Chapter 38: Loutai Shadow Moving Mandarin Ducks (2)

"Also," I looked at the exquisite gold and jade vessels, "all these dishes are replaced. Gold, silver and jade are too extravagant to be courteous."
Zhilan also followed me, and my heart settled slightly.
After breakfast, I went to the West Side Hall. There seemed to be many calligraphy and paintings there yesterday. What can be stored here must be the top grade.
I asked Zhilan to wait outside the hall after serving tea, and I took out a scroll from the porcelain vase beside the table and spread it out on the table to enjoy it carefully.
This is a piece of silk paper with a goshawk painted on it. It looks like the handwriting is from the emperor, but it is different in some places. I looked at the goshawk again, and groaned—
"Su Lian Feng Shuang,
Goshawk paintings are unique.
Searching for the cunning rabbit,
Looks like a sad face.
..."
Before he finished chanting, his voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Good poem, what's next?"
I turned around in shock. "The emperor." I bowed slightly.
He shook his head helplessly, "I told you, no need."
"No, it is necessary." I said with a smile.
Seeing me smiling, he stopped saying anything and helped me up.
Glancing at the painting on the table, "This is the fourth brother's painting. The poem you just made is very good, but is there any more behind it?"
Fourth brother? Isn't that King Yu? I actually saw his painting here!
There was a small mood swing in my heart, and I looked back at the painting, smiled and continued to chant
"The silk is so light,
Xuanying's potential can be called.
How to strike a bird,
Pingwu was sprinkled with blood. "
After listening, he clapped his hands and praised, then walked to the table and picked up a pen to put the poem on the side of the painting. After writing, he looked up at me deeply and shook his head.
"You..." He seemed to say something, but he didn't say any more.
I regretted it a little bit in my heart. I shouldn't show off my talents. After all, judging from Concubine Liu's favor, he values ​​talents more.
Of course, this is not to say that Concubine Liu is not beautiful. There is never a lack of beauty in this harem, but beauty alone will not be long-lasting favor.
He walked up to me, "Would you like to walk to the lake?"
I don't understand what he meant, but there is no way to resist it. I nodded, and he pulled me out the door.
"When my young father and the emperor were still there, the mother and queen used the palace to hold a banquet, and asked the Taoist monks at that time to do for me.
He was walking by the lake, I followed him silently, and not far behind me followed a large number of court ladies and eunuchs. He said as he walked, his eyes blurred, "Most of what the monk said is now a reality."
I can probably guess what the eminent monk had predicted-ascendance and prosperity.
He looked back at me and continued: "At that time, the eminent monk said that I will own the most beautiful things in the world. Therefore, after I took the throne, I built the Pengdao Yaotai to collect all the treasures in the world. After the construction was completed, I thought, did the senior monk refer to this? But I was wondering again that this can be done by manpower and cannot be regarded as the fulfillment of the prophecy. Until..."
I guessed what he was about to say, and hurriedly walked to the lake with a smile, "Here, it is really the most beautiful in the world."
After finishing speaking, pointing to an exquisite octagonal pavilion on a hill not far away, "Emperor, can I go there?"
He apparently saw my intentions and smiled at me cowardly, "Okay."
In the octagonal pavilion, he sat down casually. Those palace ladies and eunuchs were standing at the bottom of the mountain, and only Zhilan and Zhang Dehai were waiting by their side.
"Can you play Go?" He looked around boredly, then looked at me and asked.
"Is the emperor finished handling the affairs of state today?" I asked.
He came here so early, thinking he would come directly after the next morning. I know that on weekdays, he would meet the ministers in the Imperial Study Room to deal with state affairs until lunch.
"Why do you sound like a queen of the palace." After speaking, he laughed indifferently.
My heart jumped suddenly, with a smile on my face, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell him that I was indeed the queen of the palace, but he didn't give me a chance to speak.
He immediately stopped laughing and said: "I have a sense of measure in national affairs."
At this time, Zhang Dehai had taken a set of Go and placed it in front of us. "I think you are so smart, you should know how to play this Go game."
I nodded, "Slightly familiar."
"You hold Baizi and go first." As he said, he put Sheng Baizi's pine box in front of me and took Heizi's box by himself.
I picked up a white piece, thought for a moment, and landed on the chessboard with a "pop".
"Everything in the world is like a chess, striving for a great career."
He said suddenly after playing a chess move. That move caused a slight threat to my situation.
I didn't look at him, dropped the chess piece in my hand, easily resolved the threat he gave, and said casually: "Tenderness is like water, when will the spring of the Six Dynasties flow?"
He smiled and didn't say a word, and I naturally focused on my chess position.
The surroundings were very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of chess pieces and leaves rustling. There is a breeze, it is not hot by the lake, and it is soothing.
At the end of a game, my chess power is indeed not as good as him.
He smiled happily, "I won three eyes."
I replied respectfully: "The emperor's chess power is unmatched."
"Your level is not one or two."
I smiled without answering.
He stood up and walked to the pavilion, "When I first saw you, I was really shocked."
I picked up the tea at hand, "The emperor, would you like another plate?"
He came back and sat down with great interest, "Of course."
It was not until lunch that we ended the contest on the chessboard. Back to the west side hall, all the meals were served.
He looked at the dishes that were significantly less than the previous day, and the utensils that had been changed, and asked the beside him unhappily.
"Who changed these?"
I took a step forward, "The emperor's anger is my idea. Those are too extravagant, so I let them change."
A glimmer of approval flashed in his eyes, and he walked to the table and sat down, "I don't care, I'm just afraid of wronging you."
"The emperor joked. The emperor doesn't care, so I won't care. What's more, even then, I feel a bit luxurious."
"That's it, don't change it anymore."
I smiled and sat across from him and started to eat.
He left after lunch. He let go of the state affairs in the morning, but he will not be delayed until tomorrow.
I read in the small study until he came back, and I seemed to be somewhat content with my current situation. However, I know that I am running away.
After dinner, he still accompanied him to review the memorial.
When it was time to rest, I became nervous.
He also saw it. After escorting me to the sleeping hall, he smiled and said, "I will go to Wanfang to make peace. Don't be afraid. I said not to force you."
After hearing this, I suddenly felt uncomfortable. I have never forgotten who I am, but I seem to have forgotten again.
I made up my mind, since I want to put it down completely, and since I have reached this step, I don't think about it for myself, then I should also plan for my Ling family.
I walked in the door, turned my head and smiled and said, "It's late at night, the emperor will rest here." After I finished speaking, I blushed. How could this be like what a queen should say.
I started to regret it a bit. His eyes were full of surprise and joy, and he stepped into the sleeping hall. I was nervous, not knowing what to do.
"So," he stepped closer to me, his expression filled with gentle light under the candlelight: "Are you willing?"
I sighed and nodded.
He smiled, "Don't be afraid." He said and kissed me, and I smiled nervously.
The candlelight went out...in a groggy, someone knocked on the door anxiously.
I opened my eyes, he had already sat up, and shouted in a very impatient tone: "What's the matter?"
"The emperor," Zhang Dehai's voice came from outside the door, "Someone from Prince Yu Mansion came to report, and the prince's condition suddenly deteriorated."
"What?" He straightened abruptly. "What's the matter?"
I quickly got up to light the candle, but my hands trembled violently, and it was only after a few times that I lit it.
"Someone from Caiyu Prince's Mansion came to report that the prince was not very good since yesterday. He coughed up blood after dinner tonight."
He was full of flustered expressions on his face, hurriedly got up and dressed, walked quickly to the door but then turned back to the bed, looked at me and said softly: "You go to sleep, I have to go to of."
His eyebrows were filled with worry and anxiety.
My heart was trembling like my hands, suppressing my voice as hard as possible, and said, "The emperor, go."
After finishing speaking, he got up and took the black cloud brocade cloak set aside and put it on him, "It's cold at night, the emperor pay attention to the dragon body."
The touch and relief in his eyes flashed by, smiled lightly at me, and hurried out the door with a ribbon.
I heard the voice of him talking with Zhang Dehai
"Cough and bleeding? How? How is it now? Can the royal doctor go?"
"The three imperial physicians have been in the palace. The minion has prepared a big ship to send the emperor to shore."
I heard the footsteps of a large number of attendants getting away, so I picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on my body, anxious, and my heart ached again.
When I saw him that day, I was aware of his pale face and the abnormal coughing sound.
Now it seems that he must have been seriously ill-heart disease, right?
I lowered my head and thought I must leave here. Even if I no longer think about him and avoid him deliberately, I cannot forgive myself for enjoying the emperor's supreme grace at this time, and I shouldn't get it!
Thinking of hearing Zhang Dehai's words, "The big ship has been prepared to send the emperor to the shore", then the boat that brought me here should still be on this Pengdao Yaotai, as long as I can find it, I can go back.
I am willing to be the queen of namelessness before, I am willing.
"Zhilan, Zhilan." I tried to call. If she is here, then I will find a way to distract her.
No one responded for a long time. I suddenly remembered that when he came in with him, he had told everyone to leave, so this was the best time.
I quickly got dressed, my hair was tied only with silk, and I made the bed again, so that people looked as if there were still people lying there...
When I reached the door, I turned back, took off my shoes and put them in front of the bed, and then hurried out.