Chapter 4: Encounter
The spring breeze blows, the wicker flies, the inner courtyard of the palace is green and vibrant, and the dew on both sides of the gravel path is damp, like a young man who has nothing to do, just sprinkled water to moisten the grass next to the stone steps.
The Imperial Garden has long been dressed up and refreshed. The temporary table was full of fruits and tea. At each exit of the palace stood four large internal guards.
Three or two groups of teenagers, all of them are showing off their flowers, and occasionally you can hear "I don't know who can be happy to be the king of Chengxi this time," "I heard that the prince of Chengxi is a gentle person." "It would be nice if I could make it to be King Xi."
There are twenty or thirty people in the four or more families in the capital, all of whom are whispering about the prince of Weiyang Chengxi. When Mu Ran and Jiang Xin arrived, they quickly joined the teenagers.
In the distance is a group of young men, there are more than a dozen people, they are courtiers in the Weiyang country alone independent for a long time, although from everyone's eyes to see some expectations, but each of them is well hidden, but when they see their colleagues, each of them raises their arms, smiles, to show that they have said hello.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you can walk around the imperial garden at will, and if you need anything, you can be diligent and ordered." The person who spoke was Mr. Li Shanggong in the palace, who wore a court dress today, and his slightly chubby body was a little tight. He said respectfully, leaning forward only a little as a sign of respect.
"Xie Li Zongshang Palace." The teenagers, the youths replied in one breath. No one in the palace can be offended, especially Li Zongshanggong, she is the queen's confidant and the highest-ranking maid in the palace.
Mr. Li Shanggong smiled at everyone, turned around and left, followed by two subordinates, swaying away.
"General Mu Ran, why don't you go in?" Tao Xi wanted to enter the Imperial Garden alone, but saw a person standing in a remote corner outside the Imperial Garden. When I walked in, I thought that this person was the person I saw before I entered the palace in a carriage, and the back image was very much the person who stood and looked at the moon that day. I have already inquired about it, and the eldest son of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Rites, Mu Ran Junnuo, served as the general of Yangcheng and served in the army for ten years, and only recently returned to Kyoto.
"Girl?" Mu Ranjun saw that the person who came was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old woman wearing palace clothes, and she was the female official of that palace. smiled at himself gently, and he was not easy to refuse, he wanted to hide outside the imperial garden by himself, and it was good to see Yun Ti Yun Shu, but he didn't think about it, but he was still recognized.
"General Mu Ran, I am Prince Chengxi's attendant and Lin Zi." Tao Xi saw Mu Ran Junnuo asking himself, and somehow he said that he was a forest.
"Waiter Lin is good, you have a reason below." Mu Ran Junnuo turned around and saluted Tao Xi, exposing all his faces to Tao Xi's eyes. Deep eyes looked at the girl indifferently.
"General Mu Ran, this is tormenting the forest, you are a general, I am just an attendant." The wound on the right side of his face was deep from the corner of his eye to his cheek, like an old wound of more than ten years, "Squire Lin, you're polite, it's just a martial artist below." There was no disdain in her eyes. Why do you have distressed eyes?
"General Mu Ran, do you want to see the scenery here? Don't think this place is too conspicuous? Tao Xi joked with a smile.
"Where does Attendant Lin think the scenery is unique?" Mu Ran Junnuo smiled knowingly at Tao Xi, his deep eyes were shining, and the scars on his cheeks were stretched very long, which was particularly eye-catching.
"Let's go."
"Go there." Mu Ran Junnuo asked rhetorically with some stunnedness.
"Take you to see the scenery, why doesn't General Mu Ran dare?"
"Why don't you dare? Lin attendant please. Mu Ranjunnuo saw Tao Xi's smile like a flower and made fun of himself, so he laughed and said to Tao Xi.
"Let's go, then." After Tao Xi finished speaking, he turned around and left, walking towards the dark part of the imperial garden.
Mu Ran Junnuo lifted his robe, and followed Tao Xi into the imperial garden. There was a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, which added tenderness to his still face.
In the midst of the men's conversation and laughter in the Imperial Garden, no one noticed the two people coming in. The spring breeze blows, bursts of tea, fruit, talking and laughing, no one knows who will fall in love with whom?
"How? This is the unique scenery, a package of small mountains. Tao Xi took Mu Ran Junnuo to a hundred-year-old surplus money tree in the imperial garden. Said to Mu Ranjunnuo with a smile.
"It's really good." Mu Ran Junnuo looked at this hundred-year-old surplus money tree, which was indeed the most corner of the imperial garden, and the surrounding area of the tree was overgrown with weeds.
"Come on!" Tao Xi stretched out his hand.
The placket was fluttering, Mu Ran Junnuo held Tao Xi's hand, and flew to the tree as soon as she lifted her breath, her hands were very warm.
Tao Xi stood steadily on the branch with the largest remaining money, looking at the crowd coming and going in the imperial garden.
"Not bad, right? The place I was looking for. With a smile, he looked at Mu Ranjun and said as if he was invited.
"It's really good, I don't know how Squire Lin found this place?" Mu Ranjun looked around, the imperial garden was in full view, and his long eyelashes were like a fan.
"Shhhh It's a secret. The index finger is placed on the side of the mouth, and the eyes are full of playfulness and cunning, making the face that is warm and unbrilliant a lot more beautiful.
Mu Ran Junnuo smiled and nodded, "Come." Tao Xi made himself on the trunk of the tree without a shadow, and patted the thick trunk beside him.
"Hehe" chuckles overflowed from his lips, and his unceremonious robe sat on the trunk of a tree next to Tao Xi.
can raise such a gentle and elegant woman, I am afraid that the master Chengxi is really like the legend, with a humble personality, gentle and polite! Otherwise, how could the domestic servant be so careless.
Neither of the two men in the tree spoke, only the sound of each other's breathing and the staggered sound of the wind blowing the leaves.
The wind blows, and occasionally the green leaves fall down, adding new fertilizer to the weeds everywhere.