Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Tianjing Chapter 31 The Flying Stream Goes Down Three Thousand Feet
The lights in Ansheng Palace are bright today, and the sound of silk and bamboo lingers. The emperor invited the most prestigious opera troupe in Tianjing City to set up a stage in the imperial garden to sing.
There has never been a singing opera in the imperial garden, according to the ancestral system, it is absolutely unacceptable, but the people who want to persuade the emperor saw the flattering smiling face of Xiao Luzi following the emperor, and they chose to shut up one by one - Gao Gonggong has fallen, who is going to fight with him.
"Good, reward!" The emperor held a wine glass in his hand, his face was slightly drunk, and Wan Jiao'er beside him curled up in his arms.
"Your Majesty, the servant will pour you wine." Xiao Luzi saw that the wine in the emperor's cup was bottoming out, and came up to pour wine for the emperor.
", there's nothing to do with you here." The emperor didn't even look at Xiao Luzi, as if he was scolding a beggar, and he didn't care about Xiao Luzi's face at all.
The corners of Xiao Luzi's mouth twitched, and the eunuchs and attendants waiting around him lowered their heads and didn't dare to look.
"Your Majesty, Father-in-law Lu is kind." Wan Jiao'er saw that Xiao Luzi's face was embarrassed, so she leaned her head on the emperor's ear and sighed softly.
The emperor was attracted by the performance of the servants on the stage, and the yellow warbler-like voice made the emperor itchy and crispy, even if Wan Jiao'er didn't listen much, he just said perfunctorily: "Go down, go down." You don't need to be there to serve here. ”
Xiao Luzi picked up a step and went down, saluted and retired.
Wan Jiao'er looked at whether the emperor raised his wine glass and said yes, smiled, and continued to watch the play with the emperor.
Xiao Luzi walked out of the Imperial Garden, the smile on his face suddenly became gloomy, and the Imperial Forest Army guarding the intersection did not dare to go up and touch his moldy head. Xiao Luzi went all the way back to his residence, closed the door, and the little eunuch who followed him did not dare to go in, only heard the sound of falling things from inside. The little eunuch shuddered.
Liu Baihe was mixed in the middle of a group of eunuchs, he didn't have a beard, but he couldn't see it, but he still frowned when he saw that this imperial garden was ruined like this.
During the day today, the Imperial Forest Army has begun to accept the work of the guards sent by Xu De under the signal of Xiao Luzi, and at this moment the guards around the emperor are all Royal Forest Army, although they look solemn in armor, but they all seem to have the word listless written on their faces.
Liu Baihe carried the wine and slowly approached the emperor's side, only three steps away from the emperor, and no one tried to stop him. He smiled, didn't care, and said softly: "Your Majesty." ”
The emperor did not hear his voice, and was still learning to sing the words like the people on the stage.
"Your Majesty." Liu Baihe shouted again.
The emperor still didn't hear it, but Wan Jiao'er did, and he glanced at Liu Baihe, who was dressed as a eunuch, and his eyes squinted. Her eyes are like apricots, and when she smiles like this, she looks even more charming. Liu Baihe didn't care at all, as if he couldn't see it.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Liu." Wan Jiao'er smiled and shook the emperor, and when the emperor heard that it was Liu Baihe, he put down the wine glass and squinted to confirm it.
"You're so Yaxing." The emperor was drunk, and he smelled of wine when he spoke.
Liu Baihe's frowning eyebrows didn't spread, and he said, "Does the emperor remember what he wants to do?" ”
"Bold!" The emperor stood up, pointed at Liu Baihe in the surprised eyes of the people around him, and said, "What are you, dare to say that I am not!" ”
Wan Jiao'er was shocked when she saw this, she knew that once Xu De's guards were withdrawn, the emperor could not be without a master like Liu Baihe by his side, so she hurriedly whispered: "Your Majesty, you are drunk." ”
"Nonsense! I'm not drunk! I don't have Xu De's eyeliner by my side now! I must kill Xu De, that dog thief! The emperor listened to Wan Jiao'er's words, and the four sisters-in-law did not restrain themselves, and even learned to speak like the singers on the stage.
"Your Majesty!" Wan Jiao'er got up to pull the emperor, who knew that the emperor actually pushed it violently and pushed Wan Jiao'er to the ground.
Seeing this, the servants on the stage stopped singing, and everyone around knelt down, only Liu Baihe was still standing in the crowd.
The guards sent by Xu De stood a little farther away, and the emperor's unique singing naturally got into their ears, glaring at the emperor one by one. Xu Ge probably guessed the identity of the person who was standing, and asked the guards around him to be quieter. Today is the last day he will come to the palace, and tomorrow he will follow the prince to the battlefield in Tibet.
Liu Baihe saw the emperor's sharp eyes, but he was not afraid at all, and even stepped forward step by step to meet the emperor's gaze, and the emperor was so shocked that he retreated step by step: "What are you doing!" Retire! ”
Liu Baihe raised the wine in his hand and poured it down from the emperor's head, and it flew down three thousand feet. The people around saw the little eunuch's actions and knelt on the ground, eager to bury their heads in the soil, shaking like chaff one by one.
"Are you awake?" Liu Baihe's voice sounded in the empty audience.
After the emperor was drenched in a pot of wine, he finally came to his senses, and remembered what he had just said, and felt creepy in hindsight. A palace maid came up to pick up Wan Jiao'er, but Wan Jiao'er broke free, went up to help the emperor sit down, and wiped the wine off the emperor's head with her sleeve.
"All of you, stand down." When the kneeling people around heard this, they withdrew one by one, as if they had been pardoned.
Seeing that the imperial garden was clean, the emperor got up and saluted Liu Baihe and said, "Mr. Liu, I have done something wrong. ”
Liu Baihe's face looked a little better, and said, "The emperor has confirmed the queen?" ”
"It's confirmed, Wan family's daughter." The emperor's words were very calm, but Wan Jiao'er's face darkened when she heard this.
Of course, the emperor didn't pay attention to these details, but Liu Baihe took them all in and said: "After the emperor is established, the guards in this palace will be arranged by the emperor himself, and I hope this team will be trained by me." ”
"What about the Guards now?"
"All dismissed." Liu Baihe looked at the Imperial Forest Army guarding the palace wall in the distance, and said, "These wine bags and rice bags can't save the emperor's life." ”
"Will you follow me?" The Emperor asked.
"I will, Xu Ge's position, I'll do it."
"In case Xu De retaliates ......"
"Xu De will soon lose care of me." Liu Baihe's voice was not loud, but he had a convincing ability.
"Does my sister have anything to say?"
"The eldest princess hopes that the emperor will read more sage books."
"I see." The emperor sniffed his clothes smelling of wine, and said, "Then so be it, I will go down and change my clothes." ”
Liu Baihe saluted and retreated, and no longer detoured, so he walked past Xu Ge, this time he didn't cover his face, and said in a low voice when he passed by Xu Ge: "Have a safe journey." ”
Xu Ge didn't remember that face, but turned his back to the direction he left, as if he was deep in thought.