In the second year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty (139 BC), spring and March, night.

In the dead of night, the young empire had fallen asleep. However, the palace of Princess Pingyang, the eldest sister of His Majesty the Emperor, was very lively. After all, when the hour comes, a new day will come, and it will be the first day of the month ((1)).

The first day of March has an extraordinary significance.

"The Analects" contains: "Mo Chun, spring clothes are completed, five or six champions, six or seven boys, bathing in Yi, dancing in the wind, and returning with songs." The "bath" here is by no means a "bath" as commonly understood, but a ritual of sacrifice and blessing. The "Zhou Li", which is said to have been created by the Duke of Zhou, but in fact was officially summarized in the Warring States Period, records that "the witch is purified and bathed when she is in charge." "Witches perform annual purification rituals and bathe people to ward off calamities. Provocative bathing is called bathing with aromatherapy herbs. This is called a purification offering or a purification. By the Spring and Autumn Period, this kind of activity had spread to the people.

The customs of Zheng Guo, on the top of March in March, above the two waters of Qin and Wei, summoning the soul and continuing the spirit, Binglan grass, ominous.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the first day of March was officially designated as the "Shangsi Festival". Whenever the Shangsi Festival comes, people will take the old and the young to the waterside to play Cailan, in order to drive away evil spirits and worship ancestors. This is called purification, repair, sacrifice, or simply called sacrifice.

And tomorrow, the eighteen-year-old boy of the empire, the Son of Heaven, will go to the throne to worship the ancestors and pray for blessings and disasters. At that time, the Son of Heaven will definitely come to Princess Pingyang's Mansion and talk about the love of sister and brother with the princess. Since it is to welcome His Majesty's arrival, then everything in the palace cannot be sloppy.

The young empire, the young son of heaven, after experiencing the recuperation of the two emperors of Xiaowen and Xiaodi, the Han Dynasty exuded vigorous vitality from the inside out.

But Princess Pingyang, who is the emperor's sister, understands that her younger brother is not happy in her heart.

Outside, there are Xiongnu Koubian harassing the people, and inside there is the imperial grandmother who believes in the way of Huang Lao, who is constrained by the body of the Empress Dowager. In the past, the Son of Heaven was the main room of the "Golden House Hidden Jiao", and although the Chen family, who officially became the empress of the Han Empire last year, had a deep relationship with the Son of Heaven, they had no heirs.

Of course, now that the Son of Heaven is rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, the heirs do not need to rush this time. But...... Since Princess Guantao ((2)) Zhuyu is in front, why should she be the princess of Pingyang?

In a firewood room in the princess's mansion.

As a firewood house, even if it is a firewood room in the princess's mansion, it will never be luxurious. But this firewood room is simple and neat, with carved ponies and flowers that cover the cracks...... Everything here exudes a warm atmosphere. Of course, with such a person here, no matter how ordinary a room is, it will be full of brilliance.

Young Wei Zifu was looking at the little man sleeping on the bamboo couch and counting his eyelashes. Although Wei Zifu was wearing the clothes of the most ordinary maidservants, her graceful demeanor was already like the full moon in the night sky, crowning the stars and being incomprehensible.

Babies are very small, even thinner than the average baby. Wei Zifu looked at this immature little face and remembered the pale face of his sister Wei Shao'er. Finally, I couldn't help but take a sip: "This negative man!"

But there is no way, in the end, this child is the result of an affair between his sister and that person. And that person is just a small official, self-protection is acceptable, and where is the surplus wealth to support his sister and this hard-working child?

Looking at this lovely nephew, Wei Zifu couldn't help but whisper a prayer: "Good boy, may I have a long life." ”

……

Immortal World, Heavenly Court, Sixth Day, Seven Yao Mo Yi Heaven.

Yang Jian opened his eyes. Recalling the dream just now, Yang Jian shook his head helplessly. It seems that it is really hurt, Yang Jian thought to himself. After all, such a thing as dreaming will no longer appear for a person like Yang Jian's cultivation—generally speaking, cultivators who have cultivated to the Great Luo Golden Immortal are in line with the Heavenly Dao, and if such an existence is a dream, it will indicate the emergence of a change, or their own calamity, or a great change between heaven and earth.

Speaking of which, as the last heaven of the "Six Heavens of the Desire Realm" in charge of the Heavenly Court Elder Princess Yao Ji back then, Qiyao Moyi Heaven has been regarded as the Eldest Princess's Mansion by the immortals for thousands of years. But since the eldest princess violated the rules of heaven and was suppressed in Taoshan, this Qiyao Moyi Heaven has also become a forbidden place in the heavenly court, and there are absolutely no immortals who set foot here, except for the son of Yao Ji.

While speaking, Yang Jian came to a bamboo house and opened the door.

The first thing Yang Jian saw was the sewage in a place, and then, Yang Jian's eyes slowly moved up and saw his own apprentice. Sure enough, Qin Yingwu was in a daze.

"It's back to life. Yang Jian said.

"Huh?" Qin Yingwu suddenly raised his head, just in time to see his master standing at the door and the Taoist had disappeared, "Master......?" Where's the Dao Master just now?"

Habitually, Yang Jian rolled his eyes at his apprentice and ignored it: "I'll take you back first." ”

"Return?" Qin Yingwu felt a little confused, "Where are you going?"

"Kunlun. ”

As soon as the words fell, Qin Yingwu only felt that the world was turned upside down, and everything in front of him became blurred. Faintly, he seemed to see a large vertical pupil, emitting a light that seemed to be able to see everything.

It seems like a long time, and it seems like it's just a moment. Everything returned to normal, and Qin Yingwu was still standing in the bamboo house.

"This, what's wrong?" Qin Yingwu felt a hint of an unusual taste.

Yang Jian was still standing at the door, but his expression revealed a hint of solemnity.

"Good guy, it seems that this day has really changed. ”

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Exegesis:

Note (1): 巳日, which is the date method of the Chinese lunar calendar. There are a total of five in the day: Ji Si, Xin Si, Gui Si, Yi Si, and Ding Si.

The chronology of the sexagenary branch of the lunar calendar (lunar calendar) consists of A, B, C, and D...... Wait for the ten heavenly stems (stem: the meaning of the main and main stems, not the meaning of dryness) and the son, the ugly, and the yin...... The 12 earthly branches (each earthly branch corresponds to a genus) are correspondingly combined one by one, and because the least common multiple of 10 and 12 is 60, it is reincarnated every 60 years, and this chronology method was later also used for the month and day.

The sun is also represented by the rat, the ugly cow, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, etc...... The sub-hour is the time period from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., and then the two hours are in the back row, and so on.

Note (2): Princess Guantao: Concubine Liu, the first eldest princess of the Han Dynasty, the status is like a prince, one of the two daughters of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the only biological daughter of Empress Dou, the eldest princess, the only half-sister of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and the aunt, mother-in-law and sister-in-law of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Concubine was born in 189 BC, Fengyi in Guantao County, so called Guantao eldest princess, in the third year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty (177 BC) married the hereditary Liehou Tangyi Marquis (1,800 households) Chen Wu as his wife, also known as the eldest princess of Tangyi. When Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he named Liu Concubine as the chief princess of the Pavilion Tao, the only eldest princess of the Wen and Jing dynasties;

Chen Wu and Guantao have three children recorded, the eldest son Chen Xu (also known as Chen Jixu), the youngest son Chen Xuan married the sister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Princess Longxi, the youngest daughter is the first queen of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Chen Ajiao, and has a grandson who married Princess Yi'an, the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.