Chapter 18: The Marriage That Shouldn't Have Happened (Part II)
Su Lian asked Wang Yan to refuse, but she didn't expect Wang Yan to bring He Yuanxun to her! ! What the hell is this called!!
At this time, Su Lian was sitting in the verandah, and a blue-gray figure walked into her line of sight, He Yuanxun stood under the magnolia tree outside the corridor, shook his face, and said, "I took the liberty of coming to the door and bothering Mrs. Su." β
Seeing this, Su Lian had to get up and return the salute, "Mr. He, I'm really sorry...... don't make him feel like he's playing him.
He Yuanxun paused, "I...... Don't mind, if you don't dislike me for being a poor scholarβ"
Don't mind? Don't mind what? Su Lian was stunned for a moment, and then remembered, did he say that he didn't mind that he was a widow? Su Lian couldn't help but feel worried, and didn't know how to refuse, so he pondered for a moment before asking: "What does Mr. think of 'starvation to death is a small matter, and a loss of festival is a big thing'?" β
He Yuanxun said: "Yuanxun only reads Confucius and Mencius, not Zhuzi." β
These words stunned Su Lian.
"Death by starvation is a small matter, but loss of festival is a big matter." This was said by Zhu Xi and Zhu Fuzi. Zhu Xi misinterpreted the way of Confucius and Mencius, and the repression of human nature, especially the repression of women, reached the extreme. Su Lian reads history, and there is nothing more disgusting than Zhu Xi's fake Taoism! He said that "save the principles of heaven and destroy people's desires", but he seduced nuns and cheated with his daughter-in-law, the most hypocritical and dirty person in the world is nothing more than this!! Therefore, Su Lian did not have the slightest affection for the scholars who read Cheng Zhu Lixue after Zhu Xi!! They ask their wives to be chaste, but they take concubines and prostitutes, and they are extremely filthy and pickled!! This kind of person is really disgusting!!
But He Yuanxun is not such a person, he has clear eyes, guards poverty and does not want to go out, and once only had a wife who has been dead for seven years, and has not taken a concubine.
Such a person, Su Lian really hesitated. She thought, if she misses it, can she meet a second man in this life who does not take concubines or prostitutes?
"Sir......" Su Lian said slowly, "I'm sorry, I don't want to remarry." "She's not unmoved, she's ...... Now she is not a widow, but the emperor's concubine! If her identity is revealed one day, she will certainly have a place to live, but the lives of others will be ruined!!
"Madame's heart is really like a rock, is it irreversible?" He Yuanxun crushed his eyes and asked a little fragmentedly.
"The only thing I have in my heart is my late husband." Su Lian determined, in fact, he still uses her husband in her previous life as an excuse, Su Lian herself feels that she is hypocritical, but what can she do? She could only refuse.
He Yuanxun didn't mind very much, he said quietly: "I can't forget my wife, otherwise I wouldn't have been without renewing the strings for seven years - it's human nature to miss old feelings." β
Su Curtain couldn't help but be stunned, remembering her previous life, after her husband died, someone once introduced him to a blind date, every time Su Curtain would say that sentence, she couldn't forget her ex-husband, and every blind date failed. And he, didn't he mind at all?
Now it's the ancient times of thought feudalism! How many men don't dislike a surviving person?! What's more important is that Su Lian's current body is not a yellow flower girl!! Si Yan is right, what qualifications does she have to pick and choose?! It's a blessing that others don't dislike her!
He Yuanxun's temperament is also very appetizing to her, Su Lian has lived alone for decades, she is used to being alone, but she also envies others in pairs, she is not eager for a family, but she is unwilling to accommodate in this kind of thing. But this person who also has some favorites can only be missed after all.
"I'm sorryβ" Su Lian could only say so, "I admire Mr. as a person, but I have never had such a heart. I don't know how to tell Mr. to misunderstand, and I would like to make amends-" As he spoke, Su Lian was deeply blessed.
He Yuanxun was probably a little injured, he was silent for a long time, looked at the empty courtyard, sighed faintly, and then arched his hand: "Yuanxun is not a stalker, if Mrs. Su is not careful, she should not damage your reputation, so I will leave, and I will never dare to bother again in the future!" β
Scholars are all temperamental, and He Yuanxun's arrogant Su Curtain has seen it, and when he says this, it is a knife in two.
Seeing He Yuan leaving without looking back, Wang Yan was so anxious that she stomped her feet again and again: "Madam, although Mr. He has a somewhat stubborn temper, he is a rare good man!" It's a shame to miss it! β
Why don't you know a pity? If it was in her previous life, she would definitely not miss such a good man! But in this life, she really doesn't dare to marry! She was afraid, she was afraid of death, she was afraid of her father and brother dying, and she was afraid of dying with others!!
Su Lian couldn't help but curse the imperial power and curse this era!! Why did she come to this place? Even though he escaped from the palace, he still couldn't get rid of the invisible shackles!!
Fortunately, she didn't have feelings for He Yuanyun, and now she has cut off this marriage that shouldn't have started, and she can also avoid many worries.
It's good to see it, Su Lian is not a sad person, and he will soon have no heart and lungs - it would be better if Wang Yan didn't sigh all day long.
Early in the morning, Su Lian was so annoyed by Wang Yan's chatter that she had to call the four sisters to go out together.
"Ma'am, shall we go into the city?" Si Yan asked.
thought that he accidentally saved the eldest brother when he entered the city last time, and then ran into the eldest brother and his father...... Su Lian felt that his luck might be too much, so he didn't want to go to a crowded place, so he said: "Go to the east, isn't there a temple not far away?" Let's go incense. β
Si Yan sighed and said: "It's Pilu Temple, the incense is excellent, but in the New Year's month, there are not many people going." β
It's to go to a place with fewer people! Su Lian said secretly.
Su Lian had heard that there was a Pilu Temple five or six miles away, the location was not far from the west of Yude Garden, and I heard that it was built by the Fu Ye, although it was only a very magnificent temple, the scenery was also excellent.
Take the official road all the way, and you can get there. The official road is flat, the carriage and horses are naturally not bumpy, Su Lian squinted a little in the car, and she arrived, she was woken up by the sound of the bell that shook her eardrums.
Si Yan smiled and said: "Every day, the bell of Pilu Temple will be struck one hundred and eight times. β
Su Curtain rubbed her ears, it seemed that she had come too early, and she should have delayed on the road for a while if she had known. Pick up the curtain, look around, although the winter is a bleak, but the Pilu Temple is being built at the foot of the Pilu Mountain to the mountainside, there is a bell tower, there are five floors high, you can see a faint green robe novice striking the bell in the distance.
After the novice hit the bell, Su Lian chose the car, only to see that there were already pilgrims coming in twos and threes, including poor farmers and local gentry and merchants.
The gate of the temple is open, and there is a boxy pond built on the left and right sides of the courtyard between them, and the water of the pond is frozen, but it is vaguely known that water lilies should be planted in the pond. The first Buddha hall facing this is the Vilu Temple, which is the "Virujana Buddha", the Dharmakaya Buddha of Shakyamuni.
After entering the Buddha hall and seeing that everyone else was kneeling down to worship incense, Su Lian remembered that he hadn't bought incense at all! I suddenly felt a little embarrassed, so I had to ask Si Yan to buy incense, around the Buddhist temple, there must be a place to sell incense.
"Are you the lady of the Su Mansion?" A round-faced woman in her thirties wearing an ordinary silk robe next to her suddenly asked.