Volume 2 Northland Dragon Chapter 67 Look Differently
Li Xiao's illness was completely cured.
He was blessed by misfortune and lived in the Thousand Autumn Palace.
The south side of the temple leads to the Anren Hall, and then through the Anren Gate is the princess's courtyard and the Qianqiu Hall where the young prince lived.
The west side of the princess courtyard is the palace wall is the Baifu Palace, which was built vigorously by the eunuchs in the first year of Dazhong, and there are more than 700 houses and corridors in it, and many middle-level eunuchs live here.
The Yeting Palace is too crowded, and the Baifu Palace is the welfare of the eunuchs for his subordinates, and now those who have no private residences above the fifth grade are waiting in line to move in.
Li Wei lived in the Qianqiu Palace, came to see his mother in the morning, and after learning that Guo Hong found out that someone had poisoned him, he regarded this boy of the same age as his life-saving benefactor.
"Don't bow to me, A-Niang said that you are a benefactor, I want to repay the kindness!" Li Wei shouted.
In the Tang Dynasty, people with a group of wives and concubines generally had to call their mother-in-law their mother-in-law and their mother-in-law their aunt!
There is no queen in the palace, so the princes and princesses are all called their own mothers, and whoever becomes the emperor in the future will have a mother who is the queen of the previous dynasty and the queen mother of the current dynasty!
This is also the main reason why the Xuanzong Dynasty did not set up an empress after the Dynasty, every emperor came over like this, so this practice has always been followed.
Although Xiao Li Wei is only ten years old, he is very tall, almost reaching Guo Hong's chest.
The two teenagers walked through the Caisi Courtyard to the north and entered the back garden, which was connected to the Yeting Palace.
They went to the Linhu Hall and the Ziwei Hall to play, and next to them were two small lakes called the West Sea and the North Sea.
The willow trees are shady by the lake, the fish swim in the lake, and the geese and herons fly together.
The small lake is surrounded by a small hill with dense forests and many centuries-old trees, making it a great place to escape the heat in summer.
Li Wei took Guo Hong up the hill and entered a pavilion called "Wangyun Pavilion".
The two chased each other on the pillars and railings, and Li Xiao certainly couldn't catch up with Guo Hong.
"How do you want me to repay you?" Li Xiao asked breathlessly.
Guo Hong smiled, this kid is really persistent, and he won't give up without asking.
"I didn't think about it, I'll tell you when I do."
The maid who followed next to her glared at Guo Hong and said, "Little slave, dare to talk to your master like this!" β
Li Xiao stopped doing it, crossed his waist and said to the maid: "Don't worry about it, if you can't get used to it, go back to A-Niang!" β
The maid was not very old, and she was immediately angry and cried, and turned around and ran.
Guo Hong shook his head and said, "She's going back to sue." β
"Let her sue, A-Niang won't care."
"It's okay now, anyway, how about I teach you a little spell? This is what I learned from Inhumans when I was a kid. β
"Okay, okay, teach quickly!"
Li Xiao's eyes lit up.
Guo Hong easily subdued Li Wei, and there was a little heel behind him.
The spells he taught were some of the basic parts of the "Technique of Riding the Horse", of course, not including the disguise technique, and the props were brought from the Taoist temple in the palace in the past two days.
Li Xiao spit clouds and fog all day long, and had a lot of fun.
Taiji Palace is very large, divided into the front dynasty and the harem, the harem is equivalent to the four squares in the outer city of Chang'an!
To the north is the back garden, where there are very few people, and it is basically a playground and a vacant palace, which has now become a place for Li Xiao to play.
Guo Hong was also familiar with the nearby terrain.
On this day, the two maidens broke through the gates of the city and ran to the east near a small lake called the East Sea.
"That's the Lingyan Pavilion, and there are a lot of paintings in it!"
Guo Hong followed Li Wei and ran in, there is a wall in this small building, the north side is written "Gong Gao Zaifu", the south side is written "Gong Gao Hou Wang", and there are more than 100 portraits hanging on the north side of the wall, which are life-size.
He walked over to a portrait and stopped.
"What are you doing here, let me see, this is Guo Ziyi's portrait."
Li Xiao looked at Guo Hong, and said, "What you are looking at is from the Dezong Dynasty, and there is another one from the Daizong Dynasty!" β
The two walked over together.
Li Xiao suddenly asked: "Your surname is Li, it has nothing to do with Guo Ziyi, right?" He only knew that Guo Hong was Li Jingchao.
Guo Hong shook his head and said, "This person is too famous, but he is a little curious. β
They played for a while, came out together, passed through the two city gates, and walked to the Sanqing Hall in the south.
Sanqing Hall is also a Taoist temple in the palace, it is the place where Taoist priests enter the palace to practice, the position is one east and one west of the female crown view of the Guizhen Temple, far away from each other, the ancients took the east as the left, which is also in line with the layout of the male left and the female right.
Not far to the south, there are the Shenlong Hall and the Foguang Temple.
Tang Zhongzong and Tang Xuanzong both died in the Shenlong Temple, which was also a dormitory.
At this time, a group of people came from the east side of the road, hugging each other, and in the middle was a little girl, about seven or eight years old, wearing a red dress, dressed very beautifully, and looking very cute.
Li Wei pulled Guo Hong to turn around and leave, shouting: "Hurry up, that person is the magic star of my life, don't let her catch up!" β
"Who's that?"
"It's Princess Yongfu, the eldest daughter of Concubine Zhao De, and she has bullied me every time she enters the palace in the past two years!"
"You're older than her, how can you be bullied?"
"She has a lot of subordinates, and her mother is weak, I can't embarrass her!"
Sure enough, it was the poor man's child who was in charge early, Liu Jieyu was suppressed by Concubine Zhao Defei in the palace, and Li Wei was also cautious, afraid of causing trouble to her mother.
Although he was only ten years old, he was sensible earlier than the average prince.
Guo Hong had already gone up the hill at this time, and glanced back at Princess Yongfu, and the little girl happened to see him too, and waved her little fist at this side.
It was late for the two boys to return to the Courtyard, and the door of the Courtyard Palace was about to close and lock.
Guo Hong was a little anxious, and he was about to run away, Li Wei tugged on his sleeve and said, "Sleep with me at night." β
At this time, Liu Jieyu also happened to come out, and when she saw it, she smiled and said: "Jingchao, Xiao'er always refuses to sleep at night, and she lacks playmates, since you are so good, it is better to stay." β
As soon as Guo Hong heard it, he didn't want to go back to the Yeting Palace, Li Jingchao was ecstatic and accidentally used it a lot, and he wouldn't wake up for a few days, so he had the opportunity to go back in a few days to make up for it.
He felt that it was always much more convenient to stay in Taiji Palace, so he said, "Yes, Jieyu, I'll go back tomorrow to get my luggage." β
Liu Jieyu called the evening ingreel: "You go and help Congyi prepare a clean bedding and let him sleep with Xiao'er at night." β
The nightingale answered and went laughing.
Only the maid who had been bullied by Guo Hong and Li Xiao was unhappy, and shouted in her heart: These two little devils slept together, what will they do in the future?!
Guo Hong slept in the main room of the apse at night, and the wide couch was enough for the two teenagers to lie horizontally and vertically.
Li Xiao is not honest in sleeping, his arms and legs are always on others, and he likes to find people, Guo Hong wittily made a dummy with pillows and cloth sheets, and jumped to sleep on the other side when he turned over.
In the middle of the night, I heard the sound of someone falling out of bed......
Guo Hong was woken up, and dimly heard soft singing outside.
He quietly got up and pushed the door, which creaked slightly, and the singing stopped.
Guo Hong entered the courtyard and saw Liu Jieyu kneeling on a mat, with sandalwood burning in front of her, praying to the moon.
"Jieyu." Guo Hong stepped forward and whispered.
Liu Jieyu lowered her voice and whispered: "I can't sleep at night, it's noisy to you, how is Xiao'er?" β
"He slept well and wouldn't wake up when thunder hit."
Liu Jieyu smiled slightly, very charming and moving under the moonlight.
Guo Hong: ......
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Nothing was said all night.
Liu Jieyu just wanted to find someone to talk to, and she knew that Li Jingchao was a eunuch.
It can only be said that Guo Hong thinks too much about himself.
Guo Hong is now well-known in the palace, and it is rumored among the concubines that Liu Jieyu has an envoy who is good at medical skills.
It was not a few days before the Tianchang Festival on the emperor's birthday, but he didn't have the opportunity to go to Daming Palace to investigate, and Guo Hong was also a little anxious.
Guo Hong went back to the Yeting Palace to get his luggage, and when he arrived at the old house, there were already people waiting inside, it was Guo Jingshu, who came to help watch Li Jingchao.
"My father-in-law said that he would take you to Xingqing Palace to meet someone today."
"See whom?"
"You'll know when you get there."
"Pretend to be mysterious, watch me clean you up!"
Guo Hong stepped forward to catch it, Guo Jingshu hurriedly ran away, hit the pillar, and the dust fell from the roof, choking the two of them to sneeze.
When they looked at each other again, they were all gray-eyebrowed, and they couldn't help but point at each other and laugh.
At this time, Guo Hong suddenly felt that his eyes were shaken by something above, so he stopped laughing and looked up to observe.
"What do you see?" Guo Jingshu asked.
"I'll go up and take a look."
Guo Hong climbed up the pillar like an ape.
It was so dark on the beams that he couldn't see anything if it weren't for his eyesight.
In the dark corner, a brick came loose, revealing something shiny.
This brick should have been loosened by the skin they had just made a fuss.
Guo Hong dug up the wall bricks and took out a sandalwood box from inside.
He jumped down, and Guo Jingshu couldn't wait to say: "I found the treasure, let's see what it is, this was Shangguan Wan'er's old mansion before!" β
Guo Hong was also very curious, looked at the wooden box carefully, and saw that the lock on it was very chic, and it turned out to be a Luban lock.
This lock on one side of the box is one of the Luban locks, which consists of eight movable wooden blocks, similar to the Huarong Dao of later generations.
The pattern on it is none other than Bagua.
"How do you get this? Why don't you split it with an axe? β
Guo Hong smiled and said, "Splitting with an axe will inevitably trigger the mechanism, and the things inside may be destroyed." β
He flicked his hand a few times, only to hear a snap, and the lid of the box popped.
Inside was a roll of yellow silk paper.
"This is the Holy Decree!" Guo Jingshu shouted.
Guo Hong hurriedly covered his mouth.
The two opened it and saw that it was an edict passed on to the prime minister Li Dan.
Guo Hong found that there was still a roll of silk paper in the box, and he also took it out, and only after reading it did he know the reason for the incident.
This box is Shangguan Wan'er's thing, she is known as Zhuge in the middle of the woman, Hui quality Lan heart, clever Tianzhong, Lu Ban lock is just what she usually uses, if you open the box strongly, it will touch the mechanism, and set off poisonous smoke to control the enemy.
However, more than 200 years have passed, and even the poisonous smoke may have long since become ineffective.
The edict in the box was written by Shangguan Wan'er during the coup d'Γ©tat and presented to Li Longji, but the other party still ordered her to be beheaded.
At that time, Liu Youqiu, Li Longji's mastermind, admired Shangguan's talent very much, so he put away the holy decree and the wooden box and hid them in her childhood residence.
Because it is very hidden, it has not been discovered.
There was nothing special about these two rolls of paper, Guo Hong looked at them and threw them aside.
Guo Jing said that it was very rare, so he said: "Since you can't look at it, you might as well give it to me." β
Guo Hong nodded, then picked up the wooden box and took a closer look.
"What's there to see in a box?"
"You don't understand, I always think the box is a little weird."