Chapter 129

The day after Shanniang and they came back, it was the Lantern Festival.

Early in the morning, Shanniang was still lying in bed, when she heard the voices of Yuan Changqing and Hou Rui and Hou Jue talking downstairs. I called Sanhe to ask, but it turned out that Hou Rui and Hou Jue actually thought of a place and took the lanterns that they had exchanged a few days ago to please Shanniang. It just so happened that Yuan Changqing came over to ask Shanniang to get up, and the two brothers pulled Yuan Changqing downstairs to enjoy the lights.

When Shanniang went downstairs, she saw confetti on the ground, her brother Hou Rui was tearing the colored paper pasted on a lantern, and her brother Hou Jue was kneeling in a chair next to the bookcase with his butt pouting, watching Yuan Changqing draw something on the desk.

"What's going on?" Shanniang bypassed the confetti in that place, approached Hou Rui and glanced at the lantern that had become a skeleton in his hand, and said with a smile: "Good lamp, what did you tear it up?" ”

"It's not your family's mouth, this lamp is too ugly." Hou Rui said with a smile.

Shanniang's face flushed, she glanced back at Yuan Changqing, and saw that he was painting seriously, and he was not looking at this, so she quickly slapped Hou Rui on the head, which made Hou Rui glare at her for a while, but she didn't dare to attack, rubbed her nose and whispered: "People who are married are not dignified, but they still do it!" ”

Shanniang was also glaring, and she was about to hit him again, and shouted in a low voice: "When are you my brother!" ”

Hou Rui instinctively ducked back and muttered, "You still know that I am your brother, and you actually bully me!" ”

Shanniang withdrew her hand, glanced back at Yuan Changqing, who was still painting, and asked Hou Rui: "I heard that the family is watching for you, don't you like it?" ”

Hou Rui's face flushed, and he rolled his eyes and said, "You women's family, can you think of something else besides this?!" ”

Shanniang said: "Okay, then let me ask you, what do you plan to do in the future?" I can't study in the academy for the rest of my life! ”

Hou Rui was willing to talk about this topic, so he threw away the torn lantern in his hand and said to Shanniang: "I really thought about it." I want to go to sea. ”

"Huh?!" Shanniang was startled, and the voice suddenly became louder.

"Shh Hou Rui hurriedly raised a finger and said, "But you have to keep it secret for me." ”

Shanniang hurriedly said: "Why did you really come up with this idea?!" But at that time, the idea arose on that Shuangyan ship?! ”

"It wasn't at that time," Hou Rui said, "I used to have such thoughts, but when I saw the real ship, I was sure that I really wanted to get on the boat." He frowned again, "What?" Didn't you agree with me before? ”

It was just talk, and he didn't really want to get on the boat! Shanniang also frowned, and said, "In the past, you only said that you wanted to go out and have a look, then I agreed." But now you're really going to sea! The sea is windy and rough, and when you get on the boat, your life will be completely up to you, not to mention the old lady, even I won't agree! You're on the boat, you're happy, no one cares about you anymore, but what do you tell us to do? Carrying a heart for you all day long, hanging a guts?! ”

Hou Rui looked at her, opened his mouth, and said, "People sit at home, and disaster comes from the sky, and not all people who go to sea can't come back......"

"Say!" Shanniang slapped him again in annoyance, "Can't you say something auspicious during the New Year?!" He added, "You should rest this matter as soon as possible, it is impossible for the master to respond to it!" ”

"I know......" Hou Rui said deflated.

Seeing that he didn't insist, Shanniang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You are good martial arts, why don't you go to take a martial arts exam tomorrow?" ”

"Say it again." Hou Rui waved his hand annoyantly, and when he looked up, he saw Yuan Changqing looking at them with a pen over there, so he laughed loudly: "Finished drawing?" ”

Seeing that he didn't mention this matter anymore, Shanniang also changed the topic, went over to look at Yuan Changqing's painting and said, "What are you doing?" ”

Hou Jue hurriedly said: "Brother-in-law thinks my marquee is too clumsy, so I want to draw a new one." He looked up at Shanniang again and said, "I didn't expect my brother-in-law to draw so well." ”

Shanniang knew that Yuan Changqing had a hand in calligraphy and painting, so she was not surprised, and only looked down at the drawing paper on the bookcase. Before she could see the reason, she asked Yuan Changqing to reach out and blindfold her, and said with a smile: "You can see it when we are ready." As he spoke, he pushed her away, "Go clean up, let's go out for morning tea." ”

"I'm going too!" Hou Jue immediately shouted.

By the time Shanniang came back from changing her coat, the marquee had already been pasted. Seeing her coming down from upstairs, Yuan Changqing smiled and said, "Okay, it's okay." ”

So Hou Jue jumped down from the chair and instructed Lu'an and the others to close the doors and windows, and Yuan Changqing lit the repainted marquee.

As the candle lit, the wick gradually turned. Only then did Shan Niang see that Yuan Changqing had painted a galloping horse, and from time to time a finch flew over behind the horse pecking at the horse's ear, and the galloping horse shook its head unbearably. And as the temperature of the candle burning in the lantern rose higher and higher, the horse ran faster and faster, and the finch pecked faster and faster, as if the horse was desperately trying to escape the finch trick. Shanniang couldn't help laughing, looked up at Yuan Changqing and said, "You are really narrow!" ”

was laughing, and suddenly heard the voice of the master outside, "What door is closed in this broad daylight?" ”

"The master is here." Hou Jue rushed over and opened the door with a smile, and saw that the old man and his wife were all in the yard, and even the whole brother was hugged by his nurse, so he went over and took the whole brother's hand and said to the old lady: "Come and see the marquee painted by my brother-in-law." ”

When the old man came in and took a look, he was immediately amazed, and habitually patted the table and said, "Why didn't I think of it?" In previous years, I thought the lights made outside were rough, but in fact, we changed it and it became an elegant thing. ”

Hou Rui smiled: "Why don't you draw one too, my lamp is still naked." As he spoke, he brought up his marquee, which had only one frame left.

"Okay!" The old man came to the momentum, and hurriedly turned around and ordered Tian Da to go to the street to buy a few more and come back to renovate, but the wife hurriedly stopped him and said: "It's just a matter of making two lamps and playing with them, if you have more, you won't have that fun." ”

The old man listened and hurriedly said: "It is reasonable." He looked back at Yuan Changqing and smiled: "When you were a nerd, it turned out to be quite interesting, better than your teacher." ”

Yuan Changqing smiled: "Didn't the master say that he was going out for morning tea?" Come back and draw again. As he spoke, he glanced at Shanniang.

Shanniang was holding a piece of cake in her hand at this time to send it to her mouth—she was indeed hungry, otherwise she wouldn't have taught her brother a lesson early in the morning—but Yuan Changqing looked at her and told everyone to turn their eyes to her. Suddenly, she couldn't eat the cake with it, and she didn't eat it, so she glared at Yuan Changqing angrily.

At this glance, the old man saw it again, and laughed at her: "Yes, yes, go for morning tea!" Sooner than that, we Shan'er will be hungry and cannibalistic! The crowd laughed again.

After having a morning tea at a famous restaurant in the town, the family went to the old lady for a look. The old lady has always been a person who only cares about himself, and he sent the family away without even seeing him. The old lady knocked the fifth master again openly and secretly. Shanniang later learned that the old lady had been questioning where the fifth master had the spare money to prepare such a dowry for Shanniang. The fifth old man didn't hide it from the old lady, but the old lady didn't believe that he could marry his daughter by selling paintings, but he refused to tell her if he had some money, and the relationship between the mother and son became even more stiff.

*·*·*

The Lantern Festival is a festival of lights. For adults, Xu prefers to guess lantern riddles, but for children, they prefer to carry lanterns to swagger through the market, not to mention that now Hou Jue also has a unique marquee in the world.

Finally staying up until dark, Hou Jue hurriedly lit the galloping lantern that Yuan Changqing had renovated and ran out of the door, stood on the steps and turned around and jumped into the door and shouted: "Old lady, sister and brother-in-law, hurry up." ”

The old man helped his wife out of the house, but he didn't care about Hou Jue who was jumping on his feet and shouting, and only whispered to comfort his wife, who was still a little uneasy. The wife looked back at the whole brother riding on Hou Rui's neck and asked the master, "Does it really matter?" "——Every year there is a lost child at the Lantern Festival, and the whole brother is still not thoughtful, and his wife is really worried.

Hou Rui had his brother on his neck, and in his hand he was holding the childlike frog fluttering grasshopper lantern painted by the master, and grinned at his wife: "Don't worry, Mrs., with me, I will not make my brother have a mistake." ”

The old man also said: "There are still family members to follow, don't worry, we will only turn around once, and we will come back after a hundred diseases." ”

Seeing that the old lady and his brother and brother had come out, and that Bishan Niang and Yuan Changqing had not yet come out, Hou Jue jumped up and shouted loudly at the door again: "Sister and brother-in-law, hurry up!" ”

"It's coming," Shanniang replied repeatedly, and said, "It's you, don't run around, look at the planted teeth!" As she spoke, she took Yuan Changqing's hand and came out of the door.

When everyone looked back, they were all stunned.

I saw a pair of beautiful people standing side by side under the big red lantern hanging high at the door. The woman was wrapped in a red cloak embroidered with flowers and gold threads, and the edges of the upturned cloak were inlaid with snow-white fox skins, which made the little face hidden under the hood shiny and white. Next to her, the man was dressed in a simple and elegant dark shirt, with neat arrow sleeves and a tight waist, which made him look long and jade, with an ape back and a bee waist.

This big red and one black, one tall and one petite, is actually a contrast to each other, and it is really raising human eyes. The old man couldn't help but praise: "Turn around and don't rush to replace it first." ”

"Why?" Shanniang helped Yuan Changqing's hand down the steps and asked suspiciously.

"Gotta draw it!" The old man smiled, "It's a pity otherwise." ”

Shanniang realized that the old man was making fun of her and Yuan Changqing, and she couldn't help blushing. Who knew that Yuan Changqing responded with the boat: "Then it's hard father-in-law." She immediately unceremoniously pointed down and twisted him. Yuan Changqing is a martial arts practitioner, and she really wants to tighten her arms, but she can't twist him.

The two of them made small movements in their hands, but they did not prevent Yuan Changqing and the fifth master from talking.

The two of them talked from painting to words, from words to characters in the literary and painting world, and then to various literati gatherings in Beijing every spring, the lord couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I went to the capital at the invitation of your teacher that year, but only that time, I was infinitely useful." Speaking of which, in the end, this Meishan town is too small, and I just want to find one or two colleagues to communicate, but in the end the benefits are limited. ”

Yuan Changqing said with a smile: "It's not just your father-in-law, you are infinitely useful, the painting you splashed ink in Wenhui Garden back then is still hanging in the garden for others to comment on." There are countless people who want to learn your painting style, but after all, it is not as easy as yours. ”

"Alas, don't mention it," the fifth old man waved his hand regretfully, "If it weren't for the old lady's urging of the left letter and the right letter, I would have stayed in the capital and not come back." If I had the opportunity to learn more from those people, maybe my technique would not have grown for so many years. ”

Yuan Changqing suddenly glanced at Shanniang, who was talking to his wife, turned around and smiled at the fifth master: "Now that Shan'er is married to Beijing, the master has a reason to come and go with Jingli often." ”

The fifth master's heart moved, and he immediately glanced at Yuan Changqing. Weng Son-in-law looked at each other and couldn't help but smile tacitly, and the fifth master patted Yuan Changqing's shoulder and said, "You are very good." ”

"What?" When Shanniang heard this, she turned around and asked the master.

The old man immediately said unashamedly: "Now I feel more and more that the son-in-law I chose for you is good." He had forgotten for a moment that he had gritted his teeth and refused to nod in agreement.

And Yuan Changqing also looked at Shanniang and nodded vigorously......

Shanniang couldn't help but be speechless for a while, and as soon as she turned around, she pulled her wife and walked away from the two cheeky men quickly.

The two cheeky men glanced at each other, and the old man lowered his voice and said, "It's rare to have a Lantern Festival today, you can take Shan'er for a walk." ”

As a sensible son-in-law, Yuan Changqing suddenly understood in seconds, the old man was suspicious of Shanniang occupying his wife. So he hurried over and found an excuse to coax Shanniang to leave everyone, and when Shanniang came back, the fifth master and his party had already gone away. Shanniang couldn't help but glance at Yuan Changqing.

Yuan Changqing bent the corners of his eyes slightly, shook her hand hidden under the cloak, and the two walked slowly in the flow of people. Gradually, the two of them walked slower and slower, and when they came to a certain dark alley, Yuan Changqing's eyes quickly looked left and right, grabbed her suddenly, and pushed her into the darkness. Shan Niang was about to scream, but his head was already lowered, and he bit her lip fiercely.

Shanniang was taken aback, opened her mouth slightly, and asked his tongue to slip in. is usually a stable person, but he always looks like a pervert in this kind of thing, and he can't be fed no matter how he feeds it. He bit her eagerly, kissed her, sucked her, made her sore, numb and itchy, only felt hot all over, her feet were weak, she clung to him, for fear that as soon as he let go, she would lose her strength and fall in shame. The closer he was to her, the more he wanted to get close to her, so the lips and tongue gradually lost their proportion, and the kiss became deeper and deeper...... Until there was a sound of footsteps somewhere.

The two of them were shocked, and then they came back to their senses from their passion. Yuan Changqing hugged her tightly, and with a twist of his feet, he led her up the tree. Seeing a young couple who were also watching the lights hide in the place where they had just hidden, doing what they had just done, Shan Niang blushed suddenly, and was just about to dodge her eyes, but asked Yuan Changqing to break her face and press her against the trunk of the tree for another hot kiss......

By the time they were clear again, the young couple under the tree had already walked away. Yuan Changqing pressed against her forehead and said in a dumb voice: "There are still eight days." ”

There are rules for the days when you go back to your mother's house to live in the opposite month, and you can only live for a maximum of nine days. Yuan Changqing was counting the days they would be separated......

"You!" Shan Niang was embarrassed for a while, stretched out her hand and twisted it around his waist, and said angrily: "Pervert! ”

Yuan Changqing snorted in pain, but still refused to let go of her, leaned into her ear and said scoundrelly: "But I just miss you, I want you ......"

When the husband and wife returned to the flow of people, Shanniang's face was still red. She was glad that no one saw her when it was dark, when she suddenly heard someone behind her calling her name: "Thirteen, thirteen!" ”

When Shanniang turned around, she was embarrassed. She couldn't have imagined that when she least wanted to meet someone, she would meet someone, and they were all close friends of her boudoir.

Lin Ruzhi, Zhao Xiang'er, and You Hui ran over hand in hand, and Lin Ruzhi said proudly: "Look, I'll just say I'm not wrong!" Then he asked Shanniang: "Didn't you say that you would come back at the end of the month?" I was shocked when I got your post early. ”

As he spoke, the three of them directly squeezed Yuan Changqing aside in a reasonable manner, and chattered around Shanniang, "When did you arrive?" When to go? How is the capital? The lively Zhao Xiang'er even leaned directly into Shanniang's ear to tease her, "How does it feel to be a bride?" ”

Shanniang suddenly blushed again.

You Hui, who was blocked between Yuan Changqing and Shanniang, suddenly felt a chill on the back of her neck, turned her head to look, and saw Yuan Changqing looking at them with cold eyes. She shuddered, reacted immediately, hurriedly stretched out her hand to pull away the other two friends, and said with a smile: "Look at you two, seeing Thirteen is so happy that she is dizzy?!" What day is it? What is this place? We'll talk about it tomorrow, let's go! As he spoke, a gust of wind pulled Lin Ruzhi and Zhao Xiang'er Hui away.

From afar, Shanniang also heard Lin Ruzhi answer You Hui blankly, "It's the Lantern Festival today, this is Baizi Bridge, what's wrong?" ”

Lin Ruzhi didn't grow up in Meishan Town since she was a child, and she didn't know the customs of Meishan Town, but Shanniang knew it well. She was stunned, turned her head to look at the bridge behind her, and then quickly glanced at Yuan Changqing - he, do you understand the meaning of this bridge?

Obviously, Yuan Changqing, who has always been good at observation, knows it.

"Come, let's count too." He smiled and took Shanniang's hand and took her to the Baizi Bridge - the local custom, the husband and wife walked the Baizi Bridge during the Lantern Festival, which means to ask for a child. Counting the steps of crossing the bridge, if it is a pair, it is a daughter, if it is a single, it is a son......

Shanniang froze on the edge of the bridge, not knowing what to do for a while.

Yuan Changqing pulled her to take a step, and when he saw that she didn't move, he couldn't help but be surprised, and turned his head to look at her, "What's wrong?" He asked.

"I ...... I ......" Shanniang couldn't express the uneasiness in her heart, only her eyes flashed in panic.

Yuan Changqing thought he understood her worries, stepped forward, looked down at her and smiled softly: "It's just asking for good luck, and it's not born now." And he said, "You're still young." ”

This was the first time they had talked about children. Shanniang suddenly realized. At the same time, she also realized that no matter how much she didn't have the confidence to be a qualified mother, this matter was like marrying him, which could not be escaped......

Since there is no escape, the easiest solution is to face this matter...... Since her marriage is different from her previous life, may she be a different mother when facing her children?

Shanniang held Yuan Changqing's hand tightly and silently counted her steps with him.

"Even." She breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at Yuan Changqing and smiled.

Even numbers indicate that it is a daughter. In her previous life, her first child was a son. A little different, and perhaps also indicates a lot of differences......