Chapter 182: Retelling on the Peach Blossom River
Duanyue held the letter in her hand and was stunned for a moment. She rubbed the letter paper www.biquge.info felt the roughness on it and the faint aroma of ink, and wanted to crumple the paper into a ball and smash it on the ground. But just as he wanted to exert his hand, he hesitated to stop his movements, carefully folded it, and put it back in the envelope.
She sat on the edge of the bed, her head resting gently on the bedpost, and had hoped for a good night's sleep, but now she could only sleep in fear. Duanyue took off the hair ornaments on her head in a dashing manner, so as not to hurt herself. She threw herself on the bed and wrapped herself in the quilt and fell asleep in style, without even taking off her coat.
By the time Jingyan opened the door and came in again, it was already sunset. She estimated that Duanyue should be up, but when she opened the door, she found that it was pitch black and the candles had not been lit. Hearing the sound of faint breathing in the darkness, Jingyan sighed helplessly, what time has it been, Duanyue is still sleeping.
"County Lord, County Lord." Jing Yan shook Duanyue's shoulder slightly. "It's time to get up!"
"What time is it?" Duanyue rubbed her eyes tiredly, stretched out on the bed and stretched her whole body, she squinted and yawned comfortably.
Jing Yan raised his head and glanced at the moonlight outside the window, and replied respectfully at Duanyue. "It's time. The county lord didn't eat lunch, and he had to eat some for dinner. ”
As soon as she heard Jingyan say the time, Duanyue hurriedly bounced up from the bed. She looked out the window in surprise, and sure enough, it was pitch black, and a crescent moon hung high in the sky, like a smiling face.
Duanyue held her forehead with her hand in annoyance, thinking of taking a break for a while, but she didn't expect that so many hours had passed. She sighed, quickly jumped out of bed, walked quickly to the dresser, and quickly picked up the eyebrow pencil to get the thrush. Jingyan looked at her as if she was going to make up, and felt very strange.
"The county lord doesn't have to bother, he just eats a meal for his family and dresses up." Saying that, Jing Yan pursed his lips and smiled, feeling that Duanyue was paying too much attention to his image.
Duanyue looked at himself in the bronze mirror intently, and he didn't have time to care about Jingyan, so he just explained lightly. "You help me go and talk to my sister-in-law, I won't eat in the house at night, I have an appointment with someone else, and I want to go out."
"Huh?! The county lord didn't eat dinner anymore? Then the lady must be sad! Jing Yan frowned, crossed her waist and dared to count Duanyue, which made Duanyue wonder whose side this girl was on.
She turned from her chair and folded her hands in pleading for a cigarette. "Please, this is a very important appointment for me, and it's hard to refuse. Just help me and my sister-in-law talk about it! ”
"The county lord does this every time." Jing Yan pouted and muttered quietly for a while, but finally compromised. "Okay, okay, just this once, not for example!" After that, she reluctantly turned around and went out, she should have gone to report to Lu Qingyi.
Duanyue leaned out and saw Jingyan stepping out of the courtyard, so a smile immediately bloomed on his face. She happily opened the jewelry box, wondering which hairpin to wear, and suddenly her eyes saw a silver hairpin, and she was inexplicably stunned. This was given to Duanyue by Yan Xinghui before. She picked up the silver hairpin, looked at it carefully for a while, and then put it on her head without hesitation.
She carried the lantern in her hand, afraid that others would find out her traces, so she sneaked out the back door. It's already more than halfway through the unitary hour, and there are a lot fewer people on the street, except for those who go to the wine shop Hualou to have fun, they have already gone home.
Duanyue walked alone on the bank of the Peach Blossom River, and the faint warm light in her hand was very dazzling. She turned her head back and forth, and finally saw a tall figure standing under a large peach tree in front of her, and her heart tightened and she immediately walked quickly.
"Waited, right?" Duanyue's face looked very gentle under the warm orange light. She raised her eyes and looked at Yan Xinghui's cold face a little timidly, and she didn't know what was wrong, she was beating very hard.
Yan Xinghui heard her voice, and subconsciously turned his head and nodded slightly at her. "It's good that I didn't wait long." After that, he looked at Duanyue and sighed.
"Today, the emperor's decree has come down, and you must have received it too. It's just that I still mean that, and I want you to take back the words of marriage. If you go to talk to the emperor, he will definitely consider it carefully. ”
Duanyue actually expected Yan Xinghui to say this, although he thought "what if" in his heart, he still had to accept the reality. She bowed her head sadly and looked at the stones on the ground. Duanyue really didn't understand why Yan Xinghui was repeatedly reluctant to accept this family affair, in terms of background, he could marry him, he should obviously laugh.
"Why?" Duanyue bit her lower lip, and her voice trembled unconsciously. "You have to give me a reason, you can't let me ask the emperor for the emperor's order and now ask the emperor to take it back for no reason, right? Wouldn't that treat the emperor as a monkey? ”
"My reason is simple, I don't like you." Yan Xing thought about it and felt that what he said was too extreme, so he hurriedly added an explanation. "No...... I mean, I don't have that kind of affection for you, it's just the relationship between ordinary friends. ”
The sound of insects chirping in the night was still ringing here, and the two of them stood on the riverside, and the fish in the water swam happily to stir up the ripples of the waves. Duanyue kicked the stone in front of her toes and muttered in a low voice.
"What is the reason for this? Your father and mother didn't love each other when they got married, but they did. Duanyue raised her face and looked at Yan Xinghui somehow showing a smile, and even her eyebrows were bent when she smiled. These curved eyebrows and eyes are like the moon in the sky, but they are more polished.
"As long as I like you!"
Yan Xinghui listened to the nonsense that Duanyue said, and he was even more angry, feeling that Duanyue was very unreasonable. He couldn't understand why Duanyue wanted to follow him with all his heart, even if he said cruel things like this, Duanyue was still like a dogskin plaster, he couldn't tear it off or kick it away.
He looked at Duanyue with a serious face, and his voice suddenly sank a little. "Duanyue, what I said was never a joke. If you won't be happy with me, I'll spread it out and tell you about it. If you follow me, you will only be a widow for the rest of your life! ”
"I said, liking you is my own business. Everyone has their own selfish intentions, let alone me, a mortal. When my sister-in-law married my brother, she was just wishful thinking, so she asked Princess Sheng An for help. Aren't the two of them also Qin Se and Ming now, happy? ”
Duanyue put down the lantern in his hand, and quickly stepped forward and grabbed the corner of Yan Xinghui's clothes, his eyes full of pleading. "I admit that this selfishness is indeed my fault, but ...... If you don't try, how will you know I'm not for you? ”
Listening to her crooked reasoning, Yan Xing waved Duanyue's hand away with a wave of his big hand, and took a few steps back, as if the spike had pierced Duanyue's heart.
"You're unreasonable, I didn't want to hurt you. I already have someone I like, and I should have gotten to the point of talking about marriage, but you suddenly appeared. Yan Xing replied and sighed. Duanyue, originally with the friendship between you and me, I didn't want to make such a stiff scene. Since you are determined to marry me, there is really no way. I just hope you are doing it for yourself! ”
Before the words fell, Yan Xinghui turned around and left without mercy. The fluttering clothes also took Duanyue's heart away.
She stood alone in the shadow of the peach tree, and touched the silver hairpin in her hair a little lonely. He never noticed that she was wearing this hairpin that she had given to him today, as if he had never noticed Duanyue's affection without beginning and end.