Recently, capable people from all over the palace have been summoned to study His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's crown ceremony, so obviously I will be very idle. I'm so idle that I'm going to go to the painting hall to be in a daze by the pool, it's too noisy in the painting hall, they are attacking me in groups, no need to act, verbal attacks, it's all discussed, one after another, anything can be pulled on me.

Gossip that three people become tigers, sometimes it hurts more than a sword, no, it's annoying.

I'm a person who doesn't talk much, and I'm really too lazy to reply, it's boring, it's better for me to sit here and paint, I paint lotus, peony love, and everyone is gone, I don't ~ kitsch!

There was a pavilion by the lake, and I sat under the pavilion and set up my easel. Holding the pen in my hand, I no longer deceive myself, the brush in my hand has a long-lost feeling, very down-to-earth, very graceful, and very familiar, very familiar, although I have really picked it up no more than ten times since I was born.

I painted the lush clusters of lotus leaves in the middle of the lake, as far as the eye could see, I wanted to outline them all, I have the impression that the painting is painted like this, from your own hands, your own eyes, your own heart, nothing else, what is in reality in the painting should be what it should be.

Suddenly, I thought it was my eyes, and there was an extra lotus leaf with a broken neck on the surface of the lake. Its pale green stems and dark green leaves parted apart, like a ball-like round head and a decapitated corpse falling from a guillotine, and I seemed to see the dew on the big lotus leaf shake three times, and then fall into the lake along the veins.

My hands shook with it, and the picture I had drawn with such great interest was a eunuch.

Then there was a jasper lotus leaf with a broken stem, and one after another an innocent lotus was broken in front of me, and the first body was in a different place, and the pink petals were scattered and scattered, and they choked silently.

The red lotus fragrance remnants of the jade in autumn, and the Luo Shang is lightly relieved and goes on the Lanzhou alone.

I was about to take off my shirt and jump into the water to save them, I couldn't swim, I had to row to the middle of the water.

There was no Lan Boat for me to get on, and I saw the Lan Boat in the middle of the lake and the person on the boat from a distance.

I shouted loudly: "Zhou Mubai, Zhou Mubai!" ”

He stopped what he was doing and looked up at me, but he didn't respond.

I jumped and waved to him for his attention, but he only bowed his head and continued to be his stem-breaker, and I watched as he cut off the head of the lotus. I can't believe that Zhou Mubai, the painter who painted such a beautiful lotus, is so cruel, and he doesn't break the slightest connection when he moves.

"Zhou Mubai, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants me to come~ the supervisor!" I said a lot of things to ask him to stop, but I couldn't do that.

He finally rowed the boat in my direction, but it wasn't my words that worked, it was almost noon.

He docked the boat, greeted me kindly and politely, and then picked up a large clump of lotus canopies from the boat and prepared to return to his little courtyard.

I opened my arms to block his path: "What are you doing?" ”

"Someone has to be held responsible, and if I was careless in rowing, that's it. His Royal Highness just punished me for removing the lotus flowers and lotus leaves in this lake, he said that these are the culprits, if you don't paint it, there may be no such thing, in addition, he also said that the lotus hinders his eyes, and I heard that he also ordered that no more lotus can be planted in the palace. Zhou Mubai replied politely.

He saw that I was silent, so he continued: "Xin~Ru... Ru, you were just painting here? ”

"The painting is broken, I rubbed it!" I pouted, feeling quite aggrieved.

"I have to get rid of that, and I have three more days to spare. By the way, have you eaten? ”

"Nope!"

"I'm going to cook some lotus seed soup, would you like to try it?" He asked, smiling.

"Hmm!" I nodded, I had nothing to do anyway, and my brother wasn't there, so I ate alone, so it was boring.

"Lotus seed soup is on fire, clearing heat and relieving heat, it is summer ······" He introduced me to the functions of lotus seed soup all the way, but I didn't listen to a word.

Zhou Mubai's small courtyard is similar to the residence he lived in when he was imprisoned in the Rujia Palace, and he was also a young master Zhou, but he actually fell to such a point, I can't help but ask: "Zhou Mubai, do your parents really don't care about you?" ”

Of course I didn't ask, it's obviously rubbing salt into people's wounds!

I feel that I am blindly worrying about Zhou Mubai, and I can't see a trace of resentment on his face, which I admire. There was no kitchen in the courtyard, but he built a stove in the open air, made of wood and cast iron.

He peeled lotus flowers, lit a fire to boil water, steamed and washed lotus seeds, methodically, and didn't look like a young master. I think if Yun Wei or Xin Kejia or any of my classmates were to do this, they would definitely be in a hurry, including me, of course. But Zhou Mubai's white-skinned and good-looking jade hands not only have no sense of disobedience, but also are particularly pleasing to the eye.

I almost drooled, but luckily I reacted quickly and twisted my head to the side. Zhou Mubai only smiled and handed me a bowl of peeled lotus seeds, I looked at him, grabbed a handful and threw it into my mouth, sweet, delicious, really delicious: "This is the best lotus seed I have ever tasted." ”

I ate quite deliciously, maybe I didn't eat well, and suddenly raised my head to meet Zhou Mubai's gaze, he was looking at me!

After staring at each other for a moment, he said coldly: "Have we met somewhere?" ”

"Huh? Huh?· Yes! ”

At that time, I thought, if there really was a past and this life, I might have really been very familiar with him, very familiar.

The water in the stove overflowed, and the blend of water and fire made a 'flutter', and the thin ashes on the wood surface were stirred up, fluttering lightly in the air, and then slowly falling again, falling between the black hair, like dandruff.

"The water is boiling!" His eyes drooped slightly, and then he immediately began to fiddle with the lotus seed soup, and I couldn't wait to taste it.

After a while, I ate it in my mouth, it was so fragrant, and it was even more delicious than I imagined.

The first time I sat down with Zhou Mubai to eat, he ate slowly and methodically, and paid attention to his image, which especially showed that I was a rough person.

I was embarrassed to ask for a second bowl, but Zhou Mubai was more intimate, and he personally served me a bowl without saying a word: "It's a lot of cooking, if you like it, drink more, it's a waste of the rest!" ”

I had to say something like, "Can I still drink tomorrow?" ”

"Yes!"

"What about the day after tomorrow?"

He smiled, took out a handkerchief out of nowhere, and handed it to me through the billowing mist of the stove.

I was about to use it in my hand, but I felt weird, and subconsciously said something like this: "Is this what your fiancée gave you?" ”

Ah, why didn't he speak? Angry?