Legend of the Orchid

"I don't quite understand, sir, please enlighten me." Mrs. Zhang looked at the silver pot and said, although she didn't know much about the allusions, she was very good at observing words and expressions, so she guessed the truth in her heart, but pretended to be .

Li Zhonglan raised her eyebrows, and showed Zhang a button carved into the dragon's tail at the lower end of the pot handle: "This mechanism can go up or down, when I push it down."

He pressed lightly with his slender and fair index finger, and the dragon's tail immediately drooped, but it still maintained a harmonious angle with the handle of the pot. It was impossible to tell the difference without looking closely. He poured the wine into a jade cup, and called out: "Come on!"

The servant serving outside the door entered the room with a fluttering carrier pigeon in his hand. The servant pressed the beak of the pigeon into the jade cup and let go after a while, but saw the pigeon wobbled a few steps away. He wanted to spread his wings, but he tilted his head, fell off the table, and died instantly.

"Ah!" Mrs. Zhang covered her mouth and exclaimed.

"Madam, don't worry, people are not like animals, they won't die instantly, it will take some time for problems to occur." Li Zhonglan smiled meaningfully, and said, "And when the mechanism is turned up, it will be ordinary wine, you can drink it at ease. "

After finishing speaking, he turned back the silver button, poured himself a drink, and sure enough, his complexion remained the same and his smile remained the same.

Mrs. Zhang was secretly happy and said worriedly: "Although this thing is exquisite, if it is found out, I'm afraid my family's life will be lost."

Li Zhonglan frowned slightly, as if in deep thought, and asked for a moment, "How does His Royal Highness treat Madam?"

Mrs. Zhang pursed her lips and smiled: "The slave family is treated very well."

"Then what are you worried about, madam?" Li Zhonglan poured herself another glass of wine from a silver jug, and after drinking it all, she played with the glass and said meaningfully: "Mrs. Come to find out about Madam?"

Mrs. Zhang nodded, she was overjoyed, but she was puzzled and said: "Why do you want to help, sir, I don't quite understand."

Li Zhonglan looked at the suspicious face of the other party and said with a smile: "To be honest, Yun has practiced Taoism for many years and devoted himself to the study of alchemy. Only in the middle, Yun knows that His Royal Highness Xu Wang is the most holy and favored, and it should not be difficult to get this kind of spice, so I hope Madam can give Yun some kind words, Yun is very grateful!"

Mrs. Zhang suddenly realized, promised again and again, then put the jug back into the gift box, thanked her again, and then left.

Afterwards, Zhao Tingjie walked out from behind the screen. He sat next to Zhong Lan, scratched her delicate nose, and said with a smile on his face, "Aren't you afraid that woman will also drink that pot of wine?"

Li Zhonglan also looked at the other party with a smile, and said firmly: "I drank a few sips of that wine. She must be worried that the wine will be drunk and she will not be able to do evil, so she won't drink it again. Besides, she won't drink it when she sees that I'm fine." It will be suspected that alcohol is poisonous, so our goal can be achieved."

The mechanism of the silver pot is actually a decoration, it cannot be turned up or down, and only poisoned wine will be poured out.

Ting Jie looked at Zhong Lan's crescent-like pink lips still covered with a layer of transparent and mellow venom, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, pinched the little fox's pointed chin, and stretched out his tongue to lick the other's lips After licking it clean, he pried open the other's white teeth, and tasted the sweet juice mixed with the aroma of fine wine.

After the two kissed, Zhao Tingjie put his arms around Li Zhonglan's waist and said with a smile, "How do you know that woman will definitely come to you and not report you?"

Li Zhonglan leaned her head on Ting Jie's shoulder and said proudly: "Of course I know that a woman's jealousy is a terrible thing."

Ting Jie turned his head to look at Zhong Lan, pretended to give a deep "hmm" and smiled meaningfully: "Of course you know."

Li Zhonglan immediately understood, frowned, and immediately sat up straight, pouted, and kept a distance from Zhao Tingjie.

Zhao Tingjie jokingly said again: "She called you 'immortal' just now, why didn't I realize that you have immortal energy?"

Li Zhonglan lowered her face, turned to look at Zhao Tingjie, rolled her eyes, and said disdainfully, "That's because you have blind eyes, bad taste, and don't know how to appreciate it!"

Zhao Tingjie was not angry, but just raised his eyebrows, and said with a smirk: "Not really, it's because what I'm best at is banishing immortals."

After he finished speaking, he pushed him down on the couch under the suspicious eyes of the little fox. Zhong Lan protested in a low voice: "Be careful outside!"

It's a pity that Zhao Tingjie turned a deaf ear and blocked his mouth to prevent him from continuing to speak.

Not long after, the spring was beautiful in the private room, Zhao Tingjie looked at the panting little man under him, and teased: "I don't think you look like a fairy at all, but like an actor in a drunken red building."

Li Zhonglan was so angry that he wanted to hit the court steps, but he only had the strength to make a humming sound, as if agreeing with the other party's words.

An hour later, Li Zhonglan's face was flushed, and she nestled in Tingjie's arms like a puddle of mud. Zhao Tingjie touched his small face and said, "If you like ambergris, I'll send someone to find it in the sea for you."

Li Zhonglan replied tiredly: "No, I'm not used to that smell."

He put his head close to Zhao Tingjie's neck, sniffed the thick and steady sandalwood fragrance, and thought, this is the smell he likes.

A few days later, shocking news came from Prince Xu's residence. King Xu Zhao Yuanxi suddenly became unwell when he was in the early court, and he died not long after returning to the residence. , Posthumous title Gongxiao.

Zhao Guangyi is a shrewd person, it is impossible not to find out the cause of the prince's death. Soon, Mrs. Zhang was executed for the crime of violating the etiquette system, and all her relatives were exiled. Blind, and from then on, the ancient Buddha with the green lamp died.

That's right, the gunpowder in the silver pot used by the Zhang family was remade from the gunpowder used by Zhao Guangyi to Li Zhonglan. Yan was furious, thinking that Xu Xuan had conspired with outsiders to murder the prince, and sent him to Binzhou. Xu Xuan died of cold a few months later.

Li Zhonglan sneered: "Although this Zhao Yuanxi has become a dead ghost, he is the first prince of your Song Dynasty, so he died well."

Zhao Tingjie couldn't help pinching the cheeks of the other party, shook his head and said, "I don't think you have made any progress in other areas, but your verbal skills are getting better and better."

Li Zhonglan feigned anger, and rolled her eyes angrily: "Since I am worthless in your eyes, what are you doing with me!"

Zhao Tingjie hooked Li Zhonglan's waist and coaxed, "Because you have a good tongue!"

He pressed against the little fox's white and tender ears exuding the fragrance of orchid, and added in a low voice.

Li Zhonglan's jade noodles immediately looked like overcooked shrimps, so red that they could be steaming, he gave the Great Demon King a reproachful look, bit his lip and suppressed his head.

After Zhao Yuanxi died, his eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo was still under confinement due to insanity. The heir to the throne could only rely on Zhao Guangyi's weak and incompetent third son Zhao Yuankan, who was so angry that Zhao Guangyi scolded "a bunch of useless people" in the palace all day , but he could do nothing but sigh.

Zhao Tingjie had long since lost his will to win the throne. Seeing that Zhao Yuankan was quite honest and honest, he felt that it was not a bad idea to let him become emperor. He also heard that Zhao Guangyi was very worried about the succession, which caused the recurrence of the old arrow injury and his physical condition gradually deteriorated. Knowing that time is running out, he gave up the idea of ​​revenge.

Lan Ting and his wife planned to return to Korea to settle down. Before leaving, they decided to go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. The ups and downs of more than ten years were about to officially come to an end.