Chapter 52: The Ending
Xia Guo was somewhat injured in the border war, and according to common sense, there must be a few years of depression in people's livelihood.
However, due to the appropriate layout in advance, the move of "supporting Xu Boxing as emperor" was unexpected and just right, and the situation was not chaotic after the war, and various new policies were successfully rolled out.
Xia Guo not only did not show obvious decline, but had an unexpected new vitality.
In the collision of ideologies and the confrontation of old and new concepts, the whole country is slowly adapting to such pioneering things as male and female classmates and male and female colleagues.
More and more summer women have come out of the boudoir, allowing everyone to see the wisdom, courage, and even strength that are similar to but different from men.
The boys suddenly have more excellent opponents, and they are also more motivated than before.
"They" and "they" compete on the same stage in various fields, but they also benefit each other. As the old paper says: the dispute between gentlemen, let and rise, down and drink, the dispute is also gentlemen.
The spirit and enthusiasm of the young and young people converged and intertwined, constantly washing away the stale and decaying spirit, so that this already dangerous country quickly saw the dawn of a new life.
The atmosphere full of vitality and hope spread like a wildfire, quickly spreading to the entire territory of Xia Kingdom.
In this atmosphere, Princess Xu Huai really felt a sense of closeness and belonging to the land of Xia Kingdom, and her long-lost young blood was also boiling.
After the imperial examination, Princess Xu Huai was appointed as the "Governor and Auxiliary of the City of Xingzhongshu Province".
At the beginning of the following year, she was ordered to lead a fleet of ships, and it was expected to go to Chen Guo first, and then arrive in Xia, to negotiate matters related to the sea trade routes between the three countries, and to do a big deal of dozens of ships of goods by the way.
It is said that Xu Huaijing is the real leader of the great changes in the new policy of the Xia Kingdom, and no one disagrees.
In the eyes of the Xia people, every day since the post-war New Deal has been a novelty.
But in Xu Huaijing's own opinion, perhaps the woman who died in the snow is the pain they will never forget.
Time became slow and dull, and in the three hundred sunrises and moonsets, the thoughts were pulled for an incomparably long time.
The autumn night is silent, and the long candles are shining.
Xu Huaijing lay on the bed, folded his hands on his head, and looked fixedly at the octagonal sachet hanging in the tent.
The sachet has a strange fruity aroma. It looks like a ripe cherry hanging on the branches, and it is slightly sour in its sweetness.
On the night of the wedding, it was in the smell of incense in this tent that he met Princess Xu Huai's eyes and breathed for the first time.
Then, they both grabbed each other's necks.
Recalling the past, the corners of Xu Huaijing's lips lifted lightly, and a soft and shallow smile appeared in the peach blossom eyes like a cold pond in the ancient well, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.
It had to be the worst wedding night in the world.
If he had known that he would love Princess Xu Huai so much later, he would ......
Hey, it's hard to buy.
He rolled over and lay on his side, looking at the empty pillow, and the more he thought about it, the more he regretted it, and regretted it until he had angina.
Forcing himself to close his eyes, under the gentle and sweet soothing of the soothing incense, the remorse in his chest gradually relaxed.
But it was replaced by apprehension.
It's been ten months. According to the scheduled itinerary, Princess Xu Huai's return date is approaching.
During these ten long and torturous separations, he always avoided thinking deeply about who Princess Xu Huai would meet and what she would experience outside.
If you think too much, you will be afraid that she will be in danger, afraid that she will be made difficult by foreigners, afraid that she will not eat well and sleep well.
I am afraid that she will win everything, and she will be like a fish in water in the sky and the sea, and she will not want to return.
Afraid that after being separated for a long time, she was dazzled by the random flowers outside, forgetting that there was still a husband in Yongjing City waiting for her to come home.
That night, Xu Huaijing had a terrible nightmare.
In his dream, it was snowing heavily, and he stood on the riverside pier waiting for Princess Xu Huai to return.
The river breeze on a snowy day was bitingly cold. His body was stiff and his eyelashes were covered with frost.
He did not speak or move, as if he could not hear the sounds around him at all, and he did not know hunger, cold, or fatigue.
But after waiting for a long, long time, it seemed that he had finished a long life, and his wife did not return as promised.
No one would have known that His Royal Highness the Regent, awakened by this dream, raised his arm to suppress his tear-stained eyes.
The seventh day of the first month of November, the day of the winter solstice.
Nearly noon, as soon as Xu Huaijing stepped on the Baiyu Bridge, he saw people standing at the other end of the bridge who had been thinking about it for ten months.
She stood at the end of the white jade bridge, and the red clothes and gold embroidery were dazzling.
The winter sun cast a golden halo behind her, like a dream, like a wing.
Suddenly, the heavens and the earth were silent.
Xu Huaijing can no longer hear the voices of others, and he can't even see the people or things around him.
He walked slowly in a trance, like a dream, very lightly, slowly, towards the figure.
No way, he's had dreamed like this too many times.
Every time I rushed over and wanted to embrace the figure in my arms, I would wake up from my dream.
This time he wanted to try not to be so anxious, so as not to shatter the dream early.
But this time the dream was a little different. Because Princess Xu Huai on the other side of the bridge also walked towards him.
His heart pounded against his chest like madness.
Some vertigo. Even a little soft feet.
So he stopped, stood on the bridge, and watched at a loss as the longing smiling face got closer and closer.
She's lost a little weight. The complexion decorated with fat-free powder is like a thin honey, not the noble and fair skin that was pampered at first glance as before.
The smile is unprecedentedly unbridled.
The black eyes were even more moist and bright, as if all the light in the heavens and the earth had fallen into her eyes.
Princess Xu Huai walked closer, and her smile was crisp: "It is snowing heavily in Lancheng, the river is frozen, and the fleet will arrive in Beijing later." I was worried that there would be heavy snow in Kyochu, so I rode back first. ”
"From Arashijo, riding back?" Xu Huaijing stared at her in a daze, his eyes were slightly hot, "It's very hard." ”
Princess Xu Huai smiled and flew at him: "It's hard." But there is a petite Langjun with an ice cube face in my family, and he always asks me to protect and coax him when it snows heavily. ”
Xu Huaijing suddenly hugged her into his arms.
Amazing warmth and gentleness filled his embrace, and also filled his chest.
He was like a climbing vine, trying his best to bind her in his arms, desperately absorbing the faint fragrance that was almost the same as in his memory, and then wrapping all his breath into her soft sideburns.
He pretended to be evil: "Where did you come from? ”
Princess Xu Huai hugged his waist and was overjoyed: "Isn't this it?" Ming Media is marrying, but she will be coquettish. ”
"Who's coquettish with you?" Xu Huaijing chuckled lightly, his arms tightened, but he didn't dare to open his eyes at all.
The dream was too real, too beautiful, and he didn't want to wake up.
But the man in his arms clearly told him that it was not a dream.
"Xu Huaijing, I'll come back early, you're ecstatic, it's good."
Princess Xu Huai struggled to no avail, so she could only hide her red face in his arms and laugh muffled.
Finally, she helped him out of the haze of childhood, and he finally saw her out of the grief of that person's death.