box of hearts

Chapter 130 Drunken Taiping (20)
Qingtian pursed his lips, it looked like unripe red water chestnuts, slightly sour, "This is strange, you are going back to the mansion for the festival and not going to fight in the battlefield, what should I worry about?"

At this moment, the drowsy Zai Yumeng woke up, screamed, and scratched his face again.Qing Tian hurriedly raised his hand to stop it, Qi She turned his body to this side, "I'll do it." He fished Yu Huan into his chest, patted it with his hand, and put his face against its burning nose and ears , some inarticulate low-pitched sounds came out of his mouth.

Qingtian pressed a few fingers on his lips, the back of his hands and wrists were densely covered with red threads, and there were traces of thread in his eyes, "I'll come, you didn't sleep much all night because of the trouble yesterday."

"It doesn't matter." He smiled, and just murmured and patted Zaiyu.After a while, Zaiyu gradually became quiet, hooking Qi She's back neck with his two front paws like a child, resting his head on his shoulder, humming continuously from the bottom of his throat.Qi She raised his eyes, looked back at Qingtian who had been staring at him and the cat for a long while, put her hand around her, and put her ear on the other side of his shoulder, "Both of us have had countless romances. , now that we are together today, we don’t care about the past, we only hope for the future. You told me back in Huai Ya Tang that you have long been used to making business vows and vows, and you can talk a lot and listen to it naturally. If you want to come I don’t believe in this for a long time. As for me, when I think about it, I have had a lot of lingering words beside my pillow, but I really haven’t made any promises to any woman.”

He looked at her with a thousand words in his heart, but he said a short "heh", "It's not a pledge of eternal love, just a word, I will treat you wholeheartedly, and I will never let you down."

Every word had the texture of gold and jade, and landed on top of her head from mid-air—Qingtian closed his eyes and smiled—this was her title, a gorgeous and clear crown of love bestowed by him himself.Such profane, joy and vanity of the youngest daughter, the one whom he held the highest rank of all the women, no, besides her, he really didn't have any women anymore.It's like after the long days and long days of many men in her ears are gone, only his voice is left, his words.

Qingtian didn't answer anything, but they knew each other, and she believed him deeply.

For a long time, she leaned against him like a kitten, until a cat paw next to him gave him a hard push.Qingtian glanced at Zaiyu with a half-shocked half-smile, it only rubbed a pair of beards against Qi She's neck, and without raising its head, stretched out its paws and shoved the corners of her cheeks.Qing Tian left Qi She's embrace obediently, and laughed at the same time as him.Qi She shook his hands left and right, and began to mutter again.After a while, he saw that Qingtian was smiling but his eyes were flushed again, so he leaned forward and read to her the incomprehensible words to comfort the injured little animals.

The cat's head, which was wrapped in a roll of white gauze, swayed slightly in an unreasonably wide chest, and a beautiful single eye blinked, and blinked again, and the sky blue in the eyes was blinked to the sky.

14.
The clear blue sky was as blue as a puddle of water, without waves or waves, and life returned to its former calm.Under the meticulous care of the imperial physician, the cat quickly recovered. Qingtian took pity on it to go blind, and pampered it so much that he personally selected two maidservants from near Xiangtang to take care of it in Yuzai. His life is more meticulous than taking care of the crown prince.After Cuiyi left the garden, her vacancy was filled by Xiaodan who changed her name to "Yingzhi". Although Yingzhi was young, she was very mature, very stable, and Qingtian liked her very much, so she was left behind. By my side, I only ask her to play with Zai Yu on weekdays, and become a "cat hug girl".Qingtian himself just talked and laughed with these maids to relieve boredom, practiced calligraphy and painting, or climbed mountains and boats, listened to the piano and watched flowers. between.I don't know which day will come, bringing the news of Cuiyi's death.

According to Xiaojing, although Cuiyi was only tortured with a cane, her injuries were also serious, and it was not a big deal after being driven home. She lay on the kang and just talked nonsense. When she heard the sound of a carriage on the street, she cried and said yes The assigned horseman came to pick her up, and after a while he smiled and said that it was the prince himself who welcomed her back to the mansion.On the day of the Lantern Festival on the 15th, he suddenly woke up and asked his father to find Zhou Dun.When her father came back the next day, he shook his head with her, and she fell down silently, "There will be no one before the night of the sixteenth." After Xiao Jing finished speaking, he sighed and sprinkled a few drops tears.

Standing opposite and listening to the sad news was Youyan, holding a pair of boxwood mallets in her hands, she couldn't hold them firmly no matter how hard she held them, as if they were always trying to slip out of her hands, like a pair of hands that were too small and too slippery.It was her and Cuiyi's hand, they were used to holding each other together since they were young, they didn't separate even under the quilt, they shared a piece of sweet rose cake while talking at night.Even less than half a month ago, she was still holding Cuiyi's blood-hot hand and cursing: "Why don't you understand your hoof? Don't be afraid that your heart will be higher than the sky, but your life will be thinner than paper!"——Good I express my intention, forgive me my sins, and hit the point.

You Yan shook violently, awakening from the delusions, Xiao Jing had already poked her several times, "I'm calling you inside." Only then did she recognize the voice of the "cat-hugging girl" Ying Zhi, in a slow voice , but it was so fragile that it fell to the ground: "Sister Youyan, sister Youyan!"

"Here we come." Hastily wiped his eyes and warned Xiao Jing, "Don't tell your mother about Cuiyi."

"I know." Xiao Jing also wiped his eyes, and when he dried them, he also wiped away the person in his eyes.

Youyan entered through the curtain, and saw Zhaohua holding a handkerchief, covering her mouth and giggling, "If Yingzhi didn't call you with her bright voice, you would still be deaf and unable to hear."

Yingzhi on the other side has already been dressed in new clothes, wearing an okra green padded jacket, a turquoise silk cotton skirt, a pair of delicate silver hairpins in front of her head, and a silk flower on one side, looking like a beautiful maidservant in a wealthy court.She held the white cat around her chest with both hands, and smiled at You Yan.

You Yan just smiled at her, and sat down on a small stick, raising the wooden mallet in his hand to beat his legs.

On the big kang covered with brocade quilts, Qing Tian leaned his body slanted, the sheepskin gold skirt half-hanging on the corner of the kang, and the skirt was folded with soft zigzags.She randomly picked a peacock feather from the vase and swept it between Zhaohua's forehead, "You, you are bullying the clumsy and honest mouth of the young cigarette holder." Really, "dunhou" has yet to be screened.In a royal mansion with a large population and strict hierarchy in the lower world, she must not be underestimated if she can always hold the position of first-class maid.What's more, Youyan and Cuiyi have a deep friendship, and Cuiyi's being expelled must be a brotherly pain for her, and it's hard to guarantee that she won't harbor resentment.Qingtian's thoughts turned sharply, but the feathers between his fingers only stretched leisurely towards the tip of Zaiyu's nose a few times.Zaiyu immediately jumped out of Yingzhi's arms, chasing the feathers and scratching on the big kang, kicked his two hind paws, and slid down towards the edge of the kang.

Youyan under the kang stopped her hands in fright, and for a moment faced Zaiyu's single eye: an ice-blue, gloomy glass bead.She took a long breath and gasped again and again.

Yingzhi was quick, grabbed the cat from the side, and stroked its bandaged head, "Little guy, I'm always confused."

Zhaohua snorted: "It's not all the fault of that bitch Cuiyi!"

Qingtian glanced at Youyan's face in an instant, and seemed to ask casually: "Youyan, do you have any news about Xieyi?"

Youyan has returned to normal, with lowered eyebrows, and a pair of white feathers Huasheng on the double-ringed bun are weak and pitiful. "I only heard that in the first two days, the prince asked someone to give her [-] silver as her escort, but I haven't heard any more news. The empress doesn't have to worry about her anymore. It's what the empress said, everyone has their own destiny."

Qingtian looked down at Youyan, taking a panoramic view of the Qi Ran and the forced indifference that flashed on his face.Forget it, even if it's forced, didn't she want to be coquettish and funny in front of others?But she is also a woman who wants to make a living, she never dares to cross the threshold, why should she press every step of the way?Suddenly, Qingtian decided to leave Xiaoyan behind, and use time and sincerity to eliminate the silent grievances between them.She plucked her feathers and led Zai Yu back to her hand.

Youyan under the seat also raised the mallet heavily, and struck it with precision and lightness.The hollowed-out mallets are filled with silver bells, and the sound is leisurely. The fragrance of lilies in the furnace curls into smoke. Between the Zhuao Xiushe and the Qingxi powder wall, the silk strings on the Yinyin Pavilion rise again, and the singing of the actors passes through the back window. A few clumps of thin bamboo float in with the fragrance of plum blossoms.

This is a beautiful and peaceful day, in which everything should be forgiven and forgotten.

Notes:

[1] "Jimo" refers to the sets and props used on the opera stage.

[2] "Manchijiao" is a pattern depicting the scenery of flowers and birds in a pond.

[3] (Tang) Lu Zhaolin's "Ancient Ideas of Chang'an": "Chang'an Avenue is narrow and slanted, with green cattle, white horses and seven fragrant chariots. The jade chariot crosses the main building, and the golden whips flow to the Hou family.  … I used to learn to dance for a long time. If I can achieve success, why not die, I would like to be a mandarin duck and not envy immortals...."

[4] A wine order game, in which melon seeds, lotus seeds or chess pieces are hidden in the palm, and people guess the odd and even numbers or colors.

[5] Chen Shaoqi in Daming's "Story of the Stone" (cis): "Since little by little calculations, but the difference is too far, going round and round, turning into Duan Duan's fate. They are harassing and marrying, Chunxiao loves changing their minds, true and false, it is known. Sorrows, joys, grievances and grievances are deceptions."

[6] Compiled by Zhou Xingsi of the Liang Dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the rhyme composed of 250 Chinese characters has [-] sentences in the full text, each with four characters and no word repeated.

[7] Buddhism divides the world into three realms: the realm of desire, the realm of form, and the realm of formlessness. The sentient beings in the realm of desire are further divided into six realms: the realm of heaven, the realm of Asura, the realm of humanity, the realm of animals, the realm of hungry ghosts, and the realm of hell.

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