Night Party Shoushan Garden (I)

Night meeting Shoushan Garden

Wan Ning waited quietly in the Wanfeng Pavilion in Shoushan Garden, her mood was very conflicted, she hoped that that person would not appear, but based on her many days of deliberation, she always felt that he should appear.

A slight rustle was getting closer and closer, and it was clear that someone had stepped on the moon, and did not deliberately hide his whereabouts, and stepped on the autumn leaves. He didn't need to hide his whereabouts, because he was just here for an appointment made thirty years ago. He knew that the other party would not come anymore, he just came to his heart's desire, to make a confession, to find a little shadow of his past, to find a comfort at the end of his life.

He was carrying a piano in his hand, this kind of Western piano, which was very fashionable in today's capital, and thirty years ago, this kind of piano was rare, and there were very few people who could play it, and he was one of them, not only one of them, but also one of the top masters. His piano sound earned him the lives of his wife, lover and royal family. But no matter how prosperous this life is, what he can't erase in the end is the beauty of his first love and the guilt of his wife, especially when this life is about to come to an end. Thirty years ago he was here, winning beauty in the moonlight, thirty years ago he promised to return to this place every ten years with his beautiful woman, but he has never practiced it for the past thirty years, until today, at the end of his life, after his wife has become a monk, he will come here alone with the piano, with memories to play the piano for the distant past and for his ordination wife one last time, as if he were traveling with her.

He sat down in the middle of the Wanfeng Pavilion, and the scene was so similar to thirty years ago, the same courtyard, the same moonlight, but he was already old, and his life was coming to an end. After his first trial of the strings, he began his heart's covenant. "Moonlight" thirty years ago, "Injury" and "Heart Sigh" twenty years ago all recorded his feelings in those ten years. Their beautiful first love, the wounds that his wife's powerful family gave him, his beautiful interracial lover's later wife, Uyuntana, the glory and wealth that Uyuntana brought him, his struggle between his wife and his lover. After the dark cloud Tana, he used to live a dissolute life, and finally wrote the song "Saiwaiyun" to write the pain of wandering between deceit, power and calculation, glory and wealth, and guilt in the second half of his life.

The moon had set, and the morning light was slowly peeping through the clouds. The people who forgot about the music, also forgot to hide their whereabouts, and slowly walked from the hidden place under the morning light. The tired performer was still immersed in his own memories at the end of the song, and the slowly approaching white shadow gave him a moment of illusion, as if he had seen his wife appear in the morning light. But soon his intellect told him that this figure was slightly taller than the average woman, plumper and taller than his wife. The person who came didn't want to fool him: "The prince is very interested, he really deserves his name, a master among the masters." ”

"Who are you?"

The visitor slowly pulled down the white veil on his face: "Oh, you haven't seen me for who I am. But you'll be familiar with one of the people who often appear in your reports, your niece, White Blossom. It stands to reason that I should call you Second Uncle, even though you know that I am not your real niece. Of course, if you start with Lan Xin, maybe I should call you Big Brother Bai, Big Brother Bai Bai, or as your subordinates call you, Lord Temur. ”

After a long silence, Temur slowly asked, "How do you know it's me?" ”

"I'm sorry, but without your permission, I read through your notes from that year. I don't know you, but I know the Nine-Tailed Fox, and your subordinates under the leadership of the Nine-Tailed Fox appear frequently in Nanqin Street, Tsing Yi Lane and Qifang Lane in Beiyuan. These places were the places where you and Aunt Xiaoxiao lived back then, especially the small courtyard on Nanqin Street, which used to be where you met after your first meeting in the capital. When the nine-tailed fox first appeared in these places, I thought she was looking for me. But except for the small courtyard on Nanqin Street where Xinjie and I lived, I haven't been to the other two. So then I learned that the appearance of the nine-tailed fox had nothing to do with me, but with my aunt. And then there's the piece you wrote, I'm sure there is no one else in the world who can play it so perfectly, and understand the hidden emotions of the melody so deeply, but I heard the ultimate interpretation near Tsing Yi Lane in Beiyuan. So I know it's you who came to the capital. But I never thought it would be you, Lord Wang. I drew a portrait of a few of you, and the people of the Tang family in the past thought that some of them looked like you. Xinjie has always told me that his uncle and aunt are quite affectionate, and that my uncle is a talented and elegant person, and has been the object of his admiration and imitation for many years. In his childhood memories, his uncle was also very kind to him and taught him a lot of things. He sometimes felt that his uncle was more affectionate to him than his father.

Since you left, my aunt was sad and took him all over the country, looking for all the places where you had stopped. Since he was a child, Xinjie has witnessed his aunt's daily thoughts, memories and tears.

The songs you wrote, especially the two songs "Hurt" and "Heart Sigh" are the peaks. Unfortunately, you never had the opportunity to play it for your aunt, and she was sad and overly anxious, and she didn't have the heart to try to interpret or refine these two pieces. If she had studied it even if she had played it herself, maybe she wouldn't have taken Xinjie to all the places you've been, looking for traces of you. She's always believed that you're alive, that you're still waiting for her somewhere. Xinjie has been wandering with her for more than ten years, and has personally verified this psychological journey from extreme sadness to extreme disappointment. Is the prominence of a foreigner so attractive? For you to be able to hurt your lover so deeply, someone you have loved with all your heart and every sense? ”

Bai Tianhua nodded lightly: "No wonder Yihe and Yiren are not your opponents." You can guess so much from those two tunes alone. I didn't mean to hurt her. You are in the Tang Gate, and you should know very well the past few years under the fence there, if you are humble and barely live there, it is a breathless oppression. Although the Bai family is also a martial arts family, it is like a mustard in the eyes of Mrs. Tang, where can it compare to the majestic Guanxi Tangmen and Jiangnan Wenzhao Houfu. I love Xiaoxiao, but Xiaoxiao has been pampered since she was a child, although she is very restrained in front of me, but from time to time she will still show the true colors of the eldest lady. When we traveled, she was a lovely wife, although she often made a little petty, but women, coquettish and noisy, can be accepted, but also a kind of love between husband and wife. However, as soon as she returned to the Tang Gate, she was the eldest lady of the Tang Gate, commanding and domineering, and everything became extremely powerful and non-negotiable. Anything that involves the Tang Sect, she is extremely aggressive. At the same time, because the Tang family is extremely fond of this only young lady, she is extremely arrogant at home. You know that we have been married for more than ten years and have no children, in fact, it is Xiaoxiao's fault, if it weren't for her willfulness, the child would not have miscarried, making her infertile for life. I did everything I could to accommodate her, and she didn't know how to change it. ”

"So when you met Dark Cloud Tana, you were fascinated by her charm and gentleness? So that you finally betrayed your wife and the Tang Sect to help the old demon of Mobei, and created that disappearance? ”

"Not quite. You're right, CloudTana is gentle. But in the end, it was the Tang Sect itself that made me give up Xiaoxiao. ”

"Is it because Wuyuntana is the princess of Mongolia, and becoming a colt will give you a status and be able to compete with the Tang family?"

"Yes, Uyuntana not only has status, but is also quite gentle. The Mongols need my martial prowess, my intelligence. Uyuntana's older brother, Gižigrad, valued my talents. I am not only his brother-in-law, but also his sworn brother. He gave me not only status, but also glory and dignity. What he didn't say was that though Uyuntana loved him and obeyed him, one day she got tired of accommodating him and abandoned him and ran away with other men. Although his status and power have not changed, his temperament has changed greatly. He indulged in sensuality and kept beautiful slave girls. He looked down on women and didn't trust them. But Xiaoxiao is the other side, making him suspicious and making him guilty.

"So you let the old demon of Mobei arrange that disappearance? Make your wife sad to transition and eventually become a monk? ”

"I didn't expect Xiaoxiao to be like this. I thought that if I left, Tangmen would naturally arrange a son-in-law who was the right person for her. At the beginning, the parents of the Tang Sect, especially Xiaoxiao's grandmother, the old lady of the Tang Sect looked down on my background, and despised and hindered Xiaoxiao from being with me in every way. Although the Bai family has some status in the shopping mall and in the rivers and lakes, in the eyes of the old woman, they are no different from the gate guards in the capital, they are all low-level rough people. She was bent on finding Xiaoxiao a son of a wealthy family in Beijing, or a royal family.

If it weren't for my mother-in-law, Xiaoxiao and I would never have had a chance to get married. Even though we live in Tangzhuang, but one year because of the conflict between the old lady and my mother-in-law, the old lady was angry and hit her mother-in-law with her cane, Xiaoxiao would naturally protect her mother-in-law. The old lady felt that her beloved granddaughter had betrayed her in marriage, and opposed her in her mother's affairs, and in a fit of rage, she deprived Xiaoxiao and my family of the qualifications to enter the festival. The reason is that Xiaoxiao married me, a person with a humble status who depends on his wife to eat soft rice.

So I thought, I'm gone, and that's all over. With the status of the Tang family, it is estimated that there will be many people rushing to ask for marriage. It was only when I freed my hands to deal with the Tang family after I stabilized in Mongolia that I found out that Xiaoxiao had actually looked for me for more than ten years and finally became a monk. ”