Sixteen: Frost Flower in a Dream
The July breeze is gentle, with a hint of coolness. Xuan'er stood at the side gate of Yao's Mansion and waited for Su Qianli to come out, couldn't help but tighten her arms, and muttered, "This day has changed too fast." ”
"Girl......" Xuan'er finally saw Su Qianli's figure, and stepped forward worriedly, she should have gone in with the girl, but this Yao Gongzi had to detain her.
Su Qianli also saw Xuan'er, as soon as the front foot stepped out of the door of Yao's mansion, the back foot was pulled into the carriage by Yao Feixue.
Su Qianli "......"
Xuan'er: "......?" "When she doesn't exist!
The carriage was spacious and bright, and Su Qianli sat in it, looking extremely petite.
Lifting the curtain of the small window, I saw Xuan'er standing lonely and helpless beside her carriage, and the little figure was getting farther and farther away. Su Qianli turned around and said indignantly, "What are you doing here?" ”
Yao Feixue took a cloak and threw it at her, and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Send you home." ”
Su Qianli tore off the cloak on her head dissatisfied, wanting to fight with him, paused, and still put on the cloak obediently, the wind in July was still a little cold.
"I have my own carriage!" After that, Su Qianli opened the curtain and wanted to jump out of the car.
Yao Feixue leaned lazily against the wall of the carriage, did not stop it, and chuckled: "The carriage that fell apart? ”
Su Qianli paused, glaring at him: "You...... Did you wreck my carriage? ”
Yao Feixue was slightly stunned, looking at her as if he was angry: "You haven't heard of my reputation in the capital, master, if I really want to fix anyone, it's not just a matter of the carriage breaking a few shelves." ”
This proud tone......
Su Qianli's expression was complicated, and he felt that it was impossible when he thought about it, from the time they met until now, although he behaved uninhibitedly, his character was kind.
"Who the hell is it? I just returned to Beijing, there is no reason to get acquainted with the enemy......" Su Qianli's jaw tightened.
Yao Feixue's fox eyes narrowed slightly, and he raised his hand to gently rub the top of Su Qianli's head, the action was as casual as rubbing a puppy's head, "I want to know......"
Su Qianli raised her chin: "What?" Want to use this to let me ride in a carriage with you? No way. ”
After a pillar of incense, Su Qianli sat in the carriage wrapped in a cloak.
"Don't worry, the capital is the master's territory, and I will cover you in the future!" Yao Feixue's heart was playful, and he reached out to touch the top of Su Qianli's brain, his hair was like ink, the touch was soft and smooth, and his fingers were soft like a spring breeze.
Su Qianli knocked off the messy hand on his head and smiled helplessly: "Does Master Yao treat Qianli as a brother?" ”
"What, you don't want to?! You don't know how many people in the capital want to earn their money to worship me. The boy's eyes widened.
Su Qianli snorted lightly and turned her head to look out the window.
The carriage seems to be a trivial matter, but in fact it is deep, and he knows some inside information.
Thinking of these annoying things, Yao Feixue frowned and asked, "Have you seen my mother?" ”
"Huh?" Su Qianli looked up at him, "Naturally, I saw it." ”
Yao Feixue was looked at unnaturally by her clear eyes, and turned his head: "That...... So what did my mother say about you? ”
Su Qianli didn't know why, "It's not me who catches people's attention today, and Mrs. Yao naturally has no evaluation of me." "What can I think of her as a ten-year-old child.
Yao Feixue's expression was stunned for a moment: "No, I ......"
Su Qianli raised her eyebrows and asked, "Yao Feixue, what kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?" If you have something to say, just say it. ”
Yao Fei's eyes dodged, straightened his waist and said hurriedly: "I just want you to know a few more girls when you first arrived in the capital, and I am the only friend you know." ”
Otherwise, it will be damaged by Su Tongying. He didn't say the latter sentence.
Su Qianli didn't believe it, "Really? ”
Yao Feixue felt that his personality was being questioned, and glared at her: "What kind of person do you think of Xiaoye!" ”
Su Qianli propped her chin, looked at him fixedly, and said sincerely, "Thank you." ”
Yao Fei was stunned, and the root of his ears gradually became uncontrollable heat, and waved his hand: "Hey! You don't need to say thank you to the eldest brother, who called you my cover. ”
He picked up the box beside him and handed it to her, "Oh, Jade Pendant." ”
Su Qianli took it, made a movement in her hand, glanced at Yao Feixue, who was awkward for some reason, and said in her heart: He is a careful person, do you want to make a return gift?
Su Qianli pulled Yao Feixue's clothes and asked, "Do you have any favorite gadgets?" ”
glanced at the petite and tender white hand on the shirt, which was even more pitiful against the dark red background. Yao Fei chose to say goodbye too much, and inexplicably set off a joy in his heart, and said in a tone that he couldn't hold back: "...... I don't have any favorite gadgets, and lately, I've been missing a sachet. ”
I never deserved to bring sachets, but I wanted to cooperate with her to let her do it for myself before I lied, if Qin Ying's boys knew, they would have to laugh at him.
Su Qianli smiled, fortunately, it shouldn't be difficult to make a sachet.
Of course, the ideal is beautiful. When Su Qianli faced the ball of needlework in the basket, she was worried.
Yao Mansion
On the chair of the Taishi in the cabinet, Mrs. Yao's close attendant is rubbing her master's acupoints with both hands, she has followed Mrs. since she was a child, from the Ye family in Zichuan to the Yao family in Shengjing, after decades of ups and downs, Mrs. knows what to do with a look.
Rui's brain burned lightly, and the soothing smoke floated slowly. The moderate kneading force made Mrs. Yao's whole body relax, "Jingxian's craftsmanship has improved again." ”
Mama smiled quietly: "Where is the craftsmanship of the slave and maid, it is obvious that the lady has been overworked recently." ”
Mrs. Yao sighed lightly, as if she was extremely tired.
Jing Xian's hand paused, hesitated and cautiously asked, "Madam, the letter...... Is it really not sent? ”
Mrs. Yao closed her eyes, and there was a dark shadow under her eyes: "Didn't you also see it today?" Du Yujiao's temperament, no. ”
Jingxian also frowned slightly, "It seems that some of the rumors in the city are not all false. ”
The lord of Hehuan County is beautiful but not good-looking, and often suppresses the concubines in the house and reprimands the maidservants. There are quarrels with many official ladies.
But it is such a county lord with a bad character, but he is extremely loved by the Queen Mother. It's also intriguing.
Yao Mengyuan's three-day flower banquet ended hastily.
In the dark and silent room, far above, only a small window shines through the faint light and shadow.
Yao Mengyuan dragged the gorgeous Luo skirt and sat against the wall, looking straight at her, like a soulless lady in an ink rhyme painting, like a stagnant water. After a pause, she slowly buried a pretty face in her lap. Silent sighs.
was locked in a dark room, if it was an ordinary lady, I am afraid that she would have choked up at this time, but she didn't cry, everything was quiet and weird.
It's just that the trembling and clenched hands leak her emotions. Like a trapped beast in the abyss, struggling and forbearing.
She is afraid of the dark, and Mrs. Yao knows it.
Who would have imagined that Yao Mengyuan, who is arrogant on weekdays, would have such an embarrassed and decadent side.
Hide your face and sigh softly.
Her thoughts drifted away, and she suddenly remembered the time when she was young, the quiet grass hut, the figure of her mother working, and the rabbit that her mother gave her.
The rabbit is white and clean, fluffy and very cute, and she loves it so much! At that time, she held it in her arms every day and couldn't put it down.
In the bleak courtyard, a lively and active snow color was added, and the quiet and lonely time seemed to come alive. She thought it would be nice if it could stay with her for the rest of her life. She no longer had to be afraid of the loneliness of the lonely wall.
She thought that she would spend her life in this remote grass courtyard, and she didn't have much sadness at that time, because she hadn't had anything since she was born, so she didn't ask for anything, and it didn't seem difficult to spend the rest of her life so plainly. But the world is unpredictable, and there are always many things that backfire.
She discovers that her white rabbit is missing, the rabbit that her mother gave her.
She searched in a panic, and for a day and a night, she searched in the snow in thin clothes.
The cold wind swept across her immature face like a sharp knife into the bones. But she didn't have time to take care of it, she was afraid that the freshness would disappear from her life.
In the end, she found only a pile of bones. On the pale earth, there were flames burning, like blood-red red lotus blooming in the snow.
Her eyes widened as she looked at the lazy and careless woman, her long inky hair fluttering in the wind like a celestial silk, and the stars and snowflakes surrounded her, as bright as the stars and the moon. The woman picked up her cold and charming eyes, smiled at her slightly, and then hooked out the color of peerless elegance, and the snowfall in the sky was suddenly stunning in front of her, and Ai Ai became a foil in the future.
But she was not seduced by this earth-shattering beauty, but felt a fear like a ghost oppression, clinging to the soles of her feet.
The woman's ethereal voice came from afar, frivolous as if it was about to drift away with the wind.
"It turns out that this is your pet, you raised it well, it's delicious~"
It's delicious......
Her tiny body trembled violently, and her big eyes were full of fear.
Shura! Shura! Shura! The voice in my head kept echoing, and after a long time, my legs, which were not obedient, finally became conscious.
She cried and ran back desperately, leaving her small footprints in the heavy snow. She ran so selflessly that she didn't even notice that one of her shoes had dropped, letting the cold snow eat away at the soles of her feet.
"Mother!" She hurriedly and forcefully slapped open the door of her mother's room, and stood at the door with blood stains on the soles of her feet.
In the light and shadow of the warm candle, the gentle woman turned to look at her softly, her beautiful eyes froze instantly, and asked her in surprise why she was so embarrassed.
Looking at her mother standing in the warm light, her rapidly beating heart seemed to be soothed as soft as water, she threw herself into her mother's arms, and told Fang Cai about it in horror. The woman's eyes were like watery eyebrows, and she eased up, shook her head funny, and said helplessly while changing her clothes: "That's your aunt, why are you so afraid of her." ”
The woman's eyebrows were thin and slightly furrowed, and her voice was as soft as water, and she comforted: "As for the rabbit...... Mother, let's help you find another one. ”
She was still stunned, and she didn't listen to what her mother said about rabbits, she looked up and said, "But she will suck the blood of girls, I have seen it before, mother, I am afraid." ”
Bang! The basin in the woman's hand fell in her shocked eyes. The woman reached out and covered her mouth, and she felt her mother's fingertips tremble slightly, and the woman looked terrified and admonished her, "Don't talk about it again!" Rotten it in the stomach, listen, hear it? ”
By her mother's mood swings, a mist rose in her eyes, and she nodded chokedly.
None of them mentioned what happened that night.
Later, her mother, who had been unfavored for many years, suddenly disappeared, and they said that she had died of illness. She didn't understand, how could a mother, who looked good, suddenly get sick and left?
But she was too weak to ask, so she could only cry alone in the snow.
Later, she never saw the ghostly woman again. I heard that she entered the palace......
She didn't have to be scared anymore, but her mother would never come back.
At that time, she had nightmares every night, the same dream every night. The bedside had been lit by the lamp, but she was afraid, and when she woke up, she faced the empty room, and there was no one beside her who called her softly.
It wasn't until later that Mrs. Yao took pity on her as an orphan girl and took her out of the lonely and empty courtyard, and she never stepped into that small courtyard again.
All the joys and pains of her childhood were buried there.
In the dark, Yao Mengyuan raised his head suddenly, his heart was terrified, panting, his five fingers fell into the palm of his hand, overflowing with drops of blood, and a pair of beautiful eyes with a ghostly light stared straight into the distance, his eyes were full of gloom and fierceness.
In July, the capital is gradually cooling. The willow trees beside the moat were dyed yellow little by little.
But the storyteller's teahouse is still lively. Since the Yaofu Flower Festival, there have been rumors in the capital that Miss Su San has returned to her hometown.
"Everyone knows that the eldest princess and Su Erlang are very affectionate with Qin Se and Ming, how could a girl suddenly appear again?"
Mr. Storyteller cleared his throat: "It is said that there is no man in the world who does not steal, and if you think about it, a man like Su Erlang can't escape this habit." ”
After that, everyone in the hall burst into laughter. The advantage of the openness of the Great Yuan folk style is that they can freely treat the hidden affairs of the nobles of the Gaomen as an after-tea meal.
"I heard that this new Miss Su San is good at taking care of flowers, hey, she is also extremely beautiful."
"Really? But how did I hear that the young lady was only about ten years old? ”
"Hey, I'm still young, I can see that people look good, so when I grow up, I can't ...... it"
Laughing together again.
"Tsk, the children of this Hengguo Mansion are all dragons and phoenixes, Su Sanlang, who looked like the son of the wind god a while ago, hid his face on the street and refused to be in the crowd, how amorous, and now a Su San girl suddenly appeared to ......" In the crowd, I don't know who suddenly said such a sentence.
"I heard that Mrs. Yao is very fond of this woman."
When everyone heard this, they nodded one after another, this Su Mansion has indeed been in the limelight in the capital recently.
In a corner of the teahouse, there was a girl in a crimson dress, leaning on the door frame with her arms crossed, and the scarf covering half of her face.
Gao Xuecian looked coldly at the passionate storytellers and the sour scholars below.
With a hint of mockery in his eyes, he turned and walked out the door.
People are terrible, and a group of stupid people can only play a role at this time.
Shenhe Pharmacy is not the largest pharmacy in the capital, nor is it the best pharmacy in the capital. After two dynasties, it still stands quietly in the quiet place of history, slowly blooming its medicinal fragrance.
Unlike those pharmacies with a family background, Shenhe Pharmacy was opened by an ordinary doctor. Up to now, it's the third generation.
In the pharmacy, an old man in white and a snowbeard was taking the pulse of the cloth-clothed people who came to see a doctor.
If you look at the appearance, people may think that this is a kind and kind healer, of course, people should not be good-looking.
"Zhao Shilang, do you look down on the old man?!" An angry roar resounded through the hospital, but the old and young women and children who came to see the doctor seemed to have become accustomed to it.
The honest Zhao Shilang waved his hand again and again, with a bitter face: "Old Divine Doctor, where are you talking about this, we can't afford to serve you too late, how can we look down on you." ”
"The prescription I gave you last time told you to take your medicine on time! Take your medicine on time! Have you eaten? The grumpy old man's beard exploded.
Zhao Shilang lowered his head and said, "No." ”
"Our family is doing small business, it's good to be able to feed a few people in the family, where is the money to buy those expensive medicinal materials, I've been sick for several years, it's not nothing, the old doctor, just prescribe me some cheaper medicine, I still have to rush to the stall to help my mother-in-law sell buns."
The old man stopped talking, glared at him, still annoyed, turned around and scolded and ordered the little boy to go to the back hall to grab medicine.
The old doctor was in the front hall to see the patient's pulse, and the two children in the medical hall were grabbing medicine in the back hall.
Gao Xuecian saw this scene when she stepped into the medical hall, and sneered in her heart. Turning around and walking to the back hall, he raised his hand familiarly and beckoned the boy who grabbed the medicine: "Grab four copies of this list and give it to me." ”
Another boy looked up from the medicine cabinet and smiled at Gao Xuecian: "Miss Gao, I'm here to grab the medicine again." ”
Gao Xuecian raised her eyebrows: "What, miss me?" ”
The boy was teased, smiled, blushed and buried himself in the medicine cabinet.
Lan He took the list and looked at it, a delicate face as jade blushed and looked at the woman in front of her, and her voice was clear and clean: "If Miss Gao has any discomfort, you can call our husband ......."
Gao Xuecian waved his hand to interrupt his words, frowned, and said, "Every time you come, you say this, and I'm tired of you if you don't get tired of it." All you have to do is grab the medicine, and the silver will be given to you. ”
Lan He was stunned for a moment, "Girl, you misunderstood, I'm not ......"
Gao Xuecian squinted at him.
Lan He blushed and nodded: "Okay, you wait a minute." ”
Lan He went to grab the medicine, Gao Xuecian looked at the medical hall, there was a faint fragrance of medicine in the hall, which was refreshing and calm, and the furnishings were quite simple, no change from when she first came.
Prosperous as Shengjing, there is such a place? Gao Xuecian crossed her arms and looked around, and when she turned around, she suddenly bumped into a pair of clear and clean smiling eyes.
Gao Xuecian was startled and stepped back. "You're going to scare me to death!"
Lanhe was also taken aback by her, "Be careful! Afraid that she would fall, he reached out to help her, but was dodged by Gao Xuecicada.
"Don't touch me."
The outstretched hand stopped in mid-air awkwardly, and Lan He was not annoyed, handed her the medicine bag, and smiled gently: "Xiaosheng is offended, girl, this is the medicine you want." ”
Gao Xuecian rolled her eyes at him, handed over the money with one hand and took the goods with the other, her fingertips accidentally touched his palm, the cool fingertips seemed to be thorny, the roots of the crane's ears were dyed red, and she withdrew her hand as usual.
"Girl, if you are sick, you must find a doctor to take a good look." Lan He said seriously.
After a pause, he said: "That medicine is a little strong, you have to use it carefully, and avoid ...... wounds."
You're sick!
Gao Xuecian turned around and lifted her feet and landed again, looking back at him, her eyes sank, and Lan He's jade and handsome face was clearly engraved with worry.
She thought that she would never get used to seeing such clear eyes. Su Qianli is, and so is this little boy.
Gao Xuecicada suddenly smiled softly, the beauty half-covered her face, and a smile overwhelmed the mountains and rivers.
Xiao Tong didn't expect this laugh, and with a bang in his head, the whole person was stunned.
She approached Xiaotong and whispered, "I don't want my family to worry, it's just a little illness, if someone comes to ask, Xiaotong will help me hide it, okay?" ”
The beauty approached, the fragrant fragrance struck, and the blue jade-like face of the crane was already ripe, but fortunately, the sick people were in another hall.
Lan He took a step back with an embarrassed face, and his words were overwhelmed, and he only nodded in reply.
Gao Xuecian covered her mouth and smiled, and said in her heart: What a nerd!
Sioux House
Gao Xuecian bypassed the shadow wall and came to the west courtyard, and on a path paved with cobblestones, she happened to meet Su Tongying's maid Cui'er.
It can be said that the road is narrow.
It was rumored in the house that the third lady wanted to recognize Gao Xuecian as a righteous daughter, but later she didn't recognize it.
The reason for not admitting it is that the third lady wants to give Gao Xuecian to the third young master, how can Cui Er accept it, she is a person in the child's courtyard, for a few years, the son has only one maid in the room, and there is no reason to let a foreign country girl go first.
Cui Er was holding a tray with Su Ling's medicine on it. Cui Er glanced at Gao Xuecian and sneered: "Yo, it's Miss Gao, where is this going?" The four girls have already slept, who else can you find? ”
Gao Xueciao's expression remained unchanged and smiled: "The third lady asked me to come over and play chess with her." ”
Cui Er's face changed instantly, and her tone became more and more embarrassed: "Oh, it's okay, I climbed on the thigh of the lady, there are some means, but don't forget, this is the Su Mansion, the second lady is most disgusted with the people under her who are not right-minded, you have to be careful." ”
The young masters of Su Mansion have several concubines, and Su Hong's concubines alone have eight, but only Su Yankai, the princess, has no concubines.
Those maids thought that Second Master Su was afraid that the princess would be angry, but they didn't expect that for more than ten years, Second Master Su didn't even touch other women.
The Jun family also knew the careful thinking of those maids in the house, but she had always been gentle and generous, and no one dared to make any small moves, so she didn't care too much.
In this way, there was a bold maid who moved her mind that should not be moved, and took advantage of Jun's absence, and climbed into Su Erye's bed at night.
When Jun came back, the girl was still lying on Su Erye's bed, and Jun was furious, so he beat the girl half to death and sent her to Zhuangzi.
Soon after, news of the girl's death came.
After that, the beautiful maidservants in the house put away those flowery intestines and didn't dare to have any delusions.
Gao Xueciao's eyes sank, "Miss Cui'er, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, you are climbing up to the master in and out of your words, isn't it that you have such a mind, and you think the same thing as others?" ”
"What nonsense are you talking about! Don't splash your dirty water on me, do you think so, everyone in the house can see it clearly! ”
Cui Er sneered, "Heh, I said I was looking for relatives, I haven't seen your relatives in the capital for so long." Do people don't recognize you at all, so they want to stay in the Guogong Mansion? ”
A glimmer of light flashed in Gao Xueciao's narrow peach eyes, but his face was as calm as water, and he didn't speak again.
Seeing that she didn't talk anymore and was bored, Cui Er said, "Get out of the way!" ”。
Gao Xuecicada's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he turned sideways. After Cui Er walked away, Gao Xuecian withdrew her gloomy gaze.
Raised his hand and looked at the blood-stained palm, the anger in the depths of his heart continued to surge, took a few deep breaths, and forcibly suppressed the fierceness in his eyes.