Chapter 50: The Beginning of the Lantern (2)
I really went back to Luoyang. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info She remembered that at that time, in the empty courtyard of the Cen family, several peach trees stood proudly. One day, the carved wooden door was slowly pushed open, and she poked her head out holding the lotus flower, and her eyes circled in the quiet hall, and finally settled on a small porcelain vase in the corner. Zhan Yan smiled, ran over, inserted the delicate lotus flower in his hand into the porcelain bottle, raised it and looked at it again and again, until he was satisfied, then turned around and went out, pondering to return to the lotus pond to decorate some water.
As soon as she walked out of the door, she suddenly saw another girl with pigtails, about two years older than her, wearing beautiful embroidered clothes, standing in the courtyard looking around, her eyes were shining, like stars in the sky.
"What are you doing here?" Cen Kexuan paused with the porcelain vase in his hand and spoke out angrily. The pigtailed girl turned around, blinked her eyes, and her voice was extremely clear: "I came to find Brother Zifei, where did he go?" Cen Kexuan glared at her, and his tone was very unpolite: "My brother is not here." His mouth also pouted, revealing a very unwelcome look.
The pigtailed girl was stunned for a while, and suddenly smiled: "But Xuan you always lie, are you ashamed?" As he spoke, he pointed his finger at his face, with a smile in his eyes, "The fourth brother told me yesterday that Brother Zifei is not allowed to go out today, and he was punished for copying books at home." ”
Yes. She stole the family's tribute to her ancestors, and was discovered by Master Li, and her brother only cared about taking the blame for her and was punished for copying books. She often made mistakes, and it was not uncommon for her brother to confess her sins and be punished. Cen Kexuan was so choked by her that he couldn't find the words to refute, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "This is not your home, why do you run here every day." ”
"My mother told my father last night that when I grow up, she will marry me to Brother Zifei, which I secretly heard." She tilted her head and thought about it, her eyes smiling into crescents, "In this case, this will be my home in the future." She said, her face showing some joy, as if she had become the little master of the Cen family's mansion.
"Not really!" Cen Kexuan's voice was raised in vain, his face flushed with anger, and his whole body trembled, "This is my home!" My brother won't marry you! I won't let you live in my house! The little girl's territory was suddenly invaded by outsiders, as if she was under great threat, and she suddenly became furious.
"How not?" The pigtailed girl was also unhappy, her chin was raised high, "Mother, they all said that, can't it be that they are talking nonsense?" ”
Cen Kexuan had nothing to say, her mouth was pouted, her eyes were rolling in her sockets, she held back her tears, snorted at her, and hurriedly ran away. Back in the house, a person was lying on the small bed, tears already flowing down. Although she still doesn't quite understand what it is to get married, she vaguely knows that in the future, her own home will be taken away, and her brother will also give her kindness to others.
After a while, Cen Zifei, who appeared at some point, came to the door, her ears were very sharp, and she recognized his footsteps, and her crying was immediately amplified, quite like the mountains were shaking. Cen Zifei was so frightened that he was so frightened that he hurriedly knocked on the door and shouted, "Kexuan, why are you crying-" Cen Kexuan cried even louder.
"Kexuan, my brother has a gift for you, can you come out and take a look?"
"Go away! Leave me alone! Cen Kexuan ignored him, lost his temper, grabbed the vase beside him and threw it towards the door. Unexpectedly, the door had not been closed, Cen Zifei happened to push the door open, and with this smash, the vase directly grazed the corners of his forehead. Cen Zifei snorted, barely stood firmly, and after taking half a step back, he felt a sharp pain in the corner of his forehead, and immediately covered it tightly with his hand.
Red blood flowed down his fingers, dropping to the ground one by one, shockingly. Cen Kexuan was stunned, and before he could react, the servants at home had already seen it, and his tone was sharp and almost changed: "Hey, young master!" "Young Master, what's going on!" Immediately afterwards, a bunch of servants rushed over when they heard the sound, and surrounded Cen Zifei in the middle in a panic.
Cen Kexuan stood aside and sobbed and cried, but after all, he didn't step forward, his mouth opened, but he couldn't make a sound. She vaguely saw the figure of the servant, and saw that on Cen Zifei's other hand, a small wooden puppet was tightly held in the palm of his hand, as if to prevent it from staining his own blood, he tried to hide the little puppet behind him, like protecting a treasure.
It was a doll that he had spent a whole month carving, and with one stroke of the knife, he carved his sister holding a lotus flower and smiling to the fullest. It was to compensate for not painting a satisfactory portrait for her, and the doll was lost to her in an unknown corner in the chaos that followed.
For the next month, Cen Zifei's forehead was covered with a white gauze, and every time she cautiously asked him if it hurt, he just smiled and said it didn't hurt. But Cen Kexuan, who was young, suddenly felt distressed. In those ignorant years, she vaguely understood that one day, the boy who was obedient to her would be taken away by another girl, away from her world, and she had no choice but to cry and lose her temper.
However, the world has changed, fate is unpredictable, with the demise of the family and the departure of their parents, they have become the only people in this world who can rely on each other. The little girl who said she was going to marry him couldn't show off in front of her, but where was her brother at this time?
"Can Xuan?" Bai Moyin called softly, she suddenly came back to her senses, was shocked at her gaffe, scratched her head a little embarrassed, and shook the puppet in her hand at him: "This is so cute." Then he grinned at him twice. His gaze fell on the puppet, and Cen Kexuan quickly moved the puppet to his face, blinking and smiling: "How is it, does it look like it?" Like not? As he spoke, he made a similar expression.
Bai Moyin looked at her like this, but for some reason she was a little stunned, and didn't respond to her for a while, Cen Kexuan rarely met such a non-supportive person, and after a while, he put down his hand quite embarrassed, and asked carefully: "What's wrong?" "Is there something wrong with her? Bai Moyin quickly picked up her words and said, "It's very similar, it's better to buy one and go back." As he spoke, he looked at the old man and changed the topic very unnaturally, as if his distraction was just Cen Kexuan's delusion.
Cen Kexuan was inexplicable, and he turned his head uncomfortably, and asked the uncle: "Did you carve this puppet yourself?" The uncle nodded: "Old man, I have been doing it for so many years, and my craftsmanship is one of the best on this street." Cen Kexuan looked at the puppet seriously for a while, then suddenly smiled and put the puppet back on the stall. The old man was stunned: "Don't you want the girl?" I can give you a cheaper price. “
She took two steps, heard the old man's words, turned around, and said with a smile: "Thank you, I don't want it." With that, he was leaving. Bai Moyin said suddenly: "Why not?" He was rarely curious about the affairs of others, and tonight was the second time, and it was a very unimportant matter, which surprised him himself.
Cen Kexuan didn't think much about it for a while, and when he asked, he smiled and said, "My brother can also do it, and he does it very well." After finishing speaking, he realized that he shouldn't reveal too much, smiled at him perfunctorily, and without explaining too much, pulled him forward.
In fact, she didn't need to explain to Bai Moyin, after all, her nominal brother-in-law was still Murong Qi. And Cen Zifei's existence can only be buried deep in his heart.