Rivers and Lakes

Chapter 25

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After a night of tossing and turning, I opened the door early in the morning, and Qian Yu just walked out of the room. She looked at me with a smile on her face and said, "Xizhi, you woke up so early."

I walked over and pulled her and said softly, "Qianyu, do me a favor."

The two of us were walking on the street, she held my arm and tilted her head and said, "So you decided to dress up as a man to meet the second lady of the Liu family, right?"

I nodded heavily, "I've been thinking about it all night, but I still don't have the courage to see her in the way I am now. But anyway, I have to see her today, and I'm very worried about her current state."

"Okay, leave it to me to help you change your appearance, and I'll wait for you at the gate of the Liu Mansion when the time comes." Qian Yu assured me, patting her chest righteously.

I looked at myself in a golden robe, and looked at Qianyu hesitantly, "Will I be too ostentatious?"

"No!" Qian Yu looked at me firmly, raised his thumb and said, "Xi Zhi, you look like a suave noble son now, I can't help but fall in love with you."

"Hearing you say that, I feel even more ostentatious..."

"No, no." Qian Yu pushed me out, "Are you going to ask the eldest lady of the Liu Mansion to take you into the mansion later?"

I nod.

Qian Yu looked into the distance and thought for a while, "I hope Miss Liu can be at the house, otherwise you may not be able to meet your Yingying smoothly today."

"What do you mean by that? Is Liu Wuyan not always at the house?"

Qian Yu nodded, and said to me: "I also heard that Miss Liu often stays in a courtyard of the Liu family, and seldom returns to her residence. Because..." Qian Yu said to me with a mysterious face: "She is here There is a man raised in another courtyard!"

"Impossible." I retorted subconsciously: "Based on Liu Wuyan's character, she is not the kind of person who would do such a thing. This rumor is too outrageous."

Qian Yu shrugged and said: "No wind, no waves, even though it is a rumor, it cannot be completely denied."

"My lord, I can't just let you in because the eldest lady is not here today."

Qian Yu and I looked at each other, we both stood at the gate of Liu Mansion in a daze.

"How about this, son, please leave a message, and I will tell the eldest lady when she comes back."

"Then when will she come back?" I asked.

After pondering for a moment, the servant said, "Tomorrow will be the earliest."

"I'm right, you can't believe all the rumors, and you can't completely disbelieve them." Qian Yu kept talking beside me.

I interrupted her forcefully, "I must see Yingying today, I really can't let go if I don't see her with my own eyes." As I spoke, I had an idea, pulled Qianyu up and left.

"You're going to climb the wall through the back door?!" Qian Yu saw my intention, a little unbelievable.

"There's nothing surprising about this. My son has been brave in the rivers and lakes for many years, and it's not a matter of minutes to climb a wall." I deliberately teased her with words, and she looked at me blankly and said, "Xizhi, this is Liu government."

I jumped up and down a few times, and then directed Qianyu, "Go and move those bricks here." Qianyu threw the bricks to my feet with a face full of fun, and said with a smile, "You think the walls of Liufu are Is it that easy to climb?"

"Qianyu, can you lend me your shoulder?"

Qian Yu looked at me with a dark face when she heard this, and we stared at each other silently for a few seconds, she suddenly clapped her hands and said, "Wait, I'll borrow a ladder for you."

I stood there panting, watching her walk out with a confident look. After a while, Qianyu's voice sounded from the corner, "Xizhi, come and help me."

I ran over quickly, and saw that she was really carrying the ladder and struggling to turn out of the alley.

Sneaking into Liu's mansion, I found Yingying's boudoir based on my memory. I hid behind a pillar and watched a maid come out of her room. I walked lightly to the door and knocked on it.

No one answered the door, so I called out "Yingying" in a low voice, and put my ear on the door. At this time, someone patted me on the shoulder, I yelled and turned my head, and saw Yingying looking at me with red eyes.

"Xizhi, why did you come out so soon? Did you see Liu Yingying?" Qian Yu patted her butt and stood up, looking at me and asked.

I gave a soft "um" and only said to her, "Let's go back."

Qian Yu followed me and didn't speak a word all the way, I felt very tired looking at the bustling crowd in front of my eyes. Suddenly, Qian Yu yelled and whispered to me: "I saw Liang Yun."

I raised my head, but saw Liu Wuyan not far away, she was wearing a white dress under the sun, full of immortality.

"Hey, why did Liu Wuyan appear here?" Qianyu also noticed her and said to himself, I followed her gaze and said casually: "Isn't she here?" It's normal."

Seeing that my expression softened, Qianyu immediately revealed my true nature, and asked me curiously, "What did you say to Liu Yingying?"

I kicked the pebbles under my feet and said, "I didn't say anything, it was just a short reminiscence. As for her current situation, she herself can take it easy. Yingying is optimistic and intelligent. Whether it is now or in the future, I think she can take care of herself." Balance it."

"Then it couldn't be better." Qian Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and then he looked thoughtful again, and said with frowning eyebrows: "I have heard too much about Liang Yun's romantic history, but since he took the initiative to mention it this time, My dear, maybe you really have changed your ways." After speaking, she nodded in self-approval.

But I became uneasy, "Has Liang Yun had a lot of romantic affairs?"

"Of course." Qian Yu regained his energy, "Liang Yun has nothing to do all day long, except for eating, drinking and having fun, the rest is full of gossip. His incident at the time caused the entire Fuyang City to be full of people. Everyone knows..."

"what's up?"

Qian Yu said to me with a mysterious face: "He once wanted to marry a busker."

I choked out a mouthful of water, a little unbelievable.

"Believe it or not, that woman is a year older than him. She is a well-known geisha in the brothel. Not only can she play a good tune, but she also looks very pure and charming."

"Then what happened next?"

"Later, Liang's father was furious and beat Liang Yun severely. From then on, Liang Yun never mentioned that matter again, and never stepped into the brothel again, and that woman is still going crazy now and then. Standing in front of the window, because I have been waiting for a promise that cannot be fulfilled." Qian Yu couldn't help sighing after finishing speaking, and then concluded: "Even if Liang Yun is a little sincere, he really gave up. He is unrestrained, but his sincerity is nothing more than that."

I silently watched the streets with people coming and going, feeling a little sad. Seeing this, Qianyu comforted me a few words, then she suddenly pointed to a place and said to me: "Xizhi, look quickly, there is a very handsome man over there!"

I looked up, and the man happened to turn his head to talk to the person beside me. I was stunned for a moment, and Qian Yu's words rang in my ears repeatedly: "This man has a different relationship with Liu Wuyan."

I can't believe that I will see Lisu here again.

A burst of bitterness welled up in her throat, Liu Wuyan's face was serene and beautiful, even from a distance, I could feel the corners of her mouth full of happiness. Li Su's expression is no longer indifferent, this person I am unfamiliar but familiar will eventually become completely invisible to me.

On the way back, Qian Yu hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but said: "I just saw that your expression was very strange."

I looked up at her blankly, and after a long time said, "Really?"

"Yes!" Qian Yu kept nodding, and asked with a concerned face: "Xizhi, you know the man who was with Liu Wuyan just now, right?"

I nodded, "His name is Li Su. We grew up together. He is Li Sha's younger brother."

"No wonder! The two brothers look alike."

I heard the words and said casually: "I don't think it's the same, and my personality is very different."

Back at Fu Zhai, I locked myself in the room. Mrs. Zhou was very worried, and kept asking questions outside the door. In the evening, someone knocked lightly on my door, and Qian Yu's voice came from outside the door: "Xizhi, here is a letter from you, and the sender's name is Liang Yi."

I jumped up from the bed suddenly, all the melancholy seemed to be swept away in an instant, I opened the door happily, and took the letter in Qian Yu's hand.

The letter paper is a little wrinkled, as if it has been twisted and twisted outside for a long time. I ran back to the house, stroked the familiar handwriting on the envelope, and carefully opened the letter——

Wen Yi, I don't know where you are now, I seem to have a premonition that you will not stay in Cangdu, but you must have visited your aunt, so I can only take a gamble and send the letter to the Gulou Inn. If you are lucky enough to read this letter, don't worry about me too much, I'm fine. Soon Yu Ning will marry to Cangdu, I will take her away no matter what, she is my younger sister, I can't leave her alone, but I will not use my background to stop all this. …

This letter carried the meaning of farewell, and carried too many unspeakable secrets. Before I had time to think, I just felt out of breath, as if I had returned to the plague when I first arrived in Cangdu.

I don't know anything about the guarding experience behind that scene.

I opened the door, and the evening wind blew in. The lights in Lisha's room suddenly lit up. I hesitated for a moment and walked over. The door was slightly open. I looked at the faint candlelight in the room through the gap, and said softly Sentence: "You are back."

He let out an "um" in the dark, and stopped talking. I hesitated for a moment and went in, thought for a while and said to him: "I saw Li Su today."

Hearing this, he looked up at me and asked, "Where is he?"

I said honestly: "He is with Liu Wuyan, you know, the eldest lady of the Liu residence."

He said nothing. Seeing this, I asked: "Aren't you surprised? ... Or, you already knew."

"Is this important? After so many years, Li Su is no longer the child he was back then."

I couldn't help but sneered, looked at him and said, "Lisha, since you left us, I can't understand you anymore after so many years. Maybe, when you left Fuxin, you already changed."

I left freely and easily as usual, but when I turned my back to him, tears were streaming down my face.