[Caiyun Kingdom] The beginning of people

As soon as I got to the inn room, I fell flat on the bed.After driving for half a month, the bones are almost falling apart.

"Let you slow down." Huang Yi frowned, sat on the edge of the bed and helped me up.

I waved my hand, "It's okay, I just want to sleep."

After talking and joking, we casually ate something for dinner, and ended our day's journey.

It happened that Huang Yi was going to Zhang Mansion in Heizhou to propose marriage, but I had to rush to Chazhou to see the Jinhua Special Economic Zone that I had left behind for five months, so I had to rush to Heizhou with Huang Yi, After the marriage is settled, I will transfer to Chazhou.As for Zhang's entourage such as Licorice, Liu Jiahe, etc., I let them go to Chazhou first, and then I will catch up quickly.

When I woke up the next day, I was about to go out after grooming hastily, but was stopped by Huang Yi who had just come to my room to pick me up.

"Are you getting lazy every day without a maid?" He scolded coldly, "What is your hair like? Why don't you put on makeup?"

"……don't want."

"fool!"

"Are you despising me?"

"certainly."

"……"cut.

He pulled me back into the room, then pushed me to sit in front of the dressing table, opened his mouth and cursed: "You at least put my hair back together. What is this? Weed pile? It's you who messed up the itinerary like this Tight, don't play tricks on me with my appearance!"

"..."

He stared at me coldly, "If you have something to say, tell me."

"Obviously you looked like a beard and a scum a few days ago..." I also generously didn't dislike it.

"Hmph, can I be the same as you?"

"..." Everything.

I was stared at by him combing my hair neatly and pulling it up.

"Where is the tiara I gave you?"

I untied the sachet at my waist and took out the white jade sunflower headdress inside.Huang Yi took it and fastened it firmly to the side of the bun.I shook my head, it really didn't fall off.Suddenly I smelled a burst of fragrance, I turned around and looked up at him standing behind me, "...have you smoked incense?"

"I have always had it, but I was away from home before, so I can't reveal my identity."

Reveal your identity? "Is it a very expensive and special spice?"

The veins on his forehead popped out, "Didn't the Zhang family own a spice shop? Haven't you learned it?"

I laughed, "Your intelligence is behind. I closed those shops a few years ago."

"bad business?"

"No, I just don't like to learn how to make spices. I can recognize the fragrance of flowers." The Zhang family didn't plan to enter this field either.Since I took over, after several years of integration, most of the Zhang family’s businesses are distributed in the middle and lower levels, and the relatively high-end businesses are not touched, and the types of industries are also scattered.

"At least remember this one for me," he bent down and hugged me, "it's ambergris. There are still a few spice recipes handed down from the Aoi family, and I only use this one."

I rubbed my cheeks in front of him and sniffed, "Why did you smoke it today?"

"I'm going to Longqing County this afternoon."

"..." Do you want to use expensive spices to meet my father?No wonder they tidied up their beards and everything, including me.Mr. Kui is very sinister.

He pressed my head and hugged me tightly in front of him.

...Wait, why am I like a puppy recognizing its owner now?I raised my head, and saw the constriction in Huang Yi's eyes.I glared at him, then laughed too.

"If you're sleepy, wait until Zhangfu." He patted my back.

"No, I just want to stay in bed." I pushed him away and stood up, "But can I not wear this?" I pointed to the headgear.

"Why?" He straightened his collar and walked out holding my hand.

"Bringing you back to propose marriage, I already feel a little guilty..." I dared to go back with a sunflower. Isn't this telling my father that my daughter has privately ordered her life?

"no."

...He...I squinted my eyes.Did he want me to wear it to show my father on purpose?Insidious, too insidious.

"What a mess." He helped me onto the horse, and then went to ride another horse. "Anyway, the result is the same. It would be wise to suffer less. Are you an idiot?"

this man!

I covered my mouth and laughed straight away, finally stopped laughing, raised my whip and set off.

When we arrived at the gate of Zhangfu, it was already time for dinner.As soon as the porter saw me, he ran back to report. After Huang Yi helped me off the horse, I quickly shook off his hand, pretending not to see him staring at me.Just kidding, of course the father is the most important thing, how could I get too close to a male creature in front of my father?

He stood beside me with his hands behind his back, and said in a low voice, "You really don't want to take any losses."

I rolled up my sleeves as if nothing had happened, "When you have a daughter, you will know how nervous my father will be about me."

"Well, I'll wait."

"..." I said the wrong thing.

A chuckle came from Huang Yi beside his ear.

We walked in, Huang Yi said softly: "Don't worry."

I smiled wryly and said, "What are you worried about? Are you the one who shoots when you're not sure?" He definitely has a thousand ways to convince his father.

"I mean, don't you worry about what I'll do to your father." He straightened up and strode forward, "I'll respect him."

I looked at him, smiled and hummed.I haven't seen my father for more than half a year. When I saw him again in the hall, I don't know if it was my illusion. My father seemed to be a little older.As soon as I entered the door, I first pushed up the hem of my skirt and knelt down to salute.

"Father, I'm sorry that my daughter couldn't serve you."

As I bowed my head, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Huang Yi next to me also knelt down with me.

My father glanced at my hair accessories, calmly, and helped me up with a smile, "Okay, you have to come here every year. Zelan is sure that he can't bear to make you suffer for his father, right?"

I followed my father's hand and stood up, smiling embarrassedly.In recent years, I seldom stay at home, even in Heizhou, I mostly stay in Yuanyou City, the capital of the state.I held my father's hand, helped him to sit on the chair, and looked back and forth at him and Huang Yi who was still kneeling.

"Since you went to Baizhou, did you go to see Fei Xiang's father?" Father ignored Huang Yi...

I stood beside my father, rubbing his shoulders for him, and glanced at Huang Yi from time to time, "Yes, I was taken care of by him when I was in Baizhou. Mr. Guan seems to be in good health, so let me greet you too. He was fine, knelt upright, didn't say a word, and his expression was the same.

"Greet me?" Father smiled and stroked the long white beard that grew to his chest. "I'm afraid you miss my wine, right? Zelan, next time you go directly to Baizhou to open a winery."

I also smiled and said, "Yes."

My father patted my hand, "Go ahead, change your clothes before you come out."

He is going to have a private talk with Huang Yi.I bowed my head and stepped back.After I changed my clothes and sat in the room again, when I came out again, the two of them had already chatted peacefully.In the end, am I worrying blindly again?

I laughed out loud, and the two people in the hall noticed my arrival.I smiled and helped my father up, and walked casually in the courtyard, while Huang Yi went to freshen up first.

"Ze Lan," my father patted the hand that supported him, "Kui Huang Yi came to propose marriage, you must know about it."

"Yes."

"Do you want me to accept?"

I lowered my head and said with a light smile, "Yes, Father."

"Then I will."

"Um."

Father looked at the night sky, "I'm going to get married after all."

I pursed my lips and said in a low voice: "My lord father, when I pass through Zhoudu when I leave, I want to visit Zhong Jietong's mother and tell her personally."

"This is what it should be. Jie Tong has been there for several years, Mrs. Zhong understands. In the future, you can't neglect the Zhong family. Even if you don't go often, you must do enough courtesy. It is Kwai If Huang Yi doesn't like it, you have to figure it out yourself. You can keep a low-key relationship with the Zhong family, but you must not forget about it. However, Ze Lan, don't feel that your life is miserable, Kui Huangyi is also a character, just right for you."

Yes, I understand.I responded secretly, and said with a smile: "What are you talking about? Shouldn't everyone say that I, a country girl, are not good enough for him? He has just been promoted."

The father blew his beard and stared and said: "My daughter is the best girl in Quancaiyun Kingdom, and all the outsiders are brats." We laughed for a while, and the father said again: "Whether he is an official or an aristocrat, it doesn't matter to you Is there a difference? I wish he could get married! Troublesome brat. Neither is a reason to fall in love with you, so don’t let these things get in your way. No one is born nobler than anyone else, and our origins are no better than others You are noble, and you are not inferior to others, so don’t be confused about what it means to be neither arrogant nor humble just because you have experienced a lot outside.”

I smiled wryly, "Father... I know it's wrong to see high worship and low step, but you should have different attitudes when facing different people, and you should recognize your own identity, so that you will not give yourself and me Others bring trouble. It is necessary to seek good fortune and avoid evil, to protect oneself wisely, but also to maintain morality... Father, I am starting to be a little confused, whether I will become a snob one day."

Father laughed loudly, "You can figure it out at your age, why is that person living so long?"

I also laughed, "According to you, this person should have died as soon as he figured out his identity, isn't it a loss?"

"Some people can't figure it out until they die."

"Then have you figured it out?"

Father looked at the night sky quietly, as if he remembered something, but didn't say it.I didn't say anything, I just stood quietly in the wind with him.When I was a businessman, I heard stories about my father from time to time. Some people said that my father was a heroic Zhang Sanye who threw all his money away.I think that is also a period of youthful and frivolous that is not humane.I, who was far away from those years, even if I was his daughter, was just an outsider at this time.

It would be great if my mother was still there. If it was her, I would probably be able to count the years with my father.

"Father, I'm sorry, I took my mother away." I don't even know if my mother would not have been pregnant in her 50s without my time travel, and eventually died of dystocia.

My father smiled, and took me to the Tingyu Pavilion in the center of the small lake, and sat down on a stone chair, "I have to thank your mother for bringing you here." He pressed his skinny hand on my head, and I followed my long hair one by one, "You follow your mother, with the same straight hair, the same pure almond eyes, and the same chastity and softness."

I don't have the slightest impression of my mother, I just keep my head down.

"Ze Lan, you are aware of the problems you will face when marrying Kui Huangyi. I won't say more, and you don't have to think about it. Since you have made your own decision, you won't just think about his identity in the future. What kind of trouble will it bring, but how to deal with it.”

"Yes, Father."

My father sighed, "Ze Lan, don't be stubborn when you encounter problems, and discuss with him more. Listen to him more, you are a woman after all, don't compete with him in everything. Don't be submissive when you are fine. , at this time, instead, you can use your temper a little more. You should know all these things when you are married as an acquaintance.”

"Yes." I answered all my father's earnest instructions.I knew he was against my choice of Kui Huang Yi, but my father never reprimanded me for this from the beginning to the end.Being able to have such a father is the greatest blessing in my life, even Huang Yi can't compare it.

The three of us went back to our rooms after dinner.I took the coat, went to the Tingyu Pavilion again, reached out to caress the lettering on the pillars of the pavilion, and then sat on the ground, hugging my knees and thinking about what my father said.

Really, it worried him.Sorry, but don't want to change this decision.

"What are you thinking?" Huang Yi came over, lifted his robe, and sat down, "It's cold, don't keep sitting on the ground. A three-year-old child."

I laughed and said, "If it's really a child, it's not bad."

He glanced at me, "Are you bored?"

I shrugged, "There is never a time when things are not annoying."

"There's nothing I can do if I'm bored." Huang Yi rubbed the space between his brows and exhaled softly, "When I was in Beijing earlier, Mr. Wangji had already chosen a few auspicious days. When your father chooses, he will find someone to accept the lottery. Ask for your name, and then make an appointment first, and there will be fewer affairs in the middle of the year, Master Wang Ji will come to Heizhou to preside over the collection, and then please ask Master Wang Ji to ask your father for an appointment."

I covered my forehead, "Ah~ it's really troublesome. I think it will take at least a year to get to the wedding day, okay?"

Huang Yi said in a flat voice: "Ah, I made you anxious."

"..." I patted his arm, "Is it fun to take advantage of your mouth?"

"No, I've always done practical things." After saying that, he turned his head and stamped on my lips.

"..." Very well, I lost.I laughed.

He reached out and put his arm around my shoulder, "Now you know about the war in Zizhou, Lan, I'm sorry, our marriage can only be kept simple."

I leaned my head on his shoulder and said with a smile, "This is also called simplicity? What can we do about complexity?"

His other hand also came up and hugged me, "I heard that it took my mother four years from finalizing the marriage to welcoming the bride."

"...noble..." I twitched the corner of my mouth.Typical of doing nothing but looking for trouble.

"You won't be unhappy?"

"If it weren't for us having elders, I think it would be like in the drama, using the sky as the witness and the earth as the matchmaker, the artistic conception would be very satisfying."

He said coldly, "That's called sex without a matchmaker."

I was choked in my throat, and after a while, I couldn't stop laughing. "My childhood memories were ruined by you."

"When you were young, you only watched boring things."

"At that time, I was going to socialize in the inner courtyard, and followed the other ladies and wives. If you don't watch this, what do you want us to watch about making trouble in heaven and going out on the battlefield?"

"Then you like it?"

"I didn't say whether I like it or not," I leaned my body towards him again, letting my weight rest on him, "it's just a child who is blind."

"Don't mind," Huang Yi whispered in my ear, "Just treat it as if we have been preparing for eight years."

The curvature of my lips was pulled upwards, "How rare, I finally heard you say something nice again." Eight years are the years of our acquaintance.I rubbed against him, "Didn't you say that I am cheap? Well, I am very cheap, yes, don't use some rich and expensive sedan chair to meet me, I can't bear it." I was too annoyed and it was too late What's more, according to his situation, he is not a big family who needs to compare with other young ladies and sisters-in-law. According to my original intention, even a naked marriage is no big deal, so why not care about it?

Unexpectedly, Huang Yi frowned, "Just let me take care of this kind of thing!"

aha?This is also scolded? "Okay, I'm asking you for something as a bride price."

"Okay, tell me."

I turned my head to look at him in horror, "...that's so refreshing."

Huang Yi snorted coldly, "You should be proud, you can try to plot against me in the future. Troublesome guy."

"Pfft! Hahahaha~" After laughing enough, I continued: "I want your wife to release the letter."

"no."

“…… Turning your face on someone is faster than me!”

"Fool, no one gets married for the sake of divorce. If you don't believe me, don't marry here."

cut. "No one can guarantee it." I tried to persuade, "You have such confidence in yourself, so you should believe that even if I don't need to use it."

"No. Put away your wild ideas, idiot. It's just nonsense!"

I touched my nose, "Oh." I just said it casually.

After all, the night in February was cold, and we turned to the study room after sitting for a long time.When we talked about the paintings during the chat, I remembered that we also talked about our piano, chess, and books before, so I laughed and asked him to improvise a painting to see if the style was not like his own.

Huang Yi glanced at me, and I knowingly rolled up my sleeves to cheer him up.

He spread out the drawing paper, and the outline of a human figure was drawn with the pen. After a closer look, I found that he was drawing me.After I was stunned, I continued to beat him with a smile without making a sound.In the middle of the night, he didn't draw a meticulous painting, he just took an attitude, and he finished the painting within an hour.I looked at the finished painting, then turned around and went to the shelf to take out another painting and spread it out.The two paintings are juxtaposed, and the people in the paintings are surprisingly similar.

Huang Yi looked at me suspiciously. I looked at the painting and said softly: "My lord father painted this for my lord mother. I saw it when I was young, but I always felt that I couldn't imagine a real person with a painting. My lord father I always say that I follow my mother, and I don’t like it.” But looking at the painting by Huang Yi, people who know me can tell at a glance that the person in the painting is me, and they don’t think otherwise.Chinese-style portraits are really a wonderful thing. Is this probably the so-called resemblance in spirit over form?

Huang Yi hugged my waist from behind, "Are you satisfied?"

"This kind of brushstroke, if I didn't watch you draw it, I wouldn't dare to imagine that it came from your hand." The painting method is extremely soft, leaving only a faint stiffness, which shows that it is written by a man.

He kissed me lightly on the side of the cheek and said nothing.

I also didn't speak, and quietly looked at the two similar portraits of women on the table.

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