there is a king in the palace

After winning Jinhua Baiyin, Zhao Xianao and Dawang did not just leave the Hundred Gardens, after all, besides the fun, there are also many delicious things in the Hundred Gardens.

All kinds of scented teas and delicious flower cakes, flower porridge, which can relieve the summer heat, have the fragrance of flowers when you eat them in a circle.

"This is quite delicious." The king held a cup of jasmine tea, feeling sweet, "It's mixed with honey."

"I'll try it." Zhao Xianao lowered his head and took a sip, "It's average."

He said so-so, but the king didn't refute, "There are some people playing throwing pots over there."

"Means nothing."

The king endured it.

He pouted and put down the teacup, and walked forward on his own.

Zhao Xianao followed, and knowingly asked, "What's wrong?"

His Majesty remembered what Zhao Xianao said, and he said that he would speak out if he was dissatisfied, so the Majesty asked him bluntly, "Why do you always contradict me?"

Zhao Xianao was satisfied, "I'll change it, let's go, let's play throwing pots."

Throwing pot is a kind of throwing game that existed long ago. Arrows are thrown into a pot containing red beans with bare hands. If there are more hits, the winner is the winner, and the loser drinks.

Baihuayuan's wine is made from flowers and is not intoxicating. Even women can drink a few cups. This competition is also an idea thought up by businessmen in order to promote the wine they brew.

There are no rewards in this game, just a group of friends come to compete with each other for fun.

"Compare?"

The king nodded, "Of course."

Zhao Xianao went to give the money, and when he turned his head, the king was holding the arrow to find the feel, seeing him throwing the arrow lightly, a deviation arrow was tuned out of the pot, Zhao Xianao had a clue in his mind.

"Me first?"

"sure."

Zhao Xian'ao's skill in throwing pots is much better than that of archery. When he was young, he couldn't draw a bow, so he liked to play pot throwing by himself. It can be said that he is invincible all over Chang'an.

Zhao Xianao hit five arrows in a row, turned his head to look at the king, shrugged his shoulders, "It's your turn."

Maybe he couldn't hear it, but the women around him could hear him worshiping the king clearly.

Hmph, you'll be in the limelight.

"Look at it." The king took the arrow and threw it vigorously. The arrow passed by the pot and was nailed to the tree behind. There was a ding sound, and the tail of the arrow trembled for a long time.

"Wow!"

As a matter of course, the king enjoyed the exclamation of the women, and at the same time raised his eyebrows proudly at Zhao Xianao, "Ah, I lost."

Zhao Xianao looked at him, threw the arrow, and said sullenly, "I'm not playing anymore."

If you lose, you lose. Your Majesty is going to drink peach blossom wine. At this moment, a shout came from not far away, "This beast is crazy!"

"Don't invite the garden owner!"

Zhao Xianao frowned, "Let's go and have a look."

"it is good."

The king followed Zhao Xianao to the flower brewing pond of the Hundred Gardens. The so-called flower brewing pond is not big, but some cheap wine was poured into the pond, making the small pond a splendid sight in the Hundred Gardens.

But at this moment, in the lavender flower brewing pond, there was a leopard covered in black all the time, who was insane as if he was overwhelmed. If it was a human, it would look like he was drunk.

"How is this going?"

A bystander said, "This is a female leopard raised by the owner of Baiyuan Garden. She is usually very docile. I don't know what happened today."

The king looked at it, and said to Zhao Xianao, "I'm drunk, it's a pity that the pool is full of wine, how about I go get her up?"

Zhao Xianao was very angry, "Go, let those girls see how amazing you are."

The king nodded and gave her a thumbs up approvingly, "This statement is very reasonable."

After finishing speaking, he briskly ran towards the flower brewing pond.

The black panther was really drunk, and immediately threw the king into the wine pool, and everyone around gasped, "This man is dead!"

Zhao Xianao is not worried about this meeting at all. Sometimes the king will do some dangerous things unintentionally, but in essence he cherishes his life more than anyone else. He will never do anything he is not sure about. Since he dared to go there, it proves that He has a lot in mind.

The king took a sip of his wine and hurried out, "What are you doing?"

Hei Panther is also enlightened, but at the moment he is almost as dizzy as a fool, "Wine...drink..."

"Okay, come out now."

The black panther is well-bred, the muscle lines are very smooth, and it looks good even when its fur is wet. The king looked at him and couldn't help but think, if he becomes his original shape, he can take a dip in it and come up to estimate his body. You can see the folds of the flesh.

Just think about it.

The king grabbed the panther by the neck and pulled him up, "Be sober."

The panther lay there motionless.

The king's actions could be called heroic, and everyone's eyes were focused on him. Zhao Xianao was afraid of being recognized, so he walked over quickly, "Let's go back."

Your Majesty is covered in wine, so he naturally wants to change his clothes, "Okay."

The two were about to leave, when a man in a blue robe came over, "You two stay here."

"What's the matter with you?"

The man looks ordinary, but his every move is full of mystery, the king always thinks he is very strange.

"I am the owner of Hundred Gardens. That black panther is my favorite pet. She is playful when I am not around. I can't repay my little brother for helping me. How about sending my little brother a change of clothes?"

This person is very strange.

He looks like he is in his early twenties, but he behaves like an old man, very old-fashioned, and his back is slightly bent when he speaks.

The king nodded, "Thank you very much."

Zhao Xianao was silent and didn't say anything.

"this way please."

His Majesty tugged on Zhao Xian'ao's sleeve and followed him to the wooden house deep in the Hundred Gardens. Here, His Majesty felt the rich aura that shocked him.

What is it?

After entering the wooden house, the owner of the garden glanced at Zhao Xianao, "How about waiting outside?"

Zhao Xianao glanced at the king, the king shook his head, "Let him be here."

The garden owner smiled, "It seems that the two of you are very close."

After he finished speaking, an old tortoise crawled out of the hut, and the king immediately recognized that it was Lao Kongjing, "You, why are you here?"

Lao Kongjing looked at Zhao Xianao, but dared not speak.

The king knew the worries in his heart, "It's okay, he knows everything."

In this way, Lao Kongjing turned into a human form, and his speech was still incoherent, "You have a round head, I didn't expect to meet you here!"

Zhao Xianao looked at the scene in front of him very calmly, he had a feeling that he was the only one in this room now.

This is indeed the case, the original form of the owner of the garden is a tree demon, but he has been cultivated for ten thousand years to form a sacred tree. Compared with the king, he is not a star and a half.

Introduced by Lao Kongjing, the owner of the garden is Kong Zhu, who once married the fox demon. After the death of the fox demon, he changed Chang’an’s flower garden into today’s Hundred Gardens. The owner is very obsessed with wine making. The flower brews are all made by him, and the monsters in Chang'an have a good relationship with him. When they can't survive, they come to him to eat and drink, and help with work by the way.

Lao Kongjing was so ashamed that he couldn't live.

The king didn't care about this at all, he looked at Kong Zhu in surprise, "You are actually a tree demon?"

Although Kong Zhu had senior qualifications, he was very humble, "Exactly."

"...The tree can actually become a demon...and be with a fox demon..."

Speaking of the fox demon, Kong Zhu was obviously upset.

Lao Kongjing hastily explained to the king, "Don't talk about that."

"why?"

Kong Zhu was old after all, and soon his complexion was normal, and he told this story by himself.

It turned out that when the fox demon died, Kong Zhu had dropped a drop of blood on her face, so that even if the fox demon was reincarnated, the drop of blood that belonged to him would stick to her face. I just ask them to help find a fox with red spots on its face, hoping to meet the fox demon again. He has been waiting for 300 years, but he has not waited. He can only change his appearance constantly. From childhood, to old age, and finally becoming his own child, he has always been the owner of the hundred gardens, waiting for him in the place where he and the fox monster know each other and love each other.

Don't even dare to write like that in the scriptures!

"What if you die before you wait for her? If you die, isn't reincarnation just a Keshu?"

Kong Zhu was amused by him, "Not to mention whether I will die or not, looking for her has been engraved in my soul, even if I reincarnate a hundred times, as long as I see her, I will still fall in love with her immediately."

It's so fucking touching!

The king didn't care to wipe his tears, his mind was full of curiosity about Kong Zhu, "So how old are you this year? Why do you say you won't die?"

Kong Zhu laughed and said, "Since the transformation, it has been seven hundred years old. When a tree lives, I live, and when it dies, I die. As long as I protect the tree well, how can I die?"

"So that's how it is. The spiritual energy comes from that tree... But what did you ask me to come here for? You don't want me to help you find her, do you?"

"Your father and I have met for a few times. Thanks to him more than ten years ago, Bai Garden was able to keep the garden safe and sound. If you have any difficulties, just come to me."

Yo!

His father actually left him an inheritance, this is considered an inheritance!

The king thought for a while, then looked up at Zhao Xianao who was standing aside, "I have it now."

"Although it is true, do what you can, and do your best."

Zhao Xianao was also very curious, if he needed help with anything, he didn't look for himself, instead he looked for an old tree demon he just met.

"That's right. This man is dying. I want him to live longer. Do you have any idea?" The king asked, but he didn't have much hope. Kong Zhu had a way to make him happy, but there was no way. Never mind.

Zhao Xianao almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

I said not to mention this matter, so why do I still mention it.

Kong Zhu looked at Zhao Xianao, "Everything in the world has its own destiny, but people's hearts are complicated, and spiritual energy prefers things with a simple heart. Humans can only forcefully absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. They call this cultivator...but now... …Cultivating immortals is impossible.”

The king sighed, and said to Zhao Xianao with a sad face, "You are finished, you are dead."

If there were no these two monsters in the room, Zhao Xianao swore that he would have slapped him on the head.

Forget it, don't argue with fools.

"You can't say that..." Kong Zhu's words made the King's eyes light up.

"You mean there is a way!"

Kong Zhu sat on the bamboo chair and pondered for a moment, "Maybe there is...the ancient book records the fairy grass named Qinghui, which is a kind of herbal medicine used by immortal cultivators to refine Xisui Dan. There are no other herbs in the world, only this Qinghui grass I have seen more than once, but in the past hundred years... I have never seen it, the book says that as long as this herb is swallowed whole, even ordinary people can live for hundreds of years , and stay young forever."

The king was very happy to know the news, "What does Qing Hui look like? Where did you see it?"

Kong Zhu sighed, "Qinghui is like an ordinary weed, with faint blue leaves. I saw it once a hundred years ago at the cliff of Yannan Mountain outside Wucheng. If you want to try your luck, you might as well try it."

Needless to say, he must go!

The king turned around, excitedly wanting to tell Zhao Xianao that they are leaving now, but he saw Zhao Xianao's face was calm.

His expression made the king swallow back the words he was about to say.

Coming out of Hundred Gardens, Zhao Xianao never mentioned this matter, he even bought two jugs of high-quality peach blossom wine brewed by Kongzhu and brought them back to the palace in the carriage.

It seems that Kong Zhu never said those words.

Your Majesty couldn't hold back any longer, "Is Wucheng far from Chang'an? Can we get there in three to five days?"

Zhao Xianao stared at him, "Do you want to go?"

"Of course I do. Didn't you listen to what the tree demon said? As long as you have Qinghui, you can live for a long time, and you won't grow old! Don't you feel tempted?"

Zhao Xianao couldn't deny that he was very moved when he heard the news, but it was only for a moment.

"Impossible."

"How will you know if you don't try!" The king said loudly and fiercely, and then changed his tone in a blink of an eye, "I don't want you to die, I don't want you to grow old, I want you to be the present forever look."

Zhao Xianao touched his fair and smooth cheek, "Then I will send someone to look for it."

The king shook his head, "The tree demon said that Qinghui is similar to ordinary weeds. I'll find it and I'll know right away..."

Before the king finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Xianao, "If there is no cliff in Yannan Mountain, what should you do?"

"There is no place there, there will always be other places! Hard work pays off, I keep looking for it, and I can always find it!"

Zhao Xianao knew that he would do this, so he didn't even think about it.

"So, do you want to spend the rest of my life just looking for Qing Huicao?"

Your Majesty's mind is clear, Zhao Xianao said a word, he should understand, he understood everything, understood everything.

The king lowered his head, fiddled with his fingers, and cried again, tears streaming down the back of his hands.

Zhao Xianao knew the present scene would happen from the moment the tree demon opened his mouth.

"Aren't you the king? The king of Hutou Mountain, why are you crying about this?"

The king sniffed, "I don't even want to nest, I can't control how many nests I have."

The king spoke with the accent from Hutou Mountain, and sometimes he couldn't speak clearly. Zhao Xianao wanted to laugh when he heard it, but he felt that he was laughing very heartlessly now, and no matter what people said, he was crying because of him.

"It's almost time to arrive at the palace, do you want those maids to watch you laugh?"

The king took back all the snot and tears in one breath.

Can't be seen by the little females crying, shame on him.

Zhao Xianao really didn't know whether to cry or laugh, "You really..."

"What's wrong!"

"It's okay... just don't cry, don't worry about clearing the grass, are you hungry?"

The king rubbed his stomach, "I drank too much tea just now, and I want to pee."

When he arrived at the palace, the king immediately went to the clean room to get rid of his swollen stomach, and then walked out with a relaxed face, "That's great."

Zhao Xianao smiled, "Wash your hands and go to the boat."

He got up from wherever he fell, the king didn't have any psychological shadows about the painting boat that caused him to almost drown, and followed Zhao Xianao into the boat.

Zhao Xianao still remembered that he fell off the boat because he wanted to go fishing that day, so he went fishing with him today.

The two sat side by side on the side of the boat, and started the boring and childish competition again, "See who catches the most."

"Greater than whose?"

Zhao Xianao suddenly smirked, looked down between his legs, "That should belong to me..."

The king followed his example and raised the corners of his mouth, "My hair can grow longer."

Zhao Xianao's face changed slightly, he almost didn't drop the fishing rod, "Is it true?"

The king shook his head triumphantly, "Of course it's true, haven't you seen my hair grow longer?"

"You know what I mean."

The king tilted his head, his black eyes were full of ignorance, "What did the emperor say, I don't know what you mean."

Zhao Xianao snorted softly, turned his head, and a bright smile spread across his face.

"Are you kidding?"

"When did I laugh?"

The king also snorted, and then looked under the water suspiciously, "It seems that there are no fish..."

When Zhao Xianao picked up the pole, he was a big fish.

"...I will be sad if you do this."

"I have won."

The king yelled at him, staring intently at his fishing rod, "We'll see."

In fact, the king of this kind of competition will undoubtedly lose. He is not the kind of person who sits there obediently and guards the fishing rod. He doesn't get up for a while to drink or eat something, so he just hangs the bait on the fishing rod Fish there yourself.

Zhao Xianao turned a blind eye when he saw his fishing rod move.

to win.

When night falls, the winner, Zhao Xianao, sits on the bow of the boat and enjoys the moon leisurely, while the loser, the king, can only listen to his orders. Zhao Xianao says what he wants to eat, and he will give it to his mouth, until Zhao Xianao said, "I'm full, please sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The king sat down and began to sweep up the delicacies on the table. His saliva dripped onto the table just now.

"Eat slowly and have some wine with me."

The king swallowed what was in his mouth, and looked at him puzzled, "Why do you want to drink?"

Zhao Xianao doesn't like alcohol, and the king really can't control himself after drinking, so the two of them rarely touch alcohol.

"I tasted the peach blossom wine when I bought it. It tastes very good. Now the atmosphere is suitable for drinking."

The atmosphere is really good, this is the full moon, in the middle of the South China Sea, on the brightly lit painting boat, there are only the two of them here at the moment.

"Then drink."

When the king is as good as he is now, Zhao Xianao really wished to give him everything.

Why didn't he want to accompany the king to finish his life.

Zhao Xian'ao drank the peach-pink wine in the cup in one gulp, suppressing the bitterness in his heart, "Yuan Huan..."

"Ok?"

"When I died, would you also drop a drop of blood on my face?"

"Okay!" The king readily agreed. He raised his wine glass and stared at Zhao Xianao with sparkling eyes, "I swear to God! No matter how many times I reincarnate, the person I like the most is you!"

He frowned and drank the glass of wine as desperately as he could. After finishing the drink, he smashed his mouth, his brows stretched, and he smiled silly, "It's not spicy."

"Of course not, I won't let you drink if it's spicy."

The king sat next to him and held his hand tightly, "Your Majesty, you are so kind to me~"

Zhao Xianao felt that at this moment, he shouldn't say something disappointing, but...

"Yuan Huan..."

"how?"

Zhao Xianao licked his lips, "At that time, I will give you some money, and when you find me...can you return it to me?"

"...Can you stop doing this?"

Zhao Xianao said, "When I was young, I was afraid of being poor."

Peach blossom wine is not an intoxicating wine, but the king is still drunk, Zhao Xianao carried him back to Shoukang Palace, almost dying of exhaustion, "It's really heavy."

The king was reclining on the bed, his fair face was puffy, it looked very rare.

It was rare for Zhao Xianao not to wash up, he went directly to the bed, hugged him in his arms, touched his lips, there was a scent of peach blossoms there.

"Sleep well..."

Zhao Xianao closed his eyes.

After a long time, the king woke up.

To be precise, he was pretending to be drunk from the very beginning.

Zhao Xianao said not to let him miss Qing Huicao, but how could he not.

If he didn't visit Yannan Mountain, he would think about it when he ate or slept.

The king removed Zhao Xian'ao's arm from his body, got off the bed quietly, put on his shoes and socks, and slipped away while it was dark.

Hearing the sound of the door opening and closing, Zhao Xianao opened his eyes. He looked at the empty space beside him and sighed.

Why, can't I sleep well...

Knowing that the king will not give up, Zhao Xianao did not stop him.

He is here, the king will definitely come back.

……

The days without the king are the same, Zhao Xianao felt that he just slept and slept, and the ten days slipped away in the blink of an eye.

At noon, the sun was so hot that Zhao Xianao didn't even want to sit by the window and practice calligraphy. He leaned on the bed and stared blankly at the sachet that the king gave him, calculating the time in his heart.

almost.

At dusk, Xiaodouzi came to report, "The slave saw the queen walking around at the Ding'an gate of the palace, so he just didn't come in."

That is afraid to come in.

Zhao Xianao got up and regained his vigor, "Go, let's go and see."

The king, who has been traveling alone for ten days, is now covered in dirt and his hair is in a mess. He looks like a deserter who has lost a battle.

Zhao Xianao called him from a distance, "Yuan Huan!"

The king raised his head, his eyes were like a pet seeing the owner he hadn't seen for a long time, and after giving him a dog tail, he can now fly into the sky, "Your Majesty!!!!"

The king ran towards Zhao Xianao like crazy, and reached him almost instantly, hugged Zhao Xianao, and arched into his neck, "I miss you~"

Zhao Xianao didn't ask him where he was or what he was doing, he just asked, "Are you still leaving?"

The king hugged him tightly, wishing to integrate him, or himself, into the opponent's body, "I will never leave you again."

"You're dirty..."

"I'm not happy that you're pushing me like that."

"No... I can't stand it..."

"Do I love me?"

"I really can't bear it... how much sweat do you sweat? Didn't you take a shower? Why are you so sour?"

"You are too much."

As the king said, he hugged him even tighter.

That's it, even if you dislike me, I will stick by your side forever.