Chapter 5 Taiqing Palace

"Ding", the bronze bells on the corners of the eaves sound crisply in the evening breeze.

"Boom", the red phosphorus carp in Huaqing Pond is swimming and churning in the trapped water.

"Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding Ding Dong", the elderly musician pulls the sleeves of his robe, scratches his white hair with his left hand, and strikes the bell with a hammer in his right hand. His eyes narrowed into lines, as if he was remembering something, and as if he couldn't remember or couldn't remember clearly, so his brows tightened a little, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper and deeper.

An imperial city, a Taiqing Palace, a pool of Huaqing water, and a red fish dragon.

Meng Yiwei sat in the corner near the door of the palace, a little far away from the pool of clear water and the group of chimes in the center of the hall, but fortunately, the palace was tall and spacious enough, and the music bypassed the wooden beams and pillars, turned over the water screen, and passed through the fog gauze tent, and it also reached his ears accurately, and the tune was familiar and unfamiliar, it was the song "Red Carp" that he often heard in his childhood.

Meng Gongzi listened deeply to the myth here, but a low-end petty official at the same table was talking with drool. The speaker was wearing the official uniform of the Qipin Temple of Dali Temple, and the mandarin ducks embroidered on the front placket were propped up beyond recognition by his fat body.

At this time, the sausage mouth suddenly stopped and took a breath, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, the red light was full of fat noodles, and the mung bean eyes saw the looks on the faces of several colleagues waiting for the next sentence, and finally smiled to himself. He continued: "What's more strange is that in order to build the Taiqing Palace, the Internal Affairs Office levied thousands of people to dig up the soil and build the foundation, but I didn't expect to dig out a living water in the center of the current hall, this spring water is also a godsend! The summer is cold and pleasant, and the winter is warm and pleasant, so the craftsmen deliberately took the spring as the center to surround a pool of Huaqing Pond with a circle of five zhang, and then lowered the ground of half of the palace outside the pond by six feet, and dug out a shallow groove, which was covered with green wood boards, so exquisite and ingenious to create the world-famous Taiqing Palace Three Wonders! "Don't look at the sausage mouth, it doesn't look good, but it does have a good tongue, and it can't be called a lotus flower, and it can be regarded as not rotten!

There are no tables and chairs in the Taiqing Palace, with the pu cushion as the seat, and the low case as the table, everyone sits on the spot, and the full six people are a seat, sharing the delicacies on the table. After listening to the anecdote of the sausage mouth, two people really lifted the cushion and knocked the floor a few times with their knuckles, and sure enough, there was a sound similar to the water transmission of a bamboo tube, and they couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

"Which of the three wonders of the Taiqing Palace are they?" The other person was obviously an anxious person, busy inquiring about the strange news, and spit out all the local sounds. In fact, the few people who sat at the same table with the sausage mouth, except for the blind boy who inserted in halfway to make up the number, were all little-known small fish and shrimp, and those six- and seven-grade official hats on their heads were thrown on the surging river surface of the Yidu officialdom, and they couldn't even splash a splash. If it weren't for the many audience documents that were responsible for taking care of the island's foreign envoys this time, they would not be qualified to come to this Huanghuang Taiqing Palace for a banquet, so they are a little out of proportion, or it can be said that they are showing their true colors.

"Zi~咻~Hum ~" The sausage mouth sucked the lamb barrel bone dipped in garlic juice, and disdainfully squeezed out a "hum" word from between the noses.

"Qi Ergou, you are really a dog, you don't eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas with a case, but you like to gnaw bones!" "A six-grade hat that had knocked on the floor just now was probably waiting to hear the novelty, so he smiled and scolded his bad subordinate.

"Hey, Lord Liu, this is your mouthless!This bone paste is soft and smooth, tsk~~ Every time I eat it, it's like licking the smooth belly of those little chicks in the Bud Green Building, hehe~", the sausage mouth full of oil, the mouth full of oil, and the oily hands of the sausage mouth still needs to be described wonderfully and appropriately, but you can see everyone's clenched fists, and finally stop the obscenity.

"Ahem, this is too clear and strange!" The sausage mouth quickly changed the topic, "It's right in front of you, everyone can actually see it!" I have to say that this official ruffian called "Qi Ergou" is really a slut, wiped the oil on his mouth with a hand towel, and sold Guanzi again.

"This lord, what is Taiqing Sanqi, but he is tired to talk about it in detail. Meng Yiwei was also interested, of course he knew the layout of the Taiqing Palace, because the master craftsman who built the Taiqing Palace was the senior master of the Tiangong Mansion of the Academy, and this clever and secret ingenuity was recorded in the lone posthumous work of the master craftsman, of course, this book was not allowed to be printed outside the academy, only a moth-eaten fragment was lying in a dark room in the academy. Although I am certainly not the only one who happens to have read it, there are certainly not many people who want to read it. can listen to the words of this petty official surnamed Qi, and then see that he did say seven or eight out of ten in front of him, Meng Yiwei couldn't help but want to hear the following.

"Okay, since everyone is so eager to learn, then I will not hesitate to give advice!" Seeing that the blind boy who had been silently asking for a word, the sausage mouth was finally stimulated, wiped the fine sweat on his face, and squirted saliva again. But I didn't know that the hand towel that wiped the sweat was full of the meat oil that had just been wiped, so the fat face of "Qi Ergou" lit up, and it was red and bright!

"Taiqing is three strange and four sentences are heavy. One strange water curtain is extraordinarily middle, two strange fog yarn scratches the ground, three strange spring and autumn are unified, and there are still gods and monsters trapped in the water cage. Shaking his head, the sausage mouth read out four limerick poems, and the blind boy nodded secretly.

"'A strange water curtain is divided into the middle', it is said that there is a spring in the Taiqing Palace, and when the spring water is full of Huaqing Pond, it will cross the six-foot drop and turn into a waterfall water curtain, which divides the Taiqing Palace into two palaces. Sausage Mouth pointed to the crystal light in the distance. The Taiqing Palace is indeed divided into two palaces, the inner and outer palaces, and those who can enter the inner palace must be the princes and generals unless they are from the Bai royal family. The six-foot water curtain is as tall as one person, but it is also ten thousand people away! Even if a petty official like Sausage Mouth enters the outer palace, he is very frightened, not to mention the purple Taiqing Inner Palace. Several little people at this banquet all understood that although their family was named a Jingguan, they were actually officials with no power, and in addition, they had no backers and no talents, so how difficult was the road to climbing!

"Heh, this 'Erqi Fog Yarn Scratching the Ground', I can't see it now!" The sausage mouth did not lower his mood, and one sentence brought up everyone's thoughts.

"When will you see the freshness?" said the young boy who spoke in tongues.

"But we have to wait until the ninth month, the spring water in this Taiqing Palace is a "twisted seed", but it can't get along with God, the colder the day, the hotter it is. When the sky is cold and the ground is frozen, the hot spring encounters the cold, and it evaporates a veil-like mist, which spreads from the height of the pillar, and people stand on the floor, and they can't see the dome of the Taiqing Palace at all, only a white expanse. No, take a look, it's getting cold in autumn now, and there's already a looming white veil!" The sausage mouth raised his finger and pointed to the top of his head, and everyone looked up to take a closer look, and sure enough, there was already some mist wrapped in the carved beams and paintings, like a fairyland in a dream, and I was a little crazy for a while!

For this beautiful scenery that does not look like the world, everyone at the same table drank a glass, and the blind boy was no exception, but he only took a sip, and everyone didn't mind, who made the family blind, and it was a great pity not to see it!

"Ahem~~" cleared his throat, and the sausage mouth continued to talk about the third strange, "This third strange is simple, because our family is now sitting and enjoying it! In this way, in the hot summer season, the cold spring water flows under the floor, the slightest cool air will make the whole palace refreshing and pleasant, in the severe winter, the warm spring water reveals a burst of warmth and can make the huge Taiqing Palace as bright as spring, flowers and plants are undefeated, this is not 'Spring and Autumn into a unity'!", and no longer pay attention to the crowd's own "three-inch tongue" and finally even say "admiration and admiration", the sausage mouth holds a bowl of cold tea soup on the elbow and drinks it down, and the sausage burps a lot, so comfortable, as if a great achievement has been completed!

"Then 'there are still gods and monsters trapped in the water cage' and reconciled?" But the blind man asked at this time!