Li Ran went out early and returned late for two or three days, and Mama Fu renovated the entire Cuiwei residence.

Li Ran's three upper rooms are also a big move, the innermost clean room is gone, the partition separating the bedroom and the outer room has moved a lot, the east ear house partition is removed, and a low couch tea table is placed, sitting and drinking tea and reading in summer, thinking about it is very comfortable.

The curtains, the mattresses, and so on in the house were all changed.

In this piece, Li Ran expressed her opinion and chose blue and gray. When it was arranged, Mama Fu praised it several times.

But Li Ran felt that if she let Mama Fu play, she would be much better than the blue and gray she chose.

However, she likes the feeling of blue and gray together, and the two colors together give her a sense of time being slow.

The renovated Cuiwei Residence, especially the three upper rooms, gave Li Ran a home-like feeling, at least, this was her nest, or it was a nest built specifically for her.

She once had one, seventy square meters, on the twenty-eighth floor, with a floor-to-ceiling window, and she liked to sit in front of the window and look down on the lights of thousands of homes.

Li Ran rested in the new nest for a few days and received a letter from Wang Ji.

The letter invited her to go to the Beizhouqiao Night Market the next evening.

About the Beizhou Bridge Night Market, Wang Ji and her introduced it in detail.

There are many night markets and ghost markets in the capital.

At the earliest time, the Beizhouqiao Night Market was a ghost market, and at the time of the third watch, there were many people gathered there, trading in the dark those things that were either unseeable or unseemly.

Later, this ghost market became more and more lively, and more and more things were traded, so the lights were lit, and it became a night market from a ghost market.

I don't know when it started, the rules of the Beizhou Bridge Night Market were changed to focus on the first half of the night, the sunset began, and the third watch dispersed.

The things traded have also changed from a variety of things to a variety of things, and have become a night market dominated by old things, old books, and various antique rubbings, etc., and has become the most visited night market by literati and students in the capital.

When Wang Ji was very young, he often followed his father or brother to visit the Beizhouqiao Night Market and buy things with his eyesight.

The ghost market of the night market in the capital, except for the Zhouqiao Night Market, which mainly sells food, is not open in the first month, so Wang Ji made an appointment with Li Ran, and after the Beizhouqiao Night Market opens, she will go to the Beizhouqiao Night Market with her.

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Ran changed into a lotus-colored dress and wore a pale thin cloak, came out with Zhou E, got in the car and headed for Jinshuimen, preparing to make a detour to the north of the forbidden middle school and go to the Beizhou Bridge Night Market, which happened to be in Daqing Hall to watch the sunset on the way.

The sunset of the Daqing Hall was recommended by Tao Nong to Li Ran, saying that it was the sunset in the capital, with the Daqing Hall as the most.

Li Ran believes in Tao Nong's vision, Daqing Hall is on her way to Beizhouqiao Night Market, and the time is just right, this sunset, it would be a pity not to see it.

Li Ran's curtain has always been lifted high, looking at the surrounding scenery in the gently swaying carriage.

After passing the Tianbo Gate, I didn't go far, a gold-topped temple came into view, and Li Ran bowed and asked, "Is it Xiaoyan Temple?" ”

"Well, go check it out?" Zhou E looked back at Li Ran and asked.

Li Ran nodded, got out of the car, stood in the bright yellow corner of Xiaoyan Temple, hesitated, and did not go in the direction of the temple gate pointed by Zhou E, but went all the way north along the wall.

The sun is about to set, if you go into Xiaoyan Temple to take a turn, come out and go to Daqing Palace, you will definitely miss today's sunset.

Let's watch the sunset first, today's sunset, there will be no more if it falls, but Xiaoyan Temple has always been here.

Moreover, Li Ran has always felt that what fascinates her the most about the temple is the atmosphere, such as now, walking slowly along the wall and listening to the melodious chanting sound in the temple, which makes people feel more refuge than entering the temple and facing the bright statues.

Zhou E didn't say a word, and followed behind Li Ran with her hands behind her back.

Turning around the Xiaoyan Temple, you can already see the tall but dilapidated bell tower that is abruptly outside the Daqing Palace, and on the other side, the same tall and dilapidated drum tower.

A little farther away, is a large heavy building built of huge black stones, reflecting the red sunset, the gorgeous sunset, and the vigorous ancient trees nearby, the birds flying around the trees, like Tao Nong said, is a picture of the vicissitudes of time.

This picture of the vicissitudes of time is a background board of one person and one flute.

Not far away, under the vigorous ancient tree, a tall and thin man in white clothes Sheng Xue, bowed his head slightly, a jade flute between his fingers, and the sound of music was quiet.

It's Xie Ze.

Li Ran looked straight at Xie Ze's straight figure and the placket of his clothes that were blown by the breeze.

The sound of the flute and the quiet chanting sound in the temple, when the chanting sound fell, the flute sound passed out from the middle of the chanting, and the brisk rhythm was entangled with sadness, from low to high, and from the high place to fall, curling like a whimper.

Li Ran stood upright, tears streaming out of her eyes.

At the end of the song, Xie Ze put down the flute and looked sideways at Li Ran, who was standing straight and bursting into tears.

After a while, Xie Ze walked unhurriedly in front of Li Ran, lowered his head, looked carefully at Li Ran, who was looking up at him and crying, looked at it for a while, took half a step back, and the bamboo flute turned around between his fingers, turned his back to his back, crossed Li Ran, and walked away.

"Let's go." Seeing Xie Ze walk away, Zhou E stepped forward and patted Li Ran gently.

Li Ran lowered her head, pulled off the handkerchief that Mama Fu wrapped around her wrist, and wiped it on her face indiscriminately.

"Get in the car." Zhou E waved to the driver.

Li Ran sat in the car, looked at the slowly retreating houses and trees in a daze, and little by little cleaned up the sadness and grievances that suddenly poured out from the flute.

Li Ran met Wang Ji at the agreed place, and walked slowly in the Wang family's group of scattered and chaotic guards with the mother-in-law who went out, looking at all kinds of stalls on both sides of the street.

He didn't go far, but Wang Ji bought two or three books and a few broken rubbings.

Li Ran followed Wang Ji's side, absentmindedly looking at the stall and the things on the stall, but he didn't see it.

"On the way here just now, I met General Xie." After walking a small half street, Li Ran and Wang Wei said in a low voice.

The king was stunned.

"Behind Xiaoyan Temple, he is playing the flute." Li Ran paused and looked at Wang Ji, "I don't know music, it should be a very cheerful song, but it sounds very sad." ”

Wang Ji sighed lowly, "Let's go over there, let's talk as we go." ”

Li Ran snorted, and together with Wang Ji, turned onto a small street next to it with sparse stalls and pedestrians.

"I don't know."

Wang Ji's voice was very low.

"I only know, it is said that General Xie was in the chaos of the army, when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he took the white tiger and met the emperor, and has followed the emperor ever since.

The Xie family was earlier than ours...... It should be a little earlier than our family, but it may also be late, I was still very young at that time, I don't remember, our family is very taboo about the Xie family, I don't know very well. ”

Wang Ji explained carefully, and Li Ran nodded.

"First of all, Xie Shangshu and his wife ......"

"Who are Xie Shangshu and his wife?" Li Ran interrupted and asked.

"It's General Xie's parents, biological parents, General Xie is the only son of Xie Shangshu and his wife, and he has no brothers or sisters.

As soon as Xie Shangshu arrived in the capital, he was ...... by the emperor At that time, the emperor was still the crown prince, but the major affairs of the court were all handled by the emperor, and the emperor entrusted the household ministry to Xie Shangshu.

At that time, General Xie still lived in the palace, with the crown prince, in Jinghua Palace.

Until the year before last, before the prince's wedding, the emperor gave him a mansion, and now, he lives alone in his general's mansion. ”

Li Ran frowned.

With her little understanding of the law here, General Xie's parents are here, and he lives in Beppu, which is against the law, right?

"My grandfather and grandmother, and my second uncle's family. That is," Wang Ji paused, and explained to Li Randuo, "It's General Xie's grandparents and uncle's family, who moved to the capital a year or two later than our family, and I already remember it at that time."

When I moved to the capital, my second uncle first worked in the Ministry of Industry, and two years later, he was entrusted with the important task of Huainan Road Caosi, and my second uncle's family went to Huainan Road to take office.

The second uncle served two terms on Huainan Road, returned to Beijing two years ago to report on his work, and then transferred to Liangzhejiang Road.

The second uncle and aunt are now on Liangzhejiang Road with their two cousins, and the cousin and cousin stayed.

When the second uncle and aunt were in the capital, they gave their cousin to the eldest prince of the Luguo Mansion, and the cousin married into the Luguo Mansion last year.

At my cousin's age, it's time to discuss marriage, so my second uncle and aunt left her in the capital and entrusted her to my aunt to discuss marriage.

After Xie Shangshu and his wife arrived in the capital, they set up a very large mansion in the capital, which is now Xie Shangshu's mansion, after his grandfather and his second uncle's family arrived in the capital, they repaired the Zhuangzi of the Xie family outside the city, and lived in the Zhuangzi outside the city.

Three generations of the Xie family, living in three places, once impeached by the imperial history, was scolded by the emperor bloody, degraded to a remote small county, since then, no one dared to mention this matter.

In the middle, there must be a great hidden situation, but what is going on, no one in our family has ever mentioned it, grandpa and grandma. ”

Wang Ji paused, paused, and said with a wry smile: "Since I was sensible, A-Niang strictly forbade us to mention General Xie in front of my grandfather and grandmother, and we were not allowed to mention Xie Shangshu and his wife.

Ah Pei didn't know, I asked her, she had never heard anything mentioned when she was in office with her parents, and she didn't even know that General Xie was her cousin, and she had been back for a few years......"

Wang Yi smiled bitterly and spread his hands.

"She's not heard as much as I am.

Over the years, during the Chinese New Year, General Xie was either in the palace or on duty, and he had never been to Xie Shangshu's mansion, nor had he been to Zhuangzi outside the city.

After living in Zhuangzi outside the city from his grandparents to the Chinese New Year's Eve, Xie Shangshu and his wife went to Zhuangzi outside the city every year.

I used to ...... It wasn't until Apoi came back that I learned that Xie Shangshu and his wife came to Zhuangzi in their Chinese New Year's Eve, and they sat in the car overnight outside the second gate of Zhuangzi.

The Mid-Autumn Festival and the winter solstice are the same, Xie Shangshu and his wife went to Zhuangzi and kowtowed outside the second gate, but they never entered the second gate. ”

Wang Ji sighed lowly, Li Ran's brows furrowed when he heard this, what kind of tragic story is hidden behind such a family?

"Xie Shangshu and his wife have never come to my house, and we don't go to their house.

We, the juniors, all call them Xie Shangshu and Mrs. Shao.

Mrs. Shao often goes to Daxiangguo Temple to do things, every time my aunt goes to Daxiangguo Temple, she first asks people to inquire clearly, whether Mrs. Shao goes or not, if Mrs. Shao is here, she will not go.

Once, I was with A-Niang, just arrived at Daxiangguo Temple, saying that Mrs. Shao was coming, A-Niang pulled me, and immediately went out the back door, A-Niang left quickly.

My grandmother often went outside the city to talk to my grandmother, and my grandmother often went, and when they talked, we juniors were never allowed to come close.

Grandpa, I don't know, it seems, grandpa always laughs, grandpa spent more than half of his time in the White Crane Academy, lecturing, discussing knowledge with those professors, and instructing future generations or something.

Grandma misses General Xie very much.

Since one year, at my family's literary meeting, the second brother invited General Xie, and General Xie came once, but whenever our family has a flower party, a wine party, a cultural meeting or something, my grandmother must come, and I will come early and leave late, but at most, that is, I will look at it from afar. ”

"Are Xie Shangshu and his wife the original match?" Li Ran frowned and asked.

Wang Yi nodded.

"Well, the original match, Xie Shangshu and his wife are General Xie's biological parents, General Xie's eyebrows and eyes, at first glance, are the eyebrows and eyes of the Xie family, and his nose and lips are very similar to Mrs. Shao. Xie Shangshu and his wife have always been very affectionate. ”

Wang Ji glanced at Li Ran and explained: "People like us and the Xie family, although they didn't say that they were not allowed to take concubines, but the matter of taking concubines is extremely troublesome, and the patriarch and the clan elders nodded one by one.

People like us don't have any competition for favor, there are rules everywhere. ”

Li Ran snorted.

Her first thought was the bloody farce of those wives and concubines, if it weren't for this......

Alas, there are so many reasons that I can't think of it.

Parents and children are half kindness, half evil.

"General Xie's flute is very sad, and it hurts to the bone." Li Ran looked at Wang Ji and said.

"It's said that General Xie has never laughed, it's about true." Wang Ji sighed again, "In the entire capital, except for the emperor and the crown prince, it seems that the only person who can talk to General Xie is my second brother."

I heard the second sister-in-law say it once, just one sentence, saying that when General Xie was very young, he couldn't stop laughing when he touched it.

The second sister-in-law and the second brother are childhood sweethearts, the second sister-in-law has met General Xie when he was very young, and the second brother should have known General Xie when he was very young, and they were the same age, maybe they grew up together.

But my second brother, according to my Weng Weng's words, is the person in our family who is closest to a gentleman, a person like him, first, he never talks about people behind his back, and second, the second brother is the kind of person who would rather not live himself than betray others.

For so many years, he had never said a word about General Xie, or how General Xie was. ”

"General Xie doesn't want your family, and the Xie family, to know anything about him." Li Ran answered in a low voice.

"It must be so. Alas. Wang Ji sighed again.

A small street came to an end, and neither of them was in the mood to go shopping again, and then walked forward, went around to a bluestone alley that was already quiet and uninhabited, and walked back.

Along the way, neither of them spoke again.

At the end of the street, the car of the two was already waiting, and Li Ran quit Wang Ji and got into the car.

The car turned around the Daqing Hall, Zhou E looked at the few lanterns in the Xiaoyan Temple, looked at Li Ran and said, "I heard this song once.

Ten years ago, I led the team under the command of General Xie, encircled and suppressed the remnants of Huang Ning in Jianchang, fought for two days and one night, and in the evening, killed all the remnants of Huang Ning, leaving no one alive. ”

Zhou E's words paused, and after a while, he continued: "General Xie was covered in blood, blowing this tune, and slowly walked among the pools of blood and corpses. ”

Li Ran imagined that scene and shuddered slightly.

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