Chapter 127: Ziqing?
Yuwentai has been gone for more than half a month, and there has been no major event in the DPRK. Ran Ying and Su Sui looked through the folds handed over by the ministers every day, and picked some important fast horses to send to Yuwentai.
Ava had only come to deliver the letter once, two days after she had gone to Yufu. Yu Wentai didn't mention this matter at all in the letter, as if he didn't know anything about it, and only said some trivial things, what Huazhou's climate and products are not as good as Chang'an's, and Huazhou's night is very dark and so on. At the end of the letter, he mentioned that he had recently received some secret reports that Rouran seemed to be mobilizing troops and horses on a large scale, and he did not know what his intentions were, and asked her to pay attention to the movements of the DPRK.
Ran Ying saw Yuwentai mentioning the news of Rouran, but remembered that recently, because the new queen Yu Jiulu was having trouble with the Supreme, she scolded and smashed in the harem every day, and the Supreme was so troubled that she simply left the palace and moved to Yunyang Palace, another palace. So she and Su Sui had to travel more than 20 miles to the palace outside the city every day to see the Supreme. Sleeping so little for an hour or two every day, Ran Ying complained bitterly, feeling that her eyes were blue and black.
Yu Jiulu's arrogant temperament and short temper are well-known to everyone, originally from the barbaric and uncivilized Rouran, and an arrogant temperament, all day long in the palace to uncover the tiles in the palace to make a fuss, the harem head to the concubines down to the palace maids, all of them to her retreat and stay away.
But this time it was so big that it was able to bombard the Supreme to leave the palace, but it was a little abnormal. Ran Ying ordered someone to inquire secretly, it turned out that the Supreme had never forgotten the abolished queen Yi Fu in Dongxia Prefecture, and recently quietly passed the edict to order Yi Fu to grow her hair, wanting to find an opportunity to take her back to the palace.
The Supreme has its own thoughts. At the beginning, he had to send Yi Fu to Dongxia Prefecture, all because Yu Jiulu did not arrive in Chang'an, and he was subject to her everywhere. Now that she is married into Chang'an and is in the middle palace, the Supreme thinks that at this time, she will take Yi Fu back without her, and when Yi Fu arrives in the palace, Yu Jiu Lu will not be willing to make trouble.
But Yu Jiulu's family is also powerful, and I don't know which little palace maid Xiao Huangmen who was bought by her next to the emperor knew about it and quietly revealed it to her. Yu Jiulu's family was furious when he learned about this, and he made trouble in the palace every day. There was even one night with a torch in hand to light the Qianqiu Palace. It was still Su Sui who took the forbidden army to stop it, otherwise it would be a problem whether the imperial city was still there or not.
Ran Ying unconsciously thought about it so much, but she didn't know if this matter was related to the military movement in Rouran's territory, but for the sake of prudence, she still wrote this matter in the letter and asked Ava to bring it to Yuwentai.
A day later, Yu Wentai's reply came. He asked her to go to Dongxia Prefecture secretly and told Yi Fu that even if the Supreme issued an edict ordering her to return to the palace, she would never be allowed to return to Chang'an.
When she returned to Chang'an, she was afraid that she would provoke a war between the two countries on the northern border. Yuwentai is recently considering expanding to the south to include the fertile land of Bashu. If there is chaos in the north, this big plan, which is related to the long-term livelihood of the people and the provision of war supplies, will be temporarily shelved.
After receiving Yuwentai's task, Ran Ying chartered a small boat that day and went east along Weishui alone. She plans to travel along Weishui to Huazhou first, and then switch to a horse north, which will save at least half a day.
This route is something she has thought about carefully. Now that she and Su Xuan and Li Yu are both people who Yuwentai puts on the bright side, there must be a lot of eyes staring at the three of them. She simply pretended to take a boat to Huazhou without the guards, making people think that she made a special trip to Yuwentai to discuss some secret matters, and when she arrived in Huazhou, she changed back into women's clothes and went north to Dongxia Prefecture unconsciously.
She didn't let Yuwentai know about this plan in advance. Thinking that she would be able to see Yuwentai soon, Ran Ying only felt happy in her heart. It has been half a month apart, and Ran Ying always feels that there are some wisps of longing in her heart, floating anytime and anywhere, which is unpredictable.
This night, Ran Ying's boat slowly flowed down the Weishui River. The river is open and the water flow is gentle. Ran Ying felt a cool evening breeze blowing into the cabin on the river, so she came out of the cabin and stood at the bow of the boat to look at the night view on both sides. It was the beginning of July, just in autumn, and the night breeze was slightly cool and pleasant. Ran Ying raised her eyes to look at the shadows of the trees on both sides of the river, and looked at the shadows of the mountains lurking in the distance. The evening breeze blew in her face and blew the hem of her robe. Thinking of arriving in Huazhou tomorrow morning, her heart was extremely happy.
At this time, there was a faint sound of music in my ears. Ran Ying turned around and saw a luxurious building ship slowly sailing. Lou's sails are big, so it's much faster than Ran Ying's boat. Soon, the boat caught up with Ran Ying's boat. Ran Ying heard the singing, dancing and laughter on the boat, and couldn't help but turn her head to take a look. I saw that the cabin on the second floor was brightly lit, and the sound of silk and bamboo drum music came from there. The cabin was full of people, and it seemed that a bunch of young people were playing and having fun.
Ran Ying smiled lightly, turned her head and continued to look at the night on both sides of the strait. The night was clear, the sky was cloudless, and the slender moon of the third day of the first month was lying on the edge of the sky leisurely, like a lady lying on the couch. Across the sky above her was a huge, brilliant Milky Way.
It's almost Tanabata again. Ran Ying thought about it, remembering what they had said in the garden of her house during the Qixi Festival last year.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps on the deck of the ship next to it, and a woman ran out, probably having drunk too much, and fell on the side of the ship and vomited violently.
The filth was generously sprinkled on Ran Ying's body with the wind......
Ran Ying sighed, only to feel nauseous, and hurriedly took out a handkerchief to wipe it indiscriminately, and was spoiled by someone, and the fire in her heart rose up.
The other two women who came out saw it and hurriedly said, "Oops, it's bad! Dirty the clothes of Na Lang Jun on the boat next door! ”
Two other young men also followed, and saw that Ran Ying was dressed in a silver-white Shu brocade dress, although her clothes were a little embarrassed by the filth at the moment, but there was still a sense of nobility between her eyebrows. As soon as they looked up and down, they knew that Ran Ying was a child of a certain family, and hurriedly said loudly to Ran Ying: "This Langjun, I really can't stand it." Our dancing girl accidentally soiled Lang Jun's clothes. Please move to our ship, we have maids to clean up for Lang Jun. ”
Ran Ying has a task on this trip, so she naturally doesn't dare to be greedy for cups and play. She replied lightly and said aloud, "Small things, don't bother." With that, he turned around and went back to the cabin.
When she came out again, she had changed into a cyan linen shirt, covered with white light yarn, without a belt, like a scholar.
At this time, a bright and hearty voice came from the boat: "This Langjun, I see that you are alone, would you like to come and have a drink with us?" ”
Ran Ying turned her head and showed the kind of polite and distant smile that belonged to the family: "No need......
When she saw the face of the person who spoke, she was stunned and could no longer say the second half of the sentence.
The boat was brightly lit, and the man's face was clearly illuminated.
"Ziqing?"
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