Chapter 236: The Night of the Wedding Banquet
Zhao Xiang'er's dormitory is called Lingque Pavilion, the dormitory structure is classical and quiet, the furniture displayed is all precious ancient wooden vessels, during which two colored paper lanterns are painted on the wall of the palace maid holding, glowing with a faint light, in the dark golden halo, the bead curtain and the curtain hang quietly and low.
It was a long night.
Ning Chang walked in the dormitory in a white robe, his eyes fell on the painting on the wall, attracted by the encapsulated and framed letter, he looked at it for a while, and couldn't help laughing: "You still have it." ”
Zhao Xiang'er bowed his head and said, "Of course." This is one of the pieces of evidence against you, don't try to erase it easily. ”
Ning Chang looked at the letter, his eyes were in the last row, "I wish people a long time, and I wish His Highness a long time." The word lingered for a long time.
"It's so childishly written. Ning Changjiu commented.
Zhao Xiang'er smiled faintly: "I thought you were going to say that I was not mine yesterday." ”
Ning Chang said: "Yesterday's me is indeed not me, because ......"
Zhao Xiang'er interrupted: "I'm too lazy to argue with you about this. ”
Ning Chang retracted his thoughts, and he walked through the round carved wooden door to the side of the wooden frame bed with drapes hanging from it, where he had woken up after the thunderstorm.
The bedding was neatly folded, and everything was the same.
"What are you doing standing next to my bed? Do you want to go to bed and lie down?" Zhao Xiang'er turned around and asked with a smile.
The back of her white single dress was slightly transparent in the candlelight, glowing with a faint crimson color, like a bright veil.
Ning Chang said: "Don't worry, it's still a long night tonight." ”
Zhao Xiang'er said: "When you woke up, I seemed to say so. ”
Ning Chang said: "Yes, that was the first time we met in the true sense. ”
Zhao Xianger recalled: "It has only been more than three years. ”
"Three years ......" Ning Chang said: "By the way, tomorrow ...... Let's go to the White City. ”
Zhao Xiang'er's eyes narrowed slightly: "I can't sit still for only four days?"
Ning Changjiu said, "Don't you want to meet her before you leave?"
"I think about it. A smile appeared on Zhao Xiang'er's lips: "When Lu married on the edge of the abyss, she chatted with me for a long time, and I didn't refute anything when I was close to her realm, but now she is not my opponent, and I see if she dares to be arrogant when we meet again." ”
Ning Changjiu walked behind Zhao Xiang'er, put his hand lightly on her shoulder, and said with a smile: "Yes, Xiang'er is the most powerful, can I beg for mercy for the family teacher?"
Zhao Xiang'er's expression was a little colder, she patted Ning Changchang's hand, her eyes were as bright as silk: "This whole night, is it possible that you want to talk to me about other women all night?"
Ning Changjiu asked rhetorically, "Then what to do?"
Zhao Xiang'er said: "Of course, it's to do something interesting. ”
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Ning Changjiu picked up a white seed, put it on the chessboard, raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Xiang'er, and said, "I didn't expect you to play chess?"
Zhao Xiang'er fell into the sunspot and said proudly: "I have been proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since I was a child. ”
Ning Changchang said with a smile: "The woman in the Qinglou also introduced herself like this. ”
Zhao Xiang'er was not annoyed, her eyebrows were tactful: "You seem to be very experienced?"
Ning Chang was slightly stunned, and hurriedly explained: "It's just hearsay. ”
They chatted without saying a word while alternating between falling children.
Zhao Xiang'er said: "Actually, we haven't known each other for too long, the Imperial City is only half a month, Linhe City is only a month, and now it is only seven days...... It was less than two months before we got together. ”
Ning Chang said: "Some people have been in bed for decades and are still aggrieved, and some people fall in love at first sight, and time can't measure anything." ”
Zhao Xiang'er said: "If there is no marriage letter, will we still know each other?"
Ning Chang asked, "Are you still struggling with fate?"
Zhao Xiang'er tapped his head and said, "How can we not be entangled? You see, we are now outsiders, and we can place these chess pieces anywhere at will, and then the loser's chess pieces are surrounded by the winner and eaten ......."
As she spoke, the girl grabbed a black chess piece between her index and middle fingers, lightly touched it on the chessboard, and then moved her fingertips slightly, lifted a white piece around the middle, and placed it in the wooden chess box.
Ning Changchang smiled: "The chess pieces are dead things, but we are alive." ”
Zhao Xiang'er said in a low voice: "In the eyes of those supreme gods, what is the difference between us and the chess pieces?"
Ning Chang looked at the black and white pieces gradually covered on the chessboard, and quipped: "Then I have to hope that my person who holds the chess is not a stinky chess basket." ”
Zhao Xiang'er smiled: "I don't know how your master's chess skills are, but your chess skills are really a mess." ”
Ning Changchang said disdainfully: "It's more than enough to win you." ”
Zhao Xiang'er looked at the situation spread out on the plate, and smiled coldly: "When will your hard mouth be changed?"
Ning Chang didn't think about it, and said, "What if you win?"
Zhao Xiang'er had already seen his paper-based chess strength in this layout, and he didn't believe that he could reverse the defeat.
The girl held her cheeks, her eyes slowly wandered off the chessboard, and said, "If you can win, I will obey you in the next few days, if I win, on the contrary, what?"
Ning Chang agreed.
He looked at the chessboard, and his relaxed spirit gradually became heavier.
The two chatted casually, but their spirits were extremely tense, calculating the complicated changes on the chessboard.
As the chess reached the middle game, Zhao Xiang'er's self-confidence faded, she was sitting on the precarious, pinching her chin, and her slender jade fingers twisted the round and jade sunspots, undecided.
Ning Changjiu put Bai Zi on the chessboard and pushed it right with his fingers.
Zhao Xiang'er was a little more nervous, she looked at the one who was standing on the chessboard like roots, her silver teeth were biting slightly, and she wondered how this wicked person was hiding clumsy? Could it be that the tattered opening game before was deliberately placed for herself? This is the same person who is the same person who has a clever trick at this time......
Ning Changjiu didn't study much about playing chess, and he could only play music when he was bored in his previous life, and he was able to turn the situation around, relying on Zhao Xiang'er's "mastery of everything" that he felt good about.
But it's no wonder that since ancient times, those emperors have been looking for national players to play chess, how can any national player dare to win the emperor, so the emperor always has the illusion that his chess skills are unique in the world. He could even think of Zhao Xiang'er being let by the girls in the palace everywhere when he was a child.
In the past, Zhao Xianger always felt that this was a small way, and he had reached the peak in a few days after he had not studied for a few days, and he was invincible in the Zhao chess world. Today, she finally saw the cruelty behind playing chess and the coaxing of the palace maids under Ning Changjiu, a not very powerful chess player.
It was past the middle game, and her heart was a little confused.
"Xiang'er, don't be in a hurry, you can think slowly. Ning Changchang put his hands on his sleeves and smiled ill-intentionedly.
Zhao Xiang'er was uneasy, if she lost, with the temperament of this wicked person, she would definitely take Lu to marry and bully herself, she didn't want to think about this scene......
Zhao Xiang'er said lightly: "Actually, I'm not thinking about this. ”
Ning Changjiu asked, "Then what are you thinking?"
Zhao Xiang'er said with a straight face: "Have you ever thought about what we are facing now?"
Ning Chang became interested and asked, "What do you think?"
Zhao Xiang'er said, "Do you remember the Spirit Eater?"
"Of course I do. ”
"Legend has it that outside the world, there is a sea of ruins, where hundreds of soul eaters float, and each spirit eater has been at least five demon ...... in the past."
Of course, Ning Changjiu thought about it, his answer was the only one, there was only one existence that could kill these five great demons, and that was the twelve lords of the Divine Kingdom.
Ning Changjiu asked, "Are there only demons in the sea of ruins?"
Zhao Xiang'er's thin lips tightened, and after a while, she said, "I don't know." ”
Ning Changchang asked, "Then do you think heaven and earth have their own emotions?"
"Emotions?"
"Hmm......" Ning Changchang said, "There is a folklore that the heavens and the earth were originally occupied by a huge, chaotic creature, and later someone killed this huge creature with an axe, making the heavens and the earth visible. ”
Zhao Xiang'er said: "That's just a story, how can there be such a powerful existence in the world?"
Ning Chang said: "I'm just thinking, if the world is sentient, then is it evil or good? What is he creating such a world to make billions of living beings multiply?"
Zhao Xiang'er said: "Your idea is terrifying. ”
"Yes, it's like these pawns, who never know their holders. Ning Chang stared at the chessboard.
Zhao Xiang'er shook her head lightly and said, "The world is not as simple as a chessboard, if you want to simply simulate this world......
She pondered for a moment, then grabbed a chess piece and landed it like a bean on the board.
Instead of falling, the pieces spread out neatly and evenly, turning into a huge semi-arch covering the chessboard, like stars hanging from the sky.
"If this is the ...... of the sea of ruins" Zhao Xiang'er looked at this round world, and picked up twelve more chess pieces, which were suspended around this world according to the precise arrangement, glowing with a lustrous white light.
"This is the kingdom of the twelve. Zhao Xiang'er said again.
Ning Chang looked at this simple world construction and said: "Actually, I've always wondered, why the twelve kingdoms of gods obviously coexist in the world, but only one can be opened at the same time, it is better than the lord of the country who is imprisoned in the kingdom of God and sees the world once in thirteen years, is it really the freedom they are pursuing?"
Zhao Xiang'er looked at the twelve chess pieces floating outside the sea of ruins, was silent for a long time, and finally said a lot of thoughts hidden in his heart: "Since the beginning of history, there has never been a god as powerful as these twelve gods...... They are not inferior to the few primordial true gods that were bred when Hongmeng first opened and had abundant spiritual power to the apex, and they were even more powerful than them. Is this really possible?"
Ning fell into deep thought for a long time.
"I see what you mean. Ning Changchang said: "Only where the water and grass are fertile can sturdy cattle and sheep be born, this world is now stable, and the speed of nurturing the aura and the speed of the ascended person taking away the aura has almost reached a delicate balance, except for five hundred years ago, there has never been a scene in which a large number of powerful cultivators have emerged in any era." ”
Zhao Xiang'er nodded and said, "So what is the soil that gave birth to the twelve god lords, what are they doing when the kingdom of God is closed, or ......?"
Zhao Xiang'er hesitated for a long time, then pinched up a white piece and carefully placed it in the air above all the suspended chess pieces: "Or, above this world, there is a ...... above everything Juggernaut ......"
The white seed is suspended in the center.
Ning Chang looked at those black and white chess pieces.
The cold autumn wind blew in, and a touch of coldness suddenly appeared in his heart, and this inexplicable cold breath made his hairs stand on end, and his bones were terrifying.
Outside the temple gate, there was a sudden light of snow.
Heaven and earth flashed.
A moment later, the thunder rumbled over.
Zhao Xiang'er seemed to be a little afraid of thunder, and she was so frightened that her fingers shrunk.
Ning Changjiu's expression was slightly different, thinking to himself that this little girl was not afraid of heaven and earth, how could she be afraid of thunder? Soon, he understood the reason......
With Zhao Xiang'er's frightened movements, those suspended black and white pieces rained down on the chessboard, smashing the game they had played before.
"Hmm......" Ning Chang looked at the ruined chess game and fell into deep thought.
You've talked so much with me, and you just want to flip the chessboard at the end?
He raised his head and looked at Zhao Xiang'er, wanting an explanation.
Zhao Xiang'er looked at the endless autumn rain outside the window, her pretty face was pale, her eyes flashed, the horror seemed to have not faded, her slender fingers pressed some lips, looking very delicate.
After a while, she felt Ning Changjiu's gaze, and after returning to her senses slightly, she looked at the game of chess that had been disrupted, clenched her fist and gently tapped her head, and said slightly apologetically: "I...... I was just accidentally scared, this chess ......"
Ning Chang looked at her expressionlessly.
Zhao Xiang'er frowned, and said angrily: "You stinky chess basket, what are you doing looking at me like this? Is it difficult or I can't make the chess game bad? You should thank this thunder well! Otherwise, you will be defeated." ”
"Yes, yes...... It's that I don't know how to lift. Ning rubbed his temples in pain for a long time.
He remembered that Ning Xiaoling and Lu Marrying had a similar gamble at the beginning, when Ning Xiaoling was about to win, and then it was destroyed by Le Rou and Yazhu, and Lu Marrying took advantage of the situation to pay the bill......
Hey, with these little girls and big girls, there is really no reason to talk about it.
Zhao Xiang'er listened to Ning Chang'er's words, she reached out and stroked her chest, closed her eyes, her eyebrows calmed down, and then reached out and picked up the teacup on the side.
If it hadn't been for the thunder, she would have pretended to knock over the teacup.
This tea set is also precious, so I kept it.
Zhao Xiang'er took a sip, looked over the edge of the teacup glaze, and looked at Ning Chang sighing and packing up the chess pieces, her tense pretty face was slightly understood, and finally she didn't hold back, her waist bent, her chest trembled, and she laughed out loud.
Ning was stunned for a long time, and when he raised his head, the tea had already sprayed on his face.
Zhao Xiang'er looked at his helpless appearance, and felt even more funny, she pursed her lips, wiped the traces of water on her lips, twisted up a towel and handed it to him, and said, "Wipe it?"
Ning Chang couldn't bear it anymore, she grabbed the hand she handed the handkerchief, suddenly pulled it, and then pressed her beautiful back, and directly pressed her on the case full of chess pieces.
"What are you going to do? Don't hit me!"
"Where am I willing to fight Xiaoxiang'er?"
"Then you let me go......"
"Xiang'er, black chess pieces or white chess pieces, which one do you prefer?"
"You...... What are you going to do......"
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The autumn rain outside the window gradually stopped.
After frolicking, Zhao Xianger sat on the piano table by the window, pressed the strings with her bare hands, and made a pure music.
She was only dressed in a silky single dress, and her slender white thighs sat reclining, which contrasted with the pitch-black piano case.
Ning Chang sat beside her, took a jade flute and played it gently, and sang in harmony with her music.
The laughter in the dormitory has faded, and the sound of the piano and flute has a slight sadness at this moment.
"Is it the last day to get married?"
After the music faded away, Ning Changjiu made a final confirmation.
"Well, let's call Sister Lu when the time comes. Zhao Xiang'er said: "Let's go to Baicheng together after the wedding banquet, the Feisheng Platform there is very interesting, I'll tell you about it, maybe you can use it in the future." ”
Ning Chang said: "Shouldn't it be a candle in the cave room after the wedding banquet?"
A few wisps of piano sound overflowed between Zhao Xiang'er's fingers: "I...... Haven't figured it out yet. ”
Ning Chang said: "Since it is your mother's fate to return to Zhao completely, you don't want to ......"
Zhao Xiang'er said: "I am not a pedantic person, just like this Zhao country, I was born here since I was a child, and my mother asked me to regain the lost land and let the people live and work in peace and contentment." Even if I know it's fate, I'm willing to do it. ”
Ning Chang looked at her quietly, waiting for her to continue.
Zhao Xiang'er paused, looked at him, and said, "It's true that I hate my mother for manipulating my life everywhere, and it's true that I want to see my mother...... You should be able to understand me. What's more, the time we have known each other is too short after all, so it is a bit hasty. ”
Ning Changjiu smiled and said softly: "According to your reasoning, I have taken advantage of others. ”
Zhao Xiang'er knelt on the smooth floor, looked at Ning Changjiu faintly, and said, "Of course, there are still two days anyway, if you behave well in these two days, maybe I will change my mind." ”
Ning Chang looked at her arrogant but squeamish appearance, and wanted to bite her lip again.
"Well, I respect your decision anyway. Ning Changchang said.
"What about you?" Zhao Xiang'er asked rhetorically.
"Me?"
"Well, if I leave in the future, where are you going to deceive the little girl?"
"I ...... I'll probably go to Middle-earth. ”
"Oh...... I'm going to lie to your little sister. ”
“...... By the way, find another person named 'Evil'. ”
"Evil?" Zhao Xiang'er hadn't heard of it.
"Well, I was told that it was a near-omniscient man. Ning Changchang said.
"No way. Zhao Xiang'er denied: "Don't you know that omniscience is a two-way street?"
"Either way?"
For example, everyone in the world knows the existence of the Lord of the Kingdom of God, so the Lord of the Kingdom of God also knows all the people in the world. Zhao Xiang'er said: "This is also a special law. ”
The maiden continued: "And no one knows about that evil, how can it be called omniscient, and the Lord of God will never allow such a being to survive in the world. ”
Ning Chang said: "The Lord of the Kingdom of God is not omniscient. ”
Just as the sinner does not know the death and identity of the headless god.
Zhao Xiang'er smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "In the final analysis, we are just their pawns, and we are not qualified to think about this." ”
Ning Changjiu nodded lightly: "We don't want anything else in the next two days, just two pure two days that belong to us." ”
Zhao Xiang'er asked: "Then how long have you stayed with Lu to marry and stay alone?"
Ning Changjiu smiled and said, "Didn't you say that you wouldn't say anything else?"
Zhao Xiang'er looked at his somewhat stiff smile and snorted softly, "Beast." ”
After a brief silence, they all looked out the window.
There was a faint white light from the windows.
Before you know it, the night has passed, and the sky outside is dawning.
The light was so hazy after the curtains and veils filtered.
This is the fifth day of the week.
How short is seven days on the path of monasticism?
The dormitory was so quiet that no sound could be heard, but in the quietest world, time was always passing.
"I'll always remember these days. Zhao Xiang'er broke the silence.
"It's not life and death, what are you talking about?" Ning Changchang closed his eyes slightly.
"I'm still a little scared. Zhao Xiang'er said: "I never thought that fate in the hands of one person could be played with as natural as the sunset and the sunset." ”
Ning Changjiu involuntarily thought of that sword.
"Yes," he said, "it's like light. ”
Zhao Xiang'er looked intently at the brightened curtain, and a little idea of escape arose in her heart: "Who can escape the light?"
They were silent for a moment.
Ning stood up suddenly.
"But we can't stay in the shadows for the rest of our lives. ”
He went to the window and lifted the curtain in an uproar.
The dusty darkness in the room dissipated in an instant, and the clear light after the rain rushed in, illuminating Ning Chang's cheeks like snow.
Zhao Xiang'er knelt on the ground and looked at the fluttering back of Ning Chang's white robe.
His back blocked out many of the light from the window.
It just so happened that she was sitting in his shadow.
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In the early morning, in a teahouse, Lu Wedding was dressed in white men's clothes, holding a folding fan in his hand, sitting by the window, listening to the storyteller telling stories on the stage.
The rain is new, the tea is new, and the story is new.
She tapped her palm lightly with a folding fan, and looked at the white city outside the window.
She only felt today that the words of saying goodbye to three days and three autumns are not unreasonable.
Today's storyteller is telling the story of the Black Sparrow Heroes who broke into Thousand Buddha Mountain with a single knife and killed the ghost with a hundred faces together.
He vividly described the ferocity of the hundred-faced ghost and the high martial arts of the chivalrous couple, and that battle was even more earth-shattering, the wind and clouds were overshadowed, and the three hundred rounds did not stop, and every move and style was the truth.
"If you don't believe it, you can go to the Thousand Buddha Mountain to see, now the Thousand Buddha Mountain has collapsed in half, and the big ghosts and little ghosts have escaped countless times, remember to close the door when you sleep, and light a sacred incense plant next to the bed......
"This Shoushen incense is a real divine incense that is difficult to approach, and the nobles in Zhao Guogong use this, and it just so happens that we have ...... in our store."
Lu Married listened to it, silently chewed on the word "Black Sparrow Heroes", and said with a smile: "They are all people who have lived for two lives, how can they still be like a child when they are with that little girl." ”
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the teahouse.
A message came and exploded in the crowd.
When everyone heard this, they were all shocked and distorted, and they were sure that this must be fake news.
Lu also frowned slightly.
The news is nothing else, it is Her Majesty Zhao Xiang'er, the empress of Zhao State, who is going to get married, and the time is tomorrow.
Lu married a fan against his palm, and gently grinded: "What a negative man......"
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(Thank you to the book friend for the unsatisfactory nine times out of ten!! thank you for the alliance leader, congratulations to the kingdom of God for having the fourteenth alliance leader, thank you sincerely!)
(Thanks to the league leader Zhu Xiaosan ZXS, the heroic hero who reads and rewards the hero!)
(I will make up for it next week...... )