chronicle of court survival

At the beginning of April, there is a spring banquet and the palace is brightly lit.

In the imperial garden, the banquet is laid out, and the gold powder is fragrant.

The lanterns on the pavilions and lakes are just beginning to come on, and the sparks form a sea one after another.The carriages stopped in front of the palace gate one by one, and the ladies of the entire Lingguang City gathered together at this moment.Pearl hairpin Luo Cui, clothes and temple shadows.The laughter is mixed with the fragrance of rouge, making the cold night ambiguous and blurred.A hall of Yingying Yanyan, very lively.

Xia Qing was Lou Guanxue's "shield", no matter how annoying others were staring at her, she still had to meet people and had to attend.

Xia Qing met civil and military officials when she was in court, but never met their daughters.

But now that I have the opportunity, I am not in the mood to watch it at all.

Although Lou Guanxue didn't make any demands on his appearance, but after all, he had to be upright, Xia Qing silently grabbed his hair a few times before going out.

And when he was smoothing out his hair, Lou Guanxue looked at him with a half-smile, and jokingly asked, do you want me to help you tie your hair into a crown.

Xia Qing didn't even look up, telling him to shut up.

It's just that he is clumsy after all, so now in the eyes of outsiders, he still looks casual.Wearing a slightly baggy gray robe, holding a bone flute in his hand, he was in a bad mood and kept silent with a cold face.

Compared with his casualness, Lou Guanxue can be described as dressed up.

The juvenile emperor's jade crown rolled up his black hair, and his dark black robe was elegant and luxurious, with silver patterns on the hem of the robe depicting crane feathers.Sitting loosely on the high seat, just like the rumors, mysterious and unpredictable.

At the palace banquet, many people were secretly looking at Xia Qing.After seeing his appearance, he secretly took it back, thinking that the person His Majesty would favor is really different.

It's just why this young man's way of getting along with His Majesty is so strange - His Majesty is actually laughing and teasing him the whole time? !

The women of Lingguang's high-ranking family all hold their own identities, although they are not as eager to show courteousness as those in Yuhuayuan, but the charming eyes and shy eyes that are full of autumn water still float up one after another.

Xia Qing felt like sitting on pins and needles.

He didn't want to pay attention to those gazes, so he lowered his eyes and pretended to drink water, his eyelashes were lowered, he took a sip, trying to appear calm and indifferent.

Lou Guanxue stared at him for a while, then said with a half-smile, "Stop drinking, it's bottomed out."

Xia Qing: "..." Damn.

He held his breath, and directly put the empty cup in his hand on the table, and the sound was clear and crisp.

Zhang Shan next to him almost lost his breath in fright.

This, this, this, no matter how favored you are, you can't be so presumptuous, right?

Lou Guanxue stretched out her wrist from the stacked sleeves, poured him a glass of wine gracefully, and said with a helpless smile, "It's fine if you see the bottom? Why are you angry at me?"

He handed the wine glass to Xia Qing with his slender jade hand, with a smile in his dark eyes, and a gentle and doting voice.

"..."

The sight from the audience is even more deadly.

Xia Qing wanted to turn around and run away, but he could only hold back, pursed his lips, and took the wine glass.

The moment he got close, Xia Qing complained in a low voice: "You are really good, everything you act is as real as it is."

Sure enough, he was good at acting at the age of five, and he was even more proficient when he grew up.

Lou Guanxue didn't speak, and when Xia Qing started to drink water, she said lightly, "You're not bad, either."

Xia Qing's light brown eyes looked at him strangely.

Lou Guanxue chuckled lightly and said, "I can't tell the truth from the fake look."

Xia Qing: "..."

He can't stay in this mess!

The spring banquet is now a link for officials to present treasures. The present is a famous painting found in the Liang Palace. It is rumored that it is the original work of the late Mrs. Hanyue.

Mrs. Hanyue has always been a legend living in the folklore, a stunning beauty who can make the King of Liang surrender ten cities, but no one knows where she comes from, only that her appearance drives many men crazy.

The painting is the sea that reaches the sky.

Pale sky, hazy sea fog, fairy mountains looming, and a black line at the end, like an abyss.There are only a few strokes of ink painting, but it seems to clearly outline the vastness and mystery of Tongtianhai.

The officials began to tell the story of the painting.

Xia Qing only glanced at the painting and left.

Lou Guanxue propped her chin and watched him leave without saying anything.

The officials and ladies in the audience looked at each other in dismay, the alarm rang loudly, His Majesty was really fascinated by this young man!

Yan Lanyu did not attend the spring banquet.

Also absent was the Prince Regent.

The regent is busy looking for a miracle doctor to treat Yan Mu, and he has not been in court for many days on the pretext of recovering from illness.

And Yan Lanyu is friendly and gentle, saying: "Axue chooses what she likes, and the Ai family will never interfere."

Xia Qing came forward and asked Lou Guanxue to perform a show of "being completely fascinated by him", and then slipped away.The last glass of wine really made his internal organs on fire and angry.

Coming out with a bone flute is purely forgetting to correct old problems.And the bone flute is already peaceful, lying in his hands, he has learned to give up struggling, anyway, his master will not care about it.

The powder made his face hot, Xia Qing walked in the imperial garden and blew the cold wind for a long time before calming down a little.

Unexpectedly, when I went around the rockery, I heard a familiar voice.

He was suave and suave, and his tone was weird.

"If you don't want to go, don't go. Why are you holding me here to accompany you? Go and tell your father, can third uncle carry you into the palace with a sedan chair? What's more, if you are carried into the palace, His Majesty will accept it." Not necessarily. It's funny enough that you are afraid of being selected now."

"Wei Liuguang! Can you speak!"

"Call Sixth Brother."

"Aren't I scared?" The girl ground her teeth, and finally chose to give in. She flattened her mouth and said, "I have someone in mind."

Wei Liuguang was obviously not interested in the thoughts of these young girls, he supported the crown and waved his hands: "Oh, then you can go to the person you like, and don't stop me from going to the front hall to feast my eyes."

Mrs. Wei Shiliu was about to be mad by this incomprehensible cousin, stomping her feet and said coquettishly, "Brother Six, just help me!"

Wei Liuguang was suspicious: "How can I help you? Change clothes with you, and go to the front hall for you dressed as a man?"

Wei Sixiniang thought about it seriously: "...It's not impossible."

Wei Liuguang sneered: "Get out! I almost lost my head in Fengyuelou last time in front of His Majesty, and I don't want to die for you today."

Wei Sixiniang continued to act coquettishly: "Brother Six!"

Wei Liuguang knocked on the folding fan: "Speak directly if you have something to say."

Wei Sixiniang: "Then let me be blunt - all the female relatives are invited to the spring banquet today, and the palace is heavily guarded. You must have used your uncle's badge to sneak in."

Wei Liuguang: "Hey, you are very well informed."

Wei Sixiniang stopped hiding, and said, "I have an appointment with Gu Lang today, it's almost the climax of the moon, please lend me the token."

Wei Liuguang was speechless: "...The Wei family took a hundred years to have a shameless daughter like you."

Wei Sixiniang said angrily, "You have no right to say that about me! I only like one person, and you are full of flair."

Wei Liuguang took out a token from his sleeve and threw it to her: "That's not romantic, I just like a lot of people."

Wei Sixiniang was overjoyed to receive the token, smiled and ran away with her skirt up.

Wei Liuguang got rid of this unfamiliar cousin, rolled his eyes and turned around. He was thinking about the Miss Wu family he just caught a glimpse of, but when he turned around, he saw Xia Qing holding a bone flute with an expressionless face like a ghost.

He almost jumped up on the spot, and after seeing the face clearly, he wiped off his cold sweat with a false alarm.

"Scared me to death! It turned out to be you!"

Wei Liuguang sneaked in today like a thief, for fear of being discovered by Duke Wei.

"So scared." Xia Qing rolled her eyes: "You gave her the token, how will you get out then."

Wei Liuguang opened the folding fan and laughed: "You don't know that, it is difficult to enter the palace tonight, but it is easy to leave the palace."

Xia Qing glanced at him strangely, with a half-hearted smile.

Wei Liuguang just wanted to tell him about his flawless plan, but suddenly he thought of something, and his mind froze, "Pa-ta", the fan fell to the ground, and everyone exploded: "Damn! How did I forget! You are Lou Guan People of the snow! You fucking won't go back and blow the wind around your pillow!"

Xia Qing gritted her teeth: "I am your father!"

Wei Liuguang saw his angry expression, so he relaxed a little, bent down to pick up the fan, turned on the fan to calm himself, and at the same time did not forget to turn over the old score: "It's fine if you don't blow the wind beside the pillow. Xia Qing! Do you know Do you know that because of your deception last time, I was almost beaten to death by my father? My father was not satisfied with my visit to the flower building, and I met His Majesty when I was visiting the flower building. I went back and knelt down in the ancestral hall, and my life was gone Half!"

Xia Qing thought in his heart, it's good that I didn't make you kneel in front of the golden palace.

He kept silent, passed him with the flute, turned around and wanted to leave.

Wei Liuguang closed his folding fan and stopped him: "Where are you going?"

Xia Qing: "Go back to sleep."

Wei Liuguang: "Oh."

After Wei Liuguang knew about his ambiguous relationship with Lou Guanxue, no matter how big his heart was, he didn't dare to be his brother.Although he felt that the two of them should be friends by nature, but life is the most important thing, there are so many beauties he has never seen before, it's not worth it, it's not worth it.

Wei Liuguang straightened his clothes, said goodbye to Xia Qing, and walked to the front yard with a heartbeat.

As a result, when people are unlucky, drinking cold water will clog their teeth.

His third uncle Wei Taifu saw that the most naughty daughter was missing, so he was so angry that he brought someone out to look for her.

Wei Liuguang: ...I've never seen Uncle San be such an unsteady person before? ? ?

Taifu Wei was furious: "Why is this dead girl running around! I don't know if the queen mother of the Yan family has noticed her long ago?! If the palace runs around and bumps into Yan Lanyu, she will take off a layer of skin. Go there Look around, yes, go over there."

Guiltyly, Wei Liuguang covered his face with a folding fan.

Silently changed to a remote path.

The bamboo forest here is hidden, it is estimated that it is the place where the palace maids and eunuchs live.

Wei Liuguang wanted to wait for his third uncle to leave before going out, but as soon as he went in, he heard a soft cry, tender and soft, sobbing.

He frowned. Although Wei Liu usually likes beauties, he doesn't like to cry too much. The main reason is that they don't look good when they cry!

But this time, he only fanned the fan once, and he was attracted by a strange fragrance.

"What is the taste."

Wei Liu was stunned for a moment, and went deep with his folding fan.

On the other side, Xia Qing didn't follow the same route back to the bedroom.

After walking for a while, he was attracted by the eerie light on the top of the pagoda.The purple energy is coming from the east, and the divine power is thick, and I don't know how terrifying the imprisoned monster is.

At the beginning of March [-]th, the pagoda was full of eerie red light, but now the evil light has dissipated, revealing a kind of solemn coldness.

He stood outside the ten-mile Xiangfei Bamboo Forest in the forbidden area of ​​the Chu Kingdom, holding a bone flute, looking up, his light brown eyes reflected the bright moon hanging high.

"What are you looking at?"

There were sudden footsteps behind him, and someone laughed. His voice seemed to be warm, dry and comfortable, like light falling between mountains and seas.

Xia Qing's hand holding the bone flute tightened suddenly.

Turning around, he found a young man in a crimson robe standing under the moonlight.

The young man is tall and tall, his black hair is only raised by a wooden hairpin, and the blue hair is blown by the wind.

"Are you looking at the Pagoda?"

When he smiled, the corners of his eyes would bend down into a nice arc, his face was handsome and his eyes were light.

This young man in crimson clothes has no airs all over him, and his tone of voice is very comfortable, peaceful and kind, as if leaving him in a busy market, he can chat gently with a hawker who sells fish and pork.

It's not Yan Lanyu's gentleness of "hiding a knife in a smile", but the gentleness of normal people and acquaintances.

It's just that the more normal, the more abnormal.

Xia Qing was stunned, and suddenly remembered that he had asked the name of High Priest Lou Guanxue.

The name of the high priest is Song Guichen.

The sword he uses is called Sifan, and the common name in the world is Guichen.

Si Fan, return to dust.

Every word is connected with the world.

In a daze, an old man's voice suddenly appeared in Xia Qing's mind, distant and indistinct, hoarse and vicissitudes, with a soft sigh.

——At the beginning when Sifan Sword was given to you senior brother, I expected it.In his life, he is destined to be entangled with the world of mortals endlessly, to be imprisoned by fetters, and he will never be able to escape forever.