Shengpingle

Chapter 107 Choices
Su Li almost sighed when he heard it, and answered with a smile, "Uncle, I also want to go and see, the Qionglin Banquet is still there for a while, so we can't delay it."

Su Xianyu nodded, and Su Li looked at Hua Pingle eagerly, "Miss Hua, let's go together? I can still help my uncle!"

Hua Ping was happy to see him staring at him with bright eyes, and obviously hoped that he could go with him very much, so he couldn't bear to refuse, so he nodded.

Su Xianyu brought them to the courtyard where Huo Jie lived, which was next to Linyuan Pavilion.

The gate of the courtyard is also locked tightly, but after entering, the plants and trees in the courtyard are faintly as before, and even the stone tables and benches by the roadside are spotlessly clean.

Hua Pingle paused slightly, almost wanting to grab Su Xianyu's collar and ask him, who is he doing all this for?What on earth do you want to do!
Back then, what role did he play in the Huo family's extermination!
Su Xianyu didn't seem to notice her sharp gaze like a blade at all, and led them to the back room of the main house, told A Li to greet them, and went to get the utensils by themselves.

Huo Jie has a casual and lazy temperament, and impatiently set up a study room to run around, so he used the second room as a study room.

There is a note that is more than ten feet long, and he usually reads and writes, and various things like repairing calligraphy and painting, or making immortal flowers are all on this note.

When he was still there, the bill would always be a mess.

He still doesn't allow people to tidy up, proudly boasting that he is orderly in chaos.

16 years have passed, this once "orderly and chaotic" room is clean and tidy, and at a cursory glance, it is still Huo Jie's things on display.

The last book he read before he died was placed on the shelf closest to the table, as if he would come back at any time, and after sitting down, he could lift the armchair slightly like he did back then, and he could get it with his backhand.

But if you look carefully, you can see that in this secondary room that serves as a study, all valuable things are gone.

For example, those antique jade pieces on the shelf that Huo Jie couldn't put it down, or the Guqin that was dusted in the most conspicuous place by him who only knew one song "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix".

Hua Pingle sneered silently when he thought of the broken flute and jade bracelet that Wang Miaoer took into his bag, and the plum blossom gun that Gray hid in his private treasury.

The Huo family has been prosperous for more than a hundred years, and has accumulated countless wealth and treasures, but it has fattened those scum and scum!
One day, she will make them all spit it out!

Su Li was obviously more curious than Hua Pingle, as soon as Su Xianyu left, he kept looking around.

Hua Pingle barely suppressed the tumbling emotions, pretending not to care and asked, "Have you never been here?"

Su Li didn't hesitate, "Well, only the Linyuan Pavilion, the outer study and the front garden are unlocked at home."

Hua Pingle smiled, a bit coldly, "Did your uncle say why?"

Su Li saw the coldness in her smile, and answered carefully, "Uncle said, there are only us two masters in the house, so we don't need such a big space."

He said this sentence when Hua Pingle followed him into the Su Mansion for the first time.

Only this time, after he said it, he added, "Uncle said, when I grow up and get married, this house will be handed over to me.

If I feel deserted at that time, I can open a few more yards, or open all of them.”

"Leave it to you, what about your uncle?"

"Uncle said that he probably won't live that long, but if he can live longer, he will go to Sanqing Mountain to practice Taoism."

Monasticism?

Hua Pingle sneered, while being a high-ranking Shangshu and Ge Lao, he was cultivating Taoism at the same time?

Su Li pursed his lips, and looked at Hua Pingle seriously, "Miss Hua Er, uncle is telling the truth, don't laugh."

Hua Pingle's smile froze, Huo Yanzhi frowned, "Then you want to make her cry?"

Su Li panicked immediately, and waved his hands again and again, "No, no, Miss Hua Er, don't get me wrong!"

Hua Pingle couldn't bear to embarrass him, so he quickly adjusted his expression and stuck out his tongue at him, "The Zhuangyuan Lang is the biggest today, and the Zhuangyuan Lang who sent me flowers is even bigger!

Don't say it made me cry, as long as he opens his mouth, he can tell me to come and cry, make trouble, and hang himself! "

Ah Li was brought up by Su Xianyu, and he was extremely caring towards Ah Li. It was perfectly normal for Ah Li to admire him and protect him, but she didn't have to criticize him in front of Ah Li.

Huo Yanzhi, "..."

Alcoholic and eccentric!
Su Li, "..."

Once again, I feel that the aunt that my uncle said is "quiet, elegant and talented, and can be an example of noble girls in the world" is definitely a figment of my uncle's imagination!

Su Li reached out and picked up the books placed on the far side of the desk. Generally speaking, the books placed here are the last books the owner read before leaving.

Hua Pingle glanced at it, and found that the book was big and thick, with the words "Thus I Hear" written on the dark blue cover.

The night before the big wedding, when she came to see her brother, he was leaning on the armchair and flipping through this thick and big book.

As soon as she came in, she saw the words "Thus I Hear" on the cover, and joked that he also read Buddhist scriptures like others.

The elder brother who has never been a serious man ignored her jokes, closed the book, looked at her seriously, and said, "If there is something you don't understand, naturally you have to read Buddhist scriptures and Taoism, so even if you still can't figure it out, at least you can take it lightly." ".

She knew what he was talking about, so she repeated again, "Brother, I want to be the princess".

She wants to be a crown princess, take care of the empress dowager and Fu Geer, and in the future, she will be a queen, empress dowager, and even empress dowager, taking care of the Huo family and Lian clan like the empress dowager, and benefiting the people of Daxiao.

They have debated this topic countless times.

And at that time, facing her who was about to get married the next day, the elder brother stopped arguing with her, raised the book in his hand, and said dejectedly, "A Yu, I have never been able to figure out why you would rather choose an empty space to occupy it." The trash with the crown prince's name is also unwilling to choose Ah Cai, who is hard to find in the world.

But looking at it, I figured it out a little bit.

Ah Yu, in fact, it has nothing to do with how A Cai is, nor does it have anything to do with any princess or queen, right?

You only think about the Empress Dowager and Fuwa. Since you returned to Beijing at the age of ten, for eight years, it was the Empress Dowager who cared and taught you, and Fuwawa was inseparable from you.

To you, the Empress Dowager is not because your mother is better than your mother, Fuwa, but you are regarded as your younger brother and lifeblood.

As for your father and mother, although they are parents in name, you haven’t even seen them eighteen times in 18 years.

As for my elder brother, I failed to grow up with you before you were ten years old, and after you were ten years old, I failed to love and teach you, and it was even more difficult for me to meet you.

I have never taught you to write, I have not endured the scolding of my father and mother for you, and I have not even accompanied you to see the lanterns of the Lantern Festival.

I haven't done all the things that a brother should do for a sister.

What you gave up wasn’t Ah Cai, and you didn’t take the prince, you just gave up us, and took the empress dowager and Fuwa.”

The elder brother was always talkative, but that was the longest sentence she had ever heard him say.

She didn't know how to explain it, so she shed tears in vain and shook her head desperately.

She wanted to say that they would be fine without her, but the Empress Dowager and Fu Geer couldn't live without her.

But she also knew that no matter how she explained or shed tears, for her brother, she gave up the opportunity to leave the palace and reunite with her family, and trapped herself behind the high palace wall for the rest of her life.

In the future, it will be even more difficult for him to see her, and even if he does, he will have to erect a screen.

In the future, he would never have the opportunity to teach her to write, to take the scolding on her behalf, to watch the lamp with her, and even when he saw her, he would bend down and salute and call her a lady.

At that time, she and he didn't know, they didn't even have "the future"...

"Hey, this is you—"

Su Li bit her tongue, "This is, do you recognize it?"

Hua Pingle recovered from the abyss of memory, and snatched the book from Su Li's hand. Su Li had already opened the book, but inside it was not a Buddhist scripture or Taoism, but a painting.

The little girl in the painting has big eyes, a pointed chin, and slightly frowning brows, like a puffy goldfish.

The painting skills and brushstrokes are immature, but quite radiant, and it looks like it was done by a child.

It was Jiu Fangyan, no, Su Xianyu, Su Xianyu, who was just nine years old, went to Fuzhou alone to paint her portrait!

After Hua Pingle was taken aback, he quickly flipped back, and found that it was not a Buddhist scripture at all, and all the pages were full of her portraits!

The more you turn back, the more mature Su Xianyu's painting skills become, and her words and smiles are vividly drawn as if she was alive.

The ones sandwiched between Su Xianyu's paintings are obviously Huo Jie's own paintings.

Among them was the painting that he secretly drew when Mrs. Luo was giving lectures while she understood the essence of the book and unconsciously smiled, which caused him to be scolded by Mrs. Luo for half a month.

Instead of being ashamed, he was proud of it, and added a poem to the painting, "Fish and wild goose, both floating and sinking, and a slight smile is always related to love." It doesn't make sense", she was deeply impressed.

Huo Jie's attainments in painting are far inferior to Su Xianyu's, and this painting is the best.

Others are mostly copied from Su Xianyu's paintings, and the traces of imitation can be seen at a glance.

Hua Pingle didn't know what kind of mood Su Xianyu had in painting her entire growth process one after another, and he didn't know what kind of affection Huo Jie had for her, painting one after another copying her portrait.

The thick portrait was collected into fragments of the past that she didn't know, and it was thrust into her mind and into her heart.

She remembered that she had repeatedly rejected her brother's invitation to go out of the palace to enjoy the flowers, invite her to go out to the palace to swim in the lake, invite her to go out to the palace to watch the lanterns, and invite her to go out of the palace to marry Su Xianyu——

She refused again and again, and her brother sighed and said "next time" again and again, until they had no more "next time"...

Crystal tears fell silently, and they were about to fall on the portrait that had made Huo Jie scolded again and again, Hua Pingle reached out to block it, and quickly closed the album, not caring about arousing Su Li's doubts, not caring about calling Huo Yanzhi , turn around and leave.

Huo Yanzhi silently glanced at the closed album, followed her footsteps.

Su Li called the second girl of Shenghua, saw that she didn't stop walking, so she didn't speak again, watched her back out of the room, sat on the armchair Huo Jie used to sit in, opened the picture album and slowly read.

Not long after Hua Pingle went out, he saw Su Xianyu approaching him with a silver box. Seeing them coming out, he was stunned, and bowed to salute, "My lord, Miss Hua, what is this?"

Hua Pingle took off the corolla from the bun, "It's getting late, it's not convenient for me to stay here, you help me make it and send it to Washington."

In the gorgeous and warm twilight, Hua Pingle's voice had an unreal coldness.

Su Xianyu took the corolla silently, let it to the side of the road, and bowed again to salute.

Hua Pingle walked past him without looking sideways, and Huo Yanzhi saluted back, protecting her and going out.

Su Xianyu straightened up, watched their backs disappear, then carried the box and the corolla into the second room.

Seeing him coming in, Su Li hurriedly stood up and called uncle awkwardly.

Su Xianyu didn't seem to have seen the picture album spread out in front of him at all, put down the box, held the corolla in front of him and looked at it carefully, and said softly, "It's getting late, go, don't miss the Qionglin Banquet".

Su Li looked up at him, hesitated to speak, saluted and retreated.

After Su Li left, Su Xianyu went to the place where he had just sat and sat down, put the corolla aside, gently closed the picture book, put it back in its original place, and opened the box again. The making of eternal flowers is trivial and complicated, and he still has a lot of things to do to do...

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At the same time, Luo Xiyao was painting in the room, and when she heard the servant girl's greeting, she knew that Mrs. Luo had come, she was a little impatient, but she still put down her pen, got up and went to the door.

Mrs. Luo followed her into the room, looked up and down the picture of the spring scenery in the mountains she was drawing, shook her head and sighed, "Yaoyao, no matter what you do, you have to be good at it, first of all you have to put your heart into it.

I am afraid that you have never appreciated the spring scenery in the mountains with your heart, so how can you make a good painting of the spring scenery in the mountains? "

Luo Xiyao's face paled, "Grandmother is going to say that I have no spirituality?"

Mrs. Luo said seriously, "You have no talent and spirituality in Danqing. No matter how hard you study, you can only master one skill at most. What's more, you haven't obtained the Dharma yet?"

Luo Xiyao bit her lips and lowered her head, Madam Luo's heart softened when she saw it, and her tone softened, "Yaoyao, you are already married, and the marriage cannot be delayed.

Grandmother will make an appointment for your marriage before the summer, and it is just right to get married before the twelfth lunar month—"

Luo Xiyao interrupted her sharply, "I told you, I won't marry! If you force me to marry, I'll cut my hair and become a sister-in-law!"

Although Mrs. Luo had heard such words a lot, every time she heard them again, she still had shortness of breath and chest tightness, and hurriedly covered her heart.

The nurse behind her hurriedly stepped forward to caress her back, and persuaded, "Old lady, the girl is still young, and she said something wrong, please don't take it to heart, it will make the girl worry if you get angry with yourself." .

Luo Xiyao stood there motionless, her whole body, from the hair strands to the pearls on the embroidered shoes, exuded rejection and hostility.

Mrs. Luo waved her hands to signal the maids and women to go out, and persuaded with a slow breath, "Yaoyao, you also saw it, it's not that grandma doesn't help you—"

Luo Xiyao interrupted her loudly, "I know, I will never marry anyone else except him!"

Rao, Mrs. Luo had a good temper, so she got mad at her and shouted, "Aren't you going to marry? Be a sister-in-law? He will marry you?
What's the use of you staying in your room every day and learning how to read and draw from him?Not to mention that your talent is limited, you will never be able to match him, even if you surpass him, so what?
Would he be willing to marry you just because you are better at reading and painting than him?

At worst, you can also learn from Miss Hua Er, although up to now you haven't been able to get Xianyu to let go of her and marry her, at least she has won Ah Li's heart!

Xianyu valued Ah Li so much, and Ah Li looked towards her, even if Xianyu still wouldn't marry her, he would value her more!
What about you?

Just because of Xianyu's prevarication, he hides from A Li everywhere, even when A Li enters the examination room, you refuse to embroider a purse!
Today is Ah Li's big day, and you don't even want to show your face!
Let me put my words here today, if you really plan to be an aunt, draw up a charter and convince your grandfather, otherwise, you will wait until the end of the year to get married! "

After finishing her speech, Mrs. Luo left in a flick of her sleeves, but she couldn't feel at ease in her heart, which made the servant girl take good care of her, and then she left Luo Xiyao's yard.

But he has already made up his mind, he must choose a good husband and son-in-law for Luo Xiyao before summer, and ask her to get married at the end of the year or next spring.

　Good night, friends┗(ω)┛

　　
　
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