The orange lights lit up in the courtyard, and the small oblate lamps were dumbfounded, and Gao Yahan sat on the stone steps, and his fingers dexterously made several small lamps.

It was a toy for the children of her hometown, and when she and the emperor were young, children lit lamps and prayed for blessings in the spring—I don't know when it began, but only for children.

Probably tired, she put down the lamp bone in her hand, raised her hand and rubbed her forehead, and looked at the orange lights in the whole courtyard in silence, and there were still many bamboo strips left in the basket beside her.

Old... Old...

His eyes were blurred by the accumulated tears, and it seemed that two children, a man and a woman, were walking from the other end of the line-of-sight, jumping and holding hands, and went to the market to sell lamps together.

Suddenly, two snow-balled dolls ran towards her, holding small lamps in their hands, begging the queen mother to tell them stories.

One by one, they all left......

Her children, her husband, left no one but her youngest son.

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Push open the door and see the lights of the garden, orange light everywhere, bright as a fairy road.

Li Siyuan stretched his waist, listened to the sound of bones, and relaxed.

"Changfang."

The chief steward behind him trotted over with his legs swinging.

"The minions are here."

"I'm not going to Cining Palace tonight, I'm going to Yi Shu."

Changfang carefully looked at the emperor's expression and replied, "Yes." ”

"Your Majesty, what do you need to send from the Queen Mother?"

"I listened to her words, and I won't disturb the queen mother tonight and miss my brother," Li Siyuan thought about it, and then he flung his sleeves and said deflatedly: "What's the matter with them." ”

"Let the concubines of each palace make a lamp and send it over, and coax the queen mother when you ask for peace these days, whoever can make the queen mother laugh first, I will be promoted."

If the emperor doesn't go to accompany the Queen Mother tonight, it is estimated that Cining Palace will be rainy for half a month, although His Majesty will not necessarily end up with anything.... In short, I hope no lady touches the queen mother's mold.

Although she was worried in her heart, Changfang still responded on the surface: "...... Be. ”

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"When the founding emperor was called emperor, the first emperor and the queen mother gave birth to the first grandson of the emperor, Longyan Dayue, and gave the name Li Silong, which means Dachen Changlong; Then when the founding emperor unified the world, the first emperor and the queen mother gave birth to the second grandson of the emperor, the dragon face was happy, the whole country celebrated, and because the emperor and grandson loved the battlefield, he was given the name Li Sichuan.

The two princes were born at the most critical time of the Chen Kingdom, and people said that God was giving blessings to Dachen, and those days, I heard that the annual lighting was the national light, as if it was daytime. ”

Hexiang was later assigned to Zhao Xueji's first-class palace maid, whether it was to solve her doubts or help her understand the rules of the palace.

She instructed Zhao Xueji to make small lamps and whispered the past in her ear.

Although Zhao Xueji had heard these stories from his father, he was even more moved and curious when he heard Hexiang tell them from another angle in the palace.

Only then did people know that the Queen Mother lit the lamp to commemorate the two deceased princes, but they didn't know that this lamp was a children's day at the hairline of the first emperor and the Queen Mother.

Every year after the peach blossoms bloom, they light the lamp, and because the children's fingers are clumsy, they can only make such a simple flat lamp, which does not consume materials, is round and cute, and can be exchanged for silver money on the street. ”

"Then why don't the people see this festival?"

"In the tenth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the remnants of the previous dynasty counterattacked, the founding emperor ordered the first emperor to personally conquer, the war ahead was anxious, the thieves were cunning, and they took advantage of the emptiness in the rear to sneak into the mansion of the first emperor and assassinate the second prince who was only ten years old."

“...... Was it the battle at the end of April? ”

"Yes.."

"The Queen Mother sat depressed for a long time, and the founding emperor was even more heartbroken, so he erased this festival."

"Knock Knock"

"Here we are."

There was a knock on the door outside the house, Hexiang got up to open the door, Zhao Xueji was still silent in the story and couldn't extricate herself, subconsciously looking at the lamp bone in her hand, imagining the scene back then.

"Talented, Your Majesty instructed each master to personally make a small lamp and send it to Cining Palace."

He Xiang picked up some of the remaining materials, sorted them out and handed them to Zhao Xueji: "Talented, slave and maid teach you." ”

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"Your Majesty is coming?"

This matter is not so unexpected for Yi Shu, the emperor and the queen mother only quarreled on this day the year before last, not to mention that he has endured it for more than ten years, and now it is normal that he does not want to touch his head.

It's just that I went to the queen last year, and I guess I think that the queen's mother family still has some power, and because she occupies the position of the queen's wife, the queen mother will not be too harsh.

How do you want to come here this year?

Yi Shu sighed: "Okay, if the Queen Mother wants to blame, blame it on the palace...... His Majesty has never understood the emotions between women, and he goes straight to the point, and hides if he can. If you are a concubine, you should take care of him. ”

She asked Baoqin to pick up chess and prepare, whether it was Li Siyuan's favorite food or his favorite tea, she was thinking about how to smooth the emperor's hair in the room, and coaxed her mother-in-law who was immersed in the sadness of the past.

Looking out the window, I saw a string of hanging pumpkin lanterns, and I don't know why the first emperor alone resumed the custom of lighting lamps in the palace.

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In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan, the then emperor Sun Li Silong fought on the battlefield and finally killed the leader of the remnants of the previous dynasty in Xicheng, but he also fell ill and died on the way back to Beijing.

The founding emperor was grief-stricken, overly sad, and even more so because of his old age and frailty, he rode to the crane immortal.

In the same year, His Majesty the first emperor ascended the throne, although the remaining remnants of the previous dynasty were leaderless, but they were still in chaos in batches in various places. ”

This is all history that An Yu knows - at least the historians and folks of the Chen Kingdom are legends, so An Yu didn't interrupt Momoye's narration, she waited for the other party to tell her something she didn't know.

I heard the older aunts say that the queen mother died two princes in a row, and she was deeply shocked, and locked herself in the Lizheng Palace without eating or drinking, and no one came and didn't speak.

State affairs were tight, and His Majesty the First Emperor had to stay day and night in the Jiaotai Hall to deal with political affairs, and when it was a little peaceful, it was already the March equinox.

By the time he hurried to the Lizheng Palace, the Queen Mother was already thin and bloodless.

Fortunately, with the company of the first emperor, the queen mother was finally willing to use some gruel, but because of the busy farming season, the first emperor could not accompany him for a long time, and His Majesty remembered the customs of his childhood. ”

"So this Lantern Festival is to accompany the Queen Mother for the first emperor?"

"Yes......" Tao Ye bent her eyes, and was still busy making this small round lamp in her hand: "It can also be regarded as accumulating blessings for the two princes." ”

"It's a pity that Sister An, you poked your fingers, a little unlucky, you have to take care of it recently, tomorrow I will go to the Tai Hospital for you to find some leftovers made of ointment, we are indispensable to touch the water every day, if it is suppurated, the white and tender hands will not look good."

An Yu didn't want to pray for their prince at all, for the sake of these two "lucky stars", they didn't know how many heroes they had folded.

Although he thought so in his heart, he still replied sweetly: "Thank you, sister!" ”

Then he thought of something, and said with a smile: "My sister's hand is a small injury, so it's not in the way, but my sister went to the hospital for my sister's hand, or... What about Imperial Doctor Zhang? ”

"You.... Why are you making fun of me like that! ”

An Yu saw that Momoye was blushing and being passed, so he pushed forward and laughed and played with her.

With his hand, he touched the freshly made lamp bone on the table to the ground, crackling and shattering.