Chapter 1: Merlin's First Encounter
When it comes to Yanling in the Great Calendar Empire, others will say that this ancient city is beautiful and picturesque, and it is the most beautiful city in the entire Great Calendar Empire.
But Yanling people will say that the most beautiful thing is not Yanling, but the former Tanuki King's Palace in Yanling, and now the Mei Mansion.
Especially when you stand on the highest Baita Mountain in Yanling on a snowy day and look down, there is no high palace wall to block it, and when you see the thousands of red plums blooming, you will know what is truly beautiful!
At this time, in the beautiful Mei Mansion-
"Green ants are freshly brewed with wine, and the red clay is a small stove.
If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass of nothing? β
Carved fence painting building, flying pavilion Liudan, there is a fluttering snowflake falling on the plaque with the inscription "Autumn Trace Courtyard" three words, the plaque is like an autumn frost. In the yard, a few red plum blossoms are in full bloom, overlapping and overlapping, competing for beauty.
Everyone says that Jiangnan is gentle, but they don't know that the winter in Jiangnan is cold to the bone.
Take a breath of white air.
A beautiful woman in red held a silver kettle, half-lying on a warm couch, covered with velvet fur on her knees, and the green silk was like a pour, and she chanted this poem lightly.
"The master is really a talented girl!"
"Yes, our master is really brilliant!"
"She is beautiful and talented, our master is really the most perfect woman in the world!"
A few handmaidens standing next to them started their rainbow fart time.
"......" The woman in red was speechless.
It wasn't written by her, what does it matter to her writing?
The woman in red glanced at a few maidservants, and soon lowered her eyes lazily - her slightly drooping amber eyes were as indifferent as water, without a trace of ripples, and her stunning delicate face was full of laziness and indifference.
This woman in red is the owner of the Mei Mansion, Mei Zhuo, the second richest woman in Yanling who started by selling wine, Mei Zhuo, is nineteen years old this year, and she is an old girl who has not yet married. Although his face is prosperous, his personality is very lazy, and he is the best flower of wealth in the world.
"Oh, I don't know how many books we have to read to learn one percent of the master's talent."
"That's it."
"Alas, I'm afraid that we won't be able to learn one-ten-thousandth of the master's talent in a lifetime......"
The rainbow farts of the servant girl over there continued, and one said more exaggerated than the other.
Mei Zhuo grinned when she heard this, but she was still paralyzed on the collapse and lazy, occasionally drinking a sip of warm milk in the silver kettle, and when she didn't drink it, she covered the silver kettle with both hands to keep warm, because she had always been afraid of the cold.
I live in a good house, I eat and drink good things, and there are people next to me who are constantly saying praises, it stands to reason that it should be quite moisturizing, but Mei Zhuo suddenly sighed in her heart-
Seven years have passed, and things are different.
Mei Zhuo frowned, a little tired of her automatically sad dog head, obviously a good day, why should she think of those past events?
She looked sad, a little bored when she remembered those memories that were not good, but after thinking about it carefully, she was a little relieved-
She must have forgotten about him, right?
If it weren't for today's snow,
If it weren't for the enchanting red plum blossoms, it would be like the plum blossoms of the year when they first met.
If it weren't for the fact that she was doing nothing now......
Perhaps, she really can't remember that person - Wei Yin.
This name that was once engraved into her heart,
This name that once made her think alone,
This is a name she should have forgotten a long time ago.
It's good to think of him now,
The heart won't hurt anymore......
Mei Zhuo smiled with relief, got up lazily, the green silk poured like a waterfall, the eyes that were originally a little sleepy were completely opened, and the extremely beautiful apricot eyes were like thousands of miles of stars and starlight. If her admirers saw it, they would definitely be confused again.
"Master, why are you up?"
"Master, it's cold outside, so stay inside the house."
The maidservants saw Mei Zhuo get up, and they stepped forward attentively.
"You're so noisy." Mei Zhuo rubbed her head and said.
"Uh......" The maidservants were embarrassed.
"Isn't this because the master's merits are as numerous as the stars!" One of the maidservants rolled her eyes and began to praise Mei Zhuo again.
She praised this, and the other maids were not to be outdone, and began to praise Mei Zhuo in a fancy way one by one.
Mei Zhuo shook his head, he really convinced these people, and hurriedly waved his hand: "Go down." β
When the maidservants heard this, they stared wide-eyed, but they didn't dare to make a mistake, so they could only retreat according to their words.
Mei Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief.
These people...... always want to deify her and praise her to heaven.
Boasting every day, she is almost grinding out of cocoons when she hears it!
In fact, she knows what kind of person she is, she is extremely lazy, does not like to speak, does not like to move, does not like to have many people, and has a whole body of problems.
However, people are more tolerant of beautiful things, especially men, in the hearts of many men in Yanling, Mei Zhuo is cold and arrogant, but from a distance can not be blasphemous goddess - oh men, don't they all look at the face?
In particular, the more they can't get it, the more like poppies, the more fatal it attracts them.
Even Wei Yin, the person who never loved her at all, once gently rubbed her eyebrows with a fascinated gaze and said:
"Hua Xiu, I've never seen you with such beautiful eyes."
Yes, Mei Zhuo is not Mei Zhuo, the name Mei Zhuo was changed after she was hunted down two years ago. Accompanying her longer is another name - Ranhuaxiu.
This name was chosen for her by the high-ranking and powerful person in the imperial capital when she was seven years old. This name is taken from the "Eight Voices of Ganzhou" by the white-clothed Qingxiang and the order to fill in the lyrics of Liu Sanchang:
Sprinkle the river sky on the twilight rain and wash the autumn.
The gradual frost and wind are tight, the Guan River is cold, and the afterglow is the building.
It is a place where the red decay and green are reduced, and the things are resting.
The name Ranhuaxiu is poetic, but it is also sad.
It is in line with the heyday of her youth that she mistakenly paid for when she was a teenager and the lost Jinsehua year, which tells people that good things are always as ephemeral and ephemeral as they exist.
Ran Huaxiu didn't think he was a person who could be crazy about love before.
But she's really crazy,
For Wei Yin is crazy and delusional.
Sometimes she wonders if she hadn't met.
She will not taste the pain of love, and suffer the wound of lovesickness,
Don't make your former self so embarrassed.
In the past, she was cowardly, envious of the abyss, suffered from gains and losses, did nothing, made a comeback, recognized it, and fought repeatedly......
Now she is tired.
If...... It's good if I didn't see it for the first timeβ
The first time Ran Huaxiu saw Wei Yin was on the night of the Lantern Festival seven years ago.
At that time, she was not Mei Zhuo who had a lot of money, but Ran Huaxiu, whose family was ruined and had nothing.
Seven years ago, the plum blossoms were in full bloom and the snow was falling very deeply.
At the age of twelve, he was hungry and cold, destitute, and miserable. She was wearing an old red cotton jacket that had been worn for several years, her face and cheeks were still purple chilblains, her ten fingers and toes were all frozen and swollen, and the wind even poured into her fingernails, pulling the pain of her nerves.
When she was seven years old, her family was ruined and forcibly adopted by Xie Tingfeng, the old bustard of the Allure Sect, but when she was ten years old, she betrayed the Allure Workshop, and she worked hard to support herself and slept in the open.
At that time, in order to make a living, Ran Huaxiu took over the job of guarding the gate. It is the empty palace garden in Yanling, and I heard that it was once built by a certain prince who loved plum blossoms and took a lot of trouble to build it on a whim. After the master returned to Beijing, he still thought about the plum blossoms in this garden, so he had to spend money to find someone to guard it every year.
In normal times, this kind of beauty difference is not the turn of Ranhua Xiu. But in this cold winter and the Spring Festival, who would want to come out?
Forced by life, the twelve-year-old Ran Huaxiu huddled under the eaves of the villa with his body in his arms, staring at his amber eyes and a purple face, looking at the beautiful palace and the exquisite carved railings and paintings, and his heart was full of envy.
Ran Huaxiu rubbed his hands that were red and swollen from the cold, and buried his head in the socket of his neck, hoping to warm up.
While reading the smell of Zhumen's wine and meat, there are frozen bones on the road.
While scolding the master who built the garden, obviously there are so many houses, and he can't live in it anymore, even if it's a firewood house to block the wind! And even the plum blossoms are not picked, and they have to ask people to guard them late at night, which is really stingy.
Just when Ran Huaxiu was complaining countless times in his heart, he vaguely heard the laughter of a man and a woman. Ran Huaxiu slowly stood up and looked at the sound β the moonlight was very bright that night, and the snow was very white, and he could see it clearly. Ran Huaxiu saw a handsome young man, who seemed to kiss a beautiful girl on the forehead with a reverent face.
There is wind, flowers, snow, moon, wind and snow, and kissing lovers, it is really romantic.
Except β it's a bit cold.
Ran Huaxiu shook his body, and slowly squatted down, wanting to reduce his sense of existence. Although she was only twelve years old, she had heard about men and women. Although she didn't peek, she couldn't help gossiping in her heart, she guessed that they were cheating, but thinking about it, it was none of her business, so it was better to be a shrunken turtle and not provoke right and wrong.
As for whether the man and woman will break away a few plum blossoms, she doesn't care, this plum blossom forest is known as ten thousand hectares, even if it breaks one or two branches, what does it matter?
Most importantly, this plum blossom forest is not hers......
She had no intention of causing a torrent, but the handsome young man saw her sideways in an instant, the young man was stunned at first, and Ran Huaxiu was also stunned, his eyes met for a few seconds, and then the young man smiled, and finally he pulled the beautiful girl to step towards Ran Huaxiu like a pair of fairy couples.
The young man smiled gently, and after watching Ran Huaxiu for a long time, just when Ran Huaxiu inexplicably felt that he was laughing strangely, and was a little afraid that he would kill people, the young man suddenly said.
"I know you."
It was on that day that Ran Huaxiu met Wei Yin.
and the love of his life, Su Zhen.