A life of ups and downs is pure joy

Lin Qinghuan was sleeping inside, with her back facing Xiao Yi, her mind full of her fantasy of the man behind her and Hu Taoniang having a passionate affair.

Xiao Yi gently hugged Lin Qinghuan's soft waist from behind and buried his face in the woman's fragrant neck.

"What are you doing..." Lin Qinghuan complained and tried to let go of his hand.

"Huan'er, your husband misses you." Xiao Yi's low and magnetic voice whispered in Lin Qinghuan's ear.

"Husband, are you full of energy or is it that your peach doesn't make you happy?" Lin Qinghuan said unhappily while slapping Xiao Yi's hand around her waist.

"Silly girl, you asked me to have dinner with her, and now you are so unhappy?" Xiao Yi turned Lin Qinghuan around and asked him directly while looking at him.

"A meal can take several hours. The food in Jingshui Tower is not as good as that in Honglian Pavilion to your husband's taste!" Lin Qinghuan didn't want to look at him. She thought to herself that he was a bad guy who didn't admit that he had slept with her, so she looked away and said.

Xiao Yi held Lin Qinghuan's little face and gently kissed her pouting little mouth.

"Silly girl, I have been discussing things in daddy's study since dinner. I should have asked Dayuan to come back and tell you first. Look how angry you are. If you don't like it, don't try to act like a good wife." Xiao Yi said while rubbing Lin Qinghuan's little face.

"Ah? You went to Daddy's study!" Lin Qinghuan said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Are you still angry?" Xiao Yi asked softly.

"I just..." Before Lin Qinghuan could finish her words, Xiao Yi had already blocked her pink little mouth with a passionate kiss.

Unconsciously, Lin Qinghuan felt Xiao Yi's kisses all over her body. Her whole body was tingling as if she had been electrocuted. Her face and chest began to flush with excitement. Her small hands could not help but roam lightly over the man's body, gently stroking his thick arms and strong chest. "Husband, Huan'er misses... you."

"What are you thinking about?" Xiao Yi asked the woman under him in a low and deliberately teasing voice.

"I want my husband to bully Huan'er." The woman was kissed by the man and couldn't help but ask for a kiss from the man again, and her body was pressed against him obediently.

Xiao Yi kissed Lin Qinghuan slowly from shallow to deep. Lin Qinghuan couldn't control her emotions and gently closed her eyes. She parted her red lips, moaned softly, and hugged Xiao Yi tightly with both hands. The woman's heart, which was about to bloom, felt extremely satisfied at this moment.

The man's low moans and the woman's soft gasps are beautifully intertwined, the zither and the harp sound harmoniously, and the phoenix and the crane live side by side in the peach forest.

Their feelings for each other continued to grow, and the woman's voice became more and more seductive. The two of them wanted to melt each other into their bones and carve each other into their bodies. Lin Qinghuan was confused and excited, and at this moment he loved the tension and experience of this desire.

The cups and glasses clink together, they come in the clouds in the morning and go in the rain in the evening, the ecstasy turns into the wind, the satisfaction rises and falls again and again, with kisses of extreme love for each other, the deep and simple explanation of lovesickness, the ethereal place of the phoenix and the luan, the hazy meaning of the nine songs of passion.

Afterwards, the two hugged each other and chatted.

"Huan'er, have you been sulking alone today?" Xiao Yi asked while holding the beauty in his arms.

"No, no, I'm not that stingy!" Lin Qinghuan said stubbornly.

"If that's the case, I'll go to Honglian Pavilion tomorrow. The food there is very delicious." Xiao Yi said deliberately.

"You...! If you want to go, go now. Why bother coming back and letting your beauty sit alone in her boudoir and cry?" Lin Qinghuan looked up at him and said while pounding her chest with her fists.

"Silly girl, little fool, who asked you to be a good wife? I just like your jealous look. Today I want to see if you will ask me to go to another woman next time." Xiao Yi pinched Lin Qinghuan's pretty nose and said.

"It hurts...Husband, you pinched Huan'er." Lin Qinghuan closed her eyes and frowned, struggling to break free from Xiao Yi's slender fingers and rubbed her slightly red nose tip.

"Will you pretend to be virtuous next time?" Xiao Yi asked.

"Huan'er doesn't want to share her husband with others, but who told you to have a concubine before marrying me? If I don't do this now, outsiders will say that I am jealous and don't let you have children. I don't have the ability to give birth to children for you. After all, they are your people in the backyard. What can I do?" Lin Qinghuan said aggrievedly.

"They are just a group of servants, you don't have to consider them. I said, you are my only wife, Lin Qinghuan, and you are the only one I love. You will be the only one I will kiss and hug in the future, and having children is just a matter between the two of us." Xiao Yi said softly, looking at the woman with tenderness in his eyes.

"Husband." Lin Qinghuan smiled shyly, then buried her face in the man's chest and smiled happily. The random thoughts that had just occurred to her had completely disappeared at this moment.

"Silly girl, go to sleep. I have to get up early tomorrow to go to the north of the city to handle some official business." Xiao Yi kissed Lin Qinghuan and slowly fell asleep while holding the woman.

"Ah."

The next day, Xiao Yi pulled out his arm which was numb from being pillowed by Lin Qinghuan, and looked at the woman's sweet sleeping face with her eyes closed. His little wife was so beautiful that he couldn't help but kiss her. The woman reached out to grab him in a daze, and Xiao Yi smiled and held her tender hand.

"Husband...is it already dawn?" Lin Qinghuan asked in a soft and coquettish voice, unable to open her eyes.

"You sleep a little longer, it's still early." Xiao Yi said lovingly.

Lin Qinghuan dazedly wrapped her slender arms around Xiao Yi's neck, "Huan'er wants her husband to hold her while she sleeps. I don't want you to get up~"

"I'll come back early today to accompany you, and you can go to sleep obediently." Xiao Yi reluctantly put the woman's soft arms back into the quilt. If today's matter was not important, he would definitely not be willing to leave this gentle place.

"Hmph..." Lin Qinghuan groaned, turned around, and fell asleep again after a while.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi smiled helplessly, then got out of bed quietly. Yun Xiang also came in quietly to help Xiao Yi wash, tie his hair and dress, and then they both quietly left the room.

The sun was already high in the sky, and Lin Qinghuan was sitting alone on the bed, feeling hysterical. Chuxia looked at the figure inside through the gauze curtains and walked over.

"Girl, are you awake?" Chu Xia asked softly.

"Yeah... I'm awake." Lin Qinghuan replied softly.

Chuxia stepped forward and lifted the curtains and hung them on both sides. Then she helped Lin Qinghuan sit on the edge of the bed, and knelt beside her with Shuyin to help her put on shoes and socks. Then she began to wash, choose clothes, and put on some makeup.

"I asked Lixue to return to Suheju yesterday, and also told mother that we would be going back today." Chuxia said while serving Lin Qinghuan breakfast.

"Have you asked Nan'er whether she is going or not?" Lin Qinghuan picked up the black ink and began to draw her eyebrows in front of the bronze mirror.

"The eldest lady went to the horse farm early in the morning. It seems that she went with the fourth lady and Miss Zhou, the biological sister of Lord Zhou, the left and right palace attendant." Chu Xia said from the side.

"Zhou Wutong, her personality is very similar to that of Fourth Sister, and she is also her best friend." Lin Qinghuan thought of the little girl with a pair of protruding ears.

Yun Xiang came over, holding a peacock blue gilded string-patterned tripod incense burner. "Young Madam, what spices would you like to buy today?"

"I've been quite fond of sinking water incense lately, so add some to it. The study will still be filled with water incense. Have I packed the gifts for my sisters into boxes? Put the velvet flower hairpins given by my aunt into the box for Xiaozhu." Lin Qinghuan gave instructions while eating.

"Okay, I'll go clean up." Shuyin walked in, put down the freshly brewed tea in her hand, and said as she walked towards the dressing table.

"When the old lady learned that the young lady was going to her mother's home today, she sent someone to say that she didn't need to pay her respects." Yun Xiang remembered the maid from Qingyin Pavilion who had come early in the morning and said quickly.

"My mother-in-law treats me like her own daughter. I'm so lucky." Lin Qinghuan thought of Liu Ji's gentle and frail appearance, yet she was very compassionate towards her. Her heart couldn't help but warm. She said, "Is my medicine ready? Sister Mo told me to make it twice a day."

"It's catching a cold, girl. Is it bitter? Mother Luo has prepared candied fruits and placed them next to the medicine." Chu Xia said with some distress. Her young lady, who had finally recovered and no longer needed to drink medicine soup, now started drinking it again in order to have a child.

"It's not bitter. I've drank the most bitter medicine since I was a child. This is nothing to me. It tastes very sweet." Lin Qinghuan said casually. Thinking about the eight years he has been here, he has done nothing for six or seven years except lying in bed and drinking medicine. Lin Mo is very considerate. The medicine he prepared this time is very easy to drink, unlike the life-saving medicines in the past, which made him vomit for a long time every time after drinking it.

After listening to this, Shuyin looked back at Lin Qinghuan for a moment, then continued to lower her head to pick up the velvet flower hairpin.

When Chuxia and Yunxiang went downstairs to pack up and prepare to go out, Shuyin saw that there was no one around and walked over to Lin Qinghuan.

"Young Madam, we already have a plan for the Red Lotus Pavilion..." Shuyin whispered in her ear.

"There's no rush. Just keep an eye on her first. Making a doll is not a bad thing. I see that she is not the kind of person who can endure it so well. I'm just afraid that she might do something terrible." Lin Qinghuan looked up at Shuyin and said.

"I heard that she has moved a lot recently..." Shuyin looked at Lin Qinghuan hesitantly.

"What is it?" Lin Qinghuan frowned slightly.

"She raised a lot of potted magnolias in the yard, and asked people to take good care of them every day." Shuyin said in a trembling voice. After all, everyone in the mansion knew that Lin Qinghuan always pronounced "orchid" as "lotus", and orchids were never allowed into the yard, just to avoid the name of her deceased mother.

"Have you liked this flower before?" Lin Qinghuan asked with a sullen face. Those who knew the rules knew that since the mistress avoided this flower, they knew that orchids were taboo. Even Li Jiaxin, who loved orchids, threw away all the potted magnolias that she had carefully cared for after learning about this.

"She only loves cosmetics. I've never heard that she likes to grow flowers." Shuyin raised her eyes to observe Lin Qinghuan's expression and continued.

"Then let her keep it and see what you want to do with it." Lin Qinghuan gently put down the teacup in her hand, then raised her arm again. Shuyin reached out and helped her up.

As soon as Lin Qinghuan walked into the yard, he saw Bai Zhi, the head maid in Grandmother Xiao's yard, walking in, followed by several little maids carrying a lot of wooden boxes.

"Young Madam." Bai Zhi walked in and bowed to Lin Qinghuan.

"Why are you here?" Lin Qinghuan asked curiously, and then looked at the maids following behind her, "What are these?"

"Young Madam, the ancestor knew that you were going back to your mother's home, so he asked me to bring these high-quality supplements to you and asked you to take them back to the ancestor of the Lin family." Bai Zhi smiled lightly and then said.

"Thank you for your trouble, grandma. These all look very expensive. Please tell grandma that I will come to pay my respects later." Lin Qinghuan knew it was sent from the palace just by looking at the material of the wooden brocade box.

"Young Madam, please walk slowly." Bai Zhi followed Lin Qinghuan, sent her to the gate of the Xiao Mansion, and watched her get on the carriage.

Lin Qinghuan lifted the carriage curtain and looked at the figure at the door. "Yun Xiang, why does Bai Zhi smell like medicine?"

"Young Madam, Bai Zhi knows a little about medicine, so now she is the only one serving the old ancestor. When the second young master was in the mansion, she often went to Chen Yu Courtyard to help. It is said that the old lady always wanted to give her to the second young master, but the second young master was not interested in it, so she gave up. Later, she wanted to send her to the third young master's courtyard. It seems that she cried and wanted to stay to serve, so she chose the current concubine Chen." Yun Xiang said in a low voice.

"Grandmother treats the maids around her very well. If they stay as concubines for her grandsons, they can enjoy a life of wealth and glory." Lin Qinghuan sighed.

"My ancestor was kind-hearted. I was brought from the farm to work in Qingbo Courtyard because she looked at me. That's why I had the honor to stay in the Xiao Mansion." Yun Xiang recalled his childhood memories.

"Yun Xiang, do you have a lover?" Lin Qinghuan asked the maid who was already twenty-one years old.

"No, why did the young lady suddenly ask this?" Yun Xiang asked with a blush. Chu Xia was also looking at her own girl curiously.

"Chu Xia has a cousin who has been engaged since she was a child, so I can't just match them up randomly. If it were you, I could find a good family for you in four years. It's better to be a legitimate wife than a concubine." Lin Qinghuan said seriously.

"Yun Xiang hasn't thought about these things yet, but everything is up to the young lady." Yun Xiang nodded, then raised his eyes and secretly looked at Lin Qinghuan, feeling warm in his heart.

"Chuxia, how is your cousin from the Wu family doing in business these years?" Lin Qinghuan turned around and asked, chatting with the two maids along the way.

"My aunt sent a letter to my mother a few days ago. My cousin went to the south and his business was going well. He will definitely be able to return to Luofeng City before the New Year." Chu Xia said shyly.

"Well, you are already twenty years old this year, and you are also my personal maid, so I will let you leave the house two years earlier. I have already told this to my grandmother." Lin Qinghuan patted her hand and said.

"Miss, I'm not in a hurry. I want to serve you for a few more years." Chu Xia said anxiously.

"Silly girl. There are still many years to go. I'm afraid that by then some people won't have to express their longing for each other with love knots every day." Lin Qinghuan didn't say much. After he finished speaking, he just smiled at the silly girl with a blushing face. Chuxia had always treated him attentively and had many maids to serve him. He wanted her to have a good home.

Chuxia continued to massage Lin Qinghuan's legs with a red face. Yunxiang also picked up the hot water bottle covered with a velvet bag and put it in Lin Qinghuan's hand.

"I guess the second young lady should be here by now." Chuxia lifted the carriage curtain and saw the Jia family's carriage coming towards them.

"I haven't seen her for several days. I miss Sister Mo so much." Lin Qinghuan said with a smile.