Chapter 36: Midnight

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Qing Yu saw that he looked melancholy, and hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, Childe, there are still more than ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is unknown if there is a turning point in the middle." Wei Qinzhi sighed leisurely and raised his head to look out the window at a round and a half moon. The sky is cloudless, and the moonlight is dissolving. He started thinking about her. Gu Nianjiao knew that Gu Nianshu had resigned from the post of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in Changyuan, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart Zhu Lu was dialing the incense burner in the room at the time, and after hearing this letter, she and Gu Nianjiao began to complain: "This is the flower banquet presided over by Princess Yong herself, seeing that our clothes are about to be ready, just waiting for the girl to go to the official family of Yuezhou to make a comeback, why did she push it off again." Zhu Lu was also indignant, and was about to hold grievances for her girl, but she heard the girl leaning on the chaise longue and lazily said: "If you should go, you will always go." What should you not go, what is the use of you in a hurry? Zhu Lu had to say that Cuiying was clever and hurriedly glanced over.

The person who only heard the ice muscles and jade bones on the couch opened his mouth leisurely again: "Whether to go or not, it's all up to my father and brother." I haven't spoken yet, but you are a female envoy, but you have a lot of complaints? Zhu Lu was so frightened that he sighed in his heart: "The slave doesn't dare." Gu Nianjiao said: "The incense burner is so raw, this magnolia fragrance is almost gone." Zhu Lu and Cui Ying replied again and again: "Yes, the slave knows." "This magnolia is Gu Nianjiao's most beloved flower in this life. Just because she felt that she was really like Mulan in her previous life. Not only is it weak and the flowering period is very short, but it can't withstand the wind and rain. After a little heavy rain, the petals are fluttering and the pieces are falling, and they must have fallen all over the ground. It's a pity that Mulan blooms in spring, and she hasn't seen it since she was reborn, so she can only smoke this magnolia incense to solve the "lovesickness". The days passed unhurriedly, and two or three days passed, the closer to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the brighter the moon became fuller and fuller. This night, the husband had just knocked on the bangzi, and after a while, a strong magnolia fragrance was sent with the wind, drifted into the curtain, and went straight to the Tangguan boudoir. At that time, Gu Nianjiao had just bathed, sitting in front of the dresser and letting Cui'e Cuiying loosen her bun. Because the magnolia fragrance was extremely strong, Gu Nianjiao raised her sleeves and sniffed it, thinking that it was on her body: "Have you smoked incense for your bedclothes?" Cui'e said, "No." The girl smells the scent of magnolia? Cui Ying also smelled the incense, looked around, and said suspiciously: "Strange, the incense burner was withdrawn early today, because the girl said, you don't need to burn incense when you sleep......

"Really?" Tang Guan's eyebrows moved, he got up and walked to the window, and raised the curtain slightly, "That incense is coming from outside." Cui Eqi said: "It is the middle of autumn, and the cinnamon is already fragrant all over the city, how can there be such a heavy magnolia fragrance, which covers the cinnamon." "Yes," Cui Ying followed, adding a thin silk cloak for Tang Guan, "Besides, this autumn, there shouldn't be any magnolia flowers blooming." "Outside the window, a bright moon is shining, and it is almost complete. Gu Nianjiao was led by the incense, walked out of the room, and walked to the courtyard outside the courtyard. The night breeze blows, blowing her body like a waterfall and green silk, beautiful like a fairy painting. Walking to the courtyard, the quiet fragrance of flowers became more and more obvious. After Gu Nianjiao stood still, Xunxiang raised her head to look, but the whole person was stunned.

As far as the eye could see, the silver moonlight poured out, and countless magnolia petals fell freely in the moonlight, like a grand flower rain. She froze slightly in place, and the petals were soft and fragrant, sprinkled all over her body with the wind. The flowers rained so hard that they fell to the ground around her and accumulated a thick layer of magnolia petals before they gradually disappeared. At such a season, you can spend all your effort to do such a pleasing thing - Gu Nianjiao had already guessed who it was in her heart, and she couldn't help but smile slightly, and her slender figure moved to the bottom of the wall of the middle courtyard, which was the direction where the flower rain first drifted. She smiled beautifully, looked up at the courtyard wall and whispered, "But Gongzi Qin? As the words fell, a white figure jumped lightly onto the courtyard wall, slender and straight. The shadows of the trees are mottled, and a lot of soft moonlight is leaked, and the night is as intoxicating as a dreamβ€”

Wei Qinzhi looked at him with burning eyebrows, and laughed in a low voice: "After all, I can't hide it from you." The surprise in Cui'e Cuiying's heart was indescribable, and they exchanged glances with each other, and retreated silently. A cool night breeze carried the fragrance of magnolia, brushing the fine sideburns in Gu Nianjiao's ears. She didn't apply powder, and she was plain to the sky, but she could show more and more the world-like appearance in her bones. "The moon on the wall is faint and the shadow is thick, and the fragrant powder blows away the night wind," Gu Nianjiao took a step back and said with a smile, "Qin Gongzi has a heart." Wei Qinzhi easily jumped off the wall, and the jade tree stood in front of her in the wind. He was dressed in a moire brocade robe, his handsome and fair face shone in the moonlight, such a beautiful day, he didn't speak, just raised his thin lips slightly, and looked at her with a smile for a long time. Gu Nianjiao leaned over and picked up a magnolia petal: "How did Gongzi Qin know that this flower is my favorite?" ”

He replied: "On that day, when I held your hand and put the lamp, I smelled the incense on your body. Gu Nianjiao looked at him: "Now in late autumn, this flower is rare." He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "If you have the heart, it is not difficult to pick the stars and the moon." Gu Nianjiao's heart warmed, and she couldn't help but purse her lips and laugh again. His handsome eyes were like a river of stars flowing through the sky. The two stood under the moon for a long time, and he suddenly asked softly, "Have you ever thought about me these days?" ”

Outside the courtyard wall of the atrium, there were a few bangs from afar. The humidity of the autumn dew was heavier, Gu Nianjiao took a deep breath, and felt that her lungs were moist. "Qin Gongzi is heroic, the dragon and phoenix among the people, when the boy was able to pass through the scriptures and make a blockbuster, even the official family praised it," her eyebrows flickered, Ying Ying looked at him, "You are the pride of Yongwangfu, and the pride of Yuezhou people." Now that Eleven Lang has come to me like this, if I say I don't want to, you will definitely not believe it. Wei Qinzhi's voice became softer and softer, as if he was afraid of shattering the moonlight in the garden: "What if you want to?" "If you want to ......," her voice was soft, and she paused deliberately, "then Eleven Lang will believe it?" He stared at her with firm eyebrows, word by word, as if vowing: "As long as you say, I will believe it." ”

The fragrance of Magnolia that had just filled the court gradually faded, and Gu Nianjiao's mind was a little fluctuating, and only his even and powerful breathing was left in his ears, which was especially flirtatious in the quiet moonlit night. The autumn insects chirped, and his pleasant and clean voice sounded low: "Why don't you go to Changyuan to enjoy the flowers again?" Gu Nianjiao lowered her eyes and smiled: "To enjoy the flowers, I don't have to go to Changyuan, now I haven't even gone out of the yard, and I have already enjoyed such a good night." Everything needs to be thanked for Eleven Lang's concern. "It's best if you like it." Wei Qinzhi said gently, "Because I heard that your eldest man refused the invitation to the flower viewing banquet, I thought that if you didn't go, it would be a pity, so I took it upon myself to get so many magnolia petals tonight, just so that you can be happy." "Naturally happy," the slightest cool breeze, Gu Nianjiao's heart was warm, "It's just that I still don't understand, it's late autumn, how did Eleven Lang get these magnolia petals?" I picked it up just now and looked at it, and it was all fresh. ”