Infrastructure masters in the red building

At dusk, Jia Daishan took Jia Fang to the Li Palace outside the city.Dai Quan, the chief servant in the palace, had been waiting eagerly in front of Li Palace, and when he saw the two people's car, he ran up and said with a sigh: "It's considered to be here, the emperor has asked this several times."

As soon as he received the Jia family's father and son, Dai Quan hurriedly led them in, passed a magnificent main gate, turned around a barrier made of stacked stones, and immediately entered a quiet garden.

Jia Fang has seen the majestic and majestic imperial city, and the Li Palace outside the city is like a younger brother compared to the imperial palace.But this Li Palace also has the advantages of Li Palace: the imperial city is wide open and closed, upright and strict, but this Li Palace is a mountain of ladles of water, with winding paths leading to secluded places, but it arouses people's reverie everywhere.

Jia Fang understands why the emperor doesn't like to stay in the imperial city in central Beijing, but prefers to live in Li Palace outside the city - it's very relaxing here.When Mr. Po said, "I don't own this body of eternal regret, when will I forget about it", it must be because he has never lived in such a quiet and elegant garden.

Jia Fang followed Jia Daishan along the tortuous path inside the palace, Jia Daishan followed Dai Quan's footsteps wholeheartedly, while Jia Fang looked around, admiring the quiet garden scenery at dusk.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around a pile of stones, he suddenly saw a fully armed guard appearing in front of him, holding a weapon, and a pair of black and white eyes were staring at him viciously.Jia Fang was taken aback, he quickly collected his mind, and followed Jia Daishan forward, thinking: This imperial palace is really not something that a small person like him can peek at at will.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Jia Daishan and his son came to a bright hall, Dai Quan tilted his head, and asked the Jia family and his son to wait here while he hurried elsewhere to report.

Jia Fang looked around, then quietly asked his father, "Is this called the 'boat hall'?"

Jia Daishan was probably thinking in his heart: Before seeing the driver, he still had the heart to take this into consideration.But he didn't say that, but nodded and said, "That's true, how did you know?"

Jia Fang whispered, "I can tell."

The whole building of this bright hall is shaped like a ship's house. The base of the house is made of white marble, but it is made into the shape of a ship's hull.

On the ground where Jia Daishan and Jia Fang are located, cobblestones and tiles are used to lay out the shape of water ripples.Standing in front of the hall gives people the illusion of being on the water, so Jia Fang guessed that this is the boat hall.

Jia Daishan was speechless for a moment, and whispered: "See you later, don't talk nonsense."

Jia Fang let out a "hmm" and continued to appreciate the garden form of the Li Palace in front of him.The doorway that can be seen from this garden belongs to him, Jia Fang is not going to resort to it.

When Dai Quan came back when he was young, he nodded lightly, but said to Jia Daishan: "You have worked hard today, Mr. Rong." Obviously, Jia Daishan's task of sending Jia Fang over today has been successfully completed.Dai Quan's words obviously made Jia Daishan go back.

Jia Daishan looked at Jia Fang, his eyes were a little uneasy, and he whispered: "Fang'er, remember what I said, be obedient!"

Jia Fang let out a "hmm".Jia Daishan hardened his heart, turned around and strode away along the way he came from.Dai Quan smiled and saluted Jia Fang respectfully, "Third Young Master, please follow me."

Jia Fang hurriedly said: "I dare not be such a big gift as Eunuch Dai. The boy will go in with you, and I hope Eunuch will give you more advice. I will be very grateful."

He is not stupid, he knows these basic etiquette in front of people.Being alone in such a strange environment, and facing a strange king with a weird temper, then try to unite all the forces that can be united.

Dai Quan suddenly showed a flattered attitude, and said with a smile: "The third son is too polite."

He whispered another sentence: "Third son, the emperor was only slightly ill at first, but because of missing the old man, he had a lot of worries, and the illness became more and more serious and lingering. But the imperial doctor said, you should relax your mind Therefore, when the third son enters the room, please remember to speak in accordance with the emperor's temper, never go against it, and never make the emperor angry..."

Jia Fang knew that this was a kind reminder, so he nodded quickly to mark it down.

He followed Dai Quan into the boat hall. There was a thick cotton curtain hanging on the hall door, and the temperature inside the curtain was much higher than outside. Jia Fang almost wanted to sneeze, but managed to hold it back, and the stuffy nose stopped after a while. , Only then did I smell a strong aroma.Jia Fang sniffed it vigorously, and felt that it was not like ordinary incense sticks, and there were a lot of herbs mixed in it.

The hall was extremely dim, with only a vague light in the depths of the hall, as if light was projected on a curtain.

Jia Fang couldn't help but think of the legend that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "evoked the soul" of Mrs. Li, and Mrs. Li's soul was sitting far away in the curtain-could the alchemists really copy the homework of their counterparts in the Han Dynasty so loudly? , Also here to summon the soul of His Majesty the Emperor who "carries people"?

"Third Young Master, please wait here." Dai Quan whispered, and then left through the heavy curtains, leaving Jia Fang alone.

Jia Fang stood there for about a stick of incense, and felt a little bored, so he got up and approached the curtain slowly.

He coughed lightly, but no one answered—it seemed that there was no one in the boat hall at the moment.So Jia put it around in the boat hall, and then found a table in the shape of an altar in front of the curtain. There were talisman papers, incense burners and wine cups on the table. He came to the curtain, paused for a while, and stretched out his hand. The curtain was lifted, and a small device behind the curtain was immediately discovered.

He backed out without a sound, thinking to himself: This device is exactly what he thought.

After waiting for a while, Jia Fang finally heard some movement behind the curtain. He only heard two footsteps coming in from the back of the hall. One of them coughed. He didn't hear any movement in the hall. Don't move the 'film' here, just put it in the way I set up in advance, if you change the direction, there will be trouble."

Then a little eunuch's shrill voice responded: "Yes!"

Jia knew what to expect, and continued to hide in the front hall without speaking.When Dai Quan helped the emperor himself to come in when he was young, Jia Fang was about to salute, but the emperor immediately said "no", Dai Quan immediately winked at Jia Fang through the dim light, Jia Fang immediately reacted, and stretched out his hand to support the emperor's body arm.

The emperor tilted his head, glanced at Jia Fang, and said in a low voice, "You're here."

"Sit with me when you come!" The emperor pointed to the seat in the front hall.Jia Fang obediently helped the ninth-five-year-old to the seat, and was about to back away, but the emperor grabbed his sleeves and was forced to sit obliquely beside the emperor.

At this time, the entire ship hall was still dim, only the light at the curtain in the distance gradually brightened.

The emperor nodded and said, "Master Immortal, please."

Immediately, a Taoist priest came out holding a talisman and a copper bell, and came to the altar in front of the curtain, chanting something, the bell in his hand jingled, and then lit the talisman, watching it in the air Slowly incinerate in the air.

Jia Fang was bored when he suddenly saw the Taoist grab the wine cup on the table, took a big gulp, and then sprayed the talisman paper that was about to burn out, and there was a bright flame.

Jia Fang didn't expect that he originally came to see the alchemist summoning souls, but when he got to the ground, he saw street stall jugglers. In addition, he could draw a conclusion: in this time and space, the purity of spirits is already quite good.

The flame illuminated the face of the person sitting next to Jia Fang, and Jia Fang happened to see him with a complex expression, with longing in his eyes, but sadness written all over his face—he really looked like he was pregnant.

Jia Fang could even hear him muttering: "Xiaoyuan, Xiaoyuan..."

"Didn't you say that you have never seen the sea, never sailed a boat on a big river? So today I specially brought you to this boat hall, let you meet, let you meet our..."

Before the emperor finished speaking, the lights behind the distant curtain suddenly went out, and the curtain was dark, as was the entire ship hall.There was silence all around, only the Taoist priest who had just been juggling at the street stall was panting slightly at the moment.

The next moment, the light on the other side of the curtain dimly lit up.A figure actually appeared on the curtain.

It was the figure of a young woman, she didn't look very old, her hair style was also the same as when she was not married, her hair was parted in the middle, and she looked like a cute little girl, but her neck was exposed when she sat sideways. It also reveals the charm that only grown women have.

In Jia Fang's view, this figure sitting quietly seems to be a composite of a young girl and an adult woman. At this moment, she just sits silently and far away.

This is the "old friend" that the emperor spent so much effort to "recall the soul"?

Jia Fang couldn't even see her face clearly, wondering if she was a beauty.But he could hear the suppressed address from the emperor's mouth: "Xiaoyuan..."

"You finally came!"

"You are finally willing to come to see me!"

Jia Fang finally understood: the "old man" who dared to love the emperor, his boudoir name is "Xiaoyuan"!

As an architect, Jia Fang couldn't help feeling fond of this woman with the word garden in her name.

Zhanjin Fengxiang Xiaoyuan, from this name, one can imagine how cute and amorous this woman was when she was alive.

But why did his father, Jia Daishan, remind him that this "small garden" is the name of his elders?Could it be that his relatives married into the palace? ——Jia Fang was a little dizzy.

The whole boat hall was quiet, and after an unknown amount of time, the lights behind the curtain in the distance gradually dimmed until they went out.Of course, the figure of the woman also completely disappeared on the curtain.

The emperor still sat there in a daze, motionless, as if lost.

Looks like a really important person! ——Jia Fang thought.But he couldn't bear to watch the other party being deceived like this.No matter what his identity is, this person in front of him is just a patient, and his mind is entangled in this phantom of "an old man summoning his soul" day by day, which is not good for this person's body.

At this moment, the Taoist stepped forward half a step, fell on the ground, and raised his voice: "Your Majesty—"

The emperor was still in a trance, but he ignored it.The Taoist said again: "Shicai Xiaodao tried his best to attract Madam's soul. But because the magic power of the talisman paper can only last for a while, Madam's soul will slowly dissipate. From then on, Your Majesty wants to meet again, It will be difficult."

When the emperor heard this, he woke up suddenly and said, "What can you do?"

When the Taoist heard this, he kowtowed his head immediately, and said loudly: "Xiao Dao is willing to try again, and try to gather the soul of Madam again."

The emperor let out a "huh" and said solemnly: "You go and try, the grace you asked for before, I have granted you."

The Taoist immediately got up from the ground, with a happy expression on his face, went to the altar table to get the bell again, and continued to practice.

On the curtain in the distance, lights flickered, but there was nothing but a blank space, without a single figure.

Jia Fang suddenly leaned next to the emperor and whispered, "Your Majesty, I also want to ask the emperor for a favor."

The emperor was not thinking about him at all, and said casually: "Speak!"

Jia Fang whispered: "I beg the emperor to forgive this Taoist priest for his crime of deceiving the emperor. This person has at least tried his best to comfort the emperor's feelings. Even if you want to punish him, please don't implicate others..."

The emperor turned his head back, stared at Jia Fang closely, and suddenly reached out to hold his wrist, and asked in a low voice, "What did you say—"

His eyes were sharp and menacing, this is the look that the Ninth Five Lord should have; the hand holding Jia Fang's wrist was also like cast iron, and Jia Fang couldn't move at all.

"I don't know the cause and effect of this matter, I just want to confess to the emperor that the soul of the person whom the emperor is thinking of is not on the curtain in the distance."

When Jia Fang said this in a low voice, the Taoist priest repeated his old trick, took another sip of strong wine, sprayed it on the burning talisman paper in his hand, and immediately breathed out a candle to illuminate the dark boat hall again.

Jia Fang also saw clearly the ferocious expression on the emperor's face, which was so fierce that he almost wanted to eat people.At this moment, the emperor’s eyes were full of doubt, disappointment and anger—doubt was doubt that what Jia Fang said might be true, and anger and disappointment were probably because of Jia Fang’s nonsense, telling him that the soul in front of him was not his beloved;

But at this moment, suspicion suddenly gained the upper hand, and the emperor squinted at the Taoist priest who was working hard, and then whispered: "I promise you!"

Whatever Jia Fang wanted to do, the emperor agreed.

Jia Fang got up immediately, avoiding the Taoist's sight, and walked along the edge of the boat hall towards the curtain.

Just at this time, the lights behind the curtain were completely extinguished, and the curtain was completely dark.

Jia Fang rushed behind the curtain and said three words.After he finished speaking, there was a soft, "噫" sound from behind the curtain.

The next moment, the lights were dimly lit again according to the procedure. The "soul" of "Little Garden" appeared on the curtain again.

But the Ninth Five-Year Lord had already stood up with his chair supported, his face covered with frost, and he was staring at the curtain.

Seeing that something was wrong, the Taoist turned his head, and immediately fell to his knees with a "bang", lying on the ground and trembling.After a while, the Taoist priest came back to his senses, hurriedly made amends, kowtowed like smashing garlic, and at the same time begged in a sad voice: "It's because Xiaodao's mana is not enough, Xiaodao is willing to cast spells for His Majesty again..."

The emperor didn't care about the Taoist priest, and walked forward slowly. When he passed the altar used by the Taoist priest, he casually flipped his sleeves.

When the emperor finally came to the curtain and looked at the reflection of the beauty with her face down reflected on the curtain, he finally couldn't bear it any longer and laughed loudly. With the laughter, tears rolled down his face.

——Who said it, who said it belonged to Xiaoyuan?

Xiaoyuan was as naughty as a boy when he was young, even if he was head down, he would definitely make faces at him while holding the big head, and it would never be this face!

But the image in front of me is just an image without a soul, and now it is hung upside down, with its head facing down.

Someone actually used this to deceive him for so long, making him really think for a moment... that his sincerity has moved the world, that Xiaoyuan's soul is willing to meet him...

"Dai Quan, light up the candles!" The emperor ordered with a sigh of relief.Dai Quan outside answered, and after a while, the boat hall was brightly illuminated.

The emperor turned around: "Where is Jia Fang?"

With a worried face on his face, Dai Quan pointed behind the curtain.Over there, Jia Fang came out quickly, bowed to the emperor, and asked, "Do you want to see this device?"

"Device?" The emperor asked back, and then remembered, "What did you say on the edge of the curtain just now?"

Jia Dafang said generously: "I only said three words, 'put it down'."

Just now he murmured "Let it down", when the people behind the curtain saw it, they realized that the picture of the seated beauty was really laid down, so they turned the picture upside down without thinking about it for a while. .In this way, the image of the beauty projected on the curtain is really "turned down".

This so-called "spirit calling" has been manipulated by someone behind it.There was always a little eunuch squatting behind the curtain, manipulating the lights.

"What's going on?" the emperor asked sternly.

The little eunuch crawled out of the ground, and Ai Ai said: "Slave, I don't know what's going on. Just now there was a voice saying 'down', the slave was startled, and then went to see the Taoist priest put it in advance. The picture of the beauties I was holding, I found that it was indeed down, so I quickly helped to change it, who knows..."

It turned out that there was a set of organs behind the curtain, which was a black cloth exactly the same size as the whole curtain, with a small black box embedded in the middle of the black cloth, and a small hole in the front of the box.And there is a card slot behind the cage, which can insert the picture.

The emperor stretched out his hand and took out the picture embedded in the card slot of the cage, and saw that it was a piece of translucent glass or mica, on which a graceful and charming beauty was drawn.Before he took out the picture, the picture was inserted in the card slot upright, and the beauty's head was also facing up, not the other way around.

The emperor immediately gave an order: "Turn out the lights again!"

With an order from him, all the lights in the boat hall were extinguished, leaving only the one behind the little eunuch.

What was reflected on the curtain in front was only a dim yellow halo.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor inserted the glazed picture into the card slot with his own hands, and walked quickly to the other side of the curtain. Sure enough, he saw the figure of a woman appearing on the curtain, but it was still facing down, upside down.

In order to find out what was going on, the emperor persevered and went behind the curtain, took out the picture of the beauty in the card slot, turned it over, and inserted it into the card slot upside down. When he looked again, it turned out to be the "beauty soul" he had seen earlier ".

"What's going on here?" The emperor asked loudly, as if he was dazed by himself.

Just listened to Jia put aside and replied: "Because this is the imaging of small holes!"