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was the only one holding the flagon and crying while drinking.
Elder Martial Brotherther came over to propose a toast. He was so frightened that he retreated several steps. He proved our innocence to the bride Ji Haitang incoherently.
A table of guests held their bowls and chopsticks and dared not speak. Ji Haitang grabbed my flagon and scolded me, Cloud wine! You’re going to die. Why are you crying so loud when I get married? Why can’t I cry when
you get married! There are twelve students
in Qingfenggu School, all of whom are married and established. Originally, I was the only one who was a bachelor with my fifth Elder Martial Brother.
As a result, I treat you as a sister, and you want to be my sister-in-law! Thinking
like this, I cried even louder.
Ji Haitang rolled her eyes and dragged me by the arm to their bridal chamber. Elder Martial Brotherther was stupefied and reacted to stop the relatives and friends who were following us and wanted to listen to the corner.
I was dragged into the room and left in the corner, while Ji Haitang drank a glass of wine and felt his conscience. He asked me, “Tell me what you like, and I’ll tie you up even if I do!”.
I wiped away my tears and counted on my fingers: “Be good-looking, be able to write poetry, be gentle and elegant, and pass the first prize in the exam.” “Why don’t
you just tell me his name is Shen Tsai-yu?”
I nodded. “Is that okay?”
Ji Haitang hates that iron does not become steel: “You can be a big head ghost!”! After three years, can’t you see clearly? If he has any idea of marrying you, I won’t persuade you to give up.
Yeah, it’s been three years. When I
first got to know Shen Zaiyu, I worshipped Qingfeng Valley and just learned the Eight Diagrams Array. I put the array down on the mountainside with great interest, waiting for the master to return to the valley to break the array and praise me for my intelligence. At that time, the master was just out of the valley to practice medicine. I squatted on the mountainside and waited for the master for several days, but he didn’t come back. Instead, I waited for a handsome young man who broke into the valley.
The childe was good-looking, but his voice was a little hoarse, probably because there was no water to drink all the way up the mountain. It took
him about a quarter of an hour to step out of the gate and rest under a willow tree. I waited in front of him, eating chicken legs leisurely, and saw that he was almost at rest. Then I went over and put the kettle in his arms and asked, “Who are you? How did you find our Qingfeng Valley?”
He stood up and saluted me. “Are you a disciple of Qingfeng Valley?”? In the lower part, in the imperial part, according to the Old Testament, he came to the Valley of the Clear Wind to fetch the medicine.
I took Shen Zaiyu back to the valley, and the brothers gathered around to interrogate him, where he was from, what was going on, and whose agreement he had with?
This group of ferocious evil spirits, some with pikes, some with broadswords, some with dusty faces and herbs on their heads, surrounded Shen Zaiyu, like a gang of bandits and robbers threatening the sons of good families.
I dragged Elder Martial Sister Jiu back a few steps and asked in a low voice, “Did the brothers eat gunpowder?” Elder Martial
Sister Jiu said thoughtfully, “Maybe I ate some poison by mistake.”
So we rushed to rescue Shen Zaiyu and took him back to the backyard. By the way, we took out the cakes that the fifth brother had stolen and gave them to him. When we came out, we closed the door for him. Then as soon as we turned around, we saw the brothers staring at us with a bitter look on their faces.
“Younger martial sister, the man at the foot of the mountain is a tiger!”
But by comparison, are you more fierce?
“Younger martial sister, those who look like gigolos are lazy and don’t want to make progress!”
But it doesn’t take him much time to crack my gossip array.
“Younger martial sister, a poor scholar like this who can’t carry his shoulders or carry his hands can’t give you happiness!”
…… At the end of my patience,
I picked up an axe from the door and shouted, “Do you think I can give you happiness?” The
brothers scattered like birds and beasts, and the door opened with a squeak behind them. I turned around and saw Shen Zaiyu’s indifferent smile. As soon as I loosened my hand, the axe fell on the threshold, just one step away from his right foot.
Second
, I didn’t pay much attention to this scholar.
Qingfeng Valley is famous outside. When accepting disciples, they pick and pick. Twelve people are all top-grade. They are not fools who can’t walk when they see beauty.
What’s more, Shen Zaiyu was not a happy man. Apart from going out for dinner, he spent the rest of his time either reading in his room or sitting on the cliff waiting for his master to return. At first, the
brothers wanted to tease him, find work for him, or make some small traps to tease him. He was never angry, always polite, gentle and modest.
I sometimes worry about whether he was sent by the court to endure humiliation and stay in the mountains, waiting to find out the terrain of Qingfeng Valley, and then send a message out to meet our lair inside and outside.
After all, I brought him in from the mountainside, and I kept an eye on his whereabouts from time to time.
Once Shen Zaiyu was reading in his room, and the candle had not been extinguished until late at night. When I came back from weeding in the medicine field, I happened to see him go out of the door and into the purple bamboo forest. Startled,
I sneaked up after him and saw him carrying an axe around the bamboo grove several times before choosing a bamboo tree to cut down. I couldn’t guess his intentions in the dark, so I heard him calling me, “Miss Yunjiu, can you come and help me?” Embarrassed,
I strolled up to him and asked, “What are you doing?”
He laughed, “I want to make a bamboo flute. During the day, I asked my brothers for instructions. They told me to cut down whatever bamboo I like in the bamboo grove. You’re welcome.”
It’s a simple thing. Isn’t it just cutting down trees? When my sword was unsheathed, a bamboo tree broke from the root and fell straight down towards Shen Zaiyu. Before
he had finished speaking, more than twenty bamboo branches were thrown at him. He was startled and finally showed his discomfiture. He fled to the side in a panic.
I took a few steps back and flew into the air on tiptoe, from which I drew a few swords to completely dismember the bamboo branch. He ran a long way and turned around, but he wasn’t angry. He was still in the mood to tease me: “Miss Yunjiu, this is the best purple bamboo. You cut it down into a big piece. Do you want Shen to make a few more bamboo flutes and sell them to pay for the meals these days?”
Well, this scholar really doesn’t know martial arts, and the pace of running doesn’t have any foundation of flying skills. Relieved,
I picked up my sword and giggled, “It’s not enough. Don’t stand on ceremony.”
Shen Zaiyu shook his head with a smile and ran back to pick up bamboo with me. As he picked it up, he was distressed: “The best purple bamboo! Those who can’t make flutes can only burn firewood.”
… That’s a bit of a waste. On the second day after the
bamboo flute was finished, Master finally sent a letter saying that he was treating a patient in the south of the Yangtze River and that it would take about half a month at the earliest to get back.
He knew that Shen Zaiyu was waiting in the valley, and said that if he had something to do at home, he could go home first, and when he came back from Jiangnan, he would go directly to find him. If he could stay in the valley for a while, he would teach his disciples, illiterate people like us, to write poems and songs.
The Elder Martial Brotherthers were quite unconvinced. At least they were all outstanding members of the clan. They were sent to Qingfeng Valley to learn medicine and martial arts. They could read and write. Why did they have to learn the incoherent poems.
But the master ordered that no one would dare to disobey, so Shen Zaiyu took a book and read it in the hall: “If life is just like the first time you see it, why does the autumn wind draw a fan?”
The Second Elder Martial Brother said, “This sentence tells us that people can change, so don’t be happy too early when things happen!”
Shen Zaiyu reads, “a bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.” The
sixth brother said, “The meaning of this poem is that if you want to test whether your good friend is a bosom friend, you will push him into the sea.”
Shen Tsai-yu said in the first part of the sentence, “a thousand cups of wine are too few for a bosom friend.” Elder Martial
Sister Jiu took up the second half of the sentence: “The heart has Lingxi.”
Shen Zaiyu looked at me with a sigh and said, “Withered vines, old trees, and faint crows.” The
Fifth Elder Martial Brother pointed to the bridge, pointed to the river, and then pointed to himself. I answered, “Little bridge, flowing water, human scum!”
The Fifth Elder Martial Brother came over and hit me with the book. I jumped out of the window around the table and did not forget to turn around and make a face at Shen Zaiyu.
Shen Zaiyu watched us slapstick and covered his chest. It seemed that he was very angry with us.
After this battle, the effect was very remarkable. Shen Zaiyu wrote a letter to his master overnight, saying that he had something to do at home, so he should go home and wait for him to deliver the medicine.
I volunteered to see him down the mountain, but Elder Martial Sister Jiu glared at me and said, “I think you want to sneak down the mountain to play!”
How could it be? I patted Shen Zaiyu on the shoulder with a small bundle on my back. I gave him a rest assured. I protected your eyes. I turned around and told Elder Martial Sister, “Remember to help me weed the medicine planted in my medicine field. I will come back with Master in half a month.”.
Elder Martial Sister kicked me, and I dodged with a smile, pulling Shen Zaiyu’s arm and running out.
Shen Zaiyu was dragged by me and staggered a few steps before he could keep up with me. As he ran, he shouted, “Slow down, slow down, I’ll fall.”
Joke, this mountain which path I have not run hundreds of times, how can fall.
As a result, I didn’t expect that this fellow was a crow’s mouth. There was a light rain
last night. The mountain road was wet and slippery. I didn’t step on it steadily. I fell to the ground carelessly and rolled several times along the mountain road.
I lay on the ground, grief-stricken, for my sprained foot as soon as I went out, and for the pink dress that rolled all over the mud as soon as I finished wearing it once. What did
the Second Elder Martial Brother say? Don’t be happy too early when anything happens.
Three
Shen Yu came after me and squatted down in front of me. I raised my head and looked at him longingly. “Turn around,” I said.
He didn’t understand what I meant and was ready to help me up.
I dodged back for a moment, hissed in pain, and then stared at him, complaining: “It was all your nonsense that I fell and hurt myself. You must be embarrassed not to carry me down the mountain.”
This person reads too much, and his brain is easy to be stupid.
Such a black pot buckled over, Shen Zaiyu also felt some guilt, lowered his head to make amends to me, and then turned around, let me lie on his back, carrying me on this slippery mountain road.
I felt my waist. Well, I was not fat, so I felt at ease. It was already dusk
at the foot of the mountain, and there was no village at the foot of the mountain, only a dilapidated temple. Shen Zaiyu stood in front of the temple, and after a long time of psychological construction, he went in.
I asked him, “Why are you afraid of ghosts?”
Shen Zaiyu shook his head. “It’s so dirty here. How can I rest?”
Tut, spoiled little childe.
I leaned against the incense table, lit the candle, and directed him: “Look for weeds to spread on the ground, cover yourself with a coat, and make do with a night’s sleep. Tomorrow, when we get to town, I’ll treat you to a delicious meal.”
The small temple lost half of the door, not only the dust, but also some small insects dragged the gray line to crawl across the ground, Shen Zaiyu stiffened his body, settled me, ran out of the yard, leaned against the tree and looked at the moon in a daze.
I waited for a long time and didn’t see him come in. I moved to the window to look for him. He heard the noise and looked back at me. He raised a smiling face and asked me, “Does your foot still hurt?”? Can’t you sleep?
The moonlight is like washing, and the gentleman is like Heng.
I looked at it with joy, and propped my head up to chat with him. I asked, “Do you want to take the imperial examination and become an official?”
Shen Tsai-yu nods: “I passed the provincial examination and got two yuan in a row. When the Lord of Qingfeng Valley took the medicine to cure my sister’s old illness, I set off for Kyoto.”
“Then how big an official are you going to get?”
“If you pass the imperial examination, you will not necessarily be appointed to an official position. The rank is a gift from the royal family.”
Tut, the official answer to my nonsense.
I lost interest and finally asked, “Are you going to stand in the yard all night tonight?”
He was silent for a moment and nodded. With a snort, I left him alone and fell asleep on the straw mat. In the middle of the night
, I was woken up in a daze by Shen Zaiyu, who called me in a low voice, “Miss Yunjiu, I just saw a group of men in black go around the valley!”
I turned over and went back to sleep.
Cloud Wine Girl! Aren’t you afraid of an accident at Chingfeng Valley? He was really in a hurry, holding my arm and shaking it so hard that I was dizzy.
“Okay, okay, I hear you, I hear you.”
I sat up with a sigh, rubbed my eyes, and asked him, “Did you wear a sachet before you came to the valley, and maybe you took a pill?”
Shen Zaiyu nodded, “The Valley Lord gave it to me earlier. He told me that if I came to look for him in the valley one day, I would wear the sachet on my body.”
That’s right. Chingfeng Valley has a rugged mountain path and is surrounded by water on both sides. Poison barriers have been set up at the foot of the mountain, and a forest of poisonous snakes has been set up on the mountainside. The Eight Diagrams Array has also been set up on the mountainside. My brothers and sisters have learned swordsmanship and poison tricks for so many years. If you have the ability to protect yourself, don’t worry.
Shen Tsai-yu responded, “So I didn’t have anything to do in the mountains a few days ago, because the sachet given by the valley owner can detoxify and ward off snakes and scorpions.”
It’s not very stupid. That’s why I’m not worried about the danger in the mountains. What I should be worried about is that my brothers and sisters are too cruel. When I go back, I can’t even see the corpse.
I lay down again and wanted to go back to sleep. Shen Tsai-yu stood up and walked around the temple several times, but he still couldn’t put his mind at ease. He asked me: “You’ve sprained your foot and can’t move easily, so you can rest here. I’ll go into the mountains to have a look and come back for you before dawn. Is that all right?”.
I grabbed the corner of his clothes, and something was wrong. This man was a bookworm. He had no martial arts. He was afraid of dirty, tired and insects. After I explained to him the defense in the mountain, he still wanted to go into the mountain to have a look.
What if he and the men in black are in the same group? What if he finds out the ingredients of the sachet, makes and distributes it in large quantities, and colludes with people into the mountains?
I glared at him and said, “If you’re really worried, I’ll go with you. The efficacy of the sachet can only be used once. If you go into the mountains again, you’ll die in the poisonous snake forest.”
He nodded and crouched down with his back to me. I dilly-dally changed into a dark robe, took a pill and stuffed it into his mouth, then lay on his back and rushed into the night with him. The poison barrier at the foot of the
mountain was not less powerful. Not far away, we saw men in black in twos and threes falling to the ground, breathing weakly and eyes blurred. We saw that we wanted to call our companions, but we opened our mouths but did not make a sound.
I asked Shen Zaiyu to put me down, jumped over, reached out to uncover their face towels, and searched for signs of their identity.
Shen Zaiyu found a symbol on the dagger they carried with him. He looked at it several times and told me that it was the private soldier of Li Yang Wang Ye.
I felt my left hand back and grasped the hilt of the sword, looking at him with interest, waiting for his explanation. In
the misty poison barrier, he didn’t find anything unusual about me. He said he had seen this symbol. It was the military forces raised by Li Yang Wang Ye in private. The number was not much, about one thousand, all of them were good soldiers. Holding my right arm,
he stopped after a few steps to see if any of the soldiers were awake. After counting them around, he told me, “There are about 20 of them here today. If the news gets back, I’m afraid the prince will hold a grudge against me.”
I half leaned in his arms, heard his heart beating faster and faster, looked at him, secretly pinched an antidote, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to put it into the mouth of one of the men in black.
Then I waited quietly, waiting for the man in black to slow down, open his eyes, pinch the dagger and stab him.
I pretended to lean back in a panic and breathe out softly. His eyes widened, he hugged my waist and fell back. Then he reacted and turned over and pressed on top of me. The dagger of the man in black did not hesitate to stab Shen Zaiyu directly in the back.
It’s a good thing they’re not working together.
At the very least, these people did not know Shen Zaiyu and did not hesitate to attack him.
I reached out to touch the ground, picked up a stone, threw it fiercely, hit the throat of the man in black, his movement was stagnant, I drew my sword sideways and stabbed him in the chest.
Fourth
, this bookworm is so weak that he can faint even if he gets a knife.
I rubbed my sprained ankle, helped Shen Zaiyu to stand up, and dragged him back to the small temple with great effort. I
helped him deal with the wound and sprinkled the medicine. It was about to dawn. I sighed and sent a message to my good sister, Ji Haitang, asking her to pick me up. When
Shen Zaiyu woke up, I was sitting in the front hall with Ji Haitang having lunch, when the maid Xiaolan ran over to report to me with a look of nymphomania: “Miss Yun, Mr. Shen has woken up.”
I reached out my hand and knocked on Xiao Lan’s skull. “I’m drooling!” “Oh, that little book is growing quite well. Have you got it?” Asked
Ji Haitang with a wink.
I shook my head. I don’t know what to say. At first, I thought he was a shrewd wolf, and I kept my spirits up to guard against him, but later I found out that he was a clever sheep. He studied hard, took part in scientific examinations, served the court, and sacrificed himself to save others.
Ji Haitang laughed and said, “Just a bookworm!”
“Yes, and he’s also very delicate. He doesn’t touch anything that he can do with his hands, but he’s very good at using his brain.”
“Like what?”
“For example, he got two yuan in the exam.”
……
Ji Haitang nodded. “Well, if you don’t like it, give it to me. It’s just that my father wants me to marry a minor official of the fifth grade.”
I snorted, “When did you ever listen to your father?”
“No?”
I picked up a cake and stuffed it into her mouth, wiping my hands to find Shen Zaiyu. When
I arrived, Shen Zaiyu was lying obediently on the bed, letting the doctor apply the medicine for him. Hearing my voice, he raised his head and called me with a smile, “Miss Yunjiu, you saved me.”
actually, I don’t think he’s very good at using his brain.
I took a chair and sat by the window, looked at his wound, and then replied, “It was you who blocked the knife for me.”
He winked and said in a gentle, harmless voice, “It’s all right as long as the cloud wine girl is all right.”
This man!
My heart missed a beat.
If his fighting capacity is not too weak, I should like the story of the hero saving the United States very much.
I poured him a cup of tea and asked him, “Where is your home? I’ll send a message home for you.”
Shen Zaiyu was silent for a moment, then gave an address. Then he asked in a low voice, “It’s not convenient for my family to come. Could you please ask Miss Yunjiu to help me find a carriage so that I can go home by myself?”
Finished, the suspicion I had just suppressed rose again. “No problem,”
I replied with a smile. Anyway, I have nothing to do. Master will come to look for you again in half a month, and I will be wronged. When you are better and can go to the fields, I will act as a beautiful driver to take you home.
Shen Zaiyu was silent for longer this time, but he seemed to find no reason to refute it.
He was so hurt that he needed someone to take care of him all the way home. My master really had to deliver the medicine, and it was natural for me to go to see her.
He nodded in agreement, but I was a little unhappy.
I even wonder if I have stayed in Jianghu for a long time, and when faced with goodwill and simplicity, I will define him as a disguise for the first time.
Ji Haitang advised me that you had been wandering outside for so many years, and it was not easy for you to meet a simple one. Why don’t you try to like him?
I pounded the table. “Can I try this?”
Then Shen Zaiyu’s good-looking face floated in my mind, gentle, dull, and helpless when we teased him.
Well, I’ll give it a try.
I discussed with Ji Haitang, what kind of girl would a scholar who wrote poems and paintings like?
Ji Haitang said, at least be gentle, you can’t play with swords all day and shout to kill.
So I followed Ji Haitang to learn how to walk, how to salute and how to speak.
Ji Haitang put a bowl on my head, poured half a bowl of water in the bowl, and let me walk from one end of the corridor to the other to ensure that the water did not spill the bowl.
As a result, I only walked half the way and broke five bowls and poured water all over me.
Ji Haitang clenched his fist and said, “Ten cents for a bowl, pay me!”
Ji Haitang also said that if a girl wants a man to remember her, her figure should be soft and her eyes should be charming.
So Ji Haitang took me to the brothel, spent a lot of money, and ordered the flower queen to teach me to dance all night in the house.
Finally, the flower queen collapsed on the ground, hugged my thigh and cried loudly: “Sister, if you really can’t do it, you can torture someone else.”
Ji Haitang picked up the abacus and said, “Ten taels of silver a night. I’ll keep the account for you.”
Ji Haitang continued to give me advice, saying that when a girl expresses her feelings to a man she likes, she usually gives him a purse embroidered by herself. You embroider a Mandarin duck to play in the water for him. If he accepts it, it means that he also has you in his heart.
So I followed Ji Fu’s embroidery lady to learn embroidery for a whole day, and tied up a pair of hands quickly before embroidering a purse.
I knocked on Shen Zaiyu’s door with my purse and nervously put it into his hand. He looked at it again and again, and finally smiled and put it into his arms, saying, “The duck embroidered by Miss Yunjiu is very beautiful. I like it very much.”
That’s a Mandarin duck!
yuanyang!
Whatever. I’m tired. I won’t try.
I decided to go straight to the point.
I crouched down by the window, looked into his bright eyes, and asked him, “Master, is there a marriage in your family?” Although
he taught us a few lines of poetry in his book, we never called him Master. This time I called him Master on a whim, which made him blush and reply, “Never married.”
I got a little closer, close enough to hear his shallow breathing.
I asked, “Master, how am I doing?”
Wu
Shen Zaiyu refused me.
He slowly raised his arm and covered my eyes, watching the corners of my mouth slowly smoothing out. After a long time, he said, “We are not suitable. Cloud wine.”
He used to call me Yunjiu girl, but today he called me Yunjiu, took my purse, and then told me that we were not suitable.
Very strange, obviously did not like him so much, but after being rejected, I was so sad that I hugged the flagon and poured it down one cup after another.
Ji Haitang scolded me, saying that this is called more love if you can’t get it.
I squinted and asked, “Are you trying to call me a bitch?”
……
Ji Haitang rubbed my head and comforted me: “Be good, you’re just a bookworm. I’ll introduce you to someone better.”
I wiped away my tears and asked, “Is it more beautiful than Shen Zaiyu?”
Ji Haitang paused: “Is it all right to be a little inferior?”
I’d better cry for a while.
Although the bookworm refused me, his wound was getting better day by day, and the day of master’s return was approaching day by day. According to my plan, I found a carriage and personally sent him home.
He seemed to have never been troubled by the confession of that day. When he saw me, he still smiled warmly and called me, “Cloud wine, do you see?”
I wondered, “What?”
He pointed to the bridge, pointed to the moat, pointed to himself, and said, “Little bridge, flowing water, scum.”
I couldn’t help but raise the corners of my mouth and chimed in with a smile: “What the Master said is true.”
I helped Shen Zaiyu into the carriage, sat in front of the sedan chair with the driver, one left and one right, and drove the horse to Shen Fu.
On the morning of the third day, the carriage stopped in front of the Shen Mansion. The boy from the Shen Mansion came up and happily took us into the mansion.
Master arrived a day earlier than we did. She came out of the room with a medicine box just in time to see me. She stared at me and raised her arm to beat me.
I quickly jumped up behind Shen Zaiyu and poked my head out to act coquettishly. “Master, Xiao Jiu missed you, so I ran over to pick you up. Don’t be mean to me.”
Shen Zaiyu bowed down and made amends to my master: I was injured a few days ago, so I took the trouble to send Yunjiu to see me off. Yunjiu’s medical skills are also very good. He must have got the true biography of the Lord of Qingfeng Valley.
Master looked at Shen Zaiyu with a look of concern and hurriedly took him back to the room to examine the wound, even without teaching me a lesson.
I dragged Shen Zaiyu’s sleeve to follow him, and was thrown out of the door by the master. As soon as I turned around, I saw two or three servant girls of Shen Fu hiding in the corner, staring at the door with the same lonely look as me.
I glared at them, and they drew back and shoved away. After driving
the others away, I leaned over and put my ear to the door. Just as I was about to eavesdrop on whether Master would speak ill of me in front of the bookworm, a goose-yellow figure came up in front of me.
That is a delicate little girl.
Eyebrows and eyes are beautiful, but too weak, even if the street casually pull a passer-by who has not learned medicine, can also see that she is dying soon.
She called to me, “Sister, are you also a master of medicine in Qingfeng Valley?”
“Yes, my name is Yunjiu, and you?”
The little girl came up to me, took me by the arm and led me out of the yard to the next door.
I don’t dare to struggle. I’m afraid I’ll hurt the little girl if I’m not careful.
I followed her to her room, helped her to sit down, and watched her face turn white again after only a few steps.
I helped her pour a cup of tea and put it on the table. She smiled and thanked me. She said, “Sister, my name is Shen Jinghao. I am Shen Zaiyu’s younger sister.”
I was suddenly a little nervous, and I wanted to stand up and turn away. “
Sister, are you afraid that I will find some excuse to drive a wedge between you and your brother?”
I didn’t answer. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to do.
I listened quietly, and the first-aid pills in my arms were ready to come out at any time.
Shen Jinghao said, “It’s not that my brother doesn’t like you. He wrote to me when he was recovering in the Ji Mansion.”. He said, “Sister, I met a very lovely girl.”
“I guess that girl is you.” My eyes
widened and I retorted, “He never said anything to me that he liked.”
She smiled with a knowing look and said, “My brother won’t say anything. My brother has been buried in a pile of books all these years, and he has tried his best to get a name for himself.”. If it wasn’t for my illness, he probably wouldn’t have done anything that had nothing to do with reading. “So I took the liberty of inviting my sister,”
she said. “I hope she can help him.”
Help him.. What?
Shen Jinghao took another sip of tea and told me a story.
More than ten years ago, Shen Fu raised a young lady who was famous for a time.
It is a picturesque beauty, a static and dynamic are beautiful, standing on a tall building to throw a silk, can also attract men in the city swarmed, half of the childe young master to Shen Fu handed the post.
Such a beauty, if the character is stronger, coupled with the protection of the Shen family, should have a smooth life without trouble.
It happened that she had a gentle temper, and at the age when she was in love, she met a little prince who came to the capital to play. A little talent, a good skin, and three or two soft words coaxed her into a private life. At
first, the little prince coaxed her, saying that his identity was inconvenient, and that when he returned to the capital to ask the emperor for a decree, he would come to marry her at the first time, but now there was no decree, and the love would be hidden from the Shen family.
Beauty for his sake, he said what to listen to, every time the family for whether she has a favorite husband, she hid, said to wait.
She waited and waited until she was pregnant with Shen Zaiyu, and her belly showed her pregnancy before she began to worry. As a result, she waited for the news that the little prince had sneaked away and quietly returned to Beijing. When
the beauty returned to the Shen family, she did not want to eat and drink, and became ill. A few months later, she gave birth to Shen Zaiyu with difficulty, and died of dystocia. “So you’re not brothers and sisters. Your father is his uncle, and his father is the prince of Li Yang?”
I asked.
Shen Jinghao nodded: “Yes.”
My brother didn’t work so hard to gain fame that one day he would stand upright in front of Li Yang and call out to his father for a home. He just wanted to stand taller and taller in front of the man, slap him in the face for his mother, and tell him that he was not worthy of his mother’s affection.
Six
, I sent a message to Ji Haitang, asking about the situation of Li Yang Wang Ye.
Ji Haitang was so clever that he replied to me after only half a day.
She said that the king of Liyang had turned against him and was forming cliques in the court. His father and his ministers had received hints from the emperor and were collecting evidence of the king’s guilt.
She said small wine, if Shen Zaiyu and Li Yang Wang have any relationship, you must be far away from him, you are not suitable.
I went to check Shen Jinghao’s prescription, and in the evening I went to find Master to explore Shen Jinghao’s condition.
Master said that she had been ill for so long that she had been hanging by a thread all these years. Originally, she wanted to plant a life-prolonging trick on her body to see if she could hold out for a few more years, but Shen Jinghao’s body was too weak to support the insect, and there was only a few months left.
I thought about it again and again, and I said, “Master, I want to stay and look after Shen Jing.”.
He saw my intention at a glance, blew his beard and stared, and said, “I think you just like Shen Zaiyu.”.
I retorted. I said, “Master, don’t you also like that bookworm?”?
The master sighed and said, “Little girl, this child is going to pass the examination and enter the court. You know that the famous swordsmen trained in Qingfeng Valley will be guessed by the emperor once they are related to any official.”.
He said that since ancient times, Jianghu and the court do not interfere with each other. He was afraid of this. You are not suitable, girl.
Shen Zaiyu said we were not suitable, Ji Haitang said we were not suitable, and Master said we were not suitable.
Then I’m going to try!
I still have the cheek to stay in Shen Fu, accompany Shen Jinghao every day, and take care of her illness. Sometimes
Shen Zaiyu would shut himself up in his study, holding a book in his hand and reading it for a whole day. Sometimes he would accompany me to boil medicine and help me add fuel to the fire. Sometimes when the weather was very good, I would help Shen Jinghao come out to bask in the sun. Shen Zaiyu came out with two cloaks, one on Shen Jinghao’s body and the other to help me dress up, and stood beside me chatting with me.
Three months later, I still did not keep Shen Jinghao’s life. When she was dying, she held my hand tightly. A tear flowed down the corner of her eye. She opened her mouth and did not make a sound.
I squatted beside her and said I understood and I would help you.
She raised the corners of her mouth, left me a smile, and closed the corners of her eyes.
Shen Zaiyu did not cry, he just stood in the small yard of Shen Jinghao, standing all day.
I stayed in the house for a whole day, through a door, and could not give him any comfort.
Another month later, I stayed in Shen Fu and spent the first New Year with Shen Zaiyu.
He took me to the street market to buy a lot of candies, cakes, dresses and small gifts. Glutinous Rice Balls for Lantern Festival, he showed his skills in the lantern festival, broke many riddles written on lanterns and won the biggest rabbit lantern for me.
Then he said to me, “Yunjiu, go back. Tomorrow I will leave for Kyoto to take the exam.”
Ten miles of street lanterns stretch, singing and smiling, I hold the most beautiful rabbit lantern, the smile on my face has not faded, I heard such a sentence.
I shook my head, grabbed him by the corner of his coat and said, “I want to be with you.”
Shen Zaiyu looked at me with gentle and firm eyes and said, “I’m already very happy that you can accompany me for such a long time, but we can’t be together.”
I know!
I know that. It’s just
a father who wants to rebel.
Is not to fight their own life to stand in front of that person, just to let him apologize to his mother.
It’s okay. I can help you. I can think of a way. Regardless of the image,
I threw myself into Shen Zaiyu’s arms and broke down in tears.
The next morning, I saw the letter he left, only to know that he did not rest last night, taking advantage of the night out of the city, rushed to the capital.
I clenched my fist and wrote to Ji Haitang. I said someone treated me like a fool.
Ji Haitang replied, “Just arrest him and beat him up.”.
That makes sense.
I chose a fine horse from Shen Fu and chased Shen Zaiyu along the road to the capital. I ran for a whole day and blocked Shen Zaiyu in the Yunfu Inn along the road.
Shen Zaiyu was trapped in the corner by me, holding his breath and hanging his eyes, waiting for my fate.
I raised my arm to hit him, then put it down gently, took out a worm from the box and stuffed it into his mouth.
His eyes widened, but he did not resist. After
eating, he obediently took the kettle I handed him, drank two mouthfuls, sat down on the chair, and asked me, “What did you feed me?”
I stared at him angrily. “Poison!”
“All right.” He stood up to get the quilt from the cupboard and spread it on the floor.
I looked funny and asked him, “What are you doing?”
He came over to help me untie my cloak and hang it on the shelf. Then he replied, “I don’t think you would trust me to sleep alone in a room.”. So you sleep on the bed, and I will sleep on the ground. I
was stunned. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll really feed you poison?” I asked.
“Die at your hands, even if I have paid off what I owe you.”
I gnashed my teeth and said, “If you can’t pay it back, live well and pay it back slowly!” Although Shen Zaiyu won the place of Huiyuan in the imperial examination before
1973
, he did not take part in the imperial examination because of Shen Jinghao’s sudden serious illness. This year, he had to take the examination again. Before
entering the examination room, I was even more nervous than he was. I tugged at the corner of Shen Zaiyu’s coat and said, “Keep a low profile. Don’t do too well on the exam. It’s better to fail. Then come home with me.”
Shen Zaiyu laughed at me: “Do you encourage the examinees so much?”
I just said my little wish, but God was against me. On the day of the release of the list, Shen Zaiyu’s name hung high at the top of the list. The official who reported the good news came over beating gongs and drums. I took the reward money and gave it out one by one. I was not happy at all.
But this is what Shen Zaiyu has been looking forward to for a long time. He drove me away again. He said, “Yunjiu, you really can’t stay with me anymore.”.
I ignored him and ran out of the house to get the letter from Ji Haitang.
Lord Ji and a group of officials had collected evidence of the rebellion of the King of Liyang, and the emperor planned to settle with the King of Liyang after the palace examination.
I asked Ji Haitang, “Can you let the emperor liquidate a few days earlier, and then start after the palace examination? Isn’t Shen Zaiyu after the guilty minister?”?
Ji Haitang wrote back and scolded me: “Do you think I am the queen? Can emperor listen to me if I blow the pillow wind?”?
I said, “Why don’t you try to be a queen for the happiness of your sisters?”?
Ji Haitang wrote back: Get out.
Seeing the date of the palace examination approaching day by day, Shen Zaiyu began to spare a lot of time to accompany me and persuade me to leave.
I was annoyed by what he said, and finally one day, I left the inn with a bundle on my back.
Then I took the sword that I hadn’t opened for a long time and sneaked into the gate of Liyang Wangfu. There are many guards in the palace of
Prince Liyang, and I was discovered as soon as I found the trace of the King of Liyang. I’ve been learning sword fighting for five years, and it’s working best tonight.
Later, I escaped with serious injuries and was secretly taken back to Qingfeng Valley by Ji Haitang. I lay in bed for half a year before I recovered.
Ji Haitang passed on the news of the court to me from time to time.
She said that the imperial court had posted a notice that a fire broke out in the middle of the night in the palace of Prince Li Yang, and three members of Wang Ye’s family were burned to death in the room.
I asked, “Didn’t I just kill the King of Liyang? Why was there a fire and the whole family was destroyed?”
Ji Haitang replied, “My father helped the emperor. Otherwise, do you think the emperor can spare the family of King Liyang? Can he spare you who broke into the palace alone?” Moved to tears,
I wrote back, saying, “Sister, in the next life, Yunjiu will repay your great kindness by being a cow and a horse for you!”
Ji Haitang ignored me, and a month later he sent me a message that Shen had won the first prize in the imperial examination. The emperor appreciated him very much, appointed him a five-grade official position, and sent him to Quanzhou to rectify the local banditry.
Later, Ji Haitang lost the news of Shen Zaiyu, and I hid in Qingfeng Valley, counting herbs to live.
This hiding is three years. When
Ji Haitang came to see me, he and the Fifth Elder Martial Brother saw eye to eye. When they went back, they cried, made trouble, and hanged themselves, forcing Lord Ji to surrender. He said that as long as the Fifth Elder Martial Brother left Qingfeng Valley, Ji Fu would accept his betrothal gift. On the night when the
Elder Martial Brotherther married his wife, there was a lot of drinking, drums and music, and joy and blessings everywhere. I was the only one holding the flagon while drinking and crying. Ji Haitang hated that iron did not become steel. On the wedding night, he abandoned the fifth brother and drank with me all night.
The next day I woke up with Ji Haitang in my arms. When I opened the door, the Fifth Elder Martial Brother almost cut me with a knife. I was so frightened that I went around the table and jumped out of the window. When I looked back, I saw a beautiful woman like jade.
I froze and held my breath. The
Fifth Elder Martial Brother burst out laughing behind me. “Lord Shen came over last night. You got drunk with my crabapple in your arms. We two big men didn’t pull you away!”
Shen Zaiyu also laughed, then stretched out his arms and looked at me. My tears fell down in an instant and I crashed into his arms. “I thought you would never come to see me. Why did you come so late?” I cried as
I hugged his waist tightly.
Shen Zaiyu hugged me tightly, lowered his head and whispered back: “At first I was angry with you. I read for so many years, but in the end I didn’t even see the man’s face. Then I heard the news that you were injured, and I was angry with myself. I blamed me for not being able to protect you thoroughly, and I wanted you to fight for my life.” After that
, I went to Quanzhou to fight banditry and hired someone to teach me martial arts. It took me three years of hard work to get the upper hand in the fight with the bandits. I think if I come looking for you now, I should be able to withstand a beating. “Impossible,”
I snorted. “I could kill you with one punch!”
Shen Zaiyu replied gently, “That’s all right. The life-prolonging trick you gave me was originally prepared for your sister. If you give it to me, will it protect me from your fist?”
“Try!” As I spoke, I clenched my fist and hammered the fifth brother who laughed at me behind his back.
“Cloud wine!” The Fifth Elder Martial Brother let out a wail, and he was so angry that his voice broke. As soon as
I turned around and hid behind Shen, I said coquettishly, “Master, protect me!”
“Good.”
(End)
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