Crossing, strategy, picking up morals

"I can't stop dripping blood and tears of lovesickness and throwing red beans, and there are endless spring willows and spring flowers all over the painting building." The beauty holding the pipa played and sang softly and melodiously. The smell of seduction.

The man sitting on the chair shook his head and waited until the beauty had finished singing before opening his eyes and praising, "Wu'er's singing is really good."

The beauty put down the pipa and stood up with a blissful body, "My lord is absurd."

The man got up and walked in front of the beauty, put his arms around her willow waist, lowered his head and took a deep breath in her hair, "It smells so good."

The beauty's pink cheeks were shy, and the coquettish man who wanted to refuse and welcome was even more itchy, and his hands were irregular, and the teasing beauty was panting.

"Father!" A young boy carved in pink and jade suddenly emerged from under the table. He was eight or nine years old, with two small buns, just like a Fuxi doll in a New Year painting.But at the moment, that pleasing face was full of anger, "What are you doing?!"

Hearing the voice, the man holding Luo Chang's half-untied beauty was about to do something, he was so frightened that he fell off the beauty's delicate body, and hurriedly adjusted his clothes, "Oh, my little ancestor, you... you Why are you hiding in my room again?" Turning his head to look at the tightly locked door, "You didn't see anything, did you hear that? Don't talk nonsense!"

The little boy turned his head angrily, "I want to tell mother!"

The man's face immediately changed when he heard this, "Ancestor, my little ancestor! You must never tell your mother about this. If you want her to know about it, you don't know how to make trouble with me!"

The little boy put his hands on his hips, "You deserve it!"

"Yes, yes, yes! I deserve it!" The man hurriedly responded, then turned his head to see the charming beauty still lying on the table, looking at him with resentment, sweating, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to wipe away the half-faded hair. Luo Shang tied it on, coaxing, "You go back first, you little one, ah." He lowered his voice and instructed, "Be careful on the road, and avoid the madam."

The beauty who was pulled up from the table and pushed out by the man stomped angrily, tugging at the man's sleeve and not letting go, "Master——"

The man took off the beauty's hand and said seriously, "Meiwu, you go back first."

"Master..." The beauty wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by the young boy beside her, "Aunt Mei, if you don't leave, my mother will come over."

The beauty's body froze, and she glanced at the man resentfully, she let go of her hand and withdrew without daring to pester him any more.

The man turned his head to please the young boy and smiled, "Yan'er, today's matter..."

Su Weiyan spread his small hands, "20 taels."

The man's face changed a few times, "Nonsense! Why are you threatening Dad?" He leaned forward again, with a smirk on his face, "Let's discuss it, how about ten taels?"

Su Wuyan snorted and turned his head away.

The man looked at his posture, and there was no other way, knowing that if the 20 taels were not taken out today, this little devil would immediately bring this matter to Qingzhi, so he had to take out a silver pouch from his waist and count it. When two ingots of silver came out, Su Weiyan squinted, "Not enough!"

Resigned to his fate, the man touched two more ingots and put them in Su Weiyan's small palm, "Is this enough?"

Su Wuyan grinned, showing all his white teeth, "Thank you dad!"

After speaking, he walked out with two radish legs, leaving the man in the house crying silently holding his half-shrunken silver bag...

Su Wuyan left the main house, walked around to an osmanthus tree in the backyard, and called out, "Brother!"

"Hmm." There was a lazy reply from the treetops.

Holding four ingots of silver, Su Wuyan raised his head and said, "Brother, I have the money to buy Ziqiong Cake!"

A young man in purple brocade clothes jumped down from the tree. He was eleven or twelve years old. He was handsome and unparalleled. His delicate eyebrows and eyes seemed to be full of love. A wave of his eyes made his face burn.

Su Chenlian walked up to Su Wuyan, picked up the four silver ingots from his hand, and put them into his pocket.Su Wuyan was not annoyed, but just smiled silly, "Brother, you guessed wrong this time, Dad didn't go to Aunt Lu, but Aunt Mei."

Su Chenlian took out a folding fan with ink base from his waist, and imitated those romantic and refined scholars to spread the fan, "Don't care which aunt it is, anyway, it's in the study room I guess, besides, didn't you get the 20 taels?"

Su Weiyan only knew how to laugh, "Yeah, brother is amazing."

Su Chenlian raised his head quite proudly, waved his little hand, and said proudly, "Let's go! Brother will take you to Zuixianju."

Su Weiyan yelled a few times, followed Su Chenlian and sneaked out the door.

As soon as the two of them entered the Drunken Immortal Residence, the dexterous man began to greet them courteously.

Su Chenlian ordered a few dishes, and Su Wuyan said, "Brother, let's take them home and eat with mother, shall we?"

Su Chenlian scratched his nose, "Can you bear it?"

"I can bear it!" Su Wuyan raised his face and said.

"That's good." Su Chenlian held back a smile and asked the assistant to wrap up all the things, and even brought a box of Ziqiong cakes, hugged him full, and pulled Su Weiyan out of Zuixianju, and the two sneaked back. At the mansion, I saw a woman in white who was being helped into the carriage by the old housekeeper.

Su Chenlian was holding the things in his arms before he could react, and saw Su Weiyan, who was still chattering beside him just now, rushed up.

Su Wuyan yelled while running, "Mother—"

The woman turned her head, her face was pale without makeup, "Yan'er."

Seeing a servant carrying luggage to the car, Su Wuyan asked in surprise, "Mother, are you going on a long journey?"

Ning Qingzhi shook her head, squatted down and straightened Su Wuyan's clothes, "Yan'er, mother is moving out."

"Mother, aren't you with Yan'er?" Su Wuyan gripped Ning Qingzhi's sleeves in panic.

Ning Qingzhi said, "You've grown up too, and you're an imposing magistrate again. If your mother isn't here, no one can bully you..."

"Mother, don't say anything." Su Weiyan's eyes were flushed, and seeing the woman was unmoved, he said in a daze, "Is it father, is it that father is making mother unhappy?" Ning Qingzhi responded. , Su Wuyan said again, "It's all the fault of those bad aunts in the backyard, I will drive them away now!"

Ning Qingzhi grabbed Su Fuyan's hand, "Yan'er, don't mess around!"

"If it wasn't for those women in the back garden, my mother wouldn't have left!" Su Wuyan said in a hurry.

"Men have three wives and four concubines. It's always been the case. Not to mention your father's high status and power, how can you refuse to be drawn by the forces in the court?" Asking too much, I deserve to be in the current situation." Then she stood up and said, "Yan'er, mother is leaving."

"Mother—don't go, don't go!" Su Wuyan grabbed Ning Qingzhi's sleeves and didn't let go.

Ning Qingzhi parted that small hand, and then pulled out the robe.

"Mother!" Su Weiyan wanted to pounce on her again, but was stopped by the old housekeeper. She could only watch helplessly as the woman boarded the carriage, lowered the curtain, and disappeared in the clatter of horseshoes, never to be seen again.

Su Wuyan was still standing at the door and crying, and Su Chenlian, who was holding a lot of things, was standing at the street corner, his expression still dazed.

On that day, another bride entered the mansion, Dahong pretended, gongs, drums and firecrackers blared to fill the hustle and bustle, Su Wuyan cried and beat the man who came out of the mansion to welcome the bride, the man hugged him and comforted him, then asked the servants to send him back to the room.

Su Chenlian stood at the corner of the street, as if no one had noticed him, he was holding a lot of things, including the most beautiful rouge and gouache sold in the east of the city, and the fine silk and silk bought in the cloth shop, what else? ?There is also Ziqiong cake that my mother loves most. It was still warm when it was taken out.

Later that man saw him, came over and called, "Why is Lian'er standing here?"

Su Chenlian lowered his head and did not speak.

"What are you holding? Such a big pile." The man asked again, reaching out to see what was in the topmost paper bag.

"Father." Su Chenli took a step back, raised his face and called out.

The expression on the man's face froze, because his eldest son, whom he was most proud of, had red eyes.

Su Chenlian walked to the side of the road, threw the things he was holding in front of a crippled beggar, then turned around and entered the mansion without looking at the man again...

After nightfall, the candles had long since been extinguished, and the night watch maid stood outside the door and yawned.

Su Wuyan opened his red and swollen eyes from crying and asked, "Brother, does it mean that father doesn't love mother?"

Su Chenlian replied, "If you didn't love, there wouldn't be us."

"Then why are there so many aunts in the back garden?" Su Wangya turned to look at Su Chenli, only the faint silhouette of that person could be seen in the darkness.

"Because father wants to protect mother." Su Chenli reached out and hugged Su Feiyan.

Su Weiyan leaned into his arms, "Why is that mother still leaving?"

After a long time, Su Chenlian said, "Maybe... it's also because of love."

That year, Su Wuyan was eight years old and Su Chenlian was 12 years old.

It was another glorious March, the capital was full of lanterns, and Su Chenli, who was separated from his servants, stood in front of a booth, smelling the tempting aroma of food, couldn't help but take a few coins from the purse tied around his waist Tongban bought two birthday buns that looked like bunnies and ate them while walking. When he finished eating one and wanted to take another, Su Wuyan's bulging bun face appeared.Swallowing, he wrapped the last birthday bag in oiled paper and put it in his arms.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw Su Weiyan who was looking around in the crowd looking for him. Su Chenlian, who looked anxiously, felt warm in his heart. Just when he was about to go up to stop him, he suddenly stretched out a hand from behind to cover his face. Shut his mouth and drag him into the alley.

Two drunken men robbed him of all his money, and even the jade pendant around his neck was dragged away by a big greasy hand.Su Chenli was afraid at first, but the jade pendant was a birthday gift from his mother. When he thought of this, Su Chenli didn't know where the courage came from. He rushed up and hugged the waist of a drunk man who was about to leave, and beat him. "Give me back the jade pendant! Give me back—"

A drunk kicked him cursingly, and another man also started to attack him when he saw this. Su Chenlian, who was raised in rich clothes and rich food, had never suffered such pain, curled up and curled up in the corner of the wall.

Just when Su Chenlian was about to faint in pain, he suddenly heard Su Weiyan's voice.

Su Wuyan's voice was soft and trembling with fear, he rushed to Su Chenlian's side and called him, "Brother——"

Su Chenlian opened his eyes, only to see Su Weiyan with tears in his eyes, he asked feebly, "Where's Uncle Qin?"

"I looked for you everywhere...then, and then." Su Wuyan was sobbing, "Uncle Qin and the others disappeared..."

"Idiot." Su Chenlian cursed.

The voice of the conversation between the two was very low, and the two were stunned by Su Weiyan who suddenly rushed out, but seeing that he was also dressed in brocade clothes, they guessed that he was a rich man who had separated from his family. I won't provoke you, but now that I'm drinking, the smell of alcohol will make me feel disgusted, and I will say in a vicious voice, "Boy, your brother stole our money, and now we are teaching him a lesson. If you are sensible, just get out of here." Go, otherwise don't blame us for being rude!"

Su Chenlian's family education is very good, and all the people he met and contacted were gentlemen and refined scholars. It was the first time I saw such a shameless street person, and I forgot to refute for a while.

Su Wuyan turned his back to protect Su Chenlian, and said, "I will compensate you!" He reached for the money bag with the gold leaf on his waist with one hand, but when he touched it, he found that the rope tied to the money bag had been cut at some point. I froze there for a moment.

The two drunks saw Su Wuyan's expression and knew that the young man had been robbed. They turned their eyes and found a new pleasure, staring at the tiger and said, "Boy, we don't want you to lose money, we don't want you to lose money. Just chop off his two fingers and let him remember this lesson!"

A man agreed, went up and picked up Su Chenlian who was paralyzed on the ground, pinched his hand and pulled his fingers out, and untied a sharp knife from his waist with one hand, Su Chenlian was so frightened when he saw it, With a face full of horror, he wanted to withdraw his hand.

The drunk stared at him with red eyes, "Don't move, or it won't be a matter of two fingers!"

Su Chenlian was only 14 years old at the time, and he was proficient in poetry, calligraphy and etiquette, but he didn't know the slightest way to deal with some street thugs. Even if he was frightened by the drunk man's fierce eyes, he stretched out his hand and dared not move , but Su Wuyan, who was pushed aside, scrambled and threw himself at the drunk man's feet, stretched out a pair of snow-white hands tremblingly, tears kept falling from his eyes, "Chop me off... Please, please don't touch my brother—”

When Su Chenlian saw the hands in front of him, the beating heart in his chest seemed to be hit violently by something.

Su Wuyan was still timid and only knew how to cry, but his hand was in front of him, "Please, I will pay you two fingers, don't touch my brother."

Later memories are fuzzy, because people in the mansion suddenly appeared to save them. Su Wuyan was frightened, and he was ill for many days. Su Wuyan drank the medicine given by the master, and the disease recovered.

Su Chenlian was punished and knelt in the ancestral hall all night. Su's father asked him, "Do you know what you did wrong?"

Su Chenlian said that he knew his mistake, and the matter was exposed.

Later, in the back garden, a woman who was fighting for favor stole poison from the food of the two sons-in-law. Su Weiyan had been greedy since he was a child, and Su Chenlian let him intentionally or unintentionally, so the amount of poison almost made Su He died in vain, and although he was treated by the national teacher and saved his life, he suffered from the sequelae of physical weakness and cold, which is a fatal pain in winter.

The women in the back garden were sent by the dignitaries of the metropolis. Although Su's father had hatred in his heart, he was powerless to punish them. He sent a few women out of the house, and the matter was left alone.Su Chenli was uncharacteristically gentle, and sent his loyal servants to the pharmacy to grab a few packs of arsenic and put them in the meals that were brought to the back garden that day, and a few weak women went there that night.

Su Chenli was still young at the time, and what he did was not too secretive. Su's father found him that night, picked him up from the bed, and swung him to scold him as a wicked son.

Su Chenlian covered his face and lay on the ground panting. Su's father asked him the reason, and he raised his face and said: I swore that in this life, I will do my best to protect my brother's safety.

Father Su's raised slap still did not fall, he sighed deeply, closed the door and left.

On the second day, the loyal servant committed the crime and was sent to be beheaded. During the execution, Su Chenli stood below and watched the loyal servant's head fall to the ground, blood spattered in vain. At that time, he was thinking, if he did it more secretly , no one found out, will the loyal servant not die...

So, it's all his fault.

After his loyal servant was cremated, Su Chenli grabbed a handful of ashes, put them in a sachet, and tied them around his neck. Since that day, his whole person has changed. Except for Su Wuyan, who is the same as before, who is he? They were all indifferent and didn't even bother to speak, and after taking in a crazy beggar, the whole person became even more withdrawn and weird.

Later, the old beggar ate the things he refined and died, and after he was buried hastily, all the things he had before his death were left by Su Chenli, but they were just a few worn-out letters, and few people cared about them.

One day when Su Chenlian was flipping through the slips of the book, Su Weiyan happened to see it. Su Weiyan pointed to a sketch in the book in surprise and said, "Brother, this flower is so beautiful!"

Su Chenlian closed the book, and there was a bit of warmth in his cold brows, "This is called Manzhu Shahua, if you like it, I will plant some for you."

"Okay!" Su Wuyan clapped his hands and laughed.

Su Chenlian rubbed his hair, his expression was dim in the shadows.

On the second day, Aunt Lu in the backyard died. Because she was pregnant with the Su family's heir, she finally entered the ancestral tomb with reluctance. The next year, the tomb was full of flowers, red as haze, very beautiful.

Su Chenlian picked the flower soil from the grave, put it in a pot, and placed it in Su Wuyan's room. The flowers were as big as a bowl, and they were even more beautiful than peonies.