catch the rabbit

On the day Li Jian got married, the heavy snow had stopped,

Although it was very cold, it couldn't stop the people watching the excitement.There were many people standing on both sides of Wan'an Street waiting for the wedding procession, some of them were holding the stove and their hands were caged, and several of them were jumping with the cold.

"Why hasn't the bridegroom come here?" One couldn't help asking.

"That's the chancellor's son, so it's going to take a long time to prepare." Another person said, "Let's wait and see."

Some young girls gathered together and talked and laughed: "I heard that the big red sedan chair is inlaid with real gold and pearls. It's so beautiful!"

"After inquiring so carefully, do you want to sit on it yourself?"

"What are you laughing at, don't you want to?"

The girls quarreled together, and the thick colored cotton shoes trampled the snow into a mess.

It was almost noon in a blink of an eye, and there was still no movement on the street, no sound of drums or firecrackers.

"Why haven't you come yet?"

The eagerly awaited people yawned.

"Did you remember the date wrong?"

"It's possible for one person to remember wrongly. With so many of us, do we all remember wrongly?"

After waiting for a while, a child cried: "I'm hungry..."

The others finally lost their patience: "What's there to see, go home!"

So everyone dispersed.Wan'an Street, which was bustling just now, returned to the calmness of winter in a blink of an eye.

In the evening, it started to snow again.

After Yueranju closed, Baoxiu closed the door early, and ran into the house with her neck curled up.

"It's so cold."

Xiaolan, whose real body is an orchid, doesn't want to step out of Yueranju anymore. She just wraps herself in thick clothes and lies by the window watching the snow.

"It's beautiful, I've never seen snow before."

Ah Ling hugged a few empty wine jars, and said: "It's too cold, no one wants to come out to drink, and I haven't heard anything interesting these days."

"Speaking of snowing, I know some interesting things. Sit down and sit down. Wait for me to talk slowly—"

Before Baoxiu finished speaking, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

"It's closed!" Ah Ling shouted.

The knocking on the door did not stop, but became more violent.

"The wine is all sold out, tomorrow is early!" Ah Ling raised her voice.

The person outside continued to knock as if he didn't understand, but the knocking became slower and slower.

Jiang Tiaotiao felt that something was wrong, opened the door and saw a person fell in with snowflakes all over his body, splashing mud spots all over the floor.

"spendthrift?!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking they were wrong.

Li, who was supposed to get married today, thinks why is he here?

"Why did it take so long to open the door, I was almost freezing to death..." He clutched his stomach and rolled on the ground.

"Don't pretend to be dead, get up soon—" Before Huang Cai could finish speaking, Xiao Lan suddenly screamed.

There was a big puddle of blood at the place where Li Zen was covering with his hands, it had already congealed, because he was wearing a bright red wedding dress, so he couldn't see that he was injured at once.

"Help him upstairs!" Jiang Tiaotiao hurriedly helped him to the room with Baoxiu, lit the brazier and brought hot water, changed his wet and dirty clothes, and bandaged the wound.

His wedding dress had already condensed with the wound, and when he tore it off, he groaned in pain.

After washing his face and changing into clean clothes, everyone realized that this prodigal son was so thin that his cheeks were sunken, and he was not at all like the fair-skinned and handsome prince of the Xiangfu in his impression.

"When did you become so ugly?" A Ling thought she had told a funny joke, and patted his wound again, causing Li Jian to almost jump up in pain.

"Can't you use some spells to heal my injuries..." He broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, and his face was as pale as paper.

"For you, knife wound medicine is better." Huang Cai said, "You are married today, what are you doing here?"

Li Jian laughed twice, and lay down on the bed sprawled out.

"I stabbed myself in front of everyone, pretended to be crazy and escaped."

Xiaolan and the others were shocked when they heard this.

"It's fine, is it fun to poke holes in your body?" A Ling said.

"Young man, that's why I say you won't understand in 100 years." Baoxiu shook her head helplessly.

Jiang Tiaotiao couldn't help but said, "Why are you doing this?"

Li Zhen showed that familiar hippie smile again: "I am willing."

Everyone was silent for a while, and even Huang Cai didn't say anything.

They all know how afraid of pain this prodigal son is, and he would have to grumble for a long time when he scratches his skin, let alone stabbing himself with a knife.

"You all stand here to see what I'm doing, and I don't have any flowers on my face." Li Zeng said in surprise, "Could it be that I'm taking up the space? I'll just sleep for one night, and I'll leave tomorrow morning."

"It's okay, it's okay, you can stay here, we won't disturb your rest." Baoxiu was the first to go out.

Seeing this, Xiaolan and the others also went back to their rooms one after another, only Jiang Tiaotiao did not leave.

"Young Master Jiang, do you have something to tell me?" Li Zhen asked.

"This is my room." Jiang Tiaotiao pointed to the bed he occupied.

"Oh," he pretended to get up, "then I'll let you."

Jiang Tiaotiao said indifferently: "Lie down, I'll just go to Yanpu's room and sleep."

As soon as he heard Yanpu's name, the eyes of the person in front of him darkened instantly, and the forced laughing face just now was gone.

"Is he all right?"

Jiang Tiaotiao moved a chair and sat down, saying, "Rouge has returned to Peach Blossom Valley."

He really couldn't bear to say that Roupu was not doing well, and he didn't want to tell him that everyone in Peach Blossom Valley now regarded him as the number one jerk in the capital.

"Actually, I know," Li said, "my father sent someone to look for him. But I can't do anything about it."

He took out the peach blossom kit from his pocket, put it in his palm and read it carefully.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. The girl my father found for me is really nice. If it was in the past, I might just accept it and get married, but..."

He rubbed the patterns on the kit with his injured finger, and smiled lightly: "I really can't forget this little flower demon."

Jiang Tiaotiao said: "I can't tell whether you are right or wrong, but what should that girl do?"

"She's smarter than you and I think." Li Jian said with a smile, "When we first met, she knew that I didn't want to marry her. She also came up with this bitter trick of pretending to be crazy. After all, she doesn't like me. , I don't like her either, rather than force it, it's better to make trouble this time."

He said and pointed to his wound, "Actually, she asked me to mix it with chicken blood, but when I was cruel, I used a real knife. You didn't see it, when the knife was stabbed, the blood spattered It's all over the place, redder than the wedding dress on me."

What he said seemed to be as common as eating and drinking tea, but Jiang Tiaotiao could imagine the situation at that time.

"Is it too much for you to do this?"

"I know it's wrong, but she said it well, I'd rather lose face for a moment than lose face for a lifetime." Li Zhen took a long breath, "My father was like that at that time, I dare not look at him for the rest of my life. My mother and sister were terrified, and my father-in-law looked like a fool, so I ran out while I was in chaos."

Jiang Tiaotiao didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.

"The matter has come to this, it's useless to think too much, you'd better rest early." He stood up and was about to leave, but Li Zhen grabbed his sleeve.

"Master Jiang, can you take me to find Yanpu tomorrow?"

Although his complexion was gray and ugly, his eyes were clear and bright.

Jiang Tiaotiao was confused, so he had to say vaguely: "It's not too late to talk about it after you recover from your injury."

Li Zenui lay back on the bed in peace, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

His exquisitely embroidered but blood-stained wedding dress was still thrown on the ground. Jiang Tiaotiao put the clothes away, drew a tranquilizing spell between his eyebrows, and then closed the door and went out.

***

Li Ding, the young son of the Prime Minister's Mansion, officially started his sojourn life in Yueranju.

Facts have proved that it was extremely wise for him to move so many things to Yueranju in the past. Now there is no shortage of clothes, shoes, brocade, pillows, even bowls, chopsticks and cups.

He seems to be difficult to serve, and he is not picky about what to eat, but he is afraid of being very cold, and his clothes are wrapped in three layers of clothes like rice dumplings.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and finally Xiaolan couldn't bear it anymore, so A Ling proposed to send her back, and then went to Peach Blossom Valley to visit Yanpu on the way.

In this way, they couldn't wait until the day when Jiang Tiao became a fairy.Although Xiaolan felt guilty, but her real body was really delicate, if she got frostbite, the consequences would be disastrous.

After they left, only Jiang Tiaotiao, Huang Cai, Bao Xiu, and that prodigal son were left in Yueranju.

Li Bing shamelessly occupied Roupu's room, desperately eating and drinking medicine every day, only hoping that his injury would get better soon, but it was too cold and the wound was deep, so it took a long time to get better.

For some reason this winter, there have been several heavy snowfalls, and the snow at the door has reached ankles.

When Li Zhen pestered Jiang Tiaotiao again to ask when he was going to Peach Blossom Valley, he was cutting human figures out of pieces of paper, and after cutting them, he took a breath, and those light and delicate paper figures turned into smart young girls, giggling and carrying brooms Go to the door to sweep the snow.

"Mr. Jiang's move is really stronger than Xi Boqing!" Li Zhen praised.

Jiang Tiaotiao just smiled: "After all, it is not a living thing, it can only be used for a while."

"For a mortal like me, it's already very remarkable—may I ask again," Li Zhi moved closer, "Can you really become a fairy?"

He was taken aback by the question, "Of course it's true."

"Then I," Li Zhi pointed to himself, "can I cultivate immortality?"

Jiang Tiaotiao said: "Cultivating immortality is not as easy as you think, and not everyone can—"

"What about cultivating demons?" He quickly interrupted, although the question was ridiculous, his face was full of sincerity.

Jiang Tiaotiao asked back: "Isn't it good to be a human being?"

"It's good, but it will always cause old age and death." Li Zhen said frankly, "I want to stay with Yan Pu for a longer time."

Jiang Tiao said heartily, whether you have a chance to enter Peach Blossom Valley is still a question.

"Do you...will you regret it?" He thought for a while, and asked the person in front of him very seriously, "You have parents, sisters, and a lifetime of glory and wealth, but Rouge has nothing. He is not a man Girl, I can't marry you. He can live for thousands of years, but you can't live for a hundred years. After all, you are too different, and it is not so easy to want to be together."

Li Cheng smiled after hearing this: "Let me tell you something, maybe you will understand."

He took out the concentric knot from his bosom, and pointed it to Jiang Tiaotiao: "This treasure is my mother's dowry. I have kept it with me since I was a child, and I have never taken it off. My mother said, I will find it later." When you have your sweetheart, treat it as a token, which means that you will be united forever and never be separated."

"Before...to tell you the truth, it was really too much. I liked all the beauties I met, and Yingying and Yanyan provoked countless. One time, a new oiran came to Tianxiangfang, she was only 16 years old, and I felt that she was very pitiful. Feeling affectionate, he told his family that he wanted to marry her. My father was furious and sent someone to smash the oiran's piano, and almost ruined her face."

When Li Zhen said this, he shook his head and sighed: "At that time, I was really young and ignorant. I had a quarrel with my family, and my father locked me up for a month and didn't let me go out. Gradually, the affection faded away. After that, Seeing a few good ones, all of them are very moved, but in the end, no one can let me give this sympathy knot out."

"Later, I met Rouge."

As soon as he talked about rouge, he unconsciously softened his tone.

"He is obviously a monster, but he is less courageous than anyone else. I believe everything I tell him. I have seen a lot of well-behaved people. Whether they pretend to be true or not, they can't escape my eyes. But he is different. When I saw him, I felt happy. I got a good-looking and fun one. I wanted to send it to him as the first one. I just hoped to make him happy. If I didn’t see him for a while, I couldn’t even eat. I was like a demon. .”

The warm jade on the concentric knot lay quietly in Li Zhen's hands, it was indeed gorgeous and translucent, like ice crystals.

"I... really like him so much that I can't even believe it. When I gave him this concentric knot, I knew I couldn't escape in this life. Don't laugh, I'm serious this time " Li Zhen seemed to be blushing a little, "Actually, I know you don't believe me, even Xi Baiqing said I was impulsive. But—"

"I believe it." Jiang Tiaotiao said, "I believe you."

His words really came from the bottom of his heart. Apart from being happy for Rouge, he also had envy for Rouge that he didn't realize.

If there is a person who is willing to give up everything for him, even if there is only a few decades to be with him, he will feel satisfied.

If there is no one to think about, no one to read, what is the use of eternal life.

A few flakes of snow outside the window were blown in by the wind, fell on the table, and turned into water in an instant.

Jiang jumped up and closed the window.

"You take good care of it, and I will take you to the Peach Blossom Valley when the injury recovers."

Seeing him put on a cloak and an umbrella, Li Jian couldn't help asking: "It's so cold, you still want to go out?"

Jiang jumped and said, "I'm going to meet a friend."