I carried the food box, would like to go back to the house, but temporary suddenly changed his mind, thinking that now the imperial garden is certainly no one, a few osmanthus flowers and bloom just right, why not simply go there to enjoy the moon, enjoy osmanthus flowers, drinking, is not better than in the house by himself?
It was really quiet. Cool as water in the night, floating osmanthus fragrance, I can not help but slow down the footsteps, y inhaled a few mouthfuls, is raising his head to look at the moon, a wisp of flute sound at first, bluffed a jump!
To be fixed in mind, can not help but be a little surprised, who is playing the flute here? I'm not in a hurry to find, casually put the food box on the ground, back against the tree, half tilted his head and looked at the full moon, quietly taste this song "plum blossom three".
Cold plums in the snow, clean posture, dark fragrance floating, although not accompanied by hundreds of flowers, but swaying in the wind, enjoy themselves. I know in my heart who it is, and with a smile on my face, I lifted up my food box and went in search of the sound.
People have not yet arrived, the flute sound but turned sad, as if a gust of wind suddenly rose, full of plum blossoms were eventually knocked down, and then reluctant, but also have to be with the mud and dust **** place. I was surprised, when he actually have such pain? I couldn't help but slow down my steps and gently walked over.
Volume 2, Chapter 7
Thirteen Aggies are standing under the laurel tree, cross flute and play, all the usual laughing and unruly look, demeanor quiet and solemn. "Excellent at riding and archery, hair will hit, gallop like flying. Poetry and writing, all exquisite and fresh, elegant and good at music, good at zither and flute." Such a literary and military talent, bold and uninhibited strange male child how day by day through ten years of seclusion career? Thinking about the eyes a little blurred up.
The song is not yet finished, thirteenth brother has stopped the flute, to me. I was busy to cheer up, smile and walk over, asked: "Why do not you finish blowing it? Disturbing your pleasure?"
Thirteenth Brother smiled and said, "I didn't know it was you! Just thought someone was eavesdropping, so I stopped!"
I glanced at the wine jar on the stone table aside and asked with a smile, "Why don't you accompany His Majesty at the front of the palace and leave Fujin alone to come here to drink?" He looked at the food box in my hand and also laughed, "Only you are allowed to pick a good place, I can't come?"
I smiled, did not say anything, opened the food box, took two pots of wine out, made a gesture of invitation to him. He smiled, sat down on a stone bench, picked up the jugs and took a sip.
I also sat down, picked up the jug, and he touched it, each tilted their necks and took a sip. Thirteen propped himself up diagonally, looked at the moon for a while, and said, "It's been many years since we drank wine together!" I sighed, "Ten years!" Both of them launched themselves into a moment of silence looking at the moon.
After a long time, Thirteen laughed sideways and said, "It's rare that we met today, and we both brought wine, so let's drink properly again, otherwise it might be ten years later next time we drink again!"
He a laugh, but did not know that said completely correct. Ten years of seclusion, ten years later, I know you safe to release, and I do not know where I want to be. If there is fate, perhaps after ten years can still drink, if not, then this may be the last parting wine.
The heart of grief, forced a smile and said: "It is time to get drunk! I haven't tasted drunkenness since the last time I was made drunk by you!"
Thirteen raised his eyebrows, and while clinking the wine pot with me, he said, "Last time, you obviously picked up the wine bag yourself and poured it in one gulp, looking like you couldn't wait to get drunk right away, so how come I'm the one who drunkenly poured it into you?"
"If you don't take me captive outside, can I pour wine by the mouthful?" I asked, glaring at him. A look like if you dare say it's not your fault again, try it.
He chuckled, "Good! Good! Even if I was the one who got you drunk last time! But today you can remember, the wine you bring your own, people also come by themselves. Don't say again in the future that it was me who dunked you."
The two men laughed and talked on one side and drank wine on the other, soon the wine jugs in the hands of the two men reached the bottom, and he laughed and patted the wine jar on the table and said, "It's still me who had the foresight!" I laughed and said, "Yes, yes!" One side took two bowls out. Thirteen laughed and said, "Or you are to my liking, originally should be so drinking, the most impatient holding a small cup of chirping!" Said one person poured a bowl.
The two drank and drank, are silent down, I thought of thirteen coming fate, their own unknown fate, the heart sad. Thirteen do not know what to think of, also in the corner of the eye with a few sadness.
The two touched every now and then, a sip, each sad sad. When you are sad, it is easiest to get drunk, and both of them have already drunk a lot. At this time with a few points of alcohol, and suddenly relative to each other and laughed. Laughing at me lying on the stone table, with a hand to secretly wipe dry the tears in the corner of the eyes.
When I was lying down, I suddenly heard a mournful flute sound. It was the tune that I had not finished playing earlier, I looked at him quietly with my head sideways, why was he so sad in his heart?
After the song was blown, thirteen hands holding the jade flute, got up and paced a few steps, slowly chanting:
Barely outside the bridge willows shaggy, a thousand peach blossom trees, a grassy nunnery.
It's springtime in March, and the scenery is vaguely like Jiangnan.
The moon is in the sky, and the flute is playing in front of the evening breeze.
The white gulls are in the spring, and the boat is in the shallow water.
I propped up my head and laughed: "people 'talented' people also have to 'seven steps into a poem', you this three or five steps made so much, will not be ashamed of Cao Zhi." Thirteen tilted his head and said lazily, "I wrote it before, just a moment of emotion in my heart and read it out."
I looked at him silently for a while and sighed: "If you were not born in the emperor's family, how good it would be! There would be no need to envy idleness with only poetry!" He took a deep breath and stood sideways with his hands behind his back, looking up at the moon, and after a while he said, "I don't know how many times I've thought about it myself! I have always longed for the day when I could ride a horse, carry a flute, and a sword, and freely roam across heaven and earth, shooting eagles in the north of the desert, and listening to songs in the south of the Yangtze River. When I feel free, I will drink wine and dance with my sword, and when I feel elegant, I will sing poetry under the lamp. But this body has been entrusted to the emperor's family, even if I can jump out of the cage, but there are people I can not give up, do not want to let him face the wind and frost alone! Though he has a mother-in-law and a sibling brother, it's almost the same as not having one!"
Just feel the tears fell violently, even wipe are too late, just wipe dry the old tears, new tears and has been under. Thirteen turned his head to look at me silently.
I wiped my tears with both hands, and said with a forced smile, "I drank too much, and the wine turned into tears." He tugged at the corner of his mouth, wanting to laugh, but in the end did not laugh out. Walking back to the table, he picked up the bowl and poured it down his neck.
I also filled a large mouth. I also took a big gulp. Holding my head in my hands, I asked him, "Thirteenth Brother, in this Forbidden City, you and I are the rare people who think alike, and it would be good if we could get together. But it's strange, why don't you like me?"
Thirteen is drinking, suddenly heard this, choked at once, side head coughed several times, only then turned his head and raised his eyebrows and laughed, "I still wonder, I'm such a handsome person in front of you, but I have not seen you like me ah?"
I gave him a sidelong glance and said mockingly, "Even I, locked up in the deep palace, have heard a lot of your flirtatious affairs, and how many debts of love have you caused, and you still don't think it's enough? Do you dare to turn back when you walk on the road on weekdays?"
Thirteen said in a puzzled manner, "Why don't you dare to turn back?" I smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid to turn around and see your heart fall to pieces?" He shook his head with a big smile and pointed at me, "Each other! Each other!" The two of them laughed at each other.
I laughed and said, "I asked first, you answer first." He bowed his head and meditated for a while and said, "When I first saw you, the deepest impression is that you and Guo Luoluo small gege fight, spirited and powerful, shocked in the heart, how can I like it? Foremother went very early, and even her appearance is becoming increasingly blurred, but I can never forget her gentle embrace, she will whisper in my ear to sing a good song, she spoke very softly and softly, when she laughed, her eyebrows curved like water. And you ......" he said, looking at me with a smirk, "are so rude!"
I nodded and said, "Typical 'Oedipus complex'." Confused, he asked, "What complex?" I looked at him with a smile and said, "It means that a person craves for motherly love so much that he will unconsciously want his wife to be as gentle and compassionate to him as his mother." That's why he doesn't like Minmin. As nice as Minmin was, it wasn't what he wanted.
Thirteen froze for a moment and smiled, "Maybe right! What about you?"
I also looked down in silence for a moment, looked up at him and said, "I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone else." After thinking for a moment, he added, "Anyone, including Fourth Brother!"
He laughed and nodded, saying, "It seems that I'm actually a tight-lipped person in your mind." Only then did I think on one side and say, "I was originally a passive person when it came to men and women. Then something happened and it became more and more passive. Then after entering the palace, it is even more to see their hearts firmly. Lest not careful, is a return to the head of a hundred years body. This Forbidden City men have too many wives, and I have always resisted in my heart and so many women to share a husband ......" Thirteen expression surprised, I glanced at him, helplessly: "You do not see to understand, but this is the idea of the depths of my heart, but This is not the most important, even if the individual has more helpless unwillingness will always slowly to the surrounding environment to compromise. Just as you were unwilling to participate in the power struggle, but you did. Even though I don't want to, I have slowly accepted this irrevocable fact. There may still be reluctance, there may still be struggle, but how am I supposed to fight the environment?" I smiled bitterly and shook my head at Thirteen.
I sighed softly, "The most important thing is that one side of me longs for someone to be sincere to me, but I don't believe that there is such a person in this court, and if I can't believe that, then my heart will always be unable to truly open up to accept him. Maybe I'm too weak, too afraid of being hurt, I can't give and fight for myself first like Minmin did, I always passively wait for the other person to give, wait for the other person to make me believe a little bit, and then only then can I open my heart and slowly fall in love with him."
I looked at Thirteen with a serious expression, pulled a smile and said in a light tone, "Now do you understand why it's impossible for me to like you? It's because you didn't come to like me first!"
He frowned, "Looks like I'm going to have to ask Fourth Brother to keep trying! Your heart isn't easy to impress! And he's a congenital failure, he already has a Fujin, but luckily for all of us!" I said with some embarrassment, "I don't want you to meddle in our affairs!" Thirteen Smiles and I clinked bowls, and after the two of them drank a few mouthfuls of wine, he restrained his smile and slowly said, "Ruoxi, I don't care what's going on between you and Eighth Brother! But now that you have made a pact with fourth brother, you must treat fourth brother with all your heart!"
My hand shook, and the bowl fell to the ground and shattered. My heart was in turmoil, and after a long moment of silence, I dared to look up at him, "How do you know? Does Fourth Brother know?"
He shook his head and said, "Fourth Brother should not know now! For one thing, you hid it really well, and for another, we always thought that there was something between the 14th brother and you, and focused our attention on him. But when I heard Minmin say that you taught her to sing opera, and invited the eighth brother to come and see, and then asked her about it, but she was evasive and unwilling to talk about it again, then I wondered in my heart. The day the tenth brother made a fuss about repudiating his wife, you actually because of the eighth brother's a look, even the tea is not stable, I am even more suspicious. However, I have not been able to determine, today in fact just take the words to test you, but really so!"
I looked at him with a saddened expression and begged, "Don't let Fourth Brother know!" Thirteenth Argo said, "I won't tell him! Although this matter is indeed somewhat inappropriate, but you also think Fourth Brother is too petty! Zuo Ying can tolerate Minmin, but Fourth Brother can't tolerate you?"
I shook my head and said, "I never felt that there was anything wrong with a woman having liked someone else before marrying, is it only allowed for men to marry three wives and four concubines, and a woman doesn't even have the right to have ever liked someone? I neither feel that I have done anything wrong, so of course I don't mind letting him know at all. If it were 10th Argosy, 14th Argosy or any other person, I would have told him long ago, but only 8th Argosy is not allowed!"
Thirteen asked suspiciously, "What's that supposed to mean?" I said ruefully, "I have no way to tell you! But really the only one who can't be allowed to know is Eighth Brother, maybe he can just ignore it whether now or later, but I can't take the risk, the risk, I can't afford to take!"
Then finished propping up his head and sat silently, full of sorrow and pain. Thirteen sighed lightly and said, "I don't quite understand what you mean, but I believe you, you must have a compelling reason!" I couldn't help but reach out and take his arm and shake it lightly a few times! How fortunate I am to have a friend such as Thirteenth Brother!
He patted the back of my hand, smiled warmly, and slowly drank a mouthful of wine, "I used to hope that you and Fourth Brother would be together, after all, one of them is the most important person in my heart, and one of them is a confidant that I truly appreciate. But then you are not willing, although I can not understand your inconsistent words and behavior, but more unwilling to force you. Although the fourth brother to you more and more attention, but also not have to want you, you returned the hairpin and chain, the fourth brother mockingly smiled, to me joked 'even lifelong unmarried, long accompanied by the ancient Buddha and green lamps are written out! Next time, you won't prefer to die rather than marry, will you? That's all! I won't force her! When I finished, I threw the things away and stopped being interested in you. But after returning from the Seychelles, Fourth Brother's mind changed again, and sought the chain out again."
I couldn't help but ask: "For the jade pendant?" Thirteen glared at me and said, "You think everyone is a prince?" I bit my lip and he laughed, "You are such a fool! On that day, the crowd was certainly amazed by Minmin, but it was you who was truly admired by those who had the heart to do so! The song was made up by you, the dance was arranged by you, and the dreamlike scene was all your handiwork! Even I now think of how shocking it would be if you danced a song. And the most rare is your heart for Minmin, the Forbidden City, like you this big woman which is not changing the pattern of competition, hook hearted competition for favor, a lot of seemingly quiet and conservative, but also 'to retreat for progress'. But you really just let Minmin beautiful, with care and appreciation to sincerely marvel at the maintenance of another woman's beauty, honestly, I have not seen! Estimated that the fourth brother has not seen!" He took a sip of wine and laughed, "And what you did to defend the 14th brother, the word 'righteousness' you also deserve!'"
I shook my head with a bitter smile. Thirteenth Brother then said, "Fourth Brother does things, always have their own mind, calm and unruffled, but when the fourth brother carries the hairpin chain on his body for several days, but has been hesitant to give it to you, I was shocked to realize that he is not simply moving his heart towards you. So when I saw you wearing the hairpin that day, I was actually relieved! When tenth brother kicked you, I saw fourth brother's eyes filled with heartache for a split second."
"There have always been strict rules in the Fourth Brother's residence, and no one has ever dared to act arbitrarily!" He mimicked Fourth Brother's solemn face and cold eyes as he looked at me and said, "Not to mention the family law, just Fourth Brother's face and eyes were enough to shock everyone!" I slapped him and laughed in exasperation, "That's enough, you don't have the aura of the Fourth Prince, learning from a tiger is anti-like a cat!" He laughed and said, "The time you teased him, I was really worried about you, but when I turned around and asked fourth brother how he dealt with you, he actually said lightly, 'It's not that big of a deal, just let her be.' It's rare to see her so happy!'"
I eyed the broken porcelain on the ground, a few threads of warmth hidden flow, violently picked up thirteen of the bowl of wine, 'guldon, guldon' all down. Thirteen took the empty bowl and filled it with wine, and drank a few large mouthfuls himself.
Thirteen propped his hands on the table, leaned down to my face, and said with a solemn expression, ''Ruo Xi, whether you are afraid of Huang Amma's finger marriage or you have fourth brother in your heart, anyway, now that you've given a promise to fourth brother, you have to be good to him, and if you break fourth brother's heart because of eighth brother, I won't forgive you! Wavering, hurt people hurt themselves, I despise such a woman!" Finished staring at me closely.
I immediately replied back, "Since I have made a choice, I will never have a private relationship between a man and a woman with eighth brother in the future, because I also hate entangled male and female relationships."
Thirteenth Argosy slowly sat back down, took a sip of wine, and said, "Darryl, Fourth Brother is a person who hides his heart y, and is extremely difficult to get close to others, everyone only sees his coldness, but doesn't know the heat of his heart. His words are sharp and cold, his wife and children are quite fearful of him, but do not know the warmth under his sharpness. Such a character is very easy to self suffering, what is the matter, although I can accompany him to say, but I can only share his heart, can not share his sorrow, he is still lonely. I always look forward to someone, in his annoyance to lead him to open face, in his loneliness to hold his hand, let him know that he is accompanied by someone ...... although you always say that they have not read any books, but I know that you will never read more than we are less than the chest has its own hills and valleys, insights are also the most unique loom. Talking with you, even feel that you are not raised in the boudoir of the woman, those famous mountains, rivers and lakes seem to have personally visited." He gazed at me and said word by word, "As long as you are willing, you and Fourth Brother can definitely make friends with each other, because you can understand his ambition, his suffering, and his pain!"
I froze in disbelief, and Thirteenth Brother hung his head in silence for a while, then suddenly called out, "Ruo Xi! There are a few words that you must remember! I don't think you'll have a chance to say them carefully in the future, so I'll just say them all today!"
Volume 2, Chapter 8
He gazed at me compassionately and said, "Huang Amma has been so fond of you for so many years, certainly because you are smart and clever, and you serve with all your heart! But more importantly because you are the Forbidden City in the rare has not been the heart of the people, from the heart of the fight for power and profit, did not favor anyone, did not suppress anyone, just single-mindedly serve the Royal Amma. In the future you should do the same!"
"You these years on the surface does seem to be the scenery, a Li Dequan, a you, not to mention the general ministers, that is, those of us who see the A brother and the Empress is the face of the three smiles, but this Forbidden City secretly I do not know how many people cynicism in you! You can always be safe, not because eight brother is your brother-in-law, not because you and I, and ten brother, fourteen brother to be good, but all depends on the Royal Amma's favor! If you get involved in our fight, you will lose the trust and favor of the emperor's ama, if you lose the favor of the emperor's ama, the resentment accumulated over the years will be vented! Darryl! How can you bear the pain at that time?"
"Besides, this is supposed to be a fight between us men! We do this for our own desire selfishness, wanting more honor, more power, wanting to sit in that highest position. Whatever the outcome, it is the price we should pay. But who are you to sacrifice for our desires? It's not something you should have to pay for."
I held my head and asked in pain, "Why? Why do I have to be reminded of this? I don't want to know!" He softly said, "The eighth brother is your brother-in-law, not to mention you still ...... are the tenth brother, the fourteenth brother is also a person you are very difficult to part with, but you have already agreed to the fourth brother, I am afraid that you momentary emotional involved in our fight. I know watching everything happen makes you suffer, but if involved you will suffer more!"
Thirteen sipped his wine silently for a while and sighed, "This is the imperial family! Unavoidable strife and pain! No one can stop it! Even a wise man like Huang Ama can only helplessly witness what's happening, let alone you! Darryl! I only want you to follow Fourth Brother and treat him well. Don't pay any attention to anything else, who wins and who loses is a matter between us."
Thirteen patted me on the back and said, "But we agreed to get drunk today, let's not talk about these mundane things, drink!"
I bowl to stand dry, just want to get drunk quickly past, and do not face these things! Thirteen also seems to be intent on getting me drunk, bowl after bowl to pour me wine.
In a few moments, I was so disoriented that all I knew was to mumble 'drink'! Then, in my usual drunken style, my head tilted and fell asleep.