chronicle of court survival

Xia Qing felt that his hand was about to hurt from being pinched.

"You..." He looked stunned, but he didn't know what to say next.

The boy sat on the bed, his gray robe and long hair were scattered together, his wrists were thin and fragile, and his light brown eyes were full of confusion.

Lou Guanxue looked at him with eyes as pure as wind and smoke, her expression was unpredictable in the light and shadow.

After a long time, he rubbed his fingers slightly and chuckled lightly.Let go, and said lightly: "Are you done touching? Go to sleep."

Silence spread in the air.

In the past, Xia Qing must have asked clearly and said a few words, but now he was in a strange and complicated mood, he withdrew his hand, lowered his head and didn't want to speak anymore.

Lying down sullenly, he turned his back to Lou Guanxue.Originally recovering from a serious illness, his body was weak, and now his brain was in a state of confusion. After staring at the air for a while, he closed his eyes and fell back into sleep.

When he woke up the next day, Lou Guanxue had already gone to court.

Xia Qing got out of bed, searched around outside the bedroom alone, and then found a piece of wood with the right length and thickness, carried it back, sat at the table, and began to peel it with a dagger.

He decided to sharpen a wooden sword first.

Let's take it step by step first, there are so many questions about yourself, you can't keep piling up.

Halfway through the cut, Xia Qing suddenly discovered that he brought all the miscellaneous things in the bedroom.

Lou Guanxue, as the emperor of Chu Kingdom, was born in the palace, but she didn't leave a trace here.

The books he read never took notes; the things he wrote and drew were eventually burned to ashes.

It's really amazing.

Three days later.

The Lantern Festival imitates the Shangyuan Festival.

At night, all Qionglou Yuyu in Lingguang City were hung with lanterns.

The lanterns are lit on the corners and eaves, and thousands of mansions are connected into a sea, forming a brightly lit night sky.

Among them, Zimo Street is the most prosperous. This is the busiest and widest street in the Imperial City. It runs from north to south and crosses several rivers.

The lotus lanterns float along the river to the distance, and the lanterns on the bridge shine like day and night.Men and women on the streets are all dressed in spring clothes, bustling and bustling.

Since it is to celebrate the return of the high priest, it is natural to act according to the etiquette. It is necessary to light lamps to represent the Buddha and go up the building to worship.

Sacrifice is what the emperor has to do. When Lou Guanxue went up, Xia Qing couldn't follow, and he didn't want to follow either, so he left the crowd and slipped away with the Lingwei lantern.

He found that although he hated the fragrance of the spirit weir flower, he still liked this flower very much.

For no reason - it's nice.

He didn't attract anyone's attention on the road. After all, he was dressed in dust and disheveled. He looked like a poor guy. No one would want to secretly see what he looked like.

There is a very lively place on Zimo Street, surrounded by three floors of people.

Only when Xia Qing got close did she realize that this was a lantern riddle guessing competition organized by the Treasure Pavilion

"Are you going to try it!"

He was watching when suddenly a hand was placed on his shoulder.

Xia Qing tilted his head, looking at the smiling face of Young Master Shangwei with red lips and white teeth.

Wei Liuguang obviously dressed up carefully today, his hair was meticulously crowned, and the folding fan in his hand was replaced with a new one, very coquettish and chic.

Xia Qing complained: "How can I meet you everywhere?"

Wei Liuguang opened the folding fan, and replied without thinking: "It means that we are destined." He blinked again and said: "Now His Majesty is offering sacrifices, those things are long and boring, and I can't figure it out in half an hour. Do you want me or not?" Take you around to play around?"

Xia Qing glanced at him and said, "No."

Wei Liuguang's eyes were puzzled: "Why? Don't you like watching the excitement the most?"

Xia Qing: "..." How did he show this? ! !

Xia Qing took a deep breath and said word by word: "No, I don't like it."

Wei Liuguang nodded, and put away the folding fan: "Okay. But you don't like excitement, I like it! Just stay with me!"

Xia Qing had seen Young Master Wei's method of acting like a baby and begging for mercy on the first night.

However, Xia Qing didn't accept his tricks, took a step back with his own lantern, and rolled his eyes: "Didn't you see me last time like a ghost? Are you not afraid today?"

The corners of Wei Liuguang's lips twitched, his brows and eyes were ambiguous and coquettish: "Isn't it because His Majesty is not here tonight?"

"..." Before Xia Qing said the word "roll", Wei Liuguang said "huh" in surprise, and his eyes fell on the lamp in his hand.

"Is this Lingwei flower?" He stretched out his hand very familiarly, and fiddled with the petals made of paper.

The treasure of the town store exchanged for this shark bead is still somewhat different. The wick has been replaced by Xia Qing several times without leaving any traces. It is still ice blue and pure, standing gracefully.

Wei Liuguang stared at it for a while, then muttered, "It really looks like it."

Xia Qing hid it in her sleeve: "Have you seen it?"

Wei Liuguang said, "I've definitely seen it, but it's usually in the paintings."

Xia Qing was surprised: "In the painting? Haven't you seen many pure sharks?" Seeing Ling Weihua is not difficult for Wei Liuguang, is it?

Wei Liuguang rolled his eyes and said, "You think Lingwei flowers are ordinary flowers."

"?"

Xia Qing only saw Lingweihua once in Lou Guanxue's barrier, so she really had no right to speak about it.He said, "Tell me."

Wei Liuguang said: "The Lingwei flower will not grow on the bone until the body of the shark is completely decomposed, and it exists in this world for a very short time, maybe it will disappear in the blink of an eye."

Xia Qing was stunned, and asked in disbelief, "The time is very short?"

"That's right." Wei Liuguang thought for a while, and gave a suitable adjective: "It is long and loose. It was born in front of your face, and then died."

"In the past, some people were curious and wanted to grow a lingwei flower. They even dragged people to transport the water from the Tongtian Sea and soaked the corpses of the mermaids in the water, but it was useless. .” Wei Liu said regretfully, “I can’t keep this flower at all.”

Xia Qing grabbed the handle of the lantern with her fingers and was stunned for a long time.

It turns out that the Lingwei flower...is it long and scattered at the same time?So, there is no complete Lingwei flower in this world?

That's why he went to hear about Lou Guanxue's body after waking up and asked, Lou Guanxue would smile and ask, "Have you seen Lingweihua?"

No wonder the flower looks so beautiful, but he has never seen a real one in Lingguang City, and Lou Guanxue never mentioned it.

Unretainable flowers.

Xia Qing frowned slightly.

Wei Liuguang said that he was addicted, and continued: "I also heard that the lingwei flower also has a fragrance, which is a strange and hallucinogenic fragrance. But I have never seen it clearly since I was a child in Lingguang City. What does it look like, let alone smell its fragrance. Are the flowers painted in those scriptures fictional by literati or has someone actually seen it in its entirety?"

Xia Qing looked down at the quietly burning lanterns.

The petals are icy blue, sharp one by one, like thin knives, stacked together, forming a strange and cold beauty.

Xia Qing said: "Someone must have seen it in its entirety, right?"

Wei Liuguang was suddenly surprised: "Really? It's a strange thing. If Lingguang can't grow a Lingwei flower, then look at the entire sixteen prefectures, where else can do it."

Xia Qing stayed away from the crowd and talked with him while walking, as if subconsciously used to sarcastically say: "Haven't you ever thought about the sea that reaches the sky?"

Wei Liuguang said: "There is no Sea of ​​Reaching Heaven either. My grandpa went to the end of the sea with his ancestors, and even went to the shrine, and he has never seen such a thing before."

Xia Qing thought for a long time, then said slowly, "Because that's not the end of the sea."

Wei Liuguang: "Huh?"

Xia Qing shut up and didn't speak.

He really didn't expect that the Lingwei flower he had been in contact with frequently was actually a legendary thing in the eyes of the world? ! !

How lucky is he? !

Looking at the entire mainland of the sixteen states, or even the entire sea of ​​​​reaching the sky, there is not a single surviving Lingwei flower.

Probably... all of them were opened on the mound.

The end of the Sea of ​​Reaching Heaven should not be the Shrine, but the Demon Abyss Ten Thousand Tombs.

Wei Liuguang tried every means to trick this lantern from Xia Qing, but Xia Qing refused to accept it, so he could only touch his nose resentfully, and changed the subject: "Do you know that Yan Mu is dying soon?"

Xia Qing: "... huh? Dying soon?"

Wei Liuguang took pleasure in his misfortune: "That's right, the regent tried everything, but he still couldn't save his life. If you want me to say, he is a villain with evil rewards. All these years of Yan Mu's dominance and Fu Lingguang, the traitor I've killed and looted all over, and I don't know how many grievances I have. I've seen him upset for a long time, if it wasn't for the fear that the old man would break my leg, I would have taken his life."

Xia Qing didn't care about it at all: "Oh."

swiftly—

At this time, a bunch of fireworks exploded in the air with great momentum.

Bright and gorgeous, it illuminates everyone's face clearly.

The boys and girls coming and going on Zimo Street all stopped in an instant.

The sound of exclamation and laughter completely ignited the atmosphere of the night.

Wei Liuguang was stunned: "Why is this year so fast? Is the sacrifice over?"

"The sacrifice is over?"

Xia Qing muttered, turned around and left, looking for Lou Guanxue.

"!!!"

Seeing him like this, Wei Liuguang was so angry that he almost broke his fan. He hated iron and steel and yelled: "What are you doing? You can't leave His Majesty for a while? Do you know what it means to be indifferent and to play hard to get! You are so clingy to His Majesty!" I will lose interest in you soon! When the time comes, some of you will cry!"

Everyone in Xia Qing wanted to explode.

I rely on it!Wei Liuguang, don't lose your mind!What kind of stupid things are they talking about? !

He was in no better mood than Wei Liuguang.

The wooden sword in the sleeve was taken out at once, and it was pressed against Wei Liuguang's mouth.He suppressed the desire to hit someone, gritted his teeth and said, "Wei Liuguang, if you say one more word, I'll kill you!"

Wei Liuguang froze suddenly, staring at him quietly in the crowd of Niu Liu.

Firework explosions and human speech are like the tide going away.

The flowing smoke from the lights reflected in the boy's brown eyes, and clusters of fire burst out, vivid and vivid.

Wei Liuguang should be scared now.

But strangely, he said to Xia Qing in a bewildered state: "I don't know why, I think, I am quite familiar with the posture of you holding the sword at me."

Xia Qing: "..."

Wei Liuguang said again slowly: "I suddenly regretted that I didn't learn swordsmanship when I was young. Everyone said that I was a swordsmanship genius, but I am so tired. I don't want to suffer. If I practice swordsmanship, I will definitely be able to fight with you You can still let me bully me like this?"

Of course, after he finished speaking, he took the folding fan and quietly moved Xia Qing's sword away, greedy for life and afraid of death, pampered and spoiled, and never looked back.

Xia Qing put the wooden sword back, ignored this nagging idiot, and walked towards the sacrificial building.

When they arrived, they suddenly found that there was something wrong with the surrounding atmosphere. After the sacrifice, Yan Lanyu chose to return to the palace, and all civil and military officials, eunuchs and maids also left.

But Lou Guanxue didn't come down.

The guards waiting downstairs did not leave either.

But each of these guards gave Xia Qing an unknown feeling.Everyone seems to have killing intent on their bodies.