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All court officials were on holiday today, and Qin Mu had a rare half day off, so he took Gu Hanyan to the West Garden for sightseeing.
March is almost here, and the scenery along the Mochou Lake is breathtakingly beautiful, with willows on the bank, misty clouds, the warm spring water level with the shore, the blue sky reflecting the clouds, egrets flying around the embankment, and painted boats floating on the green waves.
The spring breeze blew gently, and the sound of wind chimes came from the four corners of the eaves-style painted boat. In the spacious and elegant boat room, Liu Rushi was wearing a white palace dress embroidered with orchids, with her hairpins covering her powdered forehead. She looked around with a sense of affection, her slender waist swaying in the wind, and her clothes fluttering like an immortal. She danced gracefully to the sound of the flute.
Gu Hanyan sat next to Qin Mu, holding the pot and pouring wine with her slender fingers.
She was wearing a tight spring gown with a pink rose scent, which brought out the two soft breasts in an infinitely beautiful shape. She was covered with an emerald green gauze skirt with scattered flowers, and a small love knot was tied around her waist with soft gold gauze. Her hair was drooping down and adorned with a jade phoenix hairpin. Her black hair was dyed black, and a colorful fan fluttered in the wind. She looked like a fairy, and her whole body exuded a soft and clear charm like water.
Qin Mu was wearing a black Confucian robe, just like a young man from a wealthy family. He leaned against the window, sipping his wine slowly and appreciating Liu Rushi's singing and dancing and the spring scenery on the lake.
Gu Hanyan presented the jade cup and said, "Your Majesty is busy with affairs of state, and you have to work hard from morning till night. It is rare for you to come out and relax today. The spring scenery on the lake is just right. Your Majesty should relax your mind."
"Of course, if you don't rest, you won't work." Qin Mu stretched out his hand and hugged her into his arms, smiling, "I have already let go of my heart, what are you waiting for?"
"Your Majesty..." Gu Hanyan's misty eyes flowed towards Qin Mu.
Holding her in his arms. Qin Mu felt like he was holding a spring of soft water, so soft and gentle. He lowered his head and kissed the beauty on the forehead and said, "Holding Hanyan, I feel like I am holding the whole Jiangnan."
"I am not as good as your majesty says." She mustered up her courage and pecked Qin Mu's lips lightly, her face slightly shy, like a peony covered with mist and dew.
The beauty in my arms and the spring scenery in my eyes make the depression brought by the daily heavy government affairs dissipate in the spring breeze.
Gu Hanyan caught a glimpse of a light boat approaching on the lake. She struggled to her feet and said, "Your Majesty, Miss Xu is here. I will go to greet her."
Qin Mu also looked at Qingzhou: "Did you make a date with her?"
"Your Majesty, don't you like it?"
Qin Mu smiled and said, "Since you have invited someone here, go and greet them."
"I obey your order."
Gu Hanyan smiled and walked out of the cabin gracefully.
On the light boat, Xu Ruoshi was wearing a light yellow gown embroidered with narcissus and a pink gauze skirt that trailed on the ground. Her hair was in a bun and a golden hairpin with a peony was inserted diagonally. Her eyebrows were really beautiful and she looked like a distant mountain. Her green hair was thickly dyed with spring smoke, and her graceful figure added a bit of spring charm to Mochou Lake.
At Gu Hanyan's invitation, she climbed up the gangway to the pleasure boat and bowed to Gu Hanyan first. When she saw Qin Mu was also on the boat, her expression immediately became a little uneasy. It was obvious that when Gu Hanyan invited her, she did not specify that she was going to cruise the lake with Qin Mu.
Gu Hanyan stepped forward, took her hand and said, "Sister Xu, don't be restrained. It's rare for His Majesty to have time to come out and enjoy the scenery. Come in with me."
"I am Xu Ruoshi, a commoner, paying my respects to Your Majesty." After entering the cabin, Xu Ruoshi embraced her heart like Xi Shi and bowed gracefully.
"No need to be polite, please sit down."
Without waiting for Xu Ruoshi to react, Gu Hanyan pulled her to sit in front of the small table. The two beauties approached, and the peach blossoms reflected the crabapple blossoms, with a subtle fragrance that was intoxicating.
In order to ease her embarrassment, Qin Mu casually asked, "What has your brother been doing these days?"
"Your Majesty, my brother hasn't been home for several days. I heard that the shipyard has developed a new ship and it's about to be launched. According to my brother, this new ship uses a hollow bow design, which can greatly increase the speed. My brother attaches great importance to this and has been staying in the shipyard to supervise it these days."
Xu Ruoshi's expression was indeed much more natural. Qin Mu handed her a glass of wine and she hurriedly thanked him. The skin on her face was as delicate as jade and tender and attractive.
"Hollow bow design?" Qin Mu suddenly remembered something and asked in confusion, "Why didn't your brother report it to me?"
"I don't know, but I guess that brother probably wants to report to His Majesty after the research is successful."
Gu Hanyan poured wine and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's rare for you to leave the palace. Sister Xu is a girl, why do you bother asking her these questions?"
"Hahaha... Hanyan is right. Come, watch the singing and dancing, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake and mountains for a moment."
"Your Majesty, how about we play a game of guessing the number and drinking?"
Gu Hanyan stood up to get the chess pieces without waiting for Qin Mu's consent. Liu Rushi's singing and dancing had stopped, the lake was filled with spring breeze and the pleasure boats were full of beauties, and the cheerful sounds of guessing numbers drifted to the lake with the spring breeze.
In ancient times, people always liked to play drinking games when drinking. Everyone from the royal family to ordinary people did so. People used it to liven up the atmosphere and regulate emotions.
Drinking orders can be roughly divided into three categories: game orders, gambling orders, and text orders.
Game orders include passing flowers, guessing riddles, telling jokes, drinking chips (that is, the person who is punished to drink is determined by the words engraved on the drinking chips), etc.; gambling orders include throwing pots, archery, throwing dice, and finger-guessing games, etc.; text orders include embedded words and couplets, font changes, and interesting rhetoric.
Guessing numbers is a kind of gambling game. In the prologue of "Drunk Ode to Red Cliff" by an anonymous author in the Yuan Dynasty, it says: "There is nothing much to do now, so let's go back to the back hall to play guessing numbers and drink with my wife."
Another poem goes: "In the cool morning, the boat passed by Liuzhou East, and we met by chance in the fragrance of lotus flowers; we peeled lotus seeds and played rock-paper-scissors, and we opened our hands to win."
In ancient times, what mattered was cultural taste. Simple drinking orders were permeated with a lot of poetic and picturesque elements. In addition, there were other etiquettes for drinking, such as getting drunk on flowers during the day, getting drunk on snow naked, getting drunk on the moon in a building, getting drunk on a boat in the heat, getting drunk on mountains in a quiet place, getting drunk on water in the beginning of autumn, getting drunk on beauties with a slight flush on their face, etc.
At this moment, Qin Mu was like a drunk beauty... ...slightly flushed.
"Your Majesty has lost again. Drink quickly! Drink quickly!" Gu Hanyan's cheerful voice was heard from the cabin again.
Qin Mu said drunkenly, "Hanyan, I can't drink anymore. I'll get drunk if I drink more."
"Then your majesty, please drink poetry instead of wine, quickly!"
"Okay." Qin Mu responded, and immediately chanted without even thinking about it. "Beautiful place, the fairy courtyard is far away with smoke. The warm fragrance flies up to the altar. The altar is lit with beads and sparse lights, and it makes a rain of flowers. Don't complain. Don't you see that the peach roots have lost the south ferry. The wind is wild and the rain is jealous, and there are thousands of fallen petals, and a few bends of flowing water..."
"Hehe, the poem is good, but it's a pity that it's incomplete. Your Majesty still needs to drink. Sister Xu, quickly serve the wine."
Xu Ruoshi brought the wine over with a smile. After playing the guessing game, she was no longer as reserved as before. Her face was as beautiful as a flower and her complexion was slightly flushed, making her even more graceful and poetic.
When Qin Mu took the wine, he held her ten fingers, which were as white as spring onions. The fingers were slender and smooth. Xu Ruoshi's face was red with wine and shyness, and she was as delicate as a red lotus emerging from water. She glanced at Qin Mu quickly, lowered her head, and only showed a touch of clear and pink neck in front of Qin Mu.
Seeing this, Gu Hanyan quietly left with Liu Rushi and several palace maids and lowered the crystal curtain.
Qin Mu and Xu Ruoshi were the only ones left in the elegantly decorated cabin. A charming smell began to fill the cabin. Xu Ruoshi lowered her head, her heart beating like a deer, and her breathing became rapid.
She knew what was going to happen next. She couldn't resist the man in front of her, nor did she want to resist. She just hoped that the next moment would be better.
Qin Mu held her hand, brought the wine glass to his lips and drank it all, then took her graceful body into his arms. When Xu Ruoshi smelled the man's scent on him, her whole body softened like spring water.
Qin Mu raised her smiling face. This beautiful lady closed her eyes, her long eyelashes fluttered slightly, and her nose exuded a burning breath. Qin Mu couldn't help but kiss her rosy lips, and at the same time, his hands gently stroked her soft body... ... .Outside the painted boat, the spring scenery was bright and the waves were clear. In the painted boat, the orioles were chirping softly, and Xu Ruoshi's light yellow embroidered narcissus and blue clouds silk dress and the pink smoke gauze skirt that dragged on the ground slid down like water... ... ..
Xu Ruoshi's body is a perfect interpretation of the word "beautiful as jade". Her skin is as soft as fat and her graceful curves are like a white jade sculpture carved by supernatural power.
Qin Mu gently caressed the two soft breasts on her chest. The touch, which was warmer than jade and smoother than cream, made him unable to stop.
The beauty in his arms couldn't help but utter a series of murmurs, as soft as the voice of an oriole, and her graceful body trembled slightly;
Qin Mu could clearly feel the bright red beads on the top of the two soft nipples getting harder and standing upright. He let go of her cherry lips, lowered his head, took one of the beads into his mouth, and savored it carefully.
“Your Majesty... Your Majesty... ..Well... ..” Xu Ruoshi was like a drunken beauty, gently twisting her long legs carved out of white jade, with a faint fragrance that was very tempting.
Beyond the pearl curtain, the scenery of lakes and mountains is vaguely visible, the spring breeze blows gently, the painted boat ripples on the blue waves, carrying a boat of graceful songs, drifting towards the fairyland in the clouds... ... .
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