Ah Chang

On the first day of Fuyue, a second uninvited guest came to Jianshui Pavilion.

"It's so hot! It's so hot!" Peach Blossom was lying on the railing on the second floor, her whole body looked like a flower that had been scorched by the strong light and had wilted away. The peony and plum beside her were jokingly shaking the cattail fan for her: "It's just fallen into the ambush Sister Taohua was so hot on the first day, I don’t know how the past summers were spent?”

"Isn't it? The owner of the pavilion has already replaced us with the thinnest silk. If it's still too hot, we can just peel off the skin. Could it be that sister Taohua is used to being comfortable in this pavilion, and she is becoming more and more silky? Are you squeamish?"

"Nonsense!" Taohua immediately retorted when she heard this: "Was it so hot before? Why did I change? It's just that the weather has changed! It's getting hotter every year."

"As the saying goes, calmness makes you cool. Sister Taohua, the more you yell, the hotter you will become. Look at Mr. Youfeng, who is still wearing a long gown when you are in ambush. Isn't it hotter than us, but I have never seen Mrs. Youfeng yelling. Shaoyao pursed her lips, and the three of them watched Youfeng pass by in front of the court, the man's usual long gown in green clothes came and went like the wind, for some reason, just looking at Taohua gave her a chill in her heart: "You How can Lord Feng be the same, she knows martial arts, I heard people say that martial arts practitioners can adjust their qi and pulse, when it is cold, it will be hot, and when it is hot, it will be cold!"

"After listening to Sister Taohua, why do you feel that this martial arts practitioner doesn't look like a human anymore, but a god?"

"You guys will run on me!" Tao Huajiao snorted and poked her head to follow, "But what is Master Youfeng going out to do at this time?"

"Surely it's not something important." Mei waved her cattail fan and followed to see, the blue color disappeared into the bamboo forest after leaving the pavilion: "I used to go out at night, and I never went through the main entrance."

"Forget it, Mr. Youfeng wants to be mysterious, we can't control that much." Taohua leaned back to the railing again and sighed that it was so hot, and Mei rolled her eyes beside her: "I see, how about sister Taohua go find it But Lizhang is good, but Lizhang is so smart, there must be some magic formula for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat?"

Mentioning Keli Taohua immediately jumped up from the railing, with disgust in his mouth and eyes: "Who is going to find that lunatic! Even if she has one, that guy will only hide it for Sister Fuqu, If you don’t even give it to the pavilion master, who will get us!”

"Oh, why do I smell a sour smell? But which girl knocked over the jar of vinegar?" Seeing this, Mei covered her sobs and sniggered, and Tao Hua refused to follow her, and pretended to grab the cattail fan in her hand: "Okay Sister Mei, you are teasing me again! I don’t have it, the one I hate the most in the entire Jianshui Pavilion..."

"ah!"

The palm-leaf fan fell into the courtyard unconcernedly during the play, and the three of them were about to go down to pick it up, when they saw a strange woman pick up the palm-leaf fan, looked around furtively and put it in their bag.

"Hey! That's sister Mei's fan! Hand it over!"

Taohua was the first to rush into the courtyard, and directly aimed at the woman to take back the fan, but the woman had a savage face, she shook her head and couldn't understand what Taohua was talking about.

"Stop pretending! We just saw clearly from upstairs that Sister Mei's fan is inside your clothes!" Seeing that the woman refused to admit it, Tao Hua rushed to snatch it, but the woman avoided her and accused her : "Hey! I said you little girl! Why are you spitting blood? You saw it when you said you saw it? Which eye did you see?"

"The three of us saw it with all six eyes!"

"You are in the same group, so whatever you say is fine? Three young girls together bully me as an old woman, right?"

"you!"

Seeing the woman's overbearing attitude, Tao Hua stomped her feet angrily, just when the two were at a stalemate, Ling Shao who came back grabbed the woman's hand, and returned the cattail fan to the original owner in two or three strokes.

"Hmph! And you said you didn't take it! Now that you've got the stolen goods, what else do you have to say?!" Seeing that someone came to help, Taohua's arrogance rose again, and she leaned on Lingshao again to the woman. Dundui: "Ling Shao, where did you just go? How could you neglect your duty and let a thief sneak in our pavilion!"

"Who are you calling a thief? Why do you speak so badly, little girl? I picked it up."

"The one you picked up wasn't yours. Why didn't you admit it when I asked you? If you don't want to, it's still stealing!"

"Who cares about stealing your things, I'm here to find someone."

"Hey, seeing that you got caught stealing something, now you have a new excuse?"

"Sister Taohua." The dispute between the two was finally interrupted by Fuqu. Seeing another backer, Taohua hurried over to complain: "Sister Fuqu, she!"

"Okay, I heard everything. Are you afraid of disturbing the pavilion master's rest if you make such a loud noise?" Fu Que first reprimanded Tao Hua for the noise, and then politely asked the woman why she came: "My little sister is born Mischievous, poorly taught, offended, just now I heard that the aunt is looking for someone, I don't know who she is looking for?"

Seeing Fu Que's graceful demeanor and gorgeous attire, the woman thought that there was someone to talk about. Before answering the question, she called out to Qu. Her arms froze, and she directly said that Ling Shao had broken her arm just now.

"You're talking nonsense! Ling Shao is useless at all! You're pretending again!" Seeing that the woman wanted to make a crooked move again, Tao Hua tried to argue, but was stopped by Fu Que with a smile: "We have the best doctor in the pavilion, if my aunt If there is any discomfort, I might as well ask the doctor to take a look at it for you."

"this……."

Upon hearing that there was a married couple, she immediately changed her words, saying that it was just a slight twist and it would be fine in a while. Fu Que smiled back and asked again who she was looking for.

"I find……"

"mother……?"

A Chang was attracted by the noise in the courtyard, and saw the woman in the crowd at a glance. She would never forget that face, and those eyes, when she looked at her, they were full of contempt and bitterness, as if she was looking at her. Looks like something dirty.

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"I didn't expect you to be the mother of Miss A-Shang. I just misunderstood you and offended you. This is the best Ye Qing. It clears away heat and fire. Please try it." Leading the woman into the cabinet, Fu Que served it with her own hands. Serving a bowl of tea, the woman took it with a cold snort, and set her sights on the tea bowl again.

"This is Jingnan's celadon, it's top-grade tea. My wife came all the way to visit Miss A-Shang. We didn't take good care of it. I'll order someone to bring another set to my wife in a while. It's all for those girls and you just now." I'm sorry." Fu Que is indeed a master of communication, after observing people's thoughts, the woman who said a set of words was really happy, and even said that A-Shang really has the ability to find such a good place.

After bringing tea and gifts together with banquets, Jianshui Pavilion gave the woman the highest courtesy, which is equivalent to giving A-Shang enough face. Even Peach Blossom apologized insincerely for A-Shang's sake. Seen by Ah Chang, she was grateful but at a loss, because she didn't know what the mother who had lost contact with for many years and suddenly "visited from afar" planned to do.

"You are really nice here. It's not in vain for me to find it all the way." At the end of the banquet, the woman followed A-Shang back to the room. As soon as she entered the room, her eyes began to wander over all the things that might be valuable. A-Shang only He poured her a cup of tea silently, but the woman didn't even look at it, she just asked Ah Chang if he was okay after being here for more than a year.

"I'm fine..." Hearing the woman's concern, A-Shang was naively moved, and was about to ask her if she was okay, when she heard the woman say, "It can be seen that your life is better than ours. Much better, even better than the Song family, no wonder you escaped, it turned out that you found a new benefactor."

The woman said that she heard people say that the death of the man from the Song family was caused by A-Shang having an affair with someone and colluding secretly. She searched around for several months before finally finding this place.

"I knew you weren't as honest as you look. I've known since I was a child that the man from the Song family can't do it. It's normal for you to steal. At first I thought it was you who killed him, but I didn't expect you to find someone to give him away." Kill it, A-Shang, A-Shang, I have underestimated you in the past, you are not a lone star, you are a wandering devil."

A Chang even wanted to tell the woman about his misfortune this year, and before the woman said the following words, "fornication"

, "secret collusion", "slutty", "devil", the woman used all dirty and vicious words to describe A-Shang, as if she was talking about a very hateful person.

A Chang listened silently, the drooping eyelashes looked more like a tacit indifference to the woman, she really wanted to refute and explain, but after 24 years, if there was a moment for the woman to try If you just accept her, then everything needs no explanation.

The humming of cicadas outside the window has reached its limit, just like Ah Chang's self-esteem that has long been unbearable to be humiliated. The woman finally said that the purpose of her coming is just to ask for a sum of money. If Ah Chang doesn't give it, she will stay here.

"Anyway, I'm your mother, no one will drive me away, right?"

The woman only said "mother" when she asked for it. This word seemed to become a curse for her to control A-Shang, and the righteous words said "Mother" were as indifferent as frost, and A-Shang's tears Drop by drop to the eye socket.

"If you like it, you can stay here."

When Qi Yun's voice came, A Chang's tears were about to fall, and when he saw the man entering the room, he suppressed it and held back. Qi Yun said that he had asked Fu Que to prepare the best wing room for the woman, and she could do it anytime. Check in.

"Who is this?"

The woman was astonished to see the beauty who broke in suddenly, and A Chang's red eyes were full of surprise. She still couldn't understand why Qi Yun wanted to leave the woman behind, and only heard Qi Yun's light reply : "I am your daughter's benefactor."

Under the sound of the cicadas is Ah Shang's chaotic heartbeat, and what she saw with tears in her eyes was those lonely and cold eyes, and when she looked at Ah Shang, there was a trace of reassuring tenderness.

"Oh! Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding! I heard those words from others!" Seeing that Qian's eyes widened, the woman began to explain the slander she had just given to A-Shang: "It turns out that my family's A-Shang has a good life, and he met a kind-hearted man. Bodhisattva."

The woman called Qi Yun a Bodhisattva, and made a gesture to thank her. A Chang thought that Qi Yun was angry, but regarding those rumors, she looked at each other through the woman, but there was no coldness in her eyes from the beginning.

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night.

"The pavilion master really said that, what if the woman really stays?" Fu Que lowered her eyes and combed the hair of the man on her lap, and the man smiled meaninglessly: "She won't stay."

"How does the master know?"

Just as Fu Que asked this question, she also laughed, and there is something that the Lord Qi Pavilion doesn't know.

A-Shang's mother and a good-looking man were waiting in a town not far away. When the two came, they had already negotiated. If they couldn't get the money, they would report to the officials that they were kidnapped by Jianshui Pavilion. All of this was clearly investigated by You Feng when the woman stepped onto the first step of Jianshui Pavilion.

"As expected of being the master of the pavilion." Fu Que smiled and sighed again: "However, Miss A-Shang is really suffering. There is such a girl in the booth, not to mention that she has no feelings and wants to take advantage of her everywhere. If it were someone else, she would have made up her mind to sever the relationship. Only a kind-hearted person like Miss A Shang can endure every step of the way."

"Hardheartedness needs to be accumulated."

"So, the pavilion master deliberately let the woman in, could it be that he is helping Miss A Shang..."

"That's what you said."

Qi Yun said that she would not make any decisions for A-Shang. After hearing this, Fu Yu pretended to be envious and began to act like a baby: "It's so good, the pavilion master is so kind to A-Shang, I wonder if A-Shang will remember it?"

At this time there was a noise outside the house, Fu Que left first as if she was interested, and when she rubbed shoulders, A Chang still lowered her eyes, and did not see the meaningful smile on her lips.

A Chang came to thank her, saying that her mother had already taken the money and left, then recalled Fu Que's words, and timidly said that Qi Yun didn't need to be so kind to her.

As soon as Ah Chang finished speaking, she saw Qi Yun laughing. She thought she had said something wrong and then apologized. Qi Yun smiled even more when she looked at her.

Qi Yun is not a Bodhisattva, and he is not related to that woman, so he doesn't need to be so kind to her, but if the woman is not good, A Chang will be sad.

Qi Yun thought that these A Changs should understand, but he didn't expect that person to be so clumsy, clumsy and really cute, so Qi Yun couldn't help laughing.

The breeze blew the cicadas in the middle of the night, and Ah Shang heard Qi Yun say to her:

"I was nice to her just because I wanted to be nice to you, A-Shang."