Chapter 53: The Stone Castle on the Spring Breeze II
Wang Yong took it upon himself to accept Ashina Wenxia's invitation, which made Wang Fei stunned. Wang Yong has always been steady, although he has been a little reluctant recently, he will not take the liberty to make decisions for himself!
As if sensing the surprise in Wang Fei's heart, Wang Yong explained with a smile: "The Western Expedition is imminent, and it is rare that the Metropolitan Protector, Deputy Metropolitan Protector, Changshi, and Supervisor are all in Tingzhou. Therefore, Wang Duhu and Ashina Deputy Duhu agreed to gather several families to go to the Jinman River in the southeast of the city to celebrate the festival. This matter has just been decided, and I think that the little lady and Xiao Langjun are still unclear. ”
Turning solo action into a group party is indeed a good way to refuse the invitation without a trace, and Wang Fei breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Farewell Wang, will someone come over there at Ruyiju?" Ashina Wenxia stared at Wang Yong with sharp eyes and asked playfully. She just seems to want to be with Wang Fei, and doesn't mind how many people there are.
"This? I don't know, maybe. Shouldn't the little lady know better than me? Wang Yong was a little stumbling.
Ashina Wenxia smiled slyly, no longer making things difficult for Wang Yong, and turned to Wang Fei: "Brother Fei must come that day, I have a surprise to tell you!" ”
"Sister Wenxia has a life, and I am naturally rain or shine." After his mood relaxed, Wang Fei's response also became calm, but he muttered a little in his heart, and he couldn't guess what the surprise Ashina Wenxia said would be.
In a blink of an eye, it is the third day of the first month of March, and the sky is also beautiful, the spring breeze is swinging, and the sky is cloudless. The high-level dignitaries of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, under the escort of hundreds of tooth soldiers, took their families and took the four ** carriages specially made by Su Yeju, and went out of the inner city from the east gate, turned south, and came to the bank of the Jinman River.
In late spring in March, the river begins to rise, the grass grows and the warbler flies, which is the most beautiful season in Tingzhou. Wang Fei rode Chiyanhua to follow the convoy, sometimes discussing how to make a repeater with Ashina Jiang, and sometimes reviewing yesterday's training experience with Ashina Wenxia.
Ayitengna didn't want to travel, she was dragged into the carriage by Wang Fei. Therefore, Wang Fei also came to the car window from time to time to chat a few words to make her happy.
Ashina Xiaoyun, who was fluttering in a white dress, was very rare to be like a well-behaved lady, parallel to Wang Fei, biting her ears from time to time and saying a few whispers between girls.
Gao Xiangui, who had become a little thinner, followed Ashina's cloudy horse queen with great interest, and didn't say anything, just looked at the shadow in front of him and smiled. Zhang Dejia looked at his crazy companion helplessly, not knowing what to do.
Wang Fei also noticed Gao Xiangui's gaffe, but he just smiled, but there was not a trace of jealousy in his heart.
After the turmoil on the polo field, Gao Xiangui's heroic performance made Ashina Xiaoyun look up at him. The so-called "high look" means that when you meet, you will take the initiative to say hello to him, and occasionally you can chat about archery or something.
Ashina's slight closeness made Gao Xiangui happily practice archery day by day. He obviously thought that this kindness was evidence that Ashina Xiaoyun favored him. In Wang Fei's view, this is just a little compensation given by Ashina Xiaoyun after discovering that he had misunderstood others.
Of course, Wang Fei will not be so bored as to pierce other people's bubble-like dreams. Besides, in the eyes of others, how could he not be intoxicated in a hopeless bubble......
Mrs. Pei and Wang Qi, who had not appeared for a long time after the polo stadium incident, were also invited out by Wang Zhengjian. On the way out of the city, Wang Jue cowered and rode with Gao Xiangui and Zhang Dejia on horseback, and there was no longer the high-spirited attitude of the past.
Mrs. Pei stayed in the carriage with the curtain closed, as if it did not exist. Among the several noblewomen who went out of the city, she was the only one who refused to take Su Yeju's four-wheeled carriage and still used her old carriage. It's just that the carriage is still there, but the loyal dogs who are no longer inseparable from Su Ri are following closely......
When the rest of the noblewomen and Yahuan rode by car, Wang Zhengjian, Ashinayang, Gao Shetun and Zhang Daobin and other high-ranking officials of the Beiting, as well as Du Huan, Wang Yong, Li Dingbang, Ma Lan and other civil and military officials, all chose to gallop in the warm spring breeze.
In addition to the officials and family members of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, the little princess Anice, Sai Yifuding and Ruyiju's shopkeeper Liu and Su Sanniang were also invited. Tong Luo Puli, as an important member of Su Yeju, was naturally pulled in by Wang Fei.
Wang Fei looked at the mighty people, and subconsciously remembered "the sages are all over, and the young are long and salty" in "Orchid Pavilion Preface". The crowd of people who travel, although they dare not say that it is "the sages are all over", but the four words "Shaochang Xianji" are very appropriate.
Before the team left, there were already tooth soldiers from Beiting and the servants of each family who rushed to the destination in advance.
They erected colorful barriers and curtains, providing hidden and private spaces for the convenience of traveling women; They set up the portable tables, chairs and benches carefully built by Ruyiju, erected arrow targets, and placed throwing pots so that everyone could rest and play; They chose the qushui and prepared the wine glasses, which provided a venue for the qushui to flow......
After arriving at the Jinman River in the southeast of the city, Wang Fei looked at the grassy riverside and was sincerely satisfied.
When the Jinman River with the water is like jade to the southeast of Tingzhou City, the river channel is gradually widened, the water potential is slightly slow, the trees on the bank are sandwiched, the green goose is yellow, it is very good-looking, and it is very suitable for stepping on the green.
Even better, there is a meandering and bright stream, which meanders for dozens of miles before flowing into the Jinman River.
The site of the meandering water is arranged on both sides of the stream. At the confluence of the streams and rivers, there is a sparse grove, and the crisp and moving sounds of birds can be heard from time to time over the trees.
The tooth soldiers in the north court learned the lesson of the polo field turmoil, and Ma Lan had already sent Chen Team Deputy with dozens of people to turn over all the branches and branches of the forest to ensure that there would be no accidents.
When the group arrived at the river, the little maids served the ladies and sat down in the veil. When the ladies began to drink and chat, the little maids happily ran to the edge of the stream, and threw the boiled eggs and red dates into the flowing water like a goddess scattering flowers. Eggs and red dates, floating on the stream, like a small fleet, slowly and leisurely flow towards the Jinman River.
Wang Fei sat on the four-wheeled carriage, enjoying the touching scenery of late spring, and listening to the cheers of the little girls from a distance like birds, and his heart was even more happy.
Wang Fei glanced at Ayi Tenggena, who was sitting beside him, and was about to drive her to play with the little girls, when he suddenly heard Wang Yong ask behind him: "Xiao Langjun, do you know why Juxiang and the others threw the chickens and jujubes into the stream?" ”
"This is the 'Qushui Floating Egg' and the 'Qushui Floating Jujube', right?" After being ridiculed by Ashina Wenxia that day, Wang Fei asked Du Huan to do some homework.
"Then Xiao Langjun knows why Qushui float eggs and jujube came?" Aitengna seemed to be very interested in the customs of the Shangsi Festival, and she continued Wang Fei's words softly.
"Izuki really stopped me." Seeing that the sullen Ayi Tenggena was willing to chat, Wang Fei hurriedly replied. It's just that he really didn't ask Du Huan for the reason, so he had to turn his attention to Wang Yong for help.
Wang Yong's face turned red, and he said embarrassedly: "Xiao Langjun, don't look at me, I understand the charge, I don't understand the origin of these twists and turns." ”
"There are clouds in the Book of Songs: the Divine Destiny Xuanniao descends to give birth to business. It is rumored that Jian Di, the concubine of the emperor, swallowed the egg of the Xuan bird and gave birth to the contract, which is the ancestor of Yin Shang. In order to commemorate the ancestors, merchants worship bird eggs and chickens, so they throw chickens into the water during the Shangsi Festival, and later generations use jujubes instead of chickens, so there is this ritual. Aitengna whispered softly.
"Yi Yue is really a Hermione-like scholar!" Wang Fei couldn't help but praise.
"Huh?" Wang Yong was stunned, not knowing what the words "Hermione" and "Xueba" meant.
Aitengna smiled rarely, she could be said to be the person who had the most contact with the "strange" words in Wang Fei's mouth, and she had been listening to Harry recently? The story of Potter's brave fight against Voldemort, so he can understand Wang Fei's praise.
"Anyway, it means that Kwayiyue is very smart!" Wang Fei scratched his head, he was used to talking to Aitengana in a whimsical way, so he said a lot of words from his previous life in a bald voice.
Wang Yong smiled and said, "Little Lady Yiyue is indeed naturally smart. ”
Ai Tenggana hurriedly said modestly: "This is what Judge Du just said the day before yesterday, and I am just picking up people's teeth." ”
Wang Yong did not respond to Aitenggna's words, but glanced at Wang Fei with his gaze.
Before Wang Fei, who was still immersed in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, could react, Aitengna had already jumped out of the carriage and said with a smile: "Xiao Langjun, I'll go and play with Sister Juxiang to throw dates together!" ”
"The little lady of Yiyue is really smart." Wang Yong nodded in praise, and then asked with a serious expression: "Xiao Langjun, can the counterweight stone cannon and fierce oil fire you mentioned be used for mountain attack?" ”
"Mountain attack?" Wang Fei's heart moved, and he went through all the possible historical events in the eighth year of Tianbao (749) stored in his mind, and suddenly understood the cause of Wang Yong's recent abnormalities.
Since the seventh day of the second month of February, when he went to Ruyiju for a banquet and drank and met Kudulu on the road, Wang Fei found that Wang Yong seemed to have a little more thought, and there was often a melancholy color between his eyebrows, which always gave people a sense of restlessness.
At first, Wang Fei thought that Wang Yong was anxious because of the Beiting soldiers and horses' expedition to Shiguo, but later saw that Wang Zhengjian, Du Huan and others were at ease with the fact that the big food spies infiltrated Tingzhou, but Wang Yong was still worried, he understood that his speculation was wrong.
Later, when Wang Fei practiced with Ashina Wenxia, I heard her make fun of Wang Yong several times, and I thought that Wang Yong, who was in his twenties, was still alone, and he had been in frequent contact with Su Sanniang recently, so he decided that Wang Yong was deeply in love.
It was also at this time that Wang Fei suddenly realized that Wang Yong, who had a calm personality, brave combat, and superb martial arts, had already exceeded the marriageable age of the Tang Dynasty but was still alone, becoming an out-and-out "leftover man in the Tang Dynasty".
In February of the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan (734), Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty officially issued an edict, clearly stipulating that "men are fifteen years old and women are thirteen years old, and they are subject to marriage." ”