Hearing Mrs. Chen talk about Cheng Niangzi, Chen Danniang, who was sitting under the porch and watching the servants fishing for camels, immediately turned around. [Note 1]

"Grandpa, it's been almost a month since Mrs. Cheng left." She replied, getting up and running in.

Old Lady Chen smiled at her, and pulled out a scroll of maps from the fence case on the side.

This is a map copied from the palace, not something that every family can have, and it is worth a thousand gold.

Chen Shao hurriedly got up and helped Mrs. Chen unfold, and Chen Danniang also stood aside curiously to watch.

Old Lady Chen slowly wandered over it.

"....She should have walked to ten days ago," he said, rummaging for a moment, and finally his hand stopped in one place, looking a little strange.

Chen Shao saw that his father didn't speak, so he also looked down, and his expression suddenly became a little strange.

Taicang Road.

Taicang Road!

"Father, what do you want!" He immediately raised his voice slightly.

Old Lady Chen smiled and withdrew her gaze from the map.

"I'll think whatever you want." He laughed.

Chen Shao was squeezed by his father, and his face was a little uncomfortable.

"I miss Mrs. Cheng." Chen Danniang found an opportunity to answer, and was busy answering the phone on the side, and said in a childish voice.

Old lady Chen laughed.

Chen Shao got up and retreated to the study to pick up the scroll, read it for a moment and put it down.

The detailed document reported by Feng Lin said that the passers-by who helped were a group of about 20 people, who came from the direction of the capital, and the escort was a female dependent......

Ladies and daughters!

Two lives shot on the spot...

It can't really be that Jiangzhou fool again, right?

In the palace, two chamberlains are also unfolding a map.

The king of Jin'an stood up and took a closer look, and his hand was on the map.

"By foot. I should have come this today," he said. I looked at it with a smile on my face.

Footsteps were heard outside the door.

"Your Highness, slow down"

At the same time, there is a deliberately exaggerated voice of the waiter.

King Jin'an did not look back. Until the boy behind him pounced.

"Brother, what are you looking at?" The second prince asked, holding his arm.

The king of Jin'an shook his arm and led him to the front.

"Youtu." He said.

"What is a map?" The second prince asked, looking at the big scroll painting, "Is it a painting?" ”

The lines on it are bent and bent, and they are not beautiful at all.

"The map is... World. King Jin'an smiled and stretched out his hand to him, "Look." This is the capital."

The second prince leaned over and looked surprised.

"Beijing?!" He said, and his little chubby finger followed suit, "Not as big as my finger?" ”

The king of Jin'an County, Ha Luha, smiled and raised his hand to knock him on the head.

"This is an abbreviation, otherwise how can such a big world fit on a piece of paper?" He said, "When the older master teaches Fang Yuzhi astronomy and geography, you will know the Tao." ”

The second prince sighed, and pestered the king of Jin'an County to tell him where everything was on the map, and the king of Jin'an told him one by one. After a moment of play, he asked him to accompany the queen.

"The queen always asks me about my homework," the second prince twisted and didn't want to go. Stretched out his hand and pulled the sleeve of the king of Jin'an.

"That's because the queen mother thinks about you, although you were not born by her, but she raised you, and she is close to you." The king of Jin'an squatted down and said with a smile, "Love is deeply responsible, you see that I want to be cared for like this..." ”

At this point, he hurriedly stopped and changed his conversation in time.

“… How many people want to be cared for yet? ”

The second prince seemed to understand, but he nodded obediently.

"If you are good to others, others will feel it, and you must be good to others from the heart." The king of Jin'an said, patting his heart.

"I know that I can feel that my brother is good to me from the heart." The second prince said happily.

King Ha Luha of Jin'an County smiled, reached out and pinched his chubby cheek.

"Then let's go." He said.

After sending off the second prince, the king of Jin'an asked people to put away the map and sit down in front of a few cases.

"Your Highness, it's time to take your medicine." The waiter brought a bowl of medicine and said.

"Is it time again?" King Jin'an asked.

"yes, it's late autumn." The chamberlain said.

King Jin'an reached out and pressed his chest and nodded.

"It's going by so fast, if you don't say it, you're going to forget it, it's starting to hurt a little." He said, taking the medicine bowl, raising his head and drinking it all, "How many years do you have to take this medicine?" ”

The chamberlain sat beside him and wrenched his fingers.

"I've been eating it for five years, and it's okay to have another three years." He said.

King Jin'an smiled.

"It's been five years." He said, with a little surprise, and stroked his chin, with a little reminiscence, as if recalling the old days.

Although it was not a pleasant time.

"It's going by so fast." He said, hanging his head, "Nothing will pass." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, all suffering will pass." The chamberlain gritted his teeth and said.

The king of Jin'an snorted and did not speak again, but unfolded a piece of paper, on which was a half-written letter.

The chamberlain bowed his head and got up and slowly exited, and then looked back at the young man sitting in the hall.

It's been five years...

But he clearly remembered how the child who came back from the Gao family banquet was lying on his stomach and vomiting to death....

If it weren't for Imperial Physician Li to come to the rescue, I'm afraid that he would have become a white bone by now.

Even if it is saved, the residual poison cannot be cleaned, and medicine must be taken every year in late autumn and early winter.

It was also from that moment that the child finally understood that some things were not just the intimidation of the eunuchs and palace maids, death would really happen, and in this palace, he was not only an auspicious omen loved by the concubines, but also a thorn in the side of some people.

“… And often those who see us as a thorn in their side and hate us are often the ones who once liked us..."

King Jin'an stopped his pen, thought for a while, and then put down his pen.

"So all things will pass, and there will be suffering, and there will be joy. Guess that's the impermanence of the world..."

That one day. Will this moment also pass?

The king of Jin'an stopped his pen again.

Thoughts of this moment. Rejoice, friends who seem familiar but strange ....

He unconsciously clenched his pen.

Just like everyone else around you, just like your father, mother, brothers and sisters, Your Majesty, concubine, prince...

He reached out and threw the paper in front of him in the palm of his hand. But I still felt uneasy, so I simply got up and picked it up, looked left and right, opened the lid of the incense burner, threw the paper ball into it, and soon the smoke rose.

The king of Jin'an County coughed twice, covered the incense burner, and watched the smoke disperse, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but turned his head to look at the case and frowned.

"The letter is still not written," he said to himself. got up and walked back, "I didn't say goodbye when I left." If you don't write a letter, it's too much like a friend..."

Autumn is deep and heavy, the concubines in the harem have a little less place to go, the concubine came out to the queen mother, and a new balcony was built, you can overlook the maple forest not far from the palace, the fiery red is beautiful, and it has become the favorite place of the concubines in the palace recently.

When the concubine came, the queen mother was laughing with the concubines, and the eldest prince was also there, and she had just made a poem and was enjoying the compliments of the concubines.

"Why don't you see Sixth Brother?" The concubine asked with a smile, while signaling the concubines to be exempt from courtesy, and sat down under the head of the Queen Mother, "If it is better to come out and go around today." ”

"Busy with homework again, right?" One of the concubines said with a smile.

"The queen is really strict, the sixth brother is still young." The concubine shook her head and said.

The Queen Mother smiled.

"No, I asked someone to call it, saying that it was at the emperor's place." She said.

At the emperor's place?

Others are okay, the concubine's smile froze slightly, and after thinking about it, she stood up.

"I'll call him." She said, looking at the concubines and smiling, "By the way, please also ask Your Majesty to come down." ”

These words made the concubines very happy, and they urged the concubine to go quickly, the concubine glanced at the queen mother, the queen mother smiled and waved her hand, and the concubine gave a salute to leave.

"Your Highness is in the Funing Palace." The chamberlain led the way.

The concubine walked all the way, and the attendants outside the Funing Hall saw it and greeted her.

"Niangniang later, the slave will go and report." The chamberlain said.

The concubine nodded, and watched the chamberlain enter, the door was not closed, and the sound of talking could be heard from inside.

“… The sixth brother waited for the queen to take medicine before coming over? ”

"....well, father, let me tell you, don't tell others, my mother doesn't like to take medicine, she is bitter, if you don't look at her, she will not eat well."

The emperor's laughter came from the hall, and the laughter was full of joy.

The corners of the concubine's mouth twitched, this little fat man is quite good at talking, and Emperor Zhidao likes filial piety and mellowness the most....

“… Father, father, I know that this is my father's world..."

“… Oh, the sixth brother still knows what the world is? ”

“… I naturally know the Dao, and I also know how the Dao sees the world of my father... Father, you see, this is the capital, and this is Mount Tai... This is... Yellow River..."

The emperor's laughter resounded in the hall.

"Okay, okay, the sixth brother is really smart, come, since you like it, my father will take you to see the world..."

When these words came, the concubine chuckled in her heart, and she couldn't help but take a step forward and lean into the room.

In the main hall, the bright yellow and thin figure picked up a child and stood in front of the brocade map hanging on the wall, the father and son smiled brightly, and stretched out their hands to point to the country.

The concubine's hand grasped the painted flower sara shawl hanging in front of her.

"Your Majesty, the concubine asks to see you."

"Come in."

The concubine stood up straight, with a bright smile on her face, and walked into the hall with her feet raised.

The smell of autumn gradually dissipated, and the original golden carpet on the field was swept away, and the farmers on the exposed yellow and black soil were busy sowing in winter.

"Lady, lady, do you remember here?"

Retracting his gaze from the road and looking at the faintly visible city gate in front of him, Banqin said with some excitement.

Since they passed through Taicang, the path they have taken has coincided with when they returned home from Bingzhou.

"I remember." Cheng Jianniang said.

When I went to the capital, I naturally walked through.

"No, I mean when we were together." Banqin said, stretching out her finger and pointing at herself.

Cheng Jianniang smiled.

"After you're gone, my memory will be better." She said.

So, of course, I don't remember.

Banqin grinned.

"It's Tongjiang County." She said.

"Han Langjun." Cheng Jianniang said.

Banqin smiled and nodded, and when the car entered the city gate, Steward Cao had already sent someone to pick the inn first, and drove the car and horse straight over.

got out of the car in front of the inn, and the carriage and horses were rushed to the backyard by the entourage to settle down.

When Cheng Jianniang put on the power fence and got out of the car, there was no movement in Wang Qilang's car over there, and the old servant stood in front of the car with some embarrassment.

"Childe, come down," he said in a low voice.

"No, I don't stay, I'm going to keep going..."

Wang Qilang's muffled voice came from inside the car.

"Childe, keep walking, but you're going to sleep in the wilderness, aren't you afraid of encountering wolves?" The old servant whispered.

"Don't be afraid, people are much more terrible than wolves." Wang Qilang said immediately.

That's a familiar one...

Isn't that exactly what the lady said?

The old servant couldn't cry or laugh, and looked sideways to see that Cheng Jianniang and the others had already entered, and the Zhou family's entourage also drove the carriage to the backyard, and there were only two of them left in front of the door, and the guys who stood aside to greet the guests were a little puzzled.

"Hey, are you all together?" They asked.

"Yes, yes." The old servant hurriedly said, looking at the car curtain, "Childe, if you don't come down again, then Cheng Niangzi will come to call you in person if she gets angry..."

Before the words fell, the curtain was lifted.

The guys didn't see what the people looked like, they just felt a gust of wind and people ran over, and they heard a choking sound in a trance.

“… I can't live this day..."

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Note 1: In the Tang Dynasty, a kind of children's game, the camel was a small insect with a hump on its back. (To be continued......)