The sky was clear, and the few wisps of light clouds that could still be seen in the morning dispersed with the wind, leaving nothing but a clear blue in the sky. There is a bit of cool shadow under the shade of the rich flowers, and the cicadas in the branches are singing softly with the breeze, making it more and more quiet.
Qing Chen walked towards Yanbo to send Shuangzhai with a few books in his arms, with a slightly lazy expression on his face. Last night, she read the book again, and these days, she checked almost all the strange notes in Yanbo's Shuangzhai, but she still didn't see the so-called forbidden technique of the witch clan. She walked dully , subconsciously fiddled with the tourmaline on his wrist, lowered his head and sighed.
Two attendants who usually served in the mansion were muttering something before Yanbo delivered Shuangzhai. They were all happy when they saw Qing Chen coming, and one of them came forward from a distance and shouted: "Miss Feng!"
"Qin Yue, is His Highness the Seventh Prince back?" Qing Chen asked casually.
"I'm back," Qin Yue made a bow: "His Highness is furious inside, none of us dare to go in to serve tea, please girl."
With Ye Tianzhan's temperament, there were times when he lost his temper, Qing Chen stopped in front of the waterside corridor, and asked strangely: "What happened?"
"We don't know either, but His Highness seems to be furious." Qin Yue said with a bitter face, "It's possible that you will be disappointed if you go in at this time."
Qing Chen couldn't help laughing: "Dare you want me to be your dead ghost?"
"Miss, take pity on us. Your Highness will never lose his temper with you." Qin Yue bowed again, quickly took the tea tray from another person, and bowed his head to beg.
Qing Chen frowned lightly, still took the tea from him, then turned around and asked, "Who else is in there?"
Qin Yue said: "The uncle of the Yin family and the eldest young master."
Qing Chen nodded, took tea and walked to the study room, and heard Ye Tianzhan's voice at the door: "Uncle, the Yin family's business is already enough, and there is no shortage of one place, so I want to go to the muddy water of the singing and dancing workshop ?" Wen Langzhong was not in a hurry, his tone sounded the same as usual, and with a little attention, he could feel a little more alienated.
"What Your Highness said is true, but the matter has come to this point, we still need to find a way, not to mention that the Yin family is not the only one involved in this incident." A slightly older voice said slowly.
Qing Chen coughed lightly, and stretched out his hand to open the curtain. A middle-aged man in his forties or fifties was sitting by the window in the room. The young man in the shirt is the eldest son of the Yin family.
Ye Tianzhan was sitting in front of the desk, his face was calm and not angry, but there was no trace of the gentleness in the brows, and that expression made the room look a bit solemn. Seeing Qing Chen coming in, the indifference in his eyes seemed to ease slightly, Qing Chen smiled at him, and lightly placed the tea in front of the three of them.
Ye Tianzhan continued to say to Yin Jianzheng: "I will find a way to deal with the matter. Uncle and cousin should go back first. Let the things that should be released sooner, and don't procrastinate."
Yin Jianzheng and his son looked at each other, knowing that although Ye Tianzhan's face was still gentle as usual, he was actually extremely angry, and it was inappropriate to say anything at this time, so he got up and left.
Qing Chen thought to himself, this tea is really superfluous, and he will definitely settle the score with Qin Yue later.
Ye Tianzhan stared at the case for a while without saying a word, took a slow breath, reached out and took a square towel to wipe his hands, closed his eyes and meditated. He didn't know what to think of, and intentionally or unintentionally squeezed the cold scarf in his hand, and water flowed out from between his fingers and dripped onto the memorial beside him.
"Hey!" Qing Chen reminded softly, stretched out his hand to pull out the memorial, Ye Tianzhan suddenly opened his eyes, and saw that she was holding up a corner of the memorial and was standing helplessly, the luster in her eyes as clear as autumn water brushed against his eyes .
He lightly held the corner of his mouth, Qing Chen raised his hand to wipe off the water stains on the memorial, and put it back to his hand, he glanced at it and said, "Throw it away."
Qing Chen raised his eyes to ask, Ye Tianzhan slightly glanced up from the corner of his eyes, and said, "It has to be redrawn."
Qing Chen didn't say anything, he turned around and took the torch, came over and lit the memorial in a copper basin, threw it in and watched it burn.
Ye Tianzhan picked up the teacup and took a sip, and asked her, "Go out with the twelfth brother these days?"
"Well." Qing Chen said: "I want to get acquainted with Yige City. I met His Royal Highness a few times, and he showed me some places. It seems that he knows all the interesting places in the city."
Ye Tianzhan said: "The twelfth brother is famous for being able to play and have fun." Qing Chen continued: "You are a handsome playboy like a fake prince, but it doesn't seem like you are so busy every day."
Ye Tianzhan said: "I'll be free in a few days, and then it's time to take you around Tiandu. Brother Twelve may not know some places."
"Of course that's good." Qing Chen said with a smile.
"Your Highness," Qin Yue whispered outside: "Mr. Mo is here, see you?"
"Mr. Mo?" Ye Tianzhan asked in a daze, "Which Mr. Mo?"
"Mr. Mo from Qin Tianjian."
"Oh?" Ye Tianzhan stood up from the case: "Why don't you flatter Mr. Mo?"
"Exactly."
Ye Tianzhan said: "Please hurry up!" After saying that, he went out to greet him in person.
Qing Chen was a little surprised. The guests Ye Tianzhan could meet at Yanbo Shuangzhai must be extremely important people or close friends, but there were not many people who greeted them in person. She then walked out: "You have guests, I'll go back first."
Ye Tianzhan said: "Let's meet together. Mr. Mo was the teacher of me and several brothers in the early years. He used to be the Minister of Qin Tianjian. He has always been known as the number one person in my court. He has not seen him for many years since he resigned." , I heard that you have traveled all over the world, I think you have been reading some books about Qimen and Five Elements these days, you should be interested in talking to him."
Qing Chen's eyes lit up slightly, and he would never leave even if he could. While speaking, Qin Yue had already led an old man over, Ye Tianzhan said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for more than ten years, when will Mr. Mo return to Tiandu?"
Mo Buping also cupped his hands and said with a smile: "The old man just arrived in Tiandu yesterday, and when he was passing by, he saw the faint red light of Prince Zhan's mansion, so he came in on a whim to see if there was any happy event, and I hope His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince is not rude."
With a smile in Ye Tianzhan's handsome eyes, he led Qing Chen's side intentionally or unintentionally. Mo Buping followed his gaze to stay on Qing Chen's face for a while, his eyes flashed a vague search silently, and Ye Tianzhan introduced: "This is Fengqing, Miss Chenfeng."
Qing Chen raised her eyes and looked at him. Except for the wisp of five-willow beard under her jaw that looked a bit fairy-like, there was nothing extraordinary about her appearance, but she could clearly feel the deep eyes he was looking at her. Very, as soon as the mean-plain gaze falls in front of him, it seems that he knows something, which makes people feel a little strange. She calmed down her surprise, smiled and saluted Mo Buping: "I met Mr. Mo."
Mo Buping returned the salute with a slight nod, and stretched out his hand to stroke the beard of the five willows.
Several people entered Yanbo to send Shuangzhai, but Ye Tianzhan didn't stay in the study. There are still a few pavilions behind the twists and turns of the water pavilion. It seems to be very deep when you walk. After a few turns, you will find a tea room at the end.
The tea room is close to the rocks on one side, and the curtain is heavy to send the breeze, and the half of the side is sprinkled with mottled light and shadow of branches and leaves, which is cool and quiet. In the middle is a tea table carved from the root of an ancient spruce tree. On the table is a set of purple sand eight-petal melon-shaped tea set with rounded and shiny lines, which shows that it is often used by some people. On the four-sided shelves are exquisitely sealed jade porcelain altars of various colors, which store different tea leaves.
I don't know where the clear spring water comes from. It is connected with the bamboo joints and drawn nearby into a small white stone shallow pool. The bamboo joints fall gently with the water from time to time. It makes the room quiet.
Ye Tianzhan fetched water to make tea with his own hands, a slight wisp of water vapor flowed around, Qing Chen took the porcelain altar in his hand and said: "You talk to Mr. Mo, let me come."
Although Ye Tianzhan handed the porcelain altar to her, he said, "making tea is a skill."
Qing Chen looked at the clear water in his eyes, and said with a faint smile: "Tea tasting is also knowledge." Opening a can of tea, the fragrance was fragrant, "But Wuyi Dahongpao?"
Ye Tianzhan nodded happily, Qing Chen sat quietly with his eyes downcast, took the tea bag, scalded and washed the tea sets one by one with boiling water, put them aside one by one, then took some tea leaves with a tea spoon and poured them on the snow paper to divide the thickness. The plain green tea leaves lined with her slender and white fingers moved slightly, and the tea leaves rustled, which was pleasing to the eye.
She took the thickest tea and filled it at the bottom of the cup, then filled the middle layer with the finer tea, and sprinkled the thicker tea on it. The hanging pot is flushed high, and the water is poured into the ou.
The strong water flow makes the tea leaves rotate in the Ou, the heat penetrates to the bottom of the Ou, the fragrance of the tea spreads, and immediately overflows the clean room.
Qing Chen looked at the clear water escaping from the mouth of the Ou, and gently brushed off the foam floating on the surface of the tea soup with a tea whisk in his hand. Ups and downs stretch bright and fresh. But she was not in a hurry, she covered the Ou with a translucent blue and white lid, and then lifted the scorpion to drench the outer wall.
Moisture lingered along the tea pot, and after a while, Qing Chen put down the pot, held the rim of the tea pot with his bare hands, and pressed his index finger against the button of the lid, revealing a gap of water between the lip of the tea pot and the lid. A Guan Gong toured the city, pouring tea into the small tea cups arranged in an arc, and when there was a little tea left, he dripped it into each cup little by little, so that the tea color was uniform.
Ye Tianzhan saw that she was skillful, and it was obviously not the first time to make tea, so he nodded slightly, and Qing Chen served the tea with a smile on his cup: "Please correct me, Your Highness and Mr. Mo."
The tea color in the cup is orange-yellow and bright, smelling the fragrance of the tea is full of fragrance, the clouds are light and fresh, and the beauty is radiant. Take a sip, the rock rhyme is full, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, the fragrance is high and long-lasting without losing the true flavor of the original tea osmanthus, night sky Zhan couldn't help but praised: "Good tea, I didn't know you are so good at tea."
Qing Chen said: "This is good tea, especially water. Dahongpao always pays attention to three parts of tea and seven parts of water. This water is clear and sweet, and the taste is sweet and mellow, which adds to the fragrance of tea."
Ye Tianzhan said: "The water for making tea is topped by mountains and rivers, followed by rivers and wells. The spring water of this 'half-day spring' can be regarded as top-grade for tea. Today, when Mr. Mo comes, it is likely to be the same. Are you reading my tea?"
Mo Buping finished tasting the tea in the cup with endless aftertaste, Ren Qingchen poured the second soup into the cup again, and said with a smile: "So His Royal Highness is feeling sorry for the old man drinking tea?"
Ye Tianzhan smiled gently and made a gesture of invitation.
Mo Buping closed his eyes and savored it carefully for half a day, and said to Qing Chen: "Miss Feng's calm state of mind when buying tea is really rare. I have tasted countless teas. This tea is light, but it is so overbearing that Dahongpao is so powerful. In the midst of gentleness, the fierce energy sometimes disappears and sometimes gathers but does not disperse, good!"
Qing Chen said: "I've only learned superficially from the tea ceremony, and I would like to ask Mr. Mo to enlighten me."
Hearing this, Mo Buping stroked his beard and said, "The way of making tea is like playing the qin and playing chess. There is only one artistic conception. It is easy to get the skill, but difficult to know the way. Miss Feng puts her heart into the tea, she is like a god, how can I dare to do it?" teaching?"
This cup of tea brought a calm mind, Ye Tianzhan glanced at Qing Chen casually, and suddenly felt that there were countless mysteries about her. Qin Ji Tea Art speaks and behaves, she is not like the daughter of an ordinary family, her past is so vague that she has nothing, and her eyes are even more confusing, like the Xianyu Lake under the mist, deep and remote, mysterious and always make people want to go. explore.
Qing Chen smiled, put down the teacup and asked: "I just heard that Mr. Mo is the best physiognomy in the world. Has His Highness the Seventh Prince tried it?"
Ye Tianzhan smiled, seeing Mo Buping: "A few years ago, Mr. Mo said that the secrets of the sky should not be leaked, but it is still the same now?"
Looking at Ye Tianzhan's elegant face, Mo Buping smiled and lowered his head to sip tea.
As a prince, Ye Tianzhan is already very honorable, now that he is asking about destiny, this question and answer is not an ordinary question and answer.
Mo Buping finished sipping a cup of tea, saw that Ye Tianzhan was still looking at him indistinctly, knowing that he didn't intend to listen to prevarication, he said leisurely: "Your Majesty's honor is more than that, this is what the old man said."
The meaning of this statement is very strong, Ye Tianzhan did not show his emotions, but with a slight smile on his face, he raised his glass to Mo Buping and said, "Please, sir."
Mo Buping nodded with his beard, took a sip of tea, but looked at Qing Chen thoughtfully.
At this time, Qing Chen was pouring boiling water into the Ou again to brew the fifth tea. I just feel that what this old guy said about physiognomy is obviously a great Taijiquan. With Ye Tianzhan's current prestige and status, as long as there are no natural disasters, man-made disasters, and ghosts, he will be promoted to the title step by step. It is not fair to say that "nobleness does not stop there", it is obvious that it is the way of the ninth stage of Tai Chi, an old fox who has been enlightened for thousands of years, true or false Difficult to distinguish.
Everything is born from the heart. The same words, different people, and different thoughts will have different answers and different worlds.
Mo Buping didn't know Qing Chen's slander, but just looked at her deeply. He has studied physiognomy for a lifetime, and indeed he has a lot of experience, but the woman in front of him looks clear, her speech is clear, but it is the first time in his life that he has seen someone who can't understand it, and he can neither know her past nor her past. future. Such an odd number is surprising, he finally couldn't help asking: "Miss Feng, I wonder if I can ask the horoscope of the date of birth, or can you infer the girl's fate?"
He had been looking at Qing Chen for so long but asked about it like this, Ye Tianzhan was taken aback, everyone in the court and the public knew that Mo Buping had a pair of piercing eyes, and he knew that destiny never asked about birthdays, why was there an exception today
Qing Chen was taken aback for a moment, birthday? When it comes to birth date, A, B, C, Ding, Zi Chou, Yin Mao, how could she say it so quickly
She unhurriedly poured the tea into everyone's cups one by one, and said first: "I heard that the top grade Dahongpao is still full of fragrance after being brewed nine times. Not in Tiandu, I will come to His Highness the Seventh Highness as soon as I return to Beijing." With the time buffer of these few words, I made up my mind, held the teacup and smiled calmly at Mo Buping: "Mr. Since there is a destiny, why do we and other mortals bother ourselves?"
A nail that is neither soft nor hard, Mo Buping is so helpless. He has never been the only one who refuses others, and no one doesn't want to know his own fate.
Seeing Qing Chen's calm and indifferent face, he asked again without giving up: "Don't miss Feng want to know?"
The corners of Qing Chen's lips smiled lightly, the pool of autumn water that he was looking at couldn't see the depth, and he said leisurely: "Knowing is not knowing, not knowing is knowing."
Mo Buping touched the second soft nail, and the color of his eyes was a little bit darker, a little bit darker.
The veil flew lightly to refresh the room, and Qing Chen took a sip of tea as he passed through the room filled with the fragrance of tea.
At this time, Ye Tianzhan asked suddenly: "Then, can you gain something from looking at Qing Chen's face?"
Unexpectedly, Mo Buping remained silent for half a day, when Qing Chen almost drank the tea in his cup and raised his head again uncontrollably, he said slowly: "I don't know."
"How do you say that?" Ye Tianzhan asked in astonishment.
Mo Buping looked at Qing Chen again with his sharp old eyes, and Qing Chen looked at him calmly, suppressing his emotions. Finally, Mo Buping shook his head and said calmly: "I just can't see Miss Feng's face, so I asked about her birthday."
As soon as this remark came out, Ye Tianzhan was very surprised. Seeing that the two people in front of Qing Chen looked at him at the same time, he continued to smile calmly and said: "I don't know what will happen in the future, life is interesting, if you know everything , instead of losing the fun. I am a person who is afraid of losing the fun of life, so it is very good. How about replacing wine with tea and having a drink with Mr. Mo." He raised his cup and drank tea, keeping his wide sleeves behind him to avoid After Ye Tianzhan's judgmental gaze.
An hour later, Qing Chen watched Ye Tianzhan escort Mo Buping out of the water pavilion, and quickly walked into the study to search for the time map of the heavenly stems and earthly branches. Sliding his fingers along the pages of the book, he compared his own birthday, and Zi Chou Yinmao kept it in his heart so as not to be left speechless again.
She frowned and sighed, she missed the opportunity to know the future, just now she asked Mo Buping a few things about the witch clan, but he was not very clear about it. The summer is scorching outside, and there is a ray of disappointment in her heart. It is easy to come, but hard to go, how can it not make people feel depressed
Ye Tianzhan seemed to be thinking about something when he came back from seeing off the guest. He stood in front of the window and looked at the blue lotus in Xianyu Lake, and suddenly asked her, "How do you think the lotus in this lake is blooming this year?"
"Excellent." Qing Chen said, and added: "But I haven't seen what it was like in previous years."
"At the beginning, there were not many planted, but gradually it took up half of the lake's color. It seems that there are more flowers every year." Ye Tianzhan smiled slightly, and raised his voice: "Qin Yue!"
Qin Yue immediately came in: "Your Highness!"
"Clean up the surroundings of the Ningcui Pavilion. On the ninth day of next month, I will have a banquet at Xianyu Lake." Ye Tianzhan said softly, without turning his head, still looking at the lake.
"Ninth day of next month?" Qin Yue raised his head and said, "Isn't that day His Highness's birthday?"
Ye Tianzhan nodded: "Don't forget to prepare more Taoyao fine wine that your highnesses like."
Hearing that His Royal Highnesses were going to have a banquet, Qin Yue didn't dare to be careless, and promised to do it immediately.
Qing Chen asked with a smile: "It turns out that the ninth day of the lunar new year is your birthday. Do you have any presents you want?"
Ye Tianzhan was taken aback by this question, turned around and looked at her for a while, and today he really had something to think about, he lowered his head and said, "Whatever I want, you can give it to me?"
Qing Chen readily agreed: "As long as I can do it, I will surely fulfill your wish, but you can't deliberately make things difficult for others."
"Okay." Ye Tianzhan walked to the table: "What I want, you can give it now."
Qing Chen thought for a while, but couldn't figure out what he wanted, so he said, "Then tell me what you want?"
I saw Ye Tianzhan took out a piece of Xuetao paper, picked up a Langhao brush and lightly moistened the ink in the inkstone, and handed it to her: "Your birth date."
"Huh?" Qing Chen didn't expect that the birthday gift he wanted was this, it was really unexpected: "I want to know and tell you, why bother to be so big as a birthday gift?"
Ye Tianzhan shook his head: "Just now, Mr. Mo kept asking you again and again, but I'm afraid you won't say anything now."
Thinking of what happened just now, Qing Chen twitched his lips, rejoicing that he had checked the map of the heavenly stems and earthly branches before he came in, so that he would not be caught off guard by the question again, and took the pen he handed over: "This is not a secret that can't be told, I just don't want to tell him."
Before filing the case, Ye Tian Zhanjing picked up the paper to read, and when Mogan was done, put the paper away: "I remember."
Qing Chen smiled and said, "Is this really the birthday gift you wanted?"
Ye Tianzhan nodded seriously: "That's right."
It was so simple, Qing Chen was in a daze, Ye Tianzhan in front of him seemed to overlap with Li Tang again.
Under the same face, although they are different people, they are the same caring and pampering, the same tenderness, the same never embarrassing each other, the same graceful and caring, which woman can not be addicted to it
I want to forget that I have been working hard for this during this period of time, but every time I see Ye Tianzhan, I feel that my success will fall short, love and hate, why is it deep and shallow, even I don't know how much affection I use
Perhaps, even if she is resolutely unwilling to admit it now, the heart she once surrendered turned out to be sincere and almost fragile. The broken heart at that moment was persistently frozen in a place far unknown, and it was not until a long time later that the sound of falling fragments was heard, throwing them on the cold ground, clearly and decisively.
Her brows were slightly furrowed, the corners of her raised mouth were restrained into a smile, and there was a gloomy look in her eyes, but then a hint of stubbornness appeared. Unexpectedly, Wuxin's eyes turned away, but suddenly she was extremely embarrassed. Ye Tianzhan was looking at the wonderful expression on her face with a smile that was not a smile, and it seemed that he had been looking at her for a long time.
She was speechless as if she had been caught stealing candy, but seeing Ye Tianzhan's haze that had always been hidden between his brows today finally dissipated, he raised his lips and smiled softly at her, his unparalleled handsome eyes flashed infinite elegance, The tenderness instantly enveloped her whole body, she stood in front of him in a daze, and was immersed in it like this, unable to extricate herself if she didn't want to or not.