Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Eve of the Great War (12)
Fan Wucheng and the others entered the courtyard gate, and under the leadership of the little girl who opened the door, they carried the big bag of gifts for cover. Behind them, another equally pretty little maid closed the courtyard door and returned a sword that had been carried behind her back into its sheath, and followed.
The area of this small courtyard is not large, only one entrance. Facing the gate of the courtyard is a stone shadow wall, and in the middle of the courtyard are planted two common trees that are not very tall. In addition to the three main rooms, there is also a wing room and an ear room on the left and right. No matter how you look at it, it's just a very ordinary people's courtyard. If I had to find something different from the other houses, it was that a window in the room to the left of the main house was propped up, which is rare in the cold winter months in the north.
Of course, putting up a window does not mean that there is something wrong with the owner of the house. Although it is freezing outside, it is still good for those who live inside to open the windows on a relatively warm afternoon to ventilate a little. What is really special or unusual is that behind this open lattice, there is a window, a very clean window that has been wiped down, a window that is three feet square, and is made of four glasses. Such a huge glass window, except for a few mansions where the crossing team lives by itself, which has innate advantages, is said to be the home of ordinary people, even wealthy businessmen, important ministers of the imperial court, and even relatives of the emperor and the country cannot have such a big deal to install a fan for themselves.
According to the understanding of the crossing team, in addition to themselves, the only ones who can enjoy the treatment of glass windows are the imperial palaces of the Later Zhou, Liao, and Southern Tang Dynasty. Even in these places, only in Chai Rong's daily office, Lin Xiaoyu's dormitory, and the bedrooms of the Liao Emperor and the Southern Tang Emperor, are equipped with glass windows - in fact, the glass windows in these places are only inlaid on the window lattices with glass instead of window paper, and each piece of glass is only two to three inches square, which is still far from the glass windows in this small courtyard. In a sense, the only thing that can really be compared to this glass window in the small courtyard is through the bedroom, study, conference room and other places. And behind this large glass window, which is extremely rare in this era, there is a gorgeous-looking, young woman dressed as a woman sitting next to the table with her hands on her cheeks, watching the whole process of her maid ring and visitors outside the door from the conversation to the other party's entrance.
When she found that the only ones who came into the door were three servants dressed as small servants, her expression couldn't help but darken, and a trace of resentment appeared on her charming and gorgeous face. After a few words of complaining about someone in some discouragement, she seemed to raise her head unwillingly and looked carefully at the three subordinates who came in. It turned out that the subordinate who walked in the three people, dressed in a green coat and a small hat, and had two ugly plasters on his face, was the enemy he had been thinking about for the past few days. The beautiful young woman was overjoyed by this discovery, and the look of resentment on her face was instantly swept away. However, in order to prevent herself from making jokes when she saw the wrong person, she suppressed her excitement, looked at the person carefully several times, and finally made sure that she was not mistaken, and the person who came was him.
After confirming the identity of the visitor, the beautiful young woman immediately wanted to stand up and welcome her out, so that she could meet her lover sooner. However, just as she was about to leave her chair, she suddenly stopped and sat back down. immediately put on a look of indifference and disapproval, and even the little girl ring loudly announced to her in the outer room, "The master has arrived", but there was no response, but turned her face to the window, and did not look at Fan Wucheng who walked into the house, obviously wanting to pretend to be reserved and play a little temper in front of her lover, so that the other party could coax herself, so as to satisfy her little woman's vanity.
When Fan Wucheng saw this performance of the glamorous young woman, he naturally understood the other party's intentions. So, he hurriedly took off the plaster on his face under the service of Xiao Yahuan, and took off the clothes of the servants on his body, revealing the high-quality outer clothes inside. Then he walked up to the young woman, bowed to her with a smile on his face, and said, "The lady is above, and she is polite to her husband." The husband has been busy with business during this time, and several brothers issued a 'convening order' a few days ago, so it is difficult for the husband to get out of the time to visit the lady, and I hope that the lady will not blame the husband. ”,
Fan Wucheng is making a fool and making a compensatory here, but the glamorous young woman couldn't hold it anymore, laughed out loud, shook her hand and slapped Fan Wucheng, and said coquettishly: "A dignified manly man, but he is so low in front of Yahuan, where is there still a little bit of being a master." ”
Fan Wucheng heard the young woman say this, turned his head to look, and found that the little girl who was waiting for him to change clothes was still standing in the room, with her head down and pursing her mouth at this time, obviously trying hard to prevent herself from laughing. Seeing this, Fan Wucheng immediately recovered the old man's demeanor, deliberately straightened his face, and said to the little girl: "Qian'er, if you don't go to pour tea for the master, but what are you doing standing here, you can't let the master go by myself." ”
The little girl named Qian'er hurriedly agreed when she heard this, turned around and ran to the outer room. However, she couldn't hold back her laughter anymore when she ran, and her crisp and pleasant laughter came from her as she ran. Obviously, although this little girl is a girl, she is not afraid of Fan Wucheng. And Fan Wucheng didn't care about the other party's rude performance, although he said, "It's really getting more and more undecency, and it's all your wife spoiled", but there was no angry expression on his face. It's just that although Fan Wucheng's words are just a joke, they still aroused the dissatisfaction of the young woman, and he reluctantly asked Fan Wucheng to explain what it means to be "spoiled by your wife", and asked Fan Wucheng to come up with evidence that he was spoiled by the little girl, otherwise he would never stop with Fan Wucheng.
Fan Wucheng naturally understood that this was the other party taking the opportunity to be coquettish to himself, so he not only didn't care about the other party's rudeness, but cooperated with the other party, counted his sins of "unscrupulous words", "offended Mrs.", etc., and said that he would definitely correct his mistakes, and would never do this kind of "wronged lady" thing again, and successfully turned the glamorous young woman's coquettish behavior into flirting between young couples. For a time, there was a lot of affection and love in the house.
The concubine between Fan Wucheng and the glamorous young woman lasted for a while before it was broken by Yahuan Qian'er, who came in to deliver tea. Fan Wucheng and the beautiful young woman also returned to their seats at this time and began to talk about business.
The beautiful young woman took a sip of tea from the teacup and complained, "Since the officials placed their concubines in this Wuqing County, the number of times they have come has decreased a lot. Mo said that compared with when he was in Youzhou City, it was also far from when the concubine was hiding in Wu Yuanwai's house in Yingzhou two months ago. In the past half a month, he has not come to the door again. What is it that important things need to be done by officials in person, and it will take so long? ”
Speaking of this, the glamorous young woman glanced at Fan Wucheng resentfully, and guessed: "Could it be that the official has a younger and more beautiful appearance outside, and has forgotten the concubine." If so, then it's no wonder you, the official. After all, the concubine will be twenty-eight years old in the New Year, so naturally she can't compare to those pretty women who are twenty-eight years old, and it is also appropriate for officials to dislike concubines.
Or the officials are afraid of getting close to the concubine and causing unnecessary trouble, so they deliberately alienate the concubine, so that the concubine can retreat from the difficulty. If so, the concubine has nothing to complain about. Now the concubine is wanted by the two secret spy functions of 'Feiyan Hall' and 'Dark Feather', although she can still survive secretly, but sooner or later she will be found and arrested. When the time comes, I am afraid that the official will not be able to escape from the crime of harboring people. ”
Speaking of this, the young woman shook her head again and said with a wry smile: "If the day she is really caught, the concubine would rather be tortured by the ten tortures, and I hope that it is the people of the 'Feiyan Hall' who catch the concubine." In that case, the concubine will certainly be tortured to death, but you will not be implicated. After all, with the current strength of the 'Qingyuan' brothers, even if the 'Feiyantang' knew that it was the concubine that the officials were harboring, all they could do was to add a so-called 'crime' to the 'Qingyuan' brothers, but they couldn't touch the officials in the slightest. ”