Listening to their conversation, he thought of his previous life again.
Yes, his Qiu'er had given him chances in her previous life, but he missed them all, so in the end she didn't even want him to touch her corpse.
In fact, the memories of him and his Qiu'er in the previous life were not all painful. He accompanied her in practicing sword, and she accompanied him in patrolling the border town. They also chatted about family matters like ordinary couples, and sometimes she did needlework while he read files.
But every time after they made love, his Qiu'er would drink a bowl of contraceptive soup. He never stopped her. Although he didn't want her to drink it the second time, he never stopped her. In his previous life, he made the same mistake as Yong'an Hou. They would not admit their mistakes, so they hurt the people who loved them the most and missed the most precious treasure in the world.
In fact, Qiu'er's idea is the same as Madam Shen's. They are both unwilling to change themselves beyond recognition in order to fight for a man. But he did not take a concubine in his previous life. From beginning to end, he only had one Chen Qiu. Why is his Qiu'er unwilling to fight for his heart?
Ye Chen didn't catch up until Chen Qiu and Old Madam Shen left the garden. When Chen Qiu saw that it was Ye Chen, he immediately smiled and asked, "Where have you been all day?"
Ye Chen smiled and asked quietly: "Qiu'er, are you missing me?"
Shen Qiu glared at him without saying anything. Ye Chen smiled and said to Old Madam Shen: "Grandma, I'm here to take Qiu'er home. Is everything okay here?"
Madam Shen smiled and said, "Nothing happened."
Chen Qiu said: "Xiao Hang is treating my second sister. Should we wait for him?"
Ye Chen said to Madam Shen: "Grandma, please tell Xiao Hang that we are leaving first and let him go back by himself later."
Then he said goodbye to Madam Shen and left with Chen Qiu.
On the road, the two of them sat in the carriage. Ye Chen lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking. Shen Qiu looked at Ye Chen and saw his brows furrowed tighter and tighter. Then he squatted in front of Ye Chen, looked up at Ye Chen and asked: "Husband, what's wrong with you?"
Ye Chen looked at Chen Qiu in front of him, and immediately hugged Chen Qiu in his arms, asking as if talking to himself: "If I don't wake up on the day of our wedding, or if I wake up too late, Qiu'er, will you forgive me? Will you try to change me before I wake up?"
Chen Qiu didn't know what Ye Chen was asking. What did he mean by waking up too late?
Chen Qiu thought about it and said: "I don't understand what you mean. You know I'm stupid."
"Well, let me put it this way. For the Shen family, I won't leave you. For my own happiness, I will try to win your heart. But if you don't respond, I will give up after a few times."
Ye Chen asked hurriedly: "What response? What does it mean to respond?"
Shen Qiu smiled and said, "Of course it's an apology and genuine concern!"
"Apologizing is an attitude. Apologizing means you realize you were wrong and are willing to change. Caring is the most straightforward way to express love for someone, right? Just like how you treat me now, you think of every little thing and consider everything for me!"
Ye Chen's heart ached badly. It turned out that in the previous life, his Qiu'er was just waiting for a sorry and a "don't drink anymore" but he didn't say it.
Ye Chen hugged Chen Qiu tightly, not daring to relax at all. It turned out that happiness was so close to him.
Until the carriage stopped at the gate of the Duke's Mansion, Mingyue said outside: "Duke, Madam, we are home!"
Ye Chen let go of Chen Qiu, then held Chen Qiu's hand tightly, and the two returned to Nian Qiu Pavilion together.
After dinner, after returning from Rongwei Hall, both of them washed up. Ye Chen took a cotton cloth to wipe Shen Qiu's hair and said, "You have a lot of hair, and it's so long. You put it on top of your head every day. Does your scalp hurt?"
Chen Qiu smiled and said, "I wasn't used to it at first, but now it's okay. Yunniang usually does the simplest hairstyle for me, and it doesn't pull my hair."
Ye Chen said: "That's fine. By the way, let Yunniang make you something suitable for going out tomorrow, and I'll take you out."
Chen Qiu looked at Ye Chen and said, "Where are you going?"
Ye Chen tapped Chen Qiu's nose and said, "Keep it secret, you'll know tomorrow."
The next day, during breakfast, Ye Chen told his grandparents that he would not be back for lunch and asked them not to wait for him.
Ye Chen brought Chen Qiu with him, followed by Mingyue Xing'er and Mu Qing. Mu Qing tried to talk to Mingyue several times, but was ignored and avoided by Mingyue.
Ye Chen took Chen Qiu out of the city, not through the north gate that Chen Qiu used to go out, but out through the south gate.
The carriage had been going for about an hour when a vendor's voice was heard outside: "Look, these are all top-quality slaves. This one eats little, but works very well. And this one..."
Chen Qiu found the hawking sounds a bit strange, so he opened the car window and looked out. There were all kinds of cages on both sides of the road, with all kinds of people tied up with ropes inside, including men, women, children and the elderly. The prices were clearly marked. The best price was for middle-aged men and women, and the lowest price was for the elderly.
Chen Qiu took a look and then retracted her head. She couldn't bear to see this. Her heart would be in knots when she saw these people. Although she had killed people and used slaves, she had never seen such a scene.
Ye Chen held her hand and felt that she was shaking a little. He said: "It's okay, let's buy one and leave."
Chen Qiu looked at Ye Chen and tried to squeeze out a smile and said: "I'm fine, I just haven't seen it before, so I'm a little surprised."
Ye Chen held Chen Qiu in his arms. At this moment, the carriage stopped and Mu Qing's voice came in: "Master, Madam, we are here."
Chen Qiu and the others got off the carriage. The outside was no longer what they had just seen. There was a cave in front of the carriage. The road here was muddy and there was almost no place to step. Ye Chen frowned.
Mu Qing said hurriedly: "It rained last night, and the road is a bit difficult to walk on."
Ye Chen didn't hesitate much, and stepped into the mud, then turned around and hugged Chen Qiu in his arms. Chen Qiu said: "Put me down."
Ye Chen said: "There is no place to put your feet on the ground. Let me hold you so as not to dirty your shoes."
Chen Qiu wanted to jump down by herself. Ye Chen hurriedly said: "If you jump down, I will kiss you now."
It would have been easy for Chen Qiu to jump out of his arms, but it would have been awkward to be kissed by him in front of so many people, so she let Ye Chen hold her and they walked into the cave together.
Arriving at an iron cage, Ye Chen said, "Here we are, Qiu'er, what do you think of this child? Shall we buy her back?"
Chen Qiu looked at the person in the cage in the light of the fire on the wall. His hair was messy and piled on his head. His shirt had only one sleeve, and his trouser legs were tattered to the knees. He looked to be about eleven or twelve years old, and his eyes were staring at them as if he were looking at prey.
Chen Qiu looked at these eyes and thought of the wolves he encountered in the northwest wilderness.
Chen Qiu swallowed his saliva and jumped off Ye Chen. Well, it was all in vain that he had been holding him all the way.
Chen Qiu stood outside the iron fence, resting her hands on it, looking tenderly at the thin and small child inside. How much suffering had she endured to have her eyes look like that?
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