[Lotus Lantern] Promise with one's body

Lan Xiu wanted to follow Ao Cunxin to find a benefactor to repay his favor, so Ao Cunxin left him to live in Biezhuang.This Zhuangzi was regarded by Ao Cunxin as a residence in the mortal world, and the little dragon like a robber robbed a lot of aquariums from all walks of life, so this place was arranged to be especially suitable for aquariums living on land.Not only is there a very large freshwater lake in Zhuangzi for the little dragon to rest, because Lanxiu is good at playing the zither and the sheng, Ao Cunxin also set up a piano platform for him to use, and even the scallop fine hill was specially dug for her. Salt water ponds where sea water comes from.

Ao Cunxin still planted that laurel plant wholeheartedly.She knew it would not live long in the mortal world, but she still took good care of it and sprinkled water regularly, meticulously.

Lanxiu once asked her why she spent so much time on that laurel plant, for a person who knew it was the end of death.Ao Cunxin manipulated the water flow and gently turned it into raindrops and sprinkled it on the laurel. While sprinkling, she said, "Why does Young Master Lanxiu leave the ocean to search for a person who knows he doesn't exist?"

The young man smiled and said: "Sure enough, Lord Sea Witch did not lie to me. The third princess knows a lot. She also said that you are the one who came to save me."

Mermaids have a long life span, they live in water like fish, they don't waste their weaving, and when their eyes cry, they produce energy beads.Lanxiu was rescued by others when he was young, and now he has grown into a handsome young man in troubled times, but at least a hundred years have passed between them. Mermaids have a lifespan of 300 years, and their childhood period is 50 years. During those long 50 years, they have kept their The appearance of children, after the infancy, they entered the growth stage, at a growth rate many times slower than that of human beings, they slowly grew from children to teenagers to youth within 100 years.

Lanxiu was rescued by someone when he was a child, and now he is in the prime of life as a mermaid, nearly a hundred years have passed between them, and the person who saved him back then is no longer alive.Ao Cunxin can think of this level, and Lan Xiu naturally knows it too.

Yang Jian went to the underworld to investigate, and said that the person who saved Lanxiu was reincarnated now, because he accumulated too much blessing in his previous life, he will enjoy endless glory and wealth in this life.And she is not only wealthy but also powerful.That person back then was Empress Gao who is now the mother of the world.

Empress Gao was born prominently and married even more eminently. Today's empress and future empress dowager, she has reached the pinnacle that women of this era can achieve.

Lanxiu saw that the laurel branch under Ao Cunxin's hands in the sun could not stop the decadent breath even though it was drenched in rain and dew, so he couldn't bear to speak just now, but the third princess asked rhetorically, and immediately blocked his way.

"Fortunately, human beings have immortal souls." Lanxiu said.Back then, the princess of the mermaid tribe sacrificed for love, but what she got in exchange was only the immortal soul of human beings.

"Are you sure you want to repay the favor?" Ao Cunxin asked.

"That's natural." Lan Xiu nodded.

Even if that person is not the same as before, as long as it is still that soul, what does it matter?

"Okay, let me tell you who she is."

Ao Cunxin gently drew a circle in the air with his index finger, and a water mirror appeared in the air.In the water mirror, Empress Gao is leisurely eating the lychee presented by the maid. Her hair is in a high bun, and she is wearing the Shanhe Sheji jacket and the Qiankun Geography skirt, which symbolize imperial power. Knowing that she was a great beauty when she was young.

"Back then, she was just a fisherman's girl." Lan Xiu looked at Shui Jing and said slowly.Tasteful story indeed, he fell into her father's net and was brought back to her home along with the other lower aquarians.At that time, he turned into a beautiful fish, and she saw him, and overjoyed, she begged for it from her father and raised it for a few days.Later, she fell in love with raising a cat again, and put it back into the sea for its safety.

The inexperienced young master of the mermaid tribe is only over 100 years old, younger than the scallop spirit, but when it comes to knowledge, he may not be as good as the young maidservant in Tsing Yi who often walks around in the Dragon Palace.He even felt that those few days of freshwater life were very good.

"If you want to see her, I can also find a way to let you enter the palace." When Ao Cunxin said the word "enter the palace", she didn't know why her tone was a little strange, which caused the young man to look at her strangely.

"Sharks are born with a good understanding of rhythm, you can pretend to be an actor and enter the palace with me." Ao Cunxin said.

"Repaying kindness in the world is nothing more than these kinds. Fame and wealth, high-ranking officials and rich salary. But for her today, these are all. Maybe you can also promise with your body." Ao Cunxin teased.

"Promise yourself?"

"Repaying favors in the world has always liked to make promises with one's own body, as a slave or as a concubine, completely entrusting one's destiny to others."

When Ao Cunxin talked about repaying kindness, she remembered that the relationship between her and Yang Jian began with kindness.Kindness is as heavy as a mountain, kindness is as heavy as a mountain, and I have said a lot, so I really promised with my body.It's just that Yang Jian promised himself to her, but he didn't give her his heart.

She didn't understand at that time that kindness is kindness, and love is love. If you have to compare the two together, if you talk too much and make trouble for a long time, the kindness and love will become resentment and hatred.

A long-lost love will become an enemy.Human nature is such that it cannot be forced.

"I... I want to see her..." The boy lowered his head, the sun was shining on his young and delicate face, and his voice was as light as foam on the sea.

"Okay." Ao Cunxin replied calmly.

In fact, she also wants to know what kind of legend will be born when a lifespan of 300 years meets an immortal soul.

God has always been fair. Although human beings live short lives, they have immortal souls. Although the mermaids are beautiful, they are full of treasures. Years of life, but once dead, it will turn into bubbles, and both body and soul will be destroyed.

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Empress Gao's baby name is Tao Tao, but now few people call her by her baby name. She was born in a family of honorable relatives, and she was born noble and married noble.Who dares to call her baby name?Even if the years are gone, who would dare to underestimate the emperor Yuanhou who has three sons and two daughters and sits firmly in the middle palace?

The eldest son Ying Wang Zhao Xu has always respected his mother very much. His identity as the eldest son is destined to be a great treasure in the future. All he has is because of Empress Gao. Besides, Empress Gao also has high hopes for this eldest son and loves him very much.The queen's birthday is approaching, and King Ying also takes pains to arrange the birthday ceremony.The queen loves to watch the performances of kabuki actors, but she is tired of listening to the rhythm in the palace.In order to make his mother happy, King Ying specially distributed documents to people who are proficient in this way among the people. At that time, actors came to Beijing one after another, hoping to show their strengths and make a career in the sky.

When Ao Cunxin led Lan Xiu to knock on the door of Prince Ying's Mansion, Zhao Xu was meeting distinguished guests in the front hall.

This distinguished guest is Yang Jian.

Zhao Xu and Yang Jian chatted quite speculatively, and they coincided with their views on state affairs.The God of Judiciary originally advocated the abandonment of the strict and cold old Tiantiao in the Heavenly Court. He even wrote the Tiantiao based on his own opinions, hoping that the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother could change the laws of the Heavenly Court to be more in line with the way of heaven and more humane.But in the end it still failed, and because of that failure, he chose to bear the burden of humiliation and secretly helped Chen Xiang to promote the advent of the new Tian Tiao.

Too rigid and easy to break, kindness and softness are invincible.

And Ying Wang Zhao Xu also pursued political reforms in order to consolidate the Song Dynasty.Seeing that Yang Jian's words were all to the point, he was very excited and became his lifelong confidant.

Zhao Xu was talking to Yang Jian when he reached Xing's place, when the butler came to report that a girl brought her servants to the front door to ask for an audience.After hearing the butler's description of the woman, Yang Jian's face was not happy, and he just lowered his head and blew on the tea dust floating on the surface.

"Brother Yang..." Zhao Xu thought for a moment of the quack girl who saved the queen, thinking that he had promised the other party to come to her door for help if she needed it. But the young master was also talking about the most prosperous place, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.

"Your Highness, please help yourself." Yang Jian calmly made a gesture of letting go.

"Then... take that girl to the side hall and wait." Zhao Xu turned his head and ordered the housekeeper beside him.

"Since His Highness has a visitor, Yang will leave first." Yang Jian clasped his fists with an ink fan in his hand, and Zhao Xu couldn't keep him for a while, so he allowed him to leave first.

Yang Jian and Ao Cunxin met each other, the palace of Prince Ying was covered with vegetation, fragrant and verdant, and Yang Jian's clothes had the breath of vegetation.Seeing the female relatives, he stood sideways, waited until Ao Cunxin approached, passed him without looking sideways, then shook the corner leaves of his robe, and walked forward again.

Ao Cunxin was led by the housekeeper to King Ying.

Zhao Xu was dressed in ordinary clothes, but he still looked dignified. He looked up at Ao Cunxin and Lan Xiu behind her, with a warm smile on his face, and asked, "Miss, what's the problem when you come to the palace this time?" Want me to do it?"

"No, Your Highness King Ying, I'm here to help you." Ao Cun said in his heart, and seeing Zhao Xu's brows raised in surprise, he continued on his own: "I heard that His Highness is celebrating the Queen's birthday. Don't worry, in order to make the empress happy, I specially recruited folk artists who are good at melody to perform in the palace. I happen to have such an actor by my side, and I am here to recommend it to His Highness, so as to relieve His Royal Highness." Hou, he described this unsolicited recommendation as a kindness in a timely manner.After she finished speaking, she gave way sideways, directly exposing Lanxiu to Zhao Xu's scrutinizing eyes.

Zhao Xu saw that Lanxiu was like an orchid and jade tree, beautiful and elegant, and he really didn't look like an actor rolling in the world of mortals, so he couldn't help frowning and asked: "I wonder if this young master can perform a performance or two for this king first, so this king knows it well." .”

Lanxiu had a jasper flute stuck in his waist, and when he heard the words, he took off the jade flute and played it on his lips. Suddenly, a clear and lingering voice came over the surface, like the sun shining on the world, and the seagulls returning to the blue sky. None were uninfected.

When Xiao Yin fell, King Ying only felt that he had woken up from a fantasy dream, and he didn't know what day and night it was.

"It's really like the sound of nature. It's just that my mother's birthday is a day of great joy, and the song is high and few, so it is inevitable to be lonely. This king still likes more lively songs, which are festive and auspicious." Zhao Xu pondered for a moment and said.

"Your Highness, don't worry, Lanxiu can play the song of a hundred birds facing the phoenix. At the introduction, he can drive all the birds to congratulate the queen. The scene is grand and it must be lively and festive."

"Oh? This young master is actually capable of such extraordinary skills. I am really disrespectful." Although Zhao Xu said this on his lips, he was reluctant in his heart.This woman is elusive and has superb martial arts skills, and now she came to the door this morning just to introduce someone, this matter is so weird.And after all, this is a person of unknown origin, it is a serious crime if he enters the palace compound and something goes wrong.

Lan Xiu just smiled when he heard it.The mermaid's singing can make fishermen linger, stop seabirds from flying, and drive all birds to be mediocre.

"If your Highness is worried, you can detain me in the house. It would be a pity if Lanxiu's skills were not presented to the world on the queen's birthday. The ability of a hundred birds to court the phoenix is ​​unparalleled in the world, and the world will definitely admire your highness's respect for the queen." Filial piety."

All good filial piety comes first, and Zhao Xu naturally understands this truth.I have to say that what she said moved him very much.

"I don't know what to call a girl?"

"Ao Cun Xin."

"Miss Cunxin, then in the next few days, I will wrong you and live in my house for a few days."

He accepted her offer anyway.

"Since that's the case, that Cun Xin will bother His Highness." Ao Cun Xin smiled and blessed Fushen.