Chapter 377: Summer Heat
However, this scene made Zheng Siying's pupils suffer from severe pain.
She stood alone at the gate of the palace, watching Zheng Xu's sedan chair go away, and the two figures behind the sedan chair, the cold air between her eyebrows almost condensed into substance.
“…… Girl...... You've seen it all...... It's getting more and more poisonous this day......" The maid standing beside her was uneasy.
Zheng Siying moved her lips, but she didn't squeeze out half a sentence. She only felt a hot current blocking her heart, which made her panic, and she couldn't breathe smoothly.
Approaching noon, the sunlight is more and more poisonous, the endless white marble square in front of the palace has no shade, the sunlight flows down like melting gold water, but everyone who looks at it, feels that his eyes hurt.
“…… Girl, your face is not very good...... Beware of heat stroke heat...... The sedan chair is there, let's get on the sedan chair and go back......" The maid looked at the sky, and hot sweat was oozing from the corners of her forehead.
Zheng Siying took a step. did not walk towards the sedan chair, but followed the footsteps of Xin Yi and Jiang Li, and walked straight to the palace gate.
"Girl! It's hot, please get on the sedan chair! Girl wait for the slave!" the maid hurriedly chased after her, and chased after her with the sedan chair.
Zheng Siying seemed to be stunned, and walked towards the palace gate with her steps, her eyes were wooden, her neck was stiff, and she didn't listen to the maid's call.
She rushed forward as if she had lost her soul. Along the road between Xin Yi and Jiang Li, if he wanted to catch up with the two, his eyes that barely turned were filled with white blazing fire.
The maid and the sedan chair man couldn't catch up at all. The palace attendants along the way were also frightened. The dignified eldest girl of the Zheng family went on a rampage like a madman, and she couldn't listen to people at all.
The sun rises three poles, and the scorching sun scorches every brick on the palace square, not to mention the vast and magnificent palace, and walking through it is like climbing over the mountain of flames.
The maid and the sedan chair man were already chasing after them, sweat beads were rolling down, and there was no wind when they ran, but Zheng Siying, who was the first, walked faster and faster, passed through the Daming Palace, went to the Taiji Palace, and went to the Vermilion Bird Gate.
"Girl!" the maid exclaimed, ending the hysteria.
It turned out that Zheng Siying's back staggered, and she fell forward suddenly, but fortunately, there was a palace attendant to support her in time, otherwise, the eldest girl of the Zheng family, Jin Gui, would have to add a scar to her face.
The maid and the palanquin man caught up with him panting, and saw that Zheng Siying's little face was hot, like burning iron in the stove, but her lips were pale, and cold sweat was gurgling on her forehead.
"It's not good, girl, it's heat stroke!" "I walked away for a long time in a spicy day, can I not burn!" The maid and the palanquin man said a word, and they were so anxious that they stomped their feet.
The square of the main hall of Taiji Palace is vast, like a snowfield, the surroundings are empty, the sun is becoming more and more poisonous, and the floor tiles are burning and smoking.
"Isn't this Miss Zheng?" Just as the maid and the palanquin man were helpless, they suddenly heard a male voice.
The maid raised her eyes and looked, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, and knelt down with a plop: "Meet the prince of Jin!
The person who came was Li Jingting. His eyes turned between the empty sedan chair and Zheng Siying, whose eyes were closed, and said expressionlessly: "The family of the fifth surnamed eldest girl is already delicate. At this noon day, if you don't sit in a sedan chair, what kind of crime will you benerate?"
"The prince is graceful. Somehow, my girl didn't say a word after leaving the main hall, as if she was blocked in her heart, and rushed forward straight and didn't listen to persuasion. The maid looked at the empty surroundings, and then looked at Li Jingting, who was the only one in front of her, and her eyes became more and more earnest.
"Ask the prince to save my girl! It's so hot that there are no birds around! The summer heat can't be delayed! The slave and maid can't find an urgent way for a while!"
The maid is loyal, she doesn't breathe when she speaks, and she doesn't care that she is red, so she just kowtows to Li Jingting.
Li Jingting's face did not wave. It's obviously summer, but his face is like a harsh winter, blowing wind and snow, and it makes people's hearts cool when they look at it.
He stared at the sickly and pitiful Zheng Siying, without any pity for the jade, but looked at an object and thoughtfully said: "After Wang Jian accepted Zheng Siying as a righteous daughter, how did he treat her? ”
The maid was stunned: "The master treats my girl really well." The old man often praised the girl for being smart, and he loved the girl more than those sons-in-law. ”
"Really?" Li Jingting's eyes darkened, "Could it be that the rumors outside are true, and Wang Jian really values Miss Zheng?"
"The slave and maid dare not deceive the prince! Yes, my girl is more talkative than my sons and brothers!" said the maid proudly and anxiously.
Li Jingting nodded silently, as if he had made some major decision. He suddenly leaned down and hugged Zheng Siying, but as soon as his fingertips touched the woman's clothes, he shrank back like a poisonous snake.
"Lord Wang! it's important to save people!" the maid was anxious.
Li Jingting looked at his fingertips, his face looked like he had touched something dirty, his face was full of disgust, and another shadow seemed to pass in front of him, which made him shake a little.
However, the maid's words suddenly crossed his mind: Zheng Siying is more valued by Wang Jian than his son-in-law.
It's a useful pawn.
The second sentence crossed Li Jingting's mind, and then the last touch of shaking and shattering, and the bloody road to the final victory forced him to make a choice.
"The king sent her to the nearest imperial doctor's office. Li Jingting leaned down without hesitation, picked up Zheng Siying, and strode towards the palace office.
The prince rushed forward with the girl in his arms. The maid and the palanquin man chased after them. This scene instantly spread throughout the Daming Palace, and it also instantly set off a turbulent undercurrent of the chess game.
This year's summer seems to be more poisonous than usual, and the entire city of Chang'an is swaying in the sun, as if it has been immersed in molten iron.
Emperor Li He, who was already in poor health, couldn't stand it. cooperated with the concubines and concubines and moved to the Huaqing Palace in the east of Chang'an City.
Huaqing Palace is located on the top of Lishan Mountain, facing the Wei River, the wax moon is close to the soup spring and does not freeze, the Linwei house is cool in summer, the mountains and forests are luxuriant, it is cool and pleasant, the hot scene flows gold, there is no depressed steaming gas; the breeze is swaying, there is the coolness of bleak and clear.
June. The emperor held a lotus banquet in Huaqing Palace, and invited all the nobles of Chang'an to come to recuperate in the summer and enjoy the infinite blue of summer lotus.
On this day, it is the lotus feast. Huaqing Palace has been lively since a few days ago.
The smoking platform is located on the bank of Huaqing Pond, the word Taiwan is three zhang from the ground, there is no wall on all sides, only the green jade is dry and transparent in all directions, the lotus flowers in the pool are like fire, the summer breeze blows the cool breeze on the water surface, and the lotus fragrance in the pool, the crystal curtain moves, and the coolness attacks.
The wide Taichung banquet is soft, the screen incense burner, the bottom of the water frangipani, Jianlan, musk vine, hibiscus, cinnamon, red banana and other flowers hundreds of pots, drumming with gold and copper wind wheel, clear fen full of hall. On the case, lotus seeds, watermelons and sweet bowls are piled up in the snow nest, and most of the heat is gone at a glance.
Xin Yi shook the shark silk fan, looked at the strange-looking people sitting opposite, and asked in a low voice, "Barbarian?"
"That's the envoy of Tubo and Nanzhao. The palace maid standing behind Xin Yi hurriedly explained, looking at Xin Yi's gaze with flattery.
The palace banquet is still a state banquet for foreign envoys, and Xinyi and a commoner were actually invited to attend, but I am afraid that even if this Huai'an Junjun loses his title, he is also a celebrity in front of the emperor.
"It's all from the southwest? Why haven't I heard of such state affairs? Xin Yi looked at a few people curiously, and saw that the latter was playing with the edible gem-inlaid spoon in his hand in front of the emperor, and couldn't help but pout, "No wonder it's so unruly." ”