Chapter 235

The speaker is a woman. Her voice is very gentle, and with a little indifference, it makes people feel very comfortable.

Then, the man who seemed to be a servant girl in the yard said, "after my uncle won the first prize, my wife and miss have gone too far with the girl."

"Nothing happened. Today, he just won the second place. Naturally, there are many social engagements. Yurong is also a last resort. Don't talk nonsense about cuckoo."

Number one? Shenyurong? Ji Heng understood the name in an instant. He knew that Shen Yurong, the No. 1 scholar in the new science department a while ago, Emperor Hong Xiaodi had told him that he was preparing to give Shen Yurong a house. Hearing that Shen Zhuangyuan came from a civilian family and was poor, it was not surprising that he lived in such a shabby alley.

Ji Heng didn't like listening to people's short-lived corners, but today he didn't leave. He was tired and lazy, so he sat on the wall and quietly listened to the people inside.

"But today is the spring festival day, and my uncle's entertainment is all right. Madam and miss go to the temple fair by themselves, leaving the girl alone in the house. What's this not to deliberately make things difficult? The girl is also good-natured. If the young master is here, he must take the lead for the girl."

"Begonia, you are talking nonsense again." The woman's voice still didn't care, and said with a smile, "they're not here, and I'm just hiding some peace, but I don't know that I'm tired of pretending to do things on weekdays. I can't wait for a moment of relaxation."

"They have too many rules in the Shen family, and they are not big families. In the past, when they were in the Xue family, girls didn't have to work so hard."

The servant girls in the yard seemed to be dissatisfied with the Shen family's excesses. They "girls" one by one. It was clear that they regarded their mistress as an outsider. Ji Heng listened and remembered that he had actually met Shen Yurong's wife.

Yanjing people all know that he likes beauty and dislikes ugliness. If he is a beauty, he must have a glance at it, as if he had recognized it, he would have great honor. As everyone knows, he doesn't have this hobby. Except for Yu Hongye, women in the world are nothing but mediocre fat and vulgar powder in his eyes. His heart was full of disdain when he heard that Xue Fangfei was pointed out to him from afar on the restaurant.

This Xue Fangfei, who was born in a stunning manner, was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Unfortunately, in Ji Heng's eyes, she was really useless. Seeing her connivance and docility towards her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, Ji Heng felt dazzling for the sake of the Shen family. Only saying "beauty is beauty without soul". He didn't think about what kind of woman he would like in the future, but he wouldn't look at such a woman who was as stiff as a puppet, as warm and cunning as all the official ladies, and the Philistine hid under a smile. How can such a person be called "the first beauty of Yanjing"?

The impression of Xue Fangfei only stayed here. I didn't expect to see a different Xue Fangfei across the wall today. Unlike Xue Fangfei who met in the restaurant, she is not a fool, nor is she hopeless. At least she knows what she likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, she likes Shen Yurong more than herself, so that she is willing to sacrifice her "love" for Shen Yurong.

So love is the stupidest thing in the world. What's the meaning of loving someone and treating each other with your heart and lungs, and getting nothing for yourself? It's better to be a sober spectator forever, laughing and cheering at the same time.

"The girl wants to swing?" The servant girl asked.

Xue Fangfei in the wall smiled and sighed, "I haven't seen you for a long time. So it's rare that they aren't at home. I can be free." She seemed to sit on a swing and swing.

It seems that through the wall in front of you, you can see the gorgeous woman with hibiscus flower appearance sitting on the swing, smiling and graceful. This is a better picture than the spring light. He can jump on the wall to have a look at the beautiful color, but he did nothing. He still leaned against the wall, and a mocking smile came up at the corners of his mouth.

Even if you are extremely smart, talented and beautiful, you can only be trapped in such a humble house. Even playing on the swing in the yard has become a luxury. Is there anything worse than this in the world? At least Ji Heng felt that Mrs. Shen was a little pathetic, and she was also stupid and pathetic. In such a hopeless and humble day, she was able to enjoy herself. Is this a fool's blessing?

At least in Ji Heng's eyes, after only seeing Shen Yurong a few times, he knew that Shen Yurong was by no means a person who could live in peace and contentment. The ambition and desire in his eyes are more vigorous than his talent and learning. He is not the same kind of person as the woman in this yard who can swing and be happy. Not the same kind of people, they are doomed to walk together for not long. Xue Fangfei thinks that happiness will be destroyed sooner or later. Xue Fangfei couldn't see it because she was in the play, and he could see it because he was in the play.

"We have been to Yanjing city for several years and haven't been to a temple fair." The servant girl muttered, "Madam said that the girl's appearance was too prosperous for fear of being seen by evil people. This is obviously an excuse. How can it be like this? Aren't all the people who went to the temple fair next day ugly?"

Xue Fangfei laughed in the yard and said, "Begonia, why are you so haggard? Isn't it a temple fair? In the past, when you were in Tongxiang, you didn't rush much?"

"It is precisely because there was a lot of rush in Tongxiang, but there was no one in Yanjing City, which is not as good as the days in Tongxiang. Slaves are nothing, but wronged the girl. The temple fair in Yanjing city is much more lively than that in Tongxiang. Every time the young master writes a letter, he asks the girl, and it is difficult for the girl to make it up again."

Xue Fangfei said with a smile, "ah Zhao, that fool, I believe everything I say. Now it's new for a few days. When he really travels all over the world and wanders the Jianghu in the future, where will he see a small temple fair? Then I'll write a letter to ask him what new things he sees and tell my sister."

She didn't seem to be angry at all. Even in the face of such unfair treatment and the unkindness of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, she didn't care, saying excellent and happy things. So at this end, Ji Xuan's sarcasm is stronger. She has seen such a fool before. There are such silly women in the world. No wonder many men always look forward to when talking about the first lady. There are many beautiful women, many stupid women, and many less beautiful but stupid women. In particular, this woman is not really stupid, but pretending to be stupid. It's difficult to pretend for so many years. Is she deceiving herself? Or do you think it's good at all?

Ji Xuan is not a woman. She doesn't know a woman's mind and doesn't want to know.

However, he felt a little funny when he listened to the woman's words. Yes, he was not the only one who had a bad life in the world, but many people had a miserable past. Mrs. Shen, the first beauty of Yanjing, had such a miserable life and was stupid. She woke up early to face the darkness, and I don't know who was more miserable.

"Doesn't the girl complain at all?" The servant girl in the room was talking again, "the girl would not write back these things to tell the master. The master and the young master knew that they would certainly take the lead for the girl. Where did the girl ever suffer such injustice?"

"Cuckoo, these are nothing." Xue Fangfei's voice sounded from the other end, She said: "I'm willing to do this because of Yurong. Yurong knows what I've done. If Yurong also takes these things I've done as normal, I'll feel cold. However, the way of husband and wife is worth studying. Who can have everything going well all day? If you really say that a carefree child, it's only when you were young. You have nothing to regret your choice. Just bite your head and move forward, it's really hard I can't help but look for another way out, but don't worry about it before that time. "

There is nothing to regret for the choice you made? Ji Xuan raised her eyebrows, and Xue Fangfei regretted this in the end? But she was cheerful and had the courage to put all her eggs in one basket. I think it's good to marry from a strange place to Yanjing city. I'm afraid she never thought about the difficulties after marrying. Ji Heng is different. Many years ago, he began to gradually accept the fact that "Ji Minghan will die one day". As for the changes in life, he seems to have done less well than a stupid woman.

The lively servant girl said, "I heard that there are still theatrical troupes at the temple fair tonight. We have been to Yanjing city for several years. It's a pity that the slaves haven't gone to the theatre again."

Xue Fangfei's voice was gentle. She said, "what's the matter? I can sing opera, too. Although I can't sing well, you just treat me as a performer. How about I sing you a song" lock Lin bag "

At this moment, Ji Hong under the other wall was slightly stunned. I've never heard of a young lady who took the initiative to sing for servants, but it's a third rate in the 369 class. Young ladies and wives enjoy watching plays, but never take the initiative to sing. When he was a child, he sang opera only because of master's evil taste. At that time, he was young and didn't know anything, so he was tricked into learning opera. But I haven't sung for a long time. I didn't expect that Mrs. Shen, who looked generous and graceful, could also sing.

She sang "Suolin bag",

The rich lady in "lock Lin bag" happens to be also surnamed Xue. Xue Xiangling in that play first married far away, and then separated from her family on the way to escape because of the flood, and drifted to a foreign land alone. Great changes have taken place in life.

Xue Fangfei's voice is very clear, especially moving in the night. It's already the time after the rich lady got married.

"After getting married, I don't think time flies, and I'm still beautiful and beautiful in my youth. I took jiao'er and traveled the middle and long streets in the car, and I heard the cry of the trumpet, which was earth shaking."

The sad lyrics were sung by her, but she didn't feel sad. On the contrary, they were somewhat neat and playful, as if she didn't care at all. It's not like a sad woman, but like a little child who is new in the Jianghu. With a bit of novelty and surprise, he doesn't see any self pity.

She really doesn't seem to be a bad person.

"My husband is hungry, and he is not there, but why can't I see the pavilion in the wilderness? Has the merciless flood come true? In a trance, I carry the boat with everyone. The old mother may be killed in the wave, and the bitter big fish belly is buried. You can see my husband and xuantai? You follow me back to my hometown to look for the bones."

Ji Heng was originally a very picky person. The world said that he loved watching plays, but he liked the way people were trapped in them and couldn't extricate themselves. He wept for his own joys and sorrows. And he will always be a theatre goer. Xue Fangfei sang very perfunctorily. She didn't integrate into the play at all. Her sad lyrics were not sad, but she sang a little cheerful. She was not a real pear garden boy, and she couldn't sing much and how wonderful, but it was strange that Ji Heng didn't hate it. Instead, she sat on the other side of the wall and listened quietly, as if the voice was warm, which made him cold and calm, like the heart fished out of the ice cellar, and also soft and calm.

She is singing:

"In a moment, I have forgotten all my previous feelings, and I have seen through the bitterness and tears in my clothes."

"I only say that iron wealth is doomed to life, and who knows the number of life is clear in an instant. I think I used to act like a spoiled sex in those days, even if I don't believe in the past."

"This is also a lesson from God: he taught me to accept remaining hatred, avoid coquettish anger, and reform, change my temper, stop falling in love with the passing water, turn back in the sea of bitterness, and realize LAN Yin early."

Miss Xue's family in the play had to go to someone else's house as a servant in the face of great changes. At this time, a sense of right and wrong came into being. When Xue Fangfei sang here, she also brought a hint of melancholy. This melancholy was very small, but it was captured by Ji Xuan. This beautiful young lady is not happy about it, but her sadness may be very different from Xue Xiangling's sadness in the drama. Xue Xiangling changed her identity from rich to poor. Xue Fangfei clearly had a better life, but she was no longer free.

It was this melancholy that made Ji Heng realize that this woman was naturally not stupid. She knew everything, but endured it silently. No matter what she is for, she is a little similar to himself. But Xue Fangfei and Ji Heng are completely different. Her songs are all magnanimous and calm, bright and forthright. It seems that even if the future is dark, she will walk past without hesitation and fear.

In the warm spring breeze and dancing night of Yanjing City, how many dirty transactions were buried under the darkness, but her song was like a ray of light, illuminating the darkness for a moment, revealing its true appearance.

But Ji Xuan also knew that such a frank and aboveboard woman, who clearly saw through everything but chose a silly way, would sooner or later be buried in such a night. The person beside her doesn't need light. She is the same person in the dark. Ji Hong knows what such a person wants better than anyone. Once Shen Yurong needed to sacrifice this lady, he would not hesitate to sacrifice this lady.

The lady knew this, but her trust broke her intelligence and she was deceived.

What should I say?

Ji Heng didn't know what to say. She sang "Suolin bag". The singing woman didn't enter the play. She was calm and enthusiastic, but he, who was watching the play on the wall, seemed to be fascinated. This is really a strange experience. But there is no doubt that he was on one side of the wall, listening to the rough lyrics of the woman on the other side of the wall, and the originally desperate mood of wanting to die slowly dissipated at some time.

He gets calm from this play. If a woman is fearless, what is he afraid of? Even if he has no one to rely on for the rest of his life, it's no big deal.

He rose slowly from the wall.

At that end, Xue Fangfei was swinging on the swing, and a smile came out of the yard. The beauty smiled. How many people would like to see her face. Ji Hong stood under the wall. For a moment, she suddenly felt that Xue Fangfei might really be a beauty.

Beauty is in the bone, not in the skin, but this beauty, beauty does not know. Her posture is gentle and lovely, and she looks like a wild flower that has not yet bloomed. Before it blooms, she looks no different from other flowers. When she opened up warmly, no one knew what kind of color it was.

Unfortunately, she planted it in the yard of the Shen family, and I don't know if she has a chance to open it for herself in this life.

With a hook in the corner of his mouth and eyes as affectionate as water, he walked along the wall to the door of the Xue family. That door is made of wood leaf, which is not so tight. From the gap, you can see the shape of the yard. At a glance, he saw that under the night, in the yard, the young woman in cloth clothes was as gorgeous as peaches and plums, sitting on the swing and smiling gracefully.

Under the Milky way, her smile is softer than the spring breeze, and her eyes are like stars, especially bright. She seemed to notice someone's eyes, and turned to the door, with a smile on her face that hadn't been put away. The picture of that moment was beautiful enough for her memory to stay here for a lifetime.

Xue Fangfei stopped the swing suspiciously. Haitang asked, "girl, what's the matter?"

She shook her head, walked to the door, thought for a while, pushed the door open, and saw that there was nothing empty outside, only the gentle wind blew on her face, like the greetings of an old friend. She walked out of the door and looked at the end of the alley. It seemed that she could see a red streamer, like a spirit figure, and nothing disappeared.

Only faint fragrance.

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In the windy and snowy night, I had a beautiful dream about spring night. There was a intoxicating spring breeze in her dream. Jiang Li saw herself when she was still "Mrs. Shen". She was left in the house by Shen's mother and Shen Ruyun during the Spring Festival. She saw the beautiful man in red walk to the other end of the yard, with a smile on her mouth, and listened to her sing a song "Suolin bag".

In the dream, there was still a babbling sound, but the sound gradually drifted far away. But she was very strange. Her memory stayed in the scene when someone passed by the door and looked at her from afar through the crack of the wood leaf. Her smile didn't close, and the other party's eyes were smiling. At a glance, there were thousands of years apart.

Until Jiang Li woke up from her dream.

Wen Ji and Zhao Ke have arrived and are guarding outside the cave. When Jiang Li got up, Ji Heng was walking in from the outside. He handed the kettle to Jiang Li and said with a smile, "wake up?"

Jiang Li looked at his face. For a moment, she couldn't say whether it was strange or familiar. She stared at him in a daze.

"What's the matter?" He said with a puzzled smile.

"Ji Heng..." Jiang Li hesitated and asked, "three years ago, on the night of Spring Festival, did you walk past the door of the Shen family?"

The scene in the dream is so clear that everything seems to have happened. The time interval is too long, and she doesn't know whether it's true or false. But she still remembers what happened last night. She also sang "Suolin bag" sung by Ji Heng.

Ji Xuan raised her eyebrows and sat down on the ground in front of her. He said, "it seems that you remember."

"You... I..." Jiang Li couldn't speak.

She once thought that the entanglement between her and Ji Heng in her previous life was just a sentence "beauty is beauty, there is no soul". Although she thought Ji Heng was right, it was not a friendship in the end. But I didn't know that night, the night Ji Minghan died, he once sat outside his own wall, listening to himself sing a song "lock Lin bag".

Is this the entanglement of fate? Jiang Li didn't understand, but if she was allowed to go back to that night now, she wouldn't let Ji Hong go, at least talk to Ji Hong again. In his most desperate time.

"I'll teach you to sing opera later," he touched Jiang Li's head and said, "you don't sing in tune."

Jiang Li: "..." she suddenly remembered something more important, then looked at Ji Heng and asked eagerly, "how's the injury on your body?"

Yesterday, Ji Heng was badly injured. Today, he can be so refreshed and joke with Jiang Li, but Jiang Li's heart is still very worried and suspects that Ji Heng is pretending.

"It's all right. Situ's medicine works well." Ji Heng said, "don't worry about this kind of minor injury."

"But you are badly hurt."

"Not heavy." Ji Xuan said, "are you injured?"

Jiang Li shook her head. She still wanted to see Ji Heng's injury, but Ji Heng avoided it. Zhao Ke came over and said that Ji Heng was okay, and Jiang Li asked what happened between Yin Zhan and Ji Heng. She only knew that Yin Zhan was dead.

Ji Xuan looked at her and smiled slightly, "do you really want to know?"

Jiang Li nodded.

Having reached this point, it seems that there is no point in concealing it any longer. Ji Heng said, "OK, I'll tell you."

Jiang Li listened for a long time.

Ji Heng told her everything, from the entanglement between Yu Hongye, Ji Minghan and Yin Zhan, Lin jou Chia, to what Yin Zhan had done for Lin jou Chia for so many years. Even earlier, Ji Heng began to investigate the truth when he was a child, retrained Feilong riding, and ordered Jin Wujun. The worst thing about the battle of Red Mansions was to die with Yin Zhan, but in the end, general Ji gave his life.

Jiang Li could hear the low voice in Ji Chen's words. Although he didn't care, his heart was in pain for the death of old general Ji. He talked about the past in a flat tone, but Jiang Li imagined the bitterness he grew up from a young boy in those years. When the noble children of other families worked hard for a bright future, he threw himself into hell. He gave up his future and gambled with an unknown outcome.

He is never sincere, because he is such a person, sincerity is sin.

The more people are in darkness, the more they yearn for light in their hearts. The more lonely he is, the more he wants to wear bright clothes and listen to lively plays. Walking through the prosperity, as if it could not be discarded. But in fact, his relatives left one by one, and in the end, he was alone.

He looked at Jiang Li with a smile and said in a warm voice, "now I have nothing, little girl, do you want to go back?"

Jiang Li looked at him.

His eyes were gentle, but Jiang Li felt very sad. These days, after a series of calculations, Yin Zhan's affair was over, but there was another Yin Zhili. And those Yin family soldiers in Qingzhou, how to fight this war, Ji Heng will also be tired.

She said, "who said you had nothing?" Before Ji Heng could answer, she continued, "isn't there still me?"

He chuckled and said, "you are... Exactly the same as in the past."

Many years ago, when he heard her sing a play, he knew that she was a stupid woman. Once you fall in love with someone, you must be desperate, like a moth. She clearly missed one time, but she still dared to fall in love with someone again and bravely delivered her heart.

Her sincerity is simple and casual, but he can't extricate himself. He is deeply involved in it and is willing to give everything to himself. So he also changed from a smart hunter to a gentle beast, willing to be tamed by her.

"I didn't expect it before." Ji Heng said, "I only let people protect the yuan mansion, but I didn't expect Yin Zhan to threaten the Ye family. I've asked Kong Liu to take people to the Ye family, and such a thing will not happen in the future."

Jiang Li said, "it has nothing to do with you, but Yin Zhan is too mean."

Unexpectedly, he can think of using such a method. At least he is also a general. Even though the war is not averse to fraud, he should not use such a method that is not aboveboard or even downright.

"I'll send you back to Beijing as soon as possible. After returning to Beijing, I'll let the men of Kong Liupai always follow you to protect your safety. Try not to leave. The people of the Ye family live in the state government." Ji Heng said, "it's safer in the government house than outside."

Jiang Li smelled the words, detected something wrong, looked at him, and asked, "won't you go back with me?"

"Yin Zhili set up troops in Qingzhou, and there were many Yan soldiers. Yan Zhan planned for many years and intended to rebel. I promised the emperor that I would take Jin Wu's army to quell the rebellion, and I couldn't go." Ji Heng laughed.

"You... You haven't been on the battlefield." Jiang Li said eagerly.

He smiled, "you don't believe me, Ali." He said, "there is no choice for many things. I can't be at ease until I kill Yin Zhili myself. I don't know how long this battle will last. When I come back, I'll marry you."

"Ji Hong..."

"You can't marry someone else." He pulled Jiang Li to himself and pecked her gently on the lip.

"Have you really decided?" Jiang Li was very sad. She didn't want to separate from Ji Heng, and she knew that Ji Heng's going was really dangerous. But she also knew that Ji had made up her mind to go. If it were her, she was Ji Heng, and she would also personally understand the grievances that have lasted for two generations. She has no reason to influence Ji Heng's decision. She likes a person and doesn't want to imprison him. She respects his choice.

"Will you forgive me if I leave you?" He said with a smile.

Jiang Li smiled and said, "if you promise me, you will come back and marry me, and I will forgive you."

Her eyes were bright, honest and clean, and Ji Xuan was slightly stunned, feeling satisfied and grateful from the bottom of her heart. She easily smoothed all her violence and darkness, making him calm.

He solemnly replied, "I promise you."