Chapter 035 Epiony 1

In the afternoon, Li Shimin went to the Dragon Hall to visit Li Yuan and congratulate him on the Shangyuan Festival. On the night of Shangyuan Festival, every place in the palace will be lit to worship the Buddha, which also becomes a beautiful scenery in the palace.

Princes Qin was inconvenient to move. At dusk, I ordered several maids to hang the tied paper lamps on several staggered ropes in the open space in front of the Chengqian Hall. When Princess Qin saw this scene, her face finally burst into the sadness for several days and slowly stepped into the lamp. Her eyes flashed with joy, playing with paper lanterns one by one, and asked me with a smile, "Who wrote the calligraphy and paintings on this lamp?"

I smiled and lowered my head: "It's a slave. Seeing that these paper lamps are pure white and really monotonous, I just want to have some fun for Princess Qin.

Princes Qin held my hand and smiled: "If you finish reading the last book, tell me that I still have a lot."

"Princess Xie Qin." I am grateful. At this time, as he walked, a figure came, and cheerful laughter came: "Why am I so bright in this hall? It turns out that my sister turned on the lights, which is much more beautiful than those outside." Yang Fei came quickly in a thick green robe, stroked Princess Qin with one hand, looked at the lantern above her head and smiled, "Is this all made by my sister's maid of honor? But it's dangerous to write this word and painting. It's not good to know anything in the future.

Princes Qin took my hand and said with a gentle smile, "No, I think Xiran's potential is not only the maid of honor. If I really know anything in the future, I can only blame her for choosing to cherish her." Hearing this, I quickly bowed and said, "I will definitely not do such a thing." Princess Qin humbly helped me: "Fe Concubine Yang and I just said so. There is no doubt about it. Since you are by my side, how can I not believe you?

Yang Fei looked at me and helped Princess Qin to walk to the other side. I followed them silently. The two talked for a while, and Princess Qin turned back to me and said, "Xi Ran, you go back first today."

I retreated and was inexplicably disturbed by the words of Princess Qin and Yang Fei. Are the two of them doubting anything about me?

When I went out near the training gate, I heard the sound of the carriage behind me. I stepped back and stopped and waited for the carriage to pass. The carriage thought about the precious blue bars, and the golden tassels hung over the roof of the car and swayed as it walked forward.

With a horseshoe, the carriage stopped unexpectedly. I thought there was something wrong with the carriage, so I bowed my head to help check it out. At this time, the curtains of the car were lifted, and Li Shimin was looking at me from inside. When I saw him, he quickly moved his lips and said, "Come up."

"Ah?" I was surprised that although there was no one around, I didn't dare to get up the carriage of the King of Qin.

Li Shimin frowned lightly, as if he was impatient with my behavior. Get in the car."

"But..." I shook my head in embarrassment, and Li Shimin threw down the curtain. Just as I breathed a sigh of relief and the curtain lifted, Li Shimin jumped out of the carriage and pulled me into the car without saying a word. It's almost night. I don't know where Li Shimin will go so late. He is a prince, and no one dares to say when he returns to the palace later, but I am a maid of honor, and it is already a great sin to leave the palace. I kept breaking free from him, but I didn't expect him to bend down to pick me up and throw me into the carriage. There was a thick cushion in the carriage, and it didn't hurt much when I fell. I straightened my waist and was about to go out. Li Shimin happened to lift the curtain and pushed me back. The axle rolled slowly, and the carriage continued to drive forward.

"Where is Your Highness taking me?" I asked.

Li Shimin squeezed me inside and put his hand on my shoulder: "You lied to me."

The carriage was very warm. At this time, I was in the same room with him again, and my face was secretly hot. I turned my head and said, "I dare not."

Li Shimin put his hand on my chin and looked at me: "Don't you dare? You have been moved by him for a long time. Why do you lie to me? Why do you act like this!"

Hearing this inexplicable words, I was angry and reached out to open his fingers and struggled. Li Shimin pointed to the loosening but pressed my shoulder and pushed me against the back wall of the carriage. His dark eyes looked fiercely, and his warm breath fell on my face, but his tone was extremely cold: "You dare to resist and try again!"

After all, he is the prince, so I have to sit down and say nothing. When Li Shimin saw my respect, he also sat quietly beside me. I looked at him and he was sitting there with his eyes closed. I dare not say that he closed his eyes and refreshed himself, because I saw his chest fall together, and obviously he was inexplicably sulking.

The carriage stopped again, thinking that it was at the gate of the palace. After the eunuch talking to the bodyguard at the door, the curtain was opened and immediately put down. As the carriage drove, I picked up the curtains slightly. The car was already outside the palace and it was dark.

Hearing the purring of the axle, and the people in the carriage did not speak, I was actually sleepy. From New Year's Eve to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I was tired and dark. In addition to some necessary things, the palace people under Zhengqi were called to prepare and pack up all kinds of things, and their legs were sore and painful just to send blessings to the masters of each palace. I secretly looked at Li Shimin. He still closed his eyes. I don't know how long the journey would take. I shrank aside and planned to take a nap and close my eyelids against the wall of the car.

I was really tired. I closed my eyelids and fell asleep without dreaming, but I slept deeply until a horse suddenly hissed and the car was stopped. My head leaned forward heavily, and I woke up from sleepiness and looked at Li Shimin blankly. He was waving his robe and preparing to get out of the car.

"There are many people ahead, come down and walk." The eunuch lifted the curtain, and Li Shimin jumped out of the car and stretched out a hand to say to me.

I picked up my robe, bent down to the curtain, looked at his big hand slightly distracted, and finally stepped out of the car by myself. The eunuch brought a thick brown cloak. Li Shimin put the cloak on his body one by one, and a pair of arrogant eyes stared at me.

"You wait here." After talking to the eunuch, he turned around and walked forward. He walked very well, and I always had to take a few steps to catch up with him. Suddenly, I saw a flash of fire in front of me and a rush of people.

"Today is Shangyuan Festival, a folk lantern festival." Li Shimin walked unabated and said alone.

He actually took me to see the lantern show? I smiled and followed quickly. His arm stretched out from the cloak, took my hand back, and pressed it together in the cloak: "Stay close to me."

The lanterns on the street are indeed much more beautiful than the novelty in the palace. The whole street has a few neat red lines high. Paper lanterns hanging from the red line at a distance. Standing in the street and looking forward, the lights extend from the top of the head, bending until a little spark in the distance, which is brilliant and spectacular. Very!

Li Shimin and I squeezed into the crowd and walked slowly on the road. The people on the opposite side smiled brightly, and the young girl held a beautiful small lantern in her hand. This is a folk custom, saying that when a woman is carrying a lantern on this day, she will meet a predestined person. The street is along the river. I looked around and there were a few pink lotus lanterns gently floating on the river, which added a little more romance to the lively atmosphere. The people around me touched me gently, and I came to my senses. He actually held a lotus lamp in his hand. In a stunned mind, he has pulled me to the river.

Li Shimin opened the petals of the lotus lamp, revealing the thin wick and lit it with a flint. He pulled me on the bank and squatted down, holding the lotus lamp and said to me, "If you have any wishes or troubles, tell the lotus lamp and let it hold you or drift away."

I dialed the petals of the lotus lamp and said, "Your Highness the King of Qin also believes in this folk rumor?"

Li Shimin turned the lotus lamp and watched it change color under the flashing candlelight: "Whether you believe it or not, you are always greedy for the joy of the Lantern Festival."

"In that case, Your Highness, come with me." I smiled at him, clap my palm and closed my eyes. When I opened it again, Li Shimin was putting the lotus lamp on the water and gently rowing the river with his hand. The lotus lamp drifted farther and farther. As he said, it placed hope and took away the troubles. I don't know if he made a wish or sighed his troubles like me, or maybe he doesn't believe it at all.

He still looked at the distant lotus lantern quietly. I looked up at the extended lamp street, and a small snowflakes suddenly floated in the sky. The snowflake fell on his brown cloak. I reached out and patted it gently, but the snow disappeared the moment I touched it. He just turned his head and looked at my stiff fingers. At this time, I couldn't help asking him why he took me out?

Li Shimin did not answer me. He got up and faced the snowflakes. It's snowing. He said. The black eyes hung from the sky to the high lantern and moved to my eyes, against the shining light, like the disappearing starlight of the night. Li Shimin opened his arms to me without a smile on his face, like a negotiation: "I'm here. If you want to, come to my arms to warm up. If you don't, let me freeze to death by the cold wind and snow."

I looked at him and didn't feel happy, but I was entangled and uncomfortable. I sighed and shook my head: "I don't want to." Li Shimin's indecent silence: "Because of him?" I smiled bitterly and looked at him: "No, because of the mercy of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the maidservant is willing to be blown by the cold wind and frozen by the snow."

Li Shimin smiled at the corners of his mouth: "The temper is really hard. Since you are with my eldest brother, I won't break you up. But you have to remember that before the prince accepts you, you are still a member of my Chengqian Hall!" He shook his cloak and strode up: "Since you choose to freeze to death, it's up to you. I respect you."

I followed Li Shimin to the shore stairs, and the figure in front of me paused. I looked up and saw a woman in purple casual clothes looking straight at us. Li Shimin turned around and asked me to stay where he was and wait. He walked to the woman by himself. I wonder why Li Shimin knows a woman among the people. Who is this woman and what does it have to do with him? The woman also looked at me with a cold and arrogant look in her eyes. When Li Shimin approached her, she took his arm with one hand and took him to the crowd, and I had to wait again as Li Shimin told me.

Shangyuan Festival was originally a family reunion. How could Li Shimin come to the people to find this woman? If there is really some kind of relationship between them, why take me out to increase trouble? I couldn't think of a reason. I wandered back and forth in the same place and watched the paper lights swaying and people coming and going on the street, and my heart was really lonely.