Chapter 5: Falling flowers are intentionally ruthless
"Shen Ke can be in the house?" Du Yiyi sneered and moved her body that was deep in the chrysanthemum cotton pillow.
"My husband is meeting guests! The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, your marriage sister-in-law must be managed, you are not deep in the world, if you look at someone wrong, then you will regret it, and if your sister-in-law does not Zhang Luo for you, there will always be someone who will gossip! ”
"Okay, I'll be there for tomorrow's feast." Du Yiyi didn't bother to entangle with Lu Xiangxue anymore, and it didn't hurt to go through the motions at tomorrow's banquet and tell Shen Ke what he thought.
"That's good! Since you agreed, then my sister-in-law will go to Zhangluo, and tomorrow morning, my sister-in-law will come to dress up for you. Lu Xiangxue got up and left the room with a smile.
Tomorrow's feast? Du Yiyi looked at the gorgeous figure outside the house and pulled down the corners of her mouth, even if I can't stay in this Shen Mansion, I have to decide by myself if I want to choose a son-in-law.
The moon is like a jade plate, the wind seems to whisper past Du Yiyi's ears, as if pouring out the loneliness of the night, today Shen Ke ordered someone to send a chair and some rare playthings, the wooden chair seat backrest armrests are fixed with cotton bales, the backrest and armrests are carved with birds and beasts, there are two huge wheels on both sides of it, it is said that it is a sliding chair made by a generation of famous craftsmen Ding himself, Du Yiyi looks left and right, it is indeed a good thing, with her current situation, this thing can save her a lot of effort.
So that night, she let Vanilla push herself out of her yard for the first time, and jumped out of the well that trapped her. Shen Mansion is the emperor's decree to build, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu personally supervised the construction, all the expenses from the inner treasury, it took half a year to complete, its luxury, vanilla said that many ministers boasted that it was not worse than the royal palace on the outskirts of the capital.
It is late autumn, the purple and red are defeated, and the ginkgo biloba leaves that can be seen everywhere are yellow, lining this mansion like a dream, in a piece of autumn yellow, one or two evergreen trees are interspersed with it, which is more beautiful. This is a secluded path, there are no buildings around, only the autumn leaves are exquisite, surrounded by trees, there are strange rocks, there are winding waters.
"This is the backyard of the Shen Mansion, and there is still some distance from the general's residence." Vanilla pushed the chair while explaining to Du Yiyi.
"Go there and walk around." Du Yiyi pointed to a small pavilion that was faintly visible in the dense forest.
Vanilla replied yes, pushed the chair and carefully turned a corner to continue walking.
Passing through the row of ginkgo trees, Du Yiyi heard the human voice, squinted and looked into the distance, and could only vaguely see two figures under the hazy moonlight, but listening to the voice, it looked like Shen Ke.
"Miss, the general is meeting guests, we ............ Do you want to ............" Vanilla also recognized Shen Ke's voice, this afternoon, she heard the people in the house say that there was a distinguished guest in the house, but she didn't expect to meet here.
"Just go to the pavilion." Du Yiyi squinted at the pavilion, her eyebrows furrowed.
The path leading to the pavilion was paved with cobblestones, and the wooden wheels of the sliding chairs bumped and bumped on them, so that a few strands of hair spread out from Du Yiyi's combed bun, which were pinned to the tassel step beside the bun.
The cool breeze was fortunate, the autumn moon was boundless, the rich aroma of wine was wafting in the four fields, Du Yiyi was approaching, and only then did he see the appearance of the man who was drinking with Shen Ke in the hazy moonlight.
Dressed in black clothes moving with the wind, half a bundle of black hair, two strands hanging down on his chest, full of heaven, starry eyes and sword eyebrows, high nose bridge, thin lips and teeth, the smile at the corner of his mouth, the charm and evil demon, holding the hand of the thin fetal gold wire trimmed white porcelain wine glass, slender and fair, not like a man envious of a woman, the fly in the ointment is his frivolous eyes.
"Yiyi, why are you here?" Shen Ke saw that Du Yiyi was looking at his guests in a daze, so he hurriedly got up and walked in front of her to block her gaze.
"I'm here, so naturally I'm looking for you." Du Yiyi retracted her eyes and stretched out her hand with vanilla.
Vanilla bent down and took her hand and helped her up, and Du Yiyi slowly walked around Shen Ke, stepped on the stone steps, and walked into the pavilion.
"Your injuries haven't healed, so let's take care of them in the yard." Shen Ke glared at Vanilla coldly and ordered, "Send Miss back." ”
Vanilla trembled and tugged at Du Yiyi's sleeve.
"Shen Ke heard that you understand that you want to feast guests?" Du Yiyi was unflustered, sat down on the empty stone bench beside the man in black and stretched his legs.
The man in black chuckled, drank the wine in one gulp, and poured another glass for himself.
"Now that you know, why don't you rest and prepare, what are you going to do when you run out!" Shen Ke looked at the appearance of the man in black, and his thick black eyebrows were furrowed.
"I'm just here to tell you that if you interfere in my marriage, I will wipe my neck and die." Du Yiyi said slowly, looking at Shen Ke's eyes but was extremely serious.
The man in black raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and his flirtatious eyes fell on Du Yiyi again.
"Men should get married, women should get married, I will look for you for you, what's so bad? If you have something to say, don't let others laugh at it. Shen Ke and Vanilla gave each other a look.
"If I don't marry, I'll let others see the joke, right?" Du Yiyi took a breath and coldly squinted at the owner of the two frivolous eyes.
"Yiyi, of course I didn't mean that, I have a guest, are you making trouble without reason?" Shen Ke helplessly smiled kindly with the man in black.
"I have heard the true temperament of General Shen's sister for a long time, but when I look at it today, it is indeed like a rumor! Since General Shen has family affairs, then I won't bother. The man in black put down his glass, stood up with his hands on his thighs, and put his hands behind his back.
"Let ............" Shen Ke clenched his fists and was about to defend Du Yiyi, but Du Yiyi's words made his words stuck in his throat.
"What does my true nature have to do with you? It's just a woman's skin, like a frivolous man like you, who doesn't understand etiquette, it's not your turn to taunt here. Du Yiyi sat on the stone bench with her legs stretched, more than a big difference compared to the seven-foot-tall man in black, how could she not hear the man's sarcasm in black, if it weren't for her injuries and inconvenience, the man in black was a guest of Shen Ke, she would have scolded even more harshly.
The man in black was stunned for a moment, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Du Yiyi with interest for a while, sitting without a lady's dignified posture, black hair scattered, indifferent expression, sharp eyes, and no cuteness of a woman.
Sensing these two gazes, Du Yiyi narrowed her eyes and raised her head to roll her eyes in disgust with the man in black.
The man in black retracted his gaze in embarrassment and coughed lightly. "General Shen, that's all for today, there's no need to send it."
Throwing off this sentence, he left without looking back.
"Shen Ke, now we can have a good talk."
Shen Ke waited until the man in black disappeared from his sight before retracting his gaze, and when he saw Du Yiyi sitting at the stone table, he took a deep breath angrily and helplessly: "Yiyi, do you know what you said just now!" Do you know who he is? ”
"Who is he?" Du Yiyi really doesn't care, anyway, she is like this now, could it be that the man in black is so narrow-minded that he cares so much about a disabled person?
"He is Ning Zhiyuan, the fourth prince who is the most favored by the Holy Heaven today, I originally planned to invite him to a banquet tomorrow, but I was all stirred up by you." Shen Ke sighed and sat down.
The four princes of the Dahe Dynasty, Du Yiyi frowned, narrowed his eyes, and vanilla also mentioned to her that these heavenly figures standing at the top of the power of the Dahe Dynasty were mentioned to her, and now the emperor has four princes and two princesses under his knees, the eldest prince Ning Cheng and the third prince Ning Chengyou's names have a homophone, which is the son of Chang Guifei, and the eldest prince of the second prince Ning Chao Gobi is two years younger, and he is the son of the queen of the dynasty, as for the fourth prince, when his mother was pregnant with him, he was just a beauty, and he was named a concubine because he was pregnant with a dragon. Unexpectedly, this Concubine Su had a short life, and died of premature birth and dystocia in less than ten months, and the fourth prince has also been young and frail because of premature birth, that is, there have been some improvements in recent years, and it is precisely because of this that the emperor is particularly fond of this frail fourth prince, listening to vanilla, this fourth prince is also a medicine jar hanging, but today it looks at nothing weak, how would Du Yiyi know that the frivolous Dengzi will be the fourth prince of the dynasty.
"Stir it up, Shen Ke, don't you think that he will come to marry me, the disabled Du Yiyi? Shen Ke, can't you hear the talk about me outside? Bad morals and shamelessness, I'm afraid these are often heard! ”
Looking at Shen Ke's resolute side face, that familiar feeling filled his heart again, and his cheeks, which were blown cold by the cool breeze, were also flushed with two touches, damn it, Du Yiyi bit her lip and lowered her head to adjust her somewhat disordered breathing.
"Yiyi, I don't allow you to give up on yourself and practice yourself, you are my Shen Ke's sister, don't say that the princes and nobles in the capital are worthy of being the princes of the dynasty, and you listen to the rumors outside." Shen Ke lowered his head, and the shadow cast by the moonlight shrouded him in shadows.
"The Prince? Shen Ke, if you can get the four princes to invite a matchmaker to ask for marriage, I will consider the matter of marrying. Du Yiyi smiled and stood up with difficulty holding Vanilla's hand.
Shen Ke, who lowered his head, didn't say anything for a long time, and Du Yiyi really gave him a big problem.
"You plan, I can't help but appreciate it, I will attend tomorrow's banquet, but you don't want me to choose a son-in-law." Du Yiyi descended the steps step by step, sat on the sliding chair, and looked up at Shen Ke, who was still keeping his head down and not saying a word.
"Let's go."
The sliding chair rolled over the cobblestone path, shaking so that the bun on the top of Du Yiyi's head finally fell apart, and the tassel swaying also slipped to her chest, Du Yiyi's little face was jolted and trembled, picked up the sway, put together her black hair, and looked up at the bright moon, and the bright moon shone on the gazebo.