(3) Ring clinking
"Ding-dong-ding, ding-dong-ding......"
A woman in a rose-colored dress flew from the sunset to the sound of this music, standing barefoot on the roof of Kowloon. As the pink sleeves swept across her pointed chin with the hair that shaved through her neck, a majestic voice could be heard below.
"I've been on it for more than three months, so it's time to appear (shēn)."
The corners of the rose-red lips of the bird were like waves of blooming water, and a turn (shēn) flew towards the house.
The young man who had just finished the recital put down the red pen when he heard the sound, and when he looked up, he saw a touch of rose red skimming the door, and three pink jade bracelets on each ankle collided with a pleasant ringing sound, and the jade feet were light, like stepping on the petals of a flower and walking slowly.
"It's not her," the emperor muttered to himself, then brushed the bright yellow robe of the dragon, looked at her ** feet and smiled, "Your name is Yueniao, it's a good name." ”
"The name I said five years ago is word for word, Tianjun is really good to remember (xìng)," she put her hands up and down in front of (xiōng), and her upper hand pinched an orchid finger, "It's just that how did Tianjun know that I was the joyful bird in the mouth of the first nine days of the first month, and I had been hovering on this Nine Dragons Ridge for a long time?" ”
He turned to her side, bowed his head to her ear and whispered, "If you know so soon, then I won't lose my excuse to see the girl again." ”
"If the Heavenly Monarch wants to ask, he asks, why did he go around in circles," Yue Bird raised her orchid finger around the long hair next to her ear, and bent her thin lips sideways, "Only the purpose of Yue Bird's trip is not to be announced." ”
"Yushan Yaochi Jin Mu is in charge of the punishment of the world, and five years ago, she asked Chu Jiu to give me a peach," he glanced at the door heavily, and clenched his hand tightly behind his back, "Today (rì), I specially ordered you to come, isn't it that Jin Mu and her old man are also in charge of this mundane matter in the world?" ”
"The Heavenly Monarch is too worried, this is a private matter of the bird, and it has nothing to do with the punishment and punishment."
"That being the case, it is better to stay in the palace first, which is convenient and saves a lot of trouble in the rain on this roof (rì)."
Yueniao looked at the deep smiling face, and the joy in her heart suddenly disappeared by half. He is still a heavenly monarch in the end, and what can he do if he knows that he is here for him, and in the end he will only feel that he has other plans.
"Bird girl, please come inside."
Gonggong Wei led Yue Niao to a remote nameless courtyard, and she watched as the rì (rì) reflected in the place was extremely quiet, and it seemed out of place in the palace with deep walls. She crossed the path and crossed the pavilion to a palace (diàn) without a plaque, and when the maid saw her, she immediately knelt down and bowed, saying, "Slave Yunxia, I have seen the girl of the bird." ”
"The girl is happy to be quiet, so the emperor only left Yunxia alone to serve, and if the girl has a need, just order to go down."
"Father-in-law Wei, I bother you to go back and tell the Heavenly Monarch," she stepped on the stairs barefoot, and the jade bracelets on her wrists collided with each other in a crisp and pleasant sound, "Since I Yueniao came because of him, I can naturally go because of him." If I don't have the heart to the bright moon, I can also ride the wind and go, and there will be no return. ”
The night was so uneventful, until dawn, that Yue Niao leaned alone on the stone pillars of the pavilion in a daze. From time to time, Yunxia came over with a cup of tea, and secretly glanced at Yue Niao a few times while handing the teacup.
Yue Niao took the tea, saw Yunxia's gaze fall on her feet and moved away, holding the square towel in her hand and saying nothing. She took a sip of tea, and smiled while holding the teacup: "If you do what I ordered, you can go to the side and rest, I am not a waste, you don't have to worry about everything." ”
"It's the first time in her life that the slave maid has seen a girl who looks like a fairy, so she looked at it so rudely," she knelt on the ground, and in a panic, she didn't forget to hold the rose-red square scarf in both hands, "The slave maid is afraid that this dust will stain the girl's jade feet, so please let the slave maid wait for you to scrub it before disposing of it." ”
"As the saying goes, I don't care if you pretend to be stupid or are panicked by this cage, as long as you are here, you will make me a cup of tea," Yue Bird got up, bent down and put the tea cup into her somewhat shaky hand, and straightened up to look at the slightest hint of sunlight, "After that, where is it cool in this courtyard." ”
"Good sentence, each performs his own duties," the emperor walked slowly from the path, took the bright peony flower (jiāo) in the celadon white flower plate of Gonggong Wei, and smiled softly, "In the early years, I heard Ah Jiu say that there are three blue birds next to the golden mother (shēn) in Yaochi, one is in charge of the property of Yushan, the other is responsible for transmitting information, and the punishment director who helps the golden mother deal with affairs must be Yueniao. ”
"See the Emperor"
"I've Seen a Girl"
After the ceremony, Gonggong Wei pulled Yunxia and retreated.
"You don't have the right to be high, I don't have to be bound by that regulation anymore, and the broken skin scoundrel of Chu Jiu still says it (tǐng)," she sat on the stone bench, picking up a white chess piece on the chess table and playing with it, "This rule, if it is set too strictly, it will be much less fun." ”
The emperor smiled lightly, sat across from her, and placed the flowers back into the celadon plate, where the red peony flowers (jiāo) covered the white pattern of the porcelain plate, like snow falling in June. He looked at the beautiful flower in front of him, curled the corners of his lips and said, "Then today (rì), you and I bet on a game, and the winner can not only win the king of this flower, but also have to fulfill a request from the other party." ”
The white child between Yueniao's two fingers fell to the chessboard, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "It's your turn, Tianjun." ”
In this way, this chessboard is full of pictures in a white and black embellishment, and before I realize that the sun is already shining, Wei Gonggong, who came to urge the meal, saw that the two were concentrating on the game, so he used gestures to stop Yunxia who came from behind, and stood in the pavilion on the left and right.
The emperor held the sunspot, looked at the plate full of black and white and thought for a moment, and finally took it back into his palm, and said, "You are still the first one who wins me with strength." ”
"You don't joke, I have to think carefully about what I'want'."
"Bad move, bad move, Miss Yue Bird's chess skills are exquisite, but I underestimated the enemy," he picked up the flower and put it in Yue Bird's bun, glanced at it, and nodded with satisfaction, "Even the king of flowers has been folded under the girl's face, I have only lost a game, and the winner or loser is still undecided." ”
"Yue Niao naturally doesn't dare to be that skilled chess player, but she is not a person who is afraid of strong opponents," she stretched out her already slender neck, looked closely at the man in bright yellow clothes, and raised her pointed chin, "This narrow victory, it just happens that I know Tianjun better." ”
"Oh, isn't it a joke that Grandpa Wei told me yesterday?"
The emperor said this, but his eyes did not leave the rose-red woman for a step, but the Duke of Wei on the side knelt on the ground when he heard this, and said seriously word by word: "How dare the slave deceive the emperor, that is indeed the words of the girl Yueniao herself, and the special words are that the slave told the emperor." ”
Yue Niao carefully removed the peony flower on her head, brushed the slightly curly petals with her fingertips, bowed her head and said, "You (ài) my heart, I pity you." Then he walked away slowly.
There was only a sound like a spring hitting stones, which was particularly cool in this stuffy weather.
"Girl, the emperor personally inscribed the plaque of 'Yuexia Palace' for you," Yunxia took out a somewhat curly flower, and inserted the chrysanthemum that bloomed very well in her hand, "Such an honor is something that even the queen mother has never had." ”
"You're a little more active than I was when I first met, but if you go too far, it's an offense." She went over and knocked Yunxia's forehead, picked up the flowers in the vase and sniffed the fragrance, "If you don't grasp the measurement well, I don't know how you got into trouble when you leave me." ”
"The girl doesn't know, this Yuexia Palace was originally the emperor's biological mother's bedroom, since the mother went to the fairy, only I was left here to take care of, the emperor has never let a woman in for a long time," Yunxia touched her forehead, pointed to the flower and smiled, "What's more, the flowers of the Yuexia Palace have not been broken since summer to autumn, it can be seen that the emperor really wants to keep the girl." ”
Yue Niao tore a chrysanthemum petal and circled it between her fingers.
The flowers he sent every time (rì) were for that gambling contract or to express his affection, and she didn't want to guess anymore. Such a beautiful thing is fleeting, even if he gives himself a little sweetness, she will still pounce like a moth.
Unconsciously it is late autumn, only the chrysanthemums are standing proudly in this cold wind, this (rì), Yue Niao went to the imperial garden with the clouds early in the morning to enjoy the chrysanthemums, but unexpectedly, the chrysanthemums here have been picked, leaving only a bunch of residual branches and leaves.
Yue Niao bent down to hold up a dead leaf, crossed the thin lips and said, "It's time to end the bet." ”
"The girl can't bear to see the decay all over the ground, so she specially asked the Duke of Wei to announce that the emperor doesn't need to send flowers to Yuexia Palace?"
"Don't you forget, Tianjun played another game with me a few days ago."
"Oh, Yunxia remembered," she handed over the rose-red scarf in her hand, and the joy on her face was revealed on her grinning mouth, "The emperor also said that he would end up with the girl tonight, isn't it...... Slaves and maids see the queen mother. ”
Caiyun saw that Yue Niao did not salute, so he shouted for his master: "What a bold man, he still doesn't salute when he sees the queen's mother?" ”
"Caiyun, Hugh is rude. Since she can live there, the (shēn) part must be different. How can this palace be comparable to you," she frowned, raised her fingertips to cover her mouth and smiled, "Oh, I almost forgot, it has now been transformed into 'Yuexia Palace', but I don't know how much black and some white there is in those bones." ”
"The queen went to great lengths just to tell me black and white?"
The queen lifted the red cloth held by Caiyun with her own hands, touched a pair of gold silk phoenixes on the top and said: "This shoe is not as brilliant as the gold thread when it is taken to mend it, but this totem is a phoenix embroidered according to the queen's (shēn) share, not a casual kingfisher or warbler." ”
As he spoke, he wiped his hands with the yellow scarf in his hand, raised his little finger and said angrily: "My sister walks barefoot in this cold wind, my sister looks strange and pitiful, if my sister doesn't like it, I will take my sister's first to top it for a while, and it's not too late to abandon it when you have a new one." ”
"I've lived a long time, and I'm a little more stubborn than your old people here," Yue Bird walked up to the empress (shēn) and glanced sideways at the all-golden woman, "What likes the new and hates the old, and abandons the old as if they were walking here, can't resist those stubborn dead reasons." ”
The queen glared angrily at the thin back of the dress, grabbed the heavy shoes of the pair of gold silk embroidered phoenixes and threw them into the flower garden with broken branches and leaves, and the delicate embroidery thread on the shoes was cut by the flower branches and lay in the dirt.
She took a deep breath, slowly exhaled that breath while wiping her hands, and said with a smile: "Even if you are a heavenly immortal, you are still tender if you want to be the sister of this palace." ”
The two people who had just left had come to a rockery surrounding, and Yue Niao walked towards the pavilion in search of the sound of water.
"The queen clearly has something to say, and every sentence accuses me of being a vixen who charms the king's heart." Yue Niao looked at the well-arranged rockeries, brushed the black hair next to her ears while listening to the flow of water, glanced at Yunxia casually, and said: "You are really loyal, until now, the matter of Tianjun's biological mother (qíng) should not be known I was stunned and did not say a word." ”
"It's not that the slave and maid deliberately hide it from the girl, it's really the emperor's order that is difficult to disobey."
Seeing that she looked at herself with an embarrassed face, Yue Niao blurted out the word "slave maid", so she raised her feet and walked out of the pavilion and said, "If you don't say it, such a little thing can't hide it from me for long." ”