I didn't answer the princess's question directly, but said, "I heard that the colt has been studying poetry and books hard lately, and he has gained a lot. ”

Over the years, Miao Shuyi has been very careful to prevent the princess from seeing Li Wei, and every time Li Wei enters the palace, the princess must not be allowed to go to the place where he appears. In the second year of Huang You, his uncle Li Yonghe died of illness, and now he intends to let the princess follow him to lay in the Li house, Miao Shuyi resolutely opposed, saying that the princess has not yet passed the door, if she goes to her husband's house first, she is afraid of provoking criticism from outsiders, and finally finally asks for Jinshang to take back her life, and only let the princess obey the ban.

Miao Shuyi was painstaking, hoping that the princess would not be disappointed in the unsuitable colt too soon. Later, she even issued a ban on the palace people in the cabinet, not to mention the concubine Li Wei in front of the princess.

"Lady, what's the matter?" Han once persuaded her, "Wouldn't it be more uncomfortable to not let the princess know what the concubine looks like now, and when she descends in the future, she will suddenly see it?" ”

Miao Shuyi was unhappy and said, "It's just a day to drag it out." I didn't know before the fall, there are still a few years of thoughtless good life, if I know now, the princess will definitely be bored when she thinks of Li Wei like that in the future, and she will be sad at a young age, and I don't know how sad it will be when I see it. ”

I don't dare to judge whether Miao Shuyi's words are correct, but every time I am asked by the princess, I am also used to saying good things and not mentioning the shortcomings of the horse.

After Feng Jingzhong won the title, he was exiled for one year to be sentenced to Jingnan Military Government as a prisoner. The one-year term is actually very short, which is a special favor given to the first Jinshi, and the rest of the Jinshi are given three years for each term. But it was obviously a long year for the princess, and during this time she had no chance to peer into the pleasing man. Of course, she doesn't often show her feelings for Feng Jing, but sometimes, she will stare at the bead curtain for a long time, and occasionally sigh.

On the Shangyuan Festival in the second year of Huang You, there are several lantern riddles in the palace with the names of ministers, and one of them is a riddle that reads: "Go to the end of the world and meet the emperor". When the princess saw it, her eyes lit up, and she immediately pointed and said, "It's Feng Jing!" ”

As soon as the words came out, she felt that something was wrong, and quietly glanced at me, blushing shamefully.

I took down the note with the puzzle written on the lantern, handed it to the little yellow door beside me, ordered him to go and get a lottery for the princess, and then said to the princess casually, "Congratulations to the princess, you guessed right." ”

The next time she saw Feng Jing was on the first day of the third year of Huangyou's reign, when the imperial court held a great court meeting.

On that day, the emperor received officials from various states and envoys from various countries. The scene of the court meeting is huge, the four warriors with armor stand in the corner of the palace, called the "general of the town hall", the palace is lined with the law and the guard of honor, the civil and military officials are wearing crowns and court clothes and stand in the inside and outside of the main hall, the state marching officials are each holding the party and the things are dedicated, and the envoys of Khitan, Xia, Goryeo, Nanfan, Huifu, Khotan, Zhenla, Dali, Dashi and other countries will also bring tribute to enter the palace with the class.

The princess asked for permission to hide behind the screen of the throne and peep at the court on the grounds that she wanted to see the foreign envoys who were "long-haired, high-nosed, and strangely shaped", and I knew that her real purpose was to see Feng Jing, who had returned from her foreign mission.

After Feng Jing returned, he passed the summons and entered the pavilion, and now his official position is Zhiji Xianyuan, and his rank is not enough to set up a class in the palace, so the princess can only briefly look at him when he enters the palace with the pavilion classes.

Scarlet robe, soapy clothes, white Luo square heart curved collar, Feng Jing's court clothes are the same as those of the surrounding pavilions, but in this court, it is still dazzling like a unicorn phoenix.

The princess was not disappointed, and was still smiling slightly when she returned to the forbidden place.

But her smile quickly faded from the day's curfew dinner.

After the completion of the court, the emperor will give a banquet in the main hall, and the queen will give a banquet to the wife who entered the congratulatory ceremony on the same day in the back garden. Before the banquet, the internal and external women successively went out to worship the queen, among them there was a lady who was very young, gentle and elegant, and she should not be more than twenty years old, and she had never entered the palace before, the queen was interested in seeing her when she first saw her, and she still frequently turned around between the banquets, and the attendants knew that Zhang Weiji had found it, so she bowed down and explained: "That is the newlywed wife of Feng Jing of Zhiji Xianyuan, Fushi." ”

I immediately looked at the princess, and saw that her expression of joy had been erased by these words, and her face gradually darkened.

After listening to Zhang Weiji's words, the queen paid more attention, and asked him to invite Mrs. Fu to the throne and asked, "Madame is the daughter of a rich waiter?" ”

Mrs. Fu bowed her head and admitted that she was the daughter of Fu Bi, and the queen smiled lightly: "No wonder I think Mrs. Yan has a good face, it turns out that she looks like Mrs. Yan." ”

Fu Bi's wife is the daughter of the former prime minister Yan Shu, who has entered the palace many times before, so the queen has this saying, which means that Fu Bi's wife and daughter are similar in appearance.

The concubines on both sides turned their heads to look at Mrs. Fu when they heard this, and asked her with a smile how old she was, when she and Feng Jing would get married, etc., Mrs. Fu replied one by one with a red face, and the ladies congratulated her one after another, but Concubine Zhang interjected lukewarmly on the side: "No wonder I haven't heard that Mr. Feng has gone out to help people on blind dates recently, presumably because Mrs. Fu is under control." ”

Zhang Guifei hinted at an interesting story that circulated in the court last year: the ancestor of Zhiji Xianyuan was ugly and ugly, and he had not married a wife after he was over forty, and later a beautiful woman surnamed Xu was in the picture, so he sent a matchmaker to discuss marriage, but the Xu girl insisted on seeing Zu Wuxuan before replying. Zu Wuxue knew that Miss Xu would not allow marriage after seeing him, so he begged his colleague Feng Jing, who had just entered the pavilion, to go on a blind date on his behalf. Feng Jing was invited by him, Shi Shiran whipped his prancing horse, and swept past the door of Miss Xu's house, and Miss Xu only glanced at it and secretly agreed. Zu Wuxuan's matchmaker pointed to Feng Jing's figure and told her: "This is Master Zu." Miss Xu was overjoyed and immediately agreed to the marriage. Unexpectedly, after the marriage, she found that the groom's goods were not right, and Miss Xu was furious, and immediately wrote a "Hugh Husband Book" and threw it to Zu Wuxuan, and then packed up her makeup and went back to her parents' house.

Zhang Guifei mentioned this matter again, and naturally her words were mean, but most of the ladies couldn't help laughing when they heard it, and the embarrassed Mrs. Fu hung her head deeply, not knowing what to do. Seeing this, Yu Chongyi glanced at Zhang Guifei leisurely, and then smiled at Mrs. Fu: "It's nothing to help people go on a blind date, just don't be dragged to discuss marriage." ”

Zhang Guifei's face immediately sank, and her sharp eyes pierced Yu Chongyi, but Yu Chongyi pretended not to know, and calmly sorted out the flower of her sideburns.

At this time, the queen opened her mouth and said to the ladies: "Mrs. Fu is young, and it is the first time to enter the palace, I can't get used to hearing jokes like you, so don't talk about it in the future." ”

The ladies owe it yes. The queen smiled at Mrs. Fu again: "But Madame must also persuade Mr. Feng in the future, and don't go on a blind date on behalf of others in the future." Although he originally had good intentions and wanted to set a good fate for his colleagues, for the little lady, this move was a deliberate deception and mistaken for life, which was tantamount to committing murder with beauty. ”

Murderous in the United States? That's a chic way of saying it. I looked at the princess again, and when I saw her stunned, I was probably thinking about the queen's words.

Mrs. Fu agreed, and the queen asked her to sit down and continue to watch the banquet. The princess suddenly got up and walked out. I followed as usual, and when I got to the outside of the hall, she turned her head to stare at me, and said angrily, "I'm going to change my clothes, don't follow me!" ”

She was already in tears, and she was about to fall.

I stopped silently. She wiped away her tears and quickly ran away from my sight.

I returned to the temple. This room is still full of clothes and sideburns, singing and dancing, and at this moment it is a few relatives and wives who are talking to the queen. The queen asked Li Yong and his wife Yang about Li Wei's current situation, and then asked her younger brother-in-law, Cao Tong's wife Zhang: "I haven't seen the two brothers for a long time, they have always been good?" ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled and replied: "It's still as usual, just reading a few pages of a book and shooting a few arrows, it's not very useful." A few days ago, the eldest brother entered the palace to congratulate the emperor, and today the husband also brought the eldest brother into the palace to congratulate and thank him. ”

The queen looked happy and said, "Since the eldest brother is also here, why don't you let him come here and let me see him?" ”

Mrs. Zhang said: "The concubine also wants him to come here to thank Niangniang, but he is now fourteen years old, half a year old, and it is not easy to see him in front of all the ladies." The concubine asked him to wait under the corridor of the back garden after the congratulatory ceremony, and then came in after the banquet. ”

The queen smiled: "It's natural and proper for you to arrange it like this, just let the eldest brother wait outside, won't he starve him?" Then he turned to Zhang Weiji and asked him to send some food to Cao Ping.

The queen continued to greet Qi Li and Mrs. Chongchen kindly, but I had no intention of listening anymore, staring at the thousand candles in the palace, silently counting the number of times the flame danced, so as to judge the time when the princess left.

And she never returned. Finally, I gave up waiting, called the two little palace maids, got up and went out to look for her.

The palace maid searched all the nearby inner rooms, but there was no princess in it. I couldn't help but be worried, and immediately went back to Yifeng Pavilion to look for her, but I didn't see her. At the moment, he was in a hurry, and he hurried through the inner palace, just wanting to find her back.

After a long time, until the lantern in the palace was hung high and the mountain shed was brilliant, there was still no trace of the princess. I finally walked to the back garden, and sat on the edge of the Yaojin Pond, staring at the reflection of the lights of the mountain shed in the water, not knowing where to go.

And at this moment, I suddenly saw the fluctuation of the pond, and a flat boat rowed out from the lotus weeping poplar, and the stirred up slightly crushed the golden light and shadow of the water lantern, and gently pushed the small boat to swim to the middle of the water.

There were two people on the boat. There was a young girl sitting at the head of the boat, and at the end of the boat was a young man. The young man put the wooden tree idle, slowly dialed the water on one wall, and sang loudly on the other wall: "The sound of the drums is dim and dawning, and time only relieves people to get old, and seeks a good day." Qi unveiled the tune, and the fairy was proud of the fisherman. ”

Singing here, he leaned over lightly, picked up a small lotus-shaped water lantern placed by the palace people from the water, smiled and handed it to the girl in front of him, and then continued to sing: "The green water is long and the sky is gone, how can you live for a long time." Don't hesitate to get drunk and laugh. Believe, when is the end of all things in the world? ”

The smoke under the moon is clear and misty, and the young man leans on Lan Yi alone, singing ethereal, fourteen or fifteen years old, but he is already a sword eyebrow and starry, and Chu Chu is young.

And the girl looked at him faintly, and sat silently except when she took the little lantern, and did not speak. When the shadow of the light shone on her face, it could be seen that there were tears flashing under her eyes.

I stood up silently, stood under the willows, waited for the boy to row the boat to the shore, and then bowed to the girl, and said warmly, "Princess, it is time to go back." ”

The princess stood up. The boy jumped nimbly ashore, tied the boat, and stretched out his hand to the princess to help her.

Almost at the same time, I extended my hand to the princess.

She hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to let me help.

When the princess came ashore, I waved at the young man and said, "Thank you, Young Master Cao." ”