With this appearance, Xue Yuan was somewhat like the image of the Regent in the book.
Gu Yuanbai narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Xue Yuan watched one of the eunuchs beside the wigwam sneak out from behind it, and thoughtfully turned back toward Gu Yuanbai with a breezy smile, "Look at the landscape, look at the flowers and plants."
"Xue Qing has some leisure time," Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes, "How is your injury healing from the days of rest?"
Xue Yuan said, "It's still okay."
He stood about two paces away from Gu Yuanbai, and when he finished returning those words, the two didn't speak again.
A moment.
"Your Holiness." Xue Yuan suddenly spoke out.
Gu Yuanbai lifted his eyelids and glanced at him.
Xue Yuan respectfully asked, "Within the palace, are there still clansmen living here?"
"There are some clansmen," Gu Yuanbai rambled, "Are you punching someone again?"
Xue Yuan didn't hold back a laugh, "Your Holiness is overly concerned."
After these two sentences, the wind was quiet for a moment, and it was at this time that a cry came from outside the pavilion, "Your Holiness!"
Gu Yuanbai turned his head to look, and it turned out to be Tian Fusheng, who had been sent by him to find the sprinkled palace maid to inquire about the news.
Tian Fusheng was so tired and panting, he went up to the pavilion and was about to report things to Gu Yuanbai, when he looked up and saw Xue Yuan, his eyes glazed over and his whole body froze in place.
Xue Yuan nodded courteously at him and said, "Chief Tian."
"Xue, Xue adults," Tian Fusheng back to his senses, towards Xue Yuan sardonically smiled a bit, continued towards the saint, "the saint originally have gone so far, how can I not see the shadow in the back, almost thought to follow the lost, small this heart to be scared out of their throats. "
"Alright," Gu Yuanbai laughed, brightly, "I asked you to inquire about the matter, can you inquire clearly?"
Tian Fusheng glanced at Xue Yuan with his afterglow, and then said with a flourish, "Your Holiness, that sprinkling courtesan didn't know much, but as soon as I followed the eunuchs above her, I found out a few things."
Gu Yuanbai said, "Tell me about it."
After the eunuch behind the wigwam sneaked away, he came all the way to the Prince of Harmony's residence.
Prince He listened to his words with a cold face, and when he heard him say, "His Majesty and Lord Xue get along very closely," he changed his face violently.
He asked somberly, "What kind of very close?"
The eunuch euphemistically said, "I don't dare to look more, I only know that Lord Xue stood right in front of His Holiness and even purified his face for Him."
That's even touching the face.
The Prince of Harmony stood up abruptly, pacing back and forth without stopping, "Then the saint can be angry, has he punished anyone?"
"His Holiness did not rebuke Lord Xue," the eunuch said carefully, "nor did he seem to have an angry face."
"......" The Prince of Harmony paused, and was silent for a long time before he suddenly said, "You retire."
After the eunuchs in the palace retired, the Prince of Harmony called his personal eunuch over again.
Personal eunuch a walked in, then see and Prince sitting in the room back of the place, face in the darkness can not see, only tone is very depressing: "go to send a beautiful courtesan to send to the saint."
Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan, does Gu Yuanbai ...... like men?
What Tian Fusheng inquired about wasn't really anything special.
But it is a collection of silver, so that under the management of the eunuchs and palace maids to learn the score of this poem. This poem is already good, humming up catchy, people pass it on, then anyone will hum a line or two.
After hearing his words, Gu Yuanbai had the head guard collect the kite and led the men back down the same path.
When they walked to the four-cornered pavilion that was surrounded by water on two sides, they happened to see a palace maid holding a towel and handkerchief wiping the carved stone table inside the four-cornered pavilion.
This courtesan face is very beautiful, I do not know whether it is hot or shy, there is a slight blush on the face. Slender hands, clothing is simple, but it highlights the body.
Tian Fusheng saw at a glance that this courtesan is not ordinary, but can send courtesans, are the masters of the houses, and may even be the Wan Tai Fei. Tian Fusheng eyes and nose, the saint does not command, he is not good to take the initiative to voice drive away.
Gu Yuanbai walked over and sat down, casually saying, "Stand down."
The courtesan was a little disappointed, "Yes."
But because her mind was in such a turmoil, she accidentally knocked over the teacup on the table when she withdrew her hand instead. The hot water that had just been poured into the teacups flowed down the table in a hurry, and Gu Yuanbai quickly got up and took two steps back, her brows furrowed.
The sleeves were already stained with hot water, and Gu Yuanbai shook his hands twice and looked toward the courtesan.
The palace maid knelt on the ground, her face white with fear, "Your Holiness, the slave girl deserves to die, please forgive me, Your Holiness."
Gu Yuanbai sighed, "Stand down."
The palace maid hurriedly bowed low and carefully left the four-cornered pavilion.
Tian Fusheng was ordering someone to clean up the water stains on the table when Gu Yuanbai walked over to the sides of the pavilion, his hands spaced out on the handrail, and glanced under the water.
Soon, surprisingly, there were small birds falling against the handrail, their sharp beaks crowing incessantly, and Gu Yuanbai couldn't help but reach out his hand, wanting to touch the feathers of these birds.
But it should be that the jade trigger finger on the thumb is too conspicuous, so that the animals also love, Gu Yuanbai's hand has not yet touched the bird, the bird has been taken by surprise, probing to take away the jade trigger finger on Gu Yuanbai's finger, a wave of the wings, to be articulated with the jade trigger finger to escape.
Gu Yuanbai lost his smile, "Just you little guy, you also want to come and steal from me?"
He reached out and grabbed it, but surprised the bird, the bird panicked and waved its wings a few times, its beak loosened, and the jade trigger finger fell into the lakes on both sides of the pavilion with a "flutter".
Gu Yuanbai's smile stiffened as he followed the jade trigger finger and saw the lake.
A dark shadow flashed by his side, and amidst Gu Yuanbai's last glance, he saw Xue Yuan step onto the railing and jump towards the lake without hesitation.
Gu Yuanbai's eyelids snapped, lifted up his robe and walked out of the pavilion quickly, calling out, "Xue Yuan!"
The guards hurriedly followed out of the pavilion, which has been put down the sword, "flop" followed by jumping into the lake.
The head of the guards looked serious and worried, "This injury of Lord Xue ......"
Gu Yuanbai's expression changed and changed, finally settling on an extraordinarily ugly face.
The guards in the lake went back and forth shouting loudly and kept diving down and floating up, but Xue Yuan still didn't make a sound at all. Gu Yuanbai's face became more and more sullen, and suddenly, a person violently emerged from the side of the wooden path under his feet.
There was a crash of water, large sheets of it gushing down the wooden planes of the road, and Xue Yuan emerged with his upper body, soaked to the skin, the running water in his black hair snaking its way down the lines of his body.
He smiled helplessly toward Gu Yuanbai, "Your Holiness."
"Is Xue Qing this reckless even after he was injured?" Gu Yuanbai's tone was hard, "I'm asking you, if you're lifeless, how am I going to explain to General Xue!"
The fire in his heart steamed, his eyes staring straight at Xue Yuan, fire hidden in his eyes.
So pretty that the whole world lights up.
Xue Yuan said, "His Majesty's jade trigger finger cannot be lost."
"I have plenty of jade," Gu Yuanbai pressed his voice, his brows forced, "I don't need a anyone to sell their life to find me a mediocre jade trigger finger! It's just a dead thing-"
Gu Yuanbai's voice ended abruptly.
Xue Yuan quietly looked at him, half of his body still soaked in the water, his hand placed underwater lifted up, his five fingers loosened up, and inside was none other than a turquoise jade trigger so green that it was dripping with juice in general.
The running water in his palm slipped away from his fingers, and the jade trigger finger was stained with a few drops of water, which also seemed to have turned green.
"Your Majesty," Xue Yuan smiled indifferently, "this mediocre jade trigger finger was found by my minister. If you don't have any other jade trigger finger to wear right now, why don't you first condescend and use this one for the time being?"
He extended his hand towards Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai took a few deep breaths and handed out his hand.
The wet hand gripped it, and the other hand took the jade trigger and slowly slipped it onto his thumb. Gu Yuanbai looked down at Xue Yuan, sweeping from his brows to his body, however, Xue Yuan was too serious, a mind focused on Gu Yuanbai's hand, completely missing Gu Yuanbai's searching gaze like this.
The turquoise jade trigger finger returned to where it belonged, and Gu Yuanbai withdrew his hand, "Xue Qing, come up."
Xue Yuan smiled, "My clothing is all wet, it will get in the way of Your Majesty's eyes, when Your Majesty leaves, I will climb out of the water."
Gu Yuanbai's throat knots moved up and down as if he wanted to speak, but in the end, he didn't say a single word, he looked deeply at Xue Yuan, and as he wished, he turned around and left the place.
This large group of people left in great numbers, and the guards who were looking for Xue Yuan in the water also left after them. Only after the silhouettes were almost invisible did Xue Yuan put away his smile, he braced himself on the ground with both hands and dragged himself onto the shore almost with the strength of his arms.
After hauling himself to shore, he closed his eyes and took a moment to slow down.
The lower half of his legs were still soaking in the water, and his back was soaked through his clothes to reveal wisps of blood. Fortunately, Gu Yuanbai had already left, or else in this state, after being seen, how could Xue Yuan still have the face to say that he was the most useful.
After a while, Xue Yuan slowed down. He opened his eyes and glanced towards the Four Corner Pavilion, and saw a doubly familiar folding fan on top of a stone bench in the Four Corner Pavilion.
That is the folding fan that the saint held in his hand before, Chu Wei gave to the saint. Should be overly urgent, this fan was thrown here.
The corner of Xue Yuan's mouth pulled.
He rested for a while longer before he stood up by bracing himself on the ground. Dragging the water stains all over his body, he walked inside the Four Corners Pavilion, Xue Yuan bent down and picked up this folding fan, swish and unfolded it, the landscape painting and the poem mentioned on it were revealed.
Xue Yuan read it and said, "Cultured man."
He seemed to smile, then with a tearing sound, he cleanly scrapped the folding fan into two halves.
"Master doesn't like cultured people other than Master."
Gu Yuanbai returned to the palace and told the soaking wet guards to go down and organize themselves first. Instead, he sat at the table, his brows deep in thought.
Outside came the announcement, "The Prince of Harmony has come to pay his respects."
Gu Yuanbai looked back, "Xuan."
Not a moment later, the Prince of Peace strides into the palace.
He asked straight to the point, "The saint is also approaching his birthday, isn't he?"
Tian Fusheng returned, "Back to Your Majesty, there is still mo about a month or so."
"After the birth," said the Prince of Harmony, "the saint is twenty and two, and should have a palace consort."
Gu Yuanbai, who was looking down to deal with political affairs, gave his men a lurch and looked up at him, "Gong Concubine?"
The Prince of Harmony looked at him as if there was suppressed anger in his gaze, his fists clenched, "Your Holiness has never considered it?"
This tone of his voice was almost like questioning, Gu Yuanbai's mood was already a bit bad, and when he heard this, he directly laughed in anger, he didn't even give the Prince of Harmony a face to stay, pointing at the palace gate and saying, "Get the hell out of here!"
Prince He's face suddenly changed, mixed with disbelief, as he stared blankly at Gu Yuanbai.
"I'll say it for the last time," Gu Yuanbai snapped, "Get lost!"
The Prince of Peace's expression turned ironic as he opened and closed his lips a few times and turned to leave.
Gu Yuanbai turned his head and asked Tian Fusheng, "I asked you to check on him earlier, did you find anything out?"
"No," Tian Fusheng was careful, "nothing wrong has been discovered."
Gu Yuanbai did not make a sound, over a moment, stood up and walked towards the middle of the inner hall, mixed with the fire of the storm, "I'll sleep for a while, call me again after half an hour."