Chapter 18: The West Market
"Has anyone ever troubled her about this?" Lu Shaoyun became interested, this was the Xia Shuanghan he didn't know, and it was also the Xia Shuanghan that made him extremely curious. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Yes, how not. Those people who whispered and quarreled, Xia Shuanghan never cared, and when she blatantly talked about what was in front of her, she usually replied, "Which eye do you have to see that I look like a Han?" Teach me the rules of the Han people? Amusing! For those who speak unpleasantly, Xia Shuanghan generally shows no mercy, a mouth is simply quenched poison, and people can't stop running away if they don't say it. ”
"For example, in that imperial history, the old lady of the Cheng family said that Xia Shuang was cold and corrupt customs, said that Xia Hanlin had no way to teach his daughter, and scolded Xia Shuanghan's deceased mother. Where is Xia Shuanghan easy to bully, and replied, "Old lady, you have taught your son well, your own grandson stole his own lady's belly pocket and took it to someone to show off, and finally ended up with a lady of his own who was furious and fell out of the child's fate, you say, your own ass is still blown by the sea breeze, and now you are in the mood to take care of other people's affairs?" I understand that you are old and want to find a sense of existence for yourself by 'salty and eating radishes and worrying about it', but my mother provoked whom, and you actually scolded people and scolded the deceased, and you are not afraid of damaging yin virtue and going to hell after death! 'Tell me, she's a girl who hasn't been out of the cabinet, and she doesn't shy away from talking, but she herself gives her anger, but what's the good of having a fierce and fierce reputation? ”
"Did she do anything else that was famous?"
"I want to think about it." Zhuo Feifei said and searched in his memory for a moment, and continued: "Oh, I remember, she also beat people on the street!" Xia Shuanghan dotes on her younger brother, everyone who knows her has heard of this, her younger brother is eleven years younger than her and has lost his mother early, so Xia Shuanghan basically raised his younger brother as a son, and he is very protective of it. Of course, she is not unprincipled to protect her shortcomings, but she can't see her brother being bullied, and she doesn't pay attention to children's fights, but if any adult dares to bully her brother, she will dare to play with whom. You also know that the Rong people are all short-tempered and fierce, and Xia Shuanghan is even more fierce when he starts a fire, and a horsewhip dances vigorously, and he does not give up if he does not smoke the other party obediently admits his mistake and apologizes. ”
"What is his father's attitude towards her?"
"Attitude? There is no need to have an attitude at all! Zhuo Feifei smiled: "I love painting today, and I especially appreciate Xia Hanlin's paintings, so even if Xia Hanlin is just a five-grade official who compiles history books, he has a lot of face in front of the saint." Xia Shuanghan scolded the old lady of the Cheng family in the imperial history so much that he almost didn't faint, and the imperial history of the middle of the Cheng family was impeached the next day, but what did the saint say, "I have heard the ins and outs of the matter, the fierce temper of the Rong people is well known, and the old lady of your family must be prepared to be bombed by the artillery if he wants to have some artillery battles, so don't make trouble in front of me anymore!" You don't think your family is a coward who dares to do it, I am still panicked! "Tell me, the Holy One has talked about this, who is willing to have nothing to do in the future to find something to do with Xia Shuanghan's artillery battle?" ”
"Well, it is conceivable that if she marries into a high-ranking family with such a temper, it is easy for her to let the back house die privately, but if she marries into a small family, she will definitely not be bullied by her mother-in-law and concubine." When Lu Shaoyun said this, he suddenly stopped talking and fell silent, yes, it is because of this that Xia Shuanghan is unwilling to marry him, she does not marry into the Guogong Mansion, she does not interact with the nobles of the family on weekdays, and there is no entanglement of interests with them, no matter how fierce her temper is, she will not be able to provoke anyone. Even if the ladies of the big families look at her unpleasantly, they will not cross half of the capital from the west of the city to the east of the city to find trouble for her.
But what if she marries into the Guogong Mansion? Even if she was smart and let her start learning house fighting on the day she passed the door, she wouldn't be able to play with those people who had been immersed in it for decades! "There is protection", Lu Shaoyun suddenly disagreed, can the "protection" that his grandfather said really protect the peace and joy of Xia Shuanghan I? He couldn't see it.
"I've said so much, does it make you want to marry her even more?" Zhuo Feifei noticed that Fa Xiao's expression was solemnly silent, and he made up for it: "Actually, it's understandable that you don't want to marry her, after all, she ...... with that Liu Juren."
"What's wrong, what's wrong with her and Liu Zirun?" Lu Shaoyun was a little irritable because of the name Liu Zirun, but he still wanted to hear it.
"Actually...... This one...... I told you not to be angry! I just think there are some things you really should know, you can't just marry a wife who is not a good match, right? Zhuo Feifei saw that Fa Xiao's face was getting worse and worse, and he didn't dare to delay any longer, and said truthfully: "Actually, if you really talk about it, it's not a big deal." You saw the real fun pavilion across the street, last year was the 60th anniversary of their opening, and the owner of the real fun pavilion specially organized a painting competition in order to commemorate, and distributed the lottery to the leader, and the amount was still considerable. ”
"Xia Shuanghan really wants this money, after all, if she is not short of money, she will not come to sell paintings every month, right? Therefore, in order to get the lottery head, it is not surprising that she pulled her fellow disciple, Liu Zirun, who I don't know if it was a senior brother or a junior brother, to participate in the competition. There were three rounds of the drawing competition, and I don't remember what the two of them drew in the first two rounds, but they passed the test anyway. In the final final, it was a proposition painting, and I still remember the title very clearly, which was 'a little red in the green bushes'. At that time, Chen Juntang, the owner of Zhenqu Pavilion, made a lot of noise, so Keying, Xiran, and my brothers came to see it. (In order to prevent too many names and words from causing mistakes in remembering characters, Keying, Xiran, and Extraordinary in the text are all words, and the names are not listed.) )
"You and Ke Ying can come and see, didn't Xiran investigate the 'murder and theft of corpses in the suburbs of Beijing' at that time? Why does he have such leisure? ”
"If only he had this leisure! We pulled him out to relax, his mind was full of corpses every day, he didn't care about himself, we couldn't stand it. Zhuo Feifei said to him and Lu Shaoyun: "Xiran is a person who can't draw, and after listening to the question, he said, 'This question is easy to answer, just draw a flower in the middle of a bush of green leaves.'" I said that he was vulgar, and that it had to be a red courtyard wall faintly exposed in the depths of the dense forest. Ke Ying's ideas are better than all of us, saying that it is 'a red-crowned crane dancing in the blue waves', but none of our ideas are as good as Xia Shuanghan and Liu Zirun. The painting of the two of them finally came out on top, tied for the first place, and the color head was also issued in double copies, one and a half. ”
"What are they drawing?"
"This ......" Zhuo Feifei looked embarrassed, and said: "If you want to know, go and see it yourself, the painting is hung in the lobby on the first floor of the True Fun Pavilion, one left and one right, hanging side by side." ”
"You-" Lu Shaoyun wanted to ask again, but he stopped before he could say anything, and on the street outside the window, he saw Xia Shuanghan riding a horse from a distance, and the pink-carved Xia Chaoyang sat in front of Xia Shuanghan, leaning back slightly in her arms. "The man I'm waiting for is here."
"Who? Where? Let me see. Zhuo Feifei came to the spirit, turned around and stuck his head out of the window, and after looking at it for a long time, he turned his head and said with a bitter face: "You have to wait, it won't be Xia Shuanghan." ”
"Yes, that's her." Lu Shaoyun had long been suspicious of his grandfather's inexplicable orders. What my grandfather said sounded like he was asking him to come to the gluttony building for dinner, but how could anyone eat all afternoon? The hint of "facing the street on the third floor" is even more obvious, Lu Shaoyun believes that if he really only eats a meal and goes back without doing anything, it is estimated that he will be scolded by his grandfather for being "stupid".
"Isn't it, Ting Xuan, are you really waiting for her?" Zhuo Feifei drooped his head boredly and said: "I thought you were here to investigate the case, so I sat with you for so long, but since you are not here to investigate the case, and there is nothing to see outside, then you stay here alone, I'm busy with mine." ”
Lu Shaoyun didn't care about Zhuo Fei's departure, just sat quietly by the window alone, watching the girl he had been waiting for for a long time slowly getting closer and closer.
Her brown hair glowed golden in the dazzling sunlight, and her white face was like a warm smile like a spring breeze. The scab on the forehead has been removed, and the scar is not conspicuous at all when viewed from a distance.
Lu Shaoyun watched in silence as Xia Shuanghan dismounted, led his younger brother into the store, and made a fuss with two little boys on the third floor of the opposite building, before taking the painting and disappearing behind the closed door with a young man. Lu Shaoyun knew that Xia Shuanghan was going to talk about business, no, after a few teas, she returned to the room facing him again.
She would go to the lobby on the first floor to wait for her brother who had gone out, after all, there were calligraphy and paintings to read downstairs, but there were only candied fruits to eat upstairs. Lu Shaoyun thought so and went downstairs, he wanted to go to the True Fun Pavilion opposite, where he could still have a few words with her.