Deep Palace Pet Peach Blossom Flawless

Chapter 76: Skyrim

Princess Yunqi was unconvinced and said, "What's the big deal if I kill one or two occasionally?"

The Shenwu Emperor was no longer alarmed. He pointed at the guards guarding the Mother Beast Mountain Range and asked, "What's going on?"

The guards knelt and apologized: "It was our incompetence that failed to stop the princess from entering the Mother Beast Mountain Range."

The guard who was speaking had whip marks on his face, clearly from being whipped by the whip in Princess Yunqi's hand.

Emperor Shenwu had a blank expression on his face: "After your shift, go and receive your punishment!"

Several guards nodded their heads.

Princess Yunqi was stunned for a moment: "Brother Yun..."

A hint of disgust lingered in the depths of Emperor Shenwu's eyes. "Leave this deer for the princess alone! Tuoyan, wait for me to summon you to speak." He turned his horse and rode away, his entourage following suit.

Prince Tuoyan, who remained where he was, glared at Princess Yunqi with a dark expression on his face. "You haven't forgotten what you promised me, have you? Don't you know how you came to Dasheng?"

Princess Yunqi was not to be outdone: "If I hadn't said that, would you have agreed to bring me here? I don't care, I just want to stay in Dasheng. I want to be Brother Yun's concubine. The Dasheng Palace doesn't have a queen yet, and I want to be the queen!"

Prince Tuoyan calmed down after his anger. "Don't dream! His Majesty has no regard for you. Besides, our three kingdoms have already tacitly agreed to let Shuixia enter the Dasheng harem. Do you still want to be the queen? Have you ever seen a foreign woman who can be the queen of Dasheng? When you go back, confine yourself to your tent and don't come out again! You are so reckless!"

At noon, Lan Qingwu and Gao Lanyan did not return home. Lan Qingwu asked Ruping to prepare some food, and the two of them had a small picnic. Afterwards, they lay down among the blooming mountain flowers and took a short nap.

Not long after Lan Qingwu and the others woke up, Ruping told Gao Lanyan that the prince of Rongguo had arrived. Gao Lanyan's almond-shaped eyes curved as she looked towards Jiang Qixun, "My husband, why are you here?"

Jiang Qi was tall, with a resolute and handsome face. He touched her cheek and said, "I finished my shift and came here because I knew you were here."

Gao Lanyan couldn't help but smile. They were chatting when suddenly, a graceful and elegant zither sounded in their ears. Gao Lanyan and her husband looked over and saw Lan Qingwu sitting on the floor on a blanket, the seven-stringed zither resting on her knees. She gently plucked the zither, and the beautiful music flowed like a stream, startling butterflies into a fluttering dance.

Gao Lanyan was attracted by the sound of the piano and walked towards Lan Qingwu.

Lan Qingwu closed his eyes, completely immersed in the poetic rhythm of the seven-stringed instrument. Clear springs, flowing water, flowers, trees, breezes, mountain streams, creeks...

Gao Lanyan danced slowly to the beautiful and pure music. She seemed to have transformed into a soothing breeze, gently blowing through everything in the world...

Ruping stood behind Lan Qingwu, already intoxicated, and felt that the clear sound of the seven-string music purified her soul and brought her peace and tranquility.

Wei Yanting was also attracted and stood side by side with Jiang Qi.

However, they were not the only ones attracted here. Prince Kang did not see Lan Qingwu at the banquet last night. He blamed Concubine Liu for being useless and not being able to attract His Majesty to bring her to Qiling Mountain. Now he could not get any news.

King Kang could only keep an eye on Lan Qingwu in roundabout ways, so he followed him quietly today.

At first, King Kang had no intention of showing up, but when the woman plucked the strings of the zither with her bare hands, her beautiful eyes slightly closed, immersed in the pure sound, he couldn't help but get closer and closer...

Until Wei Yanting stretched out his long arms to block him, Wei Yanting warned: "Your Highness Prince Kang!"

King Kang just stared blankly, not looking at Wei Yanting: "I won't go over, I'll just watch from here."

Jiang Qi couldn't help but frown, and followed King Kang's gaze. He saw the woman in Xuexia palace dress playing the piano with her eyes closed. This King Kang wanted to do more than just watch!

At this moment, King Kang had only one picture in front of his eyes. Amidst the blossoming mountain flowers created by nature, the moonlit woman in snow-white palace clothing was playing fairy music quietly as if she were in a fairyland.

King Kang couldn't help but say: "It's like a poem, like a painting, like a dream, like a fantasy, like crazy, like intoxicated, like a fairy, like the moon!"

Wei Yanting and Jiang Qi's faces darkened at the same time. Jiang Qi put on a stern face and said, "Your Highness Prince Kang, please respect yourself!"

Wei Yanting said in a rough voice: "Your Highness Prince Kang, please go back if you have nothing else to do."

Prince Kang regained his composure and said, "I was just appreciating the music."

Wei Yanting's face turned even darker, but he didn't know what to say. Making a fuss would only be bad for Concubine Yi, so he had no choice but to stop Prince Kang.

After the song ended, Lan Qingwu gently opened her eyes. Gao Lanyan stopped dancing, her pale blue skirt like a blooming green lotus. She knelt gently on the carpet and said, "Qingqing, I really wish you could come to the imperial city sooner!"

Lan Qingwu was slightly stunned. Come earlier?

Lan Qingwu smiled faintly: "I'm going to make a flower crown, you come too!"

"Okay!"

The two held hands and crossed the empty grassy area in the middle and began to play among the flowers, completely unaware of what was happening in the distance.

The guards around them were all hiding in the dark of the jungle. At a glance, there were only the two of them leisurely wandering through this sea of flowers.

After the two of them had finished weaving the flower crowns, Lan Qingwu put the flower crown he had made on Gao Lanyan's head, and Gao Lanyan also put the flower crown in her hand on Lan Qingwu's head. Then the two of them used small hairpins to fix the flower crown for each other.

The two walked out hand in hand from the blossoming mountain flowers. King Kang, in the distance, was once again stunned. Lan Qingwu, wearing a colorful flower crown and a colorful palace dress that reflected the colorful glow of her body, looked like a fairy from the flower garden of heaven.

Lan Qingwu and Gao Lanyan were kneeling on the carpet. Lan Qingwu was holding a yellow flower. At this time, a beautiful blue-green butterfly flew to the yellow flower in Lan Qingwu's hand.

Lan Qingwu stared blankly, remembering the butterfly dance he had performed for Yun Heng when he was twelve. Ever since then, Yun Heng's gaze on him had completely changed. If... that butterfly hadn't been given to Yun Heng back then...

Lan Qingwu suddenly whispered, "Lanlan, I want to sing. Please play the zither for me. I haven't sung in years because of the mourning period!"

Gao Lanyan nodded: "Okay, come on!"

Gao Lanyan placed the zither on her knees and said, "The melody of this song is so beautiful, its lyrics must be even more beautiful." After saying that, her slender fingers began to stroke the strings.

The ethereal and distant singing voice echoes in this blooming sea of flowers. In the Qiling Mountain where the jungle is densely covered and wild beasts are roaming, the faint and ethereal singing voice can be heard, which is long and deep, penetrating the empty soul, disturbing whose thoughts?

It is the colorful mountain flowers all over the mountain, the birds and animals resting on Qiling Mountain, the guards guarding in the dark, and the colorful butterflies lingering around Lan Qingwu's singing and refusing to fly away.

King Kang was about to leave when he stopped again. He listened to the song that seemed to come from the sky with fascination, not wanting to miss a single word.

Wei Yanting and Jiang Qi were also immersed in it, and Wei Yanting's long arms had slowly fallen down without him knowing when.

Lan Qingwu has slowly started dancing to the sound of the piano and the singing. The colorful rays of light on her pure white palace dress are slowly flowing with her dance steps. The spinning skirt is like blooming petals. The colorful flowers on the skirt seem to be alive. A butterfly stays on Lan Qingwu's outstretched fingertips and refuses to leave, and also dances to her singing and dancing steps!

"Listen! Someone is singing!"

On a high slope not far away, Emperor Shenwu, along with Prince Qian Huiding and a group of others, slowly rode their horses to a halt. Looking down, Emperor Shenwu felt a slight jolt in his heart. It was the faint sound of singing.

Everyone looked down at the sea of flowers below, only to feel the sound of nature and the presence of an immortal. The soldiers and guards listened to the ethereal, distant, and heart-stirring song, but not a single one uttered a sound!

As Emperor Shenwu listened to the song, his eyes became dark and deep, his chest was filled with sourness, his hands tightly gripped the reins, and the veins on his hands were faintly bulging.

I watch you fly away, I watch you leave me. It turns out you were born to be in the sky. Every tear I shed flows towards you, back to our first encounter. Weakling, if we were to go back to that first encounter, what would you choose?

How many tears did you shed secretly after Yun Heng left you those years ago?

The waves silently submerged the night deeply

Overflowing the corner of the sky

Big fish swim through the gaps in dreams

Staring at your sleeping silhouette

See the sea and sky, listen to the wind and rain

Hold the hand and blow away the vast mist

The wings of the big fish are already too vast

I loosen the rope of time

I'm afraid you'll fly away, I'm afraid you'll leave me

I'm even more afraid that you'll stay here forever

Every drop of tear flows to you