Marriage Under the Heavens

Dazed, as if dreaming, she was constantly ups and downs in the dark, half-dreaming and half-awake in the endless darkness and painful torture. Suddenly, her body felt very heavy, and she couldn't even move her fingers, and suddenly it felt very light, like a paper kite that had lost its axis, and a light breeze could blow her away.

A deep fear and helplessness caught her. She unconsciously snuggled into the embrace of the person who came in, reached out and grabbed his clothes, and touched his hot body temperature with her fingertips. This embrace seemed to have been familiar to her, which made her heart very stable, and she sighed softly and fell into a boundless dream.

In the gloom, there seemed to be a powerful force that pulled her back to the depths of her memory, the past that she had tried so hard to erase.

It was a late autumn dusk, the setting sun had already set, and there was only a sunset glow.

Bai Suxuan wore a moon-white splendid horseback riding outfit with a jade belt embroidered with hosta flowers around her waist. This outfit was made by herself, only for riding horses. She actually just learned how to ride a horse, which Yan Su taught her. Yan Su went out of Lijing City to do errands. Before she left, she was still riding unsteadily. During the period when he was away, she went to the racecourse to practice every day, and now she is quite skilled in riding. She learned from Xie Dichen that Yan Su would be back today, and said to her father that she would go to the horse farm to ride a horse. At the racecourse, she asked Bai Xiujin to draw away the attendants, and came here to pick him up on horseback by herself.

She knew that he would enter the city through Xuandemen every time he returned to Kyoto, so she went north along the official road outside Xuandemen. She kept hitting her horse to the foot of a barren mountain, the sky was getting darker, but Yan Su still did not appear.

The ancient road is silent, the cold wind is quiet, the wind blows the weeds, and the eyes are barren. She folded her arms and felt a little cold.

At this time, she felt a little regretful for her impulse. Although she was wearing a man's clothes, her figure can still be seen as a woman at a glance. It is not good if she encounters a bad person. Up. She remembered that there were occasional bandits in the mountains nearby. Thinking of this, she had to dial the horse back, and at this moment, she saw a group of horses approaching here in the deep twilight, and a man in the middle of the horse team was crowded by the attendants.

There was ecstasy in Bai Suxuan's heart, and she was about to exclaim the word Liancheng, but she smiled slyly, and galloped forward. She sang her whip and sang loudly: "I will wait for the musk orchid cheeks, powder incense arms, mandarin duck necks, and you will have mercury stains, cinnabar spots, and emerald green. When the spring comes, you can climb the small building with a stick and bend your arms Travel, leisurely search for fragrance, boredom and win. In summer, come to chase the cool courtyard, near the water courtyard, green screen kitchen, green window net, needles pierce beads, fan fluttering. In autumn, come to the orchid hall, open the painting screen, watch the Milky Way, Niu actress, with Tianxiang, worship the moon pavilion."

Although Bai Suxuan's singing voice is not particularly loud, it has a special taste. She had heard of the book sung in the teahouse, and she learned how to learn it now. She sang and waved the whip as she galloped past the side of the team. Seeing that none of the attendants recognized herself, instead she looked at her sideways with strange eyes. She felt more amused in her heart, and continued to sing: "When the winter comes, the wind is getting tougher, the snow is clear, picking plumes, soaking ancient vases, joyous and happy. At that time, take advantage of her instincts, let her be charming and do her best. Anger and hatred, good is also appropriate, and evil is also appropriate. I don't turn my eyes from day to night, and I keep my eyes on it, forgetting heat, hunger, and cold."

(From Guan Hanqing's opera)

After singing the last sentence, the horse happened to pass by the person in the middle surrounded by the attendants. She had already determined that the person was Yan Su, and when she galloped by his side, she suddenly turned sideways, smiled at him suddenly, and blinked. .

However, her smile froze very quickly.

That person is not Yan Su Yan Liancheng.

Bai Suxuan's face suddenly became embarrassed, and her originally white jade complexion instantly turned red to the root of her ears.

Surrounded by a group of guards is a young son. He is dressed in a dazzling black robe. He is handsome in appearance, with nice Danfeng eyes, with a tall nose and angular lips. He is handsome and sexy. In the glow of the setting sun, people dare not look at him. At this moment, he stared at her brightly, with two ink-painted eyebrows raised high, and his expression was a bit uncontrollable and funny.

At this moment, if there is a crack in the ground, Bai Suxuan will definitely get in.

This life is so beautiful, I don't think I am deliberately teasing him. In other words, she was really molesting him, but it was Yan Su that she was going to molested, not him.

Su Xuan was so embarrassed by the eyes of these attendants and the master that she finally couldn't bear it. She raised her whip and said angrily: "What do you look at, haven't you seen a man molesting a man?"

When the attendants heard the words, their eyes almost stared out, and they looked at their master, but they didn't dare to laugh.

Bai Suxuan flicked the horse's head, slapped another whip on the horse, and wanted to go back.

At this moment, suddenly a burst of whistles sounded one after another in the col on one side.

At this time, the clouds in the western sky had dimmed, and the sky and the earth suddenly became dark. The sudden whistle made Bai Suxuan's heart startled. With a trembling of her hand, the Snow Horse seemed to be frightened as well, and began to slap Suxuan off the horse's back. She was carrying a newly acquired five-stringed guqin on her back, originally intended to show Yan Su. After falling, she didn’t worry about the pain, but only worried that the piano would break. .

The place where she fell was the horse of the man in black. The man opened his arms toward her and picked her up on the horse. Bai Suxuan sat in front of the black-clothed man, but she was unharmed. She didn't care about anything. She immediately opened the package and looked at the five-stringed guqin. She was sure that it was all right. Only then did she realize that her one after another whistles were made by the bandits. , And not far behind them, dozens of bandits rushed towards them with torches.

Bai Suxuan was shocked, and now she couldn't get on and off her horse to ride her snow horse. What's more, her horse had already run away in fright. She pulled the sleeves of those behind her, and said anxiously: "Quick, run!"

Behind him came a man’s slightly magnetic low laughter, “I was so prestigious, and I still want to be molested, how come I’m so dull now.”

Bai Suxuan saw that the bandit had already moved forward immediately, and said anxiously: "A person who knows the current affairs is a brilliant man. With so many bandits, have you ever been able to fight?"

The man said with a low smile: "You are right, then let's run away."

He pulled the reins, drove with a loud shout, and the horse spread out four hooves and ran forward. When his attendants saw this, they also rushed forward.

Bai Suxuan turned her head to see that the bandit was still chasing, and she touched the money bag around her waist. When she went out, she immediately untied the mouth of the purse, and sprinkled the copper plates, silver bars, and even gold beads into the ground.

In the dark night, those bandits saw that gold and silver objects were scattered over, so they dismounted to pick them up. But because the number was too small after all, most people still chased them.

Bai Suxuan said in secret, she asked the man behind her, "Do you have any money?"

The man snorted, Bai Suxuan's hand had already touched his waist, she took out a purse, opened it, and threw down the broken silver one by one.

The man hummed, "You are quite generous."

Bai Suxuan narrowed her eyes and said: "Life is worth money or silver is worth two?"

When she emptied all the money in the money bag, the bandits were all left behind by their party.

However, they ran out of the men’s money bags and escaped the bandits, but still did not escape, because these bandits had been planned. Some people were chasing here and some outflanking, so when they fled to the front col, another A group of bandits came out and stopped them.

The man was carrying more than a dozen guards, but they were all unsuccessful. He was surrounded by dozens of bandits and was arrested.

The group was taken to the thieves' den on the mountain.

The night had already fallen, and a crescent moon in the sky gave off a cold light.

Bai Suxuan and the man in black were taken to the cottage of the bandits.

Lijing is surrounded by mountains with deep forests and high mountains. Although it is close to Lijing, bandits are often stationed there. This thief was a tall and reckless man. He was in a great mood when he saw his subordinates robbed a group of people and gained a lot of property.

Looking at Bai Suxuan and the black-clothed man, she grinned and said, "I didn't expect to be born neatly, but it's a pity that I don't want to use it."

A woman flashed out from behind the head of the thieves, dressed in an emerald green skirt, with a beautiful appearance, but the powdery smell coming from her was too strong, and it went straight to the nose. The woman saw the Qin in Bai Suxuan's arms and asked with a smile, "What is in your arms?"

Bai Suxuan hugged the qin tightly and did not speak, but gave the woman a fierce look. The woman giggled and waved to the bandit next to her, and two people immediately came over and took away the piano from Bai Suxuan's arms.

The woman opened the package and saw Bai Suxuan's piano, her lips curled and smiled, "It turned out to be the piano, my mother, I haven't played the piano for a long time. Do you want to hear me play the piano?"

The bandits cried out repeatedly, and the woman ordered the man to put on the piano table, knelt on the felt blanket, and began to tune and play.

Intermittently, the high and low piano sounds echoed in the room. It's really not that bad to hear, it's almost incomplete. Sometimes a note goes up, but it suddenly stops, making people want to go crazy.

Bai Suxuan wanted to cover her ears, but the sound of the piano continued to burrow into her ears.

The woman played for a while, but she said in a cold voice, "Why, am I not good at it?"

"Okay! The lady played so well that I had forgotten to praise it." The bandit leader hurriedly said loudly, and the other bandits heard the words and echoed them with applause.

It turns out that this woman is the wife of the bandit leader. This bandit leader is obviously a vulgar person. She doesn't know anything about piano music, and blindly follows the words of her own wife.

The thief lady laughed tremblingly amidst the compliments of everyone, she stretched her fingers on the strings and flicked a few times, and the ethereal and clear sound of the piano escaped.