The weather is getting hotter, and the early summer wind is blowing the newly blooming lotus flowers in the pond.

Xiang Yi went to the back garden with his sister and siblings.

But not long after she arrived, she noticed that someone seemed to be following her.

It seemed that there were all female relatives by the pool, and my sister and younger siblings were playing around again. It was inconvenient for him, a grown man, to walk over, so he could only stand under a tree not far away and look over here.

Xiang Yi saw him from the corner of his eye, but he just pretended not to see him, smiled secretly, and talked to his two sisters.

She was sitting in the pavilion, not as busy fishing as the other two. Tan Ting thought of her wrist that was hurt by him, and wanted to ask but couldn't come forward. He didn't know if she would be angry now.

He could only call a little maid over and ask her if she was tired. If she was, he should go back to the main courtyard as soon as possible.

But after hearing what the little maid said, she just shook her head and didn't even look back at him.

Tan Ting sighed and looked under the tree not far from the pavilion for a long time. Seeing that his wife had no intention of looking back, he could only ask someone to bring some fruits to the pavilion and went to the study in the outer courtyard.

This time the Spring Examination List was released, two Jinshis were awarded to the Tan family. Compared with the previous times, the children of aristocratic families took up a larger number of places on the Spring Examination List. Since then, perhaps under the personal instruction of Dong Gong, there have been more people from poorer families getting in the middle.

Among them, He Guanfu and Zhao Li, who had met in Tanting, Gyeonggi Province, had both won the Jinshi and were waiting for the palace examination in a few days.

With such a good start in front of them, the anger of the common people can gradually calm down.

It's just that some people are happy and some are sad. The number of places for the examination is limited. If there are more people from poor families, there will be fewer people from aristocratic families.

It is considered good that the Tan family can win two of them, but there are some wealthy families that don't even have a single winner, such as the Fengling Chen family.

This is probably what the palace meant.

From the Jiangxi fraud case to interfering with the Eastern Palace's efforts to send people to investigate, Chen made a big mistake that even the officials in charge of the border could not pacify.

On the other hand, Cheng and Lin were as stable as ever.

Tan Ting sat quietly in front of the desk, thinking of the broken letter Xiang Yi showed him.

If it is true that Lin and Cheng teamed up to cause the unjust death of their father-in-law Xiang Zhiyuan, then was their purpose just to kill a loyal man?

And how much does his aunt know about the Lin family? If she knew, would her aunt still have the same attitude toward Xiang Yi now? Or maybe the aunt doesn't actually know much about the Lin family and the Cheng family?

He thought of his uncle Lin Xu, who was still charming despite his age, and of his aunt who had a smooth life in the Lin family. He couldn't help but feel vaguely that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything specific.

With these things gathered here, he still finds them complicated and difficult to deal with, let alone the fact that they have been on his wife's mind for the past few days.

Tan Ting calmed down, sorted out these things again, called people in, and gave some detailed instructions, which he didn't need to mention.

...

The three of them fished for a while, and the pregnant Yang Zhen started to sweat a lot. She disliked being sticky and uncomfortable, so she went back to Xikuayuan to clean and change clothes.

Xiang Ning was sitting by the pond playing with the fish.

Xiang Yi couldn't help but take a few more glances at his sister. The little girl's complexion was a little pale due to poor health all year round. Her face was not big, and her facial features were delicate and small. She had the appearance of a typical Jiangnan woman.

Xiang Yi's mother, Liang, was also from the south. According to her father, Ning Ning's biological mother was her mother's old friend, so she was probably from Jiangnan.

I just don’t know why that old friend wanted to keep her daughter in the Xiang family, and didn’t even come to visit her when the Xiang family was in trouble and probably couldn’t protect Ning Ning.

Has this daughter been forgotten, is she no longer alive, or is she unable to help herself?

Xiang Yi didn't know that she would call Xiang Ning and tell her about taking her to cure night blindness.

"But there is one thing. When the time comes, Ning Ning may be arranged to use someone else's identity to see a doctor. Don't let Ning Ning say that he leaked the truth."

The little girl was surprised, "Why is this?"

Xiang Yi said, not wanting her to know his life experience. If she wants to talk about marriage in the future, she is afraid that others will be prejudiced against her illness, so she should cover it up a little.

Xiang Ning laughed, "Sister, I think too much. Firstly, I don't know when I will get married. Secondly, if people are prejudiced against my disease, we can't lie to them. At worst, I won't get married." "Yes."

She said this, and Xiang Yi looked at his sister lovingly.

She suddenly felt that it would be good for her sister to be the daughter of the Xiang family for the rest of her life. She would arrange everything for her. She didn't know what the situation was like with her biological parents. It might not be a good thing if they got married. good.

But Xiang Yi couldn't help but think of his younger brother Xiang Yu, and sighed silently.

Xiang Yi talked to his sister again, and they all had dinner together at noon.

Tan Ting couldn't say anything in front of his wife and sister-in-law, and he was worried that the redness on his wife's wrist would show and someone would find out, so he spent almost half of the meal picking up vegetables for his wife.

Xiang Ning and Yang Zhen smiled and exchanged glances with each other, and Xiang Yi felt a little embarrassed.

"Master, just have a good meal."

Tan Ting looked at her carefully and asked in his ear in a very low voice.

"Then you...are not angry with me anymore?"

Xiang Yi did not answer.

I didn't have a good conversation with the old man until the evening.

The weather was already getting hot, and Tan Ting didn't know what to do when she was like this. He stood in the room with a sullen voice, looking at her helplessly.

Seeing that she had washed up, he also washed up quickly, and sat on the edge of the bed with only his shirt on.

When Xiang Yi saw him coming, he turned his back and ignored him.

She turned around like this, and Tan Ting lowered his head and sighed helplessly.

"Yizhen, don't be angry."

He said, seeing her pause slightly, he quickly said again.

"Don't say that you don't dare to be angry..."

What she said last night, "Xiang Yi doesn't dare," made him still a little flustered.

Xiang Yi listened and the corners of his mouth twitched again.

"Then, do you want me to be angry or not?"

She said, then turned around and glanced at him.

"Uncle is so powerful, Xiang Yi won't dare to speak anymore."

Her words were like a thorn ball pricking Tan Ting. It wasn't painful but definitely uncomfortable.

Tan Ting couldn't help but become anxious, turned around and went to bed, and took her into his arms from behind.

When he moved a little louder, he noticed that his wife looked up and looked over. He really didn't know what to do, so he could only circle her and beg her in a low voice.

"Yizhen, please don't say such things again. I will never be like that again."

Xiang Yi felt at ease with these words.

Unexpectedly, he said another sentence.

"It's my fault these two times, but Yizhen, don't get so close to Gu Yansheng, okay?"

Xiang Yi was choked by what he said and couldn't help but look back at him.

"I wonder where my sworn brother offended the uncle?"

Tan Ting snorted twice. He wanted to say that there were too many places where Gu Yansheng offended him, but it was difficult to say clearly. It seemed that he was stingy. After all, his wife and that person were just sworn brothers and sworn sisters. point.

He didn't say anything and said after a while.

"Don't mention him anymore. Anyway, Yi Zhen doesn't want to be angry with me anymore."

His voice was low, sounding a little aggrieved.

Xiang Yi saw that he kept talking but couldn't come up with anything. He kept saying these two sentences over and over again and couldn't bear to make things difficult for him anymore.

The soothing scent of benzoin slowly flows through the room.

Xiang Yi thought about how he angrily trapped her on the tea table, forcing her to tell him everything. Those words that she didn't know how to say, she actually said them all under his pressure.

He was surprised, surprised, and surprised, but he accepted them one by one. He didn't let her carry it alone anymore, and carried them all on his shoulders.

She couldn't help but picture the scene in front of her, where she talked about her difficulty in conceiving and asked whether their marriage would last.

At that time, he gave her a decisive answer.

"Yes! Why not? It must be possible!"

...

Thinking of this, Xiang Yi stopped deliberately embarrassing him and stretched out his hand to gently cover his hand, placing his palm against the back of his hand.

"Okay, I just won't be angry with you."

Her voice was soft and soft, falling in Tan Ting's ears like a hot spring flowing on a mountain.

Tan Ting had been blaming himself secretly just now. After hearing this, he couldn't help but lower his head and look at his wife.

"Yizhen is really not angry anymore?"

Xiang Yi nodded slowly with a smile on his lips.

She looked like a flower quietly blooming in the courtyard at night. Tan Ting couldn't help but fell into a trance under his wife's gentle smile.

In the next breath, he couldn't help but hold his wife's face.

She was still slightly cold, but the coolness dissipated immediately when his warm palm touched her.

Tan Ting lowered his head and brought it close to her lips, but then he remembered something and asked her softly, as if he was afraid of scaring away the dragonfly standing on the flower bud.

"Yizhen, can I?"

He asked suddenly. Xiang Yi was not used to it. His face suddenly felt hot, but he nodded lightly.

After receiving his wife's consent, Tan Ting no longer cared about it, lowered his head and held the soft lips in his mouth.

The coolness on his lips dissipated the moment he touched it, and the moisture and warmth seemed to fall on thin snowflakes, melting everything.

At first, he just held her lips in his mouth, and Xiang Yi's heart beat faster and faster.

But at some point, his palm moved behind her ear, and his fingers gently touched her white ear, which made Xiang Yi tremble, and his palm had already lifted her entire face up.

Xiang Yi raised his head in his palm, and the gentle kiss he lowered his head ended with the tip of his tongue probing in and prying open the teeth.

The kiss, as light as a dragonfly's drop of water, suddenly changed.

Xiang Yi felt the waves coming, and she had no time to resist. She was completely embedded in his arms, letting him take everything.

...

until Xiang Yi was confused, the man suddenly tore off his belt.

The hot and strong chest was exposed.

Xiang Yi was burned for a moment, and then he woke up for a moment.

"Today is neither the fifth day nor the tenth day..."

The man's voice became hoarse.

"What else do you want for every five and ten, and not for every two, Yizhen, what do you think?"

"Ah...?"

Xiang Yi was stunned for a moment, but he heard the man's voice grow even lower, like gravel rubbing against each other. voice.

"Xiang Yizhen, I only want you."

...

On the night of early summer, the quietly passing spring reappeared in the tent.

After a long time, when Tan Ting cleaned his wife and came back, his wife had fallen asleep with a slight gasp, his hand on her waist, and her body was still trembling slightly.

The man wiped her wet hair and placed a kiss on her hair.

She didn't notice it, only a voice sounded in the quiet summer night tent.

"How could you and I not be together forever? Everything will be fine, everything will settle down, don't worry..."

When Xiang Yi got up the next day, it was really sunrise.

Someone went to the Yamen early in the morning. When Xiang Yi saw his two sisters, he saw them both snickering.

But at this time, an imperial doctor came to the house, and the old man who went to the Yamen took advantage of his break to go back home temporarily.

Only then did Xiang Yi remember that he said he would find an imperial doctor to treat her today, but unexpectedly, someone actually came.

The old doctor was getting older. When he saw Xiang Yi's thin body, he said, "Madam, you should make yourself stronger first."

Xiang Yi nodded in agreement. The old doctor looked around and asked her about her previous stay in Beijing. After observing the situation, the old doctor said: "Madam's cold syndrome is indeed a bit severe, and because she was not treated in time, it has been delayed for several years." When

he said this, the couple's faces looked a little ugly.

But the old doctor didn't finish what he said. Instead, he just poured out one sentence.

"Madam is still young after all. Whether she can have children in the future depends on how well she takes care of her from now on."

Tan Ting asked quickly.

"I don't know how to deal with it..." He said, looking at his wife again, "If it's too difficult, just let nature take its course."

She had already suffered a lot, and he didn't want her to do it again . This suffers.

When he said this, Xiang Yi couldn't help but look at him one more time.

The old doctor stroked his beard and laughed.

"Apart from the fact that the decoction is inevitably a bit bitter, I think it's a good job."

"A good job?"

Tan Ting and Xiang Yi were both stunned for a moment.

The old doctor looked at Tan Ting with a smile.

"I wonder if Mr. Tan has a hot spring villa outside Beijing? If not, we can buy one and take my wife there to take a dip every now and then. I'm afraid the effect will be better than taking medicine."

Tan Ting listened, his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise.

"This is really a good idea. Tan actually has a hot spring village that has been idle for a long time."

The old doctor smiled and nodded.

"That's good. I'll leave you a prescription. If Madam has a good time, I'll come back to see you in a few days to see how she's doing."

Tan Ting thanked him repeatedly and took his wife there after two days of rest . , and whispered to Xiang Yi.

"I will accompany you then..."

Xiang Yi: "..."

In front of the old doctor, she couldn't say anything, but she thought of her night-blind sister.

It's not easy for the doctor from the Imperial Hospital to come and take a look at my sister.

She called Xiang Ning over. The old doctor didn't pay much attention, but after checking her pulse, she raised her eyes to look at Xiang Ning.

"The girl still has some weak diseases, which were brought from her mother's womb, right?"

Xiang Yi answered for Xiang Ning, "She has not been in good health since she was a child. Later, due to my family's financial decline, my sister almost couldn't even afford medicine. It took a long time..."

The old doctor shook his head and said.

"Since it is a disease brought by mother in the womb, it is not easy to cure. Whether or not to take medicine is the second best thing."

After hearing this, Xiang Yi asked another question about night blindness. When Xiang Ning was not paying attention, he and the old lady doctored He said that he was going to wait for her to go to a certain place to have a look. After all, there was a Xinglin family there who was good at treating this disease.

After hearing this, the old doctor laughed and said there was no need to go.

"The old man is from the Xinglin family."

Xiang Yi was surprised and happy, "Then how do you think my little sister's disease can be cured?"

The old doctor prescribed a prescription, glanced at Xiang Ning involuntarily, and whispered. One sentence.

"Lao Cheng has treated this disease, and one of the patients has been treated for more than ten years. He has not been cured yet, but he has improved over time. Madam can just use this prescription to give the girl some medicine, and she can be raised slowly."

Xiang Yi didn't know what the patient's condition was, so the old doctor didn't say much, and Xiang Yi didn't want to ask, just like the old doctor wouldn't tell anything about Xiang Ning.

Xiang Yi thanked him profusely and put the prescription away.