Chapter 4 Check in Qingfu Garden
The hot summer, especially this summer, is extremely annoying. Yunshang wears filial piety, and I don't know how many times the filial piety hat on her head has been soaked by sweat. However, the person opposite seemed to have no reaction to the heat around him, standing in front of an empty wall with his hands.
Lou Duo is already a 60-year-old person at this time. Even if the Dafeng Dynasty has not had a big war for nearly 20 years, he, a literary minister born as a general, no longer needs to go to the battlefield in person. However, the years still ruthlessly stained his forehead and temples, and the folds of the years left a deep moment on the old man's forehead. The scars, hair and beard at the jaw are also white. Lou Yunshang followed him into the study, and he had been facing her with the back of his head full of silver wire.
Yunshang couldn't see his face, so he naturally couldn't see his expression at this time.
After a long time, he coughed gently, "Yunshang." Perhaps these two words were already a little strange to this father. Lou Duo called out the name, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help smiling bitterly.
"Hmm." Yunshang answered in a low voice behind his back.
"Your mother... can walk peacefully?" Lou Duo's voice was even lower, faintly revealing a little sadness that could not be captured.
Yunshang was stunned, and Yu lowered his head and said, "Yes, my mother walked peacefully." Lou Duo curled up slightly in the palm of his side and looked at the empty wall. Yunshang looked at his back and couldn't bear to come to his heart. He thought about these words in his heart, and then said, "My mother has been sick for a long time, and she has been sick every day. Now it's better to suffer every day when she travels across the crane to the west. So, you don't have to be too sad."
In the past, Aunt Ding always talked about how much Lou Duo was attached to his mother, but her mother's heart was always a high threshold that Lou Duo could not enter. Even if the man gave birth to three children, the mother still insisted on returning to her hometown in Yangzhou, where she lived.
Probably... It's because of the person she loves deeply that his tomb is still in Yangzhou.
Yunshang saw that Lou Duo did not respond, and he had seen through the hatred between him and her. No matter how magnificent those feelings and hatreds are, it is after all the love and hatred of others, and the gathering and separation of others has nothing to do with her... She lowered her eyes, and her thick and slender eyelashes covered her eyelashes, and she couldn't see the emotion.
"Yunshang." Lou Duo finally turned around and looked at his daughter, whom he hadn't seen for seven years.
"Hmm?" She also raised her head.
Her eyebrows were trimmed long and soft, and she lightly swept a little eyebrow powder, as clear as the top of a distant mountain. Her eyes were so similar to the woman in her memory, round and black and white. At a glance, it was like her whole body was soaked in a clear spring. Her nose was petite and beautiful, and her lips were like Half of the half-ripe cherry is light red and moist. Although this face is still a little immature, her facial features are so similar to that of that woman, which makes him have an illusion, as if he saw her for the first time at the age of 16 on the running slope.
He shook his head and threw away this absurd idea in his mind.
Looking at his expression, Yunshang's heart, which was still hanging, suddenly settled down.
The man in front of him has no special feelings for him. He has everything about him, but only a few words from Aunt Ding and Xiangxiang. And the so-called spiritual connection between flesh and blood and the blood flowing in the blood... Yunshang smiled lightly. It's ridiculous. Even if it's a real close relative, what can it have to do with her...
Lou Duo looked at the imperceptible cold smile on the little girl's face in front of him, and was stunned for a moment. Her eyes were so old and deep that he was not commensurate with her age, and she had the experience of his Dafeng Dynasty Prime Minister, and she couldn't even understand what she could understand.
Is she... really Lou Yunshang?
Lou Duo looked at her fixedly, and Lou Yunshang also looked back at him.
"What else did she leave behind?"
"No."
"Go ahead." He turned around and looked at the empty wall.
At the moment he turned around, she actually saw that the eagle-like sharpness in Lou Duo's eyes disappeared.
"Miss, miss, how's it going?" Outside the courtyard, Xiangxiang and Aunt Ding had been waiting there for a long time. Xiangxiang waved the handkerchief in his hand and shook Yunshang's arm.
"Master, does he doubt his wife's body..." Aunt Ding just started and heard the footsteps. It was Mr. Ai. Aunt Ding had to stop and look at him, "Mr. Ai."
This is an extremely shrewd man, with a slight hunchback but does not affect his strong pace. After a few steps in front of them, Steward Ai bent down and saluted, "Miss Wu, the second lady has arranged a place for you. Would you like to go and have a look?"
Yunshang nodded and took Xiangxiang and Aunt Ding to the other courtyard.
The further she walked, the more frowned Xiangxiang frowned, and the tree in front of her became thicker and thicker. She couldn't help pulling Aunt Latin's arm and whispered, "Is there such a place in our prime minister's mansion before? Why don't I remember?"
Aunt Ding's face was not good-looking. She tried to recall the original appearance of the prime minister's house, and finally shook her head. She had some friendship with steward Ai, but she must have gone for so many years. After thinking about it over and over again, she quickly took a few steps to catch up with the steps of steward Ai. "Mr. Ai, where is the room arranged by the second lady for the young lady? "
stewor Ai slowed down, looked at Lou Yunshang who followed them with a little sympathy, sighed and said, "It's Qingfu Garden."
Aunt Ding exclaimed in a low voice and couldn't believe it, "Qingfu Garden is not..."
Lou Yunshang walked to them and looked curiously at Aunt Ding with a frightened face. Xiangxiang's face had been blue for a long time and said tremblingly, "Aunt Ding... That Qingfu Garden... Isn't it... Isn't it haunted?"
"Qingfu Garden? The name is unique. After listening to this, Lou Yunshang smiled faintly. Xiangxiang said unrelentingly, "How can you bully people so much!" The young lady just returned home and let her live in such a remote place!"
Yunshang took a step forward and covered her unobstructed mouth. "It's good to be remote. I like quiet." After saying that, she smiled apologetically at Mr. Ai, "Xiangxiang is spoiled by me. Let Mr. Ai laugh."
Manager Ai was stunned for a moment, quickly said that he didn't dare, and continued to lead the way.
This road is really too quiet and solemn compared with the corridor they have just walked. Although there are big trees on both sides, the trees are not pruned, and the growth is crazy and lush. The tall canopy hangs are hanging down, and the dense leaves overlap each other. There is no trace of sunlight at all. Even at this moment of the scorching sun, go On this road, the sweat on Yunshang has cooled more than half.
After seven turns and eight turns, I finally saw the true face of Qingfu Garden.
Yunshang looked up and looked around. She saw that the main house was all available. When she entered the bedroom, she saw the exquisite decoration, which was not as dirty as imagined. She was very satisfied. "The yard is good. Thank you for me, second lady."
stewer Ai was stunned again. He seemed to say something, but after all, he didn't say anything.
Xiangxiang looked around with a wary face. Occasionally, a bug crawled over her feet. She immediately screamed and jumped up and jumped on Yunshang's body. Aunt Ding took a lot of effort to get her down. Yunshang patted her on the back with tears and laughter, "What's the matter? Did you see the ghost?"
"Don't talk nonsense, miss. You didn't know that this house was haunted before!" After Xiangxiang finished speaking, she was shocked by her words and quickly put her hands together and said, "Old lady, don't eat the wrong person. I'm Xiangxiang, smart and cute Xiangxiang. Don't eat me. Oh, yes, don't eat our young lady and Aunt Ding. They are all good people..."
Yunshang hugged her shoulder and looked at her happy with her eyes closed. She had to say to Aunt Ding with a sad face, "This girl can't count on it. Aunt Ding, please go and see if there is a separate kitchen here. I'm a little hungry." She walked all day and didn't drink a sip of water after entering the house.
Aunt Ding glanced at the endless fragrance, "Don't always talk nonsense and wait for the young lady to have a good rest." Xiangxiang quickly opened her eyes and patted her forehead, "Yes, miss, are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Look at my smart fragrance and turn it into delicious food for you!"
Yunshang smiled and pulled her down and sat down. "You don't have to be smart. Just change this dress for me quickly so that I can breathe."
Xiangxiang untied the ribbon behind her and asked curiously, "Miss, what is magic?"
Yunshang's face stiffened, and he reluctantly pulled out a smile, "Magic is a folk trick. It pays attention to the quickness of hands and eyes, and it is a trick to fool people."
"Oh, miss, you know a lot. I've never seen this kind of trick." Xiangxiang seemed to have fallen into some kind of memory, with infinite yearning on her face, "That is, Miss, you are still very young. When I was also very young, the third son took us to a market and saw someone spitting fireballs. Do you still remember, Miss?"
Yunshang didn't dare to look at her expectant look and pretended to let go of her cuffs. "How many years have passed? I don't remember it for a long time."
Xiangxiang really began to be disappointed.
At dinner, servants came to invite them to have dinner. Yunshang changed her clothes and felt much better. Looking at the servants who invited her, her eyes were erratic, and her heart moved, and she began to pay more attention. As soon as he walked to the door of the yard with him, he heard a woman's scream from the Qingfu Garden behind him.
Even if the sound is so loud that she can hear that it is fragrant.
She frowned, and Aunt Ding had rushed back with an arrow.
After a short time, he folded back again, holding the faint fragrance in his hand, and his face was full of anxiety, "Miss, this..."
Yunshang took a look at the fragrance in her arms and saw that her lips were dark and the muscles on her face were very tight. She squatted down and opened her eyelids. Sure enough...
She looked up at the subordinate again. The man was much taller than her. She was not afraid at all, but showed a condescending look. Her cold eyes looked at him and dared not look directly into his eyes. She said coldly, "Go and call the doctor in the house." The man didn't dare to delay and immediately ran away. Aunt Ding glanced at the direction the man ran out and couldn't help shouting, "Come back! The hospital is on the right!"