The return of
the
Spring Banquet and the passing away of the beauty: I still remember that my heart was pleased with him for three years when
I was in love with the thrush, but he pretended not to know. At the
spring banquet, he pointed to the young man with apricot blossoms and asked me if I was moved.
He was sure that since he went to Beijing, he was the only one in my heart.
But he did not know that I had just made up my mind to give up my mind to him and open my eyes to others. When
Shen Ruchu was born, he invited me to go to the suburbs of Beijing for spring. The next morning, I went to the city gate in advance to wait for him. As the
spring rain continued to fall, the maid, Hsiao Chun, slanted her umbrella and said, “Miss, have you forgotten Shen Shih-tzu?”
She said euphemistically, but how could Shen Ruchu forget his birthday?
I guess that the reason why he broke the appointment was that Qiao Zhen finally answered his invitation.
Qiao Zhen is the first talented woman in the capital, is the hand of the Taifu, is Shen Ruchu’s love at first sight.
And I am just the next best thing for Shen Ruchu.
Shen Ruchu invited me to spring, but because Qiao Zhen did not answer his invitation, he did not want to be alone on his birthday. I,
on the other hand, was never far away from him. He waved, and I had to rush over. As soon as
I returned to the Jiang Mansion, I received an invitation from the Prince’s Mansion.
It turned out that when I was waiting at the city gate, the prince’s mansion had already started a birthday feast. When
I arrived at Shen Ruchu’s house, everyone was already drinking and feasting.
Qiao Zhen leans against the column stem, smiles to appreciate the fallen flower, Shen Ruchu is surrounded by the crowd, but the vision still intentionally or unintentionally falls on her side face. When
they saw me coming, the atmosphere of joy was stagnant. Shen Ru-chu was stunned at first, and then asked me in a half-reproachful voice, “Why is Miss Chiang San here so late?”
He even forgot the previous invitation.
I nodded. “I stayed at the city gate too long before I saw the invitation card.”
“What is Miss Chiang San doing at the city gate when she has nothing to do?” A busybody asked me.
But Shen Ju-chu quickly turned him aside. “That’s all right, that’s all right. It’s my fault. I’ll give you a spring party in a few days.”
Shen Ruchu’s spring feast was made up in a hurry, as if he was afraid of forgetting it carelessly.
But this time, the other side is very attentive, the banquet is not in the prince’s mansion, but borrowed the long princess’s garden to do.
I dressed up to attend the banquet, he bought a separate table of wine and food, under the apricot blossoms.
I love apricot flower cake, also love apricot flower, thought this table of wine and food is he alone for me to buy, but see the crowd under the flower tree, Qiao Zhen impressively is Shen Ruchu’s guest of honor, the girl’s table snacks and side dishes are different from others everywhere, we can see the intentions of the host.
I thought this spring feast was for me. Now that I have seen Shen Ruchu treat others carefully everywhere, I realize that I am self-sentimental.
Shen Ruchu looked gloomy.
I don’t understand why he looks like this, and when he looks in the direction of Qiao Zhen, he knows that the other side still has a cold face, but he can’t take his eyes off a man in brocade sitting under the flowers and trees in the distance, but the apricot blossoms can’t hide his face. Those
who could get Shen Ruchu’s invitation were all dignitaries in the capital, but the man looked unfamiliar, and I couldn’t help looking at him. Looking at it
, the man seemed to feel the bright line of sight, opened his eyes and looked straight in my direction!
I was surprised.
Shen Ru-chu spoke at the same time. His voice was cool: “Look at it for so long. Is it good?”.
The man has a pair of peach blossom eyes, and his eyebrows are naturally affectionate. Can look at the eyes cold, as if life can be frozen a shiver.
I seemed to be frozen by the cold look, and after a while I answered, “It looks good.”
Shen Ruchu’s face was instantly like a piece of crumpled rice paper, which was empty and inexplicably wrinkled. As if in disbelief,
he asked me, “What did you say?”
I know that Shen Ruchu has always been sure that I am happy with him, so he can brazenly ask me what I think of other people, and then laugh when I say, “This person is very good, but I don’t care.”.
He knows that this means that there is only one him in my heart.
He did not know, just now, I saw Qiao Zhen alone in front of the table placed her favorite small point, and my table in front of the same as other guests, and I ate the diarrhea after the fish-
I told myself: do not like him, try someone else.
So that man was Chang Huan. At the beginning of
this year, my father led his troops to the court of the Huns. The
king of Xiongnu had no choice but to sue for peace and sent two treasures to Qi, one was the national treasure of the Xiongnu, the Wolf King’s scepter, and the other was the son of the long princess who stayed in the Xiongnu, Chang Huan.
Chang Huan took a look at our direction and walked here.
I was surprised: the other side looks really soft, Jiangnan gifted temperament is not Shen Ruchu, really unexpected, the other side is the son of the Xiongnu King.
As he approached, Shen Ruchu pointed at me and introduced me to him: “Just now Miss Jiang San said you were very good.”
I was dumb for a moment.
I know Shen Ruchu doesn’t care about me, but I didn’t think he would treat me like this. There are a lot of people who don’t like me at this spring banquet. Although I am not cautious at ordinary times, I have never taken my own handle to others, but what about Shen Ruchu? Just because he was a little unhappy, he roasted me on the shelf, not caring about the gossip he might attract. Several people have looked askance at the
banquet. “Why, didn’t you say that yourself?” Asked
Shen Ruchu with a smile.
“Miss Chiang San is quite fond of male sex, and when she sees a handsome young man, she loses her eyes and runs after people every day. Why, she is so fascinated by people that she is dizzy.”
？？？
I really didn’t expect that Shen Ruchu would say that.
Chang Huan looked at me with surprise in his eyes. After a moment, he squinted and chuckled, “Thanks to Miss Chiang San’s green eyes.”
He spoke in a strange tone, with a Xiongnu accent, and when he said it with a laugh, it was as if he were speaking in the ear of others.
I scratched my ears with a red face, and before I could say anything, Shen Ruchu suddenly turned black.
He first took a look at Qiao Zhen sitting not far away, and then looked at me, a series of good words, even a foot lift, directly kicked over the table.
I was standing at the table, and the table was rolling in my direction-
Shen Ruchu. Are you sick?
His attack came suddenly, and I was entranced by his sudden exasperation.
Seeing that the table was about to hit me, my arm was suddenly pulled, and when I reacted, the table had fallen to the side, and the ground was a mess.
I thanked Chang Huan.
“Miss Chiang San is too polite. It was my fault that Miss Chiang San was frightened at the banquet. After the banquet, I might as well personally send Miss Chiang San back to make up for the crime of not taking good care of her.”
I did not reply, Shen Ruchu, who had just been at a loss, suddenly sank his face, kicked open the table in front of him, and went away. In the latter half of the
banquet, Shen Ruchu did not come back, and I was absent-minded until I got into the carriage of the long princess mansion.
“I had the good fortune to spend a short month with your father.” Chang Huan said softly.
“Really?” There was an awkward atmosphere in the carriage, and Chang Huan’s mention of my father instantly aroused my interest.
“Really.” Chang Huan laughed again, “Your father is very..” He told me about his foster daughter in the capital, and his words were full of love. According to your father, Miss Chiang San is the best girl in all of Qi.
I waited for a long time without waiting for his unfinished words, trying to fill in automatically: “So, you didn’t expect, you didn’t expect me to be like this..” So bad.
“I didn’t think..” Chang Huan added, “I didn’t expect Miss Chiang San to be exactly the same as your father.”
I am a moment of shame, the Huns men talk like this? At a loss, I had to change the subject: “I didn’t mean to offend you at the dinner today..”
“Is it offensive to say that I look good?”
The car soon arrived at Jiang Fu.
Chang Huan got off with me. He
said he just came to the capital and wanted to make friends with me.
I threatened him, “I have a bad reputation, don’t you know?”
I have a bad reputation, partly because of myself and partly because of Shen Ruchu. People in
Beijing say that I can only run behind men. I am a little girl from a barbaric place without a little education.
Barbaric land refers to the frontier. I grew up with my parents in the frontier until I was thirteen years old. Seeing that I was about to be able to kiss, my parents were afraid of missing me in the frontier, so they sent me to the capital and fostered me in my uncle’s home. It was at my cousin’s banquet that
I met Shen Ruchu, who was sitting alone.
My cousin said that he was the son of a vassal king, but his father did not love him and his mother did not love him, so he was very lonely in the capital.
Young girls always love heroes, and I loved being a hero at that time. First sympathy, then compassion, and finally. Fall in love with a secret promise.
But three years. Tripping
over the same stone once is carelessness, and tripping twice is foolishness.
But Chang Huan looked down at me and said, “How bad is your reputation?”? Doesn’t it sound better than mine?
I just remembered that Chang Huan’s life experience was not very good.
The long princess left him in the Huns in order to escape back to the capital. After returning to the capital, he quickly married and had children, and now he has a son and a daughter. He, the son of the Huns, is not welcomed by the long princess.
Kind of in the same boat.
Come on, don’t be in the same boat. Haven’t I suffered enough from being in the same boat?
“Believe it or not, don’t get involved with me. Tomorrow you will know.”
My barbarian behavior has always been a pastime in the streets and lanes of the capital. What Shen Ruchu said
yesterday was not pleasant to hear, and many people at the banquet heard it. I could guess their style with my knees. It was nothing more than: surprise! Your son, who is new to the capital, has become the new object of Miss Jiang San’s nymphomaniac!
Or: Congenial stink, two unwanted little wretches embrace each other to keep warm. Unexpectedly
, the second day, the capital is still quiet. I sent Xiaochun to inquire about it, but I didn’t find any rumors.
Chang Huan came to me and said, “Look, are people in the capital talking about you?” Only then did
I realize that there was no gossip about the spring banquet today.
I whispered to him, “How did you do that?”
“Is it difficult?” He also whispered back to me, “I’ll just follow the list of guests and go to them one by one and tell them not to talk nonsense.”
Even the cousin who was eavesdropping opened his mouth wide, and after a while he said, “It’s not that difficult.”
It’s not that hard.
It’s just that no one has ever done it for me.
In fact, when I first came to the capital, I was not a so-called “barbarian.”.
When I first came to the capital, my aunt introduced me to other ladies in the capital, and several ladies praised me for my innocence and loveliness. Even the same age, there are also a few who play well.
The first time I was called barbaric was when I met Shen Ruchu for the second time.
It was the New Year, and Shen Ruchu was bullied by his brothers who came to Beijing. I
grew up in the military camp, and I know both fists and feet. After
fighting off the bad guys, I sat down beside him and asked him, “Is he your enemy?”
“No.” I will always remember Shen Ruchu’s loneliness at that time: “They are my brothers.”
Others are brothers, but Shen Ruchu is a brother.
It was clear that Shen Ruchu was seriously injured, but his father came to Jiang Fu and said that he would not let me mind my own business.
The battle was very big, and since then there have been rumors in the capital that I don’t know how to behave.
Shen Ruchu thanked me awkwardly and warned me not to get too close to him, just like the hedgehog I raised when I was a child.
Later, the little hedgehog was too frightened to stab me, Shen Ruchu would not stab me, he just. Very cold.
But I have a thick skin. I can scratch the hedgehog until his hair is soft. I can also coax the eccentric teenager to laugh.
I took the initiative to find Shen Ruchu to play, and tried to get Shen Ruchu close to me again and again. Gradually, the rumors in the capital became that I ran after Shen Ruchu and lost the face of the girl’s family.
Shen Ruchu already had many good friends. One day he heard this rumor from a good friend. He came over and asked me, “Xi Xi, have you ever heard anything bad?”
I sat at the top of the tree and smiled at him. “Yes, I did run after you every day.”
I don’t care about those rumors, so Shen Ruchu didn’t explain anything for me in front of his friends, and I never felt wronged.
Until Chang Huan told me that he could come to them one by one and warn them not to talk nonsense.
Goodbye Shen Ruchu, on the polo field.
Chang Huan invited my cousin to play polo, and he took me with him.
Chang Huan long in the Huns, on horseback again familiar, left and right is a ball into the hole, playing, see I raised interest, grabbed the elder brother in the hands of the staff, turned on the horse, straight toward Chang Huan ran.
“Oh, you girl.” The elder brother laughed angrily.
I can also play polo with a girl, but this time I’m the only girl. Seeing me running with the ball, the boys dodged one after another for a while, and no one dared to stop me.
It was Chang Huan who stopped my horse and said, “Don’t look down upon Miss Chiang San, the tiger girl of the gate!” At the end of
a game, all the people present were very happy. The son of the
Cui family talks a lot, and as he wipes his sweat, he sighs, “I don’t know, Miss Jiang San is so good at playing polo.”
My cousin answered, “You don’t know that when Xi Xi first came to the capital, he beat the shit out of a lot of people.”
Yes, I used to brag on the polo field, and the moon stick was like an arm in my hand.
When did I stop playing polo? It was
about two years ago that Shen Ju-chu looked at the young people galloping on the polo and said, “Playing with things loses one’s ambition.”
So I put down the moon staff, away from the playmates, picked up the book, like Shen Ruchu general read some of it also.
“Yes!” Chang Huan’s voice pulled my thoughts back from the memory, and when I turned to look, I saw the other’s eyes shining: “Xi Xi is better than many of us.”
“Did you call Xi Xi, too?” The elder brother dissed with an elbow. I haven’t been so wanton for
a long time. After a few games, I felt weak all over. I said goodbye to my elder brother and wanted to leave first. When Chang Huan heard this, he hurriedly handed the moon staff to his colleagues, carried a cloak and prepared to send me.
“I have a carriage.” I tried to stop him.
“I’m the master here. I can’t let you go back alone, can I?”
I always felt that his words were familiar, and I couldn’t help laughing when I heard them again: “Do you have to see every guest off?”? Don’t you have your own things to do?
“Not really.” Often look at me with a smile: “I only send you.”
His smile is bright, like the hottest sunshine, do not know how to avoid people’s sight, but let me dare not look directly.
“Because I am the only woman at this feast.” I avoided his sight and didn’t know how to reply.
Just as I was thinking hard about my choice of words, a voice suddenly came out: “Xi Xi?”
I followed the sound and was surprised that I was so absorbed that I didn’t even hear the sound of the carriage coming. When I took a
closer look, I saw that the curtain of the carriage had been lifted at some point, and Shen Ruchu showed half of his body.
He raised his eyebrows, as if he didn’t expect me to be here. It was
only when I got out of the carriage that I saw Chang Huan beside me. His face quickly darkened again, with a kind of gnashing of teeth. “They said you weren’t at home, so you came out to play with Mr. Chang.”
I
“Do you like him?” He asked me again. Before
I spoke, Chang Huan spoke first.
The other person put the cloak she had been carrying on her hand on my body: “Xi Xi is tired of playing polo. I’ll take her home.”
Shen Ruchu’s pupils shrank. “Did you call her Xi Xi?”
Just then I pulled the belt of my cloak and said to Chang Huan, “I’m not cold.”
“Even if it’s not cold, wear it. It’s windy in spring. You’ve just sweated, and it’s easy to catch cold when the wind blows.”
It seems that no one heard Shen Ruchu’s question.
Just as I had no choice but to fasten my cloak belt again, the curtain of Shen Ruchu’s carriage was lifted again, and a white and delicate hand stretched out: “Is that Mr. Chang?” I know
the catkin, and I know the cold voice. As soon as
the voice came out, Shen Ruchu, who had planned to come forward, stopped and looked at me with a hint of pride. Then he took two steps forward and helped Qiao Zhen out of the carriage. The girl wore a pleated flower skirt, and when she committed herself to it, the skirt spread out like a flower.
Shen Ruchu reminded her to be careful not to fall, to be careful and gentle, and to take good care of her.
Obviously already planned not to like Shen Ruchu, my heart was still inevitably painful.
Not heartache Shen Ruchu good to Qiao Zhen, Shen Ruchu like Qiao Zhen I have always known, but it is inevitable to compare-
he never helped me out of the car, I thought he was born indifferent, habits. But in fact, he will be so gentle, and gentle object is not to me, but he thinks I do not deserve it. Didn’t I know this
before? No, I just closed my eyes and covered my ears. I ignored the big stick he gave me. Occasionally, I was happy with a sweet date.
Even though I knew I was the only one in the world, I couldn’t help comparing myself with Qiao Zhen-
she had the best literary talent, and I was good at martial arts, but because Shen Ruchu looked at me differently, I felt inferior to her.
Qiao Zhen walked up to us step by step. First she smiled and nodded to me. Then she looked at Chang Huan and said, “Mr. Chang, I said goodbye to you at the Spring Banquet. How are you?” Where have
I seen Qiao Zhen like this?
She had always boasted that she was aloof and had no dust under her eyes. She had ignored Shen Ruchu’s kindness several times. Where had she ever seen Yan Yan take the initiative to say hello to others?
Talented women are cool and fashionable and attract prodigal sons, not to mention when they put down their postures?
I subconsciously looked at Chang Huan’s expression, but saw that the other side looked confused: “Dare to ask which girl?”? Have we met?
Shen Ruchu is like a defeated rooster.
He has just been in a trance since Qiao Zhen went to the ground, and he is also wilting now.
I understand him, the sweetheart likes others, oneself also can only look at is quite painful.
Qiao Zhen stands in place, do not know what to say for a while.
I was also embarrassed for Qiao Zhen, but suddenly I felt Chang Huan tugging at my sleeve. Before he could react, he leaned close to me and whispered, “I’ll send you back first.”
Yeah, why are we standing here, staring at each other? When I
got into the carriage, I suddenly stretched out a hand from the rear-Chang Huan’s palm down to signal me to take his arm.
This is.. Are you helping me?
I got into the carriage, just sat down, faintly saw Shen Ruchu standing in place, looking at me for a moment. As the
carriage passed by, the bells were ringing. Chang Huan suddenly asked me, “Have you ever been as happy as before?”
I was in a trance for a moment before I asked, “Is it so obvious?”
I thought this was the end of the conversation, but somehow Chang Huan, in the midst of the sound of horses and carriages, suddenly came up with a sentence without beginning or ending: “Even among many women, you are different.” I didn’t understand
this sentence until I got out of the carriage to say goodbye to Chang Huan and fell asleep.
His words were in reply to me.
“Because I am the only woman at this feast.”
“Even among women, you are different.” I don’t dare to think deeply about what
Chang Huan’s words mean.
Shen Ruchu has said too many similar words.
“Xi Xi is the loveliest girl in the world.” This is what Shen Ruchu said.
“Xi Xi is different. No matter how many people I meet later, Xi Xi is different from them.” Shen Ruchu also said
this.
Every time he said something like that, I was full of expectation, but I soon found that I was flattering myself.
Gradually, I learned not to expect.
Therefore, in the face of Chang Huan’s words, although I am not completely indifferent, I pretend that I don’t understand anything after all.
I thought Chang Huan would rest his mind when he saw me pretending not to understand. The next day, however, Chang Huan once again handed over an invitation–
“Princess Chang, the strong liquor produced by Chuang Tzu in the suburbs of Beijing, is the flavor of the border.”. Would you like to share it with me?
The border is bitter and cold, and my father and mother often take me to have a drink. I’m not addicted to alcohol, but I haven’t tasted the flavor of the border for many years, and I’m a little itchy for a while.
My cousin looked up and said, “Why didn’t you send me a copy of the invitation?”? Is it because I don’t deserve this strong drink?
Finally, my cousin shamelessly accompanied me to Chang Huan’s appointment on the grounds that he was afraid that I would be cheated.
As it turned out, my cousin really didn’t deserve the invitation from Chang Huan. By the time Chang Huan and
I were clinking glasses, my cousin had already collapsed on the table, but he was not a good drinker. He didn’t sleep well when he was drunk, and he muttered, “Chang Huan’s intention is not to drink, it’s on my family.”
Boy, it makes me and Chang Huan blush like a monkey’s ass. I
made up my mind that I couldn’t accept Chang Huan’s invitation in any case recently, but my cousin was drunk and gave Chang Huan a reason to send us home-
Jiang Fu’s carriage was not small, and it should be more than enough for three people, but my cousin was drunk and sat on his back, and Chang Huan and I were inevitably closer. There was a slight fragrance of wine floating in the carriage, and I don’t know which of the three of us had it.
So Hongxia never lowered her face.
So, when I saw Shen Ruchu waiting outside Jiang Fu, whether I, Shen Ruchu, or Chang Huan, I was surprised.
“You went out with him again?” Shen Ruchu blurted out to me.
But two days no see, Shen Ruchu’s face is much worse, I do not know if it is in Qiao Zhen there hit the wall. I
didn’t ask, but when I did, Shen Ruchu’s face became even worse: “I can only come to you when Miss Qiao ignores me.” As soon as
he said this, I knew that it was indeed Qiao Zhen who ignored Shen Ruchu.
The reason why he is so sure is that Shen Ruchu has not changed for so many years.
I said Shen Ruchu hanging me really never wronged him, since falling in love with Qiao Zhen, Shen Ruchu’s joys and sorrows are tied to her alone, to me is perfunctory, if one day my attitude suddenly good, there is no need to think hard about the reason-is in Qiao Zhen there ran into a wall. When
he first liked Qiao Zhen, I didn’t struggle, but before I could walk away, Shen Ruchu, who had hit the wall, came back to me to coax me-I didn’t blame him for all the reasons, but it did show how weak I was when I faced Shen Ruchu.
So this time, I’m not going to give myself any hope: “Oh, so you’re here for my cousin?”? Shall I call my cousin out?
One side of Chang Huan is very winking, busy from the carriage to help the cousin who is too drunk to know. When
Shen Ru-chu saw his cousin, he looked relieved. He frowned and said, “You always go out to play with other men, but now the rumors are not good. You have to restrain yourself.”
My cousin probably had a bump in the road, and as soon as Shen Ruchu opened his mouth, he spat it out with a “wow.”.
Chang Huan said to me and took my brother to wash.
Seeing that Chang Huan and his elder brother were not with me, Shen Ruchu said even more brazenly: “Xi Xi, you don’t have to find a substitute just to get my attention.”
Me: “Huh?”
Shen Ruchu told me the facts and presented the evidence: You see, I was once sent to the capital by my parents, and he was also sent to the capital by his father. My brothers and sisters don’t like me, and he’s not liked by the eldest princess. I didn’t fit in when I first came to the capital, and he doesn’t have any friends now..
In the end, Chang Huan firmly came to the conclusion: “Xi Xi, the reason why you are good to him is just because you see the shadow of my past in him.”
Shen Ruchu’s words made me feel uneasy. “Shen Ruchu, do you really think so?” I asked him in a confused way.
Shen Ru-chu looked at me tenderly. “I heard your aunt is looking at someone else for you. Just wait for me.”
My heart gave a thump. I know that
my aunt recently looked at others for me. About three or four days ago, I just put down Shen Ruchu, thinking that I didn’t like Shen Ruchu anyway, so I had to give myself a chance to see if there was a better person. What does
Shen Ruchu mean now?
I asked tentatively, “Why, are you going to marry me?”
Shen Ruchu’s face was tinged with a thin red, and he answered softly, “Mmm.”
“If you marry me, what will Qiao Zhen do?” I asked him curiously.
But it was just a casual question. I didn’t have any hope that he would give me an answer, but I didn’t expect that Shen Ruchu would open his mouth again after pondering for a long time: I used to think that Qiao Zhen was what I wanted all my life. Can wait for a while, I found that Qiao Zhen is just I can not, and you, but I can not give up.
？？？ Do you want to hear what you’re saying? I couldn’t bear to
listen to the so-called “I can’t get what I want, I can’t give it up.” I gently asked Shen Ruchu, “Shen Shizi, would you please leave?”
Shen Ruchu wanted to say something else, but I stopped him: “Shen Shizi, don’t make me sick, okay?”
Shen Ruchu’s face was pale, and he walked away step by step. I was stunned when I walked
back.
Not far away stood a man, Chang Huan, who had gone and returned. Seeing me stop, he took two steps forward: “I’m afraid you’ll be bullied, so..” Before he
had finished speaking, he changed the subject: “Xi Xi, is Auntie really starting to look at you?”
I did not expect that one day the eldest princess would suddenly come to visit me. It seemed that the
wind and frost in the north of the Great Wall had never left any trace on a woman. She sat in the main seat with dignity and dignity, looked at me sitting with her, and sighed, “If it hadn’t been for my son who didn’t live up to expectations, I wouldn’t have known that there were such beautiful girls in the capital.”
I blushed at the side. When I sent Chang Huan away
yesterday, he was in a trance all the time. I thought it was the word “substitute” that hurt his heart, so I had a good explanation.
Little did I realize that his mind was on the matter of my aunt “looking at me.”.
“It still depends on the mind of the girl’s family.” The eldest princess stuck a jade hairpin in my hair and said, “So I didn’t bring the betrothal gift rashly, nor did I make a big noise.”. If Xi Xi is interested, just let my bastard know, and I’ll hire him with half the assets of the government.
The long princess was busy with her affairs, and when she left, the people of the house rushed to see her off. But I don’t want to see the matchmaker at the gate.
A crowd of people looked at each other and finally looked at the long princess. The long princess shook her head and looked at me with a smile in her eyes.
“Take care, Mrs. Kang!” The white flesh on the matchmaker’s cheeks quivered slightly, and she smiled happily at my aunt. “We, Shen Shizi, have asked to marry the three girls in your family, and we have specially invited the slave family to come and hire them!”
Auntie’s face changed and she said, “You only brought the betrothal gift, but you didn’t ask if my family would like it.”
“Oh, Miss Jiang San is infatuated with Mr. Shen, and..”
“Shut up!” Before the matchmaker had finished speaking, she was interrupted by her aunt. Even though the guest of honor was here, she could not help but feel a chill in her cheeks. “Miss Chiang San won’t say anything for the time being. As an aunt, I don’t want to.”
This is the first time I feel embarrassed.
Not because of the love of the past-I really liked Shen Ruchu, even though I now feel that I like the wrong person, I have never regretted it.
Can even long princess know, ask my idea in advance, and Shen Ruchu, how so sure, I must not marry him? After the
long princess left, Auntie left the others, leaving me in the main house.
She has always been elegant, and rarely looks angry on her face: “Xi Xi, Shen Ruchu is not a lover. Don’t you understand?”.
She broke it up little by little and told me about the chaos of his house and the suspicion of his father by the emperor.
“If Shen Ru-chu treats you sincerely, these are small things.” Auntie straightened the hairpin for me and said, “But what kind of reputation have you had for so many years? Has he come to ask you to marry him?”
The more Auntie said, the more sad she became. I hurried to coax her and said, “Auntie, I don’t like Shen Ruchu anymore.”
I really don’t like Shen Ruchu anymore.
My aunt mentioned my age and sighed again. Finally she brought me the portraits of the young men and said, “There must be one here who can compare with Shen Ruchu.”
My aunt showed me one by one, and when I saw the last one, my heart suddenly trembled.
Sure enough, she stopped at the table and said, “The most suitable one is Mr. Chang..”
But I have lost my face in front of the long princess.
I didn’t expect that Shen Ruchu would come the next day.
The concierge wouldn’t let him in, so he just stood at the door and waited for me. When I finally went out, the boy stopped me with his hand and said, “Why don’t you accept my dowry?”
His question was blunt and impetuous, as if I had taken his dowry for granted. He frowned, his face was cold, and he looked as if he had been let down but had not said anything.
I didn’t want to talk to him, but when he stopped me, the anger of being offended by the matchmaker yesterday came to my mind. I stood still: “Shen Ruchu, what am I in your heart?”? Is it something that comes and goes at the call of time?
Shen Ruchu doesn’t understand what I’m talking about.
That’s right. How can he understand the idea of an object.
“Do you remember the first time I quarreled with you?”
Shen Ruchu looked confused.
Seeing this, I finally laughed out loud with relief-of course he didn’t remember why I quarreled with him for the first time, because at that time his body and mind were all on Qiao Zhen. It’s funny to
say that Shen Ruchu and I quarreled for the first time because of Qiao Zhen.
At that time Qiao Zhen came to Beijing, Taifu Xingshi moved to pick up, fragrant car BMW, the girl a pair of hands like jade gently lifted the window, so lifted in Shen Ruchu’s heart.
At that time, Shen Ruchu was actually much closer to me.
He has a cold temper, but it doesn’t matter, I have always been patient, more than a year of company let him gradually take off his guard, from the beginning of the polite greeting, to the later will listen to the secret with me. Before
Qiao Zhen came to the capital, he just asked me if I intended to marry to the capital. Before
I could answer, young Shen Ruchu blushed, “I will always stay in the capital.”. My father’s fief has no place for me. The emperor can’t let me go.
I believe that at that time, I was definitely not self-sentimental.
But with the arrival of Qiao Zhen, everything has changed.
I naturally know that all this is no wonder Qiao Zhen-she lifted a good window, no one thought there would be a Shen Ruchu fell in love with her at first sight.
Can Shen Ruchu frequently trance, can Shen Ruchu repeatedly talked about Qiao Zhen. Shen Ruchu, who has always been lonely, actually took the initiative to make friends with his peers in the capital, just because of whose family held a banquet, Qiao Zhen, who had just returned to the capital, always went to the banquet to walk around. At that time,
I was silly and happy, but I could understand some things.
I naturally have my pride. One day, I found Shen Ruchu and asked him, “Shen Ruchu, do you like Qiao Zhen?”
Shen Ruchu hesitated and finally said that he treated me as a sister.
“Shen Ju-chu, I’m in the Chiang family. Why do you think I don’t have a brother?”
That was the first time Shen Ruchu and I had a quarrel.
We haven’t seen each other for a long time.
At that time, I stayed in Jiang Fu obediently, followed my aunt to learn housekeeper, while Shen Ruchu tossed and turned between various banquets and met Qiao Zhen by chance. My elder brother talked about those cautious young minds, and his tone was full of regret.
I thought Shen Ruchu and I would be like this from now on. There was a period of youth friendship, and finally became a stranger. Unexpectedly
, on my birthday, the young man came with a pot of wine, his eyes lonely, and asked me if I would never talk to him again.
Later, he was self-taught, with a big stick and a sweet jujube, which gave me hope and let me touch it.
In the final analysis, it’s all my fault that I’m not hard-hearted enough.
However, I was not hard-hearted enough when I was a girl. At that time, I would still feel heartache because of the eyes of my beloved. I also yearned for the feelings of moths to the fire. I would also be moved by my own efforts.
Now, I have been able to be in pain when the other side, the heart without waves. In the
past, when I was in the most painful time, I said to Shen Ruchu countless times, “You can’t treat me like this. Shen Ruchu, I will leave even if I am too sad.”
Shen Ruchu did not understand that I was not saying those words to him, but warning myself.
Now, I can calmly and rationally say, “Shen Ruchu, I won’t come back.”
“I was wrong.” Shen Ruchu finally burst into tears. He whispered and begged, “Xi Xi, come back to me and let me make it up to you.” Shen Ruchu stumbled when he left
that day.
I watched him go and turned back to the house.
Although I have not yet chosen the son of any family, my aunt has begun to tell me to embroider the wedding dress. I have
studied for so many years, but I can’t learn to be a lady of a good family, and I will stumble when embroidering a wedding dress. I was embroidering Mandarin ducks under the window this day when a pebble suddenly flew in from outside the wall and landed on the branch of the apricot tree outside the window.
The apricot blossom will be defeated, disturbed by the stones, and fall one after another. In the midst of a riot of fallen flowers, Chang Huan lies prone on the top of the wall. “I’ve got a new pony. Would you like to come and see it?”
I was stunned in the same place.
Chang Huan is surrounded by beautiful scenery.
“Did your mother still let you come to me?” I asked her in a daze.
Do not blame me surprised, that day Shen Ruchu did not say hello to let the matchmaker to the door of the scene is not very good. The long princess did not say it explicitly, but I knew that she was not very happy. In fact,
such scenes have happened many times-when I first came to the capital, I was also a hot commodity for the prominent families in the capital, but as my reputation deteriorated, my aunts and aunts were not so close to me.
I thought the long princess would be the same.
Chang Huan lay on the top of the wall and waved to me to go out. When
I walked out of the corner door, he winked at me and said, “My mother was very nervous when she came back that day. She said you were too popular. She told me to hurry up and show off in front of you.”
His expression was slightly vivid and exaggerated, which made me almost laugh out loud.
After a while, Chang Huan asked me awkwardly, “I just saw you embroidering a wedding dress. Are you going to agree to Shen Ruchu’s marriage proposal?”
Me: “Huh?”
Chang Huan became happy with the naked eye. He was not used to speaking ill of others, but he still said, “It’s a good thing you didn’t agree to his marriage. You won’t be happy with him!”
“Will I be happy if I promise you?” I asked subconsciously. It was only after asking
this that he realized his impoliteness and saw the man opposite him suddenly grin: “But I would like to give you all I have.”
“I am not like him. You are the one I like.” As
I hurried back, Chang Huan tugged at my sleeve and said, “You haven’t said yes yet. Shall I ask someone to kiss you?” There
is no.. How can you ask people so directly? I
didn’t want to face him, so I nodded at random. “Please if you want. I don’t care.”
But the other held on to my sleeve and said, “Are you still going to see the pony with me?”
I looked at him.
“Very spirited pony. I’m not lying to you.” On
the second day, the noble came to the house of Jiang.
Before she could enter, Princess Shou began to shout, “The eldest princess loves the three girls of our family so much that she has invited the old man to be a matchmaker!”
My aunt asked me what I thought.
I hesitated for a moment. “But it’s up to Auntie.”
It is said that it is up to my aunt to make decisions, but in fact, it is already the meaning of willingness.
Chang Huan is a very nice person.
I didn’t have a crush on him. After
Princess Shou brought the news back, soon, the betrothal gifts were sent to Jiang Fu.
And the red boxes, and a very spirited pony.
The pony, who had just seen me yesterday, was very intimate with me and offered to lower his head for me to touch. Seeing this, the boy who had brought the gift quickly said, “This is also a gift from our son. It’s not a betrothal gift. It’s..”
He paused, making me curious to ask.
But it never occurred to me that before I could say anything, the other person was already shy: “It’s a token of love.”
Not..
You are not the Lord. Why are you shy? When
my cousin came home, he saw all the red boxes in the yard. He grinned a few times and said, “It’s cheap for him.”. When he invited us for a drink, I knew he had bad intentions.
Having said that, the cousin had a smiling look, which was quite different from when he faced Shen Ruchu.
I asked my cousin, “Do you still like Chang Huan?” “
My cousin straightened his expression and said,” Whether I like him or not depends on whether he treats you well or not.
My cousin never gives Shen Ruchu a good look.
At that time, everyone could see that Shen Ruchu was not good to me.
Unlike Shen Ruchu, when Chang Huan is good to a person, he would like to give her all the good things. After
sending the betrothal gift, Chang Huan kept running to Jiang Fu. He took me to the polo field to play, took me to the suburbs of Beijing for an outing, accompanied me to the teahouse to listen to books..
It turns out that when you go for an outing, the person who invites you will come to pick you up in person. When you listen to books, you can drink tea at the right temperature as soon as you turn around. When I was
listening to the book, I often laughed and asked me, “Xi Xi, why are you so good?”? Better behaved than a lot of girls I’ve seen. When I
went for an outing, the string of the paper kite was broken. Chang Huan came over and kissed me on the cheek carefully.
“Xi Xi.” “I like you so much,” he said softly.
Chang Huan’s love is like overflowing water, which is so big and prickly in front of my eyes that I can see it at a glance.
These days, the only thing that is not going well is probably Shen Ruchu waiting at the gate of Jiang Fu every day.
I thought I made myself clear that day.
But as if he had come to prove his intention, he did not do the work in hand, nor did he go to the daily social intercourse, every day, rain or shine.
Instead of proving his intention, he attracted more people to point out at the entrance of my alley.
Probably I scolded hard before, Shen Ruchu did not dare to come directly to disturb me, but every time I came back with Chang Huan, he would show a pitiful expression, every time I did not see him, until the day Chang Huan kissed me, I finally couldn’t help it.
Seeing me walking in his direction, Shen Ruchu’s eyes showed ecstasy: “Xi Xi..” Are you willing to talk to me?
“Shen Ruchu.” I said with a straight face, “You come to the Chiang Mansion every day like this, which makes me very annoyed.”
Shen Ruchu’s smile froze on his face.
“Have you ever thought about it?” I tried to soften my tone and said to him, “I’m about to get married. You come to me every day. What will my fiance think?”? What will my fiance’s family think?
“Xi Xi..” Shen Ruchu stammered for a moment:.. I thought you didn’t care about that.
“I care.” I interrupted, “I care about their gossip. When I’m told I’m not ladylike, when I’m told I don’t like men, when I’m told I don’t want the face of my daughter’s family, I care!”
How could you not care? I was just a little girl
at that time!
What’s more, what those people said was much worse than they thought.
Most of the rumors that can be widely circulated are relatively mild versions. The version of
those three aunts and six aunts sitting together in twos and threes is much worse than one circulated.
Those versions, aunt brother they do not know, Shen Ruchu do not know, only heard me.
I felt so ashamed of my uncle and aunt that I would only get into bed at night and dare not tell them.
Those rumors have been bothering me.
Even though I firmly chose Shen Ruchu, those rumors still troubled me.
Until Chang Huan knocked on the door of those three aunts and six aunts.
I said to Shen Ruchu, and he woke up as if from a dream: “I’m sorry..” I I don’t know, if I knew you cared about that, I.. What do
you know? Your mind was on Qiao Zhen at that time, and you couldn’t see anything. I answered with a sneer.
“I don’t like Qiao Zhen. I was wrong.” “I thought you would always be by my side, because you always accompany me. I forgot that what I really can’t leave and want is you,” Shen Ruchu explained eagerly.
“But what does that have to do with me?” I said calmly, “I don’t need you anymore.”
“Long before Chang Huan appeared, there was no need.”
Shen Ruchu was stunned. As if he had taken all his strength away, he froze there. He looked at me for a moment. After a long time, he suddenly realized and shed tears.
I want to tell Shen Ruchu that although I care about those rumors, as long as he stood behind me once in those years, comforted me once, and firmly chose me once..
Those rumors are nothing to me.
But he never did.
I opened my mouth and swallowed the words into my stomach.
Why make such an assumption? It doesn’t make sense anymore.
“Go back.” I advised Shen Ju-chu, “Don’t make it too ugly.”
But Shen Ruchu pulled my hand and wouldn’t let me go.
“Baby, you can’t do this. You can’t come near me and then abandon me.” What am
I? Your toy when you’re bored?
“Play when you’re happy, and when you’re unhappy, throw me away..”
He stopped without finishing.
Because I slapped him heavily in the face.
“Shen Ruchu, don’t disgust me.”
What do you mean by playing casually when you are happy? Is it a whole three years of youth to play
casually? Is casual play a reputation for being a mess? Casual play is the expectation and disappointment again and again?
“You can only see your own grievances forever, but why don’t you ask why I gave up on you?” Why should
I have to wait for you to turn around all my life? Why should I let you take whatever you want?
Chang Huan was waiting for me not far away-he was obviously keeping an eye on what was happening here. When he saw me coming, he took my hand gently.
Shen Ruchu is a man who doesn’t listen to advice. It seems that there is no such word as “good reunion and good separation” in his life.
I waited for you to turn around, as long as I could. I would do anything if you just looked back at me.
Later, I heard that Shen Ruchu did a lot of things.
His time seems to go back to the past three years.
He started doing a lot of things that I used to do.
He helps beggars who are bullied by others, and he secretly beats dignitaries who bully others.
He started learning a lot of things that I like.. When
he went to play polo, he didn’t know the rules and was laughed at.
He planted apricot trees all over the yard, but it was late autumn, and none of them could survive.
He went to the city gate alone, picked a rainy day, and spent the whole day in the rain.
Then he came to me with a lump in his throat and said, “Xi Xi, you were waiting for me at the city gate that day.” What do you think? Did you decide to give up on me from then on?
Later, I never heard of Shen Ruchu’s situation again.
When he left, his father grew older and came back to the capital to raise him, and he was finally free.
Before he left, he sent a letter to Jiang Fu.
“Xi Xi, I’m leaving. Maybe I’ll go to the desert. It’s not far from where you grew up. Maybe I can see what you looked like when you were a child.”
Later, Qiao Zhen also found me.
The young girl, like a cold plum, stood beautifully outside the Jiang Mansion. When she saw me coming out, she asked me bitterly, “Why are you?”? How am I worse than you?
I invited her into the house for tea.
Qiao Zhen held the tea for a long time did not drink, and I told the story for a long time.
Talk about how she was in danger a while ago, how she was rescued by Chang Huan, how she fell in love at first sight, how she was unwilling.
“I was there first.” Qiao Zhen shed tears and said, “I met him first.”
Through Qiao Zhen, I seem to see me who was unwilling at that time.
But Chang Huan is different. Chang Huan doesn’t treat Qiao Zhen like Shen Ruchu treats me.
When Chang Huan came to me, I asked him, “Do you remember Qiao Zhen?”
“Qiao Zhen?” Chang Huan was concentrating on making a clay figurine when he asked me subconsciously, “Which one?” Why don’t you
pretend to know her? There are only a few people in the capital. I exposed Chang Huan. No
, no, no.. Apart from Xi Xi, where else do I know a young lady? On the
wedding day, Chang Huan doesn’t drink Hehe wine. Be sure to ask me a question in advance.
“Do you like me a little now?” The other party’s face was red, and I don’t know if it was reflected by the wedding dress and the red candle.
“I like you very much.”
I kissed Chang Huan gently on the cheek.
I’ve liked you for a long time.
As early as you knocked on those doors one by one. When
you finally found my favorite polo game.
As early as when you carried a bowl of liquor and read a poem to the moon.
As early as carefully, when he asked me if I wanted to see the foal.
At that time, I began to like you.
Author’s byline: Not sweet enough to add some sugar
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The passing away of beauty: Remembering the time when
the love is thick and the thrush is thick, the cat is waiting for
the cat
