Dry Dream

hello? "

Hong'er and I got off the horse, Hong'er took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into the gatekeeper's hand, and replied with a smile: "That's what you said, our third master is very filial to the prince, please let me know Bar."

"Hey, don't call me that. I'm just a gatekeeper. If people hear me, I'm going to be in trouble." The gatekeeper didn't care about my ignoring, just put the money into his pocket with a smile. After talking and joking with Hong'er, he went in to report.

After a short while, the gatekeeper came back again, saluted me respectfully, and said, "Master Qi, the prince is here to invite you." Then, he led the way and led us into the foot gate.As soon as he entered the gate, Hong'er went into the gatehouse and waited. In the palace, servants like him are generally not allowed to walk around at will, so I lowered my head and just followed the gatekeeper.

I have come to Xiaoling Palace many times, but every time I come, I feel very uncomfortable.Everyone knows that King Xiaoling only likes men who are not close to women. Although he has already married the princess, he only has to deal with errands and never has sex with the princess.There are several male pets in the mansion, who sleep in and serve them every day and night.Now everyone in the palace seems to know that my father intends to give me to King Xiaoling, pointing and whispering behind my back when they see me coming, I can only pretend not to know.

After walking for a while with a dull head, I suddenly realized something was wrong, usually I would go to the study or meet in the small hall, why did it seem like I was going to the inner courtyard this time?

Before I could open my mouth to ask, the gatekeeper suddenly stopped at the gate of the yard, turned back and bowed with a smile: "Master Qi, the prince is tired and resting in the yard. We wait servants in the inner yard can't Go in, go in by yourself." After saying that, he turned and left.I wanted to stop the gatekeeper to ask a question, but as soon as he left, a eunuch came out of the courtyard and invited me in.Helpless, I had no choice but to follow him into the inner courtyard.

Following the eunuch, he went through two more arches and came to the door of a room.The eunuch stopped, turned around and said with a smile: "Master Qi, the prince is inside, you go in." After that, he retreated and stood guard by the door.

I looked around and stepped into the house with the whole skirt.The room is large, with sandalwood incense in the incense burner, antique porcelain on the surrounding mahogany shelves, and a beautiful picture of mountains and rivers on the middle wall, but there is no one there.There was a maid standing in front of the door of the back room, she saluted me when she saw me, and lifted the water-blue gauze curtain decorated with emerald beads to invite me in.

I took a deep breath, collected myself, and stepped into the back room.Lifting his eyes, he saw King Xiaoling, who was only wearing a white satin jacket, reclining lazily on the couch, and two handsome men leaned beside him in disheveled clothes, beating his shoulders and legs. Still whispering sweet words in his mouth.

I only glanced at it, then hurriedly lowered my head, raised the hem of my robe and knelt on one leg and said, "Yan Jingqi from the Changguo Mansion pays his respects to the lord, the lord is a thousand years old."

"Didn't I tell you earlier that there is no need to perform such a grand ceremony in the future?" King Xiao Ling said lazily in a low voice, waved his hands, and the two serving men got off the soft couch, saluted and retreated. "Sit down," he said, pointing to the chair behind me with a finger wearing a finely carved gold finger guard.

"Thank you, my lord." I replied, lowered my eyes and got up and sat gently on the edge of the chair.

"Why, did your father rush over again?" King Xiaoling sat up a little, and asked with a lazy smile.

My face became hot, and I hurriedly stood up and replied: "My lord was joking, it is Jingqi's duty to please my lord."

"Hehehe..." Before my words fell to the ground, King Xiaoling laughed softly and waved his hands: "Come and sit."

I froze and froze.This is the first time that King Xiaoling asked me to sit close to him.I saw his long and narrow red phoenix eyes half-closed with a smile, and there was a glint of light in his pupils.There was a slight tiredness on the thin face, and a pair of light-colored lips were slightly raised like willow leaves falling into the water.

I was a little nervous, and walked over step by step and slowly sat down on the edge of the couch.King Xiaoling leaned over a little, picked up my temple hair with his armor, and said, "You should be fourteen this year."

"Yes, it will be fifteen after the new year." My whole body was tense, and I replied in a low voice.

"You're still young..." King Xiaoling said something that made me puzzled, he reached out and held my hand in front of his eyes, and said, "I heard that you have been practicing martial arts diligently and don't like reading, so you are often criticized. Your father's punishment, could it be that you want to enter the rivers and lakes in the future?"

04. Would you like to?

I shivered with fright, the hairs all over my body stood up, my scalp was numb, all my nerves were focused on the hand that King Xiaoling was holding and playing with, and I stammered back: "No , no, little, the villain only practices martial arts to strengthen his body..."

"Little man? Hehehe...it is indeed a 'little man'." Xiaoling Wang let go of my hand with a teasing smile, but raised his arms to wrap around my shoulders, leaned over and whispered in my ear : "Your father has hinted many times that he wants to give you to this king, are you willing?"

I opened my eyes wide, and the blood in my whole body seemed to freeze because of this sentence.She moved her lips, but no sound came out.Say no?That is courting death.And it will also implicate the entire Yan family.But I can't say the word "willing".

This is so strange, King Xiaoling has never been so close to me before.Every time I come to pay my respects, I just say a few innocuous words, or spend half a day playing chess with him.But this time when he came back from the tour, he seemed to be a different person, and he suddenly became interested in me?

"Don't be afraid, this king won't force others to make things difficult for you. When you want, your father can send you here." King Xiaoling patted me on the shoulder comfortingly, turned his head and ordered outside the house: "Come here, take me." Here comes the chessboard."

The maid waiting outside the house responded, and after a while, she brought the chessboard and chess box over and placed it on the low table beside the couch, and then brought the short table over and placed it in the center of the soft couch.The eunuch followed behind her and served us two bowls of hot tea.When the two retreated, King Xiaoling squeezed a chess piece and said, "Come on, let's serve two bowls of hot tea. When the two retreat,

Let me see if your chess skills have improved. "

I answered yes in a trance, stood up and sat across from me, picked up a chess piece and placed it on the board.King Xiaoling smiled slightly, put the chess pieces in his hand back into the chess box, picked up a chess piece from another box, and said, "So you want to use black pieces this time." With the black chess in hand, he couldn't help feeling flustered.

King Xiaoling didn't say anything more, and started to play chess slowly.I didn't have any thoughts at all, I messed around, and my head was a mess.Suddenly, I felt something flicker in front of my eyes, and without thinking about it, I naturally raised my arms to parry.Then there was a tightness on my wrist, another pain, and a strong force pulled me over.

"Bah! Crash..." The short table fell to the ground, the chess pieces fell to the ground, the tea bowl was also broken, and the hot tea spilled on the ground, emitting puffs of white smoke.Only then did I come back to my senses, and found myself trapped in King Xiaoling's arms twisted backwards.The maid outside the house hurriedly opened the curtain and came in when she heard the movement, and asked in fear: "My lord, why..."

"Get out!" King Xiaoling sullenly cast a sidelong glance at the maid and scolded in a low voice.The servant girl trembled in fright, she hurriedly lowered her head and said yes, and hurriedly exited and closed the door.

I stared at the Adam's apple in front of me with wide eyes in horror, and my chest was beating wildly like a galloping horse.Just now I was flustered and distracted, why did I suddenly fight with King Xiaoling?Isn't this impatient?

"Hehehe...Little guy, it seems that your kung fu is still not good enough." King Xiaoling saw that the person who was an eyesore was gone, he turned his eyes and said with a smile.Casually picked up a strand of hair from the back of me and put it in front of my nose to smell it, said: "Is it the fragrance I sent you years ago?"

I stared at the trembling Adam's apple in front of my eyes and swallowed nervously, and said without daring to move, "My lord, my lord, the villain deserves everything..."

"Hey, we're just idle and having fun, what's the crime?" King Xiaoling interrupted my apology, let go of my hair and pulled my body away, took a sweat towel and touched my forehead, Said: "Just now I just wanted to wipe off your sweat, why is this king so scary?"

I tried my best to calm down, licked my dry lips, and replied: "No, Wang Yezhai is kind-hearted, magnanimous, and a virtuous corporal..."

"All right, all right, when will you learn how to flatter those sour literati?" King Xiaoling let go of my arm with a funny face on his face, and I suddenly felt my whole arm heat up, and then it went numb.I have heard that King Xiaoling is very good at kung fu, but I have never seen it. This time I have experienced it personally.

Inadvertently, he saw a honey-colored chest in front of his eyes, exposed from the open-fronted jacket.A special faint body odor wafted over, I panicked, and hurriedly scrambled off the soft couch to kneel down and apologize.I felt a gust of wind blowing against my face, King Xiaoling was already standing in front of me and supported me, and said: "Don't just kneel, kneel, this king doesn't intend to eat you, hehehe..."

05. Food Marrow Knows Taste

Before King Xiaoling finished speaking, he heard the eunuch's voice from outside the door saying: "My lord, Mr. Guo, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, please see me." He tilted his head and replied, "Let him wait in Huixiantang." He looked at me with a smile on his face and said: "Guo Xinde is here. I heard that he and your father have always been at odds. I wonder if he will sue again this time?"

I lowered my head, gently withdrew my hand and responded speechlessly.I have always ignored matters between my fathers and the court.King Xiaoling didn't take it seriously, and said casually: "Serve me to change clothes." I nodded, and hurriedly walked to the red lacquered screen frame beside me, and took it from above.