Chapter 101: Jingzhong
Before falling asleep, lying in the soft quilt, looking up at the summer frost of the bright Milky Way through the carved wooden window, I couldn't help but think of Lu Shaoyun, who was hundreds of miles away in the wilderness, sleeping under the starry sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's just that I thought about whether Lu Shaoyun hadn't fallen asleep now, and guessed whether Lu Shaoyun would be thinking about her Xia Shuanghan, but I never thought that under the same starry sky, in the capital more than 4,500 miles away from Naming Village, there was a man who was thinking about her.
Su Yixing didn't understand the love between men and women, and he never thought of understanding it. In his impression, the married life between his mother and his father before her death should be based on the love between men and women.
However, after his mother betrayed his father and was then killed by his father, Su Yixing, who only had a superficial impression of the relationship between men and women, did not plan to go into this kind of mysterious relationship in depth.
As an adult, Su Yixing, who went to a men's style gym every three or five days to dispel his desires, never thought that he didn't understand how bad the relationship between men and women was when his physical desires were satisfied and his life was very fulfilling.
After all, in his opinion, those women who are full of love words, but only care about wealth and status, and even use their own children as bargaining chips with ambitions, live a more lowly and unbearable life than those who are clearly marked in the men's style hall.
Therefore, even if he is now twenty-three years old, Su Yixing, who is still a lonely man and has no interest in women at all, has never had the idea of marrying a wife.
However, in the past two months, every time he stepped into the men's style hall, Su Yixing, who had a corresponding sense of burnout, gradually began to realize that his views on the relationship between men and women and women had quietly changed qualitatively because of the summer frost.
Do you want to say that you are in love with Xia Shuanghan? Su Yixing didn't think he did. He felt that for this different woman, he was only interested in it at best, and he was a little envious of the deep relationship between her and Lu Shaoyun.
However, is Su Yixing's interest in Xia Shuanghan really just a simple one? Li Qinglan, the guard who has been following him and is a "bystander", thinks that things are obviously not so simple.
In the past two months, the number of times Su Yixing has patronized the Men's Wind Pavilion for pleasure has become noticeably less and less. Correspondingly, he was not interested in calligraphy and painting, but the paintings of "Qingshuang Jushi" in his personal study are becoming more and more. Su Yixing's obvious change, can it be explained clearly with just the word "interest"? Li Qinglan believes that it can't.
It's just that when the woman the master likes is obviously a woman who belongs to another man, as a loyal servant, Li Qinglan needs to speak out in time to wake up Su Yixing, and then make him completely confront Lu Shaoyun for the sake of a woman? Obviously, Li Qinglan thinks that it is not necessary.
So, in the process of admiring the paintings of "Qingshuang Jushi" day by day, and constantly denying his feelings for Xia Shuanghan day by day, Su Yixing ushered in the same life trend as his previous life, that is, whether to marry Lu Ruhui, the sixth lady of Dingguo Mansion, as his wife, was once again placed in front of him.
If you want to talk about why Su Yixing in the previous life finally married Lu Ruhui as his wife, the biggest reason for this should be the current Princess of Xiangyang, Su Yixing's nominal stepmother - Xie Shi.
As mentioned above, the main reason why Su Chunfeng, the king of Xiangyang, who killed his relatives in righteousness, was in a hurry to remarry soon after losing his wife, was to dispel the suspicion and jealousy of the first emperor.
Therefore, in the early stage of marriage negotiations, although the kind-hearted Xie was hindered by the fact that he was a stone girl and could not have children, he quietly found Su Chunfeng and kindly persuaded him to change his wife. But Su Chunfeng, who only needs a nominal wife, still marries her into the door with a phoenix crown and a sedan chair.
After becoming the princess of Xiangyang, the Xie family, who has been friends with Su Chunfeng for many years, has never forgotten his true identity.
Interfering with Su Chunfeng's decision, meddling in Su Yixing's life, such an immeasurable stupid thing Xie has never done. In her decades of career as a princess, the only thing she has done that can be regarded as a strong and colorful thing is that in front of Su Chunfeng, she lightly mentioned her handkerchief - Lu Shaoyun's mother-in-law Xu, as well as her appreciation and value for Su Yixing.
So, with the Xie family's matchmaking, Su Yixing in his previous life finally married Lu Ruhui. It's just that in this life, due to the existence of Xia Shuanghan, will the fate trajectory of the previous life be refulfilled in Su Yixing? Believe, no.
"Zhe Chen (Su Yixing's character), the reason why my father called you here today, I believe you should know very well, right?" In the west of Kyoto, in the study of Su Chunfeng in Xiangyang Palace, a pair of estranged father and son are discussing a topic that will be brought out every six months, that is, Su Yixing's marriage.
In the Bactria territory, the general age of marriage for Han Chinese men was 17 to 19 years old. Therefore, a few years ago, in the face of his son who had reached marriageable age, Su Chunfeng did not fail to find Su Yixing and asked him if he wanted to marry a wife and what kind of wife he wanted to marry.
However, in the face of his father's inquiry, how did Su Yixing answer at that time? His reply was, "Is my father planning for me to find a woman like my mother and come back and kill her?" Or find a nominal woman like Aunt Xie to come back and be the big housekeeper? Or maybe find a group of women who are as ambitious as the aunts in the backyard, but can't bear the loneliness and are used to red apricots out of the wall, come back and watch them fend for themselves to have some fun? ”
The son's rude and distorted personality replied, but after Su Chunfeng suddenly increased his breathing, it did not provoke his anger. After all, the reason why Su Yixing has grown up like this is that he, as a father, should take the greatest responsibility.
Therefore, Su Chunfeng, who knew that he was in a loss and had already taken his grown up son, was powerless, sighed and compromised: "Since you don't want to marry a wife yet, let's talk about it in the first half of the year!" ”
So in this way, when the stepmother did not think that her identity was not enough and did not interfere in the marriage of her adopted son, and the biological father felt guilty and was unwilling to interfere in his son's marriage, Su Yixing, who always replied "I am not interested in getting married" every six months, dragged from a seventeen-year-old boy to a calm man who is now twenty-three years old.
On the second day of the eighth month of the second year, it has been half a year since the last time the topic of marriage was discussed. Looking at the son in front of him who was twenty-three years old and should have been a father but was still alone, Su Chunfeng, who finally couldn't stand it and didn't want to wait any longer, decided to urge his son tonight to settle the marriage as soon as possible.
"Why, after all these years, Aunt Xie finally can't stand it anymore and wants me to get married?"
In Su Chunfeng's study, when he heard his father mention Lu Ruhui, the sixth lady of the Dingguo Mansion, Su Yixing, who had already learned that the wife of the prince of the Guogong Mansion was playing with his own idea a few months ago, was quite scoffing.
"Aunt Xie and Mrs. Na Xu are handkerchiefs, so it's not unusual for her to think about introducing her friend's daughter to me. But father, do you really think that if you find a pampered lady to stuff it for me, I will really be happy to follow? The woman I want to marry is not a 'begonia flower' who is delicate and timid like Lu Ruhui and can't withstand the wind and rain. ”
The words left by Su Yixing when he turned around and brushed his sleeves away made Su Chunfeng, who was extremely anxious about his son's marriage, hear a different taste: don't like the delicate "begonia flowers", but like "other flowers"? So, what kind of "flower" will the girl who makes my son want to marry into the door?
Su Chunfeng, who heard the deep-seated information he had inadvertently revealed from Su Yixing's words, quickly asked people to go down to investigate his son's living and travel in the past three months. So, not sooner or later, Xia Shuanghan, who happened to appear in Su Yixing's life within three months, was targeted by Su Chunfeng, the king of Xiangyang.
The painting of "Qingshuang Jushi" in Su Yixing's study, as well as the seal belonging to Xia Shuanghan that he always carried with him. These two pieces of irrefutable evidence, in Su Chunfeng's opinion, made him confirm that the woman his son wanted to marry into the family was the "Qingshuang layman" from the Hanlin family.
However, in the face of such an unshakable fact, Su Chunfeng, who was bent on fulfilling his son's wish in marrying a wife, couldn't help but sigh helplessly: "Zhe Chen, Zhe Chen, you said that the girl of which family you fell in love with was not good, why did you fall in love with a woman with a famous flower?" ”
After learning from his subordinates' remarks that his son had chased him to the Yuelai Inn outside the city to find Xia Shuanghan, who had nominally eloped outside, Su Chunfeng, who shook his head and sighed, thought of Lu Shaoyun's departure from Beijing more than a month ago, and his son's situation of being invited into the East Palace by the prince the day after returning from the Yuelai Inn, and soon realized that the marriage between the Lu Xia family that had collapsed was definitely something else.
So, with such a marriage in front of him that once the truth is revealed, it will definitely go smoothly (big mistake), and Su Chunfeng, who is bent on fulfilling Su Yixing, can't help but make a difficulty in his heart.
In the opinion of Su Chunfeng, who is in a high position, if Xia Shuanghan's marriage partner is not a family like Dingguo Mansion, then to be honest, it is not difficult to disturb Huang Xia Shuanghan's marriage, and then marry her into the gate of Xiangyang Palace for her son. But now, when there was an extremely difficult Lu Xiaoqing standing behind Xia Shuanghan, even Su Chunfeng, who was the prince, had to weigh it carefully.
In the end, after thinking about it, Su Chunfeng, who couldn't make up his mind for the time being, decided to let his princess Xie first reject the marriage proposed by Lu Ruhui and Su Yixing with euphemistic words but a resolute attitude.
After all, even if Su Yixing couldn't get Xia Shuanghan, he would never be able to fall in love with Lu Ruhui, who had no resemblance to Xia Shuanghan both externally and internally. Second, marrying Lu Ruhui, Lu Shaoyun will become Su Yixing's undeniable brother-in-law. When I come to the door to see the ceremony during the New Year's holidays, I see that the girl I like and my brother-in-law are in love and sweet, but I can't do anything about it, isn't this self and self-help?
Therefore, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for Lu Ruhui, who is impossible to marry into the Xiangyang Palace, it is better to refuse as soon as possible.
So, the follow-up development of the matter was transferred to the Lu family of the Dingguo Mansion.
In recent months, Xu, who lived smoothly in the first half of his life, has been a little depressed. She doesn't understand that this year is obviously not her natal year, but why the word "unfavorable year" has been with her since March.
The son's "habit of breaking sleeves", the father-in-law's "impermanence", Xia Shuanghan's "lewd and shameless", and Princess Xiangyang's "euphemistic refusal", one by one, which thing does not make her unstoppable brain pain?
Princess Xiangyang said that she couldn't be Su Yixing's master, so she couldn't help in getting married, and Xu said that it was understandable. After all, Su Yixing, as the only child of King Xiangyang, has the right to be qualified to take Qiao and willful.
What's more, no one in the Jingzhong family doesn't know that the reason why Su Yixing has been reluctant to marry a wife over the years is entirely because he witnessed the scene of his father's righteous destruction when he was young, so he has a knot. Therefore, when he was handed over by a handkerchief and said that this marriage could not be completed, Xu couldn't talk about how angry or angry he was.
"However, Su Yixing, a dignified prince, is unwilling to marry my baby daughter. You Xia Shuanghan, a Hu man from the Hanlin family, and an old girl with a broken appearance, what qualifications do you have to look down on my precious son Tingxuan? Runaway? You simply don't know how to lift! ”
In the Shanlan Courtyard of the main courtyard of the Dingguo Mansion, the Xu family, who had just sent off the Xiangyang Princess Xie, remembered Xia Shuanghan's escape from marriage more than a month ago, and couldn't help but smash a blue and white teacup in anger again.
"Oh, my lady, why do you say you are doing this?" Mama Gui, who was accompanying her, was no stranger to Xu's bad temper in recent days. Therefore, the teacup just landed here, and over there, Mama Gui sent the girl to come forward to clean it up, and then said: "Madam, it's really not worth it for you to be so angry with that Xia who doesn't know what to do!" ”
"Am I angry with her? Is she worth my anger for her? Xu Shi said and raised his hand to rub his swollen forehead, closed his eyes and eased for a moment, then opened his eyes and said: "That cheap thing who doesn't know how to lift, who does she think she is, can I be angry with her?" I'm angry with Tingxuan! ”
Regarding the master's inconsistent heart, obviously depressed but still insisting on finding a place in his mouth, Mama Gui chose to remain silent. After all, on the day when Xia Jingzhi came to visit Lu Guogong and informed him of the news that "Xia Shuanghan escaped marriage and eloped", the Xu family who learned the news was furious, and even had some hysterical reactions, which are still deeply engraved in Gui's mind.
"It's a shame that Xia Jingzhi is still a Hanlin, but I don't know if all the books I've read over the years have been read in the dog's stomach!" This is the night of July 18, Xu Shi, who had just learned that Xia Shuanghan had escaped from marriage and left Beijing, smashed the teacup angrily, and scolded the words, "Such a humiliating behavior as lewdness and shamelessness can be said by Xia Jingzhi to be a brave act of pursuing true love, isn't he crazy?!" ”
For a woman like Xu, who thinks that everything others do should follow her thoughts, she will not reflect on how shameless her behavior was when she "looked down on Xia Shuanghan, but still married her into the door, so that she could be a fig leaf for Lu Shaoyun".
In her eyes, the ethics and morality in the world are all "suitable for use, not for discarded". Therefore, in the face of Xia Shuanghan's escape from marriage, the Xu family, who always thought that all the faults came from the Xia family's ignorance, even hated Xia Jingzhi together.
"Mama Gui, tell me, if it weren't for the Xia family's escape from marriage, how could Ting Xuan insist on not talking about marriage in the next two years under the banner of 'too much emotional injury', and go to the south to find that Lin Xiran?"
Hearing this, because she had heard Lu Ruqian complain in mid-May about Xia Shuanghan's casual appearance as a man, she suspected that the reason why Xia Shuanghan would run away from marriage was entirely because she inadvertently broke the indescribable relationship between Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xiran somewhere, and explained Xu's words: "Madam, in fact, the fifth young master's practice of leaving Beijing and going south under the pretense of Xia's escape from marriage is really not too bad!" ”
"After all, if the Xia clan can really have such a big impact on the fifth young master, if she really enters the door, can't she rely on her husband's favor and block you at any time?"
"She dares!" Xu raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "The backyard of this Dingguo Mansion is my master!" If you want to play tricks on my turf, does she really think I'm dead? ”
For the Xu family, who still always thinks that Lu Shaoyun's marriage is completely in the hands of his parents, it is impossible to expect that his son will enter the Xia family for the sake of Xia Shuanghan in the future. Now she is worried about Lu Shaoyun's marriage, and all she thinks about is "which young lady should be my son Tingxuan's wife next",
So, the recent situation of Pei Huanting, who recognized Lu Shaoyun and was determined not to marry him, had to talk about it.
Since June 19, Pei Huanting heard the news that Xia Shuanghan ran away from marriage and eloped with her lover, and her life has been very smooth for more than a month. In the meantime, although her marriage has had twists and turns due to her mother's kindness, for now, most of the problems have been solved. It's just that if you want to ask what the twists and turns are, you have to start from July.
One day in mid-July, facing another wife who wanted to protect the media for a certain son, so he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion and asked her about Pei Huanting's marriage, Pei Huanting's mother Chen, after sending off the visitors, called Pei Huanting into the main courtyard where she lived, and decided to talk to her daughter about her marriage in private.
Although according to the tradition of the Han people in Daxia, the lifelong events of children are all about the orders of their parents and the words of matchmakers. However, before arranging a marriage for your children, asking your children in advance what their requirements are for their future partners is like referring to and screening them, which is also a common practice for parents in Daxia.
Faced with many adjectives such as "gentle and elegant", "tall and handsome", and "young and promising" that her mother said, Pei Huanting, who had long been a belonging, plucked up the courage and said out loud the name that was no longer limited to a certain descriptive category, but accurate to the individual - Lu Shaoyun.
"You say, what you like is the fifth prince of Lu in the Dingguo Mansion?" Faced with his daughter's unwavering rhetoric, Chen was surprised. After all, since he learned that Lu Shaoyun had a marriage contract behind him, the Chen family removed him from the "son-in-law candidate list" in his mind.
So, Chen, who was quite surprised, asked, "Ting'er, have you thought carefully?" Are you serious, you just fell in love with Lu Tingxuan, Lu Wugongzi? ”
"Yes." Faced with her mother, who was too surprised and could not raise objections for the time being, Pei Huanting decided to preemptively fight to firmly control the initiative of the conversation into her own hands, and retreated as a way forward: "Mother, my daughter knows that her remarks are not only not in line with etiquette and rules, but also live up to my mother's ardent teachings to me over the years, but even if my mother is angry, can you give me a chance to let me continue?" ”
"......" faced with her second daughter, who has always been very well-behaved and smart since she was a child, although Xu was a little annoyed about "Pei Huanting's secret promise to Lu Shaoyunfang", she still decided to listen to her daughter's words. "Okay, you say."
Most of the content of Pei Huanting's words, Chen has guessed - it is nothing more than a little reflection of the beginning of the love of a young girl. It's just that there is one thing that has inspired Chen, who is well versed in the world, to think about it, that is, what Pei Huanting mentioned - Lu Shaoyun's attitude towards Xia Shuanghan - this matter.
According to Pei Huanting, for a woman like Xia Shuanghan who is not outstanding in all aspects, Lu Shaoyun can treat each other with gentleness and compassion, so what kind of model husband should Lu Shaoyun become if she is replaced by Pei Huanting, who is not known how many times better than Xia Shuanghan's overall conditions?
Hearing his daughter's remarks, and thinking of his personal experience after getting married, Chen had to admit that Lu Shaoyun's approach of not being close to women and only being good for his wife is indeed very attractive to almost every girl who is pregnant with spring. After all, if she could, what woman wouldn't want to monopolize her husband and be a couple with her husband for the rest of her life?
Although, perhaps, Lu Shaoyun's unfeminine performance may suddenly change or disappear imperceptibly one day in the future, but when he thought that if it wasn't for Xia Shuanghan's original intention, he would have wanted to make up his daughter against Lu Shaoyun, and after pondering for a long time, the Chen family finally decided to make a slight concession on etiquette, so as to fulfill his daughter's infatuation in marriage.
At this point, due to many changes in this life that are different from those in the previous life, Su Chunfeng, the king of Xiangyang, the wife of the prince of Dingguo, Xu, and the wife of Dali Siqing, Chen, will all be involved in the marriage of Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan in the near future. It's just that Lu Shaoyun, who is outside the gate at this moment, still doesn't know anything about his bumpy future. (To be continued.) )