Chapter 22 What is the joy without you
Do you want to complete the fast-wearing task as soon as possible and return to the original world?
No, wherever she wears a mask to act, what's the difference when she goes back?
Feel free to write a couple of sentences, but she pretended to be cold to Shang Xuanse, but she didn't hide the deep eyes of expectation, so she couldn't do it casually.
After thinking about it, she stretched out her hand to the young man who had already written, "You wrote it, show it to me." β
The young man raised his eyebrows and explained to her earnestly, "The prayer written down cannot be shown to others casually, because if you read it, it will not work."
"That's right," Bai Zhi looked at such a young man with a serious explanation, but the tips of her ears were already flushed, and a sentence burst out from the bottom of her heart, she turned her back and wrote with a pen, "Then I can't show it to His Highness." β
"......" The omnipotent His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made a difficulty, so he insisted on watching it, the little eunuch would not fail to show him, but this overturned his explanation, can he admit that he is talking nonsense casually and scolding her?
"Don't look at that, let it go." After a pause, he seemed to be sure, "It will definitely be spiritual." β
Bai Zhi raised her eyes to look at him, and His Royal Highness smiled slightly, with a confident appearance, which was very exciting, and for a moment gave her the illusion that he knew what he was writing.
The two of them went to the deck and put the lightboat into the river together, and watched the two of them snuggle up and float into the distance.
"Xiao Shunzi, are those two red lights?" Behind him came an arrogant and undisguised provocative voice, "Hand me the arrow, and I'll shoot it." β
Bai Zhi turned around, and the chubby Nine Highnesses took the bow and arrow handed over by the eunuch, and put on the bowstring until Xuan Se's red light shot away.
"Don't!" The farther the red light that is written the wish floats, the more it can be realized, and if it is destroyed halfway, it means misfortune.
The arrow flew across the river, and it swept dangerously and dangerously within a mile of Xuanse's paper lamp.
Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't want Xuan Shu to laugh at her, so she turned her head, "Xiao Shunzi, the arrow feather is on fire and hands me one again." β
So, a fiery arrow shot straight at the red light with the royal emblem on Xuan Se.
Bai Zhi looked at it in a daze, only to feel a sudden dull pain in her heart.
There might as well be another arrow that chased straight after the one of His Royal Highness the Nine, and the latecomer came first, shooting the red lights of Xuan Se and Bai Zhi together, and perfectly avoiding the wick, only pushing it farther away.
Xuan Shu's rocket, which was about to destroy the red light, once again missed by a fraction of a millimeter and passed the two red lights that were combined into one, and was cut into two sections by the latecomer and fell into the bottom of the river.
Bai Zhi didn't see how Xuan Shu, who was still mocking the arrogance, jumped like thunder, but just turned around, and sure enough, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was putting down the bow and arrow that was full of strings, with a cold and thin disdain.
But he had just used that amazing archery skill to string his long-cherished wish and his thoughts together, like a branch, drifting farther and farther until the day when the will of heaven was reached and completely realized.
"Xuanse!" Xuan Shu angrily walked over with a group of attendants, "You dare to shoot down the arrows of His Highness!" β
Xuan Se handed the bow and arrow to Xiao Qian, the guard with a knife behind him, raised his hand and pulled Bai Zhi into his protection range, and didn't bother to look at Xuan Shu, "What's the matter?" β
"You are not as good as others, do you still want Prince Ben to apologize to you?" The curvature of the corners of his mouth is a mockery from above, which easily destroys the righteousness of others.
Xuan Shu's face turned red instantly, "Xuan Se, it was my mother who raised you, so that you can live until now, but you are acting as the crown prince, in front of His Royal Highness, you dare to call yourself the prince?!" β
When Bai Zhi heard this, she felt that these Nine Highnesses were born under the heavy wings of the queen, which was childishly ridiculous.
"On selfishness, I am your eldest brother in name, on the public, I am the crown prince of my father's own title, the ninth brother, you are so rampant in front of me, it is disrespectful!"
"Say I shouldn't call myself the crown prince, or do you have objections to my father's decision?"
Xuan Shu's face changed, but he became more and more angry, if he hadn't been weak since he was a child, it would be his turn to take a prince in front of him to suppress himself?
So, he became more and more unscrupulous, "Xuan Se, don't forget your duty, the lowly breed of the lowly palace girl-"
"Shut up," Xuan Se's expression turned completely cold, "Extremely naΓ―ve!" β
Saying that, he seemed to disdain to talk nonsense with the naΓ―ve Xuanshu, and pulled Bai Zhi to leave.
But only Bai Zhi knew, he was holding his fingers and trembling.
Xuan Shu thought that he looked down on himself, and in disbelief, he walked behind Xuan Se in a few steps, put his shoulder on his shoulder, and smashed it with a fist the moment he turned around.
"It's just a!" He said so with a pout, his eyes full of disdain.
But in the next second, he was kicked to the ground by Xuan Se, and his shock was overflowing, "You dare to fight back, you dare to hit me?!" β
Xuan Se wiped the blood stains from the corners of his mouth, and looked down at him condescendingly, just like he did to Bai Zhi at the beginning, looking at him as a grass mustard, "You have rough skin and thick flesh, and you can afford to beat you." β
Xuan Shu hates others the most that he can't compare to Xuan Se, and the second hate is that others say that he is fat, and Xuan Se takes both of them.
He got up like crazy, and pounced on Xuan Se, Xuan Se saw him coming like a tank, in order to protect Bai Zhi behind him, he took a step back, but he didn't expect that the deck behind him was not blocked by a guardrail, he stepped on the air, and fell backwards.
"Poof, poof-" The two sounds were Xuan Shu who followed him and rushed into the river by inertia.
"Come on, your Royal Highness has fallen into the water!" Xiao Shunzi let out a sharp exclamation, breaking the imperial ministers who were admiring the moon and drinking on the other side of the Daifuku boat.
"What?!" It is always the queen of the world who is the mother of the world who is out of shape, and the crested hairpin on her head is shaking, and she can't stop her from rushing to the place where her son fell into the water.
"Why are you still stunned? Why don't you hurry down and save your child!! β
Under the queen's order, several Praetorian Guards jumped into the river in an instant to save the ball of meat that kept fluttering.
Because the meat ball was too large and kept struggling in the water, the people who went into the water patronized to save him, and His Royal Highness the Prince, who didn't know the water, sank lower and lower on the other side, but no one took care of him.
Bai Zhi has been shouting to save Xuan Se on the side, but her voice is too small in the cries of the Nine Highnesses to save her.
She was so anxious that she realized that it was better to rely on others than on herself, and the next second she almost jumped into the river without hesitation, although her water was barely strong.
Finally breaking through the resistance of the water and finding Xuan Se, who was about to sink to the bottom of the river, she swam over, hugged him from behind, and led him to break through the water and swim to the boat.
Xuan Se thought he was going to die in the suffocation of drowning, but a pair of slender hands appeared behind him, so weak, but they hugged him tightly and led him out of the water.
It was the fragrance of begonias that the river could not drown, clear and warm, dispelling the coldness and despair around him.
Bai Zhi saw him open his eyes and comforted him with joy, "Your Highness, rest assured, Xiao Pingzi will bring you to the ship safely." β
Xuan Se's face was covered with a cold color that was wet with water, but it made his eyebrows like paint, and his face was like Pan An, "Will you be by my side forever?" β
"Absolutely." Bai Zhi blurted out, thinking to herself, you are my target, of course I have to accompany you to attack you.
And this thought was shaken when he saw Xuan Se who was laughing, and he smiled so movingly, like a green lotus blooming through the mud, rippling with light, and the city fell like a promise.
Just like a sunflower can't refuse the sun, no one can refuse his laughter.
In a trance, Angelica Angelica seemed to have seen it.
In a moment's stunned, her left foot twitched, and she found that she had cramps.
Let's just say that you can't say it too early, now it's okay, neither of them can be safe, and they have to stop eating.
Fortunately, Xiao Qianxiao, who had just gone out to put the ice lantern, came back, and as soon as he noticed that the two were moving differently, he went to the sabre, plunged into the river, and rescued both of them on the boat.
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In the cabin of the Daifuku ship, there is a cave, and it is exquisitely like a palace.
Emperor Xuantian was in a high position, flanked by the empress and the newly promoted Concubine Li.
In the middle is Xuan Se and Xuan Shu, who have just changed into dry clothes, with their heads down, waiting for a lesson, surrounded by eunuchs and palace maids who are waiting, and outside the cabin are circles of guarded forbidden soldiers.
"I'm weird, if you two brothers have any grudges or grudges, you can hit the river with an ice lantern!"
"It was Xuan Se who pushed me!" Xuan Shu sneezed pitifully, but the words he said were still so annoying, "I grabbed the corner of his clothes when I fell, and he would fall into the river with him." β
Saying that, he seemed to be even more aggrieved, "Erchen has been weak and sickly since he was a child, Xuan Se knew that my body was poor, and he pushed me into the cold river, he obviously wanted me to die!" Father, mother, you have to be the master of your sons! β
He called the emperor and queen in his mouth, but his eyes looked straight at the queen, he knew that his mother would definitely seek "justice" for herself.
"Xuan Se, is what your brother said true?" The queen really opened her mouth, although she was asking, but she didn't listen to his explanation at all, "Your younger brother has been weak since he was a child, and you have seen with your own eyes how much he has suffered and how much medicine he has taken to grow up to now." β
"But it's good now, you actually deliberately pushed him into the river, how cold the river water is in August, what kind of heart do you have!"
Xuan Se raised his head and glanced at the emperor and queen on the seat gently, his eyes were extremely light, like looking at two strangers, as if he was used to this kind of accusation of reversing black and white, "The son knows his mistake and lets his father and mother fall." β
The emperor frowned, and was about to speak, but the queen opened his mouth one step ahead of him, "Li Tian," she called him, "Xuan Se is the elder brother, even if he doesn't take care of his frail younger brother, he still hurts him so much, he must be taught a lesson, let him understand that this is strictly forbidden." β
Bai Zhi was an eye-opener, the first time she saw someone make it so handy to reverse black and white, but when she looked around, there were all silent eunuchs and palace maids, many of whom had witnessed the truth with their own eyes at that time, but they all chose to acquiesce.
The emperor groaned for a while, and finally thought of a punishment, "You are the crown prince today, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, harming the younger brother, and misbehaving, so you will be rewarded with fifty boards and punished with a one-year grounding." β
"Thank you for your father's gift." Xuan Se knelt straight to the ground, his long clothes were lying on the ground in a miserable arc, he raised his hands high, and received this false accusation from beginning to end.
Bai Zhi gritted her teeth, almost hating blood, and when she met Xiao Shunzi's sarcastic gaze that she deliberately swept over, and Xuan Shu's expected smile, she suddenly rushed to Xuan Se's side, knelt heavily on the ground, and kowtowed to the emperor, "The slave has something to say." β
"Oh," said the Emperor, who looked at him carelessly, and found the little eunuch delicately lovely, "what do you have to say? β
"In fact, at that time, during the fight between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Ninth Highness, it was the slave who stepped forward to pull the rack, and accidentally bumped into His Royal Highness the Prince, so he accidentally pushed down His Royal Highness the Ninth and fell into the river together."
"Is that true?"
"Really, if there is half a lie, the slave is willing to suffer the sin of the nine clans, and there is no place to bury him!" Her oath was sonorous and powerful, and no one could believe it.
Xuan Se, who has always been calm and waveless, clenched his fists at this time, and shed a tear very lightly, which quickly disappeared from the corner of his eye, but it was engraved into his heart, and he will remember it for the rest of his life.
He had hurt the only person who cared about him because of his own weakness, and made this kind of poisonous oath that sounded heartbreaking.
I have to say that the ancients still believed in this kind of poisonous oath, the little eunuch said so, and she was indeed standing behind Xuan Se and Xuan Shu at that time, and no one noticed her actions in the chaos, and no one was sure whether she did what she said.
On the contrary, no one can deny it.
"I believe you, if you dare to swear that the Nine Clans will be punished and there will be no place to be buried, it can't be a lie."
Bai Zhi raised her head and looked at the king of the world with a respectful face, but she thought in her heart, I came to this other world with the corpses of dead people, and there have been no nine clans for a long time, and it was originally a strange soul, and in this world, there is no place to be buried.
"Since I believe in you, I will punish you. Whether you have a heart or not, the two princes are in the water because of you," the emperor groaned slightly, ignoring the queen who still wanted to speak, "I will reward you with a hundred boards, whether you can live or not depends on your creation." β
A hundred big boards, not to mention a strong man, can't stand it, let alone a small body? The emperor is giving her another way to death.
"Father," Xuan Se raised his head, begging him for the first time as an adult, "Please be gracious, let go of Xiao Pingzi, a hundred big boards, and the son is willing to take it for her." β
"How can this be reasonable, how can you be the prince of a country, for the sake of a eunuch!" The emperor was furious, "You are despising yourself, despising the royal family!" β
Hehe, Xuan Se almost laughed, now he knows that he is the prince, so why has he never looked at him from childhood to adulthood, why on the day of the wedding, the princess who has not passed the door, he can't even say a word, so he directly buried her alive, why Xuan Shu was so obvious just now, he didn't mean to check at all, so he concluded that he was misbehaving?
"Father," he raised his hands above his head again, resisting for the first time in his life, "if you want someone to hit Xiao Pingzi with a cane, go over my corpse." β
"You, you presumptuous!" Xuantian seemed to hear some heart-wrenching words, his hand pointed directly at him, and he almost stepped down from the throne angrily, gave him a kick, and kicked him up fiercely.
And the queen has always looked at it coldly, completely forgetting the world of her mother, and forgetting that Xuan Se is also the son she raised.
Fortunately, Concubine Li, who has always been quiet and well-behaved, grabbed the emperor's hand and comforted softly, "The emperor is angry, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a slave protector, which shows that he has a benevolent heart." For the way of benevolence, for the foundation of the emperor, His Majesty the Emperor should be happy to have such a prince. β
Her voice was as melodious as a lark, and she unconsciously soothed the anger in the emperor's heart, "Is that really the case? β
"Of course," Concubine Li smiled, pretty and enchanting, as if she was ten years younger, "Besides, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the day of family reunion, and the whole country celebrates, why is the emperor so angry?" β
"Xiao Pingzi is also a protector, and if he wants to pull the fight, he will accidentally push down the two princes, but he also has merit, if he is not afraid of danger, jumped into the river, and saved the prince, the emperor will lose a prince with a benevolent heart."
mentioned this, the queen became angry, she was originally a prince who was going to die, but because of this nosy little eunuch, she fell short, and even glanced at Bai Zhi fiercely.
At that time, in the chaos, everyone took care of His Royal Highness Jiu, and the prince did have only one little eunuch who jumped into the water to save him, and he also heard about it, and turned his eyes to look at the little eunuch who had been kneeling, "Hehehe...... According to you, it is time for me to reward him? β
"Of course not, if the death penalty is forgiven, and the living crime cannot be escaped, let him be punished with fifty lashes."
"This is too light," the whipping is much more pleasant than the cane punishment, and the queen couldn't help but speak, "He is a little eunuch, but he single-handedly harmed two princes into the water, and his crime should be punished ......"
She was about to continue to persuade, but suddenly noticed that someone was staring at her, and she saw that it was Xuan Se, who had always been respectful to her, and her eyes were cold as if she was looking at a dying person, and as soon as the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them unconsciously.
"Your Majesty, today is the day of the canonization of the concubines, the concubines finally became concubines, I don't want dead people to appear in the palace, it's too unlucky, you can promise the concubines."
I have to say that a young and beautiful woman, who screams at an old man, is a big killer feature, suitable for both ancient and modern.
"Yes, I'll take care of you." As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed, "Spread my will and give Xiao Pingzi fifty whips." β
"However, the father ......" Xuan Shu was about to say more, but was interrupted by Xuantian.
"Okay, forget about this matter, don't mention it again, the hour is not early, I am tired, so I will leave for the palace and rest."
When he said this, naturally no one dared to say more.
Bai Zhi and Xuan Se saw each other, and they were secretly relieved, the two knelt side by side, and he secretly stretched out his hand from his sleeve, held Bai Zhi's hand in his palm, and hid it in the wide robe.
That's the cherishing and careful thing that wants to hide the whole person in his body, so that there will never be anyone who can bully and hurt him again.
The magnificent Daifuku ship, under the attention of the people of the city, slowly sailed in the direction of the palace.
And the innumerable bright lights in the river, under the clear light of the full moon, floated to the end of the sky, and two of them were printed with the royal symbol, glued together by an arrow, like a pair, each written:
"If you don't meet you in the world, there is nothing to be happy about."
"A lifetime of red dust, without you, how happy."