Vertical arch five years, the first day of the first month, changed to Yongchang.

The Tang Dynasty took Taoism as the state religion, and the fifteenth Yuan Festival of the first month was the day of the blessing of the heavenly officials of the Shangyuan Dynasty.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the curfew will be canceled on only this day a year, and the people of Luoyang City will go out to watch the lanterns.

Shen Mengxi passed noon, and took the three older children into the palace, after the night banquet, as usual, he would go to Yiren Gate with the emperor's relatives to watch the lantern festival, and then she could go to Luoyang City to see the lanterns at will, she planned to take the children to have a good time.

After the Shangyuan Festival, the Spring Festival is over.

Therefore, this banquet was very lively and extravagant, and the princes, ministers, and envoys of various countries all attended in fancy clothes.

Wine and food, withdrawn and replaced, orchids singing and dancing, resting and dancing.

The queen of heaven sat at the top, the saint and the queen sat side by side on both sides, the case was slightly oblique, and then the officials sat down according to the grade below, Shen Mengxi's seat was closer to the saint, she glanced at it, most of the people sitting on the top were the Wu family, and there were many grandfather Yang families, and the Li family was crowded below, mixed with the officials of the four grades, and below the four grades, they were not eligible to participate in the banquet.

Wu Chengsi stood up with a shy stomach, toasted the queen of heaven, and said extremely flattering greetings, a forty-year-old person, and a little coquettish.

Shen Mengxi didn't like this atmosphere. Toast and congratulate in a proper manner, and then quietly wait for the banquet to end.

After leaving the table to rest halfway, Shen Mengxi guessed that she had drunk too much wine and wanted to go to the toilet, or go down to exercise her muscles.

After a while, the saint and the queen also left the table together and went to the apse to rest.

As soon as the queen and the saint left, the atmosphere of the banquet was immediately relaxed, and the noise was staggered.

——This is the world of the martial arts, and the few Li family members sit in a corner and say little.

Many cousins, cousins, nieces and nieces of the Wu family and the Yang family all rushed to toast with Shen Mengxi, Shen Mengxi said that he was unwell and did not drink, so Wu Chenghei was full of red face, and he also came to Shen Mengxi's case, picked up a crystal shrimp and ate it, and said with a smile while chewing: "Sister's wine and food are really better!" ”

The banquet is different according to the grade, and the dishes are different, but Wu Chenghe's should be similar to hers. Shen Mengxi smiled with his nose.

The others retreated knowingly, and Shen Mengxi sat still, thinking that the three children didn't know if they ate well or not, and whether Lu'er slept at home.

Wu Chengsi simply knelt next to Shen Mengxi, looking like he was bound to win, and everyone in the audience looked at him as if they were nothing, but they all pretended not to care.

Shen Mengxi chuckled again and looked at Wu Chenghe.

Since the queen of heaven became the queen, the samurai family has been rich and noble, almost all men are kings, and women are princesses.

The wealth of the martial family was given by the queen of heaven, and of course, many martial artists were also killed by her.

Many years ago, my grandmother, Mrs. Rongguo, once asked several half-brothers of the martial arts queen half-jokingly and half-ostentatiously at the martial arts family banquet, "Do you still remember what happened back then, you bastards still bullied my Mei Niang!" Nowadays, it's not all up to Mei Niang! ”

Who knew that the brothers of the martial family didn't even say a soft word, and said stiffly: "Fortunately, the martial family is the descendant of meritorious heroes, otherwise the martial brothers really have to rely on their sister, it will be a shame!" ”

- That's what it means to be unappreciative!

Mrs. Rongguo did not attack on the spot, but accumulated new and old hatreds together. Taiping clearly remembers the smile on her grandmother's face when she told her about it.

Soon after the banquet, these martial arts brothers were all sent to the frontier by the queen of heaven. No one has a good death.

Taiping's aunt Mrs. Han and cousin Helan were also killed by the queen of heaven because they had an affair with Gaozong.

Shen Mengxi looked at the martial arts family in the seat, and sighed in his heart, there is no decent one! Did the relatives do that?

Wu Chengsi was holding a glass of wine with his fat hand at this time, and sent it to Shen Mengxi's hand earnestly.

He is the son of the queen's second half-brother, forty years old, with a lot of wives and children.

This person is mediocre and incompetent, only understands the sound of dogs and horses, and was recalled from Hainan when the queen of heaven was really unavailable. He knows very well who is the one who controls the destiny, obeys the words of the queen of heaven, points where to fight, became the prime minister three years ago, was deposed a month later, and has been more diligent since then.

Shen Mengxi retracted his hand, put it back on his knee, and said politely: "My cousin also knows that Taiping has always been poor in drinking. ”

"Just one cup! Just one cup! Those bastard boys' wine, you can not drink it in peace, and your cousin's toast must be drunk! Wu Chengsi said with a somewhat ambiguous smile.

"Oh?" Shen Mengxi seemed to be aroused by curiosity, and turned his head to look at Wu Chengsi.

Facing Ying Ying's gaze, Wu Chengsi still held the cup, made an affectionate appearance, leaned over and whispered: "Although my cousin is not as handsome and chic as that Xue Shao, I can also dismiss my wife and concubine for my cousin, and I will be alone with my cousin in the future, and I will never have two hearts!" ”

After hearing this, Shen Mengxi raised his chin. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand to take the wine cup that Wu Chengsi had held for a long time, played with it in his hand, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "Cousin's words, Taiping doesn't understand." ”

"Why don't you understand, my cousin grew up watching Taiping......"

"Cousin, let's drink this wine on behalf of Taiping!" Shen Mengxi stretched out his hand and held the wine cup in front of him.

Wu Chengsi looked around, laughed, and took a drink heartily.

Without waiting for him to say anything, a palace maid came and whispered to Shen Mengxi that the queen of heaven asked her to go to the apse, and Shen Mengxi got up and followed.

"Cousin! Cousin! ”

After the other palace maid saluted and explained to him that it was the queen of heaven who summoned him, he gave up stupidly, sat on the table with a beard, picked up the wine cup, and immediately a maid came over to pour the wine lightly.

Shen Mengxi arrived at the apse, only to see the queen of heaven lying on the couch on her side, closing her eyes and pretending to sleep, because she had to watch the lanterns later, and the dress was not removed.

No matter how well it is maintained, after all, she is in her sixties, Shen Mengxi stared at her face, her cheeks were slack, and her face was tired.

What is the plot of such hard calculations?

- Take control of your own destiny and control the destiny of others.

That's the biggest temptation!

The palace maid squatted down to salute, and the queen opened her eyes and saw her daughter standing at the door looking at her blankly, smiling and stretching out her hand to summon her.

asked the palace maid to help her up and waved her hand to let her out.

Shen Mengxi stepped forward to salute, the queen of heaven asked her to sit on the couch and asked about the living situation, Shen Mengxi also greeted the queen of heaven's health and diet, and the mother and daughter said politely.

The queen carefully looked at Shen Mengxi's face, and couldn't help but reach out and touch her cheek, making Shen Mengxi creepy.

"Ah Yue, she looks the most like Ah Niang." Empress Wu's eyes are loving.

I don't know what to think of, I looked at the candle flame by the couch, only a few seconds, and when I looked back, Shen Mengxi saw envy and jealousy in that fleeting gaze.

Yes, it's jealousy. Shen Mengxi understands this kind of emotion, the kind of emotion that arises uncontrollably in the face of young women after old age and decay. Shen Mengxi once looked at his energetic granddaughter in his twilight years, and he was jealous,——Your grandmother has a hard time walking, why are you still bouncing in front of me!"

Of course, only fleetingly. One is that she really loves her granddaughter and will not really be jealous, and the other is that she has lived too long and returned to youth several times, and she has a fluke in her heart, believing that she will be reborn again.

If today's power is overwhelming, and her wishes come true, I am afraid that only this appearance and aging are her only pains. In recent years, she has begun to nurture young faces and take pills in order to live forever.

In the end, the queen of heaven mentioned Wu Chenghei to her again, Shen Mengxi was annoyed, but even more worried, to be honest, she was not sure how far Her Majesty would tolerate her daughter, after all, according to legend, she killed her first daughter with her own hands. After that, he was quite ruthless to his sons. Taiping's memories are all admiration for the queen of heaven, but Shen Mengxi didn't dare to believe it easily.

There was no third person present, and she understood that the queen of heaven did not want to force her, after all, if she proposed it at the banquet, she would not be able to refute the queen of heaven in a big way.

"Auntie, marry from your father for the first time, and marry from yourself again. Er wants to choose a good husband, his cousin already has a wife, and he doesn't like him. In the end, Shen Mengxi slowly looked up at the queen of heaven.

"My idiot, who said you have to like it to get married? A-Niang is for the good of the moon! ”

"Er naturally understands A-Niang's hard work, but now she has no intention of getting married, and she just wants to raise her four children well."

The queen of heaven sighed, "Ah Niang's idiot, only an idiot like Yue'er still believes that Xue Shao is innocent, the Xue family is taking advantage of Yue'er's weight in Ah Niang's heart to plot to usurp power, do you know that the Xue family does not have a soul!" All deserve death! "At the end of the day, it's all about it.

Shen Mengxi looked at the face of the queen of heaven, she couldn't tell the memory of Taiping, and the words of the martial queen, who was closer to the truth. I had to bow my head and remain silent.

"Go, go, Yue'er will see which of the martial arts family is good, and my mother promises you!" The queen of heaven slowly lay down tiredly and waved at Shen Mengxi, "Go to the front and have fun." ”

Shen Mengxi was so angry that he wanted to laugh. ——Having the most powerful woman in the world as a mother is really indescribable.

Walking out of the apse and passing through the corridor, Shen Mengxi walked towards the banquet hall.

At this time, the temperature was about six or seven degrees above zero, Shen Mengxi's cloak was lined with fur, and she didn't feel cold, she held on to the railing and looked at the gradually rising moon, the moonlight was cold and shining, and a sense of loneliness that penetrated deep into the bone marrow hit her heart.

- No one is sad about the sun, but when it comes to the moon, it is always easy to be sentimental.

The palace maid behind urged softly, and Shen Mengxi let out a long sigh of relief and walked towards the banquet hall.

There are a lot of shoes and boots at the door of the hall, which are very neat, and there are two palace maids who are responsible for sorting them out. A few people walked out of the hall, covering their mouths and noses, Shen Mengxi looked inside at the door, and saw that the hall was in chaos, and he smelled a disgusting smell.

Nawu Chengji was half-kneeling on the mat, holding the ground with one hand, making a huge vomiting sound, vomiting constantly, and there were pools of vomit on the table, on the ground, and on his body. Several palace maids threw their hands together, panicked and at a loss for what to do beside him.

Everyone avoided the three houses, the imperial doctor had not yet come, Wu Chengsi covered his mouth desperately, and still couldn't stop vomiting.

- The seat he is in is Shen Mengxi's.

Shen Mengxi stood still and looked at it coldly. More people walked out of the hall in disgust and greeted her at the door.

Wu Chengsi also saw Shen Mengxi come back, got up apologetically, and was about to explain, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he vomited again,—— vomited so much, there was still goods!

Shen Mengxi snorted heavily, his face full of anger, and walked away.

The feast ended early, and the time to watch the lanterns had not yet arrived, and the princes, ministers, and envoys moved to the two halls to rest, and the halls were buzzing inside and outside, saying that the returning grandfather had touched the princess's mold. will probably be blamed by the queen of heaven, after all, the imperial doctor was invited in the first month, and the seat of Princess Taiping was dirty, which is really disrespectful and so on.

Wu Chengsi made a fool of himself in public, Shen Mengxi's face was ugly, but his heart was much more comfortable. This kind of person has to control him, the toad goes on the instep, and if he doesn't bite people, he is disgusting!

Shen Mengxi was meeting the emperor and empress in the corridor, and Li Dan greeted her with a smile: "Which one dared to provoke peace?" ”

"Four brothers, four sisters-in-law. It's that scoundrel Wu Chenghe, don't drink if you don't drink too much! Spit up to my seat! The whole vestibule stinks! ”

Hearing that it was Wu Chenghei, Li Dan was taken aback, "Is the imperial doctor here?" ”

The palace maid who followed Shen Mengxi saluted and replied: "Returning to the sage, someone has already gone to invite Sun Yicheng, and it should be there immediately." ”

The emperor nodded, turned around and went back with the empress and Shen Mengxi, muttering in his mouth: "Usually Zhou Guogong drinks well, why ...... tonight?"

Nearly ten children gathered in one of the halls, plus the maidservants waiting, and it was packed.

When the emperor, empress and Shen Mengxi appeared, the maidservants withdrew from the palace, the children saluted respectfully, Shen Mengxi looked at it, except for her children, the rest were Li Dan's children, the crown prince Li Chengqi was the oldest, eleven years old, and the youngest boy was the four-year-old Li Longji, who was next to Xue Chongjian of the same age.

Li Dan specially called Xue Chongyin to him, asked him to call out to the fourth uncle, and touched his head lovingly. Nephew Uncle Xiao, Yin'er looks very much like Li Dan, even more like the prince, the three children are like Taiping, and now they are mixed in the middle of the prince, like the children of the family.

After playing for a while, Shen Mengxi took a few children to change into light clothes, and was ready to go out of the city to watch the lights, at this time Jian Er was already a little sleepy, usually at this time, he had already slept, but he still insisted excitedly today.

The emperor allocated a small team of Yulin troops to protect Shen Mengxi's mother and son.

The crown prince and other princes all looked at them with envy, and they could only look at the lanterns in the imperial city. As a nobleman, he can't really enjoy with the people, at least he can't go out to watch the lanterns as a prince in an open and honest manner.

After a short time, the palace maid came, and the time came.

Shen Mengxi took his three children, followed behind the Queen of Heaven, the Emperor and Empress Liu, and watched the lanterns in the palace city, all kinds of palace lanterns and lanterns, with a variety of styles, but there were fewer people watching it, and there was a lot less fun.

I took a car to the imperial city again, climbed the Yiren Gate Tower, the wind was a little strong on the city, and there were rows of big red lanterns hanging up and down, fixed up and down to avoid blowing down, whirring in the wind.

Approaching the battlement, a fire tree and silver flower suddenly appeared in his sight, as if the Milky Way had fallen into the world.

It is really a thousand trees blooming in the oriental night, blowing down, and the stars are like rain.

The wide streets are lined with lanterns of all kinds, reflecting the flow of people in the middle. Looking further away, the streets are lit up with lights, and it is very spectacular.

The queen of heaven looked at the peaceful scene, her heart was comfortable, and she looked at the lights at the head of the city for a while, and felt that the wind was a little strong, and she was going down.

And waved his hand to let the accompanying people take care of themselves, and everyone should bow and salute the queen and the saint.

Walking past Shen Mengxi, the queen of heaven suddenly stopped, Shen Mengxi looked up suspiciously, and saw that the Empress Wu was looking at her with disgust, the emperor was smiling and silent, and the others were all motionless with their heads down.

Shen Mengxi knew that the queen of heaven must be suspicious that she had drugged Wu Chenghe. The casual man smiled stupidly, stretched out his hand to support the queen of heaven, and whispered: "Yue'er help A-Niang go down to the city!" ”

"Yue'er with ......" The queen of heaven did not fall, a big lantern at the head of the city was blown down by the wind, blowing in their direction, Shen Mengxi only heard the guards exclaimed, and did not know the specific situation, and was about to turn around to protect the three children, but saw the queen raise her hand, hugged her, and turned around to protect her.

The lantern was intercepted by the guards, burned, and quickly extinguished by splashing water and sand.

Shen Mengxi was hugged by the queen of heaven at the moment, with mixed feelings in her heart, no matter how ruthless the queen was, she still had the nature and instinct of a mother, she hugged the queen of heaven, let go and said: "A-Niang is still a child when she is still a child!" ”

The queen of heaven smiled, "Even if she is a hundred years old, Yue'er is also A-Niang's child." ”

"A-Niang, this is a good omen for the fire and prosperity! This year will be all right, and the national fortune will be prosperous! Shen Mengxi looked at the wreckage of the lantern that was dragged away and said.

The queen of heaven was very happy to hear this, patted Shen Mengxi's hand, did not hold the responsibility for the drop of the lantern, and returned to the palace.

Three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry at the head of the city, followed by the queen of heaven and the sage to withdraw most of them, Shen Mengxi took the children down the city tower and came to the street, the guards were protected all around, not leaving an inch, although it affected the mood of watching the lanterns very much, but security is indispensable, just get used to it.

In fact, although there are many people on the street, but the security is very good, everything is in order, the roadside is full of cowhide water bags and large water tanks, and from time to time there is a team of Wuhou patrolling by, with a sword on his waist, and he is very mighty.

The people of Luoyang City are accustomed to seeing the big scene, and when they see the Yiren Gate open, they know that it is the noble lord who came out to watch the lanterns, so they automatically stay away, just watch from a distance, taste the costumes of the nobles, and wait for them to walk by, and then gather back and continue to watch.

The three children rarely go out, and after Xue Shao's death, they rarely go out. Today they were very excited, and Jian'er was no longer sleepy at all, chattering non-stop.