Three days later, Nian Yun announced the punishment of Xue Qixi, Nian was the first offender, and he had a good attitude of admitting his guilt, and he was punished with forty rods and fined three years.

This inexplicable fire made Hui Niang disappear completely, and when the fire was extinguished, people only found a body that was burned black and black, and the prince ordered to give money to bury it according to the specifications of the side room of the county king.

A courtyard was burned down, and Nianyun personally negotiated with the craftsman to design and dismantle the courtyard wall and the remaining building foundations, turn over the ground, and no longer build houses.

Guo Jun ordered people to send many good peach trees, which were mixed with many varieties such as green peaches, red peach, red leaf peach, and thousand-petal red.

But Nianyun had never been to that peach forest.

There is Hui Niang's soul there, and they retribution for each other's grievances, and in the end Hui Niang died in her hands, she must hate her to the bone, and she would not let her go if she was a ghost.

She didn't dare to tell Li Chun, let alone tell him that she killed Hui Niang in order to take revenge, and she deliberately set her on fire.

But as soon as she closed her eyes, she seemed to see Hui Niang sneering at her.

When I was pregnant with Wanwan before, I was about to have a lot of yang energy in the fetus, but I didn't feel it, but now it is becoming more and more obvious, so that I can't sleep at night and lose sleep from time to time.

Li Chun woke up in the middle of the night, and suddenly saw Nian Yun staring at the top of the tent with his eyes open, and was startled, he had been used to letting her fall asleep with his arm pillow over the years, and occasionally when he slept alone in Chongwen Palace, he couldn't remember how he had lived for many years.

He tightened his arms around her, so that her body was pressed against his chest. Nian Yun noticed it, and shrank into his arms, like a cowardly little beast.

He was sure she had something on her mind.

"Nianyun."

"Huh?"

His slender fingers brushed the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, slightly**, and his breath sprayed gently in her ears: "I am your husband, if there is anything, you don't have to hide it in your heart." ”

She felt the warmth he brought, and after a long time, Fang said slowly: "Chun, if one day, His Royal Highness ascends the throne, you will assist him well, right?" ”

Li Chun didn't know how she said this, and said, "That's nature. ”

Nianyun thought for a while, and said, "If one day, you ...... Sitting in that position, you will also put the world first and work hard, right? ”

His kiss landed on Nian Yun's thick eyelashes, "I will, I will." Nianyun, if there is such a day, I will definitely take the world's top priority on the rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty, take charge of the great mountains and rivers left to me by the ancestors of the Li family, and protect your mother and son. With me here, I promise that I will not ignore Li Tang Jiangshan for the sake of fighting for power and profit between each other, and I guarantee that you are the first person in the harem. ”

Nian Yun received his assurance, suddenly felt tired, and slowly slipped into the deep dream.

Li Chun knew that she must have thought about something, and she had the heart to explain, so she called Guo Yan to Yiqiu Palace to accompany her.

As soon as Guo Yan entered the door, he saw that she was in a daze again, and said with a smile: "My good sister, what's the matter, can your father-in-law take a concubine again?" ”

Nian Yun looked up in the direction of the peach forest: "I am always unstable in my heart. ”

Guo Yan walked over and gently stroked her hair.

"That's providence."

"No, third brother, that's not providence, it's my hands that are starting to get bloody."

Guo Yan's body was obviously shocked, but he quickly digested the news, which was not a small matter: "What if it is stained with blood, the so-called revenge with virtue, how can you repay virtue?" You say, how many people's blood did Empress Zetian have on her hands, but with a conscience, does Emperor Xuanzong have any credit for the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty? ”

This sentence said that Nianyun's heart went to the heart, and what she was thinking about at this time was her family and country. If the Tang Dynasty cannot survive well, no matter how big the success or failure is, it will be useless.

Although Empress Zetian braved the world's disapproval to ascend the throne and became an unprecedented female emperor, she dreamed of sleeping at night and brought practical benefits to the people. The people of the world know that the reign of Emperor Wu was far better than that of Emperor Zhongzong.

Guo Yan saw that her expression was a little relaxed, and she still didn't care, and pulled her up with a smile: "Let's go, let's go for a walk in the peach blossom forest and see if the peach blossoms that my brother gave you have bloomed!" ”

Nian Yun jumped up like a scalded cat and shook off Guo Yan's hand: "I'm not going!" ”

Guo Yan laughed: "You are going, the third brother will accompany you!" What are you afraid of? She couldn't fight you when she was alive, and now that she's dead, are you still afraid? ”

Nianyun still shook his head like a rattle: "Don't go, I won't go there for the rest of my life!" ”

Guo Yan comforted: "Peach wood is the most evil spirit, I am afraid that you will think about it for a long time, so I specially collected so many precious peach trees!" There are green peaches, red peaches, thousand leaf red, and weeping silky snow, all of which are varieties that I carefully selected. It would be a shame if you didn't take a look. ”

Nianyun still resisted, "Don't go." ”

Guo Yan snorted in his nose and glanced at her with disdain: "This is just the beginning, you are so virtuous, there will be decades in the future, will you not be out of Yiqiu Palace again!" ”

Nian Yun looked at him in disbelief: "Just started? No, no, no, third brother, you are crazy, you big careerist! ”

Guo Yan looked directly into her eyes, pointed to his heart, and said: "I have always been me, Guo Yan, and I have never betrayed my heart." Since you are here, you should live well, live in the best way possible. If someone wants you to die, you let her die first; Someone threatens your good life, and you can't let him get his way. If you feel guilty and uneasy because of this, then how can your life be good? ”

Nian Yun was silent.

Guo Yan couldn't help but pull her up: "I eat rice and wheat grown in the soil, and I drink the well water of the world, what reason do I have to be independent?" But I'm not a careerist, I just want to be better in this world. Your brother doesn't have the ability to do everything for you. However, I don't want to see my sister sad and trembling at any time, go! ”

Nian Yun lowered his eyes, his lips moved, and finally followed him step by step towards the peach forest.

That peach forest has long since lost the traces of scorched earth. However, because the new planting has not been planted for a long time, there are no decent peach blossoms, only a few thin flower bones, and there are not many new leaves, which are still depressed from a distance.

Nianyun stopped on the boulevard next to the peach forest, hesitated for a long time, and finally took a slow step. Guo Yan could see that her legs had been trembling under her skirt, and her whole body was trembling slightly, I don't know if she was nervous or afraid.

Guo Yan stretched out his hand and gently held her hand.

Her fingers were cold, and her palms were covered with cold sweat.

His broad palms covered hers, and the heat was continuously channeled to her, like a silent comfort. She gradually felt at ease, and walked slowly step by step among the peach forests.

He seemed to be saying to her, and as if to say to himself: "Everything in this world is the most frightening thing that comes from my own heart." It's not the enemy that's terrible, it's not fate, it's the demons of the heart. ”

Nianyun raised his head to look at him, his eyes were shining, and he couldn't see a trace of haze, ambition and strategy. Maybe he was just him, as he said, and he had a lot of ambition and power in his chest, but power wasn't what he really wanted.

"Third brother, thank you."

Guo Yan shook her hand vigorously and did not make a sound.

Walking to the peach forest, I suddenly heard a dull and suppressed cry. Nian Yun was startled and couldn't help but shudder.

The two are holding hands like this, although they are brother and sister, it is still inappropriate for others to see them.

Guo Yan let go of Nianyun's hand, looked around, and saw a slender figure under a peach tree, sitting on the stone pier under the tree, with his back to them, one hand casually placed on the stone table in front of him, revealing pale and slender fingers.

He was alone, his back was thin and lonely, just sitting quietly like this, and there was a kind of loneliness of independence in the world.

With ochre-colored clothes and black cuffs, he was wearing an ordinary palace robe, but his temperament was like a melancholy declining son, quite a legacy of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and it was particularly incongruous.

He looked at Nianyun, who followed his gaze and said softly: "It's a little eunuch, called Qixi." ”

Qixi heard someone's voice, turned around, and saw that it was her, so he stood up from a distance and stood aside with his hands down. Nian Yun walked over, and he hurriedly saluted: "Mrs. County." ”

Nian Yun pointed at Guo Jun: "This is my third brother, Wei Weiqing Guo Jun." ”

Seven Joy also bowed.

Guo Yan saw that there were still tears in the corners of his eyes, and he didn't feel suspicious, and asked, "What are you crying here?" ”

Qixi bowed and replied: "I remembered that someone here had died because of me, and I was very disturbed, and I hurt myself, so I wept. I don't want to disturb the master, it's Qixi damned. ”

"Self-inflicted injury? I see that you are different from the father-in-law in the palace. If you change out of this clothes, you will look like a boy. Why did you come to the East Palace to be a minion? ”

"Seven Joy doesn't dare. If there is anything different about me, it may be that my ancestors have accumulated virtue, and I have been valued by the head of the family, and I have read a few idle books. Now that the old master has been ruined, there is no reason for that, and it is the same as others. ”

Anyone who entered the palace to be a father-in-law was just forced by life, and there was no hope of fame, so he sold himself into the palace to make a living.

Guo Yan glanced at him and said, "Since you know that you have chosen a new master, you should know that all the habits and past events around the old master must be eliminated from your bones." It doesn't matter what you live in, you don't care about the past, you're just an attendant in the East Palace. ”

Nianyun knew that Qixi must have been mindful of the last incident, but that incident also meant that Qixi had passed her assessment.

She gently helped Qixi up: "Qixi, if you really can't let go, I have twenty acres of fertile land outside the city to give you, although you can't be called rich, but as long as you manage it carefully, you can ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life." ”

Seeing that Qixi was silent, Nianyun paused for a moment, and then said, "If you are willing to stay in the East Palace, when your three-month term in the clothes room expires, I will arrange for you to come to Yiqiu Palace to listen to the errand." ”

A eunuch who leaves the palace, where else can he go? The world is so big that there is no place for it, even if there are 20 acres of fertile land!

Qixi closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were already resolute. He knelt down on his knees and kowtowed heavily to Nianyun: "Qixi knows that he is wrong, from now on, Qixi is willing to listen to the dispatch of Mrs. Houjun, and there will be no past." ”