Chapter 2: Proposals
"Boss, I want all the apricot blossoms in your stall, wrap them for me!" After speaking, he asked Zhang Mushan to pick up this handful of apricot blossoms.
"If the girl likes this apricot blossom, I will give it to you," he asked, pointing to the flower in her hand.
"If you don't take people's love, give it back to your son" Shen Biyue was at a loss and handed him the apricot blossom in her hand.
"A gentleman has the beauty of an adult, and an apricot flower is still willing to do it! Besides, this apricot blossom is so beautiful, like a girl! He deliberately put the apricot blossom in his hand close to her face, looked at it carefully, compared, and praised words from time to time: It is really a human face and apricot blossoms! Beauty! Beauty! It's beautiful!
I looked at the girl's face, as bright as a peach blossom, as beautiful as a delicate cloud, and her lacquered eyes were like the stars hanging in the sky.
Shen Biyue glanced at him sideways.
He didn't think so, and leaned closer and said: I am the only one who is missing!
Shen Biyue angrily slapped the flower in his hand and angrily uttered three words: Dengtuzi. pulled Su Qing to leave.
"Girl, my son will marry you!"
Bi Yue turned around and asked with a sneer: "I have only known Gongzi for a moment, and I can't say more than three words, Gongzi doesn't even know how old I am, who my surname is, and where I live, but he said that he wanted to marry me, it's really ridiculous!" ”
"If you don't disdain it for three moments, these sons will know! Before that, this son needs you to know: I am twenty years old and three, surnamed Kuang Yuyang, living in the north of the city, with thousands of acres of land and mansions at home, and I have never been married. Tomorrow I will go to the house to propose! ”
He said this in one breath, for fear that she would interrupt the opportunity to report his home. However, there was a hint of snarling in his words.
"My brother will break your leg!" She dropped this sentence and pulled Su Qing away.
Leaving this jade boy standing quietly in place, looking at her distant back image is very person. He bent down and picked up the wishing card that had fallen on the ground, and he couldn't tell whether it was joy or bitterness in his heart, but he felt a sense of déjà vu, chaotic and warm.
There were two magpies in the begonia tree in the courtyard, which disturbed Shen Biyue's dreams, and she saw through the gap in the window that the clouds in the east were purple. But in the middle of the night, Zhao Wu trotted in and reported that it was: Someone came to the door to propose marriage!
The Shen Mansion was full of all kinds of dowry gifts, and it was inconvenient to even walk in the aisle. But it happened that Changjun was summoned by the emperor today and went to the palace to face the saint. Biyue poured a basin of cold water on him, and angrily reprimanded: Why did Childe come to provoke me?
"I fell in love with you at first sight, and after I said that I wanted to marry you, my husband said everything, and it was difficult for the horse to chase." He patted his chest, then opened the folding fan again, approached her side and whispered: "Yesterday when I said goodbye to the girl, I couldn't sleep at night, I couldn't eat, my body was getting thinner and thinner, and I tossed and turned because I missed the girl." So at the end of the day, I prepared these dowry gifts and came to ask to marry the girl! ”
"I'm not a good man, I'd better take these things of yours and leave my house quickly, if my brother comes back, he will break your legs and throw them out to feed the dogs." She thought that a few words of intimidation would deter him, but this person was very thick-skinned, and not only was he not frightened by his words, but he was even more shameless.
"Yue'er, this is a bad statement! If your brother had seen me, he would have betrothed you to me. I think my Yuyang son is a talent, with the posture of a jade tree in the wind, a graceful appearance, thousands of family properties, and the ancestor is a gentleman's family! How many eunuchs in Bianzhou City want to marry their daughters to me, but my son only loves you Shen Biyue alone. Today, you only let me, tomorrow I will send someone to Nacai, Naji, Nazheng, the day after tomorrow I will carry eight sedan chairs to welcome you in. I don't know Yue'er, what do you think? ”
"Yue'er ......" is so kind, this disciple is angry with me! Look at his posture, I'm afraid that he won't leave here today, and my brother won't be able to come back for a moment or three after entering the palace today! Biyue muttered in her heart. So I had a plan in my heart, just take it easy, and said with a smile: Does the son really want to marry me?
He was overjoyed and hurriedly replied: You agreed!
"If you want to marry me, you only need to do three things for me, and I will allow you."
"Okay, say it quickly, I'll do it for you, don't say three things, it's a hundred and thousand, I will do it, and I will be able to do it for you."
"Well, let's give a high-five! If you can't do it, you won't bother me anymore! ”
"Yue'er rest assured, it will be done, it will be done!" He swore by it.
In this way, the two of them high-fived as an oath, this was originally a delaying strategy that Shen Biyue came up with, and left it for Shen Changjun to come back and discuss it in the long run.
"I have always heard that there are the most beauties in the world, and the beauties in Liang are the most, especially in Bianzhou, so you will paint a portrait of the most beautiful woman in the world for me! The appointment lasts for three days. ”
"It's easy, I'll draw it for you now! Can I borrow your study? He just stared at her face, trying to see her through and into her heart.
"I don't have pen and ink here, Childe, please come back!" Shen Biyue made a gesture of please.
"Yue'er wait for me, I can draw it for you tomorrow!" Shen Biyue was a little puzzled, there were about a million people in Bianzhou City, how could she find out whose daughter was the most beautiful person in Bianzhou City overnight! But looking at his appearance, it seems that he has a bamboo in his chest. I don't know what the situation is, but he came with the finished product.
It was only after the hour had passed that I heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from outside the door. Biyue stepped forward to lead his horse and asked, "What's the matter?"
He replied lightly: Nothing!
"The food and drinks are ready, let's have dinner first!" She led the horse over and handed it to Zhao Wu.
"He summoned me to the palace today, but I didn't see me!" Shen Changjun said so indifferently, choked on a sip of wine, looked at the bridal gifts in the room and asked puzzledly, "Why is this?" ”
"The son of Yuyang said that he wanted to marry me, and he was sent away by me, and he will not come to the house to bother him for a while!"
Because Shen Biyue is beautiful, they have not been in Bianzhou for half a year, and there are countless people who come to propose relatives, and there is no need to say it, so he doesn't take it to heart and doesn't ask carefully.
"Tomorrow Murong Gongzi will come to Bianzhou! You don't have to wait for me to eat. Changjun said so, looking at the house full of dowry gifts, he finally felt that it was very eyesore, and ordered Zhao Wu and others to carry it down and throw it outside the porch.
They met north of the castle and sat down in a secluded liquor store.
"I haven't seen you for half a year, but Ah Chang is thin?" Murong Kui looked at his appearance and suddenly felt pity.
"In the spring, when you take off your winter clothes, you will inevitably lose a lot! It's okay to be thinner! Fu asked again, "Can I bring the medicinal herbs I want?" ”
Murong Kui was a little reluctant to mention this topic, and shouted as if holding his breath: "Zhao Bing brought your master's medicine!" As he spoke, he threw the burden handed over by Zhao Bing on the table in front of Changjun. Seeing Changjun's happy appearance, he knocked on the table with his hand to remind him.
"Why spend your energy and time for that Raushzi's girl, if you can put one-tenth of your efforts on her and devote yourself to the great affairs of you and me, success will be just around the corner!"
Murong Kui saw that he didn't answer, but just carefully checked the medicinal materials in the package, so he was angry and had nowhere to sprinkle, looking like an adult looking at his child as if he was not in the weather, but he was reluctant to beat him badly, and sighed silently:
That's it, we people are so painstaking, you may not know it!
Holding his breath, he stood up, gulped down the tea in the cup, and rested the cup heavily on the table, a drop of tea splashed from it and fell between his fingers. He glanced down at him and dropped a sentence: Ah Chang, I have to enter the palace to meet my sister, and I will go to your house later.
The two said goodbye, Murong Kui rode his horse and whipped up, and Jiechen went in the direction of the palace.
At this time, Changjun saw Zhao Bing, who was still standing beside him, and it had been three years since she followed Murong Kui to Youzhou. The little girl, who was only thirteen years old when she went, was slim and slim at that time, and there was a bit of heroism between her eyebrows and eyes. Therefore, he pretended not to know her, silently picked up the package, and asked seriously: How did this beautiful girl follow this Murong Gongzi who is not very good-tempered! It's really a flower stuck in cow dung! Pity! Pity......
"Childe, I'm Ah Bing! Zhao Bing, Zhao Bing, who has followed you since childhood! You don't know me anymore? Zhao Bing asked him with a puzzled expression.
He means a lot...... With a sigh, come closer and let me take a good look at the son, to see if it is still not the yellow-haired girl Zhao Bing, who is full of withered hair, has a sallow complexion, and doesn't like to listen to my poetry and recitation, but only likes to play with axes, forks, hooks and swords, and causes trouble for me everywhere, and finally has to send Zhao Bing, the yellow-haired girl who is forced to go to Yan Kingdom.
He deliberately approached her, held her face with both hands, pinched it left and right, as if kneading dough, looked at it carefully for a while, and said in a very doting tone: Well, yes, the hair and complexion are still so yellow! He touched her head with his hand and said with a smile: It's really my yellow-haired girl.
"Come, then," he threw the package to her, "Let's go home with Childe!" He said "go home" not "go home".
But he said that Shen Changjun had just left the house for only half a moment, and the prince of Yuyang held the painting that had already been painted, and came to the door to ask to see him, and this painting had already been framed. In his heart, this is the best painting, and it is also the most beautiful person!
"Yue'er, I have already painted the painting you want, and it will be delivered on time!"
As he spoke, he asked Su Qing to take over the painting, eager to show it.
"Wait, I have a word with Childe first, Childe must first find the most beautiful woman in the world, and then paint it, if you buy one at random in the bazaar, or ask someone to write it, then this painting will not be counted!"
"It's genuine, it's true, it's 100% my son's ink, painstaking, and all night of painting. Yue'er, just take a look! ”
He asked Su Qing to open the picture scroll, and the woman who caught his eye was someone Shen Biyue was very familiar with, and even Su Qing was startled. I saw that the person in the painting was wearing a jade-colored pink shirt, wearing a crimson cloak outside, holding an apricot blossom in his hand, his demeanor was salty, and the apricot blossoms fell slightly, and he saw two lines of words inscribed in the upper right corner of the painting: Spring Tour, Apricot Blossoms Blowing All Over the Head.
Biyue was puzzled: What is this?
"Yes, that's you!" He answered her firmly.
"Childe is wrong, you and I agreed to find the most beautiful woman in the world?"
"Yue'er! You are the most beautiful woman in the world! He replied without hesitation, as if he was deliberately waiting for her to ask himself.
She hesitated to say something, but he interrupted her.
"Yue'er, you are naturally beautiful and have your own charm. Guo Yue'er smiled and touched my heartstrings. Beautiful! ”
He stared at her like this, stupid, stupid, and looked at Biyue a little confused. When she still wanted to argue with her reasoning, he put the painting away and stuffed it into her hand.
"That's good, the first thing is done for you. Let's talk about the second thing? ”
"I haven't thought about it yet, Childe, let's go back for the time being, let me think about it!" Shen Biyue was a little flustered in her heart, she didn't know what to do next. They had only met twice, and he was able to draw a woman's expression on paper exactly as he could...... At this point, she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
But when you think about it, he ...... But he has such skills.
"How long is the appointment?" He asked.
"Three days! Three days later, I will be waiting for you at Nanmo outside the East City Gate. You're all alone! ”
She had imagined countless scenarios of encountering him, what kind of mood should she have to face him? Silence, joy, grief or hatred. However, she put down the apricot blossom in her hand and fled in defeat. That day, she still couldn't face him.
After a few days of silent life, she hid in her room and never came out again. Changjun knew that she would wash her face with tears again, so he didn't bother her. At this time, Zhang Mushan came to summon him, and King Liang had important matters to discuss. He hurried into the palace.
"Changjun, do you recognize this word?"
"'Spring travel, apricot blossoms blow all over the head, who is young...... 'The minister was not good at reading when he was young, but now he has completely forgotten it, and he can't remember whose words it is."
"The words on this wishing card are Wei Zhuang's "Sidi Township", it is not difficult to know, you can know by reading the three classics and five classics, but the person who lost the wishing card is afraid that it is difficult to find! I wonder if Changjun can help me find it? ”
"I'm afraid it's hard to find the grass people......," Shen Changjun was silent when he knelt under His Royal Highness, and his heart was full of sourness, because he knew what the person sitting on it intended to do.
Wang Qu sat upright and raised his eyebrows, and then said: "I heard that there is a rare peony in Changjun's mansion, it just so happens that my Chaoyang Palace lacks such a rare peony flower, I don't know if you Shen Changjun can cut your love?" ”
"The emperor doesn't know that this peony is planted by the young sister of the grass people......"
Before he finished speaking, Wang Qu said frankly: "In this way, I will make Shen Biyue, the sister of Shen Changjun, Zhaoyi, enter the palace on a certain day, and live in Yonghe Palace!" "Don't give him the slightest chance to defend himself.
"Grass people, grass people, grass people......"
Shen Changjun said "grass people" three times in a row, and he thought that after three sounds, he would not be qualified to be sad. He knew that this was her choice, and he also knew that the arrow from the string had to be sent.
"Grass people, thank you, Lord Longen!"
That day away from the palace gate, he abandoned the carriage and horse, wandering alone on the Changning Street, the waning moon hanging withered branches, the jackdaws chirping, the twilight of spring, the drizzle lingered, always dripping, intermittent, pedestrians on the road you push me, speed up the pace and scatter away. Nowadays, when the lights are on, he walks along the avenue like this, and keeps walking, not knowing the direction and not knowing the way back. Watching the rain fall on the bluestone, the wind dragging the lights, extinguishing a few lights, walking in the glimmering streets, everyone today has a smile on their faces, only he is like a walking corpse.
If you don't want to go to the court, it's good to end the thatched house. Don't admire fame, just seek one-hearted people.
A journey of landscapes, ten years of life and death, who says an inch of lovesickness.
At dusk, when Zhao Bing found him by Minghuang Lake, he was already drunk, but he was still as calm as the wind.
The first thing he said when he stepped into Shen's house was to Shen Biyue: Walking all over Xishu for thirty miles, I don't know where to sacrifice my heart!
There was once before, and now he has to teach him a second time, and God really won't treat him lightly.