old Man Song cut tobacco the most, and every time he helped Old Man Song cut the tobacco, Old Man Song would take out a candy from his arms and reward him.
But in the past half month or so, Old Man Song had only let him cut tobacco four times in total, and the last time he didn't reward him because there was no more candy.
This makes the little guy "very upset".
Just now, the little guy suddenly got addicted to sugar, so he quickly took out the cigarette bag that Old Man Song had forgotten on the bedside, hoping that he would finish smoking the tobacco in the bag quickly.
"Haha, is that right?" Old Man Song couldn't help grinning after hearing the little guy's explanation, and said, "Maybe grandpa was too busy and forgot to smoke."
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