42. Resentment in the song
If this is really the case, Mei Rui has not seen Lu Zhi for five days, and the spring is approaching, so he should be busy with the affairs of the spring festival.
Mei Rui smiled, "This is not lovesickness. ”
She has seen the lovesickness, such as the scene when A-Niang looked at Chang'an day and night, which is much more unforgettable than now, as long as she and Lu Zhi want to see, they can look at it after a few doors, and it is considered lovesickness.
Huaizhu stood up and pushed the window, the leisurely wind slowly blew the back of her hand pressed on the window lattice, Mingguang armor jumped into her eyes, and Huaizhu sighed: "Isn't that Commander Zhao?" What did he come here to do? ”
Mei Rui walked over and looked, sure enough, it was Zhao Chun, still high-spirited, I didn't see the so-called lost soul, Mei Rui snorted lightly: "That's really it." ”
"What are you talking about?" Huaizhu didn't understand Mei Rui's words, so she asked, but Mei Rui turned around and went out, and Huaizhu shouted behind her, "Ruirui, where are you going?" ”
Mei Rui turned around and pointed outside, "Commander Zhao came to look for me in person, I don't want to see him, let's find a secluded place to talk to him before he attracts the attention of others." ”
She took a step and stepped out of the door, looking at the empty doorway with a sneer, and muttered, "How did she know that Commander Zhao was here to look for her?" ”
Looking from the window again, Mei Rui had already approached Zhao Chun, and when the figure like smoke and rain and mountains and rivers met the eyes of the young commander, Zhao Chun's eyes lit up obviously, her hands folded in front of her, and her eyes looked at him softly: "Is there something wrong with the commander coming here?" ”
He almost lost his temper, forcibly drew back his thoughts, and looked at her fixedly: "I have explained that matter to the Queen Mother, I said that I didn't want to, but the Queen Mother looked at it but didn't believe it, did she feel sorry for you?" ”
After all, the divorce is a big deal, and he bothered to explain it to King Xiang, but King Xiang was just angry with him, but he didn't know that he didn't want to fight at all, and he detained her by his side every day, relatively speechless, no matter how deep his affection was, he couldn't withstand such consumption.
Mei Rui smiled calmly, "This matter is not good for me, but I should thank the Commander for letting the Commander come forward for me." As he spoke, he was about to bow down, but Zhao Chun's eyes were quickly rotten, he wrinkled his brows, with thin anger: "Do you have to see me like this?" ”
In addition to anger, there was also some loss, "Didn't you say it before, you will sincerely treat me as a brother." ”
His thoughts are well known, and Mei Rui said to him: "If the commander really treats me with the same heart as he treats my sister, I will naturally respect the commander as a brother." Not wanting to entangle him too much on this, Mei Rui asked directly, "Is there anything important that my brother came to look for me?" ”
Zhao Chun then remembered this important matter, he touched his forehead, "Do you still have an aunt in Jiangnan?" ”
Mei Rui bowed, "There is indeed such a person, why do you suddenly ask like this?" ”
Zhao Chun laughed, "I just think I have a lot of fate with you, I met you on Chang'an Street before, and this time I met your aunt again." ”
"What?" Mei Rui frowned, a little incredulous, "My aunt? ”
"Yes, she was asking around the Zhao family on the street, and I happened to meet her," Zhao Chun grinned and was very angry, "I asked her what was going on with the Zhao family, and she said that there was a niece who entered Beijing back then, and she came to look for this niece." ”
Mei Rui rubbed her forehead, "So, she told you that she was my aunt, right?" ”
Seeing Zhao Chun nodded, Mei Rui frowned, and asked again, "What is she like, you can tell me about it." ”
Zhao Chun thought about it for a while, raised his hand and gestured it to his chest, "Oh, it's about such a tall stature, with a flat nose and small eyes, a bent waist, and there seems to be a wound on the right eyebrow, it doesn't look like your aunt, it's far less beautiful than you." ”
That ** is really her aunt, Mei Rui is very curious, so many years have passed, how did her aunt find herself, and she also knew that she came to Chang'an to find the Zhao family, the past is unbearable, her face is a little cold: "Then where is she now?" ”
"I will temporarily settle them in the Zhao Mansion, and I came today to tell you, see if you are idle, if you are free, you will go out of the palace with me, this aunt of yours seems to have something very important to come to you."
She felt a headache, but it didn't seem appropriate to come from afar in person, so she looked back at the sky: "I really have to be free today, so let's go with my brother." But please wait a while, brother, and I'll go back and explain to Huaizhu. ”
Zhao Chun hummed and told her to go and come back quickly. After Mei Rui returned to the house, Huaizhu pounced, and before she could speak, she pestered and asked, "Rui Rui, what is Commander Zhao looking for you?" ”
Mei Rui sighed, "My aunt came to Chang'an to look for me." ”
"Your aunt?" Huaizhu's eyes widened, "Is that the aunt who treated you very badly in the past, and later forcibly occupied your family's land deed?" ”
Mei Rui nodded helplessly, "yes." Huaizhu was a little angry, her thin eyebrows were twisted together, and she said indignantly: "Then she still has the face to see you!" This time, do you know that you have a face in front of your majesty now, and you rushed up to find you. ”
Huaizhu clenched his fists and said viciously, "Rui Rui, you can't be soft-hearted!" ”
"I'll save it." Mei Rui smiled gently, and she held Huaizhu's hand back, "I wasn't back then, and now I'm afraid no one can deceive me." I will definitely come back before the palace ban, and if the guards send someone to look for me, there is no need to hide it, just tell him in general. ”
Nodding, Huaizhu sent Mei Rui out, and did not forget to tell him: "You must be careful, I will think that your aunt is not a good person, don't be taken advantage of by her, she can't give anything she wants, do you know?" ”
"Yes." Mei Rui made Huaizhu settle down, put on the hat and went out, Zhao Chun was still in place, looked at her with the hat on, raised his eyebrows and said, "You are really cautious." ”
"But to avoid unnecessary trouble," her jaw loomed through the tulle, delicate as jade, "and ask my brother to lead the way." ”
When I return to Zhao Mansion after many years, it is inevitable that there will be a sense that things are wrong with people. Zhao Chun looked calm in front, and asked the attendant while straightening his cuffs: "Can the master and the lady be there?" ”
The attendant chuckled his waist and said, "It's not in the house." ”
"That's good," Zhao Chun turned back to Mei Rui and said, "I know that you don't like to see my Aya A-Niang, it just so happens that they are not here, you can rest assured." ”
Mei Rui laughed, "Brother, where is this, why didn't I like to see Zhao Shangshu, my brother made it up himself, and Mo Lai is on me." ”
In fact, Zhao Shangshu didn't want to see her, in the past, he always felt that she wanted to get close to the Zhao family, and he couldn't wait to bring her into the palace earlier, but when she really entered the palace, Zhao Shangshu's always stereotyped face showed a look of relief.
It's okay if you can't see it, so as not to be suspicious again, Mei Rui followed Zhao Chun inside, a few in and out, and went around to the Yuxiang Pavilion, Mei Rui looked up at the three big characters from Zhao Chun's handwriting, and glanced at him: "Brother did it on purpose?" ”
"Even if that's the case," Zhao Chun didn't hide it, "you also lived here in the past, and the three words Yuxiang Pavilion were mentioned by me the year before last, and it makes sense to settle your aunt's family here, but," he turned to look at her, "I don't think you seem to be very happy." ”
Mei Rui was reluctant to talk to Zhao Chun about these things, so she said lightly and didn't carry her skirt inside, and it happened that the woman in cloth came out of the house with the man's ears twisted, and scolded viciously: "Tell me about you, it's not good to read books and test your reputation in the town, and when you come to Chang'an, you will drill into those kilns, you are going to anger me!" ”
"Do you still need to take the test for fame? My uncle was so good at studying back then, and he didn't see anything to do in the end," the man said lazily, "Besides, didn't you let people find their old friends?" ”
"Who knows how she is now, if she is a palace maid in the palace, it is better not to look for it."
Mei Rui looked at the farce in front of her calmly, but Zhao Chun felt a little embarrassed, and he coughed: "Madame, what are you doing?" ”
The movement of the woman's hand paused, looked sideways, the expression on her face froze, the beauty stood there with her hands folded, the spring breeze and autumn rain became a foil, and she shouted to the woman with a blank face: "Aunt Jingwan." ”
Mei Jingwan looked much older than before, Mei Rui remembered that her aunt's family was still very wealthy, but the husband and wife were stingy and didn't know how to treat themselves leniently, but they used her cousin Sui Yuan to be lavish and spend money like running water. Sui Yuan is also a good look, but now it is blue and black, it can be seen that he is used to lighting the lamp and boiling oil, but it is not for studying, he is wearing a robe of Huajin, and when he sees Zhao Chun, he does not say hello, he only stands there and yawns lazily, and looks at Mei Rui, and smiles in a stream: "Like the old cousin." ”
He shouted as he should, and it was very smooth, causing Zhao Chun to frown, and Mei Rui answered him lightly: "Cousin." ”
She didn't even bother to shout Sui Yuan's words, Sui Yuan didn't care at all, hugged her arms, and looked at her unscrupulously: "My cousin seems to have been doing well in recent years, have you ever missed your cousin?" ”
"No, I didn't." Mei Rui didn't even bother to move her eyebrows, and looked directly at Mei Jingwan, "Listen to Brother Yuanliang, my aunt has traveled as far as Chang'an this time, what is the matter with me?" ”
Mei Jingwan sighed, "In vain, do you remember to call me an aunt, there hasn't been any news over the years, and you really take my aunt to heart?" ”
"My aunt hasn't necessarily taken me to heart, and the kindness I took in at the beginning has already been repaid with a piece of land deed, and my aunt still wants me to remember my aunt in my heart?"
She has a very stable temperament, and she spit out thorny words gently, Mei Jingwan was choked by her and her face turned red, Zhao Chun didn't expect that there would be such things in the meantime, these were all things that Mei Rui had never mentioned to him, he twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Sister Rui, what's going on?" ”
"It's nothing, it's just an old thing."
She said plainly, who would have thought that she would be so depressed that she would go to Chang'an with a letter, Zhao Chun was silent, her fists clenched, Mei Jingwan saw that the situation was wrong, and raised her voice and said: "The title deed is clearly given to me voluntarily, how did it become a reward?" It's your dilapidated house, I dislike it when I take it, what's the use of me! ”
Mei Rui didn't bother to quarrel with her, so she asked directly: "So my aunt came to Chang'an to talk to me about this matter?" ”
Jing Wan blurted out, "Naturally not." ”
"Then please tell my aunt something quickly," she said with a faint look of impatience between her eyebrows, "The palace has been busy lately, and I have to hurry back." ”
Before Mei Jingwan could react, Sui Yuan burst out laughing, and he glanced at his mother gloatingly: "Look, I don't want to listen to you, this matter is still avoided, I don't think you are embarrassed." ”
After saying that, he left directly, Zhao Chun glanced at Mei Rui: "I'll avoid it first." And he left.
Only Jing Wan and Mei Rui were left in the courtyard, Mei Rui waited patiently for a while, and finally spoke again: "Everyone is scattered, is my aunt still unwilling to speak?" ”
She looked at the sky, "If you don't want to, then I'll go back to the palace." I once knew how my aunt treated my aunt after my father's death, for the sake of flesh and blood, and for the sake of you who pasted a coffin book for my father, I will still reluctantly listen to what my aunt wants to ask me, but whether I can do it or not, whether I can do it or not, is up to me, so please don't expect too much from my aunt. ”
Mei Rui folded her hands, her expression was light, "Please aunt have some self-knowledge." ”