chronicle of court survival

In the Jingxin Hall, sandalwood incense is curling up, and fifteen copper lamps are dimly lit.

Yan Lanyu sat high on the phoenix couch, the illusion of gentleness completely faded from her face, her face was as sinking as water, cold and chilling.

boom--!

Sitting under the stage, the regent's eyes were red, and he overturned all the cups and cups on the table to the ground. The porcelain shattered and crackled, accompanied by his heart-piercing roar: "I want to kill Lou Guanxue! I want to kill him!"

Yan Lanyu was obviously also very angry, her fingernails clutched the handrail and sank deeply, as if she wanted to poke someone into ashes.But she remained rational and took a deep breath.

"You can't touch him. Before the matter of the Futu Pagoda is completely resolved, you can't touch him. Either wait for the high priest to come back to eliminate the demon, or let Lou Guanxue leave the blood of Lou's family before dying!"

The regent was furious: "What are you afraid of?! The pagoda has been quiet for 100 years, what are you still afraid of?"

Yan Lanyu laughed angrily: "I am afraid of far more things than you can imagine."

The regent's face was grim: "Mu Ge'er is unconscious now, and even the imperial doctor said it's bad luck! The arrow shot by Lou Guanxue aboveboard! This bitch is just demonstrating against us like this! Stepping on you and me to act wildly, you still don't want to kill me!" Can you bear it?"

Yan Lanyu's forehead twitched suddenly, and the cup in his hand was thrown out. He raised his voice and twisted: "Of course I can't bear it! Do you think I want to bear it?! I wanted to kill him a long time ago! I can't wait for him to die If it wasn't for his mother, how could I have fallen to this point."

She exhaled heavily, her gentle and quiet appearance was torn apart, revealing the vicious and domineering attitude that she had deeply invested in when she was young.

"I'm haunted by nightmares every day, and wake up in the middle of the day and night. After so many years of forcing myself to become a vegetarian by the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha, I still can't live in peace. If it wasn't for Yao Ke, that bitch, how could I have become like this."

The regent couldn't listen to anything, and his eyes were so red that blood dripped: "Mu Ge'er is my son, you can bear it, but I can't bear it."

Yan Lanyu's eyes were like poisonous snakes: "I said it! Don't move Lou Guanxue! Don't move now!"

The regent lost his mind: "He's just a puppet! There's nothing he can't move!"

Yan Lanyu raised her head suddenly: "If you dare to touch him, next year Jingzhe will be your and my death!"

A word resounded in the meditation hall, making the regent's face pale, but he still stared at her.

Yan Lanyu laughed, but there was deep coldness and viciousness in her eyes, the black hair and green skirt seemed like a converted believer, hating endlessly.

"Do you really think that the gate in the pagoda is a demon? Do you really think that the ancestors can easily obtain the favor of the gods by entering the palace?"

"God has no love or hatred, so how can he show mercy to human beings. After all, even the sharks who have served God for generations have never seen him show any affection."

"A hundred years ago, the high priest and one of the three saintesses of the Mermaid Clan set up a killing array to separate the soul bone of the 'God', so that he could be suppressed; and then the ancestors took advantage of the unstable soul of the 'God', and used magic to kill the 'God'. God's three souls were swallowed alive—then died suddenly when he came back."

Yan Lanyu's face was pale, and when she talked about this incident, her eyes showed trembling fear from the bone marrow, but she continued to speak.

"The people imprisoned in this pagoda have never been demons, but the three souls of gods."

"You and I, the Yan family, the Wei family, the Wu family, and the Lou family, all those who entered the palace were cursed by the gods, and the Lou family was the most cursed."

"Why did you go to the Zhaixing Tower to watch the snow on the fifth floor of March? This is the agreement made by the Lou family and the three families. Every year, the descendants of the Lou family will bear the wrath of God in the pagoda once a year— —Because only the blood of the Lou family can arouse all the hatred of the gods and allow them to vent completely."

She laughed out loud, word for word.

"Many descendants of the Lou family died in infancy. I'm afraid half of them died in the Star Picking Building."

These unknown secrets of the royal family were like thunder, and the regent was stunned, looking up blankly.

Yan Lanyu leaned forward slightly,

"No one can enter Zhaixing Tower three times and still be alive. So this year, Lou Guanxue must choose a concubine and leave behind an heir."

"The high priest said that there is only a [-]% chance of destroying the pagoda and slaughtering the gods. We can't afford to gamble."

The regent's mind was filled with blood, and he was silent for a long time and said in a hoarse voice: "If Mu Ge'er dies, I will not let him go."

Yan Lanyu saw that he was still obsessed with obsession, his expression distorted like a demon in the red light, she screamed: "Get out! Get out of here! Why do I have such an idiot brother like you!"

The regent didn't say much, turned around and left, clenched his fists hidden in his sleeves, and the murderous intent in his eyes remained undiminished on his livid face.

When Bai He came to the Meditation Hall with her maid, it happened that the door bumped into the Prince Regent whose face was covered with dark clouds.

She bowed in fear, but fortunately the regent didn't pay attention to her, and walked away suppressing her anger.

Bai He was startled, and thought to himself: Is the regent quarreling with the empress dowager?Her hand holding the cloth couldn't help trembling, and hesitated for a moment before the steps - if she happened to touch the empress dowager's bad head, it really wouldn't be enough for nine heads.

But before she could think it through, Yan Lanyu's voice came: "Come in."

As always, she was gentle and subtle, and could not appease her anger.

Bai He took a deep breath, and when she entered, she turned a blind eye to the mess in the hall.She came to show Yan Lanyu a look at the fabrics for summer clothes. It is strange to say that this empress dowager used to prefer all kinds of bright red, but now she loves the quiet blue.

She reported everything in a proper manner.

Yan Lanyu drooped her eyes on the couch, flicking the teacup with her fingers.

She had just quarreled too fiercely with the regent, and she was not used to the soft-spoken voice for a while.

After listening to Bai He's report, Yan Lanyu didn't speak, and asked another matter lightly: "Have you ever seen the young man His Majesty brought back to the palace last night?"

Bai He choked, thought for a while, and said truthfully: "Back to the Empress Dowager, after entering the palace, that young master has never left His Majesty's bedroom, and the servants have never seen him."

Yan Lanyu showed no expression, and sneered: "Why haven't you found out that His Majesty has a good sleeve for so many years?"

Bai He's face turned pale, but she was the aunt in charge, she quickly calmed down, and said softly: "Because your majesty has not been close to women, nor is he close to men... However, the slaves did find out a few days ago that your majesty It's different for a little eunuch in the palace."

Yan Lanyu sneered: "Eunuch?"

Bai He said: "Yes, that little eunuch provoked His Majesty twice, but His Majesty never killed him."

Yan Lanyu became a little interested when she heard this, raised her eyebrows, and half straightened up: "Twice?"

Bai He: "One time in the bath, and one time in the imperial study."

Yan Lanyu's red lips curled up, and she smiled slowly: "That's a good thing. What's the origin of the eunuch?"

Bai He said: "He used to be the Ninth Highness of the Liang Kingdom. After the Liang Kingdom was broken, he was brought into the palace by the late Emperor. Now he works in the Huanyi Bureau."

Yan Lanyu nodded.

She took a sip of tea lightly and said, "Try and see if you can help him."

Bai He: "I obey."

Yan Lanyu's lips were stained with bright red liquid, and she didn't know what was in the teacup: "Let's take it one step at a time."

Someone has to be able to climb upstairs to Guanxue's bed first, no?

Xia Qing did not leave the dormitory after returning.

Because those messy eyes made his scalp tingle, he never thought in two lifetimes that he would be looked at with ambiguous eyes.

Absolutely!

He tried to tear the red rope several times, but was stopped by Lou Guanxue.

Lou Guanxue put down the book, seriously, and smiled: "Didn't you say that if I have any demands, just ask you?"

Xia Qing: "..."

Xia Qing held his breath and asked him for a bone flute to vent.

After the flute showed its prototype in front of him, it stopped pretending. It was a ghost, and Xia Qing struggled in all kinds of ways when it was held in his hand, trying to run away.

Xia Qing said coldly, "If you move again, I'll break you!"

The bone flute could only whine and hold back in aggrieved manner.

He doesn't want to go out at all!

When I went upstairs to watch Xue's body, I felt uncomfortable in front of Zhang Shan's flattering face.Now it's even more terrifying to meet his ambiguous gaze, and the skin is numb.

There was even a time when Xia Qing accidentally threw the bone flute out and went to the imperial garden to pick it up. She met a little palace lady who saw him as if she had seen a ghost, she was amazed and jealous at the same time, she opened her mouth with a complicated expression and asked for a long time: "Are you hidden by His Majesty?" Is that young master in the bedroom?"

Xia Qing: "..."

Xia Qing picked up the bone flute and said coldly, "No."

Everyone in the palace of Chu State is sick.

When Lou Guanxue came back, he would occasionally ask him: "Are you going to hide all the time?"

Xia Qing spent every day in the dormitory reading the storybook, poking the table with the bone flute, or doing some messy things quietly.

He is actually a very calm person.After all, you can stare at people for a long time, and you can spend a day sitting by the window looking at the sky, flowers and grass.

"Otherwise, if you go out and be taken as yours..."

He racked his brains for words to describe his situation.

Lou Guanxue waited for him for a long time, leaned back, and helped him finish with a half-smile: "Be my male favourite? Forbidden?"

Xia Qing almost wanted to whip him with his flute.

Lou Guanxue's tone was flat: "If you don't go out, they will only call me a golden house."

Oh.

Anyway, the reputation of left and right is bad.

Xia Qing scratched her hair and let out a faint breath.In fact, he is not a person who particularly cares about other people's opinions. After getting used to it, he gradually accepts it calmly.

Lou Guanxue has always been "generous" and never stingy with his "favor".

One day, take him to Lanfengxuan again.

"I don't want to see Qiu Yu. Thank you."

Xia Qing was expressionless.

Lou Guanxue changed back into white clothes, her skin was the same color as the clothes, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, don't ask for rain."

It is not asking for rain.

"Play chess?"

Xia Qing: "..."

He turned away.

Left Lou Guanxue put his hands on the chessboard and laughed muffled for a long time.

Xia Qing sat back and asked Lou Guanxue to play chess with him. He found another way to play chess.

I folded a grasshopper out of grass, and spent an afternoon folding it. Finally, I folded one... four different things.

He stared at the thing for a long time, and pulled the corner of his mouth.

I took some paper from the back to make a paper airplane, took a breath, and let the paper airplane fly around, landing in the lake, in the pavilion, and on the flowers and plants.

The bone flute rolled around, playing with the four-shaped grasshopper he made on the table.

Later, the grasshopper was played into the water by this stupid flute.

Xia Qing: "..."

The bone flute was completely afraid of Xia Qing. It didn't even know that it was a divine bone, so why didn't it have any pressure on people, so it burrowed into Lou Guan's snow sleeve.

But Xia Qing was sleepy, so he glanced at it and ignored it, and fell asleep on his stomach.

Lou Guanxue, with her black hair hanging down, put the chess piece into the pouch, turned to Zhang Shan and said calmly, "Ask someone to fish up that grass-folded thing."

Zhang Shan smiled with his face: "I obey."

But the lake is too big, and I couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

When Xia Qing woke up and saw those wet guards, she wanted to cover her face in a breakdown, and waved her hands: "Okay, okay."

Lou Guanxue pursed her lips: "Yes."

As a result, I don't know how it turned out in the end. His Majesty's beloved thing was lost in Lanfeng Pond, and he ordered hundreds of people to search for it, but there was no result. It is a pity that he returned to the palace.

When it reached Bai He's ears, she was holding Wen Jiao's hand and whispering to him "what's in my heart". In the lake?"

"Yes, that's what the palace said."

Bai He's thoughts turned, she suddenly laughed, and suddenly her eyes fell on Wen Jiao's timid face, and she said softly, "My good boy, your chance has come."

Wen Jiao looked up blankly: "What?"

Bai He smiled: "Your Majesty was born in the cold palace when he was young, and he suffered from the warmth and coldness of human affection. If you want to impress him, you can always exchange your heart with your heart."

Wen Jiao contacted the foreword, and said, "Auntie...you want me to find that thing in the lake?"

Bai He's eyes flashed the inevitable light: "Yes, not only look for it, but you have to look for it yourself. Hundreds of guards can't find it, and you have to find one night for His Majesty when the lake is cold. It can show your deep affection for His Majesty. I told the Queen Mother about you, and I will arrange for Your Majesty to meet you after I find it."

Wen Jiao's face was pale, but there was a glimmer of hope faintly, he lowered his head and whispered: "Okay, aunt."

It's warm and cold in March, and the water in the pool can freeze a person off a layer of skin.

When Wen Jiao came out at night, she was already shivered by the wind, her eyes looked at the pool of water, and she became more delicate for a while, not wanting to suffer.

But he can only explain to Aunt Bai He if he finds that thing. He bit his lip and spun around in circles, looking at the huge Lanfeng Pond, his heart pounded.

It's so cold, and the lake is so big. I heard that there are many people who drowned in this lake.

He swallowed his saliva, rolled his eyes, and suddenly thought of——

he can't...

But Fu Changsheng can do it.

When Fu Changsheng was found by Wen Jiao, his face was pale. During the day, because he offended a eunuch with a weird temper, he was beaten more than a dozen times.The flesh was torn apart, and the blood did not coagulate.The pain made the mind trance, and it took a long time to hear Wen Jiao's words clearly. He asked in a very soft voice, "Your Highness, you want me to find you a broken grasshopper in this lake?"