Chapter Eighty-Six: The Past Years
Four years later.
"Oh my God." The front foot stepped into the door, and unconsciously stepped out again, this is my Jing Palace, yes, just thinking about it, Huang Fuxuan moved something from the side hall and walked in, looking strange. "What are you...... Shouldn't you take advantage of me to go to the court and want to empty my Jing Palace? ”
"You've said it all, you're going to the court. Is there anything else in this palace that is worth moving to? "Huangfu Xuan's current situation is no longer the unconscious appearance lying on the sickbed half a year ago, and his complexion has been different in the past four years of recuperation in the Jing Palace.
"Everyone thinks I'm putting you under house arrest." I cautiously walked into the door, and there was a mess all over the place, "Dare to love you in my Jing Palace." ”
Shao Yi, who was standing on the side, also had a smile on his face, and hurriedly lowered his head to cover it.
"Aren't you about to set off after noon, the first alliance between Nancheng and Beishao, the little emperor of Beishao should definitely attend, you see, the gifts to be brought to him, the widow is ready for you." Huangfu Xuan said and took out a light Luo gown from the side, "It happens to be the New Year again, and the widow has prepared these, which are different from his northern characteristics......"
My head is a little big, although I also had the intention of preparing a dress for Yu'er, but Huangfu Xuan was a little too enthusiastic. I couldn't help muttering, "The two heads of state met to give gifts a thousand years ago." ”
"What did you say?" Huangfu Xuan was on the rise, and did not pay attention to my words.
"It's okay, let's get ready. After lunch, we set off. "I had no choice but to surrender.
It's been four years since that day. In the past four years, Nancheng and Beishao have developed separately, suspended fighting, and occasionally have business and trade exchanges. A large amount of silk brocade grain from Nancheng was transported to Beishao, and the weapons and medicinal materials of Beishao were sold to Nancheng, and the businessmen of the two countries openly carried out friendly exchanges with the tacit consent of the current dynasty.
It wasn't until a few days ago that he received a letter from Yu'er, proposing this covenant.
Since parting, I have been calculating almost every day when I will see my son. This day passed one day, and four years later, I received a letter from my son.
"!"
The place of this rendezvous is on a Qiongshan Mountain outside Mincheng, although it is located at the junction of the north and south, it is still in the territory of Beishao. The carriage traveled to the middle of the mountain, and Yu'er waited here for a long time, and when he saw the carriage coming, he shouted loudly.
I heard him shout, and hurriedly opened the curtain to look out.
This child is now nine years old, but he unexpectedly looks like a little adult, handsome and straight, handsome and handsome with a cold look, more and more like him.
The carriage has not stopped in front of him, Yu'er hurriedly greeted him, Huangfu Xuan and I got off the car successively, Yu'er's eyes were on guard at the moment he saw Huangfu Xuan, but he still couldn't help but be happy, "Niangniang, I haven't seen you for four years, Niangniang is still as beautiful as she was that day." ”
"It's only been four years, have you ever thought that this palace will grow old?" I pretended to be angry, took him by the hand, and couldn't help but look at it carefully, fortunately, I haven't seen him for four years, and this kid can't see that he is having a bad time.
"No, no." When he heard me say this, he hurriedly explained with a smile, "It's just that after separation, I'm afraid that I will forget what my mother looks like, so I thought about it over and over again, and when I saw that the grandmother next to me had gray hair, I felt that my mother should also have some changes." ”
I laughed, pulled him over, and introduced him to Huangfu Xuan. "Yu'er, this is the emperor of my Nancheng Kingdom."
Although Yu'er's smile was a little unnatural, it still concealed the past without a trace, "That, that is, Niangniang's husband?" ”
"That's right." Huangfu announced, "The lady in your mouth is my wife." I just thought that you are also the lord of a country at a young age, and I still have to be polite when I see you, but I never thought that you would see my wife, but you are still so childish. ”
Yu'er quietly looked Huangfu Xuan up and down, and quietly paid attention to my attitude, so he let down his guard a little, "You are the Emperor of Nancheng, I am the Emperor of Beishao, you and I are the same, but when it comes to age and qualifications, it is right that I respect you, but since you are the husband of Niangniang, you are not an outsider, you and I are still exempt from those in private." ”
"Okay." Huangfu Xuan was a little shocked by his young but quite powerful aura, suddenly woke up, smiled consciously, and responded happily.
"But," Yu'er lowered her voice and leaned over to us, "Wait a minute, you'll meet a man who can't smile and has a particularly fierce face, and in front of him, you still have to pretend a little." ”
can't laugh, and he has a very fierce face......
Huangfu Xuan and I couldn't help but glance at each other, and immediately understood something, and laughed inexplicably.
"Weichen meets Emperor Nancheng, Queen Nancheng." The voice came from behind Yu'er, as if it was following him, but it gave us a moment to greet us, an unexpectedly familiar voice.
Takasaki.
I guess my expression isn't so soft.
Huang Fuxuan was a little worried and gently pulled me.
"Lord Gao, I didn't expect us to meet again." I forcibly endured my affection and pretended to greet him naturally.
"Mother, do you know?" Yu'er was surprised.
"It was many years ago." I glanced at Takasaki and replied softly.
"The emperor, the queen, and the regent have been waiting for a long time in the small building in the mountains." Takasaki's attitude is as good as ever, and it seems useless to deal with too many comments and others.
"Let's go, don't keep that man waiting too long." I grabbed Yu'er's shoulders and walked towards the mountain building with Huangfu Xuan, "Wait a minute, Yu'er has to see for yourself, Uncle Huangfu has prepared some gifts for you." ”
Yu'er is interested again.
I saw him again.
Yuan Ying heard the movement here, and still sat in the pavilion without moving, until we approached, he raised his eyes unhurriedly, and his face was as cold as ice, no wonder Yu'er would describe him like that.
"It's been hard work all the way." That was his first sentence.
"How hard it is." I'm here to see my son, but the coldness of the person in front of me at this time is very unappetizing. I sat opposite Yuan Ying with Huangfu Xuan, Yu'er walked to the pavilion, hesitated, sat next to me, I stretched out my hand to take him, "Look at your current appearance, Niang Niang wants to admit that she is old, she can't do it." ”
"How can the mother be old." Yu'er pretended to be surprised, but glanced at Yuan Ying, "Niangniang is the best-looking woman in the world, even Yu'er can't help but envy Emperor Nancheng, who can accompany Niangniang day and night." ”
I turned around and glanced at Huangfu Xuan, and clearly felt the unexpected smell of gunpowder in Yu'er's words, but this anger didn't seem to be coming at him, what I could think of was Yuan Ying, but what happened between them, I don't know.
Yuan Ying didn't seem to care, and didn't react at all.
In front of him, Yu'er still owes some Taoism.
"It seems that Emperor Beishao seems to appreciate the widowed queen very much." Huangfu made a joke, intending to mediate the slightly deadlocked atmosphere in the pavilion, but this remark was quite provocative.
I glanced sideways slightly and glared at him, but this subtle movement made Yuan Ying notice.
"Your Majesty is still young, so naturally I don't know the rules of adulthood. Emperor Nancheng should not be blamed. Yuan Ying spoke.
The voice was like coming out of Fei's mouth, his eyebrows and eyes did not move, his expression remained unchanged, and he didn't even have a little more embellishment, and it was so dry and cold that it was very uncomfortable, but just this sentence sounded like blaming Yu'er for being open-mouthed, and opened the invisible distance between Huangfu Xuan and Yu'er, returning the relationship between the two emperors to the original position of the two emperors.
"It's okay, widows also like children very much." Huangfu Xuan replied. "From an adult's point of view, the Young Emperor of Beishao is outstanding, and his outstanding demeanor is no longer comparable to the world's laymen, how can he be an ordinary child, even if he is a widow, he wants to marry the little girl under his knees to him."
I was amazed that Huang Fuxuan had already spoken out without consulting me at all.
Not for anything else, the only little princess under Huangfu Xuan's knees, and her biological mother is Concubine Bai, even if you don't care about this, Yu'er's marriage, from my mother's point of view, I still hope that he can make his own decisions. "Hongu thinks it's ......"
"The queen thinks well, too?" Huangfu Xuan understood what I meant, but interrupted my words, and laughed to himself as if he was reminiscing, "Thinking back to my childhood, the marriage between the widow and the queen was also set by the two emperors of Nancheng and Dongfu. It would also be a good thing if the young emperor of Beishao could continue the good story with the little princess of Nancheng. ”
"Heng'er is still young, so it's up to her to find her sweetheart by herself." I tried to redeem it.
In just a moment, in Huangfu Xuan's eyes, there was something different. It only froze slightly, and then quickly disappeared as if nothing had happened. It was only when I suddenly saw him like this that I realized what he had misunderstood.
"Who is Heng'er? Is it the mother's daughter? Although Yu'er didn't understand the affairs of the adult world, he couldn't interject between these words, but he was curious about the unfamiliar names mentioned in the conversation.
"Heng'er is the little princess in Nancheng Palace, and she is the daughter of Emperor Nancheng." Although I had no intention of announcing Yu'er's marriage by Huangfu, and tried to prevent him from mentioning it again, I didn't know how to explain the momentary misunderstanding just now, and I felt embarrassed at the moment, so I turned around slightly and avoided it by talking to Yu'er. "She's three years younger than you, and she's only six years old this year."
I don't know if this introduction really satisfies Yu'er's curiosity, although he still has questions, but he seems to have accidentally felt the inexplicable embarrassment between me and Huangfu Xuan, and he didn't continue to ask. "Then if you have a chance, you must introduce me to me."
I didn't expect the four of them to meet for the first time, and they would be so embarrassed inexplicably.
This small building in the mountains was built like a palace when I was in the middle of the tour, and after dinner, Yu'er proposed to take me around. I thought to myself that it would be quite embarrassing if I just inadvertently chatted like this, and when I returned to the room, there would be only me and Huangfu Xuan left.
He asked for a word, got up, and wanted to leave the table with Yu'er.
"Shaoyi." Huangfu Xuan suddenly summoned Shao Yi, "You follow the queen and protect the queen and Emperor Beishao." ”
Although there are other accompanying guards, Shao Yi has always followed Huang Fu Xuan, and he suddenly asked Shao Yi to follow us, which is also to remind us to be careful of other people who may suddenly appear in the mountains, but I don't worry, Huang Fu Xuan transferred Shao Yi away from his side, what if there is any accident on his side.
I was thinking about it, and when I looked up, I realized that Yuan Ying was looking at me, as if he knew what I was thinking, and his expression was a little scary.
I think it's okay, after all, Yuan Ying is here, and it is impossible for everyone to do something, there should be no difference, so he will be accompanied by Shaoyi.
Yu'er took my hand and walked out of the mountain building slowly, and after a while, I realized that Takasaki was also not far away, but not far away, and did not disturb us. Shao Yi also followed us, but it was exactly the distance between us and Gao Qi, so it just blocked Gao Qi, just in case.
"Is the marriage contract between Niangniang and Emperor Nancheng made when they were young?" Yu'er was probably still curious about what we had said before, and saw that there was no one around her before she asked.
We walked to the mountain stream and stopped, Shao Yi and Gao Qi stopped some distance away from us.
I sat down on the grass and nodded. "Although I don't remember how it happened, because it was when I was very young, my father made a marriage contract with the then Emperor Nancheng, that is, the father of the emperor's uncle."
"The person in the mother's heart is not the emperor's uncle?" Yu'er listened to me, thought for a while, and sat down as well, and he turned his head to look at me.
I smiled and touched his head, "It's not that he's not in my heart, it's just that the feelings are different." ”
Yu'er thought very seriously, looking at his expression, unbelievably calm and calm, I wasn't sure if he really understood what I meant. But he looked up again, looked back at the two men who were following us, and asked me, "Why are they standing so far away?" And, why just the two of them? ”
I followed his gaze and glanced at the mountains and forests shrouded in the night, except for the faint light of the water by the stream, the position where Shao Yi and Gao Qi were standing was really not close to us, and if you didn't look carefully, it was really difficult to spot them in the night.
"On weekdays, wherever I go alone, I am always followed by the tall man, and there will be many guards accompanying me, but it is not far away like this. Aren't they afraid that we are in danger here? Yu'er was very cautious, but looking at his relaxed expression, he didn't look like he was worried about what would happen to him.
"Are you afraid of something suddenly popping out of this mountain forest?" I whispered two paws to scare him.
Yu'er smiled happily. "Yu'er is not afraid, Yu'er is a man, so he is naturally not afraid. But Niangniang is a weak woman, and Yu'er is afraid that she will not be able to protect Niangniang. ”
My heart suddenly warmed, and I actually stretched out my hand to hug him, "Yu'er don't be afraid, even if the two of them don't follow, nothing in this mountain forest can hurt the two of us." "With the skills of the two of them, they really didn't mean to look down on them." The two of them dared to stand on guard in the distance with confidence, knowing that Niangniang was here, and no one could get close. ”
Yu'er seemed to understand, and couldn't help laughing out loud. "If Niangniang doesn't say it, Yu'er will forget about it, Niangniang is not an ordinary woman." He suddenly lowered his voice, "Yu'er knows that Niangniang is the famous Zhaohua County Lord. ”
"Oh?" I was a little surprised, but when I thought about it, I realized who had sued him.
"Sister Ning calls Niangniang an aunt, and often tells Yu'er about Niangniang. Yu'er is so envious, Niangniang can lead the army to fight, I really want to see Niangniang's demeanor in the army. Yu'er said, his voice gradually disappeared, he turned around and looked again, paid close attention to the surroundings, and asked me very strictly, "Niangniang, if Yu'er and the princess of Nancheng make a marriage contract, just like Niangniang and Emperor Nancheng did when they were young, then, Nancheng will help Yu'er." ”
I was stunned for a moment, I would never have imagined that he would ask me that.