Chapter 3: Smoke and Red
Kong Ming gave me detoxification for a few days and I didn't see him, ten days later, the carriage that picked me up from the Prime Minister's Mansion was lined up under the Baohua Temple, and it was Uncle De, the big housekeeper, who picked me up.
The carriage is a four-wheeled two-horse car, the curtain is a Hangzhou silk curtain, and even the Yingluo decorated on both sides are compiled by the master of Shu Jinzhai for more than ten years, the lineup is luxurious, and the barren and quiet Baohua Temple on the lonely mountain is in stark contrast, such a battle is really eye-catching, but the emperor's father said, I am the blessing of the people, what kind of battle I can afford.
Looking back, I saw that the mountain gate of Baohua Temple was closed, just like when I first went up the mountain, nothing changed, only my state of mind was different.
Half a month later, I sat in the yard bored and looked at the red fish in the pond, the fish is red, the lotus is also red, the red flowers always feel unsightly, I begged my second brother to help me find some white seeds to plant, hoping to bloom some white lotus in the coming year.
When they parted that night, Kong Ming turned around by the window and said a word, he said: "The little monk entered the Buddha's door, I am afraid that he will bear the princess's mind, but the princess has Bodhi in her heart, and she will give me up for the people in the future. ”
I have always felt that I can't have the day of "giving me for the people", although I am a princess, but I am a fake princess, I don't have half of the royal blood, and it is not my turn to give up, but the sentence: "Protect me!" "Let my heart have no place to put it, this love is given to him, and no one in the world can enter my eyes again. I am a princess, he is a monk, this is an undeserved love.
In a few days, I will be in time, Liu Xiang's daughter and the flute is a big event, plus it is the emperor's daughter, then the entire Kyoto magnates will come to watch the ceremony, the house has long been busy, only I, the party lazily watching the lotus feeding the fish every day, thinking about that person, I don't know if he is good, will he inadvertently think of me.
The second brother came to me mysteriously one afternoon and said, "Sister Zhu'er, have you heard?" The Kongming monk is gone. ”
"Gone? How will it go? ”
"I don't know the specific reason, but I heard that he has lost his Buddha heart and left Baohua Temple after receiving eighty precepts."
My heart was upset, wondering if he actually liked me a little bit in his heart? Is it because of me that the Buddha's mind has been lost?
The wheat bran used to feed the fish was accidentally knocked over to the ground, and the second brother looked dazed, I don't know why I lost my temper, and I coughed lightly.
Two days later, the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming, and because I was not yet in time, I was not an adult woman, so my mother agreed to let my second brother take me to the market.
I changed into men's clothes, and the maid helped to comb up the hair in front of me, tied my hair tightly with a jade crown, and went to the front hall to show my mother, and then covered the veil and went out in a carriage with my second brother.
Lamps are sold along the street, the second brother scratched his ears and cheeks after arriving on the street, I knew his thoughts, but pretended to ignore them, took care of himself to see all kinds of lanterns, and chose a lotus lantern that he thought was chic to put it.
I heard that the lantern of the Mid-Autumn Festival can pray for blessings, so I put my hands together and chanted silently: "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together!" He had a near-perfect chin and said to me, "I will save you!" ”
The second brother followed me to the river, saw that I had finished putting the lamp, and said, "This son, it's still early, can you have Yaxing to sit in the Red Mansion with you?" ”
I got up and saluted back, touched my non-existent beard and saluted back, "Brother lead the way." ”
It is said that God has opened a window for you, and will close another window, I think my father's closed window is mainly reflected in his three sons, my father was 16 years old when he won the champion, and then entered the Hanlin Academy, and entered the Dali Temple in his thirties.
But the eldest brother was only in xx at the age of 18, and he finally gave him a Jishi, and now he is released as a county order.
The second brother is seventeen this year, and he is still a showman, and he is getting more and more backward on the road of studying.
The second brother's ideal is to enter the military camp, but I am a civilian official who restricts the military generals, and my father does not agree, so the second brother is idle at home, and runs to the Red Mansion every day.
There is a smoky girl in the Red Mansion who is the confidante of the second brother, and she plays the pipa very beautifully, and the second brother tells me every time he goes and comes back.
The smoky red jade finger stroked the strings, his eyes were about to cry, and he sang: "Wait for the moon to be under the west chamber, and the windward door is half open." The shadow of the flowers on the wall moved, and it was suspected that the jade man was coming. The second brother closed his eyes and shook his head when he imitated her, and if the nurse heard it, she would blame her: "There are some girls in the courtyard, second master, you better stop quickly!" Don't teach Miss Mingzhu badly. ”
The second brother stuck out his tongue and bowed his head to eat tea.
At that time, I was only a teenager, and then when I got older, he stopped telling me about the smoke girl, and I only looked at the double-petaled red hibiscus in the courtyard and said: "I waited for Hua Fei to be sick, and I still want to return with the spring breeze." "Indescribable sadness.
The Qinglou at night is very lively, a group of wine guests looking for flowers and willows hugging their favorite girls in all corners of flirting, the maids have long been left behind by me and the second brother in the middle of nowhere, the old bustard saw two men in fancy clothes come in, twisted the round waist and beckoned us to sit down.
The second brother is a frequent visitor here, knows the rules, took out three ingots of silver and neatly placed them on the table and said, "It's called Yanhong Girl!" ”
The old bustard's hand to collect the money froze in the air, and then naturally put the money away and said: "Young Master Yang, I didn't say you, our Yanhong has already been redeemed by someone to live a good life, and Yanhong is waiting for you in the past two months!" But crying red eyes, but don't think about it, we also have a bunch of girls here, all of them are beautiful like flowers, and you are satisfied. As she spoke, she stretched out her fat fingers like bamboo shoots and pinched them on my face, and I felt sick.
My second brother and I came out under a pseudonym, the purpose was to save trouble, and I was afraid of causing trouble for my father, but at this time, the second brother was already angry, he picked up the bustard and threw it on the ground, and asked, "Tell me, where is Yanhong?" ”
The old bustard cried on the ground like a pig, and said, "Are they all dead?" Why don't you take this troublemaker down for me? ”
A large number of people came up, if you don't leave, something must happen tonight, I hurriedly shook the second brother's hand and told him to go quickly, but the second brother's eyes were red, and he couldn't listen to half a word, so he lifted the bustard up and stuck it on the table, pinched her throat with his hand, and asked viciously: "Tell me where Yanhong is?" ”
"In ...... In Shangshu Mansion, Yan Shangshu's young son ...... a few days ago Ransom smoky red. ”
At this time, the thugs have surrounded me, and I can't leave, I wanted to pretend to be the son of which family to escape, but the second brother ripped off his fake beard, and looked at the family Ding who surrounded him coldly: "I am the second son of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I will come up if I am not afraid of death!" ”
Most of the many drinkers are businessmen who often walk around in Beijing, and some are relatives of official eunuchs.
There were a lot of people on the street, and we quickly hid in an alley, and when it was over, I would be punished to kneel in the ancestral hall at most when I went back, and the second brother had to beat my father to death.
I looked around, thinking that it was important to find the girl who came out first, but if I didn't pay attention, the second brother ran out of the alley.
The direction he went was Shangshufu, I hurriedly chased after it, but I heard the shouting behind the sky, the thugs leaning on the red mansion had chased out, the second brother in front was gone, and there were chasing soldiers behind, I changed the direction and continued to run, the shouts kept following behind, and I had no strength.
Seeing a dark alley in front of me, I had to run in, and two vicious dogs rushed out of the darkness, their eyes glowing with a faint green light, and my legs and stomach began to tremble, and I couldn't move a single step.
Suddenly, my feet were empty, and then I landed lightly on the pillar on the roof.
"Princess, offended!"
I turned around slowly, it was him! Good looking eyebrows, perfect chin, slender and clean hands around my waist, and despite the change of clothes, he still has a vague smell of old sandalwood.
This month I don't think I'll ever see Kong Ming again, the two of us are destined to take different paths in life, even if we were naked that night, I did things to him under toxin hypnosis that shouldn't have happened, but the truth is that he is a monk and I am a princess.
No matter what has happened, we will never happen again in the future, this is fate, a fate that we cannot control.
I took a step back, coughed dryly, and muttered, "Master Kongming, long time no see!" ”
"For a long time? How long? One month? ”
His voice was smiling, with a hint of teasing, and I was even more embarrassed.
Actually, what I want to ask is, "Why are you here?" I heard that your Buddha heart has been lost, is it because of me? But he couldn't say anything, so he could only pinch his sleeve repeatedly with his hands.
"If the princess doesn't let go of my foot, this foot will break!"
I just saw that I was stepping on his feet, and the white boots were just in the alley I don't know what to step on, and there was a large stain on them.
I quickly removed my foot, and thought that he was a very clean person, and I was even more embarrassed and shy.
At that time, I was bitten by a green snake, and Kong Ming always used a throwing knife to "swish" through the veil and pierced my shoulder with a "whoosh", and once I asked him, why didn't he put his hand into the veil and cut the wound? Is it because you are afraid of men and women? But through the curtains?
He replied briefly, "No! ”
"Then this must be the unique detoxification method of your Medicine Master Palace, through this way of throwing flying knives in the air, the "whoosh" sound is to imitate the appearance of the emerald green snake when it bites, attracting the toxin? ”
He looked at me in surprise and said, "No! ”
"What the hell is that?"
"I'm afraid of blood spilling on me!"
I......!
When the time has passed overnight, if we don't go back, my father and mother will definitely go crazy, but the second brother doesn't know where he went, and they don't know where they are.
Kong Ming saw that I was anxious, and said painlessly: "Now you know that you are afraid?" Why aren't you afraid when you pretend to be a man and go to the Qinglou? ”
I grabbed his arm and shook it, and said in a coquettish voice, "Master Kongming, can you help me?" Take me to my second brother? ”
I felt that he would not refuse me, remembering that at that time in Baohua Temple, one day I was hungry, pestering my second brother to go to the mountains to hunt pheasants, on a bowl of freshly ground soybean milk in the temple to hide in the room and eat wolf, that day I did not see as usual empty Ming walking in the courtyard, the chanting sound of the medicine hall sounded all night, the second brother said that Master Kong Ming this is to atone for me.