Chapter 34 The concubine is in your heart, as if...

In the courtyard, the magnolias spit their cores, the fragrance permeates the flower window, and the wisps of blue smoke fill the entire main house.

For a moment, Mrs. Zhuang didn't react. She heard a long speech. She looked like she was in a dream. In the dream, the innocent and lovely child pulled the corner of her skirt. She had no hatred or resentment towards her. Happy to show her a snow-white fawn.

She wanted to laugh, but felt her eyes swell and hurt.

"Madam." Hua Yue called her softly, clutching her cold hand, and reminded in a low voice, "My son is talking to you."

Suddenly, Mrs Zhuang looked in Li Jingyun's direction and wanted to speak, but she felt something was stuck in her throat. She swallowed and nodded hastily.

Seeing this, Hua Yue smiled and said, "Madam, this is the answer."

Li Jingyun nodded, and his eyes only stayed on Zhuang for a moment before moving away. He turned his head and just met his father's deep eyes.

"You came back just in time." Li Shoutian said, "I have something to discuss with you for my father."

Zhuang shi listened, and quickly pulled Huayue back out. She stumbled a little, and Huayue was so shocked that she didn't dare to let go, and helped her out of the main house all the way.

"Ma'am." She was slightly annoyed. "What are you in a hurry? What if you fall?"

Her brows were slightly frowned, but her face was smiling. Mrs Zhuang stroked her hand like before, and said in a hoarse voice, "I...I'm just so happy..."

Feeling slightly sour, Hua Yue sighed.

She helped Mrs. Zhuang to walk in the direction of the garden, giving her comfort as she walked, until she calmed down completely, and then whispered, "This servant also has something to report to Madam."

The spring was bright in the garden. Mrs. Zhuang sat beside the rockery and quietly listened to the people around him stammering about what happened on the mountain.

Hua Yue didn't hide it from her, she told the truth, and she was beating her heart as she spoke, for fear of making Madam angry.

However, after hearing this, Mrs Zhuang did not scold or question, but only frowned for her with a worried expression on her face.

"Do you like Jing Yun?" she asked.

An inexplicable warmth surged in her heart, and Hua Yue lowered her head in embarrassment, denying: "This servant has no coveted heart for the son."

"Then what are you going to do?" Mrs Zhuang said softly, "You can't walk on the cusp of the storm."

"The servant knows." She squatted beside the lady's leg and rubbed with her affectionately, "The servant has already thought about it, and I will petition with the young master later, saying that I will come to the main courtyard to take care of the lady, and the servant can still be the same as before. Just stay by the lady's side and not go anywhere."

Gently caressing her black hair, Mrs. Zhuang looked up at the blurry light in the sky, and suddenly remembered a lot of old things.

"Is she the only one?"

"She's the only one. She doesn't have a good temper. She doesn't like to be close to people, and her hands and feet are clumsy. Those officials don't like it. I plan to send her to the Huanxi Division later."

"Then let her go with me."

"what?"

"From today, she is my maid."

"..."

With the dust and light that can be seen in the memory, as well as a pair of extremely gentle hands, through the nightmare of terror and torture, gently hold her into his arms.

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Hua Yue thought it was raining, she raised her eyes blankly, but saw Mrs Zhuang staring blankly at a certain place, tears streaming down the corners of her eyes.

"Madam?" She hurriedly took the handkerchief to wipe her face, "what's the matter with you?"

Zhuang shi came back to his senses, wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "The light outside is too bright, a little dazzling."

She had never seen such an excuse a hundred times, but she had at least ninety-nine. Hua Yue looked at her solemnly, and asked in a deep voice, "When the servant was not in the main courtyard, did the general bully you again?"

"No." She smiled and folded the handkerchief. "The general and I are husband and wife, how could they bully me."

As for the husband and wife, since she entered the mansion, the general has never spent the night in the main courtyard, the wife does not have any gifts for her birthday every year, and it is difficult to even have a meal together. What kind of husband and wife are they?

Looking left and right, Hua Yue felt that Madam had lost weight. She expected that Shuang Jiang would not take care of people carefully, and Madam was not someone who would criticize people, so she might have endured a lot of grievances.

She secretly made up her mind.

Li Jingyun stood in the study, listening to Li Shoutian in silence.

"I've thought about it for my father, and I'll follow up with you in a few days and ask you to come to the Refining Division." He sat in a chair, folded his hands and said, "This way, in a few years, you can take over the job. Father's responsibility."

"The lady of the Han family is very good. If you think it is suitable, you can choose a date with my father and welcome her."

"Being old, this huge Li family mansion will depend on you to support it sooner or later."

Li Shoutian speaks earnestly and has a condescending attitude. After all, everyone admires his military power in the Li family, and he has more than one son. Being able to arrange this for Jing Yun is his greatest preference as a father.

However, the man in front of him listened with no emotion on his face.

"What?" He was displeased, "Do you have any objections?"

"No." The hem of the indigo-colored robes fluttered and fell, Li Jingyun said with a half-smile, "Father's reward is a blessing that children dream of, but..."

The end of his eyes twitched slightly, and the ruffian that had been restrained for a long time emerged from the snap of his fingers.

"I do not need."

There was silence in the study for a moment, and then there was a sneer.

"You don't need it." Li Shoutian raised his eyes and looked at him with deep eyes, "So you want to be a douchebag all your life, gnawing on the flesh and blood of the Li family, and be a useless cripple?"

The more he spoke, the louder he became, and finally he almost slapped the table: "I won't support you for the rest of my life, you'll be nothing if you leave the Li family and your identity as the third son!"

Li Jingyun was not at all surprised by his anger. He listened to his own father's mockery calmly, and only asked while he was gasping, "What were you and your mother arguing about before?"

Breathing stopped for a moment, Li Shoutian frowned, and said with a complicated expression: "Ask why this is, you never cared about your mother."

"No matter how much you don't care, it's the flesh that fell from her body." Li Jingyun stretched and said casually, "Don't go to her place if it's all right. If you look at her annoyingly, she may not want to see you."

With a choked throat, Li Shoutian laughed angrily, "Are you going to teach me a lesson now?"

"Don't dare." He bowed his head, bowed his hands to him seriously, and said with his eyelids lowered, "I'm just tired of listening."

Li Shoutian paused, and unconsciously folded his hands on his lap.

He hadn't chatted with Jing Yun for a long time. For so many years, he mostly listened to his movements from the mouths of others, let him be locked in the house, or sent him to the training ground to be sharpened.

Looking at it now, this kid seems to have grown taller, and his eyebrows have grown a bit longer. There is less solemnity on his body, and more sharpness that he can't understand.

He just stood in front of him like this, with no reverence in his eyes, as if he was gossiping with a friend: "By the way, my son took a concubine on his own initiative."

Li Shoutian fainted out of breath: "A concubine?"

Supporting the table and standing up, he hurriedly said: "How dare you, how dare you do such a disobedient act! What about Mr. Yin? Call me Mr. Yin!"

Li Jingyun suddenly said: "You pointed Zhang Zhangshi to your son's side because you wanted her to take care of her son. Whenever there is trouble, I will report it to you."

He smiled as he spoke, reached out and handed a cup of tea, raised the tea between his eyebrows, and raised his eyes: "My son expected this, so the concubine he took happened to be her."

Li Shoutian: "..."

The old slave in the mansion was dozing off guard outside the study, when he suddenly heard a loud noise, which made him jump up from the door, and then a furious roar came from the study: "Get out of me— "

The old slave was so frightened that he was crawling to open the door to check the situation, but he was just bumping into the third young master walking out of it as if nothing had happened.

"Uncle Xiang." Third Young Master smiled at him, "Prepare more tea for my father to clear the fire."

"Hey, good." Xiang Bo responded subconsciously, and then saw the corner of the clothes in front of him drifting to the outside of the yard.

Behind him, there was the sound of the old man's panting breath, which came from the dark study, with a few angry coughs.

When he went back to the East Courtyard, Li Jingyun was still in a calm mood, and he was a little happy even thinking that someone would act coquettishly for him later.

However, when he saw people, he was not happy.

Hua Yue sat down obediently in front of him, looking at him with wide eyes, her little paws gently scratching the hem of his clothes, hesitating to say anything.

With a bad premonition in his heart, Li Jingyun narrowed his eyes: "What do you want to do?"

"Young Master~" She raised her tail and winked softly at him, "If one day, your concubine falls into the garden pond together with your treasured sword, which one will you fish first?"

After a shudder, Li Jingyun said in disgust, "Treasure knife."

"That concubine and the book on your soft couch..."

"Book."

"The Eight Horses on the wall..."

"The Eight Horses." After answering these stupid questions without hesitation, Li Jingyun's brows jumped, "How dare you mention the Eight Horses to the Lord?"

The man in front of him laughed foolishly, glanced at the picture on the wall with a hole in it that had not yet been repaired, and rubbed his hands lightly: "It looks like your concubine has no place in your heart. "

Generally speaking, shouldn't this kind of words be resentful and accusatory? How can hear it from her, it's a bit joyful.

He knocked on the low table on the soft couch in dissatisfaction, and before he had time to speak, the man in front of him rushed to his knees, pleading with his eyes: "Can the concubine go back to the main courtyard to take care of the lady?"

She glanced at her, and Li Jingyun hummed: "You will be back for a few days, and you are not such a stingy person."

"No." Hua Yue shook her head, grabbed his arm in a pleasing manner, and shook it gently, "The meaning of the concubine, otherwise... I won't come back to the East Courtyard."

The light in his eyes stagnated, Li Jingyun slowly restrained his smile, and looked at the person in front of him with dark eyes.

She was still smiling, her eyes were full of earnestness, no reluctance, no temptation, only pure begging and sincere light.

The thing that had been securely hung in his heart suddenly snapped off the rope and sank into the bottomless abyss. The ensuing loss and discomfort made him a little flustered and a little angry.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

Hua Yue was obviously a little surprised by what he said, she gave a soft "ah", then retracted her hands and sat upright on her knees, looking up at him curiously: "You took a concubine at that time, not just to block Miss Han's family. Marriage? It's blocked now, as long as the concubine is in the general's mansion, isn't it the same when you are by your wife's side?"

The words made a lot of sense. He took a deep breath and nodded and smiled: "Have you planned this for a long time?"

When she agreed to be a concubine, she did have such a plan. She thought that Li Jingyun would readily agree to it. After all, in her opinion, he didn't like her very much, and even if he could get her away, he would be more free. .

Unexpectedly, he didn't seem very happy.

With a slight movement in her heart, Hua Yue blinked her eyes, with a strange look in her eyes: "Young Master, are you... reluctant to be a concubine?"

"No." Leaning back, he stretched out his hand to support the soft couch, his eyelids closed, "I just don't like being calculated."

With a guilty conscience, she lowered her head and muttered, "It's also a last resort."

The hands resting on the soft couch tightened.

Li Jingyun looked away a little embarrassedly, and sneered abruptly.

She is the most flattering slave, she will laugh at him and bend over to him, but in the final analysis, she is only temporarily succumbing to his side to save her life. She is desperate and has no choice.

Comfortable days have passed for so long, he really thought he could live like this forever.

"Master?" The man in front of him looked at his face hesitantly, "If you really want your concubine to stay, then..."

"Whatever you want." He stood up on the soft couch, and the black hair scattered from the jade crown blocked half of his face, "You can go wherever you want, there is no shortage of people in the yard."

After all, he brushed the hem of his clothes and walked out.

"Where is the son going?" she asked quickly.

The man stopped by the door, with a sly smile on his side: "Master is going to Qifeng Tower, do you want to come too?"

"..." Waving her hands stiffly, Hua Yue smiled, "My concubine is waiting for you to come back."

The tight jaw line was drawn into an arc by the light outside, he pursed his lips, and squinted his eyes to look out: "Wait, wait, if you want to go to the main courtyard, hurry up and clean up your things while the master is away. ."

"You agreed?" She tilted her head.

Pulling the corner of his mouth, Li Jingyun waved his hand: "Yes, congratulations to Yin Zhangshi."

The sleeve robe was lifted up and fluttered in the wind like a black kite, and he followed him and pulled it out. Huayue watched him disappear outside the gate of the East Courtyard, with a hint of loneliness in her amber eyes.

But it was only a little bit, not as big as her fingernails, so she quickly covered it up and started to clean up the room neatly.

Li Jingyun walked in a hurry, took a horse from the stable, and ran to Qifeng Tower. This place does not open the door during the day, but the shopkeeper, who was painted with powder, saw that it was him, and opened the wing on the third floor for him without saying a word.

There was nothing in the empty room, but there was enough wine.

He patted Kaifeng mud, he said nothing, took the wine jar and started pouring it.

The shopkeeper has never seen such a posture, and the people who have always been exquisite are all dumbfounded, and shouted at a loss: "Master..."

Looking sideways, Li Jingyun hummed, "Who allowed you to call me like that."

Wei Wei suffocated, and the shopkeeper immediately changed his words: "Third Master, what are you doing in the middle of the day, do you want to invite some other young masters over?"

"No need." He smiled, "I'm in a good mood today, come and taste your old wine."

The shopkeeper didn't dare to say a word, he brought a wine cup and poured it cup by cup for him, it was better than drinking from the whole wine jar.

"Where's the person?" Liu Chenghe's voice suddenly came from downstairs, "The shopkeeper!"

Frowning his brows, Li Jingyun turned to look at her.

The shopkeeper was startled, and waved his hand quickly: "Xiao Xiao does not know, Xiao Xiao has been standing here, and no one knows Liu Gongzi."

Anxiously sweeping away the low table in front of him, Li Jingyun stood up with the cup of wine, swayed slowly to the corridor, and looked down, "What are you yelling about?"

Liu Chenghe raised his eyes and saw him there, and quickly rushed up around the stairs next to him, panting, "I was just about to ask the shopkeeper to go to the General's Mansion to spread a message. Third Master, Chang Yi has entered."

The index finger rubbed the rim of the wine glass, and Li Jingyun was a little confused: "Where did you go?"

"Heavenly Prison." Liu Chenghe looked at him solemnly after spitting out these two words, "The person Jing Zhaoyin just brought people to get it is accused of taking bribes, and even Master Xu was invited to the yamen."

"..."

The chaos in his eyes dissipated, Li Jingyun threw the cup, turned around and walked downstairs with him, his expression returned to seriousness: "Where is the evidence?"

"The bank note collected by Chun Li." Liu Chenghe wiped his face irritably, "It stands to reason that nothing will happen, who would have thought that someone would be careful this time, the watermark and secret deposit on the bank note are all there. The doorway, you can know where it came from when you go out, guess who is the one who denounced it?"

He continued furiously: "It's the servant who came to give Chang Yi a red seal. That's great. There are both human and physical evidence. Even if he doesn't survive, he will pull the Xu family into the water."

There was some confusion in his eyes, Li Jingyun was silent for a while, and asked in a low voice, "What did Mrs. Xu say?"

"I have already entered the palace to ask to see the Zhonggong, but it looks like... Maybe I can't save it." Liu Chenghe's face was ugly, "The money they gave over there dragged our people into the water, how could the Zhonggong be able to do it? Relax."

The middle palace and the eldest princess are one party, and they were given red seals on Guanshan before, just to let them not interfere, so as to take the opportunity to get rid of some people around the prince who they have been thinking about for a long time. The killing of each other by the two parties happens every year. Li Jingyun saved a lot of people in the first year, but later he felt that it was all right, so he kept the red seal and turned a blind eye.

But what he didn't expect was that this year's eldest princess would come with him to break the trick.

Maybe he was stimulated by his concubine?

Li Jingyun sneered, mounted his horse when he went out, and took Liu Chenghe straight to Jingzhao Yin's house.

"Brother Jing Yun."

As soon as I got there, I didn't see anything else, but I saw Han Shuang standing at the door waiting, as if knowing that he would definitely come, and anxiously said, "Shuang'er has something to say."

Li Jingyun didn't look at her, gave the horse to Ma Nu, and turned around to enter the mansion.

"Brother Jing Yun, things are not what you think." She took a few steps up and stopped in front of him with open arms, her eyes full of anxiety, "Shuang'er will never do anything against you, this matter Something went wrong in the middle, and the eldest princess didn't know about it, can you listen to me first and then go inside?"

After a pause, he looked up at her impatiently.

Han Shuang was frightened by this look, and took a slight step back, but she quickly calmed down, pulled him to one side, and whispered: "The servant who sent the red seal is in the palace of the eldest princess, but I didn't expect it. It turns out that he is not from Daliang, but a slave from the previous dynasty. This man did not know what he was thinking, and he desperately tried not to sue the black case, there must be a bigger conspiracy. "

"Brother Jing Yun, you can't be fooled easily."

His eyes fell on her erratic eyebrows, and Li Jingyun's eyes were bottomless. He quietly listened to her finish, but smiled softly.

"Han Shuang." He called her name, "You've always lied and liked to look to the left since you were a child. You don't know or I don't know?"

With a "crack" in her heart, Han Shuang lowered her eyes quickly, squeezed her handkerchief tightly and said, "I didn't lie to you, the eldest princess really doesn't know about this, and you can't ask anything when you go in, why don't you check the handkerchief in your hand? Where did the silver notes go? That servant was always by the eldest princess's side, and he certainly couldn't find the silver notes to send out, and he should have other accomplices."

Looking away from her face, Li Jingyun said indifferently, "This will not bother Miss Han."

The green and black robe embroidered with dark patterns brushed past the green ru skirt, and Li Jingyun took Liu Chenghe and stepped into the gate of Jingzhaoyin Mansion without looking back.

"Third Master." After walking far, Liu Chenghe dared to speak, "Han Shuang doesn't seem to be unreasonable, the person who complained took a silver note with a denomination of 500 taels, and it is reasonable to say that the silver note should not be full. Is it in the hands of Yin Zhangshi?"

The figure moved slightly, but Li Jingyun didn't speak.

Seeing something was wrong, Liu Chenghe lowered his voice subconsciously: "I don't want to suspect anything, but it's not so easy for Changyi to come out now, and his father's health is not good, so he's really dragged here, There's no telling what's going to happen."

The slender fingers picked up the drumstick next to the Ming Injustice Drum and circled it around the fingertips.

Li Jingyun looked at the brand-new drum face, and suddenly said with a chuckle: "Master is here, even if he wants to stay in the prison, he can't stay."

The voice fell, the drums started.

It was too late for Liu Cheng and Xiang to stop them, so they could only watch the drum surface vibrate, and then two rows of people poured out of the yamen, slowly surrounding them.

...

Huayue tidied up her last piece of clothes, and suddenly felt a little palpitated. She looked back suspiciously, but she didn't see anything, so she lowered her head and tied the bag in a knot.

There was still half of the red envelope left, and she didn't dare to count how many banknotes there were in it. She didn't bother to take it away after thinking about it, so she tucked it under Li Jingyun's pillow. Move out.

This looks like a man who made a lot of money and returned home.

Joking to herself, Hua Yue stepped out of the east courtyard, but couldn't help but glance at the main house again, and then closed the courtyard door.

She couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, and she didn't want to think about it, she just put the things in her own room in the main courtyard, and then went to deliver soup to the general for the lady.

The steaming soup cup was placed in the tray, and Huayue took a selfish detour, wanting to pass through the East Courtyard to see if Li Jingyun came back.

As a result, just after the moon gate, she saw the housekeeper chasing a group of yamen into the door, shouting repeatedly: "If you want to search, you can search, this is our son's yard, hey... The general is still in the mansion. Woolen cloth!"