A glance at the spring breeze

The West Lake in early spring is really cool.

Last winter, Lin'an, the old capital with very little snowfall, unexpectedly had an unprecedented heavy snowfall, covering the ground with snowflakes profusely.Looking around, the whole land is covered with snow.That thin layer of snow did not melt until the day before yesterday.

The willows didn't seem to have sprouted yet, and all the vegetation beside the West Lake looked miserable and bare.A gust of moderately cold wind blew in, shaking the branches without flowers or leaves a few times.

Just at the beginning of spring, the emperor who was far away in the capital brought his three princes to this area of ​​Jiangnan water town. It was nicknamed "inspecting the people in the south in person", but in fact he wanted his three princes to come to experience the experience and travel the mountains by the way. Just play with water.

Yin Jian, who was still young, was locked in a courtyard by the lake. When the cold wind blew in his face, he quickly wrapped his sleeves tightly with his hands, and shrank his head into his collar. His whole body was covered with chicken skin from the cold. pimple.

Alas, he shouldn't be here.

His eldest brother, who is so good at everything, gave the white jade eagle eagle of the Western Regions that was bestowed by his father to his second brother Yin Cheng to play with it twice. The sculpture I made fell to the ground, and a corner was damaged.Yin Cheng was afraid of his father and elder brother, so he didn't dare to take the initiative to admit his mistake, so he left the white jade eagle in its place.

When Yin passed by, he saw the eagle eagle on the table, but there was a hole missing. He glanced at the ground and found a piece of broken jade lying on the ground.As soon as he leaned over to pick it up, he saw his father and the prince's elder brother walking towards him.Yin Jian was speechless and couldn't explain why. His father and the crown prince thought that he broke the jade carving, so they punished him to come here and face the wall for seven days.

It was later learned that Yin Cheng did it, but seeing that Yin Jian was punished for no reason, how could Yin Cheng seek clarification from his father?Wouldn't it be wonderful for someone to take the blame for him.

At this time, Yin Jian, who was shivering from the cold wind, sighed.

That's all, it's just facing the wall and thinking about your mistakes, and it's not a heavy punishment, so let's help Yin Cheng once as hard as we can.

Yin Jian snorted in his heart: Yin Cheng, you owe me.

The imperial palace by the West Lake has been built for about five years, but Yin Cheng and he have never been there before, so they don't know the structure at all.When he heard an immature child's voice reading a book outside the courtyard, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

—Which family’s children are studying?Did the sound come to him?

After facing the wall and thinking for half a day, Yin Xian felt quite bored and depressed.It is too boring to only face a high wall of red bricks and yellow tiles, and have no companions to talk and play.

Finally, there is a little doll hiding here to study. Although his voice sounds very immature, he is estimated to be four or five years younger than him. The two may have nothing in common to talk about, but it is better than the original boring confrontation. An empty wall is easier to get through this time.

Yin Jian shouted through the wall: "Who is reading on the other side of the wall?"

The sound of reading stopped immediately, and the little doll said in a childish voice: "Did I disturb you! I, I'm leaving now!"

Of course Yin Jian didn't want to let him go, so he stopped him: "It's okay, don't disturb, don't disturb, you can continue reading your book."

The little doll seemed unhappy: "I'm not reading, I'm memorizing!"

"Oh?" Yin Jian became interested, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I heard you just memorized Zhuge Liang's list of former teachers and Li Mi's petition form, right? You are so young, I am afraid you can't even read it, can you read it?" Can you carry it down?"

It's not that Yin Jian underestimated him.Although these two famous memorials are familiar to readers, they are still too difficult for children of seven or eight years old to understand.It is difficult to read the whole article, let alone understand the meaning, and recite it word for word.

The little baby over there obviously found that he was underestimated, and said angrily: "Who says I can't read, don't underestimate people. The first article is about Mr. Zhuge's loyalty to the Han Dynasty, and the second article is about Mr. Zhuge. , is saying..."

"Okay, okay, I believe you can't do it." Yin Jian immediately interrupted the child's indignant explanation, he didn't ask him to discuss famous works, otherwise, wouldn't it be as boring as teaching in a school.

Yin changed the subject and asked, "What's your name?"

The little baby answered quickly, without any delay: "My name is Ruan Lan."

Yin Jian quickly recited the name in his heart.Ruan Lan, uh... surnamed Ruan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials is also surnamed Ruan, I heard that the Minister of the Ministry of Officials also came to Jiangnan together, but they lived elsewhere, so this little baby must not be the son of Minister Ruan.

After thinking for a while, Yin Jian asked, "Is your father Ruan Shangshu?"

The child innocently replied: "Yes." Before he realized that he had given away all his wealth to a stranger who had just said a few words, the child asked, "Who are you? Why did you stay here?" here?"

"I—" Yin Jian had an idea, and confused his identity indiscriminately, "I am the father-in-law who serves the second prince. Because I broke His Highness's beloved glazed vase, His Highness punished me to face the wall here for seven days and was not allowed to go out."

Yin Zhen thought to himself, whoever told Yin Cheng to bring him here, let him use his name right now.

Ruan Lan said "ah", "Then you must be very sad to stay here alone..."

Yin Xian nodded and said: "That's natural, I'm empty and lonely now, so you want to accompany me here to relieve boredom, you know?"

Yin Jian heard the sound of books being closed where Ruan Lan was standing, and then there were footsteps coming towards him. The little doll of the Ruan family pressed against the wall and asked him, "What are you doing with you?"

"Just chat."

There was a little silence on the other side of the wall, and after a while, Ruan Lan said: "Then I have to finish memorizing the book before I can chat with you."

"Okay, no problem, then go back quickly."

Afterwards, Yin Jian stood by the wall and listened to him recite two articles. He estimated in his heart that the whole process only lasted about one stick of incense.

Yin Jian asked, "Is this your first time reciting?"

Ruan Lan replied: "Yes."

Listening to this little doll's tone of voice, it doesn't sound like a lie, but I didn't expect him to be quite clever.It would take a long time for a person of his age to memorize these two melodies, but I didn't expect this kid to memorize them in such a short time.

It seems that the young son of the Ruan family is talented and intelligent, and he will become a great weapon in the future.

Although Yin Zhen really admired this young master in his heart, but he wanted to play tricks on him, he pretended to be disdainful, and said "Tsk", "If you want me to say, you are still too stupid, not as good as me This illiterate little eunuch."

The little doll on the other end was obviously not convinced, and opened his mouth to ask: "How am I not as good as you?"

"I heard you recite the kung fu just now, and I also recited it, and I recited it faster than you."

The little doll on the other side of the wall paused, then said, "I don't believe it."

Fortunately, Yin Zhan had learned these two articles before, recited them five or six times in front of his husband, and copied them silently seven or eight times. Even if he couldn't recite them before, he should be able to recite them backwards now.

Yin Xian laughed lowly, and that laughter seemed to have a hint of malice in it.He turned to the wall and said, "Don't believe me? If you don't believe me, you can slap me a few words. If you can't recite it, I'll take your surname."

Ruan Lan opened her mouth and said, "What's behind the words "My virtuous minister, Yuan Xiaoren"? "

Yin Jian answered confidently: "If you are a good minister and far away from a villain, that's why the Han Dynasty prospered before;

"What happened after "Catching the holy pilgrimage, bathing in Qinghua"? "

"The former prefect minister Kui inspected the minister Xiaolian; the later assassinated minister honored the minister's scholar. The minister has no one to support, so he can't give up his life. The imperial edict is specially issued to worship the minister's doctor, to seek the grace of the country, and to remove the minister and wash the horse."

Ruan Lan heard his confident tone, and knew that he would be able to answer the question further.Ruan Lan asked with some annoyance: "Then is this also the first time you memorized it? You mentioned the names of these two articles before, so you must have read them before."

Yin Jian didn't expect the other party to ask such a critical question. Fortunately, he had a quick brain, and quickly lied: "I usually follow the second prince, so naturally I have heard His Highness recite articles, and I have been fascinated by it." I wrote it down immediately. I am quite slow at reciting, my Second Emperor... Second Highness is even faster, when reciting the book, it can read ten lines at a glance, and you can never forget it."

Bah, it took Yin Cheng three to five days to memorize these two articles, and he recited them more slowly than him. It's considered cheap for him to praise him so much.

"Ah, the Second Highness is indeed very powerful, Ruan Lan is willing to bow down." The child's tone is not sure whether it is envious or dejected, "It seems that Daddy said that Alan is smart, a rare talent, and he is trying to comfort Alan."

"Don't be discouraged." Hearing the child's disheartened attitude, although Yin Jian felt a little guilty in his heart, he still lied brazenly, "Let me tell you...you are quite smart, but you are worse than me." some."

The child didn't answer. He closed his mouth and remained silent for a long time before clapping the book in his hand.

"I'm leaving." Ruan Lan said.

"Hey, don't go." Yin Jian called to him, "What should I do if you go away?"

The heart is not good, maybe this little baby has been hit and is going to go home and cry.

Ruan Lan was much stronger than Yin Jian thought. He said: "I will come tomorrow. It's almost noon now, I should go back to have dinner with my father."

"Okay, that's great." Yin Jian looked up at the sky, the sun was almost over his head, "Are you coming here tomorrow to continue the endorsement?"

"Yes. Tomorrow, I will recite the famous chapters of the Three Great Pavilions."

"I'm waiting for you."

Hearing the sound of Ruan Lan's footsteps on the ground getting farther and softer, until she could no longer hear her, Yin Jian knew that he had left.He sat down with his back against the high wall, looking at the crimson wall in front of him and the bare vegetation in the courtyard, a thin layer of loneliness rose in his heart.

"Little Baozi!" he yelled.

"Your servant is here!" A little eunuch in blue hurried over, "Your Highness, what do you want?"

Yin Jian stood up and patted the ashes on his body: "Bring me some food. I'm hungry."

……

On the second day, Ruan Lan really came again, still holding the book and leaning against the corner to endorse.

During the endorsement period, Ruan Lan was engrossed and ignored Yin Jian who was on the other side of the high wall. Yin Jian climbed to the tree in the courtyard and looked down on this Nai Tuanzi who only cared about the endorsement as if no one was around.

The milk doll is dressed in simple and elegant clothes, not more expensive than the children of high officials and nobles that I usually see.The side face is also very delicate, and the pouty red lips are very cute.

Yin Zhen thought to himself: I really don't know whether this milk baby is really smart or fake, he has climbed so high, why didn't Ruan Lan look back.

When Ruan Lan was almost finished reciting, Yin Jian climbed back to the ground again, and he said casually: "I'm so hungry now, I'm almost too hungry to move, do you have anything to eat?"

Ruan Lan replied: "...No."

After finishing talking at the other end, Yin Jian heard the sound of footsteps gradually running away from the other side of the wall.

By the time Yin Jian realized it, Ruan Lan had already disappeared.

"This kid, no matter how he talks, he disappears..."

After about half a stick of incense, Yin Jian heard some movement on the other side of the wall again, Ruan Lan finally ran back, panting and said: "I, I went to the dining room of the palace to ask for a few... A few mung bean skin dumplings stuffed with sesame seeds, packed in cloth or cloth bag, how can I give it to you?"

Yin Jian was startled, he didn't expect that Ruan Lan took it seriously when he just said it casually.

But there are high impenetrable walls all around, how could Ruan Lan, a milk doll with no strength to restrain a chicken, climb up?Just when Yin Jian was thinking about whether to climb up by himself, Ruan Lan suddenly heard Ruan Lan say: "Elder-in-law, you have finished the connection, I will throw it over."

With a "bang", a green cloth bag landed on the eaves tiles above his head.The cloth bag seemed to be sliding towards Yin Jian's side, but unexpectedly, it got stuck between two rows of tiles and stopped moving.

Yin Jian was about to jump up with Qinggong, but the little doll over there didn't stop, only to hear Ruan Lan climb up the tree on the other side of Yin Jian step by step, raised a small white hand, and spent a lot of time. It took a long time to finally touch the cloth bag on the eaves tile, and then push hard——

It fell directly into Yin Xian's hands.

"I received it." Yin Jian looked at the cloth bag in his hand, feeling a little bit guilty for this baby in his heart, but he still joked, "I didn't expect you to enter the palace at such a young age." As an assassin."

"oops!"

The few bare branches behind the wall began to tremble messily.

Hearing a muffled "dong", Yin Jian knew that Ruan Lan had fallen from the tree.

Yin Jian took a step forward and pressed against the wall: "You... are you okay?"

Ruan Lan slowly got up from the ground, patted the clothes on her body, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's nothing... just the foot is empty, it's okay."

But the milk baby is a milk baby after all, Ruan Lan suppressed a little crying in her throat, and Yin Xian recognized it as soon as she heard it.

Yin Jian opened the cloth bag and saw three mung bean balls the size of half a fist lying inside, feeling a little uncomfortable for a moment.In fact, he ate three bowls of porridge and two steamed buns in the morning, and he wasn't hungry at all, but he just couldn't rest his mouth and wanted to eat something, so he mentioned it to Ruan Lan.

I didn't expect Ruan Lan to be so caring.

After a while, Ruan Lan said, "Have you eaten yet? I, I'm leaving..."

"Yeah." Yin Jian held the cloth bag in his hand, "Go back quickly."

Ruan Lan said: "I will come tomorrow."

"it is good."

In the next few days, every morning Ruan Lan stayed outside the courtyard where Yin Jian was punished to endorse. Sometimes she would bring Yin Jian some food, mahua or pastry, which was wrapped in a cloth bag and thrown in from the outside.Fortunately, Ruan Lan increased her strength the next few times, and threw it directly beside Yin Jian, without getting stuck on the eaves tiles as awkwardly as the first time.

On the sixth day of Yin's face-to-face thought, Ruan Lan sent him mung bean dumplings again.

Yin Jian immediately took a bite and asked, "Young Master Ruan, did you really get the mung bean dumplings last time from the dining room?"

Ruan Lan paused for a while, then honestly replied: "No."

Yin Xian remembered that none of his father and brother were used to Jiangnan dishes, so the dining room in the palace was made according to the northern taste, how could Ruan Lan get three mung beans in the dining room Dumplings?

The little baby knew that she had shown her feet, and her voice sounded a little embarrassed: "Yes... I bought it on the street."

Yin Jian let out an "oh", and then asked, "Did you buy it with money?"

Ruan Lan was silent for a long time, and said: "I, I didn't bring silver taels...I exchanged it with the jade pendant on my body."

Yin Jian almost spit out the pastry he was chewing in his mouth: "The jade pendant on your body is enough to buy mung bean dumplings for three carriages!"

This is the most conservative estimate.Would the most powerful minister in the dynasty put an ordinary jade pendant on his son?

The doll over there was a little embarrassed: "The food in the dining room is all for His Majesty, I dare not disturb the imperial chef, so I went to the market to buy some mung bean dumplings and came back... This is Alan's last meal." I like the food, and I can’t usually eat it in the capital.”

Yin Jian asked, "Are you coming tomorrow?"

"Come on. Tomorrow, Ah Lan will recite the two Chibi Fu written by Mr. Dongpo."

Yin Jian finished eating a dumpling, wrapped up the rest and put it in his arms, he said: "For the sake of being so kind to me, when you come over tomorrow, I will tell you a secret about myself. secret."

Ruan Lan was surprised: "What secret can you have?"

"Don't you believe me, as a majestic... the eunuch next to the second prince, I will naturally not break my promise. If I break my promise, I will have no children and grandchildren in the future, how about it?"

"……Oh."

Such a "spicy" oath.

The eunuch next to the dignified second prince...

...and cut off children and grandchildren.

Ruan Lan thought to herself, why does this sound so unreliable...

He had no choice but to think that the little eunuch was joking, but he didn't take it seriously.

As the weather gets warmer, the trees in the courtyard have begun to sprout, and the willows that have sprouted will decorate the West Lake with sporadic greenery.It was supposed to be a calm spring day like the West Lake, but it was rippled by a news from the capital.

The queen was in a state of illness, and the imperial physician said that she had contracted a severe wind and cold, and had been unable to eat for several days, so the emperor ordered Yin Cheng and Yin Jian to return to Beijing to visit together.

Yin Jian was anxious when he heard that his mother was seriously ill, and after leaving Lin'an City with Yin Cheng, he remembered that he had an agreement with Ruan Lan the next day.

...Forget it, I will talk about these things in the future, the most important thing is to go back to Beijing to visit the seriously ill mother.

He originally wanted to tell Ruan Lan his true identity on the last day of facing the wall.

However, if you miss it, you miss it.

Until a certain day a few months later, his second brother Yin Cheng took Ruan Lan's hand into the palace and told all of them that this was his new companion, Ruan Lan, the young son of Ruan Shangshu's family. .

Ruan Lan was surrounded by the crowd, his chubby face became a little embarrassed, and he said to the crowd decently: "Ruan Lan has heard that the second highness is brilliant, and it is Ruan Lan's blessing to share the worries of the second highness in the future." .”

The look in his eyes was as bright as the twinkling stars.

Yin Jian heard it in his ears, but felt cold sweat profusely on his back.Looking at Ruan Lan's innocent eyes, I feel bad no matter what.

He groaned contemptuously: He has been with Yin Cheng for many years, why didn't he see how brilliant the second brother's literary talent is.

How funny.

At that time, Yin Jian seemed to have forgotten that in that early spring, he was the one who stood in the cold West Lake palace and used Yin Cheng's identity to boast to Ruan Lan.

From then on, Ruan Lan and Yin Cheng were inseparable, and Yin Jian could only follow Ruan Lan like a bystander.

When he saw Ruan Lan coming out of the palace with a taller head in an instant, Yin Jian knew that he was dreaming according to the memories of his youth again.

He was reluctant to wake up from the dream, so he followed Ruan Lan out of the palace, hiding behind quietly, for fear of being discovered by Ruan Lan.

Ruan Lan was neatly dressed, and on her waist was the jade pendant newly given to him by her father.He took out a folding fan from his pocket, and on the fan was a poem written by himself - "Where is the loneliness, it is Yutangchun."

This is a small poem that Ruan Lan wrote at random when he was walking in the palace with Yin Cheng. Adding the first two lines, there are four lines in total. Catchy.He liked it very much, so he wrote it on a plain fan and kept it at hand every day.

Ruan Lan walked slowly to the edge of a river, and suddenly saw two children fighting by the river, and the stones thrown back and forth hit him in the face with a "slap".

The folding fan fell to the ground.

Ruan Lan stepped forward, covered her red face and said, "You guys, what are you doing?"

One of the children said: "I asked Alu to write me a libretto, so that Aliang in the troupe could help compose the music together, and then we could sing it together for Huahua next door, who knows that Alu's lyrics are really bad. Yes, I felt sick when I saw it, but he still refuses to accept it."

The child named "Alu" was really unconvinced, and puffed his cheeks angrily: "I am Alu, little brother, don't listen to Amin's nonsense, I can write well."

Ruan Lan glanced at the two of them, then asked: "Where is the word, show it to me."

Maybe the two had been arguing for a long time and really needed an outsider to make a decision, so they really showed Ruan Lan the piece of paper with the words written on it.

Ruan Lan read a few words in a low voice according to the above, and said: "Let me compose a song for you, if you think it is not suitable, you can go to A Liang."

The two looked at each other, Ruan Lan walked up to them, picked up the writing brush on the stone table next to them, and wrote down stroke by stroke on the piece of paper.

In just half a stick of incense, Ruan Lan wrote down the corresponding score under each sentence.Naalu seemed to be very familiar with the melody, and sang directly according to the score above: "Yangliu Yiyi, grass grows and warblers fly, spring breeze blows,..."

Yin Zhen thought to himself, A Ming was right, the words were too ugly and out of order, it was just a string of good sentences from the predecessors.

No wonder the two of them play red eyes.

Fortunately, Ruan Lan's song is very beautiful and moving, barely able to save this unsatisfactory word.

While Ruan Lan was talking with the two, Yin Jian sneaked out and picked up the fan on the ground, and then quickly slipped behind the tree.

He flicked off the dust on the fan with his fingertips, then opened it, and the bright ten large characters appeared in front of his eyes.

There was another singing voice in the ear - Ruan Lan actually sang leisurely along with them.

Yin Jian closed his eyes.

It's really nice to hear, the people he likes are really good in everything.

……

Yin Jian finally woke up from his dream.

But his thoughts are still stuck in the dream just now - many years ago, he followed Ruan Lan like this, secretly picked up the fan, and kept it for more than ten years, if he hadn't accidentally lost it back then, he would not have lost it. Let Ruan Lan rewrite one.

Maybe it's because he is approaching age, so he lingers on the scene of his youth even more.

He tossed and turned on the bed - two years had passed, and he still hadn't found news of Ruan Lan.

He worked day and night on state affairs, and sometimes found a few white hairs on his head.

If Ruan Lan never comes back...

Yin Jian sighed, and then called for Eunuch Bao who was waiting outside the door.

"Eunuch, has the snow outside the house melted?"

Eunuch Bao smiled and said: "Go back to Your Majesty, it has melted, the weather outside is fine, Your Majesty, let's go for a walk."

Yin Jian obviously agreed with Eunuch Bao's words: "Order me, I will go to the south of the Yangtze River for inspection this spring, let the people below start preparations from now on."

"This..." Eunuch Bao didn't expect His Majesty's thoughts to jump like this, and he froze for a moment.

Yin Jian urged, "Why don't you go?"

"Yes, yes! The slaves will let them prepare!"