The Imperial Garden is located at the northernmost end of the central axis of the harem, behind the Kunning Palace, with the Qin'an Palace as the center, Wanxiu Garden is one of the scenes, bypassing the Yanhui Pavilion, walking through a bluestone sandwich road, entering the eye is not far away from the stone mountain built by Taihu Lake stone, the mountain is steep, the road is steep, and the technique of stacking stones is novel and interesting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Yujing Pavilion on the mountain is the place where the emperor and queen ascend during the Double Ninth Festival, the strange stone Luobu in the garden, the beautiful trees are verdant, the vines are shaded, the ancient trees are shady, and the bonsai of various mountains and stones is placed, and there are thousands of strange things.

In the distance, it is a polygonal pavilion that forms a cross corner plane with four hugging buildings, the roof is the heavy eaves of the round place of the sky, floating in the pool of blue waves, the ten-mile promenade extends to the shore, the willows on the shore are still in place, and the West Lake scenery stone is distributed among the low bushes in the middle.

Gu Yanling walked along the pebble path towards the center of the garden, only to see peonies planted under the stone steps of a small pavilion where he rested, surrounded by green bamboos, and six pale green sword stones of different lengths stood in the middle. One of the most eye-catching is the inky peony in it. The branches are tall and straight, with heavy petals, ink color, swaying lightly in the wind, and more charming in grace. (Note: Refer to Baidu's "Forbidden City Imperial Garden" for modification.) ）

"The queen mother's favorite is the peony, the peony here is mostly selected from Heze, Luoyang, transplanted treasures, is a wonder of Wanxiu Garden. ”

Hearing Ruyi's babbling words, Gu Yanling nodded and chuckled, the queen mother in Ruyi's mouth is naturally the biological mother of the current prince, the emperor's wife, Empress Yuan, Empress Yuan was born in the Yuan family, a dignitary of the first emperor's dynasty, and her grandfather was the head of the first emperor's ministers. Queen Yuan's love for peonies, she also knew in her previous life, but Queen Yuan's status is noble, her mother is the world, and it is not surprising that she likes peonies.

Looking at the ink-colored peony with outstanding demeanor in front of him, Gu Yanling couldn't help bending down slightly, gently leaning over with his right hand, and caressing the petals that were still covered with dewdrops.

When he was at ease, he only heard Ruyi's hesitant "huh" beside him, Gu Yanling didn't take it to heart, but the next moment, Ruyi raised his voice with surprise in his voice: "Ninth brother!"

"Shhhh

Gu Yanling took a cold breath, the sudden stinging pain between his fingers and abdomen only felt that he almost penetrated into his heart, raised his hand slightly, and saw that a red blood bead between the middle finger and his finger was gradually condensing, getting bigger and bigger, and then looked sideways at the peony branch just now, a young thorn on the branch was still stained with Yingying's bloodstains, Gu Yanling frowned slightly, and couldn't help suppressing some coldness.

If it was really the sin of the previous life, now even the heavens are warning her?

"Here's how. ”

Ruyi turned around when he heard the sound, saw the blood beads on Gu Yanling's fingers, and hurriedly stepped forward, Gu Yanling covered the coldness between his eyebrows, gently wrapped his fingers with a handkerchief, and smiled disappreciatively: "It's okay, it's just that I was accidentally pricked a little, not deep, when I used to fiddle with a few camellia plants at home, I was also pricked a few times, but I got used to it." ”

As relaxed as Gu Yanling, he was relieved, but he was still a little embarrassed: "I must have scared you just now." ”

When Gu Yanling was about to express relief, he saw a white moire brocade robe corner from the afterglow, and looked at it from the bottom to the bottom, facing a clear and soft light.

This glimmer of light belonged to the young man in front of him.

The young man's face is delicate, his hair is elegantly pulled up, and his complexion is even more translucent and porcelain white than the mutton fat white jade pendant on his waist.

The breeze was blowing, the hair on the sideburns was slightly blown on his lips, the young man couldn't help but clench his fists and coughed lightly, his slender fingers lightly pressed the crane, and the sunlight fell on the young man's fingertips, shining brightly.

"Brother Jiu. ”

Hearing Ruyi's happy voice, Gu Yanling indifferently withdrew his gaze.

Xiao Yan turned to look at the young sister in front of him, and couldn't help touching the girl's sideburns dotingly, and said with a smile on the corner of her lips: "Little Shi, you have escaped the classes of the university scholars again, beware of Master Yu punishing you tomorrow." ”

Ruyi listened, and the corners of his lips curled slightly: "No, today's class was exempted from me by my father, so Master Yu didn't dare to punish me." ”

After speaking, the girl looked at Xiao Yan with a ghostly spirit, raised her eyebrows and said provocatively: "It's the ninth brother, the ninth brother should also go to the study today, this son is actually greedy for fun here, I didn't expect it——"

Ruyi shook his head and smiled: "We have always been praised by the master of the study, and the diligent ninth brother will also skip class, and Master Yu's beard is only afraid that he will be angry." ”

After listening to Xiao Yan chuckled, he didn't lose his temper, but he tapped Ruyi's head with his hand, and Ruyi pretended to be in pain, but Xiao Yan was not fooled and said: "Don't compare me with you, today I asked the masters in the study room for leave to take care of the concubine." ”

"Oh?"

After listening to this, Ruyi hurriedly said: "What's wrong with Cheng Niangniang?"

Xiao Yan whispered comfortingly: "Don't worry, the mother concubine is just occasionally feeling cold, and there is no big problem." ”

Ruyi nodded reassuringly, and said again: "Then why is Brother Jiu still hanging around here?"

Xiao Yan smiled softly at the corner of his lips, did not answer, only raised his left hand slightly, and then a small bamboo basket appeared from his hidden hand, in which a few jade-colored Taiping flowers were placed, faintly exuding a faint fragrance.

"I just served my mother and took medicine, and it rained a little in the morning, thinking that my mother's favorite Taiping flower should bloom just right, so I came to pick a few plants and go back to Changchun Palace to insert bottles. ”

Gu Yanling looked at this scene coldly, but she wanted to laugh a little, in her previous life, as the daughter-in-law of Cheng Guifei, she initially thought that Cheng Guifei loved Taiping flowers all her life, but until the moment Xiao Yan sat on the throne, Cheng Guifei was paranoid and arrogant to plant peonies all over the palace, and even the palace, at that time she knew that how could Cheng Guifei's favorite thing in her heart be Taiping flowers?

seems to be greedy for peace, but Concubine Cheng has been obsessed with power all her life, and the throne, if you talk about playing with power, it is no less than today's Empress Dowager Guo, the eldest princess Zhaomao.

Concubine Cheng has been in love with power all her life, and her beloved is the peony with a beautiful national color, but in order to really have these two, she can lie dormant for half her life, which is very similar to her son.

"In this way, Cheng Niangniang can also enjoy the flowers when she is sick. ”

Ruyi on the side smiled and said: "There is no one in this world who is more intimate than Brother Jiu, presumably Cheng Niangniang knows Brother Jiu's heart, and when she is in a good mood, her illness should be cured." ”

Xiao Yan smiled between his lips, bent down slightly, and touched Ruyi's head again: "Then borrow our little ten's auspicious words." ”

Ruyi dodged his head sideways, pretending to be impatient and said: "I'm twelve years old, and the ninth brother is still touching my head." ”

Xiao Yan straightened up, smiled more gently like a spring breeze, and said: "Okay, it's the fault of the ninth brother, I forgot that our little ten are all big girls, and we are about to get married." ”

"Brother Nine-"

The girl blushed and stomped her feet embarrassedly, her words seemed to be coquettish, but the smile in Xiao Yan's eyes became a little more funny.

"Who is this?"

Xiao Yan's eyes seemed to fall on Gu Yanling unintentionally, and after listening to it, he smiled and went to pull Gu Yanling to Xiao Yan's face, although Gu Yanling was unwilling, but his face still followed Ruyi.

"Brother Jiu, this is my cousin, the eldest granddaughter of the Gu family of Dingguo Gong, Gu Yanling. ”

Xiao Yan glanced at it slightly when he heard this, and then with a gentle and polite smile on his lips: "It turned out to be Miss Gu Chang." ”

The corners of Gu Yanling's lips smiled slightly, she took half a step back dignifiedly, and saluted Xiao Yan: "The courtier Gu Yanling has seen the Nine Emperor Princes. ”

Xiao Yan smiled and raised his hand: "Miss Gu, please get up." ”

Gu Yanling bowed slightly, then slowly got up, gently stroked her skirt, as soft as ever, and her eyes were always detached with rules.

"Miss Gu doesn't need to be so restrained, Wang Xie and the two families are world friends, Xiao Shi calls me Brother Jiu, and Miss Gu can also be the same as Xiao Shi. ”

When Gu Yanling heard this, her lips hooked up a shallow smile, lowered her head slightly, and bowed again, her words were soft and slow: "I have heard that the Nine Emperor Princes are friendly, and now the courtiers have realized it, but my mother has taught her courtiers to be modest and polite since she was a child, and she must not fall behind the rules of the Xie family's daughter, and the courtiers dare not forget her mother's words, and I hope that the Nine Emperor Princes will understand." ”

The girl in front of her gently lowered her head slightly, looking weak, but in fact, her body was full of cold temperament, thinking that she was soft, but she was alienated from others.

Although Xiao Yan pondered in his heart, he did not show the surface, he had heard of the rules of the Xie family, and he also knew a little about the temperament of the girl who was the head of the Dingguo Mansion, things could only be slow, not rushed, so he only smiled lightly: "It's okay." ”

Unintentionally bowed his head, Xiao Yan glanced at the beautiful Taiping flowers, the smile on the corner of his lips deepened, he reached out to pick one up, twisted the branch in his hand and rubbed it slightly, and raised his head to hand the Taiping flower with rain and dew in front of Gu Yanling.

"The mother concubine often mentions Miss Gu, if she is not sick today, she will want to see the girl-"

Gu Yanling, who lowered his head, frowned slightly, and when he looked up at Xiao Yan, his beautiful eyes were already with a trace of ignorance of an ignorant girl, Xiao Yan said slowly and gently without being rude: "It is fate to meet Miss Gu in the garden, and if you want to come to this Taiping flower to give to the girl, the mother concubine should also be happy." ”

Gu Yanling and Xiao Yan looked at each other for a moment, then indifferently withdrew their gaze, and politely replied: "The courtiers thank the Nine Emperor Princes for the gift, and I also ask the Nine Emperor Sons to greet Concubine Cheng on behalf of the courtiers." ”

Xiao Yan smiled and nodded, Gu Yanling lightly raised his hand to take the flower and squeezed it in his hand.

"Brother Jiu is eccentric. ”

Ruyi glanced at the two of them, and then pretended to be angry: "I'm here too, why didn't Brother Jiu give me one?"

Xiao Yan shook his head helplessly, handed the bamboo basket in his hand to Ruyi and said gently: "If our little ten want, it doesn't hurt to give you this basket, which one you want, just pick it yourself." ”

Ruyi suddenly smiled, picked one and held it in his hand, and said coquettishly to Xiao Yan: "I know that Brother Nine is the best." ”

Seeing the Taiping Flower in Ruyi's hand, Gu Yanling, who looked indifferent, also breathed a sigh of relief, so he didn't say anything.

Xiao Yan looked at the coquettish girl, couldn't help chuckling slightly, and was about to habitually stroke the girl's bun, but the sudden depression in his chest made him smile slightly, Xiao Yan's face stiffened, and then he clenched his hand back tightly, covered his mouth and coughed strongly.

As a result, his smile froze, and he hurriedly stepped forward to support Xiao Yan, carefully stroking Xiao Yan's back, and said a little helplessly: "Brother Fang Cai is fine, what's wrong." ”

However, Xiao Yan's coughing did not stop gradually, but became more serious, and in a blink of an eye, his fair and handsome face seemed to be transparent, a pair of good-looking eyes were full of red bloodshots, and even his voice was hoarse.

Gu Yanling stood aside indifferently and watched this scene calmly.

Xiao Yanqiang endured a handful of grabbing Ruyi's flustered hand, obviously the green tendons on the back of his hand had been revealed, but he comforted weakly in a calm tone: "Little Shi, don't panic, Brother Jiu is fine, it's just an old problem." ”

Saying that, Xiao Yan endured it again, breathed inside for a long time, and the cough gradually stopped, but his face was faintly sick, and it seemed to be more serious.

Ruyi's eyes were red on the side, and he was almost so frightened that he cried, but Xiao Yan, who was looking backwards, smiled helplessly and gently stroked Ruyi's head.

"Okay, Brother Jiu is fine, I've been out for a long time, my mother is about to wake up from a nap, Brother Jiu will go back to the palace first, Xiao Shi will accompany the girl to enjoy the garden." ”

Seeing Xiao Yan like this, Ruyi was worried and said, "Brother Nine is really okay, or I'll accompany Brother Nine back." ”

Xiao Yan shook his head and said softly: "It's okay, you don't have to worry, Miss Gu is a guest, how good is it for you, the master, to leave." ”

If he thinks so, he asked his personal maid to serve Xiao Yan back to the palace, Xiao Yan couldn't be stubborn, so he just turned his head and smiled gently and politely at Gu Yanling: "Then, Miss Gu is so good at enjoying the scenery." ”

Looking at the pair of gentle and bright eyes in front of him, as well as the modest smile, Gu Yanling's slightly covered eyelashes covered the coldness in his eyes, and he bowed respectfully.

Looking up again, only the young man's slightly thin back but still not losing his bearing. Gu Yanling was silent, but he heard a lamented sigh in his ears: "Brother Jiu is such a good person, but it's a pity that this body is tired of him-"

Pity?

Gu Yanling couldn't help but sneer, if people knew the truth, I don't know if the world would still look at it like this.