Characters: Jade Hand Flower Folding Empty Branch (2)
Prince Shao's mansion is silent at the moment, there is silence, except for the soldiers who are on vigil, all the people are addicted to sleep, such an early summer night, not dry or cold, it is a good time to fall asleep, but in the west chamber, Prince Shao's study is still as bright as day, the refreshing coolness outside and the heavy sleepiness around it seem to be unable to invade here at all.
At this moment, Prince Shao, who was worried about the country and the people, was still fighting at night for the Yellow River flooding, and he vowed to write a sincere letter of advice at night, so that Emperor Yang could sympathize with the suffering of the people, put the matter on the agenda as soon as possible and discuss solutions. But when I think of the current national situation, Shao Wangye's pen has to hesitate, and now Emperor Yang indulges in lust all day long, completely ignoring the government and politics, and the power is in the hands of Prime Minister Yang, but Prime Minister Yang is too heavy on power, and only knows how to blindly entangle the party and eradicate dissidents, so as to constantly create bloody incidents in the court, resulting in disorder in the court, the ministers will be silent, and the civil affairs will be put on hold. And the only national teacher who can compete with him, Yu Wentuo, is obsessed with the practice of martial arts and magic, completely like a person in the rivers and lakes, and he does not fulfill his duties as an assistant to the government at all.
"Now I can only rely on the old man's own modest strength and a loyal heart to save this declining country!" Thinking like this, the pen became rapid again, even if the mosquitoes were flying, they could no longer distract him.
Yu Dongqiu, who was drunk like mud, stumbled into the prince's study like this, leaning against the wall without saluting or greeting.
"You still know to come back!" Prince Shao didn't raise his eyes to know that it was Yu Dongqiu, and he was the only one in the entire palace who would be so unruly. "I'll come back and see if you're dead?" Yu Dongqiu's words were also very rude and arrogant. The prince's strokes suddenly made a mistake, and Yu Dongqiu's words still had an impact on him, although he was concerned about him, but what he said sounded extremely harsh.
"On the first day of the first month of this month, I helped you deal with a very difficult killer, and it will take a long time to come to Yang Chengxiang's side to find a better killer to assassinate you, so I also went to Yanyulou for half a month to relax, it's really happy!" Yu Dongqiu stretched his waist and made a very comfortable appearance. Thinking of the assassination half a month ago, the prince felt frightened and afraid. If it weren't for Yu Dongqiu's hard work, he was afraid that he would have fallen into the ghost of the ghost killer's sword, and a sense of gratitude still rose, but as soon as he heard Yu Dongqiu say that he lingered in Yanyulou for half a month, he was angry, and then he looked like a hanger, he was even more angry, put down the pen and walked to Yu Dongqiu and lifted his placket and scolded: "Look at your virtue, how can you have the appearance of a four-grade guard, you know that you gamble and prostitute yourself, and you are ...... You're so mad at me! The prince's demeanor and words at this time were more like a father who hated iron and steel admonishing his unrepentant son, but when he saw Yu Dongqiu's sleepy expression, he could only sigh and let go of his hand, "Alasββ, thanks to your erudition and strong martial arts, you are not used to serve the country, where is this like ......mine" When the prince said this, Yu Dongqiu suddenly jumped up and roared as if he had been struck by thunder: "Don't say those two words, I will be ashamed." His tone was almost commanding. I am afraid that the emperor is the only one in this world who can make Prince Shao shut up, but Yu Dongqiu seems to have been given some kind of privilege, he stopped it like this, and the prince really stopped talking. The word was too heavy for both of them: one took it as a sin, the other as a wound.
Yu Dongqiu reversed the topic and said: "You are really confused, if you offend anyone, you just want to provoke that Yang Chengxiang, and make yourself like an arrow target and be shot every day, so that I will also be affected......" He glanced at the 10,000-word book on the table and sneered: "Is it useful to write this?" Even if he had the rare time to crawl out of the pile of women, he would never be able to see it. The prince asked anxiously, "Why?" Yu Dongqiu said: "If Prime Minister Yang Cheng hadn't seen the twists and turns, how could he know that you had a dissident heart, so he regarded you as a thorn in his side, and tried every possible means to send a killer to get rid of you." The prince said angrily: "Dare to love him for withholding the folds, what a big boldness!" Yu Dongqiu said: "Wolf ambitions have always been bold, and it's rare for you to know now." You can't fight him, I advise you to hang the title of this prince and enjoy the glory and wealth quickly. The prince's sword eyebrows frowned again: "Are you telling me to let go?" "Yes!" Yu Dongqiu replied firmly, "It's not easy to live in this world, so why should you worry about others and create enemies for yourself? "The food of the king should bear the worries of the king, not to mention how can the people be others, to ensure the people's livelihood and health, it is the important duty of the official." The prince's voice unconsciously raised again, and he was really disappointed and chilled by Yu Dongqiu's cold eyes. "You're great!" Yu Dongqiu praised sarcastically, turned around and said the next sentence: "I'm going to rest, something is loud!" β
Looking at Yu Dongqiu's slender but slightly decadent back, the prince didn't know what it was like, and he wanted to count his words again and swallow them back into his stomach. For Yu Dongqiu, he really owes too much, he has never been worthy of heaven and earth in his life, but he only feels that he can't raise his head in front of Yu Dongqiu.
Yu Dongqiu, a child who should not have come to this world, is destined to suffer from loneliness and exile, Prince Shao's illegitimate identity makes him a person who is extremely conceited on the outside but extremely inferior in his heart, and the life of almost captivity that he has endured since he was a child has built a heavy wall in his heart, even if he seems to be easy-going and cheerful, but his heart is arrogant and unapproachable. Therefore, the people in the rivers and lakes only know that the playboy is fast and unmatched, greedy for cups and beauty, but the others know nothing. No one knew what kind of man he really was, because he had no friend or even an enemy, and he didn't give anyone a chance to get to know him, even if he was often driven mad by the loneliness of his heart.
Twenty years ago, the Sui State only established a capital in the north, but when it heard that the Chen State of the Southern Dynasty was weak and weak, and the monarch was mediocre and incompetent, he got up early to crusade against the heart of unifying the north and the south. At that time, Prince Shao also served as the pioneer of the founding of the country and other five generals went south to spy on the military situation of Chen State, and by the way, he used money strategy to buy some generals and general soldiers of the pass fortress, and passed through a dense and lush forest on the way back, just when everyone was riding and drinking, suddenly a purple mist struck, enveloping everyone heavily, after all, the prince was young and knowledgeable, and because he did not know any martial arts, he was a little flustered by such a mutation, and he unconsciously walked far away under a burst of shouting and groping, When the dense fog dispersed, he realized that he had already been separated from the five generals, and in desperation, he could only march forward by himself, but after wandering around in this forest for a long time, he still returned to the same place, seeing that people were sleepy and tired, and twilight was approaching, an unprecedented despair hit the heart of the prince. It was then that he noticed a small but beautiful purple orchid growing on the ground, which did not grow indiscriminately, but in a cord that stretched into the depths of the woods, as if to guide something. When the prince saw this orchid, he felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy in his heart, and with the idea of gambling, the prince followed the growth of the orchid. The further you go, the more sparse the woods become, the more strange flowers and plants there are, and there is also the sound of spring water in your ears, the prince is overjoyed, and he is busy looking around to find a water source, and he finds a huge flower mound, and the sound of flowing water comes from behind the mound.
Turning over the flower mound, he saw a crystal clear stream, the prince was overjoyed, pounced on it and drank the water violently, and when he drank to the right time, he saw another figure other than himself in the stream, and he was so frightened that he almost choked on the water. The purple-clothed woman behind her covered her mouth and smiled: "Am I that terrible?" The prince hurriedly turned around and waved his hand awkwardly and said, "No, no!" Then look at the woman in front of her, although the sky is dark, but it still can't hide the woman's peerless face, her skin is as white as snow, it seems to be covered with a layer of faint brilliance, the whole person is like a goddess from the nine heavens, the prince has read countless beauties in the past 20 years, but he has never seen such a beautiful woman, and he was stunned for a while.
The woman in purple feigned anger and said, "Have you seen enough?" β
Only then did the prince feel rude, so he was busy making amends, and then asked about the way out of the woods. When the woman in purple heard this, she laughed and trembled: "I just told you, and it is very likely to lie to you." The prince pleaded again and again, and then said, "I mean that it is not me who shows you the way, but the man in the cave." She pointed to a vine-covered hole not far away and said, "He should come!" The prince looked at the entrance of the cave she pointed to, and was about to ask who "he" was, but found that the woman had already disappeared, and a chill in his heart was broken: "Could it be that today is actually a demon?" The prince didn't think much about it, tore open the ball of vines and walked into the cave.
The cold air in the cave is pressing, but it can make people feel invigorated, and the humid air seems to be mixed with a certain soul-stirring fragrance, which makes the whole person feel a little fluttering. There is a pool of ice water at the knot of the vines, and the biting cold air is coming out of it, but this pool seems to contain some magical power, constantly attracting the prince to approach.
There was a young girl sitting in the pool, although she did not have the peerless appearance of the woman in purple in front of her, she was also ice muscle and jade bones, and she had a cold beauty. I saw that this woman's apricot eyes were slightly open, concentrating on her energy, and she didn't seem to be washing and bathing, but seemed to be practicing some kind of advanced internal strength. The prince was about to turn around and leave, but found that the woman's lips were purple and her hair was frozen, although he was a dancer and a writer, but he had also heard that if something went wrong when a martial arts master was practicing, he would go mad, and the consequences would be unimaginable. At the moment, he didn't care about any courtesy, righteousness and shame to push the woman's back, as soon as he touched the woman's slippery skin, the whole person couldn't help trembling, and then he heard the woman say cold, the prince hurriedly grabbed the woman's arms with both hands, and pulled her to the shore, just looking at the white and flawless body, his fluttering heart seemed to jump out of his throat, and the qi and blood in his whole body immediately swelled, and he hurriedly turned around and looked around for the woman's clothes, at this moment, The prince suddenly felt a pair of soft arms hooking his neck, and when he was frightened to lose his soul, he felt a strange fragrance in his nose, and when he turned around, he just happened to look at the woman's pair of autumn water with affectionate eyes, and her snort gasped on his chin, disturbing his heart. The woman followed closely and wrapped her weak and boneless body around, so that the prince had no strength to push it away, and she seemed to be awake and shouted cold, while pressing the cold body closer to the prince's warm body. At that time, the prince was in his youth, his blood was strong, where could he resist such a temptation, although he was very strict in his family education on weekdays, and he was extremely cautious in his style, but when he really faced such an unusually beautiful naked woman, all the etiquette and teachings were all left behind, and he kissed deeply on the woman's cherry lips, and immediately there was an impulsive pleasure that surged all over his body, so that he could no longer suppress his strong lust and spent a night of ecstasy with this strange woman in a different place.
The next day, the prince was dressed up and ready to leave this weird but fragrant cave, vaguely remembered last night's spring events, hurriedly looked around, except for a few white scarves left, there was no beauty at all, so he even wondered if he had a spring dream last night, but the woman's cold and smooth skin and bright eyes as bright as stars in the dream were so real, and he also told his name in a trance, and promised to come to pick up after returning to Beijing to report on work, and the woman's gentle and sweet promise can still be remembered. Is it a dream or not? In the end, the prince himself couldn't tell the difference, and he thought that it was important to return to Beijing, so he didn't dare to delay any longer.
When he came out of the cave, the prince suddenly felt refreshed, everything that was obscured yesterday suddenly opened up today, but he clearly remembered that there was a flower mound in front of the cave when he came yesterday, but now it is a flat ground, the woods that caused him to get lost seemed to be cut down by most of them overnight and became extremely sparse, the prince did not spend an hour to return to the avenue, and did not go long, he met with the five generals who were separated at the post station, the prince only said that he was lost in the woods and delayed the time, and did not say a word about the things in the cave. On the way back to Beijing, I thought about this matter all the way with the air of suspense and ghosts, and the prince already believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that the woman in purple who showed the way in the forest was a fox fairy who had attained the Tao, and the beautiful woman who slept with herself in the cave overnight must be a female ghost. After the prince returned to Beijing to report on his work, his father set up a family affair for his daughter Qi Xiaozhu of Lord Shangshu, and then he was busy with government affairs, and he completely forgot this bizarre and strange and fragrant thing on the way.
And the cultivation in the cave that day was naturally not a female ghost fox fairy, but the fourth girl Yu Fengyi of the Tianyi Divine Palace. This woman is a very talented martial arts genius, and she was designated as the next heir to the palace master by her palace master's mother, but she is playful by nature and neglects to cultivate diligently. The palace master was disappointed, so he could only ruthlessly click on her acupoints, forcibly strip her of her clothes and throw her into the cold ice pool, so that she could meditate and cultivate the superior internal strength of the Tianyi Divine Palace. The first seven days were fine, but when it was about to be completed, Shao Wangye broke into it by mistake, and Yu Fengyi's internal force leaked out under his distraction, which led to the invasion of cold air, internal chaos, and his mind began to be confused. At this moment, the touch of Shao Wangye's fingers warmed her from the depths of her heart, and the cold and chaotic feeling was instantly transformed into an impulse that she had never had before, what kind of morality and etiquette and the reserved vigilance that a woman should have, at this moment, it seemed that she could no longer restrain the lust that was about to be vented, so she had a night of joy with this strange man who broke in indiscriminately. The next day, when the dawn of the east dispelled the fog in the forest, Yu Fengyi had already woken up, today was a good day for her to go out, but last night's uninvited guest undoubtedly disturbed her calm state of mind. When she was fully awake, she was still startled when she saw the strange man lying next to her, but when she looked closely at the handsome and extraordinary face of this man, she did not regret it, and couldn't help but approach and ask the other party's name. Yu Fengyi suddenly thought that her mother would send someone to greet her when she left the customs today, wouldn't it be very embarrassing if she bumped into such a picture, so she immediately put on her clothes and left the cave.
Yu Fengyi never expected that after this parting, it would become eternal, and the more persistent the watch, the more regretful the pain in exchange. Until he found out that he had a secret knot, and later the East Window incident, the prince never appeared. Although the palace master is well aware of the pain of his beloved daughter and does not blame him too much, he still has to deprive Yu Fengyi of his successor position according to the regulations of the Divine Palace, and sentence him to three years of solitary confinement. And the rest of the sisters who used to envy and worship them were cold and disdainful, whispering, which was really unbearable for Yu Fengyi, who had always been arrogant. During the period of solitary confinement, she gave birth to Yu Dongqiu, she could have destroyed this mark of shame, but just because there was still hope in her heart, thinking that in a few years maybe she would come to pick me up, that is, she survived this obsession for a total of six years, until she was completely desperate, desperate to hate, hateful to madness.
Yu Dongqiu grew up in this way in his mother's love-hate relationship, and he had the impression that his mother never said much to him, and his eyes were like looking at a huge wound, and the memory before the age of six was that when he was with his mother, there would always be others pointing fingers, and if he was playing with those aunts' children, they would scold him with a childish voice for being a "cheap seed", and then push him to the ground and throw him with stones. He always ran back to his mother's arms with bruises, carefully asking "what is a cheap seed", and his mother would only cry silently, and he remembered the feeling of the tears on his face - so cold, so cold. After the age of six, Yu Dongqiu rarely saw his mother again and saw the whole sky, because he was locked up by his mother in a large courtyard surrounded by high walls on all sides, where there were only mountains of books and infinite loneliness, a loneliness that a six-year-old child could not bear.
When he gradually grew older, he began to talk to the palace maids who came to the courtyard every day to take care of him, and only then did he learn something about his mother, and he realized why he had to endure loneliness, because he was a shame for his mother. He began to get used to solitude, because it was meant to be him, and if he couldn't get used to it, then he would only go crazy. By the time he was ten years old, the courtyard was no longer deserted, because his mother had hired five teachers for him, and they trained him in poetry, writing, etiquette, and music, but he did not teach him martial arts, and he learned quickly and well, and began to envy the world outside the high walls. Every early spring, the begonia tree outside will poke its head in, when the wind blows, it will bring countless fragrant petals, unconsciously, he grabbed it with his hands, just like that, one day he suddenly found that the petals that were blown in were put into the flower sac, so he wanted to reach the petals on the high branch that were not blown off, enough for a long time, Yu Dongqiu suddenly found that he could actually cross the high wall, he was fourteen years old that year, and it was also when he just learned to kill.
On that day, Yu Fengyi rarely came to inspect his homework, but Yu Dongqiu smiled strangely: "The teacher is gone, who will inspect, are you?" Yu Fengyi said: "Where are the teachers?" "Yu Dongqiu raised his hand and pointed at it, it was the Wudun Flower Mound." They were buried in the flower mound by me, and the begonia mound, which is cheap for them. Yu Dongqiu smiled like a little demon spirit. Why? "Yu Fengyi was a little afraid of her son." Because a few old men have taught everything they can teach, and they still don't leave in vain, this is not it, they are always chattering in my ear, and finally me off......" Yu Dongqiu glanced at his strange mother coldly, "I also want to prove one thing, that is, the descendants of the Jianghu people are still Jianghu people after all, and they can't change their murderous nature after all." Yu Fengyi almost couldn't help but slap him: "What do you mean by that?" "I mean he's not coming back, and even if you train me to be like him, it won't help. You have always been a man in the rivers and lakes, and so am I. Yu Dongqiu lifted his body lightly, and finally crossed the high wall that had bound him for nine years, and he had decided that he would never return to this place again.
In the following year, the name of "Playboy, Kuaishou Unparalleled" resounded all over the world, but there were always many people who couldn't believe that such a legendary figure was only a fifteen-year-old boy. This young man seems to have been born with some ability to perceive people's hearts, or he has long ceased to believe in anyone or anything due to his long-term lonely life, so it is easy to enter the chaotic rivers and lakes. After that, the name of the playboy became known to everyone, and even the idol of some men who wanted to be chic and elegant.