Chapter 17: Encounter
"Look, what's that?" Rong Jin excitedly walked two steps onto the bluestone slab in front of him, pointing to the black dots that were moving in the water.
Zhimin followed the look, sighed, took Rong Jin's hand and ran towards Lingyan Lake.
"The garden is built to lead to living water, the lake is not deep, it can only reach my brother's neck, but if it is shorter, it will be drowned, then ...... It looks like a person! Zhimin gasped, and while pulling Rong Jin, he impatiently urged the servants behind him: "Yue'er Xing'er, I haven't eaten!" ”
When Rong Jin was dragged to the lake, she was out of breath, and she panted while beckoning the red sleeves and finches behind her to come over.
Zhimin had already let go of her hand and shouted at the top of her voice: "Someone! Where are the garden keepers? ”
Rong Jin slowed down, his eyes swept away, unbelievable, there was indeed a person in the lake, and the water had already flooded his neck.
"Miss, there aren't many people guarding the garden, and there are a lot of people in the front yard today, I'm afraid they all secretly ran to see the excitement!" Yue'er was out of breath.
Zhimin didn't know how to swim in the water, looked at Yue'er Xing'er, who couldn't even breathe even after running two steps, and without saying a word, he lifted his skirt and ran to the east corridor like a wind......
"Miss, Miss......" Her two maids also ran to follow, leaving only Rong Jin and Qi'er Red Sleeves.
"Look for any pennies or ropes nearby! Fast! Rong Jin was also so anxious that his face turned red, and he bent down to search in the grass.
The finches followed. Red sleeves had a calm face, "Miss, let's just look for a bamboo pole to pull people up, you will be laughed at if you wet your clothes, you are a guest, and you are a woman, if you don't save people, you can't save people, and no one will say anything, besides, if you are a servant in the water, aren't you wasting your efforts?" ”
Rong Jin didn't hear it at all, squatting and playing in the grass, the sweat on his forehead fell like beads, and finally found a wooden stick, but it was only one zhang long, so he threw it and continued to search.
"Miss......" Red Sleeves is still persuading.
Rong Jin straightened up suddenly, her eyes were red, and the fourth young lady, who had always been soft and glutinous, was as fierce as a leopard for the first time.
"Which is more important, rules or human life? Red sleeves, you are also a slave, isn't the life of a slave a life? It's you who fell into the water today, won't you save it? Rong Jin stared at her, staring at her so much that she didn't dare to make a sound, then she bent down again and continued to look for bamboo poles.
The finch also glanced at the red sleeves, and snorted lightly, she had never seen such a self-despised slave!
However, who would have thought that this master and servant were sweating profusely looking for bamboo poles to rescue the people in the water, but Shen Kuo in the water was holding his breath and testing deeper. He held a long branch in his hand, and kept throwing water back, trying in vain to turn the purse of the half-old embroidered lotus leaf field, almost, almost......
Water flooded his jaws, and his crescent-like eyes were bloodshot and his eyelids twitched.
For those who don't know how to swim in water, walking into the water and watching their bodies gradually overflow by the water, the taste is simply terrifying, but for Shen Kuo, this fear is not deep enough, far less than losing this purse.
He finally couldn't hold it anymore, took two steps back, freed his nose, took two deep breaths but choked and coughed, and he kept in his hands, and continued to pour back the water, and the purse followed the water, and finally came fluttering. Shen Kuo immediately hooked it with a bamboo branch, his heart was steady, and he let out a long breath, a wipe of water beads all over his face, and it was only at this time that he felt the autumn water cold.
"Hey! Pull this bamboo pole quickly, and we'll pull you up! ”
Shen Kuo turned around and saw the three girls tentatively walking towards the depths of the lake, and the bamboo poles floating on the water in their hands gradually came to him, and he was able to catch a few feet.
Shen Kuo didn't grab the long bamboo pole, but walked back with heavy steps......
A head on the surface of the water gradually approached, followed by narrow shoulders and a wet upper body......
The three of them were stunned in unison, watching the man come from the deep water like a goose.
At this moment, Rong Jin just wants to get into the water, and after making trouble for a long time, people are not falling into the water at all, but they may be too hot so they splashed twice in the water, and she is not too much to save people, and she has made herself into such an embarrassment!
Rong Jin's face collapsed, and he looked up to the sky and sighed.
At this time, Shen Kuo's body had been completely revealed, he was about ten years old, and he was half a head shorter than Rong Jin.
The sun broke out of the clouds, the water shone like broken gold, his steps were heavy, he lifted and fell, splashing a foot-high splash, everything was dyed with color, and it was not real.
As he got nearer, his appearance became clearer, he had stood in the water for too long, his face and lips were like moonlight shining on white porcelain, but his eyes were as deep black as ink, and the blackness was half covered by his eyelids, and they were eagles watching in the night sky. Fortunately, the childishness has not been taken off, the flesh on the cheeks is pouting, and the outline is not deep, otherwise the eyes of this yin owl are enough to make the seeers frightened.
"Thank you, sisters!" Shen Kuo stood in front of Rong Jin, and the appearance of a scholar arched his hand at her.
"Effort, effort!" Rong Jin smiled and slandered: This little brother is so handsome, and I don't know whose brother it is.
However, after Shen Kuo thanked her, he walked to the shore by himself, his fists clenched tightly, as if he was going to punch someone.
Rong Jin and the red-sleeved finch followed ashore, their dresses half wet, and from the waist down was a darker color.
But Shen Kuo was like a chicken in the soup, dripping with water all over his body, but he didn't care at all, as soon as he got ashore, he hurried to the flower garden, and muttered non-stop: "Shen Du, look at this little master, I don't want your life today!" ”
Shen Du is Shen Kuo's brother-in-law, and he deliberately tricked Shen Kuo and threw Shen Kuo's purse into the lake. At that time, Shen Kuo saw that there was no one around, so he went into the water to pick it up, who had ever wanted to go deeper and deeper, and finally almost drowned himself before picking up the purse, he just wanted to find Shen Du quickly and beat the person first.
The child twisted up, so he didn't care if he was his own brother, let alone whose banquet it was in!
"Eh, where are you going!" Rong Jin was baring his teeth and twisting his skirt on the shore, and when he saw the little brother who had just come out, he was walking away and hurriedly stopped him.
But at this time, a group of people walked quickly from the bamboo forest, four or five small servants and three or two maids, and the stars surrounded Zhimin and a man with a high figure.
The man was tough and magnificent, with three points similar to Mrs. Cheng between his eyebrows and eyes, dressed in white crepe embroidered tiger arrow sleeves, covered with a scarlet eight-group flowered tassel gown, and tied a lily red sweat towel around his waist.
If such a rich and gorgeous red is worn on an ordinary general, it is the groom and official who are going to pick up the relatives, but as soon as Cheng Zonglun puts on his body, it is Xuanxuan's extravagance, just because his lower half is a beautiful face with thin lips and sharp jaws, which greatly dissolves the depth and toughness between his eyebrows and eyes.
This is Zhimin's brother Cheng Zonglun, he went to stop Shen Kuo head-on, but Shen Kuo didn't comply, so he grabbed Shen Kuo's shoulder and forced him forward......
Looking up, he suddenly looked at Rong Jin.
At that glance, the hem of a wet skirt twisted in Rong Jin's hand fell on the grass, and there was a rumble in his head, like a long-tempered stubborn stone, the hammer was smashed down and not broken, and suddenly a spring breeze blew, and a crack actually cracked.
The wind crept in and stirred at her heart.
She was turning the pages of the book in her head, "The Story of the West Chamber", "The Story of the Purple Hairpin", "The Peony Pavilion...... All kinds of idle books that I read in the past, Zhang Sheng, Li Yi, Liu Mengmei and others in them suddenly had a face.
"Rong Jin, you went into the water to save people by yourself!" Zhimin ran up and looked at her in surprise.
"Miss, why don't you speak?" Seeing that Rong Jin was stunned, Que'er hurriedly pulled her cuffs.
There was a lot of noise in her ears, but there was only the red man in her eyes. A round of tomorrow above the sky, from a distance, looked like it was on the top of Cheng Zonglun's hair, turning into a piece of fire jade embedded in the purple gold crown above his head, and he was dressed in a flamboyant red, a ball of flames, roaring into her life, and everywhere he passed was a mess.
She has never forgotten that situation for the rest of her life. If she could take a moment to look at the little brother he was dragging in his hand, she would have noticed that these inky eyes had been looking at her.
"Brother, take the two of you to change your clothes," Zhimin said.
"Let's go!" Cheng Zonglun couldn't hold back Shen Kuo, who was struggling and shouting. Zhimin helped Rong Jin and went to the southeast corner gate together......
Rong Jin was a little disappointed, her heart was already overturned, but Cheng Zonglun just glanced at her like a dragonfly.
She followed them through the bamboo forest, through the winding corridors and one white jade bridge after another.
She followed him all the way through, he was so long! Like a towering tree, covering her eyes, she looked up, and looked closely at the flowers embroidered on the back of the row of tasseled gowns were bewitching poppies, and she expected that it was just like herself at this time, shy and timid.
She didn't dare to think about it anymore, so she had to hang her eyes and look at his heels, which were a pair of soap boots embroidered with gold thread at the ankles.
She was so stunned that she didn't know that she had followed out of the corner gate and into the Cheng family's compound.
When she reached the door of a side room, the man in front of her suddenly paused, and she couldn't stop and bumped into it, and as soon as he turned around, her forehead met the handle of the dagger at his side.
Yes!
With a short shout, Rong Jin took two steps back and sat on the ground, immediately pursed his lips, covered his red forehead with one hand, and looked at the person in front of him aggrievedly.
Cheng Zonglun turned around, he was also shocked, and hurriedly pulled her up left and right, seeing that she was not injured, but her face was so red that she was smeared with red rouge, and couldn't help laughing heartily: "My dagger is next to your forehead, why is your face so red?" ”
Rong Jin lowered his head more and more, and his face was so hot that he started to burn.
Shen Kuo on the side couldn't see it, walked to Rong Jin's side, and looked at Shen Zonglun angrily with his head held high, "You just kidnapped me here, and you came to bully this sister again, don't think that you can do whatever you want if you have a treat at your house today!" After that, he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to beat him.
Cheng Zonglun stretched out his hand to hold the fist he smashed, laughed and said: "Today is my grandmother's birthday banquet, you little hairy boy said that you were going to beat Shen Du, how can I watch the guests fight?" If you want to provoke, you can do it, change your clothes and come with me, you can pass my level, how you like to stir up this banquet! ”