Tangled

"Look at that person, but Duanmu family?" Mu Luoluo raised her finger and pointed not far away, motioning for Su Qingwan to look.

Su Qingwan raised her eyebrows and looked in the direction of Mu Luoluo's finger. It turned out to be a hairpin stall by the river. There was a pair of Bi people standing in front of the stall. The man's eyebrows were full of tenderness, and the woman was holding a magnolia hairpin. Smiling happily, who else could it be if it wasn't Duanmu Jia.

"That man is the new Imperial Physician Liu from the Imperial Hospital." Mu Luoluo looked back at Su Qingwan.

"How did you know?" Su Qingwan asked in surprise.

"A few days ago, the old doctor Han accidentally caught a cold, so he was sent here to get you the Ping An pulse. It's only been a month, so you don't remember it." Mu Luoluo smiled and raised her hand to poke Su Qingwan's. forehead.

"With you here, why should I bother?" Su Qingwan smiled, and looked back at the two of them again, "No wonder Duanmu wept when he entered the palace and complained of illness several times. It turned out that he had a sweetheart and refused to enter the palace as a concubine .”

"She is the elder of the Duanmu family, and she can't escape." Mu Luoluo sighed, this Imperial Physician Liu also has a bit of courage.

"It's just that she is too willful." Su Qingwan lowered her eyes. A daughter raised by a wealthy family, who is free? "Ruan Meiren became suspicious a few years ago, and now it has been a long time, and there are so many pairs of eyes in the palace." Come on, she is seeking death for the Duanmu family."

"You might as well remind her a few words." Mu Luoluo said.

Su Qingwan raised her eyes and looked at Mu Luoluo seriously, then smiled suddenly, "Forget it, it's a blessing."

Su Qingwan looked around and found a little beggar by the side of the road, so she bought some food and walked over, whispering something in her ear, and then Mu Luoluo saw the little beggar nodding, happily Run towards those two people.

"Let's go, go ahead and have a look." Seeing Su Qingwan coming back, Mu Luoluo didn't ask any more questions, and interlocked her fingers with Su Qingwan.

"You're not curious, what did I say?"

"With Miss Su's intelligence, it must be a perfect word."

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Mingxiang Pavilion was already full of guests, but Mu Luoluo led Su Qingwan to the private room, sitting by the window, overlooking the entire Chang'an Street, brightly lit.

"I don't know, Luoluo still has such abilities?" Su Qingwan held her chin and looked at Mu Luoluo with a smile.

"It's just inherited from the ancestors." Mu Luoluo smiled, turned around and took out tea cakes from the cabinet beside him with ease, "The tea in Mingxiang Pavilion has always come from the Mu family's tea garden, and this private room is also for my Mu family. The buddy kept it, so anyone who can get the token of the Mu family can enter this private room."

"I've been married to the Mu family for two years, but I haven't seen any tokens from the Mu family." Su Qingwan said sadly.

Mu Luoluo was taken aback for a moment, then smiled helplessly, took out a jade pendant from her bosom and handed it to Su Qingwan, "If that's the case, please ask Madam Mu to keep this jade pendant."

Su Qingwan smiled, and then pushed Mu Luoluo's hand back again, "You and I are not sticking to external things, just joking."

Mu Luoluo lowered her eyes with a smile, crushed the tea cakes with a jade mill, washed the pot, brewed and served the tea.

The fragrance of tea was wafting, Su Qingwan sipped the cup carefully, and what she saw through the dense water vapor was still the calm and calm young lady of the Mu family. cannot be erased.

A burst of gongs and drums shattered the tranquility of the private room, Su Qingwan couldn't help but looked curiously, it turned out that it was the beginning of the shadow play downstairs, and they were clamoring to attract spectators.

"Go down and take a look?" Seeing that Su Qingwan was fascinated, Mu Luoluo asked aloud.

"That's natural." Su Qingwan stood up gracefully. She had heard a lot of operas, but shadow operas were rare. Whether it was in the Su family or in the palace, most of them were well-behaved operas. Su Qingwan had never experienced folk art.

The opening sang was Gao Zu's Killing the White Snake. Su Qingwan never liked this kind of script, so she deliberately walked slowly, and when she squeezed into the crowd, she had already changed the next discount.

This song is about Zhuang Jiang sending his concubine home, and his voice is sad and melodious, and he sings the feeling of farewell in a deep and painful way, which makes people feel heartbroken. ①

"Singing such a sad song on such a happy day should really be punished." Su Qingwan said intermittently while wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

"If someone makes you cry, it means that he sings well, but he still needs to be punished. What's the reason for that?" Mu Luoluo smiled and pulled Su Qingwan into her arms.

Su Qingwan hummed softly in Mu Luoluo's arms, still shedding tears for the love between Zhuang Jiang and Dai Gui.

The next song is Daimian, the exciting music finally washes away Su Qingwan's sadness, after the song is over, Su Qingwan is satisfied.

"Let's go, we don't have much time, let's go somewhere else." Mu Luoluo gently tugged at Su Qingwan's sleeve, "If you like it tight, please go into the palace."

Su Qingwan turned around, took Mu Luoluo's arm, walked away from the crowd, and walked slowly.

Most of the crowd was attracted by the shadow play, but the surrounding area was much quieter, and occasionally one or two urchins lit firecrackers for the joy of scaring passers-by.

"It would be great if the time was longer." Su Qingwan breathed a long sigh of relief, the first month was not out yet, the air was still cold, mixed with the smell of firecrackers, and she could still taste the flavor of the year.

"The days to come are still long, and there will always be a chance to go out of the palace again." Mu Luoluo smiled lightly, raised her head slightly, the sky was like ink, and only a silver plate was hanging on it. I don't know if you are still interested in watching shadow shows."

"Of course there is." Su Qingwan laughed lightly, and for a moment she couldn't think about what Mu Luoluo's yellow hair looked like, "If he makes me cry again, I'll take my old age and make trouble for him."

"Then I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you, so I'll definitely be beaten together with you." Mu Luoluo smiled after finishing speaking, and the two looked at each other, thinking about how they would look when they were old in more than ten years, they couldn't help laughing for a moment, and they were on the road Laughing like a fool.

"What do you see that is?" Su Qingwan smiled and bent over, but accidentally found a relatively deserted small shop.

"What?" Mu Luoluo wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, following Su Qingwan's gaze, it turned out to be a sky lantern shop "Go and have a look."

Mu Luoluo helped Su Qingwan, who was crumbling with laughter, to the stall. The stall owner was an elderly mother-in-law, who was weaving bamboo rafts with her head bowed, and there were a few formed sky lanterns at her feet.

"Grandma, how do you buy this sky lantern?" Su Qingwan asked with a polite smile.

"One piece of five taels of silver, I'll take it to the outskirts for you to put away." The old woman said without raising her head, "You can draw on rice paper by yourself, and I'll paste it on for you."

No wonder the shop was so deserted, Mu Luoluo suddenly realized, looked at Su Qingwan, and decided to buy one to pray for blessings.

Mu Luoluo took the broken silver from her purse and handed it to the old woman, Su Qingwan took the paper and wrote "What do you write?"

"As you wish." Mu Luoluo laughed.

Su Qingwan glared at Mu Luoluo coquettishly, then lowered her eyes and pondered for a while, and wrote "Musu's long love, I will live in peace forever".

"Okay?" Su Qingwan picked up the rice paper, tilted her head and looked at Mu Luoluo, Mu Luoluo nodded, indicating that she could give the rice paper to her mother-in-law.

The old lady took it, looked up at the two of them, grinned, and then gently pasted the rice paper on the largest sky lantern.

The melodious bells sounded from the outskirts, and Su and Mu turned their heads to look, and there were red stars rising halfway up the mountain, and sky lanterns carried people's most simple wishes and slowly floated into the distance.

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Perhaps it was Su Qingwan's reminder that worked, or maybe Duanmu's own thinking was clear. After entering the Eryue Gate, Jiangxueyuan became lively.

The Duanmu clan was already somewhat pretty, and with the blessing of the Ban clan's grace, they lived like a fish in water for a while, there were rumors in the palace, and some families were happy and some were sad.

In a blink of an eye, the Shangsi Festival is over, everything is revived, and the grass turns green.Another good news came from Fengyi Palace, the empress had been pregnant for more than a month.The emperor was overjoyed and rewarded the whole palace.

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"It's clearly the beginning of spring, and the winter jasmines in the courtyard are all in bloom, but the wind is still very cool." Ban Cairen opened the curtain and entered the room, and saw Duanmu Cairen playing happily with a small flower snake.

"My sister came just in time. My little flower snake has just learned a new trick, come and show it to my sister." Duanmu Baolin waved to Ban Jieyu, and at the same time ordered the servant girl to prepare tea.

"This is His Majesty's new reward?" Ban Cairen sat down opposite Duanmu Baolin, still not daring to get too close.

Duanmu Baolin loves snakes, since he became a favorite, His Majesty has rewarded many small snakes of various colors, and specially recruited a court lady who is good at training snakes.When Ban Cairen came here for the first time, he was quite frightened, and it took a long time before he dared to be in the same room.

"Yes." Duanmu Baolin tapped the little flower snake on the head with a thin stick in his hand, and the latter neatly rolled up into a plate and lay on the table.

"Where did that one go a few days ago?" Ban Cairen stretched out his hand tentatively, and tapped the little flower snake's forehead lightly. The little flower snake suddenly raised its head, causing Ban Cairen to withdraw his hand in a hurry.

"That one was disobedient, and someone peeled its skin." Duanmu Baolin's tone was calm, but what he said was chilling to the bone. "The snake skin is very good. If my sister wants it, she can take it."

"No need, thank you sister for your kindness." Ban Cairen hurriedly shook his head, the blood on his face faded slightly, but he still forced a smile on his face.

"Sister, I'm teasing you." Duanmu Baolin laughed, and the little flower snake raised its head, grinned and swayed from side to side, like a person dancing with joy, "That little snake is stupid and boring. It was very fast, so I asked Ayina to lead it to the training."

"That's right, how can someone as kind as my sister be so cruel." Ban Cairen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled softly.

Hearing the words, Duanmu Baolin raised his eyebrows, lowered his head, stretched out his hand and flicked the tip of the little flower snake's tail, the little flower snake jumped up in shock, and quickly wrapped around Duanmu Baolin's wrist.

Duanmu Baolin tapped the little flower snake's head lightly, and the little flower snake immediately slid off Duanmu Baolin's wrist and swam to Ban Cairen to please him.

The first sentence I just said was the truth. The snake sneaked out and killed Shu Yunu's thrush, and shocked Princess An again. The skin and flesh were found to be buried in a good place, and the snake skin was stuffed with cotton wool, so it was easy to put away.

Duanmu Baolin propped his head with one hand, looked at Ban Cairen who put aside his fear and teased the little snake, and took a sip from the teacup with one hand, this person is really coaxing.

"What's the name of this little snake?" Ban Cairen raised his head, facing Duanmu Baolin's smiling eyes, he blushed involuntarily, and hastily lowered his head again, looking at the writhing little flower snake.

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① Zhuang Jiang sending his concubine back: The allusion comes from "The Book of Songs·Beifeng·Yanyan", which is said to be a rare theme of same-sex love in the Book of Songs.