Chapter 123 Painted Skin
In the midsummer of the 13th year of Chongzhao, the weather was so hot that it was very evil.
After the sun fell on the west mountain, the feet were still burning on the blue brick floor. It was about to get night, and the heat in Tan Qiuyuan was still not diminished. Lingyu was so hot that he drooped his head and fell asleep beside the food trough.
Ruyi knelt on the ground, holding the palm fan tightly with her hands, and kept fanning towards the ice basin, hoping to bring a hint of coolness to Xue Sui, but she still couldn't resist the stuffiness and sleepiness. With Ling Yu's sleepy rhythm, her head lit up again and again, like a hammer pounding garlic...
Xue Sui was sitting on the arhat couch next to the window, with a book lightly hooked at her fingertips, and she was stunning.
Outside the gauze cabinet, the cicadas chirping sounded restlessly, which made her look more and more quiet and gentle, like a quiet painting.
"There is a drink!"
"Sweet and ice grape drink!"
The pearl curtain roared, and Xiao Zhao rushed in with a red pickup tray, deliberately elongating his tone.
"The purple grapes that have been stirred in the well water for three times were mixed with crushed ice and mashed into slurry, and then mixed two spoons of cliff honey - clear the heart and remove the heat, nourish the spleen and produce fluid. When you walk by, don't miss it, there will be nothing if you miss it!"
This voice instantly broke the tranquility of Tan Qiuyuan.
The iced drink was served in the glass cup, and a thin layer of frost was condensed on the wall, which made people feel cool.
Xue Sui tasted it briefly, and the refreshing taste fell down his throat.
She let out a light and smiled and nodded.
"I have made a lot of things, so you can share it with me."
Ruyi's clothes on her back were so hot that she was soaked. When she heard this, she was so greedy that her saliva was almost flowing out.
"I'll come to Sheng, I'll come to Sheng..."
Xiao Zhao gently touched her with her elbow.
"Don't squeeze me if you have you, oh, you girl... girl, look at her! I will punish her to bask in the sun tomorrow!"
"You have to bask in the sun, you have to bask in the sun, if you can bask in the sun with me, you can bask in the sun with me. Girl, punish me quickly, punish me quickly!"
The two of them said one by one, laughing and laughing.
The maids and mothers in the yard also became lively.
The rough wife Wang held the bowl and chanted the Buddha's name, saying that the wife was born by the Empress Guanyin.
Pelan, the second-class maid who had just been promoted, was shaking his hands when he took the cup.
She worked in the palace for five years and saw a master giving such a good ice drink to his servant...
The thanks came one after another, and even suppressed the heat.
Xue Sui turned over a page of the book, and a faint smile appeared at the end of her eyes.
"Give some to the guards on duty outside."
The two guards were not from Tan Qiuyuan. They had other arrangements for meals, and they were all under the management of the front yard, and they had nothing to do with Tan Qiuyuan.
The drink was brought to the front, crystal clear. They had been hot all day long, as if they were about to stick out their tongues. They couldn't help swallowing, full of emotion.
"Thank you for your concern, Madam!"
There were iced grape pulp in the drink, and there were finely ground ice chips, which were sweet and refreshing. The two of them hurriedly squatted in the tall shadow of the banana forest and started eating voraciously, so that the blue veins on their necks emerged.
When Jinshu hurried back, the two of them still licked their mouths with concern. "Aunt Jinshu, have you bought it again?"
A guard saw the bulging bag in Jinshu's arms and stood up.
Jinshu glanced at him and smiled, "We girls are not withstand the heat of the summer, so they want to eat some refreshing fruits. So I went to the market to buy some, thinking of making some more drinks tomorrow..."
As she said, she took out two watery pears from her bag, stuffed one in each of her hands, and then she walked through the threshold with a smile.
The two guards were laughing, their mouths almost grinning.
Although there is also fresh fruit supply in the royal palace, most of them are given priority to the masters of each courtyard. It is difficult for them to take turns to work on their jobs.
Summer duty is a chore. When they first arrived, they were complaining. Who would have thought that Mrs. Ping'an was so easy-going?
Jinshu closed the door, the smile on his face suddenly closed, and his expression became solemn. "Girl." She walked to Xue Sui and squatted down, lowering her voice. "The news came from Dalangjun that the Xizi caravan had changed the pass certificate on Longyou Road and would arrive in Shangjing tomorrow."
Xizi and Daliang have been constantly in conflict in recent years, but they have not broken up, and they have not officially declared war. Among the people, trade and trade exchanges are quite frequent. Daliang regards himself as the country of Zhongzhou, and comes from all directions to pay tribute to all rivers. He disdains to argue with ordinary people in Xiz. Therefore, he has always been openly acquiescent to normal trade exchanges and secretly controls them secretly.
Jinshu took out a secret letter from Tianshu from his arms.
The book is top secret, and I don’t know what the book is. "It was given to the girl by Dalang." Xue Sui tore open the sealing wax and shakes the letter, which was written by Tianshu in person.
"Amonglah, the high priest of Siz, mixed in the caravan. His daughter had entered the capital with the envoy many years ago. She was presented to the Emperor Daliang with Princess Wenjia's mother. Later, her life and death were unknown. When she entered the capital, Amonglah would definitely try to approach Princess Wenjia. The news may not be true, so you can consider it yourself."
Jinshu looked at Xue Sui and saw the swaying candlelight in her smile. He continued, "Gu Jie stayed in Zuixianglou for one night yesterday. Early this morning, he booked more than ten rooms at Tianshui Inn in the north of the city. I think it was prepared for the caravan."
Xue Sui listened quietly.
Gu Jie was a dangerous move for her.
Xue Sui was not sure whether he could be led into the game.
She chuckled, and a cold light appeared in her eyes.
"Send someone to keep an eye on him." Jinshu responded and lowered his voice a little.
"There was also movement on the other end of Fan Bing. He went out from the back door of Hongfu Gambling House at the third hour of the Youth hour, rented a green-veiled carriage from the car shop, and ran straight towards Princess Pingle's Xishan Villa..." Xue Sui chuckled and gently put down the book in his hand. "He was very anxious. He just got the news and couldn't wait... the carriage was hired. Are he planning to do a big vote?"
What a pity!
The gift of fate has long been secretly bidding the price.
He went to get it this time, and it would be his own life if he didn't do it well.
Jinshu smiled and said, "It's still a girl who is planning to do things. Everything is in the scheming, and it's not bad..."
Xue Sui shook her head gently, smiled and said, "It's all everyone's credit. What big thing can I accomplish alone?"
The "gambler" arranged by Fan Bing in Hongfu Gambling provides Fan Bing with a shortcut to enter the Xishan Villa - his aunt's uncle's nephew works in the Xishan Villa. This person has a wide range of ways. Although the access control in the villa is tight, as long as an acquaintance gives you some money, you can easily get in.
Princess Pingle doesn't go there often, and the servants take some and eat something. As long as they are willing to be filial and responsible, no one will pursue it. Everyone turns a blind eye.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Fan Bingxin was found.
The desperate prince was easily caught in this trap.
Xue Sui looked calm, picked up the white porcelain cup that Ruyi placed on the wooden table, drank a sip of the grapes, and sighed comfortably.
"What is Pingle doing now?" Jinshu responded with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Lu came to the palace yesterday to ask for an order to be reunited with Princess Pingle. When I came over, the princess's car was waiting outside the Yimen Gate. I thought I would go back to the princess's mansion to question..."
Lu Youan asked for an order to be reunited. This news was a bolt from the blue for Pingle, enough to make her in chaos.
Xue Sui narrowed his eyes gently, suddenly chuckled, and reached out to grab the wooden carved kitten beside him.
The kitten's round and fat face, which was smiling, was turning back and forth on her fingertips, as if something was brewing.
After a moment, Xue Sui stopped his fingers and smiled.
"Didn't Pingle have installed a lot of spies in the mansion? Then I'll send her a letter - and say that Fan Bing learned that she had built a secret room after the waterfall in the Xishan Villa, which was filled with gold, silver and jewelry, so he bribed the doorman guards of the other courtyard and drove the carriage to the Xishan Villa...
"That's so interesting. It depends on whether the princess wants people or money..."
Jinshu nodded slightly and smiled with understanding.
"Maid will do it now. ”
"Let's wait!" Xue Sui spoke.
Jinshu stopped and looked at her in confusion.
"What do girls have to do?"
"It's so troublesome. She wants me to be this slut, so I'll give her a real ghost show!"
Xue Sui took out a white silk handkerchief from her sleeve, gently wiped the corner of her mouth, and then said, "When Pingle goes to Xishan, he will hand her a message to Princess Lu - and said that Fan Bing took Prince Pingle's private seal to the West Mountain Villa to enjoy the moon."
Emperor Chongzhao loves face the most and will never allow his beloved Princess Pingle to suffer any grievance.
Lu Youan wants to divorce, it is difficult to ascend to the sky.
So, when he got this news, whether it was out of the dignity of his husband or to find an excuse to leave, he would definitely go to Xishan Villa.
"Is this drama going to be so big?" Jin Shu's heart thumped.
Princess Pingle is not an easy-to-handle person, nor is it a puppet who can be merciless. Such a big formation may reveal its strength...
"Don't worry, as long as Lu Youan's affairs happens, she will lose her mind."
What if she has doubts?
A woman will be blindly impulsive once she is trapped by love.
When Jinshu looked up again, Xue Sui had already held the volume of "Qiwu Lun" again and read it with relish. Her soft silk and wide sleeves slid down half of them, revealing a piece of her cream-like wrist.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Jinshu felt that the old scars on the girl's arm seemed to have faded a lot.
She thought the girl's instructions always make sense.
Otherwise, even though Shiyi was not the best, how could she be elected as the envoy by the three elders of the Jiulingnuo? Is it really what Qilangjun said, and she would flatter her? Of course not.
Jinshu took a deep breath. "A clever plan! The maid must do it properly for the girl."
She hurried down.
Xiao Zhao looked at the girl's gentle face and suddenly remembered the night when You Zhimu fell down to Qiong Tower.
The girl also smiled like this, turned the wooden carved kitten, and said lightly, "Then push it down."
A light sentence determines You Zhimu's life and death, and starts the turning point of everyone's fate in the album.
Xiao Zhao firmly believes.
Everyone in the album will be like You Zhimu in the future, and will be quietly rewritten as the kitten at the girl's fingertips rotates, heading towards their end--
I have a little cold, so I will update these today. I will update them early tomorrow (clench my fist, sure!)
Li Zhao: Didn’t I appear today?
Reader: The amazing male protagonists usually cover the clouds and rain behind the scenes, and I have never heard of anyone climbing the window every day.