Chapter Twenty-Three: Heart-piercing
This parting is just for the next encounter. Regardless of whether they met next time or not, they used the greatest courage in this life to say goodbye to each other, thinking that they would never see each other again.
But it is true, after today, they have not seen each other for about three months, obviously very close to each other, neither of them wants to take that step, deliberately avoiding each other, and the two have never met.
Even on the day of the palace banquet, Shen Nanyan deliberately did not go to the banquet in order not to meet Mu Zhao, afraid of being cowardly from his hometown, and lied that he was unwell. Mu Zhao is naturally the same.
These are all later words, and there is no need to mention them again.
Besides, Mu Zhao and Shen Nanyan looked at each other and said goodbye to each other, Xie Sui has always done things properly, and he came quickly, Mu Zhao gradually watched Shen Nanyan's back drown in the crowd, and then disappeared into the street, Fang retracted his gaze.
He walked slowly forward, letting the bitterness in his heart spread to his chest.
From then on, thousands of red dust, he alone is enough.
When he learned that Shen Nanyan had been silently obsessed with himself that day, he was ecstatic, how big the world was, and a few words were not enough to describe the joy and joy.
Mu Zhaoqiang endured the bitterness, and recalled those words with a smile, there was a moment in his life when he was very close to the moon, and this was it, and there were no regrets.
"My stupid sister is not very old, she is young and easy to be influenced by children, she is infatuated with you......"
"What if I say it's not infatuation?"
"The infatuation has been wrongly paid, how do you want me not to love?"
Shen Mansion
As soon as he returned to the mansion, Shen Nanyan looked as usual, there were no major ups and downs, and after bathing as usual, he changed into clean clothes, and after finishing everything, Ah Ci and they also came back.
She sent Ah Ci to take a good bath again, and then Shen's mother sent someone to invite her to the front hall for dinner.
"You go to the kitchen and come back with a bowl of ginger soup for Ah Ci, the weather is cold today, drink a bowl of ginger soup to drive away the cold." Shen Nanyan commanded the maid next to her who was combing her hair.
The maid was about to speak, but Hong Sakura brought a few pieces of pastry and took over: "When I brought ginger soup to the young lady just now, I brought an extra bowl of ginger soup by the way, and now it is being warmed with hot water, and Miss Ah Ci can drink it when she comes out after taking a bath." ”
Hongying wanted to come to do things properly and thoughtfully, and she was very measured, Shen Nanyan was very relieved to her: "I know, then you can stay in the courtyard to see if Ah Ci needs anything, I will let Qingyin accompany me to the front hall." ”
Light illusion is the maid who combed Shen Nanyan's hair just now, she looks a little good, she was sold to the Qinglou by her perennial gambling father since she was a child, and she was used to exchange money to continue gambling, she is a strong character, and when she saw that the black-hearted father who couldn't do it treated her like this, where was she willing to be sold to the Qinglou like this.
So, she tried every possible way to escape from the Qinglou and ran to the street, and when Shen Jin went out to school that day, she happened to be chased by human traffickers, and ransomed her with a wave of his hand.
She has a good appearance, a strong temperament, and a smart person, and Shen Jin asked her to take care of Shen Nanyan.
At that time, the situation between the DPRK and China was complex and changeable, and the Shen family had to follow the will of the emperor to go to the border pass, and it was not appropriate for people to bring too much, so she was left in the Shen Mansion as an ordinary sweeping maid.
After Song Heng ascended the throne, Shen Nanyan and the others returned to the capital according to their will, and the housekeeper was afraid that there would be not enough manpower, so he sent her to Nanyuan to serve Shen Nanyan again.
Ah Ci grew up with Shen Nanyan since he was a child, and his feelings are naturally different from others, Hongying has also served Shen Nanyan for a while, and she is a proper and cautious person, so she is naturally a celebrity in Shen Nanyan, only she has been going around for so many years and still hasn't been able to show her face in front of Miss.
She is not a person who clings to the powerful, and not being able to show her face in front of Miss is not to say how disappointed she is, but she thinks that she is a strong character and has a strong personality, Shen Jin redeemed her for her back then and saved her from the dire situation, she is a person who knows how to repay her kindness, naturally she wants to repay his kindness, he asked her to serve Shen Nanyan, she naturally has to do her best to complete it.
But fortunately, Shen Nanyan has seen her a few times, and after the first meeting, she was given the word "light yin", replacing her usual "red and blue".
"The indifference is light and cold to go up to the small building, and Xiaoyin is like a poor autumn. The light smoke and flowing water paint the screen. The free flying flowers are as light as a dream, and the boundless rain is as thin as sorrow. The curtain hangs with a small silver hook. Is it okay for you to call it light yin? The beauty of lightness and softness. The sandalwood was swirling, and Shen Nanyan's cold voice sounded in the room, deep and ethereal.
She had read a book and knew a few words, and after Shen Nanyan finished reading it that day, she silently remembered it and went to the library to read it many times.
This poem with Huanxi Sha as the name of the word plate was written by Qin Guan, roughly expressing the sorrow of spring, and the annotation of later generations is that the spring dream is groundless and the boundless sorrow, but through the window to take the pen in the distance of the flying flowers and drizzle, more and more feel a kind of ethereal hazy, not that is, inseparable beauty. The scenery is also affectionate and gentle and tortuous, and sorrow comes from it.
She didn't understand what it meant, but she knew that her young lady was very sad.
Shen Nanyan is the most beautiful woman she has ever seen in the world, talented, excessively beautiful, illustrious family, plus her cold and arrogant temperament should have been the most chic woman in time, but unexpectedly, she was also worried.
"It's raining today, and when I go back at night, I'll ask Hongying to prepare a bowl of ginger soup for you to drink, so that it won't hurt so much tomorrow morning." Mother Shen took a bowl of red bean and barley porridge and handed it to Shen Nanyan, and gently instructed.
"Okay." Shen Nanyan took the porridge and drank it slowly.
There are not many kinds of meals on the table, but they are all exquisite, the meat and vegetables are salty and light, the soup is only a bowl of sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup, the porridge has milk sugar japonica rice porridge and japonica porridge, as well as goose paw duck letter, rose marinade, and wood dew.
The chefs of the Shen Mansion were specially hired from the Western Regions for a lot of money, and their cooking skills were nothing to say, not only the taste was excellent, but also the appearance was good.
As a century-old scholarly family, the Shen Mansion has a solid foundation, and the accumulated wealth can no longer be described as 'two' and 'gold'. Far from many of the new magnates.
The new aristocrats were not from high backgrounds before, most of them were wealthy in this generation or the previous generation, and their eating habits had not changed, so they had no time to cultivate the elegant aesthetics of the atmosphere, and they liked luxurious things in their diets and clothes, and they also ate with big fish and meat, and they were full of fat, and they wore gold and silver jewelry with red and purple as the beauty, thinking that this could show wealth and prosperity.
In fact, if the oil is overflowing, it will accumulate in the body, which can easily cause the skin to be oily and yellow. Too much gold and silver jewelry is too cumbersome and tacky, which is not in line with the beauty advocated by the capital. Most of the costumes are comfortable and atmospheric, and the colors should not be too bright, which inevitably looks vulgar.
The Shen family has a history of 100 years and can be regarded as a century-old family. Although he is from the martial arts, he is also a scholarly family, and there are many people who have studied and entered the ranks of the ancestors, most of whom are not as good as those who are from the martial arts, so the Shen family is gradually known to the world mostly because of the martial arts family. In fact, otherwise, Shen's cultural heritage and scholarly atmosphere are still strong.
This kind of big family has a lot of dedication to the aesthetic taste, hobbies, and talent cultivation of their children, and the horseback archery I talked about last time is the tip of the iceberg, and when it comes to Shen Jin's generation, it is more than enough to be a princess in the previous generation of the Shen family.
Seeing Shen Nanyan drinking porridge there, Shen's father glanced at Shen's mother.
Mother Shen knew what Father Shen meant, thought for a while, and asked, "Yan Yan, I heard that it was Xie Sui by Mu Gongzi's side who sent you back just now?" ”
Early in the morning, I heard news that Miss had entered the city with Cheng Mu at the beginning, and then she was standing on the streets of the city with Mu Zhao to talk, and then Xie sent her to the gate of the mansion.
Shen's father roughly guessed Shen Nanyan's infatuation early in the morning, and when he heard the news coming back today, he was startled, and others didn't know, how could they not know Shen Nanyan's heart for Mu Zhao, what must have happened, and now Mu Zhao didn't send her back.
Hearing Shen's mother say his name from her mouth, Shen Nanyan felt like a world away, although she had only been seen for a few hours, she could remember that he seemed to have faded out of her life: "Well......"
Seeing that her daughter didn't raise her head and her emotions didn't fluctuate at all, Shen's father and Shen's mother breathed a sigh of relief one after another.
As the saying goes, there is nothing more sad than the death of the heart, and when it comes to sadness, it is often silent, and there is no fluctuation in the mood.
It's not that Shen's father and Shen's mother don't care about Shen Nanyan, but because she has hardly had any major emotional changes since she was a child, and sad things rarely happen. Now that I saw that Shen Nanyan didn't react, I thought she was okay.
"Yan Yan, if you really like Mu Zhao's kid, Dad will help you bring Mu Zhao to you and help you increase your chances of getting along." Shen Nanyan doesn't seem to care about it now, but in fact, her heart hurts to death, but Shen's father wants to mention Mu Zhao here frequently and stab her in the heart.
Father Shen's words have actually been said extremely tactfully, he has been marching and fighting for many years, he is informal, hearty and sincere, if he had tied Mu Zhao to his daughter in the past, because Shen Nanyan has a cold temperament, it will be impossible to do this, so he has to say that he will create an opportunity for them to get along.
"No, Dad." Shen Nanyan naturally knew Shen's father's kindness, and couldn't bear to show his impatience directly to make his father and mother cold, so he had to refuse gently.
She desperately hoped that it would be good if Shen Jin was here at the moment, he was cheerful and could easily mobilize the atmosphere and divert the topic, and now she was left alone to dine with Shen's father and them, but she didn't know how to get along with them.
She chewed the food without feeling, and she didn't know the taste of food, and Shen's mother was afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat enough, so she kept putting vegetables into her bowl.
The dishes in the bowl were piled up as high as a hill, and when she heard Father Shen muttering in her ear what she didn't want to hear, her heart was depressed, and she couldn't eat it anymore.
"Dad, mother, I'm full, I'll go back to the house first." Time passed extremely long, and she was tormented several times in her heart, and after calculating the hours and finding that it had been long enough, she spoke softly, interrupting Mother Shen, who was about to speak.
Mother Shen raised her head, looked at the unfinished dishes in Shen Nanyan's bowl, and paused when she saw that her cold face was the same as usual, and said cordially: "Then you go back early, let the maid pay attention on the way, beware of falling." ”