Chapter 14: The Idle Villa (4)
This happened about 12 years ago.
At that time, Jiang Cai was still a girl in the prime of her life, the Northern Dynasty had not been destroyed by the Nanfu State, and the two countries were trading with each other, and they were still harmonious, and their master was still a royal family surnamed Mu.
The little marquis of the Nanfu Kingdom came to the Northern Dynasty to ask for relatives, which was a good thing for the Northern Dynasty and the Nanfu Kingdom, which was beneficial to the country and the people.
The courtship team set off from Nanfu Kingdom, all the way north, passing through Luohe City, and learned that Yuntai Pavilion has the tradition of holding poetry meetings every three years, and the little marquis was very interested, and offered a heavy reward to fight against the literati of the Northern Dynasty with the literati of Nanfu Kingdom.
It stands to reason that the purpose of sending envoys to the Northern Dynasty is to ask for relatives, and the little marquis's move is inevitably a little provocative.
However, having said this, I have to introduce the background and origin of this little marquis.
This little marquis's surname is Li, his name is Dongyang, and he is the eldest son of the prince of Kangding in Nanfu, who is the emperor's brother, and Li Dongyang's mother is the sister of the queen's mother.
The emperor of Nanfu had no children under his knees, so Li Dongyang had always been raised with the specifications of a prince.
A proud son of heaven who has been noble since birth, and an heir of the royal family who has been favored by all parties since he was a child, will inevitably have some arrogant and willful tempers.
However, Li Dongyang, this person, in the end, still has some ability, and the customers recruited under him are all rare talents, they have been in Yuntai Pavilion for several days, facing hundreds of scholars of the Northern Dynasty, and they have not been defeated.
At that time, the Northern Dynasty was like an old man who was about to die, with an empty shelf for the kingdom of the gods, but the inside was already rotten.
However, being defeated by a small country that used to be its own vassal country was very humiliating after all, and just when everyone was secretly anxious, a young man named Yi Chulian appeared.
That boy is very beautiful, how beautiful is it?
At that time, the people who participated in the battle and watched the battle in Yuntai Pavilion were inside and out, up and down, adding up to almost a thousand, but as soon as that person appeared, everyone else seemed to have turned into a vague background in an instant.
Jiang Cai still remembers that it was a season when apricot blossoms were in full bloom, and Yi Chulian was dressed in white, holding a folding fan, and her demeanor was graceful, and she leaped down from the top floor of Yuntai Pavilion.
His skin was like white jade, his hair was like black ink, his lips were smiling, his clothes and headbands were flying in the wind, and the apricot blossoms that fell in from the window were carried up by his movements and flew all over the sky in the Yuntai Pavilion.
The young man's light skills are extraordinary, like a fluttering white crane, sliding down the low end, tiptoe to the ground, turning around in place, folding the fan, looking at everyone calmly fanning.
Jiang Cai sat in the box on the second floor of Yuntai Pavilion, not far from the central ring but not too close, for fear of being seen by outsiders, she deliberately covered a curtain at the window.
Seeing that white shadow from afar, I only felt that the sky was shining and everything in this world lost its brilliance.
She walked out of the box in a daze, stood on the corridor at the door, looked at the person, but listened to the little maid next to her reminded in a low voice: "Miss, this person is not ......"
Before the little maid's words were finished, Jiang Cai shook his senses and looked at the person again, only to realize that she had seen it.
The time was postponed to a few days ago, she went out to play with the maids in the villa, and several people sat in the painting boat, blowing the wind on the Luo River, but they were targeted by a lustful bully.
The bully didn't know that they were from the idle villa, in order to get her attention, all kinds of trouble, ordered people to deliberately rush into their painting boat, the people in the painting boat at that time, in addition to her and the two little maids, there was only one elderly captain, a few little girls were frightened, hiding in the painting boat did not dare to show their heads, the bully saw that they did not dare to resist, even more interested, directly let people use chains to hold their painting boat, the two boats together.
The bully kept saying that he accidentally hit their boat, and wanted to board the boat in person to apologize, but ordered his entourage to follow behind with weapons, seeing them on the boat, Jiang Cai was anxious, but he couldn't pay attention, and shrunk together with the maids, thinking about whether to jump into the river to protect his innocence, or to fight with the bully for his life, but a white figure suddenly flashed outside the boat, blocking the way between them and the bully, blocking the way of those people.
The man's martial arts skills were very high, and with a wave of his hand and a full swing, he knocked those bullies into the water, and saw the bullies holding their boat with chains, and then pulled out the sword hanging from his waist, and drew a white sword light against the chains, and the chains cast by fine iron were suddenly broken in two, and the sword qi swept across the opposite boat, only to hear a loud noise from the boat, and the hull of the ship was instantly torn in half.
All this happened too fast, Jiang Cai didn't react, and heard the anxious sound of Jiangling coming from the stern of the boat, the Jiang family standing on the shore noticed their abnormal movement here, and hurriedly found a boat to rush to support, the man in white followed the sound and glanced back, probably feeling that their predicament had been solved, so he flew up and jumped up, stepped on the green lotus leaves, stepped on the blue waves, and landed on the stone bridge in the distance.
Jiang Cai subconsciously followed out, looking at the man's back, only to hear the sound of hunting in the breeze blowing through the man's clothes.
Because there was a bead curtain inside and outside the boat, the man had his back to her the whole time except for a glance, Jiang Cai didn't see the appearance of the man in white clearly, only a vague general impression.
It wasn't until Yuntai Pavilion met again that it was confirmed that it was that person.
That person painted a picture in Yuntai Pavilion, the painting scroll was suspended on the beam, and the painting skills were combined with martial arts, which was pleasing to the eye.
However, there are so many people in the world who can paint, and there are many brilliant geniuses, no matter how good Yi Chulian's painting skills are, if it weren't for some unique ideas, it would not be enough for him to stand out in the competition.
Jiang Cai still remembers that after a painting was completed, some people raised such questions, it was just an ink painting Danqing, even if the painting was good, compared with the few people who participated in the competition before, it was still a little worse, what qualifications and abilities did he have, and he could stand out from the many talents in Yuntai Pavilion and win the first place?
Faced with doubts, Yi Chulian smiled at that time, stretched out her hand, took the object in the air, and held a glass of wine on the table next to it in her hand.
The wine poured out, and with a wave of his folding fan, water droplets and mist were sprinkled on the Danqing painting, and a strange scene appeared.
The original ordinary ink painting was blurred by the wine, as if it was alive, and the dynamic scene of clouds and mist between the mountains and rivers emerged in public.
Looking at the painting, everyone present was stunned and could not say a word of objection.
Jiang Cai thought that she should have thanked Yi Chulian, after all, he had saved himself on the Luohe River, but before he could go downstairs, he saw the previous bully leading people into Yuntai Pavilion.
Because of his bullying of Jiang Cai on the Luohe River, the bully was arrested by Zixian Villa and taught a hard lesson before being released, and when he learned that Jiang Cai was from Zixian Villa, the bully naturally didn't dare to touch her, but he sprinkled all his anger on Yi Chulian, who had no background.
The bully led a group of people to shout and kill at Yi Chulian, and the two sides started to smash the tables and chairs of Yuntai Pavilion into a mess, and finally Yi Chulian jumped up to the window on the second floor of Yuntai Pavilion, laughing and scolding at the bully who was smashing downstairs, making fun of people for being a wine bag and rice bag, and he didn't even touch a piece of his clothes for a long time, and finally raised his hand and threw it, leaving a jade pendant that compensated the owner of the shop, jumped down from the window, and disappeared without a trace.
Jiang Cai didn't know anything about that person except for the jade pendant and the name 'Yi Chulian', but whenever he recalled his every move on the Yuntai Pavilion, he had an outstanding demeanor when he painted martial arts, a dexterity and agility when fighting with others, and that kind of arrogant posture that was calm and condescending and did not put anyone in his eyes.
A little bit, a scene, unforgettable, in the twelve years of time, I have been concerned about it, and I have never forgotten half of it.
She had sent someone to find Yi Chulian's whereabouts, and the people of the Jiang family had also inquired about the person's origin, but it was always blank.
She also understands that even if she finds it, what can she do? No one had ever seen her, not even her name.
Perhaps, that person has already married a wife and had children, and even more perhaps, he has long forgotten all about the things on Luohe and Yuntai Pavilion.
But I just can't help it, I can't forget it, I can't deceive myself, and I can't compromise myself.
Some people say that in this life, don't meet too amazing people, but she did, and from now on, seeing anyone again, like the grass and trees on the side of the road, can't get into her eyes.
In this way, day by day, year by year, from the cardamom years, to the yellow flowers of tomorrow, but I still insisted on waiting.
Jiang Cai walked towards me, still full of infatuation, and muttered, "I know, if he comes back, he will definitely come back." ”
A person with the same name as my senior brother, but with the same face as me, no matter how you think about it, there is only one explanation.
Many years ago, I once came to Luohe City, and pretended to be my senior brother's name, and broke into this series of disasters, and I also owed a foolish peach blossom debt.
I asked my brother, "Brother, have I ever been to Luohe City?" ”
The senior brother said lazily, "How do I know? ”
Facing my suspicious eyes, Senior Brother defended again: "Although you and I used to be together, we were not inseparable, in case one day I took advantage of my master's inattention and sneaked down the mountain to cause trouble. But ......"
He paused, touched his chin and asked, "Do you really think that Yi Chulian back then was you?" ”
I knew what he wanted to say, and sure enough, seeing that I didn't speak, my senior brother walked around me twice and looked at me with a scrutinizing eye: "The Yi Chulian in Miss Jiang's memory is a merry young man with strong martial arts and good painting skills, look at you again, you don't know any martial arts at all, and the paintings you draw are more ugly than ghost paintings, and the whole body, where can you stick the word 'Merry'?" ”
Originally, listening to what Miss Jiang said, I was still a little fluttering, and I felt that I was really powerful, but unfortunately I was just halfway up, but I was splashed down by my senior brother with a basin of cold water, and I completely sobered up.
Could it be that when my father and mother gave birth to me, they also gave birth to a twin brother by the way, this brother not only looks the same as me, but also has the same name and surname as my senior brother?
The probability of this kind of thing happening is lower than when my brother says that he doesn't hate me and likes me instead.
It's a strange thing, a big strange thing.