Chapter 23
I sat with him on the roof of the Lingxi Palace, and I had a panoramic view of the majestic palace.
The sky is full of stars, and a bright moon hangs above the night sky.
The cold wind blew at night, drifting over the towering walls of the palace, drifting over the sleeping Chang'an City, and drifting towards the white full moon.
I sat on the glazed tiles and looked at the night sky intently, my weak figure wrapped in plain white crane feathers, swaying in the moonlight, like a silhouette.
He took out a jade flute and played it quietly.
A low and graceful flute sound sounded in his ears, and the flat waves rippled slightly, flowing like water. Listening carefully, it turned out to be a familiar nursery rhyme tune from childhood, played on the flute, less innocent, and with some inexplicable melancholy - "Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei, meet in a few dreams."
I couldn't bear to put down my pen, and the paper was full of blood and tears.
Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei, every grass and tree is haggard.
It is said that Lingshan is thousands of feet high, and it is difficult to find a red rose.
Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei, how much love is in the end of the world?
I see geese flying south every day, and I don't see that the old people's hearts are broken.
Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei, the annual cold star falls.
Looking at last year's star in the north, who is the cold star this year?
Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei, Lingshanwei, where is Lingshan without blood?
And listen to the sound of pine waves in the middle of the night, telling about yesterday's merits and sins.
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I sang in a low voice with his flute, and the sound floated over the Canghe River, as if frozen by the cold air of the midnight, becoming ethereal and ethereal, and lingering for a long time, like the sound of heaven.
"When I was a child in Xiliang, my aunt used to sing this song to me. At the end of the song, his cold voice sounded in my ears, "You sang well." β
Hearing his appreciation, I thought of the concubine who was still imprisoned in the Xuanji Pagoda.
Thinking of his mixed feelings in his heart at the moment, I tried to comfort: "Concubine Shuniang Jiren celestial phenomenon, if you relax, there will be a way to save her." β
He narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not speak.
Seeing that he didn't make a sound for a long time, I looked sideways and found him looking straight at me. I let out a "groan" in my heart, and hurriedly closed my gaze and looked around.
"Ahem, ahemβ" I coughed dryly, my heart rising and falling like a tidal wave, and I felt that the silence was so delicate at the moment.
In order to get rid of the embarrassment, I bluntly started another sentence: "Look at the moon tonight, it's so round!"
He glanced at me: "Today is the sun." β
I was speechless, and said, "I have forgotten, because there is still a moon in my name." You say, the moon seems so close to us, why can't we catch it?" I suddenly chuckled as I asked the question in my mind.
When he heard my childish words, he looked up at the moon, and his side face was very charming in the moonlight.
"There's only one moon, and everybody wants it, isn't it messy?" he said, looking sideways at me, "so it's better to stay away, and no one can get the best." β
I was stunned by his answer, no one would have thought that the undefeated general of the Great Zhou should really act so decisively and courageously, taking off his usual careless brazenness.
I was thinking to myself when he suddenly leaned over and leaned his head on my shoulder.
My body stunted.
"Hey!" I was so frightened by his action that my whole body stiffened, as if I had been struck by a bolt of lightning, and I didn't dare to move.
"I'm afraid of heights, let me lean on for a while. His voice came lazily, close to his ears.
My sensitive ears seemed to feel his gentle breathing, and the warm breath rose and fell, making me blush all the way to my neck.
I kept a stiff posture and didn't dare to tilt my head, white smoke rose from my face, and I asked him, "You, you...... When did you get afraid of heights?
He didn't think about it, as if he was very comfortable: "Oh, I wasn't afraid of heights just now, but now I'm afraid." β
I rolled my eyes angrily, "Hey, if you pretend, I'll kick you off!"
"Call me Qi Ye. Who knew that he said to himself, "I was born in Chongyang, so my nickname is Chongjiu, and I am respected in the army as 'Ninth Master'." You can call me that, it's rude to feed me around. β
"Who cares what your name is. I said quite stiffly, "You and I have no chance, what can I do if I know the Tao, and I won't marry you!"
He straightened up slightly and asked, "Who said you and I have no chance?" One hand held his chin and thought, "Why did I meet here without you here?"
I looked at him speechlessly: "Yuwen Gongzi, I think you have forgotten something." I came out by chance tonight, and I happened to meet you, and it wasn't a meeting between men and women. β
He leaned sideways, leaned lazily on the glazed tiles, looked at me with a smile and said, "According to what you said, isn't it fate?"
I was dumbfounded by him.
Seeing that I ignored him, he smiled instead: "Angry? I found out why you blush so easily today?"
When I heard him say it, I quickly touched my cheek, and it was really hot.
I was annoyed and said angrily: "I saw it in the Guose Tianxiang Building today, that Pei Shisan treats you very kindly, I'm afraid you are friends for many years." It's as black as a crow in the world!"
He suddenly said with a faint expression: "Pei Gongzi loves to go to the suburbs with me to ride and shoot, and he has some friendship. He's a bit ridiculous in his day, but he's not a bad guy. β
"It's ridiculous?" I sneered, remembering that he hugged left and right in the Tianxiang Building of the National Color during the day, "I think it's too ridiculous! That flowery radish, back then, said that Lan Shao would not marry, but now what kind of virtue has it become? Although I don't like Lan Shao, I also know that the Tao should start from the beginning, and people who are in the morning and twilight are really spurned!"
He looked at me with an excited expression, and his facial expression became a little complicated at some point: "I heard that he has been interested in you recently. β
"Poofβ" I choked on a mouthful of saliva in my throat from his sudden question, and my face flushed.
"That night was my abruptness, and I heard that you still like your brother, and I couldn't accept it for a while. He shook his head, and his voice was slightly cold in the night: "You took my brother and rejected me, I went back and thought about it for a long time and thought it was okay." My brother is not here, and I can take care of you in his place. But if you really like someone else and you don't want to tell me because you don't want to tell me, I'll consider letting it go. β
His broad palm patted my back, and I waved it again and again to show that I didn't need to. I closed my eyes and calmed my breath for a while, and finally recovered.
I looked at him with tears in my eyes, and said intermittently: "Where did you hear this?" As soon as I thought of Pei Shisan's peach blossom face that attracted bees and butterflies, and the way he wore fox fur and mink fur to swagger through the market all day, I couldn't help but shudder, "I like no one to like that guy, it's just out of my style!"
Seeing that he was stunned, I then explained: "Yuwen Gongzi, don't worry. I know that you are worried that I am marrying Pei Shaoyi and damaging the face of your Yuwen family, and Zhenguo Gong may even blame you. But I am not a casual person, and I don't like a casual person like Pei Shaoyi. Another day, I will show my father to the emperor and convince him that you don't have to force you to marry me, and that you don't have to worry about being punished. β
Yuwen Qi was stunned and reacted for a long time.
Suddenly, the wind rose, blowing a few clouds in the night sky, and the moonlight illuminated the earth a little brighter. Half of Qi Ye's handsome face was cast in the moonlight, fainting with soft light, and the other half was hidden in the night, deep and shallow.
"I see, it seems that I was wrong before I went down. He looked at me fixedly, his eyes filled with the soft moonlight.
I felt something suddenly, and a trace of inexplicable emotion arose in my heart.
The moonlight of Chang'an suddenly became extraordinarily gentle.