Tang riddles

On the same day, Shen Sui's chariot team arrived at Heyang County and stopped overnight at Guiyan Station in the county.In fact, from Henan Mansion to Youzhou, the Guiyan Station along the way had already received the news of the sect master's journey, but Shen Sui's specific route was not certain, and she might change her route at any time in order to deceive others.This time, she can't use her official status to travel, nor can she act blatantly, so she can only return to her old business and start out as a businessman. This is also the most natural and safest way.The tarpaulin-wrapped goods in her convoy were genuine tea bricks, wrapped in dry straw, and kept tightly sealed to keep them from getting wet as much as possible.These are all high-quality teas produced in Huzhou, which are exported to Heshuo and Mobei. This business can be said to be the most difficult line in the tea business. With wrists and capable people under his hands, he can eat both black and white.

Shen Sui is naturally familiar with the tea business on the Heshuo Line, which is one of the major businesses of Changfengtang.Although she has not personally walked through it, she is clear about every link.When leaving the city from Luoyang, they disguised themselves as wealthy businessmen, so that the guards at the gate could see their identities at a glance, so that it was convenient to leave the city earlier.But after entering the Heyang Guiyan Station, they planned to remove the magnificent decorations on the carriage and put "armor" on the carriage to cover up the specially made parts and at the same time enhance the safety of the carriage, making the carriage unremarkable.Not only the carriage needs to be changed, but also the people.Everyone takes off the brocade and satin clothes, removes the pearls, hairpins and jades, and puts on simple silk clothes, so as not to show wealth for no reason.It's not that I'm really afraid of strong people, it's just that people who do business on the road have never been dressed up in jewels. This is common sense.

Originally, the initial journey should have been easy. Henan Mansion is the second largest land of the Shen family after Jiangzuo Jinling, and everything here is very familiar.However, Shen Sui was a little bit hard to walk down the road today, because the maidservant suddenly ignored her, and when talking to her, she only responded to her twice, appearing indifferent.

In the carriage, Shen Sui was driving in front of the carriage because Hu Tuo was in the way, and he did not open his mouth to talk to Zhang Ruohan.When she arrived at Guiyan Station and got out of the car, she and Zhang Ruohan entered the room, and then hurriedly grabbed Zhang Ruohan to explain.Shen Sui scratched his head, explained for a while, and said that he had nothing to do with Li Jilan, but just met once when he was in Chang'an Shangyuan Tage.I heard Maomao said that not long ago in Luoyang City, because he was poisoned and attacked Hutuo, the carriage lost control, thanks to Pei Min who saved his life, and Li Jilan was walking with Pei Min at that time.It's just that Shen Sui was delirious at the time, and had never met Li Jilan at all.This was the first time we met after Chang'an. This person came to the door on his own initiative, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ruohan replied indifferently:

"Of course I know that you have nothing to do with her, so why do you need to talk so much?"

Shen Sui was extremely depressed, and asked aggrievedly: "Then why are you angry?"

"Then what song are you playing with her?" Zhang Ruohan asked back.

Shen Sui was dumbfounded, tongue-tied for a while, and thought:

Oh my god, maidservant Lian has been remembering what happened more than five months ago until now. She seemed really angry about her singing with Li Jilan that night!

Looking at the displeased straight line of Zhang Ruohan's lips, Shen Sui suddenly laughed.She couldn't help but stepped forward and took her into her arms.At first Zhang Ruohan struggled symbolically twice, then she stopped moving and leaned quietly in Shen Sui's arms.

"Before this, I never sang with anyone. From now on, I will only sang with you." Shen Sui said in a low voice, his voice sounded muffled to Zhang Ruohan, echoing in his chest.

Zhang Ruohan's eyes thawed slightly, and he raised his hand and slowly grabbed the clothes around her waist.

"Lotus Maid, this is the first time I saw you jealous, I didn't expect it to be like this." Shen Sui smiled profusely, looking smug and sweet.

Zhang Ruohan wanted to laugh, but she held it back, trying to maintain a stable tone, and said:

"I'm not jealous."

However, upon hearing these words, they were filled with resentment and a slightly clumsy cover-up.

"Hmm..." Shen Sui groaned meaningfully, and out of the corner of his eyes, he accidentally saw a magnolia tree in the courtyard outside the house. The flowers bloomed just right, and he couldn't help laughing and said:

"Before the angry broken flower branches are thrown to the Lang, I ask the Lang to sleep with the flowers tonight."

Zhang Ruohan raised his head from her arms, stared at her unkindly and said:

"How about it, Shen Dalang wants to sing like this tonight?"

"Don't dare, Miss Ruohan, please forgive me." Shen Sui hastily raised his hand in surrender.

Zhang Ruohan finally couldn't help laughing when she saw the strange look of winking her eyebrows. This smile melted Shen Sui's heart instantly, just like the glacier melting and the spring of all things recovering.She wrapped her arms around her waist, pressed close to her body, and lowered her head to kiss her lips.Zhang Ruohan opened her body and mind to accept her kiss, her heart was overflowing with warmth, and it was so painful that as the blood rushed to the top, it made her tremble all over.I just think how can this person be so loving and reassuring, and can arouse her desire at any time.Her more than ten years of Buddhist practice were completely destroyed by her once, and since then she has been attached to the mortal world and never wants to be born again.

This kiss was deep and lingering, Shen Sui could no longer suppress his passion/desire, picked up Zhang Ruohan and walked towards the bed.However, Zhang Ruohan still had a trace of clarity, and the hands around the back of Shen Sui's neck hurriedly patted her shoulders, grabbed her head, separated from her lips, and whispered breathlessly:

"Akashi, wait... It's not enough now, I haven't had dinner yet, and, do you ignore your sister?"

With red eyes, Shen Sui calmed down for a moment, and reluctantly let Zhang Ruohan down.Zhang Ruohan straightened her messy clothes, and said softly:

"Let's go, let's have dinner and see Qin Nu."

Shen Sui stood on the spot like a doormat, with bulging cheeks, like a child who hasn't grown up.Zhang Ruohan laughed, raised his hands to pinch her cheeks, blushed and said:

"Okay, you little pervert, wait... wait until the evening."

Shen Sui's eyes lit up, and he said: "We have made an appointment, Madam is not allowed to miss the appointment."

Zhang Ruohan's cheeks were so hot that she patted her and said angrily, "You don't have to be ashamed to say anything!"

Shen Sui scratched the back of his head, and felt that he was really impatient, so he smiled embarrassedly.But she doesn't think it's a big deal, she and Zhang Ruohan are married couples, these are all natural things in heat.Zhang Ruohan has a thin skin, so what if she doesn't have a little bit of a brazen face.

"Lotus maid, what did you call me just now?" Shen Sui asked.

"Huh?" Zhang Ruohan was puzzled, and then quickly reacted, chuckling, "Little pervert."

Shen Sui smiled: "What's the name, I'm not lecherous at all, I just want you."

As he spoke, he kissed her quickly on the cheek.Then he opened the door as if nothing had happened, stepped out, stood at the door, stretched out his hand, and said politely:

"Madam, watch the threshold."

Zhang Ruohan came out with her lips pursed, her blushing cheeks not so obvious in the light of the lantern in front of the porch.She put her hand in Shen Sui's outstretched palm, and Shen Sui held it tightly.Then she turned around and closed the door, and the two walked out hand in hand.

"Hmm... Lotus Maid, don't pinch me, it hurts... I was wrong..."

"Humph!"

***

On the fifth day of June, it was granted a land boundary of a hundred miles northeast of Jiacheng.This is the junction of Henan Mansion and Hebei Road. If you go northeast and climb over a hill in front, you will enter the boundary of Hebei Road.

It was almost dusk, and there was no village or shop behind. The Gongyue army decided to camp here to rest, and then cross the mountain into Hebei tomorrow.When it was time for dinner, Li Jinyue hurriedly ate her supper, so she called Shang Chengyi, and the two of them went up the mountain along the mountain road and walked into the dense forest.Cheng Yan didn't know what the princess was going to do, but worried that the mountain was not safe, so he persuaded Li Jinyue to go back to the camp.

Li Jinyue didn't listen, and just said: "Stop talking nonsense, come and help me find out if there are any lychee trees here."

"What?" Cheng Yan suspected that he had heard wrong.

In the night, Li Jinyue's face was a little red, obviously she also knew that what she said sounded stupid.But what if, what if there are lychee trees in this mountain...

"There is no such eventuality." Cheng Yi said with a straight face, "Princess, don't you know that lychees only grow in the south of Lingnan, and this is almost to Hebei, which is a thousand miles away. How could there be lychees?" ?”

"Oh! I know! Shut up and find me!" Li Jinyue became angry from embarrassment.

Cheng Yan raised his forehead, the princess took some wrong medicine, why are you looking for lychee?She wanted to open her mouth to ask, but seeing Li Jinyue's appearance, she decided not to mess with her for the time being.

Cheng Yan and Li Jinyue searched separately, but she didn't dare to stay too far away from Li Jinyue. While paying attention to Li Jinyue's movements, she walked casually in the woods, slowly turning her mind.

Recently, the princess's mind has become more and more unpredictable, and Cheng Yan is very troubled.She is not Xu Jie, and she is not very good at guessing the princess' mind. She can only carry out some inexplicable orders from the princess with full of doubts.If you ask more questions, you will be reprimanded by the princess in a bad temper.

Alas... If Yujie hadn't set off for Youzhou to do business earlier, she wouldn't need to waste her brains now. The princess listened to Yujie very much, and it would be great if Yujie was here.

Speaking of which, as long as the troops passed through the dense forest or the market between towns and villages in the past few days, the princess would keep looking around, as if looking for something.Are you looking for lychees?It's really strange, the princess has no preference for lychees, why is she so desperately looking for lychees.

Wait, did you say?Cheng Yi thought of a possibility.

When she was still in the Princess Mansion in Luoyang, Yujie came to her one day and asked her if she knew where fresh lychees were sold in Luoyang Mansion. Cheng Yi had never eaten fresh lychees when he was so old, so how could he know, Yujie didn’t know asked, and left in a hurry.At that time, Cheng Yan was a little strange. The Princess Mansion never bought lychees. This stuff was very expensive. It was very difficult to transport it from Lingnan, and it was easy to deteriorate. Generally, it can only be made into dried lychees and sold in the market. Fresh lychees , that is the enjoyment of the emperor, they cannot eat it.

Even the princess never ate lychees more than three times since she was a child.They are all from the north, and lychee is the enjoyment of the southerners.And right now, isn't there a southerner in the army?

Could it be that the princess looking for litchi is for Miss Yang?Young Lady Yang grew up in Sichuan, which is a little further south, so it should be easier to eat lychees.Moreover, Miss Yang's hometown is in the southeastern region of Shu, which is located in Fuling County, which is also the place where lychees are produced.

The more he thought about it, the more possible it became, Cheng Di couldn't help but suddenly realized.While in a trance, I suddenly heard the voice of the princess not far away:

"Ah! Did you find it?"

"No!" Cheng Yan replied loudly, a little flustered in her heart, if she wanted to let the princess know that she didn't look for it at all and just stood there in a daze, she would definitely scold herself again.

In a panic, he pretended to be looking for a lychee tree. After walking a few steps, Cheng Yan raised his head and found a jujube tree in front of him. Under the night, he could vaguely see the fruit on the tree. It's time.Think about it, you can't go to see the princess empty-handed, just get some jujube.So with a wave of the sword, he chopped off a whole branch of jujube, took one off, wiped it on his clothes, and took a bite:

Well, it's okay, not too sour.

After a while, Li Jinyue looked at the whole branch of wild jujube that Cheng Yan was carrying with an unkind expression, speechless for a moment, and said:

"Sour jujube, is it lychee? Can it be refilled?"

"Princess, we have crossed the river and crossed the river again. It is really impossible to have lychees. Otherwise, you can use jujubes to deal with it. It is the ripe season for jujubes. I just tasted one and it is not bad." Cheng Yan earnestly.

"What does it mean to deal with it! Can this be dealt with? Where do you want me to save my face?" Li Jinyue was furious.

Cheng Yi was silent like a cicada.

"Hmph!" Angrily, Li Jinyue snatched the sour jujube branch from Cheng Yan's hand, ignored her, and walked straight out of the forest, apparently planning to go back to the camp.

Cheng Yi scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, sighed, and followed.

Yang Yuhuan finished his dinner, sat by the campfire for a while, then returned to the tent, intending to wash up and go to bed to rest.She is really tired these days, her feet are injured, she hasn't walked much these days, and she is getting better, but the fatigue is accumulating every day, and now she wants to sleep even if she is eating.

It was a very sweltering day, she got into the tent and took off the heavy rattan armor on her body, and finally felt a bit of coolness.She simply scrubbed her body with the cold water brought in a few times. She loves to be clean, but she also had to endure the pain of not being able to bathe in the simple environment.Lying on the camp bed, she looked at the top of the tent, her eyes dazed, thinking about her future.

What should she do?She no longer has any relatives, or in other words, no close relatives.Her father left, and after her mother sent her to her uncle, she never cared about her again.Several of her sisters were taken away, either married off, or given to other people's homes, and no one cared about her.Now her uncle doesn't want her anymore, and there are still some relatives in the clan left by her father, who are not very close, let alone take care of her when she is in trouble.

She's just an 11-year-old girl nobody wanted, and she's been sent around since her father died.The only means of earning a living is the pipa and dance that her uncle taught her.Uncle said that her beauty is her greatest weapon, and she must make good use of it, otherwise she will not be able to survive in this world.Yang Yuhuan understood his uncle's meaning. Those concubines of his father were also ordinary. They used their beauty to compete for favor with each other, just to live a better life than others.So if she wants to live a better life, she must use her beauty and men.

She is now beside the Princess of Jin, and she knows that the Princess takes her in, which means that she is useful to the Princess, and she will be sent out by the Princess sooner or later.But she didn't want to, this time she really didn't want to be sent out again.She had heard some rumors about the princess, and knew that she might be good at mirroring, thinking that she might also be able to use her beauty to attract the princess firmly, making her reluctant to send herself out.

But she failed, the princess didn't like her like this, she made the princess angry, and that day, she got angry at the princess without knowing the heights of the sky, and the princess never looked at her again these days.She was very terrified, and a thought kept popping up in her mind: Will the princess leave me at the next stop?

Should I apologize to the princess?Will it annoy her even more?The little girl tossed and turned, the fear of the future, and the grievance and sorrow of her situation made her eyes fill with tears.She bit her finger, suppressed, and wept silently on the bed. Soon, tears wet the pillow.

Just as she was feeling sad, someone suddenly patted her on the shoulder.

"Little girl, why are you crying, are you so sad if you can't eat lychees?"

Yang Yuhuan turned around with tears in her eyes, and saw Li Jinyue squatting beside her camp bed, a pair of bright eyes shining brightly in the dim tent.

"Grand...princess..." Yang Yuhuan was stunned, thinking she was dreaming.

"Hey, I really can't find the lychees. These are wild jujubes from the north, why don't you try them?" Li Jinyue raised her hand suddenly, holding a cloth bag, which contained wild jujubes that had been picked and cleaned.

Li Jinyue took out one and handed it to Yang Yuhuan.Yang Yuhuan took it timidly, looking at the jujube in her hand, tears filled her big eyes and wet her cheeks, but she stopped crying.She tried to take a small bite, and suddenly the sour jujube juice overflowed her mouth, and her pretty little face immediately wrinkled, and she pursed her mouth and said:

"It's so sour..."

"Is it that sour?" Li Jinyue frowned, took one herself, took a bite, and frowned even deeper.

"It's okay, it's not that sour. Can't you southerners eat sour?" Li Jinyue asked.

Yang Yuhuan sniffled and said, "I...I can't eat sour ones, I like sweet ones. Lychees are delicious, sweet and juicy, but I...I can't eat them anymore..." As she spoke, the little girl's emotions, which had been suppressed for a long time, completely collapsed, and she burst into tears.

Li Jinyue was stunned in a daze, seeing Yang Yuhuan crying so sadly, her heart throbbed for some reason.Thinking that he was sent away by his father since he was a child, and grew up in the slaughter on the battlefield.After my mother passed away, there was no one to love her, and I couldn't help feeling sad.She gritted her teeth, took out the handkerchief from her bosom, and while wiping Yang Yuhuan's tears, she said:

"Don't cry anymore, I know you are wronged. Alas... As long as you don't have any wrong thoughts in the future, I will treat you well."

"Really...really?" Yang Yuhuan asked, sobbing.

"What did I lie to you for? That uncle of yours is not a decent person. You must forget everything he taught you from now on. From now on, I will slowly teach you how to be a decent and promising person."

Yang Yuhuan looked at the person in front of her with dim eyes and tears, and suddenly felt that she was as tall and steady as a mountain, which made her feel very at ease.

"Then can I still play the pipa and dance?" Miss Yang asked in a whisper.

"Pfft!" Li Jinyue smiled, "Of course, I want you to forget the unscrupulous thoughts your uncle taught you. In the future, you should follow me to study and learn the truth. If you are interested, you can also practice with me." Practicing martial arts, I will take you around on the battlefield, and I will always teach you some skills to save your life."

Yang Yuhuan nodded desperately: "I learned it all. Princess...you won't want me."

Li Jinyue frowned slightly, while thinking, looked at her with a smile on her lips, and after a while she said:

"Don't call me 'princess, princess', just call me 'sister Jinyue', and follow me well from now on. If you don't make a big mistake, I won't drive you away."

Seeing Yang Yuhuan's uneasy look, Li Jinyue had no choice but to add:

"Well, I won't drive you away if you make a big mistake, but I will punish you and punish you severely."

In the dim military tent, the little girl finally showed her long-lost smile for several days.That smile, full of gratitude and relief, and with the innocent trust that only a child can have, was deeply engraved in Li Jinyue's mind.

The author has something to say: Unknowingly, I wrote more than 5000 words, which is considered a benefit on the last day of National Day.Next, the work mode will be resumed. Generally speaking, it will be updated on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and it will be updated every day on weekends.

In the past, people thought that Yang Yuhuan was a confidante, but now people think that Yang Yuhuan should not be blamed.And I personally think that in history, Yang Yuhuan was indeed proud of being favored. As a noble concubine who favored the sixth palace, her status was no different from that of a queen, but she was responsible for her lack of restraint and persuasion to Xuanzong.But this cannot be blamed on her, because few women in that era could be as virtuous as Empress Changsun.Therefore, for Yang Yuhuan in the article, I need to give her a chance to reshape. I hope she can understand more principles, become more mature and stable, and become a good assistant to Mao Mao.

PS: In the second half of this chapter, instead of "sour lotus seeds", it has become "sour dates". 【puff】