The Red Mansions

Chapter 70 Li Wan's Appointment

Chapter 70 Li Wan's Appointment
In the small courtyard, the sun is gentle and charming, plum blossoms are in full bloom, and the fragrance of flowers is refreshing.

Li Wan leaned against the plum tree in the courtyard, dazed.

It was already afternoon, but the one who threw the book hadn't come yet.

It took less than ten days for her to go from panic, anxiety, and hesitation at the beginning to getting used to it now, and she has gotten used to the days when someone throws books at her every day.

However, today, at this moment, she has been staying in the yard, but she still hasn't waited for that person, which makes her a little worried.

"Did something delay you?"

"Who is he? He must know me, otherwise he wouldn't have thrown me a book."

"Maybe he also saw me as a widow at the beginning, and wanted to see me laugh?"

"..."

Li Wan's thoughts were disturbed and he thought a lot.

She really wanted not to stand in the yard waiting, and not to interact with that person she had never met.

From then on, she will be a widow with peace of mind, be a chaste woman, and keep chastity for her dead husband.

But for some reason, her agitated heart couldn't calm down now.

In the dead of night, she fantasizes about the person who threw the book to her.

is young?still old?Is it a tribe, or an outsider...

Since she wanted to meet that person, she was even more afraid that if she had the opportunity to meet, that person would disappoint her, not what she imagined in her heart.

Taking a deep breath, Li Wan raised her head, her eyes widened suddenly, she watched a ball of white paper fly from the air and hit her on the head.

She was overjoyed, and hurriedly caught the ball of paper, put it in her sleeve, and then looked at the house opposite.

"God, who has such a great ability to throw paper over from such a far place?"

"Does that person stand in that attic every day and look at me? Can she see me clearly?"

"I should be able to see clearly, otherwise how could he throw the ball of paper on my head accurately?"

Li Wan smiled happily and jumped with joy. Now she finally knew some information about that person, which was an unexpected gain.

Returning to the room with joy, Li Wan opened the ball of paper, and saw that on the top piece of paper was written: "Today at [-]:[-] pm, see you in the small alley at the west corner of the back street. We will not wait after that."

"He wants to meet me?" Li Wan turned pale with shock.

Although she also wanted to know who the person opposite was, but when things came to an end, she was panicked and didn't know what to do.

After all, she is just a widow, and she comes from a scholarly family, with the reservations of a daughter's family.

Before she was able to contact outsiders indirectly through books, she was already very bold and uneasy, but now that person really wants to meet her, she wants to go but doesn't want to go.

"Li Wan, don't do stupid things. Is there any difference between this kind of thing and stealing a man?"

Li Wan clenched his hands tightly, took a deep breath, his heart felt like grass had grown, and he couldn't calm down no matter what.

"Don't go, you can't go, if you take this step, your life will be ruined!" Li Wan thought while biting his lips.

……

On the attic across the yard.

Looking at Li Wan's figure running back into the house in a panic, Jia Yun thought, "For this period of time, she has been waiting for me to throw paper balls to her on time every day, and her thoughts are self-evident."

"But she is a feudal lady, a standard chaste woman. After reading my message about asking her out, will she go to the appointment on time?"

In fact, if Jia Yun were more patient and waited for a longer time, it would be better to ask Li Wan again.

But Jia Yun knew very well that the iron should be struck while the iron is hot. Li Wan's thoughts are complicated at the moment. If she gets used to it for a long time and her mood calms down, then it will be more difficult to ask her to meet again.

To put it bluntly, this era is very unfair to women. Li Wan was born in a scholarly family. He was bound by feudal ethics and ethics since he was a child. He has been a widow for many years. It is very difficult for her to do something wrong.

"Forget it, if you can come, come. If you can't come, then slowly find a way to tease me. I don't believe that you, a 25-year-old girl, can really hold on to loneliness and emptiness!"

As the saying goes, trees are afraid of being shaken three times, and women are afraid of being shaken three times.

Jia Yun believes that as long as Li Wan is still a human being, with human emotions and desires, she is not afraid that she will not submit in the future.

Thinking of this, Jia Yun closed the window, turned and went downstairs, singing in her mouth: "Now there is a traitor Cao Cao, bullying the emperor and oppressing the group..."

On Ningrong Street, the carriage moved forward slowly.

In the car, Li Wan and the maid Suyun were talking in a low voice.

Li Wan whispered: "Later, you have to be smarter. If I call out loudly, you can't be in a hurry. You must take the kitchen knife we ​​brought and slash the thief. Do you understand?"

Suyun was Li Wan's most trusted maid, after thinking about it over and over again, although she wanted to meet that person, she would be on guard in the end.

Suyun tightened the bag in her arms, there was a kitchen knife inside, she nodded fiercely and said: "Grandma, don't worry, if an accident happens today, even if the servants risk their lives, they must protect grandma."

After a moment of hesitation, Su Yun whispered, "But grandma, are we really going to meet someone we've never met?"

Li Wan nodded silently, and said: "I want to see you, I will calm down when I see you, or I will be tortured to death."

Suyun took a deep breath, thinking of Li Wan's miserable life these years, she felt like her nose was sore with vicissitudes like the evening bell of the ancient well.

"If I were to be a widow for the rest of my life at such a young age, I wouldn't even want to be well-clothed and well-fed. That would be too disappointing." Su Yun thought to herself.

At this moment, the carriage stopped, and the servant driving outside reminded, "Grandma Zhu, the west end of the back street is here."

"Let's go, let's get out of the car." Li Wan gently pulled Su Yun who was still in a daze, and whispered.

The master and servant got out of the car and came to the back street.

The back street is much more deserted than Ningrong Street. There are basically no shops, so there are few pedestrians. Occasionally there are pedestrians passing by on the street, but they are only nearby residents.

After walking along the street for less than a minute, Suyun pointed to the alley ahead and asked softly, "Grandma, is that the alley?"

Li Wan pondered for a moment, and said, "I don't know if it's that alley, let's go and have a look first!"

She was nervous and scared at the moment, she really wanted to turn around and leave, but she was a little bit reluctant.

"It's all here, who would dare to do evil in broad daylight?" Li Wan thought comfortingly.

The two stepped into the alley, and found that this alley was not so much an alley, but a corridor, straight forward, the road was not wide, and at most one carriage could only pass through it.

There are high courtyard walls on both sides of the corridor, and there is still thick white snow on the ground. There is not even a single footprint on the snow, which shows that few people come here.

Fortunately, on the left hand side, someone cleared the snow and left a three-foot-wide path, otherwise the master and servant would not know how to get down.

"Be careful." Li Wan became more nervous and told Su Yun again.

Su Yun was also extremely nervous, holding the bag in one hand, reaching into the bag with the other hand, holding the handle of the knife, as long as there was a little danger, she would slash and chop people.

The two walked cautiously against the wall, walked about ten feet away, passed a small door, and subconsciously looked in.

Behind the gate is a garden where countless plum blossoms are in full bloom, and a winding stone path extends along the small gate to the plum grove in the courtyard.

But at this moment Li Wan and Su Yun were not in the mood to look at the scenery, they both stared straight at the man standing under a plum tree with a tall and straight figure and a refined temperament.

"Brother Yun?"

"Brother Yun?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)

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