Brocade tears

On the first day of August, at the night of curtain call, Bai Yuyin of Meixianglou private courtyard.

Mencius stood by the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the crape myrtle flowers in a celadon vase on the window sill, and remained silent.Among the bead curtains in the distance, Bai Yuyin was sitting behind the qin platform, watching his back through the bead curtain, also silent.

"Mr. Meng, why don't you take a seat, and I'll pour you a cup of tea." After an unknown amount of time, Bai Yuyin finally said that she is the host after all, and she has to make the decision when facing this strange guest.

She lifted the curtain from behind the bead curtain, walked to the tea table, and began to make tea gracefully.While making tea, she couldn't help but glanced at Meng Zixiu again, and happened to look back at the young man masked by the window by the window. Although he quickly looked away, he still teased Bai Yuyin's eyes. Heartstrings, she couldn't help but blushed slightly, thinking that this young man's eyebrows and eyes are really pretty.

When she broke through the level before, she was firmly attracted by this Mr. Meng, not only because of his talent, but also because of his extremely special temperament. After thinking about it, it seems that only the word "pure child" can be described.Bai Yuyin has been in the place of fireworks for more than two years. During this time, he has seen too many men, self-righteous, lustful, fame-seekers... bustling and bustling, polluting people's eyes.She has never seen a man like him, he has a righteous spirit like the breeze and the moon, not forcing others, but he is indifferent and lofty, untainted by common dust.Vaguely, she seemed to see the shadow of her deceased father.

After brewing the tea, Bai Yuyin took the teacup, approached him, and said, "Mr. Meng, please use it."

Mencius raised his hand to take the teacup, and said softly, "Thank you, Miss Bai, it's really flattering to call me a young master, so please call me by my name Zixiu."

"Dare to ask Mr. Meng your name?"

"I haven't reached the crown yet, so I haven't started writing yet."

Bai Yuyin was taken aback, she did see that Meng Zixiu was very young, but she didn't expect that he hadn't reached the crown yet.

"May I ask, son...Zi Xiu Guigeng?"

"The year of Zhixue has passed, and this year is sixteen."

"But Longqing was born in the second year?"

"Exactly."

"I am also a second-year student in Longqing, what month is Zixiu?"

"April, April twelve."

"Ah, my concubine is still half a month older than you. I was born at the end of March, the twenty-fifth of March." Bai Yuyin smiled.

Mencius was a little embarrassed for a moment, not knowing how to respond.Bai Yuyin could see his embarrassment, and couldn't help feeling a little more fond of him, thinking he was very cute.

"Zixiu drink tea, the tea is getting cold." Bai Yuyin persuaded him because he wanted to see his whole picture.

Mencius glanced at the teacup in his hand, pulled off the scarf covering the lower half of his face, and took a drink from the teacup.Seeing Bai Yuyin looking at him for a moment, he unconsciously turned sideways, put down the teacup, and pulled up the scarf again.

"Where did Zixiu come from?" Bai Yuyin learned that Meng Zixiu was younger than her, so she really stopped being polite, and her words became much more relaxed.

Mencius finally got out of the embarrassment after hearing the words, and remembered what he had come to find Bai Yuyin to do today.He thought about it, but didn't know how to speak.Will Bai Yuyin trust him?Will it be too abrupt? What if it annoys her?In fact, he himself couldn't fully trust Bai Yuyin. Hearing her question about his background, he hesitated for a while, wondering whether he should tell the truth.

Seeing that he didn't answer for a long time, Bai Yuyin wondered if she had said something wrong. Could it be that he didn't want to answer this question?Just when she was a little confused, Meng Zixiu said:

"Miss Bai, there is a reason why I came here to look for you. I knew what happened to the Bai family ten years ago, and it took me a lot of effort to finally find you."

Bai Yuyin's complexion paled visibly, she stepped back half a step, her face showed vigilance, she stared at Mencius Xiu with fixed eyebrows, and stopped talking.

"Don't get me wrong... I'm not a wicked person, and I don't have any malicious intentions." Mencius hurriedly explained, "I just... want to help you."

Meng Zixiu's words changed. Seeing Bai Yuyin's reaction, he immediately understood that this matter was a taboo in Bai Yuyin's heart, and he should not touch it lightly.Asking about the past can be postponed, and Bai Yuyin's mood must be stabilized right now.

Bai Yuyin looked away, bit her lips and said nothing, and Meng Zixiu didn't speak anymore, waiting for her response.After a while, Bai Yu chanted:

"You can't help me, and no one can help me." After saying that, she turned around, opened the bead curtain, and sat back beside the piano case.

"You mean, I can't fight King Lu at all?" Meng Zixiu asked softly.

"How much do you really know?" Bai Yuyin's voice trembled a little when he mentioned King Lu. The 16-year-old girl was really hit today. Since the upheaval at home two years ago, she no longer wants to recall that painful time.Now suddenly a young man came to her and said that he knew her past and wanted to help her.She was really at a loss, and she didn't know whether to believe him or not.

Mencius walked slowly to the bead curtain, looked at Bai Yuyin who was facing him behind the bead curtain, and said:

"Can you please play a song, let me tell you to listen to it."

Bai Yuyin turned to look at him, and saw that he opened the bead curtain and walked into the inner room, lifted the front of his robe, and sat on the pier in front of the piano table, as if the green pine was blowing in the wind.Bai Yuyin seemed to be influenced by him, and her ups and downs gradually stabilized.She collected herself, attached the strings with both hands, and began to play.

She played "Luoyan Pingsha" for meditation.However, Mencius Xiu's words were mixed with the sound of the zither, inexplicably fitting, the words were concise, explaining the ins and outs in a few words, but it messed up Bai Yuyin's zither sound:

"I came from the middle of Beijing. Unfortunately, my family was involved in the struggle of the court. My father and brother were killed by unknown assailants, and my mother died of illness. I swore to find out the truth and went to Nanjing alone with the help of my uncle. Your father, Bai Xianshi, was found on the person. Before your father’s case was discovered, he had a correspondence with this person for nearly a year. That person’s name is Li Xuming, do you have any impression?”

Bai Yuyin played the piano, shook his head, and said: "My father did maintain contact with Jingzhong before the incident, but I don't know who the other party is. He never mentioned it to me."

Mencius stood up, stood beside Bai Yuyin, and lightly pressed his hand on the head of the piano, stopping Bai Yuyin from continuing to play the piano.He bowed and glanced at Bai Yuyin, Bai Yuyin got up knowingly, and sat on the pier where he had just sat down, so Mencius repaired the piano case and began to play.From the very beginning, I knew it was "Drunk Maniac".The distant and smooth sound of the piano, and the willful and sassy fingering immediately made Bai Yuyin's heart skip a beat, and the pent-up grief, anger, confusion and fear seemed to be blown away in an instant.Amidst the sound of the zither, Bai Yuyin really seemed to have drunk wine, the face of this person in front of her made her heart beat faster, and her face was slightly drunk.

At the end of "Drunkenness", Mencius finally asked: "Are you sure you don't know anything? If you don't know about Li Xuming, what other things do you know? I need to continue to investigate clues, and I ask Miss Bai to help me." When he said this, his eyes fell on the strings of the piano, and he did not look up at Bai Yuyin.

Bai Yuyin bit her lip, she didn't know whether she should speak, because what she knew was the reliance on her survival, she couldn't easily tell such a person who had never met, otherwise she would have no reliance on her life. up.She still can't fully trust Meng Zixiu, because Meng Zixiu hasn't clearly told her his own background.

Mencius may have guessed what she was thinking, so he said:

"If you don't tell me right now, I have nothing to do. It's just that I won't be able to find an opportunity to see you again in the future. My money is really limited. It's already eye-catching to come in and see you by showing off. I can't do it again and again. In fact I'm probably being targeted by now, and I'll have to get out of here to hide from the limelight in a while."

"Are you leaving?" Bai Yuyin was a little panicked for some reason.

Mencius smiled wryly, and said: "You may have a way to restrain King Lu, and King Lu has his own idea of ​​keeping you alive. But if I get too close to you, I will be killed."

What he said was straightforward, and he also directly stated that he had no relationship with King Lu, but was afraid of King Lu's existence.Bai Yuyin felt very uncomfortable. So in his eyes, she was just a tool that could be used?Moreover, this tool also had thorns, he was afraid of stabbing himself.

"There is no shift in the rock, are they all fake?" Bai Yuyin's tone contained disappointment, and her words meant the last hurdle of breaking through the level, the question she asked.At that time, Mencius drew a picture of the green rocks by the river, and wrote a poem: "The wind blows and hits the rocks on the shore, which can protect the green under the body." It really moved Bai Yuyin's thoughts.But now he is... well, there are only so many people in the world.It's hard to protect himself, so how can we talk about saving her?

After Mencius finished playing "Drunkenness", he was silent for a moment when he heard her question, and then suddenly asked:

"If I want to redeem you, how much money will I need?"

Bai Yuyin looked at him in surprise, suspecting that she had heard wrong.Meng Zixiu suddenly laughed and said:

"The solution is all figured out. Since I can't come in again, why don't you come out?"

"But... the madam won't agree." Bai Yuyin said anxiously.

"She will agree." Mencius Xiu Ding said firmly, and then he let out a long sigh.Bai Yuyin thought he was lamenting that this matter was too difficult, but Meng Zixiu was actually lamenting that he was about to let his uncle down.Before he left, his uncle gave him a large sum of money so that he could earn a living and gain a foothold abroad. Later, he asked the Zhao's Grain Branch branch in Nanjing to allocate a special sum of money for Mencius to see a doctor and buy medicine.The money Linlin could add up to more than 400 taels of silver, and he wanted to try his best to negotiate the redemption price within the scope of this amount.

Mencius glanced at the night outside, and said, "It's getting late, you go to bed early. I'll read for a while, and I'll go talk to the madam tomorrow."

Tears welled up in Bai Yuyin's beautiful eyes, she was speechless for a while, looking at him not knowing what to say.

"You... Do you really want to do this? Why..." Her throat choked slightly.

"You are also a fallen person in the world. If I don't save you, who will save you? I know you hate this place of fireworks and wish you could redeem yourself as soon as possible. Of course, this must be done as soon as possible." Mencius Xiu said.

What he said was so natural that Bai Yuyin shed tears.After being in trouble for two years, she really didn't know that anyone would say such words to her in this world.

That night, Bai Yuyin couldn't fall asleep, she lay on her side on the bed with her clothes on, but listened intently to the movement outside.The dim yellow light came in from the outside, and she could hear Mencius Xiu night reading and turning the pages of the book.Inexplicably, a warm sense of security spread all over his body.This thin young man seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, but it gave her a sense of solidity like a pine and a mountain.He is extremely calm, and it seems that every word he says and every action he makes has been carefully thought out.But there is still a dusty air in his temperament, and the combination of stillness and movement is perfect, which is extremely charming.

I don't know how long it took, but the sound of flipping the book stopped.Bai Yuyin couldn't help getting up from the couch, went outside, and saw him falling asleep on the desk.She hurriedly found a blanket and covered him.Looking at his side face resting on his arm, she couldn't help pulling his scarf down.Her fingers caressed his face as if involuntary, the touch was warm, and there was a thin beard that just emerged on her lips, reminding her that this man was a young man similar to her own age.There was a soft warm current in her heart, and the eyes staring at him contained affection in the faint light, and the words "Zhe Gui Ling · Spring Love" suddenly appeared in her mind:

If you don't love lovesickness in your life, you will love it, and you will hurt lovesickness.The body is like floating clouds, the heart is like flying catkins, the breath is like gossamer, there is a lingering fragrance in the sky, what can I hope for a thousand gold wanderers.When does the syndrome come?When the lamp is half dim, when the moon is half bright.

Perhaps this is the wishful man in her destiny, the only consolation in her twists and turns.

"Meng Lang..." she called softly.