Chapter 404

The two men walked along the side of the river with a small number of people. The evening wind in early spring was still cold, but the willows had sprouted new buds and showed new green in the gentle spring wind. In the distance, lanterns were lit one by one, like stars, and the smell of food came from the air. Lin Yao raised his face slightly, pointed to the lanterns floating across the river and said with a smile, "when I was a child, ah Xuan and I often went to the river to put lanterns."

Huo Yan gave a faint "um" sound. Although he didn't say anything, he stood there and looked down her fingers. Lin Yao added, "it seems that someone is performing monkey opera there. Let's go and have a look."

What's funny about monkeys? There is also a "beast garden" in King Wei's house. There are not only monkeys, but also lions, tigers, elephants and boas. Isn't it much more fun than monkeys? What's the fun of watching monkeys in this broken place?

However, Huo Yan heard a "um" sound in his throat and walked in the direction of her fingers.

Oh, just look.

Someone is really performing monkey play by the bridge. The monkey is small and clever. It is covered with golden soft hair and looks very cute. Lin Yao has no immunity to fluffy things from urination. Even if he excitedly led Huo Yan to run over, Huo Yan was led by her to take a big step to keep up with her. On the one hand, he thought that just now you can't keep up or don't want to keep up.

What's good? Isn't it just a broken monkey?

Although the little golden monkey is small, its movements are quite clever. It constantly makes various actions according to the monkey player's password, somersault, climb the pole, and throw the ball by bike. The most interesting thing is that it also imitates human appearance and puts on human clothes. The champion imitates human appearance and makes all kinds of funny actions, which makes passers-by laugh.

Huo Yan glanced and snorted with disdain. What's good to see?

Lin Yao looked at the little monkey, clapping his hands and laughing. He was very happy. After the performance of the little golden monkey, the human model carried a tray around like a human to beg for reward. The spectators were also generous. In a moment, the plate was full of copper money.

The little monkey carried the tray to Lin Yao and made a bow. Lin Yao smiled and took two golden melon seeds from the embroidery bag and put them in the tray. The golden melon seeds were specially sent to her by housekeeper Chen. Because it was convenient to carry, she put a few in the embroidery bag. Unexpectedly, they came in handy.

Although the golden monkey is human, it is not human after all. It only knows the copper money it has seen in ordinary days, but has never seen golden melon seeds. It still stands in front of Lin Yao and asks for a reward from her. The people around him laughed, and Lin Yao looked a little embarrassed. The monkey player quickly came to thank him for his reward, and ordered the little golden monkey to perform a set of boxing. Under the guidance of the monkey player, Lin Yao boldly touched the head of the little golden monkey. It felt fluffy. It was so cute.

Huo Yan has been watching coldly, but da Zhang has been holding her hand. What's funny in his heart? A broken monkey makes you laugh like a fool. It's boring and boring.

But since she liked it, he could hardly bear to look at these boring things.

Until the people around them gradually dispersed, they walked back slowly along the river. There were fewer people on the road, and only their shadows were left around the open space, moving forward slowly hand in hand.

If you can go on like this

palace.

It was already two o'clock after emperor Huo Zheng finished his official duties. He leaned back on the chair in the Qianqing palace, took a long sigh of relief, and gently rubbed his temples with his fingers.

Wang Desheng, the eunuch's general manager, ordered someone to pour a cup of tea and serve it to the emperor. He asked carefully, "Your Majesty lost sleep again last night?"

The emperor was noncommittal.

From this point of view, Wang Desheng clearly saw that the emperor's face suddenly took a little fierce, even ferocious expression. He quickly lowered his head, bowed his body, looked at his nose, nose and heart, and maintained a humble posture. I hope not to annoy the emperor when he is in a bad mood.

Wang Desheng has been in the Daming Palace for 20 years. From a humble little eunuch, the Royal Horse supervisor, to the eunuch in charge of the beautiful palace, he thinks that no one can surpass his right ability to figure out people's hearts. Both the emperor and the queen Shen believe in him very much, but Wang Desheng can't figure out the heart of the young emperor, who is known as "benevolent, generous and harmonious".

"Bring the wine," he said faintly.

Wang Desheng carefully agreed. Thinking about what Xiao RongZi had just said, he could only harden his head and persuade him: "Your Majesty, do you drive Hanyuan hall today? Where is the imperial concubine..."

Huo Zheng glanced at him faintly, and Wang Desheng quickly knelt down with his fierce eyes. What can he do? Less than half a year after Zhao Guifei's death, the emperor fell in love with Miss Yuwen, who was newly admitted to the palace. Within a year, she was sealed as the imperial concubine. Now she is the imperial concubine below one person and above ten thousand people in the imperial palace. Now imperial concubine Yuwen is angry with her majesty. Xiaorongzi, the palace maid beside the imperial concubine, asks him to help persuade the emperor to have a look at Hanyuan hall. Does he have the courage to refuse?

But there promised the imperial concubine, which made the emperor unhappy. It was really embarrassing. Wang Desheng is really depressed.

"Get out!" his majesty looked at Wang Desheng trembling on the ground and gently pulled the corners of his mouth.

He was the only one left. Huo Zheng sat alone in the soft chair of the Qianqing palace, looking out the window at the dark night sky and drinking himself. Looking at the floating stars in the sky, the corners of his mouth coagulated slightly. He is waiting for someone, but the person he wants to wait for is obviously not yuwenqi.

A faint fragrance came from behind. Huo Zheng turned slightly, looked at the slim figure in black and smiled, "you're coming."

The man slowly took off his cloak and the black veil covering his face, revealing a beautiful face: "Your Majesty asked me to come, how can I not come?"

Huo Zheng smiled and looked around her until he could see some annoyance on the face. Huo Zheng's lips were slightly Yang and said with a sneer: "why can't I even see it now?"

"You are still the imperial concubine of our rear palace, concubine AI." Huo Zheng's smile was like a feather gently stirred by the woman's appreciation. The woman bowed her head and said slowly: "Your Majesty asked me to come, you don't just want to tell me this."

Huo Zheng laughed. His dark eyes were full of color, and the woman was stunned. In fact, the two brothers are not very similar in appearance. Huo Zheng's appearance is more like a handsome and gentle son, while Huo Yan is a handsome young general. They are very rare beautiful men with very different temperament, but only a pair of eyes are very similar.

"I'm serious. It's still time for you to regret now." Huo Zheng got up and stepped to her side, slowly leaned in her ear, and his tone was unspeakable ambiguous.

The woman's face showed the color of shame and anger, gently bit her lower lip and said nothing. Huo Yan stared at her still beautiful face: "do you think he still likes you?"

"Now there is another woman beside him. Speaking of her appearance, she looks like you. She looks soft and weak, but I think she is no higher than you. Huo Zheng looks at her with a smile, and his words are obviously sarcastic.

The woman sneered: "I don't know." they used to depend on each other in such a difficult environment. She can be sure that Huo Yan will only love her in this life. Even if there are other women, they are just her substitute. She has this confidence.

"If your majesty continues to trap me, maybe in a few years, his Highness the king of Wei will have a lot of wives and concubines, and I'm afraid I'll become a useless abandoned son." the woman said faintly: "besides, your majesty can't keep me now. Your Majesty's imperial concubine Yuwen is jealous of haishengbo now. Are you sure you can still keep me?"

Huo Zheng slowly took a sip of wine and was noncommittal about her words. The woman was finally a little impatient. She hung her eyes and said, "whatever your majesty wants, I'll leave first. Your majesty, drink slowly."

Huo Zheng suddenly stretched out his hand to her. The woman was slightly surprised and subconsciously avoided, but found that his fingers were just scratching. Huo Yan Qingjun's face showed a sneer: "don't I do what I want? What does Aifei hide?"

The woman had already changed her mind. She couldn't wait to see Huo Yan, but she didn't show her face.

The woman lowered her eyes and said nothing.

"If he knew you were alive, he would be very surprised." Huo Zheng gently rubbed the gilded wine lamp and said carelessly, "I'll give my good brother a big gift."

The woman was Wen xueluo who "died" in the fire of Jiexing building three years ago. Wen xueluo looked happy when she heard the speech and bent her knees to huozheng: "thank you, your majesty."

Of course, she is willing to return to Huo Yan, but without Huo Zheng's consent, she can neither escape from this deep palace nor find a reasonable excuse for her "death" three years ago.

Wen xueluo has always been dissatisfied with her fate. She was born in the government house, but she was despised because of her biological mother's status as a prostitute. She was obviously very talented and intelligent, but she was bound by her status as a concubine and bowed before her first mother and second sister. Even her marriage was lower than her own legitimate sister. The legitimate younger sister can marry the noble son of the Marquis as a regular wife, but she can only marry a common son of the same origin. If you don't want to, you can only marry into the government house that is 20 years older than her, and the stepson and stepdaughter are even older than her.

She would rather die than accept such a fate! Wen xueluo secretly vowed that sooner or later she would let her mother and sister kneel at her feet, servile to her and serve her in fear.

She got the news that the prince was about to arrive at the Duke of Wen in white dragon fish clothes. Naturally, her legitimate mother and sister would not disclose this news to her. They were afraid that she would steal the limelight from her legitimate sister. Wen xueluo disdains it. The Wen family wants to marry their legitimate sister into the east palace as a concubine, but will the spoiled fool know what men like?

On that day, her first sister, Wen Biyu, was dressed up and nervously accompanied the prince like a dull puppet doll. Wen xueluo was wearing plain clothes and light makeup. She came singing on the lake. The young girl in green clothes who came in the sun was smart and almost unlike ordinary people, and instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Wen xueluo smiled and gracefully blessed the prince. At the moment when her eyes intersected, she had seen the appreciation from the prince's eyes. She was sure that the prince had taken a fancy to her. Her mother's eyes almost burned a hole in her body, and Wen xueluo smiled calmly.

Blame them for their stupidity. Wen xueluo set foot on the boat again and walked away.