Chapter 28: The Beam's Soft Red Shower (5)
[I can't catch up tonight, there is only one chapter.] What is missing will be filled tomorrow. 】
The newly ground bronze mirror is recognizable, and a fancy face in the mirror has a captivating posture, but it is slightly haggard. The slender eyebrows frowned slightly, and the eyes were shining, shrouded in gloomy clouds. The mirror is bright, reflecting the lovesickness suffered by the owner of the mirror for the past year.
Zhou Nan was only wearing a plain white profane dress and sat in front of the mirror. Looking at himself in the mirror, he slowly combed his ink-dyed hair. Life in the Qinglou has always been upside down in the morning, with a bright red light outside the west window, and she has just gotten up.
The jade-colored slender hand slid through the long satin-like hair with a horn comb, and Mowen, who had gone out to buy rouge gouache in the morning, was standing behind her.
Zhou Nanbai combed her hair boringly, her expression was numb, and the life she repeated day after day on the party had already exhausted her mental strength. But with a few words from the little envoy behind him, the sluggishness on his face disappeared in an instant, first surprised, and then turned to ecstasy: "What! You've met Han Lang! ”
Mo Wen was startled by Zhou Nan's exclamation, his body shook, and he couldn't help but take half a step back.
Zhou Nan had already turned around and jumped over, grabbing Mowen's arms with both hands like catching chickens. His eyes were shining like starlight, and he asked, "Have you seen Han Lang!?" ”
Mo Wen nodded straightly, "I saw it, I saw it, I saw Han Guanren riding over when I was in the rouge shop." ”
"You can't be mistaken...... Why don't you stop him...... It should be him...... It's been less than a year......"
Zhou Nan fell into chaos for a while, and after talking for a long time, he didn't know what he was talking about. On the contrary, Mowen was more sober, "The little maid watched Han Guanren go to the south of the city, and she should have just entered Beijing." ”
"Hurry up and let people prepare the car, I'm going to the south of the city......" Zhou Nan suddenly couldn't go on, and a look of gain and loss appeared on his face, what if the enemy had forgotten himself? Last time, a Zhao Long sent a letter, and later a Wang Shunchen came from Qinzhou with a private message, but this time Hangang's benefactor Wang Shao led the people who returned to the imperial court to enter Beijing, and the momentum was huge, and the Son of Heaven recruited him into the palace several times in a row. Zhou Nan has been looking forward to it, but he didn't wait for half a letter.
"Mowen, it's still you...... No, it's still me ......" The leader of the flower in the sect division hesitated, and he couldn't make up his mind.
Of course, she wanted to see her lover earlier, but she was afraid that after seeing the person in her heart, the words she heard would make her desperate. In fact, Zhou Nan was almost desperate, because the person who had been pestering her recently made Zhou Nan dare not confirm whether her sweetheart had the courage to fight for her.
"Sister Zhou." At this time, someone outside the door called Zhou Nan, "Second official Qin is here again, please hurry up." ”
"Ah, the second king is here! …… Sister, what should I do?! ”
Mo Wen panicked. Qin Erguan is the second son of the former emperor Yingzong, and the second brother of today's son. Now his fiefdom is Yong, which is the king of Yong, and Yongzhou is the land of Qin, so he takes Qin as a pseudonym. After all, as an imperial brother, you can't always go out to visit the kiln openly.
"Sister Zhou......" The people outside the door saw that there was no response in the room, and shouted urgically.
"Here we go!" Mo Wen responded on behalf of Zhou Nan, and asked Zhou Nan again: "Sister, what do you think about now?" ”
"It's annoying." Zhou Nan's pretty face has been hung up. If it is an ordinary guest, as long as you say 'tired', you can prevaricate. But King Yong's identity is different, where can he be lazy?
At the moment, although Zhao Hao came in through the back door, only listened to a song, drank two glasses of wine and hurried away, never meant to stay overnight, no one could say when he would get an inch. If His Royal Highness King Yong is strong, can he really stab him? Aunt Xu, who is now in charge of Zhou Nan, even put away the scissors in the house. If King Yong really has intentions, as long as he shows a little mouth, Aunt Xu will definitely quietly take away the dagger that Zhou Nan is carrying now.
Zhou Nan picked up a folded silk scarf from under the pillow, and a pair of vivid mandarin ducks were embroidered on the white silk silk, which was his hard work in the past few months. handed it to his little envoy: "Mowen, you will go to the Chengnan Post on my behalf later, and quietly hand over this handkerchief to Han Guanren, so as not to be seen." ”
Mowen took the silk scarf and put it in his arms. He asked again: "Just give the silk scarf to Han Guanren?" ”
“…… Enough, it should be enough. Zhou Nan nodded a little hard, and she didn't have a bottom in her heart.
Mo Wen responded, and helped Zhou Nan change his clothes and makeup, and after a while, the gorgeous crown of the oiran appeared in the small hall where His Royal Highness King Yong was located.
The young man sitting in the middle of the hall was quite handsome. Wearing a scholar's shirt, the outfit is very simple, at first glance, it looks like an ordinary poor scholar. But how can there be a poor scholar in the world who can visit the kiln every once in a while, and it is also a place that only high-ranking officials and nobles can patronize. What's more, there are many times that the people in the sect have been to the palace, and quite a few have seen His Royal Highness King Yong today. And the companion brought out by Zhao Hao turned out to be a eunuch.
The identity of His Royal Highness King Yongwang was actually revealed at the beginning. But if the prince of a country does such a thing as covering his ears and stealing the bell, the middle and upper levels of the teaching department can only be regarded as unrecognizable and cannot be seen.
Zhao Hao saw Zhou Nan coming in, if it was an ordinary prostitute, it would be over at a glance, even if he looked like a fairy, it would be idle for the Son of Heaven's own brother. He still lives in the palace now, and he has seen a lot of stunning colors, which is no worse than Zhou Nan. It was only when he heard that Zhou Nanzhi had scared away a clan and was a rare strong woman in the Fengyue class, that he became interested.
"Qin Erguan is blessed." Zhou Nanying bowed down.
"I don't see you for a day, like every three autumns. In the past few days, I have been thinking about Zhou Xiaoniang's wonderful singing and dancing day and night, tossing and turning......" Zhao Hao pretended to be a veteran of flowers, but in Zhou Nan's eyes, it was completely boring.
With a hypocritical smile and two glasses of wine, Zhou Nan stood in the hall, and the music started, singing and dancing with the music. Accompanied by cheerful music, the woman singing and dancing, her face is like a peony, her color is like a peony, and when she turns around and dances, her clothes flutter like a hundred flowers blooming, and her expression has an awe-inspiring look that rejects people thousands of miles away.
It was this awe-inspiring indignity that could not be taken lightly, and the mismatch between her identity as a courtesan Oiran that attracted Zhao Hao's attention. He squinted his eyes and beat his hands, enjoying a rare moment of relaxation.
Although he has married a wife and had children, Zhao Hao still lives in the palace now, because no one can beat his noble mother who is the queen mother. It's just that although Zhao Hao is the most loved among his brothers, he is in the middle of the big interior, and his body and mind are still suppressed. He can't get along with his own princess, and now he can only find a chance to relax in Anrenfang.
Looking at Zhou Nan's soft and moving dance, Zhao Hao thought about his princess. Although she is the great-granddaughter of Feng Zheng, the famous minister of the Taizu, Taizong, Zhen, and Ren dynasties at the beginning of the country, she is a boring, but jealous woman. The identities of the two women are very different, but they give him the feeling that there is a completely opposite gap.
If she knew that she had come out to visit the kiln, she wondered if she would cry to her mother.
Thinking of his biological mother, Zhao Hao suddenly felt a sense of weakness in his heart, and hurriedly took a sip of wine to suppress his shock. He knew in his heart that no matter how much his own mother loved him, he would not like these things like him going out of the palace to visit the kiln in private. It was because he was afraid of the current Queen Mother that Zhao Hao didn't even dare to spend the night, so he could only sit for a while and leave.
In the past few years, during the Zhiping period, Zhao Hao's father, that is, the former emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu, fell ill soon after ascending the throne and could not be a director. When his father recovered from his illness and the emperor returned, Zhao Hao's mother still did not allow Zhao Shu to get close to the concubine.
At that time, Emperor Cao asked people to spread a message and admonish: "The official family has been on the throne for a long time, and now the holy bow is healed, how can there be no one to serve the emperor on the left and right." ”
As the niece of Empress Cao, she was raised in the palace since she was a child, and the relationship was as close as that of a mother and daughter, but Zhao Hao's queen mother still replied in a hard way: "Playing Zhi Niangniang, the bride only married thirteen regiments, that is, she never married his official family." ”
This matter is dressed in the capital, faintly, and some people compare Sui Wen's Queen Dugu. Emperor Cao was made the queen by Renzong back then, and never interfered with who Renzong favored in the harem, so everyone called him Shengde. But now that it has been replaced by the evaluation of the Empress Dowager Gao, it is inconvenient for the world to say that she is jealous, so she uses the word serious to describe it.
Therefore, although Emperor Yingzong had concubines, Zhao Ji and Zhao Hao had several brothers and sisters in front of them, but they were all compatriots of the same mother.
For the current queen mother of the Great Song Kingdom, the queen mother can't hold it down, the first emperor can't hold it down, and of course the imperial brother can't be concave. She wanted to see her son every day, so the two brothers Zhao Hao and Zhao Hao stayed in the palace.
In the first two years, there was a minister surnamed Zhang who said that Zhao Hao and his fourth brother Zhao Hao had become adults and were still in the palace. At that time, there were many people who agreed with this matter, and the current prime minister Wang Anshi also wrote to express his agreement. But when the Queen Mother became angry, the minister was driven out of Beijing, and even Wang Anshi didn't dare to say anything, and a few years passed, and no one mentioned this matter again.
Zhao Hao himself also has a mind, so he has no intention of leaving the palace. However, recently, there have been frequent happy news in the palace, and his own family is in turmoil, so he is a little bored in his heart, so he will come out to relax, otherwise, he must be an honest and obedient son in the palace.
This is Zhao Hao's secret, and he has never been humanized to outsiders. Of course, His Royal Highness King Yong did not know the power of the rumors in the Ludao market, and his actions that he thought were secret had already spread throughout the capital, and the Imperial City Division, which supervised the inside and outside of the capital, naturally received the report. If it weren't for the scruple of Empress Dowager Gao, she would have stabbed the imperial history and the imperial city division a long time ago.
After drinking a glass of wine and shaking his head, His Royal Highness King Yong stopped thinking about the trivial things that annoyed him, and soon indulged in the song and dance in front of him.