Song of Everlasting Sorrow

"The kite...hanging on the branch..." Yunli muttered to herself, immersed in her childhood memories.

"Where is it?" Ji Fuxiang looked up at the outside of the pavilion, peach blossoms were blooming, and there were no kites.

"In the distant past." Yunli smiled mischievously, raised her head, looked at Ji Fuxiang and said, "Master, don't you remember?"

"what's up?"

"You flew the kite with me, and then the string broke, and it floated to the peach tree over there." Yunli pointed to a peach tree not far from the Bajiao Pavilion.

"Oh, you mean when we first met, haha." Ji Fuxiang smiled, in front of Yunli, his smile was so gentle and happy.

At that time, although they had only just met, little Yunli had no estrangement from him at all. The two of them flew the kite in the peach orchard for a long time until the kite broke and hung on a branch.

Ji Fuxiang rolled up the hem of his robe, and climbed up the tree to get it. Yunli was always below, bouncing and calling: "Be careful, brother be careful."

--really cute.

After the kite was taken down, a hole was poked in the tail of the white pigeon, and it could no longer fly. Yunli's dark eyes were filled with tears.

"Look, what is this?" Ji Fuxiang spread out his palm, and there was a peach blossom inside.

"Huahua~" Yunli blinked, "It smells so good."

"Well, let's pick some more and let the cook make dim sum." Ji Fuxiang said with a smile, "You haven't eaten it yet, have you? The dim sum made from peach blossom petals is delicious."

"Li, I want to eat!" Yunli nodded vigorously.

"Okay, brother, I'll pick it off for you now." Ji Fuxiang climbed up the tree again, while Yunli stood below, picking up the pink petals that floated down with his little hands. When Ji Fuxiang came down, Yunli became a Little flower people, even the hat is full of peach blossoms.

"Haha." Ji Fuxiang smiled, picked up Yunli, and led him to the kitchen.

Afterwards, Yunli ate the glutinous rice crisps made from peach blossoms until his cheeks bulged and black sesame seeds still stuck to the corners of his mouth. Ji Fuxiang wiped the corners of his mouth for him, and secretly vowed that he would treat him well in this life.

This determination is deeply buried in my heart, and it becomes stronger with age. Yunli...is a treasure that belongs only to me.

"Do you still want to eat peach blossom cake?" Ji Fuxiang asked with a chuckle, "I'll ask someone to bring it to you."

But Yunli thumped Ji Fuxiang's chest angrily: "You want the maid to see us like this?"

Both of them were disheveled, especially Yunli, who was almost stripped.

"I don't mind, but I don't want your body to be seen." Ji Fuxiang chuckled, "Are you hungry? Do you want to eat?"

"I'm not a child anymore, I won't be hungry at every turn." Yunli propped up her body slightly, her face flushed slightly.

"Hehe." Ji Fuxiang stroked Shang Yunli's back with both hands, and said pitifully, "You really should eat more, you've lost weight again."

"Isn't it better to be thinner?" Yunli smiled charmingly, "You can hug me better."

"Li, it looks like I won't let you go in the afternoon." Ji Fuxiang lifted Yunli's chin and passionately kissed his lips.

Yunli also voluntarily sticks out his tongue. While kissing, he vaguely thought that the young master hadn't called him "Pear" for a long time.

"Pear, with the same sound, it always feels unlucky." The 20-year-old young master said softly.

In Ji's house, every time they eat a fruit like a pear, they will peel a whole pear and put it in a crystal plate, and will not deliberately cut it open. "Splitting pears" is not a good idea, as the cook said.

"Huh? Does the young master believe in such things?" Yunli asked amusedly.

"It's not believe it or not, but I want you to stay by my side forever," Ji Fuxiang said sincerely, "So I don't like anything that shows signs of separating us."

"Young master..." Yunli was very surprised, no wonder the young master refused to choose a bride for so long, it turned out that he didn't want to leave him, this was the first time he heard the young master say it with his own ears.

"Yunli, you will always belong to me." The young master probably felt embarrassed and turned his head away.

"Yes, young master, although you mind 'li' very much, the writing of these two characters is completely different, and..." Yunli took the young master's hand and said, "My surname is Yun, and Yun also has the meaning of cloud love and rain (lover's joy) Will) meaning oh.”

"You're teasing me again, when did you learn to be bad..." Ji Fuxiang turned his face, his eyes were burning with burning desire.

"I was obviously led to spoil by the young master." Yunli smiled and hugged Ji Fuxiang's shoulders, "It was you, the young master, who taught me how to be a bed servant."

...Should I say young and frivolous? At the age of 16, Yunli has already become Ji Fuxiang's bedside servant.When Ji Fuxiang was there, although a coming-of-age ceremony was held, the two did not share the same room at that time, because Yunli was only 13 years old, which was too young.

It was not until Yunli was 16 years old that she was already handsome and pleasant, and the two really became partners.

Because Ji Fuxiang forbade Master Lin to touch Yunli's body, Ji Fuxiang taught Yunli little by little about bed, bed, pleasure, and love.

She didn't deliberately ask Yunli to do anything, the two had been together since childhood, they fell in love with each other, and when the time was right, they naturally had a relationship.

But maybe it's because of getting older and becoming more stable in things, Yunli, who is now 24 years old, feels embarrassed and no longer flirts with the young master openly.

"It's not so good." After the deep kiss, Ji Fuxiang said suddenly, interrupting Yunli's recollection.

"What's wrong?" Yunli asked confusedly.

"I..." Ji Fuxiang approached, gently biting Yunli's ear, and said.

"..." Yunli, who had already felt it clearly, suddenly blushed.

"Let's go back to dinner later, shall we?"

"...Mmm." Yunli nodded shyly, obviously her body was very tired, but deep in her heart she yearned for the young master, could it be because of the warmth of spring and the blossoming of flowers?Yunli smiled wryly and thought, that's all, as long as he can be with the young master, it doesn't matter anyway.

"Ah...young master...ah!" As the gun was ignited again, Yunli hugged the young master tightly.

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"Whoa!"

The last bucket of hot water was poured into a half-person-high oak barrel, and the bathroom immediately steamed with smoke.

"Thank you, go down." Yunli said to the servant in a silk bathrobe.

"Yes." The servant retreated and closed the wooden door, but he would not go far, watching the fire behind the house.

This brick-and-tiled bathroom is not far from the Qilin Hall where Ji Fuxiang lives. It is filled with underground spring water and has a faint fragrance.

Yunli took off her clothes, stepped on the wooden bench and stepped into the bathtub, and the crystal clear hot water immediately overflowed.

"call!"

When the water covered her shoulders and the heat enveloped her whole body, Yunli let out a deep breath, but there was a slightly tingling suffocation feeling in her chest, probably because the water was too full.

Taking a piece of snow-white silk cloth from the side of the barrel, Yunli scrubbed his shoulders and arms. After returning from Taoyuan, the young master hugged him and rested on the couch together, and then they ate some pastries.

It was almost evening, and a servant came to pass a message, saying that the master had something to do with the young master, and asked the young master to go to the study as soon as possible, Ji Fuxiang left reluctantly.

Before leaving, he asked his servants to prepare bath water for Yunli to take a bath and change clothes.

In broad daylight, Yunli felt ashamed to take a bath because of something, but whether the housekeeper or servant, they all thought it was in line with the rules.

He is serving the bed and accompanying the young master to visit the garden, so it is reasonable for him to have an intimate behavior on the way.

Yunli suddenly thought, it's no wonder that when he was with the young master, the servants would always leave voluntarily, and when he was in Taoyuan, there was no gardener in the huge garden.

The Ji family's servants are so open-minded that they won't disturb the master's pleasure, but the more they don't care, the more shy Yunli will feel.

Although Ji Fuxiang sometimes said that the behavior of foreigners outside is more open, and men and women will hug and kiss in the street, but Yunli feels that compared to the Ji family's dormitory system, it really pales in comparison.

"Cough! Cough cough!" Yunli coughed suddenly, his chest tightened up and down, and the water was too hot, the cough almost made him lose his breath.

"Master Yun, are you okay?" A servant's worried voice came from outside the door.

"No... I'm fine." With great difficulty, Yunli managed to catch her breath, holding onto the tub tightly with both hands so as not to choke on the water.

"Oh, you need to call me."

"Okay." Yunli patted her throbbing chest, her heart was beating fast, did she catch a cold?In winter, I had a high fever once, and I lay in bed for a whole month, but it was already cured.

Without the strength to take a bath, Yunli propped up her limp body and stepped out of the bathtub. Her feet seemed to be stepping on clouds, and she was a little unstable.

Yunli took two deep breaths, hurriedly wiped off the water droplets on her body, put on a clean white bathrobe, walked to the dressing table and sat down.

Most of the things on the dressing table are soap horns, flower petals, combs and the like, and there is a brass mirror case on the table.

Yunli opened the dark mirror case, and the mirror reflected his delicate face, his complexion was almost pale, but his cheeks and lips showed an unnatural crimson color, and even the corners of his eyes were red.

Yunli touched her forehead, but she didn't feel the heat in her palms, it seemed that she was overthinking.

After gathering his composure, he opened a small drawer in the mirror case, and there was a small velvet bag inside, which was what he wanted to see.

Yunli carefully took out the bag, loosened the knot, and took out a shiny object with sharp edges.

These are two pieces of transparent glass cut into diamond shapes, with a dry peach blossom pressed in between. Although the color of the petals has faded a lot after repeated drying, the veins of the flower are still very clear and lifelike.

That year, when the young master took him to the kitchen to make peach blossom desserts, a flower fell into Yunli's rolled-up sleeve, but he couldn't find it.

Back in the house, when the maid was changing his clothes, Yunli saw the flower and put it on the window sill.

It was an unintentional move, but Yunli soon forgot about it, and after some days, she found that the flowers had turned into dried flowers and hadn't withered.

Yunli carefully wrapped the flowers in white paper and put them in a wooden box. Whenever there is plenty of sunshine in spring and summer, he would take out the dried flowers to dry in the sun to keep them dry.

No one told him what to do, Yunli was very smart, and intuitively knew that he should keep it like this, because it was the first gift that Young Master Ji gave him.

Yunli likes Ji Fuxiang very much, and naturally treats everything he sends as a treasure, even if this peach blossom is no longer fresh.

It's a pity that with the passage of time, the petals of the peach blossoms have become very fragile and cannot withstand the pinch of fingers. Yunli has a headache and doesn't know what to do.

What to do, I asked the housekeeper.

The housekeeper said that the flowers could be inlaid with pieces of glass, but this is a foreigner's craft and it is difficult to get it.

Glass - in Yunli's view, it is a very magical and expensive thing, as beautiful as ice sheets, but only the royal family and nobles can use it, and most of them are used as large pieces of furniture.

In Mr. Ji's study room, there is a glass screen, a frame carefully carved out of high-quality rosewood, and a large piece of imported glass bought from a foreign company is firmly inlaid, and a court painter is also invited. Draw a picture of the sunrise on the west mountain on it, which is magnificent and beautiful.

"If you want gold, silver and jade, even precious stones, they are all easy to handle, but this glass is so difficult." The housekeeper shook his head repeatedly and said.

Yunli also dismissed the idea, but Ji Fuxiang found out about this matter, and within a few days, he brought a large piece of glass clamped with a cashmere blanket and packed in a wooden box.

"You can tell the workers what kind of things you want to make, and I'll let them cut them out." Ji Fuxiang said with a smile, "This kind of thing is not uncommon, and the Ji family recently opened a foreign firm in Guangzhou. , there are many strange things.”

"No, this is enough for me." Yunli gently held Ji Fuxiang's hand.

"Well, I have to go to the workshop. Whatever you want in the future, just ask me." Ji Fuxiang seemed to be jealous, Yunli only asked the housekeeper for matters, and did not discuss with him.

"Yes, young master." Yunli smiled, and had no intention of rejecting the young master's kindness, but he only wanted a small piece of glass, and returned all the rest.

Ji Fuxiang didn't ask what he was doing, as long as he wanted, Ji Fuxiang would give it to him, this was a way of expressing his love.

"Master..." Yunli wiped the glass gently with her fingers, and the peach blossoms inside shone brightly under the candlelight.

"What I want most - is you, but..." Yunli understood why the master asked Ji Fuxiang to go to the study frequently recently.

No matter how tight the servant's tone is, there are still some gossips who will leak their sex.

"The master is arranging a blind date for the young master. I heard it's a princess from the palace..."

That's right, the young master is already 29 years old, and there are less than ten months left before he turns [-].

This is an extremely rare event in the history of the Ji family. There has never been a young master of the family who has not yet married and had children.People outside said that it was because Master Ji was too powerful.

Because once the young master gets married, he can inherit the family business. The master does not want to quit so early, so he has been conniving at his son's late marriage.

But Ji Fuxiang is almost 30 years old, and if it drags on, there will be more rumors and gossips, which will be detrimental to the family's reputation. Only then did Master Ji find a matchmaker and start choosing a future daughter-in-law.

This is what Master Ji meant to have the marriage done in a grand manner before the young master turns 30.

Yunli knew that he should leave the young master, and he was already very content. He had been with the young master for so many years, so he restrained himself and did not show any signs of knowing.

Yunli knew very well that doing this was the best thing for the young master, but his chest felt so uncomfortable, like a sharp knife piercing in, cutting his flesh back and forth inch by inch. When he was alone, this This pain is particularly stark.

"Woo...!" Yunli grabbed the skirt of her clothes tightly and stuffed the things back into the drawer. At this moment, beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and tears came out of her eyes. It was so painful that she couldn't breathe!

"boom!"

Yunli fell down, and at the moment when she was plunged into darkness, she heard the servant's terrified cry...