Chapter 41: Transformation
"Your Highness, it's so late, where are you going?
Shu Tai led a team of guards to patrol the night and came out of the imperial garden and bumped into Pu Yangxu head-on, seeing his hurried steps, thinking that something was wrong.
"You can get busy." Pu Yangxu waved his sleeves, and kept walking forward, Shu Tai was stunned in place, he turned his head and looked over the road, only to see Xu Yan leading people to chase after him.
"Your Highness, the minister feels the need to escort you for a ride."
Shu Tai ordered the guards to continue patrolling, and he broke off the team and followed.
Pu Yangxu knew that this person would be disobedient to the end in protecting his safety, so he didn't say anything in vain, and went his own way.
Before the night came, the palace people who were walking with lamps stopped to salute when they saw the grandson at first sight, and then watched him go away.
The palace maid who led the way with the lantern boldly followed, Shu Tai saw it and did not retreat, Pu Yangxu took the tail all the way to the palace ceremony.
The palace ceremonial department was quiet, and Pu Yangxu's appearance was like water dripping into a pot of oil, crackling and waking everyone up.
When the female master of ceremonies in charge arrived, a large number of people knelt in the courtyard, and she recognized Shu Tai beside Pu Yangxu, so frightened that she thought she was here to pick it up, and she knelt down in a puff.
Pu Yangxu looked at the elderly grandmother and frowned, "You are the master of ceremonies of the Palace Ceremony Division?" ”
"It's the old slave." The master of ceremonies was trembling and kneeling, and the two who were kneeling on the left and right beside her were the two ceremonies who went to teach Shen Tingnian today.
The two of them are probably in the know, so they seem calmer.
"Who gave you the courage to go to the Taisun Palace to get people?"
Pu Yangxu walked a few steps, her clothes swayed in the line of sight of the master of ceremonies, and her heart was completely panicked, "The old slave is wronged, Your Highness, the old slave doesn't know anything......"
"If you go back to Your Highness, please ask Taisun Jieyu to come to the palace ceremonial department, and the main emcee really doesn't know." The ceremony, who was kneeling to the left of the master of ceremonies, raised his head and replied, "It's a slave ......."
"Shutai." Pu Yangxu didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and then turned his head sideways to call people.
"The minister is here."
"If the palace ceremonial department commits the following crimes, you will personally send them to the punishment department to learn the rules, and when you understand the difference between respect and inferiority, when you will release them."
Shu Tai actually stood for a long time and didn't understand what was happening, and then he hesitated to answer, "Your Highness, is it all the people of the Palace Ceremony Division?" ”
Pu Yangxu didn't answer, he turned his back and went to the palace ceremonial department to find someone, leaving a sentence: "Go and do it now." ”
There was such a big commotion outside, but Shen Tingnian didn't know anything, she was lying on the table and sleeping soundly, and the rice paper spread on the table was vaguely only a few words, obviously she didn't really admit the punishment, copying these long and boring hundreds of palace rules.
But in my sleep, I was really copying the palace rules, I was too tired at that time, and I was taught by several grandmothers during the day to instill all kinds of rules in turn, and at night I had to light the lamp and boil oil to copy, Shen Tingnian always thought that she would not be able to bear it, but the reality was that her endurance was not bad.
Shen Tingnian woke up hungry, she was still confused, she felt how she was lying on the boat, swaying, and then smelled a familiar breath, her body recognized the other party before her brain, she moved her arms, and subconsciously exerted her strength.
"You're going to strangle me?" Pu Yangxu leaned his neck and gasped, "I sleep like a pig, and when I wake up, I will come down and walk by myself." ”
"I don't want it." Shen Tingnian's legs immediately clamped his waist, and his head buried in his back also turned, "I'm so tired...... My hands are so sore, and my legs have no strength. ”
"Do you think I'll believe it?" Pu Yangxu held her hand on her buttocks and turned it over and pinched her flesh, "Can't get down?" Well? ”
"Ah, itchy." Shen Tingnian was not afraid of pain, but he was particularly afraid of itching, and the whole person began to writhe on his back.
Pu Yangxu was taken away by her restless movements, and she couldn't walk steadily, afraid that she would fall down, so she stopped and said, "Be honest, don't move." ”
As soon as he stopped, the entire elongated guard of honor stopped.
Xu Xian walked in front of him to open the way, and vaguely heard the woman's laughter, and knew that Shen Tingnian had woken up, and he was considered to have gained knowledge, and hurriedly instructed several palace attendants around him who frequently looked behind him to continue walking.
"I haven't eaten for a day, and my legs are weak," Shen Tingnian was still reluctant to get down and walk, so he leaned into Pu Yangxu's ear and kissed him, "You continue to pity me." ”
There is no man who doesn't eat this kind of flattery, Pu Yangxu took a step and walked again, "Don't pretend to be pitiful, I'll ask for it back when I go back." ”
Sure enough, it worked-Shen Tingnian immediately pecked him twice, and asked him obediently and softly: "Why did you come to pick me up?" ”
"Shen Tingnian, how can you conclude that they won't be embarrassed?" Pu Yangxu asked her rhetorically.
If the people of the palace ceremonies did something behind closed doors, would she, a powerless little woman, be able to resist?
"I didn't do anything wrong." Shen Tingnian pretended to laugh innocently, "They are also going through the motions." ”
She also smiled in her heart: With the support of you, a monkey tree, who dares to really touch me. Now this harem is your harem, this world is your world, young man, as long as I firmly hold on to you, I won't be too long to live a turbulent life.
Pu Yangxu didn't tell if she really didn't understand the things in the inner court for a while, "In the future, grow your brain, don't follow anyone who takes you away." ”
"Scold me, scold me again......" Shen Tingnian lay on his shoulder, she couldn't laugh anymore, she thought about it, she was tired enough today, if she went back to serve him, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow, so she had to think of a way.
"Your Highness, you answer me a question, and I'll tell you a secret, okay?"
Pu Yangxu snorted, "What secrets do you have that I'm curious about?" ”
"I smelled a strange smell in the Bongxian Hall today." Shen Tingnian lowered his voice and exhaled quietly in his ear, "Are you curious about this secret?" ”
The body under her back paused, Pu Yangxu's footsteps did not stop, but her breath fluctuated slightly, and her voice was cold: "What do you want to ask?" ”
Shen Tingnian saved a lot of questions to ask him, and in the end he only asked the simplest one: "In the second year of Longtai, did His Royal Highness win the chess competition?" ”
Pu Yangxu never thought of her such a question, and thought about it several times, "I never lose." ”
Never lose? Who was the person who couldn't win King Cong back then, and became the laughing stock of the capital after tea and dinner? Shen Tingnian slandered on the one hand, and fell into memory on the other.
Although Shen Tingnian remembered a lot of things, there were not many things that he gritted his teeth about, and it just so happened that missing ten thousand gold in the chess competition that year was one of them.
Due to the competition system, the chess players can not face each other, and they dictate the chess moves to the Yi Tong next to them in two rooms, and the chess game is placed in the square outside the game courtyard, and there are no less than 1,000 onlookers......
They played that game all afternoon, and Shen Tingnian still thinks that he is physically exhausted, and he will only lose a move if he doesn't eat for a few days. She sneaked out of Fenglai Academy and disguised herself as a man to participate in a chess competition, just because she wanted the prize.
"Your Highness used the identity of someone else to participate in the competition, right?" Shen Tingnian had cursed him in his heart for a long time, but now lying on his back, he suddenly found that everything was arranged by God, he took away her elopement money from the competition, she chose to enter the palace in desperation, there is a cause in the front, and there is a result in the after, she will never let him live a good life.
"It was Xu Shi who found a player who gave up the game halfway and used his identity." Pu Yangxu can't remember the specifics, "It seems to be surnamed Lin." ”
Forest...... Ink.
And so it was.
A thread that has been buried for so many years has finally been glimpsed by her in the truth.