Qingchuan History

Chapter 925

The two stayed in Chengze Hall that night, Ruan Xueyin didn't mention anything about the offender's family.

Chai Ying had just left for a few hours, it was too obvious.

On the second day, she went to various departments to inquire about the progress of the Tianchang Festival as usual, and went to the Taile Department to confirm the diagnosis with Shangguan's concubine. From the Imperial Food Division, a letter.

It was a piece of jute paper that was placed under the glazed plate at that time.Because it is the same color as the plate and is missing, no one will notice it.

No matter how thoughtful and meticulous Ruan Xueyin was, she was not so detailed, it was all because when she stepped into that room, a palace official came out, saluted very seriously, and even dared to take a look at her.

Based on her instant memory, she judged the direction the palace man was coming from, and she paid extra attention when passing the plate, and only then did she find the paper under it.

When drawing, she opened Tangli and turned it over to look at the side facing the table. Sure enough, there were words, which were extremely small, and all of them accounted for only a corner of the torn jute paper.

No matter how small the characters are, it is not difficult for her.

At this moment, the room was quiet, and she was sure that Tangli and the others had walked away again, took out the black jade mirror, and began to read the heavenly scriptures on paper.

I can't recognize the handwriting, but it is worth a thousand words. She explained the situation of the country in the past few days very clearly. Some she knows, some she doesn't know. There is no doubt that Gu Xinglang is making huge waves. Close hand.

The last two columns are the situation in Wei:
Jing Tingge and Murong Xun fell to their deaths from a cliff, Shangguan Yan retaliated and killed Huo Yan, Cangwu's New Deal was implemented, and the country's title was retained.

Ruan Xueyin held the paper in one hand and the jade mirror in the other, and read the two lines of words back and forth three times.

Footsteps approached, and it was Bitao who brought someone to present lunch.

Ruan Xueyin barely moved her stiff fingers, stuffed the jute paper into her lapel, and then slowly got up.When she turned and walked towards the west cabinet, Bi Tao just stepped in with one foot.

"Your Highness is starving, it's already past time, how about some soup first? Today is also your favorite—"

The little girl couldn't stop talking with sharp hands and feet, and it was only here that she saw the queen come back after putting things on the shelf.

His face was unusually pale.

"Your Highness..."

"Today is also my favorite emerald fish soup."

Ruan Xueyin answered smoothly, her tone was very ordinary, and she looked very hungry when she sat at the table, but she was anxiously slow when she picked up the bowl and chopsticks, and took two sips after a long while.

"Is it today's soup, is it not to your liking?" Bitao asked tentatively.

"Very good." Ruan Xueyin replied, the hand holding the silver spoon still did not move, "How many days until the Tianchang Festival?"

She has always been clear about the door and never asks.Bi Tao was sure that His Highness had something on his mind, so she hurriedly replied, "Six days."

Endure it, bear with it after Tianlong Festival and ask again, always spend his birthday with him.She told herself, suppressed her chest and turned over, gulped down the fish soup, and picked up the rice, and missed the teacher very much.

- In any case, you have to eat well, Xiaoxue.If you can't eat any more, you have to open your mouth wide and swallow hard.Everyone has to learn to swallow many things in his life, and once he learns, everything will be fine.

The next day she received a secret letter again, in the manufacturing department, the same as the previous day's imperial kitchen department, secretive and accurate.

This time it was Qi Weiguo's negotiation on Baiguo, Weiguo agreed to evacuate, and the whole Baiguo was returned to Qi, Gu Qi finally won the south of Qingchuan completely after a hundred years;
And more lives will be lost, including the family members of the guilty ministers—all the big families of the culprits will be implicated, and the women and children of the remaining families will be sent to remote places, and some of them will cross the north to the cold country.The execution date is set on July [-]th, and the people who are assigned will start tomorrow.

Only then did she somewhat understand how Chai Ying, a little girl who doesn't know as many people as her cousin Chai Yiyao, managed to send that square handkerchief into the palace.

——Many of the staff in the various divisions in the palace were recommended by the aristocratic families. Even though they are loyal to the lord, they have received favors from others in the past.

With this experience of two consecutive days, she deliberately visited various departments on the third day, and the same on the fourth day. On the surface, it was because the Tianlong Festival was getting closer and there were more things to ask. In fact, it was to not miss every letter. Confidential letter—the person who let her know the current situation, or the purpose of those people, of course she was on guard; but since she had read the first letter, how about gathering all the letters in her hand, Instead, there is an opportunity to turn passive into active.

The women's class was finally pushed to the forefront.The latest secret letter said that someone shouted that the queen was also in the game when they were asked to beheaded, and they also blatantly provoked the national system with women's classes, and they were guilty of the same crime as the whole country and the people who rebelled against the people.

That evening, she went to Mingluan Hall early, without any medicine, but she ran into Gu Xinglang when she came back without leaving the Imperial Garden, and took his arm straight away and said:
"Shall we go to Qingyan Pavilion?"

These days, she was sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy, sometimes gentle and obedient and sometimes thunderous, he was getting more and more uncertain, and he didn't bother to worry about it, so with a hmm, she dragged her to Qingyan Pavilion.

The pavilion has been decorated, fragrant flowers and candles, silk and satin, everything is there, not many, just the right elegance and beauty, Ruan Xueyin's level.

"Have dinner first, then take a walk, and finally go back to the Snow Palace to drink medicine."

He has always arranged for her, such a formation has never been seen before.Gu Xinglang raised his eyebrows slightly, "Sleep in Zhexue Temple tonight?"

"Yes. It's all packed." Ruan Xueyin nodded eagerly.

"Celebrate my birthday earlier?" Gu Xinglang asked again, looking at the care and ingenuity around him.

"Yeah." Ruan Xueyin rested her elbows on the table and looked at him with her chin, "Do you like it?"

Gu Xinglang's eyes fell on her face, and he said softly, "There is nothing I don't like about you. You never know."

Ruan Xueyin repeatedly reminded herself to stay brisk, and thousands of ripples arose in her heart because of this sentence, and she still smiled on her face: "The Tianchang Festival is a national ceremony, and a bunch of people go through the motions, I don't care about that; tomorrow and the next two days will be very busy, and then It's just the right day, and I don't have any free time, so I picked today. I thought I would invite thousands of people at the Mingluan Hall, but our lord was so considerate and came back by himself."

He hoped that she would always be like this: happy, naughty, talking like honey, looking at him with her chin on her cheek and smiling sweetly.

The long-lost wish has come true at this moment, and I am more afraid than pleased. "But what did you hear?"

Ruan Xueyin shook her head, still smiling like a flower, "I've been very obedient recently, you don't want to cheat."

Gu Xinglang still wanted to ask, but Tangli greeted the palace servants to serve up the dishes plate by plate.

"It's all made by me, everything." She said seriously, and began to put everything into his bowl, and also reported the names of the dishes, not giving him a chance to change the topic.

Gu Xinglang had no choice but to taste everything, and it was actually delicious, everything suits his appetite.

Ruan Xueyin looked at his expression and said proudly: "I haven't cooked for many days, and this is the first time I cook these dishes. It turns out that I am so talented that I regret that I didn't cook for you in the past."

"There are still a few decades, I'm afraid you can do it and don't want to do it." Gu Xinglang said casually, but didn't listen to her answer.

His heart skipped a beat, just now he was afraid of attacking again, when he looked up, Ruan Xueyin was still smiling with her chin on her hands.

"You can eat too." He brought food for her.

"I've tasted it all, and I'm sure it's not too salty, too spicy, too sweet, or too bland before I dare to put it in the dishes. I'm not hungry right now."

"But it's delicious when two people eat together. I didn't think it before, but after I have you, I feel that I can't taste it alone."

Ruan Xueyin laughed out loud, "It's your birthday, what are you doing with these deceptive words, I should say it if you want to."

She picked up the wine cup, "Brother."

It was so natural and so smooth, Gu Xinglang couldn't help but think that when she was called out like that at first, she stammered for at least a month because of her uncomfortable face and eyes.

He held the cup with one hand, waiting for her to speak.

"May you be happy, healthy, and your ideals come true; may Daqi, the country and the people be safe, and the mountains and rivers will last forever."

This moment is so sincere that it is a wife, a confidant, and a close relative; it is also so vast that it is a subject, a assistant, and the people.

Gu Xinglang was a little dazed, her brows and eyes were so clear and distant in the warmth of the flowers and wine.He watched her drink it up in one gulp, and held up the empty cup towards him, the bottom of the cup proved to be drunk in one gulp.

He also picked up the cup in his hand and planned to finish it, but was held down by Ruan Xueyin, "You just need to make up your mind, you need to drink medicine later, you can't drink alcohol."

"It's okay."

"Listen to me once, okay?"

Of course, how could he refuse Ruan Xueyin like this?So she just took a sip, it was a lotus stamen, which was milder and suitable for her to drink.

"Actually, I prefer pine mash, but as you said, drinking must be done in accordance with the solar terms. In midsummer in July, it's better to use lotus stamens." Ruan Xueyin smiled, poured another glass for herself, and slowly sipped it with both hands.

Gu Xinglang tasted the dishes carefully, chewing slowly, "What's wrong with the lotus stamens?"

"It's too weak." Ruan Xueyin said, and drank a few more sips quickly, "It's like drinking plain water."

Just like that, the glass of wine drained to the bottom, she poured it again and drank it again, and after dinner, he watched her face and neck burn like a crimson glow.

"Okay." Gu Xinglang also ate about the same, removed the jug and forbade her to drink any more, but the jug was light, and after a shake, it was almost empty.

He looked at her incredulously.

Ruan Xueyin rested her chin on her right hand again, leaned closer, stretched out her left index finger and pointed at the tip of his nose, "I never thought I could drink a whole pot." After speaking, she raised her left hand and stretched it as high as she could, "Such a big pot, so high .”

Drunk, very drunk.Gu Xinglang knew that she had been worrying and melancholy for too long, and she couldn't bear to explode at him, so, finally learned to drink away her worries?

Distressed and angry, he pulled her and said back.Ruan Xueyin quit and yelled for Tangli to bring more wine, Gu Xinglang was so angry that he picked her up by the waist and went straight to Zhexue Palace.

It happened to go back to Zhexue Temple tonight, it was so far away, and it took a long time to walk.He complained in his heart, she was still thrashing in his arms, so he had to pinch her waist to warn her to be more honest, but she screamed in pain and started to cry:
"Gu Xinglang, pinch me! It hurts so much." The crying couldn't be stopped, but it only started to ring out, and soon it became softer. She buried herself in his arms, and there was only a dull sob left, "I'm in so much pain, Gu Xinglang"

It's been five years, and Ruan Xueyin hasn't made such a splash, it should be said that she hasn't done it in more than [-] years.No one in Hegong has ever seen her before, and Gu Xinglang has never seen her before, but he knows where she hurts and what it hurts.

"I understand, I fully understand." He stood still, lowered his head, and tried his best to touch her face, "It will pass and everything will be fine, I promise. I promise, Xiaoxue."

Ruan Xueyin sobbed a few more times, and gradually became quiet, as if she had fallen asleep.

Gu Xinglang stood there for a moment, then continued to walk in the huge palace in utter silence. The flowers and insects were buzzing, and the palace people behind him were also huge, but it was really empty, a hundred years seemed like a moment.

Due to the queen's early order, the Folding Snow Palace has already been tidied up. The courtyard is full of lights, and the vegetation is swaying. It is the same as every summer night in the past, but it is different after all.

Gu Xinglang went straight back to the bedroom with him in his arms, put him on the bed properly, helped him take off his shoes and dress, and his hair accessories and earrings. Finally, he looked at the bun that was in the way, so he managed to untangle it clumsily. Hot water, to help her at least wipe her face and hands.

Ruan Xueyin half-woke up amidst the visibly careful but quiet fiddling, fanned her eyelashes for a moment, and grabbed his wrist when he pulled away to leave.

"Don't go."

"Don't go." He comforted her softly, held her hand instead and patted it for a while, seeing her eyes closed again, he quietly withdrew his hand.

But it woke people up again.Ruan Xueyin seemed to be angry, she stretched out her other hand to grab his front collar, and pulled it desperately, Gu Xinglang lost his balance and fell on top of her, so she raised some to touch his lips.

She brushed lightly, touched the water, she was exhausted, she fell back under her body, and the scattered blue silk spread more openly, like vines wantonly.

Above the blue hair, that face is like ice and snow like flames, jade white bottom, crimson shadow, slowly opening and closing eyelashes and lips are enough to fan the wind of the whole summer.

The tear stains are still there, and there seems to be new dewdrops on the eyelashes.Lower the jaw again, and the jade neck is like a section of white waterfall flowing straight into the depths of the shadows.

Gu Xinglang couldn't move, he was distracted by watching, and at the last moment when he bent down to pick it up, he stopped his horse from the cliff, and still planned to rush for hot water.

Ruan Xueyin didn't let go of his hand that was holding his front, as if she had sensed his movement, and when she exerted her strength again, he completely fell into a gentle place.

Instead, she hugged his neck with both hands, and her whole body was entwined like vines.

In fact, the hot water was already prepared, Diyan and Tangli had been standing at the door of the bedroom waiting to be summoned for a while.The two wanted to hear, to confirm whether they should wait or not; but they didn't dare, their eyes crossed each other several times, and finally they leaned towards the door and pricked up their ears.

It was not obvious at first, but gradually became clear.Tangli thought to herself that His Highness must be too drunk to be proper, but she didn't dare to continue eavesdropping, so she hurriedly pulled the inkstone back.

Diyan dared not listen more than she did, retreated quickly, returned to the main hall, and said earnestly: "Leave a few more people on duty at night, Your Highness drank too much wine, in case you feel unwell in the middle of the night. You have to prepare in advance tomorrow morning, Your Majesty loves cleanliness, When you wake up you have to—"

"Aren't you here tonight?" Tang Li scolded him.

"Yes. Those who don't come here are all from Chengze Palace. It's more appropriate for you to arrange it." After answering like this, looking at her stomach, "Is everything okay?"

Tangli nodded.

The two then went out of the main hall and went on their own errands. After midnight, they stopped and saw each other again in the corridor. After a few words, they found that the bright moon in the sky was full.

"It's almost fifteen, isn't it round?" Diyan said.

"A good flower and a full moon will last forever. I pray for Your Highness every day, and I only hope that they can grow old together." Tang Li clasped her hands together, silent for a while, and turned her head to look at Di Yan for a long time, "Really, no one is the same as anyone. Yes, our Highness and Your Majesty must succeed."

Di Yan actually thought the same way. He was a man after all, so he couldn't say such a thing, so he just sneered: "Where did the obsession come from?"

Tangli went to look at the round moon on top of the palace, "I accompanied you all the way. You are not the same. You are stubborn."

　I tried my best, it must be better than this, let's talk about it later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)