A Qi

At the end of three years, teahouses and wine shops stood in twos and threes facing the street; girls selling rouge and gouache in light gauze and pink skirts, their cheeks were smeared with powder, and their eyebrows were drawn... This is the current scene of Yuhua Lane.Going further to the south, there is a vermilion lacquered main entrance between two majestic stone lions, with the word "Anfu" written on it impressively, Ah Qi can recognize the word "An".After two days and one night, we temporarily stayed in the hotel for one night on the way, and finally arrived in the evening of the next day.

At dusk, Ah Qi looked up at the rich door, hid for three years, and finally came back here, feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

"Ah Qi." An Rong called from the side, Ah Qi came back to his senses, and smiled perfunctorily, not happy.

After entering, the old housekeeper was busy all the way, bowed and followed An Rong, in case he had any orders.This housekeeper, Ah Qi, looked at her face, and it was not the original one.Ah Qi, a group of maids and servants in the mansion, had a vague impression, only a few of them were familiar faces.Those servants who remembered the "Second Master" were all shocked and terrified. The dead people suddenly reappeared, and it was still in such a darkening night.But he didn't dare to show surprise on his face, he still lowered his eyebrows and looked respectful.

Ah Qi followed An Rong to the westernmost bedroom, the decoration in the room was elegant and simple, exactly the same as the east wing where they lived before.

"Why did you move here?"

An Rong was taken aback, and vaguely said, "The house over there was leaking, so I repaired it, and I didn't bother to move it back later."

The two were talking, when they heard the sound of footsteps outside the door, and a slightly childish voice, "My lord, you are back." It was Xiao Chen, who opened the door and walked in while speaking. An Rong watched nervously. With Ah Qi.

Ah Qi also noticed the strange atmosphere, this person did not look like a servant, and shouted so loudly without any rules, it seemed that he was not a servant of this mansion.

Xiao Chen was naive, he obviously didn't take Ah Qi seriously, and thought he was a servant who was talking to An Rong, so he said triumphantly, "My lord, I repeated the poem you taught last time. After rehearsing several times, just wait..."

"You go down first." An Rong interrupted Xiao Chen, looking at Ah Qi with an unnatural expression.

Although Xiao Chen didn't speak quickly, he was very obedient and immediately withdrew.

When people went to the empty building, Ah Qi was dumbfounded for a while, lowered his eyes and remained silent, already guessing a general idea in his heart.Three years is not a short time, enough to change a room to sleep in, and someone to talk to.

"I'm going...to order my servants to prepare bath water, and...to prepare some dinner." An Rong ran away, afraid that Ah Qi would ask him, who was that person just now.

In less than half a stick of incense, everything was ready. The servants carried the wooden barrel and filled it with hot water. Soon the room was steaming and steaming.

The strange thing was that An Rong hadn't come back since he went out just now, and Ah Qi didn't wait for him any more, just took off his clothes and sat in the barrel.After driving for a long time, he was extremely sleepy, and he was able to bathe in hot water again, his face turned red. After a while, Ah Qi was in a daze, leaning against the wooden barrel, drowsy.

Not long after, Ah Qi was dragged out of the water by An Rong, with the sound of splashing water, wet water marks all over the ground, the dream was disturbed, Ah Qi frowned, "What's wrong?"

An Rong stood blankly in front of Ah Qi, for a long time, his throat rolled, and then he spoke with difficulty, "Don't scare me..."

When An Rong entered the room just now, he didn't see Ah Qi by the side of the barrel, and when he walked in, he found that the man's whole body, including his mouth and nose, was submerged in water, and he did this on impulse.

Ah Qi didn't understand the meaning of his words, but it was embarrassing to be naked in the air at the moment, so Ah Qi sat down and hid his body under the water, and then said, "I'm too sleepy, just now Almost asleep."

Only then did An Rong realize that she had misunderstood, so she took a long breath, sat next to the barrel, stroked Ah Qi's hair, and smelled it closely, "It smells, you haven't washed it for a few days."

"It's just... half a year."

"Nonsense." As she spoke, An Rong untied Ah Qi's blue hair tie, dipped her hands in water, and untied it several times from head to tail, with gentle and soothing movements.

Ah Qi drowned in this tenderness, slightly closed his eyes, and asked casually, "Who was that reckless child just now?"

An Rong's hand washing Ah Qi's hair stopped suddenly, "He's just a servant."

Ah Qi clearly felt the man's stiffness, so he didn't ask any more questions, just soaked in the bucket and took a short rest.

"Master, master—" he yelled several times, thinking that there must be something urgent.

"Master, Mr. Sun is making a fuss, crying and making a fuss, but he won't leave..."

Ah Qi turned to An Rong, "Go and have a look."

An Rong opened the door and left, and turned to look at Ah Qi at the end, "Wait for me to come back." Sun Gongzi must be the child just now, Ah Qi thought so.

Just now An Rong asked the housekeeper to give them 500 taels each, and they were kept in the past because they wanted to miss Ah Qi, but now that Ah Qi has come back, they naturally lost their usefulness.An Rong considers himself a ruthless and ungrateful person, and he handles things neatly, without dragging his feet.

Xiao Xu and Xiao Chen did not act aggressively, Xiao Xu was silent and did not speak, and Xiao Chen was just a child, and he was still thinking about his poem at the moment, the first sentence he said when he saw An Rong was— — "My lord, when will I write that poem to you again?"

And Xiao Sun, with snot and tears, was rolling and making noise. "Grandfather, why... drive people away so well?"

An Rong frowned slightly, obviously displeased, and ordered the left and right, "Drive people out of the house."

"I won't go! I won't go!" That party was crying and making noises, shaking his fists, and the servants didn't dare to come forward, not because they were afraid of his fists and legs, but because they were afraid of accidentally hurting him.Because everyone knows that this little grandson has such a relationship with the master.

Mei Xiang, the maidservant who has been serving Xiaosun, is also at the side at the moment, looking at the situation, it is really uncomfortable, so she can only quietly turn her eyes away.

After a stalemate, there was another burst of crying and shouting, but Ah Qi came over at this time.He couldn't understand everything he saw in front of him. A man sat on the ground slumped, crying without any image.Standing beside this man were two men in bright clothes carrying burdens, and among them was the child whom I had just met in the West Wing.Besides these three people, there are many maids and servants around.

An Rong hurried to Ah Qi's side, speaking in a panic, "Go back, it's very chaotic here, the servant... made a mistake, and is serving the family law according to the rules... You go back to the room first, I'll come over to accompany you for dinner .”

Ah Qi responded briefly, but still stared at the three of them with suspicion.

Seeing Ah Qi's Mei Xiang, she was startled at first, and then she was shocked, only then did she realize why the master made such a fuss today.It turned out that the master who was the "original match" hadn't died, and was back now.

Xiao Sun also saw Ah Qi, and was staring at him with walnut eyes.It's just that the more you look at it, the more chilling you feel, that your appearance is so similar to that person.Who is this person?Why does my father care so much about him?These questions are like falling stones, hitting Xiao Sun's heart, even if he is kicked out, he has to "die" to understand.

"Grandpa, who is he?" His eyes were mournful.

An Rong was furious, "Get him out!"

"Grandfather, you are so cruel. When you brought us into the house at the beginning of the year, you were not as ruthless as you are now." Xiao Sun burst into tears and reprimanded every sentence.Xiao Chen and Xiao Xu didn't dare to say a word at the moment, they just stood still.

Although Ah Qi was stupid, she understood now, and turned back to the west room.An Rong ordered the housekeeper to finish the matter and not to disturb him anymore, and then left here quickly.

There were several plates of vegetables and two bowls of rice on the table, Ah Qi held up his chopsticks to stir the rice in the bowl, but he couldn't finish his mouth, An Rongchu watched from the side without speaking.

After a while, Ah Qi still asked, "Who are those people?"

"I don't understand the rules...a servant who committed a crime."

"You still lied to me." Ah Qi smiled, but this smile made An Rong extremely guilty and frightened.

"I thought...you were dead." Even now, when he mentioned Ah Qi's "death", he still felt a burning sensation in his heart.

"Oh, so you found them?" Ah Qi asked back.

"I didn't touch them."

Ah Qi sighed, "Let's eat."

This meal was really tasteless, and the two of them didn't speak to each other.An Rong glanced at Ah Qi from time to time, feeling really uneasy.

The night is slightly cool tonight, and the two share the bed with only a thin mattress covering their bodies.Because of the previous incident, the two of them are both thinking about their own thoughts at the moment, it's like a strange dream in bed.

An Rong hugged Ah Qi into his arms, Ah Qi said bluntly, "Hot." The night was as cold as water, but he said it was hot, An Rong knew what he was awkward about.

"Ah Qi, I didn't touch them." An Rong explained again in a low voice, with warm breath lingering in Ah Qi's ears.

Look at this man, in the days when he was not around, he really raised three men in his house, even how he treated them back then, he also taught them how to write.Now, just saying that I didn't touch them will push away all his faults.In the end, he will always be at a disadvantage in this love affair.

"Go to sleep." Ah Qi said.

An Rong's hands and feet began to be dishonest, rubbing fire on Ah Qi's body, he couldn't bear it anymore, just as An Rong wanted to remove the obscene clothes of the two, Ah Qi said, "I'm tired today."

A basin of cold water was poured from head to body, and the sudden fire was drowned.