Strange Tale of Qingluan

The sun is about to set in the west, at this time Lou Tianying brought a few servants to the Empress Dowager's bedroom.The atmosphere in the Empress Dowager's chamber today is the same as usual, and the usual fragrance still permeates the hall.

As soon as he entered the hall, Lou Tianying asked, "Is the mother-in-law ready for tonight?"

Lou Linrou was standing in the inner room, holding a lacquer-backed golden flower mirror in her hand, and there were a few maids beside her who were arranging her fine clothes.Hearing Lou Tianying's voice, he opened his lips and replied: "If Aijia is more beautiful than your bride tonight, don't blame Aijia."

Lou Tianying said: "Your stepmother is an empress dowager, and she still has the style of the day. If the scenery is really the best, no matter which table or seat, I should appreciate this supreme scenery."

When Lou Linrou heard the words, she couldn't help feeling elated, but she only said modestly: "Today is your happy day, how dare the Ai family steal your scenery." The beaded curtain was raised, and she slowly walked out of the inner room, turned And a little worried, "I just hope that he will be honest at the wedding banquet and don't cause trouble."

Lou Tianying was sure of winning, and replied with a smile: "If he dared to make trouble, he would have started to make trouble this morning. But since this morning, I haven't heard anything disturbing. Please rest assured, mother-in-law."

After saying that, he supported Lou Linrou's hand and walked out of the Queen Mother's bedroom with Lou Linrou.

It was auspicious that there was no snow that night.

On the other side of the cage, the guards used wooden barrels to send warm bath water into the cage, and the tub was steaming hot, gushing out, reaching the roof.

After the guard poured the last bucket of hot water into the bathtub, he said, "Wash up while the water is still hot, and put on clean clothes. Don't miss the hour!"

After saying that, another guard came in from the outside and put the neatly folded robe into Li Xuan's arms. Li Xuan just held it firmly when he heard a few footsteps and left.

He moved slowly, with one hand stretched forward, groping in the air, and suddenly he couldn't touch the solid wood, which happened to be the edge of the bathtub, but he just held the clean clothes in one hand, and supported the tub with the other. Edge, bowed his head and sighed lightly, and didn't take a bath in the basin right away.

There was only a slight cold wind blowing at night, and after the snow melted, every road was wet, and after the cold wind blew, it formed a thin frost again, making every step a little slippery.

The waiter carrying the bridal sedan chair, the player holding the musical instrument, and the maid carrying auspicious gifts such as fruits and colored flowers all came to the outside of Yimengzhai hall with every step carefully.

When Baoqin came back from the palace gate, she yelled at the closed latticed door: "The sedan chair has arrived! My lord, hurry up!" She was very anxious in her heart.

Everyone didn't expect that Su Zhongming, who was dressed up during the day, went to relieve himself once and came back with disheveled hair. When asked why, Su Zhongming said that he suddenly felt itchy scalp, which was unbearable, so he scratched randomly.

Believe it or not, Bao Qin couldn't bring back his original appearance, so he tried to dress him up again, but was rejected, pushed out the door, and the palace door was tightly closed.

In the hall, Su Zhongming took off all the hairpins and other accessories caught in his hair, and threw them on the table. Without combing his disheveled hair, he directly put the phoenix crown on the top of his head, regardless of whether the position of the phoenix crown was correct or not, and then covered it with his hands. With a tasseled scarf embroidered with hundreds of flowers on it, she slowly moved to the back of the door and opened the hall door.

When Baoqin saw the door opened, there was a tall bride with a big red scarf on her head. Finally, she was able to let go of her hanging heart. She helped her with one hand and sent her to the sedan chair, raising the curtain of the sedan chair.

As soon as Su Zhongming got into the sedan chair and the curtains were lowered, festive vocal music rang out, resounding all the way through the long street, and colorful flowers followed the movement of the sedan chair, flying all over the sky, landing on every place they passed, like golden lotus dotted on the surface of the water .

Sitting in the sedan chair, Su Zhongming felt shaking left and right. After shaking for a while, he felt drowsy again. He yawned three times in a row and murmured to himself: "This thing is just like a baby's cradle. It's not late at night, but I want to sleep... No way! I have to cheer up, and I have to fight that bastard for a while!"

As he spoke, he pinched the flesh on his arm fiercely, and then, while frowning and softening the sore spot, he pushed the drowsiness away from his forehead.

The swaying sedan chair stopped suddenly, and Su Zhongming finally broke free from his sleepiness and heaved a sigh of relief.

Bao Qin whispered outside: "Young master, the wedding banquet is here."

Su Zhongming sighed helplessly, leaned out, and walked forward step by step with Baoqin supporting his right hand.Just because he was wearing a red scarf, he didn't know what was going on in front of him. With his head down, he could only look at his shoes and the road under his feet illuminated by the light of the lantern.

After crossing the high threshold and entering the wedding banquet, he approached a chair, and Baoqin helped him sit on the chair.

At the wedding banquet, there was a commotion, and one could vaguely hear——

"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty is as blessed as the heavens, and we will definitely have a good relationship with the queen for a hundred years!"

Suddenly, among these voices, a distinctive voice sounded, first there was a chuckle, and then a voice that Su Zhongming felt quite familiar with.

"Loves, you only remember thinking about His Majesty's happy event, but you don't seem to be aware of the existence of Aijia?"

The officials began to panic, explaining one by one.

"How dare you! How dare you! It is precisely because of the empress dowager's scorching light that your majesty can be blessed with great blessings, and I dare not forget the empress dowager!"

"Yes! Yes! Without the queen mother, there would be no Taoxia Kingdom today, and there would be no Your Majesty today!"

"It's all a blessing brought by the Queen Mother! The old king's spirit still lingers in the entire palace city. Tonight's wedding banquet is attended by the Queen Mother in person. I'm afraid this joy will not fade away for a day or a night!"

"Yeah yeah!"

After hearing this, Lou Linrou was very happy, smiled, then turned her head and glanced at Su Zhongming, and said: "What are you waiting for? If you wait any longer, the auspicious time will pass, let's start the banquet."

In the huge palace, the sound of playing music sounded again, and all the ministers were seated according to their seats, and the ladies of the court began to present delicious dishes with astringent fragrance one after another. The master of ceremonies also began to follow the rules of the ceremony, and read out A piece of auspicious words.

Su Zhongming, who was sitting on the seat, lifted up a little red veil quietly, glanced at the guest seats secretly, and suddenly saw a familiar figure at the corner. He let out a light cough, then lowered his hand holding the edge of the red scarf, and sat down honestly.

He came, indeed he came, sitting in a seat far away...

This glance made Su Zhongming calm down a little.

After the two worshiped, Lou Tianying smiled and supported Su Zhongming's hand. Even though Su Zhongming was not happy, he could only bear with frowning and followed Lou Tianying's pace to the bridal chamber.

Suddenly, a loud and clear voice disrupted the lively atmosphere.

"Your Majesty! I have an unfeeling request, and I hope Your Majesty will fulfill it!"

Your Majesty, everything is quiet.

Hearing this voice, Su Zhongming couldn't help being startled, but also couldn't help becoming nervous.

Your Majesty, the first one to answer was Lou Linrou, her voice was completely cold, she laughed and said, "Hmph, I'm just a prisoner, it's a great blessing to be able to have a drink at the most important wedding banquet in the whole country, how dare you talk about it?" Kindly please?"

Even so, Li Xuan still boldly said: "If the queen mother is fulfilled, she will definitely benefit."

Lou Linrou didn't believe it, she just pretended to be interested, and replied coldly: "Oh? Aijia wants to see what benefits I can get."

Li Xuan said: "The Empress Dowager will gain the reputation of being close to the people, and it will be praised by the whole country of Taoxia from generation to generation."

This is a very bad excuse, but one that Lou Linrou cannot refute, so Lou Linrou could only say: "What a cunning fox. No one in the hall will stop you what you want to say."

Lou Tianying felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly blurted out: "Queen Mother—!"

Lou Linrou raised a palm and calmly motioned him not to continue.

Lou Tianying had no choice but to keep his mouth shut, but secretly gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, full of reluctance.

Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, and then said to Lou Linrou, "I'm here for a drink anyway, please allow me to toast... to the bride."

Lou Linrou heard the words, and simply agreed: "Yes!"

The man sitting next to him knew that Li Xuan was blind, so he kindly picked up the wine glass in front of him and stuffed it into his hand.

With only a low voice of 'thank you', Li Xuan turned to Su Zhongming, held the glass in both hands, made a gesture of toasting, then drank it all, and then said: "A glass of wine is too little, if you can give it to me An altar..."

Lou Linrou couldn't help but said: "What a man who is greedy for alcohol! However, Ai Jia appreciates this!" Immediately ordered Gong'e, "Give him a jar of wine!"

Gong'e immediately brought a jar of unopened wine and brought it to Li Xuan.After Li Xuan took the wine jar, he quickly tore off the seal, and took a big gulp of fine wine, even if a few drops of wine slipped from his mouth and got wet on his lapel, he still didn't care.

After he finished drinking a big mouthful of wine, Lou Tianying couldn't hold back and said: "The wine has been drunk, you can quit!"

After saying that, the two guards standing in front of the wall immediately stepped to Li Xuan's side, and tightly grasped Li Xuan's shoulders. Li Xuan clamped the wine jar between his arms and his side, without saying a word, Go away in style.

The person in the way had already left, Lou Tianying walked with peace of mind, took Su Zhongming out from the other nearest exit, and followed Gong'e carrying the lantern into the bridal chamber.

In the room, on several lamp stands, the lights were shining with warm colors. After Lou Tianying helped Su Zhongming sit down on the edge of the bed, the tension in his heart couldn't help popping out, his mind was full of the radiant appearance of the beautiful woman in front of him.

Under the red scarf, is it also a stunning scene in my mind? ——The more he thought about it, the more nervous he became, but the red veil was going to be lifted after all, so he stretched out his hand nervously, and slowly lifted it with a smile.

The stubble around the lips, the plain face facing the sky, the messy blue hair, the crooked phoenix crown... etc., appeared in front of Lou Tianying under the light, completely shattering the sweet dream.In his surprise and anger, he tore off the red scarf on Su Zhongming's head, and the crooked phoenix crown immediately fell to the ground.

He threw the red scarf on the ground fiercely, and blurted out: "Gu Mingming ordered you to dress up carefully! What is this now!? If you don't wear the phoenix crown, you don't even put rouge on! There is no Gu! It is simply a rebellion! Gu, he must be punished by the nine clans!"

Su Zhongming pointed to a little red mark on his forehead, and replied, "Rouge, isn't it?"

After Lou Tianying glanced at it, he became more disgusted, pointed at Su Zhongming's forehead, and said violently: "You! You want to piss Gu off to death, don't you!? Tell Gu clearly, is this your own idea?!"

Su Zhongming took advantage of his anger and deliberately contradicted him: "Yes! So what if it was my idea! I have already promised to marry you, but you made an unnecessary request! It was you who went too far! Let me tell you! I am already here You've painted it with rouge! If you play tricks again, you'll just wait for the subjects of Taoxia Kingdom to spurn you!"

"You...!" Lou Tianying was so angry that all his internal organs were ignited, but he was at a loss for words, so he had to change his words: "This matter, I don't care about it for the time being! As long as you..."

Su Zhongming stepped on the edge of the bed with his right foot, put his right arm on his right leg, and interrupted him with a look of courage: "I will sleep alone tonight, and from tomorrow onwards, I will still live in Mengzhai alone!"

Lou Tianying listened, couldn't bear it anymore, looked at Su Zhongming with a straight face, and blurted out: "You are married to Gu!"

Knowing that this man would talk nonsense, Su Zhongming had no choice but to remind: "You promised me, do you want to go back on your word?"

Lou Tianying had no choice but to respond: "Okay, you can sleep by yourself tonight! I won't stop you!" After saying that, he simply turned around and left the bridal chamber resentfully, even slamming the door hard.

Su Zhongming breathed a sigh of relief, but in order to breathe a sigh of relief, he spent a lot of trouble. He didn't have a clear idea of ​​what to do in the future.

The author has something to say:

uh...i thought

The Spring Festival holiday ends on the sixth day

As a result, the seventh day is...

Time is too urgent to change the name

(I didn’t expect to dare to change it randomly...)

The Gongdou in the fourth volume is Zhongming mad at someone

Zhongming didn’t get sick~(^_^)

getting ready to sleep

good night