Chapter 62: Past Lives (2)
Three carriages rushed to the capital from thousands of miles away.
After a night's rest at the post house, the Liu family invited a well-known fast-talking matchmaker in the capital and eight drummers. The procession of courting relatives was huge, and they arrived outside the gate of Zheng's house before noon, and the originally deserted small alley was boiling instantly. Neighbors, men, women, and children gathered in groups.
"Stop, stop, stop! Wait for Ben Xi Po to go over and knock on the knocker. ”
The quick-talking matchmaker motioned for the drummer to pause, then went over and knocked on the door.
The Zheng family's house was not deep, and soon someone came to open the door. That was the only member of the Zheng family, that is, the scholar who was responsible for Zheng Gangyu's ink research and miscellaneous work, compared to other people's scholars, this one was obviously much more clumsy. I followed a clerical official all day long, but I didn't get much ink, and five years later, I still couldn't read a lot of big characters.
"Who? Who are you looking for? ”
As soon as the scholar standing outside the door spoke, Lin Yulan, as an "audience", was stunned.
"Takasugi, why is he here?"
Lin Yulan couldn't help but ask, because she knew that the narrator would give her an answer. Sure enough, the narrator replied with three words: "Keep watching." ”
"Hey, please report to your family Lord Zheng in this posterity, just say...... Giggles...... Let's just say, Lord Yin Liu of Sichuan and Shaanxi Mansion, with his wife and son, came to ask for marriage. Oh, and don't forget to say it...... Giggles...... The Liu family brought a rich dowry, giggling ......"
The fast-mouthed matchmaker is like a hen laying eggs, and she always doesn't forget to "giggle" and laugh for a few moments when she speaks.
"What? Who to ask for? I can tell you, my young lady won't agree! ”
The scholar from 500 years ago not only looked exactly like Takasugi, but also looked very similar in his movements and expressions when he spoke. Especially the slightly angry eyes, always revealing such a silly stubbornness. Lin Yulan couldn't help but feel funny, after a person was reincarnated for five hundred years, he still had that virtue?
The boy retreated back to the door, and then went up to the latch again with a "bang".
"Open the door, open the door! Let me explain it to you......"
The matchmaker continued to knock on the door knocker, and actually opened the way of "talking about matchmaking through the door" with a clever tongue like a spring, praising the Liu family as beautiful as the palace and fairyland, and praising that Liu Beinian is simply the appearance of Pan An in the world, and the talent of literature and music in the fairy world. The onlookers were a little moved, if anyone had a daughter, they really wanted to PK with Miss Miaozhu of the Zheng family.
Probably wanting to end the noise outside the door as soon as possible, the door of the Zheng family opened again half an hour later. It was still the stupid scholar who came out, and he still said with a straight face: "There is an invitation from the master." ”
In this way, the Liu family's courtship team was invited in, and the drummer played a cheerful tune again, blowing and blowing into the Zheng family's door.
After the scene was over, the moment the camera switched, Lin Yulan looked into the sky and asked, "Could it be that I...... Oh, it's Miaotake. She...... So agreed? ”
"Of course not, Miaozhu has never been married in her life."
The narrator explains.
"Ahh Lonely old age? ”
Just when Lin Yulan was startled, she suddenly heard the sound of angry reprimands and expulsion from the Zheng family's mansion, and then the door was opened for the third time...... Liu Beinian's heavy dowry brought by his family was thrown out "a few miles and crackling". and their "huge courtship team" was also expelled from the door in disgrace.
Although Lin Yulan didn't understand what was going on? But seeing that the Liu family's unsuccessful request for marriage couldn't help but feel inexplicably happy in my heart. However, the next scene made her seem to be unable to laugh. I saw that Liu Beinian turned around and rushed into the Zheng family again, and after a while, thick black smoke rose from the Zheng family's mansion. The Zheng family was actually on fire, and the Liu family fled in a hurry.
"Master, ma'am, run...... Miss, come with me. ”
The stupid scholar suddenly became clever, first rescued Miaozhu's parents from the fire, and then carried out the weak Miss Miaozhu. Walking to the door, the scholar put the bamboo on the ground.
"Oops! What is it? Oh...... Thinking of it, this is the treasure that Liu Beinian said just now. He said that this was used by Yang Guifei, miss, this is a rare treasure! ”
The scholar actually picked up a folding fan on the ground.
When Lin Yulan saw this, she carefully observed the one in her hand and made sure that it was the same. It turned out to be a chaise fan, and it is even more rare today, five hundred years later. Thinking of this, Lin Yulan couldn't help but shake the folding fan a few times. This is terrible, I saw that the Zheng family's mansion suddenly rose in flames, and the fire suddenly became fierce.
"Miss, Miss, run!"
The scholar called out loudly as he grabbed Miaozhu's hand.
"No, I'm going to walk with my parents......"
Miaozhu looked back at her parents.
After the scene is over, the camera switches again.
In a low thatched house, the scholar is lighting a fire to cook for Miss Miaozhu. Miaozhu sat thoughtfully on the edge of the broken kang on which her parents were seriously injured and unconscious.
"Miss, I have a seemingly offensive thought...... Thoughts, I ...... I think...... Why don't we just ...... Only...... Just eat a sweet potato porridge, right? ”
The clumsy and clumsy scholar wanted to say, "Why don't we get married and spend this life together." As a result, the words came to his lips, but he still didn't say them.
Miaozhu smiled bitterly after hearing this, but did not reply.
"Hahaha, Takasugi was so stupid five hundred years ago!"
As an audience, Lin Yulan couldn't help laughing.
"But he is a hundred sincere to Miaozhu, and Miaozhu suffered a family change at that time, and it seems that the two of them have become the right person."
The narrator actually said this, Lin Yulan instantly retracted her smile after hearing it, and asked seriously: "She won't really agree, right?" ”
She left, and just after her parents recovered from their injuries, she went to Mount Emei to become a monk. The real name of the law is still "Miaozhu", but later Liu Beinian did not change his thief heart and did evil again, and actually went to Mount Emei to entangle Miaozhu......"
"Wait, what do you mean to be evil again? What do you mean...... The previous misfire was also ......"
"Yes, don't do it. This man is narrow-minded and greedy. After several entanglements, one day in the absence of the abbot, he hijacked Miaozhu...... But Miaozhu insisted on complying, and he held a grudge even more. A few days later, Miaozhu's parents, who had taken refuge in the thatched hut of the scholar, were brutally murdered in the middle of the night. Then, the officers and soldiers offered a reward for arrest, and Liu Beinian fled in a hurry and became a monk in a temple. ”
Lin Yulan seems to have seen a set of fast-forward shots, from Liu Beinian's obscene behavior of breaking into the nunnery, to the death of Miaozhu's parents, and then to the villain's ordination......
"If you put down the butcher's knife, you may not be able to become a Buddha on the ground."
Lin Yulan couldn't help but sigh.
"Yes! Therefore, do not become a Buddha for 500 years, but become an immortal demon monk. ”
The narration came to an abrupt end, and the movie scene in front of Lin Yulan ended playing.
Thinking back to reality, Lin Yulan was still in the main hall of the Netherworld Temple. It's just that when I saw Takasugi's face, I felt an inexplicable embarrassment.