Chapter Twenty-Three: The Past of the Palace
On September 16 of the 30th year of Yongqian, King Chang and King Gong led an army of 300,000 troops to Cangzhou, Jizhou, and Wuzhou in the north to fight against the army of Xiao State.
With the reinforcement of the army of King Chang and King Gong, the battle report from the northern border pass of the Jin State was no longer occupied by defeat, and occasional good news began to come out.
This is already the best battle news.
However, as the stalemate continued, the issue of military pay became more and more stretched. In the long run, this state of confrontation is only afraid that it will soon be replaced by defeat again.
During this period of time, Emperor Jin worried about the problem of "money" day and night, tried every way to raise military salaries, and even moved several corrupt officials. In the harem, Lan Jun, as the queen, has never been lazy, reducing the use of the harem, mobilizing concubines and concubines to raise donations, and letting go of a large number of palace people to save expenses.
On this day, Yun Tian took advantage of Lan Jun's rest to take Rui'er, the female official in charge of the Dongnuan Pavilion, to walk by the Taiye Pool, and the "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" played by the piano and flute ensemble came again, but the time was no longer midnight, but afternoon.
Taiye Pool was already a little far away from the Middle Palace, and Yun Tian secretly thought that the sound of the piano he heard that night probably didn't come from this place, but this sound of the piano was so familiar, it should be from the same person! I was curious and wanted to find out.
So she excused herself and followed the music to walk briskly to the deserted places.
Passing through the northwest corner of the pond and then westward, the music became clearer and clearer. Yun Tilt walked as she carefully discerned the music, and this time she found that although the sound of the piano was still elegant and graceful, and secretly tenacious, the sound of the flute was not as melodious as before, but clear and sonorous.
As he walked, what appeared in front of Yun Tian was no longer a barren landscape, but a bamboo forest.
In late autumn, everything is withering, but the bamboo forest in front of you is still lush and green, which is really surprising. A few scattered yellow leaves have been cut off, so the towering green bamboo still looks as vibrant as in the middle of summer. Yun tilted his head and looked at the sky, the afternoon sun was shining and dazzling, at this time it was separated by dense bamboo leaves into tens of thousands of sections, and the fine light was stubbornly spread through one gap after another, gilding the already verdant green with a circle of gold edges, so that the green and gold complemented each other, and people could hardly open their eyes and sight.
Yun Tian looked at it for a while before retracting his gaze, secretly thinking that the owner of this bamboo forest must love this bamboo forest very much, so he would take care of it so properly and exquisitely.
Walking slowly along the path in the bamboo forest, before reaching the courtyard deep in the bamboo forest, the masters of the music have already finished playing "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" and are playing another tune: "Song of Entering the War".
The name of the courtyard in front of me is called: Green Water House, and the name is elegant. Through the half-open courtyard gate, you can see that the inside is not carved and jade like other palaces in the Jin Palace, but a main house made of bamboo, which is very elegant. At this time, the little yellow door guarding behind the door was already asleep in the warm afternoon sun, Yun Tilt was secretly happy, and walked into the courtyard lightly, there happened to be no palace people in the courtyard, Yun Tilt quickly slipped into the main house, suppressed the inexplicable joy in his heart and laughed dryly, and continued to look for the masters of the music.
With the excitement and excitement of being a thief, Yun Tian finally found the person she was looking for in the backyard. Strictly speaking, she hid under the window of a room, and through the panes of carved sandalwood windows, she could only see the backs of the people playing in the backyard.
But this back was enough for her to be dumbfounded: a man in green clothes in the courtyard stood and played the flute, and a woman in green clothes sat on the piano, the two played so much that they even looked at each other and smiled, their eyebrows were full of affection, and most importantly, there was no one else in the courtyard except these two people.
In the deep palace, how can men and women be allowed to meet privately? This is a capital crime for the defilement of the palace!
Yun Tian was so surprised that she almost blurted out a shout, but fortunately she covered her lips with her hand in time so as not to alarm the two people in the courtyard who were intoxicated by the music.
After the song "Entering the War" was played, the two people in the courtyard both stopped the music, and the green-clothed woman lightly opened her lips and said quietly: "I haven't seen you for a few months, the prince's flute skills have improved so much, and I can't catch up with the rhythm of the "Battle Song" just now!" ”
Her voice was as clear as a bird, and it sounded very pleasant, and as soon as her voice fell, there was a hearty laugh from the man in Tsing Yi next to her: "Lu'er, I haven't seen you for a few months, but you have learned to make fun of me!" I went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for disaster relief, day and night to relieve the victims, and then it was reported that Xiao Jun went south, and the treasury was tight, and I was even more exhausted, thinking about how to let the victims eat enough and save more money and food. I almost blew a few wrong notes just now! ”
Yun Tian couldn't help but tremble again when he heard the man's voice: King Yu!
It turned out to be King Yu again!
Yun Tian then remembered that King Yu, who went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for disaster relief at the end of summer, had just returned to Beijing this morning, but he didn't expect him to come here in such a hurry as soon as he returned to the palace, it seems that this green child must be the person he is concerned about, and the surprise in Yun Tian's heart was immediately replaced by a strange ecstasy.
This time I finally caught King Yu's pigtails, what a worthwhile trip!
With this in mind, she acted even more cautiously, tiptoeing back to make sure she was completely hidden in the backlight in the corner, and pricked up her ears to listen carefully to the conversation between the two.
At this moment, it was Lu'er who spoke next, only to see her chuckle and say, "The prince has worked hard and made great achievements, I don't care about these things for you!" ”
When King Yu heard this, he put the flute on his waist, sat down on Lu'er's side, stretched out a strand of water hair hanging down from her sideburns, leaned to her ear, and said in a low voice: "There is no one else here, don't be a prince on the left, a prince on the right, it sounds strange!" Do you know that for a few months, my heart has been sleepless at night, all because of the reason? Lu'er, I miss you so much......"
After that, he pecked lightly on the lobe of her earlobe, although it was as light as a dragonfly in water, but there was an irrepressible emotion that spread quietly with an almost boiling breath.
Lu'er obviously didn't expect the other party to make such a move suddenly, and her body stiffened, but she quickly stabilized her mind, and said with a red face: "I heard that you passed by Yangzhou, Yangzhou's wealth is comparable to that of the imperial capital, you can't sleep at night, but also rely on me, there is always an object as proof!" ”
"Asking me for something so soon?" King Yu was obviously very impressed by Lu'er's coquettishness, "I fell in love with a piece of fine mutton fat jade, half-moon-shaped, clear green and translucent, you must like it!" ”
Yun Tian hid in the dark and couldn't see the appearance of the jade clearly, only to hear Lu'er's "ah", carefully looked at the jade, and never let go for a long time. After a long time, he hung the jade on his waist and said slowly: "Speaking of the floods in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I am a little strange. Is this flood really so dangerous, destroying countless dikes? But there is something strange to find out! ”
King Yu lightly scratched Lu'er's nose and said, "Even if you are shrewd, you can't hide things from such a distant place!" ”