Changge wanted to refuse, but when he saw Ziyu's expectant eyes, his heart suddenly softened. It's been three years, and if it's the only person who hasn't approached her with a purpose in the past three years, I'm afraid it's only Ziyu.

"Okay, but how do we get out?" Changge asked

Guo Ziyu rolled his eyes, snickered and said: "Every Xia Yuan Festival, my father and mother must go to the palace for a banquet, and then go to Qingyun Temple to pray for blessings, and there is no one in the family. Besides, you are a girl to be drafted, and I am also a daughter to be married, and we can't go to those occasions, but fortunately, the two of us went out for a walk. ”

"Just you, a ghost," Changge smiled and patted her on the head, "but what if they are found by their uncle?" ”

Guo Ziyu shook his head absently; "No, no, every year on the Xia Yuan Festival, my parents have to go to Qingyun Temple to live for a day or two before coming back."

Changge was speechless for a while; "Okay, you ghost girl, you have thought about it, just wait for me to agree!"

"Good sister, you can just agree, okay?"

Changge looked at her helplessly, nodded, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

In the early morning of the Xia Yuan Festival, the Zhenguo Mansion set off from the mansion to the palace for a banquet, Changge and Ziyu were left at home because of their special status, and for a time only the two of them were left in the huge Zhenguo Mansion.

The sky gradually darkened, and Ziyu saw that no one was paying attention, so she changed into men's clothes with Changge and quietly slipped out of the house.

This was the first time Changge had walked on the streets of Shangjing, and she looked curiously at everything in front of her. At this time, the whole capital was full of people watching the lights, the sky was full of fireworks, and the crowd was bustling, so it was not lively.

"Sister, look, this lamp is so beautiful!" Ziyu said with a lamp in the shape of a white rabbit.

Changge took a closer look, and saw that there were lamps of various shapes here, and he couldn't help but be interested: "Then let's buy one by one." ”

Ziyu nodded happily, paid, and the two of them each carried a plum blossom lamp and a rabbit lamp and walked forward. Everywhere he went, Ziyu happily explained to Changge that the noodles in this house were the best, and the mutton soup in that house was the most delicious...... The two walked and laughed, and after buying two strings of sugar gourds, they walked into a teahouse called Huifeng Pavilion.

The huge teahouse was already full of people, Ziyu took out fifty taels of silver to the boss, ordered some tea fruits, and went upstairs to sit in a private room.

Ziyu put down the lamp and said to Changge: "This teahouse is the most famous one, today on the New Year's Eve, their family will definitely invite the best opera troupe in Beijing to sing, we are also tired of playing, now we will watch our son's play, take a rest." ”

Changge nodded: "My sister is thoughtful, but Shangyuan in this capital is indeed different from Jiangnan, and it is very lively." ”

"It's good that my sister is happy," Ziyu looked around and said, "Sister, I suddenly remembered that there is a Cuiyun cake that is very delicious, you are waiting for me here, I will buy it." ”

Changge grabbed her and said, "The play is about to start, or it doesn't hurt to go later." ”

"No, no, my brother and I used to eat this when we came here to listen to the play, my sister waited for me for a while, and I will come back immediately." After saying that, he ignored Changge's words, and hurriedly ran out.

Changge couldn't, so he had to sit alone on the chair and wait for the show to begin. Today's troupe is the famous Baoqing class in the capital, singing the story of Empress Dongyue Yunzhen and Ruiming Taizong.

Changge picked up the small fold on the table and looked at it from the beginning, only to feel that this rhyme is indeed a rare strange woman in ancient and modern times, in the old days when I was in Jiangnan, I often heard people tell the story of this legendary woman, and today I arrived in her hometown, and I carefully read this story, and I felt that the fragrance was full of fragrance, and my heart was fascinated.

couldn't help but secretly burst into a trance, and muttered: "There are still such dedicated and chic people in this world, which is respectable and lamentable." ”

Changge lowered his head and took a sip of tea, only to see the flute on the stage, the singing was tactful, Changge couldn't help but look stupid, only to feel that this legend was more and more desirable.

"Hate the world, what is love, teach life and death. There are double flyers in the south and the north, and the old wings have been cold and hot several times. Have fun, don't leave the suffering, and there will be more crazy children among them. You should have a saying, thousands of miles of stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and twilight snow, who is the shadow for? ”

I once read this poem and only felt lingering, and I didn't understand the taste, but at this moment, I knew this heartfelt feeling. When Changge was secretly thinking about it, he only heard a warm and comfortable male voice answering.

"Hengfen Road, lonely back then. The smoke is still calm. The soul is a little more groaning, and the mountain ghosts are crying in the wind. The sky is also jealous, and the warblers and swallows are all loess. Through the ages, in order to stay for the people, he sang and drank wildly, and visited Yanqiu. ”

When Changge heard this, he unconsciously blushed his cheeks and ears, and looked through the soft gauze curtain of auspicious clouds, and he could vaguely see a young man sitting there.

He also seemed to notice that Changge was looking at him, so he also turned his head.

On the stage, the lingering and sympathetic peach forest was being played for the first time, and at this time, through the hazy gauze curtain, his resolute and warm face, accompanied by eyes like the sea, fell into Changge's eyes.

"Plop, plop" Changge felt as if his heart was about to jump out, why was this person so familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere. raised his head, only to see that the man was also looking at her fixedly, and as soon as the two looked at each other, Changge blushed his cheeks.

Unlike Changge's surprise and shyness, an indescribable excitement suddenly appeared in the man's eyes, but then it turned into endless nothingness.

This is the first time Changge has talked to a strange man, maybe because he is wearing men's clothes, Changge has some courage that he usually doesn't have. They said a lot of words through the curtain, Taibai's poems, and Wang Majie's sigh...... Changge was amazed by the tacit understanding between the two, as if they were friends they hadn't seen for many years.

The fireworks of the Xia Yuan Festival are brilliant and beautiful, and it seems that they have met for the first time and are like a reunion.

At this time, Hua Dan was acting out the scene when they went to Xia Liguo, and he suddenly asked: "Do you believe in the sentence of one person for a lifetime." ”

Changge replied compassionately: "Of course, Empress Yunzhen and Emperor Ruiming are the explanations of this sentence. ”

He lightly buttoned the jade fan and said with a smile: "Emperor Ruiming has three thousand beauties, how can there be a pair of people." ”

"The heart does what it does. Although he has 3,000 beauties, the love of this life is only given to Yun Zhen alone, and his life is not satisfactory in the world, and this love is not easy. ”

"Little brother, I can see it through." He was silent for a moment: "It is easy to beg for the blue bridge, and it is difficult to run for the blue sea." ”

"If you visit Oxford, you will forget about poverty." The long song is softly harmonized.

The man turned around, looked at Changge fixedly, and stretched out his hand to lift the curtain. Changge was startled, and immediately blocked most of his face with a fan, leaving only a pair of black and clear eyes and a cinnabar mole in the center of his eyebrows.

"Why are you blocking your face?" The man asked with a smile, slightly puzzled.

The long song is like a mosquito, "The contemptible person has an ugly appearance, and he is afraid of scaring the son." ”

Such a lame sentence made Changge's face flush with shame, but fortunately, after the man looked at her for a while, he said through the soft curtain: "Then dare to ask Brother Tai to obey the name?" ”

"I'll go down to Ding Yue again." Changge couldn't do it for a while, so he had to come up with a name.

"If you go down to Lu Yuan, if you have something today, you will take the first step." He stood up and bowed, "See you another day." ”

Changge hurriedly got up and saluted back: "Brother Tai, go slowly, we will meet again." ”

When Changge saw him leaving, he sat down again and listened to the play, but at this moment, he only felt that his mind was chaotic, and Lu Yuan's eyes like the sea kept appearing in front of him. But immediately, an inexplicable loss hit me from the bottom of my heart.

"Sister, what are you doing?"

Changge was taken aback, it turned out to be Ziyu: "Why did you come back, you've already acted halfway." ”

"There were too many people just now, you see what I bought." After speaking, he took out two boxes as if offering treasures.

"What is this?" Changge said curiously

Ziyu took a bite of the Cuiyun cake and said a little vaguely: "I'll open it for you." ”

A lifelike sheepskin shadow puppet appeared in front of Changge's eyes, Changge picked up the beauty with red makeup and said: "It's so good-looking, I've only seen people perform it in Jiangnan before, and now it's the first time to hold it in my hand." ”

"It's good if my sister likes it!" Ziyu said a little proudly: "I knew that sister, you would definitely like it, you will enter the palace in a few days, and I don't know what to give you." I just saw this shadow puppet and thought about buying it and giving it to my sister, and when I was lonely in the harem, I could also ask someone to perform a few performances to relieve my boredom. ”

Changge was even more disappointed when he heard the words "entering the palace" at first, but in the end, his heart was only full of emotion, I am afraid that only Ziyu in this world will worry about her, how to spend the lonely years in the harem, Changge took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Thank you sister for having a heart, when my sister marries in the future, I will definitely give you a big gift." ”

"Where my sister is, this is a piece of my heart."

The moonlight was clear, reflecting the faces of these two jade-like beauties, and when it was too late, the two of them finally walked to the gate of the Zhenguo Mansion. The two of them looked around and quietly slipped in through the corner door, but who knows, as soon as they entered the door, they saw Guo Zixiang looking at them with a funny face.

"Who let you out?" Guo Zixiang deliberately straightened his face and pretended to be angry and said.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Changge pulled Ziyu behind him and said; "Cousin, don't blame, today's festival, Changge is really bored, so I begged Ziyu to take me out for a walk."

"Oh? Is it. Guo Zixiang looked at Changge, and saw that her fair and pink face had rubbed some ash at some point, and she didn't feel dirty, but looked playful and cute.

"Brother, I'm going to take my sister out, if you tell your father, I'll ignore you!" Ziyu suddenly came out from behind Changge and said angrily.

Guo Zixiang looked at the two of them and smiled helplessly, and only said: "You know that I will not talk to my father and mother, and you still talk like this to bluff people." Okay, it's dirty like a little cat, go back and rest. ”

When Ziyu heard this, he immediately smiled; "I knew that my brother was the best, so my sister and I went back."

"Thank you, cousin," Changge also nodded to Guo Zixiang when he heard this.

Guo Zixiang looked at the backs of the two of them gradually disappearing, and after a long time, he left the place.

The moon stars are scarce, and Ziyu thinks that no one in the family is too afraid, so he stays here for one night. The two little girls were lying on the bed and talking all over the world, Ziyu knew a lot of things, but it made Changge listen to it with relish.

At this time, Changge asked: "When I went out today, I saw a house in the north that was covered with wild grass, but this Dongyu Street has been inhabited by powerful families since ancient times, why is it empty today?" ”

"That's ......" Ziyu sighed.

"It was originally the palace of the loyal general, but it is a pity that the first emperor committed an accident when he was alive, and finally the emperor who was still the crown prince at the time took someone to behead the whole house, so now it has been empty and uninhabited." Ziyu yawned.

"I see." Changge nodded, sighing a little, this glory is just the emperor's thoughts, the once fierce glory, now it is just a pile of wild grass.

After a few words of gossip, the two also fell asleep.

After the Xia Yuan Festival, the town government began to get busy, and the first day of November was the day of the royal election.

Early in the morning, Changge was pulled up to bathe and dress, because of the palace election, the Gu family is a big family, and this is not a sloppy thing. Therefore, the clothes worn in the long song draft, the objects used, the reward for rewarding the subordinates, and other small details...... It was all ready half a month ago.

The sun gradually rose, and it took Changge two hours to finish dressing up. I saw her wearing a Su embroidered Yuehua brocade shirt, a flower-sprinkled Ruyi cloud smoke skirt, a flying fairy bun, a white hosta decorated with gold silk inlaid with peony, a pair of ruby earrings, and a pair of mutton fat white jade eight immortal bracelets, although simple but not to be looked down upon.

Liu came to see Changge early in the morning, and after seeing that she was ready, he had to tell her a few times, and when he arrived at Taixiang Gate, it was already three o'clock.

When they got out of the carriage, they saw that there were already many show girls waiting here, and the little eunuchs read the names and divided the show girls into groups of five, and when the hour came, the eunuch in charge led them in. A room full of show girls, all of them were beautiful and moon-like, green, fat, red and thin, and when they saw the eunuchs walking out, they pulled acquaintances in twos and threes to talk. Changge didn't know anyone, so he walked aside alone and stared at a pot of begonia flowers in a daze. Unexpectedly, he turned around and hit a show girl next to him.

Changge hurriedly apologized: "I offended you." ”