Chapter 1 The Spring of the Fourteenth Year of the Northern Tang Dynasty
(Volume 1: Blood of the Northern Tang Dynasty)
The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the geese flying in the south are broken. If you don't get to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and you can only travel 20,000 yuan. On the peak of Liupan Mountain, the red flag swept the west wind. Today, the long tassel is in hand, when will the dragon be bound?
- "Qingpingle Liupan Mountain", to start.
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The fourteenth year of the Northern Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, spring.
Weishui collects the twilight rain, the palace garden is bright by the mountains, the cloud forest is blue with the sky, and the wind dances and the acacia flowers fall into the royal ditch.
The spring wind blows on Chang'an Street, warm, gentle, like a girl's hand, just caressing your cheeks, and immediately leaving shyly.
The streets are full of pedestrians, ringing and tinkling, just like in previous years.
It's just that under the calm and still calm appearance, the people of Chang'an hide great waves.
Today, is a special day, for most people in the entire Northern Tang Dynasty.
His Majesty's favorite daughter, the first beauty in the Northern Tang Dynasty, Princess Li Xiyun of Guangle is about to get married.
The waves of people lie in the majesty and wealth of the royal family, and also in the pomp and circumstance that will be seen at dusk - ten miles of red makeup.
However, there is more complexity in this.
Princess Guangle's concubine is the son of Guan Qinghe, the ruling and opposition Zhongshu Ling, Guan Kuo.
For Guan Qinghe's evaluation, Chang'an people can only express it with their eyes.
His Majesty's rights are empty, he ignores political affairs, and escapes into the harem, and the entire Northern Tang Dynasty is under the control of Guan Qinghe. People often say in the bed that everything His Majesty has, as long as he manages and wants, will be given.
This time, it is another valuable "reward" - His Majesty's pearl, the first beauty of the Northern Tang Dynasty: Princess Guangle.
People know that marrying into the housekeeper and marrying Guan Kuo, Princess Guangle's life is over.
For what happened to this famous beauty, Chang'an people may be very regretful, but more faintly angry.
This splendid Northern Tang!
This splendid Northern Tang?
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Guan Mansion is the largest mansion in Chang'an, and there is no one.
The eaves tiles under the spring sun have a golden brilliance, like fish scales, as if telling the glory of the house.
Today's government is even more vibrant.
The lights are colorful and beaming.
Nearly a thousand servants shuttled back and forth, magnificent, endless prosperity, all here.
Outside the wing, Guan Kuo looked at the pavilions, the clear pond water, and the busy maids and slaves, holding stones in their hands, and lost their minds for a while.
His figure is not as graceful and graceful as the sons of other wealthy families, on the contrary, he is a little short and a little thin.
The silk satin on his body can only hide some weak atmosphere, but it cannot add to his demeanor.
Theoretically speaking, Guan Kuo is not a qualified gentleman, because he rarely goes out, and he does not have many opportunities to bully men and women, for no other reason, it is not that he doesn't want to do this, but Guan Qinghe rarely lets him go out and lose his face.
In the eyes of many, he was a fool, even though he never thought so.
He just thinks that his brain is a little dull, a little wooden, and he doesn't understand the direction of the world, is this also wrong?
I'm a good man, he thinks, so I'm a fool in a world of deceit.
He has always believed that he is a good person, even if because of his father, others do not need to contact him, he has become the object of everyone's gnashing of teeth.
His Majesty is frail and has no intention of ruling the government, so Zhongshu Ling needs to do his best, and after death, this world always needs people to govern, his father told him.
This sentence, put outside, no one will believe it, but he believes it.
If you can't even trust your own father, who else can you trust?
He looked at this great beauty house, and suddenly laughed stupidly.
Looks really like a fool.
He had only seen Princess Guangle once, at a banquet of His Majesty.
It was a very beautiful girl, the country and the city, there was no other woman in the world who could be more beautiful than her, and the first time he saw her, he was destined to never forget.
The biggest dream of men in the world is to become the concubine of Princess Guangle, and for this goal, many people have done a lot of things, so they have rushed to the political arena and the battlefield, and have become famous.
He didn't do anything, he just needed that he was Guan Qinghe's only son-in-law, and he was the captain of the horse.
He was not proud of the other men's fury and resentment, but simply happy that he had become the captain of Princess Guangle's horse.
Thinking of her picturesque eyebrows, he smiled stupidly for a long time.
"Childe, why haven't you changed your clothes yet?"
In his courtyard, the only one who dares to shout so loudly is his eldest maid, Yuqing.
In the courtyard, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the scenery is picturesque, and the reflection in the pond water is intertwined with the real scene.
He was stunned for a moment, and then said a little wooden: "Aren't you going to pick up Her Royal Highness the princess at dusk?"
"Childe, you have a lot of things to do, the eldest lady is already very angry, and you are running around again, no matter what you say, you have to show that you attach importance to Her Royal Highness the princess, otherwise you will cause gossip." Yuqing glanced around a few times and whispered.
Guan Kuo scratched his head and said in the same low voice: "Don't you say that when you see me here, won't she be angry and can't splash on me?"
Yuqing sighed, thinking that Gongzi was really a little stupid, I didn't say it, didn't everyone say it?
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In the Changliu Palace, the flowers are full of flowers, the group is full of flowers, and the scenery is better than the sky.
The long bridge lies on the waves, the clear water is long, and it goes around a few bends.
Where the water passes, there are pavilions.
The pavilion and then the stone street are the palace of Changliu Palace.
The spring breeze entered the Zhu Gate, broke the bead curtain, opened a corner, and saw the beauty.
Guangle Princess Li Xiyun is the first beauty in the Northern Tang Dynasty, which is a fact recognized by everyone, and it is said that it also includes the literati of Southern Wu.
Anyone who has seen her beauty will not think that the word vain can be used on her.
The skirts of the palace maids swayed slowly with the spring breeze, and they looked at Her Royal Highness the princess who was being made up by her grandmother and wearing a phoenix crown, and they sincerely had a pleasing psychology.
This is our Highness the Princess, and they are proud to think that no one can be more beautiful than her.
Then, everyone's expressions darkened.
They thought about what day it was.
They felt that no one was worthy of Her Royal Highness the Princess, so she was going to marry a fool, the son of an old guy who corrupted the royal authority of the princess family.
They hated the father and son boundlessly, and then felt sorrow, knowing that once they married, the princess's life would be ruined.
Could it be that the red face since ancient times can only end like this?
Li Xiyun's green silk hung like a waterfall, and her slender figure was faintly visible, and several palace maids pursed their lips tightly, looked at them a few times, and couldn't bear to look at them again.
"Let's go."
Li Xiyun's light voice circled around the beams and pillars a few times, and then completely hidden.
In the bronze mirror, it can be seen that she closed her eyes, and a few traces of tiredness flashed between her picturesque eyebrows.
The two grandmothers looked at each other a few times, as if they did not feel that their task was done.
However, they chose to respect the orders of their beloved princess, bowed slightly, retreated, and finally walked out the door.
Seeing that the two grandmothers were walking away, a palace maid stepped forward and said indignantly: "Princess, are you really just marrying that fool!?"
"How else?"
Li Xiyun turned the show and smiled coquettishly, almost eclipsing the flowers in the garden.
The palace maid was stunned, as if she was dazzled by the astonishing beauty.
Li Xiyun stretched out her plain hand, picked up a golden hairpin from the dressing table, and inserted it obliquely into the waterfall hair with her own hand, and then the autumn waves flowed, and she smiled self-deprecatingly: "This palace is just a courtier, whoever my father asks this palace to marry, this palace has to marry whom, do you still have any doubts?"
Several palace maids hurriedly knelt down, and one of them whispered that he didn't dare.
"Get up." Li Xiyun sighed.
"Stand down."
Then, she added.
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