The long song Yuntai came to the silk and bamboo orchestra at night, and Concubine Qi Shufei ordered the palace to prepare the song and dance of the times, and performed "Stepping on the Shake Niang", and everyone pushed the cup to change the lamp at the banquet, which was very auspicious to see.

Mu Beiyi doesn't like to watch "Shake Niang", her sad appearance is very annoying. He glanced at it a few times and called Feng Tang to add wine.

"Does Your Majesty like this green grape wine?" Concubine Qi Shu saw Mu Beiyi frequently holding the lamp, her face was gentle and soft, and she asked with concern.

Mu Beiyi wears a dark long dress, a dragon hairpin, a jade bead, a bead hanging a golden tassel, and it is very majestic. He struck the side of the jade case with his fingertips, and squinted slightly at the dark jade liquid: "It's okay." ”

Or she was very happy to get the word "Shang Ke", and Concubine Qi Shu showed a sweet smile on her face: "This is the blue grapes harvested last year, which have been brewed for a full year, and this time it will be chilled for another day." If Your Majesty still doesn't think it's disgusting, the concubines will send some more to Your Majesty's Qianxi Palace. ”

"Speaking of grape wine, the concubine got a pair of glow-in-the-dark cups in the past, which I treasured for a long time." Concubine Mi's eyebrows seemed to be affectionate, and she didn't allow Concubine Qi to say anything more, so she invited softly, "It's the grape wine that looks the best in this glow-in-the-dark wine glass, Your Majesty wants to come and take a look?" ”

Mu Beiyi thought for a moment and said, "The day before yesterday, the queen mother rewarded a pair of concubines, I have seen it, it's very good." ”

Concubine Mi's face turned slightly when she heard this, and a pair of phoenix eyes swept towards the concubine.

The concubine got up slowly and said, "The concubine is just because of the blessing of the queen mother, so she has such a rare pair." It is clear and exquisite, and it shines at night. If Your Majesty thinks it is good, can you come to Fugui Jupin again today? ”

That is full of invitation, especially explicit.

On the side, Liu Anran raised his eyebrows when he heard it, and he wanted to say something, but it was in his throat. She wanted Mu Bei to be ruthless, but she really couldn't do those flattering gestures. Only a pair of eyes seemed to look at the past with endless anticipation, but he saw Mu Beiyi looking at the trees and flowers outside the Changge Yuntai.

"It's the best time for flowers to bloom again." Jiang Concubine rarely spoke, so she opened her mouth very gently, looking at her age and Mu Beiyi, "There are many flowers in the East Palace in the past, and they bloom very well in summer." ”

The old people of the East Palace, such as Concubine Qi Shu and Concubine Mi, heard it, and thought about the old days.

Jiang Concubine was dressed in goose-yellow silk fragrant cloud yarn, combed and threw her family bun, and the bun was only decorated with two yellow silk begonias, and the begoths were wrapped with emerald jade beads. The whole thing is very soft and pure, and at a rough glance, it doesn't look like a palace concubine, but more like a woman from an ordinary aristocratic family. She is the oldest concubine in the entire imperial city, and when Empress Yuan has not yet entered the East Palace, Concubine Jiang is serving Mu Beiyi.

So to put it harshly, it was indeed the concubine who came to practice the pillow before the prince's wedding. Jiang Concubine is no longer young, and Ai is not very beautiful, and her family background is not high, otherwise she would not have been carried into the prince's mansion through the back door before the wedding. Fortunately, although Mu Beiyi has a big temper, his temperament is not mean, and there is always a three-point affection when they meet, and Jiang Concubine is respectful. When he heard Concubine Jiang say this, he remembered many things in the East Palace, his face softened, and he lifted his robe and got up: "I will go and disperse the wine." ”

When the concubine heard this, she got up again and again, and wanted to chase him out, but Mu Beiyi's personal attendant stopped her. Concubine Mi smiled like a flower: "Our concubine sister, maybe you don't have the temperament of Your Majesty ......."

Mu Beiyi went out from the banquet hall of Changge Yuntai and overlooked Yaoting Lake from a distance.

It was a cool May night, and the lake breeze swept the damp smell on the water. The flowers and willows on the lakeside are jagged, and the light and dark are mottled in the moonlight, as if sprinkled with broken beads. The palace wall in the distance is endless, and you can overlook the northern foot of Lishan outside the imperial city. It's very calm and beautiful.

The young emperor carried the sleeves of the rolling gold embroidered stars, facing thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, looking down at the lake, and a strand of black hair beside Ben scratched beside the sword eyebrows with the wind. He pursed his slightly thin lips and said suddenly, "Feng Tang, there are new fish in the lake?" ”

Feng Tang listened and hurriedly looked at it. Sure enough, it's different. The Yaoting Lake is sparkling like scales, rippling like weaving silver ripples, reflecting the singing and dancing of the Changge Yuntai in the distance, and the lights are panicked, waving wave after wave of faint purple rays of soul-hooking. The dark purple scales are not obvious, just like a thousand swimming fish, if floating and sinking, people can't take their eyes off: "This ...... The minions don't know. ”

I still encounter such strange things. Feng Tang hurriedly summoned the chamberlain to go down to the lake to see, and after a while, there were palace people who were swimming in the water holding a handful of wet things and talking back: "Your Majesty, there are many dark purple petals scattered in the lake, and when the moonlight and the lights of the Changge Yuntai are reflected, you can vaguely see a faint ink purple." ”

Mu Bei changed hands and didn't take out his sleeves, and turned sideways to look.

Feng Tang was really shrewd, and even shone the petals under the lamp and handed them to Mu Beiyi to see: "Your Majesty, it's an eightfold black dragon." This flower has a dragon in its name, and it is a very auspicious flower genus. ”

"Hmm." Mu Beiyi took a cursory look, "Where are such blooming flowers and trees planted?" ”

"There is only one tree in the palace, in the Yongning Palace on the west side of Yaoting Lake."

Mu Beiyi's face was suspicious.

Feng Tang hurriedly explained: "Yongning Palace is the old palace room left by the former Li Dynasty before Emperor Taizu ascended the throne. The slave heard from the people in the flower house that before the great grandfather ascended to the great treasure, this eightfold black dragon was there, and the age of the tree was about two hundred years. ”

"I haven't seen it."

"Yongning Palace is rarely repaired, and His Majesty has naturally never been there." Feng Tang buried his head low.

Mu Beiyi bowed his head, stretched his sleeves and closed the placket: "Swing away." ”

"Hey." Feng Tang shouted, "Drive Yongning Palace-"

The jade chariot traveled far away, and Mu Beiyi accompanied twenty-eight people, and the momentum came to Yongning Palace. As soon as he got off the dragon chariot, he stepped on a layer of dark purple petals. After taking a closer look at the freshness of the petals, he looked up at the eaves of Yongning Palace, which was dark and quiet, like a cold palace.

"Your Majesty, these ink-colored petals are also called black dragon scales, Your Majesty stepping on the dragon scales is the meaning of the Son of Heaven and the dragon." Feng Tang bowed eagerly, "It's just that the sky is dark at this moment, and it is not enough to come to enjoy the flowers." If Your Majesty comes to see it in the daytime, it must be even better. ”

"Lead the way." Mu Beiyi didn't say much.

The two chamberlains hurriedly picked up the lantern and walked in front, and Feng Tang cautiously followed behind.

After walking a few steps, Mu Beiyi smelled the fragrance of the rich trees, and the purple ink flowers on the ground of Yongning Palace were like lichens, and the twists and turns led him to the inner palace. After passing the main hall, I entered the verandah, and it was not a thick darkness at this time. On the verandah, a candle lamp was lit three steps away, and the lacquered trunk and the bright candle flame shone together, and occasionally a fragmentary petal floated on, sticking to the clothes, very scratchy.

Mu Beiyi couldn't help but walk faster, passed a shadow wall, and saw a plaque in front of the door "Qi Yunxuan". Outside the wall, you can also see the bright lights in the courtyard, a tall eight-fold black dragon shows its head, the corolla covers the entire Xuan courtyard like a cloud, and the weeping branches are like dragon scales, densely embellished, like a wisteria forest. When the flower reaches the depths, it is impossible to distinguish the purple, only looking at the deep and shallow overlapping, thick as black ink, and as fine as the scales of a black dragon. He walked into the Xuan with his hand, only to see the lights and flowers inside, and the heavy incense shadows were like deep forests, and there seemed to be a person inside. It is to flick the sleeves, divide the flowers and leaves, and tend to look.

It was a young girl in a white light skirt, with her back tied to the tree with a red silk of prayer. The girl combed her bun and decorated it with nothing else, but a wisp of half-open black dragon scales. She has a pair of slender hands, and she wears a shiny jade bracelet on her left wrist, and her white wrist is like ice and snow. I saw that he was holding an ink-colored shawl, which was extremely light and transparent, almost melting into the flower clouds, and a gust of wind came, blowing people as if they wanted to show their fairy feathers and fly away.

Mu Beiyi has read many poems and read many books. At this time, he only thought of one sentence, and he said: "Beauty is like a flower across the clouds!" There is a long sky of green and dark above, and there are waves of green water below! ”

The girl turned her head when she heard the sound, a pair of sleeping phoenix eyes reflected in the flowers, her teeth biting her lips like red cherry blossoms, and the raindrop-like beads in her ears shone brightly. I don't know how bright and bright it is, people can't take their eyes off it.

She looked at Mu Beiyi so directly, her eyes were faintly like a complaint, as if to say-You are finally here.

Mu Beiyi seemed to feel that it had been a long time in this eyes.

"Your Majesty—" Feng Tang came out and bowed down to the girl, "Baolin Little Lord Wan An." ”

Mu Beiyi suddenly woke up, and looked at the plaque, as if he was recalling.

Pillow Chun gently hid the jade jade bracelet into his sleeve, revealing a piece of clotted wrist, brushing the broken hair around his ear, and bowing down: "Qiyunxuan Baolin An, please Your Majesty." ”

"Pauline Ahns." Mu Beiyi was still thinking about it, and reached out to help her, "There is such one." ”

"The concubine is An's pillow spring, and his father is Shangshu Zuo Cheng An Qingshan." Pillow Chun was shy and timid, touching Mu Beiyi's hand and trembling slightly, don't turn his face.

"Pillow Spring. A pillow of spring dreams comes, gathering thousands of mountains and clouds after the rain. Mu Beiyi narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he had moved his mind, and reached out to pick the broken hair in her ear.

The hot red cheeks of the pillow spring are like clouds, bright and dark in the shadow of the flowers, and he said as if he was not aware of it: "Your Majesty, it means to take the spring and sleep on the pillow, and be happy and comfortable." ”

"Well, so." Mu Beiyi didn't seem to be in her ears, and she couldn't see her joy and anger, so she only took her wrist and wanted to go to the house.

"Your Majesty." Feng Tang knelt down straight, "There is still a banquet on the Changge Yuntai." ”

Pillow Chun looked at Mu Beiyi timidly, and his eyes wanted to say goodbye. He changed his expression several times, and finally put down his wrist and rested it gently on the side of his snow-white skirt.

"I'm looking for you."

Pillow Chun's fingertips sank into the palm of his hand in his sleeve, causing a slight sparkle in the corner of his eyes: "The concubine knows." ”

Mu Beiyi was quite moved: "I promise you to come again." "Then take off the black dragon scales on the side of the pillow and spring temples and hide them in your sleeves.

He was gone, and Pillow Chun was short behind him. After the black dragon robe came out of the courtyard of Qi Yunxuan, Pillow Spring took a long breath and sat down on the side of the eight-fold black dragon with a two-hundred-year-old giant crown like a forest. When Yulan saw this, she hurriedly came to help her, she waved her hand lightly, and murmured, "What a cool son." ”

Yulan looked happy and said, "Congratulations to the little master, although Your Majesty did not stay, he still remembers you." She gently tidied up her dress for Pillow Chun, "It's also coming from so far away from Changge Yuntai, in the end, Xiao Xizi's flowers are scattered far away." ”

Pillow Spring looked up, and the eightfold black dragon was silent, and the wind blew and rattled.

Since then, the rumors have gone darkly, and it is rumored that the Son of Heaven left the Dragon Boat Festival family banquet and was hooked by a different tree, and he was reluctant to leave for a long time. When I returned to the table to watch the flowers, I saw that the Son of Heaven was covered with ink and purple tidbits, and there seemed to be a spring breeze in his eyes. Some people even made a special trip to look for the purple flowers as deep as black ink, just hoping to meet the Son of Heaven once, and since then they have been on the rise. In a few days, the trend of watching flowers has become more and more popular, but where the flowers are planted in the palace, regardless of the concubines and maidens or the palace laves, they are all fine makeup and beautiful hairpins with purple ink flowers, standing gracefully, but it is a beautiful scenery. The purple ink flowers in the palace at the time, the nobles of Lejing compete to follow suit, especially among the peonies, "Guanshi Moyu", "Wei Zi", "Black Oiran" should be in the purple ink condition, and one can be sold for a hundred taels of silver.

"I thought about how there could be such a good scenery in the palace, and taught His Majesty to linger. I wanted to ask Your Majesty, but unfortunately the Duanyang Festival banquet had just ended, and the previous court was in a hurry, so Your Majesty went to Qianxi Palace to discuss politics, and I didn't come to the harem for several days. Concubine Qi sat on the main seat, and was hairpinning a "Molou Zhenghui", the flower bloomed very prosperously, deep and heavy, very solemn.

Today, the people of Ann are complete, and nine out of ten are decorated with black purple flowers, and even more in ink and purple clothes.

Concubine Mi is not hairpin, decorated with purple and ink two-color gemstones, very gorgeous, a light gauze palace fan is cool and cool in the hand: "The mouth of the people of Qianxi Palace is the most tight, Your Majesty does not shout, and Concubine Qi does not know." The concubine said, where is Your Majesty to watch flowers, maybe it is where the fox girl has become a sperm, and she is trying to seduce Your Majesty. ”

"Zi is silent, and the strange force is confused." Concubine Qi lowered her head after sipping tea, fiddling with a piece of silk on the side of her skirt, "This palace saw that His Majesty was covered with broken flowers when he came back, it was as deep purple as ink, and the size of a copper coin." She looked up and swept the crowd, "I don't know which sister has seen where the flower came from, so I can tell it to make everyone wonder." ”

Pillow Spring sits at the end, looking at the nose with his eyes and his nose at the heart. But when she heard Concubine Qi Shu ask like this, she looked up at Liu Anran.

Liu Anran was also looking at her. Pillow Chun saw it clearly, and Liu Anran's fingertips couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Concubine Yan smiled: "Concubine has never seen such flowers." On that day, ordinary concubines couldn't get in if they wanted to come to the family banquet, and only above this concubine could they see the tidbits on His Majesty. Since the two mothers haven't seen each other, they have to talk about it with Concubine Jiang and Concubine Liu. ”

Liu Anran's expression was stunned, and he covered his face with silk again and again.

Concubine Jiang smiled slightly, and replied softly: "You can get Your Majesty to linger for a long time, I think it is a rare flower, how can everyone have seen it?" ”

"Concubine Liu." Concubine Qi Shu saw that Liu Anran's face was not very comfortable, "Are you not feeling well, or do you have something to say?" ”

"Isn't our concubine Liu well-informed and knows where the flowers are?" Although the concubine was smiling, she was hiding a needle in the cotton, "It's better to hide it and not tell others, and wait for the night to quietly go to meet Your Majesty." "The more I talk, the more mean the concubine becomes," Your Majesty went to see Concubine Liu once in January, and it was understandable that Concubine Liu was reluctant to say it. ”

Liu Anran's face was even more complicated, and he owed: "Concubine......"

Pillow Chun looked at the tea on the small case and didn't dare to look up. Now Mu Beiyi has not been in the harem for a few days, and she has neither ordered her to sleep nor been promoted, so she will not be empty. The matter of purple ink is on the cusp, if people know, maybe they will take this opportunity to give her color. Fortunately, Qianxi Palace is the residence of the Son of Heaven, and the tone is very tight, and no one gossips. But Liu Anran had really seen the eightfold black dragon in her courtyard.

"Concubine......" Liu Anran gritted his teeth, "The concubine has seen such flowers." ”