In a lingering spring rain, Li Lingyu returned to Kyoto, where she had been absent for 14 years.

A few months ago, the 100,000 Great Liang Army broke through the court of the Qiang King, and the fierce regent, in front of Li Lingyou, cut off the head of the old Khan with a knife, making her, the princess of Daliang, who had been with her relatives for 14 years, become a widow of the country overnight.

The melodious golden bell on the Luan car recalled Li Lingyu's thoughts, she heard hundreds of people cheering outside the car, knowing that it was not for her, but for the victorious Da Liang Army, but the similar scene in her memory still made her sigh.

"On the day I got married, the streets of Kyoto were so bustling that everyone was crazy with joy."

Because the army of the Qiang State under the city finally retreated, escaped from death, and had to protect the family and country, can you be unhappy?

Anar, a curly-haired young maid, knelt beside Li Lingyou's lap, trimming her nails, and asked curiously, "Ke Dun, I heard that Emperor Da Liang had three younger sisters, why did he send you to make peace?" Is it because you are the most beautiful in life? ”

Li Ling smiled and nodded lightly: "Yes." ”

Fourteen years ago, the first beauty in Daliang, can it not be beautiful?

The autumn water is the god jade for the bones, the hibiscus is like the face and the willow is like the eyebrows, and only with such a beautiful color of the country, can he rely on the flying fairy dance on the city tower to fascinate the old khan of the Qiang State, and he will not hesitate to withdraw his troops to get her.

Anar looked at Li Lingyou's face with a vague and regretful look, and murmured: "If only you were born ordinary, then it would be someone else who married the old khan." ”

Li Lingyu's smile faded, and his eyes were full of vicissitudes: "If you were someone else, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to wait for today." ”

Married to a man old enough to be her grandfather, in the chaotic court of the Qiang king, surrounded by wolves, every moment is torment.

She has wanted to break this life countless times, but she can't give up her mission as a princess of Da Liang, so she can only abandon the dignity of the princess and live secretly day after day......

Li Lingyou remembered those unbearable past events again, his heart cramped, he frowned, coughed in a low voice, and his cheeks were flushed with a sickly flush.

Seeing this, Anal hurriedly took out the jade bottle in his arms, poured out a bright red pill and fed it into Li Lingyu's mouth.

The car stopped at this time, and a man's voice sounded outside the car, dull and dull: "Princess, it's here." ”

Li Lingyou took a sip of water from Anal's hand, swallowed the pill, stroked his chest and smoothed his breath, and handed Anar a reassuring look, then handed her his hand and asked her to help him get out of the car.

……

The rain stopped.

Princess Yongsi's car stopped in front of the palace gate, and the regent in armor stood in front of the car and waited, his majestic figure bowed out an incredible arc, and the soldiers behind him looked sideways.

Li Lingyun leaned out with the support of Anar, and heard a burst of inhalation sound around him.

The Regent's eyes were downcast, and he could only see her in a vegan body, and her slender waist, but not her face, until a hand as white as jade was handed to him, accompanied by a faint fragrance.

He was in a trance for a moment, wanting to take the hand and hold it firmly.

"Help me down." Li Ling's quiet and clear voice woke him up.

He resisted those absurd and shameful impulses, raised his arm, and the cold and hard armor firmly supported Li Lingyu's soft palm, without the slightest trespass.

"Weichen welcomes the princess back to the palace."

Li Ling glanced faintly at the prince with a different surname with a beard and a blurred face, didn't care about his untimely self-title, raised his eyes to look at the palace in front of her, and stepped on the cool land, finally with a sense of reality that the nightmare was over.

She didn't die in a distant foreign land, she came back alive.

***

The regent and Li Lingyou separated as soon as they entered the palace, one went to the Xuanzheng Hall to face the saint, and the other went to the Zichen Hall to meet the Queen Mother.

Li Lingyu rode through the Forbidden Palace on her shoulder, and Anar followed closely by her side.

The secluded and narrow palace road seemed to be at the end, but Li Lingyou enjoyed it very much, she couldn't remember how long it had been since she had been so relaxed.

When the shoulder came to the outside of the Zichen Palace, there were already people waiting here to look at it, and without waiting for the shoulder to fall, he rushed forward, crying and kneeling on the ground: "Your Highness, you are finally back." ”

Anar nervously blocked in front of Li Lingyu, Li Lingyu looked at the palace maid kneeling on the ground, and said uncertainly: "Is it honeysuckle?" ”

Honeysuckle nodded vigorously, wiping tears from her eyes, revealing a face that was no longer young.

Li Lingyou smiled and quipped: "You have changed, I almost don't recognize you." ”

When she left Beijing, Honeysuckle was just thirteen years old, and she was the youngest palace maid beside her, so she stayed in the palace and only brought three other palace maids to marry.

Li Lingyu silently recited their names in his heart, looking at spring, bitter summer, and thinking of autumn......

Honeysuckle raised his head and looked at Li Lingyou stupidly: "But Your Highness hasn't changed at all, the slave and maid recognize you at a glance, Your Highness, Sister Wangchun, ...... Are you all right? ”

Li Lingyu's eyes dimmed, and she didn't know how to tell Honeysuckle that the sisters she was thinking about had all died.

Honeysuckle looked at Li Lingyu's expression, suddenly realized something, his face turned pale, he pursed his lips, and shed two lines of tears.

"Blame me for not protecting them." Li Lingyu whispered.

Honeysuckle shook her head vigorously, wanting to say something, but another big palace maid walked out of the Zichen Palace, and first saluted Li Lingyu before urging: "Princess Yongsi, please come in, the Queen Mother is in a hurry." ”

Honeysuckle hurriedly wiped away her tears, walked quickly to the shoulder, stretched out her hand to help Li Lingyu to the ground, Anal saw that Honeysuckle had robbed her first, stared at Honeysuckle childishly, followed behind Li Lingyu, and entered the Zichen Palace.

……

There are two queen mothers sitting on the Zichen Palace. The older one is demure and gentle, wearing a dark cyan Zhai coat and combing two sideburns, and is the Empress Dowager Rong of the first emperor's palace. The young one is bright and square, wearing a golden shirt woven from the bottom of the Xuan, and her hair is full of pearls, and she is the biological mother of the little emperor, the Empress Dowager Yin.

The two queen mothers looked at the palace gate and saw a slender woman dressed in plain white, and they were all stunned.

Li Lingyou didn't salute the two, just stopped quietly in front of them, letting them look at it, she knew what they were surprised about, it was nothing more than her face, not as old as they imagined.

Empress Dowager Rong was the first to come back to her senses, immediately got up and stepped forward, grabbed Li Lingyou's hand, and choked up: "Yongsi, you're back, I thought I'd never see you again." ”

Li Lingyu's eyes fell on the silver thread of Empress Dowager Rong's sideburns, and he called softly: "Sister-in-law." ”

Empress Dowager Rong responded again and again, took her into her arms, Li Lingyu leaned on her shoulder, and turned her eyes to the unfamiliar Empress Dowager Yin.

When she left Beijing, there was no such person in the palace, the imperial brother did not love women, and the imperial sister-in-law was very affectionate, they were more than ten years older than her, and they loved her in every way, and she was more like a parent.

Empress Dowager Yin looked at Li Lingyou, but smiled at her generously, and did not interrupt her and Empress Dowager Rong to catch up.

Empress Dowager Rong cried: "Your imperial brother died three years ago, and I couldn't look forward to your last face, and when he was dying, he still chanted your name, asking me if you would blame him......"

Li Ling stroked the back of the Empress Dowager Rong and comforted him softly: "Sister-in-law, don't cry, when I go to worship my brother in the future, I will tell him in person, I don't blame him." ”

Empress Dowager Rong finally stopped her tears, pulled Li Lingyou to sit together, and introduced Empress Dowager Yin to her: "This is also your sister-in-law, in the palace that you and your relatives entered in the second year, they are the same age as you, and they are two months younger than you. ”

This was not very polite, but the Empress Dowager Yin didn't mind, and said jokingly: "Not only is the mourning family younger than Princess Yongsi, and even the royal king is two years younger than her." ”

Li Lingyu's eyes flashed, the royal king in the mouth of the Empress Dowager Yin was none other than the king with a different surname who led the troops to destroy the Qiang State and escorted her back to Beijing, and he was also the brother of the Empress Dowager Yin in front of her.

The fact that a relative is crowned king and regent is not a good thing for the Daliang royal family, but it is really a helpless move. When she was far away in the court of the Qiang king, she heard a lot of the royal king's murderous name, this person was born, and in ten years, he successively recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, and successively destroyed the six Zhao countries in the southwest of Daliang, the Piluo country in the northwest of Daliang, and finally conquered the Qiang country.

If it weren't for this brave and warlike king, the Empress Dowager Yin might not be able to sit on the throne of the queen mother.

Li Lingyou: "Speaking of the royal king, I have to thank him for escorting me back to Beijing, otherwise I wouldn't have seen the two sisters-in-law." ”

Empress Dowager Rong held Li Lingyou's hand and suddenly exerted force, and Empress Dowager Yin said with a straight face: "The princess is the king, the king is the minister, and it is within my duty to escort you." ”

Li Ling smiled silently, she would not take Empress Dowager Yin's words seriously, and now in the entire Great Liang, there is only the little emperor who dares to make the king bow down to him.

"I wonder when I'll see Your Majesty?" Li Lingyou has never seen the face of the little emperor. In the fourth year of her and her parents, the little emperor was born, and in the eleventh year of her and her relatives, the emperor's brother died, and the little emperor succeeded to the throne at the age of seven, and will be ten years old this year.

Empress Dowager Rong did not accept Li Lingyou, but looked at Empress Dowager Yin.

Empress Dowager Yin was puzzled: "The royal king has returned to the dynasty with a great victory, Your Majesty wants to reward the three armies, and also discuss with the ministers how to settle the people of the Qiang Kingdom, I am afraid that I will not be able to find time to see you at this moment." ”

A sneer appeared on Empress Dowager Rong's face, which was captured by Li Lingyou, she had already thought of the discord between the two Empress Dowagers, and what was revealed now was only the tip of the iceberg.

Empress Dowager Yin's words were high-sounding, but Li Lingyou heard that she was prevaricating, the little emperor has not yet been in power, and everything in the court is represented by the royal king, no matter how busy she is, she will not be able to find time to meet her, but it is just because Empress Dowager Yin does not want their aunt and nephew to be close.

Li Ling's heart was like a mirror, but he didn't force it, and after chatting with the Empress Dowager Rong about the changes in Kyoto over the years, he showed that he was physically exhausted, and covered his mouth and yawned.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Yin proposed: "The princess is tired, it is better to rest in the palace for one night first, and then go back to the princess's mansion tomorrow." ”

As the favorite daughter of the ancestor emperor and the most beloved sister of the first emperor, Li Lingyou owned her mansion outside the palace when she was nine years old, but she only lived in the princess's mansion for one night when she was sixteen years old, because her father and brother were reluctant to her, she stayed in the palace.

Today is different, her father and brother have left, and this palace is no longer her home.

Li Lingyu was stunned in his heart, nodded and agreed that Empress Dowager Yin would live in the palace tonight.

Empress Dowager Rong wanted to speak and stopped, and caught a glimpse of the pair of peony vases that had been placed in front of the hall for many years, but she didn't open her mouth after all.

Li Lingyou didn't seem to notice the guilt in Empress Dowager Rong's eyes, and took Anar and Honeysuckle to retire.