There was a long-lost bustle and laughter in the small courtyard, and Xiao Yin walked out of the house and happened to see a few gardeners tending to a few pots of white begonias in the atrium.

"It's really stealing the pear stamen, and borrowing a wisp of plum blossom soul." Xiao Yin said leisurely.

"No, these pots of begonias are really good." Cai Ping smiled and said, "The things Your Highness rewarded are really extraordinary. ”

Sent by the prince? Xiao Yin was a little hesitant for a while.

"Ain!" Xiao Qiyun sat down on the front porch of the main room and called. A little maid held a silk agate lotus leaf plate and stood beside it. On the lotus leaf plate are various colored broken branch flowers.

Xiao Yin came over in response.

Qiyun chose a light red silk begonia, put it on Xiao Yin's bun, and said with a smile: "I remember that you like begonia flowers the most." Put the hairpin up, look left and right, nod, and say, "Well, it's good-looking." Ain is grown up. ”

"Sister." Xiao Yin's face was a little hot.

"Why, I'm sorry." Xiao Qiyun took her sister's hand and smiled.

While laughing, the inner eunuchs beside the two princes came over, and in the lacquer plate they were holding in their hands, there were talisman paper and two sachets.

Rong Yue leaned over beside Qiyun and replied in a low voice, "The disciples of the Xuantian Master in the palace are going to come to the dojo, and it is estimated that they will be there soon." Your Highness asked me to talk to my master. ”

The smile on Xiao Qiyun's face froze, and she didn't say anything.

"Xuantian Master's disciple? Another Taoist priest? Xiao Yin was a little impatient, how could even Liu Ke believe in those nonsense such as sneakiness?

"Yes," Rong Yue hung her head, carefully considering Qiyun's expression, and said slowly in a low voice, "It is said that it is a proud disciple of Xuantian Master, who has some magical powers, and is called Quansan." ”

All three, Xiao Yin "poofed", he almost laughed, this can be regarded as a heavenly master and apprentice with magical powers, just hearing this name, he is like a house slave.

Xiao Yin was about to open his mouth to laugh, Qiyun suddenly felt dull in his chest, frowned, and said to Rong Yue: "Don't say it, go down." ”

Rong Yue hurriedly stopped her mouth, glanced at Xiao Yin, and then retreated from the hall.

"Sister, are you okay, are you not feeling well?" Xiao Yin asked hurriedly.

Xiao Qiyun shook her head, slowly got up, and walked out of the corridor. The white begonias next to the small flower garden bloomed just right, Qiyun stretched out his hand to touch it, and the white flowers with a faint pink trembled slightly, as if there was infinite shyness and coquettishness. She felt infinite emotion in her heart.

Xiao Qiyun withdrew her hand.

"The flowers bloom just right, but unfortunately it's never better than a hundred days," Xiao Qiyun stood quietly for a long time, lowered her head, and chuckled twice, "My Ayin has grown up." If the prophecy of the year comes true, the Xiao family will really produce a phoenix woman and achieve a person's ambition. Perhaps, it's you. ”

With a bang, the jade bucket fell to the ground, and the water stains spread out, like a flower secretly blooming in the shadows.

In the tenth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, the people of Qin Tianjian found Xiangrui in Luoyang, saying that they had dug up a stone with the words "Qilan Fengnu" engraved on it. When she was eleven years old, Qiyun, the concubine of the Xiao family of Qilan, became the concubine of the East Palace, and for a time, the scenery was infinitely glorious. That year, auspicious times appeared. All over the world, even some poor towns that are not famous are eager to hold a big carp or a big winter melon to celebrate the future masters and mothers of the world.

But in the twelfth year, the situation took a turn for the worse, the East Palace was almost abolished, and the crown prince and the princess fell out of harmony. The Xiao family of Fengyi Palace gave birth to a prince and was promoted to a noble concubine. Inside and outside the imperial city, in front of the streets and alleys, there are a lot of speculations about this matter, and there is an extremely outrageous version of it. It's nothing more than that when it was eleven years old, everyone must have misread the divine meaning behind Xiangrui, I'm afraid that the so-called "Feng Nu" may refer to the Xiao family of Fengyi Palace. For a while, people were panicked, and even the prestige of the future master of the East Palace was also damaged.

Rumors are rife, but in the forbidden court of Chang'an City, the matter of twelve years is a taboo that cannot be mentioned. Even the prophecy of the "Qilan Phoenix Girl" that was widely spread back then has become a mysterious and dangerous topic.

Xiao Yin's eyes flashed with a hint of inexplicable helplessness, and he looked at his sister's softly smiling face, and only then did he regain a little calm.

"Sister shouldn't think too much, my sister is the concubine of His Royal Highness after all, and naturally she can afford the word "phoenix". Xiao Yin paused word by word, serious and affirmative, "And I am willing to marry an ordinary man, and I will be like a wild finch in the mountains for a long time." ”

Xiao Qiyun cocked her fingers, fiddled twice in the lacquer plate on the stone table in the atrium, and picked up the sachet. A sniff and a wry smile. "It's just that the mountain rain is coming, and the abandoned children on the chessboard must be swept out," Qiyun was a little distracted, "even though I can't help it." ”

Xiao Yin looked at her sister with a sad face, and she was very sad. My sister seems to have a lot of hidden sadness in her heart, but she doesn't know anything about it, and she can't persuade her.

"Sister." Xiao Yin stepped forward and pulled Qiyun's sleeve.

"Okay," Xiao Qiyun patted her sister's hand, squeezing out a little smile between her eyebrows, "I don't know what's wrong today, but I'm sad and sad." The dojo in the front yard is up, and it's time to pass. ”

In the open space in front of the main hall of the house, an altar was raised, and a group of Taoist priests were already in place, and flags and banners were covered all over the courtyard. Among them, there was an old Taoist priest with a long beard and loose hair, who respectfully stepped forward and lit incense and approved the talisman paper. The incense burned, and the atrium was filled with smoke.

The old Taoist priest walked to the hall. The servants of the Prince's Mansion had already carefully taken a seat and held good tea. Liu Ke, who was sitting in the middle, got up and said to the old Taoist: "Master Lao Tianshi is bothered. ”

The old Taoist priest just snorted lightly, which was an answer, and sat down.

It turned out that this was the famous Heavenly Master Xuan Shouzi, Xiao Yin secretly pursed his mouth and sat down beside Xiao Qiyun.

On this side of the hall, a screen was temporarily erected, covered with a very thin cicada wing veil. Faintly visible behind the screen, there is a case of yellow wood. High and low, there are a lot of bottles and jars, which seem to be porcelain.

A figure appeared behind the screen, dark and swarthy, dressed as if it were a crow green robe.

"Ask the Celestial Master, what kind of arrangement is this?" Liu Ke asked.

"This is the three disciples of the poor path. All three tones can be used to dispel evil spirits. ”

"Since you are a high disciple of the Heavenly Master, why bother to set up a screen to block it?"

"This disciple of the poor Dao has a terrifying face, I am afraid that he will collide with His Highness and Niangniang."

Quan San seemed to ignore the words on the screen, just holding a mallet and tapping on the bottles and cans.

This kind of Shinto Dao made Xiao Yin very impatient. Surprisingly, these porcelains played a very clear and bright music under the blow of the wooden mallet, like a spring hitting a stone, making people almost forget the smoke and fire in the atrium.

Although Xuan Shouzi, an old Taoist priest, looked disgusting, he said that this full three-way rhythm was not a lie.

Xiao Yin turned around and was about to comment with his sister, but saw that Xiao Qiyun didn't know when or why, but there were already two lines of tears.

"Sister." Xiao Yin screamed softly several times, Xiao Qiyun finally came to her senses, and hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk.