National Division

The prince's wedding is a grand event for the whole country. In this regard, no matter how favored Concubine Ye Gui is, or how noble the second concubine's background is, they cannot be compared.Qin Tianjian predicted three auspicious dates for marriage, and first picked the best one for the prince, and then sent the rest to the Hall of Liangyi to ask Concubine Ye Gui to choose for the second prince.

Concubine Ye Guifei sent away the people from the Qin Tianjian, her face was not very good-looking, she casually pushed the red card with the auspicious date aside, and glared displeasedly at Hong Ye, the big palace maid next to her: "What's the matter with Zhao's daughter?" !"

Hong Ye was so frightened that she quickly knelt down: "The servants are all confused, I didn't expect it to be the Zhao family." In fact, it can't be blamed on her, she is just a maid, how can she know so many things?What's more, Zhao Di was demoted nine years ago, when she was less than ten years old.Ordinarily, this matter is actually due to the fact that the Ye family did not do their homework carefully outside, and did not tell Concubine Ye Gui the identity of Zhao Di, and it was also because Concubine Ye Guifei was negligent. This Zhao Yue actually got into the Queen's eyes because of her good birth.

"Mother Concubine—" Qi Zhang came in from outside the hall and kicked Hongye lightly, "Go and pour some tea, I'm so thirsty."

The red leaves went down, and Concubine Ye Gui's thoughts turned to her son. She picked up a fan to fan her son, and called the maid: "Bring the iced sour plum soup!" She asked with concern, "Why are you so busy?" Sweating profusely?"

Qi Zhang took the sour plum soup and drank it down: "It's not about the prince's wedding!" His face was a little gloomy, "Uncle sent a letter, so Zhao Di seems to have some real skills. If he is allowed to stand in the northwest I'm afraid it's not good for us if we have gained military exploits."

Concubine Ye Gui became more and more unhappy when she said this, but seeing her son's brows furrowed deeply, she even tried to comfort her: "The Jie slaves in the Northwest are not so easy to deal with. The former generals are not mediocre. No? Ask your uncle to watch outside, you should also get ready, Qin Tianjian has even picked a date, this month the prince will get married, and next month will be you."

Qi Zhang was a little less interested: "My son has seen the portrait of Mrs. Zheng—why did the concubine choose her..." Ms. Zheng was born well enough, but her appearance is not so outstanding, especially in the palace full of beauties, It became more and more flat.

"Stupid child, marrying a wife and virtue, marrying a concubine is the only way to marry sex." Concubine Ye Gui explained her son pleasantly, "It was the news from your uncle that Zheng Yushi wanted to get close to us. Concubine, he will naturally serve in the future. Don't underestimate this censor, he can be rumored to make things happen, over there—" The jade-like fingers pointed lightly in the direction of the East Palace and Zichen Palace, "There are some things we can't say, The censor is right. My son, you have uncles. What we lack now are these civil servants and Qingliu who speak for us. Is this of orthodox origin?"

Qi Zhang lowered his head and did not speak.Concubine Ye Gui looked at her son lovingly.Normally, this child is young and mature, but only at this time does he show some self-willedness in line with his age-after all, he is a young man, and even the saints say that "if you know lust, you will love Shaoai", so it is common sense to want a beautiful wife.

"The two side concubines are doing well this time. The mother concubine has already taken a fancy to Tang Shi, the daughter of the member of the Ministry of Industry, Wai Lang. In a few days, I will bring you into the mansion as a concubine."

A slight smile appeared on Qi Zhang's face.Tang is the most beautiful among all the beautiful girls, but she is a little younger, she just turned 15 years old, and was deposed by Concubine Ye Gui in the second round because of her unfavorable pregnancy. Otherwise, if she enters the final round of selection , must be chosen by Emperor Jing'an.

"Okay." Seeing the smile on her son's face, Concubine Ye Gui felt relieved, "Let's deal with the prince's wedding first. In the past few days, the concubine mother has also talked to your father and emperor to see if I can seal you up." As a king, it will be nicer to open a mansion and go out in the future." Compared with taking any beautiful concubine, getting the title of prince is the most important thing.

Qi Zhang was a little worried: "If you become a king, you have to be a vassal..." This is the rule of this dynasty, and the vassal kings have to stay in their own fiefdoms, and they can't easily stay in Beijing anymore.

Concubine Ye Gui smiled confidently: "You don't have to worry about that, there is a concubine mother." Suddenly remembered something, "Is the injury on your hand healed?"

Qi Zhang stretched out his hand: "It's all right now."

Concubine Ye Gui took his hand and looked left and right, frowning: "The injury is so severe - what do the imperial doctors eat, why haven't you recovered in the past few months?"

Qi Zhang moved his five fingers, not caring: "Mother and Concubine don't worry, it's just that the scar hasn't faded, and the pain has long since disappeared."

Concubine Ye Gui still frowned: "What should I do with such a deep scar? Come and bring me my white jade ointment."

Qi Zhang quickly explained: "The wound was not deep, it was just scratched by a rabbit. After the imperial doctor took the medicine, it was fine on the third day, but it was just a scar. According to the imperial doctor, the time It will fade away naturally after a long time."

"Really?" Concubine Ye Gui couldn't rest assured when she looked left and right, "It's been more than three months, why don't you look at the slightest bit?" When Qizhang returned to Beijing, she heard that her son was injured and was terrified. , Immediately called his son to his palace to have a closer look. It really didn't look like a deep wound, but a deep red scar lying across his palm, which looked slender and long. If you didn't look carefully, you would almost mistake it for A palm print.But now several months have passed, and I don't know how many ointments have been applied to remove the scar, but the scar has not changed at all, and it is still the same as before.

Qi Zhang raised his hand to look at it himself, and he was also a little strange: "Probably the medicines of those imperial doctors are not good, so I will try to apply this white jade ointment again. This is a trivial matter, and it is not a big deal. The concubine mother does not need to worry. "For him, there are too many things to think about, let alone a man, a scar on his palm is nothing, so he changed the topic immediately, "The auspicious day selected by the Qin Tianjian this time, the emperor did not give it to him. The national teacher took a look, but sent people to the observatory."

Sending it to the observatory is naturally for Zhibai.Concubine Ye Gui also couldn't help frowning her eyebrows, showing a trace of sadness: "I don't know where the prince got such a person." She abruptly compared Ma Mingzi.

A murderous look flashed in Qi Zhang's eyes: "Can you..."

"No!" Concubine Ye Gui was much calmer than her son, and she said decisively, "Don't do it rashly! If he makes even the slightest mistake, the East Palace will definitely use it as an excuse to attack you. Besides, he is now the king's favorite in your father's heart." Immortals must never move."

Qi Zhang kicked the seat irritably: "Can't we just leave him to cause trouble for us? That old bastard, Zhen Mingzi, proposed to go to sea to find immortals for his father when he was at sea. I watched, I'm afraid this old bastard He wants to get away with his body. If this is the case, the situation will be reversed in the future, and it will be easier for the East Palace." The more he talked, the more troubled he became, "It took a lot of hard work for my son to get back from the hunt this time. City, and owed favors to the Dongdi people, is everything going to be like this in the future?"

Concubine Ye Gui patted her son's hand reassuringly: "Be safe and don't be impatient. Now the situation is stronger than others, so it is natural to be more cautious." She smiled softly, with a bit of complacency in her expression, "Mother used to When the concubine first entered the palace, life was much more difficult than it is now. Hasn't the concubine mother come to this day? As long as the prince is still the prince, this matter is still undecided. I will naturally bring him In the past, if you have had enough of the glory and wealth of these years, you want to run away? No way! These years have been too smooth, he may have hidden some tricks, and I have to use them in the future!"

"Hiding some tricks?" Qi Zhang thought for a while, "The concubine mother said that he captured the soul of the palace lady? But in the end, it didn't work out? It was such a big joke, where did the soul go? I don’t even know when I went.”

"How else can we say that he has something to hide." Concubine Ye Gui sneered, "I'm afraid that he didn't dare to attack the empress cruelly, so the trouble was on the verge of failure. In the past, we didn't know that he could actually take souls. "Her long and slender eyebrows were slightly raised, and her well-maintained fingers tapped lightly on the edge of the painted table, "If he wants to live, I'm afraid he will have to work harder."

"The other side of the East Palace—" Qi Zhang felt a little unconfident, "That Xiuming Immortal Master is really good."

Concubine Ye Gui smiled slightly: "Of course we can't deal with him, but—of course there are others."

"Who?" Qi Zhang was puzzled.

Concubine Ye Gui smiled but didn't answer, she just tugged at the hem of her son's wrinkled clothes: "I have to go to the Beigong to study when I have time these few days, your father likes you as long as you can read, don't put the cart before the horse, you can win Your father's favor is the most important thing." As for the other things, they are all dirty tricks and dirty, so let her, a mother, do it.Concubine Ye raised her eyes and looked in the direction of the observatory——Immortal Master Xiuming, what are you doing at this time?

Immortal Master Xiuming was asking His Royal Highness to check his homework at this time. There was a row of papers on the table. Qi Jun looked at them one by one, and finally nodded: "It's better than when I left Beijing, but the painting is not big. decent."

"Master said, I'm sincere..." Zhibai muttered in a low voice, pulling up the papers on the table.

"Master, that's flattering." Qi Jun stabbed him lightly.Now Zhibai's status in the palace is not the same as before he left Beijing, the master who taught him calligraphy and painting no longer dares to hit him with his hands, but flatters him even more.

Zhibai pouted, but said nothing.Qi Jun didn't intend to talk about his schoolwork. In fact, if you talk about it carefully, the progress of knowledge is already extremely fast. When he first arrived in the capital, he couldn't even hold the pen accurately. Now he can draw it. His paintings are already somewhat interesting, and his master said that he has good qualifications, which seems to be true.

"This is the horoscope between me and the princess." Qi Jun took out two pieces of paper, "I also ask you to join together to see how good or bad it is."

"Heyihe?" Zhibai took the note in a daze, with a puzzled expression on his face, "What is it?"

"Naturally, the horoscope is used to determine good and bad luck." Qi Jun was also baffled, "Don't you know it? See if this woman's fate matches mine, and if there is any restraint."

Zhibai thought for a while before he understood what he meant: "Your Highness, I will not do this."

"You can't?" Qi Jun was surprised, "You can't do this matter of fate?"

Zhibai couldn't help laughing: "How can the horoscope be fate! As far as your highness is concerned, there are more than a thousand people born in the same year, the same month, the same day, and the same day as your highness in the world. Can everyone be a prince? What's more, your highness chooses a concubine, first look Family background, then look at talent and appearance, how can you choose according to the horoscope?"

Qi Jun couldn't help being dumb, and shook his head after a while: "It's because I'm not clear. Forget it, just burn this thing."

Zhibai casually sent two pieces of paper to the candlelight, and looked at Qi Jun curiously: "Why did your highness think of combining the horoscope? Is it because he is afraid that the crown princess will ruin his luck? But didn't your highness say that before?" , fate cannot be controlled..."

Qi Jun was a little embarrassed: "This--actually, the queen mother wants to get together..." Actually, that's not the case, he told the queen to check the character of Zhao's daughter, but the queen seemed to only care about promoting Zhao Di Huanxi, he couldn't go to see Zhao Yue by himself, and he thought of asking Zhibai to combine his horoscope when he was feeling uneasy.

Zhibai didn't believe it, he squinted his eyes and just watched, until Qi Jun was a little annoyed: "What are you looking at!" Then he smiled: "Your Highness, isn't it—afraid of getting married?"

"What are you talking about!" Qi Jun's ears turned red, "What's so scary..." But to be honest, he is indeed a little nervous these days, and from now on he will share the bed with a strange woman and live hand in hand. For the future crown princess, he has a bit of longing, but also has some worries that he refuses to admit.

Zhibai didn't ask whether he was afraid or not, but rather curious: "Your Highness, getting married—what is it like?"

How does Qi Jun answer this?After thinking about it for a long time, he could only stare at him: "I want to know? Why don't you return to the secular world and get married to taste it yourself." He rarely made a joke, "I'm afraid that you practitioners are not allowed to marry wives."

Zhibai scratched his head: "Actually, dual cultivation is not prohibited."

"Double cultivation?" Qi Jun was taken aback, "What is double cultivation? It's a man and a woman—"

Zhibai scratched his head again: "I heard that there are also same-sex Taoist friends who double cultivate."

Qi Jun was dumbfounded by his surprise, and he said after a while: "This, isn't this incest!" I've never heard that monks and Taoists are still capable—so, what kind of world is there in this temple?

Zhibai took it for granted: "There is no such thing as cultivation in Buddhism, but people who cultivate immortals can't restrain their lust."

Qi Jun's remarks were simply unheard of: "Can't help lust? Could it be that there are gods who indulge in lust in the sky?"

Zhibai shook his head: "His Royal Highness, is involuntary lust an indulgence? It is important to know that lust is all instinct, and it is born of heaven and earth. It is not against the harmony of heaven, so why should it be cut off on purpose? In the past, there was a fairy Rong Chengzi, He became an immortal with the method of yin and yang fighting, and left behind a book called "Rong Cheng's Imperial Girl Art". The six heavens of the Desire Realm. The six heavens of the Desire Realm, also known as the Six Desire Heavens, are the Heaven of the Four Great Kings, the Heaven of Traoley, the Heaven of Yemo, the Heaven of Tushita, the Heaven of Huale, and the Heaven of Hehuazizai. All beings in the Heaven of Desire still have appetites Sexual desire is called the Six Desire Heavens. Among them, the appearance of human desires in the Four Kings Heaven and the Traoili Heaven are all formed by physical intercourse, which is not much different from the human world, except that there are no impurities. It can be seen that the heavens are not forbidden. It is the indulgence of lust, which is against the doctrine of the golden mean, and harms the body and sex, and this is what must be banned."

Qi Jun stared at him for a while before he could find his tongue: "If you talk about the way of men and women, it is in line with yin and yang, and it is also the foundation of the transformation of heaven and earth, but isn't it against nature to cultivate the same sex?" asked.

Zhibai shook his head and shook his head: "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, they regard all things as dogs, and everything born of heaven and earth does not violate the harmony of heaven. For example, ghosts and ghosts are born of heaven and earth, if they do not harm them, then heaven and earth will not harm them. Same-sex love is also the same.”

Qi Jun opened his mouth, wanted to refute but couldn't find a word, so he could only retreat, and said bitterly: "So, you also have double cultivation?"

Zhibai raised his head proudly: "Master said that I have excellent aptitude, so I don't need to use the way of dual cultivation. You must know that it is rare to have a couple of dual cultivation. There are many people who want to practice dual cultivation but cannot get a partner. It is more convenient to practice by yourself."

Qi Jun raised his forehead, feeling that he really couldn't talk to this shameless little bastard: "Have you never said these words in front of the emperor?" There will be twice as many beauties in the palace.

"Although your majesty is blessed, he has no immortal bones. He is not a practitioner, so naturally he doesn't need to listen to this." Zhibai looked careless, "Of course I won't tell your majesty about it." If it is heard by him, there will be endless troubles from now on.

"Very good." Qi Jun decided not to stay here anymore, "You remember these words must not be said to a third person. I still have something to do, you can do it yourself."

Zhibai got up and sent him out of the house, stood at the door and watched Qi Jun's back disappear, then shook his head in some puzzlement, and muttered to himself: "It's strange, after the change of your Highness's fate, why does he seem to be a bit pure and empty?" angry..."