When this wave of toasts subsided, I was about to shake Qin Buxian's hand again and signal her to prepare for action, but as soon as my fingers touched the back of her hand, her hand shook violently as if she had been stung.

This action happened to be seen by Zhao Mengqing, so I put down the wine cup, shook Qin Buxian's hand openly, and said softly: "You and I are married, it is not taboo to hold a hand in front of others, twisting and pinching makes them laugh." ”

Zhao Mengqing raised the wine cup and smiled with his eyebrows: "His Royal Highness King Chong'an is right, the princess should not be restrained. ”

I saw Qin Buxian's eyebrows frowning slightly, and I knew that she was now in a state of entanglement and panic, so I smoothed her hand with a smile, and slowly wrote the word "Tong" on her palm with my fingertips.

As expected, as soon as she finished writing the last stroke, her hand trembled again.

Fortunately, she finally sorted out the weight of Qin Shutong and Zhao Mengqing in her heart, and also figured out the priorities of the matter, and smiled at Zhao Mengqing: "By the way, the wine brewed from the first osmanthus in Nanguo Mansion this year, His Royal Highness asked a friend to transport it a few days ago, and when we came over today, we brought a pot, and when I entered the door to observe the master's slice of mutton, I forgot to mention it on the condiment cabinet, I went down to find it." ”

Zhao Mengqing's eyes lit up, and he said with emotion: "It's rare that the princess still remembers that the lower officials love to drink osmanthus wine." ”

When Qin Buxian went downstairs, he turned his head and introduced to Gao Shu Li Jingtang, "The osmanthus in this Nanguo Mansion blooms from the end of August to the beginning of October, so this wine is also divided into new wine, medium wine, and last wine." The new wine is made of osmanthus at the end of August, its taste is sweet and elegant, not like wine but like fruit juice and vinegar, there seems to be a floral fragrance between the aftertaste to stop at the tip of the tongue, the most suitable for brewing and drinking, the floral fragrance has been dispersed for a long time, and the sweetness is also greatly reduced; Chinese wine is the wine made of osmanthus from September to October, this wine is suitable for storage, the older it is, the more mellow the taste, the first taste is not intoxicating, but the stamina is great; The last sake is made after October and before the flower failure, and it tastes sweet and bitter, but some people prefer this sip and find it unique. The wine at the end of the wine is easy to get, but the new wine is hard to find, and when the wine comes, Prime Minister Gao and Master Li must try it. ”

After this introduction, Qin Buxian, who went downstairs to get wine, also came back. But this wine is not just a new wine, before going out today, she has awakened the hatred seed with her own blood, and then under the watchful eye of this king, she poured all the hatred seed into this wine.

"Don't be surprised, don't be surprised, the wine made from this stubble osmanthus is really not easy to transport to the imperial capital, and the prince can only ask for this pot, so I am afraid that this wine today is only enough for Lord Zhao to taste alone." Qin Buxian said the words I had told me before, and there was hardly a word wrong.

"It's okay," Zhao Mengqing smiled and took the flask from her hand, "I'll be evenly matched with Prime Minister Li." With that, he walked up to Gao Li and poured them a full glass each, then returned to his seat and poured all the rest of the wine into his own glass, only half a glass.

It was this half cup that made Qin Buxian, who was originally calm, panicked, her eyes stared at the half glass of wine in front of Zhao Mengqing motionlessly, I thought about it for a while, and I thought that she might be thinking - how can two and a half glasses of wine be poured out of such a small wine jug, how good it would be if only two glasses could be poured.

Gao Shu and Li Jingtang didn't seem to be so nervous and vigilant in my house, they drank it all with their wine glasses, and praised how sweet this wine is, how refreshing it is, how it is no different from the jade liquid in the sky, and how it is difficult to distinguish it from the elixir of the Dragon Palace, and finally concluded that they were amazed - this kind of wine, being able to drink a sip in the world should be a blessing from the eight generations of ancestors.

Boasted to such a point that the king who knew the root and the bottom forgot for a while that this wine was not the first osmanthus new wine, but the wine mixed with water from the old osmanthus flowers.

The king has been lying in the palace for more than a month, and eating has become a problem, where is there any leisure time to ask friends to transport osmanthus new wine from Nanguo Mansion.

Qin Buxian saw that Gao Shu Li Jingtang drank the wine cleanly, so he couldn't control it, and when I was a little stunned, she had already bypassed me and walked in front of Zhao Mengqing.

I was shocked, and wanted to pull her back but found that it was too late, Zhao Mengqing in the room had already raised his head, looked at the panicked Qin Buxian in surprise, and said, "Is there anything else going on with the princess?" ”

Qin Buxian was about to speak, but at the last moment, I heard my slightly angry voice sound: "Envy, do you want to stare at Lord Zhao with your own eyes and drink it?" ”

Zhao Mengqing's eyelids trembled, and he hurriedly picked up the wine glass: "How dare you let the princess urge, drink it now." ”

"That's not what I meant," Seeing that the wine glass was about to touch Zhao Mengqing's lips, Qin Buxian raised his hand to stop it, took the glass of wine and poured it out, and then said seriously, "Don't drink this wine, Lord Zhao, I just discovered one thing." ”

I was disheartened, pretending to be stupid and frowning, "What's the matter? ”

She gave me a meaningful look, then shook her head slowly.

My heart was almost bursting out of my throat with rage, and now it was like everything was in place, and then it fell short.

Everyone saw Qin Buxian's strange appearance, no matter how stupid Gao Shu Li Jingtang was, he understood from Qin Buxian's abnormal behavior that there was something strange in the wine he drank just now, so the two of them were shocked and couldn't sit still, "Dare to ask the princess, isn't this wine ...... Isn't there a problem? ”

Qin Buxian ignored the others in vain, and looked directly at my side: "There is indeed a problem with Fang Cai's wine. ”

No matter what, I had to finish the play, so I struggled to pull out a smile and asked her, "Envy, this wine is taken from our house, what can be the problem?" ”

She walked towards me step by step, and my mind raced to imagine how I would design my next few steps if she exposed me for Zhao Mengqing.

These few steps seemed to be as long as a few years, and she stood next to me and Zhao Mengqing, smiling crisply and heartily: "What's wrong with this wine, can't Your Highness see it?" ”

This question was too strong, which caused Gao Shu Li Jingtang to be even more panicked, and also caused Zhao Mengqing to be even more confused.

I raised my head and looked at Qin Buxian with a smile, and the corners of my lips showed a slight softness: "This king didn't see it." ”

She raised her eyebrows lightly and smiled, picked up the wine jug that Zhao Mengqing put beside me after pouring the wine, approached me and said, "Your Highness, don't pretend anymore." ”

"What is the princess pretending to be?" I squinted my eyes, my face was calm, but my palms were full of sweat.

Qin Buxian didn't see restraint, and said in a slurp: "I didn't expect His Royal Highness to be the prince of Dajin, but he was so stingy," his slender fingers pointed to the orchid pattern on the brown wine jug, "You can see clearly, this wine jug is covered with orchids, and it is filled with last year's osmanthus wine; The jug containing this year's new osmanthus sake was brought from Nangufu with this one, and it was made of bamboo. Although these two flasks generally look no different in appearance, as long as you take a closer look, you will know that the patterns are different, and His Royal Highness knows the truth best, so he shouldn't take it wrong. Thinking that His Royal Highness must be reluctant to give Lord Zhao the new wine, he deliberately used the wrong one to fool others. ”

I smiled coldly, grabbed her wrist and took her into my arms: "Envy blames this king, how can this king be reluctant to take out a pot of wine for Lord Zhao, in fact, he is really dazzled, envy is careful, these things should be handed over to Xian Xian to do in the future." ”

Gao Shu Li Jingtang relieved his mind at this time, as for Zhao Mengqing, he didn't say anything more, just took the wine prepared in the restaurant, poured a glass himself, raised his head and drank it all.

Qin Buxian couldn't do anything to her Lord Zhao in the end, and this king had a kinship.

After the banquet, the guests dispersed, and it was already the middle of the moon downstairs, Zhao Mengqing chatted with me privately, and I listened carefully and took Qin Buxian back to the palace.

The moment the gate of the palace was closed, it was the most desolate moment in the king's heart.

I moved the stone table to the courtyard, flew to the eaves of the main hall to take down the flaming red lantern, turned around and instructed Qin Buxian: "You go to the study and bring all the pen, ink, paper, and inkstones to this king." ”

"What are you going to do?" Qin Buxian frowned and looked at me.

"Bring it to the king!" I was angry and yelled at her for the first time.

In the past, this king was still decent, even if he was sad, he would not use a raised voice to deter the other party, because I knew that raising my voice meant that you were afraid, so I used yelling to attack the other party and protect myself. But today is different, I can't hide the fear in my heart, because I am really afraid of something.

Even though he was puzzled by my request for paper and pencils, Qin Buxian still did it.

At the moment, I just want to paint.

When I was young, I didn't really want to follow my father's arrangement to practice martial arts, and my favorite of the six arts was painting, and I was very good at drawing. This specialty was inherited from the mother, she was the unfavored concubine of her father, and the father did not often come to see her, so when she was alone, she liked to paint a portrait of me, and when I can remember, my mother already had dozens of booklets, and all of them were painted by me.

Since I was eight years old, my father threw me to a master of the rivers and lakes as an apprentice, paving the way for my future journey, and also arranged assistants for Wei Tian to inherit the unification.

My mother took pity on me and didn't want me to give up what I liked, so she would secretly watch for me when I wanted to paint. Probably because I understood that the opportunity to paint was not easy to come by, so I cherished it very much, and as a result, this king's painting skills did not retreat but advanced.

Now, I don't have the pressure and restraint from my father back then, but I haven't painted for a long time. If it weren't for Qin Buxian's stimulation today, I am afraid that I would never have turned these deep-rooted scenes in my mind into ink and put them on paper.

The candle flame is shining, the tip of the pen is striking, and the picture of a little girl curled up at the bottom of the river appears on the paper, Qin Buxian is standing next to me, I wanted to be calm, but the voice that came out of my mouth was very choked: "This picture is the scene at the bottom of your southern moat, when I saw Ah Yu." She was so cold that she couldn't breathe. You may not have seen it, after all, your father is a traitor who opened the door to meet the enemy, and he should have planned for you in advance, so when Ah Yu's life and death are uncertain, you are afraid that you are at ease in a certain gold mountain and silver cave. ”

"Guardian, I'm not ...... what you say"