This sleeve is broken secretly

A layer of autumn rain and a burst of coolness.

The pouring rain washed the capital over and over again. When the summer heat was completely taken away, the green shade of the leaves had also been dyed into clouds, and the summer lotus was replaced by autumn maple.

After the beginning of autumn, the common people are busy steaming preserved eggplants, eating melons, and drinking fragrant glutinous soup, while the princes and nobles are rushing back and forth between the moon and maple feasts.Autumn leaves are not yet frosty, and it is not yet the most magnificent time, but the trees are already crowded with impatient literati.

If there is any place in the capital where you can really enjoy the maple leaves in this early autumn season, it is Xie's Zhuyuan.

Located in the western suburbs of Beijing, the maple trees in Zhuyuan are the earliest to turn red every year.When the jungles in other places are still embarrassingly green and yellow, the hub garden is already magnificent with overlapping gold and red.

And every year on the third day of September, Xie Jin, the third son of the Xie family, will hold a maple appreciation banquet in the hub garden, inviting all the princes and nobles in the capital to recite poems, compose Fu, and drink fine wine together.It's just that Xie Ling's temper is arrogant, if someone doesn't catch his eye, even princes and royal relatives will not be able to sit at his banquet.Therefore, all the literati and princes in the capital feel very honored to be invited to a banquet in the hub garden.

Hongwu 23 years.The third day of September.

Xie's family set up a platform in the ten-mile maple forest in Zhuyuan. On the platform, there are rugs and curtains for people to rest and enjoy the scenery, listen to music and drink wine.If staying on the stage is boring, you can also go deep into the forest along the cobblestone path, and be in the sea of ​​crimson maples.

Although the Xie family is rich, they do things in a low-key manner.The viewing platform is temporarily built, rough and simple, except for a few soft collapsed tables, there are no other valuable furnishings.The path in the forest has not been carefully paved, and there are a few steps of white stones, which are faintly visible.Even the melon and fruit wine offered to the guests is the most common golden pear and sweet-scented osmanthus wine.

Everything is back to basics, very natural.Several guests who were invited to the autumn banquet for the first time thought they would be overwhelmed by the luxury of the hub garden, but after seeing this scene with their own eyes, they relaxed and enjoyed it to the fullest.

However, among the bursts of laughter, Xie Ling, the protagonist, is the one who is most absent-minded.

Xie Qin leaned on the beauty couch, staring at Fenglin in the distance in a daze.Not long after the banquet started, he became a little restless, lying half-lying down and taking a sip of osmanthus wine from time to time, as if he was drinking dull wine.

The guests didn't know what happened, they wanted to ask but were afraid of being abrupt, some people tried to pass the words but Xie Ling blocked them with two or three sentences.Among so many people, only Yan Shisong vaguely knew what this master was thinking.

"Still waiting?" Yan Shisong sat down next to Xie Ling, with a sympathetic expression on his face, "It will be sunset soon, so I probably won't come."

Xie Ling held the cup and didn't speak, but sneered for a while.

Yan Shisong sighed: "When I handed over the post, he didn't say anything, he just accepted it with a smile, presumably because he was too embarrassed to refuse directly. But it's true, after being humiliated by you like that, how can a normal person want to come here?" Your banquet?"

Xie Ling snorted softly, raised his hand and took another sip of wine.

At this time, it began to rain heavily.The maids came out and pulled up the light gauze curtains at the four corners, turning the open-air platform into a tent.The guests scattered in the maple forest also came back one after another, sitting in the tent and continuing to enjoy the maple color in the rain.Xie Jin waved his hand, ordering the musicians to retreat, the surrounding fields were silent, only the sound of the rain beating on the forest leaves, like a song like music.

Listening to the rain and watching the maple is really a first-class romantic pleasure.

Xie Qin took a breath of the moist and fresh air in the forest, finally stretched his neck as if he had given up on something, and stretched his hand over the table to reach for the flagon.However, when he just raised his eyes, he stopped, and his eyes went straight out of the fluttering curtain, and settled on the stone path not far away.

Among the washed maple forests, a slender figure is holding a bamboo umbrella, walking slowly through the misty rain and fog.

Shen Bing changed out of the blue official uniform, and put on a jade-colored silk robe with wide sleeves and a soft scarf. It was a plain attire.However, the loose robe was worn on him, but it had a kind of ethereal demeanor, which was particularly pleasing to the eye.

All the guests attending the banquet took off their shoes and put on wooden clogs, and so did Shen Bing.At this time, he could only hear his wooden clogs stepping on the path without haste, and the sound of wood and stone colliding made a clear and simple sound, which became the second rhythm besides the sound of rain in the four fields.

Like his people, he is unintentionally outstanding, uncontested and eye-catching.

When Shen Bing walked off the stage, the eyes of all the guests were already glued to him.

Shen Bing stepped onto the stage slowly, leaned slightly and entered from under the curtain raised by the maid, and after sweeping his eyes across the crowd, he saluted with a smile: "I'm late, please forgive me."

No one present didn't know who he was.

Almost everyone stared at the young man with fiery eyes, watching him sit down calmly after saluting, his white jade-like face was covered with a layer of moist moisture, really like the orchid grass that grew beside Hezhou, Yali Lush.

However, even if he wanted to make friends with this famous talent again, none of the people present dared to make a move.Everyone knows that the two "Lan Yu" had a meeting on the day they met for the title title on the gold list, but who knows what Xie Ling is thinking when he invites Shen Bing here today?But no one dared to refute Ling's face.

In the silence, Xie Ling smiled lazily, and said slowly: "Master Xiu Zhuan is late, so punish yourself with three cups first."

Shen Ting smiled calmly, picked up the wine glass on the table and drank three times in a row, everyone saw that he was refreshing, and Xie Ling's expression was still calm, and the atmosphere suddenly eased.

But no one noticed, Xie Ling's eyes slid along the hands of Shen Bing's cup to the crescent-shaped throat line when he raised his head to drink. If his eyes were like knives, he could scrape off a layer of Shen Bing's flesh.

The banquet continues.

When the literati gather, it is inevitable to recite poems, compose Fu, drink and have fun.Not long after, lamps were lit in the curtains, and the guests were half drunk, and began to frolick to play the game of "hidden hook".

This hidden hook play is a popular drunken play in the capital at present, which is similar to Shefu.Participants should be divided into two groups. During the game, one group secretly hides a small jade hook in the hands of one member of the team.Those who lose will not only punish themselves with three cups, but also compose a poem.

Xie Ling was also very interested at this time, he turned his head and told the maid, and after a while, someone brought a sapphire hook.The guests were divided into two teams on the left and right, and it was a coincidence that Xie Ling sat on the left seat and Shen Bing on the right seat, and they were divided into different teams.

The musicians reappeared, the melodious silk and bamboo sounds sounded, and the play of hiding hooks began.Those present are all guests of literature and ink, the game is just a small music, and its main purpose is to recite poetry.In a corner of the curtain, a maid with a pen was kneeling and recorded tonight's excellent poems and lines. Tomorrow, this volume of "Poetry Collection of the Autumn Banquet in Hub Garden on the Third Day of September" will be circulated in the capital.

Xie Ling seemed to be in good spirits, playing games while drinking.It's just that every time he guesses, eight out of ten times he guesses that the one hiding the hook is Shen Bing.However, Shen Bing has never hidden the hook so far, so he has guessed wrong every time.Xie Qin was not afraid, he drank wine and recited poems generously, and continued to guess Shen Yi next time.

At the back, anyone with a discerning eye knew what was going on, and their eyes full of deep meaning continued to flow between the two of them.

Shen Bing didn't take an active part in it, he just sat quietly, drinking wine and listening to poetry.Until the sound of silk and bamboo sounded again, Shen's left hand under the table became hot, and the sapphire hook was stuffed into his palm.

Shen Bing was slightly surprised, but didn't say anything, shaking his sleeve to cover the hand holding the hook.

As soon as the sound of silk and bamboo stopped, it was the turn of the opposite party to guess.Coincidentally, the person who guessed this time was Xie Ling again.Many people secretly smiled, and an undercurrent surged over the banquet.

If there is something particularly good, he asked with a smile at this time: "Brother Xie, do you still want to guess Shen Xiuzhuan this time?"

Xie Ling raised his eyebrows and sighed, "What can I do? No matter how I look at it, Shen Xiuzhuan is most like the person who 'carrying pearls and holding jade'."

There was laughter at the table. "Huaizhuhuoyu" is used to describe a person with talent and virtue, and it is not a bad word.But being read by Xie Ling every word like this, I always feel that there is a subtle meaning.

Shen Bing remained calm, smiling along with everyone warmly, without saying anything.

"What should I do, so is it Shen Xiuzhuan this time?" Xie Qin asked in a long voice, and while speaking, he threw the wine glass casually and stood up from his seat.

Everyone was slightly stunned, but saw him walking slowly and leisurely, passing through the banquet, from the upper left to the last right, and finally stopped in front of Shen Bing.Everyone didn't know what this moody Xie San was going to do, they all straightened up and looked at the two sitting and standing, the atmosphere in the banquet became slightly stiff.

Xie Ling stood so close that Shen Ting couldn't raise his head.He didn't know that raising his head so high made his throat slender like a crane with its head held high.The undulating skin at the Adam's apple was thin and white, and was lightly covered with a layer of brilliance by the soft light of the candle, making it look fragile and beautiful.

And those eyes.

In those affectionate eyes, half are orange lights, half are silver moonlight; half are fiery maple forests, and usually are pattering autumn rain.It seemed that all kinds of colors in the world had nowhere to fall, and finally melted into his pupils.

Xie Ling only felt a familiar trembling and impulse creeping up from the tailbone, if there was no one here, he really wanted to lean down and lick the slender eyelashes, forcing spring water to flow out from those two clear pools.Then he bit the most vulnerable part of his throat, causing the crane to lower its head and let out a painful whine...

"Thank you young master?"

Xie Qin came back to his senses with a jerk, but saw that everyone in the banquet was looking at him suspiciously.

He laughed at himself in his heart, bent down in front of everyone, and directly pulled Shen Bing's left hand hidden under the table.As if peeling off the outer skin of a fresh fruit, he raised Shen Bi's wide sleeves, penetrated into Shen Bi's five fingers, and exposed the sapphire hook to everyone's eyes.

He raised his lips and smiled, his handsome face was a bit mischievous: "My jade is indeed here with Ting Lan."