281, Uninvited Guest(1/2)
I have traveled through bridges in many places, seen clouds many times, drank many kinds of wine, but I have only loved someone of the best age.
Mr. Chen Congwen's sentence.
Some words can be traveled through time. No matter which era people see it, they will be moved by it. Even if they have only a little understanding and do not understand it, they cannot stop these words from pointing to the inner strength.
Just like the touching feeling when we read "Nineteen Ancient Poems" a thousand years later.
"Everything goes, you will be separated from you... I miss you and make you old, but the years are suddenly too late..."
In the long pavilion in the distance, someone sang an ancient song softly.
Maybe it’s a singer or maybe it’s a girl who loves singing, and boldly sings the poems in her heart through the darkness of the night.
Wen Xixiu stood dullly by the water of the pond. The cattails had grown to more than one person tall. The evening breeze was whistling like a formation. The leaves of Ci Gu were like small dark green umbrellas under the reflection of the night lights.
Yu Jin gently fanned his master. After observing his words and expressions for a long time, he smiled and said, "I hope there are many girls shooting ducks over Yingxie. It's a pity that Miss Wei has rested early... Otherwise, I'll go to Yingxie to take a look? The duck shooting skills are good, and the colored ducks can spin on the spot for several circles!"
Yu Jin was originally determined to match his master and Miss Wei, but today's rose feast gathered countless good girls in Kyoto. It would be no harm for the master to meet a few more masters. Who made Miss Wei craving? She actually got drunk and fell asleep on such a beautiful night. She failed the beautiful scenery at home, and she was so beautiful that she could not do anything about her.
Wen Xixiu listened to Yu Jin's words seriously and frowned: "Miss Wei? Shooting ducks? Is Miss Wei good at shooting ducks?"
I feel that Yu Jin mentioned a lot back to Miss Wei today.
"Master hasn't seen the little girl shoot ducks yet, it's so interesting."
Wen Xixiu shook his fan: "I have never liked watching waterfowl."
"..." Yu Jin was speechless for a moment. Is this because Miss Wei was not here? She lost her mood when she saw anything she played?
A gust of south wind blew, mixed with a little coolness. Maybe it was raining in the south, and the wind brought the coolness after the rain.
"The osmanthus will bloom in a few days. Remember to ask them to collect the osmanthus in advance. Early osmanthus and late osmanthus will be collected separately, and the taste will be very different."
"I've written it down." Yu Jin couldn't figure out his master's thoughts. On such a night of fragrant flowers and wine, he actually ordered business matters.
"This summer lotus should also be separated by color."
"yes."
Wen Xixiu had to give some more instructions, and suddenly heard a crisp laugh from the nearby hall.
"It's rare to have such a quiet place! It just so happened that the south wind was blowing, and the water was coming, which was much cooler than in the mountain pavilion over there!" A woman's voice sounded, her voice was particularly bright.
"You have to calm down when you dye your nails. Three or five people say quietly and dye your nails. How great!" Another woman's voice sounded low and powerful.
"This is the first time I have seen a rose that can dye my nails!" Another slightly reserved voice.
"This is a new variety planted by the Wen family! It is called Fengxian Rose! It is said that it is the thickest and most positive rose red color when dyed!" The bright voice sounded again.
It turned out that several women were dyeing their nails with petals here.
Wen Xixiu was about to leave here when he suddenly heard the low-spirited voice saying, "Today, your Tang family girls are in the limelight."
The previous loud voice smiled: "You are talking about the Lingbo dance of our fourth girl? We are not as modest as we are. No matter how outstanding Tang Si is, he can't beat the mountain ghost dance of the Wen family girl!"
The low-spirited voice continued: "I'm talking about Miss Tang Wu."
"Oh, that's a smart kid." said in a bright voice.
Wen Xixiu was about to take a step, but stopped at this moment.
"I heard that many of the ideas of the Wen family's rose banquet were given by that little girl, and I don't believe it very much. However, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, even if her brain is good, does not have so much experience or knowledge!" Another voice sounded, and it sounded more mature than the others.
He smiled with a loud voice, "Don't say that, we five girls are very much like our old ladies! We can also look at things and be good at being a human being. If anyone marrys this girl, they will burn high incense!"
Wen Xixiu stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the moonlight in the sky. The clouds were surrounded by a beautiful eyebrows, and how should we eat the moon? Suddenly, when I thought of this sentence, I smiled quietly.
The mature voice in the window suddenly asked with some good news: "I heard that your family and the Jin family have made a marriage contract?"
He laughed loudly with a bright voice: "My mother's family is the Jin family! Mrs. Wu, you are so funny! We are almost born, so why don't we get engaged without a marriage?"
All the women laughed.
Wen Xixiu had already vaguely guessed who the bright-sounding wife in the Xuanguan, and sighed unconsciously that their Tang family was really a lively big family.
His low voice seemed to have a smile: "You did not meet the engagement in the past, but were made by blind dates by yourself! That doesn't count. The engagement is probably still valid now. I heard that it was decided by the old man of the Tang family and the old man of the Jin family! Besides, your old lady in the Jin family is also specifically asking about the girls of the Tang family today!"
He smiled with a loud voice: "Then it is probably our fourth girl!"
"Your grandmother has always liked beauty. The second girl of the Tang family must not be able to catch her eyes. The third girl is a concubine. The two girls below are pretty, maybe they are either the fourth girl or the fifth girl! After all, your second brother, Jin Zhonglun, is also a famous handsome man in Kyoto!"
He laughed for a long time with his throat: "You know more about our family than I do!" He just laughed, but he didn't say much.
Wen Xixiu shook the fan and slowly walked away from the water.
Seeing that his master had no intention of other girls, Yu Jin thought of a way to please Miss Wei for his master: "Master, have you smelled the fragrance of flowers in the distance? Is it the smell of fragrant jade in the evening?"
"It's white jasmine." All the smells in the world can't be hidden from Wen Xixiu's nose.
"Today the girls are all enjoying roses, but I'm afraid the fragrance of the roses will get tired of it," Yu Jin looked at the master's face and said, "The goose pear girl in our room is the best at jasmine balls. The one she peared out is better than the ones sold in the night market! Many girls begged her to make it!"
"That's a natural fragrance. It's made of several strings and hung on the bed tent. It's fragrant all night." Wen Xixiu nodded.
Seeing that his master nodded, Yu Jin hurriedly smiled and said, "Anyway, the girls are fine, so let the goose pear essence carefully wrap a few strings of jasmine balls and send them to Miss Wei... and Miss Tang each send a few strings of them. When they wake up tomorrow morning, they will be able to see them at a glance!" Yu Jin didn't want to say about Miss Tang, but was afraid that it would be too obvious to send Miss Wei alone, so he brought Miss Tang with him.
"After all, it is hung on the bed tent in the dormitory, so I'm afraid it's inappropriate." Wen Xixiu thought for a while, "It's better to send it in the name of Xizi."
"Or in the name of the Wen brothers and sisters?" Yu Jin was a little unwilling.
But a few strings of flower balls have to pull all the Wen family up? Girl, this is the small flower ball given to you by our whole family.
Yu Jin said again: "Or it was the girl who had wrapped a lot of flower balls and distributed them to each house and was rich, so I would give some to the two girls?"
"Yes." Wen Xixiu stopped talking.
Yu Jin smiled secretly, that's it.
My master still doesn’t know it? It’s not easy to be able to move him once. If he still wants to work as hard as the third master of the Jin family, I’m afraid that the word Wen will be written upside down.
This is a rare thing today.
...
Tang Xiaoxiao was in Xiyuan at this time, very far away from Wen Xixiu.
I just took a shower and my hair was still wet.
This place is near the women's guest room. If there are no guests coming back to rest, it is a place that is rarely visited.
Xiaoxiao didn't care too much about it, and her wet hair spread out behind her head. She wore a thin shirt with lotus silk yarn, a water-colored skirt, moss-colored soft-soled shoes, and a small bamboo fan was shaking on her hands.
Sitting with Xiao Dier in a small pavilion to rest, the cool south wind blows towards you, making people feel very comfortable.
"Does the girl feel cold?" Xiao Dier looked at Xiaoxiao and was wearing thin clothes. She was drunk again today, worried that the girl would be in the wind.
"It's really a little cold."
The Wen family’s garden is built against the mountain. The night wind blows from the Nanshan Mountain, carrying the breath of the mountain, so naturally it becomes cooler the later it becomes.
Xiaoxiao looked at Xiao Dier: "Although it's cold, I don't want to go back at this time."
Xiao Dier hesitated and said, "Will I go back and get a piece of clothes for the girl? I will come back in just one cup of tea."
"You go."
"Just, leave the girl here alone..."
"I am a living person, can I still be carried away by a mouse?" Xiaoxiao made her feel relieved.
Xiao Dier burst out laughing: "Go and go back quickly."
When Xiao Di'er went, it seemed even quieter.
The terrain where the mountain pavilion is located is high. Xiaoxiao stood in the pavilion, looking down at the lights and noise of the garden in the distance. The purity of the place seems to be two worlds.
"Xiaoxiao, it's you."
Suddenly a voice sounded from a distance, which scared Xiaoxiao.
The voice is very familiar, but Xiaoxiao can't believe it is this person.
Looking closely, under the glazed wind light, a tall figure was walking towards the pavilion here. Xiaoxiao had a good vision and quickly recognized that the other party was not Ding Jin, who was it?
When this person was in Zhaozhou, he expressed his affection for himself. He was only young and didn't understand him, and he ignored him.
Who knew that he would appear at the rose feast today!
That's right, Ding Lu is here, how could Ding Jin not join in the fun?
Xiaoxiao knows Ding Jin too much.
It is precisely because of this that I feel scared at this moment.
Looking around, there was probably no one here except myself and Ding Jin.
Although Ding Jin would not do anything bold and reckless, as long as he determined his goal in his heart, he would use any means to achieve it.
Although he will not do anything to him, he may make others mistakenly think that something happened to him...
Xiaoxiao had no time to analyze his thoughts, and at this time he just wanted to leave this dangerous person as soon as possible.
"Xiaoxiao, after leaving Zhaozhou, we can meet here! It's such a fate!" Ding Jin was about to walk into the pavilion.
Xiaoxiao flashed, got off the pavilion from the other direction, and walked quickly towards the east of the garden.
To be continued...