Chapter 10 Chapter nine

On the seventh day of April, the day of Ju Nuo's execution arrived in no time. Feng Jiu vaguely remembered that her aunt Bai Qian once read her a line of mortal poem in order to cultivate her demeanor.This line of poem is very bold, it's called "Looking at the strong pines when the scene is vast, and flying through chaotic clouds is still calm." Feng Jiu was very sorry that on the spiritual comb platform where she asked to kill Ju Nuo, she didn't let her aunt see her calm demeanor while looking at Jin Song.Although her demeanor was actually forced out. It was rumored that the holy knife was picky eaters, and never drank blood, so she had to give up the good plan of throwing blood bags with the holy knife, and had to bite the bullet when things came to an end.

However, she went all out to fight the fierce tiger and outsmart the Lord. Although cold sweat poured down her forehead when she held the blade with her bare hands, at least she didn't lose the chain halfway. limelight. The only lamentable thing is that I forgot to match a pair of calibers with Xize in Shuiyuetan. But fortunately, Shangjun probably won't be able to find him recently.That day she and Xize broke up at the entrance of Shuiyuetan. Xize said that he was going on a long trip and would return to Qinan Shrine in ten days. If he needed anything, he could go to the shrine to find him.

She thought about it for a moment, and felt that she needed to seal a letter and save it, and when Xize returned to the shrine, she would send Chacha over immediately, so as to complete this big lie, and this matter would be truly settled. Furthermore, in addition to this letter to Xize, there is also a letter to Shen Ye. Not just one letter, but many, many letters. She looked at her right hand which was wrapped into a meat bun, and sighed a long time with a very headache. Feng Jiu naturally knew that Alan Ruo's desperate rescue of Chen Ye on the Lingshu stage was definitely not just to annoy his father.

According to what Mo Shao said, Alanruo has a changeable temperament, some are quiet, some are strong and flying, and some are playful, but if you look into her heart, she is actually a person with very clear love and hate.For example, if Shang Junjun didn't like her since she was a child, she didn't like them either.Mo Shao was kind to her since she was a child, and she always remembered this kindness.But why Chen Ye never liked her, but she planted a root of affection for him on the soul comb platform, this is really incomprehensible. In other words, there are traces of all kinds of emotions in the world, but this kind of romantic emotion has no reason to arise, and it kills people when it occurs.

Once upon a time, Lingshutai Ju Nuo was sentenced to death, what happened afterward? According to Su Moye, on April 28th, Shen Ye entered Alan Ruo's mansion alone, and was placed in a side courtyard by the old steward.A Lanruo practiced calligraphy in the morning and listened to music in the afternoon, and at night he debated with Mo Shao about Zen ideas for several decades, so he didn't go to see him.The next day, I sleeved a few volumes of books and spent a day leisurely by the water pavilion, but I didn't go to see him.It was cloudy and rainy again, and the water pavilion was not a good place to go, so I played a game of chess in the flower hall and thought about it freely, and didn't go to see him.

In the night, the old steward reported that he had told the priest according to the princess's words the first day that he came to the mansion as a distinguished guest, and if he didn't like entering the side courtyard, there are still some side courtyards in the mansion that can be freed up. In addition to the princess's boudoir, he can wander around at will in his free time, looking for some small scenes to chat with. But in the past three days, Master Jingong has not stepped out of the side courtyard, and it can be seen that he is in a very bad mood, frowning from time to time.Furthermore, although he went to the shrine to inquire about the taste of the priest in advance according to the princess's instructions, he actually didn't move much for the meals made according to his taste.

He didn't know how to deal with this situation, so he came here to report. The old steward folded his arms and listened to her orders. Alan Ruo was silent for a moment, then picked up a plain note, dipped in ink and picked up a pen, and wrote a letter. This is the first letter she wrote to Shen Hua. Alan Ruo wrote twenty letters to Shen Ye in total.When she broke up with Shen Ye, these letters were returned to her, and after her death, these letters were passed into Su Moye's hands, but he burned the twenty or so plain notes in front of Alan Ruoling. Half a lifetime of friendship, only a wisp of smoke.

But there are many sentences in the letter that Mo Shao can still recite even now, for example, the beginning of the first letter: "I heard that there is a new guest in the Mengchun Courtyard, and I pay homage to him with a post. In the old year, I have lived in this courtyard for three years, and I am afraid that we will leave later. The desolation of people has caused the small scenery in the courtyard to decline, and now I hear that you have arrived, and I am very relieved." In the letter, she pretended to be a female gentleman who once lived in the Princess Mansion. She left the mansion last year and entered the royal school. In her spare time, she liked to serve tea and wine. Among them, Yibo is especially concerned about the next jar of plum wine.She had been out of the house and had no luck to enjoy it, so she gave him this altar of wine, thinking that living abroad always makes people sad, and hoped that he could use this wine to comfort his heart.

The letter ends here, every sentence is plain, and there is not much to say. When leaving her name, she wrote the word Wen Tian. Wen Tian is indeed a talented woman in Zongxue. She was poor in her early years, and she voted for her under the name of two volumes of poetry.But Wen Tian never lived in Mengchun Yuan. The name of the courtyard is Mengchun, which means that the scenery in the courtyard is the best in early spring.On the contrary, Alan Ruo has to live there every spring, plant a few tea plants, and brew a few jars of new wine. The envelope was ready, and the old steward received the letter respectfully. If Alan thought of something, he instructed, "If Chen Ye asks about the source of this letter, he will say that a gentleman in Zongxue entrusted it to you. Don't even mention the words."

The old steward lowered his head, no matter how puzzled he was, he couldn't see anything.But Alan Ruo poured himself a cup of tea, and continued: "If he knew it was my letter, he wouldn't be able to read a single word. Being detained here is really annoying, and it's a bit of relief to have someone talk to him. There are not many people who can talk to him, I guess, there are only a few gentlemen in religious studies, and he looks up to them." The letter under the pseudonym Wen Tian really paid off.On the third day after the letter was sent, the old steward reported that for two consecutive days, the priests ate more than the previous few days.After dinner last night, the priest went to Boxin Pavilion for a while, the people below didn't dare to get too close, but he didn't stay too long, so he wrote a reply letter and asked him to bring it to Wen Tian of Zongxue. gentlemen.

If Alan opened the letter, it was also a piece of plain paper. Shen Ye's handwriting was excellent, but the content was simple, and he only expressed his gratitude lightly.For ordinary people, such a simple letter is mostly a perfunctory etiquette.But according to Chen Ye's temperament, if he really wanted to be perfunctory, not replying to the letter would be his course of action.The corners of Alan Ruo's lips pursed, and there was a hint of a smile in his eyes.The old steward looked at his eyes and understood the eyebrows, and hurriedly presented the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and urged the master to pick up the pen. In the second letter, she intentionally mentioned Meng Chunyuan's study, in order to help him pass the time.The collection of books in that study room is actually richer than the one she uses now, and she has always taken care of it herself, and the night before Chen Ye came, she filled in some new books.She especially loves a few travel notes in the books above, the writing is magnificent and turbulent, so her comments above are also quite different.She is placed at the bottom of the bookshelf, and usually no one will notice it. Naturally, she did not list this time in the letter, and only recommended a few rare sets of ancient books to him. When he wrote back again, his letter was 20 days long, and the comments on the few travel notes in the room were fresh and interesting. , Seeing that the handwriting looked like her comments, he recommended two more travel notes he loved to her. Then one day, Su Moye arranged a Linglong chess game named Qian Shuhui for her to solve. She thought hard to no avail, and at the time when the old steward submitted Shen Ye's sixth reply letter, she casually described the Linglong game. Come down and attach it to your letter.I got his seventh reply letter that afternoon.There are two pieces of paper, one is Su Moye's Linglong game that has been untied, and the other is another Linglong game that he drew for her to solve. As late spring was drawing to a close, his letters gradually became more verbal. Although he was still calm and self-sufficient, there were many differences from the alienation at the beginning. According to the old steward's report, although the priest has not seen much on his face recently, his mood should be more cheerful and cheerful than before. Naturally, he has not been out of the gate of Mengchun Yuan, but he sometimes explains chess games or draws chess records, or Sleeve books to sit in Boxin Pavilion, or stop and go in the courtyard.Only the last stop and go, he didn't know what the priest was doing. But Alan Ruo knew what Shen Ye was doing. In his last letter, he mentioned in a few words that he found a jar of old wine that she had buried in the courtyard, and divided it into four white porcelain pots. Chess drank half a jug, guessing that it was made from dyed berries collected from Jingshuang, sealed the altar and stored it underground for three seasons, then dried the mustard seeds from autumn, opened the altar and soaked it in wine for half a month, dyed it with medicinal fragrance, and sealed the altar for two years underground Set, ask her yes or no? Naturally, he guessed right and said exactly what he said.The old steward also presented a white porcelain jug along with the letter, saying that the wine was also brought to Mr. Wen by the order of the priest. This is Shen Ye's twentieth reply letter. On a dark and windy night, Alan Ruo strolled all the way to the Yuchun Courtyard with a white porcelain pot in hand, jumped up and climbed onto an old camphor tree outside the courtyard. This tree is facing Shen Ye's wing room, in the room there is a thin light that has not been turned off, and his silhouette is just drawn on the window.Alan Ruo found a safe place to lie down among the branches, flipped off the lid of the wine pot, and looked at the small closed window while drinking. Halfway through the wine, I happened to meet Su Moye wandering up to the old camphor tree at night, and sat leisurely on a branch next to her, and said, "I have been teaching you for decades, and you can learn everything else." That's all, I haven't learned the essence of the word romantic, the trick of Yuyan passing on the book is not bad, but the trick of thinking about people and drinking wine is really useless." Alan Ruo was lying on the bed, too lazy to move: "Master's words are wrong. Drinking alone, if the weather is out of date, the earth is not favorable, and people are not in harmony, it would be too deliberate to do it. But tonight I am a helpless person. , in this helpless place, with such a helpless state of mind, doing this helpless thing is as natural as the sun rising, the moon falling, the flowers blooming and withering." She laughed, lifted the wine pot and shook it, "You are so useless? Merry? Of course it's Merry." As soon as the word "Fengliu" was pronounced, the small window on the opposite side opened with a bang, and a black figure came out quickly.Alan Ruo's eyelids moved.When Shen Hua stood on the far wall facing the two of them, the white porcelain pot had been properly hidden in her sleeve. The priest in Xuanyi stood facing the wind, and the two of them were lying down and sitting unseemly.Shen Ye frowned and swept the two of them away, and said calmly: "You two come here late at night, I must have some advice." Su Moye stood up and stood on the top of the tree, "Don't dare to give advice, it's a good night tonight, I just want to use the precious place to talk about literature and history." He said, "I heard that the priest is the most proficient in Zen and metaphysics, I don't know what to do Would you like to sit down and have a discussion?" Alan Ruo chuckled and said, "Master, do you want the priest to sit on the wall and discuss with you?" Su Moye said seriously: "The discussion of the Tao is about sincerity. In the past, I heard that the Garuda next to the Buddha was on the same tree with his enemies and realized the cause and effect of grievances before he was converted... " Shen Ye looked directly at Alan Ruo, and asked irrelevant words, "What kind of wine did you drink?" She was stunned, and immediately returned to her usual expression, "A gift from a friend, but only a small pot, and I just drank it all. It's not a coincidence that your lord appeared." Su Moye looked at the two of them, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "The friend who delivered the wine is going to come to the house to have a reunion with us tomorrow. If the priest is interested in this wine, I will meet that friend in person tomorrow. I understand." Shen Ye looked at him, "Who is delivering the wine?" Before Su Moye could answer, Alan Ruo's voice sounded calmly, "Wen Tian of Zongxue, Mr. Wen Tian." When that name was heard, Chen Ye's cold and serious expression was a little different from usual. According to Mo Shao, Alan Ruo used Wen Tian's name to exchange letters with Shen Ye that day, he discovered by accident.That night Ye Ming knew that Alan Ruo tried his best to cover it up in front of Chen Ye, but he still wanted to talk about the wine delivery, but he did it on purpose. At that time, he didn't know what he had in mind for Alan Ruo, he only felt that since she wanted to get Chen Ye, he would help her get him.On this matter, she was thinking too much, focusing on Chen Ye, so twists and turns that he couldn't stand it.When he said those words, he only thought about creating an opportunity as soon as possible for Wen Tian to stand in front of Shen Ye, so that he could prompt Alan Ruo to make a decision as soon as possible. Either she recognized in front of Chen Ye that she was Wen Tian in the letter. After all, the outcome of this relationship depends on fate, but in the end there is a glimmer of hope.Either she made herself a matchmaking bridge between Shen Hua and Zhen Wentian, gave up this marriage to Zhen Wentian, and completely cut off her thoughts about Shen Ye.But no matter which one, it is better than her current procrastination. Mo Shao felt that it shouldn't be his apprentice's job to use her identity as a person to suffer in a relationship. Feng Jiu thought, if it was her, she would choose the first one.It was all because she had heard a rumor that if she helped people get married twice, it would be difficult for her to marry herself. She counted on her fingers that she had helped Donghua Jiheng once, and once more, her life would be over. But Alan Ruo, perhaps already married at that time, has no worries about the future, and probably has never done matchmaking before, and wants to try it out. In short, after sitting all night, she chose the latter.When it was dawn, Wen Tian was brought into the mansion, and while she was amazed, twenty letters from Chen Ye were firmly delivered to her hand.In the words explained to Wen Tian, ​​the past and the future were comprehensive, but she concealed her thoughts on Shen Ye, and made up a nonsense nonsense, "When Ju Nuo was released from the capital, I begged me to take care of the priest. It's kind-hearted, so it's natural to take care of it. But he and I have always disliked each other, and keeping my name in response to his letter will definitely arouse his resentment, so I kept Mr. I am a bit unable to do what I want, so I asked Mr. to go over to the house to explain, I wonder if Mr. can take up this important task and take care of the priest on my behalf? There is no need to write anything special, but it’s just the miscellaneous things of life in leisure time. " Wen Tian received a lot of favors from her in the past, and he is a polite person, so he naturally agreed to help him, and he didn't doubt her nonsense. She watched Wen Tian flip through Shen Ye's letters one by one, and sometimes praised, "I never noticed it before, so the priest is also a wonderful person, these chess games are really interesting." Alanruo smiled and said: "Mr. is very skilled in chess. I was rarely better than him when I was in the mansion. This time, I can compete more with the priest." After a pause, he said, "However, when Mr. I need to copy my handwriting, I didn’t think too much about it that day, the names of those gentlemen who left letters, but the handwriting is still my own.” Wen Tian pursed his lips and said, "It's not difficult." At the small gathering the next day, Shen Ye really showed up. Alan Ruo is not particular about it, but Mo Shao is actually a particular person in his bones, so the venue for the small gathering was placed in a pavilion in the middle of the lake. This pavilion is Mo Shao's proud work.There is only a small inn connected to the lake, and the pavilion stands in the center of the lake, surrounded by a circle of lotus flowers. Looking from a distance, the pavilion looks like a bud blooming from layers of lotus leaves.A wind chime is hung on each of the six corners of the pavilion. When the wind blows through the bell and the bell rings with the wind, there is a hint of Zen.It can be said that it is a collection of elegance and elegance in the world, and it is exquisite everywhere. But Alan Ruo came up with the name of the pavilion. He chose the least particular three words and called it the Huzhong Pavilion.Mo Shao thought about it for a while, and felt that this name was quite self-sufficient and interesting, so he endured it.Alan Ruo carried an unpainted mahogany board, dyed it with a Langhao brush with heavy ink that is not easy to fall off even in water, and wrote the words "Huzhong Pavilion" on the board and hung it on the pavilion to form a plaque.Mo Shao twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking that this plaque was natural and simple, so he endured it again. When Shen Ye entered the pavilion, he stayed a step in front of the pavilion, his eyes hung on the three big characters flying and dancing on the mahogany board.The girl in the plain clothes in the pavilion glanced at Alan Ruo, she had some understanding, and said to the outside of the pavilion: "Those three words, Wen Tian, ​​are not well written. The princess's kindness is still hanging on the pavilion, but today the adults laugh." Shen Ye looked at her.Wen Tian's appearance can only be described as handsome, but standing in the pavilion in a plain shirt, taking advantage of the misty water color behind him, he looks very indifferent and peaceful. Shen Hua's gaze was a little soft, and he said in a low voice, "Wen Tian?" The girl smiled slightly, "Exactly." Later, Su Moye asked Alan Ruo what she was thinking when she saw this scene.After this, it didn't take long.After Shen Ye entered the matter for a while, he was invited by Wen Tian to discuss a game at a chess table by the lake. He and Alan Ruo were the only ones left in the pavilion, one was cooking tea around the small red clay stove, the other was peeling a few oranges, their eyes were so vain that they didn't know what they were thinking. Mo Shao's question was actually a bit mean, so mean that it pierced people's hearts. The young man in black and the girl in white by the lake look like a pair of lovers.Alan Ruo peeled out an orange and threw it to Mo Shao, but there was still a smile on his face, but the smile was a little helpless, "Wen Tian is a good woman, and her talents and knowledge match her. Desperate, Wen Tian became acquainted with him at this time, just seeing her indifference in not seeking glory, I have reached this point today, if the two of them have a good relationship, it will be considered a good fortune for me." Su Moye frowned, "The things you said to Ju Nuo on the Lingshu platform that day are not like what you would do today." Alan Ruo raised his eyebrows, "Those words are just to tease Ju Nuo." The silhouette of a pair of chess pieces, one black and one white, looked far away at the shore of the lake, and said in a low voice: "He is cold and arrogant, but he is good-looking. Good spiritual power, good swordplay, good handwriting, good chess, and good sense of taste and knowledge, the kind of indifference and arrogance that appear to be quite attractive." He laughed again and said, "Have you ever thought about it? It's actually not his fault that he hates me. My concubine gave birth to me and Changdi after her second marriage. This is infidelity, so both Changdi and I have dirty blood. It's just a kind of opinion. Everyone can have everyone's opinion on everything in this world, and we can't say who is right and who is wrong. It's just that he has this kind of opinion. Naturally, there is no chance between him and me. He looks like that Wen Tian, ​​I'm actually a little envious." After a long time, he said, "But I also wish him well." Su Moye handed her a cup of tea, "It's not good to deal with things like love. Fortunately, you still have a little sanity in this matter. Now that you have reached this field, you should calm down as soon as possible." Alanruo took the tea and thanked him a few words. It was as if the matter had just been revealed, and there was no more words to mention it, the two of them just chatted about homework, and waited for the Biren by the lake to kill the chess and return. After the small gathering in the pavilion in the lake, the old steward said that Shen Ye and Wen Tian exchanged four letters.Mr. Wen also enclosed two small gifts with the letter, a straw-woven bald eagle and a hand-embroidered fan pendant with auspicious patterns, and Shen Hua returned her two volumes of books. The books were ordered by Shen Ye and sent him to the market to buy them, two copies of Cang Langzi's travel notes.At that time, Alan Ruo was holding a cup of tea to feed the fish by the lotus pond, when he accidentally scalded his tongue with the tea, when he recovered, he told the old steward how the two of them would do in the future, so that there was no need to report, after all, Chen Ye came to her house. Come to jail.He also said, Shen Ye bought two books for Wen Tian to read. On a certain level, Feng Jiu admires Alan Ruo.Thinking back when she was hurt back then, she occasionally cried and drank a little wine, but Alan Ruobai sent the person he loves to others, let alone crying and drinking a little wine, without even a superfluous sigh, what should I do every day? .Feng Jiu felt a bit ashamed that her realm had dropped suddenly compared to her. But God's will is not how you want it to go, it can go how it goes.The inexplicable surprise in the calm weather is God's will. Three or four days later, while visiting the Boxin Pavilion at night, Shen Hua accidentally saw two lines of inscriptions written on a red bean tree beside the pavilion.Some of the old characters, deeply rooted in the tree trunk, are really silver hooks painted on iron, penetrating three points into the wood, very similar to the handwriting on the stack of letter papers left in his bookcase.The sixteen characters are arranged in two columns, the moon reflects the Tianhe River, the wind passes through the lush forest, drinking happily, and the dust and worries are relieved. There is a sign at the bottom of the two columns of characters. He recognized the signature by the moonlight, and his face turned pale.The inscription does not include the season of maturity, and a single name stands alone on it.Xiangli Alan Ruo. Feng Jiu pricked up her ears, eager to hear the following, but Su Moye knocked on Bi Yuxiao to make a fool of herself, "Now the truth is clear, if you are Chen Ye, you know that it is not Wen Tian who has been writing to you but Alan Ruo, what will you do?" Feng Jiu thought for a moment, then tentatively said, "Very happy?" Mo Shao smiled and said: "I am also very happy. There is a girl who is willing to treat me like this. She is still a stunning beauty. No matter how you think about it, it is a profit." When Feng Jiu met her bosom friend, she immediately sat an inch closer, "That's right!" Su Moye paused for a while, but said: "It's a pity that Alan Ruo met Shen Ye, but Shen Hua is neither you nor me." Alan Ruo was in the study, and was greeted by a furious Shen Hua. At that time, she was peeling melon seeds and leaning on a low couch to read Canglangzi's new travel notes, when she suddenly saw a section of bark with engraved words falling heavily in front of her eyes.Looking along the bark, it was a black robe, and Shen Ye's calm face contained anger. He was condescending, with a cold spark in his eyes, "You wrote the letter, you brewed the wine, and you solved the chess game. Treating me as a plaything, playing and teasing me at will, isn't it interesting?" He took a step closer, and the spark in his eyes was even worse, "Seeing that I was fooled by you, I replied to you one by one with sincerity, thinking that I will have this day, isn't my heart full of joy?" A Lanruo stared at the ink on the book for a long time, and suddenly said: "Master told me, either I will fight or give up my mind. I have already given up my mind, so you shouldn't come here." She thought for a while, "Even if you know some things, you should pretend that you don't know. Shouldn't the two of us be strangers like before?" Shen Hua looked at her, and said in a cold voice, "In the past, we were just strangers? Don't we hate each other?" Alan Ruo trembled her fingers caressing the book, and said softly: "Or, you never thought about it, I don't hate you as much as you hate me, maybe I like you quite a bit, and I actually do this to make you happy." She looked up, "Look, don't you know that I was very happy before I wrote these letters?" He stepped back, "You're kidding." She seemed a little upset, "What if it's not a joke?" With a stiff expression, he said, "There is everything between us, strangers, enemies, mortal enemies, or others, but there is no such possibility." Alan Ruo looked at him for a long time, then said with a smile: "Maybe what I said is true, maybe it's not true, maybe I really like you, maybe I'm really teasing you." I heard that after that, Shen Ye and Wen Tian didn't have any correspondence.Wen Tian sent a letter to ask Alan Ruo once, and she simply said that Chen Ye knew the truth, and she was a little sorry for dragging her into it earlier.Wen Tian didn't say anything, and wrote back to comfort her. Su Moye told the story to this point, seeing that it was getting late, she went back to rest temporarily. Feng Jiu had thought many times about how Alan Ruo and Shen Ye would be, but she never expected such a sad beginning, which made her a little heavy and quite embarrassed.So before going to bed, I ate an extra steamed stuffed bun, but I couldn't fall asleep. I walked around the garden, remembered the story Su Moye told during the day, sighed a few times, soaked some night dew, and then went back to bed to lie down.