The eighteenth day of the first lunar month is a good day for making money, making alliances, and breaking ground. Everything is done without restraint. It is a great day for happy events.
And this day also happens to be Tang Wan's birthday... Combing hair and getting married on the same day would be fine if it were an ordinary family, maybe the bride would find it particularly meaningful.
But whether it is Tang Hong or his father Tang Yi, they all became officials in the court in the Song Dynasty, and they were from a serious family of officials... No matter how noble Zhao Shicheng's status was, or how powerful his family was, then He is actually more than one round older than Tang Wan.
To continue the relationship, the Yongjia County Prince had just rebelled against the emperor. Tang Hong was deeply unhappy due to all kinds of things.
But if you are not happy, you are not happy. No matter how you are not the Holy Emperor Xiaociyuan, you are still an emperor.
This is a marriage, and the person who protects the matchmaker is the most powerful person in the world!
Tang Hong couldn't blame anyone else. He couldn't blame his own daughter for being good-looking, nor could he blame Zhao Shicheng for being unreasonable. The only thing he could blame was the first one to say "congratulations".
Mr. Zhao.
Just like today, in addition to people from the county prince's palace, many distinguished guests from the Tang family came. The daughter of the dignified Shaoqing of Honglu Temple was married to the prince of Yongjia... Such a big event, let alone with the Tang family People who are related, even those who are not related, are still watching from a distance to see what kind of pomp these noble people will get when they get married.
Tang Hong received the guests outside early. No matter how reluctant he was, he was already restrained at this time. A smile was naturally indispensable. Faced with everyone's blessings, Tang Shaoqing swallowed up a lot of bitterness. Only when Prime Minister Zhao came, he was finally able to vent his dissatisfaction and directly ignored the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ding seemed to be a different person. He had given away the gifts that should be given. Seeing that Tang Hong did not invite him, he actually barged in by himself and found a place to sit down.
As soon as he arrived, the atmosphere became a little awkward.
In the ten days since the Chinese New Year, Mr. Zhao is still busy, but he is not busy with anything else. He is helping the Queen Mother find some rare items... Su Fu is the owner of the suffering. What his grandfather left for him was made by his own hands. The book "Chibi Fu" was forcibly taken away by Zhao Ding and given to the Empress Dowager.
That's all. Hearing that the Queen Mother likes gold and silver, he also ordered the ministers to send ritual utensils from home, the weight of which should not be less than half a catty... Yes, the salary of our Song Dynasty is indeed good, but half a catty of gold Silver, no one can take it out just because they say it will be taken out. Even if it can be taken out, the heartache will definitely be inevitable.
This offended the minister. Who doesn't know that Lin'an Prefecture Yin Xinciying is the official's favorite minister? Not only was he beaten by Wang Xie's soldiers, Wang Xie also personally led people to find trouble, either to rob his house or to beat his son. The Xin family was really pitiful. No, just yesterday, When his daughter-in-law went out, she was stopped by Wang Xie's soldiers and teased a lot.
The woman was so conscientious that she hit the wall of her courtyard on the spot... A good life was lost just like that.
It is said that human life is at stake, but this is not something that happens to ordinary people’s families, but to the parents and officials of Lin’an City! But even so, Mr. Zhao still suppressed the matter.
Press it down!
Even he is like this, let alone the ordinary people. Those thieves and soldiers are even more hateful than the Jin people. They eat one family when they meet, and take another family after eating. In Lin'an City, in less than a month, The torture by these people was almost like hell. Girls did not dare to go out on the streets, restaurants did not dare to open their doors, and there were even fewer dogs on the streets...
They were all captured and cooked into dishes.
It is said that Prime Minister Qin has left and Prime Minister Zhao has come, but only the skin has been replaced but not the bones; even when Prime Minister Qin was here, it was not as extreme as it is now.
Therefore, almost all of the officials who stayed in Lin'an before the emperor cut off contact with Zhao Ding; while others all went to rely on Zhang Jun and Prime Minister Zhang. In this way, Zhao Ding became Lone minister.
Li Qingzhao should have come earlier, and with her relationship with the Tang family, she should have come earlier.
But Tang Wan was her disciple, and she had placed a lot of hopes on her. Zhao Shicheng's reputation in Shanyin was well known. I'm afraid I can't even keep my stomach full.
So she has always refused to agree to this marriage, but she is just a master, not his biological mother. No matter how much she objects, how can she object to Zhao Huan?
Today, she had no choice but to hold her nose and admit this fact, and it was finally here.
Tang Hong personally led her to the mansion. When she took a look, she saw the somewhat lonely Prime Minister Zhao at first sight.
After all, he is the number one scholar in the Song Dynasty today. Wherever his reputation lies, no matter which side you stand on, most people stood up at this moment and greeted the layman Yi An. The old woman agreed, On the other hand, he went straight to Zhao Ding's side.
Prime Minister Zhao had always been in contact with her when he was demoted. At this time, he didn't know anything about it. He raised his glass and said hello first:
"I haven't seen you before, I thought you were at home."
Li Yian nodded slightly, but did not accept his drink:
“How dare a civilian woman drink Zhao Xiangjing’s wine?”
Zhao Ding's expression froze for a moment, but he quickly reacted and said with a smile:
"Sir Yi An, please stop teasing me. Since you and I are so close, when will..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Qingzhao:
"Although I have been confused throughout my life, my ability to recognize people is generally good. There are only three people who made me miss the mark."
Zhao Ding seemed to have thought of what she was going to say, and put the wine glass back on the table:
"Appreciate further details."
"The first one is His Majesty the Emperor... He is talented, ambitious, and capable, but I thought he was just a contented person. This is because I misunderstood him."
"The second one is the deceased husband. He is a father-in-law of a city, but he runs away for his life regardless of the safety of the people."
"The third……"
Li Qingzhao is old, but as she said, her eyes are really good. At least if you just look at the eyes, it is difficult to imagine that they are the eyes of a gray-haired woman.
She stared at Zhao Ding with these beautiful eyes:
"It's you, Prime Minister Zhao. Women rarely regret it, but now, they really regret it."
"What do you regret?"
"I regret that when His Majesty asked me about you, I told you that you were the miracle doctor who cured the disease of the Song Dynasty, that you were the reincarnation of Xiao He, and that you were the most loyal minister in the world."
Zhao Ding took a deep breath. No matter how good-tempered he was, he would inevitably get a little excited when his old friend said this.
"It was a commoner woman who did not investigate, and she also deceived the Zhao family... Let the rotten wood be the official in the temple, and between the palace and the emperor, the beasts eat the salary, the wolf-hearted people, the servile people, One after another, they are in charge of the government, so that the people of Shejiqiu Ruins are in ruins!"
"How can a commoner woman drink your glass of wine, and how dare she drink it?"
"It's no wonder that Your Majesty doesn't know people. Women of the common people are the ones who deserve death. They are the sinners of the Song Dynasty!"
She was already excited as she spoke, as if she wanted to swallow Zhao Ding alive.
And what she said is not the voice of many people here?
The people of Prime Minister Zhang's group were happy that Li Yi'an was defeated by Zhao Ding, and they were even more happy that Prime Minister Zhao was defeated in public.
But scolding comes with scolding, Tang Hong is also the master after all, and he can't let Li Yian disturb this happy event, so he quickly pulled her aside:
"Xiao Wan is still in the boudoir. Go and see her. She will be very happy."
Li Qingzhao calmed down a little and didn't need anyone to guide her. She had been here many times before and walked directly towards the inner house.
Only the somewhat silent Mr. Zhao, Liu Ziyu who wanted to step forward but stopped, and the ministers who had their own thoughts were left.
On the other side, Li Yian saw from a distance that there were women in red standing outside Tang Wan's boudoir... Some of them she recognized as family members of the Tang family, but some were not familiar to her.
However, she didn't come to recognize anyone, she just came with someone who came with her. She stepped forward and wanted to push the door open and go in.
But before he even got to the door, he was stopped by several women:
"Princess is inside. Are you a relative? Please wait a moment... The bride is combing her hair. There can't be too many people."
This was the first time that Li Yian was stopped by someone in the Tang family. Without thinking about it, he knew that most of these people were from the county prince's palace.
However, she did not speak. Many people in the Tang family recognized her, so they stepped forward and said with a smile:
"This is not an outsider, he is layman Yi An, the young lady's master!"
The woman obviously didn't study. After hearing this title, she thought she came from some nunnery:
"I can't control so many lay abbots. After all, this is going to the county prince's palace, and it's not a wedding for a peasant family. There are still some etiquette."
This woman from the Tang Mansion was also married with Mrs. Tang. She had been in the Mansion for many years and had already regarded Tang Wan as her own daughter.
Now that I hear her say this, I can't help but feel a little angry:
"What you said seems to mean that the Tang family does not know etiquette."
"If you insist on thinking this way, there is really nothing we can do about it."
Even before she got married, she started to show off her humiliation to such a vicious slave. If she really obeyed her words, the young lady would never know how she would be bullied by her in the future.
"The county prince's palace is very polite, so polite that he wants to usurp the throne... If it is such a polite thing, don't tell me, the Tang family really doesn't have it."
"you……"
Seeing that she didn't open any pot, the old woman from the county prince's palace immediately wanted to talk back. Finally, the commotion outside became louder and alerted everyone in the room.
It turned out to be Li, the hostess of the Tang family, who opened the door.
When she saw Li Yian, she already understood most of it in her heart. She thought that after today, her daughter would be a member of the Zhao family, and it would be hard to offend her.
So, he smiled and said:
"I also said something, it turns out you are here..."
After saying that, he turned to the woman who came from the county prince's palace and said:
"You have to let her in. Xiaowan has been studying with the layman for many years. She should be half of her mother!"
"What's the point of a mother not being able to see her own daughter? You think so?"
The hostess of the Tang family was so polite, and the woman felt that her face felt bright:
"Since you have spoken, my servant will naturally do anything. This layman...then please invite me."
Li Qingzhao did not set off immediately, but asked the woman who came with her to go first. The woman did not answer and rushed directly into the house.
The people from the Prince's Mansion originally wanted to stop him, but after all, he only asked the layman to go in, so the people accompanying him also went. However, before they even raised their hands, they were caught by Li Yian:
"If you don't know me, you should ask your prince. If he doesn't know me, ask him to go to his ancestral hall and see who wrote the autobiography hanging next to King Yi's tomb. .”
"I'm not from the Tang family. It's okay even if I don't go in. But you have to think about it. You, the self-proclaimed slave, can bear the consequences."
Seeing that although her words were gentle, the threat was already coming out. The woman thought that this was Lin'an, not Shanyin, and she might really offend someone.
He made a greeting: "Please."
Li Qingzhao finally entered Tang Wan's boudoir. As soon as he walked around the screen, he saw the girl sitting on a stool, wearing a wedding dress, with her back to him.
If that wasn’t his apprentice, who could he be?
"Xiao Wan'er..."
She called out softly, which made the figure move uncontrollably and made Li shed tears.
Seeing her turn around, her face was already covered with white powder, compared with the bright red rouge on her mouth...
White is red, red is white.
The white ones are whiter and the red ones are redder.
"My little Wan'er..."
In her eyes, this girl will always look young.
But in less than a month, why, how it turned out like this.
I don't know what he thought of, but Li Yian took her head into his arms, imitating Li's appearance, and started to cry.
"Why are you so miserable..."
Tang Wan seemed a little dull and allowed Li Qingzhao to hug him, but he didn't even respond to her.
Instead, it was Mrs. Li - she had cried many times and had not seen Li Qingzhao before. At this time, she put her last glimmer of hope in her:
"Householder, please save her and ask the officials to cancel the marriage! Xiao Wan can't marry the prince, that's not allowed!"
Li Qingzhao knelt down and gently held her face:
"Tell me, do you want to get married?"
Tang Wan seemed to be afraid of ruining her makeup. Although she was very restrained, she still couldn't help but shed a tear from the corner of her eye when she heard Li Qingzhao ask:
"She...Xiaowan...don't want to."
She didn't want to, she never wanted to. From the day her father brought the news back, she said she didn't want to at the first time.
But she doesn't want to do anything about it, and she can't help it.
Her father wants to be an official, and her father also needs to be a human being. If she insists on refusing, then her father will not be able to succeed either as an official or as a human being.
"I see."
Li Qingzhao wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "If that's the case, then we won't get married!"
"Don't marry..."
"May I?"
Tang Wan and Li asked questions at the same time. After all, Li Qingzhao was old and had not been squatting for too long. He stood up and said:
"Of course, yes!"
The same two voices said yes. When he heard the person speaking with Li Qingzhao, Tang Wan suddenly opened his eyes wide.
She quickly looked aside... The one who was dressing up in women's clothing, although she was wearing a skirt and makeup, was obviously...
It's obviously him!
"Lu...Lu You!"
She couldn't help shouting, but she immediately thought that someone was guarding the door. She was both excited and controlled:
"Is it you, Lu You?"
"It's me, it's me, it's me!"
A good man dressed like this. If Lu Zai found out, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.
But at this time, Lu You could no longer care about so much.
Mrs. Li was stunned. As a woman with a strict upbringing and having stayed in Tang Shaoqing's house for so many years, she naturally attached great importance to the protection between men and women.
At this time, a man appeared in his daughter's house. If word of this got out, not to mention what happened to the county prince's palace, even others would not be able to comment.
"you……"
Seeing that the two young people were holding hands, Li couldn't hold it in any longer. Just as she was about to stop, Li Qingzhao took a step forward and said:
"The two of us will go out and talk about the child's family affairs. Let's go out and talk about it."
He said he was going out, but he just walked around the outside of the screen.
Although Mrs. Li was worried, she was even more worried about being overheard by people outside the door. In the end, she was restrained by Li Qingzhao and could not break free.
"Businessman, this, this won't work!"
"That's okay."
Li Yian was very determined. This woman, who first arrived in Bianjing at the age of sixteen, went out drinking and did not come home until late. Instead, she wrote "Strive for the crossing, fight for the crossing, startling a pool of gulls and herons" and shocked the literary world of the Song Dynasty. woman,
In fact, she doesn't care too much about rules, at least not when her father died. She doesn't want to care too much about rules, right?
With her as a helper, the people inside talked much more easily, and Lu You felt much more relaxed anyway.
He looked at his sweetheart and realized that this was the boldest thing he had done in his short life.
"I didn't know what you meant that day. It wasn't until the news of your marriage came that I realized what I almost missed."
"Xiao Wan, I've known you since I was eight years old, and now I'm almost seventeen. Do you know what this means?"
Tang Wan wanted to cry, but she was really happy. Under such complicated emotions, her voice changed slightly when she spoke.
"What is it?"
"It's half of my life, and I already have you... People can't live without their other half. I can't live without you, and Lu You can't live without you in this life."
"I always miss you when I eat, I always miss you when I sleep, and I still miss you even when I'm walking on the road."
"Sometimes when I see it raining, I think about you; when I see the sun, I still think about you."
"Tang Wan, come with me."
The great scholar in Lu felt that he didn't know how to talk about love. His father never taught him these things, nor did he learn about them in Imperial College.
So he could only watch Tang Wan's reaction to see if what he said was right or not.
Fortunately, the tears on this girl's face became beads, and the powder was wetted.
"Lu You, where are you taking me?"
"We will go wherever you want to go. The world is so big, and there are still places that no one can reach. When all the Jin people go out, I will take you to see Kaifeng, Yanyun, Mount Tai, and the Great Wall... I have only seen these places in books, but I have never seen them with my own eyes. Do you want to see them, Tang Wan?"
This seemed to be an invitation. Tang Wan was a girl. Although she was really not very interested, the atmosphere was here, so she couldn't help but nod.
Lu You was just about to cheer, but saw Tang Wan change his nod to shaking his head. He thought he hadn't agreed, so he quickly thought about the places that the girl's family would like to go to. While thinking about it, he took out the hairpin that he had kept for a long time. out.
"My mother said this is to be passed down. Since you took it, you can't give it back to me."
Tang Wan laughed and cried at the same time: "Lu You, I can't!"
"I can't leave with you. If I leave, what will happen to my parents?! What will happen to the Tang family?!"
“I can’t control that much anymore!”
"You have to take care of it, you have to take care of it!" She paused and allowed herself to calm down: "My parents are just a child like me. I can't repay the kindness of giving birth, let alone drag them down!"
"Lu You, let's go. We are destined to be together, so I owe you. Let's go!"
Lu You didn't expect that things would suddenly turn out like this. He found it hard to accept:
"Xiao Wan... Otherwise, otherwise... you become Zhu Yingtai, and I will become Liang Shanbo."
"no!"
What Tang Wan fears most is that he is like this, not cherishing his own life.
The story of Butterfly Lovers was both beautiful and painful. Even if she could, she would never let Lu You do this.
"Lu You, please go, I beg you, just think of it as letting me go, let my parents go, okay?"
These words were more hurtful than rejection, and Lu You couldn't understand.
Under what circumstances would a person beg others to let her go?
Seriously, is that it?
Lu You couldn't figure it out.
After a long time, watching Tang Wan start to touch up his makeup, Lu You finally took back his outstretched hand. The hairpin was held tightly by him, as if it was about to be pinched off.
"Do you have any pen and ink?"
Tang Wan didn't know what he wanted to do, but she was also a talented woman, so she naturally had these things.
"Outside the screen."
"Well...I'm leaving, Xiaowan."
Tang Wan tried hard to look calmer, even the trembling hand holding Rouge was hidden by her.
"Okay, take care."
"Take care of yourself."
Lu You walked out and saw Li Yian and Mrs. Li waiting. He saluted them both, without saying much, and started swaying directly on the desk.
Mrs. Li was worried about her daughter and hurriedly entered the house. Li Qingzhao looked at Lu You's expression and knew that he had failed. She felt sad and didn't know what he was going to do, so he just stepped forward and watched.
"The hairpin-headed phoenix... the red hands"
After only reading two sentences, she realized that this was the first ci... However, Li Qingzhao was still a little confused. There was no such ci in her memory.
'Red crisp hands, yellow wine, the city is full of spring scenery and willows on the palace walls. The east wind is evil and happiness is thin. Many years separated, my mind full of sorrow. Wrong, wrong, wrong. '
'Spring is as old as before, people are thin and empty, and the tears are red and wet. Peach blossoms fall, leisure pool pavilion. Although the mountain alliance is there, it is difficult to trust the brocade book. Mo, mo, mo...'
"View of small affairs..."
"Businessman, let's go."
"Alas," Li Qingzhao shook his head, his heart filled with melancholy.
This hairpin-headed phoenix must have been modified by Lu You himself. Judging from the mediocre rhythm, it should be the prototype of Xie Fang's Ci.
But it didn't matter anymore. She just felt that she had witnessed a tragedy, and was a little shocked by the child's talent. She hesitated, and finally took him out.
There was a sound of the door being closed, and Mrs. Li brought in what Lu You had written. Tang Wan stared at it for a long time, and finally collapsed.
She lay on her mother's shoulder and kept shouting:
"He's gone, mother! He's gone!"
Mrs. Li kept slapping her daughter on the back, and every bit of pain she felt was multiplied several times when it fell on her.
She didn’t know how long she shouted until she almost lost her voice. Someone outside the door shouted:
"Madam, the time has come."
Tang Wan stood up, took Lu You's poem, and walked outside the screen.
She also started writing freely, following Lu You's pattern, and wrote the same words.
'The hairpin-headed phoenix... The world is thin, human relations are evil, and flowers tend to fall when the rain comes and evening comes. The morning wind dries, leaving traces of tears. When I want to write down my thoughts, I talk alone in Xilan. Difficult, difficult, difficult. '
'People are different, today is not yesterday, and the sick soul is always like a rope on a swing. The sound of the horn is cold and the night is dark. Afraid of being asked, I swallow my tears and pretend to be happy. Conceal, conceal, conceal...'
Afraid of being asked, I swallow my tears and pretend to be happy.
(End of chapter)
