Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Dream in Ten Years (2)
My doubts were still unanswered, and the next day I was taken to Gongzi's Mansion by a carriage with Mingyi. Looking at the familiar plaque at the entrance of the house, I couldn't help but feel in a trance. I've been to this place too many times. The last time I stepped through this gate, I was invited to see it by the pool in the backyard because Childe had a few cranes and birds; Last time, I invited the piano master Yue; Last time, I probably remember that it was the fragrance. It's just that there hasn't been a witch boy who invited me to a wedding like today.
When I met when I was young, he treated me like a treasure, but he was always the first to give me anything good. But whatever I give, no matter how useless, I take it with me. He asked Wu Feng to marry me, and although I was unwilling, I still thanked him for his kindness.
Walking into the gate, I suddenly felt that today's Gongzi's Mansion was a little more solemn than usual. Zhou Li has a memory, take the woman's home, do not have fun for three days, and think of the heirs. Therefore, although the Gongzi's Mansion at this time was busy and noisy, there was no joy at all.
On the third day after bathing and fasting, Gongzi Li wore the black knight's robe used for the ceremony at dusk, and set off to Baili Mansion with a welcoming procession, and after more than half an hour, the bride's motorcade slowly marched to the long street outside the door.
In the east outside the dormitory, the three-mouthed beast-patterned amphora bronze tripod was filled with ceremonial animals, and two columns of Qin sorcerers stood on both sides of the long street and sang a song in a deep voice. Nearly 100 years old, the world-famous Chu Guowu stood on the left side of the gate with the boy, and Ming Yi took me to stand on the right side. All four of them painted animal patterns on their faces with blue and red paint, and recited spells in their mouths to reach the gods and dispel the ghosts of jealousy and hatred of the bride.
Gongzili's hand holding red medicine slowly came from a distance, and behind them, there were dozens of young girls with peachy faces and a carload of endless bridal things.
Gongzili's expression was solemn, the red medicine cheeks were full of red clouds, her eyes were full of joy, and her dignified clothes added a bit of luxury to her charm. Looking at the two people in front of me, I was secretly relieved, it was still worth it to replace the red medicine by myself that day, at least now the son can get the help of Baili's through marriage, as long as time passes, his ambitions, the great cause in his heart will definitely be realized. As I thought of this, I felt less guilty about him, but this calmness and ease lasted only a short moment before I was buried with the sentimentality that followed.
Behind Gongzi Li and Hongyao were two leading concubines, one of whom was Juan, and the other couldn't see his face clearly, but what made my throat choke at the moment was what this woman was holding in her hand. It was a one-foot-square red lacquer plate with an old garment that I used to wear and a broken tooth grate.
Gongzi Li passed in front of me with an indifferent expression, and I looked up at the side of his face, and a tear fell uncontrollably.
Idiot...... She ignored your affection when she was alive, and now that she is dead, will you still take her soul into the house?
Weishui summons spirits, what did you say to these old things, when you were drunk and lying on the riverbank, you heard my sighs, my guilt......
I was still chanting the incantation in my mouth, but tears could not help but welled up in my eyes, wetting my cheeks and wetting my heart.
After the wedding ceremony, Gongzili held a banquet in the mansion to entertain the envoys of various countries, and Mingyi and I followed the man in black to the Ming Hall built on a high platform.
Walking to the door, a temple man sang loudly: "Bolu, the son of the Zhao family of the Jin Kingdom, bring the sorcerer to ββ"
He is indeed the son of Zhao Yingli.
I turned my head to look at the thin Zhao Bolu beside me, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, thinking that Zhao Yingxiong was strategic, good as a stream, and had been in power for more than ten years, but I didn't expect his successor to be such a weak body.
"Doctor Wei Kong Kui, bring the debater Ji Xiao hereβ"
The chanting of the temple people continued to be heard behind him, and Mingyi's footsteps suddenly stopped. I looked over at him, only to be grabbed by the shoulder by a man who was chasing after me.
"Slave? It's a slave! A fat-faced, bearded brown-clad man shook my shoulders and asked.
I was a little dazed for a moment, so I asked Mingyi with my eyes. Mingyi was stunned, his side face avoiding my gaze.
"His name is Jiji, and he is a sorcerer of the Zhao clan of my Jin Kingdom." Bo Lu beside him gave a slight salute and replied lightly.
"Ji Xiao, don't be rude!" Seeing this, the scribe standing behind the fat-faced man hurriedly walked up, and pulled Ji Xiao, who was in a daze, to give Bo Lu a salute, "The retainer recklessly rushed into the sorcerer, and I ask Zhao Shizi to forgive me." β
Bo Lu smiled and said politely: "It's okay, Doctor Kong, please!" With that, he went to the center of the lobby with two men.
Mingyi stood there for a moment, and then absentmindedly led me to sit down in front of a desk on the right side of Mingtang.
At this time, the prince's mansion was solemn and solemn, and in front of the four walls, there was a red lacquered phoenix-shaped candlestick every two feet, and the half-moon-shaped carved flower smoke cover above the candlestick made the firelight become dreamlike. In the center of the hall, in the half-human high-level gluttonous pattern bronze tripod, there are sheep, elk, dolphins, three kinds of animal for the big ceremony, the soup is boiling for a while, and the meat fragrance is overflowing.
Dressed in all kinds of beautiful clothes, the maidservants shuttled between the guests, and the wine in their hands was the "pear bud" that I was most greedy for on weekdays. There is an ancient well in Gongzili's house, and a pear tree is planted next to the well. Every year in late spring, when the wind blows, the pear blossoms fall like snowflakes from the branches and fall into the well. Childe ordered someone to take well water to make wine, so there was this "pear bud" that I will never forget.
I gently took a sip of the wine in the glass, and felt that this name was very beautiful that day, but now I have a sense of helpless fate, drinking "pear bud", and complaining about all the injuries.
"If you're sad, why don't you tell him you're alive?" Ming Yi took a sip of wine and said softly.
"I can't wake up from a dream when I'm in love, but one day he will forget me. At that time, he knew that the woman sitting next to him at the moment was what he really needed. I glanced at Gongzi Li, who was sitting in front of Qingyu's case, and sighed in a low voice.
Mingyi sneered, drank a full glass of wine, and poured the pot full of the amphora in my hand.
I threw my head up and drank, the cold liquor slid down my throat, but it became hot in my heart.
"Are you awake?" Mingyi asked casually as he drank his wine.
I was stunned for a moment, and then shook my head slightly: "I've been dreaming for too long, and I may not be able to wake up in this life." β
"Child, how old are you? Talk about what a lifetime. Ming Yi half-squinted his eyes shook the golden wine in his ear glass, and his smile was misty.
"The sorcerer finished drinking, and he talked more than usual." Although the two of us still had the frightening beast face painted on our faces, the beauty of Mingyi's gestures still attracted the frequent sideways glances of the guests sitting next to us.
"Kuroko, that kid didn't tell you?" He led his neck to another cup, "I hate the things in this cup the most in my life......"
What he wants to say is the most likely! I chuckled, ignored him, and turned to look at the female musicians with their colorful sleeves fluttering in the middle of the banquet and the guests who were looking for pleasure.