Chapter 44 – A Love Affair That Crosses Time
“I’ve thought of you from time to time these days.” Fan Xian didn’t care and said to himself, “Ever since I saw you at the Temple of Qing, I’ve wanted to see you so badly.”
Lin Wan’er sharply shyly said, “What nonsense are you saying! I am ……” she said with a clench of her teeth, “I have already promised someone else, not to mention how can you sneak into a woman’s boudoir in the middle of the night, it’s also too unbridled and rude.”
“You’re promised to the Fan family, I know.” Fan Xian looked at her with a smile.
Lin Wan’er thought of the scene when she first met this teenager, thought of the complex feelings they had when they silently stared at each other, and her heart hurt as she said, “Since you know, why don’t you leave? Could it be that you really want someone to kill you?”
Fan Xian stopped teasing her, looked at her, and said with a straight face, “I …… am Fan Xian.”
The deathly silence lasted for I don’t know how long, and Fan Xian himself felt a bit embarrassed, but then he realized that a tear was dripping from the corner of Lin Wan’er’s eye, and she hurriedly wiped it away, saying in a low voice, “This gentleman, please respect yourself.”
Fan Xian laughed bitterly, “I’m telling the truth, what will it take for you to believe it?”
Lin Wan’er looked at this face and calmed herself for half a day before whispering, “You are …… Mr. Fan?”
Fan Xian smiled and nodded, but Lin Wan Er still had an unbelievable expression on her face, at this time, the moon in the sky had long since broken free of the clouds, revealing that bright face, showering the earth with a faint luster, and some of the clear light filtering in through the window, caging a man and a woman underneath the bed and in the bed.
“It’s really me.” Fan Xian said softly.
Lin Wan’er simply couldn’t believe what she was hearing, and under the agitation, she couldn’t help but cough again, the sword in her hand having long since disappeared, coughing as she asked, “You’re that black-boxing guy from the Fan family?”
Fan Xian couldn’t help but laugh, looking at her weak appearance, painfully reached out and grasped her wrist, passed a section of true qi over, carefully dredging her body’s pulse, listening to the word “black boxing”, smiled bitterly and said, “But I’ve only fought twice.”
Lin Wan’er gradually believed it, and her joy floated up to her cheeks as she asked again, “Are you that Miles of Sadness and Autumn Frequent Visitor?”
Fan Xian continued to smile bitterly, “Holding back the urgency to write …… doesn’t count, doesn’t count.”
Lin Wan’er’s eyes gradually cleared, “You, you …… really are you?”
Fan Xian wanted to go crazy and said tearlessly, “I came with my sister today, if I’m not Fan Xian, how could my sister help a strange man to see her future sister-in-law?”
Lin Wan’er thought it was right and covered her mouth with a smile, but immediately thought of another question and said angrily, “Then the last time you went to the Qing Temple, you were also there specifically to see me?” When she thought of this teenager keeping everything in the dark, Lin Wan’er was incomparably annoyed, thinking that it was this hateful guy who caused her to suffer for the past few days, and thought of so many things that were not in accordance with the law of etiquette, and then she couldn’t wait to give this teenager …… a beating.
Fan Xian took a look at her expression and knew what the other party was thinking, and hurriedly explained, “Swear to God, when Qing Temple first met Miss, it was really a coincidence, not to mention at that time, it was not until I saw Miss in the morning today that I realized Miss’s identity.” He looked at Lin Wan’er’s clear and beautiful face with a smile and said softly, “This is all fate.”
Lin Wan’er lowered her head in shame, wrenched her wrist out of Fan Xian’s hand, and said in a low voice, “Then why did you come to see me with sister Fan today?”
Fan Xian was stunned, thinking, “Do I have to tell you that I was planning to make a dash to escape the marriage after curing the Lin family’s young lady? This is something that he dared not say even to death, so he could only softly reply, “I heard that Miss Lin’s health was not good, and there was no way to see her, so I had to sneak in to see …… Where did I know that it turned out to be the chicken legged girl that I met at the Qing Temple.”
Lin Wan’er spat lightly, thinking how did she call herself so unpleasant?
Fan Xian smiled and pointed to the chicken leg resting on the side, saying, “Do you want to eat at this time?”
Lin Wan’er couldn’t help but cover her mouth and laughed, responding, “You eat it yourself, I’m not that greedy.”
Fan Xian suddenly heard a tremor in his ear, and heard someone getting up downstairs, seemingly about to come upstairs, and said with a frown, “Someone’s coming.”
Lin Wan’er was anxious, thinking that even if you are her future husband, but if people see you, how can she still see people, pushing him and saying, “Then you hurry out.” Fan Xian thought that he had worked hard for half a night, how could he leave like this, with a bad smile on his face, his body flipped into the quilt, the bed was very big, the quilt was very big, and the house was very dark, if someone looked at it from the outside, he really couldn’t see any unusual situation.
Finding Fan Xian drilled into his own comforter, Lin Wan Er was shocked, but she could not do anything else in time, when she heard someone touching up, it turned out to be the old grandma who had diarrhea a few times during the day. Lin Wan Er slipped under the covers in shame and haste, turning her body to the outside and pretending to have fallen asleep.
The old Sister looked around and found nothing out of the ordinary, mumbled a few words in a low voice and felt a little dizzy, as if sleepiness had returned, so she turned around and went downstairs.
Lin Wan’er slammed her elbow into the back and lowered her voice to scold shyly, “People have left, why don’t you hurry out.”
It was not easy to be able to kiss the fragrance, being the first time to thank the old grandma Fan Xian which had the reason to leave right away, salivated and said, “Sleepy, lie down again.”
Only then did Lin Wan’er realize that her future son-in-law was a scoundrel at heart, and said in anger and annoyance, “How can this …… work?”
Fan Xian hemmed and hawed and smiled, moving a little closer to her body, his nose sniffing the faint body fragrance, his heart relaxed and happy, saying, “Why not?”
“This …… this …… spreads out and tells me how to see people.” Lin Wan’er shyly buried her head in the comforter, feeling the hot air behind her, and moved forward again.
Fan Xian sighed, afraid that this girl will be so scared that she will move out of the bed, that is going to catch a cold, so he had to climb up, full of lust, sat on the edge of the bed and pulled the girl’s slightly cold little hand. Lin Wan’er struggled a bit, failed to break free, also let him go, thinking as long as you do not lie in bed, has been considered a great fortune.
Fan Xian looked at her slightly closed eyes and said softly, “I realized that in my life, my luck is indeed too good.”
“Hm?” Lin Wan’er curiously opened her eyes, her eyes clear and bright as she looked at him.
“Falling in love with a girl who was already my unmarried wife before I fell in love with her, wouldn’t you say that this kind of thing can happen, doesn’t it mean that I’ve been very lucky?” Fan Xian explained with a smile, his clear and uncluttered face filled with joy.
Lin Wan’er asked curiously, “If …… if ……”
“If what?”
“Forget it, nothing.”
Lin Wan Er lightly bit her lower lip to suppress the doubts in her heart.
“There’s something else to say to you.” Fan Xian looked at her forehead under the green silk of the hidden sweat, heartbroken, said: “During the day I said is true, you this body, now must be well nourished, gruel and small dishes kind of, on the intestines and stomach is good. But for consumption, but there is no help.”
The girl today even met with surprise, a crystal heart has long been trembling. Hear the two words of consumption, will immediately think of their own disease, but low again, under the emotional turmoil, the face is a little bleak, said sadly: “The Imperial Doctor is looking at, said that this disease is not good treatment, although it is said that the cold consumption will not be over the person, but …… in the future, if you are really in a place, I’m afraid that it will be tired of you. ”
Fan Xian suddenly looked at her with a straight face, “Goat milk, chicken legs, my prescription, and the pills I’ll leave for you later, take them slowly according to the method I said, there must be able to raise your body well.”
Lin Wan’er sighed, “The imperial doctors can’t even cure it, it just drags on year after year.”
Fan Xian smiled, “My medical skills are naturally not as good as the imperial doctors, even if my teacher is in the capital, I’m afraid that he will only take some partial methods, your status is honorable, I’m afraid that the nobles in the palace won’t dare to use them. But I said the diet, but the imperial doctors can not think of the place, plus as long as you will be well nourished body, and so the teacher back to the capital, he went on a tour of the border, must have gotten a lot of precious medicinal herbs, by then your disease will naturally have hope. This treatment is part of the diagnosis and treatment, medicine is another part, do not look at the palace within the precious herbs countless, but really good, I’m afraid not as good as my teacher’s collection.”
Lin Wan’er listened to his earnest words, her heart was touched, and she softly said, “Trouble you, Mr. Fan.”
Fan Xian was stunned, thinking, “How can you be more formal at this time? After all, he didn’t understand the woman’s mind, once he confirmed that the man in front of him was his future husband, Lin Wan’er would naturally be a bit more reserved in her speech, which was a woman’s trait. He was a bit surprised and said with a smile, “Still calling me Mr. Fan?”
Lin Wan’er curiously said, “Then what is it called?” Suddenly realizing what he meant, her face turned red with shame, turned her back, no longer looking at him, and said in a mosquito-sized voice, “That will have to wait until after the marriage, and then change the title.”
“I mean, you can address me as Brother Fan.” Fan Xian said, holding back his laughter.
Lin Wan’er realized that she had fallen for the other party’s trick, and was so ashamed and annoyed that she wanted to reach out and hit him, but thought that she had only met this man twice, and was still considered a stranger, so she stopped. Fan Xian looked at her thin shoulders, said: “After the marriage, we go to Cangshan Mountain, where the altitude is higher, and there are hot springs, the most suitable for you to recuperate.”
Lin Wan Er heard the word marriage, a slight shyness rose, but still nodded, but did not understand what the elevation meant, and thought of another thing, and asked softly, “Lord Fei is really your teacher?”
“Yes.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “I’ve always thought that since Mr. Fei was working in that part of the Supervisory Court, he should be a very low-profile person, but who knew that he would have such a big reputation in Kyoto.”
Lin Wan’er laughed, “He was a national hero during the Northern Expedition to the West back then, so of course he’s famous, but the world is afraid of his use of poison, so he’s always been avoided.” She looked at Fan Xian’s pretty face and asked curiously, “How could Lord Fei be your teacher?”
Fan Xian shrugged his shoulders and said, “Miss Lin, there’s going to be a lot of trouble behind this, I haven’t sorted it out myself yet, and I’m afraid that if you marry me in the future, you’re going to encounter a lot of trouble as well, so you have to think about it carefully.”
Lin Wan Er smiled and shook her head, she also knows that this marriage hides a lot of interest exchange and redistribution, so the beginning of the very resistant to aggravate the condition, but since today found that the heavens have eyes, even let the Fan family’s son is …… in front of the this, she is already full of gratitude to the heavens, where there will also have what other extravagant hope. Thinking of the recent Kyoto made a lot of noise, said: “Fan Gongzi, sometimes really do not understand, you are the son of Si Nanbo, Supervisory Yuan Fei adult students, but also proficient in the way of poetry and literature …… By the way, that sentence of the ten thousand miles of sadness in the autumn often as a guest, is really what you write? ”
Fan Xian didn’t see any questioning on her face, just a very simple questioning, and curiously asked back, “Is there something wrong?”
A hint of anger surfaced on Lin Wan’er’s face, “The empress dowager likes this line of yours very much, but the rumor has been spreading in the palace lately that the last four lines of this poem of yours were copied from a poet of the previous dynasty.” She was a bit angry since she was very trusting of the person in front of her.
Fan Xian then realized that the matter of the Poetry Society was still lingering, and the lawsuit with the Guo family had not yet ended, so surprisingly this accusation came again, but he had originally copied Lao Du, so he did not get much angry, instead, he was looking at his fiancée’s look of some fatigue, and was a bit heartbroken, so he gently patted her hand and told her to stop talking.
“I will often come to see you.”
“But …… what if someone finds out?”
“Yeah, I’m really worried that after being found out, that weird uncle of mine will kill all those people …… This is really a problem, I have to communicate with him in a hurry.” Fan Xian sweated, thinking that such horrible things could really happen.
Lin Wan’er looked at his face and hesitated to close it, but in the end, she couldn’t stop a deep sleep.
Early the next morning, Lin Wan Er woke up somewhat dazedly from the warm quilt, opened her eyes, rubbed them, and realized that her spirit was particularly good. The maiden sweetly smiled and came over to salute, and then prepared to help her get up to wash and dress up, only then did Lin Wan’er remember last night’s events, and said with a startled cry, “Ah! Where is everyone?”
The maid asked curiously, “What people?”
Lin Wan Er said in fear: “Did you hear any sound last night?”
“No, miss.” The maiden replied seriously.
Lin Wan Er walked over to the window, her long black hair hanging straight down to her hip, dressed in a pretty white cloth, looking very beautiful. She looked out the window, but realized that there was no trace of that person long ago, and couldn’t help but wonder a little if she had just dreamed a dream yesterday, a dream that she wanted it to become a reality so badly.
While she was imagining things, the maid held a half torn oil paper bag and walked to her, sneering and said, “Miss is stealing food again, beware of being seen by the grandma and reported to his majesty …… Quickly close the window, don’t blow in the wind.”
Lin Wan Er took the oil paper bag, and found himself in the sash with a few more pills, a warm heart, and then look out the window garden scenery will be a few more green, even after the window is closed, seems to be unable to hide endless spring is prying the window to escape into.