Chapter 12: Secret Love
The servant looked like he wanted to speak but did not dare to speak. Xiao Dianxiu, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, understood, pushed away the servants who were in the way, ran out of the living room, and went straight to another single-house courtyard in the back flower courtyard.
She ran into the yard, pushed the door and entered the living room.
Sure enough, the eldest brother Xiao Mengshi was in a daze at the bouquet of flowers.
The gorgeous bouquet has been placed in a simple and elegant Jun porcelain vase, and the blooming bright flowers are full of infinite vitality. Xiao Mengshi, dressed in white, stood there quietly, the silhouette with his head lowered was like a statue.
Xiao Dianxiu, who was originally angry, suddenly disappeared with a trace of the anger in his heart. She gently walked up to Xiao Mengshi and patted him on the shoulder. Xiao Mengshi felt as if he had been woken up from his sleep: "Dianxiu, are you back?"
Xiao Dianxiu sighed: "Big brother, why are you doing this, let your father go and propose." ”
Xiao Mengshi smiled: "Go now, I must be rejected, how can I ......?"
Since Meng Dingguo came to Xiyuzhou to supervise the division, Xiao Zhengyi's military power has naturally been contracted and restricted. Meng Dingguo is not an arrogant and arbitrary person, but when managing the army and deploying defense, it is inevitable that the two sides will not be able to agree on it. And Xiao Zhengyi has a violent temperament, and he has a strong paternalistic style of a private army, so although they are both ministers of the dynasty, the two are inevitably not in harmony. Therefore, except for official business, there is no friendship in private.
Meng Xue is a well-known beauty, and she is young, so naturally there is no shortage of people who want to marry. Moreover, she is also weak and mild-mannered, so the Meng family will naturally choose a gentle and considerate son-in-law. Xiao Meng's two families don't say that they don't have much personal relationship, Xiao Mengshi's unruly and arbitrary and domineering style has long been famous, and he often lingers in the romantic township, almost no one in Xiyuzhou knows about it, and it will not be in the range of the Meng family's choice anyway.
Xiao Dianxiu felt sorry for her eldest brother, and couldn't help but say: "It can't be for the sake of a Meng Xue, the eldest brother will be like this." Big brother, you are usually such a bold and decisive person, but now you are about to be hurt by love, and you can't help yourself. ”
Xiao Mengshi smiled indifferently: "People usually go wild, maybe there will be retribution." I can only wait for the opportunity, but I don't know what I will say to her if we can be together one day, and I may not be able to speak. ”
Xiao Dianxiu remembered that she and Ying Shaoyan had no result, and couldn't help but be troubled: "In short, don't wronged yourself, big brother." Otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to see it. ”
Xiao Mengshi said to Xiao Dianxiu: "Do you know, there was a murder case in the capital recently, and there seems to be a deeper background and reason behind it. The person who was killed was killed by the Wuji Knife, so Meng Yu has already started to check on me. ”
Xiao Dianxiu was taken aback: "Brother, you won't really be involved, will you?"
After all, they are brother and sister, and Xiao Dianxiu knows her brother very well.
Xiao Mengshi said with a smile: "Is it that as soon as I do something, you immediately think that I will stand on the opposite side of the national law and family rules?"
Xiao Dianxiu said: "In the name of Meng Yu's detective, where will you check people casually." My brother has always been ambitious, but now that he has been idle for a few years, he can't really practice swordsmanship. I advised my brother not to think about himself, but also to think about his father. Daddy has always been excluded from the DPRK, and it is really not easy to have today. The eldest brother has a wide open and closed style of doing things, and he has always been easy to be caught, if he is really targeted by Meng Yu, where can you beat him, big brother. ”
Xiao Mengshi looked at the bouquet of flowers in confusion, as if muttering to himself: "Why don't you think about it in a good place, Meng Yu came to beg me to identify the knife edge, and invited me in Xiyuzhou." I'm an idler, and I'm afraid of nothing. Now, I wish everything was coming to me. ”
Xiao Mengshi smiled again, took the flower out of the vase, and handed it to Xiao Dianyun: "It's sad to see it, take it." ”
After saying that, he went out and went without looking back.
Xiao Dianxiu took the bouquet of flowers and couldn't help but be stunned.
Sure enough, when he returned home, his mother Su Qiyun told Ying Shaoyan to accompany Meng Xue to Zhaofu Temple tomorrow to repay his vows.
Ying Shaoyan asked: "My brother-in-law is busy with military affairs, why can't my aunt accompany Xiaoxue?"
Mother Su Qiyun smiled. Twenty years have passed, and she is still calm and beautiful. It's just that when she married a husband she didn't know with her, it was the day of breakup, and she left a widow who should say a little bit, and only she could understand the hardships and bitterness of the past 20 years.
Su Qiyun responded to Shaoyan and said: "Back then, your aunt didn't want your brother-in-law to work for the court in the capital, so she refused to live in the capital, but lived elsewhere outside the capital. I just said that your brother-in-law can have some bonds, and after your brother-in-law assists the little emperor to stabilize the situation, they will go back to Jiangnan to live their own lives together. But your brother-in-law can't let go of the little emperor's nephew, and the two have been together less and more since then, and their relationship has also been affected. It wasn't until fifteen years later that your brother-in-law was poisoned by the little emperor and kidnapped by an old friend, and disappeared for two years. Your aunt and cousin have also been looking for him in the vast sea of people for two years, and the suffering is difficult for others to understand. After finally finding your brother-in-law, your aunt made a vow in front of the Buddha that she would never leave your brother-in-law for half a step. You don't see that now your brother-in-law is on business, and your aunt is waiting for him at home. Your brother-in-law is so busy with affairs that he naturally can't go to repay his vows, so your aunt won't go either, and in short, she won't leave him for half a step. ”
Ying Shaoyan smiled as if he had realized something: "It's rare for my aunt and brother-in-law to be like this at such an age." ”
Su Qiyun sighed: "It was not smooth before they got married, and the relationship between the two was not smooth sailing. It's just that now it's finally a heart-to-heart connection. ”
Ying Shaoyan saw that his mother was depressed, afraid that she would think of her father, so he hurriedly said: "Mother, what else do you want to make, I will help you make it today." ”
Su Qiyun smiled: "I promise you to marry a daughter-in-law early, and I will hug my grandson early." ”
Ying Shaoyan blushed and smiled: "The child remembers!"
Although he just went to repay his vow, Ying Shaoyan still habitually raised his sword.
He walked to the carriage, helped Meng Xue into the carriage, and told the coachman: "Go steadily." ”
The coachman nodded and said, "Childe, don't worry." ”
He said to Kerr again, "Take care of Miss." ”
Kerr nodded, got into the carriage too, and pulled down the curtain.
Ying Shaoyan jumped on the horse, and the group quickly left Xiyuzhou City and slowly walked in the direction of Zhaofu Temple.
Outside the city is an empty avenue, lined with willows. It was late spring, the green branches swayed in the wind, and the air smelled fresh and warm that was not found in the city.
Shofukuji Temple is much farther away than Shounji Temple on the outskirts of the city. Ying Shaoyan knew that his grandmother, the wife of Ying Bohu, the governor of Xiyuzhou, met her mother Su Qiyun by chance in Yunlin Temple, and she made a relationship between her mother and father at a glance. But although Zhaofu Temple is much more remote, the temple is not as majestic as Zhaoyun Temple, it is said that the incense is very effective, has attracted many people from Xiyuzhou to go one after another, for a while the incense is swirling, hundreds of meters away from the temple gate, the air is the smell of burning incense.
Although Meng Xue's illness is not a major problem, it is a solid disease. So two years ago, when my uncle Meng Dingguo was busy, he personally accompanied his aunt Ying Xiuling and Meng Xue to make a wish, hoping that her illness would be cured soon. In the two years that Meng Dingguo and Ying Xiuling were looking for each other, they had been taking Meng Xue with them, and they were always careless when they were fathers, both father and daughter suffered a lot, and the frail Meng Xue was also lost in taking care of her father when she was running around. Therefore, Meng Dingguo always loves Meng Xue more, contrary to the previous style of leaving the big and small affairs of the family alone, and always has to do Meng Xue's affairs himself. And with his son Meng Yu, he is like a natural opponent, he is not usually together, but when he is together, he often quarrels and fights. Meng Yu lacked his father's love since he was a child, and by the time the whole family in Xiyuzhou was reunited, he was already seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was a very independent-minded young man, and he was also dissatisfied with his father's previous practices. And Meng Dingguo has a good temper among the parents of feudal society, but at the same time, he really lacks the authority to be a father. The two of them argued not like father and son, but like brothers. But no matter what, Ying Shaoyan is very envious of his aunt's family, and it is much better to be noisy than his own mother and son who are quiet as if they are not in the world.
Meng Xue gently opened the curtain in the car, looking at the grass and flowers of various colors that were quickly passing by the wheels outside, and after looking at it for a while, she couldn't help it, opened the curtain, and called softly: "Cousin." ”
Ying Shaoyan rode on the horse and agreed: "Xiaoxue, is there something wrong?"
Meng Xue's face turned red again as soon as she spoke, and she smiled softly: "Cousin, I want to ride a horse." ”
Ying Shaoyan looked at his horse and blushed. What immediately occurred to him was that he had to ride a horse with Meng Xue.
However, as soon as Meng Xue spoke, Ying Shaoyan didn't know how to refuse.
He jumped off the horse, asked the coachman to stop, helped Meng Xue out of the carriage, and helped her onto his snow-white horse, warm and shiny coat, and full of spirit.
He stabilized Meng Xue, and was thinking about whether to ride a horse with her himself, or lead the horse for her.
Meng Xue smiled again and said softly, "Cousin, you go to the carriage." ”
should be stunned for a while, and then understand. Meng Xue is not that kind of child, she will not take this opportunity to get close to herself, she knows Ying Shaoyan's relationship with Xiao Dianxiu, so she will never take advantage of the opportunity of the two of them to be alone to do those ambiguous things.
Ying Shaoyan laughed in his heart with self-deprecation. Why is it that no matter what Xiaoxue says or what Xiao Dianxiu says recently, he always has to think about it, it seems that men are worse in the end. I don't want to doubt my feelings for Xiao Dianxiu for many years, but I still can't be unmoved by Meng Xue.
He tugged at the reins of his horse and asked uneasily, "Can you do it yourself, it's dangerous." ”
Meng Xue smiled happily: "I usually let my father watch it closely, but I finally came out and made Xiaoxue happy." Besides," she added: "How can you say that Xiaoxue is also from a family of military generals, and my cousin still doesn't believe me?"
Ying Shaoyan said: "Good, good." See how your riding goes. ”
He handed the reins to Meng Xue. Meng Xue shook the reins, and the white war horse galloped away like an arrow.
Ying Shaoyan was startled, he suddenly felt that he had given something less, where was this to run to a station?
Seeing that the horse had galloped dozens of feet away, it was about to disappear at the end of the road. Ying Shaoyan hurriedly whistled. The white horse stopped, then turned over and ran back, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front of Ying Shaoyan again.
Ying Shaoyan was frightened, and he grabbed the horse's head: "Where else do you want to run, it's almost enough." Come down. ”
He hugged Meng Xue off the horse, but his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, and his face was a little red. Ying Shaoyan thought to himself: "What's wrong with me?"