The Moon Over Tang Dynasty

Chapter 50 The road to Lishan is far away and the spring is slippery

In October, Gengzi Day, at the right time in the morning, amid the soothing Taihe music played by Tai Chang, a long carriage slowly drove out from Chengtian Gate and headed north along Tianmen Street through the Imperial City. After exiting the Zhuque Gate, we turned east, exited Chang'an City through the Chunming Gate, and headed straight for Lishan Tangquan Palace, which was more than sixty miles away.

Since Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne, this was his first visit to Mount Li. The guard of honor was naturally very neat, with 24 teams and 120 columns, including twelve egret chariots, Luan flag chariots, and evil chariots. The auxiliary car leads in front and follows behind. In the middle is a golden elephant chariot, painted with hundreds of animals and carved with golden phoenixes. On the left is a dragon flag, on the right is a long halberd, and on the right is a canopy. It represents the solemn atmosphere of the emperor's patrol.

But compared with the small chariot of fifteen hundred people, the accompanying carriages and horses were not too many. In more than two hundred carriages were the palace officials of Ganlu Palace and Xianchi Palace. The first one was exactly Wu Zhaoyi's Zhai Che, but Xu Baolin, who was newly promoted last month, was unable to make the trip because she was caught in the cold. She broke the tea cup when she went to the Lizheng Hall to pay respects a few days ago and was punished by kneeling in the cold wind for an hour.

All in all, since the first time he went to pay her respects and was left out for two hours without seeing the queen, Xu Baolin had had three or four major illnesses in the Lizheng Palace in the past month. It was not until this illness that Emperor Gaozong knew about it. Although she was angry, she was promoted to another level, and now she is Xu Cairen.

Liuli was sitting in a very inconspicuous carriage at the back of the motorcade. The carriage was not too big, but it was also exquisite and comfortable. In addition to mattresses, tables and other items, there were chairs and cushions for sitting on, windows It is also more open and bright than ordinary carriages.

After being bored in the palace for more than two months, in Liuli's eyes, the blue-tiled houses on the roadside all seemed extremely friendly. She looked out the window from time to time, and opposite her, Aling barely looked at the whole picture. Press your face against the window. Liuli couldn't help but asked casually, "Aling, have you not been out of the palace for a long time?"

Aling's thin body seemed to be shaken, and she sighed, "Aling entered the palace at the age of seven, and this is the first time she has left the palace in six years. I heard that many palace maids like us have never been out in their entire lives. "

Liuli immediately remembered that after that time in Shujing Hall, Aling had told her that her grandfather was originally the chief pharmacist of Shang Yao Bureau. Once there was an error in dispensing the medicine, he was hanged according to the law, although he was only killed by Yongliu in the end. In the border area, all the female family members were taken into Yeting and became palace maids. Aling also has an older sister. Both sisters were selected as female doctors because they were looked after by colleagues in the imperial medical department. Her sister has now graduated and is one of the most frequent female doctors in Xianchi Palace, while she was recruited by Wu Zhao before she even graduated. Yi was transferred to Xianchi Hall. A Lingping often said that he was lucky, but when he heard such a sentence, Liuli Haisheng couldn't help but feel shocked and was speechless for a while.

After leaving Chang'an City, the motorcade drove along the official road. The scenery on both sides of the road became monotonous. It was nothing more than Qinghuai Mountain, farmland and farmhouses. Liuli's carriage was originally behind the motorcade. As the dust increased, Liuli lowered the curtain. , but Aring couldn't bear to bear it, and still looked out lovingly. After a while, a lot of dust fell on his little face.

Liuli smiled and handed her a handkerchief, "If you lie down by the window again, I'm afraid Zhaoyi will think you are a gray monkey and throw you into the spring when you get to Lishan Mountain."

Aling wiped his face and was startled when he saw the layer of dust. He quickly put down the curtain. Only then did he feel that his mouth and nose were full of dust, and he started coughing repeatedly. Seeing Liuli looking at him with a smile without saying a word, he also laughed sheepishly.

The two chatted and laughed all the way. After more than an hour, the carriage gradually slowed down. Liuli lifted the curtain and saw that the guard of honor in front had stopped. Several carriages and horses entered a small villa beside the official road one after another. It seems that the emperor, Zhaoyi and others need to take a rest, so naturally all the more than 200 carriages cannot enter. The accompanying left and right flying cavalry have already driven away the rest of the people, and formed a circle around the convoy, and the palace maids informed them one by one. Everyone can come out to stretch their hands and feet, or go to the front yard to drink water and use the toilet.

Liuli and Aling naturally got out of the car and arrived at the front yard of the villa. The palace maid in charge showed them various places. Neither of them dared to drink more water, but wetted their handkerchiefs to clean their hands. As he walked back, he saw three tall horses riding side by side outside the gate of Bieye. Liuli took a quick look and her heart skipped a beat: The one on the right wearing a green t-shirt with a long sword on his waist was not Pei Xingjian. who is it? The one in the middle is a general in his thirties, and the one on the left is Wang Fusheng. The three of them are talking and laughing, and they all look quite relaxed.

Pei Xingjian also saw Liuli, his eyes narrowed, and then he smiled and nodded slightly to her. Liuli didn't want to attract attention, so she also smiled slightly, lowered her eyes, and couldn't help but admire in her heart, what's on this person's face Although he was quite a bit busy, he didn't look embarrassed at all, but a little more unruly than usual.

The three horses passed by her in a blink of an eye. Liuli restrained herself and did not look back. She just laughed and joked with Aling and got on the car again. After waiting for more than two quarters of an hour, the convoy started moving again. In the early afternoon, we finally arrived at Tangquan Palace on Lishan Mountain.

 At this moment, Liuli wanted to press her face against the window. I saw that the Tangquan Palace was built on the mountain, surrounded by towering ancient trees and shaded by pines and cypresses. The carriage drove in from the gate and passed through the front hall. Not far away, there was a lake. The lake was not big, but the water was clear and the shore was green, which was amazing. Cool. Several palaces, pavilions and pavilions are arranged at random according to the mountains and waterways, with heavy cornices, red walls and green tiles. Although it still cannot be seen that the Huaqing Palace will be unparalleled in prosperity and splendor decades later, it still has its own charm. The charming atmosphere.

 When the carriages arriving at Xianchi Palace stopped outside Yichun Palace on the east side of Hudong, Liuli and Aling got out of the car with their baggage, and suddenly felt something strange. It's almost the light snow season, and the city of Chang'an has already been freezing and windy, but the trees in Tangquan Palace are still lush, and even the air seems to be much warmer and moister than outside.

Everyone was tired and hungry at this time, and had no intention of enjoying the scenery. They each found their own room and put their luggage in their assigned rooms. Liuli lived in the attic behind Chunyi Hall, probably because there were not many people coming this time, so the residence was It was quite spacious. There were three or four rooms in the small building, but only Liuli lived there. A Ling lived in the outer room. Although the location was a little remote, the house was clean and tidy. The two of them washed up briefly, ate the hot noodle soup served in the kitchen, and woke up. It was almost dusk.

Liuli hurriedly combed her hair again and put on a clean coat. Then she took Aling to the front to find Mrs. Wu, only to see Mrs. Wu dressing up. Her eyebrows were dyed with emerald green and her forehead was decorated with flowers. Her makeup was even more beautiful than in the morning. After a few minutes, when he saw Liuli, he smiled and said, "I asked you to ride in the big car with me, but you refused. Today when I was resting at Cui's villa, there were actually such delicatessens as golden cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes prepared. All the items were in complete condition. Even the Holy Emperor specially called Pei Shouyue and General Cao in to praise them for their meticulous work on the festival. I heard that there were many people outside and the food and water were much cruder. Have you ever used them? "Go on?" Liuli was moved in her heart and just smiled, "Although the drinking water in the outer courtyard is simple, it is also clean. Liuli was just a painter. In the Xianchi Hall, Zhaoyi and his wife held up Liuli. Since there were no outsiders, Liuli accepted it shamelessly. Well, there are many people coming and going in the inner courtyard. It seems that even high-level female officials are not allowed to enter. If Liuli goes, it will attract too much attention and cause trouble for Zhaoyi. "

Mrs. Wu smiled and shook her head, "You think the most, no wonder Zhaoyi loves you." Then she said to herself, "I didn't expect Pei Shouyue to have such a character, no wonder he can write so well." To put it bluntly, it’s really a pity.”

Liuli then asked, "I wonder if Yue Niang is awake? Although this journey is not bumpy, it is indeed very hard."

Mrs. Wu laughed loudly, "Why did she work so hard? She slept all the way in the car. I just sent someone to ask. She went out for a walk a long time ago. I sent several people to look for her, but she hasn't come back yet."

Just as he was talking, a little palace maid came to report that Zhaoyi went to Feishuang Palace to have dinner with the Holy Master, leaving Mrs. Wu to eat by herself. After the meal, someone would take them to the soup pool after they rested for a while. Mrs. Wu was startled for a moment, but she became interested again when she heard that she could go to the soup pool after dinner.

After Yueniang came back, dinner was served. There were quite a few kinds of fresh game. The three of them just ate a few mouthfuls and drank tea. After a while, a palace maid came over and said, "Madam, please follow me!" come over."

By this time, the Tangquan Palace was already filled with lanterns, incense and candles were blooming, the pavilions were brightly lit, the lake was shimmering, and the mist was hazy, making it feel like a fairyland on earth. The palace maid led everyone all the way south, passing through a stone bridge and two courtyards. The fog in front of them became thicker. The palace maid pointed to a slightly higher stone platform and said, "Over there is the Holy Star Soup. It turned out to be the nearest one." A place of ancient origin of Tangquan.”

Liuli took a closer look and saw that the stone platform was not square and had a natural appearance. There was only a low wall around it. She couldn't help but sigh to herself: It turns out it was open-air. It was really fashionable and tight!

After walking a stone's throw eastward, a long row of palace rooms appeared in front of us, with seven or eight rooms in total. Palace lanterns were lit under each corridor. The palace maid smiled and said, "This is the Chang Tang, specially for ladies." For bathing." He led them into the first room.

As soon as you enter the house, you feel the heat steaming up. You enter into a hall, and there are two rooms on the left and right. Walk more than ten steps in, pass through two double curtains, then leave the hall, and then go outside, along the stone steps. It leads downwards to an extremely long bathing pool, which is more than three feet wide and twenty feet long. It is separated by brocade curtains every three feet. It turns out that the two rows of halls outside were built around this "long bath". The bathing pool is made of bluestone, and there are small rockeries and stone carvings in the pool.

The palace maid led them to look at it once, and then returned to the east room. The palace maid took off their clothes and put on a special gauze, and then they went to bathe in the long soup at the back.

The gauze was really as thin as a cicada's wings. Even in her previous life, Liuli had rarely been so "sincerely honest" with others. Fortunately, there was a moon girl jumping around on the side, which reduced the ambiguity a bit. When she arrived at the water's edge, she was the first to sink into the water. She felt that the water temperature of this hot spring was about forty degrees, and the water quality was clear and soft, which was very pleasant.

It was obviously the first time for Mrs. Wu to come to this Tangquan Palace. After playing in the water, she chose a stone recess and lay down comfortably. The nurse took off her clothes and looked after the moon in the shallow water. Mom, Yueniang is usually the quietest person, but when there was water to play in, she suddenly had a lot of fun.

The night was getting darker, and the last quarter moon had not yet risen. The stars in the sky were flashing quietly. Liuli sighed softly, only to feel a melancholy and water vapor rising from nowhere.

However, this sad mood of spring and autumn was interrupted not long after by the palace maid's slightly urgent call, "Ms. Kudi, Zhaoyi has something to ask you."

  p.s. Thank you to dear book friend 100311200107202 for the pink ticket, and thank you to classmate Le Youyang for continuing to reward the peace charm. I saw that the ID of a book friend I tipped the day before yesterday was displayed as Sunshine Sour Plum. Well, the ID is easy to remember. The number logged in on the mobile phone is too long... By the way, there is a bug in the previous article. Huaqing Palace is the expansion of Tang Xuanzong's hot spring. The name changed by the empress should not appear at this time. terribly sorry. Alan then asked for Pink.

 (End of this chapter)