Chapter 42 Cold Lake Crossing

Pei said with a smile: "My sister has heard what Tiji said, and tell me too."

Rao Tu said indifferently, "It's nothing, but I was walking along the way. I saw the complex layout of the houses around here, and I was a little confused. I just asked the mountain ghost to familiarize myself with the terrain and see how the satin villages nearby are going. Sister, you also know, My sister loves precious fabrics.”

As she spoke, she looked at the row of servants and servants standing in front of the Shen residence. She had never seen these people when she first entered the residence. She turned her head and said, "Madam, what do you mean?"

"I put my sister in Meihuawu. These are the rough servants on the dock for my sister to send."

"Meihuawu? What a beautiful name."

"The yard where my sister lived was too desolate, so I took my own initiative to move my sister's things to Plum Blossom Dock, Yan Bing likes it there, and the plum blossoms on the dock are also blooming. It is an elegant place, and it is also close to my residence. ."

"Thank you ma'am, I'm very worried." Although Rao Tu said that, her expression was full of calmness, and there was no sense of anxiety.

The Shen residence was built around the lake, and the Plum Blossom Pier was in the middle of the lake. It took a half-pillared boat to get there. On the waterway, Pei Qingwei was not following. Rao Tu looked at the ruined lotus leaves in the lake, and said to the ghost: "Look at the remnants of the lotus in this lake, how elegant? In the light rain, it is just 'leaving the remnants to listen to the sound of the rain'."

The mountain ghost smiled and said, "I can't tell if the wind is not elegant, but the scenery is there. Girl, look at the pavilion on the dock, it is really more imposing than the broken courtyard we used to live in."

Rao Tu closed her eyes and focused, the breeze swept past her face with the fragrance of plum blossoms, she said lightly: "A concubine with a low status, even if she is favored again, should not have this special experience. Madam Pei is really a big hand. In this way, everyone in the capital knows that I Rao Tu is a savage and arrogant woman."

The mountain ghost glanced at the boy who was punting next to him, and tugged at Ratu's sleeve.

Rao Tu smiled and asked the servant, "What's your name and how long have you been here?"

The servant replied, "The servant Xiao Shun has been here for three years."

"Oh? Lord Shen likes to come to the dock?"

"Yeah, when the plum blossoms bloomed last winter, Lord Shen would come here to live for a month."

"I will live here for a long time in the future, but I will trouble you." She said to the mountain ghost, "When you get to the shore, go and give Xiaoshun fifty taels of silver as a reward."

Xiaoshun didn't dare to take it, and hurriedly said, "This is a servant's duty."

"When I will be your ship in the future, I will entrust my life and wealth to you. If I can do my job well, I will be well-deserved. On the dock, everyone who wants to serve me will be rewarded. You are not unique, so you Don't be afraid."

When they got to the shore, Xiaoshun held a purse with broken silver in her hand, and thanked her a lot. It wasn't until Raotu took her maid away that she dared to stand up and peek at her back, thinking that although Mrs. Rao had a bad reputation, she was a generous person. master.

The mountain ghost here is a little painful, and asked in a muffled voice: "Girl, there are at least thirty servants in this dock, and they are all rewarded like this, and they can't spend more than a thousand taels?"

Rao Tu squinted at the little girl who fell into the money hole, "Don't be so stingy, didn't we make a net profit of 3,000 taels from Pei's family because of the soft smoke a few days ago?"

The mountain ghost said "Oh—", still very depressed, "It's better to give the icing on the cake than to give help in the snow. Even if the girl rewarded everyone, I'm afraid that few can remember your good."

Rao Tu said: "So, you have to have a strategy, call all the servants who serve on the dock, first reprimand them collectively, you will see their reaction, and then decide on each person's reward. But you are only responsible for For the matter of training and rewarding people, Liu Xing and I will come here in spring, summer, autumn and winter."

The mountain ghost said aggrieved: "Why am I the only one who sings blackface?"

"You look fierce."

"Ah—girl, did you read it wrong?"

That night, the mountain ghost reluctantly called those people over to set up a rule. Rao Tu watched from behind the curtain, observed everyone's reactions secretly, and then personally rewarded Xu's mother in the kitchen, Xiao Quanzi who was fetching water, and Zhang Guanzi on the dock each with a hundred taels of silver, and the rest also rewarded fifty and twenty. Yes, they are all left to Liu Xing and Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

Among them, the two girls who were originally placed next to her to do meticulous work did not receive any reward. Rao Tu said: "The girls by my side are enough. You two should go back to Mrs. Pei to serve."

The two girls went blushing, and the mountain ghost hummed: "I just saw that these two were not pleasing to the eye, their eyes were dodging, and they were arrogant. At first glance, they were Pei's dog legs."

Rao Tu said: "Mountain ghost, you are staring now, if there is still such a thing on Plum Blossom Pier, just send it away, and I will not leave unclean people around."

The mountain ghost is a little unconfident: "My eyes are not as accurate as the girl, what if I see it wrong?"

"If it's wrong, it's wrong. You can just use your intuition to see which one is not pleasing to the eye. The meticulous work around me is only handled by a few of you. Also, in the kitchen, except for Xu's mother, the rest can't be in charge. I will send Yang Qian a few days ago. A few maids in the valley will be transferred to the kitchen, they are Shen Zhu's people, and there will be no major problems."

The mountain ghost nodded and smiled and flattered: "Girl, you look serious, so handsome."

Rao Tu smiled and stared at the flickering candle, "Since she wants to play, I will play with her."

After dinner, she called Manager Zhang, "I heard that the adults used to live on the island. I don't know where the wing is?"

Guanshi Zhang is an old man in his sixties. He is tall and thin, with white temples and sunken cheeks. He has a vicissitudes of life and honesty. When he got the reward, he just thanked him in a polite way, not like Xiao Quanzi who fetched water. Feeling very teary. After all, people are old, and there is always a bit of style that has seen the world.

Now that he listened to Rao Tu's question, he replied in a proper manner, "Your lord is not living in an attic room, but a shed in the Merlin."

Rao Tu's expression changed slightly, "Washer?"

"That's right, Lord Washer never allowed people to enter." Zhang Steward saw that Rao Tu's expression was different, so he added a sentence lightly.

"I see, take me to see the plum blossoms in the woods."

Manager Zhang hurriedly asked the servant to take some lamps for front and back lighting, and led Rao Tu to Merlin. The forest is full of sweet plums, the snow is pressing on the branches, and the cold fragrance is intoxicating. Rao Tu walks in it, as if returning to her home in Qingzhou in a trance.

Back then, despite her father's objections, she married Shen Zhu and lived with him in a Merlin shed. She remembered that in the cold winter of the year she married, he cut a plum blossom and kept it in the house, and the fragrance of the flowers lasted for half a month. At that time, when he looked at Mei Hua and looked at her, he would also smile happily.

Later, he gradually stopped laughing and became dull day after day. She only said that he was tired of reading and served diligently every day, but what he returned was the coldness in his eyes.

Later, he went on a study tour and left her alone in the air-cooled shack for five years.

In the end, he became a tanhualang. She heard the sound of the gong all the way, and stood at the door of the washer with tears in her eyes, waiting for him. Her legs were filled with lead and she couldn't take a step forward, but she saw him carrying a man named Pei Qingwei. Charming woman smiles and smiles...

Rao Tu couldn't walk anymore, she leaned against a tree and breathed lightly.

Are the plum blossoms in Qingzhou also blooming? Is the old house in Qingzhou still there?

Seeing her like this, Manager Zhang just thought it was an old illness. He hurriedly greeted the maid, Rao Tu waved his hand, "I'm fine, give me a lantern and let me go for a walk alone."

The mountain ghost brought up a light glazed lantern, and Rao Tu took it: "You all wait here, I'll walk alone."

She carried the glazed lantern into the depths of the plum forest. The wind was blowing, and the white snow and yellow plum fell on her shoulders. She was unaware that at the end of the deep road was a small house with blue tiles.

Rao Tu stood still, looking at the tile house, she slowly covered her heart, dull, unable to breathe.

The glazed lamp fell, and it shattered to the ground. She trembled, picked up the flickering fine candle, and walked to the window of the blue-tile small house. The candlelight is close, and the room is dim and yellow. It is still the same year's tile house, the same year's bed, the same year's wooden table, and the same year's flower arrangement bottle.

In the bottle, a dead plum.

The wind blew out the candle flames like beans, and the darkness covered the old scene in the house and the two lines of crystal on her cheeks.

...

Everyone waited outside for a long time before they saw Rao Tu slowly walking out of the forest. The mountain ghost hurriedly stepped forward to support her, frowning and said, "Why did you come out in the dark? What if you fell?"

"I accidentally shattered that glazed lamp." Rao Tu laughed, "If it wasn't like that, how would you know how wonderful it is to listen to the wind in a cold night and the fragrance floats?"

The mountain ghost said worriedly: "You can just play, girl, if something went wrong, we are waiting for Lord Shen to come back and get skin and cramps."

Rao Tu smiled slightly, her body suddenly softened, her eyes closed and she fainted.

The mountain ghost called out a few times, but she didn't respond. The mountain ghost couldn't help being startled. He hugged her and ran back, beating his chest and scolding his crow's mouth.

He sent Raotu back to the warm pavilion. The doctor came to see it and said that it was caused by being frightened and emotional. He prescribed medicine and drank it, slept for a night, and only woke up the next day.

The two mountain ghosts, Liu Xing, were waiting by the bed, and their eyes were a little worried; the two were cleaning outside, and their eyes were a little worried.

Rao Tu looked at this scene and couldn't help but burst into a smile, "You guys, what's the matter?"

The mountain ghost complained: "Girl, you are too embarrassed to ask, can you stop scaring us?"

Rao Tu said innocently: "I saw a solitary ghost in the woods yesterday. I was really startled, so I fainted. You can't blame me."

Liu Xing stepped forward and touched her forehead, wondering, "The girl doesn't have a fever."

The mountain ghost hummed: "You listen to the girl's nonsense!"

Rao Tu said with a smile: "I didn't lie to you, and come back from the dead, isn't it a solitary ghost?"

The mountain ghost gave a "hmm" and asked casually, "The girl said, what does the solitary ghost look like?"

Rao Tu thought for a while, looked at Liu Xing, and pondered.

Liu Xing took a few steps back and said in fear, "You don't look like me, do you?"

Rao Tu smiled without saying a word, the mountain ghost couldn't see it anymore, he waved his hand in front of Rao Tu, "Girl, if you keep staring at Liu Xing, she won't dare to sleep at night."

Rao Tu sighed lightly, and said boredly: "Forget it, I won't joke with you."

"Mrs. Pei came to see it last night and gave me a box of Ejiao paste. What should the girl do with it?"

"Bring it to me to taste."

The mountain ghost is not willing to take it, "It's not a good thing, I don't even like it."

"Ejiao is expensive, and it is a good medicine for nourishing qi and blood, why is it not good?" Rao Tu retorted with a smile.

Liu Xing muttered sullenly beside her: "After passing through Pei's hands, no matter how good it is, it won't be good."

Rao Tu shook his head: "People are cute, but don't hate them. You have to remember that you can hate someone, but don't hate her things. If it's because she likes to eat sweet dates, you don't eat them, and you set your own rules. With so many rules and regulations, what's the fun in living?"

In one line, Liu Xing'er heard two words and said with a grin, "Sweet dates, I like eating sweet dates the most."

Rao Tu coughed, "Mountain ghost, go find sweet dates, I want to eat them too."

Qiudong said outside: "I saw a lot of winter jujube trees planted outside Fangcui Garden!"

Rao Tu nodded and said, "Okay, it's the jujube from Fangcuiyuan!"

Fangcui Garden is Pei's residence.

The mountain ghost is helpless: "Why do I always suffer and suffer, and you all sit on the ground and enjoy happiness?"

"Because you are more capable." Rao Tu smiled and said with a disgusting face.

The mountain ghost was not convinced, "I don't believe it, what skills do you need to pick jujubes!" He dragged Liu Xing and Qiudong out to pick jujubes together.

Three go out and one come back. In the evening, Rao Tu was sitting on the bed reading a book, glanced at Qiu Dong with an empty basket, and asked, "Where are the mountain ghosts and Liu Xing? Lai under the jujube tree and refuse to come back?"

Qiudong cried and said indifferently: "Liu Xing was beaten by Pei's girl Baoyue, and then the mountain ghost beat Baoyue again, and went to Madam Pei's courtyard."

Rao Tu frowned: "Isn't it just asking you to pick a date, why is it so violent?"

Just as he was talking, he saw Chun Xia came in and said, "Mrs. Pei brought someone here."

Rao Tu put down the book in her hand and looked out the door with a smile, only to see Pei Qingwei walking in with a slightly angry face, followed by Liu Xing, who had a bruised face, and Baoyue, who was even more bruised.

Rao Tu said in surprise: "Madam... what's the matter?"

Pei Qingwei said nothing and looked at Baoyue with a cold face.

Baoyue knelt down with a plop and cried, "In the afternoon, the slaves saw Liu Xing and the mountain ghosts picking jujubes outside the Fangcui courtyard, because the adults ordered the winter jujubes to be grown exclusively for the wife, and they would not dare to pick them randomly on weekdays. He stepped forward and reprimanded a few words, but Liu Xing'er and the mountain ghost didn't care, the slave girl stretched out her hand and hit Liu Xing'er, who would have annoyed the mountain ghost. be in charge."

Rao Tu gave a "tsk" and scolded: "Where's that dead girl from the mountain ghost! Call her over and see if I don't break her hand."

Pei Qingwei said indifferently: "I will help my sister to punish the servant girl. It has already made people suppress the slave servant who doesn't understand the rules, and hit 30 boards."

Rao Tu calmly said "Oh", "Thirty boards?"

"Yeah, the girl who doesn't understand the rules should be rewarded with fifty big boards and sent out, but I thought that was my sister's girl, so I only ordered a small punishment and a big commandment."

Rao Tu looked at Mrs. Pei and said slowly: "Mrs. Pei really gives Ratu face, if so, then please send her back quickly, that Nizi is usually spoiled by me, so I don't want to beat and scold her, but now You should also know some rules if you are taught by Madam. She must keep it in her heart, and she will repay in the future."

"I can feel at ease if my sister thinks like this."

Rao Tu beckoned to Liu Xing'er, "Look at the injury on this face! Could it be that hugging the moon hit you, and it made you look dead like this?"

Liu Xing glared at Liu Xing, "Where is it all of a sudden, hugged the moon and greeted a few servants and servants for a good beating."

When Rao Tu heard the words, she gave Baoyue a fluttering glance, and her whole body was shocked.

"Since Baoyue has stopped you, why don't you stop? You can walk sideways in this mansion. Even if Lord Shen said this, you can look at Madam's face anyway!"

Liu Xing said aggrieved: "I really didn't hear Baoyue's voice."

Rao Tu looked directly at Baoyue, "Don't tell me you don't even have a word of warning, then you hit someone when you go up?"

Baoyue shivered and said, "It was so windy at that time..."

Before she could finish speaking, Rao Tu sat up straight and said to Mrs. Pei, "Rao Tu didn't know there were such rules in the house. When she first arrived, she didn't understand a lot of things. Just like today's event, I don't know what those winter jujubes are. Madam's favorite thing. Because in the concubine's hometown, winter jujube was originally not a valuable thing. I wanted to come to my wife to not care about it, so I instructed the maid to pick some and come back to try it. The concubine did something wrong, and I hope my wife will give her advice. , the concubine did not dare to stay in the mansion, please ask the madam to allow the concubine to leave."

The line of words was pitiful and pitiful. Mrs. Pei was speechless for a long time. After a long silence, she helped Rao Tu to lie down on the bed, "My sister is not well, don't get angry because of these things. I didn't expect this to happen today. This girl is so stingy, to actually beat someone first because of a few dates, it's really disgraceful to me."

Rao Tu asked, "I wonder what Madam plans to do with Baoyue?"

"Also... just play thirty big boards."

Rao Tu shook her head and said: "Today this incident started because of the hugging moon, the mountain ghost and Liu Xing were beaten before they knew what was going on, and the mountain ghost fought back to protect themselves. Can't follow."

Pei Qingwei squinted her eyes, Baoyue was so scared that she hugged Pei's leg and cried, "Madam, please forgive me, slave... slaves will never dare again."

Pei shi kicked her away, and said with hatred, "If you don't look good, go out and get fifty sticks!"

Rao Tu said, "Madam is wise, the concubine thinks that a small punishment is enough, but there is no need to drive it out. Qiudong, you go and find the pole that Xiaoquanzi usually carries water, and give Baoyuechang some memory in person. ."

Qiu Dong, who had been standing beside him with his head bowed, was shocked for a while, and then responded in a low voice.

Rao Tu said with a smile: "Qiu Dong, you are from the Princess Mansion, you should know the importance of starting."

Pei shi walked away with a dark face, and the wailing of hugging the moon in the yard became smaller and smaller, until the moaning could not be heard at all, and the sound of the board falling on the person kept ringing again and again.

Rao Tu said slowly, "Liu Xing'er, do you know why I asked Qiu Dong to beat her?"

Liu Xing said in a low voice, "The servant knows. Qiudong ran first when Baoyue hit us."

Rao Tu gave a "hmm" and said coldly, "She brought up the jujube tree in Fangcui Garden. She played with her mind to pick up troubles, but she wanted to be alone. How could it be so cheap?"

The Pei family sent someone to bring a basket of green and round jujubes with thin skin and sweet flesh. Rao Tu asked Liu Xing to wash it thoroughly before sending it to the room.

The mountain ghost was carried back by Yang Qian, the little girl held her buttocks and looked at Rao Tu, who was nibbling on jujubes like no one in the warm pavilion, and said with a sad face: "Girl, you still have an appetite for jujubes, these are all It's the blood of my ass."

Rao Tu was choked and threw down the half-eaten jujube, "I really have no appetite now."

The mountain ghost limped onto the outer bed, "I'm here to watch the night. Anyway, my butt hurts so badly, I can't sleep."

Rao Tu was about to stab her when Liu Xing brought in a bottle of medicine from outside, "Guardian Yang gave it, saying it's a good golden medicine."

Rao Tu nodded and said, "Bring it here."

"Bah!" The mountain ghost hummed, "I don't want any stinky things from Yangmu!"

"You don't want it? Then just lie on the bed all the time." Rao Tu looked as usual, took the bottle of medicine, removed the stopper and smelled it, "Yeah", "The medicine smells too strong, it really isn't a good thing!"

The mountain ghost also smelled the medicine, and she could smell it as a good plaster. She wanted to refute Rao Tu's opinion, but she couldn't open her mouth. After thinking for a long time, she said: "I smell it."

Rao Tu took the medicine bottle and said, "That's not good, what should you do if the stinky stuff of poplar wood is smothering you?"

The mountain ghost curled his lips, "Didn't the girl say that you can't hate Wujiwu? I'll just hear it, in case it's useful, I'll save money on the plaster."

Rao Tu threw the medicine bottle to her, "Who gave you the board?"

Shan Gui said annoyed: "It's not Yang Qian's subordinate, let's talk a little bit about him, and he actually asked his subordinate to beat me."

Rao Tu nodded and sighed: "You should thank him, if the Thirty-Sword Board is dead, don't want your legs!"

The mountain ghost's cheeks were flushed, and he was a little embarrassed, "Yang Qian, the dead man, has no good intentions. He took advantage of the danger. Anyway, I forged a relationship with him."

Rao Tu raised her eyebrows and said, "You little conscience, what the hell is going on?"

The mountain ghost said angrily: "He...he actually wanted to check the wound on my buttocks, and he suffered a thousand knives!"

Rao Tu pursed her lips and smiled and asked, "Did you see it?"

"No! I won't let him succeed even if I die!"

Rao Tu looked at the indignant little girl, and a hint of tenderness swayed in her heart, and the displeasure she had caused for her casually beatings disappeared without a trace. She stared at the mountain ghost for a while, her brows were pale and distant, her starry eyes were white and she was an extremely attractive little beauty.

The mountain ghost said with a guilty conscience: "Do I have flowers on my face? What is the girl looking at?"

"Yeah, there are peach blossoms." Rao Tu was half-smiling.

The mountain ghost wiped his face indiscriminately, his sleeves were clean, how could there be anything? She couldn't help but wonder.

Rao Tu does not explain, the love between young men and women, ignorance is the most beautiful. If it's broken by outsiders, what's the point?

Seeing that no one else was there, Shan Gui said in a low voice, "Girl, do you know the layout around the Five Princes' Mansion, does Lord Shen know?"

"I don't know."

"Does the fifth prince know?"

"Maybe know."

The mountain ghost shook his head: "I think the fifth prince is a lazy person, but I may not know it clearly. I know a little about the art of disgust. The purpose of the gossip ghosts around the fifth prince's mansion is to wear down his vitality and suppress his temper. The five princes If you know it, how can you still live in it?"

Rao Tu didn't answer her question, rubbed her forehead, and pondered: "It is a witchcraft sorcery to set up an uninhabited ghost realm with the technique of disgust. Who in this dynasty has the courage to treat a prince like this? ?"

"You don't know, girl, the fifth prince is not favored now, and has a lot to do with his mother-in-law. I heard that...the fifth-king's mother-in-law murdered the emperor with the technique of disobedience, and then died after being given dove wine."

Rao Tu was slightly startled, "How could such a thing happen? Why did his mother-in-law want to murder the emperor?"

"This is unknown. This is a royal secret, and I just listened to the discussions of a few dead men in the ministry."

Rao Tu nodded lightly: "He is a prince, but he can't even believe his biological father. I'm afraid that indulging in alcoholism is just a false pretense. If you are a little bit smarter, you will be at risk."

The mountain ghost sighed: "Girl, the snow in our house has sealed the door, and you don't care which tile of his house has frost!"

Rao Tu calmed down, smiled slightly, and felt that what the mountain ghost said was reasonable, "Exactly, there is a dead girl lying on my side with a rotten butt in front of me, how can I care about other people's affairs?"

The mountain ghost frowned and retorted: "Girl, what you said is too ugly!"

In the twinkling of an eye, the twelfth lunar month, the weather is getting colder and colder every day, there are ice skates hanging on the eaves, and the plum fragrance on the island is getting stronger and stronger. Rao Tu has been raising for more than a month, and her body is getting better. On this day, she and Liu Xing cut plum blossom branches in the forest and walked back, and accidentally saw Xiao Shun squatting on the bow of the mooring boat by the water, as if drinking.

She stepped forward, and Xiaoshun drank by himself without seeing her. Liu Xing shouted, and he was suddenly shocked. He hid the wine bottle behind his waist, wiped his mouth, and called out, "Mrs. Rao."

Rao Tu smiled and asked, "What wine are you drinking?"

Xiaoshun's face was flushed, and he trembled, "Mrs. Hui, it's just a crude osmanthus wine, just brewed this year, it's not very strong, the villain just drinks it as sugar water."

Rao Tu was very interested: "Guizi wine? Could you please give me a taste?"

Xiaoshun said honestly: "There is a can hidden in the small boat, but it's just too crude, I'm afraid my wife won't be used to it."

Rao Tu was quite leisurely and said with a smile: "So, you row the boat slowly, let me sit on your boat for a while."

Xiaoshun hesitated for a while, "It's windy on the lake, I'm afraid that my wife will catch a cold, and the little one will die!"

"It doesn't matter. It's my business to catch a cold, and it has nothing to do with you." Rao Tu said, and Liu Xing helped her onto the boat.

Xiaoshun took a clean gourd scoop and poured half a scoop of finely foamed osmanthus wine. Rao Tu took a sip and said, "Yeah!" With a sigh, she said happily, "Qingpao Guizi wine is for Yale."

She smiled brightly, and Xiaoshun was stunned for a long time. How could there be any plum blossoms and osmanthus, and withered lotuses in the cold pond? They are not as good-looking as the lady in front of them.

Liu Xing coughed and reminded: "Xiao Shun! Be careful with your eyes!"

Rao Tu smiled and said, "Don't be mad at him, we are sitting on someone else's boat and drinking someone's wine, can't we let someone take a look?"

Xiao Shun's face was flushed as he spoke, but it wasn't that he saw Rao Tu, but Rao Tu played him.

Liu Xing coughed again, "Girl, please respect yourself!"

When the boat sailed to the center of the lake, it was a cold day in Lajiu, and a thin layer of ice formed on the water surface. The boat broke through the ice and made a clear and distant sound, but it was very quiet.

Rao Tu almost drank half a cup of wine, her cheeks were flushed, she looked up and sighed with a smile: "It's a good time!"

Liu Xing snatched the wine from her hand, "Girl can't drink anymore."

Rao Tu gave an "um", got up and stepped out of the cabin, "Give me the oars, and let me punt the boat on the return trip."

Xiao Shun was startled and hurriedly raised the oars to protect her behind her. Liu Xing grabbed her hand and said nervously, "Miss, fall carefully!"

Rao Tu shook her head and went to grab Xiaoshun's oar, but Xiaoshun dared to grab it from her, so she hurriedly released her hand and handed the oar over. Rao Tu smiled and said to Liu Xing, "Don't catch me, you can't fall!"

Liu Xing almost cried: "Girl... Please don't scare me..."

At this moment, Xiao Shun pointed to the boat coming from the opposite bank and said in a panic, "It's the lady's boat!"

Rao Tu stood on tiptoe and looked at it, nodded and smiled: "It's her boat, with a silver ball hanging from the corner of the cabin, how luxurious. It seems that Shen Zhu and Mrs. Pei have not often traveled to the lake to watch the lotus, painted a boat and listened to the rain."

She started drinking, and her speech was a little slurred. Liu Xing said anxiously, "Xiao Shun, why don't you get on the boat and bring the girl ashore."

Xiaoshun is also anxious: "The girl is holding the oar, I don't want to stick here!"

Rao Tu was unsteady and leaned against the oars, "What's the hurry? I have something to say to Madam."

She held the oar tightly, and Liu Xing broke it a few times, but it was useless, only anxious.

From time to time, Mrs. Pei's boat was already approaching, Mrs. Pei walked out of the cabin and looked at Rao Tu with a smile: "Sister is in a good mood to swim in the lake today."

"Yeah, in the heart of the lake, what is life like drinking osmanthus wine, watching the remnants of lotus, smelling the fragrance of plums?" Rao Tu said with a lazy smile.

"Sister stood in the limelight, took the oar, and fell carefully." Pei shi reminded kindly.

Rao Tu shook her head: "It's okay, my concubine once learned punting from an old boatman. If my wife has the guts, please get on this boat. How about my concubine punting for you?"

Pei Qingwei smiled and said, "My sister is so elegant, but disrespectful." Immediately, the tracker on her boat pulled the two boats together, and Mrs. Pei got on the boat and said with a smile, "Trouble my sister."

Although Rao Tu was drunk, she was very stable when she propped up the boat. She rowed for a while, and Mrs. Pei walked to the bow of the boat and smiled beside her: "Sister, please stop for a while."

Seeing that she was holding a jade plate of fish food in her hand, Rao Tu asked, "Does Madam want to feed the fish? The fish in the lake should be at the bottom by now."

Pei Qingwei grabbed a handful of fish food and threw it into the water, smiling, "Sister, please take a look."

Rao Tu stared at the surface of the water, but saw a red carp floated up and swam in the water to eat the fish food.

Pei looked at the red carp swimming slowly on the surface of the clear water, "Sister sees how much these fish eat, and they eat less in winter. When all the fish food in this jade plate is scattered, I'm afraid it will also attract people from the lake. Red carp."

Rao Tu smiled lightly: "Madam is really kind. It's just... Rong Rao said something that shouldn't be said. In winter, the water is cold, and these swimming fish may not be able to swim after eating a few times. They are frozen and frozen in ice. There are too."

Shi Pei was startled, and suddenly said: "Sister Gao Jian! No wonder every time I come to feed, I always see a few fish turn white and float up after eating. I also wonder how the food is not poisonous, how could it die? Woolen cloth!"

Rao Tu said with a smile: "Fish for food, it's nothing, just like how many people in this capital put life and death aside for the sake of power?"

Pei Shi sighed, "That's true." She said, taking a few steps forward, sticking her head out of the boat, and looking closely to see which fish could not swim.

Rao Tu smiled without saying a word. The wind blew, and the boat moved slightly. Mrs. Pei stumbled and did not stand still. Seeing that she was about to plunge into the water, she hurriedly grabbed the corner of Rao Tu's skirt.

Rao Tu frowned, lifted her leg slightly and took a step back, Pei's hand slipped and plunged into the water at once.

"Bang", a huge splash of water splashed. Rao Tu sneered and looked at Pei Shi, who was fluttering in the water, and didn't move.

Xiaoshun shouted, about to jump into the water to save people, Rao Tu coldly shouted: "Don't move!"

Xiaoshun was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw Rao Tu's eyes were as cold as frost, and there was no doubt that he didn't even dare to blink.

The water in the lake was freezing to the bone. Pei Qingwei didn't know how to use water at all. When her jacket got wet, it would be extremely heavy. She fluttered a few times, but when Xiao Shun on the boat didn't come down to save her, she couldn't help but panic. He sank into the water and took a sip of cold water.

Pei's boat was far behind, and several boatmen had jumped off the boat and swam towards the place where she fell into the water. But the distance was too far, Pei threw a few times, and slowly sank into the water. The blisters gushed up, but she didn't come up for a long time, as if sinking to the bottom of the lake.

Xiaoshun reacted and knelt down and cried, "Mrs. Rao, it will be too late if you don't save people, you have mercy on the poor little one..."

Rao Tu sneered and said: "You just saw it, it's not that I pushed her down, but she must rely on me after she landed, and I have to bear the responsibility for you and me, why should I save her?"

Xiaoshun cried: "If you don't save the little ones, you won't be able to die. There are old people and young people..."

"Okay! Go save me! I didn't expect her to die so cheaply!"

Xiaoshun jumped into the water with a plop, and quickly brought Pei Qingwei up, her complexion was pale, and she had long been unconscious.

Xiaoshun pushed her chest a few times and cried, "Madam, Madam...you can't die..."

Several boatmen on Pei's boat also swam over and climbed onto the boat to see Madam Pei like this.

Rao Tu said coldly: "It is written in the book that a person who is drowning needs to press his belly, use his mouth to pass the breath, let the breath come out from the mouth, open his eyes, keep passing the breath, and press the chest and abdomen to vomit out the filth in order to be saved. ."

Several boatmen naturally knew the method of artificially crossing the air to rescue, but no one dared to go. Rao Tu reminded: "If you dare to hesitate any more, Madam will die, and all of you will die by then."

A short and thin man shuddered when he heard the words, so he had no choice but to step forward to rescue Pei Qingwei. He pressed his chest and abdomen again, and pinched his nose to breathe. bloody water.

Seeing her opening her eyes, Rao Tu stepped forward and squatted beside her, "Mrs. accidentally fell into the water, Xiao Shunzi brought her up, and these old brothers put a lot of effort into pressing their stomachs and rubbing their chests. It was another breath of air to save the lady, and the lost lady's life was hard."

Pei Qingwei held her chest weakly, the front of her clothes had long been tossed, revealing a large snow-white chest, she was ashamed, angry and hated, unable to say a word.

Rao Tu thoughtfully arranged her clothes and advised: "Madam, you must try to open up, because it is to save you that you have to be abrupt. Madam, don't worry, Rao Tu won't say a word to the outside about your falling into the water. , these people will never say it, after all, it is about the innocence of the lady."

Pei Qingwei was furious, she was looking at the fight and fell into the water once, so that outsiders thought it was Rao who used snakes and scorpions to kill her, but she didn't expect such a scandal. , how can it be said? She could only smash her teeth and swallow it in her stomach. It was a shame and humiliation. Under her anger, she rolled her eyes and fainted again.

Rao Tu looked at the boatmen coldly: "You guys, you should know the importance, right?"

Several boatmen nodded their heads and said, "Never dare to speak out."

Pei Qingwei's luxurious painting boat was approaching, Rao Tu ordered Pei Qingwei to be sent back for resettlement, claiming that she was ill and returned to Meihuawu.

On the way, the little girl Liu Xing was in high spirits and said proudly: "The girl is really domineering today!"

Rao Tu said calmly: "You go to appease Xiaoshun later, and tell him not to worry, Pei will not pursue this matter in the future."

Liu Xing worried: "Then will she add fuel to the accusation in front of Lord Shen?"

Rao Tu sneered: "As long as she is a little more virtuous, she should commit suicide for such scandals. But I expected that she would not dare. If she did not dare to die, how could she dare to tell Shen Zhu?"

Only then did Liu Xing feel relieved, "The girl is really amazing."

"Today, if she wants to harm me, I have to tell her clearly that I, my life, can't be harmed by her random intentions."

Rao Tu raised her head, and the warm sunlight fell on her face, revealing a kind of tenacity and calmness that made one's heart tremble.

She is Rao Tu, not Xu Heng.

At night, the mountain ghost heard the news from Fangcui Garden, and there was only rumors that the lady had accidentally fallen into the water and contracted the cold, and she downplayed the thrill of today.

Shan Gui said: "It's fake to accidentally fall into the water, that's what Pei Bitch jumped off by herself. But it's true that she was infected with the cold. Just standing outside Fangcuiyuan, you can hear her coughing, and it's only when the cough turns into a tuberculosis. it is good."

At night, Rao Tu wrapped the fox fur and held the stove, and said that she was going to Merlin for a walk, and no one was allowed to follow her, but she turned to the shore of the water and took Xiaoshun away, and she propped the boat to the center of the lake by herself.

The night wind was very cold and the water mist was hazy. She parked the boat in the middle of the lake and let the small boat drift with the waves between heaven and earth.

A long time ago, that woman named Xu Heng would also prop up the old boatman's boat in the middle of the night and wander alone in the heart of the river.

She once watched the bright moon illuminate the big river, watched the rising sun rise over the water, watched the spring flowers fill the river bank, and watched the water drawn by the paws of jackdaws. She is so lonely.

Rao Tu took out a long flute and put it under her lips, and blew it in a melodious tone, gradually turning into a melody.

The sound of shaking the scull broke the ethereal sound of the xiao, and in the mist, a small boat came leisurely. Rao Tu stopped playing the flute, and her eyes fell on the slender figure on the swaying boat.

He was wearing a silver-grey cloak and stood with his hands behind his back. The wind pulled up his wide sleeves, making him look like an immortal.

"The girl is the lonely person in this long cold water." He smiled lazily and said.

Rao Tu's face was calm: "Five lords, Yuan is also very cold."

Xiao Yanning smiled casually, his feet lightly on the boat, the whole person flew up and fluttered on the boat of Rao, without even shaking the body of the boat.

Rao Tu sat steadily and said slowly, "Your Highness is such a handsome Qinggong."

Xiao Yanning sat down at will, and brought a pot of wine to Rao Tu, "Osmanthus brewed."

Rao Tu shook her head and said, "My concubine is not good at drinking."

Xiao Yanning laughed and didn't force it. He pushed the lid of the jug away with his thumb, raised his head and took a sip. The clear wine flowed into his mouth, rolled with the Adam's apple, and slid into his abdomen.

The wine is full of aroma! Rao Tu seemed to see the golden osmanthus falling with the wind in the autumn sunshine, and the golden light and shadow danced in the air.