Zhu Lan is dead

"I know you're sad. If you don't want to say it, why don't we go out for a drink?"

Zhang Suixin followed Yu Changqi step by step, seeing that this man was going to hide in another courtyard without saying a word, not only became a little anxious.

"If you want to drink, why do you need me? There are many people who can accompany you?"

Finally unable to bear it anymore, Yu Changqi Dun stepped down.

Zhang Suixin looked helpless, "Why didn't I find you so incomprehensible before?"

"..."

Don't you understand amorous feelings? He has never known what amorous feelings are.

Seeing the sudden smile in the man's eyes, Zhang Suixin suddenly felt a little terrified. Since he had known Yu Changqi for so long, he had rarely seen this man smile like this. "Don't scare me. I've always been timid. I can't stand such a scare. I just wanted to comfort you. Why..."

Yu Changqi grabbed his wrist, suddenly serious, "Tell me, where are you going?"

"Ah, ah?"

"Where are you going? If you drink alcohol, please drink to your heart's content, otherwise I won't see you again in the future!"

"Really?" His face was full of joy, and when he knocked on the handle of the fan, Zhang Suixin immediately turned around and grabbed Yu Changqi's arm, "Since you can think about it, I am naturally very happy, little brother, old place let's go!"

*

"Do you still have any impression?"

Zhang Suixin was sitting across the table, holding a jug in his hand, looking excitedly at the person opposite who was still drunk after drinking a glass of wine.

The corners of his mouth were covered with wine, and even his clothes were wet a lot. Yu Changqi squinted his eyes slightly, looked around, and a bright and dazzling color came into his sight. It was bright and eye-catching, but it was all in his eyes. Condensed into a daze, shook his head, "I don't know, I have no impression..."

Zhang Suixin looked at him and curled his lips proudly, "It's right if you don't have an impression. It seems that the prince who is known as a large number will have a day of drunken eyes."

"Hmph." Reaching out and directly lifting the neck of the bottle, Yu Changqi poured the whole pot into his mouth, Yu Changqi raised his eyebrows, "You want to get me drunk with such a small amount of alcohol, you really underestimate me..."

"Okay, as long as you're happy!" Stretching out a glass of wine, Zhang Suixin said with a smile: "Then do you still remember the time when you and my eldest brother beat Machang Street and got drunk in the capital?"

"Yuan Xiao?"

Zhang Yuanxiao is the elder brother of Zhang Suixin, both of them are the sons of Marquis Wu Guan, and the elder sister of Marquis Wu Guan, Zhang Lin, is Wei Ya, the empress of the dynasty. Brother, because Wei Ya's father, Zhang Qiu, was in the Wei family back then.

According to the customs of Dazhou, all the children born to a woman who is married to a man will follow the mother's surname. After the service was full, he married another concubine and gave birth to Zhang Lin. Wei Ya was gentle, approachable and sensible all his life, so he and Zhang Lin had a close brotherhood since childhood.

Not long after Zhou Lixiao came to the throne that year, he chose Wei Ya, who had long been in love with him, and became the mother of a country until today. Zhang Lin was added to the rank of Marquis Wu Guanhou because of his meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion with the army. The canal field of Xixia Pass.

Qutian has always been an important part of the country. This place is closed and dangerous, with long valleys and steep cliffs. Every spring and summer, the water flow soars, overflowing and muddy torrents. There are three mountains and five ridges on all sides. Although Guo Rong was still suffering from floods, he avoided many disputes over the years because of the dangerous ground and easy defense.

Now this canal field has been guarded by Zhang Lin for many years, which is enough to show that Zhou Lixiao values ​​Zhang's family.

Zhang Suixin nodded, and his smile became more and more proud, "You and my elder brother traveled all over the wineries in the capital. My elder brother was always competitive. He didn't drink when he fought with you that year, but he got drunk. When I got home, I was severely taught by my father and banned for three days haha."

After he mentioned it, Yu Changqi vaguely remembered a lot. Zhang Yuanxiao and him met when Zhou Lixiao came to Qutian with the army that year. Many things happened that year. He was taken to the military camp by Zhou Lixiao As a military commander, he accidentally met the two young gentlemen of the Zhang family.

At that time, they were all young at heart. They met their confidants all their lives and talked speculatively. It didn't take long for them to marry Jinlan, and he was older than the two brothers, so he was the eldest of the three. At that time, they came together It was the happiest period of time he had spent after the man left.

It's just that although Zhang Yuanxiao lost to him in drinking that day, he was taken back and punished for three days, but he didn't fare well. Zhou Lixiao had always been very strict with him, and he was not allowed to be too unrestrained, and the snow was so heavy that night After being whipped thirty times by the prison supervisor and doused with salt water, he knelt in the snow all night again.

He still remembered that the old nanny in the palace once told him that when the maidservants found him at dawn the next day, he was almost out of breath, and he was suffering from the wind and cold and high fever. Kneeling straight.

After that, he was taken care of by the imperial doctor in the palace for half a month before he fully recovered. He also thought that he would get rid of it and follow the man away, but Zhou Lixiao insisted on letting him die.

Although he hated Zhou Lixiao, and wholeheartedly hoped that his life would not be long and he would die soon, but now that he thinks about it, he just laughs it off, it was just some angry words when he was young, and his strong heart is just the age that refuses to admit defeat, and he has made many mistakes. Many big words, if he had known that Zhou Lixiao was deliberately grinding his mind, he would have soft-spoken and conceded earlier, so as to avoid these hardships.

Some past events flashed in his eyes, but they were soon dismissed with a smile, and he licked the wine stains on his lips, Yu Changqi said: "I don't know if your brother is okay now?"

Zhang Suixin raised his head, "He is still the same, but this time when he came to Beijing, my father left him alone in Qutian to guard the gate, and my father and I came to the capital to see my aunt!"

"Yeah." After a low moan, there was no sound again.

The voices of outsiders in the pavilion and the sounds of various strings and bamboos ebb and flow without interruption, but inside the pavilion, everything is completely silent.

*

"Brother!" Zhang Suixin suddenly stood up.

"Huh?" Yu Changqi raised his head in a daze, resting his stomach with one hand and raising his glass with the other, his eyebrows and eyes were like the drunken moon reflected in the wine tank, bright but quiet.

A pair of peach blossom eyes turned around twice slyly, Zhang Suixin walked to Yu Changqi's side, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "I don't think it's too early tonight, it's windy, snowy, and cold outside, so it's better to be my fate." Two, clean up the room here, you rest for one night, and I will..."

"Tell me, what do you want to do?" Yu Changqi shook the wine glass in his hand without raising his head, his tone lost a bit of drunkenness.

"Uh..." Zhang Suixin smiled a little embarrassedly, and said calmly: "It seems that elder brother understands me, but actually... I came here this time because I want to meet the girl..."

"Since... who is it?"

Zhang Suixin showed some coyness, "The second lady with a red card here, Liu Jihui..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Changqi understood Zhang Suixin's intentions. It was actually this purpose that this man brought him to Huanyifang in the first place. That Liu also heard about it when he returned to Huanyifang. It turned out to be Huanyi The second lady with a red card in the workshop, her appearance can not be regarded as overwhelming, but she has a good talent for reading poems and books, and she loves to comment on poems with others, but now she is past the age of marriage, and she has retired to the old age. At the location of the red card in Huanyifang, the red rope tied her hair in a high bun, making her an unmarried mother.

The smile in his eyes faded, Yu Changqi raised his eyes to look at him, "I didn't know that your taste is so unique now, and she is an unmarried woman, why do you bother yourself?"

Na Liu has a stubborn temper and a rather upright temper. Every time he talks closely with people, he has the air of a hard-core literati. He originally retreated from the red card and became an unmarried mother. The rich man came here especially, but it was a pity that he couldn't bear her poisonous tongue in the end, and was humiliated and left one by one.

And Zhang Suixin is such a young boy, who is just at an age that has not been deeply involved in the world. Now that Xiangyan Liu has returned, he knows what the end result will be without thinking about it.

Zhang Suixin looked around quietly, and said with his ear: "Brother, do you know why the girl with the red string tied her hair became an unmarried mother?"

Seeing that he suspected something inside, Yu Changqi couldn't help asking: "Why?"

"Because she stayed for me and became an unmarried mother, waiting for me to come back and marry her when I have the ability..."

Before the words fell, Yu Changqi almost choked out a sip of wine.

"when will you?"

Zhang Sui Xin's expression faded, with a look of smugness, "It happened a long time ago, and you can't remember it even if I tell you!"

"Oh." Yu Changqi didn't look at him again, and looked aside.

"So... I think..."

"I see." Yu Changqi put down his wine glass, "Don't worry, if your father asks about it in the future, I'll tell you that you stayed with me all night, how about it?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhang Suixin couldn't help laughing, turned around and walked out to the door, bowed his head and bowed to Yu Changqi, "Then I will thank my brother first, don't rush back tonight, If I'm sleepy, I will arrange..."

Yu Changqi waved his hand at him and stopped the rest of the nonsense.

*

In the dead of night, the sky was very late, the snow outside the window swirled two or three times, and the bamboo mats hanging on the porch were swaying with the wind.

Looking outside the red corridor, guests chatting and laughing with wandering girls, or hugging lutes or playing strings, look drunk and forgetful, so happy.

Standing up and walking to the screen, looking at the rainy and snowy street outside the window railing, the red candle lantern wrapped in paper emits a faint light at night, and everyone else is thinking about it, but he is alone, alone.

Suddenly remembered the conversation that day in his heart, the woman was dressed in red and shabby, with a smile in her eyes, she couldn't help laughing at herself, thinking about it now, there is a reason for it, he should have expected the crisis of life that day, If he had known it earlier, Lin Cijing would not have died because of it.

It's just that now that everything is a foregone conclusion, it's only his fault that he wasn't careful enough to cause people to lose their lives for no reason. Not to mention that the conflict with the Lin family is getting worse now, I'm afraid that storms will come in the future, and it will be unstoppable.