Chapter 8: The Long River Gradually Falls, and the Stars Sink (2)
The sky is getting brighter, and the dawn is beginning to appear. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe hard-working rooster has been pulling his throat for three o'clock, and the sleepy-eyed palace maids have only opened the door and swept the floor. The nimble eyes of the big rooster look left and right in the open space, as if mocking those lazy humans.
Completely immersed in last night's dream, Aunt Qian chose to forget yesterday's unhappiness, and after the dream ended, she comfortably nestled in the soft quilt and stretched out "um". She opened her eyes, her bulky head tilting towards the door.
As a result, her screams of terror could be heard in the room.
She hugged the quilt against the corner of the wall and curled up in a ball, trembling like a ghost in the daytime.
Opposite her, at a table of eight immortals, a woman in red was sipping a mellow wine, savoring a special dish of meat dishes placed on the table with her eyes.
Lin Yueyuan's Yaxing was not disturbed by Aunt Qian's discordant cry in the slightest, she put down her wine glass casually, turned her head like greeting an old friend for many years, and asked, "Are you awake?" ”
The blush on Aunt Qian's face receded, like a bleached linen. She breathed out of breath and asked incoherently, "Are you in me...... ...... in the house Do? How did you...... Not again? ”
Lin Yueyuan felt uncomfortable sitting on the bench under her buttocks, so she simply crossed her legs on the table, hugged her chest with her hands, raised her chin, and looked at her with a very presumptuous look that she couldn't tolerate before: "It's nothing, it's just that the food is not fragrant in the morning, so I cut something from you and drank it when you were asleep." ”
Aunt Qian was so frightened that she felt her hands around her body, turning her clothes up and looking for wounds.
Lin Yueyuan smiled, revealing a row of big white teeth. She jumped out of her chair, picked up the dishes on the table, jumped onto her bed, squatted in front of her, pointed to the strange pile of boiled meat on the plate, and smiled: "Look, this is your heart, this is your liver, this is your spleen, this is your lungs." Alas, don't say it, it tastes similar to the wolf-hearted dog lungs I used to eat, ha. You're a wolf-hearted dog. She fell backwards, sat cross-legged on the bed, and laughed.
Aunt Qian suddenly covered her mouth and retched, spitting out tears and snot on her hands. Because she was surprised to find a few strands of white cat hair in that plate of meat!
Lin Yueyuan moved to her side in disgust, hugged her shoulders affectionately, smiled and pinched a piece of cat heart and stuffed it into her mouth: "Aunt Qian, you taste it." ”
"You eat or not, I watch you eat, eat!" Lin Yueyuan shouted roughly, slammed the plate on the bed board, and the cat meat jumped from the plate and fell on the bed.
Aunt Qian naturally refused to eat, and she continued to vomit in pain. was forced by her again, so she had to pinch a piece against her will, and the cat meat had not yet reached her mouth. She burst into tears.
Lin Yueyuan wanted to fix her and make her suffer a little, but she didn't know that she cried loudly in front of her regardless of her identity at her age. "It's boring." Lin Yueyuan sneered.
She jumped out of bed, walked to the door and came back uncomfortably to make up a sentence to scare her: "This time I invited you to eat cat meat, if you dare to do it again next time, I will really dare to take out your heart, liver, intestines and lungs and put them in the pot to cook." ”
Aunt Qian was crying and dying, no matter what you do to her at this time, she can only pay tribute to your bitter old face.
Lin Yueyuan couldn't stand it anymore, and finally was so frightened by her terrifying crying that she blocked her ears and fled.
She locked herself in Shi Fengge's room all morning, and the initial excitement quickly disappeared, leaving only endless time. She began to live the boring days of boudoir girls locked in tall buildings, except that other ladies would read books, water flowers, and mourn the sorrow of spring and autumn, and she simply played with whips on the spacious stage, and the sounds of fighting echoed everywhere, as if there was a colorful martial arts drama being staged here.
Before noon, the eunuch Tan Gonggong in charge of the Tanxiang Palace came by boat to deliver the message, and when he saw Lin Yueyuan, whose legs were hanging upside down on the beams of the house, and his hair drooped like a hanged female ghost, he was so frightened that he almost turned his back.
Lin Yueyuan, who was skillful, rolled over from the beam of the house, and a golden whip swung out of her hand, entangled his body as he was about to fall. After she stood still, the whip was withdrawn, and Grandpa Tan turned around beautifully in place, and his feet were more stable than just now.
He gathered his scattered gaze and met Lin Yueyuan's big eyes that were full of kindness to anyone, and those bright and shining eyes were very similar to the North Star he saw in the cold winter night sky.
Gonggong Tan was frightened, remembered her scary appearance just now, looked at her like a monster, and reluctantly conveyed Li Tan's meaning clearly: It turned out that his cousin set up a banquet in Tanxiang Palace to invite her and Li Min to dinner, and to wash her up. As for her aunt, she didn't attend, first, she wanted to help the concubine cooperate with the six palaces, and there were a bunch of trivial matters waiting for her to adjulate every day, and second, she was afraid that some elders were restraining the younger juniors. She also specially asked Li Min to go, saying that the family is so close, which shows that she has been in a really good mood recently.
Lin Yueyuan didn't care, in this disciplined and hierarchical palace, a free-spirited and unfettered personality like her would definitely be looked at strangely by others. Fortunately, she has done a good job of psychological construction, if she is outside the palace, she will never be able to endure the slightest humiliation from others.
Before leaving, she also specially asked Li Can if she was going, she put down her wild words and said that if the little marquis who had no one in her eyes also went, then she would not go, and she sternly refused to sit at the same table with him. Jiangshan is easy to change her nature, even if she wants to be a good girl, she refuses to pretend in front of him.
Father-in-law Tan was afraid that she would be angry and told the truth in a tactful tone, he was sure to invite the little marquis, but when he heard that this banquet was for her, he refused in a fit of anger, and went out of the palace alone to the July Tower in the west of the city to drink.
Hearing that Li Can was angry, Lin Yueyuan couldn't say how comfortable he was. If you don't go, I'm going to go! She laughed wildly in her heart, did not express the slightest dissatisfaction, and happily agreed.
While the banquet was not opened, Li Min did not arrive. She decided to take a look at the Tanxiang Hall seriously, because Li Tan was not in good health and was not suitable to accompany her, so she had to ask Tan Gonggong to be the guide.
Tan Gonggong is very careful in doing things, and he introduces each landscape in detail unhurriedly, which can be described as quoting scriptures, but it is not the Four Books and Five Classics and the like, but the comments of the emperors of the past dynasties on various places in the palace. She was already fast-paced, and in a moment she threw him far away, and when she looked back, there was only a black dot left.
Seeing the backyard of the palace, Lin Yueyuan was annoyed to find that the golden branch of the Chinese acacia and the stone platform epiphany were in the back garden of the Tanxiang Palace, and the turquoise wall buried in the green grass was the palace wall. I really don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain!
After a cursory tour of the palace, I came back just in time for the feast. Li Tan changed into a wide sleeved shirt with layers of ink, bamboo, lead, white flowers, and silk, and did not wear a crown on his head, but tied his long ink-splashed hair with a gold ribbon and draped it over his shoulders. This outfit is more ethereal than the majestic crown belt.
Li Min also rarely wore a well-fitting dress, and the hibiscus on her head was chic and pleasing, which matched her peony red tulle skirt today, and her round face looked jubilant. The smile that flows naturally rather than forced has increased, and occasionally I can raise my head and look directly at people.
As soon as the three of them were seated, Li Tan happily told Lin Yueyuan that her good aunt had informed her emperor uncle about her temporary stay, and her emperor uncle not only generously welcomed her, but also rewarded her with a bunch of things, and now it is estimated that she is on the boat to Shifeng Pavilion.
Lin Yueyuan ate quite aggrieved for the next whole meal, not because they were neglectful to her, but because they were too polite: during the meal, she was like a rare animal, surrounded by the two of them with all kinds of indescribable love and admiration, Li Tan gave her a dish for a while, and Li Min served her soup for a while, and there was no such treatment in her own home.
Lin Chang has lacked care since he was a child, grew up alone, and advocated independence; And Chen Ping is even more anxious about trivial matters at home all day long, and rarely gives her children excessive doting in life, and the two have the same attitude towards their children's homework, both of which are surprisingly strict. It is this strict training method that makes her and Lin Risheng not only not tainted with a trace of arrogance, but also able to quickly adapt to the poor life in the outside world after leaving home.
Although her kindness was restrained, she could not express her dissatisfaction. Lin Yueyuan gritted his teeth and thought, not only did he have to chew and swallow this meal slowly, but he didn't dare to speak loudly during the banquet, for fear that he would blow down his weak cousin and blow the thin and weak cousin next to him.
If Lin Risheng saw her so ladylike, he would definitely burst into tears of excitement. She thought amusefully, she couldn't help but miss the days in Shunan, that was hearty!
It is never her style to eat and not talk, so she searched her stomach to find various topics, and vividly told them what she had seen and heard along the way to Chang'an. And these two noble people who have never been out of the palace wall actually listened to it with relish. Li Min, in particular, excitedly hung his empty chopsticks in the air.
The three of them chatted and chatted, and they talked about Li Tan's condition, and she also asked by chance. He didn't shy away from telling him that from about four or five years old the muscles in his feet began to atrophy without warning, with intermittent breathlessness, and the condition in his feet continued to his legs. Now his right leg is almost unable to stand on his own, and what is worse is that his left leg has gradually begun to have a tendency to disease, and the most terrifying thing is that the doctors in the Tai Hospital have not yet reached a conclusion on this disease, which means that they have not even figured out what disease he is suffering from.
Lin Chang also showed him, but there was not much improvement. Lin Yueyuan's heart was so hot that he volunteered to be his treatment consultant. That night, she went to the Tai Hospital to borrow a lot of medical books, studied them behind closed doors, and after a few days, she really prescribed a few prescriptions that were approved by the Tai doctors.