Chapter 24: Actions speak louder than words
After leaving the Chasing Hongyuan and getting into the carriage back to the Ming Mansion, Ming Cheng still felt palpitations.
"Dad, is this over? Have we escaped? Minghuang couldn't believe it.
"It's all because of you, and you still have the face to ask!" Ming Cheng had a cold face and scolded Aiko fiercely.
"How can it be because of me...... It's clearly the little sister's idea. She thinks Helian Qi has someone in her heart, and she doesn't treat her well enough......" Mingguang muttered to himself.
"Your sister is not sensible, what are you crazy about!" Ming Cheng was angry: "Fortunately, the prince of Lixin Hou doesn't care, otherwise our future days will be difficult." ”
Mingguang didn't dare to say anything more.
"No matter whether the Qinglou woman is alive or dead now, this matter has been revealed, and she is not allowed to mention another word in the future! If your sister wants to smell it, just find a reason to fool her, and don't let her worry about it anymore! Ming Cheng commanded sharply.
"The child understands."
"Xiao Ying is arrogant and arrogant by her concubine." Ming Cheng finally sighed lowly: "I don't know if in the future, she and Helian Qi will ...... for a long time."
The carriage drove away, carrying the mind of the right minister, turning back and forth, and could not be glimpsed......
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Over there, as soon as the father and son of the Ming family left, this side of the box, Hanchu's heart was not even more delicious.
The person in front of her knew that his surname was Yun and that he was from Fangzhou, but looking at his simple and simple style, she never dared to guess his true identity. even deceived himself into thinking that maybe Yun Gongzi was just a side branch of the Yun family, after all, as long as he was stained with the word "cloud", he was already prominent enough.
It turned out that his real name was "Yunci". Such a humble gentleman who is as gentle as jade, and suffers from leg disease, is actually the owner of the Lixin Marquis Mansion.
Today, even the right minister was shocked, which was similar to the Yun Gongzi in Han's first impression. She can also be regarded as having seen the majesty and coldness of Yun Ci as a child of the family.
But now, the person she fears and avoids the most is also the child of the family.
Han Chu understood in his heart that this master-servant relationship between himself and Yun Gongzi had really come to an end.
"Out of Xiu?" Yun Ci saw that she had been stunned, and opened her mouth to call: "Did you scare you?" ”
Han Chu came back to his senses and wrote: "The slave doesn't know that you are His Royal Highness, and there were many rudeness in the past. ”
Yun Ci looked at the four big words "His Royal Highness the Prince" on the paper, and only felt that it was extremely dazzling, which made his heart slightly sour. "You don't have to be ......," he didn't finish halfway through.
Yun Ci looked up at Han Chu who was standing next to the bookcase, and the sunlight reflected on her face through the window, illuminating her whole person transparently. His complexion was so fair, tinged with peach and plum redness, that he was reminded of the peony flowers of "smoke and light glass leaves, wind and coral".
is indeed extremely beautiful, before he met her, he didn't know that there are really women in this world who are comparable to Hua Jiao, comparable to Hua Yan, and comparable to Hua Qing.
It's just that this peony flower bloomed in the wrong place after all.
The gloom in his heart overshadowed the regret of parting, Yun Ci looked at Han Chu again, and gently changed the topic: "I want to write a letter, you come to study ink." ”
seems to have returned to the first day in the East Garden, and he also ordered her to grind ink, and since then he has grinded out a short-term love that is also a teacher and a master.
Han Chu didn't dare to slack off, the slender soft wattle against the inkstone carefully studied the ink, Yun Ci wrote the letter in one go, and then looked at her finger.
These hands, in just three months, can practice a thin gold body that is extremely difficult to achieve; It's also these hands, and they're good at the piano.
Yun Ci really wanted to hear Han Chu play a song, this idea had been thinking about him for three months, and today he finally blurted out naturally: "Out of Xiu, can you play a song?" ”
The white hands of the ink grinder paused for a moment, Han Chu looked at Yun Ci with an indistinguishable expression, and after a while, he shook his head and said the word "no".
Don't want to? The unconcealable disappointment came to his heart, he never expected that the gentle and gentle Xiu in front of him would refuse bluntly. But he didn't say anything more, and regained his indifference, as if nothing had happened to him.
Yun Ci silently sealed the letter and handed it to Han Chu and said, "Give the letter to Zhuying, he will know how to do it." ”
Han Chu nodded and took the order, and when he turned around, he listened to Yun Ci again: "You are frightened today, so you can rest for a long time, and you don't have to come to serve." ”
Han Chu bowed down, saluted and thanked him, and then walked out of the study. She knew the weight of the letter in her hand, this was a letter of return, presumably in a few days, someone would come to welcome Gongzi Yun back to Fangzhou.
And she should also collect her mood and return to Xiyuan one day.
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After that, for three days, Han Chu served in the study as usual, she was waiting, waiting for Yun Ci to order her to return to Xiyuan. But Yun Ci didn't say a word as if he hadn't mentioned it, and he didn't even show a trace of sadness.
This lasted for three days, and a strange man came to the East Garden. Although everyone didn't say much, Han Chu could also see from his indifferent reaction that this was the person who came to answer Yunci.
It turned out that the letter was not sent to Fangzhou, it turned out that in this Jingzhou city, there were already people on standby, just waiting for Yun Ci to give an order. Yes, the dignified Xinhou Mansion is the first giant in the world, and his cronies are naturally all over the world.
Since then, Han Chu can no longer lift his spirits and smile, and the atmosphere in the study is always quiet and almost gloomy.
"Are you avoiding me these days?" Yun Ci sorted out the books and suddenly asked.
Han Chu reacted to Yun Ci's question, and quickly shook his head to deny it, but this denial was a little weak.
Yun Ci laughed self-deprecatingly: "Since the incident of the Ming Mansion, you have been like this. Is it because I'm leaving? Or is it because of my identity? ”
Han Chu lowered his eyes and was silent.
"It seems to be a bit of both." Yun Ci replied on his own and sighed: "I haven't said my identity for a long time, that's why, I don't want to teach you to be angry with me." ”
He didn't continue, and asked again after a moment of silence: "What are your plans for the future?" ”
Han Chu shook his head.
"Why don't I tell Zifeng and let you leave on your own?" Yun Ci pondered the temptation.
Han Chu shook his head again.
Are you reluctant to leave here? Still unwilling to leave Shen Yu? Yun Ci frowned slightly, and his heart was filled with an inexplicable feeling: "Why? ”
"The little marquis is kind to me." Han Chu wrote with a pen.
Yun Ci was silent, and after a moment, he took out a beautifully bound box from the drawer of the bookcase, and said, "I originally thought I would give it to you later...... Now that I think about it, I don't have to delay it any longer. ”
Inside the box is a set of the four treasures of the best study: Langhao Lake pen, pine smoke emblem ink, sandalwood paper, and purple gold inkstone.
Rao is Hanchu no longer has eyesight, and he can also see that this is a set of four treasures of the study room for the daughter of the boudoir. The workmanship is exquisite, the carving is delicate, the materials are exquisite, and the binding is exquisite.
When she was in the Drunken Flower Building, Han Chu had seen thousands of heavy gifts, but she had never seen such a delicate pen, ink, paper and inkstone before.
The carving on the inkstone is a peony. Rich silk golden stamen, carved realistic. Han Chu has always been very fond of this flower, just because in the past Helian Qi once said that "peony alias 'will leave', which is not very lucky".
Unexpectedly, the carvings given by Yunci today are also peonies. "Will leave", it really suits the situation to the extreme, and it becomes a prophecy.
Thinking about it, Han Chu only felt that the tip of his nose was sour, and he endured it for a long time before saluting and thanking him, and took this set of four treasures from Yun Ci's hand.
The fingertips of the two intersected for a moment, looking extremely pious and solemn. Once upon a time, the warmth of each other's palms intertwined, and he held her hand, correcting her handwriting stroke by stroke.
But now, just the touch of the fingertips was like two flames, burning the two of them at the same time, making them all stop quickly.
Han Chu took the heavy box and stroked it with his bare hands, only to find that there were four words engraved on the box: "Actions speak louder than words".
The thin gold font is very good, and it looks very familiar and friendly. Han Chu didn't know that these four words were a few words, but at least for her a woman who had lost her voice, this was indeed the best encouragement, and it was also her true state of mind when she was learning words now.
It's just that I never thought that this precious heart was actually a parting gift from Yun Gongzi to himself. She likes it very much, almost can't put it down, but there is something else in this liking.
Yun's is like a cloud on the horizon, which is unattainable.
At the same time, Yun Ci also looked at Han Chu in front of him lightly, and was very relieved to see that she liked this gift. He didn't plan to tell her that this set of four treasures of the study was tailor-made for her, and he ordered someone to find the best materials, which took a whole month.
The carved pattern was painted by him, and the binding was also seen by him personally, and the words "actions speak louder than words" were engraved by him. Looking at the north and south, there is only one set of the four treasures of such a study, and there is no other one in the world.
The scene of Shenqin in his memory resurfaced in Yun Ci's mind. The resolute woman's face had changed into a soft smile in this study, but today, her face overlapped with that night.
Yun Ci understands that Han Chu is actually very stubborn in her bones, and if something touches the siege in her heart, she will not hesitate to choose to close the door of her heart. And when he left, there was nothing he could do.
Exactly that's the moment.
Yun Ci's slender pale fingers were on the table, and he began to tap lightly on the table, and Han Chu found that this was a manifestation of him thinking about things. She waited quietly for Yun Ci's instructions, and only waited for a long time: "You go down." ”
Screen back without any explanation.
Han Chu pursed his lips tightly, and leaned over to retreat with the gift box in his arms. The moment he turned around, he heard a low murmur from behind him: "Take care." The voice was inaudible, as if it were the man's own words.
The tip of his nose suddenly became more sour, and the four treasures of the study in his hand also became extremely heavy, and his hands were heavy. Han Chu wanted to turn around and express his gratitude to Yun Ci, but in the end he just paused and walked towards the door again.
Yun Ci looked at the slender and beautiful back, dumbfounded in the atmosphere of parting, and his mind became chaotic. It seems to be a silent guqin, plucked by people who don't understand the rhythm, noisy, ugly, and tormented.
He had never been so eager to have a pair of hands that knew how to know the piano and sound to soothe the plucked strings in his heart; I have never been so eager for a woman who knows the rhythm of music to play a song of mountains and rivers again.
Such a bare hand, such a woman, perhaps, is far away in front of you.
"Out of Xiu," the moment the girl stepped out of the study, Yun Ci finally burst out, "If you want, I can take you back to Fangzhou." ”