Chapter 39: Retribution is unpleasant
Xie Chen didn't feel surprised that Yan Wan's words didn't reach the meaning, but just touched the top of her head soothingly: "If you feel it for a while, you don't have to take it too seriously." ”
The long sleeves swept over the top of the hair, inadvertently bringing down a beaded hairpin, falling into the pile of dead branches with the wind of the sleeves, occasionally flashing a glimmer of light in the looming sun.
Yan Wan seemed to catch a glimpse of something falling, and when she looked closely, she didn't find anything.
Before she could think deeply about what she had seen, she was soon attracted by Xie Chen.
The young man was still talking comforting words one moment ago, and the next moment he wanted to take Yan Juan back to the crowd, shaking his head and not taking two steps, he crashed into the tree, and the startled branches and plum blossoms smashed all over his shoulders. He touched the redness and swelling on his forehead, and there was a hint that he didn't know where he was.
Yan Juan stopped Xie Chen, who still wanted to continue hitting the tree: "You are really drunk." ”
Xie Chen shook his head and said, "This Merlin is arranged according to the Five Elements Bagua Array, I just didn't see the direction clearly for a while." ”
It's like it's true.
If Yan Juan hadn't watched him crash into a tree like a stupid rabbit, she might have really believed him.
"Just before the maid said that you are going to entertain the group of students and scholars invited by the main banquet of Danyang County, they are playing the drama of the winding water under the stream in the courtyard, what if you accidentally fall into the stream?"
As she walked over the bridge, she could see the depth of the stream, about the deepest of which was knee-deep from the upper of her shoes.
But in the cold winter, when you fall into the stream, what you are afraid of is not drowning, but the cold entering the body.
"Or I'll send you to the other courtyard, if the county lord of Danyang asks why you're not there, he will say that I have to drag you away, so it should be okay."
Yan Wan is also not afraid of offending people.
The county lord of Danyang arrived in Jinguancheng by chance, Yan Juan felt that he would never leave Jinguancheng in his life, but the county lord of Danyang always had to return to the capital, separated by a road of 108,000 miles, that is, he was really hated because of this matter, so what could he do.
As long as she behaves correctly and sits upright, who can find her trouble.
Xie Chen knew Yan Juan's kindness, and only tilted his head when he heard this: "It was just an accident just now, Wanwan, I wasn't drunk." ”
He also said: "Chang Ruyi and Cheng Huan both received posts, they should both come today, if Wanwan leaves, won't she miss a lot of things." ”
Cheng Huan responded to Yan Juan's request and said that he would keep his distance from Chang Ruyi.
It is rare to encounter an occasion where both of them will be there, if Yan Juan stays, he will naturally be able to more clearly determine whether Cheng Huan is a trustworthy person. If he is, then Yan Juan can see that Chang Ruyi was rejected thousands of miles away, and it can be regarded as revenge for the rumors in the city before.
If Cheng Huan is not trustworthy and entangled with Chang Ruyi, then it doesn't matter.
It's nothing more than one more person she will deal with in the future.
Although after Yan Juan left, what happened at the banquet could be inquired about later, but the things that were inquired about were always quite different from those he had personally experienced.
After all, in the process of paraphrasing, it is normal for some mistakes to occur.
"I still think you're more important than their little things."
Yan Juan said without hesitation.
Not everything needs to be carefully considered in the heart, if you must add the process of comparison to it, Yan Juan will still feel that Xie Chen is more important.
The girl tilted her head, one hand tugging at his sleeve, the other in front of him, her appearance was indescribably serious, very different from her usual passability.
Xie Chen looked at Yan Juan again, looking at it seriously and carefully, as if the two were meeting for the first time, and it seemed that they were redrawing different images in their hearts. Simply his look was over in a moment, and before Yan Juan found out, he had already grabbed her wrist and whispered: "That Wanwan will accompany me to drink sobering soup first, and then come back to see their flower-viewing banquet after I have sobered up, what do you think?" ”
He seemed to be very obsessed with today's flower-viewing banquet, and a vague thought flashed in Yan Wan's heart.
No matter who the owner of the other village was, it is now someone else's Zhuangzi. No matter how respectful the subordinates in the other village were to Xie Chen, he didn't want to stay here with Yan Juan to sober up.
Other people's are not as good as their own.
Although the Xie family's courtyard is now being renovated, it will not even be able to move out of a place to stay.
After Xie Chen and Yan Juan left, a few more people came from the depths of Merlin.
The graceful and luxurious lady, the dark lines on her clothes are embroidered with real gold and silver, and the jewelry on her body is not much, but you can pick out one at random and put it outside, which is priceless.
She stooped down and picked up a hairpin from a pile of dead branches and leaves, and said to those behind her, "I have a guilty conscience about him, and it is inconvenient for me to appear in front of him." He is good friends with the little girl of the Yan family, if you have the opportunity, you can also help them. ”
The person in the dark sneered, "Since the princess has given an order, how dare the villain disobey, as long as there is a chance, the villain will definitely help them." ”
Princess Qi seemed to be accustomed to his yin and yang weirdness, and handed the pearl hairpin to the man with her backhand, "Both of them are good children, don't let the grievances of the elders involve them." Give this back to the little girl of the Yan family, the jewelry engraved with her name can't fall into the hands of outsiders. ”
Before anyone answered, the hairpin in her hand disappeared.
The Xie family courtyard on the other side.
The decanting soup was still boiling in the kitchen, Xie Chen went back to the room to change his clothes, and even took a lot of time to wash up. Yan Wan was a little bored waiting in the middle of the hall, so she went out and walked back along the path in the courtyard, she also heard that the house in the courtyard had collapsed, so she wanted to see the "grand occasion" after the collapse.
What she saw was also ruins.
However, it was better than what Xie Chen saw that day, the gravel on the ruins had been cleaned up, and Lifu carried the stones to the edge of the ruins, and there was a fiery atmosphere of all kinds of ruins in the winter.
Xie Chen had already changed his clothes.
He had only drunk a third of the previous jar of wine at best, and the rest had either been spilled on his clothes or poured on the ground, and he could only be considered slightly drunk at best. But the decanting soup still has to be drunk.
Holding his breath and drinking the strange-tasting decanting soup, Xie Chen looked around the lobby and didn't see any trace of Yan Wan, but he saw something shining on the threshold, which seemed a little familiar from a distance.
"When did Wanwan become lost?"
He stretched out his hand towards Yan Juan, and the pearl hairpin engraved with Yan Juan's name in his palm was exactly what he picked up from the edge of the threshold.
Yan Juan couldn't see her appearance, but she also subconsciously touched her head, "I don't know when it fell!" ”
"Why did you suddenly want to come here?" Xie Chen inserted the pearl hairpin back into place for Yan Juan, looking at the messy ruins and the Lifu who came and went, and he had all kinds of feelings in his heart, "There are ashes everywhere, and there is nothing to see." ”
His words were insincere, and they were almost written on his face.
Yan Juan knew that the other courtyard meant a lot to Xie Chen, and it didn't seem very appropriate to persuade him not to go to the old one and not to come to the new one, so he could only change the topic: "Just go for a walk!" It's you, you've drunk the sobering soup, but you feel okay, if there's something uncomfortable, then you should stay and rest, don't go there. ”
"I'm really not drunk!" Xie Chen wanted to explain, but he couldn't explain his actions, "Let's go over there and have a look." ”
"Although it's not good to say that the length of the person is behind it, the one in the Chang family will not let go of the opportunity to discredit you, let's go over there and have a look......"
Indeed, Chang Ruyi arrived at Bezhuang early.
If it weren't for the subordinates in the other village who led the male and female guests to different places, she would have gone to Cheng Huan early in the morning.
Even if she couldn't find Cheng Huan in the first place, she was not idle among a bunch of ladies and girls.
At first, it was gossip, but after talking too much, they began to exchange all kinds of gossip that they knew each other.
Because the people who spoke were in groups of three or five, they didn't attract too much attention.
“…… Who else in Jinguan City doesn't know that Yan Juan and Xie Chen have a very close relationship, and the good things of the Xie Yan family are approaching ......"
Chang Ruyi is not a brainless person, she didn't even mention the rumors she sent people to spread in the city before, she only talked about Yan Juan's friendship with Xie Chen from beginning to end, that is, Yan Juan heard it, and she was not afraid of confronting people.
However, when Yan Juan was sent to the courtyard where the female guest was by Xie Chen, the purpose was two groups of people who were clearly distinguished, one group of people stood idly aside, either silently, or showed a bit of a funny appearance to see the excitement, and the other group of people were huddled together, and they couldn't see who the person in the middle was, but a group of people were chattering, as if it was five hundred ducks quacking, which made people have a headache to hear.
Xie Chen sent her to the door and left, Yan Juan found someone familiar with the group of people watching from the wall, and walked over to inquire about the situation.
"Yi Niang, what's wrong with them?"
Lu Jianyi's father and Master Yan are classmates, and Yan Chongjun worships her father as a teacher, so Yan Juan and she have also known each other since childhood.
"It's really strange today," Lu Jianyi shook her head, but she felt that it was luck in her heart, "When I came, I saw Chang Ruyi talking to someone, and there was a maid passing by, and the maid didn't seem to stand firmly, and directly crushed Chang Ruyi to the ground." ”
She soiled her clothes on the ground, and when she got up, she generously said that she didn't blame the maid, but only said that she could find a place where she could change her clothes. As a result, before she could even get out of the courtyard gate, she tripped over her left foot and fell to the ground again. Her luck certainly wasn't so good today. ”
Chang Ruyi's second wrestling seems to have fallen quite badly, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get up for a long time.
Yan Juan heard that the people around Chang Ruyi seemed to be saying something like bloodshed, falling, and broken appearance, and knew that Chang Ruyi must be having a bad time at this time.
She stood far away, and did not step forward to fall into the well.
When he only talked to Lu Jianyi, he showed a little tone.
"I think it has nothing to do with luck, it should be said that it is a cycle of heaven, retribution is not happy, people who do bad things will always get retribution, I always believe that it is not not retribution, but the sentence that the time has not come."