Huai'an Meng Changwu
When the song ended, Huang Yaya clapped her hands. It was so beautiful. Although she didn't know much about musical instruments, she had a clear judgment on whether the music was good or not, and whether it could move people's hearts.
Seeing that Huang Yaya liked it, Ruomei asked the maid beside her to bring an exquisite purse and hand it to her.
The boat moved closer to invite her to meet. Huang Yaya asked, "Ruomei, can you please invite her up?"
"Miss, sure!" After saying that, Ruomei personally walked to the bow of the boat to invite Su Niang.
Su Niang, with a white veil on her face and holding a swallowtail pipa, bowed to Huang Yaya who was sitting beside her and said softly, "Thank you for your kindness, young lady. I am honored to be here."
The charming eyes are like waves, the body is like willow branches, and the voice is like a cool spring. How many talented and beautiful girls are there in this world?
Huang Yaya stood up, imitated the other party and returned the greeting, praising: "Miss Suniang, you play the pipa beautifully, and you are also beautiful."
Su Niang's eyes lit up, and she said gently, "Thank you for the compliment, young lady. I'll play another song for you!"
The sound produced this time sounded like an ice cone falling onto the ice surface on a distant glacier, shattering into pieces of ice, and the thick ice surface was also broken into pieces.
The ice shattered, and Huang Yaya felt that her heart was about to be shattered by the other party. She wiped her eyes with her sleeve. What kind of emotion was this? She couldn't figure it out. The only thing she was sure of was that she was moved.
She glanced at Ruomei and the others, who were also wiping tears with their sleeves. It turned out that what Bai Juyi said in his poem, "Everyone in the room burst into tears upon hearing the words again," was true!
The wind is whistling and the boat is moving slowly, the sound of the pipa is heartbreaking!
Huang Yaya thought that anyone who could play such a sad and lonely tune must have his own worries.
After seeing off Su Niang, their boat slowly approached the shore, and Ruomei put Mi Li back in her arms.
"Miss, the carriage has arrived, let's go back home!" Ruomei suggested.
It was almost noon. She didn't want to go back to the Marquis' Mansion, but wanted to go to the restaurant that Ruomei mentioned. She asked, "Can we go to the restaurant you mentioned?"
"Of course you can go if you want to." Ruomei helped her onto the carriage and asked a maid to tell the Marquis that the young lady would not be back for lunch.
The carriage drove for about a quarter of an hour and arrived at a restaurant that looked very luxurious. There was a big sign on the restaurant that read "Qingyunlou".
Qingyun Tower only receives the dignitaries of the capital, and reservations require a visiting card.
Huang Yaya followed the shop assistant to the private room on the second floor. From here, she could see the dancers on the first floor dancing.
After she sat down, the servant came forward and asked, "Miss, what would you like to eat?"
"Anything spicy?"
The food he ate every day in the mansion was bland, not in the sense of failure, but in the taste. Matsutake chicken soup, cabbage soup, and angelica mutton soup—in short, they tasted good, but they just weren't to his taste!
"We have mapo tofu, pepper chicken, pepper prawns, and steamed pork ribs with pickled peppers."
Huang Yaya swallowed her saliva after hearing the names of these dishes. They all suited her taste! She looked at Ruomei and Ruolan standing behind her and asked, "What do you like to eat? Sit down."
Ruomei and Ruolan waved their hands and declined, saying, "Master and servant have an order, we dare not sit down."
"Miss, just order what you like."
Huang Yaya was helpless when she saw this and could only say, "If you don't come with me, I will disappear soon."
Hearing this, Ruomei and Ruolan could only sit down stiffly. Ruomei recommended, "The Drunken Immortal Chicken here is the most famous. Miss, would you like to try it?"
Huang Yaya nodded, and Ruomei turned to the waiter and ordered, "What you just said, plus Drunken Immortal Chicken and Shredded Lotus Root and Floating Melon."
"Okay."
After the servant left, Huang Yaya was about to take off the annoying veil when Ruomei interrupted her and said, "Miss, I'll go put down the bead curtain first."
Ruomei and Ruolan stood up and lowered the beaded curtain near the railing and the curtain at the entrance of the box. Then Ruomei helped Huang Yaya take off the veil on her head.
She felt extremely depressed. She was not a lady from a wealthy family, so why did she have to hide it like this?
Ruomei noticed the unhappiness on her face and coaxed her, "Miss, just go back home."
The singing and dancing were no longer clear through the beaded curtain. Huang Yaya wanted to get closer to see what was going on, but she heard Ruomei and Ruolan stand up and call out, "My Lord."
After Huo Weixi left the court and returned home, he originally planned to wait for Huang Yaya to have lunch together, but he heard the maid report that they were going to Qingyun Tower, and they came here on horseback.
After Huo Weixi sat down, no matter how much Huang Yaya persuaded them, Ruomei and Ruoxue refused to sit down. Even when Huo Weixi nodded, they still refused.
Ruomei seemed to have suddenly remembered something very important and said apologetically, "Miss, Ruolan and I want to go to the nearby rouge shop. We'll take our leave now."
"So what are you having for lunch?"
Before Huang Yaya finished asking, the two men hurriedly retreated.
"Sister, did you enjoy the boat trip?" Huo Weixi asked after taking a sip of tea.
"It's okay."
"I'll accompany my sister next time."
Huang Yaya realized at this time why he kept calling her sister. Could it be that she was older than him? She asked curiously: "I forgot to ask, how old are you?"
"Nineteen years old."
Hearing this, he really should call her sister, she is already twenty years old.
He was already a marquis at nineteen and already working, while she was twenty and hadn't even graduated from college yet. In reality, she relied on her parents for support, and in her dreams, she relied on this marquis for support. From this perspective, she felt like a giant parasite.
After a while, all the dishes were served, a large area of bright red. Huo Weixi asked in disbelief, "Sister likes spicy food."
Huang Yaya picked up a piece of mapo tofu and nodded, saying, "Yes."
Huo Weixi barely touched the food on the table. Huang Yaya thought it was quite delicious and asked, "Are these dishes not to your taste?"
"No, I'm not hungry."
"oh."
She remembered that every time she ate with Huo Weixi, he always ate a lot. Maybe he had no appetite!
There were six dishes for two people. No matter how much Huang Yaya could eat, she couldn't eat so much. Seeing so many dishes left, she couldn't help but feel a little distressed. If Ruomei and Ruolan were there, there would be no need to waste so much.
"Sister, do you want to go shopping somewhere else?" Huo Weixi asked.
"Think about it, can I not bring this fence?"
Since she couldn't communicate with Ruomei, she could only ask Ruomei's boss.
"Then I'll accompany my sister this afternoon. If she doesn't want to take me, then she doesn't have to."
"I hope it won't cause you any trouble."
"Won't."
When they came out of Qingyun Tower, a light drizzle had already begun to fall. Ruomei and Ruolan were already waiting at the door, handing them two oil-paper umbrellas respectively.
They walked side by side on the misty street. A street vendor was carrying two bamboo baskets filled with oil-paper umbrellas and shouting, "Oil-paper umbrellas, fifty cents each."
Huo Weixi looked at Huang Yaya, who was looking around, and the carriage approaching them not far away, and asked, "Let me take you somewhere."
"OK!"
After saying that, Huo Weixi took her hand and turned into another street. Girls were coming and going on this street. Huo Weixi pulled her into Shuyu Pavilion.
After entering, a beautiful woman quickly came up to me and asked, "Madam, we have just received a batch of jade bracelets. Would you like to see them?"
Huang Yaya nodded. After all, such an opportunity is hard to come by in reality.
The beautiful woman ordered someone to bring out several exquisite boxes, which contained bracelets of different colors: emerald green, ice blue, and light yellow.
"Madam, is there anything you like?" the beautiful woman asked enthusiastically.
She had never seen so many jade bracelets of different colors before. She had only seen plastic bracelets. Each one looked very nice to her, but her favorite was a half-blue, half-white bracelet. She said, "This blue one."
"Wrap it up." Huo Weixi said casually.
Huang Yaya was stunned. Shouldn't we try it first? What if the size is not right? She added: "Try it first."
The woman put the bracelet on Huang Yaya's hand very neatly. When she was about to take it off, she found that she couldn't take it off. She tried again, but it still didn't work.
Huo Weixi saw a trace of pain on Huang Yaya's face and said distressedly, "Don't you like it? If you don't like it, just smash it open."
Is this the boss? Huang Yaya shook her head and replied, "I like it."
"As long as you like it, there's no need to take it off. Is there anything else you like?"
"No, this is it."
Huang Yaya was a little suspicious that the proprietress did it on purpose. How could it be so smooth when put in, but so troublesome to take off? But it still looked good.
The proprietress smiled and said, "My dear gentleman, fifty taels."
The proprietress is very discerning and knows who is rich and who is penniless.
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