The wind is gentle and the fun is endless

The crowd watching the excitement was very excited, all with expressions of watching a good show, talking about it in a lively manner. The people fighting in the center of the crowd also stopped and watched slowly.

Slowly, when I heard the words "Xu Mansion", I immediately felt a "boom" in my ears, and my thoughts became empty. All that was left was the repeated words in my heart: "It's over, it's over, it's over now."

"Everyone, everyone..." The housekeeper of Yihong Pavilion ran down from the second floor, squeezed into the center of the crowd, waved her hand that was tightly clenched with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "What's so good about this? Let's listen to the music and enjoy the dance. Let's go, let's all go. Juhong! Sing!" While speaking, she winked at her subordinates, and the girls pulled the guests away. The musicians played stringed instruments again, the singing girls sang little songs, the dancers stretched their waists, and the servants also quickly pushed the troublemakers out.

After the crowd dispersed, only Huanhuan with her hair loose and the housekeeper of Yihong Pavilion were left. Seeing the embarrassed Huanhuan, the housekeeper couldn't help laughing. While brushing the dirt off Huanhuan's body, she said, "So you are the young lady of the Xu family. The Xu family is rich and noble. There have been many dignitaries here, but you are the first one. Are you here to play with us?"

Seeing Huanhuan drooping his eyelids and not speaking, she stopped talking too. At this time, a man came forward and stood beside Huanhuan and the chief steward. Huanhuan looked up and saw that it was Xie Shen. He coughed twice into his clenched fist, and then said, "I'm drinking with two or three friends here. Madam, let me take you back."

The chief steward immediately tactfully pushed the wooden Huanhuan away. Xie Shen put his cloak on Huanhuan, who was wearing a mixture of men's and women's clothes, made a "please" gesture, and led Huanhuan out.

Xiaoyu was waiting outside the door and was bored. She yawned several times in a row, and suddenly saw Xie Shen and a woman with disheveled hair and a cloak walked out together. The more Xiaoyu looked, the more familiar the woman's figure seemed to be. When they approached the lantern, Xiaoyu looked closely and saw that it was Huan Huan. She immediately jumped up and ran towards them.

"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Xiaoyu walked closer and asked slowly with a worried look on her face.

After slowly looking at Xiaoyu without saying anything, Xie Shen said, "Let's go back first. I'll go get my carriage. You guys wait here for a while."

After Xie Shen left, Huanhuan, who was pale, said to Xiaoyu weakly, "Xiaoyu, I was recognized inside. We are in big trouble." Xiaoyu didn't say anything after hearing that. She looked sad and silently came to Huanhuan and took her arm.

After getting in the car, the three of them had been silent. Finally, Xie Shen thought for a long time and said to Huan Huan: "Young Madam, today's incident cannot be kept secret. I think I should talk to Brother Qu first. What do you think?"

Looking very tired, he glanced at Xie Shen slowly, nodded, and told Xie Shen that Xu Qu should not have returned home yet.

So, when Xie Shen was still some distance away from Xu's house, he ordered the driver to stop the carriage. They waited for a while, and when they heard the sound of a carriage approaching in the distance, Xie Shen got off the carriage. After seeing that it was indeed Xu Qu's carriage, he stopped the carriage in the middle of the road, and asked Xu Qu to get off. The two stood beside the carriage and talked for a long time.

Finally, Xu Qu followed Xie Shen to Xie Shen's carriage. He lifted the curtain and said to Huan Huan and Xiao Yu, "Let's go back."

Apart from the feeling that he was a little tired, no other emotion could be heard from Xu Qu's voice. Huanhuan and Xiaoyu glanced at each other and quickly got off the carriage.

After getting off the carriage, Xu Qu glanced at the cloak on Huanhuan, and when he saw the word "Xie" next to the rope, a hint of displeasure appeared in his eyes. He quickly reached out to untie the cloak on Huanhuan and returned it to Xie Shen, then took off his own cloak and put it on Huanhuan. After that, he pulled Huanhuan into the carriage without saying anything. Xiaoyu followed closely behind them and got on the carriage. Because Youcheng and the coachman were sitting outside, Xiaoyu got into the carriage with Huanhuan.

The journey back home was very short, and Xu Qu and the other three didn't speak a word along the way.

After returning to Xinyuan, Xu Qu and Youcheng, as usual, went to the study to finish some things for the day.

She sat down slowly and silently in front of the eight-immortals table, her brows furrowed, her arms resting weakly on the table, her head lowered and half hidden between her arms, and the aura around her became gloomy and gloomy.

At the moment, she was frustrated and sad. She thought it was a brand new beginning, but she didn't expect things to turn out like this. She didn't know how Xu Qu would see her, and how her mother-in-law and sister-in-law would react. If, if the news got back to Heyang and her family knew about it, how disappointed they would be.

By the way, there is also the eldest aunt who had been thinking about divorcing her. Now she has an advantage over her. So will Xu Qu really listen to her and divorce her?

The more she thought about it, the more flustered she became. The thought of leaving Xu Qu made her heart ache and she could not control her grief for a moment.

"Madam, don't you plan to say anything?" Xu Qu stood not far from Huanhuan at some point.

In fact, he had been watching her silently for a long time, watching her frown on her pretty and pale face, watching her head drooping lower and lower, watching her grief seeming to overflow from her lonely body, until finally seeing that she was almost about to cry, his heart was unconsciously tightened.

Xu Qu came closer, sat opposite Huan Huan, and said, "Tell me about it."

Huanhuan could no longer think, so he raised his head, tried to open his misty eyes, and asked, "What did you say?"

Xu Qu still said patiently: "Madam, tell me why you went to Yihong Pavilion?"

"I'm going to do business." Huanhuan's voice was a little choked.

Seeing Huanhuan like this, Xu Qu stretched out his hands and held Huanhuan's slightly trembling hands on the table.

Huanhuan looked at Xu Qu with a little surprise, until she saw the patience in his eyes, and then she calmed down. She took a deep breath and said, "Heyang has been producing a lot of rouge for more than ten years, and it has become quite famous. I want to sell Heyang's rouge to Shanghuai. If the business is stable, we can make a lot of money."

"Why?" Xu Qu asked in confusion, "Is the monthly allowance from the mansion not enough? It forces Madam to find her own expenses? If that's the case, we can give Madam more, double, triple, or even five times."

"No, no." Huan Huan shook his head again and again and said, "I admit that I started this business for money. At that time, I had not yet married into the Xu family. I wanted to use my strengths to do some small business and save some dowry."

Xu Qu frowned slightly and said, "But aren't you married now..."

Huanhuan couldn't wait to hear him finish, and interrupted to explain: "I know, I know, I've married into the Xu family, and I don't need to save up for a dowry. But I still persist in doing it, because I don't want to give up something that seems to be working. In addition, I also want to be able to earn money."

"If that's the case, you could have told me earlier. I could have arranged for you to participate in the Xu family's business and learn some skills." Xu Qu said in a flat tone.

"There is another reason why I insisted. That is, as I got to know Heyang Rouge better, I gradually came up with the idea of making Heyang Rouge famous." Huanhuan didn't know whether Xu Qu would think that her idea was as presumptuous as an ant trying to shake a tree, and she looked at him apprehensively.

"Then there's no need to go to a place like Yihong Pavilion where all kinds of people gather." Xu Qu frowned slightly to express his disapproval.

"That's because the first time I left Heyang was to come to Shanghuai. At that time, I was unfamiliar with the place, and after much thought, I could only start from the Qinlou and Chuguan which had a large and stable demand. And when I heard that Yihong Pavilion was the largest among them, that's when I thought of going to Yihong Pavilion." Huanhuan spoke truthfully.

"Well, you have a good idea. But you are going to do this alone, aren't you a little too brave?" Xu Qu's voice floated into Huanhuan's ears, and Huanhuan actually heard some teasing in it. Knowing such a thing, he was still in the mood to joke?

She blinked slowly in disbelief, and seeing that Xu Qu looked normal, she could only continue, "Tonight I was actually discussing with the chief steward of Yihong Pavilion about contracting their rouge supply for a long time. The discussion was going well, but I was too excited and careless when I went out. I was discovered to be a woman, and was recognized as the young lady of the Xu residence..."

His voice gradually became quieter and quieter, his eyes fixed on his fingers, silently drawing circles on the table.

Then she heard Xu Qu's voice saying, "It's too late today. Let's rest first and talk about it tomorrow."

He slowly raised his head and saw that Xu Qu had stood up, turned around and was preparing to rest, so he hurried forward with a nervous heart to help pour water and hand over clothes.

Xu Qu seemed a little surprised at Huanhuan's first initiative to serve him. He was obviously stunned for a moment when Huanhuan snatched away his coat, and his expression was very unnatural. However, after two or three times, he quickly got used to it, and when he handed the coat to Huanhuan, he deliberately put on airs, with a domineering style.

However, Huanhuan was still very attentive. Not only did she put away her clothes quickly, she also followed him to the basin rack, folded the hand towel neatly, and stood aside obediently, waiting to hand it to Xu Qu after he washed his face. However, when Xu Qu lowered his head, Huanhuan seemed to see his face reflected in the water, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Is he smiling? Huanhuan blinked hard, but no expression could be seen in the tiny splashes of water. Huanhuan sighed that he must have experienced too much tonight and was too tired to have hallucinations.

Tonight is really a magical night...