Chapter Twenty-Three: Ten Years Later
The sun and the moon are gone, the years are gone, time is blinking, and ten years have passed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It was the early spring of another year, and the drizzle lasted for half a month, washing away the dust accumulated on the bare hills, ushering in the delicate little green shoots like a girl, and the breeze blew softly.
Du Yixing closed his eyes and concentrated, feeling the soothing and tender spring breeze.
He is the best of the guards trained by Du Mansion for the Imperial Palace, but two years ago, he was not the top of Du Mansion, but his junior brother Lian Bin.
After Lian Bin entered the palace, Du Yixing became the strongest disciple of Du Mansion.
Two years ago, Lord Du sent the painstaking cultivation of Lian Bin into the palace, Lian Bin was talented, transferred to the imperial guard, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats, the emperor praised it, and personally named the Dragon Fist guard.
Lian Bin was very favored by the emperor's side, although he was only a guard, but even the generals who were official to the second rank were respectful and polite to him.
Speaking of Du Yixing's junior brother Lian Bin, he is indeed a genius and a geek, who entered the Du Mansion to practice martial arts and became a disciple of the Du family, but this Lian Bin is unwilling to change his surname.
Thanks to Lord Du, he didn't mind, and treated this disciple with a foreign surname equally.
That year, after Lord Du accepted Lian Bin, Lian Bin was diligent and studious, with deep roots, and he practiced boxing for three years, and there was no boxer in Du Mansion who could teach him.
Fortunately, Lord Du has never yielded talents, and since Lian Bin has the ability to surpass all the martial artists in Du Mansion, Lord Du deliberately spent a lot of money to maneuver many knights in the rivers and lakes, and invited the owner of Qingtian Mountain Villa to the mansion for two years.
Lian Bin learned all the lifelong skills of the owner of the Tangtai Zhuang, especially the set of Tianzhu Duxian Boxing, which was the true inheritance of the master of the Tangtai Village, and no one among the young disciples of the Tiantian Villa had this attainment, and when Lian Bin practiced the Tianzhu Duxian Boxing to perfection, he was fifteen years old.
Du Yixing just came out of the palace, and his junior brother Lian Bin made an appointment to see him enter the palace to try his fists, so Mrs. Du specially prepared a set of brocade silk clothes for Du Yixing, and entered the palace without losing etiquette. Lian Bin also stuffed him with a bag of gold, silver, pearls and jade, all of which were rewarded by the emperor, but he was in the deep palace and didn't need the money at all.
Du Yixing really admired Lian Bin, when Du brought him to the house, he was just a thin boy with a little-known name, in just three years, Lian Bin became an unrivaled martial artist among Du's apprentices, and when he was sent to the palace at the age of fifteen, his martial arts attainments were already beyond the reach of other peers.
Lian Bin personally sent Du Yixing to the palace gate, and the guards guarding the palace gate bowed to him, and the people outside the palace gate saw this, thinking that Du Yixing's identity was by no means ordinary, and they all gave him a big salute when they passed by.
Every time he was invited into the palace by Lian Bin, there would be this kind of treatment, and over time, Du Yixing had a longing in his heart, he enjoyed this feeling of being on top, and secretly determined that he must work hard to practice martial arts.
Most of the people in the market are in line with each other, the people near the palace gate nodded to Du Yixing, and the people not far away did not dare to underestimate him when they saw this, until the corner of the narrow official road, and some people nodded to Du Yixing.
Du Yixing saw a cardamom girl around the corner and didn't notice the honorable Du Yixing, because she had just been knocked down by a hurried vendor and was holding on to the doorpost to stand up.
"Girl, are you alright?" Du Yixing stretched out his hands to the girl, but the girl did not accept the kindness, but continued to hold on to the doorpost and barely stood up.
Du Yixing took a closer look, the girl's face was clean and translucent, the small Qiong nose was like jade, and her beautiful eyes were like a clear blue spring, but it was a pity that she was wearing a linen shirt, the fabric was rough, and there was a hole in the left sleeve.
"I'm fine, I may have a slight sprain in my ankle, and I'll be fine after a while, thank you for your concern." The girl talks properly, is polite, and has a rare elegance of a market woman.
Du Yixing heard the girl's crisp voice, and an inexplicable ripple appeared in his heart, and he looked up to see that this was the Guiyun Pavilion that Lian Bin had brought him to.
Because Guiyun Pavilion is located in the prosperous area of Kyoto, and the scenery in the pavilion is unique and elegantly furnished, many young masters of official families are often happy to patronize here.
"Girl, since you are holding the doorpost of Guiyun Pavilion, it is better to move to the pavilion and rest for a while, so that your sprain can slowly recover after drinking tea and enjoying the scenery." Du Yixing suddenly had a bold idea, he had never accosted any girl, but when he saw this girl today, he desperately wanted to get acquainted with her.
"But......" The girl hesitated, her face embarrassed.
"I wonder if Du is fortunate enough to accompany the girl to enjoy the spring scenery in the pavilion?"
Under Du Yixing's kind invitation, the girl finally nodded lightly, and followed Du Yixing to a seat near the pool in the pavilion with a limp.
Du Yixing walked very, very slowly, looking back at the girl from time to time, as if taking care of her lame pace, like a gentleman.
In fact, Du Yixing had only been to Guiyun Pavilion once, and he was very unfamiliar with this place, so he had to slow down, and by looking back step by step, Yu Guang took advantage of the situation to survey the environment, and finally he aimed at the table and chair with the best scenery near the pool.
"Two guest officers, what do you need?" The shopkeeper stepped forward politely.
Originally, he was too lazy to greet the girl's hairpin skirt, but this Guiyun Pavilion was an exclusive restaurant for the children of rich families in the capital, even if he saw the girl fall down at the door of the store, he didn't plan to help him.
But Du Yixing is graceful and elegant, not a famous family is a rich child, since the girl was led in by him, of course the shopkeeper will greet him politely.
"It's up to the girl." Du Yixing didn't know what cuisines Guiyun Pavilion had, and he couldn't name other noble and refined dishes, but at this time, he wanted to try his best to pretend to be like he often went in and out of this high-class restaurant.
"I, I won't." The girl was flattered, and when she had ever been to such a place, she had no idea how to order food.
"Then bring all the good dishes." Du Yixing was carrying the money bag that Lian Bin gave him, which was full of broken gold, if it were in normal times, he would definitely give it to Master Du without taking a penny, but today he wanted to be willful and presumptuous.
"Oh, don't, don't." The girl couldn't afford to spend so much, so she had to ask the shopkeeper for two dishes, "Do you have carrots, jasper, bones and quicksand?" ”
When the shopkeeper heard the two dishes that the girl said, he was immediately impressed by her, "Guest officer, you can be regarded as coming to the right place, what the girl said is the imperial cuisine, and the only one in the capital that can make imperial dishes belongs to Yunge." ”
"The girl is from the palace?" After the shopkeeper retreated, Du Yixing inquired curiously, looking at the girl's dress, she looked so out of place on this occasion, she really didn't look like a nobleman.
"Just find a meal." The girl's face was embarrassed, showing a great lack of self-confidence, the spring grass in the courtyard of the pavilion was fragrant, and the butterflies were dancing, but the girl bowed her head because of her inferiority, and had no intention of enjoying the scenery.
"I really can't imagine that these delicacies I often eat are actually imperial dishes, but they are similar to the emperor's preferences." Du Yixing suddenly realized that the girl who dared to love was a palace maid in the palace.