novelraw Chapter 140 Abstinence + Lantern Festival
Chapter 140 Abstinence + Lantern Festival
Jia Min held Daiyu's face and looked carefully. Her small face was still as tender as tofu, and as slippery as a piece of jade. She had cried enough, so she had the time to comment: "The eyebrows are well drawn, but they are too thin. , don’t draw it so thin, it should be even and moderate.”
Daiyu really didn't care how thin the eyebrows were trimmed, anyway, it was done by the maids: "Really?"
Jia Min nodded at the corners of her eyes: "Besides, the tails of eyebrows are not good-looking. You have to slender crescent eyebrows to be beautiful." While holding Luo Zidai to re-thrush her daughter's eyebrows, she asked in a low voice, "How are you doing in the palace?" Is it?"
"It's very good, there are all kinds of books in your study."
Jia Min's eyes were red, and she sighed softly, "Yu'er, you've lost weight."
Daiyu laughed and said, "It's because I grow taller and look thinner, mother, I have grown by more than an inch."
"Really? Stand up and let me see."
Daiyu stood up and walked around in a circle, with light makeup and plain clothes, home decorations, natural color, just like Chang'e in the moon, Gushe God and man.
Jia Min nodded slightly: "Well, it's really taller. This is a new dress, the style of the palace? The pattern is not bad."
Daiyu smiled and said, "This is the pattern drawn by the empress. She likes to draw clothes patterns very much. The empress's clothes are not too many, but each piece is carefully designed by herself. They are all very beautiful and not tacky."
Jia Min nodded slightly: "Then you should learn more. Daiyu..." She took her daughter's hand and looked at her infinitely tenderly: "You ran out today, did you ask for an order? You are not allowed to go without warning. "
"Well, I know." Daiyu asked, "I miss you."
Jia Min almost cried again. She tried to restrain herself for a long time, but couldn't restrain herself: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... It's almost your birthday again, and you can't celebrate your birthday at home."
She cried for a while, and then began to ask many questions: Is the emperor in good health?
I heard that the Empress Dowager is a bad woman, but she didn't harm you?
The queen is pregnant, where do you live now?
What, still living in the side hall of Yongfu Palace?
I have to move, where are you going to move in the future?Are you ready?
Daiyu answered one by one.
Jia Min glanced at the door again, and asked in a low voice, "How is Yao Zhenren?"
Daiyu's face flushed slightly: "He is a studious person." Yes, he is very studious, often holding a book and reading in the dark, with tears streaming down his face.
(Yao Sanlang: "What is the meaning of this book? Is it not what I thought it was?")
Jia Min's understanding of Yao Sanlang is not as deep as that of the Queen, so he can only ask his daughter, and from here, decide whether he should be his son-in-law: "What kind of books does Yao Shenxian usually like to read, and who does he date? When I preach to you, do you have patience?"
The first question asked about character, and the second question asked about impressions. What if she wanted to marry for the sake of 'Princess Xuanzhen'? After all, her natal family had this intention.Don't mention it early, don't mention it later, Daiyu was named the princess, and the Jia family immediately wrote a letter saying that they would marry their cousins, ha ha.
Daiyu said: "He likes to read poems and songs, classics and history, and Taoism, but he doesn't know how to compose poems."
Jia Min nodded: "Very good, very pragmatic."
Daiyu showed Feixia on her face: "There is no one in the palace. Yao Zhenren doesn't communicate with others except for preaching to the Supreme Emperor every day."
Jia Min blinked and listened with a smile. Seeing her daughter blushing like this, she knew that she must be a very clingy little fairy.
She asked again with great concern: "What's his personality? Is he taciturn or lively?"
Dai Yuxin said: His character is sticky and crying, like a kitten, heh, he is still a greedy cat.
Hmm... That's too much to say, but it's actually pretty good. I know a lot and understand a lot, and I'm also very attentive to me.Oops, how to say this?
She smiled subtly: "Mother, you have seen him before, why should I tell you?"
Jia Min looked at the small figure with a smile, and gradually understood in his heart: "I have seen him, but I was only surprised, and I don't understand it deeply. He is a high-ranking god, and he can't see emotions."
No wonder, last time I thought he was clingier than the master back then, but I don't know what he looks like in front of you when there is no one around.
Daiyu was torn between saying good things about him and feeling embarrassed, and saying bad things about him, but there was nothing bad to say.She pursed her lips and hesitated for a long time: "Gentle and amiable (haunting me shamelessly), knowledgeable but still reading and practicing calligraphy every day, neither humble nor overbearing in front of the emperor, I can correct my mistakes (recently I really stopped crying , hahaha, in fact, I haven’t cried a few times in total), he is an honest gentleman.” Huh?Did I praise Brother Saburo too much?Think about it, almost.
Jia Min smiled and nodded: "That's it, that's really good."
I feel like my daughter is ready to marry off.
Yao Sanlang was still sitting across from Lin Ruhai, and put wine on the table, a pot of hot rice wine.He answered Lin Ruhai's question: "Birth, old age, sickness, and death cannot arrest her."
Lin Ruhai held the pot to pour the wine, and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Oh? Daiyu has decided to practice Taoism and become an immortal, and can she achieve anything? Although I don't like seeking immortals and visiting Taoism, I have heard some things. It is said that a person can become an immortal , depends on talent and immortality. How is Daiyu's talent?"
Yao Sanlang said: "Very good!" The villain in his heart held his face: she is as beautiful as a fairy, she must be very good!
Lin Ruhai smiled, and continued to play dumb: "I heard that cultivating immortals requires abstinence, is that true?"
Yao Sanlang nodded stupidly: "That's right!"
Lin Ruhai raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked him up and down: Since you want to abstain from sexual intercourse, why are you chasing her so relentlessly, following her thoughts in every possible way, to please Minmin and me?
Why do you marry a wife after abstinence? Is it for holding hands?Kissing is not considered abstinence.
Calmly: "It's ashamed to say, but at my age, it's time to abstain from sex. I don't know if I can practice."
Yao Sanlang was silent for a moment, and he really couldn't say tactfully: "Master Lin, if he can let go of his official position and practice with peace of mind, he may be able to seek longevity." You are almost running out of oil and the lamp is dry.What kind of immortals are you cultivating, let's live for a few more years before talking about anything else.
Lin Ruhai asked respectfully: "Is it because I often have sex with women and have no bone marrow? I heard that people who want to cultivate immortals are better off with a body of Yuanyang."
Yao Sanlang nodded vaguely: Actually, you are empty everywhere, including your vitality and essence.
Lin Ruhai lowered his eyes and smiled, knowing in his heart: This Yao Zhenren is a little virgin.Seriously, since you can't have sex with women, why ask to marry my daughter?Looking at it as a decoration?Be an offering to a Bodhisattva?Tsk.If I can't get into women's sex, I won't marry a wife.
Thinking of this, he felt a little embarrassed, how should I ask this question?You can't, why are you still thinking about what my daughter is doing?This kind of words are very underwhelming, I can't say it, um.Let me think about how to test him: "Renren Yao, I heard that there is a saying of 'Tao couple', but in folk stories, the Eight Immortals are all bachelors, and all the immortals who get married will not end well. How is this going to happen?" thing?"
Yao Sanlang was indignant: "It's all the folk scholars who are jealous and talking nonsense. Master Lin, do you know that those poor scholars who can't marry a wife spend their lives in adultery all day long. If they can't get a wife in the mortal world, they just think At this time, how can a male fairy be a fairy? He is a rival in love! Naturally, the female fairy who has to write can't get married, so she looks at the scholar in the poor house and back alley, and posts for "talent". In fact How can there be such a beautiful thing, although the male immortals in the sky are not lustful, there will be girls they love to form Taoist couples."
The female fairies mainly have four objects of admiration: senior brother Chi Xiu, Qingyuan Miaodao True Lord Yang Jian, beautiful boy Ouba Nezha, and Fang Yitu.There are many people who are learning from Fang Yitu and Mrs. Zhai. Girls and girls are together, so beautiful!
Lin Ruhai strikes while the iron is hot and asks, "Is being married as a Taoist couple?"
Yao Sanlang realized with a shock in his heart, his father-in-law asked these things, did he plan to agree to our marriage?
Oh oh, that's really great.Oops, my clothes are a bit messy, and I can't sit up straight. He always pours wine and I drink. It's miserable!
His eyes glowed as if he had been injected with chicken blood: "Yes!" He poured wine for him attentively with a pot.
Lin Ruhai was speechless: Did you just find out what I was asking about?What a gentleman (slow response).He drank the wine poured by Yao Sanlang and was as calm as ever: "Oh, it's really unexpected. Immortal Yao told a lot of things I don't know. Will the Taoist couple have children together?"
Yao Sanlang thought for a while: "I don't know about this. Some have children, and some don't want them. Anyway, they are all immortals, and they don't care about passing on the family line. They can be at ease."
Lin Ruhai finally took a deep breath, and asked what he had worried about for a long time: "Can immortals also have intercourse?"
Marrying a daughter is not to let her be sleepy, but to let her have a lifelong entrustment, someone to take care of her and protect her, but the son-in-law can't do without this function!What is the difference between eternal abstinence and marrying Tianyi!How sad!Just thinking about it makes me cry!
Yao Sanlang blushed so much that he was about to bleed, he nodded shyly: "Yes."
Lin Ruhai was a little puzzled, and he put on an expression of "normal gossip, I asked ordinary questions, ordinary curiosity", as if asking another trivial matter: "I just said that I want to abstain from sexual intercourse, how can I do it again?"
Yao Sanlang: "Ah! It's like this. When you want to become a fairy, you have to abstain from sexual desires. After becoming a fairy, you just can't mess around. After getting married, you can do it." Why did the father-in-law ask this?Does he suspect that I can't do it?How could there be such an idea!
He said out of honor: "Actually, when I was young, I inquired about this matter. Immortals can control whether they are pregnant or not, and the size can be adjusted. It can be long or short, thick or thin, just like the Ruyi Golden Cudgel."
Lin Ruhai also blushed: "Oh."
Niang Xipi, I'm so envious, what should I do!
I just want to know if you can do it, I don't want to know such details.
What's more embarrassing is that due to the dual reasons of practicing martial arts and immortality, Daiyu has very good hearing. She heard the conversation between her father and brother Sanlang verbatim clearly.At the end, I felt something was wrong, as if the Ruyi Golden Cudgel he mentioned was not Brother Monkey's stick, so what did he mean? (She doesn't have a physical hygiene class) It's just subconsciously feeling something is wrong, and she's too embarrassed to ask.
Of course Jia Min couldn't hear the conversations that were going on across the two doors, and she was still asking things: "The capital is dry in winter, have you taken care of your skin? Do you put face and hand grease on every day?"
Daiyu nodded absently.
Jia Min asked again: "Is the hair oil good? The osmanthus and osmanthus used in the osmanthus oil in the capital are not as good as the laurel in the south of the Yangtze River. Which one do you usually use? Why can't you smell the fragrance of osmanthus?" She moved closer again After smelling it: "Why don't you use incense on your body, only this little body fragrance, it's embarrassing to smell it."
Daiyu has never used incense, because ah, Master said, "With fragrance on your body, it is inconvenient to go out at night to do something. It is easy to be chased by dogs underground, and it is easy to be smelled when lying outside someone's window to eavesdrop." Take it for granted.But this kind of words can't be said: "Mother, those incenses are very vulgar, I can't even look down on them."
Jia Min sighed: "You child is self-willed. What's wrong is that nowadays, if everyone played incense and incense in the Tang Dynasty, you would be laughed at like this."
Daiyu snorted: "The things that everyone does are the most vulgar."
Jia Min couldn't understand her arrogant appearance: "What do you mean, everyone eats, don't you?"
"Mom, I mean everyone likes to be fragrant, how can there be any difference between fragrant and not fragrant?"
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On the day of the Lantern Festival, Fourth Sister Wen didn't go out to look at the lanterns. Many beautiful lanterns were hung in the yard.She has been going out for so many years, and now she doesn't care much about going out, she doesn't want those boudoirs that only go out during the Lantern Festival all year round.
She sat and combed her hair: "Brother, this Lantern Festival, I don't go to watch the lights, I don't go to the kitchen to shake the Lantern Festival, and concentrate on studying at home. Do you think I have the temperament of a well-educated man?" Bad grades.
"Yes." Zhuo Donglai lied to her calmly.Set aside a whole day today to chat with her with wine and food: "Ze Lan, I have nothing to do today, so I can spend the whole day with you." Are you happy?
Fourth Sister Wen was overjoyed: "Okay! Hahahaha, let's fight!"
"...Eat breakfast first and rest for a while."
"Okay!" Fourth Sister Wen happily threw a steamed bun into her mouth. For some reason, the steamed buns in the kitchen were not much bigger than dumplings.She asked curiously: "Brother, how is my dragon and phoenix doing, and what's the follow-up? You haven't told me yet."
Thinking of the pair of dragon and phoenix, Zhuo Donglai immediately lost his appetite, put down his chopsticks and sighed: "I have done a lot of things in the past few years, you don't know. I want to tell you one by one today. Zelan, only you can hear these things, you can understand, and you are very reliable. So, you are not stupid, but you are not good at intrigue."
It doesn't feel good to use a perfect strategy but no one confides in it. Walking in brocade clothes at night and not being able to show off, it makes people feel depressed and uncomfortable.When you're not here, who can I tell...no one.
Fourth Sister Wen looked at him with staring eyes: "That's great!"
Why did you like him back then? Could it be because of his face?Of course not, he is not good-looking.Is it because of the figure?No, he doesn't have long legs and eight-pack abs.The reason is to have a goblin-like IQ. What I lack is IQ, city skills, scheming, strategy and other things.Brother Zhuo usually looks gloomy, but every time he talks about the application of conspiracies and tricks, he is not only gentle and cheerful, but also makes me very excited!
Zhuo Donglai ostentatiously told her what happened in the past four years, what he did, how he seduced the emperor to trust him, and how he developed rapidly step by step.What are the strategies that make him proud, how to kill the enemy with exquisite and wonderful techniques, and how to instigate the enemy to kill each other.
He didn't finish talking until dark, and he drank a glass of wine happily: "When the new year comes to court, Xiao Yushi will be dismissed, and when the news spreads, my position will be more stable. Zhuo The holy family is in full swing, how can they be shaken by these young people."
Fourth Sister Wen listened to it all day, and said to herself: You are such a scheming bitch, do I like it~
Zhuo Donglai breathed a sigh of relief: "It's all over. In the past four years, I have done a lot of things."
The power expanded rapidly, and he married a woman he liked.
From now on, we must keep a low profile in government affairs and work for His Majesty secretly, and we must not be too high-profile.
Fourth Sister Wen also wanted to follow suit and summarize what she had done in the past four years, counting with her fingers: "Brother, I haven't done anything in the past few years, I just learned a few good Huaiyang dishes, and I also learned about Suzhou boats. , I taught a good apprentice, and somehow she became a princess. The most proud thing is that I finally got the man I like into bed, it took a lot of hard work."
Zhuo Donglai liked her strong, wild and aggressive speech: "Congratulations."
It's already dinner time, she poked the glutinous rice balls in the bowl with a spoon, glanced at the wine in Zhuo Donglai's hand, poked the glutinous rice balls, and glanced at the wine: "It's a pity, eating these slutty things, I really want to drink in a big bowl." Let's eat some meat."
Zhuo Donglai comforted her: "After giving birth, you can drink egg flower fermented glutinous rice."
Fourth Sister Wen is still unhappy: "Just to have this child, I am now living like a ten-year-old old man. I am riding a good BMW at the speed of a little donkey. I read books every day, play with bonsai, listen to Pingtan."
Zhuo Donglai said: "I remember many years ago, you said that your dream is to sleep with nothing to do, plant a yard of fruit trees, enjoy flowers in spring, enjoy fruits in summer, eat in autumn, and drink fruit wine in winter. As the saying goes, peaches, three apricots, four pears, five... ...did you drink secretly?"
Fourth Sister Wen opened her eyes: "Tsk, I'm not allowed to drink and I'm not allowed to pretend to be drunk?"
"Xu. I bought an orchard outside the city two years ago and planted a lot of things. I can see the peach blossoms in spring. This year the grapes and peaches will bear fruit. I have to wait for the rest."
Fourth Sister Wen picked up the glutinous rice ball bowl, drank it all in one gulp, put the bowl down, and said, "Brother~ I have something to tell you."
"Zelan, tell me."
Fourth Sister Wen hooked his neck: "You know that I am narrow-minded and short-tempered. Last night I heard two maids say that you are now successful and have a big family. You have to take a concubine. They said that I am old and pregnant again. You should arrange someone to serve you. Brother, do you think these two maids are self-motivated, or is there some other reason?"
"From now on, you will never see those two women again." Zhuo Donglai said lightly, "Don't worry."
Fourth Sister Wen nodded in satisfaction, remembering that the two maids were good-looking, and he would probably marry them: "Two days ago, you went to drink flowers and wine with the emperor, and you didn't invite me."
"It's just to watch the singing and dancing and drink some wine. Music and dancing are forbidden in the palace. He's going to have fun."
"You don't take concubines, there are not dozens of concubines in the mansion, will others laugh at you?"
Zhuo Donglai frowned: "There are several beauties in the mansion. In whose room do I stay every night? If outsiders can find out, how can I be safe and confidential? Zhuo is very strict in his family, and he can come and go freely without restriction. People, only you."
Fourth Sister Wen nodded in satisfaction: "Okay. I have something to say first, you have to be clean and self-respecting, and guard yourself like jade, no matter what the atmosphere in the capital is. Otherwise, I will feel uncomfortable in my heart, and I will find someone to fight when I feel uncomfortable."
Zhuo Donglai laughed happily: "I don't want to know the outcome between us."
The jealous, murderous black fat man is so pure and cute!
The menacing eyes are the same as ten years ago, and the appearance has not changed much!
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In the middle of the night, Daiyu and Yao Sanlang flew away together.
Lin Ruhai stood under the eaves and watched them off. He wanted to stare at the moon sadly, but it was too cold.He turned around and entered the room, seeing his wife sitting on the bed happily, puzzled: "Madam, what are you laughing at?"
Jia Min said happily: "Daiyu has a good opinion of him, saying that he is honest, reliable, studious and motivated. If that's the case, it won't be too bad to be our son-in-law."
Knowing the emperor's reply in the memorial, Lin Ruhai also hoped to make this marriage possible. If he wanted to find a husband's family for his daughter, he had to consider the emperor's suggestion.But he was still reluctant: "Hey, what's the matter? I just found out about one thing." He said everything about abstinence, and immortals don't like having children.
(The emperor can't directly refer to marriage beyond Lin Ruhai. Lin Ruhai belongs to the scholar-official class. In matters of his daughter's marriage, the patriarchal power is greater than the monarchy.)
Jia Min was even happier: "That's great! You don't have to have a baby! I have spent so much time trying to pass on the family line these years, and I only got this one baby. If Daiyu wants to suffer from what I have suffered, it will take me a year to get married." It's too sad to start worrying and worrying without children. What do you say, sir."
Lin Ruhai sighed: "What I'm worried about is that Daiyu won't be able to achieve immortality. If she can't achieve immortality, she can't be promised to Yao Shenxian. Another thing is that ordinary people only have to be married for a hundred years, and they still have to stumble. Happy?"
Jia Min sighed: "Daiyu said that she has no playmates in the palace, she only gets along with Yao Zhenren, and often responds with poems, or makes short essays to criticize the ancients. Master, do you think this is a childhood sweetheart, a childhood sweetheart?"
Lin Ruhai sat on the side of the bed and sighed: "That's right. Alas, that real Yao is very poor and slow to react. Everything in his heart is written on his face. At first, he kept trying to ask the Holy Master if he would propose a marriage for him, but once again I held it back once, so I wanted to tell him. Later I asked him about the fairy marriage, he didn't react at first, but then he got carried away with complacency. I always feel that his family education is not very good, and I don't know his family background. , how can you take it lightly."
In the officialdom, without a city like him, it is easy to die quickly.Although he is not an official, but accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, can his glory and wealth last long?
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Daiyu didn't care about that much, she and Yao Sanlang returned to the capital, found the most bustling market, bought two candied haws and a pack of crispy sesame stove candy, sat on the high roof incognito, watched The streets are full of lights.
Every household is beating gongs and drums, and every family is selling bamboo and silk.Tourists sing and sing, ladies and gentlemen dance gracefully.Aoshan is decorated with colorful, majestic hundreds of feet and clear clouds;Inside and outside the leisure courtyard, the Rongrong Baoyue is shining; the painting pavilion is high and low, and the lanterns are shining brightly.The people in the six streets of the three cities are lively, and Fengcheng enjoys the Lantern Festival during the festive season.
Although Yao Sanlang didn't quite understand what Lin Ruhai asked, based on his intuition, his father-in-law seemed very satisfied with his son-in-law's answer.
He looked at the little beauty beside him, her fair skin was white and crystal clear in the dark night, and the lights near and far let a small amount of light shine on her cheeks, which were rosy and radiant: "Last year on the night of the Yuan Dynasty, the flower market lights were like daytime. Willows on the moon At the tip of the mountain, people make an appointment after dusk."
Daiyu said: "Don't urge the jade to leak the silver pot, the iron gate and the golden lock are fully open. Who can sit idle when they see the moon? Where can they hear the lamp and not look at it?"
Looking at each other and smiling, the Jinping Lantern, Yulou Lantern, Koi Lantern, Fish Dragon Lantern, and Lotus Lantern in the distance complement each other.
Yao Sanlang lowered his head to look at the intertwined figures below, and saw the girl he admired sitting beside him, he just felt his mouth was dry and he didn't know what to say.He took out a jug of wine: "Sister, would you like a sip?"
Daiyu took it and smelled it: "It's too strong, don't want it. I drank two cups at dinner, and I still feel dizzy."
Yao Sanlang took a sip by himself: "Is it cold?"
"It's not cold, ah, look at the fireworks over there."
"Go to see it?"
"I can see clearly from here, but I can't see clearly when I get close."
After watching the fireworks, Yao Sanlang happily pointed to a white rabbit lantern again: "Sister, look, is the rabbit lantern cuter, or the rabbit I turned into that day?"
"Humph." Daiyu looked at him arrogantly: "You turned into a rabbit that day. Thanks to my master, you didn't see her. She is not a person who loves the fragrance and cherishes the jade. If you fall into her old man's hands, you will either become a cold rabbit, or Braised rabbit diced."
Yao Sanlang swallowed: "Are you hungry?"
Daiyu gave him a funny and angry look, "I'm not hungry."
Why did you mention eating again?What a greedy cat.
Yao Sanlang leaned closer, and said with a low laugh, "It's very delicious to eat cold rabbit, have you tried it?"
Daiyu shook her head: "No." When she mentioned the weird snacks, she suddenly remembered: "Ah, I'm going to see Master, why did I forget? Is she asleep at this hour?"
The author has something to say: I think Yao Sanlang is stupid and cute, but it’s not that he is stupid, but that Lin Ruhai is an old fox~
Neither the male lead Yao Yunqi nor the second female Wen Zelan are particularly smart people, tsk.
In order to prove that this is a level novel, I stuffed in a handful of poems, all of which were written during the Lantern Festival.
Originally, I wanted to write a song myself..._(:з」∠)_