marry a weak waist

The moon is covered by dense branches, the gnats are everywhere, the vast blue night falls, and a few scattered stars are scattered, like an indigo robe with a few holes, which is thickly covered on the head of the person, and the air is very thin.

The four wicks were newly lit, and Mrs. Lian was silent on the couch, waving her round arms impatiently to drive away mosquitoes.Mei Qing was sitting opposite her, and after being here for most of the day, after dinner and several cups of tea, she chatted with Mrs. Lian for several hours, her mouth became parched and her heart felt irritable.

Even the wife is too, it is not enough to tell the short stories of the parents at the bottom of the box, and pick up a lot of gossip from the wives and grandmas to entertain her.By this time, the words were exhausted.She secretly glanced at Mei Qing, Mei Qing still didn't say to leave, and she was not good at chasing away guests, so she had to wave her fan from time to time, gradually showing a little impatient expression, "You have tea."

Naturally, Mei Qing didn't want to gossip with her, but she just waited for the communication to return home with an excuse.Biansheng Liantong got stuck on something and didn't come back for a long time.Mei Qing held grudges in her heart, and couldn't wait any longer, so she stood up and said goodbye.

"Let's sit down again."

"Stop sitting, it's getting dark, if you don't go back, our master will make a fuss."

"Hey, what's the rush, I can't keep it all in the courtyard to enjoy the cool."

Even the wife said so, but she also stood up and sent Mei Qing all the way to the corner gate.Mei Qing went out on the front foot, and his wife ordered the corner door to be closed on the back foot, and spat on the pier, "Bah, after sitting for half a day, those who don't know think they are here to collect debts from me!"

She closed the door earlier, and if she closed it a little later, she would see her husband rushing back in a hurry. Before the carriage stopped, he jumped down from the curtain, almost knocking the whole person apart. shelf.

He didn't care whether his feet were standing still. Seeing Mei Qing crawling into the sedan chair, Tong Tong hurriedly staggered up to meet her and bowed her head, "Miss Mei is leaving now? Come in for a meeting?"

Mei Qing stood in front of the sedan chair and looked back, wishing to scold him a few words to vent her anger, but she hadn't hooked up yet, so she couldn't show her aggressiveness.Just nodded with a smile, and said sarcastically, "I won't sit down anymore, if I sit down again, I'm afraid my wife will drive me away. It's also my fault. I've been bothering my wife for a long time, and I've been invited to eat and drink tea. I stayed here until midday. I pretended to be full of good food and tea from the adults, and if I didn’t come back again, I was afraid that my stomach would not agree and rebel.”

Liantong Judgment heard some sense of blame, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Look at me, Miss Mei came to my house, I should have rushed back to see the ceremony, but something happened in the yamen, and I couldn't push it left or right."

Mei Qing raised her eyebrows, turned her eyes to other places, and didn't pay much attention to it.Tong Liantong had a shy face, and hurriedly asked the servant to bring the lantern, took it himself, and brought it to Mei Qing in two steps, "It's getting late now, Miss Mei, turn on the light, go back and pay attention to the way."

The surroundings were hazy and blue, and there were only a few shadows of the porters standing there, bowing their backs and not speaking, like people made of paper, exuding a ghostly aura.The Tongtong judge only thought that they were dead and alive, and slipped a note to Mei Qing, and touched her hand along the way.Feeling the goosebumps all over Mei Qing's body, she held the note in her hand, gave her a little thank you, and got into the sedan chair.

On the way, I unfolded the note and saw that there was only an address written on it, and I thought it was the other courtyard connected to the court.Mei Qing remembered it in her heart, and immediately crumpled the paper into a ball, her knuckles turned white from rubbing, and threw the paper ball out of the window.The ball of paper rolled several times on the pitch-black road, but disappeared without a trace.

When they got home, everyone did not rest. The lights in the east chamber were lit, and the window of the small study in the main house was dimly lit with yellow.Tongshan squatted under the window scrubbing something with the little light that came out.Taking a closer look, he was picking it up, but he was turning over the pig's intestines.

The wooden basin was full of broken and white oily flowers, which suddenly reminded Mei Qing of the hand connected to the hand just now.

It's strange to say that Zhang Mi used to have a figure like Tongpan, how could she try to attract the love of these skinny and shriveled men?She didn't know her flesh, every oil flower under the soft satin was trembling, making jingling laughter, like countless tender hands, pinching them.

She just felt her stomach go up, and she felt nauseous.

Stepping inside the door, looking to the left, Liu Chaoru is sitting under the lamp reviewing official documents, the candlelight is jumping on his face, shining thick eyebrows and starry eyes, a pair of jade bones.This was a completely different scene from that of Tongtongpan and others. Mei Qing suddenly understood why her mother always liked the young and beautiful husband-in-law.

She had never felt that she was in love with Liu Chaoru like she was at this moment.In fact, she is not sure whether it is love or not.It's just as if I got out of a hole in the ground and saw a ray of light, never like this moment, hoping that this light will shine on me.

Unexpectedly, things backfired, Liu Chaoru raised his eyebrows indifferently, then lowered his eyebrows, "If you don't come back, I will ask Tongshan to look for you. Why have you been sitting in someone's house for so long?"

The night wind swept in through the door and poured it into Mei Qing's nostrils, making her nose sour.She walked over coquettishly, repaired her expression, sat charmingly on the armrest of his chair, and put one hand on his shoulder, "I'll be back a long time ago, and even my wife insisted that I talk to her. Are you still busy?"

Liu Chaoru glanced over his shoulder in surprise, frowned lightly, and continued to write, "Some official documents have not been approved, you go to wash and sleep, it's almost two o'clock."

Mei Qing held a silk fan in her hand and slapped him across her shoulder, "Stop writing, ask Tongshan to bring in water, and let's wash and sleep together."

It's really a strange thing that happens once in a century. After being a couple for the past few years, Mei Qing is either a picky nose or a sharp-eyed person, or a mean-spirited person.Naturally, Liu Chaoru has always been cold-faced and cold-hearted.The two are intimate for a while, which is as rare as Chinese New Year, but it is far less festive than Chinese New Year.

Liu Chaoru couldn't help squinting his eyes to check her, twisted his shoulders, and shook her hand, "You sleep with you, I still have work to do."

How could Mei Qing resist such a polite refusal, she withdrew her hand, stood up and went to the bedroom, muttering, "It's really an honor to you."

However, after washing in the bedroom, she didn't want to sleep, so she turned on and off the lamp by the bed.When the clapper rang in the middle of the night, the candles were dying, and the barren moon outside the window appeared bigger and rounder.The light shone on the ground, a cloudy blue area, and the ground was cold, the table was cold, the couch was cold, and even the bed was cold.

Mei Qing turned inside, trying to avoid it.But no matter how I avoided it, the light also chased her body, covering the ups and downs of her graceful shoulders and hips, like two bare graves.

The sound of flipping books outside the house was still slow, and after a long time, there were two soft, rustling sounds.In that voice, she saw the thin white paper with sharp edges, turned it over, cut the heart, turned it over, and cut the heart again.

After the candles are burned out, it is night in Jinan, a place that is neither homeland nor foreign.She had indeed waited here with anticipation, but the age was different, she could only go deeper and darker.

The next day, Mei Qing told the old lady about the delivery of the note. The old lady knocked on the cigarette stick and laughed a few times, "This time he hit his pen hard. He has money, and he has been a judge for many years. I don’t know how much I have been greedy, but I didn’t let his wife know.”

The old lady has her own sources of information, once she pays attention, she can find out who is rich, who is afraid of his wife, who is generous, and who is timid in the whole city.People always have a skill, and this is also her skill.

Tong Tong was notoriously stingy, and the old lady didn't allow Mei Qing to talk to him in the early years. Apart from Meng Yu's inability to deal with him, there was also a reason for this.Now Mei Qing still has concerns, "I'm afraid he won't want to spend the money."

"You just listen to me." The old lady put her head over, with two white pearls dangling from her temples, shaking coldly, "Hook him up, and I'll take care of the rest If he doesn't pay the money, how many lawsuits does he dare to provoke? Even his wife can't open it!"

Mei Qing thought about it for a while, counted the remaining money in her hand, and thought about it, and found it in an alley on Daxing Street according to the address after two days.Sure enough, there is a house connected to the Judgment Office, with three entrances and three exits, and there is a small garden at the front and back.

At the beginning of the private meeting, Liantong set up a seat, and invited a small opera troupe to play and sing in the garden. Taking advantage of the bright and beautiful day, with a clear voice, he complained bitterly to Mei Qing, "You don't know, when I heard you got married that year, My heart seems to have been gouged out by someone. I don’t know how to eat or sleep during eclipses. I walk like a corpse and sit like mud. Seeing you now, I seem to be alive again. Would you like to come and sit with me often? Sit down, I've been created for half my life."

Even though he said it like this, what those greedy eyes deliberately revealed was not only the meaning of "sit and sit", but also "ly down and lie down".

Mei Qing deliberately left him a seat, mostly staring at the actors on the screen, glanced at him from time to time, and smiled, "I don't know which of the words you said is true and which is false, I'm stupid , can't hear it."

"Miss Mei is still stupid? There are no smart people in the world." Tong Tong eagerly sifts wine for her, sits next to her by placing a wine cup, and glances at the screen, "Miss Mei is having a good time today? Can you sing well?"

Mei Qingjiang held a dignified smile, "It's just for fun, it's boring to be bored at home all day long."

"Oh, it's not fun to be accompanied by a beautiful gentleman like Mr. Liu? Mr. Liu is considered a top-notch handsome man in the Jinan scene. You young couples should be sweet and beautiful when you are together. ah."

Mei Qing pouted and said: "How did you know that young people also have a bad thing, they can't be considerate, and they don't like it. You said that we are a woman's family, marrying a man, don't you just ask someone to be considerate? You Look at him, he only cares about the affairs of the yamen every day, even if he is at home, he is mostly busy in the study, how can he have time to take care of me?"

When it comes to this section, the crescent eyebrows are lightly raised, the star eyes are slightly lowered, showing a bit of sadness on purpose.Seeing that there are thousands of threads connected to each other, he didn't know where to start, and in a hurry, he grabbed Mei Qing's hand, "He is a young man, he only cares about fame and fame, how can he know about women?" Benefits? I just wronged you, how long is a woman's youth? Don't worry, I will be considerate of you from now on. "

Mei Qing twitched her hand, if she couldn't pull it out, she just patted his forehead with the fan, "The words are better than the ones that sang, so I might as well tell them to disperse, and you go behind the screen and sing."

Jokingly, she held both hands together, Mei Qing looked down at his hand, it was clearly a white bone, but it carried a burning temperature.

Within a few days, the two had a fierce fight, and Mei Qing had benefited a lot from this connection judge.It is more advantageous to eat, drink and dress as usual, to be extravagant, to make jewelry today, to cut clothes tomorrow, to get all the fashion, not to mention saving some money.

The old lady persuaded her in her spare time: "Is it enough to spend all that I have today? I can't wear those clothes after cutting them. It's better to save some money so that I can use it tomorrow when I need it."

Mei Qing straightened her shoulders, and smiled indifferently, "Mother also persuaded me to come to the provincial inspection, and you have never been a provincial inspection person. What are you afraid of, when the big money comes in, I will save it later. .”

Having said that, Mei Qing's heart was empty, she didn't know where to spend the money saved.Tomorrow is too far away, she looked at the old lady coldly, and saw her own tomorrow in her luxuriant and beautiful face.

Such a tomorrow is really boring.

So I still spend as much as I have every day, and when I don't have enough money, I pester the connected party to ask for it.I have been in and out of the alley on Daxing Street a lot, I don't want to bump into Mengyuan one day.

That day was sunny and beautiful, and the willows were blowing green silk, it was already the end of summer.Mengtiao and Caiyi came to this alley in a carriage. It was the wife of the Hong family who said that she had cut some clothes for Caiyi.

The wedding date is set on the tenth day of next month, and both parties are making intensive preparations.It was rare for Meng Tiao to take the time to go out for a stroll, and as soon as he lifted the curtain, he saw Mei Qing leading the maidservant out of which house, and was still standing on the door to greet the sedan chair.

Meng Tiao hastily stopped the carriage, and accosted her through the curtains of the carriage, "Mei Qing, what are you doing here?"

Mei Qing stood at the head of the door and raised her eyes. There was a moment of panic in her eyes. She quickly calmed down and raised her face and said, "Sister, I didn't expect to meet you here. You are not enjoying yourself in your garden, so why come out to hang out?"

Meng Yu lifted the curtain and got out of the car, and answered her, "Caiyi's mother-in-law lives here, and she said she cut two clothes for her, so I brought her to thank her. The dark door just ahead is .”

"Oh, Caiyi is leaving the court, I almost forgot about it."

As soon as she came down, Mei Qing felt a little uncomfortable, afraid that she would see something, and she would make another joke for her.A sister who was raised by her mother, one flew to high places, the other flew around, and then fell into a mud pit, how could she be open-minded?

Meng Yu took a look through the two green doors, "Whose house is this? How did you get out of his house?"

Mei Qing grabbed the tassels under the fan, her face gradually turned pale.This whiteness breaks through the rouge on the cheeks, making the rouge smeared on the face of a paper man, empty, empty, and fake blood.

Needless to say, Meng Yu guessed eight or nine points right just by looking at her expression. He turned around and wanted to go to Yu, thought about it, and glanced back, "You used to clamor to be a virtuous person, Now you are living a good life, but you are making these gossip again. I advise you to wake up."

This made Mei Qing's face turn white and red, and she couldn't get off the stage, so she bumped her shoulder, "With this free time, worry about your own affairs, I'm talking about 'right and wrong', are you a serious couple? "

Yan Bi got into the sedan chair.

Meng Tiao returned home in the afternoon and was still a little angry, and couldn't figure it out.Caiyi came in at the back, and whispered in her ear, "I've found out, that's the house of Tongpan, the same Tongpan who fell in love with Miss Mei in the early years."

Na Tongjuan used to work in the same yamen as Meng Yu, and Mengyu knew him and also knew that he had a powerful wife in his family.Mei Qing used to think that he would not go to him, but now she would pester him. It was always because of the lack of money, and it was inevitable that her mother would come up with her ideas.

In fact, Meng Yuan shouldn't have taken care of this matter. Although Mei Qing is a sister, after all she married someone, the sisters also became relatives.But there are still some differences. The three of them have experienced poverty and hardship together, good times and bad times. It is not only the blood relationship, but also this deserted world that makes them close relatives.

Although she is going for the better now, it is hard to say that it will be bad again tomorrow.

She was sitting on the couch, the late summer dusk was spreading all over the ground, the cicadas were chattering non-stop, tearing up the dark clouds in the sky, and spreading the sultry heat everywhere.Xie Chun came in to light the lamp, she knocked out the cigarette and asked, "Why hasn't Zhang Ping come back, it's about to rain."

Xiechun greeted him with a light and a smile, he had nothing else to do, so he sat on the couch and talked to Mengyu, "Just now the servant came in to spread the word that he was talking to people somewhere, and he would come back later."

"Does he have an umbrella?"

"There's always an umbrella on the car, girl don't worry." Seeing her face full of trouble, Xie Chun squinted her eyes and asked: "My master said yesterday that Caiyi was going to get married, and the girl didn't even have a caring person in front of her. Tell me to pick a reliable girl to serve by the girl's side."

The cat jumped onto the couch, Mengtiao hugged it in his arms, buried his face on its head and laughed, "What girl are you picking, these people in this room are not enough to handle? I'm not that spoiled, don't pick it up, Too lazy to bother."

The two of them were talking, and they gradually came to Dong Mo's house. Xie Chun tilted his face and turned to the window, sighing, "The letter from the master, the mansion should have received it, and I don't know what the old man and the old lady mean. Will you write a letter?"

Meng Tiao stuck her face into the fluffy cat's fur, rubbed against it, and dared not speak to her.Although she didn't say anything, she seemed to be waiting for the sentence in her heart. She regarded these days as a meal for her death, like a cat lying on a rock, lazily opening every pore, desperately absorbing sunlight.The Dong family would never agree no matter what, not for Dong Mo, and absolutely impossible for the honor of the family.

Probably because I think about it every day and dream at night, and at night, I dream of the alley on Daxing Street.In the alley, she saw a curvaceous figure coming out of the two green doors, like a puff of smoke, spit out from a green mouth, leaping forward lightly with the joy of evil and depravity.

She stepped forward to take a pat, and when the back turned around, it was her own face.That face was painted with the old rouge, a paradoxical and beautiful red, and the lips were naturally raised slightly upwards, like a sharp knife lifted up, it will pierce the heart of whoever it finds right!

She woke up with a start, in a cold sweat.

Dong Mo was also passively awakened, the room was dark, and Meng Yuan could be heard panting slightly, he turned his face sideways, her eyes were opened in a little panic.He got up and lit the two lamps beside the bed, then fell back on the bed and hugged her, his eyes half closed, unable to open them, "Did you have a nightmare?"

Meng Tiao nodded on his chest, but he didn't want to say what kind of dream he had.After a while, she was going to get up to pour tea, Dong Mo sighed, and sat up first, "I'll pour it, lest you crawl in and out."

After talking for a while, he was still sitting on the bed, as if he was in a daze.Meng Tiao was sober, remembering that he only returned home at the second watch, read some official letters, and it was almost the third watch after washing.

She stood up, she was sleeping on the bed, the bed was big, she swayed several times before rubbing against the edge of the bed, "Let me pour it, do you want to eat?"

Dong Mo raised his hands and rubbed his face, he regained consciousness, "Take a cup."

The teapot was wrapped in a thick cotton cover, and it was still warm.Meng Yao poured two cups, shared a cup with him, and sat on the edge of the bed next to him, facing the window on the opposite wall.It was raining outside, from the second watch to the fourth watch, the rain was heavy, and it was crackling on the roof tiles.

Meng Tiao was apologetic, and lowered her face, "I woke you up, and before you went to bed, you said you had something to do tomorrow, and you had to get up early."

"No hindrance." Dong Mo put the two empty teacups back on the desk, lifted the quilt, and asked her to get in first.But now he was awake, and it was difficult to fall asleep, so he leaned on the pillow, held her in his arms and talked.

After all, when it came to the matter of Caiyi leaving the court, Dong Mo smiled and counted how much dowry he would subsidize for Caiyi.He also has little experience in marriage, but he just followed the example and added according to the list that Mengtiao had prepared, "There is a lot of material in the treasury, you can add another 500 horses, and add another [-] taels of silver. She is yours." The most caring girl, you treat her like a sister, and as a brother-in-law, I can't treat her badly."

Listening to his voice, amidst the sound of smashing rain, Meng Tiao suddenly felt a huge loneliness and a little panic.She and her mother and Mei Qing are no better, and Caiyi is going to get married, and in the future, only this person will be left in her life.

However, with this person in front of him, he still doesn't know what the future holds, and it's probably not going well.She shrank into his arms, the more she shrank, the more frightened she became.

Dong Mo looked down at her, and the cat also jumped into his arms, hugging the two fragile lives at once, which made him a little more cautious, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy? What's wrong with me? explain."

At this question, Meng Tiao was stunned, thinking of what he had just thought, he was frightened again.She realizes how much her mother has influenced her, and her frustrating words that she vowed are all the hexagrams criticized by a respected old Taoist. Things, predict a bad ending first.

Seeing her not speaking for a long time, Dong Mo rubbed her soft arms, "What's the matter? Did you go to Hong's house today and get ridiculed?"

"They dare!" Mengyu picked up his eyes unwillingly, and gradually softened his eyes again, "It's not about the Hong family. It's just that I heard Xiechun mention it today, saying that your family should receive a letter. You Say, what will they say in reply?"

Dong Mo smiled sadly, "You haven't replied yet, you are the first to start worrying. Don't think about it, anyway, if you don't want to marry me, don't you want me to marry you?"

"Naturally I do too." Meng Tiao pouted, and scratched with a finger on his firm stomach, "You say that, so you know they won't say anything good."

Dong Mo didn't want to see her turbulent appearance, so he slid down with his arms around him, one arm resting on the back of his head, and he closed his eyes, "That's all for later, what are you so busy worrying about? It's important to send Caiyi to marry first, I also have important affairs to be busy in my yamen."

"What's the big deal?" Mengyu leaned forward a little, guessed, and fell back to sleep on his arms, "Forget it, don't tell me about the officialdom, I'm too lazy to listen."

Dong Mo opened his eyes and gave her a sideways glance, then smiled, "Don't listen to it even if it's related to Meng Yu?"

"Don't listen, don't do my business."

"He's going to be unlucky and you don't listen?"

"I don't listen, I don't listen! I have nothing to do with death or life!" Asked so much that Meng Yao became annoyed, so he pulled the quilt over his head and pretended to be asleep inside.

In the end, a little candlelight got through somewhere in the quilt, and it went dark again.Dong Mo's breathing filled the darkness, humming and muffled, with some erotic ambiguity.He got his hand into her pajamas, his head also got in, and his tongue twirled in her full heart.

The cold rain was shut out of the window. After this incident, I am afraid that the weather will become cooler day by day.When autumn came, the Dong family should reply to the letter. When the letter arrived in Jinan, winter in Jinan would not be long.Meng Tiao was thinking confusedly in the warm bed, she would turn into a warm and wet house, and lock him in it, so she wouldn't have to wander alone.

That's why she was extraordinarily enthusiastic tonight, displaying some debauchery that she had carefully hidden, with a bit of despair.

The author says:

I'll tell you when it's over, it's not over yet.