Chapter Forty-Eight: Homesickness Is Stronger
"Hey, it would be nice if I could go back, if I could ......." Ji Lianmei buried her face in the crook of her arm and sighed silently.
The young man outside the door, his eyebrows were silent, standing against the wall, looking particularly lonely and desolate. Between the two, there is a wall of separation, but it is as far away as a time and space.
The tight osmanthus cake in his hand was still hot, but the boy got up and walked to the fence, threw it from the attic into the bushes on the side, looked back at the silhouette of the girl cast on the window lattice, and quietly left.
When he was at the banquet today, he had already found the girl behind him, staring at the osmanthus cake on his plate and snorting. Therefore, he deliberately left all the osmanthus cakes.
It's just that now, she doesn't need it anymore, Bai Yucheng smiled as he walked.
Yes, what I can give her, not what she needs.....
Ji Lianmei took a deep breath and let out a long lazy sigh, which was supposed to relax herself.
"Smack." A small silver box rolled out of her cuff and fell on the wooden floor with a dull thud.
Oh, I almost forgot, there's this thing. I didn't have time to take a closer look before I was interrupted by Asaibena, anyway, I'm bored, just study it, maybe I can find a space-time tunnel or something.
Ji Lianmei picked up the small box and opened it the way before.
The dotted blue points of light gradually condense into a light curtain, forming a square modern text.
However, what disappointed Ji Lianmei was that this thing was just a USB flash drive with a projector and voice touch screen function, and it didn't even have the ability to connect to the Internet and WiFi.
Most of the folders stored in it are data about scientific research experiments, or the analysis of some ancient weapon drawings. Ji Lianmei looked at the professional number words in it, and the more she looked at it, the more sleepy she became.
Forget it, even if this thing is useless, it is something from the future, if I can go back to the 21st century and sell it, I will definitely make a lot of money.
Ji Lianmei smiled and poked the small square box with her fingertips, and said to herself: "Hey, little thing, we are all outsiders in this world, carefully hiding our origins in this place, and trying to adapt to the way people think in this era." You're luckier than me, at least, you won't be sad and sad, and you'll not be homesick like me. ”
Ji Lianmei wrapped the small square box with a stiff gold wire, and then wore a cotton silk to make a pendant and hung it around her neck.
Since we are also from the future, let's stay together from now on.
Ji Lianmei pushed open the window and looked at the full moon hanging from the branches.
Today, it's the night of the full moon again.
As the saying goes, the moon is the hometown of Ming. Every time the moon is full, the feeling of homesickness is particularly eager. Every time at this time, Ji Lianmei will take a walk among the Jiuqu Lotus Pavilion in the Chengwang Mansion, where there is the best moonlight, reflected in the lake water, scattering sparkling waves.
Ji Reimi can always stare at the moon in the water for a long time. The moon in the water, visible and unobtainable, isn't that her current situation?
The prince's mansion of the Song Kingdom did not have the Jiuqu Lotus Pavilion, so Ji Lianmei walked around in the garden in the backyard.
There is a broken bridge in the backyard of the Prince's Mansion, under which is a gurgling and clear artesian river, and a thousand-year-old willow tree is planted next to the bridge, which is as perennial as a pine and cypress. It's early summer, but it's still flying, like a spring scene.
On the snow-white broken bridge, a young man in white leaned on a stone lion and sat with one foot hanging in the air, the other foot slightly arched, and his slender fingertips gently twisted a small jade plate, and the sake in the dish exuded the soft silver glow of the moonlight.
His eyes were pale, and the breeze stirred up his silky black hair, revealing a long and white neck, and the well-defined side face was enough to make the flower girl's heart pound.
It was as if he was in a posture of being so old, suggesting all the emotions he could not express. The sound of gurgling water seemed to have turned into the hustle and bustle of the crowd outside the house that night. However, everything seems to have become less important and no longer noisy.
Ji Lianmei walked up to the bridge, climbed the jade carved stone railing, and sat down beside him without saying a word.
Neither of them spoke, just quietly looked up at the moonlight, listening to the crisp sound of flowing water.
"Bai Yucheng, what do you do when you're not happy?" Ji Lianmei suddenly spoke, her tone sad.
"Me? When I'm not happy, there are too many, and if I'm really depressed, I want to find a quiet place and have a few drinks. ”
"Haven't you heard that the water is more flowing when the knife is drawn, and the sorrow is more when you raise a glass to eliminate sorrow? Drinking alcohol will not solve the problem at all. ”
"What about us? I can't ask for a peaceful life, alcohol can't relieve my worries, at least, I can forget my worries, survive the difficult night, and tomorrow will be a new day. Bai Yucheng took out a wine saucer from the mouth of the stone lion, presented a glass of sake and handed it to Ji Lianmei, "Do you want to have a drink?" ”
Ji Lianmei slowly took the plate, looked at the clear shadow of the moonlight in the plate, took a sip, and felt that her lips and teeth were fragrant.
This wine is quite delicious.
She took a sip and drank all the wine from her plate.
"Slow down, although this wine is made of flowers, it is also easy to get intoxicated."
Ji Lianmei didn't answer, picked up the wine jug and poured herself a glass, raised her glass to invite the moon, and recited: "Life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon....... The bells and drums are not expensive enough, but I hope that I will not wake up after being drunk. ”
She already loves Li Bai's first general wine, if a person has such an open-minded mind, no matter what era he is in, he can be at ease and live happily for a lifetime.
In this situation, it is fitting to sing this poem to motivate yourself.
"Come, a cup of sunrise, a cup of moonlight. I salute you for this cup. After three rounds of drinking, Ji Lianmei seemed to be on her head, put one hand on Bai Yucheng's shoulder and smiled stupidly, and drank the wine in the cup with her head up.
"You've drunk too much, it's time to go back." Bai Yucheng patted her face and said softly.
"Go back? Where to go? I miss home, but I don't have a home anymore......." Ji Lianmei lay in Bai Yucheng's arms, sobbed and whimpered, suddenly raised her head violently, rubbed her drunken eyes, and poked Bai Yucheng's face with a smile, "Handsome guy, who are you?" Your voice is so gentle, there is a big pig's trotter named Bai Yucheng, and his voice is as gentle as yours. However, he used me and made me sad, I hated him, but I couldn't leave him......"
Before Ji Lian finished speaking, she had already fallen asleep. Since coming to Wu Kingdom, she has become very restrained, even if it is an occasional joke, she can no longer see her former innocence.
Now she is the same as when they first met, but the distance between the two of them is no longer as close as when they first met.
"Silly girl, you hate me so much, even when you're drunk, you're saying bad things about me." Bai Yucheng smiled helplessly, his smile was poignant, he gently hugged her, freed up one hand, raised the wine saucer, and clinked glasses to Mingyue.
Next.
Ji Lianmei woke up from the sound of ping-pong blows, she was hangover last night, and her head was still slightly painful. As for how she got back to her room from the bridge, and what she said to Bai Yucheng, she couldn't remember anything.
"Who, what kind of decoration are you doing early in the morning?" Because of a headache, Ji Lianmei was irritated to cover the quilt over her head and roll on the bed as if she was angry.
"It's me, do you have any opinions?" Suddenly, a voice answered her from outside the quilt.
Ji Lianmei lifted the quilt and found that the person standing in front of the bed was actually Asai Bena. She carried a long whip in her hand, and her hands were folded, and she looked proud.
"How are you? Didn't you leave a long time ago? When Asaibena saw her face, her jaw fell to the ground in surprise.
Ji Lianmei realized that she hadn't put on a mask yet. When Asai Bena saw her yesterday, she appeared in the form of Xiwan. And Bai Yucheng had already released the news when he returned to the Song Kingdom, saying that Princess Liu Guo had fled without permission in Chaoge and her whereabouts were unknown, so when Asai Beina saw her, she was so surprised.
That's it, it's all seen by her anyway, it's better to be calm, and I can't seem to be weak-hearted.
"You came to me early in the morning, is there anything wrong?" Ji Lianmei sat up from the bed and asked.
"Hmph, as the future crown princess, of course this princess wants to rectify the atmosphere of the entire palace, so as to save some inexplicable and wonderful cheap maids from taking luck to seduce my man."
"You have this spare time to come to my demonstration, it is better to keep an eye on your own man. If you really have the ability, tell him never to see me again. ”
Ji Lianmei shot back without showing weakness.
"You ......."
When the smell of gunpowder was strong, Mianfu suddenly slammed the door and entered, and saw the two girls arguing with children like that, and couldn't help laughing.
"Laugh what a laugh!" The two stretched out a finger at the same time to point at Mianfu, and after glancing at each other, they quickly turned their faces away.
"Mr. Mianfu, where is your Highness?" Asaibena asked.
"Your Highness entered the palace early in the morning. Before leaving, he asked me to take you to Miss Lianmei to participate in the poetry meeting of Qu Shui Liuyu and see the world. Mianfu bowed slightly, showing respect for Asai Bena.
"What about me? What did he tell me? ”
Mian Fu smiled slightly and said, "His Royal Highness did explain that he asked the princess to settle down in the mansion and not cause trouble." ”
"Hahahahaha, do you hear that? Miss Asaibena. Ji Lianmei laughed out loud, and the angry Asai Bena's face was blue and purple, and she slammed the door and left.
Seeing Ji Lianmei grimacing at Asai Bena with a trembling face, Mianfu couldn't help but hide her face and laugh lightly, and then her face returned to calm.
"Miss Mercy, don't laugh, people are already far away. Hurry up and get dressed and set out with me. ”
"Okay." Ji Lianmei responded to the road.
After a month, the hair that was cut short by Ji Lianmei has grown a little, but it is only shoulder-length and cannot be coiled into a bun. Ji Lianmei simply took out a men's dress from the closet that she had worn when she sneaked out before, tied her hair into a ball, inserted a hairpin, and fiddled in front of the bronze mirror.
Hey, I didn't expect to pretend to be a man, and he looks like a dog. Ji Lianmei couldn't help but throw her eyes at the mirror and narcissistically.
When everything was ready, the two went to the small bamboo forest outside the city to participate in the poetry meeting.
Qushui Liuyu is a traditional custom of ancient Chinese folk, and later developed into a kind of elegant thing for literati and ink writers to sing poems and wine. The literati who participated in the poetry meeting attached great importance to this matter, and would bathe and fast in advance, and prepare for the poetry meeting as if it were a worship service for believers. After all, most of the literati gathered together are noble and ambitious, and if they don't dress up well, they will probably make people laugh.