Chapter 1: Returning to the Soul
I don't know how many days the snow has fallen, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of soft white, and there is no trace of green on the fine branches.
The sea of mirrors is fine, and the ice is fluttering. At noon, the sky, which had been a little cloudy, began to sprinkle again. As soon as the cold wind blew, it swept almost the entire heaven and earth.
The inn is the only bright color in this plain white, the yellow tassels under the red lanterns move with the wind, and the apricot yellow flags are rolled up and down. The door is painted with vermilion lacquer, and the four words "Huarong Inn" above are engraved like flying and moving, graceful like a dragon.
At the door of the inn, a middle-aged man wrapped in a cotton jacket stood by the set carriage and waited, stomped his feet with his neck bent, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but spit out: "This year is much colder than in previous years!" Thief God, this is going to kill people cold! ”
The little guy who took the cotton cloth and squatted on the ground to wrap the horse's feet looked up at the middle-aged man, blinked, and said with heat in his mouth: "Dad, the north is cold, I heard Sister Zhuxiang next to Aunt Gu yesterday say, then in the south, this will still be green all over the mountains!" In a dozen days, when we get there, maybe we will even have to take off the padded jacket on our bodies! ”
The middle-aged man scolded with a smile: "I know that I will slap you Sister Zhuxiang!" Just as he was about to continue, he saw a maid wearing a duck egg blue jacket skirt, with a neckline embroidered with folded branches and flowers, and a maid on her head combed on her head, walking towards this side with her sleeves folded.
The snow on the ground wet the new uppers, and the bamboo branches frowned, and their faces were a little gloomy for their age. Halfway through, she refused to leave, looked at the middle-aged man, raised her chin and shouted, "Daddy Song!" ”
The middle-aged man hurriedly greeted him, and said with a flattering smile: "Why did the bamboo branch girl come in person?" This snow is getting bigger and bigger, why don't you hold an umbrella? ”
Zhuzhi pursed his lips, looking very impatient: "A few words, holding an umbrella is troublesome." The eldest lady suddenly said that she was not in good health, and the aunt said that if you don't leave first, you should quickly lead the horse to the stable in the backyard, don't freeze the horse! ”
"I'm not leaving...... I just set up this carriage ......" Father Song was a little dissatisfied, but after looking at Zhuzhi's face, he didn't dare to say the rest of the words, and asked cautiously, "If you don't leave today, can you leave tomorrow?" ”
Zhuzhi glared at him: "How do I know if Ming'er is still gone, you are bold, you go and ask your aunt by yourself!" Then he stomped his foot, "It's a strange cold day, anyway, I've brought it to you, I'll go to the fire first!" And then he really turned around and walked back.
Father Song sighed, picked at the itchy chilblains on his fingers, and was about to turn around, when he was startled by Song Xiaohei, who came behind him, and scolded: "Kill a thousand knives, what are you doing sneakily!" ”
Song Xiaohei frowned: "Not leaving again?" ”
Father Song snorted coldly and pushed Song Xiaohei: "If you don't go, you won't go, hurry up and drive the carriage to the backyard." Then he muttered to himself, "This eldest lady has been riding a horse to hunt with the eldest young master of the Su family in previous winters, how energetic and energetic is it, why is it uncomfortable for three days this winter?" ”
In the inn, there was silence in the No. 1 room of Tianzi, and there was half a cup of tea on the round table in front of the carved bed, and there was no heat at all.
Shang Wanyan leaned in front of the window and reached out to catch the snowflakes. The capital is in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is the warmest and most prosperous place, even if it is a cold day, it has never snowed. Shang Wanyan hadn't seen snow in more than twenty years.
The heavy cotton curtain was opened, and a maid wearing a frost-colored silk jacket, covered with a snow-green armor, and combed a bun hurriedly walked in, and said happily: "Miss, my aunt said, since you are unwell, let's stay at this Huarong Inn for a few more days." ”
Seeing Shang Wanyan standing in front of the window, she was startled, and reached out to pull her, and said in her mouth: "It's freezing this day, Miss, don't stand in the wind, what if you get cold!" Being away from home is not like ...... at home."
Before the words fell, Shang Wanyan was stunned speechless, one hand froze in the middle of the road, and finally retracted. Jin Shu couldn't understand it, obviously getting along day and night, when the eldest lady woke up, why was her eyes full of coldness and strangeness when she looked at her!
Shang Wanyan closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her eyes were calm, she withdrew her hand that was frozen and began to turn red, turned around and walked to the round table and sat down, glanced at Jinshu, and asked, "Why didn't my aunt come to see me?" ”
Jin Shu breathed a sigh of relief, closed the window with his hand, the room suddenly became a little dark, and lit the oil lamp again, and then said: "Aunt Gu is infected with the wind cold, and she is taking medicine this time, so she has not come." However, the second miss wanted to come and see the young lady, but Aunt Gu said that the young lady was not feeling well and needed to rest, so she didn't let the second young lady come to trouble you! ”
Shang Wanyan snorted when she heard this, her hand under her sleeve trembled, and she was still calm on the surface: "Go and get a rhombus flower." ”
Waiting for the bronze carved diamond mirror to be placed in front of her, Shang Wanyan leaned over and looked, the woman in the diamond mirror was twelve or thirteen years old, without powder, with a circle of gauze wrapped around her forehead, with some sickness, goose egg face, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, and a small red mole on her fair and smooth cheeks.
It's her own appearance! Shang Wanyan was stunned.
She remembered that she knelt clearly outside the door of Wuweihou, and was broken by her own father with a basin of boiling water, her body was so hot that she couldn't do it, but her heart seemed to be filled with ice. I woke up two hours ago, but I appeared in this inn, looking like I was when I was young, but the maid who was waiting next to me was something I had never seen.
The most important thing is that she is obviously the second lady Shang Wanyi, but when she first woke up, she heard a grandmother call her "Wan Yan", and "Wan Yan" is her sister's name. Even this maid who has never seen her is even the eldest lady! Shang Wanyan moved her fingers, and forcibly did not ask who the "second lady" in Jinshu's mouth was.
Shang Wanyan remembered that when she was thirteen years old, her father and the right general Qin Yuanba led the army straight into the Xiongnu court, and made monstrous military exploits. General Qin Yuanba, who also had great military achievements, had to abandon his wife and children to guard the border because his name was unpleasant. Dad stayed at the border for a full twelve years, grandparents and grandmothers lived in Jindu with their second uncle, and my grandmother died of illness three years ago, so after my father became a marquis, Aunt Gu received a letter from my father and took everyone to move her family to Jindu.
Shang Wanyan lowered her eyes, not letting Jinshu see her strangeness, and asked quietly, "Where are we here?" How many schedules are there before Jindu? ”
Jin Shulisuo replied: "The front is the fox's mouth, and after the fox's mouth, it will be in Suzhou." The further south you go, the smaller the snow, and you can always get to the Wuwei Hou Mansion in time before the Chinese New Year! ”
When Shang Wanyan heard this, her pupils couldn't help but shrink, she remembered that when the Shang family's convoy arrived at the fox's mouth, they encountered bandits. Although the Shang family was born as a military general, the subordinates also know a lot of kung fu, but they can't stand this way, most of them are women and children, and when the thieves came, not only the maids and servants of the Shang family suffered from the upper and lower Thai halves, but even she herself kowtowed and lost her memory. If it weren't for the rescue of a righteous man passing by at a critical moment, I am afraid that I would have lost my life!
So she's back again? Shang Wanyan pursed her lips a little pale. No wonder she doesn't know Jinshu, she is afraid that she will also die under the knife of the bandits! But how did she become the eldest lady? Shang Wanyan was suspicious in her heart.
Then I saw a lean middle-aged woman walk in, holding a fine porcelain bowl with brown and black soup in it.
This person Shang Wanyan knew, it was Mama Shen who was with her sister-in-law. I heard that she was brought by her mother-in-law from her mother's house.
Mama Shen saw Shang Wanyan staring at a diamond glass, and a smile appeared on her face: "Even if Miss has gauze wrapped around her forehead, she is the best-looking person in the world, Aunt Gu used the best ointment for the wound on Miss's head, Miss don't worry, I promise that there will be no scars!" ”
As he spoke, he walked up to Shang Wanyan's side and asked in a low voice, "Miss, do you drink this medicine yourself, or do you have a slave to feed you?" ”
Shang Wanyan stretched out her hand to cover the rhombus mirror on the table, and reached out to take the medicine bowl: "I'll drink it myself, feed it one bite at a time, it's weird and bitter!" ”
Mama Shen nodded, with a smile on her face, and took out a plate of candied fruit like a trick: "Eat candied fruit after drinking the medicine, and ensure that Miss will be sweet to the heart!" ”
Shang Wanyan casually held the medicine bowl to her mouth, then frowned, her eyes widened, and her expression changed for a moment. Then the medicine bowl that had just reached his mouth was put back on the table.
Mother Shen's face stiffened: "Miss, this medicine should be drunk while it is hot." ”
A trace of coldness flashed in Shang Wanyan's eyes, and she turned her head to look at Shen's mother, and saw that cold sweat broke out on the other party's back, and then she turned her head with a sneer.
In my heart, there are Shang Lu and Mandala in this medicine, although the amount is not much, but it is poison in the end!