Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty-Six

The weather is hot, so I put my hair in a bun.I didn't cut off my hair, and I was ordered to become a monk and lead my hair to practice.However, during his life in a Buddhist temple, he didn't deliberately dress up. He just washed his face with water every day and kept his face in the sky.If it wasn't for the hottest day, the hair would be scattered freely, just hanging down at will, and not trimmed, so the hair would grow and grow longer. After a long time, I unconsciously smiled to Jinxi: "In the past, when I got up every day, I spent the most time on dressing up. There were so many gold and hairpins on my head, I just felt that my head was so big and heavy every day."

Huanbi also laughed, "In the past, the golden thread on the lady's clothes weighed a few kilograms, and I'm afraid it would crush the bones. No wonder the ladies in the palace walked slowly. I can't walk fast." I thought about it and laughed, and said: "We are more free now." Huanbi smiled and sprinkled water for Xiyan in front of the door. Her posture was light and gentle, and she said softly: "In the palace, you must follow the rules of the palace, and in the Ganlu Temple, you must follow the rules of Buddhism. When you get here, you don’t have to follow any rules, and you don’t have to think about anything.”

My gaze was restrained by Xi Yan, and my tone softened unconsciously, and I said leisurely: "Walk to the poor water, and sit and watch the clouds rise. Now it's like this, it's really the days of the wild cranes." As a result, the few floating lives are so quiet, and only Wen Shichu and Xuan Qing are the ones who come and go frequently.It's just that when Wen Shichu and Xuan Qing meet each other, they often diverge, so they don't see each other very often.Xuanqing would come every three to five days, chatting with me about the past and the present, or playing chess and poetry, looking for some refined pleasures, or delivering a word or two of news about Meizhuang or Obscure Moon.Such a sentence or two, just such a few words, will not stir up my sadness, but it will also soothe the worries and concerns in my heart.

Xuanqing also apologized to me, sorry that he can only come back every three to five days, but he can't always be by my side.So I asked Ah Jin to tame a pigeon for me, and said with a smile: "In this way, we can fly pigeons to pass letters and communicate with each other. Even if we can't meet each other, we can still talk." I deliberately teased him: "I don't want it. I haven't passed the letter a few times before flying the pigeon, and I first attracted the civet cat. I can't stand the scare anymore." Xuan Qing pinched my nose with a smile, and said: "Do you think the pigeon is so stupid that it will stay in the cage and wait for the civet cat to eat? It usually flies and looks for food by itself. You want to find it to send letters, and make a pigeon Just whistle."

Sometimes I also wonder why he can grasp my thoughts so clearly and appropriately, and always dissolve the freezing in my heart little by little. When I asked him, he always gave me a smile as clear as a cloud, but he just kept silent. So, I don't ask any more.I just secretly enjoy his caring and the peace brought by such caring. In the afternoon of this day, he and I played chess by the west window, the heat outside was rising, and there was a loud noise, like heavy rain, a little vague noise.Ah Jin was dozing off under the shade of a tree, his head was buckled up and down, shaking from side to side.

Jinxi brought mung bean soup, and I said softly, "Drinking this is the best way to relieve the heat. The sun is so bright at noon just now, and you still galloped over. It's crazy." Take two sips slowly. Xuan Qing raised his head and drank it in one gulp, looked at the bamboo shadows outside the house and said: "You are a good place to enjoy the cool air, so I came here specially to find a bowl of good soup to relieve the heat." He turned back and said to Jinxi: " Jinxi, your mung bean soup is getting better and better." I smiled and said, "Jinxi, just because of his sweet mouth, you can reward him with another bowl."

Jinxi smiled gently, brought in another bowl, and said, "Your lord wants to drink as much as you want." It just so happened that Huanbi stopped the needle and thread in her hands, and smiled gracefully, showing some of her white teeth, "It's so hot outside, the prince will be sweating all over the place whether he returns to the palace or the balcony later, why don't we have dinner here. " Xuan Qing smiled and squinted at me, "I don't know what the master wants to do with this little servant girl?" I fluttered a white silk fan and said with a smile: "Huanbi has already opened his mouth to keep you, so I have the nerve to drive you away, as long as you don't think our vegetarian dishes are lacking."

Xuan Qing said: "It doesn't matter what you eat, just do as you like." I brushed off my clothes and stood up, said with a smile: "In that case, today I will cook myself and make a bowl of soup for the prince." At sunset, a square table was placed under the melon shelf in the courtyard. I brought up a bowl of rice and a bowl of clear soup, and said, "Your Majesty, please have a taste. This soup will not be lost if you eat it with white rice." smell." The color of the soup is a little bit green, accompanied by the white porcelain bowl, the color is refreshing, and the bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms lie quietly at the bottom of the bowl.Xuan Qing said with a smile: "Looking at it makes people move their index fingers." He took a sip, closed his eyes and savored carefully, "It smells like lotus leaves, pine nuts, and mushrooms, as if there are bamboo shoots." His eyebrows raised slightly, "There is still a little fragrance, which is very special, and I can't taste it."

I smiled and said, "It's something from my Qingliangtai, but I don't know it. It's the snow water harvested from green plums when I was recuperating in your Qingliangtai last year. The smell of green plums is not like ordinary plum blossoms. The air becomes more and more refined, so the young lotus leaves and pine nuts are used to make the soup." He tilted his head and smiled, "There are snow water on plum blossoms, lotus leaves, pine nuts, mushrooms and bamboo shoots. They are all natural and clean things. No wonder the taste is so fresh." I smiled slightly, "If it's a vulgar thing, would you dare to bring it for you to taste?"

Xuan Qing said: "Such a beautiful thing, what's the name?" My tone was light and bland, "Plum blossoms, pine nuts, shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots are all from the mountains, and lotus flowers are found in the water. These things are combined into a bowl. There are mountains and water, and they are all fresh in style." He let out an "oh" and said somewhat speculatively, "But it's called 'Shan Guang Shui Se'?" I snapped my fingers and said: "The mountains and rivers are just the last details, what is valuable is the character of the few things, all of which are extremely upright and strong." I smiled bluntly: "It is called the long-lasting freshness."

He clapped his palms, "Your brain is tricky and weird, even I can't help myself." I raised my eyebrows, "It's just that you have nothing to do to pay attention to your diet. Is this considered tricky and weird?" He was in high spirits, "The fresh air lasts forever, as if it looks like my name." I patted my fan, covered my lips with a smile and said, "What an unreasonable person. When I make a bowl of soup, I pretend to have the same name as myself. Is it embarrassing?" There was a slight blush at the corner of Xuan Qing's eyes, "If you deny it, I will only take it as the truth." The evening wind in the hot summer has a bit of stuffy water vapor, but when it hits my face, it is moist and cool.The setting sun is drunk, and the sunset faces in the courtyard are like delicate and pure white butterflies. They have a subtle and gentle shape, and slowly reveal a fragrance that makes people forget their worries. I was slightly startled, and said softly: "Why are you Will you understand my heart like this?" Holding up his chopsticks, he was almost taken aback for a moment when he heard what I said, revealing a child-like glow of joy.Xuan Qing laughed, "Just because of the name, I really shouldn't let it down, I'm going to drink it all up." Seeing him raising the spoon to drink again, I stopped him with a smile and said, "If you really only drink this with rice, you wouldn't be a fool." I brought another plate of Yunpian ham and almond tofu, and said : "This soup should be served with ham, and the tofu will make your stomach worse if you eat it in summer." A touch of joy flashed in his eyes, like a light red floating cloud on the top of a mountain, and he said: "Since I met you, this is the first time I see you cooking for me, and you spend so much time to serve my dishes, I am really touched." I glanced at him, "Eat as you please, there are still so many words. Do you plan to come to eat often in the future?" He just laughed and said nothing, only ate two bowls of rice, and ate all the dishes like a storm. I saw him eating deliciously, and for some reason, my heart was very happy.Probably because of cooking by myself, some people like to eat, and they are always happy like this. There is a sweet fragrance, the aroma of roses mixed with the intoxicating smell of fermented wine.Even I was attracted, so I couldn't help turning my head to look, but I saw Huanbi Yingying striding over, smiling all over his face and saying: "I just cooked a bowl of rose wine, it's best eaten as a snack, my lord, please try it." But it was a bowl of snow-white fermented fermented rice, sprinkled with a lot of rose petals, it was bright red and lovely. I smiled and said, "It smells good. Huanbi's cooking skills are pretty good." Xuan Qing was a little bit embarrassed, and said with a smile: "I'm really full today. And the wine is sweet and greasy, I really can't eat it." Huanbi looked at the empty plates on the table, feeling a little disappointed, and said, "Then, how about just one bite?" She stood in front of her with a graceful figure, and the rose wine in her hand was fragrant, and she wanted to get drunk, it was really hard to refuse.Xuan Qing smiled and said: "Huanbi's craftsmanship is good at first glance. It's just that I really can't eat it today, why not another day." Huanbi was a little frustrated, and also a little bit forward and backward, so she just whispered: "That's good." I saw him embarrassed, and I knew in my heart that he didn't like to eat such sweet things, but there was no need to embarrass Huanbi because of this.I thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "Didn't you just say that you are going to Anqi to visit the concubine? If you go late, the concubine will be worried, so hurry up and go while it's still early." I hurriedly sent him off. Walking, unaware that Huanbi behind her looked lonely. He understood, "Then, I'll come back in two days." Because I come and go often, I didn't see him off. Seeing him go, I saw Huanbi just packing up the things on the table silently. I gently explained to Huanbi, "It's just a bowl of rose wine. You bothered to make it. , President Qing always has time to eat. Why bother to be so dejected." Huanbi lowered her head and wiped the table vigorously, and said in a low voice: "My lord won't eat it again." She paused, her eyes flickering like river waves, "When my lord just shirked the excuse, he didn't even glance at the bowl of rose wine. He doesn't like to eat." I smiled and sighed: "Huanbi, in fact, you see people very carefully." "Really?" The afterglow of the setting sun fell on her side face, covering a layer of light red halo, but it was incompatible with her expression at the moment, Huanbi said softly: "I thought the prince likes to drink in his spare time. That's why I made a bowl of rose wine, and I didn't expect to use the wrong idea." She stretched out her hand and poured the wine into the slop bucket, her face was calm, and she didn't regret it at all. I was stunned, "Since you don't want to eat it, you can leave it alone, why throw it away." Huanbi seemed to be fine, and smiled slightly: "I made it for him. He won't eat it, so I'll just throw it away, and I don't plan to give it to others. If Miss and Jinxi like it, I'll make a new one." that is." I silently sighed in my heart, Huanbi's temperament gradually became a little weird. I looked at her slender back, and my mood was like the sky, which was gradually stained with night. Huanbi was still quiet and silent, but the way she looked at me gradually became rainy.However, if she didn't tell me, I wouldn't take the initiative to ask, I just pretended not to know. Finally, one day, when I was carrying a pot to water Xiyan, Huanbi stood beside me and said leisurely: "Miss has always been very smart, why would you ask the prince to be so simple..." She hesitated for a moment, "Or is it Stupid question." Huanbi has always been cautious in speaking, and it is rare to speak to me so sharply. So I turned around, with doubts like floating clouds in my eyes. Huanbi was not afraid, and she did not lower her head like she always did. She only looked at me with her gradually deepening eyes, and said softly: "Why does the prince understand Miss's mind so much? Miss really doesn't know?" do you know?I carefully examined my heart, recalling Huanbi's question. "Because the prince puts all his thoughts on the young lady's joys, sorrows, joys and sorrows, so how can he not know everything about your thoughts?" yes.I also felt that I and Xuanqing had a heart-to-heart connection. If I didn't have a heart, I didn't put my heart on each other, and I would have a little bit of the same heart-to-heart connection. A little consonance.It turns out that I also know all about his thoughts.It's just how many times, I just prefer to pretend that I don't know, and I prefer to be confused. Huanbi's eyes didn't move away from me, and there was a hint of staring at me, Qing Lingling said: "Miss, you actually know it, right? Why do you still ask such a question?" My gaze only stayed on the Xiyan that had just sprouted like a bud, and I couldn't look away for a long time.Such pure white star and star buds, like starlight, gradually illuminate my heart that has been dim and dim. His vague feelings, at the earliest, the earliest time, in fact, at the night of Xiyan in Tonghua Terrace, I can vaguely understand it. To this day, I still ask him: "Why do you understand my heart so well?" I already knew the answer, but I just didn't want to solve it myself.Or, deep down in my heart, I hope he will tell me himself, tell me himself—for you. It seems that only in this way can I deeply and truly believe that he loves me so much, even though my identity is so embarrassing. I don't know on which day, in the deepest part of my heart, the evening beauty of that night has already surpassed countless exotic flowers and weeds in this world. As early as when I didn't know it, when I faced his feelings with an attitude of secret resistance, this sunset face, which can't bloom in the sun and is called "the flower of unlucky life" by the world, sprouted in my heart , the ground is as fresh as snow. It turns out that it has long been the innocent moonlight in my heart, and the bright moon is like frost. I just smiled slightly, "Huanbi, you are more and more fond of distinguishing people's thoughts." Looking back, the faint fragrance of the evening face brushed my cheeks, and a flower bloomed on my lips. Huanbi's words came out after I smiled for a long time, "Miss used to quote when she rejected the prince", she chanted line by line: "Little daughter of Biyu, I dare not climb Guide. Thank you for your kindness, I'm ashamed of my beauty." I looked up at her: "how?" Huanbi is smiling, but her smile is so alienated, as thin as a condensate on the flowers of the sunset, "Did you ever think of the next song of "Jasper's Song" when she refused, only two sentences, but the meaning is different." It's all different." I thought for a while, and slowly said: "Little Biyu's daughter, she dare not climb Guide. Ganlang is very energetic, so he married Jinlan. Huanbi, do you want to say this?" Huanbi nodded slightly, her light green dress was slowly lifted by the wind, as if melting into the branches and leaves of a sunset, "Miss, did you ever think of it at that time?" I thought about it carefully, maybe it was just a coincidence, so I solemnly shook my head and said: "No."So there was a gentle tone in this solemn answer. "Gan Lang is very energetic, so he got to marry Jinlan." Huanbi smiled slightly, twirling his fingers around the green belt, and said in a weak voice, "Miss, I thought that you and the prince would come to this point." I was surprised by her abrupt words today, and I couldn't help thinking, and asked: "Huanbi, what exactly are you trying to say?" Huanbi's faint smile opened in the wind like a delicate sunset face trembling slightly against the wind, "The servant always thinks that although the young lady rejected the prince that day, in the bottom of her heart, maybe it was like this." Jin Lan's hesitation. Could it be that the young lady really didn't care for the prince when she rejected him?" I can't tell, maybe there is, but how much I hesitated at that time. And Huanbi, when did she become so sensitive and delicate. Huanbi seemed to understand my doubts, and said shallowly: "I think it's good to know more things. The more I listen to the poems and books with the young lady, the more I understand, and the more I understand people and things." She was gentle With a smile, "Huanbi can understand so much, thanks to Miss, who is often willing to tell me some poems and books, so that I am not blindly ignorant." She said it easily, passing the words lightly.After finishing speaking, she turned around and left. Her figure was so light and airy, but her steps were faintly heavy, which was so inconsistent with her smile and figure. I looked at her figure, and the shadow of doubt in my heart gradually became thicker. And when I lightly revealed my doubts to Jinxi, Jinxi just said: "Don't ask Huanbi, and don't reveal the slightest bit of meaning, just be a fool." Seeing that I was puzzled, Jinxi said bluntly: "We all see the affection between the lady and the prince, and the maidservant only asks, does the lady have the intention to imitate E Huang Nvying?" Without thinking about it, I said, "No. Even if I have such thoughts, Qing will absolutely refuse." "That's it. Huanbi has served the lady for many years, and she is clear about the lady's thoughts. The servant girl sees her paying attention to Prince Qing, so she is absolutely clear about the prince's thoughts. Since she knows everything, she won't say it Ladies, don't ask. Unless you want to embarrass each other or find a way to send Huanbi away." I was in a hurry, "Huanbi has an unusual relationship with me. She is the only one by my side, and she can only rely on me. How can I be willing to embarrass her or tell her to go away." Jinxi breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "That's it. The servant girl looked at it coldly. Miss Huanbi is a sensible person. She knows the matter between the prince and the lady very well, so she will definitely not open her mouth. Miss Bi's appearance in the past two days, only It can be said that the little temper of the girl's family committed a crime. If the lady cares too much, it will be difficult for herself." Jinxi's words were like enlightenment, and I was instantly clear-headed, "Then according to what you mean, I just pretend I don't know anything." "Yes, so we can get along with each other."Jinxi respectfully said: "The prince is not a fool. He may not really know anything about Miss Bi's thoughts. Just looking at the prince's appearance, he just pretends not to know, so why should the lady tear off the window paper?" If the day comes to tell the truth, the prince will naturally say that the lady does not need to be involved." My heart is as clear as a mirror, and I smiled clearly: "Jinxi, you always see things clearly, so I can rest assured." Jinxi lowered her head and laughed, "In this matter, the lady, Miss Bi, and the prince are all in charge, and only the servants and maidservants are the ones who can figure it out. Besides, the three of them are smart people, so let's just treat it as a rare case of confusion." Here, I will be at ease, just as if I don't know anything.My calmness also made Huanbi calm down. -------------------------------------------------- --- Notes: