Chapter 3 Drunken Country Pavilion
01
The twilight is deep, and the moon is about to rise. The surroundings were pale and yellow.
Liu Tangli was in a hurry, she looked at the door plaque, and what was written was not the previous "Drunken Township Pavilion", but called "Warm Fragrance Pavilion".
She patted the wooden door, and someone came to open it.
Liu Tangli saw three elderly women coming, and they looked at her with curious eyes.
Liu Tangli pointed to the cat on the wall and said embarrassedly, "Can you help me take it down?" ”
"Go, go, little girl." The door slammed and shut.
Liu Tangli continued to shoot, she wanted to say, it's okay to borrow a chair.
Pat pat pat ......
The door opened again, and this time it was a sixteen or seventeen girl who looked like a female star, what was her name, Liu Tangli couldn't remember.
The girl asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"Can you lend me a chair?"
"What's it for?"
"My cat is on the wall."
The girl moved a bench and stuck it to the base of the wall. She stood on the stool, her toes tucked, and reached out to grab the cat down.
She asked, "What's your name, girl?" ”
"Begonia pear, begonia flower, pear pear. Over there in the West Wing. Liu Tangli took the cat and held it in his arms.
02
The stars are already twinkling in the sky, blinking and blinking. Like the eyes of a child.
After Liu Tangli returned the cat, he watched the night sky in the courtyard. She was not happy because at night here, there was no electricity, no cell phones, in short, nothing.
She saw Xiaocui at the gate of the courtyard, looking around. He looked excited, as if he was watching something interesting.
Liu Tangli asked, "What's going on outside?" She heard Xiao Cui answer her excitedly, the third prince, the third prince.
Liu Tangli shook the pu fan and thought, it must be to see the girl who "came out of the mud without staining". She said in her heart, then I'll go and see how to not stain it.
03
There are many red lanterns hanging in the drunken village pavilion, which reflect the starlight in the distance. The courtyard is splendid.
Liu Tang pear is still hidden in the grass of the dog's tail, looking at the countless men and women inside.
The men are all dressed elegantly, and they look like noble sons. And the women wore light gauze and long sleeves, like fairies flying from the sky.
Several maidens were dancing, flicking their long sleeves as thin as dragonfly wings. The one who played the piano was still the woman in red last time.
After the dancing girl left the stage, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman she saw in the evening also appeared.
The long dress on the woman's body is embroidered with lotus flowers, and the flowers are about to bloom. I don't know what kind of process is used, but the lotus flower blooms under the dance.
Her clothes are not transparent, but her eyes are charming, and her dancing is very provocative and provocative, as if she must attract everyone's attention before she stops.
The woman danced from the courtyard to the small pavilion, and she gently touched a person's lips with her long, thin fingers, and then quickly danced elsewhere.
She giggled, her eyes were full of affection, and she danced three times and turned around, as if to say, "Come on, come on!" ”
But after the man was stunned for a moment, he reacted and walked away.
"The Three Princes." Liu Yansong called out to him, and then chased him out.
Liu Tangli was afraid that people would find out, so she secretly went back.
04
The night was deep, the stars were hidden, but the moon was bright.
The red lanterns in the drunken pavilion were extinguished.
A woman in a lotus dress was crying, she thought, what should she do in the future, do you really want to be like those cheap hooves, live a life where no one is a ghost or a ghost?
She was a beautiful lady before, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and if she knew this, she should have been forced to die and not let her father and mother sign the deed of sale for life and death.
She heard someone laughing and looked up to see the group of women just now. She heard them whisper, "Isn't she going to serve the Third Prince?" ”
Someone replied: "Yes, they all served the three princes and left." The voice was mocking.
Someone else said, "I'm going to have to be driven here now." ”
"I don't like her."
"I don't like her either."
A group of women entered the house with a sneer on their faces and a grunt.
05
The night turns cool.
In the bedroom, there was a bit of chill.
Xiaocui blew out the candles, covered Liu Tangli with a thick quilt, and then left to sleep.
Liu Tangli felt that in her head, the sound of the piano was echoing. It's the tune just now.
06
In the morning, a bird landed on a branch outside the window, chirping.
Liu Tangli heard Xiaocui say, "Miss, there is a beautiful and tall horse outside." ”
Liu Tangli asked, "Where is it?" ”
"It's going to be a long way."
Liu Tangli put on her shoes and ran out, and sure enough, she saw a horse that was being led by a small servant. Don't know where to go? Liu Tangli followed.
I followed it for a long time, and finally I saw the little guy lead it through a door. Liu Tangli grabbed the edge of the door and looked around.
Inside was a stable, which housed not only horses, but also monkeys. She heard the little servant say politely to the groom, "This is my son-in-law, and he ordered me to send it." ”
The groom said: "This pure black horse, my young master has asked your son-in-law several times, but he has not been able to get it." How can you send it in person this time? ”
The little servant replied: "My son-in-law has fallen in love with the lotus girl and wants to exchange this horse for it." ”
The groom said, "What if my young master doesn't agree?" ”
The little guy replied: "Then I'll take it back." ”
The two of you talked for a long time. Finally, they stepped out of the door together and left.
Liu Tangli stepped forward, and her eyes were immediately drawn to a monkey. It looks like a female monkey, and she's wiping a part with hay.
When the monkey jumped elsewhere, Liu Tangli came closer and saw that it was sticky and red, like something that a woman would come to every month.
Just as he was amused, a horse lowered his head and ate the forage.
In fact, the menstrual blood of the female monkey is a traditional Chinese medicine, and it has a very nice name, called blood spirit lipid. Horses eat to ward off the plague.
In a book, it is about a monkey who went to the heavenly realm to raise horses, and his official position is called Bi Ma Wen. "Avoiding horse plague". This means that raising monkeys will keep horses free of the plague. The author's name is very subtle.
But this, Liu Tangli didn't know, she was anxious to persuade beside her, and she couldn't wait to say in horse language, what's in it, don't eat it, don't eat it again.
07
Late autumn twilight.
Lake Limpo.
Liu Tang pear leaned on the pavilion railing, watching the goldfish swimming in the water. She wondered if these fish would be envious if they saw the birds soaring in the sky.
She thought about it for a moment and thought it wouldn't. Just like ants don't envy humans playing with mobile phones, because it's not within its cognitive range.
Just like the women here, for example, sister-in-law Zhao Maochang, has been taught how to be a virtuous and virtuous wife since she was a child, and how to get along with her concubines.
She would never have thought that my man would never touch another woman.
Suddenly, there were several more figures on the bridge not far away. She looked closer.
Liu Yansong led the lotus girl and made a trick on a noble son. The noble boy replied, and both of them looked very polite.
The noble boy was extremely handsome, and his skin was fairer and more delicate than that of a young girl. He said, "Thank you Brother Liu. ”
Liu Yansong replied: "I should thank Brother Xian, women are everywhere, but a good horse like Brother Xian is hard to find." ”
The two complimented for a while, and when Liu Yansong finally wanted to leave, the lotus girl grabbed his sleeve and pleaded with her eyes. As if to say, don't, don't, don't.
Liu Yansong was a little displeased, pulled her fingers away, and left.
The lotus girl wanted to escape, but she didn't run a few steps before she was caught by the noble son's family. In the end, the noble prince took the lotus girl who kicked and yelled and left the prime minister's mansion.
Liu Tangli heard a little guy say, "Eight of them were killed." ”
Another guy replied, "It's not far from the ninth!" ”
08
Autumn leaves are fluttering down.
Liu Tangli felt as if she was stepping on a burning road. Because the maple leaves that fall on the ground are too red, there are too many.
She looked around, looking for a rabbit. It was a white red-eyed rabbit, which was given to her by Zhao Maochang a while ago.
Searching and searching, she saw two figures in the maple forest, a man and a woman. She knew both of them. One is her second brother Liu Xuqing, born to the fourth aunt; The other is a girl who plays the piano in the drunken country pavilion, and she is still wearing a red dress today.
The girl in red turned her back to the second brother and said, "Second young master, you are about to marry a wife, don't come to me again." ”
The second brother looked pained, he hugged her and said, "I begged the eldest brother for you." ”
"He won't be willing."
"I beg him, and I kneel him."
"It's useless."
The second brother turned the woman's head and asked her with tears, "Do you have him in your heart?" ”
The woman also cried, and she said, "I only have you in my heart, otherwise, I would not refuse the eldest young master to be his concubine." ”
"Let's elope, I'll wait for you here tonight."
"I'm not going, don't come to me again." The woman's voice was cold.
09
Late at night. The autumn breeze is bleak.
Warm Fragrance Pavilion. Courtyard.
The woman in red was practicing a new song, and she plucked the strings one after another, but was always dissatisfied because her heart was in turmoil.
She couldn't calm down, and the words echoed in her ears, let's elope.
The woman in charge shouted in the house, "Red girl, it's late at night, go into the house and sleep." ”
"You go to sleep first, I'll sit outside." The woman in red replied.
After sitting and staying for a long time, she finally opened the door and went out.