Jian An Kee

Note 1: There is a short fence on the outer edge of the sill of the pavilion, which is tied to the column with double hooks. The fence is semicircular, about one foot high, and the pattern is empty. It is called Wu Wangjia.

I stepped on the flat stone brick ground and approached slowly.

Inside the pavilion, a man dressed in black is sitting on Wu Wangjiao (Note 1), concentrating on adding orange peel to the tea pot on the stone table.The boiling tea tripod made a "fluttering" sound, but he said nothing, and neither did I.He didn't greet me, so I just sat across from him, folded my hands on my knees, and waited quietly.

"Alan's temple hair is a little messy, did he come here on horseback?" After entering the garden, this was the first sentence Sun Quan said to me, and he showed a warm smile.

His face has always been infinitely stern, whether he is discussing political affairs with his uncle, greeting Wu Guotai, or talking to Sun Shangxiang, even if there is a smile on his face, there is no smile in his eyes.Especially when confronted with him a few times, there was an inexplicable chill in his eyes.

But at this moment, he smiled and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if a cluster of small flames were beating in his eyes.I feel incredible.

"It's been a long time since I rode a horse on the mountain road... I want to try it." I replied, slowly lowered my head, and pinched the inner veil of my sleeve with my left hand.Due to nervousness, he almost bit the tip of his tongue.

"Is Alan angry? That's right, it's my fault for not posting an invitation a few days earlier." He said, putting a long-handled spoon into the tea pot and stirring slowly, all of a sudden, all that filled his nose was salty tea flavor.

"Don't dare." I replied dryly.

"Oh, it's good not to be angry, there's nothing to dare or not to dare." He lifted the spoon and filled the teacup in front of me, "Please taste the tea collected from Lingnan in spring." After a pause, he continued: "Today I specially invited Alan to come here, mainly because the guards ran into Alan a few days ago, so I will give you an apology."

I was flattered: "Why do you say this? The general doesn't care about me, he just forgives my ignorance and ignorance. I can't afford your apology."

"It's worth it. They are not good at doing things. I, as the master, also have the responsibility. I will punish those guards tomorrow." He said with a smile, and sat down beside me casually, pointing Chazhan, "Let's try it." He said he was apologizing to others, without even a trace of guilt on his face.

I took a sip of the tea soup, it was bitter and salty, and after swallowing, there was a faint tea fragrance left on the base of my tongue, so I held up the teacup and looked at it carefully: "Seeing that there is no trace of impurities, taste the aftertaste on your lips and teeth, it is really good tea soup."

"Does Miss also like to cook tea?"

"I... where I used to live, there was an old man who loved making tea, so I know a little bit about it."

He also picked up his own cup of tea and took a sip into his mouth: "I still feel that something is missing, next time, maybe add mint to try."

I laughed in agreement, and subconsciously distanced myself from him.

He didn't pay attention to my movements, leaning his elbows on the edge of the table, resting his chin on one hand, looking straight ahead, as if he was talking to himself: "It's been a long time since I came to Jingkou. What, why, don’t you like it?”

My heart screamed badly, no wonder!

With the chaos in the Central Plains, there was also chaos in South Vietnam.Many Binhai Danhus refused to pay the imperial court with pearls on time, especially the precious Nanzhu, which has always been a tribute to the royal family and there is no need for it, even in ordinary times it is hard to find.Earlier, I wondered where Mrs. Xiao Qiao got the rare things, but it turned out that Sun Quan rewarded her, and she sent it to me.

There were three pieces of jewelry in that set. After one of them was broken, I put it under the box and never touched it. When I bought a mandala last time, I threw a few pearls to the seller as half a catty of gold. Now who knows what? where.

Every time my aunt gave me gold, silver, pearls and jade, she would never ask about the whereabouts of these things; Zhou Yu never cared about the family, and had no interest in how many valuable jewelry I held.But once he learns that the things Sun Quan rewarded are lost by me, he will definitely blame me for not being cautious enough.

This General Sun, did you deliberately trouble me?

My palms gradually became sticky, and it took me a long time before I replied, "Oh, is the pearl walker? I lost it accidentally when I went out for a picnic.

He looked at me with strange eyes: "Miss, you... are you so relaxed? Do you know how much it is worth?"

I shook my head silently, and after a while, said: "What can I do with the things that have been lost? Could it be that the general picked it up?"

He looked like he couldn't do anything about me: "You, you don't know who to pretend to be obedient, and what you say is full of thorns."

"The general is looking for Alan today, is he going to make amends for me, or is it because of that little jewelry?" I deliberately showed a little bit of anger.

But he smiled more and more kindly: "Miss seems to have prejudice against this general, of course I made a special trip to apologize to you."

"How dare Alan. It's really because you have shown an extraordinary interest in the jewelry of your little daughter's family."

He changed his sitting position, brushed his wide cuffs to the corner of my clothes, and looked at me quietly.His eyeballs have a strange olive green color, like a deep pool of water, making it impossible to see the bottom.

"How old is Alan?" he asked suddenly.

Changing the subject again?This guy is really... It's impossible to describe his weirdness with moodiness, it's like the atmosphere in the troposphere, changing every minute.

"Seventeen." This identity is 17 years old, I replied without thinking.

He stood up and clapped his hands, and the girl playing the Yaoqin came back into the garden, holding a rectangular red sandalwood box in her hand.

He reached out to lift the lid of the box, and said to me with emotion: "It's the same age as Hua'er, and it needs the best makeup. This, let's take this as my apology, and I'm looking for the same one last time." craftsman."

With trepidation, I passed a brand new swing from his fingers, which was exactly the same style as the one I had dismembered.It's just that the pearls dotted on the end of this branch are even bigger and rounder, and even reflect the small gazebo brilliantly.

At the end of October, the cold wind was blowing along the river, so I moved back to the city to live with Mrs. Xiao Qiao.Her older sister, Da Qiao, came to visit her from time to time, and once brought with her three daughters who looked like celestial beings: Sun Shucheng, Sun Shuxin, and Sun Shuya.In the words of the two sisters, they often revealed the meaning of becoming a son and daughter.

I thought to myself: My aunt was always sensible, but she became confused when the matter involved her son.What is the status of their children?The consequences of making decisions without considering the thoughts of the person in the north of the city will be disastrous.

Although Wu Guotai called Zhou Xun and Zhou Yin brothers to her on many occasions, greeted each other with the Sun family's sisters, and even expressed her willingness to get married, Zhou Yu and I knew very well that it was just a show to communicate with outsiders. look.

Sun Quan would never allow his elder brother's daughter to marry the Zhou family, otherwise, Sun Ce's only son, Sun Shao, would be the official son-in-law of the Zhou family.After all, Sun Shao is Sun Ce's legitimate son. He was the upright heir of Jiangdong, and he is related to the Zhou family who controls the military power. This is... a taboo for being a master.

Whether the son inherits the father's business or the brother will end up with the younger brother seems to be a curse that has accompanied Jiangdong for three generations, and it will not be shattered until 50 years later. Therefore, the daughters left by Sun Ce are really hot potatoes, not IKEA's choice.

What's more, if I remember correctly, in the future, Sun Shucheng will marry the Lu family, Shu Xin will marry the Gu family, and Shu Ya will marry the Zhu family.The four families of Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang in Jiangdong took three of them as marriages, and all three young girls became Sun Quan's pawns to win over the local clan, and none of them was wasted.

I began to vacillate between: first, let go of my skin and inform Zhou Yu; second, get rid of my aunt's absurd thoughts.

One day later, I went out to watch the autumn hunting in the city, and when I returned in the evening, I got a report from the attendants: In the afternoon, my wife gave birth to a young lady safely.

I was dumbfounded when I heard the news!There is no warning at all, okay?The midwife also checked last night and said that the fetal image is stable, and she will give birth about ten days later, that is, before Sun Shangxiang's wedding.It is only nine months and two or three days, which is not very full-term. Will it affect the child's body?I was so anxious that I went all the way to the mansion with whips and bridles. On the way, I bumped into the housekeeper of the general's mansion and led a group of people to the Dudu's mansion.

The mansion was in a mess, and there were servants standing under the eaves and in the courtyard.In the flower hall, several female family members of the Zhou family rushed over just after hearing the news.

When my cousin Zhou Jun's wife Li Meishou saw me coming in, she didn't care about etiquette, and grabbed my hand: "Alan is back."

I immediately blushed.Before, she should never have accepted Sun Quan's invitation to go hunting and left her aunt alone in the mansion.Fortunately, the mother and daughter are safe, otherwise...

I bowed to all the elders present, and apologized loudly: "It's all my fault, Alan shouldn't have gone out."

"What does it have to do with your little girl's family?" The first woman who spoke was a woman over forty years old: "My sister-in-law is already having her third child, and she will have it soon."

Li Meishou brought me to that woman: "Alan, come to see your aunt." It turned out that she was the wife of Zhou Hui, the oldest man in Zhou Yu's generation. Her surname was Yu, from Luoyang.

"Greetings to Auntie."

"Get up. Alan, you are the master, take us in to see Xiaonan."

I took a group of people to the inner courtyard.When we arrived at the inner courtyard, a maid came and said that my aunt had already rested. Qin Se was so busy that her head was full of sweat. Seeing so many guests, she was stunned for a moment, and called me hesitantly: "Miss nephew?"

"Ah! Elders, please go to the east chamber to rest for a while, I... go in and have a look first."

Qin Se led them away, I hurriedly found a maid, and ordered: "Take me to Madam."

My aunt has moved back to the main room from the delivery room, and is now asleep, and the room is very quiet.I tiptoed into the room, and outside the screen, a white-haired woman was pacing back and forth slowly, humming an unknown song, holding a baby in her arms.

When she heard the movement, she raised her head and glanced at me, then handed the baby to the nurse next to her, then turned her head and asked, "Are you Alan?"

"Yes." I hurriedly bowed my head.

"I'm your aunt's aunt. I came to see her in the morning. Who would have thought that she would have abdominal pain after noon, and within an hour, she would give birth to this little baby."

"Oh, oh, hello auntie, auntie told me yesterday that you would come over."

She patted the back of my hand with a smile, and comforted her: "Look at the worry on this child's face. Alan, your aunt is the mother of two children, and everything is well arranged. Both mother and child are fine now."

"Yes, I understand."

She smiled kindly and signaled the nanny to bring the child over: "Come, let's see your little sister."

The baby in the swaddling infant closed his eyes and fell asleep soundly. His little face was flushed, his skin was smooth and tender, his eyelashes were extremely long, his forehead was wide and his nose was straight. He really deserved to be the daughter of two beauties!I touched the child's face with my fingers, and she still had milk rash on her face, which would take several days to fade away.

I accompanied Mrs. Xiao Qiao's aunt to the east chamber to bring the baby to everyone.Later, I heard the attendants discuss that I had never heard of any family having a child so smoothly. The young lady is really a lucky star.

It is a great happy event for the entire Jiangdong to add more people to the governor's mansion. The general's mansion rewarded another batch of precious medicinal materials for this.However, as the father, the governor still cannot return to Jingkou to visit his wife and children because of the garrison.

In addition to regret, I actually have a small selfish relief.Several months have passed, but I still can't imagine how to face him.Soon he will meet with Mr., and I hope he can say a word or two about my crazy behavior... See you later.