Chapter 12: Matters of the Heart
After getting off duty, he ran back to the house in a hurry, sent the bracelet and hairpin he bought today to Mama Zhou and Jade, came back with a few polite words, and gave her all the gadgets he bought for Yancao today, and Yancao was amazed, and the two laughed and made trouble, until Qin Sang next door came over and lost his temper.
"Cersei, you are really lucky, you went to the study to serve, not to mention, the prince can still take you out to play, and I also met the waste princess." Yan Cao put the jade pendant under the lamp to take a closer look, the jade has no impurities, moist and bright, and the two small characters of "Lang Huan" on it can be seen to be elegant and ethereal, and the elegance is self-sufficient. What is even more rare is to be able to engrave these two words so meticulously and compactly, without damaging the style of the word.
Cersei also raised his cheeks to look at the jade. The crown prince must have been in high spirits when he wrote these two words, and perhaps the crown princess was also stroking her stomach and smiling softly, full of anticipation for the little princess who was about to come in her belly. When picking jade, you must rub it slowly, and think twice, just want to give the best thing to this child who is about to be born. When carving, he will concentrate on and carefully carve, lest he hurt the jade, and condense that love into it, condensing it into two words that contain expectations.
Lang Huan. Zhong Tiandi's beautiful woman.
What did the three emperors and grandsons call in the end? She never seemed to have heard anyone tell it, and the story about him was just to be engulfed by the fire and turned into charcoal with the nurse.
What was the mood of the crown princess at that time? She thought of those unwavering, smiling eyes. The Zhou family has a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes, but the crown princess is different from the Zhou family and Lin Huaijin. It was a pair of eyes that contained the vicissitudes of life, but had read thousands of sails but had seen them indifferently, which was not the same as the sharpness in Zhou's boudoir and the warmth and vigor of Lin Huaijin's young man.
She shook her head. Can't think about it anymore. The swallow grass was already lying down, making a well-proportioned breathing sound. But he tossed and turned, and finally got up in his clothes and pushed the door open.
After all, it's winter, and no matter how warm it is during the day, it will be foggy at night. But she didn't realize it, standing in the patio, looking at the boxy sky. The sky is boxy everywhere. This is the case in the outer courtyard, the same is true in Jihui Courtyard, this is the case in Jueming Temple, and the same is true in the place where the abolished princess is imprisoned.
The little guy on duty at night was napping, and his head was knocked one by one. The moon was in the sky, the moon was like satin, and the dark fragrance floated in the clear air, and she fluttered her nose greedily, wanting to let the fragrance dissipate the worries in her heart. I don't know what happened to the abolished crown princess, can she escape from that corner gate and secretly leave with the eldest emperor's grandson?
Cersei took a deep breath and grabbed her hand into the void, the wind leaking through her fingers, leaving a chill in her wake. Since I came to Jihui Courtyard, I have added a lot of indescribable boredom and complicated emotions. Even the swallow grass has changed a little.
She stood for a while, only to feel that she had nowhere to go, as if she was trapped in this world, and her heart was very depressed.
"What are you crazy about in this cold weather? Standing on the tuyere, beware of getting sick tomorrow. Yan Cao stood at the door in a cloak, his voice nasal.
Cersey turned to look at her: "Woke you up?" Under the moonlight, her hair was loosely pulled up at the back of her head, and the cold wind blew, she stretched out her hand to curl her hair, with a jade face, like a fairy under the bright moon, fluttering against the wind, and leaving the world independent. She smiled slightly, a little familiar between her eyebrows, but she couldn't tell who she looked like for a while.
Yan Cao was stunned, and the hand holding the placket of the shirt became tighter and tighter, until the palm was painful, and he didn't notice it. Cersei floated past her: "Hurry up and sleep, you will be on duty tomorrow." Out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed the bedroom of the prince in the distance, which was bright and extinguished, as if there was still a candle burning.
Yancao lay back on the kang, but could no longer sleep, with her eyes wide open, waiting for the bead flowers she bought by the pillow. The butterfly on the bead flower was made thin and realistic, trembling with her breathing, and looked extremely fragile.
Early the next morning, Yan Cao struggled to get up with two dark circles under her eyes, and then looked at Cersei, still holding her double buns, looking ignorant, as if she was lost in sleep last night. hastily cleaned up twice and arrived at Lin Huaijin's house. Lin Huaijin just got up, and was being served and dressed by Bisi. She hurriedly set up the kang table and motioned for her mother-in-law to set the meal. Jade came in with a Ganoderma lucidum jade rabbit pattern long spike jade waist, knelt on the ground and tied it to Lin Huaijin, looked at his color, and said, "Didn't the prince sleep well last night?" Look at this poor face, or I will take a leave of absence from my wife today and not go to the academy. ”
In this courtyard, Jade dares to speak to Lin Huaijin like this. Yan Cao's heart was sour, but she couldn't help but glance at Lin Huaijin, and saw that her face was a little bad, only a pair of eyes were clear, and she didn't seem to have slept well. Lin Huaijin cleaned up, filled his ears and was like a star, and he saw Yan Cao's face red.
Lin Huaijin waved his hand: "No need, I don't have to worry about my mother." After finishing his words, he ate quietly, and Yan Cao peeked while distributing vegetables, but the scene of independence under the moon last night came out of his mind.
Lin Huaijin went to the academy after dinner, and as soon as she went out, Bisi said to Yan Cao with a sneering face: "Look, this is dark and green at the moment, could it be that the wild cat has begun to bark before spring?" ”
Yan Cao "spitted" her: "It has nothing to do with you whether you call or not, I don't know when your old iron tree will bloom!" ”
"Ouch, who are you going to be like you all day long, a man with a full head?"
Jade listened to them more and more, and couldn't help but interrupt: "What are you talking about?" This is still in the house of the son, and he is full of foul language, and he turns around and asks people to listen, don't come to me to cry, I can't save anyone. With that, he flicked his handkerchief and went coldly. Beth rolled her eyes at Yancao in disgust, and chased after Jade: "Sister, it's not that I'm okay to find trouble, look at her bewitching appearance......"
Yancao was so embarrassed that tears swirled, rushed back to the house, and cried "woo" on the kang. Cersei tidied up the study and came back, and saw that Yancao was crying so darkly, she was startled, and hurriedly pulled her up to wipe her tears: "What's wrong?" Beth bullying you again? ”
"Someday, I want her to look good!" Yan Cao gritted her teeth, her red eyes turned to Cersei: "Cersei, you are right, only the two of us depend on each other in this courtyard, if you get married, I will have no friends." After that, he cried again.
Cersei hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, and wrung a handkerchief to wipe her face: "Don't cry, my face is swollen from crying, I won't marry yet, you marry me and I will remarry, okay?" ”
Yan Cao grabbed the handkerchief and blew her nose: "Forget it, I always want to see you live a good life." Have you inquired about the son of Steward Zhao that I told you before? ”
Cersei was a little embarrassed: "I think it's better to forget it." ”
Yan Cao frowned: "What's wrong?" ”
Cersei didn't dare to speak ill of others in front of her: "People don't look down on me like this." ”
Yan Cao's eyes rolled: "Mother-in-law Wang, who is on an errand with my mother, has a nephew at home, and I heard that it is quite good." ”
Cersei sighed: "Besides, I'm only eleven years old, I'm still young, and I'll let your mother help me see it when I'm older." ”
Yan Cao looked at her childish figure and unenlightened appearance, and felt a little more comfortable, in the end, she was embarrassed to tell her what Bice said, only pulled her to gossip, and took out the small snacks that her mother secretly stuffed for her and distributed them to Cersei, and the two were happy again after a while.
In the evening, Lin Huaijin was reading a book, and Cersei was renewing tea on the side, and Desheng ran over mysteriously holding his hands: "Cersei, give you this." ”
Cerse took it, and saw an enamel box inlaid with gold and jade, on which was painted a woman who was very little dressed, with plump breasts and fat buttocks, lying lazily. The wonder of this painting is that the woman's eyebrows and eyes are rare, her hair is painted yellow, and the eyeballs are dotted with blue color. Not only wondered: "What is this?" ”
"This is a thing from the West, and it is said that the things in it can make people feel a hundred times more energetic, and even those who are in a coma can wake up immediately when they smell it." Desheng opened it for her.
"Where did you get this thing, you're amazing!" Sesser's eyes sparkled at him, a look of adoration.
Lin Huaijin coughed beside him, and Desheng immediately said: "When the prince went to the academy today, he passed by the Baibao Pavilion opened in our house, and the shopkeeper was very enthusiastic, saying that there was a new thing, so he pulled the prince in to pick something for the old lady and the lady, and the prince saw this rarity, so he brought it back to you." After that, he stood on the ground with a sad face and glanced at Lin Huaijin.
It was very rare, but he didn't dare to take it: "Just put it in the study, if the prince is sleepy when he reads, he can still smell it." ”
Lin Huaijin persuaded two more sentences, but Cersei only insisted on not taking it, so he put it on the desk with some loss, but he saw that Cersei liked it very much, and when he changed the tea and grinding ink, he couldn't help but look at it twice and touch it twice, and felt happy again: "Next time we take a break, we will go to Li Ji to eat Bianjing roast duck, it is almost the end of the year, and there are many small stalls and vendors on the street, which is very lively." After a pause, he said: "My aunt and you are very close to each other, I think she always wants a daughter but can't get it, I am always very happy to see the little girl, and we will go to see her again when we have time in the new year." ”
Cersei was overjoyed when she heard this, and she had already begun to think about bringing something to the waste princess. Desheng secretly rolled his eyes. Since Lin Huaijin went to Honolulu last time without telling him, the Zhou family has reprimanded the coachman fiercely, and he has been reprimanded for half a year, if anyone dares to take Lin Huaijin to Honolulu, then he really doesn't want to stay in the Anguo Mansion.
Looking at the unconscious Se Se again, Desheng felt that the vision of this son of the family was really different. In comparison, Desheng prefers a delicate girl like Yancao and a girl who looks at people with three points of beauty, but his mother prefers the kind of jade that is steady and down-to-earth and doesn't say much, and he doesn't dare to look at jadeite, so he compares it with jadeite everywhere from a group of little girls. He can also understand his mother's aesthetics, but the taste of the prince is different. Probably tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, I want to eat some pickles and change my mouth, Desheng thought.
Regarded as a pickle pimple, Cersei's mind was full of only how much money she had left in the monthly plan she had saved, and she could buy something to bring to the waste princess.
But until the end of the year, the trip to Honolulu was not implemented. Lin Huaijin would take Cersei and Desheng out for a walk every time Xiu Mu, but every time Lin Huaijin was about to go to Honolulu, either the carriage broke down, or there was something at home for Lin Huaijin to rush back. After a few times, both of them tasted it, compared to Lin Huaijin's guilt and helplessness, Cersei felt that it didn't matter. After all, the identity of the abolished princess is sensitive, even if she walks from the corner gate, it is difficult to guarantee that she will go too many times and bring her some trouble.
Although Monk Wutong didn't seem to be in tune, his words were like a strong seed, buried in the dry and barren heart, quietly taking root and sprouting, occasionally popping up to stab her.