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Before the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, Qi Xiao, as the prince, had to enter the palace to pay his respects to His Majesty and the ladies of the other palaces, and then he could go to Qiyun Palace to accompany Lady Lin for lunch.

In the Chengming Hall, His Majesty is writing. He has been writing the "Xiaocao Thousand Characters Essay" written by Monk Huai Su for several months. The thousand characters are very long. It takes a lot of patience to write, but even if you don’t need the thousand characters He always felt that it was not to his liking when he wrote three or two sentences on a piece of paper, because he lacked a bit of charm and couldn't write the elegance and simplicity.

Qi Xiao knelt in front of the hall, His Majesty didn't dare to move rashly without telling him to let him go, he could only sigh silently, what did he do wrong to punish him by kneeling here?Tang Ling?

"Get up."

His Majesty put down the pen, looked at his own words, still dissatisfied, raised his eyes to look at Qi Xiao, "Come here."

Qi Xiao stood up, took two steps towards the imperial case, and stopped half a zhang away.

"I asked you to come here," His Majesty raised the hand holding the pen and called Qi Xiao closer, "You write."

Qi Xiao froze for a moment, is this a homework test?His Majesty never asked him about his homework when he was a child, but now he is going to discipline him?

Qi Xiao bit the bullet and walked up to His Majesty, and took up the imperial pen with both hands. This pen seemed to weigh a thousand catties, so heavy that he couldn't lift it up.

Monk Huai Su's copybooks, Qi Xiao never read them, he seldom wrote cursive script, when he was a child he taught regular script in Taixue, all of them were Yan Liu, Qi Xiao left Beijing after he was ten years old, although his master was very strict, he and Bai Xi Qiao never dared to fall behind in his studies, but he could not be taught by a famous teacher, and he could not compare to the princes raised by His Majesty in front of him.

Calling him to post now is better than pulling him out and punishing him with a stick.

Qi Xiao sneaked a glance at His Majesty, and saw that his eyes were fixed on his hand holding the pen, so he could only grit his teeth and pick up the pen to write the post.

Continuing along the place where His Majesty just stopped, he is writing, Jingxing Weixian, restraining his recitation and becoming a saint.

Dejian's name is established, and its shape is right.

The sound is transmitted in the empty valley, and the empty hall is used to listen.

Just these three sentences, Qi Xiao's writing was quite difficult, His Majesty only felt his eyes hurt when he read it.

"...Okay, go back and practice this word yourself.

Which gentleman taught this? "Your Majesty frowned and looked at Qi Xiao. Is there a teacher in Fuzhou to teach? There should be.

His handwriting isn't good, and it's not bad either.

Since he was able to acquire good martial arts, it seemed that others were not left behind either.

Qi Xiao put down his pen: "I know I was wrong."

His Majesty sighed: "Forget it, it's not your fault."

Qi Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, took two steps back, and wanted to run away while His Majesty was still in a good mood.

"return.

Made you quit? "

"My son doesn't dare."

His Majesty found another copy from the post on the side: "Copy this, and send it to Linxiantai to enshrine during the Moon Festival.

Copy it carefully, and then write it in a mess, and you will be fined to kneel in the Linxiantai Great Hall for half a month. "

"……Yes."

Qi Xiao looked at the "Tao Jing" in front of him, suppressed it and did not dare to sigh loudly, what did he do wrong?Where did you offend His Majesty?To actually punish him for copying books?With less than half a day left before the Moon Festival, shouldn't the Taoist scriptures to be enshrined in front of the hall have been copied long ago?Now let him copy what?And how can he be qualified to worship in Linxiantai after copying scriptures?

But whether it was dissatisfaction or doubt, Qi Xiao didn't dare to express it.

Zhang Suian ordered someone to bring the desk table and put it in front of the hall, while Qi Xiao silently picked up a pen and began to copy the scriptures under His Majesty's nose.

"Baiyanshan promised you that if you beat Yao Yishan, I will grant you a wish.

Have you figured it out? "

Qi Xiao raised his head, was stunned for a moment and said: "Father and emperor allowed mother to go to the West Palace to recuperate, which is fulfilling the wish of my son.

The son dared not ask for extravagance. "

"Since you won the hunt, you should be rewarded. These are two different things."

Qi Xiao lowered his head and didn't speak for a while.

"Unexpected?"

Of course Qi Xiao has a wish, to take his mother back to Fuzhou and leave Yuanjing; to find out what happened to Bai Liu back then; and to take Tang Ling away.

In the past three years, His Majesty could do it, but Qi Xiao couldn't mention one of them.

"If you can't think of it for the time being, just owe it first.

In the future, use the nothing card to exchange. "

Qi Xiao was startled, the nothing card was the token of Tiance Camp, Luo Yu's case was almost closed, and he was about to pay it back, but what does His Majesty mean by this sentence is to keep Qi Xiao with Chi Yue by his side?Keep Tiance Camp all the time?

"The fifth prince and the seventh prince have an audience."

Zhang Suian raised his voice outside Chengming Hall to announce.

Qi Xiao didn't have time to wipe off the fine sweat, and he didn't have time to ask about the "nothing card", the fifth prince and the seventh prince came to Chengming Palace together as if they had made an appointment, and secretly glanced at Qi Xiao twice at the same time.

"The sons and ministers see the father, long live the father."

"Well, let's get flat."

Qi Xiao got up and saluted: "Fifth Brother, Seventh Brother."

"Ninth brother came really early."

The Fifth Prince Qi Li smiled and glanced at the scriptures on Qi Xiao's case, his eyes sank.

"Okay, you go to pay your respects to the Queen Mother."

The Fifth Prince and Seventh Prince had just arrived, and they were sent away by His Majesty before they could say a word.

And His Majesty didn't intend to continue the topic with Qi Xiao just now, and continued to write a thousand-character essay.

The Chengming Hall was silent.

After leaving the Chengming Hall, Fifth Prince Qi Li glanced at Seventh Prince Qi Ting and sighed softly.

"Fifth Brother, do you have something to say?"

"Oh, not at all."

The seventh prince secretly rolled his eyes, and muttered in his heart, he was obviously jealous when he saw his father's blue eyes on Lao Jiu.

Is something like copying scriptures worthy of envy?But after thinking about it, Qi Xiao has only been back in Yuanjing for a month, and he can be left alone in the Chengming Palace. Although copying the scriptures is not a good thing, compared to them who are not qualified to stay in the Chengming Palace for a long time, it is better to judge.

The seventh prince, Qi Ting, shook his head silently. According to the character of the fifth child, he would definitely pick things up. The ninth prince avoided the matter of the moon festival. I'm afraid he won't be so lucky next time.

Pitiful……

The Fifth Prince Qi Li also wanted to go to the Empress Dowager's bedroom first, but he didn't want to go on the same road with the Seventh Prince Qi Ting, so he walked very fast, leaving him far behind.

"Heh..." Qi Ting snorted lightly, just in time, he didn't want to see Lao Wu's stinky face either.

***

It was almost noon when Qi Xiao was released from the Chengming Hall by His Majesty. He copied the Taoist scriptures three times and selected the best one, but judging by His Majesty's expression, he was still not very satisfied.

There is nothing he can do if he is not satisfied with Qi Xiao.

Words cannot be practiced in a day or two.

Qi Xiao walked out of the Chengming Hall and looked at the bright sky, and couldn't help sighing, he still had to pay his respects to the Queen Mother, Empress and Concubine Zhao first, and he might not have time to go to Qiyun Palace for lunch.

"Your Highness Ninth."

Zhang Suian sent Qi Xiao out.

"Can you trouble Eunuch Zhang to send someone to Qiyun Palace to deliver a message for me, just say that I will be there later, please don't wait for my mother to eat."

"Your Majesty Ninth Prince, don't worry, His Majesty has already ordered you to pay your respects after lunch in the Empress Dowager's Palace, and then go directly to Linxiantai to attend the Moon Sacrifice.

There is no need to go to the place where the queen and concubine Zhao are. "

"Huh? No need... to greet the Queen and Concubine Zhao?"

"Yes, the Empress and Concubine Zhao have already known that the meeting has passed, Your Highness does not need to go today.

It's getting late, Mrs. Lin is still waiting for His Highness to have dinner together, right? "

"...Thank you, Eunuch Zhang."

"Your Highness has broken the old slave, this is His Majesty's will."

When Qi Xiao came out of Chengming Hall, he couldn't help thinking, could it be just an excuse for him to copy scriptures?So that he can escape to pay respects to the Queen and Concubine Zhao?But please An is just going through the motions, leaving him to copy scriptures in the Chengming Palace will make Qin and Gongsun hate him even more.

Your Majesty has set him up as a living target, insisting on forcing him to a dead end, and giving him a stratagem might really be to save his life...

***

Zhang Suian sent Qi Xiao away and returned to Chengming Hall: "Your Majesty, it's getting late.

The Queen Mother is still waiting for His Majesty to eat. "

"Hmm...Zhang Suian, come and take a look."

His Majesty clicked on the Daoist scriptures copied by Qi Xiao and the Xiaocao Thousand Character Essay written at the beginning of the table, "Look at how it is written."

Zhang Suian leaned forward to take a look, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty made fun of the old slave again. The old slave is vulgar, how could he understand the elegance of writing and ink?"

"Heh, you have been with me for ten years in the Imperial Academy, do you remember how many books you copied for me at that time? I have written down the crime of deceiving the emperor for you."

"Your Majesty, spare your life."

Zhang Suian was terrified and hurried to kneel.

"Come on, don't act, it's still exciting.

Let's go, don't keep the Queen Mother waiting. "

"Yes."

Zhang Suian looked back at the copied scriptures on the desk case, faintly wanting to sigh.

His Majesty suddenly said to Zhang Suian: "Since Lao Jiu has copied the Taoist scriptures, let someone send him to Si Tianjian."

"……Yes."

"In addition, have you made arrangements to send noble lady Lin to the West Palace to recuperate?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, everything has been arranged, and the Fang Yuan ruled that Mrs. Lin has improved and can move."

"Well, let Fang Yuan judge to go with him. If Mrs. Lin's illness is not well enough, he won't have to come back."

"According to the order."

***

From the beginning to the end of the Moon Sacrifice Ceremony, Qi Xiao was like a puppet on a string, following all the rules Ning Wanxiao taught yesterday. After the ceremony, Qi Xiao just wanted to look up to the sky and sigh ,too tired.

After the moon festival, there was a banquet in the palace, and Qi Xiao felt more and more tired and disgusted in the interplay of drinking and drinking.

He looked in Tang Ling's direction, Tang Ling seemed to have sensed it, turned to look at him, and smiled at him.

Tang Ling's gaze was gentle and affectionate, causing Qi Xiao to raise the corners of his mouth slightly. He wanted to go back to the guild hall soon so that he could hold Tang Ling in his arms, instead of just taking a cursory glance across many people like now. .

Although it was a palace banquet, it was different from Tang Ling's dust-cleaning banquet last time. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, all households had to reunite, and His Majesty could not keep all the courtiers in the palace city, so the banquet was dismissed early.

Qi Xiao had just arrived at Haishi when he left the palace, so it was too early, but on Mid-Autumn Eve, there was a lantern festival and night market in Yuanjing City, and there were fireworks at Zishi, so it was a lively time.

Qi Xiao got into the carriage, Tang Ling was already waiting for him.

Tang Ling smiled, Qi Xiao went up to him without saying a word, kissed him, and hugged him in his arms.

"Are you tired?" Tang Ling raised her hand to caress Qi Xiao's forehead and eyebrows. Qi Xiao went out early in the morning, and saw that his face was tired during the moon festival, but it was the first time he saw Qi Xiao's upright appearance , It's a little funny and I think it's very cute.

"What are you laughing at? Like me so much?"

"Yes, I like it."

Qi Xiao couldn't help but kissed Tang Ling again, he wanted to immediately rub Tang Ling into his arms and love her in every possible way.

Baixi Bridge drives away from Miyagi.

Tang Ling heard the noise of people outside the carriage, which was extremely lively, and it was getting more and more lively, so she couldn't help asking: "Aren't we going back to the same hall?"

"Take you to eat first.

You didn't eat much today, and you drank too much wine. Do you feel sick to your stomach? "

Tang Ling shook her head slightly, he still remembered the last palace banquet, and replied: "I didn't drink much, it's not uncomfortable."

Baixiqiao drove round and round, and finally stopped in an alley, knocked on the door frame of the carriage, and said through the curtain, "There are a lot of people on the street tonight. Driving is not allowed in Dongshi, so we can only park outside."

Qi Xiao led Tang Ling out of the car, and said to Bai Xiqiao, "Don't wait for us, you can go back first."

Bai Xiqiao rubbed his back teeth and said, "Tsk, what a heartless white-eyed wolf."

Qi Xiao laughed out loud, and pulled Tang Ling away without looking back.