Jiaochu

Chapter 109 Birthday Celebrations Upstairs ([-])

On this day, many chrysanthemums were moved to the imperial garden, adding a lot of autumn flavor to the garden, including several pots of rare green chrysanthemums.

Concubine Xiao was originally going to hold a chrysanthemum appreciation banquet, but most of the ladies who attended the tea party last time excused themselves because of their poor health, and the rest did not give clear answers, so the chrysanthemum appreciation banquet came to nothing. .

Ye Lingxi stood in front of one of the pots of green chrysanthemums. Her eyes moved from the green branches and leaves to the green stamens. The leaves were darker green and the stamens were lighter green. When she got closer, she could smell a little coolness. fragrance.

"This was cultivated by the flower house this year." Ye Lingjue said and walked over, wearing a silver-white brocade, and his figure became more handsome and cool in the autumn.

When Ye Lingxi turned around to salute, he asked with a smile, "When did you become so polite to me?" There was a cold light in his eyes, as if helpless and lonely, Ye Lingxi had no words to answer, thinking of what to say, when he saw the other party Reaching out, she ducked back, as if it was a conditioned reflex. The next moment she reacted, she couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, as if she thought the other person was some kind of savage beast. Ye Lingjue was also slightly stunned for a moment, and then stepped forward to pick it up for her. A petal fell from the hair.

Ye Ling held a small oval-shaped petal between her white fingers. The edges were slightly wrinkled and the color was very bright red. It was like the bright and bright leftover when the autumn wind swept over the branches, and now it fell silently. .Ye Lingxi looked at it and didn't know where it got it. The shape and color looked a bit like red plum blossoms, but it was just autumn. Where did the plum blossoms come from? Her eyes fell on a crabapple flower not far away, and the branches and leaves were still hidden. With a few scattered bits of red.

"The weather is pretty good today, do you want to practice archery?" Ye Lingjue said.

Ye Lingxi looked up at the clear and distant sky. The light seemed to have turned into a transparent texture. When it shone on the person, there was no trace of anxiety, and her mood became peaceful and light. She just wanted to lazily immerse herself in that atmosphere. In the clear skylight, let your thoughts wander freely.

Seeing Ye Lingxi looking up at the sky in trance, Ye Lingjue smiled slightly. After a while, he said, "Be careful of a sore neck." Only then did Ye Lingxi realize that his neck was a little sore. After twisting it left and right a few times, the look between his eyebrows With a bit of laziness and a bit of laziness in his voice, he said, "Second brother, please go by yourself. I'll just look at the flowers and take a walk here."

Ye Lingjue thought for a moment and said, "Would you like to go out of the palace to see the flowers and take a walk?"

Ye Lingxi's thoughts changed after hearing this. There was nothing going on in the womb these days, the minister's office was on holiday, and autumn was getting stronger day by day. The days were getting shorter and shorter. She slept long at night and was no longer in the mood to take naps during the day. , I always feel a bit lazy mentally, and also feel a bit lazy when looking at people. Except for visiting her eldest brother in Changle Palace, she hardly goes out. Occasionally, I go to Mr. Xi Mu for advice. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yun was also there. She almost forgot that the two of them were master and apprentice. It was reasonable for them to sit together, drink tea and play chess. She watched the chess without saying a word, so she just sat there quietly watching the two of them play chess for a long time. People talk, but the tea is still good, the taste is very light and mellow, I don’t know what kind of water it is made with.Although she moves less than usual, she has not lost her daily walking pace. Now it is easy for her to walk for half an hour. Today I heard from Lingdang that many chrysanthemums were moved to the Imperial Garden, including green chrysanthemums. , she went out driven by curiosity.

Half an hour later, Ye Lingxi sat in the carriage and left the palace gate.

When the carriage passed by a flower shop, Ye Lingxi saw two familiar figures leading the horse in front. She immediately asked Dong Mo to stop. Before it stopped, she was about to jump out of the carriage. The next moment, her elbow was touched by another hand. Pulling back, turning around and looking into those slightly serious peach blossom eyes, Ye Lingjue said, "What's the rush?" Although his tone didn't mean to scold him, his voice was slightly cold, and he waited for Dong Mo to stop the carriage on the side of the road. Finally, after putting down the pedals, she stepped off the carriage under Dong Mo's care.

As soon as the soles of her shoes touched the slightly cold ground, she spread her legs and caught up with the two people leading the horses in front of her.After a few steps away, he slowed down again and quietly walked over to hear what the two were talking about.

Yan Fei turned his gaze slightly and said casually, "It's holiday now, and I don't know what the princess is doing. I guess she must be doing embroidery at the moment."

Su Shi smiled slightly, and the flawless temperament of white jade was like a warm spring breeze in the cold autumn air.Hearing that she was doing embroidery, Ye Lingxi puckered her little cherry mouth and thought to herself, does the girl's family have to do embroidery? Can't she do something else?She deliberately coughed twice. When the two of them turned around, she pretended to have met by chance and said hello casually, "Brother Su, Brother Yan, what a coincidence. Where are you going?"

"Why did the princess come out? She couldn't have sneaked out, right?" Yan Fei said in a joking tone.

Ye Lingxi said confidently: "I asked first."

"We're going to ride horses in the countryside, and we're going to catch fish by the river and grill it later," Yanfei said.

Ye Lingxi immediately said she wanted to go, and Yan Fei asked her if she knew how to ride a horse. Ye Lingxi opened her mouth and walked to the saddle without looking back. Yan Fei took two steps over and watched from the side. She was ready He reached out to touch the horse's neck and smoothed the hair, and got closer to Yan Fei's silver-maned horse. Before he stretched out his hand, he was stopped by a voice. Dong Mo came over in a hurry and said, "Princess, this horse is wild and untamable." , so as not to hurt the princess."

Yan Fei frowned slightly and glanced at a carriage parked not far away.

"Go back and tell your second brother that you don't have to wait for me. I will return to the palace by myself later," Ye Lingxi said.

Dong Mo was a little confused: "How can the princess return to the palace alone?"

"I will send the princess back." Yan Fei interrupted.

Dong Mo said politely: "Master, it would be inappropriate for you to send the princess back. I'd better go back and ask His Highness first." Then he told Ye Lingxi, "Princess, don't leave yet. I'll go back as soon as I can."

"The Second Highness is very lenient." Yan Fei glanced at Dong Mo's leaving figure, and a sarcastic smile flashed across his lips.

Su Shi said gently: "His Royal Highness is the elder brother, so he will naturally think more carefully about the princess."

Yanfei was noncommittal, and Ye Lingxi asked the name of the silver-maned horse, "Taxue." When Yanfei said these two words, his tone was slightly stagnant, his eyes had a vague sadness, and his expression sank slightly. It seemed like he remembered a vague face in his memory, that person whom he had heard countless times from his third uncle. How powerful that person was. He could kill a tiger with one arrow. He was made a general at the age of 16 and fought bloody battles in Chifengling. The destruction of Hangu Pass created one legendary story after another in the war... He grew up listening to that man's story, he longed for that man, and had longed to get a compliment from that man countless times, but this failed It was an unattainable luxury, because that person was his father, and before he could remember what that face looked like, he was already sleeping underground.

(End of this chapter)