Guanqingzhai

Chapter 59 The Tower in the Mirror

"You can't get past heart, you can't get present heart, you can't get future heart" —— "Diamond Sutra" "Hey, Mr. Hu, you can't always rely on us. If you drink any more, you are going to get drunk? Drink money Is there a conclusion?"

"Oh, mom, you are so talkative. Mr. Hu can stay here as long as he wants, and drink as much wine as he wants. There are thousands of poems about wine fairies fighting wine in ancient times. Why don't Mr. Hu write a song for me while drinking?" ?”

"Mr. Hu, don't pay attention to them. Those women don't know elegance and are too vulgar. Come into the house with me, my lord. I recently played a good piece of music, and I want to play it for you first. You can only give this song to you." It’s not an insult to it.”

Hu Yue was very drunk, shaking the wine cup in his hand, his eyes were blurred but a little empty, he let these Yingyingyanyans surround him, fragrant and powdery, swaying exquisitely.He raised his eyes slightly, smiled and looked up again.The voice in the ear also became faintly blurred.

All the girls were quiet about this matter, and the hand on Hu Yue's shoulder was put down quietly.Only then did Hu Yue squint her eyes and looked up, only seeing a touch of red in her blurred vision, and smelling a familiar fragrance in her nose.He smirked, trying to stand up.But drunk and weak, people fell down and sat down.

Hongqiao hurriedly helped her up, she frowned and said, "Drink so much...Xiaoying, help the young master back to the boat, and pay for the wine here."

Xiaoying took out a piece of fine-grained silver from her bosom and placed it on the corner of the table, glanced at the prostitutes, then helped Hongqiao to one side, carried Hu Yue and went out.Hongqiao stepped out of the door, turned her head and nodded slightly to salute others, and said nothing more.

Xiaoying said: "It's the first time I saw the young master drunk like this. He was always drunk in the past, but this time he was completely muddled."

Hongqiao sighed and said, "How long has it been since he returned to Guanqing Zhai?"

Xiaoying said: "It's been several days, and it's said that I've been staying here overnight. I drink when I open my eyes, and I drink when I close my eyes. I feel that he wants to force himself to death."

Hong Qiao stretched out her hand to brush Hu Yue's hair distressedly, and she said: "Drink like this? Why is this? Hurry up and bring it back to the boat. I haven't seen him eat much these days. Go back and cook some porridge and side dishes." , Give the son a pad."

Xiaoying nodded seriously, and then asked: "I don't know what's going on, even Mr. Chu hasn't seen him in the past few days. Could it be that the two had a quarrel?"

Hu Yue heard Chu Zi's eyebrows slightly frowned, and said vaguely: "Arguing is too humiliating."

Hongqiao snorted coldly and said, "Since the young master is awake, let's walk properly, Xiaoying and I are really tired."

Hu Yue straightened her body slightly, but still didn't let go, he said: "I'm not drunk. Don't guess nonsense, Qiaoer. You can have a few more drinks."

Hongqiao stretched out two fingers and said, "How much is this?"

Hu Yue stared straight, then waved Hong Qiao's hand away and said, "How old are you, you still play with this, and you two should go back to the boat early. I have other things to do."

Hongqiao said, "What's the important thing? You're drifting when you walk, what else are you busy with? You probably passed out drunk on the road before you got far."

Hu Yue grinned at Hong Qiao, "That's good, anyway, I'm going to sleep anyway. How can this brocade quilt compare to the sky?"

Hongqiao shook her head and said: "Nonsense and drunken talk, don't talk nonsense with you, follow me back quickly. If you don't listen to me, I will find Mr. Chu to treat you." Hu Yue heard that person again, he frowned slightly, and his voice was cold After a while, he said, "Can he cure me? Hmph, I want to see how he can suppress me?"

Hong Qiao was taken aback for a moment, she immediately turned off the topic and asked, "Then what do you say you are going to do? It's almost four o'clock."

Hu Yue straightened up a little to make herself look more energetic, and then said with a smirk, "Want to know?"

After being stared at by him, Hongqiao blushed a little, covered her face with a fan and said, "Tell me what's going on first."

Hu Yue wiped her face, picked up the flagon at her waist, and was about to drink when Hong Qiao snatched it away.Hu Yue shook her head helplessly, patted her shoulder with her empty hand and said, "Go to a place that only you can go."

Xiaoying, who was supporting him, spread her hands, shook her head and asked, "You're talking nonsense again, miss, I think he is drunk and confused."

Hu Yue staggered because of losing his support, and shook his sleeves and said, "Why are you so drunk? It's a place that looks like a dream. There's no way to compare it to any good place in the world."

Xiaoying burst out laughing, she tugged Hongqiao's sleeve and said, "Miss, let's drag this foolish scholar back quickly, otherwise he will have to say he is playing chess with Duke Zhou."

Hongqiao was completely aroused by Hu Yue, she patted Xiaoying and said, "You go back first, tell mom that I won't go to tonight's poetry meeting, just say I have something urgent."

Xiaoying frowned and said dissuadingly, "Miss, are you really serious? Or give away this wine mess..."

Hongqiao patted her again, winked playfully and said, "There are several pieces of untouched sugar cakes in the food box in my house."

Xiaoying glanced at her, puffed her cheeks and said, "Miss, you do this every time!"

Hongqiao had already pulled Hu Yue back, and Hu Yue was blown by the wind, so she was able to walk a little on her own.Being tugged by Hongqiao and staggering, Hongqiao shouted to Xiaoying while holding the pomegranate skirt: "There is also a box of jasmine powder in the partition, which is also reserved for you. Next time, I will send it to you." use."

As he spoke, he ignored Xiaoying's desire to stop her, and dragged Hu Yue towards the river in small steps.They ran for a long time in one breath, and then they could only stop and pat their chests and said: "Hey, I can't run anymore." At this moment, the two of them were standing by the river, and the night was coming to an end, and the singing, dancing, singing and flute had long since disappeared. The lake is calm and the moon is cold.

Hu Yue smiled slightly: "Qiao'er is a delicate person, how can she run so fast? Be careful not to tilt your feet."

Hongqiao wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said, "How can I be so delicate? I also came from the mountains when I was young. I didn't run all over the mountains. If I didn't meet a kidnapper..."

Hong Qiao shook her head with a smile and said, "My lord, you said that you are going to a place where the flowers are in the mirror and the moon is in the water? Where is it?"

Hu Yue was almost sober at this time, returning to her former gentleness.He smiled and said, "In the lake."

When Hongqiao heard this, she looked towards the surface of the water and said, "In the water? Could it be that you mean there are pavilions in the lake?"

Hu Yue cocked her mouth and said, "How do I know if there are any pavilions in the lake?"

Hongqiao glared at Hu Yue, thinking that he must be talking nonsense again, pretending to be mysterious.Just as she was about to say something coquettishly, she found that Hu Yue looked at the moon reflected on the lake surface and was in a daze. She folded her hands and squinted at the moon in the lake. Her hair was a little disheveled because of the drunkenness in front of her, and it drifted away with the night wind.Hu Yue seemed to be making a decision, and thought he was recalling the past.Sometimes he sighed slightly, but the whole person was very calm, with no emotions, no emotions at all.

Hongqiao stood beside him, Hu Yue looked at the moon in the water, but she looked at Hu Yue.After a long time, Hu Yue laughed and said, "Qiao'er just likes to stand like this. She obviously has a lot of things to ask, but she is always so obedient and quiet."

Hongqiao was not angry, she said: "Because this is how I can stay by your side for a long time, son, you are like a piece of ice, if you get too close, you will disappear. So I would rather stand far away It's good to be with you in a place that's not too close and not too far away."

Thinking of what she said, Hongqiao laughed, and said, "Even if I have a lot of questions, will you answer me, my lord?"

Hu Yue was slightly taken aback, as if she was overwhelmed by her words.He smiled wryly, "Then what do you want to ask?"

Hongqiao lowered her head and thought for a long time before she opened her mouth and said, "I want to know who you are?"

Hu Yue scratched his head and said: "A poor scholar, he doesn't know where his hometown is, and he doesn't know if he has relatives. He is alone in the world. Wine is the only hobby and sustenance."

After Hongqiao heard what he said, her brows deepened, and she continued to ask: "Why does the young master... want to be with Mr. Chu? I know that you... your relationship is extraordinary. He treats you and me, and others. Everyone is different."

When Hu Yue heard his name, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her relaxed hands clenched slightly.Seeing him like this, Hongqiao sighed: "Forget it, this is not something I should ask about, I was abrupt..." After finishing speaking, she bowed slightly and made a salute.

Hu Yue quickly returned the courtesy and said: "Qiao'er needn't be like this, the matter between me and that person can't be explained clearly in a few words. But..."

Before Hu Yue finished speaking, he saw a bird flying over the lake. This bird was very big, and the common gull-heron was much bigger. It shattered the moon shadow in the lake.Hu Yue immediately stared at the lake and said, "Let's not talk about him, let's talk about what I'm going to do tonight. Qiao'er, do you know that there really is Guanghan Palace in this world."

Hongqiao would always be attracted by Hu Yue's remarks, and she forgot her previous emotions a little bit. She opened her eyes and asked: "Isn't this a place that only appears in dramas? Then there is Heng'e? Is there Wu Gang? Can there be Jade Rabbit... can there be..."

Hu Yue covered her head and said, "Qiaoer...stop. Let's not talk about whether there are such characters, I just say that there is Guanghan Palace, but we can't go there."

Hong Qiao beat her shoulders like a deflated balloon, Hu Yue said, "But I can see it."

Hu Yue flicked his sleeves, and then the moon shadow on the lake surface that was smashed by the lake bird returned to its original shape, but after the recovery, the moon changed, as if there was a palace-like building in the moon .The shadows are about, like reality and illusion.

Hu Yue smiled slightly and said: "This is the moment. Don't get too close, otherwise you will be attracted by this picture, and then Qingben Jiaren will become a drowning ghost."

Hongqiao hurriedly took a closer look, and at the same time, Hu Yue took out a bronze mirror from her arms. The bronze mirror was shining on the lake. At that moment, Hu Yue immediately covered the mirror with her sleeve.Then he carefully raced back into his arms.

He said to Hongqiao, "Qiaoer, let's go back. There is nothing worth staying here anymore."

This series of inexplicable actions made Hongqiao blink but couldn't figure it out. She looked at the moon shadow in the lake again, and naturally there was no trace of the building that had been glimpsed before. She still didn't give up, and wanted to Wanting to take a closer look, Hu Yue tugged Hongqiao's sleeve and said, "Let's go, let's go, there's nothing left to see here."

After the two left, the moon crumpled again for no reason, shining on a person's pale face at that moment, and then disappeared without a trace.

Hu Yue and Hongqiao returned to Chuanfan, and the bustard really asked Xiaoying where Hongqiao was. No rest?"

Seeing Hongqiao coming back, mother looked behind her and indeed saw Hu Yue, she cocked her mouth and said, "Hey, I'm worried that you will be abducted, dear."

Just as Hu Yue was about to speak, Hongqiao hurriedly said: "Oh, my good mother, who can abduct me? Who doesn't know that I am on this boat as if I have taken root, treating my mother like my own mother, mother When you say that, the child’s heart is cold and cold.”

After listening to Hongqiao's words like covering her chest and frowning, her mother stopped talking, and after a few words of persuasion, she also went back to her residence.Hongqiao pretended to wipe away her tears, waved her hand, and when she saw her leave, she immediately turned her head and said to Hu Yue who was stunned by the side: "Follow me into the house, my lord, Xiaoying prepares tea."

Xiaoying has long been used to the situation of her own lady, so she naturally retreated to the stern to make tea. Hu Yue was dragged into the house by Hongqiao, and then Hongqiao asked: "My lord, what kind of spell are you going to do? I see You have done magic tricks before, and you are amazing. It was said that you managed to attract a magical horse and took you and Mr. Chu to meet the female general who died in battle a hundred years ago. Hey... I am so envious. This time I will be your company. Okay?"

Hu Yue said in embarrassment: "This... I can only go, you can't go, Qiaoer."

Hongqiao hurriedly said: "No, after all this exhaustion, I also want to go and see what you said!"

Hu Yue said: "This is not completely without danger, and for Hongqiao, it should be even more dangerous."

Hongqiao opened her eyes, but there was still a trace of fear in her heart, she said, "This...how dangerous is it?"

Hu Yue was silent for a while, and then said: "There will make what you think in your heart come true, whether it is what you are afraid of or what you want, the so-called Nankeyi Dream, if you miss the world in it, maybe you are reluctant to leave .Maybe you'll spend your life there."

Hongqiao gritted her teeth and wanted to fight again, but Hu Yue smiled slightly: "So Qiaoer, let me do it. Because I won't miss anything..."

Just as Hongqiao was about to speak, Hu Yue added: "And you will miss many things, and these things will make you unable to come back. In this way, you are 'dead' in reality."

Hongqiao looked into Hu Yue's eyes, but there was a trace of chill in Hu Yue's smiling eyes, which made Hongqiao feel a kind of fear, she looked down at the fan in her hand and said: "Then... ...and what if you don't come back?"

Hu Yue said: "Then you can find someone to prepare a thin coffin for me, and just bury me. It will save trouble."

Hongqiao suddenly raised her head and said, "Don't talk nonsense, if you die, if you die...I..."

Hu Yue laughed loudly and said confidently: "That's why I said Qiao'er that you are not suitable to enter, and I am the one who has been there and returned safely, otherwise how would I know about this, and I have my reasons for going here The purpose... I was able to come back safely last time, so I can do the same this time."

Hongqiao was still hesitating, but Hu Yue was already sitting at the table and said, "But Qiaoer, I still have a few things to ask you."

Hong Qiao quickly asked: "What's the matter? Young Master, it's okay to say."

Hu Yue said seriously: "First, don't touch me, let alone shake me. No matter how hard you struggle, don't touch me; second, don't let me shine in the sun; third...no matter what happens Don't go to Chu Jue for anything, don't let him know about it."

Hongqiao was taken aback, but she still nodded in agreement, but after thinking for a while, she asked, "If... I said, if you are in danger, what should I do?"

Hu Yue pointed at the table, and finally said: "Just call me by my name, but don't touch me, just call me."

Hongqiao nodded seriously, and Hu Yue patted the back of her hand comfortingly, and then said: "Then I will use Qiaoer's beauty couch, the girl's fragrant bed is not for dirty men like me to lie on." of."

Hongqiao blushed again at what he said, but she also led Hu Yue to lie down on the bed she usually slept on during her lunch break. She was about to fetch the quilt when Hu Yue shook her hand and said, "No, don't cover me with anything. .”

After that, he took a candle, wrote a very strange character with candle wax around the candle, and then put the candle beside the word, Hu Yue stretched out his hand towards Hongqiao.Hongqiao asked him suspiciously what happened?

Hu Yue said: "Give me back my flagon..."

Hongqiao handed him the jug, and asked earnestly, "Is this jug also a magic weapon?"

Hu Yue poured all the wine into his mouth in one gulp, wiped his mouth contentedly, and said, "This jug is not a magic weapon, the wine in it is the most important magic weapon! I can't go anywhere without wine .”

Seeing that he was still the same, Hongqiao relaxed her worry a little bit. Xiaoying also came in at this time, and she put the teacup on the table. Hongqiao asked her to go to rest first, and only took care of Hu Yue by herself.Hu Yue was lying on his side on the step, holding the bronze mirror in his hand. He looked at the mirror steadily, but Hongqiao couldn't see it from this angle, so he didn't know what Xuanji was in the mirror.

Hu Yue didn't seem to be as quiet as usual, the corners of his eyes were slightly upturned, but there was an irresolvable indifference in those eyes that should be affectionate.He watched silently without smiling like this, Hongqiao felt that this person had become a little strange, who on earth was he?Such doubts actually arose in Hongqiao's heart.

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