Peach concubine

"Peach Concubine" follows the plot style, the progress of the previous plot is relatively slow, and the tone is relatively relaxed.There will be a lot of foreshadowing and trivial details to prepare for the climax later.Ah, I hope you don't find it too boring and dull.I really like this story myself, haha.

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The house of Jian's family is not as luxurious as imagined. The square courtyard and red-painted tile-roofed houses look like ordinary people's mansions.

The door of the study room was open, and when you got closer, you could hear the ups and downs of chattering and laughing inside. Jian Ruolin walked in hesitantly, startling the two people who were chatting happily inside.

One of the handsome men in a white robe saw him, and quickly got up and walked over: "You are back, I have been waiting for you for a long time." The man's appearance is far from Jian Ruolin, not very outstanding, but his features There is a sense of warmth in the room, and the occasional scheming light flashes quickly between Gu Pan, which is another kind of cleverness and slyness.Pulling Jian Ruolin, he said, "Young Master Xiao has been here for a while, and was about to leave, but you almost missed it."

The visitor was dressed in a luxurious brocade robe, dark purple and golden in color, with a white jade crown on his head, black hair scattered on his shoulders, intertwined with the tangled patterns on the cloth.As soon as there is a slight movement, the noble and coquettish can't be concealed.

Jian Ruolin frowned, watching him walk up to him, and slightly arched his hands towards her: "Second Young Master Jian."

The tone of voice was gentle and gentle, but there was some ambiguous narrowness clearly in the thick black eyes that looked at him.He raised his head and smiled flamboyantly at him, with an embarrassing secret that only the two of them knew.

"Don't just stand there, since Ruolin is back, how about Mr. Xiao sit down for a while?" With a warm and hospitable smile, the current head of the Jian family has no doubts: "The 'coriander incense' that you like, but It's all from Ruolin's handwriting." He was quite proud in his words: his second brother didn't know how to do business, but his pair of skillful hands were full of tacit understanding, but he completely inherited his father's unique skills.

Green comes out of blue, Jian Ruolin has more innate talent and aura when it comes to researching incense and making powder.

"Hehe, I've heard about Mr. Fusu's reputation for a long time, but I haven't had the chance to get to know him. Today is a coincidence. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Jian Ruolin didn't have the slightest liking for this person who appeared in his house majestically, so she gave him a nonchalant look, and didn't answer—he had obviously had such an embarrassing and unpleasant experience, how could this person have such a thick skin , To actually say such hypocritical words as "I have never had a chance to get acquainted".

Being dragged into the seat by her elder brother embarrassingly, Jian Ruoxi didn't seem to notice his younger brother's abnormality, and introduced the two of them enthusiastically: "This is my younger brother, I have already said it... Ruolin, this It's Mr. Xiao Jingmo, Mr. Xiao, a regular customer of our pavilion, and has been taking care of the business in the pavilion for many years. Mr. Xiao appreciates the 'coriander fragrance' you made, and he is full of praise."

The first reaction in Jian Ruolin's mind was "Even if it's all poured into the Lingjiang River to feed the fish, I won't sell it to him", but the brother's gentle eyes clearly hinted that Xiao Jingmo is a big customer of Liufang Pavilion, so I'm afraid he can't offend him. Therefore, he could only keep his mouth shut and did not speak, but stared at Xiao Jingmo repeatedly with his eyes.

The first time I saw him, he was a prostitute in Hongxiufang, and his anxious face made him disgusted; the second time I saw him, he was a distinguished guest of Liufang Pavilion, sitting in a group of dudes!Brother Young Master, the demeanor of a kid from a rich family is not pleasing to the eyes; but this time when I saw him, he was a guest at their house, and he talked and behaved politely. Be able to deal with it with eloquence, chic and self-satisfied.

Such a person would put on a different face in different situations, perfect in every aspect, but Jian Ruolin didn't know why, but subconsciously felt repelled.

"Young Master Jian is too polite."

"Young master comes and goes. It's really hard to pronounce. If you don't dislike it, can you just call 'Brother Xiao'?"

"That would be disrespectful, I'll just call him 'Brother Jian'."

"Hehe, according to the accent, Brother Xiao is not from the local area, right?"

"I came from Kyoto. I heard that Suzhou and Hangzhou are outstanding people. I came here to buy some treasures and go back."

The rich man lost his flashy appearance, and talked to Jian Ruoxi about his family's troubles in a generous and calm manner.

Jian Ruolin sat on the sidelines bored and played the role of decoration. He couldn't say anything about those high-sounding scenes, and he didn't like them—it was too much for him to wear a mask to deal with strangers, and to be extremely intimate and easy-going. Difficult.

A small salt-baked walnut was pinched in his palm and rubbed repeatedly for a long while. It was obviously a snack that was served after a suitable crack was cut, but no matter how hard he tried to break it off, he couldn’t peel off the stubborn thin shell── Those ten dexterous fingers, which can only make excellent face powder, lost their armor and armor under the hard shell of the walnut.

A hand was stretched out in front of him unexpectedly, and there were several whole pieces of walnut meat in the open palm.

Jian Ruolin looked at the man in front of her, and then at the elder brother who was sitting upright and calm, stretched out her hand to pick up the pieces of walnut meat, and said flatly, "Thank you."

Turning around, she put it on the table at hand.

The conversation between the two continued, but Jian Ruolin was still unable to intervene, so she just sat quietly.

It wasn't until the sun was setting that Xiao Jingmo got up to say goodbye: "It's getting late, Xiao should also leave."

This time, Jian Ruoxi didn't try to keep her, and sent her to the door.

Before going out, Xiao Jingmo turned around and smiled, leaving a meaningful sentence: "Brother Jian is so kind, Xiao will definitely visit again someday." While speaking, his eyes glanced at Jian Ruolin next to him intentionally or unintentionally.

"Brother Xiao is very polite, and the humble house is simple. If Brother Xiao doesn't dislike it, it's good to come and sit here often."

Xiao Jingmo's carriage finally drifted away from the sight of the two of them. On the way back to the house, Jian Ruoxi looked at him: "You don't like Mr. Xiao?" There are holidays, and with the sensitivity of a businessman and the protectiveness of his elder brother, he can tell at a glance that there is something wrong between the two of them.

Xiao Jingmo is a seasoned communicator, and his response time is tight, without leaking the slightest flaw.If he hadn't seen his younger brother's abnormality, he wouldn't have asked any more because of the faint worry in his heart.

──However, how would Jian Ruolin explain to her brother about the oolong in Hongxiufang?

Gritting his teeth, he finally shook his head and said, "Brother is overthinking, I just have a headache today and can't get excited." He didn't understand why that person appeared in his house, nor did he understand what the person's intentions were, It's just that he has an inexplicable intuition sensitively: he doesn't want to have anything to do with that person.

The elder brother still looked at him softly, Jian Ruolin sighed lowly and made a relieved expression: "It's really nothing, I'm worrying my elder brother."

Jian Sheng died early, and the brothers of the Jian family were still young. When they first took over Liufang Pavilion, how many people were eyeing this piece of fat. Only Liufang Pavilion can have today's situation.

Jian Ruoxi has only one younger brother, and she protects the calf very well, so she is afraid that the pure and gentle younger brother will be bullied.

At this moment, he just patted his younger brother's head, and said softly: "It's fine, if you're not feeling well, you can rest early, and I'll let Uncle Zhong deliver dinner to your room, okay?" Even if Jian Ruolin is already After the crown ceremony, Jian Ruoxi would still unconsciously regard him as the child who was carefully protected under his wings since childhood, and her voice was full of intimacy and doting.

Jian Ruolin nodded, went back to the room, and temporarily put aside the uninvited guest who inexplicably broke into his life.

As soon as he approached his small courtyard, he saw the clumsy little bookboy playing with his guqin and didn't know what he was doing.

Jian Ruolin watched the little book boy stumble, and there was an alarm bell in her heart. She didn't care about her demeanor, and ran over like the wind. Before the person arrived, she began to scold: "Little Sier, it's okay to take it away!" What to do with it, be careful, don't break it."

The little book boy looked aggrieved, and muttered in a low voice, "I just wanted to take it out and wipe it off because I saw it was dirty."

Putting the guqin in her hand on the stone table in the middle of the courtyard for the time being, Jian Ruolin's fingers gently stroked the body of the piano.

Since the eldest brother took over the property of Jian's family, in order to help the eldest brother stabilize the family business, he has been working for a long time, and he has never had the leisure to play the piano and paint.Even his favorite "Liuyue" guqin was covered with a thin layer of dust—no wonder his little book boy couldn't see it, so he took it out to wipe and clean it for him.

Xiao Si'er stared blankly at the way the young master touched the body of the piano, and felt that the young master's focused eyes were so charming and beautiful.It's been a long time since he saw the young master showing such an expression. "Young master hasn't played the piano for a long time, why don't you play a tune and listen to it?" Complacent and excited, he quickly took the opportunity to encourage his son to play the piano for him.

Jian Ruolin's love and talent for piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child is so terrifying that ordinary people can't imagine.

The talented Suzhou scholar known as "Master Fusu" by the outside world, it is said that when he plucks the strings, he can attract a hundred birds to stop and respond in unison—it is as charming and moving as a legend.

Jian Ruolin's fingers caressed the strings unconsciously, and after a few light strokes, there were tiny crisp sounds overflowing.Although it has not yet become a melody, the timbre is melodious and loud, like a trickling stream in a mountain stream, or like a silver bell dancing in the wind, with an especially intoxicating aura.Jian Ruolin seemed to be drunk herself, a little warmth gradually melted into her eyes, and her pupils were a little dark!Rubbing brightly in the night, like a gem soaked in water, it is shining brightly.

There was a slight smile on Jian Ruolin's mouth, her fingers fluttered like dancing, and the moving tune echoed lightly in the dusk.

He played "High Mountain and Flowing Water"──

In the past, Yu Boya met Zhong Ziqi by chance and made him his confidant; later when Zhong Ziqi met with an accident, Yu Boya sighed, "My confidant is gone, who will send me the music of the qin?"However, the song "High Mountain and Flowing Water" was recorded and passed down by later generations, and has been handed down for generations.The melody is elegant and the charm is timeless. Every time it is played slowly, it seems to be talking about many years ago... the past that has been buried in the dust of history.

Playing zither music on the guqin, in Jian Ruolin's hands, she is very familiar with it.

He played the piano in one go, and the melodious music sounds like flowing clouds and flowing water.The noble young man in white and plain robes, with his eyebrows lowered and plucking strings, was as picturesque as a picture, and half of his side face covered by fine hair was as moving as the sound of graceful music.

Shuying horizontally and shallow water, subtle fragrance floating moon dusk.

Just like this situation.

The sound of the piano is clear and soft, just like spring flowers blooming in March, with lingering strands, revealing the unrestrained romance of Cang Sheng Tage, and finally in a low and slow, gradually returning to calm.

Xiao Si'er opened his mouth wide, his big dark eyes were full of reverence and envy.

Jian Ruolin withdrew her hand, looked at his stupid look, and stretched out her hand to pat his forehead amusingly: "You are stupid, look at your lost soul, you are really useless."

Xiao Si'er puffed out his cheeks and rubbed his forehead that was sore from the bullet, and said dissatisfiedly: "It's not that the son's bullet is so good."

The innocent and straightforward Tongyan, without the slightest bit of flattery, just expresses the most authentic feelings.

Jian Ruolin couldn't help but feel warm in her heart. She raised her head and glanced at the gradually sinking red sun, reached out and touched the little book boy's head, and sat there with a feeling of loneliness.I don't know which soft part of my heart was touched, and suddenly sighed faintly.

"Why are you sighing?"

A sudden questioning voice sounded, and suddenly, both the master and servant below were startled.

The visitor, dressed in dark purple and vermilion luxurious robes, appeared in the setting sun.

Looking along the place where the sound came out, the man was sitting on a peach blossom tree by the wall of the small courtyard, with one leg dangling underneath.Because of the angle, the man sitting on the slanting branch seemed to be walking out of the afterglow of the setting sun.The evening wind blew past, making his loose robes rattle, and looking at his face with peachy eyes and a wild smile on his lips, there was an evil spirit and arrogance in his whole person for no reason.

Such a man who stinks of copper, would have been labeled as a "bad boy" at a glance... But under the luxurious clothes that symbolize status and wealth, he assumed a rascal posture only for street people. , leaning on the trunk of a peach tree, smiling eerily, which seemed out of place no matter how you looked at it.

"Young master?" The little book boy raised his spines, clenched his fists and looked up and down at the unexpected visitor.

Jian Ruolin's delicate eyebrows frowned again, she reached out to stop the vigilant little bookboy beside her, glanced at the man on the tree, and immediately said, "What are you doing here?"

Xiao Jingmo still smiled wickedly and flamboyantly, under his handsome appearance, there was a time-honored charm.Pausing on the tree, the whole person floated down from the tree trunk and landed gracefully.That body technique and movements are not like showing off superb qinggong martial arts, but rather like dancing a dance for people to appreciate.

Jian Ruolin had to admit that this man did have the ability to turn all beings upside down and confuse people's hearts.

Xiao Jingmo stood still in front of Jian Ruolin, smiled and cupped his fists: "Excuse me, I'm here today to apologize to Mr. Jian." His black hair was flying, his clothes were fluttering, and there was a sly sneer in his laughter.

Jian Ruolin thought of being held in the arms of that man wantonly and frivolously when they first met, her cheeks were blushing, and her icy skin and skin were stained red irresistibly.Under the twilight, the man who is ashamed and angry is as gentle as radiant and beautiful jade, and his whole body is full of suffocating beauty, but he doesn't know it.

"Ruolin doesn't dare to take it." The alienated and tactful gesture and tone also revealed a hint of anger.

Xiao Jingmo immediately put on an aggrieved and injured expression, and stood there mourning abnormally: "It is rumored outside that Mr. Fusu is talented, gentle as jade, and treats others with gentleness and courtesy, but why does he reject me thousands of miles away?" The man looked at His eyes were full of resentment, as if Jian Ruolin had done something unforgivable to him, "Mr. Jian has a prejudice against me, isn't it because I mistook him for a courtesan when we first met? "

Xiao Si'er was still scratching his head and looking at him suspiciously, a question appeared clearly in his eyes──What is a squire?

Jian Ruolin's head suddenly exploded with a "boom", and the heat surged up, and the embarrassment could not stop occupying the main position.

"You, you shut up..." Argued anxiously, but forgot that there was no need to argue at all.

Xiao Jingmo approached again with words: "Under that situation, I met Mr. Jian, how could I not have a misunderstanding. All the actions towards Mr. Jian that day were just out of human nature, but there was definitely no intentional offense at all. thought."

The implication is that the second son of the Jian family appeared in the boudoir of the ladies in Hongxiufang, and he mistakenly thought that the people in the workshop were frivolous. In fact, he cannot be completely blamed.

Jian Ruolin is not a person who is good at rhetoric and sophistry, and Xiao Jingmo is aggressive. He didn't know how to react, but he was extremely ashamed and said: "A gentleman, who would hang around the place of fireworks?"

Perhaps what he couldn't let go of was the fact that the man in front of him was staying at the fireworks place. Jian Ruolin's upbringing and learning since he was a child told him that it was shameless for a man to play with prostitutes.Jian Ruolin kept herself clean, and was protected too well by her elder brother. In this respect, she was a blank slate, even pure and old-fashioned, a little pedantic and conservative.

However, his angrily questioning was actually laughed at by the man. Xiao Jingmo was taken aback by his question for a while, and then he started pointing at him and laughing, Jian Ruolin's handsome face turned livid, as if his talent was still unfinished He quickly stopped his momentum, coughed twice, and said jokingly: "Young master Jian is wrong, even Confucius said 'food and sex'. At my age, I am just young, and I don't go to Huajie and Liuxiang to seek pleasure. How can you relieve your masculinity by having fun?"

Jian Ruolin was frightened by his blunt words, and felt more and more that the person in front of her was really a scoundrel.

Speaking some explicit words in a serious manner, only a person like Xiao Jingmo can have such a normal face.

Feeling that the teasing was enough, Xiao Jingmo finally put away his shocking remarks, put on that extremely aggrieved face, and said in a sad tone like an abandoned dog: "Mr. Jian has repeatedly rejected me because of this little misunderstanding. In addition, it is too ruthless. In any case, I sincerely make friends with you and apologize sincerely. Mr. Jian has a lot of people, so don't be as knowledgeable as Xiao."

That handsome face speaks sincere words, making people forget his previous banter and harshness, and the words he speaks become extremely convincing and provocative.The key point is that although Jian Ruolin felt a little pimple in his heart, feeling uneasy and repulsive, it was not to the extent described by Xiao Jingmo.To be told nonsense by that person so brazenly, it turned out that if he didn't let go of the past, he would be heinous and unreasonable.

In terms of lip service, ten Jian Ruolins are no match for Xiao Jingmo.

What's more, although he is a bit hateful, and he talks upside down, but it is not unreasonable.

──In that situation, Jian Ruolin could easily be mistaken for a waitress who came to serve guests if she groped into the room by herself.Thinking about it carefully, apart from that embarrassing misunderstanding, Xiao Jingmo didn't do any other things that exceeded the rules, at most he was a bit silly!The bad habits of the younger generation are not considered serious evils.

My inexplicable disgust and resistance to him seemed real, a little bit, unreasonable.

Jian Ruolin was helpless: "Young Master Xiao is serious." After a pause, he said: "The visitor is a guest, but in the future, don't be the gentleman on the beam who climbs over the wall and climbs the tree." Turning around, he ordered the little four who stood there blankly, " Why don't you prepare tea for Young Master Xiao?"

The little Shutong was in a daze, and after being reprimanded by Jian Ruolin, he just woke up like a dream, and awkwardly ran to the back of the house to make tea.

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This section has been revised. 2011.11.29