Chapter 44: Withered Vines and Old Trees
It has been half a month since I came to Yuncui Nunnery, and the days are also quiet and comfortable, without the complicated etiquette rules in the palace, Xiao Mingyue spends most of her time reading every day, from the Four Books and Five Classics to poems and songs, all of which are understandable, and I also do a poem and write an article when I have nothing to do, and sometimes I also give a point or two to Yunzhu and so on. "
While thinking that he is not in a foreign land and in a different place, the scenes in these two poems also happen to fit his situation. Amber listened to the side and said: "I listened to the young lady's poems, and thought that there is not an old tree that is about to die outside our Ziyun Zhai, but there are often some magpies on the tree, not crows, and they often stand on the tree and call. "
Yun Zhu came in from outside with a snack and said, "That tree was originally growing well, but unfortunately it was entangled by the strangled banyan outside, and now it's not about to be killed!"
Xiao Mingyue heard the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but feel a little sad in her heart, so she put down the book in her hand, came to the eaves of the backyard and teased the sharp-tailed swift, thinking that it didn't have a name yet, so she asked curiously: "Little guy, do you have your own name?" "
The sharp-tailed swift listened to it and looked at Xiao Mingyue with two small black and round eyes, Xiao Mingyue looked at it and felt very cute, so she added some food to it, but this little guy is not greedy for food or drink, has been circling around the cage, seems to be very anxious, Xiao Mingyue saw its behavior, thought it was locked in a cage and panicked, wanted to fly out to find freedom, so she opened the bird cage and said: "If you want to fly, fly!" "
Then the sharp-tailed swift spread its wings and flew into the sky with a "flutter" sound, circled twice, as if looking for something, and lowered its head from time to time to look at Xiao Mingyue, Xiao Mingyue looked at the sharp-tailed swift flying high and shouted: "Fly away, go find freedom, don't come back!"
After that, he was about to go into the house, and then he heard a few more "chirps", and a slightly larger white sharp-tailed swift appeared in the sky, two swifts soared in the blue sky, and in a moment, the slightly larger white swift flew down from the blue sky, and the other also followed behind him, and fell at the feet of Xiao Mingyue, and then began to "chirp" at Xiao Mingyue again, Xiao Mingyue squatted down, looked at it and asked, "Are you hungry?" Want to eat? The swift kept circling her, Xiao Mingyue took a serious look, and found that it had a note tied with thin silk on its legs, so she took it down and opened it, and saw that it was written: "See you outside the door of Yuncui'an" and drew a smiling face.
Xiao Mingyue knew that this was written by Yu Wendi, so she said to the swift: "Yu Wendi asked you to send the letter." As soon as the words fell, Amber hurriedly ran over and said, "Miss, the meditation master is here, saying that she has something to tell Miss." "
Xiao Mingyue already knew a thing or two after hearing this, so she returned to the inner hall and saw that the meditation master was already waiting there, and when she saw Xiao Mingyue, she said happily: "Miss's cousin came to visit Miss, and he is already waiting for Miss outside the nunnery at the moment. "
When Xiao Mingyue heard this, she pretended to be surprised and said, "Has my cousin come to see me?" It's great, there is a teacher too to answer. He immediately asked Cai Wei to pour tea for the retreat.
Jing Xiu hurriedly excused himself and said, "You're welcome, Miss should hurry up and meet with your relatives, the poor nun still has something to do, so she will leave first." Then he turned and left.
Amber next to him listened to it, and when he saw that the retreat had left, he said excitedly: "Miss, could it be that Your Majesty has paid a private visit to see Miss?" "
Xiao Mingyue looked at Amber and said, "It's Yu Wendi." "
Then he sat down at the desk with his right hand on his face and said, "This swift was also sent by him, and the other one he brought just now came to look for the previous one." "
Amber and Yunzhu and the others looked at each other and smiled, and Yunzhu said: "According to the slave's opinion, that Yuwen Gongzi actually has this intention, and the young lady should go out to meet others." "
Amber exclaimed on the side: "I didn't expect this Yuwen Gongzi to be really infatuated with Miss, and he actually chased him here." "
Then he deliberately approached Xiao Mingyue and said with a smile: "Miss, it's better to let the slave maid wait to dress up for you now, dress up well, and then go to see Yuwen Gongzi!"
Cai Wei also smiled when she heard this, put down the embroidery in her hand, and said, "Yes, let the slaves and maids dress up for the young lady!" "
Xiao Mingyue listened to it and said refusively: "Why are you so active!" I didn't say I was going out to meet him. With that, he casually flipped through a book on the table and read it.
Amber gossiped and said: "People are coming from afar, I'm afraid it's not good if Miss doesn't go, so if Yuwen Gongzi has been waiting for Miss outside the door, and Miss doesn't go, wouldn't it be a little ......."
"What?" Xiao Mingyue looked at Amber and asked.
"Of course, it's a little disrespectful, and it's not good to release pigeons?!" Amber said with a wink.
After Xiao Mingyue listened to Amber's words, she looked at Amber and said, "I don't think you are my maid, but like Yu Wendi's maid, and you actually turned your elbow out!"
Amber listened and hurriedly explained: "The slave maid is thinking about the young lady, if the young lady doesn't go out, who knows what the young Yuwen Gongzi will do?" "
Xiao Mingyue looked at Amber and said, "Really? "
Amber was busy saying again: "Of course, the slave maid thinks about the young lady like this, and the identity of the young lady must not let that gentleman damage the reputation." "
Xiao Mingyue understands Yu Wendi's personality, if she really doesn't go out to see him, she can't be sure that he will really do something ridiculous.
put down the book and decided to go out to see Yu Wendi.
Cai Wei hurriedly said in the back: "Miss, don't you want a slave to dress up for Miss?" "
Xiao Mingyue thought for a while and said, "No need, I'm a cultivator now, so I shouldn't dress up too much." "
After speaking, he went to meet Yu Wendi outside the door with Amber.
Leaving Yunzhu to look at Cai Wei and said: "Our young lady is always suitable for light makeup and heavy makeup, and she is also beautiful without powder." "
Yuncui'an, outside the door.
Yu Wendi was already waiting.
I have been staring at the door from time to time to see if anyone is coming out, and suddenly I saw Amber and Xiao Mingyue coming out together, and deliberately made the female nun who was cleaning at the door believe that they were cousins, so she smiled and said, "Cousin, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come unharmed." "
Xiao Mingyue listened to the understanding, and also said: "Thank you cousin for the relationship, how is my cousin doing recently?" "
Yu Wendi said: "I'm fine, thank you cousin for your concern." "
Then he said: "I see the beautiful scenery of this Yuncui Mountain, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, why don't we walk around?" "
Xiao Mingyue also wanted to go out for a long time, but I was afraid that there was no suitable reason, but now when she saw Yu Wendi say this, she immediately agreed and said: "This is very good, I will take my cousin to swim together." "
In order not to make people suspicious, Amber had to follow behind the two.
While the two were strolling around, Xiao Mingyue said, "Thank you for being able to come out today." "
Yu Wendi smiled: "I already knew that you would be bored, so I came to see you." "
Xiao Mingyue asked again: "Those two sharp-tailed swifts are obviously a pair, why did you separate them?!"
Yu Wendi listened, the corners of his mouth turned into a good-looking arc and said: "If that's not the case, how can I call you out, and now the two of them are reunited." "
With that, he took out the whistle around his neck and blew twice at the sky, and after a while, the two swifts flew together from nowhere.
Yu Wendi said proudly: "These two swifts, I raised them since I was a child, and they almost never left my side, they are very obedient and powerful, and the one that has been with you for so long has not lost its temper, which means that it likes you." "
Xiao Mingyue heard this, and said with a smile: "I would rather not eat meat myself every day, and feed it meat." "
Yu Wendi looked at Xiao Mingyue with a smile and said, "So you accept each other, and I will let Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei guard you in the future." Xiao Mingyue listened to it and said refusal: "You raised them since you were a child, how can you give them to me like this?" I don't want it, you might as well take it back. "
Yu Wendi said: "I'm afraid they are no longer willing to go back with me now, Xiao Hei has been with you for so long, since he has not escaped back, it proves that it has identified you, and Xiao Bai will not be willing to leave Xiao Hei anymore, so the two of them are too lazy to fix you." "
Xiao Mingyue thought about it and said, "I can help you raise it first." "
Yu Wendi laughed and said, "Thank you very much, I will be responsible for their rations." "
Xiao Mingyue said: "Don't worry, I can still afford them." "
With that, the two of them walked towards the bridge, and Amber was left far behind.
The two saw a thatched house in front of them, and Xiao Mingyue couldn't help but sigh when she saw it: "The small bridge and flowing water are people." "
Yu Wendi smiled when he heard this: "What? Do you have poetry, or do you miss your relatives? "
Xiao Mingyue sighed and said, "The world is unpredictable. "
Yu Wendi also sighed and said with disgust: "Who let you attract the attention of Li Chenglie, the king of the party, now the good county lord, you have to come here to recite the scriptures!" "
Xiao Mingyue listened, and seemed to be a little aggrieved and said: "I knew this, maybe I shouldn't have come to Jiankang in the first place, I shouldn't have ......."
Just as he was about to speak, Yuwendi pulled Xiao Mingyue's hand and said: "I don't want you to be unhappy, if you don't want to stay here anymore, I will write to Emperor Tianjian to ask for a kiss, and if he Li Chenglie wants to fight or kill, I will block the front for you." "
Xiao Mingyue listened to this confession, and her heart was in a mess, thinking that although she had to attract Li Chenglie's attention for the sake of her family and country, and for the safety of the two countries, she chose to wronged herself, but she really hoped that there was someone she could rely on so that she didn't have to be strong. But thinking of the affection with Chen Xian, and not being able to live up to Chen Xian, he and Chen Xian met and fell in love first, how could he abandon his promise for the sake of being moved for a while.
He simply said decisively: "Thank you for your kindness, but I have a heart, and I hope that my son will find another beautiful woman in the future." "
Yu Wendi listened, not only did not let go of his hand, but held it tighter, and said affectionately: "I have never been a half-hearted person, I said that if I guard you, I will always guard you, I will wait for you, and when you can really accept me, even if it is five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years...... Or even longer. "
Xiao Mingyue comforted: "Childe, why is it so difficult, Childe is a talent, his family affairs are extraordinary, there are more girls in the world who are better than Mingyue, and I hope that Childe will not be obsessed." "
Yu Wendi listened, approached Xiao Mingyue, looked at each other, and said: "No matter how much it is, I can't see any of it, my eyes, my mind, and my thoughts are all you." "
Xiao Mingyue saw that Yu Wendi was so persistent, so she deliberately pretended to be indifferent, and said casually: "Then please ask the son to wait for a few decades." "
After saying that, he broke free of his hand and walked straight forward, deliberately ignoring Yu Wendi.
Liuyu Wendi looked at Xiao Mingyue's back in place, and then said loudly and firmly: "You know that I will do it for you!"
Xiao Mingyue knew that Yu Wendi had come to express his heart to him this time, but he had been in turmoil in his heart for several days, so he didn't dare to look directly at Yu Wendi's love, so he hurriedly finished walking around and went back to Yuncui Nunnery.