Don't steal a man from me

Meeting Su Jue should be an accident that Chu Yunqi had never thought of in his life.

Su Jue is humble and gentle in front of everyone, and his gentle smile can easily make people feel close to him. The frivolous white clothes on him, with a pure and quiet tranquility, seem to be the imprint of time on the place where he was born. Like Bai Zhong, staying with him will make people calm down consciously or unconsciously, forgetting about war, killing, and displacement.

Such an immortal-like person has extraordinary insight and foresight. He can always find the key point of the problem when everyone is jumping like a dog, and then break it down without being salty or weak, cherishing words like gold, Those who hear it are like enlightenment.

But he smiled lightly, retreated silently, not surprised by favor or shame, of course his greatest wisdom is to know the current affairs, he can skillfully avoid mentioning some subtle and embarrassing things.

For example, now—Yesterday Chu Yunqi hugged Su Jue and whispered in his ear over and over again, "You are not allowed to go", today he is still calmly going to the court to discuss matters as usual, but Chu Yunqi looks at the white clothes by himself. Xiangguo felt uncomfortable all over.

"Your Majesty, the whole country has sent envoys to Chu, and they are now staying at the Yancheng Posthouse. When will my king summon you?" Su Jue came out of the court, clasped his hands and said.

"Xuan." In order not to appear so uncomfortable, Chu Yunqi leaned his whole body on the throne, propped his forehead with his left hand, raised his fingers slightly, and said calmly.

As soon as the words fell, Ge Shizhong quickly ran out with Wang Shangkou.

At the hour of half a cup of tea, Qing Shi, who was dressed in a gorgeous dress with swallow patterns, walked up the palace steps made of white marble under the leadership of Shi Zhong.

After walking through 36 white jade steps, you can enter the palace of Chu Palace. The scarlet cloth felt is spread on the ground, and people's feet seem to be stepping on clouds when walking on it. The palace is even more magnificent and magnificent.On the east side of the palace are placed 64 chimes.

The chime bell's supporting pillars are more than Zhang high, and there are three in total.The lower beam is the thickest, with a diameter of two feet, the middle beam is one foot and two inches in diameter, and the upper beam is six inches in diameter.

The gleaming black lacquer beams are painted bright red, like a phoenix dancing in nine heavens.Both ends of the beam are covered with exquisite bronze ornaments.The chime bells are also divided into three types, large, medium and small, and are hung on the upper, middle and lower painted wooden beams.Shining with dazzling brilliance.

The largest chime bells are hung on the lower beam, there are more than ten bells in total, each one is five feet high, and it looks like it weighs a thousand catties; the medium-sized chime bells are hung on the middle beam, there are more than thirty bells in total, each one is more than two feet high and a foot wide. Yu, it looks like it weighs about a hundred catties.There are also more than ten chime bells hanging on the upper beam, each of which is more than a foot high and six inches wide. (Note)

Regardless of the size of the chime bells, they are all engraved with fine patterns and inscriptions. They are gorgeous and solemn. I have never seen such a majestic chime bell. I sigh secretly for the richness and strength of the Chu State.

Qing Shi quietly looked at Chu Yunqi, the young King of Chu on the throne, with eyebrows like ink paintings, temples cut like knives, not wearing a crown, he was sloppy while being careless, with a sharp edge in his laziness.

The King of Chu casually leaned on the throne, his eyes swept towards His Highness, and all the courtiers were in awe, wondering what the king was the first time they saw it.

For a moment, he was so overwhelmed by Chu Yunqi's natural royal aura that he could not speak, he had the urge to kneel down with his knees limp and shout "The king lasts ten thousand years".

"Why did Qing Shi come here?" On the throne, the young King of Chu lazily spoke, and a deep magnetic voice came.

After all, Qingguo is a big country in the Central Plains, and diplomatic envoys represent the honor of a country. Qingshi is still clear about this, and he saluted Chu Yunqi unhurriedly and said: "My king wants to make peace with Chu, so he sent foreign ministers here. Chu. My king ordered my ministers to bring a hundred pairs of white walls, a thousand pieces of gold, and five daughters, and presented them to the king of Chu as a token of goodwill."

Chu Yunqi smiled and said: "Qingchu is a neighboring country. As the saying goes, 'a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor'. The widows have always regarded Qingwang as a brother. Qingwang sent an envoy to Chu with enough sincerity. These treasures and beauties, the widow really can't bear it."

The corners of Su Jue's eyes twitched, and she opened her eyes and said nonsense, saying the same thing in a polite manner, cunning and cunning.

"The king of Chu is being polite, the foreign ministers have something else to do here." Qingshi smiled and said.

"Oh? Please tell me." Chu Yunqi's eyes flashed sharply, and he raised his eyebrows and said.

"Princess Qing Pingyang has admired Chu Xiangzhao Wenjun for a long time, and I will not hide it from the King of Chu. The second thing that foreign ministers came here this time was to say goodbye to Princess Qing Pingyang."

After saying this, all the courtiers in the Chu Palace laughed, and the generals even laughed together.

Wei Ran looked at Su Jue and said with a smile: "The old man heard that Princess Pingyang, who is all over the country, was born extremely lovely." He shook his head in a serious manner while talking and continued: "What do you mean 'smiles beautifully, beautiful eyes look forward to' , Oops, our Xiangguo can enjoy a happy life."

General Sima Yan said: "When will Xiangguo treat the brothers to a wedding? Brothers are all waiting to see the Pingyang Princess who is as beautiful as a peach blossom."

As soon as these words were said, the ministers burst into laughter again.

Chu Yunqi who was sitting on the throne was inexplicably irritable.

Marriage between two countries was common at that time. It was the most gentle and gentle way to maintain friendly relations between countries. The king of a country had a princess from another country as his concubine in his harem, or a minister of a country married a princess from another country. The situation is not surprising.

When Su Jue marries Princess Pingyang, Qingguo and Chu State will become closer and closer. Whether it is in terms of etiquette or national policy, it is a great joy.

However, Chu Yunqi was inexplicably irritable and inexplicably resistant.

The laughter of the courtiers made him angry.

What makes Chu Yunqi even more angry is that Su Jue, the person involved, is still calm. Facing the ridicule of the courtiers, he will smile and agree to go, which means let alone the princess of Qingguo. They can marry without hesitation.

"Quiet." Chu Yunqi frowned, raised his hand and pressed down, and raised his voice.

All the courtiers quieted down and looked at the king of Chu on the throne with a smile on their faces, waiting for the young king of Chu to give an order to agree to the marriage. However, what the courtiers didn't expect was that their king stood up and threw down a sentence "The widow is a bit tired, let's talk about this tomorrow" and then waved his sleeves and stepped down from the throne.

A group of courtiers in the court looked at each other in blank dismay.

Su Jue frowned, he didn't know what Chu Yunqi wanted to do, Chu Yunqi walked up to him with a gloomy face, and grabbed his wrist.

There was restrained anger in Chu Yunqi's handsome eyebrows, Su Jue raised his eyebrows, only to hear the man in royal clothes say in a deep voice: "You come with me." After speaking, he dragged him to the side hall ,

Chu Yunqi's hands were very strong, presumably because he led the army to conquer, his palms were calloused, and he pinched Su Jue's wrist.

He pulled Su Jue into the side hall with a sullen face, flicked his sleeves to signal the waiters to retreat, and when the door of the side hall was gently closed by the leaving waiter, and only the two of them were left in the huge palace, Chu Yun Qi let go of Su Jue's wrist, turned around and asked, "I ask you, do you really want to marry Princess Pingyang?"

Su Jue was stunned. Isn't this kind of marriage involving the interests of two countries very common in the royal family?As the King of Chu, Chu Yunqi doesn't even understand the most obvious truth?

Seeing that he didn't answer, Chu Yunqi frowned even tighter. He felt his throat was very dry, so he licked his thin lips and asked again patiently.

"Marriage with Qing can at least keep our border of Chu stable for two or three years, so that we, Chu, can move forward with the plan of annexing Mexico as soon as possible."

Su Jue frowned and looked at Chu Yunqi, and said softly: "Your Majesty, your reaction is a little..."

"I don't care about the overthrow of the Mo country, I just ask you, do you, Su Jue, really want to marry Princess Pingyang?" Chu Yunqi interrupted impatiently.

Su Jue frowned even deeper, he sighed inaudibly, and was about to answer "yes", when Chu Yunqi interrupted with a low growl.

"I don't allow it! I don't allow you to marry Princess Pingyang!"

Chu Yunqi's eyes were a little red because of his anger, and he growled like a beast whose territory had been violated by others: "Mr. Lan belongs to the widow, no one can touch him."

Su Jue's complexion changed, he staggered back a few steps, and almost tremblingly asked, "You...what did you say?"

Chu Yunqi hugged Su Jue as if he wanted to rub him into his flesh and blood, buried his head in his neck and murmured, "I don't allow you to marry Princess Pingyang, you are mine."

After Chu Yunqi came back to his senses after saying this, his body froze, he hurriedly let go of Su Jue, took a few steps back and stood still, staring at him.

How could you say such a bastard thing that violates etiquette?

Am I possessed?

crazy.

Su Jue had a panoramic view of his expression, and took a deep breath. When he closed his eyes, his eyelashes were still trembling slightly. When he opened them again, he had regained his composure.

He said lightly: "Your Majesty is a little tired, I will take my leave first." After speaking, he bowed his sleeves to Chu Yunqi and left the side hall.

Chu Yunqi just stared in a daze as the unborn white disappeared from sight.

It was not until the sun was high that Chu Yunqi moved his stiff body.

"Come on, cough," he was in a trance for a long time, making his voice a little hoarse, Chu Yunqi cleared his throat and called out loudly: "Come on!"

"Your Majesty?" Ge Shizhong hurriedly walked in and knelt in front of Chu Yunqi and asked.

"It is said that the doctor Chu Ping came to the side hall." Chu Yunqi said.

"No." He bowed to Chu Yunqi in the matter, and quickly retreated out.

In less than half a cup of tea, Chu Ping, who had no time to change into his fine clothes, hurried over in an indigo robe. When he entered the side hall, Chu Yunqi was still wearing the royal clothes he wore in the morning, standing with his back facing him. In front of a map of the layout of the countries in the Central Plains.

"Your Majesty." Chu Ping stepped forward and bowed his hands in salute.

"Brother Ping." Chu Yunqi's voice was a little hoarse, he turned around, and there was a little bit of unknown light in his deep eyes, he paused and said, "Are you saying I'm crazy?"

"Your Majesty..." Chu Ping frowned, and Chu Yunqi's attitude towards Qing Shi in court today was very strange. He was puzzled by this matter, so he was summoned here.

"I...I don't want Xiangguo to marry Princess Pingyang."

Chu Yunqi sighed, lowered his head and said softly: "When I think of his status as the prime minister of the widow no longer, he will become the uncle of the country, and there will be a woman who is as beautiful as a fairy snuggling beside him and calling him 'husband ', in the future there will be a group of children calling him 'Father', and I will be bored."

Chu Ping sighed, stepped forward and hugged him in his arms, just like when he was a child, every time Chu Yunqi was punished, he would hug him to comfort him, and gently patted Chu Yunqi on the back.

"Su Jue can only belong to me alone, and he can only be my Prime Minister." Chu Yunqi lowered his head and leaned on Chu Ping's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Brother Ping, do you think I am crazy?"

Chu Ping sighed almost inaudibly, Chu Yunqi has been like this since he was a child, he wrapped himself up in a cynical, ignorant appearance without any trace, only when he was wronged in his heart did he obediently come to hug him.

It turns out that no matter how time changes, Chu Yunqi is still the little wolf dog when he was a child. Whenever he saw someone neglecting the crown prince, he would bark his teeth fiercely and protect Chu Ping, who was a head taller than him, behind him. It was the little wolf dog who came to Chu Ping to comfort him when he felt aggrieved and panicked.

Chu Ping softened his eyes, patted Chu Yunqi on the back and said softly: "Brother Yun, brother, let me tell you a story."

"Ah."

"Do you still remember Xiangguo Muqing?"

"Is that the weird old man who resigned as soon as he said he would?" Chu Yunqi raised his head and asked after being silent for a while.

"Yes." Chu Ping laughed, and continued: "Mu Qing was originally a boatman on Xiangting Lake, when his father was still the crown prince, he once went out of Xiangting, and he took Mu Qing's small black-covered boat with oars. Mu Qing fell in love with his father at first sight, and wrote a poem for him."

Chu Yunqi blinked slowly. Chu Ping's words contained a lot of information, and he couldn't accept them for a while.

Chu Ping patted him on the shoulder, and he hummed softly: "What day is this evening, when I am in the boat, what day is today, I will be in the same boat with the prince. I am ashamed and criticized by the good one, and I am so annoyed. Juexi learned about the prince. Mountains have trees and trees have branches, and the heart is pleasing to the king, but the king does not know."

The melody is deep and melodious, lingering and sad, Chu Yunqi's heart was surging, and he seemed to see a black-covered boat floating on the lake in a daze. You don't know if your heart pleases you.

"You mean...the father and Xiaoyaozi fall in love with each other?" Chu Yunqi frowned, and said hesitantly as he weighed his words.

"Yes." Chu Ping nodded.

Chu Yunqi took a deep breath, and stretched out his hand to pinch the space between his eyebrows.

Before he was seven years old, all he thought about was how to win his father's praise. After seven years old, all he thought about was how to prove himself to his father, how to become a blockbuster, and when he hurriedly ascended the throne at the age of 20, all he thought about was how to dominate the Central Plains.

Compared with other princes, he is much slower in perceiving other people's love for him.

"Brother Yun, you are Mu Qing's favorite prince, and Mu Qing is the love of his father's life. How could his father not pay attention to you? Don't love you?"

Chu Ping sighed and said: "The battle between the crown princes is too cruel. Father didn't want you to wade into this muddy water at a young age, so he made me the crown prince. He doesn't reward you because he doesn't want you to be plotted against by villains. Your Royal Father calmly sheltered you from the wind and rain in the harem, otherwise, how could your Royal Father agree with you to go to Yingcheng?"

Chu Yunqi pursed his thin lips, turned around, and didn't say a word.

"Father is the king of Chu, and you are also the king of Chu. I can only stop here. You can decide the rest." Chu Ping patted him on the shoulder and said, "No matter what you do, Decided, brother Ping is on your side."

"Understood." Chu Yunqi whispered.

At three o'clock in Xu time, the lanterns of Xiangguo's mansion first came on.

After taking a bath, Su Jue changed into a deep white dress. His long black hair was scattered on his back. He sat quietly beside the desk by the window, gently rubbing the center of his brows with his slender hands like white jade. The candlelight hit his slightly pale face, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes. There is a deep tiredness in the room.

After returning from the side hall, he has been restless.

What Chu Yunqi wanted to express, what was about to come out of his deep eyes, Su Jue seemed to understand, and was pulled back to reality by Chu Yunqi's frantic push away.

Su Jue frowned and gave a soft "tsk".

Chu Yunqi was an accident that he had never thought of. It was a peaceful day, but he was disrupted time and time again like this.

The sound of footsteps came from outside the study, and it became clearer and clearer from far to near. Su Jue raised his eyes to look at the closed bamboo door, and a butler's voice came from outside the door: "Xiangguo, the king is here, and he is waiting in the front hall."

Su Jue was stunned for a moment, got up and walked out, and said, "Understood, I changed my clothes and went there."

So, when Su Jue saw Chu Yunqi again, he was sitting by the desk in the front hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion, staring at a game of chess, twisting a white piece with his right hand, stroking his chin with his left hand, quite devoted.

Su Jue stepped forward and took a look at the chess board. There were five black stones lined up on the second line in the right corner, surrounded by white stones at both ends, and a black stone landed on top of the white stone on the left. Safely eating the three black stones close to the right line, such a simple and clear chess game, why is it that Chu Yunqi's white stones are so slow to drop?

He frowned, and glanced at Chu Yunqi, the shadow of the candle hit his handsome face, those eyes seemed to be engulfed in the entire night sky, just one glance could make people sink.

Watch chess without saying a word.

Su Jue sighed inaudibly, stood aside and waited quietly.

Finally, Chu Yunqi moved his body, raised his hand and dropped the chess piece, "Ba Da", the sound made by the chess pieces polished from Hetian jade on the chessboard was extremely pleasant to the ear.

Su Jue looked at the chessboard, his pupils constricted suddenly, he did not land the white piece on the right side to break the game, but landed the white piece on the left side of the external black piece. In this way, let's not talk about the "right corner" of the chessboard that has been painstakingly managed for a long time The break of the situation where Bai Zi encircled the black class straight to three" put Bai Zi in a helpless situation.

Chu Yunqi, are you crazy?

After the young king of Chu dropped the white stones, he took a black stone from the black box and dropped it without thinking, Su Jue's eyes flickered.

The black stone landed on the right side of the white stone, and the black stone that landed on the upper left side of the previous white stone matched each other, forming a "gate", and the black stone above the white stone formed a "tiger's mouth" with the fifth sunspot surrounded, and the white stone was already in a desperate situation .

After Chu Yunqi finished the sunspot, he raised his head to look at Su Jue, whose eyes were dim, twitched the corners of his mouth, and smiled.

Su Jue choked for breath, that was a smile with helplessness, bitterness, relief and a little joy.

He has seen Chu Yunqi smile in many ways.

A high-spirited smile, a contemptuous smile, a teasing and perfunctory smile.

Only Su Jue had never seen him laugh like this now.

It's the kind where he clearly knows that the move should not be on the left side of the sunspot, but he still makes the move without hesitation for some reason, and then watches the situation he worked so hard to be ruined by a wrong move. Once, but never regretted the smile.

It's the kind of helpless smile that knows that you can't take a step forward but still uncontrollably wants to get closer. It's the kind of bitter smile that you can't help yourself but still want to desperately grasp the only thing you can control.

"Well... I made a wrong move, and the white piece was ruined just like that." Chu Yunqi shrugged.

Su Jue's eyes flickered.

That's right, Chu Yunqi took a wrong step. He worked hard and was good at calculations to surround Heizi step by step. He was supposed to be sure of winning, but he took a wrong step.

In the past 13 years, he has collected his talents, played in the world, and worked hard to make a blockbuster. After he ascended the throne at the age of 20, he showed his domineering aura and good calculations, only for Chu Neng to rule the world.

But now, he didn't want Xiangguo to marry Princess Pingyang, so he raised his hand and fell, and in the blink of an eye, he trapped Chu in a siege on all sides.

"No, it's not the end yet, how could Su Jue let you lose?" Su Jue lowered his eyes to meet Chu Yunqi's, he shook his head slightly and said.

Chu Yunqi watched the handsome young master with picturesque eyebrows and eyes sit down opposite him, twisted a white ball, his long and white hands shimmered softly under the candlelight, for a moment he couldn't tell the white ball from his fingers.

Su Jue pulled the wide sleeve with his left hand, and dropped the white piece to the "hukou" where the black piece formed a right angle before.

Chu Yunqi looked at the chess game, his eyes lit up, he looked at the chess game carefully, clapped his hands and laughed, and said, "Survival from a desperate situation, turn passive into active, and the golden cicada escapes its shell when it is surrounded by enemies."

It turned out that Baizi ate a piece at the mouth of Heizi's tiger, which seemed to be broken, but in fact he was advancing by retreating. As the old saying goes, "If you don't break, you can't stand." The three sunspots live and live, and the external sunspots can't cope with it. Give up a white stone and trap all the blacks, like a phoenix nirvana, and immediately wipe out all the blacks after being rescued from a desperate situation. Being caught off guard will benefit more than just when the white piece landed under the sunspot.

"Mr. Zhaowen is a god!" Chu Yunqi said loudly.

"Your Majesty is exaggerating. The reason why I can eat all the black stones on the right is because of the wrong white stone." Su Jue smiled and shook her head.

Chu Yunqi met Su Jue's watery eyes, and said word by word: "I am hired by the mountains and rivers of Kyushu, and I invite Lan Jun to share the prosperity of spring and autumn with you, okay?"

"Okay." Su Jue smiled.

The author has something to say: For the description of 64 chimes in the article, please refer to "Spring and Autumn and Warring States" for details