Yang was setting up dishes and chopsticks, and he couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this.

How can there be a king to accompany his courtiers to keep the New Year, this is really a rare thing, the general is only four grades, from a lowly background, why is His Majesty so favored?

Tonight, as soon as the general left on the front foot, His Majesty came on the back foot, and he waited here for a while. She didn't dare to ask Her Majesty what was going on to come to the General's Mansion on Chinese New Year's Eve, she served tea and retreated, and was called in to set up a meal just now, and at that time she still thought that the general had not yet returned to the mansion, how could Her Majesty order two sets of dishes and chopsticks, who knew that just thinking so, the general returned.

Yang set up the dishes and chopsticks, turned around and was about to pick up the sable sable that Twilight had unraveled, and Twilight took it and set it up, saying, "You guys have been waiting for a long time, and let's go to eat Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

Yang Shi answered, secretly gave Twilight Qing a look, and whispered: "Your Majesty is not very happy to look at it, the general needs to be careful." ”

Twilight Qing glanced at Bu Xihuan, and the Yang family retreated.

"You can actually come out of the palace." Twilight walked over to the table and sat down, looking at Bu Xihuan across from her.

Bu Xihuan held the wine jug, poured the wine slowly, and said lightly: "It's not easy to get out of the palace, and it's even more difficult to wait for someone." ”

Twilight reached out and took the poured wine, bowing her head and tasting it. The liquor is mellow, with a faint plum fragrance and a sweet throat, which is very different from the Ledin spirits drunk at the palace banquet. Twilight was a little surprised, and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Bu Xihuan saw that she liked it, and there was a sense of comfort in her eyes, but her tone was still light, "The palace brews plum wine, picks the plum blossoms that bloom after the snow at the beginning of the year, and dips the altar in the mountain spring, and after forty-nine days, the petals are taken out and boiled in the wine, and then the ground is dug three feet and sealed in the plum forest for a year, and it only comes out this morning." ”

"Buried for a year?" Twilight Qing held the wine cup in the palm of her hand, nodded and said, "No wonder the taste is sour, it has turned into vinegar after being buried for a long time." ”

To him, she still had a poisonous tongue, and she laughed angrily, and reached out to take back the wine cup in her hand, and turned it in the palm of her hand, looking at it as she turned. The jade cup sake, the cup is not as warm as the jade of the man's fingers, and the wine is not as clear as the water droplets left on the rim of the cup after the woman's tasting.

Bu Xihuan looked at it, took the rim of the cup, took a light sip, and said, "Well, if it's really sweet, it's still King Di's tongue." ”

"Okay, just keep it, and help Your Majesty taste wine in the future." Twilight said coldly.

Bu Xihuan sneered and put the wine cup on the table.

Ka!

carelessly, but its voice is cold.

"If you don't taste it, it's better to cut it!"

The two of you say a word, there is no one in the house to serve, if there is, you must not understand the wit in the words of the two.

"Let's eat, in the cold winter night, the food cools quickly." Bu Xihuan helped Twilight Qing serve a bowl of five-grain rice, Twilight Qing loves to drink clear porridge, but Daxing's folk Chinese New Year's Eve does not drink porridge, and wants to eat rice, millet, millet, wheat, and sherb, which are steamed rice, with the intention of praying for a bumper harvest of grains in the coming year.

There was a brazier under the feet of the two of them, a bowl full of rice, the fragrance of the valley was fragrant, and the steaming heat blurred the people in front of them, Twilight was a little trance-like, the mahogany table in front of them replaced the boxwood low table, and the person who was full of wrinkles and smiled at her to add food changed one, and the candle jade bowl was painted on the table, and the person was in a pear blossom moon robe, sitting opposite her, backed by the snow outside the window, waiting for the New Year's bell.

The attic was warm, and the white charcoal under the feet warmed the snow boots, and it was warm to the heart.

She thought she was going to stay alone for the New Year's night, and she was not lonely.

"You come to accompany me to keep the New Year, who will accompany the Queen Mother?" Twilight Qing asked in a scenic way, she didn't ask how Bu Xihuan got out of the palace, he must have a way to get out of the palace, but this Chinese New Year's Eve, as an emperor, he always has to accompany the Empress Dowager to keep the year, he is not in the palace, how can he hide it? She knew that he had a substitute, but could that substitute really not reveal the slightest flaw?

"How can anyone in the palace be old?" Bu Xihuan held the bowl and smiled coldly, "There is only a day and night of deception." ”

Twilight didn't answer, just looked at him.

"Yuan Guang went and returned, and arrived in the palace of the Empress Dowager, and then the Empress Dowager said that she was exempt from keeping the New Year."

Yuan Guang must be the name of Yuan Xiangguo, the empress dowager is in the harem, and the foreign ministers can enter the palace late at night, which is really without palace rules.

Although Bu Xihuan didn't say more, Dusk Qing could also imagine that the Yuan family brothers and sisters met in the palace late at night, and the Empress Dowager had to discuss the matter of exempting the New Year's ceremony, which must be a big deal, perhaps related to the matter of the water master, and Bu Xihuan had the opportunity to leave the palace because of this.

He should not have known about the envoys of Ledan outside the old temple in the city tonight.

Twilight thought about it, and suddenly felt a pain in her forehead, and when she looked up, she saw that Bu Xihuan had put the chopsticks back.

"Can't you rest during the New Year?" Bu Xihuan glanced at Twilight Qing scoldingly, took a four-happiness pill and put it into the plate in front of her, and sighed, "Except for the New Year's Eve tonight, it's rare to be together, so I put it in advance, have a good New Year, I'm ...... It hasn't been like this in years. ”

For many years.

Nineteen years have passed since tonight.

The candle shadow flickered, shaking the man's eyebrows flickering brightly and darkly, and he couldn't tell the truth.

Twilight looked at it, and the matter of the fake Ledan's priest was pressed into her mouth, and it was difficult to say anything more. "It's the first year that I've been like this, and I've been keeping the New Year with my father at home, in a room, a low table, an oil lamp, and four side dishes, but this bowl of rice is the same." When I was a child, my father gave me food, and when I was older, I added food to him, and I thought I could add it until I was ......old."

Twilight took a deep breath and said no more, bowing her head and eating. The mask on her face was not removed, and the appearance of the young man with thick eyebrows and thin eyes was really not beautiful, but the shoulders of the snow-colored robe seemed to be frosty, and the red candle was shining, and it was difficult to illuminate.

Bu Xihuan watched, picked up the spoon, scooped a spoonful of fragrant rice and added it to the twilight bowl. Twilight Qing was stunned, looking down at the rice in the bowl, she didn't eat a few bites at all, the bowl was still full, he added it like this, the rice in the bowl was piled up into a small mountain, and he said: "I will help you add it in the future, until you are old." ”

Twilight held the bowl in her hand, stunned even deeper, and suddenly felt something hit in her heart.

Suddenly the bell came from the window, the bell of the Great Han Temple outside the city shook through the towering city wall, the window was not opened, the wind quietly rose, the peach branches were rustling, accompanied by the bell like a Buddha, long and long, I don't know who the heart lake is faint open, such as the ripples, not dispersed for a long time.

Bu Xihuan got up and opened the half-window, and the bell rang by the window, nineteen years......

Twilight looked at his back and smiled lightly.

Thank you, though not necessarily old.

But thank you, but for this sentence that no one has ever said to her, for the company tonight.

He is an emperor, and he has the ambition of the emperor of the ages in this life, and it is inevitable that he will calm the government and the opposition in the future, govern the world pro-government, and take concubines in the future. Although she has been in Daxing for many years, she still can't convince herself to share a husband with others like her boudoir daughter. She didn't think about this problem in the past, she was born in a family of maids, she was a lowly family, and she was the only female maid in Daxing, and she was destined to have a rich marriage.

She didn't think about marriage at that time, but her stepfather thought about her marriage in her heart, and she thought about some marriage matters. At that time, she felt that it was a good thing not to have a rich marriage, and the sons and daughters of ordinary people's families did not have the money to take concubines, but they could have a couple for a lifetime.

It's just that the world is unpredictable, and the world has been turned upside down in the past six months.

She knows his intentions, and her own intentions are self-evident, but the mind belongs to the heart, and the principle belongs to the principle. Her principles are too much in conflict with this feudal dynasty, and his principles may not be the same as hers.

But she never mentioned it, because she knew that the situation he was in was too difficult. The prime minister is powerful, the relatives are autocratic, the government and the opposition are not settled, and the imperial power is not in hand, these things are enough to consume her mind, and she does not want to put their feelings and future on his shoulders.

This matter can't be avoided, but she wants to avoid this time, this is her intention.

"In three hours, the people in the city should go to the Dahan Temple to make incense." Bu Xihuan looked out the window, the voice came through the back, a little stunned, "Dahan Temple was built by Gaozu time, Daxingguo Temple, remember that the temple was built in the middle of the mountain, and the crowds on the mountain road are like sea flowers like ......"

Twilight Qing heard that this seemed to be a memory, if it was really a memory, it should be a childhood memory of Bu Xihuan.

"Before entering the palace, I was still young, and I don't remember many things, but I remember that there was always a big family during the New Year's Festival, the palace lamp father and queen mother, the side concubine, the singer and the dancer, laughing and laughing all night, but I always felt noisy, and there were so many people that people were annoying."

The wind and snow flew down the windowsill, and the man's voice was a little cold, "I remember, every year when the mother concubine is not happy, but she has to sit with her father all night, the mother-in-law and maids come in to serve and freshen up before dawn, and the mother concubine took me into the palace to say hello, at that time the imperial grandmother was no longer there, and the concubine was holding the phoenix seal, and the palace concubines in the palace were talking with orders, which was very boring." ”

At that time, he was young, he couldn't understand the wit in the words between the women, and he couldn't remember too many things, and his memory only left some distinct fragments, such as the third day of the Lunar New Year, the mother concubine would take him to the Dahan Temple for incense.

He remembered the crowd and the flowers on both sides of the mountain road, and remembered that the woman in the sedan chair was more beautiful than the flowers, which was a rare happy day for the mother concubine in a year, and it was also the day he looked forward to the most in the year.

"Then you can rest for a while." Twilight Qing suddenly spoke, interrupting Bu Xihuan, "In two hours, the hundred officials will enter the palace to congratulate, after you have not established, the orders of the various prefectures should be to go to greet the Empress Dowager, and you will be able to see your mother and concubine in the Empress Dowager's palace earlier." ”

At the palace banquet, she had observed Bu Xihuan's attitude towards his biological father King Heng, he almost turned a blind eye to King Heng, and rarely looked at him during the whole palace banquet. When he mentioned his father, his tone was also cold, but when he mentioned his mother, there was more tenderness in his words, and he thought that the relationship between mother and son was very good.

Bu Xihuan was silent, the cold wind outside the window was suddenly urgent, and the snowflakes drifted into the window, falling on the meal, and the table of exquisite food was cold.

Twilight frowned, feeling that the silence was unusual, and sighed in her heart, and then turned around and smiled.

"I can't see it." He said.

Twilight didn't answer, but her heart gradually cooled.

"The mother concubine was given to die on the night I entered the palace." ――

Off topic -

Ahem, I was going to write a sweet chapter, but it was heavy when I wrote it...... Kneeled