Azul sat quietly in the courtyard, looking up at the big moon overhead.

My mind drifted, and I remembered the words of Teacher Nalan on the side after I promised Abba in the temple today.

Nalan Shanyue could see that he was distracted in the hall, but he didn't break it, and smiled faintly.

"It is normal for people to be young and dependent on their parents, and to know people and admire colors when they are old, and they don't have to be so young.

When the daughter of a rich family reaches the age of marriage, she will open the wine jar, roast the rock sheep, recruit young people from all over the world, and release a bunch of red ewes when she gets drunk.

Whoever can ride a horse to grab the ewe, is the strongest grassland man, can win the beauty, sheep will be the grassland of the general large family to choose a son-in-law, in order to choose the strongest and bravest son-in-law among the young people, continue the family bloodline.

However, the nobles of our Shuofeng Department have been living for several generations without herding sheep on grass, and besides, your status is different from that of ordinary grassland people, so we will just talk about the sheep holding meeting, and we will no longer hold it.

But the feast is still indispensable, and there is still half a month to go, and it is enough for us to inform the Helian family and prepare for your marriage for you. ”

After Nalan Shanyue said this, he touched Asule, who he regarded as his nephew and nephew, but there was a trace of pity in his eyes, and the Shuofeng Lord on the side, who was originally cold-faced, also sighed in a low voice.

"Let's go down and recuperate, take a few breaths, and then go to this grand event in the whole of Hokuriku, your big wedding is the top priority for our Shuofeng and even Hokuriku!"

Azule's face darkened, but he didn't say anything more, and bowed and exited the main hall.

At this time, Azule stared at the big moon above his head, stunned.

Bao Yin's appearance suddenly floated in front of him, and when he first saw it, a hook of cornices cut off the sunset, and in the huge pale crimson sun wheel, a girl in a flaming red dress pouted and dangled her legs and sang a song he didn't understand.

Whenever he thinks of Baoyin, he always has an indescribable joy, faint, and then the whole person seems to sink, like a deep dream, although he knows the illusion, but he doesn't want to pull out.

"Azul, what does it feel like to be married!"

Ah Qi tilted his head sideways, glanced at the starry sky, and said in a daze.

"I haven't gotten married yet, I don't know yet."

"And what does it feel like to like someone?"

"Ah Qi, do you mean Miss Turan?" After a moment of silence, Azule said in a low voice.

Ah Qi was startled and looked straight at Azule.

Azule also looked at Ah Qi, his gaze was quiet, without a trace of ridicule or mockery.

Ah Qi was stunned for a while, then turned his head: "Why did you suddenly talk about this?" ”

"I just remembered it suddenly. At the feast last year, the daughters of all the nobles were summoned to the palace to reward cakes, and Turan played the piano for Abba in front of the palace. It's not that I'm in the extreme, it won't be like this. ”

Ah Qi's face flushed: "I didn't expect your mind to be so detailed...... These are all seen. ”

"Then the Turan girl is fifteen, right? It's almost the age of marriage. Ah Qi thought about it, but just sighed.

"Ah Qi, you don't have to worry, Miss Turan is General Shuoshi's favorite daughter, looking at the entire Shuofeng Department, there are very few people who can be worthy of such a family, and even fewer people who can be worthy of Miss Tulan. It is good for both of you that Miss Turan marries you. ”

Ah Qi shook his head a little disappointed: "These are just my own fantasies, and the Turan girl doesn't see me very much, so I sent someone to send her something, and she only received Donglu's poetry and piano scores, and also gave back some porcelain, and there is no shortage of gifts."

And I am still a witch who studied with the teacher, and the witch cannot get married, and must serve the god of Pantar for the rest of his life.

I also told my father a few times, but my father said that men should have great ambitions, and marrying just to marry a woman is the practice of peddlers and apprentices in the market. ”

"Ah Qi, I'll teach you a way, you can try it to know if Miss Turan has you in mind."

"Oh?" Ah Qi's eyes widened, "What did you teach me, Azule?" ”

"Don't dare to preach, I haven't gotten married, how can I have any ability? It's just that I think if the Turan girl cares about you, she will definitely care about the little things around you.

For example, if you like someone, you will remember the clothes she wore when you first met, and remember the trivial things she told you.

Turan likes the poetry of the Eastern Continent, and the next time you send a collection of poems, you can transcribe a copy of other people's poems, and you can make a few mistakes. If Miss Turan flipped through it and found a typo, she should have mentioned it in the letter when she returned the gift, in that case, she really cares about you. ”

Ah Qi was stunned for a moment, and clapped his hands vigorously: "Okay!" What a solution! How could I never have thought of it? ”

Azul couldn't help but smile as he watched him stand up, rubbing his palms together and pacing back and forth, as if he was eager to transcribe a book of poems immediately.

"What time is set for the wedding ceremony on the fifteenth?"

Ah Qi stopped: "At dusk fifteen days later, the Donglu script, the so-called 'marriage', is the 'dusk' of dusk." In the afternoon, there is a big feast, at dusk, and at night, it is a big ceremony for husband and wife. ”

"Well," Azul nodded, "I want to go outside and play the flute." ”

"I heard that you like to play the flute very much, but you have never heard of it, so I have the honor to listen to it today."

Ah Qi watched him silently stroke the purple bamboo flute on the case, and suddenly woke up in his heart, his actions were a little outrageous.

"My aunt taught me when I was a child, and I studied it for a long time."

The two of them walked to the terrace and looked at the houses of the Shizi's Mansion under the moon, the eaves were connected and stretched out, and the blue light reflected on the glazed tiles like sea waves.

The palace people walked through the alley in the distance with a lantern of red yarn, and the light flashed away.

In the silence, Azul wiped the flute with his cuff and tried a few notes.

He blew like water overflowing from every hole of the flute.

Ah Qi was taken aback, he knew that the flute was a musical instrument that Azule liked very much, but he never felt that he didn't play it very well, but some witches who were proficient in musical instruments played it better.

And now the sound of Azul's flute only swirls gently in the low places, but there are countless changes, and they are inextricably linked. It took a long time for the flute to jump, but it was not as varied as Wusa's tune, but it was only a light flash of joy, and then it turned low again.

Ah Qi is also proficient in music, desperately trying to figure out the changes and meanings in it, and he can't help but be in a trance, until Azule finishes the song, he shuddered.

"Sometimes I don't blow it, and I don't know it well." Azul shook his head.

Ah Qi clapped his hands: "I understand!" It is the meaning of nostalgia, but it is actually family affection. ”

"Affection?"

"I didn't understand it when I first heard it, but then I thought about the vast grassland, and finally understood. Asule, you're blowing about family affection. It was like the grassland as far as the eye could see, and the relatives traveled far away, and the person who played the flute stayed outside the tent, watching the wind blow the grass low, waiting for the man to return.

So the tune is always low, only occasionally the wind comes, and I see the shepherds and horses in the distance, and they meet it, but it is not, so there is only the sound of the wind, and they still look at each other.

It's just a little more lost," Ah Qi admired, "If you want to talk about spirituality, this flute is already a masterpiece." ”

Lu Guichen stayed for a long time, lowered his head, and the shadow of Grandma suddenly jumped out of his mind, and he found that he sometimes easily remembered Grandma.

And this flute was also taught to him by his grandmother, when he was a child, when he wanted to sleep, his grandmother made a bed for him, served him to sleep, gently stroked her forehead, he felt that grandma's hands were so warm and soft, so all worries dissipated, and finally fell asleep deeply.

He woke up in the middle of the night, and outside the tent was the faint sound of the flute, turning back, a long night.

"Grandma, I miss you!"

Let's get married, let's get married.

Imperial capital, Tianyuan City.

The night is lonely, across the water, the town bell of the Confucian Temple rang loudly, the bell came far away in the cool night, the water on the Phoenix Pond rippled, and a round of moon shadows shattered.

"Listening to the bell in the Temple of Literature" and "watching the sword in the Temple of Wu" are two things that the children of the family must do when they first arrive in Tianyuan.

The Confucian Temple enshrines a huge bronze bell given by the First Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty seven hundred years ago, and the Wu Temple is a sword that followed the First Emperor in battle.

It's just that seven hundred years have passed, the bell of the Temple of Literature and the sword of the Temple of Wu no longer have the atmosphere of the battlefield of the past, the war has never invaded the prosperous Tianyuan again, and under the moon on the summer night, everything has become soft and charming.

There is a famous emperor among the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Rui of Zhou studied poetry all his life, and he likes to drive the carriage at night, stop on the Yue Bridge by the Phoenix Pond to listen to the bell, look at the shadow of the towers piercing the sky in the distance, and murmur alone.

As an emperor, he had the talent of the world, and he wrote the poems he thought of on the bridge on paper, and then folded them into paper boats one by one, and put a piece of candle left over from the palace in the boat, and put a little spark, and put it into the distance through the flowing water under the bridge.

In the distance downstream, a group of people waited unsightly every night to pick up the paper boats, and when luck the water did not stain the ink, they could be sold for thousands of gold baht in the bazaar of the Temple of Literature.

Later, the collection of "Zhou Ruidi's Personal Writing" was collected from Zhou Ruidi's paper boats.

Emperor Zhou Rui died at the age of seventy on the Yue Bridge. From afar, the inner eunuchs watched the aging emperor tremble as he lowered a paper boat, sat on the shore of the rising water, washed his feet, and never stood up again.

The last paper boat that the people downstream picked up wrote: "Listening to the clock by the waterside for 70 years, I ended this life." ”

Many years later, people who come to Yueqiao again, listening to the bell of the Confucian Temple, most of them do not think that the ancient bronze bell is an alarm bell, but to remember the free and easy farewell after listening to the bell by the waterside for 70 years.

When the moonlight is thick, the water surface is quiet and rippling.

An ark was anchored by the pool, its hull noticeably larger than that of an average ship in the night, and it could barely run horses on deck. The Phoenix Pond is connected to the Shunfeng Canal, and then a direct flow of water is built, and the big boats on the river can always slip up into Tianyuan City, and the Phoenix Pond is also dug deep, which can accommodate the flat-bottomed big boats.

The men on board raised their hands, and the sturdy sailor propped up the hull with a long pole and slowly pushed it to the shore.

It is not easy for such a large ship to sail, the sails are too big, and it is inconvenient to open it until the deep water can turn around.

The sound of horses' hooves came from the darkness, the great ship had gradually slipped out of the dock into the deep water, and the sailors looked back to see the movement, and in the dead of night, the carriages and horses were sparsely coming, and a man stood silently on the bridge.

A cavalry army rushed to the figure standing on the bridge.

"Princess, the Queen Mother asked you to go back to the palace!"

"I'm not going back, I'm going to Hokuriku!"

"Princess, the Queen Mother has an order, you must go back to the palace!"

It was a beautiful woman, alone, standing against the railing, with a desolate face.

"I just want to ask him in person, where is my Wenyue not worthy of being his big clan!"

Liangzhou, Helian Department.

Helian Yu picked up scissors and cut off the candles, and the room was a little brighter.

The inside of the Baihuatang is quiet, even though it is separated by wooden screens and lattices, it still seems to be a little empty.

Helian Duoduo and Helian Yu sat across a table, neither of them talking much, only the sound of frogs chirping outside.

"It's so deserted," Helian Yu didn't have anything to say, "I haven't come to Eleventh Sister's side to walk around much before across a wall, I didn't expect it to be so quiet here." Compared with Brother Jiu's side, it seems flashy and unreal. ”

"Xiao Su and Yu'er were fine when they were there, but I don't know where they went tonight, maybe they were greedy for food."

"If the eleventh sister likes these two, let them follow you in the future. Before the girl gets married, she is afraid, there are few people to accompany the room, your temperament is more delicate, there will be no less than a dozen people who need to accompany the room in the future, call Xiao Su and Yu'er to go over, you are also familiar with the character, you can calm your heart. ”

"Brother Jiu is really thoughtful. It's late at night, is Brother Jiu tired? Helian Duoduo lowered his head and said politely, but it meant to send off guests.

"It's nothing, talk to the eleventh sister."

The two of them were silent for a while, and Helian Yu suddenly said, "I'm really sorry for this matter." ”

Helian Duoduo looked up in surprise.

Helian Yu smiled, "The men's things need you to do, Brother Jiu is sorry for you!" ”

"Brother Jiu has said it," Helian Duoduo waved his hand at a loss, "It's actually all trivial. Here, everyone is very kind to me, and if I go to Shuofeng, I will definitely miss my hometown. ”

"I miss home, just come back and see more, Hanliang Erzhou is only a thousand miles away, soon!" Helian Yu laughed.

He noticed that his sister's expression changed slightly, and somehow, in that change, the autumn cold outside the window suddenly became heavier.

Helian Yu smiled, got up and closed the window.

The two men sat across from each other and fell silent again.

"Eleventh sister, how do you feel now?" Helian Yu asked in a low voice.

"Actually......" Helian Duoduo hesitated, "Don't hide it from Brother Jiu, my heart is very chaotic during the day, I just feel ...... The person's appearance kept dangling in front of me, listening to the voices outside, so many people coming and going to prepare for my wedding, but I didn't know what to do, I didn't know where to put myself, and I didn't know what everything was for. ”

Helian Yu sighed lowly: "It must be very painful in my heart, right?" ”

"Yes, I used to only read books about heartache, and I didn't know what heartache was like. Now I kind of understand that it's like someone pinching my heart, and I can't shake it off.

I want to shout loudly, and I want to bite something. Helian Duoduo blushed slightly, "I ate a lot of shortbread, and I ate very strongly, but I feel that if I eat hard, there is something to do, and it will be better." Xiao Su and the others were all strange, saying that I didn't have that much to eat before. ”

"But," her smile faded, "no matter how you eat, it feels very uncomfortable, just very uncomfortable...... It's very uncomfortable. ”

Helian Yu was stunned and didn't say anything for a long time.

Helian Duoduo smiled again: "But sitting here, talking to Brother Jiu, people can't help but be quiet, and they think of many, many things." I remember when I was very young, Abba always pointed to the young man who went into the Golden Tent to pay homage and asked me which one I liked, and when he said that he liked it, he would send someone to help me keep an eye on it early, so as not to be robbed of someone's daughter first...... At that time, I was only four or five years old, and I didn't know anything, so I said that this was good, that was good, and finally said that I wanted it, and they all played with me, and Abba and Dawusa laughed at me.

Now that I'm finally getting married, it's a pity that Abba and you don't see me often.

After that, I would see my man every morning when I got up, I would have breakfast with him, he would go hunting in the afternoon, I would go out and play with the birds and cats, and I would talk to someone at night.

If I'm sick, he'll take care of me, and if he's sick, I'll watch over him, and I don't know what he's going to think in the future, but he'll tell me. ”

Helian Duoduo muttered, "Actually, thinking about it like this, I seem to be a little happy in my heart...... Besides, he is also very good, and he is a proud son. ”

Helian Yu nodded: "Ah Tongyun was actually very satisfied when he saw you, and he pretended to be in his heart at first, and he released it at night."

During the day I went by to see her teaching a few mothers-in-law how to comb your hair around, and picking out the new wedding dress she showed you in the city, and she herself hummed a tune to pick out the good ones for you.

I couldn't help but tease her twice, saying that it wasn't your wedding, she scolded me and said that you will be her brother and sister in the future, of course, you have to be cautious, I have been married to her for so many years, I have never seen her so happy. ”

"Duoduo remembers what he said to Abba in the Golden Horde that day, since I have decided to marry Shuofeng's son, I will definitely do my duty."

Helian Yu sighed and said sideways.

"We are probably too childish, in fact, in this world, how many people are engaged after meeting a few times, and then they get married, not to mention any love, and they just live their lives."

Helian Duoduo tilted his head and listened quietly.

"Abba is looking forward to Brother Jiu, right?"

"Where can I do it? I am a weak person, and I should not have been born in such turbulent times. Your husband, that's different, he's a hero, a hero who hasn't been seen on the steppe for a long time! ”

Helian Duoduo listened to his ninth brother's words, and speckled starlight rose in his eyes.

Hero, what kind of boy is that?