don't forget lovesickness

Bored, Mu Yi looked up at the white clouds in the sky, and muttered to herself: "It's been a while since Fei Yue went in, why hasn't she come out yet, what are the two of you doing inside, it takes so long to put on clothes."

"Squeak~"

Mu Yi hurriedly turned her head to look, and saw a young man in white walking out from the door. His handsome face was slightly flushed, his eyes were lowered, and he looked a little shy, like a blooming pear blossom, pure and flawless, delicate and delicate. As soon as she smelled the faint fragrance of pear blossoms, she was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help admiring: "What a handsome young man, beauty is good, shallow, you are a man and woman, if you are a man, I will definitely I want to rush to marry you!"

"What are you talking about?" Yi Feiyue came out, stood beside Gu Qingqian and looked at Mu Yi with a slight smile.

"I said..." Muyi turned to look at Yi Feiyue. Although she saw a smile on the corner of her mouth, there was no smile in her eyes. She was so excited that she quickly put her arms around herself, stepped back, and said with a smile, "No, I'm just Said Qingqian is beautiful, really beautiful, hehe."

Yi Feiyue raised her eyebrows, smiled noncommittally, turned her head to Gu Qingqian and said, "Husband, I have already prepared the carriage, let's go."

Seeing that Gu Qingqian hastily turned her head away from looking at Yi Feiyue, she nodded her head slightly, and her fair neck was flushed instantly, and after a while she said: "Although it is for the sake of cheapness, there are no outsiders here, so don't you You want to call me...husband, I always feel..."

"It's not for you to get used to it, don't wear clothes," Yi Feiyue directly interrupted Gu Qingqian, pulled her to the back door, and said to Mu Yi, "Amu, go check out. , we will wait for you at the door."

Mu Yi stared dumbfounded at the backs of the two leaving, and it took a while to recover, she shook her head helplessly, turned and walked towards the front door, muttering in her heart: "Monster, what a monster, even women can't hold her back. With such an identity, Qingqian actually breaks the etiquette and wears men's clothes. I don't know how determined she is, so it's no wonder that her behavior is so coy and shy. Besides, the two of them are probably addicted to pretending to be husband and wife." She smiled softly , but stopped suddenly, turned her head to look at the direction where the two left, and sighed inaudibly. She guessed Yi Feiyue's little thoughts, but was afraid that she would sink deeper and deeper.

When Mu Yi walked to the counter, she met someone she didn't want to see head-on, her face darkened, she pretended not to see, walked over without looking sideways, walked straight to the counter, and said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, I want to go back. house."

Yuan Zongqing stood in embarrassment, and when he heard Mu Yi say that he wanted to check out, he hurried over and said, "Shopkeeper, we will pay the bill to the Yuan family."

"Yes," Mu Yi turned her head to look at Yuan Zongqing, and nodded, not politely, "You should pay the money. Fortunately, you know how to behave, so I will leave it to you." After finishing speaking, she lifted her foot and left up.

Yuan Zongqing stared blankly at Mu Yi's leaving back. He thought she was going to scold him, but he just left like that. After regaining his senses, he quickly chased after him and shouted: "Little girl, little girl, please!" Wait a minute, I have something to say..."

Mu Yiquan pretended not to hear, came to the entrance of the inn, looked around, and saw a carriage parked not far away, and beside the carriage was standing a woman in blue, with a frosty face, sorting her things , Scared the people around are far away.Mu Yi opened her eyes wide, looked at her intently, her brows were instantly beaming with joy, she ran over cheerfully, hugged her, looked up at her, and asked happily: "Ling Yang, why are you here?"

Shen Lingyang looked down at the little guy, with an invisible smile on the corner of his mouth, and the chill on his body melted in an instant, and said in a low voice: "Fei Yue asked me to come."

"Little girl, little girl," Yuan Zongqing chased up, stood aside and cupped his hands, "I don't have any other intentions, I just want to see that girl apologize in person."

Mu Yi turned her head and glared at Yuan Zongqing, and said coldly: "Mr. Yuan, it's unreasonable. After something like this happened, you actually came after us to meet and apologize in person. Do you think us girls are so frivolous? Do you think we are so frivolous?" Can you just laugh it off? If you apologize sincerely, you can apologize here, and she can hear it."

Yuan Zongqing took a step forward and wanted to say something, but suddenly felt a chill, raised his head and met Shen Lingyang's icy eyes, he was in a daze, not daring to take another half step forward, but he couldn't bear the look in his eyes , Subconsciously took another step back, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Little girl, if I hadn't come down to talk to that girl at the beginning, what happened later would not have happened. This matter is my fault. I don't expect the two girls Forgive me, but I still want to apologize to that girl. Girl, I'm sorry, I have nothing to make up for you, if there is anything I can do for you, just say it, and I will go through fire and water."

After a long time, Yi Feiyue's voice came from inside the carriage: "Master Yuan is not needed, the Xiuling Palace of the deity does not need a Yuan family to help, you should go home and take care of your brother, so that he will not cause trouble again For good."

Yuan Zongqing thought he could hear Gu Qingqian's voice, but what he was waiting for was Yi Feiyue's voice. He couldn't stop feeling lost in his heart. He watched the carriage open and wanted to say something, but finally closed it, and slowly He lowered his head, knowing that he would never have the chance to know her name in his life.

Mu Yi gave Yuan Zongqing a sideways look, and got into the carriage, while Shen Lingyang drove the carriage away, and disappeared into the street where people were coming and going, leaving Yuan Zongqing standing silently on the street alone.

On the long official road, a carriage is slowly approaching. The driver is a woman in blue, and beside her sits a cardamom girl, talking non-stop, and dancing when she speaks vigorously. It's so lively , the blue-clothed woman stared ahead, occasionally raising a smile at the corner of her mouth in response.

"Do you think that person is stupid? I laughed so hard, how can someone be so stupid," Mu Yi said happily, seeing Shen Lingyang smiling again, and nodding slightly, she turned her head back and looked straight ahead. The smile gradually faded, and he became a little puzzled, and couldn't help but said, "Hey, why are there more and more of them?"

"What's the matter?" Yi Feiyue sat in the carriage and listened to Mu Yi's words all the time. She didn't stop all the way, as if she couldn't finish talking. If she stopped suddenly at this time, something must have happened.

"Well," Mu Yi glanced at the increasing number of people around, then turned her head and said to the carriage, "Since I came over the three-way road before, I found that there are more and more people on the side of the road, and everyone is dragging their families. mouth, with a mournful face, as if something bad happened at home and came out to escape.”

Gu Qingqian lifted the curtain of the car and looked at the hurried passers-by, frowning slightly, feeling a little worried in her heart.

Yi Feiyue saw Gu Qingqian's reaction in her eyes, and said to Mu Yi: "Since you are curious, then you can ask."

"okay."

Mu Yi got out of the carriage, looked at the people around, and found a very kind-looking old lady, followed by a seven or eight-year-old girl, with a haggard face and stumbling forward, so she walked over and handed the water bottle in her hand to Going over, he said to the old lady: "Grandma, you are thirsty, please drink some water."

The old woman stopped and looked at Mu Yi with a surprised face. She didn't know why the person in front of her was so kind. She subconsciously pulled the girl behind her, hesitated to take it.

"Grandma, I'm thirsty." The girl next to her tugged at the old woman's clothes, stared at the water bottle in Mu Yi's hand, and swallowed unconsciously.

Mu Yi smiled, handed the water bottle to the girl, and said, "Little sister is so cute, drink it."

The old woman suddenly opened her mouth and shouted timidly: "This girl, old women don't sell their granddaughters!"

Mu Yi's smile instantly froze on her face, and her hands froze in mid-air. It took her a while to react, and she recalled what the old lady said. Although she was a little unhappy, she didn't take her hands back, but smiled faintly. He said: "Grandma misunderstood, I have no intention of buying your little granddaughter."

The old woman saw that there was a trace of displeasure in Mu Yi's eyes, but she was still kind to her, and then she saw that the other party was just kind and had no other thoughts, so she realized that she had misunderstood her intentions, and said a little embarrassedly: "Girl, I'm really sorry, A lot of people asked along the way, so..."

Mu Yi felt relieved when she heard it, and said, "It's okay, let's drink."

Only then did the old woman take the water bottle from Mu Yi's hand and hand it to the girl. The girl drank it in big gulps, then handed it back to the old woman and said, "Grandma, drink it."

The old woman had walked a long way, her mouth was already dry and her lips were cracked, she took the water bottle tremblingly and drank it, handed it to Mu Yi after drinking, and thanked, "Thank you, miss."

Mu Yi didn't take the water bottle, but waved her hand: "I still have some, this is for you, you can drink it on the way."

"It's so embarrassing," the old woman looked at the water bottle in her hand. It looked exquisite. It must belong to a rich family. It was worth a lot of money and she didn't want to accept it. Take the kettle away, don't let us people waste it."

"I don't think grandma has a water bottle on her. Since you can use it, don't refuse it. It's just a water bottle. I still have a lot in the car. You can use it on the road." Seeing that the old woman was still a little embarrassed, Mu Yi glanced at the person beside her. The girl went on to say, "I don't think you have anything to hold water on your body. It's not convenient to get water, and there is still a distance to Guancheng. You can bear it, and your granddaughter can't bear it, so let's take it."

The old woman looked at her granddaughter next to her, sighed, looked at Mu Yi very gratefully, and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Miss, I will kowtow to you if the old woman has nothing to repay you." Then she knelt down.

Mu Yi hurriedly stopped her, and said helplessly: "It's just a pot of water, how can grandma do such a great gift? Isn't this asking me, a junior, to shorten my life, grandma can bear it?"

The old woman stood up and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"By the way, where did grandma come from? But what happened?" Seeing this, Mu Yi began to get into the subject, glanced at the people around, and then said, "I see so many people, but they are all in the same place. here?"

The old woman sighed, and said to Mu Yi: "The old woman lives in Zhaojia Village outside Guancheng. It rained for a month last month, and the crops in the fields at home were soaked. It was washed away by the heavy rain. Now His Majesty has issued a decree to increase taxes, and we really can’t afford it. Many people in the village have begun to sell their sons and daughters to pay taxes, not only our village, but also many other villages. You see, most of the people walking on this road are, the old woman’s daughter-in-law died young and left such a child, we will never sell it. The old woman’s son proposed to go to Guancheng to ask the magistrate to appeal to the court for a leniency in taxes. At that time, there was no The young man also followed, but they haven’t come back for several days. The old woman’s house was almost unresolved, so she decided to take her granddaughter to Guancheng to have a look.”

Mu Yi frowned slightly, and understood why the old lady was asked whether she would sell her granddaughter or not, then she raised her brows and said to the old lady, "Grandma, why don't you go with us in a carriage, you are tired after walking all the way, go up It's good to have a rest."

The old woman waved her hands again and again: "I've already taken the girl's water, why bother the girl."

"It's okay," Mu Yi walked over, and walked towards the carriage with the old woman's arm, "We are also going to Guancheng, it's still early, so we should go up and rest our feet, anyway, we'll be on the way."

Seeing Mu Yi's kindness, the old woman no longer refused, and took her granddaughter and followed Mu Yi to the carriage.However, the old woman insisted on sitting on the shaft of the car, for fear of getting the car dirty, so Mu Yi no longer insisted.

Mu Yi walked into the car and told Yi Feiyue and Gu Qingqian what she had just learned, thought for a while and said, "Generally speaking, the heavy rain here has lasted for more than a month, so it must be reported to the imperial court to distribute disaster relief money." , but it seems that there is no such thing at the moment. Not only is there no, but the tax is increased, causing the people to sell their sons and daughters, which is too much, and the young people in the village have no idea what happened. .”

Gu Qingqian frowned tightly, feeling vaguely uncomfortable in his heart.

The carriage drove towards Guancheng so slowly, and arrived within half an hour.

As soon as we arrived at the gate of the city, we heard the old woman sitting on the shaft of the car yelling miserably: "Son!"

The three people in the carriage looked at each other, Mu Yi hurriedly opened the curtain and walked out, couldn't help shouting: "How could this happen!"

"What happened?" Gu Qingqian frowned upon hearing Mu Yi's voice, and asked hastily.

Mu Yi pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to speak.

Gu Qingqian felt that something was wrong, so she lifted the curtain of the car to look, but was stunned, and saw a platform set up at the gate of the city, on which were kneeling a dozen people, all dressed in prisoner's clothes, surrounded by officials, surrounding them surrounded.And the old woman who had just followed them was pulling her granddaughter and running tremblingly towards the stage.

"Son!" The old woman rushed to one of the kneeling men, but was stopped by the officer. She could only cry to the man, "What happened? How did this happen? How did you get tied up?" What are you doing here?"

The man slowly raised his head, looked at the old woman, his eyes turned red instantly, he opened his mouth, his dry and chapped lips opened and closed, but he couldn't utter a word, his kneeling legs moved slightly, and he was caught by the official. After being held down, he could only look at the old man with tears in his eyes.

"Master official!" The old woman grabbed the corner of an official's clothes and asked, crying, "What's wrong with my son?"

The officer pushed the old woman's hand away impatiently, glanced at the man on the stage and said, "These are mobs. They made trouble at the gate of the government office a few days ago. Here are ten days to serve as a warning to others."

"No! No! How can my son be a mob? There must be a mistake somewhere. I beg the officer to let him go." The old woman went forward and grabbed the corner of the officer's clothes again and cried.

The officer pushed the old woman away again, and said viciously: "You naughty woman, did you say that the magistrate is wrong? You know that our magistrate is a student of Prime Minister Qin, and he works for the prime minister. You say our magistrate is wrong, Doesn't that mean that the prime minister is wrong?"

The girl was so frightened by the officer that she cried loudly, but she did not forget to help the old woman up. The old woman stood up tremblingly, ignoring her granddaughter, and rushed to the officer again. Just as she was about to say something, the officer suddenly pulled out her waist kicked the old woman away, and stared at her viciously: "Go away, these are the mobs caught by the magistrate, the lord is merciful, let these rascals kneel here for ten days, and now it has been five days. You will be released after five days, and if you dare to mess around, they will punish you more. And you will be arrested together!"

The old woman was frightened by the official's words, unable to speak for a long time, and could only look at her son with tears in her eyes.

Gu Qingqian looked at everything outside, clenched her hands tightly into fists, her white catkins turned a little pale, she was angry, angry that she couldn't do anything now, she could only watch helplessly, hating her even more I actually chose to abandon my identity at the beginning, and tried to forget, so that the common people in the world suffered from this catastrophe.

Suddenly, a pair of hands touched Gu Qingqian's hand, she froze for a while, then turned her head to meet a pair of cold eyes.

Yi Feiyue pulled her hand over, and gently opened her clenched hand, the finger marks had already been deeply imprinted on the palm, Yi Feiyue looked down at the imprint, and frowned indistinctly, He stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Gu Qingqian's palm, and said to Mu Yi who was outside the door: "Amu, you and Ling Yang bring the old woman back together, and find someone to settle the grandparent and grandson properly. make trouble."

Mu Yi just wanted to refute, but was held back by Shen Lingyang, who shook her head at her, and glanced at the carriage, Mu Yi was stunned before realizing Yi Feiyue's meaning, Gu Qingqian's status is special, she must not make a big splash, Pursing her lips, she had no choice but to say "Got it" sullenly, and went to find the old woman together with Shen Lingyang.

"Going down this road, there will still be scenes like this." Yi Feiyue didn't look up, and continued to rub the mark in Gu Qingqian's hand, and said lightly, "Since you have decided to return to your own position, then don't go back to your place." Blame yourself, a country is too heavy on you, after all, you are not the one who inherits the honor of the Ninth Five-Year, so it is understandable to take it off."

"It's not just the whole Dazhao that I left behind," Gu Qingqian pursed his lips, looked at Yi Feiyue staring at his palm very seriously for a moment, paused, and then said, "And my mother's Qiu and the life and death of the entire Gu clan."

Yi Feiyue paused for a moment, looked at the palms that had been smoothed by herself, raised her head and looked at Gu Qingqian, raised her eyebrows slightly, and blinked: "We are going to get them back one by one, aren't we?" ?”

"I'm so mad!" Mu Yi walked into the private room on the second floor of the inn, yelling, and said to Gu Qingqian and Yi Feiyue, "Ling Yang and I went to inquire just now and found out what's going on. .”

Gu Qingqian poured a cup of tea and handed it to Mu Yi, and asked, "Drink first."

Mu Yi took the tea and poured it into her mouth as soon as she raised her head, wiped her mouth with her hand very simply, and then said to the two: "Just now I asked Ling Yang casually on the side of the street. Everyone in Guancheng knows that there is no need to inquire carefully. Most of these people kneeling at the gate of the city have no taxes to pay due to natural disasters. , to drive them all out, saying that the tax cannot be reduced or exempted, and must be paid in full. They had no choice but to surround the gate of the government office, and they were arrested as a mob, which became the scene we saw gone."

Gu Qingqian frowned, and asked, "How are the old ladies doing now?"

"Ling Yang took them away, there should be no problem, I will come back first," Mu Yi said indignantly, "This magistrate is not a thing, the people do not report the disaster, and if they continue to behave like this, isn't the world going to be in chaos? ? I heard that the magistrate is called Xue Kangyi."

"He is Prime Minister Qin's disciple." Gu Qingqian lowered his head slightly, staring at the teacup in front of him, and said calmly.

"It turns out that it's Qin Zhihao's protégé who overshadows the sky with one hand, he's really a nest of snakes and rats." Mu Yi said angrily.

With a sound of "squeak~", the door was opened again.

Seeing Shen Lingyang's return, Mu Yi quickly asked her to sit down, poured her a cup of tea and handed it over to her, then asked, "Grandma, have they made arrangements?"

Shen Lingyang took the teacup and nodded, and said to everyone: "I have arranged for the old lady to be in the shop under the door of Xiuling Palace. There is no big problem. I have also sent someone to pay attention to her son, and find a way to save his life. Along the way, the streets are full of people who buy and sell children, and it has become a norm."

When Mu Yi heard this, she jumped up excitedly: "Normal?! It's too scary!"

Yi Feiyue glanced at Gu Qingqian who was silent beside her, then turned her head and said to Mu Yi: "After driving for a few days, I haven't had a good rest on the way. Now that the old lady has settled down, let's go to Muyi first." Take some rest, Qingqian is also tired."

Mu Yi glanced at Gu Qingqian, who was a little distracted, and then realized that she was the most sad now, sighed silently in her heart, and nodded: "Well, I'm almost falling apart after walking for so many days, Qing Qian Ye should rest earlier, don't think too much."

Gu Qingqian recovered, smiled and nodded at Mu Yi.

So, the four of them came to the guest room of the inn, Mu Yi opened the door and went in and fell asleep, and Shen Lingyang also went to her room.

Yi Feiyue followed Gu Qingqian who had been silent all the time to her room, and when she was about to close the door, she stretched out her hand to hold it, and said softly: "Qingqian, if you always blame yourself, you will lose yourself." " After speaking, he slowly closed the door for Gu Qingqian.

Gu Qing stared blankly at Yi Feiyue who disappeared little by little before her eyes. After a long time, her eyes were no longer dull, lost, and self-blaming, but became more determined, as if a ray of light shone into the dark gap In the center, a seed slowly grows out, and a bright and dazzling flower blooms, revealing a fragrance.