Li Huang

"Don't worry, miss." She looked at the pattern, "Master will like it."

I smiled and drank the fragrant slices served by Xinlan.

As the night darkened, I thought that the banquet over there should also begin, and ordered Haoyue to pass. I picked a pink top-quality silk shirt for her, and asked her to explain what she said. The important thing is to make my father and brother believe that I am good in the palace and that the emperor treats me well. Don't worry about me.

Haoyue carefully repeated what I taught, and carefully took the long box containing the embroidered gilt ebony colored cloud carving and left.

Not long after Haoyue left, I also withdrew the maid in Kunning Palace, and found the white dance clothes I brought when I entered the palace from the suitcase. This is what my father asked my third brother to make from Jiangnan when I first learned to grow up silk dance. The fine white ice silk was used to embroider hibiscus all over the corners of the skirt with a rare silver thread that was slightly blue. There are also delicate patterns on his long sleeves, and hibiscus flowers appear when they dance.

When I wore it on and danced for my father and brother for the first time, my eldest brother once said it was like a human being. But since then, my father stopped letting me dance. I quietly asked Haoyue to put this skirt into her parcel when I entered the palace.

Tonight, I will put on this dress for him and dance the long silk dance again. For him and for myself.

I walked out of Kunning Palace carefully, taking advantage of the bright moonlight and walking on the long palace road. Tonight, the emperor feasted Ling Hongjian, the eldest son of the Ling family. Almost all the civil and military officials and the favored concubines went there. The guards in the imperial city were again in charge of King Yu, so they were slightly loose at this time.

I came to Yanbo Pavilion without meeting anyone. He had been waiting there, with his back to me, wearing white clothes to win snow.

I stopped and stood outside Yanbo Pavilion looking at his tall and straight figure, thinking that maybe this was the last time I wanted to see him, and I felt a little sad. Set my mind, took a step forward, "The prince is so early, is the banquet over there over?"

He turned around, the bright moonlight shone on him, and the white brocade casual clothes reflected the soft and cold light. It's just that his expression is not as smiling as I thought, and his brows are slightly worried.

I put away my smile and looked at him with concern, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

He smiled faintly, "Nothing. I received the report this morning, and the Turks were harassing my southwest border again. This time the scale is very large. The emperor asked me to discuss and hope that I will come to calm the chaos."

My heart was twitched, "Is it serious?"

"This king is not afraid of his fierce coming, this king..." He did not go on, staring at the calm water of West Lake, and sighed softly.

I bit my lip and walked behind him with a gentle smile, "Don't worry, I believe you will be able to triumph."

He turned to look at me, his eyes gleaming, "Can you promise me one thing?"

"Lord, please speak."

He paused, "If I can triumph as I wish this time, I want to ask the emperor to give me a full concubine, would you?"

I was shocked, my heart was ups and downs, and it took a long time to settle down, but I didn't know how to answer, my eyes flickered.

He looked at me fixedly for a while, "It seems that this king is self-satisfied, I hope the girl doesn't mind. What I said just now is just as if I haven't said it."

He smiled to himself, but I could see the disappointment in that smile, and my heart was upset.

In a hurry, I grabbed the corner of his sleeve, "No, Lord, it's not..."

His eyes immediately brightened, "So you agree? The emperor brother, let me say, don't worry."

I watched him smile happily, but my heart was so bitter. I know that if King Yu and the emperor want any concubine, the emperor will most likely allow it, but I am not a concubine, nor a daughter of anyone else.

I shook my head slightly, and did not answer him directly, "Master, I am waiting for the good news of your triumph."

He looked diagonally down, thought for a long time, nodded, then looked up at me, "Trust me, it must be triumphant."

I also nodded, "I believe it!"

We stood facing the lake without talking to each other, but we seemed to talk for a long time in our hearts. Watching the moon rise to the top of the sky, I turned my head to look at him, "Who would you like to go to a place with me?"

"Okay."

I laughed, turned and left. Knowing that he is behind, I am not afraid even if the road ahead is dark.

That was what I accidentally saw when I passed the Royal Garden in the morning-the altar set up by the emperor to pray for the safety of the Queen Mother. It can be used to make me dance that long silk dance.

The sleeves of the long silk dance are one foot long, so you can dance only when you dance on a high platform, which gives you a sense of elegance and agility.

There is a two-story pavilion not far from the high platform, which was used by the first emperor to view the Feilong Pond from a distance, but now Emperor Zhangxuan seems to prefer to watch directly on the Qifeng platform. Here, like the Yanbo Pavilion, few people came, let alone such a night.

I brought Wang Yu to the pavilion, he looked at me in surprise, smiled and said, "How do you know this Furong Terrace?"

It was my turn to be surprised, "Furong Terrace?"

"Yes, this is the place where my mother and concubine met the father for the first time." He smiled faintly, his eyes blurred.

I was even more surprised, because although King Yu was born by the first Emperor Quan Guifei, Queen Quan gave birth to Queen Yu, but due to the toxic decoction, the blood collapsed, leaving Wang Yu, who was still in her infancy, dead. The king was raised by the queen mother, so he has a very good relationship with the emperor. But how could he know about his biological mother so clearly? If you want to come, there must be a hidden feeling behind it, so it is not appropriate to ask deeply.

I smiled, "Master, I want to give you something."

He looked at me with interest. I looked at his bright eyes, and there was a woman in white inside, who looked like a fairy in the night breeze.

Before I went out tonight, I applied a thin powder made of several fragrant flowers to the face, applied a soft rouge, carefully traced a hanyan eyebrow, and used a very light-colored mouth grease.

I smiled and stretched out my hand towards the vast night sky, he looked at me puzzled. I shook my head and motioned for him to close his eyes.

"Open it when you hear it." He closed his eyes obediently.

I walked quickly up the high platform, stretched out, and sang—

"When will the month come in Qingtian,

I stopped the cup and asked about it today.

People climb the moon and never land,

Moon walks with people?

Jiao Ru Fei Jing Lin Dan Que,

Is the green smoke extinguished?

But seeing the night come from the sea,

Ning knows if Xiang Yunjian?

The white rabbit pounds medicine for autumn and spring,

Who is Chang'e lonely next to?

Today people don’t see ancient times and moons,

This month once looked at the ancients.

The ancients and modern people are like flowing water,

Look at the bright moon.

I only hope that when the song is against the wine,

The moonlight shines in Jinzun. "

My body danced with it, waving my long sleeves out, spinning under my feet, suddenly leaning down and then slowly rising up, leaning against the willows in the wind, exploring the sea and lying fish, or cloud walking or flying feet...

Leaping gently, with long sleeves lingering around me, I smiled brilliantly, feeling extremely happy in my heart. Finally squatted down slowly, the white long sleeves slowly fell from the air, and my song stopped.

I looked out of the night, and the white figure in the pavilion was clearly visible by the moonlight, and I saw that he was already standing by the pavilion, as if smiling. I tidied my clothes and walked off the platform to come to him. He was still standing there, looking at the place where I was dancing.

I gently bowed, "Does the prince still like it?"

He turned around abruptly, his expression was intoxicated, and looked at me incredulously, "Are you really this mortal person?"

I lowered my head and smiled, "What does the prince think?" After speaking, I looked straight at him.

He shook his head, "You are not." After saying that, he smiled, "You are the Nine Heavens Profound Girl."

I was about to speak, but I saw lights approaching and human voices not far away, and I felt a little flustered. I looked at him, and he looked at me, he must have seen my panic.

He gave me a calm smile, "Don't be afraid, there's me." After speaking, he looked at the light, "Don't move here, I'll take a look."

I nodded, went to the corner and sat down, watching his figure disappear into the night.

The huge darkness instantly surrounded me, and my heart also shrank and tightened.

The dark tree shadows whirling, accompanied by the sound of "sanding" by the wind, and the strange birdsong, the imperial garden is no longer the prosperous scene of blooming flowers and full of smiles during the day, it is so strange and terrifying at this time. I grasped the placket of my chest tightly and looked up at the sky. I don't know when the moon was hidden behind the thick clouds. The wind gradually became violent and became a bit cold.

I moved my lower body. Wang Yu has been there for a long time. What should I do? I quietly looked at the place where there was light before, but at this time I could see nothing but darkness. I panicked. It seemed that Wang Yu did deal with those people. Did he walk away with them?

Then I'm the only person here. In this remote place of the Imperial Garden, my fear rises, shivering with me, and I take a deep breath. It seems that I had to walk back to Kunning Palace by myself.

Walking in the imperial garden in the dark, there is no light or moonlight, darkness is everywhere, I carefully looked at the road under my feet, wondering which one I walked through during the day. I became more and more anxious in my heart, and my feet were chaotic. I was lost in this huge imperial garden as I walked.

I looked at the buildings, flowers and plants that I hadn't seen around me blankly, and groaned inwardly. It's over, it seems that I can only go back till dawn. There is still a glimmer of hope in my heart, maybe, Wang Yu can come back to me. However, I shouldn't have left the Furong Terrace. I turned around and took a look. It was long gone. Bite the scalp and continue to fumble, maybe you can walk out of this imperial garden in chaos. Or if Haoyue finds that I am not in the palace, she will come out to look for it.

I walked into a weird place in a hurry, a winding path for one person to walk on, with shrubs as high as one person on both sides... When I reacted, I was already in it.

This is where? Is there such a place in the imperial garden? I raised my eyes and looked around. There was an octagonal pavilion not far in front. There was a palace lantern swaying in the wind in the pavilion. The faint light attracted me.

With a cross, I walked towards the light. The octagonal pavilion is relatively high. I would like to see the road, or take off the palace lantern to light up the way back.

Walking along the road in the bushes, winding twists and turns. I pursed my mouth and looked at the palace lantern on the octagonal pavilion. Gradually approaching, I boarded the pavilion happily, feeling a little settled. Walking to the railing and looking out, he couldn't help covering his mouth in shock. The bush I walked into just now looks like a huge maze!

I suddenly remembered that there is such a thing in this palace, called "Tongyou Tongyou", the center is this Youran Pavilion.

I stabilized my mind and thought, then here is not far from the east gate of the Royal Garden. I turned around and picked the lantern, but I could only barely touch the lower edge of it when I hung it too high. The palace lantern swayed slightly under the touch of me, but I was too tired.

Just about to jump up and take it off, his hands have been stretched out, his head has been raised, and his other hands have been stretched out so suddenly.

I turned around in shock and bumped into someone's chest.