Qing Palace Dream Like Smoke·Moyu

Chapter 32

In the afternoon of the second day, Kangxi still left Gao Shiqi to watch a play in the palace.Afraid of making mistakes again, Mo Yu and Chunyun Qiuyue arranged tea together.When they arrived at the Imperial Garden, the eunuchs were arranging fruit snacks on the porch. Kangxi and Gao Shiqi were sitting and talking, and when they saw her, they smiled and said, "Today, the teahouse in the Qianqing Palace doesn't need to boil the bath water, right?" Yu pursed her lips and smiled, but said nothing, and Kangxi didn't ask any further questions, and turned to continue talking to Gao Shiqi.Chunyun offered the teacup, and Mo Yu added some tea to Kangxi and Gao Shiqi's case, then bowed and retreated.

A temporary table was set up in the lotus pond by the garden, and the third elder brother, the eighth elder brother, and the twelfth elder brother stood by the pond to enjoy the lotus, while Ronghua and the crown prince were playing chess, Thirteen and Fourteen stood watching, and the others People were sitting and talking and laughing, only the fourth elder brother and the eldest elder brother were missing.

Mo Yu saw Zhen'er and Liu'er standing under the shade of the willow talking softly, and Chunyun and Qiuyue were also going there.After thinking about it, he also walked over slowly, and when he got closer, he heard Chunyun asking: "Hey, why is Ronghua playing chess with the prince?" Zhen'er smiled and replied: "Originally it was the thirteenth elder brother and the prince. Next, sister Ronghua was watching from the side, and later when my sister talked about chess, brother Thirteen smiled and said that my sister is a master, so I just gave up my seat to her." Mo Yu smiled slightly after hearing this, knowing that Thirteen is good at chess Although tall, he doesn't like playing chess with others. If he can seize an opportunity, he will definitely not give up easily.Thinking of this, he looked at Shisan in a blink of an eye. He lowered his head to watch the chess game intently, as if knowing that she was looking at him, Shisan raised his head and smiled at her.Mo Yu smiled back at him, thought for a while, and walked over slowly.

When he came closer, he saw Rong Hua resting his jaw on his hand, frowning slightly, Lan Hua fingering a chess piece, with a hesitant look on his face, the prince was holding a tea bowl, looking at her leisurely.Mo Yu is not proficient in this way, he only feels that the chessboard is full of chess pieces, and thinks it is the last moment.After a long time, before Ronghua could make up his mind, Moyu looked impatient, so he walked to the pond.I only heard Rong Hua behind him laughing and saying: "Your servant has surrendered." The prince said with a chuckle, "Your chess skills are comparable to that of Huizhu in the palace of Concubine De." Guo Huizhu's chess skills, I just feel that she is close to fascination, this level is comparable to Rong Hua's humble and foolish people." The prince laughed: "You are too modest, your chess skills are definitely not inferior to Huizhu's. .”

Mo Yu turned her head and saw that Thirteen had a smile on her mouth, but Fourteen's expression seemed to be disapproving, and she couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.She suddenly remembered seeing Rong Hua outside Yuqing Palace that day, seeing their expressions and listening to their conversations today, made her wonder if she was just dreaming back then?
When Mo Yu came to the pond, the chess game over there was over, and a group of people followed the prince to the pond.The prince walked up to the third elder brother and said: "The third younger brother has written something splendid in front of this beautiful scenery, and let us appreciate it." The literary talent of the third elder brother has always been the most praised by Kangxi, so the prince has this One said.The third elder brother smiled and said, "I just chatted with my eighth brother for a while, and I'm just waiting for the show to start."

Seeing the prince and others coming, Moyu hurriedly stood aside, but the prince smiled and said, "Hey, Moyu is here. There was only Moyu next to the Daoist Emperor Ama, but today there is another Ronghua girl." Moyu Smiled, but did not speak.Sisi happened to be standing next to Mo Yu, hummed inaudibly, and whispered in Mo Yu's ear: "Compared with her, you are far from her." Mo Yu was startled, turned his head to look Fourteen, seeing his expression seemed to be a smile but not a smile, it was quite meaningful.At this moment, Rong Hua had come to the side, and said with a smile: "When did my sister come?" Mo Yu smiled and said: "I came just now, thinking about it, I should be able to help a little bit." Rong Hua said with a smile: " With my sister here, we all feel more at ease."

The prince smiled again and said: "There is no chess to play, it's a bit boring to wait for the game to start. It's rare that the two talented women in front of the imperial court are here, and the scenery is so beautiful. Why don't the third brother come up with a question and let the two match up. And kill some time."

Mo Yu hurriedly saluted with a smile: "Prince, the emperor commented on Mo Yu's four characters of 'ancient and strange'. It can be seen that Mo Yu can be described as a person with no ink, but he just messed around. He can be called talented there. Let's get a servant." Rong Hua just smiled without saying a word.

The prince looked at her with a half-smile and said: "Huang Ama also commented that you are a bit smart, if so, you also have a bit of talent, why bother to refuse like this."

Hearing his tone, Mo Yu became a little impatient, and thought to himself: "This prince is arrogant, no one can defy him, and a bad word will cause trouble." Can't help but look up at Kangxi who is sitting far away, still He chatted with Gao Shiqi with a smile, as if he didn't pay attention to this matter at all, thinking in his heart: "Anyway, today's matter cannot be avoided, so I simply agree, if it's a big deal, I just admit defeat, so what can I do." Open and bright, he said with a smile: "My servant obeys the order of the prince." Seeing the prince's face softened, he thought in his heart: "The expression of joy and anger is so similar to Kangxi's in appearance, but his character and virtue are so far away." Shake your head.Just as he was thinking, he saw the elder brother and the fourth elder brother coming from a distance, and suddenly remembered the incident in his heart, and couldn't help being a little restless, his thoughts were confused, and he felt a little awkward facing the fourth elder brother.

The prince here turned his head and said to the third elder brother, "what's the matter, third elder brother?" The third elder brother smiled and said, "In that case, I just thought of an upper couplet here, and I'll ask you two for a lower couplet." Turning to look at the lotus in a pond, there are fish swimming in the pond, so he said with a smile: "This upper line is, 'Fish swimming in the water and the surface is green'." The prince smiled and said: "Good upper line." Turning around Look at Mo Yu and Rong Hua.

Rong Hua just thought about it for a while and said: "The second line of the servant girl is 'Die Wu Hua Xia Di Chao Hong'." The third elder brother smiled and said: "It is really extraordinary talent to make such a second line in such a short time." After waiting for a while, Seeing Mo Yu's answer, the third elder brother asked: "Mo Yu?" Mo Yu made up his mind to surrender directly, and was so absorbed in thinking about things that he didn't pay attention to what they said. He suddenly heard the third elder brother's question and answered blankly Said: "Ah?" The third elder brother said with a smile: "My upper couplet is 'fish swims in water and the surface separates green', waiting for your second couplet." After hearing this, Mo Yu blurted out: "Heli pine tip breaks green. "As soon as she said this, three or four of the crowd looked at her, but she didn't know it, and thought to herself: "This couplet is so easy to get right." The third elder brother said with a smile: "It really is a good couplet, quite a bit The artistic conception is better than my Shanglian." Only then did Mo Yu come to his senses, and he couldn't help feeling a little regretful, he was determined to admit defeat, but how could he involuntarily let it go, he just felt very distressed.

Just at this time, a young eunuch came to spread the play, and everyone stopped discussing it, and all followed the prince to the stage.When everyone walked away, someone beside him sighed, Mo Yu turned around and saw that it was Fourteen, looked at her with a helpless expression and said: "You can read miscellaneous books as soon as you read them, and don't show them off to everyone, even if you are not What a big mistake, but you have to beware of others using it to make a fuss. Just now when you said the second line, several people looked at you, didn't you notice?"

Mo Yu knew that she was acting recklessly, so she lowered her head and said, "I was thinking about other things, I just thought I had seen this sentence before, so I blurted it out."

Seeing her looking down in distress, Shisi suddenly smiled and said, "It's really rare to see you so self-pitying." He looked at the front and said, "Don't think too much, I just looked, it should be myna , the thirteenth brother and the fourth brother know, it doesn't matter. I'm going to the front first, just be careful in the future."

Mo Yu looked up and nodded to him, Shisi gave her a comforting smile, turned and left.Mo Yu watched him walk away, but didn't want the fourth brother in front to turn around and come back. Even though the distance was far away, when he met his eyes, Mo Yu panicked, and quickly lowered her head again, biting her lips and thinking: "For that note , I felt guilty when I saw him, as if I owed him a debt." The more I thought about it, the more I hated it, and I felt wronged and depressed, and then I thought bitterly again, why I was so guilty, it was nothing at all.Make up your mind to look him in the eye next time, and never turn around and admit defeat.Thinking about it this way, she seemed to have thought of a wonderful solution, imagining the scene of the originally indifferent Si elder brother turning his head uncomfortably under her gaze, she couldn't help secretly complacent, and actually looked forward to seeing Si elder brother face to face again.

When pouring tea, he intentionally brought the tea to the fourth elder brother by himself, and when he raised his eyes to look at her, who knew that he seemed to know what she was planning, and he didn't even look at her all night.Thirteen, who was sitting next to her, finally couldn't help but said to her softly, "You've been here all night refilling tea, do you know that I've already drank more than a dozen cups of your tea, I don’t need to sleep tonight.” Mo Yu was both angry and funny, she pursed her lips and walked away, thinking: “Forget it, the future will be long.” After thinking about it, she snorted bitterly.

(End of this chapter)