Chapter 54: Begging Qiao (2nd Watch)
The dinner was very rich, full of color and flavor.
But Gu Qingyan didn't seem to have much appetite, and after coming out of the inner room, he sat at the table in the outhouse painting hall, sitting upright, motionless, and his face was not very good.
An Huajin picked up the chopsticks and stuffed them into his hand, "Eat?" What are you doing sitting? β
Gu Qingyan didn't take the chopsticks, but hid for a while.
An Huajin turned his head to look at him, "What's wrong?" β
Gu Qingyan's eyes were calm, but the grievances in his eyes were faintly circulating, and he didn't say a word.
An Huajin: "......"
He looked at her accusingly, as if she had done such a heinous thing, when in fact she had just escaped from the back room.
This is indeed a bit heinous.
An Huajin was quiet, pretending to have forgotten what had just happened, forcefully stuffed the chopsticks into his hand, and asked with a smile, "Master Gu, what kind of childish temper do you have?" Do you want me to feed you? β
Gu Qingyan was silent.
An Huajin picked up the chopsticks, and really took a chopstick dish and fed it to his mouth, the thin corners of his lips, slightly pursed, and the arc was pulled down, forming a line. She looked at it, one didn't hold back, and suddenly became happy, and handed the chopsticks forward, "Do you want to eat?" β
Gu Qingyan lowered her eyelashes, paused for a while, raised her eyes again, slowly opened her mouth, and ate the vegetables she handed to his mouth, the wild mountain mushrooms were smooth and tender, sweet in the mouth, very delicious, and made him feel a lot better.
An Huajin opened his eyes and muttered in a low voice, "I haven't coaxed anyone yet!" β
Even if it was Shen Yuanzhi, she would only fight with him, and at most she did what she asked him to do, and she didn't coax him.
Gu Qingyan picked up the chopsticks, also picked up a chopstick dish, sent it to An Huajin's mouth, and whispered, "It's delicious, you can taste it." β
"I have hands!" An Huajin raised his eyes.
Gu Qingyan looked at her, "I still have hands." β
Can that be the same? If you have hands and don't eat, it's emotional, but I don't have emotions.
However, looking at Gu Qingyan's clear eyes, she still opened her mouth and swallowed the dish he sent to her mouth. Well, the wild mushrooms fried in sauce are indeed delicious.
One person and one chopstick, you come and go, which kicked off the prelude to this meal.
Until An Huajin was full, watching Gu Qingyan also put down the chopsticks, she was a little suspicious of life, she and Gu Qingyan, why did you feed me a chopstick, I fed you a chopstick, and just finished a meal?
What did she just do? What did Gu Qingyan do again?
She was really taken into the ditch by him.
She couldn't describe what mood she was in for a while, and after drinking two sips of tea to suppress the shock, she stood up, took an umbrella, opened it, and said to him, "Let's go, go to the cucumber stand and beg." β
Gu Qingyan nodded in a good mood, and the emotions from earlier had already been digested into this meal.
He had already discovered that her tolerance for him was very big, as long as he wasn't too much, even if he bullied her quietly, she would coax him, and the feeling of being coaxed was really good.
Outside, it was still raining lightly. The two walked along the bluestone road, out of Fenghong Garden, and came to the garden behind.
Several large pools of cucumber racks, it looks very spectacular, next to the cucumber racks, Uncle Sun has already let people put incense cases and a begging thing.
An Huajin took a red rope from the table and tied it to Gu Qingyan's wrist first, and then to his own wrist. After that, he pulled him to the cucumber stand and squatted down, and tied the red rope on the wrists of the two of them to the cucumber rack dexterously.
Gu Qingyan silently followed her movements, silently watching curiously from the side.
"Have you ever begged before?" An Huajin asked in a low voice.
Gu Qingyan shook his head, "No." β
"I've never begged before." "It is said that only unmarried adult men and women can squat under the cucumber stand and beg together, I have seen my eldest brother and future sister-in-law begging, and they are like this......"
As she spoke, she suddenly paused and fell silent.
Gu Qingyan knew that his eldest brother had a fiancΓ©e who had been engaged since he was a child, and he went to the battlefield before he got married, after the battle of Yuxueling, the girl did not wait for him to ask for marriage, but waited for the bad news, it is said that the crying died and came back to life, and she was going to go with him, but then somehow, she became a sister-in-law.
Gu Qingyan gently held her hand, diverting her from remembering the past and feeling uncomfortable, "Are we just squatting like this?" β
"Yes." An Huajin is not so sure.
Gu Qingyan: "......"
He squatted silently for a moment, then said, "How long are we going to squat?" β
"I don't know."
Gu Qingyan coughed lowly, "Don't you do something?" β
An Huajin thought for a while and whispered, "I heard that on the seventh day of July, unmarried men and women squatted under the cucumber stand together to beg, and they could hear the Cowherd and Weaver Girl talking on the edge of the Tianhe. β
Gu Qingyan blinked.
An Huajin whispered again, "It is said that unmarried men and women who can hear the words of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl must have a happy marriage." β
Gu Qingyan looked up at the sky, but didn't see it, only saw the tall cucumber stand in front of the umbrella, which was the season when the cucumbers were ripe, and they were hung on the shelves in a row.
He was very skeptical, is this legend true? Why did he think it was a little unreliable?
After a while, An Huajin asked in a low voice, "Did you hear them?" β
Gu Qingyan didn't hear it, but he didn't want to hear it, he wanted a happy marriage, so he said seriously, "I heard it." β
"Huh?" An Huajin was surprised, "Did you really hear that?" What did they say? β
Gu Qingyan thought about the folk legend about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, racked her brains to think about the answer, and after a while, whispered, "They said that they would never be separated again, and the Weaver Girl asked the Cowherd to live in the sky with her, and he would not descend to earth." β
"Huh?" An Huajin was even more surprised.
Gu Qingyan's expression couldn't be more serious and nonsense, "It turns out that the Cowherd is not the Cowherd, he is also a heavenly immortal, but he made a mistake and was relegated to the mortal world, and now that the mortal period is over, he will return to the sky." β
"Huh?" An Huajin pulled the red rope and looked at Gu Qingyan's eyes, which were very different.
Gu Qingyan asked her rhetorically, "Didn't you hear?" β
An Huajin wanted to shake her head, looking at Gu Qingyan's expression when she asked this, it was a picture of why are you so stupid, can't you even do such a simple thing, she scratched her head, her mind was hot, and she said vaguely, "I...... I heard you. β
Gu Qingyan lowered his head and laughed lowly, "Well, we all heard it, so it can be seen that we will definitely have a happy marriage." β
"Yes, yes." Anhua Jin stumbled.
"Let's go, now that we hear it, is it okay not to continue squatting?" Gu Qingyan reached out to untie the red rope.
An Huajin was a little dizzy, "It should be okay." β
Gu Qingyan finished untying the red rope neatly and put it into his pocket.
An Huajin looked at him, "What do you want this red rope to pass?" β
"This is our marriage line, so naturally we have to keep it. Next year's Qixi Festival, begging together again, and using this red rope. Gu Qingyan pulled An Huajin out of the cucumber rack and stood up.
An Huajin had nothing to refute, "It's okay, then you can keep it, don't lose it." β
This is a red rope that can eavesdrop on the Cowherd and Weaver Girl's words through the Tianhe, not a simple red rope.
The two of them walked back out of the back garden with an umbrella, and met Uncle Sun head-on, Uncle Sun said with a smile, "Little county lord, Lord Gu, although it is raining, the street outside is also very lively tonight, the old slave sent someone to inquire, many young people, are playing outside, you two, do you want to go out to play?" β
Gu Qingyan looked at An Huajin, "Do you want to go out?" β
"What about you?" An Huajin asked rhetorically.
Gu Qingyan smiled lightly, "With you, you can go out or not, you decide." β
This fiancΓ© is really good for a while, and when he is not emotional, he is simply perfect to attract people.
An Huajin glanced at the sky, it was raining, the rainy night was very cold, she shook her head, "Forget it, let's go back to the house to play chess, the house is warm, there is food, drink and play, why go out and suffer that sin." β
"Okay."
The two discussed and returned to Fenghongyuan, An Huajin took out the chessboard, put the chess game on the table, and the two sat in the warm room and played against each other.
Halfway through the chess game, Qingmo shouted outside, "Childe." β
"Huh?" Gu Qingyan looked at the door.
Qingmo announced, "Gonggong Zhang broke the news that Hua Ruyu is pregnant. β
Gu Qingyan's hand was stunned.
An Huajin narrowed his eyes.
Qingmo continued, "Half an hour ago, Hua Ruyu suddenly fainted, and His Majesty invited the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital to give Hua Ruyu a happy pulse. Because it was less than a month, His Majesty suppressed the news for the time being, and said nothing. β
"Got it." Gu Qingyan calmly fell, "Go and inform Chu Chen." β
"Yes!"
After Qingmo retreated, An Huajin dropped the chess pieces with a "snap", and with a soft sound, she sneered, "With this life-saving talisman, why can't you help her for the time being?" β