Chapter 16: Yan Xinghui
Cuiguo watched Duanyue go out with Mrs. Yu, and suddenly became a little at a loss. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info In contrast, Duanyue couldn't help herself happily, she sat on the carriage with Mandarin Yuan and Mrs. Yu, and the bumps from time to time meant that she was getting closer and closer to her destination.
"Why is the county lord so excited?" Mrs. Yu watched Duanyue lying on the side of the bed all the time, although she looked out through that little gap, she was also enjoying it.
"Hmm!" She nodded, indicating that she was very happy at the moment. "I've been in Chang'an for so long, this is the first time I've gone out!" I wanted to come to Murong Mansion for almost half a month, but I was bored in the mansion every day and never went out. Although he had been to the palace, he came back after meeting the old emperor in a hurry. What this Chang'an looks like can only be explored by the window in the carriage.
Mrs. Yu was taken aback when she heard Duanyue's words. "You haven't been out yet?" Her eyes widened in disbelief. Duanyue nodded helplessly to express her grievances.
"Won't General Murong let you go out?"
"Not exactly," Duanyue sat down with her knees folded, and she thought carefully about her uncle's words at that time. "My uncle said that I am still young, and now I am the lord of Shi'an, so there are inevitably some people with evil intentions staring at me. He and my brother couldn't always be by my side, so they wouldn't let me go out alone. Mrs. Yu listened to her and nodded in agreement. I secretly thought to myself that although Murong Chui looked like a big five or three coarse, it was rare to be so careful. That is, to treat Brother Shen's children with such patience.
When she thought of Shen Changfeng, her gaze softened. In fact, Duanyue's eyebrows and eyes were very similar to her father's, and Mrs. Yu's thoughts had already drifted to her youth when she looked at her eyes. Yu Yuanyuan looked at her mother's expression and became ethereal, so she shook her sleeves and asked in a coquettish voice. "What are you thinking, it's okay to tell the mandarin duck?"
She looked down at her child, and the pear vortex was shallow enough to hold the water. "My mother looked at the county lord and felt that her eyes were very similar to her father." Mrs. Yu said to Duanyue. "Especially the mole under the eyebrow bone, which is exactly the same as your father." Duanyue subconsciously reached out and touched the mole under her eyebrow bone, with a slight convex feeling, showing her sense of existence.
"Mrs. Yu knows my father?" She asked secretly excitedly.
Mrs. Yu's lips opened slightly, and she recalled the past with a smile on her face. "Your father probably went to the military camp at the age of Marquis Ning, and it was at that time that he met General Murong and my brother. The three of them are of the same age, and they are all from the world, so the relationship is naturally good, and I also know your father because of my brother's relationship. Your father may have been born specifically for generals, he was extremely good at war, and within a few years he was promoted from guard to commander. Later......"
"What happened next?" Duanyue and Mandarin Duck both asked curiously.
"Later, it was Brother Shen who made meritorious service and became a general, and he invited himself to go to the border pass and never returned to Beijing." Mrs. Yu said this sentence with a wry smile. Although it was just a simple summary, Duanyue faintly felt that she was hiding a lot of things, such as why her father invited herself to the border.
After three rounds, the carriage also arrived in the south of the city. Due to the fact that there were too many people in front, the carriage could not go in, so the three of them had to walk on foot. Duanyue is now on the rise, even if she is asked to walk home, she will not give up.
Mrs. Yu was holding one in one hand, followed by a maid from Yu's house. Duanyue is crowded everywhere you look, and there are many gorgeously dressed people in the crowd, which shows how attractive the temple fair of this imperial city is. Follow and walk forward, and this can be regarded as really entering the temple fair. On both sides of the road are makeshift stalls topped with bright red cloth. Two papier-mΓ’chΓ© lanterns are hung high in each stall, showing how prosperous and gorgeous the scene is at night. It's just a pity that Duanyue came during the day, and I can't see that beautiful scene.
Mandarin Duck's gaze was attracted by the sugar gourd in the distance, and she asked Duanyuedao. "Satsuki, do you want to eat sugar gourds?" Seeing Duanyue nodded, she hurriedly raised her head and smiled coquettishly at her wife. "Mother, Xiaoyue and I both want to eat sugar gourds, so let's buy them! Just buy it! Her soft voice made Mrs. Yu bow down, and she turned her face sideways to the maid behind her. Go buy two bunches of sugar gourds. β
After saying that, he lowered his head and pretended to be angry at the two. "You can't eat too much, this will give you a toothache." Mandarin duck wrinkled her little face and gasped, it seemed that she had learned the pain of this toothache. Duanyue snorted, raised her head, and said confidently. "I'm not afraid! I can eat the sugar gourd stuck in the peddler's pole! β
"Okay, the county lord is the most powerful." Mrs. Yu praised her very dishearteningly, and the sugar gourd bought by the maid was distributed to the two. The two little girls hurriedly stuffed it into their mouths when they got the sugar gourd, gobbling it up without the appearance of a lady, and Mrs. Yu didn't blame it, so the two of them did it.
Along the way, Mrs. Yu responded to all kinds of requests from the two, and the maid she was carrying was already full of things, and her face was forcefully deformed. Mrs. Yu felt sorry for the maid's struggle, so she politely suggested that the two of them get up. "I'm tired of walking around this way, why don't you go find a teahouse to rest for a while?"
After all, they are two children, and they are already a little tired from playing along the way, and they are still in winter, and the noses of both of them are red from the wind outside. "Well, just listen to you, madame." Duanyue rubbed her little hands, trying to warm them up. The excitement at the beginning was already crushed by the temperature.
The teahouse that Mrs. Yu was looking for was obviously a frequent visit, and the little maid who greeted the guests at the door saw that it was Mrs., and immediately raised a smile and flatteringly welcomed her into the store. "Mrs. Yu is also here to catch the temple fair? It's a coincidence, Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Liu, and Mrs. Chen have all come with the young master and Miss together, in the private room in the backyard, can you go? β
"That's a coincidence," Mrs. Yu smiled as she listened to the names of these people. These are the ladies who come and go on a daily basis. She handed the little girl a silver melon seed and said. "Then you go and make an announcement, I don't want to go in so abruptly." The little guy got the benefit, and immediately nodded and walked briskly to the backyard. "They've brought their own children, so you have to get along."
Mandarin Yuan's face froze inadvertently, she lowered her head abruptly and did not speak, and Duanyue agreed in a loud and cheerful voice. The little guy soon returned, and with a wave of his hand, he led the three of them to the backyard.
This small teahouse turned out to be a unique cave. The front is just an ordinary teahouse, which is very noisy and lively, but once you walk to the backyard, it is planted with green bamboo, and there are rolling green waves as far as the eye can see, which is full of the atmosphere of literati and inkmen, and it also sweeps away the secular atmosphere of the teahouse vestibule. Walking down the path and turning a few corners, I saw a low room, and the voice of a woman could be heard from it.
The little guy opened the door with a "bang", and there were three middle-aged women with dignified appearances sitting inside. They were also full of surprise when they saw Mrs. Yu, and immediately got up to greet her. The mandarin duck, who had been silent since the beginning, pulled Mrs. Yu's sleeve and said softly. "Mother, can I play outside for a while?" Mrs. Yu glanced into the room and saw that there were no children except for the three ladies. She thought about it for a while, and estimated that the mandarin duck wanted to play with them, so she readily agreed. Duanyue saw that the mandarin duck didn't go in, of course she didn't want to be bored alone, so she also followed the mandarin duck to play in the bamboo forest outside.
"Didn't Mrs. Yu say that there are other children, why haven't I seen any of them?" Duanyue searched around, but the bamboo forest was too lush to find anything.
"What are you looking for them to do, can't you just play with me?" Mandarin Yuan's eyes were erratic, and she asked Duanyue with a slight complaint. Duanyue hurriedly shook her head and said that she didn't mean that. However, Duanyue is a sensitive person, and she immediately felt the uneasiness of the mandarin mandarin duck.
"Why don't you come into the house?" Duanyue turned to her sideways and asked.
Mandarin Yuan thought for a moment and said. "You don't want to listen to the conversation of these ladies." She kicked the stones at her feet and said sullenly. Duanyue thought about it, and what she said was not unreasonable. Anyway, for her, the stuffy room is enough!
Suddenly, a child's voice came from a distance, and the mandarin duck subconsciously turned around to leave. Duanyue was confused for a while, she didn't understand why the mandarin duck turned her head and ran, so she could only hold the mandarin duck's hand and ask loudly. "Where are you going?"
As soon as his body sank, the mandarin duck couldn't run. She turned her head to look at Duanyue who was puzzled with a look of chagrin, her mouth opened and closed and she really didn't know what to say, so she could only look at Duanyue helplessly. When the group of children heard the sound here, they hurriedly ran to check, and when they saw that it was Yu Yuanyuan, they immediately raised a sly smile.
"I just said that I heard the name of Miss Yu's family, and you still said no!" The first playful girl wearing a pink skirt and a bun pointed at Yu Yuanyuan and smiled coquettishly at the little friend next to her. She was followed by three girls of different ages, but all of them were older than Duanyue and Mandarin Ducks. Duanyue saw their brightly dressed appearances, could it be the children of those ladies?
Yu Yuanyuan found that she couldn't escape, she turned around and stared timidly at the four people in front of her, watching them approach her little by little.
"Yu Yuanyuan, why are you again?" Among the four girls, the woman in blue looked at the mandarin duck with disgust, her eyes swept over Duanyue standing on the side, and sneered. "Yo? You've even found a friend? The girl in blue said that, and the other three all laughed. In this way, Duanyue can see that these four people are not good stubble.
The alien character in her bones began to stir. Duanyue held her head high, but she was not as tall as the four people opposite, and she suddenly seemed much weaker. "You four keep your mouths clean, and you won't be afraid of the ladies in the house coming out."
"I didn't expect this cheap girl to find a helper." The other woman scoffed.
The pink-clothed girl who got up first walked in front of Duanyue with a lonely expression. "If you're a young lady, I'd advise you to stay away from this girl. Don't be deceived by her, don't look dignified, in fact, she-" Before the girl could say anything, the mandarin duck pounced as if she was crazy, and immediately threw the girl in pink to the ground, causing her to scream in pain.
Duanyue was surprised that it was the mandarin duck who shot first!? She was still stunned and didn't react, and the other three girls immediately pounced on the mandarin duck smartly, and their hands were not light or heavy, when they heard a violent sound hitting people. Duanyue is also behind the door, how can he stand by.
She rushed forward and pushed away the person next to the mandarin duck, only to feel that she had been kicked several times in the confusion, and the last blow kicked her to the ground. Sure enough, it is impossible to fight two against four. After Duanyue fell to the ground, the two of them immediately came over and held her down to prevent her from getting up. During this period, there was no shortage of beatings.
The mandarin duck was already thin, and it was firmly caught by a person and couldn't move. The girl in pink stood up angrily, dusted off the mud stains on her clothes, and slapped the mandarin duck backhand, and immediately her face was swollen high. The girl stared at her, and her delicate face was distorted together, extremely ugly. She said sharply to the mandarin duck. "You won't let me say it?" She sneered and turned her gaze to Duanyue, who was pinned to the ground. "You're afraid she'll find out, so she'll stop being friends with you, right? Then I'm going to tell her! β
The woman in pink walked to Duanyue's side, squatting down and gently caressing Duanyue's face. "I don't think you know, do you? That Yu Yuanyuan said that she was the young lady of the Yu family, but in fact, she was a kind of girl in a warm house. She also turned her head from time to time to admire the iron blue face of the mandarin duck, as if this could give her pleasure. Her mother isn't even a greenhouse girl, she's just a lowly subordinate! β
"You talk nonsense!" The mandarin duck had already burst into tears, and two strings of tears like pearls fell to the ground. She seemed to have been hit violently, her whole body was trembling, and she kept shouting "nonsense" at the girl in pink. When the girl saw that she still had the strength to fight back, her heart was even more angry, and she stood up to teach her a lesson.
Duanyue took advantage of this gap and immediately stood up and got rid of the two restraints beside her. She gritted her teeth and threw the girl down with all her strength. I came from Broken Leaf City to Chang'an in Duanyue, and I have gone through so many life and death difficulties, I don't know how many times I have wandered around the ghost gate, how can I be knocked down by such a powerless little girl!
It's just a pity that the girl in pink, not long after she got up from the ground, screamed and fell to the ground again, this time with her face on the ground. The other girls saw that their companions were in trouble, and immediately surrounded them, but this time it was not as gentle as just now. Every punch and kick is real, and this girl is very scheming. They were all hit on the body, and their faces were white and clean, without any scars.
Duanyue only felt a pain in her body, and she could only hold her head and be at a loss. A young man's voice came from nowhere, and she half-opened her squinted eyes and saw a young man running in the distance. He saw Duanyue and Mandarin Duck suffering, and hurriedly ran over and pushed the girls away.
After all, boys are more powerful than girls. Except for the girl in pink who was already on the ground, the other three were all pushed to the ground. Duanyue lay on her back, her eyes meeting the young man's eyes.
"Who are you?" Duanyue asked.
"My name is Yan Xinghui." The boy replied.