Chapter 32: Straw butterfly

Those who serve the prince know that the prince will not be in a good mood every few days on the Lantern Festival on the Shangyuan Festival, and may even sleep all night.
Only when he came back from outside the palace last night, His Royal Highness even slept in the dormitory for a few hours.
Every year on the 16th of January, His Royal Highness will come to the suburbs of Beijing to give the Empress Dowager the Queen a lantern of rebirth. In the past, he had a life with a wicked way and wanted to come across with His Royal Highness Prince. After the sin, the rumors gradually spread, that no one dared to go here at 15 o'clock on the first month of the year.
Hearing the words of Taoist rumor, the East Palace attendants secretly wondered, who is so brave?
But after seeing the coming people, the attendants retreated.
"General Wei, the governor." The prince's gaze circulated on Hua Liuli and invited the two to come up: "The two also come to incense?"
and also?
Hua Liuli was a little surprised, but he did not expect the prince who dared to eat when he sacrificed to heaven.
"We will bring the little girl to resign at the end." Wei Mingyue still remembered the expression when the prince carefully touched her belly when she was worried that the baby in her belly would be afraid.
The prince was quite trusting with them when they were young, so even after many years, she was still a bit close to the prince: "At the end of the year, she led the army and made a wish in this Taoist temple. If the child can If you survive safely, you must come in person to make the wish."
The prince noticed that there were a lot of things in the hands of the people under the Hua family to make a petition, and he knew that General Wei was right: "General, watching the chief governor has changed a lot, you are not very familiar with them, and the solitary will lead you. "The crown prince turned around and walked into Taoist temple. "For more than ten years, the general has worked hard all these years."
"Actually, fortunately, although Bianguan is suffering a bit, it also has a different style from the capital." General Wei turned to look at Hualili. "I only suffered from this child and stayed with us in the bitter cold since birth."
"Mother, Qinghanzhou is very good." Hua Liuli smiled with a frown, "I didn't suffer much."
The prince moved his eyes away from Hua Liuli. He stepped into the Taoist gate and saw a female visitor. Two Kundao came out of the temple to greet him.
Hualili took the incense, worshiped in front of the Sanqing statue, and inserted the incense into the incense altar.
She didn't understand Taoism and the like. Seeing her mother seemed to be talking to the Taoist leaders, she simply retreated from the side entrance of the temple.
Outside the Taoist temple, there is a courtyard covered with blue stone plates. The ancient trees on both sides of the courtyard add a little fairy to this Taoist temple hidden in the mountains.
In the early spring afternoon, the sun shines on the leaves, leaving a dappled light spot on the ground.
"Sovereign." The prince came out. "There are tables and chairs next to it. We can sit here and wait for a while."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Bypassing the flowers, Hualili saw the stone table and stone bench hidden behind the tree. As soon as the two of them sat down, a long head brought tea and fruits.
There is a faint smell of incense in the air, and occasionally there will be a long pass, the atmosphere is very peaceful.
"Qinghan Prefecture has a bad climate and is not suitable for the growth of crops. The county master has been staying there for many years and should have suffered a lot."
I don’t know which master is chanting the scriptures, suddenly high and low, like a rolling white cloud in the sky.
"Although it can't be compared with the capital, but her daughters and daughters grew up, they didn't suffer much." Hua Liuli shook his head, "Your Majesty will send people to send military food on time, and there are many rewards. I am the oldest member of the family, the family People are used to me, and the people in the city are very close to me because of the daughters of my two generals."
Amused by Hua Liuli's sincerity, the prince shook his head and said with emotion: "The lord, the lonely prince, you should complain to the orphan at this time, how bitter the Qinghanzhou is, how sad you are when you grew up, so lonely can admire the flowers more Family dedication."
"Is that so particular?" Hua Liuli rested his chin on one hand, "Is it too late to say it again?"
"It's good to be a child since I was young. It's not easy to forget the words you just said." The prince picked up the tea and was ready to drink, but was stopped by Hua Liuli's hand: "Your Highness, wait."
The prince raised his eyebrows and looked at him.
"Although it is a suburb of Beijing, it is not in the palace." Hua Liuli pointed to the tea cup in his hand. "There is nothing wrong with paying more attention to the entrance."
"Thank you for reminding the master." The prince smiled, and he put down the teacup, "I'm so careless."
"I just thought of it suddenly, and I said a lot of words." Hua Liuli looked up at the Taoist temple. "However, this Taoist temple is indeed a little different. How could your Highness come here?"
"Just walk around and light a lamp to the deceased, wishing her success in the afterlife." The smile on the prince's face gradually disappeared. He dropped his eyelids and his thick eyelashes quivered gently: "I can do it for her, Only these."
Seeing the Prince's expression so low, Hua Liuli thought secretly, is it the person the Prince loves, unfortunately passed away prematurely? Without asking more questions, she was a quiet listener.
No wonder the King of England and King Ning have already set up a marriage, and the future crown prince has not moved.
Three years ago, a soldier died in battle on the battlefield. His fiancee came from thousands of miles just to take his bones home.
The woman was dry and skinny, and her eyes were numb. She held the bone box tightly, as if holding the last hope. She followed the woman and sent her out of the city until her back was no longer visible.
From the beginning to the end, the woman did not drop a tear, but Hua Liuli felt that she had cried thousands of times in her heart.
The love cut off by life and death is too bitter.
Hua Liuli looked at the Prince's eyes, and unconsciously brought mercy. But what a caring person she would never let the prince see that something was wrong.
"Please mourn, the old man has gone, you are still alive." Hua Liuli persuaded, "presumably she also wants you to live alive."
"Thank you." Prince said, "Lonely know."
In front of life and death, any language is pale and weak. Hualili got up and picked up some dry grass. His fingers flipped quickly, and a butterfly came out quickly.
"Your Highness, you reach out your hand."
When the prince opened the booth to the stone table, Hualili put the straw butterfly in his palm: "His Royal Highness, the courtier and daughter in Qinghanzhou heard an old man tell a story. It is said that there is a butterfly in the underworld that can take the lost souls Returning to the prefecture can also help living people to miss the important people."
"Tonight you put the butterfly under the pillow, maybe she was heard by her." Hua Liuli winked at the prince with a smile, "So you have to rest early tonight and can't stay up late."
This butterfly is really not pretty, the wings on both sides are asymmetrical, and the belly looks a little fat. He had some doubts that such a butterfly could not fly at all, because his belly was too fat.
He closed his palms and put the butterfly away: "Thank you."
"Li Liu." Wei Mingyue stood outside the bushes, I don't know how long she stood there, but the expression on her face looked normal, and she didn't seem to see the scene just now, "The abbot chief wants to see you, you follow I come."
"His Royal Highness, you will sit here for a while, the courtiers and daughters will come." Hua Liuli got up and walked towards Wei Mingyue.
After Hualili walked to the side, Prince Wei Mingyue arched his hand before turning around and leaving.
"His Royal Highness," the prince confided in his entourage, "Why don't you tell the lord, this Taoist temple is for you, and there will be no problem with tea."
"Good intentions are rare." The prince took a sip from the teacup and slowly put it down. Suddenly felt that the position of the tea cup was different from that when Hualili left, and reached out to adjust the position, so that it returned to its original state.
Hua Liuli thought that the Taoist Abbot would be a white-haired old master, but he didn't expect to meet him and found out that the other party was actually a young man with beautiful eyes.
"Good faith, please sit down." The abbot asked the mother and daughter to sit down and poured tea for them.
The place where they sat was a pavilion, which was built on a mountain rock, and you could see the scenery under the mountain when you raised your eyes. If there was fog in the mountains at this time, it would be a bit like a fairyland on earth.
"Thank you real people."
"Bad Daoqing Hui, two good faiths directly call the name of the poor Dao." Qinghui put the tea in front of the flower Liuli, "This tea is made from four seasons of flowers and has the effect of nourishing the face and the gods. Frail people can also enter."
Hua Liuli noticed his hands and trimmed them cleanly, white and symmetrical.
"The poor Dao followed Master to practice, and after he went to Hexi, he became the abbot of this Taoist temple." Qinghui's eyes were very beautiful, and he did not get a little bit of red dust: "When the general came to despise, the poor Dao was still young. Young, there is no chance to talk to the general recently. After so many years, the general is still so heroic."
"Qinghui Daochang's false praise." Wei Mingyue sighed, "I haven't returned for many years, and I never thought I wouldn't even see the last person of the real person."
"Master once said to the poor that the general is a fighter, and he was born to defend the family and defend the country."
Wei Mingyue smiled and couldn't see whether she believed or not.
"I learned that the master of the county returned to Beijing, and the poor Dao wanted to visit your government, but the poor Dao kept this Taoist view on weekdays, and he rarely had the opportunity to go out." Qinghui looked at Hua Liuli, "Fortunately, today the Sanqing God bless , The poor road finally sees the true face of the master."
"Why do you insist on seeing me?" Hua Liuli asked curiously.
"Because the general was about to leave, the teacher forgot to give a signature to the general." Qinghui took out a sign from the sleeve cage. This sign looked very old and I don't know how long it was left.
Wei Mingyue suddenly remembered that when she made a wish in Taoist Temple, the ghost messenger shook a lot. But the sign accidentally fell into the gap for the table, she did not mind, she left the day.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, this Taoist temple still retains the sign that fell into the gap.
Wei Mingyue took the sign and saw that it was blank: "What does this mean?"
"This is a white sign." Qinghui looked at Hua Liuli. "It means there is no sign to explain."
Wei Mingyue's face was a bit unsightly. She was seeking this fetus for the fetus in her belly. What did the blank mean? After all, it would not be a good moral.
With a hard hand, the sign is broken. She said with a cold face: "It's artificial, I won't believe it."
"There are always accidents in all things." Qinghui looked at this sign and smiled slightly: "The monk's path was against the sky, and the poor Dao felt that they didn't have to believe too much, but..."
Qinghui’s smile became more tolerant and gentle: "The poor Taoist Guan master has a relationship with me, can the master be willing to find out?"
Hua Liuli: "Huh?"
"If the county master is unwilling, I will ask the poor next time." Qinghui's smile is more gentle, "maybe the county master will be interested in the next time."
Hua Liuli shook his head in his heart, no, no, bother.
"Beijing is like a deep sea, it looks calm and calm, but it actually hides waves. General Wei and General Hua are loyal generals of the Jin Dynasty, and the two can't bear it. The Qinghui doesn't seem to force Huali to repair the monastery. He turned his head to look at it. The mountain scenery, "Please take care of the two generals."
"Thank you Master for reminding." Wei Mingyue said, "Your Majesty is the King of the World, but the waves are rough. As long as your Majesty is there, the ship will not be submerged by the waves."
Qinghui performed a Taoist gift: "Take good faith in protecting the national security family and have great merits. At any time, there will be blessings from the fairies and good fortune."
"Teacher Chang Jiyan." Wei Mingyue returned a salute.
"Sovereign, please take care." Qing Hui seemed to really come only to send a blank sign. He took a deep look at Hua Liuli and turned around and disappeared behind the stone bridge.
Wei Mingyue stared at the split in two signs on the table, his expression was still a bit ugly.
"Mother, the blank sign is a good one." Hua Liuli picked up the broken sign. "It's like your majesty gave me a blank decree covered with the seal of the jade seal. Let me fill in what I want. How good. ."
She tossed the off-sign to the cliff, and arched her hand without looking at it: "Thank you God."
Amused by her movements, Wei Mingyue got up and said: "I wished that year, but now I have come to make a wish, and my debt to the fairy is completely clear."
"My debts are clear, you should not owe debts outside." Wei Mingyue already pointed out.
"What debt?" Hua Liuli took a sip of the tea and slender fingers gently looked at the stone table.
"Love debt." Wei Mingyue raised an eyebrow. "Just before did you make a little animal for the prince?"
Hua Liuli nodded.
"Your father likes to coax me with this little means. Your eldest brother and second brother also love to make some rabbits and puppies and other things to coax your sister-in-law. I didn't expect you to have more skill, not only to compose things but also to compose stories." Wei Mingyue Reaching the head of Hua Liuli with his hand, "You haven't learned the other skills of the Hua family. The coaxing methods are one set after another."
"Mother." Hua Liuli said, covering her forehead. "I just want to make the prince a little bit happy, but not to plot against him. Besides, there are irreplaceable characters in the prince's heart, why would he easily like others because of a little thing."
If you don’t like it, how come you come to this Taoist temple in person and just light a lamp for her.
What a tragic and tragic love this is.
"Well, if you really like Royal..."
"Mother." Hua Liuli took Wei Mingyue's hand, "The daughter is not suitable for the royal child, and the royal family will not let a frail person be the princess. This is the best way."
Wei Mingyue looked at her daughter: "My son, you have to remember that Huajia will not go to glory or decline because of a marriage, you don't have to worry about us."
"Daughter knows." Hua Liuli smiled. "It's just good to be a perfect woman. It's good to be weak and weak. I still want to be a famous sick and weak beauty in the world."
"Maybe after thousands of years, there are scholars and scholars who wrote poems for me, describing what the vocabulary of the beauty of later generations looks like Liuli, Saili, Liuli and so on..."
"Go, go home."
"Come back home?"
"Go back to bed early and have everything in your dreams."
When the mother and daughter returned, the prince was still waiting for them.
"General, the governor, the mountain road is rugged, we go back together." The prince looked at them with a smile.
"Your Highness please." Wei Mingyue didn't care about anything, but even nodded and agreed to come down.
When he arrived at the door of Zhongyonghou Mansion, Hualili stood at the door, turned his head to look at the horseback, looked at some solitary prince, and said, "His Royal Highness, will you go back after dinner at the Mansion?"
The host said "Go away after eating" and the guests said "No more", which is basically the standard configuration of civil courtesy.
"The solitary face disturbed me." The prince came down from the horse with a smile on his face.
Obviously, the prince who lived in the palace since childhood did not understand the hypocrisy of folk etiquette.
Seeing that his wife and daughter came back with their prince, Hua Yingting was a little surprised, but she was not afraid. He asked his men to prepare a large table and greeted the prince to take a seat.
"The last time I ate at the same table with His Royal Highness, it was still fifteen years and four months ago." Hua Yingting picked up the tea cup. "Uchiko will not let me drink. I can only give you a cup of tea instead of wine."
"Thank you general."
Hua Yingting took advantage of Wei Mingyue's failure to pay attention, Prince Zhao blinked and whispered: "I'm not afraid of her, but we are men, how can I make the lady angry, right?"
"Yeah." Hua Liuli leaned over and whispered, "If your mother is angry, don't sleep tonight."
"Cough." Hua Yingting coughed dryly, "Prince is here, save face for the father."
The prince smiled and said: "The lonely party didn't hear clearly. What did the master say?"
Hua Liuli raised her eyebrows with a smile, but did not expect the prince to talk like that?
The prince smiled back tenderly.
"How is your boxing practice now?" Hua Yingting separated her daughter, and said to the prince, "At the end of the year, I will only teach the high school swordsmanship for a few months and went to the customs. I wonder if your Highness has fallen?"
"After the general left, the father and the emperor let other people teach the orphan swordsmanship, but those people were not as good as the general." The prince said, "The general is back now. Will he continue to teach students?"
"His Royal Highness can see the end general, but unfortunately the end general has broken his roots on the battlefield, and now he can't even drink wine, let alone carry the knife to move the gun." Hua Yingting sighed regretfully, as if he could no longer be on the battlefield. And sad.
A maid came in with a bowl of soup medicine, Hualili took it, and drank it with a sigh of relief.
The others in the Hua family seem to have become accustomed to Hua Liuli taking medicine, and even his expression has not changed. The prince frowned, but had no position to say anything.
After dinner, Hua Yingting called the prince and asked him to bring a box of things into the palace.
"These are interesting things that will be received in Qinghanzhou in the late Qing Dynasty. His Majesty was interested in them when he was young. After so many years, I don't know if His Majesty's hobbies have changed." Hua Yingting scratched his head. Sorry to give it to your majesty, please ask the crown prince to marry him into the palace. Your majesty always loves you, even if you don't like it, it will be accepted on your face."
"The things sent by the general will be loved by the father and emperor." The entourage behind the prince, Hua Yingting, took the wooden box, and the prince said, "Although the general is not in the capital, your letters with the father and emperor have never been in these years. Break it, this friendship is different from others."
When he was young, he was not sensible and secretly read General Hua's letter to his father. Write everything in the letter, such as how cute and cute your daughter is, how good General Wei is for him, or what kind of food you eat, but unfortunately you can’t bring a cloud to your majesty, which is much more interesting than those of the same kind of please.
When the father emperor found him peeking, he simply showed him the letter generously, and said that General Hua was like a good friend. Later, he learned that General Hua would write back to Beijing every year. The words were simple and witty, and those who read the letter could not help laughing.
General Hua loves mentioning his daughter the most. In his letter, even if the baby girl sneezes, it looks much better than other girls.
The baby girl's hair is better than other people's girls, her eyes are better than other people's girls, her skin is whiter than other people's girls...
So when he first met Hua Liuli, he deliberately lifted the car curtain and glanced at the little girl standing by the palace wall.
The eyes are big and the lips are small. It is indeed more beautiful than the little girl in other people's house, as the general letter says.
"Your Highness." Hua Liuli, who was standing behind Hua Yingting, leaned out her head and smiled at the prince, "Give your Highness carefully, be careful on the way."
"Farewell." The prince smiled at Hua Liuli and turned to leave the house.
Leaving the warm and welcoming room, the prince looked at the street shrouded in the night, and his mood was not too bad. He returned to the palace, handed the flower Yingting to his box, and presented it to his father.
Emperor Changlong opened the wooden box, which contained some strange stones, wood carvings, pottery and other objects. There are also some copybooks of calligraphy, some of which are fakes.
"This court." Emperor Changlong recalled the news that His Majesty wanted to re-establish the prince several decades ago. He was so worried that he didn't want to eat.
When Hua Yingting and Wei Mingyue knew, they found a bunch of gadgets to make him happy. He also told him that if the first emperor wanted to abolish his prince, they would take him with him to escape and never let him be killed by the new prince.
Unexpectedly, in the past few decades, their children are so old.
"I heard that you went out to play with Lord Fushou County last night?" Emperor Changlong played a pottery and looked at the prince with a smile.
"The little girl was outside the customs all the year round, and she hadn't seen the excitement of the capital, so the child minister accompanied her to walk around the city."
"Well." Emperor Changlong nodded. "You treat her like a sister, and you should walk with her in the capital in your spare time and see more."
The prince stared at the candlestick on the wall and said nothing.
Emperor Changlong stuffed the Tao people into the crown prince's hands: "Go back to bed and remember to go up tomorrow."
The prince pinched the ugly Taoren back to the East Palace and placed the Taoren on the table, only to find that Taoren was engraved with a few words.
In the spring of twenty-three years of Changlong, the little girl was handmade.
Rubbing these words, the prince smiled softly.
No wonder Taoren is so ugly, it was originally made by a child.
When washing and changing clothes, a thing is brought out of the clothes. The who was serving picked it up and saw, this was... a bunch of grass?
"Your Highness, can this thing be kept?" the whispered.
The prince took the thing from his hand and stared at it for a while: "You all withdraw."
"Yes." The palace attendants retreated together.
The prince pressed the straw butterfly under the pillow.
When the child grows up, the butterfly is still ugly.
Hua Liuli had a dream, dreaming that she had made a little rabbit for a group of little beauties, but she didn't know why, it was not good at all, and then the Lord Jiamin suddenly appeared and ridiculed her wantonly.
After waking up, Hua Liuli felt that this dream was very unlucky.
Hua Liuli looked sadly at the sunlight outside the window: "The weather is getting warmer. I will go to the Jiamin County Master Play Club."
The author has something to say: Jiamin:? ? What am I doing wrong, do you want to do this to me? !