Kam Ha kee

6.Generation after generation

The mansion we live in now was built after my father became king. He designed it himself, spent a lot of money and took three years to complete. Because my mother is a Jiangnan woman who loves beautiful and delicate scenery, the whole palace was designed in the style of Suzhou gardens.

The whole mansion consists of three gardens. The central Bill Garden was where my father received guests, handled business, and where he and my mother lived. Now I live here, Aunt Wei, and the main servants of the family. The Yan Garden on the west side used to be the residence of various concubines and concubines, and now most of the buildings there are idle, for the family's gardeners and garden guards and handymen to live and pile up debris. East of the Yi garden is a pleasant place to play, full of pavilions water pavilions, stone Jane Ou. The first time I met Shuying was at the lotus pond in Yiyuan.

Because my mother loves water scenery, the whole house is scattered with many deep pools, shallow ponds, slow streams and static springs. Even the Shangshanju in the garden where we live now is also a number of double-eaves buildings connected by covered Bridges, suspended in the middle of the cloud pool, surrounded by water on all sides. There was a real danger of a child falling into the water as he wandered about in the huge garden.

I have been looking for Hibiscus Pavilion, snow Pavilion, Spring sleep dock, Lin Xuan, and Miao Pavilion, did not see the figure, then walk towards the lotus pond. The fragrance in the air gradually reappeared, I think it is in the weeks I have been gone, the lotus pond has been a piece of flowers such as brocade.

Through the hanging flowered arch on the low white wall, you can see the lotus pond. It was pink, white, and green. In the pond, thousands of petals, big purple, heavy table, and assorted lotus flowers have opened one layer upon another. When the wind passed, the stems and leaves moved slightly, and the posture was obsequious. Wind stop, standing, dignified Qing Hao.

My eyes flow through this enchanting blue, and fall on the Liulisten Bridge lying in the pond. A small figure stood on the exquisite stone bridge curved like a crescent moon.

It was a child in a moon white dress. Her hair, black as ebony, was brushed up on the sides of her head and then folded gracefully on top of her head. On the small neck with beautiful lines, a few strands of thin hair reflected the color of water, revealing a light of dark gold.

She stood quietly, in a pastel green, the small body is like a pond has not opened a white lotus, but it has a very beautiful wind, people can not help but think when she turned around will be how more dazzling scene.

I looked closely at this figure, my heart beat faster for no reason, but my feet were like lead, and I could not move half a step.

The figure moved gently and turned slowly.

I saw a pair of big eyes like the stars of autumn water, looking at me in search, when they touched my line of sight, they were immediately covered by the curly slender slender eyelids of panic, and for a moment, they slowly raised, with a more thrilling light than the lotus pond behind her, staring at me.

These are the eyes that always enter my dreams.

These are the eyes I thought I'd never see again.

These are the eyes I would give my life to look into again.

Shuying, is that you?

It was as if my heart had been slammed and lost its shape, and I didn't know how to beat again. I just stood there, confused and greedy looking at her.

"The clouds are deep! A voice woke me up - it was Cheng Bi.

By the way, she's a cloud, not a shadow.

I close my eyes and wonder as ecstasy turns to loss and sadness. And the next second, the dust, remember the past, only turned into waves, quiet water deep. I opened my eyes and smiled, looking at the deep clouds in front of me and the Cheng Bi running quickly.

"Cloud deep, you will frighten mother to death!" Why did you run off without saying anything? What if I fall into the pool?" Cheng Bi squatted down, took cloud deep into his arms, and then looked back at me, and then smiled at cloud deep and said: "Cloud deep, this is Uncle Jing Ping."

Those big eyes of shining light looked at me again, with curiosity, just like when she was a little baby, I held her in my arms, and looked at me for the first time. Then she lowered her eyes, gently raised her right foot, gracefully drew a half arc with the tip of her foot on the ground, stopped behind her left heel, bent her knees slightly to me, and said a standard Chinese sentence with a childish voice: "Hello."

This is a standard Belgian court curtsy, deceptively simple, but requires a long orthodox training to be done with elegance and nobility. And for a twelve-year-old child, she did it flawlessly and with the exquisite elegance of a dance, which was truly astonishing.

I smiled at her and said, 'Welcome, Princess. I hope you make this your home and have fun."

"Thank you," she nodded to me lightly. "Your home is very beautiful. I'm sure I'll have a good time."

Looking at her childish face and saying polite words, I could not help laughing: "Then what do you want me to call you?" Gisele, deep cloud, or Princess?"

"You can call me Gisele." She answered

"Do you like your Chinese name?" I asked.

She seemed stunned, looked up at Cheng Bi, lowered her eyes and said: "Only my mother called me cloud deep." I saw the worry and helplessness in Cheng Bi's eyes.

I smiled at her and said, "I think the name Cloud deep sounds better." It is derived from an ancient Chinese poem, meaning the beautiful scenery hidden in the depths of the clouds, because it is not easy to find, so people are especially cherished. Fifteen hundred years ago, Emperor Yang of China had a daughter named Izumo, who was a very beautiful princess. Your name and hers actually mean the same thing. It took a lot of effort to give you this name, which shows how much she loves and values you." I knew that Yunshen's Chinese level was not high, so when I spoke, I tried to pick some simple words so that she could understand.

She really did understand, looking up at her mother with sparkling eyes, and whispered for a long time: "Thank you mom."

Cheng Bi leaned over and kissed her on the forehead, tears already floating in her eyes.

"The clouds are deep, are you hungry? Let's go to dinner. Grandma Wei made a special cook for you today, and her food is very delicious." I smiled and changed the subject, then led them toward the Bill Garden.

I heard Yunshen talking to Cheng Bi in French as he walked behind me: "Mom, he's much younger than Uncle Felix."

"He's only thirteen years older than you. And he does a lot of exercise and has no bad habits, so he doesn't look old at all." Cheng Bi answered.

"He's the tallest Chinese I've ever met."

"Uncle Jingping is 187 centimeters tall, of course."

"He's also the best-looking man I've ever seen." 'continued the little man.

I turned around and asked her in French, "How many Chinese have you met?" If you've seen enough, you'll know I'm not the tallest or the best-looking."

Her eyes widened in surprise. "You speak French? I saw a lot of Chinese people on my way here from the airport yesterday, none of them as tall as you. I've met a lot of non-Chinese people before, and they're not as good-looking as you. May I speak French to you later, please?"

I stopped, smiled, leaned over and said, "Sure. But I prefer you to speak Chinese with me, because Yunshen is half Chinese, isn't he? And here we are in China."

She blushed, lowered her eyes to the ground, and said in a small voice, "But my Chinese is not good."

I smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, just say more." We can still teach you."

She looked up at me, her gleaming eyes on grass, and whispered in Chinese, "OK."

Cheng Bi stood aside, fondly stroking cloud deep head, gratefully looked at me.

I smiled back at her and said, "Then let's hurry back." Granny Wei's eyes are going through."