Zheng Wan is dreaming.
In the dream, he was dazed and became Zheng Wan for a while, and Cui Wang for a while. When I woke up, it was already bright outside the window, and the green parrot in the thin cage on the porch kept singing:
"Wan Wan is well, Wan Wan is well."
"What time is it?"
Zheng Wan turned over, only to see a person sitting in the dark beside the bed.
The father who was still kneeling outside the Anju Gate yesterday had already returned home. He had changed into homely clothes, facing the Liulijing Lantern with a dejected expression, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
She glanced at the hourglass on the chest of drawers, it was three quarters.
"Aye."
Zheng Wan straightened up.
Only then did Zheng Zhai realize that his daughter had woken up, and hurriedly stuffed a big pillow behind her for her to lean on: "Does Wan Wan feel better?"
"It's all right, where's Mommy?"
"My Wan Wan is suffering."
He stroked her head.
Zheng Wan didn't feel bitter, and she was still living the continuous dream since last night.
She has never had this kind of dream, and most of the dreams are fragmented, but this dream is not, it is connected and logically consistent, and constitutes Cui Wang's entire life.
She dreamed that she was living in a book called "Sword Lord", but the protagonist of the book was not her, but the son of Boling Cui, Cui Wang.
Cui Wang overcame thorns and thorns all the way until he slashed the sky with one sword, and finally became the sword king who lived the same life as the heaven and the earth.
Jianjun lived a magnificent life, magnificent and majestic, with many admirers, and she, Zheng Wan, was just his unremarkable mortal fiancée at first.
As seen in the book, her father will be convicted and dismissed in one month, and exiled for three thousand miles. On the way to exile, my mother became depressed and became ill, and she couldn't afford it.
And she, a dignified lady from a famous family and the number one beauty in Shangjing, quickly fell to pieces after losing the blessing of power, and even the most inferior soldiers could trample and humiliate wantonly; Because of the unbearable bitter cold, he climbed out of the guard bed and died of humiliation.
His father beheaded the guards angrily, gathered the old troops, and rebelled under the banner of "killing evil spirits and fighting against the emperor", but he was beheaded by Cui Wang with a single sword before he could break out of the camp.
It occupies only a dozen or so pages, but it describes Zheng Wan's absurd and humiliating life.
"Wan Wan, Wan Wan."
Zheng Zhai looked at his daughter with concern, but saw that her eyes, which were always as clear as autumn water, were rippling, like a young deer in the forest who had encountered a wild beast and was at a loss, so he couldn't help lowering his voice, "Wan Wan? What's wrong?"
He thought that his daughter was still afraid of the fact that he was fined to kneel at the Anju Gate yesterday.
"Aye, my daughter had a dream."
Zheng Wan rubbed her forehead, "I dreamed—"
She opened her mouth, but found that she didn't say anything, as if there was a force in the dark that prevented her from revealing the content of her dream to the outside world. If Zheng Wan had been dubious before, now she is almost 95% convinced.
Half of it is left to be verified.
"Aye, do you believe me?"
Zheng Zhai looked at his daughter's face of a late lady, and nodded repeatedly, coaxingly: "I believe, Aye believes, whatever Wanwan says, Aye believes."
"Aye!" Zheng Wan puffed up her face, "My daughter is talking about business."
"Okay, okay, Wanwan said, Wanwan said, Aye listen, Aye listen."
Facing his daughter, Zheng Zhai couldn't respect the majesty of the chief minister of a country at all.
Zheng Wan looked at him with a smile, but there was water in her eyes. At that time, the spring flowers were in full bloom, but my father's head was buried in a barren slope. He closed his eyes and thought, what exactly
He is lying there, is he cold
Do you think of A Niang, Wan Wan
Zheng Wan blinked, blinking away the water in her eyes, got off the bed, and walked to the window with the felt shoes on her feet.
Open the window, the sun is shining at noon, and the snow is gradually melting.
Zheng Zhai looked at his daughter disapprovingly: "It's cold, be careful of catching a cold."
Zheng Wan put her hands in the armholes and looked at the snow on the eaves:
"Aye, remember the sudden heavy snowfall outside the city when my daughter was three years old?"
"Remember."
Recalling the past, Zheng Zhai couldn't help but become serious.
"Just remember." Zheng Wan curled the corners of her mouth, but there was no smile in her eyes, "It's the same as that year, no, it's even more terrible. My Zheng family will be wiped out."
"Wanwan, stop talking nonsense."
Zheng Zhai pulled a long face.
"After the application of time, the Ministry of Rites will send a letter of resignation written by the Holy Lord's imperial pen. At the same time, the funeral letter from Xingyang's hometown will also arrive at the mansion."
"A funeral letter?"
"It's the second uncle of the third room. The second uncle dominates the wife's house. The girl is so hot that she directly stabbed the second uncle with scissors. The second uncle died of blood."
This also became the first of the Zheng family's sinful karma in the book.
Zheng Zhai's face sank like water.
The second child of the third room is indeed a bit flirtatious. There are many concubines in the mansion, and the best is a mature woman. He also wrote a warning letter. It's just that these dirty things have always been hidden from his obedient daughter, how could he suddenly bring up...
"Aye, if this matter is unfortunately confirmed by my daughter, it will prove that what my daughter said is true. My Zheng family is indeed facing a catastrophe. Aye must listen to Wanwan in the future, okay?"
If it is not right, everyone is naturally happy.
Zheng Zhai was silent for a long time, before leaving the door, he finally threw out the word "good".
Zheng Wan sat in the room and waited.
It rained all night last night, and all the camellias with big thumb buds were knocked off the branches, leaving only bare branches.
Suo Dai stood in the corridor, instructing the servants to sweep.
The soft sunlight poured in.
Zheng Wan squinted her eyes, and looked through the dark bricks and tiles, and fell to a corner of the distant imperial city. There were red walls and green tiles, and cornices with upturned corners. The bleakness and chill that came.
got windy.
"Pa—" Zheng Wan got up and closed the window.
———
"Little lady, little lady, the master invites you to the study."
Earlier than Zheng Wan expected, before the application time came, the divorce letter and the funeral letter were sent from Yidong and Yixi in Shangjing City to the capital.
The only difference is that the former walks through the main entrance, while the latter walks through the corner gate.
The left servant of the Ministry of Rites took the letter of resignation and swaggered into the main entrance; while the nephew of the third house from Xingyang's hometown timidly entered the corner gate.
The two coincidentally brought a piece of bad news.
When Zheng Wan entered the door, two letters with different styles were spread out on the long table in the study, one on the left and the other on the right. Zheng Zhai sat on the seat of the Eight Immortals behind the table, his eyes shining brightly.
"Wanwan, you've hit the spot."
Zheng Wan picked up the divorce letter and the funeral letter, and read it word by word, without any luck in her heart.
She has never seen the holy master's vermilion pen imperial criticism, but the shape of the hook and the horizontal stroke is exactly the same as what she saw in the dream, even the tone of reprimand is the same.
And on the funeral letter stamped with the seal of the old patriarch of the Zheng clan...
"Your third uncle is indeed dead."
Zheng Zhai said in a gloomy tone, "I have sent the housekeeper to Xingyang with others, and it will be considered as a gift to send a funeral. His fate is due to karma, Wan Wan doesn't need to be sad. It's better—"
"—Tell Aye about what you saw in your dream."
Zheng Wan tried again and again, but found that she still couldn't utter a word.
After a pause, he changed to a vague statement:
"The Canglong Kingdom is the king of the snake, and claims to be a descendant of the dragon. Under the snake, Xiong Xiazi, the capable general, leads the other beasts, and his life is quite comfortable."
"But one day, a Canglong came to the country. The Canglong is a true descendant of the dragon and has supernatural power. Xiong Xiazi offended this Canglong because he was blind in his early years."
"And then what?"
"The Teng Snake wanted to transform into a dragon, so he wanted to offer the blind bear as a sacrifice to the Canglong to please it. But the blind Xiong usually acted unscrupulously, which aroused the jealousy of the Teng Snake, and the beasts disliked him. The beast pushed, and ended up with no bones left."
Zheng Wan's story was just pieced together from a short dozen pages, and part of it was even her own speculation.
There are really too few pages in the book about the Zheng family, and most of the time it is about Boling Cui's son, but just looking at the clues, Zheng Wan, who is in the middle of the situation, already feels frightened.
By the end of the frontier chapter, the Zheng family's final words were nothing more than a sentence of "rebellious officials and thieves, everyone will punish them if they get it".
Zheng Zhai already understood.
If Teng Snake is the Holy Lord, Xiong Xiazi is his Zheng family, then Canglong... is Cui Wang
"absurd."
He got up and walked straight to the "Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts Picture" hanging on the side wall, "You don't talk about strange powers and confusion."
But Zheng Wan knew that Aye believed it.
She watched him stand in front of the picture for a long time without saying a word, and after he turned around, she continued to ask: "Now Xiong Xiazi is in a dead end, how should we break it?"
Zheng Zhai also looked at Zheng Wan.
His daughter, who is well-raised and enjoys it, loves beautiful clothes, gold and jade ornaments, and the most worrying thing is that the dresses are not gorgeous enough, and the accessories are not exquisite enough. Now she is so worried, it is his father. inability.
sighed:
"Capture the thief first, and capture the king first. Everything started from the Canglong. Without the Canglong, the Soaring Snake would not turn against him, and other beasts would not dare to act rashly."
"So—kill the dragon."
"Dragon has divine power and cannot be killed."
"If you can't kill him, you will be soft. Canglong is young and full of vigor, and he uses a little bit of beauty tricks. The town of beauties is a hero's grave. If you can use it for me... If the beauty tricks don't work, then..."
Zheng Wan was fascinated.
As far as I saw in the dream, the sword king has had many admirers throughout his life, but apart from the sword, there is no other pursuit.
To him, beauty is nothing more than a beauty with a dry bone.
But what if, what if
The current Sword Lord is not the ruthless Taoist master who swung down his bones with a single sword in the future. The blood of the young man is still hot, and the sword is not cold. To tempt such a young man, to be the undefeated rose flower in his heart...
Thinking about it, Zheng Wanguang felt his blood boil.
Zheng Zhai looked at the ambition in Zheng Wan's eyes, and was taken aback:
"Wan Wan, don't let your imagination run wild! Even Canglong has supernatural powers, and I am a dignified Zheng family with a century-old family, how can I move at will."
No, aye, you don't understand.
Zheng Wan couldn't describe it to him. He had never seen the vastness of the sky and the earth. How could he know that the mortal body was nothing but ants in front of these immortal cultivators who mastered the power of gods.
But ants also have a desire to survive.
"Aye, it's a beauty trick, Wan Wan wants to go in person."
The world calls her Zheng Xiaoniang pure and clean, with no dust in her eyes, but only she knows that she is really a vulgar person, full of greed, hatred, ignorance, and everything.
She loves the high bed and soft pillows, the jade food and delicacies, the bells and bells, the servants and women, and the extravagant enjoyment.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for her to become a sinner who tramples thousands of people.
"No."
Zheng Zhai shook his head and refused. His daughter, who is so pampered and beloved, is supposed to be a noble person who sits high in the palace of gold and jade, how can she use her body to feed the enemy? What's more, Boling Cui's son has old grievances with his Zheng family.
"Aye, don't be so naive, how can there be eggs under a nest, let alone this matter, you can rest assured to entrust others?"
The heart of the young Sword Lord is the key to revitalizing the dead flag of the Zheng family.
At worst, let him let go of old grievances.
If it can be done, Zheng Wan still wants to see the yellow sand desert and the extremely scorching glaciers that she saw in her dream, and also wants to see the wider world beyond this mundane world.
Zheng Zhai was silent.
He remembered the look in the eyes of Cui's child when he left, like a lone wolf. And this wolf came aggressively after many years, and it was definitely not with good intentions.
Now Wanwan wants to tame wolves...
Easier said than done.
"Aye, Cui Wang will go to the Lin Banquet tomorrow."
Zheng Wan raised her lips and smiled innocently, "Wan Wan is going too."
"Go there?"
Zheng Zhai frowned, just after retiring with the prince, Wan Wan went to such an occasion, wouldn't it be a crime
"No, when will it be impossible to get to know Cui Wang? Aye will create opportunities for you."
"Aye, there is an opportunity waiting for Cui Wang at the Shanglin Banquet on the stone boat tomorrow. Since I have a glimpse of God's will, why don't I try to get a share of it? What's the point of a little ridicule?"
"Opportunity?"
When Zheng Zhai was a teenager, he also read some fairy tales, so he naturally understood what his daughter meant, and he couldn't help showing fascination when he heard the words.
"Is this true?"
"Nature is true."
Zheng Wan looked out of the window and said quietly, "There is no share in the pie. It is also good to get acquainted with Cui Wang and resolve the grievances between the two families."
"Also."