Chapter 3: Swing in the Wall and Outside the Wall

Cui Jishu actually looks like a ball of dough, white and slightly fat. It seems that there is always a sincere smile on his picturesque face. At this time, he was riding a horse and following his friend Gao Cheng, the prince of Bohai, to the mansion of Yuan Mingyue, the princess of the plains.

"Ah Hui, do you really want to marry Princess Plains?" Cui Jishu asked as he tried to keep up with Gao Cheng. He is older than Gao Cheng, and he always feels that Gao Cheng is still a child, and he may be thrown aside after a sentence, so he has to verify it again.

"Why, do you think the same way as I do? Or shall I give it to you? Gao Cheng easily controlled the horse's speed so that Cui Jishu would not be able to keep up with him. On the one hand, he didn't forget to make a half-truth joke with Cui Jishu with a serious face.

"Me?" Cui Jishu was trembling by his words, of course he knew the complicated relationship involved in Princess Pingyuan. Hurriedly said: "Ah Hui, Princess Pingyuan is the Lord's person. And...... And I've heard...... General Sun Teng also wanted to marry her. ”

"Why do you have so many concerns?" Gao Cheng frowned slightly, "Who said she was the emperor's person?" Has the emperor ever married the princess of the plains? Tomorrow, the emperor will welcome my eldest sister into the palace and become the queen, if he wants to set up Yuan Mingyue as a concubine, and the queen in charge of the harem agrees, will my eldest sister agree? Even if he agreed, would he dare? The imperial patriarchy did not allow him. "Gao Chengkou is like a hanging river." As for Sun Teng, I forgive him and don't dare to fight with me. His delicate thick eyebrows, which looked like his mother Mrs. Lou and his eldest sister Gao Changjun, were slightly raised, showing a manhood beyond his age.

"I can't tell you, I just don't understand how you like Princess Plains? She is much older than you, and she is still a widow of her dead husband, and besides, she can't see how beautiful she is. I heard that General Sun Teng's family has a young dancing girl who dances beautifully, and I heard that her surname is also Yuan. Cui Jishu really loves to laugh so much, and he chattered while laughing.

"I don't need a reason for who I have a crush on. No matter who she is, I'm going to decide. "In the dark night, there was a look in the high emerald eyes that was extremely determined. After a moment of silence, he said: "Don't mention any dancing girls of Sun Teng's family in the future." ”

"I see." Cui Jishu looked at Gao Cheng's face and replied. He and Gao Cheng are friends, but from the bottom of his heart, he is a little afraid of this friend. is not his status as the prince of the Bohai Sea, but his fierceness and determination make him afraid. So Cui Jishu almost always obeys Gao Cheng's words, because he understands very well that Gao Cheng is very good at planning and dealing with it, and he is very smart. And he, as long as Gao Cheng thinks about it, he will always help him do it.

"However, Ah Hui, if General Chen knows about this, he will definitely stop you. Maybe he will report to the prime minister that he is the prime minister's secret, who knows that he ......" General Chen in Cui Jishu's mouth is another friend of theirs, General Weilie Chen Yuankang, who is a few years older than them, is Gao Huan's prime minister, and is very trusted by Gao Huan.

"Changyu won't." Gao Cheng only said four words and stopped talking nonsense. He called Chen Yuankang's words long, and his tone was very positive when he said his judgment, and the relationship and trust between the two people were self-evident.

At night, there are no lights like day, no singing and dancing, it is dark and quiet. Dotted throughout the palace are scattered with sporadic lights and candles, which are even more brilliant and dazzling than the starry sky.

Emperor Yuan Xiu sat alone on the Lingzhi fishing platform in a lake behind the Xuanguang Palace. The Ganoderma lucidum fishing platform is surrounded by water on all sides, and can only be accessed by boat. In the center of a large lake with soft moonlight and bright streamers, and fine waves of fish scales, the Lingzhi fishing platform is like an isolated island. Yuan Xiu's figure is even more lonely, hanging from each other. He looked at the stars in the sky with a daze, the purple star wall in the middle sky was dim, and there was a small star dazzling on the side. Yuan Xiu's heart was extremely desolate. Only such a person can experience the resentment, fear, confusion, and loneliness in his heart so clearly at night.

"Your Majesty, Princess Pingyuan is waiting for you by order." The shrill voice of the eunuch came from the lake below the fishing platform.

"Princess, please." Yuan Xiu calmed down for a moment and commanded slowly, and at the same time, he subconsciously stood up and unconsciously waved his sleeves and wiped his face.

Yuan Mingyue, the newly promoted princess of the plains, abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, and walked down the stone steps to the pavilion at the height of the Lingzhi fishing platform. When she looked up, she saw Emperor Yuan Xiu standing outside the pavilion among a few clumps of green grass and rocks to greet her. He was dressed in black, and when he saw her coming up, he took a few more steps, and stretched out his arms to help her up. The large sleeves fluttering between his outstretched arms made his waistband even more thin.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, but the Lord has lost weight." Yuan Mingyue reached out and pulled Yuan Xiu's arm that was reaching out to her.

"You think you think so much. Alone in this house, there is no one close to him. Yuan Xiu's voice was slightly hoarse.

Yuan Mingyue walked up and stood still, looking at Yuan Xiu and looking at his face carefully, there seemed to be tears. Knowing that he was in a difficult situation, he couldn't bear to say anything, but he was still infatuated and couldn't bear it silently, and blurted out a whisper, "Tomorrow the Lord will have people who can be close in the future." This close person naturally refers to the queen Gao Changjun, who will be enthroned in the palace the next day. Yuan Mingyue's heart was also a mess, her thoughts were complicated, and she couldn't help but blurt out, but she was poking at Yuan Xiu's sore spot.

Yuan Mingyue, who didn't want Yuan Mingyue to see through his thoughts, turned around and walked slowly into the pavilion, but at this time, he turned around suddenly, frowning, as if the pain was in his body rather than his heart. "I thought you were the only one who knew my heart best, but now even you say such things." He was originally a young and weak child, and he had many accidents in the past few days, and suddenly took on the trust of the country, and the powerful ministers were on his side, unable to do anything, and his heart was like boiling oil, and this moment finally broke out.

"No wonder you can't even see your brother's ingot torch. Do you think that you are lonely and obedient to Gao Huan's will and feel at ease with the puppet on the seat? Or do you think differently from Lonely, and you have already decided to rely on the prime minister? Yuan Xiu shouted loudly regardless of it, and Yuan Mingyue's face changed in fright. Nanyang Wang Yuanbao Torch is also in an embarrassing situation now, and it is inconvenient to always enter the palace to meet, if there is no extremely important matter, it will be suspicious.

"Lord ......" Yuan Mingyue had already shed tears and choked in a low voice at a loss. Yuan Xiu started the child's temper, she really had no choice but to listen to him.

Yuan Xiu suddenly remembered Gao Cheng's behavior outside Yongning Temple that day, and stared at Yuan Mingyue coldly and said: "Didn't you come to accuse Lonely, what happened to you and Gao Cheng that night?" Yuan Xiu was no longer as excited as he was just now, but this questioning demeanor made Yuan Mingyue even more overwhelmed.

I thought about it for a long time before I understood what he meant. Yuan Mingyue couldn't believe her ears, Yuan Xiu was so jealous, he pulled her and Gao Cheng together, and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time. After a moment of silence, he whispered: "Anyway, I am also a widow without a husband......"

Yuan Xiu kept staring at her, and as soon as he heard her words, his heart felt like he was pricked by a needle.

"Your Majesty, Feng Long, who was recalled by the Prime Minister, is waiting to see you." Yuan Mingyue was interrupted by the eunuch's voice before she finished speaking.

Yuan Xiu was stunned, this Feng Longzhi had many tricks when Gao Huan was fighting for Er Zhurong, and he was a talent. Later, he was framed by Hu Sichun and absconded back to his hometown. A few days ago, Gao Huan mentioned the recall of Feng Longzhi, who was appointed as a servant and promoted to Duke Ande. Gao Huan wanted to install his cronies and plant henchmen all over the emperor's side......

Yuan Xiu's mind turned, and he had already put aside the contradiction with Yuan Mingyue just now. Just thinking that he is actually a puppet in the name of the emperor, he is surrounded by people who are not of the same heart, and everything has to be hindered by others, so he can't live a day, and he must find a way. Thinking of this, the first thing he thought of was his cousin Yuan Bao Ju, who he had been friends with when he was still the king of Pingyang, and it seemed that he still had to have the opportunity to let Yuan Bao Ju enter the palace to discuss in person. If this is the case, the most important thing at the moment is to stabilize Gao Huan and disarm him.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xiu calmed down and said loudly: "Please come up from the servants." ”

Look at Yuan Mingyue again, her face is full of tears, she bows her head thoughtfully, only she is the person he can really get close to, the only person he admires in his heart, why fight with her at this time. Yuan Xiu just wanted to pull Yuan Mingyue's hand and say a few words of comfort, but suddenly heard footsteps, Feng Longzhi had already come up.

Feng Long is old, dignified, and has a steady gait, like a loyal and reliable person. But what Yuan Xiu didn't understand was, how could he be loyal to Gao Huan and unwilling to be loyal to the imperial family?

"The criminal minister Feng Longzhi has seen Your Majesty." After Feng Long's salute, he suddenly saw the princess of the plains beside the emperor, and he was stunned.

"Why bother mentioning the guilty? Since the prime minister summoned you back, it must be where you can be used, and Qing has been newly appointed as a servant, and he has been promoted to Duke Ande, but I heard that your wife died in the township...... "Yuan Xiu did not mention the official position of Fenglong in detail, this matter is Gao Huanding." It is a shameless thing for a dignified son of heaven to obey the orders of the ministers, so why say more. Yuan Xiu's original intention was to think that since the matter of the official position was not up to him, then the matter of marriage was about okay, so he was thinking about which credible clan woman to marry Feng Longzhi as his wife, which could be regarded as the real favor that he, the emperor, gave to Feng Longzhi.

"The concubine is willing to be the bride in the servant!" Yuan Mingyue suddenly replied loudly.