Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

The Xinggong had already been tidied up, and the Xuchun Palace was brightly lit, and the stove had already been lit.

Xu Guanchen entered the door, his face was still red, he didn't want others to see him, he hurriedly took off his fox fur, threw it to Eunuch Cheng, and walked inside.

Xiao Zhi followed behind him obediently, raised his hand and took the fox fur back.

Xu Guanchen entered the inner room, as he thought, there were grass futons for meditation and rosary beads and herbs by bypassing the screen.He gritted his teeth, tied two knots with vanilla bitterly, and was about to meditate.

Xiao Zhi approached from behind him, flipped off the fox fur casually, and threw the fox fur on him, and the hood covered half of his face.

Xu Guanchen remained motionless, as if he had fallen into a trance for a moment.

Xiao Zhi sat down beside him, lifted his hood slightly, and saw that even his ears were red.It is really difficult for him to pretend to be settled just like that.

Just thinking he was interesting, Xiao Zhi touched his earlobe and called him in a low voice: "Taoist."

Xu Guanchen remained motionless, as if the old god was there.But Xiao Zhi felt that his ears seemed to be getting more and more red, and his fingertips seemed to be getting hotter and hotter.

Xiao Zhi pinched his earlobe expressionlessly, then called him lightly: "Little Taoist priest?"

In the end, I stopped calling him and just pinched him, pinching him once and for all.

Xu Guanchen was so troubled by him that he couldn't help it, as if his whole body was only sensitive to the earlobe touched by him.He opened his eyes, patted his hand away, and pretended to be fierce: "What are you doing! I have evening classes..."

Seeing Xiao Zhi's gloomy face, he was very displeased when his hands were slapped away.

Xu Guanchen's heart skipped a beat, he frowned and struggled for a while, then held his hand and put it to his ear: "Your Majesty, please play."

He bit the word "please" hard.

Xiao Zhi couldn't hold it back, he curled his lips into a smile, pinched his face, and said, "Just meditate."

Xu Guanchen nodded and responded.

Originally, Eunuch Xiaocheng stayed outside, so he didn't know how Feiyang got in by bypassing him.Feiyang poked his head out from the screen, shook the rabbit lamp in his hand, and said to Xu Guanchen: "Brother, rabbit eyes."

The rabbit lamp still lacks two red eyes, he wants Xu Guanchen to help him put them on.

Xu Guanchen coaxed him: "Brother will draw for you tomorrow."

Feiyang pouted: "Tomorrow will be the Lantern Festival."

"When you wake up tomorrow morning, my brother will draw for you."

Feiyang was about to make a fuss, Xu Guanchen stretched out a finger, pressed it against his lips, and "hush" at him: "Brother is going to meditate, Feiyang, please be good, don't make any noise."

Feiyang pursed his lips, stomped his feet, turned around and left.

Xiao Zhi saw Xu Guanchen's fair and slender fingers pressed against his lips, even the corners of Xu Guanchen's mouth were red, and he had tasted it just now.His mind moved slightly, and he followed his heart, and he took a sip when he hugged him.

Xiao Zhi didn't have the slightest intention of repenting or correcting his excessive behavior, and even indulged in it, refusing to correct it after repeated admonitions.

Turning the dazed Xu Guanchen around and telling him to sit on the straw futon, Xiao Zhi pretended to be serious and said: "Taoist, you can meditate."

After he left, Xu Guanchen lay down on the desk, feeling like an overcooked shrimp, the kind that was still hot and steaming just out of the pan.

meditate?This is a violation of the precepts, how can he still meditate?

Xiao Zhi, when he is happy, is occasionally easy-going and gentle, but usually has a sinister and domineering appearance, and his thoughts are also weird.

Getting along with him is not an easy task.

Xu Guanchen originally thought so too.

At night, the stove in Xuchun Hall was burning brightly, and Xiao Zhi was hugging her stickyly, just before falling asleep, Xu Guanchen suddenly thought differently.

In the early morning, Xu Guanchen patted the bed beside him, it was empty, Xiao Zhi had already woken up.

He rubbed his eyes, sat up with the quilt in his arms, calmed down for a while, got up and went to bed.

Still sleepy, Xu Guanchen dressed and washed like a ghost.

Eunuch Xiaocheng pushed open half of the window sash and looked at the sky. It was still early and the sky was twilight.

Mr. Cheng said fairly: "The view of the Star-picking Terrace on the west side is good, do you want to go and have a look?"

At that time Xu Guanchen was sitting on the futon, making up yesterday's evening class, but he couldn't make up for it, so he yawned and stood up: "Then I'll go for a walk."

He put on a crane cloak, carried a hand stove, went out of the palace gate, and walked west along the corridor that was still lit with palace lanterns.

As soon as he left, Feiyang came to Xuchun Hall with a rabbit lamp on his back to ask him to draw rabbit eyes.

Fei Yang poked his head in and saw Eunuch Xiao Cheng tidying up in the palace, so he asked, "Where's brother?"

Eunuch Xiaocheng put down the curtain in front of the bed that was just about to be hung up, and lied to him in a low voice: "Brother Guanchen is still asleep."

"Oh." Feiyang nodded obediently, "Then Feiyang will come back later."

It was still snowing in the morning, and the wind from the mountains was blowing obliquely.Xu Guanchen shuffled along the corridor, and the fine snow blown into the corridor fell on Xu Guanchen's hair.

The star picking platform is not high, but it has a wide field of vision, with clouds rising from the mountains and snow falling in the vastness, which has a special artistic conception.

Xu Guanchen lay on the side of the railing to watch the scene, and as he watched, his thoughts went to nowhere.

Someone approached from behind him, and put the hood on him with a wave of his hand.

Xiao Zhi stood beside him and watched the scenery with him.

The two stood like this for a while, Xu Guanchen asked: "In the past three years, have I really had a clear conscience?"

Xiao Zhi looked at him firmly: "You have never been ashamed of yourself." He asked again: "I haven't remembered it yet, why did it take me so long to forget this time?"

"I don't know, maybe it's..." Maybe it's a terminal illness with no cure.

After a while, Xu Guanchen asked him again: "Who cut that scar on my back?"

Xiao Zhi didn't hesitate, and said a name: "Xiao Qi."

Xu Guanchen had guessed a little bit right at first, but he was unwilling to ask and think again, and has been procrastinating until now.

Later, when he was underground with Yang Xun in the He Mansion, Yang Xun talked about ungrateful, traitorous officials and traitors, which made him have to think about it.

At this moment when Xiao Zhi got the name, Xu Guanchen sighed deeply, as if venting his anger, he smashed the wooden railing with the small copper hand stove in his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm so mad."

Through the hood, Xiao Zhi patted his head: "Really forget everything?"

"Yeah." Xu Guanchen remembered the two dreams he had before, a big wedding night, and a cold pool to make love, "But I still remember it."

He thought for a while, turned his head to look at Xiao Zhi, and said seriously: "Now we will start a random check. I will ask, and His Majesty will answer."

The first Qiwushan Palace Memory Quiz Contest starts now.

"What kind of dessert did I have on the evening of the wedding day?"

"Cloud Cake." His Majesty scored a point.

"That night, I bit His Majesty, on the left and right?"

"Left." His Majesty took another point.

"That day at the bottom of the cold pond, I wrapped rosary beads around His Majesty's hand. How many rosary beads are there?"

"49." His Majesty scored another point.

The first Q&A competition in the memory of Qiwu Mountain Palace has come to a successful conclusion.

Xu Guanchen turned around and faced him.

It was so cold, he wanted to say a few soft words, but it was as if his tongue was frozen, and he couldn't speak. He wanted to lean against Xiao Zhi, but it was as if his body was frozen, and he couldn't move.

Xu Guanchen lay listlessly on the railing, muttering, "Three years ago, why did I..." He bumped his head against the railing.

At this time, Eunuch Xiao Cheng stood in the distance, and called out bravely: "Grandpa, did you promise something to Feiyang? Feiyang found out that Grandpa is not there, and he is making trouble."

Last night, I promised Feiyang that I would draw rabbit eyes for him as soon as I woke up.

Xu Guanchen was startled, he straightened up, thinking about Feiyang's fuss, his heart thumped, he grabbed the railing and made a gesture to turn over: "Tell him that I slipped down the mountain and fell to my death."

Eunuch Xiao Cheng lowered his head and suppressed a smile, pretending not to see: "Young Master, let's go over quickly."

Xu Guanchen leaned on the railing: "Can you explain first and persuade me?"

Xiao Zhi looked at him expressionlessly, but with a slight smile in his eyes, he grabbed his collar and caught him back.

When I went back, there was a stove burning in the side hall, and there were scattered rabbit lamps without eyes scattered on the ground.

Feiyang clasped his hands on the beam and swung angrily on the swing.

Uncle Pei and Zhong Yao were sitting by the stove warming up the fire, eating chestnuts and marching with their minds to set up the formation. When they were fiddling with the charcoal fire, they almost threw the flying rabbit lamp into the stove, causing him to groan heavily.

Seeing Xu Guanchen come in, Feiyang became even angrier.

Jumped down from a high place, grabbed the rabbit lights on the ground, and stuffed them all into his arms.

"These are all flying?" Xu Guanchen's complexion was whiter than that of a snow-white little rabbit, "Do you want to draw all of these?"

Feiyang nodded seriously.

Xu Guanchen gritted his teeth: "Okay, brother will draw for you."

Rabbit lamps are scattered all over the floor, Xu Guanchen sticks to the brush, sitting among a bunch of rabbits like a fairy.

After drawing one, Feiyang handed him another one.

The offspring and grandchildren of the rabbit are endless.

Eunuch Xiao Cheng tiptoed into the pile of rabbits, and put hot tea beside the fairy rabbit: "Grandpa, take your time to draw, there are still in the next room."

Xu Guanchen shook his hands, and drew a red beard on the rabbit's face: "Who, bought him so much?"

Eunuch Xiaocheng glanced at Uncle Pei and Zhong Yao who were talking loudly.

These two generals hurt children.

Xu Guanchen dipped in the cinnabar: "All right, I'll draw."

At this time, Uncle Pei and Zhong Yao were talking about the deployment of Yanbei, the war with Xiling in recent years, and when they got excited, they slapped their thighs and stood up.Reflected by the fire, it looks like a confidant who met each other late and cherished each other.

Xiao Zhi was also sitting with them, but he didn't speak much, his eyes were slightly downcast, and he was fiddled with the rosary beads that Xu Guanchen gave him hidden in his sleeve.

Eunuch Xiao Cheng raised his hand to refill the tea, and took down the almost scorched chestnuts from the stove.

The smell of fireworks and human feelings, suddenly, Xu Guanchen really wanted to go to Qingzhou to find his master, he wanted to return to vulgarity!Pay it back now!Completely pay back!

Feiyang leaned over to look at the rabbit in his hand, and said angrily, "Cross-eyed!"

"Ah?" Xu Guanchen looked down, and the red eyes of the rabbit in his hand met.

Xu Guanchen pinched Feiyang's face and picked up the pen: "Feiyang close your eyes, brother will draw flowers for you."

While painting flowers, Xu Guanchen quietly threw the cross-eyed rabbit lamp to Eunuch Cheng, who hid it in his sleeve and took it out.

Rabbit killer Xu Guanchen.

Xu Guanchen damaged the eyes of several rabbits. He accidentally stepped on one while walking.When he finally finished painting, he stretched himself, leaned back, and crushed another one.

Being harassed by Feiyang, Xu Guanchen puckered his mouth, lay down on the ground and pretended to be dead, and was still wearing a white Taoist robe, stretching out two fingers to compare to his head.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Xu Guanchen pretended to be a rabbit, or a dead rabbit, "Is this okay?"

The "rabbit" fell to the side helplessly, crushing another real rabbit.

Feiyang held up the broken lantern, tears in his eyes.Xu Guanchen really had no choice but to say, "You might as well hang up your brother too."

He said this loudly, Xiao Zhi, General Pei and Zhong Yao who were in front turned their heads together, none of them could hold back, and burst out laughing, covering their faces to hold back the laughter, it was very hard work.

Feiyang hummed, picked up the rabbit lamp and went out.

Xu Guanchen, who worked so hard as a rabbit, raised his head and saw Feiyang go out, so he also stood up, brushed his robe, went to sit between Xiao Zhi and the others, and talked to them.

The fire is warm, pour two glasses of water and wine.

Xu Guanchen didn't drink, and as soon as he came over, Eunuch Xiao Cheng poured hot tea.Porcelain cups mixed with silver.

Just now we were talking about Xiling, which borders Yanbei. The two countries have been at war all year round. Both Uncle Pei and Zhong Yao have stayed in Yanbei for a long time, so when talking about these things, they have a tacit understanding.

"Xiling has the habit of training martial puppets. Wu puppets have lost their minds, and all of them are highly skilled in martial arts. One can beat ten. On the battlefield, they only know how to execute orders, and they don't even know pain." Uncle Pei sighed, "These years of fighting, in Wu puppets On the puppet, we have suffered a lot."

"These things... It's not that my father didn't think about it, it's just..." Zhong Yao shook his head, looked around, saw that Feiyang was not there, and said in a low voice, "Feiyang was originally a martial puppet. In that small battle, the people who fought They were all dead, leaving him alone. He was going to bite his tongue to kill himself, but was saved by Guanchen. Like a little wolf cub, he couldn't bite his tongue, so he bit people, and bit off a piece of flesh."

Zhong Yao glanced at Xu Guanchen, and Xu Guanchen lowered his eyes.

"Later, after a long period of treatment, I taught him to speak and recognize people little by little, and gradually he became sensible." Zhong Yao said again, "The method of practicing martial arts is too sinister, so it cannot be used to train people."

Uncle Pei nodded, thoughtfully: "That's it."

The atmosphere was a bit dignified, and Zhong Yao laughed and said: "We Feiyang used to forget the nature of the puppet Wu several times. In the middle of the night, he carried a dagger into the observation room and stood by the bed to watch him. The audience was so frightened that he could not Dare to move, dare not shout, hugged the quilt, stared at each other with big eyes, and looked at each other all night."

"The two of them were like this. They fought from March to August. It snowed in Yanbei in August. One night, Feiyang went over with a dagger. I didn't care. On the second day, I didn't hear the snow in the observation room There was a movement, and my heart was miserable, Guanchen must have asked him to be slaughtered. In the end—"

Zhong Yao smiled: "It turned out to be too cold, the two of them lay on the bed covered with a quilt, and fell asleep next to each other. The flying dagger was still in his hand, and Guan Chen was afraid that he would take advantage of him falling asleep. Do it, just hold his hand."

Xu Guanchen drank his tea with his head down, and said, "Cousin, this is not funny."

Zhong Yao said with a smile: "This is so funny, I laughed with my father and mother for three days at that time."

"Why even aunt and uncle..." Xu Guanchen shook his hands, and most of the tea in the cup fell on Zhong Yao's clothes, "You gourd ladle."

Zhong Yao picked up the hem of his clothes and dried them near the stove. In order to save face for Xu Guanchen, he hurriedly added: "However, we Feiyang are very good now, and we listen to Guanchen's words the most. Guanchen told him not to eat sugar, he If you really don’t eat candy, Guanchen tells him to stop making trouble, and he really doesn’t…”

Feiyang appeared in front of everyone at the right time, holding the broken rabbit lamp by Xu Guanchen in one hand, and a snow-white pompom in the other, and looked at Xu Guanchen: "Brother Guanchen, rabbit tail."

That snow-white pompom was a fat sheep's tail that Uncle Pei went to shear the sheep himself, and hooked it for him with a needle.

Xu Guanchen felt something was wrong: "What?"

"Playing a rabbit requires a tail." Feiyang said seriously, "Hang it under the eaves."

"Pfft..." Zhong Yao held back his laughter, "I take back what I just said."

Xu Guanchen thumped the ground in pain, and questioned Feiyang: "How can you betray brother!"

"But brother, you broke my rabbit." Feiyang sat down in front of him and poked his head in front of him, "I will pay for it."

"Okay, okay." Uncle Pei pushed Feiyang back and began to coax the child, "Send someone to buy it again. Brother Guanchen has drawn so many rabbit eyes that his eyes are blurred. Let brother Guanchen rest for a while. ..."

After coaxing the child for a quarter of an hour, Feiyang finally let go and wanted to go out to play for a while.

He was about to leave, but Xiao Zhi who didn't say a word suddenly said, "Whose tail belongs to it?"

Uncle Pei explained: "Return to Your Majesty, that's a fat sheep's tail, hooked with wool."

Xiao Zhi nodded, and his right hand, which was hidden by his sleeve and was playing with the beads, secretly grabbed Xu Guanchen's waist.

Xu Guanchen punched him backhandedly.One by one, they all want to see him with a tail.

Aware of the secret rivalry between the two of them, Uncle Pei looked over suspiciously.So Xu Guanchen smirked, Xiao Zhi was expressionless, in front of elders, one should love each other and respect each other as guests.

The topic once again returned to Xiling.

Zhong Yao said: "I received the news a few years ago that the old lord of Xiling is at the end of his battle, and several princes fought fiercely among themselves. Those who were filial before the sick bed, those who were loyal to the court, and those who did their best on the battlefield..."

Uncle Pei answered, "There are still people who want to come to Jinling to do their best."

"what?"

"In March, the third prince Yuan Ce of Xiling will come to discuss the truce and delineate the border in the northwest."

"Yuan Ce..." Zhong Yao pinched his brows, "He is the one who manages the martial puppets in Xiling. He also often comes to the northwest, and has fought in armor. I have met him a few times from a distance. He is indeed a puppet. ...a great character."

Zhong Yao thought for a while, and then said: "He has made great military achievements. If he doesn't stay in Dajing at this time, if his father goes away, no matter which of his brothers ascend the throne, he will not spare him. Could it be..."

Could it be that you want to come to Jinling for foreign aid?

"But he has also been in the northwest, and he knows how powerful it is, so how can he be sure that Jinling will help him?"

Zhong Yao muttered for a while, but it was Uncle Pei who refilled the wine for him: "At a young age, I think too much. Let's save the matter of March until March. You are not in Dajing. Leave it to Dajing's informants to investigate."

It was cold, so I drank two more glasses.

At noon, after eating, Zhong Yao and Uncle Pei hiccupped and went to Uncle Pei's room to look at the map.Feiyang continued to play with his rabbit lamp, and wanted to hang the rabbit lamp all over the eaves.

Xu Guanchen touched Xiao Zhi's forehead with his hand, he smelled of alcohol and felt a little hot.

Eunuch Xiao Cheng didn't know where he went, no one could be found in the entire Xuchun Palace, Xiao Zhi grabbed his sleeve again, so Xu Guanchen had no choice but to help him back home alone.

He didn't know Xiao Zhi's drinking capacity, he just thought he was drunk.

Whether consciously or not, Xiao Zhi leaned towards him.Just as Xu Guanchen closed the door, Xiao Zhi pushed him in and fell down on the couch together with him.

Xiao Zhi closed his eyes, his usual expression was the same, but he kissed him.Very ordinary tone, no different from usual, cold and indifferent, but what he said was that it was so hot and swollen.

Xu Guanchen's face turned red immediately, worse than drinking alcohol, he let him mutter, and held him firmly in his arms.

In his words, there was actually another sentence: "When will you wear a tail?"

Not in the slightest drunken state, and still speaking very clearly, Xiao Zhi's play was really not serious, so he could only deceive Xu Guanchen.

Xu Guanchen was particularly easy to deceive.

Because he was still awake, Xiao Zhi also knew that Xu Guanchen was ill and couldn't really mess with him, so he let go unconsciously.

While he let go, the ascetic little Taoist crawled away from under him, pressed him on the couch, and covered him with a quilt.

Xu Guanchen glanced up and down the brocade quilt, turned around and brought a lot of scriptures, and dragged a small bench.

The little Taoist was grateful for his calmness and self-control when he was drunk, let himself go, sat down on the stool, and opened a page of scriptures: "Xiao Yuzhi, let me read the scriptures for you. I used to read for you for three years, but now it seems like a long time." I haven't read it to you."

In fact, Xiao Zhi didn't like listening to him recite sutras in the past.

Since he likes to read it, let him read it.

After reading for a while, Xu Guanchen looked up at him: "Why don't you sleep?"

Not only did Xiao Zhi not like listening to him recite sutras before, but every time he recited sutras, Xiao Zhi actually did not fall asleep.But guessing that it was about the same time, it was time to let him go, so he closed his eyes.

Later, when Xu Guanchen climbed up to the star-picking platform, he saw lights lit up on the nine-story tower in Jinling city in the distance.Looking back, candles were lit up and down the palace, especially the Xuchun Palace, where rabbit lanterns hung one after another under the eaves.

Xiao Zhi approached him silently and touched his head for too long, Xu Guanchen pushed him away.

In the darkness, the hearty laughter of the old man came: "My good boy's Tai Chi Cloud Pushing Hand is getting better and better."

Xu Guanchen was shocked and looked around.

There was a rustling sound.Xu Guanchen thought for a while, then asked Xiao Zhi: "Over there...it seems to be a cliff? What happened to me just now...I seem to have heard my master speak."

An old man dressed in foreign costumes and with many braids on his head came out from behind the cliff.

His clothes were really weird, Xu Guanchen didn't dare to recognize him until he walked all the way to the place where the candlelight could be seen, he was still not sure: "Master?"

The old man responded with a smile: "Hey, good boy."

A burly middle-aged man walked out from behind the old man, stood still, and clasped his fists at Xu Guanchen: "Uncle Guanchen."

Xu Guanchen nodded in response: "Nephew Zhou."

This is Xu Guanchen's Taoist master and Taoist nephew.

Although Nephew Zhou is much older than him, he is a generation behind, so he is called "Little Martial Uncle".

His Taoist master, Taoist name Yuqingzi, often said: "There are only zero and countless times of violating the precepts. My good disciple, be careful not to break the precepts."

"Good boy." Yu Qingzi took out a rattle from his bosom, "Look what Master brought you."

"Master..." Xu Guanchen wondered, "I'm not ten years old."

"Ah, I took it wrong." Yuqingzi took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms again, stepped forward to grab his hand, squinted his eyes and gave him his pulse, "How is it? How is your illness?"