Chapter 44 I see

When she arrived at Yicui Listening to the Rain Pavilion, Yu Xiaorui took out the key hanging around her neck and opened the courtyard door smoothly. Du Xiaomeng followed her into the courtyard, glanced behind her and then closed the courtyard door lightly.

Yicui Tingyu Pavilion looked much bigger than the Ming Jingxuan where Yu Tianzheng lived. Here is just like the landscape that Du Xiaomeng glimpsed outside, there are many trees planted in the yard, in addition to trees, there are also rockeries, pavilions, small pools and other landscapes. Although it's the middle of winter and the heavy snow obscures most of the scenery, you can still see dry branches of flowers in some places. This is enough to imagine what kind of scene it will be like when it warms up.

Behind the rockery is the main building of the Yicui Listening Rain Pavilion, which is a two-storey small building with a terrace, and the corner of the roof that is not covered by snow is a corner of the green glazed tiles that sparkle in the sunlight, and the two brilliant red plums on the left and right in front of the small building add a little vitality to this quiet place.

Yu Xiaorui had already run to the front of the small building, opened the door and beckoned to Du Xiaomeng: "Sister Xiaomeng, hurry up!" ”

The section of the road from the courtyard gate to the small building was cleaned clean, and there was no snow at all, and Yu Xiaorui and Du Xiaomeng walked past one after another, leaving no footprints on the hard cyan slate.

In a small building, you don't feel a chill when you go in, like a house that has been vacant for a long time, but on the contrary, you can feel a warm air rushing towards you as soon as you enter the door. Du Xiaomeng took a look and found that there was a charcoal stove by the door that had not been extinguished.

She looked around and saw that the white brick floor carved with peony flowers at her feet was spotless, and the marble-faced round table in the center of the room was smooth and shiny, with a teapot and teacups on the table, and a white porcelain vase with a red plum in it; On the left is a bookshelf that is taller than a person, and next to the bookshelf is a desk, on which there are all the four treasures of the study, in addition to a silver vial on the side, and a red plum is also inserted in the bottle.

She also noticed that there were several red plum pictures hanging on the walls on all sides. Judging from all the signs in this house, if it weren't for the fact that Princess Rui had been dead for several years, and the courtyard was heavily locked and uninhabited, Du Xiaomeng must have thought that there were people living here, and he could be sure that the people who lived in this house liked plum blossoms very much.

"Xiao Xiaorui, are all these paintings painted by your father?" Du Xiaomeng approached one of the red plum pictures, and asked uncertainly as she pointed to the red seal underneath while looking at it. She saw that the inscription on the painting did not look like Yu Tianzheng's handwriting, and the two words on the seal of the inscription seemed to be one of the "green" characters when carefully distinguished.

Yu Xiaorui shook her head and said, "No, these plum blossom pictures were all drawn by my mother when she was alive." The paintings painted by my father were all hung upstairs. ”

Du Xiaomeng turned her head to look at the red plum blossom branches on the round table and the desk, glanced at the two red plum trees outside, and then looked around at the red plum picture in the room, she suddenly thought of something. In a hurry to confirm the conjecture that had just flashed through her mind, she immediately withdrew her gaze from the plum blossom picture, and said to Yu Xiaorui as if nothing had happened: "I don't know if your mother's painting is better or your father's painting is better?" ”

Yu Xiaorui turned around and said with a smile as she ran upstairs, "Sister Xiaomeng, you can go upstairs and take a look." ”

Du Xiaomeng followed Yu Xiaorui and climbed to the second floor.

"Sister Xiaomeng, don't you look good at the portrait painted by your father?" Yu Xiaorui stood in the middle and spread her hands, her eyes looking around, and her face was full of smugness that could not be concealed.

As soon as he raised his eyes, Du Xiaomeng saw that the walls on all four sides were full of portraits of people. On closer inspection, the person in the portrait is the same woman. The woman's melon seed face, with a pair of beautiful danfeng eyes and a rosy mouth like a cherry, is definitely a beautiful woman with a national color and fragrance. The beauty in the painting is either smiling with flowers, or holding a fan and fluttering butterflies, or holding a scroll and standing against a tree, or staring at the window with a jade hand on her cheek...... Each picture vividly depicts the beauty of the person in the painting from the best angle, leaving the beautiful face and graceful figure of this red face who has died vividly in the painting, for the living to admire her demeanor. Such meticulous paintings are enough to see how much effort the painter put into each portrait.

Although the woman in the painting is wearing different styles of clothes, the clothes are all different shades of red; Looking at the style of the bun on her head, it is exactly the same as the one that the beautiful Xia Yu has combed for herself recently, and the hairpins on her head are all kinds of plum blossom hair ornaments of different shapes, which are similar to the styles she uses.

Looking at the portraits, although the people in the paintings did not look similar to herself, Du Xiaomeng still had the illusion of standing in the portraits, which made her feel a chill surging up from the soles of her feet.

Du Xiaomeng dragged her somewhat stiff legs to the front of each portrait and looked at it one by one, until she walked to the portrait that was much larger than the other portraits in front of the bed, she finally confirmed the conjecture in her heart completely, and finally figured out why she had a strange feeling every time Yu Tianzheng stared at her with a expression.

The plum blossoms downstairs and the portrait of the princess upstairs confirm one thing she has been mistaken, that is, it is not Yu Tianzheng who likes plum blossoms and red, but his deceased princess. Also, there was that strange feeling that she didn't have to worry about herself, and when she saw the big portrait facing the bed, she immediately understood.

The big portrait of Princess Rui is wearing a pair of plum blossom earrings, with butterflies flying on her hair bun, and her slender wrist exposed outside the red sleeves is wearing a plum in the snow, and the painting is also inscribed with verses: In the past, the snow plum met to find, and yesterday the butterflies flew in pairs. Once the yin and yang are separated, the strings are difficult to continue, and it is sad to continue. The soul is gone, sighing, and seeing the lovesickness of things, the liver and intestines are broken.

Du Xiaomeng was sure that it was Yu Tianzheng's handwriting.

Touching the snow plum wearing it on her wrist, she felt that the woman in the portrait around her who was wearing the same hairstyle as herself, wearing the same red clothes, and wearing the same butterfly Shuangfei and Xue Zhongmei designed by Yu Tianzheng himself, was smiling at her from all directions. This feeling made her involuntarily feel cold, and she felt cold all over her body.

It turned out that what Yu Tianzheng liked was not Du Xiaomeng, and the one that Yu Tianzheng was looking at affectionately was not Du Xiaomeng, what Yu Tianzheng liked, what he saw in his eyes was just the shadow of Princess Rui on her; Yu Tianzheng's so-called "sincerity" is for Princess Rui, not for Du Xiaomeng. Very good, she is now sure that she is definitely not the second wife, and she is not even qualified to be a junior, she is at best just a stand-in for a dead man, and Yutian wants to single-handedly make her the illusion of Princess Rui that she wants.

She didn't dare to look directly at the portrait on the wall anymore, her cold hand tightly grabbed the cloak to cover her body, turned around and ran downstairs with some unsteady steps.

Yu Xiaorui didn't know what was going on, she just saw that Sister Xiaomeng's face suddenly turned pale, and she ran away with a strange look. She hurriedly ran downstairs and saw Du Xiaomeng standing there holding on to the desk, inhaling hard.

Yu Xiaorui ran to Du Xiaomeng's face, looked at her pale face, and asked uneasily, "Sister Xiaomeng, are you okay?" ”

Du Xiaomeng forcibly held up a smile and said, "It's okay." It's just that the upstairs is a little stuffy, and I suddenly feel a little breathless. ”

"Then I'll call the doctor to come and show you."

Yu Xiaorui was nervous and was about to run out, Du Xiaomeng hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Don't call the doctor, I'll go back and rest and be fine." ”

"Sister Xiaomeng, are you really okay?" Yu Xiaorui asked uneasily.

"Really." Du Xiaomeng nodded vigorously affirmatively, "Let's go back." ”

"Oh." Seeing that Du Xiaomeng was so sure, Yu Xiaorui obediently accompanied her out without saying anything.

Walking out of the small building, Du Xiaomeng stood still and smiled at Yu Xiaorui and said, "Xiaoxiaorui, don't tell anyone that you brought me to Yicui to listen to the rain pavilion today." ”

"Why?" Yu Xiaorui blinked and looked at Du Xiaomeng and asked puzzled.

Du Xiaomeng rolled her eyes and said, "Your father never let me see his paintings, it should be that he doesn't want me to know that his paintings are so good-looking; Sister Meijing didn't let me in here before, probably to keep this secret for your father. If they knew that I had seen your father's paintings, they might be upset, did Xiao Xiaorui want to make her father and sister Meijing unhappy? ”

"Of course not!" Yu Xiaorui shook her head again and again.

"That's good." Du Xiaomeng squatted down and stretched out her little finger to Yu Xiaorui with a smile, "Today, I went to Yicui to listen to Yuge Pavilion and didn't tell anyone else, it's a secret between the two of us." ”

Yu Xiaorui can't understand why adults like to have this secret and that secret. Before, my father and myself had a secret that only two people knew, and now he and Sister Xiaomeng have another secret that can't be known to others. Although she thinks that even if her father and Sister Meijing know about today's events, what Sister Xiaomeng said has always been very reasonable, since she said that this is a secret, then listen to her. Yu Xiaorui obediently hooked her little finger and said, "This is my secret with Sister Xiaomeng." ”

Out of Yicui Listening to the Rain Pavilion, Du Xiaomeng was in a very bad mood, she inhaled a breath of cold air hard to try to calm her mood, but in vain. found out the truth that Yu Tianzheng didn't love herself, she didn't feel a little sad, she was just unhappy that she was being treated as a stand-in for love. She can't tolerate Yu Tianzheng transferring her feelings for the deceased Princess Rui to herself, she can't live in the shadow of Princess Rui as if nothing happened, being transformed into another stranger by Yu Tianzheng, accepting a relationship that doesn't belong to her at all, and accepting all the care and love that doesn't belong to her.

Since he already clearly knows that Yu Tianzheng is not a lover who can entrust him to life, and knows that he is just a stand-in for a dead man, Du Xiaomeng in the Ruiwang Mansion does not want to stay for a moment. If she runs away and resolutely refuses to accept the wrong love that does not belong to her, will Yu Tianzheng let her go easily? Thinking of all the things Yu Tianzheng had done to him in the past, and thinking of what he had said, Du Xiaomeng couldn't help but feel worried. She is now in a dark future and can't find a bright way out, but she can't take care of so much, and she will plan for the future later, and the top priority is to use some method to leave the Rui Wangfu smoothly.