love palace

Although it was extremely cold, the weather was fine. The sky was blue and the sun was shining brightly, making the snow in the courtyard crystal clear.

After Ke Weiqing got up early, he took a shower and changed his clothes, and then practiced sword for a while.Li Deyi came with a smile, and said first, "My lord, all blessings." Then he said that the emperor gave a banquet and invited Ke Weiqing to have breakfast at Linglong Pavilion in Xiyuan.

"Where's the emperor? I'm going to thank you." Ke Weiqing was flattered and said, living in such a nice house is already very kind.

"Don't worry, the emperor has already gone to court. The military and government are so busy these days that you can't breathe even on the first day of the new year." Li Deyi said with a wry smile, "My lord, if you want to see your majesty, you have to wait until after noon."

"That's right, I understand." Ke Weiqing nodded, of course focusing on government affairs.Accompanied by Li Deyi, they went to the imperial garden in the west.

Linglong Pavilion is located on the hillside of the west mountain of the garden. It is a Fangxuan with green windows on all sides.It's small in size, but it's exquisite. From a distance, it looks as delicate and beautiful as a graceful girl.

There are ancient pine and plum trees planted on the slope, and the promenade goes up round and round. The pines are dark and green, and the plum fragrance is overflowing. You can also see birds jumping and looking for food freely in the forest.

"The emperor said, it was too late yesterday, and I couldn't wash you off. This morning, I ordered the imperial dining room to prepare a table of gourmet meals. There are a few dishes that the emperor hand-picked. Like this crystal steamed bun, sesame shortbread, Yuefangzhai's sauced beef...Little prince, don't think this servant is too wordy, I really have never seen the emperor care so much about anyone before, you are a special case."

Ke Weiqing's face flushed and his heart beat faster when he heard that.He didn't do anything for Huang Ye, but he was really ashamed to receive such courteous treatment.

"Director Li." At this time, a young eunuch came running from behind. After seeing Ke Weiqing, he whispered a few words to Li Deyi.

I saw Li Deyi frowned, but soon he said to Ke Weiqing as if nothing happened, "My lord, please wait later, I will return as soon as I go."

"En." Ke Weiqing sat in Fangxuan and could see the corridor below.Standing there was a woman wearing double phoenix buns, double happiness gold hairpins, and gorgeous clothes.She was very young, at most sixteen or seventeen years old, with a beautiful appearance, holding a golden stove in her arms, and accompanied by several court ladies.

Li Deyi hurried down just to see her?Ke Weiqing watched curiously, and vaguely heard Li Deyi kneel down and say, "See Guiren Lin".

This... is Huang Ye's concubine?

Lin Guiren asked Li Deyi a few words, and she seemed to have come here specially, and she even looked up a few times, but the layers and twists of the pillars prevented her from seeing Ke Weiqing.

"...It's really not Du Meiren. The emperor didn't call anyone last night. How can you be fooled by this slave?" Li Deyi kept apologizing.

"Okay then, Your Majesty, remember to give me some good words, and I will never forget you when I become successful." Lin Guiren seemed to have stuffed something for Li Deyi, but Li Deyi refused, did not take it, just said , "The slave understands."

After a while, Li Deyi turned back again, panting from running.

"Just now...?" Ke Weiqing asked.

"Oh, I made you laugh, that's Lin Guiren, the beautiful girl who entered the palace last year, she's not very old, and she likes to be noisy like a child." Li Deyi smiled and said like a family, "You don't know yet, do you? The emperor has already accepted five concubines, including two nobles, two beauties, and one talented person."

"Where's the queen?"

"There is no queen. There was no crown princess back then, so there is no queen now." Li Deyi stretched out his hand, motioned for Ke Weiqing to eat, and then said, "But it's too soon, your sister, Princess Shuolan will enter next month Palace."

"Princess Suolan?" Ke Weiqing hadn't seen her for many years. To be exact, she hadn't seen her since she was selected into the palace by Huang Ye.

"Well. In the past few years, the princess has been coming to the palace frequently, and she has won the favor of the Empress Dowager Sun. He said that he wanted to adopt her as an adopted daughter, but he also said that the emperor did not agree. That's right, how can there be any reason for a son to marry a daughter? This deeper meaning, everyone understands, just wait. One day, Dayan will have a queen."

"Yes..." Ke Weiqing wanted to answer with a smile, but found that he couldn't.

The emperor has a queen and 72 concubines, just like having the sun during the day and the moon at night, nothing unusual.

The only one who would mind this is yourself.Although Ke Weiqing has gone through ups and downs on the journey, there is nothing on the road of love.

However, because there are too many things that require him to go all out, he has no energy to think about personal life-long events.

For now, Ke Weiqing only has the emperor in his eyes, he wants to solve his problems, and wants to go to the world with him, these thoughts have been lingering in his mind.

However, the appearance of Lin Guiren, Du Meiren, Princess Shuolan and other women made him notice that he was the emperor's man all his life, but the emperor was not, and he couldn't enjoy Huang Ye's love all by himself.

"As long as I can do my best for the emperor and die, I will be satisfied." Ke Weiqing thought like this, trying to get rid of the overwhelmed pain in his heart...

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The snowflakes are like catkins, like goose feathers, falling slowly.Ke Weiqing looked at the snow flying all over the sky in surprise. In the morning, it was still sunny.

But the scenery of flying snow is also very charming, no one doesn't like it.Holding an oil umbrella and carrying a pot of peach blossom red, Ke Weiqing crossed the snow-covered river to visit His Royal Highness Yonglin in Fuyue Palace.

Back then he left in a hurry and failed to leave a single word for Yonglin. Ke Weiqing felt guilty about this. Unlike other noble clansmen, Yonglin sincerely regarded him as a "brother" and treated him equally.

With glazed tiles and vermilion walls, the courtyard still stands quietly at the end of the lotus pond.In front of the gate, unlike other palaces, there are only two pots of iron trees, which are also densely covered by snow.

The snow on the threshold was swept very cleanly. Ke Weiqing remembered that there lived an old eunuch who loved to play with flowers and plants in the east chamber. The bonsai and rockery that filled the courtyard were probably made by him.

But the one who came out to greet him was a ten-year-old father-in-law. He said that His Royal Highness was waiting for him in the study.

Ke Weiqing asked, where did the previous Eunuch Wang go?

The little eunuch replied that he died of illness last spring.The emperor took pity on this younger brother, so he appointed many new maidservants to serve him, and the courtyard was also decorated and very spacious.

During the conversation, the two came to the door of the study, and after the little eunuch gave an announcement, they withdrew, leaving Ke Weiqing to go in by himself.

"Your Highness?"

Ke Weiqing opened the door and entered, and a scent of ink came to his nostrils. From the ceiling to the floor, there were ink scrolls hanging all over the room.

Moreover, every painting is lifelike and beautiful like a dream, but what is strange to Ke Weiqing is that there is a blank area in the middle of many paintings, only landscapes, fish and birds are painted around them.

"It's been a long time since you left without saying goodbye." There was a lot of resentment in the gentle voice.Ke Weiqing turned around and realized that Yonglin was standing near the window, holding a wolf pen in his hand, and was drawing something.

"My servant greets His Highness the Tenth Highness." Ke Weiqing was very happy to see Yonglin's healthy appearance, and bowed to pay his respects.

"Come on! If you had me in your eyes, you wouldn't just leave without saying a word, and there's no news yet!" Yonglin raised his head, looking at Ke Weiqing with red eyes, "You know, I'll wait for you for a long time How hard is it?"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness." Ke Weiqing hurried over, "This is...?"

It was only then that Ke Weiqing discovered that the canvas on the long case was exactly the image of himself holding an umbrella.Yonglin saw him coming into the yard early in the morning, so he copied it with a pen.

"Small...it's still small. Although he has grown taller, his eyes are still the same as before, very pure." Yonglin said, lowering his head and sketching a few more strokes. Next to the portrait, there is already a detailed snow scene.

"Your Highness...?" Ke Weiqing finally realized that those blank parts were where Yonglin wanted to paint his voice and smile.

"The imperial palace is so big, I'm too bored by myself." Yonglin put down his pen, looked up at Ke Weiqing, and murmured, "I'm worried about your safety outside, so I can't help but draw so many. When I was 14 years old You, you at the age of 15, but in the third year, I dare not write anymore, because I don’t know what you look like at the age of 16..."

"Your Highness...I'm sorry." Ke Weiqing was extremely sad. He should have sent a letter to Yonglin after three years outside, but he was worried that his identity would be exposed, so he never wrote a letter.

Ke Weiqing knelt down with a plop, and said guiltily, "I kowtow to you to admit my mistake!"

"Hahaha!" Unexpectedly, Yonglin laughed heartily, and the gloom on his face was swept away, "I successfully deceived you! Little one, get up quickly, you are so easy to deceive, how did you travel around the world? ?”

"What... what?"

"I've been thinking about how to deal with you when you come back. Hmph, how dare you leave me and go out of the palace alone to enjoy yourself, but I still treat you as a brother!" Yonglin said resentfully.But he didn't say that because of Ke Weiqing leaving the palace, he ran to quarrel with Huang Ye.

He blamed Huang Ye for letting Ke Weiqing leave alone, what should he do if he meets gangsters on the way?Huang Ye asked him how did he know Wei Qing?

He also said that he didn't need to intervene in this matter, which made him really angry!I was also very annoyed that Ke Weiqing obeyed Huang Ye's words.If Huang Ye dug a fire pit and asked Ke Weiqing to jump down, surely Ke Weiqing would jump down without hesitation, right?

In the final analysis, Huang Ye was also to blame for being too ruthless. For this reason, the two brothers fought coldly for a long time. It was not until the death of Eunuch Wang, who had served Yonglin growing up, that Huang Ye's attitude changed a bit.

"Fortunately, I brought you the best peach blossom red." Ke Weiqing pretended to be angry and stood up, trying to hide the jug of good wine in his hand.

"Don't! Let's drink together, in this damn weather, drinking is the best thing!" Yong Lin said with a smile, and with a high five, eunuchs entered the room to make arrangements.

Yonglin and Ke Weiqing were only one year apart, and now it seems that there is not much difference in height between the two, but Yonglin's whole body is enveloped in a strong bookish atmosphere, gentle and refined.But Ke Weiqing is introverted and steady, more like a general.

Yonglin couldn't help saying, "The little one back then has grown up after all, come on, cheers!"

Ke Weiqing smiled and drank a few glasses of wine with him, and the two discussed paintings and historical sites. When they talked about rising, Yonglin took Ke Weiqing to the garden and posed for him to copy.

"It's so cold, Your Highness, the snow is blowing into my neck."

"Don't move, hehe—look at the trick!" Yong Lin threw a snowball unexpectedly, hitting Ke Weiqing directly on the nose.

"Your Highness, damn it!" Ke Weiqing wiped his face, bent down and grabbed a bigger snowball to fight back, thus turning into a snowball fight.

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Huang Ye didn't go down until noon, and drove back to the palace.Li Deyi waited on him and delivered the lunch. After eating, he reviewed the memorial in the imperial study.

About half an hour later, Li Deyi stepped forward and whispered to the Holy Majesty that it was time to rest for a while.

"Where's Ke Weiqing?" Huang Ye put down the blue and white dragon pattern brush, picked up the teacup placed aside, and took a sip.

"Back to the emperor, the little prince said that he will come to greet you in the afternoon, but he went to Fuyue Palace before, so I'm afraid he hasn't come back yet." Li Deyi said with a bow.

Huang Ye put down the teacup in his hand, frowned slightly and said, "What is he looking for Yonglin for?"

"I heard from my little prince that I went to reminisce about the old days, and I asked my slaves to find a bottle of fine peach blossom red and bring it to His Highness." Li Deyi remembered it very clearly, because Ke Weiqing said that he would buy the oldest one.

"Oh." After hearing this, Huang Ye didn't say anything. He opened a memorial and began to review it again.Li De thought that the emperor was concentrating on government affairs, so he stepped aside wisely and didn't bother him.

In the blink of an eye, another half an hour passed, Huang Ye slammed the notebook shut, and asked in a low voice, "Has he not come back yet?"

"What?" Li Deyi was taken aback by this sudden question, but he quickly came to his senses and replied, "The little prince hasn't come yet, why don't you send someone to remind you?"

"No need, prepare the chariot." Huang Ye said, standing up from the dragon chair.

"Yes. Where is the emperor going?"

"Show Fuyue Palace." Huang Ye said coldly, a trace of displeasure flashed in his black eyes.

"Slave obeys the order." Li Deyi didn't dare to neglect, and immediately went out to proclaim the chariot.

The snow had stopped, and the afternoon sun was dazzling.A jade chariot with a canopy covered by dragons is slowly moving forward on a path covered with a layer of fresh snow. The sound of the wheels "creaking and creaking" is integrated with the "creaking and creaking" footsteps of the eunuchs stepping on the snow. This quiet lotus lakeside, spread far away.

Huang Ye was sitting in the imperial chariot, flipping through the "Nine Xuan Chess Manual", but he heard a burst of laughter from a distance, and he was confused, which slaves dare to be so presumptuous?He asked Li Deyi to stop the sedan chair, lifted the golden curtain of the chariot, and searched for the source of the sound.

The huge lotus pond has long been covered with a thick layer of ice, and the Fuyue Palace is on the other side of it, and there is also a small and exquisite red lacquered arch bridge.

There are two young figures playing snowball fights and skating under the bridge lively.

The person in the brocade gown with a light sable fur scarf was obviously his younger brother Yonglin, and Ke Weiqing wore an elegant silk dress, rolled up his soaked sleeves, and chased and fought Yonglin on the ice, having a great time Almost.

Ke Weiqing was tripped by the snow several times, and Yonglin took the opportunity to press on it. The two rolled together, laughing and suddenly turning into a big snowball...

"Your Majesty, it's Your Majesty the Tenth Highness and the young prince." Li Deyi also saw that this was a rare happy scene in the palace, so he said with a smile, "In the harem, they are close in age, no wonder they played together I’ve gone. I heard people say that His Highness the Tenth Prince used to pretend to be a little guard and sneak out of the palace with the little prince to play.”

"Li Deyi."

"The slave is here."

"You've heard so many things!"

"Slave—as a deacon, the slave always has to look around and listen to all directions..." Hearing the resentment in Huang Ye's tone, Li Deyi quickly excused himself.

"Forget it, get up and drive back to the palace." Huang Ye said coldly.

"Yes! The slave obeys the order." Li Deyi thought the emperor would convict him, after all, it is wrong for a slave to chew the tongue of the royal family behind his back.But Huang Ye let him off so easily, which made him confused, but he was also relieved, and told the bearers to get up and go back to Changchun Palace.

Huang Ye got off the chariot and plunged into the imperial study.The difference is that this time he did not review the memorial, but sat alone in front of the desk for a long time, and served him with "cinnabar red ink".

The cinnabar and silk yellow paper, which was only used when the edict was issued, were neatly placed on the jade desk.

"Should the Xuanshu Qishi (the official who wrote the imperial edict) enter the palace?" Li Deyi thought that the emperor was going to issue an edict, so he asked.

"No, let's all back down." Huang Ye dismissed the idlers, and even Li Deyi stood outside the door.

Afterwards, the imperial study room was so quiet that one could hear a needle drop.Huang Ye picked up the pen, but he was not in a hurry to write. Three years ago, Yong Lin suddenly ran in and had a big fight with him with unprecedented anger.

He kept asking, why did Ke Weiqing go out to take risks?If the emperor doesn't like Ke Weiqing, he can accept him, there is no need to let him go out of the palace.

Maybe other people can't understand Yonglin's mind, and they will be furious because of a guard, and they are not even afraid of offending Longyan.But as an older brother, and having watched him grow up, Huang Ye could see some tricks——Yong Lin likes Ke Weiqing, just like a man likes a woman.

As a result, the anger in Huang Ye's heart lit up, not only reprimanded Yong Lin, "I have no respect! You bastard!" He also said, "It's wishful thinking for you to want Ke Weiqing!" and so on.

"...!" These words made Yonglin so angry that he almost fell ill.

Even so, Huang Ye will never back down, Ke Weiqing is his man!In the past, now, and even in the future, it will not become the emperor's younger brother's thing!

——No matter how much Yong Lin likes Ke Weiqing, it is futile!

The brush finally landed on the paper, and not long after, Huang Ye announced Li Deyi to come in and asked him to pass on the edict.

Li Deyi took the wet imperial decree with both hands, it was okay not to read it, but when he saw it, he was startled and almost asked, "Your Majesty, are you serious?"

But quickly swallowed these words into his stomach, bowed respectfully and said, "Your slave has ordered, let's do it now."

This mysterious imperial edict was sent all the way from the Imperial Study Room, to the main gate of Qinzheng Palace, and directly to Zhongshu Sheng.

After the Zhongshu Province took the decree, the Menxia Province completed the review and handed it over to the Shangshu Province for execution. It took only an hour before and after.

The prime minister of the dynasty, 50-year-old Xiao Zhi, is the head of the three provinces.He was promoted by Zhao Guowei, and he had to ask General Zhao what he meant in every detail of the story.

"According to the emperor's wishes, he should have done so long ago." Zhao Guowei nodded, and the next morning, the imperial decree was announced outside the city gate, and everyone in the world knew about it.

"By heaven's blessing, the emperor said. Yonglin, the tenth son of the former emperor, has turned seventeen this year. He is at the time of independence. Considering his precious status, he was named the third-rank Prince Muren and granted the territory Gaizhou..."

Ke Weiqing never dreamed that he would see Yonglin off again just a few days after he came back.And no one understood the loneliness of homesickness better than he.

On the morning when Yonglin left the palace, Ke Weiqing stood outside the east gate together with officials of the third rank and above, eunuchs and maidservants, and sent off Prince Muren respectfully.

"His Royal Highness..." Ke Weiqing looked at Yong Lin who was standing under the crank embroidered dragon and apricot yellow umbrella, dressed in fur, his eyes were full of reluctance.

"Don't be like this, I'm not going to the battlefield." Yong Lin was very open-minded, still smiling, but who knew that his heart was pierced at this time, and he was extremely reluctant to part with Ke Weiqing.

A eunuch brought the horse and signaled to the Prince that it was time to set off, as the prince had a long way to go.

"Little one, you have to take good care of it." Yong Lin stretched out his hand, ignoring the surprised gazes of others, and gently stroked Ke Weiqing's cheek.

"You too, the journey is far away, please take care!" Gaizhou is more than 600 miles away from the imperial city.

Fortunately, Gaizhou is the land of fish and rice, and the home of silk.When Yonglin goes there, he should have enough food and clothing and will not suffer any grievances.

"I will come back. I think Brother Huang and I...actually have the same thoughts." The moment he received the imperial decree, Yonglin seemed to understand something, and it seemed that all this was just his guess.

"Prince...?" Ke Weiqing didn't understand what Yonglin was talking about.

"You will understand in the future. Wait for me, little one, if you are having a bad time, I will come to pick you up. ... The imperial decree is hard to break, let's say goodbye!"

The guards of the guard of honor rang the gong that shouted, and the twelve gongs and sticks heralded that Prince Dayan would take office.

Ke Weiqing and a group of officials knelt down one after another, shouting that Chitose had a safe journey.

The nearly 1000-person chariot and horse team passed through the palace gate in an endless stream, and the apricot-yellow umbrella covering Yonglin finally floated.

"Clang! Clang..." The sound of the gong and the procession gradually drifted away, leaving nothing but various footprints left in the mud and snow.

Ke Weiqing stared at Yonglin who was going away, and prayed for him silently in his heart.