phoenix knot

Qingning Palace, Yilanxuan.

Lin Fangfei leaned on the railing and looked out. In the depths of the peach blossoms, there was a gentleman in brocade clothes walking gracefully, and the scent of fragrance was blowing head-on in the spring breeze.

A smile appeared on her lips, and the maid next to her said, "Your maidservant is going to prepare tea."

"I don't want to drink tea today, so go and carry out the jar of peach blossoms. Princess Zheng wants to taste wine today."

"Yes!" The palace lady withdrew as she said, and went to prepare drinks.

Princess Zheng came over in a dawdly manner, with her hands supported and her long legs raised, she had already climbed over the railing.

"Why did you come here?" Lin Fangfei asked softly, without any reproach in her tone.

"Yanqing Palace is very lively, I just ran over to have a look."

"Yanqing Palace is busy? I thought you went to Changle Palace."

"What am I going to do there?" Princess Zheng asked strangely, saying that she put a freshly folded peach blossom on Lin Fangfei's temple. There were not many flowers, only two or three, but they made Lin Fangfei look pale. There is a bit of spring.

"There are beauties there. You remember that you loved to run to Changle Palace for a while, and you also said that Concubine Hui was very interesting."

"Beauty is beauty, too fierce."

"Although fierce is a bit fierce, as long as the person is as beautiful as that, being fierce will only make her more beautiful."

"I can't appreciate it." Princess Zheng was lying dangerously on the armrest, with her legs crossed and tilted high, as if she had a superb lightness skill, and she looked like Han Xiangzi in the cloud, only missing the jade flute in her hand.

"The queen is also very fierce, don't you still appreciate it?"

Princess Zheng Guo was basking in the sun happily, but now she raised her eyelids, "Why do I smell a little vinegar here today?"

Lin Fangfei walked around, casting a shadow on Princess Zheng's handsome face, "I have not only old vinegar, but also old wine here, which one do you want?"

Princess Zheng Guo chuckled, and said leisurely: "Then let's be jealous first, and then drink."

Not long after, the maids and eunuchs had arranged the food and wine in the gazebo outside Yilanxuan. The portions were not large, but everything was exquisite.

"This 'Bing Qing Yu Jie' was made by our mother herself. It was picked from the pagoda tree flower that just bloomed a few days ago and pickled with rock sugar. It was served with the dried Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum last year, and then wrapped the petals of Tianshan snow lotus into a roll. Then pour dew into it, take it to freeze in the ice cellar, and then cut it obliquely and arrange it like this." The maid reminded.

In the glass tray, one after another, crystal lotus flowers bloomed one after another. As the ice chips melted, the whole lotus flower changed and bloomed.Princess Zheng Guo said: "If you put so much effort into making such delicate dim sum for me, it will be ruined. I don't care if I eat it, or don't eat it."

"This lotus, look at it once, eat it once, it's useless if you don't want to eat it, it will disappear after a while, and there will only be a puddle of residual water." Lin Fangfei poured wine, drank by herself, put down the wine cup, and raised her hands leisurely. ,Not pleased, not to have compassion.

"I eat what I eat, how can I live up to the spring flowers and autumn moon." She picked up the petals with her chopsticks, even breaking the petals.

Lin Fangfei picked it up with her slender fingers, put her other hand underneath to prevent it from spilling, and sent it to Princess Zheng's mouth.Princess Zheng Guo can feel all kinds of petals and ice flakes melting in her mouth one by one, jumping layers upon layers of sweetness and astringency. This taste can only be felt by those who taste it, and others cannot understand it just by looking at it. The inner world.

"Is it tasty?"

Princess Zheng closed her eyes and tasted it for a long time, and finally swallowed the water that melted in her mouth slowly. From her throat to her lower abdomen to her toes, a clear fragrance poured down, as if the earth had just opened, the ice and snow had melted, and spring water was flowing. To Baike.She couldn't wait to hum a little song, shook her head and said, "It seems that Pinde is the story of the life of a beautiful woman who is overwhelmed by the country and the city."

Lin Fangfei smiled, "If that's the case, it's not a waste."

The two ate for a while, Lin Fangfei said, "Are you still living in Qixia Temple?"

"Calm down and worship the Buddha."

"Worshiping the Buddha?" Lin Fangfei couldn't help laughing, "Who is drinking and eating meat in the Buddha's Pure Land?"

Princess Zheng Guo supported her forehead.

"Who is molesting the little nun in the temple?"

Princess Zheng showed a begging smile.

"Whoever fought with the pilgrims again alarmed the empress who was in seclusion and had no visitors."

Princess Zheng Guo bowed her hands together, "People say that you hide from the world in the Qingning Palace, why are such trivial matters still reaching your ears one by one?"

"No one knows Zheng Guogong's great name, and no one knows it. He really deserves the notoriety of the royal family and nobles and dudes."

"Good sister, don't talk about it, I will change it from now on."

"Why do you want to change it?" Lin Fangfei set out a dish by herself and raised her wine glass, "I just like you like this."

Princess Zheng Guo was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly, and clinked glasses with her, "Come, come, let's have a drink."

After drinking for three rounds, Princess Zheng told Lin Fangfei about the interesting things she saw in Yanqing Palace just now, "The sisters of the Su family don't even look alike, you can tell that they are sisters, but they are graceful and resolute. different."

"That's great, there is another beauty in the palace for you to enjoy, especially since you have the grace to save her life, Princess Zheng's protection may be more useful than the emperor, who dares to provoke you, will you be beaten in the chest sword?"

Princess Zheng Guo said: "If someone dares to bully you, I will stab him in the same way. No, no, I will tie him into a sieve."

These words are very useful, Lin Fangfei doesn't know if she can be true, but listen for now.

"There is a war in the north, have you heard?"

"I don't know anything about the previous dynasty. Ever since the empress went to Qixia Temple in the harem, there has been a school of singing and dancing, and only you have told me about the things outside the palace."

Princess Zheng dismissed the maids and eunuchs, leaving only a few confidantes, and then approached Lin Fangfei, "The empress may be returning to the palace."

Lin Fangfei's eyes lit up, "So, King Liao rebelled?"

"Finally rebellion!" When Princess Zheng said this, her face was filled with joy. "The emperor is devastated. There have been disasters in the south for many years, not to mention that the tax money and food cannot be collected, and the local people are still clamoring for disaster relief every year. The previous dynasty was How did it die?——The government, cruel officials, hard labor, famine. It’s only been a few years since the people didn’t have a rest, and the treasury was empty. The Liao king took this opportunity to rebel. The old general Liang was getting old, and Liang The founding fathers of the mansion all died in battle; the Li family was a surrendered soldier from the previous dynasty, so they could not be of much use; General Jinwu wanted to guard the capital; Not to mention General Dragon and Tiger, even Old General Liang has followed his example and ruined a good son. Who else can hold the seal of command? Unless the emperor personally enlists."

"Isn't there still Xinwu General Gu Changfeng?"

It's not that Princess Zheng has forgotten that she still has a husband, "He? Could it be that he is going to form an alliance with the King of Liao and lead an army into Jiayuguan."

"Nonsense, then you don't know the son-in-law too well, he is definitely not this kind of person."

"It's me, I'll do it!" Princess Zheng knocked on the table, as if she was the one who rebelled, "So it's not a family, and if I don't enter a family, I can't get along with him."

"You are not him, and you don't know the pain in his heart."

"Why don't I know, I'm also suffering in my heart." Princess Zheng Guo immediately put on a distressed look.

"You poor ass, do you still have few Yingyingyanyans around you? I heard that he is still alone, and he has never even had a concubine."

"He married a wife like me, which girl would dare to marry him as a child?"

Lin Fangfei snorted, "You do have self-knowledge."

Princess Zheng drank another sip of peach blossoms and got drunk. She became a little drunk, "In less than three days, the emperor will drive Qixia Temple to invite the queen out of the mountain."