Chapter 6 Strong spring boudoir love
I don't know if it was because of Qian Sun'ai's accidental request for a meeting, or because of other reasons, Liu Rushi finally changed his mind at the last moment, and did not ask Hongqing to return the poem to Qian Qianyi.Although her anger has not subsided, she is no longer as angry as before.She stood in front of the big copper brazier, staring intently at the crackling red coals for a long time.When she turned her face again, the expression became relaxed and confident again.
She sat down in front of the dressing table and let Hongqing continue to do her makeup.Now, she seems to have completely forgotten what happened just now, and she looks very happy. She kept telling jokes with Hong Qing, and taught her to read two poems.At the end, she casually picked up the piece of poetry paper just now, played with it, and then smiled slightly: "I was so busy teaching you to read the poems that I almost forgot these two poems by the master. This is when I was in Gusu for medical treatment. I wrote it and sent it to me. Now I have changed a few words, and sent it to me. However, in this first song, the ending sentence was changed to "waiting for Junjia's sentence to be released", which is to ask me to reward him I was going to start writing, but I was sick these days, so I thought about a few words and put it down again. Now that I am a little bit excited, I can’t help but pay off this debt. Well, I don’t need you here, just get me some paper and ink. "
After saying that, Liu Rushi took the comb from Hong Qing's hand, and made up herself in front of the mirror.According to the "elegant dress" style that was popular at the time, she combed her hair straight up like a man's, and tied it into a ponytail, hanging behind it, with a pair of golden jade plum blossoms inserted on both sides, and gold strands and lantern hairpins in front Then use two pairs of passionflower hairpins and insert them on both sides.Because of the thick hair, I took two big rhino jade hairpins and put them across the strands of hair, and used a lotus flower in the back.After putting on the makeup, she thought about it in the mirror, and inserted another palm-sized emerald on her temples, and finally, she picked out a string of beads inlaid with gold, jade, and lilac earrings to wear.After looking at it in the mirror two or three times, she finally felt satisfied, and stood up gracefully.
Taking advantage of this moment, Hongqing has already arranged rice paper and lake brushes on the long table, and then used the ancient Duanzhou Laokeng inkstone with seven stork eyes on the other side to sharpen the inkstone.Liu Rushi went straight over, picked up a Jilang Xiaokai writing brush, and fiddled with it on the inkstone for a while, then carefully brushed off a little dust that fell on the brocade paper, pondered for a while, and wrote the title of the poem first——
She tilted her head, looked at her slender and strong calligraphy, felt satisfied, and was planning to write a seven-character verse that had already been drafted.Suddenly, she felt that there was a word in the sentence that was not stable enough, so she stopped writing and meditated again.
She thought it would not be difficult to change a word, but after thinking about seven or eight words in a row, she still felt that it was inappropriate, so she became a little anxious.While thinking about it, she heard someone laughing "Hey--", she turned her head and stared angrily, and suddenly found that it was Mr. Qian Qianyi standing behind, secretly watching her write poems!
Qian Qianyi stroked his gray beard, smiled hehe, and urged: "Hey, write, write, I'm waiting to read it here!"
"You peek at people, you're bad, I'm not!" Liu Rushi put down her pen, pouted her lips like a little girl, and twisted her body.
"Ah, ah, madam is angry, this is serious!" Qian Qianyi said pretending to be panicked, "Hey, let me apologize to madam, okay?" He said with a smile, really Go down.
"No!" Liu Rushi puffed her cheeks.
"Then - just add another salute." Qian Qianyi said, and made another bow.
"no!"
"Haha, is it possible that Madam is going to pay three respects to her husband? That's okay—"
"No, I will - punish you!" Liu Rushi deliberately sullenly.
"Punish me? Hehe, okay, okay, I should have been punished for interrupting Madam's poetic thoughts! I just don't know how Madam will punish me?" Qian Qianyi salivated and walked over.
"Hmph, I want, I want—by the way, I want to pluck one of your beards!"
Qian Qianyi was startled suddenly, and hurriedly backed away.He protected his beard with his sleeve, and stammered: "This, this can't be allowed! Please Madam, please come up with another topic, another topic!"
But Liu Rushi couldn't help saying, she rushed up smartly, held Qian Qianyi down, and quickly stretched out her hand, when Qian Qianyi wanted to dodge again, a long white beard had already been pulled out.
Liu Rushi used two slender fingers to hold her trophy aloft, and jumped away, dancing happily, laughing loudly.
Qian Qianyi blinked in embarrassment, then retreated helplessly to a chair against the wall and sat down.At this time, Hongqing had already retreated knowingly.Qian Qianyi waited until Liu Rushi had had enough trouble and was tired of laughing, and then greeted him, "If so, sit down, I have something to tell you."
Liu Rushi closed her eyes, and fell down in a chair next to her with an "Ai".After the trouble just now, she was already a little out of breath, her chest heaved and fell, two delicate blushes rose on her slightly pale cheeks, and the pink light flowed on her slightly closed eyelids, making her look even more pretty and charming.Qian Qianyi stared at her blankly and forgot to speak for a while.
"Hey, tell me quickly!" Liu Rushi urged.
"Ah," Qian Qianyi gathered himself together, glanced at Liu Rushi again, and for some reason, sighed softly, and said, "If so, you should be happy again. I just told Sun Ai that the old San moved out of Banye Hall and let her live in the old house in the east of the city. From now on, no one here will mess with you again."
Liu Rushi's eyebrows twitched, she opened her eyes and said, "Ah, so your husband has made up his mind?"
Qian Qianyi's face became a little gloomy.He nodded silently.
"Well, you told Sun Ai, how is he?"
Qian Qianyi said coldly: "What else can he do? Don't say he is still a child, even if he is a few years older, he still dares to disobey his father's order!" He paused, and added: "At first, naturally No, the third child is his biological mother after all. However, after some enlightenment from me later, he can understand the difficulties of being a father."
Liu Rushi shook her head lightly, as if she was thinking about something.She turned around suddenly: "What if—what if I change my mind?"
"Well, what did you say?" Qian Qianyi didn't seem to hear clearly, he turned his right ear to the side.
"I said, if I change my mind!" Liu Rushi raised her voice.
Qian Qianyi stared at Liu Rushi with flickering eyes.He suddenly laughed loudly, shook his head and said, "Forget it, madam is here to play tricks on me again! Just now, I have experienced your elegant punishment, and now, my cheeks are still sore!"
"No," Liu Rushi said seriously, "I've thought it over and over just now, and decided to spare that shrew for the time being and let her stay in the mansion for a few more days." She stood up and walked a few steps in the room, " Mr. Xiang has been planning to use it for a while, and I don’t want to cause controversy from the outside world at this juncture, and delay Mr. Xiang’s future.”
Qian Qianyi stopped laughing.These few words of Liu Rushi hit the hidden worry in his heart.He was originally a man of great fame and career, and in his early years he was full of great ambitions to clarify things, but because of his bumpy career and repeated setbacks, he became depressed and decadent. The nickname of "Donglin Prodigal Son".In recent years, because of his old age, he no longer has the energy to go to the Fengyue Field to roll and conquer as he did back then.For him, the most ideal is to have a young, beautiful, and somewhat knowledgeable woman who will accompany him and serve him all day long, so that he can enjoy the "unrivaled beauty" in his later years comfortably.Therefore, a year ago, when Liu Rushi disguised herself as a man, wore a square scarf and Confucian clothing, and visited the Banye Hall in person, expressing her intention to commit herself to marrying each other, Qian Qianyi's surprise and ecstasy were indescribable.What's more, Liu Rushi's appearance, intelligence, and demeanor are beyond the reach of ordinary women.In order to repay Liu Rushi's affection, Qian Qianyi decided to ignore his original wife, Mrs. Chen, and openly held a formal wedding ceremony with Liu Rushi; he also ordered his family members to address Liu Rushi as "Mrs." "Auntie"; as for himself, he called Liu Rushi "Hedong Lord".This deviant behavior caused a big uproar among the gentry in Shengze and Changshu.As a result, in June last year, when Qian Qianyi took Liu Rushi back to Banye Hall in a colorful boat with great fanfare, he was besieged and ridiculed by defenders of the two places, and even drove the colorful boat to throw bricks and tiles. Make a mess.Although Qian Qianyi didn't care about it and continued to compose his "Reminder for Makeup" happily, but in the past six months, the outside public opinion has been quite unfavorable to him, saying that he "blasphemed the famous artifacts of the court and hurt the dignity of scholar-bureaucrats".If the expulsion of the Zhu family once again aroused public anger among the gentry, and a commotion spread to the emperor's ears, then the chance of a comeback that he had waited so hard for for thirteen years might turn into a Bubbles.After that, maybe there may not be such an opportunity again.Qian Qianyi had not considered this situation beforehand.However, the beautiful woman in front of him had become so important and indispensable in his life, he couldn't bear it, and he didn't dare to go against her wishes.What's more, he was full of doubts and fears about the condition proposed by Zhou Yanru, and he was not sure.Therefore, after hesitating again and again, Qian Qianyi decided to drive Aunt Zhu out of the house.However, when he did this, he still couldn't feel ashamed in his heart, because after all, Aunt Zhu was the biological mother of his only son.Just now, with such a distressed mood, he told Liu Rushi the news.Now, Qian Qianyi couldn't help being deeply moved when he suddenly heard Liu Rushi say such a thoughtful and thoughtful sentence.He was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "You—come here."
Liu Rushi walked up to him inexplicably.Qian Qianyi stretched out a pair of wrinkled big hands with age spots, held Liu Rushi's delicate and warm little hands, and said in a deep voice: "I'm very happy! Qian Qianyi got a confidant like you, no wonder This life is in vain!"
Liu Rushi's heart moved, and then he suddenly understood Qian Qianyi's thoughts.She smiled reluctantly, but the circles of her eyes turned red. After a while, she said slowly: "As long as my husband always remembers today's words, even if I die tomorrow, I am willing!"
Qian Qianyi nodded and sighed: "Don't say that. I know that I am already old, but you still have a long life ahead. But don't worry, I will make proper arrangements for you." , will never let you be wronged for the rest of your life!"
Liu Rushi stared wide-eyed, staring blankly at Qian Qianyi, and suddenly threw herself into his arms with a "wow", and began to cry.Qian Qianyi also felt sympathetic.He murmured to comfort her, but Liu Rushi cried even more sadly.In fact, she is a very unfortunate woman. Years of debauchery and brothel prostitution have made her see through the ugliness, cruelty, cruelty and deceit in the world.When she was twelve years old, she was sold to the home of a retired cabinet scholar in Wujiang County as a maid. Soon after, she was ravaged by the master and became the plaything of the dying old man.Two years later, she was almost framed to death because of the jealousy of other concubines.The owner sold her to Guijiayuan in Shengze to be the adopted daughter of a famous prostitute named Xu Fu, and since then she has officially started her career as a joker.She was smart and beautiful, and soon became popular.In order to protect herself and take revenge, she began to become savage and presumptuous, often making fun of those lustful sex lovers, making them laugh and cry.Because of this madness, her reputation became even louder. Wherever she went, those princes and celebrities who pretended to be romantic flocked to her, and they would not hesitate to spend a lot of money to get her poems and paintings.As for the competition to win her favor, it was even more intense.However, Liu Rushi also knew that this situation could not be maintained for too long, so he began to look for people who he could entrust to him for life among those guests who came here especially for fame.After several setbacks and pains, she chose Qian Qianyi.Qian Qianyi has a lot of fame and money, and it is rumored that he will be reappointed soon and become a cabinet minister.For Liu Rushi, who has tasted humbleness and thus has a strong desire to climb up, this is indeed an ideal object of obedience.Qian Qianyi is a bit older, but the elderly are obedient, not so active in their hearts, and know how to cherish others... In fact, since she married in Changshu, for the past half a year, Qian Qianyi has been obedient to her, Baby can't get enough.In order to please her, the old man even sacrificed his social reputation repeatedly.For this, Liu Rushi was very grateful.Just in order not to embarrass the old man too much, and also for her own higher goal - to be a real "Old Lady of Ge" even though she has no name - so as not to come to naught, she resolutely decided to temporarily give up driving Aunt Zhu away. A request to go out of the house.Now, finally getting such a solemn promise from the old man, how could she not be selfishly relieved.It was only when she thought of all the bitter prices she had paid in the past ten years, that she couldn't help but feel mixed feelings, and the sadness came from it...
Qian Qianyi naturally wouldn't understand Liu Rushi's complicated mood.He only regarded Liu Rushi's tears as an expression of gratitude to him.So he caressed Liu Rushi's shoulder affectionately.After she had cried enough, he gently lifted her up, asked her to sit down in front of the rosewood bench, and opened the dressing box for her.While watching Liu Rushi remake up, he said in a cheerful voice: "Ha, I forgot to tell you a strange thing, and I need to use you, a 'girl', to advise me—" He Just as she was about to continue, she suddenly saw Hong Qing walking in holding a bucket-colored crystal lamp, so she stopped talking.
Hongqing put the lamp on the table, and said, "Master, madam, dinner is already served. Please master and madam, come and have dinner."
Liu Rushi looked out the window, it was really getting late.She pondered for a while and said: "At this moment, I feel very tired and have no appetite, so I don't want to go any further. Wait for the master to eat, and serve a bowl of porridge later, and give me some side dishes as well." Come on, it's over."
When Qian Qianyi heard this, he quickly said: "Well, I won't go there anymore, you all just move here, and I will eat with my wife in this room."
Hong Qing agreed and withdrew.
Liu Rushi smiled slightly, expressing that she understood Qian Qianyi's thoughtfulness.She rolled her eyes and reminded, "Oh, did Xianggong have something strange to say just now?"
"Oh, that's what happened - just now, I was in the west courtyard, discussing with Zaizhu and Yangxian about Mr. Zhou Ge's letter, when a person came to ask for an interview, I was surprised when I saw the post. Guess who that person is? It’s actually a Qing guest from Ruan Yuanhai’s family. His name is Zang Yijia, from Yuyao. He is an instructor of an opera troupe. I wonder if you know him? I met him once in Nanjing a few years ago, and almost forgot. This time, he was ordered by Ruan Yuanhai to make a special trip to Changshu, here, bring me this letter." Qian Qianyi said, took out a letter from his sleeve, put it on the table, and said with a smile "What Ruan Yuanhai said in his letter is that he was also a Jinshi, and he knew the righteousness of being loyal to the emperor and patriotism. He had no choice but to attach himself to Wei Xie in the past, and he never opposed Donglin. It's all a lie! However, the last few sentences are true. He actually made a strong oath, saying, "Those who don't change their minds to get along with each other, there is such water!" Haha, this beard is eager to make a comeback, I'm afraid he will go crazy in a hurry!"
Liu Rushi glanced at the letter and asked, "How is the discussion between Mr. Xianggong and Mr. Chen's family?"
As if biting a bitter fruit suddenly, Qian Qianyi's expression became depressed.He frowned and said, "I haven't got a clue yet. Zaizhu came up with an idea, saying that he could use the opportunity of the Fushe Conference held in Huqiu on March 28 to contact a group of people and propose to eliminate the sect at the meeting." The views of the cronies, to help the community together, and to make a public discussion, to the court. Originally, it is also a policy. But this time at the Huqiu meeting, there will probably be a lot of scholars from the two Zhejiang provinces. It’s okay in the west of Zhejiang, and in the east of Zhejiang. The nerds in Cixi and Yongshang are very hard to beat. Besides, you also know that since the first year of Tianqi, when I took the test in Zhejiang, and after that public case, the people of Zhejiang have become very important to me. Water and fire, how can you expect them to join hands with me this time?" Qian Qianyi sighed again and again after finishing speaking.
Liu Rushi has finished dressing.Holding a jade hairpin, she tapped lightly on the case and said, "Since Ruan Yuanhai hastily sent someone to deliver the letter, it doesn't look like Mr. Zhou deliberately evaded this matter, but I'm afraid there is some truth to it! Chen The master’s suggestion is also available. As for the Zhejiang people’s opposition, well, it is indeed a difficult problem. But...as long as they don’t all advocate killing Ruan Yuanhai, things can be done..."
Qian Qianyi was overjoyed, and quickly asked: "Oh, maybe Madam has a good plan?"
Liu Rushi shook her head.She laughed: "Look at my husband's eagerness, I'm afraid he's not under Ruan Yuanhai! I'm a woman, how can I have any good ideas? But I have nothing to do, I can think about it for you."
Qian Qianyi was teased by her, but he was not bothered.He said happily: "I know that Madam is not only a 'female Yuanlong', but also a 'female Zhuge', so she must have a wonderful plan to share my worries!"
At this time, Hongqing and another 12-year-old girl, Luyi, who was thin and small, had already moved the dinner into the dormitory.So they broke off their conversation, got up, and walked together to the dinner table.
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