"The family summoned, there are some things at home, I have to leave early today, and I hope Zhu Gong will forgive Haihan..."
"It's not going to be peaceful tonight..."
"The house is over there, Duke Zhu doesn't have to send it away...".
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
"Haihan Haihan..."
The fire lit up the sky, the army was mobilized, and the chaos that suddenly erupted didn't last long in the city of Hangzhou. The situation in Sijizhai also woke up from the initial stun and panic, and tilted in the direction that things should be.
The news that Qi Yuankang's rebellion came shortly after the incident happened. There is no need to say what the inside story is at this time. The fact that a fire can be ignited in the city and the mobilization of such a large army probably means that many things have reached the point of no return. At this time, most of the people who came to Zhu Yanlin's banquet were people from a certain background, and their families had more or less their own influence and connections. When such a big thing happened, they had to beware of many things at this time. get ready.
In order to respond immediately, half of the people began to say goodbye to Zhu Yanlin one after another. On the streets outside and in the city, the atmosphere began to become chilling. Every family in the residential area closed their doors and turned off the lights. Except for the occasional army of soldiers who ran by, they were rushing home. Although the chaos has now only spread to a few streets to the east, no one knows when martial law will begin in the city.
The neighborhood of Sijizhai is now one of the relatively lively gathering areas in the city. In addition to restaurants and tea shops, there are also two brothels nearby. Some people rushed back as soon as they learned of the chaos, and some were relatively calm. I feel that I have nothing to do with myself, so I still stay and watch the movement. It's just that most of these shops have closed their doors and no longer receive new customers. Therefore, when the carriages next to the Four Seasons Zhai were separated one after another. However, it did not mean that the gathering was dispersed, and the dozens of people who remained remained in the hall while maintaining the scale of the gathering.
One of the major reasons for this may be that Lou Minzhong's son Lou Jingzhi also stayed in the Wenhui and did not leave. Zhu Yanlin and Qi Yuankang didn't have a very close relationship. No matter how things turned out, since he initiated this gathering, it would naturally have to continue.
Fewer people. There was chaos outside again, and the servants of the restaurant extinguished many lamps and candles in the building. Most of the people who stayed gathered on the platform on the second or third floor, with Zhu Yanlin and Lou Jingzhi as the center, watching the development and changes of the war in the distance. Pointing and chatting, someone started a poem: "The West Lake waters around the south of the Yangtze River, and the lonely city is not clear at night... It's an eventful autumn..." There is a sense of pointing the country. I didn't dare to sing any more. Being called up to speak to the crowd, commenting on the poems and enlivening the atmosphere, these women are not vases, it won't take long. Everyone set up a table here, which is considered to be a drink in the current situation.
Not everyone gathered here upstairs.
at this time. Lou Shuwan was walking with Ning Yi between the courtyard corridors on the first floor, when most of the lanterns had been removed. The light here seems dim, look over, the light on the second floor is bright yellow, and the voices and laughter can still be heard. Some people are leaning on the railings of the corridor to look into the distance, but not many people notice the movement in the corridor below. people.
The corridor in the courtyard leads to the side of Sijizhai facing the river. At this time, the night wind is slightly cool. Lou Shuwan, dressed in men's clothing, walks beside Ning Yi, gently hugging her arms, and looking at the waterway at the other end of her field of vision. , a returning two-story painting boat slowly sailed past the field of vision, the light seeping through the window of the painting boat, and there was a particularly quiet atmosphere.
Speaking of which, since the city broke down in Hangzhou, everything in the body has actually become unremarkable, and the days of anxiety are pale, and everyone's busyness has no meaning. After the situation slowed down a little, the participating literary conferences will no longer see the elegant atmosphere of the past, and some are just boring gold and praise. But surprisingly, just now that the situation has suddenly become more tense, she seems to feel the breath of the past again.
As if at the gathering of literati, she left the venue and had a tryst with the man she liked. Elegance, heartbeat, and tranquility meet at this moment—in fact, she has never really experienced this kind of feeling before, but what she usually sees in this story, in the love story that has been passed down from ear to ear, is recorded and described, probably That is the mood.
"Shenzhi's political affairs... It happened so suddenly, and the Lou family's business is so extensive. If Miss Lou doesn't go back right away, won't there be any problems?"
At the end of the courtyard is a long corridor that runs parallel to the river. Ning Yi rested his hands on the railings and looked at the painting boat in the distance before he started talking about it. Lou Shuwan sat down on the bench on the railing and shook her head with a smile: "The family does have some business with this Master Qi, but the matter can't be related to the Lou family. And this kind of thing, really It is up to my father and brother to deal with it, so I just asked my servant to go back and report the letter, and the situation is still chaotic at this time, it is better to wait here until the situation becomes clearer and then go back, so as to avoid any misunderstandings with others on the way."
"That's true." Ning Yi nodded and sat down beside him. This position was opposite the corridor and window on the second floor over there. Due to the obstruction of the corridor, only the seeping light could be seen, but laughter could be heard from time to time. Occasionally there are women singing poetry in a low voice, probably appreciating poetry.
Lou Shuwan lowered her head and said softly, "It stands to reason that the political affairs minister is also a high-ranking official, similar to a prime minister, so I would never have imagined that such a thing would happen suddenly... I heard before that this master of Qi is both civil and military, although he is a civil official. , but there are some people under him who have a good relationship with the civil servants and generals..."
She spoke for a while, feeling uninterested, raised her head and stroked her hair and temples, and smiled towards the second floor: "... What does Liheng think they are talking about?"
"Poetry. They talked about political affairs at a poetry meeting before, but now that something really happened, it's hard to talk about political affairs, but I can talk about poetry and prose with peace of mind."
"When Li Heng came out to hang out, do you think it would be boring to chat with them about poetry?" In Lou Shuwan's opinion, Ning Yi was one of the best talents. He asked with a smile, but Ning Yi also shook his head: "I Didn't really like that, they were really chatting. I just walked out."
"It seems that Liheng finds it boring." Lou Shuwan continued to laugh and paused slightly, "Actually, I'm pretty much the same as Liheng in this regard. I also find it boring, but I'm actually because I don't Liheng understands this because he understands it too well."
"Ah… "
"I like poetry when I was a child, but I haven't learned much. I like to see the high-spirited expressions of those great talents after reciting a good poem. It doesn't matter how the poems are written, it can make people feel so high-spirited, that's a good thing. I thought I was in charge of the business, and if I did it well, I could make myself so high-spirited..."
She said this, her mood seemed to be a little low, Ning Yi got up and said, "Miss Lou..."
Lou Shuwan raised her head. He asked softly, "Can't Liheng call me Shu Wan?"
"It's not very good." The words were faint, like a confession, but Ning Yi's expression didn't change, he just smiled as usual, "Let's go up and sit down. It's not good to keep wandering around."
"Yeah." Lou Shuwan got up naturally and walked over to the second floor with Ning Yi. The brief conversation just now might have some meaning, but it was for a while. As if it never happened, it melted into the subsequent conversation between the two.
After returning to the second floor. Someone came over to say hello: "This is Young Master Ning Li Heng Ning, I just couldn't find the two of them. I thought I had already left. Old man Zhu Yanlin, when I heard that Young Master Ning also came here, I was really neglectful. "
Zhu Yanlin was in his fifties, and it was not an exaggeration to call himself an old man. He could be regarded as an orthodox scholar. He didn't know about Ning Yi's visit before, but now he obviously heard people talking about Ning Yi and knew what he did. The first "Watching the Sea Tide", so I paid attention to it. The two chatted for a while on the side, and someone on the other side was looking at the gathering place of the guests. The woman who sang "Wang Hai Tide" before was one of them. After hearing her name, she asked the person next to her, "Who is Ning Li Heng Ning?" Probably because she read the lyrics, she became Ning Ning. Yi fans.
On the side, Liu Xiyang, who hadn't left, also looked at this scene with a bit of envy. Everyone in the courtyard could not tell the difference. At most, they felt that Ning Yi had thorns on his body and a backer behind him, so there was no need to provoke him. At this time, with the difference in treatment, we can experience a sense of loss like a literati.
But at this time, not many people noticed that Lou Jingzhi, who had always been the center of attention at this gathering not far away, also heard some words, looked at Ning Yi, and asked someone to come over and ask in a low voice: " Could it be that there is the author of "Wang Hai Chao", the surname is Ning, the first name is Yi, the word is Liheng?" After getting the answer, he asked a few questions, until he knew where Ning Yi works now, and received the letter from the Wenlie Academy. , Ba Dao Camp and other information, he squinted his eyes and frowned thoughtfully.
The chaos outside is still continuing, and as time passes, it seems to become more organized, and part of the chaos has been suppressed. If you have experience, you can probably see that although the trouble seems to be more intense from the beginning, the situation is far from getting out of control. At Four Seasons Zhai, the party was also going on in a relatively relaxed atmosphere. Although he expressed his admiration for Ning Yi from the beginning, there were no special programs that required him to participate.
Everyone's mind is on the outside. If everything continues like this, maybe it won't be long before the meeting is about to end, and everyone can go back individually. Ning Yi was nervous when he heard Liu Dabiao this morning, and he even went out with a weapon, but after the incident, he knew there was no problem with him, and he was relieved. It was under such circumstances that a change came quietly.
Not many people noticed that in the middle of the conference, a man entered the restaurant, took a look upstairs, and then left. By this time, a team of sergeants was rushing over under the leadership of the man. If they were far away, others might think that they were soldiers who rushed to support Qi Yuankang's rebel block. He waved his hand: "Encircle."
For a moment, Wen Ren Buer, who guessed the purpose of this group of people, rushed to report to Ning Yi, but it was too late.
Under the leadership of the general, a group of more than 20 people had entered the hall and came towards the second floor. Liu Jin, who had followed Ning Yi, had already rushed up and put his hand on the hilt of his sword. Everyone at the party was a little puzzled, but Ning Yi took a look and understood.
The man in front was about thirty years old, with a burly stature and a murderous look on his face.
Ning Yi let out a breath.
That is Li Tianyou.
These people came over and sat down at the table around Ning Yi and Lou Shuwan. Lou Shuwan looked left and right, puzzled and Zhang Huang, for a while, not knowing what happened, only a moment later, her face Shang's expression suddenly turned pale - she thought that her house was finally affected and something happened.
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