Roselle Peony

If you can hide from the first day of the junior high school, you can't hide from the fifteenth day. What should come will still come.Since Liang Wang played hard to get with him, he simply stayed with him to the end.

Lu Shangqiu pursed his lips, went to the steward's office to get a bunch of record books, threw the basket back on the carriage, picked up a few good pens, a pot of ink, found a piece of cloth to make a roll, and carried the copper token to go Liang Wang's mansion reported.

At this time, King Liang was receiving guests, and the servants of the palace led him into another room to wait.

Not long after, only the voice of King Liang laughing came from the next door: "Cousin is so good to leave."

I saw a group of people leaving Liang Palace quickly, the leader was dressed in purple court clothes, with an angry face, his eyebrows were somewhat similar to Wu Sansi, he was Wu Chengsi, king of Wei who was recently impeached and dismissed as prime minister.

When King Wei left, King Liang snorted and said, "What a fool, you still want to be a prince just because of your stupid character? Dreaming!"

Apparently it's a brother-in-law fight.

Lu Shangqiu's cat was outside the door, hesitating whether to go in and run into the angry prince. Liang Wang had already spotted him.

"What are you dawdling at the door, come in quickly." Liang Wang was in a good mood immediately, put on a gentle smile, and waved to him.

Lu Shangqiu cheekily rubbed over, knocked on the ground and said: "Member of Rituals, Lu Shangqiu, the foreigner, please greet the prince."

Seeing that he knelt down before he reached him, Liang Wang was dissatisfied and said: "Hey, it's your fault that Lu Lang is so out of touch." He waved his hand and ordered The man added a chair to his left, and said to the people in the hall: "Sit here."

Lu Shilang looked at the grand teacher's chair beside King Liang, stood up slowly, and said bravely: "The next official is in charge of the record, just stand."

"Can you write well standing up? If you can't write well, the king will punish you to copy it ten times." Liang Wang threatened him.

Lu Shangqiu had no choice but to sit down awkwardly, unfolded the cloth, and took the notebook and pen and ink.That's okay, in this way, both hands will be fully occupied, so that King Liang can't hold his hand.

King Liang didn't think so, he felt that the ink was in the way, so he immediately snatched it away, and asked his servants to hold it to serve him, and squeezed the pair of warm jade hands into his own.

"I haven't seen you for a while, Lu Lang looks much better than before."

"Thanks to the great love of the prince, the lower official rescued the lower official from the sea of ​​suffering, and his complexion is naturally not bad." Lu Shilang said in an official tone.

King Liang caressed his eyebrows: "During the days when you were away, this king has been thinking about you day and night."

Lu Shangqiu said in his mouth: "Thank you, my lord, for your love." He said in his heart: It sounds nice, everyone knows that you are competing with the king of Wei for the position of heir, and you are very busy.

Liang Wang didn't answer, and the two just held hands.

Lu Shangqiu raised his head and met the gentle gaze of King Shangliang. He immediately lowered his head like a little daughter and said, "My lord, please let go of the hand of the subordinate, so that the subordinate can work for the lord."

King Liang was shy when he saw the handsome man in front of him, and couldn't control his joy. He turned his head and asked Xue Wen, the steward of the palace, "Is there anything else important today?"

"My lord, today's important matters are over." Xue Wen answered with interest.

King Liang said: "That's very good. On the first day Lu Lang took office, this king will take you around to familiarize yourself with the environment."

It was a light snowfall in the early winter afternoon, and it was quite chilly.King Liang ordered someone to fetch two robes to put on for the two of them, tied the tie of the robes for Lu Shangqiu himself, and took his hand to let him walk side by side with him.Butler Xue Wen followed.

Afternoon sun shade over the garden in the front yard.Although the Liangwang Mansion is not as luxurious as Lai Mansion, and the layout is complicated, there are also rockery pavilions, Qingxi stone bridges, and now the light snow is falling, and the sun shines, and the water drops "ding ding dong dong" from the rockery. It drips down from the room and the eaves, quite rhythmically.Holly and wintersweet were replanted in various open spaces, yellow, yellow and green, which decorated this winter very comfortably.The pond is half covered with a thin layer of ice, shining against the sun, and sparkling with the breeze.There is a small pavilion on the stone bridge, two stone benches, and a stone table with chess boards carved in criss-cross patterns.Potted green pines and blue and white ancient porcelains in various poses are ingeniously placed in various corners of the courtyard, embellishing the palace in a quiet and elegant way.

The servants were busy clearing the snow from the ground, and the butler cleared the way for them.Liang Wang held his hand, introduced to him the layout of the palace, and explained the reasons for the various designs.It turns out that the courtyard design of the palace was designed by the clever Shangguan Wan'er, every flower and every tree has been devoted to her painstaking efforts; at the same time, it can be seen that this Wan'er girl is very pleased with Liang Wang.

Going north through the palace garden, the two came to a secluded building with the inscription "Worship Hall".Liang Wang said: "This is where the king works, and Lu Lang will be familiar with it soon." Then he led him to open the door and enter.

In the middle of the Wenshi hall is a square book table that can accommodate 12 people to sit around. On the front wall is a huge picture of galloping horses ten feet wide and four feet high.Against the wall on the left is a huge bookcase, where various official memorials, ritual models, and historical records are placed.On the right side is a water curtain screen. The sun shines through the skylight above and shines on the gurgling water, floating up and down, with beautiful waves.

Behind the screen is the place where Liang Wang worked and took a rest. There was a couch, and a guqin was erected by the window, the body of which was painted with vermilion lacquer.

Lu Shangqiu leaned over to watch carefully.This is a rare high-quality agarwood guqin in the world. The strings are made of horsetails of the same thickness. They are carefully selected and twisted by artisans in the capital.As a person who loves the qin, seeing this good qin, there is no reason not to play a piece.

"It seems that Lu Lang has a lot of research on guqin." Seeing him staring at the qin, King Liang said, "How about playing a piece for me?"

"I'm not a good official, the prince laughed at me."

"Please."

Lu Shangqiu sat down, tried two arpeggios, and then played his favorite "Guangling San".As soon as he played an introduction, he raised his eyes distractedly, and saw dark clouds covering King Liang's face, as if he was very unhappy. Zheng assassinated the story of King Han's revenge; the person in front of him was a prince, and it was a crime of disrespect to play this song. He couldn't help frowning and gritted his teeth. "Ambush".

The Guqin piece "Ambush from Ten Sides" expresses the scene of the battle of Gaixia during the period of conflict between Chu and Han.Only the sound of the strings can be heard, from small to loud, from slow to urgent; where it is calm, it is like a quiet stream, and when it is urgent, it is crackling like lightning and hail.Flicking to Gao Chao, there was only a "clang clang", which was like an arrow leaving the string and a bamboo piercing through the air. It was the Chu army who was ambushed by the Han army.Immediately, the sound of the zither turned sharply, and for a while, the drums rang, the horses neighed, and the gold and iron horses fought with each other;

King Liang stomped his feet and beat in harmony with the rhythm, shook his head, and was very intoxicated. When he was in Gao Dynasty, he sang the "Gaixia Song" in harmony with the sound of the piano:

"Strengthen the mountain and the world is overwhelming, and the time is not good and the time is not dying.

What is the time when the dying is not dying, what is the reason for the dying! "

The voice was loud and resounding, quite like the overlord of Western Chu.

The song "Ambush from Ten Sides" requires a high level of control over changes in fingertip strength. The shallow sound requires soft and slow kneading of the strings, and the macro tone requires ten-finger joint performance. I touched my phalanx, and soon after I played, my knuckles began to ache. At this time, I played to the end of the high end, and the string was picked too much.

"I'm showing my ugliness." At the end of the song, he was already dripping with sweat.

Liang Wang didn't know about his finger injury, thought he was weak, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and boasted: "Lu Lang's song is so good, my hands are itchy after watching it, and I want to play it." " After speaking, he took Lu Shangqiu's hand and led him to sit on the couch to rest, and then he sat down in front of the piano and said with a smile, "I'm a rough man, I don't know how to do complicated fingering, Lu Lang don't want to make fun of me. "

While speaking, he twirled the wheel with his fingertips up and down, retracting and releasing it freely, and he played "Qin Wang Breaking the Array".This song, also known as "Shen Gong Breaks the Battle", tells the story of Taizong Li Shimin who led his army to defeat the rebel Liu Wuzhou when he was named the king of Qin. Most of them describe the scene of King Qin killing the enemy on the battlefield. Pentium; the body of the piano roared and vibrated, like soldiers fighting.

Lu Shangqiu never imagined that King Liang would have such attainments in guqin, and he was fascinated by it.On the battlefield, the banners were flying, the king of Qin was withdrawing his troops, and the sound of the zither stopped abruptly, then he woke up as if from a dream, stroked his palms and said, "My lord is really good at martial arts, I am ashamed of myself." Not a compliment.

King Liang was triumphant, and he laughed loudly: "There is an old saying that it is difficult to find a close friend in high mountains and flowing waters. If this king is Yu Boya, then Lu Lang is that Zhong Ziqi."

The two of them left the Hall of Questions, and heading north was the Book Collection Pavilion of Wangfu, which was called "Jumo Hall".

This book collection pavilion is divided into upper and lower floors, and it is piled up to the brim, more than ten times larger than his father's library pavilion in Lu Mansion.

Liang Wang said: "I hope that Lu Lang will spend some time here to memorize the directions of various books for me."

Seeing that there are so many classics, Lu Shangqiu carefully asked, "Can I read these books?"

King Liang smiled, grabbed his shoulders, and said to Xue Wen, the housekeeper who was following him: "I am very busy on weekdays, and all these good books are left here to collect ashes. Lu Lang can come here to read them anytime." After a pause, he said, "It's better to read it for me."

Lu Shangqiu was in full bloom.

The two visited the Antique Pavilion and the Tribute Pavilion. As the name suggests, these pavilions collected many treasures and tributes, such as night pearls from the East China Sea, huge jadeite mines from Yunnan, planetariums from the Western Regions, and silver cups from the Turks. All the curtains were lowered, and all kinds of utensils would glow in the dark night, especially the East China Sea Night Pearl, which almost illuminated the entire collection room. Lu Shilang was speechless and eye-opening.

The northernmost room in the west courtyard of the palace is the Calligraphy and Painting Pavilion.It is far away from pavilions, terraces and waterside pavilions, and there is very little water, smoke and miasma. It is a good place to collect calligraphy, painting and steles.Those who asked for help from the prince knew that King Liang loved to collect ink treasures, so they collected famous ink paintings everywhere to bribe him. The original manuscript of Shengjiao Preface is impressively included, and other famous Tang Dynasty masters such as Yu Shinan's "Confucius Temple Stele" and Ouyang Xun's "Huangfu Jun Stele" are also collected here.

Seeing such a dazzling authentic work, Yuanwai Lu only had one thought in his mind at this moment: It's great to be a prince.

There is a small door in the middle of the Calligraphy and Painting Pavilion, which is locked and covered with black silk around it. It is mysterious, and it seems that it is hiding some shady treasure.Lu Shangqiu turned his head and asked Liang Wang with his eyes, but Liang Wang smiled lightly and said nothing.

The north of the east courtyard is where the female family members live. Liang Wang only took him past the door and told him not to go in casually.Even so, he could still feel the pairs of curious eyes in the crack of the boudoir door, and he quickly lowered his head in shame.He even forgot that King Liang has a lot of wives and concubines and many heirs, so he doesn't look like a manly man, so why would he fall in love with him?

When he was thinking depressedly, he saw a servant rushing over and said: "My lord, Mr. Yushi Zhongcheng is asking to see you, and he said that he has something important to discuss, so he is already waiting at the door."

The king of Liang said displeasedly, "it must be the king of Wei who moved to rescue the soldiers." So his servants will invite Zhong Cheng to come into the living room and sit down first.

When Lu Shangqiu heard that it was Junchen, he felt nervous and couldn't help but squeeze King Liang's hand back.Seeing his distressed face, King Liang said, "The Zhongcheng's visit is definitely not for the affairs of the Ministry of Rites. Lu Lang doesn't need to go with me." So he asked the housekeeper to explain the important duties of Lu Shangqiu, and went back to the living room.

"Please advise, sir." Lu Shangqiu bowed to Xue Wen, the housekeeper.

Xue Wendao: "This sacrificial officer is very good. Every day when the prince goes to court, you will wait outside the Xuanzheng Hall with the other servants from Luantai, Fengge, and the General's Mansion; when the prince goes to court, you will always follow closely My lord, if there is anything to discuss, my lord will go to the Ministry of Rites to make an inspection, and if there is nothing else, I will go back to the manor to work. Just keep up with me. If my lord needs any assistance from my lord, I will deal with my lord. In addition, every three months Ten must submit the record book to Mr. Xu, the Secretary of Rites, for review."

Lu Shangqiu thought for a while, and then asked: "The lower official only needs to be responsible for recording and playing during the day, so you don't have to stay here to guard the prince at night, right?"

"Where did Officer Lu think about it? Naturally, at night, they would go back to their respective homes and find their own mothers. The prince has a slave guarding here." Xue Wen shook his head helplessly at the young man's divergent thinking.

He led Lu Shangqiu to a small room at the back of the living room: "If the lord meets with guests for private reasons and goes out, outsiders can rest here. If there is anything, just call the servants at the door." After thinking about it for a while , and added, "The forbidden area in the palace, outsiders should not break into it carelessly."