Fragrance with blue sleeves

After returning from Yunnan, Baili Lan was contented, Ye Tianxiang was still indifferent, but Bai Xingjian, although being held in the palm of his hand, somehow lost weight, causing Su Qi to lose weight again and again after seeing him. He was speechless, he was afraid that the Emperor and Master Shu would use him as a coachman to end up in such a situation, no matter how many times Bai Xingjian explained with a wry smile that he was fine, he would not believe it.

Bai Lilan rested for a few days, returned to the court, and dealt with all the affairs that had been assigned to the prime minister for this month, then changed the subject and mentioned the trip to Yunnan.

"This trip to Yunnan, I am really grateful to these two adults. I have seen a lot of customs and customs along the way. It seems that Yunnan is really a good place." Bai Lilan said in a deep voice, "Wang Cai, pass the decree Bar."

"Yes." The prince on the side bowed, shook his hand whisk, stepped forward two steps, tremblingly unfolded the imperial edict, dragging out the male duck's voice, "Military Minister Ye Tianxiang, Shangshu Sheng's right servant shoots Bai Xingjian Listen to the decree, this trip to Yunnan has yielded a lot, and the two of you have contributed a lot. We will give you a thousand taels of gold and silver for each of you, and five hundred pieces of special tribute silk and satin for the concubine. In addition, Ye Tianxiang, Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, will be the governor of the Kyoto Prefecture. He also holds the position of Deputy Prime Minister, and the official worship is from the second rank; the right servant of the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, She Bai Xingjian, is the head of the Taishuyuan Pavilion, and also the Taiwei of the Kyoto Prefecture, and the official worship is from the third rank." (Official positions are emptied...)

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The two people in the court said in unison, saluting and accepting the order.

"Bai Qing, thank you later, it's not over yet." Bai Lilan smiled strangely.

Bai Xingjian was taken aback for a moment, as expected——

"...In addition, I want to marry Princess An Le to the famous lord of Taishuyuan Pavilion." After the prince finished reading, he stepped back with a smile.

"Bai Qing, what do you think? I think you and the imperial sister are of the right age, so why not get married." Bai Lilan smiled slightly.

"This..." Bai Xingjian felt cold sweat on his forehead, and subconsciously peeked at the people around him, but Ye Tianxiang still looked alienated as if nothing to do with me, and didn't even look at him, Bai Xingjian frowned , said, "Back to the emperor, this matter, I should settle with my parents..."

The emperor looked at him with great interest, "Oh, is that so? Since Ai Qing said so, let's put it aside for now, don't worry."

After going to court, Bai Xingjian did not go back to the mansion to discuss this matter with his parents.

"Hey, what do you think you want to do?" Su Qi wandered around with him, "This is a good time, the emperor clearly wants to marry the seventeenth princess, but Ye Tianxiang rejected it last time, this time it's your turn... "

"I, I don't know..." Bai Xingjian sighed, "If he has anything to say, I will listen to him right away, but unfortunately, he has never seen me in his eyes..."

Su Qi glanced at him, narrowed his eyes and said, "Why don't you go to Ye Mansion and ask."

"Ah? What are you asking?" Bai Xingjian asked in surprise.

"Could it be that you really want to marry that princess?" Su Qi pushed him into the carriage, "Go!" After finishing speaking, he said to the coachman before Bai Xingjian could speak, "Go to Yefu."

"Okay!" The driver didn't care what the masters were arguing about, he swung his whip and drove away.

Bai Xingjian fidgeted and waited in the front hall of the Yefu. Finally, a servant came out and said, "My lord, my young master has an invitation, follow me."

Bai Xingjian hurriedly followed and walked all the way outside the study.The servant called out, "Master, Master Bai has arrived", then bowed and withdrew.

Bai Xingjian gritted her teeth, pushed open the half-closed door, and walked in hesitantly, "My lord..."

"What's the matter?" Ye Tianxiang was drawing at the table, saw him coming in, looked up at him, then pointed at the table, "Sit."

"No, no need." Bai Xingjian rarely stammered, "I came here to ask my lord, you, you say I want to marry the princess..."

Ye Tianxiang laughed lightly as if he had heard something funny, and stopped writing, "My lord, you have to discuss this matter with your majesty, it has nothing to do with me."

Bai Xingjian froze, blushing, "Then, if I marry the princess..."

"I said, this is your business and has nothing to do with me." Ye Tianxiang stopped him, and looked at his unfinished picture scroll indifferently.

Bai Xingjian froze on the spot for a long time without saying a word, only feeling a soreness rushing up in her chest, couldn't help but her eyes were red, turned her back to prevent Ye Tianxiang from seeing, and was about to say goodbye when she heard a teacup coming from behind The sound of falling to the ground.

He stopped, and Ye Tianxiang scolded, "Who was I for? When I resisted the order, I didn't hesitate for a moment! I didn't expect you to pick up this bargain in the end! You came to ask me what I did, yes Want me to call you son-in-law!"

Bai Xingjian was stunned, turned around subconsciously, and saw Ye Tianxiang standing with his arms folded, expressionless, with tea all over the ground, and said, "My son-in-law, please walk slowly."

Bai Xingjian was stunned for a while, then left in a hurry, and ran to face Sheng.

When they arrived at Pixiang Hall, seeing him like this, Bai Lilan smiled slowly, "I knew you would come to resist the decree." Bai Xingjian opened his mouth, but did not speak.

"It's just that I didn't expect that you still hesitated..." Bai Lilan sighed slightly, "I deliberately put it on the top, just to let you reject me in front of Ye Qing. You know, back then I was afraid of him Rejected on the spot, and deliberately called the Queen Mother to play, but he still didn't say a good word. You hesitated in the court today, and Xiao Shiqi was frightened, thinking that you really wanted to marry her. I gave this marriage just for Check what you think in your heart, I'm afraid Ye Qing will be furious at your hesitation just now, why don't you explain? He is sincere to you, and I see that you also have some feelings for him, but don't Live up to..."

Bai Xingjian didn't speak, but after thanking the emperor, she turned around and burst into tears.

Bai Xingjian still didn't go back to the mansion, and didn't look for Ye Tianxiang, but just moved to the pavilion in the east of the city and sat there all night, thinking a lot.

The next day, I was absent from the morning court.

Ye Tianxiang was going to court, but when he saw that Bai Xingjian was not there, and heard Su Qi say that he hadn't returned home last night, his expression darkened immediately, and he left in a hurry without saying hello to anyone.

Seeing him hurrying, Baili Lan didn't blame him, but turned to Xuanyuan and said, "The word love is really harmful."

At night again, Bai Xingjian woke up from starvation in a daze, looked up and saw the sky was drooping, the stars were sparse and the moon was bright, and he couldn't help but think of what he said at that time.

"...a person should not only know how to read at night, but also get up and open the window at the third watch. The stars and the moon are bright, which is the grand scene."

When he said this, he stared at him blankly, the man didn't look frivolous as usual, but had a light smile and far-sighted eyes.

He looked at him like this, thinking that the sky would last forever and the sea would dry up and rocks would rot.

At this time, there was someone sitting around, looking at him with his forehead in his hands, and there was a food box with painted and painted gold on the table, in case he was hungry.

Blue sleeves add fragrance to the night, when the stars are sparse and the moon is bright.

Finish

postscript

The ending was really rushed, and I was in a hurry when I wrote it, so I just let it go.

Some people might think what Ye Tianxiang was thinking, I don't know, I just thought, these two people are so awkward, neither one is willing to speak first, so it ended in such an arrogant way.

……

The first impression of Bai Xingjian may be that many years ago, that spring day when the emperor went to the royal hunting ground with the new scholars.

At that time, naturally, he was with Su Qi, one of the civil servants, and when Ye Tianxiang was galloping with Bai Lilan on his horse, he was drinking and composing poems outside the hunting ground fence.

The two of them were enjoying themselves by playing with sentences.

Ye Tianxiang was riding his horse to shoot and hunt, when he passed by them, he suddenly heard a young man say loudly: "Shu Xing once Gu Yue, passed on his hatred for today."

The lines of the poem are neither wonderful (I am making them up now), nor can they break the artistic conception, just because of the word "Sparse Star" in it, Ye Tianxiang paid attention to it.He was absent-minded in the second half of the hunt, and he would casually look in the direction of the young man. With a few vague glances, he outlined a slender and handsome outline. It seemed that he was an idle job in the Tai Academy and had not yet reached the age of weak crown.

It's just that the young man seemed to be afraid of him, the smile on his lips froze immediately when he met his eyes, he wondered in his heart what the young man was afraid of, could he be so fierce?

Thinking for a long time, to no avail.

After a long time, he still occasionally remembered that young man, that line of poetry, and that inexplicably dodging look in his eyes.Even one day, when I dreamed back in the middle of the night and suddenly woke up, the face in my mind gradually became clear, and it turned out to be that bright smile.He himself was surprised.

Seven years passed like this.He has repeatedly rejected the marriages arranged by the Holy Majesty, and he is wise and safe in the ups and downs of the officialdom.

Until that day, he stepped forward to help the boy with a sentence, a sentence that he regretted for the rest of his life.

Therefore, from then on, things followed in a logical manner. He himself didn't understand why he was like this, but he made a wrong step, and he couldn't stop.He thought, no matter what, he should admit it.

It wouldn't be a bad thing if he could be planted in his hands like this for a lifetime.

Thinking of this, he felt relieved, and then ordered the housekeeper to remember to help him bring a box of almond cakes to the "Zhenxitang".

Maybe it's still the theme, forbearance is really the same heart-wrenching skill.

This story is considered to be over, without the open and sad ending of Qingshanlushui, it is rare for the two of them to be together.That's it, and that's fine too.