Chapter 8: Rubbing shoulders
The western suburbs of Xueji, empty mountains.
"Miss, run slowly, wait for the slave!" the anxious female voice echoed in the empty mountain.
"Shisu, you'd better hurry up. Lin Xiangwan was in a good mood facing the mist of the empty mountains and the scenery of the ever-melting emerald green shrouded in thin snow, and turned his head to look at the girl behind him.
That girl is Shisu, who is the personal maid who is responsible for taking care of Lin Xiangwan, and there is not much difference in her age.
The two could have been called sisters, but Zi Su always insisted on emphasizing the difference between master and servant, and there was an atmosphere of forcing them to death under Lin Xiangwan's repeated requests. So Lin Xiangwan couldn't make any more senseless advice, and Zisu called her Miss.
Zisu is alert and smart, every time Lin Xiangwan sneaks out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zisu always sees her with sharp eyes, but because she was worried that Lin Xiangwan would be blamed by her father, she had to follow quietly, for fear that she would be lost.
So there is the current scene, wearing a blue light gauze placket and a bean-green light gauze long skirt, Shisu, who saw Lin Xiangwan stop, breathed a sigh of relief slightly, but there was a faint worry between his eyebrows, and he said: "Miss, you are the prime minister's daughter, why do you always run out?" You said that if you go to the streets and alleys in the center of the city to buy some sugar gourds, you can go to the teahouse to listen to the story. In the middle of winter, I came to the empty mountain, the weather was cold, the mountain road was slippery, and the fog was heavy, if the old lady, the second young master and the third young lady knew, the young lady would be blamed!"
"But didn't my father and second brother go to the palace to deal with affairs for many days? My mother and third sister are also about to go, so it is estimated that they haven't gotten up yet, and even if they do, they should be tidying up, right?" Lin Xiangwan smiled at Zisu, and was satisfied to see a trace of speechless chagrin flashing on Zisu's face.
"Miss... It's early in the morning..."Zi Su hesitated, if she hadn't been used to maintaining a high degree of vigilance while sleeping, I'm afraid she would have let the sneaky Lin Xiangwan run away.
"But it's really stuffy in the incense courtyard. Lin Xiangwan looked solemn and lowered his voice: "And don't you see that the second brother has a distorted personality because he always stays in the palace and deals with official documents? In order not to become the second brother, I sneaked out." "Since there is no way to justify it, then pretending to be naïve is the most effective way to do it.
So Lin Xiangwan was full of innocence, pretending to be pitiful with innocent eyes, trying to rely on the old and selling the young to get by.
Zi Su choked for a moment, the second young master has a good demeanor, and he is indeed the dream lover and good family in the hearts of thousands of girls in Xueji Country, but the second young master's character... According to her observations, although the second young master is very ruthless to other women, he loves the young lady very much. But the young lady couldn't let go of the fact that she had been molested by him before, and she showed dislike and dependence on the second young master, so the way the two brothers and sisters got along was very strange.
"Miss, you're always like this!" Shisu was entangled in her heart, Miss was delicate and innocent, she just wanted to go out to play more, I did everything I could to obstruct it, did I disturb her good interest?
So she spoke extremely helplessly: "Miss must return to the Prime Minister's Mansion before sunset, if the second young master and the old master come back, they will definitely be worried when they see that the young lady is not in the incense courtyard." ”
The lord loved his children very much, especially the young lady the most. Although the second young master and the old man often deal with official documents in the palace, but occasionally after the old man returns home from official business, he usually warms up with his wife for a while, and then he will definitely go to the incense courtyard where the young lady is located to chat with the young lady.
Lin Xiangwan secretly snickered, she knew that Zi Su would definitely be soft on her, and now it seems that pretending to be innocent is really useful, of course, it is limited to those close to her, she waved her hand indifferently: "It's okay, I'll go back in a while." In fact, she didn't think about it for long, but she sometimes felt that what the second brother said was actually quite reasonable, if she stayed in the incense courtyard any longer, she might become moldy and grow mushrooms.
After Lin Xiang arrived in the Shang Dynasty, she had to know all the big and small events in the past through other people's mouths or books.
And she doesn't know why, but her temperament is getting more and more lively, as she grows up day by day, she finally survives to the age of cardamom, and she is interested in the outside world, so she always likes to run out, but now it is a little less, maybe she was limited by the fragile body of modern times and could not release her nature.
Thinking of modern times, Lin Xiangwan felt a little melancholy, lowered his head, and collected the smile on his face.
Lin Xiangwan was wearing a smoky green thin smoke gauze jacket, a floral emerald yarn dew lily skirt, and her hairline was pulled into a three-turn small bun by perilla, at this time she stood in the valley, letting the snowflakes fall on her hair, slightly curled eyelashes, on the small jacket, she felt the cold wind penetrate her hair, and her clothes danced in the wind.
Although her incense courtyard is very warm, and the warmth always makes people lazy and do not want to leave, although it feels good, it can't resist the excitement of sneaking out.
In fact, the incense temple is named after a kind of medicinal herb called incense, which exudes a long-lasting fragrance and naturally forms various patterns. And she didn't know why she liked this medicinal material, and even liked it on a whim when Lin Zhi and Wen Yu asked her to name the courtyard, and blurted out the word incense.
When she was a child, her second brother Lin Que Qing often came to her incense courtyard to visit the door, and the guy said that his father was eccentric, and gave the incense courtyard that was always warm all year round to the youngest and most favored fourth sister.
And Lin Xiangwan always rolled his eyes, expressing nothing to say about his unexplained intermittent envy, jealousy and hatred, the structure of the retrospective building is staggered, the roof tiles are made of extremely precious Hetian red jade, the eaves are warped with snow, and the strong contrast between red and white is very good-looking.
Her incense courtyard is not as good as the Suji Building, isn't it, I really don't understand what the second brother has to envy.
Although her incense courtyard is perennially green and green, even if there are many snow days, the green bamboo still grows very well.
It's just that...
She looked into the distance, and saw the valley in the western suburbs stained with white, the green faintly flowing in the snow, and only felt that the vitality was hidden in it, the hope and joy of life that she loved for some reason, just as she felt when she traveled to the Shang Dynasty after her death.
Although in winter, the white and red plums with a unique scenery are in full bloom, and there is a great beauty of flowers blooming with light ink marks. Whenever this happens, she will always take her father, mother, second brother and third sister to the incense courtyard to enjoy the plum and eat side dishes.
Her father Lin Zhi would always pretend to be disgusted and say why he didn't eat in the main hall, but he wanted to go to this small incense courtyard, but in fact, she knew that he was happy in his heart, so he also cooperated with sticking out his tongue, looking arrogant and coquettish, this trick is always very useful to his mother and father.
Although her father and mother will follow her in many things, there is only one thing they will never compromise, and that is to go out alone. But in fact, after all these years, she doesn't want to go out anymore, and she has a lot of important things to do, for example, she has set up a stunning shop, a place to sell clothes and apparel that she designs with her own hands.
Although she already had such an idea when she received the fluorescent stone hairpin from her eldest brother at that time, and she also went to the material shop on Xueji Street to see it, and the gems and various colored stones at the end were really beautiful and suitable for accessories.
So it's better to act, she first borrowed a sum of money from her second brother Lin Queqing, and hid from people other than the second brother in the family to plan the opening and business of the Peerless Workshop step by step, and finally the hard work paid off, and in less than a year, the Peerless Workshop has been operating well, in fact, it also scared her and the second brother a lot... After all, those turnover is really terrifying.
Sure enough, it is the nature of women to love beauty, and the Stunning Workshop is getting bigger and bigger, and she has spent a lot of time and energy in order to expand the Stunning Workshop to other countries, and she has to design clothes and accessories, and is responsible for purchasing raw materials such as stones and gemstones.
And she slowly took in a lot of homeless people and asked them to help her run the Stunning Workshop, so she was a little relieved.
Lin Xiangwan thought to herself, she could only sneak out quietly in the early morning, and when she went back, she would start to think of new clothing patterns again.
Listening to Shiso's constant urging, she had no choice but to turn around and go down the mountain, step by step and carefully step on the steps down the mountain, the steps were covered with snow, and it was indeed slippery, requiring her to concentrate.
Da-da-da-da-
When she stepped down the next stone step, a strange feeling suddenly flowed through her heart, and she paused, and instantly glanced back at the empty mountain.
The empty mountain was still snowing, and in the entire valley, there were only two people, she and Shisu, and she looked at the green, and suddenly couldn't move her steps.
"What's wrong with Miss?" Zi Su looked at Lin Xiangwan with concern.
"Ah, sorry, a little distracted. Lin Xiangwan retracted his gaze, looked at Shisu with a concerned face, touched her head with a smile, and then continued to descend the stone steps.
It must be her delusion, Lin Xiangwan felt strange in her heart, but she quickly returned to normal. Maybe she thinks the scenery of the empty mountain is beautiful in her heart, so she is subconsciously reluctant to leave?
She waved her hand, trying to put that moment of unspeakable feeling behind her. She thought to herself that when she returned, she must instruct the kitchen to make some delicious osmanthus cakes to taste. Thinking of this, her steps became more brisk, and she had already descended the mountain in an instant.
The moment I left the empty mountain, the empty mountain was winding and lying, and there was still a touch of green just now, but the snow was falling even more, as if it was about to dye the vast earth white only. The jade tree branches were bent by the heavy snow, and the fog became thicker, and it was raging all the way.
Yushan is wild, and Qionglin parted ways.
The empty mountain was silent, but at this time someone stepped on the snow, and he walked through the wind, through the boundless snow. The Xuanyi flew and landed at the highest point of the empty mountain in an instant.
Snowflakes kept falling on his robe, on his hair, and on his eyelashes. But his purple eyes condensed a coldness that was better than the snow in front of him, and when he looked down, the verdant green trees were withering rapidly a moment ago.
This is what Xue Ji should look like, a mocking smile rose at the corner of his mouth, and his clothes were even more upright in the snow-white sky, his clothes were blown up by the strong wind, and then disappeared into the vast snow.
Tread the snow without a trace.