Lian Jingshu bowed to Liu Xiu and said, "Your Majesty has given you too much of a reward. Jingshu is too embarrassed to deserve it."
Liu Xiu smiled and said, "It would be a great blessing in life if I could hear Miss Jingshu's playing every day!"
Lian Jingshu's jade face was slightly red, and she bowed and said, "Your Majesty is joking. Jingshu is just a commoner woman, how can she go in and out of the palace."
Liu Xiu said disapprovingly: "This is simple!"
As he spoke, he took off a jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Luo You, asking her to send it to Lian Jingshu. He said, "In the future, when Miss Jingshu uses this jade pendant to go to the palace, the guards will report it to me."
This jade pendant cannot be used as a pass to enter and leave the palace, but it can be used as a stepping stone to enter and exit the palace. When the guards see the jade pendant, they will report it to her. This is already very difficult. Even Jing Shu's status may not allow her to get close to the palace.
He had to be chased away by the patrolling guards.
Holding the jade pendant sent by Liu Xiu, Lian Jingshu looked panicked and said quickly: "Your Majesty, this... this jade pendant is too valuable, Jingshu dare not accept it."
Liu Xiu smiled and said: "Miss Jingshu, feel free to accept it. If you have time, you can come to Weiyang Palace to see me at any time."
The Yuefu in Chang'an has long been moved to Luoyang. Even though the Yuefu in Chang'an still exists, there are only a few musicians in it.
To put it bluntly, all the musicians with some level of talent have gone to Luoyang to develop their careers, and the musicians who are still in Chang'an are all retiring here.
Liu Xiu liked music, and he had trouble with Song Hong because of this matter before. Song Hong once recommended a talent to Liu Xiu, and this man played the piano very well. When Liu Xiu was upset when discussing matters with ministers, he asked him to be by his side.
Play the piano.
It happened once, twice, and it almost became a routine. Song Hong was very dissatisfied and reprimanded the person he recommended. Later, that person never dared to play the piano in front of Liu Xiu again.
This made Liu Xiu feel a little unhappy. He felt that Song Hong was making a fuss out of a molehill, but it was hard to get into the details of him, so he let it go.
When Liu Xiu was in Chang'an, he invited luthiers from Yuefu. When he looked down, he saw that they were all elderly people in their seventies and eighties. Liu Xiu couldn't listen to the music they played.
It happened that at this time, Lian Jingshu appeared. Not only did she look great, she was also good at playing the piano. Appreciating her playing was a double visual and auditory enjoyment. Of course Liu Xiu liked it.
After listening to Liu Xiu's words, Lian Jingshu asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, can Jingshu go to Weiyang Palace tomorrow?"
Liu Xiu didn't even think about it and said with a smile: "Of course!"
Even Jingshu was very happy to get Liu Xiu's approval, and sighed with emotion: "Jingshu only walked outside Weiyang Palace in the past, and never thought that one day she would be able to enter Weiyang Palace." As she spoke, she
His face was also full of yearning.
Hearing this, Liu Xiu laughed heartily and said, "Miss Jingshu wants to come, I'll welcome her at any time."
Next, Lian Jingshu played several more songs, while Liu Xiu, Geng Yan, and Geng Shu chatted and drank happily, and had a meal until the end of the day.
Liu Xiu, Geng Yan, and Geng Shu were all very happy. Lian Jingshu personally escorted them out of Yuhua Pavilion, and then Liu Xiu returned to Weiyang Palace, while Geng Yan and Geng Shu returned to the military camp to rest.
On the way, Luo You was still worried about Lian Jingshu and said angrily: "Lian Jingshu really knows how to kill snakes and stick them on the stick. Your Majesty gave her a jade pendant. She will come to Weiyang Palace tomorrow. She can't wait!"
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Seeing that Luo You was quite dissatisfied with Lian Jingshu, Liu Xiu smiled and said: "Don't worry, I invited Jingshu to Weiyang Palace just to listen to the piano, nothing else."
It is true that Liu Xiu is not very fond of women, not to mention that with Yin Lihua beside him, it is really difficult for other women to look like him.
In silence all the way, Liu Xiu and others returned to the palace. Before taking a break, he thought of something and called Zhang Kun to him and asked him to draft an edict. The content of the edict was mainly to praise the virtues of Feng Yi's mother.
Since ancient times, it was difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety, so Feng's mother committed suicide to fulfill her son's loyalty. This was a great virtue, and naturally it deserves a special book. At the back of the edict, Liu Xiu ordered the prefect of Yingchuan to build a temple for Feng's mother in Raoyang to commemorate Feng's mother.
This great mother.
The emperor built a temple for the mother of a minister, which was undoubtedly a great honor for the ministers. Liu Xiu's doing so also contained some guilt for Feng Yi.
Feng Yi truly followed him through life and death. Back then, when he was at his lowest, it was the bowl of bean porridge cooked by Feng Yi that pulled him back from the gate of hell.
Now, he was angry with Feng Yi because of the defeat of Hanyang, and Liu Xiu felt very sorry. Building a temple for Feng's mother could be regarded as a kind of compensation for Feng Yi.
After Liu Xiu finished speaking, Zhang Kun nodded repeatedly and said, "I have written it down. I will prepare the edict now."
After a short time, Zhang Kun wrote the edict, brought it to Liu Xiu, and asked him to read it.
Liu Xiu read it through briefly and pointed out several things he was not satisfied with one by one, asking Zhang Kun to revise it. After Zhang Kun re-wrote a new edict, Liu Xiu confirmed that it was correct, and then sealed it with a jade seal.
"Tomorrow morning, the edict can be issued."
"Yes! Your Majesty!" Zhang Kun bowed in response and stepped back holding the edict.
Liu Xiu returned to the palace to rest. Zhang Kun and Luo You helped him change clothes and wash up. Then, Liu Xiu waved his hands to them and said, "Everyone, please step aside!"
Zhang Kun bowed and exited the dormitory. Luo You did not leave, but asked with concern: "How is His Majesty's injury?"
Liu Xiu smiled and said: "I have recovered a long time ago, don't worry!"
"Your Majesty, please let your servant take a look."
Liu Xiu looked at Luo You and took off her shirt, leaving her shirtless.
Luo You took a closer look and saw that the arrow wound on Liu Xiu's chest only had a faint red mark, and even the scar was about to disappear. Seeing this, Luo You was surprised and relieved, and gave Liu Xiufu a salute.
, then exited the dormitory.
Liu Xiu shook his head, put on his coat again, lay sideways on the bed, and picked up a roll of bamboo slips. After looking at it for a while, tiredness came over him, Liu Xiu put the bamboo slips aside and slowly closed his eyes.
After hearing that there was no movement in the dormitory for a long time, Luo You walked in and saw that Liu Xiu had gone to sleep. She blew out the candles in the candlestick one by one, then walked out quietly and closed the door.
Late at night, there was silence in Weiyang Palace. But in this silence, a black shadow appeared silently on the roof of the dormitory. The black shadow bowed like a civet cat and came to the top of Liu Xiu's bedroom.
The black shadow lay on the roof, first looked around, then pulled out a dagger and inserted it through the gap in the tiles.
His movements were slow and steady, without making a single sound, and a piece of tile was loosened by the dagger.
He pinched the tile with his fingers, tried it for a while, and then slowly pulled the tile out.
He pulled out three tiles in a row, and a small hole was exposed on the roof. He followed the small hole, lowered his head and looked down. It took his eyes a while to adjust, and finally he could clearly see the situation inside the temple.
He judged the position of the bed, and then gently put the three tiles back into place.
He lay on the roof, moving his limbs together like a gecko, crawling on the roof. After moving a certain distance, he stopped, pulled out the dagger again, and repeated the same trick, inserting the tiles loosely.
Then, he pulled out the loose tiles bit by bit. At this time, the small hole he dug was just above Liu Xiu's head.
He lowered his head and looked down to confirm. Then, he put away the dagger, took out a roll of silk thread from his arms, and passed one end of the thread along the small hole in the roof, little by little.
The silk thread slowly dropped down, all the way to the top of Liu Xiu's head.
At this time, his movements were slower, and the silk thread drooped even slower. This silk thread was getting closer to Liu Xiu's face little by little. After an unknown amount of time, one end of the silk thread was almost touching Liu Xiu's lips.
Only then did the black shadow stop lowering the thread.
He followed the opening of the hole and looked down again to make sure that the position of the silk thread was correct. He reached into his arms, took out a small porcelain bottle, pulled off the lid, put the bottle mouth against the silk thread, and poured it out little by little.
After a short time, a drop of water flowed out from the mouth of the porcelain bottle. This drop of water flowed down little by little along the silk thread, and the end of the silk thread was just above Liu Xiu's lips.
I saw this drop of water sliding all the way, and soon fell to the end of the silk thread.
clatter.
The water droplets fell from the end of the silk thread, fell between Liu Xiu's lips, and slid into his mouth along the gap between the lips. The eyes of the black figure lying on the hall clearly flickered, and he took the
He held the porcelain bottle and poured out the second drop of water.
Just like before, this drop of water also slid down the silk thread, slid to the end of the silk thread, and fell into Liu Xiu's mouth.
But at this moment, Liu Xiu, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes. At the same time, he raised his hand and flicked his index finger outward.
Snapped!
The water droplets gathered at the end of the silk thread were ejected upward by him along with the silk thread.
The black figure obviously did not expect that Liu Xiu, who was sleeping soundly, would suddenly wake up, nor did he expect that Liu Xiu would be safe and sound after taking a drop of deadly poison.
The drop of water that Liu Xiu popped up hit the black shadow's eyes without any bias. The black shadow couldn't help but let out a slight exclamation.
It was this exclamation that suddenly woke up Xuying who was guarding outside the dormitory, and shouted: "There is someone on the roof!" As he spoke, he unsheathed his sword, jumped into the air, grabbed the eaves with one hand, and the person jumped to the ground.
On the roof.
The black shadow's right eye was shot with venom, and his whole body was shaking with pain. Xu Ying looked at it, raised his sword, and stepped forward. Xu Ting, Xu Fei followed closely behind, and also jumped up to the roof.
The man in black covered his eyes with one hand and waved his other hand outward. A bolt of lightning shot out and went straight to Xuying's face. Xuying dodged to the side, and wow, the edge of the dagger passed by his cheek and went behind him.
The empty court flew away.
Xu Ting and Xu Fei swung their swords outwards almost at the same time. With a clang, the flying daggers bounced into the air. After throwing the daggers, the man in black didn't care whether he was hit or not, and jumped off the roof, intending to follow the back of the dormitory.
Escape.
However, as soon as he jumped down and didn't take two steps, a large group of Yulin Guards rushed towards him. One after another, they stabbed him with halberds. The figure of the man in black jumped up and dodged.
With a long halberd, he turned around and ran away.
But it was too late. A large number of Yulin Guards and Tiger Guards came from all directions and surrounded the men in black. Wow! As the back window of the hall opened, Liu Xiu jumped out of the window holding the Red Sky Sword.
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Seeing the lively Liu Xiu, a look of surprise flashed in the eyes of the man in black. He used heart-breaking poison, one drop of which could be fatal, but Liu Xiu still looked as lively as a tiger. Could it be that he was carrying the antidote holy medicine?
The man in black secretly thought that he was careless, he didn't even think of this.
The surrounding Yulin guards took the lead in attacking, and everyone shouted: "Kill——"
A circle of Yulin guards rushed in front of the man in black, and all thrust out their halberds. The man in black shouted, and jumped up to a height of one and a half meters. All the halberds that were thrust at him were dodged.
While he was still in the air, another circle of crossbow arrows flew from all around. The man in black shook his arms, and two more daggers appeared in his hands. He swung them around, and heard a series of clanging sounds, a series of crisp sounds, and more than a dozen crossbow arrows.
Fly out.
The man in black fell to the ground from the air, and the halberds around him stabbed him again, and the man in black rose into the air again.
It can be seen that the man in black is very good at lightening his body. If it were someone else, his physical strength would not be able to support him after several consecutive jumps, but he could jump repeatedly and avoid the halberds around him.
Luo You quickly came to Liu Xiu's side and looked at the man in black who was still jumping up and down surrounded by many Yulin Guards and Tiger Guards. He couldn't help but murmured: "How did this assassin sneak into the palace?