229, Gathering (2)
The little eunuch led Feng Miao along the passage between the palace rooms and walked through the overlapping light gauze soft curtains hanging on the side, and the more he walked, the more dim he felt.
Turning a corner, the little eunuch took Feng Miao to a door, bowed down and said, "Girl, be careful of your step." ”
The light here was too dim, if it weren't for the little eunuch's reminder, Feng Miao wouldn't have noticed that there was a row of sharp blades inserted between the cracks in the bricks inside the door. If you step in recklessly, you will definitely be stabbed by the blade. She lifted the corner of her skirt and stepped it carefully over the row of blades.
The windows on all four sides of the house were ajar, and the hanging curtains obscured the lights outside. There are no lights in the room, only an arm-thick white wax is burned at each of the four corners, which at first glance does not look like a palace room, but more like a dojo for doing things, which makes people feel extremely depressed and dull.
Feng Miao looked up and didn't see anyone, she didn't know whether to kneel down and salute for a while, and turned her head to ask the little eunuch, but found that the little eunuch had retreated at some point, and there was no one behind him. Feng Miao was horrified in her heart, and she forced herself not to scream.
Slowly turned around, and at some point stood a tall figure in front of him, the whole person was shrouded in darkness, and his face could not be seen clearly. The man seemed to stare at Feng Miao for a long time before he spoke, "You really look like her, I have found so many women, only you look the most like her." Especially these eyes, the more frightened they are, the more they will stare so wide, and they must see all the scary things in the darkness clearly. ”
The voice...... It's not an emperor, it's Xiao Luan, Marquis of Xichang!
Feng Miao bent down to give a salute, and as soon as she said, "The slave family greets ......", she was held up by Xiao Luan's arm, "No need to be polite, I just asked you to come over and say a few words." ”
He reached out and lifted Feng Miao's chin, carefully examined the light from the candle, his eyes seemed to look at another person through her, and muttered, "It's really similar...... If that kid grows up......"
Feng Miao didn't dare to move, and whispered, "Master Hou, the slave family is inconvenient, can you let the slave family sit down and talk?" ”
Xiao Luan seemed to suddenly come back to his senses, retracted his finger and pointed to the couch on the side and said, "Naturally, this is my residence in the palace, in order to facilitate the emperor at any time, you don't have to be restrained, just be casual." When he said this, Feng Miao understood that the Great Qi Dynasty was completely in the hands of Xiao Luan, and even the imperial palace was no different from his Xichang Marquis Mansion.
The couch in the south is low, different from the Hu bed in the north, Feng Miao's body is bulky, and it is a little laborious to sit down. Xiao Luan was very kind to her, and handed her a cushion casually, letting her lean on the bed screen on the side of her waist.
Feng Miao saw that there was a copper coin on the couch, thinking that it had been accidentally dropped, and was about to reach out to pick it up, but Xiao Luan immediately shouted, "Don't move it!" Feng Miao was startled and hurriedly retracted her hand. Xiao Luan said slowly, "That's used to suppress evil spirits, and if you move it, it won't work." ”
The Marquis of Xichang, who had killed for half his life, actually believed in this kind of disgust with victory, and his attitude was still very pious. Feng Miao was surprised at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing strange, the more people who licked blood from the knife all day long, the more they liked to pin their hopes on these vain things in order to find peace of mind.
It was only at this time that Feng Miao realized that the layout of this room was also arranged according to the saying of "Tibetan wind gathers qi", and the official eunuchs prayed for official prosperity, and often asked experienced feng shui masters to guide the furnishings in the house.
After Xiao Luan sat down, he still stared at Feng Miao. Feng Miao didn't dare to raise his eyes to look directly, so he could only look at him quietly with his spare eyes, in fact, except for his sturdy figure, Xiao Luan's facial features were very handsome. There are also many beautiful men in the royal family of Daqi, and Xiao Ziliang, the king of Jingling, whom she has met, is also similar in appearance to Xiao Luan. I heard that the late Prince Wenhui and the newly enthroned Xiao Zhaoye also have a reputation for being handsome.
"Can you sing?" Xiao Luan asked.
Feng Miao nodded lightly, there was no piano at hand, so she could only sing a folk song softly, when she was a child, A-Niang often sang this to coax her and her younger brother to sleep, "Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaf He Tiantian, fish play lotus leaf east, fish play lotus leaf south ......"
She sang in a very soft voice, because she thought of her mother, thinking that she would soon have a child, her eyes were infinitely gentle, and in the hazy light, she glowed with a pearl-like maternal brilliance.
The ballad in his mouth was only halfway sung, Xiao Luan suddenly stood up suddenly, strode forward, and reached out to grab Feng Miao's shoulder. Feng Miao was shocked, hurriedly dodged back, and casually picked up the cushion behind him and threw it forward. The cushion was pushed away by Xiao Luan, and the whole person still rushed to Feng Miao, "How can you ...... singing?"
He was only halfway through his words, when he suddenly pressed one hand to his chest, and a layer of blue and purple quickly spread on his lips, and he opened his mouth wide and gasped for breath with difficulty. Feng Miao got up from his seat on the couch and wanted to go outside the door to call someone, but Xiao Luan was usually hot-tempered, and no one was allowed to approach his residence without summoning him, and there was no one outside the door at the moment.
Feng Miao could only turn back, and saw Xiao Luan's hand pointing to the bookcase, so she hurriedly rummaged through it, and sure enough, she found a small two-inch square peach wood box, which contained a few pills and air-dried whitebait. Feng Miao handed the pill to Xiao Luan, but he didn't take it, and with difficulty he raised his hand and took a few silverfish and put them in his mouth before swallowing the pill.
As the pill entered, Xiao Luan's face gradually returned to normal. Feng Miao looked at his symptoms, it was also like asthma caused by lung deficiency, whitebait can indeed moisten the lungs and relieve cough, but it has to be taken for a long time, and eating it has no effect when it is sick. However, the witch doctors in the south like to use this kind of silverfish as a medicine guide, believing that this kind of small fish that is close to transparency contains endless vitality and can cure all kinds of diseases. Xichanghou's belief in the theory of disgust has reached the point where it is difficult to shake.
Xiao Luan opened his mouth and said, "I forgot, it was originally a folk song, and many people can sing it." After being silent for a long time, he said to Feng Miao, "Go back, I'll talk to you another day, if you shake the golden bell at the door, there will be a eunuch to guide you." ”
Feng Miao bowed to him and bowed to him, and withdrew silently. The golden bell rang a few times, and the eunuch from before came and led her back the way she came. As soon as the night breeze blew, Feng Miao's mind cleared up a little, just now Xichanghou was just ill and couldn't speak, and it was not fatal, so she didn't act rashly, and still went to help him get medicine. But just under the peach box where the medicine was placed, she saw something else.
A marriage post, pressed under a piece of paper, on the exposed corner, only one name "Ah Chang" can be seen. That is A-Niang's maiden name, Feng Miao will not be mistaken, she has never seen the marriage Geng post that Feng Qing talked about, and she doesn't know if these two Geng posts are the same. But how can there be such a coincidence in the world, not to mention that the woman's maiden name is the same, Xichanghou is also surnamed Xiao, but the name is not Yun Qiao.
Back at the residence, Su Wen saw that Feng Miao's face was not very good, and hurriedly stepped forward to probe her pulse. It was about the fright just now, Feng Miao's heart beat very fast, but she still reluctantly smiled at Su Wen, "I'm fine, don't worry." ”
Su Wen served her with medicine and comforted her a few words, which was nothing more than telling her to think more about the child in her womb and relax in everything. Feng Miao nodded and agreed, but she couldn't let go of the doubts in her heart, no matter what, she had to find a way to test it.
In the Guangqu Hall of the Pingcheng Imperial Palace, Gao Zhaorong was talking to Gao Gao Huan through the curtain. Now Gao Gao Huan has been reappointed as a Chinese official, although he often walks around the palace, he can't enter and leave the concubine's bedroom at will, and it was Gao Zhaorong who specially begged Tuoba Hong to allow him to visit his sister in Guangqu Palace.
The nurse took the second prince to take a nap, and the other palace maids and eunuchs were also waiting outside, and there were only the two of them in the house. Gao Gao Huan handed over a few pieces of paper full of words, and there was a bit of doubt and displeasure in his usual cold tone, "What do you want me to do with copying Tuoba Hong's font?" ”
"Brother," Gao Zhaorong dragged a soft long voice, as if he was coquettish to his brother, "don't you even believe me?" After all, I am all for your own good, so that your wish can be fulfilled as soon as possible. ”
"Tuoba Hong doesn't trust me as much as he used to, and he asked King Shiping to pass on important documents in person, without going through my hands. You should be careful in everything, don't show any flaws and be caught by him, his mind has become more and more careful in recent years, and even I sometimes can't see what he is thinking. Gao Huan said a few more words.
Gao Zhaorong flipped through the pages with his fingers, and said absentmindedly, "If you hadn't been seen going to Qingyan Temple, how could the emperor alienate you?" But that's okay, Mama was sent by me, and the last person I saw before I was sent away, I was originally worried that the emperor would be suspicious of me, and there was that demon sister-in-law who bit you out, but it broke the emperor's suspicions. ”
Gao Huan's eyes stared directly at the figure behind the curtain, "No matter what you want to do, don't move." ”
"I know, you're an uncle, you're just Miao'er long and Miao'er short, and you don't ask if your nephew is okay," Gao Zhaorong put away the papers, curled his fingers around the hair hanging down his sideburns and said, "Don't worry, I won't harm your Miao'er, and I will save her." ”
Thousands of miles away, after Wang Xuanzhi left Jiankang, he has not been heard from. After that night, Xiao Luan would often summon Feng Miao over to talk, sometimes to listen to her sing a song, sometimes just to ask her to sit on the side, and never behaved excessively.
Mrs. Xichang Hou came once, and in front of Feng Miao, she asked Xiao Luan when she would return home. When there were no outsiders, Xiao Luan was very unkind to this lady, and reprimanded her on the spot, telling her not to enter the palace casually. Mrs. Xichang Hou left with an aggrieved face, and glared at Feng Miao fiercely before leaving.
Feng Miao remembered that Wang Xuanzhi said that the Marquis of Xichang often brought women with similar faces back to the house, and presumably Mrs. Marquis of Xichang also thought of it. In fact, she already has the position of Mrs. Xichanghou, and other women can only be concubines no matter what, so she is so jealous that she really can't think of it.
Concubine...... A lightning-like light suddenly flashed in Feng Miao's mind, and she thought of a way to test Xichanghou, but it was a little too dangerous.
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