Chapter 71: A Peach Blossom Dream

In March, it is the time when the peach blossoms bloom.

In the lush peach blossom forest, pink, white, and peach-colored flowers are intertwined one by one, and when the wind blows, they sway, like the skirts of a dancing girl, and some scattered petals fall down with the wind.

"Wait a minute, you have petals on your head, I'll take them off for you."

There are two eight-year-old children under the peach blossom tree, the boy is wearing a jade-white brocade dress, with a transparent jade jade pendant of Liuyun Baibat around his waist, and his facial features are delicate and handsome. The girl next to her, wearing a peach-colored cardigan and a white embroidered pleated skirt, had a young and fair face, her black eyes blinked at the boy opposite, her long black hair was tied with a pink headband, and a few strands of black hair naturally fell on her shoulders, and a few pink petals fell on it. The boy leaned over to pluck the petals for her, and the girl stood quietly with a smile on her face.

"Look, petals!" The boy triumphantly showed her the petals in his hand.

"They're so beautiful!" The girl said, staring at the patches of pink.

"No, you're better looking than them!" The boy said to her without thinking, his eyes full of seriousness.

The girl looked at him and giggled, and the boy didn't understand what she was laughing at when he saw her smiling like this, and couldn't help but blush in embarrassment, "Yun'er, what are you laughing at?" ”

The girl shook her head, pursed her mouth and stopped smiling, and looked at him with a crimson face, "Brother Haotian, I heard my father and mother say last night that they wanted me to be your crown princess, do you say okay?" ”

The boy tilted his head and thought for a moment, "What is the crown princess?" ”

The girl didn't know what to say, "The crown princess who has become Brother Haotian is just like the queen mother and the emperor, or my father and mother, Yun'er is the wife of Brother Haotian!" ”

"Wife? So can we play together more often in the future? The boy asked excitedly thinking about the appearance of the queen mother and father on weekdays.

"yes, then we can be together every day!"

"So can I come to the palace every day to look for you?"

The girl thought for a while, "It should be that I am going to the palace to find you, my father said that I have become the crown princess, and I can enter the palace to play with you every day!" ”

The boy pouted in disappointment, "The palace is boring, it's big and not fun. ”

When the girl saw him like this, she said, "Since the palace is not fun, I won't go to the palace, as long as I play with Brother Haotian." ”

"Hmmm! Then we won't enter the palace! The boy returned to his original form, and his eyes were smiling like stars.

"Does Brother Haotian like Yun'er?"

"I like it!"

"Then you just like Yun'er alone, can't you?"

"Of course, I'm just going to play with you right now!"

"Then I only like Yun'er, okay?"

"Hmm...... Anyway, no one will be better than Yun'er, so I just like Yun'er! ”

The peach blossoms were still floating in the wind, falling on the tips of the two of them's hair, and they no longer bothered to pick off those petals, but just chased and played under the peach blossom tree to their heart's content.

It is still the season of peach blossoms, and ten spring and autumn seasons have passed. Under the peach blossom tree, the two little boys and little girls were no longer seen running, but instead there was a beautiful young man like a crown of jade and a beautiful girl like a hibiscus out of the water, and the two sat back to back under the peach blossom tree.

"Yun'er, my father said that he would choose a concubine for me tomorrow."

"Well, tomorrow I will definitely go to participate in the concubine selection competition, I will take the first place and become the crown princess of Brother Haotian!"

The agreement under the peach blossom tree eventually flew away with the wind like a peach blossom, not that the flowers were going to fall, but that the wind was coming.

The next day, the eyes were full of gorgeously dressed women, the red silk cloth was spread from the stage to the stage, and the men stood under the eaves in splendid costumes, looking for the familiar figure among the many women. But until the end of the concubine selection, he didn't wait for her.

In Changwang's Mansion, the woman was wearing a green emerald smoke shirt and a white gauze skirt with scattered flowers and mist, and she was full of joy to go to the peach blossom appointment, but was stopped in the room by a man with a serious face and a mustache.

"You're going to participate in the crown prince's election of concubines?"

"yes, didn't Daddy want me to go a long time ago?" The woman looked at him with some confusion.

"My father has changed his mind now, and you are not allowed to go!" The man said with a straight face.

"Why? The daughter has already told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that her daughter is going to become the crown princess! When the woman heard this, she was so anxious that tears came out of her eyes.

"Anyway, don't go! From now on, you have nothing to do with the crown prince! The man brushed his sleeves and left, and ordered the woman to be locked in the room.

The woman begged bitterly in the room, but after all, there was no effect, and the tears flowed out, and the hoarse crying voice could not bring back his change of heart.

She felt the sun set in the west through the closed window, and the light in the room grew dimmer until it was dark, and she curled up against the door without lighting the lamp, muttering his name over and over again.

"Sister?" A girl's voice sounded outside the door.

"Jiaojiao? Jiaojiao! Would you open the door and let your sister out? When the woman heard the voice, she begged her uncontrollably.

"Sister, I don't have a key either, and my father said that no one is allowed to open the door for you." The girl said helplessly, her tone full of anxiety.

"Why...... Why did Daddy do this...... Woo......" The woman sat on the ground and couldn't stop whimpering, as if she suddenly thought of something, "Jiaojiao, how is the prince?" Did he come to me? He must be in a hurry, right? ”

The girl outside the door was silent for a moment, "The prince didn't come, I heard that the crown princess candidate is the daughter of General Qin, and a prince concubine was also chosen." ”

The woman was stunned for a long time and did not speak, and the girl outside the door kept calling to her anxiously, but heard her suddenly laugh like crazy.

"Hahaha...... How could it be, Jiaojiao, you are so naughty, and at this time you lied to your sister, he said that he only liked me...... He said ......" and laughed as he spoke, and finally turned into heart-rending tears.

The comfort of the girl outside the door was completely lost in the cry, and the woman cried like this, without any intention of stopping, as if only in this way could she vent the pain in her heart.

It had been three months since she had seen him again, and she stepped out of the door for the first time, her skin so pale that she could see the veins. She didn't say a word to anyone, and as soon as the door opened, she rushed out of the palace and ran towards the prince's mansion.

The moment the bright bubble flashes into the sun, all that awaits it is bursting. Ignoring the eyes of pedestrians on the road, she ran all the way to the prince's mansion, but saw the big red silk everywhere, the eye-catching red lantern, and the big word "Xi" on it. Coming and going are dignitaries who come and go to congratulate them.

She paused in her footsteps, and hurried in, only to be stopped by the guards at the door.

"Do you have an invitation?"

"What invitation?"

"Invitation to the prince's wedding!"

"How can the prince get married, I am the crown princess!" Still unwilling to believe it, she tried to break in again, but was picked up by two guards and thrown out.

"Another woman who has lost her heart and gone crazy! Don't get any closer to the Prince's Mansion, or you'll have good fruit to eat! ”

She lay on the ground, her palms were ground out of blood, hot, but she didn't feel the pain, she lay on the ground and didn't move, the people on the road turned back to her from time to time while walking, and she didn't care, until the people of the palace stuffed her into a sedan chair and brought her back to the palace, she was still just at the mercy of others with dull eyes.

She didn't get to see him after all, she didn't even know what he thought after all, she missed him in the wind after all.

That night, a mournful cry came from the peach blossom forest. At this time, the peach blossoms have fallen, the spring is no longer there, and the time of the past is flying with the wind, only her memory is still under the peach blossom tree that year.

It was another year of peach blossom blooming when the two met again, but this time the meeting was replaced by the day she entered the palace to meet the queen after she got married.

He was still so handsome, still so tall and straight, still with a gentle smile on his face, but his eyes no longer fell on her. She wore a bright red gown, which made her hair darker and her skin whiter, and in the past year, she had become pale and weak, and her body no longer seemed to be hers. She looked at him expectantly, trying to catch his gaze, but she couldn't.

She had fantasized countless times about dressing him in a bright red auspicious robe, putting on a phoenix crown for him, and making him the most dazzling and beautiful woman in the world. But in the end, she put on the phoenix crown and xia veil, not for him, but for the man standing next to her who she didn't know at all, and she married him because the man who was called her father said, "You must marry him, or our family will die." ”

Death, she doesn't care anymore. But she wants to see him before she dies, so let's marry, so that she can see him, she can be closer to him, and she will have more opportunities to see him. So, she is going to marry this man.

When she stood in front of him, his eyes finally fell on her, but he didn't have the warmth of the past, and in the face of her fiery confession, there was no warm response as she imagined, just a faint sentence.

"Things are people, let go of what should be let go."

She froze in place, "Is a thing a thing a person?" "Let her go, how can she let go? More than ten years of love was told in a flash that it was just a beautiful dream. He didn't love her, or didn't love him as much as she loved him.

But he finally left, because a straw puppet with a spell was found in the prince's mansion, and the emperor, who regarded spells as taboo, rushed to Huashan Temple to meditate. She wanted to see him before he left, to tell him that she was willing to be with him no matter what, but he didn't even want to see her.

The peach blossoms have fallen for two springs, and it's time to wake up from the dream.