Lianhualiang

Another year of scorching summer, ten years have passed since the Jing’an Injustice that shocked the entire Northern Xia Dynasty, the emperor is still incompetent, the people are still in dire straits, the court is undercurrents, and the barren fields are barren. I have seen this scene for ten years and endured it for ten years. Years, also...waited for ten years.

Die'er, I have fulfilled that oath, when will you come back to me?

At that time, I was still the son of Jing'an, Liao Ping'an, who had no worries and no income. My father was the Marquis of Jing'an who held the military power, and my mother was the daughter of the imperial businessman and the number one talented woman in Beixia. The two loved each other very much. A child, in the age when men were superior to women, the two of them were worrying about nothing. When I was born, I was raised as a man. The Zong disc also clearly wrote: Liao Ping'an, the eldest son of Jing'an Hou, the son of Yanjing'an.

When I was young, I didn’t know how to be naughty, but when I grow up, I don’t think it matters much. Just like now, after a night of drinking and drinking with a few bosom friends, there won’t be too many gossips. Wait, and I don't care much about these things. Whenever my father gets angry, he will drive me out of the palace with a stick. I can always escape after a while. Heresy and heresy are waiting for her, the two of them always say that I am a debt from their previous life, and I just laugh and say nothing.

***

"Tonight is Furong'er and Ji of Mingcui Building. Brothers and sisters should be in time tonight. Don't let me get there first, hahaha." The one who spoke was Qin Xu, the concubine son of the prime minister with the worst capacity for alcohol. Wanting to seize power, the prime minister favored his son-in-law. Qin Xu's mother died early when he was a child, and Ruoguan married a happy wife, but he was not happy with him, so he could only spend his heart and soul on Huajie.Everytime we just had a drink together, he poured bitter water on me. I always advised him that there is no grass anywhere in the world. He smiled wryly and shook his head and said I don’t understand. Yours is fine, why hang upside down on a tree to seek death, after a long, long time, I just understood his pain at that time, but at that moment, his heart was ashamed and he only wanted to be drunk and dream of death.

Although Qin Xu is a concubine, he has the highest knowledge of literature among the six of us, unlike me, although his status is higher than him, he has no knowledge of literature and martial arts. Probably the most powerful thing is that he can escape when his father is chasing him.

"The oiran and Ji of Baixiang Pavilion last time was Brother Xu who won the first place. Tonight, it must be Brother An. Brother An is ten and five this year, and it's time to taste the taste of women, haha" The people on the side also burst into laughter, laughing coquettishly, laughing dissolutely, if it is said that Qin Xu was looking for fun in pain, why not these people?

After drinking all night, I was still a little dizzy. I just smiled at this question. Among us, I am the youngest. Some of them have married wives and some have taken concubines. I don't even have a housemaid. On the one hand, I want to protect my daughter from being discovered by others, and on the other hand, I don't want to be so arbitrary.

A hundred years of life pass by in a hurry, and I don't want to go to court, nor do I want to be drunk and dream of death. What I want and want is just to be free and easy.

Just when I was feeling emotional, Xu Qingming, the prodigal son of the servant's family, stared at the woman in white clothes not far in front of him with wide-eyed eyes and said happily: "Hey, which family's little lady is this?"

"Come on, let's make a bet at the opening, ten taels is the bet, I can guarantee that this little lady must be very beautiful, do you want to place a bet?"

"I also bet this little lady is beautiful and celestial." The rest of the people also agreed when they saw it.

I followed the gazes of the crowd. The ancients said that a beautiful woman's skin and skin are difficult to describe, but the woman in white in front of me is tall and graceful, and her movements are indescribably pleasing to the eye. The bamboo hat made me think maliciously: maybe it is the colorless to set off this delicate and beautiful human body.

"Since you are betting that she is beautiful, then I will bet that she is colorless. As usual, I will take off the bamboo hat," I said.The rest of the people laughed and dispersed. This is not the first time we have done this. Every now and then, the few people will disperse and let me approach the beautiful woman and lift the bamboo hat that covers her face.It's the same this time, but there is an unspeakable uneasiness in my heart. I ignore the uneasiness in my heart when I see the beautiful woman approaching me, and with a wave of the folding fan in my hand, the white bamboo hat falls into the dust, just like the one who exposed me many years later. The woman with a true face like a banished fairy was pulled into the mortal world step by step by me.

The bamboo hat fell on the ground, I smiled, the smile was wanton, the eyebrows and eyes were crooked, maybe it was because I won 50 taels, maybe it was because the woman who was thrown off the hat in front of me had no outstanding appearance but a pair of clear eyes. The clear light in the light is only filled with my smile.

Later she told me that the smile with crooked eyebrows was the cleanest smile she had ever seen.

It’s just that I laughed enough at that time and stopped looking at the woman offended by me. Most of the world is a passer-by who meets by chance. Maybe you have entered someone’s heart or someone has remained in your heart. As time passes by, in the end It is like the leaves that fall on the ground in autumn, slowly turning into nutrients to nourish another emotion, either just in time or waiting!

I stretched out my hand and shouted to the other five people: "I'm willing to bet and admit defeat, pay the silver and pay the silver." The five people were disappointed and sighed and obediently handed over ten taels of silver, and I changed hands and threw the silver to the boy I grew up with. In Liao Cheng's arms, Liao Cheng took the money and tugged on my sleeve.

"What?" I raised my eyebrows and looked at him, looking terrified and speechless.

"Shi... Shi..." Before Liao Cheng could finish his words, the voice of a woman in white came from behind, her voice was cold, like a mountain spring ding-dong flowing through her heart in the scorching summer, no, yes Said it was like the roaring undercurrent in the Kyushu Ice City, with the forbearance of breaking the ice, she said: "Liao Ping'an"

Just three words made the other five people take three steps back and shrunk their shoulders. I tried my best to caress the skin that was wrinkled under the cold, but my words stuttered, "You...you are ...who?"

She just looked at me like that, her eyes were dark and deep, and she said after a while: "Could it be that you forgot who I am?" And I ran out when she said this, and I finally knew the uneasiness in my heart Why, I can't afford to offend this woman, since I can't afford to offend her, then run away.

However, I, who was not sacrificed under the pursuit of my father, just ran a few steps and was lifted into the air by the collar. The woman grabbed my back collar and jumped between the houses, heading for Jing'anhou Mansion.

In the sky above the entire Flower Street, only my screams of panic: "Ah!"

***

After ten years, I came to this flower street again. Regardless of whether the imperial court was prosperous or not, it was still a place of drunkenness and wealth, and I was still drunk. What remains unchanged is that Liao Cheng is still following behind.

"Xiao Chengzi, tell me, if Die'er hadn't changed her face back then, wouldn't we have had a different ending with her?" Liao Cheng didn't answer me, he had changed from a chattering boy to one who could no longer speak. Dumb, since he was poisoned dumb, he never made a sound, even if it was just a scream of 'Ah Ya'.I didn't look back, but I knew he looked at my long hair, which was whiter than the white clothes, and his eyes were full of complex emotions, such as sadness, guilt, pain, caring...

"Cough, cough, cough" The discomfort of my body caused a series of coughs. I covered my mouth and nose with a handkerchief and wiped off the blood spilled from the corners of my mouth after coughing. I took two sips and handed it back to him. This movement was natural and smooth, as if I had practiced it thousands of times. My body was exhausted, not only the root of the disease that fell from the past, but also the tobacco leaves that contained poppy powder in the bong. Without the poppy, I would die immediately. , having poppy is also death, just dying early and playing with death, and I am still living with ease after I have resigned from the imperial court. I just want to wait for the ten-year agreement, the renewal of the agreement between her and me.

Liao Cheng stared at my white hair again, I smiled lightly behind his back, no matter how complicated his gaze was, it was still not as good as hers.I think even if she didn't change her face and I lifted the hat, my fate with her is still the same. Maybe I can find out my feelings for her early and make changes. It's just that the time in this world can't go back. I lost her just...

"Butterfly?"

I think in the past ten years, I have never been so panicked like today, like ten years ago on that snowy night, I held her in the silvery white world and howled and cried, tears fell on her white One after another, there were dark marks on my dress, but what responded to me on that night ten years ago was the silence of no one, but what responded to me in this scorching afternoon today was my cool arms, Hugging me back as tightly as hugging her.

"Die'er, Die'er, Die'er" My voice has changed from round and loud to hoarse due to several years of smoking guns. I buried myself in the still cold arms and shouted hoarsely to the person in my arms over and over again. , although the people on the street point and point, I am afraid that it is a dream, a dream that seems real and unreal like before!

She caressed my thin back and patted it like a baby, comforting my emotions as usual, and when I was tired of crying enough to support my body, she said: "An'er, I'm back."

It’s still in this place, it’s still that summer day, but this time it’s no longer a cold voice with anger in it, but a soft and tender voice, but I’m a little dizzy because of these words, but I can’t be dizzy In the past, every time she came and went in a dream, this time I want to take a good look at her, take a good look at her...

I lifted that bamboo hat again, but this time it was no longer frivolously using a folding fan, but using my callused hands. The world is still filled with only one me, and the clear eyes are no longer dark and deep, only the lingering and lingering feelings accumulated over the years are left.

Trembling, I stretched out my hands to trace her eyebrows, her beautiful bones...

***

"You stinky woman, hurry up and put me down, or you will have no peace when I get free." The woman in white caught me and went back to the Jing'an Hou Mansion and hung me on the pear tree in the courtyard. I was so tired that I hung upside down from a tree and slept from sunrise to sunset. I didn’t feel anything when I fell asleep. When I woke up, I felt my head was swollen and my body was sore, especially my bound ankle. At this time, I had already called After an hour, his stomach was growling and growling, his throat was smoking with thirst, and his fair and handsome young face was already flushed.

Liao Cheng didn't know where he was arranged to go. The howling for an hour after waking up did not call Liao Cheng. The father and the queen came here once, just to see my joke. The smile seems to have finally let out a bad breath after more than ten years.After another hour, I became a little dizzy. When did my majestic Prince Jing'an receive such punishment and embarrassment? I just lost my face on the street during the day, and then I lost it again in the entire palace Face, the face inside and out here is completely lost, how can I have the nerve to go out if I don't take revenge?

But physical discomfort is hard to bear. My father and queen mother spoiled me since I was a child, and my uncles and uncles in the army also loved me very much. Now I can’t bear this kind of blame. If I don’t restrain myself when I’m down, I’ll only get worse, and my ankle hurts badly. I think of all the grievances in the past. When I think about it, tears flow out. I cry and say cruel words: “Smelly woman , you give me...wait, wait...my sister comes back, let her beat you...to death"

***

I have always known that I have a righteous sister, who was adopted by my mother when I was three years old. It snowed very rarely in the capital that year. My mother took me to the street. I saw Liao in thin and torn clothes outside the bun shop. Die, I looked at her, she looked at Baozi and then at me, with neither sadness nor joy, neither resentment nor hatred in her eyes, like a monk in a temple talking about profound Buddhist scriptures, as if there is nothing in this world that can accommodate her. Looking into those small clear eyes, I begged my mother to take her back. After spending only three or two days with her, my mother accepted her as a foster daughter and named her Liao Die, but she was not included in the clan.

When she was a child, Liao Die was silent and seldom talked, and there was always a sense of timidity under her expressionless face. Whenever I took her out to play, she would always be bullied by other children. Bully her back with the same moves, turn around and be fierce She doesn't know how to resist, Liao Die was always afraid of thunderstorms when she was a child, the first time I knew she was afraid of thunder, she ran to my bedroom in a panic and squatted on the couch She was trembling but kept silent. When I knew she was afraid of thunder, I laughed at her until she was crying softly, and my heart softened. I half pulled and half hugged her on the couch and stuffed her into myself. I held her in my arms and slept all night. Since then, every thunderstorm day did not wait for her to come, I washed and went to her room to sleep with her, until a year and a half later my stepmother sent her to learn art. I cried with snot and tears, and I didn't know why I was crying at that time, probably because I lost a playmate.

Thinking of Liao Die's fear of thunder and rain, I was worried for a while.

****

In the hot summer, I lay on Liao Die's back, and she walked towards Jing'an Hou's Mansion step by step with me on her back.

I put my head next to her slender neck and gently rubbed it, and asked lazily: "Die'er, why didn't you lift my collar and fly back with ease this time?"

"Because it changed"

She said a simple sentence, but I fell silent, yes, I have changed, I have changed, I am no longer that wanton boy, and I am no longer the clean and pure Liao Pingan who smiled.Before I could think about it, she said again: "Follow your father at home, and obey your husband when you go out. I am your fiancée, how can I disregard your face like that?"

Her words carried a rare ridicule, but I was both happy and weeping. I liked the phrase 'I am your fiancee'.

"What? Did An Er not want me anymore?"

"How could it be? I'm so happy that it's too late for you, how could I not want you?" I lowered my head, put my lips next to her neck and collar and kissed her, and murmured, "This time, I won't bite you."

***

A man dressed in white came from the arch, walked up to me and stood still, looked down at me and said with a half-smile, "Why? Is your sister very powerful?"

I don't know if Liao Die has changed a lot, and I don't know where she is. In the few years since she left, I begged my mother to take me to find her, but my mother, who doted on me, insisted on refusing this matter. Just tell me Liao Diexia is famous far and wide.It's just that at this time, the loser can't lose the battle. I hung upside down and stared wide-eyed and shouted: "My sister is very powerful, have you heard of Liao Die? Big heroine, if you don't let me down, I will fight when my sister comes back." your ass is blooming"

"Is it?"

"Yes, I advise you to put the young master down as soon as possible, the young master can still plead for you in front of my sister, hmph"

The corners of her lips are curved, but I always feel that her smile is stiff, but according to the current situation, even if her smile is overwhelming, I still feel that her smile is extremely evil. Who made her hang me upside down for a day?

"Call out, sister, and I'll let you down"

"Bah, the only one of my sisters is Liao Die, don't you want me to call you"

"Oh? Do you think anyone can break into Jing'anhou's mansion?" She didn't care about the offense I said, and I guessed that she might be my sister-in-law who I haven't seen for more than ten years-- Liao Die.

I've always been smart, but I just don't want to put this smart in a serious place, and the bright emerald jade on her waist that is a pair with me, why didn't I take a closer look on the street today?

"Sister" A hero does not suffer immediate losses, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and besides, I am not a gentleman.

"So cute" she bent down and touched my head, and then supported my back, but with a wave of her hand, the rope tied to the pear tree broke, she helped me stand up, and bent down Untie the rope on my ankle. I can't see her virtuous appearance. At this moment, I am full of calculations. When she stands up, I lean on her right shoulder and say: "Sister, I have some faint"

She patted me on the back and taught, "Don't act like a disciple in the future, you..."

Before she finished speaking, I had already bit her slender and fair neck with one bite, and after the bite, I pushed her away and ran away, or did I get carried away?My ankles were in excruciating pain, and the blood in my body hadn't flowed back yet. This violent exercise made my body unstable and I was about to fall over.

Sullen and heavy, I just felt the wind blowing, and I was caught by Liao Die just after I fell halfway down. She hugged me and before I moved, I leaned against her chest and retched. I vomited in my stomach for a while. There was nothing but sporadic saliva staining her white clothes Ruoxue.

"Is it uncomfortable? It will be fine later." Liao Die carried me into the house and put me on the couch, took off my boots, rolled up my trouser legs, and began to apply medicine. I was limp and let her toss and wait. After she applied the medicine, she came up to take off my long gown. I squeezed out all my strength and grabbed her hand. I opened my eyes and looked at her, and asked, "What are you doing? Don't you know whether a man and a woman can kiss or not?" Maybe in my life There was still a trace of panic in my eyes in the invisible scene.

She said lightly: "Are you a man?"

I let go of my hand in a daze, immersed in my own thoughts.I don't know when she changed my coat for me and came over with new boots. There was a knock on the door, and the door was opened and closed again.

Liao Die sat back on the couch with a small jade bowl in her hand and said, "Drink the medicine" before I came back to my senses.

"What medicine do I take if I'm not sick?" I looked as if I saw her sick. I didn't like to drink medicine since I was a child, and the number of times I got sick was very small.

"This is a solid qi medicine, you need to drink it"

This is really the most domineering thing I have ever heard, there is no reason, only I need to drink.Considering the disparity in strength, smelling the fragrance of the jade bowl, I drank this medicine, but I didn't expect that the medicine with fragrance is so bitter, the bitter tongue is bitter, and the bitter mouth is gone. Taste, wrinkled his face bitterly.

This medicine is extremely bitter, but it is not as good as the pain of not being able to ask for it, but it is not as good as the pain of parting from death, but it is not as good as the pain of mourning.

***

The same jade bowl, the same medicine with a lingering fragrance, if it wasn't for the father, queen and mother, who would have passed away long ago, if it wasn't for the entire Jing'an Hou Mansion's silence, if it wasn't for the estrangement at that time and the lingering love at this moment, I would really think it was God Open your eyes, go back in time and go back to the past.

This time Liao Die didn't persuade me to drink the medicine, but brought it to my lips.

'Patta' A drop of tears mixed with complex emotions fell into the jade bowl, causing small ripples.I have never been a crying person since I was a child, and I didn’t cry when my father and mother passed away. I thought about it, I cried with snot and tears when Liao Die was studying art, and I cried when Liao Die came back Sad and hurt myself, when Liao Die left, I cried so badly, I only cried three times in the past 27 years, all because of her, Liao Die, now it seems to cry all the tears I have accumulated in the past ten years at once, Will it be less painful when I wake up from the dream?

I still think this is a dream. Liao Die died in my arms on that snowy night ten years ago.I took the jade bowl and drank it clean like drinking spirits. The difference is that the spirit is pungent and numb, but this time the medicine is still bitter but the whole body trembles.

Just as I treat this dream with care, joy and trembling.

"Don't cry anymore" I'm still sitting on my couch in white clothes, but the couch that used to be carved with dragons and phoenixes is old, it's just that the teenagers in the past are now white-haired and beautiful, lingering on the couch.

"Die'er, Die'er, Die'er" It seems that she doesn't say much, and I only have these two words, just like the dream in the past ten years.

"An'er" she leaned over and pressed her forehead against mine, her body was still as cold as before.

'Boom' Outside the window, the weather was sunny and thunder suddenly sounded, but this time it was not Liao Die who was afraid of the sound of thunder and rain, but me.

Every dream of reunion was broken by thunder, again and again, again and again, she said in the dream: "An'er, face life and death with a smile"

My eyes shifted from the window to her delicate face that had remained unchanged for ten years, enduring the fear and uneasiness in my heart, I smiled sadly, and smiled sadly.

I said: "Dieer, can you not leave me?"

His voice was miserable, and then it was dark again.

The author has something to say: You said, is it a dead farewell or HE, huh?