Chapter 19: The Banquet in the Palace
There are some things that the more you try to escape, the more real you see. I've always told myself that all that Willow has done to me is just treating me like a tassel. I thought that knowing this, I would never have feelings for him, but now my heart is full of Willow's figure.
I'm just a stand-in, and the truth will come out one day, and at that time, will he still be so gentle and pampered to me? It was as if I had fallen into an ice cave, and the cold aura around me was constantly invading my body little by little.
Willow shook my hand and asked, "Why are your hands so cold?" Come inside, I'll have Ni Meng bring you a hand stove. "Am I to be glad or sad that my hands are cold, and that he can leave behind his small work?
Gathered around the warm stove, with a hand stove in his sleeve, the chill on his body subsided a little. Willow sat beside me, his white and beautiful face was slightly red from the heater, he raised his hand and pulled the hair on the side of my face behind his ear, and after a long time, he said softly: "I always feel that you have something to hide from me, but you used to say something, and you would never torture yourself like this." ”
Did he say this to find out that I wasn't a tassel? But if he found out, how could he still talk to me so calmly? After a moment of distraction, I decided to tell him what I had done, anyway, I didn't want to see him do anything, everything should be done for the tassel that looked like me.
"I wasn't completely unconscious that day after I was captured, I heard the conversation between them......" In the middle of my speech, Willow suddenly pressed his finger to my lips, turned to the maid in the room, and said, "You all stand down, and no one is allowed to approach the Autumn Fruit Palace!" ”
The maids retreated in unison, closing the door of the Autumn Fruit Hall tightly.
His index finger pressed against my lips slowly loosened, and I continued: "From their conversation, I can tell that a man named He'er was lurking in King Yi's palace before, and as for what he is going to do, whether he has come back now, I don't know. ”
"Do you remember his voice? Or something else? Willow picked up the teacup next to him and took a sip.
"Well, he's small, soft, and has rough palms with thick calluses. Also, there is the fact that he has a habit of dragon yang......" I replied earnestly while trying to recall.
"Poof...... Ahem, cough, cough ......" Willow squirted all the tea into the stove, and white smoke rose from the red charcoal burning in the furnace. He put the cup in his hand back on the table, raised his sleeve and wiped the water stains on his lips: "People have a habit of dragon yang, how do you know?" ”
I don't know why his reaction is so big, and he honestly replied: "Before you broke in, I heard the two of them walking there......" I wanted to talk about the joy of fish and water, but considering that this word is only used between men and women, as for men and men, I can't think of how to describe it for a while.
"I know, don't make a noise about this matter for now, I'll pay attention to the people around me." Willow suddenly got up and hugged me into his arms, "When Lou Guo has such a character, I really want to meet him." ”
I want to meet him, what are you doing with me? He looked at Vero with a puzzled expression, but he put me on the Luohan couch behind the desk and reached out to untie my clothes.
"What are you going to do?" I threw away the stove and crossed my hands in front of me, "In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, what are you ......?"
Willow narrowed his beautiful eyes, leaned over and blocked my mouth with warm and soft lips, kissed softly, and said in a muffled voice: "It's the moon is dark and the wind is high, the night is quiet, lonely men and widows, and the spring night is a moment." ”
All right! I'll admit that I don't have as many four-word idioms as he does......
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the banquet in the palace, I really saw the beauties of the Willow harem.
The queen was disfigured, so she closed herself in the Biqian Palace, and all these things at the banquet were all things I had never seen. Previously, because I lived in Yushu Palace, no one would go to my door, but after moving to Yeyang Palace, Wei Luo ordered that no one should be allowed to disturb me, yes, looking at Wei Luo's many concubines, I felt that my eyes were tight.
I heard that when Wei Luo succeeded to the throne, he chose a show girl to enrich the harem and officially canonized Xiahou Ying as the queen, and then he devoted himself to court politics and almost ignored the beauties of the harem. At first, when I heard Ni Meng tell me this, I was still wondering if Vero would also be a broken sleeve, but then I felt that I really didn't look like a man, so I ruled out this hypothesis.
Willow and the Queen Mother sat on the upper seat, and we, the concubines, sat down in turn, because the queen was absent, because my seat was closest to Willow, and most of the palace concubines who were fat and thin looked at me with some hostility.
Sitting at the table, feeling uncomfortable, he had to reply with a few decent words from time to time, so as not to lose the dignity of Princess Lou Guo. But these concubines didn't want me to sit so decently, a woman dressed up and quite flamboyant got up and blessed the Queen Mother and Wei Luofu, and said: "I heard that Concubine Zhao was quite good at music before entering the palace, and her singing voice was clear and moving, and the lingering sound lingered for three days, and the concubines wanted to see it." ”
My hand shook suddenly, and the cup in my hand slammed against the corner of the table with a slight thud. For Mao is another rumor, is the rumored Princess Zhaowen with three heads and six arms, can go out of the hall at the top, enter the kitchen at the bottom, fight concubines inside, and beat hooligans outside? In the middle, by the way, show them the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, blowing, playing and singing?
"As soon as Chu Zhaoyi said this, the mourning family also wanted to see Concubine Zhao's singing." The Queen Mother set her eyes on me with great cheers.
obviously wants me to not get off the stage, but I can still say it so high-sounding. Knowing that my identity was about to be exposed, Wei Luo waved his hand and called the musician and said: "I heard that Mrs. Lou Guo Hibiscus once wrote the lyrics and sang the memories of her appearance, so why don't Concubine Zhao present a song of her appearance!" ”
Mrs. Hibiscus? Looks?
I really heard this song when I was in Lou Guo before. At that time, I was still soaking in the blue washing spring all day long, and Princess Zhaowen sang on the shore in her spare time.
The musician placed the guzheng on the table, plucked it with her hand, and a soft note poured out from her fingers, like gurgling water, and like a graceful sigh. Listening to the familiar tune, he got up and couldn't help but speak leisurely:
"Far away, the river bank is towering, the carved beauty of the East City Building, the couch is alone, the lovesickness is sad, the red lips are cloudy, the temples are not parting, the tears are flashy, the hustle and bustle of the world is fleeting, the dust is empty, the silk embroidery is tangled, the hair looks at each other, the night is hazy, the voice is slow, the beauty is snuggled by the king, the drunken dream, the red face is the beginning, the hand is three thousand green silk, the hair can not be cut out, once waiting for whom, the bitter morning dew, the frost, the sideburns are not known, the spring is gone, the red face is declining, the hope is not back, the song is gone, the mourning monarch forgets this growth, reminiscences......"
Although there is no ethereal and tactful singing voice, this mournful and emotional tune, combined with my slightly hoarse voice, has unexpected effects. Everyone at the banquet was dumbfounded, of course, including myself, I think I am not only very talented in using drugs, but even singing can be self-taught!