Chapter 36: Peach Blossoms

In March, the peach blossoms in Hexi slowly bloom, but in April, it is the peak season of peach blossoms in Hexi.

March 26 was Xiao Yan's pharmacy class, and Shen Qingyi said at the end of the pharmacy class that he would go to Qiantao Mountain to see peach blossoms in April.

Xiao Yan wanted to talk about practicing martial arts, but Shen Qingyi glanced at him coldly, so he didn't dare to say anything, and responded: "I'll go back and ask my mother." ”

Xiao Yan went back to Qingning Courtyard and told his mother about it.

Shang's light inky eyes lifted and glanced at her.

Xiao Yan understood the meaning of that glance - your fourth brother invited you not to go out many times, and your fourth sister-in-law invited you once, but she didn't dare to refuse? It's funny how different it is!

Xiao Yan explained weakly, "Who made me see through." "I have become guilty of deception, and I can't get angry.

Shang Qing continued to look at the "Swordsman Xing" in his hand, turned the page with his slender white fingers, and said casually: "If your fourth brother knows, what then?" ”

Xiao Yan frowned and said, "When I join the army, will I tell Fourth Brother SΓΉ?" ”

She heard the ninth cousin Xiao Ying say that the seventh aunt Xiao Yu joined the army that year, and the fifth uncle and grandfather made trouble for a long time, and later, it was the uncle and grandfather in the hall who couldn't stand it, and dragged him to the ancestral hall for training, so that he agreed as if he was mourning filial piety, and when he sent the seventh aunt into the barracks, he shouted "baby" with a look of life and death, and in front of thousands of pairs of eyes, the seventh aunt couldn't wait to die.

Xiao Yan didn't want to be sent to the barracks by his brother step by step!

She was silent when she remembered that scene, it was so embarrassing! I made up my mind to wait for her to join the army, and then tell my brother.

Shang Qing didn't make decisions for her in many things, and she had no objection when she heard this, so she returned to the previous topic, "Say, look at the peach blossoms." ”

Xiao Yan twisted his fingers a little tangled, not knowing whether to expect his mother to agree, or not?

Shang Qing stretched out his hand and patted her head, looked at the light ink landscape on the north wall, and said, "The way of civil and martial arts, one by one." It's good to go out and see, there is a way for everything, and closed-door penance is inferior. Go, the spring breeze is ten miles, and the peach blossoms are a catty...... Come back and make a picture of peach blossoms. ”

Xiao Yancan laughed, "Okay." ”

The next day was a literature class, Xiao Cong listened to Xiao Yan's reply, first laughed twice, and then teased: "It seems that my sister is more effective than my brother." ”

Xiao Yan immediately served tea soup to his brother's hands, and said with a smile: "Mother said that you have to go to see the world and understand nature, so that your mood can be magnificent, and you can't do it behind closed doors." ”

Xiao Cong took the teacup and said with a smile: "Lady's words are insightful. It can be regarded as accepting Xiao Yan's explanation.

When Xiang was having dinner in the evening, he said to his wife: "Ah Yan listens to you more." ”

...... "Xiao Si, is this jealous?"

The corners of Shen Qingyi's lips twitched slightly, and she suddenly felt that her heart was balanced, she was worried that Xiao Yan couldn't tell Xiao Cong that she was emotional during this time, and she was depressed for a long time, but when she saw Xiao Cong's depression, her heart was instantly relieved, and sure enough, if others are not happy, she will be happy. She couldn't help but smile and said, "That's because you are too soft-hearted to Seventeen, so you have love and fearlessness." ”

When Xiao Cong heard this, he felt comfortable and laughed.

The day of the trip is set on the eighth day of the fourth month, this day is the Buddha bathing festival, that is, the birthday of the Buddha, many believers have to go to the temple to participate in the Buddha bathing fasting party, correspondingly, there are fewer people who go to enjoy the flowers, not so bustling.

This day was set by Princess Anping, Xiao Cong originally intended to travel as a family, Princess Anping said: "Seventeen for the first time to travel, what do you do with so many people?" You take her to play, and in the future, there will be times when the family travels together. ”

Xiao Cong was right when he thought about it, so he set up a trip for the three of them on this day.

On the eighth day of the first month of April, nine drums sounded in various districts in the city, which means that today is a sunny day with no strong winds. Each state city of the empire is equipped with an easy elephant platform, by the Yi scholar every day to predict the weather, rarely missed, the pawn every day on time to ring the bell or drum is both to tell the time and to predict the weather, the city sergeant but hear the bell and drum to know whether it is windy, rainy or sunny today, encounter very few unexpected weather.

So the trip is set at the right time, and it is not too early or late to go out, which is just right.

Xiao Yan was wearing a new apricot round neck narrow sleeve and crotch robe, a leather belt around her waist, tied with an autumn water knife, wearing a black gauze soft head on her head, her eyebrows were long into her temples, and she was heroic. Even though Xiao Chengzhong, Duan Yan and other personal attendants were accustomed to seeing her beautiful appearance, they couldn't help but lose their minds at first glance.

Xiao Cong was also amazed, and said with a smile: "My Xiao Lang is a good color." ”

Xiao Yan smiled, seeing that his brother was still wearing the traditional wide robe and big sleeves of the scholar clan today, wearing a bun crown on his head, the azure pattern was like a cloud, clear and elegant, and he couldn't help but praise: "Brother is really a master." ”

Xiao Cong laughed.

The two "brothers" came down from upstairs, and while talking, they walked to the middle gate to wait for Shen Qingyi.

Before long, Shen Qingyi walked out of the corridor of the inner courtyard with the support of the maid, wearing a short shirt with a collar on his upper body, and eight silk long skirts with white silk bundles around his waist, the color was like frost and snow, and the jade white clouds were woven on it, smooth and without lines, but between walking, there was a light cloud shadow woven on the clothes, and he wore a light gauze like mist on the outside.

Xiao Yan's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he praised: "If my sister is near the Jade River, she is the Luoshui Divine Concubine." ”

Xiao Cong's eyes showed appreciation, and he smiled and nodded in agreement.

Shen Qingyi's eyes looked over, the brother and sister had extraordinary temperament and demeanor, but in terms of appearance, there were few that could be compared with Xiao Yan, her eyes stopped on Xiao Yan's face for a moment, and thought in her heart: Ah Yan is better to wear a mask.

The husband and wife sat on their shoulders and walked out of the Chenghe Courtyard, Xiao Yan walked with him, and there were guards and servants on the left and right. When you go to the eaves gate of the front house, you change the carriage and horse, from the main gate of the East Road Courtyard to go out of the Gongfu, there is a white stone road in front of the house to connect the fang wall, the fang wall opens the house door of the Guogong Mansion facing the street, the carriage and horse pass through the fang house gate, and go to the southeast city gate along the street.

When they went out of the city gate, the chariots and horses got up quickly.

The trees on both sides of the official road are rich in green shade, and the warm breeze brings the fragrance of flowers and plants, which is pleasant.

Xiao Yan rode on the jujube red horse, looked at the blue and lofty sky, breathed deeply the air that belonged to the outside, and the joy in his heart grew, and he galloped forward for a while, and galloped back in a flash, showing the liveliness of the young man and the excitement of going out for the first time.

Xiao Cong and Shen Qingyi did not ride a horse, sitting in a carriage with a shock absorbing spring device, through the light green tulle of the window, you can enjoy the scenery along the way, seeing Xiao Yan riding a horse and a happy child, Xiao Yan remembered his mood when he left the house for the first time after recovering from his illness, and said with a smile in his eyebrows: "Ah Yan is suffocated." ”

Shen Qingyi snorted, "I still don't want to come out." ”

Xiao Cong chuckled and defended Seventeen, "At Ah Yan's age, it is still rare to have such great concentration. ”

Shen Qingyi glanced at him, "Xiao Suizhi, you are really a brother who protects your shorts." ”

Xiao Cong smiled, and his complexion was pleasant.

At this time, there are not many pedestrians on the official road, and those who participate in the Buddha Bathing Festival go out of the city gate at three or four o'clock in the morning, and most of the people who go to the green are young people.

Xiao Yan suddenly rode his horse to the left side of the official road.

Shen Qingyi saw the little lady in Hufu riding by through the car window, the heroic lady in men's clothes and swords, and the noble lady in the beaded hairpin skirt, and when he passed by, he couldn't help but look at the young man in the apricot robe and sabre, and the beautiful young man, although the silver mask covered the young man's appearance, but the beautiful demeanor was enough to make people look back frequently.

Shen Qingyi couldn't help laughing, and suddenly thought, should she be glad that Xiao Yan is a girl, otherwise she would have been so attractive to girls when she was a teenager, how much worry would she have to worry about when she grows up?

Suddenly, I thought that if Xiao Yan traveled in women's clothes, it would attract countless Langjun.

Wouldn't it be more worrying?

Shen Qingyi suddenly had a feeling of wanting to

The feeling of dedication.

was holding her eyebrows together, her eyes suddenly saw a familiar figure, those eyes immediately cold, stretched out her hand to lift the gauze curtain slightly to take a closer look, she turned around and said, "I seem to have seen the third brother Wenmao." ”

Shen Wei, Shen Wenmao?

Xiao Cong sighed lightly, it is said that Shen Sanlang should visit the Guogong Mansion first when he came to Hezhou, but he didn't hear Xiao Rong mention that there was a thorn post from Wu Xing Shen at the door.

Shen Qingyi said lightly: "Xu is wrong. ”

Xiao Cong knew her temperament, so she couldn't mention it, so she wrote down the matter in her heart, and turned back to the people in the Wind Pavilion to check why Shen Sanlang came to Hezhou.

After two quarters of an hour, we arrived at Qiantao Mountain on the outskirts of the southeast city.

Thousand peach mountain is called mountain, in fact, it is a gently undulating hill slope, only because after Lanling Xiao built the city and opened the house, it planted thousands of peach trees in the southeast of the city, every time the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the peach blossoms are stacked and undulating, just like the mountains and thousands of trees and thousands of flowers bloom, so there is the name of the thousand peach mountains.

Hexi is located in the west of the big river, and there is Huolan Mountain running north and south for thousands of miles as a barrier, the spring breeze from the southeast crosses the big river, turns over the mountains, and arrives at the grassland of Hexi is a little late, so Hezhou in April is equivalent to the south of the Yangtze River in March, and the peach blossoms are in full bloom.

When the tourists' carriages and horses arrive outside the peach blossom half forest, they all abandon the carriages and horses and walk. From time to time, there were groups of young men and women in the peach forest, accompanied by servants, whispering and walking in the fragrance of crimson and crimson pink, giggling and roaming.

The three of them walked into the peach blossom forest in front of and behind the guards and servants, and they all looked at the tourists who met the scholars in the forest.

Xiao Cong's appearance and temperament are handsome and extraordinary, and he has the elegance and nobility of a high-ranking family, and his bearing is attractive. Xiao Yan is also eye-catching even if he wears a mask. Datang adheres to the arrogant and casual atmosphere of the Wei and Jin scholars, and there are many mavericks in the scholars, as long as people look at them with grace, talk elegantly, and behave freely or handsomely, they will be appreciated. Although Xiao Yan is covered with faces, her demeanor is graceful, and all the way she has attracted admiring glances, as well as the praise and laughter of the nobles. Coupled with Shen Qingyi's awe-inspiring and innocent demeanor, the three of them walked together, which attracted countless admiring eyes. If it weren't for Shen Qingyi wearing a white gauze hat, and the crowd seemed to be from a local noble family, someone would have come up to talk and get to know each other.

The atmosphere of Hezhou is more open than Chang'an, and the ladies and ladies rarely cover their faces, if there is a hat to cover their faces, most of them are from the south of the Yangtze River, or they don't want to be known, if the local nobles wear a hat, it is to express the meaning of "do not disturb".

Because Shen Qingyi wore a hat to express his refusal to disturb, the three of them enjoyed the flowers all the way very quietly.

Xiao Yan wandered in the peach blossom forest, seeing people for a while, and seeing no one for a while. Xiao Cong called her twice at the beginning, but later saw Xiao Chengren following, so he smiled at Shen Qingyi, "It's a bird out of the cage", and she went.

Suddenly, Xiao Yan burst out of the side forest, and a fist shook the peach tree trunk in front of the husband and wife, and the peach blossoms suddenly fell colorfully. The young man laughed, opened his arms and spun, and the peach petals fell on her silver-colored mask and apricot-colored robe, and then flicked his fingers to remove the flowers, and fell on the clothes of her brother and sister-in-law.

Xiao Cong and Shen Qingyi couldn't help laughing.

Shen Qingyi said angrily: "This is a bird out of the cage, a loose horse." ”

Xiao Cong laughed and praised: "The peach blossom spring breeze smiles on the silver face, and the dancing posture is absolutely jade." ”

Shen Qingyi smiled clearly, and replied: "The wind blows and destroys the flower hands, and the wild hooves trample the mud and trample the fragrance of the flowers." ”

The maids burst out laughing, and the guards couldn't help laughing.

Xiao Yan immediately jumped over and complained to Xiao Cong, "Brother, sister-in-law is laughing at me." When she was outside, she called Shen Qingyi her sister-in-law.

The corners of Shen Qingyi's lips hooked slightly, "How can I make fun of you?" ”

Xiao Yan choked up, can she say that she is the "flower destroyer" and "wild hoof"? With a humming voice, he flicked the peach petals in his hand to the heavy platform shoes under Shen Qingyi's skirt, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is also incense." As he spoke, he ran away into the depths of the peach blossoms, and laughter came from afar.

Shen Qingyi's fingers flicked down a peach blossom on the shawl, which landed right in front of Xiao Cong's gimbal.

This is to step on the past, which is "wild hooves stepping on the fragrance of flowers".

"......" Can Xiao Cong say that his wife will repay him?

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Walking and stopping all the way, gradually reaching the depths of the peach forest.

There is a three-storey peach blossom pavilion on the hillside of the forest, the pavilion is built to be spacious, and each floor can accommodate 100 people. There are more than a dozen places scattered on Qiantao Mountain like this Peach Blossom Pavilion, but this Drunken Cloud Pavilion has the best view.

Xiao Chengxin and Duan Yan led more than a dozen servants and maids to occupy a place on the east side of the third floor, the best east floor to enjoy the flowers, the stone table was covered with brocade stalks, and the brocade around the stone pier was then covered with rush grass mats, and the table was placed with melons and fruits on glass plates, and various tea cups, and the spring water was brewed from the furnace, and the tea was simmered.

Xiao Yan was the first to rush to the bottom of the pavilion.

Raise your eyes to see the pavilion plaque "Drunken Cloud Pavilion" three wild grass, and the peach blossom pink and charming seems to be incompatible with the style, but there is a forest of sparse elegance, look at it for a while and praise: "Good words!" ”

Xiao Cong and Shen Qingyi then came up from under the peach forest.

Xiao Cong explained: "This is the question of the Tibetan monk. ”

"No wonder! Thousands of flowers want people to get drunk, and this drunkness is well written. Xiao Yan said with a smile.

The two grass saints of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Bogao and Zangzhen, known as one bump and one drunk, are all crazy and romantic characters in cursive, and Zangzhen is the "drunk", known for drunk cursive.

Xiao Yan also saw the couplets on both sides written in drunken cursive writing, "Jiangnan is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in Hexi are in full bloom", and couldn't help laughing: "Bachelor Bai's poem is very good to use here, and it is also very wonderful to change!" ”

Bai Letian's original poem is "Jiangnan April fragrant flowers, mountain temple peach blossoms began to bloom", the "mountain temple" refers to the Dalin Temple is the temple of the Tibetan monk, the Tibetan really has the "peach blossom monk" nickname, he changed the "mountain temple" to "Hexi", it reminds people that he came from the mountain temple, then the peach blossoms began to bloom in Hexi, the peach blossom monk and the peach blossoms contrast with each other, the meaning can make people think endlessly.

Shen Qingyi didn't want to see this peach blossom monk who entered and exited the brothel, and glanced at Xiao Yan, "Don't you want to leave?" ”

Xiao Yan immediately changed his tone and said: "Actually, it is still Yan Lugong and Young Master Liu's words that are more stylish. ”

All the personal attendants bowed their heads and smiled: Seventeen Langjun met the young lady, that is, he saw the wind and turned the rudder.

Xiao Cong covered his lips and coughed, and followed Xiao Yan's words: "Yan muscles and willow bones have their own wind and bones. ”

The attendants said in their hearts: When the prince meets the seventeenth Langjun, that is, words and deeds must be protected.

Therefore, Seventeen Langjun is even more afraid of Mrs. Shizi.

The author has something to say: Remarks:

The fang in the Tang Dynasty was built with a fang wall, and the fang door was closed every night and opened regularly every morning. If you miss the time to enter the workshop at night, congratulations, you can't leave home tonight, so sleep outside the hotel. - There are differences in this setting in this article, the square wall and the closed workshop system are broken (except for individual square areas to be retained), because this is more conducive to commercial circulation and prosperity, which will gradually be revealed in the following article.

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