Chapter 26: Do you want the newly embroidered handkerchief?
It was only after a long time that Ruo Ruo raised her head and said without joy and without words, “But what about father?”
Fan Xian frowned and said, “There’s me in Kyoto to honor my filial piety, so you can play at ease for two years before saying anything.”
“But …… can you really withdraw from the marriage this way?” Fan Ruo Ruo was still a bit unconvinced.
“Bitter Lotus’s face …… is much bigger than that siren emperor of Northern Qi.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “Even our Majesty of Qing will give him two faces. Besides, if you worship under Bitter Lotus, you’re only nominally delaying your marriage for two years, so it’s good for the side of the King Jing’s House to explain.”
Fan Ruoruo shook her head, “It’s not that simple.”
Fan Xian bit his thin lips with a headache, about the matter on the line of the son and the court battle, of course, he was not convenient to tell his sister, or else with his sister’s cold surface and warm heart, once she heard that he was going to make so many things happen for the sake of breaking the marriage, I am afraid that she would really bite the bullet and get married!
“The point is that you’re only sixteen!” said Fan Xian. Fan Xian said sternly, “Sixteen, ah, a little girl hasn’t even matured yet, and you’re getting married? This is naked persecution.”
Fan Ruo Ruo’s facial complexion changed from snow-white to red, and she was so ashamed that she punched him, “How can you talk when you’re a brother?” After mumbling for half a day, she bravely retorted, “Besides, when sister-in-law married you, sixteen wasn’t even old enough, was it?”
Fan Xian rolled his eyes and nearly fainted.
“Brother, in fact …… if I can really leave Kyoto and go to the world to see, I would be really happy.” Fan Ruo Ruo’s pupils were filled with longing for freedom, “It’s just that …… the thought of leaving your side makes me feel a little flustered and scared.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “Silly child, everyone will always be afraid before they learn to truly stand on their own two feet, just like when we learned to walk for the first time as children.”
Fan Ruo Ruo covered her lips and laughed, “Is that so? But I heard from the people over in Tanyu State that my brother learned to walk faster than anyone else when he was little, and as soon as he learned to walk, he started running around and wasn’t afraid at all.”
Fan Xian thought to himself, “I’m a freak, ordinary people can’t learn.
“Alright, I’m just asking for your opinion, since you’re willing, let me handle this matter.” Fan Xian stroked his sister’s head and said with concern, “I’ll naturally take care of it. You’re the unique Fan Xian’s sister, and of course you’ll be a unique woman in this world as well.”
Fan Ruo Ruo nodded her head in a moved manner, but did not promise anything. Suddenly thinking of that Haitang girl by the Bitter Lotus Grand Master’s acceptance of an apprentice, and thinking that her brother and that girl seemed to have some …… something, she couldn’t help but sneer, get up and leave, and say, “Sister-in-law has something for you. I’ll go call her in.”
Fan Xian froze, then watched his sister’s figure disappear into the doorway.
Fan Ruo Ruo walked through the empty and quiet back garden and couldn’t help but look up at the sky. The thick clouds in the sky were gently pushed to the east by the wind, revealing a light gray sky and the gray sun that seemed to have a burr-like appearance, which was always a bit unpleasant to look at.
She reached out and stroked her hand through the tops of the neatly trimmed holly trees in the back garden, thinking of the possibility of going to a foreign country next year, to get rid of the sticky air in Kyoto that would soon make people unable to breathe, to get rid of those noblewomen and young ladies’ boring poetry sessions, and to get rid of that marriage that she could not imagine, her heart was filled with a burst of joy, and then there was a sudden burst of emptiness and powerlessness.
The girl’s fingers subconsciously clenched tightly, only to be scraped by the edge thorns of the leaves, slightly raw and painful. Thinking of the master’s words that she must cherish these hands of hers, she retracted her hands like lightning, strangely fast. In her heart, she thought, whether to go to the north or not, it is better to wait for Master to come back and ask about it.
“What are you and Ruo Ruo talking about?” Wan’er watched as her little aunt walked away and walked softly into the room, asking mysteriously.
Fan Xian mysteriously responded, “…… can’t say.”
Wan Er was furious and sat down in front of the dresser, reaching out and picking up a comb to start combing her hair. Fan Xian smiled and walked forward, taking the comb and helping her. The wooden teeth of the comb glided through his wife’s long hair without any stagnation, very smooth.
Fan Xian said differently, “Both you and your sister’s hair are quite good.”
Wan’er said with a cheeky smile, “It’s all thanks to the set of household utensils that my husband made in Tanyuzhou, which makes it easy to wash your hair and naturally takes good care of it.”
Fan Xian did not believe it, and came closer to smell it, and found that there was indeed a light fragrance, and no odor. Wan’er was annoyed and faked a hit, “From this, it’s clear that you’re not even attentive when you’re close to me on a regular basis.”
Fan Xian stood behind her, casting those two gazes in front of his wife’s body, through the slightly open neckline, seeing a touch of whiteness, his heart swirled, and he said with a teasing smile, “You don’t have to be attentive when you are close to me, but it’s okay to use your eyes.”
Lin Wan’er heard the meaning of her husband’s words and tied her collar back in shame, she didn’t dress casually at home, she just didn’t expect that her horny husband would be so smart to occupy the best terrain.
Fan Xian wrapped his wife in his arms, sniffing deeply at her body odor, burying his face in the softness of her chest, taking several deep breaths, and said sadly, “These days lately, I always feel like I’m desperately longing for something, but I’ve never been able to find the source.”
Lin Wan’er thought he was talking about that kind of shameful things, spit, to break out of his embrace, but could not break his arms like iron. Fan Xian smiled and said, “Don’t make small temperament, and sister said things can’t tell you for the time being, in the future you naturally know.”
Lin Wan Er opened her curious eyes, “So cautious?”
Fan Xian said bitterly, “Sort of the world’s greatest nonsense is more like it.” He then remembered what his sister had said earlier and couldn’t help but ask curiously, “My sister said you have something for me, what is it?”
Lin Wan’er clenched her teeth in anger and said, “That little traitor, I wanted to see how you’ve been behaving lately and then see if I’d give it to you.”
Fan Xian laughed and said, “Anyway, it’s for me, so I’m begging the county mistress to reward the little one.”
Lin Wan’er beamed her fleshy mouth, “No.”
A bad smile grew on Fan Xian’s face, and his hands groped around her soft, fleshy waist, twisting and rubbing. After a burst of panicked screams, Wan’er finally lost the battle, panting and pulling something out of her arms and throwing it at Fan Xian’s face, saying, “Here, quickly put me down!”
A fragrant breeze hit his face, a scarf covering his face, Fan Xian subconsciously loosened his hands, pulled it down to see, but he was frozen.
It was an embroidered handkerchief with a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in the blue waves.
The cloth was good. This is the tribute from the palace, Jiangnan Weaving presented the world’s best.
Thread is good thread. Whether or gold or yellow or red or green, can see the texture of the line, I think it is also the Suzhou House selected materials.
The meaning is also good. Mandarin ducks in pairs, blue waves, a branch of peach on the water, is blooming three or two pink flowers.
Just.
This needle and thread work is …… really not good ah!
Just see that the needle jumped back and forth, line next to the dense small holes clearly proved that the embroiderer had repented of countless needles. Even so, the embroidered lines were still crooked and twisted, without any sense of smoothness, and the pair of mandarin ducks that should be resting in a peaceful manner was embroidered into a ridiculous-looking weird water bird, and the pink peaches were embroidered into a post-modern deconstructionist color group!
Fan Xian stared at the embroidered handkerchief with wide eyes–that wave of blue water was actually just a few flat lines of water, and the embroidery was not bad, but why was yellow thread used?
Could it be that the embroidery was of a group of deformed water birds in the Yellow River?
After enduring and enduring, Fan Xian looked at it again and again, and finally couldn’t help but burst out in a series of laughs!
The sound of laughter spread throughout the entire mansion. Originally, Wan’er, who was extremely self-aware, had long since hidden herself in shame in her sister-in-law’s room, but hearing such humiliating laughter, she was so emboldened that she stomped back to her room, crossed her arms and extended her orchid fingers, pointing her finger at Fan Xian’s nose and scolding him, “Don’t you dare to laugh!”
Fan Xian looked at his wife’s puffy cheeks and laughed with joy, hurriedly covering his mouth with one hand and his stomach with the other, leaning forward and backward in his chair like an undefeated man.
Lin Wan’er, ashamed, annoyed and wanting to laugh, rushed forward and went to grab the embroidered handkerchief in Fan Xian’s hand. Fan Xian was not willing to give it to her, and clutched it back into his arms, managed to stop his laughter, and said with a straight face, “Good Wan’er, this is the first thing you embroidered for me, and since you gave it to me, you can’t take it back.”
Lin Wan Er came from a noble background and grew up in the palace since she was young, always served by sisters and court ladies, where did she ever do women’s red. So when he thought of his wife embroidering a square scarf for himself, although the needlework was really shoddy, but the deep affection contained therein really made Fan Xian very touched.
He painfully grabbed his wife’s hands, looked at the red dots on the other’s fingertips, painfully blew on her white onion fingertips, and said, “Don’t embroider next time, I’ll embroider it for you, and I’ve learned it for a few days when I had nothing else to do in Tanyu.”
Lin Wan Er looked at his concerned look, her heart was incomparably warm, but listening to this was depressing to the extreme, muttering, “Marrying a husband but being born prettier than myself, you actually still know how to do women’s red, and are so meticulous ……,” she deflated her mouth, on the verge of crying out. “Fan Xian! Do you still want me to live?”
“Little fool.” Fan Xian lovingly pinched her soft cheeks and said, “If you don’t want to live like this, then I think all of these young ladies in Kyoto should commit suicide collectively and compare themselves to who? And I’m such a genius than, to know my husband I martial arts can break the generals, literature can write poems, bold when you can make a big fuss in the officialdom, the quiet place can sit peacefully embroidery …… Who am I? I am an unparalleled genius.”
Listening to him brag and put on a disgustingly narcissistic appearance, Lin Wan’er broke into laughter and poked him in the center of the eyebrow with a finger, saying, “Look at this complacency of yours.”
Fan Xian raised his eyebrows, unspeakably cheap: “To be able to marry you, of course, I have to vigorously be complacent.”
Lin Wan’er suddenly froze and reached out to touch his arms.
Fan Xian reached out to protect his chastity, and said anxiously, “I’ve been promised, so what are you grabbing for?”
Lin Wan’er’s eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of triumph: “It’s not about robbing me of this one, it’s about robbing you of that one.”
Fan Xian froze, and then watched Lin Wan Er pull out a flower headband from her bosom, which he had stolen from Haitang’s head when he left Shangjing. Lin Wan’er looked at him with an open brow and a smile, “Since you want the one I have, then this one will be mine to keep.”
Fan Xian’s brain buzzed, and only then did he realize that the reason why his wife had endured the pain in her fingers and had been covering up the need to embroider this hand towel, turned out …… to be tasteless! Although he and Haitang does not have any male and female privacy, but at this time the evidence in the hands of the court, his jaws stuttered, simply do not know how to defend themselves, only to mumble: “Wan’er, you misunderstand, in the past and you have said, that Haitang was born extremely uncharacteristic, how would your husband I would look on her?”
Lin Wan Er snorted through her nose and said, “Your taste has always been different, when you praised me every day for being beautiful, I thought it was strange, but I just thought that you were sweet-talking and could coax people, who knew that later on, from Ruoruo’s mouth, it turned out that you really thought that I was …… beautiful! I can see that your vision is different from the world’s, who would believe you.”
Fan Xian feigned fire, “Who dares to say that my daughter-in-law is not beautiful?”
Lin Wan’er shrugged her shoulders in his usual manner, “No one has ever thought I was born beautiful.”
Fan Xian scratched his head and asked in a small way, “Could …… there really be a problem with my vision?”
Lin Wan’er hid her mouth and smiled, then suddenly said with a straight face, “Don’t interrupt.” She waved the piece of flower headband of Begonia in her hand and said smugly, “This piece belongs to me, you don’t have a problem with it.”
Fan Xian said bitterly, “No opinion, no opinion.”
Lin Wan’er laughed and walked out of the house, and when she reached the door, she suddenly turned back and said, “You can either take that Begonia girl into the house, or you can give up on this, manly man, carrying a handkerchief every day as a reminiscence, no vigor at all, even I, as a wife, am blushing for you.”
Fan Xian waved his hand and gave her a flying kiss, laughing shamefully, “This shows that I am much purer than you.”
Lin Wan’er spat at him.
Fan Xian suddenly thought of a pile of important things and nervously asked, “Wan Er, I remember that you only passed your birthdate, so when we got married, you should have turned sixteen, right?”
Lin Wan’er curiously opened her eyes wide and nodded.
Fan Xian patted his chest and said, “That’s good, that’s good.”
The next day outside of Fan Mansion, in the carriage.
“My lord, where are we going?” Shi Yanli asked his teacher with a bit of a headache, because teacher he had a smile on his lips today, looking very sinister, not knowing what he was calculating in his heart. Now that the capital is not very quiet, does the teacher still not want to stop?
He was able to steal it himself, what a risk he took, and it was confiscated by his wife all of a sudden.
He raised his head, looked at Shi Yanli and Deng Ziyue’s inquiring gaze, which brought him back to his senses, clenched his teeth together, and said with hatred: ”Go! Go to hold the moon building to take a look …… This official’s family affairs are not good, to go to take a break, and in the meantime and the girls in the building to cut the embroidery skills.”