under the field

Scarlett

"I didn't expect there to be a waltz band in this village." My footsteps followed the figure in front of me, and he was guiding my every movement. "Not to mention that Jacob's Colin could dance."

"There are still many things you don't know." He looked at me and said.

"Some say you are a rebel, some say you are a savior, which one are you?" I grabbed his shoulders, he lifted me up easily, and let me return to the grass lightly after leaving the ground. I couldn't help admiring: "You make me think you're really good at dancing."

"Which one do you want me to answer?" He looked at me seriously and asked.

I laughed out loud, "Is there anyone telling you not to stare at people intently, because no one can resist that kind of gaze." It's like hiding all the violence and contention in the world where you can't see it, only letting you see the endless tenderness.

He said helplessly, "You really have a lot of questions." When the dance music came to the climax, we clasped our hands together and slowly turned the circle.

I heard myself asking, "Who the hell are you?" I touched his face to the music and moved closer to him. "Jacob's Colin." The vortex-like pupils in front of him seemed to hide the fluctuations, and only he could hear these words.

"Who do you think I am?" The vortex engulfed the person, trying to drag her into the abyss, "You know the answer."

We didn't talk for a while, he was waiting for my answer, he seemed sure that I would say it, and he still led me to the last movement of the dance music without any haste.The last syllable comes out of the strings, everything returns to its place, and he stays in the last movement, holding me in his arms, and there's no escape for me.

"Colin Nottingham." I say the long-buried answer, only we know it, only we hear it.I feel the grass under my feet. I have no doubt that even if I walk on it barefoot, it will not be stained with a trace of dust. I smell the humidity gradually in the air, and the scent of the forest is full of fragrance. I feel that someone is starting to run Leaving the dance floor on the grass, the band stopped playing, because the body was wetted by the sudden rain. Amid the noise, he could only hear him asking in a low voice: "How do you know?"

"It's the secret..." There was warmth covering her lips.

The men and women who hid under the pavilion to shelter from the rain were debating whether to send someone to persuade Lord Colin and Mrs. Colin to let go of each other in the rain and return to the house to continue making out.But they didn't, because we stood in the middle of the grass and kissed each other passionately for a long, long time, until the rain gradually covered all the vision, leaving only sporadic dim lights, so that the dinner ended in this way.It wasn't until we let go of each other's bodies, touched each other's wet faces and smiled at each other, that we realized that we were alone on the grass. I felt that the blood in my whole body was running hot and hot, making people no longer think about it. .

We stumbled back to the room, even though the rain on our bodies wet the entire corridor, but no one cared, even if it did, at this moment we have nothing but each other in our eyes.We fell on the bed and continued to kiss each other passionately without any hesitation. I put my arms around Colin's shoulders and let him sink his head into his neck.

He finally stopped, looked at my face from above, and smiled at me again.He withdrew his body and teased, "Someone might catch a cold tonight."

"To each other." I sat up, he pulled me up from the bed, walked into the bathroom and took a look, and saw that the bathtub was thoughtfully filled with hot water again.He stuffed me into the bathroom, and I looked at him by the door, deliberately saying: "Together?" He raised his eyebrows and was about to push the door open, I smiled and closed the door.

The person in the mirror looks wet and embarrassed, but her face is full of joyful smiles, as if she has finally freed up everything in her heart, and her eyes are shining brightly, which reminds people of the aloe vera at the banquet tonight Dessert, and the passionate kisses just now in the rain are like tasting a favorite gin and Dubonnet.

When I came out of the shower, I saw that he was already leaning on the recliner and reading a book, as if he had already tidied up. "I used the hot water in Otis' room," he said. "He's not in the room. I don't think he'll be back tonight."

"If Mrs. Colin wasn't there, would Mr. Colin stay out of the night just the same?" I smiled and took the hand he extended to me. We sat on the recliner together, and he put my feet on his. On your lap, toward the fireplace for warmth.This is really amazing, even though there was still an ambiguous gap between us before today.

"I think so too, but it's a pity that Mrs. Colin is so strict?" I pushed him with a smile and said, "I'm not Mrs. Colin."

"But I want you to be Lady Nottingham." He looked at me seriously.We looked at each other in the dim light of the fire, "When did it start?" I asked softly. "Since when did Colin Nottingham become Jacob's Colin?"

"You've heard the story, haven't you?" he said, and it reminded me of how he felt when we sat side by side in the tavern and listened to the stories of his family being told. Version after version?

I touched his face, because I don't want to see his dark eyes again, "At least the little prince of Nottingham didn't die in the uprising, he became a hero today, and he didn't forget his family and blood feud " I buried my head in front of his chest, listening to his heartbeat echoing in my ears, remembering something and asked: "Do you still have a sister?"

"Yes." Colin said, "She's Joyce. Joyce Nottingham." I fell silent, thinking of her final end in the story, another ending where a beauty fades away.Colin's hand was stroking the top of my hair, and he suddenly said, "You don't think she's really dead, do you?"

Seeing me raise my head in doubt, he laughed out loud, shook his head and said, "Not everything in the legend is true."

"So she's still alive?"

"Now I live in Runrun Castle." Seeing my surprised expression, he smiled and patted my head again.

"She fought with her husband Francis during the uprising, and was later besieged by the royal guards. It was Francis who secretly rescued her. She was pregnant with a child."

"She took the child back to Runrun Castle, which no longer has Nottingham's family, and it is already an abandoned city. At that time, my father and mother had died before the gallows, and all the servants and servants of Runrun Castle were sold by the royal family. The ranks of slaves, that's where Otis and I found Anna." Later the story is that the three of them went on the road, joined Jacob's group, and fought in uprisings everywhere, but Anna's ending was inevitable, she was Nottingham The first child in the family to leave the world.I thought of the Birmingham family in the legend, the family friend who refused to fight with the Nottingham family at the last moment, and I knew the truth of the matter was not like this, because of Knight.Knight is a member of the Birmingham family, and he is now helping Jacob's people, and his friendship with Colin continues to this day. "Why did the Birmingham family refuse to join the uprising at that time?"

"The Birmingham family has been doctors for generations. They provide treatment for the righteous soldiers who fought on the front line, but once the war starts, the royal family will first catch them who are in charge of logistics. This is why Knight's father refused. However, I After his father died, he gave Knight permission to open an infirmary in New Sierre to help Jacob's people, though we never resented them for refusing to join." He paused, as if in recollection What. "Before the uprising, he had a marriage contract with Anna."

He looked down at me again, "So," stroking my face with his fingers, "tell me, how did the smart Hasting girl see through my identity?" He imitated what I just said, "Since when of?"

I got up and left his body, faced him sitting upright, compared an index finger and said: "First, it is because of Knight. The Birmingham family and the Nottingham family are family friends in the story I heard in the tavern, and the new thank you People in the district call Knight Mr. Birmingham. You're on good terms with Knight, and he knows all about you."

He nodded, and saw me twiddling my second finger again, "Second, Attitude. As you said, you always like to mock my ladylike style and habits. In fact, you also have it, but you haven't noticed it yourself. Yes. You can’t even bear not taking a shower for too many days, even if the environment doesn’t allow it, you will still wipe your body with a damp cloth...” Seeing him looking at me meaningfully, I realized the ambiguity in my words, and immediately blushed and immediately defended : "I haven't seen it! Every time you stop at the station, you will carry the bucket into the room, and Knight has complained about your cleanliness, but Shay Nigel and the others can go without taking a shower for several months without disliking themselves. "

He wanted to refute, and I continued: "The scarf, you obviously put it on but took it off, and you can also tie mine. Also, Waltz, I don't think the rough Jacobs have the leisure to learn Noble dance."

"Finally," I looked at him, "I saw your coat of arms, on the handle of your knife. Nottingham's coat of arms was a fir, because it was a fir left by Riverrun Castle last century. , and I presume that Nigel and Jamie are also Nottingham squires, because Jamie said they came from Bomondy down south, and Runrun is in Bomondy territory, and they always listen to you arrange."

Colin showed admiration after hearing this, and said with a smile: "As expected of a smart Hasting girl." Then he joked: "I didn't even know you paid so much attention to me."

"I know it's unreasonable, but I don't want to have any more secrets with you." After I finished speaking, I looked at him, and he pulled me into his arms, and I heard him sigh and say, "I was hesitating before." I was thinking whether to take you on the road together, thinking in my heart, perhaps keeping her by my side is the best choice, whether it is selfish desire or for the sake of her safety, I don't want to admit that the former is mostly involved, but the facts are true That's it. I don't want to fall in love with someone hopelessly one day, so I think it's necessary for me to be sober and know what I'm doing. But Xiao Scar..." He hugged me tightly, "I don't want to hold you Getting involved in a dangerous struggle. I can't go through the exact same thing again, and I can't lose more."

He lost his parents, and Anna, Joyce survived, but her husband's family and the many families that joined the uprising were bloodbathed.I hugged him back and comforted him, "I'll be fine, Colin."

"You don't know how insidious and cunning the people above are..." He buried his head in my hair and said in a muffled voice.

We hugged each other tightly for a moment, and I heard him say, "Actually, I know your father." He let go of me, took out a ring from his pocket, and asked me, "Do you remember this?" I felt familiar, He explained: "You gave me the first meeting on the train."

"Travel expenses." He emphasized funny, watching my reaction expectantly.I remembered that it was one of the rings that Brianna had stuffed into my suitcase in a rush of jewelry, and I ended up passing it off as "travel money" as a thank you to Colin for letting me stay in the car overnight. "What ring is this?" I asked.He showed an expression of "I knew it", I reached out and took the ring, the little thing was shining with silver luster, I looked at this thing in my hand, the surface of the ring was polished smoothly, the ordinary silver Cast jewelry, but I found a line inside the ring ring, RobertHasting. That is my father's name.