He said: "Whether it is life or death, a girl like the third sister is outcast, with no brains and no skills, but I am afraid that I will not be able to do well. Now I just treat her as dead, whether it is merit or recommendation, it is just to do my best. Don't say this to the second aunt, I'm afraid she won't be able to stand it."

Xianglan nodded and couldn't help but sigh softly.

For a while, the two of them talked and gossiped. Lin Jinlou picked up interesting stories from outside and told Xianglan about them, and said, "I have something to show you." Saying that, he ordered someone to hold a box, opened it, and saw a stack of papers, or letters, or folded up small calligraphy and paintings that had never been framed, and so on. Xianglan was startled and looked up at Lin Jinlou.

Lin Jinlou said: "Shen Gongzi is good, he left a few letters that day to be used as a notebook, and then the Shen family had an accident, and most of the letters exchanged with him at home were burned, and the elders forgot that I still have some there. A few days ago, I cleaned up my study and saw the light of day."

I saw Xianglan flipping through the letter, suddenly tears welled up in her eyelashes, lowered her eyes, pinched the letter and said: "Give it all to me, this is the only thing I have to think about"

Lin Jinlou looked at her silently, and Xianglan raised her head and said, "Want to hear about my relationship with the Shen family?"

Lin Jinlou was stunned and nodded.

"In my previous life, I was the eldest granddaughter of the Shen family, named Jialan. I told you that day, and it wasn't just ridiculous."

"Really?"

"Seriously. On the same day, my grandfather was convicted, and his family was overturned, but overnight, and the next day, when I was a child, my mother-in-law's house was also surrounded by officers and soldiers. He was later taken to prison. My mother and sister were already in another cell, and I didn't dare to speak and shout, and the jailer behind me was so angry that I had to look back, but I was still naïve that day, and thought that I would always see my relatives again, and that one glance would be goodbye."

"I heard that Shen's mother and daughter committed suicide in the Teaching Division, didn't you go to the Teaching Division?"

"Nope. I'm with my in-laws. I still remember that on the day I set off, I heard that my grandfather had cut them down at noon. It was a gloomy day. The tears on my face never dried, and then I knelt down in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva when I rested in a dilapidated Guanyin temple. Wholeheartedly said, who can collect the corpse for my Shen family, so that the souls of the ancestors can return to the underworld and have a place to live. I will be a slave and a slave in the next life, and I will repay me with a grass ring." As he spoke, he looked at Lin Jinlou. sighed, "I didn't understand why I was a maid in your family in this life, but then I saw the ancestral grave of the family, and then I suddenly became surprised."

"And then?"

"Then my husband fell ill and died on the way. Soon I was sick and died on the road." Xianglan hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't say that Song Ke was Xiao Hang, "I don't seem to wake up when I open my eyes again. became the maid of the Chen family. Sometimes when I think about my past life, I wonder if I had a long dream. It's just that the dream is too dramatic, so I think it's real."

"I see."

"You believe me?"

"Believe, why don't you believe it, I believe everything you say." Lin Jinlou looked at Xianglan with a determined look on his face. Heart, no wonder Xianglan deliberately worships the ancestral tomb of the Shen family, the old things of the Shen family are like a number of treasures, and the font painting style and Shen Ge old were the same manuscript, if it wasn't for the grandfather himself, who could get such a true biography. Originally, he wondered why a couple like Chen Wanquan could raise such a daughter, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, female red needlework, food, clothing, manners, demeanor, and life are different, it turns out that the roots are here. Some small officials later have daughters in the family, or some girls in the house are Miss Lengchong, but they have learned to be pretentious, eat and wear, and the accumulation of hundreds of years of the big family, and the bone and wind upbringing are all in the flesh and blood.

Xianglan listened to Lin Jinlou's words, smiled reluctantly, and stuffed a pair of small hands into his hands, as if there was strength poured into his body: "At first, I thought that if my grandfather and they came back in this life like me, maybe they could see each other in this life, but later I realized that there was a mystery in the next life, the sea of people is vast, life is impermanent, people who were together in the previous life, they should not know if they meet in this life, even if they meet, they don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse. I'm just holding regrets, after all, I haven't even seen my loved ones for the last time."

Lin Jinlou saw Xianglan looking out of the window melancholy, his eyebrows were clear, like hibiscus with dew, he couldn't tell what it was like, Xianglan and he poured out the most secret things, that is, he believed in him wholeheartedly, he was distressed, but he was a little relieved, stretched out his arms to hold her in his arms, and said after a while: "Whether you are from a maid's background, or a young lady of the Shen family, for me, you are you, my daughter-in-law, there is no difference, but you have suffered so much, it makes people feel uncomfortable. How did the Shen family not have it, it is still a taboo now, and the East Palace once sighed privately that the Shen family was killed too hard that day. In the future, when the new monarch ascends the throne, he will definitely give the Shen family a good reputation."

After he finished speaking, Xianglan didn't move for a long time, and after a while, he lowered his head and saw that she was quietly nesting in his arms, already in tears.

Lin Jinlou took a handkerchief and wiped the tears on her face, hugged her and shook her gently, looked out of the window, only to see that the sky was dark, and it was already the time to hold the lamp. There's a temple fair outside, and it's very lively."

Xianglan said in a hoarse voice: "But there are many people outside, so it's crowded again."

"How can I take you to a crowded place? Let's go, I'll take you to a wonderful place."

After he finished ordering people to prepare the things to be used, Xianglan was depressed, and she really wanted to go out for a walk, and both of them changed their clothes to go out. Xianglan took a sedan chair from the corner gate of the house to go out, all the way through the market street, it was very lively, the sound of the two lines of sales was endless, the sedan chair was carried to a small hill not far away, Lin Jinlou had already ordered soldiers. [,！ ] will wait for the guards to clear the mountain and open the way.

Xianglan got off the sedan chair, Lin Jinlou took her hand, and the two walked up the bluestone steps together, and there was a pavilion on the mountainside not long after. Lingqing, Lingsu, Xuening have long been there, the candlestick is lit with several red candles, and there is a delicate palace lamp hanging overhead, the stone bench is covered with a large thick mattress of satin, and the silver gilt beast ear stove on the stone table is burned with incense to repel mosquitoes, green smoke curls, and seasonal fruits are placed, and various candied pastries are placed with pink and white official kiln plates. Almonds, banxia, incense, olives, mint, cinnamon, yam cakes, rhombus cakes, toad cakes, feta cheeses, rose preserves, etc. When Lingsu saw that the two of them were coming, he was busy making hot tea, the tea was fragrant and hot. Seeing Lin Jinlou waving his hand, the three of them retreated lightly.

"Well, it's good here, right? Originally, I was thinking about taking you over to enjoy the moon during the Midyear Festival."

"It's a great place to go." Pandan nodded.

The two of them just stood side by side, with only the chirping of autumn worms in their ears. I saw that under the hill was a noisy market. The lights are bright, like daytime, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians. And the sky is low, and the night is so thick that it can't be dissolved, but I see the stars sparsely flickering, and a round of ice hanging in the sky. Like a jade plate, the world and the sky reflect each other. I feel like I'm born. This place is clearly in the mortal world, and the world is independent, just a small place, as if there are only two of them left in the world.

Lin Jinlou stretched out his hand to hug Xianglan. Pandan rested her head on his shoulder. The two were quiet, neither of them spoke, and they were both indulged in such a tacit and warm intimacy.

Not much. There was a babbling singing voice looming in his ears, and Lin Jinlou frowned and said, "Bypassing this pavilion, there is a moon tower playing up. There are dignitaries and nobles who are there to admire the moon and have fun, and they must have asked the opera to come and sing."

Xianglan smiled: "It's a beautiful singing, it's still a break in "Leaving a Dream"."

Lin Jinlou touched his nose and muttered, "It's so decent, I have to sing this one." It turned out that after "The Legend of Orchid Layman" was sung among the people, someone expanded the original 12-fold play to 18 folds, and added a few places to the story, but Xianglan had a little scholar who was in love with each other before, Lin Jinlou beat the mandarin duck to save Xianglan's father, so as to coerce her into the house and wait for her to return, and re-composed the song, renamed "Lanxiang Yuan", because the lyrics are beautiful and elegant, and the song is moving, it is sung very quickly. provoked Lin Jinlou's face to be black for several days after he knew it, but now that play has become a household name, and it is even more famous than the previous "Mandarin Duck Dream". Xianglan couldn't help but smile and said: "It's not true that it has been changed, so why bother uncle." Lin Jinlou only hated and said: "Let the master know who made it up, I have to kill him!" Seeing Xianglan pursing her lips and smiling, she couldn't help but be stupid. Now this "Leaving a Dream" is the fold of Lin Jinlou's forced Xianglan to enter the house as a concubine.

The singing voice turned back and forth, as if telling the grievances in her heart that day into the house, now into the ear, the past will be like a tide of swarming, time back when she entered the Lin family on the day she encountered the evil master, frequently suffered, after the trick to say goodbye to the past, save his father as a concubine, and was framed, everywhere against his will, every time he went to a desperate situation, thought that he would not be able to go on, shed a lot of tears, did a lot of stupid things, but he was able to be strong, step by step blood and tears, but also more and more steady, every time he crossed a hurdle he could mature the governor, and finally shed off the bloated and angular of the body, Slowly polish the crude and arrogant heart into a pearl and jade, return to the beginning, and look at the world with the greatest kindness and humility and harmony.

Lin Jinlou suddenly asked, "I treated you like that at the beginning, I was really a bastard when I thought about it."

Xianglan was surprised, turned her head to look at him, his face flickered in the candlelight, and Xianglan said: "I have long forgotten what you treated me badly before." She stretched out her hand and took Lin Jinlou's big palm over and covered it on her abdomen, looking at his eyes, "It will be long and far away in the future, not to mention, we still have him." As he spoke, he smiled with relief: "There were all kinds of ups and downs at the beginning, but because my karma has not disappeared."

This faint smile is far more touching than a smile, Lin Jinlou's face changed slightly, some moved, some sad, and some joyful, he looked straight into Xianglan's eyes, as if he wanted to see her soul and engrave her in his own blood and bones.

He took Xianglan's hand and said, "You come." Pulled her to the outside of the pavilion, ordered someone to present a tray, and pointed: "Today, according to the custom, I want to put lotus lanterns in the river, but there is no river here, so let's put this instead, this is a prayer lantern, a wish to release bad luck." The lantern was made of red paper, more than half a person tall, extremely large, and the two of them dragged it, Lin Jinlou took out the fire fold and lit the oil paper in the lantern.

The fire in the lamp flickered, making the face like Xianglan and white jade more and more starry-eyed, and the peach cheeks were dizzy, Lin Jinlou almost looked stupid, and only came back to his senses after a while: "Let go." As soon as the two put their hands down, the lamp flew into the sky, and Lin Jinlou lit the next one with her.

The two of them lit ten sky lanterns together, and ordered the guards, and the maids lit more than forty lanterns. The moonlight is like water, sprinkling a piece of silver light, and the lantern flies into the sky, and the stars are dotted, bright as gold, and it is very spectacular. Many people under the hill saw it and stopped and stretched out their hands to point.

Xianglan admired and couldn't stop looking up.

Lin Jinlou smiled and asked, "Like it?"

Pandan nodded.

Lin Jinlou took a white sky lantern again: "This lamp is for the deceased, what you want to say to your relatives in your previous life, it is written on it, and people say that the deceased relatives will see it if there are spirits underground."

Xianglan picked up the pen, thought about it for a while, brushed a little bit, turned a hundred soft intestines in the abdomen, but there were only a few sentences in the pen: "Yin and yang are separated, I miss the bones, and tears are in my eyes. I am afraid that we will never see each other again in the past and this life, but we will never forget each other. I'm well, I hope it's cherished." After lighting the lamp with his own hands, he pushed it into the sky with Lin Jinlou.

Xianglan looked up at the lamp drifting farther and farther, and the night wind rose, blowing her temples a little scattered.

Lin Jinlou took off the big hat and draped it on her shoulders, took her and looked at her from afar, and asked, "What did you just write?". [,！ ]

"Nothing, just that I'm fine now, and I hope they can all be well."

"Feel better?"

"Well, it's a lot more comfortable."

"Then from now on, I will regret it again, just take this as a goodbye to my relatives in my previous life, whether it was windy or rainy, or miserable, hurry up and turn the page, you will have me in the future." Lin Jinlou lowered his head as he said and kissed her forehead.

Xianglan only felt that something was stuffed in her chest, and the old things seemed to have really become extremely light all of a sudden, so crisp that they would break when the wind blew. She had a full stomach full of words to pour out to Lin Jinlou, but she choked in her throat, but she couldn't say a word, just looked at him in a daze.

Lin Jinlou looked solemn and said in a calm voice: "I have nothing else to ask for."

She couldn't ask for anything else.

She looked at him, and the two faced each other silently.

In this world, the hustle and bustle is warm, full of sky lanterns, full of singing, full of heavenly sounds, full of lively and noisy market crowds under the mountain, red dust, all of which are fireworks; But the whole world is so silent and silent, quiet as mountains, quiet as emerald, quiet as the autumn wind, quiet as the full moon like frost on the treetops, all things have become nirvana, and have entered the realm of lifelessness.

The wind blew Xianglan's clothes and skirts, making her in a trance for a moment, completely ignorant of dreams and dreams, past and present lives, completely unaware of where she was, and only this person was in her eyes in all directions, and she couldn't stuff the next to her, she was in the realm of completely forgetting things and me, and her heart kept calling her lover's name.

(End of text) (To be continued)

ps: Three years ago, during the Midyear Festival, Xianglan and Song Ke let go of the lotus lantern by the river, without writing a word, with the anxiety and desire to continue the frontier in their hearts; Three years later, during the Midyear Festival, Xianglan and Lin Jinlou released sky lanterns on the hills, writing a sentence to say goodbye to the old days, with peace and security in their hearts.

The ending chapter is finally complete.

There are always readers who want to write a lot of sweetness, but I really don't like to sprinkle dog blood silly white sweet and blindly show grace love festival, and the outline is set to end here, the wine is slightly drunk, when the flowers are half blooming, here is just right, it is the best ending in my heart.

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