Chapter 196: Look at each other
In the process of Lu Shaoyun and Su Yixing looking for Xu Jinhan's incriminating evidence little by little, intending to punish him, time gradually moved from April to May. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, it is another year of Dragon Boat Festival and another year of Dragon Boat Day. Early this morning, I got into the carriage and took my younger brother to the summer frost and cold of the Jiuqu River through the straight river in the south of the city with Baliya, in addition to accompanying my brother and friends to watch the dragon boat race, there was another thing she needed to do, that is, to give Zhang Yunyan courage.
Since the dissolution of the marriage contract with Liu Zirun nearly two years ago, Zhang Yunyan's marriage has been very unsmooth in the past two years.
At first, her marriage was delayed because she was obsessed with Liu Zirun, so she had not been able to find one of the other marriage candidates mentioned to her by her mother who could beat Liu Zirun, so that she was willing to marry.
Later, after Xia Shuanghan returned to Beijing, because Zhang Yunyan became friends with the "vulgar and fierce" and "deviant" loyal and righteous townspeople, in the eyes of many noble ladies in Beijing, Zhang Yunyan became an outlier who was not suitable to be their daughter-in-law, and was excluded by them.
Seeing that her daughter's age is getting older and older over time, but the marriage has not been settled, Mrs. Zhang's heart is not in a hurry.
Once, under the banner of being good for her daughter, Mrs. Zhang did ask Zhang Yunyan that "my mother hopes that you will not have any more dealings with Zhongyi Xiangjun". It's just that seeing that her daughter, who doesn't interact with Xia Shuanghan, is bored and depressed at home day by day, Mrs. Zhang can't continue to implement her requirements no matter what.
"Since the loyal and righteous townsman has taken Yan'er to see so many things that she had never seen before, and even more so to experience the life she had never experienced before, how could Yan'er, who has broadened her horizons, be willing to go back to the life before when she couldn't go out of the door and could only stay in her yard every day?"
Reluctantly accepted the fact that her daughter had been assimilated by others, and no longer prevented Zhang Yunyan from communicating with Xia Shuanghan, Mrs. Zhang, who had no choice but to plan for her daughter's marriage within a greatly narrowed range of choices. And this year's Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May is the day when Mrs. Zhang and the man's wife make up their minds to let their children look at each other after the total.
"Here it is, on the third floor." Escorting his younger brother to get out of the carriage, on the bank of the wide and straight river, he raised his head and looked at Xia Shuanghan who was looking at the storefront plaque with the three big characters "Linjiang Immortal" written on it, and soon arrived at the meeting place they agreed with Zhang Yunyan with his younger brother and Ba Liya as promised.
"Frost, Baria, you're here!"
In the private room on the third floor that the Zhang family had booked a long time ago, Zhang Yunyan, who had become friends with Ba Liya through Xia Shuanghan's introduction in the past few days, came forward to greet her and pinch Xia Chaoyang's little face.
And the three of Xia Shuanghan, who had greeted Zhang Yunyan and came as guests, quickly greeted Mrs. Zhang, who was sitting at the round table indoors, and Mrs. Zhang's sister.
"You don't know, I'm so nervous right now." Zhang Yunyan, who greeted his mother and aunt after his friends, and then pulled Xia Shuanghan aside, said: "This suddenly said that I wanted to look at each other with strange men, even if I was separated by the river outside, I still felt very bottomless in my heart!" ā
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of." Holding up his friend's hands with his left hand, he then patted Xia Shuanghan on the back of his friend's hand with his right hand, and comforted his friend with an indifferent smile: "You and that man are not only separated by a river, but also by a veil!" Tell me, he can't see anything on his face except your eyes and head, what do you have to be nervous about? Isn't that how you go out on weekdays? ā
ā...... This...... It's not the same. Even though she was patted on the back of her hand by a friend, Zhang Yunyan, who was still so nervous that her fingers were cold and her fingertips trembled slightly, said: "I go out like this on weekdays because I know that no one can deliberately stare at me all the time, so I am not nervous." But today, when I stand by the window, I want others to judge me, can I not panic? ā
"Don't panic, me and Bariya, we will protect you left and right, and we will never leave until the matter is over. If you're really nervous, you can tease my brother and distract him for a while. ā
"Thank you." Even though Zhang Yunyan's aunt brought her two daughters over to accompany her in order to prevent her from being afraid, Zhang Yunyan, who was surrounded by her cousins and cousins, still couldn't calm down. It wasn't until Xia Shuanghan, who had always had a calm and confident expression on her face, appeared in front of her, that she seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, and she slowly regained her calm and calmness little by little.
Both sides of the river are crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, and the restaurants and tea shops along the river bank are soon crowded with people who come to watch the dragon boat race.
I took a stool that was not too high to pad my brother's feet, to ensure that such a height could allow him to clearly see the game in the river, and at the same time not let him climb off the guardrail in an excited Xia Shuanghan, when he raised his eyes to look at the restaurant on the other side of the river, he accidentally saw Xie Zhuoting.
"Yo, I didn't expect Xie Zhuoting's monkey to come." Xia Shuanghan, who raised his hand with a smile on his face and waved his arms to them on the other side of the river, waved his arms to them sharply, and quickly retracted his attention and focused on talking to Zhang Yunyan.
It wasn't until the dragon boat race started and when the gongs and drums were noisy that Xia Shuanghan, who was suddenly pinched by Zhang Yunyan beside him, hurt his forearm, and then reacted - ah, the man who may become Zhang Yunyan's husband in the future is here.
Pulling back her arm from the clenched "iron claws" of Zhang Yunyan, who was extremely nervous, she raised her eyes and saw the thick shyness and faint fear in the eyes of her friend's wandering eyes, and after a while, she turned her gaze to the other side of the river.
On the other side of the river, at the same height as where they are now, in the private room of the restaurant opposite, stood the man who came to look at Zhang Yunyan as agreed.
"It's so far away, now this distance is many times farther than when I saw Ting Xuan on Suzaku Street, I don't know how many times it is, I can see a ghost when I look at each other like this!" Complaining silently in his heart, Xia Shuanghan, who raised his eyes to look at the "object of sight" on the other side of the river who was surrounded by three young men of the same age, quickly realized that something seemed to be wrong.
Xie Zhuoting, who had just beckoned to greet Xia Shuanghan, was in the private room next door to the "object of view". And judging from the current wind direction, his position is located downwind of the "object of view". Therefore, with such a close and windy situation, Xie Zhuoting could most likely hear what the "look-a-friend" was saying to his peers.
Therefore, when Xia Shuanghan caught the emotion of "anger" on Xie Zhuoting's face, she couldn't help but think about things in the worst way, so she had such a thought-they are actually talking bad about me and Yun Yan now, right?
If it's just that he is being said badly by others, then Xia Shuanghan will not pay attention to it at all. After all, in the past two years, there have been too many rumors around her. She couldn't care about what people who didn't matter to her were saying.
But now, the people who are being talked about by others are likely not only her, but may also include Zhang Yunyan. Therefore, under such circumstances, Xia Shuanghan can no longer continue to turn a deaf ear to gossip.
"I'm going to figure out what the person is talking about. If what he said was really so unbearable, then for the sake of Zhang Yunyan's happiness, no matter how difficult those words were, I had to repeat them to her as they were, so that she could refuse this unreliable marriage. ā
Xia Shuanghan, who made up her mind in her heart and temporarily handed over her younger brother to Baliya to take care of, quickly withdrew from the private room under the pretext that she needed convenience.
Xia Shuanghan, who ran out of Linjiang Immortal and then went straight to the stone arch bridge that was the starting point of the dragon boat race, soon came to the other side of the river through the arch bridge. ran into the restaurant where the "object of view" was located, reported Xie Zhuoting's name, and she was identified by the shopkeeper as a guest of the Xie family, and after a while, she was led by the second child of the restaurant to the private room booked by the Xie family.
"Sister Frost, why are you here?" Before Xia Shuanghan squeezed down the stone arch bridge and ran to the other side of the river, Xie Zhuoting, who had already recognized her figure by the railing of the private room on the third floor, ran out of her private room and stood in the aisle before she was led upstairs by Xiao Er.
It wasn't until Xia Shuanghan, who saw him, pressed his index finger to his lips, "shh
"Oh~" dragged out the tone of "oh", Xie Zhuoting, who was clear-eyed, waited for the shopkeeper to leave, and then attached his ears to the door of the private room with Xia Shuanghan, and listened to the conversation inside.
"Brother Qijing, are you satisfied with today's appearance?"
"Satisfied? How is it possible to be satisfied?! If it weren't for my mother who told me to come here today, do you think I would really be standing in this place for the people on the other side to see? ā
"Don't say that! It's a good thing that Miss Zhang is the daughter of the servant of the ministry, and from here, her true appearance should be not bad. ā
"Really? So far away, with a veil covering her face, how did you see how good she looked? Have you forgotten that the Miaoyu girl we saw in the Drunken Red Mansion last year was a person with only a pair of wonderful eyes, but under the veil she disappointed everyone. ā
"Yes, yes, Brother Qijing is right."
"So, as I said, today's encounter is a farce and a joke through and through. Not to mention what we talked about just now, how many stinky problems will Miss Zhang learn from a woman like Zhongyi Xiangjun, just talking about Zhongyi Xiangjun and remarrying is simply unethical. ā
"That's right, that's right! Even if the loyal and righteous townsman was married, he was still uneasy in the room, and the red apricot went out of the wall to break the connection with the deputy commander of Lu, and put on a green hat for Su Shizi. In the end, it caused two men to fight for her, and both were injured, you tell me how lascivious and shameless a woman like her should be! ā
"Isn't it obvious that she can't live without a man! Otherwise, how could she have remarried in a hurry when she was less than a month away? I think it's because I'm thirsty and need a man's nourishment and watering! ā
"Hey, you say, isn't this loyal and righteous countryman's kung fu in bed really powerful, so this provokes Deputy Commander Lu to wait for more, and he insists on marrying her in a hurry?"
"I don't know if she's good at kung fu in bed, but judging from the fact that she can ride a horse and shoot arrows, and her physical strength is not inferior to that of a man, she should be a master who can stand it. All kinds of postures and angles, I believe that it should not be difficult for the loyal and righteous townsmen who are agile. ā
Hearing these messy, obscene and vulgar remarks in the room, Xia Shuanghan thought that he had mastered the situation very fully and didn't need to listen to it anymore - this man with the word Qijing was a vain, vulgar and despicable thing, Zhang Yunyan was marrying a pig and a dog, which was much better than marrying him.
Xia Shuanghan, who made such a judgment in his heart, did not intend to rush into the house to settle accounts with these men, but just wanted to return to the other side of the river as soon as possible, and made up his mind to turn around and leave immediately. It's just that she doesn't care about how others arrange and criticize her, but Xie Zhuoting, who is young and vigorous, can't help but care.
So, seeing that his face was flushed and his chest was rising and falling violently, he raised his legs angrily, kicked open the door of the private room in front of him, and then scolded "You scum, well-dressed beasts, you are just looking for a fight" rushed into the door, and slammed his fist into a few people inside.
"......" Seeing that things have developed to this point, Xia Shuanghan will not be able to go in any way in a short period of time. After all, Xie Zhuoting rushed in to fight with others in order to protect her, if she just patted her ass and left without appreciation and thanks, it wouldn't be appropriate no matter what you say, right?
"Xie Zhuoting?! You fucking took the wrong medicine, didn't you? Hit the bridge of his nose by Xie Zhuoting's head-on fist, a man with a bloody nose raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and scolded with tears in his eyes: "Lao Tzu recruited you to provoke you?" Why did you rush up and beat me? ā
"I'm fighting you dog-like beasts!" It was another punch and a kick, and the nimble young man tossed and turned and struck three people in a row, attracting blood. When he rushed in front of Na Qijing, his right hand, which was about to slap him, was restrained.
"Why Xie Zhuoting, can't you listen to a few of us talking about loyalty and righteousness?" The man who raised his hand and twisted Xie Zhuoting's arm, with a look of mockery and shame on his face, said obscenely: "Also, since the autumn hunting season last year, you have been chasing after her and becoming her follower. Isn't it, in fact, you really want to taste her, that's why you defend her so much, right? ā
"You have the courage to say this, but don't be brave enough to admit it!" Striding into the private room that had become chaotic because of Xie Zhuoting's fists and feet, he pulled out the soft whip wrapped around his waist, and raised his eyes with a wicked smile to look at the man who was twisting Xie Zhuoting's arm and standing against the sun by the railing.
In the private room, the three men who had just been beaten by Xie Zhuoting's fists and kicks and then had blood on their heads and faces were originally about to echo Qi Jing, and their words continued to anger Xie Zhuoting. It's just that when Xia Shuanghan, who was full of anger, walked in with a whip with a "crackle", they who had just opened their mouths but had not had time to make a sound, and they were silent one by one like ducks whose necks had been choked.
"Loyalty...... Zhongyi Xiangjun ......, "If it is said that a half-grown teenager like Xie Zhuoting, who is not skilled in martial arts, is not enough to make four adult men fear him, then Xia Shuanghan, a fierce woman who fights in rumors, is enough to make them feel guilty."
"Why, didn't they just talk about me happily? Why don't you speak now? Raising his foot and kicking the door behind him, his eyes swept over the faces of the three men standing against the wall with mottled blood on their faces in turn, and Xia Shuanghan, who stepped forward, hit the back of Qi Jing's hand with a whip.
"Sister Shuanghan, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you." Xie Zhuoting, who was able to break free from the shackles under Xia Shuanghan's whip, was very ashamed of his poor learning skills and the fact that he still needed others to come to rescue him.
"It's okay, didn't they all say you're my henchman? Then since the follower can't win, the only way to do it is to let my sister and me save you. ā
The fight has already started, and the matter has already made a big fuss, so instead of retreating now, let them think that she Xia Shuanghan is just a paper tiger who is easy to bully, it is better to smoke the few men in front of him who are not cleaned up, cry dad and call mother, kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, and then raise their legs and walk away.
"Zhuo Ting, keep the gate, don't let these guys who are not clean in their mouths run away."
"Hey! You can rest assured! ā
So, in the sound of the whip of "crackling", "Help! I'm going to kill someone," and the cry of panic and pain soon spread out of the private room.
The wailing sound that spread widely not only made the entire restaurant audible, but even Zhang Yunyan and Ba Liya on the other side of the river took it into their ears after eliminating the sounds made by the tourists on the riverbank.
"Baliya, I'm not mistaken, right? In the private room on the other side of the river, are Shuang Han and Zhuo Ting cooperating to beat people? I couldn't believe that the friend who was still with me just now went to the other side of the river in a blink of an eye and waved the whip, and grabbed the arm of Baliya beside her emotionally.
And Baliya, who raised her eyes to look at the other side, immediately replied between the twitches of her mouth: "You read that right, the person who beat people is Sister Shuanghan." (To be continued.) )