Chapter 2: The First Meeting (1)
Three years passed in a flash, and Jiang Yuan really showed extraordinary talent as Du Huainan expected. And King Yuyang also succeeded in seeing the admiration and attachment in Liu Qiqi's eyes. The mother once said that it is not difficult to get a woman's favor, and after three days of warmth, there is a day of cold eyes, which can make most of you feel haunted by the soul.
Liu Qiqi's personal maid Chunyan is also a member of Concubine Wan's faction, and it is not difficult for King Yuyang to know that he successfully made Liu Qiqi haunted him, but what he didn't expect was that in getting along day after day, he also became more and more worried about Liu Qiqi.
But it's useless to be worried, Xu is mother has a wary of him after all, the person who controls Liu Nanguo's party is Du Huainan, not him, with his current power, it is difficult to retreat from the whole body, how can he save Liu Qiqi from this chaos?
He could only let Du Huainan control him and Liu Qiqi.
Ruan Niang walked in with the lively Liu Shiyi, holding the bow given to him by the King of Yuyang.
While King Yuyang was pondering, Liu Shiyi had already let go of Ruan Niang's hand and ran to King Yuyang: "Lord Wang, do we really want to go out to play?" ”
King Yuyang forced a laugh and touched Liu Shiyi's head: "It's not playing, it's practicing riding and shooting." If you're obedient, we can wait until before lunch to go home. ”
"I will be obedient!" Liu Shiyi was excited.
The group walked in the direction of the palace gate, and as soon as they passed through a moon cave gate, they saw Liu Qiqi.
Liu Qiqi owes a debt, and smiles lightly: "Lord Wang." ”
King Yuyang helped her up, and saw that she was dressed in water blue, with a slanted hairpin and jade hairpin, and her eyes were more and more like autumn water, her eyebrows were like spring mountains, and her waist was not full of hands. King Yuyang couldn't help but sigh that he was good in his eyes, and he picked her at a glance among a group of Jishengtang abandoned babies, and she was really a rare beauty. When I looked at it, I felt a dull pain in my heart.
"Seventh sister, the prince and I went out of the house today, you are alone, don't feel bored!" Liu Shiyi and Liu Qiqi are both abandoned babies in Jishengtang, and they live in another place, and they have always been as close as sisters and brothers.
"Let's come back after lunch, it won't make your seventh sister bored," although the prince said this to Liu Shiyi, his eyes glanced at Qiqi. Probably Du Huainan and Ruan Niang instructed him to pretend to be affectionate to Qiqi, pretending to be in love, and it came true, "Qiqi is a good student to practice the piano, "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" has been practiced, and this king will teach you a new one in the afternoon." ”
Liu Qiqi's face is crimson, like peach blossoms in early spring, pure and beautiful without wind and rain: "Don't worry, the prince." ”
After King Yuyang left, Liu Qiqi walked to the back garden, and saw that Chunyan had already set up the piano under the apricot tree, and sat quietly for a while before starting to practice.
Not long after King Yuyang left, Jiang Yuan took Xia Boyong to the main gate of the palace, and the housekeeper Xue Sheng saw Jiang Yuan several times, and when he saw Jiang Yuan, he hurriedly saluted: "The old slave has seen the Marquis of Qingdu, and he has seen Lord Xia, but I don't know that the Hou Ye is coming, and I am sorry for the loss of the welcome." Hou Ye waited for a while, and the old slave sent someone to spread the word. ”
Jiang Yuan is a businessman after all, and he doesn't like this kind of false courtesy: "No need, the prince knows that I am here today, why bother to make a big fuss?" ”
It turned out that at the state banquet three days ago, King Yuyang asked Jiang Yuan to come to the palace today, claiming that he had something to discuss. Although the king of Yuyang has always been dissatisfied with Jiang Yuan's exchange of money for titles, he has always pretended to admire and admire, and he has formed some friendship with Jiang Yuan, so Jiang Yuan happily agreed. And the King of Yuyang, today he pretended to forget about this matter and took Liu Shiyi out to practice riding and archery, in order to be able to follow Du Huainan's intentions, so that Jiang Yuan could meet Liu Qiqi who was playing the piano alone.
Xue Sheng had expected this, and said with a smile: "That old slave took the Hou Ye in." ”
Jiang Yuan nodded: "I'm tired of Uncle Xue." ”
Xue Sheng led Jiang Yuan and Xia Boyong through a few corner doors, and when they arrived at the door of the Moon Cave in the back garden, he pointed to a path in front of him: "Lord Qiqi, along this gravel road, go east at the fork, turn a clump of Xiangfei bamboos and arrive at the prince's study, does the Hou Ye still need the old slave to go in together?" ”
Jiang Yuan was naturally reluctant to show weakness in front of others, and said almost without thinking: "No need, it's hard Uncle Xue." ”
Jiang Yuan and Xia Boyong followed what Xue Sheng said, and sure enough, they saw a fork in the road after a while, and were about to turn east, Xia Boyong was smart and heard the sound of the piano from the west: "Isn't that the prince playing the piano?" ”
Jiang Yuan listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard the sound of the piano, and he knew that this song was the seventh section of "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud" "Tianshui Yibi". Jiang Yuan stopped to listen carefully, and seemed to see the smoke of the thousands of miles of Dongting spreading out in front of him, he followed the sound of the piano and walked over, only to see two bunches of red apricots like cooking fire and steaming the glow, and under the apricot blossoms sat a cardamom girl, with black hair in green clothes, like a painting of ink that only splashes ink and does not need to outline.
Jiang Yuan was stunned, and his mind was confused, as if he had fallen into a dream.
Even Xia Boyong, who dismissed singing, dancing, calligraphy and painting as tasteless, couldn't help but secretly sigh at the intoxicating picture in front of him.
After Liu Qiqi finished playing "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud", she raised her eyes and saw the two strange men in front of her, who had been with the prince day and night for three years, and had already learned not to be surprised and to observe in detail. Qiqi secretly looked at the clothes of the two, the clothes were all good Yunluo brocade, navy blue, algae pattern moire, the color and style were also good, and I felt that it should be the guest of the prince. Thinking that the prince adopted her and Liu Shiyi to accumulate good fortune, he was afraid that others would know about it and misunderstand, so he didn't want her and Liu Shiyi to show up in front of people, the palace was heavily guarded, and these two people were able to enter the back garden of the palace. walked out from behind the piano, bowed down, pretended to be panicked, his eyes flashed, like a deer drinking water by the river suddenly frightened: "I have seen two adults." ”
Jiang Yuan woke up like a dream and looked at Liu Qiqi fixedly: "Who are you?" ”
"I'm Qingfu and Bai Su's cousin." Qiqi lowered his head, and his voice was like a mosquito. Qingfu Baisu is a pair of Xue Sheng's children, two brothers and sisters, and they are the maids and servants of the King of Yuyang, Liu Qiqi guessed that if he was a guest of the prince, he must know Qingfu Baisu.
Jiang Yuan looked at Liu Qiqi, seeing that she looked like a young lady Houmen, he nodded suspiciously, and saw that her honest and frightened appearance was good-looking and interesting, so he deliberately teased her: "You are Bai Su's cousin, so you should know that his brother and sister are just subordinates in Yuyang Palace, how can you, as a relative of the subordinates, play the piano in the master's garden?" ”
Liu Qiqi inadvertently raised his eyes and bumped into Jiang Yuan's eyes, only to feel that his eyes were extremely dark and deep, like a trace of a deep valley, and he would fall to his death if he was not careful.