After reading the message sent back by the secret guard, I learned that the woman had taken a fancy to a small courtyard yesterday and was already planning to buy it. She was still haggling over the price, then pretended not to buy and was about to leave. When the price was lowered, she was delighted. She was so pretentious, it really embarrassed him. Forget it, as long as she was happy.

This woman bought a new house, so it's normal for her to go to the warm house. As soon as Ye Zhou thought of this, he set off almost immediately. After thinking for a while, he ordered someone to move a lot of things from her room to the carriage, and he rode ahead.

Tang Miao had just finished packing up his newly purchased house, but there were still a lot of things missing, so he'd take his time adding them. The best thing about this house was the stunning view. From the front yard, one could see the magnificent scenery of peach blossoms stretching for ten miles, and from the backyard, one could see the cascading waterfalls of Longyu Gorge.

If you lie down in the main house, the view of the waterfall from a distance looks like a painting framed in the window.

The biggest drawback was the difficulty in getting up and down the mountain. In Taoyuan Valley Village, the house was located high and far away. Entering the village from the main road below, one had to climb a long mountain road to reach her place.

Tang Miao's nearest neighbor lived about 500 meters away on a mountain road, and she had to walk very carefully and with great difficulty. However, the neighbor's little boy walked briskly, as if he were walking on flat ground.

She gave him some preserved fruits, wrote down the dishes she wanted, and asked him to pass the message to the hotel downstairs to send the food up. She left some money at the hotel and took the receipt. Every time she ordered food, the hotel would add some money for the delivery, charge it directly to her account, and then send it to her.

Now the kitchen in this yard is still empty. I can only buy some food tomorrow and cook for myself.

So when she happily went to open the door, she didn't expect it to be Ye Zhou.

She was surprised to see beads of sweat on his forehead. Almost subconsciously, she raised her hand and wiped the sweat off his face with her handkerchief.

He lowered his head slightly to match her height. She finished wiping it bit by bit, and suddenly felt something was wrong. She stopped and took two steps back.

Ye Zhou took a step forward and hugged the person in front of him tightly. She struggled slightly, and he said, "Don't move." She immediately stopped moving obediently. Ye Zhou was very satisfied and let him hold her for a while.

After hugging him for a while, he became more and more demanding, and his hand became a little dishonest. Tang Miao didn't want to indulge him anymore, so she whispered, "Duke, I am no longer your concubine." As she spoke, her arm straightened and she tried to push him away.

Ye Zhou smiled secretly in his heart: But I opened a household registration for her to make it convenient for this money-grubber to deposit and withdraw money from the bank, so let it be her private property. Does she really think she is not mine?

Outside the door, the neighbor's little boy called out, "Pretty auntie, I brought you some food."

"Pretty aunt?" Ye Zhou glanced at Tang Miao.

Tang Miao glared at him without showing any weakness and went to open the door. The neighbor boy, a teenager, took food out of his backpack and asked Tang Miao, "Auntie Piaoliang, there's a luxurious carriage at the entrance of the village. They say it's for Auntie Piaoliang. Leave this job to me and I'll be responsible for transporting it up, okay?"

Tang Miao turned around and looked at Ye Zhou: "A cart full of stuff?"

Ye Zhou said: "They were all originally in your room.

Tang Miao bargained with the boy who was looking for work: "How many times can you carry this basket? It would be more appropriate for me to hire a porter."

"Leave this job to me. I'll find porters for you. Three porters, two like me to carry the backpack, five people in total. If there are any porcelains that you're afraid of breaking, wrap them in cloth and put them in the backpack. Leave this job to me for 500 wen. I guarantee it will be done quickly and well."

"Five hundred coins?!" Ye Zhou saw the woman hunched over like a cat, as if she were on the battlefield. "Two hundred coins."

The final transaction was completed with 300 Wen.

While the things were being transported over there, Tang Miao, rather unpromisingly, wet a towel in the mountain spring water and wiped Ye Zhou's face and hands. He placed the food for one person on the stone table in the courtyard, and set out the bowls and chopsticks. "Master, you must be hungry after this trip. Let's try the local flavors."

After saying this, he wanted to bite his tongue. It was really a habit he had always done and he couldn't change it. Then he thought to himself and tried to make amends: he was a guest, and he brought a cart full of things.

Ye Zhou watched the woman arranging where to put the things she had brought up, and saw that another portion of food was brought up later, so he stopped eating and waited for her to finish.

After the two finished their meal, the moon was rising high in the sky. Ye Zhou said that it was dangerous to go down the mountain at night, which meant that he would not go any further.

Tang Miao untied the tightly tied quilts one by one, revealing Ye Zhou's pillow, Ye Zhou's pajamas, Ye Zhou's spare underwear, and even Ye Zhou's four treasures of the study.

Tang Miao looked at Ye Zhou, and Ye Zhou looked up at the moon.

I can hold her and sleep at night again.

Not necessarily.

Tang Miao originally felt that her bad reputation had implicated her children. Now she had lost her status as a concubine and was still sleeping in the same room. Wouldn't that be even worse? Was she going to become a mistress?

He carried his bedding and went to the side room.

The temperature in the mountains of Taoyuan Valley was chilly, especially at night, but Tang Miao slept warmly tonight, thanks to the thick bedding in his original residence. He was half-thinking, and when he opened his eyes after sleeping until dawn, he saw Ye Zhou sleeping beside him.

Tang Miao closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the same thing happened. He had to get up in a hurry.

When Ye Zhou got up, he saw Tang Miao, fuming like a bared-teeth cat: "Duke, please go back. It's bright outside now, and the mountain road is easier to walk on."

Ye Zhou said: "I haven't eaten anything, I have no strength, and I can't walk."

After breakfast, Ye Zhou said, "Such beautiful peach blossoms, we should go and see them." I accompanied him to see the peach blossoms.

Ye Zhou said, "The waterfall in Longyu Gorge is very spectacular, but we are too tired today. Let's go there tomorrow."

Tang Miao's eyes were red with anger. "Duke, why are you bullying me like this? Do you really want me to hang around with you, a nameless and insignificant person?"

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