Gao Xuan is near Bizhu, and the eaves are overhead. The remaining flowers are carved on the sill, and the residual willows are scattered and carved. The shore chrysanthemum contains stamens at the beginning, and the garden pear begins to be red. Don't worry about the darkness of Kunshan, but also in the cup. - "Sitting in the Flying Pavilion with Wine" Tang Li Shimin.

On the eight-meter-high pedestal made of white marble, there is a majestic and towering, majestic palace, in today's gloomy and gloomy, cumulus clouds and heavy weather, from a distance, it is like the mythical Qionggong Xianque, which makes people breathtaking.

There is a gorgeous vermilion lacquer palace door in front of you, there is a gilded beast face ring knocker on the palace door door of two open doors, there is also a black golden silk nanmu plaque hanging directly above the palace gate, and the plaque is written with a gold pen "Weide Palace" three vigorous and powerful seal characters.

This is the Imperial Palace of the Red Ice Country-the East Palace of the Prince. It is also the palace where Yan Ziming, the prince of the Red Ice Kingdom, lives.

Stepping on the stairs in front of the eight-meter-high white marble pedestal, step by step to the top of the stairs, pushing open the heavy vermilion lacquer palace door, the first thing that catches your eye is full of verdant bamboo.

On the ground paved with white marble, there are many boxy mud pits, and those green bamboos are planted in these mud pits. Although there are many bamboos, they are many but not chaotic, one bush after another, the distance is appropriate, the arrangement is appropriate, and it is very pleasing to the eye.

However, due to the severe cold in the north of the Tiancheng Continent, even if it is an evergreen bamboo in all seasons, the bamboo leaves of some cangzhu will inevitably turn yellow and fall to the ground, so that the ground paved with white marble is full of withered yellow bamboo leaves.

The five white-faced, beardless eunuchs wearing blue eunuch hats with a nearly round crown and a back edge rising above the top of the hat, and dark blue eunuch costumes, each holding a broom made of bamboo branches, carefully and carefully sweeping the fallen leaves on the white marble under their feet.

At this moment, the five eunuchs all followed the sound of pushing the door, and after seeing the appearance of the person who came, they all stopped cleaning in their hands.

I saw the five eunuchs kneeling on the ground, carefully placing the brooms in their hands on the ground beside them, and then they were prostrate on the ground paved with white marble despite the coldness of the ground, and then, I heard those eunuchs call in unison in a respectful tone: "Slave see Lord Wang Quan!"

"We are all serving His Royal Highness the Prince, don't be so formal!" stood in front of the gate of the Weide Palace. Yan Zi, who was kneeling down by a group of eunuchs and disguised as Wang Quan, heard this, but he laughed so much.

After Yan Ziming's words fell, there was a eunuch who was prostrate on the ground and did not move. But he respectfully took over the conversation: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered earlier, Wang Quan and Mu Wen have been running around for more than a month for His Royal Highness, and it is really hard. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered me to make a big salute after seeing Wang Quan and Mu Wen, otherwise I would be disrespectful to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Yan Ziming heard this. A look of understanding flashed in his eyes, but on his face, he still had the same smile and grin, without the slightest change.

Leng Qing, who was standing beside Yan Ziming, glanced at Yan Ziming, who had a hippie smile, and didn't bother to pay attention to it, and walked straight into the Weide Palace. Now Leng Qing doesn't care about anything, she doesn't care about anything, her only thought is to hurry up to the dormitory where Yan Ziming lives and feel the warmth of the most primitive charcoal fire!

"Hey, you wait for me!, get up, get up!" Yan Ziming saw this. Shouting and chasing after him, Yan Ziming finally remembered that he should let them get up when he passed by the eunuchs who were prostrate on the ground.

When the five eunuchs heard this, they said "yes" in their mouths, but after straightening up their upper halves, they first picked up the brooms beside them, and then stood up.

After standing up, the five eunuchs continued their previous cleaning work, and there was no change because of the appearance of Yan Ziming and Leng Qing.

When Leng Qing finally dragged her cold and heavy body out of the large piece of green bamboo, she appeared in front of Leng Qing next. It turned out to be a full moon-shaped arch.

looked at Yan Ziming, who was still calm and relaxed with a baby face next to him, and looked left and right at the arch, and found that there were gray-white walls on both sides that stretched three meters high, and there were no other arches. Leng Qing was sure that she was not wrong.

Passing through the full moon-shaped arch in front of you, you will see the pine and cypress trees and the picturesque rockery, and a path paved with white marble inlaid in it, showing a unique beautiful and tranquil atmosphere in this magnificent and solemn palace.

Along the white marble path, I walked about ten meters towards the pine and cypress with splendid branches and the picturesque exquisite rockery. Almost at the end of the white marble path, a magnificent palace with a glazed tile and heavy eaves roof appeared in front of Leng Qing without a call.

When Leng Qing was shocked by the majestic momentum of the palace that suddenly appeared in front of her, in a corner of the Weide Palace, two young eunuchs with white faces and beards, wearing blue eunuch hats with a nearly round crown and a back edge higher than the top of the hat, and wearing dark blue eunuch costumes, were huddled in the corner of the wall to add firewood to the stove pit under the wall in front of them.

The wall here is no different from the wall of the Weide Palace, except that at the bottom of the wall, an arc more than half a meter high is built with blue bricks, which resembles a stove.

The most strange thing is that there is a very strong fire burning in this arc that resembles a stove, but there is not a trace of ash smoke from the burning firewood around, and I don't know where the ash smoke has gone.

There is no need to guess, what these two eunuchs are burning is the earth dragon that Yan Ziming mentioned earlier.

Burning the earth dragon, simply put, is that there is a fire channel dug in the ground of the room, there is a hole in the ground, and the fire is burned in the hole, and the gray smoke carries the heat to the house, and the ground in the house is as hot as the hot kang in the northern countryside, and this fire channel is the earth dragon. But the kang is just a bed, and the earth dragon is on the whole room.

"I heard that as long as it is cold on this day, the dragon in the palace of His Highness and His Highness Frame has not been extinguished. But look at our Royal Highness the Prince, since I entered this Weide Palace until now, I haven't seen the earth dragon of this Weide Palace burn for so many years! A round-faced eunuch picked up an arm-thick log beside him and threw it into the burning pit in front of him.

When another eunuch with a white and tender complexion heard this, he answered with a puzzled face: "Yes! In previous years, even if it was cold, even if it was a heavy snowstorm in the middle of winter the year before, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had at most lit two silver and carbon stoves in his own bedroom to keep warm. And yesterday's heavy snow, yesterday's cold day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't even think about burning this earth dragon, how can it be that today is not cold, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince remembered to burn this earth dragon?"

With that, the pale-faced eunuch stirred the firewood from the fire pit with the small shovel in his hand, making the fire burn more vigorously, and by the way shoveled out the excess ashes, and poured them into a clay pot with a small belly beside him.

When the round-faced eunuch heard this, he immediately raised his hand and patted the hat of the eunuch with a white and tender complexion, and reprimanded with hatred in his mouth: "You fool, didn't you hear Lord Muwen beside His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just now? This time, Lord Wang Quan and Lord Muwen left the palace for more than a month, and when they came back, they brought back a female luthier found in the Jiangnan area of the Great Liang Kingdom for His Royal Highness the Prince.

Listening to the meaning of Lord Muwen's words, it seems that the pianist is not in good health, too afraid of cold, and a little unable to stand the cold weather of our Red Ice Country. You also know that our Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always been a master who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, and after listening to Lord Muwen's words, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince remembered to burn this earth dragon to keep the violinist warm!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has taken too much fancy to that luthier!" the eunuch with a white and tender complexion sighed, and his hands were not idle, but he put down the small shovel in his hand, and raised his hands to help the eunuch hat on his head, which had been slapped crooked by the round-faced eunuch.

Holding the hat that was slapped crookedly, the eunuch with a white and tender face continued to wonder: "It's just a folk woman, I haven't seen this person, I don't know what it looks like, does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince need to make such a big move?"

He threw an arm-thick log into the fire pit in front of him, and the round-faced eunuch reminded him: "This is not something that we slaves should worry about, let's just burn this earth dragon and ensure that His Royal Highness the Prince's bedroom is warm, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Lord Muwen don't blame us!"

"That's right!" said the pale eunuch and nodded, which showed that he also thought so.

However, as soon as the words changed, he saw the eunuch with a white and tender complexion poking the firewood in the fire pit with the small shovel in his hand, and said with coquettishness: "I really envy the Gao Xi who is serving in the bedroom of His Royal Highness the Prince, we are tired and tired of burning the earth dragon here, and they are enjoying it directly." ”

However, the round-faced eunuch grinned when he heard this, and then said in a brisk tone: "You are really stupid to say that you are stupid! Lord Muwen asked the two of us to burn this earth dragon, although this errand is a little tiring, and we do not have the companions who serve in the palace of His Royal Highness the Prince. But we don't have to serve our eccentric His Royal Highness the Prince, and we don't need to look at Lord Muwen's frightened face, so that we will not offend the master because of poor service, and we can nest in this corner to warm up and chat, so think about it, it's also a beautiful difference. ”

Looking at the fellow villagers who were smiling and entering the palace together, the eunuch with a white and tender complexion muttered angrily: "What you say makes sense! I can't tell you if I beat a child!"

After muttering, he glanced at the little firewood left around him, and the eunuch with a white and tender face stood up and said, "This firewood is almost finished again, you take care of the fire, and I will go to the firewood room to bring some firewood." ”

Although there were some complaints in his heart, the eunuch with a white and tender face still remembered the task assigned to him by Mu Wen.

"Okay, you go and come back quickly, we don't dare to let this fire break!" Looking at the back of his fellow villagers leaving, the round-faced eunuch couldn't help but admonish.

"Yes. Wait!" With that, the eunuch with a white and tender complexion ran away. (To be continued.) )

PS: The content of the previous chapter has been revised!