Ah Chang

Tao Hua pulls Ling Shao to watch the night, saying that she is waiting for Qi Yun to come back, but she is so excited that she can't sleep.

"Taohua, the pavilion master hasn't come back yet, what are you so happy about?"

Taohua has a shallow mind, and always writes everything on her face. When Ling Shao said a word, she quickly covered her face: "What, why are you happy? Is it so obvious?"

Ling Shao nodded sincerely, Tao Hua curled her lips, but fortunately she stopped pretending: "That's because tomorrow is the Qiqiao Festival."

"Qiqiao Festival? Isn't there a Qiqiao Festival every year, but what is there to be happy about?"

"This year is different! In previous years, my sisters gave me gifts, and this year I also prepared gifts for everyone."

"Gift? But what kind of gift?" Ling Shao asked cooperatively, and Taohua glanced at her, pretending to be mysterious and said, "It's not until tomorrow, it's a secret."

"Then I have one too?"

"Naturally, every sister in the pavilion has it."

Tao Hua was very confident in the gift she had prepared, and finally asked Ling Shao, "Ling Shao, what have you prepared?"

"I..." When asked suddenly, Ling Shao scratched his head in embarrassment, saying that he hadn't prepared a gift: "To be honest, if it wasn't for Peach Blossom, I didn't even notice that tomorrow is Qiqiao."

"Hmph, idiot!" Taohua pretended to be disgusted and said, "You have been studying with Mr. Youfeng for a long time, and what you learn is so boring..." In the middle of the sentence, Taohua quickly changed her words: "No, what I mean Yes Yes Yes……"

Taohua thought for a long time but couldn't think of a word that could perfectly replace "uninteresting", so she turned her head and began to educate Ling Shao: "In short, I mean that Mr. Youfeng is an adult, and he is busy with affairs on weekdays, so naturally he won't You care about this, but Ling Shao, you are still young, this is the Qiqiao Festival! How can there be any little girl who doesn't care about the Qiqiao Festival?"

Taohua spoke righteously and sternly, and she even had her hips crossed according to reason, but the person who was being taught just bent her eyes and smiled dotingly: "Taohua, I'm not a little girl anymore."

"You're the same age as me, why aren't you a little girl, that lunatic is still calling me a brat all day long, ah bah bah! What she said can't be counted!" The second time she said something wrong, Taohua lost her interest and just groaned. Leaning over the railing and looking at the sky after the residual rain: "It is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on the magpie bridge on the night of the Qiqiao Festival. Ling Shao, do you think those little magpies that are stepped on will hurt?"

Tao Hua thoughtlessly asked Ling Shao, but he didn't intend to be perfunctory, and just imitated Tao Hua's appearance and bent over the railing: "There are so many of them, there must be a few that will only hurt."

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Qi Yan has a strong temper, but after being reprimanded and treated coldly by You Feng, she shed a few tears and left Jianshui Pavilion in a fit of anger, but she didn't know where to go.

Lanterns have already started to be decorated on the street to beg for the coming, Qi Yan listlessly shuttled through the hustle and bustle, and couldn't help but feel even more dejected. Suddenly, he heard that there was a new wine in a restaurant nearby, and everyone said that wine can relieve all worries. , Qi Yan pursed her lips, and strode into the restaurant.

"Shopkeeper! Give me another pot!"

It was the first time for Qi Yan to drink alcohol, and he couldn't tell whether the wine was good or not. He just felt the alcohol in his throat and rushed to his forehead. No more suffering.

"Bastard!" After pouring the second pot, Qi Yan began to scold the indifferent person fiercely: "I apologized and still have that attitude! What are you dragging! Just, even if I did it on purpose, so what, I did it on purpose and I should let it go, let me... hiccup..."

Qi Yan became more and more drunk, and finally fell down on the table. Seeing that she was handsome and alone, the three men coveted her for a long time and finally waited for an opportunity to take her out of the restaurant. Muttering: "Bastard..."

"I picked up a good one today! Look at this little face." Walking to the dark alley, one of the men began to be impatient: "I think why don't you just let me try the fragrance here first?"

After saying that, the man led Qi Yan to go deeper, leaving the two of them to watch the wind at the entrance of the alley. Just when that wretched hand was about to untie Qi Yan's belt, there was a scream at the entrance of the alley, and the man turned his head in haste. The two figures were falling slumped, and the hand hanging above the skirt was grabbed in shock the next moment.

"what!!!"

The man uttered a third scream, and before he even had a chance to see who it was, his hand was snapped off.

"It's so noisy!"

Qi Yan was in the middle of drinking, completely unaware of what happened, just closed his eyes and waved his hands blindly, and then he was grabbed, but it was with gentle strength.

With a soft sigh in the drizzle, a cyan figure lifted her up, Qi Yan blinked her eyes, the lights in the distance were turning into stars in the half-dream and half-awake, she leaned on the man's shoulder, and murmured another sentence: "Bastard. "

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"Peach Blossom, it's dawn."

Ling Shao wakes up the sleeping Taohua, the sky has just turned white, Taohua rubbed her sleepy eyes, the rain last night did not know when it stopped.

"Oh! Why did I fall asleep, Ling Shao, you didn't remind me!"

Just as Taohua straightened up, a piece of clothing slipped off. It was the coat that Ling Shao put on her. Taohua then put aside the complaints in her mouth, and said a little apologetically, "You, have you been awake all this time?"

"Yeah." Ling Shao nodded lightly, "Don't worry, I'll watch for you."

"..." The morning light shone in Ling Shao's eyes, a little gentle, Tao Hua felt his cheeks warm up, and hurriedly lowered his head and took out a handkerchief from his arms: "Here, a gift."

Ling Shao took it with both hands as if cherishing it, and asked pleasantly that the handkerchief was embroidered with two peaches. When Tao Hua accepted the red glow on her face, she knocked on her head: "This is peach blossom! What peaches! Ling Shao Are your eyes bad? Look! These petals! It’s clearly a flower petal!”

Taohua held up the handkerchief and counted the round petals one by one under the morning light. Ling Shao's narrowed eyes were even more crooked with a smile, and he said repeatedly: "Yes, yes."

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A Chang opened his eyes and it was still Qi Yun's blood-stained skirt. Last night, Qi Yun did not come back with them, but left alone after a few words with Ke Li, without even leaving a word to A Chang.

Today is Qiqiao, the Jianshui Pavilion was full of laughter early in the morning, earlier than the birds in the morning, A Chang came to Qi Yun's room, the door was full of gifts from the girls, a pile of gifts As tall as half a person, A Chang watched thoughtfully, knowing that Qi Yun hadn't returned all night.

"Sister A-Shang! You're back?!" Taohua went to sleep last night and didn't see A-Shang returning home at night. She plunged into A-Shang's arms and began to complain about her lovesickness: "Sister A-Shang! I miss you so much! You During my absence, I don't know what to do every day! By the way, there is also the flower you taught me to embroider..."

Tao Hua said aggrievedly about being teased by the girls about the embroidery of "beads and jade": "They all said that I embroidered peaches! Some people said it was buttocks!!"

"Isn't that, pink and round, isn't that what?"

"That's right, that's right!"

Before A Chang could comfort her, there were a few more girls who came to give gifts. Looking at the "hills" piled up in front of Qi Yunmen, each of which was exquisite and fragrant, she was asked to prepare for Qi Yun. When, Ah Chang couldn't answer for a while.

A Chang didn't know that Jianshui Pavilion had a custom of giving gifts to each other on Qiqiao's day, but she did prepare a gift for Qi Yun, but because of the rush of the journey, the work was not completed in time, so Qi Yun's absence gave it to her There is an extra time.

On a good night with two stars, the water in the pool where it had rained had faded slightly, and A Chang was wearing a needle in the courtyard, rejoicing that Qi Yun had not returned, but at the same time thinking about when Qi Yun would return, his fingertip was pierced while distracted, Seeing the blood slowly overflowing, A-Shang thought of Qi Yun from last night, when her hands were also stained with blood, but the smile in her eyes was as calm as the moon after the rain.

"The fate of the master of Jianshui Pavilion is like a fly."

A Chang then remembered what Keli had said, and Keli said to make A Chang love Qi Yun more.

A lover's heart is a seed, but Ah Chang's land is too barren.

A-Shang has never loved anyone, and has never been loved. To A-Shang, the word "love" is like the moon in a cloudy sky. You can see its shadow but don't know its appearance. Keli told her to love Qi Yun more, but "love" became A Chang's problem.

"Look! Cowherd and Weaver Girl!"

The cheers of the girls were heard not far away, A-Shang raised his eyes, looked at the two distant stars between the Han River, and looked outside the pavilion, only the wind blowing the shadow of the bamboo, the man had not yet returned.

Everyone is attracted by the stars, but A-Shang is the only one who guards the moon.

What's the matter with the twin stars tonight? I'll leave a hook a month before the court.