In the first year of the vertical arch, Liu Ren, who won the favor of the first emperor, was in Chang'an, Wu Sansi was appointed as the secretary of the military department in Luoyang, the capital of the gods, and Wu Chenghei was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the three products of Fengge Luantai, two cousins, one literary and one martial, and held the heavy power of the court. In the same year, Concubine Dou De gave birth to Lin'er for the saint Li Dan, and the Queen Mother was overjoyed and named her Li Longji.

It is two years old, and there is no snow in winter. There is a vision in the sky, and there are rumors that this is the dictatorship of the current queen mother, which angers the heavens.

In the first month of the third year of the vertical arch, the queen mother was crowned king for the three sons of the saint, Li Longji was the king of Chu, Li Longfan was the king of Wei, and Li Longye was the king of Zhao. In the spring of the same year, the world □□, and it was said that there was a hen in Jizhou that turned into a rooster overnight, which was ominous from the sky. Sure enough, in July of this year, before the famine had passed, news of the earthquake came from Beijing in July.

Princess Taiping has settled in Chang'an in recent years, and occasionally went to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, to visit her mother and live for a month or two. At the time of the earthquake in Beijing, Princess Taiping was also in Chang'an, and the earthquake destroyed tens of thousands of houses, and Princess Taiping's mansion also affected places.

This year, Yongchang princess Li Chen was in her teens, and Song Jing was twenty-two years old, and the two had been married for five years and had no children.

Speaking of Princess Yongchang and Song Jing, whether it is in Chang'an, Beijing, or Luoyang, the capital of God, everyone knows this talented and beautiful couple very well.

Princess Yongchang frequently goes back and forth between Jingshi and Shendu, who knows that it is for Master Wuyun in Lingyin Temple, but not only Master Wuyun, but also the British Duke Li Jingye who used to be in the frontier, and now the British Duke has recalled Luoyang, and the princess has stayed in Luoyang for more time than before.

As for the concubine Song Jing, there is nothing to say, the concubine Song Jing served as the imperial historian in the imperial history platform, although he has not risen to a level for several years, but everyone knows that the queen mother is relying more and more on the concubine. The horse people are good at everything, they are upright, and they have a decent style, and the powerful people in the court have to pay three points to Song Jing when they see the horse, and even Xue Huaiyi, the most favored White Horse Temple host of the Queen Mother, saw Song Jing, and they were very respectful, and nodded very politely. After all, Song Jing, who is not afraid of shadows, is full-time to find faults, although he is now in the imperial history and does not need to find faults in person, but if there is any trouble, he is also very close to the people below. Whether it is the people of Jingshi or Shendu, they all like this horse very much, but they like it, but they can't help but feel a little regretful.

Why?

Because of the rumor that the concubine Song Jing is a good man, in the past few years, many people have seen the concubine with a bright moon Langjun more than once, and the two walked together, although there was no intimate action, but just the moment when their eyes intertwined, it could make others blush very much. It's just that the bright moon Langjun's gaze when he looked at the horse was too gentle, and the horse was also very conniving to the bright moon Langjun, which really blinded the eyes of passers-by.

But passers-by have to admit that Mingyue Langjun looks really good, like a person who has walked out of a painting, which is unforgettable at first sight.

Every time he brought him out, he looked like he was some kind of treasure, and he didn't want others to take a second look.

Over the years, many people have openly and secretly sent many young men with a temperament similar to Mingyue Langjun to the horses, but they have all been returned by the horses intact. Hearing that they couldn't be retreated, the horses handed them over to the steward of the princess's mansion, and when the steward saw those feminine-looking little langjun, the princess was angry before he got angry.

What kind of teenager with a temperament similar to Mingyue Langjun?

Bastard thing!

In a fit of rage, the steward sent them all to sweep the floor, move bricks and cut down trees out of the Princess's sight, so that they would not have a chance to come out and hang in front of the Princess and the ponies.

is still the same sentence, those things of the royal nobles have always been said by the people of Jingshi and Shendu without eating or drinking for three days and three nights.

At this moment, Princess Yongchang was walking in the garden with her mother Wu Zetian in the palace.

Since Wu Zetian arrived in Luoyang from Chang'an five years ago, he has not returned to Chang'an. Li Chen couldn't figure out why, in short, Wu Zetian didn't mention that he wanted to go back to Chang'an.

When Li Zhi was alive, because Wu Zetian didn't like to stay in Chang'an for a long time, he would sometimes go to Luoyang for a few months, but Chang'an was still the political center. By the time of Wu Zetian, Chang'an, the capital division, lost its former status, and many ministers who were not favored by Wu Zetian were left in Chang'an to dry, while Luoyang surpassed Chang'an and became the political center.

"A-Niang, the earthquake in Beijing, Sister A's princess's mansion seems to have been affected, I want to go back to Beijing." Li Chen took his mother's hand and walked slowly on the garden path.

Today's Wu Zetian has already passed the age of sixties, when Li Zhi died, she was already sixty years old, and now Li Zhi has died for several years, but Wu Zetian's appearance looks about fifty or so, very young. Of course, it is said that this has something to do with the fact that the Queen Mother is good at grooming her appearance and refining pills for youth.

When Wu Zetian heard Li Chen's words, he was already surprised.

In the past few years, Li Chen has to go back to Chang'an at every turn, sometimes to see Taiping, sometimes to Lingyin Temple to pray for blessings, and sometimes to say that he wants to go back to Buxian Garden, and wants to go to Lishan, for a variety of reasons, in short, it is a small god Luoyang, and he can't keep Princess Yongchang.

Wu Zetian: "Even if the princess mansion in Taiping collapses, there are people to deal with it, what can you do if you go over?" ”

Li Chen bent his big eyes, "I'm happy to have passed, Sister!" ”

Wu Zetian had a straight face, "But my mother is not happy, Luoyang can't pretend to be you, do you have to run to Chang'an twice in three days?" ”

Li Chen blinked, looked at his mother, and said very innocently: "But Yongchang grew up in Chang'an since he was a child, I made a wish in Lingyin Temple last year, I wish my mother good health and all the best." Now that a year has passed, Yongchang has got his wish, and he should go to the Buddha to make a vow. ”

Wu Zetian looked at the little daughter beside him angrily, she had been a little unruly with this daughter in the past, and now it is the same.

Wu Zetian is taking a deviant road, all the way through the thorns and thorns, there is no one close to him, Taiping because of the decline to Xue Shao, now Wu Zetian is suppressing the power of the Li clan, so Taiping is also a relative. Xue Shao stayed in Chang'an because of Taiping, and also stayed in Chang'an, no matter how Wu Zetian is, it is impossible to completely ignore the affairs of Chang'an, as a very long-standing political center, the affairs of Chang'an are also very important. Today's royal nobles, the roots are all in Chang'an, so Wu Zetian thought about it, and let Xue Shao stay in Chang'an Taichang Temple, which was originally an idle job, and he usually had nothing to do, Xue Shao went to Taichang Temple when he wanted to deal with business, and stayed in the princess's mansion when he was fine. What Xue Shao did and who he interacted with is clear at a glance.

Wu Zetian's heart is like a mirror, how can he not understand Taiping's intentions.

It's cold in the heights.

Wu Zetian has a resolute temperament and is decisive in killing, even if he usually does not have the touch of high and cold, but occasionally, he also wants to find someone who can speak. She raised a bunch of teenagers, and Xue Huaiyi was the one she liked the most, but whether it was those teenagers or Xue Huaiyi, for the Queen Mother, it was like a ceramic doll, and it was okay to use it for recreation and fun.

The only person around me who can talk is this little daughter. But her temperament is sometimes too unwilling to be lonely, and she runs out at every turn. A few years ago, she let her go out to travel, she actually ran to Huainan Road, the stronghold of the Yangzhou rebellion, and was later brought back by Song Jing, who was sent to Yangzhou, and was about to reprimand her, she bent her eyes and took out a few bottles of fragrant pills, saying that she met the alchemy master in her travels and asked for the pills, which were difficult to find in the world, and she brought them back to her mother.

When Wu Zetian heard this, his heart softened again.

As long as it is not some principled mistakes, she has always been fierce to Yongchang's little daughter.

The queen mother is soft-hearted, and the concubine also follows the princess's temperament, resulting in the princess becoming more and more unable to stay in Luoyang, until this year, the queen mother will recall Li Jingye in the frontier to Luoyang, she has stayed in Luoyang for a long time. But when the Queen Mother thought of the reason why the princess had spent more time in Luoyang this year than before, she was worried again.

The youngest daughter, like her father, is a lover. But she is a princess after all, she has been married to Song Jing for more than five years, and now she has no children.

The Queen Mother looked at Li Chen and was saddened.

When Song Jing first entered the career, he was an out-and-out mallet, and now several years have passed, and he is still a mallet occasionally, but he is young enough to take charge of himself.

Wu Zetian can give Song Jing power, give him glory and wealth, but Song Jing himself does not resist these things, but he is principled.

Therefore, Wu Zetian very much hopes that Li Chen can give birth to a child for Song Jing, and once the husband and wife have offspring, they will have an inseparable bond.

Wu Zetian remembered that when he told Shangguan Wan'er two days earlier that Li Chen and Song Jing had not yet had children, Shangguan Wan'er reminded the Queen Mother very vaguely that it was probably not because of the princess's physical problems, but that the princess and the concubine were often not in the same place, and there were probably some difficulties.

Wu Zetian looked at his daughter beside him and thought about it, □□ this year, Luoyang is in a lighter situation because the land and water routes are the same. There are more people living in Chang'an than in Luoyang, and all the food is provided by Guanzhong, and the situation is very serious. Wu Zetian remembered that in the past, as long as Li Jingye was there, Li Chen would be escorted by Li Jingye wherever he went, his brows frowned slightly, and the idea that he was still a little hesitant became a certainty.

"Chang'an earthquake, I am intending to let Song Jing go back to preside over the overall situation, since you also want to go back to Chang'an, go back with him."

After finishing speaking, the Queen Mother glanced at the princess meaningfully, "Yongchang, no matter how much your mother protects you, you should think about some things." As soon as she said this, the Queen Mother was even more worried, her two daughters, Taiping seemed to be addicted to giving birth to children, and now she has given birth to four sons and a daughter for Xue Shao, last year when Taiping's daughter was one year old, the Queen Mother was happy, and the daughter of Princess Taiping was named the county lord. And Yongchang has been married for more than five years, and there is no news at all.

Li Chen met his mother's gaze, was slightly stunned, and then laughed, "Well, I know that A-Niang loves me, and I won't let A-Niang down." ”

Wu Zetian wanted to say a few more words to her, but seeing her smiling and very obedient to her mother, he gave up again.

The Queen Mother thought: Forget it, hasn't this little daughter always been like this? When she thinks that she has reached her mother's bottom line, she will do it obediently, although she is very unwilling.

At the end of summer of another year, a carriage swirled past a wine shop outside Chang'an City, and a Lang Jun dressed in plain clothes got out of the carriage, opened the curtain and entered the wine shop, and asked the shopkeeper for a pot of bamboo leaves.

The shopkeeper looked at the young man Lang Jun in front of him, and secretly screamed in his heart, feeling that this Lang Jun was really handsome, with his eyebrows in his temples, his eyes like stars, and a moist feeling.

When others praise a person for his good looks and gentle temperament, they will probably say that he is as warm as jade, but the shopkeeper feels that Lang Jun in front of him also has a sense of warmth, but he is very paradoxical and has a sense of coldness.

Xiao Er had already gone in and fetched a pot of bamboo leaf green, and the shopkeeper smiled and handed over a pot of bamboo leaf green to the other party, and said casually: "Lang Jun is so familiar, but he used to come often?" ”

The young man showed a not-so-obvious smile on his face, and said politely: "The shopkeeper has a good memory, I did come to drink in the past, but it was several years ago. ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that he could say a casual word by mistake, and he could still hit it crookedly, and just as he was about to speak, the young man had already gone out with a wine jug.

The young man got into the carriage, and the woman in the purple narrow-sleeved skirt on the carriage glanced at each other playfully, and said in a mocking tone: "You pass by here to get a pot of bamboo leaf green, when can you change it?" ”

These two people are Song Jing and Li Chen, who returned to Chang'an from Luoyang.

In the past five years, Song Jing's mallet temperament has faded, and his appearance has faded from some of the youthful sharpness he once had, and he looks more handsome, but his temperament has changed beyond recognition. At least, Li Chen felt that Song Jing, who could talk about the general trend of the world in front of his mother, was no longer the same as the out-and-out mallet back then.

Song Jing put away the pot of bamboo leaf green that he had just played, and then went to Li Chen's side, and as soon as he stretched out his long arm, he took her into his arms, "Well, I'm afraid I can't change it, what?" Do you dislike it? ”

Li Chen stared at the plain fabric in front of him and said with a smile: "Of course I dislike it, I don't like it." ”

Song Jing was not annoyed, and stretched out his hand to rub her cheek slightly, "There is no way to dislike it, you can't change another colt." ”

Li Chen laughed, tired all the way, and felt a little tired. From Luoyang to Chang'an, the more you go to Guanzhong, the more hungry people there are, all of them are yellow and thin, which is really unbearable to look at anymore. Li Chen remembered the homeless and hungry people he saw in Huainan Road, and he was already shocked at that time, but now that he has come this way, he feels that he was a small witch at the beginning.

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