Today I specially posted a new couplet in the courtyard.
There was a moment of silence on a bed that had been specially put on a red quilt.
Zhao Qingxiu quickly responded to Ouyang Rong's somewhat strange request.
Ouyang Rong felt a finger writing on his chest:
[Ask me what I am doing, ask yourself]
Ouyang Rong was startled for a moment, then he couldn't help laughing and muttered:
"You really shouldn't ask the embroiderer about this... hmm."
Halfway through her words, her mouth was blocked, and the words that came to her lips were "eaten" by her.
Ouyang Rong discovered that Xiu Niang had a strong learning ability. She even covered his ears with both hands when drinking honey water, and imitated him in a good way.
Such an action can make all the senses of the person below fall between the lips and teeth.
Because the hands cover the ears and the hearing is blocked, the other five senses are naturally strengthened.
But what Ouyang Rong didn't expect was that soon, Xiu Niang went a step further and gave him an inference:
She bit her ear.
Ouyang Rong's body trembled subconsciously, and he couldn't help but pinch her red ears.
It's like twisting up a gummy candy and chewing it...
Just like that, all his hearing tonight was also hers.
So does she.
The night passed quietly...
People say that a moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
If you put it here with Ouyang Rong, it would be a thousand virtues.
Tonight is indeed worthy of this sentence.
Back in Nanlong, when the embroiderer was welcomed into her home, the two of them were still too young to have a spring night.
But tonight, Ouyang Rong took the embroiderer home again, entered the house in public, and passed the test of the aunt and junior sister. This was the closest result that could be achieved to a matchmaker's marriage given the sensitive status of the embroiderer.
Perhaps knowing this, Zhao Qingxiu was extremely serious tonight and even broke the three-day cooling-off period rule, which shows how emotional she was.
Ouyang Rong soon discovered.
The worries I had before were unnecessary.
Facing the evil dragon who is extremely vicious and unbecoming of a gentleman, even before she has swung her sword eight hundred and nine times, the girl is already broken and paralyzed like mud, but she has no chance of turning back when she draws her bow, and can only walk all the way to the dark side...
Ouyang Rong did not deliberately bully others. In the past, he always started with a thousand meritorious deeds.
This time there were only more than 800 merits left to use. I thought I would overdraw the quota. After all, the embroiderer was surprisingly proactive tonight and asked for a fight overconfidently. Ouyang Rong was a little unsure and felt a little guilty.
But he never expected that the dignified Yue girl would not even be able to afford five hundred merit points, so she had already signed the no-war agreement. Ouyang Rong secretly laughed and tore up the no-war agreement with her flushed face and panic.
The situation has reversed, and the offense and defense have changed from now on. If the woman can go, he can go too!
For a while on the couch, the mandarin duck embroidery was turned red.
…
It was dawn when I woke up again.
The light inside the house is dim, the night is temporarily there, and the sky is not bright yet.
Feeling the pressure of a black-haired little head on his arm, Ouyang Rong woke up and turned around and took Zhao Qingxiu into his arms. She also took the initiative to get in. As expected, she was not asleep and got even closer.
The two embraced each other and cuddled on the couch.
"Um, what's wrong?"
Ouyang Rong muttered lazily, feeling that his words had a more nasal sound:
"Xiu Niang, did my snoring wake you up?"
The beauty in his arms shook his little head first, and then his fingertips fell on his chest.
【No】
There was a pause.
[Tanlang is just tired]
Ouyang Rong immediately straightened his face and corrected him seriously: "I'm not tired, I just have something to do during the day, so I need to close my eyes and rest my mind."
She seemed to smile and wrote lightly:
[Okay, Tanlang closed his eyes and rested his mind, but I was a light sleeper. I couldn't sleep for long, and I couldn't bear to sleep.]
He grabbed a point and asked: "Why can't you bear to sleep?"
Zhao Qingxiu’s words seemed to answer:
[It’s just like a dream, Tanlang, tonight it feels like a dream]
Ouyang Rong replied seriously:
"Then I'll let you have this dream every night from now on, and we won't come out."
"Plop." She laughed, and her slender body swayed in Ouyang Rong's arms. She seemed very happy, as if just thinking about this matter made her happy.
Ouyang Rong felt a little inexplicable and kept giggling, but he couldn't hold her anymore. Sure enough, a happy woman is harder to hold down than a pig during the New Year, and Xiu Niang was no exception.
Ouyang Rong felt that the embroiderer pressed a jade leg generously on his legs. It was a posture that was unprepared and did not feel shy. It was also a state of complete relaxation for the woman:
[No, Tanlang needs to exercise restraint]
She did not forget her serious warning.
Ouyang Rong nodded:
"Okay, but judging from tonight, I'm not the only one who needs to be restrained."
Zhao Qingxiu's writing fingers suddenly stopped moving. She seemed shy and did not answer the question. After a while, while enjoying the afterglow and peaceful silence after the passion, she slowly drew circles on his chest.
Ouyang Rong felt a little itchy, so he raised his hand and then put it down.
Because the embroiderer had already tickled him with her fingers.
It's as if the mind is connected.
"It's just like a dream."
Ouyang Rong was quiet for a while and then suddenly repeated.
"But you are not a dream, and I am not a dream. We are both people with noses and eyes, flesh and blood, and breathing people. We can feel the temperature of the other's chest."
He asked:
"Xiu Niang, do you think there is anything more real than this in the world?"
Zhao Qingxiu felt Tan Lang's index finger under the quilt and pointed at her heart, then grabbed her index finger and touched his heart.
He said: "At this moment, the two are closest."
Zhao Qingxiu, who was lying on Ouyang Rong's broad chest, was stunned for a moment. She raised her head to see his expression, but she couldn't because Ouyang Rong was looking up at the ceiling curtain above the bed and didn't know what he was thinking.
It's like a clear blue sea, sometimes calm and sometimes violent, with no bottom visible.
Zhao Qingxiu's heart suddenly surged with an urge to know all his thoughts.
She turned over, held his angular face with one hand, and wrote directly on his chest:
[Tan Lang brought me back and met my family. Don’t you want to ask about my family’s affairs? It seems that I have never asked Tan Lang before.]
Zhao Qingxiu's question was a bit bold. After she finished writing, she realized that she was a little scared.
But then, Zhao Qingxiu didn't make any excuses, and waited patiently for Tan Lang's reply.
In the past, she would never have asked this question, especially after learning about Ouyang Rong's official identity from her second senior sister Yu Nianyuan... In the past, she had already buried her head in the sand.
The ostrich.
Zhao Qingxiu didn't know where the courage suddenly surged from her heart.
It was like there was a breath in my chest and I had to breathe out.
This courage is not something we only have now. From the afternoon, to the dinner, and then to midnight, it seems to be brewing all the time.
Tonight she was able to take the initiative to stand up, to break the three-day restraint agreement, to frighten Tan Lang into a guilty conscience and put forward the condition of "swinging the sword less than 809 times", etc., all because of this courage!
It seems that when the second senior sister came over an hour early for temporary stay in the afternoon, she bumped into him at the back door and found that he was getting out of the car in a worried way and wanted to pick her up unplanned.
It seemed that he was silently accompanying Sister Xie and Miss Ye beside him, warmly and sincerely welcoming her to Yinbingzhai to dress up, and making suggestions for her dinner appearance.
It seemed that at the birthday dinner party, she heard Tan Lang receiving the guests with a relaxed attitude and perfect control of the situation. These actions silently gave her the right atmosphere for Duan Changshou to appear.
It also seemed that after he screamed in the bathroom at night, he rushed in as soon as possible regardless of his own safety.
And... he had finally finished his promise of "welcoming her at the birthday ceremony" and was snoring from time to time due to fatigue.
Although Zhao Qingxiu's eyes lost sight, she could actually see many details.
I also learned more details from Second Senior Sister:
It turned out that he had known for a long time that she was a Yue girl wanted by the court and a rebel who was wanted to be captured by the decree he personally issued.
It turns out that he was the one who made the Fang sisters, Zen Master Yizhi, and Taoshou Zhai all lose contact in the past few days, and made their lives temporarily safe. It was he who protected their shared family like a treasure in a golden house without being disturbed.
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It turns out that he secretly helped her deal with so many problems, and it was not the incompetence of the government and the Supervisory Yuan that prevented her from being caught for so long.
It turns out that all effects have a cause, and this cause is the effect of the last time.
So what is the initial cause?
Is it fate? Is it the five hundred years of praying in front of the Buddha in the previous life? Is it the prayer that I knelt down before turning the prayer wheel? Is it the red lotus that was rolled out of the Guanyin Hall of Chengtian Temple? Or was it the reply that Master whispered back then?
"There are gains and losses as well as lives"?
Zhao Qingxiu doesn't think so.
It's courage.
The cause of everything is courage.
Only when you have the courage to take that step can you have a reason.
Most of the fate in this world is not given by God, but must be fought for by oneself bravely.
It’s not that we are destined to have no fate, or that our fate is unpredictable, but that we lack courage and are cowardly and regressing...
Zhao Qingxiu, who was in a daze, heard a magnetic and soft reply in her ears:
"Has Xiu Niang's family come? Are they in the city? If so, you can meet them."
After Ouyang Rong finished speaking, he smiled to himself, rubbed her head and said:
"Furthermore, as long as the family members you bring to me are half of my family members, regardless of whether they are familiar with each other, they will be treated well. At least in Xunyang City, they will be properly arranged so that they will not be wronged."
His words were relaxed and it was hard to tell whether he meant anything.
Zhao Qingxiu lowered his head.
[Is Tanlang not afraid at all? It seems that it is very rare to see Tanlang hesitate.]
Ouyang Rong seemed to think about it seriously and answered directly:
"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid. I'm afraid of many things, but it doesn't stop me from knocking on my door or them knocking on my door."
Zhao Qingxiu couldn't help but raised her head quickly and pecked his lips:
[Tanlang is so brave, he is a man of great courage]
When Ouyang Rong heard the word "Dayong", he originally wanted to take them apart and drive a car smoothly, but the good character of a gentleman suppressed his intention.
He waved his hands indifferently:
"Courage is not about taking big steps forward because you think you have no worries behind you. It's about whether you know there are no worries behind you or taking big steps forward. The two are different."
[So Tanlang is the latter?]
Ouyang Rong suddenly smiled and said:
"I am neither of the two. I only care about others. Even if I move forward, no one can stop me. If I can't do it, others can't do it. If I want to do it, others can't do it either.
It can’t be done.”
Zhao Qingxiu frowned, as if he thought these words were a bit profound.
Ouyang Rong suddenly asked:
[Xiu Niang hasn’t answered me yet, is her family coming?]
Zhao Qingxiu changed the topic and wrote:
[Tanlang, do you still remember what I told you before?]
"What?"
[You said you would try your best to get me started. I said that at the time, and so did I]
"Remember, what happened."
[Nothing, I just suddenly remembered that Tanlang seemed to have finished it. Tanlang is really amazing]
Ouyang Rong looked at the ceiling and said softly:
"It's you who gave me the courage. In fact, I used to pretend to be stupid and avoid this kind of thing. I just messed around if I could, because it was too nerve-wracking, and my energy should be put on other things. Well, before
My thoughts...forget it, let’s not talk about this anymore.”
Zhao Qingxiu smiled and nodded slightly: "Yes."
Ouyang Rong turned around, held Zhao Qingxiu's face in some solemn hands and said:
"Although I say that, I should encourage you and not ask too many questions, but I still want to say, Xiu Niang, there is no need to hold anything back, we are a family.
"This is what junior sister said yesterday, and I will tell you too."
Zhao Qingxiu heard the seriousness in his tone.
After a while, he nodded heavily:
【Know】
Ouyang Rong looked at the sky outside, blinked and said:
"Okay, get up."
"Um."
The two of them took a quick shower.
Ouyang Rong went to the yard to wash his face, while the embroiderer was changing clothes in the house.
At this moment, the sound of Ye Weilai's footsteps came from the yard outside.
"Dong dong."
There was a knock on the door.
Ouyang Rong went to open the door. He was smiling, but he saw that Ye Weilai's face was a little serious.
He immediately calmed down and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Tanlang, the prince and the little princess are over there in the main hall. They are calling you over. They say there is a strange matter that may be urgent and you need to make a decision. The sooner the better. Miss Xie has already rushed there."
"Maybe it's an emergency? Something strange?"
Ouyang Rong keenly grasped two key words.
Ye Weilai said thoughtfully with a pretty face:
"Well, it seems that a letter was sent from Prince Xunyang's Mansion early in the morning."
"Okay, please wait a moment."
He immediately returned to the house and put on his green shirt.
Ouyang Rong first turned around and gave Zhao Qingxiu a few words to help him get hot water for washing his face. After a while, he washed his face and strode out.
Zhao Qingxiu wore a three-thousand-green silk shawl, and the azure ribbon was a little loose, covering her pair of starry eyes slightly crookedly. Her slender figure stood at the door of the house, seeming to "watch" him leave.
Even the ice-white jade hairpin that likes to make crisp noises has followed the hostess to quiet down and watch quietly.
Ouyang Rong walked out of the courtyard, and Ye Weilai, who was waiting outside, followed him out of habit.
Ouyang Rong, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.
He tilted his head and whispered to her.
Hearing this, Ye Weilai nodded seriously and stopped.
She stood quietly and watched Tanlang leave.
After a while, the silver-haired girl turned around and glanced at the quiet Yinbingzhai courtyard behind her.
"Long Lingling~"
There is a morning breeze fluttering the hosta.
It is the desire to be calm and the wind does not stop.