Soon after the Jokhang unified the world, the filial piety period of the Bo Hou was also completed, so two edicts were issued today, one was that He Guifei succeeded to the queen, and the third prince Xiao Jue was named Jin Yangjun and stayed in Kyoto; The second is the big wedding in the East Palace, marrying the daughter of Li Zhan, the uncle of Dingyuan, Li Jingyi, and on the same day, Xu Yan, the daughter of the sister of Queen Nahe, was the prince Liangdi.

Xu Yan only recognized the East Palace since she received the thin golden finger appointment, but she also knew that her aunt He Guifei had actually wanted to give herself to Xiao Jue, so she secretly hid the finger appointment and did not let people know. It wasn't until Empress Bo died of illness and before Xiao Cong led the army to go on the expedition that she told him what Empress Bo said, Xiao Cong listened to it and said word by word: "Ah Yan, don't worry, when I triumph, I will marry you." ”

Xu Yan waited for three years.

When she saw him again, she only felt that the East Palace in front of her was full of brilliance, and she couldn't force her eyes anymore.

also felt this way, as well as Emperor Jokhang and He Guifei.

Although Xiao Cong respectfully returned the Tiger Fu Dragon Festival to his father as soon as possible, he still failed to escape the emperor's suspicion because of the sentence "The prince is also a king". For this reason, Mrs. Lu also sighed to Xiao Cong: "How can Your Highness say such a thing." ”

Xiao Cong smiled faintly: "Teacher, if you come again, the students can only say that." ”

Mrs. Lu also knew very well in his heart that Donggong didn't promise like that, how could Zhao Da's father and son be willing to surrender, he didn't necessarily know that he was inviting trouble to himself, but in order to use fewer swords, he would rather bear the risk of being suspected by his father, and it must be said that the gentleman has his own responsibility, so he had to sigh and stop.

If you want to come to the emperor's mind, it has always been like this. After being in that position for a long time, he couldn't help but be suspicious, and in the end, he didn't even want to believe his own son, so he had to support another person who could check and warn him. However, the military exploits of the East Palace were there, but he wanted to turn a blind eye, but he was afraid that he would not be able to stop the mouths of the people, thinking that he had also reached the age when he should marry a wife, so he personally chose the Li family of the fourth and third princes for him as his father-in-law, and would rather refute the face of the successor, but also give Xu Yan to him as a good lady at his request.

In this regard, Xiao Cong was very apologetic, and said to Xu Yan: "Auntie, I'm sorry, I said I wanted to marry you, but now..."

Xu Yan listened, and without waiting for him to finish, she put her fingertips on his lips and looked at him with tenderness: "Why does Your Highness need to be like this, the courtiers don't care about this, as long as they can always be by His Highness's side, they will be satisfied." ”

At that time, Xiao Cong only felt that his heart was full of joy and tranquility.

After the concubine, the East Palace wedding, naturally to amnesty the world, so the entire Jokhang was immersed in a joyful atmosphere, the only thing that was not very happy was the current Queen He.

She originally liked Xu Yan's gentleness, and when she took her into the palace, she wanted to kiss and kiss and let her serve her son, but who knew that the ungrateful cheap girl actually climbed up to the queen and the East Palace, and didn't take her and her Ling'er in her eyes at all. As for the emperor, he blindly favored his eldest son, ignored her request, and directly pointed out Xu Yan to the East Palace to be a good di, hating her so much that her teeth itched, and from then on, the seeds of resentment took root in her heart.

Of course, there is another one that is not painful, that is, Shen Yun. Indeed, the big wedding in the East Palace, what does it have to do with her at that time, she was just bored, pushed open the window of the attic of the Teaching Workshop, and saw the East Palace Luan who went to the Earl Ningyuan's Mansion to greet her from a distance.

Soon after the marriage in the East Palace, Queen He pouted with Jinyangjun to hire the queen of the Langya Wang family as Mrs. Jun, soon after the marriage, there was news of pregnancy, and less than half a year later, Xu Yan was also pregnant, and later, Wang Xiang gave birth to a daughter, and the imperial doctor Chen Jing checked Xu Yan's pulse, but said firmly: "It must be a male fetus." ”

After Jinshang found out, although he didn't say anything clearly, Queen He, the pillow person, knew that such a thing would only make the status of the East Palace more and more stable.

Why, isn't his son also a son-in-law now?

Thinking about it like this, she also forgot that Ah Yan was a child she really loved.

And Xu Yan, who didn't know anything about her thoughts, was still holding her stomach at this time, doing needlework in her bedroom.

She was sewing the things in her hand wholeheartedly, Xiao Cong suddenly hurried in and rummaged through the cabinets and said, "Ah Yan, have you seen my private seal?" ”

Xu Yan chuckled, propped herself up and walked to the bookshelf, took out a seal from a small box and said, "Your Highness is looking for this?" ”

Xiao Cong looked at it and said, "Exactly." As he spoke, he took it and walked out.

Xu Yan smiled and grabbed him and said, "Your Highness, don't be busy yet, presumably Your Highness and the scholars have long forgotten the time when they are composing poems, and they haven't had dinner yet, right?" ”

Xiao Cong was stunned for a moment, then he raised his forehead and smiled: "It's true, I forgot if you don't say it." ”

Xu Yan smiled and pulled him to sit on the soft collapse, and instructed the palace maid standing on the side: "Go and bring out the soup." Then he said to him: "The concubine has prepared soup, Your Highness should come in some of it." ”

As he was talking, the palace maid had already presented soup, Xiao Cong was eating, and while staring at Xu Yan who continued to do needlework, he said, "What are you sewing?" ”

Xu Yan smiled and said, "Your Highness's cloak has loose stitches on one side of the belt. As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of Lingxi jumping in, and she was anxious to come and serve the soup bowl in Xiao Cong's hand, and let the palace maid hide it with a loud sound.

Lingxi had already seen it, stroked his palms and smiled: "Haha, I caught you, okay you grandma, when I asked you for soup, you just said no, it turned out to be biased towards your brother." When Xu Yan heard this, she was so ashamed that her face was red, but Xiao Cong just smiled...

If so, the years have been so quiet, it is probably a great blessing in life.

However, a few days after that, Xiao Cong was "inexplicably" sent to the southern border to reward the army.

Before leaving, he took her hand and said, "Don't worry, I'll be back soon." ”

She also smiled softly at him: "When you come back, the child should also fall to the ground." ”

It's just that they don't know each other, but this parting is eternal.

That day happened to be the Moon Festival, and at dusk, Xiao Cong boarded the ship heading south according to the auspicious time supervised by Qintian.

On this day, the little ladies in the teaching department, also took advantage of the family reunion and no guests, and in the morning they told their grandmothers to buy colored paper bamboo strips for them, and tied a lot of Kong Ming lanterns, and were gathering in the courtyard at this time, ready to put lamps to pray for blessings.

I don't know who said: "It's not interesting to put it in such a vain, why don't you write something on the lamp." ”

As soon as the words fell, someone answered, "What to write?" Can you write? ”

The little lady who spoke earlier said, "Naturally, someone here can write." So saying, he went to find pen and ink.

Shen Yun was still looking at the Kong Ming lanterns on the ground in a daze, so someone stuffed a pen into her hand and said, "Sister Xue'er, your handwriting here is the best, help us write something." ”

Shen Yun came back to his senses when he heard this, smiled, and said, "Okay, what do you want to write?" ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they chattered and said, scrambling to let her help write the lamp, write one, they went to put one, Shen Yun was dizzy by them, but still smiled and patiently wrote for them one by one, Du Yue'er suddenly took one over, Shen Yunqi said: "Sister Yue'er, why don't you write it yourself." ”

Du Yue'er smiled and said, "What kind of lamp do I put on, I asked you to write one for yourself." ”

Shen Yun said in his heart, what kind of lamp should I put on? But he still couldn't bear to brush her mind, so he also smiled and wrote on it, "I hope people will last a long time". Du Yue'er was still waiting for her next step, but when she saw that she had handed the lamp to the little lady on the side to put it on, she sighed slightly, and said in her heart, yes, there is probably no one who can share Chanjuan for thousands of miles.

Here, Shen Yun continued to help them write the lanterns, and Xiao Cong, who was drifting on the Guangli River with the boat, also watched with great interest the attendants and maids clamoring, salvaging those Kong Ming lanterns that drifted with the wind and fell into the river, they scooped up one, and carefully identified the handwriting on it that had been spent by the water, and even guessed and scrambled to say: "This is a full moon", "This is Changle Wuji", "Haha, this is absolutely amazing, it should be to marry a rich man".

When Xiao Cong heard this, he also smiled, turned around and was about to go back to the cabin, but a lamp also swayed and floated at his feet, he picked it up and looked at it, and there were five words written on it: I wish people a long time. While thinking, the handwriting was not bad, he turned it to the other side and looked at it, and saw that there were indeed only those few words, so he casually threw it to Wen An next to him, Wen An also flipped it over and looked at it, and muttered: "Why don't you see Chanjuan for thousands of miles?" ”

Xiao Cong was touched, looked at the bright moon in the sky and sighed: "Thousands of miles together, what's so good." ”

But when he finished the army and returned to Kyoto, when he saw Xu Yan's tablet, he knew that if he could still share Chanjuan for thousands of miles, it would already be very good.