I know why the second brother wants to take the second sister-in-law away from home, the name is as important as a woman's life, no matter whether the second brother and the second sister-in-law are affectionate or not, in the eyes of outsiders, the concubine is just a plaything after all!

"Do you know why my biological mother is a concubine, but I am about the same age as Brother Xuan? Do you know why the eldest brother is called Mingxuan, the third brother is called Mingyu, and my name is Mu Bai? ”

The second brother took out a jar of white jade dew and drank it, his eyes were indescribably sad, he looked at the tablet of the ancestors in the ancestral hall, and whispered about the past.

Since the first generation of the Weigong Liu Weiting, the Liu family is a scholarly family, a generation of hairpins, and his father was also young and amorous when he was young, and he met a girl in the troupe, and his father wanted to marry her.

The old lady didn't agree, and locked up his father, and his father cried and begged, but the old lady had already begged his father to ask Chen Guogong's granddaughter to be his wife, Chen Guogong's son died early, leaving only one daughter, such a family, and an orphan girl, Dad quickly compromised, pitied the girl in the troupe, and waited for her sweetheart to marry her.

After my father's wedding, I suddenly remembered the girl one night, so I went to look for her again, and then I had a second brother, and the flesh and blood of the Liu family could not be left behind, so the old lady agreed to my father's admission to her door, and the eldest brother and the second brother were born in January.

"Why did my mother die? Is it really a difficult birth? went to the mother and kept the son, because he was afraid of tarnishing the name of the Liu family! ”

I patted my second brother on the back, seeing that he was in such pain and didn't know how to comfort him, I pale to say anything at this time.

This is the sorrow of a woman, she has no right to choose her own son-in-law, she follows her father at home, she marries her husband, her husband dies and obeys her son, and the right person is the first condition for the marriage of every big family, this is an immutable law, whoever jumps out of this law will be cut by the sharp blade of the world, just like the biological mother of the second brother and the smoky girl.

The second brother drank a lot of wine that night, I also picked up the second brother's white jade dew and drank it, the wine entered my throat, the hot energy rushed to my nose domineeringly, and my head began to become unconscious, I remembered that in the temple on the lonely mountain, the ground was full of fallen flowers and a pool of white lotus, he came over and pointed to one of them and said: "The white lotus has no heart, because its heart was made into the appearance of a woman and fell into the mortal world, I can't find it, I can't find it!" ”

I remembered that the other day around the corner of that street, I looked up at him, his eyes were as bright as stars, and I said, "Keep your hair up!" Goodbye, I'll call you Zhao Li! ”

The wine entered the bowels of sorrow, turned into lovesickness, the shadow that flashed in his mind thousands of times was him, the tears in his eyes were him, and everything he thought and thought was him.

I was carried out by the second brother, when I was a child, he took me to catch him, I was tired and refused to go, just like now, I jumped on his back, the second brother carried me back, in exchange, that is, I helped him to take the blame.

The maid heard that the young lady was drunk, so she hurriedly fetched hot water, and the second brother touched my head and said, "Sister Zhu'er, sleep well, everything will pass when you wake up."

On the second day, I felt a cold, my nose was as if I had been stuffed with cotton, and my head was swollen.

Every time Hongxiu saw me pinching my nose and taking medicine, I had to nag a little, and I seriously suspected that she had entered menopause early.

Three days later, the second brother took a concubine, I wrote a letter to ask Princess Pingyang to find the master in the palace to shake the step, with gold to make the shape of a branch, with jade pieces embedded into the shape of a begonia flower, below fell two huge rubies, the style is painted by myself, the gem is given to me by my mother, and then stamped with the official seal of Baocuitang, to the second sister-in-law as a wedding gift.

The second brother didn't allow it, saying that the gift was too expensive, and the second sister-in-law couldn't afford it, so she refused to accept it for a long time, so I deliberately put on my face and said that this was given by Princess Zhaoyang, and the second sister-in-law had to accept it.

The smoky girl is a beauty, and her personality is gentle, I got up in the morning to greet my mother, and saw that she was already at my mother's place, and was holding a cloth to help my mother's little leaf sandalwood wipe the ashes.

A-Niang gave her a pair of purple jade bracelets of excellent color, and she accepted them generously, looking neither humble nor arrogant, she was a smart woman.

The second brother said that he would take his second sister-in-law to Jingzhou after I met him, and Yang Yan, the chief soldier of Jingzhou, was a close friend of the second brother.

Ten days later, everyone was looking forward to the Zhaoyang princess and the ceremony of the flute was held as scheduled, the queen came, the ladies of the Manchu Dynasty came to watch the ceremony, for me to insert the flute is the eldest princess, the emperor's sister, more than 50 years old, has four sons and two daughters, all of whom are from her, is a full blessing person.

The plugged flute was rewarded by the queen, and the master of Baocuitang spent several months carving the whole piece of fire jade into a cloud pattern, which means wishful.

Licheng, the elders went to the hall to eat, I talked with a group of friends in the garden, Princess Pingyang is from the concubine, although not very favored, but I like her the most, we are the same age, she is two months older than me, speaking of the eldest son of the Lang family, she always has to blush for a long time, we all know that she likes this man.

I made fun of her, and she scratched me and said: "My sister is from a famous family, and she is favored by the queen's mother, and she is treated more favorably than us real princesses. ”

I smiled and looked up to see that the leaves that began to turn red in early autumn could not be dropped, and the fragrance of golden cinnamon was viscous in the air, but it was not as good as the wisp of sandalwood.

The elders sent someone over and called their girls over to look at each other, and at the scene of the large-scale blind date event, we had to endure letting the elder touch it, and the elder looked at it, a group of middle-aged women were busy selling their children, and we could only follow behind pretending to be shy.

As a woman, she can't even control her mood, let alone marriage.

Fortunately, the happy thing came soon, the second brother was going to Jingzhou, my cousin's house was in Jiangling, my mother's family was in the yin and yang, and finally the cousin who was over half a hundred years old gave birth to a little cousin, and my mother naturally wanted to go, I insisted on sending soup to my father for several nights in a row, and I was the first to go to ask for peace every morning, and finally asked for permission to go first with the second brother and sister-in-law.

The carriage departed from Kyoto, the weather turned cooler, I sat in the car with my second sister-in-law, and my second brother rode outside from time to time to tell us what interesting things were ahead, and my second sister-in-law and I lifted the curtain of the car to take a look, and the road was also interesting.

The second brother said that it was only the beginning of September, and it was still early for my uncle to hold the full moon wine, and he could take me to Jingzhou to play for a few days and then send me back, but when I came back, I had to hurry up, and I couldn't be as playful as I am now.

So good that I happily followed, and after three days and two nights, for we had been playing all the way, and had walked for almost five days, when General Yang led us to his quarters, and a painting on the shrine caught my attention.

The man in the painting is a general, holding a halberd, with the tails of two dragons wrapped around his body, one on his shoulder, and the other meekly prostrate on the ground.

With thick eyebrows, a tall nose, and a chin close to perfect, no matter how he changes his outfit, I recognize him, how could Zhao Li's portrait appear at a pass hundreds of miles away?

"I don't know who is in this painting? Can you get the general's incense every day? I asked!

When General Yang mentioned this person, he looked adoring and proudly said, "This is the King of Jiangxia!" More than a hundred years ago, the general army of Bauhinia Pass was the king of Jiangxia. ”

If there is really reincarnation in the world, then Zhao Li must be the reincarnation of King Jiangxia, I picked up the incense and bowed three times, and said lightly: "If you are his previous life, please bless Zhao Li with a good life!" ”

The second brother sighed, and General Yang vaguely heard me mention the word Zhao Li, slapped his thigh and stood up, and said with a smile: "King Jiangxia is really the only god of war in the world, and even a girl raised in the boudoir knows his name!" ”

I stayed where I was and asked tentatively, "King Jiangxia, his name is Zhao Li?" ”

General Yang nodded very affirmatively.

I still can't believe how anyone in the world looks so alike! Also the same name?

Bauhinia Pass is the only pass to Taihang Mountain, many foreign businessmen bring goods here to do business, my second sister-in-law and I bought a headscarf to wrap the hair of the Hu people, and walked around the market, this is not Kyoto, go out without taking a sedan chair, so unhappy.

There is a kind of wine called Drunken Fairy Weng in Jingzhou City, very spicy, the second brother likes to drink, when he drinks, the second sister-in-law plays the pipa, I also drink two sips, drink and dance around the fire, I get drunk and say with a big tongue: "Second sister-in-law, you play 200 tunes, I can dance 200 dances!" Therefore, the soldiers in the barracks affectionately called me the two hundred dancing princesses.

This night, as usual, I mixed the second brother's two mouthfuls of drunken fairy drink, groggy was helped back to the post house by the red embroidery, along the way she nagged constantly, and said how the woman is so good to show her head casually, not to take the sedan chair on the street is already nonsense, how to dance in front of the soldiers.

After a while, he said that this pass in the middle of nowhere, how can I run out without escorts, and what if something goes wrong.

Red embroidery is three years older than me and Cuishang, earlier to the age of marriage, years ago my mother pointed her to marry, said that the front yard in charge of the purchase of the king stewardship of his son, although the king steward in charge of the purchase of work, but is a real person, mother used him for many years, the son of the king shopkeeper is now in charge of the father's study, the marriage is excellent, but this girl is not married, said to accompany me to the end of the year.

The candle flame of the inn is dim, and from the side, the red embroidered face is thin, and the young face carries the maturity that should not be there at this age.

I took her hand and said, "When my little cousin's full moon ceremony is over, let's go back, okay?" Invited the master of the garment maker to come back and measure the figure of you and Cuishang, make a few new clothes, make a blouse with Hangzhou silk, and make a five-piece Hunan skirt? ”

Red embroidery burst into tears, I know what she was moved by, it is not easy for girls like them to be sold since childhood, it is not easy to survive in the family of the master who has no foundation, and it is even more difficult to meet a master who is good to herself.

The red embroidery continued to nag under the cover, fetched hot water for me to clean my face, and then removed the pearls on my head and pressed me into the quilt.

The wine rushed upward, my head seemed to be stuffed with a lot of paste, but I didn't feel sleepy, listening to the sound of the whimpering horse-head piano not far away, and I felt lost for no reason.