Chapter 9: The Stars

On a table of delicacies and wine on a marigold silver plate, Xue Chongxun's face became a little hot when he drank it. The wine in the gold cup is a light yellow crystal tribute wine, a bit like beer, but the taste is naturally very different, and there is no bubble. At this time, he found that Princess Taiping was looking at him with a smile, her eyes were very strange, and she lowered her head to play with the marigold in her hand for a while, occasionally taking a sip, and did not dare to meet Princess Taiping's eyes. At this moment, he felt that he was a big man in front of Princess Taiping, but he was in a psychological weakness, about the relationship between her mother and elders.

The singers on the stage changed wave after wave, tirelessly singing and dancing and twisting their waists and limbs, wearing low-cut clothes to shake the two balls of flesh in front of their chests slightly. The throne is also a little higher than the platform behind the wooden platform, and it can be seen very clearly, Xue Chongxun now feels that the world is full of wine.

"Look at whom, let her accompany you tonight." Princess Taiping's eyes showed an ambiguous, warm and generous smile.

"Oh...... Erchen should forget it. Xue Chongxun said, he suddenly felt that in front of his mother, a person with a group of wives and concubines living in a wild life, he had almost become an innocent little man. He said in his heart that it was enough for Lao Tzu to wait for a group of wives and concubines at home, so why waste his body on the strangers here? If it's in a place like Helong, it's not bad to have a palace beauty to accompany you, and there is no shortage of this when you return to Chang'an.

Princess Taiping said: "I know, there is nothing you like here." She tilted her upper body, leaned her head over and said softly, "Then I asked Empress Dowager Gao to accompany you, are you satisfied?" ”

Xue Chongxun raised his head and looked at Princess Taiping, he was going to say something, but he forgot about it all of a sudden, so he could only look at her like this. Princess Taiping's face is well maintained, clean and beautiful, and there is hardly a flaw to be found. She is in her early forties and has given birth to several children, so it is amazing that she can maintain such a temperament as she is now...... Obviously, these are based on a comfortable and wealthy living environment and a large number of luxury resources, and it is no wonder that fighting to the death in the court is no more relaxed than the men outside, and with power and resources, you can get a lot.

In particular, her eyes are very beautiful and tasteful, and the shape is similar to Xue Chongxun's eyes, but they are clearer. Xue Chongxun has a good impression of this mother who has done a lot of bad things, maybe it's this sense of identity with himself?

Princess Taiping's eyes are very focused when she looks at people, and she looks at them or has a huge pressure, as if the most secret things in her heart will be seen through by her, or like a spring breeze, she seems to have a confidant all of a sudden, and her eyes are full of charm and connotation, which will make lonely people feel that no one can understand their own people and feel addicted.

Princess Taiping stroked the sleeves of her robe, stretched out a clean white hand, and grabbed Xue Chongxun's wrist: "When you come to Huaqing Palace, you can't help but try the hot springs first, and I'll take you over to see the repaired hot pool." ”

Xue Chongxun couldn't help but stand up with her, and then got off the wooden platform and walked towards a beaded curtain door behind the side, and the eunuchs and palace maids around him hugged the ground and protected the left and right. She is very particular about pomp and circumstance, and she looks atmospheric and noisy wherever she goes.

After drinking a lot of wine, he stood up suddenly and was walked away hand in hand by Princess Taiping, and Xue Chongxun was still a little dazed. He didn't know how much the surrounding splendid decorations were worth, he didn't see it clearly, his spirit was a little trance, he thought to himself, these expensive things may not be anything to his mother, but some things that can't be bought with money and status are very luxurious, right? Depending on your identity, you will have different values for understanding the various things around you.

A group of people walked through the corridor and came to a place like a courtyard, like a house on all sides and a dam in the middle. But in the center of this place is not a dam, but a pool of water, surrounded by elaborate screens, and the water is still steaming white, and it is the water of a hot spring.

"This is Xingchen Soup, which was originally the place where Taizong built a bath, and I asked the craftsman to renovate it to be more beautiful than before. You can see the stars when you bathe and look up here, so it is called Xingchen Soup. You try how. Princess Taiping said with some smugness.

Compared with the sauna that Xue Chongxun made for pleasure, the hedonistic things here are obviously larger in scale and more costly, and they are also two completely different feelings, and he is also a little shaky.

"Irrelevant people give me out." Princess Taiping waved her hand domineeringly, and beckoned a close eunuch to come over. The eunuch hurriedly bent over and walked over carefully, and when he passed over, because Princess Taiping was too tall, the eunuch could only straighten up. She whispered something in her ear, and the eunuch hurried out with a dusty breeze.

Princess Taiping turned back to Xue Chongxun and said, "You enjoy it slowly, I'll go to the house to drink tea, it's in the open air, quickly take it off and soak it." ”

Xue Chongxun hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, son, for your love." ”

Princess Taiping left the Xingchen soup pool and sat down next to the room on the side, and the palace maid hurriedly brought a cup of hot tea. She could see through the window in the hot springs, "I'll be waiting for him here." ”

At this time, there were only four or five palace maids left next to the hot spring, and they were waiting for Xue Chongxun's wide clothes, and brought towels, clean clothes and other things, as well as a pot of tea. Xue Chongxun was stripped naked by them, but he didn't feel embarrassed, after all, when the nobles have been waiting for a long time by the slaves and maids, they are still quite open, and there is no pressure to be naked in front of the girls, but because those palace maids have almost never waited for men, everyone's faces have climbed on Feixia.

Xue Chongxun stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the water, then jumped in, and suddenly felt indescribably warm and comfortable in the curtain, and he groaned easily. Leaning against the shore and throwing his head up, he did not see the stars, for it was not clear and it was snowing lightly, but he could see the canopy.

It's a really refreshing experience, but the key is the view and the atmosphere, the open space is open-minded, and it's not the same as taking a sauna indoors. Even in the Tang Dynasty, which was relatively backward in terms of science and technology, it was good to have such a comfortable life, which was really good as a ruler. At this time, Xue Chongxun found that the warm wall shape of this pool is steep in the south and soft in the north, as if it was built in the shape of simulating natural mountains and rivers...... Xue Chongxun thought about it, it was originally built by Tang Taizong, but it was in line with that kind of person's mind.

At this moment, a voice behind me called softly: "Xue Lang." ”

Xue Chongxun looked back and saw that it was Empress Dowager Gao, he was slightly surprised, but when he thought of what Fang Cai's mother said, Princess Taiping agreed, so it was not a big deal.

The Gao family was dressed in a formal dress with a blue base, and he looked a little old-fashioned and old-fashioned, but Xue Chongxun knew that the figure inside the layer of clothes was very delicate and tender. Her forehead was round and full, her face was coated with thick and delicate rouge gouache, her expression looked a little cramped, and she stood motionless with her hands clasped in front of her abdomen and looked at Xue Chongxun motionlessly. Xue Chongxun didn't know what to say for a while, he remembered that he had forced her last time, and even remembered her oily curled grass and white skin.

The palace maids came forward and said, "The slaves and maids are dressed for the mother. ”

Gao said stiffly: "No need, you guys go out." ”

"Yes." Several palace maids hurriedly withdrew from the screen surrounding the hot spring bath.

Xue Chongxun said: "Since you are here, don't stand on the shore, you see that it is still snowing in the sky, although it is a little warmer by the pool, it will be frozen for a long time." ”

Gao said: "You turn around, I'll come down in a while." ”

Xue Chongxun: "......" But he didn't argue with Gao, so he turned around and waited there. He happened to see the snow on the roof, so he stretched out his finger and said, "You see that there is still snow on the top, and there are snowflakes falling from the sky, which makes people feel very cold, but the body is warm, don't you think it's amazing?" ”

"Hasn't Xue Lang taken a hot spring, what's so amazing about this?" Gao's tone was equally stiff.

Xue Chongxun didn't care, and smiled with a relaxed expression.

After a while, he heard the sound of the spring and the rippling waves on the surface of the water, and Xue Chongxun knew that Gao had already entered the water, so he asked, "Can I turn my head around?" ”

Xue Chongxun then turned around, only to see that Gao's whole body was soaked in the water, the water surface reached her neck, and the night also fell only by the light of the lanterns hanging around, and the spring light of her body was naturally not very clear. Xue Chongxun laughed in a low voice: "I drank high last time, but your resistance is also fake, right?" What is that called, and if you want to refuse......"

"You can do that, but can I?" Gao suddenly said coldly, "If it weren't for Princess Taiping's pampering of you like a baby, and she didn't even want to touch the things you liked, for fear that you would be unhappy, I would have been ruined and killed without a place to bury if something like that happened......"

"Stop, stop, you're too nervous." Xue Chongxun shook his head and said as if joking, "Although my mother has given me a lot, my body hair and skin are the minimum, but I am not her pet, she also needs me, you have to understand this matter first, otherwise it will hurt my self-esteem a lot......" He was indeed very relaxed at this time, so he was not polite when he spoke, very casual.

As he spoke, he walked forward from the water, and Gao hurriedly shouted, "Don't come here!" Right there, what do you want to do? ”

Xue Chongxun didn't care if she refused, and said with a lewd smile while continuing to move: "Let's soak together naked, what do you say I want to do?" Isn't it nonsense! ”

Gao Shi Zhengse said in a low voice: "Don't look at the people here, don't you see that there are so many pavilions and houses next to it, there will be no one inside?" Maybe your mother is somewhere in it, so we don't have any shame in front of the public? ”

Xue Chongxun said: "I want to find a man to do it, so I'm worried that others will know, looking for you to be a bright person, what are you afraid of?" ”

"Don't!" Gao said hurriedly, and said kindly, "You will go to bed in a while, and I will quietly go over to accompany you, can you not be like that now?" ”G