The inexplicable, but indescribable tacit understanding played a role again, although Tang Cheng rushed all the way to Yangzhou this time for the purpose of tung oil business, but in the day he got along with Zheng Lingyi, Tang Cheng didn't even mention the word tung oil.

Zheng Lingyi is the same, even the mutiny in Beijing not long ago she didn't say a word, the two sat back to back and gossiped about some things out of tune, such as Tang Cheng's experience all the way, such as Zheng Lingyi's old story of catching butterflies and fighting grass before he was twelve years old.

Relatively speaking, Tang Cheng didn't say much, most of the time it was Zheng Ling who was going to say, and he listened quietly, occasionally inserting a sentence or two of innocuous comments.

Even a very ordinary sentence can often cause bursts of heartless laughter between the two.

Zheng Lingyi's personal girl, Qingxing, who was standing in the distance, looked at Zheng Lingyi, who was laughing and was about to hit Tang Cheng, a trace of worry quietly crept up to her brows.

The autumn breeze was long, in Tang Cheng's feeling, today's time seemed to pass very quickly, he arrived at Zheng's Mansion only in the afternoon, but it seemed that it was just dusk in the blink of an eye.

Dusk has arrived, the sun is sinking in the west, looking at the picture of the sunset in front of him infinitely close to dusk, Tang Cheng suddenly felt a kind of sadness and regret similar to the end of the feast, and he still has to leave after all! And from tomorrow onwards, the two will have to be busy with the tung oil business, and it will be difficult to be as unrestrained and heartless as today.

As for the tung oil business, his home is in Jinzhou after all!

Will there be another day like today? If there is, and when?

"Ah Cheng, do you think the sunset looks like a pigeon's egg?" , Although Zheng Lingyi's voice was still smiling, the gloomy meaning between his eyebrows and eyes couldn't hide it.

Tang Cheng followed Zheng Lingyi's eyes and also fell on the sunset in the west, but his mouth had no interest in speaking.

After waiting for a moment and not answering, Zheng Lingyi turned his head to look, and then reached out to hold Tang Cheng's hand. "Ah Cheng, give me another poem, to show how I am in the mood now."

Zheng Lingyi's voice just fell. Almost without thinking, Tang Cheng had already chanted a poem in his mouth:

Discomfort to the evening,

Drive to the ancient plains.

The sunset is infinitely better,

It's just near dusk!

Listening to Tang Cheng's chanting quietly, Zheng Lingyi didn't say a word of comment, but his body slowly fell into Tang Cheng's arms, "Let's stay in the mansion tonight, and when the moon rises, we will go to the Twenty-Four Bridge."

After saying this, Zheng Lingyi added another sentence: "There are some things to talk about early tomorrow morning."

Zheng Lingyi gave a reason for staying, but Tang Cheng didn't mention the word at all. Pleasure is short, and although it is known that it will pass, it is good to steal one more moment.

After the two of them finished eating, it was dark and the moon rose in the middle of October. Riding out of the car and revisiting the old place, Tang Chenghun this night seemed to have returned to the scene of traveling with his roommate in the university in the later life, thinking about nothing in his heart, and playing jokes with all his heart. And Zheng Lingyi is also extraordinarily eccentric. One after another, unbelievable ideas came out one after another.

On this night, many Yangzhou people who passed by the 24th Bridge saw a stunned scene, two richly dressed young men and women ran hand in hand on the street without any scruples, singing wantonly. Laughing wantonly, wantonly climbing the willow tree on the side of the avenue. squatting wantonly on a tree and smashing stones into the water, shattering the reflection of the bright moon into haloic ripples......

After a passing scholar saw the Confucian shirt worn by Tang Cheng on the tree, he sighed dumbfounded: "The world is going down, people's hearts are not bitter, and the ancestors are humiliated, and Sven is lost."

Most of the pedestrians were not Confucian scholars like the above, and they only had two words to say about the behavior of the young man and woman - crazy, or some would add two words - shame. \

Seeing that the city gate was about to close, the ugly time when the gate was locked. Tang Cheng and the two of them boarded the car and returned. At this time. Tang Cheng's regimental collar robes were already wrinkled, and they were stained with tree sap and water stains. Even if you wash it, you can't wash it out.

In comparison, Zheng Lingyi is even more unbearable, not only is her luxurious clothes not the same, but even her face is green and white, which is very close to the image she talked about before the age of twelve. Both of them were so honored, there was no way to get off in front of the mansion, and the carriage drove directly into the back house of the Zheng Mansion.

Under the bright light, seeing his appearance in the mirror of Jiang Xin, the two of them couldn't help but laugh for a while, and after freshening up, Zheng Lingyi had no intention of sleeping, and beckoned Qingxing to set up wine.

Tang Cheng had already made up his mind to let Zheng Lingyi arrange it before dawn, if you want to go crazy, let's go crazy together, if you want to drink, drink together, for those seventy days of wordless waiting, as long as she likes it, she will jump into the canal in the city now for a night swim, and Tang Cheng will not say half a word to stop.

The bright moon is in the sky, the tandoor is warm wine, and the night breeze is gently shaking, which was originally an excellent artistic conception, but it is a pity...... Zheng Lingyi got drunk too quickly......

"My lord, you're drunk", Qingxing reached out and took the splattered giant in Zheng Lingyi's hand.

Knowing that the amount of alcohol is shallow, why do you drink so fast? Knowing that the amount of wine is shallow, why do you still use such a giant wine vessel?

Zheng Lingyi, who was staggering, was helped away by the blue grass, Tang Cheng looked up at Haoyue, who was gradually sinking eastward, leaned over to take the giant wine, and drank all the residual wine in the wine.

This is a luxurious guest house in the back house of the Zheng Mansion, after Tang Cheng sat down on the side of the couch covered with splendid scenery in the guest house, he turned his curious eyes to Qingxing, "It's not early, the girl should go back to sleep early."

"My family is afraid that the prostitutes in the house will not be able to get into the eyes of the son, so he ordered me to come", Qing Xing raised her eyebrows and walked to Tang Cheng's side as she spoke, and she reached over to serve him to change his clothes. Tang Cheng glanced at Qingxing in surprise, the little girl's gaze was a little evasive, and her frowning brows were clearly nervous. ::-:

Tang Cheng has traveled through so many days, and he has also stayed in Yunxi and Jinzhou Mansion, and this custom of the big families in the Tang Dynasty is still known.

There were official prostitutes in the Yamen of the Tang Dynasty, and these people were in the same official palace as the official slaves and maids, but the official prostitutes did not need to be in charge of sprinkling and sweeping, but were specially responsible for receiving guests from the Yamen. For example, when the officials who accompany the transit to and fro, or when there is a banquet in the government, they are responsible for the wine and music, and these people are usually under the command of the local teaching department. If necessary, he will come to the official house to answer the errand, and of course, there are also those who are rented out by the Department of Education and Workshop like Guan Guan.

When it comes to the many duties of official prostitutes, the most important of them is undoubtedly to accompany the guests of the yamen, mainly the officials who come and go, and this kind of escort is not only to wait, but also to warm the bed at night.

Similar to official prostitutes, large families in the Tang Dynasty had many domestic prostitutes, and their responsibilities were similar to those of official prostitutes.

It's just that Qingxing, as Zheng Lingyi's personal maid, can be said to be the most powerful subordinate in this mansion. If you want to accompany the guest, how can you send her here, especially if she is sent by Zheng Lingyi?

After Tang Cheng looked at it carefully for a while, he suddenly reached out and took Qingxing, who was helping her untie the bunu, into his arms, and sure enough, the little girl trembled like a quail that had been pounced.

Although Qingxingdi's body was shaking, he didn't dodge and leave after all, Tang Cheng saw this, and the hand holding his waist swam up to the little girl's bulging chest.

Tang Cheng's hand just moved twice, and the whole body of Qingxing in his arms had been constricted into a bow, Tang Cheng let go of his hand with a smile. "What is it that deserves you to do this?".

Pushing the girl in his arms away, Tang Cheng even straightened out some of her scattered clothes, "If there is anything, just say it directly."

"Tang Cheng, let's go", the little quail said. "It's impossible for you to be with my family."

Tang Cheng didn't say anything when he heard this, just looked at Qingxing quietly.

"Even if Your Majesty is no longer a woman. After all, my family is a talented person in Zongren Temple, she is the emperor's woman, you can't be together! If it goes on like this, once the adults of my family lose their bodies in forgetfulness, and go back to the palace to check, not only her, me, but also you will have to die, especially you and me. to punish the nine clans". Qing Xing was a little silent when she said the end, and her face was full of fear.

Talented. The twelfth concubine in the palace should be similar to the bureau level of the prefecture in later generations in terms of rank.

"You're thinking too much".

"No, Tang Cheng, you don't know the character of my family at all", Qing Xing spoke quickly and urgently at this time, "My family is a madman, I would rather die in front of the moth lamp than die in the thrush cage!" My lord is really crazy this time, she won't scruple about anything when she goes crazy."

"Qingxing", Tang Cheng stepped forward and grabbed her shoulder, "I said, you think too much."

At this moment, a sound of footsteps outside the guest house came from far and near, and after Qingxing heard the footsteps, she suddenly reached out to her chest.

With the sound of cracking, Qing Xing had already ripped off the skirt on her upper body and the lake-green belly pocket inside, and the girl's pink chest was presented at a glance, scattered pink under the slight swaying light.

While tearing open his chest, Qingxing had already jumped into Tang Cheng's arms with one step forward, and his two hands hugged Tang Cheng's waist tightly like pliers.

Presumably Qingxing has been planning this scene for a long time, and the time is really good, she just threw herself into Tang Cheng's arms, and the door of the guest house opened with a "squeak", and in addition to Zheng Lingyi, who had not faded from the wine on her face, there was also a girl in a goose yellow shirt.

"Your Excellency...... Tang Cheng ......", Qingxing's cry was really sad.

"Ah Cheng, you ......", Zheng Lingyi, who was standing at the door, blushed almost instantly.

Since the two of them came in, Tang Cheng's eyes fell on the girl who followed Zheng Lingyi, and sure enough, this girl didn't dare to look at him at all, and her eyes flickered very much.

After seeing this, Tang Cheng smiled slightly, turned his head to meet Zheng Lingyi's eyes, he didn't say anything, he didn't say anything at all, only the expression on his face and his eyes were frank and natural, Guangyue Feiqi.

In Tang Cheng's gaze, the redness on Zheng Lingyi's face slowly subsided, and was replaced by a piece of blue ash, "Xiaoluo, what benefits did Qingxing give you?" ”。

"My lord, I didn't ......."

"Don't say yes?" , Tang Cheng really didn't expect Zheng Lingyi to be so cold when he spoke, "It seems that you thought of accompanying those boatmen who were full of fishy smell in the hook fence near Xishuimen once a hundred times."

"My lord, I ......", the little snail who knelt down in response to the sound trembled and cried bitterly, "I really didn't take the benefits of Qingxing, I just wanted to help ......."

"Even I dare to calculate. You, you are so bold", Zheng Lingyi didn't listen to Xiaoluo's crying at all, and kicked her to the ground. went directly to Qingxing, who was squatting on the ground, and "stood up".

Tang Cheng saw that Zheng Ling intended to take care of family affairs, and it was also involved in other family affairs, so he didn't interject, but the word that came with her made Tang Cheng have to come out.

After Qingxing, whose face was pale, stood up tremblingly, Zheng Lingyi only said this one word:

"Take it off!".

The pink chest shook a dazzling wave as Qing Xing got up, and she was obviously stunned by her master's face and order, so much so that she forgot to cover it with her hands.

Tang Cheng sighed when he saw this, stretched out his hand to take off the coat that had just been unbuttoned, and stepped forward to wrap the stunned Qingxing. Then he stepped forward and stood between the two, "This matter is over, she is also for your good."

"Doesn't this like to take it off, just let her take it off", Zheng Lingyi reached out to push Tang Cheng, but how could he push it?

"Get out, get out of here", after both hands were held by Tang Cheng, Zheng Lingyi slowly quieted down.

Qingxing and Xiaoluo sobbed, and for a while, only the two people holding hands were left in the guest house. "What did the tell you?"

Tang Cheng didn't hide anything, "She said that you are a talented person in the palace and a woman of the emperor's land, so it is impossible for us to be together!" And if I break your body. You, she. All three of us have to die, and she and I have to be punished by the Nine Clans."

Zheng Lingyi, who was still a little angry, was silent when he heard this, and after a long time, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Tang Chengdao: "What that cheap maid said is true. What, you're scared? ”。

At this moment, Zheng Lingyi's face was full of recklessness, self-injury and stubbornness.

"I'm afraid, I'm holding the hand of the emperor's woman, how can I not be afraid", Zheng Lingyi's face just changed. Tang Cheng's words have followed. "I'm so afraid, I'm afraid that I won't find a way to get you from the palace."

"That's all you're afraid of?"

"The puppet of the Wu clan. The sex is not harmonious, and the ground is cold and slight. In the past, Taizong was under Chen, and he once served with a change of clothes...... Cover up your sleeves and slander, and the fox can confuse the lord", Tang Cheng recited the "Seeking Wu Clan" written by King Luo Bin for Xu Jingye in the previous dynasty, "The talented people of Emperor Taizong in the past can be the empress of Emperor Gaozong, and then they can also ascend the throne and be the emperor." Why can't you, a talented person, get out of Miyagi? What I'm afraid of is that there are thousands of gates in the palace city on Longyuan, and I can't find the way to bring you here."

"The name is the prince, but he is actually a prisoner, His Majesty Fang Jin has lost his body in the fourteen years of exile in Fangzhou, and now it is not as good as a day, I have heard my cousin say that the Imperial Doctor Department vaguely said something for three years. According to the practice in the palace, after the death of the first emperor, the concubines of the harem can invite themselves to become a female crown, and as soon as they enter the door, they will cut off the red dust and reincarnate as a human being."

The rebelliousness and stubbornness in Zheng Lingyi's eyes have turned into tenderness, "The big families in my dynasty have their own family temples and family views to support the monks. Ah Cheng, you have to be an official, a very big official, and only then can you invite a female crown from the royal Taoist temple to offer to the family."

"It turned out to be the old road of the Empress Xian", this road Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi walked, and then Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan in the Xuanzong Dynasty will also walk on it, Tang Cheng never thought that he would one day set foot on this road.

But a woman who dares to ask for the emperor has to pay the price, no matter how difficult this road is, she will have to make a fucking trip.

Even if she is very powerful, Shangguan Wan'er, who is known as the "maid of the inner palace", can't get rid of the identity of "Zhaorong", and now Zheng Lingyi can't even think about it, as long as she doesn't get rid of this identity for a day, the original body of the son will not be able to move. The emperor has strict archival records of the harem women's favors. Just as the eunuchs have to be "brushed up" every year to check the purification of the eunuchs, all the concubines under the age of forty-five who have not been favored by the emperor in the inner palace also have a routine inspection once a year.

Once there is an abnormality in the examination, the consequences will be as Qingxing said.

The time to go to bed was already late, and after such an episode as Qingxing, both of them lost their sleepiness, but they couldn't do anything else, so they gossiped in the guest house.

As they spoke, the two naturally discussed matters related to the tung oil business, and the mutiny in Chang'ansheng also deeply affected and even changed the situation in Yangzhou.