"You use this so-called lady swimming in the lake depicted on the spring map, just to remind me of your mother's death......" Cui Xun said almost word for word: "You want me to be at peace on the day of the birthday banquet, do you!" ”

Cui Jing's expression was momentarily stagnant when he heard this.

He lowered his eyes to the image of a lady sailing on the half-unfolded canvas that had been thrown on the ground—

Yes.

His mother died in such a spring day.

On that day, my mother, who had been sick for a long time, suddenly came out of the house, her hair was neat, the jade hairpin was warm, and her lake-blue dress was particularly bright.

His mother smiled and stroked the top of his head, saying that she wanted to go to the lake, and asked him if he wanted to go with him.

He was just over four years old at the time, and nodded happily.

As soon as his mother took his hand, his father's cold voice came from behind him, scolding him for only playing and not wanting to make progress, and the husband was already waiting in the study, let him go at once.

In the morning light, he could only let go of his mother's hand.

He didn't even have time to look at his mother's expression.

On that day, my mother still went to the lake.

It was also that day, when he gave a proper salute to his husband, and when he came out of the study, there was no more Auntie.

Later, he heard that by the time the boat docked, his mother had closed her eyes.

It was a bright spring day, the scenery on the lake should be good, and the wind should be warm.

But when my mother was alone on the boat, would she be sad and afraid?

If he hadn't gone to the study that day to listen to his husband's lecture, if he hadn't let go of his mother's hand, if he had been with her, would she have been less sad and afraid?

Since marrying into the Cui family, her mother seems to have never been happy.

Therefore, at the last moment of her life, she chose to walk out of the gate of Cui's house and left this world in the lake and landscape.

"I know that since you were a child, you have heard too much of the slander of the old people around your mother, and you are bent on believing that I killed her! You've been haunted by that! ”

His father's voice brought Cui Jing back to his senses from those shattered memories.

"But I didn't hold back on her...... It was her stubborn temperament that made her depressed and sick! ”

Even after many years of mentioning the old things, Cui Xun still couldn't calm down: "When she was alive, I didn't even have a concubine, and not long after you were born, I and the whole family regarded you as the future head of the Cui family...... I have never owed you a single debt to your mother and son, but how have you repaid me? She showed me with a sharp body at the time, and after she left, you also resented me, and did not mention anything against me, and did not mention me at all, and did not even want to have a birthday banquet today——"

Listening to his words finally fell, Cui Jingfang said: "When my mother died, I was still young, and my memory was far less profound than that of my father. I ordered my men to find this painting, and I didn't pay close attention to it. ”

Cui Xun sneered: "You mean that I misinterpreted you?" ”

Cui Jing raised his eyes and looked at him: "Today's painting, if it was given by others, would my father still think like this?" ”

"Naturally not!" Cui Xun's eyes were full of sarcasm: "But you are not someone else, and others will not treat me with such calculations!" ”

"Therefore, there is no fault in this painting, there is no fault in the painting of a lady swimming in the lake, and there is no fault in using this painting as a birthday gift to my father-" Cui Jing's voice sounded calm: "The fault is all mine." ”

Cui Xun's eyebrows full of anger trembled slightly: "You don't seem to like words, but in fact, you can speak well, and you know how to get rid of your own guilt and criticize others with clever words!" Today is my birthday, are you celebrating your father's birthday like this? ”

"When my father asked me about my sin, he felt that I was exonerating myself in every word." Cui Jing looked at the painting at his feet again: "I have never made my father an enemy, and I will not and disdain to bother to do such a satirical act. Just because my father saw me as an enemy, everything he saw was my ill-intentioned intention, and that was nothing more than that. ”

Cui Xun grabbed the ten fingers in his sleeve tightly: "You ......"

Cui Jing had already raised his hand to salute, and his demeanor no longer fluctuated: "Today disturbed my father's birthday Yaxing, it was Cui Jing who was not filial, Cui Jing retired first, and I am willing to wait for the family law to deal with it at any time afterwards." ”

Looking at the figure of the young man who had retreated, Cui Xun's lips trembled with anger: "Rebel! ”

"I shouldn't have married Zheng in the first place...... Give birth to you, you debtor-collector! ”

Cui Jing turned around and walked out of the study.

The door was pushed open by Cui Jing, and Cui Lang outside the study was startled, hurriedly retreated, and said with a smile: "Eldest brother...... I...... I'm new to the city. ”

Cui Jing didn't say much, and left here with his feet up.

Looking at the back, Cui Lang wanted to speak and stopped, but he didn't dare to stop him.

Echoing the conversation he had just heard, Cui Lang felt angry and aggrieved for his eldest brother from the bottom of his heart, and couldn't bear to walk into the study: "Father, my son is really going to say two words to you today!" ”

Behind the bookcase, Cui Xun, who was standing there on the edge of the bookcase, raised his eyes, his face was gloomy, and his eyes were full of monstrous anger.

Cui Lang shuddered, turned around when the words came to his lips, and said, "As the saying goes...... Angry, the father rested earlier, and the son said goodbye. ”

Bending back two steps, he saw the painting and couldn't help whispering, "This painting...... Father doesn't want it, right? ”

Cui Xun: "Let people take it down and burn it!" ”

"Don't...... What a waste of money. Cui Lang hurriedly picked it up and hugged it in his arms: "If the father doesn't want it, then give it to the son." ”

Cui Xun was even more angry and pointed out the door: "...... Get the hell out of here! ”

"Okay." Cui Lang hurriedly rolled out holding the painting.

Looking at Cui Lang who came out of the painting, the little guy greeted him.

Cui Lang sighed: "This is Zhan Ziqian's spring map, and it is hard to find a daughter......

Listening to the sound of porcelain breaking faintly coming from the study behind him, the little servant whispered: "Lang Jun, this is not only hard to find, but also rich and dangerous." ”

Lord Lang and Da Langjun both lost, and only Lang Jun benefited from the world.

Cui Lang blew the dust on the canvas, carefully rolled up the painting, and sighed: "However, what is more valuable than this painting is the heart of the eldest brother......

What my father really ruined was this intention.

Thinking of the back that looked too calm when the young man left, Cui Lang only felt that after this incident, his father wanted to spoil the eldest brother's mind, and he was afraid that he would have no chance.

"Father, I'm afraid it's not the reincarnation of some kind of essence." Cui Lang whispered: "Wait and see, he will regret it in the future." ”

Finally, he snorted: "Next time, if you want my eldest brother to go home and be scolded, I won't do it." ”

……

The moon is as cool as water.

Cui Jing and his entourage dismounted outside the Xuance Mansion.

"Why did the Metropolitan Governor come back, didn't he say that the Cui family held a birthday banquet tonight?" When Cui Jing walked away, a soldier asked Yuanxiang in a whisper.

Today is the birthday of the Governor's father, and it is said that the Governor should rest at home.

Yuan Xiang sighed: "Do you still need to ask?" ”

It's clear that the Cui family is no longer a person.

Yuan Xiang didn't say much, only ordered the soldiers to prepare wine.

The moonlight poured on the roof tiles of the main hall of the Xuance Mansion, like a layer of silver frost.

The young man sat above the roof, with a white porcelain jar in his hand.

From time to time, a breeze passed through the young man's well-defined face.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly struck from behind the young man, carrying a strong wind-

Cui Jing sat still, only leaning to one side, dodging the sneak attack of the person behind him.

The next moment, the man covered his eyes from behind, deliberately puffed out his cheeks and said angrily, "Guess who I am!" ”

Cui Jing: "I can't guess." ”

"Haha it's me!" The other person let go of his hand.

Cui Jing turned his head to look over: "It turned out to be a senior." ”

With a smug smile, Ah Dian sat down beside him.

Cui Jing took a sip of wine and asked casually, "Why did the seniors come back?" ”

"I'm here to get something! Sleep in a while and come back tomorrow! ”

Hearing that he had regarded going to Chang's house as a "going back", and he was afraid that he would move all his "belongings" over this trip, Cui Jing smiled slightly: "It seems that my predecessors have been living in Changfu very happily during this time." ”

"Because there is a little carp!"

Cui Jing nodded: "I can see it." ”

"Don't worry, I'm not out in trouble now." Ah Dian said, and suddenly felt a little proud, as if he had a backer: "But Xiao Ah Li said, if I get into trouble again, and someone bullies me again, she will carry it for me!" ”

Cui Jing took another sip of wine: "What a big breath." ”

From the moment she threatened to pick up the chopping girl, her tone has always been not small.

Ah Dian raised his chin and felt a little proud: "But Xiao Ah Li did what she said, and she never broke her promise to me." ”

Then he said, "Just like Your Highness." ”

As he spoke, he held his cheeks with both hands and looked at the bright moon, his expression was serious and pure like a child.

When Cui Jing heard this, he put down the wine jug that was close to his lips for the time being, looked up at the bright moon with Ah Dian, and asked slowly: "Your Highness, she ...... What kind of person is he? ”

Ah Dian blinked: "Haven't you seen it?" ”

Cui Jing said: "But it's only one side. ”

But, only, that's all—

In just one sentence, there seem to be many shortcomings.

Ah Dian also regretted: "That's a pity, if you see His Highness a few more times, you will definitely like Your Highness as much as we do!" ”

Cui Jing laughed silently.

But you don't need to see more than a few times to like it-

But if you like it, it's too shallow.

Ah Dian's tone was innocent: "What is the moon, what is the sun, what are the mountains and rivers, what are the flowers, Your Highness is what it is, Xiaojing, can you understand when I say this?" ”

Cui Jing nodded with a smile: "What the seniors said is very easy to understand. ”

"Your Highness used to like to sit here alone and drink, and Your Highness only allowed me to accompany you at most, do you know why?"

Cui Jing shook his head.

"Because I'm good at peeling chestnuts!" As he spoke, he took out a few chestnuts: "Your Highness will drink wine, and I will peel chestnuts for him." ”

Speaking of the past, Ah Dian smiled happily: "The chestnut shell fell, Uncle Chang and they swept their heads down!" ”

Cui Jing looked at the chestnut in his palm, and after a moment, picked up one and looked at it quietly under the moonlight.

"Does Your Highness like to eat chestnuts when he drinks-"

Ah Dianzheng said: "His Royal Highness also likes to eat chestnuts when he is not drinking, and His Highness said that he eats chestnuts from a mountain every year!" ”

Cui Jing smiled when he heard this: "Your Highness's tone is actually very big. ”

The word "also" came out, and Cui Jing was distracted for a moment.

Ah Dian said again: "His Royal Highness said that his favorite thing is to eat chestnuts, and the most hated thing is to peel chestnuts!" ”

Cui Jing came back to his senses and smiled again.

Either he drank too much wine, or he heard all the things of His Highness, and he sat here tonight, and seemed to be laughing all the time.

"Actually, His Highness also broke his promise once...... "The child's sadness is sometimes very sudden, Ah Dian folded his arms in front of him, rested his head on it, and said in disappointment: "When His Highness left for the last time, I asked him to wait for him to come back in the Xuance Mansion, but His Highness did not come back." ”

Cui Jing turned his head sideways and looked in the direction of Dayun Temple.

"Maybe you can wait a little longer, Your Highness may not break your word."

The alcohol was rising, and he couldn't tell whether he was appeasing the child or expressing his unrealistic and bold delusions.

He knows very well that under the change of things and stars, everything in the world is destined to only move forward, not to stay, and not to go backwards and start again-

But he always felt that such a person should come back.

A gust of wind blew away, dissipating the fantasies that were like a man's dream, along with the smell of wine.

……

In April, the Beijing division became warmer and warmer, and the girls' cloaks were put into the bottom of the box, leaving only the soft spring shirts and skirts, and the flower banquet poetry meetings in various provinces became more and more lively, and the flower posts flew to the hands of the ladies and gentlemen like spring butterflies.

On this day, after Chang Suining returned from the martial arts arena, Ah Zhi walked in with two invitations and sent them to Chang Suining, who was sitting in front of the dresser.

Chang Suining picked up one casually and unfolded it to look at it.

Xi'er, who was combing her hair, saw it and couldn't help but be surprised: "Yingguo Mansion...... Is this the Ming family's post? ”

It's not so much the Ming family as the enemy.

It's not so much an invitation as an inscription!

Seeing Chang Suining closing the post, Xi'er hurriedly asked, "Is the girl going?" ”

If she wants to go, she has to hurry up and practice these days!

Chang Sui Ning said casually: "I won't go." ”

Regardless of whether this invitation was widely distributed among the nobles in Beijing, it was just carried by her, or it had other intentions, but it is a fact that she beat Ming Jin, the prince of Yingguo, and Ming Jin's grounding has not been solved so far, if she goes, won't she block herself from the Ming family?

She doesn't mind adding to people's blockages, but she doesn't add to the blockages that don't do good.

And when he entered the Ming family, he was a bit of a wolf in the tiger's den, and this kind of blockage with no chance of winning should not be added.

As she spoke, she opened another invitation.

"That's good." Chang Suining nodded and said, "I'll go to the Zheng Guo Mansion." ”

This is a post that Duan Zhenyi gave her, inviting her to go to the house for tea.

Of course, she is not used to being a junior in front of her friends, but at this time she really needs Duan Zhenyi's help.

I think that in order to buy Duan Zhenyi, she kept the secret for her, and there was no shortage of delicious food and drink.

As the saying goes, it is advisable to raise a thousand days, and it is appropriate to use it for a while, which is exactly the case.

The next day, Chang Suining took the invitation card and boarded the door of Zheng Guogong's mansion.

Duan was very happy.

But when she looked, Chang Xiaoniang was not very happy.

During the chat, Chang Xiaoniang mentioned that she would always dream of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess Chongyue recently, and her words were very inexplicably sad-

“…… Daddy, they all said that I was rescued by His Royal Highness the Former Prince when I was young, but for some reason, the person who saved me in my dream became Her Royal Highness the eldest princess. ”

Duan was surprised to hear this.

This kid ...... How can you still dream of breaking the sky!

There is a happy event in the family, my sister will get married tomorrow, and I have a busy day today, but fortunately I caught up with the update, good night everyone~

(End of chapter)