The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 195 Extra Story: Concubine Hui 2
"What are you doing!" Concubine Hui drank it before he lifted the curtain, staring fixedly at his finger on the curtain, not daring to move.

Chi Yiming laughed steadily: "You don't tell me who you are, I just have to see what you look like, and remember the savior."

Concubine Hui: "..."

This person... just clearly said several words face to face, and he didn't pay attention to what she looks like?

Concubine Hui couldn't help teasing, she lifted the quilt with her hand, and finally covered her head before he lifted the curtain.

Chi Yiming frowned slightly, puzzled: "What are you hiding?"

Concubine Hui was stuffed under the quilt, and said bluntly: "I saved your life, but you take off the bed curtain and look at your face, will you ruin my reputation?"

Chi Yiming was slightly stunned, after a while of silence, he covered the curtain again, and then cupped his fists to apologize: "Miss, forgive me, I... I'm a rough person, I don't know so many rules when I walk in the rivers and lakes, I offended you."

There was obvious confusion in his words, Concubine Hui listened quietly in the quilt without paying attention, and said outside: "I will not tell others about today's matter, girl, don't be embarrassed."

She smiled under the quilt: "It's good for the young man to know. I'm going to rest, young man, go to the next room, there are everything you need."

"Thank you." The laughter came from a little embarrassed, and the footsteps quickly faded away.

It took a while for Concubine Hui to come out of the quilt, and she opened the curtain to have a look, there was indeed no one in the room, and it was difficult to find any traces of someone coming.

——The doors and windows were closed tightly, and even the basin of water was poured out.The porcelain bottles of medicine were neatly placed on the small cabinet, and even the order was the same as before she gave it to him.

Concubine Hui gave a "puchi" smile after looking around.

There may be no rules, but this man is really not a rough man.

In the early morning of the next day, Concubine Hui just got up and got dressed when there was a knock on the door.

Outside said: "The girl is awake?"

She was startled: "How do you know I'm awake?!"

"Breathing is different." Chi Yiming smiled and relieved her nervousness, and said without going in, "I'm here to say goodbye. By the way, I beg the girl to show me the way."

Concubine Hui stood by the couch and thought for a while, then took the small seal off the shelf, knocked on the paper, and handed it out through the crack of the door: "Take this and go ahead and ask Lan Xinyuexin, the two of them One is the servant girl next to me, who knows what I mean and will tell you."

"Thank you." There was another laugh, and the paper that was handed out was taken away from his hand in an instant.

Concubine Hui leaned against the crack of the door, watching his figure walking towards the front yard, her heart was beating suddenly.

She also couldn't explain why she didn't open the door to see him again. If she said she was obsessed with etiquette and rules, it didn't seem to be the case, after all, she had already seen the face yesterday.

After thinking about it, maybe... Maybe it's because I'm afraid that I won't be able to pull it out.

He was too much like the chivalrous men she had read from various stories, young and frivolous, uninhibited, but a little different...

He is more real.Appearing in front of her suddenly, she caught off guard the world that was originally thousands of miles away from her.It made her heart rippling. She wanted to see him for a while, but she was really afraid that if she saw him one more time, she would want to watch him forever...

After this day, Concubine Hui quickly calmed down—it is not difficult for those who read and copy scriptures every day to calm down.

But she didn't expect that she would see him again, and it was only half a month later.

This time he climbed over the wall and came in, dressed in a light gray jacket with a neat bun, lying on the eaves waiting for her.

Seeing her come back to the backyard, he jumped down, startling her.

He bowed: "Long time no see."

"You..." Concubine Hui managed to recover before she dared to recognize who this person was.

His injury has healed, and his complexion has improved a lot. The word "spirited and vigorous" seems to come from his bones.

Seeing her dazed, he smiled and cupped his fists: "Last time I didn't report my name, next time I'm Chi Yiming. Today, I'm here to thank you for saving my life."

Concubine Hui stepped back and turned her face away: "Young man, don't follow your temper, I'm not the only one here, there is a hundred households at the foot of the mountain, here I..."

"I've taken care of the two girls here. They are loyal enough. They say that if you don't want to talk about it, they will pretend not to see me." As for arresting me to see an officer?"

His sloppy tone disturbed her, she forced herself to calm down for a while, raised her eyes and said: "I know the young man's thanks, young man, please go back."

"Tsk..." Chi Yiming clicked his lips, walked around her side, and went straight into the room.

Her eyes followed him in, and he pointed to the table: "Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, I brought the moon cake, crab, sweet-scented osmanthus wine to the girl."

"..." Concubine Hui frowned and looked at the crabs tied up in a bamboo basket, "This is a monastery, so killing is not allowed."

"Wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha kept it in his heart. As for the step of 'killing', you don't need to do it yourself." Chi Yiming walked out again, walked in front of her, looked at her for a while, and said softly, "I asked the girl Who is it?"

Concubine Hui's complexion suddenly turned pale.

His smile did not change, but there was some unspeakable meaning between his brows: "Since you are a concubine in the palace, in this kind of place... have you offended the emperor?"

"No." She blurted out, then explained after a pause, "The Empress Dowager died of illness, I came to pray for the Empress Dowager."

She was telling the truth, but Chi Yiming obviously didn't believe it.

Probably just as she was outside the Jianghu and therefore full of curiosity about the Jianghu, Chi Yiming was also very curious about her "reduced" harem concubine who came to live the life of the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha.

In his opinion, it is just an excuse for a concubine to come out of the palace to pray for the queen mother—how can anyone send his wife and concubine to live in the temple for a long time?
There must be other reasons.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, his imagination became a little wild: "Did you say something wrong? Beat the emperor? Or is it like in the book, the harem is turbulent - framed other concubines? "

Concubine Hui: "..."

Chi Yiming's face was sincere: "It doesn't look like someone who would harm others. Eh? Could it be because of some nonsense like Rickoff's fate?"

Concubine Hui didn't know how to deal with it!
This is different from not knowing how to talk to the emperor. She is completely powerless in front of the emperor; this one in front of her doesn't make her feel powerless at all, but the topic is so unexpected that she is caught off guard!

This kind of words seemed to her to be too offensive, but when she raised her eyes to look at him, she couldn't utter the slightest bit of anger.

—— He really didn't realize that this was too much!
He looked at her with a warm smile like the warm autumn sun piercing through the mist. After making her angry for a long time, her heart was still at peace.

She turned around and went into the room and said: "It's not that complicated. There are not as many stories in the palace as you imagined. Your Majesty is not a foolish king who will listen to anything and believe everything. I, Lan Xin, and the others go clean up the crabs, young man and so on."

She is not very good at cooking, she can only cook a few simple dishes, and she has never tried to clean up crabs.

But Chi Yiming blocked her: "Cleaning up the crabs is very interesting, may I show you?"

Concubine Hui was stunned for a moment, a little dazed by his enthusiasm.

Chi Yiming picked up the basket containing the crabs and briskly walked towards the opposite kitchen.

He could see that Concubine Hui was overwhelmed, but in fact, there were many uncertainties in his heart.

After going down the mountain that day, he quickly found that he would always think of this person involuntarily. At first, he was just thanking her for covering him up in front of the imperial guards, but then he couldn't stop thinking about it, but it was the words and words that day. , She smiled and frown.

A gentle and spirited girl, she always seemed calm and calm, and she didn't even stutter when she went out to lie to the imperial guards.But she was obviously easily flustered in her heart, and when he took a few steps closer, she was full of guard and wondered if he was going to make a move.

At first, she dragged him directly into the room obviously, but after she calmed down, she quickly let herself be restrained by etiquette, and she refused to even look at her again.

——So these days, while Chi Yiming enjoyed remembering this person, he was very annoyed at why he didn't pay attention to what she looked like.He must be confused by pain or too tired from being chased, otherwise he would not allow himself to make such a mistake!
He inquired who she was while recuperating, thinking that he must come again.He wanted to thank her, and he wanted to see her appearance clearly.

Afterwards, his injuries healed up, and her brothers in Jianghu also helped her find out who this person was: "I don't know the name, but I just asked for his identity—the concubine Hui in the palace."

Chi Yiming was stunned for a moment, and the brothers laughed and said to him: "Tell me about you...you are obviously very chic, but you don't like girls who are heroic and heroic. Mai’s noble daughter; it’s okay to fancy a noble girl, but you can also fancy a married woman; it’s okay to fancy a married woman, her husband is still the emperor!”

To put it bluntly, the meaning of several people is: Aren't you trying your best to die and plan to have a bad death?
Chi Yiming was bored for a while, then said with a pale face, "I didn't see her..."

"Come on! You haven't taken a fancy to her yet?" The eldest brother among them slapped the table, "Who are you for these days, who are you smirking in a daze? It's the same after seeing your sister-in-law for the first time!"

There was a burst of laughter around, and Chi Yiming's face turned red "shua".

...Did you see it?
No way!
Chi Yiming suppressed this thought for the time being, forcing himself to only want to "see her clearly" and "thank you".

So, he came here while taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival. He felt that the karate thank you was insincere, so he bought some food for the occasion.

The bowl-sized crab was thrown into the barrel, and Chi Yiming deftly added water and sprinkled salt into it.

Concubine Hui was dumb: "Well... put the salt first?"

Chi Yiming teased her: "Let the crab spit sand..."

Concubine Hui blushed and left. Across the small yard, the sound of crabs crawling could be heard in the room, which tickled her a bit.

When she went to look at it again, Chi Yiming just poured out the water and then poured wine into it.

The strong smell of wine filled the room, Concubine Hui was stunned: "Still soaking in wine?!"

"..." Chi Yiming panted, "It's better to wash up after getting drunk for a while."

As soon as the words fell, the crabs on the bottom of the pelvis suddenly went crazy, crawling on a rampage, making a clattering sound.

Concubine Hui was wondering again, Chi Yiming took the initiative to explain: "Drinking crazy."

Concubine Hui: "...?!"

Concubine Hui, who saw crabs playing with alcohol for the first time, felt that it was very fresh. She first stood by the barrel and looked at it for a while, then squatted down to look at it unconsciously, and Chi Yiming raised her eyes quietly.

The hem of her Haiqing clothes hangs down on the ground, and the top of her neatly gathered long hair is simply tied up, and most of it hangs behind her back.There was a smile on her fair face, and her eyelashes trembled occasionally, like a bird fluttering its wings.

"Are you drunk now?" Seeing that the crab didn't move much, Concubine Hui asked without raising her head.

"Uh...yes!" Chi Yiming snapped back to his senses, hurriedly looked away from her face, stretched out his hands to pinch the two sides of a crab's shell, and went to the basin to wash the crab.

The drunken crab was slowly scratching and pulling its legs between his fingers, and the pincers were also moving feebly.Concubine Hui stared intently for a while, then suddenly sighed sadly.

"What's wrong?" Chi Yiming, who was opening the belly shell to wash the crab, looked at her sideways.

Concubine Hui was silent for a moment: "I think... it's better, it's better not to kill here, after all, this place is within the Buddhist gate."

Chi Yiming was a little puzzled: "Didn't you come here to pray for the Queen Mother? You're not a real monk..."

"But there are gods three feet above my head. It's not wrong for others to eat crabs during the Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, I'm practicing. This sin...is a little bigger."

In front of it is the hall dedicated to the Buddha. The crabs are steamed in a pot here, and Concubine Hui feels awkward no matter how she thinks about it.

Whether it is pious enough or not is another matter. It is true that such disrespect will be feared by the Buddha.

She originally said that she asked Lan Xinyue to clean up because she thought of this. They could take it up and down to the kitchen of the imperial guard to do it. After she was done, she would not move and let them eat with Chi Yiming. Because she also comes here to be a vegetarian every day, Yue Xin especially wants to eat meat recently.

Concubine Hui wanted to ask Lan Xinyue to come over again, but Chi Yiming blocked her again: "It's fine if you're worried, I see a pond in front, let it go?"

It was originally used as a pond for releasing animals, but now the temple belongs to her alone, and nothing has been left, but some lotus flowers have been planted.Now the lotus has withered and the lotus pods have been harvested, leaving only the clear water above and the silt below.

Chi Yiming said with a smile: "This should be regarded as the crab you rescued from me. Put it in and raise it well. It will be a merit."

That's a good idea.

Concubine Hui nodded in agreement, thought for a while and then asked: "Then do you want to wait until you wake up?"

Chi Yiming: "..."

Probably... want it?
So the dinner that day was still a table of vegetarian dishes, plus moon cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus wine.Concubine Hui said that the mooncakes are more delicious than those in the palace, so Chi Yiming said that they were made by the wife of his brother-in-law. It's oily."

This is also very reasonable!
She has been here for more than a year and is a vegetarian every day.Looking at those fat crabs today, if she is not afraid of being too guilty when facing the Buddha in the future, she really wants to eat two big crabs with sauce and vinegar!
The best ones are big yellow ones, the ones that can ooze yellow all over your hands when you break them are the best.There are them every year in the palace. In the past, she always felt disgusted by the lack of manners when eating, but now...

It may be that I have been far away from manners and etiquette for more than a year, and the things I like in my heart have been inspired instead.

Concubine Hui thought silently, took a sip of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and heard Chi Yiming ask with a smile, "How should I call you girl?"

She took a bite of the mooncake: "Young Xia doesn't know who I am?"

"Do you want me to call you 'Mrs. Concubine Hui'? It's so strange." Chi Yiming drank the wine in his glass while talking, then turned to ask Lan Xin, "Miss Lan Xin, what's your maiden's name? "

"My surname is Tan." Lan Xin answered without thinking, and Concubine Hui stared at her: "Lan Xin!"

"I'll just ask my surname, why are you so fierce?" Chi Yiming poured her another sip of wine, and poured more for himself, "Thank you Miss Tan for saving me that day, I'll drink as much as you want, girl can do whatever you want."

She looked at it, and there was only a small sip in her cup, so it didn't matter if she "drank it full".

So the two of them seemed to be drinking very proudly.

That night, Chi Yiming left not too late, he still took the path, Concubine Hui asked Yue Xin to see him off.

She was afraid that he would run into patrolling imperial guards on the road, so she asked Yue Xin to go with her, and she could make up an explanation for him to leave safely.

In the room, Lan Xin served her a cup of strong tea to sober up, and said softly: "Miss, servant girl, this young hero... is very good."

Concubine Hui was startled, of course she understood the change in her address, she sipped her tea and tried to calm down: "I think it's not bad, if you like... I'll write a letter to my parents to help you propose marriage?"

"You must know what the servant is talking about, what are you messing with?" Lan Xin frowned, suddenly lost her usual gentleness, "To be honest, you are only 26 years old, do you plan to stay in the temple like this for the rest of your life? You don't like it Your Majesty, this servant can't say anything, but just because of this, you let yourself be an ancient Buddha with green lanterns for the rest of your life?"

It was actually not the first time Concubine Hui heard similar words.

When she first came to this small temple, she overheard Lan Xinyuexin whispering in the room. Lan Xin said that it was not worth it for her, but Yuexin stomped her feet and blamed her for not saving face. His Majesty abolished her and allowed her to go back and remarry!

——This kind of thing is not unheard of, concubines who are deposed from the palace can remarry.There are some in all dynasties.

But Yue Xin was right, she just couldn't save face.

Since she was a teenager, she has been taught by the queen mother hand in hand. The rules of etiquette are engraved on her heart like words on a carving block, and it is very difficult to wear them off.

Let her be abolished and leave the palace, it's too ugly.Furthermore, she didn't know how she would remarry in Luo'an City after leaving the palace like this, the right family probably wouldn't want her, marrying to a small place?So why bother.

She never felt that she had to be with a man.When the choices are too limited, it is better to choose a relatively comfortable path for yourself.

So she went to this temple calmly and locked her body and mind in the temple.As long as the door of one's heart is not opened, those dispensable desires will not exist.

But this Chi Yiming...

Concubine Hui's face was full of hot thoughts, it's not because she didn't close the door tightly - Chi Yiming didn't knock on the door, he entered by jumping over the wall.

Both times.

Chi Yiming returned to Luo'an City at night, and was laughed at by his brothers for over an hour.

The eldest brother said: "You have pretended to be someone else in your heart, just give it a try. So what if she is the concubine Hui in the palace? We people who walk in the rivers and lakes don't follow their rules!"

Yes, although there are many rules in the world, they are also simple.Pay attention to the seniority of old and young, pay attention to friends and wives not to be bullied, pay attention to mutual consent...

But there is no rule that says that for a concubine in the palace—and a concubine who looks like a concubine when she emerges from the palace, people in the world are afraid of her status and cannot give it a go.

The laws of the world can be set by the emperor, but Jianghu is like another world, and he can't control this world.

Chi Yiming drank a lot of wine all day, and then stayed in the house for a whole day, and on the third day, he went up the mountain with a sword in his hand.

Before going up the mountain, he bought a jug of spirits and two delicious dishes. He wanted to tell her about the past of Jianghu with the food and wine. If she liked it, he could really make other plans.

As the saying goes, first time is born and second time is familiar, this is the third time Tan Yulan sees Chi Yiming, and she is no longer surprised.

"Young hero really wants to 'Buddha passed through his intestines, and wine and meat will be kept in your heart'?" She frowned and blamed him, took something from him and brought it into the room, and put a sea bowl in front of him. I won't drink anymore, young hero enjoys himself."

Chi Yiming poured wine for himself with a smile, and sat upright: "Shall I tell Miss Tan about Jianghu?"

Concubine Hui became energetic when she heard it: "Okay, listen carefully!"

Chi Yiming sipped his wine and said, "Right now, there are four relatively big sects in our Daqi Jianghu."

"I know, Ling Xuan, Bai Li, Yue Shan, Jin Yuan."

Chi Yiming was dumbfounded: "..."

Quite clear? !
Concubine Hui looked at him and shut her mouth: "Say what you say."

Afterwards, it basically became one talking and the other listening, but when Chi Yiming talked about some famous events in the world, she couldn't help answering, and occasionally she could tell him several versions—mainly The things written by literati are different, and she doesn't know which one is true.

For example, there was a story about the head of the Jinyuan School and his wife, and she said three things in one breath: "The books I read all mentioned that the head's wife had other engagements before, and later It’s different, some say that the head robs the women, some say that the wife of the head is not a woman, and some say that the wife of the head owes money to the head and has to use her to pay off the debt..."

"Not at all!" Chi Yiming was a little bit drunk, and he wanted to laugh when he heard her say this, and slapped the table, "Actually, the wife of the sect leader was almost molested by some gangsters when she was going out, and the master Jinyuan happened to be passing by with his disciples." Saved the person. This is a life-saving grace, and the head wife fell in love at first sight!"

Concubine Hui: "So you made a promise with your body?"

"Isn't it? In our opinion, it's the rules of the world to promise a life-saving favor. Although the head wife is not from the world, she really likes him, so it's good." Chi Yiming said with certainty.

"Oh..." Concubine Hui nodded, picked up the wine jar to pour him wine, and said softly, "What about you?"

Chi Yiming shook his hand just as he picked up the bowl: "What?"

He looked at her in astonishment, which made her panic.

In a panic, she snatched the bowl from his hand, said "nothing" indiscriminately, and lowered her head to drink to cover it up.

The strong wine entered her throat, and Tan Yulan was choked and coughed violently.

Chi Yiming took the bowl back: "You say it again?!"

"You..." Concubine Hui felt that the smell of alcohol made her feel sick, and as soon as her heart recovered, it came back to her head again, which made her lose her sobriety all at once.

She almost yelled and asked him: "What about you? Do you abide by the rules of the rivers and lakes that the grace of saving your life promises you with your body?"

For such a short moment, Chi Yiming was startled by the sudden appearance of this gentle girl shouting fiercely!

Concubine Hui calmed down a little after shouting, her face turned redder, and she held her breath again.

She stood up and pointed to the door: "If you don't intend to keep it, don't come to me in the future. If you don't follow your Jianghu rules, I will follow my womanhood!"

For two people, there must be a clear road drawn before the other can follow, right?

It's okay to follow the rules of either side, but no one has an idea in a mess, and it just disturbs my mind like a mess, this is not good!
Before sitting in the case, Chi Yiming stared at her stupidly for a long time, then stood up, and waved his hand in front of her hesitantly: "You...drink too much?"

"No!" Concubine Hui felt that this was her most courageous day in the past 26 years, so she simply maintained it for a while.She gritted her teeth and looked at him, "You don't know the rules, it's fine if you avoid getting hurt the first time you come back! Give me an explanation for the next two times! You don't leave the door every time, you make me unprepared! me……"

Without any precautions, he was caught off guard and couldn't calm down.

She couldn't go on, and stared at him with red eyes, tears streaming down her face: "Don't come again! You have skills and whereabouts are uncertain, it is not easy to find you, but this is a death penalty for me! I still Concubine Hui of Daqi, even if I die, I will still enter the mausoleum of the concubine!"

She felt so embarrassed that he didn't say anything, which made her feel stupid for saying everything.

She has been married before, why should she mention such a thing to him?
Tan Yulan pushed him away with blushing cheeks, Chi Yiming, who had been stunned for a long while, suddenly came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked: "Then what if I obey this rule?"

Tan Yulan froze and looked up at him in surprise.

He turned around and coughed softly, reeking of alcohol.His face looked uncomfortable: "I often come... Tell you the story of Jianghu? You tell me the story of the harem..."

"Who wants to tell you the story of the harem!!" Tan Yulan shouted angrily.

Chi Yiming immediately felt that he had said the wrong thing again: "Don't talk, don't talk! Just listen to me!"

He coughed again: "Then...that, I'll 'promise' to the girl, then what...you see this..."

Tan Yulan gritted her teeth and whitened him: "I'm asleep! Sleep wherever you like!"

Chi Yiming: "...?!"

Lan Xinyue, who was hiding outside and eavesdropping: "...?!!!"

A person who is usually gentle and used to, suddenly goes all out and becomes tough... so tough that he is not human!

Lan Xinyuexin never expected that her own wife would take the initiative to mention this matter? !
That night, Tan Yulan felt exhausted when she slept, and the scenes of the rivers and lakes she read in the book flashed in her mind one after another.

There are quiet bamboo forests and rushing water in the mountains, and there are also taverns where the three religions and nine streams gather.She saw the hustle and bustle of the martial arts and sword competition, and also saw the calmness of the quiet practice of internal skills.

Every scene is very familiar, she has dreamed it many times, and every time she is full of envy and yearning.

The only difference is that this time, the face of the man who should be the protagonist of the story in the scene became very clear, making her want to laugh even looking at it from afar in her dream.

It's him.

She didn't know if he could be the protagonist in the arena like a hero in the book, but in her arena, he was.

So is she herself.

(End of this chapter)