They were all brothers, not
cardamom, which had been cooked into porridge
. When a white light was slightly raised in the east, Xu Zhiwan and I returned to the camp.
Because of the injury, the two of us looked very embarrassed, a shoulder of blood, a hand of blood, Xu Zhiwan also stained some on the chin. It happened that they were all dressed in light-colored clothes, and at first glance, it was amazing.
Or scary.
Tsao Hsi-liang came up from a distance and wished he could take his eyeballs out of his eyes and stick them on us. He came all the way with his mouth open. We watched helplessly as he drank a few mouthfuls of cool air and fell down again. After coughing a few times, he was stunned with tears and said: Your Highness, didn’t you and Hsu Chih-wan eat raw venison in the woods last night and get covered in blood?
Xu Zhiwan smiled and said to him, “You are paralyzed.” When
his father saw us, he was furious. Mulan was assassinated in the paddock, which he had never thought of. He immediately ordered the arrest of all the guards on patrol last night. All of them were taken to the Department of Punishment and tortured. He ordered them to chase out the black hand behind the scenes. He also ordered the best imperial physician to come to the temple as soon as possible, and all the medicines used should be the best. After
everything was arranged, he turned to me and asked,
“Son, when you were assassinated last night, did you find anything? What was the murder weapon?” “I didn’t find out,” I
said.
“The wound is an arrow wound. It’s just an ordinary arrow. It’s been thrown away by my son.”
The father sighed deeply.
He turned his eyes to Hsu Chih-wan and asked, “Was Hsu assassinated yesterday?” Just
as Hsu Chih-wan was about to speak, I replied, “Hsu and Wei Ling are friends. Last night I saw Wei Ling was sad. I was also going up the mountain to hunt deer. I happened to find someone stabbing my son. The wound on my hand was to save my son.”
His father’s face softened a little, and the look in his eyes at Hsu Chih-wan added a bit of kindness. “What a brave child!” He said in a gentle voice. “I will order the Imperial Physician to treat you well.” “Your Majesty,”
said Hsu Chih-wan with a smile, “this is what I should do.”
Father emperor enjoined two more, after looking at the doctor to come in to cure, then turned around to go out. Not long after he went out, there was a patter of footsteps outside the door, and the door creaked open eagerly, revealing a red and swollen face.
Zhiwan, third brother, I heard.. I heard that last night you went out all night and didn’t come back. It was all Wei Ling’s fault. Wei Ling..
Hsu Chih-wan waved to her gently. Wei Ling came in and sat down next to her obediently. Hsu Chih-wan dipped his handkerchief in the clear water in the basin beside him and wiped the tears from her face. He said to her in a very soft tone, “Wei Ling is good. How can you blame Wei Ling for this? It was just an accident. Wei Ling..”
Wei Ling interrupted Hsu Chih-wan’s offer of consolation. “It’s all my fault, Chih-wan,” he said, pinching the corner of his robe and wiping away his tears. “If I hadn’t cried in the hall last night, you wouldn’t have been reduced to eating raw venison in the woods at night.”
“You like to eat venison, and Wei Ling won’t stop you anymore. In fact, I didn’t forbid you to eat it in the hall yesterday. I just thought that if you could grow a deer in the future, I could give you one, so that we could swim with the deer in the future. That’s not good.”
Then he said eagerly, “I just heard that after you ate raw venison, your stomach and intestines were very uncomfortable and your diarrhea was very serious. Are you better now?”? I brought a lot of cut silks and satins for.. It’s the most suitable use. You take it, and I’ll ask Shang Chin to tell them to cut some more. It’s enough for you and your third brother. The
hall was quiet for a moment. “Wei Ling is really thoughtful,”
Xu Zhiwan said to Wei Ling with a gentle smile. “He’s really a good boy. Who told you that we ate raw venison and had diarrhea?”
Wei Ling wiped away his tears again and said,
“I met Cao Xiliang’s brother just now, and he told me.”
22
When I came out of the temple, it was already daylight. Walking
along the path, the palace maids and guards I met along the way probably knew about my assassination and were not very surprised, but just saluted. I didn’t look around.
Passing a stone wall and turning a corner, he saw the fourth prince, Li Huaiyu, coming towards him.
“Third Brother.” “Just now I heard that my third brother had been assassinated,” said Li Huai-chiao with an arch of his hand. “I was just going to visit him when I happened to meet him here.”
I laughed too. “My father has already called the Imperial Physician to bandage the wound. It’s not deep, and it doesn’t hit the nail on the head. It’s not a big deal.” His eyes fell on his right arm, which was still hanging over his chest, and he said, “How is the fourth brother’s hand?”
Li Huai-jue says with a smile, “It’s still like that. Last month, after I fell off a horse, the Imperial Physician said it would take at least three months to recover. This is only the second month, so I can only rest.”
I said, “Good fortune is where misfortune depends, and misfortune is where good fortune exists.”. The fourth brother has always been good at archery. If he recovers, it must have been you who went up the mountain last night to hunt. Isn’t that a crime for a brother?
Li Huai-chien said with a smile, “Whenever the third brother talks, it always makes people feel like spring breeze.”
I smiled. When I
got back to the hall, Joy came up early and confessed. I waved my hand and said, “It’s not your fault. There’s no need to blame yourself.” After
a short pause, he asked, “Has anyone come to see me today?” “This morning the Second Prince, the Fourth Prince, and the Fifth Princess came to see you,”
said Joy respectfully. “You happened to be away, so they all left again.” “What about the prince?”
I asked.
Joy thought for a moment and said, “The prince’s eunuch came once and asked your Highness how he was.”
Prince. “Your Highness hasn’t had a good night’s sleep,” Joy said
with concern. “You’ve already made your bed. Your Highness is going to rest for a while.”
I walked a few steps into the hall, then stopped. “Your Highness?” Asked Joy? What’s wrong with that?
“Nothing.” “I have some business to attend to,” I said as I walked out of the hall. “There’s no need to follow.” The prince and
I are brothers from childhood to adulthood.
He was not the son of his mother, but he was also the son of his wife. When his father was still the crown prince, the crown princess in his house was not the mother, but the daughter of General Guo of the former Dynasty.
Later, before my father ascended the throne, Guo passed away because of illness, leaving only the crown prince, and my father married my mother. At that time, the prince was only three years old, and his mother had always treated him as her own child. Even after I was born, she did not change this.
Heard that the father emperor and Guo’s feelings are very good, because his mother died early, the father emperor made him crown prince as soon as he ascended the throne.
In terms of affection, we have been brothers and sisters since childhood. In terms of status, the prince has been receiving the education of the crown prince all these years.
I really don’t understand.
The prince’s residence is not far from me, and it is also pointed out by the mother, saying that the two of us must be next to each other because of our love since childhood. Whenever we come out to hunt, we always live closest to each other.
I stepped up and went in. The
hall was unusually quiet, and it was strange that not a single attendant could be found. There is a faint strange smell in the
air, which smells familiar, but I can’t remember what it tastes like.
“Who?” Deep in the
temple, there was a low drink.
I stopped at the door and said, “It’s me, Huai Ding.” The sound of whispering came from the
sleeping hall. A moment later, a hand with sharp joints lifted the curtain, revealing a pale face. Li Chi-ting smiled at me faintly: “Huai, you’re here.”
I looked at him quietly and said nothing. As
he coughed, he strolled out. It was already daylight, but he had not yet tied up his hair, which was only loosely scattered over his shoulders. He was also dressed in a soft robe. He went to the entrance hall and motioned for me to sit down. As he sat down himself, he said in a low voice, “I sent someone to see you in the morning. When I came back, I said you were not here. Is the wound better?” I
didn’t go over. I stood where I was and said, “It’s all right. It’s just a slight injury.” There was a look of relief on
his face, and he said, “That’s all right.” Seeing that I was not moving, he paused and said, “Early this morning, all the attendants were sent out by me. There was no one in the hall, and the reception was not thorough. Don’t take it amiss.”
I looked at him for a moment, then walked slowly over to him and sat down in the chair beside him. “Why do you and my brother have to be so rude?” I asked.
He smiled and said, “That’s right.”
He talked for a while, looking as if he was exhausted, holding his chest and coughing for a long time. It took a long time before he stopped. “I don’t know what’s wrong,” he said with a smile. “I’ve been sick since last night. I’ve been coughing all night. I was still in a trance this morning. I sent the Imperial Physician to see me, but I couldn’t tell what it was. I just wanted to look for rootless grass, which is the most effective way to stop coughing. So early this morning, I sent them to look for it.”
He spoke with a smile and looked straight at his face, just a little helpless. “Last night you were in the temple,” I said.
He nodded and said with a smile, “Where else?”? After dinner last night, I came back to rest and looked at Wei Ling’s nose, which had been crying for a long time. I also lost a new eunuch in my hall who could make paper kites, this little girl.
As he spoke, he put his hand over his mouth and coughed in a low voice. The sleeve of the soft robe slid down the arm. On the exposed right elbow, a blood stain was striking.
He did not notice the exposure of the wound. Seeing me staring at him, he said with a smile, “What’s going on?”? Came here early in the morning, and the whole person is different from usual. Didn’t you get scared last night? “It’s my brother’s fault,”
he added.
I looked up at him.
In the heart faint, a burst of uneasiness, like the tide hit. As
he coughed, he laughed and said, “When we were kids, we grew up together. When you could just walk, you liked to catch my hem.”. He staggered behind me and called me “Brother Ch’i-ting, Brother Ch’i-ting.” At that time you didn’t even have your front teeth together, and you couldn’t enunciate clearly. Good old Brother Ch’i-ting was always called “Qi Ding Guo, Qi Ding Guo,” which provoked the children of the same age around me to call me Qi Ding Guo. I was also young, and when you called me, I was so angry that I didn’t eat pot for a month.
“Then one time you and I followed my father to the Mulan paddock, where I accidentally fell into a trap to catch a roe deer. Do you remember how you did it?” “I took off my belt to reach you,”
I said.
He laughed and said, “Yes, but I’m too weak. Instead of pulling me up, I pulled you down. When I pulled you down, you flapped your feet and even lost your pants.”
“I felt so guilty that I told you I was sorry, and you pretended to be calm and said, ‘It doesn’t matter, brother Huaiding. Brothers don’t thank each other. It’s just that when my father sends someone to save us, can you lend me a pair of trousers to wear first?'”
He laughed for a moment and said, “Do you remember what I said to you at that time?”
“I said, you save me today, and I’ll save you tomorrow. We two brothers will love each other and help each other in the future, so that we won’t get hurt or lose our pants.”
“As a result, you were assassinated yesterday, but I couldn’t save you.” He coughed for a long time, then laughed and said, “That’s not my brother’s fault.”
23
When I returned to my palace, it was already noon.
Far away, I felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the hall.
From the entrance of the hall, winding all the way to the inside of the hall, groups of people kneeling on both sides of the road, trembling on both sides with their heads.
… If Hsu Chih-wan had seen this scene, he would have looked surprised and said, “Your Highness, you are a good man. Look at this battle. There are still a few months to go before the Chinese New Year, and someone has come to pay New Year’s greetings to you so early.”
I shook my head, do not know why, unexpectedly at this time think of Xu Zhiwan, think of her, even her nonsense also think of, it seems that I really did not have a good rest. Suddenly a figure flew out of the
hall. “Your Highness,” said Joy, hurriedly, “you’ve come back! The slave just went out to look for you, but he couldn’t find you anywhere, slave. “What’s the matter?” I asked, interrupting his incoherent speech with my
hand.
Joy wiped the sweat from her forehead and whispered, “Your Majesty..” Here comes the empress.
I sighed. The curtain at the door of the
hall was lifted, and a little maid of honor came running up to me with little steps. She saluted me and said, “Your Highness, the Empress knows that you have come back. I order you to go and see her at once.”
Without waiting for me to open my mouth, the little maid saluted again and said, “The empress also said that she could avoid the first day of the lunar year, but not the fifteenth. If you think she’s too annoying to avoid her, she’ll come to your palace every day to look for you.”. Until you are willing to see her. As soon as
the words came out, the servants who had fallen to their knees raised their heads and looked at me earnestly with burning eyes.
I touched my forehead and said, “All right.”
My mother has had a bad temper for as long as I can remember. Born into a military family,
she had a fierce personality and was said to have gone to war with her grandfather when she was a child, although she later strongly denied this.
But when she was a child, because I was naughty, she coaxed other children in the class to give me up willingly and slapped my buttocks herself.
I’m more inclined to believe she fought in the war. When I
entered the door, the little maid opened the curtain for me. On the front seat was a woman dressed in pale yellow brocade, with her eyebrows raised high. When she saw me coming in, she waved to me and said, “Son, come here and let your mother have a look. Is this wound still serious?”
I said, “It’s not a serious injury, but it’s worth it for my mother to come and make such a big fight.”
She put her teacup on the table with a sneer and said, “I’d like to see who dares to hurt my son!”
I smiled helplessly.
My mother beckoned me to come closer, and she told Aunt Chih-li, who was standing beside her, to examine the wound for me. She took out a small bottle from her sleeve and said to me, “This is a good medicine that your grandfather used when he went to war. It can be applied to remove scars and relieve pain. It’s a pity that the doctor went early and didn’t leave the formula, so my mother left this bottle. Take it back and put it on.”
I said, “I will do exactly what my mother says.”
“That’s right,” she said, raising her phoenix eyes slightly and glancing at me from the corners of her eyes. “I heard that the little goblin of the Hsu family was with you when you were assassinated.”
I have a headache.
… Have long known that this kind of minor injury, in the eyes of the mother is nothing, this time to come, must not just come to see the injury so simple.
I said, “Madam Hsu and my son met by chance on the top of the hill. When the arrow came, she caught it with her hand, so that my son was not seriously injured. She is my son’s benefactor.” The
queen mother snorted and said, “What kind of good people can there be in the Xu family?”? From Hsu ni-yu to the newcomer Hsu Mi, they all looked knowledgeable and reasonable. What was the result? It’s all right for an aunt to be confused all day, but her niece has also followed suit. As soon as she heard the news that the crown prince was going to choose a crown princess, she stuffed her niece over. It’s contemptible. My
heart jumped and I asked, “When the prince chooses his concubine, which niece of the Hsu family will come over?”
Her mother frowned and said, “Who else could it be? Of course it’s that Hsu Mi.”
I breathed a sigh of relief.
My mother looked at my reaction and said, “Why, are you afraid it’s that Xu Zhiwan?”
My mother nodded cheerfully and said, “It’s still my son who loves your second brother. Don’t worry.”
“Although Hsu Chih-wan doesn’t look like Hsu Ni-yu, she’s too crazy. She doesn’t look like a girl. If the Hsu family wants to send her, they have to choose someone who knows the etiquette and rules. Hsu Chih-wan is not qualified.”
My heart sighed, “Mother, you are not qualified to say that others do not look like a girl.”. “I don’t think it’s proper for her to run out in the middle of the night,”
she added. “Although she saved you, she has both merits and demerits. I’ll give her a set of the best four treasures of the study, and let her copy the female precepts a hundred times to me. The rewards and punishments are fair.” With
another snort, he said, “Don’t let her aunt save my son by her niece and show off her power in front of me. I want them to know what the rules are.”
Mother told me a few more words, and when Aunt Zhili checked my wound and told me that it was not a serious injury, she left. As soon as my mother stepped out of the threshold, her attendants followed suit, and when I was about to go out, I called out softly, “Aunt Chih-li.” When
Aunt Chih-li heard my call, she stopped and waited until all the attendants were gone. Then she approached Yili and said, “What do you want from Your Highness?”
I took out a brocade box from the cabinet in the courtyard and gave it to her, saying, “Last time my mother couldn’t sleep well, and she always had a headache. In this box is a tranquilizing incense that I asked someone to bring from the south of the Yangtze River. If you go back and light it for her, it will ease the problem.”
Aunt Chih-li gave me a gentle smile and said, “The third prince has such good filial piety. Why don’t you give it to the empress yourself?”
I said, “It’s just a small thing. It’s not good to do it deliberately.” After a pause, he asked, “How often has the queen mother visited the prince recently?” “The prince is preparing to choose a concubine,” said
Aunt Chi-li. “The empress is busy preparing. She has been very busy these days. She only occasionally goes to see the prince.”
I smiled and said, “That’s all right.” Aunt Zhili smiled and said, “Your Highness, what else is important?”? The queen can’t live without her maidservants. I’m afraid she’ll have to go. “Just now my mother said she was going to give Hsu a set of the four treasures of the study,”
I replied. “I happen to have one right here. I got it on my birthday last year, and I don’t need it. My aunt usually has to help my mother take care of all these things. Why don’t I ask Joy to give Hsu these four treasures of the study, and then send her a decree, so that my aunt won’t have to worry about it?”
Aunt Zhili thought for a moment and said with a smile, “In that case, the maidservant would like to thank Your Highness.” After
Aunt Chi-li left, Joy scratched her head and said to me, “Your Highness, how can I remember that you didn’t receive a gift from the four treasures of the study on your birthday last year?”
I picked up a book and said, “You remember correctly, I don’t have such a gift.”
Joy scratched her head again and said, “So this is your decree.”
I said, “There’s no need to pass on the decree. You can go and find a set of female precepts and make a good inkstone for me.”
Joy’s eyes widened. “Your Highness …” You. What are you.. When I
wrote the last word on the paper, I put down my pen and rubbed my hands.
It was already evening, and a thin moon was hanging on the branches.
I loosened my shoulder and it hurts. When I was writing, I couldn’t move because my shoulder was injured. It was very tiring to write with my arm hanging all afternoon, so I took a break, put down my pen and walked out.
Mulan’s paddock was surrounded by hills, and although there were no wild animals near her residence, there were also bushes and sparse birds. I walked to a small hill nearby, where a few bamboos were hidden, and the evening breeze blew, combing a few wisps of coolness, but it was very pleasant.
“Is your Highness also here to watch the fun?” The sound of an urn sounded at his feet. Startled,
I looked down and saw Xu Zhiwan squatting on the edge of a big stone on the ground.
Because it was dark, she was wearing a dark dress, and suddenly she could not see that there was a person squatting here.
“What are you doing lying here at night?”
Hsu Chih-wan said, What party? I’m squatting, okay? Lying on my stomach sounds like a toad. Then he waved to me and said, “Come, come quickly. There is something good here.”
I squatted down with her, and she lifted a curtain of thin bamboos in front of her eyes with her hands and said, “Look.”
Bamboo leaves fly, opposite the big sycamore tree, weaving two shadows in the moonlight, looking like a man and a woman, standing very close, but silent, and do not speak.
I said, “Xu Zhiwan, are you peeking at other people’s dates here?”
Hsu Chih-wan tutted and said in a low voice, “What are you peeking at? It’s broad daylight. It’s not good for them to go somewhere for a date. They have to come here. If it’s really shameful, they can find a quiet corner.”
But he had to play with elegance and go to this public place. Now that you’ve come to this public place and been seen, it’s not a peep. I said they let me watch it on purpose. Are you right?
……… I was wrong to argue
with Xu Zhiwan. Before
she had finished her long speech, there was a sound in a trance across the wind, and the pair of elegant little Mandarin ducks standing under the sycamore tree spoke.
A male voice said, … I am sorry for you.
The woman said, “Stop talking. I know. This is not something you can control.”
The man said, “No, I’m useless. I can only watch you.” Looking at you..
The man seemed to be unable to go on and punched the tree, shaking the leaves. The woman pounced on him, took his hand, and said, “Why do you bother?” With that, the two shadows under the tree were woven together, and the two men hugged each other and cried out. “Don’t cry yet,” whis
pered Hsu Chih-wan. “What on earth are you watching her for?” The
two of them hugged each other and cried for a long time, as if they were tired. The shadow of the woman leaned on the shadow of the man, and the man straightened her up and looked at her from a distance, as if they were looking at each other affectionately. “In my experience,”
says Hsu Chih-wan, “I’m afraid this man is thinking about what to say.” As soon as
her voice fell, the man slowly lowered his head, and the shadows on the ground changed from a pair to one, and they kissed like glue in the moonlight.
I turned my gaze from the pair of Mandarin ducks back to Hsu Chih-wan’s face. After a moment of deliberation, I asked, “You just said that according to your experience, what experience do you have on this?”
Hsu Chih-wan watched the pair of Mandarin ducks kissing each other with great interest. Without looking back, he said to me, “Ah, I’ve had a lot of experience with this kind of thing.”
My heart suddenly sank.
She then patted me on the shoulder and said, “I have a lot of these storybooks, which are full of stories about these gifted scholars and beautiful women. I’ll bring you some next time, so that you can have a long experience.”
She was talking here, but the situation over there began to go wrong. The man kissed for a long time, let go of the woman, and looked at her affectionately. He put his hand on the woman’s shoulder and moved down inch by inch. The shadow was pulled out of a long strip. The man untied the woman’s belt and took off her robe.
I reached out to brush a pull Xu Zhiwan, the other hand quickly covered her eyes.
Hsu Chih-wan said, “Ah, ah, ah, what are you doing? Let go of me. Let go of me. The show is just beginning.”
She clung to my hand, kicked under her feet, kicked off a broken stone, and fell down with a heavy sound.
Let’s stay together. Looking back
, the pair of miserable Mandarin ducks seemed to be startled by the loud noise. The woman quickly put on her robe, and the man hurriedly straightened out his skirt. They ran out quickly from under the tree.
We were in a daze again.
Just a stay, is a surprise, this stay, is a scare.
Just because the two Mandarin ducks running out from under the tree had just hidden at the bottom of the tree, their voices were so vague that they could not be heard clearly, and they did not recognize them. Now they ran out, and when the moonlight shone, they found that they were acquaintances. Li Huaiyu, the
fourth prince, and Xu Mi, who nearly shot the prince the day before yesterday.
Hsu Chih-wan turned to me in a daze and said, “I’m not dreaming, am I?”
Record No.: YX01zwpMEkpMOORRK The place
you want to bring me is the brothel?
Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
for a long time
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