Chapter 15: The Plum Blossom Banquet (II)
The moonlight is like a water lantern like day, and the spring color in the garden is fragrant.
Visitors are not drunk and do not return, smiling and beautiful pictures.
Beautiful, really beautiful!
Suddenly, I saw two familiar figures, and I hurriedly hid behind the clouds.
"What's wrong?" The clouds turned strangely to look at me.
"I saw Su Yongyue." I whispered, to be exact, Su Han and Su Yong, and I didn't poke my head out until they were far away.
"You're afraid of her?"
Afraid of her?
I pouted, I just couldn't beat her. Even if he didn't want to admit it, he nodded honestly.
"Suddenly, I won't let anyone bully you, trust me."
I was surprised, and when I looked up, there was an inexplicable solemnity in a deep pool. I was about to dig deeper, but I was stopped by a sound of surprise.
"Lord Yun, long time no see."
I looked at the visitor, with thick eyebrows and square faces, different from ordinary officials, although he was in his middle age, he was burly.
"General Murong hasn't seen him for a long time, but his demeanor is still the same."
"Where, who can compare to Lord Yun in both civil and military affairs, now my old bones are not as good as before." After saying that, he turned his head to look at me, "I don't know who this is?" β
"Mine is like a flower." His hand was around my waist, and although I felt awkward, I thought it was a show.
The other party was stunned, and he finally sighed, "Providence makes people, it's rare for Lord Yun to have such a unique taste." In the future, we will have a chance to learn from each other again and take our leave. β
"Farewell."
Unique?
I looked at myself, the dress was the white dress that my mother asked me to wear today, and said that it was the best dress she had when she was young, and she also met my father in this dress.
I looked east and west, and I didn't see anything unique except that the color of the skirt was not white but crescent white
"Don't look at it, it won't be beautiful if you look at it again."
I looked up and just saw the corners of someone's nonchalantly mouth, "I would have changed your clothes if I knew I would." After saying that, he walked away, leaving me who was still coming back to my senses.
It turned out that I was ugly!
I chased after me angrily, and I wrote down this hatred first.
Although only the ministers of the five grades were allowed to attend the banquet, I was still amazed by the large number of people in front of me.
Originally, I was supposed to sit with the female dependents, but I was afraid of meeting Su Yiyue, so I didn't go. Yun Zhongjian persuaded me to stay, so I had to pick a corner and sit down.
"Black stupid, the emperor can't move chopsticks if he doesn't come." Whisper reminder in the cloud.
I stared at a chicken leg, no, the chicken leg that I had bitten into, licking my mouth inexhaustibly, reluctant to put it down.
"Let's finish this." He sighed.
"Which lady is that, so ignorant of the rules."
"Eating so vulgarly, how can you be worthy of Lord Yun."
"It looks stupid, maybe Lord Yun is like that."
There are more and more discussions, and there is no meat taste in his mouth, "Yunzhong, am I stupid?" β
"Who said you were stupid, but you weren't stupid at all." Then I was embraced into an embrace.
At that moment, it seemed to hear a burst of inhalation around me, and thenβ
"The emperor has arrived!"
Everyone stood up! I also hurriedly stood up. Everything is quiet, and you can hear your own pounding heartbeat.
Am I scared? Or is it getting weirder in the clouds?
Through the crowd, I saw nothing, only a quiet voice. Yes, that's right, that voice gives me the feeling that it is not alarmed, as if even thunder can't startle the waves on the surface of the lake.
"Aiqing, sit down, today is a feast for enjoying flowers, if you don't get drunk, you won't return!"
"Emperor Xie!"
When I sat down, I saw the most honorable person in my country, and the one who stood tallest. Because it was too far away, he couldn't see it clearly, but he only knew that there were two women sitting next to him, and a familiar figure stood behind him.
No jade?
"I can't see clearly, who told you not to sit honestly in the female dependents." The people around me began to gloat again.
This time, I didn't get angry, but I breathed a sigh of relief, this is like him, the acting is so realistic, it almost makes me believe it.
This is followed by a burst of singing and dancing, which also means that you can move your chopsticks. I gulped down all the delicacies I hadn't even heard of, and Yunzhong just poured a slight glass of wine and stared thoughtfully at the dance floor.
"Murong Lizhu, a folk girl, hopes that the emperor can do a marriage for a people's daughter."
"I don't know what kind of marriage it is?" The people above seemed interested.
I raised my head curiously, how to enjoy the flowers and mention the marriage. This time, you can see clearly, it is a woman with a graceful figure, wearing a light gauze dress and pink red makeup, it is the woman who danced in the pool just now.
"In the clouds, your wine has been spilled." Yun Zhong stared at the dance floor without saying a word, not even noticing that the wine in the wine glass had been spilled.
He let out an "oh" and took a sip of the wine from his glass. At that moment, the woman replied, not loud, but I was able to hear everyone present.
"What the folk girl wants to marry is ...... Lord Yun. β
Stand up in the clouds!
"Lord Yun, it's hard for a girl's family to treat you like this, so you can agree."
"Talented and beautiful, heaven is destined for good fate."
"Not to mention the right family, it is really rare for the civil and military families to get married, what is there to hesitate!"
Everyone said good things, but I only saw that Yunzhong's face was getting more and more ugly.
"Yun Aiqing, why don't I issue a holy decree for you?"
Yunzhong didn't answer, pulled me up, who didn't understand the situation, walked to the dance floor and knelt down, the cold wind blew me and I couldn't help but shiver.
"Your Majesty, the lower officials have found the person they want to marry in this life, we are happy with each other, and we hope that the emperor will be the master of the ministers."
I'm completely stupid, and the two are happy? The person he loves?
"The woman you're talking about is the one next to you?" A pair of sharp eyes were projected.
I was startled and fell to my knees. As soon as I knelt down, I saw Yunzhong secretly smiling at me, and my brow furrowed even deeper. At this moment, I can't see him clearly at all, is it still acting?
"You look up." A sentence that is not light or heavy, but it reveals a majesty that cannot be ignored.
I looked up as I was told, and my eyes couldn't be darker. At first glance, it is a pair of calm and slightly elegant eyes, but if you look closely, you will find that as long as anything is targeted by him, there will be nowhere to hide.
The moment I looked at him, I noticed that he was stunned for a moment, and then recovered without a trace.
"Would you like to marry Lord Yun?"
Thousands of rounds in my head, to marry or not to marry? I never thought about it. If you don't marry, that is to say, I don't want to bully the king in the clouds. If you marry, but ...... I can't say this "but" myself.
I glanced around the figure, and suddenly found that I had no strength to say anything. He didn't look at it.
Sighing, "Your Majesty...... The folk girls were unwilling. β
"Why?" There was a hint of surprise from above.
"Folk Girl...... The folk girl ......, "Don't tremble, I'm telling the truth, not bullying the king," the folk girl had already decided to marry in her hometown. β
The surroundings were bustling again, but my ears were keeping an eye on the movement above. Although Hu Jingfeng said that he would disappoint me, and I am happy for him to disappoint, now I can only block him.
After a long time, a voice came from above: "In this way, then I will help Master Yun and Miss Li Zhu make a marriage decree, and the talented and beautiful woman is also a perfect match." β
I looked up in amazement, looking at the emperor who was smiling lightly, and I didn't understand that it was the same thing that you didn't want to do, but why did you only fulfill me and not him?
"Murong Lizhu bowed to the emperor." One of the people next to him said loudly, and there was joy between the lines.
I looked at the clouds with mixed minds, his head hanging down, the hair of his sideburns covering the side of his face. After a long time, he said, "Thank you, Emperor." β
At that moment, it was as if a big rock was blocking my chest.
Everything was calm again, and everyone seemed to be happy with the result, and they started drinking again. And we sat in our seats, and no one spoke.
Later, the emperor decided on a few more family affairs, but I was not in the mood to listen to it anymore, and I didn't even bother to pick up the chopsticks in front of me.
There was still silence in the carriage when I returned. I don't know what to say, is he angry that he insisted on asking me to come over just to get me a shield? Or are you angry with him, obviously you don't like it in the end, but you make compromises?
If everything was planned by him, does that mean that what he did was fake? A warm embrace? Buns in the carriage? Maybe he's already thinking about taking me to see the red sunfish. I never realized that my mind would be so clear, and it made me uncomfortable.
"I know you're just trying to trick me when you say marriage...... You really don't want to marry me that much? Is it bad to marry me? β
I just looked at him, and the atmosphere felt strange to me. I really want to ask if what he did before was fake, but I think it's useless, if it's true, are you willing to marry him?
Seeing that I didn't speak, he suddenly smiled, "You know what? I actually don't like people calling me an adult at all, and I also want to be like Su Han, who doesn't care about anything and plays the world to the fullest. β
"But I can't, I can't. Since I was a child, every word my father said to me was a command, and I never dared to transgress it. But when he had to control my marriage, I realized how ridiculous I was. The people he gave me, how could I possibly like them. β
"So you're using me as a shield?" Finally, I couldn't help but ask.
"Haha, shield? So you think so, you think it's all planned by me? β
"Isn't it?" It seems to me that everything he says is an excuse, whether it is true or false, and exploitation is exploitation.
"What do you use? Use you to marry me? Use you to make me fall in love with you? Or use you to reject me? He burst out laughing, "What's the use of talking about it now...... It's useless, everything is useless. β
I couldn't say a word.
As he was leaving, he was hidden in the moonlight, and he stood like that, looking at me, not moving for a long time, even if it was only a slight movement.
Finally, at the moment of closing the door, his voice was so weak that I almost thought it was an illusion, "You're the first person I really like, but why can't you?" β
A sadness instantly rose in my heart, and I suddenly couldn't see the truth or falsehood of his words. However, I forgot to tell him that I was actually very grateful to him all along, and although he was always angry with me, I was still happy.
I also want to tell him that if it wasn't so hasty, wait a minute, wait for me to think about it again, maybe I will marry him, I just don't understand what love is, after all, it's so stupid.
However, there was no more chance.