Chapter Forty-Eight: Empress Tang Zhiwu
Through the woman in my arms, I learned that the era I was in was the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, and she was Yang Liu, the maid of Empress Wu. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Willow? Don't catch the whip on the horse, but the willow branches, get off the horse and play the flute, and worry about the guests. ”
"Sir, so talented!" I was feeling the word willow, and I heard two crisp palm clappings, and a female voice like a pearl said: "I heard that Mr. is well-informed, and he is a master, and I see it today, sure enough!" ”
I looked up, only to see two teams of palace mermaids standing in two rows, the front row opened, two pairs of palace people, the first pair held a pair of white and flawless jade Ruyi, the latter pair was a persistent red silk whisk, and the other was holding an incense burner. Looking back, I faintly saw a noble woman wearing a phoenix crown and a thin hairpin skirt in the middle supported by two maids, and behind him there were palace people holding yellow umbrellas, water bottles, fans, and spittles.
I looked out of my mind in a daze, but saw that the woman clapped her hands again, and a palace person presented the incense burner, while the other palace people, including Yang Liu, all stepped back in an orderly manner as if they had been ordered, leaving only the woman who walked forward slowly.
I saw that her skin was like condensed fat, her face was plump and beautiful, her long eyebrows were in the temples, and the small eyes of the classical woman described in the book were different, she had slightly larger and bright eyes, and her red lips were not dotted and red, but she added endless charm, and she had a dignified and noble temperament under the glamorous posture, which made people fall for her beauty, but she did not dare to blaspheme.
"See Her Majesty the Queen." I stood up and bowed my hands.
"Sir, how clever!" The woman said with a smile.
I smiled and waved my hand, pointed to the phoenix crown on her head and said, "Your Majesty is in love, not smart, it's this phoenix crown, it told me." I paused, and then said, "I don't know why Your Majesty summoned me this time?" ”
Empress Wu sat down on the side, put the incense burner in her hand on the table by the way, picked up the wine glass on the table, opened the wine door valve and took half a glass of wine, shook it and said, "What does Mr. think this wine tastes like?" ”
"Although this wine looks strong, it is mellow and sweet in the throat, and drinking it is even more refreshing and pleasant, and a thousand cups are not drunk." I replied with a smile.
"Mr. is right, this wine is extraordinary, I wonder if Mr. has ever heard an idiom? Elixir and jade liquid. Empress Wu looked at me with a smile and said.
"Elixir and Jade Liquid?" I looked at the red liquid burning like a flame in my hand and said, "Wang Yi said in the Nine Thoughts and Diseases: Suck the jade liquid to quench your thirst, and bite Zhihua to cure your hunger. Song Yu said in the conjuring again: Hua Yu is both Chen, and there is some elixir. This is also a good way to describe this wine, and the taste of this wine is indeed very good! ”
When Empress Wu heard my answer, she shook her head with a smile and said, "Sir, I only heard one of them and didn't know the other, the Qiong Jelly Jade Liquid I was talking about is the Qiong Jelly Jade Liquid of the Queen Mother of Kunlun West in the real sense!" The elixir is real! ”
"Real?" I was shocked and suspicious and said: "If the Tang Dynasty has survived so much, then why have I never seen a record in the biographies of later generations?" ”
"Of course there will be no record," Empress Wu lowered her head with a wry smile and said, "Because there is only this bottle you saw." ”
I looked at the large bottle tied to the beam, looked at the woman in front of me in disbelief, and with trembling hands, I took a cup of so-called jade liquid elixir again.
The blood-red juice shone like oil in the sun. Take a sip of mellow and luscious, but without any aroma of food.