box of hearts

Chapter 182
Qingtian smiled for a moment, and his heart softened for a moment.He knew all about her thoughts, knew that she would think of him and shed tears, so he sent this old handkerchief to wipe her, and traced this ghostly character-like thing to make her burst into tears—like every time he comforted her. she like that.And she, she also knows his thoughts: Sipa is "thinking" and hand is "shou"; he is also thinking about her, looking forward to the future together, and——Qingtian is staring at the rough painting Look, his face was burning just looking at it - the outline of his slender and broad right hand appeared vividly on the paper, and at the bottom of the painting he also attached a small seal that he usually used to seal the study room, which was a pledge of oath.Qing Tian put his icy hands on his burning cheeks, and suddenly stood up.

"It's over now!"

In a blink of an eye, Mu Yun stood on the porch with her waist in her arms, and let out a sigh.

Yingzhi looked surprised, "What's wrong, Sister Muyun?"

"What's in that box you just took?"

"I don't know, I dare not look at it."

"Oh, I don't know what the lord sent. That one—" mouthed towards Qingtian's room, "I'm going crazy after reading it. I need to paint on the carpet in the middle of the night. Hurry up and wait." , I don’t have any sleep tonight, follow me to get the paint.” Pulling Ying Zhi with his hand, he rushed forward with his feet.

Amidst the lights, a green gauze embroidered curtain was blown up by the fragrant wind on the lake, moving gently.Behind the curtain, Qing Tian held a thin bamboo pen tube, frowned at Xue Xuan on the painting table for a moment, and the brushstrokes fell gracefully.

I don't know how long it has passed, but the dark night in the window lattice has been replaced by the faint morning light.Outside the studio, two maidservants leaned against the corner of the wall, staggering from sleepiness.Mu Yun yawned, turned around and opened a gap in the curtain to look in, and saw the scraps of paper and waste piled up on the floor, and the whole room piled up with mortars and thick dishes, but the people among them were still standing upright, bowing their heads, writing and walking. Yun, who hadn't slept all night, couldn't see a trace of tiredness on his face, he showed a misty smile against the drawing paper, his complexion overwhelmed peach blossoms, and he couldn't help but call Mu Yun very funny.Turning her head, she wanted to call Yingzhi to take a peek, but she saw Yingzhi dozing there with her head down, her childish face was full of grief, as if she was experiencing the most terrible thing in her dream. It's the kind of thing that's scary enough to turn a toddler into a man overnight.

Mu Yun was a little puzzled, but she didn't make any more noise, she just let down the corner of the curtain she was holding in her hands quietly, and let out a sigh of relief.

The first Mid-Autumn Festival in the leap year passed like this.

But the same Mid-Autumn Festival, in the capital city separated by mountains and rivers, is another scene.

In previous years, the Prince Regent's Mansion, which was decorated with lanterns and festoons at this time, was extremely bleak this year. Since the death of the princess Wang Shi Xiangshou, the red palace lanterns have been removed inside and outside the mansion, and the tables, chairs and chairs have been replaced. The elegiac scroll hangs from the main entrance to the mourning hall.

The second concubine Zhan's Fengyue Shuangqing Pavilion also has white mantles and white curtains. Zhan's body is heavily filial piety, and she only wears four thin silver hairpins on her head. A maid beside him called out: "Ruizhi, you can ask someone to inquire again, has the prince entered the city for a while?"

Ruizhi agreed to go out, and then walked outside the door, "Ah!" she was startled, "Wanwan, why are you walking with your head stuffy with your hoof, you almost bumped into me."

Wanwan stopped in a hurry, her face was yellow without makeup, but there was a slight smile on her face, "The prince is back, and he is coming to the empress."

"Really?" Ruizhi turned around hastily, and gave a blessing in front of Zhan, "The empress and the lord really share the same mind, the lord has arrived."

Zhan stood up from the couch, stretched out her skirt, "I heard that, hurry up and make a bowl of hot tea."

Not long after, Qi She came in surrounded by left and right.He was also dressed in plain clothes, with a white jade belt hook around his waist, and he looked tired.Zhan stepped forward and bowed his knees and bowed his forehead, "Welcome the prince back to the mansion." He raised his hand, "Get up, sit down."

Mrs. Zhan asked her servant girl to bring tea, Qi She took a sip and glanced at her, "You seem to have lost weight, is it because you have worked too hard for the funeral?"

Zhan smiled gracefully, "It's not hard work, it's all my duty. It's just that the prince is exhausted from the journey, and when he comes back, he sees that there are many things going on, and he doesn't even have time to catch his breath."

"Fortunately, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and all yamen are closed for a whole day, so I won't go to Chongding Yuan anymore."

"That's right, there is a big banquet in the palace today with close relatives. In previous years, I accompanied the prince into the palace. This year, I can't take the auspicious clothes, and I can't enter the palace, so I will take advantage of the situation and take a good rest in the mansion. The day after tomorrow Hanging himself for the princess, the prince will have to work hard at that time."

"It will be hanged the day after tomorrow, I remember."

"After the hanging, August [-]th is the time for the funeral. What is the prince's plan?"

"I'll personally help the coffin," Qi She shrunk her back, "send 'her' to the mausoleum in Changping."

Mrs. Zhan looked at him, with infinite pity in her eyes, but it was just a sigh of depression: "On the first day of the new year, as usual, I asked people to go outside to arrange a fleeting time. This year is leap August, and the fortune teller said: "Run Qi is not Run Ba, Run Ba kills with a knife." This year will not be quiet, and the prince does not need to worry too much."

Qi She just lowered her head, her eyes were dark under her bushy eyebrows, "Princess passed away, the mansion can't have any feasts for the first year, and it's impossible to pass two Mid-Autumn Festivals in a row. You can ask the head of the warehouse to find someone Giving a few pieces of Han brocade and Shu brocade to Concubine Shun and the others is considered a holiday."

"Yes, I will thank the lord on behalf of my sisters first."

Qi She waved his hand, "I'm very tired, go and rest for a while, if someone comes, you will block it for me."

Zhan said "Ai", "My lord, go and lie down inside. Ruizhi, make the bed for your lord."

Qi She fell asleep in the inner room, so her servant Ruizhi turned the door and asked Zhan in a low voice: "Madam, the gentle Zhuangzi came here a while ago, you asked in private, didn't you say that the prince didn't go to live at all? Why? Why don't you ask where the prince has been for the past two months?"

Zhan Shi glanced at Ruizhi, and said very quietly: "Where did you go, didn't you all come back? You go and close the window, the wind is getting stronger."

Ruizhi backed away without saying a word, and went to the window to buckle Jin Qushu.Zhan watched peacefully from behind, watching the dead leaves all over the window drift away with the wind and go their separate ways.

Two days later, the hoisting began, and the roads on both sides of the palace were filled with white and flower-clumped road sacrificial sheds. The plain carts and white horses stopped a few streets before and after, and all the princes and ministers who shouted loudly in the court Until the officials of all ministries came to offer sacrifices in person.On the second day of the funeral, there was even more crying and cymbals blaring. The monks and nuns chanted scriptures in three ways. The spirit entered the mausoleum in Changping and finished the ceremony.

That night, Qi She sat dryly in the hotel.Zhou Dun sent a bowl of plain noodles, he just shook his hand, "Take it down, you go down too, let me stay by myself for a while."

His moment is a whole night, in this night that is as long as a lifetime and as short as a lifetime, but he cherishes his old face and pities his life.In the meantime, it's hard to talk about what's on your mind.

9.
Once the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the whole of August will soon pass, but it will still be another August.The weather has already shaken the vegetation and turned the dew to frost, but it can't wither the life.At every moment, in every corner, there will be some fresh and destined encounters, like flowers and grasses.

The imperial garden in the imperial city is a good season for chrysanthemums. Yingyuhuang, Golden Peacock, Dahongpao, Jianxiaxiao, Zuiyangfei, Jinlizhi, Yulouchun...all kinds of colors are in full bloom, and once you enter the main entrance, you will be greeted by the sky. "One door" can smell the strong chrysanthemum fragrance.But Wu Ran, the eunuch in charge of Ciqing Palace, didn't care to appreciate the beautiful sea of ​​flowers, and hurried all the way to the rockery.

The leader who ran into the imperial garden head-on, saw Wu Ran, and immediately said with a sly face: "Hey, Mr. Wu, the little one is very polite, you are auspicious, but why do you, a nobleman, come to us when you have time? Are these beautiful mountains here?"

Wu Ran smiled dejectedly, "Hey, the Queen Mother is in a bad mood recently. Isn't Duixiu Mountain raising many rare birds and animals? There is a white monkey in it that can perform various tricks such as bowing, kowtowing, and somersaulting, so I thought about it." Take it into the palace to make fun of it, and make your empress happy."

"Hey, why don't you stop after you give an order, and come all the way here in person? I'll go pick up the monkey cage with you."

"No, no, no," Wu Ran stopped the other party, "You can do your work, I'll do it myself."

Going forward for a while, bypassing a dense forest, you can see the monkey cage of the white monkey, and there are three firemen next to it - eunuchs are divided into eunuchs, young supervisors, and supervisors. called fire.One of the three people was squatting and feeding chestnuts, while the other two were standing with their arms folded, chatting happily.The sporadic words made Wu Ran feel unhappy, and it was the hottest topic in the palace in August: the big funeral of the regent and concubine.Wherever you go, you can meet people who have seen it first-hand, describing how dozens of princes, princes, princes, princes, princes, princes and princes who went there that day, used thousands of feet of filial piety cloth, and burned tens of thousands of stacks of gold and silver coins...

Just as the speaker was spitting and the listener was drooling, the underground feeder twisted somewhere.The speaker raised his voice with a grinning grin, raised his foot and kicked, "Hey, why don't you like to hear it? I just said: Regent, Regent, Regent! I see that you ate the leopard in the back mountain If you dare to rob a wife from a dragon species in the sky, you deserve to be without a wife for the rest of your life!"

(End of this chapter)