Chapter 42: The Shadow

Out of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, there is a small side hall in the middle of the mountainside. On the contrary, the incense is flourishing over there, people come and go, almost all of them are female dependents in and out, Yancui pulled a woman to inquire, saying that it was to worship the son Niangniang.

"Miss, this time you enter the incense, you must worship in every temple, and you should also worship at the place where you send your son."

"There is no need to go there, although I worship the Buddha purely to follow the customs, but the old saying is rather to believe that there is no need to believe that there is no need to worship the Bodhisattva, do not easily step into the temple door, save trouble."

"Miss, you have been married to your uncle for so long, don't you want a child?" Yancui said, "If Miss has a child, and the mother is more precious than the child, maybe Miss you won't be so hard here, besides, my uncle still feels sorry for Miss." ”

"Don't say it, if I need to use a child to be a mother and a child, what is the use of me coming to this kind of marriage?" Zhilan was a little angry.

The smoke is gone.

The two of them were talking, and they saw Jingru coming down from the mountainside alone.

"Sister-in-law, why are you also going to pay homage to your son? It's a pity, it's a pity that even if you hold on to your feet temporarily, I'm afraid you will be powerless. She smiled and whispered close to Zhilan's ear, "Don't waste your time, how can you do it as a woman?" ”

Zhilan still replied to her with a faint smile: "Brother and sister, although you are not alone, you haven't seen movement for a long time, I am already so well known, but you, I want to see, how long can a hen that can't lay eggs be proud?" Yancui, let's go. ”

"You!" Jingru was annoyed on her face, thought about it and calmed down, "I don't care about you, anyway, you're just talking about it." She stood behind Zhilan, a scornful smile on her lips.

After returning from Xiuyuan Temple, Wan Xinqiao directly called Li Shaowen into the room and talked for half an hour.

When he came out, his face was gloomy, and he went straight to Zhilan's room with his hands behind his back.

Yancui served tea to her uncle, and she glanced at Li Shaowen's gloomy face from the corner of her eye, feeling frightened.

Li Shaowen looked at Zhi Lan with a calm expression, his eyes couldn't hide his anger, and a sharp look like cold light was projected.

"What's going on with you and the husband of the second lady of the Qi family? Is the lover in your heart him? ”

"We used to be friends." Zhilan turned a page of the book in his hand, "Now Eun is not even a friend. ”

"My mother said that I saw you pulling and pulling with him on the way to the incense, and even the people in the house saw your behavior regardless of your identity, is it true?"

"I've seen it all, I have nothing to hide, what they said is true." Zhilan said indifferently.

"My mother and younger siblings told me, I still don't believe it, I didn't expect these things to happen to you! You are already married to me, you are the grandmother of this Li house, why are you so indecent? ”

"I'm not careful?" Zhilan was enraged by this sentence and threw the book on the table, "Have you ever acted like a half-point transgression after I got married?" I'm just a friend who met Lu Yu to catch up with the past, why was it unbearable to be passed on by my family? You are my husband, I didn't expect to listen to the wind and rain, you couldn't understand me, and you blindly scolded me, you really made me chill. ”

"You mean I'm inconsiderate and don't understand you? I think I have a clear conscience. In order to take care of your emotions, I took you out and didn't even participate in Shaowu's wedding banquet, in front of my mother, I have been talking for you, but what about you? Since you got married, what have you done that didn't make your family uneasy? If you didn't talk back to your mother, how could you let her relapse from her old illness and lie in bed for a month? It's not because you pulled Miss Qi's husband on the road, how could you get your mother's displeasure? ”

"Yes, everything I did was wrong, your Young Master Li is a saint, and he did everything right, I still have to thank you for sending my brother to prison, right?" Zhilan sarcastically said, "Since I'm unreasonable, why are you, the Great Sage, running into my room?" ”

"Untaught!" Li Shaowen glared at her, got up and walked away.

He felt depressed in his chest for a while, he didn't want to stay at home, and he didn't want to go to Zhihe, he was in a daze in the study, and looked at the wedding photos placed on the bookshelf in the study, in the photos, he and Zhilan were smiling, at that time, he was really the happiest person in the city, and now he can't go back. He took it down and looked at it carefully.

"Young Master, the tea you asked for is here." Butler Fu came in with a cup of tea.

Li Shaowen put down the photo, picked up the tea and only took a sip, remembered something, and instructed the housekeeper Fu: "Prepare the car." ”

Sitting in the car, he asked the driver to drive directly to Siniang's teahouse. Siniang seems to be a wonderful person who can pinch and calculate, and has a seven-trick exquisite heart that is better than a dry, Li Shaowen only sat down, and before he spoke, Siniang covered her lips and smiled: "This time I didn't just come to drink tea, but I was talking to Mrs. again?" ”

Li Shaowen sighed and shook his head.

"It seems that I'm afraid that I'm guessing eight points accurate, listen to a tune to relieve boredom, or is it still the girl from last time?"

Li Shaowen was noncommittal.

Siniang instructed the maid to bring Yanying up.

There is such a delicate and delicate Jiangnan woman in Jiangcheng, especially her eyes are a little like Zhilan, which makes Li Shaowen fascinated.

Siniang smiled: "When people come, I won't disturb the eldest young master's Yaxing, if you want to listen to singing, or cook tea, Yanying has learned, let her serve you." With that, she stepped back.

Only Li Shaowen and Yanying were left in the room.

Yan Ying stood shyly holding the pipa, quietly listening to Master Li's call.

Li Shaowen is not a man who is fascinated by sex, looking at her beautiful and young appearance, he suddenly had a confused idea in his heart.

"Let's play the song from last time, if you play it well, I will have a reward, and the reward is whatever you choose, as long as I can do it." Li Shaowen said with a smile.

"Okay." Yan Ying looked at the turbidity in front of her, who was extraordinary and well-dressed, and did not move her hands and feet as soon as the other guests came, and suddenly felt a little good.

Yanying still sat in the corner from last time, using all her knowledge to play a song of ambush on all sides.

Li Shaowen closed his eyes and listened carefully, he could hear the tension of the ten-sided siege in the song and the regret that Xiang Yu's ambition was unpaid. At the end of the song, he applauded with great interest: "Good! That's nice! Miss Yanying's pipa simply comes alive. I'm going to reward you, what do you want to order? ”

Yan Ying hugged the pipa and gave a deep salute, and said with a smile: "I don't want anything else, but I hope that Young Master Li can come and listen to me play music more, it's enough." ”

"Oh? That's it? Li Shaowen smiled, "This request is interesting." ”

"Alas......"

"Why is the Shadow Girl sighing? What am I not doing well? Li Shaowen aroused his curiosity.

"There's no point in talking too much, just don't say it!" Yanying picked up the lute and got up to leave.

"Girl, stay." Li Shaowen took the first step to get up and grabbed her hand.

pulled her around, but saw Yanying with tears in her eyes, she held the pipa with one hand, and wiped her tears with the other.

Li Shaowen hurriedly let go of his hand: "Did I surprise the girl?" Excuse me. ”

"No, no, I was rude."

"You...... Is there something sad about it? If you can trust me, you might as well tell me about it. Li Shaowen thought for a while and said.

"Thank you. Since I came here, I have been serving all the masters, and no one has ever been so polite to me as you. Yan Ying said timidly, "I'm already grateful that you came to listen to the music, how dare you ask for more?" ”

"Where are you from, and how did you come to Siniang's teahouse?" Li Shaowen gently pointed to the table and asked her to put down the pipa and sit opposite her to chat.

"I'm from Huangcheng. In the twentieth year of the Republic of China, the Yangtze River flooded, we suffered a disaster there, and I really couldn't survive, my father sold me to the traffickers for food, and the traffickers changed a few hands, originally to sell me to a big family as a maid, but I was disgusted that I was a little older, saying that Jiangcheng was good at making a living, and finally sold me here, Siniang was very good to us girls, I wanted to forget this life like this. ”

Li Shaowen looked at Yanying's heavy expression and apologized: "I'm sorry, I reminded you of something sad." ”

Yan Ying didn't say a word.

Now in this world, it is not easy to protect himself, and he suddenly sympathized with the girl in front of him.

"It's a pity that you've been here all your life, have you ever seen a movie? Otherwise, I'll invite you to watch a movie, there is a new film from movie star Ruan Lingyu recently. ”

"I ...... Can it really be? Yan Ying had never seen a movie, and she often heard guests mention that she didn't know what a movie was a magical thing, and she looked up at him expectantly.

Li Shaowen was infected by her eyes, and nodded with a smile: "Let's go now." ”

"Hmm!" Yanying replied shyly and movingly, looking at Li Shaowen with a look of reverence.

The two walked out of the tea house, and Yanying went to "ask for leave" with Siniang, who knew it and agreed. She looked at the figures of Li Shaowen and Yanying one after the other, and couldn't help but sigh that Yanying, this girl looked gentle and soft, and Wenwen was weak, but she didn't expect to have a lot of means.

The car arrived at Huaxin Cinema.

Yanying is a little girl who has never seen the world, sitting in the car, it turns out that the inside of the car without a horse-drawn horse is like this, seeing the colorful signboards and rows of buildings on the street, everything is novel, she is simply dizzying.

Li Shaowen paid attention to her, looked at her innocent appearance, and suddenly became interested.

Bought two movie tickets at the door. Suddenly remembered that he had never brought Zhilan here, it was a pity, he looked at the girl beside him, and the Zhilan that came to his mind would never look around like this, what would it be like if she came? I guess it's no surprise.

"Let's go, let's go in." Li Shaowen picks up the curtain.

"I ......," Yan Ying said and stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"I ...... Look at the dark ...... in the movie theater," she cowered down from him.

"Haha, it's okay, don't be afraid. Why don't you hold my hand? Li Shaowen handed her his hand heartily.

Shadow shyly took one of his fingers.

Li Shaowen felt it, grabbed her entire palm with his backhand, and only felt the thick calluses on her fingers when he held hands.

"I didn't expect you to work so hard."

"I don't have anything else to do, if I don't use my heart to learn to play the pipa, how can I support myself in the future?" Yan Ying said.

Li Shaowen's heart moved, he clenched her hand and led her into the screening hall.