Chapter 85: Yu Xuan Yin
In March, the spring breeze blows the willows, the phoenix butterflies linger, and the apricot blossoms rain slightly. In the spring, it is rare to have such good weather in Luoyang City, overnight, the flowers are full of flowers, and all the flowers are together.
In March, it should have been a good time for spring, but Chang'an's mood was overshadowed by the death of Song Yanji.
Early this morning, as usual, she went to the Buddha hall with the cold smoke and evening incense to chant and worship the Buddha.
The Queen Mother took Huizhi's hand and walked in slowly, saw Chang'an here, and bowed her head to Huizhi slightly.
Chang'an folded his hands, knelt in front of the Buddha, recited Buddhist scriptures in his mouth, and did not notice the arrival of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother took in her expression at this time, and said softly, "Shen Guifei." ”
Chang'an was shocked, opened his eyes, and saw the Queen Mother standing beside him, and quickly stood up and said, "The concubine asks the Queen Mother for peace." ”
The Queen Mother bowed her head lightly and said gently, "The concubine is pious, but she came so early." ”
When Chang'an heard this, he smiled, "The affairs are complicated for a long time, but I just came here to have a clean life." ”
The Queen Mother's gaze seemed to fall on her face unintentionally, carefully probing her expression at the moment, and for a while, she suddenly said slowly, "The concubine was not like this before, but now she can calm down, probably because of the emperor." ”
Chang'an lowered his eyes shallowly and did not answer.
Seeing her like this, the Queen Mother said, "When Zhaoyi was newly mourned, the emperor ignored the government for a whole month, and now, he is only asking a little. As for the harem, it was even more neglected. I'm afraid that the concubine is also discouraged by the emperor. ”
Chang'an listened, but her face was not good-looking, she smiled hard and bitterly, and said slowly, "The emperor really likes Song Zhaoyi, she passed away, and the emperor is naturally sad." Now the emperor is not allowed to touch every scene and object in the Tongxin Palace, and Zhaoyi's funeral is arranged according to the position of the four concubines, so it must be affectionate. ”
The Queen Mother smiled peacefully, but the smile was as faint as a wisp of smoke, and then disappeared, "If the emperor really likes her, he should understand that he can't pamper her too much." He put Song Zhaoyi above 10,000 people, which will inevitably make her the target of public criticism. And he is the emperor, and he can't protect her all the time, so it is common for him to fall into the trap of others. ”
Before the Queen Mother's words fell, layers of cold sweat had already aroused on Chang'an's body.
Why did the Queen Mother say this to her for no reason, and what was her intention?
Chang'an raised his head and glanced at the Queen Mother vigilantly, seeing that her face was calm as usual, and he didn't pay attention to her, so he relaxed a little. Just wanted to say something, but heard a rush of footsteps approaching outside, and looked up, but saw that it was Huizhi who had come in.
"Queen Mother, King Jiangling is here."
Chang An was stunned, thinking about it, but saw that Chu Ying had slowly walked into the hall.
His gaze stayed on Chang'an for a moment, then retracted, turned to look at the Queen Mother, and said respectfully, "Chu Ying greets the Queen Mother." ”
Chang'an immediately stood up and said meekly, "It's inconvenient for the concubine to disturb the queen mother and the prince, so I retired first." ”
With that, she summoned the cold smoke and evening incense, and left.
The corner of Chu Ying's eyes gradually faded away with her figure, but soon he came back to his senses and said respectfully to the Queen Mother, "Erchen got up in the morning and went to Yongfu Palace to greet the Queen Mother, but my aunt said that the Queen Mother got up early to worship the Buddha, so Erchen also came here." ”
The Queen Mother bowed her head gently, and her tone was gentle, "The prince has a heart." ”
Chu Ying bowed his head warmly and said humbly, "The ministers there will not disturb the Queen Mother." ”
With that, he bowed to Huizhi again and slowly left.
Out of the Buddhist hall, he saw Chang'an's figure at a glance, and a warm smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he called her, "Guifei Niangniang." ”
Chang'an was stopped in vain, and she was startled, but she recognized that it was Chu Ying's voice, so she happily looked back, "Lord Wang." ”
Chu Ying approached suddenly, Chang'an's heart suddenly jumped heavily, she quietly took a step back, and said lightly, "When did the prince come to Luoyang?" ”
Chu Ying smiled softly and said gently, "It's only a few days." ”
Chang'an bowed slightly, wanting to say something more, but he didn't know how to speak. That's it, no matter what you say now, it seems out of place. So she had no choice but to bow her head silently, not knowing what to say.
After a long time, she suddenly heard Chu Ying slightly open her lips and said, "Niangniang has always liked Dai Qingyu in the past, why is it missing this time?" ”
Chang An raised his head in response, and saw that his gaze fell on his empty waist, and he immediately turned sideways, and a hint of redness suddenly appeared on his pale face, "I don't wear it often, so I took it off." ”
Speaking of this, Chang'an couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart.
She has always liked Qingyu the most, just because it is an accessory that Chu Luo often wears.
A pair of green jade, one for each person, was the most beautiful vision of those years.
Now that the vision is gone, she smashed the green jade pendant given by Chu Luo in Hecheng, and since then she has broken off the relationship between the two. Wearing it again is just adding to the sadness.
Chu Ying stared at her meaningfully, her eyes heavy, "But in the eyes of this king, Niangniang still likes it very much." ”
Chang'an suddenly raised his eyes and stared at him.
Chu Ying smiled lightly, suddenly took out something from his arms, held it tightly in the palm of his hand, and said to Chang'an with a smile, "This king has something he wants to give to the concubine." ”
As soon as Chang'an was about to speak, Chu Ying had already opened his palm, and a dragon-patterned white jade pendant was placed in his palm.
When Chang'an saw it, his eyes were slightly sour, and he almost wanted to cry.
It seems to have been a long, long time ago, and it seems to have been in the year of the Lin'an Palace.
It was also such a mild spring day, Chang'an sat on Chu Luo's lap, eating melon seeds one by one, and Chu Luo reached out to grab the melon seeds in her hand, but she glared back.
"Don't eat it!"
Chu Luo smiled with a smile in his eyes, and suddenly stretched out a hand from behind his back, clenched his fists tightly and placed it in front of Chang'an.
"Guess what's this?"
"I'm not a child!" Chang'an glanced at him angrily, and turned his head away, "I don't want to guess!" ”
"For you, guess what."
"Don't!"
"Don't?" Chu Luo smiled charmingly and looked at Chang'an, but he was reluctant to look away, "If you don't want me, you can give it to others, but some people want it......"
"I want it, I want it!" Chang An immediately turned around, wanting to grab something from Chu Luo's hand.
Chu Luo suddenly approached Chang'an, only a stone's throw away from the tip of her nose, his eyes were full of playfulness, and the corners of his lips suddenly hooked a slight arc, "Kiss me, I'll give it to you." ”
Chu Luo's breath warmly brushed on Chang'an's face, Chang'an's face was suddenly flushed, she suddenly turned her face away, and said forcefully, "Shameless!" I don't want it anymore! ”
"You said it yourself." Chu Luo smiled and wanted to put his hand back into his sleeve. Chang An saw the opportunity, suddenly kissed him lightly on the face, and then stretched out his hand to him and said, "Give it to me." ”
Chu Luo laughed proudly, and his hugging Chang'an couldn't help but increase a little, he stretched out his palm with a smile, but it was empty.
Chang An couldn't help but be disgusted, and immediately realized that he had been deceived, and hurriedly jumped up and was about to hit Chu Luo, "You lied to me-"
"Hey, hey, don't be in a hurry-" Chu Luo protected himself with one hand and hurriedly shouted out, "Zhu Heng! Zhu Heng! Come here! ”
The little guy who was called "Zhu Heng" was listening, but he was indifferent, he had long been accustomed to the flirting between the prince and the side concubine, so he covered his face and turned around to snicker. Seeing this, Chu Luo was extremely angry, and immediately raised his hand to hit him, and then he came back to his senses, his face was stunned, "Lord, Lord, Lord......"
"Go and bring what the king has prepared!"
Zhu Heng was stunned, he didn't know what to do, and just when he wanted to ask "what is it", he saw that Chu Luo's face was already blue with anger, and he hurriedly bowed down and said, "Yes, yes, Lord Wang." ”
He turned around, still not knowing what to look for, and the cold smoke beside him suddenly hit him and said angrily, "Are you stupid? Jade pendant! The prince's jade pendant! ”
"Oh oh oh-" Zhu Heng came to his senses at this time, hurriedly ran to the house and took out the jade pendant, and put it in front of the prince with a smile, "Master, here you are." ”
Chu Luo raised his eyes, motioned him to go down, turned to look at Chang'an, but had another tender look, "Give it to you, open it to see if you like it or not." ”
Chang'an's eyes were full of doubts, and she gently opened the square brocade box engraved with dragon patterns in front of her, and a good green jade pendant appeared in front of her eyes.
"It's not your ......"
"I gave it to you."
Chang An frowned unconsciously, "This is your favorite green jade pendant, are you really willing to give it to me?" ”
Chu Luo smiled, lowered his head, and kissed her in a deep face, "As long as it is something that this king has, he will give it all." After that, he looked at Chang'an, and there was endless pampering in his eyes, "Chang'an, in this world, even if there are thousands of things, they can't compete with you, as long as this king has, all of them will be given to you." ”
His words were as soft as the spring breeze in April, and now that I think about it, I still linger in Chang'an's mind, and I can't forget it for a long time.
It was the first green jade pendant Chu Luo gave her.
Every year in the future, she will receive such jade pendants.
But no matter how many I received later, it was not as precious as the first one.
However, after so many years, the green jade pendant she had always cherished forgot where she had untied it for a while. It's really forgotten, along with those warm memories of the past, forgotten together.
At this moment, Chang'an looked at the white jade in Chu Ying's hand, and suddenly remembered a lot of past events.
Chu Ying, Chu Luo, such a similar appearance, when Chu Luo gave her this green jade, it was also Chu Ying's age. And the expressions of the two at this time are incomparably similar.
She looked up at Chu Ying, and for a moment, her eyes were full of tears.
When Chu Ying saw her crying, she was stunned for a moment, and said busily, "If you don't like it, don't like it, this king will take it back." ”
"Give it to me." Chang'an stretched out his hand and took the jade pendant from Chu Ying's hand, his eyes immediately collided with his eyes like still water in the abyss, and said with a smile, "The things that were sent out, the prince will definitely not be able to take them back." ”
When Chu Ying heard this, a trace of joy suddenly appeared in his heart, and there was a deep smile between his eyebrows, and he said sincerely, "It's good if Niangniang likes it." ”