Chapter Seventy-Four: The Palace

The curtains in the carriage were half lifted, and the jade was half leaning on the wall of the carriage, and with the sunlight coming in from outside, she was flipping through a volume of "Xishan Miscellaneous Conversations", the last volume she had read two years ago, and she was very impressed by a few special home remedies in it, and now the next volume in her hand was given to her by Ah Sheng this morning - she stayed in the Wei Wangfu last night.

Li Tai sat opposite her, his hands folded on his lap, he didn't sleep well last night, but he was in a good mood, seeing that she had changed three sitting positions after half a cup of tea, he asked out loud:

"Does your head still hurt?"

Yi Yu shook her head lightly, didn't say a word, and didn't look up at him, if there was a choice, she would rather walk back to Longquan Town on two legs alone at this time, rather than sit in this spacious and comfortable carriage with him, go to the palace, and prepare to watch a boring polo game.

She was drunk last night, and she forgot again, but the key part remembers clearly, for example, she saw Li Tai making out with a half-naked woman in the room, for example, when she went downstairs, she used the lost soul incense to stun a few thugs who blocked people, for example, she scolded him last night, but he glared at him coldly, and the soul was almost scared away, and the memory ended, it was stuck in his arms and held her, what happened later?

Although she saw him making love with other women, after she woke up, she lost her emotional impulses, and still suppressed the bitterness and sourness in her heart in line with the principle of "hearing is believing and seeing is false", and wanted an explanation.

It's a pity that what happened later, she got up in the morning and thought back to the present, her brain wanted to pump, but she couldn't remember a little bit of life or death, did he explain it to her, she didn't remember, and then let her ask, in case he really went behind her back or didn't ask, just treat her as timid-

His fingers clenched the book and paper, gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart: Lu Yiyu, you are really unproductive, what are you afraid of, if you have something to say, you have to be sentenced to death

"You-"

"I-"

The two spoke at the same time, and Yu Yu inhaled, but his voice was calm and a little abnormal, "You speak first." ”

Li Tai looked at her head, which had never been raised, and said, "Last night—"

"Forget it," Yi Yu cut his face, interrupted him, and nested the book in his hand into a scroll, "I don't remember much about last night, if I have something to ask you, you can answer if you want to, if you don't want to, just say." ”

Li Tai lifted his eyelids and said, "You ask." ”

"What were you doing there last night?"

"Go to the appointment."

“... Whose covenant. "Woman or man?

"King Wu."

It's really as she guessed, after the two of them finished talking about business, they would engage in some leisure activities by the way. Yi Yu secretly sneered, the half bowl of porridge he drank in the morning began to churn in his stomach, he held back his nausea, and said in a low voice: "Who was that woman last night?" ”

"It's Li Ke's woman."

Yiyu is not an innocent yellow-haired girl, the dark and chaotic side of the Tang royal family, she has not seen it with her own eyes, but she has also heard of it, take the current emperor as an example, and now Wei Guifei, who is the head of his four concubines, had a marriage history before he was promised to Taizong, and also had a daughter, and there is a woman in the palace who is not of high grade but has a unique status, which is deeply loved by Taizong, her identity is the wife of Li Yuanji who died in the Xuanwumen Incident, Princess Qi, whether the rumors of killing her brother and plundering her wife are true or false, That lady is indeed in the palace.

Maybe these nobles don't have a bottom line of indecency at all, but hers is too shallow.

After listening to Li Tai's words, when he thought that the half-** who was intimate with him last night was his brother's woman, Yi Yu's heart was cold, and his left hand was raised to wrap around his right arm.

Unable to hold back, she turned her head sideways, pursed her lips, and swallowed the retching sound, but her body couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"What's the matter," Seeing that she was sick and vomiting, Li Tai frowned, and as soon as he moved his body, he went around to her and sat down, raising his hand to ring her, but she shrunk his shoulders and avoided him.

"I'm fine."

The light on the lattice window folded on her face, pale and scary, how could it be fine, Li Tai sensed that something was wrong with her, and thought about it for a while, it was because last night's incident was not resolved properly, which made her think crankily after waking up, in the final analysis, it was still that reason-

"Why don't you always believe me," Li Tai walked around her shoulder, and pinched her shoulder hard because of displeasure, afraid that she would hurt, so he just relaxed his strength after a moment, "Is there anything I promised you that I can't do?" ”

Yu Yu's body stiffened a little, Li Tai's words were irrefutable, from the acquaintance to the present, he promised her, if the small thing is a book, if the big thing is the oracle of marriage, he has indeed never broken his word, she doesn't believe it, it's her wrong, he doesn't explain, is it because he has a clear conscience?

Yi Yu didn't say a word, and after a long time, his body gradually softened, leaned on his shoulder socket, sighed lightly, and said:

"Am I being too careful?"

"Don't think about it." Li Tai took away the shapeless scroll in her hand with his other hand, held her hand, and wrapped her cold fingers into his palm one by one.

March 3, Spring Outing Day, today's weather is not the best, not to mention the clear sky, but it is also a sunny day.

In the west garden of the palace in a piece of open space with a square of 20 zhang, three sides have built a pergola high platform table, tied a pillar and pulled a red silk strip, circled the place of bowing, east and west, each has a two-person high and low plank, a small hole is opened in the middle, and the back is covered with a net. Looking at this, it's a double-door hole bow competition.

"Drive, drive"

"There East"

"Fast, fast"

There are no people on the three stands, but on the court, there are already two groups of people riding horses, holding long sticks, running back and forth with a four-way bow ball, in order not to cover the traces of the ball on the ground, the tender green lawn on the field is very shortly mowed, but even with the green grass paving, with the chase and shouting of the two groups of people, there are still layers of smoke and soil on the field.

The palace people who walked around would stop from time to time, look at it with relish for a while, and wait for the chief manager to urge them to hurry to do things.

In the morning, it is usually the time of the court meeting, but there is no one in the Taiji Hall today, it is about half of the hour, the Yong'an Gate on the west side of the imperial city, one after another people are led into the palace by the inner servants, few people can take a car and a horse in the imperial city, that is, they walk to the palace gate, and Yu Shinan can sit on so many old ministers.

Yi Yu and Li Tai got off the carriage in front of Hanguang Gate, and Ah Sheng changed his appearance into the middle-aged eunuch, followed the two of them, and walked on the long West Street in the imperial city.

This is the second time that Yiyu has entered the palace, the first time is two years ago, accompanied by Li Taiyi into the palace for the New Year, it was night, sitting in the car, nothing can be seen clearly, the deepest impression is that he took himself to the back garden to enjoy the snow and see the plum blossoms, this time he walked on the road openly, and it was inevitable to look at both sides curiously.

Different from the city, on the flat and spacious stone street of this repair, there are few human figures, the road is lined with the official offices of the provinces and ministries, look through the fang wall, the pavilions and high platforms inside, the same white walls and red tiles, the roadside carries willows, walk for a while, you can see a small square pond that is repaired, surrounded by a half-human high beast's head stone fence, the water surface is covered with blue lotus lotus, it is very clean and transparent, and it adds a lot of color to this quiet city.

It was a long road, and it took about two quarters of an hour to see the towering blue-gray wall, yes, it was towering.

Yi Yu looked up at the two heavy wooden doors embedded in the huge wall, and his eyes were flashed by the morning sun, and the guards on both sides saluted Li Tai, and then an inner attendant wearing a round-necked deep coat greeted him, bowed his waist, stretched out his arms and led in.

"Your Highness, go this way."

There is a walkway three or five zhang wide, the ground is paved with a piece of long bluestone slabs, and the two sides are towering walls, which enclose this road, extend forward, the wall is slightly inclined, look carefully, you will find that there are pine green mosses between the brick joints, which is the evidence squeezed out by time.

"Your Highness, you came early today, and only a few adults have arrived in front of you."

"Hmm."

You don't need to speak loudly, don't deliberately lower your voice, you can hear a faint echo on this path, the sound of rubbing footsteps, like an unknown corner ahead, and someone whispering, Yiyu couldn't help but look up at the sky again, the white and blue soft sky, also squeezed into a heavenly road by this towering city wall, like the grandeur built for the giants, the residence of the most noble people in the world, the city that belongs to one person, this is the palace.

As soon as Yi Yu's footsteps paused slightly, the person next to her took two steps forward, her eyes were on his Gao Jian's back, as if if he would go away alone if he was not careful, her heart trembled, and after a moment of blankness in her mind, she had stretched out her arms and pulled his sleeve tightly.

Li Tai was pulled to a halt, turned his head to look at her, because of the slightly stunned look on her face, pursed the corners of his lower lip, and with a flip of his wrist, he held her left hand, and without saying a word, led her to continue walking.

Ah Sheng followed not far behind, seeing Li Tai take the hand of the remaining jade, his face couldn't help showing a trace of disapproval, the eunuch who led the way in front of him peeked at the hand implicated between the two, and after being surprised, he pondered in his heart, but pretended to be fine, and said something flattering.

The three stands that are half around the bow field are connected, due north, three feet from the ground, the stands with bright yellow curtains are specially for the emperor to sit with several ladies and the East Palace, turn a corner, the left side is next to the princess and the princes' seats, and the right side is next to the seats of the emperor's relatives and ministers, each can accommodate more than 50 people, the scene is not small.

When Li Tai and Yiyu arrived, there were two groups of people fighting on the field, and there were people in the two stands on the left and right, only the one in the middle was empty, and the chief attendant of the palace who led the way saluted Li Tai in a regular manner, and arranged for them to go up from the half-section of the stairs in the corner, and sat down in the second seat next to the corner.

According to the ranking, Li Tai has two elder brothers, Li Kexing, King of Wu, and Li Kuanxing, King of Chu, this King of Chu has not been succeeded out as early as in history, and he still has the name of the prince, and he has a knighthood and an official, but Yu Yuhu glanced at the left side suspiciously, which should have been two, but now there is only one empty seat, which prince's seat is short?