Chapter 47: Falling Butterflies 1
Hearing Lin Qingzhi's joke, Lin Qingji didn't smile like usual, his heart was sour, his eyes lowered, he picked up the wine cup on the table in front of him, and after a while, he sighed: "Ah Zhi, I didn't understand why you and Mulin were so infatuated with each other, and even secretly happy for being free and carefree, but now I understand, but I can no longer hold hands with each other like you." ”
After speaking, Lin Qingji leaned back and lifted the wine cup in his hand, and two tears from the corners of his eyes also slipped down and dripped into the transparent strings on the case.
After stopping outside the door to listen to a song, Lin Qingzhi knew that the eldest brother's sweetheart who didn't know who was was afraid that he was no longer in the world, seeing Lin Qingji's performance, Lin Qingzhi's heart was even clearer, and then he picked up the wine cup and said: "Since ancient times, heroes have been sad to pass the beauty pass, big brother, today my little sister will accompany you to relieve the sorrow in your heart!" ”
"Draw the knife and cut off the water, the water is more flowing, and the glass is more sorrowful. I've drunk enough wine in the past few days, but it's still hard to solve a thousand sorrows, Ah Zhi, since you came back in the past few days, there has been no suitable opportunity to confide in your depression, do you want to listen to your eldest brother tell a story today? Lin Qingji leaned on the desk and said sadly.
"When I was a child, I liked to listen to my eldest brother tell stories, when my mother was gone, my eldest brother would tell me stories every night, I haven't listened to it for a long time, but I want to listen to it again......" Lin Qingzhi looked into the distance, immersed in memories.
On June 15, the sixteenth year of Yongping, it was a sunny summer morning, and the Yashi Street in Luoyang City was still as lively as usual, a woman with a beautiful complexion and bright eyes like water knelt on the side of the street, but there seemed to be a sad color in her eyes, dressed in plain clothes, and kept kowtowing to the passers-by.
Due to the scorching summer heat, the face was flushed after a while, showing the appearance of heat stroke, and the forehead was constantly touching the ground and kowtowing, revealing a piece of red, which was obviously broken.
Lin Qingji wore a jade crown on his head, a white brocade robe, and sat on a red and brown horse and walked slowly along the street, behind him was Lin Yi, who was dressed as a black-clothed guard, and also sat on a brown horse to follow the son in front.
When he was about to walk to a girl dressed in white, he saw that the woman's face was crimson, and she fell heavily on the ground with her head in a trance.
When he saw that the horse's hooves were about to step on the head of the woman in white, he saw that the eyes of the boy in the brocade robe were wide open, and he tightened the reins, and the horse roared in pain, which attracted the eyes of everyone in the market, and they all gasped and thought in their hearts, this hard-working woman was probably going to die here.
At the last moment, the brocade-robed man turned the horse's head, and the horse's hooves fell on the stone road two inches next to the woman's head, and everyone exhaled and secretly sweated for the woman's luck.
Lin Qingji immediately dismounted and shouted at the woman who fainted under the horse, but the girl in white did not move, and it seemed that she was not lightly ill.
After ordering Lin Yi to go to the city to find a doctor, Lin Qingji put the woman on the horse and led the horse to his home.
After the doctor saw it and prescribed the medicine for half an hour, the woman woke up leisurely, and only after asking did she know that the woman was originally from the family of a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan, and her business was all over the place.
I wanted to sell myself to be a servant girl in a big family, so I knelt on the side of the street, but because the rice grains did not enter for a few days, and the weather was hot, I fainted under the horse.
After learning that it was Lin Qingji who saved her life, she dragged her sick body out of bed and knelt on the ground, crying silently: "Thank you for the grace of the son for saving his life, the great kindness of the son and the great virtue of the butterfly can not be repaid, please leave the butterfly by the side of the son to be a rough girl, in order to repay the son's life-saving grace." ”
Lin Qingji didn't like to see a woman crying, and she was at a loss when she looked at the pear blossom with rain that fell butterfly crying, although she didn't fully believe in Falling Butterfly's words, she also persuaded her gently: "Falling Butterfly girl, you suffer from this ordeal, how can I see death and not save me, you don't have to worry too much, since you still have a family in Jiangnan, then I will send someone to send you home to reunite with your family." ”
Luo Die on the side only shook his head and sobbed: "I beg Gongzi not to drive away Luo Die, otherwise Luo Die really has nowhere to go." After speaking, he leaned over and kowtowed, and Lin Yi, who was standing aside, couldn't help but turn blue with disdain, his own son-in-law was originally kind to rescue, but he didn't expect to be stalking and want to stay in the prime minister's mansion.
It turned out that Luo Die died early in her mother, and her father, in order to make the family's business go to the next level, continued to marry the daughter of the richest man in the local area, and gave birth to a son and a daughter a few years later.
Originally a concubine, Luo Die has also been oppressed since then, to see the face of her younger siblings and stepmother, although her father has love, but he is afraid of the power of her mother's family, and she can't take care of herself all year round.
Seeing that the butterfly had reached the end of the butterfly, and she was also beautiful, she wanted to marry her to the local prefect as a concubine.
But the prefect is over fifty years old, older than her father, this time with her father to Beijing is to avoid this unsatisfactory family business, now that her father is dead, going back is equivalent to a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, so when she heard that Lin Qingji wanted to send her home, she sincerely kowtowed and refused.
Listening to Luo Die's life experience, although Lin Yi did not show it with disdain on his face, he also felt sympathy in his heart, and originally thought that maybe this Luo Die coveted the glory and wealth of the Prime Minister's Mansion, so he wanted to stay by his master's side, but he didn't expect that there would be such a miserable life experience.
"It's just...... You were also a pampered young lady, and now it is really aggrieved to ask you to stay in the house and be a servant. Lin Qingji said slowly after a slight sigh.
"Now that my body is floating like duckweed, how can I ask for too much, and although my identity is a little worse to be a servant, it is better than marrying a half-cut person who ruins my life." The silver teeth of the butterfly bit lightly, resolutely authentic.
"Since you are willing to stay, then stay in the mansion, if you want to leave one day, you can leave at any time, you don't have to be like other subordinates."
Lin Qingji saw that Luo Die's temperament was inconvenient to persuade her, so she immediately comforted her to recuperate, walked out of the door and shook her head.
After getting permission to stay by Lin Qingji's side and be a servant girl, Luo Die broke into tears and kowtowed to thank her.
After asking the housekeeper to arrange the diet and living for Luo Die, he called Lin Yi and asked her to send someone to check Luo Die's life experience, after all, on the cusp of today, there must be some ill-intentioned people who have other purposes in the mansion.