Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Three
The practice time is set at dusk. With the help of the five-star celestial phenomenon at night and the help of the Big Dipper, perform the technique of Zhu You, which will surely be like a tiger with wings added.Zi Mian went to the palace during Shenshi to prepare for trivial matters, and at the end of Youshi when dusk entered, it was time to do the trick.
Long Baiyue hid in the corner outside the He Mansion and waited, holding the letterhead from the Imperial Medical Office in his hand, his heart beating like a drum with nervousness.
The servants of He's mansion had already prepared the horse at the door, first He Lingyun came out of the mansion, helped the horse to look back, and joked at the mansion.Following him out of the residence was Zi Mian, who had already put on his cassock.The cassock was newly given by the emperor. The dark purple brocade was woven with golden threads and embroidered with cranes and unicorns.On his head is a crown of lotus flowers. The lotus flowers made of pure gold are shining brightly, and the petals are inlaid with pearls and precious stones.
The afternoon sun swayed on Zi Mian's body, sparing no effort to make his whole body shine, but the dazzling demeanor showed that he was full of thoughts.Facing He Lingyun's casual teasing, the corners of Zi Mian's mouth just curled perfunctorily, hiding the heavy heart under the unhappy expression.
He is worried, is he uneasy about the ritual?Long Baiyue's hand holding the letter paper was tight, a little timid—is it inappropriate for her to disturb him at this time?
His noble and solemn attire made her even more cowardly without the courage to go forward.With such a lowly status, how can I stand together with him who is not worthy of him at this moment?
Let's wait for him to finish the ceremony...
The altar of Jinlu Zhai built in the palace is four feet wide, divided into inner, middle and outer layers, and each layer of altar is two feet high.The outer altar has four gates: Tianmen, Dihu, Sunmen, and Yuemen. On the gates, four-color boards are hung according to their directions. Only Dihu can enter and exit.The shape of the middle altar is the same as that of the outer altar, while the inner altar has ten doors, and there are eight trigrams lists inside. Hundreds of civil and military officials surrounded the mandala as fasting guests. Taoist officials entered the mandala one after another to set their positions and perform their duties. Zi Mian entered the inner altar as a master of high skill.Burning incense, opening the altar, asking for water, raising the flag... After completing the familiar ritual steps step by step, Zi Mian finally took out the doll used by Yan Yan Zhu You. Zhu Youfa has been used as a witchcraft for a long time. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been countless court tragedies caused by it.The most famous one is the "Witch Cup Disaster" in the later years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The disaster lasted for several years. A total of the crown prince, empress, two princesses, three grandsons, two prime ministers and many ministers were killed. Tens of thousands of people were implicated, which also caused great changes in the subsequent political situation. Such extraordinary methods often do not have effective spells themselves, but are mostly used by people to fan the flames and create chaos in order to profit from it-after all, there are very few people who can really master spells to make them effective. Dao Le fluttered, and all the officials around the mandala stared at him with cold faces.The emperor sitting in the upper seat watched the ceremony from behind the curtain, calmly. The Big Dipper gradually lit up, and then the five stars shone brightly.Amidst the sobbing and sobbing chanting of the Taoist officials, Zi Mian silently recited the mantra, took out a silver needle from the brocade box at hand, moved her fingertips slightly, and slowly stabbed the silver needle into the puppet's forehead.The name and date of birth of King Yan are written on the puppet. If the informant's information is correct, the spell will surely come true. Sure enough, after a while, the needle-pricked place slowly oozes red blood.With confidence in her heart, Zi Mian relaxed and raised her head to look at the sky.There are five stars in the sky, and the Taibaijin star in the middle has a weak light. Compared with the other four stars, it looks tiny and dim. There is a saying in "Yisi Zhan": Taibai's main soldier is a general, for power, for cutting off, and for killing, so the army must occupy Taibai... Small and ignorant, the army is defeated and the country is destroyed... Zi Mian's heart sank, she knew what this kind of Venus portends - as long as he continues the spell, everything will change, right? The silver needles pierced into the doll's throat, chest, abdomen, back, and limbs one after another... The blood seeped more and more, and gradually dyed the entire surface of the doll.If the regime of the Yan Kingdom in the north changes, the two countries that have been confronting each other will have their own turning points. Whoever wins and who loses is the destiny... The night is getting darker.For the long and complicated Jinluzhai, it is normal for the ceremony to last for two or three days, but for Long Baiyue who is waiting far away outside the palace gate, it is like a year.She kept waving her sleeves to drive away the annoying mosquitoes, and her anxious eyes were fixed on the closed palace door.She stood until her legs were numb, and just when she was about to leave in despair, the palace door finally opened. The first ones to come out were the civil servants, all of them looked tired and indifferent, as if they thought such rituals were unnecessary.Prime Minister Cao walked in the front, followed by many fans and officials.He flicked his sleeves and walked forward, sneered coldly: "Hmph, the minister of tricks is enshrined with thin techniques, how can astronomical variation prejudge national affairs? It's ridiculous..." The officials surrounding him echoed one after another, and after a group of people walked away, the military attache left the palace.From a distance, Long Baiyue saw He Lingyun following behind her father, bowing her head and listening respectfully to He Zhengshi's whispered teachings. What about Zimian?Why hasn't it come out yet... She stood on tiptoe and looked forward to it.A group of cunning officers wearing green official robes came out. Compared with the expensive vermilion official robes of the previous civil and military officials, the green robes looked much more shabby.These astronomical officials, calligraphers and painters officials, and medical officials crowded together and walked shyly, following behind the prominent civil and military officials, where they could not afford the slightest official airs. Long Baiyue didn't see Zi Mian walk out of the palace until even the Taoist officials who practiced things left.He was left alone at the end, and he was supposed to be the protagonist of this puja, but at this moment only Ming Chuangchen was by his side.He hadn't approached yet, and the expression on his face could not be seen clearly in the dim night, only the faint light from the palace was reflected on his cassock, making his whole body shine with a lonely luster as he walked. The palace gate slammed shut with a soft creak.Zi Mian walked a few steps with her head bowed, then suddenly stopped and looked back - the towering palace building, a huge black shadow pressed on him, making the lonely him even more isolated and helpless.At this time, the god crows inhabiting the eaves of the palace flew out one after another, and the black shadows passed by Zimian's side, and the sound of fluttering wings broke the dullness of the dark night, screaming strangely as if mocking. Looking at Zi Mian's lonely figure, Long Baiyue's heart ached and she couldn't help but take a few steps.However, when she saw his movements clearly, her eager steps froze—he ignored the flying crows, and only stared at Cui Wei's palace, the outline of his handsome profile remained motionless, pointing clearly—through the Those palace walls and deep harem contained what he wanted. Get turned away again?It's a pity that she can't help him... Long Baiyue moved her fingertips, looked down at the letter in her hand - could she really be unable to help him? Her breathing became short of breath, and the decision to do whatever it took to break the boat came to her mind and gradually took shape, making her unable to help but sway twice.She was so scared, how much she wanted to stay in a peach blossom garden far away from the hustle and bustle and wait for Zimian to take care of her, but she knew - what he needed was not the Long Baiyue in Baiyuefang who could only play, sing and joke. It would be great if she could have other meanings to him besides being beautiful as a flower! And now the opportunity is in her hands! ——It's just that the price is too high... She never expected that this love would be so strong that she couldn't extricate herself. She wanted his heart, but she wanted to bring him happiness even more.If Zi Mian was looking at the moon at the moment, she would definitely be Chang'e who stole the elixir for him, right? The decision has already been made, so there is no need to ask him again.Long Baiyue bit her lip, took one last look at Zi Mian, turned around and ran into the thick night...
"You are no longer my maidservant, Lian Shanyue," Long Baiyue buried her head in packing her bag, her expression was particularly resolute in the dancing candlelight, "You can go back to Qilian Mountain..." "Ahhh, don't don't!" Bao'er hugged her head, rolling and making noises all over the floor, "I'm used to the lively life in the capital, so I don't want to go back to the place where birds don't lay eggs, waiting every day to be caught by hunters. scarf." "Now that I'm gone, how can you live alone in Baiyuefang?" Long Baiyue sighed, packed up her burden and sat down to touch her head, "You are so stubborn, your talent is immature and underdeveloped, how do you manage it?" A brothel?" "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo out out of men!" "You don't understand..." Long Baiyue smiled faintly, her expression looked very much like Zi Mian, "I have more important things to do now, it's not a pass..." No, it's also related to the mouth, it's just that she wants to do more. It's not that I love prostitution, it seems to be mistaken by the front edge.She had always wanted to leave, and now it was finally time.The original plan was to earn enough money to go back to the countryside with Bao'er, but this plan would not work as long as Zi Mian was in her heart.So the plan was tampered with by her - she wanted to do everything possible to grab Zi Mian's heart, and then haunt him for the rest of her life. Now that she knows his wish and loves his lonely back, she wants to enter the palace as a medical girl for him and help him fulfill his wish. No matter which kind of plan she wants most, she has no complaints. "It's a good one thousand taels of silver, but you have spent only two hundred and eighty-six taels, four and a half cents." Long Baiyue finished counting, and still couldn't help but pat Bao'er on the head to vent her anger, "These two I'll give you a hundred taels, and I'll take the rest, what are your plans?" "I want to stay here!" Bao'er sniffed and made up her mind, "Baiyuefang can't stay here any longer. I plan to quit the house and rent a small remote house to live in... Wait for you to come back." Come back... can she come back?Long Baiyue smiled wryly. "Maybe one day you will regret it?" Bao'er muttered unbelievingly. repent?Long Baiyue's heart shuddered, and a vague figure came up from the bottom of her heart, but disappeared in an instant... She had regretted it once, but this time it was different. We have gone through adversity together, hunting, shipwreck, landslide, kidnapping, bumping into evil spirits... It's enough to make up a new song "Shang Evil", but her love has not diminished by half.How can there be anything to make her go back on her word? Entering the palace is not only for him, but also for herself.She will be nineteen soon, and she already knows what true love is. So she has to give up the humble status of the past ten years and work hard to grow up. Even though there are many palace walls between the two of them, they can still regard the end of the world as close.As long as one day her soul can straighten her back and accompany him in a big and dignified way, the two of them will walk forward step by step in the years to come.
The altar of Jinlu Zhai built in the palace is four feet wide, divided into inner, middle and outer layers, and each layer of altar is two feet high.The outer altar has four gates: Tianmen, Dihu, Sunmen, and Yuemen. On the gates, four-color boards are hung according to their directions. Only Dihu can enter and exit.The shape of the middle altar is the same as that of the outer altar, while the inner altar has ten doors, and there are eight trigrams lists inside. Hundreds of civil and military officials surrounded the mandala as fasting guests. Taoist officials entered the mandala one after another to set their positions and perform their duties. Zi Mian entered the inner altar as a master of high skill.Burning incense, opening the altar, asking for water, raising the flag... After completing the familiar ritual steps step by step, Zi Mian finally took out the doll used by Yan Yan Zhu You. Zhu Youfa has been used as a witchcraft for a long time. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been countless court tragedies caused by it.The most famous one is the "Witch Cup Disaster" in the later years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The disaster lasted for several years. A total of the crown prince, empress, two princesses, three grandsons, two prime ministers and many ministers were killed. Tens of thousands of people were implicated, which also caused great changes in the subsequent political situation. Such extraordinary methods often do not have effective spells themselves, but are mostly used by people to fan the flames and create chaos in order to profit from it-after all, there are very few people who can really master spells to make them effective. Dao Le fluttered, and all the officials around the mandala stared at him with cold faces.The emperor sitting in the upper seat watched the ceremony from behind the curtain, calmly. The Big Dipper gradually lit up, and then the five stars shone brightly.Amidst the sobbing and sobbing chanting of the Taoist officials, Zi Mian silently recited the mantra, took out a silver needle from the brocade box at hand, moved her fingertips slightly, and slowly stabbed the silver needle into the puppet's forehead.The name and date of birth of King Yan are written on the puppet. If the informant's information is correct, the spell will surely come true. Sure enough, after a while, the needle-pricked place slowly oozes red blood.With confidence in her heart, Zi Mian relaxed and raised her head to look at the sky.There are five stars in the sky, and the Taibaijin star in the middle has a weak light. Compared with the other four stars, it looks tiny and dim. There is a saying in "Yisi Zhan": Taibai's main soldier is a general, for power, for cutting off, and for killing, so the army must occupy Taibai... Small and ignorant, the army is defeated and the country is destroyed... Zi Mian's heart sank, she knew what this kind of Venus portends - as long as he continues the spell, everything will change, right? The silver needles pierced into the doll's throat, chest, abdomen, back, and limbs one after another... The blood seeped more and more, and gradually dyed the entire surface of the doll.If the regime of the Yan Kingdom in the north changes, the two countries that have been confronting each other will have their own turning points. Whoever wins and who loses is the destiny... The night is getting darker.For the long and complicated Jinluzhai, it is normal for the ceremony to last for two or three days, but for Long Baiyue who is waiting far away outside the palace gate, it is like a year.She kept waving her sleeves to drive away the annoying mosquitoes, and her anxious eyes were fixed on the closed palace door.She stood until her legs were numb, and just when she was about to leave in despair, the palace door finally opened. The first ones to come out were the civil servants, all of them looked tired and indifferent, as if they thought such rituals were unnecessary.Prime Minister Cao walked in the front, followed by many fans and officials.He flicked his sleeves and walked forward, sneered coldly: "Hmph, the minister of tricks is enshrined with thin techniques, how can astronomical variation prejudge national affairs? It's ridiculous..." The officials surrounding him echoed one after another, and after a group of people walked away, the military attache left the palace.From a distance, Long Baiyue saw He Lingyun following behind her father, bowing her head and listening respectfully to He Zhengshi's whispered teachings. What about Zimian?Why hasn't it come out yet... She stood on tiptoe and looked forward to it.A group of cunning officers wearing green official robes came out. Compared with the expensive vermilion official robes of the previous civil and military officials, the green robes looked much more shabby.These astronomical officials, calligraphers and painters officials, and medical officials crowded together and walked shyly, following behind the prominent civil and military officials, where they could not afford the slightest official airs. Long Baiyue didn't see Zi Mian walk out of the palace until even the Taoist officials who practiced things left.He was left alone at the end, and he was supposed to be the protagonist of this puja, but at this moment only Ming Chuangchen was by his side.He hadn't approached yet, and the expression on his face could not be seen clearly in the dim night, only the faint light from the palace was reflected on his cassock, making his whole body shine with a lonely luster as he walked. The palace gate slammed shut with a soft creak.Zi Mian walked a few steps with her head bowed, then suddenly stopped and looked back - the towering palace building, a huge black shadow pressed on him, making the lonely him even more isolated and helpless.At this time, the god crows inhabiting the eaves of the palace flew out one after another, and the black shadows passed by Zimian's side, and the sound of fluttering wings broke the dullness of the dark night, screaming strangely as if mocking. Looking at Zi Mian's lonely figure, Long Baiyue's heart ached and she couldn't help but take a few steps.However, when she saw his movements clearly, her eager steps froze—he ignored the flying crows, and only stared at Cui Wei's palace, the outline of his handsome profile remained motionless, pointing clearly—through the Those palace walls and deep harem contained what he wanted. Get turned away again?It's a pity that she can't help him... Long Baiyue moved her fingertips, looked down at the letter in her hand - could she really be unable to help him? Her breathing became short of breath, and the decision to do whatever it took to break the boat came to her mind and gradually took shape, making her unable to help but sway twice.She was so scared, how much she wanted to stay in a peach blossom garden far away from the hustle and bustle and wait for Zimian to take care of her, but she knew - what he needed was not the Long Baiyue in Baiyuefang who could only play, sing and joke. It would be great if she could have other meanings to him besides being beautiful as a flower! And now the opportunity is in her hands! ——It's just that the price is too high... She never expected that this love would be so strong that she couldn't extricate herself. She wanted his heart, but she wanted to bring him happiness even more.If Zi Mian was looking at the moon at the moment, she would definitely be Chang'e who stole the elixir for him, right? The decision has already been made, so there is no need to ask him again.Long Baiyue bit her lip, took one last look at Zi Mian, turned around and ran into the thick night...
"You are no longer my maidservant, Lian Shanyue," Long Baiyue buried her head in packing her bag, her expression was particularly resolute in the dancing candlelight, "You can go back to Qilian Mountain..." "Ahhh, don't don't!" Bao'er hugged her head, rolling and making noises all over the floor, "I'm used to the lively life in the capital, so I don't want to go back to the place where birds don't lay eggs, waiting every day to be caught by hunters. scarf." "Now that I'm gone, how can you live alone in Baiyuefang?" Long Baiyue sighed, packed up her burden and sat down to touch her head, "You are so stubborn, your talent is immature and underdeveloped, how do you manage it?" A brothel?" "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo out out of men!" "You don't understand..." Long Baiyue smiled faintly, her expression looked very much like Zi Mian, "I have more important things to do now, it's not a pass..." No, it's also related to the mouth, it's just that she wants to do more. It's not that I love prostitution, it seems to be mistaken by the front edge.She had always wanted to leave, and now it was finally time.The original plan was to earn enough money to go back to the countryside with Bao'er, but this plan would not work as long as Zi Mian was in her heart.So the plan was tampered with by her - she wanted to do everything possible to grab Zi Mian's heart, and then haunt him for the rest of her life. Now that she knows his wish and loves his lonely back, she wants to enter the palace as a medical girl for him and help him fulfill his wish. No matter which kind of plan she wants most, she has no complaints. "It's a good one thousand taels of silver, but you have spent only two hundred and eighty-six taels, four and a half cents." Long Baiyue finished counting, and still couldn't help but pat Bao'er on the head to vent her anger, "These two I'll give you a hundred taels, and I'll take the rest, what are your plans?" "I want to stay here!" Bao'er sniffed and made up her mind, "Baiyuefang can't stay here any longer. I plan to quit the house and rent a small remote house to live in... Wait for you to come back." Come back... can she come back?Long Baiyue smiled wryly. "Maybe one day you will regret it?" Bao'er muttered unbelievingly. repent?Long Baiyue's heart shuddered, and a vague figure came up from the bottom of her heart, but disappeared in an instant... She had regretted it once, but this time it was different. We have gone through adversity together, hunting, shipwreck, landslide, kidnapping, bumping into evil spirits... It's enough to make up a new song "Shang Evil", but her love has not diminished by half.How can there be anything to make her go back on her word? Entering the palace is not only for him, but also for herself.She will be nineteen soon, and she already knows what true love is. So she has to give up the humble status of the past ten years and work hard to grow up. Even though there are many palace walls between the two of them, they can still regard the end of the world as close.As long as one day her soul can straighten her back and accompany him in a big and dignified way, the two of them will walk forward step by step in the years to come.