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Chapter 55 Happy Together (1)
As the name suggests, the 24-month Pavilion is taken from "24 Moonlit Nights on Bridges". There is a small exquisite bridge on the West Lake in Qingyuan. The bridge has nine holes and is named Tayue. It is suitable for watching the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Shen's Mid-Autumn Festival reunion banquet is held in the pavilion.Today, people have a banquet or sit at a round table, and some people sit at a smaller table. The old lady likes to be lively, and said that today's family banquet is for her family or relatives, so there is no need to talk about etiquette, so there is no screen in the 24th month hall. On both sides of the old lady's food table in the middle, there are two rows of half-moon small tables.

Wine and food are listed on the table, and two or three people sit around each small table, which is very comfortable.The old lady and Mrs. Su, Su Yun's grandmother, sat on the same seat. On the left were the seats of the Duke Shen Zhuo and Princess Anhe, and on the right were the seats of the third master Shen Ying and the third wife Ji Lan.As for the second wife, Mrs. Huang, because the second master is not in the capital, she invites herself to serve the old lady, which can be regarded as a table with the old lady.

The first two rows of small tables are naturally the juniors sitting around.Ji Cheng sat at the table with Shen Xian, Shen Xun sat with Su Yun, and Shen Cui had to sit at the table with Lu Yuan. Since it was a family banquet and a festive season, the little table at the girl's house also had wine jugs. It's plum wine, sweet and soft, very comfortable to drink.

Opposite Ji Cheng and the others was brother Shen Yutong Hong, diagonally opposite Zeng Xiuwen was also present.The Zeng family also has a house in Beijing, but the old lady said that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Zeng Xiuwen, the future grandson-in-law, is not an outsider, so she graciously kept him for a banquet.This made Shen Xian's face turn red all night.

Zeng Xiuwen's appearance is ordinary, which is mainly set off by Shen's family, but he has a poetic and bookish air, a bit loyal and dull, and he is a different man from Shen Che, Shen Yu and others. Shen Xian's face turned red, which made Ji Cheng want to laugh when he saw him.

Shen Xian pinched Ji Cheng's waist angrily, and Ji Cheng begged for mercy repeatedly.

When there is banquet and wine, there must be dancing and singing, which is considered elegant.

In front of the old lady, in the vacant place in the center of the hall, first the dancers raised by the Shen family performed dances, and then the little girls from the south of the Yangtze River raised by Princess Anhe sang.

That tune was the one Ji Cheng and Shen Cui were most familiar with.

"If the two loves last for a long time, how can they be in the morning and evening?"

This poem has become popular in the entire capital recently, everyone is scrambling to sing it, and Su Qingci is entertained every night.In the brothel Chu Pavilion, there were even people humming from time to time, what Ji Cheng didn't expect was how long it took, and even the singer raised by Shen's mansion would sing it.

It was the first time for the old lady to listen to this song, and she said repeatedly: "This word is very well written, but there are more?"

The singer sang another song "Broken Time", which caused the old lady to clap her hands and say loudly: "Okay, I haven't heard such a good word for a long time, and I'm afraid it will be rare in ten years. I don't know what it is." made by man?"

Shen Xun said: "The old ancestor asked the right person. The first person to sing the song "Xianyun Make Qiao" was A Cui, and she sang this word in the Zhongtan performance."

The old lady looked at Shen Cui in surprise: "Cui girl, is it true?"

Shen Cui smiled and said loudly: "Grandmother, this is all thanks to sister Cheng, and it's also my luck. That day, sister Cheng accidentally saved a scholar on the street. The scholar had nothing to repay her, so he wrote two poems about it." gift."

It is a good story to give a good word to a beautiful woman, but it is a good story for a man, but it seems frivolous to Ji Cheng.Shen Cui never thought of others when speaking, and I don't know if it was ignorance or intentional.

Ji Cheng tilted his head and smiled helplessly at the old lady, like a sister doting on his younger sister: "That Mr. Su owed others money at the time and was being chased and beaten. He gave me the money, but he had nothing to pay me back, but he refused to accept alms, so he wrote two poems to repay the debt."

These days, literati can eat and drink for free in brothels and Chu halls for half a month with just one poem, and that poem can indeed be counted as money, even more useful than money.

After Ji Cheng said this, everyone understood. It seems that Su Qingci is also a man of character, no wonder he can write such wonderful words, and his "ambiguity" with Ji Cheng has also been downplayed. Giving words to a beautiful woman is nothing more than paying off a debt.

Ji Yuan frowned when he heard Shen Cui's words. After all, Ji Cheng was his sister, and he didn't allow her to have any trouble with men.After hearing Ji Cheng's explanation now, Ji Yuan's brows loosened.

After hearing what Ji Cheng said, Shen Cui blinked at her, as if saying that only the two of us know your secret.Ji Cheng was a little puzzled, he didn't know what kind of trick Shen Cui was playing, why he suddenly dealt with him, where did she provoke Shen Cui?

Ji Cheng was indeed wronged. After Shen Cui became interested in Qi Zheng in Jinsheng Lane, he found that the person Qi Zheng was looking at was Ji Cheng. The anger in his heart was naturally self-evident. Where is her thorn.

"That Mr. Su has written new words?" The old lady is addicted to listening.

Ji Cheng was not too clear about this.After helping Shen Cui deal with the art selection in the Chinese altar, she never asked about Su Qingci again. Far away as well.

Although Ji Cheng didn't know, he heard Shen Cui crisply say: "Yes."

Everyone in the museum focused their attention on Shen Cui. After being selected as an artist from the middle altar, she seemed to be shrouded in light, and she acted more high-profile than before.

"It's a new word that just came out today." Shen Cui winked at Xianyun who was serving beside her.Xianyun wasn't originally called this name, Shen Cui changed the names of the two girls beside her after getting Su Qingci's words, one was Xianyun and the other was Feixing.

Xianyun turned around and took out a stack of flower notes from a box beside her, sent them to the old lady, and distributed them to everyone.

This Su Qingci really has a mind to make money. He was originally penniless. Although he got some money from Ji Cheng, it was very expensive to make friends all day long. It was not a long-term solution, so he simply did it. Started a business of buying and selling poetry.

Su Qingci was affiliated with a calligraphy and painting shop, and the owner put up a sign long before the Mid-Autumn Festival, saying that Mr. Su had written a new poem to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it would be sold on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

As soon as the news came out, people started queuing up at the door of the painting and calligraphy shop in the middle of the night, vying to read Su Qingci's poems as soon as possible.The women's history of the Qinglou Chuguan is even more active. If they can't sing Su Qingci's lyrics now, it will be a shameful thing.Whoever can sing Su Qingci's words in the first time will be regarded as having a long face.

Even Miss Rui Yu ordered people to queue up at the painting and calligraphy shop.

It's a pity that Su Qingci doesn't understand. Once this literati gets involved with money, he becomes vulgar.Everyone's evaluation of him has plummeted, but his words are really good, which makes people despise and can't give up. Of course, this is all for later.

However, Ji Cheng took the poem and read it again, and it was indeed very well written, especially the sentence "the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete in ancient times", which made people feel a lot of emotion when reading it.After reading this word, Ji Cheng saw in a blink of an eye that there was a paper-colored arched flower seal on the lower left side of the poem paper. Because it was the same color as the paper, it was easy to miss if you didn't look carefully, but once you found it, you would Don't be impressed.

The word "Qingxi" was written on that seal, which was the nickname given to Ji Cheng by Mrs. Yu.This poem note was made by Ji Cheng, but it was engraved and printed by Ji's shop "Qingzang Pavilion".

This was a real surprise.The Qingzang Pavilion is a place that sells paper, painting, brush and ink, and there are also treasures of calligraphy and painting collected by the shopkeeper from all over the country, but in the capital where dragons and tigers are hidden, it is really not famous.But now, with Su Qingci's light, it can be regarded as a reputation.

Su Qingci’s new words abandoned the flower paper made by other papers, and specially selected the flower paper printed with the name “Qingxi” from Qingzang Pavilion.This can be regarded as Su Qingci's repayment to Ji Cheng. When he was living in Lanhua Lane, he wrote lyrics for Shen Cui, and what Liu Ye'er gave him was Ji Cheng's flower note. Su Qingci knew about it.

Su Qingci was already infatuated with Ji Cheng's beauty, and when he learned that the flower note was made by her, he thought to himself that this is a stunning beauty with both talent and appearance, and he thought about the dirty thoughts in his heart. It's a pity that there is no chance to get close to Ji Cheng.Only then did he think of using the flower note from Qingzang Pavilion to convey his affection to Ji Cheng, so that she would know that he did it for her.

Of course, the role of Su Qingci cannot be ignored, but it is also due to Ji Cheng's exquisite composition and beautiful brushwork, which is definitely not something that ordinary craftsmen can make, so "Qingjian" quickly became famous.Although it is not as well-known as the "Gu Jian" in the south, there is a faint tendency for the latter to catch up with the former.

Naturally, this is also something to say.

Now that I have got new lyrics, I naturally want to listen to new songs. It's hard for the singer, she hasn't practiced, and she can't sing it in a short time, which makes the old lady very regretful.

Shen Cui was even more proud when she saw it, and said loudly: "The ancestor wants to listen to new songs, and the granddaughter is willing to make a fool of herself."

The old lady pointed at Shen Cui and laughed: "I forgot, isn't there a girl named Cui who is the reincarnation of a lark in our family?"

Shen Cui stepped forward and sang a song openly. Her voice is unique, with a sense of emptiness in her hoarse voice. It is indeed very pleasant to hear, but she is too young to sing the charm of the words, which makes people feel a little regretful. , but many people can't hear this nuance.

"Okay, the lyrics are good, and the song is also good. No wonder our Jiacui girl won the Zhongtan art competition." The old lady said with a smile.

Hearing this, Su Yun really felt in every possible way. She had practiced that dance for more than two years. This time, she thought that the selection of art in the Chinese arena was a sure thing, but unexpectedly she was defeated.It would be fine if Shen Cui was really capable, but to Su Yun's ears, Shen Cui's songs were just a little bit better than ordinary people's. Not convinced.

Now when she heard the old lady say that Shen Cui was worthy of her name, Su Yun felt even more wronged, not to mention that she said this in front of her sweetheart, Shen Che.

When Su Yun was in Suzhou, she was regarded as the first lady in the family, and she was always the most dazzling one. When she came to the capital, she stayed in Shen's house as a guest, so she kept a low profile. Now I can't help it anymore, so I saw She smiled sweetly at the old lady: "Since the fifth sister has already started, let me also dance for the old ancestor."

"Okay, a young girl should be more active. I think when we were young, we could dance while knocking on bowls, isn't that old sister?" The old lady turned her head and said to Mrs. Su.

"Who said it wasn't, you were the one who had the most fun back then." Mrs. Su said with emotion.

What Su Yun danced was the "Cloud Sleeve Dance" that she had practiced for more than two years, but she didn't prepare cloud sleeves when she went to the banquet. It's a long way to ask the girl to pick it up now, and it's too long to wait after all the words have been spoken. The excitement was over, so she took off the shawl in her hand, and borrowed her shawl from Shen Xun next to her, and now she has power.

"How about Ah Xun playing the piano for me?" Su Yun invited Shen Xun with a smile.

Although the daughter played the piano and practiced the zither at home, although it was a pleasure, she wanted to show it in front of others, and Shen Xun naturally readily agreed.

Shen Xun's piano teacher, Aunt Hanbi, was supposed to play very well, but she didn't work hard on weekdays, and she was too cautious and impetuous at her age, so she lacked some artistic conception.On the contrary, it made Su Yun stand out more and more. Her dance was really dazzling and fascinating.

The flimsy silk dance is used as cloud sleeves. Although it lacks the beauty of white clouds coming out of the mountain, it does not add the beauty of rainbows and moons.

The cloud sleeves are like mist in the mountains, covering Su Yun's beautiful color faintly, like a camellia swaying alone in the valley, and suddenly the cloud sleeves dance into flowers, making Su Yun look like the peerless Wei Zi in Wan Hua Yuan .

Su Yun's figure is very soft, and she dances with great tenacity, and the climax of her dance is [-] rounds in a row. The cloud sleeves dance into a ball of light, wrapping her around, and then the cloud ball blooms, Su Yun Yun flicked left and right on the spot, squatted, and leaned forward to make a beautiful finishing posture, with a willow waist slender, and the skirt spread out in a large circle on the ground, like a gorgeous crabapple.

After these thirty circles, Su Yun didn't feel dizzy at all, which is really a skill.Anyone who dances knows that the eyes must have a focus during the turn, otherwise it will be easy to get dizzy. Su Yun's focus is naturally on Shen Che.

Because it was covered by cloud sleeves, she looked a little unscrupulous.It's just that Shen Che seemed a little puzzled. Su Yun danced all the way. Although Shen Che's eyes were fixed on her movements in the field, his body was slightly turned to Zeng Xiuwen next to him, or he nodded or whispered, his attention was obvious. He was not present, so he blinded the Sumerians for nothing.

Su Yun was dancing alone in the arena, so Ji Cheng could only stare at her. Seeing Su Yun's affectionate look, Ji Cheng would inevitably follow Su Yun's gaze to see Shen Che's reaction.

In fact, it was just a natural human reaction, Ji Cheng also glanced over unconsciously, but when she glanced over, she met Shen Che's gaze, and Ji Cheng immediately remembered that little shit about herself , hastily retracted his gaze, turned his head and took a big sip from the wine glass without any silver.

Although plum wine is not very strong, it still has stamina if you drink too much.Ji Cheng had already drank five or six cups up to now, she has been in a restless mood lately, so it is inevitable that she will be greedy, and now she is a little drunk, and she suddenly remembered what happened in Tianxiang Pavilion that day.

Ji Cheng didn't want to think about such embarrassing things at all.Now that Persian dance is just a sexy dance, she was also frightened at the time, nervous and afraid of being seen by others, so she kept leaning towards the girl in the building, so that others would not believe that it was her. Cheng.

What's more, the drum beat was too intense and rhythmic, and Ji Cheng's waist, buttocks and limbs began to sway without listening to his brain.When she danced in front of Shen Che, Shen Che was sitting, she was standing, and Shen Che's gaze was just level with her navel.

Ji Cheng only had that set of clothes that didn't cover her body, and a lot of her waist was exposed. She was full of embarrassment and awkwardness, so she simply turned around.Thinking back later, Ji Cheng realized that it was absurd, then she was pointing her ass at Shen Che at that time, and she might as well have used her belly button.

This was the first embarrassment. Later, at the rest place of the polo field, she was looked at by Shen Che in vain, and she knew the evilness of that person thoroughly, and Shen Che simply ignored the etiquette, so she released her birthday like that. It's not romantic and affectionate at all, it's romantic and ruthless at all, using women as playthings for fun.

Ji Cheng comforted himself in his heart as if he was being watched by a dog, and he felt sorry for Su Yun's "innocence".

And here Shen Che looked away from Ji Cheng and the mouse as if seeing a cat, his fair face was crimson under the light.Shen Che has seen this kind of attitude that is obviously seductive but pretending to be reserved countless times, and he really appreciates the beauty of a woman when she is shy and coquettish, but because he has newly got Rui Yu, it is just because of his interest, so he has no intention of socializing with her. The affection of the cousin of the Ji family who is as thoughtful as Taihu stone.

Thinking of Rui Yu, he naturally thought of the appointment of a beautiful woman. Shen Che played with the wine in his glass, hoping that Rui Yu would be smarter and know how to hang him for a while longer.

However, given the name of this girl Rui Yu in the capital, Shen Che had heard of it for a long time, and he was a frequent visitor to the makeup market, and had met Rui Yu a few times, so it must have taken several years to get her hands on it.Rui Yu's reputation today has a lot to do with her ability to play with men in the palm of her hand.

Women's history knows men best. Once they get their hands on women, they don't cherish them. After a few days, they let go of them. Therefore, although Rui Yu catches several fish at the same time and occasionally gives them some sweets, they still keep them away from them. fishy.

Shen Che had a heart of intimacy earlier, but he was not annoyed that Rui Yu fished too high, but he was afraid that she would not tantalize her.Therefore, in Rui Yu's view, Shen Che is the most stable. It has been several years, and he is still tepid, neither close nor alienated. Rui Yu, a fisherman, was caught by the fish instead, and his heart is itchy. , I hated why I couldn't clean up Shen Che.

(End of this chapter)