[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

Xing Xiuyan sat on the kang, and said to the court lady serving tea: "Please trouble this sister, and pour me a cup of tea too."

The maid of honor stepped back, not daring to answer indiscriminately in front of Tu Yuanyi, but she also served her a cup of tea.

Xing Xiuyan held the tea and smelled the fragrance, took three sips of the tea, and then the cow drank it up.

"Give me another drink."

But the maid who served tea served her a new cup, and Xing Xiuyan picked some fruit and ate it.Tu Yuanyi waved his hand, and the eunuchs and maids retreated in an orderly manner. If they were well-trained, the trench wind she had seen in the Lin family was nothing compared to his emperor.

She turned her gaze back and saw that there was still a stack of notebooks before his case, and she couldn't help but sympathize.

"I have to read so many papers when I come to the palace for vacation. The saint should not be such a workaholic. It is better to combine work and rest. Like I used to be blind without work and rest. Now I sleep until I wake up naturally. I came to Beijing. My father didn't let me wake up every morning and evening, we agreed that I would get up early every five days."

Tu Yuanyi snorted and said, "You are outrageous. From now on, you will get up early to practice." The main purpose is to absorb spiritual power, learn how to operate, and prolong life.

Xing Xiuyan's eyes lit up, and said, "Practice? Can I practice martial arts? Will a woman practicing martial arts in this era be drowned in saliva and unable to get married?"

Tu Yuanyi asked back: "Are you afraid that you won't be able to get married?" Tu Yuanyi didn't want her to practice martial arts, because he is a straight man with terminal cancer, and his woman is delicate, weak, obedient, and clever in his arms. .

Xing Xiuyan smiled, and while peeling the walnuts, she said: "If I become a princess, I won't be afraid that I won't be able to get married. Isn't being a princess a good face? If I become a princess, I won't marry. Life is too short. I have already died once. Of course, if I want to raise a face, I have to wait until Daiyu and Huier get married and have children, otherwise they will be implicated, we are eight friends."

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face was cold, and he said, "I begged to be a princess because of this idea."

Xing Xiuyan shrunk her neck, but it was not like she hadn't told the story of the princess raising her face and this kind of unofficial history.

She was used to being reckless when she was a girl, and now chatting is just normal. Besides, when he listens to her teasing, even if he doesn't like it, it's mostly thunderous and rainy.

So she said: "Saint, I am your apprentice after all. How can I set up rules for some mother-in-law and pay for my husband to take a concubine? Isn't that a slap in the face? Being a princess and not marrying, Secretly raising a noodle head is my best future."

Tu Yuanyi said: "Did you learn the rules and get into the stomach of a dog?"

Xing Xiuyan rubbed her stomach and said with a smile: "You turn a corner and call me a dog? Well, you have a good word, I am a puppy, Wangwang!"

Tu Yuanyi said bitterly: "If you really become a princess, the main reason is not to marry, but also to go to the nunnery to practice. Which princess dares to raise a face?"

"Stealing..."

"presumptuous!"

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help but hehe said: "Uncle, don't be angry, I won't raise my face anymore, okay?"

"You need to study female virtue well."

"It's not a matter of female virtue. But I have to find a man in my two lifetimes, otherwise my age will be a dog..."

"Looking for a man? What kind of man are you looking for?"

"It's good that the face is good-looking and the body is clean."

"If you want to marry someone, who do you want to marry?"

"This one is more complicated... er... There are no wives and concubines in the house, and no housemates; gentle and dignified appearance; draw a bow immediately, and write immediately; a bosom friend is hard to find, but a gentleman is magnanimous; a high family and a poor family can be discussed; loyal and courageous, It’s almost the same.”

Tu Yuanyi: ...

"If the saint has a good candidate, tell me, I will strive to marry such a person. You don't have to give the marriage first, I will do it myself, I will deceive his heart first, and then hang him, he will find it so difficult to marry me After he went through all kinds of tribulations, you, the sage, came down like a Bodhisattva, made him perfect, and gave him a marriage. He must never forget it, and felt that if he married me, he would not envy mandarin ducks or immortals." He giggled as he spoke, like someone who had stolen rice mouse.

Tu Yuanyi's eyes were like ice swords, and he commented coldly: "You really think a lot."

She didn't care about his blow, she spread her hands and said, "I said I'm a novelist, I don't think much, who will read the books I write?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "But it's really hard for me to find your ideas, and I'm the only one who fits most of them..."

"Ah?" Xing Xiuyan looked at him, and felt that according to this model, points would be added to his appearance and economic ability. After making the calculation, he asked solemnly, "Does a sage have brothers, nephews and nephews who are not married?" Could it be Wang Yewen?

Tu Yuanyi sneered: "My brothers and nephews? Hmph, like the third, fifth, and ninth sons who not only married, but also conspired against them and were demoted to common people by me. Their sons are also common people. You want to marry common people and become concubines?" ?”

"Bah, I don't want to marry you, a traitor!" Xing Xiuyan expressed his loyalty first, and then said, "I'm not a concubine! My best friend from my previous life felt bad about poaching my corner, how could I do the thing of stealing other people's men? So what's the difference between me and her? Do not do to others what you don't want yourself to do to me. If a sage finds someone for me, he will be considered a man of both civil and martial arts and a pillar of the country, but it's fine to be a concubine."

Tu Yuanyi took a deep breath, stared at her coldly, put down the imperial pen, closed the memorial, and stood up.

Xing Xiuyan hurriedly followed him, and when she arrived at the door of the bedroom, she couldn't help saying: "Saint, I...I want to change clothes." After drinking too much tea, she couldn't hold back her urine.

……

Today is the twelfth day of March, half of the bright moon rises from the horizon early, and the moonlight pours down, covering the entire Xiuyuan with a layer of transparent veil.

Xing Xiuyan followed Tu Yuanyi in the garden, standing behind him was the shadow, he was the emperor, even if it was a shadow, no one dared to step on it before.

Both of them wore a cloak to keep out the cold at night. Seeing that he was silent, Xing Xiuyan talked to make him happy as before.

Telling an interesting story in his hometown, Xing Xiuyan looked at the moon and said: "The saint walks under the moon now, does it help to improve spiritual power?"

"Well……"

"A sage cultivated into a true immortal, will he have mana again in the future, I'm afraid he can send me back one day."

"Want to go back?"

"Well... I think so, but I've almost forgotten what my relatives look like. If I can, I don't want to leave the saint. The saint is my relative, but if the saint cultivates into a true immortal, I will be separated even if I am a mortal."

Tu Yuanyi's cold and handsome face softened slightly, and said: "You think too much again, I have spiritual power, but it is no more than a mortal. The body is confined by a mortal body, and it is difficult to cultivate. It can open the meridians and strengthen the body. It’s good to prolong life.”

Xing Xiuyan said: "The most eternal thing in the world is the end, and the end is also a new beginning. A beginning and an end are life. Putting the limited time into the infinite struggle, the sage has great ambitions, I will wave the flag for you."

Tu Yuanyi said, "What is your ambition?"

Xing Xiuyan thinks about it: "I have a lot of ideas at different times. When I was in junior high school, I thought it would be great if I was invited to dinner by the school grass; , It’s good to have a few hundred dollars in your pocket, so you don’t have to spend money to buy paints; when you teach in college, you have to prepare for art exams, because you are independent, and you can earn your own living expenses, so you want to make more money. When you work after graduation I want to buy a house, but it's too expensive."

Tu Yuanyi asked: "Is there no dowry...? Is there no yard or shop?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "Of course there are parents in my hometown, but they work in a big city. How difficult is it to buy a house in a big city? Think about us where women work very hard. They work like men during the day, and they still cook and do laundry when they come home from work. The whole family. So many of our women are not married, or bother to find a man who can do housework. I fell in love with Zhao Jiahuan because he was hardworking, and he was a child of a poor family. It was a good match back then.”

"Is there no one coming?"

"Who would hire a servant in an ordinary family? At most, they would hire a housekeeper, and they would leave when they were done. How much would they pay, and how much would they do. We are also ordinary people, not some rich lady from a family. When I was young, I used to work in the fields with my grandma."

Tu Yuanyi said: "You have some talent and looks, why don't you find a good family."

"Yes, there is a family in my hometown who has some power and money in our place and likes me, but the spiritual gap can't be helped."

"That Zhao Jiahuan has no gap?"

"It was not so big at that time. We were colleagues. He was my boss, five years older than me. Although he was from a poor family, he also graduated from a prestigious school. He had a lot of work experience that I could learn from. He could reach my spiritual height, and I also But to reach his height, that's what I thought at the time. Of course, he is also good-looking." Zhao Jiahuan is also a person with both good and evil gifts. After a hundred years and a new life, she has no love or hatred for him now, so I look at it from an objective point of view. Human nature is complex, good and bad.

But Tu Yuanyi said: "Isn't it good to have a wicked eyebrow? Is your man a handsome man like this?"

Xing Xiuyan smiled: "Then...of course it can't be compared with the peerless beauty of a saint."

Tu Yuanyi said: "So your vision was quite low in the past."