Chapter 99: The Man in the Dream
Wanying stood by the brazier and wept until the charcoal fire in the brazier burned out. The cool air in the room couldn't suppress the burning on his face. Wanying could only use tears to extinguish the charcoal fire on her face.
The sky was getting dark, and the thick black clouds were pressing heavily on the roof, and it looked like it was snowing again.
Aunt Bitong and a few palace maids came back early with the year in Rongshou Palace, and after the distribution, Aunt Bitong took Wanying's share and knocked on Wanying's door.
"Why is it so cold in the house, it's dark, let's light the lights!" Aunt Bitong put down the things in her hand, and took advantage of the last breath of the charcoal fire, and quickly added a few pieces of broken charcoal to it. Then take a pu fan and fan the fire gently.
Wanying also hurried to find the flint. But I was distraught, and I searched for a long time to find the flint, and when Wanying lit the candle, Aunt Bitong had already led the new charcoal, and took the fire chopsticks and put a few large pieces of charcoal into the stove.
The room gradually warmed up again, and Aunt Bitong saw that the foxtail lilies in front of the window that were in full bloom had their heads cut off.
"Crying? What's wrong? Aunt Bitong didn't want to ask, but after looking at it for a long time, she saw that Wanying's eyes were swollen like half a peach, so she couldn't help but ask distressedly.
Wanying blushed with shame all of a sudden, but there was not the slightest bit of excitement, and her heart was full of hatred and resentment.
Aunt Bitong couldn't figure out the situation for a while, but when she saw the family letter of the master next to the stove, she glanced at it a little, and probably guessed the reason. But why was this lily cut off? Aunt Bitong couldn't figure out the situation.
"Homesick?" Aunt Bitong asked.
Wanying's heart was full of turmoil, yes and no. But it can't be said that it is not, who let He Youan do such an unspeakable ugly thing, "Hmm......" Wanying agreed.
"After the New Year, my aunt will arrange for you to meet with your family! Don't cry, crying hurts your eyes, and you can't see the words in the poetry book carefully! ”
Wan Ying burst into tears and smiled, and said, "Thank you, auntie." ”
"General He is here to deliver you a letter in the afternoon?"
Wanying nodded embarrassedly, not daring to say yes.
"No wonder, at noon, I saw General He break into our Rongshou Palace, I thought something was wrong? It turned out that I was in a hurry to deliver you a letter home. What a kind and attentive good boy. ”
Wan Ying thought disappreciatively: "He, kind and careful? Phew! He Youan is simply the number one clothed beast in the world, because he is elegant and tranquil all day long, and behind his back is a prodigal and filthy obscene seed. Wanying used all the dirty words she could think of on He You'an.
Aunt Bitong saw Wanying looking at her indifferently, and probably guessed that it should be 'Lang Youqing's concubine's heart is not open.' I thought: Wanying is a noble girl of Jiangmen, and He Youan is the only son of Huben, if the two achieve marriage, it can be regarded as a good story. It's just that at the moment, I see that General He is in love, and Wanying's love is not open. If you can help General He by the side, it can be regarded as a good thing for adult beauty.
"General He has been playing with the prince in our northwest since he was a child, and he always stayed with Prince Rong in the Queen Mother's Cining Palace every other day, and later the Queen Mother felt sorry for General He's hard work in the palace, so she directly let General He and Prince Rong eat and live together, and lived in Rongshou Palace, which is the house where our ninth master lives now."
Wanying didn't know now that Aunt Bitong was already preparing to match her and He You'an in her heart, but she still looked at Aunt Bitong indifferently.
Aunt Bitong sat by the fire, picked up Wanying's unfinished lotus heart, and opened the conversation: "Since the general has lived in our northwest institute, there is no one who doesn't like it, the queen mother likes to raise thrushes, and this child goes to the back garden every day to find bugs for thrushes." Concubine Kang was noisy in the summer, and the child kept sleeping, and caught it tree by tree in the big sun. At that time, there was no well in our Rongshou Palace, and the water for drinking was sent by a waterwheel. You don't know that at that time, as soon as I heard the sound of the waterwheel, the emperor stood aside and commanded, Prince Rong and General He scrambled to carry the water. More than ten years have passed. Later, Prince Rong opened the mansion, and General He also went out. ”
Wanying was angry with He You'an in her heart, and when she heard Aunt Bitong say this, she said openly: "Catching insects is fun for him, and it must be interesting to catch them, as for carrying water, he must be following the example of the emperor and Prince Rong." ”
As soon as Aunt Bitong heard this, she knew that Wanying was dissatisfied with He You'an in her heart, and she didn't inquire, anyway, she was not in a hurry about the long-term matter. put down the topic of He Youan, and stabbed the lotus seeds with Wanying without saying a word.
At dinner, Aunt Bitong lifted the curtain and glanced out, and said, "It's going to snow again, there is so much snow this year, and it can't be finished." ”
"Yesterday's snow didn't seem to fall thoroughly, and if we do it again today, maybe tomorrow the sky will be clear."
"This snow is pressing down on the mountains, I don't know how many people have to freeze to death."
"Auntie, why did you suddenly make such sad words."
"Hey, this year's spring drought and autumn flood, and it has been snowing in winter, and many families are afraid that they have been starving for a long time!"
Wanying has not tasted the suffering of the world at this time, and the spring drought and autumn flood are just in her eyes: there is no artistic conception of knowing the season of good rain, and there is more sorrow about autumn rain. As for enduring hunger, I probably thought that the day I first entered the palace was the same, and it was over after enduring it. What she is most worried about now is He Youan, she can't wait to turn tomorrow's twelve hours into one hour, and the day after tomorrow will be early, and she will breathe a sigh of relief as soon as he leaves.
"Girl, settle it early, if it snows tonight, let's go to the Imperial Garden early tomorrow morning to collect some snow water, okay?"
As soon as she heard about receiving the snow water, Wanying became interested and hurriedly nodded in agreement. But this snow seemed to be against Wanying, Wanying waited all night, but it didn't fall, and the next day was still gloomy.
After serving the concubine's morning class, Aunt Bitong came to Wanying's house and said, "It's going to go down today, let's go snow picking early tomorrow morning." ”
Wanying was happy in her heart, poked a small box full of lotus seeds all afternoon, saw that it was not dark, and sandwiched half a bowl of walnuts. Every now and then, I open the curtain to see if it's snowing outside, and by the way, I wonder if that nasty ghost will come over to harass me again.
Presumably he must have been busy today, and he disappeared for a whole day, just when Wanying secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Xiao Linzi suddenly called the door outside, "Sister Wanying, I'm Xiao Linzi." ”
After speaking, she entered the house with the curtain on, carrying a pot of small blue flowers in her hand, Wanying did not speak, and she did not let it go.
Xiao Linzi walked in front of the foxtail lily by himself, squeezed out a little place, and took a closer look, there were traces of scissors cutting on the flower branches on the foxtail lily. There are also lilies in the palace now, and I didn't think much about it, and said with a smile: "Sister Wanying, today's flower is called forget-me-not, and it was specially instructed by General He to send it to Xiao Linzi." The general said that he really couldn't leave today, so he asked this flower to say goodbye to the girl on his behalf. ”
Wanying heard that He You'an would not come over today, and he would not come again for a long time in the future, so she breathed a long sigh of relief, saw that Xiao Linzi's face was purple and red from the cold, grabbed a handful of freshly peeled walnuts, and said, "Eat a few walnuts, bake and roast to warm up your body before leaving!" ”
Xiao Linzi came to the fire, pinched a walnut and put it in his mouth, the hot fire was like a jar of spirits, slowly soaking Xiao Linzi's whole body, Xiao Linzi was also drunk, and began to be fluctuating, and said nonsense from the bottom of his heart: "It's not that Xiao Linzi said Sister Wanying, there are more doors to inquire about General He's marriage." My sister is also too weird, and if she misses such a good marriage, it will be too late for my sister to stomp her feet in the future. ”
Wanying thought that she didn't have to see He You'an again tomorrow, and she didn't argue with Xiao Linzi, so Xiao Linzi said: "Xiao Linzi is very clear that he is by the Queen Mother's side all day long. Even Xiao Linzi's ears were grinding out cocoons. ”
"Oh, is it? Is there such a thing? ”
"Could it be that Xiao Linzi still lied to my sister, even if my sister stays in Cining Palace for a day, there will be a woman to propose to her girl, a few days ago it was mostly our prince, recently General He was named marshal, and seven or eight out of ten women stopped to say goodbye to General He."
Wan Ying turned her head arrogantly, ignoring Xiao Linzi's eyebrows fluttering as she described.
"Sister, I still don't believe it, it's really a person who doesn't know the blessing in the blessing, sister, don't blame Xiao Linzi for not listening to what he says, if my sister misses this village, there will be no such shop, General He is the number one manly man in the world. is the hero in Xiao Linzi's heart. ”
Xiao Linzi is a little ghost, Wan Ying is unmoved, although Xiao Linzi helps He You'an, but he has no grudge against himself, this is in the palace, and he can't just give people a look. Seeing that a handful of walnuts were eaten, Wanying grabbed another handful and stuffed it into Xiao Linzi's hand and said, "It's dark, go back quickly, if the Queen Mother is looking for you, it's not good to wait for a long time." ”
Xiao Linzi didn't want to leave, but remembered that General He was still waiting for him to reply, grabbed the walnuts, and said, "Sister, Xiao Linzi will come back tomorrow." A puff of smoke flew out of Rongshou Palace.
Under Cining's door, He Youan hesitated left and right, saw Xiao Linzi running over, greeted him and asked, "How is it?" ”
"Xiao Linzi is out of the horse, a top two. What do you see this is? ”
"Walnuts?"
"Sister Wanying peeled the walnuts for me with her own hands."
"Really? Did she really peel it for you? She's not angry? ”
"What are you angry about? Sister Wanying is happy! also asked Xiao Linzi to tell the general to take care on the road! ”
"Did she really say that?"
"That's still fake, walnuts as proof!"
He Youan looked at the walnuts in Xiao Linzi's hand, and comforted himself in his heart: walnuts must not be fake. Thinking of this, I felt very comfortable in my heart, and I hugged Xiaolinzi into Cining Palace.
"Hurry up, go out Gong, the person will be gone, and the queen mother will call me out to find you." Prince Rong Yushu stood under the corridor of the main hall in the wind, and urgently called He Youan to return to the table.
At last there was a light snow in the sky, and Wanying let out a long breath, and sat by the fireside, thinking about what had happened in the past few days. When she was on duty, she blew out the lamp, extinguished the fire, poured two soup women, and in her dream she met the person in her dream again, and in a trance it looked like He Youan's appearance, Wanying was shocked and a little depressed, and she raised her head to take a look, but it was not He Youan, it was still the strange and familiar face before. Only then did I feel relieved, and unconsciously shed a few inexplicable tears.
The man in the dream hugged Wanying and said, "I have waited for you for three lives and three lives, why did you come." ”
This time, no one woke Wanying, and Wanying said, "I have been looking for you for several lifetimes, and I finally found you." ”
After saying that, the person in the dream hugged Wanying, and Wanying also stuck to the heart of the person in the dream, the pink cherry blossoms were densely sprinkled on the two of them, and the person in the dream hugged Wanying to death, as if in this life, there is nothing that can separate the two.