Lei Yue Longmen

Cen Zhu couldn't leave? She was worried, her painting task was not finished yet, why did Li Pinghong give her more work.Now that the imperial decree has been issued, she has to follow wherever Li Jingxi is.Even if she is going to the underground palace, she has to go along with her.

How miserable!

Seeing her frowning look, Li Jingchen comforted her, "Actually, you can bring the sketches here to draw. The hall is very spacious."

"Maybe? That's the only way!" Cen Zhu said dejectedly.After catching up with the guard who delivered the decree, he asked him to go to the Cen Mansion when he returned, and asked the housekeeper, Lao Chen, to send her the sketch of the Fushou Garden in the study room, as well as a set of stationery utensils.The guard readily complied.

Li Jingbai then ordered Eunuch Liang to arrange a place for Cen Zhuo to rest.I too? Going back to rest.At this moment, a person came rushing on the imperial road, it was Lan Xi, the guard of the Eastern Palace.

"Lan Xi, why are you here? Didn't I ask you to guard the East Palace?"

"It's me." As soon as the person came, Li Jingchen realized that the person was not Lan Xi, and the voice seemed familiar.

"It's me, Wu Tianji."

"Consort Wu?"

It turned out that this person was Wu Tianji who was disguised as Lanxi. If you look carefully, you can still distinguish the original outline, "Why are you here?"

"Your aunt sent me to keep you safe. This appearance is to conceal."

Li Jingzhu knew that Li Pingzhu must have received the message he sent.

"Last night, your aunt went into the palace to find out the facts from the emperor. I can be sure that the emperor really sent you to sacrifice to the imperial mausoleum. There is no other intention. However, just in case, she still asked me to protect you. These few days, As Lan Xi, I will accompany His Highness around. Your Highness, just give orders if you have anything!"

Li Jingzhu was very moved. She knew that Li Pingzhu really cared about her own safety, so she acted in such a risky way. "Thank you, aunt and uncle."

The two walked into the imperial mausoleum together, "By the way, my aunt asked my father the truth like this, didn't my father doubt my aunt?"

Wu Tianji knew what she meant, once the eldest princess showed signs of favoring Li Jingchen, Li Pinghong would take action.

"Don't worry, your aunt is such a cunning person. She doesn't need to ask the emperor directly. She enters the palace in the name of interceding for King Dun, and nothing will happen."

"Pleading for King Dun?"

"Yes, the emperor slapped Concubine Pei last night. King Dun was so frightened that he couldn't sleep or eat, so he came to the mansion to ask your aunt to help him find out. This? It's a door-to-door deal. Your aunt went into the palace to help him without saying a word. Asked. The emperor thought she was here to intercede for King Dun. Ask your aunt to reassure him. This matter has nothing to do with his future. Then your aunt mentioned how to deal with Tu Yuanshan. Auntie wants you to rest assured that as long as the Tu family is still there, the emperor will never touch the East Palace. He slapped Concubine Pei just to calm people's hearts. After all, to humiliate you is to humiliate Tu Yuanshan. Concubine Pei can't even handle such a thing Qing, that palm is what she deserves!"

Li Jingchen was in a complicated mood, but she could completely understand what Li Pinghong was doing.Yesterday, Concubine Pei was at best fanning the flames, and the real "culprit" was actually Li Jingxi.If it is really pursued, just a collision? The empress dowager of the Cixiang Palace is enough to give the sisters a big label of unfilial piety.

However, in order to appease Tu Yuanshan who was far away, Li Pinghong didn't mention a word after that.Instead, it pushed Concubine Pei to the forefront.Now the government and the public agree that it was Concubine Pei who provoked the relationship between the Queen Mother and the East Palace, and no one will pursue them anymore.This? It was a happy event for everyone, but Li Jingchen couldn't get excited.Maybe, she was expecting too much, wanting too much.I always hope that there is still a trace of warmth in these clear interest disputes.But often in exchange for repeated hope and disappointment process.Perhaps only when the oil is exhausted can she truly find herself.

When Cen Zhu fell asleep, the sky suddenly darkened, and soon there were pea-sized raindrops, and she was awakened by a loud thunderclap.Hearing the continuous "cracking" sound outside, I realized that it was raining outside.

She got off the bed and walked out the door, standing on the steps of the west wing, looking around? The rain curtain that almost formed a waterfall, and merged into a boiling river on the ground, wondering which man in the sky was pouring water!

This? It was the biggest rain in Cen Zhuo's memory since the beginning of autumn.

Alas, it is really unlucky for the priest to encounter such a ghostly weather!

At this time, two figures also came out from the opposite side room. Cen Zhuo's gaze pierced through layers of rain curtains, looking towards the slim woman in plain clothes on the left.She raised her forehead slightly, and stared at the sky above her head intently and calmly.At this moment, the sky presents a dull gray-blue color, and the clouds are turbulent like balls of cotton soaked in ink, trying to squeeze tears down.The huge thunder struck down in the sky, piercing the roots of the lightning tree into the clouds and spreading to the soil of the world.Her tall figure was monopolized by a cloud of mist like a river of milky water, she couldn't see it clearly, and the hazy silhouette took Cen Zhuangyuan's mind away?

"Weisheng and the woman are under the beam? If the woman does not come, the water will not go away, and they will die by hugging the beam and pillars." If Weisheng is expecting a woman? This is so fascinating, even if it is drowned by heavy rain, it is worth it Bar!

The moment the woman on the opposite side lowered her eyes, she also saw her.Captured in the rain she seemed to be having a good laugh.You look silly, what are you laughing at?The strange thing is that the depressed mood also? Followed? That smile is gone forever.

Li Jingchen asked Eunuch Liang to give her a room in the west wing to complete the drawing task, and when Lao Chen sent the sketches, he asked him to arrange the sketches of Fushou Garden and the pen and ink one by one according to the position when they were in the study. ? In this way, Cen Zhuo can invest in the first time without having to adapt now.When Cen Zhu entered the room, he thought he was back in his study, and scratched his head in surprise, thinking that it was probably caused by Old Chen.

Li Jingxi likes to stay in bed on rainy days the most, and refuses to get up for lunch.Cen Zhu couldn't wish for it, so he spent half an hour painting in the room when he had time.Li Jingchen, Eunuch Liang and Rumei are all attracted? Come to observe.Later even Wu Tianji and Yuezhong also came in, but the two have always been only interested in martial arts, see?? After a while they felt bored and left again?.

Rumei praised her for her good painting, and Cen Zhuo smiled and explained, "I'm ashamed, this? I didn't do it. Most of the scenes in the painting were done by the painter Zhang Shang. I just did some embellishments. This? Most of the pavilions, towers, pavilions, and landscape layouts are copied from the original works by me."

"Copy the same thing?"

"Well. The original work is already very perfect. It's just that the emperor wanted to enlarge the size of the main halls and gates because of the abundant funds for the construction of the garden. Because the mother of the painter Zhang is ill, please resign and go home to take care of her mother. So I changed the painting. The responsibility fell to me."

"That's amazing? It's amazing. It's not easy to copy a painting intact." Rumei said with a smile.After leaving the West Chamber, Rumei asked Li Jingchen with admiration: "Is this Mr. Cen from the Academy of Painting?"

Eunuch Liang smiled and said, "Can you underestimate him? He is Cen Shilang of the household department, he is the third rank, or the number one scholar."

"The servant of the third-rank household department? So young?"

"You haven't seen it, have you?" Eunuch Liang has never seen it either. Even Ji Wenkui, the youngest number one scholar in this dynasty, was over 30 when he became a servant. This? Cen Shilang is only 26 years old.

"Isn't it that I haven't seen it before? This Mr. Cen is an all-rounder! She must be very favored in the court, right?"

As expected, Li Jingchen made a "huh" sound.

"I guess so. Good-looking, talented, versatile, and a champion. I haven't seen such a person for many years. It's strange that he is not favored."

When Li Jingchen heard that Cen Zhu was being praised, he felt honored in his heart.Thinking about it, if Aunt Mei knew that Cen Zhu was a man of both civil and military skills, and even excelled in business, she would probably be shocked from ear to ear.If she knew that she was a woman, she was also famous in the world when she was an oiran? Even she couldn't imagine how surprised she would be.

"Hey, does she have a family?" Rumei's heart of gossip, which had been silent for a long time, flared up again.

Li Jing's mood darkened, he calmed down, and gave a faint "hmm".

"He's 26, and he's such a character, of course he's married!" Mr. Liang said fairly.

"I just hope that the second princess can find a son-in-law like Mr. Cen in the future, so that the empress and empress will be at ease under the nine springs."

After the rain stopped, Cen Zhu came out of the house, stepped on the Xie Gong clogs that Eunuch Liang lent her, stepped across the wet ground, and walked towards the mausoleum gate.Go through the doorway and stand on the steps at the door.Smelling the fresh air in the mountains after the rain felt indescribably refreshing.

Standing outside the door? For a while, admiring the green mountains after the rain is really like being in a landscape painting.There was a voice behind him, and Cen Zhu returned to the courtyard.See? Sisters Li Jingxuan and Li Jingxi came out of the east chamber one after the other and descended the steps.She hurried up to meet her, "Where are you going?"

"Let's go to the Hall of Enlightenment and pay homage to our mother. You too? Let's go together."

"This?... As a foreign minister, I am afraid that I will disturb the former empress."

Li Jingxuan smiled and said: "My wife is very good." After finishing speaking, he took a look at Li Jingxuan, "In principle, my father has issued a decree, Master Cen can go anywhere with Dai Jing. Isn't it?" Shake? Shake Dai Whale's hand.

Li Jingxi curled her lips, a little reluctantly.

"Yes, Mr. Cen might as well go together." Rumei said.

Cen Zhu didn't refuse any more, but now she was wearing wooden clogs, a little embarrassed, "Please allow me to change my shoes first!"

When they came out after changing their shoes, a group of people were already waiting in front of Yan En's door? She was gone, Cen Zhu was a little embarrassed, and stood behind Li Jingxi, pretending to be a transparent person.

Eunuch Liang opened the Yan'en gate, and a group of people stepped up the steps, passed through the Yan'en gate tower, and arrived at the second entrance courtyard of Xiling.

A magnificent hall with double eaves is located in the north of the courtyard. The hall is called the Yan En Hall, which is the standard hall for every imperial mausoleum.The hall enshrines the spiritual seat of the empress, and the bronze statue of the emperor sits in the middle.

Because Li Pinghong is still alive, only the spiritual seat of the former queen is enshrined in the Xiling Yan'en Hall.After Cen Zhu went in, he followed Li Jingzhu and others to pay homage to the bronze statue of the late empress.The bronze statue is about the size of a man, sitting on the back seat with sleeves, with a lifelike face?Cen Zhu observed secretly, and found that the former empress's face was quite similar to Li Jing's. They both had almond-eyed and oval faces, with only slightly different eyebrows, and no edges and corners at the ends.It can be seen that Li Jingzhu's folded eyebrows were passed down from Li Pinghong.

After worshiping in the Yan En Hall, they stepped into the third courtyard, which is the location of Xiling's Baocheng and Mingtang.

Baocheng is the outer city wall of Baoshan, with crenels on it, like a round castle, tightly surrounding Baoshan.

Baoshan is equivalent to the graves of ordinary people, and the underground palace is located below.It's just that the emperor's tomb is extraordinarily large and looks like a mountain, so it's called Baoshan.

There are tombstones in front of ordinary tombs, and there are also in front of Baoshan, which is in Mingtang.The Mingtang is equivalent to building a house for the emperor's tombstone.The house is located in the place where the earth and air converge in the imperial mausoleum.Underneath? There is also a very high square platform called Fangcheng.

The two princesses boarded Fangcheng and entered the Ming Hall to express their condolences.Cen Zhu didn't follow?Just look up at the square pavilion-shaped Mingtang from below.

After paying homage to the first queen, they went out of Xiling to pay homage to the first prince.The tomb of the first prince was buried in the east of Xiling, only about 11 steps away from Xiling, and the scale is several times smaller than that of the emperor's tomb.The former prince Li Jingzhi has been buried here for 15 years, and his age is always fixed at [-] years old.As long as the prince is mentioned, Liangyue and Rumei feel heartbroken.He is the queen's first child, and he has had high hopes since he was a child.Unexpectedly, it has only been five years since the Queen passed away, and he also? Followed?

Cen Zhu had heard some rumors about the former prince, and knew that he was young, smart and wise.Literary and martial arts, with extraordinary looks.If he is still alive, there is absolutely no possibility of King Dun and King Cheng getting involved in the big position.

Perhaps at that time Li Jingchao's situation would be much better, but??Maybe?Maybe, Li Jingchao's ability to govern the country will be buried here, marry an ordinary person like an ordinary woman, and live an ordinary life?

It was almost evening after returning from the prince's tomb.Li Jingxuan called Li Jingxi into the room, and told her that the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestors would be the next day, and he was going to prepare the ceremony with the ministers, so he couldn't accompany her?Tell her to follow tomorrow? Cen Zhu, don't run around.Li Jingxu reluctantly said "Oh"? With a sound, Li Jingchen had no choice but to turn around and rely on Cen Zhu.Cen Zhu also reluctantly said "Oh", but it was much more reliable than Li Jingxi's guarantee, so the empress dowager felt relieved.