How many buildings are in the mist

Feng Zihuan actually wanted to discuss with Cui Xuanji the options after the match, but she thought that Cui Xuanji was injured and tired for two days, and would continue to be on duty tomorrow, so why not let her rest for the night ; So the two kept talking about poetry until they both rested in their bedroom.Early the next morning, Feng Zihuan went to the morning court, originally intending to ask Cui Xuanji to sleep in the palace for a while, who would have thought that there were some medicines for calming the nerves in the soup prescribed by the Qin imperial physician last night, when she woke up, Cui Xuanji was still there. She was sleeping—the usual vigilant Cui Xuanji was not awakened by such a burst of movement, so she was really tired. Feng Zihuan turned to tell the female officer a few words, and then left.

Cui Xuanji didn't wake up until the sun was three poles, and regretted it - and didn't know what to regret - so, on the street of Gongyuan, what Zhu Xianwan ran into was a flustered General Habayashi.

"Greetings to Concubine Ning."

"Zhonglang will be exempt from courtesy, is this?"

"Minister——" Cui Xuanji's face flushed, and Zhu Xianwan thought of the content of the discussion with Duan Qichen before, and she felt a little clear, "I rushed to the Yulin camp to get a job. It's about discipline, and I'm leaving. Please forgive me, ma'am!" Said and hurried away.

Zhu Xianwan looked at her back, what Duan Qichen said during Cui Xuanji's martial arts competition the day before yesterday echoed in his mind.

The two princesses and the two of them were of course allowed and even invited to watch the competition.Naturally, no one would miss this rare and exciting event.After accompanying the emperor at the beginning of the opening, the emperor left, and the two concubines didn't know much about Quan Xu, so naturally they could only go to the literary examination.Literati compete one-on-one, poetry is opposite, you come and go, if you don't have a certain foundation, you don't even understand what others are saying.Zhu Xianwan was born in a Confucian family, so she didn't know it, but she didn't realize it for a while, and she figured it out after a little thought; or she thought about Ling Zhiren before she thought about it.

Thinking that she couldn't tell the contestants below, she turned to Duan Qichen.It has been seven or eight years since Duan Qichen came to Jiankang. Although this Xianbei beauty grew up in the tribe, there are also scholars in the tribe who stayed in the north and never moved south. The chieftain's father let this Han man teach the children to learn Chinese and write Chinese characters since they were young. I also tried to let the children learn poetry and books. As a result, there are so many children, and none of them love to learn.Either escape to fight on horseback, or play tricks on the teacher while the teacher is teaching.Even the scholar himself said, let's forget the poems and songs?Barely finished learning the characters, the children no longer attend classes, and the chief's father no longer forces them.Of course, if the children wanted to listen to the scholars telling the historical stories of the ancient Central Plains to the chiefs, the father would not stop them.

For Duan Qichen, she knows the surnames of the ancient kings and allusions and anecdotes, but she doesn't know anything about elegant decrees, poems, or confrontations.At the beginning, Zhu Xianwan was very active in sharing with her, and she also asked Zhu Xianwan to explain by the way.Zhu Xianwan couldn't explain as quickly as the contestants did. One explanation had to be extended to many explanations. For example, when a contestant used the sentence "The wind and rain are dark, the rooster crows endlessly {88}", she had to explain the whole poem to Duan Qichen.

Zhu Xianwan stubbornly thought that Duan Qichen would not be able to understand the fun if he hadn't listened to the end—it was true—but she ignored that Duan Qichen didn't think so, and she didn't really want to know everything.After the examiner ordered that the next wave of orders would be names with allusions and must rhyme, Zhu Xianwan became more and more rambunctious, and Duan Qichen's slight interest in the history of names was overwhelmed by the ocean of strangeness.

Zhu Xianwan realized it later, after Duan Qichen just "hmm" dealt with it for a while.Although she lingers on the exquisite words of the players off the field, she can't completely ignore other people's feelings—or she can't ignore them at all. She wants to be harmonious everywhere, and she is used to wronging herself, and This is still her nature, no wonder Zhu Xianzhi felt that it was too insecure for her to be alone in the world—so she turned to Duan Qichen to show respect: "Sister, if—" She originally wanted to say that if you don't like the essay test, we can watch the fight Well, but if you want to say this, according to Duan Qichen's temper towards her, he will definitely refuse, so he changed his mind and said: "Why don't we go and watch the martial arts competition over there? I think Feng Xu and Feng Xi have also passed. "

It's hard to say no, right?Duan Qichen agreed.Zhu Xianwan saw that she didn't look very happy, so she accepted it - it's better than before, if such a thing happened before, Duan Qichen would probably say something weird.

"However, I think this essay test is quite interesting. Let's go after reading it. I heard that the martial arts competition in the afternoon is more exciting, so let's go in the afternoon." Duan Qichen said suddenly.

Zhu Xianwan just wanted to eat a half-ripe fruit, which was sweet and sour.

Of course, Duan Qichen looked down on his complacency, partly because he wanted to make Zhu Xianwan like him—thinking that Zhu Xianwan always wronged him like this, why bother? ——On the other hand, she knew that Cui Xuanji's match was in the afternoon, so she wanted to go and see, firstly, Cui Xuanji, and secondly, the emperor.

Zhu Xianwan felt a little drunk after reading it in the morning, but she was not very interested in watching the martial arts competition in the afternoon.Although the fight was exciting, she was completely ignorant of martial arts, so naturally she couldn't understand it.I only see you hitting him, he hitting him, she hitting her, hitting back and forth, some seem to be moving fast, and some don't look fast, and you can't tell the strength, let alone what internal strength is.Glancing quietly at Duan Qichen, seeing Duan Qichen's concentration, he felt embarrassed to ask. The sound of "bang" frightened her even more, she turned her head and saw that it was the tall man who knocked the ax in the short man's hand away, while the tall man was only holding a wooden stick.

"A lot of strength."

"Big?" Duan Qichen said with a smile, "I don't see much of my younger sister, this tall person is very clever. In terms of strength, this short person has more strength." Zhu Xianwan could only nod her head, not intending to delve into it.This group is over, and the next group is two short ones.Among them, the one who looked stronger did not hold a weapon, but used wrestling methods when he came up, and knocked his opponent to the ground with three or five moves.The opponent didn't give up lightly, just broke free, and the two fought again.What Zhu Xianwan saw in her eyes was two men holding each other's hands and stretching their feet forward trying to trip each other's feet, that's all.But Duan Qichen was excited to see it, stood up and got closer, if she was not an imperial concubine but an ordinary person, this is not Jiankang but her hometown, she would stand up and applaud.

After twisting and turning like this for a while, finally one of them was knocked to the ground again, and the winner was already divided.Duan Qichen happily sat back on his seat, "Oh, if you talk about this martial arts competition, generally speaking, the northern warriors are stronger." Zhu Xianwan was not happy when she heard it, "Where did my sister start talking about this?"

Zhu Xianwan rarely took the initiative to refute. Seeing her like this, Duan Qichen knew that he was speaking rudely, but at the same time, narrow-minded thoughts also appeared: "Sister, look, the northern warriors grew up in the ice and snow, eating wheat and meat, butter and milk. They must be taller, more muscular, and more energetic. Southern warriors, although accustomed to humidity and heat, cannot tolerate bitter cold in the north, because they are accustomed to eating fish and rice, and they do not eat much in hot weather. It’s worse, and these things add up to make the spirit weaker. So, the northern warriors are better than the southern warriors.”

Zhu Xianwan refused to accept it, and immediately gave several examples in reverse, and Duan Qichen argued with her.First discuss "whether there is an inevitable connection between diet and force", and then discuss "weather is just a factor, which does not mean that the northern army must have an advantage when going south". Finally, Zhu Xianwan saw Cui Xuanji appearing on the sidelines, and she was the next one, so she moved out. As for "internal strength", "Soldiers are rich in internal strength, so they can outnumber each other on the battlefield. It doesn't necessarily have to be arm strength."

Duan Qichen smiled, "Sister's words are wrong. On a real battlefield, no matter how strong a person's inner strength is, no matter how expert he is, he can't withstand the siege of thousands of people. No matter how strong the inner energy is, no matter how strong the inner strength is in the formation of arrows and knives." There are times when strength is insufficient. Wars are wars, and martial arts competitions are martial arts competitions, each has its own reasons."

Zhu Xianwan wanted to argue again, but Duan Qichen didn't intend to continue to embarrass her, "Northern and southern warriors have their own strengths. I really hope that I can take my sister to experience the northern warriors' riding, archery and sword skills. Come, let's take a look at Cui Xuanji." " Turning her head away as she spoke, Zhu Xianwan followed her gaze, and at the same time saw Feng Zihuan who was engrossed in the main seat.

The martial arts competition between Cui Xuanji and Xiao Rong was very exciting, and the postures of both of them were as beautiful as dancing, Zhu Xianwan watched them all with enthusiasm.Zhu Xianwan had a very good impression of Cui Xuanji, and even envied Cui Xuanji a little. She envied that although the discipline in her family was strict, it did not restrict her development. A refreshing temperament that is proud but not conceited, upright but not rigid.Speaking of her appearance, Zhu Xianwan thinks it is beautiful, but it is definitely not the kind of gentle and soft beauty, she is, another kind of beauty, Zhu Xianwan thinks, maybe it is just like Feng Zihuan when she was young, but she is much more beautiful than His Majesty back then humble……

Cui Xuanji won, Xiao Rong lost honorably, everyone applauded, including Duan Qichen.Zhu Xianwan asked her what she thinks of southern warriors now, and Duan Qichen generously admitted: "There are not many people who practice martial arts like this in the world! Regardless of whether they are north or south, they are all top-notch figures!"

As they were talking, they saw Feng Zihuan sending a female official to fetch clothes for Cui Xuanji.Zhu Xianwan stopped and asked if it was true, the female officer said yes, and she asked Cui Xuanji to make something more, and take them together.Looking back, I saw Duan Qichen's expression was different - curious, narrow-minded, humorous with malicious intentions, and so on.

"Why, seeing that General Zhonglang's clothes are torn, Your Majesty prepared a new one for her?"

"Yeah, it's been done a long time ago, but Zhong Lang will never want it, so I found an opportunity to give it away." Zhu Xianwan carefully observed Duan Qichen's expression, "What are you doing, sister?"

"Me? Oh, I just remembered—" Duan Qichen approached her and said in a low voice, "I think of all the recent changes of His Majesty, it seems that they all happened after Zhonglang entered the palace, don't you think so?" Zhu Xianwan was suspicious Nodding his head, Duan Qichen continued: "We meet each other day and night, and I don't know if His Majesty has thoughts other than official duties. Now it seems that he already has."

Zhu Xianwan chuckled, expressing that she didn't care about it, Duan Qichen asked curiously, "Your sister doesn't care?"

"Why should I care? If Your Majesty does, how can I not tell her to have a secret affection for General Zhonglang?" Duan Qichen leaned back gently, picked up the teacup from the table between the two of them and said, "I am I don’t care, because it’s the same for me no matter which family’s daughter the emperor likes. But for your sister, maybe it’s different. I guess the southern imperial court still cares about this, right?” He laughed to himself Get up, "Sister, be careful."

Zhu Xianwan sneered and said: "What do I have to be afraid of? My father has long since passed away, my brother is useless, and my uncle is also unbearable to be released, leaving me alone in the palace. What can I do? My family has long since declined. You can’t do it, and you don’t care.”

She didn't say this to fight back. Although her tone was not very good, she didn't mean anything malicious after all.Unexpectedly, looking up after a while, Duan Qichen's eyes were red, and a tear had already fallen down.She was just about to ask Duan Qichen what was wrong, but unexpectedly Duan Qichen stood up and walked away.

Zhu Xianwan didn't understand why, she thought she had offended Duan Qichen - but where did she offend?

From Duan Qichen's departure to his return to his bedroom at night, after thinking about it all the way, he couldn't understand it, and he forgot to comfort himself like in the past, "it's none of my business whether she is angry or not".In the early morning of the next day's final day, she sent someone to invite Duan Qichen to come with her, but she didn't expect to get a soft nail—Duan Qichen's Xianbei maid said that her master was sick and couldn't come out. .

She had to accompany her two children to watch the game alone.

Sitting on the sidelines, she had no interest in watching the game at all, so she hurried back in the afternoon.Since she couldn't figure it out, she asked others for help—she sent the maid who was closest to her and had the least prejudice against Duan Qichen to find the maid from Xianbei who was the least hostile to Duan Qichen, and she found someone as expected. Asked out that Duan Qichen went back to his bedroom yesterday, cried silently, and played the pipa until midnight.The maid was more thoughtful and asked what song was played, the Xianbei woman said indifferently, it was an old Xianbei song.

As soon as the words came back, Zhu Xianwan realized that it was what she said that aroused Duan Qichen's sadness.And she didn't want to be sad in front of everyone, and she didn't want to make Zhu Xianwan understand, and she couldn't hold back, so she left without saying a word.

If you want to talk about coaxing people, Zhu Xianwan can still do it.But the crux of the problem was that she couldn't coax her directly, so she had to find a way.After thinking for a while, she came up with a plan, and she asked the maid to meet the Xianbei maid again, and agreed to meet somewhere in the garden early the next morning.If she hadn't been anxious to meet someone, she wouldn't have come out so early, walked this way, and bumped into Cui Xuanji who seemed to be still asleep.

When the generous Xianbei maid arrived, Zhu Xianwan immediately asked her, where can I buy Xianbei items in Jiankang City?The maid knew it well, and she answered in detail, Zhu Xianwan ordered her maid to write it down quickly.Then asked Duan Qichen what he likes, and the maid answered again; finally, Zhu Xianwan thought for a while, "Although these are similar, but—by the way, that, um..." The maid asked the empress what she wanted to say, she looked embarrassed, and summoned up her courage to say :

"How to make ice cream? Is it difficult?"

As a result, two days later, Duan Qichen first received a set of Xianbei-style wooden drinking utensils, the second day he received a wooden Buddha statue made in the north, and the third day a leather doll—that doll was her favorite kind.On the fourth day, Zhu Xianwan came with the ice cream she made herself.She carefully added fresh milk, honey, and a little peach in season.When it was done, the female officials and maids all persuaded, why should the empress do the cooking herself, and leave it to us.Zhu Xianwan wiped off her sweat, and said seriously: "You can't even make an apology gift by yourself, and the apology will definitely not be sincere. This is rude, I can't!"

Then she stood at the door carrying the heavy food box herself.

Duan Qichen heard that Zhu Xianwan had come in this way, and ran to greet her in person—receiving gifts for several days, she was at a loss, still thinking about why Zhu Xianwan was crazy—"Sister, what are you doing?"

Zhu Xianwan shyly said that she was really guilty of hurting people because of that Japanese language, so she made some ice cream herself and came to her sister's house to apologize. "I put honey and peaches, it should be..." I have never been so short of words when I grow up.Of course, Duan Qichen on the opposite side was not much better.

So this corner of the palace was suddenly filled with laughter and sweet complaints.Zhu Xianwan's ice cream is not authentic and traditional, but it tastes light and delicious.Duan Qichen pretended to be sick and didn't hide it now, and he ate three bowls in a row before giving up.After the two talked, the topic became "Where did you buy this from?"

Zhu Xianwan replied, and naturally confessed to the Xianbei maid.When Duan Qichen falsely reprimanded the maid, Zhu Xianwan thought of Cui Xuanji whom she met that morning.It's a pity that Zhu Xianwan's imagination of Cui Xuanji and Feng Zihuan is lacking in the content level. For example, at this moment, the two people's family atmosphere is far from here, and they are discussing important military affairs.

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{88} "The Book of Songs Zheng Feng Wind and Rain"