Strange Tale of Qingluan

The sun wheel began to fall into the West Sea, and the melting outline rendered the surrounding clouds into a golden orange color, like a woman's cheeks with rouge blooming. Someone raised their eyes and admired leisurely.

Yang Bin took the lead and walked quickly through the busy city with a very neat and unrestrained gait. Behind him, Li Xuan followed closely, walking quickly while using his ears to distinguish the sounds around him.

Walking out of the busy city and walking into a quiet but not narrow street, Yang Bin suddenly stopped walking with arms folded.Li Xuan, who was behind him, noticed that the familiar footsteps had stopped, so he also stopped, and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

Yang Bin turned around and said frankly, "I was afraid that you would not be able to keep up, so I stopped and waited for you."

Li Xuan replied, "I've already followed. Let's go."

Yang Bin lowered his arms, turned to face the front, and continued to stride forward.

After going around several streets, I finally got closer and closer to the palace.

However, at this moment, a few men in ordinary clothes appeared to escort a carriage, slowly came out from the depths of the palace, and after passing through several streets, they bumped into the oncoming Yang Bin and Li Xuan. is on.

Seeing this, Yang Bin hurriedly reminded Li Xuan behind him, saying, "A carriage is coming, be careful!"

Li Xuan didn't say a word, and when he heard the rumble of the wheels, he hurried to one side.They avoided it in time, and they passed the carriage smoothly.

A corner of the curtains of the car was lifted by slender fingers, revealing a gap, through which Bao Qin, who was sitting in the car, accidentally caught the figures of the two people, especially Li Xuan's profile.

Feeling the instant familiarity, Baoqin immediately lowered the curtain, turned out the portrait under the cushion, glanced at it and confirmed it, and hurriedly opened her lips and shouted: "Stop! Stop!" But it was a man's clear voice.

The carriage stopped following the sound, Li Xuan then stopped, and Yang Bin also stopped immediately when he noticed something strange and looked back, seeing that Li Xuan had already rushed to the front of the carriage.

Li Xuan stopped and asked loudly, "Zhongming! Is it you! Zhongming!"

The car door was closed tightly, and there was no gap in the car curtains. Only Su Zhongming's voice came from inside the car: "Yes! I just escaped from the Taoxia Palace! They are about to come after me!"

Yang Bin quickly chased after him, looked at the carriage, then at Li Xuan, and opened his lips in surprise: "What's going on!?"

Li Xuan happily said: "Zhongming has escaped from Taoxia Palace!"

Hearing this, Yang Bin was stunned, and was even more surprised: "Escaped? Then who are they?!" As he spoke, he glanced at the expressionless men escorting the carriage.

The voice in the car replied: "It's from Qingluan City!"

It happened that neither Li Xuan nor Yang Bin knew what most of the people in Qingluan City were like, so they had no weakness in front of them.But only Yang Bin vaguely felt that something was wrong, and his intuition reminded him that there seemed to be something wrong.

Li Xuan was convinced of the identity of the person in the car, and immediately said flatly: "Zhongming, come out! I will take you away immediately!"

Su Zhongming's voice came from inside the car, and he replied: "No! I was injured when I escaped, and I must go back to Qingluan City immediately! If you want to catch up with me, you can go with me now, okay?"

"Are you injured!?" Li Xuan was taken aback, feeling that he was in a hurry, so he said to Yang Bin: "You go back first! Tell others what happened today, and I will accompany Zhongming back to Qingluan City first!"

Yang Bin hesitated, and opened his lips: "Hey, I think this matter..." Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Xuan boarded the carriage, and the door also opened a gap for Li Xuan.

The helpless Yang Bin, regardless of right or wrong, blurted out: "Don't you find it strange! Also, are you sure that Su Zhongming is really in the car!?"

When the words fell, the car door was already closed. In the darkness, a gentle hand grasped Li Xuan's body, holding it tightly. There was no intoxicating fragrance, but a faint scent of books, while Su Zhongming is the one who likes to read thousands of volumes of books, so Li Xuan confidently replied to the outside of the car: "It can't be wrong! He is indeed Zhongming!"

Yang Bin opened his lips and was about to say something when the carriage started moving and headed to another street.Yang Bin couldn't stop Li Xuan, and could only watch helplessly as the carriage and the man escorting the carriage gradually disappeared from sight.

"Zhongming..." Facing the seemingly endless darkness, Li Xuan opened his lips and called out.

Baoqin pursed her lips, took out a small paper bag from a kit, opened it, put the colorless and odorless powder into the cup, lifted the teapot, poured warm tea into the cup, picked up the cup, and blew After taking a few breaths of hot air, he turned his head to face Li Xuan, imitated Su Zhongming's voice again, and persuaded: "It's a long way to Qingluan City, drink a cup of tea first to quench your thirst."

Li Xuan didn't care about this, he just asked, "Zhongming, where are you hurt? How serious is it? Tell me."

Baoqin imitated Su Zhongming's voice, and replied: "You don't understand, it's better not to say it. You listen to me first, and drink the tea first." After saying that, she grabbed Li Xuan's hand and gently Stick it on the wall of the cup.

Naturally, Li Xuan would not refuse Su Zhongming's tea, so he held the cup firmly and drank it cleanly.

After a while, he heard Su Zhongming's voice again, which said: "Take a good rest, the time to wake up will come." Coincidentally, as soon as the voice fell, he felt dizzy and closed his eyes. Eyes fell asleep.

The carriage did not drive out of the Taoxia King City, but detoured a slightly longer road, arrived at the Houcheng Pass of the palace, entered the palace again, detoured several long streets, and came to a remote place. Immediately afterwards, the carriage stopped.

Lou Tianying had already seen the returning carriage at the observation deck upstairs, turned around and immediately went downstairs.Baoqin came out of the carriage, bowed to Lou Tianying, and then respectfully said: "Your Majesty's order has been successfully completed, and I'm here to return."

Lou Tianying cheered up: "Okay! Gu did not misunderstand you! You can catch the 'rat' that Gu wanted to catch alive without spending a single soldier!" Then he gave orders to the others, "What are you still doing in a daze? Bring people in!"

The men who escorted the carriage immediately lifted Li Xuan who was sleeping in the carriage out, hurriedly carried him into the building, and carried him into the cell hidden in the depths.It turned out that they were all disguised by the palace guards.

Lou Tianying was overjoyed when he won the first game, and said to Bao Qin: "Bao Qin! If you want any reward for your achievements, just ask and do your best!"

Baoqin begged: "I don't want gold and silver treasures, Baoqin, I just ask your majesty to let Baoqin go to the market to worship the queen!"

Lou Tianying didn't expect it, and was stunned for a moment: "You don't want to be rich and famous? Instead, you want to be his court lady?!" After a pause, he couldn't help but sigh: "I really don't understand the thoughts of you women. ..."

In order to prevent accidents, Baoqin specially said: "Baoqin is in this deep palace, there is nothing else to do except perform for the Queen Mother. If you go to the city to worship the Queen, you can also comfort the Queen for Your Majesty."

Lou Tianying couldn't find any flaws, so he decided it was the truth, and agreed: "Your request, Gu agreed. After Gu gets married, you will serve him around."

Bao Qin smiled and bowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

At an unknown time, Li Xuan woke up, a chill invaded his whole body, his consciousness quickly recondensed into a crystal in his mind, but the remaining effect of the medicine still made him feel slightly dizzy.

He shook his head, increased his sobriety, and asked himself: "Where am I? Where is Zhongming? Or... have I been dreaming?"

After a while, a voice rose up, announcing to him: "That's right! This is your nightmare! But, this is not a dream, but the nightmare-like pain you really experienced!"

Li Xuan immediately stood up and blurted in the direction of the voice: "Who? Could it be—"

Lou Tianying simply told: "You are already in my pocket, if I want you to die, you will die, all according to one of my orders."

Li Xuan knew it was a scam, and asked: "Where is Zhongming!? What did you do to him!"

Lou Tianying said indifferently: "Don't worry, with me accompanying him every day, he will have a better life in the palace than you."

Li Xuan blurted out: "I don't believe it! He won't be willing to be with you!"

Lou Tianying smiled coldly, and then said: "Otherwise, who do you think will lead you into the trap?"

Li Xuan affirmed: "No! This must be a trap set by you!"

Lou Tianying put his hands on his back and said: "I don't want to say too many meaningless things to you, and I brought you here just for the happy event between me and Zhongming."

Li Xuan couldn't help clenching his fists, and blurted out: "Zhong Ming has already promised me three lives and three generations, and he has already married me! If you do this, you are robbing others' wives!"

Lou Tianying wanted to be calm at first, but he was always forced up the cliff by Li Xuan, unable to give in every step of the way, finally couldn't bear it and poured out his anger, and blurted out: "Yes! I'm the one who robbed you! Because he originally belonged to the Mine! You just wait to drink Zhong Ming's and me's wedding bar!"

Turning around resentfully, Lou Tian should not want to say anything more, and left resolutely.

Although Li Xuan was burning with resentment and anger in his chest, he could only sit down quietly.

Don't blame yourself for falling into a trap because of being confused for a while, or the vicious conspiracy of your old enemy, just blame these ruthless eyes for not opening a golden light to point the way before him at the most critical moment.

After one night, the next morning, when the snow had just stopped, Su Zhongming was still curled up under the blanket, stealing some laziness, and planned to get up later, when there were small footsteps coming from outside the screen, he turned a deaf ear and pretended to be still asleep.

"There is no movement inside, is your lord still sleeping?"

"Why don't you wake up your lord?"

"But I'm afraid he'll get angry..."

"It's scary to hear that he lost his temper. We have changed several groups of people to serve the market. Will we also..."

"If the mouthwash and face wash are completely cold, I'm afraid not only will you be scolded by adults, but even your majesty will be furious..."

"Here, what can I do..."

Although it was in a low voice, Su Zhongming heard all the chatter, and shrugged helplessly.

What are you going to do today?

Should we continue to sabotage, or offend people indiscriminately?

He hesitated, but in short, he would not lie on the bed like a piece of wood and sleep forever.

He stretched himself, but the cold outside the bed was threatening, he immediately put his hands back under the bed, looked outside, decided not to embarrass them, and pretended to cough, coughing a few times.

When the maids heard the coughing, they knew that Su Zhongming had woken up. They went around the screen in twos and threes, and came to the bed, waiting for orders.

Su Zhongming raised his upper body while reporting the quilt, and said casually, "Good morning."

The maids were stunned, and they all lowered their heads slightly, occasionally one or two couldn't help but laughed softly.

Su Zhongming was immediately dissatisfied: "Hey! I'm talking about you! This is a basic greeting, do you understand? How dare you laugh! Get out, get out!" He said and waved away people.

The maids had no choice but to escape and fled outside the palace.

Su Zhongming was puzzled, and whispered to himself: "What's the matter... It's rare that I wanted to let them go first this morning, but I was aroused by them for the first time..."

After saying that, he lifted up the quilt that was covering him, changed his clothes by himself, then walked around the screen, walked to the outer room, picked up a large ceramic pot, poured warm water into the empty cup and basin, Rinse your mouth and wash your face in one go.

It happened that the door of the palace was opened, Su Zhongming turned his head, and met the eyes of Lou Tianying who had just entered, after a moment of stunned, Su Zhongming turned around ruthlessly, and said coldly: "What are you doing here so early?"

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