Late spring comes suddenly, and it is early summer in a flash. The vegetation has experienced the warm wind and rain, and the lush greenery stretches out, covering the scorching sun and the sky, only sprinkling faint spots of light and shadow, and the quietness reveals the subtle brilliance.
The calm and majestic Qingyan in front of Tianji Mansion firmly leads the stone bridge, and with only one turn, the garden is bright and bright, and the waves of the lotus pond are reflected in the sunlight, like gold and silver, so dazzling that people can't open their eyes . The water lilies are tender and delicate, with a few spots of pink, white and light red, nestled in the green leaves that are ready to bud, and the fish in the pond are beautiful, densely clustered, whispering in the shade of flowers and arrows, quietly and lovely.
Zuo Yuansun stood in front of the door, amidst the green shade of Xiliu Yiyi, a faint smog gradually faded away, the smile of Princess Ling seemed to be still there when she left, and people couldn't help showing a little bit of it along with her. Come on with a smile.
Zuo Yuansun turned around and glanced at the case with emotion. The scrolls were wide and dense, with a panoramic view of the mountains and rivers. They were spread out evenly, occupying a small half of the room in front of him. From east to west, from south to north, the map of the Chinese Empire and the military planes of the four territories is drawn. Now we have reached the northwest area, even this corner, but it is also the most difficult, and it will take some more time.
Everywhere in the picture are teeny-headed lowercase scripts with clear and meaningful hands. They are sharp-minded and unrestrained, and their movements are like sparks starting a prairie fire. It's hard to imagine that it came from the hands of that seemingly weak woman, but she talked carefully with her fingers, and he couldn't believe it. Looking at those slips and materials, he has piled them up like a hill, and there are traces of frequent flipping on the scrolls, and I don't know how much thought has been concentrated in them.
Concentric research these days, correcting and making up for the deficiencies in this picture, he was obsessed with it, as if the heart that waved freely back then had returned. Zuo Yuansun smiled, all this is hidden from King Ling, no one in Tianji Mansion is allowed to leak this matter. That day Lu Qian bumped into her accidentally, and was forced to swear to keep it a secret. Zuo Yuansun shook his head, looked seriously at the Sixteen States of Youji at the northern end, and fell into deep thought for a while.
With the help of Zuo Yuansun, this military plan can be completed with half the effort, Qing Chen pursed his lips and smiled, turned around the waterfront corridor, and saw Mrs. Bai and two women coming from the garden.
She saw the two people describe their clothes, and they stopped in front of a clump of wisteria flowers, and the shadows of the flowers quietly covered their hearts, covering the scorching sun and warmth.
As the wind blows, a few strands of lavender flying flowers flutter onto the winding silk skirt. Ye Tianling's two concubines, Qian Yan and Shu Yun, see Qing Chen and bow down to salute with Mrs. Bai. There is a bit of Wu girl's softness and sweetness, and her low eyebrows are soft and charming.
After the big wedding, Mrs. Bai seemed to have seen it once when she brought all the family members to worship the princess. Qing Chen stared at the past, but never thought about it or saw it again, and no one mentioned it in front of her. She just forgot about it. two people.
There are still people in this house who can legitimately share her husband, and this thought brings her a little bit of unhappiness.
Madam Bai raised her head, seeing that she was silent for a long time, she said again softly: "Princess."
Qing Chen cast his eyes lightly into the depths of the colorful flowers. The scent of bees and butterflies fluttering in the air made people want to be intoxicated. She nodded slightly: "Get up. Mrs. Bai, come with me."
Madam Bai glanced behind her, got up and followed Qing Chen. When they arrived at the Shuyu Courtyard, Qing Chen just sat silently, his eyes fascinated by the clear and green water outside the window, until Baguio offered two lamps of Taihu Yunfeng with green fragrance, Fang raised his head and asked: "Where are they?" How long have you two been in the mansion?"
Mrs. Bai thought for a while and said: "Qianyi came earlier, four or five years ago, even writing rhymes, and has served His Highness for almost two years."
"It's been so long." Unexpectedly, Qing Chen was speechless for a moment.
Looking through the window, a clear stream meanders around the bamboo forest very quietly, clear and clean. There is a lot of flowing water in the Shuyu courtyard, deep and shallow, far and near, pearls and jade cong, the sound of water sets off the lush bamboo forest, which always makes this courtyard have a three-point quietness.
Mrs. Bai said: "It's actually not too early to say, like those in Prince Ji's and Prince Xi's mansions have even given birth to heirs. Isn't Concubine Jin in Prince Zhan's mansion also pregnant?"
"Children." Qing Chen turned his head away: "Why haven't they been there all these years?" Jin Hui was pregnant a while ago, and she really wanted to see it, but when she thought of Ye Tianzhan, she always hesitated.
Madam Bai sighed: "I don't know what His Highness thinks, but there will always be medicine given every time, and this makes the Queen Mother very unhappy."
Qing Chen frowned lightly: "Your Highness often go to their place?"
Mrs. Bai said: "His Royal Highness only stays in Tiandu for three to five months at most every year. In the past, the Empress Dowager sent a female officer to urge him to go. Only this time he came back with soldiers, but he often stays in the study in the middle of the night. Maybe he is too busy. "
After Qing Chen heard this, Xiumei raised Daiyuan slightly, lowered his head and took a sip of Yunfeng, savoring the tea fragrance carefully, with a slight bitterness.
Mrs. Bai looked sideways, the clear water vapor of the tea lingered faintly on Qingchen's face, her whole body seemed to suppress a cloud of misery, the floating light only lingered slightly before dissolving in the deep lake-like blackness Hitomi, and then replaced by the calmness of the whole body. It doesn't seem like she can't tolerate it, but it's more distressing than those who can't tolerate it, she sighed slightly.
After Mrs. Bai left, Qing Chen leaned against the window and watched the faint green bamboo.
After a few rains in the spring a few days ago, many young shoots emerged in the bamboo forest, and the fine green buds broke through the black soil, and now they are stretching vigorously. Ye Tianling likes the arrogance of bamboo, and she likes the quietness of bamboo, and the two of them often stand here and watch. He would wrap her around her from behind, and she would lean into his arms.
She exhaled slightly, and blew away a strand of hair that had reached her cheeks. There was a faint sense of loss in her heart, and she seemed to be clearly far away from here again, just like the loneliness hidden in confusion and helplessness back then.
Looking forward to the stability in his arms so much, his light and clear but familiar tone, even his calm to cold eyes, there is always a little distant starlight that hugs her slightly when looking at her, telling her, she belongs to him.
Has such a hug, tone of voice and eyes ever happened to another woman
She didn't know, she didn't know anything about his past, just as he couldn't explore the world she once had.
Seeing her staying by the window for a long time, Baguio couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "Princess, there is a lot of water in our garden, even though it's summer, it's always cold, don't let the cold be, otherwise how can I talk to Your Highness?" explain?"
Qing Chen turned around and asked, "What did you confess?"
Baguio smiled and said: "Your Highness said, the princess is not full of energy and is afraid of the cold, I have to remember, if I feel uncomfortable, I will ask." Then he added a cup of warm tea: "A few days ago The medicinal materials from the county chief have been delivered, do you want to have a look?"
Qing Chen tapped the teacup lightly and said, "Let's put it away for now." The tone of his voice was light, not the usual quietness, a little tired.
Baguio has lived with her for a long time, so she can more or less understand her mind: "Princess, if you don't like the two of them, just send a word, your highness will never say anything."
Qing Chen frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "Send it away? A prince's concubine, who has been in the palace for a few years and then sent out, will definitely be treated with cold eyes and gossip. I'm afraid even the family may not tolerate them."
Baguio was silent for a while, and said: "The princess has always acted decisively and neatly, why did he become soft-hearted when this happened today?"
Qing Chen seemed to smile, and it faded away on the lips, as light as a floating mark: "Things can be done or not, and this has nothing to do with being decisive. As women, why are you so embarrassing?"
This is also a reason, but Baguio couldn't say anything, just sighed: "Then what happened to the princess?"
Qing Chen smiled and said nothing, stood up and walked to the desk, randomly picked up the book aimlessly, but when he flipped through it, a piece of paper fell out, on which were densely listed the names of some people.
After sweeping a glance, his eyes fell on a few words, Li Xuan, Lang Zhongling, was a useful talent when he said it, but he was Wei Zongping's disciple, and he joined King Ming's command again. implicated.
In just two months, nine out of ten of the people who were originally King Ming in the Ministry of War have withdrawn. Naturally, Ye Tianling couldn't run away from the household department to check the salary. Ye Tianling had already figured out the household department clearly. He pulled up a thread, and Thunder's methods pressed on every step of the way, and he actually pulled out a deficit of millions. For a while, all officials in the DPRK and China were in danger, fearing that many of them had not slept peacefully for many days.
The rebellion of the Shence Army caused Ye Tianming to lose all trust in the eyes of the Emperor of Heaven. This is enough. Qing Chen silently looked at the beautiful plum blossoms on the paper. When a woman's love was ignored and trampled on, How deep was the love once, and how deep is the hate. No one knows Ye Tianming better than Luan Fei, she can almost guess every move of Ye Tianming, and she takes every step of the way first. It is Luan Fei who is really playing against Ye Tianming, who has no mercy, and she uses this kind of understanding to slowly push Ye Tianming to the end of the mountain.
Qing Chen folded the volume and stood in front of the case, his heart felt empty for a while, and Xia Ri's cicadas sang softly, which sounded particularly irritable at this moment, "I'm going for a walk in the garden, you don't have to follow me," she ordered Leaving Baguio, he stepped out of the room.
Stepping on the stone path leisurely, the bamboo-shaded secluded forest is mottled in the sun, the grass and trees are beautiful and the green water is far away, and the lake is dim.
The flowing water in Shuyu Courtyard turns and turns, and finally gathers in this Wangqiu Lake. The lake water is as clear as a mirror, reflecting the sky in the distance. light.
Qing Chen bent down and looked at his own shadow in the deep lake, so real, but separated by thousands of mountains.
She rolled up her sleeves and stretched her hands into the water. The sun shone through the waves with a holy luster, and the tourmaline on her wrist reflected the shallow shadow of the sky and water, emitting vivid seven-color microcolors. The water waves were quiet and there was no abnormality. She withdrew her hand in frustration and sat by the lake.
The shallow waves on the shore wet the embroidered shoes, soaking up a deep meaning in the azure plainness, adding to the beauty of the patterns on them. She simply dipped in the water with her bare feet, and her slender white clothes lay quietly on the stone, as if there were flowing clouds. posture.
Looking up at the clear sky and light clouds, the wind is passing slightly, and the clouds are free and unfettered.
As the lake light flickered, there was another person beside the lonely shadow, tall and tall, with a straight blue shirt, Ye Tianling leaned over and asked, "Why are you staying here alone?"
Qing Chen replied, "It's quiet here."
As soon as Ye Tianling shook her hand, he frowned slightly: "I'm going to catch a cold." He picked her up without any explanation.
Qing Chen pulled him: "Sit with me for a while, okay?"
Ye Tianling was startled by the rare begging in her tone, he lowered his eyes to see the traces of emptiness in the depths of her eyes, and nodded: "Okay." He found a flat stone and helped her to sit down.
Qing Chen put his arms behind him and hugged him tightly.
Ye Tianling asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Qing Chen just leaned on him, and after a while he frowned on his shoulder and said, "You are mine."
"Huh?" Ye Tianling raised her head: "What?"
Qing Chen raised his eyebrows, his phoenix eyes slightly lowered: "You are mine!" The words were short and clear.
Ye Tianling's thin lips curled up silently: "Who said it wasn't?"
Qing Chen stared at his eyes while he was smiling, and said very seriously: "No one is allowed to say otherwise, your body, your heart, and everything about you are all mine." The voice was elegant and soft, but With a decided flavor.
Ye Tianling had never heard a woman speak to him in such a tone before, she narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at the person in front of her: "Why, do you want to dominate me?"
Qing Chen nodded and said it was correct: "How can you let others sleep peacefully beside the pillow? Since you married me, I married you, if you touch others, I will touch others, if you love others, I will love others, you If I marry someone else, I will marry someone else."
A faint wave of light shone in Ye Tianling's eyes, like a sword glow: "Oh? Then I want to see, who dares to touch my woman?"
Qing Chen struggled out of his arms and stood up, looking back at him: "You are domineering."
Ye Tianling was still sitting on the stone, with his hands on his knees, while Qing Chen was standing in front of him, barefoot, his skirt half wet, his hair hanging down his waist, still impatient with the complicated hairpins, scattered all over his body Before, reminding him of the first time he saw her. The eyebrows are clear and distant, the pupils are like water, and when the eyes are downcast, they are soft and quiet, and there is a ray of moonlight in the leisurely, the light is calm, there is something proud and calm that makes him feel strange, strange Coincidentally.
Vaguely since then, this contradictory woman of unknown origin has laid a voodoo in his heart, slowly, bit by bit eating away at his heart, until all he can see is her. The more she is alone, the more she feels that everything about her is a mystery, as if a winding path leads to a secluded place, and every turn is amazing, and this life can make people ecstatic.
He smiled with interest in his eyes: "I really don't know, so my concubine is so domineering. One such woman is enough for people to bear. Do I still ask for trouble and provoke other people? Besides Said," his all-seeing eyes raised slightly: "If I can do it, you can do it too."
Qing Chen couldn't help laughing, touching the lake water with one toe, and Ye Tianling raised his hand to support her.
Qing Chen naturally held his hand, kept his balance, suddenly became playful, and suddenly picked up the lake water with his toes and splashed it on him.
The water droplets sprinkled a crystal half-arc under the sun, with Ye Tianling's skill, how could her little trick succeed, and the water droplets disappeared in a flash, he lay on his back on the boulder and gently belt, and dragged her over.
Qing Chen screamed and was firmly held in his arms. The summer temperature covered the stone, and there was a warm current on the back, Ye Tianling said lightly: "Why, don't you believe me?"
"No." Qing Chen only answered once before standing up: "How did you hide so fast, you are not allowed to hide in the future!"
Ye Tianling couldn't help it, and said with a smile, "It's you who are too slow, and it's really unreasonable to blame me for being too fast."
Qing Chen's eyes were smoky, and he curled his lips to express doubt: "How could it be possible to hide so quickly?"
Ye Tianling said leisurely: "The meridians of the human body are intertwined, and the whole body is moved by a single stroke. This is the simplest truth. Don't you know that your hands are exerting force when you think about it?"
Qing Chen lay down on the stone curiously, enjoying the slightly scalding heat, like a kitten with its paws closed: "You teach me."
Ye Tianling gently reached out and stroked her hair: "What do you want to learn?"
Qing Chen said: "Those I don't know, there are archery, swordsmanship... a lot."
"It's very hard." Ye Tianling said lightly, and held her slender fingers: "This hand is better for playing the piano. Come, come with me to have a look."
Qing Chen followed him all the way to Sixue Pavilion, stepped into the room, and saw Zhang's Guqin lying quietly by the window at a glance. She was quite surprised, and stepped forward to take a closer look.
The qin is simple, elegant and upright, the Yang Tong is round for the face, the Yin Zi is square for the bottom, the heaven and the earth are round, and Yin and Yang are in harmony. The body of the piano is wide in front and narrow in the back, referring to the heaven and earth below, and the heaven on the top, the dragon pool is the eight winds, the phoenix pool gathers four qi, the waist and abdomen are in four seasons, the five strings are like silk, icy and clean, long, and there is an aura of majesty and majesty. Refreshing air. She exclaimed: "Good piano!"
"Do you like it?" Ye Tianling said, "I said I wanted to find you the 'Yichibo'. After searching for half a year, I found out that the piano is in the collection of Xi's family in Jiangzhou. If you are willing to sell it, it is not easy to win people's love. I wonder if you like this one?"
Qing Chen lightly passed his fingers over the strings, like a dragon singing low and winding, like a phoenix singing softly, bringing out a clear and mellow string sound, only felt that the carving and carving of this piano fit into his heart, and quietly sighed: "I like it very much. "
Ye Tianling smiled and said: "Then I didn't waste my time thinking about it. I really didn't expect that there are so many details in making a piano."
"You did it?" Qing Chen was surprised again.
"Why, not like it?" Ye Tianling smiled faintly, and the voice in that smile was like a clear spring in a mountain, clear and moving, with a sharp edge in the slightly cold indifference, which captured her whole, like The first time I saw his appearance, I sank for no reason.
Qing Chen's eyes reflected his deep tenderness: "Then this piano is very precious."
Ye Tianling smiled and said, "Qin doesn't have a name yet."
Qing Chen pondered for a while, then walked to the front of the case, spread out the paper, moistened the ink and wrote the word "Zheng Yin", and then wrote: "The tung tree of Qishan Mountain has its shape, and the silk of ice and snow makes its sound."
Ye Tianling stood beside her, holding her slender waist with one arm, and holding her writing hand with the other, and continued: "The majestic soul, the gentle temperament, the cold autumn, the eternal clarity."
One soft and one sharp, one stroke and one sharp, the faint fragrance of ink falls on the slippery bamboo paper, in the soul, there is a trace of undisturbed arrogance and sternness, and the sharpness is hidden. Qing Chen smiled slightly: "They all said that my handwriting resembles yours."
Ye Tianling took a look: "Well, it's much better than when we first met."
Qing Chen put down his pen: "You made fun of me, so I ignore you."
Ye Tianling held her tightly, and said with a smile: "Then you go, let's see where you go."
Qing Chen was angry and funny: "Do you think I really can't leave?"
Ye Tianling chuckled in her ear, and said calmly but firmly: "If you go to the ends of the world, I will catch you back, and you will never even think about it for the rest of your life."
Qing Chen calmed down in his arms, and sighed faintly: "Fourth Brother, as long as you belong to me for a day, I will not leave."
Ye Tianling remained silent, and stared at her with a deep and quiet gaze for a long time.