Marriage of the Di Daughter

The person who spoke was a woman, her voice was very gentle, and there was a bit of indifference and straightforwardness, which made people feel very ironic.

Immediately afterwards, the person in the yard who seemed to be a servant girl said again: "After the uncle won the first prize, the madam and the young lady have become more and more unreasonable to the young lady."

"It's nothing, he just won the first place today, so naturally there are many entertainments, Yu Rong has no choice but to do so, Du Juan don't want to talk nonsense."

champion? Shen Yurong? When Ji Heng heard the name, he understood it instantly. He knew Shen Yurong, the champion of the new division a while ago, Emperor Hong Xiao had told him before that he was going to give Shen Yurong a house. I heard that Shen Zhuangyuan was born in a commoner family and his family was poor. As expected, he lived in such a back alley.

Ji Heng didn't like to listen to people's gossip, but he didn't leave today, probably because he was exhausted and too lazy to move, so he just sat on the wall and listened quietly to the people inside.

"But today is the day to welcome the spring, so it's fine for my uncle to socialize. The wife and the young lady went to the temple fair by themselves, and the young lady was left alone in the mansion. Isn't this deliberately making things difficult? The young lady has a good temper. If the young master is here, he must Stand up for the girl."

"Haitang, you're talking nonsense again." The woman's voice still didn't take it seriously, and she said with a smile: "They're not here, I just happened to be hiding away, but I don't know that it's tiring to pretend to do things on weekdays, and it's important for me to have a moment of relaxation. I can't even ask for it."

"The Shen family has too many rules, and it's not a big family. When I was in the Xue family, the girl didn't have to work so hard."

The maids in that courtyard seemed to be particularly dissatisfied with the Shen family, and they talked about each "girl", clearly treating the mistress as an outsider. As Ji Heng listened, he remembered that he had actually met Shen Yurong's wife.

Everyone in Yanjing knows that he likes beauty and hates ugliness, but any beauty should be passed over by him, as if it is a great honor to get his approval. Little did he know that he didn't have such a hobby. Except for Yu Hongye, all women in the world were nothing but vulgar fans in his eyes. When Wen Renyao pointed Xue Fangfei to him from above the restaurant, his heart was also full of disdain.

This Xue Fangfei, who was born with stunning beauty, is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but unfortunately in Ji Heng's eyes, she is really useless. Seeing her connivance and meekness towards her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, Ji Heng felt it was dazzling for the Shen family to compromise. It is only said that "beauty is beautiful and there is no soul". He hadn't thought about what kind of woman he would like in the future, but he would not even take a look at such a woman who was as dull as a puppet, as warm and cunning as all the wives of officials, and a philistine hiding behind a smile. How can such a person be called "Yanjing's No. 1 Beauty"?

My impression of Xue Fangfei only stayed here, but I didn't expect to see a different Xue Fangfei today across a wall. Unlike Xue Fangfei who met above the restaurant, she is not a fool, nor is she hopeless, at least she knows what she likes and what she doesn't like. It's a pity that she likes Shen Yurong more than herself, so that she is willing to sacrifice her "like" for Shen Yurong.

So love is the most stupid thing in the world. If you like someone and treat them with all your heart and soul, what's the point of getting nothing for yourself? It's better to be a theatergoer who is always awake, laughing and applauding.

"Girl want to play on the swing?" the servant girl asked.

Xue Fangfei in the wall sighed with a smile: "It's been a long time. So it's rare that they are not in the house, so I can be free." She seemed to be sitting on a swing, swaying.

It seems that through the wall in front of you, you can see the stunning woman with the appearance of hibiscus, sitting on the swing, with a smile on her face and a graceful appearance. This is a more beautiful scene than spring, he could jump up the wall to take a look at Lise, but he did nothing, still leaning against the wall, with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.

Even though he is extremely smart, talented and beautiful, he can only be trapped in such a shabby house, and even swinging in the yard has become a luxury. Is there anything worse in the world than this? At least Ji Heng felt that Mrs. Shen was a bit pitiful, and she herself was pitiful, that she was able to enjoy herself in such a hopeless and humble life. Is this a fool's blessing?

At least in Ji Heng's eyes, after meeting Shen Yurong a few times, he knew that Shen Yurong was by no means a person who could live in peace and happiness. The ambition and desire in his eyes are stronger than his talent and learning. He is definitely not the same kind of person as the woman in this yard who is happy when she can swing on the swing. If they are not the same kind of people, they are destined not to be together for a long time. The happiness that Xue Fangfei thought would be destroyed sooner or later. Xue Fangfei couldn't see it because she was in the play, but he could see it because he was a spectator.

"We've been in Yanjing City for several years, and we haven't been able to go to a single temple fair." The servant girl muttered, "Madam actually said that the girl is too beautiful, and she is afraid of being seen by bad people. This is clearly an excuse. How can there be such a thing, Aren't all the people who went to the temple fair in the world ugly?"

Xue Fangfei laughed in the courtyard and said, "Hai Tang, why are you so fussy? Isn't it just a temple fair? When you were in Tongxiang in the past, you didn't go too far?"

"It's because I rushed a lot in Tongxiang, but I didn't have one time in Yanjing City. It's not as good as when I was in Tongxiang. The slaves are nothing, but I have wronged the girl. The temple fair in Yanjing City is much more lively than Tongxiang. The young master asks the girl every time he writes a letter, so it's hard for the girl to make up every time."

Xue Fangfei smiled and said: "That idiot Ah Zhao, I believe what I say, and it's just a few days now. When he really travels around in the future, how can he see a small temple fair? I was the one who wrote to ask him what new things he saw again, and told my sister."

She didn't seem to be angry at all, even in the face of such unfair and harsh treatment, she didn't care about the harshness of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and she said all very good and pleasing things. So at this end, the sarcasm at the corner of Ji Heng's mouth became stronger, he had seen stupid ones, but never seen such stupid ones. There are still such stupid women in the world. No wonder so many men always yearn for the first lady when they talk about it. There are many beautiful women, and there are also many stupid women, but there are far fewer beautiful but stupid women. . Especially this woman is not really stupid, but pretending to be stupid. What's difficult is that she has been pretending for so many years. Is she deceiving herself? Or do you think it's good at all?

Ji Heng is not a woman, she doesn't know what women think, and she doesn't want to know.

But when he listened to this woman's words, he found it a little funny. Yes, he is not the only person in the world who has had a bad life, but many people have miserable pasts. Mrs. Shen, the most beautiful woman in Yanjing, has lived like this Miserable and stupid, and his premature soberness to face the darkness, I don't know who is more miserable.

"Doesn't the girl complain at all?" The maid inside was talking again, "The girl is not willing to write these things back to the master. If the master and the young master know about it, they will definitely stand up for the girl. Where did the girl suffer from before?" Such a grievance."

"Du Juan, these are nothing." Xue Fangfei's voice sounded from the other end, she said: "I am willing to do this because of Yurong, Yurong knows what I have done, if Yurong also takes these things I do for granted, Then I will be disappointed. However, the way of husband and wife is worth studying. Who can be happy all day long? If you really say that a carefree life is only when you are young, there is nothing to choose. If you regret it, just bite the bullet and grit your teeth and move forward. If you can't bear it anymore, you will find another way out, but it's not yet that time, so don't take it to heart."

Is there anything to regret about the choices you make? Ji Heng raised her eyebrows, did Xue Fangfei regret what she said? But she was straightforward, with a kind of desperate courage. Thinking about it too, marrying from a strange place to Yanjing City, everything was perfect before marriage, and the predicament after marriage is probably something she never thought about. But Ji Heng was different. Many years ago, he began to gradually accept the fact that "Ji Minghan will die one day". As for the changes in life, he seems to be worse than a stupid woman.

The more lively servant girl said: "I heard that there is an opera troupe at the temple fair tonight. It has been several years since we have been in Yanjing City, and none of the servants and servants have gone to the theater again. It is a pity to think about it."

Xue Fangfei's voice was gentle, she said: "What's the matter? I can sing opera, even though I can't sing very well, you treat me as an actor, how about I sing "Suo Lin Nang" for you?"

This time, Ji Heng under the other wall was slightly taken aback. I have never heard of a lady who took the initiative to sing an opera for the servants. She is the third-rate in the middle class. The ladies and wives enjoy watching operas, but they never take the initiative to sing operas. And when he sang opera when he was a child, it was only because of his master's bad taste. He was young at that time and didn't know much, so he was tricked into learning opera. But it's been a long time since I sang, and I didn't expect that Mrs. Shen, who looks generous and graceful, can also sing.

She still sang "Suo Lin Nang\

,"The rich lady in "Suo Lin Nang" happened to be named Xue. Xue Xiangling in that play was first married in a distant place, and then was separated from her family on the way to escape due to floods, and drifted to a foreign land alone. Life has been changed by accidents and great changes have taken place.

Xue Fangfei's voice was very clear, especially touching in the night. It is already the time after the rich lady got married.

"After being newly married, I don't feel that time flies like an arrow. She is still beautiful and beautiful when she is young. She took her charming child to travel around the long street in the car, and heard the crying sound shaking the sky."

She didn't feel sad when she sang the sad libretto, on the contrary, it was a bit neat and playful, as if she didn't care about it. She doesn't look like a sad woman, but rather like a child who has just come out of the rivers and lakes, with a bit of novelty, a bit of surprise, except that she doesn't see the slightest self-pity.

She really doesn't seem like a bad person.

"Hungry in the stomach, the Lord is not there, but why is there no pavilion in the wilderness? Could it be a fulfillment of the merciless flood? In a trance, I was on the same boat with everyone. Maybe the old lady was killed in the waves, the hard-fated big fish Buried in the abdomen. Can you see my husband and Xuantai? You follow me back to my hometown to find the corpse."

Ji Heng was originally a very picky person. The world said that he loved watching theaters, but he liked to watch the people in the theater get stuck in it and couldn't extricate themselves, and shed tears for the joys and sorrows that did not belong to him. And he will always be a theatergoer. Xue Fangfei sang very perfunctorily, she didn't blend into the play at all, and the sad libretto was not sad, but she sang it a bit cheerfully. She wasn't really a student of Liyuan, and she couldn't sing so well, but it was strange that Ji Heng didn't feel disgusted in her heart. Instead, she sat on the other side of the wall and listened quietly, as if the voice carried The warmth made his heart, which was as cold as if it had been fished out of an ice cellar, soften and calm down.

she is singing:

"In an instant, the former love is completely ignorant, and the clothes are wet with tears at the place where the bitterness is penetrated."

"I only know that wealth and wealth are destined for life, but who knows the number of lives will be clear in an instant. I think I used to be coquettish and domineering back then, even if I don't believe in the past."

"This is also a lesson from God: He taught me to accept remaining hatred, avoid coquettish anger, and reform myself, change my love, stop falling in love with passing water, turn back from the sea of ​​bitterness, and realize Lan Yin early."

In the play, Miss Xue's family has undergone great changes, so she has to go to someone else's house to be a servant. It was at this moment that a sense of human beings was born, and when Xue Fangfei sang this song, there was also a hint of melancholy, which was very slight, but was captured by Ji Heng. This beautiful young lady is probably not happy, but her sorrow may be quite different from that of Xue Xiangling in the play. Due to the change of Xue Xiangling's status, from rich to poor, Xue Fangfei obviously had a better life, but she was no longer free.

It was this melancholy that made Jiheng realize that this woman is naturally not stupid, she knows everything, but just endured it silently. No matter what she was doing for it, she was somewhat similar to him. But Xue Fangfei is completely different from Ji Heng. Her singing is full of magnanimity and calmness, bright and upright, as if even if the future is dark, she will walk over without hesitation, without a trace of fear.

In this warm spring night in Yanjing City, where there were so many dirty deals buried under the darkness, her singing was like a ray of light, illuminating the darkness for a moment, revealing her true appearance.

But Ji Heng knew that such an open and honest woman, who clearly saw through everything but chose a foolish path, would be buried in such a night sooner or later. The person next to her pillow doesn't need light, they are also people in the dark, and Ji Heng understands what such a person wants better than anyone else. Once Shen Yurong needs to sacrifice this lady, he will sacrifice this lady without hesitation.

The lady understands this, but her trust breaks her cleverness, and she, too, is deceived.

What should I say?

Ji Heng didn't know what to say, she sang "Suo Lin Nang", the woman who sang was not in the play, she was calm and enthusiastic, but he was watching from the sidelines, and the people who were watching the play seemed to be fascinated. It was a strange experience. But there is no doubt that he was on one side of the wall, listening to the rough libretto of the woman on the other side of the wall, and his original desperate mood of wanting to die slowly dissipated at some point.

He got peace from this drama, if a woman is fearless, what does he have to be afraid of? Even if he has no one to rely on for the rest of his life, that's nothing special.

He slowly stood up from the wall.

At the other end, Xue Fangfei was swinging on a swing, and a smile spread from the yard, a beautiful woman's smiling face, how many people would like to see her face. Standing under the wall, Ji Heng suddenly felt that Xue Fangfei might really be a beauty for a moment.

The beauty is beyond the skin, but this beauty is so beautiful that she doesn't know it. Her posture is soft and cute, she looks temperless, but she is like a wild flower that has not yet bloomed. Before it blooms, she looks like any other flower. When she opened up enthusiastically, no one knew what kind of color it was.

It's a pity that she was planted in the Shen family's yard, and I don't know if she will have the opportunity to open it up for herself in this life.

The corner of his mouth curled up, his eyes were full of emotion, and he walked along the wall until he reached the door of Xue's house. The door is made of firewood, and it is not very tight. From the gap, you can see the appearance of the courtyard. He glanced lightly, and saw in the night, in the yard, a young woman in common clothes, as beautiful as a peach or plum, sitting on a swing and smiling cutely.

Under the Milky Way, her smile is gentler than the spring breeze, and her eyes are like stars, shining extraordinarily brightly. She seemed to be aware of someone's gaze, and turned her head to look at the door, with a smile on her face that hadn't been put away. The scene at that moment was beautiful enough to make the memory stay here for a lifetime.

Xue Fangfei stopped the swing suspiciously, and Haitang asked, "Girl, what's wrong?"

She shook her head, walked to the door, thought for a while, pushed the door open, and saw that there was nothing outside, only the gentle wind blowing on her face, like greetings from an old friend. She walked out the door and looked towards the end of the alley. She seemed to be able to see a red streamer, like a ghostly figure, but nothing disappeared.

Only a faint lingering fragrance.

...

In the snowy night, I had a dream about the spring night. There was an intoxicating spring breeze in the dream, and Jiang Li saw herself when she was still "Mrs. Shen". She was left alone in the house by Shen's mother and Shen Ruyun during the Spring Festival. She saw the beautiful man in red walking into the yard. On the other side, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, she heard her finish singing "Suolin Bag".

There was still a babbling sound in the dream, but the sound gradually drifted far away. But she is very strange, the memory stays in the scene when someone walked by the door and looked at her from a distance through the crack of the firewood door. She didn't accept her smile, but the other party's eyes were smiling, so many thousands of years were separated by one glance.

Until Jiang Li woke up from the dream.

Wen Ji and Zhao Ke had already arrived and were guarding outside the cave. When Jiang Li got up, Ji Heng was walking in from the outside. He handed the kettle to Jiang Li, and said with a smile, "Are you awake?"

Jiang Li looked at his face, couldn't tell whether it was unfamiliar or familiar for a while, and stared at him in a daze.

"What's wrong?" He asked with a puzzled smile.

"Ji Heng..." Jiang Li asked hesitantly: "Three years ago, on the night of welcoming the spring, did you walk past the door of Shen's house?"

The scene in the dream was so clear that everything seemed to have happened in real life. The time interval was too long, and she didn't know whether it was true or false. But she still remembers everything that happened last night, and she also sang the "Suolin Bag" sung by Ji Heng.

Ji Heng raised his eyebrows, sat down on the floor in front of her, and said: "It seems that you have remembered."

"You...I..." Jiang Li was speechless.

She once thought that the entanglement between her and Ji Heng in the previous life was nothing more than the saying "beauty is beautiful without soul", although she thought Ji Heng was right, but it was not a friendship after all. But he didn't know that that night, the night when Ji Minghan died, he had sat outside the wall of his house, listening to himself finish singing "Suolin Pouch".

Is this an entanglement of fate? Jiang Li didn't understand either, but if she were to go back to that night now, she wouldn't let Ji Heng leave like that, at least talk to Ji Heng again. When he was most desperate.

"I'll teach you how to sing in the future." He patted Jiang Li's head and said, "You're not in tune."

Jiang Li: "..." She suddenly remembered something more important, then looked at Ji Heng, and asked eagerly, "How's your injury?"

Yesterday, Ji Heng was seriously injured, today he can be so refreshed and joking with Jiang Li, but Jiang Li is still very worried, suspecting that Ji Heng is just pretending.

"It's okay, Situ's medicine is very effective." Ji Heng said: "There is no need to worry about this kind of minor injury."

"But you're badly hurt."

"It's not heavy." Ji Heng said, "But have you been injured?"

Jiang Li shook her head. She still wanted to see Ji Heng's injury, but Ji Heng avoided him. Zhao Ke came over and said that Ji Heng was fine, so Jiang Li asked what happened between Yin Zhan and Ji Heng. All she knew was that Yin Zhan was dead.

Ji Heng looked at her, with a slight smile: "Do you really want to know?"

Jiang Li nodded.

Having reached this point, it seems that there is no point in hiding it any longer. Ji Heng said, "Okay, I'll tell you."

Jiang Li listened to it for a long time.

Ji Heng told her everything, from the entanglement between Yu Hongye, Ji Minghan and Yin Zhan, Lin Roujia, to what Yin Zhan had done for Lin Roujia for so many years. Even earlier, when Ji Heng was a child, he started to find out the truth, retrained the flying dragon riders, and ordered the Jinwu army. In the battle of the Red Chamber, at worst, he and Yin Zhan died together, but in the end, Old General Ji paid his life.

Jiang Li could hear the deepness in Ji Heng's words, although he looked indifferent, but in his heart, he was in pain for the death of General Ji. He talked about the past in a flat tone, but Jiang Li could imagine the bitterness in those years when he grew up from an immature boy. While the noble son of another family was working hard for a bright future, he threw himself into hell. He gave up his future to gamble on an unknown outcome.

He was never sincere, because for a person like him, sincerity is a sin.

The more people are in the dark, the more they yearn for the light in their hearts. The more lonely he is, the more he wants to wear bright clothes and listen to lively plays. Walking through the bustling, as if this can not be discarded. But in fact, his relatives left one by one, and in the end he was left alone.

He said a lot, that's all, looked at Jiangli with a smile, and said softly: "Now I have nothing, little girl, do you want to go back on your word?"

Jiang Li looked at him.

His eyes were gentle, but Jiang Li felt very sad. After a series of calculations these days, the matter of Yin Zhan came to an end, but there was another Yin Zhili. And those Yin family soldiers in Qingzhou, no matter how this battle is fought, Ji Heng will be tired.

She said: "Who said you have nothing?" Before Ji Heng could answer, she continued: "Don't you still have me?"

He laughed and said, "You are really... exactly the same as before."

On a spring night many years ago, after hearing her sing a play, he knew that she was a stupid woman. Once you fall in love with someone, you will be desperate, like a moth to a flame. She has clearly missed it once, but she still dares to fall in love with someone again and bravely deliver her sincerity.

Her sincerity was simple and casual, but he couldn't extricate himself from it, and he was deeply involved in it, willing to give everything he had. So he also changed from a shrewd hunter to a gentle beast, willing to be tamed by her.

"I didn't think of it before." Ji Heng said: "I only let someone protect Jiang's house, but I didn't expect that Yin Zhan would use Ye's family as a threat. I have already asked Kong Liu to take people to Ye's house, and this will not happen in the future thing."

Jiang Li said: "It has nothing to do with you, Yin Zhan is too despicable."

To think of using such a method, he is a general after all, even though he is not tired of deceit, but he should not use such a dishonest or even low-level method.

"I will send you back to Beijing as soon as possible. After returning to Beijing, I will let Kong Liu send people to follow you to protect your safety. Try not to leave. People from the Ye family will live in the Duke's Mansion." Ji Heng said : "In the Duke's Mansion, it's always safer than outside."

Jiang Li heard that something was wrong, looked at him, and asked, "Aren't you going back with me?"

"Yin Zhili raised an army in Qingzhou. The Yin family has a lot of soldiers. Yin Zhan has been planning for many years and intends to rebel. I promised the emperor that I will lead the Jinwu army to quell the rebellion. I can't leave." Ji Heng laughed.

"You...you have never been on the battlefield." Jiang Li said eagerly.

He smiled, "You don't believe me, Ari." He said: "There are many things, there is no choice. Only by killing Yin Zhili with my own hands, can I feel at ease. I don't know how long this battle will last. When I come back, I will marry you."

"Ji Heng..."

"You can't marry someone else." He pulled Jiang Li towards him and lightly pecked her on the lips.

"You really decided?" Jiang Li was very sad. She didn't want to be separated from Ji Heng, and she knew that Ji Heng's going would be really dangerous. But she also knew that Ji Heng had made up her mind to go. If it were her, she would be Ji Heng, and she would go to personally understand this unjust debt that lasted for two generations. She has no reason to influence Ji Heng's decision. She likes someone, but she doesn't want to imprison him. She respects his choice.

"I want to leave you, will you forgive me?" He smiled.

Jiang Li smiled, and she said: "If you promise me, you will definitely come back and marry me, and I will forgive you."

Her eyes were bright, honest and clean, and Ji Heng was slightly taken aback, feeling satisfied and grateful from the bottom of his heart. She easily calmed down all her violence and darkness, making him calm.

He replied solemnly: "I promise you."