Chapter 22: Entering the Palace
Luoyang City, inside the Imperial Palace.
"Brother Wang."
A soft call made the middle-aged man who had been approving the folds raise his head.
"You girl, didn't you see that Brother Wang was reviewing the recital? Why do you have time to see Brother Wang today? ”
Li Xuanxuan stepped forward quickly, sat down next to the middle-aged man in a yellow robe, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "What's the matter, didn't I come to see you?"
"It's not good that you came to me, let's be honest, what good things do you fancy this time?" The middle-aged man said gently, but there was a slow domineering tone in his tone.
Li Xuanxuan did not continue to speak, but brought a bowl of lotus seed soup and put it in front of the middle-aged man, who opened his mouth and took a sip, and a fresh fragrance was refreshing.
"Ate and ate, drank and drank. If you have anything to say directly, Brother Wang is in charge for you. The middle-aged man said with a slight smile.
"It's been a long time since we've gone out for a walk." Li Xuanxuan kept shaking the middle-aged man's arm and said coquettishly.
In the long river of history, no matter which dynasty, the place where the Son of Heaven is located is the most prosperous place after all.
On the shore of the lake in the imperial city, although it is late autumn, the breeze blows, and the picture of hundreds of birds dancing with the fallen leaves is quite poetic.
All the men in the world always have very different favors for their sisters, and the middle-aged man told the eunuch: "Put them all away, and I will see them when I return." ”
Li Xuanxuan pulled the middle-aged man onto a small boat, a merry beauty on the boat, holding the pipa in her arms, twisting slowly and lightly, playing with her jade hands, gentle and beautiful notes continued to flow out on the strings, the mournful and tactful songs, coupled with the autumn wind environment, made the picture beautiful and moving, and the listener cried.
At the end of the song, the middle-aged man slowly woke up in the intoxicating sound of music, and Li Xuanxuan took the opportunity to say: "What do you think of this song, Brother Wang." ”
The middle-aged man was silent for a long time and said: "The song is high and low, soft and moving, and it can be called a masterpiece." How? This is what you wrote? ”
Li Xuanxuan said with a smile: "That's not it, it was written by a friend of mine, and the music I composed for me, I'm amazing." ”
The middle-aged man said calmly: "Then who is that friend of yours?" ”
Li Xuanxuan cleared his throat and said: "My friend is proficient in poetry and songs, and he is handsome, but I don't know if he is married." ”
Li Xuanxuan's voice became smaller and smaller, and the middle-aged man suddenly understood the doorway and hurriedly said: "If you really have these skills, Jinshi and the first are more than enough, but the Ministry of Rites lacks a Taile Cheng, and after the imperial examination, he can be allowed to take office." ”
Hearing the three words Tai Le Cheng, Li Xuanxuan's face suddenly flashed a trace of red, unlike those officials outside, although Tai Le Cheng's official position is very low, he can often go in and out of the harem, playing music for the queen, concubines, princesses, etc., one of the obscurities is self-evident.
"Brother Wang." Li Xuanxuan said coquettishly shyly.
The middle-aged man said disapprerovingly: "If you rashly leave the palace in the future, talk to Manager Gao, lest he send someone to protect him secretly." ”
Enke opened, and the title of the gold list.
Wang Maha was unsurprisingly Jinshi and the first, and in the homesick building, Wang Maha was singing about wine with Li Xuanxuan, who was dressed as a man.
After six or seven cups, Wang Maha leaned over the bed.
Li Xuanxuan said with a smile: "Congratulations to Brother Maha for the title of the gold list, and tomorrow I will enter the palace to meet the emperor, which is really gratifying." ”
Wang Majie drank all the wine in the cup, got up and stood outside the window, looking up to the sky and shouting: "Yingying, did you hear it, Mahaji Jinshi and the first, the title of the gold list." ”
Li Xuanxuan just raised his wine glass, but the sweet wine was not as sweet as it was at the beginning.
Wang Majie came back to his senses and saw Li Xuanxuan, who was slightly stunned, and asked, "Brother Li, are you in a bad mood?" ”
Li Xuanxuan shook his head and asked sideways: "What is the warbler in Brother Maha's mouth?" ”
Wang Maha, who was already fluttering, blurted out: "It's my wife who has passed the door, we have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and we have no guesses, if she hadn't persuaded me to participate in the imperial examination, maybe we are still raising our eyebrows now." ”
Seeing that Li Xuanxuan was silent, Wang Majie grabbed Li Xuanxuanyu's hand and put it on his chest, and said with feeling: "I have been studying the sage books for many years, just hoping to serve the court one day, and now I am satisfied, and I have no regrets in this life." ”
Li Xuanxuan nodded, wanting to speak, but Wang Majie had already fallen asleep.
Seeing that the lover in his heart had been married, Li Xuanxuan sat up from the wine and was about to leave, but there was a pipa sound in his ears, which was Wang Maha's book "Yangguan Sanzhong", and then he reached out to protect Wang Maha's neck, bowed his head and whispered: "How good it would be if you didn't have a marriage match." ”
Where can the drunk Wang Maha respond, Li Xuanxuan lowered his head, and his eyes were as deep as water, staring at Wang Maha tightly with a full expression.
Li Xuanxuan stretched out his hands and slowly pasted them to Wang Majie's chest, and her own captivity, which she had kept in the deep palace compound since she was a child, gradually lost in the depths of Wang Capricorn's talent forest.
On the second day, the tired Wang Maha got up with a sore body, picked up the clothes that fell to the ground, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly called the shopkeeper to come to ask, when he learned that there was less than an hour to enter the palace to face the saint, Wang Maha didn't care about the disheveled clothes, and hurriedly ran down.
The five drums were bright, and Wang Majie sat on the sedan chair that entered the palace, which is also strange, obviously there should be several people who entered the palace to face the saint, but he was the only one who sat in the sedan chair, and this did not seem to be the road to the main hall of the palace.
"Father-in-law, where are we going?" In the end, Wang Majie couldn't hold back his curiosity and hurriedly asked.
The eunuch said with a smile: "Lord Wang, you don't know this, this is the way to the princess's palace." ”
"Princess, where did you come from?" Wang Majie asked.
"Lord Wang, you can't talk nonsense, of course it's our Princess Yuzhen, the most beloved sister of today's saints." Follow the eunuch to remind him carefully.
In this way, the sad Wang Majie was sent to the harem in a daze.
Even a needle could be heard dropping in the empty palace, and Wang Mahaji knelt at the door of the main hall waiting for the princess's summons.
"Spread the true intention of the jade, and specially announce that Taile Cheng will enter the palace." A palace maid said loudly beside her.
The unknown Wang Majie was dumbfounded as soon as he entered the palace, and on an incense bed in the main hall, a graceful woman was lying in it, surrounded by dozens of vines, creating an atmosphere of half-covering the pipa.
"Wechen Taile Cheng King Maha, visit Her Royal Highness the Princess."