prince attendant

Standing on the empty street, Mu Qing looked at the strange streets in front of him that continued in the darkness, and felt a little confused for a while. Of these roads, he was only familiar with the road to the Prince's Mansion.

He has lived under the protection of His Highness the Crown Prince for so many years, so that when he was suddenly living on the street, he realized that he had nowhere to go.

Mu Qing hesitated for a moment, the attendant looked at him standing still, showing a confused look, thinking that his heart had loosened, so he immediately persuaded him

"My lord, let's go back home. It's so late and no one is walking on the road. It's so dark, it's really scary."

As if to support his statement, a gust of cold wind blew up and made an unknown whistling sound, as if the sound of some monster was ringing one after another, causing Mu Qing to shiver, and said angrily

"At the feet of the emperor, talk nonsense."

He made up his mind again that he would never go back tonight, but only walked forward. The attendant stuck out his tongue, and after being scolded like this, he remembered Mu Qing's weakness of being easily frightened, so he felt slightly wronged and dared not persuade her again. He walked forward with a frowning face again. In the dark night, only the lantern in his hand gave off a faint light.

After a while of silence, he chattered again

"My lord, but if we don't go back to the mansion now, where else can we go? At this moment, even the inn is closed and sleeping."

Mu Qing walked straight forward without saying a word. About half an hour later, a mountain top appeared in front of them. On the mountain there was a tall and long tower that stood bright all night. The faint sound of copper bells echoed down layer by layer.

That is the Tower of Longevity. The last emperor of the previous dynasty plundered the fat of the people and spent five years to build the magnificent Tower of Longevity. It is said that the inside is even more splendid, but this is just a legend, because everyone who went in died, and the dynasty was established. At that time, the Tower of Longevity had been sealed forever. It is said that even if you walked around the tower, you could not find a gap to get in. The copper bell swaying by the wind still shows its glorious past.

Not far from the pagoda is Changkong Temple, formerly known as Changsheng Temple. Since the monks of Changkong Temple moved to Chengyang to suppress evil spirits, the plaque here has been replaced by Changkong Temple.

The attendant relaxed after following Mu Qing, and guessed again:

"Your Majesty, do you want to rest here? Your Highness has an exclusive Buddhist temple here. Let me go and talk to the people in the temple."

After finishing speaking, he was about to run forward, but Mu Qing stopped him, and while stepping up the steps, he said

"Don't go, it's so late, don't bother the monks here."

The attendant said strangely

"But don't bother them, what are we going up the mountain for?"

Mu Qing smiled and said

"It doesn't matter. If you want to spend the night here, you can go over and ask. I went up the mountain to come and see someone."

"Who are you looking at?"

Mu Qing didn't answer, he climbed up the mountain, and when he reached the gate of Changkong Temple, he turned around and bowed slightly to the monk guarding the gate, and performed a Buddhist salute as a greeting. After the other party returned the courtesy, He turned around and walked towards another bamboo forest path.

Of course the attendant didn't dare to let him go alone, so he continued walking with suspicion. After a while, he saw a courtyard not far from the road ahead. The attendant breathed a sigh of relief, it should be here, as he said As expected, Mu Qing walked to the door of the courtyard, stood on the porch, holding the copper ring in front of the door, but he just knocked lightly, and his hand stopped in mid-air, and then sighed. With a deep breath, he gently dropped the copper ring, let go of his hand, and the copper ring shook slightly.

Mu Qing was standing in front of the door, when the attendants were still wondering why he didn't keep knocking on the door, Mu Qing whispered

"Let's go, it's so late, I don't know if I came to disturb you—"

Before he could finish his sentence, the door creaked and someone opened it from the inside.

The person who opened the door was a woman in a snow-white quilt, wearing a bamboo-leaf-green outer garment, who seemed to have been disturbed in her sleep, her half-opened sleepy eyes poked her head out from behind the door, her face was like a goose egg, with almond-shaped eyes Lips, like stamens in misty mist, she was really pretty, causing the attendant who followed her to suddenly open her eyes wide, and couldn't help but look again and again, although she knew it was impolite to stare at a girl like this, But he couldn't bear to look away, and thought that this is really an anecdote, he didn't expect Mr. Ruyu to hide such a beautiful woman deep in the mountains, who is usually silent and well-behaved, it's really surprising.

I don't know if His Highness the Crown Prince knows, if he knows, I'm afraid I'll be sad and disappointed, but I can't help but think, if I come here, I just bumped into the beauty of the young master's night party, so I won't be silenced.Thinking this way, when the attendant was about to speak to show his tight-lipped loyalty, the beauty blinked and spoke

"Brother?"

Yiyiyi—Yiyi brother? ! !The thought in the attendant's mind was suddenly shattered by these two words. He looked at the two of them in surprise, but he didn't expect to arrive at the place where the young master Mu Qing lived.

He vaguely knew something about Mu Qing's past. His mother was also a well-known vocal expert in the palace. Later, because of family affairs, she lived in seclusion and took in a closed disciple to live in a place far away from the world. Did she settle behind the Changkong Temple? ?

This woman is no one else, but the woman who practiced martial arts with Mu Qing's mother, her name is Chang Xiu, she was originally a half-sister of Xie Jin's half-sister, but because of some incidents, she left the Hou's mansion, Living here with Mu Qing's mother, although she still calls Mu Qing's mother a teacher, she has recognized her as a foster mother and calls Mu Qing a foster brother.

Mu Qing hummed, he really had nowhere to go, subconsciously came to the place where his mother lived in seclusion, did not pay attention to the change of expression of the attendant next to him, paused, and then said

"How did mother sleep these days?"

The long sleeve opened the door, led the two of them in, and said with a little joy

"I have been sleeping very well these days. The agarwood sent by my brother-in-law is very helpful. Today, the teacher has already fallen asleep, but just now he woke up suddenly, saying that he heard someone knocking on the door, but there was no movement when he woke up. Is it because I still want to have an inexplicable dream, but I don’t want to feel that my brother-in-law is coming, this is really a bond between mother and child, but I don’t know why brother-in-law came late at night?”

Mu Qing couldn't answer, so she just smiled, blinked her long-sleeved eyes, and immediately realized that something unpleasant must have happened, so she stopped asking questions in a very sensible manner.

This courtyard is not very wide, and at the time of talking, he had already climbed the stone steps, pushed open the door, and lit a bean lamp. Mu Qing's mother, Zhao Zhixian, was sitting in front of the desk, making tea, wrapped in black hair. Already mixed with a lot of gorgeous hair, hanging on the already rickety back.

Mu Qing looked at her mother's figure, for some reason, she felt countless grievances and depression in her heart, and the tip of her nose was sore, and a hazy mist rose in front of her eyes. Mu Qing sucked her nose, blinked her eyes quickly, and lightly After coughing lightly, he continued to walk into the house, and when he knelt down in front of the mat, he whispered

"Mother."

Zhao Zhixian raised his face to look at him. On his face without makeup, he could see fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. She looked at Mu Qing for a while, then let him sit over, and stretched out her hand to shake his palm. speak

"My son, it's very windy and cold at night, why do you go out in such thin clothes, and your hands are so cold, is it cold all the way?"

Saying this, Mu Qing asked Long Sleeve to fetch the cloak again, and Mu Qing subconsciously coughed, shook her head, and said that she was not cold, and told Long Sleeve not to bother.

Zhao Zhixian asked softly

"Then why did you think of looking for your mother in the middle of the night?"

Mu Qing: ...

Mu Qing's throat swallowed, and under her mother's gentle and caring gaze, she opened her mouth and said in a low voice

"Mother, I was kicked out by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Mu Qing's voice trembled a little as he spoke, because he lied, and he couldn't say that he and His Highness the Crown Prince had a quarrel, and that's why he got angry.

There is no reason in the world for a servant to quarrel with his master.

The attendant who came over raised his head and looked at Mu Qing, a little surprised, thinking that it was you, son, who ran out by yourself, why was it driven out by His Royal Highness, but he was wise to look at the situation in the room at this time chose to remain silent.

Mu Qing didn't hear the answer, so she raised her eyes and carefully looked at her mother's expression, thinking that her mother was angry or something, but Zhao Zhixian's expression was as usual, and there was no surprise in the room. There was a crackling sound between turns.

After a while, Zhao Zhixian opened his mouth and said

"Your father sent a letter. He went to a place called Endless Spring, saying that the place is very good. He went there last winter, but he didn't feel the cold. It is a place like spring all the year round. It is said that There are many novel things, and there is another kind of ingredient. After eating, you can see villains dancing, which is wonderful and blissful. He is an idiot, and he eats things randomly when he becomes interested. As expected, he sees a bunch of villains dancing around him. It was due to poisoning, and when I woke up, I was scolded by the old gentleman who saw the doctor, saying that I was still like a young boy at half an age, and dared to eat anything."

Mu Qing smiled when her mother said this, and couldn't help laughing, Zhao Zhixian raised her eyes to look at Mu Qing, and said suddenly

"Since you were kicked out by the prince, can you still be called back?"

Mu Qing's smile immediately froze on his face, before he opened his mouth to speak, the attendant who followed him was originally sitting on the side resting his feet, when he heard this kind of words, he was immediately shocked, and he didn't know where the quick wit came from, so he answered first

"Ma'am, the young master must be going back. The young master and His Highness were just a little unhappy, so they came out to walk around to relax, but this insignificant conflict disappeared in an instant. It's just because the young master misses you, so I came here to see you." You, tomorrow, no, I will go back now if I say go back, you see I followed out in the middle of the night, it was because His Highness was worried about the young master that I asked the little one to follow."

What he said seems to be very sincere, but when he thinks about it carefully, there is no ground for him. How can anyone walk across half of Chengyang in the middle of the night, let alone the person who came out in the middle of the night is his own son.

The author has something to say: adjust the name of Qingqing for the long-sleeved girl...