The heavy rain splashed into the corridor along the eaves, and the palace attendants took a step back to avoid being hit by the water droplets on these people.
Gu Yuanbai wiped his hands, put on his coat and glanced at them, "Where did you go?"
Several guards hurriedly said: "Go back to the sage, I saw someone passing by outside the courtyard before the rain fell, and I had doubts in my heart, so I went forward to find out."
The heavy rain was like a pearl on a rope, the evening rain was cloudy, and it seemed to be covered with mist everywhere, and in the dim sky, only the clothes were as bright as before.
Gu Yuanbai stepped out of the door, and felt the water vapor in twos and threes. He turned to the side and avoided the windward side of the door, "Who is it?"
"It's a monk from another temple who came to Jingchen Temple to study the Dharma," a guard said. "When the minister chased after him and asked, the monk said that he was the wrong person."
Gu Yuanbai turned his head and followed the palace attendant and said, "Bring them some clean towels first."
The palace attendant has already brought it and handed it to a few people. The guards took it and wiped the water on their hair and body, "Sir, we checked the monk's altar, and it is indeed a monk from a famous temple in Hebei, no wonder there is a bit of Hebei in his accent. After the host of Chen Temple confirmed his identity, it rained heavily on the way back."
The rain came suddenly and drenched them all at once. Gu Yuanbai nodded casually. Seeing that the towels were wet, and the water on their bodies had not been wiped off, he said, "Go back to your room and change your clothes first."
These people only wore the clothes on their bodies. If they wanted to avoid getting caught in the cold, the only way was to take off their clothes and lie on the bed in the bedroom, wrapped in a quilt and waiting for the clothes to dry.
Several people left one after another, and only Xue Yuan was standing there wet and dripping with water, "Your Highness, there is no kang bed in the temple, how did you sleep in the afternoon?"
The silver-haired coat fluttering in the wind covered the saint's face. Gu Yuanbai raised his eyes to look at him. His eyes were black and his skin was as white as jade. It was like a person in an ink painting moving for a moment, but his voice was not cold. Hot, "Not so much."
Xue Yuan grinned. When Gu Yuanbai thought he was going to talk nonsense about warming his bed again, Xue Yuan saluted and returned to the room to change clothes.
Gu Yuanbai's face suddenly turned cold.
He stared blankly at Xue Yuan's back, his lips curled into a silent sneer, and turned back to the bedroom.
late at night.
The sound of the rain outside the window was even more ferocious. In the midst of the wind and rain, someone whispered a few words outside, and the wooden door creaked and closed gently again.
Someone approached Gu Yuanbai, and before he leaned over, the sage said fiercely, "Go away!"
The man froze obediently. His voice was wet and hoarse after being soaked in today's rain, "Your Majesty, I asked the imperial doctor yesterday, and your body is almost healed now."
Gu Yuanbai turned over and lifted the quilt, ignoring it.
Bai Yingying's quilt seemed to have a pale light on the bed, and one corner was pressed against the side of the saint's face. A small part of the side face is exposed, vaguely, half-covered and half-exposed.
Xue Yuan watched it for a while, before he dared to really look up at him today, until the superficial addiction was satisfied, he was in the mood to do other things.
Xue Yuan raised his knees and pressed down on a corner of the quilt on the saint. Gu Yuanbai didn't pull the quilt over, his voice became colder, "Xue Jiuyao, I told you to get out."
"The sage listened to the minister's explanation," Xue Yuan said, "the minister finally got on the dragon bed again that day, and after doing his best to make the sage comfortable, the second day, Director Tian brought the imperial doctor to the minister, and the imperial doctor said , The holy body is weak, and after the spice is cut off, there will be a period of weakness and weakness."
Xue Yuan whispered, "I don't dare to touch it." After a pause, his voice became even more hoarse, "I don't even dare to look at it."
But the saint is like a flower, wandering around in front of Xue Yuan all day long. With fragrance and water droplets, the more ruthless the expression, the more unbearable it is to look at.
Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes and didn't speak, Xue Yuan's back was stiff, but his waist was strong and he was still able to handle it with ease, "Don't be angry, Lord, tonight..."
"How can you have such a strong sandalwood scent on your body?" Gu Yuanbai wrinkled his nose, "Have you gone to worship Buddha?"
Xue Yuan's expression suddenly became weird, and he blurted out: "Dog nose?"
Gu Yuanbai laughed in anger. There was a thunder light passing by the sky outside. Gu Yuanbai stretched out his fingertips and pointed at the thunder light outside the window, "If you are a dog's nose, then you are a coward. Xue Jiuyao, Wanli. Flying a kite in cloudless weather is not a hero, and if you want to ask Ray, this is the perfect opportunity."
"The minister said the wrong thing. The sage's nose is made of jade. How can you see it?" Xue Yuan smiled and said after pondering for a while: "I can't fly the kite when it rains. But if the sage can agree to a request of the minister, The minister can stand for a while in the rain and let the sage see if the minister is a coward."
Gu Yuanbai said lazily: "I have no interest in playing with you with these things."
"Sir, there is an osmanthus tree in the center of the yard. On the top of the osmanthus tree is a newly-grown bud. The buds and leaves are tender and the branches are soft," Xue Yuan said with enthusiasm, "Chen, go and fold it over for the sage, why don't the sage fight him? A bet? If it can be discounted…”
Gu Yuanbai couldn't help but ask: "If it can be broken?"
Xue Yuan's hand clenched into a fist, and once the selfishness that he had endured for a month was revealed, all his fingers clucked, "If you can break it, sage, if you can use your foot as a servant, half an hour is enough."
foot? What can feet do.
Although Xue Jiuyao's request was a bit strange, it didn't seem difficult. But Gu Yuanbai knew that he must have bad intentions, so he didn't want to pay attention to him. As soon as he closed his eyes, he would instruct him to warm the bed and get out of the way.
As soon as Xue Yuan said these words, he was already excited, and he lowered his body and kept coaxing and coaxing in Sheng Shang's ear: "Sacred Lord, if you can't break it down, the minister will listen to you, and the minister will do whatever you want the minister to do. "
Gu Yuanbai asked back: "What do I tell you to do now, why don't you do it?"
Xue Yuan choked and said honestly, "Do it."
Gu Yuanbai rolled his eyes and continued to fall asleep. But Xue Yuan was really annoying, and kept talking in his ear, Gu Yuanbai couldn't bear it any longer, "Then you go and break it!"
Xue Yuan rolled over and got out of bed in a hurry, turned around and ran away. There was another flash of lightning and thunder outside the window, and Gu Yuanbai sat up with a "rub", his expression suddenly changed, "Xue Jiuyao!"
The lights were lit inside and outside the house, and the palace servants were in a hurry, but Gu Yuanbai had not yet called for the desperate Xue Yuan. There was a guard outside who pressed a person to approach. The figure was wrapped in thick moisture in the rain, and the guard whispered: "Holy, this person came in the middle of the night and asked to see the holy outside."
The saint was dressed in uniform and did not reveal his identity. However, this person revealed that the guards did not dare to delay, and immediately brought people to the Holy Master.
Gu Yuanbai glanced gloomily in the majestic rain through the man's shoulder, "Come in."
The man in the scorpion walked into the wing, with a hoarse voice that was deliberately lowered: "It's better for the sage to wave away the outsiders."
Gu Yuanbai said coldly and sternly, "You say it."
The man in the scorpion paused, then reached out and took off the scorpion from his body. "Boom", the white light cut through the sky, illuminating the face of the man in mink clothes.
Ordinary, with a sallow face and a bit of a cold, it is Li Angyi, the second prince of Xixia.
Li Angyi looked straight at the emperor of Daheng. As expected, the expression of the emperor of Daheng changed suddenly, and he stood up and walked towards Li Angyi. Li Angyi was about to smile slightly, but Emperor Daheng went straight past him, opened the door and shouted, "Xue Jiuyao, just die on the tree!"
After roaring in a sentence, the cold air rushed in down his throat. Gu Yuanbai coughed a few times while covering his chest, closed the door, and sat back with a muffled cough.
Li Angyi said: "You are not surprised at all."
Gu Yuanbai took a sip of warm tea and slowly swept over him, "Second Prince of Xixia, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Li Angyi raised his brows, sighed and leaned over to salute, "Then you must already know why I came this time."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, "Can you also represent Xixia?"
Li Angyi smiled bitterly, "Then it depends on whether you want me to represent Xixia."
Gu Yuanbai slowly made someone make a new cup of tea and asked, "Where do the spices come from?"
Li Angyi said: "Daheng people."
Gu Yuanbai suddenly turned his head to look at him, his eyes devouring.
Li Angyi paused, looked at him and said, "Daheng people from Fusang."
*
As soon as the door opened, the cold air from outside blew in. The man in the robe took a step out, and coughed twice. The low voice was unpleasant and weak: "No matter how good the lower body is, it will be overwhelmed in the past month. I hope you can spare me and make this cold a little bit. Good look."
Gu Yuanbai's tone was moody and angry: "Don't worry, in another month, you will be better if you are not good."
The man in Minoyi didn't say more, lowered his head and hurriedly left in the wind and rain.
The door was open, and the palace attendant stepped forward to close it. Gu Yuanbai's face also sank violently, as if a violent storm was approaching, condensing the calm before the final storm.
He thought a lot, and no one knew what he was thinking. By the end, Gu Yuanbai had restrained the expression on his face, lowered his eyes calmly, and quietly sipped the warm tea in the tea bowl.
Fusang was in a feudal society at the moment, and it should have been extremely backward.
"Tian Fusheng," Sheng Shang said indifferently, "How many things did Fusang bring during our Longevity Festival?"
Tian Fusheng was refreshed, and said: "I remember it clearly. During the holy longevity festival, the most important gifts were from Xixia and Fusang. The most valuable thing in it was... "
He talked for a long time in one breath, and each of the gifts was very precious and rare. Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes and sighed suddenly.
The hateful flaw had already appeared in front of him, but it was only at this moment that he realized that something was wrong.
But where did Fusang get so many spices and so many raw materials
Can their land grow such an addictive and produce so much spice in large quantities? Even if there are so many spices, who is Fusang lurking in Xixia to sell spices and trade? Who helped Fusang to spread the spices on such a large scale in Xixia? Who is so ambitious and wants to take the opportunity to invade Daheng
The conversation in my head flashed over and over again.
The second prince of Xixia said sincerely: "After I know the harm of spices, Xixia has been addicted to this kind of spices of Fusang. I can't reverse the whole trend by myself. If you don't have the ability, you can only see it as invisible."
What a second prince who endured humiliation, loved the country and the people.
Gu Yuanbai said: "Tian Fusheng, do you believe what the second prince of Xixia said?"
Tian Fusheng shook his head cautiously: "The second prince of Xixia has been lurking for many years, and he pretends to be too harmless on weekdays. What such a person says, even the younger ones feel that they can't fully believe it."
"You don't believe it, and he still expects me to believe it?" Gu Yuanbai sneered, "Seven percent of what you say is true and three percent false, one piece is missing here, one piece is missing there, this is a lie that no one can discover."
He stood up, walked to the window, looked sideways into the courtyard, and saw a tall shadow running towards the wing. The long legs are striding very fast, pressing down the excitement that can't be suppressed.
Gu Yuanbai's mind flashed, and he suddenly thought of Xixia's neat attitude when he apologized to Daheng.
Could it be that these things were all given by Fusang