Ma'am, is there someone out there?

In the tenth year of Changqing, in winter, Emperor Shou, the emperor and all officials climbed to the top of Hanye Mountain to worship the sky at noon.

"what!"

A cry of exclamation disrupted the solemn ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, and saw that the red cloth covered with auspiciousness that had been prepared earlier was lifted, and one of the jade dragons was broken in two. Nondescript Jiao.

A few large red characters came into view——The real dragon is in the south.

The scene was out of control for a while, only whispers were heard from the audience, and Emperor Changqing covered the red cloth back in panic.On the sacrificial platform of Hanye Mountain, apart from civil and military officials, there are also a group of common people watching the ceremony.

The ceremonial officer was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized, and continued to preside over the sacrificial ceremony without changing his expression.

"The national teacher ascends the star pavilion and lights the fire platform."

The chief of ceremonies dragged on the volume, and his slightly feminine voice was strangely conspicuous in the noisy environment.Following the voice of the ceremonial officer, the national teacher appeared in front of the crowd.

He climbed up to the star pavilion step by step, with long silver hair and blue belt, fluttering in the cold wind.He stood calmly on top of the Star Pavilion and looked up at the crowd.

It was suddenly quiet down below.Whether it was the whispering ministers or the rioting common people, they all fell silent at this moment.Whether it's disgust or fear, no matter what their attitude towards the national teacher is, they can't deny the mystery of this man.

Hundreds of officials have extremely bad reviews of his style, but the folks may not necessarily be like this.The common people are all curious about the secret of his longevity, and they all say that the emperor is long live, and there may not be many emperors who have lived so long.Who doesn't want to live a long life?They thought, so they became more and more curious about the secret of the national teacher.

Emperor Hongxi was also curious, and hoped that the national teacher could tell him the secret of longevity.The emperor, who had been vicious for the first half of his life, finally panicked in his later years.Under his coercion and lure, the national teacher gave him a blind medicine.

Emperor Hongxi got the medicine, and he was alive and well for a period of time in his later years.

But he died anyway. ,

Even though Emperor Hongxi died, there are still tens of millions of people in this world dreaming the same dream as Emperor Hongxi.

But now this beautiful dream is in front of their eyes, and the common people look at him fascinatedly, trying to find out the truth from it.Those ministers, while loathing him, don't they really have a trace of envy?

Lu Xuanyi looked up at him from the pavilion of Xinglou, and saw the hairband on his thin long robe.

The national teacher suddenly moved and looked back at Lu Xuanyi.Lu Xuanyi suddenly calmed down.

It's fine.He's always helping himself, it's okay.

The national teacher raised the torch and lit the open fire platform.The sound of Zhong Tao came from Hanye Temple, echoing the blazing fireworks.

The unexpected ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven finally passed without any risk.

Although the people who had been forced to suppress their speech were even more agitated, like a drop of water splashed in a hot oil pan, the discussion was full of panic.Panicked hearts are like a gray sky, obscure and unclear.

"It looks like it's going to snow again tonight."

Shen Qing closed the window, the cold wind was kept out, and the room was very warm.

"Sit still and don't move." Shen Qing turned his head, he didn't look at it for a while, and saw Lu Chen pulling his clothes to take off, "Put on, it won't be as warm as home when you enter the palace later."

Although there was a problem with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven at noon, the palace banquet at night could not be stopped because of this.Shen Qing didn't go to worship the sky, so he didn't know what was going on, but he inquired about the situation from the servants.Rumors in the capital once again spread.

The real dragon is in the south, the real dragon is in the south, this sentence is too sad.Who in the South asked this sentence to a hundred Chen Dynasty people, and 99 people would answer Qingzhou General Lu.What's more, Emperor Changqing had ghosts in his heart, and he was already wary of Lu Chen.

"I don't know which Xiao Xiao's generation is obstructing it."

"It doesn't matter who it's aimed at." Lu Chen said, and when he turned around, he saw Shen Qing inserting a hairpin inlaid with red tassel beads on his head. His eyes widened, and he raised his hand to pull it out. "It's so ugly, isn't this gaudy thing worn by women?"

Shen Qing raised his forehead, except for the two red tassel beads, the other parts of this hairpin are made of bronze, and the style is simple and unsophisticated, where is it fancy?Lu Chen's hair is soft and smooth, usually only tied with a headband, it looks loose, which is not suitable for banquet scenes.But it seems that Lu Chen is very dissatisfied.

"The hairpins are specially prepared to match the new clothes." Shen Qing saw Lu Chen's unwilling expression in the mirror, and said.

Sure enough, Lu Chen's expression changed suddenly, and a faint joy appeared in his eyes.

He took a few glances, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said, "Okay, then it's up to you."

Although the eyesight is bad enough, but it is really coaxing.Shen Qing couldn't help thinking.

This was the second time Shen Qing went to the palace banquet with Lu Chen, what he saw was quite different from what he saw before.The emperor's life is really extravagant. Just walking all the way from the palace gate, the decorations in every place have been replaced with new ones.Ordinary people will feel envious if they see this, no wonder everyone wants to be the emperor.Throughout the ages, how many people have fallen on this road of fighting for power in order to fight for the throne.

"Are you envious?" Shen Qing scratched Lu Chen's palm.He couldn't afford this magnificent banquet.

"Ah, I'm so envious, I'm so envious."

Lu Chen said deliberately as he wished, but his tone was stiff and flat, and he couldn't really hear any envy.

"How envious are you?"

Lu Chen rolled his eyes and said, "Squat down, and I'll tell you."

"Carry me, the road is so long, I can't walk anymore." Shen Qing squatted down, and Lu Chen pressed on it like a fool, not feeling embarrassed at all. "Your little bastard is making trouble again."

"Little bastard?" Is it his own?

"He's up to you." Lu Chen explained without thinking.Big ones are bastards, small ones are little bastards.But it seems that my own baby is not very good...

Shen Qing only recited it for a while before putting him down, firstly because he was afraid of pressing his stomach, and secondly because this unmanned trail was only so short, it would not take long to reach the end.At the end there was a bright light, and they heard the sound of court banquet music.

"It turned out to be General Lu."

A chuckle came from behind, Lu Chen turned his head vigilantly, and saw the national teacher behind them, but he didn't hear any footsteps.

"The national teacher is really ignorant."

"Hehe." The national teacher walked out of the shadows, took a few glances between the two, and finally settled on Lu Chen, and suddenly said, "So that's the case. It seems that I have done a good deed." The national teacher smiled. He said this, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"A good thing? The national teacher means..." Lu Chen was always on guard against this person.He still remembered that the national teacher had bewitched him when he was young, but he didn't like this person since he was a child, so he never listened to the national teacher's words.

"It's nothing." As if deliberately whetting people's appetites, the national teacher suddenly stopped talking. He looked at the garden full of new clothes and suddenly sighed, "This palace has been renovated many times, but it still looks as grand as it was at the beginning. .”

"Really? I haven't seen much, but I don't know what it looks like here." Lu Chen replied.He was guessing, how much the national teacher knew, and whether his meaning was related to the little thing in his stomach.

"Only the old people in the palace know about it." The national teacher said indifferently, "This garden was burned down in a fire, and these trees were all planted later, but in a few decades, they have grown so luxuriantly. It is the smallest one. A tree—well, that one."

Shen Qing and Lu Chen followed his hand and looked at it, what was even more surprising in their hearts was that the national teacher suddenly recalled the past to them in a good manner.In any case, they are not good people for the national teacher to confide in. The national teacher really found the wrong person to talk about the old days.

"You may not know that the tree was planted by His Majesty, and it is more than 20 years old now."

"Oh, is that so?" Lu Chen reluctantly responded with a few words, but the national teacher didn't care, and was immersed in his own thoughts.

The sound of banquet music could be heard, and outside the bright lights, Lu Chen and Shen Qing looked at each other with an inexplicable national teacher.

"The national teacher came really early today." I have never seen him attend a banquet so early in the past.

The national teacher didn't answer this time, he raised his foot, and finally walked from the dark place into the brightly lit place.

"It's His Majesty's birthday." The national teacher didn't look back, but just said a short sentence.

Lu Chen saw people coming and going, their birthday gifts might be worth thousands of gold, or rare treasures, but it seemed that everyone was sincere.But the seats are full of clothes, and they don't know who is lying and who is sincere.