Weiyang of the Red Mansion

In the spring of Showa 27, Shengjing.

It is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, the full moon hangs high in the night sky, red lanterns are hung everywhere in the lively market, and almost everyone has a happy smile on their faces.

The handsome young man wearing a black fox fur cloak stood quietly by the lake, staring at the sparkling lake in a daze, looking extraordinarily lonely and out of tune with the festive atmosphere around him.

A sudden sharp cry for help broke the festive atmosphere.

"girl!"

"Someone! Help!"

"Save people!!"

The sharp cry for help attracted the young man's attention, and he followed the sound, and saw a few pretty girls by the lake kneeling in panic and shouting, asking the people by the lake to save their girl.

The boy couldn't help but look towards the lake.

Because today is the Lantern Festival, which is also known as the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, and there are many vendors selling various lanterns by the lake, which clearly illuminate the lake.

In this way, it is clear at a glance whether anyone has fallen into the lake.

A gust of cold wind hit, and the boy couldn't help but frowned.

"Master? Head hurts again?" The entourage who was following the boy couldn't help asking worriedly upon seeing this.

The young man shook his head and didn't answer. He raised his chin at the person who fell into the lake, "Who fell into the water?"

"The little guy doesn't know."

The young man tightened his cloak, resisting dizziness and said, "Someone fell into the water, why didn't anyone go into the water to save him?"

It's just that the times are different, when someone falls into the water, anyone with some knowledge of water skills will jump into the water to save them, as long as they are not such selfish, ruthless people.

"This... the villain doesn't know." The entourage was also a little confused. There is a moat in Shengjing, so many people in the capital are able to pass through the water. Now some people fall into the water, but no one rescues them. It is really surprising.

The young man clenched his cloak tightly, feeling a little groggy, and couldn't help cursing inwardly.

This damn wind and cold has tortured the young master for half a month, when will he recover?

After slandering, he was about to leave, when suddenly his expression froze, and the foot that was about to step out stuck to the ground.

"Xu Jie, do you think that person is that fellow Dong Wei?"

Xu Jie took a closer look and nodded to confirm, "It's him, young master..." Before he finished speaking, he felt his hands sink, and the cloak on his young master's body fell into his hands. Before he could react, he saw his young master's "plop" Jumping into the water and swimming towards the girl who fell into the water, the purpose is self-evident.

Xu Jie regained his composure, his complexion changed drastically, "Master! You have not recovered from the cold, come back quickly!!"

At this time, two youths dressed as attendants hurried over, and the young man in green robes grabbed Xu Jie's hand and asked, "Xiaojie, what's the matter? How do you take care of the uncle? The wind and cold have only improved now, you How to let him jump down to save people?"

Xu Jie said with a bitter face, "Brother, don't wrong me, how could I let the uncle go into the water to save people? Just now the uncle saw that Dong Wei was taking off his clothes, so he couldn't help but take off his cloak and throw it to me, and jumped down to save people I guess I still remember Dong Wei's revenge for attacking him that day!"

The black-robed young man stared at the well-dressed young man who was not far away, and frowned, "Xu Feng, don't scold your younger brother, I'm afraid you will spoil Dong Wei's good deed."

The green-robed man named Xu Feng frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Haven't you seen it yet?" The black-robed youth motioned Xu Feng to the well-dressed youth who was not far away.

"What kind of character is Dong Wei, you and I still don't know? That day he was jealous of the old man, fought in the main street, and ordered the young man to attack the old man, so that the old man's head was wounded and unconscious, and he was exposed to the cold at night. It's not that the master begged the holy emperor to send some highly skilled imperial physicians to treat him overnight. The uncle may have died. It can be seen how vicious Dong Wei is, and now he is planning to save others. Do you think that fellow looks like a gentleman who sacrifices himself for others? "

Xu Feng sneered, "If he was a gentleman, dogs would eat shit instead."

The young man in black robe said, "You also know that he is not a gentleman? The girl who fell into the water was most likely planned by Dong Wei, otherwise how could she appear here by coincidence, and even plan to go into the water to save her?"

"This is by no means a coincidence." Xu Feng said decisively with a serious face.

Needless to say?

Will a prodigal who spends his days wandering around Huajie Liuxiang and Qinlou Chuguan suddenly become an upright gentleman, sacrificing himself to save others?

I also want to know that there is a big problem in this.

"Uncle discovered Dong Wei's purpose, so he went into the water to save people?" Xu Feng asked thoughtfully.

The black-robed young man snorted, "My lord has always been vindictive. How could he risk his life to save someone just because he discovered Dong Wei's purpose? It is somewhat possible that he was trying to block Dong Wei."

"The matter has come to an end, we can only wait for the uncle to rescue the person." The man in black robe turned and left after the words fell.

Xu Feng hurriedly asked, "Feng Jing, where are you going?"

Feng Jing said without turning his head, "Although that guy Dong Wei is not a good person, he is also the eldest son of Uncle Shoushan's mansion. The girl who can make him plan must have a high status. I will go and find out, so that the master and wife don't ask Get up and ask three questions."

The corners of Xu Feng's mouth twitched when he heard the words, and when he looked up, he saw that his uncle had already embraced the girl who fell into the water, and sighed, "It's true, although the uncle has good intentions to save people, it is inevitable to ruin the reputation of other girls. I'm afraid it can't be good."

My uncle's reputation is clear to me, unless the elders of the girl's family are greedy for profit, they will never ask their innocent daughter to marry their uncle.

Feng Jing had disappeared into the crowd, Xu Feng dragged his younger brother Xu Jie through the crowd to the shore to pick up his uncle ashore.

The underwater boy swam to the shore with the struggling girl in his arms, and handed the girl in his arms to the maidservants stretching out their hands by the lake. Just as he was about to climb ashore, he stretched out a hand in front of him.

"Master, the lake is ice-cold, you have not healed from the cold, go ashore quickly."

The young man was startled, then smiled, stretched out his hand enduring the biting chill, and used his strength to get ashore, a gust of cold wind hit him, and he shivered involuntarily.

Xu Jie put the black fox fur cloak in his hand on the drenched purple-robed young man, and kept complaining, "Master, it's the time of the cold spring, and you haven't recovered from the cold, how can you risk your life by going into the water to save people?" Woolen cloth?"

The young man who was called uncle smiled slightly, without making a sound, he raised his head as if aware of it, and saw the young man in silver-red finery glaring at him resentfully.

He raised his eyebrows and sneered.

Knowing that this guy is not a good person, how could he just sit back and watch the girl who fell into the water be ruined by him?

Ruined innocence?

The young man's face changed slightly, it's too bad, he forgot that this is no longer the modern age, this is the ancient times where men and women had different seats at seven years old, unless the girl who fell into the water was rescued by a woman, she would lose her innocence.

Then... then wouldn't he want to marry someone?Otherwise, destroying people's innocence and ignoring others, isn't it a beast?

I was anxious in my heart, and I couldn't help showing something on my face. Just as I was about to ask the maid what, I felt itchy in my throat and coughed uncontrollably.

"Thanks to this son for saving my girl."

He looked up, and saw that the girl he rescued had fallen into a coma and was being held up by two maids, and it was the pretty maid in front who was talking.

"Your girl is..."

The pretty maid was taken aback when she heard the words, as if she didn't expect that the saving son didn't know the identity of their girl.

The servant girl hesitated for a moment, and said, "My girl's surname is Tang, anyway, thank you son for saving my girl's life!" There are so many people by the lake, but no one rescued her, how could she not despair?You must know that with the dignity of her daughter, if she falls into the water and dies under their protection, one of the maidservants accompanying them will be buried with the daughter.

Therefore, it can be said that the young man in front of him not only saved the life of their girl, but also saved the lives of several of their servant girls who went out with the girl.

"No, you're welcome..." He was ashamed of ruining the girl's innocence, and now he saw the girl's personal maid came to thank him, he couldn't help feeling embarrassed, but just opened his mouth, he couldn't stop coughing.

The pretty servant girl was stunned when she saw this, "Young master has caught the cold, it's better to go back to the mansion earlier and ask the doctor to treat him." She thought of something, and asked, "I don't know your surname?"

Is this going to ask for details?That's right, he ruined the girl's innocence after all.

"I..." The boy hesitated and was about to announce his name, but felt dizzy, forced a smile, and passed out with a black eye.

"Son—"

"uncle--"

Xu Feng carried his young master on his back and said apologetically to the pretty servant girl, "My uncle has not healed from the cold, and now to save your young lady... leave!"

The pretty maid was in a daze, and when she came back to her senses, she saw another attendant of the young master following Xu Feng, "Brother, wait for me!"

Going to rescue people before the wind and cold have recovered is really desperate.

But thinking that it was their young lady that the young master saved, I couldn't help but feel mixed feelings.

Turning around, he was about to order someone to take the girl back, when he heard the people around him pointing.

"Hey, brother, the son who saved people just now looks like the son of the Rongguo Mansion to me..."

"Hey! Xiongtai's eyes are very sharp, isn't that the one!"

"It's really him?" The person who spoke at the beginning had a bit of regret and sympathy, "It's a pity that the girl who fell into the water, I don't know whose family, she was touched by this young man, and the marriage in the future may be difficult. .”

"Hi! Looking at the dresses of the maids around the girl, you can tell that the family background is not low. Maybe you can hear the news of the marriage between the two families in a few days."

"Wouldn't it be cheaper for the Rongguo mansion?"

Pretty maid: "..."

After reacting, the pretty maid glared angrily at the people dressed by the scholar, and said mockingly, "You bunch of sour scholars are eloquent, where were you when my girl fell into the water? Even if that young master is the heir of the Rongguo Mansion, so what? The playboys are a thousand times stronger than you bunch of sour scholars." After saying that, he took his own girl and walked away.

In the middle of the night, Rongguo Mansion, East Courtyard.

Lying on the couch in the inner room, Jia Amnesty's face was pale, and beads of sweat kept coming out of his forehead.

A lady who looked about 40 or [-] years old wiped the sweat of the boy on the couch with a handkerchief in her hand, and at the same time looked at the tall figure beside her, "Master, did you ask me?"

Rongguo Duke Jia Daishan stood by the couch with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed, "I've made it clear that it was the girl from the Tang family who accidentally fell into the water when she set off the river lantern, and Shei'er jumped to save others. Now that I am going into the water to save people in this cold spring day, I am afraid that the wind and cold will worsen."