Golden branches and jade leaves

Chapter 59 A Thousand Mountains and Evening Snow

A tumultuous martial arts competition was settled, and the position of Ouchi Guard Commander was undisputedly owned, and no one raised any opinions on this.

Although Mu Qinghan's sword didn't hurt the vitals, it wasn't an injury that could be recovered within a few days. Ni Tingxuan temporarily resigned from his job as deputy commander and went home to recuperate.Regarding the current situation that both Ni Yuan and his son are sick at home, and thinking of Ni Yuan's great contributions to Da Qi, Qi Long also feels apologetic in his heart.But this guilt was nothing more than a variety of tonic rewards, which flowed into Ni's mansion like water.

The Wenju and Wuju that followed were successfully completed one after another, and the emperor of Daqi fell into a new round of busyness, forgetting all these trivial matters.

Su Mi was by his side, occasionally offering some opinions and opinions.

On this day, the two were discussing the appointment of several new scholars in the palace. Gao Shengnuo came in with a lot of scrolls to report. It turned out that Ge Chengming was responsible for drawing the portraits of the women in the harem.

Turn over a scroll of scrolls, either beautiful and natural, or charming and charming, countless beauties appear on the paper, lifelike, swaying and fragrant.

Qi Long picked up Su Mi's pair, looked at it carefully and said with a smile: "Mi'er's pair is really beautiful, like a fairy."

Su Mi turned her head to take a look, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has not seen the portraits of the sisters in the harem yet, so don't praise them so early, maybe after seeing the portraits of other sisters, you will feel that Mi'er is far more beautiful. It's too late, then don't blame Mi'er for not being on the big stage."

"How could it be?" Qi Long put down the scroll and said with a smile: "This Ge Hong can be regarded as a national first-class painter. He has many talents, but it's a pity that I can't use them."

A few days ago, he issued an order to recruit again, and Ge Chengming once again rejected his offer.

Seeing the depression on Qi Long's face, Su Mi quickly said: "The emperor has already recruited so many talents, is it not enough?" Then she turned and pointed to the layer upon layer on the imperial case. The extremely high document complained with a bit of anger: "Nowadays, with these people alone, the emperor has been so tired that he has not slept well for several days and nights. If there are more, even if the emperor is physically strong, he can still Persevere, the concubine will not be able to take it anymore." These are all the documents of the scholars who have done both civil and military affairs, and these days Qi Long is busy with how to arrange these people to be officials.

Qi Long laughed and said: "It's true, now we have a lot of talented people in Qi, and we don't lack one or two of them."

While talking, he looked at the picture scroll and praised: "Mi'er's appearance is peerless. What's rare is that the painting can still express Mi'er's ethereal and unworldly temperament. I'm afraid it's better than that in the legend. The Yaochi Immortals are not giving way too much."

"What the emperor said made me even more afraid to be a concubine. The emperor even compared the portrait of the concubine with Master Dong's authentic work. If it spread, people would laugh at the concubine for being overconfident."

"Mi'er doesn't need to underestimate himself. Dong Qianguang's five beauties are rumored to be almost like gods in the world, but aren't the people in his paintings also secular mortals? They can't really be fairies in the sky."

"I'm the one who speaks the truth. Since I said that Mi'er's picture is the one, it's the one," said Qi Long, getting excited. He took the painting and came to the imperial case. There are four big characters "Yaochi Xianpin" written on it, flying like dragons and phoenixes, gracefully.

Su Mi felt a bit dumbfounded.

"The late emperor once vowed to collect the five beautiful pictures, but he was unable to obtain them after exhausting all his efforts. If he used the emperor's method, the five beautiful pictures would be easily available." Su Mi couldn't help joking: "Why don't the emperor ask Mr. Ge again?" Come here and make up for the other four beauties, which can be regarded as fulfilling one of the last wishes of the late emperor."

Hearing this joke, Qi Taki's face turned gloomy and heavy.

"Your Majesty..." Su Mi frowned, and asked in surprise, "Is it wrong to be a concubine?"

Qi Taki shook his hand and said: "It's not that Mi'er's words are wrong, it's just that I suddenly thought of an unresolved matter, alas, I've had a headache for a long time."

"What makes the emperor so worried?" Su Mi asked.

Qi Long was silent for a while, then smiled and said: "It's been so many years, it's not a big secret anymore, it doesn't matter if you tell Mi'er to hear it."

After finishing speaking, he put down the scroll in his hand and asked, "Have you heard about Master Dong's life, Mi'er?"

"No one in the world knows Dong Qianguang, a great talent in the old Liang Dynasty." Su Mi said with a smile: "Master Dong is not only an unparalleled talent in the world, excellent in calligraphy and painting, versatile in both civil and military affairs, but also self-admired and unrestrained in his life. Admired by Zi Kuangshi."

"Then do you know his background?" Qi Taki asked with a smile.

"The emperor is taking an examination of his concubines." Su Mi then said with a smile, "Master Dong is of noble origin, he is a direct descendant of the Dong family from the old Liang family, and the younger brother of the last empress Zhengmin of the Liang Kingdom."

"Well, although he is from the Liang Kingdom, in fact, I often envy and admire his character in private." Qi Long sighed: "It's a pity that he didn't end well in the end."

More than 20 years ago, when Qi State attacked Liang State, Dong Qianguang returned to serve his country and committed suicide after the fall of Liang State.

"Afterwards, Dong Qianguang's Five Beauties were coveted by the world, and they rushed to find them. This kind of frantic competition was not just because of the preciousness and rarity of the paintings themselves, but because of a rumor." Qi Long continued.

"Rumor?" Su Mi asked suspiciously.

"That's right. After the Kingdom of Liang fell, there was a rumor that when the Kingdom of Liang fell, it stored all the treasures in the treasury in a secret place, and the clues to this treasure were hidden in Dong Qianguang's five Among the beautiful pictures."

Su Mi looked surprised at this moment, but she didn't pay much attention to these words in her heart.In this time of war, countries will perish at any time, and countries will rise at any time, and such rumors about treasures are also one of the favorite topics of conversation among people in the streets and alleys.Walking into teahouses and restaurants, storytellers can be heard telling such stories everywhere, or a treasure was left behind after a certain country was destroyed, and the prince who sought the prince endured humiliation and succeeded in restoring the country with the treasure, or a family that was destroyed for no reason left behind martial arts secrets, and the family who bears a blood feud Later generations avenged the family.What he said was saliva flying, and he heard it with gusto.

Su Mi simply dismissed such things, and she didn't know which boring person made up such rumors.Needless to say, the figure in the fairy tale of Yaochi is Su Mi's mother, so that painting has always been in Su Mi's hands, and she has seen it countless times. There is no omission, and it has nothing to do with the treasure map.

"This kind of rumors have been circulating for several years and then automatically subsided. Therefore, people in the world only think that this matter is just a natural and illusory rumor after the country's demise, but... there is one thing that is indisputable. " Qi Taki's expression became serious: "When our Daqi army captured the capital of Liang State, we went to the treasury to check and confiscate it, but found that the treasury had been emptied, not even a single copper coin was left."

"Ah!" Su Mi couldn't help being surprised.Although Emperor Liang Shun, the last monarch of the Liang Kingdom, was cowardly and incompetent, he was not a luxurious and lustful monarch. The wealth of the Liang Kingdom had always been second to none among all countries, so the treasury would be empty for no reason.

Isn't this rumor groundless? !
"That rumor was indeed not unfounded. According to the information obtained from the captured old Liang officials, about two or three months before Liang Guo's capital was broken, Dong Qianguang secretly led a The convoy went out of the city, ostensibly to deliver supplies, but they disappeared after leaving the city, and Dong Qianguang returned alone after more than a month. Father Huang had sent people to secretly investigate many times, and found that no one had actually received the package. Appropriate supplies. And before the court of Liang State, there was indeed a court discussion about moving the capital to the north to avoid the sharp edge."

"If it wasn't for Ni Yuan's surrender at the right time, so that our reinforcements from Daqi immediately left the pass and headed north, I'm afraid that Liang Guo would be able to move its capital in time to avoid the army."

Su Mi was shocked and inexplicable when she heard it, she never thought that there was such an inside story back then, it turned out that Emperor Qi Wu had been chasing these pictures not only because of lust and novelty, but mainly because of this.

"The first emperor was deeply worried about this matter, and blocked the news at that time, but searched the entire Liangjing, but found no other clues, and such rumors began to spread among the people, so the first emperor claimed to be greedy for these five paintings. Secretly ordered people to search for and collect them."

Su Mi shook her head, even if she really had this treasure, it definitely had nothing to do with these five pictures, at least it had nothing to do with Yaochi Xianpin, she was sure of that.

Regarding this matter, Qi Long has always had a grudge in his heart. Since the first emperor, he has secretly sent people to search around the capital of Liang Guo many times, but more than 20 years have passed, and there is no news about this batch of treasures. It stands to reason that no matter how secretively Dong Qianguang does it, he is not a god after all, can he still make things into the sky?There must be traces to follow, but now there is no news at all.

In the evening, when Su Mi returned to Caiwei Palace and was taking off her makeup, Xiao Luzi ran in with a medicine bag.

"It would take such a lot of effort to get some medicinal herbs for calming the nerves, and I must have sneaked somewhere to play." Mi Qing said with a bit of resentment, while taking the medicine from Xiaoluzi's hand Bag.

"Sister, please don't wrong me," Xiaoluzi cried out aggrievedly, "How dare you sneak away to play on the way to get something for the master? Is my little Luzi such an irresponsible person?"

"Then why did you come back until now, and it took a full hour to get the medicine? Could it be that the Tai Hospital has moved out of the palace?" Mi Hong also scolded from the side.

"It's true that the Tai Hospital has not been moved outside the palace, but it's too chaotic inside now. No one has talked to me for a long time. If it wasn't for our master's sake, I'm afraid I'm still waiting there." Xiao Luzi complained.

"Any rare thing happened at the Supreme Hospital?" Su Mi smiled, while putting aside the butterfly and emerald hairpin inlaid with sapphire blue in her hand: "You look anxious."

"It's nothing serious." Xiao Luzi rubbed his head, "I just heard that a new doctor came when I was getting something from there. It was specially invited by the Wang family to treat the Queen Mother. Listen to what they said. It’s amazing, all the imperial doctors in the yard are busy asking for advice from that person. I couldn’t even squeeze in, and I was sweating profusely for no reason.”

"What kind of doctor is taking it so seriously?" Su Mi said absently.These days, the Empress Dowager's condition has become more and more serious. No matter what Qi Taki thinks in his heart, he still needs to save face, so he made a decree to visit famous doctors all over the world to show his filial piety.

"Listen to what they said, what is the peerless miracle doctor, what is the name of Xuanji miracle doctor, Su Wei or something... what is that?" Xiao Luzi rubbed his head, thinking of the name he had just heard, and didn't pay attention when he heard it, and immediately Just can't remember.

With a crisp "pa", the hairpin in Su Mi's hand fell to the ground, and the brittle jasper fell into two pieces.

"Xuanji Miracle Doctor Su Weiming"! "Su Mi's voice didn't even sound like her own.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! That's the name, so the master has heard of it too." Xiao Luzi said suddenly, looking up at Su Mi.

Uh!Master, what's the matter?Isn't he just a doctor, why does he look like he saw a ghost? !
(End of this chapter)