On the second floor of a secluded and quiet elegant pavilion in the Taiqing Four Mansions.
Crack——!
The night rain and slanting wind were blowing against the tightly closed wooden carved windows.
Inside the house, the sound of knocking on the window was sometimes louder and sometimes softer.
Sometimes it is chaotic, sometimes it has rhythm.
It was like someone was banging on the windows outside.
A little fox demon jumped off the bed barefoot, hugged a small quilt, ran to the window, and pushed it open carefully.
Crackling——!
The sound of rain and thunder suddenly became louder, and rain blew in at an angle.
Under the strange gazes of the little sisters who were peeking out from under the quilts in the room.
Su Xiaoxiao, wearing a pink bellyband, had an expression of fear and anticipation on her face. She carefully poked her head out of the window and looked out...
Fox girls: "..."
What is this young lady doing?
They were full of questions.
But before the fox girls could think about it, Su Xiaoxiao retracted her head in disappointment again, bit her lip, and closed the window again with a look of disappointment.
The little fox demon's hair on her temples and bangs were wet and stuck to her fair forehead.
But Su Xiaoxiao didn't care about these. She turned around and walked back with a sigh.
Some of the fox girls could no longer care about the "roll" and could not help but speak:
"Xiao...Xiao, what are you doing?"
The air was quiet for a while.
Su Xiaoxiao walked back to the bed and tilted her head and said:
"Who is knocking on my window?" His tone was serious and puzzled.
“…”
The whole house was silent.
Is this something a silicon-based fox demon can do? How could our Qiantangshan fox clan have produced a woman like you?
However, Su Xiaoxiao's incoherent words did sound different to some fox girls.
They subconsciously shrank into their quilts, daring only to show their eyes and look towards the window that Su Xiaoxiao had just opened.
The atmosphere is a bit eerie...
Damn it, who would come and knock on the window in the middle of the night? Don’t scare us.
Su Xiaoxiao had no idea that Zhao Lang's strange words would arouse different thoughts among the fox girls.
The little fox demon returned to the bed with a lost look in his eyes, curled up his body, and silently listened to the sound of slanting rain hitting the window again.
I remember that when they were in Zhongnan Mountain, her yard was right next to Zhao Lang's yard.
Sometimes when he was reading at night and felt hungry, he would jump over the wall and knock on her window, calling her to get up from her sleep and make her the sweet-scented osmanthus cake that she had just learned to make...
Zhao Lang must be still the same as before. When he is not sleeping with Xiao Xiao or checking the needlework, he will study all night. But what should he eat if he is hungry? What should he do when he is anxious? Without Xiao Xiao by his side, he must be very miserable. No one helps him to dry his quilt when he sleeps. His life is a mess... Su Xiao Xiao buried her head, feeling a little empty and uneasy.
Just like a little kitten who got lost from its owner and lost its backbone, it keeps turning around in circles, not daring to go far, waiting for him to pick it up.
At this moment, a fox girl coughed lightly, breaking the strange atmosphere in the room.
"Well, it should be the rain. No one is knocking on our windows. Xiaoxiao, go to bed early and stop making trouble."
"Oh." Su Xiaoxiao responded quietly, thought for a moment, and said in a somewhat lonely tone: "You should go to bed early too. Don't read under the quilt anymore. It's bad for your eyes. You can go to the desk instead."
As soon as these words were spoken, the air in the room fell into dead silence again.
One of the little sisters murmured in a tone of feigned annoyance:
"I just fell asleep and was woken up by you, a little bitch..."
"Yeah, Xiaoxiao, you're a bit jumpy sometimes."
"...How can I sleep after all this trouble..."
The fox girls responded with a sentence one after another, and then fell silent.
The house became quiet again.
Steady and rhythmic breathing sounds slowly began to sound again.
I don't know whether he really fell asleep or continued to practice hard in silence, striving to become the "Scroll" King.
It is said that a certain "bad student" little fox demon is really too "rebellious".
The little fox girls in the house go to bed late and get up early, practice diligently, dress up beautifully when they go out every day, and always look at their companions, curling up.
However, Su Xiaoxiao would sleep until she woke up naturally if she had no work to do in the morning. When the sun was shining on her butt, she would hug her quilt with sleepy eyes, rub the corners of her eyes, and go out with her makeup on to dry the quilt in the sun, then jump around and take a walk... Then when it was time in the evening, when other people's nightlife had just begun, she would turn off the lights, yawn, and crawl into the warm quilt to continue sleeping.
And it was such a waste of such a pretty face. After coming to the Four Prefectures of Taiqing, she had rarely put on makeup. Only when she went to Duyou City and seemed to be meeting someone, Su Xiaoxiao would dress up beautifully and put on light makeup before going out.
What the fox girls found most incredible was that this little girl was no longer interested in men, especially scholars. When she was in Qiantang Mountain, she remembered that she would hold the book of talented scholars and beautiful women every day and talk about having a passionate love in the future...
But now after arriving in Duyou City, Su Xiaoxiao stays at home every day, reading some strange books, writing and drawing from time to time, and her daily life is just a repetitive one.
When she was on guard duty, sometimes some men would pass by and look at her for a few more times. Then, if they happened to 'pass by' again for two consecutive days, Su Xiaoxiao would be alert and change shifts immediately, or take a few days off and stay away from them.
So what's wrong with her?
Did he fall on the way to Duyou City and break his love? Did he lose his worldly desires?
The young sisters were puzzled, but since Su Xiaoxiao was not familiar with them when they were in Qiantang Mountain, they did not take it too seriously. They just thought that this strange little fox demon was being crazy again.
But they all lived together now, after all.
Such a curvaceous Su Xiaoxiao still made the other fox girls in the house feel a little uncomfortable. Sometimes, they even felt envious when they saw her carefree life.
However, when they thought about how this little fox demon who was lazy and gluttonous, doing strange things all day long, had a good appearance but didn't work hard, if she didn't have the protection of her grandmother and the Yousu fox clan, and didn't have the charm and agility of the fox demon, she would probably be cheated by some lucky scumbag and lose everything, the fox girls couldn't help but sigh in secret, and they mustered up their energy again and continued on the road to becoming the king of roll...
Well, studying late into the night is a must. It would be best if she couldn’t let those annoying companions find out about her efforts. Then when she is praised by her grandmother in the future, she can just shake her head and say helplessly, “Maybe it’s just luck” or “I don’t practice much every day, how come she has made a breakthrough again? It’s just luck”.
How terrifying is the self-disciplined fox girl...
At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao, who was still missing her lover, had no idea that her companions had so many thoughts in bed and had so many "volleyball" experiences.
Although she is "anti-curly", she is not "external". For example, when the young ladies are going to practice, she drags them to read novels, but they fall asleep after reading one chapter, which is so funny because they can't sleep at all; she drags them shopping, but they buy a little skirt and then go back, which is so funny because they can't afford it at all.
Therefore, Su Xiaoxiao, who is neither introverted nor outward-looking and always quietly takes it easy, is simply the best sister in this house where there are eighteen women performing a show.
At the moment, Su Xiaoxiao was quietly listening to the sound of rain. Her pair of charming fox eyes were staring blankly in the direction of the window. She silently raised her little hand, combed her dried bangs, and sniffed quietly.
She hoped that the days would pass quickly, and it would be best if she could see Zhao Rong coming to pick her up when she went out tomorrow.
It doesn't matter if he makes a grand ceremony or has a lot of face. It's enough for him to come alone, wearing a clean Confucian robe, just like Zhao Lang's simple and clean appearance and smile, and then take her to see the grandmother. There is really no need for him to make a grand ceremony or have face...
Su Xiaoxiao felt that she could already point at Zhao Rong with pride and say to her grandmother proudly, "Grandma, look, my man. He's the one for my life." She smiled brightly.
Just like what Zhao Rong, who was thousands of miles away from home, said tonight:
You need to have something to look forward to in life. And these are what Su Xiaoxiao looks forward to the most now.
After being in a daze for a while, Su Xiaoxiao suddenly reached into her pink bellyband and took out a warm object tied around her neck with a red string.
An embroidered bag.
It carries the same temperature as the hot heart beneath her breasts, and is filled with her heartbeats full of love.
It was not until yesterday evening that the embroidery was finally completed.
Su Xiaoxiao is still learning needlework. Well, of course, this is for thin needles. As for the other needle that is not thin, she is already very skilled. Someone has the most say on this...
In fact, she started weaving this sachet since she left Mount Zhongnan. It took her four or five months to finally complete it.
Because Su Xiaoxiao wanted to meticulously embroider the best sachet she could for Zhao Rong, her progress was slow - she refused to admit that she was stupid.
In addition...Su Xiaoxiao actually wanted to keep this sachet, which she had secretly named, close to her body and then give it to him.
It seems to be a popular custom all over the world to keep the token of love warm for the other person.
Su Xiaoxiao, hugging her knees, suddenly buried her face.
The corner of the lips hidden between the legs is slightly curved in a gentle arc.
"If I had known we would be apart for such a long time, I would have given him the sachet earlier and let Zhao Lang carry it with him... so that he could accompany him all the time for me, and... so that Zhao Lang could miss me by smelling the sachet..."
Her tone was regretful, happy, and a bit contradictory, but it was true that the little fox demon was psychologically conflicted at this moment, and had many similar girlish thoughts.
In the quiet atmosphere of the house, which was filled with the girl's deep thoughts, there were faint echoes of her inner voice.
"What are you saying? If I miss you so much, I will go find you... How silly, Zhao Lang! Then I will have to go find you every day. How can you concentrate on your studies? How silly, Zhao Lang. I... I won't go find you... I won't go find you... I... I want you to come..."
At a certain moment, in the silent house, Su Xiaoxiao suddenly jumped up again, threw the quilt behind her, jumped off the bed, and ran barefoot to a small desk near the balcony in a hurry.
The noise made the introverted sisters roll their eyes, but they were almost used to it, so no one bothered to pay attention. Just let her be, she was just a silly girl, she didn't argue normally, let her make a fuss, just don't lift the roof off...
On the desk in front of Su Xiaoxiao, there was a small bookcase woven from green bamboo. It was bought for her by Zhao Rong when they first met, and it contained all her belongings.
Su Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, puffed up her rosy cheeks, opened the bookcase in one go, and took out paper, pen and other things.
After spreading the paper, inkstone and ink.
The little fox demon, who only dreamed of being a talented woman with a beautiful face, held the brush, stared at the white paper, held his breath and concentrated, and in the next second he quietly started writing.
At the same time, as the ink words appeared on the paper, she opened her pink lips slightly:
"I originally lived on Qiantang Mountain. Flowers bloom and fall, regardless of the passing years..."
The little fox demon paused, turned his head gently, and stared blankly for a while at the window that was being knocked on by someone in the distance on a rainy night.
The little hand holding the pen suddenly moved and finished writing again.
"I originally lived on Qiantang Mountain. Flowers bloom and fall, regardless of the passing year... The swallows carry the autumn colors away, and there are a few cold slanting rains behind the screen."
The first stanza of thirty words of a ci poem titled "Golden Threads" or "Dielianhua" was completed, and this piece of poetry raft was gently folded up.
It was stuffed into the sachet that had been kept warm for a long time.
Tomorrow she will be sent to Linlu Academy by a girl named Lu, and have a young scholar quickly complete the letter, and then send it back personally. Well, just by the way... it won't be considered that she is disturbing Zhao Lang's studies.
In the darkness, the barefoot little fox demon in a pink bellyband narrowed its pair of large, narrow and beautiful fox eyes, like a little weasel that had stolen a chicken.
She turned around lightly and returned to the bed, holding the sachet that was only half filled with the poem to her heart, and fell asleep with relief and peace of mind with a look of joy on her face.
"...Um, are you coming..."
…
early morning.
In Nanxing County, Dali, the small town of Xingzi was completely silent.
Only the chirping of insects from somewhere adds a bit of vitality to the autumn morning.
The hustle and bustle of Xingzi Town last night seemed to have all passed, forming a sharp contrast with the quiet town sitting peacefully in the morning light at this moment, as if it were a world away.
The streets of the town gradually saw pedestrians. In addition to those who got up early in the morning, some drunkards who were looking for fun also staggered back. However, from time to time, they would talk about some interesting and romantic things that happened in Zuixianlou last night.
People on the street also started discussing the matter.
What shocked everyone the most was not that the top courtesan of Zuixianlou fell in love with a young man, but that Su Qingdai, a cold and aloof fairy who was well-known in the mountains of several surrounding counties, was also impressed by the talent of the young man and threw herself into his arms together with the courtesan.
Last night in Zuixianlou they were jealous and vying for favor, and finally I heard that she was taken back to the inn by the young man who seemed to be from another place, and they spent a night together, enjoying the happiness of having two wives.
Everyone is talking about the fact that this cold and aloof fairy has begun to develop worldly desires.
This is about the famous Ziwei Pavilion Fairy Su Qingdai. I believe the news will spread all over the mountains in the west of Dali soon...
At this time, in front of an inn in a corner of Xingzi Town, people and horses gradually gathered and the scene became lively.
A group of travelers who have stayed in the inn for a few days seem to be ready to set off again...