In Huayu Palace, Ying Shiyan was carefully tasting the ice powder that had just been delivered.

A snow-white porcelain bowl, containing half a bowl of crystal clear ice powder, poured with fruit vinegar and honey juice, scooped into a snow-white porcelain spoon, a transparent ball gently trembling and shaking, looking like the most pleasing elf.

The entrance is sweet and sour, and the whole body feels a kind of sweetness and transparency.

Ying Shiyan eats very slowly, sitting at the table in front of the window, and staying for a long time to take a bite.

The two little maids stood next to them and fanned gently, but they didn't dare to say anything.

Because since she woke up after her last serious illness, as long as Qinghehou didn't come to visit her, the princess was like this, sometimes she would sit in a daze for a day and sit until dark.

The last time the two saw each other was when they watched the fireworks.

And after hearing about the disaster relief, the Marquis of Qinghe moved to live outside the city, and then he didn't come once, and the five princesses became ill with thoughts, and their bodies lost a lot of weight.

His Majesty arranged for someone to send ice powder, saying that it was sent to the palace by the Marquis of Qinghe, so Ying Shiyan sat in front of the window, slowly eating ice powder and waiting.

Such beautiful and delicious food, I wonder how he made it?

His lady must be very happy, every time she can be the first to eat the most delicious food he has ever made, listen to him tell those good and funny stories, and follow him to Qinghe Garden to watch the latest plays!

"Master Hou, when are you going to marry Shi Yan!"

Ying Shiyan felt as if she couldn't wait for that day, every minute was torment, and she felt that she couldn't hold on anymore in this lonely and lonely deep palace.

Just when Ying Shiyan was in a trance with a spoon, a young man wearing a brocade robe with his hair neatly combed behind his head and a hairband was walking through an arch and into the garden in front of Huayu Palace under the escort of two palace people and several guards.

"Master Hou!" Ying Shiyan, who was sitting in front of the window, stood up with a sigh, the spoon in her hand fell to the table with a thud, and then ran out with her skirt, but after running a few steps, she quickly turned back and looked at the bronze mirror on the table a few times, picked up a handkerchief and wiped her face a few times, and then ran to the door of the dormitory and looked around, and soon saw Chen Xu who was striding over.

"Master Hou!" Ying Shiyan excitedly ran down the steps with her skirt, and then suddenly came to her senses, and hurriedly stood up with a blushing face and a red ear and saluted, "Shiyan greets Qinghehou!" ”

"Xu, meet the five princesses!" Chen Xu also hurriedly returned the salute, and the two looked at each other like this, tears slowly welled up in Ying Shiyan's eyes, flowing down her slightly thin cheeks.

Well, Chen Xu was a little in a hurry, at this time, several palace guards and palace maids around him were all looking at him, but soon Chen Xu opened his arms and hugged Ying Shiyan in his arms and helped her wipe away her tears and said, "Princess, you must not have eaten well, you have lost weight!" ”

Ying Shiyan was separated from her body by this sudden hug, and Chen Xu had been with her for so long, she also knew that Chen Xu promised to marry her, but the two had only held hands at most, or the last night to watch fireworks, but today she was tightly held in her arms, Ying Shiyan felt that the long-term torment and waiting disappeared in an instant, and the endless grievances in her heart also turned into the joy of lovesick reunion, and she blushed and whispered: "Shiyan just misses the Hou Ye too much, and she must eat well in the future!" ”

"Well, that's right, today I made some ice powder and sent it to the palace to taste with the emperor, I don't know if you have eaten it?"

"Thank you, Master Hou, the imperial dining room has already sent a bowl, Shi Yan has tasted it, it is very delicious, and it is very beautiful, Shi Yan can't bear to eat it......" Ying Shi Yan leaned on Chen Xu's arms and spoke softly, not daring to look up, and reluctant to let go, for fear of leaving Chen Xu's arms, and no longer have the courage to hug each other in front of so many people.

"Hehe, the introduction to food emphasizes three kinds of color and fragrance, look at its color, smell its fragrance, taste its taste, this ice powder has color and flavor but no temptation fragrance, so it is not a delicacy, at most it is a summer snack...... Princess, Xu came from afar, don't you want to invite Xu into the mansion to entertain you? I'm going to die! Chen Xu said with a smile when he suddenly changed his mind when he said about the food.

"Ah, Lord Hou forgives his sins! Hurry up and follow the poet into the palace to rest! ”

Ying Shiyan woke up and a group of people were still standing in the strong sun, looking up shyly and panicked, and saw that there were beads of sweat rolling down Chen Xu's forehead along his cheeks, and quickly left Chen Xu's already sweaty arms, carrying the skirt in front of him to lead the way, the pace was brisk and a little chaotic, the usual quiet and elegant was almost gone, several palace maids covered their mouths and looked dull, slightly afraid to believe that this was the princess who had been demented and tired recently.

Chen Xu has been to Huayu Palace many times, and he is familiar with the road, so he followed Ying Shiyan into her bedroom, the maid brought a basin and a face towel, Chen Xu sat down after washing his face and hands, and Ying Shiyan personally brought him a glass of water.

"Master Hou, please drink water!" Win the poem and bow blessed.

Chen Xu hurriedly took it and returned the salute, the two sat down opposite each other, looking at each other, Ying Shiyan looked at Chen Xu with a pair of big eyes and couldn't move away, Chen Xu smiled slightly bitterly in his heart, and after drinking a sip of water, his heart was even more emotional.

In this patriarchal era, although Ying Shiyan is a princess, the things in the palace are very simple, and her eyes sweep the entire bedroom, except for the bronze mirror and a few simple utensils and furniture, you can't find too many noble and gorgeous decorations that people can associate with the royal family.

And even if it is the water drunk, it is still water held in an ordinary pottery cup, not even herbal tea, which shows that the life in the palace is far from being as luxurious as the outside world speculates, and the life of the royal daughter is not as good as that of many princes and princes or wealthy merchants.

For example, Fan Caiying, who Chen Xu is more familiar with, as Fan's plenipotentiary agent in Xianyang, lives in Qinghe Hotel every day, and lives a fine clothes and jade food, just clothes and accessories, Chen Xu wears something different every time he sees her, almost never repeats it, maybe it is deliberately in the face of Chen Xu, but each of those hostas and golden hairpins is by no means vulgar, but very valuable, worthy of a year's income of a small rich family.

As for the women in their own house, Shui Qingrou does not like to dress up, the nature of Liezi's disciples is quiet and indifferent, not a precious occasion on weekdays, Shui Qingrou never wears jewelry, her hair is neatly combed and inserted with a wooden hairpin, and her clothes are simple, so she looks elegant and indifferent, quite a bit of Taoist daughter style, and a few little maids who take care of her also learn to look like Shui is soft, and she is not that kind of luxurious dress on weekdays, the so-called good and good must follow, so all the servants in the house are dressed up in this simple and casual way, And Chen Xu is even more outrageous, on weekdays at home, it is a T-shirt and big pants plus a pair of bamboo slippers, and this kind of cool dress The guards and servants in the house have all learned, not only saving fabrics but also cool, it is also convenient to work, and it is more convenient to put on and take off, so if the people of the Qinghe Hou Mansion do not go out, they will see a group of sloppy ghosts who are so casual that they are almost unrestrained, and everyone is used to it.

But as a princess, Chen Xu visited her several times in the palace, and she was very familiar with it, and the clothes she wore were only four or five sets of clothes before and after, and the set of household clothes she was wearing today, although the workmanship was exquisite, it could be seen that many places had been worn and slightly old.

Seeing Chen Xu staring directly at his chest, Ying Shiyan's cheeks were flushed with shyness, her heart was beating wildly, and she felt that her hands and feet were a little disobedient, so she grabbed the hem of her skirt tightly with both hands and whispered, "Master Hou, you ...... What are you looking at? ”

"Oh~" Chen Xu came back to his senses, put down the water cup and said with a smile: "Come to the palace today, and come to see the princess by the way, I have now moved to live in another courtyard outside the city, I rarely enter the city on weekdays, and I don't come to visit the princess for many days, I feel very guilty, last time Xu promised to take time to visit the princess's ......"

"Hou Ye, don't blame yourself so much, Shi Yan heard that Dong County and Qi County were flooded, Hou Ye tried his best to donate clothes, money and food to the disaster area, and arranged for the newspaper to collect and edit articles and print newspapers, I heard that Hou Ye is still preparing for the history museum, bookstore and printing house, what Hou Ye did is a big thing, only let Shi Yan revere incomparably, but unfortunately Shi Yan is just a woman, and she can't help Hou Ye!" Ying Shiyan hurriedly stood up and explained for Chen Xu.

Such a knowledgeable and understanding girl, Lao Tzu must marry!

Chen Xu also stood up and said, "Princess, Xu built a swimming pool for playing in the water in the courtyard outside the city, I don't know if the princess has heard of it!" ”

"Shi Yan heard the sister-in-law and Ziying talk about it, and the description is like the fairy palace Yaotai, Shi Yan is very yearning!"

"Tomorrow I will let the gentle to pick up the princess to play in the Qinghe Courtyard, now the summer is unbearable, you can also play with the gentle water, and after the autumn, Xu will definitely ask His Majesty to marry the princess, and I hope that the princess and the gentle can understand and take care of each other......"

"Don't worry, Master Hou, Shi Yan will definitely listen to Sister Gentle!" Ying Shiyan's excited delicate body trembled slightly.

"Let's go, it's still early today, I invite the princess to Qinghe Garden to watch a play!"

"Thank you, Master Hou! Shi Yan is honored! Ying Shiyan's face instantly bloomed, and then instructed the palace people to prepare a guard of honor to follow Chen Xu out of the palace, and after meeting with Chen Xu's carriage, the two cars walked side by side on the street and went straight to Qinghe Garden.

And just when Chen Xu left the palace with the five princesses, in the Zichen Palace, Qin Shi Huang wrote the five big characters of Tang King Li Shimin on a piece of paper, and after staring for a long time, he suddenly poked the brush on the three words of Li Shimin, and a cloud of ink quickly stained the paper.

Although the Marquis of Qinghe said that the story is recorded in the Book of Heaven, and the characters and time are all illusory and inexplicable, such real characters and stories, in the eyes of Qin Shi Huang, are not much different from the real ones, and the region is also in the Central Plains, which is in the same vein as the current Great Qin.

"Tang King Li Shimin, could it be that you have ruined my Great Qin Foundation and the eternal country?" Qin Shi Huang's eyes showed a fierce murderous intent that he had never seen before.

Chen Xu naturally didn't know that the First Emperor of Great Qin suddenly put an inexplicable hat of destroying the country on Li Shimin's head eight hundred years later, thinking that the Great Qin Foundation that he had built and was ready to inherit forever would be snatched away by Li Shimin and killed.

And if Li Shimin, eight hundred years later, knows that he has been remembered by the first emperor through the ages across time and space, he doesn't know whether to cry or laugh, or to crawl out of the coffin to compete with Qin Shi Huang, so that the world can see who is the real first emperor of China.