Chapter 14: Elopement
Twilight fell like a large gray net, quietly falling and enveloping the whole land.
Fanjiazhuang Hua Yunfeng's home came to visit.
"Brother Yunfeng, quickly get good wine!" As soon as Cheng Dezhang entered the house, he stacked a bag of peanuts on the table.
"You're here to drink my wine again!" Hua Yunfeng had long been accustomed to his style, although he was joking in his mouth, his movements were not slow, and after a while, a jar of wine was placed in front of the two.
After pouring a full amount of wine, Cheng Dezhang couldn't wait to take a sip: "Not bad." It is high-grade sorghum red! ”
At this time, Cheng Dezhang completely lost the majesty of the private school, but looked like a drunkard.
"Your unruly surname, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change in this life!" Hua Yunfeng said with a wry smile.
"Why do you need to change it, you don't know me?" Cheng Dezhang disagreed.
Hua Yunfeng does know Cheng Dezhang, and it is not an ordinary understanding, speaking of which, they have known each other for more than 20 years.
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Twenty years ago, there was an affair in Chang'an, the capital city. Yang Xiang, the new widowed daughter-in-law of the Pan family, took advantage of the night to elope with a fallen son.
It is said that the Pan family once sent five martial arts warriors with strong martial arts to chase and arrest them, but the man's martial arts were far higher than the martial artists of the Pan family.
This incident is fragrant and magical, and it has been talked about by the streets and alleys for a while, and all kinds of discussions have been introduced.
Yang Xiang was born in a salt merchant giant in Zhejiang, and has lived in Gusu City since she was a child, and the man who eloped with her late at night was Yang Xiang's childhood friend Cheng Dezhang. Cheng family is the scholarly home of the five generations of Jinshi in Huai'an, Cheng Dezhang grew up with his father in Gusu, studied and practiced martial arts since childhood, and was very enlightened.
The Yang and Cheng families are close neighbors, and they are local famous families, so the relationship is very good, and the contacts are extremely close. Adults are like this, and so are Yang Xiang and Cheng Dezhang, who are of the same age. If it develops according to the normal situation, they should be a young couple who are childhood sweethearts, but they have no such fate between them. The Yang family had married the Pan family before their daughter was born. Although Yang Xiang is a chaotic little girl, she is already a famous flower. When they were young, they didn't guess anything, and when they reached the age of the beginning of love, the adults of the two families began to restrict their contacts in view of the fact that there was no possibility of marriage. But after all, living next to each other, the two can always find a chance to meet, and they have learned that the time together is getting less and less, so they cherish it.
Yang Xiang's future in-laws have a lot of backgrounds, her grandfather has been an official in the court for a long time, her father-in-law Pan Guanbao is a household servant, and her fiancé is also a young and talented person, with a dignified surname and a bright future. The Yang family is a famous family in Gusu, but compared with the Pan family in Chang'an, it is far behind.
Pan Guanbao was sent by the imperial court to serve in Gusu, and Cheng Dezhang had a strange idea after getting the news: his sweetheart Yang Xiang was going to enter Pan's house sooner or later, and he might as well get in touch with the master of the Pan family in advance, so that he could enter and leave Pan's mansion in the future, and also have the opportunity to meet Yang Xiang and chat about the love of the unfathomed.
Thinking like this, Cheng Dezhang found an opportunity to hand over his name to Pan Guanbao, calling him a protégé and begging for advice. Cheng Dezhang is already famous in Gusu, and Pan Guan Bao got a high-ranking foot in vain, so he was naturally happy in his heart, so he formed a teacher-student relationship with Cheng Dezhang.
Three years later, Yang Xiang married into the Pan family and lived in Chang'an with her husband Pan Zu. Pan Guanbao also returned to Chang'an to recuperate due to illness, which just created an opportunity for Cheng Dezhang to take advantage of, under the guise of visiting the teacher, he ran to Pan's house when he had nothing to do, looking forward to meeting Yang Xiang under the corridor in the courtyard.
After walking a lot to Pan's house, he naturally has the opportunity to meet Yang Xiang alone. Both of them seemed to have a lot to say in their hearts, but they didn't know where to start. In this way, it can't help but arouse Yang Xiang's nostalgia for the old love, but it is relatively speechless, and can only add an inexplicable pain in vain. Therefore, Yang Xiang persuaded Cheng Dezhang to come to the Pan family less in the future, not to meet the surname, and to leave everything in the past in his memory. Cheng Dezhang doesn't think so, he thinks that it's better to see each other than not to meet, and even fantasizes that one day he can relive his old dream and renew his previous edge.
Yang Xiang's husband Pan Zutong worked in Hanlin and could be described as a young man. Who would have expected that there would be unforeseen circumstances, in the second year of Pan Zutong's marriage to Yang Xiang, there was a sensational cheating case in the examination room during the Jinqiuxiang exam, and the examiner fell to the ground, and Pan Zutong was also one of the markers, and was implicated and exiled to Qiongzhou. Soon after Pan Zutong left, the bad news came that he died on the way due to an epidemic while infected, and Yang Xiang became a young widow.
Yang Xiang lost her husband, and Cheng Dezhang felt that hope was imminent, so he went to Pan's house more diligently. In addition to comforting the teacher's pain of losing his son, Cheng Dezhang bought Yahuan and ran to Yang Xiang's house under the pretext of condolences to the new widow. The affair between the two was soon seen by Pan Guanbao, he was very angry, his son died, and his daughter-in-law hooked up with his protégé, which is really ruined! In order to take care of his face, Master Pan lost his temper through a trivial matter, and from then on Cheng Dezhang was not allowed to enter the door of Pan's house again, and the relationship between teachers and students was severed.
Cheng Dezhang couldn't help but feel melancholy in his heart, but the deadline for the Ministry of Rites exam was imminent, and he had to give an explanation to his family with good grades, so he had to endure it for the time being. Cheng Dezhang forced himself to calm down and take the exam, but Yang Xiang's charming image was always turning around in his mind, his heart was ape, and he had no way to play his literary talents.
The field is frustrated, extremely depressed, and misses his old lover more and more. Cheng Dezhang didn't do anything, he didn't stop, he used his hidden stunt, took advantage of the dead of night, climbed over the wall to enter Pan's mansion, and slipped outside Yang Xiang's bedroom to gently call her name.
Yang Xiang, who had already fallen asleep, heard a familiar voice and woke up suddenly, unable to distinguish whether it was a dream or a real dream for a while. When he opened the door, there was indeed the enemy standing in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but be hot, and he threw himself into his arms without thinking. Cheng Dezhang didn't light the light when he entered the door, and the two sat in the dark and complained to each other.
Cheng Dezhang took the opportunity to mention elopement, but Yang Xiang was a little hesitant, after all, it was a matter of overstepping the courtesy, if he was caught, wouldn't he be ruined? Cheng Dezhang was determined and persuaded repeatedly. Finally, seeing that Yang Xiang no longer squeaked, he knew that she was tempted, so he stopped talking, picked her up, and quietly walked out of the bedroom. He carried her on his back and easily crossed the wall and escaped from Pan's mansion.
Getting rid of the entanglement of the Pan family's martial artists, Cheng Dezhang took Yang Xiang to Shucheng, Luzhou. This is Hua Yunfeng's suggestion, because Shucheng is Hua Yunfeng's hometown.
In Chang'an, Hua Yunfeng is indifferent to fame and fortune, and rarely interacts with people, but he is the best with Cheng Dezhang. Whenever Cheng Dezhang came to Hua Yunfeng's house with a pack of braised peanuts, Hua Yunfeng would take out his treasured good wine, and the two talked about everything. Cheng Dezhang and Yang Xiang's feelings are clear to Hua Yunfeng, and even Cheng Dezhang's plan to elope with Yang Xiang was not hidden from Hua Yunfeng. Hua Yunfeng couldn't help Cheng Dezhang much, so he could only provide him with a hiding place.
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