The title of this issue
【Mission Release】Bookfish Literature Club Session 94: Respect for Freedom
Author's Note:
It has nothing to do with the fact that the Renaissance is true;
Or historical illiteracy, it is all nonsense.
Good to go
Author: Unknown Guanyin Bridge
Qualifier: Renaissance
No.
01
Zhou Yingsheng was born in Tianshun for three years, at that time, yu Wei was still alive in the change of the door, the imperial court was not very peaceful, and the second time the emperor's son of Heaven may have the intention of calming people, but there are still people who want to die. However, the Zhou family is far away in Anxi, a small county town on the seashore, and the wind and rain in the capital are only vague talk here, far less than the Old Master Zhou on Jinping Street who finally got a son after giving birth to six daughters.
Zhou Ying is this son.
Zhou Laoye Yongle began to take advantage of the sea breeze all the way to start a business, to now Wanguan family wealth in his hands, only hoping that the incense will be passed on, who wants one after another to land on the ground to land a door lawsuit in his head, with Zhou Ying finally long-cherished wish to get paid, happy enough to only have time to hug him and go to see the King of Yan, but the first thing that Zhou Ying was born with was that the entire Zhou family pointed to him to inherit the family business, pointing to his glorious lintel.
Such a Zhou Ying did not even become a fool, fell in a group of side relatives tiger and wolf surrounded by dignified grown-up, he is small and quiet, does not like to see people or love to go out, always nestled in the house to read, but never thought of the examination of merit, less than twenty years old has managed seven business houses, but when he stands in front of you, he is just a weak teenager.
At present, this young man is waiting for a person at the dockside of Quanzhou City.
It was already the autumn of the eleventh year of Chenghua, and he and Xie Lan had not seen each other since they had separated three years ago.
Zhou Ying wondered why Xie Lan would return to Quanzhou, and why did he come to see him.
He couldn't understand it, and he couldn't help but think that even if someone was standing in front of him, he didn't notice that the person was always talking with a three-point smile: "Zhou Jingyou, what is the shock?" ”
Zhou Ying raised his head and looked at the Qingyi Boy in front of him, and he couldn't help but smile: "Xie Yunruo... Long time no see. ”
02
Xie Lan and Zhou Ying met five years ago.
Zhou Ying was not in charge at that time, and for a while the family was fighting for property, and Zhou's mother somehow sent Zhou Ying to Quanzhou to study for two years, and it was Xie Lan, whom she knew at that time.
Xie Lan is a very interesting person, although Zhou Ying is quiet and does not interact with people, but also confused and Xie Lan acquaintance, if it were not for three years ago, he broke zhou Ying's secret, maybe the two of him would not be separated for three years without news, in fact, it is just Zhou Ying's heart, just want to cover his ears and steal the bell, do not dare to come and go, this time Xie Lan wrote to quanzhou, want to see him, Zhou Ying hesitated for a long time or went.
Zhou Ying was thinking wildly when he stood on the dock, and he was relieved to see Xie Lan, he naturally knew what kind of person Xie Lan was, otherwise he would not have known that he knew that he was not safe for outsiders.
He set up the car, but Xie Lan had to pull him to walk, and on the way Zhou Ying asked: "You didn't move to Suzhou, what are you doing this time?" ”
Xie Lan sighed in an ominous tone and approached Zhou Ying: "Xu is thinking of you, come back to see you." ”
Zhou Ying's face turned white and red for a moment, and he scolded, "What nonsense! ”
Xie Lan saw that his ears were red, and couldn't help but laugh: "Don't tease you, your fourth sister is not going to become a parent." ”
"What does it matter to you that she married?" Zhou Ying's fourth sister was named Zhou Wan, and she did set a date and had to pass through the door in a few days.
Xie Lan did not have a single sentence of this person's three sentences that did not make people funny: "Xu is that I can't marry you, and it is not bad to marry your sister." ”
Zhou Ying glared at him: "Xie Yunruo." ”
Xie Lan immediately went from a good heart: "The official that your fourth sister wants to marry is my good friend, and I specially came back to eat a cup of happy wine from him." ”
"Do you know Third Duke Xu?" Zhou Ying nodded, "Then why do you want me to pick up?" ”
Xie Lan did not answer him this time, he asked, "Why do you say that?" ”
Zhou Ying looked at him: "You don't want this. ”
"Well, well, not so." Xie Lan pointed to the Wangjiang Tower: "Then you invite me to dinner." ”
Zhou Ying looked at his back, and the words written in the book seemed to be able to be used on him, and he panicked for a moment, caught up with two steps, and told him that he still had something to do tomorrow, that he could eat, and that he could not drink.
03
Although Xie Lan did not speak seriously, he was actually a serious person.
A meal to listen to him to talk about Xu San Gongzi people are not bad, Suzhou all kinds of snacks and other scenery, Zhou Ying also felt a little bit of listening, at the end of the person sent to the inn, when he came home was to meet Zhou Wan.
Zhou Ying, the fourth sister, has a lively nature, that is, she is deeply restrained, otherwise she can have fun, she saw Zhou Ying and greeted her: "Yingying, you are back, are you so busy on weekdays, come to Quanzhou so many days to see you three times." ”
"The fourth sister is good, the shop is busy, today I met a deceased person, he also knows the fourth brother-in-law, listening to him is still very good." Zhou Ying's fourth sister was born to Zhou's mother, and she was favored on weekdays, and this marriage had also been troubled, so Zhou Ying wanted to speak to her heart.
I didn't want Zhou Wan to smile: "I haven't even seen his face, even if it's good, is it really good?" ”
"Yingying, the mother said that I don't understand things, girls marry like this, but you see the mother married to daddy, a room of aunts, and have a happy time, the big sister every time she comes back to say two sentences, crying, and having a good time, you are a man who does not understand what we women who are trapped between the square inches think."
"Ah, but I'm not saying that you, the world is like this, men just live more comfortably than women, forget it, I tell you what to do, anyway, he is a good person, of course, but Yingying, you will become a relative in the future, but you want to marry someone you like."
Zhou Wan said and pulled Zhou Ying to look at her wedding dress, did not pay attention to Zhou Ying's trance, he thought that what the fourth sister said was right, in this world, men are better than women, see more, go far, but he sounds, but some are not tasteful.
Look at the sisters in the family, he can live like this, it is already very good, but why is he still unwilling.
Back in his courtyard, he asked someone to prepare water to bathe, scatter his hair, take off his clothes one by one, and finally untie his corset, which was Zhou Ying's secret.
04
Zhou Ying is a woman.
Only Zhou's mother and the aunt who gave birth to Zhou Ying knew about this matter, Old Master Zhou was not happy to have Lin'er happy, he saw the seventh child or a daughter did not come up and die of anger, at that time the Zhou family branches were intertwined, and when Old Master Zhou went, they did not have sons to inherit this room, they were just waiting for the fate of partition.
So Zhou Mu immediately decided that the deer was a horse, Zhou Ying changed from a daughter to a son, her mother gave birth to her and left, leaving her to grow up in front of Zhou Mu, fearing to grow up.
So at that time, her mother told her to go to Quanzhou to study, she was very surprised, the academy was full of men, if she was secretly exposed, she was small, what would the Zhou family do.
She didn't know how her mother did it, in short, she lived happily in those two years, except for a Xie Lan, no one saw that she was a woman, but Zhou Ying didn't know why, she didn't tell her mother about Xie Lan's identity, and she sometimes even thought that if one day this matter came out to the sky.
She was tired of it all.
The fourth sister said that being a woman is not easy, a man can get a lot of convenience, she has always enjoyed these benefits, but such benefits are stolen by her, and the expectations she carries and everything she gets have nothing to do with her.
In fact, in the end, why are many things in this world only allowed men to do and not women to do, she is a woman, is it not also a good job of being in charge of the family, but Zhou Ying knows that it is useless to ask this question, so it will only be so.
But maybe in the next day, it won't be like this.
But when will it come, it's not interesting.
05
Zhou Wan's marriage is imminent, and she said that she would not go from the old mansion to their mansion in Quanzhou, which was much more convenient, so the Zhou family was in Quanzhou recently.
Zhou Ying was very tired, she had always disliked being vain with these relatives, but there was no way, so when Xie Lan invited her to go out to enjoy the autumn, she didn't even think about it.
Quanzhou is warm, autumn is also lush with flowers and trees, maple leaves are burning like fire, Zhou Ying looked up to see a leaf through the light, Xie Lan looked at her.
He sometimes wondered why no one saw her as a girl.
As if sensing that he was looking at her, Zhou Ying turned his head and frowned as if to ask him what I was doing.
Xie Lan was momentarily confused: "It's really full of mountains and autumn colors that are not as good as you." ”
Zhou Ying looked at him and wanted to punch him: "Xie Yunruo." ”
"Gaffes." Xie Lan knew that he should not say this, and immediately admitted his mistake.
Zhou Ying snorted, "But thank you for today, if you hadn't come, I don't know how long I would have to deal with them." ”
"But you've always done a good job, Jingyou, I don't know if I should ask, do You're tired of doing Zhou Ying?" Xie Lan asked casually.
Zhou Ying smiled lightly: "If you asked two days ago, I would have said that I was very tired, but now that I think about it, maybe because I am Zhou Ying, I can have some very happy times, negotiate business, go to sea, and meet some very interesting people... Knowing you, if I wasn't Zhou Ying, I wouldn't even be able to see the autumn colors of today. ”
"So, it's not so tiring."
Xie Lan nodded nonchalantly: "So, do You get tired of doing Zhou Ying?" ”
Zhou Ying casually grabbed a leaf and did not answer him.
Xie Lan rubbed the back of her head: "You man..."
He suddenly changed his words: "Do you remember three years ago, it was also autumn, I asked you in the academy, and you have not answered me." ”
Zhou Yingyi broke the leaf.
At that time, in the academy, she was confused, and she somehow Xie Lan tried to find out her identity, but she did not threaten her with anything, and even did not tell her for a long time, and would quietly help her to play cover.
The two people also slowly got closer, and Zhou Ying also felt that he was not quite right, and it was especially easy to be embarrassed to see Xie Lan, which was always weird.
Until that day, he went out with a few classmates to buy books, and suddenly it rained heavily halfway, and she was said to have caught up with Xie Lan, who had come to deliver an umbrella, and took the hood of her clothes to cover and take it away, only to realize that something was wrong, and then she began to hide from Xie Lan.
After two days, she was blocked in the back hill of the academy, and Xie Lan slowly talked about the flaws in her body.
Three years ago
"Xie Yunruo, you bastard." Zhou Ying leaned against the tree, his mind was in a mess, watching Xie Lan just want to run away immediately.
Xie Lan smiled at him with his hands behind his back, but his tone was very firm: "Zhou Jingyou, do you like me?" ”
Zhou Ying couldn't bear it after listening to this sentence and ran away like a rabbit.
That was the last time they had ever been three years ago.
06
Zhou Ying also didn't remember how she returned home that day.
In the next few days, things rushed to happen, and even at Zhou Wan's wedding banquet, she only saw Xie Lan's side, and it rained heavily that night when Zhou Wancheng was kissed.
Zhou Ying braved the rain to ask Zhou Mu'an.
She rarely did such superfluous things, and Mother Zhou asked, "Is there anything to tell?" ”
Zhou Ying licked her lips, as if she was very thirsty: "The fourth sister is also married, the fifth sister has become a relative earlier, Jingyou has been thinking recently, in the future, as she grows older, if one day, those elders in the clan will discuss Jingyou's marriage..."
"How? Got a crush? Mother Zhou had a smile on her face, she had been raising Zhou Ying for twenty years, and she didn't know what Zhou Ying was thinking before her: "That Xie family boy, who took you back three years ago, didn't want to get into trouble, how come you fainted as soon as you met him, you naturally have me when you get married, you just need to do what you should do, recently to the Zhou ancestors to build a temple I see you have built, this is very good ..."
Zhou Ying suddenly knelt down, and she seemed to have put a lot of effort into saying the words: "Mother, my mother raised me for twenty years, so that I can be the head of the family last week, deep grace is like the sea, Jingyou understands, but such a thing of concealing the sky and crossing the sea is not a long-term solution." ”
Zhou Mu looked at the rain outside coldly: "I raised you for twenty years, it is nothing." Speaking of which, calling you to pretend to be a man is that I can't stand you. But Zhou Ying, you are not just Zhou Ying, you are Zhou Ying of the Zhou family, you are the son of Zhou Nansheng, the master of these seven commercial houses, you can naturally leave, but when you leave, what do you want me, the culprit, what to do with the Zhou family's great business, what do you want your sisters to do? What's more, back to your daughter, will you get what you want? The Xie family is not only famous in Quanzhou, Gusu Jiangnan is also eligible, you follow him, what does his family think? ”
Zhou Ying knelt on the ground: "Mother, I..."
"If you still don't know, the rain will wash your brain for me." Mother Zhou took one last look at her and said softly, "If you want to leave, I have to let you go, now is not the day." ”
Zhou Ying knelt in the heavy rain all night.
The next day she had a high fever, and when she was well, another ten days passed.
She finally went to see Xie Lan, who should have left tomorrow morning, but it seemed that he always wanted to wait for her to answer.
He had waited for her three years earlier, but she had been taken home. This time she was sick for half a month, people had lost a circle, and Xie Lan vaguely knew in his heart when he saw her that it was time for him to leave.
Xie Lan sat with her under the patio porch, it was nearly dusk, and the two of them sat, but neither of them spoke.
In the end, Xie Lan spoke first: "Is it better to be sick?" ”
Zhou Ying nodded slightly.
Xie Lan said, "Look at your white face, there is no blood at all, go back and take good care of it, you are busy on weekdays..."
"Xie Yunruo." Zhou Ying couldn't help but grab his sleeve, Xie Lan did not speak, "I am going back to Anxi tomorrow, these years from my father will want to build a ancestral hall, build a temple or something, worship the ancestors is also beautiful, a while ago my fourth sister became a parent delayed, these days I am sick again, tomorrow, tomorrow how should I go back." ”
Xie Lan nodded and smiled: "It's like what the Zhou family likes to do, Zhou Jingyou, if one day, you don't do Zhou Ying, you don't do Zhou Jingyou, just do it, be the person you want to do, you remember to come to me, I want to see what you looked like at that time." ”
After a while, he said, "I used to think that as long as I wanted, I could always get what I wanted, but now I know that I can't just think about it. ”
07
Zhou Ying was silent for a long time, and Fang asked, "Then what you thought before, don't you want it?" ”
Xie Lan don't look at her, today the sky is good, a ray of light shines in from the patio, he can see Zhou Ying clearly, the two of them have known each other for several years, the world is uncertain, only she seems to be the same as when they first met, so he smiled: "If you don't come, you don't want it." ”
Zhou Ying thought, how can he be inferior to her, he wants to do what he wants, who likes who does not like to say it clearly, she insists on keeping only one identity, but this identity is what she wants, she is just an iron lock.
Xie Lan stood up, "Jing you, I came to see you, am I also embarrassing you?" ”
Zhou Ying lowered her head, how could it be, you don't know that I also want to see you, but when I see it, I have to say that I don't want to.
Xie Lan reached out to raise her face, but she refused, grabbed Xie Lan's hand and shook her head, the water from nowhere wet Xie Lan's hand, he sighed.
Xie Lan turned to leave, but someone gently pulled on the corner of his clothes, and he looked back and couldn't go.
That night the moon was very good, Qing Lingling looked through the panes, shone on his body, swung a pool of water, apricot blossoms filled the ground in a courtyard of spring.
The next day, Zhou Ying returned to Anxi, and Xie Lan stood on the Wangjiang Tower and did not send her.
It seems that from the beginning of their acquaintance, it was just to separate.
08
The days to come are rolling forward like water, Zhou Ying is busy all day, she is also really busy, there are so many things to do, she actually does not have the heart to think about anything, one day glimpsed the chrysanthemums in the garden, only to feel that time passed so quickly.
Maybe it would have been so fast, and a little faster, she would have forgotten it all.
Until one day Wanwan came to play, she was still that lively character after marriage, and her husband jun had a good relationship, and this came back with her newly raised little white cat, called Jade Ball, the kitten was very dexterous, and it disappeared in a moment, but the two only cared about the narrative and forgot about the others.
Zhou Wan did not often come back after getting married, this time also because the ancestors of the Zhou family built a temple and a temple, and everyone in the family had to come back, and she did not stay in her courtyard for too long, but on this kung fu, when looking for the jade ball, the cat was already in Zhou Ying's study.
Zhou Wan is not sorry, Zhou Ying is nothing, but also said that this cat is lively, turned back into the study to see this cat even the wooden box on the top of the cabinet has been kicked down, her heart is tight, there is a letter written by Xie Lan before, there are some books or gadgets, she immediately walked over to clean up but glimpsed a piece of ink from the mess, sandwiched in a song word, she had never seen it before, but the flying white book on it was Xie Yunruo's words, she picked it up and only looked at it, but she was stunned on the spot.
Can't afford to give away, but also sleep in the dream of a good period.
Zhou Ying thought that if Xie Yunruo was half a life, he also did not dare to say anything.
09
The temple was built to commemorate the ancestors, what Old Master Zhou did not do, and what the People of the Zhou Family had in mind in their hearts became true in the hands of Zhou Ying.
On the eve of the opening of the temple, Zhou Ying took one last look, and when she came out, she saw her mother outside, and she looked up slightly, as if she was out of her mind.
"Does Mother want to go in and have a look?" Zhou Ying bowed to her and asked.
"Women can't get in." My mother had always been polite, so she just shook her head and said again, "You can't enter." ”
Zhou Ying did not speak, although she was raised by her mother, she has been raised very strictly, so she is not very close, she just silently helped her mother to get on the car, before getting on the car, her mother took a careful look at her: "You are doing a good job." ”
The second day is the day of the opening of the shrine that has long been scheduled.
The People of the Zhou Clan lined up, solemn and solemn, and Zhou Ying stood at the forefront, and she already remembered the words of etiquette to be recited very well.
But the moment she stood in front of the stage to offer three sticks of incense, she suddenly had some palpitations.
As if responding to this palpitation, the next moment the door changed drastically, and a female voice shouted in the crowd outside the door: "How does the Zhou clan worship the ancestors today, the owner of the family is a woman!" ”
Zhou Ying's brain buzzed, and she looked back and saw her mother standing outside the door in a plain dress.
She never came in.
10
Zhou Ying has been the head of the Zhou family for twenty years since she was born, she used to be ignorant, and then she was unwilling, and finally that night in the heavy rain, she thought that maybe she was born in the Zhou family, she was destined to be such an unclean and unhappy person, and she worked hard to maintain the family business and then looked at the people and dogs under her hand to gnaw on the bones, this is her fate.
She thought about confessing her life.
It turned out that no, her fate was the month when the Zhou family wanted her to be in charge, she was the moon of the stars, and when the Zhou family did not need her to be in charge, she was an outcast on the chessboard.
She looked at her mother sitting on the throne, her eyebrows kind, and wondered if she had never seen her clearly.
She asked Zhou Ying to be a man, teach Zhou Ying to hold power in the family, and raise her into the hope of the future of the Zhou family, perhaps she thought of letting Zhou Ying inherit the family business well, or maybe from the beginning she was for today, in order to retaliate against the Zhou family who ate her alive in the best days of the Zhou family.
Or maybe she just wanted to cut off her way out and let her go.
Her mother looked at her with tears in her eyes, but she smiled.
In the end, she couldn't know what her mother really thought, then there was chaos, the Zhou family woman did not undertake the business, did not discuss or enter the ancestral hall, and she was a fake phoenix, committing more than one thing, stealing the day and changing the day, not to mention the rumors of the world killing people, the Zhou family's clan members have scrambled to seize power early, it is best to sink her into the pond.
Zhou Mu committed suicide in the Buddhist hall that day, and no one knew why she had so bitterly told such a big lie and easily pulled it out.
Zhou Ying left Anxi by boat seven days later, fortunately, the contacts she had saved over the years were enough to protect herself in the chaos, not to mention secretly there were gentle people to help them.
On the day she left, Wanwan took her hand and did not ask her when she would come back, but said that she would cherish everything.
Strangely enough, she didn't want to stay, didn't think about fighting for anything, she just wanted to leave.
11
Pink as mist cauliflower yellow, jiangnan spring light is really as always.
Some people call on friends to lead their companions out of the city to walk through the spring light, some people are afraid that the flowers in the city will have a rash, and some people go north every year to go to an agreement where no one comes to the meeting.
It seems that everyone has a place to go and something they want to do, only she is stuck in expectations that do not belong to her, and do what everyone needs.
There was once a person who told her not to do Zhou Ying, not to do Zhou Jingyou, but to be the person she wanted to be.
But at that time, she refused, thinking that there were people who could not be disappointed, things that could not be abandoned, and later she realized that perhaps she had always trapped herself in the siege, so she knew that she was abandoned, and it was more relaxed than sad.
It seems that these twenty years or so are just a ridiculous dream.
Zhou Ying escaped from Anxi, escaped from southern Fujian, fled to Gusu, and perhaps even farther away.
But at the moment, she was just floating down the river in a boat, looking at the scenery here that was different from southern Fujian.
Since then, the Anxi Zhou family has no longer had Zhou Ying Zhou Quiet Swim, but there is one more Zhou Ying in the world.
Her ship did not know when it came to shore, she got up and came ashore, but saw a man on the shore, smiled and held out his hand to her, as if he had been waiting for her here.
This is the spring of the twenty-third year of Chenghua.
Note: The Renaissance was a cultural movement for the liberation of ideas that took place from the 14th to the 17th centuries, that is, in the late Yuan and early Qing dynasties.
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A, the Renaissance is used into the ancient style story of the same period, this problem-breaking idea is so clever! The rhythm is slightly slow but the content is full, the characters are vivid and flawless, and the mother's revenge at the end really gives me a shocked feeling, and it is well written. Teachers keep coming!
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The feelings are delicate and the moisturizers are silent. The writing is very mature. The plot design is a little strange, but the flaws are not hidden.
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Wow teacher wrote well in place, that is, the feeling of point to the end, the right measure, light but very powerful, the change of the character's state of mind is also written very smoothly and naturally, the writing is really good