(18) Dengzhou

The restaurants in the town have been closed for the past ten days, I heard that the beautiful shopkeeper has gone far away, and many of the guests who come to the restaurant to eat are originally for the restaurant shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, who was originally teaching in the academy, is talented and good-looking, the important thing is that he has not yet married, and has not yet been married, and the only regret is that the shopkeeper has passed twenty-eight years.

The shopkeeper is not there, and the business is naturally not so good, so he simply closes the store for a few days, and it is better to let those cooks go home and rest for a few days.

On the official road of Dengzhou.

It was the end of summer, the sky was already bright, the sun was high, a carriage was running on the official road, the city gate of Dengzhou had already been opened, and there were many pedestrians in and out, so it was not lively.

A soldier under Dengzhou City looked at a middle-aged man who came over to change shifts, and a smile appeared on his face, "Uncle Ma, you're late today~"

The man who was called Uncle Ma shook his head and said helplessly: "I sent your sister-in-law to Fan's Mansion this morning, but it was delayed." ”

"It's okay, Uncle Ma, I'm just joking with you~"

The young man smiled, and when he heard the word Fan Mansion, the gossip in his heart rose, "Hey, Uncle Ma, my aunt is serving in Fan Mansion, what is the reason why the son of the Fan family was divorced by Miss Cui of Zheng County?"

The man who was called Uncle Ma glanced at the young man, "Your aunt is serving in the Fan Mansion, how can she know about the noble master?"

"What do you say, a dignified man, gossiping all day long?"

"Uncle Ma, you have wronged me, all because my daughter-in-law gossips all day long, she knows that her sister-in-law is serving in Fan's Mansion, this is not to ask me to inquire with Uncle Ma~ I was also forced~"

"Okay, okay, hurry up and change shifts, you go back quickly and accompany your daughter-in-law~"

"Okay~"

As the two were talking, a carriage galloped past the two, and the driver of the carriage slowed down when he saw that he had entered the city and drove the carriage, and he turned back to the people in the carriage and said, "Childe, you have arrived in Dengzhou~"

The boy in the carriage lifted the curtain and looked outside, although she had passed through many states and counties along the way, she hadn't taken a good look, "Just send me to the nearest inn, and I'll settle the bill for you later." ”

"Okay~" The coachman drove the carriage and looked left and right, and saw an inn that said "Fengmange", and looked at the outside room that was quite elegant with a total of two floors, he stopped the carriage and said to the people inside: "Childe, here, take a look, how is this inn~"

The people inside lifted the curtain, looked at it, nodded and said, "That's it~" Then he lifted the curtain, got out of the carriage, and counted the silver taels carefully to the coachman, before turning around and going to the inn.

Xiao Er, who greeted at the door, hurriedly greeted the guests when he saw them coming, and invited them in.

The short and thin man asked for a room with a window on the second floor, and asked the shopkeeper to bring water up first, and then went to the wing.

She put her things on the dresser in the side room, and looked at the people in the bronze mirror, although she was a little haggard, but it was a little funny, she smiled at the bronze mirror, she didn't want to be a man, and she looked like this, looking so short.

She smiled again, from Luqiao Town to Dengzhou, the road is far away, a woman goes out alone, it is not very safe, and it is not very convenient, so she dressed up as a man, and the journey was safe and sound.

After a while, the shopkeeper knocked on the door, sent hot water up, and went downstairs, An Yue locked the door, and went around to the bathtub behind the screen, and began to undress, wash his hair and take a shower~

Sitting in the bathtub and soaking her body, An Yue felt a lot more comfortable, this way, it was really hard, no matter in her past life and this life, she had never been out of the door so far, nor had she been to Dengzhou.

She closed her eyes and soaked in the bath, the mist rising in front of the tub, as if it was about to stun her cheeks.

Ten days ago, she heard that Fan Gongzi was married, her brain was booming, and she did many ridiculous things, and finally her brain was hot, and she came up with the idea of coming to see him for the last time.

It's best to meet him before he gets married.

She also read the invitation in the hands of Mr. Zhou, and knew what the specific day of marriage was, and she only thought that it would be good to meet him before he got married.

An Yue opened his eyes, and his eyes were a little red, and he didn't know if he was smudged by the fog.

She knew that she was looking for him like this, and it was wrong to come to him, but~

In the past two years, the situation at home has improved a lot, and her mother began to want to tell her about her home, but she was forced to be unable to do so, so she had to say what she liked about Fan Gongzi, her mother felt sorry for her at first, but she persuaded her not to delusion about the person who knew it was impossible.

She doesn't want to be delusional, but can she control herself?

The mother also said that the years can dilute everything, let her let go, and let her relax.

But can time really dilute everything?

An Yue soaked in the tub for a long time, and the water temperature in the tub continued to get colder, and it was completely cool again.

She stood up, picked up the clean handkerchief hanging on the edge of the bathtub and wiped herself, wiped her body, and took down the handkerchief on the screen and wrapped the green silk, so that she began to pick up a women's dress from the burden thrown on the dresser, she was wearing a turquoise emerald smoke top, a white smoky pleated skirt, a white thin smoke veil, a turquoise belt around her waist, a slender figure, and a thin waist with shaved shoulders.

She sat in front of the dresser, wiped the green silk little by little and dried, and then combed herself a simple hair grate, a jasper hosta hairpin in the hair grate, and then took out the eyebrows she brought and began to sweep her eyebrows lightly and lightly apply powder.

After dressing up, she put her baggage in the cabinet in the side room, took out a money bag and hung it around her waist, and prepared to go out.

She closed the cabinet, walked a few more steps, went around the screen, went to open the door of the wing, closed it again, and went downstairs.

The shopkeeper downstairs looked at a strange bright and moving woman on the second floor, and was a little surprised, only to see that she found a little second and told him that he was a guest An Yue who lived in a wing room on the second floor, and asked him to clean up the water in the bathtub in his room.

By the time the little two reacted, An Yue had already left the inn.

An Yue walked out of the inn and looked at the street with some curiosity, this was her first time in Dengzhou.

There are many shops on both sides of the streets of Dengzhou City, red bricks and green tiles and pavilions, shop flags raised high at will, the endless flow of pedestrians and carriages, and the young men who ride horses and whip up their horses, and those beautiful and delicate girls who pass by.

The pedestrians on the road are all robes and satin, light sarla skirts, all laughing and noisy, and they are bustling when they look at it. She glanced at the city walls and courtyards in the distance again, they were all magnificent and gorgeous, and the style was unique, and they were the city walls and courtyards she had never seen before.

The scorching sun is shining, and the city of Dengzhou under the glow of the sun looks like a golden and brilliant city, which is very dazzling.

An Yue stood on the street, her heart was already full of shock, and her face showed surprise, and after a while, she calmed down, and her face tried her best to maintain calm.

She walked for a while, and her heart was already full of sighs.

She and he live too far apart.

In the past, she only knew that he was the son of the Shi family, the governor of Dengzhou, and she also imagined what a prosperous scenery Dengzhou was, but in the end, she couldn't take a look at it with her own eyes now.

This is a prosperous scene that she can't imagine, and this is a world of difference from Luqiao Town.

She walked around, wanted to find a mother-in-law to ask for directions, arrived at a small stall selling pastries, saw the novelty pastries, curious to take a look at it twice, an ethereal voice sounded behind her, "Grandma Ruan, please wrap each of them ~".

An Yue was stunned for a moment, looked back at the source of the voice, and saw that the woman in her eyes was wearing an emerald blue Luo skirt, covered with green and white light yarn, green silk combed into a hibiscus grate, obliquely inserted a coral hairpin, a plum blossom golden hairpin, two plum blossom silk flowers, and a pair of plum blossom gold silk earrings fell from her earlobes.

The woman also saw An Yue, and when she saw An Yue looking at her, she was stunned for a moment, and then smiled faintly at An Yue, with a gentle face.

"Okay, Miss Miao~"

Granny Ruan in front of the stall had already opened her mouth, and she skillfully wrapped the pastries for Miao Xiushu.

An Yue was also stunned, Miss Miao?

She still remembered that the woman that Fan Gongzi loved as Ji Yan said in the past was called Miao Xiushu?

She glanced at the woman in front of her again, and saw that the woman was smiling softly at herself, she was a little surprised, could it be such a coincidence? This Miss Miao in front of her could not be Miao Xiushu?

In the middle of the ring, the Ruan mother-in-law had already wrapped it, Miao Xiushu walked to the stall and gave her the silver taels, took the wrapped pastries and left, leaving the frightened An Yue standing in front of the stall, she saw that the young lady had gone away, and then turned around and asked the mother-in-law who sold pastries, is the real name of Miss Miao Miao called Miao Xiushu?

Granny Ruan nodded, and glanced at An Yue a few times, Granny Ruan is a pastry seller in Dengzhou City, and she has seen all street rumors, this Miao Xiushu has an ethereal voice and a gentle and beautiful appearance, she also knows it.

An Yue was surprised at first, and then smiled bitterly helplessly, yes, it should be such a forgetful woman who deserves his joy.

After such an experience, she completely lost the heart to look at this Dengzhou City curiously.

She asked the mother-in-law who sold pastries about the direction of the Fan Mansion of the Governor of Deng, and the mother-in-law pointed the way, she thanked her and followed.

Granny Ruan, who was selling pastries, looked at the departing girl a little strangely, what happened today?

It's just enough to see two girls who look so good at the same time, but they both seem to have something to do with Fan's Mansion? One has an inexplicable relationship with Fan's son, and the other is like she asked about the direction of Fan's Mansion?

Granny Ruan looked at the direction An Yue left suspiciously, and then someone came to buy pastries, she was busy, and she left her doubts behind by the way.

Both sides of the streets of Dengzhou City are still prosperous, An Yue looked a little lost all the way, his mind is full of the figure of Miss Miao he just saw, Miss Miao's skin is better than snow, much better than herself, Miss Miao's voice is ethereal and beautiful, she can't compare with her at all, Miss Miao is slender and tall, her body is light, okay, she can't compare~

Who called herself not tall, slender can barely be counted, but the place on her chest is really rich, and she looks two points fatter, even if she doesn't have the abundance on her chest, she can only be regarded as petite~

The more An Yue thought about it, the more uncomfortable and lost he became, and when he thought about it again, it was really incomparable.

But how did she know that she was comparing herself with others in her heart, and others were also comparing with her in her heart.

Not far from the gate of Dengzhou City, Miao Xiushu, who had a good appearance, took the pastry and sat in the carriage that stopped near the city gate to send herself, and there was a middle-aged woman in the carriage, the middle-aged woman had a dusty temperament, wearing a Su Yaluo skirt, and the grate was simple, and when she saw Miao Xiushu coming back, she had a faint smile on her face.

Miao Xiushu put the pastry on the low table in the carriage, smiled and asked Qiu Yin to taste the newly bought pastry, this pastry is chic, it is the ancestral method of Granny Ruan, the taste is very good, Qiu Yin inadvertently ate it once, and then fell in love, Miao Xiushu remembered it, today they went into the city together, bought things, and when they were about to leave, Miao Xiushu thought about the pastry, so she asked Qiu Yin and the coachman to wait for her for a while.

Qiu Yin looked at those pastries, Miao Xiushu had already opened a pack, Qiu Yin stretched out her hand, and was not restrained, picked up one and tasted it, it tasted good, like she had eaten a certain pastry when she was a girl.

After eating two pieces in a row, Qiu Yin said, "You can taste it too~"

Miao Xiushu shook her head and chuckled: "Aunt Yin will taste it first~"

Then thinking of the bright girl she had just seen, she smiled lightly and said, "Aunt Yin, when I was buying pastries just now, I saw a girl~"

"A girl?"

"That girl doesn't look like a person from Dengzhou, she's not tall, she's dressed plainly, but she looks very good. ”

"How does she look good, how do you know she doesn't look like a local?" Qiu Yin was interested.

"Her dress doesn't look like Dengzhou's dress style, I was surprised at first, she only had a fairly ordinary jasper hairpin on her head, and her face was thinly powdered, but she looked very bright and moving, and her posture was graceful, and her curves were attractive~"

Qiu Yin nodded and said, "Is it such a good-looking girl?"

Miao Xiushu nodded.

"Her dress looks like the style of the Jiangnan generation~"

"Jiangnan generation?" Qiu Yin thought for a while and continued to speak: "In all dynasties, there are indeed many beauties in the Jiangnan generation~"

The rich water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the smoke and rain are hazy, and the women who come out are delicate.

Many of them are sensitive, careful, truthful, and sentimental.

An Yue, the Jiangnan woman at this head, has already found not far from Fan's mansion.

There are two stone lions in front of the gate of Fanfu, the courtyard is surrounded by vermilion walls, the green willows on both sides are protected, glazed tiles, vermilion lacquer doors, and there are small servants waiting in front of the door.

This was the first time she saw his home, the place where he lived.

Even if you haven't entered it yet, you can imagine how carved and painted it should be, rich and prosperous.

In her heart, a trace of inferiority rose again.

Just looking at this vermilion-walled compound, you know that the two are very different.

She walked around the gate of Fan's Mansion several times, and finally convinced herself to look at the vermilion gate and go to talk to the little man who guarded the gate.

The little maid guarding in front of the Fan Mansion had already noticed her, and a bright and moving woman in front of the mansion had been wandering around for a long time, and they had already seen it.

As soon as she heard this bright woman say that she was looking for her son, one of the servants frowned and said, "My son-in-law hasn't seen anyone recently. ”

When An Yue heard this, his brows furrowed, and then he took his leave.

The other guy also glanced at An Yue with some embarrassment.

Recently, Miss Cui's divorce in Zheng County has caused a lot of uproar, and his son-in-law has been grounded by his master.