Chapter Eighty-Five: The Road Is Uneven
Changfeng and Jin Haoran pushed open the door and saw this enviable scene full of laughter.
Jin Haoran smiled, walked over slowly, and teased: "Brother Bei, junior brother, I still plan to go outside the city to meet you, but I didn't expect you to have already entered the city, and you are accompanied by beautiful wines." As he spoke, he looked at Lin Huixin beside Bei Xiao Nan and smiled meaningfully.
Lin Wan stood up and sat down next to Lin Huiling.
Bei Xiaonan stood up, smiled, and said, "Haoran, I've been waiting for you for a long time, come! As he spoke, he slapped his big palm on Jin Haoran's shoulder.
Jin Haoran dodged out of the way and said exaggeratedly: "Brother Bei, the junior brother is weak, but I can't help you." ”
Bei Xiao Nan looked puzzled and said suspiciously: "Is it? You weren't like this before." As he spoke, he leaned into Jin Haoran's ear and whispered: "Isn't it a beautiful woman in the Great Feudal Country, little brother, you have lost your true body?"
Jin Haoran glanced at him sideways and stopped answering.
The three of them sat down together, Bei Xiaonan picked up the wine jug on the table and poured a glass of drunken incense for Changfeng and Jin Haoran, and said with a smile: "Haoran, come! Eat and drink more to replenish your body." ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone heard the extraneous voice, and also guessed what they whispered just now, Bei Xiaonan and Changfeng laughed, Jin Haoran was slightly embarrassed, Lin Wan smiled without shying away, Lin Huixin looked natural, smiled slightly, generous and decent, Lin Huiling blushed and pretended to eat vegetables.
There is no problem between young men and women, introducing themselves to each other, from the story of the encounter between Bei Xiaonan and Lin Huixin and others today, the story of Jin Haoran and Lin Wan and others, to the customs of various countries, the food and beauty, what they see and hear, everything is discussed.
When they heard the boundless grasslands of the North Chen Kingdom, the horses galloping like the wind, and the enthusiastic girls and boys all singing and dancing, everyone's eyes were burning and they yearned. Bei Xiao Nan warmly invited everyone to go to Beichen as a guest, ride a horse and drink, sing and dance.
A lunch, eaten until the sunset, everyone is not yet happy, unwilling to separate.
Bei Xiao Nan really drank the best, drank three pots of drunken heavenly incense, and remained sober. Jin Haoran and Changfeng are not weak, one person and one pot are just not drunk.
Lin Wan asked the guy to come in, cleaned up the table, and replaced it with tea and pastries.
Changfeng took a sip of flower tea and sighed: "It would be nice if the heart of the piano was there, drinking tea and listening to music is a great joy in life." ”
Lin Huiling looked at the piano platform behind the curtain, shook Lin Huixin's arm and said, "Sister, why don't you play a song?"
Bei Xiao Nan also echoed and smiled: "That's very good!"
Lin Huixin smiled slightly, did not refuse, stood up, walked behind the curtain and sat down, raised her slender jade fingers, plucked the strings, the sound of the piano was ethereal and distant, which made people feel refreshed.
Lin Wan has never heard this song, but she can hear that Lin Huixin shows the blue sky and daytime and grassland scenery in her imagination, showing the frank and heroic feelings of the children of the grassland, making people close their eyes as if they see an eagle soaring on the grassland.
Lin Wan turned his head to look at Bei Xiao Nan, only to see that he was staring straight at Lin Huixin, his eyes were shining with dazzling light, and he also saw gentleness on the face of this rough grassland man.
In the evening, at the end of the song, people dispersed, and Jin Haoran and Bei Xiaonan took a carriage back to the post house. Changfeng returned to the Shadowless Pavilion to deal with affairs, and since Fengwu left, all the affairs of the capital could only be decided by Changfeng.
The Lin family sisters also returned to their respective homes, the Lin Mansion was on Yushi Street in the south, and the Prime Minister's Mansion was on Xiangfu Street in the east. But Lin Huixin and Lin Huiling also received a post about the eldest princess's flower appreciation banquet, so in a few days, they can see each other again.
After the quiet South Street and Alley, enter Xiangfu Street, the west end of the street is still busy and lively, the street is in a hurry, the hawkers are hawking on the street, and the inn restaurant is overcrowded.
The carriage was moving very slowly, and Lin Wan was not in a hurry, pulling the curtain of the car, smiling and appreciating the various states of life under the slanting sun.
When passing through an alley, noisy human voices came from the alley, attracting many people to walk into the alley, and also attracted Lin Wan's attention.
"Stop. Lin Wan turned her head to look at the crowd in the alley, and the little girl who was kneeling on the ground and crying could be vaguely seen in the crowd.
Gale stopped when he heard the sound and asked, "Miss, what are your orders?"
Lin Wan frowned and said, "Go and see, what's going on in that alley?"
"Yes, miss. The gale pulled the carriage over to the side of the road and headed down the alley.
After a while, Lin Wan saw that the gale had not come out after burrowing into the crowd, and ordered Lu Liu, "Let's go down and have a look." So saying, he got up and got out of the carriage.
"Yes, miss. "Green willow and green tung followed.
Walking into the alley, there was an insulting voice from a middle-aged man in his ears: "Little thief, you still dare to quibble, you two little names are Hanako, how can you have such a valuable jade pendant, and say that it was not stolen, who believes it?"
"It's mine, it's mine! A child's voice rang out, its voice sharp enough to hear his anger and stubbornness, and his indefensible humiliation.
Lin Wan stood outside the crowd, unable to enter the center of the crowd watched by the people layer by layer, and could not see the snarky middle-aged man and stubborn child, but could only see the little girl she saw before through the gap in the crowd, still kneeling on the ground and crying.
The little girl was about three years old, her little shoulders were shaking violently because of crying, her eyes were big with tears, her face was dirty, and her mouth was crying intermittently: "No...... Don't hit ...... Hit my brother...... Brother ......"
Gale walked out of the crowd at this time, saw Lin Wan standing outside the crowd, and hurriedly stepped forward to report: "Miss, a six- or seven-year-old boy, with a three-year-old sister begging, a man said that they stole their jade pendant and forced the boy to return it, but the boy refused to let go, was beaten by the man, was stopped by the passing people, and was in a stalemate." ”
As he was talking, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and Qingtong protected Lin Wan to the side. Lin Wan looked back and saw five officials running into the alley quickly.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" shouted the two officials at the head, pushing through the crowd and quickly making a way.
"Who is causing trouble? I don't know if this is an extraordinary time? Bring them all back to me!" A black-faced official walked into the center of the crowd, and after only one look, he planned to arrest all three of them back to the yamen.
Without saying a word, one official stepped forward and grabbed the boy, one lifted the little girl sitting on the ground, and the other two walked towards the brown-clothed man standing aside.
The boy's ragged clothes and hair were disheveled, covering most of his face, and he struggled desperately, shouting, "Let go of my sister, let go of my sister!"
The little girl lifted her feet off the ground, kicked and hit the official who grabbed her arm, and cried: "Let go of me, let go of my brother!"