Lotus Carp (GL)

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I was about to ask her, but Cui Xiu came running from a distance.

Cui Xiu stopped, gave me a little blessing, then turned to Zhuo Lian and said: "The auspicious time ordered by Madam is coming, please move to the Red Line Pavilion, Miss."

Zhuo Lian sighed inaudibly, and said to me, "That's what I'm talking about."

She didn't make it clear, but I understood.

Under the marriage tree.

She deliberately ignored Cui Xiu's disapproving gaze and the specially moved ladder, tied the red thread at a place within reach, tied a fancy knot, and winked at me again.

I know that she wants me to take off the red thread after she is gone. If I can't give her marriage, she will never seek marriage.

After sending her to the gate of the temple, it suddenly started to drizzle, and she sent Cuixiu to the temple to borrow an umbrella, and we finally had a little time alone again.

I asked her: "Master Liu, Mrs. Liu, do you know that I am a woman?"

She shook her head.

I asked again: "If a poor boy with nothing but four walls goes to Liu's mansion to seek marriage, what will it be like?"

She said quietly: "If I agree with death, maybe I can agree to marry, as for other things..."

And as a daughter, I cannot hide my marriage.

I suddenly had an epiphany.

"What if that poor boy, riding a tall horse, wearing a black gauze hat and red silk flowers, came to propose to you with a marriage decree?"

"You mean..." Zhuo Lian couldn't respond.

"Zhuo Lian, starting from tomorrow, you will wait for me at home for four months. If I can come back, I will marry you, if I can't come back..."

"If you can't come back, I'll marry someone else immediately, and see if you dare not come back." Zhuo Lian was a little annoyed, "You must come back!"

"I'll definitely come back. During the days when I'm not around, you have to be good." I looked up and saw that there was no one around. Finally, I stopped restraining myself and hugged Zhuo Lian gently.

"You are not allowed to hug other girls for the past four months!" She pretended to be fierce, but her tone was tainted with a layer of obvious crying, "You are not allowed to look!"

"Okay, okay, I only look at the little lotus flower on the sachet, nothing is as beautiful as that little lotus flower, okay?" I wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and let her go slowly.I am familiar with the structure of Guangyang Temple, and I took the umbrella with the green sleeves. This meeting should be on the way back.

She also realized it, and straightened her expression so that Cui Xiu wouldn't notice anything strange.

After waiting for a while, Cui Xiu came back holding an umbrella, and I fixedly watched Zhuo Lian's moon-white figure drifting away in the rain, as if I wanted to carve this picture into my bones.

I often think of or dream of this scene afterwards.At that time, I didn't expect that this was the last time I saw her in my life.

Chapter 3 Chapter 3

I am a girl.

A girl who was traveling far away with a bag on her back.

I was sitting by the window on the second floor of the teahouse, facing the soon-to-be-crowded Huangbang.

On the stage in the center of the tea shop, a handsome woman in a red robe and black gauze is singing a babbling yellow melody: "To save Li Lang from his home, who would expect to be number one in the imperial list..."

I froze.This word is not very similar to me, it's just that I "leave home to marry a beautiful woman, and only want to be the number one in the imperial list".

I was still thinking on this side, but there was a burst of noise from the other side of the street. Officials on tall horses, escorted by officers and soldiers, posted Minghuang's imperial list on the wall.

I finally couldn't sit still, paid the bill and went downstairs, squeezed to the front of the imperial list, and looked up at the first name.

The number one scholar, Jiang Li.

I finally let out a long breath of relief.

I remembered the scene after parting from Zhuo Lian that day.I turned back to the Marriage Tree, untied the red thread tied by Zhuo Lian herself, moved the ladder, and tied the red thread to the highest branch.

I thought at the time, if I can come back, I will give you the best marriage in the world, if I can't come back, I wish you to marry the best person in the world.

Fortunately, Zhuo Lian, I did it.

I'm coming back.

Four months ago, Gusu.

The day after seeing off Zhuo Lian, I went to the private school as usual.My deskmate, Jiang Li, was late again. I saw his bruised nose and swollen face, and thought of the Mingjing score announced by my master the day before, and I understood it in my heart.Jiang Li's parents hoped that their son would become a dragon, but Jiang Li was not really a reading material, nor did he have any ambitions. This is no secret in the private school.

So I went to find Jiang Li after school.

"Jiang Li, I want to take your place in the exam for merit." I didn't go around the bush, and got straight to the point.

"Huh?" Jiang Li was a little dazed, as if he didn't understand what I was talking about.

"I mean, I take part in the imperial examination as Jiangli. If I get the honor, your parents will become the parents of officials as they wish, and the Jiang family will be glorious. And you, you can do whatever you want: go into business , farming, visiting famous mountains and rivers..."

"Use the imperial examination opportunity that you will never be able to use to exchange the Jiang family for a chance to honor their ancestors, and give your parents a chance to get what they want. You are not at a loss." I thought about the rhetoric all night, it was still very tempting

of.

"But your grades are so good...why don't you take part in the scientific examination with your real identity?" Jiang Li was quick-witted for a while.

"You also know..." I pretended to be embarrassed, "I am an abandoned baby adopted by Guangyang Temple... I don't have a formal household registration...but I really want to take part in the scientific examination..." In fact, I have a household registration, but I do have it. Bringing out the gender on it scares you to death... I slander like this.

"Hmm..." He looked like he was shaken a lot, "I'll go back and ask my parents for their opinion."

"No problem! Go to school tomorrow and give me an answer!" Given Jiang Li's parents' pursuit of fame and wealth, I am very confident that I will win them.

Sure enough, the next morning, Jiang Li dragged me to a corner of the school, looked around for no one, then nodded mysteriously to me: "My parents agree."

I smiled as expected: "Then you bring me your household registration card tomorrow."

"What's the use of tomorrow? As soon as my parents heard what I said, they gave me the household registration card and told you to go on the road as soon as possible... The look in the eyes when they gave it to me seemed to have seen the black yarn on my head..." Jiang Li couldn't bear it. He hugged his arms and shook.

I looked at him like that, couldn't help laughing for a while, and finally stopped laughing, and I remembered some important things: "Have you made it clear to your parents that I only take the merit test, what will I do after I finish the test?" Officer, what reward is it my freedom?"

He nodded hurriedly: "Having said that, my parents don't think it's a big deal. Anyway, if I were really asked to take the exam, I would not even be able to pass the exam as a scholar. If you really go to high school someday, my Jiang family will be a juren family." The name, that is earned."

That's how I feel relieved.

In the name of Jiang Li, I started from the provincial examination, studied hard day and night, and finally passed the county examination in less than two months before the scientific examination, planning to go to Beijing to catch up with the examination.

The hard work during the period is not worth mentioning, but fortunately today I really became the champion.

Imperial Garden, Qionglin Banquet.

The silk strings are smooth and the sleeves are elegant. I sit in the first position above and below the emperor, waiting for the emperor to speak with tense spirit.

"Where is Jiang Aiqing?" The emperor put down the wine cup in his hand.

"The humble minister sees the emperor." I dare not face up to the emperor on the high platform, bowing my hands and saluting.

"Jiang Aiqing must know that every champion can ask me for a reward!" The emperor smiled brightly.

Why don't you know, I'm here for this.

"Wei Chen has heard about it a little bit."

"Then Ai Qing has any request, just ask!"

"This humble minister has the guts to ask His Majesty for a marriage, begging His Majesty to grant me a marriage with Miss Liu."