Domineering Daming

"Master?" Cao Huachun and Cao Wenzhao followed Zhu Xu, and saw him going straight to a fortune-telling booth not far away.

Zhu Xu came over with an excited face, stood in front of the booth and looked around, one person at a table and one at a time.

There are eight big characters written on the sail, "The iron mouth is straight and broken, and a hexagram is a thousand pieces of gold." The table is old and old, and it can be found everywhere.On the contrary, he was a fortune teller, dressed in silk and satin, and the fan in his hand looked like Tang Bohu's fan, with mustache, high nose bridge, narrowed eyes, as if there was a flash of light.

A lady in her 40s was sitting on a bench, looked at the divination master and asked nervously, "Master Song, what is my master's fortune this year?"

The hexagram master raised his head and lowered his eyes, watching his fingers pinching back and forth, and sighed softly for a long time: "Mrs. Li, Mr. Li is short of water in his life. Now that there is a severe drought in the north, I'm afraid your house will not be smooth this year, but it will not be smooth going forward. ?”

Mrs. Li looked shocked, and said in a panic: "Master Song, you are right, then, is there a solution?"

Master Song pinched his fingers again, and said solemnly: "Master Li has no water in his life, so he can go to the south, and he must go before the Lantern Festival, otherwise there will be great disaster."

Mrs. Li took out a handful of broken silver from her purse with trembling hands, and said, "Thank you Master Song, if it comes true, I will definitely come back to fulfill my wish."

Master Song didn't seem to understand the meaning of Mrs. Li's words, he stood upright, and said flatly: "Parting and gathering are fate, Madam, don't be persistent, let's go quickly."

Mrs. Li yelled a few times, and quickly squeezed into the crowd.

Cao Huachun and Cao Wenzhao looked at each other with strange eyes. Is this Master Song blind, or does he really have this vision?

There are frequent shocks and changes in the court, and there are very few people who are not implicated. It is undoubtedly a good way to avoid the storm.

More importantly, they knew that His Royal Highness Hui Wang would not just stare at a fortune teller, and patiently listen to his nonsense for a long time.

With his hands behind his back, Zhu Xu tilted his head slightly, looking at Master Song who was calmly putting the money into his arms.

"Come on, do a fortune telling for our young master, it's also a calculation of this year's fortune."

Cao Huachun stepped forward, lifted the stool, and said calmly to Master Song, but he couldn't hide the sharpness of his voice.

Master Song looked at Cao Huachun, then turned to Zhu Xu, narrowing his eyes imperceptibly.

Immediately, he spread out a piece of paper and said, "Please write down your birth date, sir."

Zhu Xu sat on the stool, always looking at the person in front of him with a meaningful expression. Hearing what he said, he smiled slightly, picked up a pen, and wrote down the words "birthday horoscope" on the paper.

Master Song was startled, staring at these four words for a long time before nodding his head, and said, "My lord, you are beyond words."

Zhu Xu raised his brows and said with a chuckle, "Master Song is very talented."

Master Song bowed slightly, and said with a faint smile, "I made you laugh."

Zhu Xu looked at him, paused, stood up with a smile on his face and said, "100 taels, Master Cheng Song's auspicious words!"

Without any hesitation, Cao Wenzhao took out a bank note from his sleeve and handed it over. His eyes were also carefully scanning the face of "Master Song", as if he wanted to write it down.

Master Song stood still, looking at the banknotes on the table as if he regarded money as dung, expressionless and indifferent.

Regardless of whether he was tempted or not, Zhu Xu saw an extremely beautiful lantern not far away and ran over, bargaining fiercely with the stall owner.

"Fifteen Wen, go away if you don't buy it, don't affect my business!"

"Ba Wen, if you don't sell it, I will leave!"

Cao Huachun and Cao Wenzhao took another look at "Master Song" and followed closely behind Zhu Xu.

Master Song watched Zhu Xu leave, watched Zhu Xu buy the lantern, watched Zhu Xu happily walk away with the lantern, and watched him disappear.

"Master Song, Master Song..."

The two guests were driven away by his expression. He didn't frowned until he was sure that Zhu Xu had really left, and whispered softly: "Really? Why did he leave..."

Two men in their early thirties came from the crowd, both of them were handsome and high-spirited. They came to the table of "Master Song" and said loudly: "Brother Kang Nian, why are you still here? Hurry up and close the stall." , Miss Lin is going to dance music."

Song Kangnian woke up quickly when he heard the words, looked up at several people and said, "Okay, I'll close the stall immediately, you two wait for me." He quickly put the bank notes on the table into his arms, picked up the fan and sail, and left in a hurry .

Zhu Xu also had a great time playing all the way, until the end, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, who is that fortune teller just now? Do you want your subordinates to investigate?"

"No need." Zhu Xu smiled casually, he was more interested in the lantern in his hand now.This lantern is exquisite and small, and it seems that there are some patterns embroidered on the outside, and there are two lines of poems on the inside, vaguely like a lantern riddle.

Chapter 178

He didn't return to the palace that night, Zhu Xu stayed overnight in a secret stronghold outside the city, and didn't rush into the palace until the palace gate opened early the next morning.

Empress Zhang was keeping a close eye on Zhu Xu now, and before returning to the palace, she was called to Kunning Palace to reprimand her.

Zhu Xu obediently agreed, and was not released until less than half an hour later.

"Your Highness, why are you still carrying a lantern in your hand?" Huan'er, who was in charge of escorting Zhu Xu back to the palace, saw that he was still carrying a lantern in his hand, and asked charmingly and suspiciously.

Immediately, Zhu Xu was like a little fox protecting food, hugging the lantern and said: "Sister Huan'er, don't think about trying to get my lantern unless you come to my palace."

Huan'er was taken aback for a moment, then snorted coquettishly, and said angrily: "Your Majesty is right, Your Highness has the most accurate calculations. If I pass by, the lantern is still His Highness's, so let me go in for nothing!"

Zhu Xu chuckled, and approached: "Sister Huan'er, I heard that Huang's sister-in-law is very angry recently, why don't you really think about it?"

Huan'er frowned slightly, stared at Zhu Xu with big eyes and said, "Your Highness, you should go back quickly, you won't be able to leave the palace for these three days."

Zhu Xu sighed in his heart, and walked towards the palace with his head downcast.

In Jinghuan Palace, except for Cao Wenzhao, Cao Huachun, and Yao Qingqing, the others were all "spies" placed by Empress Zhang, and Zhu Xu had nothing else to do except study.

Before the Shangyuan Festival, there was a bloody storm in the court, or in other words, it has not stopped since last year.

The Donglin Party is revived, and they are trying their best to clear the Donglin Party. Wei Zhongxian has fallen, and the Eunuch Party is in disarray. Where are the opponents of Yang Lian and others? He is in a state of panic all day long like a headless chicken.

However, although the Donglin Party is recovering, it is no longer its former prosperity. The court is divided and there are many factions.

Gu Bingqian and Wei Guanghui formed a party, ostracized dissidents and favored cronyism.Sun Chengzong only cared about Liaodong, and the others formed a tacit understanding with the neutral Qingliu in silence.The officials of Ke Dao also insisted on their own opinions and did not compromise with each other. The Golden Luan Hall seemed to have become the most terrifying battlefield.

Zhu Xu didn't have the heart to care about these things. Apart from reading, he studied the exquisite little lanterns brought back from the palace.

This lantern is set up very exquisitely, comparable to a spider weaving a web, each of which is accurate and exact, and each has its own unique skills to match it, forming a small "trick house".

Zhu Xu tried various methods to see the lantern riddles clearly, but no matter which direction he saw, he could only see half of them, and he had no way of guessing what was actually written.

Yao Qingqing had been standing not far from Zhu Xu. Seeing that Zhu Xu was at a loss, he said softly, "Your Highness, why don't you just tear it down?"

Zhu Xu stared at him immediately, and said, "How can such a delicate lantern be dismantled? Well, dismantle it, let's dismantle it."

Zhu Xu's expression changed, he found a small knife, and directly operated on the lantern.

Seeing that His Royal Highness Prince Hui had finally stopped being entangled, Yao Qingqing quietly retreated.

Zhu Xu cut open the little lantern, and saw that the white candle had been burnt out, and on the opposite side was a piece of paper in beautiful small characters, which read, "The little lotus just showed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly stood on its head a long time ago".

Zhu Xu frowned, staring at the poem in silence.He naturally knows this line of the poem, regardless of the author's background, the environment in which the poem was written, the writing technique and the feelings expressed, he is very clear, but it is not so easy to guess if it is used as a lantern riddle.