On the fifth day of the first month, Xie Ze failed to come back, and he did not come back on the sixth day of the first month, and he did not rush back until the fourteenth day of the first month.

Li Ran was watching people hang the lights in the back garden, and if Xie Ze didn't come back, she would plan to go around the lantern shed, and drink some wine at home to look at the lights.

She still remembers the embarrassment of watching the lights last year.

Hearing that Xie Ze was back, Li Ran hurriedly rushed back to the main courtyard, and after Xie Ze, entered the courtyard gate.

Xie Ze stood under the door of the weeping flowers, looking at Li Ran, who was smiling like a flower, and rushed towards him, subconsciously stretched out his arm, took a few steps forward, and met Li Ran.

"Something happened temporarily, and I came back late." Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, his face full of apologies.

"Well, I know, the prince asked someone to come and tell me, saying that you have urgent military affairs." Li Ran looked up at Xie Ze.

"Well, the letter says that there is a messenger from the north heading south, so I went over and looked."

Xie Ze hugged Li Ran and explained in a low voice.

"Is it bad news?" Li Ran asked with concern.

"No, I expected it a long time ago.

The war with the south should be delayed for a while, and it is best to wait for them to form an alliance and discuss it. ”

Xie Ze replied in a low voice as he walked in with Li Ran in his arms.

"When is it late?"

"It's not decided, but before the spring, there will definitely be no troops."

Li Ran responded in a low voice and didn't ask any more.

Early the next morning, Xie Ze drove to the Shangqing Palace to pray for the blessing of Guotai and the people, Li Ran had breakfast, went to the back garden, and picked four or five lanterns in the hanging lanterns, and asked people to send them to Taonong, and then picked a few more and sent them to Wu's sister-in-law.

At night, she had to go to see the lights with Xie Ze, and she didn't need these lights.

In the evening, when the sky was still very bright, Li Ran changed into a silver and white dress, wore a silver and white embroidered silver thread hundred butterflies and a silver fox cloak, and went out to the lantern shed.

The day after the second year of drinking, I met Li Ran in the palace of Hejian County, and Cao Siniang told Li Ran that she wanted to watch the lights in the lantern shed of the Rong'an Palace.

In previous years, Cao Siniang and Cao Sanniang both went to the lantern shed of the Wangfu of Hejian County to see the lights, and Cao Siniang's sister-in-law, but Mrs. Wang Shizi of Hejian County couldn't kiss anymore.

This year, although the lantern shed of the Hejian County Wangfu has been moved back a little, at all, it does not affect the lights at all, and the reason why Cao Siniang thought of the lantern shed of the Rong'an Wangfu was because of the idea that she might be able to see Wang Ye Xie.

Li Ran understood what she meant, nodded and smiled.

Cao Siniang is a person who can't hide things, especially such a happy thing.

The New Year's wine of Hejian County Wangfu was only halfway through, and several little ladies present, such as the two sisters in the Lu Guogong Mansion, a few in the Zhong Vice Prime Minister's Mansion, as well as the Huang Shumi's family, the Luo family, etc., more than a dozen little ladies, all looked for Li Ran and wanted to go to their lampshed to see the lights.

Li Ran simply nodded his head.

One is watching, and the other is watching.

Besides, I don't know if Xie Ze can rush back, nine times out of ten, they are just excited in vain.

Unexpectedly, Xie Ze rushed back.

When Li Ran arrived at the lantern shed, Cao Siniang and Cao Sanniang, as well as Xie Pei, Wang Ji, and the two little ladies of the Luguo Mansion had already arrived.

Seeing Li Ran coming up, a group of little ladies chattered and saluted, Wang Yi first pursed his lips and smiled: "I heard that the prince rushed back yesterday?" ”

"Yes, early this morning, I went to the Shangqing Palace." Li Ran smiled.

"Oooh!" Cao Siniang's eyes widened and cheered.

"General Xie drove to the Shangqing Palace every year, and he never followed the honor guard into the city every year."

Mrs. Yang of the Luguo Mansion understood Cao Siniang's voice very much, and shook her head at Cao Siniang, with a look of regret.

"It used to be, it is now, and now it's not the same as before, maybe." Cao Siniang is full of confidence.

Li Ran didn't really understand what was going on with the guard of honor, but Mrs. Cao felt that she could see Xie Ze in the guard of honor, and she understood this.

"The third prince also went to the Shangqing Palace?" Li Ran sat on the side of the lantern shed and talked to Wang Ji.

"Well, the third son, my third brother, and the Cao family Sanlang, the third master of the Chang'an Marquis Mansion, have been with the prince since they read with him, and they have followed him every year."

Wang Ji handed a cup of tea to Li Ran.

"Have you heard Li Qingrou's letter?"

Li Ran heard Wang Ju talk about the Marquis of Chang'an, remembered Li Qingrou, and asked in a low voice.

"Well, there was a letter from the previous child, which was sent at the beginning of the lunar month, saying that Sun Daqing followed Li Qing'an to patrol the border, encountered two enemy situations, was brave and not deflationary, and had the momentum of Marquis Sun.

Sun Daqing and his wife live with Li Qing'an, and if they say yes, they have gone out twice, both to talk to our second grandmother, and the rest of the time, they stay at home. ”

After a pause, Wang Ji smiled bitterly and said, "It's very cold in the north, and it's not easy to go out." ”

"Hmm."

After a while, Li Ran hummed in a low voice, and was silent for a long time, Li Ran lowered his eyes and said in a low voice:

That day, you talked about Sister Lin'er, and I thought about it for a long time when I went back.

What would I do if I were Sister Lin's older brother or sister, or her elder? ”

"Huh?" Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Li Ran.

"Ignore it."

Li Ran looked at Wang Ji.

"At most, one, two, three or a few words, it is best to listen to it, and it is up to her if you can't listen to it."

Wang Ji raised his eyebrows, and for a moment, sighed, and nodded while laughing, this is indeed Li Ran's style, let her imagine, and it is the same.

"Just like Li Qingrou, I thought about it two days ago, what should I do if she and I were like you and Ah Pei, or even like Ah Pei and her sister.

I can't think of it. ”

Li Ran looked down at the cup in his hand.

"How did you come up with that?" Wang Qichi asked.

"I think that if I had a child, I would only be the most incompetent mother."

Li Ran sighed lowly.

She had never thought about having children, she had never planned to have children, and now she was just starting to think about it.

Wang Ji looked at Li Ran, and said with a smile for a while: "This is nature......"

"Princess Du and the Marquis of Chang'an Mansion are both nature."

Li Ran answered.

"Yes." Wang Ji thought about it a little more, and had a headache, "The second son of my sixth uncle's family is greedy for women, greedy for small and cheap, and stupid.

If anyone tells him that so-and-so woman is newly widowed, has money and property, and is unwilling to remarry, and wants to find someone to support one or two, he can get both people and silver, no matter how ridiculous it is, he will believe it, and he will be blackmailed because of this.

My sixth uncle has been ruthless and I don't know how many times, and the next time, as long as he hears about such a thing, he will still be fooled.

Over the years, he was deceived and didn't dare to tell his family, so he looked for someone to borrow money to deal with the blackmail, and my second brother helped him two or three times, and then he ignored it again, and he found his eldest brother to take office.

The sixth aunt is full of poetry and books, and she is shrewd and capable, and the other children are all good, that's it, alas. Not only the six uncles and six aunts, but also my aunt and my wife, there is nothing to do. ”

"He should be castrated." Li Ran thought about it and frowned.

Wang Ji snorted, and after a moment, he laughed out loud, "You have the charm of the old lady!" ”

(End of chapter)