imperial psychologist

Chapter 85 Wei Shishi's Hanging Garden
A black figure slowly hung down from the eaves, and with a slight landing sound, Wei Shishi appeared outside the window sill.

He stepped forward to pick up the small wine jar, pulled off the cloth cover on it, lowered his head and sniffed.

"Good wine." Wei Shisi said softly, "It's at least 30 years old."

Bo Ling looked at him with his chin propped on one hand. Wei Shishi didn't smile very much, but occasionally there was some gentle look in his eyes.

With a ray of moonlight in the sky, Bo Ling could see that there were fine lines of sweat on Wei Shishi's sides, and his few strands of white hair were wet on his temples, as if he had just finished a strenuous run.

"Where did you go?"

"Over there in Xuanqiong Hall." Wei Shishi replied.

Bai Ling was a little surprised for a moment, "It's Xuanqiong Palace again, you seem to often run there?"

"Yeah." Wei Shisi put the wine jar back on and was silent for a while, then he suddenly looked over, "Do you want to go and have a look?"

……

Xuanqiong Hall was originally a palace near the northeast corner of the Imperial Palace, facing the Imperial Study Room and Jingyang Palace.

It was originally just an ordinary house in this huge palace, but in the 25th year of Jianxi, Emperor Jianxi, who was in his thirties, dreamed of a swallow landing on the Golden Temple for seven consecutive days, so he ordered the Qin Tianjian to make a fortune teller.

The conclusion given by Qin Tianjian is: "The mysterious bird of destiny, the prosperity of the Great Zhou".

In the same year, after some complex and detailed geomantic calculations, Emperor Jianxi demolished the palace of Xuanqiong Palace and built a tower almost as high as the palace wall.

There are many wooden supports across the interior of the tower-they are almost natural skeletons of swallow's nests.

In the spring of the following year, as expected, swallows came and settled here.

Under the night, Wei Shishi, dressed in black, carried Bo Ling on his back, and flew on the tile eaves between the palaces, heading towards the Xuanqiong Palace.

The golden glazed tiles of the palace looked like a shimmering lake under the moonlight. Bo Ling raised his head from time to time and could always see some patrolling guards in the distance. The spears in their hands reflected the cold light, but no one seemed to see this. Wei Shishi, who is flying over the eaves and walls.

The sound of Wei Shisi's stepping down was completely covered by the wind.

He is like a mysterious bird, passing through the scattered palace courtyards lightly.

Not long after, Wei Shishi landed in front of Xuanqiong Gate and said softly, "Here we are."

Only then did Berlin raise his head, and saw the tall tower behind the door towering into the sky, which looked like a strange thing among the generally low and solemn buildings.

Wei Shishi led Bai Ling in. There was a long and straight stone path between the Xuanqiong Gate and the Xuanqiong Pagoda. There were stone lamps every two meters on both sides. The red candles inside were obviously new tonight. of.

Yingying candlelight reflected their faint shadows on both sides, and Bai Ling looked back and forth, "Why is there no one here?"

"Because no one is allowed here after dark, including the guards."

"why?"

Wei Shishi looked up at the plaque on the Xuanqiong tower, "This is the rule specially set by His Majesty's frightening movements that disturbed the swallows and made the tired birds dare not return to the forest... Come with me."

Bo Ling followed Wei Shishi and went around to the back of the Xuanqiong Tower. The two bent down and stepped into the tower through a low window that was half covered.Berlin originally thought that the smell of a place dedicated to swallows should be very bad, but unexpectedly, the smell here seems to be no different from other places.

The space inside the tower is so large that it reminds Berlin of the water tower in the community when he was a child, and children can even chase and fight here.

Standing at the bottom of the tower and looking up, I can see moonlight pouring down from countless windows on one side of the tower, and shining on the wooden ladder embedded in the wall on the other side, forming many light white shimmering grids.

With this light, Bo Ling could see that there were obviously several rails with different colors on the wooden ladder—probably the result of continuous repairs over the years.

The tower has no top—or rather, its top is a hollowed-out round hole with a blue velvet night sky above it.

"Shall I take you up there to have a look?"

"it is good."

Wei Shishi carried Boling on his back again. He did not walk up the wooden ladder in a regular manner, but jumped up continuously with the raised wooden frames on both sides. When he was only a few steps away from the exit at the top of the tower, he With a leap of energy, he led Boling directly from the dark shadow inside the tower into the moonlight on the top of the tower.

It was only after this instant of light and darkness that Bo Ling could see clearly that the uppermost floor of the Xuanqiong Tower was a circular roof, and under the curved half-height wooden railing along the roof, there were many potted flowers and plants. .

Bo Ling couldn't help but exclaimed, "Are you raising these?"

Wei Shishi nodded.

Bai Ling sighed, it's no wonder that Wei Shishi would come here from time to time, it turned out that he actually opened up a sky garden here.

"I didn't expect you to like this..." Bo Ling leaned over to look at an entangled wooden branch at his feet, reached out and touched its leaves lightly, "Why do you put flowers here?"

"There are too many cats in the palace, it's inconvenient." Wei Shishi stood aside with his arms folded, and replied softly.

He stood behind Bai Ling for a while, then turned around and went to the back of a flower stand and took out a small iron stove.He skillfully threw a few pieces of charcoal into it, and set up a pot to boil water.

Then, warm up the wine.

Both of them sat on the ground, and Shisi took two bags from nowhere, took a few plums and ginger slices from them, and put them into the wine jar together.

Looking at Wei Shixing's flowing movements, Bo Ling guessed that he probably came here often to cook wine and enjoy flowers, and seeing that he only had one cup here, he knew that he always came alone.

Not long after, the wine was already hot, and the air was filled with the aroma of wine. Bo Ling leaned over curiously, "Can I have a taste?"

"You're still young." Wei Shishi glanced at her, "If you're thirsty, drink this."

As he spoke, he untied the water bag at his waist and handed it to Bo Ling.

Bo Ling smiled and had no choice but to accept it.

With the breeze blowing in the night and the smell of wine, Bai Ling smiled and said, "I've finished reading the two story books you brought me last time."

Wei Shishi raised his head and looked over upon hearing this, "Is it the one you want?"

"No," Bo Ling shook his head, "Maybe I have to trouble Fourteen to help me find it again. Today's two books feel like a down-and-out scholar writing about their fantasy official family... It doesn't read well. Big truth."

Speaking of this, Bo Ling thought for a moment, and then slowly said, "Is there any kind of novel where the writer himself is the person who witnessed it? For example, a storyteller writes a scientific research, and a down-and-out nobleman writes the history of the rise and fall of a family... even if it is a god Magic fantasy is also possible, as long as the life in the city is relatively real, I want to watch it.”

"Well... I'll try, but I may not be able to find it." Wei Shishi held the bamboo clip, slowly turned the wine bowl that was being heated in the water bath, and asked in a low voice, "Why do you want to see these things all of a sudden?"

"I'm just a little curious," Bo Ling said softly, looking at the distant sky, "I want to know how the people here live."

"Don't you just live here?" Wei Shishi raised his head again, "Why are you curious?"

(End of this chapter)