Chapter 177 Outline (Part 1)
Peaches have spring buds and willows are drooping. This small courtyard located on the banks of the Qinhuai River and next to Wuyi Lane has welcomed new residents in the past few days.
Qinhuai Wuyi Lane has always been an iconic area in Jiangning City. The alley is not wide, not as spacious as Zhuque Street, Confucius Temple and other places, but it also lacks the atmosphere of the world and has a lot of literary and ink. It has been popular among many literati and poets for thousands of years. "The swallows in front of Wang Xie Hall in the past flew into the homes of ordinary people." The Eastern Jin Dynasty was full of charm and memorial for thousands of years. In fact, when it became a symbol, there were many people coming to visit and recall every day. It is naturally impossible to say that it is as quiet as imagined.
As the poem says, Wuyi Lane is no longer a wealthy place where Wang Xie and others can live. However, due to its usual reputation, it is still not an exaggeration to say that every inch of land is worth every inch of land. Nowadays, those who can occupy a piece of land here are often qualified for wealthy families with backgrounds. If they are just ordinary nouveau riche, they want to buy a courtyard when they have money. If they don’t have an official background, it is extremely difficult. Therefore, although this courtyard seems to be not good at present, they are naturally people with a certain background.
This courtyard looks ancient but only introverted on the outside, but in fact it is a beautiful pattern. The layout between the courtyards is exquisite and bright. There are not many bright colors, but it is full of literary and lifelike atmosphere. There is a river behind it. The scenery looks average, but in fact the vision is good, which makes you feel refreshed at first glance.
At this time, there were still people in the yard moving things around. The middle-aged woman in a gray and blue cloth dress frowned and shouted as she walked by. When she entered the innermost room, she looked inside through the window. The woman sitting in front of the bronze mirror took off her men's clothes, scattered her hair, and dressed herself.
The middle-aged woman knocked on the door and tried to look very unhappy - in fact, she was indeed quite unhappy: "Where is Chunmei? Why aren't she here?"
"Just just washed my face, I asked her to go out and pour water, and then asked her to bring in some paper and ink. The things were piled deep, maybe she was still looking for them at this time." The woman smiled at the bronze mirror, "Did mom go out to have fun today?"
"No! I told you not to always dress up as a man and go out alone. You go again, you go again, Chunmei is the dead girl, so is she. Tell her to follow you or not, come over later and see me scold her..."
"It's not about Chunmei's business. I left her aside. She was crying when she came back. Maybe she was afraid that you would scold her mother... and I was not alone. Today I met Brother Yu, and he followed him."
"I'm crying..." The middle-aged woman learned her words and sneered, "I probably cried once or twice in the first place. You say this every time. She never cried... That Yu Hezhong is not a good thing. When she sees you, she is like a dog who just wants to steal fish, nodding and bowing..."
"Brother Yu is actually quite good, it's not like what my mother said. And the one who wants to steal fish is a cat, and dogs don't steal fish, dogs..." The woman said this and laughed out loud, and she didn't want to say those dirty words.
"Yes, it's like a cat who steals fishy fish, nodding and bowing... If it weren't for thinking that he was an old acquaintance with you, I wouldn't let him in either this family. Alas, I'm not a person who doesn't care about human feelings, but this is not worthy of you. It's okay if you care about your old love, and it's okay to invite him to a few parties. But his talented family background is not as good as those people, and he has no face to lose face. You have to protect him, and you want to be more arrogant and want to be more arrogant. I thought you really like him."
The middle-aged woman murmured: "Where is this unreal thought, and you can't get it in the end. It's always painful. In fact, it's okay for him to suffer. The young men in the capital like you, but there is only one, you always have to be heartbroken. Mom, I don't care about those people who are going to die. A man doesn't want to serve the country, so he spends his thoughts on women and dies clean! But Shishi, you are soft-hearted. If you feel heartbroken in the future, you will feel guilty. Mom always thinks about you. If you break it, you will be cut off. Let him die as soon as possible. It's just right to stop this thought. Look at you when you come out to relax this time, he followed him again. You are still going out with him alone. Wouldn't it be a sheep entering the tiger's mouth..."
"Brother Yu's house is here, and it's common for him to come with him with his spare time... Besides, my daughter is just dressed up in men's clothes, which actually looks quite annoying. If Brother Yu can do this, he will be really unrequited..."
As she smiled, the woman had already put down her long hair and probably had her makeup removed. When she was dressing up for men, she looked a little pointed and her forehead looked a little taller. If she was really a man, she would seem a little bit thin. In fact, this was also something she did. Her forehead was a little taller, but she couldn't tell her dressing up. She could also wear some powder to cover her men's clothes, but she deliberately protruded her high forehead and small chin. Although she was still a beauty, she seemed a little abrupt.
At this time, she restored her dress and put down her hair. She replied to the image of a gentle and elegant beauty, and joked with her mother, looking lazy and clever in her smile. The door opened once at this time. Perhaps the maid named Mei brought in a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. When she saw the middle-aged woman, she lowered her head. She put down the four treasures of the study on the small table on the side. She originally wanted to help grind ink. Li Shishi waved her hand quietly while talking, and the maid stepped back and breathed a sigh of relief. No need to be scolded by her mother.
The middle-aged mother's surname is Li and her name is Li Yun. She has taken her in since Li Shishi was five years old. She doesn't understand the personality of this daughter. Li Shishi said Yu Hezhong's words were a joke, and she didn't say a few serious words. The small movements at this time naturally fell into her eyes. She couldn't help but curl her lips. She didn't have the intention to scold the little maid now, and just shook her head:
"No one is serious, Yu Hezhong doesn't have the courage... You see, he is just as poetic and ordinary in character, and now he doesn't even have the courage. Shishi, who are you in contact with, why bother him... And it's hard to say when a man suddenly took the courage of his ambition and gave up..."
The woman sat at the small table, poured the tea into the inkstone, grinding the ink, but burst out laughing: "If he had the courage, what would happen if his daughter passed him?"
"Shi Shi, your reputation is now, that's what you're killing him..."
"It's a romantic person to be a ghost."
The sunset shot in from outside the window. A woman in a pink long skirt sat at the small table, picked up the sheep brush beside her and looked at it, then stuck out her tongue and licked the tip gently. The movement seemed simple and elegant, but it also had an unspeakable charming atmosphere. But the mother on the side frowned slightly: "Don't lick it around, I've mentioned this problem before..." But the woman took the brush and put it in the ink, and then began to draw on the white paper.
"...The world is difficult and it is not easy to be a human being. Mom, I also know that Brother Yu has all kinds of shortcomings, but can we really be a precious business..."
The middle-aged woman frowned: "It's a golden business! Shishi, you are a golden person now. Ask anyone like this!"
"I don't think so." Turning back to her, the sunlight shot in from the woman's front window, "It's just... it's just a business. Mom, Brother Yu and others are going to chase after me, it's their own business. He feels happy, he finds interesting, and he has to recite the future things himself. I've treated him as a friend as he wishes. Of course, he has to be grateful to me. If it's really like Mom, you said, if it's good to him, he will remember it all my bad things, and it's impossible to be happy. Whether it's good or not is hard to say clearly..."
She thought for a while: "Others divide the world into different levels. As you said, I am a precious person now, and the best. When they come to our alum building, if they meet me and chat with me, they feel that they have done the best things. When I interact with Brother Zhou, I am regarded as the best thing. When I interact with someone like Brother Yu, I feel that they are medium and inferior. Mom, I always rarely think like this. I think everyone should be the same, but everyone thinks this way, and I can't change it. Brother Yu feels that he has a good deal of dealing with me. I feel that he has done the best things in his life. "
"He did the best things, and with the happiness he felt, he should have the best worries and hardships. If he spent his whole life in the middle, married and married, became a small official in the future, did ordinary things, and could not see the courtesan in the brothel, then he would naturally have the same joy and worries. Teacher Shi was so old, and he didn't know whether it was the best, medium, or inferior, and he always had his own worries. If he looked carefully, he would also have his own joy. I made Brother Yu and the others feel that he had become the best people. I gave others joy and satisfaction, and I did some things..."
"Mom, you said I should have cut off these things. I also know that Brother Yu is not as good as those great talents in your eyes. Of course, I also like Brother Zhou and their poetry, essays, literary and insightfulness. But I like Brother Yu, but I don't like this. I interact with him because Brother Yu is an old acquaintance in childhood. Shouldn't it be like this? With all kinds of shortcomings, a middle-aged man, no matter how hard he works, he is a real great genius. Who can meet with Brother Zhou, Brother Ji, Brother Tao and others since childhood? When I was a child, I was also called Radish Head, Hey, the Radish Head of the Wang family... The Radish Head of the Li family..."
Mother Li frowned: "You were very beautiful at that time. The carrot head doesn't mean you are ugly..."
Li Shishi painted the painting and did not answer: "I know Brother Yu and have contacts with him. Sometimes I feel that I have noble character. Yu has such an old acquaintance, and he can never leave him. When they say that, they will say this: 'Oh, look at why did that Li Shishi add to the eyes of the middle-aged and young people?' "I don't know, because Yu Hezhong and her were childhood acquaintances, so although they were a little bit worse, Li Shishi was very nice to him.' They always think I was very good, and I always feel a little happy..."
She said and laughed: "Mom, you know, since I was a child, I have always liked these praises. I am a very vain person..."
"A few big principles, but still perfunctory..." Mother Li rubbed her forehead and sighed, "I won't talk about this anymore, what do you like to do... Well, you are going to the old alley today. Have you seen something?"
"It's still the same as before, but unfortunately my father-in-law who taught the piano before is gone..." The woman walked around in her hand. As she spoke, a painting about the alley was already on the paper. She thought for a while and clicked a few figures on it, "Well, I only saw a person I knew before..."
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There were already Yun Zhu and Jin'er in front of me. It was a bit difficult to write a different outline of a famous figure. There was a girl named Shishi who was as noble as a nun and killed by me in the draft. She was silent for three minutes...
Chapter completed!