Chapter 7 — Shining Pearl

This is said very soberly. I nodded. "Then I wish you all the best." While bowing, On Tri Dao held the other end of the red silk strip. His hands are very steady. After the ceremony, we were taken to the new room. The room was not filled with gold, silver, and pearls. On the judgment are placed two things. A suitable cup of wine. A half-removed office lamp. I stared at that lamp and suddenly burst into laughter. When On Tri Dao walked in, he heard my laughter, his footsteps stopped for a moment. "Don't you like it?" I held back my laughter. "On the wedding night, sir, did you prepare this for me?" His expression paused a bit. "You once said you like to undress." I asked: "So what about the wine?" "It's also prepared." He said very seriously. It's like I feel like I'm very well organized. I laughed even harder. He walked up to me, his ears were slightly red. "I'm not good at these things." I raised my head to look at him. "I see." He was silent for a moment, then asked in a low voice: "So you taught me?" Again, this sentence. I looked at him, my heart so soft that I couldn't tell the difference. "First, drink the suitable wine." He nodded. "Okay." The suitable wine is not strong. After drinking, he was in no hurry to do anything. Just pushed the office light in front of me. "Remove it?" I looked at him. "Now?" "If you're tired, leave it for tomorrow." I reached out and plucked the hidden latch at the bottom of the lamp. "Not tired." So on the wedding night, we sat together under the red candle, taking off the office light for half an hour. When the wick of the lamp lights up, the thin silk layer on all four sides slowly rotates, illuminating a small star map. I was stunned. "This is..." On Tri Dao said: "Her birthday night star chart." I turned my head to look at him. He explained: "Ask Thanh Vu." "She said, when she was little she liked to look at the stars." At that moment I knew, it turned out he didn't seem to understand the wind and the moon, and had long hidden all his clumsy thoughts in this lamp. I said softly: "On Tri Dao." "Yes." "That's already very good of you." He looked at me, with a very light smile in his eyes. "That's good."10. After getting married, I entered Tich Vi Lau. On Tri Dao did not go back on his word. He gave me a small room, filled with old things, scraps, and math books. Every day we want to go, we go. If you don't want to go, stay in the yard and dry in the sun, taking off some simple organs. Up and down the Wen Palace were not very familiar at first. They thought that the new lady should first take over the house, pay respects to relatives, and arrange the house. Wen Tri Dao called the housekeeper over again, and said in front of me: "Madam, if you want to take care of it, take care of it." "If you don't want to take care of it, just stay the same." The housekeeper immediately understood. From then on, no one took those trivial matters to force us. This freedom comes so lightly that at first it makes us feel uneasy. One night, I woke up from a nightmare. Dreaming about the Fifth Prince's Palace. Dreaming of Tieu Thua Canh throwing that nine-chain at my feet, coldly saying: "It turns out she's the one who's really smart." I sat on the bed, unable to calm down for a long time. Wen Tri Dao
also awake. He didn't ask me what I was dreaming about, just stood up and poured me a cup of warm water. "Do you want to take off your clothes?" I was stunned. "Midnight?" He said: "Your hands are shaking." "Do something familiar, maybe it will be better." I looked at my hands. Really shaking. The fear of that life still resides in my bones. Not to say that I don't love Tieu Thua Canh, but I can immediately forget all the cold eyes in that palace. Wen Zhi Dao put on his coat, stood up, and took out a small Lu Ban lock. We sit on the edge of the bed, taking it off little by little. The candlelight is very dark. He sat next to me, quietly accompanying me. Don't urge me to tell the dream, nor say things like it's already happened. When the Lu Ban lock was solved, my hands finally stopped shaking. I said in a low voice: "Before, I was married to the Fifth Prince." On Tri Dao's hand stopped. I continued to say: "In a very long nightmare." "Because I couldn't solve the broken cycle, he thought I was innocent and cute." "Later, because I wasn't intelligent enough, he hated me." "He saw my sister solve the cycle in three breaths, and said that the person who is truly intelligent is her." I said a lot. Tell me how bustling that royal palace is. Tell Tieu Thua Canh how he gradually moved his eyes away. Tell me how I learned to solve all kinds of organs, just to prove I'm not stupid. At the end, I laughed a little. "But by then no one wanted to watch anymore." On Tri Dao didn't speak for a long time. Then, he placed the lock Lu Ban had solved back into my palm. "Chieu Vi." "Um?" "The broken ring couldn't be solved, it's not your fault." My eye sockets heated up. This sentence is very light. But it was like pulling the me of my previous life, the one who was so anxious that my ears turned red, out of the electric laughter. On Tri Dao said again: "No one wants to watch, it's not your fault." Finally I burst into tears. He reached out and gently hugged me. The movements are a bit clumsy. But very solid. "What do you want to solve in the future, I'll see." "If you don't want to solve it, you can also put it down."11. A year later, Tham Minh Xu stood firmly in the Thuong Cong Bureau.