Huaigui

Helan Mingyue didn't know how he returned to Wensi Hall that day, his footsteps were deep and shallow, as if stepping on clouds.

How could Lu Yi be in Hanzhang Hall?Listening to the words, he was very close to King Ji, not inferior to him and Gao Jing.He Lan herself has ghosts in her heart, and others are also ambiguous, but... Lu Yi also asked herself to bring medicine before?

That medicine is clearly for high potential!

Which side does he belong to, Prince Yu's Mansion, or Hanzhang Hall?

His thoughts were confused, and he rushed into the Snapper rashly.

When the guards saw him salute, they clearly had no official position, but it seemed that no one in this palace dared not respect him.Helan Mingyue knew that someone was gossiping, saying that he was sleeping on His Highness's bed.Gao Jing heard these swear words once, and immediately threw the whole inkstone at the servant who spread the rumors, and no one criticized him anymore.

A burner of incense was burning in the Nuan Pavilion, Gao Jing leaned against the table, squinting his eyes and listening to a Hanlin reading a watch.When he entered the door, he called out to His Highness in a low voice, and Gao Jing waved him away.

Without outsiders, Gao Jing looked him up and down: "You look ugly, did Hanzhangdian make things difficult for you?"

He Lanmingyue denied it: "No, you are very polite to me." After thinking for a while, she asked Gao Jing, "I heard that there is a guest in Mingtang, which prince is going to visit His Majesty?"

Gao Jing raised his eyebrows: "King Yu, he has been running fast recently, and he is eager to show his loyalty to his father. Maybe he is ill, and the relationship between his father and him has eased a little, but I will be careful if it is different."

"Then what does Your Highness think of King Ji?"

"Uncle Xiao Huang?" Gao Jing stopped commenting, "Father thinks highly of him, if he hadn't been ill all year round, how could it be my turn to supervise the country... It's just that Uncle Xiao Huang seems to treat me a little coldly."

"Perhaps King Ji thought His Highness was too close to King Yu." He Lan Mingyue said.

Gao Jingdao: "What does it matter to him whether you are close or not?——Okay, he will stay in Hanzhang Hall in winter and never go out. Let him go as he likes!"

Helan Mingyue laughed, Gao Jing flirtatiously glanced at him, moved the empty seat in the wide chair beside him, and ordered bluntly: "Come here, sit next to me."

His bold move made He Lan hesitate, and stood beside Gao Jing: "Your subordinate is here."

Gao Jing was displeased, and with a cold snort, he flipped over the watch on the side of his hand.After turning over two pages, he handed it over again irritably, asking He Lan Mingyue to read it.It's not as good as the Hanlin bachelor's reading with clear cadence and focus. He Lanmingyue stumbled while reading, while glancing at Gao Jing, afraid that he would fall asleep.

Flakes of snow were flying outside the window. After He Lanmingyue finished reading a melody, Gao Jing suddenly closed his eyes and asked, "Li Huan said that his father was ill and wanted to return to Jiangning. Do you think Gu should allow him?"

He Lan Mingyue said truthfully: "I don't understand the affairs of the imperial court."

Gao Jing had no intention of discussing with him, and said to himself: "If you allow him, you will let the tiger go back to the mountain; if you don't allow it, Yushitai will participate in the lonely book, which is unfaithful and unfilial. It's hard... Li Huan is much better than his father. Without the 'lord' of Southern Chu, the unification will be delayed."

He Lan said, "Why don't you fight now?"

"If you have soldiers but no commander, you can't fight." Gao Jing threw away a pen, "Daning lacks everything, except for the commander of the three armies. The previous fight was said to be overwhelming, and it was far worse than the first time when Jiang was besieged. It’s gone.” He glanced at He Lanmingyue as if pointing it out, “You don’t know, that year the King of Longxi led his army to attack thousands of miles, and went down to the [-]th city of Southern Chu seven days after reaching the river. If he was still there, the north and the south would be settled Already united."

It was the first time that He Lan Mingyue heard the glory of his father's generation directly, and He Lan Mingyue felt sad, and said: "They say that the King of Longxi is the God of War."

Gao Jing smiled: "Yes, I have experienced hundreds of battles without a single defeat. I am a handsome talent born in Daning. It's a pity... I don't know who offended him in his good years and insisted on instigating him to rebel."

"egg on?"

"Gu Ye is just guessing, after all..." Gao Jing said, and suddenly stopped patting, "Huh? I can't remember it. I will tell you later——I suddenly asked King Ji today, it was to Hanzhang Has the palace gained anything?"

He Lanmingyue shook his head, Gao Jing didn't ask any more questions.

With Lu Yi's words lingering in her mind, He Lan Mingyue suddenly asked: "Your Highness, if one day I'm gone, what will you do?"

Gao Jing looked at him strangely: "Who is bullying you again?"

"No... just want to ask, I'm afraid I can't keep..." He Lan Mingyue's throat was full of unbearable sweetness, seeing Gao Jing still confused, said, "Life is too short."

The snow fell silently, and the corner stove occasionally "beeped" when it was burning to its peak. Gao Jing never answered his question, and closed his eyes: "When the first month is out, let Li Huan go back to Nanchu alone."

"...It's almost the first lunar month." Helan Mingyue suddenly said something by mistake.

Gao Jing smiled: "What? You are homeless, so just stay with me."

Someone's words ring in their ears. There are only two festivals a year when the people of Los Angeles cancel the curfew and party all night.Because of Gao Jing's eyesight, he never left Ziwei City at night, and even seldom left Yaoguang Pavilion...

He Lan Mingyue stretched out her hand, Gao Jing held it for unknown reasons, and said with a smile, "What's wrong?"

He blinked: "Let's go out of the palace on the Lantern Festival, shall we?"

She loosened her grip and wanted to let go, but He Lan Mingyue grabbed him and pressed him firmly in her palm.The fingers curled up, like a slight trembling, Gao Jing's eyes first looked at him, and then swept around in a hurry, the corners of his eyes were slightly red, not like the soreness when he was uncomfortable, but like excitement.

He murmured back: "Leaving the palace?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't go back to the Yaoguang Pavilion. On the Lantern Festival, if the palace people have families in Los Angeles, they can go back to visit their relatives for half a day. The palace gates will not be locked all night." He Lan Mingyue said, his thoughts were so clear that he was shocked, "You want If you are willing, we will lead a horse, and if you feel uncomfortable, just come back..."

Gao Jing shook his head: "I'm afraid I won't be able to see clearly."

"With me, besides, can't you see the outline? The lights are very bright, so don't be afraid."

Gao Jing lowered his eyelashes, and there were two crescent-like shadows on his eyelids.

He Lan Mingyue said: "Worry...forget it. I think...after becoming the crown prince and entering the East Palace, there will be more things to do, and after that...the Shangyuan Festival, can His Highness really not enjoy the joy with the people?"

Gao Jing said: "But I never go out at night."

With a panicked and cautious tone, Helan Mingyue's heart turned cold, her lips seemed to be stuck together, and she could only make a vague sound: "Um...I..."

Gao Jing tilted his head, patiently waiting for his answer with half a smile.

"I want to watch the lamp with you." He Lan Mingyue finished muttering, the roots of his ears suddenly became hot, which made him feel uncomfortable from inside to outside, and wished he could crawl into the cracks in the ground.

What the hell is he talking about?

From what Hanzhang heard in the hall, it seemed that he was precarious, and he didn't have much time left.I have spent so many festivals with Gao Jing, but I have never seen Gao Jing really happy. If the lights of Shangyuan Ye can make him smile when he sees Gao Jing, and let Gao Jing remember that this moment is his company, one day he will die. No regrets.

Without a lamp like daylight, without a branch of plum blossoms frozen in spring snow, his thousands of words can only rot in his stomach.

That year Gao Yu wanted to go out of the palace to watch the fireworks, but Gao Jing refused coldly on the surface, and returned to the North Hall, murmuring as if to himself: "I don't know how the fireworks at Yunlang Pavilion compare to Miyagi on New Year's Eve?"

He knew Gao Jing wanted to go.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, Gao Jing withdrew his hand and said softly, "Then, then you arrange it."

Those few words bounced all the way, making He Lan uneasy.

The new year is coming as scheduled, and after the first court meeting, everything will be suspended for a while, and Gao Jing also leaves the Wensi Palace and returns to the Yaoguang Pavilion.Helan Mingyue could feel that he didn't like this place, and Gao Jing was under a lot of pressure from the nearby North Hall and Concubine Yang in the side courtyard.

Ever since Concubine Yang entered the Yaoguang Pavilion, Gao Jing has not met her alone, let alone staying overnight.She is a person who has nothing to do with the world, and she has no complaints about it. She heard what Amang and the accompanying maid said, that if the palace staff obstructed her embroidery work every day, she would be embarrassed by her thanks, so she had to let she went.

If the quiet days really go on like this, it's fine for Gao Jing to treat her as if she didn't exist.It's just that Empress Dugu absolutely couldn't agree, and just after New Year's Eve, she summoned Gao Jing and Concubine Yang to the North Hall.

Helan Mingyue went with him and waited at the door.

He didn't intend to listen to what Queen Dugu said, but he expected that the atmosphere would not be very good.Helan Mingyue was sitting in the courtyard, and guards would pass by from time to time to joke with him, but there was no one else, he took off the sword at his waist and drew it out an inch, then wiped the blade with his fingertips.

Snow light, glazed tiles, and high-hanging red lanterns are overshadowed by the light reflected by the blade.Helan Mingyue turned over the snow in Yanshan Mountain, and saw the reflection of her own pupils in it. The pupils were light gray, like the misty sky in the northwest.

Hundreds of feet of ice, thousands of piles of snow, condensed all over Yanshan Wanli Road.

For this sword, Gao Jing casually named it so aptly.

"Brother Mingyue?"

The juvenile voice of joy sounded not far away, and He Lan Mingyue suddenly put the sword back into its sheath and stood up.Before he could see clearly, a figure ran over from that side, and then slammed into his arms, hitting himself with an "ouch".

Helan Mingyue couldn't help laughing: "Fourth Highness, did you hurt from the bump?"

Gao Sheng let him go, bowed to him like a little adult, and said happy new year.Helan Mingyue kept saying that she didn't dare to take it seriously, she took a cushion and asked Gao Sheng to sit by the stone table, and then said: "You are not in the palace, what are you doing outside the runway? It's so cold."

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he was placed in the royal family and was about to enter the court to listen to politics, but he was like a playful child, but he had made great progress from the beginning.Hearing this, Gao Sheng smiled, and breathed in his hand: "The queen mother wants to talk to the emperor, I stay here, and the emperor is uncomfortable - he always thinks that I don't understand anything."

He Lan Mingyue had to look at him with admiration: "Then, what does Your Highness know?"

Gao Sheng lowered his voice and approached him mysteriously: "Brother Huang wants to marry a wife, right? I know, but that elder sister is not beautiful, and Brother Huang must not like her."

Knowing whether he likes it or not, Helan Mingyue couldn't help scratching his nose: "It's not a matter of liking."

The answer probably exceeded Gao Sheng's comprehension. He stared blankly at He Lan Mingyue and didn't speak for a while, as if he was very depressed.He Lan Mingyue held his hand to cover his palm, and asked the maid to bring a hand stove to warm Gao Sheng to prevent him from frostbite.After finishing this series, Gao Sheng still maintained his previous expression.

"Your Highness, what's the matter?" He Lan Mingyue teased him, "Still thinking about Brother Huang?"

Gao Sheng was disappointed and said: "That's right, Brother Huang doesn't like that sister."

He Lan explained to him, and also to herself: "I said it has nothing to do with liking, your brother has to consider a lot of things. Relatives, background, future relationship... Your Highness doesn't need to understand why I'm telling you these things."

Gao Sheng said: "I understand! Brother Huang..."

"Ok?"

"I like Brother Huang very much, and Brother Yu also likes him very much." Gao Sheng held the hand stove, his expression became sad, "But Brother Huang treats us neither badly nor badly, as if separated by a layer of paper."

He Lan was a little surprised. He always thought Gao Sheng was a fool, but he didn't want him to feel Gao Jing's alienation.

Gao Sheng didn't notice He Lan's astonishment, and said in frustration, "Brother Huang doesn't like anyone."

He Lan couldn't help asking, "What about himself?"

Gao Sheng shook his head: "I don't like it either, Brother Huang never talks to others."

For a moment, Helan Mingyue didn't know whether it was the word "heart-to-heart" that shocked him more, or Gao Sheng's thoroughness that didn't match his mind made him admire him with admiration.He stood in the snow and looked up at the yellow clouds in the sky.

"Brother Yu is gone." Gao Sheng played with the brass hollowed-out cover on the top of the hand stove, and said to himself, "I dreamed of him once before, and Brother Yu scolded me, saying that Emperor Father didn't have such a stupid son. Wake up After I came here, I seemed to understand a lot of things, and the queen mother was also relieved, boasting that Sheng'er finally became sensible... After that day, I wanted to ask Brother Yu why he had this dream, but I couldn't find anyone anywhere. I asked Brother Huang ,he is very angry--"

Speaking of these, Gao Sheng seemed to be a different person. Thinking of Gao Jing's tears, He Lan Mingyue couldn't help saying: "He's not angry, he's sad."

"I like Brother Huang very much." Gao Sheng smiled, his brows suddenly resembled Gao Jing, "So... I want Brother Huang to care about me more, so don't be sad."

Several people came out of the North Hall, and Gao Jing was in front of him. He saw He Lan Mingyue and Gao Sheng together, and walked over: "What are you talking about?"

Gao Sheng stood up excitedly: "Brother!"

"Brother Huang is tired today, so I won't play with you, okay?"

Gao Sheng raised his hand and touched Gao Jing's forehead: "Is brother sick? Take a good rest, and remember to drink medicine if you get sick. The almond soup that my mother gave me last time is very sweet, drink some and you'll be fine..."

His knees were suddenly a little soft, Gao Jing grabbed his hand, and under Gao Sheng's eyes that didn't understand, he squeezed it lightly, his voice trembling: "We, Cheng'er, will care about people now."

Gao Sheng laughed heartily, and when he was taken away by the accompanying maids, he would turn around every step of the way and make faces at him.

After the snow, Ziwei City was sparsely populated, and the people in front suddenly slipped on their feet.He hurriedly supported Gao Jing, just about to ask, Gao Jing said: "Did you still count on taking me out of the palace?"

He Lan was taken aback for a moment, and immediately said, "It's not like there are still two days..."

"I want it now." Gao Jing said eagerly, grabbing his sleeve, "Will you take me away?"

The light in those eyes seemed to regard him as the only savior.