Chapter 1: The Wedge
The cold winter has passed, and everything is recovering.
In March, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the moat of the capital is covered with a luxurious, noble, and beautiful painting boat.
This is the birthday gift given by the Queen Mother to the eldest lady of the Marquis of Ningyuan, and for the first time today, there are many people who stop to watch outside the guardrail on the shore.
Under the willow trees by the river, two shabby-dressed men looked at the painting boat from afar, and their eyes were full of resentment.
"I heard that it cost nearly 10,000 taels of gold to build this painting boat?"
"Who said no, the Queen Mother thought that the eldest lady of the Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion was a princess? Such an extravagant congratulatory gift was given on a birthday. ”
"Hmph, it's just a pheasant, I really think I'm a phoenix."
The two men looked at the river like this, complaining to each other from time to time.
The mansha on the boat fluttered gently with the river breeze, and a melodious and graceful piano sound came out of the boat.
A wisp of clear sound rises up, and the aftermath lingers on the surface of the river.
At the end of the song, the melodious sound of the piano stopped, and a few of the people who had stayed strode away.
A woman in a lilac brocade dress walked out slowly, she stepped onto the bow of the boat, stood in front of the railing on the bow, closed her eyes and enjoyed the warm sunlight.
The golden light shone all around her, as if the world was as beautiful as she looked.
A strong wind blew in her face, and the hosta on the woman's bun fell off her hair, and then fell to the edge of the bow of the boat and fell into the water.
The woman leaned over to look at the water, her body was unstable, and she was planted straight into the water.
I only heard a "plop" sound, and soon saw the woman struggling in the water, but in less than half a moment, the woman stopped struggling and fell to the bottom of the river.
Hearing the sound, two maids ran out of the boat, and when they saw the splash on the water, their faces turned pale with fright, and without saying a word, they jumped into the water.
The two men under the willow trees by the river saw the situation in the water, looked at each other, showed some hesitation in their eyes, and finally turned and hurried away in the direction of the street.
The two maids had not appeared in the water for a long time, and a woman in pink on the shore saw that the maids had not rescued anyone for a long time, so she jumped over the guardrail and jumped into the river without hesitation.
The sound of the woman in pink entering the water alarmed several scholars on the side of the guardrail who were chanting poems with their backs to the river, and they turned to look at the painting boat, and they all gathered in a crowd to discuss what happened on the boat.
A peddler who was about to rush to the market with a flat shoulder passed by the scholars, and when he saw them standing in groups, facing the river, he glanced around the painting boat, and immediately dropped the burden on his shoulders, and exclaimed, "Someone has fallen into the water, someone has fallen into the water......