Big Han Weiyang

The Double Ninth Banquet is held in Jiantai.

Jiantai was built on an island in Taiye Pool, with pavilions, pavilions, willows and gardens.

In the early morning, the green hills in the distance stretch into the painting, the vast Taiye Pond is covered with mist, and the clouds and fog cover the towering and curved palace roofs, like a fairyland.

Liu Che and I were waiting for the sunrise at the Sun Observation Terrace on the top of Penglai Mountain.The Guanri Terrace is a huge rock protruding from the top of the mountain like an eagle pecking at it.But Penglai Mountain is not the real Penglai.It is only a few dozen feet high, and it is a mountain range extending from Zhongnan Mountain to the front of Weiyang Palace.

The wind at high places is always stronger than other places, blowing the skirts of the two of them flying.Because he was going to a banquet, Liu Che still wore the black belt of the crown on his chin.

Behind us are Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace.The two connected palaces are majestic and majestic, like an ancient dragon lying in the middle of the empire.

They are the heart of a man, the soul of a man.

Liu Che rested his hands on his pillow, his sleeves fluttering.

With his back against the boulder, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the other end of Taiye Pool.There, the clouds are steaming and the clouds are glowing, the morning glow is surging like a tide, and the junction of water and sky is sparkling and colorful.

The clouds peeled off layer by layer, and finally, the golden crow leaped out from behind the gradually rising and falling buildings.Reflected in Liu Che's black eyes, a mottled and dancing flame was formed.

The slanting pine trees on the top of the mountain cast deep black shadows.The mountain wind blew the boy's temples into a mess, I wanted to help him straighten it out, but I held back.

I dare not let myself go.Neither Liu Che nor I are soft-hearted people.Never pay any price for what you want.

It's okay if the two of them stop here, but if I make any small response to him, I'm afraid that both of them will lose control and make things out of hand.In the end, either I ruined him, or he ruined me.

I can bear Emperor Jing's estrangement, I can make myself forget Liu Rong, and I can treat the itchy Taifu with the disciple's courtesy, but the only thing I can't tolerate is that my heartbeat is not under my control.

If he is not Liu Che, then it's very simple, I can kill him, or lock him up in the palace tightly, so that he has no chance to change his mind, and it only belongs to me.

But there is only one person in the world. I cherish his wings and pride, and I can't bear to damage him in the slightest.

Moreover, one step forward is the worry-free fairy mountain on the sea, and one step back is the power center of the great man.How to choose, the answer is actually very clear.

I calmed down the throbbing in my heart.

After sitting quietly for a long time, more and more people come and go down the mountain, and the sound of music floats faintly from the platform.

Liu Che said casually: "A Yue, I heard that you plan to leave Chang'an, when will you go?"

I nodded: "The Grand Tutor said that I grew up in Weiyang, and I don't know the world and the people's livelihood. Taking advantage of the stable situation in the palace and the time, I can go out of the palace to experience some experience. But it is still very early, next July Only then will I leave and return to the palace to celebrate the New Year before November."

Liu Che said sullenly: "Teacher, Tutor, you always say what you say. Since that Wei Meng came, we have seen less and less time, and the distance has become farther and farther." He picked up a stone and walked far away. Throw it away.The wind drowned out the sound of falling stones.

I raised my eyebrows and said, "Aren't you surrounded by Sima Xiangru and Dongfang Shuo?"

"After a few years in my country, we can only meet each other in October every year." He continued.

"Children of the Tian Family, this has always been the case." I said inappropriately.

Liu Che frowned, and said unhappily: "Liu Yue, I think you have changed, and I can no longer understand you. Sometimes I want to ask, are you still the one who walked out of the wasteland with me when I was young? Ah Yue?"

He sat up and faced me, forbearance and depression: "Where is your heart, where is your heart?"

I stared at him for a long while, with a relaxed smile, and pointed to my chest: "My heart is here, do you want to take a look?" I made a slanted stroke with my index finger, "Just open it, and you can see it." .”

Liu Che took a serious look at the place I passed by.I couldn't help laughing: "Archer, in the past few years, your life has not been lonely. Not only Princess Pingyang has collected a lot of stunning looks for you, but also the romantic and beautiful Han Yan. Why bother to be obsessed with what you have and what you don't have."

Liu Che and I were born in the center of power and desire, we have never been truly innocent, so naturally we have already tasted human affairs.

As Liu Che himself said, he and Han Yan didn't do it this time, so what about next time?

Neither of us can restrain the other, so there is no reason to restrain the other for the sake of misty thoughts.

"That's true." After a long time, Liu Che's eyes were slightly sad, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I have carefully selected a few beauties to perform dances at the Double Ninth Festival. We two brothers, mine is yours. Later After dancing, you pick two and go back."

"Then I'll be disrespectful." I didn't want to think about his thoughts at the moment, so I agreed indifferently, "The guests should be here, let's go." I got up and held out my hand to Liu Che.

Liu Che grabbed my hand and stood up, but didn't turn around.He was about the same height as me, with his palms flat on my shoulders, and he said with a vicious smile: "A Yue, now I push you, and you will fall, are you afraid?"

The mountain wind howls, and behind it is a high cliff of hundreds of feet.

"Your Highness!" In the pavilion in the middle of the mountain, Han Yue, Sang Hongyang and others hurried over.Li Danghu and Juli Lake climbed over the railing.

What a fuss.

I grabbed Liu Che's right hand and pulled him away from the boulder.

Liu Che adjusted his mood on the way, and returned to that unruly and indifferent look.

In front of people, Liu Che and I are still a pair of good brothers from the Tian family who live in harmony.After meeting with the ministers one by one, Liu Shun was the first to see us when we entered the table from the back.

"Brother Prince, here, here." He stood up from the side of Queen Wang and waved.

"Yue'er, Che'er, why did you arrive so late." Queen Dowager Dou smiled in the direction we came when she heard the voice.

Princess Guantao teased and said, "Mother, you don't know them yet? These two little guys have always been inseparable. They must have had enough time hiding somewhere before they came here."

"Oops, these two little guys have settled down for a while recently, and I forgot how skinny they were when they were young." Queen Mother Dou smiled, "Come on, come and sit next to grandma first, and the official opening will start later." After the banquet, go to your father's side."

The court ladies added two seats between Queen Dowager Dou and Queen Wang. Liu Che sat next to Queen Dou, and I sat next to Queen Wang. Liu Shun squeezed in from the left side of Queen Wang.The three generations of grandparents talked for a long time.

This is not a formal banquet, but just for the emperor and his subjects to have fun together.Everyone is very casual.

When it came to the song prepared by Liu Che, several women came on stage like flowing water.Her black hair was tied softly behind her back, her waist was flowing like a plain, and her skirt fell down to the ground.

Bright eyes and white teeth, youthful and moving.

Liu Che avoided Empress Dou, raised his wine glass, and whispered in my ear: "How about it, you look pretty good. Which one do you like?"

I whispered back: "It's really good. Although it's not as bright as Gillian's and Han Yan's charming, but this gentle and watery appearance is still attractive."

Liu Shun who was lying on my lap still heard it, he pouted and said, "Brother Ayue, they are so beautiful, they are not as good as me."

I rubbed his head with a smile, and was about to point to two of them at random, but I saw them staring at the moon, pushing out another beauty, holding a sword and dancing.She doesn't wear pink or black clothes, she wears beautiful clothes, and she is quite romantic in her quietness.

It is obviously slender like a weak willow in the wind, but it is easy to dance with a sword.It is as straight as a dragon flying, and the sword energy is condensed.That demeanor and temperament, very much like a person.

"Archer, I want that, are you willing?"

"The comparison is over." Liu Shun lowered his head in frustration, took a piece of fine flower cake and played with it.

Liu Che was taken aback for a moment, then laughed out loud.

I was baffled: "What are you laughing at, what's so funny."

"A Yue, this morning, I really thought you were not good at it. Why did you fall in love with him? Do you know who he is?"

I frowned and said, "What's wrong with this? Who is she, she can't be surnamed Liu, right?"

He drank chrysanthemum wine, burst out laughing: "Liu? No, he is..." He hooked me over and said to his ear.

"You said he is that Zhou Ren, father's..." Boy favorite?I took a peek at Emperor Jing and said in a low voice.

It is said that Zhou Ren was deeply favored by Emperor Jing, and the envious ministers tried their best to exile him outside Beijing. This is the first time I have seen him today.

Liu Che nodded with a smile.

"Are you here to tease me today?" I gritted my teeth.If you can't get what you want most, you can't even settle for second best.

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At the end of September, the city of Chang'an in early winter was even more lively because of the return of the vassal king to the capital.On this day, an uninvited guest came to the womb of the crown prince.

"His Royal Highness, my lord would like to invite you to visit the place where she is staying when you have time." The old slave handed over the name badge respectfully.

"Master Liu Ling?" I took the badge and looked at it.Liu Ling still has some impressions in my mind.She is the daughter of Liu An, the king of Huainan, and she is my cousin.She is bright and beautiful, and can talk, so she is loved by the king and empress.

During the Chinese New Year, she is always indispensable in Chang'an's circle of ladies.

Even Gillian, who is coquettish and savage and doesn't get along with most of the noble girls in Chang'an, often hangs out with her.I mentioned Liu Ling's name several times in my ear.

However, Liu Ling is an old lady, she didn't come to visit me, but asked me to meet her, is it a little too big?

I handed the famous stab back to him: "What is the Lord Liu Ling doing looking for the widow?"

The old slave said: "Master Weng learned that there is a lack of a gentleman in His Royal Highness's palace, and there has been no satisfactory one, so he specially found one for His Highness in Huainan."

"Sir?" What and what?

Let's not talk about the Tai Tuo in my palace, just those princes who give up others, I can't serve the prince Zhan Shi, and she still wants to give me a husband?

Besides, it's her turn to control this.

The eunuch who was serving at the side also looked at him inexplicably, and only waited for me to speak before driving him out.

The old slave continued: "Exactly. His Royal Highness, you will know as soon as you go."

Since Liu Ling is so confident, I am also curious.In the afternoon, he took Han Shuo out of the palace and took a carriage to West Street, the house that King Huainan bought for Liu Ling in Chang'an.

The carriage stopped, there was a light layer of snow and sand on the ground, and the air was slightly cool.Han said that he put on a fox fur before I got out of the car, and looked up, the sky was a bit dark with snow falling.

There are long gray stone walls on both sides of the alley, and there are not many people coming and going.

Han said that he held an umbrella behind me.

The old slave got the news and was already waiting in front of the gate. He made a gesture of invitation: "Your Highness, the Lord has been waiting for a long time."

I followed him in and said with a smile, "Don't disappoint me."

When I entered the yard, it was a little different from what I had imagined.The layout is not stingy, with pavilions, corridors, bamboo forests everywhere, and white plum blossoms, which are regular and simple and unique.

I saw Liu Ling up close for the first time in the front hall.

This young girl, who is not yet 16 years old, and takes the sole responsibility of her father in Chang'an, wears a white cloak, with a scarlet lace around her waist, tying her slender waist tightly under the heavily curved train.

Her eyebrows are like willow leaves, her face is like peach blossoms, her skin is like fresh litchi, and her eyes are full of spring water.It looks smart and amiable, not much different from the previous impression.

"His Royal Highness, it is Liu Ling's fault for letting you come to the humble house in person." Liu Ling bowed gracefully.

I also replied: "Sister Liu Ling doesn't have to be like this."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while before getting to the point.

"I don't know who the husband that sister Liu Ling mentioned is."

Liu Ling smiled and said: "Your Highness, please follow me." Liu Ling led me out of the front hall to a wing room, she stood in front of the door, looked at Han and said, and motioned to me.

I am more and more curious about what kind of medicine is sold in Liu Ling's gourd.

I asked Han Shuo to wait outside the door and go in alone.

A censer was burning in the room, and white smoke filled the air.

Layers of curtains are tied beside the columns, and two bronze candlesticks illuminate a small area, making the rest of the place even more cold.

At the end of the road formed by the curtain, a young man stood facing the window.

Dressed in water blue wide sleeves.The soft embroidered silk clothes were folded down from the inside.

Outside the window are clumps of early-blooming rhododendrons, half-covered by the first snow, only showing a little pink.The heat from the room melted the snow from the leaves and washed away the dust.The wet green color is like late spring.

I don't know if it's the sound of the piano or the clang of Peiyu that rings in my ears.

He just stood there so simply, without speaking or smiling, and he didn't even look back at me.The back is cold and solemn, but it can't hide a romantic feeling in his bones.

Although he couldn't see his face clearly, no matter his body shape or demeanor, he was exactly like Zhou Ren at the Double Ninth Banquet, or another person who had left long ago.

I stopped and stood far away.I looked at the man for a while, feeling both disappointed and amused.

Liu Lingfei worked so hard to whet my appetite, just to give me a male favourite?

He also specially arranged for him to be a gentleman, which is too taken for granted.

Even if Liu Che gave Han Yan to me, if Han Yan didn't have real talents and learning, I might not let him be the crown prince's official, let alone a person I have never met.

But it's Liu Ling's kindness after all, so it doesn't matter if you accept it.

I took Han and said to leave in a somewhat dispirited manner.

Liu Ling graciously sent me to the door.

It is said that he will take Mr. into the uterus the next day.I said a few polite words without enthusiasm.She didn't look disappointed at all.

When I got into the car, I raised my eyes to see the smiling young girl.Where did she know that I was interested in Zhou Ren?Could it be that Liu Che revealed it unintentionally?When did they have contact?

Back in Weiyang, it was almost dark.

I was planning to go back to the palace to change clothes, and when I passed the garden, I saw the Taifu enjoying the snow.

"The prince is back." Taifu turned his head and smiled slightly.

"Teacher." I saluted deeply.

"The crown prince has gained a lot from his trip this time." Taifu said indifferently.

I could hear his accusation, and said with a smile: "Teacher, I'm worrying too much, Liu Ling just gave me a plaything. What's the point of gaining?"

The Tai Tuo is the head of all officials in the Crown Prince's womb, and I never intended to hide my actions from him, so I don't think it's strange that he found out so quickly.

The Taifu said solemnly: "The grandfather of the Lord Liu Ling was deposed by the late emperor, and the King of Huainan has never forgotten it. I think what the Lord Liu Ling did in Chang'an seems to have a plan. The person she gifted, The prince should be more careful."

"What the Taifu said is that the students know." Although I agreed to him, I didn't think Liu Ling could do anything as a woman. To Emperor Jing, and Princess Pingyang to Liu Che, "Please allow me to retire first and change my clothes."

"Go."