Chunman Palace

Chapter 38
The bright moon is dim, and the imperial garden at night is like being immersed in the blue lake water, which has a unique scenery.

Xuanyin drank too much alcohol, and some drunken people drank in the palace to sober up and drink to calm their minds. They asked everyone to go to the imperial garden to guess lantern riddles first. The queen returned to the palace first due to lack of energy.

Chang Xiuru saw Mu promise coming from a distance, she felt suspicious and avoided him, and asked Mu Pingting and Lin Qingyu to guess the lantern riddles on the other side together.

Concubine Min felt bored, so she just quietly looked up at the moon.

And the rest of the people also hid from Mu and promised not to stand with her as if they had made an agreement.

Mu promised to stand alone in the corner, looking out of place.

Chang Xiuru casually picked up a riddle hanging under the lantern and read: "Looking up at the bright moon, the answer to the riddle is the name of a medicine."

Mu Pingting thought for a while and said, "The moon means reunion. To bring relatives and friends back together, the answer should be angelica."

Shu Xiang praised: "Jin Gui is talented and intelligent, this lantern riddle really can't help you."

"Sister Mu is amazing, so I'll guess one too." Chang Xiuru handed the lantern in her hand to Mu Pingting, and said with another riddle: "Looking south at the lone star, the eyebrows and the moon are rising, the answer to the riddle is words."

This is even more difficult.

Chang Xiuru thought about it, but couldn't find any words that could match this metaphor, Nanwang, Guxing, Meiyuesheng...

"No, no, this question is too difficult, sister Mu, teach me quickly."

Mu Pingting took the riddle, pondered for a moment and said: "The characters in this riddle are related to the moon, up north and down south, south looking" refers to the lower part of the word "Wang" and "Lonely Star" refers to a point." "Crescent moon" refers to the moon at the beginning of the month, and the crescent moon bends like a curl. "升" is added to the left side of the character "王", and "dot" is added to the top of the character "王", and the three parts are combined to form "Zhuang". Aunt Shuxiang, I wonder if I am right? "

Shu Xiang nodded, and said with admiration from the bottom of her heart: "Mr. Jingui is really knowledgeable, and such anagrams won't bother you."

"Aunt Shuxiang's lantern riddles are also very good, with different levels of difficulty, and she really has a heart." Mu Pingting handed the lantern to Chang Xiuru, and said to Lin Qingyu, "Qingyu, you can guess one too."

"Okay." Lin Qingyu picked out the lantern closest to him, took down the lantern riddle and looked at it, it read: The person who came was Penglaike.

"Let me see what's written." Chang Xiuru leaned over and was a little disappointed to see the riddle on the note: "It's such an unreliable riddle again, I don't know what's the point of finding out these."

Mu Pingting also leaned over to take a look, but couldn't think of an answer for a moment.

Lin Qingyu thought for a moment and said, "Sister Mu, I have a clue, can you listen to me?"

Mu Pingting thought about several answers in her mind, but she wasn't quite sure, so she said, "Actually, I didn't figure out what it was. Qingyu, tell me, and I'll make a guess along the way."

"In fact, the emperor once gave me some books. There is a book that describes Penglai, but it is not Penglai in the world. This Penglai" is the mountain where immortals live in the Bohai Sea in mythology. The guests from "Penglai" are gods. "Come here." " becomes "immortal", what word is "immortal" by adding "person"? Of course it is the word "mountain", so the answer to the mystery is "mountain". After Lin Qingyu finished speaking, she glanced at Mu Pingting uncertainly.

Mu Pingting said to Shuxiang, "Aunt Shuxiang, tell me."

Shu Xiang looked slightly surprised, and then a gleam of joy flashed in his eyes and said: "I didn't expect Lin Changzai to read a lot of books. The answer to this mystery is really well explained. Congratulations, Changzai guessed it right."

Lin Qingyu said humbly: "It's not that I read a lot of books, it's the emperor who cultivated them carefully, so I solved this mystery by mistake."

A man's clear voice came: "Lin Changzai's clever mind was cultivated by me? That's interesting."

When everyone heard the words, they saluted and paid their respects.

"Exemption." Xuan Yin's ink-colored robe was violently blowing in the wind, and his slightly drunk face in the light was like a reddish white jade, "When did I cultivate you?"

"Your majesty forgot that you called your concubine to Qingxin Hall for questioning that day. You knew that your concubine liked reading recently, so you rewarded your concubine with some books."

"And then?" Xuan Yin looked at Lin Qingyu with a smile in his eyes.

"The concubine will read those books every day after returning to the palace, and the lantern riddles I guess today are also from those books."

Xuan Yin smiled when he heard the words, "I have never taught you anything, Lin Changzai is smart, don't be too modest." He took the note in Lin Qingyu's hand, "This thing is interesting."

At this time Concubine Min came up to greet her, saluted and said: "The emperor is here, my concubine is waiting to enjoy the beautiful beauty with you."

"Well, let's go together." Xuan Yin lowered his eyes, took Lin Qingyu's hand and walked forward.

Apart from being shocked, Concubine Min felt even more disappointed.

In the past during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor would accompany her alone to enjoy the moon, but now that newcomers enter the palace to compete for beauty, there is not much favor left for her.

She followed behind in silence, depressed.

Lu'er looked at the bright and bright moon, like a jade plate, and happily wanted to ask his master to look at it, but seeing people lonely and silent, his mood also fell down.

She had never seen such a lonely look on her master's face. When did the much-loved Princess Liguo and Concubine Min who was loved by thousands of people, ever be as down and out as she is today?

Concubine Min felt desolate and couldn't lift her spirits.

Looking at the jade bracelet and jade ring in her hand, she felt a little cumbersome. She didn't win the man's heart, and wanting these jewels was just a solitary admiration.

It is said that the human heart is the most difficult thing to guess, especially the king's heart.

She knew this from the beginning.

But before being hurt by love, maybe everyone thinks that they are the only one. After all, the world is full of people who pretend to be passionate.

In the bleak night, a thin figure stood alone under the bright moon, as if covered in silver frost, lonely.

The figure suddenly made a sound like a mosquito: "Your Majesty... are you here?"

Xuan Yin approached the man a few steps, a little puzzled: "Mu promised? Why are you here?"

"Everyone doesn't seem to like me, and they don't want to be with me, so I just came here and waited for the emperor to come." Mu promised to look a little pitiful.

"... Let's enjoy the moon with me."

Mu promised to brighten his face immediately, "Yes, thank you, Your Majesty."

Everyone enjoys the bright moon together, and the night is sultry, full of poetic and picturesque.

Not long after, a eunuch hurried over and knelt down in a panic.

"Your Majesty! It's too bad, the Concubine Ji in Huazao Palace was poisoned, and now she is in danger!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was speechless.

Xuan Yin said in amazement: "What? Who poisoned him. Has the murderer been caught?" It's really audacious for someone to do such evil in the harem at such a time.

The little eunuch trembled and said: "Yes, someone put the poison on the murder weapon and cut Empress Ji, but the murder weapon has not been found yet..."

"Useless!" Xuan Yin reprimanded in a cold voice: "There are so many people in the palace, but they can't even find a murderer who poisoned them? What's the use of these useless eyes!"

Xuan Yin shook up his clothes and angrily followed the people.

After Xuan Yin left, everyone panicked.

Concubine Min comforted the crowd and said: "Okay, my sisters are frightened, go back to the palace to resettle early if it's not too late, I'm afraid the thief is still there, all sisters must go together, I will go to Huazao Palace to have a look." Come on, Concubine Min stepped up and followed behind.

(End of this chapter)