The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Qixi Festival.
According to legend, on this night every year, the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. Women in the world begged her for wisdom and skill on this day and night, and they also asked her for a happy marriage.
Daxu's most extravagant and prosperous capital, Zhongdu, is even more lively.
The golden chariot and the jade carriage are vertical and horizontal, and the bells of the Twilight Drum City are vast.
On weekdays, the Central Capital City is very lively, not to mention the Qiqiao Festival, which is the daughter's family's favorite? Looking forward to marriage, looking forward to meeting Ruyi Langjun like in the play, my daughter's family had already prepared for this night a few days ago, praying for good fortune, longevity, worshipping the seventh sister, displaying flowers and fruits... But these girls are very different from each other. It's not that important anymore, I don't know when it will rise, put river lanterns on the Mingxuan River, and if you meet someone you like, you will give him the female red purse that you have made in your hand...
It can be considered to let the girls be presumptuous.
Zhongdu City is so big that it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, especially Guocheng, Miyagi, and Imperial City.
The outer Guocheng has twelve gates, and the palace city is located in the middle of the northern part of the Guocheng city. The imperial city is located in the south of the palace city.
The Miyagi Imperial City is not as lively as the outer Guocheng. When today’s third prince, today’s His Royal Highness King Xuan, naturally called a few friends early to drink at the most famous winery in the capital.
Is King Xuan He and others? He is not the first person to establish a mansion based on the years, but to establish a king based on military merits.
It's just that ordinary people naturally don't care about these, they just know
"This King Xuan's palace is arrogant and wary of ministers, leading troops to protect the people on the frontier, and his face is even more handsome, tall and slender, with a pair of peach blossom eyes that seem like a smile, but he is fascinated by the official women in this city. Marrying, every night I miss it, it's hard to fall asleep..."
His Royal Highness King Xuan, who was drinking with his friends on the second floor of the Linhe Winery, stopped when he heard the nonsense of the storyteller who came from nowhere, raised the wine glass to his lips, shook his head lightly and laughed.
"I don't know that the daughter of the official family in this city misses me so much. If I know, how can I make my daughter's family feel so distressed?" These words were frivolous, and the beauty in her arms giggled.
"You don't know." The beauty was wearing a green smoke shirt, a pleated skirt with flowers and mist and green grass, and a thin green smoke gauze. , The exposed snow-white shoulders, coupled with the dark eyebrows that seem to be resentful, are even more charming and boneless. Although he is a man, it is really rare to have such a beautiful appearance.
"Oh?" Su Jingmo raised his eyebrows and looked down at the bright and charming little official in his arms, with a pair of peach blossom eyes even more curved.
"Ming'er, is this delicious?"
Zhongdu City naturally has no shortage of wealthy children of officials and merchants. This Qingshui Tea is a well-known small official in the largest Hualiu Lane in the west of Zhongdu City. This beauty's guest of honor.
The appearance of His Royal Highness King Xuan makes people feel moved, not to mention such gentle ridicule, a pair of peach blossom eyes put down on his body, that Ming'er naturally makes the little official who has been fascinated by him for a long time blushed, even more so. A bit more gorgeous.
Shui Qingming didn't answer, just snorted, straightened up and pretended to be angry.
The beauty left her arms, and Jingmo laughed softly, and hugged the beauty into her arms. After another teasing, she took the wine glass and drank it with the two friends watching the play.
"The prince and the beauty are proud of themselves. I'm afraid I don't care if the lady of the official family is in love."
It was Prime Minister Ning's eldest son, Ning Yunze, who had been acquainted with His Royal Highness King Xuan, the third prince since childhood, but he was not afraid to offend him, so he laughed loudly, "It's really not that Mr. Storyteller is talking nonsense, and that the daughter of the Minister of War the day before yesterday was not too. Did you get hurt because of thinking of you? I don’t know if I went to the river today to set up river lanterns.”
Speaking of the daughter of the Minister of War, Su Jingmo couldn't help laughing. The girl was twenty-eight years old, and she was already engaged when she was about to get married. Now they are married to their husband's family.
"This storyteller seems to be true, but he also exaggerates a lot. You have to be careful." Zhang Jingmingjing, Zixinmiao is the most unsmiling one of the three. It is also different from the arrogance of Su Jingmo and Ning Yunze, who speak in the same way. It seems old-fashioned, but it cannot deny the talent of this person, and those seemingly calm eyes have a faint insight into everything.
Indeed, as he said, he was too much in the limelight, and at this juncture, rumors such as 'Wen Tao and martial arts, war with the ministers, lead troops on the northern expedition, and protect the people on the frontier' are not a good thing. "
Su Jingmo drank a glass of fine wine, and his curved eyebrows showed no emotion, "The beauty is in her arms, why do you say these unpleasant words,"
Then he looked at the lanterns in the Mingxuan River outside the window, and said with a smile: "I came here to see the river lanterns, why don't we go to the bridge together?"
Ning Yunze and Zhang Jing saw it was very lively outside the window, so they naturally agreed.
The riverside was crowded and crowded, as if young men and women from the entire central capital came to the riverside. Several of them looked top-notch, which attracted many girls to turn their heads frequently, but all three were accompanied by beautiful women, which made people feel good. Broken.
It's just that there are always some brave and straight-minded young girls. Seeing the dress of Shui Qingming next to Su Jingmo, it is natural to guess that this person is from the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion. The total number of girls At the same time, no matter how beautiful a man is, he can't be a wife and concubine. Thinking of this, the little girl has something to worry about, and steps forward to block Su Jingmo.
He glanced proudly at Shui Qingming next to Su Jingmo, snorted and stopped looking at him, only blushing, pretending to be calm and staring straight at Su Jingmo, handing over the purse in his hand, "Here you are. , you marry me!"
Su Jingmo looked at the thirteen-year-old girl in front of him with amusement. He didn't speak, he just bent down and smiled at the girl: "You said... let me marry you?"
Su Jingmo's approach naturally made the girl blushed, Nuonuo couldn't say a word, and the courage just now turned to ashes.
Su Jingmo laughed a few times, just patted the girl's head and walked to the bridge with his friend.
By the time the girl remembered it, Su Jingmo had long since disappeared from the crowd...
At the bridge by the river, there were more young men and women. Tan Rongshun looked at the girls passing by and hurriedly patted his fourth brother on the shoulder.
"Hey! Even, look at how that daughter's house is. I look good. If you like it, I will ask your sister-in-law to ask."
Tan Zong also sighed helplessly, "This is the Qiqiao Festival, eldest brother, that girl doesn't have a purse in her hand, so she might have met her sweetheart long ago."
"Tsk! You're already twenty-two. I said you're not in a hurry to start a family? My parents died early, and I bothered to show you a favor. Are you still not happy? When I was your age, Xiaochun was five years old! "
"Didn't I have this plan yet?" He studied history books, and he was bound to go to study abroad in the future. He did have plans to get married, but later he found out that if he was studying abroad, he would definitely not be able to bring his family with him. Let his wife and children suffer alone at home, it is better not to get married... Anyway, his ambition in this life is also written in this history...
"If you don't plan now, when will you plan? Holding those books all day long, not only will you not be able to take the exam, but it will also delay the marriage! Your eyes are not good, and I don't know what you will do in the future!"
"That's a history book, at all..."
"Don't tell me this or that! I don't know that! I..."
However, before Tan Rongshun could finish speaking, a voice came from the bridge in front of him.
"Ah! Someone fell into the river!"
Tan Zong stepped forward in response, and sure enough, in the river lit by the river lights, there was a man shouting for help, apparently ignorant of water, and he was about to sink when he saw it!
No matter what everyone else was saying, Tan Zong immediately took off his shirt, shoes and socks, and one jumped into the river, not seeing this person clearly from a distance, looking at Tsing Yi and thinking it was a girl, this was close to dragging him When he got out of the water, he realized that this man was a beautiful man with a delicate fragrance on his body.
Even if he had never been to that kind of store, Tan Zong could still guess the identity of this person.
But there is no such thing as saving people. After Tan Zong sent people to the river bank, he was too tired. After all, men are still much heavier than women. No matter how slender this person is, the weight is still there.
After Tan Zong was still breathing, he saw that the man seemed to be choking on water and coughing continuously, so he wanted to reach out and pat the man on the back, but he didn't know that the man had avoided, and his clothes were half-covered. If it wasn't firm enough, at the moment he fell into the water and his shoulders were wet. Coupled with that gorgeous face, it really made the men and women watching the lively beside him stunned.
Of course, except for Qin Zong.
So when Su Jingmo and the others came, what they saw was such a scene. While almost everyone was confused by Shui Qingming's beauty, the scholar who saved Shui Qingming didn't even look at it. At a glance, I took off my inner shirt and twisted the water...
Su Jingmo couldn't help but smile, causing his friends beside him to look at him in surprise.
Ignoring these two friends, Su Jingmo stepped forward and thanked Tan Zong in the style of a rich boy.
"My friend has fallen, and I waited for a few people to be trapped in the crowd and couldn't escape. Fortunately, the nobles helped." Su Jingmo said and glanced at the other side, who had stood up and put on the shawls given by the other two prostitutes. The scholar didn't look at Shui Qingming in a daze, but looked at himself in a daze.
Su Jingmo's eyes were curved, and he looked at the scholar in front of him, only to realize that the scholar looked thin, but he was as tall as himself.
Qin Zong noticed that this person's eyes were a little colder, and before meeting this person, he just smiled and looked at him and didn't speak, and quickly shook his head,
The man in front of him had a handsome face, wearing a light blue piping brocade robe with white jade on his waist. He looked like a rich boy with a full crown, but those peach blossom eyes seemed to be smiling, but with a majesty that could not be concealed, revealing the richness of this person's identity...
Thinking that he was still topless, Tan Zong took the wet clothes on his hands and put them on, looking directly at the man in front of him, "Hands up..."
"Return!"
Hearing his brother's voice, Qin Zong sighed indiscernibly, turned his head and replied:
"I'm fine!"
"Good boy, bring you here to find a daughter-in-law, you can find me in the river! Didn't you hear the old man say that this river can't go down at night!?"
There is really a legend about this Mingyu River. It is said that entering the river at night will bring bad luck. This is a mysterious saying, but it is not without reason. It is very dark and dark, and no matter how good the water is, it is difficult for people to be foolproof. Tan Zong Naturally he didn't believe that.
"The number of people who have drowned in the Mingxue River for hundreds of years is not as many as the Weijing River..."
"Shut up!" Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by his brother who rushed over. Qin Zong also understood that some things were still a little awe-inspiring, so he didn't say more.
Looking at the man in front of him in a blink of an eye, he saw the little official who was rescued by him.
Qin Zong's face was still stiff, and then he just said, "Let's just say goodbye."
Su Jingmo heard Tan Zong's voice, looked up at the scholar in front of him, and nodded, "Su Yunzhi, I don't know what to call the noble, but I will come to the door to thank you."
Qin Zong also shook his head: "Thank you, I'll leave Zhongdu City in a few days. My surname is Qin, my name is Rongcheng, and my character is Zonghuan. You can call me..."
Qin Cheng…
Only these two words have not been uttered. Before the meeting, this person didn't seem to care much. He just lowered his head and teased the beauty in his arms, and Tan Zong didn't say it anymore.
After saying this, he didn't want to stay any longer, so Tan Rongcheng and his brother left together.
It's just that this night was just an episode in the eyes of some people, and the battle for the succession became more and more intense in the days to come...
Tan Rongcheng saw this person again in the tenth month after the Qixi Festival. On that day, he was about to leave Zhongdu for a study tour, and His Royal Highness Xuanwang successfully suppressed the bandits and returned to the court. Su Yunzhi…
Tan Rongcheng took out the paper in his bag and wrote down this stroke, which was also the first stroke he wrote in the history books in the next few decades.
'Prince Xuan, whose name is Jingmo, whose word is Yunzhi..."
People say that they fall in love at first sight and fall in love at second sight.
That's it, that's all,
Qin Rongcheng shook his head and stopped looking at the high-spirited man. He would not return to the Central Capital for nearly 20 years, and there would be no third time in this life...