chronicle of court survival

When returning to the palace, passing by a small shop selling lamps, Xia Qing was attracted by a paper lamp hanging at the door.The lamp was made into the shape of a lotus flower, but when you look closely, you will find that it is a little different from the lotus flower. The petals are sharp, and the pieces are like icy ice blooming into the sky, and the stamens are also thin and invisible.

The lamp paper was dyed a light blue.

This is Lingwei flower.

Xia Qing was stunned, thought for a while, and said, "I haven't really seen what Lingweihua looks like."

Lou Guanxue paused, and asked calmly, "Do you like that lamp?"

Xia Qing was surprised: "Yes, I like it, so do you want to buy it for me?"

Lou Guanxue stared at him, the corners of her lips curled up little by little, and her peach eyes were a little playful: "Are you begging for something from Gu?" He didn't use "I", but "Gu", and there was A bit lazy and provocative.

Xia Qing was unmoved, and said indifferently: "Are you talking nonsense?"

Lou Guanxue's eyelashes were like curtains, she lowered her eyes to look at him, but without saying anything, she walked into the shop, and bought this "treasure of the shop" under the merchant's terrified expression.

Vulgar things like money have always had nothing to do with fairies, so Xia Qing hadn't recovered from the shock of "I rely on him to really buy it", when he saw that this golden branch and jade leaf was a priceless shark bead.

The store owner was overwhelmed with surprise, licking his face and bending over, he took down the Lingwei lantern respectfully, and handed the lamp handle to this distinguished guest.

Xia Qing was completely dumbfounded.

Lou Guanxue walked out of the store, and handed him the lamp very naturally, her robes were like snow and her wrists were like frost.

Xia Qing was just about to reach out to pick it up, but quickly reacted and retracted: "No, I'm a ghost now, no one else can see me, I can only see the lamp. When the time comes, a lamp will float beside you for no reason, don't you think? Is it weird?"

Lou Guanxue: "So?"

Xia Qing thought for a while, touched his nose: "You help me take it into the palace."

Lou Guanxue maintained her movements for a long time before chuckling and said in a low voice, "You really are..."

But he didn't say anything later, and took the lamp in his hand like a good friend.

So on the streets of Lingguang, there appeared such a fairy in white clothes Shengxue, wearing a silver crown mask, and holding a lotus lantern.

It attracts countless people who come and go to review frequently.

Xia Qing was not very at ease, but he couldn't think of anything wrong - he couldn't tire Lou Guanxue with the light off.

He thought about it, and said "thank you" sincerely.After finishing speaking, he felt that he was not cautious enough, so he added: "It's a waste of money." Still feeling careless, he added, "It's troublesome."

Lou Guanxue lazily said: "You really should thank me well." He raised the corners of his lips, and whispered to those who were secretly looking at him, in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Thank you for not poaching these people." s eyes."

That's not what I'm thanking, okay?

Xia Qing: "..."

On the way back to the palace, Xia Qing watched the excitement again.

On Zimo Street, the most prosperous street in Lingguang, the two parties met each other on a narrow road, facing each other aggressively.

One sits on a horse and the other sits in a sedan chair.

The horse is thousands of miles red blood, and the person sitting on the horse is Yan Mu, whom Xia Qing met once in the palace.

Under the sun today, I could clearly see the appearance of this Yan Xiaobawang.

He was dressed in black and had high hair. He was obviously at a high-spirited age, but because of the vicious look between his eyebrows and eyes, he was somewhat gloomy. His eye sockets were sunken, and his eyes were slightly blue, which was a sign of excessive indulgence.

He sneered and said, "If a good dog doesn't block the way, who am I? Wei Liuguang, you haven't been chained by your old man, how dare you go out to show off your power?"

A man in the sedan chair was full of disdain, and his voice was coquettish, with a somewhat pissed-off attitude: "You haven't been broken by the regent, why should I be locked up at home?"

Yan Mu's face turned black.

The whip in his hand broke out all of a sudden, and it was thrown up and smashed on the driver of the horse.

The coachman didn't react, his body and face were bloodstained by the whip, he screamed, turned over and fell down.

Yan Mu has been talked about by his family countless times before, but he kept his temper and did not provoke the Wei and Wu families, but it does not mean that he is a vegetarian.

Last time Fengyuelou had a fight with Wei Liuguang, and the friends gathered in front of the Jinluan Palace again, and they were full of anger.

Now that they meet again on the street, he doesn't intend to endure it anymore.

The car curtain was pulled open abruptly.

In the crowd, Xia Qing saw the face of this playboy Ling Guang was known for his flair.

Wei Liuguang's name is Liu Guang, but this person doesn't have the slightest sense of elegance and refinement of the name. The purple jade gold crown, black and red robes, he has grown up in a crowd of women for a long time, but he doesn't look kitsch, just look at his words and deeds. An arrogant rich man.

At this time, the rich man's expression was cold, and he gritted his teeth and said in disdain: "Yan Mu, do you want to kneel in front of the Golden Luan Palace for a day again? If you want to kneel, don't drag me down." He said: "Go and find my father for a fight. Make sure you kneel enough."

Yan Mu was so angry that his eyes were not eyes and his nose was not his nose, and he roared, "Wei Liuguang!"

Wei Liuguang directly pulled the curtain, not looking at the heart: "Let's go, don't pay attention to this mad dog."

The guards took the groom away.

Another person rode a horse and drove the carriage around to leave.

The remaining Yan Mu was furious on the spot, but he had no choice but to throw down the whip at the end, knocking down a group of onlookers by the side of the road.

This whip has thorns on it, and when it is whipped, it will be bloody. The innocent people's faces were covered with blood, and they knelt on the ground and shouted for mercy.

The people standing next to Xia Qinglou Guanxue also ran very fast, for fear of being hurt.

Xia Qing let out a sigh of relief, and he had nothing to say about this feudal society where kingship was paramount.

And the leader of the feudal remnants next to him watched it coldly, not interested at all, and asked him with a lotus lantern: "Have you seen enough?"

Xia Qing: "Enough is enough, let's go."

Walking a few steps forward, Lou Guanxue smiled inexplicably, and said, "I thought you would teach Yan Mu a lesson."

Xia Qing gave him a strange look: "I'm not stupid, only Yan Mu can hold back when he's angry? We can't find the culprit, and it's someone else who suffers."

Lou Guanxue nodded.

Xia Qing was puzzled: "In your heart, I am just a nosy person who likes to meddle in other people's business."

There was no one around, Lou Guanxue casually gave the Lingwei Lantern to Xia Qing.

Xia Qing accepted it obediently. He lowered his head and fiddled with the wick of the lantern curiously, when he heard Guanxue from Shanglou Lou said slowly: "You like to meddle in other people's business."

As soon as he pressed his fingers hard, Xia Qing almost tore the wick off.

He raised his head and stared at the person opposite him coldly.

Lou Guanxue raised the corners of her lips: "But this is very good, there is no need to change it."

I didn't want to change it either.

After finishing the sarcasm in his heart, Xia Qing lowered his head and continued to play with his lantern.The eyelashes covered the light-colored eyes, and the black hair fell beside the fair cheeks, and his appearance was too cute.

Lou Guanxue stood by and watched.

Xia Qing suddenly said, "Before I came to this world, I never felt that I liked to meddle in other people's business."

It is mainly a modern society ruled by law, and there are not so many messy things.

Either he can't control it, or he can't touch it.

"Yeah." Lou Guanxue said with great interest, "What kind of person were you before?"

Xia Qing was stunned for a moment: "What kind of answer do you want to hear? Other people's evaluation of me is still what I think."

Lou Guanxue pondered for a moment, then laughed: "Why should I listen to other people's evaluation of you?"

Xia Qing scratched her hair, recalled her first half of her life, and said very pertinently: "That's it, it's quite ordinary."

Lou Guanxue asked again: "How ordinary."

Xia Qing complained: "It's not ordinary if you can tell what."

Growing up step by step, going to school step by step, Xia Qing has never felt that there is any difference in herself, except for observing others and being obsessed with self-discipline.

Lou Guanxue smiled, didn't continue this topic, and mentioned: "I found a way to bring you back to life."

Xia Qing was stunned and froze: "What?"

Lou Guanxue: "Maybe it's not about coming back to life, it's about letting you regain your own body."

Xia Qing was dumbfounded: "Are you joking?"

With a smile on her lips and deep eyes, Lou Guanxue asked, "Do you think I like joking?"

Xia Qing: "..."

No, Lou Guanxue never liked to joke.

Xia Qing said dryly, "I don't want it!"

Lou Guanxue stared at him.

Xia Qing thought badly about how the Zhaixinglou was forced to the upper body, and almost wanted to beat someone with the lotus lantern, but this move was too motherly. He held back his breath and said, "Don't force me either."

Lou Guanxue smiled: "Okay."

It was already night when we returned to the palace.

As night fell, the palace was indeed brightly lit, and the nine palaces were like dormant beasts under the moonlight.

As the sky darkened, Xia Qing lit the wick with a match and watched it slowly light up in the dark.

The ice-blue petals are covered with a layer of fluorescence, which is cool and gorgeous, which reminds him of the stories in the legends of the Shark Clan.

Hold the lamp up front.

Xia Qing said: "Does it look like a lamp shining away from people?"

He is in the state of a soul body, so if the court ladies and eunuchs see it, it will be a lotus-like lamp floating faintly in the air.

Lou Guanxue said indifferently: "Like a haunted ghost."

Xia Qing: "...Oh."

He went on to tinker with the flower himself.

Lou Guanxue was watching coldly from the side, the snowy clothes and black hair were cooler than the cold night.

At the end of March, everything is full of vitality. All kinds of flowers and rare plants are in full bloom in the imperial garden of the imperial palace, and insects are singing.

He looked at Xia Qing's eyebrows.

The young man's mind is clear and clear, as if he grew up surrounded by thousands of pets, so his emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy are vivid and vivid, and they are vivid in his eyes.It also seems that there is no shortage of doting from childhood, so he has developed a whole body of sincerity and kindness, like fire and wind.But such a personality is matched by a quiet and bizarre soul.

He remembered the "orphanage" that Xia Qing in Zhannei said, "Without parents, there is no place to come from, and without parents, there is no place to go in the future."

When Lou Guanxue looked back, Xia Qing just removed the handle of the lamp, put the flower in the palm of his hand,

"That should be better. It doesn't look like a haunted place."

He scratched his ear and muttered.

After all, there are Kongming lanterns in this world!The lotus lantern that floats in the air is not too much!

Xia Qing turned his head to look at Lou Guanxue. He has complicated feelings for Lou Guanxue now.

Because he is the only one in this world who can see him and talk to him. Although Xia Qing never feels lonely, this kind of fate bondage is quite rare.And to be honest, Lou Guanxue didn't treat him too badly.

Xia Qing dragged the lamp and said, "If you go to court tomorrow, just wake me up." But he should wake up earlier than Lou Guanxue.

Lou Guanxue: "Yes."

Xia Qing thought for a while and said, "Thank you for taking care of my emotions, but you don't have to be too depressed."

He considered his words and said: "This era is different from the era I grew up in. Some people must be killed. I can't judge whether they are innocent according to my values." Just don't kill people for fun like Zhaxinglou.After finishing speaking, she felt that she was so sentimental—could Lou Guanxue be the one who wronged her for others? !The fairy just didn't like killing people and hated blood, but he really took himself seriously.Xia Qing, who experienced this kind of weird shame for the first time since she was a child, twitched the corners of her mouth, and said bravely: "Oh, if it is useful to get me, you are welcome. I am a ghost after all, something out of this world , is always convenient."

Lou Guanxue smiled at the previous words, noncommittal.

Then answer what he said later: "You can't do without me, where can I use you."

Xia Qing: "..." That's right, Lou Guanxue had to be there if he wanted him to help steal something.

Xia Qing was discouraged and didn't wait for him to find a rebuttal.Passing by a remote corner of the palace wall, Xia Qing suddenly heard a conversation.

Mixed with the small insects, it was the boy's irritated voice.

"Fu Changsheng, how many times have I told you! I don't want to leave the palace!"

Wen Jiao?

Xia Qing was stunned.

Lou Guanxue never felt the need to avoid suspicion, so she moved forward.

Xia Qing tugged on his sleeve and quickly pulled him back.

Lou Guanxue looked down at her sleeve, smiled, lowered her voice and asked, "You like to watch the excitement so much?"

certainly not.Xia Qing replied vaguely: "...Yes."

He is nosy and likes to watch the excitement, he really has a good identity as a warm-hearted citizen Xiaoxia!

Behind is a high wall.

The flowers and plants are luxuriant, and the banyan tree in the corner is luxuriant.

"Oh." Lou Guanxue looked up and said, "If you want to watch the excitement, then you can see it more clearly."

After saying that, his figure swayed slightly, his robe was blown back to the snow, and he was already sitting on the high wall.

Xia Qing: "!" Damn!Are you a ghost or am I a ghost?

Lou Guanxue can still do light work?

Holding his own lamp, he quickly floated up and sat next to Lou Guanxue.

An unnamed vine snaked up the wall, with layers of green leaves.

Xia Qing: "I never thought that one day I would sit on the wall with you and watch other people's plays."

Lou Guanxue chuckled: "I never thought that I would watch other people's plays."

Xia Qing shut up.

On the other side of the wall was indeed Wen Jiao.

He was still wearing the little eunuch's clothes, which were green, and he was as crisp and tender as a bamboo shoot.

Opposite him was a young man standing upright, with a demeanor as loose as iron, silent and restrained.

Wen Jiao was very annoyed and said: "What are you going out of the palace for? Continue to live in the streets with you and suffer? I've had enough of that kind of life. I don't want to live that kind of life either."

Fu Changsheng didn't speak. He was wearing the clothes of a low-level guard in the Chu Kingdom's palace. He just handed the gold beads he had earned through his hard work to Wen Jiao, and said in a hoarse voice, "Okay, if you don't come out, don't go out."

Wen Jiao choked on Jin Zhu, but after thinking about what he had been through these days, the grievance quickly washed away his apology, and his eyes were flushed: "I just can't bear the pain, I just don't want to be treated like a cow. What can I do?" Do, I have been the little prince in Liang Guo for so long, and everyone raised me up like this, what can I do."

Fu Changsheng raised his head. The young general who once made great achievements in the battle of Liang Guo was now reduced to dust.With a resolute and handsome face and gentle eyes, he looked at the tears in the young man's eyes and said softly, "If Your Highness doesn't want to leave the palace, it's fine."

Wen Jiao put the golden beads away, and suddenly remembered something, and asked him with a red nose: "Then are you going out of the palace? Are you going to abandon me? Fu Changsheng, I only have you by my side now." He murmured softly , the most innocent but also the most selfish, tears came out of my eyes: "Now you are the only one who treats me well in this world, please don't leave, okay?"

Fu Changsheng remained silent.

He is the God of War, and he is still young. He can stay away from the palace of Chu, a place that eats people and does not spit out bones, and then go to make a comeback and show his ambitions.But the tears of the boy under the moonlight became a shackle, blocking his pace.

Fu Changsheng thought for a while, and explained to him: "Your Highness, I will leave the palace first, and I will pick you up later." He promised: "I won't let you suffer."

But the boy's tears were even more turbulent.

"No!" Wen Jiao stretched out his hand and grabbed him in fear, his fingertips were pale and trembling, he pleaded hoarsely: "Don't go, Brother Changsheng. I will die if you are not in the Chu Palace."

He called him Brother Longevity.

Wen Jiao's eyes were full of pleading: "Don't go."

Fu Changsheng looked at him quietly.

This is His Royal Highness.She was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, afraid of hardship and tiredness, vain and cowardly, innocent and selfish.Blaming the connivance of others made him unable to bear the suffering, and blaming the injustice of God for letting him live in this state.

Wen Jiao was almost stabbed by his eyes and felt even more wronged, but he knew how to deal with Fu Changsheng.

Just like every time before, he trembled his lips and said in a crying voice: "Brother Changsheng, don't go, I only have you now. You promised my mother to take good care of me, you can't leave me alone, Brother Changsheng .”

Fu Changsheng's character was as gentle as a stone, his eyes were dark, and he could see through all his thoughts, but he chose to wipe the tears off his face with his hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Okay, Your Highness, I won't go."

He didn't want to talk about how hard it was for him to hide in the palace and hide his name.As soon as he was found, he was dead, like a knife hanging on his head, and he couldn't relieve it for a moment.

Anyway, if he said it, His Highness would just pretend to be stupid and cover it up with coquetry.

Wen Jiao wept with joy, a little smugness hidden deep in his eyes.

He held Fu Changsheng's hand and said, "Brother Changsheng, I have attracted His Majesty's attention now, and Aunt Bai He also said that she would help me. When I become his favorite concubine, I will let him reuse you and let you Return to the battlefield."

Fu Changsheng smiled wryly.

How could the vicious and tyrannical young emperor of Chu State reuse him, and how could he favor a prince of Liang State.

He said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, the Emperor of Chu is not a good man, you'd better not provoke him."

Wen Jiao hated hearing this sentence the most.

He has deliberately forgotten what happened in the study.

"No, I offended him twice and he didn't kill me. Aunt Bai He said, I told him it was special."

He has always believed in himself.

"And..." Wen Jiao bit her lip, hesitated again and again, and finally raised her eyes and said, "I seem to be a pure shark just like my mother. And the pure shark clan is born with the power to charm people's hearts."

When he said this, his eyes flashed with excitement.

Fu Changsheng has been watching him quietly, no emotion can be seen on his handsome and silent face.

The red mole between Wen Jiao's eyebrows was charming, and his face was innocent and delicate: "Brother Changsheng, you will help me, right?"

Fu Changsheng said hoarsely: "You want to seduce Lou Guanxue?"

Wen Jiao didn't seem to think it was a very humiliating thing, and said, "Yes."

Fu Changsheng was silent for a long time, and said: "Your Highness, your father, queen mother, and Liang Guo..."

"Enough! I know!"

Wen Jiao's eyes suddenly turned red.

He knew what Fu Changsheng was going to say.In the imperial study room, the majesty said the same thing with a smile, and finally said two words lightly, like a slap, smashing his little self-esteem to the ground.

"But what can I do." Wen Jiao wiped the corners of his eyes with his thin white arm, his slender body trembling from crying: "You have never experienced what I have experienced, so what qualifications do you have to judge me. I just don't want to live a hard life , I just want to climb up, I just want to live a good life, am I wrong?"

"I also want to avenge my father and queen mother, but Liang Guo is already dead! What do you want me to do for revenge?"

He was so aggrieved that he kept wiping away tears: "My mother told me before she died that grievances are nothing but fate. As long as she wants me to live happily, I want to live happily. I don't want to bear the hatred of ruining the country. Fu Changsheng, don't force me."

Fu Changsheng knew his temperament, but it was the first time he understood his selfishness so clearly.

The hatred of ruining the country and family has never been forced to bear.It is that every trace of gratitude to life, every trace of nostalgia for the motherland, will exist in people's blood.

But it should have been thought of earlier, right?

Wen Jiao choked up and said, "I never thought I was a good person."

He sobbed: "I am a very selfish person, but brother Changsheng, please don't hate me. I only have you."

Fu Changsheng became numb after hearing these words this night, he closed his eyes, then opened them and said, "Okay, Your Highness."

Only then did Wen Jiao smile through tears.

He happily turned and left with the golden bead.

Sitting on the wall and watching the whole thing, Xia Qing didn't have time to be shocked, his eyes fell on Fu Changsheng's face first.

This is a tough and handsome face from a battle on the battlefield, dressed in gray guard clothes, like an eagle being stumbled, and the trap he jumped into willingly soberly.

After Lou Guanxue listened to all the conversations between the two, her expression was still indifferent, and she had long been accustomed to hearing her own name frequently in other people's conversations.

He just asked Xia Qing, "Can I go now?"

Xia Qing: "...Let's go."

When Xia Qing floated down the wall, he took another look at Fu Changsheng.

The leaves of the vines on the wall rustled.

Fu Changsheng stayed where he was, like a piece of sculpture.

Before taking two steps, Xia Qing looked back again.

Lou Guanxue glanced over indifferently, and said, "Shall I tie him up in front of you so you can see clearly?"

Xia Qing was sobered up in an instant: "Forget it." He quickly changed the subject and said depressedly: "What do you think these two people are planning?"

Lou Guanxue said indifferently: "Wen Jiaotu is all about prosperity and wealth, but as for Fu Changsheng, he must be out of his mind."

Xia Qing: "..."

Lou Guanxue thought of something, and smiled half-smile: "Oh, according to the future predicted by that ball of fire, I should also be overwhelmed."

Xia Qing was even more speechless, and went to fiddle with her Lingwei lantern.

When I didn't know Lou Guanxue, when I heard that story, I felt that everyone was a villain.

A squeamish, silly, sweet, miserable life experience, loved by the loyal and honest general of the old country with all his heart, and still determined to climb up.After trying everything possible, she finally got on the bed of the new emperor of Chu, but she was abused physically and mentally, and she was hidden in the golden house.Later, he provoked the high priest to flee to death, and was used as a stand-in for sadistic love.

The elements are complete, really powerful.

When he heard the story at the time, his understanding of Lou Guanxue's character design was that he was destined to chase his wife and be beaten in the face as a dog-licking tyrant in the later stage of the crematorium.

Now that they have been together for so long, and once fell into his barrier, they know the tip of the iceberg of Lou Guanxue's temperament.

Xia Qing felt that what Lou Guanxue said back then, "Go on, let him say, I also want to hear my ending" might be really ironic.

When not insane, Lou Guanxue is more rational and calm than him.

I don't know what Lou Guanxue felt when he heard this story where he described himself as an idiot.

Lou Guanxue asked casually, "Are you very interested in Fu Changsheng?"

Xia Qing held a small petal, shook her head and nodded, thought for a while and then shook her head: "I'm not interested, I just think...it's weird."

Very strange.

Seeing Fu Changsheng, there would be a subconscious feeling... that they should know each other, as if they were relatives and friends.So seeing him so humble in front of Wen Jiao, being forced to let go of his self-esteem and arrogance, Xia Qing felt very uncomfortable.

Lou Guanxue hummed lightly.

Xia Qing breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not too strange. But he is a general of Liang Guo. You found out, do you want to move him?"

Lou Guanxue: "You want me to touch him?"

Xia Qing looked puzzled: "Ask me why?" He just felt a little strange to Fu Changsheng, and he said that he would not mess with Lou Guanxue.

Lou Guanxue looked away: "Then don't move."

Xia Qing: "?" So kind?