"How's the study of the Book of Music?" Biyu was thinking about it when he suddenly heard his father's inquiry. "Oh......" Of course, Biyu hasn't studied it well, although it's been two months since he got the "Book of Music". At this time, if he told the truth, he would definitely be scolded by his father, so he could only prevaricate, "Go back to Ah Weng, I have already eaten most of the rolls." ”

"Only half a roll?" Although he was not satisfied, because of today's festive season, Shi Hui's tone was obviously softer than usual.

"Yes. My father didn't know, the words on the "Book of Music" are all ancient seals, extremely difficult to understand, and it is a fragment, can not be connected up and down, so it is extremely difficult to study, these days I have a lot of brains for this. ”

Mrs. Wang said with a smile: "I can't complain, De'er is absent-minded today, and she has no appetite in the face of so many delicacies, so she is working hard for this." ”

Biyu smiled secretly in her heart: "My aunt can really guess blindly by taking advantage of the situation." He smiled in his heart, but on the surface, he kept nodding.

Shi Hui nodded with satisfaction: "It's rare to be like this." "The Book of Music" is a treasure of ancient books, and it should be studied carefully and thoroughly, and it must not be sloppy. If it succeeds, it may be possible to flaunt history if it is bigger; To put it mildly, at least it will be of great benefit to your genuine review. ”

Mrs. Wang personally poured wine for her husband: "Husband, you are now the central official of our Ruyin, are you still afraid that there will be no good reviews?" ”

Shi Hui took it, but he didn't drink it: "Madam, you don't know, people from poor families can't make waves, but now the major scholars in the court are fighting fiercely, and everything must be paid attention to a degree. Even if I am the central official of Ruyin, I have to hide it from everyone in front of everyone. ”

Mrs. Wang thought for a moment and said, "In your opinion, which force will win?" ”

Shi Hui put down his wine glass, stroked his beard and said: "In my opinion, the party of King Qi must have gone to the general trend, and there is no suspense about Sima Xin's crown prince." But in the future, if the crown prince succeeds to the throne and becomes the emperor, he is now also the crown prince. The Yang family, the queen of the party, and the Jia family, the crown princess, must be incompatible, and it is difficult to predict who will win and who will lose. ”

Mrs. Wang asked again: "What about the ministers of the court?" Whose forces are they attached to? ”

"Wei Qian and other old ministers are not princes. Party members, once the crown prince succeeds to the throne, they will definitely be ostracized; As for the Yang family, there are three brothers such as Empress Yang's father, the chariot general, Yang Jun; Although the Jia family does not have people with prominent official positions, they have a solid foundation in the court, and there are many people who are attached to the Jia family, such as Shi Chong, Pan Anren, Wang Rong, and Jia Chong's old party secretary Xun Xun, etc., whose energy cannot be underestimated. ”

"In this way, although the people of the Yang family are in high and powerful positions, they are not as good as the Jia family's chances of winning?"

Shi Hui nodded.

"In that case, should we be on the side of the Jia family?"

"Well, it's important to take sides."

Mrs. Wang looked at Biyu, who was silent, and suddenly said: "De'er is so good-looking, she is so old, and she is not engaged yet, are there any good girls in those families who can marry with both talent and appearance......"

Biyu was silently listening to his parents' calculations for the family. When I suddenly heard the word engagement, I immediately felt disgusted. Shi Hui and his wife have also mentioned his family affairs many times before, and for some reason, every time he thinks of Han Zhixin. He also knew that the poor girl was not in the right place with his own door, the world was separated, and now it was yin and yang. Biyu has had a talent for painting since he was a child, but since that day he learned that Zhixin fell into the water and drowned, and after painting a few paintings about Zhixin, he never painted again. He also knew that Zhixin only thought about Shu Yan in her heart, and she didn't have any feelings for herself, and a poor woman was not worthy of herself, but he couldn't figure out the reason why he was disgusted with proposing.

Shi Hui drank the wine, looked at Biyu, and said to his wife: "Among these families, I haven't heard that there is a person who is the same age as De'er, but I only heard that Shi Chong's family has a goddaughter, who looks like a fairy, and knows poetry and books, and is very compatible with De'er, and it is very coincidental that she was born in the same year, month, and day with De'er." ”

Yes? Father is talking about the strange woman from Ruyin at the door of Xiahou! I don't know why, maybe it's because of the relationship between the word "Ruyin", Biyu didn't have the disgust in his heart when he was in person.

"It is said that the girl's original place is actually from our Ruyin."

……

There is a bright moon in the sky, and thousands of people in the world look up. The moon seemed to know that there were many people who wanted to reward it today, and it was a little embarrassed, like a shy girl, it pulled a cloud quilt floating next to it and covered itself.

"The moon is as shy as my daughter."

In the peony garden of the Shi family, there is a table of wine and fruit, and Zhixin and several maidservants and concubines are accompanying Mrs. Shi to enjoy the moon.

Chunlan smiled: "Mastermother, in front of so many people, you mention the girl's family affairs, can the girl's family be shy?" ”

Mrs. Shi talked about Zhixin's marriage again, and every time she mentioned it, Zhixin always blushed and bowed her head and was silent.

"No matter how shy a woman is, she has to show up one day. Like the moon, you can't always hide behind the clouds. As they spoke, everyone looked up and saw that the moon did not hold the clouds, revealing the whole picture.

Zhixin was laughed at by everyone, half ashamed and half angry, and couldn't find anything to say for a while, so she said: "Does my mother not like me, do you have to marry me?" If that's the case, please send me back to Ruyin as soon as possible. ”

Zhixin's words seemed to be playful, but they seemed to come from the heart, which made Mrs. Shi a little uncomfortable, she pretended to be angry and said, "My good daughter, what are these words!" You have no one at home, how can I let you go back to Ruyin to suffer? I'll tell you the truth, if you were my own daughter, I would have been married for many years. Don't you know that the imperial court has a rule that if a woman who has reached the age of 17 has not yet been hired, the local Taishou will forcibly choose a match. If you weren't in this Hou Gate, you would have been assigned many times by your Ruyin Taishou. Even among us, who still has a girl as big as you? ”

Zhixin also knew that the court's impersonal rule, although it was a bit excessive for girls, was very effective in restoring the population in times of war. Zhixin was not even seventeen years old when she was in Ruyin. Even if he is seventeen years old, even if there is no dowry, the people of Shujiazhuang all believe that Shu Yan and Zhixin are a match made in heaven, and no one will force Zhixin to match people.

"Mother, I don't like the exaggeration of Luoyang's children, if I have to get married, I want to choose in my hometown Ruyin, listening to the hometown every day, I can relieve the pain of homesickness." Shi Mu's words were true, and Zhixin didn't know how to answer the old lady. She just thought, am I getting closer and closer to the goal in my heart when I delineate the scope like this?

"It's good to choose a fellow villager as a son-in-law, but in that small place in your Ruyin, where is there someone worthy of us?"

"I don't care about the ......" Zhixin's true feelings for Shu Yan remain unchanged in her heart, but God makes people, and now they have become two people. She wanted to say that she had been in love with Shu Yan, but even if she said it, not only would the Shi family not agree, but it would also make the sisters laugh.

"You don't care about me, if you casually find someone to marry, wouldn't it be a shame for my Shi family?" Everyone nodded yes when they heard this, only Chunlan and Peony followed Zhixin for a long time, and vaguely guessed that Zhixin seemed to have something on her mind.

"Hey, speaking of Ruyin, I think of it, your father once mentioned to me some time ago: Now there are two young talents in the court, from you Ruyin, one is a secretary in the secretary's pavilion, and the other is a scholar in Shangshutai, both of whom are promising Meicha. Moreover, that secretary Lang was born on the same day, the same month, and the same year as you, and you held a coming-of-age ceremony on the same day. ”

"Born on the same day, the same month, the same year? What's his name? ”

"I don't know what it's called, I only know that his family is also a scholar, and now he lives in Luoyang, and his father is a loose horseman by the emperor's side, called Shi Hui."

"Shide?!" Zhixin blurted out.

"What? Make? Daughter, you just said - make? Do you agree with this family business? Shi's mother was surprised, it turned out that she was worried about her daughter's marriage in vain, and she didn't expect her daughter to be so happy.

"No, no." Zhixin was so anxious that she wanted to go crazy, and hurriedly defended, but it was not easy to say that she knew Shi De, so she had to say, "What I said is - I can't do it, I can't do it, but when I am in a hurry, I will say that it is done." Zhixin laughed unnaturally twice, so that others could not see her panic.

Shi Mu laughed: "I said, my daughter has always been reserved, why is she in such a hurry to get married today." ”

Zhi Xin didn't know what to say, so she found a topic to cover up: "I didn't expect that there were two young talents in Little Ruyin, uh, who is that Shang Shulang?" ”

"That Shang Shulang doesn't know his surname, he doesn't know his age, he is from a poor family, don't ask."

Zhixin thought about it, although Ruyin is small, it also has several counties under its jurisdiction, even if it is a fellow villager, the chance of knowing him is very small, so she doesn't ask anymore.

Shi Mu and the others sat for a while, and then they all dispersed. Zhixin instructed Chunlan and Peony to prepare for bed, clean up the cups and saucers, and go to rest after cleaning up, don't worry about herself, the moonlight is too beautiful, the flowers are too delicate, she wants to watch it for a while.

Many of the peonies in the peony garden that were once in full bloom have been thanked. Although the peony flower is good, it blooms too much, and it is a little extravagant. Zhixin didn't like this kind of prosperity very much. Because the more the flowers bloom, the more desolate they are when they wither, and the greater the sense of disparity. In order to make up for this gap, she asked someone to plant a few relatively elegant white peonies in the garden. At this time, these white autumn peonies are quietly blooming.

On the night of the fifteenth, as the night deepens, the moon will get closer and closer to its roundest point and brightest spot. Zhixin sat alone on the Hu bed. Looking up, the moon was already dazzlingly bright and round like a jade mirror.

Is this moon also hanging in the sky of Ruyin? Is there also a person under the thatched hut who is looking up at the moon stupidly? Is he asking the moon - how is Zhixin doing in the sky? It's been more than three years, and it's been more than three years in a flash! He thought I had been dead for three years...... Do you still miss me now? Even...... Have you already married another woman? If that's the case - at this moment, will they kiss me and me under the moon before the flowers? Thinking of this, Zhixin shuddered unconsciously, and felt miserable in her heart.

It would be nice if the moon was really a mirror, let it be reflected in Shujiazhuang, so that I can see what people in the distance are doing, and whether they are doing well or not. He can see me, he can see me consistently, he can see me here in a state of infatuation!

Or maybe we can all fly up like Chang'e, so no matter how far apart we are in the world, we can fly to the same moon to meet.

"Look at the sun and the moon, and think about it. The clouds of the road are far away, can the clouds come? Zhixin recited this poem from the Book of Songs, and suddenly sneezed. She remembered what she had said when she was with Shu Yan before, "If you are willing to speak, you will sneeze".

"Is he really still thinking about me?"