Huaigui

On the [-]th day of the winter month, it snowed heavily in Ziwei City.

Helan Mingyue escorted Gao Jing back to the North Hall from Shuyuzhai. He always kept a distance of two steps. He saw Gao Jing and Gao Yu close together, chatting with each other about the "government" of "Mencius" that the old man talked about today. one period.

Passing through the corridors of the palace wall along the way, the snow-sweeping guards were busy, and they could vaguely see the Wende Gate and the Taiji Hall in the distance along the path they walked.Just now when the court was over, officials in black court uniforms rushed towards the gate of the palace like flowing water, He Lanmingyue stopped for a moment, and suddenly remembered that today was the day when he had an appointment with King Yu.

It has been a year since the last time the emperor blamed him for no reason, and now it's winter, except for Gao Jing's birthday on the seventh day of July, Helan Mingyue has not yet had the fate to see the sky.Maybe the emperor had forgotten about it long ago, but he still had it in his throat.

When he was distracted, his steps speeded up inexplicably, almost bumping into the two golden branches and jade leaves in front of him.He Lan Mingyue quickly stopped her, but Gao Yu was also disturbed.

The young man has grown a lot taller this year, and now he is about the same stature as Gao Jing. He hugged Gao Jing's arm and complained, "Brother, what's the matter with your servant? You are reckless and reckless, and you are still with you all day! "

"Huh?" Gao Jing was puzzled, and then laughed, "Gu just likes him like this."

"There is no rule..." Gao Yu muttered in a low voice, and then changed the topic again.

Gao Jing took two steps, looked back at Helan Mingyue, and suddenly said: "Isn't it twenty today? If you have other things, go and get busy. This road is very close to the North Hall, so you don't need to follow."

Gao Yu said urgently, "Brother, why—"

Gao Jing raised his hand to stop him from following up, and only looked at He Lan: "Come back soon."

That gaze was too gentle, making his heart beat violently, Helan Mingyue suddenly felt that under such gaze, everything about him could not be hidden, and lowered his head: "Yes, my subordinate..."

"Go." Gao Jing said, with a faint smile on his lips.

He stood still and watched Gao Jing take Gao Yu away, like a boulder falling to the ground.Leaping up lightly, Helan Mingyue seemed to disappear suddenly, and when she reappeared, she was already at the corner gate of the palace wall.

The twentieth of every month agreed with King Yu, he dared not explain to Gao Jing.In the first month, he was unable to attend the appointment due to pain, and in the second month, Helan Mingyue was unable to do so, so he had to tell Gao Jing that his elder brother who grew up together had to go to the palace gate to chat with him so that he could rest assured.This rhetoric was full of loopholes, Gao Jing didn't know whether he was too lazy to point it out or had other intentions, he praised them for their deep brotherhood, and every twentieth from then on, even if he didn't say anything, Gao Jing would pay attention to him.

His Royal Highness's mind is mysterious and unpredictable, He Lan Mingyue is afraid of saying too much and making mistakes, so he just thinks that he really knows his relatives.

It took three months to heal his wounds, and Gao Jing asked him when he went out again: "You are a shadow guard, aren't you?" On the way back to Yaoguang Pavilion, because of the bad scenery, he didn't bring any attendants, so he appeared as if nothing had happened.

Gao Jing has always liked this kind of slightly naive trick, and unexpectedly there is a tacit understanding between the sun rising and the moon setting.

He thought of Gao Jing, waited for a while by the corner gate, vaguely saw a familiar carriage waiting outside the vermilion palace wall, and knew that the prince hadn't left yet.

Not long after, a pale figure came along the royal road, it was not surprising to see him, and said: "Sure enough, keep the promise."

"I've seen the prince." He Lan Mingyue was about to kneel, but he stopped her.

King Yu's complexion is good today, and he has a smile on his face: "I'm curious, it's been more than a year, and you can come here on time every month...how did you tell Gao Jing?"

He Lan Mingyue replied: "This subordinate still has a distant relative elder brother outside the palace. This person is a junior of the Murong family. He grew up with his subordinates like his own elder brother. He is worried that his subordinate will be alone in the palace and come out again. This is the first time I have done such a thing, and I must meet once a month at the palace wall, and I implore His Highness for your permission."

"Ha!" King Yu clapped his palms and smiled, said hello three times, and said, "So it's like that—don't say it's him, even this king thought it was brothers and sisters after hearing this reason, and the friendship is really deep! Your words He can hear the words, so it can be seen that you really have a bit of face in Yaoguang Pavilion."

He Lan Mingyue hurriedly said not to dare: "Your Highness values ​​it, but I know in my heart who is the master."

The corners of Yu Wang's lips lightly raised: "It's best. This king has nothing to say when I saw you this year. How about today? I heard that Jing'er has recently started to devote herself to learning. Is it true or not?"

"Grand Master Yuan said so." He Lan Mingyue respectfully said, "Your Highness reads every day until the third watch, and occasionally writes some articles and submits them to the Tai Chi Hall. His Majesty reads it without comment, and His Highness is very frustrated."

"Everyone in the court is guessing, maybe it's because Jing'er and Sheng'er have offended His Majesty one after another, so that the empress is divorced, and now His Majesty only favors Concubine Ling, and even brought her natal family to heaven... Haha." King Yu sneered, " However, this king feels that it is better not to speculate about the emperor's mind."

He Lan Mingyue didn't know much about the affairs of the previous dynasty, so she only said, "Yes."

King Yu realized that he had said too much, cleared his throat, and changed the subject: "You don't have to keep an eye on the movement of other palaces, how does Jing Er treat you?"

He Lanmingyue hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Highness wants to teach this slave to read and write."

"Ridiculous!" King Yu made his conclusion and said again, "Have you learned anything after studying for a long time?"

"It's a little success." He Lanmingyue had questions and answers, and didn't say anything more. King Yu gave him a deep look, and suddenly said: "From now on, you don't have to come every month."

He Lan wondered: "But what the master said before..."

King Yu interrupted him, and said: "This king has his own backup for you, and you should do a lot of the same, just wait."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, just like the few words he said every time they met.He Lan saluted him off, and didn't straighten up until he saw King Yu walking out of the shadow of the corner and heading for the carriage of Prince Yu's mansion.

The questions asked were always "How is Jing'er's homework", "What books are you reading today", "How do you pass the time in your spare time", He Lanmingyue had a plan in mind, knowing that she couldn't see the deep meaning of these, instead of trying to find ways It is better to tell the truth than to make up something.But after many times, he also had other ideas——

King Yu knew nothing about the details.

It's true that he doesn't read much, but He Lanmingyue has a sense in his heart and knows when to do what.Ironically, this was originally taught by Mr. Yu Wang.

Fangzhu Gate is relatively weakly guarded among the four gates of Ziwei City. It was snowing heavily and it was freezing cold this day. The guards were lazy and huddled on the city wall to look far away, so they couldn't see the secret meeting in the corner.

Helan Mingyue looked up for a moment, then turned and left.

When he returned to the North Hall, he was only a cup of tea away from saying goodbye to Gao Jing.

The snow in the Yaoguang Pavilion has been swept away, only a little bit remains on the raised corner of the eaves, which is bright white, setting off the glazed tiles extraordinarily resplendent.The snow has stopped, a charcoal basin is burning in the house, and the heavy curtains cover the sky and keep the room warm. Luoyang is not as cold as the old capital Pingcheng, and Dongyue doesn't need the earth dragon, so this is enough.

Amang stood guard at the door, and when he saw him come back, his face was full of joy: "He Lan, you came just in time, your highness is looking for you!"

He hurriedly responded, and a little eunuch opened the curtain for him—this is a treatment that ordinary guards don’t have—He Lan was a little flustered by the warm wind blowing on his face, and was hugged straight when he didn’t pay attention .

Your Highness, everyone in the North Hall tacitly understood that they were referring to the third son of the emperor, Gao Sheng.

At this moment, the little highness threw himself into He Lan's arms, and while he was still eating something, he slurred affectionately and shouted: "Beauty...Beauty brother! Come back!"

Although Helan Mingyue is used to this ingenious address, seeing Gao Jing's teasing eyes, she couldn't help her face becoming hot, but she couldn't push Gao Sheng away, so she had to put her hands behind her back: "Yes, Fourth Highness."

"Cheng'er is too messed up, come here, finish the food first." Gao Jing helped him out, smiling but still harboring malicious intentions.

As soon as he made a sound, Gao Sheng obediently let go of He Lan Mingyue, swayed over, sat on a slightly lower stool, waited for the maid to wipe off a little sweat from his forehead, opened his mouth obediently, and waited for Gao Jing to feed him.

This scene was so familiar to Helan Mingyue, he silently raised his hand in salute, and then stood beside Gao Jing.

"Have you met?" Gao Jing asked without raising his head.

"Yes." He Lan said, after thinking for a while, he said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your success."

Gao Jing's smile deepened, he only fed Gao Sheng but didn't speak.

When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, his voice began to change a little, it was clearer than before, and now it was between the sweetness of youth and the deepness of youth.Gao Jing himself thought it was very unpleasant, so he deliberately kept his words to himself, and used pills made of Ophiopogon japonicus, Platycodon grandiflora, and wood butterfly to protect his throat, so as not to be so aggrieved.

The taste of this medicine was not pleasant, and Gao Jing's sleeves were stained with a slightly bitter smell, and He Lan Mingyue could always smell it when he was close.As time went on, he almost felt that the taste penetrated into his bones.

The smell of the medicine could not go away, Gao Jing was halfway through the feeding, when Gao Sheng suddenly spoke again, calling out Brother Beauty.

"Don't call him that in the future, it will make people bored, and I won't play with you anymore." Gao Jing refused to let He Lan Mingyue come forward, intending to correct his faults, "His name is Mingyue, what should you do?"

Gao Sheng pursed his mouth and refused to answer, tears welled up in his eyes.

Gao Jing's voice immediately raised: "Gao Sheng, don't cry! Answer, what should you call him?"

Helan Mingyue got a headache.

He stayed by Gao Jing's side for more than a year, among other things, he recognized almost all the familiar faces in the North Hall, and everyone's temperament was also well known.Most of the others are easy to get along with, but this Fourth Highness, the youngest prince, always makes him at a loss.

According to what Aman said in his spare time, when Gao Sheng was not born, Empress Dugu was not well maintained, so she was congenitally ill, and after she was born, she fell ill again when she was less than one year old, and managed to save her life. The emperor dismissed him three times in a row. It was only cured by an imperial doctor, but he didn't want to make another mistake——

At the age of three or four, he still doesn’t recognize people, and cries when he doesn’t like him. Not only did he learn to walk later than normal children, but he also started babbling when he was seven years old. He can’t understand what others are saying until now. His intelligence is like that of a three-year-old child. .

Gao Jing had provoked the emperor's fury because of leaving him behind, and even He Lan Mingyue suffered, and almost died.He really didn't like the demented prince, but he was in a good condition, and when he ran into him by accident, he drooled and called himself "Brother Beauty", and he didn't let go while hugging his legs.

Gao Jing got a lot of fun out of it, and frequently threatened Gao Sheng with the excuse of "brother beauty is unhappy", telling him to learn how to speak and read, and the effect was not bad.Empress Dugu acquiesced to the matter after hearing this, and Gao Jing has made progress since then.

It has evolved to the present, Gao Sheng has to be obedient, eat and sleep only if he is here.

But obviously "Brother Beauty" is not a long-term appellation, and Gao Jing has some obsessions, so he insists on asking him to learn it today.He forced it twice, Gao Sheng had tears in his eyes, but still kept his mouth tightly shut.

Finally, he had no choice but to hold the bowl and put it aside: "Okay, if you let yourself do it, then I won't be used to you. You like him by the side, don't you? He Lan, don't come near him from today on." him."

He Lan's heart was shocked, and he felt that his method was exactly the same as the emperor's expression and tone that day. It was chilling to say, but he responded bravely: "I listen to you."

Gao Sheng understood, and looked at Gao Jing in disbelief, and only shouted: "Big brother, big brother! Brother Huang!"

"I am your elder brother, what about him?" Gao Jing followed the temptation, but his expression was almost on the verge of collapse, "A person needs a name, you can't always remember a title, my name is Gao Jing, what about him? I told you .”

"...Brother Huang!" Gao Sheng burst into tears.

Gao Jing closed his eyes, his knuckles pinching the porcelain spoon turned white. He Lan Mingyue saw that his brows were slightly wrinkled and the two small cinnabar moles were dim in color. .”

Called back by his voice, Gao Jing stood up, and suddenly hooked He Lan's neck——

It was a nondescript flirt.

Helan Mingyue's sudden movement caused a buzzing in his head, his hands and feet were all floating, and when he heard Gao Jing buried on his neck, he didn't know what to think, and called him, "Brother Mingyue."

That sound was mixed with his indescribable tenderness, like spring water dripping flowers.

However, after a while, Gao Jing let go of him and looked at Gao Sheng: "He has a name. If you like him, you have to call him. In the future, you have to be like this. This is the most I can tolerate. If you can't learn it, I will I won't ask you to see him in the future, Gao Sheng, you are a member of the royal family, you can't do things as you like—I know you understand."

After finishing speaking, Gao Jing turned his head to He Lan Mingyue and said, "It's the first day after the snow, the room is very stuffy, walk with me."

With reddened ears, he answered "yes" and thought, it is indeed a little hot.

Gao Jing didn't go out at night, and He Lanmingyue had almost no time to confess his heart to him, so he couldn't explore this doubt.At this time, it happened that the sun was rising and it was snowing again. Gao Jing led him out of the North Hall and headed straight for Shoushan.

After going there once, He Lanmingyue guessed that Gao Jing might like that Jiangxiao Pavilion, and he could sit there for most of the day.He Lan took the teacup and cakes for him and set them aside. Gao Jing called him to sit down too, and poured him a cup of tea himself.

Gao Jing doesn't talk much now, and he has lost the temper he used to chatter about. When he sat in the pavilion and looked at the Fengchi under the Shoushan Mountain, he was actually a bit quiet and handsome. Also known as the number one beauty in Pingcheng, Gao Jing is old, and she must be able to see some of her demeanor from the eyebrows.

They were sitting in the Jiangxiao Pavilion, Helan Mingyue was in a daze, and Gao Jing's voice was heard in his ears: "I used to think this was the highest place."

Helan Mingyue turned her head away, seeing Gao Jing's expression was in a trance, he couldn't hold the teacup in his hand, and frowned: "Your Highness?"

"It was only later that I learned that in addition to Shoushan Mountain, there is Tongtian Pagoda in the imperial city. Outside the imperial city, there are five mountains, and there may be even higher mountains besides five mountains... The road of thousands of miles is endless, but I am trapped here, and I can go nowhere No."

"Your Highness is still young." He Lan Mingyue suddenly smiled after thinking about something.

Gao Jing saw that his expression was relaxed, and his heavy heart became much lighter: "You are really strange. If others are here, they will only ask why they have such emotions, but you never ask."

He Lan Mingyue said: "What His Highness wants to say will not avoid his subordinates, but now that you haven't mentioned it, you don't want to say it."

Gao Jing raised his lips and said angrily, "I saw you were so stupid in calligraphy before, but now I think you are so smart! Forget it, it gets dark early in winter, so I walked around Fengchi alone, It's time to go back to the palace."

"Your Highness, when it gets colder, won't Fengchi freeze?"

"Who knows, maybe not."

Hearing the indifference in his words, He Lan Mingyue will not make fun of himself.He was silent, and looked out from Jiangxiao Pavilion. It was past noon, the sun was gradually moving westward, and there was still snow hanging on the branches of all kinds of exotic flowers and trees, which looked very charming.He took a closer look and saw a figure in Lan Xiuxuan on the southeast side of Shoushan Mountain.

Standing by the railing, she couldn't see the style of clothes clearly from a distance, but she just felt that she was a woman, and her gestures were quite strange.

Just as he was thinking about whether to tell Gao Jing, the other party noticed that he was slightly absent-minded, and he was a little dissatisfied: "Listening to Gu's speech is difficult for you? You are absent-minded all day long. What are you looking at now?"

"My subordinates dare not." He Lan Mingyue quickly looked away, and after thinking for a moment, said, "Just now... I found the direction of Lan Xiuxuan, and there seemed to be someone standing there."

Gao Jing frowned and said: "If there are people, there are people. This place is not a private garden. There are so many concubines in the palace. If someone comes, you just stare at him. Isn't it unreasonable!"

He Lan couldn't argue with his words, looked at him teasingly, and said incoherently: "No, no, I see that... the girl seems to have a different expression—"

Gao Jing gave a strange "hmm", got up and took two steps forward.He should have been aroused, and looked straight at Lan Xiuxuan. After a while, he only heard him smile briefly, and then hurried down Shoushan Mountain.He Lan Mingyue chased after her, relying on Gao Jing's good mood, she asked tentatively, "Does Your Highness know that one?"

"It's more than acquaintance, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Gao Jing snorted coldly, and the smile on his face became a little narrower.

He Lan Mingyue was at a loss, so he had no choice but to follow him forward.

When he got closer, he realized that it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, and the hair accessories were not out of the cabinet, so she might not be the emperor's three thousand beauties.With a back view, she was facing out of the round window of Lanxiuxuan, staring at the turbulent water of Fengchi in a daze, she seemed to have a lot of status, but there was no maid and eunuch serving her.

Gao Jing walked briskly, and amid Helan Mingyue's doubts, he said loudly, "Why do you come here today?"

The woman's shoulders shook slightly, then turned around, and the skirt that dragged the floor swept across the ground with a muffled sound, as if it had touched something.Helan Mingyue followed the prestige, and saw beside the woman, a white jade wishful was lying on the bluestone slab in a grievance, it was almost unrecognizable from its original appearance.

There were still tears on her face, but the woman held herself proud and said: "I come and go as I like, it's not your turn to ask! Why, Gao Jing, leading the new lover to flaunt around?"

If it were someone else, Gao Jing might be about to get angry, but not only did he not look angry at all, but he smiled rather flatteringly.

Bowing down to pick up the biggest piece of the broken jade ruyi, Gao Jing rubbed it in his hand, and looked at the woman in front of him with a smile: "Don't worry about it, just cry alone by the water, and it's not you She's in style—isn't she, sister?"