Chapter 190: Wind Ghost Glass [I]

"Mother, the hour is almost up." Early in the morning, Li Xia walked to Gu Lingge's tent and called softly. Gu Lingge opened his eyes, and it was as calm as the sea. Li Xia Xu knew that today was a big day, chattering on the side, Gu Lingge understood her nervousness, so he just sat there and waited for her to fiddle. There was no room for error today, so she tightened every string.

When she was getting dressed, Gu Lingge glanced at Li Xia lightly, and threw out a comforting smile, Li Xia gave her a big smile back, but the anxiety and nervousness in her eyes Gu Lingge knew it. She had experienced too many moments like this herself, and now she didn't feel anything, watching Lixia silently except for squeezing her hand.

After cleaning up, Gu Lingge prepared the thrush, and just at this time, Qing Ruifan walked in, followed by the blue cloth. The outfits of these two people today are also eye-catching, Qing Ruifan wore the most solemn yellow dress, the five-clawed golden dragon on his chest was lifelike, and a mellow pearl was embroidered under the claws, with a mighty look of confidence.

Gu Lingge saw Qing Ruifan, who was unusually heroic, through the bronze mirror, and returned to the time when he first saw him. Qing Ruifan took the eyebrow strip from Lixia's hand, walked in front of Gu Lingge, carefully lifted her fair cheeks, and gently painted them. Gu Lingge looked at him directly, making his breath unsteady for a while.

After the two of them finished it, they went to the place where they worshiped the heavens before. According to the arrangement, they will stay here for a morning to pray for the Queen Mother, and then receive congratulations from hundreds of officials with the Queen Mother in the afternoon. Although it is said to pray for blessings, it is nothing more than the emperor and queen making a show in Baoguo Temple.

Gu Lingge and Qing Ruifan walked through the Xuande Gate side by side, got on the soft sedan chair at the door, and were carried steadily by the sedan chair drivers, and there were also the Imperial Forest Army next to them to separate the crowd to maintain order. All she and Qing Ruifan had to do was open the curtain and wave at the crowd, smiling by the way. A dull and programmed smile.

Qing Ruifan's sedan chair walked in front, so he waited for Gu Lingge at the gate of Baoguo Temple for a while. Helping Gu Lingge get off the sedan chair, holding her hand and walking up the pure white wide stone steps, Gu Lingge did not squint, looking at the high steps in front of him, as if there was no end.

She hadn't been to Baoguo Temple, she didn't believe in this, but she heard that the abbot of Baoguo Temple was a high-ranking monk. Every time the abbot does the dojo, it is a grand occasion for thousands of onlookers, but everything that can be guided is not unfulfilled. The monks are also compassionate, and every winter they will set up a porridge shed at the door, which has helped many people.

In a moment of thought, they had already reached the door. Gu Lingge frowned and crossed the high threshold, perhaps because of his weak body, Gu Lingge did not stand firm. Qing Ruifan grabbed Gu Lingge's hand at the right time. Gu Lingge didn't look at him, and his hand was slightly loosened.

When offering incense to the Buddha, Gu Lingge and Qing Ruifan knelt down on the futon together, Qing Ruifan glanced at Gu Lingge, saw that she had no expression, and smiled in his heart, thinking that she was too nervous. He felt that he and her still had a lot of time, and after the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, he could communicate with her properly. Although Gu Lingge's temper is sometimes very unpalatable to his appetite, the two of them will get better slowly.

Gu Lingge didn't think about it so much, looking at the Buddha with golden eyes and kind eyes, she sneered in her heart. To her, these are all fakes. No one saved her when she was so miserable and hard, and when she still believed in these gods, she prayed so many times that none of the gods heard, and slowly, she became disappointed.

The two of them each conceived a ghost, completed the ritual, and then were relatively silent. Qing Ruifan looked at Gu Lingge, who was opposite him. The sunlight outside penetrated, and Gu Lingge's side face softened a lot under the light. "Ah Ling." Qing Ruifan called her, and his eyes were full of affection.

Gu Lingge didn't look back, his eyes kept staring at the abbot who was accompanying him. This is a very interesting old man, because she is looking at the abbot and the abbot is watching her. The interest in Gu Lingge's eyes could not be concealed, and the abbot was also calm and steady as a bell.

"I wonder if the abbot has time to make a divination for me?" Gu Lingge approached the abbot and looked at the heavy robe with gold thread on a red background on his body. She didn't want to mention it, but when she saw the abbot, the ghost made a god say it. Unexpectedly, the abbot agreed. The calmness and coldness in Gu Lingge's eyes made the abbot winkle his eyes.

In the empty hall, the sound of the lottery was a moment, and the air was stirred up to a mess. When the bamboo stick hit the ground, Qing Ruifan's heart jumped fiercely, his brows furrowed, and his heartbeat missed a beat. Gu Lingge picked up the pointed divination sign and walked in front of the abbot. The abbot raised his eyes and looked, but he asked Gu Lingge to take a step to speak.

Gu Lingge strode with the abbot to the side hall behind, Qing Ruifan's eyes were heavy, he looked up at the tall Buddha statue in front of him, and slowly closed his eyes. Lan Yi whispered behind him if he wanted to follow, Qing Ruifan shook his head, closed his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

The abbot signed only four words to Gu Lingge: Wind Ghost Liuli. Gu Lingge knew what the abbot meant when he heard the wind ghost. But she waited quietly for the abbot's next step. She wanted to see what this enlightened monk could say.

"I'm afraid the queen hasn't seen fireworks for many years." The abbot asked an unrelated question. Gu Lingge was a little stunned. Many people say that the words of the worldly masters are difficult to understand, but now it seems that this is indeed the case.

"I haven't seen it for years, and I've never believed it." Gu Lingge's answer was also vague.

"Fireworks in the prosperous era are not rare." The abbot laughed softly, making Gu Lingge in a trance for a while.

"If you don't see it, it's better not to see it." The two of them began to play dumb riddles, laughing at each other, but neither of them could understand what they were saying.

"Amitabha. Since the queen mother understands, then she can go boldly with confidence. The abbot recited the Buddha's name and walked out slowly.

After lunch, the group left Baoguo Temple and returned to the palace. Gu Lingge kept looking at Qing Ruifan as if he had changed into a different person, which made Qing Ruifan wipe his face several times uneasily, but each time it had no other effect than to make Gu Lingge look more serious. It is naturally a good mood to be looked at by his beloved like this, and the corners of his mouth are about to rise to the sky.

Things in the afternoon were also simple, Gu Lingge accompanied the Queen Mother to be carried by someone passing through the crowd, and everyone who saw it had a happy face, enthusiastically shouting that the Queen Mother was a thousand years old, and wished the Queen Mother a long life. Gu Lingge listened to the shouts of the people, and his face was cloudy. The words of the abbot in the morning are still in her ears, whether to see this fireworks or not, she still has to think about it.

The banquet in the evening was set up at the Hehuan Terrace, which was said to be the closest to the Ci'an Hall, so that the Queen Mother could need it from time to time. After Gu Lingge packed himself, he went to Ci'an Hall to greet the Queen Mother. When he arrived, the emperor and his concubines were already in the hall. Watching Gu Lingge walk in, although he didn't say anything, the expression on his face was wonderful.

"The queen is unwell, she can come later." The Queen Mother looks very generous. Today, she wore a black gold thread meadowsweet and Ruyi buckle jacket and a robe with a pattern, and a round ruby was inlaid on her black square-brimmed forehead, and the selected pearls were wrapped around the gem like stars and moons. This outfit makes the Queen Mother look as amiable as ordinary people's grandmothers, but what the truth is, she has her own plans in her heart.

When they walked into the Hehuan Terrace, they heard the courtiers shouting long live, the Queen Mother walked in the middle, Qing Ruifan Gu Lingge walked on both sides, the first row behind them was Wan Guifei, then the Yuan Concubine and the Chen Concubine, and some nobles and little masters followed behind, with their respective palace maids and managers, a large group of people.

Qing Ruifan walked to the main seat in the middle, Gu Lingge and the Queen Mother were on each side, and after calling for a flat body, the dinner party was officially started.

Gu Lingge glanced at the crowd, men and women were divided into tables, Qing Ruiting and Qing Ruiyang plus Ouyang and a few first-class officials sat at one table, and Yang Fan and the waiters from various provinces sat at one table. On the female guest's side, Qing Jingyao and Yunshuang Gu Liangyue came together, and there were a few first-class ladies next to them, which could be regarded as a complete arrangement.

Gently picking up the wine, Gu Lingge glanced at the stage of Yingge Yan Dance, raised his head and drank it. Qing Ruifan didn't look at Gu Lingge, and the Queen Mother was asking him who was in charge of guarding tonight. Qing Ruifan glanced at the blue clothes and replied to the Queen Mother with a smile. He has never questioned Gu Lingge's arrangement, since she said that there are people, then there must be no difference.

Gu Lingge looked at the song and dance indifferently, between the shadows of her clothes and temples, she saw Yunshuang cast a worried look at her, Gu Lingge smiled comfortingly at her, raised the wine lord and toasted her a glass from afar. There were no words.

It looks like a harmonious group, but everyone has a hypocritical fake skin, which makes Gu Lingge very disliked, and he feels tightness in his chest after sitting for a while. After eating something a little, Gu Lingge told Qing Ruifan that he wanted to go back to drink medicine, Qing Ruifan was stunned, but he didn't say anything, and let her go with a wave of his hand.

Gu Lingge stood on the corridor outside and took the pill that was still half left in Lixia's hand.

"Mother, do you really want to eat?" Li Xia looked at the white pill and was quite thrilled. Although Hu Yue didn't say anything after giving the medicine to Gu Lingge, she chatted with Li Xia many times. Half of this medicine can allow Gu Lingge to deal with it, and if he is in a good state, it can even be said to be more than enough. At that time, he told Lixia Qian that eating two-thirds of this medicine was already terrible, and he didn't know what would happen if he had more.

"Hmm." Gu Lingge replied simply, and fed the medicine in the next moment. Of course she knew the toxicity of the drug, but she still had something to do, and she couldn't run out of energy so quickly.

When I returned to the banquet, it happened to be the part where the officials presented their congratulatory gifts. Everyone's gifts are similar, either rare treasures, or Buddhist pearls, and there are only a few things. Gu Lingge couldn't help but yawn.

The gift prepared by Gu Liangyue is indeed decent, a string of South China Sea corals of the highest grade, the coral is of good color, the color is bright, and if you look closely, you can see that it is a lotus flower carved on it. Qing Jingyao sent her own hand-copied Buddhist scriptures and a portrait of Shakyamuni Buddha, the moment she saw the portrait, the Queen Mother's eyes lit up, and she couldn't stop praising Qing Jingyao.

The things sent by Gu Lingge are also very simple, a pair of short gowns embroidered with golden threads and cranes and auspicious clouds. Zhijin is cool and extremely soft, warm in winter and cool in summer. Zhijin is rare, and the heart is also rare, the Queen Mother smiled at Gu Lingge very satisfied, and Gu Lingge also raised the corners of her mouth in response.

The banquet ended, and everyone dispersed one after another. Gu Lingge went back to the palace and took off a gorgeous dress, changed into the night clothes of the year, looked at the southern character on the corner of the clothes, she smiled lightly, went up to the roof, stepped on the eaves and glazed tiles, and walked step by step towards Ci'an Hall.