[The only daughter of a general x a civil servant from a poor family] Full of Song charm
The first time Xie Hui noticed He Ying was in the spring breeze of Jinmingchi. She dropped the poem and he picked it up. He was wearing a green official robe that had been washed white, and he did not look into her eyes when he spoke. She said redundant troops and waste were a drag on the national treasury, and he said civil and military forces had their own difficulties.
Later we met again on the street. He stopped three steps in front of her carriage and suddenly asked: "What if a person who is greedy for ink is himself a thorn in the eyes of others?"
She tightened her cuffs.
Later, she began to pay attention to this person. He is always alone, and his official robes become hairy after being washed. He slipped a note into the book she returned, with a name written on it - a name that pointed to her father's most secret old account.
She didn't know why he told her. It's like she doesn't know what he's pressing down on the ground every time he looks at her.
Until that night in Deyilou. She eavesdropped on her father's private dinner, and he opened the door and came in. The two men stood a few steps apart in the darkness, neither of them moving. He said: "You are also checking."
Not a question.
She suddenly wanted to call his name. Before he could speak, the banquet next door broke up. Before he turned and left, he said: "I'm not afraid that you will betray me, but I don't want to embarrass you."
Only later did she realize the meaning of this sentence - he loved her, but he knew he couldn't love her from the beginning. What he was investigating was her father's old case, and what he was looking for was the blood debt of her family.
Later, he was demoted. She didn't have time to say his name.
There was fog on the river. He stood on the bow of the boat, his figure in green shirt getting further and further away.
After that, she was called into the palace by a decree. The palace is deep and the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms season after season, but she failed to survive the third autumn.
After her death, the palace officials sorted out her belongings and found an old poetry note at the bottom of the dowry. On the front is a spring poem from the fifth year of Xining, and on the back is a line of very light ink.
What was written in that line, no one knew.
Purpose: To use the image of cinnamon sticks to tell the story of love entangled in the old cases of parents and clan grievances, to analyze the cruelty of worldly hatred that separates the sincerity, to show the sadness of lovers being bound by fate and unable to stay together in love in troubled times, and to reflect on the shackles and destruction of true emotions by hatred.