The busy streets, with their busy traffic and sounds, converge into a boring and vibrant music. An elegant teahouse stands in the middle of the downtown area, and the literati and elegant guests in the building gather in twos and threes, as if they are discussing some articles and poems.

Several students in cyan Confucian robes held a few pieces of paper in their hands, and the paper was full of dense fly-headed small letters. Student A looked excited: "Look, what did I buy?" Student B and Student C exclaimed together: "The biography of the characters in the collector's edition of "Nanling Tabloid Newspaper", good luck." ”

Student A was proud, "As soon as I bought this volume, I found two people to appreciate it." A few more people praised each other, and then they got to the point.

The tabloid begins with a strange anecdote a hundred years ago, about the love story of Lu Xiaodu, the first beauty in the world at that time, Princess Ankang, and the general Zhou Dynasty of Pingnan, that is, Zhou Duyun. After getting married, the two solved several major cases in a row, stabilized the court, and then wandered the rivers and lakes, leaving behind legendary stories, living in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and living a life like a fairy couple.

Lu Xiaodu, Zhou Duyun, there are indeed people, but is this really the case? Let's go back a hundred years and see what really happened.

A hundred years ago. Fengyuan ten years

The capital of the Great Chu State, Nanling, also known as Tianjing. Lu Xiaodu was born.

It seems to be March, when it is warm and cold. The drizzling rain brought news of spring, and the anxious grass had also poked its head out. Prince An's Mansion ushered in the sixth little life of this family, yes, she has five older brothers. Unfortunately, Princess An Zhao died in childbirth, and poor Xiao Du was born without a mother.

But Lu Xiaodu's life is still so good that people in the world are jealous, because of her noble status and her father, who spoiled her to the best in the world.

In the winter of this year, there was a lot of snowfall, and the first emperor died. His son Lu Zhangyuan succeeded to the throne and changed the year name to Qingyu, implying a bumper harvest for the people.

The first year of Qingyu, summer. Puyuan County.

Zhou Jincai, a local wealthy man, with twin children, was kidnapped by bandits. Although, the ransom was paid, but the two children were thrown off the cliff. Master Zhou searched hard for several days and nights, and found his son's body, and his daughter was also dying.

After the catastrophe of life and death, the daughter survived, but the injury was serious, and her face extended from the corner of the right eye, across the bridge of the nose, to the left cheek, with a long cut, and a terrifying face.

And there are countless wounds on the body, and the abdomen is even more seriously injured, and it may be difficult to have Kwai Shui, and he will be infertile for life.

The Zhou family is old and has children, or twins, the husband and wife love each other very much, and now the son is gone, leaving only one daughter, and he can't bear to let his daughter suffer in the future, and it is the daughter who claims to die.

The husband and wife have a plan, when their daughter is old, spend money to buy someone, and then have a child in the clan, the property they leave is enough for their daughter to have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, and they only hope that their daughter can spend her life safely.

However, the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and the two old heads couldn't think of it, and they couldn't imagine that the soul in their daughter's body had been changed. That's right, a 21st century policeman wore to Zhou Xiaoxia, and now it is Zhou Chao.

Zhou Chao's memory of her previous life was already very vague, and she only felt that she was not from here, but she didn't know what to say, and she didn't even remember her name.

When she wore it, it was in the bandits' den, Zhou Xiaoxia was weak, and she went after a few days of high fever, and she was replaced by her. Hearing that the bandits were going to tear up the ticket, she fled with the real Zhou Dynasty, but she didn't expect to be discovered by the bandits, and the two were forced to fall off the cliff, and the bandits were also rare to search, anyway, the two children, falling off such a high cliff, would definitely die.

Where did I think that she had a big life, she was stopped by a branch a few times, and she did not die, although she was not far from death. But her hatred for the bandits has been buried deeply, and there is the dead Zhou Dynasty, she is full of guilt for him, and it was her mistake not to save him. As for the Zhou family and his wife, she will take care of the responsibilities of a child.

Celebrating more than 18 years.

Nanling in April is really beautiful. Especially the peach forest on the outskirts of the city, it is dense. The deep and shallow powder, lingering and falling to the ground.

Recently, a poetry meeting will be held in Taolin. It is called the Poetry Society, which is actually a place where young men and women go on a blind date, and countless men and women have feelings for each other here every year, resulting in a pair of talented and beautiful women. Of course, not everyone can go, and you must have an invitation card issued by the government to enter.

Today, it is the day when the peach forest opens, and countless men and women pour in. Each person can get a peach blossom at the entrance, if you are interested in anyone, you can give the peach blossom to each other, if the other party gives back, you can promote a pair of good matches. Of course, you can not give it back, but you can't refuse the peach blossoms given by others, so the person who receives the most peach blossoms is also the most popular person.

The forest is very lively, looking at the flowers, looking at the people, it is wonderful. Everyone often walks in twos and threes, and there are also individual people who walk alone.

Zhou Duyun is one of them. Twilight Cloud is the word that her teacher chose for her when she was twenty years old. A few months ago, she went to Beijing to report on her work, the bandits in the south have basically stabilized, there are fewer places to use her, and there are more people in the court who compete for merit, plus she is ugly, and the saint comfortingly sealed the name of General Pingnan, rewarded a mansion, some gold and silver wealth, but has no real power at all, after all, she has no identity background.

In this way, it seems that her future is bleak and basically over. said that she was waiting for the order, but in fact, it was also a disguised snub, if there was no major war, she would be like this in the future.

Her former boss in the army gave her an invitation. She thought it was really boring, so she came to take a look.

As a result, it is obvious that no one can look down on her, and she is happy to be idle, just to enjoy the peach blossoms. Don't say it, this peach blossom is so beautiful. Although she is a rough person, she also has an elegant feeling.

After shopping for a long time, I was a little tired. When she saw that one of the trees was quite strong, she jumped up and began to take a nap.

Li Mao is the concubine of Li Shilang's family in the household department, and today he came to the peach blossom banquet with his brother Li Xun, this is the first time he has participated, and he is very excited. A few people came up to him, it turned out to be Li Xun's classmates in the academy, and when they saw the salute, they chatted.

One of them said, "Brother Li, it's really rare to see you, you didn't seem to be here last year." ”

"Yes, Brother Li, you got a few peach blossoms, and I only have three, but I can't compare to you." As he spoke, he also glanced at Li Xun's empty hands.

Li Xun smiled and said, "I didn't plan to come, but when the younger brother in the family reached the age, I took him out to have a long experience." ”

Li Mao smiled embarrassedly at a few people, and echoed: "Yes, I came out with my eldest brother, and besides, I also heard that Princess Ankang may come."

"Princess Ankang?" "The legendary first beauty!" "Oh my God! Is this true? ”

After a period of commotion, a few people calmed down, "Then we really have eyes today" and "we can only feast our eyes"

"Alas, don't be so pessimistic, maybe, if the princess takes a fancy to you, you will soar."

"Forget it, forget it, I don't have this blessing"

The crowd continued to talk.

At this time, a voice came from a distance: "Princess Ankang is here"

When several people heard this, they all walked in that direction.

The hustle and bustle faded away with the footsteps of a few people, and calm returned under the trees.

Zhou Chao poked his head out of the tree, glanced in that direction, and muttered, "Princess?" Interesting" Immediately, he jumped from the tree, stretched, straightened his clothes, dusted off the dust that did not exist, and left. Leave a peach blossom lonely in vain.