The father-in-law who led the way took Lu Heng and the two to the imperial garden, and then stopped for a moment.
"After entering the door, you will find the Imperial Garden. Go forward a hundred feet along the road and you will find Lanruo Pavilion. Your Majesty is waiting for you inside!" The father-in-law held a whisk in his hand and bowed down to Lu Heng humbly and respectfully.
"Thank you so much, father-in-law!" Lu Heng smiled, took out a hundred taels of silver note from his sleeve, and said that he was about to give it to the father-in-law.
"Oh, sir, please don't do this!" When the father-in-law saw the banknote, instead of showing joy, he still had a look of fear on his face. After taking a step back, he quickly waved his hand and refused: "Even if you are brave enough,
I don’t dare to take your money!”
After saying this, the father-in-law left quickly, leaving Lu Heng and Agui looking at each other.
"I heard that all eunuchs like money, but this father-in-law seems to be quite decent!" Agui asked in confusion, holding a bundle of papers in his arms.
"It's hard to collect money from some people!" Lu Heng smiled, and after looking away, he put the one hundred taels of silver notes back into his sleeves, patted Agui on the shoulder and said, "Come on, let's go in.
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At this time, it was early March, and the weather was warm, and the imperial garden was a prosperous scene of flowers.
The red clouds and green smoke that enter the eyes cover the intoxication. Colorful bees and butterflies fly among the flowers. Occasionally, the laughter of the palace maids comes, but they are covered by the red clouds and green smoke, and the beautiful shadows are missing.
In the Imperial Garden, there are rockeries, strange rocks, water pavilions and pavilions. Walk along the arch bridge in the center of the lake, and you will see the clear water under the bridge. In the lake, brightly colored goldfish swim gently in the lake.
The wind blows, and the lotus blooming in the clear water sways gently. The plump lotus petals and crystal water drops are shining brightly.
Looking up, I saw in front of the arch bridge a bejeweled woman wearing a golden and luxurious dress with cloud-like hair. She was straddling the railing diagonally, holding a bamboo basket in her hand and scattering fish into the lake.
Food.
Below her, in the clear water of the lake, a group of golden fish gathered there. Every time the woman raised her hand, fish food fell down, and the fish below would be particularly playful.
Here, the sun is shining brightly and the lake is clear. The lake surface is sparkling and sparkling. A woman in an elegant and luxurious dress sits there quietly, with a smile on her lips, concentrating on watching the swarms of small fish swimming below.
The sunlight refracted by the lake water shines on her body, passing through the golden dress and the golden hairpin and jade pendant in her bun, decorating this woman like the fairy mother of Yaochi.
Graceful and dignified.
However, the corners of her mouth, sometimes pouting and sometimes smiling, still added a touch of human beauty to this woman.
Hehe, she is a royal princess after all, tsk tsk, what she wears is worth her money.
Lu Heng stood on the arch bridge, leaning against the bridge pillar and holding his chin in one hand, looking quietly at the noble woman in front of him, smacking his lips, and praised like this.
Perhaps because of her clothes, she gave this woman an aura that could be viewed from a distance but not disturbed. Therefore, Lu Heng stood there, leaning against the railing, quietly closing her eyes, but did not speak to her.
"I can call every fish in this lake by name!" Princess Ankang said with a smile while spreading fish food into the lake.
"Here, that golden one!" Princess Ankang sprinkled the few fish food left in her hand into the lake water like a fairy scattering flowers, patted her jade-like palms, stretched out her slender jade fingers, and pointed at that
One of the fish chuckled and said: "Her name is Jinlin!"
"And the blue one, I call her Youmeng!"
"Yes, there is also a red one, called Hongyun!"
Princess Ankang pointed to the goldfish swimming in the lake, identifying them one by one, with a smile on her lips, very innocent and warm.
"So, where's the white one?" Lu Heng walked over, stood side by side with Princess Ankang, pointed at the lazy, motionless white fish, and asked curiously.
"She's sick!" Princess Ankang's smile disappeared and she said with a somewhat sad expression.
"I'm sorry!" Lu Heng realized that he had made a mistake and quickly apologized.
Princess Ankang smiled and shook her head slightly.
"You have a good memory to remember so much!" Lu Heng looked at the small fish swimming in the lake, turned his head and teased Princess Ankang.
"Oh, I have read it for more than 20 years, how can I not remember it?" Princess Ankang sighed, looking a little helpless.
Hearing this, Lu Heng turned his head and looked at Princess Ankang, who was leaning on the railing with her chin gently on her palm and her eyes long, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
The warm wind blew, and Princess Ankang, who was lying gently on the railing, smiled softly. The hair hanging on her cheeks danced with the wind. It was as romantic and beautiful as a cartoon.
"I'm getting married!" Princess Ankang smiled, straightened up, looked at Lu Heng upright, and smiled with difficulty.
"Aren't you already married? No, who are you marrying?" Lu Heng knew the past of Princess Ankang. At this time, Princess Ankang said that she was going to get married. She didn't turn around for a while and blurted out. However, as soon as the words came out, she blurted out.
I found something seemed wrong.
Princess Ankang had been married a long time ago. However, this matter was a pity among the people of the Zhou Dynasty. At that time, Princess Ankang was fourteen years old, and she was very beautiful and beautiful. At that time, Princess Ankang was married.
, everyone in the palace, except the queen, loves her extremely.
On her birthday when she was fourteen years old, the queen suddenly proposed marriage to the emperor at the birthday party for the son of the current father-in-law, who was the queen's nephew.
At that time, the emperor still needed the queen's power to maintain the balance of the various factions in the Zhou Dynasty. At this time, when the queen suddenly mentioned this matter, although he was reluctant, he could only agree.
So, under Princess Ankang's crying pleas, the emperor was cruel and issued the imperial edict granting marriage.
The fourteen-year-old Princess Ankang just married into the Wang family.
However, maybe God took pity on this little girl who lost her mother at an early age, or maybe God didn't open her eyes. In the fifth year after Ankang married into the Wang family, her husband died in a brothel because he went out for prostitution.
By that time, the queen had passed away. Therefore, the power of the relatives' faction began to shrink sharply under the emperor's years of suppression. After hearing this, the emperor was furious. With an imperial edict, more than a dozen members of the Wang family were sent to the guillotine. The crime was:
, disrespectful of etiquette and law, and contemptuous of imperial authority.
After the royal family suffered heavy losses, Princess Ankang, the widow of the royal family, was taken into the palace by the emperor.
Perhaps the emperor was suffering from the guilt he felt back then. Over the years, he was completely obedient to Princess Ankang and agreed to almost all conditions.
However, precisely because of the emperor's indulgence and connivance, the disheartened Princess Ankang began to become a little unruly.
Originally, the pure royal golden branch has become a famous lady in Tokyo.
After so many years, Princess Ankang seems to have become accustomed to the strange looks from the people around her. Well, at least, these people still have to kneel down when she appears in front of them.
except him!
Princess Ankang raised her head and looked in front of her with a serious look on her face. She quickly waved her hand to explain, smiled softly, and turned her eyes to the side.
"I heard from my father that he is King Gesar of Tibet!" Princess Ankang took out a handful of small beans from her sleeve, and then threw them into the water one by one.
In the lake under the bridge, small splashes of water were splashing. Ding dong ding dong.
"Sounds like he must be a very powerful person!" Although Princess Ankang was smiling, this expression was a bit difficult for Lu Heng to see.
"Do you like it?" Lu Heng turned his head, glanced at Princess Ankang, and looked at the bright spring scenery ahead, with red clouds and green smoke, and asked lightly.
Princess Ankang did not answer him directly, but smiled, threw a bean into the water, watched the fish in the lake scatter in panic, and said with a smile: "Father needs reinforcements from Tibet!"
"That means you don't like it anymore?" Lu Heng looked at her and asked calmly.
"So what if you like it, so what if you don't like it?" Princess Ankang made a funny look, tilted her head and looked at Lu Heng.
This kind of conversation makes people feel a little depressed and difficult to relieve themselves.
Suddenly, Lu Heng felt like smoking a cigarette.
However, after touching his pockets and looking at his current gown, Lu Heng smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Without cigarettes, I can only pluck a grass branch from the ground and hold it in my mouth to satisfy my cravings
The fresh scent of grass and trees made Lu Heng's mind feel much clearer after being exposed to the sun for a long time.
"Marry him if you like him, reject him if you don't like him!" Lu Heng held the grass branch in his mouth, thought about it, and said vaguely.
When Princess Ankang heard this, the cunning smile on her face disappeared. She looked at the life in front of her leisurely and sighed slightly.
Looking ahead at the palace ladies laughing among the flowers, he sighed and said: "If everything was so simple to tell you, I wouldn't know how to do it back then."
"It was like this back then, and it is like this now!" Princess Ankang looked away with a wry smile and turned her head away firmly.
However, Lu Heng, who was watching her from the side, clearly saw a teardrop slipping down the moment she turned her head.
"It was like that back then, but it's not necessarily the case now!" Lu Heng smiled, straightened up, patted the dust on his sleeves, looked at Princess Ankang and said, "Okay, I'm leaving, your father is still waiting.
And me!"
"Jiheng!"
Behind her, Princess Ankang hesitated for a moment and finally shouted.
Ahead, the student who had walked far away stopped, turned his head, and looked at her with a smile.
"The wedding day!"
Princess Ankang's beautiful eyes sparkled with tears. She raised her sleeves to wipe them away. She looked at the distant voice bathing in her eyes with a smile and asked with a charming smile: "Will you send me off?"