167 Epilogue

The years in the mountains are easy, and it has been ten years of wind and frost in the world.

Since more than ten years ago, the general of Zhenbei killed the Mobei barbarians to the point of fear, and after the vitality was greatly injured, there was no barbarian harassment of the border, there was no suffering of war, and the Central Plains ushered in a peaceful and prosperous era.

Since the Holy Lord's pro-government, the Queen Mother has retreated to the background, enjoying her old age, enjoying this rare leisure time, and going to the Guogong Mansion to sit when she has nothing to do.

Occasionally, when he was interested, he would pretend to be ordinary people, call his youngest son and nephew, and accompany him to the market.

Since she entered the palace at the age of fifteen, she has never stepped out of the palace gate again, fought for half her life, spent most of her life in the splendid palace, experienced the ups and downs of life, lost her husband, and lost her son.

The three of them were dressed in ordinary clothes, walking in the bustling street market, like grandmothers and two grandchildren out for a walk.

When the Queen Mother was squatting on the ground and bargaining with the hawkers, the young and vigorous emperor looked at a certain place in the crowd, quietly poked his cousin next to him with his arm, put his hand on his shoulder, and whispered: "Xiaochuan, look at the person in front of you, does it look like your father-in-law?" ”

After speaking, he added: "That is, my fourth brother, speaking of which, I haven't seen my fourth brother for a long time." ”

"Cut!" The fifteen-year-old boy snorted, waved his hand away from his cousin's hand on his shoulder, and said disdainfully: "Uncle cousin, you are dazzled, my father-in-law has already gone to the four seas to hide from us, how can he be in the capital." ”

"Well, that's right." The young man sighed, and suddenly the conversation changed. quipped: "If you hadn't bothered my fourth brother all day long, let him tell you about the battlefield." How could my fourth brother run! You know, you're the only seedling in my uncle's family. If you are missing a hair, my uncle will not be able to block my fourth brother's door and cry, make trouble and hang himself, hahaha! ”

"You're embarrassed to say me! If you hadn't been clamoring every day to wander the world with my stepfather, how could my stepfather leave the capital! The other boy blushed and immediately choked back.

The two of you say a word, I say a word, the quarrel is not lively, but they are intimate, and the brothers are nothing more than that.

The woman crouching on the ground shook her head and smiled. I picked two identical earthen whistles made of clay at the roadside stall, got up after paying, stuffed the two whistles into the mouths of the two people, and said angrily: "I really shouldn't have taken you two bastard boys out, and let people not clean their ears!" ”

The two teenagers looked at each other and smiled, each looking to the side......

Thousands of miles away in the green hills, a mansion with red walls and brown tiles was hidden in the verdant mountains, and at the highest point of the courtyard, the man in white standing on the edge of the stone pavilion steps sneezed several times one after another. I couldn't help but wonder how I poked the beauty ditch on my chin a few times with my finger, and secretly thought: Those two stinky boys must be cursing me behind my back again!

"You've seen it too, it's time to go, I'm sorry not to send it far." The man in the green shirt in the stone pavilion poured wine and drank himself. The tone was light, and he unceremoniously wanted to let the guests go.

The man in white smiled and returned to the pavilion to sit down. Looking along the sight of the man of the mansion, I saw the back garden built against the mountain. The hostess was on crutches in one hand and a little fox with shiny fur in the other. Stroll along the flower path and enjoy the scenery along the way.

Behind him were two respectful servants, always keeping a certain distance from her, not disturbing her, and being able to rescue her in time when anything happened to her.

The man in white retracted his gaze, poured himself a pot, and said lonely: "Sometimes, I really envy you, she dares to gamble with her life to gamble on freedom, and you, dare to gamble with your own life on her, fortunately, you all won." ”

"Aren't you the same? used the power in his hands to gamble on a peaceful and prosperous era for the people. The owner of the green shirt hooked his lips and smiled, pouring out all beings.

Ten years of horses, life and death are bearish.

When a family is at its peak, if it is not pruned, it will inevitably usher in decline, just like the Chen family that covers the sky with one hand, in addition to the descendant Guogong Mansion, the people in the side line have long been carried away by fame and money, corruption, unjust imprisonment, bullying, and countless twists and turns that are pressed down by the Queen Mother every day.

In state affairs, the Queen Mother is not a foolish person who will show favoritism, but she always has to take care of the reputation of her mother's family, and she can't let them affect the entire family, so she has the most outstanding child of the Chen family, the only heir of the Guogong Mansion, who was buried in the fire, this move heavily suppressed the Chen family, so that the Queen Mother lightly pruned and pruned their leaves and removed the excess branches.

The fourth prince is not a person who is greedy for power, on the contrary, his mother's teaching to him since he was a child is to keep him away from court disputes, and he used to be persistent, but he just wanted his mother to be wronged.

The Queen Mother's ability to govern the country is obvious to all, and she is deeply supported by the people, and after Chen Yu's death, she ruthlessly 'trimmed' the cancer in the Chen family, making the world peaceful, he is a person who is used to being leisurely and comfortable, there is no need to let the peaceful and prosperous world have twists and turns again for his own ambitions, for the people, for himself, this will not be a good thing.

When he brushed his clothes, walked to the poor water, and sat and watched the clouds rise, this was his original intention, the queen mother delegated power, and worked hard to train her son to be a qualified Ming Jun, and treat the people well, this is the best ending.

"Sometimes, I envy you."

The boy in white looked at the hostess who was walking farther and farther on the flower path in a daze, and suddenly felt an urge to be the crutch in her hand, so that whether it was windy or rainy, or sunny and sunny, he could always be by his side to ensure that she walked unhindered.

The man in the green shirt glanced at him, hooked his lips and smiled, and said lightly: "This is nothing to envy, because she should have belonged to me." ”

The first intersection of fates was in the middle of winter a few years ago.

On that day, it snowed in the sky, covered in silver, and she wore a snow-white cloak, riding on the high courtyard wall, and reached out to pick the red plums that bloomed freely outside the courtyard, while he rode a white horse and wore a bright red cloak and passed under the plum tree.

The breeze blew lightly, blowing down the snow on the branches, and falling on the horses, startling the white horse to neigh, and startling her riding on the wall, like a red plum on the branches, fell from the wall.

He took two steps forward with a light grip on the horse's belly, impartially, just in time to catch the girl who fell from the wall.

The sky and the earth were snow-white, and the snow piled up on the branches was falling.

The girl stared at the big apricot eyes, like a panicked deer, looking at the young man on the horse in fear, a heart suddenly beating, surrounded by a light and elegant cold plum fragrance, so that she could not forget the fragrance of jì for countless days and nights in the future, this is the beginning of the story. (To be continued......)