hold this little monk

Spring and summer alternate year after year, and the battlefield in northern Xinjiang lasted for eight years before finally ending with the victory of Daping.However, some historians in later generations thought carefully that Liu Yan, as an unborn genius military strategist, led his sharpest army to deal with a country that had only been prosperous for 20 years, and it did not need to take eight full years at all.

Some people think that Liu Yan deliberately slowed down the pace and used the war as a bargaining chip to fight for power with the Queen.

Some people think that Liu Yan was disheartened after being imprisoned by the empress once, and did not show his full strength.

But what is the reason, the debate has lasted for thousands of years without a real conclusion.

When the army returned triumphantly, the stringed music restaurant in the capital spent a lot of money to hire seven beautiful and charming barbarian dancers to celebrate the army's victory.Because Daping culture is very inclusive, foreign cultures will not be excluded here, so there have been more and more outsiders over the years.

Most of the people sitting idle on the first floor, some wives ran away, some gambled and committed crimes and escaped from their hometown... They can sit here for a day just by ordering a plate of peanuts.They chatted endlessly about the most controversial topics of the moment.

"Then Liu Yan is not a joke. In order to become the emperor, he doesn't even want the lives of his brothers!"

"That's wrong! He's a genius, how many people did he lose in the army under his command? He's playing with other generals' soldiers!"

"Hmph, you bastard, how dare you come back!"

The chatter of arguments did not affect the elegance of the second floor, where the fragrance of tea is overflowing, full of the atmosphere of literati.There is only one that is quite unique.

There was no tea fragrance in that box, only the sweet and greasy Sydney smell.Inside, an old man and a young man sat and drank tea. One of the men in light-striped white clothes opened the red clay stove from time to time. The scent floating in the air was already cloyingly sweet, but he was still unsatisfied and continued to throw rock sugar into it.

"I still love sweets like a child! Although the old man also likes rock sugar pears, but your rock sugar pears, ah, I can't bear it," the old man shook his head in disgust, and stared, "Be careful what you are on the right side of you!" Little pigtail, do you want to eat rock candy hair?"

"Teacher," the man tied his long hair with a headband helplessly, "I finally came out, can you stop disliking me so much? I have disliked me for eight years, aren't you tired?"

"Why don't you talk about your own virtue, like a child, don't say you are from Ziling Palace when you go out, shame on you," Shi Yang sneered, "Okay, okay! Don't study your rock sugar Sydney, please. Can you give them a decent death?"

"How can it be so scary?" Yu Xiaoxuan poured a small cup by himself, took a sip, and said puzzled, "I think it's okay, let me pour you a cup?"

"The old man still wants to live for a few more years, so please do me a favor. Don't forget what the empress asked us to do."

"I haven't forgotten." Xiaoxuan opened the roller blind with his left hand while drinking, raised his eyes to glance at the dancing bearded girls on the first floor, and said, "It's too far away, so I can't see clearly."

Shi Yang's smile froze, and he said in disbelief: "Bastard, you are still planning to hook up with other dancers, right? Ma Liu, untie your right braid for me, and don't lose face to our Ziling Palace."

After hearing Shi Yang's words, Xiaoxuan undid his braid without saying a word, and raised his long hair up high. Suddenly, he was a little less elegant and more elegant.He blinked and said, "I can't ask for it."

The court painters in Ziling Palace need to braid a strand of hair on the right side when they are adults, and three white beads hang down from the hair band to show that they are different from the status of guards, eunuchs and imperial doctors in the palace.Xiaoxuan couldn't bear this kind of girly dressing up, but in the end, they had to put two white beads on their earlobes from the beginning of their new year, which was completely unbearable.

Xiaoxuan still remembers the pig-killing screams when he pierced his ears, and he still hasn't forgotten the way Shi Yang laughed when he was watching from the sidelines.

Because he disliked the mother-in-law, he would never wear earrings except to see His Majesty.God knows why the Queen has such a unique taste.

He got up and opened the curtain, leaned on the railing and looked at it for a while, then turned to Shi Yang and said, "Teacher, rest well, I'll ask Xiaoer to come over and change a pot of tea for you, I'll go down and have a closer look first!"

Shi Yang waved his hand: "No need, you go and come back quickly, if you don't come back after an hour, don't come back."

Xiaoxuan walked through the crowd and sat down at the front of the stage below. Most of the people sitting there were frivolous and flirtatious young masters, and their family's reputation was not too high, so there was nothing to embarrass them.

"Squeeze, thanks guys." He glibly found a seat.

Xiaoxuan was squeezed in among a bunch of toads, making him stand out even more.The bearded women were not as reserved as the women from the Central Plains. He had only sat down for a while before he received several winks.

Accompanied by the enthusiastic Hu Le, the Hu girls danced more and more enthusiastically one by one, and the two leading ones danced more vigorously, as if to compete for the best and the worst, and won rounds of applause from the uninformed.

"Brother, don't sit here." The young master next to him poked his arm and said sourly, "Those girls don't even look at us anymore, can you bear so many people by yourself?"

The sudden yellow accent made Xiaoxuan laugh. He was about to talk to the dude next to him, but when he caught a glimpse of someone diagonally behind him, he froze in place.

That person was sitting among a group of ordinary gentry children who were ill-bred, with a handful of melon seeds in his hand, looking lazily and uninterestedly at the enchanting dancers on the stage, eating melon seeds for a while, and talking to his companions in a low voice.

Xiaoxuan knew this person.

"Li Yao." Xiaoxuan silently read his name in his heart, but he didn't dare to make a sound to disturb the old man.

This hasty glance caused him to suffer again the pain of being separated for eight years.Xiao Xuan turned his head stiffly, sat up straight and did not move, fearing that Li Yao would recognize him.

Although Li Yao has shed the baby fat of his childhood, his radiant eyes have not changed at all. The years may have deprived him of his innocence and allowed him to mature, but the eccentric temperament revealed from the inside out is still a bit Nothing has changed.

Xiaoxuan always found it strange that there was a court painter named Xiaoxuan in the palace. Didn't Wen Haiyuhao notice such an obvious coincidence?Or did they know and didn't intend to find themselves again?

A ten-year-old child ran away from home in a daring manner, and it seemed reasonable for his family to part ways with him in frustration.

He was in a trance, and by chance, he overheard the conversation of the people behind him.

"Damn it, who is that guy in front! After this dance is finished, I'll go and show him some color!"

"Do not impulse."

"Brother Yueban, don't you like to watch that bearded girl dance? Can you bear seeing them winking at him?"

"Tell you to shut up, it's so noisy."

When the familiar title appeared, Xiaoxuan couldn't help but laugh. The name Yueban was certainly ridiculous, but Li Yao's sudden maturity made him even more sad.

Xiaoxuan thought wildly for a while, the dance of those bearded girls also came to an abrupt end with the exciting music, and there was another booing sound, the girls just smiled sweetly, saluted and left.

"Oops, I forgot to read it." Xiaoxuan secretly thought it was bad.

He came here to do "Portrait of a Hu Nu" by order, and the Hu Nu has left, so could it be that he painted against the air?

Li Yao was right behind him, and they could meet again when he turned around... Xiaoxuan hesitated for a moment, but decided to walk in the direction Hu Nu left.

Li Yao's discussion sounded farther and farther away from him, and the unsuspecting bums behind him whistled and made fun of his behavior.

The whistling tune was very frivolous, the leader Hu Nu stopped when she heard the sound, turned around and glanced at Xiao Xuan with a smile, her light brown eyes were filled with the color of lights, and she was very charming.She stretched out her slender hands towards Xiaoxuan: "What's the matter, young master?"

Xiaoxuan accidentally raised his hand and almost grabbed her, but he reacted quickly, changed to scratching his head in time, and said with a smile: "If you don't mind my daughter, can you take a step to talk?"

Hu Nu couldn't help laughing, approached him with small steps, and held his arm affectionately: "Let's go!"

Xiaoxuan seemed to feel the eyes of the group of people behind him who could kill him, half of his body was stiff and numb, and he said with a dry smile: "Well... let's go."

Hu Nu took him to the backyard. There are mostly women in the backyard of the Xianle Building, and the smell of spices is everywhere, and it is also a romantic place.They walked to the green lake, and the weeping willows were reflected on the lake and fluttered in the wind.

If Li Yao hadn't appeared, Xiaoxuan might really be indulging in tenderness at this time.

"So, what do you want to do, my lord?"

This Hu girl's eyes were charming and her voice was crisp, which made Xiaoxuan's goosebumps all over the floor.

In good conscience, he didn't want to do anything.

"Just now I saw the girl upstairs, she was in a trance, and when I came back to my senses, I sat on the first floor. The girl is really... Looking at the city and then the country, I don't know if you are interested, let me make a painting for you ?" Xiaoxuan said in a warm voice as soon as he opened his mouth to flirt.

"Master, you just call me Yingge, so don't be a stranger." Hu Nu said with a low smile, "Master, do you really want to paint for me?"

Feeling her slowly approaching body, Xiao Xuan bit the bullet and continued to say softly: "Yeah, time is fleeting, I want to leave a permanent face for you."

"Young master, don't draw on paper."

A bad premonition arose spontaneously, Xiaoxuan said: "Yingge is joking, where should it be..."

"Come to Yingge." Yingge's eyes flashed, and she hugged him boldly and enthusiastically.

Wen Xiangnunyu took the initiative to deliver it to the door, but Xiaoxuan was unexpectedly calm, with no fluctuations in his heart and even wanted to laugh.

Before he had time to moleste a woman in his life, he was anti-molested first?

He hesitated to speak, hesitating how to politely refuse this literary hook-up, but it's not easy for girls to take the initiative to ask for a hook-up, and it's too hurtful to refuse, but he looks romantic, but in fact he just likes it Conservative, would rather solve it by oneself than whoring.

Under the dilemma, Yingge's eyes suddenly became strange, Xiaoxuan clearly heard a call from not far away, the tone was very weak, as if the person who was afraid of being called would disappear in a flash.

"Yu Xiaoxuan?"

"..." Xiaoxuan was completely speechless, his mouth full of glib tongue turned off, and he froze.

Relying on a woman's intuition, Yingge guessed that this person was here to hinder her good deeds, she quickly leaned softly, leaning her head on Xiaoxuan's chest, and softly said: "Young master, go with Yingge—hehe Hey! Who is it!"

Xiaoxuan had nowhere to escape, and watched Yingge being pulled out and pushed to another boy.Inexplicably, the young man who hugged the beauty back had a slightly red face, and carefully supported Yingge.

And another young man who was not sympathetic to Xiangxiyu and pushed Yinge away roughly stood in front of Xiaoxuan, glanced at Yinge, and said his name in a cold voice: "Li Yao."

Xiaoxuan couldn't fly, so he simply said hello generously, and he said calmly, "We've grown up so much, it can be seen that we haven't seen each other for a long time."

It was Li Yao who sent the letter to the palace for him back then, but Li Yao didn't know anything, and he must have felt very uncomfortable in his heart when he left without saying goodbye.

What else could he say at this time, even if Li Yao punched him up, he wouldn't make a sound.

But Li Yao didn't do that, he just stood and stared at him with folded arms, without showing any yearning for the eight years of separation, and asked lightly: "Are... how are you? Brother."

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Because of the word count, I can only temporarily postpone the update T_T

Make it up next Thursday!