Qingchunyuan is not far from the east palace gate, and the carriage has only traveled for less than a cup of tea. Shou'an stopped his horse and got out of the car to bring me a wooden ladder.

"Concubine Xian Niangniang, this play is about to start, are you waiting for Your Majesty or?" Shouan asked me.

I blurted out, "Let's go up and wait for him." The carriage was stuffy. ”

On the second floor of the theater is a tea shop, which also sells melons and fruits, dim sum, preserves, preserves, porridge and side dishes. Shou'an took me and General Gu into a room, and when he saw General Gu guarding outside, he hurried downstairs, probably waiting for Li Jingheng. The window next to the table in the cottage is facing the stage downstairs, and the location is very good. I went out to look, and the poems on both sides of the high platform were inscribed: "A sound of ancient autumn and moon; Ten thousand dances bloom jade tree flowers. ”

Li Jingheng finally came to sing in time for the play, and Buyue also bought a few packs of food wrapped in oiled paper. The shop also brought some preserved fruits and candied fruits, and I asked for a pot of the famous Da Hong Pao. After the rain, the blue and white pattern tea cup of the old man in the bamboo forest playing the piano is thick and fragrant. I drank the big red robe for the third time, and the first time was when everyone had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at Niangniang Xitang's place during the New Year, and Li Jingheng seemed to have nothing to do with the court. The second time was in late spring this year, I got some of them. The third time is the pot that I am drinking with Li Jingheng now, the man blew the slightly hot tea, took a sip and said, "It's not as delicious as at home." ”

I didn't believe him, so I took a sip, and sure enough, it wasn't as good as the one in the palace, and it was lighter. I nodded in agreement.

The short tune of the pipa came from downstairs, and the play was singing.

Then there are the leather drums and baskets of the Hu people. The vassal king and Mao Yanshou first sang a word, and then accompanied by the sound of silk and bamboo drums, the king of Han and a group of palace people appeared. The King of Han sang: "The heir of the ten leaves of Jiyan Liu, the sole ruler of the four hundred states of Qiankun." The alliance and policy of the Biansai Jiu Alliance have been worry-free since then. Some, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty is also. Emperor Gao, my ancestor, worked hard to cloth, rose abundantly, destroyed Qin and slaughtered Xiang, earned such a foundation, and passed it on to me, it has been ten generations. Since the heir has come, the four seas are clear, and the eight directions are quiet. is not virtuous, all rely on the support of the civil and military, since the first emperor Yan drove, the palace maids were released from the palace. In the future, the palace is lonely, how is it good? ”

I can't help but go to see the King of Han, and the one who plays the King of Han is Wu Tingbai, one of the famous actors in the capital. I heard a story about a drama in a folk brochure before, saying that the son of the Earl Yongyi's Mansion was obsessed with listening to opera since he was a child, and was arrested by Uncle Yongyi and went to the school to listen to the play, he secretly went to the theater to listen to the play, went to the house of relatives and friends to eat tea with his parents, and also secretly went to the stage to learn the opera.

Later, I went to take the county exam, but I didn't expect to give him the first test. Uncle Yongyi was very surprised, and the gentlemen also said that this was Wenqu Xing's descent to earth, and it was a pity that such a good seedling would not be an official.

The more Uncle Yongyi listened, the more he felt that his youngest son was a talent of Zaifu, and he invited literati and ink writers to edify him, and invited the most famous gentlemen to give lectures in Uncle Yongyi's mansion. Sure enough, that little girl is also competitive, and he even took the prefectural examination and was among the best.

But later, this little girl went to take the palace exam several times, but he was not on the list. Uncle Yongyi didn't believe in this evil, so he asked someone to check the article, and the result was that "the article still needs to be practiced, just read more Confucian classics." "The old uncle who wants his son to become a dragon is already bent on cultivating this old man into a talent, and when he comes back to see the little man who wants to go to the play, he will be arrested and served by the family law.

In this way, how could the scholar who had not exercised for a long time be beaten and scolded for three days, and soon the little man fell ill.

The old uncle was in a hurry, but when the officials came down to investigate, he had to leave the uncle's mansion to entertain him first. When the old man returned home, the little man had already run away, saying that he had only brought some close-fitting clothes and some dry food. The old uncle fainted immediately, and he is still lying on the sickbed, living on the decoction. And the little man who escaped heard that he went to the opera garden to learn opera, and later became a horn, and never saw the old uncle again.

The little palace maids in the palace spread among themselves that the little girl in the Bofu was the famous Wu Tingbai.

I have always wondered why the son of Nabofu wanted to run away, just because he was beaten and scolded by his father several times? When I came back to my senses, the scene was already Mao Yanshou singing: "A large piece of gold is arbitrary, and the king of the blood sea is not afraid; As long as there is money in life, after death, the person who scolds him. Certain, Mao Yanshou, led the holy decree of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, traveled all over the world, brushed the selection of maids, and selected ninety-nine people; Each family was willing to give, but he received a lot of gold and silver. Yesterday, I came to Zigui County, Chengdu, and selected one person, who was the daughter of the elder Wang, named Wang Yan, and the word Zhaojun. Born with brilliance, very gorgeous, it is really the best in the world. Zheng Nai was originally a farmer and had no big money. I asked him for a hundred taels of gold, and he chose to be the first. One of them said that his family was poor, and the other was that he relied on his outstanding appearance and refused at all. I was going to get rid of him. ”

When I heard this last time in the palace, Ting Yun next to me spat on the eunuch: "This traitor who fills his pockets!" ”

Mao Yanshou continued to sing: "Don't, it's good for him." Frowning, thinking about it. Only point out some flaws in the beauty picture, and when he arrives in Beijing, he will definitely be sent to the cold palace and teach him to suffer for a lifetime. Exactly: hate the little non-gentleman, no poison and no husband. ”

Although I listened to it again, I still couldn't help but say, "What a shameless splasher!" ”

Li Jingheng on the side also scolded: "What a bastard! ”

Fortunately, he went off the stage after the splashing singing, otherwise I wouldn't be able to keep how to smack him! Soon Zhaojun took the stage to cry, and his words were sad: "One day Chengxuan entered the sun, and I haven't seen the king for ten years; Who will accompany the lonely night in the good night, only the pipa will lead to growth. The concubine is the princess, the small character Zhaojun, and the people of Chengdu Zigui. His father, Wang was an elder, and he worked as a farmer all his life. When her mother gave birth to a concubine, she dreamed of the moonlight in her arms, fell to the ground, and later gave birth to a concubine. Eighteen years older, he was chosen to be a harem. I didn't want to prolong the life of the minister, asked the concubine for gold and silver, never with him, broke the concubine's shadow map, never saw the king, and now retreated to Yongxiang. The concubine is quite familiar with silk and bamboo at home, and she can play a few pipa songs. When the night is lonely, I try to entertain us. ”

The one who pretended to be Zhaojun was indeed the Zhao Yanhang in the drama troupe invited by Sutang Niangniang before. She is like a bullet, with a graceful figure, and her eyes flow when she raises her eyes, she is really "eyebrows sweeping Dai, sideburns piling crows, waist willows, and face Shuxia".

When I listened to it in the palace at that time, there were not a few people who praised her beauty.

I turned my head to look at Li Jingheng, thinking that kings love beauties since ancient times, but Li Jingheng was eating the walnuts that Shou'an peeled for him, and he wasn't listening to the play at all.

I thought it was boring, I wanted to see the king who fell for the beauty, but I saw an emperor who ate walnuts.

The official in the lantern on the stage said: "A certain Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, since he chose a maid to enter the palace, he has never been pampered, and he is resentful of us." Today, I have a little time to spare, and I can't help but go around the palace to see the one who is destined, and I have to bow down! ”

I was waiting with great interest for the fall of the Han King for the beauty, but Li Jingheng, who was eating walnuts on the side, said: "If it were a true king, there would not be such a bold bastard, and in the end, he would give the beauty to others." It's really just a play, just listen to it. ”

On the stage, the king of Han fell in love when he met Zhaojun by chance.

Li Jingheng and I heard today's drama singing, and it was singing that Mao Yanshou voted for the vassal king, and recommended Zhaojun's beauty to the vassal king.

Out of the theater, I suddenly remembered that I was going to find Zhao Yanhang, and I mentioned it to Li Jingheng, he said that it was inconvenient for us to talk and eat tea at our woman's house, saying that he was going to buy some strange things outside the palace and go back to ponder. Shou'an and another eunuch followed, and General Gu and Buyue and I went to the wing behind the stage to look for Zhao Yanhang.

When Buyue and I entered the house, Zhaojun took off the fat powder hairpin and sat in front of the mirror in red. Through the bronze mirror, she saw us, and hurriedly turned around to make a big prostration. I habitually wanted to help her, but my hand was tightly grasped by Buyue, so I had to accept the courtesy.

"The slave family Yanhang visited Concubine Xian Niangniang, Concubine Xian Niangniang Wanfu Jin'an!" When Zhao Yanhang worshipped me, Bu Yue whispered in my ear: "Don't mess up your dignity outside!" ”

I suddenly remembered that this was outside the palace, even if I was willing to sit on an equal footing with her, Li Jingheng would say that I had ruined the dignity of the royal family or something. I had no choice but to put on a stand and say, "No courtesy, sit down." ”

Zhao Yanhang got up slowly and respectfully moved to the edge of a rattan stool. After I sat down, Zhao Yanhang blessed me again and sat on the low stool that was half lower than my knees.

I asked her, "Didn't you sing in the Fuxi class before?" Why did you come to Qingchun Garden? ”

She replied with a smile: "Hui Niangniang, Ting Bai and my mother courted last month, and now the invitation period has passed, and it is the second day of the next month. Since it was a matter that was about to be settled, he ransomed me and sang it in his Qingchun Garden. ”

I congratulated: "Good thing, good thing, don't forget to send me a copy of the egg to the palace when the time comes." ”

She got up and thanked me, and said, "It must be, Xie Niangniang's auspicious words!" ”

I was going to gossip and eat tea with her like the sisters in the palace, but I couldn't get my wish after all.

When I see her again this time, I just feel that she is not as happy as before, but I hope it is just my delusion. I told her some interesting stories about the palace, and she was also reserved and smiled. I don't think it's boring, so I won't talk about it.

The apprentice in the theater made tea for us, but I took my leave without a few sips, and she sent me all the way to the door of the corner gate.