auspicious time has come

Chapter 89

After Yin Hai sent a greeting to Heng Yu, he fled the place without any delay.

When passing a teahouse, he dismounted suddenly, entered the teahouse, and went straight to the second floor.

He sat down at a tea table near the window, which surprised the absent-minded Liu Xun: "How do you know I'm here?"

"You left the house early in the morning, where else could you be?" Yin Hai picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea.

"I'm used to eating the tea here... I just have nothing to do to pass the time."

Yin Hai said "Oh", and looked at the bun shop across the street with a smile through the open window lattice.

In front of the shop, Mrs. Miao was lowering her head to tidy up the drawers. The young man came over with a smile and said in a low voice, "Shopkeeper, look over there...Mr. Liu has been sitting for half a day..."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Miao subconsciously looked towards the opposite teahouse.

Suddenly meeting her gaze, Liu Xun dodges subconsciously, and then forces himself to look back calmly in the next moment, smiling and nodding at her.

Lady Miao was taken aback for a moment, then nodded to him, then turned around and walked into the hall.

Liu Xun's eyes followed her figure until his sight was blocked and he could no longer see her.

Yin Hai leaned on the back of the chair, sipped his tea and said with emotion: "Sure enough, it's more interesting to watch other people fall into this love affair."

Liu Xun's face was obviously uncomfortable, but it was also rare that he did not deny it blindly.

Since it is a matter of determination, there is no reason to avoid it.

Inside the steamed stuffed bun shop, the clerk was still tirelessly following behind his shopkeeper, whispering: "...Shopkeeper, why do I think Mr. Liu is a drunkard who doesn't care about drinking?"

"What nonsense?"

"I didn't say anything, how did you think of it? It seems that the shopkeeper's heart is much clearer than mine..." The clerk laughed "Hey" and said earnestly: "Mr. Liu is a talented person and so knowledgeable." , What's more rare is that he is approachable and approachable, without the arrogance of a literati... such a good person, if I were a woman, I would want to marry him!"

"Okay, let's go to work!" Mrs. Miao gave the waiter a look, cut off his mantra-like chatter, and walked quickly to the backyard.

When the bamboo curtain separating the front hall and the backyard was opened, Lady Miao couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, and her footsteps were inexplicably brisk.

She rolled up her sleeves, came to the well, easily picked up a bucket of water, poured it into the tub, and squatted down to wash the vegetables.

The water in the basin was as clear as a mirror, and she suddenly froze when she saw her smiling face reflected in the water.

After a while, she poured half a basket of carrots with mud into the basin, breaking up the smiling face.

In the teahouse, Liu Xun looked out the window twice and three times, but failed to see the familiar figure again.

"Should sit a little longer..." Yin Hai nodded beside him and said, "Tomorrow you and I will go with the general to the Zhuangzi outside the city, and we expect to stay for seven or eight days."

He said again: "It's just that there has been no war recently, you suddenly stopped eating buns, and you didn't come to drink tea... Will shopkeeper Miao get used to it?"

Even though he knew he was teasing himself, Liu Xun was reminded of it, coughed lightly and said, "I will tell her..."

"It's not fun to say that!"

"how do I say this?"

Yin Hai leaned slightly, and said persuasively: "Just imagine, if you could see a person coming for you every day, the wind, frost, rain and snow would never stop, and you would get used to this person appearing every day, but suddenly One day, this person, who was doing everything as usual the day before, suddenly disappeared the next day and disappeared for many days, how do you feel?"

Liu Xun thought seriously for a moment: "I must think that he suffered a sudden accident or emergency... Could it be that he died?"

"..." Yin Hai was silent for a moment: "No matter what guesses you make, you can't help but worry about it and feel lost."

Liu Xun later realized what he was trying to do, and he couldn't help asking in a suspicious tone, "Could it be that this is how you caught the girl from the Pei family?"

Yin Hai just drank half of the tea and almost spit out: "How can we generalize things that are completely different?"

Liu Xun took a deep look at him: "Then I hope you won't feel lost because of this in the future..."

Yin Hai completely ignored it, and asked himself: "Then you agree with this method?"

"Hey, give it a try...it's okay."

……

In the early morning of the next day, the chariots and horses were ready outside the gate of Hou Mansion.

Mrs. Xiao led Heng Yu out of the mansion, and saw Xiao Mu wearing a black cloak standing in front of the horse.

"Mother." Xiao Mu bowed to Mrs. Xiao, his eyes fell on Heng Yu, seeing that she was well dressed, he felt satisfied in his heart.

"It's windy today, and it's likely to rain depending on the weather, why don't you take the carriage?" Heng Yu suggested, "I can take my own carriage, and Master Hou can ride with Madam."

Before Xiao Mu had time to speak, Mrs. Xiao had already spoken in front.

But he said with disgust: "I don't want to sit with this brat—"

"This journey is boring, and I want to talk to my family, Ah Heng." She held Heng Yu's hand affectionately, and said with a smile: "How about letting him take your carriage?"

Heng Yu had no objection and nodded immediately.

"Mother, son—"

As soon as Xiao Mu started to refuse, Mrs. Xiao glared back: "You, Ah Heng, have good intentions, you must be savvy."

He said again: "I see that you seem to have become thinner recently. Last time, I asked Doctor Yan, and he said that he needs to take good care of himself. Why don't you even cherish your own body? That horse is so easy to ride, you have to brag about it Cold wind? Or do you feel that you have a handsome face and you have to show it off all the time?"

"..." To Xiao Mu, the last sentence was like a snake hitting seven inches, and it was especially deadly, so he stopped immediately and got on Hengyu's carriage obediently.

Seeing the back of him being forced into the car, Heng Yu smiled unconsciously.

"You have a stubborn temper, you have to deal with it like this..." Mrs. Xiao said softly when she was pulling her into the carriage.

Heng Yu nodded subconsciously: "Yes."

It’s just that I feel vaguely something is wrong——

How is this a bit like her grandmother's feeling when teaching her sister-in-law how to handle her brother...?
Mrs. Xiao's eyes were already full of smiles, the corners of her mouth were almost raised behind her ears.

When Xiao Mu's carriage was moving, Yin Hai suddenly got in.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Mu, who was sitting upright, frowned at his increasingly annoying subordinate.

"The subordinates take care of the general personally."

Xiao Mu took a look at the place where he was sitting, with some disgust in his eyes.

"Master Ji's car is really elegantly decorated, there is no incense, only the fragrance of yellow plum..." Yin Hai touched a branch of wintersweet on the tea table while speaking.

Sitting upright, Xiao Mu frowned with his hands on his knees.

"There is still a storybook here, the general wants to read it to relieve boredom?" Yin Hai picked up the storybook beside him.

"lay down."

"Don't read the storybook...Then make a pot of tea? Painter Ji's tea looks good..."

Xiao Mu looked at his hand touching the teaspoon, and said in a steady voice, "Take your claw away."

Yin Hai, who was frantically probing on the edge of being kicked off the carriage, had no time to move, only to hear that the person sitting opposite had given the final death notice: "Either don't touch anything, or get out of the carriage by yourself."

Yin Hai immediately withdrew his hands, smiling and meditating.

The group of people and horses did not stop all the way, and arrived at Hot Spring Zhuangzi at the end of noon.

After entering the villa, but just settled down for a while, and told the servants to prepare meals, suddenly a guest came to the door.

Heng Yu and Xiao Mu came to the hall one after another and saw the visitor.

"Yan Jin? Why are you here?" Heng Yu wondered.

"There is also a Zhuangzi nearby in the clan, and I came here to take a look when I have nothing to do recently... Just now I saw a car and horse coming here from a distance, and I felt that the momentum was extraordinary, so I came to inquire curiously, and met Deputy General Yin, Only then did Xiao Hou come here in person!"

Yan Jin arched his hand holding the folding fan, and said with a smile, "It's really a coincidence!"

Xiao Mu didn't show his expression: "It's really a coincidence."

"As far as I know, this is the only hot spring in Yingzhou. Lord Hou has been fighting all year round. Are you here for recuperation?"

Heng Yu said in front of her, "It's to recuperate the cold disease on my body. Because Aunt Xiao is also there, Master Hou is very filial, so he comes with her."

Hearing this, Xiao Mu slightly raised his eyes to look at the girl.

She smiled, not knowing who she was guarding against.

"So that's how it is." Yan Jin said sourly, "My little Seventeen is very lucky. I haven't had the honor to soak in this hot spring yet."

Xiao Mu: "If Mr. Yan Lang is interested, he can come over at any time."

Yan Jin said happily: "It's better to obey than to be respectful!"

Let's look at the two without a trace, Heng Yu is thinking.

Yan Jin was always not polite to others, so he came over again that night.

It wasn't in vain, he continued his usual style of being rich and powerful, and the servants brought a lot of things over.

"I've had someone check it out, and it's mostly rare medicinal herbs, said to be used by the painter Ji—" In the evening, Yin Hai and Xiao Mu reported.

herbs...

Xiao Mu looked at a pine and cypress in the yard outside the window, and the scene of two young children chasing and kicking bamboo balls under the pine flashed in front of his eyes.

The bamboo ball is tied with a copper bell with a colorful rope, and it flies up and down, making the sound of the bell.

"General?" Seeing Xiao Mu's silence, Yin Hai called out.

Xiao Mu's gaze was still fixed on the pine and cypress, and he asked, "Did you get the portrait from Tingzhou?"

"I've got it, and I'm on my way back. It will arrive a year ago."

……

Five or six days passed in a blink of an eye, and Hengyu was eating and drinking every day except soaking in soup and taking medicine.

Yan Jin came here almost every day to eat, joking and bickering with her as always.

Xiao Mu mostly handles official business in the study, discussing matters with his subordinates——

Hengyu knew that it must be more than that, she had heard from Doctor Yan that his wound had to be cleaned and changed every day, and the degree of suffering was unbearable.

She also met Yan Ming privately several times and talked about some insignificant progress.

The weather was not very good that day, Mrs. Xiao was nestling in her room holding her precious story book to observe.

Liu Xun sat aside and was praised by her.

"...Mr. Liu's writing is getting better and better, and it has more sincere emotions. I don't know if there is a reason for this effort?" Mrs. Xiao asked in a gossip, "Mr. Liu has a sweetheart. Is it gone?"

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