Lei Yue Longmen

Fires are not allowed in the imperial mausoleum, and even at night, lights cannot be lit. Therefore, guarding the mausoleum is a very depressing job. When it gets dark, you basically have to go to bed.But some mausoleum guards came up with a workaround. In summer, they would catch some fireflies and put them in pouches to use as lights. In winter, there was no other way but to hope that the moonlight would be brighter, or when it snowed. At this time, the ground will reflect light.

Now is the Mid-Autumn Festival, fireflies are scarce, and a pouch is extremely precious.When Eunuch Liang handed over the two pouches to her, Cen Zhu was flattered. After thanking him three times, he hurried to the "studio" to change the painting.There's one last little piece left, and with these lights, it'll be done tonight.

She tied the two pouches together, hung them from a pen stand, and drew lines with light.At this time, Li Jingchen pushed the door open and walked in. It was so dark outside, Cen Zhu thought who was it?Seeing that it was her, he quickly put down his pen, took her over, and closed the door.

"Haven't you finished the painting yet?" Li Jingzhu seemed to be still angry with her, and his tone seemed light and airy, making it unpredictable.

"It's almost there, it's almost half an hour at most, and the painting can be finished."

"Then you paint." She moved a bench in the room consciously, and sat on the other side of the painting table, looking ready to watch,

"Uh," Cen Zhu was a little confused.He also returned to the table, hesitantly said: "You are here...?"

"I'll tell you when you finish drawing."

"Oh." A great master sat across from him. Cen Zhu couldn't concentrate at all. Just as he was about to write, he caught a glimpse of the face in the shadow opposite him who was concentrating on appreciating the painting, and put down his pen again. , "You better talk about it now, otherwise I really can't draw it."

Li Jingchen was expecting her to draw a pen, when he heard this, he lifted it up suspiciously, and stared at her strangely: "Why? Why can't you draw it?"

Cen Zhu thought to himself that this sister really doesn't have a little bit of herself? She looks better than a painting? Self-conscious, like this? Seriously acting cute, how can people concentrate.Sighing: "I like to paint first? Think about it in my mind, and draw whatever comes to mind."

"And then?" Li Jingxi rested his hands on his knees, and waited for the next sentence with his chin slightly raised, "What does this have to do with your inability to draw?"

With a hopeless expression on her face, Cen Zhu curled his lips and said, "I want to paint a house? You are here. I am worried that I will paint you."

At first, Li Jingchen didn't understand what she meant, and doubts appeared in his eyes.When I think about it, her? It means that I draw what I think of, and when I draw her, I am thinking of her.A gust of hot air spread from the base of the neck, and slowly went up along the base of the ears, burning the entire face red.

"I won't tell you anymore!" She stood up and hurried to the door.As soon as his hands touched the two doors, his waist was hugged from behind, his fingers trembled, and he curled up slightly.A gentle body was pressed against her back, her chin crossed her shoulders, and her hands were clasped on her lower abdomen, rubbing her cheeks, "Are you still angry with me?"

Li Jingchen's neck was rubbed, and it was itchy and tired, and he didn't dare to turn his head.She even wanted to escape a little bit, afraid of the embarrassment of having her scorching cheek rub against her skin and being stolen by her.That's why he kept his mouth shut.

Cen Zhu felt her uneasiness, chuckled lightly, wrapped his arms tighter, and pushed her back.When she arrived at the table, she was pressed to sit down, "Okay, you sit here and supervise, and I will finish the painting soon."

After talking really? Roll up your sleeves and start drawing seriously, no more teasing.Li Jingchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and quietly watched her draw meticulously under the two small firefly lights. On the pen stand next to the paint box, there were more than a dozen pens of different colors. , Change a pen after a few strokes, and the paint is accidentally scratched on the face, and I don’t notice it.

"You're done!"

Three quarters of an hour later, Cen Zhu finished the last stroke, feeling relaxed all over.Packed up the writing and ink utensils, and called Li Jingchen over, "Come and see, this has not yet been built? Fushou Garden, how about it?"

Li Jingchen came around, took out a handkerchief and wiped the ink stains on her cheeks first, but Cen Zhuo smiled and grabbed her wrist: "No need to wipe, I will clean my hands later. Take a look." This picture."

Li Jingchen was urged to sweep it on the table, and commented: "The painting is not bad. It's just such a large-scale building. How much money will it cost if all the projects are calculated?"

Cen Zhuo held Nangying's light in her hand, and said with a smile, "What kind of money are you mentioning, how vulgar!"

"Is it okay if you don't mention money?" Li Jingchen gave her a white look, "Where is the court not short of money now? The governor of Zhihe is in urgent need of money, and the two rivers also need money to sort out the water transportation. The household department is almost unable to turn around. "

Cen Zhu stopped talking, knowing that if this matter was discussed, it would be endless, and it might lead to new? Disputes, so he simply cut off from? himself?He walked up to her and hugged her waist: "Okay, let's not talk about this. Now that I have finished painting, tell me quickly, what's the matter with you coming to me?"

Li Jingchen also sorted out his emotions, and asked quietly: "Is your peony pendant still there?"

"Yes, it's hanging around my neck!" Cen Zhu said, "Why do you remember this peony pendant?"

"Cen Zhuo," Li Jingzhuo suddenly looked directly at her, "I suspect that the owner of Peony Seal is in the Imperial Tomb right now."

Cen Zhu was taken aback, "Why? What?"

"Because? She is the mausoleum guardian of Jingling." Li Jingchen didn't directly reveal the person's? identity.

"The person who guards the tomb of Jingling?" Cen Zhu was slightly surprised. That is the person who guarded the tomb for the emperor Shizu. "Is she a relative of your family?"

"That's it!"

"What did I say, I feel that her temperament is not like ordinary people. She must be a relative of the emperor, right? Could it be a descendant of the ancestor?"

Li Jingchen shook his head, "I guess she lives in the old house on the east bank of Yanhu Lake? That 'Madam'."

When Cen Zhu heard her say this, he didn't react at first, but then he laughed and said to himself, "Impossible, the owner of the Peony Seal is only in his 40s, and that old lady? The lady is in her [-]s or [-]s."

"Are you sure what you saw? Is the real? Master? Did you forget that Jingxi saw? That 'Madam' is only in her 40s."

"This... I really didn't think about it." At first, she felt that Li Jingxi was deliberately antagonizing her, so she fabricated a middle-aged woman to refute her old lady.Now after thinking about it for a while, I thought to myself: "Could it be that I am wrong and she is right? That old lady is not the old? Master? Someone else?"

Li Jingbai seemed to guess what she was thinking, and reminded: "If she deliberately hides her identity from you, you will never be able to detect it?"

Cen Zhu scratched his face, "When you said that, I remembered it. Not long after I came back from Langshan, that 'madam' sent me a large bouquet of osmanthus flowers and asked me to make osmanthus cakes. At that time? I thought that lady was also a flower lover. If she was the 'Ms. Li' I met in Longmen County, it would be a coincidence. She must have known that I also like flowers, so she came here Sending flowers? Oh, why didn’t I think of that before?”

Hearing this, Li Jingchen was even more convinced that that person was the owner of Peony Seal.

"Hey, didn't you always want to see her? Since the lady is in the imperial tomb now, why don't you go see her?"

Li Jingchen was silent.

"what happened?"

"I……"

"Oh, I see," Cen Zhu said with an expression that I understand, "Do you want me to introduce you to you when you come to see me? It's easy. I'll accompany you tomorrow morning."

"This way? Is it bad to take the liberty to go?"

Cen Zhu thought, "How could it be? Anyway, you will go to Jingling to pay respects the day after tomorrow, and you will meet sooner or later? It is reasonable for you to go to investigate in advance and visit the guardians of Jingling? Well!"

"It's really a coincidence. How come she happens to be the guardian of Jingling?" Cen Zhu thought it was a bit inconceivable. He didn't doubt the identity of the guardian of Jingling, but he was very puzzled. ?Why don't Jingling mausoleum guards live in Jingling all the year round, instead they travel all over the country?And grandpa Zhu Tongluo was rescued when he was young? Who is that "Madam"?What is the relationship with the current owner of Peony Seal?

"But I... I'm worried..."

"worry about what?"

Li Jingchen couldn't tell her the truth, she was worried that the owner of Peony Seal would doubt her intentions, or that the owner of Peony Seal would not accept her.Help is secondary. She no longer needs to rely on others' help to achieve her wish as she did a year ago.I just want to meet this old ancestor, and admire the glory of the man I have admired for a long time.

But in such a mood, Cen Zhu had no way to understand it, so he only wanted to help Li Jingzhu with his ideas, "If you are worried that you will not be able to talk to that lady, you might as well take the second princess with you tomorrow. They? Didn't they pick up two along the way?" Is the princess going? It’s just right, if you bring some gifts, you can treat it as a thank you for the second princess. The so-called stretching out your hand and not slapping people with smiling faces, let alone to thank you? "

The two were discussing "Cao Cao" together, but no one thought that "Cao Cao" himself would come.

When he heard Liangyue's announcement, Li Jingchen was almost stunned, and before he could react, he was passively pushed out of the room by Cen Zhuo.

When I first entered the "studio", the sky was still covered with overcast clouds, but at this moment the moon crawled out from the dark clouds, and sprinkled patches of silver light on the floor tiles.

Two figures, a man and a woman, stood in the shadow cast by the mausoleum gate, and their faces could not be discerned through the night.But it can be seen that it is one master and one slave?The man stood slightly behind the woman. Judging from his physique, he was indeed that unfathomable young man.The woman is tall and tall, with a cloak wrapped around her shoulders.

He turned his head and said a few words to the man behind him.Xiang Ming stepped out of the shadow, stepped down the steps, and walked towards the stunned Wu Tianji, bowed his hands and bowed to him, "I was wrong in the afternoon, offended, Wang Haihan."

Everyone understood, so these two people came to apologize?

Wu Tianji was a little dazed, and hurriedly bowed to return the salute, "It's okay, I also have something wrong. If you don't fight, you don't know each other. The little brother is very skilled, which is admirable."

Xiang Ming said: "You are not bad." Then without saying a word, he turned and went back to the woman.The woman exchanged something with him, Xiang Ming nodded, and then the two seemed to be leaving.

Everyone couldn't help being slightly surprised, these two people came and left suddenly, as if they just stopped by to apologize?

Seeing that the two of them were about to go out, Li Jingxuan suddenly mustered up his courage and called out: "You two, please stay."

She crossed the yard and walked quickly past the two of them, when Cen Zhu saw this, he quickly rushed up with the firefly pouch.The other party turned his head and looked at the person below the steps without moving his eyes.

"What's the matter?"

Seeing that the other party didn't answer, she said again: "Yuer is stubborn, I have already punished him, if there is anything wrong, I hope Haihan."

"No, no!"

Li Jing knew that she had misunderstood what he meant, so he quickly explained, looking up at the man slightly, but still couldn't see her whole picture clearly.However, relying on his memory of her portrait, Li Jingzhu seems to be able to imagine the other person's eyebrows and eyes.

She suppressed the excitement in her heart, and said slowly: "When my younger sister rushed to the imperial mausoleum, she was homeless because she had no money to ride a car. Fortunately, my wife kindly gave her a ride. Jing Chen was grateful and could not repay her."

She seemed to be smiling, her thin lips curled up slightly, she looked at her as if nothing, and said with a smile in her mouth: "It's a small effort, it's not worth mentioning. Lingmei is very talkative and likable, but she is not deeply involved in the world." , don’t let her live alone in the future.”

Being sized up by her meaningful eyes, Li Jingchen had the illusion of being naked on the chopping board and letting others slaughter him. He was a little weird and a little scared.

"Jing Chen obeyed."

The man wrapped himself in a cloak, turned around and walked out slowly.