Chapter 4: Joy at First Sight
Dugu Shuo was surrounded by everyone and went straight into Pei's mansion.
"Brother Pei, since you have arrived at your mansion, you can always say it!" Dugu Shuo looked at the frolicking crowd and said.
"Brother Dugu, don't worry, you'll see you in the backyard!" Pei Ce said, Shangguan Yi and the others also pushed and shoved, wanting him to go to the backyard. Dugu Shuo didn't know what medicine Pei Ce and others were selling in the gourd, so he reluctantly said: "The backyard is all for women, and it is unreasonable for me to go in as a rough man, if Brother Pei doesn't want to say it directly, you might as well change the day, I am in poor health today, it is really inconvenient!" β
"I can't help you today, you have to go even if you go, and you have to go if you don't go!" Pei Ce smiled evilly, and everyone followed suit, but Dugu Shuo still didn't know the reason and refused again and again.
"Brother Dugu, what do you look like as a big man, isn't it just to see a girl, why are you so timid!" Shangguan Yi was angry for a while, and said with a little anger between pushing. "When did I say I was going to see a girl?" Dugu Shuo looked at a few people with a blank face, "Hey, hey, I said that this is your fault, I said in your house that day, my cousin is coming to Shendu, I want to meet you, you didn't say anything at that time, I agreed with you, if you want to regret it today, I'm afraid it's inappropriate!" Pei Ce said, rolled up his sleeves with a few people, fought desperately, and put Dugu Shuo in.
Dugu Shuo was held up, and shouted in his mouth: "I haven't picked it up, it's vulgar, it's really inappropriate!" Everyone didn't care about him, and drove straight to the lake in the inner courtyard, and saw Pei Ce's cousin walking with a few sisters-in-law from a distance. Seeing that everyone was leaving, Dugu Shuo also wanted to come out, and Shangguan Yi threatened: "If Brother Dugu dares to go out of this door today, I will definitely rip off your clothes, and I will also be ashamed of my cousin!" As soon as these words came out, Dugu Shuo knew that a few people had to walk back, and everyone laughed when they saw it.
Pei Ce's cousin, a native of Xuyi, surnamed He, named Huan, was ascended to the Shendu with his father He Sheng, and his family moved here. He Huan was fourteen years old and had never been married. Because he couldn't stand his cousin Pei Ce's repeated words, he took the opportunity to secretly see Dugushuo behind his parents' back. When He Huan was in Xuyi, he had many correspondence with Pei Ce, during which Pei Ce repeatedly mentioned the matter of Dugu Shuo, the deputy commander of the internal guard, which aroused He Huan's admiration.
When He Huan came over, Dugu Shuo pretended to bend his body, lowered his head and didn't look at it, he only had Liu Lingwei in his heart, and he was unkempt, so he was afraid of profiling He Huan's eyes.
"He Huan has seen Childe!" He Huan tapped the posture of the willow and said hello!
Dugu Feng still didn't look at it, turned sideways, waved his hand and said, "The girl is fine!" In the end, He Huan is also a scholarly family, quite showy, and said generously: "Why doesn't the son speak to each other directly, but turns sideways, isn't it ugly and can't see people!" Saying that, he sneered, causing Dugu Shuo's face to turn red for a moment, so he turned around respectfully, waved his hand and saluted, and was stunned when he raised his eyes, only to see He Huansheng's exquisite elegance and elegance, and his delicate spirit was very, as Cao Zhi said: "It seems to be like a light cloud covering the moon, fluttering like the snow of the wind." β
He Huan saw Dugu Shuo's face, slightly immature, but he was also quite heroic, and his eyebrows were full of vicissitudes.
Dugu Shuo glanced at it, and hurriedly turned around, but it made He Huan puzzled, she was staring at Dugu Shuo carefully, but she didn't think that Dugu Shuo suddenly turned around, and hurriedly asked: "Childe, why is this, it's really not like what my brother said, I have a heroic spirit, I often hear people say that God Duwei is tyrannical and cruel, and his methods are vicious, isn't Childe afraid of me, a girl's family!" β
When Dugu Shuo heard this, he hurriedly waved his hands and said: "The girl misunderstood, she was deceived by her colleagues here, I didn't know how to see the girl, it was rude to not have time to groom, and I saw that the girl was good-looking, I can't help but look at it twice, frivolous and trampled on the girl's reputation, and the girl saw me, the prodigal son, and I am afraid that the girl's noble eyes will be dirty, so it's better not to see it!" β
He Huan listened to it and said with a smile: "The world regards beauty as beauty, but when you see the beauty of the beauty, it is pleasing to the eye to look at it a few more times, why has it become a filthy saying here in Gongzi, is it not that He Huan grew up and couldn't enter the eyes of Gongzi, so he prevaricated with this words!" β
Dugu Shuo looked nervous, and said hurriedly: "The girl really misunderstood, and she never had such intentions!" β
He Huan was a little depressed in his heart, but when he saw that Dugu Shuo seemed to be reluctant in his dodge, he committed himself and said: "Okay, even if the son is reluctant, He Huan is inconvenient to be strong, and he is tired after walking a lot of roads today, so let's give up!" As he spoke, he nodded and wanted to retreat.
Dugu Shuo hurriedly said: "Today's abrupt rudeness, please girl Haihan!" β
"Childe, don't care, He Huan is leaving!" He Huan turned around and left, Dugu Shuo slowly turned around, looked at it from a distance, let out a long breath, and then left the courtyard gate.
Everyone was waiting at the door, but when they saw him come out, they came up one by one and asked, "How is it, my cousin is so good-looking, can you two see the right eye?" β
Dugu Shuo seemed to be a little distracted, his mind was in a mess, the shadow of He Huan and Liu Lingwei's shadow in his mind were intertwined, chaotic, listening to the words of a few people, he nodded again and again in a daze, and agreed indiscriminately. Everyone thought that this matter was happy, so they cheered and made a fuss, and hugged him to invite him to eat and drink, he was afraid that everyone would make trouble to his house, and saw Liu Lingwei again, so he invited everyone to eat and drink in the teaching workshop.
Jiaofang Si is a popular saying, the official family is called the Inner Jiaofang or Yunzhao Mansion, mainly responsible for singing and dancing in the court, arranging music, etc., among which there are some courtesans, the vast majority of them are singers. It is also where the government-run brothel is located, and some of the girls and mothers-in-law were originally the female dependents of the official eunuchs, and they were punished and confiscated for various crimes.
The descendant Bai Juyi once wrote in the pipa line: "I said that I was a woman in the capital, and my family lived under the shrimp toad, and I learned the pipa in the thirteenth, and the name belonged to the first part of the teaching workshop. Wuling is young and entangled, and I don't know how many red silk songs are played. β
Dugu Shuo and the people of the internal guard are also frequent visitors, because of their identity, they will always be feared by others.
This day was different from the past, Dugushuo invited everyone to eat and get drunk in the hall. The aunt in the hall was also a discerning person, but when she saw a few people coming, she ordered the girls to pick up and wash, and only waited for a few people to drink and eat, and the maid who accompanied the wine led her to the room. Dugu Shuo put aside the maid and staggered upstairs, her aunt saw it, and rushed to her side to support her, she knew that she couldn't afford to provoke the Shendu Wei to send people to eat, so she greeted with a smile: "The commander is not here for a day, Lin Guanren (Lin Wan'er, because he is a nobleman, after punishing the palace as an artist, he was called an official) every day, I don't think about tea and dinner recently, I also sent someone to the house to see the day before yesterday, the door was locked, and I made the evening cry for a night. When Dugu Shuo heard this, he smiled slightly, and sighed: "If everyone in the world is as understanding as my aunt, then how can there be hatred and sorrow in the world!" β
When the aunt heard this, she laughed more and more, and said, "Lord Dugu is coming every day, and the old woman is always happy!" Dugu Shuo said, took out a silver ingot from his waist, threw it to his aunt with his backhand, and said with a smile: "I bother my aunt every day, I'm afraid my aunt can't stand it, my brothers and I are all rough men, and we have to mess up the business of the inner teaching workshop!" β
"My lord, where is this, as long as the adults of the gods are willing to come every day, it will be too late for the old woman to rejoice! Oh, by the way, I've been feeling unwell lately, so you can slow down! The aunt smiled evilly and slapped Dugu Shuo's buttocks, Dugu Shuo only smiled and didn't speak, until the door of Lin Fengwan's room upstairs, Dugu Shuo suddenly turned his head and said: "Thank you, aunt, thanks to my aunt's care, I can be thoughtful at night!" β
"My lord, where is this, the old lady is thanks to the care of the adults, and many disasters have been avoided, which bullying of the powerful in the DPRK and China is not the face of the commander to settle, the old woman should be Lord Xie!" After the old woman finished speaking, she didn't look at it, turned around and went down, and said to the maid on the side: "Lord Dugu of the internal guard, you have to be careful, but if there is the slightest mistake, but if you want to go to prison, you will lose your head and teach life is better than death!" The maids on both sides whispered yes and helped my aunt down.
But when he saw Lin Fengwan, Dugu Shuo didn't have time to say a word, so he crawled to the edge of the barrel and vomited, Lin Feng saw it late, washed the veil and followed him and patted it gently on the back, and muttered in his mouth: "How to drink these wines, my body can't be used for fun, and I don't take it easy!" As if he was complaining when he spoke, Dugushuo didn't speak, he still spit out a few mouthfuls before he slowly got up, Lin Fengwan wiped it lightly with a handkerchief, and helped him to the side of the bed to lie down.
"It's really helpless to come to bother the girl so late, please don't blame the girl!" Dugu Shuo staggered, seeing that he was about to vomit again, Lin Fengwan moved the wooden barrel over and put it next to the bed, gently caressing Dugu Shuo, neither of them spoke, and sat quietly. I don't know how many times the candle flowers were cut, the night was a few more late, when Dugushuo woke up, Lin Fengwan sat on the edge of the bed with his legs down, holding Dugushuo in his arms, and fell asleep by the head of the bed, the candle flame flickered and flashed, glowing with a faint light.
Dugu Shuo wanted to turn over gently, but Lin Fengwan woke up after a slight move, and hurriedly got up and went to the desk, Dugu Shuo grabbed Lin Fengwan's hand and said, "Miss Lin, I'm not thirsty, you come up and sleep!" With that, he got up and got out of bed.
"The wine hasn't woken up yet, so you can lie down!"
"You go up and rest, my aunt said that you have been inconvenient lately, so you should not sit for a long time!" Dugu Shuo said, hugged Lin Fengwan up, and sat at the head of the bed with his legs down.
Lin Fengwan couldn't help it, so he had to lie down by himself and look at Dugu Shuo quietly, and when Dugu Shuo also turned around to look, Lin Fengwan hurriedly turned his head and covered the mood on his face.
Dugushuo looked at it for a while, got up and sat down by the fire.
"You are also strange, every time you come, you don't go to bed, you don't say something inexplicable, or sit on the side in a daze, a few days ago I got a cold and coughed for a few days, but let my aunt misunderstand! The regulars in the division know that you are the head of the internal guard, and no one has ever dared to provoke my room! Lin Fengwan said, as if he was complaining, and as if he was thanking! Dugu Shuo listened, looked at the fire in front of him, and unconsciously burst into tears.
"You should rest early, and when I have saved enough money, I will redeem you!"
Lin Fengwan heard it and smiled bitterly: "Where else can I go!" Without the documents allowed by the palace, how can I get out of this sea of suffering, that is, I escaped, and I am also a person who is destined to end the world, why bother asking for trouble, and my lord does not need to allow me, let me break these thoughts early! Lin Fengwan said, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes, and he was indeed very worried in his heart, since he joined the Teaching Department at the age of twelve, he was used to seeing cold eyes and hearing enough sarcasm, hoping to meet a good fate early and get out, which is probably the common idea of all the singers in the Teaching Workshop Division.
When Dugu Shuo heard this, he didn't dare to look back, so he paused, closed the door gently, and jumped away.
When he arrived, Dugu Shuo returned home alone, the lights were on at home, he knew that Liu Lingwei was waiting for him, he still wiped his face in the alley, and stepped in.
"It's late, why don't you rest?" Dugu Shuo saw Liu Lingwan and asked.
"Today's idle business, boring, made a meal waiting for you!" Liu Lingwei said, Dugu Shuo picked up the chopsticks and ate it, but was blocked by Liu Lingwei, staring at Dugu Shuo with his eyes, and slowly got up and said, "The food is cold, I'll go and heat it up!" Dugu Shuo was stared at so much that his heart was furious, his face was flushed, and he said in a daze, "Okay!" β
After a while, the food was served again, Liu Lingwei watched Dugu Shuo gobble it up, revealing an elusive color, and said with a sudden smile: "It's really difficult for you, the taste of the wine and food of the Jiaofang Division is a must in Luoyang City, but I want you to endure your hunger and come back to eat a bite I made!" β
Dugu Shuo listened, and was suddenly stunned, and the dishes and chopsticks in his hand also stopped.
Liu Lingwei looked at Dugu Shuo, and sneered: "Why be surprised, since you entered the door, I have smelled the smell of rouge, this kind of fragrance, the entire Luoyang Market, only the official Jiaofang Division has, I hate men to bully girls in the Jiaofang Division the most in my life..." Dugu Shuo listened to Liu Lingwei's words, and hurriedly said: "It's not about eating flowers and wine, because of Longyou's case, my colleagues in the department are asking me to invite them to eat and drink, and I'm afraid that they will come to the house to see you, so..."
"So, how can I not see themΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
"It's not that you can't see them, it's that they're afraid that they'll see you, that night in Qinzhou, I don't know if Pei Ce saw you, if he knew that you came to Shendu, I'm afraid he would get you into trouble..."
"I'm afraid I'll get into trouble or I'm afraid I'll implicate you, I think I'm afraid it will ruin your future in Da Zhou!" Liu Lingwei said, turned around, and cried, Dugushuo was at a loss for a while, and didn't know how to appease.
"I'll leave tomorrow, and I won't implicate you!"
Dugu Shuo wanted to explain, but Liu Lingwei couldn't help but say, and went straight to the side room, Dugu Shuo followed the past and stood at the door and said for a long time, Liu Lingwei finally didn't answer, Dugu Shuo was helpless, so he had to go back to the house and lie down, just entered the door, he looked at the note written during the day and fell under the desk, and suddenly remembered that he had been gone for a day, she was alone and frightened and waited for a day, thinking about returning in the evening and making a meal, but he only cared about drinking, and he actually failed her a piece of her heart, thinking about it, I felt sorry for her, got up again and went to the door of the wing room to talk for a long time, Liu Lingwei finally didn't come out, he just sat at the door in a panic all night.