Chapter 8: The Moonlight Sacrifice (1)
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's October, and it's been almost a year since I came to this strange world. A lot has happened during this time, and the surroundings and ourselves have changed unconsciously.
I am much taller now, and because of the good food in the palace, my physique has also improved, and I am no longer as rugged as before. Although I still have to continue to pretend to be a man and pretend to be ugly, but since I am now the closest attendant who has been around the prince for the longest time, the people in the palace do not dare to judge people by their appearance and despise me as before, but will call me respectfully: "Brother Bajie!" "It made me smug for a long time.
Although time is magical and can change many things, there is one thing that has not changed, and that is the attitude of the prince towards me.
I thought that through that stand-in incident, our relationship would be eased, but who knew that it was still like a nephew playing a lantern---- everything was business as usual (uncle)! His attitude towards me has always been consistent with his usual characteristics: cold, strict, and ruthless! Every day, I will still change my tricks to live in dire straits, so that my mood is always in a state of low oxygen!
But today I am in a very good mood, sweeping away the haze of the past, and the whole person looks refreshed. Because it was almost the Moon Festival, the men in the palace had to go to the Moon Temple in the east of the city to carry out a series of sacrifices, so I became a member of the entourage as a close attendant of His Royal Highness the Prince.
This is the first time I have had the opportunity to see the world outside the palace: the crisp autumn weather, walking on the unfamiliar streets, feeling the falling leaves, breathing in the fresh air, my mood is naturally excited, happy as if to fly.
But when I hadn't seen the shadow of the Moon Temple for a whole hour, my heart began to wilt. The masters sat in the carriage and didn't feel anything, but we slaves were walking on two legs, it was really miserable, not only tired to death, but even more terrible is that although it is October, but today's sun will be extraordinarily exerted for some reason, the fierce sun is close to July, and the sun makes me dizzy and dry. Just as I was cursing the sun in a circle in my heart, I suddenly heard the voice of the prince coming from the carriage beside me.
"Bajie, come up." His cold voice came through the curtains.
"Yes, master." I climbed into the carriage of the son of the world with my hands and feet, and it was cool inside, which made me immediately feel that there were two worlds in one day and one place with the outside.
The interior of the carriage is very spacious and comfortable, with thick felt and burgundy silk on the floor, and on one side of the carriage is a vermilion lacquer carved and filled gold floral pattern pavilion with various books. On the right, there is a flower pineapple with three cabinets, there are several food boxes full of various snacks and fruits on the table, and in the middle of the carriage there is a red sandalwood painted gold landscape pattern begonia incense table, a small incense burner with gold wire hollow lotus petals is scattering wisps of smoke on the desk, emitting the unique aroma of ambergris.
Shizi lay on his side on the couch behind the small table and read a book. Because he was attending a formal sacrificial ceremony, his outfit today also swept away the previous elegance and looked very luxurious: he wore a purple and gold crown inlaid with jewels and jade, a white silk brocade circle gold velvet embroidered python robe, a belt with gold and jade inlaid with eastern beads at his waist, a single jade green dragon jade pendant down, and a satin gold thread on his feet.
Some people may be born with God's favor, but for him, I have to say that God's heart is absolutely all on the left side - eccentricity is terrible! Because his already peerless appearance is still increasing with the passage of time: the fair and delicate skin is as clear as pearls, the perfect and delicate facial features as carefully depicted by the immortals, the indifferent and beautiful thin lips, the thick and slender eyelashes, a pair of amber glass deep eyes that are enough to charm all beings, the small mole under the left eye, and the nobility and dust exuded from the whole body.
Looking at him, I can only come up with one word: demon!
He didn't raise his head when he saw me coming in, but only said lightly: "Tea." β
I saw a Hetian white jade tea cup placed in the center of the small table, which was filled with turquoise tea soup, and the color was very beautiful. Hey? This tea hasn't moved in a sip? Could it be that the prince of the world was merciful enough to know that I was hot and thirsty outside, and gave me tea?
Looking at the abundant tea, I suddenly felt more and more thirsty in my mouth, and without hesitation, I picked up the tea cup with both hands and drank it all: "Thank you master for the tea!" The minions are finished drinking, do you still have orders? β
After listening to my words, the prince gave a reaction. He raised his head and half-squinted his beautiful eyes: "You drank?" β
"Drink!" Isn't this nonsense? You didn't want me to drink it!
"It's cold." He said with a slight displeasure.
"It's okay, just right." It was really hot outside just now, and this herbal tea quenches and cools down, which is just right.
Shizi stared at me for a long time with a gloomy face, and finally said to me as if he was barely calm: "Throw away the cup!" β
Lost? , this cup is good and not broken, why throw it away? But whatever, anyway, his old man never plays cards according to normal people's thinking, so I don't bother to bother with his business. However, this is a Hetian white jade tea cup, which is worth a lot of money, and it is a pity to lose it, but it is better to ......
"Master, don't lose this teacup, just be a good person to the end, anyway, I gave the tea to the slave before, it's better to give this teacup to me, it's also a thought." After I go back, I will offer this tea cup and a pillar of incense in the morning and evening to remind me to remember the grace of your tea today. "Hehe, put it in the pawnshop! When I turn around, I will ask someone to exchange it for silver, and I will say that dozens of taels of silver are indispensable for this fineness! Tsk, this person can't stop him from getting rich, my little abacus crackled in my heart. When I save enough money, I will pat my ass and go to enjoy the happiness, Xiao Shizi, you can play slowly alone!
With a dog-legged smile on my face, I waited for the reward of the world with a bright face. But I saw a terrible cold light in his eyes: "When did I give you tea?!" I'm asking you to pour me tea! Who told you to drink it! β
"However, you only said tea just now, and I thought you were kind enough to ask me to drink it! And after drinking it, don't you still care about asking me if the tea is cold? Why do you change your mind now when you ask for a teacup? How can you be so mean! I'd rather throw it away than give it to me! You're too slammed! Stingy, stingy, stingy, picking, iron! "How can you watch a cooked duck fly away? Dream on, I won't give you a chance to cheat!
"I didn't care about you!" Shizi stood up and said to me through gritted teeth: "It's you who will be wrong if you are amorous!" When I say it's cold, I mean I don't drink herbal tea, so let you pour it and re-serve it for me! You can distort what I mean! He looked down at me gloomily, exuding a chill all around him: "That's it, but you still dare to say that I am mean, stingy, and slamming the door!" Don't you want to live anymore!? β
He was already taller than me, and now he's a whole head taller. I could only raise my neck, endure the stiffness of my muscles, and shout without losing momentum: "It's you who can't get up to the point!" If there is a problem with the expression, I will be wrong, but I still have the face to say that it is my misunderstanding! Does saying one more word at a time exhaust you die? Just two or three words jumping out, it's a living person who will give you a rush to death! I'm not a roundworm in your belly, how do I know what you mean! Do you know what kind of damage such indiscriminate accusations and intimidating threats can do to my weak heart!? This will leave a shadow on me for the rest of my life! "First strike! As I spoke, I moved my hands and prepared to put the teacup in my arms. "Today's teacup is the mental loss fee for me who was hurt by you!"
Who knows, just as I had predicted, the son of the world is faster than me, and he has already taken the teacup in his hand. His chin was slightly raised, and he looked at me condescendingly: "If you can't get a reward, do you want to rob it?" It is vain that such a fierce person of yours should claim to be weak. Well, seeing that you are so 'humble', I will do as you wish, I will not lose this teacup today - it will be broken and clean! After speaking, he raised the teacup in his hand and prepared to throw it down.
This bastard! Do you want to cut off your mother's wealth!? Say anything, I'm going to knock down that teacup! Today I fight, people should kill, Buddha should be **! Without saying a word, I rushed over and tried to snatch the teacup from his hand.
But his body is much taller than mine, and his strength is not comparable to me, not only did he not succeed in winning several times, but he was restrained, and he twisted his arm and couldn't move. Seeing that he was about to throw the teacup to pieces, I jumped out of nowhere, stomped on his feet with all my strength, broke free from the restraints while he was in pain, turned around and slammed back on him, and successfully snatched the teacup from his hand with lightning speed.
This cup is whitened all over the body, without a trace of impurities! Sure enough, it's a good thing, I felt a burst of ecstasy in my heart, as if there was a white flower of silver in front of me, but I suddenly felt a heavy kick on the leg, and suddenly my feet were unstable and I stumbled and fell in the carriage, and what was even more tragic was that because of too much inertia, I actually let go of the baby teacup that was not easy to get my hand!
I saw the tea cup swish and flew out through the gap in the car window. Ah, my money, my darling! I let out a miserable wail in my heart!
"Ouchββ!" Suddenly, a realistic version of the miserable howl sounded outside the car, which made me startled, and hurriedly lifted the curtain to look out.
I saw a man wearing a dark purple multicolored embroidered trimmed pink sprinkled brocade dress covering his face with his hands in pain, sitting on the ground, and his mouth kept making painful ** sounds. Looking at his face to confirm, just looking at the clothes of this bag, I also know who this person is: - Liu Yuxin, the little marquis of Zhongyuan Houfu, is also!
Beside him, a tall, red-headed horse came to a stop, and the attendants around him were in a mess, apparently having just fallen off the horse. What a good thing! This is a joyous event worth celebrating! It's best to make him fall half-paralyzed and unable to take care of himself! From the day of the grudge in the study, as long as this person sees me, he will try his best to attack me, although every time I will fight back fiercely, and kindly add a little interest to him to make him taste the bitterness, but this person is like an immortal Xiaoqiang, the vitality is particularly tenacious, and every time he stubbornly repeats the mistakes of the past! He has become a fly-like existence in my heart: annoying and disgusting!
The attendant carefully picked up Liu Yuxin from the ground, he stood up straight, looked around angrily, and scolded angrily: "What kind of bastard thing who doesn't have long eyes!" Dare to sneak attack this little marquis! If you're a hero, don't be a turtle with a shrunken head! See that I don't break your body into thousands of pieces, crush your bones and scatter ashes to vent the hatred in my heart! "Although his angry momentum is indeed remarkable, it has a very powerful lethality. But when he looked at our carriage, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Because his originally handsome face somehow had an extremely obvious dark circle on his left eye, combined with his hideous and roaring facial expression, he was like a one-eyed raccoon with a rich expression where he spread his teeth and claws, and was 'lively and cute'.
"You're in a good mood." The voice of the prince suddenly sounded in my ears, and I was scared into a cold sweat, this person is definitely a ghost! I don't know when he was standing behind me, bending over to take in the situation outside.
I said angrily: "Master, someone told me my fortune that I was too yin and couldn't stand the fright. β
"What's the explanation?" He didn't leave, just asked strangely.
"Because if I am unfortunately scared to death, the yin qi is too heavy, and I will definitely turn into a powerful ghost, and the person who scares me to death every day will not be able to live in peace until I ask for my life!" I said with a sincere face: "The villain has a fight with the master and servant of the world, and I don't want to come to the world every day to find the son of the world in the end, so it is better for you to stay away from me, master." β
"You're in such a good mood, and you still have the heart to laugh," he turned around and half-leaned against the car window, looking at me with a pair of beautiful eyes: "Liu Xiaohou just said that he would break your body into thousands of pieces, crush your bones and scatter ashes, it's rare that you can still be so interested." β
"The little marquis is talking about the person who attacked him, but it's not me, you can't plant it indiscriminately!" I gave him a big wink.
"And what's at his feet?" His long, white, slender fingers pointed out the window. I couldn't help but gasp when I saw it: the Hetian white jade tea cup that we fought for just now is lying quietly at Liu Yuxin's feet at the moment.
"This time, the physical evidence is there, you say, ......" There was a flash of panic in his eyes: "If Liu Yuxin knew that it was because of the tea cup you threw out that he was so farmed, would he really fulfill what he just said?" Tear that person into thousands of pieces, crush bones and scatter ashes? β
Not good! He wants to hand me over to Liu Yuxi, and with my 'deep' friendship with Liu Xiaohouye, I think I know my fate with my toes: even if I don't break the corpse into thousands of pieces, I'm afraid that at least it will be roasted on a wooden stick!
While Liu Yuxin didn't find out, it is the best policy to quickly destroy the evidence and die without proof! Otherwise, this Hetian white jade tea cup seems to be used by the whole palace, and it will definitely be suspected of us if it is seen! I don't have to expect that cold-blooded son to help me exonerate, it seems that he can't wait to let Liu Yuxin cut me down now! There's no way, save yourself!
I rushed down from the carriage of the prince of the world with lightning speed, and pounced on Liu Yuxin, who was making a lion roar, knelt down at his feet to block the tea cup, and opened my mouth to cry: "Little Hou Ye, you must not have anything to do, if you have three long and two short, how can we live?" β
I was crying earth-shattering, but Liu Yuxin was a second monk who was confused, "Bajie, are you brainbroken?" I'm hurt! Why are you crying so much? "Maybe the consistent experience of bad relations in the past has made us have a certain conclusion about each other's character in our hearts. I was so unusual, he was surprised and even a little shocked, and he emphasized the accent in saying the word 'I'!
"Little Marquis, you don't know how high your prestige is among our subordinates! You are the idol of all of us! Your heroic posture is an example for us to imitate, and your dress is the object of my learning! Your honey-colored skin is our envy, and your well-defined facial features are our heart's yearning! Your very existence is the highest ideal in our hearts! "Saying these words to Liu Yuxin, even I feel cold, but for the sake of a better life, hold on!" Now that there is such a flaw on your flawless face, we are so embarrassed! How can we accept this! "I cried, I cried, I cried desperately!
"What!? The wound on my face is so bad!? Only then did the little marquis remember that he had not looked in the mirror until now, and had learned about the casualties, and when he saw the momentum of my ghost crying wolf, he suddenly panicked, and he had a premonition of disfigurement.
"Little Hou Ye! Your health and well-being directly affect the direction of life for those of us who admire you, so please go to the doctor for treatment! Restore your graceful, handsome and dashing, and peerless appearance as soon as possible! I stared at the attendants beside Liu Yuxi, who were frightened by my 'amazing act', with a fierce look in my eyes, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing staying there!" Why don't you help the little marquis to go to the diagnosis and treatment, and miss the time, a few of you can take care of it! β
After being scolded by me, those people seemed to wake up, and hurriedly lifted the little marquis and left, and I took advantage of the chaos to secretly hide the tea cup in the sleeve cage. Great achievements, the world is peaceful!
I turned around triumphantly, only to see Shizi getting out of the car, looking at me with a black line on his face, obviously his earth-shattering performance just now also left a deep impression on him.
Victory is the last word, I said with a spring breeze: "Master, the physical evidence is gone, the little marquis has gone to see a doctor, are you still satisfied with the servant's handling?" β
"Bajie genius, those words are really brilliantly written." He squinted at me.
Hey? My master will boast about people! Strange news! I replied with a smile: "Thank you for the compliment, but you blame the slave, those words are not made up, those words are said by the slave several times every day!" β
"You're really...... Admire Liu Yuxin. It dawned on him.
The corners of my eyes twitched, "The master is really insightful and has unique insights!" "Phew! It's really hard for him to come up with such a thunderous conclusion: "But those words are actually said to Wangcai every day." β
"Who is Wangcai?"
"The Chinese pastoral dog fed by Uncle Zhang in the backyard is also. This dog's hobby is to bully the weak, and the villain looks simple (my look is not only simple, it's just obscene!). As soon as he saw it, he must chase after the bite, but later I found out that he likes to hear good things from people, so I chanted to him several times a day, 'Wangcaifu', which is the words you just heard. β
"Is that Wangcai really not biting you now?" Shizi was a little incredulous.
"yes, it works amazing! Wangcai doesn't chase me now, but only barks incessantly! "I showed eight snow-white teeth that were shining.
I saw the corners of Shizi's mouth twitch uncontrollably a few times, and I guess he should understand by now why there are dogs barking in the sky as soon as he sleeps recently.!
Looking at his iron-blue face, the taste of being unable to sleep at night is really uncomfortable, Comrade Shizi deeply sympathizes with this! The sage has a cloud: If there is revenge, it is not a gentleman! I can't take all the 'care' you usually take care of me without saying anything in return! So I'm following the precepts of the ancients! If you want to blame, go to the person who said this to settle the score, I'm innocent!