Chapter 55: The Spring Sacrifice (1)
Si'er's face was very ugly, in order to make her feel relieved, I could only tell the matter of the prince's mansion from beginning to end, and finally even Wu Feng tricked me into Baili Mansion, and I borrowed wine to drown my sorrows.
"I'm done, don't be sad, I'm not alive and well now!"
Si'er wiped away his tears, stood up and didn't say a word, just silently took out a handkerchief from his arms and soaked some of the leftover shochu from last night, and gently wiped the wound on my neck: "This wine is too strong, didn't we say that we won't drink it in the future?" The general may have other arrangements, don't be in a hurry to be sad, I will accompany you wherever you go in the future. ”
"Hmm." I gritted my teeth and endured the pain, and asked softly, "What's going on in your house?" Is the housekeeper coming back with you? ”
"The eldest brother was conscripted, the eldest sister-in-law soon ran away with someone, and the grandfather was so angry that the old illness relapsed, so he stayed at home for a while longer. But now it's all right, you don't have to worry. ”
"Your eldest brother was conscripted? Whose army did it go to? ”
"I don't know." Si'er shook his head and took a red silk ribbon from my embroidery box and tied it to my wound, "Some of the plasters sent by Gongzili last time are still in the house, I'll go back and get them later, but don't leave a scar." ”
"My skin and flesh are getting better quickly, so don't bother."
"The two of us said when we were young, and the sick one should be obedient. Now you have to listen to me. Si'er's tone was tough, and I was no longer strong.
"Then you go early and come back early."
"Got it."
When Si'er left, the two little girls next door still didn't wake up, probably because they fell in love with the beast-faced man last night.
By this time, my eyes were already swollen, so I took a freshly embroidered sachet and went to see the lady of the red medicine.
On the way there, the fat girl told me that last night the noble girl of the red medicine ordered a servant who served Ah Zhi to be killed with a cane. I heard that it was the little maid who didn't have long eyes who brought a man into the house without permission, and when she had a private meeting in the courtyard, she happened to be bumped into by a passing red medicine. As a result, the man ran away, but the woman did not.
The fat girl sighed when she said it, and said that men in the world are not credible. But I sighed in my heart, the poor little maid should have accidentally bumped into Hongyao's affair with Lou Shaokang, and because she was the concubine Azhi's person, she was killed by Hongyao.
Passing through a few courtyards, the fat girl and I walked to the front of the red medicine house. A maid went in to report, and after a while, Hongyao, who was wearing a Hunan colored skirt, led a woman in green who looked quite lovely and walked out. The woman looked a little familiar, and after some greetings, she realized that she was the daughter of Dr. Lou and Lou Shaokang's sister-Juan. On the same day, at the birthday banquet of the Prince's Mansion, I vaguely remember that she called me at the gate of the mansion.
"I'm eighteen this year, I'm sixteen this year, and my sister is the youngest of the three of us." Hongyao took my hand and sat on the felt in front of the window, and said with a smile: "Why is General Wu willing to marry his sister so early?" ”
Before I could reply, the silk on the side interjected: "Sister, you don't know, our sister Ah Shi and Gongzi Li have long been in love." Because she was too young to marry, the prince also went to the monarch to beg several times. Now, even Mrs. Jun knows that the Wu family has a noble daughter who is loved by her son. Juan's words were yin and yang, and the heart of provocation was clearly revealed.
"Really? I said, my sister is under fifteen now, and my son is too anxious. Hongyao's face froze, and he let go of my hand without a trace.
It turns out that he is the one I am going to marry......
Over the years, Childe has treated me very well, in addition to usually sending someone to send me some new things to play with, the last time I was injured in the forehead by an arrow, he also sent cans of medicine to the house. However, it is good to return, but I don't have this mind when I treat him, and now I suddenly say that I want to marry him as a concubine, and I only feel ridiculous in my heart.
"Why doesn't my sister speak, but she's so happy?" With a smile on her face, she graciously handed me a dried fruit.
"Ah Shi is still young, love, love, I don't understand it yet." I bowed my head and whispered back.
"Sure enough, it's still a child." Hongyao patted my hand and smiled, "Childe is gentle and considerate, and you will understand the word love in a few years." ”
Basking in the warm sun and eating dried fruits, the three of them chatted for a while. I laughed and pretended to be stupid, but finally I felt tired, so I got up and said goodbye.
Before leaving, Hongyao gave me a few zhang of silk, and asked me to set the wedding date after May, so that I could prepare early, embroider some festive things for myself, and bring them to the prince's mansion when the time comes.
I responded one by one and withdrew with the fat girl.
If this marriage is completed, then Wu Feng, Gongzili, and Baili Dafu will form an unbreakable alliance in the Qin dynasty. Doctor Lou temporarily intervened and forcibly sent his daughter in, which was undoubtedly the prince's means of protesting against this matter.
Actually, I have been with Wu Feng for many years, and it's not that I don't know the powerful relationship between them. If the marriage was really that important to him, he could have told me to his face. Maybe for him, even if my heart is painful, I will marry willingly.
But why did he lie to me, why did he swear to me that he would come back to pick me up in three months?
Could it be that he has other problems?
That night, a terrible thought suddenly germinated in my mind - I was going to leave Yongcheng, I was going to the northwest, and I wanted to listen to him tell me the reason.
The sun rises and sets, time flies by in my fingers, and in the blink of an eye, I have lived in Baili Mansion for more than a month.
In the past month, in addition to greeting a few noble concubines as usual, and accompanying Hongyao to be a female infrared, I have been planning my trip to the northwest most of the time.
On this day, I had to take Si'er back to the General's Mansion with Si'er, and gave some things to Wuxian for safekeeping, and after two months, if Wu Feng didn't come back, I would take Si'er and Wuxian to find the border by myself.
On the other hand, in order to avoid suspicion, Gongzili has not looked for me since the prince's mansion was in a hurry. But when I returned home this time, I found that in the past month or so, he had sent more than 20 gift boxes one after another. From jade accessories to brocade cloths, from dried fruits to precious spices, all kinds of dried fruits are piled up in my room.
Among these things, I unexpectedly found a delicate jade ring, on which was more than half a palm wide seemed to be engraved a nine-tailed beast running among the auspicious clouds.
"The color of this jade ring is so strange, it's a little blue, like your eyes." Si'er saw me looking at the jade ring in my hand in a daze, so he leaned over and took a look, "The little beast carving is also very cute, it seems that Gongzili is really good to you, or you can marry him." ”
"Dead girl, what nonsense!" I carefully took the jade ring into my arms, "This thing may have some relationship with me, and I will ask him where he got it next time I see him." ”
"The next time I see him, I'm afraid it will be the day of the wedding." Si'er leaned into my ear and laughed, and then quickly ran away.
"Count you as fast as you run!" I snorted coldly and ignored her.
"Gee, why do you still have this disgusting thing?" Si'er saw a small piece of black fur exposed under the bed, so he pinched it with two fingers and pulled it out, "This is a jacket made of mouse skin, dirty, broken and smelly, why do you still use it as a treasure!" ”
"I almost forgot, you put it away for me and take it to Baili Mansion together!" In Si'er's hand was a small ratskin jacket, which I had worn for as long as I could remember. It is the only thing that A-Niang left me, and no matter how expensive the coat is, it can't be compared.