Chapter 30 Section fifteen

In the first year of Emperor Cheng, the third day of September. There are wind ponds. At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the tung trees were so green that they turned black, and the dark shade of the trees enveloped the whole house. Xi Yan sat in front of the window, smoking a cigarette, and looking at the pond with dense water and grass. Xi Yuan stood beside him: "Uncle, I heard that Yingshe's dinner today is a gathering of adults in the imperial court. The three princes and nine ministers of the Tang Dynasty have reached ten. Uncle really won't go?" "No, help me go back, I have to wait for someone today."

Xiyuan stared blankly at his uncle for a while, only to feel that his uncle was a little strange today.Who did Xi Yan, the commander of Wu Diandu, wait for?Probably only the king, right? "Xiyuan, have all my flowers withered?" "No, the chrysanthemums are about to bloom. I went to fertilize and water this morning. In this year's Chrysanthemum Appreciation Conference, our chrysanthemums will definitely be number one." "Oh," Xi Yan replied casually, "What about the garden of Zi Linqiu?" "Thank you Zilinqiu. Zilinqiu is no better than chrysanthemums. The flowering period is too short. How about planting a garden of peonies next year?"

"Xiyuan, do you think there is any place warmer than Nanhuai City, where flowers are planted all year round and are always colorful?" Xiyuan scratched his head, and was at a loss for a long time: "It's warmer than Nanhuai... probably only Yuezhou? Uncle wants to go to Yuezhou? I heard that there are snakes and insects running rampant there, and there is miasma, and there are witches. of." Xi Yan glanced at him, then smiled suddenly: "What a silly boy." The East Palace and the West Palace are the huts behind the palace. Lu Guichen knocked lightly on the door, pushed it open, and saw a woman sitting by the window with her chin resting on her hands, and two pots of purple flowers were placed on the window sill.

"Su Jieyu, I'm here to return the books I borrowed last time, and I've finished reading them all." He said respectfully. He only saw women occasionally. Since he came to the East Palace, he knew that this woman was in charge of the library, and occasionally came to borrow some ancient books mentioned by Master Lu.The woman was very silent, but every time she would find out the books he needed and wait for him to come to pick them up the next day.We got to know each other gradually, but we didn't say a few words to each other. The woman took the book and gently patted his head: "Have you finished reading it?"

"After reading it, Master Lu praised me for entering the country recently." "You have worked very hard," the woman nodded. "You are a good boy. If I can have a child, I hope to be like you." Lu Guichen felt embarrassed. "Is there anything unhappy about Jieyu?" He asked cautiously. The woman smiled a little when she praised him, but he felt that the smile weighed heavily on his heart, making him really uncomfortable. The woman froze for a moment, then smiled: "There is nothing unhappy, I just want to make a decision, but seeing the sun is about to set, I still can't figure it out."

"Decide?" The woman turned her head to look at him, the west-slanting sun cast a translucent gorgeous silhouette on the side of her face. "Son, tell me..." the woman hesitated, "How many people can a person like in a lifetime? Do you have someone you like, and you want to do a lot of things for them, no matter how hard it is, you are happy?" Lu Guichen scratched his head and thought for a while: "There are Abba, Ama, Dahesa, Suma, Jiye, Yuran... and Muma, Amochi...these are the people I like .” The woman smiled: "Too many. People's hearts are so big, they can only like a few people. Have you ever had someone that you liked so much that you wanted to be with her for the rest of your life?"

"Yes." Lu Guichen nodded, "When I was young, I thought that if I grew up, I would marry Mother Haruntie..." "Mom?" The woman was stunned for a moment, "Why do you think so?" "Because Uncle Bamoru said that Mother Haruntie will not be my mother when she gets married in the future. She will live with her husband and raise her own children, so," Lu Guichen looked at Rubbing his toes, rubbing against the ground embarrassingly, "I think if I marry Muma, Muma will be with me for the rest of my life." The woman laughed again, and Lu Guichen felt that he had never seen so many smiles on her face.

"And then?" The woman took his hand, "When did you understand?" "Later... then Muma died," Lu Guichen's expression darkened, "I can never be with me..." "poor child……" Lu Guichen laughed again: "But I'm fine, I still have my father, my mother, and Suma. Later, my father sent Mrs. Ying to be my mother, and Mrs. Ying treated me very well. " The woman was stunned for a moment: "Then...do you still think of Mother Haruntie? She died alone, very lonely, very lonely." "I thought, so I didn't want to be called Mother Yingshi for the first time. But I always thought about it, and Mother Haruntie would not come back to life. I don't think much now, although I have Sometimes I'm afraid..." Lu Guichen also climbed up the window sill to look at the two pots of purple flowers, "I'm afraid that I will forget about Muma slowly."

"You will never forget," the woman shook her head, "Some things will never be forgotten." "Did Jieyu think of someone too?" "Yes." The woman nodded, "There used to be a man, I thought as long as I had a day to live, I would follow him to the ends of the earth. But he is dead. I always dream of him, and feel that his voice is still around me. Now I want to leave, but I am afraid that his soul is still here, wandering and wandering, and he will be very lonely if he can't find me." She shook her head slightly, as if she wanted to shake off something: "It's very lonely... very lonely."

"You can come back to see him," Lu Guichen said, "I thought that if I go back to the grassland, I will build a tall grave for Mother Heluntie, and I will visit her every spring, then At that time, the creeping chrysanthemum bloomed, and it was so golden that you couldn't see its end at a glance. Mama Haruntie liked it very much." "Is that all right?" Lu Guichen lowered his head: "Dahesa told me, don't be sad all the time, in fact, I will become an old man like him in the future, and I will forget about it at that time. Although I don't want to forget, but Mother Haruntie also He told me that people have to live. In fact, there are always many things to be happy. When I first came to Nanhuai, I thought I would be alone, but now I have two friends."

"Friend..." The woman smiled softly, "What a silly child, if only everything in the world was as simple as that." "Why is Jieyu so depressed?" "You are also very depressed, child." The woman pondered for a moment, "But if you stay here for a day, you will be happy for a day, since you have good friends." The appearance of Ji Ye and Yu Ran suddenly came to mind, and Lu Guichen nodded vigorously. "Learn to take care of yourself, to be alive is to be happy," she smiled faintly, "You are right, even if you can see the morning sun, isn't it a very good thing?" She stroked Lu Guichen's head, and gently rubbed her face on his cheek. Lu Guichen stood there blankly, for some reason, he felt that there was a meaning of parting in those faint words. "Uncle, someone is posting a book outside the door." Xiyuan walked in quickly. Before Xi Yan could finish speaking, he had already snatched the scroll.He was silent for a moment before slowly opening it. Xi Yuan leaned over, and saw a landscape dripping with ink, which was a mirror-like lake, and there was a small house by the lake, with the window facing the lake, and there was a person in the window.It was a humid day, and the ink hadn't dried completely, and there was faint glimmer of water on the painting.Xiyuan didn't know much about painting, so he just felt that it was a very clean and distant scene, and it didn't seem like a scene that should exist in the world. There is a line of slender lowercase characters beside the painting: "The snow-covered mountains outside the window, Qianqiu came out of Pinghu. Lin Shen has no old customers, Sit and watch the frost all over the road. " Xi Yan laughed silently. "Uncle, this is..." "This is the scenery of the Northern Jin Dynasty. The painting is a hut in the jujube forest, and the window is facing Qingye Lake." "Uncle has been there?" Xiyuan looked at his uncle in surprise. "I've been there," Xi Yan smiled, "it's a very quiet place... By the way, have you turned down the seats over there, my lords?" "I was about to go out to explain to the adults." "Don't push it, wine and beauty, red candle night banquet, it's birthday again, I'll go to the banquet." "Isn't uncle going to wait for someone?" Xi Yan smiled and shook his head: "Why are you a fool. The man has already come, in this painting." Xi Yan strode away, and when he came to the door, he turned around and asked: "Tell Ji Ye that he doesn't have to guard the East Palace tomorrow night, and order all the soldiers guarding the East Palace to rest, and prepare for the Ziliu Camp the day after tomorrow. formation." "Yu Ran! Yu Ran! Asule!" Ji Ye happily ran to the tree and shouted. Thick branches and leaves completely covered the tree, no one answered, only a ladder rolled down from the canopy. Ji Ye nimbly climbed the ladder to get into the dense green shade, and sat on a long stick, undulating by the elasticity of the branch. "Himino, what are you doing? We will all fall!" On a branch higher than him, Yu Ran's blue skirt hung down and almost swept his hair, and Yu Ran stepped on his head with her bare feet , "You two will die together, but don't expect me to save them all!" Lu Guichen and Yu Ran sat side by side, tightly holding onto the branch under his buttocks, a little nervous.He was always afraid of heights, but he couldn't hold back Yuran, so he was pulled up to accompany her to watch from afar. "Where are you going to play tomorrow night?" Ji Ye made a gesture to grab Yu Ran's feet, but Yu Ran put it away immediately, squatted on a branch and lowered his head and stuck out his tongue at him: "Touching other people's feet is thicker than a city wall." Aren't you going to be on duty?" "The general explained that I don't need to be on duty tomorrow night, and the imperial guards in the East Palace are also resting to prepare for the drill on the school ground the day after tomorrow." "Hey, okay, okay," Yu Ran turned his head and shook Lu Guichen's shoulder, "It's just right, Asule, I want to visit the place where the prince lives." "Ah?" Lu Guichen hesitated, "That's the East Palace. It's heavily guarded, and it's not easy to get in and out. I asked the king to come in and out freely, otherwise I wouldn't be able to slip out." "That's just right. Isn't there no one on duty tomorrow night?" "But the imperial guards guarding the palace gate, Young Master Yu's palace and the ancestral mausoleum will never withdraw." "I'm going to the palace! I'm going to the palace!" Yu Ran stared wide-eyed, grabbed his shoulder and shook vigorously. Lu Guichen suddenly lost his mind, lost his balance on his feet, and fell downside down. Ji Ye was taken aback, and hurriedly opened his arms to catch him, but before he received it, Yu Ran had already grabbed Lu Guichen's collar from above.With this strength, Lu Guichen turned over and grabbed the branch in a thrilling manner.When he climbed up again, he was out of breath, and his face had no color at all. "Yu Ran, stop making trouble!" Ji Ye was also in a cold sweat. "Oh." Yu Ran responded sullenly, and patted Lu Guichen on the head to show comfort. "Yu Ran? Yu Ran? It's okay, don't be angry." Lu Guichen suddenly felt that Yu Ran became silent, and just sat on the branch and watched.Instead, he felt uneasy, jumping like a rabbit. "I just suddenly remembered my dad." Yu Ran shook her head. "Miss your father?" "I don't want to, because I have never seen him. I heard that he is dead. He jumped from the tallest tree and fell to his death." Yu Ran stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance, her skin under the setting sun Her eyebrows and eyebrows were transparent white and gold, and her small face was expressionless. Lu Guichen had to look up to see her face.The wind brushed across his face quietly, and he suddenly felt that Yu Ran was not always so happy. "Okay! I'll take you to the palace." Lu Guichen said. "Let's rest." Ji Ye rolled his eyes, "You are a road idiot at all, I am not familiar with the route in the palace, I will take you to sneak in!"