Chang'an ancient meaning

There is a warm feeling in the chests where they cuddle together, just like a cluster of small flames are ignited with blood, and their compatible heartbeats, accompanied by the swaying of the flames, beat into a harmonious frequency.Xue Chongjian's hand hidden under the water gently tested like a fish, and Li Chengqi blushed. He didn't know whether it was because of the cold or because of the temptation. He shivered in Xue Chongjian's arms. This trembling attracted the love in Xue Chongjian's heart. Just like this gurgling water, it enveloped the whole body.

The running water supported their bodies from ups and downs. In order to resist the force of the water flow, Xue Chongjian took advantage of the situation to hold his legs against Li Chengqi's legs to stabilize their bodies.Li Chengqi blushed and said in a low voice: "According to the law, if you disobey your cousin, you can get one hundred rods." Xue Chongjian smiled in his ear and said, "Those who have been beaten since childhood, can't be more than one hundred. I can't just be beaten Don't eat meat."

Li Chengqi's body submerged in the water should obviously be cold, but the chest where he and Xue Chongjian were cuddling tightly was sweating.Xue Chongjian's fair and delicate skin is shining with radiant water. He loves this body, his naughty eyes, and his own voice. No matter how many poems and books he has read and how many etiquettes he has learned, he still loves this body. Powerless to resist, he was willing to commit a felony against human relations for him.

Li Chengqi took a deep breath, and the willows around him were pulsating in the warm wind, like weaving a green net, wrapping them safely in it.The deserted cold mountains in the distance, the ancient Xianyang road, and the palaces of Qin and Han are all shielded from this net.People can no longer think of the sigh of the rise and fall of the motherland, and the sadness of seeing off the willows. This gurgling water is their best and best world.

Xue Chongjian and Li Chengqi were intoxicated when they heard Shi Chun shouting from a distance: "Your Highness! There are family members in Xiangwang's residence looking for you!" Li Chengqi was startled, and hurriedly pushed Xue Chongjian away and swam to the shore to get his clothes. Xue Chongjian was very annoyed, and muttered: "You are so old, come out to play for a day, uncle still afraid that you will get lost?" Li Chengqi said shyly and anxiously: "I told my father when I went out, and sent someone to find it here. There must be something urgent."

Xue Chongjian didn't dare to delay, so he put on his clothes resentfully, and hurried downstream.The two family members who came up from Xiangwang's mansion also knew Li Chengqi. Seeing him and Xue Chongjian's embarrassed appearance with wet temple hair and clothes, they were startled, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty summoned, please enter the palace quickly. " Li Chengqi was surprised again, and said in amazement: "Announcing me?" The family replied: "The decree is to come down in the afternoon, and it is said that His Royal Highness brought several young His Royal Highnesses into the palace. His Highness could not find Mr. Lang, so he had to go ahead first." Palace, sent many people out to look for Lang Jun."

Li Chengqi knew that he couldn't find anything when he asked his family members, so he and Xue Chongjian got on the horse in a hurry, and rode the horse back to the city. Even so, when they returned to the Shouchun King's residence in Longqingfang, the slender moonlight was already on the willows.Li Chengqi saw a few palace servants standing at the door, all holding red lanterns to look out.His heart sank again, and he went to bow to the servant door and said: "Xiao Wang changed into the court clothes, and then entered the palace with the imperial envoys."

Those people stood in front of the door from noon to night, and were urged several times by the messengers from the palace. They had been waiting for a long time, their legs were sore, their stomachs were hungry and anxious, and they just wanted to bring Li Chengqi into the palace to deal with business, but look at him. The clothes were covered with dust and weeds, he didn't even wear a crown on his head, and the corners of his head were still wet, hanging down limply, so he couldn't see it, so he reluctantly nodded and said: "Your Highness, please hurry up."

Li Chengqi went into the inner room to change his official uniform, and Xue Chongjian followed him in, saying: "What happened? Shall I accompany you into the palace?" Li Chengqi was also full of worries, shaking his head and said: "The man didn't say that he would call you and Aunt, I want to come to Zhai to find Dad and us only." Xue Chongjian saw that his face was a little pale, and he didn't know if he had just caught the cold, so he comforted him and said, "I haven't heard of any major events recently, don't worry, there is something wrong , must send a letter to me and my mother before making a decision."

Li Chengqi glanced at him and nodded. He didn't know why, but there was always a faint uneasiness in his heart.Maybe it's because the joys of these days are too tight, like cup after cup of good spring mash, he is so smoky and intoxicated.This urgent call brought back some of his dusty fears. The fear in his heart did not dare to tell Hua Nu. That happiness changes lightly.

Li Chengqi didn't have time to say anything to Xue Chongjian, so he went out and confessed his crimes to a few servants, then got on his horse and followed them straight to Taiji Palace, passing through Liangyi Gate and Xianchun Gate to the outside of Wanchun Hall.The servant standing at the door greeted him with a smile and said, "Why did your Highness come so late? I'm afraid the banquet in the hall is about to be over." Li Chengqi followed him up the stairs and said in surprise: "The house is hosting a banquet." The waiter laughed and said, "That's right, the prince's family, Xiangwang's family, and Liangwang's family are all here, and it's lively." Li Chengqi didn't understand why his father was so anxious to send someone to the suburbs to find him out of an ordinary family banquet. He explained why there was no aunt in today's banquet, but knowing that it was not a bad thing, he felt a little more at ease.

When he entered the hall, it was as the waiter said, the food and wine on each table were ruined.Sitting next to the emperor were the Zhang brothers, the prince and the princess were sitting on the left side of the empress's lower head, and on the right were the father and Liang Wang and his wife. Most of the children of the Li family and the Wu family were sitting behind their parents.The atmosphere in the hall seemed to be very relaxed, the prince and Li Dan both had matching smiles on their faces, and the young men and women of each family didn't care much about the presence of the Supreme Being, whispering in twos and threes.Seeing him coming in, all the county lords and princesses covered their faces with colorful fans according to the etiquette, and bowed their heads in salute. Their high buns on the temples were illuminated by the red lights in the room, and they were dyed a layer of warm wine red.

Li Chengqi was taken aback by their laughter, and quickly knelt down to the emperor and kowtowed: "I am late, please forgive me."

The empress seems to be in a good mood today, she just smiled and said: "You sisters have been sitting all day just to wait for you." Eat." The empress gave her a sideways look, then smiled again: "He came late, missed the lively place, and there are branches and branches in front, let the prince tell him."

A generous and gentle smile floated on Li Xian's bloated face, and he said to Li Chengqi: "Feng Nu, Zhai Jia's kindness, promised the Yongqing county lord of King Wei to Chongrun, and the Fangcheng county lord of King Liang. Promise to you, Promise New Capital to Yanhui, son of King Chen[1], Promise Xianhui[2] to Yanji, son of King Wei, Promise Baoer[3] to Chongxun, son of King Liang..." He said He reported five or six marriages in one tone, and the boys and girls involved all sat down at the table, blushing, and the brothers and sisters beside them all laughed, and the soft laughter came over like lotus leaves blown by the wind .

In fact, Li Chengqi, who was kneeling on the ground, did not listen carefully to the strings of titles and names behind him. Maybe he ran all the way and ran too fast. He went limp; perhaps the coolness in the water was still deposited in his body, and now it was slowly released along the blood, and all gathered in his heart.Seeing that he was lying on the ground, the queen smiled and said, "You are their eldest brother, you are more shy than these little ones." A few chuckles came from beside him, and Li Chengqi just felt at a loss, he didn't know what other people were laughing at. What, what flashed through his mind was Princess Taiping's tearful face on the day of her remarriage, and finally it was their generation's turn to be pawns.

Li Chengqi raised his head slowly, and subconsciously looked at his father. He saw his father's smiling face, but there was a sense of pity and helplessness hidden. He saw Longji hiding behind his father, with his eyelids lowered, unable to see his expression clearly. The hand holding a small butcher's knife was secretly exerting force, and two blue veins popped out on the back of the white hand.Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in his hand, as if a wound hidden under the skin suddenly burst, and blood gushed out.He remembered it, he remembered how cool the north wind was, and remembered that winter day, he also held a small knife fiercely like Saburo.He used his own flesh and blood to anoint Bai Jian, but he still couldn't save his mother.He remembered that Hua Nu told him that the reason why Wei Tuan'er framed his mother and Mrs. Dou was that Wei Wang Liang Wang was instigated behind him.

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Li Chengqi subconsciously held his right hand, his eyes turned away from his father, and gradually turned back to the upper seat where the emperor was sitting.Seeing that the emperor was looking at him with a slight smile, when the emperor smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes gathered together, and the cold light in his eyes was no longer looking at him as usual, which made Li Chengqi stunned for a moment.In his memory, he had never seen the emperor treat him so kindly, and he also found it strange that the emperor was already so old.

The wind is blowing and the day is flying, and the scenery is rushing westward. This year has passed too easily. With the flower slaves by my side, even winter nights and summer days have become joyful. The copper leak flows into this watery year.It's like reading a very good poem. After reading it all at once, I feel my lips and teeth are fragrant, but I can't remember the words and sentences at a loss.A touch of melancholy and remorse filled his heart, he should have thought of it a long time ago, life is like a post, and so is pleasure. Since their happiness in the past six months was stolen, God will take it back one day.

Li Chengqi took a deep breath, bowed his head and kowtowed, and said: "I thank your majesty for your kindness. It's just that my morals are thin and my ambition is light, and my actions and deeds are detrimental, which often arouses your majesty's anger. Last year, your majesty's words of reprimand often hit you in the night." The county master is loved by His Majesty and the King of Liang, and I feel ashamed of myself. If I honor the Lord, I am afraid that it will delay the life of the county master, and I hope His Majesty will take it back." I thought it was just an ordinary polite speech.After he finished speaking and kowtowed, someone at the other side of the county lords' table gave a soft exclamation, and hurriedly covered it with a fan, and the hall fell silent for a while.

Li Xian did not expect that Li Chengqi would resign, so he was startled at first, and subconsciously looked at his mother.The emperor couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, and slowly lowered the wine cup in his hand. His wrinkled hands were placed on the translucent white jade cup, which was very eye-catching.Li Xian didn't know why, but his heart was sour. He understood his mother's painstaking efforts to reconcile Li Wu's family, so he persuaded Li Chengqi with a smile: "Feng Nu, there is nothing that can be improved by passing it by. You can know your mistakes and you are your own son. , the Supreme will not care about you any more."

A trace of displeasure flashed across Wu Sansi's expression, and he said with a dry smile: "Fengnu, you have seen my family Alan before, do you think her appearance is not good enough for you? Or do you think that my family background in Prince Liang's mansion is slightly cold and not enough?" To climb up to His Royal Highness Shouchun County King?"

Li Chengqi didn't raise his head, so everyone couldn't see his face clearly. They only heard him say again: "Liang Wang's words are serious, Cheng Qi has no place to be ashamed. Cheng Qi has been out of school since he was a child, and he is far away from his parents. The crime of unfilial piety is unforgivable. But he has a sliver of self-knowledge. In this life, he should focus on taking care of his father, and dare not look forward to marriage any more." His words were so decisive that everyone was taken aback. A girl in a red dress over there turned over the table when she got up, and the cup shattered on the floor.The young girl ran out of the palace angrily holding her skirt, she never covered her face with a silk fan, her red lips were slightly pouty, although her face was full of anger, her appearance was extremely beautiful.

When Li Dan heard Li Chengqi talk about "far away from his parents", he just felt a heavy pain in his heart. What he was most worried about finally happened.He should have thought that although Feng Nu is weak-tempered, there are some things that he cannot forget, just like he apologized to his mother every day, and when he returned, facing a lonely lamp, thinking of you like a night candle, crying thousands of lines, also There will be some heart-piercing past events that will keep him from sleeping peacefully.He said softly: "Feng Nu, the king of Liang is willing to marry the county master because he is sympathetic to the Supreme Being and pities you, so don't refuse any more."

Li Chengqi listened to his father's slightly tired voice, and his heart ached like twists and turns. He knew in his heart that he had left this place, and he couldn't refuse this marriage for his father.Marriage, is it the county head who left the banquet just now?Is it the beautiful face of hibiscus that will be revealed behind the fan when he reads a makeup poem in the future?His hope in this life was exhausted by the face behind the willow tree in the small courtyard. As he said to Cui Shi, he didn't know how to take care of a woman.He kowtowed heavily, took off the veil on his head, put it aside, and said: "I have been wandering around for the past few days, and I am about to ask Your Majesty, please allow me to resign from the prince, devote myself to cultivating Taoism, and pray for Qin Qin."

There was an uproar in the hall, the Crown Princess Wei Shi didn't understand, she just felt that the son of the fourth brother was very unreasonable, and persuaded: "Fengnu, you are wrong, how can you be a filial son and become a Taoist priest... "

The emperor had been listening to their noise in silence, but now he smiled coldly and said, "Prince Princess." Webster hurriedly stopped and said, "I'm here." The emperor smiled lightly and said, "You don't know that your nephew is , He is someone who has even thrown away the crown prince, how can you care about this little prince. You take these young ladies down, I have a few words to ask him." Although Wei Shi didn't understand, he didn't dare to speak again, He winked at Li Chongrun, Li Xianhui and others, led a group of young girls in the opposite table to salute the emperor, and then walked out in a file.For a while, only the emperor and prince, Xiang Wang, Wu Sansi and the Zhang brothers were left at the table.

The emperor sneered, and said, "Fengnu, who did you listen to and gossip about? So you hate King Liang in your heart?" Li Chengqi's shoulders trembled slightly, and he said in a low voice, "I have never heard of anything." The emperor nodded and said "Then you resent me." Li Chengqi kowtowed, and said: "I have no such intentions. I just feel ashamed and unworthy of the county lord. I don't dare to deceive the king for a moment of honor and favor. I hope your majesty will think twice."

Zhang Yizhi had been kneeling and sitting next to the emperor without speaking, at this moment he suddenly laughed lightly, although he was not born as soft and charming as his younger brother Zhang Changzong, this laugh was full of jokes, which made Li Xian and Li Dan feel palpitations.Zhang Yizhi smiled and said: "I dare you, please ask King Shouchun County on behalf of Zhai's family, who is in your Highness's heart?"

Li Chengqi knelt in the hall for a long time, even the emperor's scolding was not as good as this sentence made his heart palpitate, his whole body was shaken, and there was thunder in his ears, he was flustered and didn't think of how to answer, he held his hands on the ground and let go, and his body Shaking for a while, I don't know whether to raise my head to answer or continue to kneel.When he described it like this, Zhang Yizhi thought he was asking, and smiled at the emperor, "How is it?"

Li Xian also said the same, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "It's still Wulang who knows the thoughts of their young people. If so, I will dare to ask Feng Nu for a favor, and I hope that my mother will show mercy and give the girl to her." As Feng Nu is a side concubine, it is expected that Feng Nu's eyesight is not bad."

The emperor's expression was not as relaxed as Li Xian's, and he asked coldly: "Whose girl is it? Let us also hear what kind of person can catch your eyes." Li Chengqi just fell silent, Li Xian Unexpectedly, what was originally a good thing was disturbed by this nephew, and I felt that Li Chengqi was stubborn and unreasonable, and frowned, "Fengnu, what kind of person can't tell Zhaijia and your father?" Is it?" Li Dan's head was buzzing, he gritted his teeth, afraid that his son would say something that would annoy his mother even more, he forced a smile and said: "This is such a shameless affair of their little children, it's not degrading to say it out. Feng Nu is so absurd, I must take him back tonight so that I can teach him, marriage matters, but mother decides."

Suddenly, a cold light flashed across the emperor's slightly weakened phoenix eyes, and he sneered slightly: "Can you persuade him?" The emperor's gaze shifted from Liang Wang's unhappy face to Li Xian and Li Dan's anxious face Finally, it landed on Li Chengqi's kneeling body.She also felt ridiculous in her heart, how could she be fooled by these people's oath and humility for a moment, and she would expect that they would be as harmonious and friendly as brothers and sisters behind her?The descendants of the Li family, the ministers of the Li family, have already grasped their swords, and they are only waiting for the day when she goes to smash the foundation of the Great Zhou that she created with one hand, and to smash the foundation they have accumulated for 50 years. The resentment was all vented on the Wu family.This grandson is the most cowardly, but also the most honest. He has said everything that his parents and brothers dare not say.

Her face darkened, and there was another moment of silence in the hall, when the emperor suddenly said: "Pass the stick." Li Dan was anxious and hurt, and begged in a wailing voice: "Mother!" The emperor snorted: "I know his bones." It's very hard, and it depends on how many sticks you can hit the truth."

When Li Chengqi heard this disposition, although he shook his hands slightly, he calmed down immediately. When he resigned from the marriage, he knew that it would anger the emperor. If the emperor was willing to beat him up, it would be very cheap for him to let go of the marriage.Anyone can marry the county head of the Wu family, but he can't. He doesn't have the ability to avenge his mother, and he doesn't have the ability to make an inseparable vow to Hua Nu, but he can at least refuse Wu Sansi's daughter to be his wife.

Not long after, several servants filed in, holding two wattle sticks in their hands, and two more people behind them carried a torture bed and placed it in the center of the hall.Li Chengqi took a deep breath, kowtowed to the emperor again, got up and walked towards the torture bed.Li Xian didn't dare to speak any more at this time, looking at his anxious fourth brother, and at Li Chengqi who was extremely calm and stubborn, he felt a headache.

Two servants held Li Chengqi hostage and put him on the torture bed.Li Chengqi smiled wryly in his heart, this is not the first time for him to be on this torture bed, he is already a little familiar with the way, before being pressed to the point where he can't move, he first clasped the edge of the torture bed tightly with both hands, so that he could get some help from the pain for a while place.Two servants pressed his shoulders respectively, and another person walked behind him. Li Chengqi understood what he meant, his face flushed suddenly, he closed his eyes and bowed his head.

Zhang Yizhi has been watching the emperor's face quietly, seeing the emperor frowning slightly, he hastily shook his head slightly at the servant, the man understood, he only lifted up Li Chengqi's robe, and folded up his middle coat, revealing only a plain gauze length inside He stopped his hands and turned to press down Li Chengqi's feet.Only then did Li Chengqi realize that today's stick duty in the hall can save him the shame of stripping his clothes, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, seeing that the interior decorations of the sticks on both sides were already standing, he gritted his teeth hard.

Because the emperor didn't count the number of thorns, the servants didn't dare to ask more questions. Seeing that the king of Shouchun County had been pressed properly, they held up the thorns and slapped them down heavily.Although Li Chengqi was still wearing a pair of trousers, but his clothes were thin in summer, the plank was like being hit on the flesh, there was a crisp sound behind him, and his buttocks were in severe pain like oil splashing on fire.Although he tried his best to endure it, he still couldn't restrain his body and raised his head subconsciously. When he raised his head, the bright light beside the emperor blurred into a soft halo, covering the cold face of the emperor and the incomprehensible face of his uncle Li Xian. , the father's regretful and unbearable face, Liang Wang Wu Sansi's embarrassing and embarrassing face, all were blurred.

Those who don't know me, say what I want, his mind, the emperor understands a little, his father understands a little, Wu Sansi also understands a little, but none of them can really understand.Even he himself can't figure out why he can endure these many years, but after all he can't bear to perfunctory in matters of marriage.He tried to close his eyes in the constant pain, and looked into his heart. There was a darkness like an autumn morning, where there was a light cold mist, there was a gurgling water, there were green reeds, and sad maple trees. Passionate weeping willow.He tried his best to see, but he still couldn't see clearly the future between him and Hua Nu.

Li Chengqi tried his best to suppress his body on the torture bed. At the beginning, he only felt pain in his skin and flesh with three or four sticks, but he finally managed to hold back by clenching his teeth.After two or three sticks, he felt more and more pain in his ribs, he couldn't even breathe, his mind was in a mess, after thinking about it carefully, he remembered that when he went out today, the belt around his waist was given to him by Xue Chongjian That piece of white jade has a hook.Last year, Xue Chongjian asked the emperor for a piece of high-quality mutton fat jade, and ordered the jade worker to grind it into two belt hooks. Xue Chongjian carved a phoenix on its head, and his head carved a peony flower.On weekdays, he cherishes it, but because he is afraid of being seen by others, he doesn't dare to wear it too much, but today he put it on when he went out to play with Xue Chongjian, and he didn't change it in the rush to change clothes before entering the palace.Presumably, when he lay on the torture bed just now, he moved the hook so much that it hurt his ribs.

He was afraid that he would crush the hook, so he tried his best to prop up his body, just happened to land heavily on the buttocks again, and it was even more unbearable when he was distracted, and he couldn't help but let out an "uh" in pain.The servant who was pressing him felt that Li Chengqi was about to grab his wrist back suddenly, he thought that he couldn't bear the pain and struggled, so he hurriedly put more force on his hands, and firmly nailed his wrist to the torture bed.Li Chengqi was so anxious that he could only support his upper body with his elbows. After such a toss, he felt more and more pain from the stick that fell on his body. Although the pain was on his buttocks and legs, every time the stick fell, his internal organs were hurt. It was a tumbling.

Although the thorn stick is not as easy to scratch the skin as the bamboo board, but the skin and flesh are swollen, and the red and purple color has come out from the thin trousers.It was only about twenty times, when the stick fell on the buttocks again, it was covered with blood stains, Li Chengqi felt that the pain suddenly increased several times, he couldn't bear it and let out another muffled moan.

Wu Sansi sat at the side, watching this dreary scene of sticking, feeling extremely embarrassed.He looked at Li Dan, and saw that he couldn't bear to watch, and turned his face away, but his hands on his knees were shaking violently.Wu Sansi felt depressed, he deliberately wanted to marry the Li family in order to save himself a place in the future, but he didn't expect this little county king to be tougher than his father.If Li Chengqi is really beaten out of good or bad, the relationship with Li Dan will be even deeper. Seeing the blood stains on Li Chengqi's trousers, he coughed dryly and apologized to the emperor with a smile: "Zhaijia, young man of Shouchun County King Thin-skinned, maybe there are some secrets that are inconvenient to say here, just go back and let the king ask." Seeing that the emperor was silent, he smiled again: "If he is broken, it will be Alan who will suffer in the future, right?"

Although Li Chengqi was dizzy from the pain, he understood that his words were vulgar, and was trembling with anger for a moment.But Zhang Yizhi said with a smile: "Zhaijia, what King Liang said is reasonable. Using sticks to press questions about children's affairs is a bit of a joke." His words were presumptuous, and the emperor didn't think he was disobedient. He turned his head and smiled: " Then what do you think?" Zhang Yizhi said with a smile: "If I let the minister take His Highness back to the Heart Academy and persuade him slowly, His Highness will definitely be able to change his mind."

Hearing those three words, Li Xian and Li Dan raised their heads suddenly, and the emperor's expression also froze for a moment. After a moment's pause, he said, "That's fine."

The author has something to say: [1] In the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's daughter was called the princess, the prince's son was called the princess, and the prince's daughter was called the county owner; [2] King Chen was Wu Chengye, Wu Zetian's nephew; [3] It was the sad Yongtai princess Li Xianhui ;【4】Li Guer, Princess Anle, who is also very sad.