In April, summer is approaching, and the weather is getting hotter.

Shangjing is full of beautiful scenery and endless flowers. All colors recline on the strange, stacked and stacked, densely woven and weaved, leaving a white corner, embroidering inch by inch of splendid satin.

Today's Dazhuang Dynasty is richer and more powerful than the reign of Emperor Zhuang Mudi, especially in Beijing. And because of the prevalence of women's studies, the atmosphere is open, and the women of the family or the beautiful or the beautiful are often seen in the beautiful scenery, which adds the meaning of fresh activity and the eyes of tourists.

There is only one thing today, which everyone in Shangjing is looking forward to. It was originally the emperor's list that would be released, but I don't know who was the champion of the three hundred jinshi who had gone through the palace test, who was the leader, who was the list eye, and who was the Tanhualang with excellent appearance. There are rich businessmen and nobles waiting to get a first-class son-in-law, and there are commoners who join in the excitement with the joy, making every family a festival.

Seeing the sun hanging over the courtyard wall, the residual heat slowly dissipated. The sycamore pollen in the wall of a courtyard is densely shaken, splashing out bursts of fragrance. Under this tree sat a woman, with narrow sleeves and a light shirt and a skirt, and a belt around her waist, swaying lightly in the wind. The back of the head is in a towering bun, and some patterned silver hairpins are inserted on the side. His face is only in his early twenties, his skin color is not rough, but he has a rustic atmosphere in his gestures, not like a slave in the capital.

At this moment, the woman was sitting on the pestle under the plane tree doing needlework, and there was a needlework plaque on the low table beside her, the color was fresh and uneven, and the original clothes and shoes and socks were made of children's summer clothes, shoes and socks.

Beside the woman there were two drooping children, a man and a woman, who pulled a lot of grass branches and played with grass on the old black felt with the moire. Suddenly, he tore off the grass branches, rolled on his back, and turned over in fine plaster, just laughing.

The woman saw that the two of them were covered in mud, so she stopped her movements and said angrily to the girl: "Sister Qing, how many times have you said it, you can't be so naughty with Brother Jing, like a mud monkey." ”

As he spoke, he put the upper of the shoe that was rolling in his hand into the plaque, got up and pulled the boy up and patted his back and waist, and the dust flew all over the place. After filming the boy and the girl, the two little ones were still grimacing and smiling at each other.

The woman patted the mud and dust for the two of them, poked her head out, and muttered, "Why haven't you come back yet?" But what is the result? I'm really anxious, so I might as well go and watch it myself! ”

After muttering, he said to the girl: "Sister Qing'er, don't play, go out and see, why hasn't your father come back?" ”

"Huh." The girl responded obediently, let go of the grass branch in her hand, looked at the boy and said, "Brother Jing is going or not?" ”

The boy also threw away the straw in his hand: "Let's go, let's go together." ”

So the two of them held fat hands and ran head-in-hand as they spoke. Ran out of the gate, stood outside the threshold and stretched out his head to look into the alley. After looking at it twice, she didn't see the girl and her father, so the girl said, "I haven't come back yet, go back and tell my mother." ”

"Let's take a look outside the alley, and we didn't go back to tell my mother." The boy said, pulling the girl and walking out of the alley.

I met people everywhere along the way, and they all came up to greet each other, and said with a smile on their faces: "Brother Jing is blessed, Master Qing is a good person." ”

The two of them were young, they were ignorant, and they couldn't talk, so they just walked out. When I arrived at the mouth of the alley, it was the main road, and I stood and looked at it for a while.

The young man in this greeting mouth is the boy's father, called Qingtong. The surname Qing is rare in the capital, and there is only one in this Wutong Alley, and it just moved here a year ago.

When I first moved in, no one paid attention to the widows. The people of the capital are already proud, who is rare to look at this widower with foreign belts? It is not difficult to be kind, and there is nothing else.

Then, a year later, the spring festival was held in the court, and suddenly the widower was hit by the jinshi, and he was stunned as if he were eating eggs and plugging his mouth. Then this Qing family, the threshold of this ridiculous family is about to be broken. The gift-givers are matchmakers, and there are all kinds of people who come.

Qingtong is a widower, and there is no population in the family. There is a son under his knees, who is now more than three years old, named Qingyan, and his milk name is a "well". When he was one year old, he found a nurse, her husband's surname was He, and the man's name was He Sheng, so she was called He's mother. He Sheng and his family have another daughter, named He Biqing, who is the same age as Qingyan, only a month younger.

He Sheng's family has been serving Qingtong and is loyal. Because I have to take care of Qingyan and He Biqing, I haven't had another kid over the years. even followed Qingtong to the capital, not reciting the native sound. Now that I have survived, I am very happy to have a head and face.

Not long ago, 300 Jinshi from the DPRK participated in the palace examination, and today is the day when the palace examination is released. He Sheng rushed to wait for the release of the emperor list, and only Mother He, Qingyan, He Biqing, and a busy kitchen lady were left at home.

In addition to the He family, the Qing family invited such a cook after arriving in the capital, and did not find anyone else. It turned out that the money in his hand was spent less than a penny, and it didn't come in, so he should have to count it.

The old man Qingtong studied hard by the dry lamp all the year round, and He Sheng and He Mother were taking care of all the big and small affairs at home. As far as Qingtong is concerned, being able to find such a family as the He family is simply a matter of cultivating in three lives, saving him a lot of trouble.

said that Mother He couldn't settle down when she was making Qingyan and He Biqing's shoes and socks, so she asked Qingyan and He Biqing to go outside to see why her man He Sheng hadn't come back. Regardless of whether you are in the top three or not, you have to get a letter to be sure.

The two children, Qingyan and He Biqing, ran to the avenue and didn't see He Sheng, He Biqing asked Qingyan again: "Brother Jing, can you wait?" ”

Qing Yan was about to speak, when he suddenly saw a person riding a horse in the distance. He was also sharp-eyed, and when he saw that it was He Biqing's father, he hurriedly said, "Isn't this coming." ”

The two of them went up to catch up, He Sheng came to the two of them and pulled the horse to chew, got off the horse, gasped and said: "Brother Jing, Sister Qing, go back and report the good news, the master is the first champion!" ”

No matter how young a person is, he knows what the first name is, and that is a great honor. I often hear Mother He say that if you win the champion, you have to parade the streets very mightily, and you will be admired by thousands of people.

Qingyan and He Biqing were very happy when they heard this, and they took their little hands and ran into the alley, shouting as they ran: "Mom & Mother, my dad & master is the champion!" ”

shouted all the way home, and the neighbors heard it, and the Wutong Lane exploded for a while.

When Mother He heard this, she immediately put down the needle and thread, smiled so hard that her mouth was almost to the root of her ears, and she clapped her hands and said, "The emperor list has been released, and the old man should come back soon." I'll go to the kitchen, and you'll play with yourselves. ”

The two little guys saw that He's mother was busy, and turned back to greet He Sheng. He Sheng tied the horse to the stable, and his face was beaming all the time.

Qingyan and Biqing pounced on each other, hugging one and asking, "Is my father really the champion?" "The champion wants to ride a horse through the streets? "Is the master going to be a big official? "Will you find a stepmother for Brother Jing? Last time, when I was hit by Jinshi, so many people came to find a stepmother for Brother Jing. ”

He Sheng said with a smile: "If you win the champion, you will inevitably be a big official, and the matter of the stepmother depends on the master himself." Brother Jing, you really need a stepmother. ”

"My mother is also a mother." Biqing Road.

He Sheng touched her face: "How can your mother compare with the person your master married?" It has to be a well-informed lady. ”

Biqing thought for a while, looked at Qing Yan and asked, "Do you want a lady who is everyone's best girl?" ”

"I don't want it!" Qing Yan immediately said: "I have a mother." ”

He Sheng picked up the two babies and let them play by themselves, so he went to the kitchen and found He's mother to talk about it, and the spit stars flew sideways. The cook was on the side, and her face was red when she heard it.

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In the third year of Emperor Zhuang He, that is, the abdication of Emperor Taishang, and the third year of Xu Jing's reign as emperor.

The reunion with Xu Jing was expected by Qing Tong, and the expected Xu Jing naturally had no other roles, only the emperor overlord. There are a few moments when the husband and wife become a couple, Qin Se and Ming, who are the wishes of Qingtong's life, but Xu Jing will not be that person, so all her thoughts are still on the future.

Once you travel back, you really want to find an ordinary man to farm and raise flowers, and live your whole life? The answer, of course, is NO!

Whether it is before or after the crossing, why study hard? Work hard why? People live, have pursuits, dreams, and live a sound and colorful life, in Qingtong's view, it is called life.

When she dies, she has no regrets.

If you can become the dragon and phoenix among people, why bother to succumb to the quagmire where the clear waves are not seen and there will be no waves? In the past and present life, there are thousands of people in the world, who is really willing to succumb to others and live a boring life?

If it's over, it's not that I'm willing, it's just that I swallowed the ambitions I had when I was young, and I had to settle for the status quo.

And whether it was the palace test in the Daqing Hall or today's nomination list, Qingtong didn't raise his eyes to look at the people on the dragon chair. It's been more than four years, and she can't really remember what he looks like, and she doesn't want to see it so much.

Withered and yellow, studied hard for four years, and gave birth to a baby, she is not the green pupil of four years ago. And he has been the emperor for three years, so he is naturally not Xu Jing four years ago.

And in the future, it will be just a monarch and a minister.

He is the emperor of the dynasty, there are concubines and princes, she is the champion of the dynasty, she has a son, a family and an official career. Don't owe each other, don't mention the past, only talk about the future.

Although there are a few things in my heart, my heart can't cover the happy things. When Qingtong came back, he smiled happily, held his head high, pulled the reins and did not hit the horse, and deliberately walked slowly on the road. Before she arrived at Wutong Lane, she was surrounded by people who came to Daoxi, so she had to dismount and be arched into the alley.

He Sheng greeted him early, led the horse, and followed the crowd. If you can't talk to Qingtong, then you can talk to He Sheng, anyway, if you can climb a branch, it's a branch.

A group of people entered the alley and entered the door of Qing's house, He's mother and the cook brought some tea and snacks, and the rest listened to everyone's gifts and greetings, and flattery was endless. It's like the outsider who was not treated well before is not the Qing family. Who still mentions the past? Don't you slap yourself in the face?