Chapter Ninety-Seven: Stratagem
"Didn't I let you play the flute in the house before?" Yun Zixiu did not answer the rhetorical question.
"yes, does it matter?" Gu Xianxian blinked with a pair of moving eyebrows.
"Of course it does, these birds are attracted by the sound of your flute." Yun Zixiu also stopped selling Guanzi, and said seriously to her, "Later, the emperor will send someone to invite you over, and then you will report truthfully, and then you can become the queen." ”
"Zixiu, I still don't understand!" Gu Xianxian shook her head vigorously and stared at Yun Zixiu's face in confusion. She couldn't figure out how these birds could have been attracted by the sound of her own flute.
It was only three or two days for her to learn to play the flute, how could she reach the point where she could attract a hundred birds?
At this time, the prince beside Feng Qing had already arrived outside the palace gate, and when Yun Zixiu saw this, he had to order: "I'll tell you the reason for coming down, and now you do what I say." ”
After Yun Zixiu said this, he slipped away from the back door, Gu Xianxian's surprised gaze fell on the direction he left, and he couldn't take it back for a long time, until the princess walked up to her.
"Concubine Xian Niangniang, the emperor is invited!" The prince respectfully saluted Gu Xianxian.
What the? The emperor wants to see her? was really hit by Yun Zixiu.
"Princess, isn't the emperor in the early dynasty at this time? Why did you summon Hongu? Gu Xianxian retracted her thoughts and asked nervously.
"The slave doesn't know, the slave is just ordered to pass the word, and please ask the concubine Niangniang to go with the slave quickly, the emperor and all the ministers are waiting for the mother!" The prince said the stakes, and Gu Xianxian didn't want to go.
But when the emperor suddenly summoned her during the last dynasty, it wouldn't be something bad happening, right? I didn't have time to think about it, and the prince was urging by the side, and I couldn't slack off.
Considering what Yun Zixiu left behind when he left, Gu Xianxian specially brought the jade flute.
In the Jinluan Palace, the ministers stood on both sides, making way in the middle, Gu Xianxian walked up with anxiety in her heart, knelt down and saluted: "The concubines knock on the emperor, may the emperor live long live long live!" ”
"Flat!" Feng Qing raised her hand, and after Gu Xianxian got up, she didn't say much else, Feng Qing asked the question in her and the ministers' hearts, "Concubine Xian, you answer me truthfully, why did hundreds of birds suddenly gather outside your Changchun and palace?" ”
"This ......" Gu Xianxian's face was shocked, her eyebrows were already frowning, she knew that it would not be good for the emperor to suddenly summon her to Jinluan Palace, but she didn't expect it to be true.
This is the question in her heart, how can she answer it?
Just when she was full of hesitation, Feng Qing's already cool voice sounded again: "Concubine Xian, if I ask you, you will answer truthfully, don't be distracted." ”
"Yes, the emperor is angry." Gu Xianxian bit her red lip, and suddenly heard Yun Zixiu's advice, so she said, "Actually, the concubine doesn't know why, the concubine was playing the flute at that time, and birds suddenly flew outside the window, dancing to the sound of the concubine's flute." The concubine didn't care too much at first, she didn't want the birds to be more and more, and finally disturbed the holy car, the concubine should die! Please forgive the emperor for his sins......"
After Gu Xianxian finished speaking tremblingly, she could no longer restrain the panic in her heart and fell to her knees. She believed that Yun Zixiu would not harm her, but if she played the flute, attracted a hundred birds, and disturbed the holy driver, then would she really be fine?
"Is there such a thing?" Feng Qing was very surprised when he heard this, and he didn't want to believe it, but the flocks of birds flew to Changchun and outside the palace, and it was seen by him and many pairs of eyes in the palace, so there would definitely be no fake.
"What the concubine said is true, and I ask the emperor to forgive me!" Gu Xianxian lowered her head and pleaded. Now that the previous words have been spoken, she can only make up the lie to the end now.
She believed in Yun Zixiu, even if things changed and were not as he expected, as long as he did what he said, he would definitely not stand idly by when he encountered danger.
"How so?" Looking at the jade flute that Gu Xianxian was still holding in her hand, Feng Qing believed what Gu Xianxian said, but her heart was full of questions.
At this time, a minister in the palace spoke: "Your Majesty, according to Weichen's humble opinion, this phenomenon is no accident. ”
"Oh? What is the opinion of the Qing family? Feng Qing raised her eyebrows and asked.
"When the concubine was born, there was a phenomenon of a hundred birds and a phoenix, and she was born with nobility, and now she is playing the flute to attract a hundred birds, and I believe it is also caused by the innate nobility."
As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted a lot of echoing and approving. I think that at the beginning, Gu Xianxian was selected as the crown princess, also because there was a phenomenon of a hundred birds and a phoenix when she was born, and the fortune teller personally approved the fate of the mother of a country in the future.
It was also because of this that the emperor married Gu Xianxian to the then crown prince Feng Qing as his concubine, in order to be the noble celestial phenomenon when she was born.
Feng Qing was reminded by these words, and she also remembered what the old emperor had told him before he died, Gu Xianxian would definitely be the queen in the future. It is also because of this that he is in a hurry to marry Gu Xianxian, because if he marries her, he will be able to sit firmly on the throne of the prince.
Gu Xianxian buried her head low, and her little hands dragged the skirt of the dress embroidered with peony flowers to death. The ministers beside her were talking about the time when she was born, and she really didn't know if it was a good thing, because Feng Qing had never expressed her position.
At this moment, Feng Qing's voice sounded, which had already improved her tone: "The words of the Qing family are reasonable, Concubine Xian, get up quickly!" ”
"Concubine thanks!" Gu Xianxian happily buckled her head and got up.
At this time, someone spoke among the ministers again: "The hundred birds suddenly flew into Changchun and the palace between the flutes of the concubine and the concubine, does it imply that they should be ......?"
The sound was not loud, but everyone present, including Feng Qing, heard it. Even Gu Xianxian heard some clues, could she really become a queen with these birds.
"This should indeed be discussed!" Feng Qing said thoughtfully, and then sent the prince to send Gu Xianxian back to Changchun and the palace.
When Gu Qianxian went back, the birds in Changchun and the palace had already flown away, and Gu Qianxian ordered the eunuchs to retreat during the New Year, wanting to be alone and quiet, she had not yet recovered from what happened just now.
At this time, a figure suddenly appeared behind her, hugged her, and really scared her: "Ah...... Who? Who are you......"
"Who am I? Am I not your lover? Yun Zixiu's playful voice sounded in his ears, and then he hugged her tighter.
Hearing that it was Yun Zixiu, Gu Xianxian stopped struggling at this time, but turned his head angrily and scolded him: "I hate it!" Let go of me! Otherwise I'm going to be angry! ”
"Oh? What happens when you get angry? Yun Zixiu not only didn't let go, but rubbed his head against her neck.
"Ignore you!" Gu Xian's red lips pursed slightly, and she said angrily.
Yun Zixiu let go of her at this time, and he didn't forget to shout: "The queen is angry, and Weichen is guilty!" Wechen will never dare again in the future! ”
"What are you screaming about?" Gu Xianxian stretched out her jade finger and tapped it on Yun Zixiu's head, and said coquettishly, "Where is the queen?" ”
"You're not a queen yet, but you'll be a queen soon." Yun Zixiu took advantage of the situation to hold Gu Xianxian's hand and praised, "You performed very well just now. ”
"I ...... just now" Thinking of what happened just now, Gu Xianxian still had palpitations, she shook her head uncertainly and asked, "I just said that, is there really no problem?" Your Majesty, will he suspect anything? ”
"No, you did so well just now, not only the emperor will not doubt you, but all the ministers will support you as the queen." Yun Zixiu said very surely, not like he was perfunctory to her.
But when Gu Xianxian heard it in her ears, she felt extremely unreal: "Why? Zixiu, I can't understand what you're talking about? ”
"You played the flute today and attracted a hundred birds, just now the ministers told the court about the phenomenon of a hundred birds and a phoenix when you were born, I believe that Feng Qing has no reason not to make you the queen." Yun Zixiu's words were not only answering Gu Xianxian, but also telling himself that his efforts were indeed not in vain.
"So that's what you asked me to learn to play the flute for!" Gu Xianxian patted her head, she didn't understand what was going on until now.
A few days ago, Yun Zixiu suddenly gave her a jade flute and asked her to practice the flute well, and she didn't say why. This morning, she suddenly sent a letter to her and asked her to play the flute, and she didn't say why, she just did it, and only now did she know Yun Zixiu's true intentions.
"But Zixiu, how can the sound of my flute attract those birds?" Gu Xianxian really didn't believe that she would have this ability, she was not a god, and she was not a spell, how did those birds come to be recruited?
"Of course, you can't play the flute alone, you have to rely on a little other things." Yun Zixiu smiled slyly, "Xian Xian, don't you think that today's Chang Changchun and Gong are particularly fragrant?" ”
Don't say it, I don't think it, but now after he reminded him, Gu Xianxian sniffed carefully, and sure enough, he smelled Changchun, and there was a strange fragrance inside and outside the palace.
"What kind of scent is this?" Gu Xianxian asked curiously, "You mean that these fragrances attract the birds?" ”
"That's right." Yun Zixiu nodded and explained, "Before you played the flute, I had already asked someone to secretly sprinkle these incense powders in Changchun, inside and outside the palace, and when you played the flute, those birds would be attracted, thus creating the illusion that you were playing the flute and attracting a hundred birds." ”
"If that's the case, then why did the birds disperse after I left?" Gu Xianxian still didn't understand what method Yun Zixiu used to make those birds fly away after she left.
"There are incense powders in this world that birds like, and naturally there are also incense powders that they hate, as long as I sprinkle those incense powders that make them hate after you leave, they will naturally not stay longer." Yun Zixiu smiled and sighed.
"So that's the case, Zixiu, it's really hard for you. Why didn't you tell me this in advance? Gu Xianxian pouted and asked with some dissatisfaction.
If Yun Zixiu had told her what was going on, she wouldn't have been scared half to death when she was in the Jinluan Hall just now.
"If I had told you earlier, I wouldn't have known the effect! And if you accidentally leak your mouth in front of the emperor, wouldn't it be a bad thing. "Yun Zixiu has his own concerns.