novelraw Chapter 28
Chapter 28
Aunt Li helped Daiyu and Zijuan to the boat, then untied the cable, lightly paddled the oars, and slowly drove towards the pavilion in the center of the pond.
It's late autumn now, most of the lotus leaves in the pond have withered, and they all hang their heads down, some are even so withered that they can't see their original appearance, they are broken from the roots and submerged in the cold autumn water. People sigh.Daiyu sat quietly in the cabin all the way, her eyes just staring at the withered lotuses passing by. She couldn't help thinking of that year, when Jiamu took people to the garden, and their sisters also sailed in the lake by boat. There are also withered lotuses. Baoyu once said: "These broken lotus leaves are hateful, why don't people come and pull them out." He listened to it, but said casually: "I don't like Li Yishan's poems the most, but I only like his line." Leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of the rain'. But you don’t keep the residual lotus anymore." Baoyu quickly changed his mind and said, "Sure enough, it's a good sentence. Let's not ask people to pull it out in the future."
It's only been a few years, and it seems like a lifetime ago, but those few words echoed in her ears as clearly as yesterday, which made her almost lose her mind.
While in a trance, Aunt Li suddenly said with a smile: "Miss Lin, Zijuan, look quickly, there is a ripe lotus pod here!" .
Daiyu snapped back to her senses, hurriedly followed Zijuan to look at her fingers, and sure enough, a ripe blackened lotus pod stood upright among the withered lotus leaves, facing the howling autumn wind, still holding its head upright.Daiyu felt obsessed with seeing it, and thought to herself, what a fragile thing this little lotus pod is, but in this cold pond, being ravaged by the autumn wind all day long, it still stands upright, thinking that even though her life experience is now wandering, she doesn't know where to go , but after all, there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and there is a big family serving good meals and dishes, and asking for warmth from time to time. Compared with that little lotus pod, how lucky and happy is it, so why is there any reason to be sad? ?
Just as he was asking himself, he suddenly saw that Aunt Li had stretched out a hand and quickly grabbed it, folded it off, and put it in the cabin.Daiyu opened her mouth to say something, but if she didn't say anything, Aunt Li smiled and explained: "Although there are more lotus seeds picked this year, they are not as ripe as this one. I will take it back and make lotus seed porridge for the girl." Drink it, it must be delicious and nutritious.”
Daiyu had no choice but to smile and said, "Thank you, Aunt Li, for your trouble!" Then she turned her eyes elsewhere.
Coincidentally, on a lotus stalk in the distance, a blue water bird stood swayingly, with a pair of small black eyes staring at Daiyu's boat vigilantly.Just as Daiyu opened her mouth to call out to Zicuckoo to take a look, the water bird immediately fled away with frightened wings.Daiyu looked at it, couldn't help laughing, and said to herself: "What a clever little thing, let me let you go!"
Zijuan and Aunt Li hurriedly asked what it was, and Daiyu said, "I just saw a blue water bird parked there, but it flew away in the blink of an eye."
Aunt Li said with a smile: "There are plenty of those things in the pond. If the girl likes them, I will ask my old man to catch some of them for you to play with."
Daiyu quickly waved her hands and said, "Forget it, I just like their aura. If you really put them in a cage, they might not live long, so let's let them go."
Aunt Li sighed: "Young lady is right, let's spare them. Anyway, we will often come to play in the future, and we will often meet them, which adds a bit of fun." Daiyu nodded in agreement.
The boat moved forward slowly, and it really came close to the pavilion in the center of the pond.Zijuan got off the boat first, then helped Daiyu to get off the boat, and then went to help Aunt Li, but Aunt Li jumped on herself vigorously, and said with a smile: "Don't look at me as I am old, but I am very strong and healthy." It's still very strong, so you don't need to support it." Zijuan and Daiyu both laughed, and they entered the pavilion one after another and sat on the stone benches.
It was noon at this time, and the autumn sun slanted into the pavilion, which made me feel a bit of rare warmth in the center of this cold lake.Aunt Li looked at the sun in the middle, and said with a smile: "Do you know when my young master likes to come to this pavilion the most?"
Both Daiyu and Zicuckoo shook their heads.Aunt Li smiled again: "It's sunset! I often see him rowing to this pavilion alone at sunset, watching the sunset in a daze, and only rowing back when the sun is completely dark. What do you say? , is my young master a bit crazy, what’s so interesting about this sunset? Isn’t it just a round red ball falling into a tree nest?”
With a sound of "puchi", Daiyu and Zijuan laughed out loud at the same time.Zijuan smiled and said: "Aunt Li, you don't know, my girl used to like to stare at the sunset in a daze. This is very similar to Mr. Yan!"
"Oh? What a coincidence, when the young master comes to watch the sunset in the future, I will definitely ask him to bring the girl as a companion, how about it?" Aunt Li laughed.
Daiyu blushed early, glared at Zijuan reproachfully, and explained: "Auntie, don't listen to Zijuan's nonsense, I just look at the beautiful sunset once in a while, when did I stare blankly at that day's hair? "
Zijuan hurriedly said with an innocent face: "No? Could it be... I remembered it wrong? Oh, look at my brain!" After finishing speaking, she secretly winked at Aunt Li.Aunt Li understood, pretending to be enlightened, and then covered her mouth and snickered.
Daiyu blushed even more, neither sitting nor walking for a while.At the moment of embarrassment, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance, but in the blink of an eye, three fast horses had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard.
Daiyu and the others hurriedly looked at the horses, and saw that sitting on the leading horse was Yan Li who hadn't seen him for a few days, and on the two horses behind were two servants dressed as servants, one of them Zijuan had also seen, It was Song Er, and the other was a strange face.When Aunt Li saw her, she clapped her hands and laughed first, "It's a coincidence that I just mentioned Young Master, and he has come back." After finishing speaking, she waved her sleeves on the pavilion and gestured to Yan Li and the others.
Because the dead leaves on the lake were withered, and the pavilion was not far from the shore, and with Aunt Li's shout, Yan Li quickly found the three people in the pavilion, hurriedly got off his horse, and laughed loudly: "It's windy on the lake, Come back quickly, be careful of catching a cold."
After hearing this, Aunt Li hurriedly greeted Daiyu and Zijuan to board the boat again, and slowly rowed back to the shore.Zijuan was still the first to board the boat, before she turned back to help Daiyu, she saw Yan Li walking over involuntarily, and stretched out her hand to Daiyu in the boat.Daiyu was stunned for a moment, and looked up to see the expressions of surprise and then understanding on the faces of several people on the bank. She suddenly felt embarrassed, hurriedly lowered her head, put her hands behind her back unconsciously, and said angrily to Zijuan behind Yanli: "What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you help me up?!"
Only then did Zijuan realize that she hurriedly walked up to Yan Li, and said with a smile, "Young Master Yan, let me help the girl!" After finishing speaking, she stretched out her hand to Daiyu, who hurriedly held her hand, Carefully boarded the boat, then glanced at Yan Li with blushing cheeks, and said softly: "My lord is tired all the way, please come in and rest!" After finishing speaking, he hurriedly helped Zijuan, and trotted back to the yard , directly slipped back to the backyard.