The Rise of the Cold Gate in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 30

The same spring is divided into two by a Xi River.

On the south bank of the Xi River, which is the Winter Garden, the grass is spreading, but the garden is full of silence. Because the theme is "winter", the plum blossoms all wither and fall into a deep sleep, leaving only the evergreen pines and cypresses and a row of green bamboos standing upright.

Although the winter garden is more spring-like than the spring garden on the other side of the river, with weak willows supporting the waist, peach blossoms burning, and listening to the wind under the forest, the silence is better than silence, and it is the best place to view the scenery.

On the south bank of the Xi River, people came one after another, stopping to watch, as spectators, a little richer families set up a shed and distributed along the river bank.

The female relatives in the shed walked along the river bank, or pointed to the other side of the river with their slender fingers from time to time, and it must be some talented person who has gained the limelight and attracted attention.

If you see something you like, you will take the initiative to find Diao's servant, take off the sachet you are wearing, and ask someone to send it to the other side of the river.After the humble talent on the other side of the river received it, if he wanted it, he would give a piece of peach blossom as a gift in return; if he didn't, he could politely refuse it.

This kind of story is staged on both sides of the Xi River every year. Years change, time flies, people change round after round, and youth grows old layer after layer. Unfortunately, the river is still the River of Xi, flowing slowly, never ending. No one breaks the rules.

Can you say that ordinary people are not involved?

They were involved, but they were not involved.

Crossing the Xihe River, the eyes move from the winter garden to the spring garden, from the south bank to the north bank, and the spring scenery suddenly becomes much nobler. It can watch the silence of the plum garden and tolerate the enthusiasm of the peach garden.

The talented people under the scorching peach blossoms are showing their youthful demeanor selflessly. According to the rules of Bei Ya Ji, the talented people need to choose one of the "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting" according to their own situation. If they can, they can choose two. Not bad.

The judging team is Taishou Xie and Yan Zhongzheng. They haunted the peach blossom forest hand in hand, watching paintings, watching chess games, calligraphy, or listening to music.

In the end, the two of them will jointly select the top ten "Fengyi" candidates, and Mrs. Diao will set up some prizes, including famous calligraphy and paintings, expensive pens, inks, papers and inkstones, etc.

The prizes are just incidental, talents never care about it, if they can get one or two adverbial words from Taishou Xie or Yan Zhongzheng, that would be great joy.

Move your eyes to the north of Xichun Garden, where stands a three-storey attic. At a glance, you can have a panoramic view of the peach blossom forest, which is an excellent place to enjoy the scenery.

Today's attic suddenly lit up, a little twitchy, fragrant, and the vermilion carved railings and columns added a bit of joy, because there were many noble women standing on the attic.

Ru skirt, shirt group; hanging bun, hanging bun; Jinbuyao, white jade hairpin; The gaze of Mr. Pianpian always brings a blush, shy and fiery, thin and beautiful.

Among these female relatives of the gentry, there are many married women who are familiar with human affairs, and after a few words, these innocent little ladies bowed their heads in shame and "giggled" with their mouths covered.

And these young daughter-in-laws who are married as wives, while admiring the scenery, do not forget to be entrusted by others, or to say a few good words to their unmarried uncles and natal brothers, and pull the red rope.

Xiao Shu's eldest sister is named Xiao Shu, who married Dai's family a few years ago.

Xiao Shu looks in the same line as Xiao Shu, but she has a generous personality, is popular, and can talk to anyone, so today's task is particularly heavy. Not only must she be a matchmaker for her uncle Dai Zong, but she also has to lead Yang Yu for her ineffective younger brother. , and was entrusted by the fourth aunt to find someone for Xiao Qin.

Dai Zong is a son of a noble family, so it's not difficult to deal with. Yang Yu, Xiao Shu's favorite, is not a problem.

The most rare thing is Xiao Qinzhi, Xiao Shu paid the name of her cousin "Jiangzuo Weijie" and became famous in Bei Ya Ji for her poems.

But apart from Yang's daughter, where is there a well-matched family who is worthy of Xiao Qinzhi?
At this time, Xiao Qinzhi was sleeping with his head covered, feeling very comfortable, how could he know that Xiao's mother secretly asked Xiao Shu to find a wife for him.

Let's say Xiao Shu, Fat Laoba and the Yang brothers left the summer garden together after taking a bath, and came to the spring garden. The four of them walked side by side, but Xiao Shu took advantage of it for nothing.

Three tall, one short, three average, one fat, three white and one black, Xiao Shu, who was originally unattractive and even a bit rough, dressed in black, stood out from the three of them, and his eyebrows became delicate.

Furthermore, last night Xiao Shu pretended to be fresh and refined with his "forced" style, which had begun to gain a reputation and had already been eulogized in Bei Ya Ji, adding a lot of points to it.

Therefore, Xiao Shu, who was still small and transparent last year, gained a lot of attention when he appeared on the stage this year. He is dressed in black, steady and dignified; his face is unsmiling, cold; He looked up at the sky, thinking for a while, in a kind of talent, he was different everywhere, completely independent.

Obviously, Xiao Qinzhi's strategy succeeded, and Xiao Shu's feigned temperament captured a large number of people's hearts. The South Bank of the Xihe River has already cast beautiful eyes, and Diao's servants took away the sachet in a short while, hurriedly Go to Taoyuan.

On the third floor attic, there was also a little commotion. Xiao Shu, who hadn't seen Xiao Shu for a long time, was caught off guard, and couldn't help but be amazed, her younger brother's virtues couldn't be more clear, why did she suddenly have a magnificent change.

However, no matter what, Xiao Shu and You Rongyan started to introduce Xiao Shu. It was right to put it mildly. sigh.

In a corner of the attic, stood a lonely figure with a straight body, resembling a man, but also different.Her name is Yang Yu. In terms of facial features, she is exquisite, and her figure is not bad, but her skin is darker.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, whether a woman was beautiful or not, she paid more attention to her figure and appearance. Sister Lin was the most popular because she was as weak as she was.

Yang Yu was aware of the grievances between Xiao and Yang. When he suddenly saw Yang Shangbao, Yang Zijing and Xiao Shu walking together, Yang Yu couldn't help feeling curious, and then his eyes fell on Xiao Shu.

Suddenly, Yang Yu remembered an old incident at the Bei Ya Ji last year. At that time, Xiao Shu was a bit aggressive, but for some reason, the corners of Yang Yu's mouth would rise slightly.

Xiao Shu walked over slowly, and said with a smile: "Which family's young gentleman is it, who makes Miss Yang laugh?" Walking together with his elder brother, he seemed to understand something, and a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart, what this meant was already clearly visible.

With a straight body, Yang Yu bowed to salute, and then said with a dry voice:

"Xiao Adi, I'm looking at my brother."

Xiao Shu joked: "Hey, I thought Miss Yang was looking at my younger brother?"

This remark caused the little prodigal sons in the attic to burst into laughter. Yang Yu had never received such a gaze before, her slightly darkened face instantly turned red, and only then did she have some daughter-in-law's attitude.

Yang Yu's heart was beating "plop plop" non-stop, and the hand that held the sword on weekdays was also embarrassed, and she restrained her shame and said: "No."

"I'm curious, I saw you last year, why didn't you disappear this year?" There was a scent of lotus, followed by soft words. Her name was Yan Ruoyu, and she was completely different from Yang Yu. style.

"The anvil and pestle knock on the moon in the deep alley, and the well and wu shake down the autumn of the hometown."

Yan Ruoyu seems to be born with sorrow, she should be living in the bleak autumn, but today she is wearing a green dress, with only a light makeup on her face, and a wooden hairpin on her head to tie her hair, simple and elegant, no more, no less, Just right.

"The iron tree doesn't know what's interesting, but it wants to bloom." Yan Ruoyu moved lightly to the side of the shy and blushing Yang Yu, and asked curiously: "Hey, Ayu, why are you blushing?"

Being teased by her best friend and making fun of her private affairs in the boudoir, Yang Yu glared at her and spit again:
"Didn't you say that there is no color under the peach blossom tree, so why are you here again? Could it be the young man of some family who invited you here?"

Yan Ruoyu frowned and smiled slightly, shook her head lightly, and said softly: "I don't know which family's young gentleman it is, why don't Ruo Ayu take a look for me?"

In terms of eloquence, the armed Yang Yu was obviously not Yan Ruoyu's opponent. Since she couldn't say anything, she had to do it. Yan Ruoyu immediately moved to Xiao Shu's back, and said with a smile: "Sister Xiao, look, she did it——"

Xiao Shu looked back and joked: "You are not easy to provoke, my younger brother is unlucky, otherwise, I would not be angry with you every day."

Yang Yu suddenly imitated Yan Ruoyu's tone and said, "Where is there so much anger?" But he learned neither fish nor fowl.

It made Yan Ruoyu cover her mouth and chuckle, pointing at Yang Yu, slanting the corner of her mouth, and said arrogantly: "Sister Xiao, look, she imitated me——"

(End of this chapter)