Ten thousand people think gloom is reborn

It was a cloudy day when I went to the banquet. I raised the corner of the car curtain and looked at the sky carefully, fearing that it would rain later, and the water droplets splashed on the floor tiles would stain my clothes.

Liangji sat beside me, staring at my clothes with good eyesight, "Master Chun, your clothes are so beautiful."

I nodded in agreement. It was indeed beautiful. When the boss of the garment workshop delivered it, I was stunned for a moment. I didn't expect the other party's craftsmanship to be so superb.The hem of this dress will have dim lights floating in the night, like tiny stars and fireflies.

Lin Chongtan is not in Taixue today, so I did not go out with him, and went to Rongfu by myself in a carriage.Because it was the first time to attend the prince's private banquet, my heart beat very fast, and I was always worried that I would lose face at the banquet.

When I arrived at the gate of the Rong Mansion, I found that the guests who went to the banquet could not bring their servants with them, and they all went in alone, so I could only give Liangji a silver coin, and asked him to find a place to eat, and come back after the banquet was over.

The Rong Mansion has a prominent family, the mansion is much bigger than the third uncle's mansion, and the screen wall at the entrance is as tall as two people.I carried the gift and was led in by the servants of the Rong Mansion. I walked all the way through the corridor and the courtyard. The lanterns under the corridor had already been lit. Looking from a distance, I looked like a fairy with jade arms and sleeves.

"My lord, be careful where you step." Rong Mansion's servant reminded.

I crossed the threshold and finally arrived at the place where the banquet was held today. This is a separate courtyard in Rongfu. The courtyard was brightly lit, making the dark sky even more eclipsed.

There are probably quite a few people attending the banquet tonight, and the desks are lined up to the door, leaning against the courtyard outside.I thought I should be sitting at the door, but the servant led me all the way to the front of the hall.

I counted, and my position is only four seats away from the main seat.

"Is it a mistake? I don't seem to be sitting here." I called to the servants of the Rong Mansion who were about to leave.

A servant from the Rong Mansion asked me: "Is your Excellency Mr. Lin Chundi?"

"Yes."

"The little one is not mistaken, Mr. Lin's position is indeed here."

After the servants of the Rong Mansion left, I still couldn't believe that I could sit in front.I looked around, because it was still early and not many people came, it was a bit awkward for me to stand here, so I thought about sitting down first.

Not long after sitting down, the guests of the banquet came in twos and threes, and after a while, the young master of the Rong Mansion, that is, the prince's cousin Rong Chen arrived.

After he came in, he greeted the guests, and when he saw me, he paused, as if wondering who I was.I hurriedly stood up and bowed my hands, "Caomin Lin Chundi has met Master Shaoqing of Taichang Temple."

In the early spring of last year, Rong Chen was awarded the title of Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, in charge of rituals, music, suburban temples and other affairs.

Rong Chen smiled at me, "So it's you. I haven't seen you for over a year. You've changed a lot."

There was neither Liangji nor Lin Chongtan by my side, so I didn't know what to do, so I could only smile at him with my lips pursed.

There seemed to be an instant change in Rong Chen's eyes, but he didn't seem to have any. He let me sit down without restraint.

After Rong Chen arrived, the rest of the guests also arrived in full swing, the crown prince and Lin Chongtan hadn't arrived yet.I know some of the guests present, but they only know their names and family backgrounds. They have never spoken to each other on weekdays, and some of them I have never met.

I thought Lin Chongtan would come soon, and it would be best if he could sit next to me, but I knew it was impossible, the seat opposite Rong Chen was empty, presumably it was reserved for Lin Chongtan.

After another quarter of an hour, the prince arrived, and all the guests got up from their seats and saluted the prince.

The prince was wearing a red five-claw python robe today, as if he had just come out of the palace, when he came in, his footsteps were windy, he tore off his cloak and threw it to the followers behind him.

"Rong Chen, are you all here?" He called his cousin by his first name, and Rong Chen stood up to greet him as if he was used to it.

"It's only you and Tan Sheng, why is my aunt willing to let you out of the palace now?" Rong Chen said.

"Yes, the palace is boring. If the mother is bored, she should hurry up and have another child with the father, and spend all day looking for orphans."

I was in the front and could vaguely hear their conversation.Hearing the prince speak like this, I hurriedly lowered my head, thinking that this prince is really perverse, he dares to say such words in public.

After the prince took his seat, the audience was silent.The crown prince inspected the audience, and patted his fingers twice, "You are all invited guests alone, I hope you will feel at home and enjoy yourself to the fullest."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Everyone said in unison.

I sat down with the crowd, only to see Rong Chen clapping his palms lightly, and the maids of the Rong Mansion, dressed in fragrant buns and shadows, filed in and put away the food and refreshments properly.The delicious food was in front of me, and I started to feel a little hungry. Seeing the sound of silk and bamboo, everyone around me started to move their chopsticks, so I also picked up the chopsticks.

After eating something to pad my stomach, I suddenly heard a commotion.Hearing the reputation, he looked over and found that it was Lin Chongtan who had arrived.He just walked in, everyone's eyes turned to him, even Le Ji, who was playing the piano, played a wrong note because of looking at Lin Chongtan.

Because of this note, Lin Chongtan stopped in his footsteps, and Le Jixiuli's face turned red instantly, and she lowered her head quickly, but played several wrong notes one after another.

The crown prince sitting at the top raised his eyes and said with a light smile, "Well, Lin Tansheng, it's a mistake that you prepared to perform a song as soon as you came in, Tanlang Gu?"

Lin Chongtan saluted the prince, "Your Highness is joking, how can I have this ability."

He took a seat next to the prince. I secretly looked at him several times, but he didn't look at me, as if he didn't notice me at all.After drinking for three rounds, I began to feel bored, and felt that the prince's private banquet seemed meaningless.

Suddenly someone approached.

"Which prefecture are you from? Why have I never seen you before?" The man was dressed in brocade and feathered crown, holding a wine glass.I quickly replied to him, saying that my third uncle is the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and my name is Lin Chundi.

"Lin Chundi? Is that Lin Chundi who wrote "The Guest of Gold Hairpin"?" When he heard my name, his eyes became brighter, and he stretched out his hand to pull me, "My dear brother, I've always wanted to know you, but I didn't expect to meet you here. "

I'm not used to his familiarity and wanted to avoid him, but he held me tight and even drank with me.I couldn't refuse, so I could barely drink a cup.

When I was having a headache how to get rid of that person, Nie Wenle appeared out of nowhere. It turned out that he also attended the private banquet tonight.He grabbed the man's arm, "Why is Young Master Yuan hiding here, hurry up and come drink with me."

"Aren't I drinking?" The original young master refused to leave, and asked me if I had any new words recently.

The three of us huddled together, maybe the noise was too loud, and we were noticed by the prince above.

"Is that Lin Chundi?"

When I heard the prince's voice, I immediately turned my head upwards. Seeing the prince's gaze, I put down my wine glass and stood up to salute, "Caomin Lin Chundi has seen the prince."

The prince said: "Lin Chundi, I heard a poem you wrote by chance a few days ago. It was well written. I remember that you were the last one in the imperial examination a long time ago. How did you improve so fast?"

I bowed my head and replied: "His Highness, thank you for your praise, Caomin... Caomin is stupid. He knows the truth that stupid birds fly first. He studies day and night without daring to be negligent. Only then can he make some progress. However, compared with the outstanding students of Taixue, Caomin is still far behind."

"You, like Tan Sheng, are too modest. Come on, come here alone."

The prince's words made everyone look at me.I'm not used to being looked at by everyone like this, and the hands under the sleeves couldn't help curling up.

"Why? Don't you want to come by Gu's side?" the prince said again.

I shook my head quickly, "No, it's not."

Next to Rong Chen, the young master of Shen Wangfu said suddenly, "He is Tan Sheng's collateral brother? Why doesn't he look like Tan Sheng at all?"

"You said it was collateral, how could it be like that?" Rong Chen replied.

The little Hou Ye rested his chin and stared at me, "This younger brother looks very afraid of his cousin, his body is shaking all the time."

My heart became more and more nervous, and I walked up to the prince almost holding my breath.He motioned me to sit down with his eyes. I have never been so close to the prince, and I can even smell the ambergris on his body.As we got closer, I realized that the prince's eyeballs were not pure black, but faintly brown.

The crown prince stared at me, as if he thought it was funny, but my palms were wet with sweat even though it was early spring.

After the prince looked away to talk to others, I secretly wiped my sweat with a handkerchief, and then took another look at Lin Chongtan.

Lin Chongtan was actually looking at me, but when he caught my gaze, he turned away again.

"It's monotonous and vulgar to just have music, music, songs and wine tonight. Lin Chundi, you write a good poem, how about you recite a poem on the spot?" the prince suddenly said to me.

I was dumb for a moment, then whispered, "Now?"

"That's right, let's make a poem about the banquet." The prince looked at me with a smile.

My fingers were entangled unconsciously, and the poems I had written flashed through my mind quickly, as if I couldn't get any out of them.

Banquet... Banquet is the title. A poem written by Lin Chongtan a few days ago was titled Banquet. I haven't shown that song to others yet.

After a while, I read out the poem written by Lin Chongtan. With my voice, the sound of silk and bamboo at the banquet gradually died down, and the dancers in cool clothes danced on the big drum, spinning faster and faster. In the end, it limp on the drum like a dying bird.

"Good!" The prince applauded, and the rest followed suit.I have never been so sought after by others. In a trance, I really thought that my poems were liked by everyone, and I couldn't help showing a smile.

As soon as the smile came out, the prince's next words made my face turn pale.

"Tan Sheng, why are the poems you wrote read out of your brother's mouth?"

Before Lin Tansheng could speak, the young master next to him also spoke, "Yes, isn't this "Spring Night Banquet" written by Tansheng?"

Is this poem already known?

I bit the tip of my tongue, trying to make amends, when Nie Wenle's voice interjected, "How could this poem be written by Lin Chongtan? I saw Lin Chundi writing this poem on paper earlier."

What is Nie Wenle talking about?

When had he seen me write this poem on paper?

"Oh?" The prince raised his voice at the end, "Could it be that Tan Sheng took Lin Chundi's poem and said he wrote it? Lin Chundi, did Tan Sheng take your poem?"

"Caomin, Caomin..." I didn't know what to say.

The prince lowered his eyes and pulled his lower lip, "Well, even if Tan Sheng brazenly took your poem and Gu asked you to compose it on the spot, how could you take out what you wrote before? This is deceiving Gu, do you know how to deceive? What is the price of loneliness?"

I immediately knelt down, "Caomin dare not, please forgive me, Your Highness."

"Then I will give you a chance to make up for your mistakes. You can make another song with a banquet as the theme, and the time is limited to a stick of incense. Someone, come here with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

The prince ordered, and a small table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone were quickly placed in front of me.I picked up the brush, my mind was blank at this moment, I wrote a word, and crossed out that word.

When I was in a panic, I could only transcribe my original poems on rice paper.The Prince's smiling face sank a little bit, he looked at the poems on the paper with distaste, and said, "What?"

One sentence out, the whole room is quiet.

Everyone knows that I made the prince angry.

I knelt down on the ground again, stammering and begging the prince for forgiveness, saying that I was incompetent and stupid.I said a lot, but the prince did not speak for a long time. In the almost dead silence, for some reason, I raised my head and secretly looked at the prince.

After looking at it, I found that the prince was actually smiling, but this smile was a mocking smile, a mocking smile, a smile that felt that I was overwhelmed.

"Gu really didn't expect you to be so courageous, lying in front of Gu again and again, tell me carefully, did you write a word of your widely praised poems and articles by yourself?" He raised his hand and squeezed Hold my jaw, the second half of the sentence is so soft that only he and I can hear, "Little whore who sells meat."

After speaking, the prince let go of his hand, and took the silk handkerchief to wipe off the fingers that touched me.

"Lin Chundi, did you really write those poems and articles by yourself?" Rong Chen came over and asked me after seeing the poems on the rice paper.

I opened my mouth, but no sound came out, as if someone had grabbed my throat.

"Don't ask, he won't admit it. Tan Sheng is too pitiful. He raised a house thief. Whenever Tan Sheng wrote something, he would snatch it away. Tan Sheng took care of his feelings and kept quiet. This fellow It’s good, he’s getting more and more extravagant, and dares to claim the poems written by Tan Sheng as his own in front of His Highness. When will Taixue tolerate such bullying people?”

The young master stood up and scolded me coldly.

Following his words, everyone's eyes on me changed.The young master Yuan who spoke to me earlier said immediately: "What? Did you steal something written by someone else? It's a pity that I still want to make friends with him."

My face was completely pale, and those people looked at me as if they were looking at rats and toads that had sneaked into the banquet.

"Is it actually this kind of person? You can't tell from the outside."

"Lin Chongtan is too pitiful, how could he meet such a person."

"He's too thick-skinned. He even dared to come to His Highness's banquet and lie in front of His Highness."

"Tai Xue should drive him out."

"Not only must he be kicked out, but he is also not allowed to take the merit test. Who knows if he will also steal other people's hard work when he takes the test for merit."

"Reading the books of sages and sages, doing dirty things, is humble."

……

Countless voices squeezed into my ears, and I didn't dare to look into the eyes of those people. In a daze, I turned my eyes to Lin Chongtan for help.

Lin Chongtan looked at me like everyone else, but his usually beautiful eyes were indifferent and alienated at this moment.He was still hugging me the night before, pecking my earlobe lightly, and holding my feet in his hands.

I don't like him holding my foot all the time, but he likes it, gets excited, and forces me to step on him.I buried my face in the quilt in shame, and after a while, I turned my head to look at him again.

"Don't, don't kiss..." I wanted to pull my foot back, but he kissed the ankle along the back of the foot.I didn't know that my ankles could be so sensitive that I didn't even have the strength to pull my feet back.

Why is he looking at me so indifferently now?

Does he... also think I'm shameless like those people?

No, it's normal for him to be like this. I shouldn't have taken his works as my own.

"Throw him out, dirty eyes." The prince seemed unwilling to look at me again, and ordered the people next to him in disgust.

Eunuch Shu led people to catch me immediately, and I tried to walk by myself, but they insisted on pulling me out.They walked so fast that I didn't step on it for a while, so I fell to the ground.

There was someone directly in front of me when I fell, and I was pulled up by Eunuch Shu and others, only to find that the person in front of me was Nie Wenle.

Nie Wenle looked at me expressionlessly, and silently said two words——

"Deserving it."

I was thrown out of Rongfu, like a mouse driven out by a broom.People on the street saw me being thrown out, and many people stopped to look at me.I got up from the ground, crossed my arms, lowered my head and ran out quickly.

do not look at me!

Don't look at me!

Please, stop looking at me!

The fact that I was thrown out of the Rong Mansion in public will definitely spread in Taixue tomorrow, and maybe it will also spread in the capital. The third uncle will know, and my father in Gusu will also know.

How to do?

what should I do?

My mind was in a mess, and I didn't know where I was going. The spring thunder rumbled, and the rain was flying. I stepped on the wet bluestone bricks. disgusted look.

In a trance, I seem to hear someone calling me.

who?Who is calling me?

"Lin Chundi."

Suddenly someone blocked my way, I didn't dare to look up, and wanted to go around that person, but it turned out that it wasn't one person blocking me, but several people.The men grabbed me and forced me to lift my head up.

Only then did I realize that the person in front of me was Duan Xinting whom I hadn't seen for a long time.

Duan Xinting was holding a bamboo umbrella, with a caring expression on her pretty face, "Lin Chundi, why are you in such a mess?"

My eyelashes were wet from the rain, and when I blinked, drops of water rolled down.My eyes hurt so bad I tried to wipe them off but they grabbed my hands.

"It's amazing to show such a pitiful look in front of me, but Lin Chundi, no matter how pretentious you are, today should be over. Brother Tansheng said——" Duan Xinting approached me, obviously the rain was loud, but I just listened Clearing the second half of his sentence, "Only when you die in disgrace, the position of the second young master of the Lin family really belongs to him."

"Push him down."

"Yes."

"Wait, is that bridge a magpie bridge? Forget it, push it quickly so that no one will see it."

"Yes."

It turns out that the water in Baguio Lake is so cold, I don't know how to swim, I struggled a few times, my body sank further and further, and Lin Chongtan's face flashed again in my mind at this moment.

He said: "The spring is quiet, and the night is long. The blue clouds and the sky are far away from the palace of Chu. Menghun is used to being undisciplined, and he crosses the Xieqiao on Yanghua."

He said: "Last night and today I owe first."

He said that I died in disgrace, and that the position of second young master of the Lin family really belongs to him.

The water kept pouring into my mouth and nose, and I felt so uncomfortable that I wanted to cry, but no one would pity me or save me.While struggling wildly, I tore the purse at my waist, and the seal inside fell out.

That was the seal that Lin Chongtan carved for me.

I watched the seal sink to the bottom of the water, and instinctively reached out to fish for it, but it was empty in the end.After being stunned for a moment, I slowly closed my eyes and let my body sink to the bottom.

Liangji, I'm sorry, I broke my promise, I can't accompany you to the outskirts of the capital.If you go back to Gusu, light a stick of incense for me every year on the first two days of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

If...the father and mother disagree, then forget it.