CH 57.2

Although Wei Yunzhao, the right assistant, didn't have to go to the court, he still had a lot of things to do every day. He often went out in the morning and came back in the late afternoon.

Wei Yunzhao was busy outside, and Jiang Lin was not idle at home. He stayed in the study everyday thinking about his new script. In order to make the script achieve the effect he expected, Jiang Lin must be diligent or attentive.

It took almost ten days to write this script.

When Jiang Lin came out of the study while stretching his waist, he found that the sky had already darkened, and there was still snow falling. This was the first snow this winter.

He was about to reach out and feel the snow that had never been polluted in ancient times when he saw Xun Qi who was pushing Wei Yunzhao back.

The second prince died, so Xun Qi and Chang An didn't have to hide outside anymore, they were called back by Wei Yunzhao. Chang An still followed Jiang Lin and was responsible for running errands for him, and Xun Qi was in charge of protecting Wei Yunzhao and pushing his wheelchair.

Xun Qi had good eyesight, as soon as he saw Jiang Lin standing under the eaves, he left Wei Yunzhao and disappeared, anyway, the young madam would come to pick up the young master.

Jiang Lin quickly walked up to Wei Yunzhao, "It's snowing."

Wei Yunzhao held Jiang Lin's hand naturally, "Then I'll accompany my wife to enjoy the snow."

It was getting dark, and it was hard to see clearly when the snow fell. Jiang Lin really didn't think there was anything to appreciate about the snow.

He pushed Wei Yunzhao under the eaves with one hand, "Come to enjoy it after the snow has accumulated, and then we will have hot pot in the snow."

The pot had been made a long time ago, but they had been busy recently, so they hadn’t have time to eat together yet.

"Okay," Wei Yunzhao squeezed Jiang Lin's palm, "Have you finished writing the script?"

Jiang Lin took advantage of the opportunity to push him to the study room, and showed him his script, "Look carefully, and tell me what you think after reading it."

This time, there were two heroines, the first married for love and the other married for power, fame and profit. The one for love, they lived together until the white hairs of old age, lifelong love. While the other looked at the poor plum blossom outside the window, and dead in the winter.

The woman married for love was named Ying'er. She grew up with a young scholar from the same village. They were childhood sweetheart. Ying'er married the young scholar when he failed the examination and his parents died of illness. Ying'er said she was willing to accompany him to get through bitterness. The scholar said that he would love Ying’er all his life, let Ying’er enjoy the glory and wealth and become the happiest woman in the world.

Under Ying'er's care and company, the young scholar studied hard, and then went to pass the examination step by step and became the number one scholar. 

The number one scholar was captured by others, the officials in the court wanted him to be their son-in-law, and even the princess who sneaked out of the palace fell in love with him at first sight. But the number one scholar said that he already had a wife.

The number one scholar became the official who climbed higher and higher, and some people began to curry favor with him, they began to give him concubines, the maids began to crawl on his bed, and his colleagues invited him to visit brothels together. 

The number one scholar rejected his colleagues and stopped communicating with them. He stripped off the concubines and the maid who climbed the bed and tied them outside the door. He told everyone that he already had a wife and he would only have one wife in his life.

But Liu Rumei was forced to marry someone else because of that person’s power and fame. The life after marriage was not happy either. At first the man would say that he loved her, but gradually there was only torture left.

There were more and more people (concubine) in the house every year. She managed the family property for him and took care of food and everything in the house, but she couldn't get a good word from him. He indulged his concubine to climb on her head, he favored the concubine and stayed away from the wife, and often told her to go back to her mother's house.

[宠妾灭妻 chǒng qiè miè qī: favor the concubine and stay away from the wife (idiom); spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife]

She became sick, the concubine hoped that she would die early so that she could take over the throne, and the man was thinking about what kind of concubine he would marry.

Before the winter plums bloomed that year, Liu Rumei met Ying'er, and she knew that life could still be like this. It turned out that when a man liked a woman, he would always thought about her.

She also met the man who grew up with her, and he said that he had been waiting for her.

Then she died on the day when the plum blossoms bloomed. She thought in her heart that not every woman could marry the person she liked, but a man who took a concubine must not be a good thing!