The daylight hours are getting longer, and before you know it, it's mid-May, and the weather is starting to get hot.

Since the Wanshou Festival, after Yu Lin went to Ci'an Palace every day to ask for peace, he had to go to the side hall where Lu Yuan lived to sit. Lu Yuan neither intended to greet nor deliberately refuse, politely commented on poems and paintings with the emperor, and talked about the past and the present.

On this day, Yu Lin went to the side hall, smelled the silence in the hall, stepped into the hall in doubt, saw that the huge side hall was empty, and walked until the inner hall, only to see Lu Yuan writing with his back to him on the side of a pear marble case.

On the case, there are all kinds of legal posts, several treasure inkstones, all kinds of pen holders, the pens inserted in it are like trees, and there is a stack of words and paper more than a foot high.

Lu Yuan was concentrating on writing, and she didn't notice that Yu Lin had walked behind her.

Yu Lin said loudly: "I only know the subtlety of Yuanyuan's handwriting, but I don't know that it is also practiced so hard, it can really be described as freezing three feet and not a day's cold." ”

Yuanyuan was unprepared and startled, and turned around to see that Yu Lin was already standing behind him with a smile, and hurriedly bowed to him.

Yu Lin helped her up and said, "Did I scare you?" ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "The emperor is used to surpriseing people. ”

Yu Lin approached the front of the case, looked at the stack of writing papers, and said, "Why is there no one waiting in front of you?" ”

Lu Yuanying said with a smile: "I have always been reluctant to be around others when I write, and it is uncomfortable to see them detained there, and I will serve tea and fan for a while, so I can't concentrate on writing, so I sent them all out." ”

Yu Lin smiled: "You sent them all away, so who will serve?" ”

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "I'll serve in person, how about it?" ”

Yu Lin laughed: "There are beauties serving tea, it is naturally good, there is Lao Yuanyuan." ”

Yuanyuan left with a smile, and after a while, she took a light gold-painted wooden plate, holding a handful of red clay small tea dicks and two begonia-style small tea cups, and said with a smile: "How about the emperor taste the tea I cooked?" As he spoke, he picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and gently served it.

The tea has not been tasted, first smell its fragrance, only to see the white tea cup, the pieces of tender buds are like a bird's tongue, to taste carefully, only to feel that the tea fragrance is clear, the aftertaste is sweet, I can't help asking: "What kind of tea is this?" ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "It's the dragon well before the rain that the emperor rewarded yesterday." ”

Yu Lin took another sip and said, "It's Longjing, but it's much better than me." ”

Lu Yuan said: "The tea is the same, but the water in which the tea is cooked is different." ”

"Oh?" Yu Lin was full of interest and asked, "What's different about water?" ”

Lu Yuan said: "The water for cooking tea is the snow water on the plum blossoms that the Queen Mother asked Aunt Jingzhu to collect last winter, and I only got an urn in total, buried under the pine tree in the small garden, and let me ask for it." ”

Yu Lin said: "As soon as you say it, I can taste a faint aroma in this tea, but I don't know what the fragrance is, so there is no other plum blossom aroma." ”

After drinking a cup of tea, Yu Lin said again: "Yi Zhen looks at Yuanyuan's words are already exquisite, do you still need to practice so hard?" ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "I can't write well in big characters, and my pen power is too weak, so I practice it from time to time." ”

After hearing this, he suddenly got up and walked behind her, stretched out his right hand from behind her and held her jade hand holding the pen, suddenly feeling soft and boneless, and the other hand gently hugged her waist, and then took her hand and wrote the word "Lin" on the paper.

Lu Yuan's face flushed, his breathing was slightly short, and all he could smell was the faint scent of ambergris on Yu Lin's body, and he had never been in such close contact with a man.

Yu Lin noticed Lu Yuan's crampedness, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became stronger, her soft hair gently rubbed between his neck, and the bursts of orchid fragrance emanating from his hair made him almost unable to hold it.

In a moment, Lu Yuan broke free, lowered her head, shyly stroked the ribbon around her waist, and saw her so shy, and said with a smile: "It's a beautiful woman, I hope Yuanyuan forgives her sins." ”

Lu Yuan said softly: "The emperor is serious. ”

Yu Lin smiled and sat back in the chair, leaned back in the chair and said, "Yuanyuan's big characters are also very good, but you are too modest." As far as I know, among the four arts of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, Yuanyuan's piano skills and calligraphy are outstanding, but I wonder if she is also proficient in chess and painting skills? ”

Lu Yuan stepped forward slowly and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, it is precisely chess and painting that Yuan Yuan can't do." There are four grids in the painting, Yi Ge, Shen Ge, Miao Ge, and Neng Ge, focusing on the charm and pen and ink interest. It is said that "the cover can not be as wonderful, as wonderful as God, and God is not as good as Yi", and Yipin is the highest realm. This is beyond Yuanyuan's reach. ”

Yu Lin thought for a moment and said, "What Yuanyuan said is exquisite. And what about chess? ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "The emperor is not tired, then Yuanyuan will be tricky." Although the chessboard is small, it is subtle and changeable, and the chess game is like a battle game, with black and white transporting troops to arrange formations, capturing the imperial guard, and fighting wits and courage. Ying Ling, a scribe of the Eastern Han Dynasty, once said: "The way of the game is rigorous." "It is necessary to have a general strategy for the birth of the world, but also to have a detailed plan for joining the WTO, and to strategize in order to win."

She raised the teapot, poured a full cup for Lin, and continued: "Speaking of playing chess, it's really ridiculous, when Yuanyuan was at home, her father and brothers were good at games, and they always pointed me out, but Yuanyuan's chess skills still did not grow, and now her father and brothers have left their hometowns, and there is no one to guide them, and Yuanyuan has not played chess for a long time." ”

Seeing that there was no response, Lu Yuan observed Yu Lin's color, and saw that his face seemed to be a little unhappy, and he didn't have the same interest as before.

Lu Yuan hurriedly bowed down and said, "Yuanyuan made a careless statement, please forgive the emperor." ”

After a long silence, Yu Lin put down the teacup in his hand and said lightly, "You get up." I still have a piece of music to be approved, so I'll go back to Chengming Hall first, and I'll come to see you another day. After saying that, he didn't even look back and left.

For a few days, Yu Lin just went to the Shoukang Palace to greet the Queen Mother, and returned to the Chengming Hall after sitting for half an hour, but did not set foot in the side hall again. Although Lu Yuan was calm on the surface, her heart was also turbulent, and she deeply regretted that she was in a hurry that day.

The Empress Dowager Xiaochun also saw the clue, called Lu Yuan to her, and asked carefully, but Lu Yuan could only tell the truth.

The Queen Mother shook her head and sighed: "Why can't you hold your breath like this, you can't reach it quickly." Since ancient times, the king is like a tiger, and the king is often moody, and the emperor is already suspicious, and you mention your father and brother at this time, it is really too hasty, and it is inevitable that the emperor is suspicious. ”

Lu Yuan bowed his head and said, "Yuanyuan already knows that she is wrong. The Queen Mother said: "Since this is the case, it is useless to regret it, it is better to think about how to redeem it, don't leave any traces, it is naturally the best." ”

Lu Yuan said: "Yuanyuan wrote it down." ”

In the past few days, Yu Lin has been unhappy, and the people who are waiting in front of him have also suffered. Qian Xue, who was in charge of serving tea in front of the emperor, accidentally hit a small tea cup, disturbing Yu Lin, who was reviewing the folds, and was punished for kneeling on the stone steps in front of the Chengming Hall for an hour. Xiao Shunzi, the inner supervisor who was waiting for the pen and ink, accidentally spilled ink when he was grinding the ink, stained the fold that Yu Lin was writing, and was beaten with twenty boards. Even Li Zhong, who is an old man, is reprimanded from time to time. Everyone who was waiting in front of the emperor was sweating.

This year's summer seems to have come very early, just in June, the weather is already hot, and all palaces and rooms have used ice wheels to cool down the heat.

In the afternoon of this day, Yu Lin was in front of the case to watch the folds, his heart was irritable, he was very impatient, he only heard the loud sound of cicadas on the tree outside the hall, which was particularly harsh, and called Xiao Dezi, and said: "The cicadas on this tree are noisy and I have a headache, and I take people to stick them all!" ”

Around the Chengming Palace, the grass and trees are particularly lush, Xiao Dezi received this errand, and he was miserable, so he had to bring more than a dozen small inner supervisors, and took a long rod to stick the cicadas, and they were hot and sweaty.

Yu Lin was still not happy, dropped the pen, got up and said, "I'm very irritable, go out for a walk." ”

Li Zhong hurriedly followed: "At this time, it is the most vicious time of the afternoon sun, the emperor is carefully warm, the emperor wants to relax, but he can go to the Baihe Lake for a walk, where it is close to the water, the flowers and trees are shady, covering most of the daylight, but it is also cool, and the lotus flowers on the lake have opened, and the emperor can also watch and watch." ”

"Not bad." Yu Lin said: "Let's go to Baihe Lake!" ”