Chapter 1: Origin (1)
Huaishui is a gentle place, Huaishui women are graceful, wearing white tulle flowing shirts with full-sleeved skirts, holding oil-paper umbrellas, walking in the drizzle, a back, can outline the beauty of the senses.
The third lady of the Huaishui Qi family, Qi Changge is a legendary beautiful and cold-hearted woman, who has been pursued by many famous sons and brothers, but they are all disheartened and defeated.
The grass grows and the warbler flies in the March day, the willows are still weeping willow silk, Qi Changge is wearing a blue embroidered lace wide-sleeved Confucian skirt, wearing a white gauze coat, a white silk ribbon is tied on the gauze clothes, wearing white embroidered shoes, holding a yellow painted oil paper umbrella, and stepping on the gravel road on the shore of the water.
A casual look, I saw a young man wearing embroidered collared clothes in the pavilion on the opposite bank, squatting on the ground, slender fingers, fingertips alternately stroking the strings, the sound of the piano is astringent and bitter, making people want to cry, there are a few passers-by standing quietly by the pavilion, as if they recalled some sad things through the sound of the piano, and couldn't help but shed tears.
Qi Changge didn't know why, he wanted to retract his gaze, but he gradually looked at the young man, deepening his gaze, until the end of the song, the young man raised his head carelessly.
When their eyes met, the young man smiled slightly, Qi Changge smiled back, and then the young man nodded, which was regarded as a greeting.
Then the boy picked up the piano, drenched in the drizzle, and walked all the way, Qi Changge did not retract his gaze until he could not see the shadow of the young man, and continued to stroll along the river bank with an oil-paper umbrella.
Then walked to the end of the shore, Qi Changge walked to a long pavilion, put away the umbrella, his sleeves brushed off the catkins on the stone bench board, and sat there, the breeze blowing the short hair on his forehead.
Qi Changge looked at the smoke rising on the lake, and suddenly remembered the young man, like waves rising on the calm lake, with a little ripple.
Until the rain stopped, the catkins fell all over the sleeves, causing Qi Changge, who was more sensitive, to sneeze, and then a little suddenly, why did he suddenly think about an insignificant person like this?
A boy in Tsing Yi is followed by a handsome little guy who has stepped here.
The boy in Tsing Yi walked in, cranked the folding fan, saw Qi Changge, fell in love at first sight, put away the folding fan, made a fold, and asked with a smile: "Miss, can I ask how old Fang Ling is?" ”
Qi Changge looked at the good-looking boy in Tsing Yi in front of him a little at a loss, and asked blankly, "Childe, are you?" ”
The boy in Tsing Yi smiled brightly, opened the folding fan and shook it, sat next to Qi Changge, and replied: "In Xia Nai Huaishui City, the son of the city lord, the third in the family, surnamed Lu Qingxun, unmarried or not, lacking a good wife, the girl is willing to teach." ”
Qi Changge was shocked by the words of this young man in Tsing Yi, his face suddenly blushed, he was a little panicked, he got up and brushed off the catkins on the ground, and shyly refused: "Thank you Lu Gongzi for your love, it's just a little woman's family matter, the elders in the family have already arranged it, please spare the little woman for being unreasonable, the little woman will take the first step." ”
After finishing speaking, Qi Changge turned around, his sleeves were fragrant Lu Qingxun, he picked up the oil-paper umbrella, avoided the small house guarding outside the pavilion, and walked away.
The little guy walked in, scratched the back of his head with his hand and asked Lu Qingxun, "Childe, what is that young lady?" ”
Lu Qingxun asked the little guy with some frustration: "Lime, your son-in-law and I, but I look unsightly?" ”
The little girl was a little confused as to why her son-in-law suddenly asked this question, shook her head, and replied truthfully: "No, the son-in-law is graceful and suave, but he is the most beautiful man in Huaishui City, and the dream lover of many young ladies." ”
Lu Qingxun sullenly turned to ask, "Then why did that young lady avoid me just now?" ”
The little girl, Lime, suddenly spoke, and replied avoidingly: "Son, didn't the third master make an appointment with you to go to Xunhuanlou, the time is almost up, if you don't go, the third master will be angry." ”
"Lime, if you don't say it, I almost forgot." Lu Qingxun tapped his head on the left side with a folding fan, then got up, raised his legs and walked out of the long pavilion, as if he had stepped on something, soft and soft, bent down, and picked up the square green pap he was stepping on.
I saw that on the handkerchief, there were willow branches, willow leaves, and a lightly shallow, unassuming song word, and on the handkerchief, there was also a little gardenia fragrance.
Lu Qingxun put the handkerchief into his sleeve, and while walking, he casually asked the little girl Lime, and said, "Lime, how many girls do you say we have in Huaishui, with the word 'song' in their names?" ”
The little guy also saw the handkerchief that Lu Qingxun picked up, embroidered a song word, and carefully thought about it and replied to Lu Qingxun: "Son, we Huaishui have song words, there are only three boudoir ladies, the first one is the third lady of our Huaishui General Qi's family, Qi Changge." The second family, a well-known talented girl, the daughter of Deputy City Lord Yang, Yang Lege. The third family is our lady's cousin, Zheng Qingge. ”
"Oh." Lu Qing found out, thinking quietly, he had met with Miss Yang a few times, naturally it was not the young lady just now, and as for the cousin, it was even more not, she had already made a marriage, and she got married in August this autumn, and she should embroider a wedding dress in the boudoir at this time.
Thinking of the shyness of the third lady of the Qi family, Lu Qingxun smiled, said nothing, and said straight in his heart: Interesting, this must be a fate to meet thousands of miles away.
In the joy building, the top card of art skills, the yellow warbler girl opened her voice, and the play of "babbling and babbling" sang a period of joy and sorrow, the young man sat on the stage, set up the piano, hooked the strings, followed the joys and sorrows of the yellow warbler girl, and the piano sound rose and fell.
In the elegant seat of the theater, the best position to watch the play, the third master of the Xie family, Xie Mingyu impatiently knocked melon seeds and peanuts, and asked the little girl Yubai: "Qingxun, that kid, is he not here yet." ”
The little girl Yubai picked up the teapot and refilled the tea for Xie Mingyu, glanced at the door, and saw Lu Qingxun in Tsing Yi with sharp eyes, and replied: "Childe, Childe Qingxun has already entered the door." ”
Lu Qingxun doesn't look at people who look romantic, but he doesn't like Fengyue places, nor does he have the sound of the drama in this theater, and the many rich sons and brothers who drink and talk freely in the theater.
As soon as he entered the door, he frowned, Lu Qingxun looked around, and finally saw the lost friend who was mistakenly made, Xie Mingyu.
Xie Mingyu has only one joy in his life, he likes beautiful things, regardless of men and women, no matter what the object, as long as it is beautiful, he wants to get involved.
So although he was chewing peanuts in his mouth at this time, Xie Mingyu's gaze was completely glued to Lu Qingxun's really romantic face.
The little girl Lime called Xiao Er and led his son Lu Qingxun upstairs with him.
Xiao Er called earnestly: "Guest, please inside!" ", stepping on small broken steps, leading the little girl Lime and Lu Qing to walk upstairs.
After Lu Qingxun sat down squarely, Xie Mingyu was quite sorry, and called Lu Qingxun's student name and said: "Ziming, look at your good looks, but you are not romantic at all, what a waste of this good face!" ”
Lu Qingxun picked up a cup of teacup, opened the tea lid, blew on the tea, took a sip lightly, and asked a little impatiently: "Say, you asked me to come here, what is the matter?" ”
Xie Mingyu was very tolerant of beautiful people, and he didn't have good words for Lu Qingxun, so he wasn't angry at all, and asked with a smile: "Ziming, I heard that Princess Xuanyang chose a son-in-law the day after tomorrow, do you want me to join in the fun?" ”
For Princess Xuanyang, Lu Qingxun was annoyed when he heard it, and he didn't know if Lu Qingxun owed Princess Xuanyang in his last life, or what, since he met Princess Xuanyang in the palace one day, since then, Princess Xuanyang has been stalking Lu Qingxun to the point of outrageousness, and she can think of any trick.
This is also one of the reasons why Lu Qing has not been close to women over the years.
Lu Qingxun frowned, asked Xie Mingxuan in disgust, and called Xie Mingxuan's student: "Jinren, you are making fun of me." ”
"No!" Xie Mingxuan, as one of Lu Qingxun's few friends, knew well about Lu Qingxun's relationship with Princess Xuanyang, so he couldn't help but laugh and justified: "Ziming, you misunderstood me, I just heard that as a close friend of Princess Xuanyang, the third lady of the Qi family will also attend." ”
Lu Qingxun paused with the teacup, and suddenly came to his mind that the woman he met in the pavilion, with a shy face, a thin waist like a willow, and a painful woman, blurted out: "I want to go." ”
This surprised Xie Mingxuan, didn't this Ziming avoid Princess Xuanyang in the past?
Why is it that at this moment, there is no mustard at all, could it be because of the third miss of the Qi family, the woman who is happy with Huaishui?
Then, Xie Mingxuan unfolded the folding fan, approached Lu Qingxun, and guessed with a wicked smile: "Isn't it my family's Ziming, Hongluan Xingdong, for the third lady of the Qi family, to suffer the grace of the beauty?" ”
Lu Qingxun glanced at Xie Mingxuan, put down the teacup, brushed his robe with the crushed peanuts from Xie Mingxuan's body, got up, and snorted coldly: "Jinren, this son's joke, you dare to make it." ”
After humming, he held the folding fan and strode away from the tea place, and the little lime declared his guilt to Xie Ming: "Ming Xuan Gongzi, I will treat my son-in-law to accompany you, you also know my son-in-law's stinky temper." ”
"Come on." Xie Mingxuan put away the folding fan with some interest, knocked on the table angrily, and said with a sigh of relief: "I'm not the one who cares, let's go with Ziming." ”
"It's good that you understand." After the little girl Lime finished speaking, he hurriedly ran and took small steps to chase Lu Qingxun.
Xie Mingxuan's little servant, Bai Yu couldn't look at it, and said belittly to Lu Qingxun: "Childe, the son of the Lu family, he can't speak too much, son, why do you have to be angry with the son of the Lu family!" ”
Xie Mingxuan raised his chin, turned the folding fan in his hand, squinted his eyes and said: "My son looked at his face, and it was easy to eat, the so-called ancient saying, food and color, it doesn't matter if you are a thing or a person." ”
The little maid Baiyu was Xie Mingxuan's mother, and the lady was tired, so she stroked her forehead and asked: "That's it, the son is now and crowned for a long time, why not find a young lady and have a few more little young masters to revitalize the family." ”
Xie Mingxuan picked up the folding fan, knocked on the head of the little girl Baiyu, and sighed: "What do you know, the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, it is too boring, if you want to marry, my son must also marry someone who is satisfied." ”
"But Mrs. Ding, it was also decided after the son looked at each other?" The little girl Bai Yu scratched the back of her head and asked, I can't figure out what the difference is?
"Say, you don't understand, Bai Yu, pay the money, let's go back to the house." Xie Mingxuan was much lazy to say, if the circle of this famous family, if they heard Xie Mingxuan's words, they must have felt that Xie Mingxuan was moaning without illness, including Xie Mingxuan himself.
"Yes." The little maid Bai Yu went to the counter, paid for the tea, and went home with Xie Mingxuan.
And the excerpts in this theater continue to be sung, and they will not stay because of anyone until the end of the night.
Miss Huang Ying sat in front of the dresser, took off the costume, removed the hood, picked up the sugar water stewed with Sydney, drank it, and moistened the throat that had been singing all night.
The young man also picked up his piano, wiped it with a cloth, put it in the piano case and carried it, and said goodnight to Miss Huang Ying: "Sister Huang Ying, goodbye, I will say goodbye first." ”
"Wait." Miss Huang Ying stopped the young man and said with a little emptiness: "Can you send me home?" ”
The young man stopped, smiled slightly, and agreed, "Okay." ”
Huang Ying is a country girl, fortunately appreciated by the shopkeeper of this theater, only to learn to sing, mixed with food, this young man was depressed at that time, fortunately he knew the piano art, and Huang Ying was in the shopkeeper that said it badly, so this young man stayed, relying on the piano skills, to earn a few silver.
Then, Huang Ying did not pretend to do anything to this young man, and everyone in the theater knew that this Huang Ying girl was afraid that she was interested in this young man, and she didn't steal from this young man, so she only regarded Huang Ying girl as her sister.
Walking in the silent alley, the moonlight stretched the shadow of Huang Ying and the young man, and Huang Ying secretly looked at the young man all the way, and the more he looked at it, the more happy he was in his heart.
Until returning home, Huang Ying stood in front of the house, and said to the young man with some reluctance: "Brother, go home, and be careful." ”
"Okay." The young man's heart was warm, he nodded in agreement, and turned around to go home with the piano in his back.