Chapter 174: A Bitter and Rainy Night
Cheng Cuiying stood in the embroidery building and looked at the scenery outside the window in a daze, she hadn't eaten much for several days, and her figure had obviously lost weight. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info saw that the wedding date was approaching, and she was locked in this embroidery building all day and completely cut off from the outside world, which made her mood extremely bad.
On this day, Kong Menglong came to visit, and Pei saw that his aunt came to the door, so he quickly ordered the maid to open the young lady's embroidery room and let the young lady come out to see Kong Gongzi.
"It's Kong Gongzi who is here, and Madame asked you to go down to see him." The maid looked at the emaciated young lady and told her the good news while unlocking the door.
"I don't want to see him." When Cui Ying heard this, she thought that she could finally escape from this cage, but the person who came was not Meng Fanchen but Kong Menglong, and her good mood suddenly dimmed. She pursed her red lips and snuggled up next to the window lattice, looking at the purple swallows flying back and forth outside the window. A long sigh from the bottom of my heart shook off a few leaves from the tree.
"Miss, I think you should take this opportunity to go out for a walk, just in time to have a good talk with Gongzi Kong, maybe ......" The maid was halfway through her words, and glanced at Cuiying with her eyes. Sure enough, the darkness in Cui Ying's eyes was swept away, and her bright eyes flashed and flashed, like stars in the night. She stared at the maid and asked hurriedly, "Perhaps?" ”
"Maybe you found out that Gongzi Kong was good, and you forgot about that Gongzi Meng." The maid said.
"Hey, how is that possible?" Cui Ying's eyes were dim again.
"Then it's good for you to go out for a walk, you have been bored in this embroidery building for so many days, and good people are going to get sick, not to mention you, Miss? If you don't take this opportunity to go out and take a walk, I'm afraid you'll be terminally ill. The maid dragged the sleeve of the young lady's coat and tried her best to persuade her.
"Nonsense, where am I sick?" Cui Ying was displeased and shook off the maid's hand.
"Look at the sad face on your face, isn't it caused by lovesickness or what?" The maid replied.
"You dead girl, you're talking nonsense there." Cui Ying blushed to the base of her neck, turned around and poked the maid's head with her index finger, and was dodged by the maid.
"Miss, just go downstairs and take a walk, I just want to go out with you too." The maid couldn't persuade the young lady, so she had to use herself as a disguise.
In fact, Cui Ying also wanted to go out for a walk, but for the sake of face, it was not easy to agree. Now the maid has built a staircase for her, and she is just borrowing the stairs to go down.
"Well, since you little hoof begs me, I'll reluctantly go out for a walk."
"That's good." The maid pressed the young lady in front of the dresser, recombed the young lady's hair, and changed into a pink dress, and then went downstairs to see Kong Menglong.
In the living room, Pei Shi was talking with his aunt-to-be, glancing at the backyard from time to time, seeing that Cui Ying finally appeared in front of her with the support of the maid, Pei Shi had a smile on his face.
Cui Ying came to her mother, greeted her mother, and then stood aside. Kong Menglong looked at Cui Ying in a pink-colored Xia dress, with a light lotus step, and a little sorrow between her eyebrows, which really made people feel pity. Cui Ying hung her head, not daring to look at the man in front of her, and only saw the pair of black court boots he was wearing out of the corner of her eye.
"Ying'er, Gongzi Kong came to see you today, so you can go out for a walk with him." Pei's heart is very happy with this future son-in-law, and hopes that her daughter will stop twisting her temperament and sing against her future husband. Seeing Cui Ying's gradually emaciated face, she was also very distressed, but she hoped to promote this family affair as soon as possible, so that a piece of her heart disease could land.
"The child obeys his mother's orders." Cui Ying not only did not object, but also happily agreed to her mother's request, which surprised Pei Shi a little. However, since her daughter agreed to go out with Kong Gongzi, there is hope that she will release her previous suspicions and turn the conflict into a jade silk.
The two of them walked in a dull way on the street, and the maid followed not far behind, Kong Menglong tried to find something to talk about, but he didn't know what to say for a while. He looked up at the sky and suddenly had an idea. He coughed twice deliberately, then cleared his throat and said, "It seems that the weather is good today." ”
Cui Ying didn't answer, just walked forward sullenly, thinking to herself, how nice it would be if she could see Meng Fanchen, and she didn't know where he was now.
Kong Menglong saw that he had nothing to say, but the other party didn't have a stubble, and he felt a little embarrassed. He took out his fan and slapped it twice on his chest to hide the awkward situation.
"Cui Ying, since the weather is so good, why don't we go and put paper kites?" Kong Menglong didn't give up and tried to get Cui Ying to speak.
"No, Gongzi Kong, just take a walk." Cui Ying was not in the mood to put the paper kite, she looked around, looking for the figure of the person in the crowd of passers-by.
Kong Menglong didn't expect that as soon as he appeared, he would touch his nose with ash. But after all, he is a person with a good family education, so he was not angry, but Yin Yin said: "It's good to call me Menglong, but it's okay to call Gongzi a part." You know, it's not long before we're going to get married. He didn't deliberately emphasize the fact that marriage was a certainty, but in Cheng Cuiying's opinion, his words seemed extremely harsh.
Yes, it won't be long before she will honor her parents' orders to marry this man who has only met a few times, and then spend a long life with him. However, she didn't love him, and she didn't dare to imagine how she would face this marriage in the distant future, and the young man in the marriage, who was both familiar and strange.
A lightning bolt was drawn from the distant sky, and after a few seconds, a "click" thunder came from the sky, and when Kong Menglong looked up at the sky again, he found that the weather that was still clear became cloudy at some point, and the lightning and thunder echoed each other, as if to blow up the sky.
"Oh no, it's going to rain." Kong Menglong hurriedly said. She helped Cheng Cuiying to turn back to Cheng's mansion, but it was too late, and the bean-sized raindrops in the sky had already fallen. The people on the street were originally quiet and comfortable, wandering and chatting by themselves, but they didn't expect that suddenly it rained heavily, and everyone panicked and ran in all directions, like headless flies.
Kong Menglong was afraid that Cui Ying would be bumped into by those people, so he hurriedly pulled Cui Ying to hide under an eaves to avoid the rain. The maid originally followed not far behind, but she was rushed by the panicked crowd and actually broke up with her aunt. She looked around, but she couldn't find her uncle and young lady, so she had to hide under a gazebo to take shelter from the rain, preparing to look for young lady and aunt after the rain stopped.
"Look at the weather, the rain can't stop for a while, or you wait here, I'll hire a sedan chair for you, right?" Seeing that Cui Ying was shivering a little from the cold, Kong Menglong planned to hire a sedan chair to carry Cui Ying back to Cheng Mansion.
"Hmm." Cui Ying nodded, her watery pink dress was wet from the rain, sticking to her body wet, and when the wind blew, it felt like she had been cut by a knife. She clasped her hands to her chest, but to no avail, the cold made her lips shiver.
Kong Menglong glanced back at Cheng Cuiying, turned around and rushed into the rain and mist. When he worked hard to find a sedan chair, he found that Cui Ying was gone.
"Mortal dust, mortal mortal dust, is that you? Wait for me, I'm Cui Ying. In the pouring rain, Cui Ying followed a man who came out of the pharmacy, shouting hoarsely.
The sound of the rain resounded like a roaring war drum on the empty streets and alleys, Meng Fanchen's galloping footsteps suddenly stopped, and his sixth sense told him that it seemed that someone was shouting at him from behind.
He turned around and followed the voice, and in the rain curtain, a woman stumbled towards him, she was soaked, her hair was disheveled, and a few strands of hair were even stuck to her delicate face. As he approached him, the woman stumbled and fell at his feet. Seeing this scene, Meng Fanchen hurriedly threw away the medicine bag in his hand, stepped forward, and helped the fallen woman up. The woman looked up at him and grinned, "Xiaofan, you finally came to see me......"
In the south of the city, in a dilapidated city god temple, Meng Fanchen took off his coat, wrung out the water, and dried it on the desk of the broken temple, and then found a tattered monk's robe from the broken temple for Cui Ying to change into. In the past, it was estimated that begging people had spent the night in this temple, and there were obvious signs of fire on the ground. Meng Fanchen searched around, and sure enough, he found some old wooden slats and some artemisia grass in the apse of the temple, and reluctantly piled these things together, and found two stones to hit sparks, so that the fire was lit.
Cui Ying huddled in front of the fire with her shoulders crossed, trying her best to pull out a smile: "Xiaofan, I asked you to propose marriage that day, why didn't you go?" The question that was buried deep in my heart was finally asked.
"......" Meng Fanchen was speechless, not knowing how to answer her question. Because, he clearly remembered that day he hid behind the wall near Cheng's mansion, watching Kong Rong's father and son pull a few carriages of dowry to Cheng's mansion to propose, he, a poor boy, although he has peerless martial arts, but how can he be worthy of a young lady of an official eunuch's family? Therefore, he could only endure the pain and leave.
"Do you know I waited for you all night? Wait until the moon rises, wait until the dawn breaks, I look through my eyes, but where are you? She muttered to herself, as if she was saying it to Meng Fanchen, and as if she was talking to herself.
Meng Fanchen choked up when he heard it, and he roared in a low voice: "Don't say it, Cui Ying, I know, I'm not worthy of you, so ...... So...... You...... Forget about me......"
"Oh, it seems that I am self-inflicted, you, Meng Fanchen, didn't want to marry me in the first place......" she lost her mind.
"No, Cui Ying, in my heart, you are like a goddess, you can only be used for worship, but you can't blaspheme......" Meng Fanchen swallowed his saliva and said solemnly.
"Haha, who wants to be a goddess, I just want to be your wife, accompany you day and night, and live all my life." She scoffed.
"I'm afraid, I can't give you the happiness you want......" Meng Fanchen lowered his neck, not daring to look at Cui Ying's eyes. In front of others, he has always been confident, but in front of Cheng Cuiying, he always feels that he is inferior to her, it may be that Pei's cold words to him have polished his self-esteem, or it may be that Cuiying's noble status separates the distance between them, in short, he can't put himself at the same height as Cuiying to look at their feelings, so the love between them must have no ending.