lotus carp

I am a girl.

A girl who never saw the light of day and was betrayed by everyone.

Thankfully, the emperor did not break his promise.Three days later, I received the decree and reward of marriage at the Zhuangyuan Mansion, and the mighty motorcade went down to Gusu to marry the bride.My eyes are not fully recovered yet, so I was afraid of delaying my trip with me, so I had no choice but to stay in the mansion.

I rubbed the sachet embroidered with carp and lotus, the unique fragrance has faded, and it has become another charm. The delicate lines on it are dense and smooth, which reminds me of the touch of lotus and black hair, and my thoughts return again. Back to the scene where she gave me this sachet.

She said: "I specially prepared this incense for you. There is no other family in the world. From now on, we will wear this incense all the time. We will be a unique couple in the world."

She said: "A Li, guess what I named this incense?"

"As long as you choose it, it's a good name." I knew she wanted to show off, so I wasn't in a hurry to guess, I just waited until she couldn't wait to say it myself.

"I named this Xiang~ Lian Li." Her brows and eyes were raised again, as if she was asking for credit from me.I really love her the way she looks.

"Lian Li? Your 'Lian', my 'Li', or the 'Lian Li' of 'Lian Li Zhi'?" I also laughed along with her, it's a good name with puns.

"It is our 'Lianli' and our 'Lianli'."

After marrying her and coming back, let her embroider another sachet for me. This time, I don’t want to embroider lotus and carp separately, I thought to myself.If you are separated from Lianhua for too long, Carp will miss her very much.

Reluctantly sniffing the lotus carp for the last time, I gave the sachet to the matchmaker of the accompanying wedding team as a token, with a note hidden inside:

The summer wind smokes the green leaves, and the river carp muses the white lotus.

As smart as she is, she must know that Jiangli is Jingli, and I will welcome her through the door.

In the dark day before me, people don't know what night it will be, and I don't know how long it has passed. The housekeeper came to report: The Liu family's dowry team has stopped at the Liu family's villa in the suburbs, and I can welcome Miss Liu through the house tomorrow. .This night, I did not fall asleep.

Early the next morning, I was led by the maid to the gate of Zhuangyuan Mansion, ready to welcome the bride.Because of my eyes, many links such as riding a horse to welcome the bride, crossing the brazier and so on are eliminated in the wedding.I took this end of the red silk, and let the lotus on the other end of the red silk lead my direction. The long-lost lotus fragrance from her body floated into my nostrils, making me feel so satisfied that I wanted to cry.

But the good times don't last long.A few days after worshiping heaven and earth, I couldn't touch a piece of Zhuo Lian's clothes, nor heard Zhuo Lian say a word. If I couldn't smell the unique fragrance of lotus carp from time to time, I would sometimes doubt Zhuo Lian's Are you by my side?

According to Cuixiu's explanation, her young lady lost her voice because she was not acclimatized to the climate and suffered from a severe wind-cold, and she was afraid of giving me the sickness, so she kept such a distance from me.I have a wife who can do everything, no doubt about him, I even gave Cuixiu the snow-capped ginseng that the emperor rewarded me during the Qionglin banquet, and asked her to give it to Zhuo Lian to replenish her body.

When she recovers, I will tell her how I miss her and everything that happened in April.I thought so.

That night.

The chirping of cicadas was extremely noisy in the quiet Zhuangyuan Mansion. I was sitting in a wooden barrel and pouring water on my body.

I never let my servants get close to me when I take a bath, let alone wait on me. This is a rule that the entire Zhuangyuan Mansion knows.Even after I lost my eyes, the death law that no one else should come close to me while I was in the shower remained unchanged.

Feeling that it was almost soaked, I got up from the barrel and walked out, took the handkerchief along the edge of the barrel and wiped the water droplets on my body carefully, and stretched my left hand to fumble for the chest wrap on the screen.

Suddenly, I heard a short gasp not far away!I hurriedly covered my chest with the handkerchief in my hand, subconsciously touched a water ladle with the other hand and threw it towards the source of the sound. The somewhat familiar female voice let out a small cry, and then the room was quiet.

I wrapped up a few clothes indiscriminately, and groped in that direction until I touched a warm body. Then I realized that I might have knocked someone unconscious, so I shouted for help outside.

Until Canyue, the eldest maid in my room, brought him back to my bedroom with a few handymen, and then asked a doctor to make a diagnosis and make sure that there was no problem, I still haven't recovered from my chaotic thoughts.

Why cranky?Because of the exclamation that Can Yue just entered the door:

"Ah! Ma'am, this is... what's going on!"

I sat on the edge of the bed and reached out to touch the hand of the unconscious woman on the bed again.From such a close distance, I can indeed smell the fragrance of the lotus carp on the woman's body, but this hand...

I slowly lowered those hands.This is not her.

While she was in a coma, I asked Can Yue, the housekeeper, and even asked someone to invite the matchmaker back then.They all told me that the woman on the bed is my wife who has worshiped heaven and earth with me.

So, there is only one thing left for me to do: wait for this "madame" to wake up.

I've never hated so much why I lost my eyes.

As a No. [-] scholar who is nominally unemployed, I spend almost all my time by the bedside of that "madame".When the cock crowed for the fourth time, there was a woman's muffled cry of pain from the bed.

It was Cuixiu!I figured it out almost instantly.I didn't care about giving her some time to wake up, and I threw the questions I had accumulated for several days and nights at her like a cannonball: "Where is Zhuo Lian? Why do they all say you are the wife? Why do you appear in my bedroom in the middle of the night?" ? What do you want to do?" The doubts in my heart swelled every minute, and finally reached the point of explosion.

We fell into a long silence, so long that I thought Cui Xiu had passed out again, and I was about to reach out to touch her, but she suddenly smiled.I have never heard such a laugh, self-deprecating, desolate, desperate.

After laughing, Cui Xiu's voice became quieter: "I have always been the one who married the number one scholar."

"No! This is impossible! What happened to Zhuo Lian, did she not receive my sachet?" I held my head and shook vigorously, I couldn't believe that everything was misplaced like this from the beginning .

"Xia Fengxun Biye, Jiang Li Mu Bailian?" Unlike my gaffe, Cui Xiu seemed to have come out of the out-of-control emotions, and her tone was unusually calm, "My lady is not stupid, she knows it's you."

"What about her? Why did you marry me? Did something happen to her on the way? Is she cooperating with you to play tricks on me?" I searched for possibilities in my mind and overturned them one by one, as if I had arrived On the verge of collapse.

"Jing Li, I call you the No. [-] Scholar, it's just a flattery." Cui Xiu sneered, "Why do you think that my lady, as the only daughter of the Liu family in Gusu, would be willing to marry a woman with a bright future just because of a wishful thinking decree? Ruined blind man?"

I was suddenly fixed on the spot as if struck by lightning.I've thought about so many possibilities, but not this one alone.I said that gouging out her eyes just to marry her is nothing to be afraid of, but I never thought about whether she would like to marry a blind man.

Maybe it was because of seeing my pale face in an instant, Cuixiu's next words sounded a lot more confident: "So what if you are the Jingli of Guangyang Temple! Our lady, when I heard that I was married to a blind man , and passed out in front of the eunuch who delivered the decree! Miss woke up and cried for three whole days, and tried to die several times. ..."

"It's me...not worthy of her." My mind was very confused, and it seemed to go blank. Cui Xiu's voice was getting farther and farther away. I seemed to hear intertwined voices calling me non-stop, but I didn't want to answer anyone.

I seemed to be sinking and sinking in a pool of deep green water. I tried to look up, but I could only see the rippling sky and the white lotus flowers on the surface of the pool.