Chapter Twenty-Seven: Battlefield Champion Hou, Bai Yulang in front of the court
In the evening, the scattered Bai Laoshangshu took a small carriage back to the first holy place in the hearts of the boudoir girls thirty years ago.
After returning home, the next person was surprised to find that Lao Shangshu did not go into the study to continue working or reading, but went directly into the bedroom, but when he thought of Lao Shangshu's seemingly slow pace, he began to feel sorry for him in his heart, Lao Shangshu was indeed old, maybe he was tired.
Many people say that beauties love heroes, heroes love beauties, but they don't know that the most loved heroes in this world are men who want to be heroes, and there are a few middle-aged people who have been working in the house for decades, and I don't know how many times I have seen the desolate appearance of the graceful Bai Dagongzi in the past and burst into tears.
In the antique, clean and tidy bedroom, Bai Du'e, the secretary of the military department, stood quietly in front of the table, and a painting was spread out on the table, in which there was only a woman's back, hidden in many, many clouds and mist, and even the woman's back was as ethereal and invisible as the clouds, like a god in the water, traveling with the wind and rain.
Bai Laoshangshu, who was famous all over the world when he was young, looked at it so obsessively, he had never been married in his life, he had been lonely, and he had a nephew who had passed from his younger brother, and now he is a young man in his twenties.
The older women in the capital like to tell their juniors the same generation is him, but just like Li Lingzhi doesn't believe it, many young girls don't believe it, because many things are true. I don't believe it because the good old man is not a girl's dream lover no matter how you look at it, Wen Zhuangyuan's talent can't be seen, and he doesn't have the grandmaster bearing of Wu Zhuangyuan, although some aging faces can vaguely see the handsomeness of his youth, but no matter how you look at it, he is also an ordinary loyal old man next door.
"Back then, Bai Dagongzi piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Wen Taowu was proficient in everything, that reputation was much louder than today's Qiu Zen, the eldest son of the Qiu family, and he had to win with his appearance, and he was sixteen years old when he finished the Wenju exam early to see that there was still time, and by the way, he took the martial arts exam, and when he was on the list, he was crowned the champion when he was twenty years old, and the girls could hear the singing of the children's streets and alleys on the street: the champion of the battlefield, and the white Yulang in front of the court."
The first time a girl who hears this story from her elders in the family will ask with surprise on her face, "What happened later?" ”
"Later! Later, those who went to the street deliberately walked slowly, just to listen to the children sing the battlefield champion Hou twice, the girls of Bai Yulang in front of the court were all of the age of marriage, and they got married after helping the family find a good family. The era of the son's fall in love and the girl's admiration passed so quietly. ”
Now, the three-year-old child who has grown up still clearly remembers the sentence that resounded in the courtyard of the alley: Hou Hou, the champion of the battlefield, Bai Yulang in front of the court;
The new three-year-old child doesn't know those nursery rhymes, only knows that the old man is like a good person, Bai Laoshangshu is waiting for a person who has only met once in his life, or the word is not appropriate, it should be called concern, after all, the rain and wind blow when the water meets, the mountains and rivers are far and wide, and the fate is difficult to cross.
"Snow Rain Villa, are you finally going to emerge in shallow water?"
Although there are a lot of wrinkles and white hair Lao Shangshu straightened his back in front of this painting, and in an instant the white prince seemed to be back, without much description, the four words of the white prince are the highest evaluation of a person.
The man looked at the painting in front of him and asked softly: "White girl, you and I have the same surname, in Xia Bai Du'e, what is your name?" ”
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Yunyue City.
A military city in the south of the Lingyuan Empire was not very large at first, just the size of a small county town, but because the geographical location was too important, coupled with the continuous rise of the power of the southern clan in the past hundred years, the empire has stationed heavy troops here all year round.
There is a mansion in Yunyue City called Zhennan General's Mansion, the Zhennan of the Zhennan King, and a Li Mansion, the Li of the Yunyue Governor, the Zhennan King is a pure Beijing official, the palace and the concubines are in the capital, the Yunyue Road Governor is a native magistrate, and there are some things related to the gate valves that only he can do.
"Selling sugar gourds, selling sugar gourds ......"
"Glutinous rice cake ......"
It's lunch time, the streets of Yunyue City are still bustling, the people who are quite interested have no intention of going home to eat, there is a river called Yunhe in the city, and there is a river called Yuehe, the place where the two rivers cross is the most prosperous place in Yunyue City.
Today, the flocculent platform chose the Oiran, so the river was crowded with people, and one by one the figures lay on the guardrail and stretched out their heads to see the boat swimming across the Yunhe River.
Because the popular girls of the flocculent platform pose the most beautiful posture on the small board of the boat, or standing, or sitting, or leaning on the side, so the appearance of each small boat can cause a scream.
A small boat from a big house in the west of the city slowly swam into the east of the city of the flocculent platform, along the way these miles of people crowded, if someone thinks that this crowd of people are all men then very wrong, who wants to say that only men like beautiful girls, women are the first to disagree.
What's more, there are only geisha and no prostitutes in this velvet platform, all of them are talented girls who have dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs, plus the clothes and makeup are trendy, which naturally provokes many young girls to watch, many young girls look at the makeup from the beauties of the velvet platform and dress up after going back, and sing to others after listening to the song.
"Hey, it's really boring, what's so nice about a group of women."
In a teahouse, the bored Yun Bailing lowered his brows, drooped his eyelids, and couldn't help but complain a few words when he listened to the voices of the people outside the building.
Opposite her, Yun Qianyu closed her eyes and meditated, and after a long time, she opened her eyes and stretched out a finger, Yun Bailing shrank her head in fright, who knew that Yun Qianyu was just practicing to control things with internal force, and at her fingertips, the white translucent air flow as thin as a hair gently wrapped around a chopstick like a spider spinning silk.
Looking at the chopsticks that were constantly floating and rising, Yun Qianyu's fingers moved slightly, and the chopsticks also moved slowly, "Everyone has their own love, you don't care what others like, you dislike them for being boring, they still think you are a girl staring at birds, beasts, poisonous insects, and your heart is dark." ”
"That's just as well." Yun Bailing leaned on the table, pouted and muttered, "Hey! My way is too lonely. ”
The two of them have been sitting in this teahouse for a long time, and when it was about to be noon, a group of people drove their horses into Yunyue City, and happened to meet the flocculent platform to select the Oiran, but a few people in the cloud tomb were happy, and they squeezed into the crowd with great interest, saying that they wanted to see what the famous flocculent crane girl looked like.
The flocculent platform is the largest wind and moon force in the empire, this wind and moon is really just the wind and snow, the industry is all over the country in each building only piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and rhetoric, all the girls in the building only sell their art and do not sell their bodies, so the guests of the flocculent platform are both men and women.
In the final analysis, this velvet platform is a place to appreciate the beauty of beauty, listen to beauty singing, watch beauty dance, and learn beauty makeup, everything here revolves around beauty. Here are the most beautiful women in the world, the best songs have floated in the building, the long sleeves of the good dancing beauties have been waved again and again, and excellent poems have been born one after another......
Xueyu Villa has a lot of business, including a dart bureau, and the dart bureau naturally has a branch in a big city like Yunyue City, the hall master of Yunyue City sent someone to wait for the eldest young master at the door early, and several people from the dart bureau consciously took away the horses that were very obstructive in this lively and bustling city as soon as they saw a group of people in the cloud tomb.
After a period of chaos in the city, the high-spirited Yun Tomb Sheng saw that Yun Qianyu and Yun Bailing were full of boredom, so he brought them to this teahouse to drink tea and eat some snacks; When I left, I told the two that I would come when I went, but it was already in the afternoon, and I went to go, but I didn't come, and the plate with small snacks in front of the two had been changed several times.
The two waited until the sun gradually set, the sky was blue and white in the east, and the sunset was faint in the west, reflecting the sky slightly red.
At this time, the hustle and bustle outside has long since dissipated, leaving only a lot of pretending to be elegant literati gathered in this teahouse, and the wealthy men have already run to the flocculent platform to spend money on the girls they like, and the shy scholars in their pockets have spread the word of mouth, knowing that there is a noble woman in this teahouse who is not inferior to any beauty on the river boat today
So one by one, they gathered around this teahouse like a peacock opening the screen, only hoping that as written in the small book, a rich and beautiful woman could take a fancy to them and take them to the top.
There is a hole in the south wall of the teahouse, just now a young man who prides himself on his graceful demeanor walked to Yun Qianyu's table with a big grin, and wanted to sit down after reporting his name, but Yun Qianyu didn't give him any face, his face was full of flies, just one foot, there was an extra hole in the wooden wall, and the screams of the scholars scared away many young people who hid the same thoughts.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way."
The young man's clear voice came from downstairs, followed by the rumbling of the wooden staircase, and a half-grown boy in coarse cloth clothes ran up, probably running fast, sweating profusely, and his green face flushed.
"Two girls, someone asked me to send you a letter."
The young man tidied up his clothes a little, walked to the table and put the letter on the table, and after saying to Yun Bailing, he pretended to look around, and secretly glanced at Yun Qianyu.
Yun Bailing looked at the dodgy gaze of the young man in front of him, and couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle, the young man in coarse cloth clothes suddenly turned red at the root of his ears, he originally only felt that the sister who was cold and lonely, as if she didn't eat fireworks in the world, was as beautiful as a fairy, but she didn't notice that this sister who looked kinder turned out to be so good-looking when she smiled.
"Thank you!"
Yun Bailing stretched out his hand and picked up the letter paper on the table, opened it, looked at it, and said to Yun Qianyu: "He said let's go to the dart bureau and wait for him, and he will go back to dinner." ”
Yun Qianyu nodded, got up and carried the sword box behind him, the sword box was about a palm and a half wide, and there were three swords in it, one was called White Dragon, one was called Jin Crow, and one was called Immortal Spirit Emperor.
The white dragon and the golden crow are a pair, the white dragon belongs to the water and the yin, the golden crow is just and fierce, the two swords originally had a sword box that had been used for many years, and the whole body of the sword box was made of metal, except for the two swords, the sword box itself was also a heavy weapon.
When Yun Qianyu took the Fairy Spirit Emperor to the old craftsman, the old craftsman felt that the sword of the Fairy Spirit Emperor was too strong and bloody, and it was not good for cultivation to carry it with him for a long time, so he used a very expensive gloomy wood to build a new sword box, trying to seal the tyrannical aura of the Fairy Spirit Emperor.
On weekdays, the swords of the two of them are carried by Yun Qianyu, and this time they came out with an extra sword, so the sword box is wider than the original one, which is also the reason why Yun Tombsheng asked Yun Qianyu what he brought when he saw it for the first time.