"Hang Erlang?" The opposite Lang Jun clasped his fists and greeted him.

Hang Rui returned the salute, said hello, and looked at all the gentlemen on the opposite shed.

Putting down the curtain, he looked back at the ladies at the table, and asked with a smile, "Are you talking about the gentleman in the brown robe?"

Several people laughed and did not reply.

Hang Rui walked directly to the table and said with a smile: "He is the eldest son of the Xue family who has just been transferred to Holland after the year. He is going to get married next month, and his wife is his uncle's niece." Tang Xiaoshi looked quite complacent.

Tang Xiaoshi snorted, and said casually: "That's quite a pity." She glanced at the next door, but couldn't see anything through the bamboo curtain.

"What do you regret?" Hang Rui glanced at her, picked up a peach and bit it.

Jiu Niangzi giggled and said, "My cousin must be regretting not being able to marry that gentleman!"

"What a pity, it's a pity only if two people are happy and can't stay together!" said in an educational tone.

Ninth Lady curled her lips and walked over to Second Lady.

Tang Xiaoshi glanced at him, knowing what he meant.

In the past year, he has cared so much for her. This kind of caring is no longer the caring she cared for Mu Yue's cousins ​​in the past. It is obviously beyond the limit.

The elders and sisters may think that this is Hang Rui making up for the guilt of not taking good care of her when she was in Luoyang, but she obviously feels that it is not.The tenderness and affection in his eyes belonged to the love between men and women.

Especially in the past few months, the scars on her forehead and face have faded to the point where the people in Hang Mansion are also happy. Seeing that she is in a better mood, they will occasionally joke with her and mention the matter of getting married.

The eldest lady once said jokingly in front of Mrs. Hang: "Since the mother-in-law is reluctant to part with Yueniang, why not just promise her to the son of our Hang family?" Jun, among them is Hang Rui.

When Mrs. Hang heard this, she immediately said: "This is good." She even thought about it seriously and said, "Erlang is close to you, what do you think of him?"

How is he?

He is naturally very good. She has personally felt the kindness he has treated her this year. She has also experienced the kindness to Mu Yue in the previous ten years from Mu Yue's memory.

Childhood sweethearts, who grew up together, they know each other best.

In the past year, she has indeed been attracted to Hang Rui, but he and Mu Yue are cousins ​​after all. Although she knows that in this time and space, it is legal and compliant for cousins ​​to get married, she always feels a little flustered in her heart, but she is very uncomfortable. Willing to.

Have been tangled in contradictions.

"Cousin." Seeing that she was in a daze, the second lady patted her lightly, "When I greeted Grandma Aweng this morning, they were talking about your marriage!"

"What did you say?" She went to say goodbye this morning because she felt a little uncomfortable in her stomach, but she didn't hear about it.

"Prepare to finalize your marriage this year."

"Which family's gentleman did Ah Weng and grandma fall in love with?" The third lady asked anxiously.

"I don't know about that. He must be a first-class gentleman, otherwise Ah Weng and Grandma would not be willing!"

Hang Rui felt that the peach in his mouth lost its taste in an instant. Seeing Tang Xiaoshi sitting calmly, he didn't seem to care too much, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

He pondered for a while, put down the peach in his hand, ordered them to get up and leave.

Tang Xiaoshi looked in the direction he was leaving, probably preparing to return home.

After the dragon boat race was over, after returning home, Mrs. Hang called her over, and the eldest lady was also there.

First, I asked a few questions about today's dragon boat race and then mentioned marriage.

Mrs. Hang took her hand and asked lovingly: "What does Yue'er think of your second cousin?"

really!

She glanced at the eldest lady, smiled and replied vaguely: "Very good."

"Be specific."

She smiled and said: "Second cousin is handsome, good-natured, capable of writing and martial arts. My uncle also praised him for his achievements in the army in the past two years, and he is a leader among brothers."

The old lady nodded with a satisfied smile, patted her hand, and asked, "How do you think she treats you?"

Knowing the other party's intentions, she can't say bad things, indeed, Hang Rui has never been bad to her for so many years.She smiled and replied: "Naturally, my brothers and sisters at home are very kind to me."

The old lady glanced at the eldest lady, who came forward and half put her arms around her shoulders and said: "Yue Niang, you are not young anymore, and your injury is healed now, I will discuss with the old lady to choose a Mr. Ruyi. But in the past few months, I have been picking and choosing, and I always feel that there is no suitable one. You grew up in the mansion, and your grandparents are reluctant to let you marry far away and suffer, and want to keep you by your side, so... I want to ask you What does Erlang mean?" Da Furen said it bluntly.

"This..." How should she answer?

She is willing in her heart, but she can't get over the hurdle in her heart. Now she especially hopes that she can be taken away by God as soon as possible, and let Mu Yue come back to decide whether to marry or not. At least she will not have such a psychological burden. .

But God has never had any strict rules for picking people up, and it's not up to her to decide.

But it's not an option to spend it like this all the time.

She thought about it for a while, half shy and half confused: "Yue'er knows that grandma and aunt love me, but...it's too sudden, Yue'er still hasn't recovered."

"No hurry, no hurry." Seeing that she didn't veto it, the eldest lady knew that this matter was very promising, and coaxed her with a smile, "Your sisters grew up together, and it won't be too late to settle it after your second cousin leaves the cabinet."

The old lady also smiled cheerfully: "Yes, yes."

She laughed along with her, but her heart began to tangle again. The second lady will leave the cabinet in two months.

Back in her small courtyard, she tossed and turned without falling asleep all night, and the next day she felt dizzy and uncomfortable, which frightened the people in the courtyard.

After hearing the news, Hang Rui also came to visit.

For two months, she was still the same on the outside, but she kept convincing herself in her heart that she is not Mu Yue, what does it matter if she likes Hang Rui and marrying him, and they are legal, compliant and reasonable in this time and space, as the saying goes Say do as the Romans do.

But there is always a lump in my heart.

Before getting married, the second lady went to the temple with her mother, the second wife, to burn incense and pray for blessings, and took her there together.

The second lady asked for a lottery, and the second lady accompanied her to the master to release the lottery, and she and Wei'er stayed in the hall.Looking up at the Buddha statue with a kind face in front of her, she knelt devoutly on the futon, clasped her hands together, and muttered to herself whether she wanted to marry Hang Rui.

After a long time, she lowered her head and took out a round coin from the purse at her waist, and said to the Buddha mentally: "If the round coin stands up, it can only be said that it is God's will, and I will not go against the sky."

After putting the round money in the palm of her hand and paying homage to the Buddha, she took a deep breath and bounced the round money up.The round money kept flipping in the air, and when it landed on the ground, it stood upright, bounced a few more times, and then rolled to the side.

Her eyes followed the round money and rolled seven or eight steps away, and finally the round money stood still.

No way?Really so wicked?

She got up and walked over, only to find that the round money was stuck in the crack of the floor tiles.

She picked it up and returned to the futon, and said to the Buddha again: "It was stuck just now, it doesn't count, do it again."

With her eyes closed, she flicked the round money up, but she didn't hear the sound of the round money falling to the ground. She opened her eyes and looked up, and saw a shadow beside her, and turned her head to see Hang Rui, who was holding the round money in his fingertips .

"I've come to pray for Buddha, why don't you still throw money to make a decision, why don't you ask for a lottery!" He handed her a lottery.

She hugged it blankly, looked at the round money in his hand, and asked, "Why are you here?"

"I have something on my mind to ask the Buddha." He walked to the futon next to him and bowed respectfully three times and nine times.Then he looked sideways at the lottery in her hand and motioned for her to ask for a lottery.

She froze for a moment, then shook.While shaking, she said mentally: "Whether you marry or not depends on God's will."

At that moment, Hang Rui's voice sounded next to my ear: "Yue Niang, there is something on my mind that I haven't told you. Before the Buddha today, I want to tell you."

She tilted her head and glanced at him, but the other party didn't look at him and looked at the Buddha statue piously and continued: "When I was in Luoyang, I said I married you, not as a joke, nor to comfort you to make you happy, I was sincere. My heart belongs to you , just because you are bound by a marriage contract, it is not suitable to marry another, and both grandfather and father care about this marriage contract, and I dare not express my heart."

"In Luoyang, I can only pretend that nothing happened to facilitate your marriage with the Xun family. It wasn't until I saw that you were hurt by Xun Erlang's unreasonable teasing that I suddenly saw my heart: what I am afraid of is not watching you marry someone else , what I am afraid of is that you will not be happy in this life, and I am afraid that I will not be able to protect you."

"Yue Niang." He turned his face, with mist in his eyes, "I sincerely propose to marry you in front of the Buddha today, and hire you as my wife, are you willing?"

"I..." She stopped the bamboo tube in her hand and looked at the sincere and affectionate eyes of the person in front of her, feeling both joy and pressure.

She hasn't passed the hurdle in her heart yet, she hasn't solved the knot in her heart, she hasn't given herself an accurate answer yet.

She avoided the other party's gaze, glanced at the lottery in her hand, closed her eyes again and shook it.

Leave it to God's will, if it is signed, she will agree.She said to herself in her heart.

Shaking and shaking, a sentence from Hang Rui just now echoed in my mind: Just because you are bound by marriage, you should not marry another.

This is not a response to the poem: Kuang should be given a clear gift, and he is not fit to remarry. [1]

Tanzhou is on the shore of the Xiangshui River, and the Xun family gave her a letter in three years. She has no father, mother, or close relatives. All of this corresponds to a boudoir poem "Long Lovesickness" that she once read.

She couldn't help smiling happily, and with a shake of her hand, a bamboo stick fell.She retracted her spirit, lowered her head and picked it up. It was the nineteenth lottery.

Hang Rui came over to help her up, and accompanied her to untie the lottery. Looking at Hang Rui, she felt a lot more relaxed.

It just so happened that the second lady and the second lady had just finished unwrapping the lottery, and they were surprised to see Hang Rui, and then they looked at each other with a knowing smile, and waited outside the temple for her to leave first.

Tang Xiaoshi handed the sign to the master.

After the master asked her a few questions, he smiled and said, "If you are looking for marriage, this is the best lottery."

"No way?" She almost blurted out in astonishment.The round money was stuck in the cracks of the bricks and stood up, and the lottery was shaken casually, and it was signed again.

The master explained the words of the autograph to her one by one in detail, she smiled on the face, but sighed in her heart: It's really God's will!

Hang Rui beside him laughed happily.

Leaving the main hall, he said with a smile: "Since God has a good relationship, we will do it according to God."

She squinted at him and left in a hurry.

Hang Rui smiled triumphantly and followed.

After returning to Hang Mansion, Hang Rui proposed to his parents and Mrs. Hang Taigong to marry her in front of Tang Xiaoshi. The elders were all happy to see her success, so naturally they had no objection.Tang Xiaoshi didn't ambiguous this time, and said: "It's all up to grandma and grandma."

The matter was settled on the spot.

The sisters who had been kept in the dark were very surprised and blamed her for hiding it from them.

After Mrs. Hang Er left the cabinet, the members of the Hang family put her marriage with Hang Rui on the agenda.

On November [-]th, an auspicious day, they held their wedding in Hangzhou Mansion.

The guests in the front yard are like a tide, and the sky is filled with boiling.After paying her respects, Hang Rui had just sent her to her new house when she was called by her husband.

Tang Xiaoshi was sitting in her new house, she could still hear the noise in the front yard through the many courtyard houses.

Wei'er hurried in from the outside, walked to her side, and said in a low voice: "This servant just saw Xun Erlang."

She was shocked. When the Mu family came over two days ago, she met Mu Dalang. Mu Dalang mentioned Xun Erlang to her, and said that he went to Tanzhou after he recovered from his injury last year and never returned to Beijing. .How could he come to Holland?

"You read it wrong?"

Wei'er snorted angrily: "Even if he turned into ashes, the slaves would recognize him. Just now, when the lady and Mr. Erlang visited the hall, he was standing among the guests in front of the hall door. Although he changed his attire, the servants could recognize his face at a glance. Just now, the slaves followed him, he seems to have come alone, and left the mansion after watching the ceremony, and did not stay for the banquet."

He didn't have the face to stay, and if Hang Rui knew he was coming, he wouldn't be welcome either.

"I know, don't tell your husband about this."

"Yes."

It wasn't until late at night that the noise in the front yard gradually subsided. Before Hang Rui came, she was already sleepy and tired, yawning again and again, and fell asleep in a daze on the bed.

……

——Women’s Resentment——

Tang Xiaoshi had a dream, a spring dream with boundless fragrance.

In the dream, the tent was warmed with red candles, the light was dim, and the whole body was dry and hot.

In the dream, her name was Song Chu, and she was lingering in the middle of the night with a jade-faced man named Qi Song. The other party was gentle and powerful, making her want to die, and they were both exhausted and fell asleep in each other's arms.

In the dream, Qi Song softly whispered all kinds of wishes to him in her ear: the green mountains will die, the scales and hammers will float, the Yellow River will dry up, the sun will rise in the daytime, the Big Dipper will return to the south, and the sun will see the sun in the middle of the night, and I will never rest with you. [2]

She ended up in darkness in her dream.

Then she woke up groggy.

Her head hurt a little, she rubbed her temples.

Her eyelids were heavy, she opened them, the light was harsh and she closed them immediately, and suddenly found something strange in the room, she opened her eyes again, covered the glare with her hands, blinked a few times, and then she could see the situation in the room clearly.

There are red silk hanging everywhere, and there are some unburned wax oil left on the two red candles on the long table next to it, and there is a set of wedding clothes on the hanger next to it.

This is a new house, but not her and Hang Rui's new house.

She sat up in a panic, with a mandarin duck pillow and a mandarin duck quilt on the bed, and herself——she hurriedly pulled the quilt to cover her naked body.

The nerve in her head jumped a few more times, and she rubbed her head, feeling so painful and dizzy.My body is also weak, my waist is sore and my legs hurt.

She leaned against the side of the couch and slowed down, and only then did she fully wake up.

She was slipped into a new time and space by the heavens, her current identity is Song Chu, Qi Song is his husband, they just got married yesterday, last night was their wedding night.

that dream—

Is it Song Chu's memory, or her experience?

She couldn't tell the difference.

She just feels that she has a headache now, and her whole body seems to be falling apart.

Looking at the hanger next to the couch, she was about to get up to get the clothes, but the quilt slipped off, she grabbed it in panic, and then got down on the bed wrapped in the quilt to get the clothes and put them on.

Just at that moment, someone pushed the door open and came in, and saw a tall shadow through the screen in front of the door, it must be Qi Song.

She put on her middle coat two or three times, at this time Qi Song walked around the screen, she immediately turned around and complained while tying the belt: "Why didn't you knock on the door."

"The lady is awake? I thought you were still sleeping, and I was afraid of disturbing you."

She hurriedly put on her clothes, and Qi Song sneered from behind her.

Looking back, Qi Song stood by the long table, with one hand folded over his chest and the other clenched against his chin, looking at her with great interest as she smiled, her smile was bright and clean.

"What are you laughing at?" She was a little displeased. He was laughing at her like he was watching a show in such a state of embarrassment.

"My lady, your clothes are on the wrong side."

She looked down and saw that the stitches were all outside, and she felt even more ashamed immediately, her face was hot instantly.

"You...you get out!" She turned around again, with her back to him.

"Okay!" Qi Song laughed heartily twice before going around the screen and going out.

She was just about to take off her clothes and put them on again, when Qi Song's voice came from outside the door, ordering the maid to come in and serve her.

The author has something to say:

[1] Citing Cao Ye's "Acacia Extreme" in the Tang Dynasty.

[2] Huayong Five Dynasties Anonymous "Bodhisattva Man Make Thousands of Vows Before Your Pillow"

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