Volume 1 Lonely Cloud Chapter 11 Who is my brother?
After Chen Wen and Wang San got the orders of the team leader, they came to Fallen Leaf City non-stop.
When the two of them rode through the east of the city, Chen Wen glanced back at the city gate, but failed to see the expected thin monkey figure, and frowned slightly.
Isn't the skinny monkey on duty today?
What you saw before you left the city gate in the morning, the damn guy is lazy again?
The matter is urgent, don't think about it, the most important thing at the moment is to go back to the post station first, and after the horses are delivered, you have to hurry to the yamen to talk to your uncle Huang, and then transfer dozens of brothers, and the whole city will visit secretly.
The two of them jumped their horses all the way to the post station, and pedestrians on both sides of the street avoided it.
In the warm incense pavilion of the drunken flower building in the north of the city, a man and a woman have their own hearts.
Li Yunfeng heard the knock on the door, and his heart sank, but after a while, he was a little strange, how did he feel like he was about to be caught and raped, he didn't know what it felt like in his heart, he couldn't say it.
Could it be the Miao lady that Cui Yatou said before, is it her young lady?
At the other end of the corridor in the back room, the little maid breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the familiar knock on the door, but she felt that she had lost something, and she couldn't say it.
She opened the door, and outside the room, a graceful woman in a goose-yellow dress entered, her eyebrows furrowed, and she was worried.
After the woman entered the door, she directly opened the two doors, and a breeze swam in, filling the room with the fragrance of flowers.
Li Yunfeng shrugged the tip of his nose and sneezed.
The little maid was startled, and turned her head to look at the direction where Li Yunfeng was staying, her eyes were gloomy.
It was the woman in the goose-yellow dress of the owner of the attic, with a calm expression, glanced at the maid beside her, and walked straight to the main house.
The little maid Cui Cui's face was slightly red when she was looked at by her own lady, and she didn't dare to slack off, so she walked to the cabinet with her lady.
This attic, called the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, lives a pair of master and servants.
The owner is a popular girl in the drunken flower building, named Miao Shudie, and people like to call Miao Gu, who looks thoughtful, graceful and lovely, but has a bad temperament.
In the words of Mama Hua, it can't be called, many guests like to find her to accompany the wine, and this dead-eyed girl always likes to talk about poetry and songs with the guests, which is unappetizing.
If you really like poetry and songs, you spend money to come here, and you are looking for a drunken flower building?
In the final analysis, it's not that thing, there are a few men who are just bosom friends.
Although the dynasty does not prohibit women from reading and knowing etiquette, you are a servant, and you are a person who is a person in the sky, is it difficult to want to take the top prize and cross the horse to travel the streets?
There is only one servant, a twelve-year-old round-faced little girl, I heard that she was bought from Ya Pozi about five years ago, and I don't know where my specific background is, and I don't bother to ask for trouble here.
The green girl followed her lady all the way to the cabinet, and walked through the corridor, which is where the lady lives and entertains.
The cabinet is also divided into two rooms, the outer room is the place of hospitality, and the inner room is the boudoir of the daughter's family.
The outer room of the staircase of the small six-storey wooden pavilion, one left and one right, two half-human high blue and white wide-mouthed large glazed porcelain vases stand on both sides, each with a camellia plant inserted on it, the flower color is strong, delicate and vulgar, it is the flowering season, two flowers, like two blushes of the daughter's house.
Walking up the stairs, about five steps away, there is a large screen of flowers and birds folded in half with three openings, the frame of the log is thrown smooth like a mirror, and the moire flowing water pattern is engraved with the fine handwriting of Tiangong, which complements each other with the flowers and birds on the screen, and is full of fun.
Inside the screen, there is a warmer, which is not high, and you can go up by lifting your feet. There is a small square pear blossom case with a hug wide on the warm table, and there are a few books scattered on it, the top one, the page is still open, it can be seen that the master went out in a hurry.
On the right-hand side facing the warmer, there is a window with white sandpaper pasted with fish scales, and a short rod supports the window sill, slightly ajar.
Next to the window, there is a small foot round table, on which is placed a pot of tea, seven or eight cups neatly upside down in a round wooden plate, a few peach branches inserted in a small porcelain vase with a thin mouth light gray, through the breeze of the window sill, swaying and colorful.
The most surprising thing is that there are two rows of bookshelves on the left hand side of the warm platform, one of which has some common boudoir elegance in the daughter's house, such as cyan fine glazed small porcelain bottles, finely carved woodcarved rabbit carvings, small arched bridges with glazed pearls and jade, exquisite landscape goose eggs hollow stone tools and other ingenious things.
The other row of bookshelves is much more worthy of the name, with three floors full of all kinds of books, old and new. If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine that a Qing'er hidden in the deep boudoir doesn't think about playing the piano and flute, but thinks about poetry and songs every day, and is very elegant.
Qing Qi'er, Qing Qi'er, this small place in Fallen Leaf City is not comparable to the Mirage City where the emperor lives today, do you really think that you can find a good man to help redeem yourself by relying on poetry, and one day fly out of the cage?
Dream on!
Li Yunfeng touched his nose, a little embarrassed, it is worthy of the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, this burst of aroma is really timely, I am afraid that it has left a good impression on Miao Niangzi's side, this sneeze is very loud!
Outside the warm pavilion, Miao Shudie sat down gently, pulled the little girl, and sat on the other side of the pear blossom case, the two of them have been in the room for five years, and the harmonious relationship is not like the master and servant, Miao Shudie looks graceful on the surface, and her temperament is not as dignified as everyone's ladies, otherwise she will instigate the little girl to go out secretly to sell wine again and again?
The heart is high.
However, the treatment of the green girl, and the treatment of the people in other rooms are all sincere kindness, everyone is under the same roof, where is the identity different, in the final analysis, they are all involuntary caged birds, poor people who pity themselves in the mirror!
Miao Shudie packed up the books on the table, looked at the little girl opposite and said, "I already know about that son, I met Mother Hua when I passed by the front hall just now, she asked me about me, and let me prevaricate." ”
The little maid Cuiyu whispered, "Miss, it's a pity that the two pots of wine were dropped, and Mama Hua was there at the time, and I didn't dare to turn around and go back, so that Miss didn't have the wine to deal with those guys." ”
The little girl knew that her young lady would not blame herself, but she was still a little sad.
Miss once told her privately that she would call her Miss when there was no one, and call her a lady when there were people, and she couldn't let Mama Hua catch them, and she would blame them for not following the rules when the time came.
Miss also told her that the most annoying thing is those boys who are pretending to be in a state of affection, pretending to meet themselves and saying that they are gentlemen's friends, only talking about poetry, but the look in her eyes can't be faked, and a few cups of yellow soup are all in their original shape, and they are not ashamed, one after another, which makes people not angry.
It's just that she and Miss are both under the fence, and she doesn't dare to say anything, so she can only greet each other with a smile, but every time she sees those people showing their ugliness in front of her own young lady, secretly reciting those lame poems that she bought with money, she wants to laugh.
Miao Shudi saw her expression, and didn't know what she was thinking, and said, "Since that son is here today, there is no need for lychee." ”
The little girl was puzzled and asked, "Miss, why is this?"
Miao Shudi looked at her and smiled slightly, "You, don't you know how to thank that son, since he can get out of your way at random, I knew that Lijiu is not easy to get drunk, as a maid from the Drunken Flower Building, what else can you do? ”
Cuiyu is a little aggrieved, I'm a little stupid, but as long as Miss doesn't have to be embarrassed.
Miao Shudi saw her expression, changed her words, looked at Cuiyu and said, "When you came back, did you meet that person again?
The maid Cuiyu didn't dare to speak, just lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes.
When Miao Shudie saw her appearance, she knew the answer, and snorted coldly at the moment, "That old bastard who doesn't repair still dares to pay attention to you, do you really think that a small city gate guard is a great official?
It turned out that in the alley today, the thin monkey-like man Li Yunfeng had seen was a small official guarding the east gate of the city.
The little official "has a good appearance", he was impressed by it at a glance, and it is hard to forget, but that day when Li Yunfeng was mixed in the crowd and quietly avoided guarding the door and inspecting the door, the little official just ran to chat with Chen Wen and them, Li Yunfeng entered the city for the first time, and he didn't dare to stay longer, so how dare he look around.
Five years ago, the housekeeper of the drunken flower building paid money from the tooth woman to buy a round-faced little girl who was only seven years old at the time, originally saw the little girl well-behaved and cute, the tooth woman only said that it was the nephew of the family, and the parents went in a disaster, leaving her a little girl lonely, saying that she wanted to raise herself, but when the years were not good, she did not dare to let the girl suffer with herself, so she had no choice but to find a good family for the girl, and asked the housekeeper to be kind, just give a good food and clothing, and the steward paid for it.
I didn't want to inquire later, only to find out that I was fooled, the woman was actually a kidnapper, a tooth woman, and the drunken flower building suffered a secret loss, and she didn't dare to report it, so she had to hide.
Fortunately, after many years, it has been peaceful.
After Zuihualou received this girl, she has been sent to work in the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, at that time it was only because the Warm Fragrance Pavilion was located in a remote area, this service was five years, Miao Shudie was very satisfied with the girl, she herself didn't like too many people to serve, there was no freedom, before and after two or three years, for various reasons, all the girls who were waiting around were sent to other places, and in the end, there was only one girl left.
Drunken Flower Building is happy over there, if you like it.
A year ago, the green girl was eleven years old, and her figure began to draw strips, when she went out to drink, she was seen by the thin monkey who was drinking in the wine shop at the time, and she inquired about the wine shop Xiao Eryi to know that it was the maid of the drunken flower building, and squatted many times to find out the law of the little girl going out to drink, and she often harassed, and even made a threat to the little girl If she didn't agree to herself, she would go to the drunken flower building to speak, saying that it was a big deal to pay for it.
These words can scare the green girl at that time, and after going back, she looked in a trance, and showed Miao Shudie the clues, and after asking the reason, Miao Shudie used her personal relationship to scare the thin monkey.
The toad wants to eat the bastard bastard thing of swan meat.
Miao Shudie comforted: "Cuiyu, don't worry, although I haven't been able to find any trace of your brother, but in the past few years, Miss I have saved some favors, and I will go to find Chen Wen in the past few days, he is the nephew of Lord Chenghuang in our county, and he is also the fast catcher of the Yamen, I will let him knock and beat." ”
As soon as the maid Cuiyu heard this, her eyes fell off suddenly, and her voice choked up: "Miss, Cuiyu is fine, don't ask that person, who doesn't know that he likes Miss, and has been making noise in private that he wants to redeem Miss, and the rumors are very ugly." ”
Miao Shudi took Cuiyu's little hand and said: "It's just some gossip, haven't we heard much over the years? That Chen Wen is the nephew of Lord Huang of the county, and Lord Huang will not agree to him to take one... Take a Qinglou woman's. ”
Miao Shudie's words are lonely, and she feels nostalgic for her life experience.
Cuiyu knew her young lady's thoughts, looked at Miss, and said hurriedly: "Miss, don't belittle yourself, I have always known Miss, you don't like that person at all, Jade is not hard, I have met Miss over the years, Miss is good to me, Jade will never forget it in this life." ”
Miao Shudie smiled gently, "Silly girl, I have always been your sister, besides, you and I are here, whether it is those sons outside, or Hua Mama, why have you always dared not use the rules to control us, and be a good heart?
Cuiyu burst into tears, and just choked up: "Miss, Cuiyu doesn't want Miss to wronged herself, and she doesn't want Miss to marry someone she doesn't like. ”
Miao Shudi was also a little sad when she cried like this, but the two have been together for a long time over the years, and she has always been the backbone of the little girl's heart, and she can't be too weak.
At the moment, he could only force his mind, and said while helping Cui Ya wipe her tears: "Yes, yes, Miss I, I will be as happy as Cuiyu said, but our Cuiyu also has to find my brother, how many people are easy to do." ”
Brother has always been a secret in Cuiyu's heart, and he has told Miss over the years that it is only a secret of two people at the moment.
Seeing Miss comforting herself, Cuiyu felt more and more uncomfortable, "Miss, Cuiyu is not looking for her brother, she is not looking for her brother, she has not found it for a few years, maybe her brother has forgotten Cuiyu, Cuiyu just wants to accompany Miss and serve Miss all her life." ”
Miao Shudie saw that this girl was messy again, so she didn't continue to dwell on this topic, but guided her from the side and said: "Cuiyu, you said that you and your brother have been living at home in the city, and one day, your brother said that he was going to go outside to do something, and then he never came back?"
Seeing that the young lady was talking about the past, Cuiyu stretched out her hand to wipe her tears and said: "Well, that day, my brother only said that he was going out to do something, and then I sat at home and waited, until the sun went down, and my brother hadn't come back yet, so I thought to myself, my brother must have been delayed by something, maybe my brother was outside to buy me sugar gourds, and then I continued to wait at home, but the moon came out that day, and I still didn't wait for my brother." ”
Cui Yatou said this, her face was in a trance, and she fell into memory, "Later, I saw that the moon was out, and my brother hadn't come back yet, so I was worried about him, and then I went out to find him, and then I met a mother-in-law, she asked me who I was, and who was in the family, so I told her, and then the mother-in-law said that she would take me to my brother, and then I knew Miss." ”
Miao Shudi saw that she was still the same set of words, and she knew the secret in the little girl's heart, but she still didn't give up, and continued to ask: "Cuiyu, don't you really remember what your brother's name is? ”
Cuiyu shook her head, "Brother is brother, I've always called it that, when I stayed with my brother, my brother never said what his name was." ”
Miao Shudie sighed, she didn't even know her name, in this vast sea of people, looking for a needle in a haystack, where to find it.
Fortunately, the girl still has an older brother and has a hope, so what about herself? Where is her family?
Li Yunfeng changed his clothes, came to the corridor outside and stood still, coughed lightly, bowed to the sad woman inside, and said, "No, Li Yunfeng, I've seen Miao Niangzi." ”
When Miao Shudi heard the footsteps, she had already cleaned up her mind, and she was generous on the surface, but she secretly scolded herself for negligence in her heart.
Why did you forget that there was another person in this room?