Chapter 236: Solidarity
Lu Xiyu sat quietly in the boudoir, embroidering the picture of a hundred butterflies that had not been competing for several years.
Sometimes the needle is introduced, sometimes the time is stunned, and the time in the boudoir passes in such a silent hurry.
Five years ago, the Queen Mother's cold gaze and resolute tone were unforgettable, which made her state of mind today.
In the past five years, except for the occasional visit to the Jingyue Nunnery to pray for blessings, she stayed at home and stayed in the boudoir all day, intermittently tracing the patterns in her memory.
It's not that there hasn't been a fuss. After King Yue flew away, the rumors about King Yue and Lu Xi's love affair were quickly sealed down. Those mothers-in-law and aunts who have seen Lu Xiyu's peerless face have to take the opportunity to reveal their best secrets, and praise Lu Xiyu as a fairy who has strayed into the mortal world, attracting famous young people in the capital to come one after another, often singing songs, whistling, chanting poems and eulogies in front of and behind the Lu family's house, and playing all kinds of romance, but they can toss in every way, but they are still beauties like flowers across the clouds, and there is no way to see the beauty of the beauty.
Next, the matchmaker stepped through the threshold of the Lu family, let their tongues bloom lotus, Lu Xiyu didn't nod his head, Lu Xi and his wife gritted their teeth, their hearts were horizontal, and it was the other way around! The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, this is not up to you! At the end of the year when Zhu Qiming left Beijing, Mrs. Lu dragged her daughter to have a long talk all night and had a showdown with her.
"Mother, several teachers in Jingyue Nunnery say that their daughters are quite wise."
Do you want to lose your hair and become a nun? Lu Xiyu's words almost didn't make Mrs. Lu angry. Who said that a woman who is familiar with poetry and books can't cry or make trouble and hang? This plain sentence is more ruthless than crying, making trouble, and hanging yourself!
Mrs. Lu appealed to Lu Xi, but Lu Xi figured it out. He, a well-educated man, only accepted such a student as King Yue in his life, and he was also a half-hung student who couldn't lead to the right path, but the fate of the Lu family was just bound to that half-hung student, and his daughter's marriage was just one aspect of the overall fate of the Lu family, and the Lu family couldn't change anything, so they could only wait for others to change.
Since then, Lu Xi and his wife have ignored their daughter's marriage. Lu Xi and his wife don't care, the three relatives and six relatives of the Lu family don't want to stand by, just last summer, just a few days before Lu Xiyu was about to say goodbye to the most suitable age for marriage, seven aunts and eight aunts came to the Lu family in a group to launch a "rescue" offensive, everyone tried hard to persuade for a whole day, but Lu Xiyu was silent like a wooden man, and finally, those women held the Lu family's kettle and poured a cold water, and then left in frustration.
The past few years have been like this, there are waves in the ordinary, and Lu Xiyu's mood is quieter than ordinary days, and there are no waves in his heart.
There was a sound of footsteps at the main entrance, apparently my father had come home, no, I remembered the sound of rustling in the main hall, and it must have been my mother who greeted me.
"Why did you come back so early today?"
"Now I'm just an idle official, and no one cares if I return late or soon." Lu Xi's voice was a little excited, "Oh, King Yue······ I'm back in Beijing. ”
Suddenly, two surprised sounds sounded inside and outside the boudoir. The corners of the mouth of the ice beauty's rare movement finally twitched, the embroidery needle deviated from the embroidery frame, the middle finger of her left hand tingled, and when she turned her head to look, a round drop of blood condensed on her fingertips.
"This morning, I went to the Hanlin Academy to check the classics, and I met the master of ceremonies, Jin Gonggong, who quietly told me that King Yue had just returned to Beijing and lived in Qiupu Xuan in the imperial city. Alas, many people in the court are forcing the king to go to the domain as soon as possible! Lu Xi's last sentence was full of anger, as if he was complaining about King Yue.
"Really? Great, King Yue has finally returned to Beijing! Mrs. Lu's laughter contained a faint cry.
The boudoir's uncompetitive nose was sour, and tears seemed to ooze from the corners of his eyes.
"Who is King Yue? Have I seen it? The immature voice of the little sister Lu Ziyin sounded in the hall.
Five years ago, Lu Xiyu had an extra sister, and her parents let her clay sculpture-like eldest daughter go to her since then, and shifted most of their thoughts to the younger daughter.
"King Yue came to our house five years ago, Yin'er think about it, have you seen him?" Mother's words were full of teasing.
"Five years ago? I forgot about the past. The immature voice was full of seriousness.
The laughter in the hall paused, the corners of the boudoir's mouth curved slightly, and the smile on his face flashed.
Coughing lightly, Lu Xi deliberately lowered his voice, "The Empress Dowager and the Emperor intend to choose Princess Yue between Concubine Zhou's sister and the only daughter of the late anti-Japanese general Lin Feng. ”
Zhou Xiaodie, Lin Xulan? Lu Xiyu reflected the figures of the two in his mind, and a slightly budding heart instantly froze.
The day has finally come!
"The queen mother and the emperor may not be in line with the wishes of the king of Yue!" Mrs. Lu said quietly.
"King Yue's intentions don't matter, the important thing is that this is the meaning of the queen mother and the emperor, and no one dares to disobey!"
The parents stopped talking, and there was silence in the house, and the sound of snow falling to the ground outside the house seemed to be clearly audible. Lu Xiyu walked out of the boudoir as if sleepwalking, avoiding the surprised eyes of her parents and the flattering smile of her little sister, and went straight to the front yard, with a faint expectation in her blank eyes.
Snowflakes are flying all over the sky, clouding the sky, and at a glance, you can't see the road, you can't see the other side, you can only see the square inch under your feet.
Heavy snow still fell after the New Year's Eve, which may be a delayed winter cold.
The wind is blowing strongly, and it can't blow the frozen face, whether it's warm or cold at the moment, it seems to be the temperature of another world.
Lu Ziyin took an umbrella and handed it to her sister, and then flew back to the house like a bird.
I opened my umbrella in a trance, and suddenly felt that the red blood droplets on my fingertips fell to the ground, and at a glance, the snow was blood-red, shocking.
The earth began to shake, and the sound of horses' hooves on the official road in the distance was urgent, and there were many people. Lu Xiyu stared into the distance, and his hibernating heart gradually woke up.
The sound of the horse's hooves stopped, and a figure came out of the group, misty, fitting the scene in the dream.
You don't need to see people, you can smell the breath that wafts in the wind and your heart will be excited.
Yue Wang Zhu Qiming, the person she has always called "you" brings a familiar smell!
Suddenly she felt dizzy, and she fell sideways. Then there was a sudden sound, and soon, a strong hand held her arm.
The gaze touched a real face, the legendary mask was gone, and that face was so clearly presented in the snow that it was unusually handsome.
"Thank goodness you've finally cured the evil poison in your body!"
"Thank you······ Thank you for praying for me, my Buddha is merciful! ”
There was a breath on his neck, so, with a gentle push, he broke free of that hand, only to feel shortness of breath, and blurted out stupid words. "I thought you would chase the clouds, but who knew that you would come against the dark clouds!"
Zhu Qiming's eyes froze, and a picture immediately appeared in his mind. One morning six years ago, Lu Xiyu and Zhou Xiaodie appeared in the courtyard together, both of them combed cloud buns, because Zhou Xiaodie rarely did not wear a headdress that day, so he whispered to Lu Xiyu at that time: "You are Caiyun, Zhou is a dark cloud." ”
Unexpectedly, the joke from many years ago was turned out and borrowed by her today.
I seemed to have heard Jin Ying say last night that the Queen Mother intended to choose Princess Yue between the Zhou family and a woman named Lin Sulan, but people were reluctant, even the royal family couldn't force a woman to marry a people's daughter!
"I can only see the clouds." After whispering, he looked up at the sky, and there were only snowflakes in the sky, and there were no dark clouds in the sky.
The corners of his stiff mouth finally curved into an arc, "After this heavy snowfall, the weather is warmer. is about to usher in the season of "chaotic flowers gradually becoming charming", whether you can't help yourself, or whether you are willing to do so, you will eventually get lost in the sea of flowers, right? ”
Zhu Qiming looked at the budding and quiet face like an epiphany, and felt pity in his heart.
A flash in the pan, just for Vede! If I were Vedata, would you be passionate about me?
But so what? Eighty years of waiting is enough for a second reincarnation, and even if you achieve positive results, it is also a luxury that ordinary people can ask for!
"Since it's a messy flower, it's a vulgar thing, how can it compare to you? You are the flower of the gods, like this crystal clear snowflake. ”
Snowflakes?
Lu Xiyu only felt a chill in his heart, and suddenly felt that the dream was shattered, and the pieces were scattered with the wind.
The beauty of snowflakes is just a matter of raising the eyes, just a moment!
"Is that your decisive word?"
Decisive words?
Zhu Qiming suddenly remembered the Tang Dynasty Yuan Zhen's "Decisive Words", those three shameless "Decisive Words"! A generation of talented people Yuan Zhi abandoned the prototype "Shuangwen" of the heroine "Yingying" in "The Legend of the West Chamber", and in order to avoid criticism from the world, he did not hesitate to stigmatize her, she is simply a scumbag among scumbags!
Even if hundreds of years later, Nalan Xingde, a genius of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a different "Decisive Words", so what? "If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind sad fan", grief and regret, it will not help!
The poems are beautiful, but the stories behind them are often unbearable and even dirty.
In this era of strict etiquette, countless innocent and romantic girl's dreams were shattered in the hands of talents, turned into the beauty of poetry, and chatted to delight the world.
"Years ago, I wanted to keep a snowflake and make it eternal."
"Can you keep it?"
"I kept it."
"Where is it?"
"On your head!"
Lu Xiyu subconsciously reached out and stroked the top of her head, and there was a snow hosta in her bun, which was a gift he gave her six years ago.
There is really a "snowflake" on the top of the hairpin!
So, in an instant, as if the aura of thousands of years of practice erupted from the inside out, the smile hung back on the cheeks, the shyness resettled on the eyebrows, and in the swaying snow, a delicate flower bloomed in the cold!
Under the thick snow, there seems to be spring.
Lu Xi came to the house, and at a glance, he suddenly felt in a trance, there was clearly a peculiar picture in the wind and snow, the two people in the picture moved slowly, but the artistic conception was extremely vivid.
Men and women should not be careless. As a master, he wanted to separate the two, but when he saw his daughter's delicate face and moving eyes, and then recalled her lifeless appearance in the past, all the unhappiness turned into a sigh.
Lu Xi quietly retreated into the house and went to open the old wine that had been treasured for many years.