Chapter 76: The Reception Feast 4
When everyone heard this, they felt that there was no connection between the two, and a look of confusion appeared in their eyes.
"Why did Miss He frame me! That cup of tea is ordinary tea, where can I get a hundred flowers? Qian Lan burst into tears and leaned weakly on Mrs. Qian's arms, "I was just talking to the little palace maid just now, do you think I bought the palace maid to deliberately spill tea on your clothes?" ”
At this time, He Xiaoxiao knelt on the ground, bowed her head and said: "Back to the saint, our girl's sachet is soaked and can't be hung on her body, so the slave maid has been holding it in her hand, and later saw Miss Qian's handkerchief fall to the ground, the slave maid picked up the handkerchief and returned it to Miss Qian, but forgot that there was water in the sachet in her hand, which made the handkerchief stained with a hundred flowers!" ”
Lord Qian pointed at He Xiaoxiao and said bitterly, "If it is really according to what you said, why were you not chased by a swarm of bees?" ”
"Because I just saw a swarm of bees coming, the slave maid was frightened for a moment and threw away the sachet in her hand."
Cao Ke sneered, "Who knows if you are talking nonsense to excuse your master, Your Majesty, I implore Your Majesty to send someone to search the sachet, and let the beekeeper check if the sachet really contains a hundred flowers!" ”
Guo Xiao couldn't help but look at Jiang Cailing and He Xiaoxiao worriedly, and Guo Ang's low voice came from his ears, "Quasi!" ”
After a while, the sachet was found, and the beekeeper took it and put it under his nose and sniffed it, his eyes were startled, and then he bowed his head and said, "Back to Your Majesty, this is ...... This is a hundred flowers before the improvement, the fragrance is sweeter than before, and the small ones will not be mistaken! ”
Even if this matter is settled, the people present cast contemptuous eyes at Qian Lan one after another, wanting to frame others but hurting themselves.
Stealing chickens does not become a counter-erosion of rice.
After Qian Lan heard the beekeeper's words, she turned her head to look at Jiang Cailing like a ghost, tore off her mask of hypocrisy, and shouted, "How is this possible!" No, I didn't! Your Majesty is clear, the courtiers are wronged! ”
Guo Ang stood on top of the high position as a young man, his eyes locked on Jiang Cailing, and said in a deep voice, "The palace maid just now!" ”
The palace maid came over tremblingly, not knowing what was happening, but seeing the little emperor's unhappy face, her heart sank immediately, and she searched for Qian Lan's figure in the crowd, only to find that Qian Lan was kneeling on the ground with her clothes soaked, extremely embarrassed.
Thinking that the matter was revealed, she was so busy that she knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "Your Majesty! All this ...... It was all Miss Qian's idea, and it was Miss Qian who gave me a gold bracelet and asked me to deliberately spill tea on Miss He's clothes! ”
"You!" Qian Lan coughed angrily, pointed at Qian Lan and scolded, "You are a slut, why do you want to frame me!" ”
As if she was afraid of being implicated, the little palace maid took out a gold bracelet from her cuffs, "Your Majesty, the slave maid also took Miss Qian's gold bracelet in a moment of confusion, and the slave maid knows that she is wrong!" I really know that I was wrong! ”
The words of the little palace maid completely confirmed Qian Lan's guilt, and the young ladies and sons who had praised Qian Lan for her kindness just now whispered at this time:
"I didn't expect Qian Lan to be such a person, I have always regarded her as a good sister!"
"I didn't believe the rumors of Daqing Temple before, but now I think that eighty percent of that time was also Qian Lan wanting to frame He Ling'er!"
"Originally, I wanted the matchmaker to go to Jiang's house in a few days to say that the matchmaker was coming, but fortunately I didn't! If such a woman were my wife, wouldn't my backyard be on fire? ”
Gu Jiming glanced at Jiang Cai deeply, and caught a glimpse of the fleeting sly look in her eyes, and his lips couldn't help but raise a slight arc.
Anger appeared on Guo Ang's immature face, "Qian Lan, what else do you have to say!" ”
"Your Majesty, the courtiers are really wronged!"
Although Concubine Xu has been worshipping Buddha for many years and has not heard of chaos, after all, she is a person who has been up and down in the deep palace for 20 years, and she has seen too many frames and slanders, and now the harem is quiet, but she can't imagine that a young lady of a family dares to design and frame others in the palace, isn't this despising the royal majesty again?
Thinking of this, Concubine Xu's face showed a fierce color, and she said to Qian Lan, "Miss Qian despises the palace rules, frames others, reads at a young age, is grounded for half a year, and copies the "Women's Ring" a hundred times; Lord Qian has no way to raise his daughter, what do you think should be done with it, Your Majesty? ”
Guo Ang said in a deep voice, "Today is the reception banquet I opened for the imperial brother, and it is read on the face of King Fuyuan, Qian Yushi's fortune is halved, and the official is reduced to five grades, does Qian Qing have any opinions?" ”
The tail note of the upward pick made Lord Qian's legs weak, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he hurriedly pulled his wife to kneel on the ground and kowtowed, "Your Majesty is wise!" The minister did not discipline his daughter well, it was the minister's fault, and the minister took the dog girl back to the house to think about it! ”
Guo Ang nodded, "Accurate." ”
After the Qian family left, even if this little episode was in the past, Wang Yilang's face was a little bad, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty when he looked at Jiang Cailing, however, Jiang Cailing didn't notice the Dao line of sight.
At the beginning of the lanterns, the whole hall seems to present a splendid momentum, and the Nine Dragons entrenched behind Guo Ang's dragon chair are vivid, as if they will rush out of the wall in the next second, and the Nine Dragons will fly into the sky.
The banquet officially began, and twenty palace maids rushed in, holding jade plates of delicacies in their hands, which were placed in turn, from starters to desserts.
Jiang Cailing sat in the farthest place from the emperor, and could vaguely see a touch of bright yellow, Gu Jiming sat under the light, dressed in white, looking more and more handsome and clean, like a white crane standing in a flock of chickens, giving people a bright feeling.
Guo Yao has been stationed at the border for three years, but he feels a little uncomfortable with the staggered planning of Luoyang, and he pushes the cup to change the lamp, but he begins to miss the lonely smoke of the desert and the sunset of the long river.
At night, the sky is only accompanied by moonlight and starlight, and without this bright candle flame like day, the Milky Way in the night sky is more and more bright, as if reaching out to save the stars. Under that sky, mixed with the majestic smell unique to the desert, you can drink and ride horses wantonly, you can party all night after winning a battle, and you can also fight fists and swords in peacetime.
Uninhibited, free!
It's not like in this palace, the stars are dim, every word and deed must be controlled, and no one can leave anyone behind.
Just when the atmosphere was at its peak, Guo Yao felt bored in his heart, and used the excuse of going outside to sober up alone, but he didn't expect to meet Jiang Cailing who was coming towards him.
Guo Yao saw that there was no one around, so he joked, "Why is Jiang Niangniang here?" ”
Jiang Cailing originally wanted He Xiaoxiao to help her go to Weiyang Palace to get a prescription she had written before, but she didn't know how to explain to her for a while that she was the Empress Dowager Jiang who borrowed the corpse to resurrect her soul, so she dispelled this idea. Now that I saw Guo Yao, I remembered that it was better to let Guo Yao go to Weiyang Palace in person, and take out her other pharmaceutical treasures.
"It's boring at the banquet, come out to breathe, but you, as the protagonist of the banquet, why are you here alone to blow the wind?"
Guo Yao didn't know where the boredom came from, and there was no one around him who could confide in him except Jiang Cailing, so he asked, "Do you remember the tree hole?" ”
Jiang Cailing's eyes flashed with a smile after hearing the word tree hole, the tree hole is a place that only the two of them know, after Jiang Cailing was wrongfully poisoned and poisoned the concubine, she looked for Guo Yao everywhere, wanted to reason with her, but found that he was hiding behind a century-old tree alone, crying like a rabbit.
The ancient tree grows behind the rockery, the trunk is very thick, ten people can barely hold it, there is a depression similar to a tree hole on the side facing the rockery, forming the effect of covering on three sides, the other side is the pond water, the pond water of the four seasons is always boundless, and the scene behind the ancient tree can not be seen on the opposite side of the bank.
If Jiang Cailing hadn't heard the cry, she wouldn't have found such a hidden place.
At that time, Guo Yao was only fifteen years old, and he was ridiculed by the concubine for his deceased mother, and resentment gathered in his heart, knowing that she was good at making drugs, he sneaked into her palace and took a pill.
He didn't know that the pill was a deadly poison, and after the news of the concubine's death came the next day, Guo Yao's whole body was dizzy.
He killed!
The mother concubine has always said that she hopes that he can grow up safely, and one day he can leave the palace, go as far away as possible, keep his hands clean, and don't worry about someone asking for his life in his dreams.
However, his hands were now bloody.
Jiang Cailing saw Guo Yao hiding behind the tree hole alone and crying blankly, she couldn't bear it, he also reacted like this when she killed the first person, with endless fear in her daze.
Thinking of his past self, Jiang Cailing also sat under the big tree and chatted openly with this young man who was equivalent to his stepson.
They had not been to the hollow for a long time, and they sat on the ground, leaning against the thick trunk of the tree, and because the light was dim, the starlight was extraordinarily bright.
The evening breeze was slightly cool, blowing on her face with a bit of comfort, her hands supporting the ground, Jiang Cailing looked at the night sky with bright stars, and couldn't help but sigh, "Beautiful!" ”
Guo Yao looked up at the night sky and said with a smile, "When you have time, I'll take you to Biansai to have a look, it's much more beautiful than the sky above you and me!" ”
Hearing this, Jiang Cailing looked at him sideways, "It seems that you like life in the desert very much!" ”
"yes, I love it." I love it so much that I don't want to come back.
Jiang Cailing frowned, Guo Yao is a child with a pure heart, Emperor Zhaohong sent him to Biansai for three years thinking that he could train a cold-blooded tough guy, but he ignored Guo Yao's own desire for power, compared to the freedom of the desert, what is the prosperity and power of Luoyang?
This is something that Emperor Zhaohong, who pursues imperial power for a lifetime, cannot understand, and he will not understand that there will be people in the whole world who refuse the right to reach out and obtain.
But Da Zhou is now suffering from internal and external troubles, the mountains and rains are shaking, Guo Ang is still young and cannot control the big country and abroad, Jiang Cailingyun opened his lips lightly, "Sometimes, what you like is not necessarily a choice, people can't just live for themselves, especially the people in this palace." ”
When Guo Yao heard this, a relieved smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he took out a wooden flute from his cuff and sent it to Jiang Cailing, "This is the flute I played with poplar trees, it was like giving it to you last time, but I thought I was too surprised, so I forgot about it." ”
Jiang Cailing took over the wooden flute, and Guo Yao's wooden flute was very exquisite. The poplar tree grows in the desert, and she also learned in the book that the poplar does not die for a thousand years, does not fall down for a thousand years after death, and does not rot for a thousand years after falling.
With her eyebrows and eyes crooked, Jiang Cailing put the wooden flute in her sleeve cage and smiled brightly, "Thank you." ”
On the second day after the palace banquet ended, Jiang Cailing suddenly received a mysterious big wooden box from Gu Jiming, opened it and found that all kinds of flutes, piccolo, bamboo flutes, wooden flutes, and jade flutes were neatly placed inside.
"One, two, three,......" Bai He counted beside him, "girl, there are thirty-three flutes, Gu Xiang is going to sell flutes?" ”
Jiang Cailing also looked confused, not knowing what Gu Jiming meant.
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