Chapter Fifty-Three: Visiting the Lake on the Begging Festival
At night, the breeze is gentle, and there are various painting boats floating on the mirror lake.
The shore is brightly lit, the piano is leisurely, there is a faint lotus fragrance floating in the air, and under the hazy moonlight, the figures are shuttling and not stacking, and I don't know how much infatuation is hidden.
Hua Wei and Lingxiao stood by the river, each holding a river lantern into the water, and making a wish like the other girls around her.
"What wish did the Dao Leader make?" Ling Xiao asked in a low voice.
"End your practice as soon as possible and return to Jihua Mountain. Hua Yu asked casually, "What about you?"
Lingxiao hesitated for a moment and did not speak.
Hua Yu smiled, "What did this girl wish, I'm embarrassed to say?"
"You're making fun of me!" Lingxiao panicked.
"What's the matter? Could it be that you have a crush on which son?
"Don't say it!" Lingxiao got up to chase her, and Hua Wei ran along the riverbank with her skirt.
The two of them quarreled for a while, standing by the lake and blowing the wind, in the quiet, only to hear Lingxiao sigh softly, "I am in a happy scene, how can I take the scene as sincere, let alone know my identity, and I will be tempted by those noble sons." ”
Hua Yu asked softly, "Then what wish did you make?"
Lingxiao looked into the distance and replied: "I hope that every year will be safe and sound, and I can return to my hometown in the future, pay incense to my father and mother, and do my filial piety." ”
It turned out that she missed her dead parents, and Hua Wei felt very sorry for her.
"The wind is blowing, let's go to the lake. ”
"Good. So the two of them got on a small boat moored at the edge of the lake and went to the center of the lake.
Patches of river lamps floated in the direction behind them, illuminating the surface of the lake like a galaxy.
Neither of them saw that a thin wave had hit, and among the hundreds of river lamps, two of them suddenly overturned, and the lights went out instantly.
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After three rounds of drinking, Xu Qingwei burped, but he still refused to put down the wine cup.
"You asked this king to explain you, and you didn't say what happened, how can this king explain?" Nangong Yi sat opposite him, quite helpless.
Xu Qingwei leaned back, lifted the curtain with his hand, and looked at the sparkling lake, the breeze made him sober up a little.
"It's nothing, it's just that the appointment was unsuccessful, and it's a little embarrassing. He muttered.
He thought about it all night, and this morning he mustered up the courage to send a post to Liuyunguan, asking the flower chief to go to the lake, but as expected, he was rejected.
"Since people refuse, don't mess around, although I am open, but there are too many romantic debts, and the house is restless, which is always bad. Nangong Yi stretched out his hand and poured him a cup of tea.
Xu Qingwei teased with the strength of wine, "Tut-tut, His Highness's self-denial and revenge can't be learned by ordinary people...... Alas, if only I hadn't married like Your Highness. ”
Nangong Yi was slightly surprised, "What kind of girl makes you so attentive that you can even say such things." ”
"Nature is extraordinary, it's amazing. Xu Qingwei took a sip of wine.
Nangong Yi was silent.
"Now that Your Highness's poison has been cured, don't you think about marrying a wife?"
"Even if you solve it, you have to pretend that you don't understand it, stabilize the palace view, after marrying a wife, there are many people with mixed eyes, and it is easy to show your stuffing, why bother. ”
Xu Qingwei persuaded: "Your Highness is too cautious, you must know that the court disputes, the deception will never subside, if Your Highness wants to wait for everything to be resolved and then plan for himself, when will it be the head? Even if the four major families are all ended, sooner or later there will be new four major families, Your Highness, this Dayan country cannot rely on you alone, you can't be busy." ”
Nangong Yi lowered his eyes and pondered, shook his head and sighed: "What makes me busy is not this great Yan Jiangshan, but the world, the crisis in the world is incomprehensible for a day, I can't be at ease for a day, how to think about myself." ”
Xu Qingwei was inexplicably wonderful, "Now that the four seas are peaceful, the countries have been safe and quiet for many years, and the relationship is stable, why is there a crisis?"
Nangong Yi said quietly: "Yes, even the imperial power of various countries can be smoothly inherited under the Taiyuan Temple, what other crises can lurk?"
Indeed, there has not been a large-scale war on this continent for more than 100 years, and it is said that this was not the case 300 years ago.
At that time, the countries fought frequently, swallowed and annexed each other, and even in order to defeat the enemy, they did not hesitate to use the power of the evil sect and crooked ways, and the corpses were everywhere, and there was no grass until the Taiyuan Guan Patriarch Nanyi Zhenren entered the world, swept away the evil way, separated the cultivation world and the world, established rules, and preached morality, so that there was today's peace.
Therefore, the status of Taiyuan Guan can be above the cultivation world and even the whole world, and since Nanyi Zhenren, every head of Taiyuan Guan has conscientiously guarded orthodoxy, guarded the cultivation world and the world, and did not dare to slack off.
It didn't seem that there was any problem, but Nangong Yi was getting more and more uneasy day by day.
He was a man who had died once, and he had seen the consequences of this peace.
Years have passed, and whenever he recalls the bloody storm of his previous life before his death, he still shuddered as if he was in hell.
The tragic scene woke him up in the middle of the night, reminding him that the peace in front of him was not real.
Others are kept in the dark, but he should come to his senses.
He is the one who has peeked at the ending, and there will be no good results, so he must find the truth before the crisis comes, and find a way to save it, there is not much time left for him.
When Nangong Yi was stunned, Xu Qingwei sat in the dock, staring at a ship for a long time.
"That's like ...... The ship of Cheongjiang Pavilion. He rubbed his eyes.
"Really?"
"I heard that more than a month ago, Qingjiang Pavilion came out of a girl with a very graceful voice, famous in Chang'an, called Huaixi, speaking of which, this girl is really bold, she did not avoid the name of the regent, and named it after the word 'Huai'. ”
Nangong Yi smiled and didn't take it to heart.
Xu Qingwei had already stood up.
"What are you going to do?"
"I just heard the boatman say, the one sitting inside is Miss Huaixi, and I want to go to the meeting. ”
"Sit down. Nangong Yi frowned slightly, "You are a dignified member of the imperial court, what did you look like in the past, if you really want to see her, just send someone to invite her." ”
Xu Qingwei was moved and told the little servant to invite.
After a while, the little maid came back and said, "Your Highness, Childe, the people on the boat said that Miss Huaixi is not here at this time, so she can't come over to help the fun." ”
Xu Qingwei raised his eyebrows and slapped the table, "Nonsense! Open your eyes wide, there is clearly a girl sitting in the boat, they prevaricate you, you can't see it? ”
The little guy ran out resignedly.
"Come back!" Xu Qingwei said, taking out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and throwing them over, looking at a few hundred taels.
"A tea time, tell her to be sure to appear outside the curtain. ”
Nangong Yi was slightly helpless, "What do you have to ask that girl to do." ”
Xu Qingwei pouted, "She, she must have seen that our ship was not grand enough, thinking that it was not a big person, so she was too lazy to take care of it, if you spend a lot of money, she will definitely come, my lord, I want to sharpen her mercenary arrogance." ”
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Above the boat, the curtain was gently blown up by the wind, revealing half of the face of the flower.
She looked up from a handful of lotus flowers and said in surprise, "Didn't I tell you to reject that son?" ”
The boatman was a little embarrassed, "This ...... His son-in-law recognized us and brought a lot of silver tickets......"
Hua Yu was quite helpless, Lingxiao was indeed not there, just now they were drinking freely, a rather gorgeous and huge painting boat drove by, and invited her away, even if this son gave more money, she couldn't change a Lingxiao.
"Return the silver ticket, let's dock, it's not good to have a misunderstanding, don't make trouble for Huaixi. She commanded lightly.
"Yes, girl. ”
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The little guy came back with a silver ticket and offered it with both hands.
Nangong Yi raised her eyebrows and looked at Xu Qingwei, her warm eyes were quite teasing, "It seems that this Huaixi girl is not a vulgar thing, and it is not something that money and silver can impress, so don't waste your efforts." ”
Xu Qingwei: "......"
"Have you drunk enough wine, go home when you've drunk enough, I'll let Dongwu send you." ”
Xu Qingwei lowered his head and pondered for a long time, suddenly picked up the sword on the side, and simply walked out of the cabin.
"Your Highness, how did Lord Xu say that he would just leave?" Dongwu was guarding the door, and when he saw Xu Qingwei rushing out angrily, he came in and asked.
Nangong Yi shook his head, "He's in a bad mood, and he doesn't know who he's fighting against." ”
Xibai raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and suddenly shouted in surprise: "No, Lord Xu went to Miss Huaixi's boat, and he hasn't given up yet?"
Nangong Yi's arm drinking tea was stunned, he had a headache, and instructed Xibai, "You go and take a look, don't let him scare other girls, it must be reasonable for people to refuse to get on his boat, he drank too much, but I am afraid that I can't control my temper." ”
"Yes, my subordinates are going!" Xibai took the task, and he really wanted to see how beautiful the girl was.
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Hua Wei trimmed a handful of lotus flowers, inserted them into the glass bottle, and fiddled with them carefully, and the curtain of the cabin was suddenly lifted, bringing a gust of gloomy breeze.
She looked back and couldn't help but be surprised, "Lord Xu!"
Xu Qingwei was like a thunderbolt from the sky, standing at the door with a shocked face.
The people in front of him were like flowers, and he was so amazed that he couldn't take his eyes off for a long time.
He forgot everything at once, woke up in an instant, and muttered, "Ikebana-chan, it's you!"