Sui Jiu Dan blue half-pin

Dawn.

The solemn bells sounded in the temple.

Su Shiqing woke up early and looked at the sketches in the room, feeling an indescribable sense of satisfaction and excitement spontaneously.

He looked at Shao Erxue's sleeping face, his heart was full of gratitude and joy.Because it was him, he felt the feeling of being valued and appreciated.

Su Shiqing got out of bed, picked up and folded the drawings one by one, and admired them one by one.

The merchants and pedestrians on the street in the picture are all vividly portrayed.

The crying children who fell down had exaggerated grim expressions, the street jugglers showed nervous emotions, the swordsmen on the white-headed horses fluttered, the spittle of the street vendors flew everywhere, and the storyteller's eyebrows danced...every picture is lifelike City map.

After a while, Shao Erxue woke up.

The first thing I saw was the portraits on the table, among them was the purple-clothed singing girl in the attic. It seemed that Su Shiqing had a soft spot for her.

"Gu Jun, can I give you your painting as a gift?"

Su Shiqing nodded suspiciously: "What do you want these paintings for?"

Shao Erxue carefully packed the paintings and put them in the painting tube, and replied: "The emperor ordered me to put the folk customs and customs along the way into the customs album, so that the emperor can appreciate and understand them after returning to Jincheng."

Su Shiqing: "So that's why adults draw so many street paintings."

Shao Erxue nodded with a smile.

……

As night falls, the lights are on.

Wang Dafu ran into Su Shiqing by chance and insisted on taking him to the most famous Goulan courtyard in the city - Yihonglou to celebrate.

It's not that Su Shiqing is not interested in female sex, but he is very resistant to this kind of romantic place. After all, he spent his childhood in brothels and has too many unbearable memories, so he doesn't want to go in.

However, he really couldn't resist Wang Dafu's kind invitation, so he had no choice but to go in and have a few glasses of wine.

The beauties beside him are like clouds, graceful and graceful, all of them are charming and glamorous. They throw themselves into Su Shiqing's arms, but it makes him feel uncomfortable and uneasy.

"What a handsome son, he is more beautiful than me."

The accompanying wine girl leaned on Su Shiqing's shoulder charmingly and smiled charmingly.

"Ah, this young master still has a painting tube."

Wang Dafu hugged left and right, laughed and said: "Our brother Gu is a very good painter, and the beauties he draws are amazing!"

Su Shiqing put down her wine glass and stared at it dissatisfied.

Yingying and Yanyan were all amazed when they heard this.

"really?"

"Young master Gu, how about drawing a picture for me?"

"I also want!"

The wine girls flocked to Su Shiqing's side one after another, toasting and posing, all of them wanted to ask Su Shiqing to paint for them.

Su Shiqing looked at these women with a headache, not knowing what to do.

"Sorry, I have something urgent to do, so let's go first."

Just about to get up, suddenly, the coquettishly dressed Du Zhi (leader of the prostitute) walked towards them, waving a cattail fan, and couldn't help laughing at the scene.

"This son is really incomprehensible! At your age, you are still a red flower (virgin), right?"

"Hahaha!"

The wine girls covered their mouths and laughed, even Wang Dafu couldn't help laughing.

Su Shiqing's face immediately turned red, and her ears were red with shame: "Nonsense, nonsense!"

"It's so cute!" Du Zhi laughed so hard that the flower branches trembled.

The others laughed even louder.

Su Shiqing became angry from embarrassment, pushed away the crowd, grabbed the painting tube and ran outside.

Seeing that the joke had gone too far, Wang Dafu hurriedly dropped his wine glass and chased after him.

Su Shiqing ran sullenly, and for some reason ran to the backyard.

A melodious and familiar sound of the piano came from the Red Sleeve Pavilion. It was melodious and soothing, like a spring breeze and drizzle, making Su Shiqing want to go in and find out.

"Is it 'Early Spring Resentment'...?"

That was the tune his mother used to play when I was a child.

Su Shiqing searched for the sound of the piano, and walked up to the second floor slowly.

The breeze lifted up the hazy curtain, and he saw a beautiful figure sitting in front of the guqin, with a graceful figure, and the faintly bright cheeks under the curtain attracted his attention deeply.

The beauty plucked the strings, and the flowing fingertips burst out melodious rhythms, sometimes high-pitched and rushing, sometimes low-pitched, sometimes soothing and intoxicated...

He couldn't help looking carefully at the beauty who was concentrating on playing the piano.Misty winking eyes, smoky eyebrows, coral lips, fresh and refined with a bit of coldness and aloofness.The dress embroidered with pink morning face added a bit of good looks and mysterious temperament to her. The whole person was like an orchid in the empty valley, exuding a refreshing fragrance.

Isn't this beauty the singing girl on the flower boat?

Su Shiqing sighed in her heart: Not only does her piano sound resemble his mother, but even her appearance is somewhat similar to his mother.

Driven by his longing, he took out the paper and pen from the painting tube by accident, spread them out on the ground, wet the tip of the pen with his saliva habitually, and immediately wandered on the paper like clouds and flowing water, quickly sketching out the beauty and guqin silhouette.

He was intoxicated listening to the music, and the pictures of his mother playing on the warm grass when he was young came to his mind endlessly.Inspiration is like a waterfall, and a moving scene slowly flows from the end of the pen. He has completely forgotten where he is.

"Miss, there are distinguished guests from Nanyuan."

The maid's footsteps and summons came from downstairs.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and a cold and soft voice sounded from inside the room: "What is your honored guest?"

Su Shiqing was so frightened that she quickly got up from the ground, hurriedly packed her things and was about to leave, but bumped into the maid who went upstairs.

"oops!"

The maid screamed, covered her mouth and asked, "Who are you?"

Su Shiqing couldn't argue: "I, I..."

The woman in the house heard the movement, opened the curtain and came out to check: "Yirou, what happened?"

The maid pointed at Su Shiqing and said, "Miss, this man is standing outside the door and peeping!"

Su Shiqing turned her head to try to defend herself, but saw that beauty's black eyebrows were raised slightly, her watery eyes were lowered, and her delicate face was so beautiful that it was breathtaking.

The maid asked: "Miss, do you want to call someone over?"

Su Shiqing quickly explained: "No, that's not the case! Miss, please listen to my explanation!"

Liu Shuying looked at him carefully, feeling a little familiar, and then suddenly remembered, isn't this the young man who played with her?

Seeing that he had a paint tube in his arms, a pen and an unfinished drawing in his hand, he shook his head at the maid: "Be gentle, don't be rude."

Then she bowed slightly, with a soft and mellow voice: "Shuying made an apology to the young master on behalf of Yirou."

Su Shiqing lost his mind in a trance, and couldn't help secretly sighing at the other party's demeanor, and looked at Qingcheng.

A poem that fits the occasion can't help but emerge in my mind: Qiongzhi's sparse shadows make clear the bell, so why bother to compare her posture to that of flowers.Yurui Bingxin left the world, and the fragrance of the empty valley fell into a dream.

Seeing Su Shiqing staring at Liu Shuying in a daze, the maid put her hands on her waist and shouted, "Hey! Who are you?"

Su Shiqing came back to her senses, and hurriedly cupped her hands to make amends and said: "I just passed by this place below, and was attracted by the sound of the piano, so please forgive me for coming here uninvited."

Liu Shuying lowered her eyes, did not look directly at him, but nodded slightly with a blushing face.

The maid turned sideways and pointed to the eviction order under the stairs: "Since you came uninvited, please leave quickly, my lord."

Su Shiqing bowed again to make amends, and then hurriedly left the Hongxiu Pavilion.

Liu Shuying was about to turn around and enter the room, but she caught a glimpse of a drawing on the ground and said, "Yirou, what is that, bring it here and let me have a look."

The maid leaned over to pick up the drawing, and saw that the woman in the painting was just a shadow playing the piano, she couldn't help admiring: "The drawing is quite similar."

Liu Shuying took the drawing and observed it carefully. In the painting, she is like a fresh and proud orchid, with a faint fragrance overflowing from the painting, and the whole person is lifelike.

Shuying smiled slightly, handed the drawing to the maid, and said: "Put this painting away, and that young master may come to pick it up again."

The maid didn't quite understand, but she still kept the drawing as instructed.

On the pitch-black sky, there are sparsely dotted with a few planetesimals, flickering on and off.

Su Shiqing raised her head and stared at the starlight, thinking of her mother who died young, she felt infinitely melancholy.

His mother used to be a famous singing girl in Shaocheng, named Bai Hezi, who was not only good at the piano, but also beautiful in Xiangcheng.It's a pity that he was deceived by a man. After giving birth to him, he could only continue to perform and sing in the brothel, hiding him and raising him until he fell ill and was kicked out by the brothel. He died of illness not long after.

After his mother died of illness, he began to rely on his skills and be a good hand to others to support himself, and his life was still passable, but he was helpless, often bullied by others, and felt very lonely.

Inside the inn.

There was a gust of cool wind outside the window, and it didn't take long for Su Shiqing to lie on the bed and fall into a deep sleep. In her dream, there seemed to be the sound of a piano lingering, and the beautiful woman's figure was hazy, looming...

The next day.

Su Shiqing, who finally made up his mind, sent someone to send a letter to Huanquan Villa, and confessed that he must deliver it to Gu Sheng in person, expressing his determination to replace Gu Meisheng as Shao Erxue's companion.

Shao Erxue made an appointment with him to meet at the gate of the Puyu Pavilion at Shenshi in the afternoon, and then set off for Jincheng together.

out of the inn.

The crowds of people on the street flowed, like a river releasing a flood, they all flocked to one place, which seemed to be in the direction of leaning on the red building.

Su Shiqing curiously grabbed a passerby who hurried past, and asked, "Uncle, where are you going?"

The uncle was surprised and said: "Don't you know? Today, the competition is about to start, and the competition is about to start. If you don't go, you will not get a good position!"

After speaking, he squeezed into the crowd.

"Oiran competition?"

Su Shiqing was aroused, thinking that there was still some time before Shenshi, so she followed the crowd to Yihonglou.

After finally squeezing into the red building, it took dozens of taels of silver to go inside to watch, and there was not even a seat.The competition stage was surrounded by crowds from inside to outside, so he had to stand on the outermost side to watch.

When the day arrived in Hengyang, the oiran competition officially began.

The first competition is piano skills and singing skills.

The melodious melody of silk and bamboo sounded on the competition stage, and the glamorous courtesans in costumes sat on the stage, showing off their superb piano skills and mellow singing voices one by one.

Su Shiqing noticed Liu Shuying's beautiful eyes looking forward on the stage, and her jade sleeves were blowing.Sometimes she raised her wrist and lowered her eyebrows and sang softly, and sometimes she sang softly with her hands lightly stretched out. Her singing voice was clear and sweet, and the guqin in her hand was like a painting drawn by a brush, elegant and beautiful under her playing.

But for some reason, he always felt that there was a hint of sadness in Liu Shuying's piano and singing.

The first match is over.

In the end, Liu Shuying temporarily ranked first with her outstanding piano skills.

The second competition is poetry, chess and painting, and the singing girls can choose one of them to compete.

Liu Shuying chose Go, and the audience played with her until the end of the game.

During the competition, Su Shiqing saw two boys running out of the back hall in a hurry not far away, talking while running.

One of them said anxiously: "Listen to Yirou, I don't know who has a vicious heart, but splashed ink on Miss Liu's dance dress. It is a cloud shirt worth hundreds of gold! It was my mother who paid a lot of money to hire a tailor for today's competition." Customized, do you think it's annoying or not?"

The other was also angry: "Isn't it! Right now, I can only tell my mother about this first, and ask her to change Miss Liu's dance costume."

"Oh, that's all I can do, let's go!"

After the two boys walked away, Su Shiqing realized that the Miss Liu they were talking about was Liu Shuying.Is it because she is too beautiful and possesses both ability and virtue, that's why she was envied and her dance clothes were destroyed?

Thinking of this, Su Shiqing quietly squeezed into the back hall while everyone was not paying attention. At this time, there was no one in the back hall, and he almost went all the way to the attic without hindrance.