Wild grass and flowers by the Vermilion Bird Bridge, and the sunset at the mouth of Wuyi Alley.

In the past, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people.

The wolf soaked in thick ink slowly fell on the paper zuihou a skimm, the fonts in front are all dignified and neat and elegant, partial to this zuihou a "home" word, Hao wrist slightly, the tail dragged slender and long, obviously the mood of the person who wrote is not as calm as the atmosphere in this room. Perhaps she wanted to calm her mind by practicing calligraphy, but apparently, it didn't work.

The reason why she is so unquiet and restless may be because this poem is right to her inner worries and uneasiness.

"Ning'er ......" Hao's wrist seemed to shake slightly, and the thick ink on the pen was slightly fainted on Zuihou's pen - this is good, the whole character is broken.

The girl who was called Ning'er sighed lightly, put down the wolf pen in her hand, turned around, and nodded lightly to the woman who pushed the door in: "Sister-in-law." ”

This is a quiet girl with a pen and a unique and delicate face.

Her face is beautiful, her eyes are pure and watery, her flesh and bones are even, but her body is as soft as a boneless, and she walks like a weak willow supporting the wind.

The skin was as white as snow, but it also had a jade-like texture, not pale.

Xu is a pampered life, which has created her blessed and natural but not arrogant and impetuous.

"What my sister-in-law told you before, how did you think about it?" The woman who spoke frowned, saw a deep word 'Chuan' in the middle of her forehead, a circle of blue and black under her eyes, and the irritability and exhaustion shrouded between her eyebrows made her already extremely beautiful face a layer of gloom.

The girl was not in a hurry to answer.

She just took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, but her eyes fell on the sentence that had been ruined by the ink spots.

Wang Xie Tang Qianyan still has the possibility of flying into the people's homes, partial birth of the huge family that once had flowers and brocade cooking oil, but the wind and clouds dispersed early in the morning, those who were once like the moon and the sun of the pride of the sky, only the light pen and ink in the history, the talk of the descendants.

The liliang of the individual, the liliang of the family, the inheritance of the bloodline, under the rolling wheel of history, is nothing.

Faced with the changes of a huge era, what can she count as a small knot of a person's heart?

Now that she had been enshrined in the morning, had eaten the people's fat and ointment for eighteen years, and had been supported by the royal family for eighteen years, and now that they had fattened her and were going to slaughter her for meat, what did she say "no"?

"Sister-in-law," she said slowly, "brother...... No...... Bixia he weishenme didn't come to ask me personally? ”

She changed her name, after all, in this matter, the man was no longer her brother. His position is that of the emperor.

The woman was stunned, paused and said with a forced smile: "Ning'er, don't get me wrong, my sister-in-law is here to discuss with you first, this is a lifelong matter of your daughter's family, isn't your brother afraid of the shyness of your little girl's family, so he asked his sister-in-law to ask?" ”

Consult? Is there such a discussion?

Qu Ning sneered in her heart, but Zuihou only sighed - these days, in the face of the increasingly tense situation, she had actually put everything on the scales and weighed it repeatedly. Zuihou, on the other hand, accepted this matter day after day, and the possible results after careful consideration, but what she didn't dare to know for sure was whether the result would be as these people considered, or perhaps, the final result would be completely unexpected and shatter their wishful thinking. And she can accept that ending, but I don't know if those who are crackling with their abacus now will be able to accept the huge gap between imagination and reality when the time comes: "Sister-in-law, this is a major event related to my life." My brother has loved me for so many years, and now he has to decide my life, so let him tell me in person. Seeing that the woman frowned again, Qu Ning smiled slightly and gave her a reassuring pill, "But if my brother says it, I will agree." ”

The woman stared at her deeply, seeing the resoluteness between her eyebrows, Zuihou sighed and nodded, but still comforted her: "Ning'er, it's not that we haven't thought about it for you, to be honest, that Tang Shaoshuai, with outstanding demeanor and character, is definitely a good son-in-law." Ning'er, you will never regret marrying in the past. ”

Qu Ning nodded, and smiled faintly: How could I regret it? I never make decisions that I might regret.

***

I really couldn't wait, and the emperor came to find Qu Ning in person the next day, in the name of enjoying the scenery.

The brother and sister, who hadn't seen each other for more than a month, sat in the water pavilion where the grass and trees had withered, surrounded by the autumn colors that had been slaughtered-Qu Ning couldn't help but feel a little funny: Do you have to be so pretentious? What is there to enjoy at this time?

But that's right, the dignity of the royal family, at this time, is only a layer of gold. If even this layer of gold leaf is gone, revealing the corruption inside, how can those who have been precious all their lives accept it?

But seeing the young emperor's haggard face, Qu Ning felt a faint sigh in his heart.

He has been the crown prince since he was sensible, and the people around him have told him that he has the entire empire on his shoulders.

Even if everyone knows that the empire has long been in turmoil, for him, that responsibility is his life.

Some burdens have been carried all their lives, and now they suddenly have to be put down, I'm afraid I'm not used to it, right?

After all...... He is not her, he is a human being in two lives, and he has seen everything. What people are most afraid of is habit, and what they are most afraid of is not being able to think about it after getting used to it.

Thinking of his love for her when he was young, and the affection between brothers and sisters, Qu Ning's heart gradually softened: "Brother." ”

"Sister...... "Might as well she spoke first to break the silence between the two, the emperor's eyes trembled, and when he looked at her eyes, Qu Ning accurately saw a flash of guilt in them.

That's enough.

Qu Ning let out a long sigh in his heart: "Brother, sister-in-law told me." I will agree to the marriage. ”

The emperor seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but he immediately lowered his eyes to hide the sadness that appeared in the circles under his eyes: "Ning'er, don't complain about your brother." He looked up at the high red wall, and his eyes added a bit of cruelty, "You can also see how those big-headed soldiers outside treat us, saying that they are guarding the safety of our royal family, but in fact, everyone knows very well." The other day, the early summer by your sister-in-law's side was still ......," he said, frowning.

Qu Ning's body shook. She nodded, "I know." ”

The guards in the palace and Jingshan, according to the requirements of the Congress, surrounded the palace and Jingshan, and were only allowed to enter but not leave, and they had been coming for more than three months.

And as tensions between the royal family and Congress have grown, so has the style of those people.

A few days ago, in early summer, the personal maid beside the emperor's Ning Guiren was ordered to go out of the palace to buy some rouge gouache for her, but she was dragged into the alley.

By the time he was returned, he was almost completely naked.

The official version is that she met the mob, and those people even threw a bloody head at him and said that he was the murderer, but in fact, even if she didn't care about politics, she knew that this was the constant disadvantage of the parliament against the royal family.

The person who encountered this matter today is just a palace maid, but who can guarantee that such a thing will not happen to them tomorrow, or even the concubine queen? If it really comes to that step, take a step back, and the royal family will no longer have a fig leaf of zuihou, and further, they will have no power and no soldiers in their hands, and they may be broken bones!

The emperor mentioned this matter at this time, which was not only a reminder, but also a kind of persecution and warning.

Qu Ning was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised her eyes, and a rare layer of perseverance appeared on her face - in this life, she has always shown gentleness and generosity, and it is the first time that she has shown this kind of sharpness like a sword out of the sheath: "When a girl grows up, she always has to get married." That Young Marshal Tang is famous, and I don't know how many women are in their deep dreams. It's my honor to marry him. But there are a few things that I really don't vomit or feel unhappy about. ”

She called him Bixia.

The emperor's eyes fell on his only biological sister, and his lips trembled in pain—prestige? Just as far as his prestige was the man's brutality and indifference.

marrying his sister to him, he also knows that Xu has harmed his sister for the rest of his life, but now that people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, he has the name of the emperor, nothing else, and may not even be able to maintain this name for long, what can he do?

Even, the identity of the wife of this Ming media is still being negotiated after several negotiations!

"But whatever my brother can do, I will never refuse." The emperor insisted on calling himself "elder brother".

Qu Ning was silent for a moment, and smiled slightly: "That's it, actually...... I don't have much to say. By the way, when did they come to the ceremony? Is the wedding Western or Chinese? ”

The countless advice that had already reached her lips, or the advice she could give him, Qu Ning finally didn't say it.

Those admonitions were meant to be addressed to the emperor who was now in the midst of the wave of "abolishing the existence of the emperor", but as a younger sister, all she could do was to try her best to save the lives of their family. As for the admonitions, she knew how stubborn the emperor was, so what use could she say it? The reason why people are human is that they are supported by those attachments and dreams. Just because she accepts reality doesn't mean she has the power to break other people's dreams.

So she ended up saying nothing.

Knowing that it was the emperor's secret small actions that provoked those warlords to warn, knowing that the emperor was unwilling, knowing that her marriage might be just one of the steps in their game, but perhaps it was because of this kind of knowing her situation that she didn't say anything.

The emperor glanced at her and said in a low voice: "Tang Shaoshuai is also twenty-eight this year, Tang Dashuai is very anxious, and now that his sister has agreed, the wedding date will be set for the thirteenth of next month." "Should she, haven't they all already discussed a good life?" The wedding is a combination of Chinese and Western, and Tang Shaoshuai is also a person who came back from abroad, and it is said that he also entered that Christianity and was baptized, and you will swear before God at that time. By the way, let your sister-in-law take you to make a few more Western clothes......"

Qu Ning listened carefully and nodded from time to time.

The life of this life is so decided.