I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country - Chap 119
Heavy rain splashed along the eaves and into the corridor. The palace attendants all took a step back to avoid being hit by the water droplets on these people.
Gu Yuanbai wiped his hands, put on his coat and glanced at them, “Where have you been?”
Several guards hurriedly said: “Back to the Holy Lord, I saw someone passing by outside the courtyard before the rain fell. I had doubts in my heart, so I went forward to find out.”
The heavy rain was like beads on a string. The dusk rain was overcast, and everything seemed to be covered with mist. Under the dim sky, only the clothes were as bright as before.
When Gu Yuanbai stepped out of the room, he felt steam in twos and threes. He turned to the side and avoided the windward side of the door, “Who is he?”
“It’s a monk from another temple who came to Jingchen Temple to study Buddhism,” a guard said. “When I caught up with him and asked, the monk said he had mistakenly admitted the person.”
Gu Yuanbai turned to follow the palace attendant and said, “Bring them some clean towels first.”
The palace attendant had already brought it and handed it to several people. The guards took it and wiped the water stains on their hair and body, “Your Majesty, we checked the monk’s certificate. He is indeed a monk from a famous temple in Hebei. No wonder his accent has some Hebei accent. In Jingjing After the abbot of Chen Temple confirmed his identity, it started to rain heavily on the way back. ”
The heavy rain came suddenly and drenched them all at once. Gu Yuanbai nodded casually. Seeing that the handkerchief was wet and the water stains on their bodies had not yet been wiped dry, he said, “You go back to the room and change clothes first.”
These people only wore the same clothes they were wearing. If they wanted to avoid catching the cold, the only way was to take off their clothes and lie on the bed in the bedroom, wrapped in quilts, and wait for the clothes to dry.
Several people left one after another, leaving Xue Yuan standing there wetly, his clothes so heavy that they were still dripping with water, “Your Majesty, there is no kang bed in the temple. How did you sleep at noon?”
The silver fur coat fluttering in the wind obscured the Holy Lord’s face. Gu Yuanbai raised his eyes to look at him. His eyes were dark and moist, and his skin was as white as jade. For a moment, it was like a person moving in an ink painting, but his voice was not cold. Hot, “Not great.”
Xue Yuan grinned. Just when Gu Yuanbai thought he was going to talk nonsense about warming his bed again, Xue Yuan saluted and returned to the room to change clothes.
Gu Yuanbai’s face suddenly turned cold.
He looked at Xue Yuan’s back expressionlessly, with a silent sneer on his lips, and turned back to the bedroom.
late at night.
The sound of rain outside the window became more fierce. In the midst of the wind and rain, someone whispered a few words outside, and the wooden door creaked and closed gently.
Someone approached Gu Yuanbai, but before he leaned over, the Holy Master had already said harshly: “Get out!”
The man paused and froze obediently. His voice was soaked by today’s rain and was hoarse with moisture. “Your Majesty, I asked the imperial doctor yesterday. Your health is almost healed now.”
Gu Yuanbai turned over and raised the quilt, ignoring it.
The white quilt seemed to be reflecting a light light on the bed, and one corner was pressed against the side of the Holy Lord’s face. The dark light made the Holy Lord’s ear beads have a rounded color. A small part of the side of the face is exposed, vaguely, half covered and half exposed.
Xue Yuan looked at it for a while, and finally dared to really look up at him today. Only when his superficial addiction was satisfied did he feel in the mood to do other things.
Xue Yuan raised his knees and pressed down on a corner of the quilt. Gu Yuanbai didn’t pull the quilt over, and his voice became colder, “Xue Jiuyao, I tell you to get out of here.”
“Your Majesty, let me explain,” Xue Yuan said, “I finally went to the dragon bed again that day. After I tried my best to make Your Majesty comfortable, Manager Tian came to see me the next day with the imperial doctor. The imperial doctor said “The Holy Spirit is weak and will be weak and weak for a period of time after the spices are gone.”
Xue Yuan whispered, “I don’t dare to touch it.” After a pause, his voice became hoarse, “I don’t even dare to look at it.”
But His Majesty was like a flower, wandering around in front of Xue Yuan all day long. With fragrance and water drops, the more cruel the expression, the more unbearable it is to look at.
Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes and said nothing. Xue Yuan’s back was stiff, but he had good waist strength and was able to handle it with ease. “Your Majesty, don’t be angry. I will tonight…”
“How come you have such a strong scent of sandalwood?” Gu Yuanbai wrinkled his nose, “Have you gone to worship Buddha?”
Xue Yuan’s expression suddenly became strange, and he blurted out: “Dog nose?”
Gu Yuanbai laughed angrily. There happened to be a bolt of lightning crossing the sky outside. Gu Yuanbai stretched out his fingertips and pointed at the thunder outside the window, “I have a dog nose, so you are a coward. Xue Jiuyao, Wanli Flying a kite on a cloudless day is not heroic. If you want to ask for thunder, this will be a good opportunity. ”
“I said something wrong. Your Majesty’s nose is made of jade. It doesn’t matter how you look at it.” Xue Yuan smiled, pondered for a while and said: “I can’t fly the kite when it rains. But if Your Majesty can agree to my request, I can stand in the rain for a while and let the Lord see if I am a coward.”
Gu Yuanbai said lazily: “I’m not interested in playing these things with you.”
“Your Majesty, there is an osmanthus tree in the center of the courtyard. There is a newly grown bud on the osmanthus tree. The buds and leaves are green and tender, and the branches are soft.” A bet? If it can be discounted…”
Gu Yuanbai couldn’t help but ask: “What if it can be folded?”
Xue Yuan’s hand clenched into a fist. Once the selfishness that he had endured for a month was revealed, his fingers started to crackle. “If you can break it, Your Majesty, I can use your foot for half an hour.”
foot? What the feet can do.
Although Xue Jiuyao’s request is a bit strange, it doesn’t seem difficult. But Gu Yuanbai knew that he must have bad intentions, so he didn’t want to talk to him. As soon as he closed his eyes, he ordered him to warm the bed and leave quickly.
As soon as Xue Yuan said these words, he became excited. He lowered himself down and kept coaxing in His Majesty’s ear: “Sir, if you can’t break it off, I will listen to you and do whatever you want me to do. ”
Gu Yuanbai asked back: “Whatever I ask you to do now, won’t you do it?”
Xue Yuan choked and said honestly: “Do it.”
Gu Yuanbai rolled his eyes and continued to fall asleep. But Xue Yuan was really annoying and kept talking in his ear. Gu Yuanbai couldn’t bear it anymore, “Then just go ahead and fold it!”
Xue Yuan quickly got out of bed, turned around and ran out. There was another flash of lightning and thunder outside the window. Gu Yuanbai sat up and his expression suddenly changed, “Xue Jiuyao!”
Lanterns were lit inside and outside the house, and the palace people were walking in a hurry, but before Gu Yuanbai had anyone call out for Xue Yuan’s life, a guard pressed down a man outside and approached. This man was wearing a raincoat, and his face and face could not be seen clearly. The figure was covered with thick moisture in the rain, and the guard whispered: “Your Majesty, this man came here in the middle of the night and asked to see your Majesty outside.”
The holy emperor was dressed in regular clothes and did not reveal his identity. However, this person exposed it, and the guards did not dare to delay, and immediately brought the person to the Holy Lord.
Gu Yuanbai glanced gloomily through the man’s shoulder into the pounding rain and said, “Come in.”
The man in a raincoat walked into the wing, his voice deliberately low and hoarse: “Your Majesty, it is best to drive away the outsiders.”
Gu Yuanbai said coldly: “You say it.”
The man in the coir raincoat paused, then reached out and took off the coir raincoat. With a “boom”, white light cut through the sky, illuminating the face of the man in coir raincoat.
He was ordinary, with a sallow face and a bit of wind-cold syndrome. He was none other than the second prince of Xixia, Li Angyi.
Li Angyi looked straight at the emperor of Daheng. As expected, the emperor’s expression suddenly changed, he stood up and walked towards Li Angyi. Li Angyi was about to smile, but Emperor Daheng walked straight past him, opened the door and shouted outside: “Xue Jiuyao, just die on the tree!”
After shouting one sentence, air-conditioning rushed in down his throat. Gu Yuanbai covered his chest and coughed a few times. He closed the door and sat back with a muffled cough.
Li Angyi said: “You are not surprised at all.”
Gu Yuanbai took a sip of warm tea to calm down, and his peripheral vision swept over him lightly, “Second Prince of Xixia, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”
Li Angyi raised his brows, sighed and leaned over to salute, “Then you must already know why I came here this time.”
Gu Yuanbai smiled, “Can you also represent Xixia?”
Li Angyi smiled bitterly, “Then it depends on whether you are willing to let me represent Xixia.”
Gu Yuanbai slowly asked someone to make a new cup of tea and asked, “Where do the spices come from?”
Li Angyi said: “Daheng people.”
Gu Yuanbai turned his head to look at him with a gnawing gaze.
Li Angyi paused, looked at him and said word by word: “Daheng people from Fusang.”
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As soon as the door opened, the cold air from outside blew in, wrapped in wind and rain. The man in the coir raincoat took a step outside and coughed twice. His low voice was ugly and weak: “No matter how good your body is, it has been almost worn out in the past month. I hope you can spare me and let me get a bit colder.” Look good.”
Gu Yuanbai’s tone was mixed: “Don’t worry, in one month you’ll be fine.”
The man in coir raincoat said no more, lowered his head and left in a hurry in the wind and rain.
The door was open, and the palace attendant stepped forward to close it. Gu Yuanbai’s face also darkened suddenly, as if a violent storm was approaching, condensing the calm before the final storm.
He thought a lot, no one knew what he was thinking. By the end, Gu Yuanbai had calmed down the expression on his face, lowered his eyes calmly, and quietly sipped the warm tea in the bowl.
Fuso is now in a feudal society and should have been extremely backward.
“Tian Fusheng,” the Holy Master said calmly, “How many things did Fusang send to me on my Wanshou Festival?”
Tian Fusheng perked up and said with vigor, “I remember it clearly. During the Holy Wanshou Festival, the gifts from Xixia and Fusang were the most generous. The most precious thing in them was…”
He kept talking for a long time, saying that everything in the congratulatory gifts was very valuable and rare. Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes and sighed suddenly.
The unfortunate flaw had already appeared in front of him, but it was only then that he realized something was wrong.
But where did Fuso come from so many spices and so many raw materials?
Could their land be able to grow such an addictive substance and produce such large amounts of spices in large quantities? Even if there are so many spices, who are the people selling spices and trading in Xixia? Who helped Fusang spread spices on such a large scale in Xixia? Who is so ambitious and wants to take the opportunity to invade Daheng?
The conversation ran through my mind over and over again.
The second prince of Xixia said with a sincere face: “After I learned about the harmful effects of spices, Xixia has been addicted to the spice of fusang. I can’t reverse the whole trend by myself, so I have to lurk in secret and look for opportunities. The Holy One should also know about me. If you don’t have the ability to deal with this kind of situation and mood, you can only treat it as invisible. ”
What a second prince who endures humiliation and loves his country and people.
Gu Yuanbai said: “Tian Fusheng, do you believe what the second prince of Xixia said?”
Tian Fusheng shook his head cautiously: “The second prince of Xixia has been lurking for many years, and he usually pretends to be too harmless. I don’t think I can believe everything that such a person says.”
“You don’t believe it, so he still expects me to believe it?” Gu Yuanbai sneered, “What you say is 70% true and 30% false. A piece is missing here and a piece is missing there. This is a lie that no one can detect.”
He stood up, walked to the window, looked sideways into the courtyard, and saw a tall black figure running towards the wing. The long legs moved very fast, suppressing the excitement that could not be suppressed no matter what.
Gu Yuanbai’s mind flashed, and he suddenly thought of Xixia’s straightforward attitude when he apologized to Daheng.
Is it possible that Fuso paid for these things?
