In the twenty-first year of the Tang Dynasty, the former Empress Xiao of Sui died at the age of eighty-one.

Queen Xiao enjoyed the prosperity of the world in the first half of her life, although Yang Guang was a little happy, and there were many concubines in the palace, but she has always loved Queen Xiao, and the relationship between the husband and wife is very good. However, since the Jiangdu Rebellion, Empress Xiao has suffered greatly from displacement, and even exiled to the Turks, and did not return to Chang'an again until the fourth year of Zhenguan.

It's just that although Empress Xiao in Chang'an was courteous to Li Shimin, as the queen of the previous dynasty, her life in Chang'an was not satisfactory, and no one dared to visit her except for her younger brother Xiao Yu. It wasn't until later that Concubine Yang and her were relieved of their suspicions, and brothers Li Su and Li Ke often went to her, which made the Sui State Lady's Mansion a little angry.

It's just that the appearance of Yang Jun later, although Queen Xiao felt very gratified, but then experienced the pain of losing a child, which made her grief-stricken, and later Li Su left Queen Xiao and Cai'er in Taiwan to relax, but even with him and Cai'er, these younger generations, Queen Xiao still couldn't get out of the grief of Yang Jun's death. But fortunately, she is a long-lived person, and she has Cai'er, a granddaughter, who is by her side, so this has made Queen Xiao stand up until now.

Thinking of the first time he met Empress Xiao, and the other party mistook him for Yang Guang, Li Su felt like it was yesterday. The four guard rings that Queen Xiao gave herself as a meeting gift that day are still wearing them on Li Su's hand, but the ring is still there, but the person who gave the ring is no longer there.

"Sixth Brother Day mourning, Mrs. Sui passed away at the age of eighty, which is already a rare high life!" Outside the harbor of the city of Chora. Li Zhen and Li Yun brought their families to see Li Yu off, and Li Yun was the first to speak and comfort.

"Hmm. I know that the things on Tianzhu's side will depend on you to do it yourself. If you need any cooperation, you will send someone to Focheng to find Liu Renliang. Li Su also spoke, but now his expression was gloomy, and his eyes were bloodshot, since he received the news of Empress Xiao's death yesterday, he didn't close his eyes all night.

Seeing Li Su's expression so haggard, Li Zhen, Li Yun and others were a little worried, and they wanted to say something more, but they saw Li Su waving his hand. Then he turned around and got on the boat, and when he got to the boat, he waved goodbye to everyone.

After Li Su's fleet left Chora City, he did not return to Ceylon, but directly sent someone to tell Liu Renliang to cooperate with Li Zhen and Li Yun's actions as much as possible, and then the fleet went all the way east, through the Strait of Malacca to the Lion City, Li Su immediately replaced the ship with a steam ship. When he arrived in Taiwan, he stopped again, picked Wen Xin and a few others on the ship, and then rushed to the direction of Yangzhou at the maximum speed.

Tianzhu is too far away from Chang'an, even if Li Su rushes day and night. It will take at least more than two months to reach Chang'an, so Empress Xiao's funeral naturally can't wait for Li Su to rush back. In addition, Empress Xiao's identity is special, and Cai'er is Li Zhi's crown princess. So in the end, Li Shimin personally issued an order and ordered Li Zhi and Xiao Yu to prepare for the funeral of Empress Xiao. And also with the gift of the queen, Empress Xiao was buried in the tomb of Emperor Yang in Yangzhou. And when Li Su rushed back. Empress Xiao's funeral procession is almost in Yangzhou.

Compared with Li Su, who didn't know in advance, Li Ke received the news that Empress Xiao was seriously ill a few months ago, so he rushed to Chang'an early, and he also made a lot of efforts at this funeral, and when Li Su arrived in Yangzhou, it happened to be the day when Empress Xiao's body was sent to Yangzhou.

Seeing Empress Xiao's coffin, Li Yu naturally cried loudly, although Li Zhi and Xiao Yu persuaded her, but it was useless, and Concubine Yang and Princess Nanyang, Cai'er and others couldn't help but feel sad again when they saw Li Yu's grief, and they also cried on the spot.

However, no matter how sad Li Su is, the day of Queen Xiao's burial has been set, and the day of the burial cannot be delayed because of him, so after the burial, Li Su had to wear heavy filial piety to guard the tomb of Queen Xiao, in order to express his guilt towards Queen Xiao, and it was useless for anyone to persuade him. After all, in his opinion, as his grandson, he failed to stay by his side when the old man died, which made Li Su very self-reproachful, and now he can only make up for it in this way.

However, nine days after Queen Xiao was buried, Cai'er and Li Zhi found Li Su, but as soon as Cai'er saw Li Su, she immediately couldn't cry, and finally stopped crying under the comfort of Li Zhi and Li Su, and then Cai'er said: "Cousin, when my grandmother died, I told me not to delay the business because of her funeral, now that my grandmother has been buried for nine days, your filial grandmother must also feel it, so let's go back, there are still many government affairs in Taiwan that you need to deal with!" ”

"Yes, sixth brother, when my grandmother was seriously ill, I was also present, and she must ask to hide this news from you, because she knows that you have a lot of affairs in Taiwan, and you can't be distracted because of her affairs, which shows that grandmother cares about you, although her old man is no longer there, but you don't want to delay the business because of too much pain!" Li Zhi next to him also opened his mouth to persuade.

However, after hearing this, Li Su shook his head and said: "My grandmother regards me as her own grandson, but her old man can't even see me for the last time, this is my unfilial piety, so don't persuade me anymore!" ”

Seeing Li Zhi so insistent, Li Zhi wanted to say something more, but Cai'er gave Li Zhi a look. This made Li Zhi immediately understand, turned around and left here, and let Cai'er persuade Li Su alone.

Seeing Li Zhi leaving, Cai'er whispered to Li Su: "Cousin, you should know your grandmother's expectations for you, and even in her eyes, you are the continuation of your grandfather's life, so she wants to see more than anyone else that you can build a big empire comparable to the Tang Dynasty, so if you let your grandmother know about your current appearance, it will only disappoint her!" ”

At the end, Cai'er's tone became a little stern. And Li Su was silent after hearing this. He naturally knew Empress Xiao's expectations of herself, although the former Sui died, but he had half of the Yang blood, plus his appearance was very similar to Yang Guang, so from the beginning, Empress Xiao was very supportive of Li Su's outward development, and also regarded Li Su's power as a continuation of the former Sui royal family, although this idea is a bit wishful thinking, but for an old man in his old age, it is not a comfort.

It was precisely Empress Xiao who had this kind of thought, so people concealed the news of her death. In fact, this is not the first time, when Yang Xuan died, he also concealed the news from Li Su, because it was the critical period of Li Su's invasion of Silla, and this time Li Su was far away in Tianzhu, although Empress Xiao didn't know whether Tianzhu's matter was important to Li Su, but she didn't want to disrupt Li Su's plan because of her death.

Thinking of this, Li Su finally let out a sigh, raised his head and said to Cai'er: "Cai'er, I know what to do, I also know my grandmother's thoughts very well, today is the ninth day, after the guard, I will leave here tomorrow." ”

Seeing that Li Su was finally explained by herself, Cai'er finally breathed a sigh of relief. The next day, Li Su really left the cemetery of Empress Xiao and Yang Guang and came to Yangzhou City to reunite with Concubine Yang and them. During this time, although Concubine Yang was worried about Li Su, being able to see Li Qi and Li Mian's two grandsons also made her feel happy, and she took her two grandchildren with her all day long, and even Li Su, the son, forgot to think about it.

Li Su and Li Ke have not seen Concubine Yang for several years, and there are the third generations such as Chouchou and Li Qi, which naturally seem to be even more happy, and this also dilutes the sadness of Empress Xiao's death a lot. It is also worth mentioning that Li Zhi and Cai'er got married last year, and now Cai'er has officially become the crown princess of the Tang Dynasty, and Miss Hu Yuyi has entered the palace as Liangdi.

Although Yangzhou is good, but Concubine Yang and Cai'er they can't stay for a long time, after all, after dealing with the funeral of Queen Xiao, they still have to go back to Chang'an, but just when they haven't left, Chang'an suddenly came another news, Shen Guogong Gao Shilian died of illness, Li Shimin cried bitterly.

Although Li Su didn't have much impression of Gao Shilian, he only remembered that the other party was a very serious old man, but he knew that Gao Shilian was ranked sixth among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, under Fang Xuanling. And in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Wei Zheng, who ranked fourth, also died. In addition, there are old ministers like Li Jing, Fang Xuanling, and Xiao Yu, whose bodies have become more and more aging in recent years, which also shows that the courtiers of Datang who helped Li Shimin fight the world are slowly getting old, and this is undoubtedly a huge challenge for Datang, and at the same time, it is a huge opportunity for some young courtiers.

This time, Concubine Yang and the others did not go to Taiwan again, but went to Shanghai to stay for a while, and Concubine Yang also specially summoned Li Chengqian, because before coming, Empress Changsun asked her to help bring him a few words, but when Li Chengqian came out after seeing Concubine Yang, there seemed to be traces of crying on his face.

In addition, Li Yu also specially brought Wen Xin and his son Li Mian to visit Xiao Yu, after all, Wen Xin is still Xiao Yu's granddaughter in name, and Xiao Yu's health has not been very good in recent years, and she was hit by the death of Queen Xiao.

Seeing that Xiao Yu's health was so bad, Wen Xin persuaded him several times to let go of the affairs of the court and the central government, and it was best to move to Taiwan to recuperate for a while, but Xiao Yu was a die-hard character and didn't care about Wen Xin's words at all, so in the end, Li Yu and Wen Xin could only tell him to take care of his body.

The only thing that makes Wen Xin happy is that her mother has finally decided to come to Taiwan, and she is now preparing, and it is estimated that she will leave next year at the latest. It's just that when Li Su heard the news, he thought of Wen Xin's nominal father Xiao Cuo, if he remembered correctly, he seemed to have been in love with Wen Xin's mother, but the two could only be husband and wife in name, I don't know what he would think about Wen Xin's mother's departure? (To be continued......)