Sick King and Concubine

Chapter 39 Lights
Chu Yu lowered her head, her eyelashes cast fine shadows in the light: "I've never been afraid."

Jiang Li was stunned for a moment, always feeling that his words had some deep meaning, but he didn't know where to look into it.

At this time, the owner of the stall came over and stared at Chu Yu and Jiang Li in a daze, but still asked questions politely, and then went to order wontons.

Hearing Chu Yu's slow and elegant voice, Jiang Li was silent for a while, and finally sat gently on the stool covered by Chu Yu's clothes, feeling that it was not a cold stool.

After a while, the wontons came up, and the two of them took the chopsticks and stuffed the thin-skinned wontons with large fillings into their mouths.

Chu Yudao: "This wonton shop is a time-honored shop in Wangdu. It has been open for three generations. Although it is home-cooked food, it is much better than the family banquets of princes and ministers. It is a bit hot, wait a minute."

Jiang Li rolled the wonton on the tip of his tongue, and his voice was slightly slurred: "Isn't it delicious when it's hot?"

Chu Yu looked at her lowering her head, her snow-white face glowed like jade under the light, her straight nose looked like a jade gourd petal, and her bright red lips moved.A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he stuffed the hot wonton into his mouth, and said softly, "Yes, it tastes good when it's hot."

So His Royal Highness Qi Wang, who hadn't eaten a good meal for so many years, felt the joy of eating for the first time, and slowly swept away the wontons.

While eating, Chu Yu looked deeply at the girl opposite, and his heart softened.After so many years of life and death scenes, so long waiting and waiting, when such blood seeped into the bones, even I felt disgusted by this skin.But now, seeing her eating wontons in front of him so ordinaryly made him feel that everything was not worth mentioning.Those bloody pasts and those destined to be dangerous and painful futures are not as good as her smile at this moment.

When Jiang Li was about to finish eating his wontons, Chu Yu looked away as if nothing had happened, and then put a towel on the ground for Jiang Li: "Wipe your mouth."

Jiang Li lowered his eyes slightly, took out a handkerchief from his arms, and said, "Thank you Your Highness, I have it."

Chu Yu smiled slightly, then took the towel back, as if he wasn't embarrassed about being rejected at all, put the money on the table, and asked the stall owner to collect the money.

At this time, there was a burst of cheers from the street, and both of them followed the sound, only to see the sound of gongs and drums suddenly coming from the end of the long street, the voices of a group of children, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers.

Chu Yu explained: "This is an embossed lantern, one of the highlights of the Lantern Festival."

As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd suddenly rushed over there, and after a while, they saw a bright light as if it was about to burn, and the place it went was as bright as day.The crowd receded like a tide, and on the spacious street, a fire dragon made of tens of thousands of lanterns danced over. Artists on stilts, and children in floral dresses, really counted among the seven "Fire Trees, Silver Flowers Never Night and Sky" Character.

Artists on stilts held lanterns and waved them, and the crowd suddenly burst into shouts of joy. It was the first time for Jiangli to feel this kind of ancient excitement.

Chu Yu said, "Let's follow up and have a look."

Such a lively atmosphere infected the two of them. Jiang Li laughed and stepped into the snow powder with joy in his eyes. Chu Yu glanced at the umbrella, reached out to pick it up, and walked directly into the crowd.

Wrapped in such a lively atmosphere, all the cold disappeared completely, Jiang Li stretched his neck, looked at the dragon lantern followed by a pair of girls in lotus-colored clothes, holding lotus lanterns in their hands, and asked: "What do they do?"

Chu Yu explained: "This is the Lantern Girl, an unmarried girl selected from the common people's family. She holds a lotus lantern and puts it in the Yingyue River. One is to pray for good weather in the coming year, and the other is to seek marriage."

The crowd began to flow with the dragon lantern, and Jiang Li and Chu Yu moved forward in the crowd.

Jiang Li was squeezed by the crowd, her body was a little crooked, her long cloak was pulled by someone, and her steps staggered.

Stretching out one hand steadily, he gently hugged her waist through the cloak, then retracted it as usual, pushed aside the crowd easily for Jiang Li, and said with a smile: "Let's go."

Jiang Li nodded slightly, and hurriedly looked away from those eyes, and followed the flow of people forward.Obviously through the thick cloak and clothes, his behavior is also extremely polite and restrained, but for some reason, Jiang Li felt that the place he touched was burning, so hot that he could hardly stand. A streak of light quickly slid across half of his body, his heart was tense, his palms couldn't help but sweat, and he felt nervous and inexplicable.Even Jiang Li himself couldn't help but wonder what was wrong with him, and he couldn't control himself at all.

After a while, the place to put the lanterns arrived.

Just now the boat of the two of them took the upper reaches of the Yingyue River, but this time everyone went to the lower reaches. The plum blossoms in the upper reaches are in full bloom, but cold, but the lower reaches are different.The water pavilions and pavilions on both sides of the downstream rise along the bank, and the revolving lanterns glow while turning, and the willow branches are thin, which is really a bridge painted with smoke and willows, with wind curtains and emerald curtains, vaguely the scenery of 10 homes.

Many kinds of lanterns have been parked in the small lake. Girls and boys in red and green are looking at each other from the bank, talking and laughing.

On the left side of the small lake, luxurious carriages were parked, and on the largest water attic next to it, a group of men and women in Chinese clothes sat on it and watched the prosperous scene below.Their location here is excellent, and they can accommodate all the prosperity of the Lantern Festival in Chu State, but they are in a high place, so they cannot help feeling the real joy of the Lantern Festival.

And the men and women in Huayi in this attic are naturally Liu Ying, He Yueyao, together with Li Lin and Sima Yan.

Although Li Lin is a general, he is not a reckless man, and Sima Yan next to him is even more talented, so it is fun to accompany these boudoir ladies.

The maid next to him peeled the skin of the Zhentang lobster, picked out the tender white meat and put it on their plate. Liu Ying picked up the lobster meat, dipped it in vinegar and ginger, looked at Li Lin and said, "General Li, I am actually very Curious, is it true that no one has seen the appearance of the Ninth Prince?"

Chu Yu has always been a magical place in the Chu country. For seven whole years, the Ninth Prince did not go out and was ignored. Even when his brothers secretly fought for the imperial power, he seemed indifferent.

Li Lin doesn't have any scruples about this mysterious Ninth Prince. Anyway, he doesn't know how many times he has been discussed, not to mention Liu Yingyu, who is on the opposite side, is a big deal to please a beautiful woman: "I have seen it, but the Ninth Prince is very young. When the Ninth Prince was born, he was not in good health, and he was about to die when he was born. The old officials who heard it said that he was just a sick child, with sparse hair, and fell down when the wind blew. The imperial physicians in the entire imperial hospital It is said that the Ninth Prince may not live to be 12 years old. The Ninth Prince hangs his life. When he was 12 years old, he really encountered a catastrophe. Heard that he was already dead, but he happened to meet the number one genius doctor in the world. Pulled him back from the gate of hell. But according to him, no matter what, the Ninth Prince can only live until the age of 21. Every day after the age of 16, he must endure a hundred times the pain that ordinary people can't imagine to survive."

(End of this chapter)