Spring and autumn are changing, and things are changing.

In the blink of an eye, twelve years have passed since the Battle of Hanjiang.

The world is changing, but Taiye is still majestic.

In front of the Laiyi Palace in the Yongjin Gate, two girls of the same age were excitedly chasing each other and laughing on the grass by the incense mound. The color of the clothes is very bright, like two butterflies in spring.

The girl in red was slightly younger, and she couldn't catch up with the girl in yellow after chasing for a while, and suddenly her footwork changed, and her figure suddenly became much faster. She saw that her little hand could hook the corner of the yellow skirt, but she felt that the girl in yellow suddenly disappeared in front of her, and she was surprised, Leng Buding tripped over her back, and suddenly fell on the soft grass without being able to restrain her momentum.

The girl in red complained: "Sister Yiran, you are cheating...... He actually used shadow sewing to trip me. ”

The girl in yellow smiled: "You still say me, didn't you also use the cicada chasing technique to chase me?" It must have been Ato who taught you, didn't they? As he spoke, he reached out and pulled her up.

The two of them were busy dusting off the grass on their knees, and a palace maid hurriedly came: "Your Majesty, King Lijun asks to see you." ”

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen palace ladies in the distance came over with a white-clothed noblewoman, who was Liu Mingyan, the king of Lijun.

Liu Mingyan is more than forty years old, but she has been teaching the army since she was a child, and she has been fighting all year round, and she still can't hide the heroic spirit of a warrior.

When the girl in red saw it, she forgot about the fall she had just fallen, and hurriedly ran towards her, shouting loudly as she ran: "Mother! ”

Liu Mingyan was over thirty years old and loved this daughter, and when she saw that there were faint traces of dirt on her daughter's knees, she asked, "Xia'er, where did you go to roll again, how can you still fall?" ”

Qiu Yuexia was unconvinced and said: "It's not that Sister Yiran is cheating, otherwise I wouldn't have tripped over her." ”

While speaking, the girl in yellow also arrived, and Liu Mingyan scolded her daughter: "How many times have you said it, you want to be called Your Majesty!" How can you forget about humility! He turned his head and saluted the girl in yellow again: "The minister has seen Your Majesty." ”

This girl in yellow is the fifth generation of Ming Emperor Zhu Yiran, two years older than Qiu Yuexia, the two are close in age, although they have different surnames, they have the same bloodline, so Zhu Yiran will summon her into the palace from time to time to play with her, and the two are very close.

Seeing Liu Mingyan scolding Qiu Yuexia, she hurriedly waved her hand and said: "Auntie doesn't have to care so much, Aunt Qingyang also said in the past, although there is a difference, it is too rigid but it will hurt the feelings." This is Yongjinmen, and I am commensurate with Sister Xia, which is very good. ”

Qiu Yuexia saw Zhu Yiran speaking for her, she was a little proud, and pulled her mother's sleeve and said, "Where's Daddy?" Why didn't you see him come with you? ”

"Your father and Pei Guocheng have important things to say on Fuxingtai now, but they don't have the leisure time to accompany you."

"But I have a serious business with my father."

"You little guy messing around all day, what can it matter?"

Qiu Yuexia said solemnly: "I want my father to ask General Kawasawa to come to the capital to live for a few days." ”

Liu Mingyan knew that General Kawasawa in her daughter's mouth was the inseparable eagle-tailed firefly by her husband's side in the past, just because the eagle-tailed firefly was as beautiful as a flower, and she was dedicated to her husband, and after many years, she was still quite nostalgic in her heart.

"What are you going to do when you call General Kawasawa over?"

"Mother, you don't know, Sister Yiran, she has learned the shadow sewing technique! It must have been taught by General Kawazawa, and his daughter can only catch cicadas...... Ato Ah Kui and they all said that they didn't know how to sew shadows, but their daughter wanted to learn it. ”

Stitching? Liu Mingyan heard her husband say that this is the secret technique of the fog hidden stream, which cannot be comprehended by people with excellent qualifications, Zhu Yiran is twelve years old, and can learn such a profound secret technique?

"Hehehe, congratulations to Your Majesty, the technique of the Five Elements has improved again." Liu Mingyan congratulated her, but her face was a little unnatural.

Zhu Yiran just contemplated, and then noticed that Liu Mingyan seemed to be puzzled by the technique of contemplation, and asked, "Aunt seems to have something to say?" ”

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just this shadowsmithing...... But what General Kawasawa taught to His Majesty? ”

"yes."

"General Kawasawa is often in Jingzhou, I don't know when he entered the national capital, I don't know?"

Zhu Yiran was suddenly a little embarrassed, and then she remembered that Eagle Tail Hotaru had specially begged not to mention that she had come to the national capital recently, so she had to cover it up: "Oh, this time General Kawasawa came to the national capital in a hurry, and I said that I didn't need to go to see Liuguo Gong again, and it was important to return to Jingzhou early to run an errand, so my aunt didn't know." ”

"Oh......" Liu Mingyan saw that Zhu Yiran stopped this matter on herself, so she didn't want to ask again.

She knew that Washio-Tailu still had hidden feelings for her husband, but she was afraid that she would be unhappy, so she could avoid it all these years. In fact, Liu Mingyan is a big grinning character, if she really talks about it, she won't speak ill of her. On the contrary, it was the eagle-tailed Hotaru who deliberately avoided it, which made her feel so awkward.

"If Your Majesty sees General Kawasawa again in the future, please bring a message for the minister, and say that you have nothing to do, please come to the Mansion of the Ryuki Kingdom to sit down, they are all old people, don't see outside."

Zhu Yiran nodded and smiled: "Okay." ”

With this smile, her eyes cut water, and the corners of her eyebrows lingered, which shocked Liu Mingyan's heart.

Zhu Yiran is only twelve years old, he is already a peerless face, and his biological mother is like carved out of a mold, I really don't know what kind of national appearance he will be when he grows up in the future.

Qiu Yuexia saw that her mother was a little distracted, and pouted: "Mother, did you hear what your daughter said just now......?"

Liu Mingyan gently patted Qiu Yuexia's head and said, "You have more things to learn, can you practice your father's secret flow knife technique?" How have you learned Ruber's Gezhi technique? Mother still wants to teach you riding skills, don't make a mess of yourself. Quick, go out of the palace with your mother, it's almost time for your father to get off the Fuxing Platform, let's go home together. ”

Zhu Yiran heard that they were leaving, and she was a little reluctant, "Auntie, is she leaving?" No more sitting for a while? ”

"I'll go back today, and then let this kid enter the palace to accompany Your Majesty another day." Liu Mingyan bowed her body, pressed Qiu Yuexia's head and saluted Zhu Yiran, and walked away with a bunch of palace laves.

Qiu Yuexia followed her mother out of Yongjinmen, still worried about Zhu Yiran in her heart, and couldn't help asking: "Mother, then when can I come over to play with Sister Yiran again." ”

"Play, play, play, you know how to play. Your Majesty is also twelve years old, and your father and Pei Guogong have been discussing how to let her walk around Fuxingtai more in the past few days, where can I have time to play? ”

"But...... But I see that Sister Yiran is always lonely. ”

"Hey, for the monarch of the country, how can there be no loneliness. Doesn't my mother also think that His Majesty has lost his parents at a young age, which is really pitiful...... That's why I always sent you to the palace? You must know that there is a difference between the dignity and inferiority of the concubine, when the mother was as young as you, it was not so easy to enter the Yongjin Gate, and the mother grew to the age of eighteen, and she entered three times in total. ”

"Three times? Ouch, it seems that Her Majesty the old lady must not be very lonely. ”

"What old lady, Your Majesty, if you don't speak in a proper manner, I'm going to hit your palm." Liu Mingyan had a stern face, but she couldn't help but be amused by her daughter in her heart.

"But mother, doesn't Sister Yiran still have a younger brother? Why can't you come over to accompany her? ”

"You, you're still a child, you don't understand anything, Your Majesty's younger brother is now the king of Cangwu Kingdom, although he is young, he is also the lord of a country, how can he just come over. People don't want to govern the country and the country? ”

"But he's the younger brother of Sister Yiran, can't he see this, isn't it too pitiful?"

"Hey, there's no way around it. However, don't we have an agreement between the Bihai Kingdom and the Cangwu Kingdom, every five years, we will meet by the Hanjiang River, which is not only a gathering of flesh and blood, but also to maintain the harmony between the two countries, His Majesty has met with Emperor Cangwu when he was five and ten years old. ”

Qiu Yuexia tilted her head and thought about it, and said, "Really? I don't remember much. ”

"You didn't go at all, what do you remember?"

Qiu Yuexia thought about it again, and suddenly said seriously: "Mother! The daughter has decided! ”

"What did you decide?"

"My daughter decided to learn some skills, and then she became a messenger for Sister Yiran, and took the delegation to Cangwu Kingdom, what are the things, letters, and bring them to the younger brother of Emperor Ren, so that she will have to wait for five years to see her once."

Liu Mingyan couldn't help but laugh, and muttered in a low voice: "People have pigeon harriers, and it's not a matter of bringing a letter in a few days......"

"Huh? Mother, what did you say? ”

"Didn't say anything." Liu Mingyan said with a smile: "Mother said that our Xia Er is really understanding. ”

"Of course, didn't my aunt and grandmother keep saying that Cangwu and Bihai are a family, and if my daughter goes to Cangwu Country, she can still see her aunt and grandmother."

Liu Mingyan knew that the aunt she said was Zhu Yuxiao, the princess of Yinquan who returned to the imperial capital of Wanhua with Mu Yunzuo.

Most of the responsibilities of raising Emperor Cangwu Ren were entrusted to Zhu Yuxiao, one was that the Taishi Mansion had restored its former power, and the other was that Zhu Yuxiao was the aunt and grandmother of Emperor Ren, and they were all close relatives in both affection and reason. And Zhu Yuxiao's most painstaking efforts over the years, in addition to raising Emperor Ren, is to mediate between the two countries and eliminate estrangement and suspicion.

Perhaps for Zhu Yuxiao, she can't tell which side is her home country. Perhaps the motive for raising Emperor Ren so wholeheartedly also implies a remorse that she persuaded to marry Zhu Zhijie because of her own selfish thoughts.

It is really a wonderful thing in the world, but it was the two concubines of Cangwu Kingdom who raised Ming Emperor Zhu Yiran in Bihai, I heard that they are now ninety years old, and they are still in good spirits, fighting with each other, so that Zhu Yiran even issued an order to move these two concubines into Yongjinmen to live with him. It's just that I heard that the two old ladies are always idle, and sometimes they secretly use the secret passages in the city to sneak outside the city to visit the market, but I don't know if it's true or not.

Liu Mingyan looked at the sun outside the carriage window, and the sparkling waves on the Taiye Lake, reflecting the pavilions and pavilions on the side.

Suddenly, a familiar figure appeared in front of the Fuxing Platform in the distance, tall and thin, like a green bamboo.

Liu Mingyan suddenly moved her childlike heart, bowed her head and whispered to her daughter: "Go, quietly tell your father, we won't go home later, let's go to the boat for dinner tonight." ”

Qiu Yuexia's eyes lit up, she liked to go to her father's serpentine ship to play, and when she heard this, she clapped her little hands and got out of the car, and ran towards her father with cicada chasing skills.

A man's clear call came from afar: "Xia'er, slow down, Daddy is here!" ”

The afterglow fades, and the years are quiet.