Chapter 15: Drinking and Telling the Truth
After Lu Xin finished dancing, the two sat on the bow of the boat with Hongxia, eating snacks and drinking wine.
Lu Xin couldn't help but sigh at this beautiful scene: "The sunset is infinitely good, but it's just near dusk."
Li Qingyuan smiled and asked, "Xin'er, why are you so sad?"
Lu Xin glanced at Li Qingyuan and thought: Since he is a good friend, it doesn't hurt to talk to him about his troubles, after all, she has no other friends besides him.
She took the wine and drank it down, and said leisurely: "I can't hide it, in less than a month, my father will marry me to a high-ranking man." After saying that, she raised her head and drank another glass, looking a little lost.
After Li Qingyuan heard this, he said happily: "This is a happy event? Don't Xin'er like it? ”
Lu Xin looked at Li Qingyuan and thought, "Isn't he reluctant to her at all?" You must know that in this era, once a woman gets married, she no longer has freedom, let alone making friends of the opposite sex. ”
Lu Xin said: "Of course I don't like it, how can I talk about a stranger I have never met?"
When Li Qingyuan heard this, it turned out to be like this, which showed that she was not unwilling to enter the palace to be her concubine, but because she had never known each other.
He smiled and said, "Maybe it didn't turn out as badly as I thought?" Your future husband may have liked you for a long time and is waiting for you? ”
Lu Xinmei glanced at him and said, "I guess it can't be as happy as you said, I have heard that the future husband has already had a group of concubines, beautiful relatives like piles, and the mansion is high, and there will be constant fighting." After speaking, she quietly looked at the calm lake, and as the night gradually fell, the maids on the boat began to hold the lights one by one.
Li Qingyuan looked at Lu Xin and thought, "I didn't expect her to be so worried about entering the palace, and she seems to be very dissatisfied with her future husband's three wives and four concubines!"
Li Qingyuan said: "The world is impermanent, and everything is not perfect. Xin'er knows that the person she marries is a powerful person, so naturally there will be many people who can't help herself, so why not accept it with an open mind and join hands with him. His words seemed to be comforting Lu Xin, but they were also his true thoughts.
Lu Xin listened to Li Qingyuan's words, and did not feel relieved at all, but smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "Yes! Although the world is big, how can we be fortunate to find people who are single-minded and sincere. It is not in vain that I, Lu Xin, can meet and know Qing in this life. Maybe after today, you and I will never cross paths again. Cheers to your confidant! ”
Li Qingyuan responded: "Okay, for the confidant, do it!"
Although the wine was drunk, Li Qingyuan felt that Lu Xin was not happy.
He solemnly said to Lu Xin: "Xin'er, if you are in danger in the future, I will definitely promise you to protect you at this time today." When he said this, he was so sincere and sincere. It's like a man making a lifelong promise to his beloved woman.
Lu Xin knew that he couldn't help her with anything, he was just better than the average rich kid, but he was not enough to stand up to the Son of Heaven. If he had known later that she had asked him for help in disobeying the Holy Decree, the promise would have been insignificant. But she was also touched to hear him say that.
She stretched out her palm and said, "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase."
Li Qingyuan also stretched out his palm and said, "You have no jokes!"
The two high-fived, and then drank to their heart's content.
After the two of them finished drinking glass after glass, Lu Xin was overwhelmed by the wine, her face was swollen and red from drinking, and she looked very cute. But the gibberish has already begun.
She said to Li Qingyuan: "The powerful... What's... It's amazing, even if it's married to the current emperor...... I don't want to. She finished speaking intermittently, and touched the glass with Li Qingyuan again.
When Li Qingyuan heard this, he was immediately completely drunk, and his face darkened. He thought to himself: this woman has openly challenged the royal dignity in public, and she has spoken wildly.
What he thought of as the public was just the guards Mai Feng and the maid Xiaoxuan on the side, as well as the two servant maids.
He was a little unwilling, and continued to ask: "Xin'er really doesn't even want the emperor to marry?"
Lu Xin didn't even think about it, so she said arrogantly: "Marry the emperor? How good do you think it is to marry the emperor? Eat the king, serve the king's side, and worry about the king's heart. What's more, to share my husband with a large number of women, to deceive me every day, to be afraid all day long, and to build up false feelings under influence, this is no longer acceptable to me. What I want is the harmony of the piano and the true feelings of supporting each other until old age. ”
She spoke freely and vividly vented her dissatisfaction during this time. She drank another glass, wiped her mouth with her sleeve, and continued to say to Li Qingyuan: "Besides, what's so good about the emperor?" Since ancient times, emperors have been unkind, ruthless, and half-hearted. If a beautiful woman like me marries the emperor, it will only spoil myself, ruin my beautiful life, and trample on my good wishes. You say, don't you? She clinked glasses to Li Qingyuan again and it.
Mai Feng, the inner guard standing on the side, kept holding his breath, and he didn't dare to take a breath, and he was sweating his palms for Miss Lu. There is no woman in this world who dares to evaluate the emperor as useless, and when he looks at the emperor again, his face is so cold!
Lu Xin looked at Li Qingyuan and saw that he didn't answer her, and even his face was a little serious, something was wrong. She thought about it, leaned over to Li Qingyuan's side again, and said in a low voice: "If I comment on the emperor like this, will it cause the disaster of killing the head?"
When Li Qingyuan heard this, he was immediately angry and funny at this woman, but fortunately, this woman didn't know his identity, otherwise he wouldn't know where to put his face. I really don't know, if this woman really knows her identity, she would dare to be so presumptuous. He immediately whispered: "To say such disrespectful words to the emperor is to raid the family and exterminate the clan." But in the future, if you want to say anything about the emperor, you can only talk to me alone, don't let others know, you know? ”
Lu Xin also knew how strict the dogma of feudal society was, and the people worshipped the Son of Heaven as a god in their hearts. She immediately responded obediently, stuck out her tongue at Li Qingyuan, and smiled mischievously.
Mai Feng saw that the emperor not only did not have any blame for Miss Lu Jia, but sang and harmonized with her, and then drank to his heart's content. Not only did he look up to Miss Lu's family, but he also admired his master very much, and he had such a good temper to treat a woman. If any lady in the palace said such rebellious words, she might have already been cut by a thousand knives, or she would have entered the cold palace. Isn't this true love, what else can it be?
Li Qingyuan and Lu Xin were on the boat, drinking until the early hours of the morning. It wasn't until Lu Xin got drunk that he quietly left with the guards.