Chapter 42 Old Friends
Shui Ruoshan had always been curious about the person who played the dream acacia in the palace, but she saw the true face of this person a few days later. It's just that at this time, she never expected that this dream lovesickness, that person played for her for so many years before and after.
It was at the celebration banquet of the Helian royal family to celebrate the unification of Zaigang. That day, Shui Ruoshan, who didn't want to join in the fun, couldn't stand the Sen Yan who wanted to join in the fun, and this guy privately asked King Yin to report the quota for the banquet early.
Shui Ruoshan remembers very clearly, that day, she waited until the banquet was over the early stage of the meeting before entering, she quietly slipped in from behind the pillars of the main hall, tiptoeing all the way to her position, intending to climb to the table quietly, this plan seems to be perfect, but she ignored an important point, no matter what point in time she came in with a white veil covering her head and face, it was impossible to be unaware.
The first person who noticed her was the condescending emperor Helian Ye. He cleared his throat, and the hall was quiet for a moment, he pointed at Shui Ruoshan in the air, but looked at King Yin and asked, "Who is this?"
Without waiting for King Yin to answer, Shui Ruoshan calmly stood up from her catly posture and knelt down to perform the king's salute: "The people's daughter Shui Ruoshan has seen the emperor. β
Helian Ye bit the name repeatedly, and it could be seen from his expression that he was struggling to remember something.
The Ninth Prince reminded the young emperor, "Brother Huang, do you remember the young lady of the Jiangnan Shui family that you planned to marry to the fifth brother that year?"
Helian Ye patted the dragon chair and suddenly realized, no wonder he was so familiar with this name but couldn't remember it. still remembers that year, he once ridiculed King Yin: There is a young lady living in the house, and she is favored by 50,000 people. How did the fifth child answer, oh! said that the girl was a fool. King Yin's Mansion has only lived in such an outsider from ancient times to the present, and later I heard that it was the daughter of the Jiangnan Shui family, at that time he privately planned to make these two mandarin ducks, but he didn't think that King Yin would later invite himself to marry the second princess of Sheng Feng.
The Ninth Prince, Helian Shu, is a person who doesn't use his mind when he speaks, and he doesn't think it's a big deal.
Marriage Shui Ruoshan and King Yin?
Shui Ruoshan was still kneeling below, and when she heard Helian Shu's words, she looked up at King Yin, who was drinking calmly. She looked at Princess Yin, who was sitting next to King Yin, who was looking at her with the kind of shock, disbelief, even fear and anger in her eyes. Shui Ruoshan glanced around, not knowing who to hand her eyes for help, and the people in the hall were watching her whispering.
"The folk girl prepared a talent show for the emperor. "Shui Ruoshan thinks about it, if Shui Lonely Qing is here, she will definitely play her brain.
Over there, King Yin raised his cup and took a sip of wine, twisting the rim of the cup and smiling evilly. It is to admire Shui Ruoshan's performance of digging a pit for himself every time he is in a hurry.
Long San carried a bamboo flute around her waist, Shui Ruoshan played melodiously and melodiously and soundly that dream lovesickness, she stood in the hall and observed quietly, all the people were just enjoying the music, but there was no person who could not help but make peace with herself.
King Yin, who was still smiling a moment ago, heard this song for a moment, and angrily crushed the wine glass in his hand. He wanted to see if the questions left over from history could give him the answers he wanted this time.
Above the main hall, a place of equal status with Emperor Helian Ye quietly walked in, and after sitting down, the sound of the piano came out with the sound of her flute. Shui Ruoshan turned around in surprise, but froze in place in disbelief. She unconsciously stopped playing the flute, stood in place in a daze, and after a while said, "It's you?!"
The person above the hall once because of a dream lovesickness and a broken array dance, the figure of Shui Ruoshan was firmly imprinted in his heart, he once hugged her and said, "It's okay to have me", he once thought that she had opened a new world for himself, but as a hurried passerby, she disappeared without a trace, or even without a trace.
He is the Shengfeng monarch who has always been unable to understand what relationship he has with Shui Ruoshan - Fu Mingyin.
Fu Mingyin's eyebrows were full of sorrow, and she asked as she played, "The girl knows me?"
Shui Ruoshan didn't know whether to say she knew or didn't know, she hesitated and stepped on the messy little broken steps, subconsciously glanced at the expressionless King Yin, and then looked up at the Fu Mingyin who was immersed in the rhythm in the high place, she picked up the transverse flute again and finished the song with him. The piano is harmonious, the tune is perfect, and when you meet a bosom friend, the music is so hearty. The mournful melody and moral of the dream lovesickness, including the sound of the piano, integrated into their lovesickness for several years, with the unique haunting sound of the flute, the three are perfectly integrated, and the people in the hall who listen to it forget the hustle and bustle, forget the world, and only experience the endless pain of the lovesickness.
Everyone was still immersed in this song around the beam, Fu Mingyin slowly stepped off the high platform, and he looked at Shui Ruoshan up close: "I know the song of dream lovesickness, I have only seen one person before you." He glanced her up and down: "She's also a girl, and you really resemble her." β
Shui Ruoshan took a step back and fled back to his position in stride. Fu Mingyin's desperate pain was mixed with some hopeful eyes, she was afraid to see it, and she didn't dare to look at it if she couldn't bear it. If at that time, whether she liked King Yin or because she was ignorant, she didn't see the feelings in Fu Mingyin's eyes clearly, then now after the precipitation of time, listening to Fu Mingyin's voice-like piano sound, and looking back at the past, she really felt it.
She only dared to avoid him, and she didn't even dare to look him in the eye.
Shui Ruoshan glanced at King Yin secretly, but saw King Yin and his wife holding hands and bowing their heads and whispering something, and smiled self-deprecatingly, people who don't care about you still can't attract him even if you stand in the center of the stage.
The celebration banquet continued according to the process.
Shui Ruoshan slipped out quietly, she held a few bags of pastries and found a rockery to sit on, and quietly ate food in the moonlight. At this time, Fu Mingyin also walked over here with a few pots of wine, and saw the people on the rockery jumping up and sitting up. She raised her head and took a few sips of wine, and then turned her head sideways to look at Shui Ruoshan, who was quietly eating pastries next to her, as if she didn't feel his arrival at all.
"You really look like her. Fu Mingyin looked at Shui Ruoshan steadily, said in a sigh-like tone, and couldn't help but want to touch her eyebrows, Shui Ruoshan only raised one arm to block it. She ate her pastry without looking back, and listened to Fu Mingyin continue: "Especially these eyes, they are really too similar. But she's not like you. Fu Mingyin slowly took a sip of wine and whispered with that kind of reminiscence: "She is the kind of person who lives very simply, her eyes are clean and clear, simple and bright, unlike you." β
Not like me??
Shui Ruoshan slowly stopped the action of delivering food, and looked back at him quietly.
Fu Mingyin poured a few sips of wine as if he was about to pour away his worries, looked into the distance with empty eyes and said, "You have too many things in your eyes, and you look like a complicated person. She's different, she's the kind of person who can shake the world when she laughs, and she can't breathe when she cries. He sighed softly in recollection, "Is it a child like her, should live so pure and simple." β
Shui Ruoshan silently retracted her head, and the two lines of tears fell silently without warning, and she silently looked up at the sky, trying to let fewer tears flow.
"It's a pity that I don't even know who she is, let alone where she has gone. β
Fu Mingyin is the same as herself, Shui Ruoshan feels that this king in charge of a country is as small as herself in front of her feelings.
Shui Ruoshan was careful and silently shed tears, maybe she was too much like a child at that time, naΓ―ve and ignorant, not worthy of the unparalleled King Yin in the world.
That childlike self had been killed forever by King Yin in the winter of that year.
Fu Mingyin leaned over half-drunk and half-awakened, and fell heavily on Shui Ruoshan's lap, still muttering something in his mouth that he couldn't hear clearly.
Shui Ruoshan looked at this man who was in pain for himself, raised his hand and gently smoothed the hair on the top of his head, she thought, it's just the first time they met, as an emperor, he is so defenseless against himself, just because this person is so similar to "her" at that time? In fact, if you think about it carefully, the person who is similar to yourself should be Fu Mingyin who is lying here, they are all like that, they are persistent and difficult to like someone, they can't get it but can't let it go, they like it so solidly but there is no reason, they can love and forget themselves with their own ethereal feelings.
If they like each other just right, then they are now the envy of everyone.
But what they like is not each other.
It's just that they have to be so tough in their relationship, and they are not willing to force it.
In the end, they were left with their own emotional loneliness and sadness.
The celebration banquet ended very late, and at that time, the people in King Yin's Mansion had already returned to the house. In the study, Princess Yin carefully studied the ink and quietly accompanied King Yin to read the official documents.
"You all say she's the young lady of the Jiangnan Shui family?"
King Yin didn't raise his head, "The Shui family doesn't have her as a young lady." β
Princess Yin's hand paused for a moment, "The prince knows it, so why don't you expose her and let her deceive people everywhere like this?" Today in the main hall, the emperor and the ninth brother, as well as those ministers, now think that she is the young lady of the Jiangnan Shui family. β
"Yes or isn't there a difference?" King Yin said lightly.
Princess Yin was surprised by King Yin's tolerance for Shui Ruoshan, knowing that her identity was false, but still allowing her to deceive the entire royal family like this, not to mention that they were conniving at the cold and strict King Yin.
Princess Yin was silent for a long time, "Why did the prince and her separate back then?"
King Yin closed the official document in his hand and finally looked up at her, "What else do you want to know?"
There are too many things to know, who is she? How is it that the whole royal family seems to know about her but no one has mentioned it? What is the relationship between her and the prince? There are too many questions to figure out.
Princess Yin walked around the desk, walked to King Yin's side and took his hand, "Lord, the concubine can see that this water girl is a little special." If it is really the prince's confidante, the concubine can come forward and let her enter the palace in style, the concubine is not a narrow-minded person, as long as the prince likes it. β
"The princess is too careful. King Yin withdrew his hand and continued to go back to read the official documents.
Princess Yin stood in place, everyone envied King Yin's deep love for her and her pampering, and she was living happily in this cognition. But there is no contrast and no prominence, since Shui Ruoshan entered the mansion, King Yin has not changed much on the surface, but the kind of care in every detail is something she has never experienced. At this time, she suddenly realized that in the past few years, King Yin has respected her more than love, he is polite, gentle and considerate, but she has never felt the kind of man's spoiling of women, she has always thought that it is because of King Yin's rigorous character, but when he knows everything about Shui Ruoshan's favorite pastries but does not let her eat them without moderation, isn't it a man's meticulous pampering? !
No matter how open-minded a woman is, she can't tolerate the man she loves, and she likes to give it to other women. Princess Yin Fu Zhiyin is not an exception.
Shui Ruoshan put her coat on Fu Mingyin, who had fallen asleep with the strength of wine, took out the white gauze in her arms and cushioned it under his head, and then jumped off the rockery and left, she could hear the sound of Fu Mingyin hiding in the dark behind her and surrounding him.
There was nothing she could do about Fu Mingyin. No matter what the final result of her relationship is in this life, she is destined to owe Fu Mingyin, the pain of lovesickness that he has endured silently in the past few years.
It was already late at night when Shui Ruoshan walked into the gate of the palace, passed through the front yard, and when he passed by King Yin's study, he happened to collide with the latter who went out.
"Saw Fu Mingyin?"
"I'm leaving. β
Almost at the same time, they spoke.
"What?"
"Yes. β
The two were silent for a moment.
King Yin didn't ignore Shui Ruoshan's affirmative answer, but he still asked first, "Why did you leave suddenly?"
Maybe it's because the parting is imminent, Shui Ruoshan is extraordinarily honest this time, "Because what I'm doing here has already been done." Looking at King Yin's puzzled eyes, she smiled lightly, "At that time, when I heard the news that you were trapped in the Hundred Mist Forest for half a month, I left the house overnight with Xiao Xi and the third sister, and sneaked out, I don't dare to imagine the expression of the eldest brother when he came to arrest me and go back, I will be beaten!"
King Yin looked at the corners of her eyes that were curled when she smiled, and even through the veil, he knew what kind of arc her smile was.
Shui Ruoshan looked up at King Yin, his black eyes burning: "At that time, I was so afraid that I wouldn't have time to save you. β
King Yin listened to Shui Ruoshan's confession, his heart churned several times, and he couldn't help but clasp her left wrist with the palm of his right hand, and the touch of his palm made him clearly feel her scar, and he involuntarily stroked this bulge with his palm. Why do you want to save me? Why do you want to inquire about me? Don't you want the agreed Tianshan lineage?
However, the last straw that King Yin cut off the love seedlings was the relationship between Shui Ruoshan and Fu Mingyin, and now it is strikingly similar to history.
"Because of Fu Mingyin?"
In the beginning, they embraced each other, and today they play in the dream of lovesickness, all fit so perfectly. Isn't it? If the bosom friend she met in the mountains and rivers today was not Fu Mingyin, maybe she would have stayed to discuss music theory with her, and talk and laugh.
But that's how fate works. But on the contrary, Fu Mingyin was the last factor in her determination to leave.
"Yes. β
Shui Ruoshan clearly saw King Yin pull out an indifferent and sarcastic short smile. She felt like she was about to twist her wrist by holding her big hand.
Time just stood still.
"Let's go. King Yin suddenly crossed her and walked so lightly.
No matter where you're coming from, or where you're going next, if the water is good, just pass by here.
Shui Ruoshan felt that King Yin was smooth when he passed by her, as if he hadn't stopped just now. She stared back at the back of King Yin in the dark night, stroked the wrist that still had the residual warmth of King Yin, and thought with self-pity, if there was a next time, could she let her go first.