Chapter 41: jinjiangdufa
The Spring Festival is the traditional Lunar New Year, and it is one of the most solemn traditional festivals. Wanderers who leave home often have to rush home to reunite with their loved ones before the day comes. So in the eyes of most people, this holiday is a wonderful day.
It has been snowing for several days, and when I look out of the window in the morning, it is white, and the pine trees on the road are also covered in a layer of white, which is even more verdant. It's only about six o'clock in the evening, and the street lights outside are already on, and the snow on the ground is warmed by the lights. When you stay in the house, you can hear the wind whirring outside.
A small light was turned on on the balcony, which could illuminate the small area where Pei Min was. She sat in a rocking chair under the lamp, and on the table was a thick stack of scripts. Pei Min looked at it for a while, and inexplicably felt very lonely and lonely.
Chinese New Year, a word that is not far away from oneself. Whoever hasn't celebrated the New Year, as long as he has spent that day, it will be considered a year. The difference is just that life is good and bad.
The most impressive Chinese New Year was not the banquets she held after she became the queen mother, nor was it the drunken and heart-to-heart talk with Baili Qi all night in the Valley of the Divine Doctor. Rather, a long time ago, when her parents were there, she was the New Year's gift from her father when she was the unworldly boudoir lady.
The gift was a fine brush painting that her father had drawn for her. His father's fine brushwork is excellent, dense and fine, and has won the true biography of Huang Jingzhi, a master of fine brushwork. The girl in the painting is teasing the goldfish in the tank on the desk, the placket is still stained with ink, and under the table is a messy paper, and the handwriting on it is immature and childlike. The paws of a little white cat appear in the picture, pressing tightly on the paper blown by the summer wind outside the window. Outside the window is a dense cluster of green bamboo, the branches and leaves are showing vitality.
At that time, she was only a young man, and the proudest thing in ordinary times was that she could win the first place in ethnology even if she was greedy for fun. When I received such a gift on New Year's Day, I was naturally very happy, and I pulled my father's sleeve and begged to paint such a picture for myself every year.
The father touched the beard that didn't have much on his chin, and pretended that it was not necessary. I believed it at the time, threw myself into my mother's arms, and shouted for my mother to call the shots. The mother looked back at her father, her willow eyebrows stretched, and she said with a smile, you are his most precious daughter, and if you want the stars in the sky, he can't wait to pick them for you. A painting, how could he not give it?
At that time, the family was harmonious, and she thought that she would be happy forever, that she would never have to grow up, as long as she hid behind her parents, she could live happily and comfortably. I also think that the person I marry in the future will also be like my father, tall and elegant, and can protect her.
However, no one can guess what awaits you next. Pei Min took a deep breath and subconsciously hugged herself. That painting was the last one she received, a New Year's gift from her father. Five months after she received the painting, her father died and was jumping into the river. jumped off the bridge and jumped into the extremely wide canal built by the emperor in the early years, and the body could not be found, so he could only set up a clothed mound.
After her father's death, it didn't take long for her mother to go with him, leaving only a letter for her. At the end of the letter, he wrote, "May my daughter be safe and happy." But there was nothing else but this letter. It wasn't until the patriarch sent someone to the school to inform her that she knew that her mother had committed suicide and hadn't even seen her for the last time.
Pei Min hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled extremely bitterly. How can there be such ruthless parents in the world? Leaving herself behind one by one, she had to face it and grow up alone. Didn't you think about me before you died? Pei Min muttered to himself, his voice was low, with a deep sadness.
The room was silent, except for the clatter of the clock. The phone rang suddenly, startling her, who was immersed in her own world. Pei Min quickly calmed down, and at this time, only Liu Zizhao should be the one who called. She picked up her mobile phone, which showed an unknown number, Pei Min was puzzled, but she still connected.
"Hey~" The voice of a woman came from the phone, which was a little familiar.
"I'm Tang Qi. Are you home alone? I brought red wine, would you like to have some together? β
"Okay." Pei Min readily agreed, told Tang Qi her address, hung up the phone, turned on the lights in the house, and simply tidied up. Liu Zizhao came once after the holiday to help her get her water and electricity bills, and bought a lot of food and drink, and filled the refrigerator. This time, Tang Qi came, and the two didn't have to drink red wine alone.
When Pei Min checked Liu Zizhao, he also learned a little about Tang Qi's past by the way. Tang Qi is an orphan, and his life experience is a little worse than that of the original owner. The original owner still has the money that his mother regularly sends from abroad, but Tang Qi has no relatives and grew up in a welfare home.
This time, Tang Qi came for no more than two reasons. One is the words of the script, communicate with each other, after all, they will enter the group and start filming immediately after the year. The other is the New Year's period, everyone has gone back for the New Year, where will anyone accompany her? However, in Pei Min's opinion, the latter should account for the vast majority, and it is just a matter of sympathy.
The red wine is poured into the goblet and shaken, revealing its color and turning a deep red. The red wine brought by Tang Qi had a lot of stamina, but after a few glasses, Pei Min was a little dizzy, and she stopped the idea of drinking it again in time.
The Tang Qi that Pei Min knows now is good, but he hasn't reached the kind of Cheng DΓΉ who can communicate with him, and it is impossible for Pei Min to completely let down his guard and get drunk in front of her. Pei Min blinked, narrowed his eyes slowly, pretended to be dizzy and couldn't drink, and slipped down to the carpet, leaning back against the sofa, his long hair hanging down to the white carpet, even more like ink.
Tang Qi looked at Pei Min's fair face and was already flushed, obviously half-drunk, laughed in a low voice, continued to add a cup to himself, and sat down on the carpet with his head up. When she first debuted, she couldn't even tell the vintage of the wine, but she thought that the more grape-flavored the better.
The boss who used to be with her, when he saw her like this, he didn't think about correcting it, and told her that it was wrong, but he just felt that it was okay, innocent and cute, and had no charm. Later, because of this, he made a joke at the banquet, but he treated her with a mocking look.
"None of them are good people! It was really stupid back then..." Tang Qi said aloud, his voice became even more hoarse after drinking, and the tail note still had a touch of seductive style. When Pei Min heard this, she wondered in her heart, opened her eyes, reached out and picked up the red wine bottle on the coffee table, and filled herself with a glass of red wine, looked at her, and waited for her to say the following.
Tang Qi's eye lines are extremely long, and the tails of the eyes are long, squinting slightly, which is the best interpretation of charm. Now because of drunkenness, it is even more enchanting. She glanced at the full red wine in Pei Min's hand, her eyes were like a deep lake, sparkling, and said lightly, her tone was still a little nostalgic, "Red wine can't be drunk like this, you have to... After speaking, he picked up the bottle of red wine, poured a glass, and made a demonstration.
"It's him, here's what your agent sued me." Tang Qi laughed at himself, "I don't understand this either, no one has taught me before." Later, Liu Zizhao told me that this is the best, saying that it can make the red wine smell the best. Haha~ I've never understood this, you know? β
"I don't know." Pei Min shook his head and replied softly. But he secretly said in his heart, it turned out that Liu Zizhao and Tang Qi still had a past.
Tang Qi raised her head and drank it again, and the red wine juice was on her lips, she wiped it off with her backhand, but like Pei Min, she filled the goblet full, with a little drunkenness, and said lazily, "Drinking~ Isn't it just to get drunk." If you have to engage in this kind of trick, that kind of trick, how tiring! β
"You..." Pei Min saw Tang Qi drink all the wine at once, choked, hesitated, but still reached out and patted her back.
Tang Qi lowered his head and coughed for a while, then raised his head, and there was water in his eyes, which was choking tears. "I'm a good drinker. Really, I didn't expect me to drink so much now. Then he frowned and smiled, "A long time ago, I poured a glass of red wine of this year." Now..."
She pointed to the red wine bottle that was almost empty, "I've drunk so much with you, we, and I'm still not drunk." I'm still not drunk... I'm still not drunk. At the end of the day, tears flowed down his face, dripping onto the carpet and disappearing.
Pei Min's eyes flashed with a glimmer, and he looked at Tang Qi, who was biting his lower lip and was silent, his heart moved, and he also drank the red wine he had just filled.
The heating in the house was turned on very much, and Pei Min only wore an autumn pajama when he didn't go out, and his mouth was so hot that he needed to drink water. After Tang Qi entered the house, he also took off his coat and only wore a long skirt. Now that both of them have drunk wine, Tang Qi has drunk a lot more than Pei Min, and one person has drunk at least half a bottle. The smell of wine hidden in the body is carried up by the heat, and the aftertaste of the red wine completely rushes to the top of the head, which really makes people delirious.
Tang Qi stood up on the sofa, staggered to the balcony, and slammed the window open, and the wind outside blew in all of a sudden, mixed with scattered snowflakes. She looked up at the already dark sky, and it was snowing again. Snowflakes fell on her eyelashes, Tang Qi reached out and rubbed them, and the snowflakes turned into droplets of water and slid down, like tears.
Pei Min looked at Tang Qi standing on the balcony, with long curly hair draped behind him, with a slender curve and a graceful posture. The small light on the balcony was still on, and she turned her head and beckoned Pei Min to approach, like a kraken tempting a fisherman. Pei Min walked in and found that Tang Qi's eyes were red, but there were no tears, and he kept smiling.
"What a beautiful snowflake, this is the first time I've seen heavy snow since I returned to China. The day I left, it was snowing, it wasn't big, it was very small, and it melted when it hit the ground..."
"He didn't come to see me off... He should have been with her at that time, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together? Or watch the party together? I don't even dare to think about it, it hurts when I think about it. β
"Do you know the heartache? It's the kind of pain that I breathe, I feel like there's a thread in my heart, pumping, pumping, pumping, just there, it's hurting all the time, I don't dare to move, I don't dare to think, I can't even have thoughts..."
"I envy you, but there's nothing to envy. After all, he also took me and did so much for me, and without him, there would be no me. β
"Why do you think people are like this? Obviously I was not bad, but when I saw him, I felt so bad that I didn't even dare to say what I thought. I don't even dare to sue him, I like him, I like him! β
"No... I don't just like him, I love him. I want to be with him, whether I'm not a movie queen, or if I'm not in the entertainment industry, I can go anywhere, as long as he's there, I feel good. β
"When I came back this time, I wanted to see him, but I didn't want to see him. I'm afraid he's good, and I'm afraid he's not good. Tang Qi looked sideways at Pei Min and smiled, "Who knows, when I meet you, I will know him." He must be doing well, and she must have reconciled with him, maybe she is married. β
"Hehe~~ married... Am I right? Is this possible? That's great! I don't deserve him, he and her are the most perfect pair, the most made in heaven. β
Tang Qi's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his hand out of the window, and the snowflakes fell on his palms one by one, and immediately dissolved, turning into water and gathering in his palms. She was stunned for a moment, waved her hand, and spilled the water droplets, and the light in her eyes dimmed, "It turns out that my hands are not so cold..."
After saying this, his body shook and fell backwards, and Pei Min helped him in time to prevent Tang Qi from falling to the floor. Suddenly, the wind picked up, and it swept into the balcony with large flakes of snow. Pei Min was a little overwhelmed for a while, Tang Qi was right about love.
But the word love has never appeared in the life dictionary of the Empress Dowager Pei Min, so she doesn't even know how to comfort Tang Qi, so she can only watch. Tang Qi was already drunk, Pei Min didn't speak, and there was only the whimper of the night breeze around him, which made people's hearts chill.
It seems that after a long time, Pei Min heard Tang Qi say something in a low voice, the voice was too low and too weak, if you didn't listen attentively, you wouldn't be able to hear it clearly, and you would even think that it was not your own fantasy words.
"Xia Qing, you must be with him well..."