Chang'an, late autumn, blue clouds and autumn colors, jackdaws dotted, frost leaves reddish. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The courtyard of Chu Mansion is bleak and lonely, the fallen leaves are full of steps, and the place is red and yellow.

The cool autumn breeze into the house has lifted the spirit of the person who is working hard at the desk, and he writes more quickly, through the back of the paper. A pair of thick eyebrows tightly squeezed out the longitudinal grooves, he looked very anxious, and his pen was a little messy. He hurriedly wrote the letterhead, put it in an envelope, sealed it with red wax, and placed it in the center of the table, and his heart was as heavy as a big stone. He looked up at the window, all the dead branches and leaves, and his heart was indescribable.

There was a knock on the door, and he was shocked to spill half a cup of tea on the table. He hurriedly took the letter in his bosom and hurriedly called someone inside.

The person who came was covered with wind and dust, and before he had time to freshen up, he knelt down on one knee, shook off the dust on his back, and said bitterly: "My lord, the army has arrived, and the general has been defeated." ”

He was stunned and frightened, leaned back heavily, and kept repeating, as if asking himself and as if asking him, "Defeated?" Defeated! ”

The person who came hung his head and responded in a deep voice.

He half-recoiled and asked in a trembling voice, "What about the casualties?" ”

"Six or seven out of ten casualties, the general, he died in the city of Fubao."

Another bad news came, he stood up in disbelief, but fell on the desk because his legs were weak. When he looked up, his hair was slightly messy, the corners of his eyes were full of tears, his eyes were crimson, and he said in pain: "Big brother, dead?!" ”

He seemed to faint, the man hurriedly stepped forward to support his body, and before he could catch his breath, another person came to pay his respects: "My lord, the Pugong Gong sent a decree to the Holy Lord to urgently announce that you enter the palace to see the driver." ”

He was helped to sit down by someone who came and drank two sips of hot water to suppress his shock. He desperately smoothed out his chaotic thoughts, adjusting his rapid breathing. He slowed down, instructed his subordinates to take his official uniforms, waited for the subordinates to go out, and then took hands and said to the visitors: "If I have something to do, you go to Meng and Liu and ask them to find a way to protect my wife and children, especially the third lady, and to keep her life." He took out the letterhead from his bosom and stuffed it into his hand, pleading, "Send this letter to Jinling first, you wait for me at the palace gate, and if you make a mistake, remember to send this letter to Jinling's home." ”

The man solemnly put away the letterhead, clenched his fists at him, and bowed away.

Listening to the cry of the lonely goose in the distance, he suddenly held his face, hissed and exclaimed: "Big brother! ”

He rode into the house, and when he entered the door, he plunged into the study, exhausted physically and mentally, and all thoughts turned to ashes.

On the second day, the decree came from the court. Chu Zhonglian, the commander of the Tiansheng Army, was defeated and died in the battle of the interracial alliance, and his hereditary title was stripped of him, because he had never married a wife during his lifetime, had no wives and children, and had no family members who could be connected. The Jinling Chu clan was reprimanded, and his half-brother Chu Yilian was demoted three levels in a row and fined for three years.

Soon after the punishment was executed, Chu Yilian took a long sick leave, and his colleagues thought that he had given up on himself and wanted to give up his political future, but they did not know that he was indeed overly grieved and could not cope with the complicated official affairs of the government.

In the evening, he again refused to eat because of his pain, and every knock on the door was a great torture for his nerves, and he looked up sluggishly.

This time it was a woman of twenty-seven or eighteen years old. She was wearing a dignified but slightly old-fashioned jujube red flower shirt with large sleeves, obviously it was already night, and she was visiting her husband again, but she was still wearing gold hairpins and jade ornaments, her makeup seemed to be re-mended, and her gestures were full of the arrogance and solemnity of the clan ladies.

He looked at his wife, who had been living under the constraints of etiquette since she was a young man, and had become dull and serious, and sighed softly.

She rarely smiled, her face stiffened, and her expression blank. Every time the conversation between the two is like a routine between subordinates, there is almost no intimacy and banter between husband and wife, this boring life is unbearable even for Chu Yilian, but she has no complaints, and seems to be very happy.

She respectfully and indifferently asked him to make sure that he was in good health, to resume his diet, and quoted a lot of Confucian etiquette to persuade him, but he was tired of listening to it, and did not have the heart or strength to argue, so he drank a few sips of hot soup and ate a piece of shortbread, and then she showed a triumphant smile.

Not long after she left, Chu Yilian lay on the soft couch, but she didn't feel sleepy. In the drowsiness, a soft hand touched his cheek, and he held it backhand in surprise, and when he turned to look, he saw a worried face in the shadows.

"What are you doing again at such a late hour?" Chu Yilian sat up and carefully helped her to sit down, she held her belly that was about to be full-term, and sat on the edge of the bed with a gray cloth burden in her arms.

She is not dressed like the eldest lady Lu, only wearing plain clothes and skirts, wearing a beaded hairpin without wearing, a white flower inserted in her hair and temples, no powder, but still graceful and graceful, but she is sad and dressed, beautiful eyes, looking at him day by day like a day of worry, the shape of the bones, tears said: "How good are you like this, the eldest brother will not be at ease in the spirit of the sky." ”

Chu Yilian wiped her tears with pity, and said softly: "I'm fine, don't think nonsense, watch your body." ”

She lowered her head and took out a tablet from the gray burden and handed it to him: "I know what you think, the eldest brother was defeated and died tragically, in the end, he sacrificed his life for the country, but he annoyed the saint, and the Chu family did not dare to pay tribute, so I had to secretly send someone to make a tablet for the eldest brother, using his font size, and I didn't dare to write the name, let's put it in the house and pay tribute quietly, and it can be regarded as a little heart." ”

Chu Yilian looked at the words on the tablet, moved to tears, he held it in his arms, and choked up: "Qiao'er, you are the only one in this world who understands me best, which makes me not know how to be grateful." ”

She softly soothed her husband's sadness, and thoughtfulness rushed into his cold limbs like warm water. The two of them leaned quietly on each other under the lamp, like a lonely boat perched on the stormy waves.

Chu Yilian's vacation was only a few days off, and he was specially recruited to return to the court, and he returned late at night after discussing matters for several days. On this day, it was another unitary hour, and there was no sound of carriages and horses. Lu didn't bother to wait for him to come back, and after eating alone in the house, he changed his clothes and listened to the girls in the house laugh and relieve his boredom.

At the end of the day, the second lady Jiang Mulan hurriedly ran into the house, stroked her chest and said in fright: "Madam, the third sister is about to give birth." ”

Lu Shi stood up unhurriedly, glanced at her as if reproached, and said in a deep voice: "What are you panicking, call the midwife, the mother-in-law and girls in the house are all ready-made, hot water, cloth, and medicinal herbs are all available at home, just ask them to use it." Aren't you unborn and worth all the fuss? ”

Jiang Mulan's face flushed, she hung her head shyly, because she was in a hurry to run, she inhaled a few breaths of cool air, and she coughed out of breath.

"Alright, alright." Lu Shi waved his hand impatiently, "Hurry back to the house and rest, you sick beauty, you are really useless." ”

Jiang Mulan lowered her voice in frustration and covered her mouth and nose. As soon as she took a step, her face suddenly turned pale, because she heard a ruthless taunt from the Lu family behind her, "It's strange that you can't even keep a son." She trembled and coughed, like a wall about to collapse, and walked away tremblingly.

Several experienced mothers-in-law in the house received the order and entered Bai Qiao's room one after another. The girl woke up the midwife who was sleeping soundly in the side room, and pulled her to rush into the hospital.

Lu Shi assigned the task and returned to the house to rest. A few young and vigorous little girls were ignorant and chewed their tongues in front of her: "It's just that a concubine has a child, so that the whole house can't live in peace." ”

The steady Mama Ren stopped them and stopped: "What do you girls know, Madame just cares about the face of the master." She blew the brewed lemon honey tea cold and handed it to Lu, who nodded slightly. She immediately added to the snake, and proposed: "Madame, why don't you go to the third lady's room to sit in the third lady's room later, or pretend to be in front of the master." Let the lord also see your generosity, Madame. ”

Hearing this, Lu Shi turned cold, squinted at her and said, "Like words?" I have a main room to take care of a concubine and give birth. She's something. I am a young lady from the Gu family in Luoyang, she is just a country girl in Shunan, she knows a few words, can play a few songs, and make a few poems, so she will be fascinated by the old man. If the luck is bad, it is the life of the Qinglou prostitute. The old man is confused, I am not confused, I can still be afraid of her, which makes her more and more proud, and I don't know who I am. ”

The old lady was suddenly silent, and several girls who were watching showed smug expressions.

Lu put down the tea bowl and began to admonish everyone again: "Don't forget that you are all people around me, you always give me a chest and a head up, don't let that fox feel that the master is facing her, she really regards herself as the master." As long as I'm here for a day, I'll have the final say in this family except for the master. What's more, this is a family affair between the two patriarchs, he Chu Yilian dares to have a little bit of not staying with me, that is, he is not filial, not only the Chu family can't tolerate him, but my Gu family will not settle things. ”

The girls immediately took out a fierce look, as if they were going to fight with someone when they went out.

After two moments, Lu's sleepiness struck, and he was about to go to bed with the support of the girl, and the little maid outside the door suddenly reported urgently, she thought that her husband was back, and she didn't care, and asked a few words lazily, but the little maid replied: "Madam, the eldest lady came back from the palace today." ”

When Lu Shi heard this, he immediately got out of bed and asked with mixed feelings: "Do you know what is going on, how to come back in a good manner." ”

"I heard that it was a happy event, but the little ones didn't know what it was, so they didn't dare to talk nonsense." The little guy replied.

Lu Shixi said: "Quickly call someone to go outside the house to greet you." ”

The little maid had to be ordered to leave, and she urged the maids to quickly wait for her to change her clothes, and personally greeted her at the door. After a cup of tea, the carriage came slowly, and the first to get off the carriage was a woman in brocade clothes who was over fifty years old, fat and rich, with reddish skin and a red hairpin.

As soon as Lu Shi saw her, he immediately changed into a smiling and welcoming attitude, and hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and said kindly: "Mama Zhuo, how dare you bother to come in person." ”

Mama Zhuo was thoughtful for a few weeks, and congratulated: "Madame personally greeted me this big night, which tormented me." Congratulations to Madame, Miss was chosen by Gu Guifei as Princess Liyun's companion. ”

Lu Shi Daxi took her hand and invited her into the room affectionately.

Mama Zhuo repeatedly humbly refused to sit with her, but it was difficult for the Lu family to resist her kindness, so she dared to sit next to her.

Chu's eldest lady Chu Yunlian entered the house surrounded by everyone, she was only eight years old, but she had already faded away from the shyness and immaturity of her female companions of the same age, and was used to appearing in front of various distinguished adults, she inherited the excellent appearance of her parents, Dan lead, dyed and curved eyebrows, hands like soft wattles, and Yan Ru Shunhua, but she also followed her mother's stereotypical and serious character, not angry, not smiling, not angry, not disliking, and always implementing various standard etiquette step by step, like a delicate peony carved on a vase, although it is ingenious, enough to be true, But she lacks the aura and freshness of Du Dan that blooms on the flower branches, and loses the innocence, liveliness, gentleness and amiability of girls of the same age due to her premature maturity and sophistication.

But Lu Shi is very satisfied with the masterpiece she has taught, and a perfect lady should be like her daughter, reserved and polite, and not smiling.

Lu looked at his daughter with a look of relief, folding her hands and saluting, although she was not very old, she seemed to be a qualified young lady of the Shi clan.

Mama Zhuo was also full of praise for Chu Yunlian: "This is the grace of the noble concubine and the creation of our young lady." Princess Lishui was punished a few days ago for the homework done by the eldest lady, and the concubine took a fancy to the eldest lady's literary talent, and after seeing it, she liked it even more, so she chose to be Princess Liyun's companion. That day, the prince happened to enter the palace to greet the concubine and concubine, and smiled and asked the eldest lady to go to the East Palace. The concubine is also interested, but the prince is still young. Although the concubine didn't let go of the words, the lady also had to plan early. ”

Lu Shi nodded, silently staring at his daughter sitting opposite. Chu Yunlian also understood what the two of them meant, and looked down at the side in shame.

Mama Zhuo looked at Chu Yunlian kindly, and sighed: "Sending the eldest lady back to meet her parents temporarily this time can be regarded as my last contribution for the Gu family." The concubine has allowed me to return to my hometown for the elderly, even if the eldest lady will be crowned a phoenix in the future, I won't see it. ”

Chu Yunlian seemed to be pondering, and lowered his head and was silent.

Lu Shi thanked gratefully: "Thanks to Mama Zhuo's help and care over the years, Yunlian is here today, if she really has the life to enjoy this blessing in the future, she will naturally not dare to forget your care." ”

She glanced at the maid beside her, and the maid immediately held a box. She took it and handed it to Mama Zhuo, and thanked: "Be careful, it is also Yunlian's filial piety to your pension money, you must accept it." ”

Mama Zhuo pretended to excuse herself, but she still accepted it, and when she took it, she happily rubbed the lacquer surface of the box, obviously very satisfied with Lu's intentions.

Lu was about to entertain Mama Zhuo for some supper, when he preached outside the house: "The master is back." ”

Mama Zhuo stood up and was about to go to greet Chu Yilian, but the little maid said: "I'm afraid it's inconvenient to go at this time, as soon as the master enters the door, he goes to the third lady's room in the east." ”

She glanced at Lu Shi with a little surprise, and Lu Shi sneered: "Today, Bai Buckwheat is in production, and I haven't heard any movement for a while. ”

Mama Zhuo said "oh" and sat back down. Lu Shi poured her a glass of water with some embarrassment, and seeing that Chu Yunlian was slightly displeased, he hurriedly ordered the maid to take the young lady back to the room to sleep.

After Chu Yunlian left, Mama Zhuo pondered for a moment and smacked her lips: "Is Lord Chu still like that?" ”

She was referring to the snub of the Lu family. Lu Shi took a sip of tea and did not answer, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

Mama Zhuo Yin Yin persuaded: "Madame can't go on like this, although she is not as good as Madame's background, but her husband is blindly partial, it is inevitable that she will have no fear and have the heart to harm you." ”

"Not really." Lu Shi said confidently, "Besides, what if she gets the master's heart." Mother is precious by child, if my family Yunlian can marry into the East Palace in the future, it will be a supreme honor. What's more, the Chu family has already cut off the title, even if she gives birth to a son, how much can she make waves. ”

"Lord Chu, there is something wrong with this, this time there is such a big thing in the Chu family, and the Lu family has also helped a lot, how can he be so ungrateful." Mama Zhuo said angrily.

Lu Shi said indifferently: "I don't point to him, I just hope that my daughter can fight for me." ”

The two were talking about something private, and someone knocked on the door again, and Lu Shi was a little displeased.

The maid at the door replied respectfully: "Madam, it's the slave Wanting." ”

Lu recognized the maid's voice, coughed, and ordered her to enter the door. Mama Zhuo looked up and saw that it was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, with fleshy cheeks, obviously not open, and speaking quite quickly, as if she was very nervous and afraid.

Hearing that Bai Qiao was born, Lu didn't think it mattered, but Zhuo Mama asked anxiously, "Is it a man or a woman?" ”

"The third lady has added another daughter to the master. The name has also been chosen, Yun Zi generation, following the name of the third young master. tides, hence the name cloud tide. Wanting replied tremblingly.

Mama Zhuo smiled, but Lu Shi still tasted tea calmly and sneered: "His favorite has not been able to add Ding to him, it seems that he is destined to have no children." ”

"That's right." Mama Zhuo said in a strange manner, "The second lady is also stupid, she finally gave birth to a baby son, and she was able to make him sick and die." It's fate. Let's just say that the queen mother, who was a battlefield woman back then, a tiger girl in the door, what the emperor loves is like something, her body has always been healthy, and she often dances and plays guns. She pursed her lips, looking unaccustomed to it, "It's not okay to have a child, it's just a daughter." In the end, this position of prince can only be done by the son of the noble concubine. That's fate. ”

Lu Shi glanced around and asked in a low voice, "Is the queen mother dying?" ”

"It's been a few days." Mama Zhuo snorted, "I heard that she can't move when she lies on the bed, and she doesn't know how to maintain it, and she is noisy and tired." The emperor hasn't been there for a few days, and he is probably tired of it. The little princess was also born prematurely, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive this winter. ”

The Lu family was inexplicably heavy, and sighed and said: "That's not the little affection of those husbands, the Qi family helped the emperor ascend the throne, how Xuanhe was back then, and now he has also fallen." The queen mother is the same as the one in our house, her son died, and the sadness of being a father was thrown away in a few days, and she would only surround that fox. ”

Mama Zhuo answered curiously: "This family surnamed Bai is evil. Bai Qiao's brother Bai Biao is also a world-famous talent, the emperor specially recruited him to his side, he didn't know how to be grateful for the grace of God, entered the Hanlin Academy, drank all day long, and made disrespectful remarks, and the paintings of the masters of the Painting Academy were worthless. Every day, he not only writes graffiti, but also writes some cynical and crooked poems, which chokes several popular people in the DPRK and China. If it weren't for the emperor's corporal Lixian, Xuexuanzong would have returned the gold he had given. He would have been in prison a long time ago. Where is there a good day for white buckwheat. ”

"I've seen this person." Lu Shi said angrily, "It's just a madman who doesn't know the height of the sky." On the day he left, the lord sent him off kindly, but he didn't even understand the sophistication of human feelings, and he actually made a lot of nonsense in front of the other send-offs, and said that the people of the Chu family were scheming, calculating, full of benevolence and morality on the surface, and full of male thieves and prostitutes. When you heard him say this, you scolded your own sister too. The old man only thinks that he is used to being crazy on weekdays, and does not care about him in general, but I am angry, and I only hate that he did not speak a lesson that day, so that he was so slandered. ”

Mama Zhuo comforted her a few words, and said with a smile: "But a few girls around me like him to be tight." He is also a strange person, and the people who hate him shout at him in the street, and there are many people who like him. Didn't Princess Hanjiang praise him? ”

"How has the princess been?" Lu asked, "I've been sick for almost half a year." I haven't heard that it will be better, and it should be back up again to greet the greetings. ”

Mama Zhuo sighed regretfully: "I heard that it is getting worse and worse. Her Royal Highness the princess is a rare kind-hearted person in the palace, and she is a compatriot of Her Majesty's mother. “

The Lu family also sighed, and Zhuo Mama remembered it and reminded: "Speaking of preparing for the gift, the lady should really back up the gift and send it to the lady concubine." Yesterday just reported the good news, the brother of the lady concubine Niangniang got another daughter, please give the name of the mother, and now I heard that the name has been taken, the big name is Lin Yueyuan. ”

"Look at Lin Chang's blessing, he had a son the year before last, and he got a daughter this year. It's like someone. Lu Shi laughed teasingly.

"That's what it means to have both children. Madame is still young, and there will be opportunities in the future. Mama Zhuo laughed.

Lu Shi sneered, waved his hand and said, "That's it." I don't have that life. Bai Qiao is also not angry, if she can give birth to a male fetus, she begs the master to enter the palace to ask the concubine for this family matter, and she will have another backer in the future. ”

Mama Zhuo sneered and said, "Yo, even if it's not her turn." Concubine Niangniang's eyes are high, and people want to marry Gu Guifei's mother's family, the Gu family. ”

She peeled the tangerines for the Lu family, and Lu Shiqian smiled: "This is a wise move, although she has a son, she was born a cripple, although the Lin family is also a famous family in Shunan, in the end, it is a southern scholar family, and it is far away and cannot be taken care of." Where can it compare to the prominent Luoyang Gu family. With the death of the Qi family, the Gu family will be the dominant one in the future. I don't know which son of the Gu family this young lady of the Lin family is set? ”

"Not really." Mama Zhuo felt that this tangerine was very sweet, and she peeled one of her mouths, and said with a smile, "It's the eldest son of the Lin family." It was the daughter of Lord Gu Chen's family. ”

Lu Shi suddenly couldn't help but laugh and said, "This Lord Gu is actually a thin heir like our master. He also has a lot of concubines, but I haven't heard of anyone who added a son to him, a distant sister in my family, is a concubine, married him to fill the house, as soon as he returned to his parents' house, he cried and cried, I heard that he is also a strange person, Gu's such a big family business, he as Gu's eldest son is a dime, he is good to outsiders, but to the family is a stingy reward, my sister doesn't even have a decent jewelry, she wears a dowry at home. But the saint also praised him for being diligent, thrifty and honest, saying that he was a model for hundreds of officials. ”

The two laughed for a while. Soon Mama Ren came over and replied: "Madam, I have arranged for the young lady to go back to the original room to live." The satin for the young lady has been prepared, and she will bring it to the lady for her to see. If you need to prepare something for the young lady to bring into the palace, you have to ask the lady to show it. On the third lady's side, the lord had already sent the midwife away, and the money was also ordered to be paid to the account. The lord wants to rest at the third lady's side tonight, no one can persuade him, and he is not afraid of being unlucky in the maternity room. also said that the third lady added a young lady over there, and she wanted to increase the price for a few more months, and bought a new girl named Luochun from the outside and added it to the room over there. ”

Mama Zhuo was secretly speechless when she heard this, Lu Shi was slightly angry, and said with a calm face: "He has never asked about these trivial things, just for her." ”

Mama Ren didn't say anything when she saw Lu, so she got up and wanted to retreat. Lu Shi suddenly stopped her and asked sharply, "Let me ask you, does the eldest lady know about today's matter?" ”

Mama Ren saw that her face was wrong, and replied carefully: "I have already returned to the master." ”

"What did he say?" Lu asked.

Mama Ren shook her head: "The master only said that he knew, and didn't say much." ”

"Didn't you say you wanted to take a look?" Lu Shi continued to ask.

Mama Ren was silent, her eyes drifted away, and she didn't dare to look at her.

Mama Zhuo sighed and said, "It's all my own blood, why don't you be so biased." ”

Lu Shi straightened his back fearlessly and snorted coldly: "I want to see how worthy of treasure this daughter born by the Bai family is!" ”

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Mama Zhuo hurriedly changed the topic, and it happened that several maids brought the satin she wanted over to show her, and their eyes shifted to the exquisite cloth.

Mama Zhuo is also well-informed in the palace, and she has seen many rare and exotic treasures, especially Shu Jin Wu Aya. But these silk horses were not the patterns and colors she usually saw, and they felt smoother to the touch. She couldn't put it down and looked at it over and over again, looking like she had opened her eyes.

Lu Shi introduced with some pride: "This is the silk produced in Hangzhou Mingbi Villa. Their family's silk was quite famous in Hangzhou, but it was not an imperial merchant. Therefore, the silk in the palace is not in such a style. ”

Mama Zhuo touched it carefully and couldn't help but praise: "I have seen a lot of silk in Hangzhou, but the silk produced in this Mingbi Villa is really special." ”

Lu smiled generously: "It's not worth anything, there are a lot of them in the family, all of which are honored by the juniors of the master's family in Jinling, if my grandmother likes me, I will pick a few batches of good ones to give to you." ”

Mama Zhuo thanked her again and again, and said regretfully: "This Hangzhou Chen Zhen's family has also been a businessman for several generations, and he is a wealthy businessman who is famous in the south of the Yangtze River, so why don't you want to do business here?" ”

"It's not because there's no one in the court." Lu's words broke the sky, Chen Zhen's only son also died last year, leaving a posthumous son or a girl. He often went to Chang'an to make friends before his death, and he also visited my master, but it was just a nodding acquaintance, just acquaintance. In fact, Chen Zhen's family is not clueless, the righteous daughter adopted by Chen Zhen is Lin Chang's wife, and the two families are real in-laws. ”

Mama Zhuo was puzzled: "Then I have never heard of it." If the people of Chen Zhen's family send these good things to Concubine Shu, and Concubine Shuniang tells the emperor again, it is not easy to become an imperial businessman. ”

"I don't know." Lu Shi said coldly, "Maybe the two families are in-laws on the surface, just like the Gu Chu family, the master has never taken the Gu family seriously." A few of my brothers came to visit, and he just entertained him casually. It's better to be enthusiastic about Bai Qiao's unsuccessful brother. ”

"Lord Chu is too unsympathetic to do this." Mama Zhuo complained.

Lu's complaint was interrupted by the little girl, and it turned out that Chu Yilian invited her over. Mama Zhuo got up to say goodbye, and when she left, she also told her that although she was the wife of the Chu family, her mother's family was powerful, and she was not very afraid, but her husband's heart still had to be snatched, after all, the husband was the wife, so why should she live under one roof like an enemy.

Lu Shi also felt very bored, although he and her husband were the orders of their parents, but Chu Yilian was wise and beautiful, and Ya Huai, even if she was always cold and serious, it was inevitable that she would not have feelings of admiration. She was moved by what she said, and when she saw him, she smiled a little more, and her words softened a lot.

But as soon as Chu Yilianfu opened her mouth, she was white buckwheat, hoping that she would fulfill her responsibilities as a master mother and take care of their mother and daughter more. Lu Shideng's face changed, and his tone became much stiffer. She listened to him with a cold face, and reluctantly agreed.

Chu Yilian's favorite concubine gave birth to a daughter, and he originally wanted to celebrate it and wash away the grief of the family in recent days. But unfortunately, on the second day, the death knell in the city sounded like a shocking thunder. The queen and Princess Hanjiang both died, the emperor dismissed, all the ministers mourned, and the singing, dancing and music were all canceled. Chu Yilian's long-lost joy was ruthlessly annihilated. The entire Chang'an City was suddenly filled with a white mourning. Only the maple leaves in the city are as red as blood, as if they have been turned into flames by suppressed grief and indignation, as if they want to burn heaven and earth to ashes along with the ugly world.