Chapter 10: Understatement of Awareness
The carriage came to a steady stop in a side corridor in the East Market, which was bustling with people looking at the lanterns tonight, only here was the rare place where people were not visited.
The side door of the Warm Smoke Pavilion is near here - guests of Wei Xingzhen's status rarely step directly through the main entrance, and the side door here leads directly to the wing room in the middle of the pavilion, all the way clear and quiet.
Wei Xingzhen helped Feng Yan get out of the car, and the two walked forward slowly.
I looked at the backs of my lord and wife, and was about to sigh that these two were really a couple together, when I saw Wei Xingzhen suddenly turn around and look at him meaningfully.
"Is it going this way?" Feng Yan asked on the side.
"No, Ah Yan comes with me."
Wei Xingzhen retracted his gaze and took Feng Yan to the entrance of the Warm Smoke Pavilion.
He scratched his head inexplicably, and couldn't help but turn around and poke his arm.
"What are you poking me for?"
"I just ...... What are you doing, why do you seem to be glaring at me......"
He looked in the direction of Wei Xingzhen.
"You're wrong," Bu Wei pointed to the backs of Wei Xingzhen and Feng Yan, "Your Excellency has obviously been talking to Mrs. β
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As soon as she stepped into the Warm Smoke Pavilion, Feng Yan understood why the dragon tongue would say in the letter that she was immediately fascinated by this place as soon as she came to Qingtang.
Even in the palace, Feng Yan rarely sees such prosperity - perhaps because it is in the palace, all the beauty is solemn, and all the beauty points to eternity.
And the prosperity of the Warm Smoke Pavilion is drunk with drunken dreams and death, and the drunkenness of seizing the day...... It is a dream of countless silk and satin and gold and silver beads.
Feng Yan heard laughter in the hall under her feet, and the sound of silk and bamboo sounded on the river surface of Luoshui in the distance, and she suddenly remembered Di Yang's flowers on the night of the summer banquet.
The joy here is as fast as the peach blossom petals that fell that night.
It's just that the rapid decay of this world is not as clean as the petals.
Bursts of lust came from all directions, and they took on a soft and dirty form, which made Feng Yan feel novel.
Walking towards the little guy with a drink, Feng Yan deliberately followed behind Wei Xingzhen, borrowing his back to cover his face.
"Why did Ah Yan change into men's clothes today?" Wei Xingzhen suddenly asked.
Feng Yan didn't know how to answer for a while, but there was no other reason, it was just that the dragon tongue mentioned this stubble in the letter......
She thought for a moment and said softly, "I want to...... Maybe it will be more convenient for men's clothing to come here? β
"If you want to go to the hall downstairs, it is more convenient for men's clothing," Wei Xingzhen said softly, "But since I have booked a wing room today, it doesn't matter if it's inconvenient." The beaded curtain was lowered, and no one could see what the people in the wing room were doing. β
"Really......" Feng Yan stopped in the hallway.
She stood in the dim spot between the two sconces, condescendingly overlooking the entire hall of the Smoke Pavilion.
At this moment, the lights had gone out in most parts of the Warm Smoke Pavilion, and she was standing in the darkness that no one could see.
The place where the hall was seated was crowded with people, and as far as the eye could see, most of them were young people dressed in silk clothes, many men and few women.
Looking closely, a few of the teenagers were always reaching out to cover their hair, and Feng Yan suddenly laughed in her heart - it was probably the same girl who was also dressed as a man and came here to have fun.
Feng Yan turned her head to look at Wei Xingzhen, "Shall we go down and have a look?" β
Wei Xingzhen smiled, "It's not proper, if you go down again, I'm afraid that Lord Ji will come to the house to sue again tomorrow." β
Feng Yan was stunned, and then she was stunned.
Also, I'm afraid that many people here tonight will recognize Wei Xingzhen's face, and it seems that it is indeed a little inappropriate for him to go downstairs to show his face.
"Then the last time Xingzhen went to the suburbs to rescue He Gong, why did he go directly to the hall of the Warm Smoke Pavilion?" Feng Yan said softly, "At that time, I wasn't afraid of being recognized, what trouble would I get into?" β
Wei Xingzhen said softly, "There is still a gap between the person who pinches the illusion and the real person, and it can't bear the complicated idea that it should take the side room on the path, so it can only do some reciprocal actions in terms of geographical location." Whatever the original owner used to do in this place, it did...... I didn't expect it to come here. β
Feng Yan's hand was diagonally propped up on her cheek, her eyes looked at the stage leisurely, and she said in a low voice, "In this way, I have often sat down to listen to the drama since Qianzhen." β
Wei Xingzhen realized at this time that there was a mistake in his words - he used to go down to the hall to listen to the play, but that was all from the previous life, and he was with Feng Yan every time.
In this life, even the relocation of the capital to Luoyang only happened last autumn, and he had already entered the cabinet to become the first assistant at that time, where did he come from the time to "often sit down to listen to the play"?
However, Feng Yan just looked at the crowd at the bottom of the building, and didn't ask any questions, as if she didn't find any problems.
Wei Xingzhen inexplicably felt relieved.
I don't know what's going on tonight...... I always think about the events of the past.
He couldn't help but look at Feng Yan's silhouette again.
Is it because Ah Yan suddenly changed into men's clothes tonight like before?
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In the hall of the Warm Smoke Pavilion, Xiao Qi pulled Gorou to find a corner where no one was around, Xiao Qi sat on the wooden railing, and stretched his feet with relief.
"What kind of drama is this, so many people...... Didn't we come out at night to watch the lantern festival, what did the fifth brother take me here for? β
"You really don't know what to do, if I can get a ticket temporarily, you can burn high incense," Feng Yishu glanced at his sister, "Tonight is the premiere, it's hard to get a ticket, if it weren't for the unlucky colleagues who met me just now who were temporarily ordered back to guard tonight, do you think we can get in now?" β
"That's amazing."
Xiao Qi wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead, and his eyes inadvertently swept to the high place nearby, and he saw Sister A and Wei Xingzhen standing on a high place.
Thinking that she had misunderstood, she quickly rubbed her eyes.
Looking further along, the corridors high above were empty.
Is it really wrong......
Xiao Qi was about to retract his gaze, but saw another familiar figure flashing in the corridor on the next floorβit was Ji Ran, who was wearing an official robe, striding through the unmanned corridor on the second floor.
Xiao Qi was a little surprised, he also came.
She stood up and was about to chase Ji Ran to see where he was going, but the young man's figure quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor, and then what broke into her eyes were two sneaky men.
These two people followed Ji Ran far behind, obviously not having any good ideas.
"Fifth brother! Fifth brother! Xiao Qi frowned and patted Feng Yishu's shoulder, "I just saw the two monks of the Cen family." β
"Hey, can you sit and listen to the play? Let's come out tonight to play, don't let go of your business, go do something else - what's so strange about the Cen family's doormen coming here tonight, they can also get tickets with their hands and eyes. β
"It's not!"
Xiao Qi watched the two of them follow Ji Ran away, and soon disappear at the end of the corridor on the second floor, she didn't have time to explain, so she quickly got into the crowd and squeezed towards the exit of the corridor leading to the first floor.
After a while, Feng Yishu finally sensed that something was wrong.
It seems a little too quiet around.
He looked sideways.
"Little Seven?"
No one answered him anymore.