When Wei Changying was in Xiliang remembering the spring snow in the imperial capital, it was raining instead of snowing in the imperial capital.
The strands of spring rain are like fine needles. They look soft and gentle. If you reach out to catch them, they must still have the chill of early spring.
Hitting on the eaves, it makes a sweet rustling sound like spring nibbling leaves. It is continuous and has an indescribable sultry sound.
At this time of year, although you still have to wear jackets, among the white walls and black tiles of the Imperial City, the grass and trees that have been soaked and washed by the spring rain, like smoke, mist and green, are already thriving.
The city is full of spring scenery.
The sound of rain is like music, and the deep courtyard is lonely.
In the afternoon of early spring, people are most likely to feel sleepy. Song Yuwang, who was alone in the study, finished his business and read for a while. His eyes felt sore, so he put down the book in his hand and looked out the window to relieve his fatigue.
The first thing you notice is the fluttering banana leaves that stretch out to the railing from time to time as the drizzle hits. You can feel its abundant vitality and greenery without looking at it deliberately. It’s not just the banana trees, it’s the season when the garden is blooming. Many plants and trees in the garden are vying to grow. The unique delicate green of the first-generation branches and leaves, washed by the rain, becomes even more tender and tender. After looking at it for a long time, it seems to be exuding like a treasure. The radiance of life.
In the fine sound of rain, there is an indescribable sound of nature, noisy, non-stop, uninterrupted, like a grand movement of heaven and earth. Song Yuwang listened for a moment, and his eyes rested on a drop of water condensed on the tip of a banana leaf. It was crystal clear, and the fresh green in the garden could not compete for its brilliance. Unfortunately, it fell down soon, and fell into the mud, never to be seen again. See…
His heart moved, and he suddenly remembered the scene where the two of them were talking and laughing together in the study when his wife was still alive.
At that time, my wife Wei Chanying loved to lean on the window lattice and look at the plantains during her free time. Song Yuwang once asked why, and Wei Chanying said it was because there was such a bush of plantains outside the house where she lived when she was a child. When she heard the footsteps, she went to the window to look. If her father came, her mother would Wei Chanying picked her up and handed her over through the window... Then her father would hold his daughter in his arms, walk leisurely through the corridor, and enter the house to meet his wife.
... Although Wei Chanying is considered to be the daughter of Ruiyu Hall and the daughter of the Wei family in Fengzhou, she is actually not worthy of Song Yuwang.
She is a side branch of Ruiyu Hall, and her bloodline is farther than Wei Yu's. My father and brother are not very talented people, so they live on the meager ancestral property. Because his grandmother contracted an illness and sold part of the ancestral property in order to cure the illness, the family's life became increasingly difficult. Later, his father even had to ask someone to go to Ruiyu Hall to get a stewardship and compete with the servants for a bite of food.
Speaking of the fact that Song Yu, the only son of Jiangnan Hall, hoped to marry her, it was actually Mrs. Song's father, Song Dan, who was obsessed with his late wife and did many ridiculous things. As Song Dan's nephew, Song Xinping, Duke of Duanhui, did not dare to risk his only adult son, so he had no choice but to agree to this mismatched marriage.
At the beginning, Song Xinping was actually interested in Wei Zhengyin, the biological daughter of his cousin Mrs. Song. As the only son of Song Yuwang, when his brothers died one after another, it was destined that he would take over Jiangnan Hall in the future. Wei Zhengyin, the only direct daughter of the leader of the Wei family, is his perfect wife.
But Wei Zhengyin was several years younger than Song Yuwang. Although Mrs. Song valued her eldest son more than her biological daughter, this was only compared to Wei Zhenghong. The old lady only had one son and one daughter alive, so of course she was very concerned about her daughter's marriage. So after Song Xinping discussed with her in private, Mrs. Song did not nod immediately, but asked her nephew to come and stay in her mansion for a while so that she could personally observe whether his nephew's temperament and person were suitable for her daughter.
Song Xinping did not object to this request. As a legitimate son, he naturally hoped that Song Yuwang could be a loving, harmonious couple. Moreover, Song Yuwang is a man. In order to marry a good wife, he was inspected by his cousin and future mother-in-law for a period of time. If word spread, it will only be a good story; we cannot let Wei Zhengyin, a girl, live in the Song family for a period of time to let the future Weng Gu Let's see if you like it
So Song Yuwang lived in the Wei family in the name of asking his uncle Wei Huan for lessons. Then, before his cousin Wei Zhengyin grew up, he met Wei Chanying by accident because his mother suddenly fell ill and there were no extra servants at home, so he had to rush to Wei Mansion to find his father.
When they first met, Wei Chanying was worried about her mother and showed up regardless of her identity. Not to mention Jingchai's sarong, her clothes were old and her expression was frightened. But none of this stopped Song Yuwang from falling in love with her at first sight. He only found out her father's name. , without even asking whether she was engaged or not, he returned to the Song family and asked Song Xinping to marry Wei Chanying.
Of course Song Xinping was reluctant. He only had one son, and Song Yuwang had no brothers to support him, so he was counting on the support of his wife's family - his cousin, Mrs. Song, and her cousin-in-law, Wei Huan, were both men of extraordinary skill, so they married their only son. As the legitimate daughter of Mrs. Song, Mrs. Song valued her own flesh and blood, so she was not afraid that she would not help Song Yuwang.
However, in view of the crazy behavior of the lovers in the Song family, Song Xinping, who was afraid that something might happen to his only son, still went to explain the situation to Mrs. Song with a shy face. Fortunately, when Mrs. Song found out, instead of getting angry, she breathed a sigh of relief and just said: "Thankfully, we didn't get engaged before. Now no one outside knows about it, so we can't delay the children."
So the fact that the third lady of the Su family almost became the daughter-in-law of the Song family was covered up silently. The only people who knew about it were Song Xinping and his wife, Mrs. Song and his wife, and Song Yuwang himself... Lian Wei Zheng Yin Because of his young age, he didn't know that he almost married his mother's cousin, instead of the third master of the Su family today.
Wei Chanying was able to pass through the door safely and smoothly despite the envious eyes of everyone.
Her family was poor, and her difficult upbringing fostered her docile and silent character. Even after marrying Song Yuwang, she did not become arrogant and extravagant because of her sudden wealth and Song Yuwang's favor. When she moved in as the hostess of such a large mansion, the only request she made was to plant a plant outside the study. A bunch of plantains.
Song Yuwang had imagined his wife's childhood many times: his father worked as a steward in Ruiyu Hall and was on an equal footing with the servants as a clan member, which was both bitter and busy; his mother guarded the family business and children, working day and night, and I was worried about my young daughter, so I always took her with me.
It was a rare occasion when his father came back from vacation, and the mother and daughter couldn't wait for him to walk around the corridor and enter the house, and couldn't wait to talk through the window. The little daughter was lying by the window eagerly waiting for her father to give her a hug. So the mother understood her daughter's mood, handed her out through the window, and walked from the window to the door. Because of her young age, Chanying could be carried over by her father, and then she would salute after entering the house...
This was perhaps the most profound and heartwarming memory of Wei Chanying's childhood, so as gentle as she was, she also opened her mouth when she discovered that there were all kinds of exotic flowers and plants outside the study, but the only thing missing was the ordinary plantain... In fact, now this The banana bush is not the one Wei Chanying asked to plant before.
The first bush died long before Wei Chanying died.
Pot after pot of boiling water was poured down, killing even the roots.
Song Yuwang hired the most prestigious gardener in the imperial capital, but he was unable to save even a small plant.
The order to kill the banana bush came from Wei Chan. This woman, who would not even trample an ant to death in her life, decided to kill an innocent banana bush because of her last words: " forget me."
The startling glimpse in the Wei Mansion and the loving relationship that lasted for more than ten years made countless others envious. In the end, all Wei Chanying wanted was for him to forget her.
The beauty is ill-fated and is about to die, but the husband is in his prime. With the love between the two of them, Wei Chanying is not worried about her children who have not yet grown up. She is only worried that her husband will imitate the ancestors of the Song family and never forget her, making this marriage a shackles for his life.
So while she was still alive and Song Yu was out of sight, she ordered people to burn all the things she had used, including the banana bush outside the window that she asked to be planted - she even wrote a letter to let him know. My father and brother sold their property and returned to Fengzhou. They should no longer interact easily with Song Yuwang and their children. Doing everything possible to eliminate traces of her existence, so that Song Yuwang would have a chance to accept new people.
As a wife, she had only made two requests to her husband in her life. For the second request, she even personally ordered the first request to be completely eradicated...
However, a few pots of boiling water could easily kill the banana roots, but her existence had long been ingrained in Song Yuwang's soul and would be unforgettable forever.
Even though she was destroyed, Song Yuwang relied on his memory to restore her one by one and put her back in her original position. Even the bananas outside the window were moved from Wei Chanying's natal family's courtyard.
He tried his best to maintain his wife's belongings when she was there, so as to pretend that her wife was still in the world, but she was not here at the moment, or in the boudoir, or on the bank of the pond. Maybe the next moment, he would send someone to invite her, or he could go there. I saw... But the memorial hanging high in the study and the empty study all alone reminded Song Yuwang that he was gone...
Stroking the red silk rope on his wrist that Wei Chanying had knotted when he was still alive, Song Yuwang thought sadly: "Without you in the world, what does the spring scenery in the city have to do with me?"
He suddenly felt that he couldn't bear to look at the banana bush anymore, and was about to ask someone to come over and close the window to block his view. Unexpectedly, he saw a girl in a goose-yellow dress turning behind Basho. She was wearing a curtain hat and had a graceful figure. She came closer. She saw Song Yu looking at him through the window, so she raised her white as the moon. He took off the gauze scarf and raised the brim of his hat, revealing a face as bright as spring, but unfortunately there was a scar on the forehead. He smiled and said, "Father!"
"...You're here?" Song Yu was thinking about his late wife, but was interrupted by his daughter. After a moment of confusion, he raised his voice through the window and ordered, "No need to be formal, come in and talk."
Song Zaishui followed his words and walked up the corridor. Listening to the sound of his daughter's clogs stepping on the wooden boards of the corridor, Song Yuwang was immersed in the scene of Wei Chanying telling her that she longed for her father's return when she was a child. He waited until Song Zaishui entered the door and reached him, making a gesture of waiting for help. He was in a daze for a moment, and then he remembered why his daughter came now - he had sent someone over last night to tell Song Zaishui to come at this time.
After calming down, Song Yu looked to his left and right to exit first, and then said softly: "Yesterday, your cousin-in-law went to the Yamen specifically to find my father. He proposed marriage for his only son. It is said that you have met, my father. I haven’t asked you, and I’m afraid you won’t like it, so I said I’d give him an answer after careful consideration, but I don’t know what you think?”
Song Zaishui was startled and asked subconsciously: "Which cousin is the unknown father talking about?"
She does have the most likely candidate in mind, but there are only three or four relatives in the family. Moreover, her appearance is damaged and she is older. She is not as good as a serious legitimate eldest daughter. People who are not extraordinary people would not dare to say this. - Marrying at a low age is eight or nine times out of ten, and more and more people dare to speak out. Maybe they guessed wrong
Song Yu looked at him and said, "This is your second cousin-in-law from the Wei family. His only son is named Su Yuwu." (To be continued)