The sun was dazzling, and the boat undulated slightly with the ripples of the water. The buzzing sound of tourists could be heard in the distance. Ning Yi and Xiao Chan were sitting on the side of the boat leaning against the lake. In their field of vision, there were still
Ships came from afar, and flocks of birds flew across the sky.
"Okay, what's going on?," After sitting down, the atmosphere between the two of them was a bit silent. 1 Xiaochan did not sit upright, but sat sideways on the edge of the chair. This is a somewhat restrictive way of sitting. If it were normal,
In this family, the maid dared not sit upright in front of the master, just like this, but Xiaochan had already put down the formal respect in front of Ning Yi, and suddenly had such an attitude, perhaps it can only mean that she was thinking about something.
It was difficult to decide. Seeing that the fingers of her hands were still twisted together, Ning Yi reached out and held one of her hands in his palm. The palm was white and small. After putting it in Ning Yi's hand, it trembled slightly, but finally
Xiaochan took a breath.
"Aunt, uncle..."
"Um?"
"Uncle...can you promise me something?" The girl asked timidly, and her words gradually turned low. Ning Yi smiled slightly: "If you don't tell me something, I don't know if I can do it."
"I, I want my uncle to promise me that if I don't agree with what I tell him later, don't tell the lady, okay..." "Oh? Can't you tell your lady?"
"It's not..."
Chan'er shook her head softly. One of her hands was held by Ning Yi, and she felt slightly relieved. Then she thought for a while and decided to speak, but her face gradually turned red.
"Uncle, can I... tell the lady, tell... tell me... Tonight, no, or tomorrow night, I can go out with the lady for a free night, okay?
"What she said was difficult and quite ambiguous, and as a maid, it was really too transgressive to ask the two masters not to live together at night. Ning Yi was slightly stunned, 1 Xiaochan should also be aware of this.
The ambiguity of the words made her face red, white and anxious for a while. She usually just had a simple and cute smile, but at this time she had various expressions mixed together. The left hand held by Ning Yi shrank and wanted to withdraw it.
, but Ning Yi exerted force on her hand and couldn't pull it back, so she touched it with her right hand, lowered her head, and bowed on the chair. Ning Yi could no longer see her face, and only felt that there was something like... on her skin.
When it started to burn, not only the palms of my hands but also my originally fair neck were already burning red.
"My uncle only needs to accompany Xiaochan, and my uncle only needs to sleep with Xiaochan for one night." She finished speaking forcefully, and lowered her forehead to Ning Yi's hand. In the shadow of the ship's side, the girl's thin body was
Her body seemed to be curled up in a ball in front of Ning Yi. Ning Yi thought for a while, then sat a little closer, put her forehead on his shoulder, and sighed: "Wait a few days, after passing the door, no
Is that all right?" There was a ship coming in the distance. If you look carefully, you might be able to see the situation here, but Ning Yi didn't care at the moment. 1 Xiaochan shook her head slightly on his shoulder: "No
,
There’s no way out…”
After saying this, she moved her body back, stretched out her hand to wipe her eyes, raised her head slightly and showed a forced smile: "Xiaochan thought about it, but it's too late, Xiaochan...Xiaochan and my uncle, uncle, that
After you get married, you can just be the maid of your first marriage. You don't need a status, that's fine." Ning Yi looked at her without saying anything. His concept was different from that of people at this time. Status, status, etc. didn't matter.
, but for Xiaochan and others, this is not possible. Conceptually, the person who sleeps with you can be a girl from the same room, or a concubine. With the ceremony, there are multiple titles, even the identity of the concubine.
Although the status is high, what many girls in the house pursue are only these statuses. For them, they may have some important symbolic meaning.
Even if Ning Yi can rely on his own influence to make this family as harmonious and as weird as possible, there are always some things that cannot be eliminated for Xiaochan and others. In fact, it is not just the status of concubine, Ning Yi and
Xiaochan's closeness meant that more things could have happened between the two. The reason why Ning Yi didn't move forward was because he knew that, at least for Xiaochan, those rituals should be meaningful.
She is just a maid, but she can still have a ceremony. This ceremony may be small, and may only involve a few people in the family, but at least in that ceremony, she can also be valued like an ordinary woman, worship heaven and earth, serve tea, and have
A wedding candle. These will be meaningful in her life. Therefore, Ning Yi hopes that these experiences of hers can be complete, but at this time she said that as long as there is one night, the heart rate can be imagined.
Got it.
For a moment, she didn't know what to say. Xiaochan looked at him with pleading eyes. She couldn't tell the young lady this as a maid. She also knew that Ning Yi had status in the family, so she begged Ning Yi to speak up. Okay.
After a long while, he added: "I, I have been thinking about it for a long time."
She tried her best to calm down and whispered: "Me, Juan'er and I were not originally the maids who followed the young lady. Only sister Xing'er followed the young lady from the beginning. Later, the young lady said that she wanted two people to help. Juan'er and I
The young lady who just arrived.
We have always helped the young lady to do things. If we really get married, the family's view will be different. Maybe they will say that Xiaochan is a concubine and it is not good to be exposed anymore. Some things that Xiaochan used to take care of will not be
It's easy to take care of it, otherwise you will be said to be restless. I, even if I follow my uncle, I still have to do things with the lady...
Having said this, she raised her head and looked at Ning Yi: "Uncle, don't think too much. I like your uncle very much, but Xiaochan can take care of him anyway. She can also help you and serve your uncle. It doesn't matter." Her voice was low.
After a while, he returned to normal. "Also, there are Juan'er and Sister Xing'er. We are all maids. If I follow my uncle, my status will be different in the future, and we may not get along as well as before... I and I
Juan'er has a very good relationship with her, and she regards Sister Xing'er as her own sister, and doesn't want to be alienated..."
At this point, the courage in her heart finally ran out. Ning Yi organized a speech: "I... won't talk nonsense to your lady, but with her shrewdness, if I say, I will deal with it as you think.
Do you think she would never have imagined that this was your idea? Or would she have never imagined how you thought about it?"
"Well?"
"Think about it, what will happen to your young lady after Lou relays it?"
"Unexpectedly..."
"She might find you and pretend to lose her temper, but in the end there is still a result." Ning Yi played with her delicate fingers. "Some things are determined by this era, but for me, I do... like you very much and don't want to let you go."
, 1 Xiaochan." He clasped his hands together and wrapped the girl's palms in them. "You only want one thing for a lifetime. Do you want to get married?"
1 Xiaochan obviously didn't understand some of Ning Yi's words, but she just blushed slightly at this time: "1 Xiaochan, 1 Xiaochan is originally the uncle and the young lady. It doesn't matter whether we marry or not, but I don't want to
Make the lady unhappy..."
"Now that I've said that, just let me and your lady handle it, okay?" The little boy who didn't answer
After Chan's second sentence, Ning Yi smiled and made a decision. Xiao Chan was stunned for a moment, and then nodded with a shy smile. Many things may not have perfect solutions. At this time, Ning Yi just had some
I am moved, but I may not have specific thoughts. Of course, some things may not actually need to be solved. In fact, it is enough for Xiaochan to feel that she has a backbone.
In my last life, I was in such a circle and reached the top. In the surrounding environment, wives were rarer than mistresses. One-night stands were often more practical than love. Money and power could not bring about real feelings. On the contrary, the more materialistic desires,
Everything around him becomes more distorted. After more experiences, he will become tired and yearn for innocent things, but it does not mean that he will completely idealize these things.
Su Tan'er's sudden mood and Xiaochan's endearing compromise are all part of this innocence. The distress between the two is part of this era. At this time when there is no concept of monogamy.
, actually it’s not that serious a matter.
Ning Yi took over the matter and comforted her with n words. Xiaochan, who believed in Ning Yi, became more cheerful. At this time, she recalled that she had just begged Ning Yi to sleep with her for one night, and she felt shy again and said a few words: "
The clouds in the sky are like fish scales, how strange it is" and other gossips, and ran away in a hurry. Ning Yi wanted to take her off the boat to watch a group of talented people reciting poems, but naturally he couldn't find her at this time.
After wasting this time, in fact, everyone who is going to arrive today has basically arrived. 1 Xiaoyingzhou itself is a long and narrow circular island. Although it is also a beautiful water garden at this time, it is not as large as that of later generations.
There was no place where a large number of people could gather. Although it was a poetry meeting, due to the large number of people who came, people were walking around in the forest and enjoying the scenery. It seemed to be somewhat similar to an outing.
However, of course there are still poetry gatherings. At this time, boats of all sizes are parked on the shore almost in a row. The real poetry gatherings are not held on the shore in the first place, but on several large ships parked on the shore.
"It's still too hot at the beginning of autumn. It's not a common practice to hold a poetry gathering at this time. It's a precedent set by Xiong Ruming, who was the prefect here a few years ago. At that time, disasters were everywhere. The autumn harvest had not yet started here in Hangzhou, but all kinds of supplies were available.
Of course, to put it this way, the problem is actually not big. Magistrate Xiong invited many people to come to the island to play, asked the wealthy people to provide some supplies, and asked the talented people to write some poems to share the hard times we all share.
At that time, Qian Xiwen, Qian Gong, Mu Bo, Chang Mu Gong, Chang Yuan and Chang Gong were invited to help strengthen the momentum. Now Chang Gong has passed away, but the poetry meeting at the beginning of autumn has been preserved. If not, their literati
It’s not like we would invite so many businessmen to a party to build up the momentum.” It was almost time, and Luo Tian, who had been strolling below for a while, also arrived on the boat, preparing to pick up his wife to formally attend the meeting, and casually mentioned the Beginning of Autumn Poetry Party.
Ning Yi thought about the reason: "I'm afraid it won't be very harmonious, right?"
"There were once noble people who wrote poems to satirize the shameless businessmen, but there were also people who would refute things from that year. At that time, those who were considered wealthy contributed money and exerted powerful efforts, and gained a good reputation for everyone. And please
Those who came here have a background in poetry to some extent, just like Zhuo Jing, who was also a talented woman with some reputation back then. In fact, the Beginning of Autumn Poetry Fair is not as utilitarian as it was in the past. Visiting the garden, writing poems, in the evening, there will be a meeting here.
There is a banquet carefully prepared by the chef of Fuqinglou. It is quite lively to put some water lanterns at night to pray for blessings..." After Luo Tian said this, he took his wife away. When Juan'er was putting away the tea bowl and fruit plate, Su Tan'er pulled
Ning Yi walked aside and whispered: "I just saw Chan'er's eyes were red. Did she say something to you?" Ning Yi relayed Chan'er's request to her. Su Tan'er was silent for a moment and said
He put his forehead on Ning Yi's shoulder and said nothing.