On the first day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Jian'an, Liu Yan and her leadership team were still on annual vacation, and the whole Jingzhou was immersed in the peaceful atmosphere of the New Year. Liu Yan couldn't give herself a vacation, because there were many bamboo books and silk silks that had just arrived and were still stained with wind and snow on her desk, which recorded the news she cared about and was thousands of miles away.

Ma Chao, the first fierce man in Xiliang who once dominated Xiliang and beat Cao Cao to cut off his robe, was actually driven out of Xiliang. The entire Xiliang realm has become a hall of Han Sui's words.

To the north, Gongsun Kang, who was fully breathed by Jingzhou, officially entered Cao Cao's eyes. The first thing Cao Zhang did when he returned to Youzhou was to pull the cavalry out and parade. Unlike in the past, Gongsun Kang did not show half of his cowardice, but was stronger, taking his son to the barracks to watch the cavalry drills and reward the three armies.

On Xichuan's side, Liu Zhang is fighting and losing, and he doesn't stop while losing, even if Zhang Lu has an advantage in strength, he has always had no way to take Liu Zhang, he just can't beat him, although he is winning the top ten, but there is not much loot. Consume more, gain less. Zhang Lu's army's enthusiasm for fighting Liu Zhang has decreased considerably. The two sides gradually entered a period of confrontation, and the time to enter the river appeared.

These various news brought a huge amount of information to Liu Yan, but she always felt that it was not enough, Jingzhou's economy and military have made great progress in recent years.

The most outstanding achievement is that Zhao Yun's cavalry division has finally been scaled, and a cavalry brigade of 3,000 people has finally stood up under Zhao Yun's hard work.

With this cavalry brigade, and Cao Zhang's eyes on Gongsun Kang, Liu Yan decided to suspend trade with Liaodong and instead develop Yizhou.

In recent years, Yizhou has basically completed the emptying of the aborigines under the joint attack of Lejin and Zhou Tai, and the remaining aborigines who are willing to surrender have walked out of the mountains and moved to scattered cities and villages specially established to settle Jingzhou immigrants.

Lejin originally thought that when he arrived in Yizhou, he would be assigned to the frontier, but he didn't expect that Yizhou had become an independent kingdom hanging overseas after several years of rectification, and he was at ease here. Moreover, Liu Yan appointed him as the first governor of Yizhou, established a government office, recruited civil officials, and ran the entire affairs of Yizhou.

Now Jingzhou is ready for everything, only the east wind is owed, but only God knows when this east wind will blow.

It's just that Liu Yan is not like Cao Cao and Sun Quan, her interest in Xichuan is not as great as theirs, and for her, it is entirely because Cao Cao is anxious to take Xichuan, and she must fight against him in order to resist Cao Cao.

It's just that now Cao Cao has suffered a loss from Ma Chao, and his attitude towards Xiliang has become much more cautious, if he hadn't judged that the rear was solid, he wouldn't have ventured into Sichuan.

As a result, the situation in the world during this period strangely entered a period of general truce.

It was during this time that Kou Feng added another son and a daughter, and the Kou family finally had a successor. And Liu Yan's rites were once again put on the agenda.

In ordinary people's homes, there are women who are sixteen or seventeen years old, and there are also women who are ten years old, but they are rare. Most of the girls' families are married early, and when they are fifteen or sixteen, they will marry their husbands and become daughters-in-law.

Liu Yan is now sixteen years old, and she doesn't remember her birthday, so everyone takes the first day of the first month as her birthday. Today is her sixteenth birthday, and the congratulatory gifts of the officials have been sent a few days or even a month ago, and the ceremony of the morning is over, and among the people of the morning are the Kou Feng couple and their children.

Although Huang Yueying is still in the name of engaging in it, she rarely comes to the real yàn room of the princess's mansion anymore. After having three children, her life was gradually rejected by family trivialities.

However, she did not completely give up her hobby of invention and creation, and often drew drawings and tinkered with gadgets at home. Kou Feng was obedient to his wife as always, and when he married Huang Yueying, he promised Huang Chengyan that he must wait until Huang Yueying is 30 years old and has no children before he can take a concubine.

Kou Feng is not Liu Bei, the young man with strong blood married ****** and lived a good life, within two years of hard work, Huang Yueying gave birth to a son, and the matter of concubine was not mentioned, and later she gave birth to a son and a daughter, after the Kou family, the clan relatives also acquiesced to the fact that Huang Yueying was the head of the Kou family and became the only woman in Kou Feng. After the congratulations, Liu Yan invited Huang Yueying and the children into the flower hall, and the two met and talked about the parents.

Liu Yan held her little niece Kou Xue in her arms and kissed her non-stop. Seeing this, Huang Yueying pretended to joke: "The princess is sixteen years old this year, if she marries herself next year, when she is eighteen years old, the child will be as old as Xue'er." ”

Liu Yan rolled her eyes indifferently when she heard this: "Sister Yue'er, who is laughing? Who will marry me?"

"It's time for you to hold a ceremony, it's not good to put it off any longer. Huang Yueying took the opportunity to speak.

"I think so! Once I am a child, I will be a real adult, and the teacher will no longer treat me as a child, and he will be able to look at me seriously and listen to me! However, I don't have female elders, who will tie my hair for me, and who will comb my hair for me?" Liu Yan hummed and said: "The teacher has always treated me as a child, I asked him in men's clothes, and he said that I was good-looking, and I wore women's clothes, and he actually only had two words: "good-looking"! It was just good-looking! So perfunctory to me, do you think I can't hear it!"

Speaking of Xu Shu, Liu Yan was complaining, and Huang Yueying mentioned the matter of Jilu, which made her complain again.

In the past two years, there has been no war in Jingzhou, and the affairs in the army are nothing more than army expansion and drills. Xu Shu, the right military division, did not have as many things as when he used to do long history, so Liu Yan often called him to the princess's mansion to play chess and tell stories, and occasionally made appointments with Zhao Yun, Kou Feng, and him and Pang Tong to bring his sister and guards to hunt and have fun.

But what made Liu Yan depressed was that Xu Shu seemed to have been infected by Jiang Wan and became restrained, and whenever he asked him if the dress was good-looking, whether it was appropriate to dress like that, or other things that had nothing to do with war, study, or government affairs, he became at a loss, or there was only one answer to how to ask.

After so many years, Aunt Xu no longer has expectations for her son to marry a daughter-in-law, and she is also downplayed, she is alive, with her son by her side, and her son to send her to the end. As for what will happen to my son when he gets old in the future, I can't see it anyway. The son has his own plans.

Therefore, even if Liu Yan stimulates him with the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law, he will no longer have any overreactions, which makes Liu Yan feel that Xu Shu is developing in the direction of Jiang Wan and Ma Jing's complex, which is something she doesn't want to see.

In her heart, Xu Shu will always be what she saw in her previous life, and she was the temperament when she first apprenticed in Xiangyang. Wise, elegant, and with a bit of ranger chic and jealousy in his bones. She didn't want Xu Shu to change her temper because she was trapped by herself.

Huang Yueying's mention of Ji Lu reminded her of the scene many years ago, when they were chatting on the dock behind the Kou family's ancestral house.

and Lu, get married, and have their own lives...... Do you want to, or are you burdened by me?

Liu Yan once again had doubts about this question, but Huang Yueying's words woke up the dreamer.

"If you don't put personal issues on the agenda, be careful that Cao Thief will use this problem to pinch you and give you small shoes to wear, although you can resist the will and disrespect him, but in the end it will be inferior, you used to be more than ten years old, he couldn't do anything with you, but now it's different, you are sixteen years old, many things you couldn't do before, and now you can do it!"

"This ...... This...... I didn't think about it, thank you Sister Yue'er for reminding me, I will think about it seriously. Liu Yan's face turned red and said seriously.

"The princess should plan for herself, if she doesn't plan again, she will be planned by others!" Huang Yueying said this, took the child from Liu Yan's hand and got up to say goodbye.

After Huang Yueying left, Liu Yan stood in front of the window, looking out of the window in a daze, thinking about her words. It seems that what she said makes sense, she is sixteen years old, and she can be a mother in an ordinary family, and she doesn't plan for herself at this time, in case Cao Thief uses this problem to embarrass herself, she is really inferior.

However, what is the matter of her own affairs? Who will do it for herself? What will she do with her own relatives immediately after she has completed her courtesy? Who will she marry? Who will she dare to marry? Who is she willing to marry?

Liu Yan began to struggle with this matter, her life experience was miserable, and her experience was so bizarre, that she had no one to entrust her with for life. What he likes, except for the teacher is his sister, although the teacher is not married, but he has already told himself categorically, he will not marry anyone, and he will definitely have no play.

If you want Liu Yan to find a stranger to marry, she is unwilling to kill her.

However, since Huang Yueying mentioned it, this matter should also be put on the agenda, and she has to talk to the teacher.

Liu Yan thought so, and on the second day of the Lunar New Year, she went to the Military Division's Mansion to pay New Year's respects with the gift given to Mrs. Xu.

When Mother Xu saw her, she was naturally very happy. took her hand and asked for warmth, and kept talking. Liu Yan sometimes couldn't interject, so she could only listen to her with a smile.

Suddenly, a thought came to my mind, otherwise, I would ask Mrs. Xu to curl my hair for me.

So, she spoke softly: "Auntie, I have been taking care of you when I was in Changsha, but now that I have arrived in Xiangyang, you have moved out, I am not used to it." ”

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness, I still think about my old body. Mother Xu said politely.

"Rong'er and I don't have a mother, so I have always regarded the teacher's mother as my own, but now that my mother has moved out, I have always felt very uncomfortable. Liu Yan deliberately pretended to be pitiful.

Mother Xu clenched her hand: "The old body knows that it is not easy for a princess, and now you are a princess, and all the hardships have passed, and the future will get better and better." ”

"Auntie, I have a reluctant request, I hope Auntie can help me. Liu Yan suddenly got up and knelt down for Xu's mother. Panicked, Mother Xu immediately bent down to support her arm and wanted to pull her up: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you can't help it, you hurry up, what's the matter, you command, you get up quickly, you are like this, the old body is going to lose your life!"

Liu Yan hurriedly got up when she heard this: "Auntie, I want to ask you to tie my hair for me, at my ceremony." ”

Mother Xu was stunned for a moment, and she didn't react yet. Liu Yan whispered, "I'm sixteen years old, it's time to hold a ceremony." But I don't have parents, I don't have female elders as relatives, and there is no one to do for me. I've always treated you like my mother, can you please tie my hair?"

"This ......" Mother Xu didn't expect Liu Yan to make this request, if it was when she was in Xiangyang before, the old lady would have agreed soon, in addition to feeling a little flattered. But now, she was stunned.

Liu Yan's identity is different from the past, a dignified sister, Princess Yiyang. And she is just an ordinary old woman, although her son is a military general, but in the eyes of the old lady who is loyal to the Han family, Liu Yan now represents the royal family, and she is just a civilian. The gap is too great. She was a little afraid to take on this errand.

"Auntie, you know me well, I'm just the daughter of a small family, I don't have any noble background, although I was named a princess, it was just a temporary compromise of Cao Thief, I am still the original me, please be sure to agree to my request, otherwise my coming-of-age ceremony will never be done." Seeing her hesitating, Liu Yan knelt down again, this time offering a mourning policy.

The old woman's eyes also turned red when she heard this, thinking about Liu Yan's pitiful life experience (it was all made up by Liu Yan when she was still Kou Yan. The heart also softened. As she said, the coming-of-age ceremony of no parents, no female elders, is really a problem. If he didn't help her, would he really expect the imprisoned emperor to find a way?

What a good little girl! Wouldn't it be a pity to delay the Fantasia because of this?

So, the old lady nodded and said, "Since the princess does not dislike the old woman's vulgarity, then the old woman will have the courage to curl her hair for Her Royal Highness!"

When Liu Yan heard the words, a big stone in her heart finally landed, and she smiled: "Thank you for your success!"

Aunt Xu waved her hand again and again: "Her Royal Highness the princess doesn't have to be like this, this is the honor of the old body." ”

"In that case, I will go to the teacher now to arrange the specific schedule and matters of the ceremony, and I will pick you up a few days in advance to prepare for the princess's mansion. After Liu Yan finished speaking, she got up and said goodbye.

Out of Xu's mother's house, she immediately found Xu Shu and told the teacher about her agreement with Aunt Xu. Xu Shu was very surprised, and said in his heart, why did you suddenly figure it out and want to make a ceremony for yourself? What kind of person is so charming, can you change your mind?

"Yan'er, who persuaded you to change your mind? Why did the teacher tell you at the time, but you didn't listen, why have you changed your mind now?" Xu Shu asked curiously.

"Someone who is important to me. Liu Yan didn't say Huang Yueying's name: "What she persuaded me was very reasonable, so I listened to it, so I came to ask to see my aunt." (To be continued.) )