The meeting was silent, and a hibiscus was in the autumn rain.

The small halo is red and the tide is slanted, and the heart is only phoenix.

Waiting to be called low, straight for the condensation of fear of people to see.

If you want to complain about your feelings, turn around and knock on the jade hairpin.

The scene of Xu Zhonghang and Concubine Duan meeting in the palace reminded Qiu Luoxue of Nalan Rongruo's "Minus the Word Magnolia". I want to whisper your name and ask if you are okay? I am afraid that others will see my deep affection for you; I want to confide in you with all my thoughts, but I can only gently buckle this jade hairpin at the back of the body.

On the way back to the Prime Minister's Mansion from the palace, Xu Zhonghang had been silent, Qiu Luoxue didn't know what he was thinking along the way, but guessed that the taste in his heart should be uncomfortable. From the eyebrows of Concubine Duan and Xu Zhonghang, Qiu Luoxue probably guessed the relationship between the two.

Just whatever that feeling? No matter how many vows there were at the beginning, now there is only a sad ending left.

The color of the sky was deep, with only a lone moon hanging on it, perhaps because the night sky was too deep, and the ground lined it was also deep. Xu Zhonghang sat on the verandah in the courtyard, drinking stuffy wine alone, judging from the number of wine jars on the ground, he should have been drinking for a while.

The liquor poured down his throat, and there was a hot feeling, but it was still not as fierce as the grief in his heart. He wanted to try to extinguish the flame of sorrow in his heart with wine, but he did not expect that wine was flammable, but it only intensified the sadness.

"Lonely people, reward lonely months, the end is even more lonely." Xu Zhonghang looked at the moon in the sky and said, holding a phoenix hairpin in his hand.

"I, the person I love has become someone else's woman, that's why I'm alone. What about you? Why are you alone? "Maybe he was drunk, so he started talking to the moon.

When Qiu Luoxue came over, he saw Xu Zhonghang drinking alone, and no matter how he looked at it, he felt that there was a layer of sadness around him today.

"What's going on? Why do you drink alcohol alone? Qiu Luoxue walked to the verandah and sat down, back to back with Xu Zhonghang, but they were separated by a pillar in the middle, and both of them leaned against that pillar.

"Of course you have to drink it alone." Xu Zhonghang looked at the wine jar in his hand and replied casually, which was completely different from the answer Qiu Luoxue wanted to hear.

"I don't know that the stuffy wine is drunk by one person." Qiu Luoxue muttered, because she knew that Xu Zhonghang was in a bad mood, and she didn't plan to quarrel with him.

"Why are you here, is there something wrong?" Xu Zhonghang asked.

"Me? I'm just, begging for a drink. Qiu Luoxue replied.

"Why drink?" Xu Zhonghang asked again.

Qiu Luoxue was silent for a while, and replied, "Because I thought of a sad story."

Xu Zhonghang glanced at Qiu Luoxue slightly sideways and said, "Tell it and listen to it, that sad story."

Qiu Luoxue smiled bitterly and said, "You won't want to hear it."

"Why?" Xu Zhonghang asked.

"I'm going to cry when I hear it." Qiu Luoxue replied.

"I'll take it." Xu Zhonghang said.

Qiu Luoxue also glanced sideways at Xu Zhonghang, but she couldn't see him at all from such an angle, talking back to back like this, the other party couldn't see your expression when you spoke, and she couldn't see your sadness. But some sadness is penetrating, just like now, although there is a pillar between the two, Qiu Luoxue clearly feels the sadness emanating from Xu Zhonghang.

"It was probably a long time ago, there was a lyricist named Nalan Rongruo." Qiu Luoxue began to tell the sad story she had told.

He has a cousin who is a childhood sweetheart, and the two grew up together, had feelings for each other, and made a private decision for life. But later, his cousin was chosen by the emperor as a palace concubine, and Nalan Rongruo was sad. In order to see his cousin, he dressed up as a monk and entered the palace. Saying this, Qiu Luoxue stopped.

Xu Zhonghang was attracted to this story from the beginning and listened carefully. Not because the story is too touching, not because the story is too poignant, but — too similar. This story is so similar to what he experienced.

"See?" Xu Zhonghang asked.

Qiu Luoxue said in a sad tone: "I saw it, but because there were many people in the palace, although the two of them saw it, they couldn't talk."

Xu Zhonghang was silent, looking at the phoenix hairpin in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking, maybe he remembered the scene of seeing Concubine Duan in the palace today.

"After going back, the lyricist wrote a poignant and sad minus magnolia." Qiu Luoxue continued.

"When we meet, we don't say anything, a hibiscus is in the autumn rain." As soon as Qiu Luoxue said the first sentence of this poem, Xu Zhonghang was moved. Needless to say, he knows that kind of mood best. When they meet, they are silent, even if they meet occasionally in the palace, they can only be silent.

"The small halo is red and the tide is slanted, and the heart is only phoenix." Qiu Luoxue continued to read the following words, each sentence tugging at Xu Zhonghang's heartstrings.

"Wait for the general to call low, and be afraid of being seen." When these words were spoken, Xu Zhonghang could no longer hold back the grief in his heart and shed tears.

Wait to call down, wait to call your name. Delicate, delicate...... He silently recited her name in his mind countless times, but he could never shout these two words in front of her again. is afraid that outsiders will see his affection, and he is even more afraid that she will see her heart. So tell her "Forget me, I don't love you anymore." "It's just so that she can survive well in the palace, so that she won't end up with the white silk shroud.

"If you want to complain about you, turn around and knock on the jade hairpin."

Qiu Luoxue read the last sentence of this poem, although she didn't hear Xu Zhonghang's crying voice, she didn't see him crying, but she saw his slightly trembling shadow.

"Knock, knock......" After listening to that sentence, Xu Zhonghang clasped the jade hairpin in his hand, and one by one, it was not the sound of buttoning the jade hairpin, but the voice of Xu Zhonghang's heartache. With the sound of the jade hairpin, Xu Zhonghang had already burst into tears.

Nie Yuan was sitting in the room, and suddenly heard a voice from the courtyard, and immediately ran out to check, it turned out that Xu Zhonghang came back with Qiu Luoxue.

"What's going on?" Nie Yuan asked after seeing the two of them, and hurriedly went over to take Qiu Luoxue from Xu Zhonghang's hand.

"Drunk." Xu Zhonghang replied, she was also speechless in her heart, obviously she ran over to ask for wine by herself, how could she get drunk with a sip of wine?

"Now, can I ask for a drink?" It was a long time later, Xu Zhonghang's mood calmed down a little, and Qiu Luoxue asked.

"It's a sad story indeed." Xu Zhonghang said and handed over the wine jug.

Qiu Luoxue took the wine jar and took a sip, feeling a hot pain in her whole throat, followed by a crazy cough.

"Why do you drink so hard, I don't rob you, there is still a lot of wine." Xu Zhonghang thought that she was robbed because she drank too hard, but he never expected that Qiu Luoxue was drinking liquor for the first time.

Qiu Luoxue coughed and coughed, and the wine jar shattered on the ground with a shake of her hand, which made Xu Zhonghang feel that something was wrong, he came down from the hand-copying verandah to Qiu Luoxue to take a look, only to see that her whole face was red and fluttering, and her eyes began to blur.

"What's your situation?" Xu Zhonghang asked by holding Qiu Luoxue's shoulders to prevent her from falling.

"Oops, it's annoying, don't shake it, it's so dizzy." Qiu Luoxue's consciousness was already a little confused, and everything was shaky.

"I didn't shake it." Xu Zhonghang said innocently.

"Lying." Qiu Luoxue said, "You are obviously shaking, just like that, shaking over, shaking over, shaking I fainted." Saying that, she still learned to shake up, which made her even more dizzy, and she simply fell into Xu Zhonghang's arms.

When Xu Zhonghang finished talking to Nie Yuan about the above things, they had already helped Qiu Luoxue back to the room and let her lie down on the bed.

"Why should people who can't drink go to drink." Nie Yuan looked at Qiu Luoxue and said, the latter was lying quietly on the bed, as if he had fallen asleep.

Xu Zhonghang smiled and said, "But fortunately, she is much quieter when she is drunk." He is still very satisfied with not being drunk.

As soon as Xu Zhonghang's words fell, Qiu Luoxue, who was originally lying on the bed, suddenly sat up, looked at the two of them, and said, "You ......"

Xu Zhonghang and Nie Yuan glanced at each other, and they didn't understand her current situation very well.

"You two, stand upright, stand well, and don't shake any more." Qiu Luoxue pointed at the two and said.

Hearing Qiu Luoxue talk about this issue again, Xu Zhonghang looked helpless and said: "It's not that we're shaking, it's that you're drunk, lie down and sleep, just wake up."

Qiu Luoxue laughed out loud after hearing this, and said, "I'm not drunk, I lied to you just now, how about it?" I'm not very good at acting. ”

She smiled like this, which made the two of them even more confused, looking at her current state, it seemed that she was really not drunk.

"Really, aren't you drunk?" Nie Yuan asked, a little unconvinced, he was clearly drunk just now.

"Of course not." Qiu Luoxue said with a smile, and climbed out of bed by herself after speaking.

"It's time to go to bed if you're not drunk, why are you going?" Xu Zhonghang asked.

Qiu Luoxue turned her head and grimaced at him, and said, "I don't want to sleep, I want to go out to play." As he spoke, he staggered and wanted to go out.

Only then did the two realize that she was indeed drunk, and that she was now playing drunk.

"Who says she's not drunk?" Nie Yuan asked.

Xu Zhonghang smiled awkwardly and said, "I knew I wouldn't say it."

"Oops, what's going on with this door? Why can't you push it away? You, hurry up, be careful that I dismantle you. Over there, Qiu Luoxue pointed to the screen in the room and said, it seems that she used the screen as a door, and she didn't push it open after pushing it a few times, but she was more energetic than it.

Nie Yuan and Xu Zhonghang looked at Qiu Luoxue, who was competing with the screen, and they were all helpless, they had to toss tonight.

Sure enough, Qiu Luoxue stood in front of the screen and calmed herself down for a while, decided not to compete with it, and staggered outside. No matter how Xu Zhonghang and Nie Yuan persuaded her, they didn't stop. When she was drunk, she had three or four times more energy than usual, and she looked east and west, and seemed to be full of curiosity about the world.

"Nie Shishi, what is this?" Qiu Luoxue asked, pointing to the flowers in the courtyard.

"Magnolia." Nie Yuan replied.

"What about this?" She asked, pointing to the lantern hanging in the courtyard.

"Lanterns." Nie Yuan replied.

"You really answered her sentence by sentence, it's really unexpected, just feed her a pack of medicine and let her sleep." Xu Zhonghang couldn't bear it anymore and said.

"I'm coming to see her, you can go back." Nie Yuan said.

After that, Xu Zhonghang really went back, and Qiu Luoxue, who was running around the yard, and Nie Yuan, who was leaning on the pillar to watch her, were left. Qiu Luoxue sometimes ran in front of Nie Yuan, sometimes ran a little farther, but she didn't leave Nie Yuan's sight.

Nie Yuan looked at her quietly like this, as if time had stood still, and the person who was running happily in the moonlight deeply attracted Nie Yuan's attention.