Chapter 17
The dice roll was arranged after the feast, the Bodhi white jade dice were placed with eight-sided red beans, and the eight school-age women of the Dark Book Sect, Lianxi and Lan Shao were among them. During the banquet, there was a staggered group of harmonious music, and everyone calmly raised their glasses and laughed on their faces, in fact, they were all waiting to see this unheard of gift of choosing a family.
"My father is really getting more and more confused, and the major affairs of peace and relatives involve the interests of the two countries, how can I use the method of rolling the dice?" Hua Xian sat on my left side and said to me worriedly, "Eldest princess, how did my father become like this when he returned from this trip?"
I've been fidgeting since the beginning of the feast. As far as I know, the emperor's breath is thin today, and there are not enough of eight daughters of the heavenly family of the right age even if they are counted in the clan, and I don't know which woman's name will be written on the extra red beans or make up for the number of unmarried widows like me. I listened to Hua Xian's words, scribbled them into a question against me, and said vaguely: "This is the fairest and most beneficial way for the Heavenly Family, you just watch." ”
"Princess, my happiness will depend on you in a moment. Thirteen eyes stared at me like torches, full of trust and firmness, "It is a great blessing for Lao Tzu to have you in life." ”
I was nauseous, but I still didn't know the bottom of my heart. The maid poured me a full of grapes and wine from the Western Regions, and looked at me from afar, and I saw his inexplicable smile blending into the crimson wine through the glass luminous glass.
Lianwu disappeared, and together with the missing person, it was Lan Shao, who had been flamboyant at first.
"Miss Lian, can you let me see the Bodhi white jade dice? Since you are the girl brought by your grandfather, you should be on my side. ”
"What are you talking about, princess? Rolling the dice is following the will of heaven, and the lotus witch is just a little witch, how can she tamper with it at will?"
"I'm afraid you don't know who has the final say in the court now, don't you understand the truth of the Xiao family's 'those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die'?
“……”
On the winding corridor behind the Phoenix Shadow Stage, the sound of a woman's clear conversation came from the dark, and I followed the sound, I couldn't see the direction clearly in the night, but the voice of the voice made me very familiar.
A dark shadow flashed, quickly disappearing behind the pillars, and the sound of the clothes rubbing against me immediately alerted me. "Who?" I asked, pausing and lowering my voice.
"Click-" sound, something fell at my feet, through the dim moonlight, I saw a piece of bamboo slip lying on the ground, picked it up and looked, the four lines of the line are vigorous and powerful, it is the most familiar and most worrying pen stroke in my memory - into the bone Acacia Jun knows, exquisite dice do long. The most infatuated Chang'an guest, you should know the meaning of this thing.
It's Qi Ye. I carefully placed the bamboo slip on my chest, although it was full of questions, but the joy in my heart overflowed with sourness throughout my heart, exquisite dice, acacia red beans, how could I not know such a heart?
"The eldest princess and the general Jinwu are really as deep as the sea, and they are enviable. The man's low laughter sounded in the dark, I was stunned, and then reacted: "The Turkic prince not only likes to pretend to be ordinary people, but also likes to hide in the dark and peep, this is the first time I have seen such a hobby Zhaoyuan." ”
"I'm afraid there are many things you haven't seen, for example, I'm afraid you can't imagine that there is no one else's name on the dice of that book of life except you. Helan Yue gently shook the red sandalwood folding fan and stepped out from behind the pillars, speaking very smoothly in his original words, it seems that he has a mother I have always wanted to meet.
I was puzzled: "First, I have a marriage contract, and second, this is a mutually agreed candidate between the two countries, if it is only my name, wouldn't it be child's play?"
"This dice was brought back to the Central Plains by the queen mother, and when your emperor saw it, he decided to roll the dice. Each red bean of the white jade dice is embedded by the queen mother's own hands, and each one is engraved with your name, Gao Xiyue. ”
My heart seemed to have been hit by a blunt object in an instant, and something was blocked in my throat, and after a while, Fang calmly asked him: "Could it be that my father doesn't know?" If you want Zhaoyuan to be friendly, you can speak directly, and I will never be disobedient." "I should have taken out the original red beans, but I guess the princess will change her mind when she sees this bamboo slip, just like this king. ”
"What do you mean?" I clenched the bamboo slip in my hand, and the bamboo thorns at the edge pierced into my palm with slight pain, and after a pause, I asked again, "Why is Yuwen Qiye's thing on your hand?"
The modesty on Helan Yue's face was no longer there, and a cold meaning appeared: "If this king says that the Turkic elite soldiers have already been ambushed outside Liangzhou City, if you can't bring you back to the royal city this time, as long as this king gives an order, the army and Xiliang will jointly attack Liangzhou City." The god of war in the Central Plains has ended up on a lingering sickbed, and the Yuwen clan's limelight has long been stolen by the Xiao clan.
I asked, "What's the use of the prince telling me this? I'm just a weak woman, even if I'm close, what's the point?"
"Does the princess know that the object of her marriage is the younger brother of this king, the current Turkic Khan, your half-brother?"
A golden light flashed in my eyes, and my eyebrows were full of sneer: "The prince knows too much, and the plan in his heart is afraid that it will be difficult to realize." Do you think the Empress Dowager of the Turks will listen to me and proclaim you Khan?"
Helan Yue was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he regained the spring breeze on his face: "In this case, this bamboo slip will be a poem for you and Yuwen Qiye." This king wants to see how your younger brother, who will succeed to the throne in the future, will deal with the slaughter of the city and the death of the people!"
Helan Yue is not a gentleman, and I know that his words are not a joke. Watching his back fade into the darkness, I had a resolution in my heart.
"You take that dice, I'll do it myself!" Lan Shao's words were extremely tough, "I didn't know that there was such a disobedient dog in my grandfather's mansion!"
Lian Wu was extremely angry: "Princess, how can you talk like that?"
"Not only do I say, I'm going to do this!" Lan Shao raised his hand as he spoke, but the moment before the wind fell, it stopped in mid-air.
"What are you pulling me for?" Lan Shao turned around, and when he saw that it was me, his arrogance was obviously half extinguished, but the eyes staring at me were still harsh, "There is no you in the election with relatives, what are you going to do?"
"I haven't seen you for many days, but I'm getting more and more arrogant, and now I don't even call the imperial sister a word. is so presumptuous that he is afraid of kissing, in the end, he still needs the imperial sister and me to meddle in my affairs. Lotus Witch, what do you say?"
Lan Shao and Lianwu glanced at each other in unison, and turned their heads away in disgust as they looked at me suspiciously.
I heard a faint silk bamboo ritual music coming from the Fengying Stage, "The book is going on as usual, the daughter of the Heavenly Family, when did you escape like this?"