Chapter 221 Celebrating the Twelfth Moon Festival Together
After dinner.
Liu Ruyan glanced at the passers-by downstairs. The streets and alleys were so lively.
She held her chin and suddenly felt her shoulders sink. Someone put a fox fur on her head.
"Take you out for a walk." Shen Yanchu said with a smile.
Liu Ruyan couldn't help but asked: "What if we leave and Master Kongjing escapes?"
Shen Yanchu smiled slightly: "It's just an excuse not to be followed by those brats."
"Eh?"
Shen Yanchu said slowly: "A blood curse has been planted on Kong Jing's body before. Without my instructions, he cannot move around."
Liu Ruyan whispered: "I didn't tell you earlier."
He just smiled and said nothing.
"Lord—" Liu Ruyan called, then leaned into his ear and smiled flatteringly, "I wonder when will the Lord be able to break the blood curse for me?"
Shen Yanchu stared at her and said nothing.
Liu Ruyan came closer and poked him with her finger.
Shen Yanchu pursed his lips and remained motionless.
Then, his eyes were covered by her, and then the corners of his lips twitched, and he was wrapped softly by her.
In the darkness, the gentle and shallow kiss was like a fine net. She covered his ear and breathed out like a blue: "Why don't you promise me?"
Shen Yanchu opened her hand and said lightly: "After I send you back, I will break the blood curse for you."
She was naturally happy.
But he fell into silence, with a sour feeling in his heart. After breaking the blood curse, she went north to Han Dynasty, and he went south to Dali. The two of them would eventually say goodbye.
He couldn't bear it.
Outside the window, the east wind blew thousands of flowers and trees into bloom at night, and even blew down the stars like rain.
Seeing the fireworks blooming in the sky, Liu Ruyan narrowed her smiling eyes: "It's so lively outside, let's go out and have a look."
The two of them walked on the noisy street.
By the river, men and women lit lanterns and floated them down the river.
After Liu Ruyan finished watching the lanterns, she turned around to look at the road ahead, when she saw a group of people walking towards her. The leaders were beating drums and shouting loudly.
When Shen Yan first saw this, he wanted to take her away from the crowd.
"This is to ward off the epidemic, to ensure that you are safe from illness and disaster," she explained.
The people who drove away the epidemic beat the leather drums, followed by many people. They all held up a handful of wormwood rings in their hands and blessed the passers-by: "Peace and happiness."
The crowd came in droves, and the sound of drums and blessings followed each other, rising and falling.
Shen Yanchu turned sideways and clasped her wrist to prevent her from being scattered by the crowd.
The crowd gathered around her and dispersed. The grass rings swept across the foreheads of Shen Yanchu and Liu Ruyan. She closed her eyes slightly, smiled lightly, and said, "Peace and happiness."
The crowd gradually moved away, Liu Ruyan turned her hand around, held his, and continued walking forward.
Shen Yanchu lowered his eyes and glanced at the two people's clasped hands. His cold eyes seemed to be dim. This girl had a hard time understanding love affairs, so he thought that if he took the initiative a little more, he knew that she would also give him some surprises. .
On the streets shrouded in darkness, red paper reflects the lights, and the steaming mist lingers with a faint scent of porridge.
Liu Ruyan raised her eyes and saw monks serving porridge in front of them. People were holding bowls and waiting patiently in line.
Today, every household eats Laba porridge. If you can taste the Buddhist porridge distributed by monks, you will be blessed by the Buddha.
Liu Ruyan borrowed bowls and chopsticks and lined up at the end of the queue together, hoping to seek good luck.
Today she is wearing an apricot-colored cocoon coat and a snow-white fur coat. Her black hair is pulled into a high bun. When her eyebrows are lowered, she just conceals a bit of heroic spirit. Her graceful demeanor reminds people of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River and the people outside the sparse shadow of Hongqiao. A crescent moon.
From time to time, a man would look back at the Prime Minister, but Shen Yanchu remained calm and stood in front of her.
When others saw his handsome eyebrows and slender eyes, they couldn't help but feel ashamed. How could they dare to think about the girl behind him.
When she received the Buddha porridge, she took a sip.
Shen Yanchu looked around and said to her: "There are many people on the street, so why not sit in the boat?"
She said hello.
The view from the Qinhuai River's boat was breathtaking. When she first boarded the boat with Shen Yan, a servant came over to serve tea and melon seeds and snacks.
Shen Yanchu poured a full cup of tea, handed it to her, and said casually: "Dai Zhi gave you a gift for your birthday party that day. I wonder what is in it?"
Liu Ruyan was drinking tea and almost choked when she heard the question.
She covered her lips, coughed quietly, and avoided his probing gaze.
"It's just some medicinal materials." Her voice was vague.
That night she returned to the inn and opened the medicine package given by Angelica dahuricae, only to find out that it contained uterine warming patches made of mugwort, which had the effect of warming the menstruation and keeping warm. Angelicae had checked her pulse, but she was unwilling to take medicine when she saw that her uterus was cold. , so I thought of using warm palace patches to condition my body.
The painting boat shuttled through the water, and Liu Ruyan sat on the stern of the boat, talking to him for a while, until a flower boat slowly came over.
She looked at each other squarely with the people on the boat opposite.
"Little soldier!!" Gongshuyu stood up immediately and waved to her repeatedly.
"How come you two didn't even say a word when you came out for a cruise?" Jin Buhuan shook his head and laughed.
"Boatman, stop the boat quickly." Bai Zhi said bluntly, taking the lead and walking this way.
Afterwards, a bunch of brats gathered around Shen Yanchu, as well as Ming Juezi who appeared out of nowhere.
He suddenly felt a headache.
The boy ran back and forth, pouring tea and delivering snacks.
"Sir, would you like Lucky to come over and play some music?"
Several beauties with hairpins peeked out from behind the screen, looking towards this end with coquettish eyes.
Shen Yanchu glanced sideways, feeling unhappy.
Jin Buhuan played with the pearls with little interest.
Gongshuyu's expression changed slightly and he waved his hands repeatedly.
Bai Zhimo made a calculation and needed to save money.
Dong Qingxian took the Yaoqin and his skills surpassed all others.
Only Mingjuezi raised his hand: "Xiao Er, give Pindao another pot of hot wine."
Liu Ruyan looked back, fearing that she would let down the beauty, and thought to herself that it would be great to play a few little songs.
"Let them come over," she responded.
"No need!" All the men said in unison.
Dong Qingxian frowned: "Could it be that Qingxian's piano skills are no match for these musical ladies?"
Liu Ruyan quickly explained: "I didn't mean that. Brother Dong is very skilled, but I was careless."
She turned around and told the boy: "Let the girls go back."
Dong Qingxian turned from worry to joy and played a Jiangnan tune.
Liu Ruyan listened to the music of the piano, with her cheeks half-cupped, looking like a girl.
Gongshuyu sat opposite her and muttered in a low voice: "The more I look at him, the more I feel that the soldier looks like a girl."
Bai Zhi was stunned: "She is a girl."
Gongshuyu was immediately stunned!
Thinking back to the ridiculous thing about asking her to take a bath, I was so embarrassed to see anyone!
Gongshu Yu thought about it, his face became redder and redder, and he quickly walked to the bow of the boat to blow in the cool evening breeze.
Under the cover of night, the sky-praying lanterns rose slowly and then drifted away with the wind. Gongshuyu looked up at the sky.
Behind him, Shen Yanchu, Liu Ruyan, and Dong Qingxian also walked to the bow one after another to see the vast starry sky and the bright lights.
Among the crowd, Shen Yanchu turned his eyes and said, "I wish you peace, joy and success."
Dong Qingxian was not to be outdone: "With the harp and harp at your disposal, why not be quiet? Yan'er, I wish you peace and happiness."
There was a smile in Bai Zhi's eyes: "Peace and joy."
Liu Ruyan clasped her hands together and blessed all the gentlemen with a light smile: "I am willing to work with you to encourage you to live up to your time."