The beauty in the mirror has exquisite makeup, her wedding dress is like fire, and she is three points more beautiful than usual, but the expression on her face does not match her current dress at all.

The bride's shyness and joy could not be traced on that slightly powdered face, and there was only a touching melancholy between the eyebrows of the distant mountains.

She wanted to laugh very much, tonight's day is extremely important for any woman, the wedding dress on her body is very festive, she made it herself, and the jewelry is also very beautiful, it was the best Jin Yuxuan in the city just sent a few days ago.

When she was young, she also secretly reverie with red cheeks about what her future wedding would look like. The current situation is not much different from what I once imagined, the only thing that has changed is that the groom has changed.

Lin Shiyin and Li Xunhuan are real childhood sweethearts, they grew up together, and the elders in the family are also happy to see the friendship between the two, so she never thought that she would marry anyone other than Li Xunhuan, but now, the man she was willing to entrust to Qiē failed her.

In the dresser next to the mirror is Li Yuan's title deed, which is her dowry, which was handed over to her by Li Xunhuan personally, thinking of the congratulations that the other party said in person that day, Lin Shiyin felt a great pain in her heart, and stretched out her hand to push the dresser far away.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, it was the maid who was guarding outside who came to urge, Lin Shiyin rarely raised her voice to make people retreat, and then, she looked at the person in the mirror, raised her lips, and barely showed a smile.

It's just a change of groom, the wedding is still a wedding, it's just this once in her life, she has no reason not to laugh, and tomorrow, she will stand in front of Li Xunhuan with such a smile and tell him, even without him, she will be very happy

"Alas," a sigh sounded, "the bride should be happy, how can it be uglier to laugh than to cry."

Lin Shiyin, who was immersed in her own thoughts, was startled by this sudden voice, and when she looked for prestige, she saw the young man with the piano case on his back smiling at her through the window, with a warm and gentle smile.

"Young Master Yan?!" Lin Shiyin got up and leaned over him slightly, even at this time, she didn't lose her politeness, "Why is Childe here?" At this time, he should have drunk in the front hall and waited for the ceremony.

Yan Xiubai smiled, "It's just that today's night is good, come out for a walk, by the way, do you want to go with me?" ”

When he said this, although he was smiling, his eyes were very serious, and there was no joke at all, not to mention that at this moment, at this moment, it was simply an insult to be able to make such a joke to a bride who was about to get married.

Lin Shiyin frowned, she was not ashamed, but a little strange, she didn't know much about Yan Xiubai, she just lived in Li Yuan together, occasionally met a few times, nodded and said hello, more understanding came from Li Xunhuan's years as an official, every time he wrote to him, he would mention a few words to his best friend, and Lin Shiyin still had a good impression of Yan Xiubai's personality, the other party was not a frivolous person, but he said such an inappropriate sentence at an inappropriate time, which made Lin Shiyin puzzled.

Yan Xiubai saw this doubt, he sighed and said, "You're not looking forward to this wedding, are you?" If you don't like it, why do you have to reluctantly agree. ”

Lin Shiyin's face turned pale, put away all her expressions, the whole person was indifferent and melancholy, as if she had put on a thick protective shield in an instant, "What if you like it, what if you don't like it, the wedding is about to start, so the son should go back to the front hall first." ”

Of course, Yan Xiubai didn't leave, he was just silent for a moment, and then said very abruptly, "Li Xunhuan is gone." ”

Lin Shiyin didn't understand at first, and then gradually, her autumn-like eyes began to ripple.

The air was dull, and just when Yan Xiubai was thinking about how to comfort him, he saw Lin Shiyin suddenly turn around, sit back in front of the dresser, and put on a string of beaded jade earrings in front of the mirror

Yan Xiubai wanted to sigh again, these two were not ordinary awkward and stubborn, he said: "Miss Lin and Li Xunhuan are cousins of childhood sweethearts, what kind of person do you think he is?" ”

Lin Shiyin was silent.

Yan Xiubai didn't care, and said directly: "I have known him for four years, and my understanding of him may not be as deep as Miss Lin, but there are still six or seven points, Li Tanhua was talented, handsome, and valued by the emperor, and the future is unlimited, many people are very optimistic about him, and Lord Yang also wanted to marry his daughter to him. ”

"You may not know that the daughters of Yang Shoufu's family are very good in appearance and character, and they are also famous among those famous and noble girls in the capital, and her family background is there, if she marries her, Li Xunhuan may not be so angry that she will resign and return to her hometown, but he refused, only saying that there is already a red face in the family, and I don't know how many people secretly scolded him for being a fool at that time!"

Lin Shiyin's eyebrows moved slightly, "What do you want to say?!" ”

"A man who is called a fool, do you think he is really a wanderer? Is it a Bo Xingren who abandoned his love for the beauty outside? ”

Yan Xiubai doesn't believe it, maybe Li Xunhuan's acting is really good, but even he can see through it, he doesn't believe that Lin Shiyin, his childhood sweetheart, will not be able to see through it, anyone may doubt Li Xunhuan's character, but she should be the most determined one.

After a long silence, Lin Shiyin's slightly trembling voice sounded, "He may not abandon his love for those □□ beauties, but he will give up his love for a righteous brother"

At the beginning, maybe because she cared about it, she couldn't see things clearly, but Lin Shiyin was never a stupid person, she was sensitive and intelligent, and her mind was thorough, and she didn't say many things, it didn't mean that she didn't know, but it was precisely because she knew that she was even more painful.

"Since he wants me to marry, then I will marry him."

But she didn't expect that he had already left without even looking, and it was likely that he would never come back.

Yan Xiubai frowned, "Is it worth losing your life's happiness for the sake of anger?" ”

Lin Shiyin took the bright red hijab on the side, carefully stroked the mandarin duck that she had embroidered herself, and said depressedly: "It's not just for the sake of anger, Li Xunhuan is not only the person I like, he is also my cousin, and his only living relative" He asked her to marry, but she couldn't help but marry.

The eldest brother is like a father, there seems to be such a saying, although Lin Shiyin's situation is different, but it is also similar, Yan Xiubai has been in this world for more than four years, and he doesn't know anything, at least the women in this world are much weaker than the Tang Dynasty.

Following the father at home, marrying and obeying the husband, the things that women in this world follow are absolutely torn apart in minutes among those women who are sometimes fiercer than men in Datang.

Although Yan Xiubai understood, he didn't agree, in his opinion, such an approach was too weak, and women were no worse than men anywhere except for their natural physical advantages.

"Have you ever thought about some other life besides getting married?"

Yan Xiubai turned around and looked, the place where Lin Shiyin lived was naturally elegant, not far away there were a few old plums planted that required several adult men to hug them, now the season is not right, and when winter comes, you can imagine what kind of elegance it is.

"The outside world is vast, exhausting the great rivers and mountains that a person can't go through in his life, but a woman's life is only to marry and have children, move from one house to another, and see only this small piece of world, a very safe but regrettable life."

Such a statement is really strange, Lin Shiyin thought for a long time before using the word strange to describe it, but it is undeniable that her heart beat faster at this moment, although her father was also a person in the rivers and lakes, but she grew up in Li Yuan since she was a child, and was raised as a boudoir lady, her words and deeds are in line with the etiquette of famous ladies, even if her cousin is from the rivers and lakes, she never thought that there would be a day when she walked out of Li Yuan.

"Taking a step back, even if you want to get married, there are more men in the world, why do you have to choose between these two men? Etiquette and dogma, these things, after being bound for a long time, it is not impossible to break free! ”

"What am I going to do, what can I do" Lin Shiyin was unprecedentedly confused.

Yan Xiubai turned over and entered the house, pulled out the bright red hijab in her hand little by little, and then threw it away, and said, "Come with me, and let your cousin see that not everything is under his control." ”

When he said this, he was no longer the ordinary down-and-out scholar, a kind of sharpness and unruliness seeped out of his bones, like a sword hidden in a box, just the cold light out of the sheath was enough to stab people.

The bright red hijab lay on the ground like a useless rag, and the night wind blew and rolled into an inconspicuous corner.

As for the upcoming wedding, Yan Xiubai said, who cares about him!!

There was a big event in Baoding City recently, originally the famous Li family in Baoding City was going to get married, but on the day of the wedding, the bride was gone, and the Li family was missing, so some people speculated that it was not the Li family's Tanhualang who eloped with the bride.

Originally, this Li Tanhua and the bride are childhood sweethearts' cousins, a little affectionate is not unusual, but halfway through, a righteous brother came in, Li Tanhua originally wanted to cut his love for the sake of brotherhood, but in the end, the hero still did not pass the beauty pass, on the night of the wedding, Li Tanhua couldn't hold back the heartache, so he eloped with the bride, leaving only a hall without a bride for the groom.

The above is the story that circulates from the mouth of the storyteller in Baoding City, and it is also the version that everyone thinks is the truth.

Even the person concerned, Long Xiaoyun, thought so in his heart, because apart from this, there was no other possibility.

It's just that he can't confirm this speculation, that wedding is embarrassing for any man, he can't make himself more embarrassed, he only claims to the outside world that the bride's disappearance was an accident and was taken away, and then he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find the "captive" bride.

At this time, Lin Shiyin had already followed Yan Xiubai south, and he was already far away from Baoding City