On the second day after entering the palace to face the saint, in the afternoon of the next day, Emperor Lizong summoned Yin Zhiping into the palace with a eunuch to meet him alone.

This summons was not a court meeting, and the place of the summons was not on a hall such as Wendeok Hall, but in the imperial garden of the back garden.

Entering the palace, Yin Zhiping followed the eunuch all the way around several major halls such as the Wende Hall and the Vertical Arch Palace, and walked to the imperial garden behind. When he arrived at the gate of the Imperial Garden, the eunuch pointed to the moon gate engraved with the words "Imperial Garden" on it, and said to Yin Zhiping: "Real person, here, this is the Imperial Garden." The official family is enjoying the scenery in the garden with Jia Guifei. ”

"Jia Guifei?" Yin Zhiping couldn't help but move in his heart when he heard him mention Jia Guifei, read it silently, and said secretly: "This Jia Guifei should be the sister of the cricket prime minister Jia Nidao, Jia Nidao is also because of this sister of his own, and later he can become the prime minister, and he is very trusted by the emperor." I heard that this Jia Guifei is very favored now, but I don't know how beautiful she is?"

He thought as he followed the eunuch into the garden. Entering the garden, look around, but see that this garden is quite large, there is a small artificial lake in the middle, imitating the scenery of the West Lake, with the name of the small West Lake. The scenery of this imperial garden is unfolded according to this small West Lake, and there are rockeries and flying springs, pavilions and pavilions along the coast. It is also planted with four-season flowers, exotic flowers and plants, as well as osmanthus, camphor, acacia, weeping willow and other ornamental trees.

It is autumn, and it is the time when the golden cinnamon is fragrant and the chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In this imperial garden, these two flowers bloom the most, and the garden is full of the fragrance of osmanthus. Suddenly, the sound of silk and bamboo sounded, and a beautiful female voice sang along with the song:

"The gold is weak. The autumn wind is tender, and the osmanthus is at the beginning. It is difficult for people in the Ruizhu Palace to learn. The flowers are delicate, and the clouds are ashamed. The fragrance is not weak with Lansun. A cloud sideburns skillfully combed and swept away. The night is cool and gently shakes the rose calyx. Fragrant placket. Moon in the Phoenix Pavilion. ”

This is a poem "Drunk and Down", which was written by Zhou Bangyan, a great lyricist in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a good poem to write osmanthus. Yin Zhiping had heard Li Mochou sing before, and that Zhou Bangyan was said to have been a guest of the famous Tokyo prostitute Li Shishi during the Northern Song Dynasty. He fought with Song Huizong, the Daojun Emperor, for women, so he remembered this poem of Zhou Bangyan.

When the music sounded, he followed the sound and found that the music and singing were all from a boat by the small West Lake.

A boat is a ship-shaped building built on the water near the shore in the shape of a ship. It looks like a ship parked on the shore, but it's not a real boat, it can't be rowed in the water, it's a fixed structure. Because it cannot move, it is also called untied. There are also those called stone boats.

The boat is six or seven zhang long, more than one zhang wide, two floors up and down, long windows are opened on both sides, and the upper floor is like a pavilion. The bow of the boat was open, and there was a group of people in the bow, standing or sitting. From his point of view, the men were facing away from him, so he had good eyesight. But he couldn't see the faces of those people, and he could only judge by his body shape and clothing, and the person sitting on the soft couch in the middle was Emperor Lizong.

Next to the emperor, sitting with him was a woman in palace clothes. From behind, he has a bewitching posture and an excellent figure. is holding hands with the emperor, and it is expected that the bento is Jia Guifei, the sister of Jia Yidao. Fang Cai's song "Drunk and Down". It was Jia Guifei who sang.

As soon as Jia Guifei finished singing, Li Zong clapped his hands and shouted "Okay". The eunuchs and palace maids standing beside the two also praised each other.

After these people praised it, Li Zong said to Jia Guifei: "Ai Fei sing one more song!"

Jia Guifei responded softly: "Okay, this one will be chosen by the official." ”

Li Zong pondered for a while, and said, "Just sing Xin Jiaxuan's song "Qingping Le, Zai Fu Mu Rhino". This is a poem by Xin Qiji, and the wood rhinoceros is another name for osmanthus.

Jia Guifei answered again, and ordered the palace maids who were obsessed with musical instruments to play music.

When the music played, Yin Zhiping had already followed the eunuch who led the way to the side of Xiaoxi Lake, but Emperor Lizong was in high spirits, and Jia Guifei was about to sing the next song, but it was inconvenient for them to open their mouths, so they waited on the side, waiting for Jia Guifei to finish singing.

The music sounded a few times, but Jia Guifei sang again: "The east garden is dawning, and the west wind is good." Evoking the immortal Jin Xiaoxiao, the green feather is exquisitely pretended. When a pillow opens, the curtain hangs low. The ground is very sheltered, and there is already wind when the window is opened. ”

After hearing this song, the eunuch who led the way immediately trotted forward, stood on the shore and bowed to the boat: "Qiqi official, Beichen Luo Gui has come to restore his life, Yin Zhenren has arrived." ”

"Oh, is Yin Zhenren here?" Li Zong snorted lightly, turned around on the couch and looked at Jia Guifei beside him.

Yin Zhiping glanced at Concubine Jia and saw that she was twenty-eight or nine years old, with apricot eyes and peach cheeks, cheeks like peaches, white skin and snow, and picturesque eyebrows. Especially with a soft demeanor and a moderate age, it is the type of beautiful lady he loves, and he couldn't help but look at it more, so he stepped forward and bowed to Li Zong and Jia Guifei on the boat and said: "Minister Yin Zhiping has seen the official family and the concubine!"

Song Shi was not like the slave Qing of later generations, when he saw the emperor, he knelt down and called him a "slave" at every turn. At present, it is not an informal court meeting, nor is it a time of ceremony, and for a private occasion such as this, it is not necessary to bow down, but only to bow down. Yin Zhiping is a Taoist priest, and yesterday he was given the number of "Xuanhua Zhenren", at this time, he only raised his palm as his chest, and his finger buckled his ring finger, and he made a Taoist salute.

Li Zong stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Real people don't have to be polite, please come to the boat." ”

Yin Zhiping thanked him, straightened up, and glanced at the boat again, but he couldn't help but be surprised.

When the palace maids and eunuchs standing beside Li Zong and Jia Guifei heard Yin Zhiping's arrival, they all turned around to look at Yin Zhiping. And Yin Zhiping straightened up and looked at them, and he also glanced at these people. He swept it casually, not caring very much, but unexpectedly, he saw a familiar face among these people.

It was a eunuch standing beside Concubine Jia, who had a white face and beard, long eyebrows and fine eyes, and it turned out to be Zhao Zhijing, who had no beard.

Since the eighth day of the lunar month of the previous year, Zhao Zhijing was swept off his beard by Huo Du's "Wind and Thunder Gong", and then the King of Jinlun fled, and then he chased him out, and he never returned, and there was never a sound back. On the rivers and lakes, there was no news of him, as if he suddenly disappeared and disappeared out of thin air.

At that time, Qiu Chuji and others also speculated that Zhao Zhijing was most likely killed by King Jinlun because he was chasing the Golden Wheel Dharma King. The corpse was not summoned, probably in a hidden place such as a cliff. But Yin Zhiping didn't believe that Zhao Zhijing would know that he was not the opponent of King Jinlun, and he ran to seek his own death. At that time, he guessed that Zhao Zhijing's pursuit of the Golden Wheel Dharma King was just an excuse, and it was true to take the opportunity to escape, so as not to expose his private practice of martial arts of other sects and be severely punished. It's just that Zhao Zhijing ran away, but he didn't care much and didn't pay much attention to it. I never thought that after being separated for more than a year, I would see Zhao Zhijing in the imperial garden of the Southern Song Dynasty today, and this guy really became a eunuch. (To be continued......)