Chapter 73 The Royal Garden (Part 2)
Liu Yixuan asked Zhujian to bring a message to Ling'er and wanted to meet her in the Imperial Garden. However, the Zhujian girl turned a few corridors and disappeared. Liu Yixuan had to wait quietly behind the rockery, which was rarely visited.
In order not to be caught by the patrolling eunuch on duty, Liu Yixuan had to hide and dodge again, sometimes curled up in the stone cave and sometimes hid in the bamboo forest. After a wave of guarding soldiers, he dared to come out to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the imperial garden.
It was midsummer, and the Royal Garden was indeed charming! I saw bamboo forests, elm willows are shaded, flowers and trees are flourishing, and bees and butterflies are gathered. Willow branches gently caress the water surface, causing rippling waves; wisteria climbed up the corridor and brought a wave of faint fragrance. The Taihu stone transported from the south of the Yangtze River is rugged and thin; the peony flowers transplanted in Luoyang are full of fragrance. Within the high walls, there is a holy land; the royal backyard is full of scenery. Spring is full of the three colors of the Yaotai, and the rhyme is longer than the Penglai flavor!
Liu Yixuan looked at the scenery of the garden and was fascinated. He sighed in his heart: "It's indeed an imperial family, with the most luxurious world. Song Huizong is not good at being an emperor, so he is good at doing this garden art! Alas, it's just a pity that such a beautiful garden will not be too long!"
While sighing, he felt someone patting his shoulder gently on the back. Liu Yixuan was shocked and quickly turned around to look.
"who!"
"Brother Xuan, it's me!"
Liu Yixuan looked carefully and was stunned by the beauty in front of her. She saw her brunette purple gauze covering her delicate jade body, and her head was full of agate and pearls and jade, decorated with blue hair. The jade snow skin was just like the lotus just coming out of the water; she was shy and silent, like the bright moon in the Xiangjiang River. Two eyebrows were like the fine willows in the spring; a pair of autumn water was like the deep pool of the nine moon. It was not that the Nine Heavens Fairy came to the world, but that Chang'e had a wide cold in the moon!
This beauty is no one else, she is the 35th daughter of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty - Princess Yuling. Liu Yixuan usually sees Ling'er in a man's clothing or a simple and elegant body. He doesn't want to see her suddenly in a gorgeous and prosperous pearl and treasure spirit today, but he doesn't know her anymore. He stares in daze and is silent for a long time.
"Brother Xuan, don't you know me anymore?" Ling'er saw him in a daze and asked him with her head tilted.
"Ling... Ling'er, where did you get your clothes? Why didn't I see you wearing them?" Liu Yixuan then realized and was busy talking to her.
"This is the clothes my mother made for me. I don't wear them very much on weekdays, so you haven't seen them before. But today..." Ling'er lowered her head, her face turned slightly red, and she wanted to speak but stopped.
Seeing her like this, Liu Yixuan naturally understood her thoughts, but at this moment he was full of conflicts and didn't know how to deal with this marriage that fell from the sky. He hurriedly asked again: "Ling'er, the Empress Dowager called my father here today, saying that she wanted to discuss what kind of marriage. I heard that your mother wants to marry you... to me, do you know?"
After hearing this, Ling'er looked even more shy. The previous blush spread rapidly on her cheeks. She quickly turned around and said softly: "This...I...I don't know."
Liu Yixuan gently turned Ling'er's shoulder and saw a shallow dimples on her red face. The girlish shyness was like the budding peonies in the garden. Under the neat bangs, there were bright eyes. The pure eyes were like the spring water just pouring out of the mountains and forests, without any impurities. When Liu Yixuan saw this beautiful sister, she really didn't know whether she should say the next words. He really couldn't bear to hurt Ling'er, even if it was a little bit, but fate was like this. He and she were not born in the same time and space.
Liu Yixuan currently has only two choices. First, reject this marriage, find the time and space secret in the damn "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" as soon as possible, endure the huge pain of separation from Ling'er, return to the campus in the 21st century, and return to the side of Beijing parents. Second, accept Ling'er, spend the rest of her life with Ling'er, and spend the rest of her life. Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, she had to spend this turbulent time with her.
These two choices deeply torture Liu Yixuan's heart at this time, and he really couldn't make a decision. Liu Yixuan couldn't forget his parents who were nine hundred years later. They only had a child like himself. After working hard for more than 20 years, they disappeared overnight. How heartbroken should they be? Liu Yixuan wished he could be killed by a car on the streets of Beijing, so that he could leave his parents with compensation to support them for their elderly care. But he completed the time travel while reading the painting in the warehouse. It is hard to say whether the painting is still in the warehouse. If the Palace Museum found that the painting was missing, it would inevitably cause trouble for his parents. Not only did he not repay their nurturing grace, but he also left such a big trouble for them after traveling through time. He was really inferior to the beast!
In this way, should we find the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" as soon as possible, and understand the mystery, so as to return to the 21st century? Liu Yixuan has never cut off this idea since the first day he came to the Northern Song Dynasty. After all, he is a modern man in the 21st century. How could he be willing to stay in this backward feudal Song Dynasty? Before he met Ling'er, he was thinking about how to go back, but when he met Ling'er, everything was slowly changing.
He fell in love with Ling'er, whether he admitted it or not, it was already a fact; Ling'er wanted to choose him as the prince consort, whether he wanted it or not, it would also become a fact. If he rejected Ling'er at this time and asked the queen mother to take it back, then what was waiting for him would be his inner pain and the queen mother's resentment. Perhaps Ling'er would be sad for a while, maybe it would be a long time. After that, the queen mother would still choose a genuine Northern Song Dynasty prince consort for him among the princes and ministers. If so, he and Ling'er would never meet again. Ling'er could go through his life with a man who could accompany him until old age, and he could also find the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" with peace of mind, and leave the Northern Song Dynasty, which had never had any concerns. As for the "shame of Jingkang" Qin Hui and Yue Fei, how did he write it in the history textbook?
Liu Yixuan struggled in pain, not having enough courage to make his own choice. He hated this time travel arrangement that fate had given him. He fell into the most painful choice in his life and could not come up with the answer for a long time...
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Chapter completed!